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The Portland daily press., 1897-02-23
Mining Stocks.


BOSTON. Feb. 20, l897.-The following al
to-day's quotations. of Provisions etc..
FLOUR.
Spring patents. 4 6O94 rs.
Spring, clear ana straight. 3 1894 SD.
Winter. clear and straight, 4 4094 10.
Winter patents. 85@5 10.
Extra and Seconds 90.
Fine and Supers-.
Jobbing price 25c higher.
MEATS.
Pork, long and short cut, y barrel, 10 rs.
Pork, light and hwy backs 50 5O@1O %.
Pork, prime mess IL 30.
Pork. lean lends IL 90.
Tongues pork so 90: do beef $23 " Dbl
BeeT picked. 50 0OG10 90.
Snoulderscorned and fresh &c.
shoulders. smoked. IN.
Ribs, fresh, &c.
Hans. large and small. 8A S101ae
Bacon, 8M@10c.
Pork. salt b1ac.
Briskets, salt 6.
Sausages, TIC.
Sausage meat. 61a@7c.
Lard. ties. Az ;pails. 6A@5H c; Il. 714@7A
The Portland daily press., 1897-02-23

European Markets
Bv Telegraph.
LIVERPOOL. Feb. 20, 1s97.-Cotton market
higher, American middline 1892 :sales Z OOC
balss speculation and export SEQ bales
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Portland wno,esaIs Market.

PORTLAND. Feb g. 1857.
The following arc to days wholesale prices It
Provisions Groceries: ore
The Portland daily press., 1897-02-23
CAsco BAY STEAMBOAT co.

IN EFFECT Nov. 20, 1895.
For Forest City Landing, Peaks Island at
5.A5. GAO. 500. A. M, 2.15, $40 P. M.
fethen' Landing, Peaks Island, Little and
Great Diamond Islands, 500, A. M. 2.15
p. NJ.
C.W.T. COOLING. General Manager.
The Portland daily press., 1897-02-23

Portland Daily Press Stock Quotations
Corrected by Swan s. Barrett. Brokers' 100
The Portland daily press., 1897-02-23

PaintE-
Lead
Pure grounds 50@6 90
Red. % b0@6 90
Eng Ven Reds ! @3M
Am Zinc -. % oO@7 90
Rochelle. IN
Domestic 80. 4 or
Salt.
Tks Is.fb hdl 1882 90
Liverpool IL 6OGI 80
IDia'md Crys. Dbl 2 %
Saleratus.I
Saleratus .6@5A
Spices.
lCassla, pure. .16@19
IMAGE. s....... ] 90
The Portland daily press., 1897-02-23
FROM OUR OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS.
WISCASSET. Feb 20-Ar. schs Odell, Nc
Donough. Boston; Calvin Harris, do, (latter
at North Edgecomb).
Feb 22-Sld. schs Celina. Murray. Port Spain
iona Coane, Robertson. Boston.
ROCKPORT, Feb 22-Sld. sen Robert Byron,
Hart, New York.
Jas Warren, Boston: Frank G Rich. Rockport
for Boston; Annie Shepard, do for do: Edwin
warren, Rockland for do; Ada Ames. do for do
Emma w Day. Wnterport for Boston: Chester
Lawrence, Rocksort for Boston; w Dexter,
Portland for Calais.
The Portland daily press., 1897-02-23

EXCHANGE DISPATCHER.
Ar at Halifax 21st. steamer Labrador. from
Liverpool land sid 23d for Portand.)
Ar at St Thomas Feb. Z. sch Isaac Camp
bell, Matthews, Guadalupe. &s
The Portland daily press., 1897-02-23

Spoken.
Feb 49, lat SO l6. Ion "a 81 sch Maria o Teel
from Norfolk for Key West.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-06-26
FOR SUNDAY READING.
TO DEATH.

o death. OF sin the fatal foe.
The dread and blight OF those below
Who only earthly pleasures know;
. cruel death.
To eyes OF faith how changed thou arti
Thou bringest peace into the heart,
While sin and death for aye depart:
. friendly death!
When. through bereavement. we our eyes
Turn. for the first time 10 the skies,
Thou art a blessing I'm disguise,
o miscalled DEATH
Thou art Of faiths far-reaching chain
The pearly clasp. that knits the gain
or Heaven 10 earth's want and pain.
o precious DEATH
Thou art the dawn from this dark night:
Thou dost long-parted friends unite;
For doubt and trust thou givest sight:
o blessed DEATH
But. dearest TO our hearts for this.
Thou art the first to give the bliss
OF seeing Christ, whom here we miss;
O glorious DEATH
Sophia Dallas Hazeltine. In n. Y. Sun.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-06-26

TO say that the young engineer was
the exception. He had always been
welcome at the stone house in the val
ley, but he had not yet got beyond the
unspealxable stage with Elsie.
1t was the uncertainty OF his stand
ing with her that made Protheroe hesi-
tate TO Introduce possible rival; and
IL was his assumption of superiority over
the common foibles and weaknesses Of
humankind in general, and of jealous
lovers in particular, that united with
his sympathies 10 make him change his
mind.
The wagon road up the valley of the
Little Chiwassee follows the stream TO
point within quarter of n mile OF
Duncan's house, where IL climbs a low
wooded spur of Johns mountain. From
the top of this spur the young engineer
could look down upon the house and It's
surroundings. and he saw Duncan in the
barnyard talking TO a stranger-an old
man with white hair and beard falling
over the cape of a tattered army over
coat. At sight of Protheroe the man
climbed the fence and ran up the noun
tain. whilo Duncan came around the
house TO the gate.
Good morning. Mr.. Duncan; 1 hope
didn't scare your neighbor away. He
took TO the woods as IL he thought /
might be constable with n warrant"
"An' who kenned you were not, when
We cam loupin' over the hill yonder?"
Duncan came out and loosened the sad
die girth while Protheroe was hitching
the horse.
II did, for one, and you ought to, for
another. But tell me, who is your
neighbor. who looks old enough TO be
my grandfather, and who yet makes
nothing of ten-rail fence and steep
hillside?"
"Ye're over curious, Robbie, an I'll
no crafty We. Ony frien' o. mines well
come to loup the fence or win out at the
gate, as he pleases. But come We into
the house; yen be havin' an errand
this mornin', I'm thinlxin'."
Protheroe laughed at the shrewd
guess. 81 have. just that" he rejoined,
land it'll take family council to set
tie ii, too"
Duncan led the way TO the sitting
room and called his wife and daughter
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-06-26
Iro DE Continued
HONOR WITHOUT STAIN.
The Sterling Integrity OF One OF the Ma
tlon's Founders.

Old Philadelphians cherish many an
ecdotes Of the noted men in the Quaker
city in colonial days. One of these has
significance that is worthy of consid-
GRAFTON.
There was n famous grammar school
in Philadelphia to which the boys
OF well-to-do parents were sent 10 be
trained i'm the "humanities." The ex-
aminations were severe. and the lads
who failed felt themselves somewhat
oisgraced in the eyes of the whole
town. Many of the pupils secretly used
TRANSACTIONS, or were helped by scholar
ly friends in their studies.
There is n tradition that one boy,
Charles Thomson, refused TO avail hun
self of any help or dishonest trick. He
was slow 20 learn, and timid. His
classmates insisted that he appeared
at an unjust disadvantage for these
reasons at examinations, and urged him
TO use ponies" and cribs.
"No," he said. ut is pity IL do not
learn Greek; but IL is worse IL learn to
lie."
He failed, and was sent down to n
lower class for the next term.
Charles Thompson was never, per-
haps, first in his class at school; but
among the good and noble men who
helped TO form the republic he stood in
the foremost rank as a man whose
honor was stainless. He was long sec
rotary OF congress. and on disputed
points his simple statements outweighed
the oaths OF noisy disputants. Even
the Indians recognized the quality OF
the man, hnd received him into the ma.
ton, giving him name which signifed
'He who cannot lie."
II he had learned 10 lie in order 20
pass n simple school examination, for
what poor mess OF pottage would he
have sold his kingly birthright.-
Youths Companion.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-06-26
DRIFTING.
A Lack of Purpose I'm Life IN Followed
Means Ruin.

Driftingl This word exactly ex-
presses the movement which carries so
many away, alike from the mornings
of faith and from the safe course of
rectitude in conduct. As rule. men
do not set sail in perilous seas, or
towards treacherous shoals, with def
mite intent. No man Is SO foolhardy as
deliberately to mark ruin on his chart
as the desired or purposed end OF his
voyage. No man in his senses will pur-
posely head his boat towards the cruel
rocks, or make straight for the angry
breakers, or steer for the fatal rapids
Men simply drift 10 destruction. No
man deliberately sets out TO be a drunk
ard. or debauchee, or a blasphemer.
There are but few, IL any, who resolve
with definite purpose 20 lead lives of
sheer worldliness. from which all
thought of God and eternal things ia
excluded. They simply drift into care
less or evil courses OF living. Myriads
of lives are wasted and ruined through
sheer thoughtlessness. There are thou
sands and thousands OF young men
who. instead OF girding themselves I'm
iiit y hioihiik WIN hihhiJ puilo htih
resolutely bending every energy
towards the attainment of worthy ends.
lay down the oars. and allow their
barque OF life TO drift wherever chance
winds or currents OF circumstance, or
listless inclination, may carry them.
Sometimes they drift long and far be-
fore they awake 90 consciousness OF
their position or their peril. The
awakening is often rude and startling
one. No cry is more pitiful, or more
common, than that which comes from
wild and inhospitable shores, strewn
with the wreckage Of human lives. I'VE
never thought IL would come 20 this"
They simply drifted, drifted, listlessly.
passively. unconsciously, awaking only
to find themselves In the resistless
sweep of the rapids. and face 10 face
with destruction.-Baptist Union.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-06-26
SUGGESTIVE THOUGHTS.
Drtef Notes from the Columns OF the
United Presbyterian.

One who Is not convinced by clear
proof will not receive additional evil
dence, because he closes his mind TO the
| truth.
How may we know what God wishes
us 10 do? One way Is to consider what
we can do. Whatever Is right and Is
in our power is our duty.
Pauls advice TO Timothy: let no
man despise thy youth" might be
broadened 20 read: let no man de-
spise thy birth. thy poverty, thy cir
| cumstances. DO not despise these
things thyselfl"
Nothing has more power TO trans
form the character and ennoble the
life than n thrilling realization of the
fact that we may have a part In the
glorious work of fastening the coming
of the kingdom of our Divine Master.
We do not need to have men come
back from the other world TO tell us
of the penalty of sin; we see the PEN
atty In the present life. And yet men
go on In sin. They do not believe the
Scriptures or the testimony OF ruined
lives; why should more evidence be
given?
IL may be that our fathers did not
give sufficient promise to the love and
grace of God, but just now there is
nothing needed more than the preach
ing OF the sovereignty and Justice Of
God, of the exceeding sinfulness OF ain.
and of the necessity for the blood of
the atonement.
when intelligent faith decays SUI
pcrstition fiourishes. None are so
credulous as those who reject the Word
OF God. We insist upon a voice from
the unseen world; our nature de-
mands II. When we do not listen 20
the voice of God we turn 20 ghosts. 10
every uncrcdited one who tells marvel
Gus things, and say: We will listen 20
you and follow.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-06-26

Made rosy by the great logs light.
Beside the hearth one winter night
That flaming up the chimney dark,
Hit every Granny. every nook.
Upon the rug little maid
Bat curied. IN pose demure and staid.
In pensive mood. with dreamy eyes
She sits, while up the chimney flies
A thought with every fiery spark
Giinting and flashing through the dark.
TIL with a sigh profound and deep
She moves. as one moves IN her sleep.
A rosy apple I'm her hand.
A weight OF thought seems 20 demand;
She taps IL with finger light.
Then carefully she takes bite
Another bite. now one, now two
The core Is thus exposed TO view.
Another sigh. what can IL be.
My little maid. what aileth thee?
All. what Is this? Some incantation7
Muttered with such reiteratlon?
Hark. as each seed her bright eyes see,
These are the words that come to me:
"one love. two love.
Three love i sayl
-Four love with all my heart.
Five ! cast away
Here a tear rolls brightly down,
What the secret she has won?
Who can say7 But Just behind
Sounds a voice so soft and kind:
Look againl Thou must indeed
Find for me another seed"
Roster her bright cheeks glow
In the firelights rudy glow.
Sure enoughl a culprit seed
Finds she I'm the core indeed
From thy lips fain would hear
What the sixth one means, my dearl"
six he loves" she murmured low,
And the firelight's fiickering glow
Two happy faces now disclose
With cheeks ALLOWING like the rose,
Hut here We'll let the curtain fall,
For the end is best OF all.
sacramento Union.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-06-26

ny the time the Queen Anne gables Of
the Hotel Johannesburg came in sight
around the shoulder OF Johns noun
tain, he had argued himself into more
philosophical frame of mind.
after all. perhaps it's a godsend.
Elsie has seen nothing OF the world. and
how else could be sure that was ever
anything more 10 her than the first man
she ever met? It's better 70 find IL out
now than later-much better in every
way"
At which sensible reasoning the nat
ural man within him arose once more
and Knocked him.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-06-26
REMEMBERING THE PAST.
Lessons OF Warming and Encourage
ment from the Days Gone by.

Lessons OF Warming and Encourage
ment from the Days Gone by.
The tendency 10 believe the past TO
have been happier and better than the
present is common, especially among
elderly people, but has little justifica-
ton. And the correction of it is pro-
NOTED largely by the study of the past.
The modern development of interest in
history, of more correct historical per-
ceptions of scientific theories of in
vestigation and narration, has revealed
not only the glories OF the past but also
its faults and failures. But TO go 10 the
other extreme and disregard the past
would be as grave an error as 10 over
estimate IL.
The same thing is true in respect 10
Christianity. The past has for us the
most solemn and eternally significant
lessons. IL Is true not merely that the
great events of sacred history lie in the
past, but also that the record Of reli-
gious development down to the present
time Is full of instruction and profit.
To understand how the Gospel has won
its way in the earth, what hindrances
1t has had to overcome, what assur-
ance of final victory IL has, it's adapta-
tion TO all races and conditions of men,
and the reasons why now one of its
vital features and then another has
been emphasized distinctively, IL Is
necessary to remember the days of old
and to study them.
Especially, too are the fatherly and
beneficent dealings of the Almighty
with His human children TO be realized
thus. When doubt overshadows us,
when evil seems to be triumphant and
we are tempted TO believe that right
eousness is vanishing from the earth
and that the saving power of vital re-
ligion has been overestimated, then we
need 10 turn our gaze back into the
pnst and refresh our courage by study
ing the historic evidences OF Gods wis
dom and power and of His presence
with His own in their darkest hours
and of His signal interpretations in their
behalf. We can appreciate only thus
that what seems 10 us the actual drying
up of the ocean OF goodness is merely
a brief ebbing OF the tide.
We lluSb intiht ILLS HUMANITARIAN Ol
the past more personal, too. We must
remember the blessed days of old in
our own histories. Who Of us has not
some precious memories of occasions
when God seemed specially near, loving
and full of help? Who Of us cannot re-
call some experiences Of deep penitence,
the revival within us Of faith and pur-
pose and the enlargement OF the hori-
zon OF our spiritual outlook, after which
life took on a new and nobler mean
ing because we had learned better to
understand and love and serve our
Lord?
We can only suggest thus briefly
some OF the elements Of value In the
study OF the past TO the Christian heart.
IL means information, warning. encour-
agement. stimulation, inspiration. II
Is only by thus using the spiritual
riches Of the past that we can learn
properly how TO appropriate those OF
the present and the future,-Congre-
nationalist
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-06-26
The RIGHT SPIRIT.
ChristIiness Exempiined Even Amid
the CrueItfes OF War.


the Crueitfes OF War.
Writing in Harpers Magazine about
the jameson raid upon the Beers of
South Africa. Mr.. Poultney Bigelow gave
this episode:
"When the Beers had silenced the
firing of Jameson's men, and had saved
their country from what they feared
might prove an invasion disastrous TO
their independence, they did not cele-
brate the event by cheers or bonfires-s
They fell upon their knees and followed
the prayers offered by their elders;
they gave praise 10 Almighty God for
having protected them; they searched
their hearts and prayed TO be cleansed
from the spirit of boasting; they prayed
for jameson and his men, that they
might be guided by the light of justico
and Christian fellowship-andt this they
prayed while some of the dead lay un-
buried about them"
When jameson surrendered, nothing
could exceed the kindness of the people.
both Dutch and English. who came up
nfterward. Milk, brandy, meat and
bread were sent for the wounded" said
DIR. Hathaway, one OF Jameson's sur
geons. "We were nothing but pirates"
he added, "and richly deserved hanging
every one of usl"
Mr.. Bigelow, commenting upon this
forgetfulness, apparently, of the Beers
of everything except their duties as
Christians, says:
This is the nearest example know
of in history of soldiers in the field
acting practically on the precept: Love
your enemies"
II Mr.. Bigelow should ever visit Lich-
field cathedral, he would see there a
memorial window TO Bishop Selwyn.
commemorating the deed of n New
Zealand Christian. He was an officer
of the Maoris-one of DIR. Selwyn's con-
verts while missionary bishop Of that.
island--and had taken up arms with his
people to resist the encroachments of
the English.
The British made an attack on a ma
tive fort, and were repulsed with great
slaughter. During the attack this Off
Ger, hearing the groans of a wounded
Englishman, crept up from the fort,
and crawling on his hands and knees.
carried cruise of water to his enemy.
The man proved to be a British captain.
and the water saved his life.
The next day another assault on the
fort was made, and was successful.
The Maori Christian was slain. A New
Testament was found on his person,
and Romans IL: 20 was underlined with
blood, as II his fingers had traced the
words: IF thine enemy hunger, feed
him; If he thirst, give him drink"
A fort-the story is also told in Bishop
Selwyn's biography-wh commanded
the channel OF river was so invested
by the Maoris that the English garrison
was near starvation. One morning they
beheld native canoe bearing a flag
OF truce floating down 10 the fort, and
at some distance behind several other
canoes. On landing. they were found
TO contain provisions from the Maori
officer in command of the besieging
force, and with them came this mes
sage:
Therefore, If thine enemy hunger.
feed him; II he thirst, give him drink"
We wonder II the English officer COM
manding that garrison ever fired an
other shot against these Christian ene-
mies.-Youth's Companion.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-06-26

can. can't you spare Elsie 20 20 mp vn
the mountain with me this afternoon 20
''What for no?" was the ready an.
swer. "Ye'll bath be the better for
bit walk in the open. I'm thinking the
bulk is keeping We over close 10 the
chimney neuk. Mr.. Thorndyke."
The appeal settled the question for
Elsie. but her evident embarrassment
puzzled Tborndyke. For swift I'm
slant q possible explanation thrust it.
self upon him. but he put the thought
away with twlnge of shame that he
had given IL room. Doubtless Elsie
had her own reasons for her apparent
confusion. but they concerned him only
so far as to make II advisable that he
should do nothing 20 place himself in
false light before her. The afternoon
ramble would give him chance TO tell
her more about himself. and IL the
yagrant suggestion which he had made
such haste to disown had any remote
ldnship TO fact, the bare mention OF
Helen's name would set the matter
right, and there would be no room for
future Misunderstanding It was
clearly the just and honorable thing TO
do. and now that he thought of IL. he
reproached himself for not having
done IL sooner. With n different up
bringing, Philip might have seen the
unmalleable self-conceit in all this, and
having recognized IL he would have
been honestly and frankly ashamed OF
IL. Since he was not aware of its ex-
istence, his resolve 10 make n conf
dante OF Elsie took the comforting
form of an act of delicate and chivalric
thoughtfulness. and he looked forward
with magnanimous impatience TO the
time when he could give IL speech.
After dinner, however. when they
were climbing the steep path leading &c
the summit of Johns mountain, the
good resolution began to part with its
urgency. Elsie's embarrassment had
disappeared. and in such irrelevant
talk as the scramble up the rocky trail
permitted, there was no opening for
anything like condolences. With the de-
lay Philip began TO doubt the necessity.
If he were not under sentence of death
IL would be different, but in the light of
that tremendous fact, why should he
go about TO observe the unwritten laws
OF conventionality? IL could surely be
no disloyalty TO Helen il he allowed him
self to take what of sympathy and pity
this other young girl chose to give him
out of the abundance of life and health.
On the contrary, would not H0len be
glad, when all was said, to know that
he had not died without the JUNCTION of
compassion? And Elsie THAT was
phase Of the question which might well
be treated as a wise man treats a sleep
ing dog; 1t was the very hardihood OF
vanity to suppose that her heart was
touched by any emotion deeper than
that of pity. Knowing that his days
were counted, there could be no offer
ing save at the shrine of wornanly
tenderness and sympathy. In any
event, there was no occasion for haste;
he would wait awhile and see what came
of it,