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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-02-11
WIT AND WISDOM.

A Man Thermometer.
Lean men make the best thermometers.
Fahrenheit never invented better ones. If the
weather is warm and sunny, they are cheerful
If cold and frosty, they are irritable and snappy.
If damp and cloudy they are downcast and
gloomy. But if either lean or fat men are suffer-
ing from biliousneSs. headache, constipation. or
indigestion. the weather will always be damp
Pi Pie e Pleasant Pellets. These Pellets are
small, Sugar-coated granules. calculated to
start the liver and digestive organs into healthy
activity, and thereby raise low spirits, and dis
pei gloom.
Mrs. Gray-Oh, we don't have anything to do
with the MERGERS now. They've behaved most
disgracefully, you know.
Mrs White-No, hadn't heard. What is it
they've been doing?
Mrs GRAPHICALLY, suppose you won't be-
lieye it, but they actually engaged suite in the
Bedlam Flat without letting on that they had
Mrs. White-Mercy, how could they,-Boston
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SUPERIOR TO ALL OTHERS.
ALLcocK's POROUS PLASTER are the great
external remedy of the day. The quickest
safest, surest,sbest. Not only immeasurably
superior to all other plasters, but also to lini-
ments ointments, oils and similar unctuous
compounds.
Beware of limitations, and do not be deceived
by misrepresentation. Ask for ALLcoCK's,
and let no solicitation or explanation induce you
to Iaccept a substitute.
The body of man was taken from the water
by New York policeman.
'sDoes anybody know anything about this
man?' asked the policeman of some urchins
who were present
I'VE seed him just as he came up for the last
time but we forgot ter ask him what his name
waa," said one of the boys.-Texas Siftings.
Cconsumptives obtain relief by using Ayers
Cherry Pectoral. No other cure is so effective.
Why He Doesn't.
Senlor-Doesn't the teacher of your sehoolb be
leve in f1oggi1g?
Junior-Oh, yes. But he does not practise
Senior-poesn't! And why not. pray?
Junior He hasn't told MS, but guess it's
because he's featherweight, and we can't
train down to his class.-Boston Courier.
AS blood purifier Ayers sarsaparilla sur.
passes all other remedies
THE ONE.
It isn't the man who wrote Beautiful Snow
That the angry. mad pOpulace seek.
It's the fellow who won't clean his sidewalk,
you know,
But let's the snow lie there, week.
Judge.
John! get Halls Hair Remover and keep
your hair lustrous and free from dandruff.
Little folks don't always understand things
Alright At public school recently the teach
er was Installing Barbara Frietchie" into the
minds of her changes for concerted recitation
One little girl on reaching home recited the
lines in this style:
Up from tie meadows. rich with corn,
Clear, on a cool September morn
The custdrd pies of Frederick stand.
New York Com. Advertiser.
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OUR DANGER.
Look Out for the Spring Of 1898 +!
FoREwARNED is PROGRAMMED.

The Hatcheries of Cholera, and What Is
To Be Seen There-If the Disease
Breaks Out in New York Where Will 1t
End?
There are few things which have never
come to pass which seem surer of COM
ing than Cholera this spring. Three
well known physicians, one in Boston,
two in New York, have said this. A re-
cent despatch from Hamburg in the
daily papers says;
at is feared that the seeds of death
sowed last summer will yield fruitful
harvest in the spring."
There is no lodging this DIR ad disease
in the spring and summer OF 1893.
The country is ripe for it.
Our lax immigration laws will be
wholly responsible for the death rate
through Cholera during 1898.
For years the United States has been
Europe's sewer. All the scum of her
human tides have been skinned off and
ladled to our shores.
Austria, Bavaria, Poland, Russia,
Turkey, Italy, China, these and many
other foreign countries send the rag tag
the vile, the diseased, and the utterly
lost. to our shores. This they have been
doing for years with the utmost impuni-
ty.
As famous New York physician re-
Gently remarked to the writer.
s'How can we escape Cholera next
wear? OF course, it won't break out up
on 9Th Avenue, but it will eventually
reach there, and all over the land. 1t
will break out over on Forsyth, and Di-
vision, and Hester streets, and the
.Bowery, and Cherry Hill, and the Five
Points. and Roosevelt street. Those
points are points of dirt and vermin.
That is where Cholera in this country
will break out. God knows where it
will end"
This is an awful but timely warning.
Cholera is deadly, that we know.
The way to escape the frightful vista
ton is to be prepared for it. ~
Get your house-that is your body-in
perfect order.
Purify your system.
Cleanse and enrich your blood.
Remember that the Boston Globe said
editorially:
Contagious diseases seldom attack
perfectly healthy people. Persons whose
vitality is low and whose general health
is impaired, are the frst to fall preys to
epidemics.
DIR. John B. Bray of Bridgton, in re-
spouse to inquiry, said:
Certainly, people should now look
sharply after their health. If Cholera
reaches our shores everyone should be
prepared physically, SO far as possible, to
withstand it. We should put our bod
les in good condition, as well as our
premises. If the blood is foul, the liver
clogged, and the stomach out of order,
among the first victims than others in
good health
He also indorses, as the ideal remedy
for purifying the blood and arousing vi
tality, KINGS SARSAPARILLA.
tits the ounce of prevention that most
concerns the people now, and it is GER
tainly sensible advice that recommends
us to put our bodies in good order as
we'll as orr DWELLING r1aces s.
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Beware of limitations. Take no "'just as
good' See that you get the genuine DR.. Bulls
Cough Syrup, the peerless specific.
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KINGS SARSA-
PARILLA is skill
fully combined by a
chemist of long ex-
perience in the Sc
lection and prepare
ton of drugs, and
can be implicitly re-
lied upon as the
most valuable prep
aration of the kind
on the market.
Price per bottle Is
oentS and every hot
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ZONE We housewives wns =rc prudent,
Or we brand-new brides who are
aking lessons like a student
hat expects to be star.
Open ears and give attention.
earn the art of cooking well,
arm your husband S flattering mention
Never falter in intention
ZEN in cooking to excel.
Zone consider how, in making
Omelettes, and cakes, and pies,
he best shortening for baking
4 is that here we advertise.
OF all cooking fats most surely,
| ightest, cheapest ever seen,
yer pleasing all securely,
None, though manufactured purely,
quals FAIRBANKS CoTToLENE.
soTToLENE is good for frying
Oysters, doughnuts, eggs, or fish,
here is little use denying
I hat it much improves each dish.
Old and young its praise are sounding
4 aides who have tried it claim
xcellence and worth Astounding,
Mever failing-oft astounding,
arm for CoTToLENE great fame
n. K. FAIRBANK & CO.,
CHICAGO, ILL, and
az4 State Street, BOSTON.
PORTLAND, ME.
ocG ThST&wcS
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FEMALE HELP.

WANTED-A capable girl to do general
w housework at 1875 CONGRESS ST.,
City. References required. 81
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ROOMS.
LOST AND FOUND.

UaoUND-At Pages Bazaar, nice valentines
at and 10 cents, regular 10 and 15 cent
ones. Also the Unique Raisin Seeder. don't
fail to see them at PAGES, 524 Congress St
81
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AGENTS.

WANTED-Agents for the Life OF Blaine by
w w. F Johnson; also for Life of Blaine
by Ridpatll and Ex-Governor Conner. ddress
or call on W. L. HARVEY, 70 Gray street,
Portland, Me. 81
A BILE AGENTS WANTED-By respon-
n sible society, providing the lowest cost
life insurance in the United States. A total OF
only 20 assessments in the last five years. All
just claims paid SAL, 600 reserve fund. Cor
invited. THE PROVIDENT AID
SOCIETY, 98 Exchange street, Portland. Me.
jan6-6w
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WANTED-A Capable girl for general
~ housework and plain cooking. Apply at
124 WINTER ST. 81
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Every proposal Shall be Signed by Tie bidder
and marked, bids Tor Sewer Extension" and
addressed to City Clerk. P. O., Woodfords, Me-
Specifications may be obtained and plans seen
at the office of Ilsley & Cummings. Engineers,
Portland, Me. The Committee on Sewers, City
OF Deering, reserve the right to rejec any or all
bids. [Signature.]
WIN. W. MfTCHELL, Uomm y Ss,, on
GEO. w. LEIGHTON.) - o''N' " % J" o.
WALTER PICKETT, Street Commissioner.
Deering. Me-, January. 1898.
jan17 dtd
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WANTED.

YNANTED-By a young lady who has had
wv experience, situation in a retail store
or as assistant book-k eper. Good references
given. Address BOX 739, City. Ill
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CITY OF DEERENC.
Notice to Sewer Contractors.

GEALED proposals for the construction of
- sewer extensions in the City of Deering,
will be received at the office of City Clerk,
Deering, Me-, until noon, February Is, 1898.
The work in general will comprise the follow
ing lengths:
q inch pipe sewer, about 21 d,a feet.
12 +" q F" 1885 e
10 4" g .' 731 g
@ q 7z0G
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tie is sold with the positive guarantee
to refund the price if it fails to benefit.
The original and the oldest remedy ON the
market, sold on The no cure, no pay'
plan.
Obtainable of all medicine dealers.
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T5OIND-A gentleman's ring which the owner
n can have by proving property and paying
charges Call on c. J. MCDONALD, 81 York
or III Winter street, city. 81.
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FOUND.
TO LET.

THO LET-Rent So Smith ST. 5 rooms down
il stairs, $1,000; rent So Beckett. rooms,
down stairs, S14oo; rent 50 Congress, rooms
down stairs, $1,000; rent IS Atlantic, ROOMS OILS
forth, Z rooms, upstairs. $500. Inquire OF
a. C. LIBBY. 421a Exchange st. lO-I
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rNyO LET-Onehalf of new house, corner
Cumberland and Neilen SITS. Apply to f.
W. STOCKMAN,o of W.L.WILSON SEQ. 1O-l
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$3.50; 8 rooms on Paris St, $1,000; 8
room house, LIE Lacheur Place, $17.00; house
20 Cushman St. 9 rooms including water, $500
per year. Wanted-modernh house from $500
to 5000 rent. N. S. GARDINER, 1876 Middle
esL 10-1
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Mooney to loan on 1st and End mortgages on
IvE real estate, life insurance policies when
three years old and over and any other good
unsecured &c notes at a fair discount W. P.
CARR Room 6. Oxford Building. second
floor 1856 Middle street. 302
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-13
SANCTION OF SOCIETY.


The -Four Hundred and Their Sunday
Flower Show-Mrs. Gould's Consolation.
Especial Correspondence
NEW York, May 11.-This big town is
rapidly adopting the European standard
in the matter Of amusements, and the
action of the managers of the spring
flower show in keeping the exhibition,
which held all last week, open ON Sunday
is most significant indication of that
movement. Places Of amusement Of
various sorts have long been kepttopen
on Sundays here, to be sure, but the
flower show had the sanction of society,
for it was given under the patronage"
of 80 ladies and / man who belong to
that charmed portion Of the community.
Time was when society would hardly
have cared to indorse an enterprise that
depended for its largest single days re-
ceipts on Sunday opening" and it is
hardly probable that the circle that calls
itself society in any other American city
would countenance it now.
The list of patron and patronesses is
as interesting for the names that are not
as those that are 'sin it." It includes
Mrs. Aston and her daughter-in-law,
Mrs, j. j.. Aston, Mrs. Paran Stevens,
Mrs. L. Lorillard, Mrs. Van Rensselaer,
Conger, Mrs William Seward Webb,
Mrs. Herman Oelrichs and Mrs. Henry
Clews among those with whose name the
big public that is out of society is fa-
miliar. 1t does not include Mrs. George
j. Gould, or any of the Rockefellers, or
the wife of Coils P. Huntington.
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-13

of the average candidate for Office. One
day not long ago I was present at an in
terview between the president and del
egation headed by Congressman Spring
er of Illinois. Mr.. Springer was urging
the claims of a candidate who lives in q
district adjoining his own. Two years
ago it went Democratic, but last fall it
gave Republican majority. Mr.. Spring
er was explaining that the change was
only temporary. II know it's reliably
Democratic" said MIR. Springer, s'be-
cause when | was over there last fall
making speeches in the district"-
"Did you make speeches in the dis
trict?" inquired Mr.. Cleveland, with
merry twinkle in his eye.
@Yes, sir, Mr.. President, a number Of
them" responded Mr.. Springer eagerly.
Perhaps that's the reason it went Re
publican"
Mr.. Springer joined in the laugh at his
expense, and even the candidate whose
claims he was advocating could not re-
press smile.
GEORGE HANSON APPERsoN.
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-13
Purifying water For a Dutch City.

The water supply Of the Dutch city
bearing the picturesque name of Lee
warden is taken from small lake Of
brackish and somewhat yellow water
near the place. To purify it for domes-
tic purposes it is nrated, filtered and
allowed to settle quietly in large tanks.
The seration is accomplished by allow
ing the water to fall down series of
steps, and in it's fall an additional ele-
ment Of publication is introduced in the
form Of solution Of alum, which Is
forced into the water by pumps, oper-
ating at the same rate as the main pump
ing engines, SO that the amount of solu-
ton will always bear fixed ratio to
the amount Of water. From these steps
the water passes to set of four settling
basins holding about 1 1000, 900 gallons in
all, where all the coarser impurities are
allowed to settle to the bottom.
From these basins the water flows to
three filter beds, each having an area of
about $500 square feet and consisting
of top layer of fine sand from the dunes,
underlaid by coarse river sand, sea
shells, fine gravel and coarse gravel.
The rate of filtration is about p inches
an hour and is controlled by a series Of
automatic valves so arranged that when
the efduent falls in quantity below its
usual amount the depth of water over
the beds is increased, thereby making
the pressure which forces the water
through the filtering material, and thus
increasing the yield. From the filtering
beds the water, clear and wholesome aft
er this treatment. is pumped into the
mains leading to the city.-St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-13
THE "LoNa TONI

ties against great odds before the episode
at Fayal, and her "Long Toni was al
ready the mainstay of her armament.
Shortly before the Armstrong sailed for
the Azores she received a new command
er from the regular navy, Captain Sam
uel Chester Reid. He was 80 years of
age and had been sailor since he was
II years old. He fought several battles
in his teens and was a prisoner of war
to the French in 1889
The British squadron entered the har-
Dor Of Fayal purposely to capture the
Yankee privateer, which the pilots told
them was lying there to take on water
and provisions. The harbor was neutral,
and the Armstrong could not withdraw
owing to calm. The British officers
declared that they would have the priva-
teer and her crew if they had to knock
down the town to get them. Under
cover of night they sent four launches
filled with men to board the Yankee.
The attack was repulsed with muskets
and the Long Tom" Two volleys set
tied it, and the boats hauled off. A
second attack was made with IA launches
loaded with Britishers. That time the
"Long Tom made fearful havoc firing
into the solid lines of boats. The attack
was repulsed, and there was lull until
morning.
Then the whole British feet closed in
on the privateer. The, leading ship was
wounded several times by the ssLong
Tom and dropped out of the fight.
Reid saw that the British fire was en-
dangering the town in front of which
his vessel lay, SO he scuttled the schooner
and prepared to fight it out on land.
The British lost 300 sailors from the
boats, 1870 of them killed or drowned.
Reid was showered with honors for
his exploit with the Armstrong and was
appointed to a position in the regular
navy. He was stationed in New York
harbor for number of years and died
there in 1861. The arrangement of our
national flag with star for every state
and stripe for each of the original 10
was designed by Captain Reid. The re-
turn of the "Long Tom" to America was
brought about by Colonel Samuel C.
Reid of Washington, who visited Fayal
recently to gather materials for memoirs
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II SAVED THE ship.
The Distinguished Services Of the
Long Tom in 1914.

The Famous Cannon That Repnlsed the
strong at Fayal Is Now Exhibited at Chi
cago-Story of the Conflict.
It was a far cry from Yankee priva-
teers to the magnificent steel cruisers
which fairly rival the finest men-of-war
ahoat, but the s'sea devils" of long ago
with handful of men and a couple of
guns somehow managed to cut notches
in history which times marvellous
changes cannot obliterate nor the world
forget, and which this country is proud to
have remembered. Among the relics
and mementos of bygone days and
stored achievements which adorn Uncle
Sans war museum in the Columbian
exposition is piece of old fashioned long
barreled ordnance with thrilling battle
record.
1t is the "Long Tom" of the privateer
General Armstrong. The Armstrong
alone fought a British squadron mount
ing 1856 guns in the harbor of Fayal in
the Azores, Sept. 26, 1914. The Arm
strong carried seven guns, six of them
the usual 9-pounder boat howitzers and
a A-pounder, such as were mounted on
swivel at the bow of the fleet sailers for
use in chasing the enemy. They were
long guns and acquired the general title
"Long Toms" The ''Long Tom" at Chi
cago is the particular "Long Tom"
which made the General Armstrong
terror Of the sea throughout the war of
1872
The Armstrong privateer was
schooner fitted out and owned by Sam
uel Adams. She had fought many bat
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-13
Unanswerable Proof,

Some years since I was one of rather
hilarious party driving through the Adj
rondack woods. In lucid, serious mo-
ment one of the party asked the name Of
a low growth shrub along the roadside.
''It's sycamore, some one responded.
'"The people in this region call it a syca-
more, and they know" A sharp Discus
sion followed, and naturalist would
have writhed to hear the heterodox CLASH
fications, the first speaker persisting sit
is a sycamore.
''But Scriptures against that theory"
said theological student finally, and
we clamored for the counter evidence:
"Zaccheus resorted to sycamore tree
to see his Lord, and the injunction was,
'Zaccheus, come DOWN. Now, if the
sycamore were that contemplate height,
the command would have been, FAC
cheus, get upw-Cor. Harper's Bazaar.
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These families and the families of q
score of other men who number their
dollars by the million are not sin So
ciety." Just why the outsider doesn't
understand. II can't be because they
made their money in oil or railroads or
any other commercial enterprise, for
among those who are in are some to
whom fortune came by way of short cut
and fine cut and plug cut tobacco and
mining and hotel keeping and all sorts
OF plebeian ways. It is not likely that
the Rockefellers would care to be taken
into society now that it stands sponsor
for Sunday shows, for the Rockefellers
are strict Sabbatarians, but the other
members of the Standard Oil crowd,
such as the Flaglers, would gladly enter
if they could
Opinions differ as to the Goulds. Their
friends declare that they would not be
in society if they could. Others say that
they couldn't if they would. It is GER
tain that the opening of the flower show
on Sunday does not displease them, for
although Mrs. George j. Gould, who
was Edith Kingdom, the actress, is not
patroness she figured prominently in
the show. She is president of an organ
ization known as the kindergarten and
Potted Plant association, and on the
Thursday before the opening Of the
show she wrote to it's secretary through
Miss McElheny, secretary Of the associa-
lion, asking permission to hold a business
meeting thereof at the Madison Square
Garden, where the flower show was held,
on Saturday, May 6, Arbor day in New
York state. Investigation showed that
the association is made up of school chill
dren, and they were invited to the num-
Der Of about 1000 to attend the show in
body on that day in charge Of their
teachers.
Their presence on that day made
goodly addition to the attractions of the
exhibition, and it was question which
received most attention from those who
paid to go in-the flowers, the superbly
groomed and gowned society women of
New York or the thousand school chill
dren who owed their pleasure to Mrs.
Gould. I'D. MARSHALL.
Rather Too Much of Good Thing.
When j. Whitcomb Riley walked
brusquely into a Baltimore hotel the
other night and asked for room, the
clerk called up Front" with a marked
case of strabismus and told him to show
the gentleman to 10.
mot me" announced the Hoosier poet.
"Not me. You can't shoot double bar
relied i'll luck at me in that style. Ill
have no cross eyed boy showing me to
room 49, TIM not superstitious, but just
give me room with different number
and furnish d pilot with parallel eyes,"
and he had his way Detroit Free Press.