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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-09-25

named by Tammant. | did once vote for
Richard Croker ms q Presidential elector
IN the dnvs nr ono Grover Cleveland. But
then the Times should remember there
are others.
And then YOU intimate that the one
crushing reply to- all | have snid about
this municipal crisis Is "RohinsW I'm
douhtodlv that reply Is ample enough TO
satisfy tho average intellect of the leaders
of the Citizens Union. A little will go n
long way with some people.
j Allow mo to confess here also Tint the
robin Joke ia good ono OH me- Undoubt-
elly. Being born in the South, my mother
was wicked enough 60 raise me on robin
Ipic-nnd | had n rude awakening from
my hoyish dreams In your cold and cruel
Northern courts Aud ! paid my little
fine Of S525 BUT you are mistaken about
my desire to lay their ghosts. II was the
/ host financial investment have ever
made. for. thanks to n fun-lOving press,
the Joke became a national one. and the
next year my lecture bureau raised my
90 from S75 to 1925. The only thing that
keeps me from getting rich now is that
am fool enough to preach instead of fol-
lowing the ghosts of those robins and
earning $4,000 annually on the lyceum
platform Yes, it is n good joke. / enjoy
n good joke myself. But let me call to
your attention one thing about those rob
dns you may have forgotten. My aim was
pretty fair. l killed twcnty-seven. That
was five years ago | have lived in the
open air much since. l think I'm better
shot now that at that time. | may have
been little out of season then. l hope
am shooting in season now-and trust
that Mt least few buckshot will take
effect in the overlarge diaphragm of the
Citizens Union.
Your answer is that my friends and
foes still remember the robins. Good. /
like to give my friends pleasure. As TO
my foes-they have always been my best
friends. Sincerely,
THOMAS DIXON, JR.
The Ashland House, New York, Sept. 81,
1897.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-09-25

bushels three years ago, ana rs cohi-
rared with 3,49O.0 900 bushels in the CORE
spending week of 1893 Exports Oh N
dian corn aggregated d,o22142 bushels
COMPARED with 3.901 900 bushels last
week. 100000 bushels in the week oh'
wears ago. 100000 bushels two years
ago. 1OI, 900 bushels three years ago ana
as contrasted with $4,000 bushels III
1893.
There were or business failures re-
portcd throughout the United States this
week. compared with 1856 last week. ~
in the third week in September. lSoe;
1aS in 1898, 204 in the like week in 1854
and as contrasted with 232 in the CORE
ponding period of 1893
Thcre were - business failures report
cd throughout the Canadian Dominion
this week, against 36 last week, ~ in the
week year ago, and 80 in the corre-
sponding week of 1898.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-09-25
wrrKry RANK CLEARINGS.

Washington, Sept. 24.--The total bank
clearinys in the United States for the
week were 81, 3GS. So4,67 per cent i'm
crease COG. Exclusive of New York
S4S6,513. 237: per cent increase 2S,2.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-09-25
POLITICS AND ROBINS.
Mr.. Dixon Confesses that the 1925 Fine
Was a Good Joke

Mr.. Dixon Confesses that the 1925 Fine
Was a Good Joke.
To the Editor of the New York Times:
Permit me a word of comment on your
personal criticism Of me in this morning
issue of your paper. You say that de-
fend machine politics and denounce at
tempts at reform,
True, | have somewhat fallen from
grace as to machine politics. | was led
last year into the support of machine
Republican for President by the name of
William Mckinley, breaking for the first
time in my life with the Democratic faith
of my Southern fathers. But then the
Times should not be too hard on me for
this. There are others. The truth is, felt
great joy last year when | considered the
olidity and power of the mere machinery,
that, obedient to machine leadership,
stood in solid ranks and, asking not the
reason why, voted for that machine can
didate.
| confess, too, that am afraid of Gre
FORMS and Performers" whose lack of
the rudiments of common sense in meth
DDS now imperils the cause represented
by them by this machinist, Mckinley.
For that cause has yet TO win It's hfst
victory or defeat in 1900. / confess, also,
that if in this contest have to choose be-
tween a Publican and a Pharisee, | will
take the Publican. / like his character
better. If / have to choose between a
Democrat who represents the common
people, though Tammany help to nomi-
nate him, and a dude nominated by n
group of little society pimples backed by
a band of fractional party conspirators, |
may even yet be forced to return to the
faith of my fathers and vote ticket
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-09-25

The advantage of
a policeman over a
burglar is that the Of
fcer has the law on
his side. Health has
the same advantage
over disease. The
Law of Nature is for
people to be healthy.
When they are sick,
Nature helps to cure
them. Natures law
us the guide for cur
ing sick pc Cpl c .
There is no way but
Natures way. What
the doctors cali man y
different dis G a S c S
Nature cures in one
way; by nourishine
the whole body with
good, pure, rich, red
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-09-25
BnADsTREHrs REVIEW

New York, Sept. 24-Bradstreet's to-
morrow will say:
There 10 check to the inward sweep
of demand in staple lines noticeable
throughout the country for the past six
weeks. The yellow fever quarantine,
which extends from Texas to Georgia,
has brought Wholesale business to a prac-
teal standstill throughout the greater
portion Of the region embraced by this
gulf States. At centers OF distribution in
Eastern, Middle and central Western
States the recent activity in dry goods,
nats and hardware had fallen off, but at
the Northwest and ON the Pacific coast
buying by interior merchants and the free
distribution Of merchandise continue to
be features. Demand for heavy textile
fabrics has been stimulated by colder
weather, and st. Louis merchants say
the yellow fever scare will have no eff
feet upon trade at that city, as Southern
merchants had supplied themselves there
before the quarantine was enforced. The
outlook for business in parts of Texas
Arkansas, Tennessee and Georgia is for
much duller season than he'd been ex-
pected. Favorable features of the week
are found in sharp advances in prices fol
lron and steel, heavy sales of Bessemel
pig iron, steel billets and rails, and q
prospect that iron and steel prices will
90 higher in the near future. Wool is also
higher and wooden goods for 1898 deliver,
are up 10 and 10 per cent, with the out
look favoring a further advance The in
creased volume of general trade is ais,
stimulated by the continued heavy move
ment of cereal to tidewater, the almos
unprecendently large quantities export
ed each week and the increased numbe
of people finding employment in industrial
and commercial lines as compared wit
year ago, together with the tendency O
gold to come here from abroad.
Exports Of wheat flour included a
wheaD from both coasts of the Unite
States and from Montreal this wee
amount to 5,623493 bushels, compare
with 6.2S9.94S bushels last week, 1890
800 bushels in the week year ago, 3
Isl, 900 bushels two years ago, 1861, 90
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-09-25

Don't nauseate your stomach with teas
and bitter herbs, but regulate your liver
and sick headache by using those famous
little pills known as De Wits Little
Early Risers. Carolina Drug Company.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-09-25

''rhey don't make much fuss about
It," We are speaking OF De Wits Lit
tie Early Risers, the famous little pills
for constipation, biliousness, and all
stomach and lived troubles. They never
grippe. Carolina Drug Company.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-09-25
A FREIGHT DERAILED.

High Point, n c., Sept. 24.-(Special.)
Engine and tender on freight were de-
rallied near here to-day caused by track
being up for repairs. No one hurt.
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NOtre Dame of rIaryland

Charles Street Ave, BALTIMORE, MD.
College for Young Women and Preparatory School
for Girls. Regular and Elective Courses Extensive
Grounds Location Unsurpassed. Suburb of Balti-
more. Spacious Buildings. completely Equipped.
Conducted by School Sisters Of Notre Dame.
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blood. That is Nature's way OF curing
scrofula. erysipclas, kidney and liver com.
plant" consumption and every form OF
erlptive and wasting disease. When you
want 10 help Nature with medicine the med
icine must work the same way as Nature
works. then II has the laws Of Nature on It's
side TO make it powerful. That IS the
secret of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical DIS
GOVERNS wonderful cures. 1t assists Nature
according TO her own laws it is on Nature
side and Nature helps it: it imparts new
power to the nutritive and blood making or
gans to create a large quantity of fresh, req,
healthy blood which drives every germ OF
disease out of the system ana oullds up
strong healthy tissues and solid hesh. Inc
Discovery completely clears away every
| form of blood disease from the system IL
even cures consumption. 1t IS the only true
radical cure for that disease; facts ana tesll-
mony to prove it.
"Iwould like TO tell the whole world wfat your
| Golden Medical Discovery has done loi my
The doctor, who is considered an expert on iunS
| troubles told me had consumption, ne go 1a
both my lungs were diseased ana cou An i;t,Ie
long felt down-hearted for nave gear :. it ~.
children TO live for Just went to HIM 10 get ms
opinion. am glad did for now kn9~ w WI" tIe
your medicine will do. When stdrteu on III
second bottle was better in every way anu W.
able to take walk on every hne Gay, ..H tiye
my sleep, my appetite was good aha py .s fai
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like new woman. still had cough, 20 d,s 80
a third bottle and by the time 1t was NAH eone
was completely cured" N III
'',e.ss,...,'~12@,s~-v<zIez1
II Mary St., Hamilton, Ont. Can
The Portland daily press., 1897-07-27
HOLDS ITS GROUND.
This Is the Testimony From Everywhere
As Well As Portland.

Can this be SO? Is 1t true? Are the
facts garbled?
Is the truth distorted? These are ques-
tions which every man and woman in
Portland suffering the torture of back
ache asks as they read the published ac-
counts in the newspapers about medicines
which claim TO cure it. Whatever the
Conclusion arrived at touching the truth
of these cures is he can't hedge or finch
from or disprove the following, for it
took place in Portland and the experiences
are those of representative citizen.
Mrs. E. D. Meserve, Of No 10 Cherry
street says: 81 had an attack CT kidney
complaint that required immediate atten.
tion. 1 attended to it and got around but
NV kidneys still troubled me for had at
| tacks of backache. l called it rheumatism
| for the pain extended down one side and
below the hip and was very constant and
severe. | oculd not go up or down a
| flight of stairs without moving side ways
and could only walk for short distance.
| This is not pleasant condition to be in,
and one day having noticed an advertise
ment about Doan's Kidney Pills, 1 went
| to ii: IL. Hay q Sons drug store, at the
junction of Free and Middle streets, and
got them. From the first dose or two
they helped me and when had completed
the box the rheumatism or whatever it
was left me. Doan's Kidney Pills went
right to the cause. consider it my duty
to acquaint others of their value when
taken for disordered Kidneys
Doan' Kidney Pills for sale by all deal
ers. Price 80 cents. Mailed by Foster Mil
burn Co., Buffalo. N. Y, sole agents for
the United States.
| Remember the name DOAN'S and take
| no substitute.
The Portland daily press., 1897-07-27

There are whole volumes of practical
demonstration in the sailing of the big
Dominion steamer Canada from Boston
bound for Liverpool. Never before has a
transatlantic vessel left Boston on an or
dinary sailing with such passenger list,
and never before has passenger steamer
carried such freight cargo. There were
658 passengers, 258 saloon, 172 second cab
in and 22S steerage, and 5000 tons of cargo.
A glance over the names of those who
made the trip discovers that they are peo-
pie of experience in ocean travel. They
were not making an experiment; they
were not taking chances; they knew
what they were about and availed them
selves as rule of the best aecommoda-
tions that can be had. Altogether too
long the Boston business has been treated
as side issue by those earlier in the
field. The metropolis of New England
has had repeatedly thrown her the as
sertion that large and fast boats would
not pay here. Now we know that they
will The Canada furnishes all the ad-
vantages of size, safety, speed and ele-
gance of equipment that can be desired.
so that tourists from New England to the
Old World are no longer under the neces-
sity of making an inconvenient journey
to New York to secure the most complete
and luxurious accommodations and quick
massage.
The Portland daily press., 1897-07-27
Gorham's Religious Unpleasantness

ooAn"hA AAcAISlOuB UnpIea0antneEs,
To the Editor of the Press:
That very serious division has been
created in the First Parish church in
Gorham by the action of those having
the direction of affairs connected with
the building of the new chapel, is an in
disputable fact.
The long and labored report of the COM
mittee of Is must convince anyone who
can read between the lines that very de-
cided difference of opinion and judgment
in regard to the conduct of affairs has
existed, and that it still exists is proved
by the withdrawal of four of the committee
whose names were reported as acting
members, viz: Joseph Ridlon, Stephen
Hinkley, John A. Waterman and Mrs.
Anna B. Tolford.
This fact, together with the late resig-
nation of three deacons, the treasurer,
the clerk, the superintendent of the Sab
bath school and the secretary of the Sab
bath school, is ample evidence that there
The Portland daily press., 1897-07-27
ADDITIONAL.

Joseph N. Hartman, East Orland.
RESTORATION AND REISSUE.
$ John Thompson, Hallowell.
INCREASE.
Sewall ]. Boston, Bridgewater; David
Davis, Athens.
The Portland daily press., 1897-07-27
WESTBROOK.

Duck Pond, July 26.-No hay weather
as yet and farmers are getting tlred OF
this kind of business, the showers Oh
Friday last spoiled the looks OF nlahy
shade trees; large limbs were broken anu
some stripped of their foliage.
Visitors are numerously scattered over
the village
Mrs. Atkinson from Massachusetts Is
visiting at G. P. Sawyer's.
Mr. Charles Pride of Cumberland Mills
with his wife and three children, Mr. Ed
ward Grant and son Ralph of Deerlng,
have been guests of Mr.. G. B. Pride.
Mr.. George Lowell and sister have re-
turned from Massachusetts,; also Mrs.
johnson.
Miss Maud Hawkes. has gone to tn
Peaks Island house as waitress for the
season, Miss Hawkes. is fine young lady
and we know she will make many 1rlenos
there.
Mr. Bodge is slowly failing.
Miss Mol1ie Sawyer is out once more
after severe sickness.
Mrs. Levi Gray with her sister from
Cambridgeport, Mass, with two LADY
friends have been visiting at Mr.. Y. B.
Pride's; also Mrs. Frank Libby of Port :
land, with her friend and Mr.. Frank
Norris of Boston have been guests there.
Chief Engineer Leigneon Il VII W. brss bess ehe in
the city this afternoon.
The Warren church Sunday shool will
go on theirannual picnic at Long Island
tomorrow.
!. Mr.. John Mcdonald Of Rockland, form
erly resident of this city, was in town
yesterday calling on old friends.
The Portland daily press., 1897-07-27
Laths Went To Sea.

Halifax. N. S., July 26.-The schooner
Lakota, from Parrsboro for Vineyard
Haven for ORDERS with laths. caught in
the Parrsboro river on Saturday night,
and when the tide left her she fell off
very heavily starting several p1anks and
opening her up SO that she filled next
tide.
When she fell off about 200, 900 of the
laths slid in the river. Some have been
picked up and the rest went to sea.
Schooner is alongside discharging the
balance Of the deckload and when that is
done she will be moved to wharf and
discharged and repaired.
The Portland daily press., 1897-07-27

has been cause for dissatisfaction Sn;,, which n
cannot can be removed by simply ignoring
~ Evervone in the church and parish
wants a chapel. and has long wanted
grisyed erapes} anu and id disappointed that this
Building will not more happily ply. express p IS
the united and harmonious efforts OF an
who love the church and earnestly desire
it's prosperity. ou sraRER
The Portland daily press., 1897-07-27
Team from Kendall Guards Secured First
Position.

Position.
To the Editor of the Press:
Brunswick, July 70, 1871.
kThe statement in this morning
PRESS that the team from the Portiahd
Light Infantry made the hlghes5 score
at the last muster was erroneous, as .le
team from the Kendall Guards, 10. ~
1st Regt.), secured first position WIN q
score of 199. .4,
The team from Co. A, being tie VIII With
that from Co. H, for the fourth posi1lon
with a score of 1877.
VIM. G. GOODWIN,
1st Lieut.. Co. K, 1st Regt.
The Portland daily press., 1897-07-27
PARIS HILL.

Town Prolific in Statesmen-A Vice Pres
Ident. Cabinet Minister, Two United
States Senators, Nine Representatives to
Congress and Four Governors Were Born
There.
The Portland daily press., 1897-07-27
Maine Pensions.

Washington. July 26.-The following
pensions have been granted to Maine
people:
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-02

THE PoMP OF THE LAvILETTES By Gil
bert Parker. Boston and New York: Lamson,
Wolfe & Co. For sale in this City by Payot,
Upham & Co.
The great success of 1.-THE Seats of the Mighty"
will make the public willing to try another
novel from this clever author. This story
covers incidents of the rebellion of the French
against English rule in Canada. There are
some unusual characters placed before the
reader with fine brevity of description One
of the principal persons is nobly born but
unfortunate man, who is described as having a
face without care, without fear, without vice
and without morals For" the author in
forms US, "the absence of vice with the alb
sence of morals are not incongruous in q HUI
man face" The exceeding ardor OF the ma
ture of little French Canadian girl, who is
one of the main characters of the DRY, is partly
revealed by this scrap of solilCquy from her
regarding a man who is bankrupt in both
heath and purse: "What do they know about
Lowell What would they do Tor it? I'd have
my fingers chopped off one by one for 1t. I'd
it. I'd lose my soul for it. I've got twenty times
as much heart as any one of them"
Here is a bit of moralizing on human nature
that is interesting as coming from one who
has achieved fame in fiction: ''She was lying
to him now because-well, because she loved
him. Like the ma ority of men, when women
who love them have lied to them, they have
seen in IL q compliment as strong as the act
was weak. TWAS more to him n ow that this
girl should love him than that she should be
upright, or moral, or truthful. Such Is the
egotism and the vanity OF man."
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-02
ST. NICHOLAS.

The May st. Nicholas opens with frontis-
piece. THE Maypole Dance" by G. Relyea,
illustrating poem with the same title by Cor
nelia Walter McCleary. How Cousin Marion
Helped" is a story for girls by Alice 3alch Abb
bot DR.. Emily G. Hunt describes an odd pet
of some of her young friends in New Jersey,
"a White Red Squirrel" George B. Smith. in
paper entitled General Grants White Noun
tain Ride" tells of a remarkable coach trip
made by the President from the village of
Bethlehem TO the Profile House. The distance
was eleven miles, and the road was rough and
mountainous, but there were eight excellent
horses attached to the coach, and the trip
was made in mountaineering time-less
than one hour. Frank II. Spearman, in "a
Shifting Boundary" describes some of the
freaks of the Missouri, and in particular of
from the rest OF the State and left high and
dry on the western side of the river. Readers
of the magazine have been interested in a
number of papers on Historic Dwarfs," by
Mary Shears Roberts. In the present issue
Mrs. Roberts relates the romantic story of
Casan, little Tartar dwarf who was in the
service of the great Genghis Khan. 1.-The Fes-
tival of Eggs" is a story of life on the Easter
Islands, in the South Pacific, written by
Charles F. Holder. In master Sky lark, -
John Benefits serial, there is given glimpse
of Shakespeare at one of Queen Bess' festivals
on the Thames. "The Last Three Soldiers"
in Mr.. Sheltons serial, find great treasure,
which, owing to their isolated position, they
put to novel uses. Frances Courtenay Baylor's
story of "Miss Nina Barrow develops in in.
terest
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-02
GOLDSMITH'S SWEETHEART.

THE JESSAMY BRIDE-By F. Frankfort Moore.
Chicago: Herbert stone Il co. For sale In tn
CITY by William Doxey, Palace Hotel. Price
81 so.
The Jessamy Bride was the pet name for the
girl beloved by the famous author OF the
"Vicar of Wakefield" and the story gains con-
sideraby in interest by describing to US what
may have been the heart history OF this
writer, who is so widely admired and liked
for the beauty of his literary works and the
self-revelation there. Many other famous per-
sonages are introduced into the book wi so
much skill that we recognize them as life-like
from our literary recollections of these old
acquaintance. We meet again with the por-
derous DR.. Samuel Johnson, who thunders his
domineering logic at poor old ''Goldy" and
others with self-satisfed rudeness Sir Joshua
Reynolds, the famous painter, is here, and
David Garrick and Edmund Burke and they
are made to talk entertainingly and naturally
to us from the pages of q pretty love story.
Part of the book is devoted to description OF
an evening spent by ali these notable men
together at the Crown and Anchor tavern in
the Strand, and the conversation represented
to have taken place there is quite work of art.
David Garrick gets off bit of impromptu
acting before these friends VIII ich Josh a Rey
nolds pronounces better than anything he had
ever done on the stage. and in it he manages
TO administer q deserved rebuke to his old
schoolmaster, Johnson, which will be keenly
appreciated by all who both admire that man
of immense words for his greatness and good
ness and hate him for his brow beating rude
ness and sci -opinionativeness
There is fine description of the strain OF
anxiety that was put on Goldsmith when his
great comedy, "She Stoops to Conquer" was
being prepare ed for the stage and the manager
and several of the players prophesied that it
would prove fiat failure. The tale shows
that in addition to the genius to write the
play the kind hearted little Irishman had to
exercise great deal OF courage perseverance
and self-confidence to push it to final success
The love affair with the sweet Jessamy Bride
is too pretty to be epitomized, and the book is
well worth reading for its clever guess at the
romance OF Goldsmith s life.