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The Portland daily press., 1898-10-06

The purely vegetable ingredients that give
True,s Pin Worm Elixir its wonderful
power of expelling worms, make 1t also the
best medicine known for curing all diseases
of the mucous membrane of the stomach and
bowels-one Of the most frequent causes of
illness in children and adults. An unrivalled
tonic and regulator of the bowels and storn-
ach. True's Eiixir has been household
remedy for 46 years. 1t acts at once upon
the blood, expelling impurities and giving
health and new life to the whole system.
Price Sic. Ask your Druggist for it.
DR.. j. r. TRUE g. CO., Auburn, Me.
Write for Book-Free.
The Portland daily press., 1898-10-06
KohIing j: Clothes.
Most every dressy
man i'm Portland

Knows my Merchant Tailoring. Not
every one has been advised of the stock
of elegant Autumn and Winter Cloths
that have come to me from the best For
eign and Domestic Manufacturers.
The Portland daily press., 1898-10-06

1 would suggest that my customers
give their orders as early in the season
as possible, thus ensuring promptness
in making and delivering.
The Portland daily press., 1898-10-06

OvERCOATINGs which combine
warmth with lightness and fexibility,
in all the latest colorings.
BUSINESS SUITINGS. New and
choice effects, unlike any of other
years.
DRESS SUITS. My stock of extra
fine fabrics for dress suits is without a
competitor in Portland.
TROUSERBNGS. The most COM
plete collection of cloths for trousers
that have ever shown.
The Portland daily press., 1898-10-06

Grccers sell it FELLs & CO.. Pmia
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in this ancient old hall, = cried the modern
young HAM, dedicated by n thousand
c-onsecrations to liberty and Justice, l call
upon the witnessing world to bear testi-
mony;" and the pink pin feathers trem-
bled in the tornado of applause. As a
caller of the world to witness HAM is
equal to n Populist convention.
"This is the hour" Numbered HAM, toss
ing his pink tendrils to the ceiling, "when
we, who are truly Democrats, hold up
our glorious party to the admiration of
the world" Meanwhile some members of
that glorious party were helping PETr1eREw
to hold up the annexation of Hawaii.
"This is the day" roared the u~ndaunted
foe of gilded satraps, blowing out his
cheeks until q wave of pink light swept
owe the hall, when, before angels and
men, we call upon the earth to bear wit
ness that in every hour Of our country's
peril it has been O true Democracy which
has rescued and saved her."
What a moment and what q pictured
There stood HAM, his eyes gazing e~cstati-
cally upward, his pinks streaming up
ward, already in the attitude of wings.
We hope it is not irreverent to say that
the angels must have been very much
surprised.
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STAMP TAX PROBLEMS.
Checks on Money Deposited Abroad Tarnh
as Bills of Exchange.

Checks on Money Deposited Abroad TaTnbl.
ne Bills of Exchange.
Foreign banking houses which deal IN hin.
OF exchange were much interested yesternsV
when they learned that tho National CITY RAM
was giving checks upon its funds in London
and aflXing upon these checks only a 2.cent
revenue stamp instead Of the amount called for
by the War Revenue law upon bills q, OF.
change. Bills Of exchange are taxed under tina
law 4 cents per 800 or fraction thereof, whilo
checks. nc matter what the amount, are taxed
but 2 cents each. The foreign bankers hav.
agreed. however. in the opinion that checka
drawn upon funds abroad were in reality de.
mand bills OF exchange and that 1t would be an
evasion OF the law not to stamp them as such.
They were surprised to learn that the National
City Bank held a contrary opinion. and a mum.
Der Of the dealers in foreign exchange at onca
addressed telegraphic messages Of inquiry ia
COMMISSIONS Scott at Washington asking for
a ruling. The result Of the inquiries was tho
following despatch from Commissioner Scott to
Collector Treat:
Orders drawn in the United States payable
In foreign countries. though in the form Of
checks. are subject to a tax OF 4 cents on each
500, or fraction thereof. under the fifth para
The paragraph referred to is that setting forth
the tax on bills Of exchange. Officers OF the
SdLlOnul ClLy BANK, Wnen seen, said that tha
action of the bank had been In conformity with
the opinion Of the banks attorney, They would
view Of Commissioner SCOTS ruling. II was
reported In Wall street yesterday afternoon
that q final ruling may be sought in the courts
on a test case.
Collector Treat says that retail druggists do
not seem TO be making any efforts to get tar
stamps. Il intend to have deputy collectors sea
every one OF them shortly" he said yesterday.
" and instruct them as to the law. as we are not
at all DESTROYS of having needless and innocent
persons punished for their remissness." Com
missioner Scott made a ruling yesterday, In re-
gard to the tax on wines in cases where they ara
bottled and held for aging purposes. h says
stamps must be affixed at the time Of bottling.
The express companies made big demands for
stamps yesterday, and In most cases. they wero
able to get as. many as they asked for, The
Long Island Express Company got 100000 Of
the / cent ones and the American 200, 900.
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Henry Coohrane's Brother.

To THE EDITOR OF THE sUS-Sir: As 1 was reading
your extra of this afternoon ] saw an article about a
member of the Seyenty.irst Regiment standing
alone without any loving friends to bid him goodby.
Well. rs long as you seemed to be Impressed by
such 4 thing, perhaps you would like to know his
name and where lie comes from.
His name is John Cochraue of Cambridge, Mass,
who came here a few days before the regiment went
10 camp. As i am his brother and know him., l can
say that II all the rest of the boys are as brave rs he
is, which 1 am sure they are. from what they have
already done. We may expect great deal more from
them before they come back. When he came here 1
WAS very much surprised. as never dreamed Of
seeing him here. and when l asked him what he
came for, he said that he wanted 10 enlist, and, as
he thought the New York troops would get the first
eau, lie ran away from home and was going to Join
the seventy first, because he had heard they were
lighters"
As he was only 10. l was afraid he would not be-
able To pass, but II looks as though they overlooked
that and gave him a chance. He il in Company +,
and j hope 70 be able TO see him in a short time.
NEW YoBK, July b. HKERV CoGHRARH.
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This Country and the World.

This thing known as National EXpan-
sion" and talked of as something new,
has been, since the beginning of history,
the rule of every progressive nation, in
Guiding most conspicuously the United
States. The peculiarly American motto
addressed to the individual citizen of
Ugrowing up with the country" has never
shut out from the sight of our statesmen
the greater principle that this country
Is to grow VI with the world.
Thu old-fashioncd world, in which some
philosophers imagined us as rising above
oil in prosperity and greatness through
Isolation and strict confinement within
our Atlantic and Pacific coasts, has sunk
out of sight beneath the world of to-day,
with it's telegraph that puts Hong Kong
by the sid of New York, its steamship
that makes coal the arbiter of warfare,
and its impending ACKNOWLEDGMENT, by n
few powerful nations of advanced civili-
cation, of the most colossal empire of his
tory, the Chinese Empire. With this gil
gantic transformation, growing up means
merely that we must equip ourselves with
the means of protecting our vast interests
after the manner Of our rivals in compe-
tition, or, after the manner of China, be
subordinated and eclipsed.
The God of Battles, now upholding so
Eloriously, magnificently, the American
Gag, happens to be an American states
man of transcendent genius. At a supreme
crisis of the worlds development he
has put into our hands a stronghold
in the East han which our most be-
seeching prayers to Fortune could
have asked nothing better. The public
men who have stood in the way Of the
Administrations policy in respect to Ha-
wall and the Philippines have been trying
to block the progress of the United States
and put us at the mercy of our enemies as
surely as if they had treacherously struck
down the American rifles ut Santiago and
left our glorious troops bare and helpless
before the fire of the Spaniards.
Let Observation-Disclosures and obstruc-
tionists stand aside! The United States
must grow up with the world.
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Since Major-Gen. JAMES H.. WILSON is now

Since Major-Gen. JAMES H. WILSON is now
on his way from Chickamauga with a force des-
tined for Santiago. 1t is proper to say that OF h
surviving commanders who served in the civil
war he was, at that time, the most conspicuous,
and he Is the only General now serving who
at any time held an independent COM
mand. Gen. MILES holds his present rank Of
commanding General by seniority. and, I'M
Questionably. by his ability as a soldier and Gen.
MERRITT is a soldier OF equal talent. well as
signed to the important task OF the Philippines;
but the only man Of their class at the time Of
the great war now in service is WILSON. who
ranked them both. Ifthe latter is now put under
SKATER, or anybody short OF MILES. it will be
a noticeable case Of the whirligig of times ac-
cidents.
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Trying to Send Tom Benton to War.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUS-Sir: In view Of tho
criticism Of President Mckinley for his appointments
to the army since the outbreak of the war 1t may DO
interesting to note what was done in a similar emer-
gency during the Administration of President Polk.
l quote from the first volume of Blaine's Twenty
Years of Congress-" Vol. l., page -. Writing of the
Mexican war, he says:
THE Administration had obviously endeavored
from the first to create q Democratic hero out of the
war. Authorized to appoint a largo number Of off,
GERS in the increased military force raised directly by
the United States, an unjust discrimination was made
In favor of Democrats. Thus William O. Butler. ].
A. Quitman, and Gideon ]. Pillow were appointed
Major-Generals directly from civil life. Joseph Lane.
James Shields, Franklin Pierce, George Cadwalader,
Caleb Cushing, i. d. Hopping, and Sterling Price
were selected for the high rank Of Brigadicr-Genera
Not one Wing was included, and not one of the Demo-
cratic appointees had seen service in the field or Dos
Bessed the slightest pretension to military education.
. . d" Albert Sydney Johnston could not obtain A
commission from the general Government. In the
war between Mexico and Texas, by which the latter
had secured her independence. Johnston had held
high command, and was perhaps the best equipped
soldier, both by education and service, to be found
in the entire country outside the regular army at the
time Of the Mexican war. Gen. Taylor urged tho
President to give Johnston command of one of the ten
new regiments " " " but his letter was not even
answered. The places were wanted for adherents OF
the Administration.
ieihaps "ost meAcusaDle blunder OF the Ad-
ministration was the attempt to take Thomas II.
Benton from the Senate, where he was honored N
inent, and useful, make him Lieutenant-General, and
send him out TO Mexico to supersede both Scott and
Taylor in command of the army. The bill to enable
this to be done actually passed the House. When
under discussion in that branch, a prominent Demo.
cratic member from Ohio declared, as one reason for
passing the bill. that two of the Generals were OPP
posed politically TO the Democratic party. and "by
their own acts or those of their friends were candi-
dates for the Presidency" The evident basis of this
argument was that tho Mexican war being a Demo.
cratic venture. no Wing had the right to profit by 1t.
The bill wss fortunately stopped in tho Senate.
though that body at the time had a Democratic ma.
jority; The measure WAS killed by one convincing
speech from Mr.. Badger Of North Carolina"
Mr.. Blaine adds that Col. Benton, though OF mn
questioned bravery and deeply read In military
science, had never engaged In battle or seen the face
of an enemy In the war OF 1872 In which no had been
commissioned. L. A. PHILBIs.
ARCHIBALD, Pa, July 8.
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1900 CATTLE o T.
Run on from an Arkansas Ranch and
Shipped tO Various Cities.

LOUISVILLE. Ky. July &C. NJ. Mitchell Of
Mountain Grove, Mo. who owns a big cattle
ranch in Prairie county. Ark, and ]. X. Sim
mons OF Simmons. Mo. are in the city looking
up the theft of 300 cattle. valued at $4,000.
which were stolen from Mr., Mitchell's ranch
and sold In various cities. OF the number. 23l
were sold at the Bourbon Stock Yards in Louis
vile for $2.244.50. the money being paid to G.
W. Miller by Tatum. Emhry 4 Co. Twenty dif.
ferent buyers secured the cattle Of This lot: AS
far as known this is the only batch Of the 1902
sold IN Louisville, The c2mmlss'on was PAID
Nothing was known Of Miller, but his tranA-
action appeared 10 be TeGnlgE Mr.
employed Attorney Turner Wilson, said MI.
Mitchell did not conduct his ranch ip person
and did not know Of the robbery until several
days ago. His entire herd was driven from tha
ranch and shipped to different places. seven
carloads being sent 10 Louisville. The railroad
companies are tracing the other lots, The, de-
~tectiyes in all stock centres have been notified.
and Mr.. Mitchell sill spare no effort to run
down the guilty persona
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The dire distress of Spain for money
with which to carry on her war with this
country has elected from one of her Re-
publican journals the suggestion that an
immense amount of wealth yet remains
TO her to be drawn upon in the shape of
private fortunes, church property and art
treasures. How much could be raised
from the first two of these sources we
have no means of Judging, but the Span
Ash national art treasures are well known,
and their value could be readily esti-
mated in case of necessity. In pictures
alone Spain is exceedingly rich, and pos
sesses numerous masterpieces worth, in
the aggregate, millions of dollars.
In the Royal Picture Gallery. situated on
the Prndo, at Madrid, have been collected
from the other spanish galleries more
than 1000 paintings, the property of the
Crown, all of them good. and many of
them great. The gallery contains 10
works by RAPHAEL, Al by MURILLo, 81 by
VELAsQrEz, % by VAN DYCK, 81 by RuBENs,
- by TITAN, % by PAU VERoSEsE, 10 by
CLAUDE LORRAINE, and dozens and scores
by other, nearly as celebrated, painters.
The Murillos and the Y~eIusquezes, especi-
ally, present the finest and most COM
plete series OF the productions of those
masters, anywhere TO be seen, and, indeed,
they are all of unequallcd merit.
Out OF these 1000 paintings in the
Prado Gallery, there are some 80 for
which it would be impossible TO fix AN adj
equatc price, Holy Families by RAPHAEL
and by MunILro, portraits by vELNsQUrz,
and hgur"S Icy IIrlAS and 10y PAUL NERoN-
hSr are h"%"nl appraiscmcnt in money.
III Is safe, however, 10 say that the whole
1000 IN u lot would be cheap at S2OO,-
o"o'ooo' and would bring that sum if
thcy We're put up at auction.
Let Us hope, however, that the Spanish
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Tho Two Great Naval Fights.

The destruction of CERvERA's fleet at
Santiago has the n great point in com
mon with the destruction Of MoNroJo's at
Manila, that it was thorough, not a Span
ish craft, big or little, escaping. CERvERA's
feet was vastly more valuable than
MoSToJo's, which did not contain a
single armorclad, and in that respect the
loss occasioned to Spain was far greater.
But, on the other hand, DEwEY's squadron
also contained no armorclads; it had
more powerful runs and better protection
than its adversary's, but 80 had the fleet
that destroyed CERvERAs.
Both performance were fawless, and
in that respect are equally sources of ma
tional pride but we are bound to say that
DEwEY's seems to US the more brilliant of
the two. There was an element of audac-
ity in that which did not enter into
the other. Had the task of SIMPSONS
squadron been to run into Santiago harbor
by night, past the guns of Moro Castle
and La Socapa, as DEWEY ran the gauntlet
of Cavite and Corregidor Island, and then
grapple with the enemy in his own strong
hold, the case would have been otherwise.
But that task was not required. The
naval Dbllle utllNtEtu AZ DuIllldBO was
the one that the enemy offered us, whereas
at Manila we took the initiative. The
promptness and skill with which ScHLEY
acted, in the temporary absence of SAMPSON,
is worthy of all praise, and every subse-
quent step was most creditable and
glorious to our navy.
Yet DEwEY's thrilling exploit has not
been dimmed at all by this later and
splendid one that engaged on each side
far more powerful ships. There was a
certain double quality in his achievement,
of perfect plan and perfect execution. and
there was II certain risk, too, of unknown
conditions that will always make it, we
think, the more dazzling of the two, ever
although there was no lack of sensational
and dramatic elements in the sortie OF
CEEvERA from Santiago and in the run.
ming fight which ended with the destruc.
ton of his ships.
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CONTENTION OF EDUCATORS.
$4,000 or $4,000 School Teachers Assembling
in NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Council MeetR.

WASHINGTON. July 6.-The annual conven-
ton Of the National Educational Association
will begin tomorrow in this city, and it is es-
timated that about twelve or fifteen thousand
teachers from all parts of the United States
will be in attendance. They began to arrive
yesterday. and since then every train has
brought n number of them. until the streets
are filed with bright and energetic looking
young and old men and women who make it a
point to attend the sessions of the association.
The National Council OF Education began its
sessions to-day in the auditorium of the CO.
lumbar University. with President Charles De
Garmo OF Ithaca. n. Y. in the chair and Miss
Bette A. Dutton Of Cleveland as Secretary.
Supervising Principal Charles S. Clark well
coined the members OF the council. DIR. L. NJ.
Hartwell, Secretary Of the Department of
MNnniciEal, Statistics in Boston, spoke on
of Clark University. Lafayette. Mass. made a
short address on literature pertaining to tho
subject of school hygiene. Other addresses Of
Importance as relating TO the subject, OF school
l.. Sedan Of. st. Louis and DR.. j. ii. Burgie OF
the University Of Pennsylvania; In further
tendent G.. +. Gilbert OF Newark, n. j., and
Robert T. Marble Of New York city spoke on
school furniture, Mr. Gilbert rec3mmepdcd
erected without ample Fairgrounds. and ad-
Viscd that bathrooms be provided.
Prof, Severance Berrag Of Perdue University.
on School Diseases and Medical Inspection"
Tonight the subject for consideration was the
relation OF psychology in its various aspects to
eRa nIcn 10 AdIGeTseT We're mad" by Josiah
Of Education. W. !. Harris. and Prof. Lcghtuer
Whitmer OF the University OF Pennsylvania.
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How Did He Get In?

The American Society in London had it's
usual Fourth of July banquet on Monday
night, and n very brilliant and inspiring
occasion it was by all accounts. In the
cabled reports of it we notice with dis
appreciation that i. L. GOBLIN of the New
York Erening Post was present. What bust
ness had GoDKIN there? We know what
his ~eflrontery is and how it will lead him,
in season and out of season, to risk "a boot
ing. He would go to the banquet, no
doubt, if he could intrude his person and
project his uncomeliness upon the scene
without physical interference, and we
recognize that in some such fashion his
presence must be accounted for. But it is
possible that the Americans in london do
not know GoDKIN. Is it possible that they
think he is an Americana We hardly
think it is. If they invited him it must
have been as n curiosity, just as they
might nave invited CARRANzA or DUBosc,
or SMALLEY. On the whole, we incline to
the belief nat GoDKIN was not invited, and
that he simply went. He is not sensitive.
The policeman who arrested him here
some time ago and whom he attempted to
bride with n So note is convinced that
GoDKIE is not in the least sensitive.
That sort of people will take almost any
risks to get into the company of their
betterS.
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cERTrRA,s FUT1IE Arrr1rrr
How Differently Our Navy Would Have
Acted IL 1t Had Been in His Place.

How Differently Our Navy Would Have
Acted IL It Had Been in His Place.
Opinions Of nm 0Go,r at ne Brooklyn Navy Tard a'
Reported in THE EVENING sUS.
What deductions do naval officers draw
from the experience of Cervera's feet 2"
THE only two things which we can be posi-
tive OF are that there is a great lack OF dis
cipline in the Spanish Navy and n woful ig-
norance Of the use OF modern warship machin-
cry. 1t is certain that had four United States
wNrships and two torpedo-boat destroyers gone
out Of a harbor TO attack the warships OF Spain
or any other nation we would have made some
trouble. With tho exhibitions Of nerve and
courage which have recently been displayed by
our men, it is safe to say that not ono American
warship would have been beached. Firing from
our gun would have been kept up as long as
there was n gun In working order and mmuni-
ton enough to load 1t.
"Wo would never have run away. In run
ming away and sinking his own ships Cervera
not only saved us the trouble Of destroying his
ships. but he lost an abundant opportunity to
had. and TO that extent we presented a greater
target. The more ships of ours In front Of the
harbOr the greater chance Cervera would have
had Of infiictinE damage on us. You would not
have caught Dewey. Sampson, Watson, or
sShley y t running ming a %T iEy merely s GTeiGauf iS t thGTe
But in this case the dispatches do not show
that, we had any more ships at tho scene. OF
battle than the SpaEiards had. The superior
numbers of our fleet, therefore, did not o~fitself
cause Cervera's flight. although the fear that
all our ships might, attack him at once might
have tended to frighten his men,"
What do you think had the most effect in
making the Spanish ships run away ?"
The constant and damaging fire OF the
American gunners. There Is whore our target
practice comes into play, For years the United
States have been devoting more attention to
target practice on shipboard than any other
patton. Many OF, the nations, and especially
Spain. Thought it was sufficient to buy the
did not think that 1t was very necessary that
the men should be constantly trained in han
ding those modern appliances. But we be-
lieyed that IT was just as useless 70 have big
oughly as it would be to have n typewriting
machine without knowing how to manipulate
the keys.
Napoleon used to say that It took three
months TO- make q soldier. but six years to
make a sailor. II that, was true in Napoleon's
time. when sailing ships were in general use.
how much more true Is the comparison to-day.
when such complicated machinery ia used IN
warships The men, should thoroughly under
stand how to manipulate every part OF the ma
ehinery which they are required to handle in O
battle"