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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-03-23
ADVERTISEMENTS ToDA,
For additional Local News see
Fifth Page.
BRIEF JoTTINes.


The Lilac has put down the can buoys
at Spring Point and Sanford lodges.
The continued Harper case will come
up in the Municipal Court this morning.
The annual Colby alumni dinner will
come off at the PEBBLE House this even
ing. srs
8. Ground was broken yesterday morning
for the toothpick factory at Morrilps
Corner. .s s,,,y-.. ~, esy s
The Salvation Army meetings closed
last evening with a war memory meeting
and night of prayer.
Rev. Mr.. Hughes gave delightful lee.
ture on illusions at Chestnut street
church last evening.
Mr.. 81. G. Baxter's elegant new yacht
has arrived at the Portland Company and
its engine and boilers will be put in at
once
It was cloudy and damp in the morning
yesterday, with a southerly wind. At
noon It cleared up and the wind was
quite keen from the west.
A new wheel from James 81. Paine &
Son, Boston, Mass, arrived yesterday
morning for steamer Alice of the Fall
mouth Foreside company.
The Alice will lay off for a new pro-
pellor and government inspection next
week and the Leo will run on the ferry.
The Leo goes on the Falmouth route
April 4. 4g s
The prize banner that is to be awarded
to the successful degree team of the Red
Men in contest that has just ended will
be formally presented to the winning
team at the Red Mems hall next Monday
night.
An eighteen foot steam launch from
the shop of P. A. Dugan, HarpswelI, ar
rived yesterday morning on the steamer
Merryconeag. The boat, which is for
Portland parties, will weigh 900 pounds
when ready for service.
Avery large party of members of Port
land Council, Royal and Select Masters,
will visit Hallowell Council tonight, tax
ing the 5 o'clock train.
The yacht Viva has been bought by
Mr.. Bennett OF st. Louis, but will remain
in the Portland Yacht Club. Mr.. BEN
nett passes his summers in Portland.
The party of Masons who went to Win
ter Hill, Somerville, to see Mr.. d. w.
Sanborn take his Blue Lodge degrees re-
turned home yesterday noon. They had
a fine time.
There is no steamer to Liverpool this
week and about 10, 900 barrels of apples
the Sarnia would have taken went to
Boston to go by the Leyland and Cunard
zines.
A loud report startled people on Middle
street, in the vicinity of Bailey's gun
store, yesterday morning. An express
cart passing along struck some kind OF a
bomb in the street which exploded
sending pieces of iron in every direction.
No one was hurt.
Messrs. Geo. C.Shaw & Co. have Sc
cured sole agency for the sale of Daily
Bread flour in this city. This flour is
meeting with remarkable sale elsewhere
and no doubt will meet with the same
success here. 1t is said to be an unusually
nice article
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-03-23
Portland Building Club.

The annual meeting of the Portland
Building Climb, local branch of the Gran
tie State Provident Association, was held
last evening at the rooms of the associ-
alton, ss4 Exchange street. Officers and
directors for the ensuing year were elect
ed as follows:
President-C. W. Foster, M. D.
Vice President-A. V. Thompson.
Secretary. l.. Elder.
Treasurer-A. w. Pierce.
Directors-Leroy S. Sanborn. /. L. Elder, A.
W. Pierce, H. A. Harmon, G. w. Foster. A. v
Thompson, N. s. Gardiner, D. II. Reid, F. F.
Holland.
Gratifying reports of the financial con-
'dition of the association and the progress
of the business were made by the off
GERS.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-03-23
How ''Ike" Smith Went Away.

Isaac Smith Of Cape Elizabeth, who
escaped from the Jail Tuesday, has beer
traced. Itseems that he went out Of
town like lord. He hired a hack to
take him over to his mothers house al
Knightville. He remained there few
minutes and then took a short cut
across the fields, and boarded the A
O'Clock train on the Boston & Maine
railroad. He bought ticket for Boston
good to stop off at Dover, N. "a. The
people of Cape Elizabeth are quite anx-
ious that he shall be allowed to, stay
away, as he had only 30 days sentence
hanging over him.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-03-23
Merchant of Vent !;

This evening Mr. Henry Asglapp, will
deliver his, third criticism at the Second
Advent church taking for his subject the
character of .Portia in the Merchant of
Venice" The audiences have grown
steadily from the beginning of the
course. Mr.. Clapp's keen and interest
ing analysis has won him deserved repu-
tation throughout the country and he
moreover treats his subjects SO originally
and pleasingly that those who have heard
him once are anxious to listen to all he
has to say on Shaksperian topics.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-03-23
WANT ED.

Top Cutters and stitchers
on mems work. A good Job
for experienced Workmen.
Apply In person. A. w.
SHAW & CO., Freeport, Me
Mares DIT
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Wonderful and True
Totally Blind with ScrofuIous
Sore Eyes
Hoods Snrs0pnrSILn GGve Back Her
Sight, and Joy to Her
Fathes.'s Heart.

Waterbury VT, Nov. 10, 1892.
&C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass:
Gin April, 1889, my little girl Mamie, who
was then years old, commenced having ulcer
ated eyes, also had sores back Of her ears. Her
sight began to grow dim, and feared she
Might be Blind.
then lived in Jericho, vt. In the early days
of June went with her to the Mary Fletcher
hospital in Burlington, and there she was
treated four different times surgical opera
ton each time, one of which left the scars now
visible on the eye balls. She recovered from
this treatment each time, slight improvements
for few days, was soon worse than ever:
She could discern daylight from darkness, but
could mot see 70 walk across she room.
81 next went to large hospital in Hartford,
Conn. At this hospital no surgical operauons
were performed, but medicine was dropped into
her eyes and given her to take. She was at this
hospital about ten weeks, continually grow
ing worse, and when took her in November
Was Totally Blind.
.eI arrived at my station in Jericho with the
child sad in spirit and impoverished in pocket
cemplefe1y discouraged. On our way to the
house from the station, we stopped at the store
of Capt. McKinnan, who was an old sea captain,
to warm ourselves. The captain had known
warming wa; ming ourselves Mamie said:
Papa, it's dark, where are you? can't see
you, come to me-
"The captains heart was touched, and with
tears in his eyes he said:
"'Charley, you 90 and get bottle of Hoods
Sarsaparilla and give 1t to her, and II it don't
help her will pay for it,
"That very afternoon got Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla and commenced giving it to her according
to directions. The first beneficial result was
a Frightening of the eyes,, which continued
steadily improving until, under the treatment
of Hoods Sarsaparilla, on the ninth day she
could SEQ to pick up q pin on the floor with
out its being pointed out to her, and before the
first bottle was all used
Her Sight was Entirely Restored.
Il keep Hoods Sarsaparilla in the house al
ways, and when the child gets little cold, if
her eyes appear infamed, a few doses settles it.
thank God first, Hoods Sarsaparilla second,
Hoods s s.;;s, Cures
and Can't. McKinnan third. Many of the first
families in Jericho can vouch for the facts given
above. am glad to give this testimonial OF what
Hoods Sarsaparilla has done for me, which is
good and lots of it," CHAs. A. ADAMS.
G. L. SMITH, G. Nj. GRIFFITH,
Witnesses to above signature.
HOOPS PILLS Qlre all Liver Ills, Bilious
nsss, Jaundice, Indigestion, Sick Headache
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-21

1Ntzng exhibits. Here it is in the
8f beef 49, 900 pounds were used; of
Fmutton and lamb 5000 pounds; of veal,
pork and corned beef 2600 pounds; of
sausaGes, tripe, calves heads and feet,
kidneys and sweet breads 5000 pounds :;
OF fresh fish 1000 pounds; OF New York
CLANS 5000; of frying oysters 12,O 900
of preserved fruit 250 tins; jam and
marmalade 200 tins; pickles and sauces
200 bottles; coffee 500 pounds tea $50
potted fish $50 pounds; fresh Holsters
300; moist sugar 5000 pounds; luu.u
sugar GOO pounds; syrup 20 gallons
milk 800 gallons; cream "a; ice cream
800 quarts; fresh butter 500 pounds
corned butter 700 pounds; salt butter
1000 pounds; potatoes 16 tons; cab.
bages, turnips and the like 5 tons
eggs, $4,000; corned pork barrels
chickens and ducks 1000; turkeys and
geese 100; grouse and other game birds
1000, and rabbits 100.
All this was for less than 600 pas.
sengers, SO it is very evident thlt sea
sickness did not rule in its alleged
usually lordly manner.
There are four men who are part of
the crew of an ocean liner who should
not be overlooked. These are the
purser, the doctor, the barber an6. the
printer. The barber is taciturn zen.
tleman with n good, firm wrist. The
printer prints the bill of fare and on
some of the vessels, as on the Paris.
Tor instance, also gets out a paper on
each voyage, to which the passengers
contribute, and for copies of which
they pay from sixpence to n shilling.
The doctor is always busy bracing ur
men and women, who find to their sor.
row that their stomachs- -nrn-nf-HAra-
tba ah hbordaat.worked mam nns aboard shin.
He is constantly making the rounds,
and to all intents and purposes is it,
business manager. He is the only mar
authorized to send letters and tele,
grams ashore.-New York News.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-21

Chinese Govefhmea$ tS S5nty COM ceS4otas, e,
Sso TO build q wall across Norther5
ohina 5000 miles in length seems to III
not yet extinct. China Just now deem,
IT necessary to have chain of forts % all
along her seacoasts and up the Yangtz
and the Province of Shantuno mnsi
nave nave her share of this protection
therefore, there is to be naval station
at Chlao Chou, south of the Shantnno
Promontory, another to the east and .
ehlrd at Cheefoo itself. During the
past year Krupp guns-nine of them
according to Clement Aliens informs
son-have been ordered for the two
torts which ere inprogress of construo.
llon, one on the point commanding the
south entrance of Chefoo Harbor. and
another on the hill to the westward
brig. Sun Chin-piao, the General in
command, is stated to have set his men
70 TO work to make roads round abont
sne 1orts and trunk military road To
30 TO Wei Hal Wei.-New York Com.
nercial Advertiser.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-21
AN OCEAN STEAMER
1HE VAST AMOUNT OF WORK DOME
DURING A VOYAGE.
orew and How It is Divided--
Inc Sailing, Engineering and the
Feeding Departments.

The Crew and How It is D,v,dea-
Inc Sailing, Engineering and the
Heeding Department..
| THE management ofal1 the ersa,
ocean liners is practically the
L same. On every shin fbero
g are three departments-tbo
sailing or deck department., the nassen. an :.
ger or stewards department.. and tho
engine department.. Each of them 10
equally important in a way. Each has
crew OF its own under the SUPERVISION
OF chief officer, who is responsible 20
the captain, the absolute monarch ~ ~
the vessel when at sea.
on the crack Paris there or. oil.
of1cers, every one of whom holds -
masters certificate, and any one 90
D pnom would be competent to sail the
raris, should any accident befall ~
captain. These men are all conpected
WITH the sailing departments, which bas
Snj 20 do with navigating the vessel,
t ~@ they are rated as mates Tbon
''here are three second mates, two tb;r,i
mates 1,,' and two fourth mates.
Inc object in carrying all these off.
GERS Is to insure each sufficient rest
under any stress. Their work is so ar.
ranged that they have sixteen hours
ont OF every twenty-four for rest In
oIner words, they arc ON TsiA
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-21
August
Flower

I am Post Master here and keep
a Store. Ihave kept August Flower
for sale for some time. think it is
q splendid medicine" E. A. Bond,
P. NJ, Pavilion Centre, NY.
The stomach is the reservoir.
If it fails, everything fails. The
liver, the kidneys, the lungs, the
heart, the head, the blood, the nerves
all go wrong. If you feel wrong,
look to the stomach first. Put that
right at once by using August
Ma%eru,d+,asf'sraSrc. GOOD nnnNf'S Is
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-21
ONLY ONE wild TRIBE,
EHE sEMINoLEs OF FIoRrnA rs,or
A PROUD DISTINCTION.
ney Have Never Been "Roundea
Up In Reservation-Brave Oc-
cupants Of the Eyerolade.

Ahey Have Never Been Grounded
UP" In a Reservation-Brave Oc-
cupants of the Everglades.
| Y "wild" Indians saws K;,h
| Monroe in the New York AL
| IL vertiser, I mean those ,yho
have never been subiected 20
ehe tanning processes Of reservat;on
anu OF the quarter of million aborig.
sa ines still to be found in the Un;ted
o'a'es the Seminoles, of Florida. alone
can lay claim to that distinction. Al.
anough to those unacquainted with the
situation it may appear strange that
ene only Indians still roaming at will
over large part of their original ter.
ritory, and leading to-day, in nnre.
strained liberty, the life of Their
fathers, should be found in that nor.
tlon OF the Union first settled by white
men, the apparent anamoly is easv of
Florida is the largest
and at the same time the most snarseIn
settled Sc State east of the MissisA}6nY
Inc !o, 600 square miles of it's territprn
ot which some four hundred Semino1ss
are almost the only occupants cons
Prise the vast swamps of the Ever.
siades and the Big Cypress. These
re unsurveyed, almost unexnloreJ
nd are well nigh inaccessible sava ~
snoes oy those fa4 80 khsis.ianl.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-21
WISE WORDS.
He who forcsees never scts.


Wise men never attempt anything.
Shvness is n sport on the tree of |
egotism.
Without trampling:the cleverestcan-
not get rich.
Love is blind, but hatred wears
double lenses.
The greatest thingsare done by'the
greatest fools.
The more space aiman acquires the
less room has he.
Mems motives are mercifully iaidden
by their shirt fronts.
Observe moderation in all things
especially in virtues.
Pure love is phoenix which rises
from the ashes of self.
Most men are like small dogs-very
ferocious behind the feEce.
When you lose n leg begin at once
TO practice with q wooden one.
The consolation Of those who fail is
to depreciate those who succeed.
If YOU cannot become rich remem-
Der the many miseries of the rich.
Dives is never an example, because
nobody considers himself really rich.
Counting the blessings that remain
is like enumerating the teeth left after
fight.
\ ssSingur~4sssssaa and .ysrdant -four
with the fruit. = J. Z
Sincerity is not Incompatible with
reserve, and brutal frankness Prociaimi
its own egotism.
A person who demands admiration Il
disliked in proportion to the admlra
tion we cannot but concede.
What fine glow we feel in defend
5 ing q slandered enemy; and how 1er
). vently we hope our opinions will hav
O no weight.
e If every person on earth spoke tn
o truth and nothing but the truth upo
d one appointed day of each year "
e. would soon revert to barbarism.
Is When the nature of q natural homes
ks and serious man has suffered deyl
ton through extravaganza, into whlc
he nv some i'll chance he has been led, al
Ist having proved the folly OF his conr
all he would turn to other ways, marria'
cb is a good thing--for the man.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-21
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment w5er
rightly used. The many, who live hs bat'
ter than others and enjoy life more = With III,
less expenditure, by moro promntiv ,
adapting the worlds best producta -
the needs OF, physical being, will attest
the value to health of The pure lion;S
laxative principles embraced In the
remedy, Syrup Of Figs. 80
lts excellence is due to its present;n.
IN the form most acceptable and plaass
ant to the taste, the refreshing and frmiv
beneficial properties of perfect lar.
stive; effectualIy CLEANSING the system :
oispeliing colds, headaches and fever,
ana permanently curing constipation
II mas given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
prolesslon, because it acts on the Kid.
neys, LIVER and Bowels without weai.
enlng endr & Hem @ Is perfectly free nom
So NY for sale by all arur.
Bottles, but It r. mss:
lifornis Fig Syrup
,llsz2Eeyes me for ny nota6c6 "a u =
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-21
Ont 0f Che WiIderness.

Bees and birds court the soc;e.r 7,
man--that is, they seek the locai;t;as M
where fields and gardens abound. for
they fare better when human industrv
EFFORTS from the soil tho products
upon which they subsist. a Maine
pee culturist says it is the rarest thine
IN the world to find bees away from
tne settlements or from openinga
Where Howers grow. It is in small
Patches OF forest that they are oftenest
found, and generally not far from the
saee Oh the wood. 1t is the same with
M Sras. there are no song birds in the
NolSnern ..orn Maine wilderness, and
scarcely anything that can be cailaJ
bird life. Birds cluster around towna
and villages--San Francisco Er.
aminer.
There arc SAID to be mo- OnD sanors
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-21
Uouey In n Petrified Tree.

The hollow trunk of petritied tree
uhinh contained a quantity of honey,
was found by woskmen digging we'll
w"9 WI 9ive Oak Fla, it is said. The tree
~ 'I.a a ahout ten feet below the surface
"f W the ground. The petrifaction was
only on the outside, the Tsln T s"nas uens
about two inches thick. me money
was soft and sticky and tasted IKE 'n' IN.
fresh product of the hive.--New Aori
Sun.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-21
Curious Growth Of Rattan.

Every one knows the pretty, light
and graceful chairs and other articles
of furniture made from rattan, but
every one does not know that the ex.
tremely tough and flexible wood called
rattan is that the climbing palm tree.
This curious Simber, which is more oi
vine than a be onoor s'''.-s.s.ssa-
delphia Times cs of forest growth in
yetHS 1sasgs-,;rk other Malnyan couns
tries. Start;nl With q trpnk little
| thicker thar szN8p Z it winds
through the wrapping Q
tall tree in ~ somo gigantic
snake, and Th&r deBcend1ng again 20
the earth and. railing along in snake.
like curves ufilit can find some other
stately tree tdsasten and climb upon
in it's pursuit Il light and air. The
forest is so thl,k and jnngle-like thai
Il seems impdsible to follow the course
} of any of the( serpent climbers, but
there is litu doubt that at the las
, the successful aspirant, which stopped
and cringedsso long below, will b.
! found shooti,k up like flagstaff
: dozen feet d more above the tre
, which has hs,ed it to rise. A use o
rattan, whiciis unknown to those VIII
@ who have nd seen it in its .nativ
a forest. ia as Al ater carrier The thirst,
traveller hast All times a tumbler O
cool, refreshAa water at his comman
by cutting oAak or eight feet OF ra,
. tan and putti1 one of the severe
; ends to his mofh or holding it over
II dish to catch II water.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-21
NGFARMPRODUC
RIM WAGONS CARRIED
YORK ON TRAINS.

Y So
hg Island Farmer Cots
8S to Town for the Early
Trade.
! ISLAND farmers who
a fresh country produce
I'm each morning and
j. for sale on the BIG
called Gansevoort Mar.
Is generally supposed,
ms all the way in from
THAT used to be the wav
but now the farm
laced e upon fat cars and
way by which farmers
early morning Gus.
pity a few years ago was
ibis was very inconveni.
Fantry roads we're usually
Rtances great. The morn.
an early one, and it |
necessary to start the |
and drive all night in
tanseyoort in time.
o'clock every night
Fy roads. reaching out
g1ty into the great
e tEE along the North
long lines OF
loaded with
dnce and driven by
1Tas an expen-
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-21

A man OF Granger, Mo-, lO3 years
old, has skull patched in two places
with silver plates, as the result OF o
runawaY years ago.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-21
Ha Springs, m. G.
fQsd cool TINA n Won. hoxs
-
|ePlIA dsinry6la
SsAo sSs9usAps ,ys|
rgufdHSnq1yE'

Venty-1Our nQ1 SSr<ss-A
Nowadays tl] NORTH Shore farmer
'ads his truck wagon the evening be-
re and goes to- bed. He gets up be.
,re the sky hs yet shown signs OF
avn, hitches u his horses and drives
} the nearest railroad station. He
nds there an Elevated platform the
eight of fat ar, built alongside the
rack. 1t is ap ..roached by long in.
line of slight~ aIPltch, up which his
orses have no difficulty in dragging
he wagon. The IN he rolls over on his
aat and goes to sleep, or falls to talk
az country gosa lip with his neighbor.
,ong before the train comes the plat.
orm is filed wild IA wagons, and others
re waiting belo{S
Tho train Mt length comes putting
nd rumbling altong and stops beside
he platform. lit consists of dozen
+ two broad f&s cars and caboose
I an old and shy yabhy passenger car.
The farm wagons are pushed aboard
>c flat cars, tAte wheels rolling in
rooves which h(old them in position. |
hey ore strapped fast so they won't
oil off, for the Wagons are run cross.
ay on the carsl Each car carries
,ur wagons place. ID side by side.
When the waa'on is secured the
Irmer takes his III sorses into one of the
OK cars and puts them in stalls which
'e built in the car and plentifully
rewn with straw Finally he betakes
imself to the calboose or passenge,
IT and smokes black tobacco in o
ood pipe oil tho {yay to Long Island
ity while he talks props and mark cts to
Is fellow farmerk. The chances are
nety-nine in hundred that he
owls the whole istance over the I
= saaess.. S5r1oN{ es5--1tf
ives ON n ferSSSoat and finds him. ,
If in Thirty four "a street. He then
akes for Gansef foort Market at
,und trot so as toiget there early and
,cure a good place; for at GansevooTt
[arket first come is first served In
latter of position.
By this time it is daylight, but the
un is only just out of bed. The big
laza is full of farm wagons from Long
sland and Westchester County and
lew Jersey. In short time the
tr.ets all around ere choked with
rOC6rS anu DuUCICio WotSoho' "ho |
,reat swarm of retail dealers call upor
he farmers and buy the vegetables
hey require for their days trade.
If the farmer is lucky he is sold out
" the middle of the morning. Then
,e drives on to Long Island City
gain, puts his horses and wagon on the
rain and comes back to New York, ii
,e has time, to enjoy himself after the
'sshion of farmers when they come to
own, until the afternoon hour arrives
'or the market train to go back into
the country.
At home the farmer finds that his
men have gathered a supply of truck
for the next days marketing. This is
loaded on the wagon at once, and the
farmer goes indoors to his ham and
fried potatoes, his pipe and his feather
bed.-New York Herald.