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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-02
GOLD STANDARD ron JAPAN.

n He NUIiO OF o]73 70 -E""VtN" ~ NFEo
Government.
Yokohoma, March 1.-The Japanese gov
ernment has decided to adopt the gold
standard of currency upon ratio OF 80 l-3
TO /. The silver yen, or dollar will be
gradually withdrawn from circulation and
the smallest gold piece will be the value
OF FIVE yen. The new standard will go into
operation In October next.
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-19
CURRENT COMMENT.
DON'T LOVE HIM ANY MORE.
Washington Post. J

We are not sure that we love Hon.
Thomas B. Reed as fondly as we once
did. He still has our respect and admira-
ton, but we seem to miss some ingre-
dent of warmth and tenderness in the
feeling with which we now regard him 1t
caused us both sorrow and surprise to
make this discovery We had thought
that nothing could impair our affection
for Mr.. Reed. But the truth may as we'll
be told. We do not love him as we did
Mr.. Reed has not been kind to Hon.
jerry Simpson. He allowed the honorable
Jerry to frisk and sport about for several
days. to wag his tail half off and bark.
and double On his tracks ike ANYTHING
and then, all of sudden, without a word
of warning, he pulled the string and in
simultaneously transformed the jocund,
undulating, and vociferous Simpson into
a limp and silent vision of inertia. 1t
was not fair. 1t was not merciful. Sinp-
son is thing of graciousness and joy. He
was not made for the rude Bullets Of the
world. He is the gossamer that baths and
floats in sunshine. He is the iris on the
ring doves FURNISHED epaulette. He is
the cadence of the fairy7s song. He is
anything and everything of melody and
grace. He is light, airy, tuneful, brisk,
chock full of joy and frolic innocence
Why should big Tom Reed have swung
that great Beotian club to crush so bright
and beauteous a butterfly?
And, now that Simpson is called in,
SO to speak, what does Mr.. Reed propose
to give us for amusement? What is the
House doing, anyhow, to commend itself
to the gratitude of the American people?
Mr.. Simpson has been sat upon, and, pro-
jecting from either margin of the Speak
er's superintendent mass, one discerns
the tips of two fine quivering ears and
the points of a pair Of lifeless patent
leather shoes. 1t is the end of Simpson
No more shall we revel in those artless
antics, no more drink in the music of
that joyous noise. But what compensa-
ton does Mr.. Reed propose? What are we
to have instead of the merriment now
quenched forever? He has taken Simp-
son from us; silenced, crushed, eliminated
him. What next? Is this to be the end
of things? If so, Mr.. Reed is no longer
the object of our love. From this moment
we untwine the tendrils of our he art
that for so long have coiled about his
Brobdignagian form, and give them to
another.
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-19
NAessemger,s Notice.

Office of the Sheriff of Cumberland County.
State of Maine, Cumberland. S. May
10th, A. d. 1897.
FlHIs is to give notice that on the 9Th day
Il of May. A. d. 1897. warrant in insol,
vency was issued out OF the Court of Insolvency
for said County of Cumberland, against the
estate OF
EDWARD J. PALMER, of Portland,
adjudged to be. an Insolvent Debtor
on petition of said Debtor. which
day OF May, A: D. 1897. to which
date interest on claims is to be computed.
That the payment of any debts to or by said
Debtor and the transfer and delivery Of any
property by him are forbidden by law
That a meeting Of the creditors OF said
one or more assgnees of his estate, viii
be held at Court of Insolvency to be holden
at Probate Court Room. in said Portland. in
said County of Cumberland. on the 7th day of
June, A. D. 1897, at 10 O'Clock in the
forenoon.
Given under my hand the date first above
written.
c. l.. BUCKNAM
Deputy Sheriff as Messenger of the Court of
insolvency for said County of Cumberland.
mayl2&19
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-19

one year was involved, the total vote was
6673. On the second article at Portland.
Monday, the election of women to the
school board, the total vote was even
lighter, the result being 119O for to 1866
against the measure. At Augusta. the
vote there being on redistricting one of
the city wards into two, thus making
eight wards out of seven, the vote was 423
for, to 1876 against, or, in other words,
just 5SS citizens thought it worth while
to vote, while in the spring election in
to attend to this duty, the vote on the
questions of charter revision that came
up at that time being 1882, in itself sig
nificant as showing that of those who
went to the polls to express their prefer
ence for mayor and members of the city
government, 1856 knew or cared so little
about the legal machinery by which they
We're governed that they did not even vote
on these things when at the ballot box.
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-19
HORSELESS CARRIAGES.
Cheap Motor Vehicles to BE Put on the
Market.

Experiments have been in progress at
the factory of the General Electric Com
pany, at Schenectady, n. Y, which have
brought forth the announcement that the
market is soon to be flooded with horse
less carriages at price that will bring
them within the reach of everybody.
Thomas A. Edison was credited with
having devised the motor by which these
cheap machines are to be fitted. This is
not the case, no wever He verified, how
ever, the statement that the General Elec-
trio Company was preparing to offer cheap
motor carriages to the general market,
but denied that he had devoted any time
to them. ''The whole problem" he said,
rests in the construction of cheaper and
lighter motors. Over two thousand men
are at work in this country alone trying
to invent better motors for horseless vehi-
cles. Hundreds of others in Europe are
also engaged in the same task. 1t is only
matter of time. The automobile is
bound to be in general use before long.
In the construction of the motor are three
different kinds of power to consider-gas,
petroleum and electricity. Electricity
should be the best and cheapest. The
most successful automobiles made thus
far are those in which electric motors are
used. They can go twenty-five miles or
more without being recharged at rate
OF ten miles an hour. l expect the horse
use for street travel is concerned Horse
less carriages at such low cost would
permit the poor as well as the rich to
crowd the parks and boulevards on every
Tine day. 1t is "a revolution that is bound
10 come, and at very early day"
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-19
CITY OF PORTLAND.
Notice to Coal Dealers.

THE committee on public buildings will re-
ceive sealed proposals until Monday the
Gath day of May, 1897, at noon for furnishing
100 tons or less of best quality broken Lehigh
coal and 400 tons or less of best quality egg
size Lehigh coal, 224o pounds to the ton, to Be
delivered and put in and trimmed in the bins of
Of the city and city Islands at such tines as
may be designated, the coal to be in all respects
of the best quality and in the best order, and
to be well screened on the wharvss before de-
livery, and weighed and inspected by such
weigher and inspector as the committee may
designate. Separate bids will be received at
the same time for furnishing 500 tons or less
or coal of equal.quality, suitable Tor steam pul-
poses, 224O pounds to the ton, to be delivered
as above. The committee reserve the right 10
reject any or all bids should they deem it for
the interest OF the city so to do. Bids should
be marked Proposals for Coal" and addressed
to CHARLES II. RANDALL, Chairman Com
mitIee on Public Buildings. may17 eod3t
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-19
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AND
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The Portland daily press., 1897-05-19

Spain is in the market for new loan
of $40, 000,0 900 to be secured by her customs
revenue which the Bank of Spain will try
to float at some rate. If the Spanish
people would gather little wisdom and
common sense and abate somewh at of
sleir foolish pride which may yet mark
their downfall, they would resolutely re
fuse to allow their treasures to be poured
into such veritable rat holes as Cuba
and the PHILIPPINES.
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-19
LACK OF CIVIC INTEREST.
(LeWiston Journal.)

The special election at Portland and
Augusta, Monday, illustrate anew the
great peril of American cities-the lack of
interest in municipal affairs on the part
of their citizens. At Portland, where the
questions involved related to the govern
ment of the city for many years and
where the decision was final-at least I'M
til a new legislative act is passed and
that can not be for two years, if at all
the total vote on the new city charter was
but 2550 (1016 in favor to 1910 against),
whereas at the March election in the same
city, when the election of officers for but
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-19

Certainly the jingoes could get no COM
fort out of President McKinley's Cuba
message. There was not a threat in it.
nor warlike phrase or word. He did
not even charge Spain with being respon-
sible to any degree for the suffering of
American citizens in the island. There
can be no question but the message was
d great disappointment to all the sup
porters of vigorous attitude toward
Cuba. They did not expect him perhaps
to recommend interference or even an ac-
acknowledgement of belligerent rights, but
they did undoubtedly hope that he would
let some word drop that would indicate
that he was in sympathy with their policy.
He did nothing of the kind however. He
simply proposed the distribution of money
and supplies among the American resi-
dents in Cuba at the expense of the
United States-something which the
Spanish authorities are said not to have
the slightest objection to. Later whe n
his special agent returns from the island
the President may have something more
to say, and then he may recommend
some definite policy ON the spart of this
country toward the war. But there are
no signs that it will be warlike one
indeed such signs as there are point
quite in the opposite direction.
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-19

Judge Sheldon, of the Massachusetts,
Supreme Court, has decided that the Bos-
ton Theosorhical Society is not entitled
to exemption from taxation as religious
body. Recognizing the weakness of its
contention the society proposes to take
an appeal on the ground that if it is not
tifc and therefore entitled to the exemp-
ton sought.
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-19

The New York Tribune observes that
Jerry Simpson RECEIVERS from the collapse
of being sat down upon by Speaker Reed
on his customary shape, such as it is,
with no delay and little or no ease, as the
kangaroo takes palisade. Jerry is al
ways amusing and most so when he is
most completely fattened out.
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-19

The story that the Cubans have succeed
ed in raising loan of $4,000, 900 in this
country is altogether improbable. Our
people loan their money on pretty poor
security sometimes, but they are not
likely in these hard times to invest in an
island practically ruined and with
dispute pending over the title to
If
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-19

Ladies, clean your kid gloves with
Miller's gloverine, for sale only by Wat
son, Miller Il Co., Boston store. head
quarters for dressed and undressed kid
gloves. All the most desirable shades.
Gloves fitted to the hand and warranted,
mch18 diff
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-19

No need to fear the appr> ch of Group
if you have DIR. Thomas Electric Oil in
the house. Never was case that it
wouldn't cure if used at the outset
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-19

The Senate promptly passed the reso-
luton appropriating $50, 900 for destitute
Americans in Cuba in accordance with
the suggestion of the President. This
is the first thing to the Senate's credit
since it met.
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-19

stances been accompanied by the short
ening Of the hours of labor and conse-
quently by frightening of the
time that may be used for life
renewing recreation. He says that
although the division of labor narrows in
dividual life, and in many cases restricts
individual development to few muscles
and faculties, it shortens the hours of
labor and presents opportunities for i'm
provement in other directions. In COM
munities where efforts are made to i'm
prove the physique of the individual and
better the sanitary conditions of his sur
roundings, life has been made longer and
happier He instances the case of Eng
land where the average life of the indi-
vidual has been raised during the last
century from 2S to 81 years. Prof. Sar-
gent firmly believes in the need and hig h
value of physical exercises for offsetting
the cramping conditions of modern labor
and the awful pressure crowding for
ward the business man of today. While
deprecating the excuses in athletics in
uulged in by some young men, he is con-
WINGED that exercise leads to longevity
and instances such noted cases as Brough-
am, Gladstone, Bryant and Others The
race OF the races is a long distance con-
test, as history shows, and the prize will
go to those who best combine achievement
with personal development.
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-19
THE PRESS.
WEDNESDAY,. MAY 10.

1t does not look as if it were intended
that Broker Chapman should suffer much
in his prison cell.
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-19

q Prof. d. A. Sargent, of Harvard Uni
versity contributes to the North American
Review an article on Exercise an d
Longevity" and brings out the point
that division of labor has in many in
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-19
To DEERING DOG OWNERS.

A LII owners and keepers of dogs in the City
IA of Deering will see that their dogs are
properly licensed before the 22d of this month.
as all dogs found unlicensed after that date
Will be Killed and owners prosecuted
Per order l.. NJ CLARK,
may1Sdtd City Marshal
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-19

The country could regard the prospect
of long tariff debate in the Senate and
a long wrangle after that between the
two houses with considerable resignation,
II there were reasonable prospect that
the outcome of it all would be permanent
and there would be no general tariff re-
vision again say for half century.
But already there are plenty Of signs that
as soon as a new tariff law is on the
statute book there will begin an agitation
to get it off again, and as soon as
one uncertainty is terminated another I'M
been hoping that this congress and this
administration would succeed in framing
a tariff law that would be SO generally
acceptable that it would stand for many
years to come; that for the next twenty
years we should be free from those agi-
tations which for the last twenty have
done so much to paralyze business and in
dustrial activity. To properly distribute
the blame for the probable failure of this
hope to become a reality would be diff
cult, but it is safe to say that a
portion OF it rests upon those interests
which have made exorbitant demands
and insisted upon compliance with them !,
even to the extent of threatening to
smash the whole bill if their wishes were
not acceded to. First and foremost in
this list are the Ohio sheep raisers who
with characteristic Ohio assurance,
have demanded the earth. Their allie
glance to protection goes to the extent of
getting all they can out of it for them
selves, regardless of what becomes of
other people or other interests Protec-
ton in their view is simply scheme to
boom their own industry Another
class which has done much to render diff
ficult, if not impossible, the making of a
tariff that would be likely to last, is COM
posed of people who regard protection as
a principle, sent down from heaven, and
of which accordingly we cannot have too
much, any more than we can have too
much of truth or love. If tariff of two
cents on particular article is good in
the estimation of these people tariff of
four cents is twice as good because there
is twice as much of it. Still another OBJ
stacle, and perhaps a greater one that
either of the others, is the political con-
dition of the Senate which enables few
men who care nothing for the pledges of
the Republican PARTY and whose only in
terest in it is to see it destroyed to die
tate many of the schedules of the bill
The Portland daily press., 1897-05-19

A monthly mail service has been pro-
vided by the government to the Yukon
district Of Alaska and it is quite likely
that such arrangement will tend to in
crease emigration to the gold fields of
that territory. According to late statis-
tics Circle City, lying almost on the Dor
der of the Arctic zone, has already popu-
lation of more than 1900 persons who are
rapidly creating an American COM
munity. The Mail and Express is au-
thority for the statement that miners
make S12 day, corner lots sell as high
as $4,000 each, and it needs only little
wise encouragement and protection on the
part of this government to convert the
place into prosperous and stable town.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-09-24
REM G: ..MBE:=:..E2

Our promise to you that
we will give you more
Dry Goods for the money
than any store in the
county. This we positive
ly agree to do. We will
leave it to you to decide.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-09-24
:}:3c.
SOC.

You will not be sorry if YOU see this garment
Full line of Gents, Ladies' and Chldren's Ben
nngon best goods
BLANKETS.
We defy any dealer to undcrsell MS in these
goods. We the only dealers in town who buy
direct from the mills.
READ.-Our large Grey White blanket we
offer pair at soc. Our next grade very heavy and
fine large size,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-09-24
CHAMBERLAIN, TAYLOR & CO.,
VERGENNES, VERMONT.

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is we proved byo1d
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-12-10
70 PREACH AGAINST MURDER
SOUTH CAROLINA MINISTER'S AP-
POINT A SPECIAL DAY.
BISHOP CAPERS ISSUES ADDRESS.
Solicitors Report Bloodshed by Violence
ON the Increase I'm the Palmetto
state.

A Columbia. s. c., special says;
Following the reports of solicitors to
the attorney general, which show that
the number of murders just doubled in
South Carolina for the last year, or
reached total Of 900, Right Rev.
Ellison Capers, bishop OF the diocese
Of South Carolina, has issued an ad-
dress to the Protestant Episcopal cler-
gy, reproducing the resolutions on the
prevalence Of murders passed the last
meeting Of the diocesan council, sup
plementing that with vigorous state
ment, and fixing December 10th as
the day when all clergy OF the do
cese shall preach against the crime OF
murder, now so prevalent in the state,
and inviting the ministers of Christ Of
oil denominations to unite on that day
in upholding "the sacredness OF HUI
man life and the honor of our beloved
state" The bishop says:
'The ain Of murder is upon us.
Homicides are Of frequent, distressing
occurrence, and in our judgment the
public conscience needs TO be in
structed and the public mind aroused
TO q sense Of the danger which threat
ems the character Of our people.
"The soldiers on the battlefield,
the officer Of the law in discharge Of
his prescribed duties, the citizen in
defense of his own life, may take life
without mourning the guilt Of murder,
for they act by warrant Of delegated
authority Of rulers who are Gods
minister's and bear the sword by di-
vine authority to.punish evil doors.
"But such murders as have of late
outraged the law OF God and degraded
the sacredness OF life, and dishonored
the courage and character Of our peo-
ple can lay no claim whatever TO the
sanction Of divine authority. We feel
that public sentiment needs to be
aroused TO higher and nobler esti-
mate Of human life. We call upon
our clergy TO rebuke the murderer and
to proclaim the law Of Almighty e.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-12-10

States What the coalitions OF such n
union shall be. the political relation
thereof 20 the United States. the char.
acter OF the local administration, the
quality and degree OF the elective fran.
chise OF the inhabitants, the extension
OF the federal laws TO the territory or
the enactment OF special laws to fit the
peculiar condition therefor, and the
regulation, II need be, OF the labor sys.
tenn therein, the treaty has wisely dele.
gated to congress II the treaty Is con.
frmed. as every consideration Of dignity
and honor requires. the wishes OF con.
gress will see TO IL that. avoiding ab.
rupt assimilation Of elements perhaps
hardly yet fit 10 share in the highes,
franchises Of citizenship aud having
due regard TO the geographical condi.
tions, the most just provisions for self
rule IN local matters with the largest
political liberties aud an integral part
OF our nation will be accorded to the
Hawaiians No less Is due TO people
who, after nearly five years OF demon.
strated capacity TO fulfill the obligations
OF self governing statehood, come OF
their free will to merge their destinies
in our body polite.
The questions which have arisen be.
tween Japan aud Hawaii by reason OF
the treatment Of japanese laborers emf.
grating 20 the islands under the Ha.
waiian. japanese convention Of 1888 are
in a satisfactory stage OF settlement by
negotiation.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-12-10
WILL MYERS AGAIN.
Detectives In Indian Territory Claim Co
Have Youthful Murderer.

Detectives In Indian Territory Claim Co
Have Youthful Murderer.
Requisition papers were made out at
Atlanta Saturday for the return Of
Will Myers from the Indian Territory
TO Georgia.
From Muscogee. Indian Territory.
came the announcement that Will
Myers had been located, arrested.
completely identified, and that he at
that moment was in the custody Of
detectives who had traced the fugitive
murderer across the prairies, over hill
and dale, until ho had been brought TO
bay, and after an exciting piece Of
strategy, captured.
The papers were made out by Solio-
itor Hill and forwarded, bearing the
governors signature. The identified
ton is said to have been made by o
detective who worked in Atlanta dur
ing the exposition who is now in the
west.