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The Portland daily press., 1896-10-20
SPANS GRIP LoosENING.

The Spanish ministry is evidently pre-
pairing the Spanish people for the aban-
donment of Cuba. A year ago no minis
| ter would for moment admit the possi-
bility of the loss Of Cuba to Spain.
Indeed it was looked upon as little short
| of treason 20 suggest such a thing. But
low not only is the possibility admitted
but the question is discussed by the
Prime Minister in Madrid newspaper
MS if ib were recognized as q pending
issue. Evidently it has ceased to be
reasonable to suggest that Spain and
Cuba may part company in the near
future. A year ago Spain would not
even admit that there was a state of war
in Cuba. The rebellion, her ministers
said, was nothing but a series of guerilla
raids which could speedily be pnt down
when the Spanish forces were conoen-
trated in the island, but now Senior
Canovas declares in FL Liberal, Madrid
is extremely serious" and that ''if the
large loan is not raised within a COM
paratively short time we shall be COM
PEELED to suspend military operations in
Cuba,' which, he adds, would be
equivalent to admitting the possibility of
the leader of the Federal Republican
party, is still more outspoken. Had the
government believed us'' he says land
given autonomy to Cuba at the begin
ming of the war peace would soon have
been restored and rebellion would not
have spread to other colonies. Spain has
not the means to meet the expense Of the
war. Our credit is already exhausted,
as has been shown by the difficulties of
negotiating petty loans. There is no
confidence abroad in the solvency of
Spain, and nobody believes that we will
triumph in Cuba.
The last loan which Spain attempted
to negotiate has been Withdrawn, and
though an effort is being made to con-
ceal tie facte, 1t is pretty we'll under
stood that it was withdrawn because
nobody would take 1t. Its failure had
boon complete. There are in Cuba at the
present time over 200, 600 Spanish troops,
and the daily cost of their support is of
course enormous. The Spanish treasury
is empty, and Spanish credit IL 10 poor
that 1t is exceedingly doubtful If any
more money can be raised on any terms.
Bu6 money must bs had or military oper-
ations iu Cuba must cease. The govern
neat is compelled therefore. much against
its wish, to ADMIT and discuss now not
merely the possibility, but the probable
ity as we'll, of the abandonment of Cuba.
The Portland daily press., 1896-10-20
Literature at Harvard.

Edward Everett Hale, in an article on
Ills Sixty Years Since at Harvard" in
the Atlantic does not nay high tribute to
the quality of instruction in those DAYS.
And yet he makes it clear that tie
students sixty years ago knew good
literature better than they do now.
Let ME repeat what I said years ago.
Emerson had come from England. He
had the first published Volume of
rennyson, and we copied Tennyson's
poems. and passed them from hand to
hand. Somebody in Philadelphia had
printed Ccleridge, Shelley, and K eats In
one volume, aud we had that volume on
our tables as text book I had read
e very one of the principal poems of the
prominent English poets from Chaucer
down to Cowper before I was a Junior
! do not believe there was a man in the
Harvard Union who had not read Para
disc Lost and who WAS not reasonable
we'll up In his Chaucer or his Spenser."
The Portland daily press., 1896-10-20
FINE TEA AND COFFEE.
Americans Have Not Been Taught to Pay
High Prices Yet, Says a Dealer.
(Nsw York SUM-

\ASuW 4OEk 0uu.J
There is dealer in coffee Ia this city
who snorts when he hears people talking
about the difficulty of making good
coffee.
The making be jiggered. he says
The important thug e not how the
coffee ia made, but the quality of the
coffee. There are dozen different ways
Of making coffee, and not more skill or
care Is required than in cooking any
thing else. The quality of the coffee is
the thing, and because Americans insist
on buying cheap grades of coffee they
don't get good coffee. They blame their
wives and their servants for the result Of
their own false economy. Americans
drink more coffee than any other nation,
but they don't drink the best. They
drink coffee as staple article of diet
and don't study it's finer qualities. In
Europe peopls pay from 10 to 80 cents
more pound Oh an average for good
qualities Of coffee than il paid here.
People here haven't been trained to pay
above u certain price for coffee. When
began business / wanted to supply
something little better than the citi-
zens OF this town were accustomed to-
imported lot ofiespecially fine Ceylon
plantation coffee. 1t cost me Al cents
pound wholesale, unroasted. In roasting
coffee loses about one-sixth of it's weight,
SO that this coffee roasted would have
been worth about 80 cents pound with
out the dealers profit. That is about
twice the wholesale price of ordinary
good coffee. With than / made q mix
ture thataI could sell at 40 cents pound.
found that 1t actually hurt my Dusi-
ness instead of helping it. People got
an idea that was a fraud because was
SO high-prioed.
II had the same experience with tea
Americans don't drink especially fine
tea. ! thought the treason of sthat was
that they didn't know any better, and
tried to give them chance to lenrn.
imported a lot of very fine Chinese tea.
1t was not the very finest, but 1t was SO
good that 1t came in small packages
wrapped up in silk. l could make a
small profit on 1t by selling 1t at S.
pound. l expected 1t would be quite
drawing card for me-. butswhen the first
customer came in and asked how much
my beat tea was. and said e3 pound.
he nearly tainted. 1t might have hurt
my business seriously, only he happened
to be friend of mine and agreed to say
nothing about it. after that was care
full to size up my customers before tell
ling them the cost of my best tea. Now
have best tea, very best tea, extra best
tea, and the SO kind. Many Chinese
laundrymen drink better tea than some
millionairas. 1t comes packed in pound
boxes with glass covers and with bunch
es OF the whole tea leaves tied up to-
gether In silk.
If mon will buy only cheap coffee
there is only one way to make it taste
good. Let them start out in the evening
Walk ten miles into the woods, sleep all
the next morning and make their own
coffee. Then 1t will taste like nectar. no
matter what Its quality"
The Portland daily press., 1896-10-20
CURRENT COMMENT.
ATLGELD AND BRYAN IN CON
TRAST.
New York SUM-

1t is the habit of the Sun to recognize
intellectual power wherever we peroeivs
it, regardless of the character, opinions,
or purposes of the person Inanifesting
the same. Governor Altgeld's speech
in Cooper Union on Saturday. night
shows him to be Very able man, and,
being what he is and representing what
he does, a very dangerous political leader
The man who dominated for time
the crazy convention which nominated
Bryan In the end, Is as different from
Bryan as wolf il from a marmoset.
Ihere is nothing of the comedian about
the Illinois Anarchist. If he has vanity
he has enough force of character to con-
ceal IT. Ii be lacks sincerity, be has wit
enough to stimulate earnestness. If the
real motive Of his political activity is
selfish, he is adr0it enough to conceal his
motive. In the oleanly-cut, direct SEN
fences OF his rhetoric there is no trace of
SELF -oonsciousness and the whole effect
OF his speech of night before last, con-
veying the most abominable doctrines Ill
straightforward phrases, is sombre, de-
faint and menacing.
This ts the real leader of Revolution,
and it would be foolish to underestimate
the qualities which make him danger
Gus.
Contemps for Bryan there may be-; 1t
is amply justified. John P. Altgald in
spires other and more serious sentiments.
The Portland daily press., 1896-10-20

IL is undoubtedly true that the Presi-
dent has no right to interfere with the
internal affairs of a state, even to pre-
serve order or suppress riot, unless the
g9vesaor or legislature has called upon
him to do g. The constitution is ex-
plicit enough on that point Section of
Article reads as follows:
The United States shall guarantee to
every State in this Union q RepubIica
Form OF Government, and snail protect
each of them against invasion; and OIL
application of the Legislature, or of the
executive, (when the Legislature cannot
be- convened) against domestic violence -
For the President to send truops to
Maine to suppress local riot, without
previous request from the governor or
Legislature, would be- a usurpation of
power. But another section of the con-
stituuion makes it the duty Of the Presi-
dent to see that the Jaws Of the United
States are enforced. Il was to enforce
the national law that the President sent
troops to Chicago, and it was not only
his right to send them there but his
duty as well. The rioters were inter-
fering with the transportation of the
United States mails, and were defying
the orders of the United States courts
relative thereto. In sending troops to
assist the United States officials to COM
pei obedience to the United States courts
The Portland daily press., 1896-10-20
SMOKING UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
Ingenious Kaffrs Use the Earth for To-
bacco Pipes.
(Pittsburg Dispatch. J

" Aeocbutk AiepduCu.
The Kaffirs of South Africa are in
many ways a remarkable people, but
perhaps the most singular thug about
them Is their mode of smoking, and
especially their pipes. The ordinary
Kaffir pipe is a sufficiently formidable
affair. 1t is almost as big and heavy as
the tkonb kerry" or war club, which it
often considerably resembles in form; at
a pinch it would make a formidable
weapon in the hands of its muscular
owner. But it isn't every Kaff1r who
can afford an ornate pipe of this descrip-
tion, and every Kaffir must smoke-so he
thinks. Curiously enough, the poorest
man smokes the biggest PHI e-the big
gest indeed, on the face of the earth, for
it is noting less than the earth itself. I
don't suppose that he is 30 conceited-
though the Kaffirs have plenty OF conceit
-as to imagine that he owns the earth,
but he does use it for tobacco pipe,
and this is how he does it:
He has managed to procure a h andful
OF tobacco. but has no regulation pipe.
Shall he forego his smoke. Not he;
necessity is certainly the mother of in
vention in this cese
He buries twig in the earth, the ends
protruding and builds fire over it.
When he considers that the pipe is
'done to turn he pulls out tho twig.
which, of course, leaves a curved hole
through the clay. At one end he SCOOPS
ous sort of bowl, in which he places
his tobacco. AT The other end he fash
iuns little mound to serve as mouth
piece; it looks more like the opening Of
a small ant hill than anything else. A
European, probably, wouldn't relish a
monthpieee of n,ud-he couldn't use it.
anyhow, for his nose would be too much
in the way; but kaffir doesn't stick at
tribes, and he has DO nose to speak of.
SO he drops q live coal on the tobacco in
the bowl, lies fat on the ground applies
his thick lips to the orifice, aud sucKs
away drawing in vast quantities of thu
rankest, yilesU smoke that ever made a
human being gasp and choke.
For it is nos enough that this tobacco
IS the coarse5t and strongest and in every
way he worst that the soil of this planet
produces; mere tobacco isn't potent
enough to satisfy a Kaffir. though sin
gle Whit of it would PROSTATE the most
European smoker So he
mixes with it liberal quantity of
dasha, Is kind of hemp with intoxioat-
ing qualities similar TO those of hasbeesh
This is drug powerful enough to par
hlyze even South African, and by the
time his pipe is finished the smoker fro
quently falls in a fit. In many cases he
becomes quite insensible, and for long
time lies like log; indeed-so pernic.
lous Is the sGuff-he sometimes never
aronses. But lives are cheap in Africa;
what does it M tier, one Kafsr more or
The Portland daily press., 1896-10-20
Electric Bitters.

Electric Bitters is medicine suited
for any season, but perhaps more gener-
ally needed in the Spring, when the lam
guld exhausted feeling prevails, when
the liver is torpid and sluggish and the
need of tonic and Alternative is felt A
prompt use of this medicine has often
averted long and perhaps fatal billions
fevers. No medicine will act more surelv
in counteracting and freeing the system
from the malarial poison. Headache. IN
digestion, Constipation, Dizziness Weld
to Electric Bitters. 500 and $1.o0 per
E bottle G at d. = 5. Goold's Drug Store,
Hotel. ~ N"l
The Portland daily press., 1896-10-20

Gen. Grosyenor. the arithmetician of
the Mckinley canvas, has given out esti-
mate No 2. of the result of the election,
It is bettes than WIS his first estimate,
He now gives Mckinley 992 sure, with a
strong probability that he will get all the
electoral votes except those Of the South
err, and the silver States. We should
say that he WAC some over sanguine in
claiming Washington and both of the
Dakotas, but he mas acquired good rep
utafion as a political prophet, and his
predictions are en- titled to respect.
The Portland daily press., 1896-10-20
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The Portland daily press., 1896-10-20

he was only obeying the mandate of the
constitution to ttnke care that the laws
are faithfully executed" Had John P.
Altgela done his duty it might not have
been necessary to send Federal troops to
Chicago, but Alleged failed, either
through weakness OF sympathy with the
rioters, and hence the President gwas
compelled to act, or be remiss in his
duty
The Portland daily press., 1896-10-20
CITY OF PORTLAND.
TO the Electors of the City Of
Portland:

NOTICE is hereby given that the board OF
IN registration of voters of said city, will
be In open session at Room Number Eleven
(11, City Building, upon each of the nine
secular days prior to the National Election,
to be held on Tuesday after the first Mon
day, (the Third day of November next;) be-
ing October 20 to October 80 Inclusive, from
nine in the forenoon to one o clock in the
afternoon, from 8 o'clock in the after
noon and rom seven TILL nine in !. the
evening, excepting on the las. day: of said
session, October 29,) when 81 will not be in
session after five o. clock in the afternoon
to receive evidence touching the qualifica-
ton of voters in said city, and to revise and
correct the voting lists. There will also zoe
sessions on October 80, 81, and November Q
to enable the board to verify the correctness
OF said lists and for closing up the records
of said sessions.
During said time said board will revise
and correct the voting lists ;and the wardens
OF said city shall be governed by said re-
yised and corrected list. and no name shall
be added to OF stricken from said list on said
day of election, and no person shall vote at
any election whose name is not on said
lists, but the board of registration will be in
session on the day of election for the cor
rection of errors that may have occurred
during said revision
AUGUSTUS F.:GERRISH, Board Of.
MONROE A..BLANCHARD, Registration
MICHAEL c. MCANN, Of Voters,
Portand, october 3, 1886. oct13dtd
The Portland daily press., 1896-10-20

Chairman Danforth, Of New York, has
heard news whioh leads him to believe
that even New Hampshire is doubtful.
Chairman Danforth evidently believes
easily
The Portland daily press., 1896-10-20

Wheat is still going up, and silver abb
solutely refuses to go along vi i 1t.
Brother Bryan believes in high prices, but
he would have preferred to have wheat
remain where it WAS until after election.
The Portland daily press., 1896-10-20

The Hon. George Fred Williams ought
to come home right away and try to re-
store harmony. There is danger that
what few supporters he has left in Mas
sachusetss may become SO disabled ph VS.
ically by free fights that they will not
be able to get TO the polls, if George Fred
do sn't manage to get in between them
son.
The Portland daily press., 1896-10-20

1t is said that Tom Watson's letter ac-
cepting the Populist nomination has
been suppres sed by the Populist national
committee They may be able to sup
press Toms letter, but Tom himself
cannot be suppressed.
The Portland daily press., 1896-10-20
National Election. Tuesday, Nov. 3.
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
FOR PRESIDENT,
WiIlianNCkinley
OF OHIO.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
= Carrot A. Hobart
OF NEW JERSEY.
OF NEW JERSEY.

If Mr.. Bryan will put in an applioa-
tion to become press agent of a show
after election it is safe to say that he will
get a job.
The Portland daily press., 1896-10-20

The Chicago Records postal card can
for Mckinley. 1t is superfuous to add
that the silver men have lost all in ter
est in it.
The Portland daily press., 1896-10-20

1t is said that Altgeld hoped that he
would be hooted and Missed ut his New
York meeting, SO that he might have a
grievance to take back to Illinois to
rouse the silver men with.
The Portland daily press., 1896-10-20

lessP just where the pleasure comes IN,
civilized man Is at a loss to discover;
but no amount of argument can wean
the South African savage from his to-
baooo and "dagha."
The Portland daily press., 1896-10-20

The healing and purifying qualities of
Salvation Oil render the best article for
the speedy cure of liberated sores. Csc.
The Portland daily press., 1896-10-20
MAINE GENERAL HOSPITAL.

IL Hospital for the choice of officers ~ a.
the, ensuing year and the trans action 'o Of
such other business as may jenal Nv
be presented, will be held in the office Of the
Treasurer III Portland at four O'CLOCK in t tho
afternoon of the first Tuesday, the third a ave
of November, 1896. Ao "ay'
By order OF the Directors.
L. R. BARRETT, Sec,v
Portland October. 8, 1896. oct8T&TTIbtgd;
The Portland daily press., 1896-10-20
STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION
OF THE
Portland Trust Co., Portland


September 80, 1896.
WILLIAM G.. DAVIS, President.
JAMES p BAXTER, Vice President
HARRY BUTLER, Secretary
Trustees-William G. Davis, James p. Bax-
ter, Mark P. Emery, Charles F. Libby.
William w Brown, David W. Snow, Angus.
tus r. Wright, Sidney W. eThaxter. Frank
lin r. Barrett, Phillip G.. Brown. William
N. Davis, Frederick Robe, A. ri walker.
Chas M. Bailey and Harry Butler.
Organized March 81, 1888.
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock S1O0. 0oo on
Surplus. 50 000 m
Undivided profits, 9SOS' 3S
demand deposits, 1873, 427 O3
Certificates of deposit U713 Al
Deposits for coupons, 3o35 90
dius! Iunds, At ,280. 30
SINKING fund Tor corporations, 2,271. 35
$s97, 435. Os
RESOURCES.
Loans on collateral, S143. 1852. 46
Other loans, So 1l2 03
OverdraftS (secured), g. 500 40
Stocks and bonds, 1876 SIG ID
Trust investments, Hips OF
Sinking fund investments, 24l' 238. AZ
Cash on deposit, 33,117. as
Cash on hand, 4,379 Sc.
1897, 4s5. o8
+. E. TIMBERLAKE, Bank Examiner.
Oot12Itf
Arizona republican., 1896-06-11

desks. They are close reproductions, and several of them have been held in country towns as the original desk.
 A dealer in antiques received a letter from a New England town last week. asking what he would pay for George Washington's desk. The writer said that it was in perfect condition, and he could establish it's identity by comparing it with the old pictures of George Wash ington's furniture.
 Probably the writer was honest in his pretense that his desk was the original" said the dealer, 'but of course it is only one of the many commercials that have been made.
 There is hardly historic piece of old furniture but has been counterfeit ed, and every week l receive letters from country people who have found enc of these productions, and, believ- ing it to be genuine. offer to sell it for a large price. Some of these reproduc- tions only an expert can detect"
Arizona republican., 1896-06-11
PERSONAL MENTION,
Jottlngs About Individuals and Their
 Actions.

J. A. Fleming left last night for the east.
 R. w. Van Pelt of San Francisco is at The Ford.
 A. c. Mcqueen and wife of Detroit are at The Commercial.
 Malcolm McLeish is in the city from his cyanide works at Smiths mill near Vulture.
 Mrs. C. Eschman is in San Fran cisco, attending the bedside of her father, who is lying at the point of death.
 The mother, sister and brother of Edward Holland arrived yesterday over the Santa Fe from Frederickton, Mo-, and will here make their home in the future
 Editor Adams of the Jerome Mining News left last night for home, after attendance upon the Democratic ter ritorial convention and a stay of sev- eral days.
 Samuel Flint, superintendent of the railway mail service for the Pacific division, and Inspector A. P Fred erick, spent yesterday in Phoenix on postal business. ".
 A. Franklin and wife left last night for Flagstaff, where they will spend several months. They have rented a cottage and anticipate delightful stay among the pines.
Arizona republican., 1896-06-11
ENEMIES OF ENGLAND.
Great Britain Has Fought and Conquered
 Three Great Potentates.

Great Britain Has Fought and Conquered
 Three Great Potentates.
 The three greatest potentates of mod ern times have been Englands strenu- ous antagonists-viz., Philip H., Louis XIV. and Napoleon. Of these three Ma poleon was the most powerful, says lilackwood's Magazine, Philip the most deadly. The leaders under whom the English rallied against these world-fa- nous monarchs were, first, Elizabeth and Drake; second, William and Marl- borough; Third, Pitt and Nelson. The result of the first of these great hls- torIc duels was to overturn the founda- tons of Spanish empire, with it's do. minion over the seas, it's vast colonial possessions, it's claim under a papai bull to an exclusive monopoly of the new world. The result of the second was to decide which should be the residuary legatee of the deceased Spanish power, France or England; giving in the end the succession to it's old world domin- ions to France, it's trade, maritime su- premacy and colonies mainly to Eng land.
 The result of the third was to shat ter Napoleon's hopes of ascendancy by sea, and to force him back on European conquests, upon projects which related to the old world and not to the new. Pitt and Nelson did not disappear u1i- til that end was attained and England's s part in the later wars of Napoleon was that, having, as Pitt said in almost hls closing words, saved herself by he1 energy she saved Europe by her eX- ample and assistance.