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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-09-02
(The Illustrated American.)

ANeSA-sJ
The negro poet, Paul Lawrence Dunbar,
is being lionized in London society. The
position In which he finds HIMSELF is not,
perhaps, lin all respects a dignifed one.
London is interested in him, not beca use
he is poet, but because he is negro
who writes poetry. A freak is apt to in
terest London society. Mere poets, and
especially minor poets, are not sufficiently
uncommon to roar with good effect in
London drawing rooms. Let man be q
poet if he will, but the great thing is
that hi. should be a curiosity. Then, for
day and night. he may have London
at his feet. 1t an author comes from
America, it is all the more incumbent
upon him that he should be freak Of
some sort. If he proves to be mere
gentleman, London is apt to feel herself
defrauded. Mere gentlemen she produces
for herself in monotonous abundance
She expects that foreigners, and Ameri-
cans in particular, should be unusual and
amusing. Of course, Mr.. Dunbar is I'M
der no necessity of assuming i'll manners
or odd habits. His race and color are
sufficient, and he can, therefore, afford
W SHCbA, doO, C1u t1lld dI0sS do " R6uUlS-
man without sacrificing his effectiveness
as lion. When Miss Pauline johnson
went to London she was equally fortu-
nate. Being an Indian, as well as a poet
of authentic gift, she was able to win
success in Londonldrawing rooms with
out assuming any pose that would do
violence to her tastes as woman of
breeding and refinement. She was of
Mohawk blood. She showed it in her
features and complexion. Society was
satisfied. 1t was interested not in the
fact that she wrote poetry so we'll, but
that, being an Indian, she could write it
at all. But when Joaquin Miller went to
London he was ljust white man, and
had to pose. He took London by storm.
But, true and new poet as he was, it was
not by his poetry that he triumphed His
hair, of course, was long, but that was
not enough by any means. He wore his
long boots and red shirt where other men
appeared in evening dress. Carrying a
great bear skin with him into the draw
ing rooms of the Duchesses, he would
throw it down and recline upon it in
scorn of chairs and couches. London
was lost in delight. Here was at last the
American of her dreams. And poet,
too!
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-09-02

this letter. 1t was an exceedingly stupid
document, and the men who wrote it are
probably heartily ashamed of it by this
time
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-09-02

| 1t is now intimated that the Attorney
General will hold that clause % does not
go to the extent of imposing discrimin-
ating duty on foreign goods coming into
this country through a contiguous coun-
try in bond, 1t has always seemed to us
that that was not merely a permissible
construction of the clause but the most
natural one. The clause reads:
That discriminating duty of ten per
centum ad valorem, in addition to the
duties imposed by law, shall be levied,
collected, and paid on all goods, wares or
merchandise which shall be imported in
vessels not of the United States. or which
being the production or manufacture Of
any foreign country not contiguous to
the United States, shall come into the
United States from such contiguous
country.
The second discrimination in this par
agraph applies to productions or manu-
features of any foreign country not con-
tiguous to the United States that "shaIl
come into the United States from such
contiguous country" Now goods landed
at Vancouver and placed in sealed cars do
not in any proper sense Of the phrase come
into the United States from a contiguous
country They come in through it. If
Chinaman landed at Vancouver and was
placed in sealed car and brought through
Canada into the United States nobody
would speak of him as brought in from
a contiguous country" 1t would be said
he came in from China through Canada
1t is fair to assume that if it was intended
to exclude bonded goods the act wo' id
have used the phrase coming into the
United States from or through contig-
uous country. The words coming into
from" discriminate against goods impor-
ted into Canada which have rested there
for time and become part of the stocks
of traders in that country and afterwards
been sold to parties in the United States.
Butte make thesclause apply to goods that
had never rested there and never become
part of the stocks of traders in that
country the word through was needed.
Foreign liquors which came into this
state in original packages were saleable
notwithstanding our law, and nobody
ever claimed that the fact that they came
in through Massachusetts changed their
status, though liquors coming from Mas
sachusetts were seiZable.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-09-02

Speaking of the discriminating ten per
cent duty which was apparently surrepti-
tiously put into the tariff bill. the New
York World thinks Congress should adopt
some means to prevent such acts, and rec
ommends that conference committees
should be forbidden to add
anything to bills passed, and. should
have responsible committee to read all
conference reports carefully.
The fact is that it is now one of the
most important and carefully enforced
rules of parliamentary law in the House,
that a conference committee shall add no
new matter to bill and shall NEEDLE
with no portion of the bill not in contro-
versy between the two houses. A point
of order raised by any member is sufficient
to rule out the whole conference report.
AS for a committee to examine conference
reports, it is difficult to see how this
would be better than the present method
whereby the conference report is printed
and distributed generally. All the mem
bers of both House and Senate and all
interested parties about the Capitol have
these printed copies. AS it was about a
week after the conference report on the
Dingley bin was made before the report
was adopted, it is safe to say that those
printed reports were quite widely distrib-
uted over the country. Many eyes read
them, and the whole newspaper press of
the country had access to them. What
SO many eyes did not see special COM
mittee would hardly have seen.
1t was simply piece of stratagem, like
the stratagem of the thief who walks off
with ones pocket book or handkerchief.
While lawmakers may punish such an
offender it exceeds human ingenuity to
frame law that will prevent his act.
Such tricks of legislation are quite COM
mon, especially in the State legislatures,
where there is not generally SO much pub
licity and care as in Congress. Careful
investigation. and punishment of the Of
tenders, if possible, is the only remedy.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-09-02

An impressive remonstrance against
the purchase Of the Ottawa House by
the government, is published elsewhere,
signed by the great majority of the pro-
minent merchants of the city. Unless
the government actually needs the land
in which the hotel stands for coast de-
tense purposes there seems to be no good
reason why it should take it. A hotel
at this point is of great benefit to Port
land in the summer months and it ought
not to be deprived Of it except for the
most imperative reasons.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-09-02

log in the war of the United States regu-
lar army, chiefly in California. but AFTER
Gettysburg was transferred to the Army
Of the Potomac. In President Arthur
administration he was Marshal of the DIS
trict Of Columbia. He and his two sons
are the publishers of the North American.
They have quaint ideas of the demands
of loyalty in the far East. Some years ago
an English official in India was robbed,
and due complaint was made. After some
"The matter you mention has been
thoroughly investigated, and not only
have the robbers been put to death, but
all their children, as we'll as their fathers
and grandfathers. l hope this will give
satisfaction to her Majesty the Queen"
Loose naturalization is being made diff
cult in Pennsylvania. At Sunbury on
Monday Judge Savidge subjected 200 ap-
plicants to tests in which one-half OF them
failed. He had fifteen regulation election
booths set up in front of the bench and
subjected the would-be citizens to voting
test with specimen ballots. In addition,
he catechised them as to their knowledge
of the local, State apd National forms OF
government.
And now the italian papers claim
Prince Henri of Orleans to be child OF
sunny Italy. They say that in 1773 the
Duke Of Orleans was journeying In
Italy with his wife, when she gave birth
to child at Modgliana. The child was a
girl, and reasons of state required boy.
At the same time the wife of humble
citizen had borne son. There was an
exchange of children, accompanied by
considerable money. The new born girl
became the daughter of the humble citi-
zen, and the son eventually became Louis
PHILIPPE, King of the French.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-09-02
Your RoyWont Live a Month

So MIR. Gilman Brown, of "a Mill ST..
South Gardner, Mass, was told by the
doctors. His son had Lung troubles
following Typhoid Malaria, and he spent
three hundred and seventy-fve dollars
with doctors, who finally gave him IN,
saying: "Your boy won't live a
month" He tried DR.. Kings New Dis
covery and few bottles restored him to
health and enabled linn to go to work a
perfectly well man. He says he owes
bis present good health to use of DR..
Kings New Discovery. and knows it
to be the best in the world for Lung
trouble. Trial Bottles Free at H. p. s.
Goold's, 577 Congress street, under Con
gress Square Hotel.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-09-02

Dispatches from London seem to indi-
cate that symptoms of uneasiness are be-
ginning to appear in governmental circles
regarding the -Prussian treaty and
the danger of Pan-European com bina-
ton against Great Britain. An infiuen-
iial Tory Journal expresses the fears that
ire felt when it says sit will not do for
Englishmen to hug to themselves the COM
lortable belief that the memories of 1870
will always suffice to range France on the
opposite side to Germany in any European
complication. Perhaps circumstances
might arise where France would not be
ayerse to Epay off the British EN-
pire for sacrifices under the treaty of
Frankfort ,45
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-09-02

have decidedly beneficial family said clergyman from Rhode
troubled
Many have been from with
ad Of Ripans Tbu that study te
secured supply taking according
sleep became swee and resting appetite within
the trouble entirely left relapse has taken
anticipated regard myself having been entirety cured by Rpans
mother
and sincerely will every family
the landwi tbs value of Ripans Tabues."
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-09-02
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AND
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-09-02
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR

Miss Jane Adams, of Hull House, Chi
cago, has been appointed postmaster of
station 10, and the salary will proba-
bly, be 5000 month ~ would like the
public to understand said Postmaster
Gordon, ''that Miss Adams did not ask
for this appointment, but that l asked
her if she would take it, and am very
glad she consented. In view of Miss
Addams's high standing in the commun-
ity and her work at Hull House, l am
sure the public will be well pleased and
we'll served.
The appointment of Elsa Eschelsson to
the professorship of civil law in the Uni
versity of Upsala recalls the fact that she
is the second woman professor of univer-
sity rank in Sweden. Sonya Kovaleysky
in the University of Stockholm in 1884.
She died several years ago, forty one years
old.
Rev. Josiah Strong, D. D., in the North
American Review, says that "if the rate
of growth from 1880 to 1890 continues,
in 1920 tho cities of the United States will
contain ten million more than one half of
the population. The city will then con-
troll State and nation, and this fact en-
phasizes the necessity of taking special
means to educate city children Of all
sorts in the duties of citizenship"
Here is one negro who escaped: Doug
lass White of Montgomery, Ala, killed
woman some five years ago. For that
crime, through mistrials, reversals, and
SO on, he has enjoyed six trials. At first
he was sentenced to death; at the second
to life imprisonment; at the third to fif-
ty years Imprisonment; at the fourth to
twenty years imprisonment; at the next
to ten years, and nowhe has been acquit-
ted altogether.
Clayton McMichael, who has won the
nomination for city treasurer of Philadel-
phia by 9l4 votes to 81 for his opponent in
the Republican convention, is a son of the
late Morton McMichael, in his time sher-
if of the county, mayor of the city and
proprietor of the North American news
paper. Colonel Clayton McMichael served
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-09-02
euckIen's Arnica sa,ve.

THE BEST SALVE in the world fot
Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salr
Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped
Hands Chilblains, Corns and all Skin
Eruptions and positively cures Piles, or
no pay required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or money refun aed,
Price Is cents per box. For sale by H. P.
s. Goold, SIT Congress st., under Con-
gress Square Hotel
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-09-02

Portland & 0gdenshurg Railroad Stock,
Dividends guaranteed by M.C.R.R.
Portland & Rochester, Terminal rs, 1907.
Interest guarantee by B. g. M. r. r.
Town Of pitsfeId, Me-, 4s, 1918.
Consolidated Electric Light Co. SIS. 1906.
presque Isle, Me-. Water Company SIS, 1907.
Indianapolis, ldana Water COMPANY S. 1928.
ST. Joseph Water Company Guaranteed 6's 1903
First National Bank Stock
Cumberland National Bank Stock.
Casco National Bank Stock.
80. FOR SALE By
Hi. MI. PaysOn & Co,
BANKEES
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-09-02

The fact that the Indiana was locked
at Halifax has occasioned lot of wild
talk i'll regard to our dry docks-or rather
the lack of them. AS matter of fact, the
United States owns eleven dry docks.
Of these, the one at Brooklyn is 670 feet
long and 105 feet wide and capable of TAX
ing in the Indiana but just now is being
repaired. At Port Royal there is another
dry dock capable of containing a first
class battle ship but the approaches are
not desirable for vessels of large desplace-
mept. On the Pacific, at Mare island and
Puget Sound are great docks which will
accommodate battle ships and on the
whole our condition in this particular
while not fully meeting the requirements
of our new navy is not so utterly bad as
current opinion would have one infer.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-09-02

Senator Mills's term of office does not
expire for two years, yet there is big
struggle now going on in Texas over the
succession. Mills would like, very natrr-
ally, to succeed himself, but Bailey. Rea-
gan and Culberson are turning their long
ing eyes to the great prize and it is not
easy to forecast the winner in what now
seems to be a neck and neck race.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-09-02
Tho PRESS.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2.

Tillman in his address at Albany said
that 81, 600. 600 agriculturists in the United
States sent but one representative to the
United States Senate and modesty did not
prevent his saying in substance, 81 am
the man.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-09-02

The letter of the Hon. Richard o.
ney on the case of President Andrews,
hits the nail exactly on the head. If the
committee of the trustees had urged that
the views of Mr.. Andrews on the silver
question were contrary to good ethics
and that the teaching of them was peri
lous to the country they would have put
their case on respectable grounds. But
when they urged as the only objection
to his views Tor rather to the promulga-
ton of his views for they did not object
to his holding them) that they would pre-
vent rich men from contributing from the
university they put their case ON such a
sordid ground that it was impossible that
f. should command the respect of any,
body. We have never yet come across ANY
man that was ready to approve or defend
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-05-13
STREET SPRINKLING.

The Traction Company is willing to
undertake to sprinkle the streets along
which its tracks pass, If the city VIII
furnish it, for the purpose, with water
free of charge.
To our mind. this is a reasonable pro-
nosition. The use of certain streets by
the cars is allowed for the general good.
Among the inconvenience suffered by
residents of those streets are the clouds
of dust raised while the cars are in mo-
ton. This trouble can only be removed
bv the sprinkling of the streets-few of
the squares upon which cars are run
being sprinkled by private enterprise.
These facts the Traction Company
recognize, and though the sprinkling of
its route will add little or nothing
IN IFS revenue Though 1t will be a great
comfort TO its patrons), the company is
willing to do the needed work If the city
will furnish the water gratis.
This. it seems to us. our city ought to
be glad to do. In truth, the city ought
IN sprinkle its own streets; but this we
cannot hope for for years 10 come. The
next best thing tnen Is LOT IL 10 GRAM
the Traction Company the privilege that
1t asks.
To do the work in question, we suppose
the company would equip several cars
with sprinklers, and while the whole
stretched could not be reached by the
stream very much good would be done
and life would be made much more en-
durable to residents along the line than
II would otherwise be.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-05-13
svCAR AND CHINA.

Tho Now York Herald declares Una,
tho snoar schedule as it came from the
hands OF the Senate Finance 'oi'''"'''e'
Is doomed. and our contemporary p'e
sents a poll OF the Senate winch sus
tains its declaration According 10 'h'S
nj, fortv-seven senators are against
the schedule. only six are openly ior IT.
and the rest are non-committai.
Tho sugar schedule of the Senate tarih
bin Is one OF the most outrageous III INC
measure. both in its oppressive bearing
,,oop the consumers and the ingenuity
with which it was prepared In oruer "
Give the Sugar Trust all that octopus
Grabbed for. Ii is distinct advance III
resnect Of iniouity upon the sugar schedule
of the House bill, and the result Oh u'''
lantern conferences between members Vi
the committee and representatives VI inc
sugar interest. 1t has been 'he suo'eN'
of widespread denuncation, anu II may
no as intimated in some quarters '"a'
.bat denuncjation has frightened MI
MCKINLEY and his immediate advisers,
and caused them to take an active part
in assuring its defeat. we are iei' ~
infer from the hints on THIS poih' tna'
the administration has been mace no
less uneasy by the reports OF seha'oriai
sreculation in sugar stock. based on in
side information touching the committee
report than by popular Indignation at
the oppressiveness of the duties.
There seems hardly doubt that some
OF the senators took advantage OF peihs
on the inside. and worked their kno"l-
edge of the provisions of the Senate COM
,rit,ee,s sugar schedule so as to get on
the winning side in Wall street. IL Is
openly charged that three senators gave
a washington broker orders for s'oVo
shares of sugar stock before the report
of the committee was made public, ana
that the little transaction yielded each
of them a profit of $4,000, and there are
minors that other senators who were
in the ring made smaller amounts.
of course. it may be injustice to the
administration to assume that in re-
b,,lsinr senatorial speculation 1t is not
responding to a higher influence IMAM
uneasiness. The scandal attaching 10
this speculation, or these rumors Oh
speculation, is bad piece of business
and reflects on the country at large.
If the administration is actuated by a
recognition of that fact, and is standing
on high moral ground-and we would
fain hone it is-it Is 10 be unqualiiiedly
commended. None the less, there are
some persons mean enough to hold the
opinion that the Senate bill sugar sche-
dt,le is hardly less suggestive of ugliness
than is the Senate bill china ana
crockery schedule, especially when the
latter is considered in the light Oh the
close proximity to Canton OF East
Liverpool. the great Ohio crockery CEN
tire. From all accounts. the china ana
crockery schedule was as much the re-
sult of a sudden change of heart ana
of dark lantern conferences as was the
sugar schedule.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-05-13

favor OF greater economies in State ex-
pcndItures. and the result will be 'ha'
our expenses win be cut down, and TINS
long before constitutional convention
could be assembled.
There is no danger at all that the
Legislature TO be elected this fall VIII
fail TO understand that the people Oh
Virginia demand an immediate and de-
cided reduction OF expenses-State. coun-
~. and city.
Give our Democratic State Convention
the opportunity to do so. and II VIII
make retrenchment and economy wa'ch-
words OF the coming campaign. on the
other hand, IL a constitutional cohVeh-
ton be ordered. our party's convention
and the Legislature. too. Will DC dispoSeu
to let things take their course ana await
action by the constitutional coh'eh'io"'