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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-09-19
MARINE NEWS
PORT OF PORTLAND.
FRIDAY. Sept. 10.

FRIDAY. Sept. 10.
Arrived.
Steamship Cottage City, Bennett. New Iork-
passengers and mdse to j B Coyle.
Sch Eleazer W Clark, Goodwin, Philadelphia
with coal to Randall & McAllister.
Sch Grace Davis, Dodge, Providence.
Sch VIM Rice, Maddox, Reimbursement to
G S Chase.
Sch Sarah, Rice, Boston.
Sch Delaware. Harmon, Portsmouth,
Sch Lillian. Grindle, Portsmouth.
Sch Lydia M Grant. Merriman, HarpsweM
Sch Laura & Marion Eastman Harpswell.
Cleared.
Sch David Torrey. McDufie. Boston-W s
Jordan & Co.
Sch Maggie J Chadwick, James, Hillsboro-
Ryan & Kelsey.
Sch Ell Dorado, Small, Millbridge-J Fl Blake.
Sch Lizzie Clark, Randall, Harrington-J H
Blake.
Sch Jas Freeman, Jasper Machias.j
Sch Delaware, Hannah, Bangor-Paris Flour
ing Co.
Sch M Fisk, Clifford, Belfast and Searsport-
Paris FIGURING Co.
SAILED-Barque Golden Sheaf; schs Alicia
Crosby.J W Hawthorne. and Normandy.
Also sailed, tugs L A. Belknap, an Uornelia,
with dredge and scows for Camden.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-09-19
Ne" York Quotations ON Stocks and Bond
(By Telegraph,

n, NEW YORK, Sept IS
Inc following are to-day's closing quotatio ns
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Th. Sea $ of the Mighty.

The full title of this dramatic tale is "The
Seats of the Mighty; Being the Memoirs of
Captain Robert Maray, Sometime an Officer in
the Virginia Regiment and Afterward of Am
herst's Regiment" The scene of the story is
laid in Quebec al the time Immediately pre-
ceding the capture OF the great Canadian
stronghold by the British. The author, Gil
bert Parker has inserted some faithful histori-
cal elements, thereby giving more strength
and vividness to his fiction. While hostage
among the French forces ut Quebec Robert Ma
ray falls in love with a French gentleman's
daughter, Alike Duvarney. He unfortunately
gives offense to a high official of the CITY, W ho
thereafter seeks an excuse to make Maray suf-
fer. Suddenly the news of Braddock's defeat
and death reaches Quebec along with some
papers found on one of the prisoners written
by Maray and containing much information
concerning the fortress of Quebec. Captain
Maray is therefore arrested as a spy and he
undergoes long captivity. Alike is faithful
through it all and when her lovers doom
seems nigh she secretly weds him in prison
and then plans his escape, together with that
of other British captives Maray and his COM
panions are just in time 10 join the attacking
forces of General Wolfe and guide the English
forces up the heights to the Plains of Abraham.
After the victory over General Montcalm's
forces Maray and his bride are reunited, the
latter having been an inmate of convent
since her husbands disappearance. The book
contains many thrilling incidents and en-
chains the readers interest from beginning to
end. The volume contains illustrations of peo-
pie, places and events of the time to which the
story relates. New York. D. Appleton d Co.,
publishers. For sale by Doxey; price ST. sci
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Poker Stories.

This readab BILE volume is intended to give a
real insight into American character re-
vealed by the great American game. Every
body, whether devotee of the game or not,
likes good poker story, and each in this col
lection is gem" The stories have been col
lected and edited with the greatest discrimina-
ton, and are admirably arranged under the
following chapter headings: "Stories Told of
Statesmen" mississippi River Stories"
"Stories Told From the Efete East" "Stories
From the Wild and Woolly West" Pacific
Coast Stories," "Stories of War Times" "Stor-
les OF High Stakes" "Superstitions and Hoo
doos," Told at the Ananias Club etc. There
is hardly dull page in it from the preface
where the author refers to the remark of
Tombstone Thomas, "that his partner was the
luckiest man he ever saw, as he once held five
aces and only got shot in the leg"-to the last
page of the volume, where it is told how Billy
Emerson, the minstrel, and friend of King
Kalakaua, used to say to his endman: "When
will three aces beat four kings?' The endman
having given it up. he would explain that he
held the three aces and against him were the
king of clubs, the king of diamonds, the king
of hearts and King Kalakaua. New York:
Francis P. Harper, publisher; paper cover, so
centS.1
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WeSSex Tales.

fine new edition of Thomas Hardy's
s'Wessex Tales" has been received. Since
Hardy wrote ''Tess of the D'Urbervilles, the
demand for his earlier works has been 1ncreas-
ing There are six stories in the volume at
hand, and they are generally based on facts
that came to the authors knowledge. In
"An Imaginative Woman Mrs Marchmill
fell in love with Robert Trewe, man she
never saw. Trewe died and Mrs. Marchmill
mourned for him. After her death her hus-
band found a resem blance between his young
est child and the photograph of Trewe and,
believing his wife had been unfaithful, dis
carded the child "The Withered Arm" rests
on most quaint superstition connected with
witchcraft and most horrible cure for the be-
witehed. In "Fellow Townsmen'' is an oddchain
Of circumstaRces CT which operated to separate a
man and woman during their lives, despite
the fact that they loved each other. 1.-THE
distracted Preacher" was the Rev. Mr.. Stock
dale. who went down into the West of Eng land
and fell in love with Lizzie Newberry. The
result was, he broke the law and became
smuggler. In these stories, especially in the
last. which is the longest, the author finds
much humor in the peasants and their GUS
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The Industrial Army.

Fayette Stratton Giles is the author of a
book, "The Industrial Army" which discusses
certain proposed means of relieving and elm
mating poverty and crime. He remarks that
"these means are intended to confer upon the
individual economic and locative freedom,
personal freedom and equality of opportunity,
and through these TO achieve higher civiliza-
tion and greater human happiness, conse-
quent upon the proposed attainment OF a
higher moral, mental and physical deSlop-
ment of the individual" The author endeay-
ors to show in detail that, without un-
just or harmful curtailment of indi-
vidual liberty or industrial freedom,
an equitable and attainable form of an
nuity, or a cooperative savings fund,
may be devised and maintained by feasible and
just individual equivalents rendered. which
shall guarantee and furnish upon demand to
each acquitted member Of society, reasonable
material comforts during the term of his
nat1xal life. "This end may be attained by a
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ANOTHER TALE
OF CALIFORNIA SOCIETY
BY A NATIVE.
"The Quicksands of Pactolus," Novel.

nor gaudy in her coloring. She is reckless,
passionate, Independent of spirit and given to
hoelng her own row, but otherwise is not diff
ferent from the lay figures that serve for
women in most novels whether of Eas: or
West. This character is one of the least salts
factory in the story, which by the way is not
novelty in novels, for there are few writer's in
any country who can make good lifelike pic
tuTe of a woman who is not conventional.
The moral of the story is mainly in the
wrecked life of Helen. Not until that ruin
came, says the author, "did Mrs. Darlington
throw off those grosser vapors which had OBJ
scured so long the light ofa sweet, simple soul.
Not till then did Rufus Darlington reap the
harvest OF his own sowing and realize that his
daughters act was largely the logical conse-
quence of her accumulation of his own
materialism and cynicism. The iconoclast
had broken many an idol and at last his own.
ques stion followed-a question he was not pre-
pared TO answer: AT whose door were these
fruits to be laid?'"
The story cannot be rated as 9 strong work,
but it is full of promise. The author is evi-
IDENTIFY serious in his study of California lie
and aims to picture the truth. He has done
enough in this book to encourage the expects-
ton that he will do much better in another,
and give us novel of San Francisco society that
the cultured people of California will not hesi-
tate to recommend to the most fastidious
critics Of the East or of Europe. New York:
Henry Holt & Co. JOHN MCNAUGHT.
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The Under Sioe of Things

Love affairs in West Point society take up
the greater part of Lillian Bells new novel
"The Under Side of Things" and her endeavor
seems to be, in way, TO picture society behind
the scenes as well as in front OF them; to de-
scribe its pains and heartaches as well as its
fleeting pleasures. Alice Copeland's father is
Point, and she accompanies him and her
mother to the military post. There, Alice Is
admired and flattered by the elegant Senator
Cobb, and her mother is inclined to the idea
that marriage with the Senator would be the
very making OF Alice in the social world But
there is young artilleryman at West Point
named Gordon Councilman, who lays siege to
Alice's heart and there is maiden named
Kate Vandevoort who is the embodiment
of wisdom and goodness, whose in
huence is given in Gordon's behalf and
whose aid brings victory TO Gordon. MS
Copeland, always disagreeable, strenuously
objected to this match. but Alice and Gordon
marry in spite of her. After few years Alice's
happiness dies when Gordon loses his life
nursing his men during a yellow fever epi-
demic. The story of her widowhood is pa
thetic. In one part of the story the author
accounts for the adult sense of humor and the
cynicism in certain children in the fact that
"they had been parties from their babyhoodi to
the marital unhappiness of their father and
mother, and the constent companions OF
clever but unwise grown people, who openly
discussed social problems before them in
manner which could not fail of impressing the
duilest intellects" New York: Harper &
Brothers. For sale by A. NJ. Robertson; price
81 OIL
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COUNTRY MEETIN'-HOUSE.

want to go to meetin' iist like L used to do
AT Salem, when the world fresh an earth
seemed bloomin' new;
l want to meet the plain old folks at always gath
cred there,
An smelled the clover in the fields asweetenin'
all the air,
While htched to shade trees and the fence the
lazy horses stood.
An fur away the raincrow sent his warnin'
through The wood;
1 want 10 hear the only choir-the congregation
sing
The songs sweet Miriam sung at made the
welkin' ring!
I want go to Salem once, an stand around the
door.
A-shakln' hands with them whose hands I may
not grapple more.
l wonder if the Griffin girls are still. as air as
With eyes blue as Iarkspurs wus a-srowin' in
the glen?
l wonder eff the roses grow out where my mother
sleeps,
A n ef the cricket through the night his lonely
vigil keeps?
An would there rise, eff 1 near, within my
memory's ear,
Her voice in such sweet tones as now 1 somehow
never hear?
Iwant to go to meetin' once among the we'll
known ways,
An watch the brooklet smilin' back when sun
beam kiss it's face;
An hear the winds where niggerheads an iron
weeds grow tall.
An across the fields the orioles in meer'd voices
call!
An then when all is said an DONE an Death shall
whs per low.
do not think I'd mind it much, but ruther long
to go
Eff near old Salem 1 could sleep-hushed sigh an
laugh an prayer
Though dead, right happy still to know that was
sleepin' therei
Memphis Commercial Appeal.
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A New England Book.

Under the title "What They Say in New
England" Clifton Johnson has collected an in.
teresting variety of signs, sayings and super
stltions which are or have been current in the
New England States. The volume was begun
with the idea of collecting for private enter
tainment the remnants of folk lore which are
in constant use in many New England house.
holds. Not only was the number found to be
remarkable, but, according to the compiler,
the amount of belief still held in them is as
tonishing. While the majority of these say
ings have foreign ancestry, they have been
changed materially in many instances by
being given peculiarly local twist. For con-
venience the matter is classified under numer-
Gus headings, such as money, luck, warts, tea
grounds, snakes, love and sentiment, weather,
ETC., each of which is introduced by an appro-
pirate design. Boston: Lee & Shepard. For
sale by William Doxey; price 81 SOL
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-21
BALBOA.

Balboa sailed thousand leagues of sea,
Pierced forest depths and scaled the mountain
high,
With his small band, beneath torrid sky;
A nd when alone he reached the summit, he
With hands uplifted ana on bended knee,
Saw the Pacific spread before his eye.
His lips gave utterance to one glad cry:
"In Gods name, for Span's king, do claim thee -
He the highest type of pioneer:
He conquered obstacles by strength OF WILL
And though beset with difficulties still
With brave heart he toiled on without fear
And having faith he won. Through well or i'll,
Thus we must like Balboa persevere.
HENRY CoYLE, In Orphans Bouquet.
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Current History.

Current History" begins its seventh year
with an unusually fine number of $50 pages
AS a handbook OF information on all current
questions in politics, international relations
science, etc., it is exceedingly valuable to
every one who wishes to post himself on any
topic. 1t is not confined in its review to United
States matters, but covers the world. The
present number (first quarter, 1886 opens with
an exhaustive account of the discovery of
X rays by Professor Rontgen. Among other
prominent topics exhaustiyely reviewed are
the near-Eastern and far-Eastern political sit
uations, the work of Congress, the bond sa lie
tariff and reciprocity and the progress of sci
ence, art, education, music, drama, religion.
There are sixty-five illustrations, portraits
maps, etc. Buffalo, n. Y: Garretson Cox &
Co., publishers; A S. Johnson, Ph.D., editor;
81 SO a year: single number, 40 cents.]
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North American Review.

That standard magazine, the North Ameri-
can Review. opens this month with suggest
i've and practical article by Andrew Carnegie,
entitled THE Ship of State Adrift." The Hon.
l. C. Parker of Arkansas discusses forcibly the
topic, "Bow to Arrest the Increase of Homi-
cides In America while "The Outlook for Sill
ver' is skfllfully portrayed by no less an au-
thori,y than DR.. Otto Arendt, the acknowl-
edged leader of German bimetallists. The
sixth and concluding installment of ''The Fu-
ture Life and the Condition of Man Therein, -
by the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, is
contained in this number. Among the shorter
articles ably treated are: "The Loyal West"
by Senator II. NJ. Teller of Colorado, and
"Other Presidents That Might Have Been," by
Joel Benton.
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LITERARY NOTES.

Plebiscites OF the ''best book" order do not
seem TO appeal to the Russian mind. The
Westminster Gazette tells US that NJ. Lederle,
a Russian editor, recently sent out circular
to some 1000 more or less eminent persons in
various walks of life, with the request that
they should state the hundred authors whom
they most admired. Only eighty-six replies
were received, and of these fifteen were ex-
planatory OF their writer's refusal to comply
with the request. Here are some of the
figures: Pushkin 40, Turgeneif 81, Shakes
peare 33, Lermontof 80, Tolstoy 80, Gogol 28
Goethe 26, Sir Walter Scott "a, Byron 49,
Homer 1S, Dostoiefsky and Schiller II, Heine
and Dante 13. The most interesting result of
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pays Lydia the money she demands to keep
the child as her own and preserve the
secret of its true relationship. Honor is
haunted by the feeling that she has done
deep wrong. After much suffering on ac-
count of the secret, Honor is made aware that
her husband knows about the child in Lydia's
care. Then the child is brought to the Orm tn
waite household, where the truth comes from
its own lips. Honor's babe had really died in
its infancy and Lydia had imposed on her in
her heartless greed for gold. Thus the clouds
fit away and the last scene shows Sir Gregory
Ormthwaite and his fair lady perfectly happy
and contented couple. New York: Harper
& Brothers, publishers. For sale by A. M. Rob-
ertson; price $1.l
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Honor OrmthWaite.

The author of Lady jeans Vagaries" has
sketched noble woman in the heroine of her
new story. "Honor Ormthwaite" Honor Clay,
separated from her worthless husband and
leaving her baby with her cousin, Lydia At
kins, becomes a servant for farmers wife
Here she meets Gregory Ormthwaite, a wealthy
member of Parliament, who falls in love with
her. Her husband, Job Clay, is dead, and she
has been led to believe that her child also has
passed away. She marries Gregory and then
Lydia comes to her to tell her that her child is
alive. This thought preys upon her and in
order to avoid disgraeing her husband, Honor
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CIRCUMSTANC CE.

Trusting golden hour 1 set my sail
Where mellow winds prevail:
was alone upon the waters wide;
No dear companion nestled at my side;
Strange currents beat against my shallop fraii;
1 could not stem the tide.
hand invisible, but firm and bold,
Ny fixed helm controlled
On on L drfted to a glowing land,
Wherein the air was fraugnt with odors bland;
The ripples slid in many shining fold
Along the slopng sanu.
Peace made her nest within sheltered bower;
The forests were in flower;
And there 1 heard a voice. with heart elate,
a winning voice, prophetic, like a fate
voice that blessed with me the happy hour
That bore me to my mate.
CHARLES WARREN SToDDARD.
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GodeY'S Magazine.

The June number of "Godey's Magazine" is
full OF good summer reading. 1t begins with
vivid account of the annual snake dance OF
the Moquis of Arizona, and among its other
features are: "The Beauty of Mary Stuart"
an interesting comparison of the accounts and
pictures extant of the unhappy Queen of Scots; !;
and critical article on "The Art of Julia Mar
lowe Taber," tie actress. These and the
fashion department have a particular attrac-
tiveness to the fair sex. A fitting proportion of
fiction is given. "A Constantinople Abduc-
tion," by Clarence Herbert New and Leon
Meads "The Belle of the Dinner" are particu-
larly fine.
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The Bound Century.

The halfyearly volume of the Century Maga-
zine, just completed (November, 1S95-April,
1885, is gem of beautifully executed typog-
raphy and veritab BILE mine of good literature
This last volume contains, in addition to many
other valuable features, q good ins tallmept of
Professor William NJ. Sloanes "Life of NapO-
leon," bringing the reader down as late as the
failure OF the Spanish campaign. This, as well
as the other valuable matter contained in the
Century, is richly illustrated. Some good verse
is also presented to the notice of the reader.
New York: The Century Company. For sale
by all bookstores.1
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JEN MINUTES WITH THE POETS OF JO-DAy

Where shall thy wing find rest for all its might?
Where shall thy lidless eye, that scours the night
Grow blank in utter death?
When shall thy thousand years have stripped thee
bare,
Invulnerable spirit of the air,
And seal thy giant-breath?
Not till thy bosom hugs the icy wave,
Not till thy palsied lin bs sink in that grave,
Caught oy the shrekin. blast
And hurled upon the with broad wings locked,
On an eternity of waters rocked,
Defiant to the last
CHARLES WARREN SToDDARD.
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toms. "The Withered Arm" originally pub
lished in Blackwood's Magazine in 1883, is ac-
knowledged q strong story. but it is, in addi-
ton, horrible one. New York Harper
Brothers, publishers. For sale by A. NJ Rob-
ertson; price 81 SOL
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limited period of cooperative industrialism, to
be preceded by preparatory modification of
sociological and economic conditions, in har-
mony with liberty and justice" New York:
Baker & Taylor, publishers; limo, cloth, IT'S
pages; price 81 %.
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THE ALBATROSS.

Time cannot age thy sinews. nor the gale
Batter the network of thy feathered mail,
Lone sentry of the deep
Among the crashing caverns OF the storm,
With wing unfettered, 10! thy frigid form
Is whirled in dreamless sIeep
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-21
A GOSPEL OF AUTUMN.

A GOSPEL OF AUTUMN.
Across these leaves of gold,
Under the autumn sun,
What solemn gospels are unrolled'
read them one by one.
Behold how small a bud,
fender, and frail, and BRIEF
But nourished by the trees sweet bloo'
Is brought 10 perfect leaf!
Behold how frail bough,
Its pliable, slim frame
Quite stiffened with the frost, is now
In LEAKAGE, all afiame!
Lol as the prophet heard
OF old, 1 clearly hear
From every burning bush Gods Word
Outspoken to mine earl
CHARLES WARREN SToDDARD.
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JUNE.

The swelling bud OF yesterday
The blushing rose is now
And music-breathing mornings sway
The heart, from every bough.
Oh, it is well to hear June sing
Its praise above-below,
While all the arching heavens ring
And hearts and waters glow.
JAMES RILEY, in Orphans Bouqu
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1896-09-19

appeared in certain parts, on which
vinegar, which was used TO cure them
had little effect. The scalp Of the pa
tient was also injured. A bald place
the size Of a silver dollar appeared
about the temples. The bare SCALP.
too, became exceedingly white The
remaining hairs seemed to be thin and
and were easily drawn out. On the
back there appeared spot as large as
a dinner plate from which the skin
had fallen. The surrounding skin
turned a brownish color. The effects
apparently came almost without warn
ing, as the physicians failed to notice
any alarming indications.
SeaView, Na.-Ne have splendid sale
on Chambcrjaln's Cough Remedy, and
our customers coming from far and near,
speak Of il in the highest terms. Many
have said that their children would have
died Of Group if Chamberlain Cough
Remedy has not been given .-Kellam &
Ourren. The 25 and 80 cents sizes for
sale by Moss Pharmacy.
The longest bridge in the world is
the Lion bridge, near Saugong, China.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1896-09-19
Funny Advertisement.

"Wanted. room for two gentlemen
about 80 feet long and 20 feet broad. "
"FoR SALE-a piano, the property
Of musician with carved legs"
Mr., Brown, furrier, begs to announce
that he will make up gowns, capes,
etc, for ladies ont of their own skins. "
Bulldog for sale; will eat anything:
very fond of children" !"
"Wanted-an organist and boy to
blow the same.''
"Widow in comfortable circumstan
ces wishes to marry two sons"
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1896-09-19
ST. STANISLACS COLLEGE.
Bay ST. Louis. Mss

Situated so miles cast of New Orleans
session Tuesday Sept 3rd 1896. Located
at one of the best health resorts of the
Southwest and in the immediate vicinity
OF the Gulf coast. the sea-brcezes and
summer bathing make of the College q
healthy and delightful home. The
course of studies is fOurfold: Prepara-
lory. Commercial, Scientific and CLASH
cal. The methods Of teaching are
modern and efficient.
From both the Paris and Chicago Ex-
positions the College received awards of
medals
For termsand particulars, address the
President