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The Portland daily press., 1896-06-25

visiting their old home on Pickett street.
Mr.. George Loring has hired place at
willard and will open % lunch room
there,
Mr.. George Studley is home from the
6owdoin Medical school for the sum-
mer.
Mr.. Herbert Brooks, who has been con-
nned to tho house many months with
scarlet fevsr is able to be out again.
The main shaft of the bicycle factory
suddenly snapped in two yesterday morn
Ing and the place was obliged to shut
down until repairs could be made. The
tool makers and braizers were all out
Yesterday afternoon ana many of them
who are wheelmen improved their liberty
on taking long rides.
A horse belonging to Mr.. G. Fl. Ed
wards the shoe dealer ran away on Saw
yer street yesterday morning and smashed
the carriage up. No one was injured.
Mr.. +. j. Merriman. the grocer was
learning to ride wheel yesterday morn
ing and afforded oonsi derable amuse-
| ment
! The attention of the selectmen of
South Portland is respectfully directed to
the sidewalk on High and Sawyer street.
1t should be put in good order before the
Fourth Of July celebration.
Every one is talking about the glorious
Fourth and the celebration. The oom :
mittee on the races have drawn up the
programme of events for which money
| and other valuable prizes will be offered.
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SOUTH PORTLAND.

The board Of army officers who have
been examining the candidates for gun
merry, warrant at Fort Preble have COM
pleted their labors and left the post.
bout twenty men appeared before
the board and passed creditable examina-
lions.
The garrison at Fort Preble ia making
arrangements for the coming visit of
Gen. Miles, the commanding officer of
the army, which will probably occur
shortly. 1t is understood that Gen. Miles
does not intend to visit the fort officially
on this occasion, but may pay the officers
an informal visit. The official visit will
be made in few months, and at that
time thorough inspection of the fort
will be made. Some months ago an off,
Ger OF the engineer corps of the army WIS.,
tied the post and made preliminary
survey for the establishment of q mortar
battery at the fort. AS there was not
sufficient land at the post at a suitable
point for the establishment of the battery
the engineer officer decided that it would
be necessary to purchase some land ad-
Joining the reservation. The government
began negotiations with Mrs. Green, who
owns the land bordering the road from
the guard house to the electric road but at
first could not purchase it from her.
Finally. SO it is said, the government
offered Mrs. Green $3.50, and she is said
to have accepted the offer, and to have
sold the land to the government. The
battery will be erected as soon after the
visit Of Gen. Miles as possible, and will
probably contain twenty five of the mod
ern brooch loading heavy mortars. The
company at the post expect to be ordered
to change stations this fall as they have
been here at this post for over three years
The aunt Of Post Surgeon H. S. 7. Har-
ris, Mrs. Earring, who has been visiting
at the post has returned to Washingto n.
Mrs. Della S. Day is rapidly reoove ing
from her recent illness.
Miss Carrie Chamberlain is spending
the summer at Cushings island
Major E. S. Libby of Thurrell's drug
store, is spending this week in Boston.
Mrs. William Weymouth is entertaining
| relatives from Boston.
Mrs. A. W. Cole mt to bennington
yesterday.
Mrs. Lucy PetUengi1l has returned
home after an extended visit to Portland.
Mrs. E. h. Nichols and son Frank,
have arrived in South PORTLAND and are
The Portland daily press., 1896-06-25
CITY OF PORTLAND.
Notice to Coal Dealers.

fl1HE committee on public buildings will re-
u ceiye sealed proposals until Thursday the
25th day Of june 1886, at noon for, furnishing
800 tons or less OF best qnality broken Lehigh
size Lehigh coal, 224o pounds to the ton, to be
delivered and put in and trimmed in the bins of
such of the public buildings and school houses
ed, the coal to be in all respects of the best
quality and in the best order, and to be well
screened on the wharyes before delivery. and
weighed and Inspected by such weigher and in
spector as the committee may designate. Sep
arate bids viii be received at the same time for
furnishing 500 rons or less OF Cumberland coal
ity, suitable for steam purposes, 2240 pounds
to the ton, to be delivered as above. The com.
m m reserves the right to reject any or al
city so to do. Bids should be marked "Propo-
sails for Coal and addressed to JAMES F..
B "a Chairman Committee on Public
Buildings. ie1Sdtd
The Portland daily press., 1896-06-25
Naessenger's Notice,

Office of the Sheriff of Cumberland County
State of Maine. Cumberland, S., June
18th. A. d. 1896.
This is to give notice that on the 18th day
L of June, A. D. 1885, a Warrant IN
Insolvency was issued out OF the Court of Insol-
yency for said County of Cumberland against
the estate of
ORNAN E. HINES of Yarmouth,
adjudged to be an Insolvent Debtor, on
petition Of said debtor, which petition was
fled on the 10th day OF June. A. d.
1886. to which date interest on claims is to
be computed.
That the payment of any debts to or by said
Debtor. and the transfer and delivery of
any property BY him are forbidden by law.
That a meeting of the creditors of said
debtor to prove then. debts and choose
one or more assignees of MS estate. will be-
held at Court of Insolvency to be holden at
Probate Court room in said Portland. in said
County of Cumberland on the 9th day of
July, A. d., 1896, at 10 o'clock in the fore.
noon
Given under my hand the date trst aboys
written. G. l.. BUCKNAM
Deputy Sheriff, as Messenger Of the Court Of
Insolvency for said County of Cuaaberlard.
junel6&25
The Portland daily press., 1896-06-25
THE PRARMACEUTISTs
Hold Their Seventh Annnal Meeting at
Roekland.

The Maine Pharmaceutical Associa
ton are holding their seventh annua
meeting at Rookland Breakwater. Yes
terday was the first day of the gathering
and large and representative
party from Portland went down on tn,
noon train. There were D. W. Heseltine
the president, John Williamson treasurer
Chas. M. Follansbee and Geo. l.. Foga
of the entertainment committee; Chas
Cook of Cock, Everett & Pennell J. W
Perkins of w. Perkins & Co.. Bion r
Lane, Seth Clarke, Chas. G. Files, E
X. Gusnthner, Walter Drew, Edward
Hay, and, in fact, Representatives from
almost all of the drug houses of the town
These We're joined on the way by drug
glsts from stations along the route.
Everything pointed to a very large meet
Ing today. when the business meeting
will be held.
The members all rendezvoused at the
Bay Point hotel, Rookland Breakwater
and were delighted with the beautiful
location OF the house and it's surround
ings The view of Penobscot Bay and
islands. is superb.
Last evening the Rookland druggists
gave very handsome reception to the
visiting fellow members of the associ-
alton.
Today's meeting will continue all dny.
This will be the programme:
10a. m.-Calling ron OF members and
payment of dues.
Presidents address, and report on pro-
ceedings.
Report of entertainment committee.
Report of S cretary.
Report of treasurer.
Report Of ooTamittee on trade interests.
Report of committee on papers.
Report of Board of Pharmacy.
Remarks pertaining to Pharmacy law
of Maine
Appointment of committee to select
place for next meeting 20 be voted on al
afternoon session.
2. m.-Report of comm ittee on next
annual meeting.
Election Of officers and appointment o.
committees.
Heading of papers.
Reading correspondence.
Report committee on Pharmacy class
State College.
Application for mem bership. Miscel
laneous.
During the meeting the ladies of ths
party will BIZ given a buckb board ride
along the coast visiting all places of in
terest, followed by a sail. In the even
ing the Associations grand banquet an(
ball will take place with music by Pull
LEM s orchestra.
Friday, the association will devote the
day to pleasure. A steamer, the Ire
mont, will be at their disposal all day
and a grand sail will be taken all ove
the bay. Pullen's orchestra of Bangor
will accompany the party. The party
will, generally, return Saturday, but the
tickets are good to remain over until
Monday
The Portland daily press., 1896-06-25
Veteran and Odd Fellow.

The funeral services of Elisha r.
Thompson of Medford. Mass, were held
Monday at his home in that city. Rev.
John Barstow Of the Mystic Congrega
tional church, assisted by Rev. W. Pom.
eroy. lifelong friend of Mr.. Thomp.
son, read the service, after which the Odd
Fellows of Medford, at the request Of
Portland Lodge of Maine, of which Mr..
Thompson was member, performed t {
ritual of that order. Members of S. G.
Lawrence Post &c acted as pail to
the burial place at Oak Grove cemetery.
The Portland daily press., 1896-06-25

Waterville, June 24-Following was
programme in full of the graduating
vrcises at Coburn Classical Institute:
Caesars Statesmanship,
Charles Franklin Towne.
Faith against Faith,
*Margaret Williams.
The Place of Art in Civilization,
Wenoua Laura Clark.
The American Characteristic,
Charles Lee Keith.
Familiar Melodies.
Grace Evangeline Bradbury.
Wanted-A Man,
Edward Drummond Jenkins.
Madam de Stael,
Adah Genivieve Staples.
England and the Transvaal.
<Jalnes Henry Hudson.
Our Duty to Cuba,
Carl Coffin.
PTomethens,
Agnes Julia Powers.
An Anachronism,
James David Hewlett.
Ethel Louise Totman.
Maine's Statesmen,
O-in Albert Learned.
The Song of Roland.
Emma Written Peaslee.
School ATHLETICS,
Robert Augustine Crosby.
Chares Dickens as Writer,
Lottie Josephine Gilman.
The Mission of the Poet,
Lucy May Mason.
Excused.
The Portland daily press., 1896-06-25
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The Portland daily press., 1896-06-25
MoRRILL's CORNER.

The following alumni of Westbrook
Sc minary are visiting friends here:
Mr.. Fay Gates, Oakland; Mr.. Stephen
Lovejoy, Mr.. Carl Brightman, Miss
Craze Jacobs. Miss Marble Of Augusta !,
Miss Philips and Miss Smalldige.
Mr.. Robert Ballard of Bath formerly
Of this place is visiting relatives here.
There was q band con cert given on
Tuesday evening at Riverton park which
was largely attended.
The Portland daily press., 1896-06-25
Excused.
Exercises at t he North School.

There where some pleasing recitations,
songs and physical exercises at the NORTH
grammar school yesterday morning il
Misses Robinson and Eassman's room,
given by the class that has just been pro-
NOTED to the High school. The exerc is
es we're very pleasing and at their close
Mr.. j. A. MCGOWAN of the school COM
mittee presented the diplomas. The
principal, Mr.. Parmenter, was presented
large parcel of books for the school IL
brary.
The Portland daily press., 1896-06-25
Even BIacksm1ths,

Even BIacksn1ths,
who are supposed
to represent gre at
strength and perfect
health, are likely to
die of consumption.
NJ ere 1nuscularity
isn't always health.
Disease will develop
rapidly once let the
germs of consump-
ton get into a mans
system, and it viii
kill him certainly and
surely if he doesn't
take the prope r
measures to get rid
of It. Exercise and
work and dieting and
all that sort of thing
are good enough in
their way, but con.
e,,+,,~,+ion &c one of
The Portland daily press., 1896-06-25

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If you want to know all of the facts about
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The Portland daily press., 1896-06-25
DEERING.

Adjourned meeting of the city govern
ment tonight.
The board of the overseers of the poor
holds its monthly NEE ting Tnursday al
ternoon in the city council chamber from
1 to 5 O'Clock, to transact large amour
of important business.
The Portland daily press., 1896-06-25

health, and SICKNESS and now
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The evening bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1887-1905, 1896-05-23

, ter, the servants hoped her good sense
would assert itself and that she would as
sumo her proper attire and position. But
the years of masculine training and mas
Culine freedom had told on her character,
aud she was not willing to sacrifice her
liberty to social demands or formal propri-
e,ies.
She studied hard for year after her
fathers dratS. but it was not to fit herself
for the duties of womanhood, but rather
to qualify herself the better for the role OF
an adventurous gallant, which she had de
cided to follow.
Henri de Maupin had dropped out Of the
worlds recollection outside the rural dis
trict where he was master. So when one
day handsome youth appeared at the
court and introduced himself as Louis,
Vicomte de Maupin," he was accepted
for what he represented himself to be,
and, as the name was an old and illustri-
Gus one, the salons and drawing rooms of
the elite were open at the approach of the
beardless but fascinating cavalier.
And now began series of adventures
quite as remarkable as anything recorded in
the pages of the ARABIAN Nights" Louis
de Maupin plunged at once into the swift
est current of the frivolous and fashionable
world of the day. To use the pronoun
suited to the assumed sex, he associated
with the wild young spirits of the city.
Cards was among the accomplishments
taught by the father, and in this case the
pupil far excelled the master.
Before Louis had been in Paris two
months he had misunderstanding over
cards with Captain Colby of the guards
A duel followed the next morning, and
Colby, the best swordsman in the corps,
was killed. While the whole proceeding
was In accordance with the code duello, the
young adventArer found it advisable to go
into hiding for a time. Meanwhile stories
of his grace, youth, beauty, courage and
wealth were told with increasing exagger.
alton in Paris, and when he returned he
found himself a hero with the young roues
and an idol with the women of fashion.
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SHE LIVED LIKE p MAN.
Remarkable Romance of Madamoiselle de
Maupin. Who Successfully Posed as
Nan. Made Love to WOm-
en- and Fought DuelS.

c--7 10 1@--C1s -TcsTcn auunur InoU-
phile Gautier, about the middle of the
present century, wrote his well known
work, "Mlle. de Maupin," and called it
"A Historical Story" there were many
able critics who doubted the Historical
value of the narrative and declared in the
face of the authors protestations that he
used the word to add to the verisimilitude
of very realistic and clever story.
Subsequent Investigation has developed
the fact that Gautier not only told the
truth as to his remarkable heroine, but
that tho fiction in the work was insignia
cant as compared with the actual facts,
which he so ably recorded
Louise de Maupin, daughter of the vi
comic Henri &c Maupin, was born in Pic
ardy, France, in the spring of 1890. Her
mother died when the child was few
weeks old, and so her case developed a man
whose eccentricities, if shown in these
days, would place him in charge of legal
guardians.
Henri, Vicomte de Maupin, had been
q soldier under Louis XIII and was es-
teemed by his sovereign as an able man.
A fall from his horse injured his head and
forced him to retire from the service while
yet in the prime Of life. He was nearly 80
when he married.
When the old soldier discovered he was
to have an heir, he became wild with de-
light. He would not admit the possibility
that it could be other than boy, and
months before the event he named the
child Louis, after a ancestor who had won
distinction during the reign of the erratic
Louis XI.
The child turned out to be girl, whom
the mother named Louise, but the father
would not hear to it. He swore at the
doctors, at the nurse at the servants, and
even at his wife, declaring they had en-
tered into a conspiracy to deceive him and
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Shirt Waist Collars,

The scheme to have detachable collars
with shirt waists is a very happy
thought of somebody, and the quick
popularity Of this style of waist attests
its general favor. One waist will easily
retain its freshness to wear through two
collars, now that the shirt waist is
such only in name and does not neces-
sarily mean bodice with shirt front.
Some dressmalzers also make up the
stylish shepherds plaid silk waists to
be worn with linen collars-white lin
en-, Of course, being preferred-though
few plain batiste collars have been
seen. New York Times.
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blast his life. The child was boy and
his name was Louis, and from this opinion
there was no changing Henri dc Maupin
1t is said that the husbands unreasoning
persistcncy preyCd upon the health of his
wife and FASTENED her death.
Sole guardian Of his bright and beauti-
full child and surrounded by menials eager
to obey his orders and encourage his wild
whims, the nobleman devoted his life to
the education Of Louis"
my heir shall be the most accomplished
cavalier in France" said the father to the
old cure, who in vain tried to advise with
him. "Whcn l am gone, Louis will be
the NicOmte de Maupin, and if the ban
ner of the ileur de lis needs defender he
shall be the first and greatest"
From the very first the education of this
strangely placed child was of military
and masculine character. The old man S
strange dclusion, if not actually epcour-
aged certainly was not opposed by those
with whom he came into contact. The
little one was barely able to walk when it
was fitted out in "a military uniform, and
from her first lisping she spoke of herself
and regarded herself as a boy.
Mentally the girl was wonderfully
bright. Unlike most girls, she cared moth
ing for dolls. Her toys were swords,
trumpets and drums and before she had
entered her teens she was an expert fencer
and skilled with the pistol Her father
kept girls away from her, and boys were
only permitted to visit the chateau de
Maupin, when he offered prizes for fenc-
Ing, shooting and riding, all Of which were
taken by this strange girl.
When Louise was II, her father died,
leaving her competency and stating in
his will that Louis" must enter the army
when he" became IS.
Now comes the startling phase of this
woman's character, for she was now
woman. Up to this time she had always
dressed and acted as man. Years before
she had discovered her fathers hallucina-
ton, but, pleased with the greater freedom
the assumed sex gave her, she lent herself
Willingly to the fraud Naturally robust,
though only about feet inches in
height, her outdoor exercise and virile
mode of life gave her a strength and grace
that were phenomenal. She was not only
expert with weapons Of war and the most
daring rider in Picardy, but her physical
strength was greater than that of most
young men Of five and twenty.
Now that her father was dead and she
was her own mistress. or 1T may be mas
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1 take two parts-one that or young wo-
man, the other that of gallant"
Louis de Maupin had developed liking
for literature and a talent for dramatic
representation that added to his-or her
popularity. The artist was present at the
performance. He watched his friend with
the greatest interest-an interest that be-
came painful anxiety when the change
of character came.
The study of the human form had been
an essential part of his art training. Il
have made discovery tonight" he said
to Louis when they were back at the
studio. "If have not, then God pity me-
for iGust be insane"
"What is it?" asked De Maupin, show
ing excitement and trembling for the first
time.
You are q woman-a beautiful, love-
able woman, and not beast OF man ~
cried the desperate artist.
De Msupin examined the door, drew
down the curtains. Then, coming back
and kneellng before him, she said: Eyes
l am "A woman. Here Is the story Of my
life, and 1 tell 1t to you because 1 love
you"
And rising from her knees to seat on
his, she laid her head on his breast and
with her terrs poured out the story of her
strange life. Honorable man that Philippe
Cassimir was, he proposed to make Mile.
de Maupin his wife, but her free, lawless
life had made her indifferent to the legal
obligation which society," for it's own pro-
lection, demands as the final act of such
an attachment.
II am ready to be your wife before high
heaven, but l do not propose to be bound
by law that Is violated when love dies,
but which is unnecessary where love
lives" she said Her force of character
and the blind force of Cassimirs unrea-
soning love overcame his scruples, and for
about year they lived as husband and
wife. But as Louis still dressed and acted
as man before the world the secret for
the time was known only to the two.
Meanwhile Louis made love to women,
which excited no jealousy on the artists
part, and caroused with men, which drove
him wild, and soon sent him to his grave.
The facts of this narrative are taken largely
from q memoir of the artist, published by
his granddaughter in London so years ago,
and which gave Gautier his suggestion for
the startling story mile. dc Maupin."
Instead of changing her life the death Of
her lover seemed to give an impulse to the
lovemaking, gambling and wild excuses
of Louis do Maupin. The fact that boards
were not worn at the time aided the decep-
ton, but why she should persist in max
ing love to her own sex is as inexplicable
as is their wild love for her.
When Louise de Maupin was "a years of
age, although she then looked like hand
some youth of 10, she won the warm at
tention, if not the love, of the beautiful
young wife of Lord Cavendish, an attache
of the English embassy to Paris.
A duel followed in which both were Sc
verely wounded. Louise de Maupin at
once started for her home in Picardy,
feeling that the end had come. Three
weeks after the encounter she died from
the effects Of gangrene. Greater adven-
turesses there have been, but never one
moro unique. ALFRED r. CALHOUN.