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Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-08-30

Recent discoveries have demonstrated that
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the base of the brain, and that when these are
deranged the organs which they supply with
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cord will cause paralysis OF the body below
the injured point, because the nerve force Is
prevented by the injury from reaching the
paralyzed portion. IL will be understood how
the derangement OF the nerve centers will
cause the arrangement OF the various organs
which they supply with nerve force.
Two-thirds OF chronic diseases are due 10
the imperfect action OF the nerve centers at
the base OF the brain, not from derange-
ment primarily originating in the organ IT.
self. The great mistake of physicians I'm
treating these diseases Is that they treat the
are tho cause of the trouble.
DIR. FRANKLIN MILES the celebrated spe-
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them being the facts contained In the above
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MYSTERIES!
The Nervous System the Seat
Of Life and Mind. Recent
Wonderful Discoveries.

No mystery has ever compared With that OF
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OF professional research and study I'm all ages
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The Portland daily press., 1893-01-02

be of the most practical help to men who
are interested in the opportunities and
duties of American citizenship; for 1t is
here that the most important problems
in the world must be worked out, and
the most interesting subjects for thought
full men are the subjects that lie beneath
American activity. The Forum is the
only one of our great periodicals that
makes original Investigations of the ten
denotes of American life The work it is
doing in publishing its Investigations OF
the public-school system in our principal
cities has attracted more attention and
is likely to bring more practical results
than any magazine work of this genera
ton.
The January number of the Magazine
of Art is particularly timely number,
in that it gives as its leading article the
first of series of papers on the Por-
traits of Lord Tennyson, by Theodore
Watts. The frontispiece is a photogra-
vure from Girardot's portrait OF the
poet based upon a photograph by May
ALL The second paper on The Leicester
Corporation Art Gallery is given and is
fully illustrated. A paper by the editor
of the magazine is devoted to DAME
Verge, the Spanish artist, whom MI.
Speilmann describes as zone of the most
brilliant artists who ever drew with the
pen'' The example of Vierge's work
given would seem to sustain this verdict.
Mr. Swinburne's carol of the month is
characteristic. Claude Phillips. contrib
utes a paper on the French sculpture OF
the year. The Noble Amateur is the
subiecl of the playful and at the same
time serious paper by M. III. Spielmann.
Then there is valuable contribution
called On the Shores of the Zuyder Zee,
by Il. A. L. Middleton, with notes by ii.
Vos, who also is the painter of some
charming Dutch interior which are here
reproduced.
Good Housekeeping for January be-
gins the sixteenth volume of that popu-
lar and valuable magazine. There are a
number of new departures, which will
make the publication more widely
sought than ever before, and OF still
greater value in the household. OF
these mention may be made OF initial
papers in the following series: The
Household Market Basket, by Maria
Parloa; The House Sensible, by Archi-
tect e. G. Gardner; and The House
keepers Shopping Bag, by Helena
Rowe. There are also two pages of mu-
sic, My Little Lad and l, an original and
popular poem published several years
since in this magazine being set to music
for the piano by Edward Ell. Phelps,
President of the Phelps Music Company
of New York. The standard features OF
the magazine are all preserved, and ad-
mirable promise is given for the new
volume. Clark W. Bryan Company,
Springfield, Mass.
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-02

The Maine branch of the American
League for the Protection of American
Institutions has issued an address which
is published elsewhere, setting forth the
objects of the League. Besides contrib
uting to the general movement to secure
an amendment to the national constitu
ton forbidding the states to appropriate
money for sectarian schools, the League
will advocate and urge state legislation
to submit to the people an amendment
to our state constitution by which the
state shall voluntarily forbid appropria-
lions of this sort. The arguments for
such an amendment are ably set forth in
this address, and we think they must
command the attention of every thought
full citizen.
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-02

The year just passed has seen the death
of many prominent men and women. In
the domain of literature alone have been
taken away three men whose names
mark an era. Alfred Tennyson, John g..
Whittier and Walt Whitman. The field
of finance has lost Sidney Dillon, Cyrus
W. Field and Jay Gould. From public
life have been taken Judge Joseph P.
Bradley, of the United States Supreme
Court, United States Senators John S.
Barbour of Virginia and Randall L. Glib
son of Louisiana. Other names of peo-
pie of note are, Noah Porter, long presi-
dent of Yale, Mrs. Rose Terry Cook, the
authoress, George William Curtis, Major
General John Pope, once prominent in
the army; Lieut.. Frederick Schwatka, a
famous arctic explorer; Patrick S. Gil
more, the first bandmaster in the coun-
try, and Mrs. Caroline Scott Harrison,
the wife of the President.
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-02

to compare our schools with those of
Massachusetts or some other of the
thickly settled and relatively wealthy
states. OF course the comparison is to our
disadvantage, but the inference which
they are prone to draw from it, name
ly, that our people are not awake to the
advantages of first-class schools is not
justified. A rich and prosperous state
can afford advantages to its citizens
which poor and sparsely settled state
cannot, just as wealthy parent can af-
ford his children advantages which the
poor parent cannot give his. Most of
the material advantages Of this world
must be purchased with dollars and
cents, and if the dollars and cents cannot
be had the advantages cannot be had
either. The child that lives in the thick
ly populated city of Maine gets more and
better educational facilities than the
the one that dwells in the sparsely set
tied back town, simply because the
money can be got in the former
to give them to him, while in the latter
it is not forthcoming
What can State Board of Education
do to remedy the fundamental difficulty
we have pointed out?, Can it increase
the ability of the citizen to contribute to
the support of the schools? Of course
not. Can it increase his willingness to
do so? Probably to some extent, but
not, we believe, to any greater extent
than can Superintendent Luce at very
much less cost. Creating a Board of
Education as this tine would, we think,
be very much like putting a
shiny silk hat on man whose
shoes were full of holes and
whose pantaloons were out at the
knees. Nobody would consider him bet
ter dressed on account of the hat adorn-
ment. Neither will anybody consider
our short-termed and poorly taught
schools any better Because a board OF
educators, more or less eminent
sits at Augusta several times a
year to tell what our schools
ought to be and to evolve reams
of manuscript to be put into print at the
public expense. There is a way, we
think, in which the state can improve
our educational system, and that is by
taking some of the money that is
now appropriated for what is called
'higher education that is for the sup
port of academies and agricultural col
leges, and devoting it to the primary
schools. Too much attention has been
paid to the former and too little to the
latter 1t is in the latter that the great
mass of the people must get their educa
/ tin1l
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-02
STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

The Maine Pedagogical Society at their
recent meeting in Lewiston resolved to
petition the legislature for the establish
ment of State Board of Education. Of
course the members of the society voted
for the resolution in the belief that such
board will advance the educational in
terests of the State. Perhaps it will.
But we are inclined to think that the
benefits realized from it will fall far
short of what are anticipated. The most
conspicuous defects of Maine schools pro-
coed from condition of things that a
State Board of Education cannot cure.
Lack of funds is at the bottom of most
of them. The population of the State is
thinly scattered over a great extent of
territory. The consequence is that a
great many schools have to be main
tanned, many times as many as would be
needed were the population confined to
small space. The population too is
small, and hence each school has few tax
payers to draw upon for its support.
lHlo COAO1tlOh VI 1loc bCCA ICIlC-
died in part by the school mill fund, but
only in part. 1t is still a condition that
we must reckon with in any movement
for the improvement of our schools.
Now out of this condition grow the two
most serious defects in our
schools - namely, short terms
and poor teachers. The taxpayer thinks
he cannot afford the money needed for
lengthening the term or for the employ
ment of better and therefore higher
priced teachers. Yet until the money is
had to do both these things there can
be no great improvement in our country
schools. 1t is the habit Of the gentle
men who discuss our educational affairs
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-02
A SMART BANGORIAN.
Who Built His House All Alone, Except
Some Slight Assistance from His Wife.
Bangor COMMERCIAL

Bangor Commercially
A Bangor man tells an interesting sto-
nv of how he witnessed the erection of a
house on Perkins street this summer,
the entire job being done by one mani
MI. f. S. Pierce. He says it was when
working on Allen street that he f1rst no
ticed man framing house, and he be-
came greatly interested in his maneu7
vers, on account of the ingenious way III
which this solitary workman contrlved
to handle the heavy timbers.
On July Sd about 1 o'clock in the al
ternoon MI. Pierce was engaged in plac-
inc the frame on the timbers which he
laid and boarded two or three days be
fore. His wife that day assisted him
several times in leveling and adjusting
the timbers.
On the 9Th of July the witness to the
proceedings was at his work at about
a. M. and found that Mr.. Pierce had his
frame all ready to raise. few minutes
later his wife came out to hold the level
as the first corner post was raised. Inc
four posts being in position the energetic
builder was again alone and at O'Clock
that evening the main part of the house
was all up. the second floor had been
laid and the outside was boarded up
about feet.
The next afternoon at a o'clock every
timber in the main part of the house was
in place, and the first story OF the ell
had assumed final form. The work con-
tinued three weeks, when the house was
all boarded and shingled. In seven
weeks work had been completed on the
exterior. and with the exception OF
little help in putting on the finish, MI.
Pierce had been alone from the start.
The interested witness to the work
which had been going on in the summer
visited the house last week and found 1T
to be very Hastily arranged inside. Four
rooms are already finally finished, Mr.
Pierce doing the work evenings or after
he had completed his labors IN the
city. -,
| The house was difficult one to build,
| having an overhanging mansard root.
There is pretty bay window on one side
| and all of the windows have canopies
over them. The main house is 22x2S
| feet and the ell is 14x24 feet. The house
| is well built and Mr.. Pierce has ,sreceived
MANY compliments On his job which was
one that few men, however good work.
men they mighs be, would care attempt
alone. 1t only shows what smart man
can do if he starts out. A whole city
made up of men of MI. lPierce's energy,
pluck and ambition would be a rusher
and no mistake.
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-02
THE PRESS.
MONDAY, JANUARY 2.

The story that President Harrison is
to signalize the outgoing of his
administration by abrogating the
bonding privilege now enjoyed
by the Canadian railroads does not look
probable. 1t doesn't seem likely that
President with only two months to re-
main in office would do thing so radi-
cal and so far reaching in it's conse-
quences except in the presence of a great
emergency, and no such emergency is in
sight.
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-02
INVEST MENTS.
We offer the following desirable in
yestments:

we 0IIeT Tie lOllOWlHS uceli" Uio III
vestments:
Maine Central per cent CONSOLE
dated Mortgage Bonds, due 1912.
Maine Central 1-2 per cent Inn
prOyement Bonds due 1915.
Knox and Lincoln Railway 5 per
cent Improvement Bonds due 1921,
(guaranteed principal and interest by
the Maine CentraD.
RumfOrd Falls Railway 5 per cent
First Mortgage Extension Bonds due
1912.
Rockland, Thomaston & Camden
Street Railway 5 per cent First Mot
gage Bonds due 1922.
M0usam River Railroad Company
First Mortgage 6 per cent Bonds dne
1912 Connecting Sanford and Spring.
vale with the Portland & Rochester
Railroad, York County, Maine.)
Union Electric Railway Company
First Mortgage per cent Bonds due
1922 (of Saratoga Springs, New York;.
Athol (Mass.) Wafer Company 5 per
cent First Mortgage Bonds due 1912
works buiIt in 1876, gravity syStem.)
Camden & ROckland Water Com
pany 4 1-2 per cent Mortgage Bonds
due 1917.
Portland & Ogdensburg Railway
Stock. Dividends guaranteed and paid
quarterly direct to the stockholders d.
the Maine CENTRALLY
Hereford Railway Company. Stock.
Diyid nds guaranteed and paid semi
annually direct to the stakeholder by
4ho Mo;na CnutraIl
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-02
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The Portland daily press., 1893-01-02
We OFFER FOR SALE.
Municipal Security
COMPANY
) 1-2Per Cent Bonds
DUE 1899.
Especially secured by Municipal Eylde ats
OF Indebtedness deposited with the Irust e.
The par value of such deposited DEBTS anu on
legations exceeding by ten per cent I1e P ,,a
value of the outstanding bonds issued by lilo
Security Company.
DIRECToRS.

DIRECToH
Byron ID. yerrill, President, Attorney-at-
Law. Portland, Maine.
Weston Lewis, President MaineTrust anu
Banking Company, Gardiner, Me.
stephen j. Young, Treasurer Bowdoh
College, Brunswick, Me.
l.. l.. Keith, President Machias Bank ana
Treasurer Machias Savings Bank, Machias,
Me.
Theodore G. Woodbury., of Messrs. Wood
The bonds are in denominations Of $1,000,
$500 and 500, bearing 51a Per Cent interest,
payable semi-annually at the Company's ONCE
in Portland Maine.
Security and can recommend these bonds for
Trust Funds, as we believe them to be per
fectly safe security, based as they are on the
promise of a Company in sound financial stand
ing and secured by Municipal Obligations.
We shall be pleased to give further lnforma-
ton in regard to these bonds upon application.
Price par and accrued interest.
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-02

Carving Knives and Forks fore
n uniting Coats and Vests for ~
R-az0rS and StrOpS for II
indian Snow Shoes for
s -cisSOrs and Pocket Knives for S
thermometers and IcePicks fort
Match Boxes and Nut Picks for-M
a -ir Rifles and Guns for a
s -kates and Dog Collars fOr-S
CT, IL. R a. i Il e x,
163 Middle Street.
dec17 tdf
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-02
STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO /

STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF IOLEDO &c
LUCAS COUNTY
FRANK j. CHENEY, makes oath that he is
the senior partner of the firm of F. j. CHENEY
& Co. doing business in the City of Toledo,
County and State aforesaid, and that said firm
will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL
LARS for each and every case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by the use of HALLS CATARRH
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 9th day of December, A. D. 1886.
A. W. GLEASON,
SEAL Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts
directly ON the blood and mucous surfaces of
the System. Send for testimonials, free.
F. J. CHENEY s. CO.. Toledo. o.
Ng-Sold by Druggists, 75c, dec25d&w1w
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-02
Aliens beats them all
as a Kidney Remedy.

Benton FALLS, NE, Aug. 1922.
ALLEN SARsAPARILLA co.,
GeDtIemeD:-E bad a severe
kidDey trouble and eou!d not
straiqbteD up or walk. 4 was
advised to try SarSaparl!sa. !
tried two WelI-kpowD KINDS but
cot 20 benefit, apd was at last
induced to try Aliens. ] took
two bottles and am to-day well
map. / am now able to do a bard
days work in the pulp mill every
day, and have bad 10 si2Ds OF a
return of my old trouble. would
advise anybody troubled as Twas
to give Aliens SarSaparilIa
a GOOD trial 1t saved my life.
r. e. LANDERS.
.e.oeauap,,vn Co uJoonronns MR
The Lamar register., 1893-07-29
OFFICE OF THE
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, :
LAMAR, Colo. July 18th, 1898.

To the Honorable Of Porers CoHHy
olorado:
honor submit herewith for examination the
Ninth the receipts and expenditures OF
County, Colorado together with the several accounts ot
said County, School Districts well the accounts of the
County with the State year ending June 3oh 1898
Respectfully submitted,
NJ. j. UNDERWOOD,
County Clerk
The Lamar register., 1893-07-29
CURRENT COMMENT.
COLORADO.

Adjnfant- General Tarsney:-sI am
not an alarmist. l do not wish to be
misunderstood. But l honestly be-
lieve we are confronted to-day by .
condition which will lead to results no
man can foresee. l am afraid this
condition will find you in this country
soon just as in 1861, when the over
whelming law of self-preservation
swept away all other considerations.
Again l say l am no alarmist, but l
cannot help saying that | believe the
present to be pregnant with some of
the most serious problems which
have ever confronted the American
people"
The Lamar register., 1893-07-29


Congressman Bland.-'It is well
known that the present administration
is opposed to any silver legislation.
We have no way whatever of securing
the legislation needed except by bill
repeating the Sherman act. Any other
would be vetoed, hence those who ad-
vocate an unconditional repeal of the
Sherman act cannot expect to be re-
corded as friends of silver. Our pol
icy will be to substitute. The Presi-
dent and his friends are not opposed
to the Sherman law for the reason that
it is a bad silver law, but simply be-
cause it is silver law, and they would
for the same reason be opposed to any
and all silver legislation. We are op-
posed to the Sherman act because it is
bad silver law, and we want to sub
stitute good one for it. That is the
issue, and the only issue, and the ses-
sion will have to confront it. l be-
lieve the present panicky condition is
the result of conspiracy and that the
condition is attributed to the Sherman
law in order to bring about its .uncon-
ditional repeal. They accomplished
the repeal of the Bland act by the
Sherman act, now they don't propose
to put it back to the Bland act by re-
pealing the Sherman act, but to leave
us without any law on the silver ques-
tion, except the act of 1873, which to-
tally demonetized it, We propose to
meet them in this fight as we did be-
fore with the demand for the free
coinage of silver. We don't defend
the Sherman bill, nor any law short of
free coinage, and free coinage must
preeede all silver legislation. Other
wise the repeal of the Sherman law
will be regarded by the world as the
characterization Of silver"