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The Portland daily press., 1897-12-02
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The Portland daily press., 1897-12-02

The Chicago Tribune expresses grave
doubts whether the merchants or farmers
Of the United Staes want war with
Spain. Both these classes, it argues, are
just beginning to feel the steady influence
of a conservative administration at Wash
ington, and any steps which lead to, or
even threaten, war with Spain, would Sc
riously affect the improved conditions
which are now making themselves man
ifest everywhere.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-02

The United States Supreme Court has
just held that the franchise of the Frank
fort, KY, lottery is invalid. It was con-
tended by the defendants that the revoca-
ton Of the charter worked the revoca-
ton OF contract. in violation of the
Constitution of the United States. The
Court thought otherwise, and maintained
and so decided that a letter grant is not
in any sense contract within the mean
ing of the Constitution. but is simply a
gratuity and license which the State
under its police powers and for the pro-
lection of the public morals, may at any
time revoke, and forbid the further con-
duct of the lottery. Exit Kentucky
Lottery.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-02

When Hayti thought she had trouble on
her hands with Germany, her minister
Immediately sought our State Depart
ment to get the help of our government
Nicaragua, before the English landed at
Corinto, looked this way for help. Since
the Venezuelan incident FEELING
has been growing up among the
little States to the south of us that we
were a sort of big brother, who could he
looked to to shield them from punishment.
no matter what sort of difficulty they
got into. Now while the governments of
Europe ought to be made to understand
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-02

In late discourse Mr.. Talmage says
that newspapers will not be needed in
we shall have such Velocity that we can
gather for ourselves all the news of
Heaven, or. seeing some world in confia-
grafton may go ourselves to examine
personally the scene of the disaster. - The
suggestion has the merit of originality
at least, for, doubtless, it has occurred
to but few minds that the excitement of
running to fires would be one of the di-
versions incident to state of eternal
Bliss
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-02

My vocabulary is no match for the
ignominy of the situation remarks DR..
Parkhurst upon the results of the late
New York mayoralty election. So after
all time has evolved limit to the Doc
tors volubiIity.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-02
The Genuine Imported Carlsbad
Sprudel Salt

Isan Alternative and eliminative remedy
which dissolves tenacious bile, allavs irr;.'
tation, and removes obstruction BY AIDING
nature and not by sudden and excessive
irritation, as most cathartics do. Obtain
the genuine imported article only.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-02

Either the newspapers of Maryland are
very wicked, or the statesmen-perhaps
both. A while ago Senator German put
forth pronunciamento arraigning
the Baltimore Sun for nsssorts of SANDER
and abuse, and now the other Senator
Wellington by name, but not of the tenn
per of the Iron Duke, has had the edi-
tor of the Baltimore American indicted
for libel, and in addition has brought civ
il suits against him, aggregating 500, 900.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-02

Mark Twain was elected from the gal
1ery during the recent disorderly proceed
ings of the Reichsrath. He may posi-
bly, regard it as one of the best jokes in
which he has yet figured.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-02

The Marblehead is going to Hayti, not
% protect the Haytiens against German
nen-of-war, but to see that American
interests are not imperilled if the Hay
liens get TO fighting among Themselves
contingency that is far more likely to
happen than an attack by Germany.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-02

Scotchman, of the truest type, who loves
the hills and heather, and knows nv heart
the traditions of his race. The reader is
very foroibly reminded of Walter Scott.
as he reads Lochinvar. There are the
same romantic adventures. the same hero
and exile who takes interesting service
in the army of a foreign prince, the same
high born, high-spirited and beautiful
heroine, and the same satisfactory and
happy ending, in which the heroine is
married to the hero, while the subtle and
malignant enemy who has kept them
apart SO long, retires in discontinue and
disgrace. But Mr.. Crockett writes in
different age of literature from that
which produced the adventures of Glen
yarloch and Iyanhoe. While Lochinvar
is decidedly of tho romantic school of
hctlon, so far as the plot is concerned, in
the manner of the story it may almost be
said to belong to the realistic school
While in the midst of their most exciting
adventures, the characters live and con-
verse in an atmosphere of modern COM
mon sense, free from the stilted ideas of
the old chivarly Lochinvar, his sweet
heart and their friends are people of char
acUer, we'll defined and admirably por-
trayed, with hopes, fears and passions
like those of ordinary mortals in the
Nineteenh Century. The reader who en-.
joyed Ivanhoe in his youth with rap
ture which he never expects to experience
again, may find in Lochinvar story
equally delightful and much more natu-
raj. Portland: Harper & Brothers; Port
land: Loring, Short & Harmony
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-02
THE PRESS.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2.

Notice has been given the 5000 employees
of big Pitts5urg concern that their
wages, beginning Dec. L, would be ad !.
vanced 10 per cent. This is good sign
of the times.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-02

And now it is the plumbers and steam
and hot water filters in certain sections
IF the country who are to form a trust.
This would seem to be the most favorable
lime of the year for them to get in their
york
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-02

Boss Croker declares that the Rev. Mr.
Parkhurst has done New York more
harm than any other man. And Mr..
Parkhurst doubtless holds the same view
in regard to Boss Croker.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-02

Certain Accepted Heroes and Other Es-
says in Literature and Politics. By Hen
ry Cabot Lodge. New York: Harper &
Brothers; Portland Loring. Short 81 Har-
mon.) There are nine essays in this vol
ume entitled LAS to Accepted Heroes"
in which Mr.. Lodge has no great diff
Guilty in showing that the heroes of the
Iliad and Odyssey were neither chival-
rous nor brave, judged by modern stand
ards, and in which he correctly points
out the true value of the study of Latin
and Greek; "The Last P lantagenet, in
which he shows that Richard III. was
much less black than Shakespeare painted
him, that he was, in short. great soldier
and great statesman; Shakespeare
Americanism, in which he shows that
many English words and phrases used by
Americans in what is generally regarded
a peculiar sense were used in precisely
the same way by Shakespeare; a brief
biography of Chatterton and an estimate
of his worth and place in literature; an
appreciative sketch CT DR.. Holmes; "a
Liberal Education, an address delivered
before the Phi Beta KAPPA Society of Har-
ward University; 'The House of the
Cabots,' reprinted from the Min eteenth
tions, IN which it is shown that they are
more turbulent and attended with more
disorder than our own; and "Our For
eign Policy which is practically de-
fen ce of jingoism and q plea for the an
nexation of Hawaii and the freeing OF
Cuba.
Alan Ransford: A Story. By Ellen
Douglas Deland, author of In the Old
Herrick House. Oakleigh, etc. Illustra-
ted by Harry c. Edwards. New York:
Harper & Brothers, Portland: Loring,
Short & Harmony This is story for
boys and girls, having as its scene sub
urb of Philadelphia. A household, which
includes five boys, is next door to a fam
lily, the only daugher of which has sever.
al girl friends in the neighborhood. The
young people mingle on terms of close
intimacy, and share each others fun and
scrapes. One of the boys, Alan Rams.
ford, is 3 manly, generous fellow, of a
very reserved nature where girls are con-
cerned-in fact, he does not care for
them. Accordingly he is voted "a hear,''
and the point of the story is the gradual
discovery by the girls that he is more
charming than sthey had thought; and
the discovery on his part that there is
one girl. at least, that he does care for
and cannot do without, The girls are
quite human characters-that is to say
they have their faults, just as tho boys
have theirs, and the,general purpose of
the book is to show that this intimacy of
boys and girls has good influence on the
characters of both sexes.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-02

o oo, worth from US in the same months of
1917 under the Dingley law. Germany,
whose protest was much talked OF, bought
nearly $2o, 0O0, 600 worth of our goods in
august and September of 1897 under the
Dlngley law, while her purchases in All
gust and September, 1896, were only
trl1le over Sl5, 000,0 GOO. Italy increased her
purchases from us nearly so per cent in
August and September, as compared
with the corresponding months of 1896.
Turkey protested, but followed that
action by purchasing six times as much
from us in the first two months of the
new law as she did in the corresponding
months of last year. Even Japan, which
had joined the western powers in violent
protests against certain features of the
new law, increased her purchases of
American goods materially in August
and September under its operation, as
compared with August and Septt m Der
of 1886; while Great Britain, also on3 of
the protesting countries, increased her
purchases nearly $4,000, 900 i'll August
and september, 1897, as compared with
the corresponding months of 1886.
Taxing the 10 countries which offered
protests against the Dingley law, and
comparing their purchases from the
y nlted States in the first two months OF
It's operations with the corresponding
months of the preceding year, it is found
that the purchases from us under the new
law were nearly S25, 500, o000 greater than
In the corresponding months of last year.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-02
THOSE DEMOCRATIC AsPIRANTs.
lMail and EXPRESS. J

Two reputable and evidently sane resi-
dents of Maine are seeking the Demo-
cratic nomination for Congress in Speak
er Reeds district, where the latter was
reelected last year by a majority of more
than 10000 votes. If these gentlemen
want excitement it is queer that they
don't go West and settle in the cyclone
belt, or arrange for boiler explosion or
some other cheap but equally lively and
vastly safer form of diversion. Fun is
all right in it's way, but there is no use in
OVERRIDING it.
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-02

According to Frank r. Stockton the
year 1947 had dawned with the North
Pole still undiscovered. Many other
wonderful things had happened, however.
Electric steamers were crossing the ocean
in three days, while on land men and
women had emancipated themselves from
the old Nineteenth Century haste and
hustle. Steam cars had been discarded
for coaches that rolled over splendid
roads; the horse, which had become we'll
nigh extinct, was again coming into use,
business was done very deliberately, and
it was not considered good form to read
the daily newspapers. In such a trans
formed world as this Mr.. Roland CIswe,
the scientific hero of Mr.. Stockton IS
book, The Great Stone of Sardis (Harper
81 Brothers, New York; Loring, Short &
Harmon, Portland) invents the Artesian
Ray, more wonderful even than the x
Ray, and sends the submarine boat Dip
sey to discover the North Pole The de-
tails of the story are worked out with the
sparkle and humor for which Mr.. Stock
ton has long been famous. The Dipsey
has experiences worthy Of Jules Verne S
Imagination, but the people on her de-
velop an amount of humor and fun that
the characters of Verne are quite incapa-
BILE of. The hero has a love affair which
comes ridiculously near being snuffed out
by his devotion to science, which in the
Twentieth century seems to have devel-
oped into new human passion.
Young Lochinvar, who came out of the
West, is one of the heroes of Scotland s
romantic poetry. With himself, with his
steed and with his bride the world has
long been familiar. Consequently the
reader greets as an old acquaintance one
of the best of the seasons new novels,
Lochinvar, by Rev. S. R. Crockett, who
for two years or more has been enjoying
great fame and popularity as novelist
Like Sir Walter Scott, Mr.. Crockett is q
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-02

The Southern novel, picturing the life
of tho mountaineer and of the descend
ant of the slavehold ing aristocraoy, is
rather in favor now. Readers of the
magazines are already familiar with The
Kentuckians, by John Fox, Jr., in which
the life of the mountaineer and of the
aristocrat in the Blue Grass country are
contrasted. The story is attractive and
entertaining, and is undoubtedly fairly
accurate representation of two classes of
life, both of which are interesting but
strange to the New England reader. The
hero of the story, Boone Stallard, is
mountaineer whom character and linn
tied education have lifted above the feuds
and degradation of his people. With
noble sense of duty he has remained
among them, to elevate and assist. They
send him to the legislature. where he
meets q rival, one of the accomplished
and favored young aristocrats of the
plains. A love affair, in which the hand
of the Governors daughter is the prize.
affords the plot of the story. New York:
Harper & Brothers; Portland. Loring,
Short & Harmony
The Portland daily press., 1897-12-02
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

The celebration of anniversaries, wheth-
er of towns, cities, churches or individu-
ais. is one of the commonest events of
our lives. Why then, should it not be a
proper thing to celebrate the anniversary
of a great poem, especially of noble
poem like Evangelinc, which has had q
world wide fame, and is destined to live
and speak for ages. 1t is now fifty years
since Longfellow gave Evangeline to the
world, and one of the great publishing
houses (Houghton, Miffiin & Co., Bos-
ton; Portland: Loring, Short & Har
mon) has noticed the event by the pub
location of beautifully printed and il
Illustrated edition. A very interesting in
PRODUCTION has been written by Alice M.
Longfellow, daughter of the poet who
writes Interestingly of his life at Cam
bridge at the time of the writing Of the
him to the subject. A Canadian gentle
man had first suggested the theme to
Hawthorne; but the latter turned it over
to Longfellow, who was attracted by the
pathos of the story of misfortune and in
justice. The illustrations, very attrao-
tive feature of the book, are by pupils of
Howard Pyle, who has also written an
introduction, in which he speaks of the
relations of the illustrator to the author,
and praises the originality and vividness
of the art. The artists Violet Oakley and
Jessie Wilcox. Smith, have pictured Evan
geline, the fields of Grand Pre-, and the
scenes of the Exile in colors, that have in
them something of the warmth of the
sunlight as well as the chill of exile.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-08-07

LouEhead sarnla Oscratch). second: J. A. Newhou:e
yards). fourth.
Time-:44H.
Won by two lengths: half length between
second and third
oNE-THIRD MIIE-oPEN-AMATEUR.
Won by Edward L.cwellyn. Chicago w. II. Fearing
New-fork second Club Nelson Springfield Mass third
Time-O:43%.
II was scramble from the start. with Nelson
winning by only a few inches
TWO MILE HANDICAP-AMATEUR
Won by E. C. Hausman. New Haven GO yardsl Rob.
ert A. Miller. New-York (scratch), second; Edward
lAeweyn Chicago go yards. third.
Tme-430.
The ong-mark men set clipping pace from the
start. Hausman reserved his strength and won at
the finish by length. and Miller was length
before his Chicago rival
meeting Of the Veterans Association OF the
l.. A. w. was held at the Walton tonight. Tho
old-timers told stories OF the high wheel. and en-
5oyed q good dinner. About ninety OF the veterans
We're present
The century riders from NewYork arrived here
at 1o y. m: OF the sixty-six starters ffty-three
finished. There were three women al the starr
and two finished. They were the Misses Curtis. OF
keyport. N. Y. The run was In charge OF Or.
Myrick.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-08-07
UOFRFR JUMPED on FRIEND.
rt,r CORONER WAS ANGRY WHEN HE "a" Ihh
LAWYER READING AN ANONYMOUS LEI FIJI
v,xc ruAT GULDENsUPPE Is ALIVE.

TUE CORONER WAS ANGRY WHEN HE SAW THE
LAWYER READING AN ANONYMOUS LEI r''
eva THAT GrrDENsUPPE Is ALIVE
coroner Hoeber telephoned the District-Attorne'
oc,ao1ov morning that he had received letter.
!-,..a :, German saying that Guldensuppe was
no, dead This is how the letter reau -
"o' New-York August. 1897.
Nv Dear Sir: cannot any longer , Keep o gu'1 %,
Guiu rgs apfalnst Thorn OF whom he is insaney
,ea'ous He will only appear after Thorn mas p '
sentenced TO death nner pd ine pf Harlem they could
easily find Guldensuppe. More dare not E say '
specially. r,, $3.50 y
r-,ursdav night at o'clock. Not long afterward
r,rnanuel NJ Friend counsel for Mrs. Mack was
passln9 through a corridor near the coroner
Office with Assistant District-Attorney Rosalsky'
when they met a reporter reading the letter. Inc
renor,er showed f, 10 Mr.. Friend. who stood read
Ing II as Coroner Hoeber emerged from his office
The little Coroner turned purple with rage as he
snatchcd the ,etter from Mr.. Friends hands
he shouted Mr. Friend responded in uncompli-
mentary strain. for he and the Coroner have not
Hoeber was upon him. and there would have been
pretty tight had n9 6ystHnders pulled the
appeared in his Office. where he remained for an
Mr. Friend expressed the belief that TIE Coroner
wrote the letter himself in order 10 &c, newspaper
nooreiy out OF H. Th the eS Gn
that ne had not yet heard from Coroner HoebSr
dens,rrpe was alive. He said that he would pay
no attention 10 the T0tter whatever because lie
x Wss not o a, liberty 70 dlvuee at present that Gull
densuppe was dead and that the portions OF the
tber stated that he knew from Thorn's own lips
Tint Ciuldensuppe was dead When asked whether
nS.h no Ho eonfesslon Whatever to me had con-
He1as.iSn With him while be locked ", :!
1 am ga tisned that Guldensuppe 10 dead"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-08-07
RUNNING DOWN A CYCL1sr is ASSAULT.

A DEIINERANCE FROM THE COURT Or SfEtlAb
SESSIONS on RECKLESS DRIVING.
william Haley. twenty-three years old OF NO 5Os
West Thirty-sixth-st an express wagon driver,
fined $50 In Special Sessions yesterday after
noon. having been found guilty Of a technical
charge Of assault on Mrs. Elizabeth Berry. OF NO
305 East Seventy-eighth-st. Mrs Berry was riding
her bicycle in East Sixty-fourth-st. at O'Clock at
night on Tuesday. and crossing Second-ave
when Haley approached from the north at great
speed and ran into her. smashing her wheel ana
badly brusing her The policeman who arrested
Haley testified that the man did not wait TO see
how badly the woman was hurt. and that he broke
away from him three times. Haley swore that the
woman ran into his wagon and that the ACCIDENT
caused by her own carelessness. HIS expaha-
ton Of the affair was unsatisfactory TO the ma
jority OF the Court. Justice Hayes, however ols,
sented from the opinion Of Justices Hinsdale ana
Jerome He said that II was merely case OF Nlo-
lation OF corporation ordinance: and that ~ was
not an assault that crime had been coinmitteu'
and the whole affair was an accident IN sehte"C-
ing Haley Justice Hinsdae said:
I'm inf1icting this punishment on you haiey We
hope will operate 10 restrain reckless drNIns. ~
is not because you so mucn more criminal hdi,
others but you have been tried and convicted. IL
II becomes necessary this Court Will lock such VIC
lators UP when they infringe so grossly on tnc
rights of others on the streets Expressmen haNe
no exclusive right TO the streets ana We shai I'M
pose heavier sentences II we find II necessary
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-08-07
UHEELWEN CATCH A RECKLESS DRIVER.
CHASED HIM INTO THE PARK. But HAD TO LET
HIM GO FOR LACK OF POLICEMAN

CHASED HIM INTO THE PARK. But HAD TO LET
HIM co FOR LACK OF A POLICEMAN.
Half dozen members OF the St George Wheel
men were riding their bicycles along Eighth-aVe
last evening. and slowed UP at a bad spot near
Fifty-eghth-st. Behind them was hanson CAP NO
go driven at a furious rate. When the wheeI-
men slowed UP the cab did not and az result inc
cyclists had a hard time getting out OF harms way
one Of them. Thomas Murray OF No. abh Ihrd-
ave was knocked 10 the street. and the cab pass
ing over his wheel, II was wrecked. Although me
v,Seenen shouted at the driver hc only !auBhed US
lie whipped up his horses and drove rapidly INTO
, eniral Park. , ,,ar
Tbrae 81 the Wheelinen gave chase. and AFTER
min of , mile came up with the cab. They causht
*. hr ,1le OF the horse and told the cabmnn no
u,n,,ld be held until IA policeman came. Then they
,ook the cab number. In the vehicle was a man ~
eveuinQ dress and II young woman. The latter
fanghed heartily the cab was stopped, and SAID.
..yyel ne BOWED them over didn't weT
Tho man was Indignant. He got out or the CAP
and addressing the wheelplan. said what DO you
M. an by stopping gentleman, Doht yo" hho"
that We have the right OF way - -.
the wheelmen did not know that, but after
wait OF ifteen minutes, and no policeman In sight
the ca Imam was allowed 10 go on
Murray, however, VIII go 10 me mayor ol,n
this morning 10 md out VINO owns ths cso. Iie VI"
then the owner.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-08-07
TWO DIVISIONS ON THE CENTURY KUN.

Owing to number Of requests from riders living
out OF town the committee in charge OF 'he
century runs Of the Associated Cycling CIuos VI
the City Of New-York have decided 10 man Wy
snec,al division in the run starting this morning
This division will start from Taylors Hotel jersey
City. at s o'clock and will travel at the rate OF
twelve miles an hour. until ii catches the regular
run starting az $50 a. m, which travels AZ tne
rota ~ ten miles an hour This Will accommodate
numher of riders who because of railway con-
nections and their distance from the starting point
viii ard II imnossibla 10 start the regular sched-
NE TIM Entries will be received at the starting
noint bv the committee from all who nave not hau
The opportunity 10 enter up TO this time