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The Portland daily press., 1896-08-24

Says Nothing But is Ready to Go Home
His Successor Must Be a Sound Money
Man. 1aa
Washington, August 22.-For some time
rumors have appeared in print Of the
probability of the early resignation of
Secretary Hoke Smith. There can be no
doubt but that he has resigned, and that
his resignation has been accepted.
For some days past shipments have
been made to Atlanta of his books and
papers, and ii Is learned that he has de-
to be heard by him for date later than
this month. 1t can safely DO assumed
that SUCCESSOR will be in charge in
a very shurt while. After the nomination
of Bryan and Sewall it became known
that Secretary Smith was the only men,
Der of the Ca binet who announced the
purpose to support that ticket and this
action on his part. while not in any way
affecting his personal relations between
himself and tho other members Of the
Cabinet, seemed SO material to him that
he felt constrained to tender his resig-
nation.
Tho stories of Secretary Smiths resig-
nation have been current in Washington
ever since his paper, the Atlanta Journal,
came out LOT bryan anu peWall. Line
secretary has declined and still declines
to admit that his resignation has been
rendered to the President and accepted
for thereason that he is not alone to be
considered, as the wishes of the Presi-
dent must necessarily rule in the matter
of publication. 1t Is known, however,
that Smith has declined to extend con-
sideration.
The house which the secretary has
leased in this city during his inoum ben
oy will be given up at the expiration of
the lease early In Septembr.
1t Is believed at the department that
the resignation takes effect August 81
and that one or two assistant secretaries
of the interior will probably be appointed
to succeed MIR. Smith. The first assistant
secretary ia Gen. VIM. H. Sims of Mis-
sissippi and the second assistant score
tary, John M. Reynolds of Pennsylvania.
Gen. Sims's views on the money SQues-
tion are understood to be tinged with
the free silver sentiment prevailing in
Mississippi. 1t is regarded as quite GER
tain that the new cabinet officer must
he in accord with the President on the
currency question.
The Portland daily press., 1896-08-24
Bostop and Maine Finances,

Boston. August 22.-The Boston and
Maine figures for 1895 90 not include the
operation Of the Concord and Montreal
r tai The gross income for the year
1870, compared with tho combined gross
OF Ghe boston and Maine and Concord
ana an Montreal roads, operated separately
Ior the previous year increased 81, $40, 9S7,
s and the operating expenses increased
S9ot, ~. This years operating expenses in
oiuoe among other large charges for per
equipment and sara, an for automatic
coupler: and brakes applied to freight
cars and engines in compliance with
United States statutes. The increase il
the amount expended for these two items
over corresponding charges to operating
expenses last year is $685.. 08.
The Portland daily press., 1896-08-24
Mr., REED ACCEPTS.
Appointed Referee forlTwenty-eight Great
Insurance Companies.

Now York, August s2.-Thomas B.
Reed has just been appointed SUCCESSOR
to the late William e. Russell, former
governor of Massachusetts, as referee for
% of the principle life insurance DOM pa
MES of this country.
The position carries with 1t a handsome
salary, better than that which Mr.. Reed
receives as Speaker nf the House of Re-
Whom Mr.. Reed as here, shortly after
the st. Louis convention had crushed
his Presidential hopes, he thought very
seriously of retiring from political life
and coming to New York to establish
a law practice.
John A. MCCALL. on behalf of several
leading life insurance companies, off
cred Mr.. Reed very large fee to go to
Germany as their representative. The
German government 10 discriminating
against American companies and Mr..
Reed was expected in return for the big
fee to convince the Kaiser or his represen-
tative that such a course is wrong. But
MIR. Reed finally decided not TO accept
the position of referee to the insurance
companies vacant, Mr.. Mccall again
thought of Mr.. Reed. He telegraphed
the heads of the companies that, in his
opinion, Mr.. Reed would be just the man
for the position.
Very quickly responses were received,
and all were enthusiastic for Mr.. Reed,
Accordingly Mr.. Mccall, acting in be
half of the companies, offered the position
and it was accepted. Mr.. Reed said
frankly that the salary would come in
handy.
When asked If the above despatch was
true. Mr.. Reed said that no had not YET
received his papers, bus that it is his
Intention 10 accept the place.
The Portland daily press., 1896-08-24
Schooner a Total Loss.

Booth bay Harbor, Me-, August a.
The schooner Ma y Snow, seventy tons,
Cameron. master, from New York, for
Southport, Me-. with GOAL, won't ashore
Friday night on Money Mans lodges.
The vessel and cargo are owned by Cam
eron & SonsDf Southport and are total
loss. The cargo Is insured.
The Portland daily press., 1896-08-24
Rally at Long Island.

There will be moonlight sail and Re-
publican demonstration at Long Island,
Tuesday evening next. The Ward 3
Reed club invite the Lincoln club.
Gen. Mattooks, Messrs. George Libby
and E. @. Reynolds are to speak in
Ponoe's hall Music by MeIrimau's
band.
The Portland daily press., 1896-08-24

From Portland, Lewiston, Bath, Brunswick
and way stations by regular morning train,
leave Portland Z 90 a. m, Lewiston Lower csc
a. M. Bath Z. 10 a.. M, Brunswick 90 a. IN.
Special arrangements have been made for a
Grand Concert by the Togus Military Band,
one of the finest bands in New England.
THIS most interesting spot without exception,
Oh Names soil.
Fares for the round trip: From Portland
WoodfoTds. Westbrook juno, West Fall
mouth, Cumberland june, 81. rs; Yarmouth
Bath, 75c; Hardings, t75c; Lewiston. $1.25;
Crowleys, 81 .25; Lisbon $1.16; Lisbon Falls,
s1.00; Topsham 75c; Bowdoinham, 65c; Har-
wards, Coo; Richmond, 55c
PAYSON TUCKER, V. p. & G. M.
f. E. BOOTHBY, G. P. & I. A.
au2ld4t
The Portland daily press., 1896-08-24
Another Victim of the kerosene Habit.

Saco, August 22.-Mrs. N. A. Grace
of North Saco, who was burned while
lighting kitchen fire with the aid OF
kerosene died today.
The Portland daily press., 1896-08-24
lncendiarys Work at the Buffalo Driving
Park.

Park.
Buffalo, N. Y, August 29.-Flre start
60 IN the exposition building and in the
covered half mile track at the Buffalo
driving park simultaneously 10 minutes
after the last of the spectators who
witnessed tbs grand circuit races this Of
ternoon left the park. The exposition
building and half of the covered track
were burned. One man named Martin,
track in an intoxioated oonditon inst
before the fire started is thought to have
been burned to death. The loss Is over
$500, Co., The fire was incendiary.
The Portland daily press., 1896-08-24

proposing to pay back what has been al
ready borrowed In depreoiated ourren-
cy. The people irrespective of party will
unite In defeating financial sohems
which will
CONFISCATE THE EARNINGS
of labor in savings banks and building
and loan associations and the invest
ments of people in insurance oom panies
and do nou believe the American peo-
pie will ever consent to have the pension
of our soldiers repudiated by single
farthing. People want neither free trade
nor free silver. The one will degrade
our labor; the other our money. We are
opposed, unalterably opposed, to both of
them. We have tried one in modified
form with disastrous results to every
American home and We are strongly OPP
posed to making the experiment with the
other.
Ny fellow citizens, the people have a
chance this year TO take the Wilson law
off the statute books and put good
American protective tariff 1t its place,
which will provide adequate revenues
for the government and gladden. the
home of every American workingman.
They have chance this year to prevent
o free silver law from going on the
statute books and thus keep our money
Of every kind now in circulation as 6 old
and preserve our national name abo We
reproach. II you do not improve the
chance now, they will never have such
another opportunity for four years:
farmer want the Wilson bill to remain
on the statute books for four years long
err Do they want reciprocity, which will
give us
The Portland daily press., 1896-08-24
Irish Prisoners Released.

London, August 22--Albert George
Whitehead one of the Irish political pris-
oners who has been serving a life sem
tence of penal servltude since his con-
viction in London in 1883, was released
from the Portland convict prison this
morning.
Whitehead is an American citizen, and
prior to his coming to this country re-
sided In the State of New Jersey. He
will probably sail for the United States
on Monday.
Whitehead, whose real name is Murphy.
was convicted with DR.. Thomas GaIIag-
her. John Curtis Kent and Henry Ham
mond Wilson, in London, 10 years ago,
and sentenced to penal servitude for life.
Kent was released last year and ia now
in New York. The latest reports from
confidential souroes on the other side
to the men VINO nre working for the
Amnesty Association in the United
States say that WHITEHEAD is mentally
unbalanced as result of the severe
treatment he received while in prison.
The Portland daily press., 1896-08-24

Schooner Hard Chance of Salem is
ashore in Camden harbor,
The Portland daily press., 1896-08-24
MAHDI TO BE CRUSHED.
europeans M0Ying ON the Dark Sou
dan.

Eng '"hds Grip on Egypt is Tightening
Evacuation Will Be Indefinitely Post
poned
LONDON, August 22.-Interest In the
Anglo Egyptian expedition to the Sou
aan' which waned somewhat during the
perioo che troops were awaiting the rise
In tne Nile, has been revived by the re-
oelpS OF intelligence that the preparation
ior the assumptions of the advance
nave Deem completed, and the troops will
~ .orward from kosheh within fort
nasAo' Ihe whole force IL ready for that
au'ance. The Nile ON Thursday had risen
W ABOUT point that would enable the
steamers that are waiting below the
Selnmeh gate to ascend the river. Once
CemMen Is passed the route will be
eieor. AS sign that action Is imminent
general order was issued Wednesday
Iofplddlng tine sending Of further com
munloation from tbs camp beyond
hosaeh. Henceforth the press dispatches
WIZ be controlled by the military autho
rltles, but it is not believed thar the oen
sorship will prevent the transmission
u news OF Importance.
simultaneously with the news of the
Imminent advance of the Anglo Egpy-
I,an forces, come adyiGes from the Congo
Tfee State that the expedition under
baron Dhanis has reached tbs White Nile
ana occupied Lado. When Baron Dhanis
sSarted it was officially denied that an
Anglo Belgian movement had been CON-
oerted against the Mahdists, although
tne British government allowed several
nunoreo Houssars 60 join Baron Dhanis's
forces. The news now at hand confirms
g4e statement originally made by the
United Associated Presses that the object
OF Inc Belgian expedition was to operate
ID conjunction with the Anglo. Egyptian
FORCES. There Is now no doubt That the
British, Egyptian and Belgian govern
monts are jointly interested in the plan
70 lntlict crushing blow upon the
Mandlsts and reconquer the Soudan.
Laoo, the place where Baron Dhanis
mas arrived, Is north of the territory prop
or OF the Congo Free State. 1t is situated
on the White Nile some a25 miles north
OF ehe Victoria Nyanza. The Belgians,
~ Is believed. will go further north in
the direction of Khartoum, while the
anglo Egyptian expedition proceeds south
| from Semmsh. Thus the Mahdists will
pc caught between the two free, and
| the result, 1t is hoped, will be the final
| extinction OF Mahdism.
The pretence that the advance south
ward Is solely for the purpose Of strength
enlng the Egyptian frontier and 60 pre-
VENT an 1noursion Of the Dervishes into
Lower Egpyt is now about abandoned,
ana 1t is generally oonosded that the OBJ
1eot is to sabdue the Dervishes and again
take possession OF the country so long
held by them. To hold the territory in
question, once 1t is reoonquersd, will
requirs British force, and with British
| sol diers employed in this service the
question of the British evacuation of
Egypt will be indefinitely postponed.
And this, 1t is charged, in some quarters,
| WAS the sole object of Lord Salisbury in
embnrking Great Britain in a schems
that In the end is bound to raise protest
from the British taxpayers.
The Portland daily press., 1896-08-24

The Fight is for Sound Money and Protec-
tion-Democrats Having Cut Wages by
Free Trade Now Propose to Cut Money
in Which They Are Paid.
The Portland daily press., 1896-08-24
announcement.

We are pleased to announce that we
have succeeded the well-known house of
Stevens & Jones Co., and have also pur-
chased the stock and good will of
Thomas B. Mosher, the Exchange street
stationer.
We shall carry full line of Stationery
for office and private correspondence,
and shall make specially of LitlO-
graph Work, Legal Blanks,
Office Supplies, Gard Plate En-.
craving and the manufacture Of
Blank Books.
We have all the patterns of Lithograhs
and Blank Book Work formerly done by
these two houses, and are prepared to
duplicate all orders promptly and in
satisfactory manner.
The Portland daily press., 1896-08-24
FOREIGN MARKET

for our agricultural and manufactured
products to remain off the statute books
four years more? (Renewed cries. of
"No.") Do they want any law enacted
which would compel them to receive for
their wages and products dollars worth
less than 100 cents? These are the ques-
tions every voter In the country must
answer in his conscience and by his vote
next Novem Der. Gentlemen, what shall
the answer be? (Criss of ''eleot MoKin-
ley" followed by tremendous cheering. }
I thank you heartily for this call and
for your expressions of good will and
for the assurance of your unfaltering
support of Republican principles.
The Portland daily press., 1896-08-24
HAS RESIGNED.
Hoke Smith is Free to Go to Bryan's
Support.

Says Nothing But is Ready to Go Home
His Successor Must Be Sound Money
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-07-22
The Mighty Pen.

In Birmingham, England, there are
number of factories that make
$50, 900, 900 pens every week. The
majority OF the workers in these fac
tories are women.
To make 1000, 900 pens fully ton
of steel is needed. There is so much
work necessary to manufacture q
single pen that if they were not made
in such bulk they would be much
more expensive.
When the steel leaves the presses
it is shaped like n pen, but is flat in
stead of rounding. The fiat pieces
are put in furnace, where they re-
main till they are redhot, when they
are hammered and stamped. w.
More steel is used every year in the
making of pens than in the manufac-
ture OF guns, swords and needles
throughout the world. The type
writer has rather checked the enor-
nous use of steel pens, still they
lead
Forty years ago when pens, super
ceded quills it was one of the myster-
les of the day how the slit was made
down the center of the pen. Those
employed in that part Of the work
we're made to take on oath not to re-
veal the process. Now everybody
knows that the slit is made by pair
Of scissors fixed in press. Men roll
the steel to its proper thickness; then
women cut it in strips the width Of
two pens by means OF presses.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-07-22

The Mannlicher rifle has been used
in earnest in Austria in a labor riot
near Reichenberg. Three soldiers
fred one shot each, and brought down
seven people, one bullet actually kill
ing two persons and badly hurting an
other. These recurring evidences of
the deadly character of the new small
bores lend sickening terror to the
forecasts of the next European war.
On the other hand, experience in the
Soudan and in Matabeleland shows
that this modern tiny prolectile, de-
spite its hideous velocity and penetrat-
ing power, is not SO good for stopping
a Dervish or Kaffir rush as the old big
bullet. The native comes at such q
pace, and with such tremendous force
of will power that nothing but the
solid impact of good, sizable chunk
of lead will hold him up. He will
not stop merely because he has been
perforated by metallic pea. This
would probably be true, too, of Rus
sian soldiers.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-07-22
White and Green Honses.

''I am inclined to think" said Mr..
Bugleton, "that if a man is going to
build house in the suburbs or the
country, white, with green blinds, is
about as we'll as lie can do in the way
of paint, that is, if there are trees
around the house; il there are no
trees, if the house stands right out by
itself, then white would be pretty
staring, though, according to my
fancy, house painted white and
green looks oil right anywhere if the
paint is kept fresh and bright I was
in the country the other day, and I
saw some white and green houses,
standing back in yards, surrounded by
trees, sunlight touching 'em in patches
where it shone through the leaves.
houses looking cool and comfortable,
and with some character about them.
I like it, myself, better than the dull
rainbow tints in which many modern
houses in the country are now painted |;
and If I were going to build house
tomorrow in the suburbs, il it was on
land where it would be surrounded by
trees, think should paint it white
with green blinds. New York Sun.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-07-22

At the rate we are progressing in
other arts, it is hoped by the Globe
Commercial Advertiser, that the cul-
mary art-the most important of them
all-will have made such progress dur.
ing the coming century that the SER
vice of soggy, heavy deserts and dys-
pepsia breeding sweets at tho end of
the dinners will be thing of unpleas-
ant memory only. Americans, es-
pecially young Americans, have been
handicapped with such fare long
enough. They should finish dining
with fruit and trihes. Our air is too
rarified, our nervous organization too
delicately attuned for the pastry of
English farmland ancestry. Our
meats do not depend upon the cruets
for their flavor; our sweets, therefore
should be made under the modernized
formula of the saffron age of cook
ery"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-07-22
longing to its members. 1t has done
great good. Minneapolis Journal.
Gold in Deer Teeth.

Stories have been told about the
finding of gold in the crops of chick
ems, in tue stomachs OF fishes, be-
tween the toes Of wolves and in O
variety of odd places, but Frank
Dixon, a taxidermist of this city, is
the first to find gold on the teeth Of
wild deer. This story sounds inn
probable, but it is true.
Mr.. Dixon received recently from
Colorado n couple of deer heads to be
mounted. The first thing he did was
to skin the heads. He noticed in
handling the skulls that the rows OF
teeth we're incrusted with brownish
yellow substance. In tho crevices
between the teeth the incrustation
was heaviest and sparkled when held
to the light. Mr.. Dixon knew the
deer we're killed in a part OF Colorado
where gold dust had been found.
He scraped some OF the incrustation
from the teeth and took it to his friend,
Shirley Millet, dentist DIR. Millet
tested IL with chemicals and said IL was
gold. Mr.. Dixon scraped off q lotmore
and took il to Mr.. Lawrence, assay
list. Then the taxidermist wrote 20
Colorado and found out the exact
spot where the deer we're shot and he
began to make preparations to close
out his business here and go there to
hunt for gold.
"My theory about this thing is
this" said Mr.. Dixon. every herd
of deer has salt lick somewhere,
where they go occasionally to lick
the earth for the salt there is in it.
The herd never wanders far away
from this lick. The soil of the lick
that was used by these two deer was
full of gold dust, and the acid of the
deers' mouths held it and incrusted
it on the teeth. Or, perhaps, the
gold was picked up by the deer in
browsing. Kansas City Star.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-07-22

Since the st. Louis tornado they
are forming what is known as "emer-
gency clubs" out in Iowa. The Hawk
eye State usually expects shaking up
from old Boreas some time in sum-
mer. 1t is found that the stiffest kinds
of tornado insurance policies do not
prevent cyclone from lifting up large
sections of the State of Iowa and
dropping them in Illinois and Wis
consin. The thrifty and forehanded
Iowans, therefore, propose that no
tornado, however stealthy, shall catch
them mapping. The plan is to organ
ize emergency clubs with corps of
nurses and physicians, equipped with
plentiful supply of ambulances,
bandages and medicines, to be made
immediately available in case of sud-
den visitation from the tree twisting,
earth-scraping elements. This is
wise and commendable exhibition
of forethought on the part of the
Hawkeye people, maintains the Chi
cago Times Herald, and the clubs
will no doubt be quite efficacions in
gathering together the scattered rem
nants OF those who are not entirely
obllterated from the face of nature.
But the idea that these clubs can be
considered in any way as safe sub
stitute for the good old-fashioned
cyclone cellar, row 30 popular in
Kansas, is fallacy. AS a safe refuge
for the bowling wrath of the unbridled
tempest there is nothing comparable
to q deep and well-covered cellar.
Weather beaten and storm-tosse hu-
manity is patiently waiting for some
genius to invent weather vane which
whom properly connected with hinged
floors will quietly dump the family
into the cellar upon the slightest
manifestation of an approaching tor.
nado. Such device will confer q
great blessing just now than Edison's .
bottled suplight or Langly's flying
naehjne.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-07-22
Anvils.

'It is not generally known" OBJ
served prominent blacksmith, "that
nearly all of the anvils used by black
smiths in this country are made by
one firm in Brooklyn, New York. All
kinds OF substitutes have been in
vented and put on the market, but
after using them the blacksmith gen.
orally goes back to the wrought-iron
anvil, which is hand made. There
are plenty OF cast.iron and steel anvils
for sale, but they find but little favor
from blacksmiths, who prefer an anvil
that sings The cast.iron anvil has
no music about it, and does not give
any more response to the hammer
than if one was hammering on stump.
1t is music, or singing, as the smithy
calls it, that is wanted. A blacksmith
does nearly all his talking to his
helper by the sounds made on the an
vii by his hammer. AS far as the vii
lage blacksmith is concerned, singing
by the anvil is his constant divertise-
ment Ordinarily an anvil will last
from ten to twenty years, that is. if it
is handled carefully, though there are
many anvils that are now used by sons
which were used by the fathers during
their entire life time. "-Washington
Star.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-07-22

Chicago is rejoicing that none OF
sky-scraping buildings were blown
down by the recent cyclone there, and
thinks that they are proof against oil
atmospheric disturbances.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-07-22

Mexico now wants to come into line
in the matter of firearms. 1t is pro-
posed to arm the infantry, cavalry and
artillery with the Mondragon rifle, in
stead of the Remington, now in use.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-07-22

II is said that nickels aro to be
made of nickel hereafter, instead of
an alloy OF nickel and copper They
will be bluer in color, and will not
wear SO much.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-07-22

The keeper of the Chicago Jail has q
a sense of humor and grim one. He
showed it when recently he returned
letter that had arrived for prisoner
who had been hanged five days before
with the Endorsement on the outside,
"Present address not known"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-07-22
Curative.

"That fellow turns up on every
corner"
why don't You get rid of him?"
''How can ~"
"Why, easy-lend him dollar!'-
Boston Globe.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-07-22

DIR. Robert U. Gust states that the
Bible, rs whole or in part, is now
accessible in 3s1 languages and dia-
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-07-22

The romance of the East is to re-
ceive q shock in the new iron bridge
over the Tigris at Bagdad.