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The Portland daily press., 1893-08-18
VETERANS OF THE ELEVENTH.
Fifty of Them Fight Their Battles Over
Again at Rockland.
Especial to the Press.l

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Rockland, August 1.-THE members
of the eleventh Maine Veteran Regi-
mental association to the number of fifty
held their twenty-second reunion in this
city today and, favored with perfect
weather, had glorious time. Their
headquarters were at Grand Army hall,
Main street, where they ere guests of
Edwin Libby Post. The forenoon was
devoted to a business session with Lieut..
Robert Brady, Jr, of New York city, oc-
cupying the chait. The report of the
secretary shows that only four deaths OF
the veterans have been reported the last
wear. Letters were read from comrades
located all over the country, expressing
regret at their inability to be present.
The Eleventh Maine Regiment originally
had membership of 1000, 400 of whom
died in service, 800 having died since,
leaving the present total membership 800,
the veterans being scattered all over the
world Every member of the regiment
is member of the association, which
has no dues of any sort, meeting once
year. The officers elected for the ensuing
year are as follows:
President - John A. Brackett Lawrence.
Mass.
First Vice President = Sewall Pettengll.
Second Vice President-Capt. L. E. Newcomb,
East Machias. ~
Secretary and Treasurer-Lieut. Thomas T.
ChaplaineRev James o. Tabor, Bangor.
This afternoon the veterans gathered
at Grand Army hall and had little camp
fire of their own. The evening session
began at 6 o'clock in Red Mems hall,
Wiiloughby's block, where the Womans
Relief Corps had prepared most tempt
ing and substantial banquet. The meet
ing was called to order by Alden Wooster
of Edwin Libby Post, Rockland, chair
man of the reception ard committee of
arrangements. Prayer was offered by
Chaplain Tabor and Mayor F. G. Knight
delivered the city's address of welcome.
Following the banquet, remarks were
made by Past President Brady of New
York, President Brackett of Lawrence,
Mass, and other members of the regi-
mental association, as well as Edwin
Libby Post e
veterons of the Androscoggin Valley.
Livermore Falls, August 17.-Five hum
bred people attended the Androscoggin
Valley Veterans reunion at East Liver
more Camp Ground. They elected these
officers:
President-J. r. Lamb.
Secretary and Treasurer-A. ID. Brown, Lly-
ermore Falls.
Vice President Shirley Merrill, Turner.
The Portland daily press., 1893-08-18
Iowa Republicans and Prohibition

Des Moines, Iowa, August II. The plat
form adopted by the Republican state
convention contains this plank concern
ing prohibition:
aProhibition is no test of Republican,
ism. The general Assembly has given
to the state a prohibitory law as strong
as any that has ever been enacted by any
country. Like any other criminal
statute, its retention, modification or re-
peal must be determined by the General
Assembly, elected by the people, and to
them is relegated the subject to take
such action as they may deem just and
best in the matter, maintaining the pre-
sent law in those portions of the state
where it is now or can be made efficient,
and give to other localities such methods
of controlling and regulating the liquor
traffic as will best serve the cause OF
temperance and morality
The liquor plank resulted in a long
controversy. The nominee for governor
is an anti-Prohibitionis but the liquor
far.
The Portland daily press., 1893-08-18

The fence is plain, strong, serviceable,
attractive and common sense. It is use
full as well as ornamental. The gateway
is bold, effective, neat and substantial
and has mono Of the limerick nonsense
about it SO peculiar to many attempts al
rustic work. An explanation of the
work is hardly necessary, the engravinga
show it SO clearly and speak so plainly.
Observe two things-the strength Of the
material used and the lightness it shows
when put together.
Many an amateur INDUCES in such
fancies; he builds rustic seats, arbors OF
fences, using straight or crooked branches
or roots of trees, and often does the work
with his own hands rather than hire it
done, sometimes preparing the material
OF making the seats in the winter even
The Portland daily press., 1893-08-18
ODDS AND ENDS.

The Nile has a fall of only 6 inches In
LOCO miles.
Light howitzers for field use were first
made by Paixhans in 1922.
The greatest university is Oxford. 1t
has 81 colleges and halls.
The Orloff diamond is belle sed to be
responsible for 81 murders. IS
The Egyptians kneaded their bread in a
wooden bowl with their feet.
The father of Whewell, the mathe1na-
tician and philosopher, was joiner.
No household is complete without q
sister. She gives the finish to the family.
Marshal Oudinot was brewers son
and entered the French army as pri-
vate.
One should lower the voice and speak
slowly when one wishes to enforce au-
thority.
Cleopatra's needle was taken from
Egypt to England in a vessel built
around it.
May always have a heart superior,
with economy suitable, to my fortune
Shenstone.
The Chinese have a flower which is
white at night or in the shade and red in
the sunlight.
Eighteen of the principal presents Civ
en- to Bismarck on his birthday are val
ued at $4,000.
A Tina (Mo.) man adyertises pasture
for turkeys, as he has large lotof grass
hoppers on hand.
The average length of the whale is 60
feet; average girth, 40; thickness of
blubber, Is inches.
The owner of the handsomest driving
coat in the city Of Philadelphia never
drove horse in his life, it is said.
A woman may have wardrobe full Of
silks and satins and yet know nothing Of
the pleasure Of helping poor sister.
There are 10000 Hollanders in the
chief cities of the United States-more
than half of them, $500, in Chicago.
Playing cards undoubtedly originated
in Asia and were introduced into Europe
by the Saracens about the close of the
thirteenth century.
Virginia Dare was the first white child
born in this country so far as known.
The site was Raleigh's fort, where, on
account of it's historic associations, an
effort is being made to reserve $50 acres.
The Portland daily press., 1893-08-18
Summer Lsyering of the Vine.


When the vineyard is not too old and
one wishes to propagate some vines from
it by summer layering, it may be done
without taxing the vine sufficiently to in
jure it. A good cane should be allowed
to grow along the ground until about
six feet long; then pinch off the tip,
which will soon start the laterals. These
will be upright, and when nearly foot
high dig a trench four inches deep, lay
the vine in the bottom, first cutting off
the tendrils and Leaf at the base; cover
with few inches of soil and press firm
ly, and in few weeks fill up the trench
level with the surface Of the ground. IF
some of the shoots seem to take the lead
too much, it will be we'll to give them a
pinch and throw more of the force into
the others. By fall these will BE- well
rooted, and each shoot will have sniff
Gent roots to pass for a good vine. &C.
cording to Rural New Yorker, authority
far the foregoing.
The Portland daily press., 1893-08-18
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
Eustachan Tube. When this tube Is infamed
You have a rumbling sound or imperfect hear
Ing. and when it is entirely. closed. Deafness is
the result, and unless the Inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restored to Its normal
cond ton hearing will be destroyed forever;
nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh,
which is nothing but an inf1amed condition of
the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of Deafness Caused by catarrh) that can
not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for
circulars; free.
sg-sold By Druggists, &c.. sas=l4--s.s4--.
The Portland daily press., 1893-08-18

RUSTIC BRIDGE ACROSS STREAM.
ings in the shed or cellar. Among the
most suitable timber for this sort OF work
are red cedar, white cedar, cypress and
tamarack. Notwithstanding the plain
beauty Of this sort of work about the
first thing that suggests itself to us l.
how to cover it up with living vines, and
what happy home these fancy trellisea
supply for trumpet vine, wistaria, am
pelopsis, flowing grapes any many morel
And along that bridge and supported
from the trees by the waterside, what q
home for the long racemed Japanese wis
tarias!
But don't enter into this rustic bust.
ness too freely. A little Of it is very nice.
but it is an easy matter to overdo it.
And wherever you can do SO consistently
plant living vines to cover it.
The Portland daily press., 1893-08-18
More Banks in Trouble.

Hudson, Wis, August 17.-The bank of
River Falls and the Bank of Ellsworth
have suspended.
Sheboygan. Wis, August 1.-THE Forest
Venner Sealing company has assigned.
Liabilities 100000.
Cleveland, Ohio, August 1.-THE Car
dington Banking company has suspended.
The Portland daily press., 1893-08-18
BASE BALL.

The National League.
The following games were played yes
terday in the National League:
AT PHILADELPHIA.
BOSTON. 1 0 Q O 2 2 K z
PHILADELPHIA. 20 o o o 0 o. 3
Base hits-Boston, Ii; Philadelphia, IL. Err
rors-Boston, 1; Philadelphia, 4. Batteries
Staley and Merrett, Carsey and Clements.
AT BALTIMORE.
Baltimore, ..O 0 8 0 o Q o. 5
St, Louis. 40 O o o.
Base Hits-Baltimore, IL; St. Louis, -. En-
rors-Baltinlore, o; st. Louis, 8. Batteries
McMahon and Robinson, Hawley and Peits.
The Portland daily press., 1893-08-18
RUSTIC WORK.
j, Gateway

Attractive Examples of Fence, Gateway
and Bridge.
The charming rustic work depicted in
tho accompanying cuts was photograph
ed on the grounds of northern Ala
baman and engraved for Gardening,
which journal has the following to say
about it:
The Portland daily press., 1893-08-18
Settled for $1,000.

Biddford, August 17.-Morris Wiggin
of North Berwick, who was injured on
the Boston 6 Maine railroad two years
ago, has just settled with tho company
for $1,000.
The Portland daily press., 1893-08-18
The Castine Is Very Fast.

Bath, August 1.-THE preliminary
trial of the gunboat Castine proves more
successful than that of the Machias, as
she ran Y knots in five hours.
The Portland daily press., 1893-08-18
The Trials of a Language.

"Wot fer yo' got dat winter cap on yo'
head fer, hot day laik dis. Georgie2"
"Wot fur, mammy2 OATS OTTER"
"Otter what, yo' young skelliwagT
"Otter skin, er course"
"Otter skin! Yaasi Yo'd otter skin
way frum yere 'foah you come roun
sassin yo' nanny, George. Put dat
cap way now or yo'n need it and so I'D
ders, VIII lots O. fur on, ter set down on
tell mex Foarf of uly."-Boston Herald
The Portland daily press., 1893-08-18

EDO lyou want to know what Is going on in tho
-rAsld-Take the PRESS -
The Portland daily press., 1893-08-18
The Grange Incorporated.

Auburn, August 17.-The Worthy
Master and the executive committe of
the State Grange today fixed upon Dover
as the place of the annual meeting, the
third Tuesday in September. They also
incorporated state society. Arrange
ments have been made for the Master of
the National Grange to visit Maine next
month.
The Portland daily press., 1893-08-18
Thrown from a Carriage.

Biddeford, August ia despatch re-
ceived here today from Springvale, says
that Mrs. Lorenzo Hill of Goodwin's
Mills, her mother, Mrs. Cousens of Bid
deford, and another lady, were thrown
from their carriage this forenoon. Mrs.
Hill had her leg broken, and it is feared
is fatally injured. Mrs. Cousens had
both arms broken. The other lady was
Injured about the head.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-31
Kind-Hearted Giants Embargo.

A number of anecdotes have been told
of late OF the famous old Kennebec lum-
herman, Bodfsh, whose stentorian voice
resembled reverberating thunder and
could be heard distinctly "from Ken
dall's Mills bridge to Ticonic Falls" a
distance of two miles. An old-timer says
Bodfsh, who lived at Kendalls Mills,
though rough man in his ways, had q
kind heart and gave aid to many poor
people he thought deserving. Once a
river driver was drowned at Kendall
Mills and Bodfish having subscribed a
handsome sum himself to aid his family,
mounted barrel beside the street, from
which he harangued the people in aid
of the sufferers. He laid down the rule
that no man should pass that day until
he had contributed, and in that way held
up travellers all day long, securing con-
siderable amount by nightfall, when the
odd embargo was raised.-Lewiston
(Me.) Journal.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-31
LAPORTE, PA, FRIDAY, MARCH 81. 1893.

nor to Jack, and these two were both
young and liked sweet things, and Jack
declared that he had never had 30 de.
lightful lunch before.
It was romance-which is different
from airtation-that little episode, and
it always remained in the memory of
those two young people a. the sweetest
moment of their lives.
When her mother returned, Emily
wore cap, apron and gloves. The high
tea was ready, and all the work accom-
pllshed, after fashion, and the girl
looked SO pretty, so happy.
"Cooking must agree with you," Mrs.
Montgomery said.
But Emily did not speak of the anna.
teur ashman, or her lunch party of two,
until long after-oh, long, long after
for 1t was some days before Mr.. Spinner
called on the father, bringing his son
with him-some weeks before they were
asked to an afternoon tea-some months
before Jack became an intimate friend of
the family-and quite a year before his
engagement to Miss Emily Montgomery
was announced to his friends.
And it was cnly on the very eve of her
wedding that Emily told her mother that
Jack had fallen in love with her at first
sight, and how and when and where.
And Mrs. Montgomery declared that
it would have been very, very shocking
-frightfully imprudent-if it had been
any one but Jack; but that made all the
difference, Jack was such nice fellow.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-31

The American Library Association,
which has the cooperation of nearly al
the great libraries of the country, will
make notable exhibit at the Worlds
FAIR. 1t will include samples, models,
and photographs showing articles and
mechanical devices In actual use; print
ed matter, forms, blanks, constitutions,
bylaws, rules for subscribers; accession
departments and their management; cat
alogue, classification and reference de-
partments; binding department, with
samples of binding, temporary covers
and receipts for restoring, mending and
cleaning, shelf and building depart
ments and an architectural exhibit show
ing plans, elevations, perspectives and
models of the best library buildings.
There will also be model library of
5000 volumes, selected from lists pre-
pared and sent in by the various librari-
ans of the country.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-31

1t is related that man who was writ
ing history of New York employed an
expert to find out for him how many
Spectators in Wall street succeeded in
the long run. After laborious inves-
tigation the expert reported that the
only single instance which he could dis
cover was a man from Rhode Island
named Smith, who had actually won
$50, 900 in speculation in the street
and carried the money away to specu-
late no more. 1t was the single bright
instance in long line of wrecks, adds
the New Orleans Picayune, and was
written down in the book to hand ths
name OF Smith down to immortality.
Unluckily for his reputation, however,
hardly was the book published before
Smith turned up on the street and put
his $50, 1000 into another speculation. He
never heard of it again, and the sole in
stance of successful speculator was
ruthlessly destroyed.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-31

A long suffering London journalist,
whose nerves were no longer able to bear
the noise made by putting fuel on the
fire from coal-box, recently gave vent
to an earnest prayer that some inventor
might be mercifully disposed to provide
a silent coal.box for domestic sufferers
like himself. A response to this appeal
is now recorded by the Chicago News
Record in the shape of an ordinary coal
box lined with linoleum and falling on
projecting rubbers, SO that no slamming
is possible. Even the shovel has its case
lined with felt, and is, therefore, lifted
out and replaced noiselessly.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-31
Test For the Purity Of Milk.

Whether it is worth while to know
exactly the degree to which ones milk
seller is watering his milk is an open
question which each must decide for
himself. For those who do not consider
that ignorance is always bliss simple
way of setting at rest any doubts Is to
the purity of the milkman's stock in
trade is provided in new galactometer.
The instruments ordinarily used for this
purpose consist of a glass tube with a
graduated scale OF paper inside, and
their record is not as rule reliable. The
new instrument is said to be much more
accurate, and shows at glance whether
the milk is pure or adulterated. The
instrument is a glass tube open at both
ends, along which little ball of blue
glass acts as indicator The density oil
this ball is 1929, and it is SO adjusted
that it can float only on pure milk
Chicago News Record.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-31
HOME.

Tho prince rides up to the palace gates
And his eyes with tears are dim,
For he thinks Of the beggar maiden sweet
Who may never wed with him.
For horne is where the heart is,
In dwelling great or small,
And there's many splendid palace
That's never home at all.
The yeoman comes to his little cot
With song when day is done,
For his dearie is standing in the door
And his children to meet him run.
For home is where the heart is,
In dwelling great or small,
AMI there's many stately mansion
That's never home at all.
Gould but live with my own sweetheart
In hut with sanded floor,
I'd be richer far than loveless man
With fame and golden store.
For home is where the heart is
In dwelling great or small,
And cottage lighted by love light
Is the dearest home of all.
George Horton.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-31

The timber used in the construction
of the Chicago Exhibition buildings is
estimated to exceed 100000 feet,
which represents the wood from ten
square miles of forest. All the buildings
are covered with composition of
plaster, cement and hemp, and the
amount of this work is equal to covering
the wall of four-story building fifteen
miles in length. The electric lighting
will require 5000 arc and SO, 900 incan-
descent lamps, which is about ten times
as much electric lighting as the Paris
Exhibition was provided with. The
electric lighting plant has cost over
81, 100000
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-31
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Rose diamonds are liable to explode.
Some of the stars move with veloc-
ity of nearly fifty miles second.
There are estimated to be over six
hundred deposits of iron ore in the State
of Missouri.
The origin of the geysers at Sonoma,
CAL, is supposed to be volcanic crater
filled by landslide.
The moon gives out heat enough to
affect the thermometer and make a diff.
ference of two or three degrees.
If fish get beyond certain depth in
the sea they die from the pressure of the
water, which they are unable to support.
The most important domestic sources
of potash are wood ashes, cotton seed
hull ashes, tobacco dust and tobacco
stems.
Professor G. s. Sargent. Of the Arnold
Arboretum, Harvard University, has re-
turned from Japan, where he has been
making a study of the botany of the
islands.
1t is not an easy matter to freeze out
trichinae. After subsection to a tenn
perature of twenty-five degrees below
zero for two hours they again became
active when exposed to light and heat.
A simple method of keeping iron and
steel from rusting is to coat them with a
solution of rubber in benzol, made about
the consistency of cream. It may be
applied with a brush, and is easily rubbed
off when desired.
In one of the Comstock mines new
water wheel is to be placed which is to
run 115O revolutions minute, and have
speed at its periphery of 10,S05 feet
per minute. A greater head of water
than has ever before been applied to a
wheel will be used.
Interesting experiments on the sense
of taste in ants have been made by II.
Devaux. Among other results he has
found that Lasius flaws, while fond of
sugar, dislikes saccharine. The ants
swarmed around sugar laid out for them,
but turned away from saccharine as soon
as they had tasted it. Even sugar be-
came unpleasant to them when it was
mixed with saccharine. 1t seems, there
fore, that sweetness is not the only
quality which attracts them to sugar.
It is very probable that, for health's
sake, there will, after time, be uni
versal cremation of the dead in cities.
Burying in the earth is said to be very
lnimical to the health of cities. Then
there will be no ground to spare for
burial purposes in course of time. It is
probable that the dead will be quickly
and effectually reduced to ashes by means
of electricity. The remains of human
body that has been cremated weigh only
eight ounces-no matter how feshy and
heavy the corpse may have been.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-31

1t occurred to the long-headed, pub
lic-spirited citizens of Pennsylvania that
the time had come to devise measures
for the preservation of the forests of that
State. Accordingly they procured the
introduction of bill in the Legislature
which provided for the appointment of
forestry commission whose duty it shall
be "to examine and report on the con-
dition of the slopes and SUBMITS of the
State and the presence or absence of
forests thereon, for the purpose of de-
termining the influence on the stage of
the water in the rivers, the amount OF
timber remaining standing and how the
supply can be increased and maintained. Z"
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-31
Should the Sandwich Islands re,

Should the Sandwich Islands really
become part of the United States they
will be the most picturesque feature of
the Republic, declares the Chicago
Herald. They deserve the title "Flow-
cry Kingdom" perhaps even better than
japan, since flowers bloom on the
islands all the year round. and are pecu.
liarly beloved by all the inhabitants. The
foreign residents, and even transient
visitors, catch the native fondness fol
flowers, and at times people of all sorts
go about garlanded with abundant bios.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-31
LAUGH AND oRow FAR
Aye laugh and grow fsti

Aye laugh and grow fati
Full often chat
Proves more potent than potious
Laughter acts on the heart,
Gives the blood fresh start
And vigorous motion.
Yea, laugh and grow fail
"Care." you know, .'killed the cat'-
It will you il you let it;
There's no surer relief
For many grief
Than to laugh and forget II.
Yes, laugh and grow fail
Though some sceptic hereat
May scof. wholesome laughter
Doth body and soul,
Mind and morals. control;
They are all better after.
Then laugh and grow fati
Don't be prim and "a that;"
Why should features be lengtheneds
just smile till you've heard,
And pledge you my word
You'll be gladdened and strengthened
-Yonkers Statesman