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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-08-07

There is a clash in Kansas between the
federal authorities and the state officials
over the regulation of foreign insurance
business in that state. Federal Judge
Williams, has just issued a sweeping in
juntion restraining the insurance super
intendent from enforcing the state laws
regulating insurance companies. The
particular case in question is that of the
Mutual Life Insurance company of New
York, and the Attorney General has
been enjoined from bringing any civil or
criminal suit against the company. Gov
ernor Leidy picks up the gauntlet thrown
down, and lively contest is about to be
entered upon. 1t is estimated that over
$4,000 veterans will participate in the
grand parade during the national en-
campment at Buffalo, n. Y. New York
heads the list with Is, 900 veterans. Penn
sylvania follows with 5000, while the es-
Inmates from Illinois, Ohio and Massachu-
sets are 5, 600 EACH The state divisions
will march in the order TO their organiza,
ton, with the exception that New York
will bring up the rear out of courtesy
to the visitors.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-08-07
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-08-07

Judges in Pennsylvania differ as to the
constitutionality Of the inheritance tax
and efforts will now be made to get
speedy decision of the Supreme court.
One point of attack was the retroactive
clause of the law, and concerning this the
latest opinion holds tThis is retroactive
legislation, but retroactive law which
is not expressly forbidden by the consti-
tuition land there is no such constitution
al prohibition in Pennsylvania, except as
to ex-post facto laws and. laws impairing
the obligations of contracts,) may be
valid
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-08-07
NOTICE.

g EALED proposals for the construction of the
- building for the Dover Children's Home are
hereby solicited. The building to be of brick
seen at the office of A. 7. Ramsdell Architect
Masonic Building and also at the Dover Cloth
ing Co.'s 436 and 43S Central Ave, Dover, N. II,
All proposals should be addressed to W. S.
Bradley, chairman of the building committee,
and must be received before twelve O'Clock on
Monday, August 9th, 1897. The committee re-
serve the right to reject any or all bids.
w, S, BRADLEY,
DIR. JAMES Z, LOTHROP.
J, HERBERT RICHARDSON,
MRS. LYDIA Z. JONES, 2
MRS. ELLEN F. CARTER,
MRS. ELIZABETH G. WILLIAMS, (
MRS. SUSAN E. YOUNG,
avg2d1w Committee
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-08-07

The Concord Monitor is inclined to
predict that the next New Hampshire
Democratic platform will be fashioned
after the one Senator German recently
made in Maryland. 1t would not be sur
prising if good many other Democratic
platforms closely resembled the Maryland
document. Straddles were always pop
ular with the Democracy.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-08-07

He would be a pretty rash person who
would undertake to predict whether the
Supreme Court will decide tho guide law
There is doubtless a chance for strong ar
guments on both sides. But courts gen
orally manage to find in the constitution
authority for doing things that ought to
be done.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-08-07

1t seems likely that Japan will insist
that the United States assume a contin
gent responsibility in the matter of arbi-
tfation of her differences with Hawaii on
the subject of immigration and the tariff.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-08-07

Carl Schurz denies the story set afoat
that he was an applicant for the Russian
mission. In recent interview he de-
clares that for many years nothing in the
gift of the government could have had the
slightest charms for him, but it seems
that some persons are utterly unable to
corrective the idea that man should not
want an office.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-08-07
CURRENT COMMENT.
GORMAN'S PLATFORM.
(Wachinoton Star

There need not be any mistake about
Mr.. German or his platform. His whole
object at the present time is to secure re-
election to the Senate; and as he is one
of the most expert jugglers among present
day politicians he is wording his deliver
ances and shaping all of his plans very
shrewdly with that end solely in view.
Return him to the Senate, and the people
of Maryland may be sure that if the sill :
yer men need him at any time and are in
the majority they will have no difficulty
in getting him.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-08-07

1t is understood that this is one of
the essential conditions upon which
Japan will insist, otherwise negotia-
lions are liable to come to sud-
den halt. If Hawaii is to fall into our
lap, she will have to come with all her
responsibility, and that Japan is anxious
to safeguard any advantages which might
arise from the favorable decision of an
arbiter, is only natural.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-08-07

The French Minister of commerce lays
the fattering JUNCTION to his soul that
President Mckinley will spontaneously
grant to France twenty per cent. tariff
reduction by virtue OF clause in the new
bill which permits a reduction of the
rates on champagne and other wines which
are won't to find place on the tables
Of the horny listed laborers and toiling
masses of the country
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-08-07
THE TRIUMPH OF REFORM.
(From the Boston Transcript.

There is a large and sullen minority,
to be sure, on the question, but where
there was one civil service reformer in 1879,
there are hundred today. Every president
who has favored the cause is entitled to
be remembered in history as among those
who have hewn at one of the menaccs to
popular government. President McKin-
ley has almost crowned the work, and
will long be chronicled as pushing the
spirit in advance of the letter.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-08-07
THE PRESS.
SATURDAY, AUGUST z.

Editor Watterson thinks the cause of
revenue reform is worse off than it was
in 1888 when Saumel j. Randall was
dethroned. 1t is evidently about as bad
off as it can be.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-08-07

The actuary of the Treasury Depart
ment estimates the population of the
United States on August 1 as 73,068, 900,
and he places the circulation per capita at
800. 53.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-08-07

CEALED Proposals for furnishing about 5000
y tons of crushed stone to the street depart
ment will be received at the office of the Com
Aug. 11th 1897, at Il o'clock M when they viii
be publicly opened and read. Specifications
and further information can be obtained at the
office Of said Commissioner The right is re
marked Proposals for Crushed Stone" and
addressed to GEO. n. FERNALD
aug4dtd Commissioner of Public Works.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-08-07

The Joliet Railway Company owns and
operates the entire street railway system in
Joliet, Illinois, including a line to Lockport
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 Atchison, Chicago, q Rock
Island and Chicago & Alton railroads. The
population of Joliet including Locl1port is
over 40, 900.
The Joliet Railway company owns 16
miles of track, q large brick and stone
power house with a double equipment of
boilers, engines and generators, and a oom-
plete new car equipment.
The present mortgage is for $3.50, 900 and
covers all present property and all that may
hereafter be acquired. Therailway 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. Winslow John 4.
Burnham, Edward Woodman, Weston r. Mil
liken, Henry P. Cox, Walter G. Davis. c. L.
Baxter and Geo; F Duncan. all of Portland
Price and further particulars upon applica-
ton.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-06
SISTER SUPERIOR.

moaera mlrctandatE9 hsipa6 ~ efpa.
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faetsr.
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aisns nateh sfHEfs 51af rarss so harifeas
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STATES faaa gga asFf 4 esfielB On ~ Haa
gets e. sI an1tber a8sar ssrel -
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rabafs. Ia 5 psfls8af.F te y
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-06
TIE SURPLUS or LEGAL TALENT.


Abe American institutions tending tc
the development of a learned proletariai
class? That France and Germany are
suffering from an Over-supply Of pllysi.
clans, professors, lawyers and preach
ers Is a complaint frequently heard.
In this country, where these labor
ers are altogether out of proportion
to the amount Of labor to be done, it is
not unusual for a man to pEolong bis
studies into middle Life simply because,
from excessive competition, no field Of
labor mas been opened up to him The
Partisan student has brilliant opportun-
tiles for the study Of art; but he finds lit
tie demand for the product Of bis ef-
forts lie can study architecture; but
no one asks him to build houses, for it
Is SO much easier to establish schools Of
art and architecture than to maintain
IN a densely populated country a
healthy proportion between supply and
demand.
A study OF the statistics Of the law
yer's profession Is likely to leave the i'm
preston that If the laborers in the other
learned professions bear the same ratio
to the demand for labor our own coun-
try Is already in sadder plight than are
the lands Of the effete aristocracles.
There are now 10000 professional law
yers in our Model Republic" or one
lawyer to every 500 Of the population.
In the center Of population the ratio is
as high as one1o every $50 inhabitants
such Is said to be the condition in Chi
cago, where a recently compiled direct
ory shows that nearly 5000 lawyers are
struggling for existence. France, with
q population of 100000 can manage
to exist win only 1000 more lawyers
than are needed in Chicago; and Ger
many, with more than 100000 pop
ulaton, has but 1900 lawyers. The
prolific law schools, many Of which are
maintained not to make lawyers hut
rather to furnish pTofessorships to half
made lawyers unable to earn a decent
living in the practice Of the law. are
largely responsible for the surplus Of
lawyers. The law schools have multi
piled st an amazing rate, tie number
last year having been reported at So.
with q total of more than 10000 stu
dents In 1870 the law schools reported
1911 students; In 1885, 3.054, in 1891,
6.l06. IN 1884. 1900. Nor has this in
crease been the consequence OF a cores
ponding demand; on the contrary. in
the opinion Of Dir. Edwards, in the
Michigan Law journal, it Is ''safe to
say that approximately 30 per cent Of
the ordinary revenues of the old-time
law Office have been cut OF Ia recent
wears.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-06

RHYNARn RRYAN.


When Mr. Bryan cashed his check did
he exhibit the candor and frankness
which be affects in all his speeches?
Did he walk up to the cashiers desk az
the day laborer-sor whom he has been
sweating blood for fifteen long months
-shoves his time check into the window
and calls for his weekly wages? No.
Mr.. Bryan didn't do it thar way. lie
passed it in so quietly that tie dropping
Of a, pin might have been heard four
blocks away. and in voice gentle as
the breathing Of Reynard Of the red-tail-
ed species. requested that the amount
be not named. Did it make any differ
ence tn the cashier whether the eneck
was for So or for $1,000? Did It con-
Germ anybody under the sun but Mr..
B1yan? II the amount was honestly
and Justly earned, why the secrecy?
Was it SO small that he preferred not to
advertise his services so cheaply2 no.
1t was none Of these. Mr.. Bryan knew
the amount was exorbitant He knows,
or thinks he knows, he Is candidate
for president in 1900 He knew if the
amount paid him for these two warmed
over harangues was made public it
would injure him. He knows that no
candidate for that high Office ever be-
fore Travelled over the country making
political speeches for pay. There is no
other solution Of the affair that that he
was ashamed Of It, yet his greed for
money. paid in directly from the hands
Of bis moRopoly-ridden constituents,
was So marked that he took 1t all, to the
last Farming. me result IS that Mr.
BRYAN y s. 400 richer. and SelgFick
county 81 s2,4oa poorer
The fact that tlis was the percentage
Of gate receipts agreed upon has moth
ing to do with the case. Had It been
lecture, prepared with the purpose Of
charging an entrance fee, and for which
the public could afford to pay, it would
be different, but it was moi. he Is
candidate for public Office, and the adj
dress was solely and wholly to advance
his private interest in that direction.
he accepted the adulations and the
brass band reception given him as be
entered the city. He reveled in the
driving and tho Misunderstanding which,
bis friends say, almost wore him out.
They insist that Il was all public, open
and above-board The payment Of the
check, covering the biggest amount ever
paid him for days work, was, at his
request, 10 be kept private. 1t was The
only proceeding which, according to
his lieutenants, took place under cover.
All there Is to It is that Mr.. Bryan
drove sharp bargain, worked the
crowd, got away with the money, and
he has added nothing to his reputation
by the attempt to do it on the sly.
But what Of that lecture tour In which
he fell down SO nlumphantly last win
ter? That was his chance to talk for
money, but through some inscrutable
1t failed to draw
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-06

The New Carpets

The New Carpets
Every worthy weave from rag to velvet av leads 81 them
have been received during the past weeks We've laid
lines Carpet business of with
equipment we've got ought to do it.
Rugs and Art Squares
Haven't space PARTICIPATES they're IA every known
eaVe, combinations, prices agree
ably surprise you.
A Millinery Symposium at hines
The eastern markets produce inery styles is "a
evidence in Millinery Pariozs this week. Also
Pattern Hats Our Millinery Chief has surpassed her
vous record breaking achievements Wichita such
gathering together Feminine Head
gear These days Autumn preparations making
Millinery Department the Mecca which many pilgrims
deightsdly directing their steps.
SPECIALS TODAY
Special No.
Two hundred pairs large zox4 and Icx4 Gray Blankets
worth 75c Of anybOdys money, 4sc pair See north window
Special No 2
Here large silkone top bottom
filed Comfort 90 Jnmatchabe any market the price
Ias and Ia7 N. Main St.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-06

An empIoye should never fbink the g.
nsnds Of his employer uureasnzahis. Al
vancsuent IN q store CONS thzough a
WILLINGNESS o. TIE part ~ q clerk % Bggk
his head CO. Some Day - zEl gst h =
position where be ear tate his urue. Epi
n TIE FIRST years & hss Nork he mEsi
never show We4riuess.
An expianasion 81 an advertisement =
2 vsluabIe thsnx. Fog insfanec. Parrg.
Rsvsolss & Co. 81 Arkansas CRY. sag ia
Al saveftiserDent: we obsalaes tos2y
txo larxe lots o. iafsea eofEsis. shiea had
been ss,s 70 another arn. Bot sh.ea tss
fsetery had stopped enroats o. aceaent ~
IT, failure Of tie arln &aspps1 % We Eet
tkem IL 4 sacrifice. Tea can st Gen
re sane way That = . ssse advertise
menL
TIE seep yoke collars g vogue ara very
nseEuL 80 ere aeoeEsprg % trefE can -
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sfesses. Thsy ars 81 SIX. iaeE elEss. - ~
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s=x cgnbsnss. 2eieessee esyes1inE a1iife-
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tersss q fse Sosn EFlsa the as.p - ezs
sseh q Eorn fsoek becesaes ai01si rew.
s-ss = gsat1 ens 4 uzaEfsrre1 late
sotlss or dress pc13NDas
Here = ap-sep ssvsrtnsnsEe fram
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as-zsa5e Il eet Bthsf Naet faErfars. Ns
rerrss 70 say. IS made g B1s3 -afessEl
ark xa1n sse cht1rea bertu g ramp
isste - ~ stdef a0es tsfie aoEn &s -
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-06
TBANsNUTATIoN on METALS.

A new and surprising use has been
found FOR Mexican silver dollars. A
certain DR.. Emmens Of New York. has
discovered III We may believe the news
papers-lhat by subjecting Mexican dol
lars to mechanical shocks or vibrations
the molecules Of silver may be shaken
together more closely, or In other words
the metal becomes denser. + also
changes color and assumes q new phys
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-06

CONDUCTED sY THE SISTERS Or CHARITY o. 3. v. ~.
OF parents daughters opportunity
accomplished
boarding school FOR girls Il fornea throughout vim uoaa
niences IS 1850 &C
The location e attractive and g experience bas proved snsase %
outdoor recreahonA q study az no
practical special
and % their pupils scattered husAoat ss
For Dartiauars apply
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-06

A despised federal court a. Topeka has
ius, decided that q Popaiist law. the one
IN regard to the stock yards. must stand
Something should Be left 10 the Populisis
10 snarl about Take their grievance
against the federal courts away ana they
are left high and drT-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-06

Mr.. Brann Of the Texas Iconoclast has
been rnobbed. Mr.. Brann has pen which
dictates to his brain too much
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-06

The country will soon have to pass
through it's annual period Of news Of the
horrors OF northern forest hres.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-06

III wiz do Spain no good to offer auton-
omy to Cuba. The cuDans are after cree
dom, and all synonyms are barred.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-06

Inetgert makes no bones over the fact
that tho trial is becoming rnints~estiog to
him, particularly as to sesarniod bones.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-06

1t is almost certain that Cuba viii re-
fuse autonomy. II she does what Win
Spain do about it? We do NOT want any
more canadas in the new world. One is
too many.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-06

A horseless carriage ran away in Pitts
burg and caused great destruction. Possi-
bly, the reins got crossed
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-06

This Is the fourth week Of Father Is
lzridge's fight on President Mckinley, end
the administration shows no signs Of weak
ening.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-06

Bryan says that the amount which he
earned at Wichita was the largest Re ever
received for a days work. SIN Mr.. Bryan
should not forget that the vase Garner
in tbs country is q slave and must sooner
or later arise IN revolution.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-06

Bryan charged nothing Cor his Atchinson
effort On the other hand he charged
s.. 400 for his Wichita spiel, or sixteen cents
To one word.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-06

There is entirely too much whisky IN the
Klond;ke and too little food. Some one
seems to have misunderstood. Gold hunt
ing is the work before the klondikers' not
a political campaign.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-06

Lille Langtry's divorced husband has
gone crazy and is in a mad house. HIS
misfortune was IN loving beautiful To-
man who did not give two whoops in the
great Turkish bath house OF the hereafter
for him
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-06

The prosecution in the Luetgert trial.
which is trying to establish a corpus de-
lictu. should somehow find a witness who
viii testify that he heard Luetgert say to
his wife that he would wipe her on the
face OF the earth.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-06

About ea.O0a people have just been
drowned in s flood in China. From the
dispatches received from that part Of the
world il appears that no man ever dies
singiy in CHINA. Deaths sickle always
takes EN- BY the thousands
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-06

The federation Of Union labor at chica-
70 has refused 70 cooperate with the Chi
cago anarchists. The torch and the knife
tank was a good thing. It disguised the
men who really earn thar bread BY the
sweat OF their broEs