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The Portland daily press., 1897-10-06
EYES, EARS AND NOSES.
Sight, Hearing and Smell In the Ages |
Long Ago and Now.

Sight, Hearing and Smell In the Ages
Long Ago and Now.
1t is a very curious question, especially
If thsquestion include the first animals
created as we'll as the first men, whether
there be any difference between sight,
hearing and smell in those early days and
at the present time.
Smell was one of the most important
senses then, for it aroused appetite, en-
abled the animals to seek and find their
mates and to track their prey, and 1t gave
them warning of a foes approach OF pres
ence With man now 1t is of only third
rate or fourth rate Importance.
The organ of smell among some of the
first creatures was not near the end of the
snout or nose, but near the brain, and was
we'll padded or cushioned with fat and pro-
tected by tender skin or by scales over
tapping each other.
But it was not more keen or more deli
cate then than it is now, especially in our
hunting dogs Cats, too-and these are
among the later animals-haye this sense
in great perfection. A cat has what is
called the homing instinct, and If carried
away from home In the dark 1t can return
by precisely the same road. 1t is said that
this is because every field, ditch, village
or house leaves its own odor in just the
right order on the cats brain, like sue
cession of pictures, and the animal smells
It's way back as we would see ours.
The organ of smell seems to communl-
cate with the memory, for the scent OF
flower will sometimes bring back to
grown man the scene associated With IL IN
his childhood, and thousand other sub
tie thoughts and feelings, SO that he seems
literally carried back into his past life.
The first creatures knew nothing of fra
GRANGE The sweet smelling flowers were
not then in existence. Besides, their
brains were too small to enjoy the delicate
pleasures of sweet odors.
Hearing was comparatively poor with
the first animals, for often an external ear
was lacking. The outside ear not only
protects the delicate nerves within, like a
hood, but also gathers or collects sounds
A man of defective bearing instinctively
puts his hand behind his ear for this pur-
pose. Birds that have no external car can
easily be surprised by night and taken,
while their acute vision shows them every
movement by day,
Tho savage raced had little idea OF music.
They liked noises as children like drums
and horns. The savages on the Midway
plaisance had great delight in their native
music, which was discord to our ears. 1t
required larger brains and finer training
to have the full deli ght in melody and har-
mony that our musicians possess now.
The eye. also, in the gigantic creatures of
early periods was sometimes rudimentary,
though. again, it was of large size and pro-
tected by ring of bony plates instead of
the lovely silken eyelashes that protect and
adorn the human eye now. In sQms Of
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-06
JUDGE MAURICE C. BLAKE.
Death of Pr ointment Native of Cum
berland County.

An Early Pioneer Who Earned the Title of
"oId Honesty on the Pacific Coast.
On September Goth, Judge Maurice G.
Blake, ex-Mayor of San Francisco. died
at his home in that city. Judge Blake,
who was called 'Old Honesty" was born
in Otisfeld. Maine, Oct. 20, 1915. He
graduated from Bowdoin in the class Of
1888. among his classmates being Edward
Henry Daveis, of Portland, Isaac New
ton Felch,. Prof, Daniel Lane Of Iowa
College, Prof. G. S. Palmer Of Harvard
University, Horace Piper. of Washing
ton, Rev. Enoch Pond, Prof. Stephen
M Vail and Robert Wyman, a mission
airy to Ceylon.
Judge Blake praoticed law at Harrison,
later at Camden, and was collector of the
port of Belfast and member of the State
Legislature.
In 1858, joining the tide of emigration,
he braved the perils OF a trip around the
Horn, and arrived in San Francisco,
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-06
Eoral to Twenty Fire Engines.

In St. Nicholas Mr.. Charles T. Hill
writes of New York's FLOATING Fire En-
gines.'' Speaking of the fireboat New
Yorker, Mr.. Hill says:
At fires in buildings along the river
'front.' or IN streets near the river the New
Yorker can lie at dock near by and SUM-
ply 90 effective streams, and, in fact. in
capacity she is equal to that number Of
land engines. II the fire is some distance
from the water front, immense lengths of
hose 6 inches in diameter can be mr.
tached to the outlets of that size in the
sides of the deckhouse, and by the aid of
reducing connections can be reduced in
size as the lines are stretched in to the fire
until they reach the regulation sizes-aR
or inches at the nozzle end. She can
supply six of these powerful streams effect
lively at distance of one-third of a mils
from her location, and at big fires she he.
somes a valuable aid to the land force,
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-06

where he again took up the practice of
law. Soon after he was elected "a JUS
tice of the Peace, which office was fol-
lowed by probate judgeship and later a
position on the bench Of the Municipal
Criminal Court. In all positions of
trust he commanded the commentator
and respect of the pepole by answering
integrity, and for this virtue was kept on
the bench for period of sixteen years
In 1881 he was elected Mayor of San
Francisco, and at the close of this official
career was among the most prominently
mentioned for gubernatorial honors. He
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-06
A Costly Book.

The highest price ever paid for a single
eolume was rendered by number Of
wealthy Jewish merchants Of Venice to
Pope Julius II for very ancient Hebrew
Bible 1t was then believed to be an orig
inal copy of the Septuagint version made
from the Hebrew into Greek in 277 B. c.,
careful copies of the Hebrew text having
been prepared at that date for the use of
the 70 translators The offer to julius
was $50, 900, which, considering the diff
ference between the value of money then
and now, would in our day represent the
prinoely sum of 100000. Julius was at
that time greatly pressed for money to
maintain the holy league which the pope
had organized against France, but In spite
of his Iack ~ f-~~t7n hc >'ccIi~ed the offer
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-06
JUDGE MAURICE c. BLAKE.

Blake, sister residing in the East. : He
was single man, and lived at the resi-
dence of the widow of a nephew, Maurice
Blake.
The funeral servicessover the remains Of
the dead man were held at s08 Hyde
street, at 1890 O'Clock, the Rev. George
c. Adams officiating, assisted by the
Rev. Horatio Stebbins, formerly of Port
land. The interment, took place at the
Mount Tamalpais Cemetery, at San
Rafael, the funeral train leaving the city
on the 80 boat. The following pallbear-
L. Barnes, Judge J. V. Coffey, Judge NJ.
H. Myrick, Judge e. D. Sawyer. NJ NJ,
Estee, G. N. Williams and Henry Pierce
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-06

those lizardI .ie animals that burrowed in
the mud there were three pairs of eyelids,
one Of them transparent, so that the ami.
NAL might see through 1t closed.
1t is said that early writers, like Homer,
speak Of very few colors, chiefly red, or
"purple, as they called it then. &
Enjoyment of beauty, of graceful curves
and lines and proportion, or of harmonious
and varied colors and their delicate tints
belongs to later state of cultivation, a
more developed brain, than most Of the
early races knew.-E. E. Mosby in Phila-
delphia Times.
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-06
MAINE BAPTISTS.


The action of the convention as taken last
year and submitted to us was received
in all candor as the intelligent convic-
ton and honest purpose of those so act
ing. Immediately upon adjournment
steps were taken to carry into effect the
expressed wish of the convention. At
as early date as possible, the executive
committee made careful canvass of the
whole field and after careful and deliber-
ate consideration it was thought that the
sum of $4,000 or Whereabouts might be
raised from individuals and churches dur
ing the current year. This amount was
apportioned as follows.
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-06
The Acton Fai- Opens,

Sanford, October 5.-The Acton fair
opened today with the usual attendance.
Fifty Of the speediest animals that have
been in the lists of the Maine and New
Hampshire circuits are entered for the
races at Lake Shore park Wednesday and
Thursday
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-06

Have you earache, toothache, sore
throat, pains or swellings of any sort9
A few applications of DR.. Thomas,
Electric Oil will bring relief almost
instantly.
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-06
STATE OF OHIO. CITY OF TOLEDO, /,

STATE OF OHIO. CITY OF TOLEDO,
LUCAS COUNTY. IS
FRANK j. I IIENEY makes oath that he is the
senior, partner OF the firm of F. j. CHENEY s.
Co.. doing business in the City of Toledo
County and State aforesaid. and that said firm
viii pay the sum Of ONE HUNDRED DOL
LARS for each and every ease OF CATARRH
CATARRH CURE.
FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in nv
presence, this 9th day of December, 4. D. 1886
(l A. W. GLEASON
SEAL
(~~~J Notary PA6Eie.
HAIRS Catarrh Cure is taken internally and
acts directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. SEND for testimonials, free
f: j. CHENEY & co.. Toledo, o.
J-Sold by Druggists. zoe.
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-06

TO GORE a COLD INsoNE DAY
gists refund the money ii it fails TO cure. 25c.
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-06
EPWORTH LEAGUE.

The Annual Convention of the Portland
District.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-18
HE LOST AN OVERCOAT.
Mr.. Gottfredsen Makes Dlcker it'll a
Friend and is out a Coat.

About a quarter of one Monday after
noon a friend telephoned from
his house to the Office of Fred Gottfred-
sen asking him if he had an overcoat
which he might borrow from him
as he was going to attend the funeral
OF friend in Chicago Mr. Gottfred-
sen responded that he had such an ar
ticle of wearing apparel and that if the
friend would call for it at Mr.. Gott-
fredsen's kitchen door in the afternoon
it would be there and at his service. In
accordance with Mr.. Gottfredsen's in
structions the friend called at Mr..
GOttfredsen's door and asked for the
coat. Unfortunately another gentle
Taan going by that name had anticipat-
| i'll him aud the coat was gone. When
3le stranger had presented himself at
he door he had asked for an oVercoat
lett there by the man of the house for
Mr.. So-andSo and stating that he was
the man. He got the coat and made
away with it and the man who had
asked for it and Mr.. Gottfredsen were
both out the coat. The one who waited
on the man and gave away the coat,
tried to so describe the man as to make
it possible for the police to find him.
Later in the afternoon a gentleman
answering the description stopped at
Mrs. Codins and asked for something
to eat. When refused he made some
noisy demonstrations but finally de-
parted without doing any harm. The
man wore an overcoat very much like
the one lost by Mr.. Gottfredsen.
This morning while Mr.. g. was a
breakfast he saw a man passing with
his overcoat on. He followed him and
on coming up with him asked him
where he got the coat The tramp
responded that it was none Of his bust
ness, whereupon Fred undertook to
show him that it was in such a way as
to soon deprive the tramp Of the stolen
article. He had been stan ling on the
steps when Mr.. Gottfredsen received
the message.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-18
THE DUNN MEETINGS CLOSE
Several Hundred Signed the Pledge as q
Result of Dunn's Efforts.

Several Hundred Signed the Pledge as a
Result of Dunn's Efforts.
The series of temperance meetings,
which for fifteen days has been in pro-
gress in Kenosha came to an end Sun
day afternoon in Simmons hall. And
all friends say that the last meeting
was the best. Mr.. Dunn came here by
call from the W. c.. L. U. and the pas
tors He was known as a successful
temperance worker to few Of the local
leaders. While here he commanded
the confidence and respect Of all who
came into his presence, and made
numbers of personal friends. AS
leader of the meetings he stuck to the
platform laid down IN his first speech
there has been no politics, no sectarian-
ism, and no abuse. All the mans
strength and earnest elOquence were put
| forth to make friends for the cause
itself, and he succeeded Mr.. Dunn is
not a college trained man; his educa-
ton has been received by contact with
the world. He has been a wide reader
and his speeches abound with neat and
happy illusions to books and authors
and great men. Those who have
attended all the meetings have been
pleased and edited 1t dawned on a
good many who were present Sunday
afternoon for the first time that they
had missed a great deal. Several
hundred, good many Of them drink
ing men, have signed the pledge. The
w. G. T. u. will be recruited from this
number. The pastors of the churches
have been warm in their support Mr..
Dunn goes from here to Brandon, Wis.
He has the good wishes of all the
friends in Kenosha.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-18

means a domestic war, and if you can
dodge the rolling pin and back out of
the house with your collar and necktie
in one hand and hat and coat in the
other, do so, and finish dressing in the
barn.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-18
For sale.

Pure bred Bronze turkeys and Ply
mouth Rock fowls. Address A. A.
Burgess, Bristol, Wis. mar1l
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-18

Such women are the cause of four
fifths of the baldheads in this great,
free country of ours. Ninety five per
cent. of our baldheaded mon are mar
ried or have been and yet the woman
who turns her mouth loose in the
morning and allows it to stray all over
town, is still running at large I'M
muZZled.
The NEW WOMAN
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-18

II all the men who have received
scratched faces by just such women
calling and giving their wives few
I pointers, were stood together, the
line would reach from Chicago to San
Fl ancisco. If all the scratches were
81 Iced together, they would make one
scratch long enough to reach twelve
times around the earth. Verify, the
woman gossip is a terror.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-18

There is the smooth, confidential
gossip-the man or woman who always
have something to tell you "in secret. =
Turn a deaf ear to their cunning pala-
yer, for at last they /" stingeth like an
adder and biteth like serpent"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-18

People who make a practice of run
ming all over the neighborhood sowing
the seeds of discord and scandal, cause
more genuine heartache and anguish
in a community than forty saloons
running wide open seven days in the
week.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-18
THE NEW WOMAN TALKS.

She Discourses Again on This, That and
the other Thing.
Oh, for a thousand tongues to sing
the praises of the man or woman who
jog right along through life attending
strictly to their own business.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-18

Take for instance, one of those
women whose mouth looks like a saw
toothed trap and whose tongue rattles
like the loose spokes in an old buggy
Wheel She should be labeled poison"
and set on the top shelf out of reach of
the children.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-18

No human being on earth feels half
so small as the woman who has pound
ed her dear husband over the head
with a broom, because Mrs. So and So
told her that hubby" Winked at the
hired girl, when she finds out that Mrs.
So-and So is an infamous liar. Many
a good man goes through life lodging
fiat irons and frying pans all on account
of some neighbor losing control of their
mouth.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-18

Some women of this stripe, under
false pretenses, drift into the church,
and then the devil laughs out loud.
They make mockery of religion, and
after getting the whole congregation
looking cross eyed at each other, they
Join some other church
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-18

a gossip Of the masculine gender is
even more of a nuisance than those Of
the weaker sex. The man who stands
in the country store with one hand in
the cracker barrel, is both bore and
an eye sore. He may not know much
about the doings of congress, but he
can tell you all about the business of
every man in town with one hand tied
behind him.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-18

In spreading news with lightning
rapidity, the thoroughbred gossip out
rivals the telegraph and long distance
telephone Reports may be trifle
conflicting, but they get there just the
same.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-18

Many an affectionate husband has
been compelled to sleep in the barn
with his horse, simply because some
kind neighbor ''put flee" in his wife's
ear. Hundreds of men in this manner
suffer martyrdom and often die without
finding out why they were prosecuted.
This is one reason why so many men
swear by note.
Man, beware of the woman who calls
at your house before breakfast, and
holds a whispered conversation with
your wife in the kitchen 1t invariably
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-02-18

Some people apparently banker for
gossip as vehemently as an old topper
longs for his grog. They love to take
some idle, groundless rumor and mag
Nifty it until the whole neighborhood is
in an uproar.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-31

Football was crime in England in
Henry Wits reign.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-31
STEAMBOAT MEN OBJECT.
VIII Not File With Railroad Commits
siOners Complete Details of Their
Business Methods

To-day the limit of time expires for a
filing with the Railroad Commissioners of
detailed report from all bay and river
steam boat owners of the character, amount
and profit OF their business.
Only one report has been received. The
owners are almost unanimous in denying
the jurisdiction of the Railroad Com
mission. They declare that to give out
publicly all the details of their rates,
profits, contracts, and other information
required by the questions put by the COM
missioners would be rulnous to their
business, for it would furnish every
com petlng company with the very in
formation that would be most injurious
TO further competition.
The principal argument advanced By
the steamboat men is that their craft are
under the Jurisdiction of the United States
authorities, VINO examine them as to
their safety, and issue to them licenses
to run on the bay and the rivers.
They say that if they should report, so
should all the competing schooners that
handle freight. and so also the transfer
and 6raying companies.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-31
Co. SO. cash So. P. F. Dundon So. Dunn
A DlSCORDANT NOTE.
The maSter-GeneraI Wants the
Convention at Chicago.

The stmaSter-GeneraI Wants the
Convention at Chicago.
CHICAGO, ILL, Aug. 30.-The threat
ened breach between President Parsons
and the executive committee of the Ma
tional Letter-carriers' Association was
closed this evening. M. A. Fitzgerald of
New York was present to explain the
presidents action in changing the Ioca-
ton OF the convention from San Francisco
to Chicago as merely ruse to make the
railroads lower the rate. AS result
President Worthington Of the Chicago
branch was able to announce rate of $62
which is below the one first offered by the
railroads. The New York delegation will
reach the city to- morrow, 800 strong, and
delegations from other cities will arrive
Wednesday in time for all to leave on a
special train Wednesday evening.
CHICAGO, ILL, Aug. 3O.-Ihe Western
roads have got into sad tangie over
rates from this city to San Francisco.
owing to the letter-carriers' convention,
which was TO have been held there next
month. Last Saturday all lines cut their
round-trip rate to S72 80 ana to-day the
Rock Island announced that it would put
in a round.trip rate OF S62 5O. The letter
carriers are also in fight over the loca-
ton OF their gathering. The excursion
committee insists that the convention
shall be held at San Francisco, as origi
nally planned, while the president of the
association saws it shall convene in Chi
cago. Late to-day the Postmaster G en-
eral telegraphed Superintendent of Rail-
way Mail Service Troy that the conven-
ton must be held in this city. The Rock
Island says it reduced its rate at the sug-
gestion of the Southern Pacific, but that
it will cancel the same If the convention
takes place in Chicago.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-31

to which the bowl is to be presented with
appropriate ceremonies on Thursday. 1he
bowl is said to have cost $500.
On tables on either side Of the bowl rest
the china and glass services which are to
be part OF the presentation. Both are
really double services, for there is set OF
each for the captains room and for the
ward or mess room. The services as well
as the punch bowl were made in the city
of Wheeling, w. Va, and are models of
artistic skill.
The china service is what is known as a
decorated La Belle blue, and each piece de-
signed for the captains room is decorated
with a coin gold cable around the edge.
The ca BILE unites in double sailors knot,
beneath which are the letters ~. S. n.
in red cable, with gold effect design. On
the back of each piece is the following in
scription burnt in red in the CHI ina: Pre-
sented by the citizens of Wheeling, W. Va,
1897" The gold and blue blend perfectly,
giving an effect that can be appreciated
only when seem.
The set made for the officers mess is
similar to that made for the captain ex-
cept that the pieces are decorated around
the borders in delicate tints OF green and
orange. A border OF flowers is surmounted
by a light scroll worked in coin gold, and
III GbC CChtCl VI CoSA PiSS0 40 OH 'ohSdOi
worked in red.
The glass service consists of $50 pieces,
all of blown glass. The letters. "U. 8. N"
are engraved in ca bic design on each piece
for the captains room, while on those for
the officers mess there is q neatly cut an
Choir. The entire set is SAID to be about
the finest ass ortment of ware ever made
by Wheeling firm.
A party of fifty-fve prominent citizens
of Wheeling will arrive here to-day. They
Will be received by mem bers of the local
committee and on Thursday will 60 to
Mare Island, where the presentation will
take place on board the gunboat.
CONGRESSMAN Doyener,e OF West Virginia
will probably make the presentation
speech, and the gift will be accepted by
Captain +. M. Symonds, commander of
the gun boat.
Admiral W. A. Kirkland is expected to
be present as we'll as mum Der of local
people OF prominence, and the affair is ex.
pected to be one of the most successful and
i'm portant OF its kind in naval affairs ever
had.
The Wheeling party are coming on
special train and will rem ain here for
week, during which time they will be en-.
tertaiaed by the convention com mittee and
shown the various points OF interest easy OF
access from San Francisco.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-08-31
CURRY'S COLANDER.
Holes Made in the Ceiling of the
County Clerks flee by Iron

County Clerk Curry is thinking of let
ting the ceiling Of his office out for col
ander, because of the many holes that
have been made by workmen on the new
City Hall roof dropping crowbars and the
like through to the floor below.
Last Saturday a heavy steel casting was
let slip from the roof, and it went crashing
down into the probate department, start
hing Deputy Clerk Northup and his assist
ants and making big hole in the mahog-
any desk where a mum Der of attorneys had
been standing only a few moments before
This makes the sixth dangerous missile
that has been contributed by the CON
tractors and their men. Employees OF the
County Clerk are having their lives IN
sured and as the roof may be finished
within year, they hope to live through
the danger that seems to threaten them.