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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-02
The Vanishing wild Pigeon.

Very remarkable has been the history
of the native wild-pigeon, bird entirely
peculiar to North America, from the Gulf
of Mexico to Hudson Bay. Its history is
not only very interesting but quite Won
derful in some of it's details. The bird
itself, taken singly, as we rustics know,
is elegant in form, and very pleasing in
it's slate-colored plumage, Hinged with a
pale-shading of red on the breast. 1t is
very gentle and peaceable, entirely harm
less, and even timid by nature. Who
would have thought it possible that
gentle birds like these should have swept
over the interior of the continent within
a century in f1ocks SO vast as to obscure
the sun at noon as though the countrv
lay under an eclipse, while the cease,
less rapid motion of millions of win@s
produced loud roar like an approaching
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-02

Chicago and Northwestern Company was
the applicant for relief, before the Fed
eral Court, against the injustice of the
State law fixing the highest rates which
the Nebraska division of the company
would be permitted to charge for trans
portation services. In behalf of the
company, it was set forth that it's net
earnings had never exceeded five per
cent, and that for the past five years the
company had done no more than meet
expenses and pay interest. The road
could not hope to do more for years to
come, even if rates were maintained
where they are now. The law in ques
ton reduced rates 20 per cent, and if it
was allowed to go into effect it would
prevent the road from making enough to
pay operating expenses, and would in
sure the deterioration of the property
through inability to keep up the repairs.
This condition of things would result
eventually in the contiscation of the
property. Other and technical argu-
ments against the law, based on consid-
erations of purely state Importance were
presented, but it was purely on the
broad ground that the sovereignty OF the
State did not extend to the confscation
of railroad property that Judge Dundy
handed down decision multiplying the
law of Nebraska,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-02

At the right is the sleeping chamber of
the pope's body chamberlain. Opposite
the entrance is the throneroom, which
serves as an audience room on eXtraord-
mary occasions At the left OF this is a
small hallway leading to the private cab.
met where his holiness receives the card
mails and prelates. Farther to the leIt
is the study of the pope, which Is con :
nected with the papal bed room. In the
bed room stands an iron bedstead.
The dining room is simply decorated;
1t was supplied this year for the il m
time with all necessary furniture. Inc
palace is surrounded by stonewall, at
the front of which is handsome loggla.
Its entrance is in the form of an a1nphl-
theatre. In the middle loggia is foun-
tain which throws the water about in
is the so-called Medici Park. In the
centre of this park is a beautiful little
fountain surrounded by handsome grass
plots The palace proper lies at the foot
of the great Vatican park. The outlook
from the windows is a lovely one. Monte
Maria can be seen in the distance. The
pope has had a roadway, studded on
either side by trees, built from the Vati-
can to the summer palace. In following
the pathway one meets first the pickets
of the Swiss guard, then those of the
papal gendarmes, and farther on the
barracks of the gendarmes. In the sum-
mer, after reading mass in the Vatican,
the pope, about O'Clock, is carried to
the garden and is then driven in a closed
carriage to the summer palace. After
breakfast there he gives audience to the
cardinals, prelates, and often to the for
eign ministers accredited to his court
After the audiences are over he eats a
simple luncheon, and then sleeps as a rule
until O'Clock. He then devotes several
hours to study and work In the early
evening he takes short walk or drive
in the Vatican Park, and then returns
for time to the Vatican.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-02
THE PRESS.
WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 2.

President Cleveland, according to the
information of his cabinet officers, is
not expected in Washington before next
Saturday. That indicates that bis mes
sage to Congress will not be submitted
to his cabinet for revision, but that Mr..
Cleveland himself is the sole and undis-
puted author The impression grows
that the message will be devoted entirely
to the ''iniquity'' of the Sherman law,
and that the tariff, if referred to at al,
will be dismissed with little more than
an allusion and promise.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-02

tornado? Accurate and experiences I'll nh .,s
of science-Wilson and Audubon-beIii ~, US
of vast flocks covering 100 squaau We as
of country in Kentucky as dGu ,,laces
1918. They tell us of vast breeuinsa pp t.an
in Western forests many miles II IL go
where ninety nests were counted II liz
tree. They tell us of roostlng LIN of
forty miles in length, with p t,s;s rnost-
several miles, the uproar from i 1atn n1 of
three miles. They tell us OF one ot I ,,aiias
of these birds in flight covering |fo iiiio'
of country in length H., o,,o.
Grand indeed must have been tne in1 w.,
ment over the continent OF thaC ade Of Nv ny
ing winged cloud, a great marvel ol ma
ture. Nothing to equal IL mas oooh
known elsewhere on earth. - .ho,,+
The old pines on the hlH-1ops aIoa ~
the Otsego water some forty years since
must have been frequently overshadowed
by 1ocks of the wild-pigeon, nltcn t i ISIS
wonderful than those farther Wes'' oue
still remarkable in their numb ers; .or,
On the early morning OF June Q, 1919,
the lake and the village lay shfouoeo IN
a summer mist. A large flock OF Wild
pigeons became bewildered IN !ne Jog,
and lost their way-an unusuIal. ~ tlloru ,,;a
in their history Instinct failed 70 guldee
them. Their naturally keen sight could
not pierce the mist. They cropped g. On
the nearest trees, in the heart OF the vi W
age, on our own lawn, in the churcn yaru'
in the gardens, and on the elms ana m a.
pies shading the streets. With the es nrst
ray of the sun appearing above Moun NJ
Vision the mist rose and the birds look
flight.
IN the early spring of 1s49 a large flock
of pigeons, supposed to number several
thousands, selected for their breeding
ground wood in the valley OF the ouse
quehanna some miles to the southwark OF
the lake. The details were similar TO
those reported Of the vast breeding places
at the West--nests carelessly bullt OF
twigs,a number in close neighborhood IN
the same tree; broken limbs or trees; q
low murmur of wings. But the ground
occupied was narrow one.
Since those years no large f1ocks OF Wild
pigeons have passed over Lake Otsego.
A few only have been seen where form
erly they were numbered by the hun 1n
bred. To-day you inquire It any wild
pigeons have been recently found in
these woods. None that we have seen
or heard of late, /" shall be. the answer
to your inquiry. What change within
forty years! Alas for the vanished wild
pigeon. --Harpers.'
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-02

The Democrats are still at sea on the
right man to run against Mckinley. One
of the trio composed of ex-Congressman
Lawrence T. Neal, Judge Samuel F.
Hunt and Walter B. Richie of Lima will
probably be selected, with the chances
in favor of Neal. MI. Neal is widely
known as the author of the tariff plank
in the Chicago platform. His friends
push him forward as the logical man to
name. The trouble with Mr.. Neal, I'M
fortunately. is that he has been defeated
too often, and the party has begun to
feel that he is perennial candidate for
governor. He contested the nomination
twice with James E. Campbell, four
years ago, making a very close fight, and
two years ago mapifesting much bitter
ness. In the last campaign he allowed
himself to be made the representative of
faction, and thus weakened his hold on
the party for all thine to come. The
friends of ex-Gov. Campbell throughout
the state, and they are many, have not
forgotten the methods used to further
Mr.. Meals candidacy in 1891, and do not
look with favor upon his nomination
now. For this reason Mr.. Neal has not
made an aggressive canvass, but has left
everything to his friends, and merely de-
clared he would accept the honor if it
came to him.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-02
WORLDS FAIR at CHICAGO

The Canadian Pacific Railway are running
TRAINS daily from New England to Chi
cago. Low RATES, fast time, elegant equip
ment. For time tables and Worlds Fair
folder, address
CANADIAN PACIFIC TICKET OFFICE,
1917 Washington Street Boston Mass.
jlyl7 eod1m
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-02
Pope Leo's Summer Home.

When the great heat of the summer
makes the Vatican palace comparatively
uncomfortable, the pope betakes himself
to his beautiful summer palace in the
Vatican park. Previous to the arrival
of his holiness this summer the place
was beautifed more than ever before.
The palace is thus described by the cor
respondent of Berlin paper:
The palace was built by Pirro Lingario
in 1860, by command of Pope Plus ",
who belonged to the Medici family. Only
a few popes have used it, although cardi-
nails and relatives of the heads of the
church have lived in it at various times.
In 1928 Leo XII ordered the house remod-
elled. Before the work was finished,
however, he died. 1t is worthy of men
tion at this point that Leo XII was the
first protector of Father Pecci. This
priest, when he assembled the papal
throne later, assumed the name of Leo,
out of gratitude to his predecessor. In
the first year of his pontifcate, Leo XIII
faithfully believed that his voluntary i'm
prisonment would soon end and allow
him to pass the hot seasons at Castle
Lon dolfo or at Sublaco. Not until this
dream was shattered did he take advant-
age of the presence of the summer house
OF bne Medlcl pope. Line palace contains
cellars-used as kitchens, dining rooms,
etc.-a parterre and a covered "loggia, "
in which are the rooms for the servants.
In the parterre is q musuem contain
ing statues and other works of art. At
the entrance of the museum is small
but beautifully worked statue which
represents the dying zouave 1t bears the
inscription, "The zouave suffering the
martyr death. Long live the Pope, King,
our Holy Father, Plus TX" In the first
story of the palace is a reception salon,
handsomely and newly decorated from
which one gains acces to the other rooms.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-02
The Grass widow.

I do not know the French equivalent
at the present time, though very likely
there is one. But such widow is neatly
termed by Froissart as "veuve de vii
MARI His words are:
Monseigneur, vous savez que Je suis
une seule femme y ct veuve de vii
mari, sill plait Dieu, car MonseigneuT
Guichart cher husband) igt prissonnier en-
Espaigne ems es dangers du roi PES
paigne. "-Livre l., partie H., chap.
ccclvili. Notes and Queries.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-02
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-02

A decision by Judge Dundy, of the
United States District urt has just
inflicted another killing blow to legisla-
ton designed to place the railroads I'M
der complete State control. Judge Dun
dy suspends indefinitely the so-called
maximum freight bill passed by the leg
islature of Nebraska. The theory on
which he based his decision was that if
the rates provided by the maximum
freight law were enforced, the property
of railroads doing business in Nebraska
would practically be confseated. The
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-08-02

The recent severe epidemic of diph-
liberia at Highstown, N. j., has been
traced Enthusiastically to the milk sup
piled from dairy farm. A boy had
been employed there who was taken i'll,
but continued to work as long as he
could stand, and then was found to have
malignant diphtheria. Part of this boys
duties las been to wash the milk cans
This reinforces the lesson taught by the
epidemic of typhoid fever in a Massa.
chusetts city last year, which was
so thoroughly followed to it's source in
the milk furnished by d peddler who
drew part of his supply from a
farm where there had been case
of typhoid. In this case the effects
were produced much less directly than
in the New Jersey case, and emphasized
more strongly the necessity OF the most
minnie painstaking to guard against the
conveyance of germs. Every farmer
who sells milk should be careful to in
struct himself and all his help in this
matter, for human life depends upon the
cleanliness of every step in the process.
1t would seem that State boards and
local boards of health might have such
instruction made part of their duty, and
that they should certainly have the dairy
farms under sanitary supervision. The
gathering of a constantly greater proper
ton of the population into cities, where
disease results in larger mortality, makes
this need of sanitary work greater and
more imperative every year.
The herald., 1893-12-27
A VERY GOOD SHOWING.
THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC C0MPA-
NY'S EARNINGS.
Financial Depression Felt Less on the
Pacific Coast Than anywhere Else.
Marked Falling OF In
It's Land 5alcs.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 26.-JuGging
from the statement of the earnings OF
the Southern Pacific railroad, the wave
of depression that swept over the
country appears to have done less injury
to the Pacific coast than to any other
section OF the United States. The gross
earnings of the road up to the end of
October amounted $40. 1877 900. This is
$26l 900 less than for the same time
last year. Although there will be de-
crease in the earnings OF the road this
year, it will be less than that expert
enced by railroads in other sections OF
sAS vi 1xu
The safo~s-- ', .-... pvrvrrE rIg
the Central Pacific Railroad company
has been very small in 1893, com pared
to the sales of the previous year." said
W. III. Mills, the company's land agent,
today. "The business has not been
more than half what it ought to have
been; not more than half what itswss in
the lost 12 months. | ascribe this de-
crease in business to the low price OF
lumber and beef. Most of the lands
now held by the Central Pacific COM
pany are lumber and grazing lands.
When there is Q slow demand for beef
and lumber nobody 10 anxious to buy
our lands. In the Capay valley things
have been different. There we have dis
posed of AZ subdivisions of land, which
is equivalent to establishing AZ more
homes. Near Merced, Crocker lands are
also being taken rapidly"
Jerome Madden, land agent of the
Southern Pacific company, said: "The
situation this year has been deplorable.
| never saw it so bad. Actual sales
were so small that [ am ashamed to
make statement for publication. The
total will not exceed II, 900 acres. We
used to sell more tlan that in one day
and not think much of it. In my mind
the depression has been caused by the
uncertainty in regard to tariff legisla-
tioD. This has hung as a cloud over the
whole country. Take it down in Fresno
county, for instance; with wheat at the
present price, what encouragement is
there for man to plant, when he knows
that his crop will net him deficit in
stead OF profit? There have been some
speculative sales in the year, but l do
not class them with the actual sales.
One OF these is the sale of about 10000
acres near Summit lake in Fresno
county, where an extensive irrigation
system is being inaugurated. No profit
is expected from this system for four or
five years. The same may be said of the
disposed SOC, coo acres, more or less, in
the southern part of this state to the
Colorado River Irrigation COMPANY"
Treasurer N. t. Smith, OF the South
ern Pacific company, said that though
the past year has been one Of slow busi-
uess in some ways, yet the company
has been Eept on cash basis through
out, and that its pay car is sent out
regularly On its monthly trips.
The herald., 1893-12-27
CAN'T LAST MUCH LONGER
The Crisis in the Brazilian
War at Hand.
4 Decisive Battle Expected to
Occur Any Day.
The Cruiser Nictheroy Returned to
PernambucO.
She Will There Await tho Arrival of the
Rebel Observation-Disclosures Thomp-
son Said to Have Recognized
the Insurgents.
fBv the Associated Press.

[By the Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.-Minister Mem
donca believes the crisis in the Brazilian
revolution is at hand and that the dee
cisive stroke will be made this week.
He says the two great iron clads of the
rebel commander, Mello, and the fotilIa'
of little torpedo craft hastily impro-
vised by Peixoto are rapidly nearing
each other. The minister says that
collision is almost certain before next
Monday. He recognizes that the little
torpedo and dynamite boats are tremen-
dously overmatched by the rebel ships,
but counts much on the ability of the
small boats to maneuver Quickly and dis
charge their novel explosives. Mendon-
ca ia hopeful and confident that Mello's
feet will be defeated and that Peixoto's
ships will then be able to turn their at
tention to the other rebel admiral
CANA, who is in Rio harbor.
The herald., 1893-12-27

through the windpipe. The men who
brought him to the hospital stated
the wound was accidental and was
caused by the discharge OF pistol
which fell on the floor. Dyke save he
was common laborer working in the
vicinity of Sanger. He claims ne was
sober at the time OF the injury, and
went into saloon. Charles Ellis, who
was under tbe influence OF liquor, asked
him If be was Canadian. and he told
him he yes net. Ellis then. pointing
his pistol at him, said: Then take
that" and fred, shooting him. Ellis
then dropped the pistol on the floor
and claimed the shooting was acci-
dental. Dyke states come one then
drew up paper stating the shooting
was accidental and Ellis was not to
blame, and tried to get him to eign it,
but he refused to do 81. Dyke is lying
in precarious condition. There is but
little chance for him to recover.
The herald., 1893-12-27
ANOTHER REoEIvERsHIP.
The New York and New England Ros
IN Diff cslties.

The New York and New England Road
IN Difficulties.
New YORK, Dec. 27.-The Herald
says: 1t had often been said that there
would very likely be by midnight q re-
ceivership for the New York and New
England. All the preparations were
secretly made to carry out such a pro-
gremme in the early hours of the morn
ing, but at the hour of publication it
cannot be definitely stated whether the
United States court judge has affixed
his signature to the order or not. at
a. m. several lawyers and stock brok.
ers were scurrying around trying
to find Judge Lacombe, who had come
down from his country residence at
Athens, N. Y. presumably on this very
errand. The purpose WAS to steal a
march on President Mcleod and get a
hostile receiver appointed. Among the
parties who took the leading interest in
the proceedings last evening, were Fred
erick ii. Prince OF Boston, Spencer +.
Erwin of Philadelphia and Thomas G.
Platt, all directors OF the New Englnd
road.
The herald., 1893-12-27
FLEMING is TREASURER,
The Supreme Court Confirms
the Appointment.
ShOrb Forfeited the Office by
Absence from the State.
Lankershim Must Make Up Part Of
Broaded's Deficit.
The Midwinter Fair to Open Promptly
oD Schedule Time-Genera Rains
in California-Paci1c Coast
Happenings
BY the Associates Psess.

BY the Associated Psess.
SAN Francisco, Dec. 26.-T. J. Flem-
ing has been continued in his position of
treasurer of Los Angeles county by de-
cisior of the supreme court, rendered
today. ]. De Barth Shorb was elected
to the Office of treasurer OF Los Angeles
county in November, 1892, but falling
sick, he in July last, made trip east,
not returning to Los Angeles until the
limit OF so days absence. fixed by stat-
ute. had elapsed. Shorb was therefore
regarded as having forfeited his
office, and I. j. Fleming was
elected in his place. But
when Fleming came to demand OF
Shorb's deputies the accounts and rec
orda of his Office he was met with re-
fusal and was afterwards compelled to
bring suit in the superior court for his
rights. He won his case. the demurrer
OF Shorb's deputies being overruled,
and Fleming's demurrer to that answer
and his.cross-comp paint being sustained
by the court below. From this
judgment an appeal was taken.
The main contention of the appeal
was that Shorb had not ipso facto
forfeited the Office by remaining away
more than the limit allowed by statute,
but the supreme court held to decide
chat way would be q misinterpretation
of the law laid down in the code OF civil
procedure. Fleming is, therefore, con-
tirmed in the office of treasurer OF Los
Angeles county.