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The Portland daily press., 1895-01-24
Engineer Richardson Replies to Capt
Verril1.
Engineer

Engineer Richardson Replies TO capt
verrilI.
To the Editor of the Press:
Verify, verify, of writing of letters
there is no end, and much controversy IS
a WEAKNESS of the flesh. Your able cor
respondent of the last few days takes me
to task for certain engineering state
ments which I have made, and again
emphasizes the poetic truth that little
learning is dangerous thing. IT your
correspondent had known as much
about engineering as he does about law
he would have known that the streets OF
Portland have sidewalks, and he would
not have figured them as portion of the
street covered by Macadam. Now, IT he
will revise his figures and make proper
allowanoesfor sidewalks, etc., he will
find that there is nothing but truth in
nv staten tent that the money saved by
the commission would Macadanaizes the
co uivaIent OF a fifty foot street extend
ing from City Hall to beyond Weymouth
street. Macadam costs 20 Genus square
yard in Portland at present. On page
121, report of Massa' chusetts highway
commission, 1898, III found: There
have been several miles vi streets IN
Chelsea builJ on the same plan s1x-lnch
Macadam, at prices varying from 80 to
SIS cents square yard. These streets
have not been repaired since they were
Niacadamized, and will not need atten-
ton for several years to come" For
your correspondents benefit may add
that wheelmen who have been over these
same 33 cent roads in Chelsea, extraya-
yantly characterize them as smooth as
asphalt" sand papered," etc. Post up
on prices, brother, or come and see me
and will show you where you are IN
error.
Then, again, the question Of money
"saved.n last year, that was in fact ex-
pended,n worries my friend more than
| it should. 1t is not hard to imagine tive
bright young men starting in life with
equal incomes. One spends his making
| himself solid with the boys. the other
spends his in improving his home,
grounds, ETC., and purchasing other
houses, and so on. with the final result
that the first one, quite lik ely, YEARLY
winds his way over the hill to the poor
| house in his old age, while the second
resides on the sunny side of Easy street,
and everybody says when he dies. We'll,
| he always was saving" Money spent
correctly is money saved.
P.HR., C.E. 4.
The Portland daily press., 1895-01-24
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rs Invaluable for

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it. Price 35c. Mrs. H. A. Small,
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The Portland daily press., 1895-01-24

Johnson's Oriental Soap is far supeior to all
the other so-caled medicinal soaps for 6eauti
flying the complexion. w. w. Whipple & Co.
and John Williamson Portland.
The Portland daily press., 1895-01-24
S. A. Pierce, Auctr.
s. j. Murray,
PROPRIETOR.
JANIS dit
PROBATE NOTICE.

To all persons interested in either of the
estates hereinafter named: AT Court OF
Probate held at Auburn, within and for the
County of -Androscoggin, on the SECOND
Tuesday of January in the year OF our Lord
eighteen hundred and ninely-five; the fol
lowing matters having been presented fo1
the action thereupon hereinafter indicated,
il is hereby ordered. That notice II, thereof be
copy of this order to be published three
weeks successfully in the Portland Daily
PRESS printed at Portland in our County
of Cumberland that they may appear at a
Probate Court. to be held at said Auburn,
on the second Tuesday of February next. at
nine O'Clock in the forenoon, and be heard
thereon, and object If they see cause;
MARY 9. MERRILL, late of Portland in
our county of Cumberland. deceased. Will
and petition for probate thereof under the
provisions of Section eight of Chapter six-
ty-three of the Revised Statutes of Maine.
presented by Henry c. Peabody, executor
therein named,
FRANKLIN M. DREW. Judge,
OF Probate, Androscoggin County.
Attest:
FRED o. WATSON. Register of Probate,
Androscoggin County.
jan18243l
The Portland daily press., 1895-01-24
THE PRESS.
THURSDAY, JANUARY "a.

1t appears to be the prevailing idea at
Anpusta that a new insane hospital
should be built, and as Bangor is anxious
to be the place of its location there is
no reason why it should not be placed
there, especially as it does not appear to
be wanted anywhere else. Why the peo-
pie of the Queen City of the East are SO
anxious to have a lot of insane people
gathered together in their midst we are
at loss to understand. But that is
their business.
The Portland daily press., 1895-01-24

The Bangor Commercial says: "The
clubs in one of our Maine cities are get
ting real faith erly. One put stop to all
games at cards for thirty days because
certain mem beers were detected in gam b.
ling; whileeanother, and one of the swell
lest organizations in the state, investi-
gates a mem ber's financial standing be-
lore he is allowed to play poker, and fix
es the limit of the game in which he
m ay safely" indulge. A "poker rating"
is something new in these parts.n
The Portland daily press., 1895-01-24

1t is said of a Thomaston shipowner
that he won't be forced to crawl through
any needles eye on account OF his
wealth. He was playing game of Pc
dro," when a telegram came to him an
nouncing the loss of a ship valued at
$50. 900: no insurance. Reading the tel
egran,, ne quietly put it in his pocket
and resumed the game with the remark,
"I'll give you five.n
The Portland daily press., 1895-01-24

There appears to be general demand
on the part Of the women of this city
that one member of THE school commit
tee at least shall be woman. so far as
we have been able to discover there is no
opposition whatever to this demand, from
men. They are perfectly willing that
the experiment shall be made, and they
are ready to aid in it. The proper
course for the women to pursue would
seem TO be to select the ward or wards
four opini on is that two women on the
committee would be preferable for many
reasons to one) in which they want
women nominated, agree upon candl-
dates ana have their names presented at
the Republican and Democratic caucuses.
They can secure their nomination
by both parties, and that would
ensure til all election without any contest.
If their candidates should not be nomi-
mated at either caucus they can
still get their names on to the
official ballot by proceeding in
accordance with the provisions of the
Australian ballot law. There have been
many III OAC hO" spa PSAS
setting forth the benefits that are expect
ed to accrue from the presence of women
on the school committee, and the case
has been argued ably enough at least to
favorably dispose nearly everybody to
assist in making the experiment.. Moth
ing remains TO be done therefore, SO far
as we can see, but to furnish the nai:eri-
al and set the machinery in motion. If
the women will do the first, probably the
men can be induced to attend to the
second.
The Portland daily press., 1895-01-24

A city charter will have no tendency
10 cure the troubles that exist in the
town of Cape Elizabeth and that have
melted one part of the town to ask to
be set off by itself and erected into city
mum cipality. A city charter furnishes a
remedy when a town has grown so
populous that it is difficult to properly
transact the public business in mass
meeting of the voters. But that is not
The Portland daily press., 1895-01-24
STATE TOPICS OF INTEREST.

One of the most valuable stamp COL
lections in Lewiston is that of D. H. Day,
which is valued at $1,000, and would
bring in the market at a forced sale from
$500 to $500.
The Portland daily press., 1895-01-24

job John y. Y MacRae, Druggist Raleigh, n. O.
snase pi e9 Gnso OF the cures made by the Jap
aese ne cure IS wonderful and from my deal
lngs WIN you for the past 5 years, L know your
gu 81 anJ Is E perfectly good W. W. Whipple
q TO- anu Jonn Williamson, Portland.
The Portland daily press., 1895-01-24

The close time on trout will be off
February 1st, and already number of
parties are being organized for an out
inc to some of the numerous lakes and
ponds in the vicinity of Bangor.
The Portland daily press., 1895-01-24


The proposition to establish State
board of arbitration, which has made its
appearance in the legislature in the form
of a bill, is probably offered on behalf of
labor, but judging from the operations
ofssuch board in other States they are of
no practical benefit to labor or capital
or any body or anything except the men
who compose them. They have no pow
er to compel arbitration. and even after
the arbitration is entered upon they can
give no assurance that their decision will
be accepted and acted upon. They can
offer their services to the parties to a
dispute, and SO can any man or mum Der
of men who have no official standing,
lust as well, and the chances of the SER
vices of the former being accepted are no
greater than those of the latter. Indeed
we are inclined to think that they are
not quite SO good, for these official ar
bitration boards are generally made up
of representatives of labor and represen-
tatives of capital, and every member of
them is prejudiced in one direction or
the other. Ordinarily the appearance of
one of these boards on the scene
of a strike has been rather more
hurtful than helpful. One side or
the other has generally looked upon it as
an impertinent interference, and has
resented it. If the parties to a labor dis
pute are disposed to arbitrate they will
seldom have any difficulty in finding
proper men for arbitrators. If they are
not disposed to arbitrate the existence of
State board of arbitration will not have
the slightest tendency to change their
disposition. AS means of depicting
the treasury a number Of thousand dol
lars annually State board of arbitra-
tion would be success. For any
other purpose it would be failure.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-03-13
Might or Right.

have often asked my radical friends
what is to be done if, out of every hun
dred enlightened voters, two-thirds will
give their votes one way, but are afraid
to fight, and the remaining third will
not only vote. but will fight, too, if the
poll goes against them. Which has.
then, the right to rule? can tell them
which will rule. The brave and resolute
minority will rule. Plato says that if
ono man was stronger than all the rest
of mankind he would rule all the rest
of mankind. 1t must be so, because
there is no appeal. The majority must
be prepared to assert their divine right
with their right hands, or it will go the
way other divine rights have gone be-
FORE
will not believe the world to have
been so i'll constructed that there are
rights which cannot be enforced. 1t APP
pears to me that the true right to rule
in any nation lies with those who are
best and bravest, whether their numbers
are large or small, and three centuries
ago the best and bravest part of this
English nation had determined, though
they were but third of it, that pope
and Spaniard should be no masters of
theirs. --Froude in Longman's Maya
zine
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-03-13
Fortunes Freaks.

Twenty years ago q young man mar
ried one of the smartest young ladies
anywhere round, and the young couple
seemed to start in life with every pros
pect of happiness. But the girl was am
bilious to be rich, and because she was
not was very much dissatisfied After
keeping her husband in peck of trou-
bic for time she left him and got a
divorce. He went into bankruptcy, and
she very soon married a wealthy man
and rode behind span in a elegant car
riage. Today the former bankrupt is
wealthy and prosperous. has a new wife
and happy home. Every comfort sur
rounds them. His wife of other days
now lives in poverty and has to scrub
for the bread she eats. Her husband 8
wealth, under poor management, shrank
to worse than nothing. The roses have
gone from her cheeks and the light from
her eyes. It'sas complete turn around
as one ever saw.--Lewiston (Me. Jour
nal
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-03-13

Modern Discovery For the Utilization Of =
Heretofore Useless OnAl.
One Of the methods whereby profit has
been made from sawdust is the manu-
facture from it of oxalic acid. which is
a simple process, producing a material
IN wide commercial demand in the art
Of dyeing and other chemical arts. AS
intimated. the process is not only sim
pie. but the outfit for conducting it does
not involve large investment The
principles involved are not complicated,
md the process can be carried out by
cheap labor under the superintendent
of fairly intelligent director.
Oxalic acid is frequently met with
in the vegetable kingdom, especially in
combination with gases which destroy
its poisonous character. Oxalate of lime
is found in considerable quantity in the
rhubarb plant. Oxalate Of potash is
found in the sorrel. and oxalate of soda
in salicornia and sal soda Formerly the
acid was obtained from the sorrel, Oxalis
acetosella. but more recently from sugar
by the action of nitric acid upon it.
The nitric acid and sugar are boiled for
some time, then evaporated to dryness.
and the oxalic acid formed is purified by
capitalization from water. A much
cheaper material than sugar is sawdust.
In this case an alkali must be employed
instead Of IN acid. as well as at q high
er temperature. The operation is con-
Quoted in an iron vessel of suitable size
and shape, and either caustio soda or
potash is employed, the yield being
greater with the latter.
Some recent experiments made go to
prove that mixture Of 40 parts of caus-
tic potash to- go parts of caustio soda
will produce as large yield as when
potash alone is used, provided the opera
tion be performed in shallow vessels
with thin layers of the material, avoid
ing as far as possible the fusing of the
mass. Soft woods, such rs pine and fir,
produce larger quantities of oxalio acid
than hard wood like oak. The proper
ton of the wood to alkali should not
exceed rs to 100, and the temperature
should be about 4S0 degrees F-Phila-
delphia Press.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-03-13

Come OF the Funny Biunders Of While
rapiis Are Capable.

The roll OF our naval heroes is still
increasing, for a schoolteaehor has re-
Gently learned from her pupils that
Shakespeare became French and
Milton Dutch admiral. " Mussnlmans.
however, was not. Of course, "the name
given to French soldiers. " nor does suf-
frage mean ''hunger, though some
times it is not remotely connected with
thirst
There is something solemn in the
statement that sBecket-his grave was
made pilgrim. - and false etymology
possibly suggested that ''guerrillas were
men who saw to the guillotine, and
that Doomsday Book was so called ''be-
cause it was to last till the crack of
doom. " And, lastly, here are the two
most recent contributions TO general
history: 'Nelson lived in the reign
of Victoria and defeated the French I'M
der Butcher at Waterloo. and, again,
'the battle Of Trafalgar was fought at
Waterloo, when Napoleon commanded
the Prussians and Nelson was shot for
going on deck" In geography also the
answers are somewhat at variance with
preconceiyed notions. It appears that
Derby is noted for races, Sheffield for
Sheffield ponies and Bolton for its alb
hey. Honolulu is "a palace in the cap
ital of Spain" and Helvellyn ga large
volcano in Scotland. A crater is "a
straight line which is very hot, f" and
the chief foods of India are tea, coffee,
rice and raw silk. !" Possibly few people
know what dikes are. 1t is this way:
when a country is below the sea,
dikes are big sticks to hold up the wa
ter. We are glad to know, on one au-
thority, that "the Albert Nyanza is so
called because it was discovered by
Prince Albert" but it suggests painful
thoughts to be informed that Living
stone went on exploring till his boots
were quite worn out. " There is, how
ever, a certain element of truth in the
statement that Panama is noted for
yellow mud, which sticks to the fingers
of those who make it. "
The English language itself is fer
tile source of error. Such spellings as
''bearheaded" are not uncommon The
masculine of goose is duck, and the
feminine of horse is COW. The plural Of
lady is gentleman, and the masculine of
vixen is brute. Abstract nouns are
things you cannot see, such as gas and
thunder, or--as one boy put it with O
delicate vein of irony-''a thing you
cannot feel-namely, conscience -
Providence Journal.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-03-13

A little known example of inventive
genius in woman is that afforded by
Barbara Uttman of Saxony and her
point lace so long in fashionable use all
over the world. She invented the proc
ess and apparatus for manufacturing
this beautiful handiwork, which has
since given employment to millions of
operators, and which, in its line. has
never been excelled The apparatus
looks like a long pincushion bristling
with pins arranged to outline tho pat
tern or design. The operator manages
from 10 to 80 peculiar spools, allowing
the thread to feed over the pins alter
nately until the design is completed.
The spools or bobbins are purposely of
different colors, so as to be easily distin-
guishable. The process is slow and diff
cult to learn. Miss Uttman founded
schools, where thousands learned it.
Since her time, when inventive ability
was rare, even among men, her ideas
have been incorporated in the construc-
ton of machinery by which the lace is
produced at wonderful lower rates, and
yet Barbara Uttman's lace still sur
passes all. London Lady.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-03-13

Deep down meath the bosom Of the ocean.
Cnsotnded b. piummet or line.
Al peace from the storm and commction
That RACES DER It's hillows az brine.
There arc secrets that time shall not fathonn,
There are Jewels unknown 20 earth's mart.
As deep, rs true and as precious
i the voice az the fond. faithful heart.
Jessie Bartlett Davis.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-03-13
Nnt sensitirn.

Sophy (who accepted Mr.. Charles
Fleetwood the night before)-Does Mr..
Fleetwood strike you as being sensi-
tive man, Pauline?
Pauline (who doesn't know of the
engagement - Gracious. mol A man
who has been rejected by IA girls with
in six months and gets fat on it cannot
be sensitive. Why. Sophy, what's the
matter?
She had tainted London Tit Bits
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-03-13

given up all hopes
OF ever getting bet
ter when Hoods
Sarsaparilla was
recommended to
me and / believe Il
my duty to let
other . u n erers
know the benefit I
derived from It. I
Gould Not Sleep
at night, was with
out appetite, and
what little ! did
eat I was unable 70
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-03-13
A Humble Part.

Theodorus-I always read the parlia-
mentary reports very carefully. but
have never come across any speech of
yours yet.
Bernard IN. Pillow is that? Have
you never noticed the words, "Cheers
and hear. hears" That's where come
in. -Stuivers Blad.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-03-13

The greatest celebration of the Feast
of Tabernaoles was held +. G. 1904 at
the dedication of Solomon's temple.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-03-13

Roman ladies had safety pins closely
resembling the modern article.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-03-13

Geo. w. Jones, bookseller and sta
toner, is the distributing agent of the
EVENING CAPITAL.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-03-13

The straw Of rye is often of far more
'alue than the grain.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-03-13

BuIwer Lytton knew All the odcs ana
other poems of Horace BY heart He
translated large portions of Horaoe's
poems into English verse
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-03-13
% ". BALTIMORE ST.,
- Opp. Hanover St.
HeideIberger d Co.,
CIothiers for The Masses.
HONESTY

NJ { told you before, and we
w tell you once more, IL any
thing you buy from us doesn't
wear right, come back and Get
your money.
HEiDELsERcER & CO.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-03-13
Nervous Prostitution
Gould Not Sleep = Had No
Appetite
Cured In Body and Mind by Hood's
sarsaparIIIa

az suffered very much for q long time
with nervous prostration. I had ahont
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-03-13
RATES OF ADVERTISING

One square, first insertion. S1.O0; subse
quent insertions. 80 Cents. Special rates made
crs
~ Local notices and political or personal
communication. 10 cents per lines subsequent
insertions, ~ ceuts per line.
Ordinary marriage announcements. twenty
FIVE cents. Obituary notices viii be charged
for At one half the usual rates of advertising.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-03-13

There's no buncombe in our Bar
glinss no string led to our guarantee.
1t has the seal of honesty and square
dealing stamped on it. The Bargains
we promise to give you, you get. You
cannot get them in any other store in
this city.
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-03-13
ANIMALS IN EFFIGY.
THE FAMOUS COLLECTION OWNED BY
The SMITHSONIAN.

How Casts Are Made OF Rare and Bulky
Animals Proof That the whale Could
Have Held Jonah -of value TO students
and Historians.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-02-05

'I had heard of the wonderful cures
performed by DR.. Greene's NerVura
blood and nerve remedy and determin-
81 10 try it. ard see what it would do
for me. I had not taken but half a bot
lie before / was very much better. l
could see ever so much better, and felt
better every way. When l had taken
two bottles my eye-sight was as good
and clear as ever it was, and l al
ways had the best of oversight until
this winter.
"In a short time I was entirely cured
of all my troubles by that wonderful
remedy, Dr.. Greene'S Nervura blood
and nerve remedy. 1t has done
great thing for me. My eyes did not
look like eyes, they looked like blind
eyes, they were SO red and infiamed
before being cured. Ii is a wonderful
cure, and it is a wonderful medi
cine | shall praise it far and near"
Here is an additional danger for
weak-nerved, tired-out people. Don't
neglect those weak eyes, weak nerves,
and rundown systems, but get we'll
by taking the great medicine, DR..
Greene's Nervura blood and nerve
remedy.
Why waste time in trying uncertain
and untried remedies, when here is a
PHYSICIANS prescription, a discovery
made by the greatest living specialist
in curing nervous and chronic dis
eases, Dr.. Greene. of % West 18th St,
New York City. If you take this med
icine you can consider yourself under
Dr.. Greene's direct professional care,
and you can consult him or write to
him about your case, freely and with
out charge. This is a guarantee that
this remedy will cure, possessed by
no other medicine in the world.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-02-05

s{'1V}|NlN'!'2'|''|'|2I'}'l|lks
: TRY CNE TUESDAY.
Observation-Disclosures

covered what. [ was now past every
thing but holding on and watching,
which, as I have since thought, was
better than looking down.
l heard four bells struck away down
below, and repeated still more family
from the break of the poop. 1t was 2
o'clock in the morning. AS we dipped
to starboard, Clunie suddenly lifted his
melodeon in both hands and heaved it
clean over my head.
Hear the splash?" he said. "Wel,
there'll be a bigger one in a minute, and
you'll hear that. You're going to make
itn'
The next thing I noticed was the mo-
notonous and altered sound of his
voice. He was reciting 1.-The Dream of
Eugene Aram,'' and making the ghast-
liest faces close to mine as he did SO.
My legs were cropping in mid air for
the brace. They found it. They clung
to it. There was Clunie leaning over
me, with Hoods stanZas still flowing
from his blooded lips, and the carver
held in readiness, not for me, but for
the brace when 1 should trust myself
to it.
Seeing this I held fast to the spar.
But he stabbed at the back of my hand
i see the puckefed Wnlle scar aS
write-and let go as we were heeling
over to port. His knife flashed mp
among the stars. 1 was gone.
Yet many a man has fallen from
aloft, and, if he but clear the deck, has
lived to tell the tale. And l am one of
that lucky number.
And some may say that Clunie was as
lucky as myself, for he had fallen a
few seconds after me, and his mad
brains splashed the deck