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The Portland daily press., 1893-03-18
The Emblem of Hope.

"The little town of Camden ought to
have its name changed to Hope" said a
dealer in ship supplies and stores, s'for it
turns out more of the emblems of hope
thaa all the other places in this country
combined All OF the stately ships that
come out of Maine shipyards look to that
little village on the Penobscot for their
anchors. Scores of sturdy smiths swing
their hammers day after day all the year
long in the black, smoky, long, low Cam
den shops, where only anchors are forged,
Sometimes the trip hammers are going
all night about the FORCES, and the blaz-
ing of the fires and the ringing of the
hammers are seen and heard for miles
away.
Thousands of tons of old iron are pur-
chased by these queer establishments
every year, for anchors are forged largely
from cast-off iron. The material is cut
into small pieces by great shears that
clip through the iron as easily as cheese
knife slices cheese. The pieces are
bound into bundles by strong wires and
are then fused in the FORCES. Then they
are pounded and welded into the various
parts of the anchor, some workmen fash
Joining the rings, Others shaping the
aukes, others hammering out the palms,
and others forging the shanks. Then the
'completers' take the different parts and
fuse and weld them into the finished an
Choir. Anchors of all sizes and weights
are turned out from the noisy shops of
Camden, the graceful little pleasure boat
anchor, weighing but few pounds, as
well as the great $4,000 and $4,000 pound
anchors Of the biggest ships.
There arc many interesting relics at
Camden in the line of rusty and broken
anchors that did duty in their day on
famous merchant vessels, historic war
ships and sturdy whalers. What is left
of the anchor of the United States frigate
Cumberland is among these relics"
The Portland daily press., 1893-03-18


A minister whose speeches smell of the
oil is regarded in the house Of commons
as next thing to bore. never knew
any assembly in which well balanced
phrases went for less. To risk them, a
man must be far above the level Of the
ordinary orator, and even then few
phrases go long way. I remember
member-himself a very good speaker
saving to me of another member who had
lust made an effective maiden speech
that l had been lauding, ut is all very
well for once, but the house won't stand
a man who rears up on his hind legs with
an exordium and peroration.
To another speaker the following adj
vice was rendered by an old hand, "Hesi-
tate occasionally as though you could
not find the word. then use the wrong
one" And although there was some ex-
aggeration In this there commentator
was a sound one. Mr.. Disraeli carefully
cultivated the trick Of hesitation over his
adjectives, but when the word came it
was always a telling one. --London
Truth -------
The Portland daily press., 1893-03-18
A SINGULAR CASE.
A Man Badly Paralyzed VIII Regain the
Use of His Limbs.


Mr.. Wyer of North Arson is suffering
from an attack of paralysis, such as the
surgeons at the Maine General Hospital
say is of rare occurrence. Mr.. Wyer is
gentleman about 66 years of age, grad
uate of Bowdoin. and a man OF literary
tastes and habits. About. four weeks
ago a boy accidentally stepped on his
right foot. His foot feltsomewhat lame,
but the injury appeared trifiing. But
paralysis of the foot set in, and gradual
ly continued up the right leg until the
entire right side of the body was affect
ed. Mr.. and Mrs. Wyer came to the
Maine General Hospital, where he placed
himself under treatment The paralysis
affected his eyelids SO that he couldn't
lift them, and at last his throat became
affected SO that he was unable to swal-
low, and nourishment had to be injected.
Nevertheless his heart beats were strong,
though irregular, but his circulation was
very poor, M
All at once, day or two ago, he ibe-
gan to improve. He can now take his
nourishment in the regular way, can
open his eyes, and the surgeons say if he
continues to improve in the same degree
in the coming days as he has in the past,
he may hope to recover the entire use Of
his limbs and sensation in the affected
side. The case is not one of creeping
paralysis, but has medical name Of its
own.
The Portland daily press., 1893-03-18
BRIEFLY TOLD.

All the wreckage which the Boston
Towboat Company saved from the
wrecked schooner Douglass Dearborn at
Guilty. Hunk, has been shipped to Boston.
The schooner's masts remain standing.
The East Middlesex street railway in
Boston and vicinity has been absorbed by
a Philadelphia-New York syndicate.
Nothing has beeu heard from the dis
abled steamship Sarnia. Officers of the
Dominion Line Company at Montreal
are not concerned about her safety.
A San Francisco despatch says Curtis S
case has been continued until Friday
next, when the date of the third trial
will be fixed.
The Portland daily press., 1893-03-18
Here is the Hymn.
WooLwIcH. March II,

WooLwIcH, March II, 1893.
To the Editor Of the Press:
I notice in today's edition call by
Falmouth writer for Pierpont's hymn on
Washington. I cannot tell W. B. M.
where to find it but I found it so We rs
ago in a school book, called Rhetorical
Reader. l think l can repeat it.
In Thee, beneath whose eye
Each cIrcling century
Our rq nation ng in It's prime
Looked with faith sublime
And trusted in the time ~
That tried mems souls"
When from this gate of heaven
People and priest were driven ~
By fire and sword,
And where thy saints had prayed, u,
The harnessed war-horse Weighed, ps
And horsemen's trumpets prayed NJ
In harsh accord.
Nor was our fathers trust,
Thou Mighty-One and just
Then put to shame;
Up to the hills for light
Looked we in peril's night,
And fir m your guardian heighf
Deliverance came.
There like an angel form
Sent down to still the storm,
Stood Washington;
Clouds broke and rolled away
Foes fled in wild dismay-
Wreathed were his Drows with pay.
When war was done.
Then follows the stanza given). may
have changed some insignificant words,
but used it years ago for defamation
and think it is about as above.
B. D.. L.
The Portland daily press., 1893-03-18
The Yacht Fleet.

The yacht Warren of the Portland
Yacht Club, has been sold to Capt. Lit
tlejohn. She will continue in the club
It is said that the yacht Chaos of Bos-
ton. has been sold to Portland parties
and will join the yacht club. She is said
to be Burgess 4G-footer and very fast.
The fine steam yacht that Harrington
of Bath, has been building for Mr.. Hart
ley c. Baxter, will come to the Portland
Co. Monday for her engines.
The Portland daily press., 1893-03-18
STATE TOPICS oFINTEREsT.

President NJ c. Fernald has prepared
an article on the Maine State College to
be published in monograph on higher
education in Maine by the department. on
education at Washington, D. C.. The ar
ticle will be fully illustrated, Is hand
some photographs having been forward
ed with DR.. Fernald's manuscript. The
whole will be published in book form
and will be most interesting and valua-
BILE contribution to the educational his
tory of the country.
Since the death of Gen. BENZ. T. But
Ter, the friends of Colby University have
evinced considerable interest to learn the
provisions of his will, in the hope that
he remembered his alma mater. with a
goodly endowment. To their surprise
they learned that he not only neglected
ty name them in that document, which,
by@the way, was written more than 80
years ago and never had a single codicil
book which, it was stipulated, should
not be sold to public libraries, he made
an exception in favor of the library of
Colby. The exception was that Colby
University be allowed to purchase two
copies OF the work. The Faculty have
just made the purchase.
The achievements of Piscataquis coun-
ty's smart women who have handled
home affairs this winter while their hus-
bands have been in the woods, are now
being recounted by their friends. One
Of them in Milo has looked after five
head of cattle, drawing all the water for
them and carrying it to the barn. She
saws saw she had rather do it than support
bow for that purpose. Another has done
even more, taking almost the entire care
of six COWS, one horse and IA sheep all
the winter, besides taking care of a
Young child. She has watered the stock
regularly once day.
The Portland daily press., 1893-03-18
OBITUARY..
John McDonougn.

-. . 49,
Mr., John Fl. MoDonough died very
suddenly from an attack of apoplexy, at
South Boston yesterday morning. Mr..
McDonough was attending the banquet
of the Tammany club of that district of
Boston when he received the fatal stroke.
The physicians could do nothing. Rev.
Father Brown, of SITS. Peter and Pauls
church, administered the last rites of the
church.
Mr.. McDonough was a Portland boy,
the son of Michael McDonough,
who resides on Larch street.
He was born in 1857, ard
graduated at the Portland High school.
He studied law and became prominent
in his profession in Boston. He was a
member of the Massachusetts, state CEN
trail committee, president of the Demo-
cratic city committee of Boston, and a
state ballot commissioner. He served
five terms in the Massachusetts, legisla-
ture. He was very popular. Only a
short time ago he was one of the speaker s
at the Democratic banquet in Portland.
MI. cDonough has two bret hers. Rev.
Fir. McDoaough and Edward Melon
ough, who was recently admitted to the
practice of medicine in this city.
James Donahue
James Donahue died at his home on
Lincoln street yesterday after several
weeks illness. He was a very popular
Young man. He. was an Elk and for
fifteen years ticket agent with Fore
paugh's circus. He was 35 years of age.
Stone china dinner sets for $4.87 at At
lxinsnn's ~
The Portland daily press., 1893-03-18
Turkey Dinner.

A delicious turkey dinnerwill be sery-
ed from 70 m. to p. m. today at the 7.
M. G. A. hail. This will be capital
chance for business men to get good
dinner down town at reasonable price.
The Portland daily press., 1893-03-18

Notice the advertisement of second
hand pianos and organs in another col
nmn of this paper. Great bargains for
few days at Cressey, Jones q Allan's.
The Portland daily press., 1893-03-18
About Icons SarsapariIIa.
wnrIncT

Mr.. Granville E. Richards, of Searsmont,
Me-, writes as follows:
Geutlemen IL have been sufferer from
Dyspepsia for years. No one knows what l
have suffered both in body and in mind. AS my
strength gradually failed ! became nervous,
despondent at times and completely discouraged.
have tried almost every remedy offered for my
trouble, but nothing ever helped me, and life
was still burden until took Icons Sarsa.
fbegan Immediately to gain in flesh, strength.
and spirits. am now a well man. Nothing
eat distresses me, and once more the future
seems bright. Icons Sarsapartlla cured
10y Dyspepsia.
The Portland daily press., 1893-03-18
AGectionate.

It is customary for members Of the
house of commons, when rising to adj
dress the house, to commence, "Mr.
Speaker, sir" One young member, who
was rather nervous, began as follows,
"Mr. Speaker. dear sir. "-Londrn Tit
p;+o
The Portland daily press., 1893-03-18
Progress In London.

London omnibuses are now lighted by
electricity. The battery from which the
current is obtained is placed in a wooden
box under one Of the seats.
The Portland daily press., 1893-03-18

Mr.. Harvey Murray has written and
Arthur P. Schmidt OF Boston has pub
lished, a sacred quartette for mixed
voices entitled II will extol Thee, y
God. The quartette was sung at HI
Street church, ast Sunday and was most
favorably received. It is a. noble and
digniied composition rising in places to
majesty, and in others it displays much
beauty of expression and delicacy Of feel
ing. Especially is the latter condition to
be found in the lines beginning 'sThe
Lord is gracious and full of compassion.
The quartette is stamped with originality
throughout and ii bids fair to become a
great favorite with church choirs.
The Portland daily press., 1893-03-18

Buy suit at the Atkinson clothing de-
nartment during the azsirnaes' sale.
The Portland daily press., 1893-03-18
George Was Enjoying Himself.

George Was Enjoying Himself.
Mother lat ball)-Are you enjoying
yourself, dear?
Daughter-No, I'm not.
t.What is the matter?"
GIVE refused George six dances run
ming, and he doesn't seem miserable
bit. Exchange
The Portland daily press., 1893-03-18

Assignees' sale at Atkinson's. Bar
gains today.
The Portland daily press., 1893-03-18

Ladies' and children's shoes at bargain
prices at Atkinson's today.
The Portland daily press., 1893-03-18

fSOco wy sSs~~'-
anything harmful, no mercury, no
strychnine, no bismuth, noarsenic; moth
ing but the leaves, barks, berries and
roots OF the field and forest which the
Indian has learned to use.
Indians know nothing of those harm
full drugs, and could mot use them II they
would.
This fact is important.
The medicine you take into your system
should be to strengthen and build 1t up,
not merely to stimulate it, and add the
fuel OF poison to the consuming flames OF
disease.
Indians don't have Dyspepsia, yet they
eat anything and everything, at all times
and under all conditions.
Indians don't have Malaria, yet they
sleep out of doors, exposed to night air,
live in damp places, and frequent changes
are quite common to their mode Of life.
Yet both these ailments and many others
that the red men never have are frequent
ly found among white people.
How Is it with the Indians
Knowing the value OF Kickapoo Indian
Sagws he keeps it constantly with him
and when his system feels run down,
needs toning up as we say, the Indian
takes few doses OF Sagwa.
He keeps WELT
He don't wait until danger overtakes
him, but craftily watches for its approach
and wards off the attack.
Here is lesson to profit by.
KIckapoo Indian SagWa,
made BY the Indians from, roots, barks and herbs
of their oson gathering and curing. is obsninable
Of arg druggist, at dollar per bottle SIG bot
ties for Jfre dollars.
All the kIckapoo Remedies are
Sold by Druggists Everywhere.
TTS&w wnrmcT
The Portland daily press., 1893-03-18
KICKAPO0 INDIAN SAGWA
Why it is The Safest Liver and
Stomach Remedy Known.
indians Have No knowledge OF
Mineral Drugs and Poisons
They Cure With Roots and Herbs
of the Field and Forest.

Kickapoo Indian sagwa is remedy
that many claim will almost raise the
dead.
The Portland daily press., 1893-03-18
.Am Obem Letter to Wonsen.
Laurel Ave, San Francisco,

LdulCl aye, 0etil ldllSAoSo,
May IS, 1892.
"Dear friend of women:
When my baby was born.
FIVE years ago, | got up in six
days. Far too soon. Result:
falling of the womb. Ever
since I've been miserable.
T. tried everything: doctors,
medicines, apparatus; but grew
worse.
81 could hardly stand; and
walking without support was
impossible.
At last | saw an advertise
ment of Lydia E. Psmkham's
Vegetable Compound, and de-
cided to try it. The effect was
astonishing. Since | took the
first bottle my womb has not
troubled me, and, thanks only
to you, | am now well. Every
Suf1erlng woman A
sh uld know A
how reliable g. IVA
your compound w W
is. 1t is a sure .ue
cure" Mrs. II. aaae ~ VIVA
Detya2er., AZ ~ NgNSSNW
All druggists sell it. S@NIN4A23N8M8IY
Address in confidence ~ ~
LYDIA E. PINKHAM MED. YssA<lfsS SEe<<st-
Co., LYNN, Mass. 2@.N
Liver Pills, 25 cents.
The Portland daily press., 1893-03-18
Making q Speech.

EACH BOTTLE GUARANTEED.
The Portland daily press., 1893-03-18

Sagwa is inc
remedy upon
W hich the In
dian relies at
all tim IS and
seasons.
Sagwa gives
strength, tones
the appetite,
pnrifes and en-
riches the blood,
and is the great
est liver, stom-
ach and blood
renovator ever
known to man.
Greater and
grander than all
this is the fact
t h 1t Indi a n
'Sagwa cannot
possibly contain
The Portland daily press., 1893-03-18
one MORE WEEK.
Continued from First Page.

changed to permit the killing of one
moose with no other limitation. The
Senate so voted.
The Portland daily press., 1893-03-18

A Noble Composition.

Stone china dinner sets for $4.s7 at At
kinson's,
The Portland daily press., 1893-03-18

The House followed the example of
the Senate and adjourned to Monday. 1t
is now thought to be almost certain ty
that the session will extend beyond next
week.
The Portland daily press., 1893-03-18
How many
are there
Would make a startling
array of figures.


Women are great sufferers from ner-
vousness, weakness, nervous prostration
and debility.
No one knows this fact better than
women themselves, and the inside his
tory Of feminine lives would reveal
story of tired bodies, unStrung and ex-
citable nerves, wearied limbs, aching
heads and backs, with that exhausted,
dragged out feeling which makes their
lives miserable.
The well known Eta e. Haven of
New Boston, Conn, writing upon the
subject says:
CDR. Greene Nervura blood and nerve
remedy is wonderful remedy for ner-
vous prostration, and those terrible tired,
weak feelings that make life a burden,
almost too great. to bear. 1 feel that
cannot say enough in its praise for what
it has done for me. It gives one the
most restful sleep, and in fact does all
and more than all 1t claims to do. 1 wish
every poor, tired woman on the face of
the earth could be induced to try it for
three days; they would then understand
its value, and life would not seem SO
wearisome and undesirable.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-01-21
SHEEP SHEARlNGS.

RAPE is highly recommended for
sheep.
DON'T feed sheep on the ground. 1t is
wasteful practice.
SHEEP eat ensilage with great de.
light and great profit.
MANY sections of the south can we'll
afford to give up watermelon raising,
| and stock the land with one of the NUT
ton breed of sheep.
WERE you ever caught by the hair of
your head and jerked lively? 1t hurt,
did it not? Never allow sheep to be
caught by the wool. 1t hurts, and il
hurts the wool, too.
MANY consumers do not know how to
Judge good mutton, but they can Judge
bad mutton when it comes on the
table; and if it is bad they do not buy
mutton again for long time.
GIVE the sheep plenty of dry, clean
bedding so that the wool will not be-
come foul. We don't believe "a sheep
can be healthy that is always carrying
| dirty fleece around, and we know the
dirt does not improve its quality.
THERE is a class of writer's who seem
to think that sheep has no brains,
and say that the shepherd must furnish
the brains The sheep has enough
brains to enable it to tell whether it is
well cared for or not. Don't forget
that.
ALL sheepmen will agree THAT the
breeder Of sheep who has been in the
business for long time and does not
let up for small prices of wool and
mutton. but keeps steadily on through
thick and thin, is the one who makes
it profitable. Spasmodic sheep hus-
bandry seldom pays.-Western Rural
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-01-21
DE LESSEPS.

"Count no man happy until he I,
dead" said old Solon and he was
right. The future is sown with un-
known pitfalls and no man is safe. If
he be cautious he leads wretciled life,
filled with suspicion and tormented
with doubts. If he be trustful SONS
friend beats him out of his last dollar.
The only certain way is to enjoy
oneself as he goes along and thus take
a bond of fortune. No enjoyment is
possible unless one is we'll. If you
suffer with pulmonary trouble get a
bottle of Reid's German Cough q
Kidney Cure and take it freely. 1t is
the best remedy on the market. II
your druggist doesn't keep it, write to
the Sylvan Remedy Co., Peoria, ILL.,,
and they will send you trial bottle
by mail free. Mention the name Of
this paper.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-01-21

the use of thatching be ex-
tended in this country it's value
might be acknowledged. To lay
lay it is a simple art, requiring no
more skill than shingling. After the
first two hours of effort, the work will
seem more easy and rapid. The essen.
tials are straight, hand-thrashed straw.
binder twine and a shuttle made of oak
or hickory, six inches long, an inch and
a half wide and one-eighth of an inch
thick. The shape of the shuttle, and
also crude sketch of building being
matched, are shown in cut. Furring
strips are nailed to the rafters as for
shingles, and Il cord firmly nailed to
the end of each. ] say firmly nailed"
because if it should loosen, the straw it
holds will soon slip down and be at the
mercy of the wind, when bad leak
will appear; and thatching, like shing-
ling, is difficult to repair.
The straw is laid and bound to it's
place in small bundles-the smaller the
better-the twine being wound ON the
shuttle. little practice will enable
the thatcher to tiatten and spread each
bundle so no cracks will show in the
roof. After the cord is put over the
straw and under the Turing strip, and
while it is being held very tight, the
straw is forcibly crowded up against
the last bundle placed, that the roof
may be firm and hard. 1t is we'll to
secure the binder twipe at intervals Of
one foot on the Turing strip by winding
it around a shingle nail and driving it
m n tha wood Mona lint al J., l,.,l
straw is suitable on account of rats
and mice. If it be stiff and strong it
may be exposed to the weather in
eight-inch lengths, but weak, light
straw will not bear the wind unless in
six or four inch laps. A steep pitch is
desirable, and wide, over-hanging ga
bles will give pretty appearance to
the smallest thatched building. The
straw is here. How are your roofs?-
Hollister Sage, in Rural New Yorker.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-01-21

follows: Take two strips long enough
to reach across the corner of the pen
and strong enough to hold stiffiy the
narrow upright pieces that should be
nailed to them about one foot apart at
first. As the lambs grow the spaces
between the uprights must be in
creased. A device more easily regu-
lated is herewith illustrated and taken
from the same bulletin. The frame
work is made of light fiat iron strips
The rollers d and c are of wood about
two inches in diameter. The station
nry upright rollers are one foot apart
and two feet long. 1t will be noticed
that the bottom strip of iron is made to
slide on another strip, and the whole
thing built in such a way that the roll
ers can be set at any distance apart by
simply removing the peg A and draw
ing the rollers to the right. The creep
is three feet four inches high and four
feet six inches wide, and arranged with
four places. Farm and Home.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-01-21
FARM AND GARDEN.
HOMEMADE ROOF s.
Hollister Sage Suggests n Return to the
Use of Thntches.

Hollister Sage Suggests n Return to the
Use of Thntches.
Every few years there is an expense
for farm roofs of some sort for the old
homestead, and it is becoming monoto-
nous. Recently l spent over 500 for
shingling. Roofs bring n greater aver
age annual expense to farmers all over
the country than most are aware Of
Shingles are not as cheap nor made of
as good material as formerly, paper is
short-lived and tin and slate are so eX'
pensive that many cannot afford either
These facts, coupled with what know
of roofs in England and Scotland, have
set me thinking. Over large part OF
rural Europe the roof of straw thatch
is as common and evidently as durable
as the average American shingles. 1t
is applied by the owner, or tenant fire.
quently, with no expense aside from
the time and material = straw and
tNine-usually produced on the farm.
question forces itself upon me: Why
is not this by-product of our grain
fields utilized to some extent for roof
ing, at least on our smaller, obscure
farm buildings? Would it not do for
icehouses, woodhouses, stock sheds
and smaller barns? For hen houses it
might not be desirable, because liable
to harbor vermin, but this tendency
could be controlled by saturating it
from below with carbolized lime wash,
using force pump. Even those who
have never seen thatching know how
surely rain runs off the roof we'll
covered stack and how little we'll.
made cock of hay is wet by heavy
storms. Reeds and rushes are also
sometimes employed for roofs. Could