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The Portland daily press., 1896-03-21
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

In MoClures for March every article 4
special, and will be read with relish.
The NUN Der opens with fresh install
emit of Ida M. Tarbells life Of Abraham
Lincoln, describing his career in the I'LL
nols legislature and rem oval to Spring
field. The article is accompanied with
additional portraits heretofore unpub-
llshed. Rudyard Kipling has a story,
The Ship that Found Herself. Will
h. Low presents A Century OF Paint
lug, dealing with the English and French
schools. There are also poems by Eugene
Field and Robert Louis Stevenson. Eliz.
abeth Stuart Phelps gives another auto
Biographical chapter. The story OF
Scientific Kite-fying is suggestive Of
aerial navigation, which so many experts
have tried in vain to perfect.
Not even Trilby has scored SO decided g
success or excited such intense interest al
Cleveland Moffett's startling story, The
Mysterious Gard, which appeared in q
recent issue of The Black Cat, the
unique five cent magazine, which has al
ready secured monthly sale of a quarter
of a million. 1t may we'll be doubted
II any magazine evec published contained
IN single number six stories equal ir
originality and fascinating interest tc
those contained in tfN April Issue of The
Black Cat, which is just from press.
New York journal
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-21
PLATFORM
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Lieutenant Andre, the Swedish officer
who is to attempt to go to the North Pole
in balloon, has received Applicant ons
from more than score Of Swedish WON
en- who wish to join him in his perilous
trip.
Charles Salaman, the Oldest living
musical composer in England, now in
his eighty third year, has been continu.
ously before the public for sixty-eight
years. He remembers the tolling of the
bells for the death of George Ill He was
present at the coronation of William "
and Queen Caroline, and he was lad of
sixteen when he travelled with Charles
Kean to Stradford on Avon to be present
at the third Shakespeare jubilee. He
knew Mendelssohn, to whom he was in
PRODUCED by Atwood, the organist of ST.
PauPs. He used to play duets with List
at his fathers house in 1927. Schuman,
Hummel, Moscheles, Meyorbeer, Spohr,
Thalberg, Wagner. Heller. Balfe, Wal
lace, Bishop. Czerny, John Barnett.
were all his personal acquaintance. He
played at Munich in 1888 before the old
King of Bavaria. He still preserves some
German words which Mozart's widow
wrote for him when he visited tho veneer
able old lady at Salzburg.
Lady Henry Somerset, the leader of the
Christian temperance movement among
English women. has written letter TIC
the W. G. I. U. national headquarters
in Chicago asking that President Frances
Willard be allowed to go to England tc
help her in the approaching national con.
vention of the National Council Of Won.
en- of Great Britain, of which LADY
ua ic ho
will reciprocate by coming to this country
in the interests of the W. G. Il. II. Miss
Willard will probably sail in April.
A woman who Is an enthusiastic nat
uralist suggests that the diminution in
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-21

1t is not absolutely certain that the
shot fired by the Spanish soldier which
SO narrowly escaped Mr.. Hall, the U. S.
Consul at Sap Juan, Porto Rico, was
aimed at him, but there is good deal OF
clrcumstantial evidence that points In
that direction. The day it was fred news
had been circulated in the island that our
Senate had recognized the belligerency OF
the Cuban insurgents, and it had greatly
incensed the Spaniards. Mr.. Hall had
been warned that his home was liable to
be attacked and had asked for protec-
ton. The soldier who fired the shot was
guard in prison that stands near to
Mr.. Halls house, and his story is that he
aimed at woman who had leaned over
the prison wall contrary to the rules.
Mr.. Hall, however, says people frequent
ly lean over that wall and he never heard
of anybody's being fired at before. Our
government will undoubtedly make a
thorough examination of the facts and if
1T appears that the shooting was inten-
tional Spain will be called upon to make
an apology. If the United States ever
comes into collision with Spain it will
be through some such incident as this.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-21
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CURRENT COMMENT.
a WESTERN OPINION.
est. Louis Globe- Democrat. !


Very early in its career the Republican
party adopted the protective policy, but
the success OF protection was never IN all
this third of century Of its champion
ship by the Republican party as impera-
lively demanded as the rejection of silver
legislation is now. The tariff law of
1894 has not many ardent friends in this
country even in the party responsible for
it, but the Republican party will cheer
fully let it stand if the enactment of q
better law be made contingent on the
debasement of the currency. There will
be no entangling alliances between pro-
teotion and free silver. Each issue will
be considered separately. Attempts have
been made on one or two occasions to
yoke them together, but all have been
failures. 1t will be we'll for the gmine
owners to understand the situation at the
sIart, and to be guided in their partisan
attitude accordingly. The Republican
party will just as resolutely defend the
Governments honor and the peoples in
terests in the future as it did in 1855
when it passed the act to maintain the
nation faith with it's creditors, and as
it did in 1875 when ii enacted the law
which made every dollar of the people, 6
money worth hundred cents in gold.
AN OHIO PAPER ON THE OHIO
PLATFORM.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
The famous Fifteen puzzle'' was moth.
ing in comparison to the financial plank
of the Ohio Republican platform, if we
may judge from the comments it has
caused.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-21

the number CT song birds of New Eng
land is due not to the hostility Of the
English sparrow, or the small boy, or the
fashion of wearing dead birds iii bonnets
but to the general use by farmers OF
Paris green and other poisons as insect
exterminators. m
The Oldest man In Indiana and one OF
the spryest is William S.. Green Of Bed
ford. He is 10S years old and In good
health, his hearing and eye sight being
practically perfect. He was born near
Philadelphia on Nov. 81, 1887, ana he
Henry Harrison. He is the father of
twenty nine children, fourteen of whom
are living.
An anti-squirrel convention is to be
held in Spokane, Wash, on May Is,
which will be attended by delegates from
all country boards in eastern Washington.
The purpose of the convention is to make
united and determined efforts to exter-
inmate the ground squirrels, which an
nually destroy grain and other crops in
that region to the value of several hun
dred thousand dollars.
A device for permitting the hayseed
guest to blow out the gas in his bedroom
at the city hotel without inconvenience
to himself or any body else has been
patented by a West Haven, Conn, man.
The gas burner is made of metal hay
ing great expansive and contraotive pro-
perties. The gas is turned on in the
regular way and small screw is turned
which admits small flow of gas through
the burner. The gas is lighted, and the
heat expands the metal and automatically
opens valve permitting full flow of
gas. The gas can be turned off in the
ordinary way, but If the gas Is blown out
the metal contracts closing the valve,
and all the gas that escapes is the very
small quantity admitted by the screw
valve.
Yankee hustle has perhaps rarely been
better exemplified than in the case of d
sewing machine agent who exploited
the vicinity of Dover, Me. A week or SO
ago he tackled house in which lived
an old bachelor who hadn't sewi inc
machine. The agent was persistent and
the bachelor Obdurate, until finally the
latter said he positively wouldn't buy a
machine unless woman to run it was
also provided. Then THE agent hunted
around, and in six weeks had found an
elderly but excellent maiden lady, who
had been waiting for some good mai
to speak out to her, and actually succeed.
ed in getting her married to the bachelor
Then he made a sale of q machine,
though it might seem that he ought tt
have given one to the bride MS a present
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-21

disease baff1ed tho best doctors.
81 was nervous, hysterical; my head
ached with such terrible burning
sensation on the top, and felt as if q
band was drawn tightly above my
brow; Inflammation of the stomach, no
appetite, nausea at the sight Of food,
indigestion, constipation, bladder and
kidney troubles, palpitation of the
heart, attacks of melancholia would
occur without any provocation what
ever, numbness of the limbs, threaten
ing paralysis, and loss OF memory to
such an extent that feared alteration
Of the mind.
"a friend advised Lydia E. Pinkham'a
Vegetable Compound, and spoke in
glowing terms of what it had done for
her.
II began its use and gained rapidly.
Now am living advertisements of its
merits. l had not used it year when
l was the envy of the whole town,
for my rosy, dimpled, girlish looks and
perfect health.
II recommend it to all women. find
great advantage in being able to say,
it Is by woman's hands this greas
boon is given to women. All honor to
the name of Lydia E. Pinkham; wide
success to the Vegetable Compound.
"Yours in Health, MRS. l. E. BREs.
STE. Herculaneum, Jefferson Co.. Mo-"
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-21

1t is generally conceded that even if
the Senate passes the Cuban resolutions
they will amount to nothing. Cleveland
will take the same notice of them that
he did of the Armenian resolution which
was none at all. If Congress really
thinks it worth while to interfere in the
Cuban matter it is difficult to see why it
does not adopt joint resolution which
would 60 to the President for his APPROX
al. The concurrent resolution is mere
blank cartridge which make some noise
but can do no execution.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-21

Gov Morton did not get much valua-
BILE light on the Raines bill from the New
York mayors. AS a rule they divided
on party lines, the Republicans with one
exception favoring the bill and the Dem
oorats unanimously opposing it. Neither
Mayor Strong of New York, nor Mayor
Wurster of Brooklyn, was present. The
former appears to have no settled opinion
on the bill anyway, being quoted at
different times as condemning it and APP
proving it.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-21

The adjournment of the Senate in spite
of the opposition of Mr.. Sherman and
the other leaders who Support the Cuban
resolutions and are urging their speedy
passage does not necessarily mean that
the opponents of the resolutions have q
majority in the Senate but it certainly
has a look that way. 1t will be renem-
bered that when the resolutions were first
presented they were passed substantially
without opposition. Reflection and lis
oussion since that time have caused a
good many Senators to hesitate, and now
the majority of the Senators mean to "gc
slow" even if they do not intend to de.
feat the resolutions.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-21

Beaten in Nav York the Mckinley
people are now eleoting contesting dele
cations in the hope that they may SNUG
gle them into the St. Louis convention.
Evidently Mr.. MoKinley's managers are
ready to resort to any device to secure
the selection of their favorite. But the
bitter antagonisn toward him which
they are creating by their operations
among the friends of the other candidates
will make it impossible for him to get
assistance from them. They are waging
a campaign which tends to destroy all
chance Of getting the nomination unless
1t be secured on the first ballot.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-21

When Gen. Welyer was appointed the
Spanish commander in Cuba enthusiasm
ran high and it was predicted that he
would quickly suppress the rebellion.
Weyler himself seemed to be as sanguine
as his admirers. Yet up to the present
time there is not single victory of any
consequence to the new commanders
credit. His attempts to entrap the in
surgents have proved just as futile as
Campos's. Several times he has an
nounoed that Maceo's troops were sur
rounded, but each time the rebel com
mander has succeeded in breaking
through his lines and escaping. One
result of his failure to come up to pre-
dictions is that he is losing the conf
dence of the Spaniards at home. and
there are already heard murmurings
about his do nothing policy. Yet proba-
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-21

bly, Welyer is doing all he can with the
forces under his control. Though they
are mum erous and make a great show
ing on paper the truth is that consld-
cradle per cent of them is made up OF
mere boys, who are unequal to the strain
of arduous campaigning. Spain's great
est soldier, Gen. Gampos, failed with
them, and it is not surprising that We'll
yer should fail also.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-21

Blackburn announces that he will be
the free silver candidate for Senator from
Kentucky next year, and he predicts that
he will be elected. AS he predicted great
many times that he would be elected
this year he is good deal discredited as
a DrOD het
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-21

While Mr. Bayard WAS injuidicous in
his utterances in some of his speeches in
England and deserved reproof, it is a
question if the House Of Representatives
has not paid much more attention to
the matter than it deserved.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-21

SATURDAY, MARCH 81.

The latest from Washington is that
Cleveland has sat down upon the Olney
boom. It that he so probably the boom
is extlngnished for Cleveland is heavy
and sits down hard.
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-21

At last Gen. .Weyler has won Spanish
success He has captured several boxes
of ammunition destined for the insur-
gents, and he makes haste to telegraph
the Spanish minister at Washington all
ahnr1t if
The Portland daily press., 1896-03-21

A despatch to the Washington Star,
from Raleigh, N. c., which is published
elsewhere in this paper states upon the
authority of one of Mr.. Mckinley Is
boomers" in that state that the Ohio
candidate has promised that two cabinet
positions shall go to the South and that
Senator Pritchard of North Carolina
shall have one of them. The authority
for this story is one. Daniel L. Russell,
an intimate friend of Pritchard who is
McKinley's manager In North Carolina.
He has evidently been using it to get
supporters for Mckinley in his State 1t
is so incredible that Presidential can.
didate would be guilty Of Offering cabi-
net positions to sections and individuals
for votes in the conven tion-for it is OBJ
vious that if tho offer that is alleged was
made it was for that purposeTthat were
not the authority for the story given, it
would hardly call for denial. But in
this case the allegation comes from per-
son of too much prominence and is too
explicit to be ignored. 1t cannot be dis
posed, as was the charge that the pro-
tected manufacturers of certain states
were making heavy contributions to the
Mckinley campaign, by saying it is made
by an. enemy, because it comes from a
friend. Nor can it well be treated as ii
was attempted to treat the contribu-
lions, as no business of the public. This
story must be denied or admitted by Mr..
MCKINLEY. He cannot keep silent in re-
gard to it. II his North Carolina mana
gers have been hawking about cabinet
positions for votes without his knowl.
edge and consent, then he must pub.
Ideally repudiate them. The accusation
is too serious in Its import, too explicitly
told and comes from too high authority
to be passed over in silence.
The record-union., 1896-04-29
French Cabinet.

PARIS, April 2S.-M Meline has
added three more names to his Minis
try, making the list of the new Cabinet,
as far as it has been completed, stand
thus far: NJ. Meline, Prime Minister and
Minister Of Justice; NJ. Hanotaux,
Minister of Foreign Affairs; NJ. Bar
thou, Minister of the Interior; General
Blllot, Minister of War; Admiral Bar
hey, Minister of Marine; M. Cochery,
Minister of Finance; M. Deschanet,
Minister of the Colonies; M. Lebon,
Minister of Commerce. There may be
one or two changes in the above list,
but most of the gentlemen named have
accepted their portfolios.
1t was announced this evening that
no definite selection had been made for
Minister of Commerce and Minister OF
Public Works. Admiral Besnard has
been made Minister of Marine, and M.
Lebon Minister of Colonies.
The future Ministers assembled to-
night at the residence of NJ Meline to
discuss the policy that they will follow
and arrange programme for presenta-
ton to the Chambers. The Cabinet
Will appear in the Chamber of Dep
utieS on Thursday
The record-union., 1896-04-29
NEBRASKA DEMOCRATS.
The Sound rloney rlen Will Hold a
Convention TO-DAY.

OMAHA, April 2S.-Following closely
their silver antagonists, the sound
money Democrats Of Nebraska will
hold thir convention Tomorrow Not
many delegates had arrived this after
noon, but leaders of the administra-
tfon faction insist that while the rep
resentation may be hardly as large as
was the convention of a week ago it
Will be more representative The four
delegates at large to the Chicago Con-
vention have been decided upon in the
convention as follows: Tobias Castor
Of Lincoln, National Committeeman
for the State; Euclid Martin of Omaha.
Chairman of the State Central Com
mittee; d. w. Cook of Beatrice and T
j. Mahoney of Omaha.
The latter as an orator is considered
the equal of ex-Congressman Bryan.
and on him will devolve the duty of
presenting the claims of the sound
money faction claim to seats at Chi
cago. The platform will declare une-
quivocally against free coinage of sill
yer, indorse the administration of Pres
ident Cleveland and Secretary Carl
isle and may declare in favor of j.
Sterling Morton as a Presidential can
didate.
The record-union., 1896-04-29
WHOLE NO. 1901.

that the work of the Venezuelan Com
mission is being delayed through the
influence of the United States admins
tration in order that it may carry out
some underlined plan of settling the
boundary question by diplomatic nego-
tiations, thus avoiding any sharply de-
nned decision on the controversy such
as the commission was instructed to
make, appears to be as wholly unsub-
stantiated as many previous rumors
on the same subject.
Nor is there any firmer foundation
for the guess that the trend of opinion
III the commission is adverse to Great
Britain. The administration has never
interfered in the least with the progress
made by the commission in developing
evidence upon the disputed boundary
ana definite quietus put upon the ru-
NOR that Secretary Olney has been able
to threaten Lord Salisbury with a de-
cision favorable to Venezuela by the
declaration of members of the commits
sion that up to this time much of the
British contention has not been sue
cessfully attacked by Venezuela, the
latter'S claim in turn having been un-
successful.
ne sue uetaS IndI Is NOW annoy tHE
the commission results from the slow
ness with which the Venezuelan copies
of Spanish archives are being translat-
ed and the consequent loss of time
which will be involved in sending an
agent to Madrid and Seville to verify
the accuracy of all quotations sub
mitted by both contestants The lease
as far as the Dutch records are con-
cerned is practically complete, except
in its verifcation, and these broadly
combat Venezuela's claim to any con-
siderable portion as the heir of Spain
east of the Orinoco River above its
mouth. From an authentic source it is
also learned that no unimpeachable
evidence has yet been forthcoming to
sustain any Venezuelan claim east OF
the Pomeroon River at the coast, as
well as to large areas in the basin of the
Cuyuni and other western tributaries
of the Essequibo. These, however, may
be subsequently presented, the Vene-
zuelan case being concededly incom-
plete at present, and the agents of the
country are still engaged in preparing
documents bearing on the interior pos
sessions of Spain when the Dutch colo
NAL encroachments were being resisted.
1t Is estimated that by no p0SSlplllIy
can the report of the commission be
prepared in less than a month after all
the possible evidence has been collected
and the Commissioners, who are with
out exception making efforts to COM
plete their labors, have no idea that the
case will be conditioned for final con-
sideration for another month.
In the meantime the Commissioners
are neither informed of any diplomatic
negotiations to render their work su-
perfiuous nor have they intimated in
any manner, directly or indirectly to
Secretary Olney or any other person
that their decision would be unfavora-
bic to either one of the parties in con-
troversy. This for the simple reason
that like all judges they are waiting for
a complete presentment of the facts.
The record-union., 1896-04-29
THE NATIONAL GAME.
A Home Hit by Joyce Wins for
Washington.

BALTIMORE, April 2S.-Joyce won
the game for Washington this after
noon. His hOme-run hit was one of
the longest ever made on the grounds.
He also raped out a double and two
singles, ending the day with a batting
average af 900 Attendance, 5000
Score: Baltimore ), Washington 9. Bat
teries-Pond and Bowerman; Anderson
Boyd and Mcguire. Umpire-Hurst.
PHILADELPHIA, April 2S-Brook
lyn outplayed Philadelphia at every
stage of to-days game. and won easily
The batting of LaChance was a notice
able feature Attendance, $500. Score:
Philadelphia 5, Brooklyn y. Batteries
-Orth, Inks and Grady; Kennedy and
Burrel Umpires-Lynch and Hender-
son.
PITTSBURG, April 2S.-It was "a
pitchers battle to-day, but both Cuppy
and Hawley doing the best box work
of the year. Hawley excelled. however,
twice striking the side out when a hit
meant two runs. Only four hits were
made on each side, and the last half of
these were lucky. Attendance, 4,000-
Score: Pittsburg 2, Cleveland O. Bat
teries-Hawley and Merritt; Cuppy and
O'Connor. Umpire-Weidman.
NEW YORK, April 2S.-Bowen, the
Indiana ball. tosser, pitched an ex-
celent game for New York to-day, and
especially while men were on bases;
but, as in the previous games against
the Bostons, the fielding of the local
men was not steady enough to keep
the runs down. Score: New York 3,
Boston 6. Batteries-Bowen and Far
rell; Mains and Ryan. Umpire-Keefe.