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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-16
MAD WITH THE sELECTMEN.
They Wouldn't Fix His House So This
Man Hung Himself.

Bar Harbor. June 15.-William S.
Hodgkins, 81 years old, living in Han
cock, hung himself to rafter IN his
barn, because the solectmen refused to
repair the road leading to his house. He
lived with the family of David Moseley
under care of the town, which held
lien on his farm for his support.
!. Friday, Hodgkins said to Moseley,
"The seleotmen refuse to fix that road
leading to my house and there amt any
use of living any way" He was found
two hours later hanging in his barn,
but Mossley would not cut him down
till the seiectmen should first be notified,
which took an hour. Hodgkins leaves
several grown up children.
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The Demo cratic Banquet.

Tonight at 7.3O O'Clock, the Democratic
banquet will be served at City Hall. The
speaking will begin at 9 or $50. The
American Cadet orchestra will give q
concert beginning at 730 O'Clock and
lasting two hourH. It is expected that all
the seats at the tables will be taken.
The galleries will be used by the public,
the front row being reserved. Admis-
sion to banquet. and galleries will be by
ticket. DR.. S. G. Gordon will preside.
Hon. George Fred Williams will speak
on "The Financial and Industrial Issues
of MoKinleyism.
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INSOLVENCY COURT.
Before Judge Peabody.

AoioAo "oofso - ooooAJ'
Monday-Chas. N. Baker, Portland.
1st meeting. e. Fl. Wilson chosen as
signee.
ing. Fred II. freeman, assignee.
BENZ. F. Libby, South Portland, E. e.
HecKbart chosen assignee.
North Lubeo improvement Co., Port
land, Account of assignee settled.
Norris 9. Verrill, Gorham, I'd meet.
ing. Oath administered.
VIM. Anderson, Freeport, I'd meeting.
Oath administered.
G. W. Gilbert, Portland, I'd meeting.
Oath Administered.
W. Nj. Dyer, Casco. % meeting. Oath
administered.
John f. Anbends. Fresport, I'd meet
ing. Oath administered
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The New Wing to the Temporary Home.

The New Wing to the Temporary Home.
The Temporary Home has long needed
a day nursery and hospital. With hard
~ money enough to pay running ex-
penses, there seemed little hope of build
ing an addition to contain these rooms,
until last fall, when the overcrowding OF
the children made it imperative that
something should be done about it at
once.
With only one nursery il has been nee
essary to keep all the babies together, sick
or well, in the Same room day and night,
and our physician reported 1t unhealthy
for both children and matron.
In November the Board of Health put
the whole house into quarantine on ac-
count of mild case OF scarlet fever. 1t
was difficult to isolate the patient in a
houseful OF women and children. The
best arrangement that could BIZ made
under the circumstances, was to move
the child into the third story, while all
the occupants OF that floor were crowded
into the rooms below. Every precau-
tion was taken to keep the fever from
spreading. and fortunately none of the
other children caught it.
In family averaging fifteen to twenty
children. 1t is remarkable that this is the
first time, since its organization, that it
has been necessary to quarantine the
home. liz is too much to expect such
good fortune in the future, and our
friends, who realize the Importance of
the preventive work the Home Is doing,
resolved that a wing, containing an iso-
lated hospital should be built, in order
that the doors of the only Institution in
the State. which are open to a homeless
mother and child might never be closed
again.
The matter Was laid before our con-
slant benefacbor. the Hon. w. ". Thorn
as, who offered to give $500 towards
building an addition to the Home, pro-
vided another $500 WAS raised before
March 1, 1896.
The generous and cordial response to
this appeal will enable us to complete
and furnish the new wing this summer.
In the first story will be the nursery; in
the second story the hospital with nurses
room and bath room adjoining. This
floor will be quarantined by itself in
cases of contagion, as it can be COM
pletely shut off from the rest of the house
and is reached by an outside staircase.
InEthe basement will De the laundry. for
which we have never been able to make
adequate arrangements in the main
building.
Mr.. T. Fl. Fassett has contributed the
plans, and is giving his personal atten-
ton to the construction of the addition.
The managers wish to express their
thanks to him and to the following con-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-16
IRON WORKERS STRIKE.
Bath Men Refuse to Go to Work With Non.
Union Employees.

Bath, Ju ne 15.-Abont $50 iron workers
employed on the composite guuboats fat
thu Bath Iron Works, ceased work at 10
a. IN. Monday and left the yard in body.
The strikers are members Of the Iron
Worke r s. Union. They give as reason
for going out that they will not work
with non-union iron workers Several
of that class, they claim, having been set
at work In the yard this morning.
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IOSCllICA ia 40 AotuAG WCAA-
fare. They sometimes even forecast its
too early to anticipate while the child is
yet unborn? 1t isn't. The chi1d's des-
tiny has already been partly mapped out
and habits of the parents. The best plan
mother can make for the future happi-
ness of her unborn child is to maintain
her own cheeffu1ness and health while
her child's undeveloped being is still a
part of hers. Her health at this critical
period is of tremendous consequence to
the little ones whole future existence.
Every prospective mother will find direct
nourishment, comfort and sustaining
strength, in Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription. 1t will maintain her vitality
both bodily and mental; shorten the peri
cd of confinement and make labor easy and
almost painless. 1t imparts strength and
elasticity to the organs concerned in par
turition, invests the mother with recuper-
alive energy against any after period of
weakness and depression, and aids in the
secretion of healthy nourishment for the
child. 1t is the urlfailing cure of all " fe-
male Weaknesses %
Dear Docto,-Your Favorite Prescription" 10
the best medicine to take before confinement
that can be found. 1t proved SO with me.
never suffered SO little with any OF my children
did with my last, and she is the healthiest we
have. When began your treatment could not
stand on my feet long enough to wash my dishes
without suffering. almost death; now do all my
homework, washing, cooking, sewing, and every
thing for my family.
'..1Nasa a. M11MS;e
Oakley, Overton Co., Tenn.
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Uniform Rank. x. of p.

A committee consisting of Brigadier-
General Wesley g. Smith, of Portland,
Col. Fl. W. Stewart, Of Hartland, and
Col. Harry D. Stewart, of Bangor. met a
Waterville Friday for the purpose of adj
justing certain matters relative to the
two regiments of Uniform Rank, K.
P, comprising the Maine brigade.
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26 Spring street, continues under the
charge of Miss Cameron. This is not
charity, but self-sustaining institution,
where the aim Is to have the kindness
and comforts of home realized. The
house is central and we'll adapted to its
purpose. and conducted in highly sat
isfactory manner.
70 Mrs. William II. Fem, the assooia
ton IL indebted or valable contributions
towards some necessary refurnishings OF
the home for which grateful aoknowl-
edgments ara rendered.
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Portland Women's Christian Association.
In the department of city missionary
work, Rev. Mr.. Wilson has continued his
labors under the auspices of this assocla-
tion through the past year. His report,
however, recognizes the fact of lessen
ing strength, and the managers make an
earnest appeal for more voluntary visi-
tors to assist In carrying cut the plan
Of those originally engaged In this
work.
The boarding. house for young women,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-16

EFORE Block
shall offer entire stock New Secondhand Pianos
that
We with everything
Portland vicinity offered Piano.
Below bargains Second Hand Pianos, which
specimens o 0uren
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-16
Among the Yachtsmen.

In the tables Of the result of the yacht
race of Saturday the time of the con-
testants in the first class was inaccurate
as first figured out. The race resulted
as follows:
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Corrected

He IVd IS uHu5 Uu6 WINHer Uy 20
minutes, 10 seconds As result of Sat-
urday's regatta, two challenges will,
it is said, be issued. The Pocahontas,
which was disabled will try conclusions
again with the Premier in the second
class, and the I. T. R. will make a
contest with the Sirocoo in the third.
This bids fair to be lively sumDoer
among the yaohtsmen, many Saturday
afternoon races being in prospect.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-16
FITZGERALD

Quotes this day HI Wool
Reeters, Is, SO @9to $4.98
Quotes this day Duck and
up. K" Reeters, S1.z5 MP
to 600.
Quotes this day Long and
Short Cloaks, $500 a46 to
1000.
Quotes this day Lace and
Linen Collars. 25c mb to
800. IS.
Quotes this day Lace and
Six Bonmsts, 100 MP to
$500.
Quotes this day Inyamts'
and Chi1d1en,s Dresses, $50
Mb TO $3.50.
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the Legislature by the fusionists.. When
Hannibal Hamlin retired from the Uni
ted States Senate, Mr.. Hale was chosen
to succeed him, after spirited contest
in which Mr.. Frye was the opposing can
didate in the Republican caucus. From
1881 until the present time Mr.. Hale has
served uninterruptedly in the Senate:
He is there one of the best debaters and
parliamentarians. 8
Senator William p Frye was born in
Lewiston in 1881, and graduated from
Bowdoin in 1850. Eleven years later he
was elected a member of the Maine
Legislatures of 1861 and 1862, was Mayor
of Lewiston in 1866 and 1867, and in the
latter year was also representative in the
State Legislature. Mr.. Frye had studied
law after leaving college; and had, ex-
cepting his public services in the legisla-
-ture and as Mayor, practised his profess
sion, attaining in it an eminence that
recommended him for the Attorney-gen-
eralship of the state in 1857. He held
that office three years. He first entered
the National House of Representatives
in the And Congress, and was reelected
to succeeding Congresses to and including
the 47th. Upon the retirement of Mr..
Hamlin he was candidate for the Uni
ted States Senatorship, and divided the
party support very nearly evenly with
Mr.. Hale in the Republican caucus. AL
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in the capture of Mobile, CITY WHARF
before the war his father had nearly lost
his life because of outspoken Unionist
utterances which displeased a secession
mob. Mr.. Boutelle retired from the
navy in 1865. After brief experience
in business in New York, he came To
Bangor, and in 1870 became manaeino
editor of the Bangor Wing and COURIER
In 1874 he purchased the paper, which
he still owns. Mr.. Boutelle was first
elected to the 18th Congress, and has
served continuously since. Mr.. Boutelle,s
specially has been naval matters. but he
has also been prominent in general lepis-
lature. He is particularly noted for his
fearless aggressiveness; yet he has sur-
prised many in the present Congress bv
his conservatism, especially in the
Venezuelan and Cuban questions.
Mr.. Reed is too well known in the
city which is his birthplace and his
home for any extended review of his
career to be necessary. His descent from
Thomas Cleeve, first settler of Portland.
his relationship to the Brackett family.
his days in Portland High School and
Bowdoin college, his experiences as a
school teacher in Deering and Cape
Elizabeth, his service in the Navy, his
brief experiences at the law in Caiiforn.
ia, and his return to Portland to begin
there the practice of law, have been SO
often described that all all are familiar
with the story. 7lcss
Mr.. Reeds political career began in
Portland. He had been born here on
October IS, 1889; and was consequently
nearing thirty years of age when he was
nominated for the legislature in 1868.
Curiously enough his entry upon the
field which was destined to become for
him an arena of SO much fame, was not
brought about through any plans of his
own. Without his knowledge, Nathan
Webb, now the distinguished judge of
the United States District Court for this
district. presented his name to the con-
vention and secured his nomination.
Although new to the political field
Mr.. Reed was not entirely unknown to
the public men of Maine at that day. He
had in Bowdoin college been the com
rade of Samuel Fessen6e en-, youngest son
of William Pitt Fessenden; and that as
ISOLATION undoubtedly strengthened the
mutual sentiments of respect which ex-
listed between the distinguished states
man of the war period, and the young
man who was to be his brilliant success
or.
Self reliance and individual in
dependence have always been MI.
Reeds characteristics. He has been
no mans and no machines poll
teal servant. But for Mr.. Fessenden he
had respect and veneration which made
him always willing to accept him as a
political guide and mentor. These feel
ings towards Mr.. Fessenden influenced
and to large extent controlled Mr..
Reeds early courses in Maine
politics.
The term of Mr. Reeds service in the
Maine House of Representatives was
marked by the famous Hamlin- Morrill,
sensational contest. Lot M. Morrill, was
United States Senator and a candidate
for reelection. Hannibal Hamlin, who
had been Vice President and for short
time collector of the port of Boston,
wished to return to the Senate, where he
had long occupied seat before the civil
war. 1t was long drawn out, contest
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ne made in that Congress. There was a
proposition before the House to recon-
pense the College of William and Mary
in Virginia for certain buildings which
were burned during the war. The claim
appealed strongly to sentiment. Repre-
sentative Goode of Virginia, had begun
his plea for the college with the familiar
quotation, "a nation without memories
is a nation without liberty He told
how the college had been founded in
1898; how Washington, Jefferson, John
Marshall and Winfield Scott had been
educated within its ancient halls, how its
history was the history of Virginia, of
Liberty, of the Nation. He recalled how
the English in all their bloody civil wars
had scrupulously preserved inviolate the
ancient schools and universities of the
realm. The pleadings of Virginia were
seconded by considerable support from
Massachusetts,, and the House seemed
about to be carried off its feet by senti-
ment, regardless of the fact that no gov
eminent on the face of the earth ever
tried to make good the incidental losses
of war, and that for this government to
undertake to do SO would mean
national bankruptcy.
Mr.. Reed, a new member, of course at
tracted no especial notice as he arose.
In the course of brief introduction he
paid the bill the compliment of being a
''fair-seeming'' claim. Today" he said,
SIT may be charity linked to our senti-
mental souls by the ehallowed memories
Of Washington and of Jefferson, and even
of Milton and of Sir Harry Vane. But if
you once pass it, tomorrow it will stare
you in the face as a
RITT, OF RIGHTS
for the whole list of southern war
claims. 1t is always in this way that
matters are presented. Always the
rugged sense of right is covered up. AL
ways the knife is placed under garlands.
1t never happened that claim like this
was not advocated by most eloquent men.
1t never happens that claims like this
are not disguised by classical illusions
and by references to history, English and
ancient. l must say that it seemed to
me strange when Washington and Jetfer
son and Sir Christopher Wren were
brought in to decide the question whether
we should pay $65, 900 for a burned build
ing: but when it came to the introduce.
ton of Milton, and for aught l know to
Luther and Locke, confess l was as
founded. Laughter and applause We
heard of Sir Harry Vane and Cromwell.
Why said Cromwell, The Lord deliver
me from Sir Harry Vane,' and 1 say,
Upon question of this kind, the Lord
deliver the Congress of the United States
from Sir Harry Vane and Cromwell, too.
Laughter. / cannot promise
that shall b. as interesting as the gentle.
man who preceded me, for that would
transcend my utmost powers; but 1 Go
promise that if you will listen to me |
will give you sound reasons, which will
appeal to each side of the House, why
such claim as this should be rejected
now and forever. The greatest barrier
in this world is use and won't To say
that thing has never vet been done
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among men is to erecta barrier stronger
than reason, stronger than discussion
Such a wall only pluck, perseverance,
and, in most cases, only right can beat
down. To say we did the same thing
yesterday is to strengthen the thing we
want to e. do today. 1t appeals to onl
sense OF fairness, reason and justice. We
say that if this was proper yesterday why
not do it today, and the evil of course.
increases as you go on, 1t is with pro-
found knowledge of this weakness OF
human nature that this matter is pre-.
sented for the consideration OF the House
now. 1t is not merely to obtain sos, oOG
for William and Mary College, it is to
establish precedent. oh, they saw.
this is not to establish precedent;
there can be nothing like it again on the
face of the earth. OF course not, for
there was no other Institution that evor
graduated Washington; there was no
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though Mr.. Hale won, Mr.. Frye was
hardly loser, for very few months
after Mr.. Blaine resigned to become
President Garfields secretary of State,
and no one but Mr.. Frye was seriously
thought of for his place. Mr.. Frye took
his seat in the Senate in 1881, and has
been reelected without opposition since.
In the Senate My. Frye has devoted him.
self especially to matters relating to COM
merce, shipping and fisheries, subjects
OF importance to the people of his state.
Mr.. Frye's greatest reputation has been
won as popular orator. He knows how
to talk to Abraham Lincoln's "plain
people," When he arises amid the essay
readers in the United States Senate there
is rattling of dry bones and speech
that is talked about all over the country.
When he gets onto the stump in cam
paigns his meetings are always crowded
and enthusiastic.
The Hon. Nelson Dingley is the repre-
sentative of Second Maine district in the
House of Representatives; but he now is
thought OF more frequently as the New
England member of the Ways and Means
committee. Mr.. Dingley was born in
Durham, Me-, in 1882, and was graduated
from Dartmouth in the class OF 1856.
Mr.. Dingley studied lawland was admit
ted to the bar, but soon devoted his
energies to the editorship and proprietor
ship of the Lewiston Journal Mr..
Dingley served in the state Legislature
in 1862. 1853, 1864, 1866, 1868 and 1873.
He was speaker in 1868 and 1864; and
was Governor of Maine in 1874 and 1875.
Mr.. Dingley entered the House of Repre-
sentatives in the 47th Congress, and has
served there uninterruptedly since. The
place which Mr.. Dingley holds in the
House is exceedingly influential. He
always speaks and acts on the most
thorough information; and it may be
said with entire truthfulness that a state
ment which he makes is never ques-
toned on the floor of the House. He
has neither the physique nor the voice
needed for an orator in the noisy House
but he is nevertheless an orator, since he
always commands the earnest and admir-
ing attention of his hearers, although he
appeals only to their reason. AS chair
man of the Ways and Means committee
he stands among the ablest of the men
who have held that place.
Hon. Seth L. Milliken, who represents
the Third District, was born in Mont
vile, and graduated from Union College
in 1856. He became member of the
House of Representatives in the 4Sth
Congress, and has served uninterrupt-
edly since. Mr.. Milliken, before coming
to Congress. practiced law in Belfast, was
for two terms member of the state
legislature, and for time clerk of
courts. Mr.. Milliken is best known in
the House for brief, pointed speeches,
and the queries which he puts to ram
pant Democrats. These queries are al
ways pointed, and if the Democrat is
wise he declines to let Mr. Milliken in
terrupt. Mr.. Milliken is an excellent
campaign speaker, and most entertain
ing conversationalist. His personal
popularity in the House has always been
great.
The Fourth District comes last, but
this does not by any means imply that
Hon. Charles A Boutelle also comes
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bodies of men ana transmitting thers into
laws and statutes is the only
SAFE THING FOR A COURT.
or for legislative body.
I'VE seem to have come now to the
beginning of what may be failure, or
what may be great expansion of true
liberty and fraternity, which may be the
beginning of great era giving larger
freedom, giving fairer treatment, both to
tie humble and great 1t becomes us as
representatives of the people, in the
midst OF whom these transactions are
gong on, to give to them our careful at
tentlon, to give them our best thought,
to give them our best assistance. But it
will be in vain for us to attempt to evolve
out OF our own consciousness the solu-
tions OF these labor problems. We must
do it by watching the workings of great
bodies OF men. Why do they come to
their conclusions, and law? 1T is by
reasoning, by trial, by experience, and
by discussion among themselves.
The laboring men of this country are
starting in upon the problem of how they
shall obtain their fair share of the Joint
results of capital and labor; and I saw to
you this is a question the complication