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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-04-29
FOR TWO DAYS ONLY.
SHIRT WAISTS

in all the effects are being
shown by us. We recommend
the Newport" and "Sterli ng''
Waist for perfection in fit and
finish.
Silk Waists made to custom
ers measure. Everything fur
nished for 1915, 6.75, S.75.
We have just added to our
Boys Suit Department another
section for Girls Cotton Suits
from 2 to IA years. We invite
you to visit these departments
and be shown the new goods for
boys and girls the coming sum-
mer.
The record-union., 1896-10-29
HOW HBOUT IT?

OAK HALL, ON THE RIVERSIDE
road, is now fiourishing, so says CARL
MUNGER, the genial proprietor. He also
says. Come and be convinced" good
stock of wines, liquors and cigars always
on hand. Dinners to order. The finest
in the land.
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Business Houses, Contractors and Public Men
-FURNIsHED With
NEWSPAPER INFORMATION OF ALL KINDS
PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU,
$40 Montgomery street, San Francisco.

WHEREAS, THE PACIFIC GASLIGHT
and Fuel Company has this day made ap-
plication to the Board OF Trustees of the
city of Sacramento, State OF California,
for q franchise TO lay down mains and
pipes in any and all the streets and al
leys in the city of Sacramento during the
period of twenty-five years for the pur-
pose of conducting, distributing and de-
livering Illuminating and fuel gas there
through to the inhabitants of said city
of Sacramento;
Now therefore it is hereby ordered that
it is proposed by the said B6ard of Trus-
tees of the city of Sacramento to grant
said franchise, and it Is further ordered
that the 23d day of November, A. d. 1896
at o'clock p. m, and the meeting room of
said city of Sacramento, State of Califor-
MIA. be and the same are hereby fixed as
the time and place to open and read all
bids and tenders offered for said fran
chise, and granting the same to the high
est bidder, and it is further ordered that
all such bids or tenders shall be delivered
to the City Clerk of the city of Sacra-
mento, and that no bid or tender delivered
to said Clerk after p. m. on the 23d dav
of November, 1896, shall be Considered bv
this board. It is hereby further ordered
that this order and the preamble thereto
be published in the Record -Union'' every
day for at least ten days, the first publi-
cation to be at least thirty days before
said 23d day of November, 1896
Dated Sacramento, October 49, 1896
Attest: CHAS. E. LEONARD,
President of Board of Trustees
M. J. Desmond. Clerk of Board of Trus-
tees. o21-11t
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THE WEEKLY UNION-THE BEST
weekly on the coast.
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BUSH QUINN

IS NOW SETTLED AT HIS NEW RE-
sort, formerly the Sutterville House. Give
him a call, and try his new goods. Down
the Riverside: don't forget.
The record-union., 1896-10-29
Notice Of Award Of Contract, No. 800.

PURSUANT TO LAW AND TO
the resolution of the Board of Trus-
tees of the city Of Sacramento
adopted October Is, 1896, directing this this
notice, notice is hereby given that the
said Board of Trustees, in open session, on
the 18th day of October, 1896. opened, ex-
amined and publicly declared all sealed
proposals offered for the following work.
TO wit:
That the alley between NJ and n streets
in said city, from the west line of Eight
eenth street to the west line of Twentieth,
street, be improved by constructing there
in an eight (S) inch vitrified ironstone-pipe
sewer, with two brick manholes, rejected
all Of said bids except that next herein
after mentioned, and thereafter, on the
26th day of October, 1896, awarded the con-
tract for said work to the lowest regular
responsible bidder, to wit: to Burns &
Parker, at the prices named for said work
in their proposal on file.
NJ. J. DESMOND,
Clerk Of Board of Trustees Of Sacramento
City.
Sacramento. October OF. 1885, o2S-2t
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Excursion to San Francisco,
Saturday, Oct. 3lst.
GRAND DAYLIGHT PARADE
AND SPEECH BY
HON. 7. REED
OF MAINE.

Excursion tickets. via Benicia only, will
be sold by the Southern Pacific Company
for morning trains of Saturday; good to
return on afternoon trains of same day
and on all trains Sunday. Round trip,
So 35. Tickets on sale at ticket office date
of excursion. o2s-3t
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the privilege Of borrowing.
Don't fool yourselves with the idea
that all rich men are lenders and no.
body but poor men are borrowers. That
is not so. Enterprise is always a bor-
rover and is always a creditor, too. If
I borrow money enough to start up one
Of those lumber mills that I passed by
not far from here, / sell the lumber to
people ON credit. Do you suppose I am
going to borrow money on the chance
OF my customers paying me only one
half? Well, l suppose if took a good
bond from him, the way most of these
people do, he might do it. 1t is a most
astonishing thing for me.
I came to California during the war,
when the rest of the Union was taking
greenbacks and suffering all the evils of
a depreciating currency, and when got
out here this splendid people who had
taken possession of this magnificent
country were holding on TO gold as the
standard, and they prospered under it.
tco-prospered under 1t so much so that
every man now that has got voice
enough to shout for silver has brains
enough to put gold" into his contracts
Gold Is necessary for him, but silver
will do for you people, and If you want
to vote with him / think it will do for
him. Iaughter.)
No, my friends, you cannot afford to
make two great, big blunders. Just re-
member who these men are. Who are
they? Why they are the remainder OF
the Democratic party after the good
men have left 1t. daughter and ap-
plause.) The Democratic party with
the good men in 1t made a tremendous
mistake In 1892, and If a party with
the good men in 1t goes wrong, what
will a party with only the bad men in
1t do? Naughter.)
I remember what friend OF mine at
The record-union., 1896-10-29
SPECIAL NOTICES

Vehicles-Baker & Hamilton-Hardware.
Carts, Buggies, Carriages. Phaetons. Balm
Farm and Header Wagons, Wholesale
Hardware. Send for catalogue.
KENT BROS. 1oII Third street, for car
riages. buggies, rigs of all kinds at short
notice. Telephones-New. 2l5; Old. Oil.
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-07-31
PROFIT SHARING.
An Inquiry as to h Results OF Re.
periments in This Country.

An Inquiry as to the esu OF Ex.
periments in Country.
From extensive correspondence with
all the firms and corporations known
to have tried profit sharing 10 the
United States Mr.. Paul Monroe has
made an important resume of results
up to date. The reports, given chiefly
In the language of the concerns them
selves, are summarized as follows: OF
the fifty firms which have adopted the
system, twelve continue 1t, five lave
abandoned 1t permanently. Those
which continue the plan have an ex-
p~erience extending on nm average
through seven years. The second
class average but n year, and recog-
nizing the insufflciency of such a trial
have not decided 1t a failure. The
third class vary in length Of trial from
a maximum of eight years TO a mini
mum of six months; the majority hav-
ing tried 1t for a period of from two to
three years. In comparison with Eu-
ropean experience one is struck with
the brevity Of the trial As To a fun
damental principle, the large majority
are Of the opinion that such a plan
results In a financial loss to the m
ployer, he being recouped If at all IN
norcomputable ways. Those which
continue the plan do so, not as a mat
ter of philanthropy, but as a matter of
Justice If not of business. These are
about equally divided iii their opinion
as to the direct financial benefit Of the
plan to the firm. While It is r vita
any such question, that n success
will prove that 1t can be done With
profit, and any number of failures not
prove the contrary, yet It is as a gen
eral type, not as an individual varia
ton, that such a system has social sis'
~nihcance. A further study will Justify
two general conclusions: 1. That such
a system will succeed only With a Sc
lect few Of employers, those with
whom social motives have au extraor-
binary influence, and with a grade of
skilled or intelligent labor; 2. Such a
system is of some Importance 10 society
from a statical point of view, but little
II any at all from that Of social prog
ress--American Journal Of Sociology,
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Pennsylvania
--ltems

After a quarrel, Michael Demsko
seriously stabbed Thomas Little at
Shamokin.
Charged with bel ng a torse thief,
George Judy, of Lancaster, has been
put behind the bars.
The march of the army worm has
brought him to Hereford, the most
eastern corner of Bucks County.
As a result of chewing match ends,
Samuel Werner, engineer, of the Leba-
non Match Works, is excepted to die.
Grieving over the death of her
father, Mrs. Frank Lemle, of Har-
manvilIe, made an unsuccessful at
tempt to drown herself. 3
Heavy rains throughout the Schuyl-
kill Valley caused a big rise In the
Schuylkill River.
Severe rain storms in the vicinity OF
B~ellefonte did great damage to the oat
crop, and washed out many corn fields.
A vicious dog at Avondaie attacked
Frank Mondy, a ~2-year-old boy of Ken
nett Square, and bit his nose COM
pletely off.
Falling INTO a pail of hot water, a
4~-year-old child of Samuel Y. Rismiller.
of Kricks Mill, was trightfully scslded
and may die.
Augustus Witticken, one of a party
of five tramps that succeeded in drink
ing II gallon of whisky, was found dead
in a barn at LogansyIlle.
Children playing with matches in
the barn of Maurice Logan, at Shan
nonville, set fire to the hay, aud the
buildings and contents were destroyed.
Mahlon Fabian, a tramp who has
been max ng the lives of lone women
N the ~neighborhood of Reading miser-
able, was captured on Neversink Noun
tain.
While backing his team out of hi
barn the wagon tongue ran into the
stomach of Edward Balderson, a Bucks
county farmer, and he died from the
injuries. 4
A 2-year-old child of Paul Richie,
of Lancaster, was knocked out of Its
coach, run over and fatally injured by
a heavy wagon.
Falling coal killed Wallace Burtosic
at the Bumeidi mine, shamokin.
Falling from a Reading Railroad
freight tram an unknown man was
killed neal Langhorne,
Charged with setting fire to two barns
Harry and George Jacobs, brothers,
were arrested and jailed at New Bloom
field.
On a wager, Joseph Tresss, of
Luzerne County, swallowed a sparrow,
feathers and all, and a live toad and
nearly choked to death.
Burglars familiar with the surround
ings broke into the parsonage of ST. Jo-
seph's Catholic Church, in YOUNGSTOWN,
and got away with much booty.
While riding on a freight train John
Frester, of Lancaster, leaned over to
grasp at his hat, which had been blown
off, and in doing so fell to the ground,
receiving fatal injuries. 5
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-07-31
Foreign Briefs.

The stronghold of the Matabeles in
the Matoppo Hills, south of Buluwiyo
has been taken by the British forces.
In the Queens Division of tn High
Court of Justice, in London, DIR. jane
son and his fellow-oficers in the
Transvaal raid pleaded not guilty. 8
Princes Maud of Wales and Prince
Charles of Denmark We're married in
the Chapel Royal, Buckingham Palace,
London. The Queen, with her chill
dren and their families. were present.
The Archbishop Of Canterbury ofici-
ated. l
Chinese advices, received at Van
couver, are to the effect that the
Mohammedan rebels have annihllated
5000 imperial troops.
Sir John Millais suffered a relapse in
London, and is in a critical condi-
ton. 8
Prince MAMMALIAN, of Saxony, was
ordained a priest in Dresden.
The first session of the Socialist
Trade Con gress, in L ndon termina-
ted in a row. The Anarchist delegates
demanded a hearing and attempted to
storm the platform.
A Bombay despatch reports an acct
dend on the railway between that city
and Delhi, in which fifty persons were
killed.
The shipyards of Harlan & Wolff and
of Workman, Clark & Co., i N Belfast,
Ireland, were damaged by fire to the
extent of 81, $50, 900. z
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PENIS GROVE. N. J.. FRIDAY. JULY 81. 1896.

Enos Barge, % years old, of Refton,
was fatally i jured, and his compau.
i n, Miss Barbara Hershey, % years
old, of Black Horse, was instantly
killed at Bird-in-H Hand railroad cross
ing, Lancaster county, an express
train having struck the buggy which
they occupied.
Wi lam Trauers was stabbed and
probably fatally injured at Pottsville
by a mar from whom he attempted to
steal fruit. The assailsnt and Il com
panion were arrested and committed
to Jail. ]
Mrs. Lincoln Barton was appointed
postmistress at Delta.
David NJ. Hettinger, of Penn Town
ship, Berks County, went into a corn
field, took paris green and died.
The striking miners at Patterson,
ColIiery, Shamokin, returned to work,
the company having paid one-half the
wages and agreeing to settle in full.
While crossing over Western Mary
land Railroad near Chambersburg,
Samuel Hafer's team was struck by a
train, and he was badly injured, while
one of his horses was killed. 2
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A Great Mans Joke

The average Frenchman is naturally
so much an actor that he appreciates
an opportunity to play a part, even
when the part is not a fattering one
A story told of NJ. Leon Say, the emf
nent French fnancier and statesman
who died recently, illustrates this char
acteristic.
Monsieur Say was in the habit Of WIS.,
fling each year at the chateau Of Stors
with an aged aunt. He was very pop
ular with the people of the country
near by on account of his extreme good
nature and his habit Of performing ser.
vices for everybody,
One day he drove to the station at
Meru, and offered a seat In his carriage
to a gentleman who got off there; but
the gentleman could not ride with him,
so Monsieur Say insisted on carrying
home his parcels, which were several
IN number.
Now the country about Meru was ex.
tr~aordinarily infested with tramping
beggars. who, when they were refused
aims or food, had a habit of returning
and ringing the bells of houses to OBJ
tain a sort Of revenge for their treat
ment by causing more trouble.
When the great financier, laden with
bundles, knocked at his friends side
door, the maid, supposing him to be a
tramp who had just called, shouted
from within:
"Get outI 1 tell you l have nothing
for you'll"
Then there came from without, in the
whining, piteous accents of a beggar:
Pm not asking anything this time
I'm leaving things!"
He deposited his parcels before the
astonished girl, and departed, laughing
heartily,
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New Jersey Items

The body of Miss Bessie Kane, of
Beverly, who was drowned in the river
at Burlington was recovered.
The strike at Wilson's wooden mills
at Trenton was ended the operatives
agreeing to 60 back at the ten per
cent. reduction.
Joseph seibert, of Camden, COM
united suicide by jumping overheard
from the %ferryboat Columbia.
Mrs. Mary Herman, wife of John
Herman, of South Camden, drowned
her two children, aged l and p years,
and attempted to drown .herself in the
Delaware river. The mother was res
cued, and the half crazed husband
was committed to prison to prevent
him from committing suicide through
grief, :
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dren. Another child, two of the
nurses and the matron, Mrs. Clark,
are IN a precarlous condition from the
same cause.
John Crump, % years old, gunners
mate on the u. S. Amphitrite, was
drowned in Spring Gardens, at Balti-
more, while bathing.
/ The Peary expedition steamer Hope
passed Battle Iiarbor, Straits of Belle
lsle, bound north, and reported all on
board well.
James Daily, of Brooklyn, N. y,
IS under arrest for having seriously
wounded his mother with a pistol
which he carelessly snapped in her
presence thinking it was not loaded.
The Populist National Convention
completed its work at St. Louis by
nominating William ]. Bryan for
President. There wal but n ballot,
Bryan receiving 1912 votes to 32l cast
for 5. +. Norton, of Chicago. Bryan's
telegram saying that he would not ac-
cept unless Sewall was nominated, was
not read 10 the convention. /
Levi Sancomh, aged 16, and Nellie
Buzby, aged 16, of Chateaugay, New
York, were struck and killed by a
train on the Ogdensburg and Lake
ChamplaIn Railroad. They were driv-
ing, and the accident occurred at a
grade crossing.
while workmen we're clearing away
the debris in the recently burned
Diamond Match Company building IN
Chicago, the supports of the first floor
gave way, burying a half dozen men
under heavy timbers. Four of them
were probably fatally injured.
Henry Kettering, a m%achinist, of
Canton, Ohio, was killed by a boiler
explosion in his shop.
-Four men were drowned near
Quincy, Illinois.
Enos N. Barge was injured while driv-
ing across the railroad at Bird-in- Hand
Penna. The other occupant of the
wagon, Miss Hershey, was killed.
A despatch from Peshtigo, Wiscon-
sin, says that forest fires are sweeping
over a large area in the northwestern
part of Marinette county, about the
Eagle, one of the main branches OF the
PeshtigO. 1t is estimated that nearly
four tognships have been burned over.
but thus far the amount Of standing
timber destroyed is small.
The dead bodies of Sheriff Douglass
and an unknown highwayman, who
had committed many robberies single
handed during the past two weeks,
we're found two miles from Nevada
City, California. There we're many
wounds on the bodies, and the men
had evidently had a desperate hand
to-hand fight.
In st. Paul, Minnesota, Henry B.
White shot and probably fatally
fatally wounded Miss TiilIe Stumpf
and himself. He is a married man
and her flight to escape his attentions
provoked the shooting.
/. n. Coffee, president of the Illinois
State Board of Pharmacy, was stabbed
and killed by DR.. Crabtree, a druggist,
in Cairo, Illinois. The reason for the
crime is not known. z
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-07-31

Then he went down to London and
opened a place of business for himself.
In 1865 he was elected to parliament
and was instrumental in securing the
passage of several acts amending HE
shipping laws. These measures were
of great comfort TO the English sailor.
In 1880 he went back TO the House OF
Commons, but gave up his seat TO Sir
William Vernon HarcOurt, who prom
ised to use his influence as cabinent
minister to further all parliamentary
matters affecting the well being of
sailors. Mr.. Plimsoll has written and
published two books, Our Seamen'
in 1877, and Cattle Ships in 1890.
Both works have done much 10 make
the lot of Jack Tar happier. Six years
ago. he was made President of the
Amalgamated Sailors Union, but aft
erward retired.
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-07-31

that the pampas should be mounted
fan shape on a staff. This is not the
first time pampas grass has been en-
ployed as the emblem of the Republi-
can party. 1t was adopted az such in
the Republican National Convention
of 1892.
Pampas grass is, properly speaking,
a grass which covers the pampas Of
South America, but 1t Is now cultivated
all over California for the sake Of its
plumes, which are sold by florists for
room decoration. The South American
grass Is quite hardy, and its tufts are
magnificent In appearance. The leaves
are fully six or eight feet long, and the
Towering stems ten to fourteen feet
high. The flowers are silvery white,
and from eighteen inches to two feet
long. The culture OF these grasses and
their preparation for the market form
a considerable industry. Florists are
thoroughly conversant with the yalu-
able commercial qualities Of pampas
grass, and most of the purveyors Of
flowers deal in 1t quite extensively.
The demand for pampas grass as an In
terror decoration is on the increase ev-
cry year. The grasses are dried and
colored for the market, and all that Is
left for the florists to do Is their ar
engagements in making appropriate
combinations. The great beauty Of
pampas grass is thought to reside In
the plumes, or feathers, as they are
sometimes called. These are abundant
and fluffy, and fall In graceful stream
ers around the stems. The natural col
or of pampas grass is almost white, but
rarely reaches the retailer in that guise.
Mark Hanna has spoken for red. white
and blue pampas gra IS, and red, white.
and blue are likely to be the staple cob
ors until election day.
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-07-31

II has been well observed that We
should treat ~futurIty as an aged friend
from whom we expect a rich leg
acy.
The Opportunity to do mischief is
found a hundred times a day, and that
of doing good once a year.
Snme very good people can ne er see
any harm in sin while it can wear good
clothes and ride in a coach.
The man who becomes a successful
~hypocrite, will not he much of a sue
cess at anything else.
When Columbus sighted land, he
gave me bet er eyes and enlarged the
world.
The feet of truth are slow, but they
never slip,
Try not only to he good, but to be
coed for something.
The man who will not improve his
chance is bound to lose it, no matter
whether it has to do with seeking SAL
walton or making a fortrn).
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M,cb doing is not SO important as

Much doing is not so important as
well doing.
Man is never 60 unhappy as when
he hates his brother, and never more
happy than when he loves him
Always treat an abusive man just as
YOU do a kicking mule-keep with
drawing a little further off.
Not the price that we bargain to pay,
but the price that she sets on herseif,i Is
the value of Truth.
Building on a rock is an investment
that paws dividends with every thunder
clap.
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-07-31
HIS BIG UNDERTAKING.
Samuel PIimsoiI Would Unite Yankee
and Briton In Brotherly Love.

SdnHHtE FTTHI5UIE "VHTU VNEtt IHHhUy
and Briton In Brotherly Love.
Samuel Plimsoll, who wants to unite
the people Of the United States and
Great Britain In br-therly love and
mutual admiration, Is a wonderful
man. He recently arrived in New
York for the sole purpose of patching
up all differences between the Yankee
and the Briton, and is not at all dis
mayed by the size Of the undertaking.
Mr.. Plimsoll Is getting on toward rs,
and most OF his life has been spent in
smoothing the path of the British sail
or. His present mission is, therefore,
new to him, He began life ~ 4 law
yer's clerk and changed that occupa-
ton for a high stool in a brewery.
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-07-31
pAMPAS GRASS PLuMEs.

They Will Be Waved by Republican,
Who Parade This Year.
Mark Hanna, chairman OF the Ma
tlonal Republican Committee, has
chosen as the emblem in the forthcom-
ing campaign red. white. and blue pam"
pas grass, both for interior decorations
and as a standard to be carried In
parades. at which functions he suggests
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-07-31
The First of Many.

The frst white child born on United
States soil was the grand daughter Of
White, the Governor OF Roanoke Isl
and. She was .chrlstened by the name
of Virginia Dare, and her birthday wal
Aug. Is, 1887.
The Penn's Grove record., 1896-07-31

No woman's hair is as long hanging
down her back as Il looks to be in the
wad on top of her head.