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The Portland daily press., 1893-07-31

to, but surely most of it is the natural
result of that industrial and commercial
development which has created so many
employments in which dizziness, refined
taste and delicacy of touch are of far
more value than mere physical strength.
If you doubt it, consider this contrast:
France, in which the Salic law prevails
from throne to crossroads postofice, and
the political rights of women are not
even so much as mentioned, employs
more women in clerical and industrially
technical ways than any other country,
while those new states in which political
distinctions are almost or quite abol-
ished employ few or none. The more
advanced the civilization the less ad-
vantage has mere muscle and the more
have quickness Of thought and delicacy
of touch. France makes her money by
producing articles of taste and beauty.
Wyoming, Washington, etc., make theirs
by telling trees and digging ores, by
ranching and rearing cattle.
With men good pay is the determining
factor in grading employment. With
women the neatness of the work and the
opportunity to maintain good personal
appearance are at least equally potent.
In stenography all three conditions are
satisfied. The pay is fair, the work is
clean, the finest costume is not too good
for it, the eyes and complexion are not
injured It is pre-eminently a womanly
work. s
And deal of intellect may be put in
to it. But it is there that we hear the
usual complaint. A woman stenographer,
we are told, studies till she gets posi-
ton and can fill it fairly well, and there
after it is all routine with her. She does
not strive to acquire general information
which would greatly increase her value
to an author or editor. She does not,
say these critics, even interest itself in
others of her profession. Ask any man
in that line who the stars of his profess
sion are, and he will at once name you
such men as Isaac A. Dement,, who won
at the recent contest by writing over $50
words minute for five minutes, or Fred
A. Ireland, who can ''take" the fastest
talker in congress and never miss a
word, or George R. Bishop of the New
York Stock Exchange.
Ask woman stenographer as to her
sisters, and the usual answer is, "Well,
don't read the stenographers' journals
now, and / really can't think Of any just
at present." Evidently the esprit du
corps has not yet been created. There
are, however, several very smart stenog-
raphers of the fair sex, and in New
York they hold some very desirable po-
sitions. Perhaps the most noted one
just now is Miss Minna Minton Dyke,
private secretary Of the city's building
commissioner. She is a petite Massa-
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ADRIENNE WINS
In the Ocean Race of the Massachusetts,
Club.

BooTHBAY HARBoR, July 30.-The
great ocean yacht race of the Massachu-
setts Yacht Club, from Johnson's Island,
Marblehead, to House Island, was won
by the schooner Adrienne, time Is 1-2
hours. The following yachts started:
Adrienne, Argo, Magnolia, Thelma,
King Philip, Crystal, Venture. They
were conveyed by the steam yacht
Nashawena. All sails were carried all
the way. Some yachts had spinnakers
set The Argo came in second at 9.17.
House Island house and yachts are de-
Corated with bunting.
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tiers, attending thus to much business
she formerly took in dictation from Mr..
Grady.
Commissioner Hans Beattie also had a
lady for private secretary when he was
at the head Of the New York street clean
ing department. Miss Cynthia West
over made quite reputation in that po-
sition and is often quoted as fifS ex-
ample Of what such a semiofficial should
be. In truth, the Office of private secre-
tary requires happy union OF many
qualities, most of which we have been
taught to consider peculiarly feminine.
One must have deal Of tact, ability to
catch an idea without requiring too
many words in setting it forth. and es-
pecially if there are many callers must
the secretary have the talent to say
something to all and yet leave none with
any phrase that may afterward bequoted
against the principal.
Mrs. John A. Logan is credited with
having trained her own private secretary
for several years, and as she had good
subject to start ON the result is admir-
able. In her home there is very re-
tired but comfortable and well lighted
room where Mrs. Logan does her work,
and the ornament and pride of that room
is Miss Edith Marshall.
Miss Marshall is rather slender and
tinid looking Pennsylvania girl who had
worked her way steadily to position in
Washington city when Mrs. Logan met
l. 1+o 20 linz,
"She has my perfect confidence" says
that lady, land has charge Of all my
mail, the details of my business affairs,
draws checks for the payment of all my
bills and is my other self when am alb
sent" Mrs. Logan has an immense
amount of work to do. Her mail is
seldom less than 100 letters day. She
is president of the Garfield hospital, ed
itor of magazine, contributor to other
periodicals., collaboration Of army liter
allure and has much private business be-
sides. And in all this Miss Marshall is
not only secretary, but trusted agent,
and sometimes adviser and friend.
During her four years in Washington
Mrs. Levi P. Morton had for private
secretary a Miss Hunt of Louisiana.
whose life is so very retired that even
her given name is not generally known.
Yet she is scion of one of the Oldest Of
fetal families, and her father was minis.
ter to Russia at one time. She was also
companion to Mrs. Morton and assisted
at her receptions, holding a place in
Washington society by her own right.
Among those who know her well Miss
The Portland daily press., 1893-07-31
TUMBLING ANOTHER NOTCH.
The Home Team Loses Its Seventh Con-
secutive Game.

feat of the Portlands by the Doyers Sat
urday, the seventh consecutive game
that has been lost by the home team.
Portland made her runs in the first on
base on balls, an error by first and hit,
in the second by three punched hits by
Moore, Madden and Smith, and base
hit aided by two errors gave Smith run
in the sixth The Dover's runs were
largely made after one or two men were
out, and one man on base would be
helped along by an opportune hit. The
following is the score:
The Portland daily press., 1893-07-31
Deafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications as they cannot reach the
diseased portion of the ear. There is only one
ional remedies Deafness is caused by an in
famed condition of the mucous lining of the
Eustaehian Tube When this tube is infamed
you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hear.
the result, and unless the inflammation can he ,s
taken out and this tube restored to its normal al
condition. hearing will be destroyed foreverr..
nine cases out OF ten are caused by cata rri
which is nothing but an infiamed condtion ~
the mucous surfaces. VI
We will give One Hundred Dollars for .nv
case of Deafness (caused by catarrh that ca lrs
not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure Serd S@ gu
circulars; free WI" III
50. CHENEY s CO., Toledo. q
MgSeld Ry Druggists, 75c. sN'' "
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Maine News Notes.

Owing to rain the races at Old Orchard
Saturday were declared off.
The three-masted schooner Ada G..
Shorthand, Saturday, fifteen miles south
west of Libbey Island, run down the
sloop Nellie G.. Croker. at anchor fish
ing. Alma johnson and John Garnett
came near drowning. The schooner kept
on, offering no help.
Mrs. Bigelow Dodge, who saved George
Vanderbilt from drowning at the risk Of
her own life, returned home to New
York Saturday, quite recovered from the
effects of her narrow escape.
I'M Curry, ex-minister to Spain,
gave dinner for Secretary Herbert yes
terday at Louisburg.
The Chautauqua Assembly opens at
Old Orchard, Tuesday. The Christian
Workers convention at Ocean Park
closed yesterday.
Besides finishing the 2.19 race on the
kite track at Old Orchard, begun Friday.
the 2.34 class will be trotted this after
noon.
The Portland daily press., 1893-07-31
The Mulish Biddeford Mayor.

BIDDEFoRD, July 20.-A number of
bills for police duty, Endorsed by the two
Republican members of the police board,
were presented to City Treasurer Good
win today and he refused to honor them,
declaring that he had no funds with
which to pay them. Mayor Staples, the
other member of the board, would not
sign acquisitions, as he does not recog-
nize authority of the new city marshal
or members of the police force. Officers
will have to resort to legal measures to
collect pay for their services.
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Hunt is considered exceptionally clever
and even brilliant, and as private secre-
tary Mrs. Morton thought her jewel.
Mrs. Cleveland has happy faculty OF
avoiding literary responsibilities, and
during her husbands first term she ens-
ployed one of his secretaries when neces.
sary, but there has lately been vague
rumor that young southern lady was
to be her special secretary for this term.
Miss A. B. Sanger is typewriter at the
White House.
Mrs. Eliza Boardman Burnz of New
York is the veteran of her sex in ste.
biography and is the author Of "Burnz
Fonic Shorthand" She was born Oct
81, 1928, has long been retired, Of course
from active work, but is so much in
love with common sense in spelling that
she will not even allow an to be used
in her name where the sound is that of
z. Miss Preston ranks as an official
court reporter at Denver, and so do
Misses Flora B. Haddox and Ozella
Beman In Iowa. Miss Mamie A. Stockett
in Louisiana, Miss Annie White and
Sadie M. Swift in Massachusetts,, Miss
Jennie Gage in Michigan and few 9TH
ers in other states.
Perhaps the best position in this line,
vt any rate a very good one indeed, is
that held by Miss Laura Hayes as pri-
vate secretary of the renowned Mrs. Pot
ter Palmer of Chicago generally and of
the Worlds fair particularly. If any
one who has written to Mrs. Palmer and
received prompt reply, though the pa
pers may have just reported her as in
New York or Europe, said writer may
hereby learn that said prompt answer
came from Miss Hayes, who is in very
truth Mrs. Palmer's alter ego. She is
the ideal private secretary and has a
stenographer to do the actual work. To
Miss Hayes go all the newspaper men
who want information of Mrs. Palmer's
doings, and from her come promptly all
decisions on matters which do not abso-
lutely require Mrs. Palmer's personal at
tention.
Miss Hayes is native Of Chicago
Her father was one of it's pioneer bust
ness men and at the time of the great
fire was quite wealthy. He died when
she was but an infant, and she has de-
yeloped her talents under the stimulus
of necessity. Her family is of old Massa-
chusetts Revolutionary stock, the same
from which President Hayes was de-
scended, and her relatives on the moth
er's side were warriors in other and some
what later days. Miss Hayes is herself
lady of many accomplishments and
has won distinction in other lines than
her present one.
It is, however, as a private secretary
that she has no superior. Mrs. Palmer
usually goes through her mail very rapid
ly in the morning, debating as she reads.
Miss Hayes adds the literary finish, and
il is yery rarely indeed that there is
word amiss or inappllcable.
J. B. PARKE.
The Portland daily press., 1893-07-31
THE OPEN SUNDAY.
Sacred Shows on the Plaisance Pleased the
Crowd.

CHICAGO, July 30.-The exposition was
open today under order of the court. The
attendance was extremely light. though
the weather was fine. The grounds were
almost deserted and visitors in the build
ings might have easily been counted. There
was no attraction in the evening to draw
the crowd, no music or entertainment of
any character in the main grounds. Peo-
pie betook themselves to the Plaisance,
where the attractions, with two excep-
lions, were running as usual.
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chusetts girl who began the study Of
stenography but three years ago and
had quite the full average of trials and
disappointments in getting good posi-
ton.
One of the objections oftenest urged
against her was that she looked too
young for the place, which is very nice
saying indeed to lady in society, but a
trife hard on a stenographer. After do
ing odd pieces of work her first engage
ment Of any length was to assist Ollie
Sumner Teall is a political campaign.
She then opened an Office of her own and
finally became private secretary, as afore-
said, to Commissioner Anthony Grady.
She loses no opportunity to add to her
general information and is graduate
of the Women's Law school, an institu-
tion where most of the teaching is done
by evening lectures. She is now sort
of assistant commissioner and has a
stenographer to whom she dictates let
The Portland daily press., 1893-07-31
DIZZINESS and TACT.
Qualities Which Fit Women For
Confidential Positions.

How Advancing Civilization Has Wioened
Woman's Sphere-The Field OF S.enogra-
phy-Bright Young Women Who Have
Achieved Success as Private secretaries
Somebody who makes it her business
to study such things says that a century
ago there were but dozen employments
open to women, counting all housework
as one, and now there are over 300. 1t
is the fashion to credit all this to the in
creasing iberality of thought and the
long agitation for SO called "woman's
rights Perhaps some Of it is due there
The Portland daily press., 1893-07-31
New England League Standing.
Lost by Errors.

Costly errors at critical times lost the
game for the YIN. G. AS at Westbrook
Saturday. Both pitchers were hit free
ly, Webb getting the worst of it. The
batting of F. Libby, Perry and j. Libby
was feature. Parker made two bril-
liant put outs in left field. Webb worked
hard to win his game. W. Girard and
J. Girard played finely. The star play of
the game was triple by Perry, Files,
and Smith. Attendance 250. The
score:
The Portland daily press., 1893-07-31
yassalboro Mills Shut Down.

WATERvILLE, July 29.-The Vassal-
boro wooden mills shut down last night
for one month at least. Cause poor
market for the goods. Three hundred
hands are thrown out of employment.
The Portland daily press., 1893-07-31
Yacht Movements.

BooTHBAY HARBoR. July 30.-Yacht
Dorothy @. went to Wiscasset today, the
Vif and Chaos to Portland, Breeze to
Boston. The Massachusetts, club are all
here
The Portland daily press., 1893-07-31
PORTLAND Y. NJ. C. A.

Earned -Westbrook, 1; Y. M. c. A., 2.
Two base hits-W. Girard, Smith, F.. Libby 2.
Stolen bases-WestDrook, 3; Y. M. G., A., 10.
Webb, 2; off J. Libby,7. Hit by pitched ball
by Webb, q by Libby, l. Firss base on errors
-Westbrook, 6; Y. NJ. C. a. L. Struck out-by
Webb. 10; by J. Libby. 8. Wild pitches
Webb, Ii j. Libby, 2. Passed ball-W. Girard.
Triple play-Perry to Files to Smith. Left on
bases-Westbrook, IL; Y. M. G. A, 8. Time
Oh. ION. Umpires-Wescott and Laundry.
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.ponahue out for interfering with fielder.

sDonahue out for interfering with fielder.
Innings. II, 2 8 6
DoyerL.. .....-.2 o o L 2 o l O. 6
Portland ......O / 0 o U o. 8
Earned nns-Portland, L; Dovers, 3. Two
base hits-Cook. Mahoney: Three base MT
it-Clymer, Stolen bases-Garry, Burns.
on errors-Dovers, 1 !; Portlauds, g., Struck out
by Morse, Burrill Q by Madden, Doyle, Cook,
Garry; by Burrill, Flanagan, Morelock.
Umpire-Mr. Lyons. Time hours.
Lewistons, 12; Fall River, 10.
The Fall Rivers started in well Satur-
urday and looked like sure winners, but
the Lewistons braced up and Stafford
kept the hits well scattered. Costly err
rors by McDermott cost two runs in the
fifth. Ladd's hitting was a feature. At
tendance 1900.
Innings. 8 456 8 9
Lewiston. o o 2 1 0 lip
Fall River. ....5 1 0 O-lo
Base hits-Lewiston, IL Fall River, IL. Err
rors-Lewiston, Q; Fall River, 2. Batteries
Stafford and Hart Lincoln, Ladd and Burrill.
Brockton-Boston Red game postponed
by rain.
New England League Standing.
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4 VALUABLE PLUSH Mill
FoR SALE.

The new Plush Mill and Manufacturing Plant
of the Portland Plush Mill Company, situated at
South Portland, Maine will be sold at auction
on the premises. on the eighth day of August,
at 2 IA o'clock in the afternoon. The mill is
built of brick, of approved modern construction
with sprinklers Ior fire protection and is 226
feet in length and SO feet in width; has zee
double looms, imported in 1892; boiler house
well equipped furnishing and dyeing. depart
ments; boilers and engines; and electric dyna-
mo for lighting. The property is situated on
tide water and has wharfage rights.
The undersigned will sell all the title in the
above property. which he ACQUIRED by virtue of
an assignment from said Portland Plush Mill
Company for the benefit of the creditors, bear,
ing date April % and recorded in Cumberland
Registry Of Deeds, Book 500, Page 466. The
purchaser win have ten days within which to
the balance upon delivery of the deed
Also will be sold at the same time and place
certain manufactured stock and "a ri materials
Property can be seen on application to the un-
dersigned.
f Portland, July 8, 1893. July4 dtd
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The Maine Non-Forfeiture Law.

There can be no reasonable doubt, but
that one of the chief contributing factors
in the Union Mutuals acquisition of
New Business is the fact that the Bene-
fits of the Maine Non-Forfeiture Law
are daily becoming better understood by
intending insurers-and with this clearer
understanding they naturally secure
Policies containing its benefits, it being
equally well understood that the Union
Mutual Life Insurance Company, of
Portland, Maine, is the only cOmpa-
ny issuing Policies under this law.
During the twenty-six weeks constitute
ing the first half of 1898. no fewer than
thirteen notices of Deaths were re-
ceived in which the respective Policy-hol-
dershad through some cause or causes al
lowed their Policies to lapse, and upon
which, without any action whatever on
their part, their insurance was continued
by the beneficent operation of the Maine
Non Forfeiture Law, These Policies ag-
gregated in amount more than $4,000.
One of these cases will suffice to show
the far-reaching scope and liberal char
acter of this law:
Policy. NO. 81, $50 ...... >. AMOUNT S 900
CHARLES T. FOX. LEWISTON, NE.
15-Year Endowment Annual Premium S67. 40
Policy issued March 10, 1890
Lapsed for non-payment of Premium, March
15, 1898.
Insured died, June IT, 1893
Proofs OF death received June ~, 1888.
Draft in settlement payable on demand) for
warded to Beneficiary, June %, 1898.
The amount of the draft was $979.64.
such being the face of the Policy, less
the foreborne Premium for one year at
Ordinary Life rate, viz: Twenty dollars
(not Endowment Premium of $874O
such as he would have paid had the pol
icy been in full force at the time of death
by the payment of premiums) and thirty
six cents interest thereon. The simple
narration of the facts herein set forth.
without laudation is the most eloquent
tribute that such a law can have.
ylX22ssedst
3lHE
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John It. Harmon

MAcHIAs, July 29.-John F. Harmon,
the wealthiest man in this vicinity, died
this morning, aged II years. He was
well known in Portland and Boston.
The Portland daily press., 1893-07-31
The National League.

The National League.
The following games were played Sat
urday in the National League:
At misunderstanding, 8; Cincinnati, g.
Brooklyn, 6. Second game, Brooklyn, u Phil
adelphia, 6.
At Boston-Boston, z; Baltimore, a.
At Observation-Disclosures, IA; Louisville, g.
At st. Louis-FirSt game, Cleveland, z; st.
Louis, 6. Second game, Cleveland. 3; st. Louis,
AT washington-New York, Z; Washington,
National League Games Sunday.
AT LOUISVILLE.
First Game)
Louisville. ........4 4 o o @ O-1O
Cincinnati go. 20 2 2 O / 0 O l. Z
Bose hits-Louisville, TO- Cincinnati, 13. Err
rors-Louisville, 4; Cincinnati, 10. Batteries
Menefee, Hemming and Grim, Parrot and Muir
ply.
Second Game)
Louisville ............O O O 0 D o. Q
Cincinnati 40 o o o.
Base hits-Louisville. Z; Cincinnati. g. Err
rors-Louisville, 1; Cincinnati, o. Batteries
Hemming and Grim, King and Vaughan,
AT ST. LOUIS.
st. Louis...1 Q 2 9 Q o oooo1-e
Chicago. L 0 0 2 2 L 2 o OO000-8
Base hits-St Louis, IA; Chicago, a. Errors
st. Louis, 4; Chicago A. BatterieS-ClarkSon
and Gunson, Mauck, McGill and Schriver
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Doyou want to know what Is going on IN the
world--Take the PRESS.
The Portland daily press., 1893-07-31
OBITUARY..
j. L. Mcnamara.

LIvERMoRE, FALLS, July 29-J. B.Mc-
Namara died from an attack of Bright's
disease at Beams Hotel, the 2Sth He
resided in Charlestown, Mass.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-03-04

Wore spangled dress and the groom
had his arm in sling, but both looked
happy. The justice stood before them
speaking few earnest words.
1t was only when the audience real
lied that it was real wedding cere-
mony it had witnessed and not sham
one that it ceased demanding repeti-
tion of the scene.
Jean and Paul held a sort of i'm.
promptu reception after that, and be-
fore the lights were turned out had re-
ceived hearty congratulations from all
present,
Hern easily adapted himself to the
changed circumstances and made a
graceful little speech, praising Paul
and promising to play return date in
the town later in the season, giving the
people," to quote his own words, "a
better opportunity to see our unrivaled
rendition of Hamlet with variations,
the greatest attraction on earth"
Wilkes we never saw again, nor even
heard of definitely, though few days
later settler living by himself on 8
claim in the sand hills west of town
brought in a strange story. On Satur-
day night the door of his cabin had
been broken open by man or spirit
all in red and yellow with spangles on
his breast. The settler had fled, fright
ened. When after daylight he returned
cautiously, the cabin was empty and
his best suit of clothes was missing
The townspeople smiled when they
heard it.
CHARLES MoREAU HARGER.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1893-03-04
WHEN you AND / WE'RE cHuMs.

visited to-day, old friend the scenes OF long
ago,
The dear old hill where you and once wandered
to and fro,
The college grounds looked just the same as
when, two striplngs tall,
We couned our books beneath the trees or
chased the flying ball,
As glowing skies as those of old bent DER the
quiet spot,
All things around me seemed unchanged but l.
alasl was not,
The place is just as beautiful but saddened
memory comes
To shed a tear for other days, when you and
were chums
The spreading elms still arch aloft above the
quiet street
The same as when the walks below resounded
TO our feet.
The waving naples yet remain, but other stu.
dents pass
Through dappled shade and shine beneath, or
rest upon the grass
Gone are the faces that we knew, to gather
there no more
From scattered homes afar and near and from
the silent shore
No wonder, as pause to think, a tinge of sad.
ness comes,
A fond regret for those old days, when you and
were chums
them, to you and me
Things that we thought must be are not, un-
dreamed-of things we see.
Those that we felt must scale the heights are
groveling in shame,
And those we thought must humbly creep are
soaring into fame
The poor are rich, the rich are poor; the wheel
of fortune swings.
While human puppets rise or fall to unexpected
things,
So has 1t been with all we knew what is un-
looked for comes
Life differs so from what we dreamed when
you and were chums.
No matter; study leaves its mark on all in
after life
And there is happiness to-day mid busy toll
and strife
That once was found at Learning's shrine, so
many years ago;
We have known both as time few by, but OH
they differ so.
A momentary shadow clouds scenes Of the glad.
some past
When a long intervals reviewed, but shadows
cannot last
Whatever things the future holds whatever
fortune comes,
Thank God, my friend, for those old days, when
you and 1 were chums.
%. e. Young, in Goodalls Sun.