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The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-07-16

1000 pint tin cups &c
Full sized tumblers .........,....,.. &C
Glass salts and peppers, ,......... 75c
Jelly tumblers, tin top ........ .II-2c
Carlsbad China cups and saucers, fan
cy shape and decorations only I7c
worth 25c
Carlsbad fancy China plates, special
low prices. ...................Ii TIC
Fancy Fruit knives ...............s5c
25 Envelopes, good quality ~. ....3c
"a sheets paper !. sc
"a sheets shelf paper. ................3 &c
Asbestos stove mats. ... ........ &c
Vegetable brushes. s.................3 sc
Glass Butter Dishes 80. .......... sc
Glass Spoon Holders. s...............S sc
Glass Sugar Bowls ..............,..S sc
Glass Cream Pitchers, s,............S
See the box paper we are selling at Ioc
Others ask ISc and 2Sc
Pears Soap. .,......,............ .oc
Cuticura Soap. .....,..... ........ I7c
Congo Cocoa. !, ,............... 2 for sc
Towel Rings.
Extension Brass Rods :,,....,..7c
Look at the bargains on our 1Oc table.
.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-21

The New Orleans Picayune denomin-
ates Saturday, Oct. 9. as "a red letter
day in the history of that port in view
Of. the large shipments of grain there on
that day. The total amount was 6S4, 1884
bushels. including 391, 700 bushels of corn,
272, 584 of wheat and 10000 bushels of
oats. The grain was cleared in eight
steamships for various European ports,
and is pronounced ''the largest outward
movement Of grain, for single day, on
record at New Orleans or any other
Gulf port. In addition the vessels sailing
from New Orleans on the same day car
ried %, 431 bales Of cotton, besides large
quantities of different varieties of timber,
lumber, -four, etc.-and all this despite
the tendency to paralyze business, which
is liable to attend the yellow fever
scourge.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-21

There is asreport that the Pope has ap-
proved a settlement of the Manitoba
school question. A Winnipeg special to
a Toronto journal shadows forth the be-
lief that the text of the finding of the
Vatican on Mgr. Delrals report on the
school question has been received, and
that its general tenor is favorable to the
settlement Of the question arrived at be-
tween the federal and provincial govern
ments. The finding starts out with the
statement so it is rumored, that "where
interests differ, but do not clash, the
Church desires that there should be har-
mony." This is taken in Dominion cir
Giles to mean that 10th the State and the
Church have an interest in education,
the one secularl ands the other. religious,
and that where both can attain their
object without sacrifice of cardinal princi.
pies there should be no conflict between
the two. It is thought this expression
means that Catholics may accept the
Manitoba public school law as it now
stands.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-21
faculties were shattered and remained SO
until his death. Reason remained but
sight and memory had departed.

The musical festival which closed last
night has been a splendid artistic success,
and when the accounts are balanced we
have little doubt that it will appear that
1t has been a financial success also. No
entertainment, within our recol leo ton,
has drawn the crowds that this one has,
or aroused the interest and enthusiasm of
the people to such degree. 1t is quite
true that when the idea of this festival
was preached the people did not embrace
1t with that eagerness and abandon that
the originators of the enterprise hoped,
but that was simply because they are an
Intelligent people, cool headed and dis
terminating. The approval of such a
people is not so readily given as that OF a
moro emotional class, but when it is OBJ
tanned 1t has the staying spower which
tells. 1t has told in this case. We hear
good deal about Portland's "slowness, !"
and 1t Is made the basis of much rather
wltless wit In various parts of the state,
but no worthy enterprise, no matter what
It's character, ever lacked support or en-
Uhusiastic support in this city. Any claim
to the contrary is the offspring either of
Ignorance or petty jealousy or spite. We
feel confident that we voice the sentiment
OF all the people Of this city when we say
that Prof. Chapman has more than full
Tiled expectation, that while his promise
was great his performance has been
greater.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-21

&EALED PROPOSALS for furnishing all ma
- terial and labor necessary for completing
the mason work foAa High School Building on
Stevens Plains Avenue, Deering. Maine, will be
received at the effice OF Frederick A. Tompson,
Architect, until Saturday, October twenty-third
1897, at twelve O'Clock M, when they will be
pubiically opened apd read.
Each proposal mist 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
deem it for the interest OF the city 10 do SO.
Public Buildings, care of Frederick A. Tompson
Architect, 1912 Exchange street, Portland
Maine.
FREEMAN GOWEN,
Chairman of Building Committee
oct18 div
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-21

Had the Merrimac got out Of Hampton
Roads she might have laid all the Atlantic
seaboard cities under tribute. There
weresno defences existing at that time
which could have kept such vesse,
out of any one of the Atlantic
ports. This was recognized at the time
and the news that she had crushed two oil
our largest frigates as If they were egg
shells caused CONSERVATION all along the
Atlantic coast Few knew of the exis
tence of the Monitor and her sudden ap
pesrance to combat the armored giant
which had stolen out from a confederate
port so secretly and wrought such havoc
was as much a surprise, though of 6
much more welcome kind, than that of the
appearance of the Merrimac. Her com.
mander was John Worden, who after
wards became an admiral, and whose
death has just been reported. Tt wa.
largely due to his skill and GOODNESS that
the Merrimac was beaten back. He wor
the gratitude and admiration of hi,
countrymen, but it was at a fearful
cost for the terrible conclusion of the en-
counter ruined his health and eventuall,
made him wreck both in body ant
mind. He lay unconscious for thre,
months after the engagement and wher
he aweke to consciousness his menta
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-21

So many political reformers have stolen
the livery of reform simply to
serve their own selfish purposes In
that it is not strange that
the public has gradually come to
regard all of them with certain amount
of suspicion and distrust, and to hesitate
to follow their lead evsn when it be-
lieves in the reforms they profess to have
at heart. Over and over again the public
has given them their confidence only to
have 1T betrayed later on and to find out
that they were only using reform as a
club to compel the recognition they
wanted and had failed to get, by some
one OF the regular party organizations.
Nevertheless, though the ranks of the
so called reformers abound with hypo-
critics. there are earnest and honest men
among them whose real purpose Is the
same as their professed purpose. Men of
that stamp are entitled to and should
win the respect of their fellow citizens
1he genuine political reformer Is of great
value to the community. He is doubtless
frequently visionary, advances a lot of
ideas that cannot be reduced to practice,
unjustly asperses the motives of party
leaders and judges them too harshly, but
among his many impraotioable recon-
mendations there are certain to be some
that are practicable and useful, among
his criticisms of party leaders there are
likely to be some that are just and de-
served and the effect of which will be
wholesome. Parties are necessary doubt
less for the conduct of free government,
yet the existence of body of men whose
party ties set SO lightly upon them that
they are ready to throw them off when
| they think more Or better can be accom-
plished by independent action
is almost as essential. The hippo
critical reformer who is a reformer
simply because he has failed to get the
recognition in some one of the existing
parties which he has thought he deserved
merits all the sneers which are bestowed
upon him, but the genuine reformer, the
man who is sincerely seeking the public
good, though he be somewhat visionary
and impracticable, is entitled to respect
and encouragement There is room for
him as we'll as for the thick and thin
partisan.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-21
IN TUBAL GAINS MEMORY.
The Statue That Pennsylvania Iron
makers Propose.

After lying in his grave for at least
$500 years with no other recognition of
the merits of his Work than the occasional
and inaccurate mention of his name in
tradition and song. the first metal
worker of the world, Tubal Cain, is to be
honored with gigantic statue near the
center of the American region in which
the industry which he established is now
conducted. f The idea of erecting statue
to the sturdy and enterprising old Asiatic
aborigine originated on an interesting
occasion. The pan American representa-
tives wholwere making a tour of the
United States last June had arrived at
Pittsburg and were enjoying the hospital
ity of that city's Chamber of Commerce
whens William r. Thompson was invited
to make speech. Mr.. Thompson was
willing to do SO and many things that
he said were applauded, and one para
graph of the speech was of lasting effect.
1t WAS as follows:
Gentlemen, you have been in the
workshops of the gods-in the Plutonic
regions-for the past two days. You have
faced the east, and seen the apotheosis OF
Tubal Cain, the lightnings Of electricity,
the flashing of furnace fires, and heard
the thunders of mighty FORCES. You
have seen the philosophers stone,' which
alchemists of old dreamed would convert
all base metals into gold. You have
seen the magic wand of genius that trane-
forms coal iron lime sand glass smoke
by-products, into mills, factories, palatial
residences, Ii Libraries, Conservatives and
museums Of art
That was poetic, and like all true poets
Mr.. Thompson was forceful as we'll as
truthful. The idea of finding an apotheo-
sis of the original metal worker in the
shops where architectural iron and steam
ship plates and gun forgings-especially
gun forgings-were turned out in thous-
a t, OF tons every year, that was the
slumbering capability OF all into
thought. 1t appealed especially to the
masters in metal working who heard it.
Just what the process of their thoughts
was is not recorded, but one may suppose
that it occurred to them that New York
had its statue erected to Liberty. They
may have thought of other statues and
an idoa-of the great monument built OF
fertilizer rock that stands in the Battery
Park at Charleston, for instance At
any rate they were not content that the
apotheosis of Tubal Cain should rest SOLE
~ in the ceaseless fires and the endless
roar Of the furnaces and FORCES Of Penn
sylvania. For only poets eye could see
it there, land it was desired that every
one coming to the city should catch a
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-21
DEERING STAR COURSE
5-ENTERTAlNMENTS- %

Second season under auspices of the Ladies'
Circle of the Woodfords Congregational
Church. Opening Concert. November4, Henry
Dolan. wonderful boy soprano; Edna Chamber
lain, eleven year old recitationist; Beethoven
Mandolin and Guitar Club. Lecture by Rev.
DR.. Lyman Abott; Lecture by Prof. Henry
L. Chapman; illustrated Lecture, Pictur-
esque Maine. by E. G. SWEET; Concert by
Americas greatest basso, Myron w. Whit
ney, assisted by Agnes NJ. Stafford and
other taleut
Price of tickets for the course, $780, 100 reser-
we'd seats at so 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. Wyman's. ootl6d1w
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-21
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slowed.

The stock of precious metals in the
United States on July 1, as estimated by
the Director of the Mint in his annual re-
port just submitted, was in round num-
bers thirteen hundred and thirty.one mil.
lions of dollars. Of this six hundred and
ninety-six millions is gold and six hun
dred and thirty four millions silver. Oul
own minis during the twelve month
struck more than twenty -one millions o.
silver dollars from bullion purchased I'm
der the Sherman law. So after all tn,
"dollar of our daddies'' is still with us.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-21

OF the late Gen. Frances. Walker, Sena-
tor Hoar in his very scholarly and dis
eliminating memorial grafton said "There
was not a trait" in his intellectual or
moral character, There was not an action
of his life, there was not an emotion of
his soul that was not intensely Ameri-
can" A handsome tribute worthily be-
slowed
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-21
PORTLAND WIDOWS WOOD SOCIETY

y,uF ANNUAL MEETING of the Portland
widows Wood Society for the choice OF
ofecars Tor the ensuing year and the transac-
ton Of such other business as may legally come
c cfhUiG BIndng Wednesday evening. October
SltS d, 1897 at $50 O'Clock.
A''ii' a. r. C. BRADFORD, Secretary.
Portland, Me-, Oct.9 1897. oct11dtd
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-21
sALTHENE SKIN SOAp',D!,,,. Hen Hen

man Chemist says: IT haze had occa-
sion to examine the general quality of
toilet soaps and am fully of the opinion
that Althene Skin Soap has alavays main
tanned an unsurpassed excellence for puri-
ty and freedom from Irritating qualities. +"
Superb For Infants. "a
For sale by all druggists and Il. q. Hay &
on. Middle street. %
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-21
THE PRESS.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21,

The Sons of the Revolution and the
Sons of the'sAmerican Revolution appear
to be getting ready to flock together.
There is no good reason why they should
not. They are offshoots from the same
big family tree.
The San Francisco call., 1897-11-21
KINGSTON
DWELLINGS
INUNDATED
Waters Encroach Upon
the Ceur d'Alene
Town.
BUT ONE RESIDENCE
INHABI1E ED.
People Compelled to VaCate
Their Homes and Flee
in Haste.
RAILROADS DAMAGED BY
THE FLOOD.
Miles of Track Washed Out and
Bridges Carried From Their
Foundations.
People Compelled to Vacate
Their Homes and Flee
in Haste.
RAILROADS DAMAGED BY
THE FLOOD.
Miles Of Track Washed Out and
Bridges Carried From Their
Foundations.
Special Dispatch to THE CALL

WALLACE, IDAHO, Nov. 20. - Never
have the Novem Der floods in the Ceur
q 'Alenes been more disastrous than
those of this year. Railroads have been
washed out and people driven from their
homes. The water has come from the
North Fork this time. the South Fork
not being dangerously high.
The trouble commenced at Kingston.
Only one house was inhabited there this
morning. the other people having moved
to the hills. For weeks everybody there
has been busy trying to get logs all out of
The boom. but many were left TO go down
the var when it broke last night.
This morning the wafer was four feet
deep in the street. The narrow-gauge
railroad in the fat beyond was washed off
the grade, and section men had staked it
down TO save it from going down the
river.
The section foreman had been down be.
low Cataldo early in the morning and re-
ported the Oregon Railway and Naviga-
tion track there standing on the end of
the ties. The narrow-gauge bridge be-
immense jams of logs from KINGSTON. also
uTILWOOu, WutCn tuIcdttu6u 10 carry tuc
bridge out.
Nothing is known regarding the old
mission. but the situation there must be
critical, as the location is on low ground.
Persons crossing the river at Kingston
reported another serious break in the o.
r. ana n. track at Enaville, four miles
from there TO Catado. The railroad follows
the river closely. former floods breaking it
in places, so it is very likely broken more
or less. A construction crew is now at
Cata.do. but progress will be slow until the
river fails.
Atnoon the water was an inch lower at
Kingston, but It will fall slowly until
morning, the cold wave having struck the
country only yesterday evening. 1t will
take from thirty to iorty hours for the
water TO run from the mountains to slack
water. Snow on the nigh mountains was
five feet deep when the warm rains com.
menced, over six inches OF water falling
a t Murray during the week.
All things consid cred IT VIII be lucky if
a train reaches here before Tuesday.
From Missoula the Nortnern Pacific has
had no trains since Thursday evening, but
hopes for one before morning. The
trouble vas slide near The Deborgla
Mountain. The wires were down, so no
help could be got until noon TODAY
The San Francisco call., 1897-11-21

tains all the elements calculated to i'm
passion the French mind. There is first
and foremost the uncomforta bic feeling
that after all Dreyfus may not be guilty,
apart from the fact that such men as
Scheuren Kestner and Gabriel Monod
have convinced themselves OF the inno-
cence of that prisoner on the desolate
island off the South American coast so
inaptly named the Island of Saliva ton.
1t has now developed that Command mt
Forzinetti, governor Of the military prison
where Dreyius was confined previous to
the trial, was so certain of the erroneous
finding OF the court shat he did not hesi-
tate to shake Dreyfus by the hand, even
after his condemnation. Comm2ndant
Forznetti further has publlcly proclaimed
his BELIEF, imparting his convictions
among others to Henri Rochefort, who
published the story in his newspaper.
AS result Commandant ForZineiti has
been superseded in his function not as
the military authorities explained for
believing Dreyfus guiltless, but FOR telling
journalist so. A similar indiscretion
caused another officer, Commandant Pauf-
I'm de Saint Morel. on the staff of General
Boisde effec, TO be punished with thirty
days arrest.
These are only two incidents in the
drama which is prolific with new situa-
tions. There is a sensational phase every
day, 10 go no further back than the start
ling denunciation of Comte Walsin E ter
hazY by Matthew Dreyfus, youngest
brother of the condemned spy. This was
followed by Count E'terhazv's allegation
that Colonel Picquart had Joined in the
conspiracy to ruin him by fabrication of
spurious documents. When it was learned
that Colonel Picquart had been sent in
disgrace to DO on the Algerian from
tier, owing TO some disc very made by his
superiors in connection with the Dreyfus
case some time ago, the public felt. in
theatrical parlance, that the plot thick
eued. Even in he new complications
which arc pending the inquiry begun
by General de PellIeux. the public has
already enough and to spare.
In connection with the statement that
the German Government is ready TO de-
clare that it never had any dealings with
Dreytus, the Figaro publishes this morn
ing the following tory of the genesis of
NJ. Scheuren-Keslner's clossier: ut ap-
pears that two inhabitants of NJ ulhausen
who had doubts about Dreyfus' uilt,
wrote 10 Prince HohepIohe to ask if the
German Emperor could not, as man,
and not as an emperor. give evidence in
the matter. Prince Hohenloae's reply
ca me few days afterward. 1t was to the
effect that the Grand Chancellor did not
hesitate 10 say that since the opening OF
the affair the German G GJvernment had
made known officially to tie French Gov
ernment that it had never had direct or
indirect dealings with Dreyfus, but since
then the case had been ndju iged in con-
formity with French laws and under these
conditions the German Government could
not interfere in any way in the matter"
The San Francisco call., 1897-11-21
0Nl0.YS HfN 1HE WAR.
Failure of an Attempt of Topeka
Teacher to Expe/ Pupils With
Bad Breaths.

CHICAGO. Nov. 20.-A Topeka (Kansl
special says: Topeka's onion war Is over
and the onion won. The trouble began
when Elinira Mccoy. teacher in the
Clay-street school, sent three onion-eat-
ing pupils home to have their breaths
toned down, and announced that here
after no onion breaths would be per-
mitted in the schoolroom.
Protest. were entered, but Miss Mccoy
was upheld by the principal. Mr.. McC in
took. and for two days the anti-onion edict
stood. Then The pupils took a hand.
Wnen school was called this morpir q
Miss Mc' 'oy's room smeled like an onion
patch. She callei uD one suspect, COLI
victed him by smelling his breath and
sent him home. Still the obnoxious
aroma hung heavy in the room, and
another suspect was called up and dis
m issed.
Then followed another and another
until but half the class was left. At that
juncture Miss Mccoy saw 10 what her
edict was leading and it was declared off.
Later inquiry developed the fact that all
the pupils in the room except two had
eaten onions ana had signed a pledge to
Keep 1t up until the teacher should
weaken.
The San Francisco call., 1897-11-21
HALY AND BRAZIL.
Friction Has Become Serious and
Sharp hotes Are Exchanged BY
the DIPLOMATS
Copyright, 1897. by James Gordon Benner


BUNEOS AYRES, Nov. 20-Count An.
tonelli, Italian Minister to Argentina.
has received orders to go to Rio Janeiro
as envoy extraordinary to Brazil to set
tie difficulties which have arisen out of
recen. outrages on Italians in Spiritu
Santo. He will sail on the steam ship
Sirio early next week. In the meantime
the italian warship Umbria, now at
Buenos Ayres. has received orders to
proceed at once to Spiritu Santo 10 pre-
vent further anti-Italian demonstrations
there.
/ am advised by the Herald's cor.
respondent in Rio Janerio that friction
with Italy has become serious. The Gov.
ernment has sent note to the Italian
Legation saying that Italians who suffered
damage are at liberty 20 bring suit against
the Government or that the legation NAV
do so. The note reminds the Italian
representative of the great mum ber of
Italians who figure in The criminal sta tis-
tics of Brazil. In reply to this the iega-
ton has sent a note asserting that the
aggressors in the Spirtu Santo trou bles
were political agitators, VIII attacked the
Italians because they declined to pied ge
their support in the movement against
the Government.