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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-11-17

business. Both parties at Washington
recognize the propriety of the point OF
order as to dilatory motions, and at the
recent session of Congress Speaker Reed
ruled a motion out as dilatory on point
of order made by Mr.. Bailey, the leader
of the minority.
The Senate of the United States is very
often made the scene of such flibustering
as is going ON at Vienna, excepting that
the long winded speech is the main in
strument, the roll call not being effective
in SO small a body. 1t is probable also
that such obstruction has been common
at Vienna, but has not attracted so wide
spread attention as now, when it is
threatening to cause the disruption of the
Empire of Austria Hungary
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-11-17

Senior Robledo, who aspires to fill the
place made vacant by the death of Can
ovas del Castillo appears to be more
welded to ancient methods than Oanoyas
himself. He is an outspoken opponent of
any concessions whatever to the Cubans.
and he makes 1t quite evident in an in
terview with New York Herald oorre.
spondent that anything approaching
autonomy will be met with bitter antago-
nism from him and the party which he
aspires to lead. Sagasta's reforms have
already met the warm hostility of the
Spaniards in Cuba, and Senior BobIedo',
plain speech makes it evident that there
is to be no lack of opposition at home
If between these two fires Sagastn is abb,
to maintain and carry out his polio,
he will prove himself far ADLER maj
than he has ever had credit for. The in
inevitable result, however, of its failure
will be the oss as Cuba to Spain. If con
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-11-17

According to the report of the director
of the mint the3metal product of the state
of Montana for the year 1896 was of the
value of $50, 1872, 900 an increase over any
previous year of smething over S., 900, 900.
The. figures further show that since 1896
thesprincipal products of the state have
increased from Fifteen to one hundred
per cent in volume, and with the single
exception of silver, increased from 25 to
100 per cent in value since 1898. The
state OF Montana with population OF
10000, produced s62, 900, oOo of wealth in
1896, and since 1880 every smelter in the
state has doubled its capacity, with one
exception. Such incontrovertible evil
dences OF prosperity should put to shame
the free silver shouters and DISPOSE
them, If they have any sense Of fairness,
to discontinue their attacks on the well
fare Of this particular state.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-11-17

Party feeling runs pretty high in the
United States sometimes, and we occa--
sionally make uncomplimentary remarks
about our rulers. But the Halifax Her
AIDS allegations. that Laurier and Davies
are in Washington simply to show them
selves; that they are unsafe men to leave
in Washington alone; that they are vain
glorious and foolish, are considerably
worse than the slurs that occasionally
find their way into American papers.
The average Tory down in Nova Scotia
seems to hate a Grit about as badly as he
hates an American.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-11-17

At the coming session. of Congress the
Secretary of War will recommend an in
crease of the army by two regiments Of
artillery, to man our new sea-coast forti
tications. This is a great national need
and cansbe supplied without any menace
to our free institutions if only Congress
can be persua led to think so.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-11-17

Five large American steamships plying
between Philadelphia and Liverpool are
to be placed in 1.-THE Alaska trade next
year and company has been organized
to build a railway between Skagua and
Lake Bennett. Travelling next year will
be comparatively easy, fact worth con-
sidering by the would be Argonauts of
1898.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-11-17

Senator Gallinger has concluded to
wind up his controversy with Carl Schurz
over civil service reform. We say over
civil service reform, for that was the
ayowed subject of discussion. Mr.. Gal
linger touched upon it only inciden-
tally, the major part of his letters being
an arraignment of Mr.. Schurz for what
he called treason to the Republican
party,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-11-17

Bushnell gets $4,000 plurality in Ohio,
but the legislature just escaped being
Democratic. Either the gerrymander is
unknown in Ohio or somebody proved a
milestone about the necks of legislative
candidates.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-11-17
candidate

Judge Lambert True has returned from
Europe fully convinced that we ought to
liberate- Cuba. Perhaps he thinks, too,
that we ought to liberate Armenia and
Crete and several other misgoyerned
countries.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-11-17

The report that the treasurer OF the
Lubec Savings Bank will set up in his
defence that the loss to the bank has been
the result of shrinkage of its securities,
appears highly improbable when we con-
slider the facts as presented in the reports
of the bank examiner for several years
past. In 1894 we find the total liabilities
of the bank, including deposits which
amounted to ST., 1851 .06, to be $l3, 1e3. 4S,
and the resources, consisting of stocks,
bonds and mortgages, to be about 5000
greater. In 1896 tine deposits had dropped
to $40. no 26, and the resources were still
in excess of the liabilities by 1857 81. Last
year the deposits still further decreased,
being reported in June to be So, 1924,
but the resources were still $3.50. ~ in ex-
cess of liabilities 1t now appears that
the bank is short $4,000. To explain
this shortage by q shrinkage of securities
1t would seem to be necessary to show
that all OF them became valueless and
that TO each and everyone of them was
attached double liability such as be-
longs OF national bank stocks.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-11-17
THE PRESS.
WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER IL.

Senior CASTELAR, says. Cuba should be
given as large degree Of autonomy as
Canada, but that the independence or
sale Of the islandais impossible. The
memoirs of George III might be read
with profit blythe Spanish statesmen.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-11-17

Anyone who suffers from that terrible
plague, itching Piles, will appreciate the
immediate relief and permanent ours
that comes through the use of Doan'e
Ointment. 1t never fails.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-11-17

oiliation cannot save it, it cannot be
saved, for force has been tried and COM
pletely failed.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-11-17
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

Stuart and Bamboo. A Novel by Sarah
P. Mclean Greene, author of vesty of
the Basins, Cape Cod Folks. Vesty of
the Basins is in its way unique and q
treasure. Provided you do little editing,
with here and there an omission, some
times of a chapter, and then read the
story aloud as it should be read. with a
full and appreoiative rendering of its dia-
lect-it is great. 1t has humor and pa
thos and rare fun for a dozen books.
More than that it is not lacking in mag
netic power of appeal that suddenly stirs
the heart where apparently only lighter
matters were concerned. tVesty" is a
book to love--in spots. Stuart and BAN
boo, the latest volume from Mrs
Greene's gifted pen, is not SO good story
by any means, though it has some strong
points. The author has taken "a new
taok'' as Captain Kobbe would say and
deals here with other material than her
won't; sociology; life in the slu1ns; Irish
character sketching, with high breeding
and reduced circumstances in the hero
ines case Nevertheless Captain Herk-
inner is the type we have had before. In
Stuart and Bamboo the title is forced and
fanciful, and some episodes are overdone
I-Plantagenet, for example. Evidently
Mrs Greene is dealing with the race
question as to color, sect and condition,
| looking towards practical recognition
| by all men of the fact that they are
| brothers.
One quality this author has-that of
condensed expression. She conveys almost
painfully graphic effects in afew words
startlingly distinct and appropriate.
Mrs. Mclean talent is go genuine and
marked that she ought to make her next
story far better than this 1t should be
as wise and as strong and as droll as Yes
| ty, with more of unity and truer art.
10 such progress we look forward.
| New York and London: Harper &
Brothers.; Portland: Loring, Short &
Harmon. Price $1.25.) ~
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-11-17

It was the storekeeper at little Iowa town who
related that the first he ever heard of Rpans Tabues
was from runner for Burlington house, who gave him
a few 81 had been telling him that had been pro-
nounced victim of dyspepsia for several years. when he
took from his pocket small VIAL saying Here is what
you want Well from that it about that began
to use Ripans labules 1t may be that would have
got well anyway, but Of this | am certain have not
been troubles = ~ with dyspepsia during the last year..
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-11-17
STEPHEN R. SMALL. President
MARSHALL R COOLING. Cashier
je4dtf
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 !. 1894 and due
June /, 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. G. BRADFORD, Treasurer.
octlMW&Ftdec1
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-11-17

= AS the session of Congress draws near
evidence accumuiates that there is little
disposition on the part of the leaders to
take up the question of currency and
banking reform, for the reason simply
that it is generally recognized that moth
ing can be accomplished in that direction
and that the time spent in discussing the
subject would be wasted. Even outside
of Congress, and among men who are in
pursuit of the same general result there
is wide difference of opinion i'll regard to
methods and processes. But until bust
ness men and bankers come to a substan-
tial agreement as to what should be done
it will be useless to expect the differences
among members of Congress to disap-
pear. The existing defects in our cur
rency system are not vital, and if they
continue for some time to come the
country will not suffer on account Of
them. 1t would seem wise therefore not
| to undertake to remove them until there
| is affair more general agreement than ex7
| lists today in regard to the way to do 1T.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-11-17

The Personal Equation. BY Harry
Thurston Peck. This volume belongs to
the Contemporary Essayists series. and
is worthy addition to it's numbers. "The
Critic may refer to Professor Peck S
"circus" work in the Bookman, but those
mental gymnastics of his are by no means
bewildering. AS thinker and writer he
| is clear, at times almost judicially grave,
and at others brilliant If in quiet way
AS to his being CONFERENCE.-The is
| another matter. The larger number of
the papers here bound together, on How
ellis, Marcel Provost, Huysmans, George
Moore, Nordau, President Cleveland; and
on various themes, as Popular Songs,
Children's Literature, America and Eng
land. American Education, and Bible
Criticism, will start discussion and pro-
mote controversy. And this is not bad
thing for essays to do. The Personal
Equation is very interesting. The au-
thor's appreciation of George Moore is
SO realistic as to make one very sure he
does not wish to read his novels, and that
is surely compliment to critics skill.
We inyeigh against Mr. Peck's blend"
as noun. 1t has been seized upon by
mixers of afiavors in cool drinks and
| sweets, and has been spoiled for any but
the confectioner use.
In picture books for the new child, Mr..
Peck says very truly that the paby mind
is not half as troubled by ogres and mon
sters as the elder intelligence; that the
| child merely thinks 'he was bad old
giant and ought to have his head cut off y
and this is com forting, considering the
prevalence of Bluebeards In prose and
verse. New York and London: Harper
81 Brothers; Portland: Loring, Short
& Harmon Price $1.50.) %
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-11-17

John Leighton, Jr. A Novel. By Ka-
trina Trask. author Of Under King Con
stantine Somewhat more of intellectual
force and of artistic construction would
have made of this story notable work of
fiction. There is so much that is striking
and original that the result ought to
have been more satisfactory than it is.
But the book is very readable. 1t
touches fashionable society pioturesquely
with picture salons, and murmuring
runs at five o'clock teas, and pretty
gowns at the opera. 1t gives a really
| splendid bit of philosophy or practical
reasoning on labor and capital in four or
five pages. 1t carries to the close win
ming love affair, and does the reader the
honor of leaving the hero and heroine of
the story true to principle and righteous
ness. This announcement has not previ-
ously prevented rather sensuous MARIA
ton of events. The Presbyterian rigor
| of some years ago is shown in all its ap-
| pallingly in human logic, and the doctrine
| of an imitation of Christ shines forth,
with its excellent suggestion as to read
| ing the life of Jesus with no prejudices
and with an opsn nina ana dlsorlmlna-
ting Judgment New York and Lon
don, Harper 81 Brothers; Portland: Lor-
ing, Short & Harmon. Price $1.25.)
Lawrence Clavering, by A. e. W. Ma
son, author of The Courtship of Morrice
RuoSler, is q romance of the Jacobites,
that period above others fascinating to
1overs of storied history when Boiling
broke fed to France and entered the ser.
vice Of the Pretender The quaint tone
of the time, with its stately touch of dig.
nifty is finely observed, and the love
affairs of Mr.. Lawrence Clavering and
Dorothy Curmen, in furred waistcoal
and hood lined with rose colored tatfety, u
are refreshingly pretty, with Dorothy 4
feminine perversity and her lovers OBJ
fuse vision.
The story is wholesome, entertaining
and thoroug hly well written and we give
it q hearty commendation. New York
Dodd Mead s. Company; Portland
Loring, Short & HARMONY
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-09-07
NEWPORT NEWS.
BicycIe-Riders Stirred Up-Celebrn-
ton of LabOr-Day.


NEWPORT NEWS. VA. September g.
(Special.)-The report that an ordinance
will be introduced at the meet
ing of the Common Council to-
morrow night TO prohibit wheel
men from riding on any Of the side
walks Of the city has caused quite stir
in local bicycle circles. 1t Is said the
reason for passing the ordinance Is TO
appease citizens who claim that their
children are often run down and injured
by reckless riders.
The EMPLOYEES of the shlp-yard ce'e-
hrated Iabor-Day at Buckroe Beach.
Not In a long time were more extensive
preparations made for the holiday, and
hundreds OF people spent the day and
greater part of the night at the seaside,
participating in the various amusements-
The chesapeake and Ohio railway has
contracted with Z. j. Todd & Co., OF
baltimore. for the rebuilding Of the tug
boat Wanderer, which was partially de-
stroyed by fire here on the 9th OF last
April.
1t is expected that Mr.. Calls p. Hunt
ington, who has just returned from Lon
don. will visit this city within the next
few weeks. Mr.. Huntington has large
interests here. and considerable signifi-
canoe is attached TO his visits. 1t Is wei
known that he is furthering a project TO
establish an ordnance and armor-plate
plant here. and it Is believed that he has
interested Lord Armstrong. the great gun
manufacturer Of England. IN his scheme,
but lust when 1t will materialize Is not
known. The proposed plant Will give en-
ployment to about 10000 mon, ana VIII
cover a large acreage OF land.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-09-07
THE ELIGIBLE LIST AT LAST.
II Was Received and Posted yester-
day, but No Action Yet Tnkcn.

.
The long-expected eligible list" was
received at the office Of ColIector-of-In-
ternal-Revenue Colonel Brady yesterday.
and was posted by Mr.. John Enders. Jr.,
secretary Of the Civil-Service Examining
Board, in the corridor. with the follow
ing excerpt from the rules and reguia-
tons OF the service:
when there Is a vacancy to be filled
the Board OF Examiners certifies TO the
nominating or appointing officer from the
proper eligible register the names of the
three persons graded highest Of the six
called for. and from the three a selec-
ton must be made IT is not required
that the highest name be selected Only
three certificates OF a name are allowed.
The date OF registration is the date on
which name is entered on the eligible
register The period Of eligibility is one
year from that date
The list contains the following names
OF those who passed successfully the ex-
animation of March last: w. A. Cham
bers. Richmond: A. NJ Tyler. Richmond
Il. f. Bigelow, Roanoke; George Stevens.
Jr., Richmond .. G. Flippin. Cumber-
land; A. r. Wright. Richmond: +. H..
Larkins, Portsmouth; j. f.. Merrlwether,
Richmond.
Colonel Brady was spending the holiday
at his home, I'm Petersburg. and could
not be seen, but il Is n fOregone conclu-
sion that he Will not disregard the Est in
the future whatever action he may take
to sustain himself thus far In the most
remarkable proceedings.
The list does not contain the name of a
single appoiptee of Colonel Brady's.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-09-07
A HORRIBLE DEATH.
A Cumberland Farmer Killed by a
Norfolk and Western Train.

FARMViLLE, VA. September 6-(Spe-
cial)-Mr. George Huddleston, of Cumber-
land county, lost his life at this place
this morning in a most frightful manner.
He was driving into town on top of a
load of wood, and as he was crossing the
Norfolk and Western railroad track inn
mediately in front Of the station. a freight
engine struck the wagon between the
wheels with tremendous force. Mr.. Hud-
dlestol, wagon, and wood were hurled up
against the smokestack and, falling back
wards Mr.. Hudleston was caught under
the cylinder trucks and driving wheels.
The mule hitched to the wagon broke the
traces and escaped with slight injury.
Mr.. Huddleston's remains were dragged
for more than 800 yards beneath the en-
CINE and cars. being torn into fragments.
For a short time considerable excitement
over the awful affair prevailed, as 1t was
said by all eye-witnesses that the engi-
neer was running his train at twice the
speed prescribed by the towns ordinance.
AS soon as practicable the remains were
taken from beneath the car-wheels and
alongside the track,
Mr. Huddleston was about 60 years OF
age, and leaves q wife and ten children
one boy and nine girls. He was well
known and liked by everybody for hi.
polite demeanor and most excellent habits.
He had been hauling wood TO Farmville
from his humble home, not far distant
for more than quarter Of a century,
and thereby made himself familiar per-
sonage to every household In the town.
jury of inquest was empanelled by
Coroner r. NJ. Bidgood and 1880 O'clock
this evening set for hearing the testimony
In order to allow counsel for the railroad,
Judge William IL. Mann. of Nottoway,
to reach here. Commemorative Attorney
Watkins represented the State, and seve-
raj hours were consumed in taking the
evidence of those who witnessed the
tragedy The testimony in the main was
to the effect that the train was running
at from twelve to twenty miles an hour
when the wagon was struck. This Is in
violation OF the town ordinance, which
prescribes that all trains shall slow down
to six miles passing the Main-street cross
ing No signal of warning was given. and
several cars standing on side-track
totally INSTRUCTED from view the train
to one coming up TO the crossing.
At late hour tonight the jury brought
in a verdict which simply stated that
George Huddleston came to his death by
being struck by train on the Norfolk
and Western railroad.