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The Portland daily press., 1897-08-13
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The Portland daily press., 1897-08-13

According to the Eclair settlement
has been arrived at between the French
and Siamese governments in regard 70
the recent incident on the Mekong river.
twill be remembered that the Siamese
made incursions into territory that had
been coded to Franco and took a number
of native prisoners. An understanding
was reached by which the incident was
disposed of to the satisfaction of France
and the solution is all the more satisfac-
tory because it has been arrived at on
the eve of the King of Slams visit to
France.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-13

1t is pretty good time now for Mr..
Bryan to go to Mexico to study the silver
question, and If he will only study it i'm
partially we have no doubt he will come
back with some new ideas on the subject.
But a year ago he protested to know all
about the silver question. Indeed his DO
sition and that of many of his followers,
was that study of it rather tended to mis-.
lead. He apparently is beginning to
think otherwise now.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-13
CURRENT COMMENT.
GAMBLERS AT FAIRS,
(Wateryille MailA

The various fairs held throughout Maine
during the fall season are supposed to be
conducted in the interests of the farmers
of the state. If this were not the case
the state would hardly go to the expense
of giving money to help pay the bills, yet
to be lost sight of by their managers. AT
the big fairs, the county fairs and the
town fairs, it is getting to be very com
mon thing to find on the grounds a gang
of gamblers plying their game in defiance
of law. but with the tact, approval and
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-13

Section 20 of the Dingley Tariff law
provides as follows:
Sec. 49, That a discriminating duty of
ten per centum ad valorem, in addition
to the duties imposed by law, shall be
levied, collected and paid on all goods,
wares or merchandise which shall be i'm
ported in vessels not of the United States,
or which being the production or manu-
facture of any foreign country not con.
tiguous to the United States, shall come
into the United States from such contig-
uous country; but this discriminating
duty shall not apply to goods, wares or
merchandise which shall be imported in
vessels not Of the United States, entitled
at the time of such importation by treaty
or convention to be entered in the ports
of the United Sattes on payment of the
same duties as shall be then payable on
goods, wares and merchandise imported
in vessels of the United States, nor to
such foreign products or manufactures
as shall be imported from such contigu-
GUS countries in the usual course OF
strictly retail trade.
The Attorney General has decided that
this section applies to foreign goods
brought through Canada by rail or in any
other way into the United States. The
effect of the decision will be severely felt
by the Canadian Pacific and the Grand
Trunk, both of which have been accus-
toned to transport many foreign goods
laid down at Montreal or Vancouver into
the United States. Of course it will help
the American Trunk lines. There is still
pending for settlement the question
whether this section also applies to goods
transported through Canada to thelUnited
States under consular seal. If it should
be decided affirmatively it's results might
be pretty serious to New England.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-13

The price of wheat has nearly doubled
in the past few months in Vienna on ac-
count of the apprehensions of q short
crop. The Hungarian government is try
ing to allay the alarm by assuring the
public that the crop prospects are not SO
bad as they were believed to be. But,
according to the Journal of Commerce,
its own figures show that there will be
very little surplus for expectation. There
is great doubt of Indias having any con
siderable surplus for export. and the Lon-
don Economist counts on no export at all
from India. Rye is likely to be rather
short in Europe also, and if this should
prove to be the case our corn. as cheap
substitute for wheat, ought to be in in
creased demand on tho Continent.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-13

The Virginia Democrats are as enthu-
siastic as ever for Bryan and free silver,
and at their State convention on Wednes-
day every allusion to the Boy Orator of the
Platte or the Chicago platform was heart
lily applauded. There is a marked con-
trast between their outspoken deliver
German administered to the Maryland
Democracy. Nobody can doubt where the
Virginia Democracy are, or what they
believe in. 1t is altogether better for the
country that it should be SO. When the
issue is distinctly drawn between the sill
yer dollar worth 40 cents, and the gold
dollar there is little danger of the people
making any mistake.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-13
The stars seem to be with HANNA in hi

The stars seem to be with Hanna in his
fight in Ohio. His opponents are doing
just what political Napoleon would
have advised them not to do, if they
wished success. Separation of forces with
view to subsist is sometimes justifable,
seldom, however, on the eve of battle.
Why SO distinguished strategist as
Coxey overlooked SO elemental fact is
yet to be explained.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-13

Abu Hamed and his crowd of bowling
dervishes have obviously been brought to
realizing sense of the efficacy of modern
methods of warfare and intelligent lead
ership. Oftentimes the quickest way to
secure peace is to fight for it, fact
which Great Britain seldom forgets in
dealing with her recalcitrant subjects.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-13

The scheme which transferred Mr..
Sherman from his seat in the Senate to
the office of Secretary of State, and placed
Mr.. Hanna in the former position could
never have been conceived in the interest
OF Mr.. Sherman. Nor could it have been
conceived in the interest of the country.
Mr.. Hanna was the sole beneficiary.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-13

The large number of rapid firing guns
which the revolutionists in the Phillip
pines are obtaining seems hardly consis-
tent with that state Of quiet and peace
which Spain would have an incredulous
world believe is now the status of her col
ony. 1t looks very much as if the fight
was still on
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-13

Assistant Secretary of Treasury Howell
has decided that the hides of American
cattle which have been slaughtered
abroad are dutiable when the hides are
brought back to the United States, the
same as hides of foreign cattle-that is,
at the rate of fifteen per cent. ad valorem
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-13

enter as competitor in the markets of
the world. The first shipment made
across the water, to be soon followed, if
reports be true, by others, is indeed note
worthy and attests the wisdom of our
industry in the struggling periods of its
existence.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-13
THE PRESS.
FRIDAY, AUGUST rs.

The nomination of Coxey by the Popu-
lists of Ohio is one eminently fit to be
made. Coxey represents them better
than any one else can. But what can be
said of party who is best represented
by this peripatetic crank?
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-13

The tin plate industry of this country
which occupied SO large a share of politi-
cal discussion not many years since, has
been steadily growing and, passing be-
yond its infantile s1ege. is now about to
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-13

An cold Virginian' writes thought
full letter to the New York Post on the
subject of lynching in the South, in
which he takes issue with many Of the
prevalent notions of its causes. The idea
that assaults upon women by negroes at
the South are frequent, and that this IS
one cause of the lynching, he says is a
fallacy. II have seen, he says, "a list
that was kept of the negro ]ynchings OF
recent year. and in half of them assault
on woman was not alleged; on one oc-
casioD several negroes were slain in Ten
nessee for burning barn; there were
nearly hundred cases where female hon.
or was not involved at all. ;" He says
what is now known as lynching has
sprung up entirely since the civil war.
g Before the civil war even indignant vir-
tue and sentiment in the South managed
to stop short of numbering negro worth
so many dollars" He thinks mob murders
are not any relic of slavery, for the for
mer shareholders and their children are
generally friendly to the negroes. II is
theory is that most of these lynchings are
the result of the hatred of the negro by
the so called "poor white trash; He
says:
"There was of old feud between the
negroes and those whom they used to
call sspoor white trash Jeffersonian
Democracy was always consistent with
the real, though underlined, exis tence of
an upper and a lower class of whites in
the South. The most democratic of the
gentry" were more particular about the
white than about the black playmates of
their children. have always believed
that most of those whom the negroes
called "poor white trash" were descended
from the labOrers imported into the colo
MES (some of them convicts, others under
contracts of serfdCln for term of years..
They were gradually supplanted by ne
groes, and, unable to compete with I'M
paid labor, squatted where they could
and lived as they could. They We're pro-
life, and some of them rather nomadic.
They were skillful huntsmen and marks
men, and the COnfederacy was their great
opportunity. That is, as a class, for in
dividuals among them were employed as
overseers on large estates, and a consider
able number had acquired fair position
by their activity in Methodist and Bap-
fist work. | have personally known and
esteemed a good many of these people,
but recognized among them a certain i'll
feeling towards the negroes which may
have survived in them since the war.
Before that there were too great interests
guarding the human chattel to admit of
such murders as are now witnessed, but
that kind of protection having ceased, it
seems probable that the competition be-
tween white and colored labor has become
intensified by the hereditary vendetta,
which on the negro side may be (if it
lingers) a matter of sentiment; but on
the side of the ignorant white is deadly.
The Portland daily press., 1897-08-13
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The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-01-30
Avoid Such Ornaments.

C. V. BOYS, of the Royal College OF
Science, London, speaks OF the danger
attending the combination OF gun
cotton and campher when made into
buttons. He says: l have received
a letter from the West OF England
describing "a most extraordinary adj
venture of lady who was standing
near a bright but not blazing lire"
She found herself suddenly enveloped
in smoke, and gentleman who
rescued her and crushed the igDited
portion Of her dress had his hand
badly burned. The fire was found to
have originated from spot where
large fancy button had been, but
which had now disappeared, while a
similar button on the dress was
scorched. The following rough and
ready tests of one Of the buttons
which was inclosed in the letter are
sufficient to show the danger OF this
style of ornament:
A gas fame was directed against
one side of an iron ring, the head OF
q common wax match containing
phosphorus was placed on the ring
about two inches from the flame, and
piece of the button was similarly
placed at an equal distance on the
other side. A second piece of the
button was also placed on the ring,
but at twice the distance from the
flame. A small piece of paper was
laid lightly over each. After five
minutes the first piece OF the button
ignited and burned with bright
flame; after twelve minutes the
second piece did the same; whlie,
after seventeen minutes. the match
head was still unchanged. On test
ing it with a light it immcdiatel>
burst into flame. Another piece O
the button was pinned to the surface
Of an old buster which was huns
from a chair in front Of ordinary
bright fire, but outside the fende
and at a distance at which the skirt
OF dress might any day be found
In two or three minutes there was
cloud of smoke and hole was burnet
in the duster.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-01-30

No study or smoking room OF any count
inc houFe was more comfortably fur
nished than this private office. A pho
OF letters unanswered lay upon the
great table beside the blotting pad;
shallow basket contained the letters
which he had written or signed; there
were bundles of papers ted UP ana IN
dorset. On either eide of the fireplace
was ling, low chair; on small taoic
I'm the window stood the luncheon tray.
the chief had taken his chop and PINT 0.
clares. aad was now sitting in one OF
tLose low chairs, his feet stretched out
before him in complete physical case.
In Che rooms without no knew thai his
managers. heads OF departments, ana
cleras were all diligently at WORK 1of
Him. 1t makes man comfortable Only
10 thiuk thet people ore at work Tor MIN.
Most OF US, when we arc not ourselves
nj worx have got the feeling OF unproiit-
eb,e service. Not so Mr. John STOKE,
of Thre sdneedle street, city. He knew
that his ne eple were working Tor him 10
what is called pretty tune: AS no
rolled his cigar between his lips That
tuna melod oaeiy lung In his ears. me
same tune rings out every day ior all
the great city merchants. 1t was first
set as a carlton by Dick Wilmington In
The tower OF st. Michaels, Paternoster
Roysl, for the solace end dedication OF
all rich merchants for all time. and 10
turn away their thoughts from the para
bio OF Div,s. The words OK the tuno
can only be heard by rich men, hut
have be, n ted that they are someih ms
a, follows: Merchant. tcke thine
ease while The tresslre grows, wise
10 he who rea. wat another
eows. lolieys there Is more
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-01-30

face. II am sure I can help you. There
is that little girl you have been Iooiing
around for six months.
What about herr"
Il know all about her. She's a girl
in an Oxford street fancy shop; her sis
ter is employed at a Regent street dress
makers. They are respectable girls,
which makes it the more dangerous.
I've given my-my word to that girl,
said Harry, but with an apprehensive
glance at his masterful father.
Il don't care what you have given her.
You've got to get rid of her.
Il must keep my word" The son got
I'D and stood before his father with dog
ged face
When two obstinate faces gaze upon
each other, one or the other has got 10
give in; everybody knows that.
II said, Harry, that you've got to get
rid of her. AS for your word, or any
other mess you may have got into, you
must get out OF it the best way you can.
l suppose money will do it.
If must marry her; l will marry her!
| But there was weakening in his face
as his fathers look Lecame more OBJ
! stinata.
We'll. sir" said the older, Il am not
going at my time TO give in TO anybody.
My moneys my own, 1 suppose, to do
what I like with. Now, sir, here IS my
offer-a partnership. great future, an
estate, a peerage, the foundation OF q
family-that is what offer you, on GER
tain conditions. If you refuse you can
go straight cut of this office and never
come back again. You shall have nc
mcney-not brass cent. There's your
choice; tako it. I'll give you an hour tc
make up your mind-no, | WON'T II
give YOU haitian hour-no, won't give
YOU even q quarter Of an hour. Damn
it all, sir, I'll give you five minutes
Ave minutes to choose. Now
He took out his watch, cne OF those
great gold things which You can buy fol
a hundred and twenty pounds or there
abouts, and held it in his hand. Harr!
stood before him, the obstinacy gone
clean out of his face, pale aud trem'
bling.
We'll, sir?" His father put back nj
watch. =, =,
4 accept the conditions, said tn
son.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-01-30

nv own way, OF course I shall have my
own way. / should like TO see anybody in
this house wanting to have any way that
wasn't mine. You will have to marry to
please me. Do that, and you shall have
whatever you like-you shall be part
ner to begin with; you shall have no
work to do; you shall have fashion, land,
and rank"
Harry made no reply. His color had
now gone back to palIor, and his hand
trembled.
Those are my condition" said his
father. Have you anything to say"
His son opened his mouth but no SOUND
came forth.
Perhaps I can hclp you, Harry. his
father threw his head back and watched
the blue white wreath curing over his
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-01-30
CHAPTER Nv.

Sunday afternoon Is the time when all
the prentice youth Of London, male and
female. are walking out together. IL 1t
is summer they are III the park, that or
Ba!tersea, Finchley, Hampstead, We
toria. West Ham, or Southwark. proudly
arm-in-arm. II 1t is the winter they are
on their way "out to tea. This alter
noon should have been numbered with
those OF the sweet spring season, be-
cause it was nearly the end OF April,
but l, cod northeast wind and occasional
driving showers forbade the thought OF
su.ing. On the north side of the Pail
Mall girl walked ~ and down The
pavement.
She had called ct a certain house.
and, being turned away, continued as II
waiting for some one, and resolved TO
sec that person, TO walk up and down
before the house She began about
three in the afternoon; at four, at i've,
! of six, she was still walking there. No
| body noticed her-not even the hall
porters Of the Carlton and the Reform
| Clubs opposite. The evening was 80
cold that people hurried along the street
without looking at each other. Besides,
Pail Mail is not a crowded Sunday thor
| ouahfare. Therefore no one noticed the
girl. She was fair, fght-haired girl
her features were regular and delicate
her ewes were blue, her figure rather
thin, but tall and graceful. II anyone
had stopped to look at her instead o.
hurryiu9 along as il laf he'd with whir
bv this abominable wind, he would have
remarked first-generally that here was
an extremely pretty girl, and secondly
that here was girl in trouble. Indeed
IL anxiety werc ever depicted upon any
face. it was upon this girls face; al
anxiety which showed itself in trem
bling OF the lips, in quick, short sigh:
as she walked. in eager glances along
the street as If she were asking when
when would he come?
IT was at seven o'clock, just as the SUI
was setting and the lessening light lik
t n messenger proclaimed the fact from
its hidden lord, that he did come. I'll,
j hurried into Pail Mall from st. Jane
! street, and walked rapidly along, look
ing down: a young man.
: Il accent ne had replied shortly
Mark that this man, who seemed to tn
| girl SO noble and so brave, had becom
S suddenly at the touch OF his father
" hand the merest cur and coward OF
n man: he had promised thing whic
e wanted, 10 carry it through, the falses'
u the coolest, the cruelest of hearts. Fea
:, of poverty and dread of his father
:. anger were the ruling forces whic
: Transformed q lover, manly, true an
: tender. into cur. The thing make
8 one tremble. Under what influences
q brother Of mine, should we two put 0
1t the armor OF the knight and reveal tn
i craven tail of the moagrel cura
|. Yet this man, who ives going to do
e mean and villainoas thing at b
l. fathers bidding, had 60 much OF h
" fathers courage in him that he wa
d ready to tell the girl in 50 MANY words
"A face TO face with her alone. what b
d meant.
q Come, no ssil, Il was soins 30 wit
n 70 you; ct there would have teen q re
'. afterward. Better haveitout in words
q sHarry-s,ast is III What has. lal
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-01-30

pened? Why do you look 60 strange
Come W stairs" he led the way.
His chambers were on the first foor.
He raked up the loT ashes OF d IRE
ard threw on some coal.
sit down, he said "you must be cold.
She waited for him to take her In his
arms and Kiss her, as was his won't. lie
offered no caress at all. She sat down,
however, and warmed her hands ana
feet. She was very cold. Then she
started up again.
Something has happened, Harry.
What is it? Tell me Instantly.
1t was growing dark now. The young
man lit the lamp and pulled the curtains
slowly, as il taking as much time as
possible over the JOB.
1T is fortnight since / have heard OF
Won CT seen you. What does 1t mean'
And, Harry, must tell you
Don't tell me anything. Look here,
Ruth, it's all over"
"All over? How can it be all over:"
Il say-it is all over.
DO YOU mean that after all you viii
have to acknowledge me without your
| fathers permission
Not quite; 1 mean what / say, Ruth
1t is all over"
Harry" She sprang to her feet
tired no longe, nor cold, but fired witt
sudden strength. Harry, what az
you mean?"
We had very pleasant time in IN!
August holidays, hadn't we, Ruth! :.
shall always look back to that time II
the old town when we used to sit ant
make love in the garden under the mul
berry tree. Yes-I shall never haV'
such time again. But that's all over
Pity that good times never last
Il don't understand you to-day
Harry. Why can't you look me In tn
face? What have you done:"
When 1 came back to town | fount
out that it wouldn't do. l couldn'
exactly explain 10 you why !
wouldn't do. Besides, 10 tell the truth
l hoped it wouldn't do. l might laF
been made partner without condition
or-or anything may happen. III
truth is, Of course, as | suppose 20
guess" he raised his eyes and faced he
boldly, that they want me to marry
lady"
RlShe received this brutality withou
flinching.
TO DE Continued