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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-10-16


The Dress Goods Depar tment is
as prompt as any to catch the rising
enthusiasm. IN
To-day they bring out choice
lot Of heavy Tycoon Reps, 1Oc.
Sometimes called Danish Cloth.
Plain, solid co2gs.; ~
light blue Ss garnet. c&dihal, black black ~ ~
! Good for house dresses, tea gowns
and for children. "
Notified Frances, so cent values,
at 29c. Bluetts, browns, greens,
and garnets.
Also plain Autumn Serges, Cash
meres, Whip Cords, SOC goods at
zoe.
All Wool India Twills, Henriettas
that have always been 75c, SO 1-2c
and SOC, cut now to soc.
All Wool French Poplins, royal
fabrics, price was 81 IL and 75c,
price now 49c.
SO inch Dress Flannels, fine tex
ture, best autumn colors, 81 Lee.
New Covert Cloths, 50 inch,
choice fall colorings, soc, 75c,
$1.OO.
As inch All Wool Francies, green,
garnet, heliotrope, Use, were $L25
and $1.00.
The Golden Valley Basement
sings its song in triumphant major.
No minor to anything here except
the prices.
The Blanket section is in full
swing, every day is Blanket day
here.
These are only a hint, touch he
throng our store.
Proprietor, managers and buyers
our line that will interest you and ket
dizing setting this way.
Watch these columns for snap
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-10-16

Will Frog (wllngly) grow backwards into Tadpole?
Will an Imperial Butterfly renogade into a Caterpillar?
Mr. Merchant nervous DAVIS
will leave him far behind, merchandising Tadpole
With nothing progress show but signsmothed building and
a storefuI of Textile Chesnuts 5ag asaE
Warned bPsuh examples rebdour Cloak selling capacity
More thar doubted our Ladies' Cotton Underwear space
Strengthened reinforced the personnel Dress Goods De-
partment.
Gave the Black Dress Goods the best pbe position and
light for his goods
Spread the Hosiery Underwear and Mems Furnishings along many
moref of and shelf space
Gave the advertising whip and it's
buge 80
And here bowling along the merchandising turnpike pace
swfter than that Of any previous year.
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Three cases white and gray Blank
cts at 75c pair, the dollar kind.
One case cotton and wool Blank.
cts at SI.39.
A single one is worth that price.
One case eleven-quarter Blankets
at $l.55 pair.
We've seen windows full of poorer.
Blankets at double the money.
One case wool Blankets at $685..
Boston brags Of the same at $3.50.
| lot Kasota all wool Blankets at
$3.9S apair.
The kind you bought Of us last fall
at $3.50.
Yard wide stout brown Cotton at
sc.
40 inch stout brown Cotton, &c.
Yard wide bleached Cotton, sc.
4 cents a yard for Comforter
Prints.
$1.OO for big broad Toilet Quilts.
Marseilles patterns, centre and Dor
der, 1898. Elder Down Com
forters.
Red Damask Table Covering, fast
red, new patterns, 29c and 39c a
yard.
Extra Bleached Linen Table Dam
ask, 29c a yard.
Plquot Sheets, bleachad, soc.
23c. Holland window Shades,
Minetto rollers, all complete.
29c. Opaque Window Shades.
Same rollers.
e and there of the bargains that
are keen on the scent of anything in
the Bay Of Fundy tide of merchan-
- n 80 60 ~
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THE LOST ENGINE.

barrow? says I, for 1 thought Gridley
was talking nonsense.
Did you ever hear how Tom Sharpe
him that was superintendent of the Con-
federate railroad during the war-came
to Harper's Ferry one night with about
4J yoke of oxen, and dragged a dozen To-
comotives belonging to the Baltimore &
OHIO road off across the country till he
struck Virginia railroad? What's been
done once can be done again
mere was 80 use talking with Gridley
ABOUT the thing, and so I let him have
nus own ideas. AS far as 1 was concerned
l didn't have any ideas whatever on the
subject. 1 didn't believe that the engil.s,
WAS a ghost, for 1 had made too many
trips on her not 10 be sure that she was
good honest steel and brass And | oidn' [
believe that she had been hauled across
Lfle country by OK teams, for in that case
her tracks would have been left ON the
read, and there weren't no track visible
anywhere. The thing just seemed to me
TO be big mystery, and when a thing S
a mystery the less you think about it the
better. However, / couldn't help thinking
about this thing, for the whole road
talked of nothing else for the next week.
II even got into the Chicago newspapers.
only reporters lie. The superintendent
spoke to me about it himself, for L hap
pened to meet him down at Tiberius Cen
ter when he was on the search for the
Fanny, and I could see that it was his be-
lief that she had been stolen; | told him
fair and square that it was a mystery.
and that he would have to wait till he got
to a better world before he would find out
the truth about it.
"Gridley wouldn't take another engine.
He said that unless he found the Fanny
he would never touch a lever again, and
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-14
THE OLDEST KNowy FICTION.

One of the most ancient examples of
fiction in the world, one which has sur
vived the rise and fall of many an
ancient and many modern empire, is
an Egyptian romance entitled '"The
Tale of the Two Brothers" we have
the original manuscript in the British
Museum. 1t is written on nineteen
sheets of papyrus, in a fine hieratic
hand, and it was penned some 5000
years ago by a Theban scribe named
Ennana. This Ennana was librarian
of the palace to Kin~ Merenptah. the
supposed Pharaoh of the Exodus; and
ne appears TO have written the tale by
order of the treasurer, for the enter
tainment of the Crown Prince, Seti-
Merenptah, who subsequently reigned
as Seti II. This prince has signed his
name in two places on the back of the
manuscript, these being probably the
only autograph of any Egyptian king
which have come down to our time
This most venerable and precious doe
ument was purchased in Italy by Nine.
dOrbiney, who sold it in 1857 to the au-
thorities of the British Museum; and
it is now known as the d'Orbiney
Papyrus. The story begins exactly
like an old-fashioned fairy tale:
There were two brothers, children
of one mother and one father. Anpu
was the name of the big brother Now.
Anpu he had a house and a wife. and
his little brother lived with him as his
serving man. It was Betau who drove
the cattle to the fields, and titled the
ground. 1t was he who thrashed the
corn and did the field work 1t was he
who drove the cattle to the pasture
land and titled the ground, for this lit
tie brother was a good laborer, and ne
had not his equal in all the country.
He followed his cattle every day. and
he came back to the house every even
ing loaded with the produce of the
fields. THE late Amelia B. Edwards
in The Contemporary Review.
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HOBBIES AND GEOMETRY.
[From the National Review

LfTOm the NallOndl ESeVleW.I
Hobbies got his Latin and Greek at
Malmesbury from a young scholar
named Richard Latymer, newly come
from the university" doubtless mean
ing Oxford,) and, as was then common,
he acquired by exclusive attention to
those languages a facility in them
which now seems not only precocious,
but almost monstrous. ''It is not to
be forgotten" says Aubrey, that be-
fore he went to the university he had
turned Euripidis Medea out of Greek
into Latin iambiques. which he pre-
scented to his MASTER We need not
regret that this performance is not
preserved, for Hobbies though ready
enough in handling both Greek and
Latin, does not appear to have been a
fine or accurate scholar.
Hobbies was not yet Is when he went
to Oxford "He did not care for logic,
yet he learned it, and thought himself
a good disputant." There is no reason
to think he learned anything else at
Oxford save strong dislike of acad-
emic institutions and metho5GhslEae
turned from the official studies to
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as he had nothing particular to do, he
started in to make up lost time in drink
ing whisky. didn't see him for
pretty nearly two months, ant they told
me that he was gone on a hunt for the
Fanny, and probably wouldn't ever re-
turn. But one day, who should come to
my boarding house here in Jericho, but
Gridley looking thin and ragged and
dirty. However, he was sober enough,
though he was more excited than had
ever known him to be. engineers being
men that very seldom ever allow any
thing to excite them.
I've found the Fanny says he, in
a sort of whisper
" Well 1 want to known says I, for
1 was nightly astoniShed.
1t was the Montana Southern that
stole her. said he. She's down at West
Saragossa, not ten miles from here.
l saw her there yesterday, myself
and they've. given her a new smoke
stack, and they've changed her name to
the '.Pocahontas," and her own builder
wouldn't know her. But 1 knew her just
as soon as 1 heard her puff. She's
hauling the express on the Southern
road, and she lays up at West Sara
gossa ar night. and want you to come
down with me tonight and we'll steal
her.
Why don't you tell the superintend-
ent, and let him put in a claim for her?'
/ asked.
Because he couldn't never prove that
owns the judge before whom the case
would be tried, and they'd have a hun
dred witnesses to swear that she wasn't
the Fanny. No. sir! She has got to be
stole, and I know now just how to get
her on to our track
How's that? says /
Don't you remember says Gridley
that down the road about seventy miles
from here, the Southern track runs paral-
lei to ours for a spell. and only about
twenty yards away? When the Fanny
was stole she was taken to this hyer
place, and the rails were unspiked and
led across to the Southern track. It's
easy enough TO do, and we'll do the same
I want you to come along, because you
know a flreman's duties middling well,
and ] won't trust any of our firemen on
job of this kind
well, l said I would go, and we took
a horse and buggy and drove over to
West Saragossa that afternoon, good and
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Lifting a Dead Tiger.

[F'rom Blackwood's MagaZine.]
When one comes to lifting a dead
tiger one becomes fully aware Of it's
weight; so does one arrive at due APP
probation of it's strength after once
feeling its forearm. which is one SPLEEN
did mass of steel-lilze muscle Then
one understands how the tiger in his
prime can throw a bullock over its
shoulder and canter away with 1t.
Then, too, one may we'll come to pooh
pooh the claim of the lion to be styled
the king of beasts. But however inter-
esting may be the study of the tiger
in this particular phase once or so, it
pals after time; lifting it is
peculiarly hard and hot work. and it
is dirty work also, and is sometimes
made particularly eXasperating by the
laches of the elephant selected for the
carriage Of the tiger. For that intel
lectual beast is required to kneel to re-
ceive its freight. and to kneel long
enough to allow that freight to be
hOisted on to the pad and fastened on;
and, as often as not it will rise at the
critical moment, just when the tiger
has been raised to the edge of the pad.
and tumble the tiger and some of it's
filters on to the ground. and so bring
about the status quo ante.
The elephant has wonderful intelli-
gence in some utterly useless direc-
tons. 1t will for example, pick up a
pin with its funk, and, I dare say, with
sufficient encourag cement would sWal-
low that, and convert its interior econ
omy into pin-cushion; but I have
never known one to direct it's talents
to the simplifcation of tiger-padding.
L have seen many devote
their minds and bodies to the unneces-
sary duty of adding to the difficulties
of that operation.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-14
BY w. L. ALDEN.
Copyright 1894. by the Author.)

copyright 1894, by the Author)
u was speaking the other day. said
the Jericho station-master, "of railroad
ghosts-trains and engines and such-and
you didn't seem to believe that there are
any such things. Now just to show you
that was telling the truth, III tell you
about the ghost Of an engine that [ saw
myself, and that lots of other men or
TINS road have seen. Just wait till that
train starts along, and we have this yer
station to ourselves as usual
way train had stopped at the station,
and as the station-master spoke there
suddenly fell out Of the door of the bag.
gage car man curiously complicated
with bicycle. The man who was the
baggage master Of the train, had man
aged 10 put his foot through the spoles
Oh one of the wheels of the bicycle. and
nan and machine were writing in the
platform, the one cursing loudly and the
other giving forth the cracking sound of
swapping steel rods.
There, said the station-master. that's
WnaI happens twice out of every three
tbles that man tries to handle one of
those machines. Seems TO mo that they
were invented just to make things miser-
able for the train men. l tried to wheel
one along the platform one day, and be-
fore Knew what WAS the matter the
blamed thing had thrown me- and was
trying to break my legs and gouge my
eyes out. They're just like coyote You
take a coyote by the back OF the neck
and hold him out 1T arms length and
heH manage to bite piece out rof the
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filed with curiosities, Terry's with
souvenirs, and Madame Judic's with
| luxuries. These privileged ones are
admitted between acts or in the in
terim of matinee and evening perform
ance
But American actresses have not yet
adopted the custom. 1t is known that
Miss Rehan has a charming apartment
1T Days, that Miss Cayvan remains
IN her rooms at the Lyceum on mat
inee days, that Miss Russell is delight
fully fixed at the Casino, but one never
hears of any social visiting being done
at such rooms as it is abroad
The first actress therefore to adopt
the foreign idea is Miss Elizabeth Kirk
land, as she is known socially, or Miss
Odette Tyler professionally.
Miss Kirkland is playing the leading
part in Shenandoah" at the Academy
Of Music for the season. The rooms
here are spacious and Mr.; F'rohman
has put aside a pretty suite for her
Miss Kirkland looked into the mode of
entertaining while abroad this year and
came back determined to adopt it.
The large sitting-room in which she
receives her friends is hung after the
English fashion in delicately colored
chintz. The woodwork is blue. The
WINDOWS are crOSS-Ddrred with fila
greed iron and hung, in golden brown
plush. Rugs are thrown about the
floor; great divans covered with golden
velvet are piled high with silk and
Persian cushions. A low French dress
er is placed under two great side
lights, on which lie a multitude of
silver toilet articles. A writing desk
is usually open with Miss Kirkland's
monogrammed paper lying ready and
everywhere on matinee days are flow
ers.
One only goes by invitation and usu-
ally pleasant people are brought to-
gether by the tact of the hostess.
Sometimes a clever musician is asked
and in a most informal way he spends
his time at the piano, while the maid
serves tea in the exquisite cups that
were sent to Miss Kirkland by friends
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WHAT A FRENoHMAN BELIEVES.
IFrom Macmillan's Magazine.l


The Frenchmen's belief in their superb
ority to the rest of the world in every
branch of human activity, almost
amounts to a dogma With the average
Frenchman, it is an article of faith, that
if France were blotted out, not merely
the gayety of nations, but civilization it
self would suffer eclipse Every art and
every science is supposed to take its
fountainhead in France.
Countless Frenchmen, for example, and
NJ Theirs among the number, have be-
lieved that the discovery of the law of
gravitation is due, not to Newton, but to
Pascal, and a French author of q trea
tise on the history of chemical theory,
begins it by declaring that chemistry is
French science, and was founded by
Lavoisier, of immortal memory Even NJ.
Casimir-Perier, in his message to the
ing that France was ''the center of in
tellectual light It would be harm
less trait of character If it was confined
to the pursuits of peace, and did not ex-
tend to an Unsuitable thirst for military
glory.
NJ Guizot, who knew his countrymen
well, once said that there was no folly
for which they were not ready, provided
only it was military folly, and that it
was almost impossible for a French
statesman to pursue a policy of peace
and not to be accused of unpatriotic
motives Here lies the danger of the
present situation.
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early, so as to see how the land lay
When night came or we went out OF
town bit, and staid in the woods till
about l o'clock, and then we orept
down to the engine house and showed
the Fanny out by putting our backs to
her, and when we got her on the main
track we climbed aboard and let her run
down the grade, which is middling steep
just out of the village, While I worked at
the fires and got them to going good and
bright.
We had about sixty-five miles to run,
and Gridley said that according to the
time table there was no train that
would be in our way, unless il might be
wild cat. That's just what / cal'lated
there would be, and the idea of running
full speed along a strange track in the
dead of night, didn't suit me as well as
some things might. We got the Fanny
dI to about forty-five miles an hour.
which was pretty good considerj/g that
l wasn't by any means a first class fire.
man. Long before we got to a station.
Gridley would turn on the whistle and
keep it screeching loud enough to wake
the dead / shut my eyes every time we
came near station. for | expected that
something would be in the way. or that
switch would be turned wrong. or that
something would happen to smash Grid
ley and me for good and all. cut every
body at the stations thought shat we
We're special. and had everything made
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A THEORY.


Why do the violins shudder so,
When across them is drawn the bow,
Sob for anguish and wild despair?
Human souls are imprisoned there.
Souls are shut in the violins,
They are the souls of the Philistines;
But the Philistines. row on row,
Soulless sit, and they Go not know.
But they brandish their eyeglasses.
Stare at each others evening dress,
Scrutinize form or brilliant hue,
Say: rs it rouge or is it true?'
Some one was fiat in semitone,
And how stout the sopranos grownl
Isn't the bass a dear? and oh,
DO look at Mrs. So-and-Sor
Still the musicians play serene,
As though the Philistines had not been,
But their souls in the voilins.
Mourn on bitterly for their sins.
Call them wildly and call in. pain,
Call them with longing deep and vain,
And with infinite tenderness.
Since they can give them no redress.
Since not one of them is aware.
Here is ne and his soul is there,
In the musics divinest chord,
Making melody to the Lord.
SO how often in life and art
Soul and body must dwell apart
Great is the masters soul. no doubt
Twenty Philistines go without.
Are we body, or are we soul?
Little matter upon the whole.
Human soul is the violin,
Save me at last q PhilfStinei
Songs from Dreamland-May Kendall.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-14
THE MONKEY AND THE DOG.
[From the spectator.l

{ Jerenfah's the Monkeys greatest
! and most remarkable feat was stealing
a dog. The animal was not a valuable
one, for it was only a common black
| Pariah, or village dog; but, though
/ Jeremiah did not display much taste
for canine beauty, he was a good judge
of canine character, for Kalu was the
sweetest-tenpered of slaves and play
fellows to him. When Jeremiah S
master was moving from one station
TO another, the monkey, then quite a
young thing, was sent to march with
the syces and the horses and new
English dogcart.
1t was thought that in the latter
jeremiah might ride, as his tender
years seemed to unfit him for long
march. However,, he had not gone far
before two buttons were twisted off
the cushions, a hole bitten in the cloth,
! and the monkeys little hand busily
engaged in drawing out handfuls OF
the stuffing. jeremiah was therefore
condemned to walk, and very weary
little monkey, dusty and thirsty, ar
rived at the end of the long days
only guess at the processes of an ami
mails mind-Jeremiah thought it over,
and decided it was not good enough.
He was well and amply supplied with
food, and the men noticed that he chose
a black dog out of the crowds that
hung about the camp and offered it
part of his evening meal. The next
day the dog followed the march, and
the monkey, beguiling him within
reach of his chain, jumped on his
book, a proceeding the dog in no, way
resented. Every day the same thing
was repeated and jeremiah rode the
whole of the remaining eighty miles,
the syces being highly delighted at his
with a part of his own supper, and
slept curled up near his friend The
two had a game of play in the morn.
ings, and as soon as the march began
jeremiah, apparently to the perfect
satisfaction of the dog, mounted his
steed as a matter of course
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amuse himself with geography and
voyages. AS to mathematics, there
was no official recognition of them at
all while HOBBIES was at the UNIVERSE
ty. So there is nothing improbable in
the statement that Hobbies had never
opened copy of Euclid until he was
near middle age. The story is best told
in Aubrey's own words:
He was 40 years old before ne
looked on geometry, which happened
accidently; being in a gentleman's
library, 'Euclid's Elements lay open,
and it was the At Prob. Lib. 1. So he
reads the proposition. BY c. says
he, this is impossibler So he reads
the demonstration of it, which referred
him back to another, which he also
read, ct sic deinceps,' that at last he
was demonstratively convinced of that
truth. This made him in love with
peOuetrv ~
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A Household Treasure.

d. w. Fuller. of Canajoharie, N. Y,
says that he always keeps DR.. Kings
New Discovery in the house and his
family has always found the very rest
results follow it's use; that he would
not be without it. if procurable. G.. h
Dykeman, druggist, CatskiIl, N. Y,
says that DR.. Kings New Discovery
is undoubtedly the best cough remedy;
that he has used it in his family for
eight years, and it has never failed to
do all that is claimed for it. Why not
try a remedy so long tried and tested?
Trial bottles free at z. c. NJ. 1. drug
department. Regular size SOC and $1.0O.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-14
MONSTER MAHOGANY.
Largest Stick Brought 20 New York
Weighs Twenty-one Tons.


The largest log of mahogany ever
brought to this country, came recently to
the yards of Nesmith Brothers, Green
point. The tree was felled in the Sierra
Chisse. Guatemala. and fioated 300 miles
down the Rio de Passion and Rio Usuma
sinta to Laguna, Mexico. The intention
was to ship it to the Worlds Fair, but
no ship would take it.
The log was A feet inches long, and
so inches by Sc at the base, and weighed
21.6S tons. 1t lay at Laguna over year.
Then Captain S. S. Bayles said he would
take it aboard his schooner, The Laguna,
of Port Jefferson, N. Y. if it were cut in
two. This was done, and the log is now
here. 1t would be possible to cut from this
log twenty-eight tables, every one 2
inches thick, q feet 6 inches long, and 5
feet wide. Every one of these tables thus
made of a single piece of magnificent
wood, would accommodate thirty-two
guests without crowding anybody.-Com-
n,ercial Advertiser.
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Howard Gould was announced.

Howard Could was announced.
Miss kirkland wears very smart
house gowns at these receptions One
l noticed was strikingly graceful and
Frenchy. The robe was of mandarin
yellow. with huge gathered collar of
yellow batiste edged with valenciennes
The large sleeves were gathered at the
elbow with narrow blue satin ribbons.
AS she walked, the robe showed the
petticoat of the same silk with vari-
colored ''pinked'' rufIles, each lace COW
cred. Louis XIV slippers of yellow
suede with flagreed silver buckles,
completed the costume
H HALLMARK