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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-30
COLLECTORS ADVERTISEMENT.

The following list of taxes on real estate of
resident and nonresident owners, situated in
the Town OF North Yarmouth, in the County of
Cumberland, for the year 1896 committed to me
June, 1896, remain unpaid. and notice is hereby
given that if said taxes with interest and
charges are not previously paid, so much of the
real estate taxed as is sufficient and necessary
est and charges, will be sold without further no
tice at public auction at the Town House in said
town on the first Monday Of December, 1897 at
nine o'clock A. NJ.
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Portland, Mt. Desert & Maehlas SYboat Co.
STATE ST. wharf.

Commencing Friday, April 2, the steamer
Frank Jones will leave Portland Tuesdays and
Fridays at II p H. for Rockland Bar Harhor
and Machiasport and intermediate landings,
Returning Mondays and Thursdays, Leaving
Machiasport at 400 g. m, arriving in Portland
r. E. BoOTHBY. G. P. s 7. A. mara5d tti
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Charles B. Herrick-Farm where resides aAA Do'

Charles B. Herrick-Farm where resides.
Bounded on the north by mill road, on
the west by Gray road, on the south
by land of Joseph Loring and land of
E. 7. Skllin and land of johnson Skii-
lin, on the east by Maine Central Rail
road. 80 acres Loring land, 20 acres
Porter land, bounded on the north by
mill road and /. Z. Hayes land on the
east by land Of Fl. M. Hamilton, on the
south by land of 1. E. Hayes, on the
west by Royal River. ................. $500
Wescustago Spring & Park Co-Hayes
land. Bounded on the north by land of
F. 0. Hayes, on the east by Royal Riy-
er, on the south by land of the heirs of
Susan Sawyer, west by Range road, 6s
acres. IA acres Johnson land Bound
ed on the north by land of Lewis Nit
chelI and Randall johnson, west by
Maine Central Railroad. ........ 1s6,
James A. Sawyer-Farm where he re-
SideS... ...-.......... 1916
VIM. L. Noyes-Noyes farm occupied by
/. I. Foster. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1880
George D. Porter-Farm where he re-
sides. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. e65
f. N. Jordan-Jewett land 421saeres.
Lane land 73 acres. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1855
Heirs of J. X. Morse-Harris farm 70
acres .:.......... 1900. 1880
George w. Haskel-Farm where he re-
sides, "a acres. ......-.............. 1888
Wm. Hayes-Homes cad farm, 60 acres. 1890
EDWIN W. Ross,
Collector.
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CASC0 BAY STEAMBOAT co.
Custom House Wharf,
PORTLAND. MAINE.
WEEK DAY TIME TABLE.
Commencing Sunday, Sept. 26, 1897.

For Forest City and Trefethen's Landings.
Peaks Island. Little and Great Diamond
Islands, $780, $40 500, 1880 a. M, 2.15, APO
6.10 p. m.
For ronce's Landing, Long Island, 500.
For Cushing's Island. $40, 1890 a. M, 4.2o
p m.
RETURN.
Leave Forest City Landing. 6.2o.7.2o, els,
11.45 a. M, $50, 800, 6.25, p. m.
Leave Trefethen'S, eco. 7.o5, 800. 1l,3O a,
IN. 3.15, AS, 6.45 D. NJ
Leave Little Diamond. e.1o..7.15. $40. 11.4o
a. m, 3.25, 4.35, 6. So p. m.
Leave Greas Diamond, sos, T. 10, 9.o5, 1135
a. m., $40. 4.4o, GAO p. nj.
Leave Punce's Landing Long Island.
$40, lib a. H.. 800 y. m.
Leave Cushing's Island, 7.25, 1I.5o a. m.,
sos p. m.
SUNDAY TIME TABLE.
For Forest City and Trefethen's Landings,
Peaks Island, Lutte and Great Dia-
mond Islands. $780, 1890 a. NJ, 2.l5,
420 p. nj.
| or Ponce's Landing, Long Island, 1880
a. m. 2.1o. 42O p. NJ
For Cushing's Island. 1890 a. M, 4.eO D. m.
c. W. T. COOLING. General Manager.
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He Did Not Fit the Job AnytBetter Than
the Carpet Fitted the Room--Both Feet
Punctured by Tacks-Witch Hazel and
Salve and q Threat.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-09-04

Personally Conducted Tours
via Pennsylvania Railroad.

That the public have come to rec
ognize the fact that the best and
most convenient method Of pleasure
travel is that presented by the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company's
personally-conducted tours, is evil
denced by the increasing popularity
of these tours. Under this system
the lowest rates are obtained, for
both transportation and hotel &C
commodatioh. An experienced tour
ist agent and chaperon accompany
each tour to look after the comfort
of the passengers.
The following tours have been ar
ranged for the season OF 1897:
To Yellowstone Park on special
train Of Pullman sleeping, eompart
ment, and observation ears and din
ing car, allowing eight days in
"Wonderland," September 2. Rate,
$235 from New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore and Washington; $3.50
from Pittsburg.
To Niagara Falls, excursion tick
cts good to return within ten days
will be sold on July 22d, August 5th
and 10th, September 4th and 10th at
rate of $40 from Philadelphia, Bal
timore and Washington. These
tickets include transportation only,
and win permit of stop over within
limit at Buffalo, Rochester and
Watkins on the return trip.
Two ten day tours to Gettysburg,
Luray Cavern, Natural Bridge, Vir-
ginia Hot Springs, Richmond and
Washington, September 2Sth and
October 70. Rate, $65 from New
York, $63 from Philadelphia.
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Fflibnsters Still Busy.

Atlantic City, Aug. 19.-The fact de-
veloped here last night that five Cuban
filibustering expeditions have left this
city within the past few months The
last to put out, according to informa-
ton furnished, was on Tuesday, when
not alone We're provisions taken, but
ammunition as well. The agents of the
Cuban cause have worked their ex-
petitions so neatly that they put out
under the eyes of Pinkerton detectives,
who are stationed here. The expedition
of Tuesday, it is reported, consisted of
II rapid fire guns and six dynamite
guns. There were also $4,000 cartridges.
All these articles were loaded on
mud scow, and this boat was towed
up the beach about eight miles. where a
steamer was met and the transfer eff
fected
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Captain and Mate Murdered,

Boston, Aug. ia cable received in
this city from Buenos Ayres says that
Captain ]. w. Whitman and Mate
William Hansburgh, of the schooner
Olive Peeker, which sailed from this
port on June q, have been murdered
by the crew. The pricipal owners of
the vessel are J. P. Ellicott G. Co., Of
Boston, who also sent out the barken-
tine Herbert Fuller, on which Captain
Nash and his wife and Mate Bamberg
were murdered. The message contain
ing the information was from a bank
ing firm in Buenos Ayres, and gave
only the bare facts of the double muir
der, together with the statement that
the vessel was afterward burned, but
that the crew escaped and landed at
Bahia. The owners hope they are in
the custody of the United States con-
sui there, who would naturally assume
charge OF the shipwrecked crew.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-09-04
BIG RANSOM DEMANDED


Aibany's Kidnapped Boy Still Held by
the Miscreants.
Albany, N. r., Aug. 19.-The parents
Of 5-year-oId Johnnie Conway. who
was kidnapped on Monday last, are
still mourning the loss Of their boy.
ldr Conway. who is night train dis
patcher of the New York Central road
at West Albany. received a letter on
the Gang" declaring that unless $4,000
was left at q designated place at GER
tain hour the child would be killed Mr..
Conway, who declares he is unable to
pay the ransom demanded, on the ad-
vice Of the authorities followed the in
structions regarding the placing of the
package at the time and place indi-
Gated in the letter. This place was
watched closely by the detectives for
several hours, but without avail 1t is
probable that the abductors also kept
a close watch, and knew of the de-
tectives' presence.
A terrible change has come over the
boys mother. who is on the verge of
prostration. The strain she is laboring
under has aged her perceptibly, and
unless she receives relief through the
return of the boy she is likely to break
down completely.
The police of all the neighboring
cities and towns have received de-
scription of the missing boy. Captain
Davidson, of the local police, thinks the
child is secreted in the city, and that
the hope of reward now being lost to
the kidnapers they will surrender him
today. The police do not think any
harm will come to the boy.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-09-04
They Sized.

Governor Drake of Iowa tells story of
a meeting between Lincoln and A. II. Pick
ering of Chicago. Mr.. Pickering, who is
very tall man, was resident of Iowa at
the time Of Lincoln's election and was en-
gagged in shipping cattle. He and Mr..
Drake came to Chicago on business, and,
hearing that Lincoln was in the city, they
sent up their cards and were shown to the
president elects room. "When we got to
Lincolns room, said Governor Drake in
his speech, he opened the door, and on
seeing Pickering asked, How tall are you?'
Pickering said, six feet four why
cried Lincoln, that's my height. Let's
measure " And then the president of
the United States and the cattle shipper
stood back to back, while the first lady of
the land, Mrs Lincoln, who was little
woman, after standing on tiptoe and reach
ing to the tops of their heads, decided that
it was a tic.
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INDIAN INK.
The Superior Kinds Are Used In China
and Not Exported.


The Superior Kinds Are Used In China
and Not Exported.
An interesting account of the manufao-
ture of the so called Indian ink, which is
made only in the Anhui province of Chi
ma, is given by Mr.. Fraser, our consul at
Wuku, on the Yang-tse, in his trade re-
port. tits more correctly called China ink
--encre de Chine-and from Anhui it goes
to every part of China and all oyer the
world. In 1895 about two tons of it, val
ued at 1854, were exported from Shanghai
to foreign countries. The materials with
which this beautiful black ink is made are
sesamum or COLA oil, or the oil expressed
from the poisonous seeds of q tree extern
siyely cultivated in the Yang-tse valley,
ard also we'll known in Japan. To this
yarnish and pork fat are added. The lamp
black made by the combustion of these
substances is classed according to tho ma
terials and the grade of fineness and also
according to the time taken over the proc
ess of combustion. The paste made of
this lampblack has some glue added and
Is beaten on wooden anyils with steel ham,
mers. Two good hammerers can prepare
in day so pieces, each weighing half a
pound. A certain quantity Of musk Of
the musk deer, or of Baloos camphor, for
scenting, and gold leaves, varying from 20
to 100 to the pound, are added to give "a
metallic laster.
The materials thus prepared are nodded
in molds of carved wood and dried, which
takes about 90 days in fine weather, and
adorned with Chinese characters in gild-
ing. About 80 or 80 average sized sticks
of ink go to the pound. The price varies
from rs. or less per pound to as much as
81, there being over a dozen different
grades. Nearly all writing is done by the
natives throughout China, Japan, Korea,
Tonquin and Anam with this China ink,
rubbed down on a stone ink slab and ap-
piled with paintbrush of sable, fox or
rabbit hair, set in bamboo holder, and
when not in use carefully covered with
protecting brass cap The superior kinds
of this ink appear to be used in China and
not exported. Manufacturer.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-09-04
PRESIDENT BoRDA MURDERED
Uruguay's Chief Magistrate Shot Dur
I'm a National celebration

HI a LNstLiOuStA
Montevideo, Aug. 26.-During ma
tional fete which was held here yester-
day President ]. Idiarte Borda was shot
and killed by an assassin. The assas-
sination of the president occurred just
as he was leaving the cathedral, where
a tie deum had been sung. The assas-
sin was arrested. This was the fourth
attempt on the presidents life. the
first being made by a crazy student
named Revecca. Another attempt was
made to assassinate the president on
the afternoon of April 81 last. An I'M
known man met President Borda on the
street and shot at him. The president
escaped without injury, and the Grim
inal was captured. On May 20 a bomb
was sent to him in box, but the police
were suspicious, and it was destroyed.
Senior Borda was elected president
of Uruguay for the term extending
from March, 1894, to 1898. The fete at
which he was assassinated was being
held in celebration of the independence
of Uruguay, which was achieved on
Aug. %, 1926.
At the time of Senior Borda's election
he belonged to the official party, and
was elected by a very narrow major
ity. The people, 1T was said, were sad
ly disappointed at the result, but order
and quiet was maintained. The leading
papers of Uruguay deplored the cleo
ton of Senior Borda, and declared that
it marked a reaction in the country's
progress.
Later President Borda issued a proc
lamation to the effect that his admin
istration would conduct the business
of the state in the interest of the whole
nation, and that he would invite the
assistance of all political parties to
that end. This proclamation made a
very favorable inpression
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-09-04
NIAGARA FALLS.
Low Rate Excursion via Fem
sylvania Railroad.

The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany will run a series of ten.day ex-
cursions to Niagara Falls, leaving
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Wash
ington on July 22d, August 5th and
18th, and September 4th and 18th.
An experienced tourist agent an d
chaperon accompany each excur-
sion.
Excursion tickets, good for return
passage on any regular train, exclu-
sive of limited express trains. within
ten days, will be sold at $40 from
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washing
ton, and all points on the Delaware
Division 1910, from Lancaster !;
$500, from Altoona and Harris
burg; 1925 from Wilkesbarre /;
$3.50, from Willlamsport, and at
proportionate rates from other
points. A stop-over will be allowed
at Buffalo, Rochester and Watkins
returning.
A special train of Pullman parlor
cars and day coaches will be run
with each excursion.
For further information apply to
nearest ticket agent, or address
Geo. W. Boyd, Assistant General
Passenger Agent, Broad Street
Station, Philadelphia.
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INDIA NEWSPAPERS.
Daily and Weekly Publications FIourished
There Before the Euronean Conouest.

Daily and Weekly Publications EIourished
There Before the European Conquest.
India can jointly claim to have q share
"A very considerable share-in the birth
of the newspaper. Ages before the Euro
pean conquest every court had weekly,
sometimes daily, news letter, which was
sent out to the principal towns and read
with diligent attention by wealthy people,
mobiles and especially by all officials. 1t
was not, however, until after the English
conquest that the newspaper, as the word
is now understood, was established in In
dia, the first English journal in that coun-
try appearing about 1918, and not until
the middle of the country did the Indian
natives begin to publish papers in their
own language.
The Indian press may be roughly d.
yided into three classes. The first consists
of English newspapers published in the
large cities, such as Calcutta and Bombay,
generally very creditable productions, CON
Quoted by scholarly Englishmen or Anglo
Indians. The second class is composed of
papers edited and published by natives
the matter being generally half Ia Eng
lish and half in native language, though
the proportion varies. The third class con-
ed entirely in native language, this class
being by far the most numerous of all.
The oriental is fond of parade, even in
language, and the longer the words the
moro attractive in his eyes and to his ears
is the style. 1t is not at all remarkable
therefore, that, considering his imperfect
knowledge of English, the long words of
which the Indian native editor is so fond
should sometimes be misplaced or incor-
reotly employed, nor that the metaphors
in which he delights should frequently be
grutesquely mixed. Most of the natives
who read English are familiar with the
literature which is distributed in enor-
nous quantities by the missionaries, and
have adopted from it many pious express
sions that, appropriate enough in homily
or prayer, are ridioulously out of place in
leading article.-Ezohange
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Justice Fields Long service.

Washington Aug. 17.-JusticeS Stephen
]. Field of the United States supreme
court, yesterday established the record
for longest service on that bench. I'm
til yesterday the service of Chief JUS
tice John Marshall had been the long
est in the history of the court, covering
81 years. With yesterday Justice
Fields service exceeds that of Mar
shall. He was appointed in 1863 by
President Lincoln, and is now in his
S1st year, hale and hearty, of strong
mentality, but feeble body. He has
reached the age of retirement, but pre-
fers to remain in active service on the
bench, and at the supreme court rooms
it is said there is no present indica-
ton that he will retire.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-09-04

ont The light OF good il eleflt and looks
bigger than life OF deatl o. wife or child.
The facts are that ill-healt.i very soon puts
q stop to a mans rloney-making powers
and turns tllcTl into money losing dis
abilities.
When a mans digestion Is out Of order
and his liver sluggish, his brain gets dull,
his muscles sluggish his blood impure and
every organ in the body--brain. lungs,
heart. stomach, liver and Kidneys becomes
crippled a man with a crippled lung,
liver, heart, brain or kidney, is worse
cripple ten times over, than q man who is
minus q leg or an arm. The man who is
crippled ontside may live long life but the
man who is crippled inside is taking short
cut to the grave. Dr.. PieTce's Golden Med.
ical Discovery cures indigestion, makes the
appetite keen, the liver active, the blood
1t makes blood and builds flesh Zip to the
healthy standard Honest dealers don't
recommend substitutes.
u wish TO say to those who suffer from kidney
and bladder trouble-tdte N. X. " Pe3csIs
Golden Medical Discovery" writes Or. Anderson
of Carthage Jasper Co. Mo- s. patient of mine
says il is worth $50 per bottle to any one who is
afflicted as he was. Three bottles cured him en-
tireiy Perfectly miserable he was. before taking
the Discovery and now is one of the happiest
men in this County Prof Chreine would gladly
sign this If he were in town He requested me
to write a testimonial and make il as strong q.
tie English language could nickel"
A $3.50 home doctor book FREE. For a
paper-covercd copy of DR.. Pierce's Common
Sense Medical Adviser send II one-ceni
stamps, TO cover cost Of mailing oniy
Cloth binding 10 cents extra. Address Dr..
R. V. Pierce, Buffalo. N. Y.
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The Circulation of Water.

Scientists are specializing ON the causes
Of some water currents that have been for
centuries unipterruptedly flowing into
some unknown receptacles far beneath the
surface Of the earth. These currents are
continuous and could not of course, be
merely filling an unocoupied space. That
there must be an outlet as we'll as an inlet
is evident from the enormous quantity of
water which is perpetually pouring through
thoFe openings in the limestone lodges.
Aluer exhausting all other theories it is
argued that the thrush Of water may be
caused by the tremendous volcanic heat in
some subterranean cavern, the heated wa
ter flowing out at some point more or less
distant. This volcanic and subterranean
heating was spoken of some years ago as
furnishing a plausible theory 90 to the
causes of the high temperature of the gulf
stream. If, as is generally supposed, the
interior of the earth is in condition of
intense hest, the water that flows into fs-
sures and crevices in the surface of the
earth must come out somewhere either in
steam or hot water. Hot springs and the
gulf stream are perfectly reasonable phe-
nomena when viewed from this standpoint.
New York Ledger.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-09-04

Our standard of civilization is personal
comfort-luxury, thing absolutely I'M
known in native India. There is scarcely
any difference in the mode of living be-
tween the rich and the poor. If you go
into the house Of rajah there is the same
bare floor, and only simple platter to eat
from, such as is seen in the home of the
poorest Toput it crudely, there will prob
ably not be even the luxury of wash
basin and towel, for the rich man, like his
poor brother, washes in the open and dries
himself in the sun. Such is the extreme
simplicity of life that wealth is still buried
in India. A man may spend it on Jewels
for his wife, but not on pleasure or per-
sonal comfort. This simple life, which
fostered no distinctions of class, had been
preserved for 5000 years by Indian civil
lization, but ours will destroy 1t In so
years.--Mrs. Steel in Humanitarian.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-09-04

Many stories are told of tho keen wit
and ready speech of DIR. Mason, once
pastor of the Scotch Presbyterian church
in New York. Not only was be a great
and eloquent preacher, but many of his
most telling lessons were given in private
rather than in the pulpit. So heard, they
were sure TO be repeated and not forgotten
He had a great fondness for animals and
particularly for horses, of whose good
points he was said to be an excellent Judge
On one occasion a brother minister, who
was intending to buy a horse, met Dr.
Mason and stopped to ask his opinion of
the animal, which he was then driving
DIR. Mason surveyed the horse with long
and careful scrutiny, and after several in
artioulate sounds of approval and disap-
pIoyal he finally pointed to the animals
knees, which were decidedly worn in as
pect
That is good sign for a minister"
said he, with a humorous smile, "but it is
a very bad sign for a minister's horse. -
Youths Companion.
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THE CROCODILE.
A Few OF His Peculiar Ways Of Trans.
acting Business.

acting business.
There is little In the animal kingdom
that can look so dead and be so much alive
as crocodile. The number of unsuspect-
ing persons who have mistaken him for a
log and have failed to discover their mis-
take until it was 500 late to be of any bene-
tit to them will never be known
In ancient times, several years prior to
the British occupation of Egypt, some of
the people of that country worshiped the
crocodile as god, there being nothing else
like Kim. They fed him ON dainties and
logged him out with jewelry. In other
parts of Egypt, however, the natives looked
upon him as devil. Having no firearms,
they did not fill him with lead, but they
managed to immediate him successfully
with such Weapons as were fashionable at
the time.
The crocodile IS not SO numerous in the
Nile as he was in the days of the .Rameses
family. In fact, he rather shuns the
river now below the second cataract on ao.
count of the annoyances inseparable from
tourist traffic. 1t seems impossible for a
tourist to see a crocodile without trying to
plug him with revolver, and to reptile
that is fond of a quiet life this sort OF
thing is simply insufferable. He will not
modest a man unless he can take him at
disadvantage, and SO long as man does not
unthinkingly step on him, the crocodile
will go his own way and calmly await his
opportunity.
He feedAon fish, but for course dinner
he would rather have humanity, black
preferred, which shows that there is no ac-
counting for taste even among reptiles
His methods of capturing large game are
plural as well as singular. Sometimes he
will lie on a river bunk, partly covered
with sand or mud until an absentminded
native wanders within reach. Having
grabbed his prey, he will waddle into the
water and there drown the struggler. He
will then drag his victim ashore and bury
him in sand or mud and wait for days be-
fore he gorges himself.-Pall Mall Gazette.