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The Portland daily press., 1897-11-15
MISSIONARY MEETING.


There will be D union woman's mission
airy meeting Eat West END chapel this
afternoon at AS o'clock. Reports from
the annual meeting of the Woman's board
recently held in New London, will be
given by the Portland delegates among
whom is Miss Mary S. Morrill,, the Maine
Branch Missionary to China, who will
give an address on her work. Members
Of clubs who are interested in the work
of missions, whose meetings occur Mon
day afternoon are asked if they will
kindly be excused from their clubs for a
little while that they may attend this
service as 1t does not commence until
later than the usual time SO that many
classes may thus be accommodated and
the ladies of the West church are DESTROYS
of seeing as large representation as pos
sible from all the churches, especially
these in the middle and western sections
CT the city. The meeting is open to every
one who is interested in the work. :.
The Portland daily press., 1897-11-15
THE GEO. e. BROWN co.

A certificate of Incorporation has beer
filed for tThe George E. Brown 20, The
purposes of which are to carry ON tht
business of acquiring by purchase o.
otherwise, owning, holding and dlsposine
of by sale, real estate and personal prop
erty and any interest therein, ana al
kinds of farming implements and prod
ucts, dealing in live stock and cattle o
all kinds, ETC. The capital stock Is $50,
coo, of which $500 is paid in. The pa
value Of the shares is $l00. The 1ncor
porators are William +. S. Brown, Ed
mund E. True and Edward E. Dennison
of Portland. These are directors, Mr.
True is president, and MIR. Brown clerl
and treasurer
The American Fair Loom Attachment
Co. has been formed at Portland by Mass
q ;husetts parties.
The Portland daily press., 1897-11-15
AMERICAN MECHANICS.

Next Thursday evening occurs the
third anniversary of Council. No. 8, o.
U. A. NJ. Of this city. There will be a
short business meeting early in the eve
ming.
Gilman counciland Daughters of Liber-
ty of Yarmouth and the Daughters OF
Liberty OF Portland have received and
accepted an invitation to be present.
The Portland daily press., 1897-11-15
PROBABLY FATALLY INJURED

Pennington, Me-, November l3.-oc
tave Collins, aged G8. was probably fatal
ly injured while numbering near Reding-
ton Mills today. He was STRUCK py FALL
ing tree and had his skull fractured in
several places. Collins has relatives in
Otis Falls
The Portland daily press., 1897-11-15

Anyone who suffers from that terrible
plague, Itching Piles, will appreciate the
Immediate relief and permanent ours
that comes through the use of Doan'e
Ointment, It never fails.
The Portland daily press., 1897-11-15
LIGoNIA LODGE OF ODD FELLOWS

Next Friday evening Ligonia lodge
will celebrate its 59th anniversary by one
of those enjoyable occasions for which it
has been SO famous. in the past; there
will be a reception, entertainment and
banquet with after-dinner speeches by
renowned orators. 1t will be as usual
ladies' night, and tickets Of admission
may be secured of the secretary, Daniel
Brooks, at 98 Exchange street, room 9.
The issue Of tickets will be limited to
The Portland daily press., 1897-11-15

Ao Hirst Open Meeting of the Seasonal
oiever Little Burlesque-Some Charm
Ing Mps;o
The Portland daily press., 1897-11-15
CONGRESS WILL BE IN SESSION

during the stay of the first Pennsylvania
railroad personally conducted tour to
Washington, leaving Boston Dec.2. Rate,
$25. Seven additional tours to Wash.
ington, and four to Washington and Old
Point Comfort. Privilege of stopping
over in New York for as long period
as desired. Itinerary of d. N. Bell,
Tourist Agent, 2O5 Washington street
Boston.
The herald., 1897-01-10

AN ITINERANr HOUSE AND OTHER
STORIES. by Frances Dawson. with
characteristic illustrations by Ern-
est Peixotto. foolscap. Svo, beauti-
fully printed on specially imported
paper. bound in cloth. with appro-
pirate designs on soa. stamped in
gold; price. $l.50. William Doxey.
San Francisco
This very handsome volume contains
the most striking short stories of Miss
Dawson's, and is. we believe. the first
attempt to put any of these INTO book
form. Miss Dawson has been attracting
a good many lovers of literature to her
style of narration. which is certainly
original and powerful. There are those
among her admirers who have seriously
compared her to Poe and Hawthorne.
In point of real power of invention how
ever, and subtlety of style. this praise
We must regard as rather strained. The
best specimen of this authors style.
and sustained power, is the opening
The herald., 1897-01-10
A PRACTICAL JOKE.

Joe Choate enjoys a joke. says the
Buffolo Exenins Times. So does Tom
Platt. And the9e two men, like the
Roman augurs, would most likely burst
out laughing If they met. There is
substratum of solemnity. of course, in
this scramble for the senatorial toga
Choate is a man of pre- eminent abili-
ties. and for that reason would be in
place to render valua bic services to his
clients the Standard Oil company and
a. dozen or so other trusts and aggrega-
tions of monopolists. Moreover. his en-
vironment in the senate would be con-
genial to- him. AS a member of the
greatest millionaires' club in the world
he would be a shining light. bright
particular star in a scintilating galaxy
Platt has been there before, and,
therefore, he knows what he lost when
he followed Conkling from Washington
to Albany in the expectation of being
sent back from Albanw to Washington
Platt himself is understood to have
speaking acquaintance with great cor
porations. and is willing to represent
them in the senate.
This is the serious part
But this talk about reform-that is
where the laugh comes in.
The herald., 1897-01-10
IN ASH BARREL BONANZA
Mother Carpio, the Queen Of the
Ragpickers
A WONDERFUL OLD. WOMAN
She Has Accumulated q Fortune OF
100000
Eats Two Meals Day, Works Fifteen
Hours and Has Been Pulling Out
Riches for Forty-1ve Years.

NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-Ordinarily
rag pickers are objects of commiseratioa
and pity. Yet the other day while a
couple of central office detectives were
digging into the byways of Mulberry
Bend they stumbled into the rooms of
an Italian woman, a ragpicker by trade
The sleuths were after some stolen goods
and from what they heard they imagin-
ed that this particular woman might
know something about the robbery
They searched her and found bag tied
about her waist under her gown. and in
the bag was $500 in money. The de-
tectives thought that they had caught
very prosperous ''fence" and lugged her
off to headquarters. They went back 70
pump the neighborhood dry of informa-
ton about the supposed receiver OF
stolen goods, and then found their mis-
take Ever since her arrival in the
country, ten years ago, the woman had
been 4 ragpicker, working fourteen AMI
sixteen hours a day. The $4,000 repre-
sented her accumulated savings in that
time.
At first the detectives We're skeptical
about the possibility of q ragpicker
amassing such a snug little fortune. But
when they had talked with half dozen
of the best known ragpickers in the
Bend they discovered that $4,000 was
considered a very small sum to heap up
in ten years.
AS matter TO fact, there are fifty rag
pckers living in that squalid and filthy
neighborhood who are worth moIe
than $4,000. The richest of them all is
Mother Carpio. For forty-fve years she
has been raking over the ash barrels Of
the metropolis. and today she has at the
md Of
is drawing interest at per cent.
Mother Carpio never touches cent of
the income, except to reinyest it, She
works as regularly now as she ever did,
giving fifteen hours day, from o'clock
in the morning to o'clock in the evening,
to her beloved task. Ragpicking is her
delight. She could not pass an ash bar-
rel without poking her scrawny, dirty
fingers into the mass of rubbish if her
life depended upon it,
NOT A. BEAUTY.
She came to this country when she WAS
20 years old. She is 65 now, ard at one
time, perhaps, she was pretty and pleas
ant to look upon. Italian girls in the
first blush of womanhood are generally
attractive, but If Mother Carpio ever was
young and handsome, Father Time has
wrought some wonderful changes The
word of her neighbors Is the authority
for her being IS yeras old. She looks as
if her years should be 165. Nodded with
a fist and chiseled with pickax de-
scribes the physlognomy of this Won
derful old woman better than anything
else.
She has only one or two teeth left, but
her principal meal of the day consists of
a pound of raw meat between two hard
slices of bread. When she feels like
treating herself she adds a raw onion
to this banquet. She always dimes thus
The herald., 1897-01-10

wont to assert their rights: the Royal
Stamp; Faneuil hall, Boston formerly
pronounced Funnell, later Fannell); and
an interesting picture of the Craigie
House, the headquarters of Washington
and later the residence of Longfellow.
The Battle for Decency in nI.iterature-
Richard Watson Glider, editor of the
Century Magazine, thinks this battle is
just now at It's height. In an article in
the Independent on Editing he speaks
of the editors duty to take part in the
battle, and he pays his respects to the
"realists" in the following terms: "Real-
ity is word to conjure with: any one
who raises a blue pencil against real
ity is in peril of losing his literary stand
ing. The editor Is prone to level things
down; to object to the novel and orig
inal; he may be Philistine; he may even
be touched with hypocrisy. But if there
Is any greater humbug and hypocrisy
than realism can be do not know what
1t is. Take, for instance, the single de-
tail of profanity in the Conversations
of a story. Did any one who has ever
heard the thing in all its luxurious and
picturesque reality ever see it really
reported? Is there a living realist who
would be willing to put down in cold
black and white to the extent of a fools
cap page the habitual language Of GER
tain types with which he deals in fic-
tion? And If he did SO, would he be
willing to keep that piece of paper over
night under lock and key? The unthlnk-
able blasphemy, the rank and violent
vulgarity, they are as real as many other
things outside of art Say what you
will, there is no realist who does not
draw the line somewhere; and that line
is at least as debatable as the one be-
tween Venezuela and British Guiana"
The herald., 1897-01-10
M'BURNEY'S KIDNEY AND BLAD-
DER CURE

The country is full of nostrums war
ranted to cure "all ills that human flesh
is heir to- and California is flooded with
this class of goods, which are manufac-
tured in the east, and many of which are
of doubtful value, enriching their east
ern manufacturers. however, at the ex-
pense of Californians.
1t is worthy of special mention that
there is one remedy at least manufac-
tured in Los Angeles which bids fair to
turn the tables on eastern manufacture
ers of similar remedies and compete
with them in their home" territory.
This is the now celebrated McBurney's
Kidney and Bladder Cure. MIR. Nc
Burney commenced the manufacture of
this excellent remedy with but little
capital and some misgivings, owing to
the large capital invested in the east In
the manufacture of similar remedies.
The phenomenal success achieved by
Mr.. McBurney in the manufacture of his
wonderful medicine. however, has en-
couraged him to extend his operations
not only to every section of the Pacific
coast, but even to states east of the
Rocky mountains.
The great number of testimonials re-
ceived, proving conclES.yely the cura-
tive qualities of this valuable remedy.
cannot fail to convince those who are
suffering from these dangerous disor-
ders that McBurney's Kidney and Blad-
der Cure is what it represents to be.
The writer is one of large number OF
Los Angeles citizens who can testify to
the curative powers of this remedy, and
the number is daily increasing, not only
in Los Angeles, but all over the Pacifia'
coast
The testimonials which appear in ads
vertisement below cannot fail to CON-
vince the reader of the wonderful effi-2
cacy of this remedy.
If your druggist does not keep Mc-f
Burney's Kidney and Bladder Cure =
will be sent to any address in the United
States or British America (expresg pre-
paid) on receipt of price.
The herald., 1897-01-10
His old aunt thinks he is

rags all day. His old aunt thinks he is
fine young man. who loves his calling,
and every cent of her money will 70 to
him when she dies. When that happens
Tony will lay aside his bag, his hook, his
ragged clothes, his industry and parsi-
mony and enjoy the world as a young
man with an income of $4,000 a year gem
orally does.
1t may seem remarkable that Mother
Carpio should accumulate so much
money in such humble calling, but
when the secrets of the trade are known
1t will be seen that the profits were
large. They are not large today. The
golden times of the ragpicker are past,
because the city sells the privilege of
sorting over the refuse to great contract-
ors, and the business is worth half a
million a year.
ragpicker does not pick for rags
only, but for everything, from cham
payne corks and pieces of fat to bundles
of love letters, false teeth artificial eyes,
birds, dolls, toys, musical instruments.
medicine bottles, cork legs, shoes and
clothing, wigs, bits of ribbon and string,
all, of course, more or less used.
Mother Carpio, it is said, has found
everything in her long career but cof-
fin. She found a skeleton one day, and
at another time human leg on which
some young medical student had been
operating. She sold the skeleton, but
the leg was loss. She has found money,
checks, legal papers. private letters, dia-
monds and jewelry. She is an honest
old woman, and she returned all these,
but with true commercial instinct always
insisted upon a reward.
In the old days she often made as much
as $50 day, but now 81 is considered q
great days work, and 81 is a trlfle more
than the average Her neighbors say
that if she did not make penny she
would go over her route each day, as it
would kill her if she had to stop.
GRANTLAND GRIEVE.
The herald., 1897-01-10
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as the New Ragpickers' row, located In
the rear of the three tenements at Nos.
l66, 16S and 40 Mulberry street. These
houses are each but five stories in
height, yet some 700 people live in them,
including 250 ragpickers. OF these lat
ter, fifty are boss ragpickers who en-
ploy four or five men and women each to
do the work Mother Carpio could be the
greatest boss of them all, but she pre-
fers to go out each day and gather her
own riches.
The whole ragpiclling colony used to
live in Bottle alley in Baxter street, but
The herald., 1897-01-10
SHE HAS 100000, WORKS FAVORITE
FIFTEEN HOURS

filled with $50 pounds of stuff with ease,
and carry it for several miles, too Her
figure Isl a fit companion to her face.
Long years of carrying heavy burdens
upon her back and of STOPPING over ash
barrels have curved her spine Now it
would probably give her acute physical
pain were she to try to stand upright.
Her head is always bent toward the
ground. In her youth she may have been
five feet tall today she is not much more
than four feet.
LIVES IN RAGPICKERs' ROW.
She lives in two rooms in what is known
The herald., 1897-01-10
INGENUITY OF THE SMALL BOY

A Chicago BOY OF years, says the
Chronicle, begged cent from his father
and received it Wit the injunction that
1t must not be spent for candy The
father asked the boy at night how he
had spent the cent, and the boy said he
had traded it to Sammy Green for a
knife; Sammy bought candy with it and
divided the sweet stuff. and then the
knife was rat.srRed to Sammy.
The herald., 1897-01-10

at o'clock in the afternoon, on her re-.
turn home with her bag of treasures,
sorted from the ash barrels on her route.
Then she spends happy hour sorting
the stuff over. At o'clock she goes to
bed and gets up at 1880 a. M, SO as to be
sure to have the first pickings. She cats
something before starting out at 2
o'clock, and unless the barrels yield
some dainty morsel attractive to her
peculiar palate, she does not touch food
until in the afternoon.
Mother Carpio cannot weigh more than
95 or 100 pounds but she can carry bag
The herald., 1897-01-10

the city purchased that property to es-
tablish the Mulberry Bend Park, so the
crowd moved in a solid bunch to the ten
ements in Mulberry street
A VERY SHREWD NEPHEW
Two rooms are an ASusual luxury for
a ragpicker, but this is Mother Car
pio's only extravaganza. Besides. she
has nephew, Antonio Bonnaccio.
young man of twenty-five. who was born
in this city, and is more of an American
than an Italian. His neighbors say
that he would like to be a sport, but he
is sensible young man and he picks
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-08-26

More gold dollars will be produced in
the wheat fields Of Eastern Washington
this year than will be taken out OF the
Klondike placers in the next five years.
This is good food for thought to those
who are spending hundreds OF dollars to
reach a cold and barren country where
many long months Of severe hardship
await them, whether they are successful
or not. Raising wheat on farm in
Eastern Washington seems prosaic be-
side the romance attached to gold mining
but it is vastly more satisfactory in the
end, both from the standpoint OF proflt
and comfort to say nothing OF the dam
ger attached to life in the Klondike
district
About ten days ago the Chronicle, with
the aid of its correspondents and we'll
known wheat experts, estimated the
wheat crop of Eastern Washington at
"a .OOO, 900 bushels. This estimate is gen.
erallv conceded to be a correct one and
reflects credit upon the Chronicle Tor
being the first to issue reliable estimate.
Spokane Chronicle.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-08-26

the land and give the aid asked for. 1t
will only be a proper return for services
rendered.
AL. Santabin and Fred Wilson arc
building an addition to w. b. Wilson's
barn; the immense hay crop this year
necessitates it.
The Justice of the peace OF this precinct
has a standing offer from now till the
New Year, 1898, to perform the marriage
ceremony free to all corners who are duly
licensed. This should act as healing
balm to the bleeding hearts which have
excited so much sympathy this summer.
The Republican newspapers are jubi-
liant; there is a decided improvement in
the manufacturing and commercial out
look; this, Of course, brings tho ever
ready 81 told you SOL" But prosperity
Tor trusts and corporations is not a
national prosperity. In it's true sense,
prosperity means remunerativc business
Tor all from the commonest laborer 10
the wealthiest banker, broker or specu.
lator Because men are making millions
OF dollars each year is not sign of pros
porous times. Millionaires are not good
citizens, they do not patronize home in
dustries, they spend their money abroad !;
they must wear imported clothes, eat i'm
ported foods, ape imported manners and
toady with imported fools their daugh-
tiers must marry some titled rake or
spendthrift. and when this is once accom-
plished, these scions Of butchers, shoe
makers, soap-boilers and junk dealers
are AT once lifted from their lowly posi-
tions, their plebian blood, from some
kind OF hocus pocus, is transformed into
royal blue and America loses one OF its
willful daughters-until the divorce law
sets her free from the royal rake and she
returns, perhaps, little wiser; but the
titled blackleg has the money, the stake
he was playing for, and the family Of the
millionaire has the glory of an unhal-
lowed alliance and dsgraceful separa-
ton. Our country needs patriots, not
millionaires.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-08-26
Notice.

Notice is hereby given that the city
council of the city OF Aberdeen will re-
ceive bids until O'Clock p. m. of Sept.
s, 1897, for the improvement of D street
from the southerly line of First street to
Randall street in the city of Aberdeen,
WASH, by the planking of the same as
provided in Ordinance No. 143 of said
city; whole amount shall not exceed
the sum Of $500.
All materials to be furnished by the
bidder, and work completed without de-
lay; the whole cost of such improve
ment, except street crossings and inter-
sections, to be paid for by special warrants
issued against Local improvement Dis
trict No. u, in said city.
For greater particulars and specifca-
tons reference is hereby made to the
provisions OF Ordinance No. 143 of said
city, in relation thereto. No bid will be
considered for q greater amount than
$500; and the council reserves the right
to reject any and all bids.
The successful bidder must enter into
a contract with. said city for said i'm
provement.
Each bid must be accompanied by a
good and sufficient bond in the sum OF
500, conditioned that the bidder will
enter into contract with and furnish a
good and sufficient bond to said city for
said improvement, provided he is the
successful bidder.
Given pursuant to statute and direction
of the city council.
Dated at Aberdeen, Wash, Aug. 25, 1897.
GEO. A. BLACK, City Clerk.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-08-26
FROM OCOSTA.

A large crew of shlngle makers are in
Testing the Stone Co.'s mill.
The beach is receiving more patronage
from Ocosta this year than ever before.
Fireman Hampon has been promoted
to engineer and has removed to Tacoma.
Supt. McCabe, OF the N. p. Ry., has
been passing to and from the beach,
where his family is staying, during the
past week.
Mrs. Albert Chamberlain lett Ocosta
last Friday to take up residence in Cali
fornia. Mrs. Chamberlain has been a
longtime resident Of Ocosta and her
parting was not without many regrets.
A part of the Ocosta contingent of the
Cooks Inlet gold hunters are expected
home soon for the winter. 1t is known
that not a large quantity of dust will be
brought out this year, but preparations
will be made for next season, when it is
expected to make better showing.
The Ladies' Aid Society gave delight
iul entertainment, at the home of Mrs
Geo. }. Moody, last Wednesday evening
A large number OF guests, including
many young people, were present, who
responded heartily to the strains OF music
and did full justice to superior qualitie;
of ice cream and other refreshing delca
! cies.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-08-26

iepews, the Clevelands NAV meet when
and where they please and in the glare
oil electric light, amid laughter, Jest and
sparkling champagne devise and put in
operation plans that fill the land with
gaunt hunger and despair, but they arc
beyond and above the restraining powers
oil the courts. Bat let the humble. dust
pegrlmed coal miners drop their picks
and extlnguish their lamps for week or
day to council together us to how they
shall resist the arrogant insolence of weak
Drained snobocracy the tyranncal en-
'roachments OF the few upon the rights
o! the many, to live and breathe pure
air and to eat wholesome food and ia
wear decent clothes, to educate their
children and save their wives from a
slavery worse than existed before the
war, then this new prerogative of the
government is called into exercise and
these men are commanded to either starve
in silence with those they love or 90 back
into the dark tunnels to work their lives
out, that the other crowd may enjoy their
lights and champagne.
How long will this condition of affairs
be tolerated? How long before the de-
spised worm will turn and wound the
heel that brushes it? Enjoined from
meeting, enjoned from talking, enjoined
from everything but working, suffering
and starving When will the limit of
endurance be reached and submission
cease to he virtue?-Durango Wage
Garner.