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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1893-01-19
PETITION AGAINST PETITION.
Water Works People Ask for a With.
drawal Of the Injunction Suit.

The activity of the water works oppo.
sition has stirred up the supporters of
Council. On Tuesday the petition .iven
below was circulated, and if the request
OF the signers is respected n vast amount
Of litigation and i'll feeling will be saved.
Up to Tuesday night the names of 1873
representative business men as given
below were readily obtained and the
paper is still being circulated:
We the undersigned citizens, residents
of Hillsboro, Ohio, do respectfully pet-
ton s. P. Scott, l.. s. Smith, =. M. Over
man and 0. s. Price, plaintiffs in Ger.
tain suit pending against said village,
praying for an injunction to restrain the
Council to build water works, to with
draw said petition and permit said Coun.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-01

poses, showing as they do constant
and steady growth. The chapter on ed
ucation is also very interesting. 1t is IL
Illustrated by pictures of the first semina-
ry at Kent's Hill and of the new build
ing, the corner stone of which was laid
lew days ago. The contrast between
these two structures shows better than
words the progress made in this depart
ment of church work. This chapter al
SO contains portraits of the ex-presidents
OF the seminary and the present presi-
dent. In the chapter on church proper
ty is picture of the first Methodist
church in Maine, which stood in East
Readfield, and pictures of some of the
fine edifices of today. These are but a
few Of the many interesting features of
the book which should be in the hands
of every Methodist. The price is $3.50.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-01
Real Estate Transfers.

The following transfers of real estate
are reported:
Pertland-Sophia L. Matthews ct al,
to James Willis Taylor.
Fannie c. Boyce to Elbridge G. s..
Kicker.
Eliza j. Woodman TO Milly F. Alexan-
der $25.
Yarmouth-Joshua T. NOVEL; to Maud
T. Sanborn.
Cordelia Foster to Eliza S. Humphrey.
Joshua T. NOVEL; to Mary A. Sanborn.
Deering-Sarah A. Thomas to Matilda
Briggs.
Sarah A. Thomas to Matilda Briggs.
Windham-Fred G. Plummer to Lu-
cinda Bryant.
Gray-Hugh P. Morrill, to Eunice H.
Morrill,
Eunice Ell. Morrill, to Asa V. Morrill,.
James McConkey to George A. Morrill,.
Cape Observation-Disclosures G. Hamlin
ct al, to Charles M. Cole.
acknowledgement c. Payson el al. to
Mary A. johnson.
Elizabeth w. S. G. Day to Mary A.
johnson.
William M. Allen to Charles P. Win
ship.
Bridgton-Abbie Y. Baker to First
Congregational church.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-01
CAPE ELIZABETH.

Last Monday morning was the coolest
of the fall thus far, the thermometer
registering twenty-four degrees above
zero at South Portland.
Miss Kate Sawyer has picked fifteen
bushels of cranberries on her farm the
present autumn.
Several members of the North
congregational church attended the
recent session of the county
conference. at the Free Church in Deer
irng.
Captain Herbert Wallace of the brig
Henry B. Cleaves, arrived home from
New York on Sunday.
Mr. Shea has moved into the r. M. Cole
house, on Sawyer street.
CAPITA. D. Boyd has returned home
from western trip. He visited friends
in Minneapolis, also the Worlds Fair,
and on his return from Chicago, visited
Washington, Baltimore and New York.
The captain was much pleased with
Minneapolis and had fattering offers to
settle there.
Prof. Bowdoin, assisted by Mrs. Sophia
Robinson and other Portland talent,
will give concert at the North Congre-
gatlonal church on Wednesday evening,
November 1. The proceeds will go to
iquidate the debt on the parsonage
Zebulon Manter and his brother, Rev.
John Manter, have returned from the
Worlds Fair
DIR. d. A. Kincaid of South Portland, will
start in a few days for Kansas for the
benefit of his health. The doctor is a
great sufferer from asthma and hopes a
change of climate may afford him relief.
The accounts published in the papers
respecting the raid on Mrs. Pratt's house
in South Portland, were much exagger-
ated. No White Caps were there; but
the disturbance was made by mem bers
of the club. The better portions of the
community are satisfied that the work
carried on there is corrupting to the
young men of the village.
Extensive repairs are in progress at the
Atwood Lead Company's Work. Ligonia,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-01
vandalism That Should Be Punished.

The Park Commissioners are not a lit
tie discouraged by an act of vandalism
that was perpetrated few nights ago.
They have been at great trouble and no
little expense to set out along Portland
street, next the park, a row of Norway
frs. These trees, at the state of growth
which they have attained, are worth at
least $40 apiece, to say nothing of the
time and advantage lost to the city park
system by any injury done to them in
their present state. Some vandals have
broken off the tops of ten of these frs,
greatly damaging, if not running them.
There is more or less vandalism going on
in the parks of the city all the time, and
there is a crying demand that some of
the rascals be detected and punished.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-01

matter is the primary consideration.
The water t Of foods DIS has no especial value.
In buying fooas we pander to an over
ing economy. This table shows the rela-
tive cost Of edible ., dr. dry matter in several
foods; Oysters, u. % per pound; Holsters,
turkey, s1.oo per. pound; sirloin, g.
cents per pound; fore quarter beef, %
cents per pound; cheese, 20 cents per
pound; milk, II cents per pound: fat
pork, IL cents per pound; wheat flour, 4
cents per pound; corn meal, cents per
pound.
Vegetable foods are the cheapest. The
flour barrel is the resort of poverty. The
cheapest animal food adapted to general
use is produced by the mich COW.
Skinned milk should be more generally
consumed by poor people. Cheese takes
the place of meats among the poor of
Europe: Living more simply would
physical condition and give larger room
for intellectual and social development.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-01
HE WENT TO THE WORLDS FAIR
And His Creditors Propose to Make it Hot
for Him.


A well known Commercial Street mer-
chant tells good story of man who
tried to make a settlement with him at
the low rate of 10 cents on the dollar.
He was in his office recently when man
walked in, and said that he was from
place down the coast. He represented,
he said customer of the firm, and had
called in to make settlement of their
claim against him. He remarked that
times had been hard. the number of
summer boarders less than they had ex-
pected, and that the parties he repre-
sented could only offer 10 cents on the
dollar.
That is rather small sum-" said the
merchant. "Where is Mr.. Blank himself?
| seems to me that he should come and
see us in person. The stranger evaded
the question, saying "Mr. Blank" was
not at home, but had left his business
for him to settle" That made the Com
mercial street man more than half mad,
and he said Look here, I've asked you
a plain question. Mr.. Blank is owing us
a good deal of money, and here you come
a perfect stranger, tell US he's not at
home, and ask us to take 10 cents on
dollar for our claim. We don't know
where he is, but you do, and we expect
you to tell u.s."
"Mr. Blanks at the Worlds Fair" re-
piled the stranger. Then the Portland
man rose and said, "As a rule Isdon't
want to have trouble with any one, but
in this case it is different. You come
here to represent man who is too
poor to pay more than 10 cents on the
dollar, and yet who has gone to Chicago.
When we settle that claim it will be with
Mr.. Blank in person, and in the mean
time your room is badly wanted in this
office.n
The stranger left and the Portland
man put on his hat, and went out and
interviewed number of other Portland
creditors Of the man who went to
Chicago under such circumstances They
all agreed not "to let up on him." and
the result will be that when he gets back
from Chicago he will find that his offer
will not be considered, and that there
will be the strictest sort of an lnvestiga-
tion made into his affairs.
The Portland creditors propose to find
where their money has gone to in that
case, if in no other.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-01
A Valuable Book.

Rev. D.B. Randall, DID,, well-known
Methodist minister of this state and one
of the Oldest and most honored members
of the Maine Conference, has prepared
and the Lakeside Press has published. a
statistical History of the Maine Con
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
church from 1893 to 1892 Perhaps the
best idea of the scope and contents of
the book can be derived from the au-
thor's headings of the different chapters
which are as follows: 1, Origin of the
M. E. church with it's bishops;2 2. names
of members of the first Conference and
what became of them; 8, names of all
the circuits and sections; a. presiding
elders; 5, the number received on trial
located, expelled, etc.. 6, transfers to
and from the conference; 7, the amount
of salary paid; 8, benevolent contribu-
tons; 9, money raised for parent mis-
sionary society; 10, superannuates. II
Sunday schools; -, conferences and
where held; 10, education; ID church
property; Is, statistical summary. 10
delegates to the general conference. ~
alphabetical register; Is, deaths of
preachers; 10, general summary. % CON
clusion An index to circuit and stations
completes the book. Much Of the in
formation is of interest to the oenerol
reader. Some of the most strikino eta
tistics are those which relate to contyi.
buttons for church and benevolent mr.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-01
TBoston Herald

There can be no question of the popu-
larity of Mr.. Thomas B. Reed in Massa-
chusetts. His reception by Republican
audiences attests this Enthusiastically. He
is a big man in more than one sense.
His personality, his manner and his
speech all delight our Republicans. Mr..
James G. Blaine himself could never
have drawn a bigger or more admiring
audience than Mr.. Reed had in this city
on Saturday night. If Mr.. Reed is a
candidate for the next Republican nomi-
nation to the Presidency (as is not i'm
probable), we are inclined to doubt if
Governor Mckinley will be sin IT'D as
the phrase is, for the support of Massa-
chusetts. Certainly he will not if the
Republican voters generally have their
way.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-01
boston Transcript


The immense audiences which Hon,
Thomas b. Reed draws in this State are
largely tribute to his courage and con-
structive power as Speaker of the House
of Representatives in.the Fifty~first Con-
gress. 1t was he who had the pluck to
count quorum out of members visi bly,
present who refused to enroll themselves,
and thus defeated Democratic filibster-
ing. !. 1t was he who virtually stifed the
silver coinage bill an prevented it's ever
being left in President Harrison's hands
for good and sufficient reason, as the ex-
Speaker has several times suggested. It
was he who paved the way for the COM
paratlvely easy passage OF the Mckinley
bill by rules he reported and had adopted
in the popular branch Americans OF
all parties instinctively like a politician
who has overcome obstacles and accom-
plished something, even if the work done
does not commendaitself to the best iudg-
ment of the community. The deeds of
Tom Reed as a legislator, his acts as
Speaker, his reversing tradition and de-
cisions that none of his predecessors had
cared to question, have been brought
conspicuously to the foreground, and
contrasted with the utter helplessness of
the United States Senate when confronted
with the problem of transacting public
business, despite aggressive obstruction.
Here is the man, people say,who would
have made the Senate business one,
as he didthe House, even if it became
necessary to smash a few ancient politi-
cal idols. Our intelligent masses are
well capable of judging just how far
rules are tolerant and to be tolerated.
They draw the line at that point where
regulations serve as cover for disorder
or chaos, and where they also furnish
strong situations for battering down
government credit and introducing
confusion into or national finances, as
well as distrust in all commercial circles.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-01
The Subject of "Foods.n

He said that the fundamental consider
alton for any people is the right develop
ment of men and women. Our standards
of prosperity are wrong to a great ex-
tent, as. much as they assume mans
occupation to be the first consideration
and the man himself OF less Importance.
This is to some degree seen in the de-
velopment of the modern idea of educa-
ton in which the preparation for bust
ness career seems to take precedence over
the development of the intellectual and
spiritual faculties. In mans develop
menf physical conditions are primary
and fundamental. This fact is very much
over looked in the anXieties of parents
for the intellectual and moral welfare of
their children. In the means and APP
planes for tra1ningsin our schools and
colleges also this fact has no adequate
recognition. Systematic physical train
ing IS not the least important factor in
the building up process undertaken at
colleges.
PHYSICAL man is the product of breed
ing, food and environment. Food plays
a more important part than we realize.
The bodies of brutes may be very mate
rally modified by food as experiment
has shown. The same is true of man,
for he is an animal. Nevertheless, we
way of systematic study, to the feeding
of brutes than to the feeding of man.
The human food question has vast i'm
portance. Its right use largely deter
mines what we are physically, it de-
mands so to 60 per cent of the earnings
of laborers to supply it to their families,
and it occupies large share of the time
of the housewife.
The average human body of 14S pounds
contains so pounds of wafer 5S nouuds
of dry matter made up of 1855 pounds of
protein, 231 pounds of fat, L pounds of
sugar, and S.3 pounds of ash. These
compounds are manufactured from the
food. The human body is also a machine.
The laboring mans body performs in
one day Z 1000, 900 foot pounds of work.
The energy performing this work comes
from the food. The economical use of
food and health require proper balance
of constituents. "A, ounces of protein, "A
ounces of fat and Is ounces of sugar and
starch should support ga laboring man
one day.
Americans eat proportionately too little
protein and excessively of fat and sugar
and starch.
The dietary of New England laborers
has been found to be 81 ounces OF protein
8 ounces of fat and 1912 ounces of starch
and sugar Children who form the candy
abused as one would not dare to abuse
brutes if we expect satisfactory results.
More of fruit, the grains in their
natural condition with animal food
moderately added, with cake and PASTRY
more largely omitted, would be a great
improvement. We are now more
luxurious in our eating than in any
other department of our lives
In the purchase OF foods, edible dry
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-01
MARRIAGES.

At Peaks Island. Oct. so. at the M. E. Par
sonage, by Rev. +. W. Smith, Austin Wads-
worth of Hiram, Maine, and Miss Frieda M.
Bleifernicht of Brasle. Germany
In Bath, Oct. "a, Allen Clark and Mrs. Fam
ME Oliver.
ton and Miss Maude Holbroo Of Pn;nsb Oh bos
In Bristol Mills. Oct. 25, Stephen f. Thomp-
son and Ella f. Spear.
In Bristol Oct. 81, Charles E. Fossett ana
Miss Ruth Hatch.
Georgia Kelsey.
In West Deer Isle, Oct 10, Adam Gaddas and
Mary F. Gross.
In Camden. Oct. 26. Stanton H. Freeman and
Emma Rackliff, both of Lincolnville.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-01
WESTBROOK.


The Maine Tissue Paper compan US
plant was started up yesterday morning
and will be run until all the stock is
finished for the market. 1t is reported
that the mortgages will take possession
of the plant November 1. Bangor parties
have an eye on the plant and they are
expected to visit the city in the course of
day or two to look it over. 1t is init
mated that if they find things as repre-
sented they will either buy or lease the
plant
Mr.. John M. Fox of Portland, is fitting
the Walker Library building for the in
candescent lights. The wires, three of
them are being placed in a 2 Ia inch
pipe and are to laid under ground. Mr..
Fox has also been awarded the contract
for wiring St. Hyacinth's new parochial
school building. These are the first un-
derground wires to be laid in the city.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-01

An important law point will come up
for settlement at the April session of the
Supreme Judicial Court in Wiscasset.
The town of Waldoboro has sued the
towns of Cushing and Friendship for
supplies furnished Ilsley Bradford Davis,
a pauper. The pauper's name was Ilsley
Bradford. and he was born in Cushing.
He was afterwards adopted by David Z.
Davis of Friendship. The question to be
decided is whether the pauper's settle
ment shall be determined by his adopt
ed or by his natural fathers residence.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-01
A Fine Growth of Pines To Be Cut.


There is prospect that this winter the
pine woods on the Edward Trickey place
will be cut off. These woods are situated
on Saco street, about a mile from the
village. There is probably not another
lot Of pines like this in the county of
Cum berland, and few like it in Maine.
The trees are what are called old
growth" although they are not old
pumpkin pines," which seemed to have
no more grain than the pumpkin, and
grew when the savages were in the land.
But these trees on the Tricky place
have stood a hundred and fifty or two
hundred years; and many of them are a
hundred feet high and measure three and
a half or four feet through at the butt.
This lot has been in Mr.. Trickey's family
for many years, and it is only recently
that he has consented to sell it. 1t is re-
ported that the price was not far from
three thousand dollars. 1t is estimated
that there are half million feet,on the
lot. Messrs. G. W. and B. Carter of
Scarboro, have surveyed it, and SWEET &
Mayhem of Westbrook are the purchasers.
1t is expected that the trees will be cut
this winter
well to visit this grove while it is yet
standing. Many Of the urees are straight
as an arrow and run up so feet before
there is branch. They are such trees
as the Kings commissioners put the
broad arrow onto in the old colonial
days, when they were choosing masts for
the royal navy
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-01
MUSIC AND DRAMA,



The tickets for the concert to be given
by the Fisk Jubilee Singers at City
hall, November 8th, will be on sale at
Stockbridge's today. The Paterson, N.
j., paper says:
Last night was a musical one at the
Market Street Methodist church. The
Fisk University Jubilee Singers gave one
of their famous concerts, and auditorium
and galleries of the great church were
crowded to the doors. The Fisk Jubilee
Singers, like their songs, never grow old.
1t is over twenty years since they first
organized, and no better proof of their
capabilities exists than the fact that they
remain before the public. At the Market
Street church last night they delighted
everybody.
Notes.
Hands Across the Sea will be seen at
Portland thea tra soon
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-01
Strand Concert and BAN.

Division No. 1, Ancient Order of Hi
bernians, will give a grand concert and
ball at City Hall next Tuesday evening.
Chandler's full orchestra will furnish
the music.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-01
STATE TOPICS OF INTEREST.

Seventy-fve tramps who were driven
out last Saturday from Berlin Falls and
Gorham, n. H., made their appearance
at Bethel Saturday night and Sunday
morning. Several were lodged in Bethel
lookup Saturday night They appeared
half starved, saying they could find no
work. Many of them are young men,
scantily clothed.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-01

The following decision was received
from the law court yesterday;
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Philip I'll. Stubs VS.. William L. Pratt
Rescript by Chief Justice Peters.-This
case was fully decided and settled ION
the law in Stubs VS.. Pratt, reported in
IS Maine, APO. If there was mutual
mistake of the parties in the transaction
of the purchase of the land, resort
might have been made to equity pro-
ceedings to amend the deed.
Exceptions overruled.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-01

A committee has been appointed by
the Governor and Council to consider
methods for the care of the insane as di-
rected in resolution adopted at the last
session of the Legislature.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-01
The Brown Estate.

Judge Peabody has appointed Mr..
Philip Greedy Brown, son of the late Mr.
Philip Henry Brown, a trustee of the
Brown estate, in place of his father, de-
ceased.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-01
DEATHS.

in this city, Oct. 81, Lydia A., wife of Frank
Foster. aged 40 years 10 months.
Funeral Thursday afternoon at o'cock,
from the residence of I. E. Corrin, No. 1O6
Preble street.
In this city Oct. 81. Mary A.. daughter of
John and Ellen Kerrigan, aged 81 years and
months.
Notice of funeral hereafter.]
In Wayne, Oct. 10, Mrs. Joshua Allen, form
erly of Augusta.
In Topsham, Oct. 20, Miss Mary Belle Doug
lass, aged % years.
In Albany, Oct 81 Dea. j. Fl. Lovejoy, aged
81 years.
In Bethel Oct. 81 Jacob nazen Kimball, aged
90 years.
aged 81 years.
In Wells, Oct. -. Miss Hattie Maxwell aged
16 years.
In Canton, Oct. 16, Mrs. Cyrus Hutchins, aged
80 years months.
In Bar Harbor, Oct. IT, Alden S. Berry of
LamOine, aged As years.
In Waldoboro,. Oct. IS, Samuel E. Weeks.
aged 81 years.
In East Peru. Oct. 20, Albert F. Thomas aged
90 years.
In Waldoboro, Oct. %. Simon Simmons.
In South Thomaston, Oct. 10, Mrs. Emeline
Lindley, aged SO years.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-11-01
SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT.

Hands Across the Sea will be seen
Portland theatre soon.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-02-18

The closing weeks Of President Harris
on's administration are likely to reflect
great credit on him and AFFORD brill
liant chapter OF illustration and vindica
tion OF the republican party. His nomina-
tion OF Judge Jackson to the supreme
bench, whatever may be the result In the
senate, has pleased the country. The ex-
ceptional criticism is OF interest. not for
the reason that Il has inherent import
ance, but because 1t is Of personal pecul-
iarlty. It is one of the many incidents OF
great breadth and high tone The cooper
alton Of the national banks with the
treasury, shows what the system is for
which 1t is proposed to substitute the
State wildcats. 1t comes at the moment
when the dictatorship OF the presiden-
elect on the matter he thinks most urg-
ent is failure, and proves that the
working Of the republican system secures
us against the calamities he apprehended
II congress were not so slow and did not
indulge its own conceits, there would be
four new states before the 4th of March
Utah, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Ari.
zona. The American flag is to fly over the
two great steamers, the City of Paris and
City of New York, and the keels Ct
greater ships to be associated with them
to be built In this country are to be laid.
Perhaps the democrats will think twice
before they smash the system that gives
such results.