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The Portland daily press., 1893-05-01

The Boston Herald thinks that if re-
count in the Seventh Massachusetts, dis
trict should show that Mr.. Barrett was
elected and not DR.. Everett, the Demo-
cratic majority in the House would ig-
more it and seat the latter. There is no
doubt that they would question the accu-
racy of the second count if it was differ
ent from the first, and we do not see but
there would bejust as good reason to do
SO as in case of the first count. The ac-
curacy of reconnts when they show a
difference from the first count will al
ways be questioned by the defeated par
ty and his supporters, and will carry no
stronger conviction than the first
count. Indeed on account Of the oppor
tunity and the temptations to fix things.
and the knowledge of inst what is want
ed second counts will never command so
much general confidence as the first
count when made under the supervision
of representatives of both parties. If A
counts the ballots and gets one result.
and subsequently B counts them and gets
anoth sr, BIS count is going to be disput-
ed just as much as AS and with lust as
good reason.
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-01
THE PRESS.
MONDAY, MAY 1.
STATE OF MAINE.
PROCLAMATION
BY THE GOVERNOR.

In compliance with the law of the state, which
requires ''That the Governor shall annually set
apart day in the spring as Arbor Day, and
shall issue proclamation recommending that
it be observed by the people of this state in the
planting of trees, shrubs and vines in the
adornment of public and private grounds. places
and ways, and in such other efforts and under
takings as shall be in harmony with the general
character Of day SO established" I hereby
appoint
Friday, the Twelfth Day of May
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-01
AUCTION SALES.
AUCTION SALES.
+. O. BAILEY & co., Auctioneers.
Executors Sale Of Real Estate.

pURSUANT to a license from the Hon.
Judge of Probate for the County of Cum
perland shall sell by Public Auction on the
premises on Thursda y, the twenty Fifth day
OF May, A. d., 1893 at IL O'Clock in the fore
noon, unless previously disposed of at private
sale, the real estate OF which James Webster,
late OF Gorham, in said county died seized and
more or less with the buildings thereon, and is
situated on the easterly side OF the town road
which leads from the main road leading from
Gorham Village to West Gorham, northerly to
the Charles Cressey place so called. This farm
Is located about one mile only from Gorham
village; buildings are in fair condition; good
orchard and small fruit under cultivation.
/. Will also sell good farm horse, harnesses,
farming tools and other personal property.
Rare chance for good bargains.
WILLIAM X. NEAL,
Executor of will of James Webster.
No. 50 Exchange Street, Portland, Me.
Gorhanl April "a. 1898.
ap24may1&S
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-01
j. r LIBBY, CONGRESS STREET.
GRAND MAY SALE.
Commencing Monday May LIST,
IN OUR HOUSEKEEPING AND DOMESTIC DEPARTMENT.
Linens, Quilts, Blankets. F|anne|s, White
Goods, Cottons, Skirts, Draperies and
COTTON :DREsS:GOoDs.

500 yards Linen Barnsley Crash 15c quality at &c.
. (This the last Of the wet Iinen3
Special offering in crashes at Sc, sc, -4c, &c.
Glass Towelng, superior qualities IOc, IL I-2c @MW
100 dozen Huck Towels, sizes 21x24 at II lac.
Nkr2N
100 dozen fine bleached Damask Towels, 19c.
Bargains in fine Towels at s5 35e 81 a 5O So 1sc 75
tWear adquater sfor Towes.
Napkins, patterns &c. 75c ST. 1885, l5o up to g.
Turkey Red Damask new Styles s5c. 81 1sc SOC 75c.
Half bleached Damasks at 25c, 33c, soc, so 1-2c.
Beached Satin Damasks, SOC 81 12c &c. 75c 1885, 175
. Hemmber We keep fine goods in this
White Quilts best values, ST. 1885, 15O I5 up to s.
Blankets, bargains for cOttagers, ST. I.25 150 2.5O
Silk Blankets for couche draperies sl25 goods S9c
White Flanne leaders, 25c 3Oc I2c Soc go I2c 75c
Domet Flannels, cheap at Lie, &c. 1Oc and 12c 12c
Embroidered Flanne special Values &C., 5c 9Oc 25
India Linen White Goods, 1Oc 2c 2oc 25 5c 81 1sc 4Oc
Plain White Nainsooks 25c, $50, 4Oc, Soc
Corded White Pique, and cheap, zoe, 25c 33c,
Spotted Musns at IL Lee, 1885, s5c $780, 42c 5Oc
Checked Nainsook worth attention. at &c. O IL lsc l5c 25c
Lace Striped Nainsooks best patterns 15c, zoe, 25c
Remnants Of Checked and Striped White Goods, SC.
- (You will find bargains White
Sheets ready made, best Cotton, cheap, 7lc 75c Sic
Bargains in yard wide brown Cottons, at SC, &c.
Beached and brown Cottons all widths at lowest prices
Best Feather Tickings always at right prices
Patterns Skirts new styles, at the lowest prices, Csc.
New Skirts, extra good Values at &c., 5Oc 75c, ST. 25 5O
Silk Taffeta and Gloria Skirts, SIS, 6, up to 1000
Cotton Plush Draperes, styles zoe, Csc, SOC.
Drapery Cretonne, beautiful styles, at IL 1-2c,
Art Muslns, for draperies, choice Styles 121-2c I5c
New White Goods for draperies, at csc.
Persian Dimity for draperes 25c goods, for 10 1-sc
Job lot Cotton Dress Goods Zoe to 15c qualities for &C.
One case Printed Chalies good styles, only &c.
One lot Of heavy IL Lee Gnghams, at only &c.
One case Of Outing Flannel, special leader, &c.
Superior styles and qualities Outing Fannes IOc 10 12c
Rem indigo Mourning and Shifting Prints lowest prices
Irish Lawns double fold, new thing, only IL 1-2c
Persian Dmty for dresses good Styles 25c goods IL c
Splendid Assortment of New Percales, at IL Lee.
j. R. LIBBY, CONGRESS sTss1r
The Portland daily press., 1893-05-01

Subscription EsAtes.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-07
HOW TO CLEAN DRESSES.

Get five cents worth of soapbark from
the druggist (about teacupfuD. For
one dress take half of it and steep in
about one quart of boiling water for
about half an hour or more, then strain
through cloth.
For silk dress, while the liquid is
warm, take piece of white flannel and
dip into it at intervals, aud rub the silk,
or satin, with it till it seems cleansed.
When done, pull the material straight,
and hang it to dry. Do not iron either
the silk or satin. If the dress is very
much soiled. use clean liquor to rinse it;
but do not use clear water for silk, or 1t
will not stiffen up well.
For wooden dress dip the part to be
cleansed. or the whole of it, IT needed,
into the liquor. This can be rinsed in
the same after washing, or in clean warm
water. If very dirty put the dress to
soak in tub in the liquor with more
water added before cleaning or washing.
The wooden goods should be pressed until
it is quite dry.
Water in which potatoes have been
boiled will cleanse delicate colored
wooden or worsted goods. The dress
should be wet all over. Use no soap.
Rinse in clear warm water. Press while
still damp. This will not injure the
most delicate colors. Boston Cultivator.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-07
SERIOUS FACTS ABOUT BREAD
which Housekeepers should Earnestly
Consider.

which Housckeepers should Earnestly
Consider.
A serious danger menaces the health
lof the people of this country in the nu-
merous alum baking powders that are
now being urged upon the public.
There Is no question as to the detri-
mental effect of these powders upon the
system. Every Board of Health, every
physic ian, will tell you of the unwhole-
some qualities they add to the food.
Some countries have absolutely pro-
hibited the sale of bread containing
alum.
Even small doses of alum, given to
children, have produced fatal results,
while cases of heartburn, indig estIon,
gripping, constipation, dyspepsia, and
various kindred gastric troubles from
irritation of the mucous membrane,
caused by the continuous use OF food
prepared with the alum or alum phos.
phate powders, are familiar in the prac-
tice of every physician.
It is not possible that any prudent
housewife, any loving mother, will
knowingly use an article of food that
will injure the health of her household,
or perhaps cause the death of her chill
dren.
How shall the dangerous alum powders
be distinguished And how shall the
danger to health from their use be
avoided2
Generally, alum powders may be known
from the price at which they are sold,
or from the fact that they are accom-
panied by gift, are disposed of under
somo scheme. The alum powder costs
Dut few cents pound to make, and Is
often sold at 30 or 25 cents pound.
If some present is given with it, the
price may be 80, 40 or 30 cents pound.
1t is impossible to name all the alum
powders in the market, but any baking
powder sold at low price, or adver-
tized as costing only half as much as
cream of tartar powders, accompanied by
a present, or disposed of under any
scheme, is of this class, detrimental to
health, and to be avoided.
But the easy, safe. and certain protec-
ton of our bread, biscuit and cake from
all danger of unwholesomeness is in the
use of the Royal Baking Powder only.
This powder is mentioned because of the
innumerable reports in its favor by high
medical authorities, by the U. s. Gov
ernment, and by the official chemists and
Boards of Health, which leave no doubt
as to its entire freedom from alum, lime
and ammonia, its absolute purity and
wholesomeness. While its use is thus a
safeguard against the poisonous alum
powders it is satisfactory at the same
time to know that it makes the whitest,
lightest, sweetest and most delicious
food, which will keep moist and fresh
longer, and that can be eaten with I'M
munity hot or cold, stale or fresh, and
also that owing to its greater strength it
is more economical than Others.
These facts should incline consumers to
turn deaf ear to all opportunities to
buy the inferior powder. If grocer
urges the sale OF the cheap, impure, alum
brands, it should be bcrne in mind that II
is because he can make more profit OF
them. The wise housekeeper will decline
| in all cases TO take them.
! Take no chances through using doubt
| fd article aohere so important a matter a
| the heath or lire of dear ones is at stake
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-07
ROTATION IN THE GARDEN.

1t is good thing in the cultivation of
garden not to grow the same vegetables
or plants year after year on the same spot,
nor even two years in succession on the
same. 1t is liable to generate disease
and to exhaust that portion of the soil in
which the plant feeds or to remove the
peculiar elements which it needs. Roots,
deep-feeding and shallo W feeding plants
should succeed each other. A strict
system of rotation is always safest.
Where a mixed lot of vegetables is
grown, the same ground may be worked
for an almost indefinite length of time
by changing the location of each kind
from year to year. Where cabbages,
cauliflowers, radishes, turnips or other
members of this same family were grown
last year plant tomatoes, egg plant, pep
pers, etc., this year, and sweet corn or
vines next, and so ou.-ChicAgo Times.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-07
The Silk of Spiders.

In French publication there is n
paper by Rev. P. Cambone on the silk OF
spiders. After giving history OF the
attempts to obtain and use the silk of
spiders, he gives some interesting ex .peri-
ments of his own, made on large orb
weaving spider of Madagascar. He finds
that the spider furnishes the most silk
after she has laid her eggs. From one
spider there was obtained in twenty
seven days nearly four thousand meters
of silk--over three miles. The silk was
of golden yellow color. He gives the
plan of an apparatus for winding the silk,
which, however, as he says, is imperfect.
Nothing, however, was done as to the
raising and keeping of the spiders in
large numbers, undoubtedly the most
serious question.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-07
HOW TO MAKE A HOT BED.

Where the farmer or gardener is too
far removed from business centers to buy
plants cheaply of the seedsmen, hot
bed will be found convenient for starting
many kinds of plants. The first step &c
be taken is getting ready the manure
with which to supply the required bot
tom heat. Fresh horse manure mixed
thoroughly with one-third to one-half its
bulk of leaves, or straw used for bed
ding, or other manure that has been
heated once, are the materials preferred.
AS soon as this compost begins to fer
ment turn it again and let remain until
signs appear of a second fermentation.
Make an excavation about two and
half feet deep and of a size to suit
the sash on hand or number of plants re.
quired. Locate this pit in dry spot,
facing south or east. One sash will gen.
orally give early plants enough for a
large family. The frame for the sash or
sashes may be made OF boards nailed to
small posts at the corners. This frame
ought to be about eighteen inches high
at the back and twelve inches in front,
to give the proper slope to catch the
sunlight. To facilitate the opening and
shutting of the frame, cross-pieces should
be planed for the sash to slide on.
When all is ready tread the manure
down firmly in the pit, to the depth of
two and half feet; put on the sash and
keep the pit closed until the heat rises.
In two or three days spread on top soil
to depth of six or eight inches. In
this seed may be sown in drills, two or
three inches apart, for early tomatoes,
eggplant, cabbage, caulifower, lettuce,
pepper, etc.-New York World.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-07
SOME RECIPES FOR SOUPS.

Satisfy Soup-Scrapc two dozen satisfy
or oyster-plant roots, cut into slices. put
in saucepan, and cover with boiling
water. Let boil until tender. Add
three pints of new milk, six whole all
spice, six pepper -corus and blade OF
mace. Rub two ounces of butter and
two tablespoons of flour together, and
stir into the boiling soup. Season with
salt and dash of cayenne, aud serve.
Celery Soup-Take four roots of eel
cry; wash aud cut in small pieces. Cover
it with water, add n teaspoonful of salt,
and boil half an hour; then pas; through
colander. Put two qusrts of milk on
to boil; add the water In which the eel
cry was boiled, with slice of onion aud
two or three chopped stalks OF celery.
Rub tablespoonful each OF butter AMI
flour together, and stir in the boiling
soup. Season with salt and pepper and
serve Immediately.
Halibut Soup-Put two pounds OF
fresh halibut In soup kettle, with
bunch of parsley and one sliced onion.
Cover with boiling water, and let simmer
for twenty minutes. Take the fish up,
pick it free of bone aud akin, ana mash
the flesh fine. Put three pints of milk
on to boil rub an ounce of butter .and
two ounces of Hour together, add to the
boiling milk, stir until thick, put in the
fish with salt aud pepper, let come to a
boil, and serve. Any fresh fish may be
used instead of halibut.
Bisque of Lobster Prepare, boil and
open two hen Holsters; cut the meat i.to
small pieces. Break the shells and small
claws; rut in a saucepan with quart of
boiling water. Pound aud mix the
spawn, the fat, part of the coral, two
ounces of the lobster meat, an ounce of
butter, and two of flour until reduc I'd to
a pulp. Strain the liquor from. the
saucepan over the pulp, gradually mix
ing it; season with little salt and
cayenne, add the remainder of the meat,
and the coral rubbed fine, and serve inn
mediately.
Potato Soup-Take half dozen me
dium-sized potatoes, pare, and put on to
boil in quart of cold water. When
half done, drain, aud cover with pint
of fresh boiling water. Add sprig of
parsley, a stalk of celery, slice of
onicn, and let boil until the potatoes are
done. Put three pints of new milk on
to boil. Press the potatoes through a
sieve. Rub tablespoonful each of -four
and butter together, and stir into the
boiling milk. Pour over the potatoes,
stir until smooth, season with salt and
pepper, aud serve Immediately. Lar
per's Bazaar.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-07
RAISING DUCKS FOR MARKET.


When pound of duck can be produced
for six cents and sold for thirty i've cents
or more early in the season, there is
money in the business, especially as the
eggs not needed for Matching usually sell
we'll at the same price as hens eggs.
The duck usually lays about $50 eggs in
year. Those who desire to raise duck
lings for market prefer the Pckin, as
they can be made to grow more rapidly
than any other and are thought TO be-
gin laying little earlier. They are not
as large as some others, the drake weigh
ing eight pounds according to the stand
ard, which requires the same for the
Cayuga, nine pounds for the Rouen and
Aylesbury, and fen pounds for the Mus
covy, which, by the way, is not duck,
as the offspring of cross between 1t and
other ducks are infertile like the mule
and other hybrids. The duck should be
one pound lighter than the drake. Most
of those who breed ducklings for market
hatch them in the incubator, III order to
get them early enough to bring the high
prices, and then bring them up in the
brooder. 1t is claimed that larger
percentage of ducks eggs than of hens
eggs will hatch in the incubator, and
there is but little mortality among them
if they have proper care. Among the
requirements are soft food, and plenty
of water to drink and rinse their bills in,
but it is not necessary that they should
have it to swim in. They breathe through
their nostrils, which should never be al
lowed to clog up. They like variety
of food, and eat up anything that hen
will, aud much more of it, and must have
all they will eat from the first to make
them ready f0E market early. With
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-07
German
Syrup

Justice of the Peace, George VII
kinson, of Lowville, Murray Co.,
Mimi, makes deposition coucern-
ing severe cold. Listen to it. I'm
the Spring of 1888, through ex-
posure I contracted a very severe
cold that settled on my lungs. This
was accompanied by excessive night
sweats. One bottle of Boschee's
German Syrup broke up the cold,
night sweats, and all and left me
in good, healthy condition. ] can
give German Syrup my mostearnest
commendatiori. " o
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-07
The Bed Of Old Atlantic.

The topography of the Atlantic Ocean
bed is now almost as we'll known rs If it
were dry land. The charts represent 1t
as huge trough of varying depths, ex-
tending from pole to pole. Here and
there are rocky peaks, like that Of Tener-
life, or huge mountains of sand, like the
Banks of Newfoundland, which reach up
to or above the surface. Between Ire
land and Newfoundland there is re-
markablc submarine plain. This great
level stretch of ocean bottom is always
referred to rs the ''telograph or cable
plateau . because of the fact of the main
submarine cables being stretched across
it. This plateau is believed to be con-
tinuaton of the great water shed which,
between the ATTITUDES of forty and fifty
degrees north, surrounds the earth, and
divides the waters which flow south from
those which flow toward the north.-
New York Dispatch.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-07
SIZE AND WEIGHT OF JACKS.

Jacks vary in size and weight con-
siderably. A medium size is IA hands,
ana 500 pounds; the largest are 16 hands
and upward, and 1900 to 1900 pounds.
A jack recently sold in Kentucky for
$1,000, was 164 hands, and weighed 1850
pounds. The measurements of this ami
NAL were: 1917 inches from the noser to
the root of tail, 334 inches from tip to
tip of ears, head 81 inches, girth 66,
knee to ankle IL, around arms 26t, and
around stihe 33 inches. This is not so
large as one sold previously for $325O.
The American jacks pass those of any
other country in all respects, but the
French and Spanish blood has been used
literally in their improvement. The
best of these animals are reared in Ken.
lucky and Tennessee. Ordinary mules
sell in those States for 500 to $3.50 per
head, according to slze.-New York
Times.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-07
An Ancient Remedy.

NJ. de Nelly, French grippe grower
and something of classical scholar, dis
covered that 1rabo had describsd a
method of treating diseased vines with
petroleum. He determined to try it on
his phylloxera-sm -smitten vineyard. He met
with success that delighted him, and at
a recent meeting Of the French Academy
of Sciences, he exhibited healthy shoots
grown from stocks rendered barren by
phylloxera, giving statistics Of his expef-
iments that leave no doubt OF the sue
cess of the method. 1t appears that the
ancients knew thing or two, New
Orleans Picayune.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-07

green food regularly every day, and
scalded meal with plenty of meat scraps
stirred in they grow fast. The yards
should be kept as clean as possible, and
the pens for both young and old ducks
should be in dry place, and with a
board floor and plenty of straw or other
litter, as damp ground, or being out in
cold storm or heavy shower, will
quickly kill young duckliugs, at least
until we'll feathered. They should not
be given very cold water to drink. as it
causes cramps, which are sometimes
fatal. They need larger yards or a
more frequent change of location than
chickens, as filth soon kills them, and,
in fact, they should not be crowded in
their brooders' pens or yards.
Cultivator.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-07
Dewiall Of q Year.

Strictly speaking, dew does not ssfall, ("
it is always formed upon the substance
upon which it is found, and cannot, in
any sense of the word, be said to "fall''
from the atmosphere as rain and snow
do.
Dew 10 a great respecter of colors.
To prove this take pieces of glass or
boards and paint them red, yellow,
green and black. Expose them at night
and you will find that the yellow will be
covered with moisture; that the green
will be damp, but that the red and the
black will be left perfectly dryl On an
area of land equal to the size of the
State of Missouri the amount of ''dew-
fall'' per annum would be 19, 156, ,219,-
322 tons, counting the ton of 252 i'm
perial gallons.-St. Louis Republic.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-07
A Capitol Accordin, to Her Size.

Tie State Capitol of Texas is the
largest State building in the United
States and the seventh in size among
the building of the world. 1t is vast
Greek cross of red Texas granite, with
central rotunda covered by dome
311 feet high. 1t was begun in 1881
and finished in 1888, having cost about
So, 500, 900. 1t was paid for with 3,Ooo,-
900 acres of public land, decided to the
capitalists who executed the work.
Now Orleans Picayune.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-07

Howell County, Missouri, will soon
have the largest fruit farm in the world,
il it has not already that honor. A COM
pany has been organized by South Bend,
Evansville and Springfield capitalists for
the purpose of converting $4,000 acres
near Brandsville into an immense fruit
farm, work to commence within thirty
days. There is plenty of money backing
the scheme. The company proposes to
build cold storage plant, evaporator
and distillery. The land is situated on
the line of the Gulf road and is the most
desirable location in the county.-St.
Louis Republic.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-07
Plants and Pianos.

A growing plant ia the room where the
piano stands is said to preserve its tone.
presumably, because of its accu mutation
of moisture. Some of the time a plant
absorbs moisture, and at other times
gives, tending to preserve an equi-
librium in the atmosphere. New YORK
journal.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-04-07
FEW KEEP GUINEA FOWLS.

The Guinea fowl is one of the most
beautiful specimens of accurate feather
marking known among gallinaceous
fowls. There are two species, the black
and white spotted and the pure white
breed. Few keep guineas, on account
OF their noisy manner, which at times
grows tiresome; yet chicken thieves hold
them as great enemies, as they give an
alarm even at midnight, if strangers come
among them.-New York Independent.