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The Portland daily press., 1897-10-20
The Income of the Average College Pro-
fessor
(From the October scribner's.)

(From the October Scribner's.)
10 turn to the material side of things,
the assurance of fixed income is a source
of permanent satisfaction, however dis
proportionate the income to the service
that Is rendered. To be sure, the sala ~
of full professor, the country over, Is
little if at all in excess of $1,000. In the
larger universities 1t may rise to IS, 900 or
something more, but.the men who receive
above $4,000 are SO few as scarcely to
affect the general average Aside from
the bare possibility of call to a richer
institution, the college professor is not
likely to be earning more at fifty than
at thirty. Unlike most other professions,
there Is here no gradual increase of in
come to give tangible evidence of mans
growth in power. Unless one has taken
The Northern Farmers thrifty advice,
and "gone where money is" when
ne married, his outlook as he faces old
ago is not reassuring. Pensions are ex-
tremely rare college trustees are forced
in most cases to be as ungrateful as re-
publics.
The cost of living has steadily risen in
college towns, keeping pace with the
general increase of luxury throughout the
older communities. Here and there, par.
ticularly in the West, there are excep-
blonS, DuJ upon tne Wnole tne scale OF
necessary expenditure for a man fulfill
ing the various social duties required by
his position is constantly growing great
or. The professors incidental income
from books and lectures is ordinarily in
significant.
When he has paid his bills he finds no
margin left for champagne and terrapin.
Ifsshe smokes at all, he invents ingenious
reasons for preferring q pipe. He sees
the ,light-hearted tutors sail for Europe
every summer but as for himself he de-
cides annually that it will be wiser to
wait just one year more. Once in
awhile he will yield to the temptation
to pick up first edition or good print,
but Aldines or Rem brandt proofs are toys
he may not daily with. In short, his
states are cultivated beyond his income,
and his sole comfort is in the Pharisaical
reflection that this Is better, after all.
than to have more income than taste.
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-20
ENGLAND AND SILVER.

1t appears to be practically settled that
England's reply to the request Of our
bimetalic commission that she Join in
an international mo~etary conference
will be in the negative. There seems to
be abundant evidence5that for whilesthe
government was inclined to look upon
the request with favor, and at one time
was on the eve of giving a favorable re-
Spouse, but ultimately changed Its mind
owing to the strenuous protest of the
banking interests of the empire. We
have no idea, however, that her willing
ness to take part ina conference indicat-
ed any willingness to depart from the
single gold standard. 1t was dictated
more by courtesy than anything else, and
her representatives to the conference,
would have been instructed as those to
the former conference were practically, not
to admit possibility of a change Of
standard on England's part. That being
SO it is not perhaps to be regretted that
she has concluded not to take part at all.
A purely academic discussion of the sill
yer question, with the possibility of any
thing,,practical resulting; from it excluded
beforehand, would have been of no value
We should not have been. amy nearer in
ternational bimetalism when 1t was over
than we were at it's beginning. We are
inclined to think that the cause would
have been hurt by 1t more than
helped. - sa..
OF course in the face Of the refusal of
England to take part, no conference
is likely to be called. 1t is very doubtful
If the continental nations like France
and Germany would send representatives,
for their consent in the past has been
conditional largely on favorable action
by England, but even if they should con-
sent the conference would amount to
nothing. Probably, as far as our govern
1nentsis. concerned, the matter will be al
lowed to drop for 1.-The present, or until
events have put silver on more favora-
| BILE basis
Of course the failure of the negotiation
will be heralded with noisy ''We told
you 500 by the Bryanites. But if bust
ness continues to revive nobody will pay
much attention to them. Whether silver
is to continue to be an issue depends al.
| most en- tirely on the course of business.
Prosperity will kill it as 1t killed the
greenback agitation, but if the present
business revival should prove ephemera
and be succeeded by an era of depress-
ion very likely the silver issue
would spring to the front again. At
the present time all the conditions are
favorable for the disappearance of the sill
yer issue. The business revival, the
adoption Of the gold standard by nations
that have tried silver, the continued drop
in the market value of the white metal
and last but not least the big discoveries
of gold in the Klondike region are sc
many nails driven into its coffin.
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-20
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The Portland daily press., 1897-10-20

vance money to gambler? The betting
man who has staked his last shilling and
lost it is pronounced fool, and has put
himself beyond the reach of practical com
passion. The sharper who has fleeoed
him has neither gratitude nor pity. He
uses his victim as the butt of his ridicule.
And the victim himself, who has risked
his money on mere chance, or on false
information, or on fraudulent representa-
tions, freely pronounces himself a fool,
Judging himself in the light of the issue.
To fancy that we shall be exceptions and
win where others have lost, that we shall
be the solitary lucky ones among the
thousand unlucky, is a folly to which
we are all liable, but 1t is none the less a
folly.
1t is stated that the winnings of the
table or bank at Monte Carlo last year
amounted to 8O0,0 pounds; that is to
say, this was the net sum lost by those
who played. Yet each gambler who
stakes his little pile fancies he will be the
one to win. There are some thousands of
bookmakers in our own country. Out Of
whose pockets do they pick so comfortable
living? Out of the pockets of their
dupes, who so bountifu1ly contribute to
the maintenance of their worst enemies.
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-20
sHERIFFs SALE.
STATE OF MAINE.

Cumberland, So
Taken this sixth day of October, A. d. 1897.
issued on Judgment rendered by the Su-
perio1 Court for the County of Cumberland,
at the term thereof begun and held at Port
land in said County on the first Tuesday of
November A. D. 1895, to wit, on the thirtiath
day of November A. D. 1896, by virtue of
SETON CT of chapter 81 of Revised Statutes OF
ham in said County. against Frank c. Boil
ton and Fannie R. Bolton of Gorham in said
County, for the sum of One hundred eighty
one dollars and sixty cents, debt or damage,
and Ten dollars and sevsnty-seven cents.
costs of suit, and unless sooner redeemed
will be sold at Public Auction on the tenth
in the forenoon, 1t the sheriif's ONCE in the
City Building in Portland in said County.
All the right in Equity which the said Fan
ME R. Bolton OF Gorham in the County. of
Cumberland, has or had on the thirty first
day of August A. d. 1885, at seven O'Clock
and twenty-five minutes in the afternoon,
when the same was attached on the original
writ to redeem the following described
mortgaged real estate. situated in Gorham
aforesaid, in said County, to witt
"a certain lot of land with all the build
inps thereon. situated on the south side of
Green Street at Gorham Village, in the
Town of Gorham in said County Of Cumber-
land and State of Maine, and bounded and
described as follows, to wit: Commencing at
the northwesterly corner of land, now or
formerly of Alkaline c. Mor6tough ON the
southerfy side Of said Green Street; thence
running westerly on said Green Street, sixty
feet to stake. thence southerly on a line
parallel with the western line OF said Nor
dough land. to the line of the Portland ~
Rochester railroad; thence easterly by said
and thence northerly by said Mordough land
to said Green street, to the point of begin
ming. Being and intending to convey here
by The same premises conveyed to me by
Simmer c. Bolton, by deed dated July Gath,
1855. and recorded in Cumberland Registry
of Deeds, Book 520 Page 1858, to which deed
nav be had for a more particular descrip-
ton Of the premises
Given under my hand at Portland this
sixth day of October A. D. 1897.
G. L. BUCHANAN,
Deputy Sheriff.
nets 1aw3wW
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-20

The health board of New York does not
seem to be alarmed at the escape of the
entire leper colony from an island near
that city and anent the disease the con-
illusions arrived at by the International
LepIosy conference which closed its meet.
ing at Berlin, few days since, are
worthy of mention. The conference re-
CARDS treatment of the disease as pallia-
tive only, and that the use of serum has
hitherto made no difference in this re-
spect. 1t was decided that the true cause
OF the disease Is bacillus, which is
found only in man, and that the disease.
while contagious, is not hereditary. 1t
was also held that isolation is desirable
and that under certain ciroum stances. is
to be recommended.
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-20

New York's phenomenal registration
seems to be pleasing all around. 1.-The
people are eager to get to the polls to
show their disgust with reform" say the
Tammany leaders. "The workingman
is determined to make his ballot COUNT"
think Mr.. Georges spokesman. "The
independent voters are interested in the
election" remark Mr.. Lows advisers.
And last comes Mr.. Platt's lieutenant
who is firm in the belief that the stay
at-home vote is coming out and 1t Is
usually Republican" In the light of
the past history of campaigns a heavy
registration foreshadows large vote for
Independent candidates.
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-20

Senator German of Maryland, says:
- am willing to surrender every pros
pect of personal promotion if by so doing
IEcan reunite the Democratic party. "
Such an altruistic attitude on the part of
the shyf4 and foxy German is hardly in
Keeping with his tortuous politica
methods. However this may be, the task
which he essays is hopeless one. The
Democratic party is obviously busted
wide open and "for keeps
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-20

Late cable dispatches are to the effect
that the negotiations between the Spanish
government and the chiefs Of the Cuhan
autonomist party have not led to the ak.
pected results. The ministerial papers
urge energetic action to crush the rebell-
ion by force of arms, and also an increase
in the note issue of the Bank of Spain
This apparently has created bad i'm
preston. And turning to Cuba, it is very
obvious that the plan OF Senior Sagasta to
give autonomy to Cuba far from giving
satisfaction, has as matter of fact in-
creased the feeling of discomfort existing.
The logical result of all this is to stimu-
late an annexation propaganda and that
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-20

President Jordan of Leland Stanford
University advocates capital punishment
for insane as well as sane, murderers.
1t seems hardly in accord with the ad-
vanced philanthropy of the closing GEN.
fury to hold a person accountable for
crimes, to the extent of forfeiture of
life, even when the last glimmer of a
sense of responsibility has fiickered from
his mind,
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-20

Arthur W. Howard has been appointed
postmaster at Cape Rozier.
The arguments in the Bran case before
the United States Supreme court closed
yesterday.
A special to the Lewiston Journal from
Boothbay says two barns belonging to
Herbert and Fred Dutton one containing
tons of hay and all the farming tools,
were burned Sunday, the result of care
lessly set forest fires.
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-20
DEERTNG STAR COURSE
S-ENTERTAINMENTS

Second season under auspices of the Ladies'
Circle of the Woodfords Congregational
Doan 1ehn sdns
lain, eleven year old recitationist; Beethoven
Mandolin and Guitar Club. Lecture by Rev.
Dr. Lyma ABBOTT; Lecture by Prof. Henry
L. Chapman; Illustrated Lecture, Pietnr-
esQue Maine, by L. C. SWEET; Concert by
Americas greatest basso, Myron w. Whit
ney, assisted by Agnes NJ. stafford and
OF her taiant.
Price of tickets for the course, $780, 100 reser-
we'd seats at 80 cents extra for the course Tick
cts for sale in Portland at Loring, Short and
Harmon's. Reserved seats on sale or ex-
changed for admission tickets on and after Oct.
20 at Chapman s Wymans. oct16d1w
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-20

The monarch of Corea has changed his
title from King to Emperor. 1t matters
little what title this sovereign may as
sumo, he plays at the best only second
fiddle in the concert going on in that
section of the globe where the leading
maestros hail from Russia, China and
Japan.
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-20
THE PRESS.
WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 20.

Two more Cuban girls are in Jail and
the New York journal will thus be
afforded another opportunity to enter tho
field Of philanthropy and keep UP its ad-
vertising boom.
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-20

Milwaukee man says he ''has lived
fourteen years on beer alone" There
are untold thousands who have reached
the good old patriarohal age and let beer
entirely alone.
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-20

The Conservative party In England is
in danger of split. The pace set by
Chamberlain has evidently been too swift.
Words of coincidence TO Gladstone are IN
necessary.
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-20

The Boston Herald felicitously remarks
that it takes John Bull almost as long to
say no to the bi-metallists as it takes a
bashful young woman to say yes when
the crisis in her life arises. However
they both finally prove themselves equal
to the emergency.
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-20
NOTICE.


To holders of Debenture Bonds of the
Portland & Rumford Falls Railway.
NOTICES hereby given that, in accordance
IN with the provisions contained therein the
bonds now outstanding of the Portland s. Rum
ford Falls Railway, dated June l. 1894 and due
June l. 1904, will be paid by the Railway at the
shire St, Boston, Mass, or at the Portland
Trust Company, Portland, Maine, on and after
the first day of December. 1897, with interest
presentation and surrender of said bonds with
coupons thereto attached. All interest on said
bonds ceases with the payment of the coupon
due December first, 1897
R. Q. BRADFORD, Treasurer.
Portland Me-, Oct. /, 1897.
oct1MW&Ftdec1
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-20

CEALED PROPOSALS for furnishing all ma
y terial and labor necessary for completing
the mason work for High School Building on
received at he efice OF Frederick A Tompson,
architect, until Saturday October twenty-third
1897 at twelve o'clock NJ, when they will be
politically opened and read
Each proposal must be accompanied by a
certified check on some National Bank in the
sum OF three hundred dollars.
Plans, specifications and further information
may be obtained at the office of said Architect.
The Committee on Public Buildings reserve
the right to reject any or all bids should they
Bids shoud be- 81 ee to 20 Of
Public Buildings, care of Frederick A. Tompson,
Architect, 1872 l Q Exchange street, Portland
Maine
FREEMAN GOWEN,
Chairman of Building Committee.
oct1S INV
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-20
The Profits of Monte Carlo.
(From Good Words. !

The merchant whose losses are the result
of untoward and unforeseen changes in
the market receives sympathy and help.
But what bank or private friend will ad-
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-20

one is now actively going on in Cuba
with the belief that annexation only can
end the war was only to be expected.
The Portland daily press., 1897-10-20
THE PRUDENT PEOPLE Of PORTLAND
are fast finding out what
MEnORY

Culture, as taught by A. S. BOYD, means An
who are fortunate enough to hear his lecture at
Free Baptist Church, Congress street. near
and hear enough to convince them that the
testimony given by many living witnesses in
this, city and throughout the country only
moderately represents the value of his teaching.
Many declare that his system cannot be over
estimated; and that, by it, much of the drudgery
pertaining to study and to business can be
done away with, and that thousands have been
made bet er. happier and more successful In all
the walks of life. Any one attending this lee
tifty names forward and backward. The lee
ture is free to all, and of interest to all.
oot1ed3t
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1897-10-12
The Opponents or Silver.

Matthew Marshall one of the
ablest Of the financial gold bug
writers, had in the New York Sur
of Oct. 4th an article which with
out intending to do so, shows the
power exercised every where by
the militant usurers now ruling the
world. He tells how in Great
Britain, Balfour the parliamentary
leader, and Chaplin a member OF
the Cabinet are out spoken silver
men and Lord Salisbury with other
members of the Cabinet are willing
to try the experiment; how Parlia-
ment in 1895 unanimously voted a
resolution in favor of fixing inter-
national bimetallism; how the
National Assembly of France de-
clared by large majority in favor
of it; how Meline, Prime Minister
of France is an active member Of
the Bi.metallic League; how the
Reichstrath declared in favor of
silver and the land owning inter
ests ofGermany earnestly advocat.
ed legislation for silver, and yet
that the bankers, the militant u.s.
urers, had prevented all three of
these powerful nations, where ma
Iorities of the people, of their legis-
Iative assemblies, and in two of
hem of the governments, from
adopting silver as money. What
S true of these nations is also true
'f this-the bankers-the money
enders are the men and the only
men except their hired tools who
oppose the free coinage of silver. 1t
s time lesson similar to that ad-
ninistered 1861 years ago, in the
Temple of Jerusalem to this same
lass of money changers-shouId
'e given again. They should be
Iriven from the temple of Liberty |
which they pollute as they were
'riven from the temple of God by |
he Savior of Mankind.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1897-10-12
ave "The American Malt Com,

have "The American Malt Com,
pany," great trust to control the
output OF malt. This trust already
controls twenty of the largest and
best equipped malt houses in the
country and expects to control all
in the near future. This is legiti-
mate child of the Infamous legis-
lation forced through the House by
Tom Reed and bargained through
the Senate by the Sugar Trust and
Mark Hanna. Another one of its
illfavored children is the wire trust
which has just been put together
for the phfpoSeiof making a mo-
nopoly of wire fencing. And Brad
street also reports that this week
there is another sharp advance In
all classes of wooden goods In the
wholesale markets, of course to be
followed by larger rise In the re-
Iaii market. Winter is coming and
The people will have to pay more
'or their clothing, but the manu-
'acturers will have more money.
That IL what the law was intended
o do. The failqr. of the year up
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1897-10-12
Same Thing Is True Here.

Last fall the Lancaster miller.
were paying to the farmers of the
county, 92 cents for their wheat
while the quotation this week Il
IS cents-just 7 cents a bushel less
Hay last year was selling ut 80 q
ton, while this year the fellow I.
lucky who gets IS. Glover seed
commanded price of $5 and Sc
per bushel, while this week il is
bringing from 81 so to SO for the
same quantity. II the Republica n
administration, the influence OF
Marcus$ Hanna and the business( p
administration of Bushnell have
been so beneficial to the farmers.
how can you explain away these
facts. Nature this year provided
the farmers with a bountiful har.
vest, and the famines and short
crops of the European countries
furnished the prospect of fair price
on but one product of the soil. The
good sensible agriculturist has
more reason to direct his prayer
towards Heaven for his present
than to turn his praises
.oward the dollar Mark from Clevc-
and, who mis-repl esents the great
state Of Ohio in the United States
Senate.-Ohio Eagle.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1897-10-12
THE TICKET.


Governor-IIorace L. Chapman OF
Jackson.
Lieutenant Governor-odelville d.
Shaw of Auglaize.
Supreme judge. P. Spriggs OF
Monroe.
Attorney Generality. II. Dore Of
Seneca.
State Treasurer-James Y. Wilson Of
Trumbull.
Board Of Public Works-Peter H.
Deenan of Lucas.
School Commissioner - byron II.
Hard OF Columbiana.
For state Senator-tTwo to be elected.)
o-lith District, f. G. Rutter, of Fairfield, j.
a. Ivers, of Morgan,
For Representatives. Hooking -Vinton dis
trict.) Milton S. Cox, of Vinton.
COUNTY TICKET.
For rSherH.-Charlcs f. Brandt, OF WASH
ington Township.
For Commissioner.-J. w. Smith. of Laurel
Township.
For Iuflrmary Director.-W. S. Tucker. OF
Good Hope Township.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1897-10-12
Not On The Platform.

Senator German has shown his
hand in the Maryland fight. His
platform could be construed 10 be
an endorse ment, either of the Dem
ocratic Monetary plank of l6 to /,
or 1t could be with equal fairness
construed to endorse The Repub-
lican plank OF bImetallism by in
ternational agreement. 1t was con.
structed like the negroes coon trap,
"to catch 'em gwine or comm" Sen
ator German has one paper in
Maryland which may be consider
ed TO specially represent him. That
Is "The Port Tobacco Times" It's
editor Is an employee OF the Senate
by Gorman's appointment and his
editorial desk Is in Gorman's Com
mittcc Room. There 10 and editor