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The Portland daily press., 1893-01-20
Winterine Plants.

Oleanders, century plants, large cac-
fuses, ETC., and many plants too large for
keeping in room as window plants can
usually be carried safely through the
winter in any frostproof cellar that is
also moderately dry. The plants of this
kind already mentioned are watered only
just enough to prevent them from with
ering and dying, the object being simply
to keep them alive until spring. Ger
aniums, heliotropes, salrans and carna-
tions are also kept over in this way. 1t
is well. however, to remove the leaves,
which will die if left on.
Where your window plants have been
frozen by a cold snap do not raise the
temperature of the room suddenly or at
once remove them to a much warmer
place, but make the change Of tenpera-
ture very gradually and handle the frozen
plants gently. When the harder parts
of the plant return to their natural con-
dition, cut off with sharp knife any
shoots that have been killed. If your
flower growing must be done in windows
that get very little direct sunlight, try
lilies of the valley, pansies, violets,
fuchsias, lobelias, forgetmenots, phloxes
and such plants as are native to shady
woods.
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-20

ton keepers, yardmen, telegraphers or
any other employees of the road. We
now have total of nearly $4,000 people
supported by the passenger travel in and
to New York city, not counting in the
ferries, the internal travel of Brooklyn
or other tributary towns or the people
grocerymen, tailors, dressmakers, mar
ketmen and others-who live by min
istering to the wants of the railroad peo-
pie, and the total length of the train that
would be operated by these thousands
would be about ninety miles, or as far as
from New York to Philadelphia.
If the $4,000 people engaged in the
passenger railroad traffic tributary to
New York were to form in a process
sion, marching in ranks Of six, each rank
occupying two feet Of space and sepa-
rated from the next by three feet, the line
of this monster review would stretch
out over more than u miles of Broad
ways magnificent length. In ranks of
six the parade would cover fifteen miles
of pavement, extending from the Bat
terry to the Harlem river and four miles
out into Westchester county.
The evening of the strangers second
day in New York had set in by the time
his Investigations had reached this point,
and though he could in his minds eye
behold alluring vistas of other curious
metropolitan statistics he determined to
cease at once from figuring. During the
remainder of his visit. he enjoyed the
sights and sounds of the big town with
out analysis. 1. D. MARSHALL.
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-20

SINGLE FLowERED TUBERoUs BEGoNIA.
time to set them out into the garden.
They don't begin to bloom well till the
very hot weather il past; but then, say,
after the middle of August, they set in
in all their glory and continue to increase
in strength and profusion till cut down
by frost in October.
Mr.. Falconer lifts and pots few of
the finest begonias before the frost cuts
them and brings them into the house to
ripen seed for next years crop. You
can't keep them growing all winter, SO
you needn't try to. He says: keep the
old bulbs dry and where frost cannot
get at them or the fire heat is too strong,
and next spring start them to grow in
the house, frame or greenhouse, before
you set them out. Be very particular
about this. And if they don't start well
don't plant them out till they do"
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-20
TIE PEAR TREE PsYLLA.
Practical Information Concerning This
Injurious insect Pest.

Practical Information Concerning This
Injurious Insect Pest.
A bulletin issued from Cornell uni
versity station treats at length of mi
mute insect known as the pear tree psylla,
which belongs to the suborder homop-
terra, family psyllide, commonly known
as jumping plant lice.
Among the first indications of its pres
ence was the noticeably lessened vitality
of pear trees early in the season. Old
trees especially put forth but little new
growth.
Another phase Of the attack is immense
quantities of a sweet waterlike fluid
called honey dew which covers the twigs,
branches and trunks of the trees Al
though the indications of the presence OF
some enemy are SO conspicuous, the
depredator is an insect so small as to be
easily overlooked. In their immature
forms they are called nymphs. When
first Matched they are of translucent
yellow color and hardly visible to the
unaided eye. From the full grown
nymph the change is to the adult insect.
The food of the insect consists entirely
of the sap of the tree.
Attempts to destroy the eggs with in
secticides have been unsuccessful. Moth
ing could be done until the nymphs APP
peared. These were found very suscep-
tible to kerosene. A kerosene emulsion
was prepared according to the Hubbard
Riley formula, and even when diluted
with twenty-five parts of water it was
estimated that from rs to 80 per cent. of
the nymphs were killed with one spray
ing. There is no danger to the trees
from the diluted emulsion, which thus
contains less than 8 per cent. of kerosene.
The best time to spray is early in the
spring, just after the leaves have ex-
banded. It seems hardly practicable to
try to kill the adults by spraying, as
they rise and fly away as soon as the
first spray strikes the tree and do not re-
turn until it has ceased.
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-20
Fashion Notes.

The lightweight woods are exception
ally pretty and dainty in design and
color. Plaid leads with the youthful.
But one very neat and very peculiar
gown for young lady was made of
twilled cashmere in snuff brown, with
hunters green velvet trimming. The
skirt was plain and had five rows of
graduated green ribbon on it, and the
blouse and sleeves were also trimmed
with it. The blouse was plated in very
narrow plaits from the bust down to the
end of the points of the bottom Of the
blouse. The velvet crossed the waist
diagonally, and the upper part was
plated with box plaits held by green
velvet buttons. The back was plated
from top to bottom and had row of
the buttons down the middle. 1t was a
very handsome dress.
A new wrap for bride is made of
gray and white plaid cut on the bias,
with crystal silk yoke, sleeve caps and
forearins OF dark blue, bordered with a
very narrow binding of astrakhan. The
hat was of the crystal silk, with silver
gray bow and aigret. The wrap was
princess shape, with loose falls front
and back. This wrap is particularly
graceful aud would look as well made
up in plain material.
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-20

more than 40 per cent, or rising 500,O
a day. In 1891 the daily average was
$685. Perhaps two-tnirds of all pas
sengers on surface and 81" trains, or
$4,000 day, are going to and returning
from work. Though New Yorks trans
portation facilities are better than those
of any other city in America, if not in
quate to thAproper performance of the
work they are called upon to do.
The elevated railroad lines have in
These, allowing so feet to each car and
20 feet to each locomotive, would stretch
over more than 10 miles of the 32a miles
of elevated tracks in the city.
The surface railroads of New York
operate 26o miles of track, over which
about $500 cars e, 1878 in 1901 are hauled
by about 5,40O horses $3.50 in 1891.
There are 40 lines of surface road, ~
running longitudinally Of the island and
% across town. Allowing 40 feet for
each car and team, the cars of the sur
face lines would, if placed on one track,
cover between 10 and 20 miles of rail-
Tie sL' trains and surface cars of Man
haitian Island stretched in line would
reach more Shan thirty miles, or twice
as far as from Buffalo to Niagara Falls.
The number of persons employed by the
elevated railroad in all capacities is, so
Colonel Hahn tells me, 5000 in round
numbers, and $4,000 people at least gain
a livelihood in various ways from the
surface roads, 10000 in all living on
New York's passenger traffic. If each
worker supports one person besides him
self, there is a grand total of 10000, or
enough people to fill city about as
large as Harrisburg, the capital of Penn
sylvania.
Now for the suburban traffic-the
traffic supported mainly by New Workers
who do not live in New York. Twenty
EIGHT railroads terminate on or opposite
II .nhattan Island, and thirty-one ferry
lines, exclusive of those going to Black
wells, Randall's, Bedloe's and Ellis IL
lands, land passengers on Manhattan's
shores. In the nature of things it is not
possible to give exact figures in this di-
rection, but Colonel Dickinson, a local
railroad man of repute, who has patiently
gathered the statistics, estimates that
more than 342, 900 arrive here every day
by all ways, including railroads, ferries
and bridge, who earn their daily bread
in New York.
To transport this vast multitude would
require $40 railroad trains of ten cars
each, each car carrying sixty passengers.
Five hundred and seventy locomotives
would haul these trains, and allowing
sixty feet for each car-they range from
ffty-four to sixty-four feet in length
and thirty feet for each locomotive, the
combined train that should carry them
all would be more than sixty miles long.
Allowing six men to each of the $40
trains-a low estimate-3,4 20 men would
gain livelihood by running this train.
Applying the rule that each worker
supports one other person, and this big
train would give living to .6,640 per-
sons, and not counting in truckmen, sta
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-20
A VISION OF MANY CARS.

It is not likely that many people, either
IN or out of New York, have even faint
idea of the enormous proportions that
city and suburban passenger traffic have
reached here. The stranger, being of an
inquiring turn of mind, looked up some
of the figures, and enormous" is not one
whit too strong an adjective to apply to
Ehem.
About 45O,oO00Oo passengers are car
ried annually, or almost 1,a50000 day,
by the lines of transportation within
the city limits. The exact figures for
1899 have not yet been made public, but
during 1891 the number was 40S, 1863, 1856
OF this total the elevated roads carry
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-20
New to Most Fruit Growers.

AT the annual meeting of the Ameri-
can Horticultural association Professor
Budd, of Iowa, made statement that
was new to many in the matter of pro-
lection and covering as it applies to
birds and insects. In this country there
is no netting manufactured for the COW
ering of cherry and like trees. In Eu-
rope they manufacture q netting for this
special purpose, and manufacture livery
cheaply. The Iowa station the past year
imported $500 square yards of this Eng
lish netting, which cost in that country
only one cent per square yard. That
was the factory price, and the cost of
transportation was one-half cent more
per square yard. That netting is very
durable, and will be used at the station
grounds over grapevines and many other
kinds Of fruits. The netting is made
with different sized meshes.
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-20

in the glare of the not yet extinguished
electric light there came from the east
the dull sound of tramping feet. He
and boys descend the stairs from the
Brooklyn bridge. 1t was met at Broad
way by another stream that had come
up Barclay street. Before either of these
had dispersed third came up Cortlandt;
then Liberty street added its quota to
the rapidly growing throng.
Up Broadway and down Broadway
they came, first by dozens and then by
ffties; every surface car brought it's
load; crowds poured in from Fulton,
Wall, Park place and other cross streets,
and from the elevated railroad stations
came thousands more In half an hour
the park was crowded, and Park row
was filed with a hustling, jostling null
titude. New York's industrial army
had begun another days battle. The
advance guard of this army was COM
posed almost exclusively of men and
boys, but as the minutes passed women
and girls began to appear, and long be-
fore o'clock they formed a fair proper
ton of the mass.
While the stranger was watching the
influx of people at City Hall park other
thousands were pouring into the city at
various points along the islands periph-
cry Railroad trains were hurrying
down the mountain sides and across the
marshes of northern New Jersey, along
the shore of the sound from Connecticut,
over the level reaches of Long Island,
down the Hudson's picturesque banks
and from the uttermost parts of Staten
Island, and the rivers and bay were
alive with great ferryboats, each bear
ing hundreds and some thousands of
people to their daily tasks. And the vast
multitude was made up mostly of New
Workers who do not live in New York.
1t was not until about 5 o'clock in the
evening of the same day that the stran-
ger fully understood why so many New
Workers have established homes outside
the metropolis, and why the call for
''rapid transit" is so loud. Then he
boarded an elevated railroad train at the
City Hall station for a ride up town. He
will never do it again if he can help it.
Although well hammered man by ma
ture and training, he was obliged to
struggle with other men, and even with
women, to gain foothold on the plat
form of an aerial car. Then, suffering
from rain of fine cinders, trodden upon
and crushed by his fellow martyrs and
shivering in raw wind, he had to stand
during half hour Of torture while the
train dragged it's slow length to Forty
second street.
The next morning he read in the news
papers report of a meeting of the rapid
transit commission, which came near
breaking up in a row over the method
that should be employed to relieve the
city's congestion. To the stranger it was
as clear as it has been for years to New
Workers, both Manhattanese and sub
urban, that, if the metropolis is to keep
as residents G 1.-THE of the people annu-
ally added to it's working army, better
facilities for intramurai transit must be
speedily provided. To the stranger it
was apparent also that the means is a
secondary matter; more rapid transit is
an imperative necessity.
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-20
"Feak and Weehle."

A friend of mine had an odd way of mixing
her words. Perfectly unconscious of tt, she
would often make folks laugh. She would speak
of feeling ''feak and weeble'' for weak and fee
BILE, and 'castor ill poils,'' for castor oil pills
But she was weak and feeble, until she took
that powerful, inyigorating tonic, "Favorite
Prescription" which SO Wonderfully imparts
strength to the whole system. and to the womb
and its appendages in particular. For over
worked women, rundown women and feeble
women generally. DIR. Pierces Favorite Pre-
scription is unequled. 1t is invaluable in allay-
ing and subduing nervous excitabilfty, irrita-
bility exhaustion, prostrat on hysteria, spasms,
and other distressing, nervous symptoms. com
disease. 1t induces refreshing sleep and re-
lieves mental anxiety and dependency.
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-20
AUCTION SALES.
r. 0. BAILEY & CO., Auetionsers.
RECEIVERS SALE.

FByHE undersigned. Harry R. Virgin, receiver
4 and trustee OF the DEMO Automatic Alarm
Push Button Company hereby gives notice that
der at his office, No. 396 Congress street, Port
land. Maine, on THURSDAY, Jan. 26th, 1893.
at 10 O'Clock in the forenoon, all his right, title
and interest as receiver and trustee as afore-
said, and all the right, title and interest which
said DEMO Automatic Alarm Push Button Com
pany had at the time of its dissolution in and
e letters patent Of the nnted States abd for i'm
paratils. numbered 397 1888, and bearing date
February 18th, 1889, hereby giving notice to
ter. New York claims a royalty OF cents up
on each push button made and sold under said
letters patent, by virtue OF contract made be-
tween said Louise A. DEMO and said company,
bearing date October 4th, 1889. And said re-
ceiver will also sell at the same time and place
all his right, title and interest In and TO oo,ooO
sets of shells for push b ,ttonS.
HARRY r. VIRGIN,
Receiver and Trustee of DEMO AuGomatlc
Alarm Push Button Company.
Janis olW
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-20
ObtairabIe of all medicine dealers.

We cannot explain how a
man gains a pound a day by
taking an ounce a day of
SCOTS Emulsion Of cod-liver
oil-it happens sometimes.
It is food that he can di-
gest; we understand that.
But it must be more than
food to give more than the
whole of itself.
He has been losing flesh
because he did not get from
his food the fat he needed.
SCOTS Emulsion sets his
machinery working again.
Shall we send you a book
on CAREFUL LIVING? Free.
SCOTT & BOVINE, Chemists, 1ssSouth sth Avenue.
New York.
Your druggist keeps SCOTS Emulsion of cod-liver
oil--all druggists everywhere do. 81.
ap4 eodnrm&w
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-20
TRAVEL IN NEW YORK.
1t would Feed, House and Clothe d
City Harrisburg.

Forty Thousand People at Least support
ed by ''L' and Surface Roads-A Ninety
Mile Train-A Stranger Grapp1es with
the Rapid Transit Problem.
Especial Correspondence
NEW YORK, Jan. 19.-It was an early
winter morning on Manhattan Island.
City Hall park was deserted. To the
stranger who the day before had first
watched New York's strenuous thou
sands in their mad race with time and
each other after the dollars the place
seemed by comparison dead beyond the
possibility of resurrection. AS he stood
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-20
Steamboat For Sale.

The sound and serviceable steamer
the "City Of Richmond 500 tons,
and having GIL stater0oms, now rum
ming between Portland and Machias.
on Che route of the Portland, MT. De.
sert g. Machias Steamboat Company, is
offered for sale, delivered at either
Portland OF ROckland, after July LIST
next. She may now be seen on her
present route. For description and
terms apply to PAYSON TUCKER, Gen-
eral Manager, Portland, Mt. Desert &
Machias Steamboat Company, Port.
land, Me.
lae@ may3-dft
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-20

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
cents and every bot
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-20
OUR DANGER.
Look Out for the Spring Of 1898
FoREwARNED is F0REARMED.

The Hatcheries of Cholera, and What Is
To Be seen There-If the Disease
Freaks Out in New York Where Will
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:
ssIt is feared that the seeds of death
sowed last summer will yield a fruitful
harvest in the spring"
There is no lodging this DIR ad disease
in the S ring and summer OF 1898.
The country is ripe for 1t.
Our lax immigration laws will be
wholly responsible for the death rate
through Cholera during 1898.
For years the United States has been
human tides have been skinned off and
ladled to our shores.
Austria, Bavaria, Poland, Russia,
Turk Y, Italy, China, these and many
other foreign countries send the rag -tag
and bob-tail, the vicious, the depraved,
the vile. the diseased, and the utterly
lost. to our shores. This they have been
doing for years with the utmost impuni-
AS a famous New York physician re-
Gently remarked to the writer.
aHow 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
noints 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 frlghtful vista
ton is to be prepared or 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:
ssContageous diseases seldom attack
perfectly healthy people. Persons whose
vitality is low and whose general health
is impaired, are the nrst 10 Idil preys W
Dr.. John B. Bray of Bridgton, in re-
Spouse to inquiry, said:
Certainly, people should now look
sharply after their health. # 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
nremises. If the blood is foul, the liver
clogged, and the stomach out of order,
such person is far more likely to be
among the first victims than others in
good health
He also Endorses, as the ideal remedy
for purifying the blood and arousing vi
tality, KINGS SARSAPARILLA.
1t is 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 our dwelling places,
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-20
Tuberous Begonias.

William Falconer. editor Of Garden
ing, starts the seed of his tuberous be-
gonias in the dollhouse in January or
February, and keeps the little seedlings
IN full and vigorous growth till planting
out time. first in the greenhouse. then
In cold frame from April into May or
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-20
Wanted to Show 1t.

Jones-rm going to bring my wife round to
call tonight.
Smith-That's right. But do me favor, old
man. Don't let her wear her new sealskin
cloak don't want my wife to see it just now,
you see.
Jones (grimly-Why that's what we are COM
ing for.-DetrOit Free Press.
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-20
Didn't Like 1t.

Didn't Like 1t.
watts-I don't like this reincarceratlon idea
Bit
Potts-No?
Watts-No. Just fancy yourself occupying
the body of a mule and hauling stones for your
own monument Journal.
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-20

The children's health must not be neglect
ed. Cold in the head causes catarrh. Fly's
Cream Balm cures at once. 1t is perfectly safe
and easily applied into the nostrils. The worst
cases yielding toit Price 30 cents.
One OF my children had very bad discharge
from her nose. Two physicians prescribed, but
without benefit. We tried Ely's Cream Balm,
and much to our surprise there was marked
improvement. We continued using the balm,
and in short time the discharge was cured
O. A. Cary, Corning, N. Y.
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-20

We often hear people say there is only one
good cough medicine and that is DR.. BulPs
Cough Syrup. the specific for cold.
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-20

elbow kind Of you to call-rm sosorry
to have kept you waiting!'
s'Oh, don't mention tive not been
at all bored! I've been trying to imagine
what should do to make this room look
comfortable if it were minev'-Punch.
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-20

Halls Remover is the natural remedy fol
gray hair dandruff and badness,
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-20
A Taller of wondrons Tales

A Teller OF Wondrous Tales.
Mrs Blue Don't you think that Edgar Allan
Poe had the most brilliant Imagination you
know of?
Mrs, Green-Oh no. Pm sure he couldn't
compare with my husband when he comes
home late.-New York Herald.
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-20

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 Che ''no cure, no pdy'
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-20
FEMALE HELP.

"ANTED-Position as housekeeper by
wv middle aged American lady where she
can have daughter with her, in small family,
widower's or BACHELORS; references ex-
changed. Address box 2S4, So birmingham
Mass. 31-4
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-20
Observing.

Observing.
bers of the family on Thanksgiving, gazes con-
templatiyely at each in turn, Them remarks
slowly:
IAN the ladies has their bangs over they
noses and all the gentlemen has they bangs
under they noses. "-Harper's Bazaar.
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-20
FOR SAIL: .

Stock of Hardware, Stoves and Tin.
ware: will invoice $4,000 to $4,000;
best Of reasons for selling; good chance
for pact zeal man. Address BOX 100,
North Berwick, Me.
ian19 DIST
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-20

FHOR SALE-First-class boarding house.
Il nicely situated near Park street, contains
II rooms now doing good paying business.
Price low; good reasons for selling. Inquire of
A. C. LIBBY, 421s Exchange street. col