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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-10-20

New stock Of flowing.
end, Four-in-hand Neck
ties IN this morning at
goethe dollar sort.
: Large, ample and in
such a variety of beauti-
full silks
The regular graduated
four-in-hands are here
too,-.-and teck knots and
ascots and puffs and
bows.
We sell a very superior
black satin four-in-hand,
reversible 1.-TWO ties in
one) at 75c.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-10-20
Y. p. Nj. S. o.

The Young Peoples Methodist Social
Union, held its regular meeting at Chest
nut street church last night. The bust
ness meeting wac followed by an address
BY @. W. Parsons, D. d., on Whittier.
A pleasing musical programme was
given.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-10-20
what John B. Curtis Says of Nebraska

q. says Nebraska.
Mr.. John b. Curtis has arrived home
from Nebraska, and he says that that
state is solid for Mckinley. The recent
rise in the price of wheat. he thinks, has
knocked the bottom out of the arguments
of the silveritss, and that, though that
Btats may have been doubtful before, it
SO no longer. People who few weeks
ago were crazy over free silver are now
attending strictly TO business, which the
rise in wheat has stirred into new life.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-10-20
Offered to Mr.. Hewey.

The Biddeford Journal says: Gov
elect Powers has offered the position of
Govern or'a private secretary to James
=. Hewey. clerk of courts for York
county. MIR. Hewey has the offer under
consideration.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-10-20
Portland Law Students Club,

All members of the Portland Law
Students club and all other students
wishing to become members are invited
to be present a5 the Office of the score
tary today at 4 O'Clock p. m, for the
purpose OF electing officers and transact
ing any other business which may
properly come before the meeting.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-10-20
McAIl Auxiliary.

The parlor meeting which was. to have
been held On Tuesday, the 18th at the
residence of Mrs. Charles J. Chapman.
was postponed one week ana will be
held today at the same place and hour.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-10-20

Take laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All drug
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-10-20
VIEW. apvrRT1sEMErrs.
The eoeather today
likely to be

The aceat1er today
likely to be
fair.
Nj C Golf fs and p o..
ject to the
rather clumsy, hot feel Of
the regulation golf stock
ing they are expected to
wear, should buy the new
combination cotton and
wool hose which we are
selling at soc, ---Cotton
feet, wool legs.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-10-20
Wherever There Is a Lot Of Wear

and tear on paint it is absolutely necessary to
have the best. Poor paint lasts no time-it is
not made to last. nor are its constituents CAL
culated to render it durable.
All the elements of poor paint are chean.
Cheapness does not mean economy but rather
the reverse.
That which is best, made from the best
materials, lasts the longest and therefore is the
most economical, even if IL costs trifle more
at the start.
This is the case with the Chiffon Paints
whose name is synonym for satisfaction
Every one OF their component parts is the host
that the market affords, and no cheap substi-
tutes are used in their manufacture,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-10-20

Genuine Ostrich feath-
er Boas and Collarettes,
cheaper than ever; new
line made from choice
selected tips $500 to
$500.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-10-20

For washing the scalp
for the bath and for all
toilet purposes there's
nothing SO good as Pin
aud's Paris Vegetable
Extract. Very clean,
very healing, very deli
cately perfumed, 75c,
large bottles.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-10-20

Tried Appleton's Teas
yet?
Full line Of them in
the basement, samples
free.
Appleton's India Cey-
lon Teas have the APP
proval OF the most {asti-
dious connoiseurs the
world over.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-10-20

There's a splendid
stock OF fancy Blankets
here, from which we
make bath robes and
boudoir wraps to order
in a day.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-08-12

The following little incident happened
III London suburb: a bootmaker's ap-
prentice, Il lad Of about IA, delivered q
Pair Of boots at a Trademarks house.
Tbs tradesman's wife, accustomed to
orderly business ways, asked the lad g,
after handing him the money for the
boots. to receipt the bill. At this re-
quest the lad showed tho greatest con-
fusion, SO that the woman, to rcassure
him. said. Just receipt it. as a matter
Of business. Whereupon he wrote
laboriously something on the paper. III
the evening. when the tradosman exam
ined the papers on the spike, he came
upon bootmaker's bill. at the foot of
which was written in large letters in Il
schColboy hand, LAS matter Of bust
ness. 1t was the youthful apprentice s
literal Interpretation of the demand for
q receipt as a matter of business. West
minister Review.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-08-12
The Popular Secret Service Museum.

THE secret service museum in the
treasury department continues to be a
great attraction" remarked one of the
officials of the secret service bureau,
though most Of the articles exhibited
there are very old. The bulk Of them
have been on exhibition for Is or 90
years, and but few new things have been
added Of late. Still the rural visitors
crowd i'll there daily and take great in
tcrest i'll looking over the old counterfeit
plates and notes collected there. Even
more interest is taken in the collection
of photographs Of oldtime counterfciters,
the most Of whom have been dead for
years. The museum, however, strikes
the popular fancy. and is particularly
satisfactory to the large number Of per-
SONS, young and old, who read detective
stories and are interested in the accounts
of crimes which appear in the newspa-
pcrs- 1t is about the only way that the
average person can actually see the tools
of trade Of the criminal classes and es-
pecially of counterfeiters- washing.
ton Star.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-08-12
DO Foxes Enjoy the Hunt

T. H. Bryson raises a question in Tho
American Field which is sure to briny
out considerable discussion among fox
hunters. He wants to know if foxes ell
JOY being run by dogs. He believes that
they do.
''If you think the fox does not enjoy
the run, you have only to look at a fresh
fox rs it passes. His eyes are dilated
with pleasure--no fear thcrc-and
brush vibrating defiantly in the face of
its pursuers, in full command of his
mental faculties. and using brain as
well as heels.''
This same fox exercises cunning and
craft to escape instead of dropping into
hole when it would be safe from tho
dogs fangs Many fox has lost its life
rather than escape into a hole, seeming
almost TO regard the earth escape as dis
graceful, to be resorted to in the dircst
stress only.
Bryson tells Of a vixen which, with
her whelps, ran long way and then
the youngsters, being tired, went into
hole while she continued the race for
hours after, escaping into the same hole
with her young in the end.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-08-12
How . Fox Gets Rid Of Fleas-

Reynard is knowing animal. The
foxes are much tormented by fieas, hut
when the infection becomes too severe
they know how to get rid of the insects.
They gather from the bark of trees
moss, which they carry to a stream that
deepens by degrees. Here they enter the
water, still carrying the moss in their
mouths, and going backward. begin
ming from the end of their tails, they
advance till the whole body, with the
exception of the mouth, is entirely i'm
mersed. The fieas, during this proceed
ing, have rushed in rapid haste to the
dry parts. and finally to the moss, and
the fox, when he has. according TO his
calculation. allowed sufficient time for
all the feas to take their departure
quietly opens his mouth. The moss
floats of down the stream with its bur-
den of tleas, and when it is out of Jump.
ing reach the fox finds its way to the
bank much relieved -Exchange
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-08-12
To Read-To Sleep.

1t Is difficult to sympathize with the
habit of early morning reading in bed.
1t Is, however, quite cxcusable for a
man TO remain in bed to breakfast. if he
wants to look through the most I'M
wieldy Of his folio volumes, for, rs ev-
cry wise mans son knows, there is no
place so convenient as the Gland of
countcrpane" for spreading out a bulky
book upon, nor any vantage ground 50
good as that of the bolster activities
from which to look down upon the broad
cxpanses of its pages. Such an unwieldy
volume rs folio can only I've satisfac-
torily wrcstlcd with in this way. Also
this plan saves that perilous strain on
the binding of a heavy book which takes
place when it is balanced on the cralnpcd
knees Of a chair seated man; it prevents
too, the sudden, but certain, nip in the
back which is sure to seize the student
sooner or later as he leans over the IL
brary table i'll search of facts among the
tall pages Of folio volume. Humili-
ating, too, the attitude of student who
should be found to have fallen asleep,
face downward, in the middle Of Bar
rows sermon, Against Vain and Rash
Swearing"
Get up, get up, for shame: the blooming morn
Upon her wings presents the god unshurn.
See how Aurora throws her fair
Fresh quilted colo-s through the air.
Get up. sweet slug-a- bed. and SEQ
The dew bcspangled herb and tree.
So Herrick shouts to us. and, once IN,
how impossible it should he to remain
longer inside the walls of the still slum-
boring house!-Templc Bar.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-08-12
On the Killing OF African wives.

An African chief explained the other
day to me that now the consul was put
ting down the killing of wives and
slaves at funerals, chiefs life was
rot worth five minutes purchase, be-
cause dissatisfied wife or a vindictive
slave would now put poison in his food,
. thing they were less inclined to do
when the danger OF being killed them
selves at the ensuing funeral was be-
fore their eyes. 1t was also told by a
well educated native Christian minister
from the Gold Coast that the govern
ments were practically preserving ver-
min i'll preserving witches. 1t seems
the Gold Coast witch lives oy sucking
the blood of young children.
In old days this was risky for the
witch. Now that the governments say
witchcraft is a silly superstition, and
you must not go ont and kill people be-
cause Of it, the witch, feeling safe,
blackmails and terroriZes over anxious
parents, threatening TO suck their chill
dren's blood unless they are bought off.
Every one says it is all nonsense, but
unless the witch is bought off the child
withers away and dies. a case of poison
again, perhaps, but both of these cases
illustrate the strange clement of COM
mon sense in apparently rank supersti-
.ious folly, and save i'll the inexplicable
trick certain tribes have of killing twin
children, l have always found, in every
Ju-ju superstition, this common sense
element Whether it or the superstition
mixed now with it came first into the
negro mind l cannot say, but there it
always is. ard l am sure, even in the
twin case, it is there, and hope some
day i'll the Hinterland to find it out.
National Review.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-08-12
Publication Notice.

In the circuit court OF said county nj the Sep, CT
Der term, 1926.
Caroline Southerd, DINA Irwin, Emma in,
StcotroT ". Mary l.aForge Andrew u. 81, III
Joscph light, Mary Miliard. Emma nariwcii. &
W Light, louisa I'D lin .f0n. Lucinda Uoakfn.
sor, JOIN Light. hobcrI Light. Aincola And..r
fon, Charles A. Light. John Il L,cLt, Marth
Liytt. Rececoa Schulz. William r. Light, Robert
A. Light. Annie Light, Sarah NJ. Deal, Jan.
-auDdCrs, Lmml Root. q. q. Light. Anna 4 Tal.
Light, william Dl,inbcrry and William pusiu
berry, sdEiihistia,or OF tie csiate Of 10 eph
Light. deceased
Affidavit Of non residence Of Mary LaForyc
AndrcwJ Light. Joseph Light. MARY MIlard,
Emma Hartwel &C W. Lic' I. Louis Cocsiinr-
ton. Lucinda iiodkinson, Jpnn Light Rob, r,
Light. Mineula Aud, rson. Charlcs A Light John
Is. Light kebecca sc.ulz. William +. Light,
Rob, RI A. Light. Annie Light. sarah N. deal
Jane saui derr Emml boot, u &. Lictt. Anra
Talboii. Florence Light, Male f. li.ht Jay
W. Light the above defendants hayir:. been flied
IN the clerks Office OF the circuit court 81 ..id
county, rotice IL hereby given % the said non
resident defendants that the oomplainan, d;e.
their bill Of complaint in said court ON the .lsr.
Gerry side thereof, on the 2sih day e Nav 1856 and
mat therenIon summons i--ucd out ct -aid
court, wherein said salt II ps nGing ret urna-
hlc on the fret Mordsy in the month 81 September
next Hs IL by Law required. Sog. uLlu-s y,,u
the said n"n-rc-idont defendant. shove named
Email personally be and appear before The ra,d
thercof, Ia he holden at Rock Island In aud
Tor the said county. ON the Gr.t Monday in
September next, aud plead, sn-w.r or d.u.ur ia
the eaih complainant bil of c mplani, raInc
and the matters and things therein charged
and stated will he taken No oonfcss.d, and a
decree cntcrei n Ainst you ACCORDING 20 The
prayer OF said bill.
GEORGE w. GAMBLK tJ.yh
hook Island. H., July Il. Is8
WILLIAM MSEsiIy,
ccmplAIhsLir Solicitor
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-08-12
THE WOMAN IN COURT,
{ Dangerous Witness and . Two Edged
sword on Cross Examination

There is an agreement among law.
yers not to put woman on the witness
stand if it can be avoided.
Il always subpoena women" saws 4
lawyer of experience. 1T keeps then,
harmless, but l never use them unless
my case is desperate A LAWYER nress.
ed for reasons preserves an impersona,
attitude by retiring behind the law. 7,
IS sad but long established fact. il
seems, that the law when il forbids ,
wife testifying i'll her husbands favor
lntimates her inability to speak the
truth, for, doubtless. some personal rra.
son she may fib against him on oath if
she will. With the best intentions III
the world, woman will state concln
sions instead of facts. Her mental tend.
ency is to form some preconceivcd thco.
~, and the facts are unconsciously
twisted to support it.
In consequence Of these mental iGio.
syncrasles women witnesses are care.
fully prepared. After a lawyer has
eliminated the II saids'' and 'he saids'
from her narrative and has ruthlesslv
brought her personal Importance to the
matters she has testified to TO the least
apprcciable quantity and has cndeavor.
ed to throw into relief the facts of i'm.
portance TO his side, he folds his hands.
closes his eyes and tries to realize then
and there all his stock Of faith.
LET me give you my dying advice, ~
said Rufus Choate. Never cross exam
Inc woman. They cannot disintegrate
the story they have once told. They
cannot eliminate the fact that is for
you from that which is against Won
They 80 for the whole thing, and the
moment you begin to cross examine one
OF them, instead Of being bitten by one
rattlcsnake, you are bitten by a whole
barrelful. never. except i'll Il case alb
solutely desperate, cross examine a
wCnan.
Judge Barrett has given these rules
for cross examination:
"First.-Never ask a question Of
which the answer might harm you.
"Second.-Ncvcr cross examine any
witness over ten minutes.
Third. Never cross examine n wom
an
There is whirlash to woman's
speech that Will crack through the curt
est cross examination.
Did the defendant give you this UNI
brella:'
Yes. but paid for it,
Speeches of this sort, that any nimble
waited woman can toss from the tip of
her tongue, make lawyers modest and
judges shy. These are advantages be
fore the law not lightly to be relinquish-
ed.-San francisco Examiner.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-08-12

The two last and concluding volumes
of Barras' own memoirs reveal Barras.
an epicurean to the core, brave, witty,
lover of pleasure, cool headed, a judge
of men and women, Interruptions, frank
OF speech, but with rare depth of re-
serve, good natured where his interests
were not touched, dignified i'll outward
behavior. thoroughly selfish, u Mach
iavelian without faith, noble of the
eighteenth century, even of the ancient
regime. Talleyrand he despised so heart.
lily that he denied his abilities, holding
him a mere rascal, liable piebot, harm
full, simply because no one took the trou-
bic to crush him; Fouche to his ewes
was mere criminal, lie Talleyrand de
la canaille, gutter scoundrel, only al
lowed to live because he was ALWAYS
ready to do any dirty work those in
power might require.
AS for the women, Barras judges them
in true La Clos style. He will not allow
Mime. Grand good looks; he is indeli-
catcly frank over Josephine S weaknesses
and frailties; he speaks of the sisters of
Napoleon as vulgar, dissolute bour-
geoises.
One dismisses the man, worthless self
seeker as he Is, without disgust. He is
superior to persons like Barere and Tai
leyrand. He played the game with a
sole view to his own interest and sue
ceedcd in winning all he cared for
money, ease, pleasure, security.
Mall Gazette.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-08-12
The Policy OF Worry.

If 4 great government is intent on
romc project of Importance ard is re-
sisted by another great government, it
tries to make itself unpleasant to that
government i'll every quarter Of the
world. threatens its rivals plans, abuses
its rivals agents, and even condesccnds
to irritate its statesmen by otherwise
purposcless delays.
One state dispicased with another will
try to prevent the subjects of the other
from obtaining concessions" or will
put on annoying little additions to its
tariff, or Will try to defeat it ut some
third court i'll obtaining some trific upon
which Its heart Is supposed to be set. 1t
Will raise embarrassing questions purely
FOR the sake of embarrassment. Will
forward arms to rebels or savagos mere
ly III order to make its opponents ex-
petition more sanguinary or expensive,
or VIII stir up some small OUTLYING
power to plead claims of which it had
never previously thought.
Above all, an irritated government in
these days will turn ON sort of press
tap, and while its accredited agents re-
main as impressive as before, will,
through 'semiofficial organs" utter
menaces which 40 years ago would have
been considered prcludes to war, and
would have drawn from a man like
Lord Palnerston the toughest of re-
Dukes. In plain English, the govern
ments, like Irish Nationalist, have
learned to regard worrying as part of
their stock in rade.-London Spectator.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-08-12
He Made Her Take 1t on.

A man found himself seated behind n
hat of such large proportions that he
could scarcely see the stage at all. Aft
or vainly endeavcring to catch a glimpse
OF the performers he determined that
the only thing to do was to get the
woman to remove her hat. Madam. "
he said i'll the politest tones, would
you be so kind as to take off your hat? It
prevents me from seeing the perform
ance. "NO, will not" was the re-
tort from the woman with the high hat.
The man accepted the rebuff very calm.
ly, and he made vain effort to see the
stage for awhile longer. Finally he de.
termlned to try it again. Madam, I"
he said, Il have paid for this scat, but
by reason of your high hat am unable
to see the stage. Will you obliye me by
taking it off?''
Il have paid for my scat, and I in
tend to wear what l please" was the
answer received. A happy thought
struck the man. He reached for his silk
hat and put it on his head. Immediate
ly there was a Cry Of several voices from
behind him: Take Oft that hat! Take
off that hat!' The man took his hat off.
but the woman, not knowing what he
had done, of course thought that the re-
marks were intended for her. She was
mad, thoroughly mad, and, gathering
herself together, she left her seat and
the theater. and a smile of satisfaction
swept over the mans face. Revenge was
sweet.-Florida Citizen.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-08-12
Hirsch and the Aristorra-v.

1t is told Of the late Baron Hirsch
that he once expressed his contempt for
the aristocracy i'll forcibIe terms. Itwas
in his Paris residence, formerly the
property ct the Empress Eugene. At
one of his magnificent entertainments
Hlrsch stood at the top of the staircase.
and, looking down on the procession Of
princes. dukes and marquises who were
struggling up the stairs to greet him.
he turned 10 his son and said, Twenty
years hence all these people will he
either our scns-in-law or our con-
cierges. -
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-08-12
Shclley's Heart.

A well known and very prominent
English family are the possessors of a
remarkable relic in the shape of a hu-
man heart preserved in a jar of alcohol.
1t appears that Shelley. poet, feared
that there was 4 chance of being buried
alive. To guard against any such a con-
tingcncy he left directions that his heart
should be removed Immediately after
death The queer relic may still be seen
by any one who visits Bascombe Manor,
Bournemouth, England.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-08-12

In the columns of The Kreuzzeitung
Herr Andrae, well known Conservative
politician and friend Of Prince Bis
marck, gives some interesting recollec-
tons of the period Of the war Of 1870.
He says: "Bismarch, read Oh the 9th of
July the speech delivered by the Duke
of Grammont on the 9th. He was at
dinner and handed the newspaper to his
wife, with the words: The Duke of
Gran,nont must have soon rot tired of
his office. ] shall, Of course, have to ask
for his resignation. Later in the even
ing, while walking in the park at
Var2in and thinking of the matter, the
idea suddenly came to him, Napoleon
wants war, and Grammont S speech was
dictated by him.
He went to his room, his first thought
being to telegraph to the king. at Ems,
as follows, 1t would he best to mobilize
at once, declare war and attack before
France is prepared. His nerves were
strung to the highest tension, and he
passed sleepless night. Lying awake,
thinking. there crossed his mind the
text, Blessed are the peacemakers, for
they shall he called the children of God. :
So that won't do, he said to himself.
Then all the political consequences of
his contemplated action became clear to
him. and he ended by casting the first
message aside and telegraphing to King
William simply not to pledge himself to
anything with Benedict, who, if he be-
came pressing, was to be told, MY min
lister Of foreign affairs is at Varzin. +"
London News.