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The Portland daily press., 1896-01-28
THE PRESS.
TUESD AY, JANUARY %.

Mckinley seems to be having good
deal of difficulty to keep his BALL wick
from revolt. 1t is to be hoped that he
will succeed in keeping his state solid
Tor him, for he deserves its support, and
none of the other candidates have any
desire TO deprive him of it.
The Portland daily press., 1896-01-28

The rscent conference of silver men in
Washington at which it was virtually
decided to put an independent President
ial candidate in the field is looked on
generally as Populist move. No promi
nent silver Republican or Democrat has
given any countenance to the movement
and The probability is that no one will.
The talk OF nominating Teller or Cam
eron was purely without the knowledge
or consent of either gentleman. Both
the silver Republican and silver Demo
crat, believe that they can accomplish
more for silver by sticking to their re-
spectiVe parties than by going off into
this third party movement. In this they
are undoubtedly right. There is not the
slightest prospect that third party
founded on tree silver can gain adherents
enough to control single electoral vote,
and as such as adherents as it got would
come from both parties the etfeou upon the
existing parties would b. insignificant.
The Portland daily press., 1896-01-28
J0hnS0n'S '7' 's165
ANoDyNE IN | MEN 7

1t devised by old fashioned noble hearted Family
fellow
while generation after generation
transmitted knowledge valuable inner
tance All amazed marvellous
Its praise ever 1t used and recommended by
endorsed by all
original 1t unlike others
merely Lnien it is the Universal Household
old Mother should
suffering children take energy exes the parts
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S. JOHNSON CO.. Tree,
The Portland daily press., 1896-01-28

A Simple and Graphic Narrative of the
Most Important Battles of the Civil
War-Bull Run, Antietam and Gettys-
bnrg-CIosing Scenes of the Conflict.
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euILT Ia wrong VA.
why the Quaker's Chester Hogs Took No
Prizes In Georgia.

Why the Quaker's Chester Hogs Took No
Prizes In Georgia.
II never shall forget an incident
which occurred at the first fair ever
attended in Georgia." said a retired
Cincinnati meat packer. ''It was at
Macon. and 1 think they called it a state
fair. At any rate it was big thing for
the town in those days. They had some
fine stock on exhibition, and a Pennsyl-
vanian had sent down about 20 Of the
finest looking hogs you ever saw. They
were mostly Chester Whites, and if I
reoollect Alright they were exhibited by
Thomas Wood, great hog and cattle
faneier of 30 and 80 years ago. He it
was who introduced that famous breed
of hogs, the Chester White, and 10
made a great deal Of money out Of his
fancy stock. He was a Friend-a Qua
ker, you know-who used the plain Ian
guage and wore broad brimmed hat
He was a smart old gentleman, honest
and prosperous. He sent his hogs from
state fair to state fair, and they took so
many prizes and blue ribbons that each
hog looked like boy who had spent all
his money making a collection of badges,
"When the Macon judges made their
awards they gave blue ribbons very lib
orally to the razor backs, but not one Of
the fat, sleek Pennsylvania hogs got a
prize The owner of the exhibit did not
understand it, so he hunted up one of
the judges and said in the language of
the Friends:
"'I know thee to be an honest man,
and do not question thy fairness in the
award but to crafty my own curiosity
l would be glad to have thee tell me
why thee gave all the prizes to the ma
tive stock and what fault thee found in
mine?'
"'My friend, the committee admired
your hogs greatly, the judge replied.
They are certainly handsome, and l
have no doubt that in your section they
are the best breed to raise, but they are
not suited for this country. They are SO
short legged and fat that a niger could
catch them in two minutes What we
require in hog in the south is legs and |
wind. We give our prizes for speed. ."
Atlanta Constitution
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rher Are Professlonal Gnests.

Some gentlemen Of family who are
clever atstory, jest and repartee are fol-
lowing a strange business in London.
There is man there who furnishes
amusement and entertainment for all
kinds of social gatherings, having men
Of family ON his staff, who in the guise
Of guests manage to insure an enjoyable
evening for the invited guests, and thus
set the anxiety of the hostess, fearing a
dull time for her guests, at rest. A cou-
pie Of guineas will engage the services
of a person Of good social attainments,
who will so exercise his art of enter
tanning others as to put everybody at
ones into the brightest Of spirits. Five
guineas will command the services of
an individual of higher standing in tho
social scale, while the proportionately
large outlay Of $50 will secure those Of
a gentleman with a handle to his name,
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OLD MILITARY Lone.


sixteenth Century.
1.-THE Pathwaie Of Martial Disci-
pline" (l5Sl), by Thomas Styward, is
full Of plates and abounds in quaint re-
marks. Giving the duties Of a provost
marshal, we find ''He shall according
TO the lawes punish all offenders with
out regard On respect of persons, and in
the market place shall set up a pair Of
gallows, both for the terror of tho wick
ed and for execution upon them that Of
fend the lawes. That he shall set upon
all victualls brought TO the market a
reasonable price, that the seller and the
buyer may reasonably live by it, " In
the Office of c0ronel Cor colonel-the two
terms seem to have been introduced at
the same time, but the latter became the
favorite), after mentioning his appoint
ing of as many captains as is needful,
giving 800 men to a company, (Which
is a convenient number, F" for if the men
arc divided into smaller companies too
much money would be spent on the Off
GERS. With regard to the lieutenant, he
Is to be "of great experiences, qualities
and behavior. - 1.-THE coronel shall also
examine the selections that the captains
have made of all the officers throughout
their companies, and if they be such as
ought to be, or not much worse he may
allow them, and not otherwise. -
Before firearms drove out all other
weapons it was an object to equalize
the strength Of the company, "the shot"
,as the musketeers came to be called)
experimenting the pixies. All the COM
binaticns of men for drilling which are
given by various authors illustrate this
thus for the defense from horsemeI:
"Place the ranks Of pixies every way.
your shot next unto them, your bills Cor
halberds) and ensign in the midst, the
pixies ends couched down the better to
resist the enemy.
All kinds of lodges are taught-thus:
IF in sight of the enemy, which is su-
periOr in numbers, the front rank Of
pixies shall spread out so as to admit the
men of the second rank in the open
spaces. But if the enemy manifest
real intention Of attacking, and there
be no place Of refuge near, the second
rank shall return to their places, and all
shall serrie close together. The shot
shall be placed in the voward and rear
ward so that they may skirmish and re-
tire as occasion serveth. "-Gentleman'
Maoaziue
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A Version OF the Operation That Rarely
Happens In Real Life.
This is about a man who put up
stove.
1t is unnecessary perhaps to go far
Their with it. You know in advance just
how be swore and tore and spoiled the
carpet, and the pipe didn't fit and he
skinned his knuckles and cut his finger
and spilled SCOT down the back Of his
neck and finally went up town and got
six men to finish the job.
johnson, said johnson IS wife at
dinner yesterday, Il want you to come
home early this afternoon. l want that
sitting room stove up and going by Sun
day"
"All right, my dear, said johnson.
'I'll be home at 4. p"
So that afternoon johnson s wife sent
the children over to visit ON the other
side of town and stuffed rags in all the
cracks to deaden sound. After a fervent
prayer that all the neighbors would be
out of town for few hours that after
noon she was ready for johnson.
He arrived promptly.
1.-THE stove is out in the wood shed, y
said his wife.
The stove was not very large, and
after johnson had dressed himself for
the occasion, with the help Of Mrs. john
son, who had taken care to have his old
clothes and gloves handy, he got the
stove to the back porch without much
difficulty.
cit must be blackened, said Mrs.
johnson as she mixed the backing. 1t
blackened to beautiful finish with very
little rubbing, and johnson whistled at
his work
Then he tackled down the oilcloth
mat and the zino and kept on whistling.
He took the stove in carefully and
put it in the right place.
There was plenty Of the old stovepipe,
and while he cleaned it in the alley
with a stick Mrs. johnson sat on the
back porch and listened to him whistle
The first joint went on all right, and
the damper staid in place. The next
joint fitted so well that johnson almost
stopped whistling IN sheer admiration
for it, and so did the next one. The ell
bow fitted admirably, and the collar and
last joint went on like a top. The seam
was on the right side all the way up.
There was not even a speck Of SCOT on
the papers Mrs. johnson had spread on
tho carpet.
In ten minutes more johnson had a
lovely fire in the stove and was in his +,
business suit again spick and span read (
ing the paper while his wife got supper. /
1t was just here that there was saw
age nudge in johnson IS left ribs and he
heard his wife tell him to wake mp, and /
hustle out now, for it had been daylight /
for half an our.-Topeka State Journal. I
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OIL and water.

"I'm very unfortunate. said the
young artist
lyon are deficient in one important
quality, " replied his candid friend.
"What is that?'
"Tact. When Mr.. Greesem came to
see you about a portrait, you never stop
ped to think that he made his fortune
out of lucky streak in kerosene.
Never. y
"And You told him he ought to have
his picture done in oil, and he didn't
leave the order "
"That's so. -
"Apd when Mr.. Skimker, who has
prospered as a dairyman, called at your
studio, you rushed from Seylla 10 Cha
rybdis and advised him TO be done up
in water colors. You're a good painter,
my boy, but what you need is discre-
tion. w Washington Star
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COZ MAaRIEp ON cRsoIT.


lack Of Money Was No Impediment to the
student and His Bride.
The city registrars office in the old
courthouse is the scene Of one or two
marriages daily, and amusing incidents
frequently occur. Perhaps the most pc
culiar case that has come up recently,
an account of which was related to a
reporter a few days ago, is that of a
Harvard student who was in love and
without funds. The love conquered his
pride, and he concluded to investigate
the matter with view Of getting mar
ried ON trust re made his appearance
at the desk in the registrars Office and
inquired if that was the place where he
could procure a marriage certificate
and also get married. He was informed
that it was, and a blank application was
handed to him. which he proceeded to
I'll ont.
After this proceeding was gone through
with he looked up, and, in hesitating
manner, asked the clerk if he could
have a few moments private converse
tion with him. He was taken into the
anteroom. and this is the tale he IN
folded He said that he was deeply in
love with a young lady, and that she
was also very much in love with him.
But her parents had serious objections
to the match and did all that was in
their power TO break it off. They had
closed their doors on him but, notwith-
standing this, he succeeded in arranging
meetings with his hearts choice, and
during one Of these he proposed mar
riage to. her and was accepted, he argu-
ing that if they were joined ia the holy
bonds Of matrimony nothing, not even
her stern parents, could separate them.
They had arranged the details and con-
cluded that the only thing to be done
was to get married in secret and then
separate until he should graduate from
his college. She, Of course, would go
back 20 her home and live with her
parents as if nothing out of the general
run Of events had happened.
But the young man, being without
funds, was in a dilemma, and the worst
of it was he could not see his way clear
to procure the necessary amount to pay
for the certificate and ceremony, His |
home was in a western state, and he re-
eeived an allowance from his father only
once in six months 1t was not due for
nearly two months He concluded that /
his only course was to try the method |
referred to ahoTe. The clerk being a |
kind hearted man, told the youth that
he would perform the ceremony and |
trust him for the pay. provided the lady |
in question was of age. The next day
the couple put in an appearance and
were married. Upon the arrival Of the
next allowance from bis parent the
youth walked into the office one day,
made himself known and presented the
clerk a $40 bill.-Boston Herald.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-01-31

The English stage has certain Gus
toms which greatly hurt a Frenchman
who is not used to them, The last scene
of every act is constantly interrupted,
and sometimes in the most interesting
part, by the tinkling of a little bell
which apprises the music to be ready to
play in the interval between the acts
The actresses who perform the principal
characters drag long trains after them,
which have but four corners, like a car
pet, the breadth proportional to the i'm
portance Of the character, and they are
followed by little boy in quality Of a
train bearer, who is as insepasable from
them as the shadow from the body
This page, who is sprucely dressed and
muffled up in a livery made to suit his
stature within two or three inches,
keeps his eye constantly fixed upon the
train OF the princess. sets it to rights
when it is ever SO little ruffled or
disordered and is seen to run after it
with all his might when a violent emo
ton makes the princess hurry from one
side Of the stage TO the other. This he
does with all the phlegm and serious
asss natural to the English,
In one play in the scene between
the king and the quentin the mo-
ment which is to separate them forever
the king flies into the arms Of the queen,
who embraces her royal consort, and
they continue clasping each other in
transport, which excites in the whole
audience the strongest emotions who
can be affected to so high a degree as
not to take notice of the attention of
the little page to repair the disorder
which the queens train constantly re-
ceives as she stirs and moves with i'm
FASHIONED attitudes in the arms Of the
afflicted monarchg-arasley's London
In 1856. "
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WATER SNAKE FIGHTS EEL.
Terrific Combat Which Finally Ended In
the EeTs Escape.


the EeTs Escape.
"Did you ever know that there is a
deadly antipathy between a common
water snake and an eel?' asked the
fisherman. "Well, never knew it I'M
til an experience that had in witness
ing a fight between the two. Personally
have the greatest dread Of eels. I'm
more afraid of them than I am Of a
snake, and you can imagine my chagrin
when l happened to hook one on one of
my fishing expeditions. Twas afraid to
touch it, and all I could do was to let it
bangle in the air. could not get it off
my hook, and l was meditating what to
do, when, altogether unnoticed, allow
ed the Shiny object to drop down into
the water.
"In a moment I saw big water
snake make . dive for it. At the first
lunge it caught the neck of the eel
squarely between its teeth, and / could
see it sink its ugly looking fangs into
the eel S flesh. I waited anxiously to see
the developments. With its grim hold
still ON the cells neck the snake, quick
as it takes to tell it, wrapped its sinu-
GUS body around its antagonists neck in
an effort to squeeze it 10 death. The
body Of the eel was too sleek, however,
and the snakes coils, despite all it could
do, would slip down into the water.
Time and time again it tried to squeeze
the life out Of its antagonist, never for
an instant releasing its hold Oh the cells
neck, bnt the body of the latter was too
sleek for it and every time it would slip
down. Finally the hook broke and the
eel made good its escape. '-Indianapo-
lis Sentinel.
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Friend-Doesn't the journey to and
from the country every day seem very
long2
Mr., suburb--LongG It's too short.
When l take the train in the morning,
know I've got to pinch in and work like
Q horse the moment the train reaches the
city. That makes the journey seem too
short, doesn' t it,
II presume it does. But how about
the journey back?'
fWell, I always remember after /
start that I've forgotten something my
wife wanted particularly, so that ride
IS always over too soou, "--Pearson's
Weekly.
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How S.ondon Handled the All Devourlng
Sickness IN the Seventeenth Century.
During the plague Of 1908 Francis
Herring, Doctor in Physicke and Eel
low Of the Coiledge of Physicians in
London published certain Rules
aud Directions for the prevention of the
spreading of that contagious and all de-
vouring Sickness. These he reprinted,
somewhat Enlarged, in the next
plague season of 1925, ''to the view and
vse, and l hope good Of my Citizens
and Countrimen. Among his rules are:
sConcoUrse of people 60 Stage playcs,
wakes or foasts and May pole dauncings
are to be prohibited by publique Author
ity, whereby, as God is dishonored, the
bodies Of men and women-by surfet-
ting. drunkenness and other riots and
excesses-disposed to infection, and the
contagion dangerously scattered both in
Cite and Countrie.
Let not the oarkasses Of horses. dogs,
cats, etc, I've rotting and poisoning the
aire Gas they have done) in More and
Finshurie fields. and elsewhere round
about the Cite
ne DuiYiuS OF luIecleu bpuies IN
churches, churehyards and, namely, in
Paules Chuchyard, where the chiefe
Magistrates Of the Cite and many other
Citizens meete weekly to hear Sermons,
must needs be not onely announcement,
but verie dangerous for spreading the
contagion, and poisoning the whole
Cite.
Some folk ate breakfast then, others
did not:
For breakfast you may vse a good
draught of wormewood Deere or ale,
and few morsels of bread and butter,
with the leaues Of sage, or else a toste
with sweet salade oyle, two or three
drops of rose vinegar and little sugar
They that haue cold stomackes may
drinke draught of wormewood wine
or malmsey, instead Of ale or Deere
But take heed Gas you loue your life Of
extreme hot waters, as aqua Vita, Rosa
soils or other compound waters of like
nature, which Empericks prepare and
set out with vaine and boasting words |
= = they We're devised to kill, |
not cure men. Notes and Queries.
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There is a hayward white oak tree
near Laporte, Ind, that may we'll puz-
zle naturalists with the vagaries Of its
growth. The tree is 8 feet in circumfer-
ence at the base, and there are no
branches Of any size below feet from
the ground There the great bole di-
vides into a number of limbs. Two,
leaving the trunk about 20 inches apart
grow west, their lines diverging for some
6 feet. and then each rending toward
the other. Twelve feet from the body of
the tree they unite again, making per
feet oval, and out Of this grow two
smaller branches As if not satisfied
with that expressed disregard for the
laws Of nature, this old tree has per-
formed another feat. Six feet from its
base grows another white oak, less than
half its size, and no sooner does the
smaller tree arrive at the charmed cir
Giles Of those branching limbs than one
of them grows right into it, and is alb
sorbed. Tie second tree is very much
larger 20 feet from the ground than at
its base.
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Two men met unexpectedly in the cor
ridor of a down town Office building.
Hold on, Williaml What's your
hurry? How are you? You look worried.
Anything wrong?'
Not much, but, to tell you the
truth, I've just left -, and / can t
tell whether he has lied to me or not.
How a-e things with your"
$50 SO. I've just had big disap-
pointment. that's all .
"You take it easily.
"Think so? I've had deal on hand
for three months, and expected to close
it out today, but this morning the other
party told me frankly that his princi-
pals couldn't take it up. Now it's off
my mind and I'm glad Of it.
"Sure there's no funny bnsiness?''
s'Sure. "
II wish was So long
One man smiled and the other scowl-
ed .--New York Times.
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A SUMNER SCENE.

laden come the maidens home.
With peoples and Wild roses,
Singing ditties as they come,
And blushing like their posies.
Crowned is one merry maid
With coronal Of poppy:
Nature has with beauty played,
To make a fauitless copy.
Laughter gathers In her eye,
Her every movement bushes;
Harlyl she mochs a lovor's sigh
With songs in birdlilze gushes.
Cupid, should he pass her way,
For lack Of strength must tarry;
She viii steal his bow away
And bid the rogue go marry.
Charles 7. Lusted in Blaclg.good's Magazine
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Paul Louis Courier, when bitterly as
sailed by French professor, quietly re-
marked II fancy he must be vexed. He
calls me Jacobin, rebel, plagiarist, thief,
poisoner, forger, leper, mailman, inn
poster, calumniator, libeler, horrible,
filthy, grimacing ragpicker. gather
what he wants to say. he means that
he and I are not Of the same opinion,
and this is his only way az putting it -
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The ancient inks closely resemhled
black paint, and on account Of the large
quantity Of gum employed in their com
position the letters stood up in relief on
the parchments as though embossed.
Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-01-31

eHow did Miss Jones become a literary
success so saddonly?'
"Oh, she hit on such a charming ideal
She wrote one chapter of a novel and let
the public guess the other 40. Chicago
Record
The manuscripts of the fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries are. in many cases,
almost illegible on account of the fading
Of the ink At that time the lampblack
inks passed ont Of use and chemical inks
became popular