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The Portland daily press., 1897-07-20
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

"Hell Fer Sartain'' and Other Stories
by John Fox, Jr., author of ga Cumber-
land Vendetta, - ETC. Mr. Fox has written
but sparingly and his advent into the
front ranks of American short story
writers is recent. None the less his posi-
ton is secure, for his brief character
sketches stir the heart; they resound like
rifle shot among southern mountain
ranges and go straight to the mark 1t
would be difficult to find more perfect
example of tragedy in five short pages than
that given in the initial number of this
volume of stories. Yet though the title
comes from "HeH Fer Sartain," the
Purple Rhododendron, the most delicate
and refined Of these studies of human
kind and the closing story of the book.
While the sketches seem detached, they
are in reality very adroitly related each
to the other. This is done in so original
a slightly startled feeling at being referred
to preceding episodes or individuals.
The prettiness of the device can only
be noted in the reading. In "a Trick
O'Trade'' an "option" is defined as
something ''t'other Teller kin git out'n
but you can't" The expression II takes
my foot in my hand and and steps for
home" we had never before encountered.
even "south." Altogether, these dialect
stories are well worth their present attrac-
tive setting, in permanent form. New
The Portland daily press., 1897-07-20
CURRENT COMMENT.
THE HERO OF THE HOUR.
Springfield Republican,

The hero of the hour seems to be Speaker
Reed, who is now wearing the scalps of
the sugar senators at his belt. He is the
only power found able to break into that
nest of strust conspirators and scatter
them since the trust took possession of
the upper branch of Congress. And he
undoubtedly relishes the performance. He
has no love for the Senate.
SPEAKER REED.
(Boston Herald
It is conceded on pretty much all hands
that the triumph of the House ON the
sugar section of the tariff bill is due to
Speaker Reed. The country clearly was
with the House, but so accustomed has
that body been to yielding to the Senate
that TT is not probable it's representation
ON the conference committee would have
stood to the end in this instance without
the aid of the Speaker. True, there were
members of the House backing up this
branch of the committee and threatening
to vote against the report of the commit
tee of conference if the Senates sugar dll-
ties were there; but it is very much to be
doubted if the House Congressman would
have been as plucky had not Mr.. Reed
been behind them stiffening their back
bones. They were more used to accepting
the Speakers control than they were to
yielding to the dictation of the Senate
Mr.. Reeds influence was the only one
adequate to effect the familiar argument
that party expediency compelled their
neutralizing the weight of the House as
q factor in the government.
The Portland daily press., 1897-07-20
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

MILFORD Woodruff, president of the
Mormon church, is seriously i'll.
First Assistant Postmaster General
Perry S. Heath has never lost the habit
of putting circle around his periods,
which he learned as newspaper man.
His signature never appears without this
mark after it.
T. W. Clifford, fourth officer of the
Union steamship Scot, has been the recip-
lent of a testimonial in recognition of his
gallant attempt to rescue the late Mr.
Barnato.
President Gilman of Johns Hopkins
university will deliver the address at the
Inauguration of William L. Wilson as
president of Washington and Lee univer-
sity on September 10.
Alfred Walter, the new president of the
Lehigh Valley railroad, was born in
Brooklyn in 1851, and began his career
in the engineer corps of the Allegheny
Valley railroad. In 1892 he became gen.
eral manager of the Erie railroad, and in
1894 he took the management OF the coal
estate of Coke Brothers.
Cardinal Antone1li's will bequeathed %
francs to the hospital of the Holy Ghost,
in Rome, and similar sum to the holy
places at Jerusalem. Such small requests
by a rich prelate excited remark, but it
was found that. by an old Roman law,
no will was valid unless it contained
these two legacies, the minimum sum be-
ing francs. At Genoa a similar bequest
had tozbe made to the Hospital of Pom
inatione. and at Turin to that of St.
Maurice and St. Lazarus, the object
being in all cases the support of these in
stitufions. Antonelli, dying at the
vatican, conformed to the old usage.
The Portland daily press., 1897-07-20
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The Portland daily press., 1897-07-20

The official figures of the Bureau of
Statistics combine to show the over
whelming rush of imports into the coun-
try in anticipation of the higher rates of
duy to be imposed by the impending tar
if bill. The imports of merchandise for
June were 1884, 1926, ITO against Soc, 16s, 74O
in June, 1896, an increase at the rate of
nearly 81 900, 900 day. 1t is we'll to note
these passing events, and to bear in mind
that the merits of the new schedules can
not be fairly tested until the Unfortunately
large stocks of goods on hand shall be
disposed of.
The Portland daily press., 1897-07-20

Probably a very large per cent. of the
people who are now rushing to Alaska
expecting to become millonaires by pick
ing up gold nuggets are doomed to be dis
appointed. But that is not the worst Of
it. Many of them are doomed to severe
hardship and suffering with no compen-
sation. The history of every mining ex
itement show that the number who
make fortunes is comparatively very
small.
The Portland daily press., 1897-07-20

The Superintendent of the New York
Life Insurance Company observes that
his company is beginning to feel the
effects of returning good times, and with
the settlement of certain public questions
now pending the revival of business will
be still more marked. Everybody seems
to be in condition Of mind where he
needs to be shaken out of his doubts.
Hard times have prevailed so long that
men who are really in easy circumstances
hesitate to strike out because they are
not quite sure what somebody else is
going to do. 1t is. quite time for for
ward movement all along the line.
The Portland daily press., 1897-07-20

General Powell Clayton, United States
Minister to Mexico, says: SIN Mexico a
laborer receives 81 cents day, which
would be equivalent to less than II cents
in this country. Before leaving the city
of Mexico, exchanged 500 of American
money and received s214 for it. So you
can calculate the difference between
American and Mexican money, and see
how much better off an American 1aborer
is than Mexican" AS Mr. Bryan is
said to be contemplating tour in Next
co, he owes it to the cause which he rep
xesents to locate the sources of the truth
The Portland daily press., 1897-07-20
THE PRESS.
TUESDAY, JULY 20

Senator German wants the Maryland
Democratic State convention to dodge the
silver question. He can tell them if any
one can just how to do it. AS a political
dodger he is a bowling success.
The Portland daily press., 1897-07-20

The new sugar schedule has the virtue,
not possessed by any since 1898, of being
SO framed that its protection is exposed
to the public and requires no expert to
figure it out 1t is all on the surface,
and can be easily calculated.
The Portland daily press., 1897-07-20

The -four output of the four -four CEN
tres last week was 81 800 barrels, as COM
pared with 2s6, $50 barrels for the corre-
spending week of 1896, and 1917 ,070 bar
rels for the corresponding week in 1895.
Wheat straws seem to indicate that the
wind is getting round into the right
quarter.
The Portland daily press., 1897-07-20

An Eidea of the immense amount of
money that is waiting investment was
furnished in New York last week, when
$50, 900, 600 was subscribed for s., 900, GOO
of Metropolitan Traction System bonds.
A healthful circulation of the idle money
is what we need above all things to re-
heve the rheumatic condition of affairs.
The Portland daily press., 1897-07-20

Queen Victoria recently undertook to
make her son, the Duke of Connaught,
commander in-chief of the British army,
but the public got wind of it, and there
was such a storm OF protest that the
scheme will doubtless have to be given
up The Queen reigns in England, but
the people rule.
The Portland daily press., 1897-07-20

Judge Payne, Of Chicago, has decided
that 1T is unlawful for any person to
carry helpless child on bicycle. Judge
Payne decides the law in the case; sensi-
BILE people long ago decided all the other
features of objection, as the Chicago
News remarks.
The Portland daily press., 1897-07-20

1t is extremely doubtful if, Gov. Hast
ings has embarked, as reported, in anoth-
er anti Quay movement in the Keystone
State. Singed cats are as general rule,
afraid of fires.
The Portland daily press., 1897-07-20
BALLOON ASCENS|ONS.

Prof. and Madame La Roux will con-
'inue their thrilling balloon ascensions
with parachute leap at Willard Beach
Special cars on Cape electrics. jly20d5
The Portland daily press., 1897-07-20

Susan's Escort and Others by Edward
Everett Hale, author of "a Man without
q Country, y Ten Times One'', etc., etc.
DR.. Hale describes himself as one who
has read with delight thousands of short
stories and has written his share of the
same. portly volume, for the size Of
which large print is partly responsible,
collects some eighteen of these clever
literary "contraptions" in permanent
shape. OF Mr.. Hale's, "true," "possi-
ble' and probable, we really wonder
under which head he would place the
story which gives the book it's title DR..
Hale Is unique in story telling. No one
who heard him read here in Portland,
Mrs. De Laix's INDIGESTION" will forget
its drol showing up of human nature.
A favorite device with this author is the
unrolling of budget of events apparently
wide of each other to show how cunningly
one episode plays into another, had we
but sharper eyes to see and more clair
voyante minds with which to apprehend.
Of more solid stuff also, is the fabric of
his weaving in numerous instances. A
volume of Doctor Hale's stories needs no
recommendation as furnishing both en-
tertainment and profit. New York:
Harper 8 Brothers; Portland: Loring,
Short 81 Harmon. Price a.50.)
The Portland daily press., 1897-07-20

The Joliet Railway Company owns and
operates the entire street railway system in
Joliet, Illinois, including a line to Lockport,
o manufacturing town five miles distant. stu
ated at the present terminus OF the Chica-
GO Drainage canal,
The city of Joliet is about 40 miles from
Chicago on the Atohison. Chicago, & Rock
Island and Chicago ~ Alton railroads. The
population of Joliet including Lockport is
over 10000.
The Joliet Railway company owns 1s
miles of track, q large brick and stone
power house with n double equipment of
boilers, engines ana generators, and a COM
plete new car equipment.
The present mortgage is for $3.50, 900 and
covers all present property and all that may
hereafter be acquired. The railway is owned,
controlled and managed by Portland par
ties. The net earnings of the property ARE
two and one-half times the interest on the
bonds
The officers and directors of the road are
J. A.. Henry, Joliet, E. B. Winsow, John T.
Burnham, Edward Woodman, Weston f. Mil
liken, Henry 2. Cox, Walter 6: Davis. C. l.
Baxter and Geo. +. Duncan. all of Portland.
Price and further particulars upon appIica-
ton.
The Portland daily press., 1897-07-20

Mr.. Peters. A Novel by Ricardo
Stephens, NJ. BIC. M. with Illustrations
by E. NJ. Ashe. As one part of Mr..
Stephens own name has a more italian
swing than the other, so with some of
the characters of his romance, Giuseppe
Peters, Hector Incluquiri Inch, :"
"Sophia Amelie Rivers" and Timothy
Lucius Moriarity," we observe great
freedom from restraint and play of the
imagination. "Mr. Peters, is clearly
sensational and 1T has no originality. 1t
savors Of Dickens and its construction
gives evidence Of pilfng in of all sorts
of literary furniture and belongings re-
gardless of unity or art. Yet it would be
unfair not to state further that this
melange is handled with good deal of
skill and spirit. 1t is story which many
readers will find entertaining. Sensation
lovers will certainly be captured by it's
pages, which are full of the vendetta
notion and illustrated by 'stringing up, I"
murder and suicide. (New York: Har-
per & Brothers; Portland: Loring, Short
& Harmon. Price ST.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-05-14
A Mild Protast.

It's really irwin ter have friend a.takin Va
ronnd the rown
Who stons W.. when ve,re ,ni,vin verself an
saws weth KNOWN frown.
a1t,s rather nnrtv. that; hn;ldin IL Init tia svi
dent At glance
Thet they've gone too fur in tho Gothic stv,e
when a Should have haa,, ranryyancan
He Rives his opinions in sech way az ter leave
W wethont 4 donht
Tibet savin Va likafi a ~ - show 70 d;dr = tnow
whit Va was ta,tir ,hout
so lea, law low an ren,v. urbet,s M. - ter
a them aIoo,,ant vvords ~ his
,Rout ire thinrs thet orte,. have besn an ain T.
an thet ortn = tsr ha an 10
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Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-05-14
MY Pharmacies.

The wind comes whispering to me Of the coun-
try green and cool,
OF redwing blackbirds chattering beside q
reedy pool.
II brings me soothing fancies of the homestead
Oh the hill,
And hear the thrushs evening song and the
robins morning trill.
So I fall to thinking tenderly Of those used
to know
Where the sassafras and snakeroot and check.
erberries grow.
What has become Of Ezra Marsh, who lived on
Bakers hilli
And what's become of Noble Pratt, whose ia
Their kept the millp
And what's become of Lizzie Crum and Anas.
tasa Shell
And of Roxie Root, who tended school in Bos-
ton for spell9
They were the boys and they the girls who
shared my youthful play.
They do not answer to my call. My playmates,
where are they?
What has become Of Levi and his little brother
Joe,
Who lived next door to where we lived some
forty years ago?
I'd like to see the Newton boys, and Quincy
Adams Brown,
And Hepsy Hall and Ella Cowles, who spelled
the whole school down,
And Oracle Smith, the Cutler boys, Leander
Snow and all
Who am sure would answer could they only
hear my call.
I'd like to see Bill Warner and the Conkey boys
again
And talk about the time we used to wish that
we were men.
And one-I shall not name her-could see her
gentle face
And hear her girlish treble in this distant,
lonely PLACED
The flowers and hopes of springtime, they per-
ished long ago,
And the garden where they blossomed is white
with winter snow.
o cottage meath the naples, have you seen
those girls and boys
That but little while ago made, oh, such
pleasant noise?
D trees and hills and brooks and lanes and
meadows, do you know
Where shall find my little friends of forty
years ago?
You see, I'm old and weary, and I've Travelled
long and far.
am looking for my playmates. wonder
where they arel
Eugene Field.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-05-14

Happy children's faces are the pretti-
est picture mothers eye can see. But
they won't always be children; they are
growing all the time. If they are to
grow up into comfort and support, they
must be carefully guarded against SICK
ness and all injurious influences. Every
mother ought to have copy of Doctor
Pierces great book The Common Sense
Medical Adviser" in the house. 1t will
help her to take the best care of her
growing family in sickness or health.
It points out the wise precautions to be
taken at the most critical periods in
young peoples lives. 1t contains over
two hundred simple Inexpensive pre-
scriptions for curing common ailments;
and valuable suggestions in nursing
the sick.
Its author, r. v. Pierce, M. D., is one
of the most eminent and widely expert
enced medical practitioners in America;
he has been for nearly thirty years chief
consulting physician of the Invalids Ho-
tel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y.
This great thousand page book treats
fully Of anatomy and physiology, and all
the practical foundation questions OF
physical life. 1t has over three hundred
illustrations and colored plates A paper
bound copy will be sent free to any one
who sends ri one-cent stamps to pay the
cost of mailing only. Address, Worlds
Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo,
NY. For handsome cloth-bound copy
send ten cents extra (3I cents in all).
DIR, PIERCES lust o ons little tsae piTm Has
disappear in day or two, and are only no.
ticed because they are unsightly things and
vexatious things But they are more than that
They are warnings Signals that the blood
serious illness Impure blood is due to constipa-
ton, and constipation is cured every time by pr;
Pierces Pleasant Pellets. One Pellet " in mild
es 0 psuyast. tw .e n shsn PELLETS
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-05-14
Traveling is Extra.Hazardous

If the tourist is unprovided with some
medicinal resources. Changes of tenn
perature, food and water of an unaccus.
toned or unwholesome quality. and a
route that lies in the tropics or other re.
gions whore malaria exists, are each and
all fraught with danger to one who has
been improvident enough to neglect a
remedial safeguard. The concurrent tes-
timony of many voyagers by land and
sea establishes the fact that Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters enable those who use it
to encounter hazards of the nature refer.
red to with impunity; and that, as a
medicine adapted to sudden and expected
exigencies, it is peculiarly valuable. Dis
orders of the liver, the bowels and the
stomach, fever and ague, rheumatism and
nervous ailments, brought on by expos.
ure, are among the maladies to which
emigrante, travellers and new settlers are
most subject. These and others yield to
the action Of the Bitters promptly and
completely.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-05-14
A Born Rover.

All around our house, up adainst the sky,
There's dreat bid hills, oh, ever so highl
An mamma says over a-past the hills
There's houses an peoples q far q you can seq
An dear little childrens there dust like me.
never been over the hill.
want to do over the hill
Last summer a dear little bird built its house
In our apple tree, an 2 still z mouse
It sat till the wee little brides peeped out.
Men the mamma bird fed them until they all
drew
So bid an so stron they envy one flew
Away right over the hill.
never been over the hill!
So men thought would do over the hill.
An crept out the door dust z still, dust .
STILL
An walked, an walked, an / walked, an
walked
Till my feet doubled up an dust couldn't do,
An my papa come an foun me, and 80
never been over the hill.
want to do over the hill
But am DROWN z fast 2 / can,
An dust pretty soon shall be dreat man,
Y bid Y my papa or Uncle Dosiah.
Men I'll buy me dreat tall shiny hat
An watch that does "tick, took, like that,
An men I'll do over the hill.
dust will do over the hill
Boston Transcript.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-05-14
A Warming to Others.

Blanche-What caused the horse to run
awayp
Louise-Will you promise never to tell9
Blanche-On my honor.
Louise-Well, you see, the horse was
walking very slowly, and Jack let go the
reins and began hugging me.
Blanche (excitedly)-YesP
Louise-And then he kissed me twice.
Blanche (more excitedly)-How lovely
Go on
Louise-When the horse heard those
kisses, he naturally took them for the we'll
known signal which thoughtless people
use when they want horse to go faster,
SO he got gait on with four feet, so to
speak, and we were thrown out Jack
says the next time he takes me for drive
he'll stuff cotton in the horses ears.
Truth,
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-05-14
PLAINLY AN IMPOSTOR.
The Stranger Said He Was From Gotham,
but the Landlord Knew Better.

The Stranger Said He Was From Gotham,
but the Landlord Knew Better.
$50 We be from New York, strangerP"
said the landlord of the Palace hotel at
Pepper Falls.
Eyes," assented the traveller, where
upon the village loungers suddenly came
out of their trance and became half awake.
"Great place. l calkerlate,' ventured
the landlord
Eyes, quite place, said the traveller.
"Quite lot Of people from Pepper Falls
Is down to New York"
"Yes?"
"Yeah! P'raps ye know some on 'em.
Know Jake Benderly, strangers'
"Jake BenderlyS don't seem to recall
the name. What's his business?"
"Jake? Why, he's right prom 'nent, he
is. Funny We don't know him. He drives
hack. Seems IS ye'd know him!'
A look Of surprise went around the
group, and the landlord continued:
"Reckon ye know Ben Allen, stranger.
He's very prom nent, special employee of
one of the stores down thar. forgit jes'
whar it's, but it's quite store. Know
him, stranger"
Don't seem to recall the name New
York is quite place, you know"
"Yaas, but Ben's poorly well known
Tell ye one Teller from here yer do know,
though. I'll bet ye know Dave Fitzgib-
bons Thar"
The group slapped their knees and roared
in triumph. OF course the stranger knew
Dave.
"Ye do, doncher9" laughed the landlord.
eye know Dave Fitzgibbons?"
Ell don't think the name is familiar, "
said the guest, but perhaps I do know
him. He is-his line Of business?"
"Hoss car conductor, stranger Thar,
of course ye know the conductor down
thar, doncherp Come, tell us how Dave
is"
"I'm sorry" said the stranger, "but
never heard Of Dave. You must remember
that
But he looked around on empty seats.
The landlord and the loungers had lined
up at the window and were glancing back
at him oontemptuously.
"Himf No, 20 betcher life, he heard
the landlord say, she don't come from
New York no more'n we do! Live in New
York an not know Ben an Jake an Dave!
Rats! "-New York Sunday Journal.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-05-14
Time Table No. 40.
directive October Is, 1851
1Asr BouNr


Connections with main line and
branches o. follows:
Az Antonito for Durango, Silverton
and oil points In the San Juan country.
Az Alsmosa for Jimtown, Oresde, Del
Norte, Monte Vista and al points In the
San Luis valley.
AZ Hslida with main line for al points
east and west, including Lsadvills.
AZ Florence with =. 4 O. O. B. B. for
The gold camps Of Cripple Greek and
Victor.
AZ = sblo, Colorado Springs and Dom
YER With all Missouri river lines for al
points east. u.
Through passengers from Santa Fe will
have reserved bsrths in sleeper from
Alsmosa n desired.
For further information address Tho
AAdsrsigned.
4. !. HsIn. General AGENT
6anta 1s, n. ~
AK. Hoopnl, q. r. ~
Denver, Colo.