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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-27

b5dies thus mummitied are to be placed in
a mausoleum with compartments like
those of a safety deposit vault. These
compartments could be hired in sets OF
suites of sepulohres, each of them having
an outer door of iron and an inner rooom
of glass, so that the owner of compart-
ment could at any time obtain view of
his defunct relatives by the use of his
private key. A system of electric alarms
could give notice in case any person pre-
matursly desiccated should come to life.
The morbid dread of being buried alive
that is entertained by some nervous
people is entirely groundless. Such q
thing is practically impossible, for the
simple reason that a person suppose to be
a corpse, but not really such, would in
evitably be frozen to death in tine ice
box long before the funeral There ia
one readily applied test which the French
Academy of Sciences has declared infalii-
bic as means of determining whether
or not the vital spark is present. If be-
ween the fingers Of presumed cadayer.
held up to the Light, no redress is visible
the individual is dead beyond the pelad-
venture of a doubt. Other evidences of
death are apt to be deceptive. The stop
page OF the hearts beating is not sat is
factory. In cases on record that organ
has apparently ceased to perform It's
function for as much as fifteen minutes.
yet the person has survived. -Rene
Bache in Boston Transcript.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-27
SMOKERS LONG AGO.
King James Royal Counterblast Against
the lovers of the Weed.

King James Royal Counterblast Against
the Lovers of the Weed.
The royal Counterblast proclaims that
"smoke becomes kitchen far better than
dining chamber, and yet it makes a
Kitchen oftentimes in the inward parts of
men, soyling and injecting with an unctu
GUS and only kind of soote, es hath been
found in some great tobacco oakers that
after death were opened" CD "Have
you not reason, then, to be ashamed and to
forbear this filthy noveltie, so basely
grounded, SO foolishly received and so
grossly mistaken in the right use thereof?
In your abuse thereof SHINING against
God harming yourselves both in person
and in goods and raking also thereby the
marks and notes of vanitie upon you, by
the custom thereof making yourselves to
be wondered at by all lorraine civil ma
tions, and all strangers that come among
you, to be soorned and condemned. Ia
King James clinohes his argument with
logical eoumen ehere is no resisting
"Why," asks our guide, philosopher and
friend, "since we initiate the beastly and
slavish Indians in taking tobacco, do we
not initiate them in walking naked, as
they do"-an extraordinary idea to occur
to one accustomed to wear dagger proof
quilted dress preferring glass beads and
feathers to gold and precious stones, as
they dor Yea, why do we not deny God
and adore the devil, as they do?''
Then comes his famous climax, ga Gus
tom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the
nose, harmful to the orgaine (brain), dan
gerous to the lungs, and in the black,
sinking fume thereof nearest resembling
the horrible Stygian smok9vof the pit that
is bottomless. . If, after this display of
royal indignation, stiff neoked ones still
cast fond looks at the sem blem of hell"
let them turn their attention to the kings
words of wisdom stored up in s'Collec-
ton Of Witty Apophthegms. - Things
that before were obscure to mental vision
are here illumined with new radiance.
1t Is made clear to us that tobacco was
the lively image and pattern Of hell, for
that it had, by illusion, in it all the parts
and vices Of the world whereby hell may
be gained-to wit, first: 1t is a smoke; SO
are the vanities of this world. "-Gentle-
mans Magazine.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-27
THE CARD FINISHER.
She Must BE Quick of Eye and Rapid With
Her Fingers.

Her Fingers.
There are only three playing card facto-
ries in New York, and they supply almost
the entire demand for playing cards in this
country. Less than ], 900 women are en-
gagged in the industry, and yet the highest
wages any CT them gets is 81 week Miss
Minnie Rose is one of these. She is an ex-
pert 'finisher.
Finishing" says Miss Rose, Requires
great deal Of experience. You have to
have very quick eyes. You must be able
to detect the very slightest imperfection in
the design ON the back of card Gam
blers only use deck of cards once, and If
there were the slightest difference in the
backs of any two cards they might be &C
cused of cheating. A fnisher must exam
inc about 10000 cards every day. If she
let's one ever so slightly imperfect slip
through, she's likely to lose her job. The
other day in our shop a woman who had
worked there for ten years was discharged
for letting one card go through. No one
but gambler or cardmsker could have
detected the flaw. The boss said he'd have
excused her If she had been new hand,
but an old hand ought to know better"
The advantage of cardmaking is that 1T
is not season work. "In most trades"
says the oardmaker, "you have a lot of
work for few months and then nothing
at all until the season begins again. OF
course you have your idle time to do some
thing, but I'd rather work at some
thing that is steady. At oardnaking you
work right along all the year round, You
hardly ever have more than two weeks off.
OF course it is feaffully monotonous and
it's tiresome. But most of the girls seem
to like it. It's clean work and it's steady
and the pay is very good. There are wo-
men in our factory who have worked there
steadily for IS years. New York Jour
nal.
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OF MISTY ORIGIN.

Much OF definite character pertaining
to the origin of the Stars and Stripes has
been lost in the comparatively brief space
OF time which has elapsed since the in
ception of the flag. Who originated the
design is matter Of conjecture, and this
fact, or lack of fact, has been seized
upon by fanoiful minds to weave many
pretty stories. Every schoolboy is
familiar with the dainty tale describing
the visions of the future flag of the
nation in the heavens; the patch of blue
with the silver stars cleaning brightly
and the long streaks of red and light
gray sky.
Another says that the christening
robe of Washington was the white satin,
with lining of red and blue satin. This
may have been true but 1t takes wide
stretch of the imagination to connect that
christening robe with the deliberations
of Congress on the subject. Another
claims that the family crest of the Wash
ingtons, with It's stripes and three FIVE
pointed stars at the top had considerable
to do with the design of the flag. Wash
ington, however, WAS O modest man and
was not in the habit of paradlng his
family's glory before the nation, so it is
quite probable that this was merely a
coincidence.
Long before the war of the Revolution
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-27
Opium Smoking In China,

was over and over again asked If I
could cure the craving for opium. Often a
smoker would rate me gently for belong
ing to nation which supplied the noxious
drug, but as rule he did not seem very
serious about it, and there was always a
sort Of lurking consciousness in his man
ner that the charge was mere claptrap.
The fact that Europeans themselves
would not smoke Except out of curiosity
and despised Chinese smokers seemed to
leave great impression upon the average
victim. I often heard tales of excessive
smoking-how such a man smoked all
night and slept all day, and so on, but I
never once heard of man absolutely ruin
ing himself or his family by induIging,
still less did ever come across a case my
self.
Peking is at best vicious place. Here
we have an idle Mantohoo population, sup
ported by the government and to a great
extent debarred by custom from compet-
ing in industry with the pure Chinese,
even If willing and able. Besides this
Picking Is the coveted haven of all officials
who have saved money and wish to keep
in touch with the court. Money is plenti-
full and luxury is great. To large extent
the same may be said of Tien-tsin.
Though in the north spirituous liquor
Is freely drunk, drunkenness is very rare,
and for this reason causes no feeling of
shame when it does ocour-in fact, it is
rather a graceful and complimentary act
to get tipsy, or feign tipsiness, at FEAST
There is absolutely no sense of degrade
ton in it such as is inseparable from opium
smoking. -Blackwood's Magazine.
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the rattler: "Her eye exceeds in bright
ness that of any other animal, and she
mas no eyelids. She may, therefore, be
esteemed an emblem of vigilance. She
never begins an attack, nor when once
engaged ever surrsnders. She is, there
lore. an emblem of magnanimity and
true courage. AS if anxious to prevent
all pretensions Of quarreling with the
weapons with which nature favored her,
she oonceals them in the roof of her
mouth SO that to those who are unac-
quainted with her she appears most de-
fenseless, and even when those weapons
are shown and extended for defense
they appear weak and contemplate; but
their wounds, however small. are decisive
and fatal. Conscious of this she never
wounds until she has generously given
notice to her enemy and cautioned him
against the danger OF treading on her. :"
Many of the Colonial flags were ON
blazoned with inscriptions. That used
by the gallant Moultrie at Fort Sullivan
had blue ground with a crescent in
one corner, and the word. ''Liberty'' in
bold white letters. The pine tree figured
on many of the New England flags, and
they were also ornamented with religious
inscriptions. can appeal to Heaven"
was favorite; IAN appeal to God"
was another. Rhode Islands flag bore
the single word Hope" The Southern
flags in addition to the rattlesnake,
Haunted war like legends, such as, "Don t
Tread on Me- Liberty and Union"
Liberty or DEATH "Come if You
Dare' and others of the same kind.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-27

. This flag celebrated its 10th anniver-
sary on June II last. On Saturday,
June IA, 1777, Congress passed resolu-
ton that. the flag of he.thirteen United
States be thirteen stripes, alternate red
and white; that the union be thirteen
stars, white In blue field, representing
a new constellation. Superstition
must have played no part in the makeup
OF the hardy statesmen of those days. and
their courage in hosting a banner in
which the number thirteen was so con-
spicuous has been proven by history to
have been we'll directed.
Since March 1 factories all over the
country have been turning out flags at
terrific rate. The Fourth of July always
means busy time for flag manufacture
ers, but this year there is all unusual
impetus to the business, for not only is
there national campaign on. but g
brand new flag is to be prssented to the
country. The white star which repre-
SCENTS the new State of Utah, and which
makes the forty fifth in the blue field,
will be officially added to the flag on
July 4. Utah has been State for some
months, but by long established law Of
Congress, the star of a new State can
only be added to the flag on the Fourth
of July following it's admission to the
Union.
THE NEW FLAG.
These new flags have been distributed
to every government building in the ma
ton, to the war ships. the military posts,
and they will first see the light of day on
Saturday next. The new regulation gov
eminent flag is five feet six inches long!by
four feot four inches wide. The Held is
two feet six inches long by two feet four
inches wide. The width of the stripes is
reduced to four inches. The staff is nine
feet in length and the distance between
the edge of the flag and the first row of
stars is two and nineteen thirty-seeond
inches. The decoration of tho top CT the
staff Is the spear head as at present, and
pendant from the spar ara tassels swing
ing from two goldan cords. A heavy
and rich gold fringe decorates the edges.
The new design places the forty-ffth star
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-27

the powerful East India Company Of
London had established trade post on
Manhattan Island, and the flag of this
concern had thirteen stripes, alternate
red and white, with the cross of st.
George on a white canton. This flag
was familiar to all of the old New
Workers, and it may be that it had same
thing to do with the ultimate formation
of the flag.
ONE DEFINITE FACT.
that in June of 1776 Washington. accom-
panied by committee of Congress,
called upon Mrs. John Ross, widowt
and an upholsterer at No. 239 Arch stree
Philadelphia. and sitting in the little
parlor in the back of the shop, commits
stoned her to make a flag for the new
nation. The committee had drawing
of the kind OF flag wanted, but this was
not ineligible to the widow, SO General
Washington sat down and made q rough
sketch of the design. In duo time the
flag was made. with the Stars and
Obfip6S, IuSU DIS IL LOOKS bOuhy, 6XCSpG
that there were only thirteen stars. This
flag was made year before it was Off
cially adopted by Congress.
For many years prior to the Revolution
it was matter of pride with each of til Q
colonies TO float some flag other than that
of Great Britain, and az result there
were many different kinds of flags flying
about in the country. AT first these flags
bore the cross of ST. George or some
other English symbol, but as time adj
vanoed these gave way to various devices
symbolical of liberty.
A peculiarity of the flags of the South
ern colonies was that many of them bore
the picture CT q rattlesnake. Much mean
ing was expressed by this device, and a
colonial writer made this plain in a
pamphlet, a which he said that the rat
tlesnake did not exist anywhere on the
globe exopt in America. Furthermore,
the serpent was regarded By the ancients
as An emblem of wisdom and endless
duration.
A SNAKE EULOGY.
Warming up to his work he wrote of
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-27
Cash Your Checks.

1t is not we'll to keep checks locked up
in your desk Cash them. 1t is security
for yourself, if the drawer is not entirely
reliable, and favor to him if he is.
Stale checks are an annoyance to bank
officials and general hindranoe.
Cash your checks New York Recorder.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-27
LIFE OF OLD GLORY.
Origin Of the Stars and Stripes
Somewhat Tangled.
HISTORY GIVES MANY VERSIONS
OF THE STORY.

Washlngton's Fart in the Making OF the
Flag-A Forty Fifth Star on July A.
The 10Th Anniversary of the Flag.
Ten millions of the Stars and Stripes
will fiaunt their gay colors to the breeze
next Saturday. They will wave down on
the streets, up in the dizzy heights of
cloud piercing poles; in the hands of
babies and gray bearded men; on the
patient cart horse; on bicycle and. street
car; far out ON the Atlantic and Pacific,
in the great sea ports Of Europe, Asia,
Africa and Australia; in every sea and
ocean the world over; ON the prairie and
in the crowded city, indoors and out.
The Red, White and Blue will adorn the
earth and til g people Of all olimes will
know that the Fourth of July means
much to the 70, 600, 600 people who COM
pose the United States.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-27
lust Plain Envy.

George-That Miss Wildwood has a
charming expression.
Maud-Do you think so? think she
has very sly face.
Georgia. sly faceP
Maud mean the kind of a face that
you wouldn't want to trust alone in a
pantry with another girls pie.-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-27

In the third row, making first. third ana
fifth rows consist of eight stars each nd
the second, fourth and sixth Of seven
each.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-04-03
CATR0N AS AN EDUCATOR.

1t has been found necessary to close the
public schools of the city of Santa Fe
three months earlier than should have
happened. Whys Solely because Dele
gate Catron, as bondsman for the default
ing Republican e1-school treasurer, Mon
dragon, has CONTEMPORARY ignored the
plain obligation to make good to the
schools of the city the $4,000 ofwhich
Mondragon looted the treasury. Doubt
less the great man does not feel any more
disposed to give up his money for eiuca-
tionsl purposes in Santa Fe than he does
to pay taxes toward schooling the I'D
pauper children of Cerrillos," but IL the
people are wise he will either settle az
Mondragon's bondsman or suffer the con-
sequences of being exposed as execution
nropf.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-04-03
A QUlETUS FOR STATEHOOD.

Delegate Catrou again failed yesterday
In his effort to induce the house commit
tee on territories, three-fourths Repub.
lican, to report favorably on his bill ad.
hitting New Mexico. In the committee
meeting several of the Republican mem.
bers of congress took occasion to say
some very uncomplimentary things about
the citizens OF New Mexico. These things
we're reported IN our Washington dis
patches yesterday, but it does not appear
that Delegate Catron made any attempt
to reply to them. He appears to have
made not the least effort to defend our
people against these false and vicious
accusations, an opportunity that should
by all means have been taken advantage
of, and would have been by man really
sincere in his cause. This action of the
committee practically settles the fate of
Catron's statehood bill. He has blum.
dered from the start.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-04-03

of these troubles has contributed ten-fold
more than all the others combined to re-
tard its growth and prosperity. Refer
encs is made to the clouds on our land
titles caused by uncertainty as to the ex-
tent and validity of socalled Spanish ard
Mexican land grants, and, in spite of the
excellent work of the United States court
of private land claims in this behalf,
doubt as to titles is still the chiefest OBJ
stacle our people have TO deal with.
The surface indications of gold, silver
and other valuable minerals are unques-
tonably more promising in New Mexico
than they are in Colorado, and all the
conditions here are manifestly more fav-
orable to extensive and successful mining
operations than they are further north.
Yet Colorado has far out-stripped us in
the eager race for substantial recognition
in the mining world. The strongest sur
face reasons exist for the belief that we
have several possible Cripple Creek in our
vast territorial empire. but they are still un-
developed and the capital needed to
prove to the world their great value is
either actually restrained or intimidatsd
from coming to our rescue.
The explanation is simple enough. Six
words cover it-Real or imaginary clouds
on titles. The unsophisticated reader
may inquire how this happens, when,
under the laws of congress, the mineral
contained in grants does not 60 with the
land, bat is expressly reserved to the
United States. This is true in theory,
but unhappily is not fact in practice.
So far congress has provided no method
whereby the minerals contained in land
grants can either be prospected for Or sx-
tracted without liability for trespass on
the sacred surface grounds of the zeal or
pretended owners thereof; and, with a
species of new-fangled wisdom, like unto
that of a shepherd placing hungry wolf
on guard over his lambs, the people of
New Mexico have entrusted their inter-
ests at Washington to the stewardship of
rotorious land grant cormorant in the
person of Thomas Benton Catron, whose
interests are Numerically to those of the
people in the premises.
1t so happens that Judge Bells excel
lent bill, providing for opening land
grants to prospectors and miners and
thereby assuring the early development
Of the untold mineral wealth of this terri
tory, is confronted by the covert hostil-
ity of New Mexico's delegate in congress-.
Truly the spectacle is most edifying.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-04-03
PRESS COMMENT.
Territorial Republican Convention

Territorial Republican Convention.
Of course the Republican leaders are
already Offering explanations as to why
silver resolutions we're not adopted.
These explanations, as usual, are intend
ed for the marines, but even the marines
may not be caught by them this time.
The truth Of the matter ia that the Repub-
lican party is not, never has been and 1t
is not reasonable to expect that it ever
will be friendly to silver.
The Republican party is the party of
trusts, monopolies and millionalres and
it ia not reasonable to suppose that it
will favor legislation for the masses. It
is the party which has enriched the manu-
facturers of the country at the expense of
the toiling masses, and there are no signs
that the party leaders have experienced a
change of heart. The free and unlimited
coinage of silver would bring relief to the
masses and this is one of the things that
the Republican party is not going to do
if it can be avoided.-Silver City Eagle.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-04-03

tol and other institutions has been finally
approved by congress. Now push the
work of construction. As for the 1884,,
600 Of debt which Delegate Catron has
attempted to saddle e n the The nssSS55le 81
= aatnoa Fe and Grant counties, in connec
ton with this bond approval measure
that scares nobody, for we shall rely or
the courts of justice for protection, and
it will be long day several years hence
before dollar of that fraudulent debt il
paid by the tax-payers.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-04-03

SENATOR BR1oE it playing great game
OF bluff and with the aid of Delegate Cat
ron and few misguided Santa Feans he
may yet succeed ia getting away with his
game, but after all is done and said in
congress the fact remains that the su-
preme court of the land, the highest of tri-
bunals that can beappealed to, has passed
upon the class of bonds at issue in this
controversy aud has declared them fraud
uent. Brice, Coler and Catron will have
II hard time trying to make white out of
black in this instance.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-04-03
harrett's Appointments.

Sheriff Raymond has done the right
thing in getting Pat Garrett to take hold
and restore the county of Dona Ana to
what it was before it was run by incom-
petent officials and pusillanimous poll
ticians, who allowed one man to run
them, borrow their money and tell them
what they should do. In fact reduce
them to a par with the negroes in some
southern states. Pat Garrett is Demn.
crat but he will let no party feeling dis
tract from the straight, honorable line of
doing his duty and prosecuting criminals,
no matter to which party they belong.
He is quiet, unassuming, end knows how
to keep his own counsel. If he does not
give a good account of the dastardly
murder of Col. Fountain and his infant
son, the writer does not know him. He
has name aud record to lose which will
not permit him to be Influenced by any
ofthe disreputable Rang.-Rincon Weekly
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-04-03
Notice for Publication,
Homestead No. 448O.
LAND OFFICE AT SANTA FH, N. M,

LAND OFFICE AT SANTA FE, N. M, !
March 8, 1895.
Notice is hereby given that the follow
ing named settler has filed notice of his
intention to make final proof ia support
of his claim, and that said proof will be
made before the register and receiver at
Santa Fe, N. NJ, on April l6, 1896, viz:
John J. Ball for the se n section 81,
township 16 n, range II e.
He names the following witnesses to
prove his continuous residence upon and
cultivation of, said land, viz: Robb N.
Cloker, Chandler Cowles, Daniel Carter
and Cristobal Romero, of Glorieta, N. M.
Any person who desires to protest
against the allowance of such proof or
knows of any substantial reason under the
law and the regulations OF the interior de-
partment why auch proof should not be
allowed will be given an opportunity at
the above mentioned time ard place to
cross-examine the witnesses of said claim.
ant and to offer evidence In rebuttsl of
that submitted by claimant.
jams H. ,WALxHR,
Register.