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owls In Chicago.

Chicago has a novel trade in owls,
the supply coming to the commission
merchants from the farmers boys in
the nearby states.
The first owl which came to Chicago
in this manner was sent as a venture by
a farmer boy, who had somehow man.
aged to entrap it alive. 1t proved SO I'M
expectedly successful in Kidding the
warehouse of rats and mice-having
been freed at night with the idea of
making an experiment in this direction
that it was purchased by the man in
whose care it was resting. The freedom
from rodents which it brought induced
other commission men to look out for
owls and from the commission firms
the idea gradually spread to the grocers
butchers and market keepers generally
of the city. Now large percentage Of
these men keep an owl down in the cell
lar during the daylight and bring it up
to the store when darkness falls. 1t is
said that the expense and care of main
tanning owls are more than repaid by
their services in vanquishing the rats
and mice. The owners and janitors Of
the large apartment houses in the city
are also beginning to realize the value
of possessing an owl when rats, mice,
cockroaches and vermin generally are to
be exterminated Chicago Times-Her-
aid
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ESTABLISHED 1879.

tne enlisted man for moment or two
and then burst out by jingoi 1t was
no hallucination after all Didn't you
tell me you lived in this state?'
Yes, sir. But you didn't ask me
where I was born I'm from North Car
DINA, and they say l look very much
like my grandfather, General Good
lowe
But Nelly didn't hint to her father
that she knew anything Of his civil war
romance until a week later, when the
regiment was on the eve of its departure
for the front.
Then she said, taking his arm affec-
tionately: dad, I'm glad you married
my mamma I'm glad you didn marry
General Goodlowe's daughter .
Tut, tut, child What are you talk
ing about?'
Well, you know, all that cribbage
and all might have ended in that way I"
She was laughing, as the lieutenant colo
mel thought, very impertinentIy. Then
she went on: II mean it would-it's
better that Lee Shepherd isn't my
brother mean to say if he were
should have both father and brother
leaving me to go and fight those Span
iards. That would be quite too much. "
But the fact that Lee Shepherd was
not her brother did not seem to alleviate
Nelly's sadness in the least degree when
the regiment started for the front next
morning.
The end of the story, in fact, cannot
be told until the present war ends and
Company F gets home.-Ewen Mac
pherson in New York World.
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The puNKERs' LOVE FEAST.
Feet Washing, the Great Supper and the
Kiss of Peace.

Feet Washing, the Great supper and the
Kiss of Peace.
1.-THE most important and the most
beautiful custom of the Dunkers Is their
love feast, which they celebrate in COM
memoration of the Lord 8 supper, after
the manner of the primitive Chris
tians," writes Clifford Howard in de-
scribing the customs of the Dunkers Of
Ephrata, Lancaster county, Pa, in The
Ladies' Home Journal
1.-The celebration is held at nightfall
and begins with the rite of feet wash
ing, in imitation of the act performed
by the Master at the last supper, when
he washed the feet of his disciples.
Small tubs of lukewarm water are
brought in, and those about to receive
the ordinance remove their shoes and
stockings. The brothers then in turn,
each one girding himself with towel,
wash and dry one another's feet, the
sisters at the same time doing likewise
among themselves in their part of the
room.
AFTER this follows the supper, the
feast of love, which is spread on long
tables and consists of lamb soup and
bread and other simple viands. 1t is
eaten in devout solemnity and rever-
ence At the close of the meal the broth
ers turn to one another and extend the
right hand of fellowship and the kiss of
peace, each one shaking hands with his
neighbor and kissing him, while the
sisters at their tables perform the same
beautiful rite among themselves. The
communion is then administered. "
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IN LEAGUE WITH MAGIC.
Some Heathens Who Did Good Missionary
Work at a Pump.


Work at Pump.
Lobengula, the late king of the Mata-
belle of South Africa, was afraid of Rev.
E. Carnegie, an English missionary at
Hope Fountain, several miles from Blu
lawayo. The Matabele warriors, on the
other hand, looked with suspicion on
the missionary and all his works, but
they knew better than to modest the
friend of their king.
Time after time in passing the mis-
sion house they noticed force pump at
work, supplying water for the family
and for irrigating the garden. Not I'M
derstanding what it was for, their I'M
tutored minds concluded it was some
sort of magic. 1t was "intagati, 4" or
bewitched, and they watched to see
how it was managed that they might
turn the white mans magic against
himself
One moonlight night party of picked
warriors repaired to the bank of the
stream where the pump was. On try
ing it they were jubilant to find that
two men at either handle could do the
trick Turn and turn about they kept
the pump going for two hours, deter
mined that the missionary should have
all the magic he wanted and balance
in hand.
Then, exhausted, they went home
ward. ignorant of the fact that they
had filled the missionary s tank to over
flowing His good wife hoped that a
similar supply of magic might be
furnished every week. - New York
Mail and Express.
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I'LL FATED.

This came to pass: The sky grew dark,
A wondrous wind swept DER the sea,
And rude waves smote laboring bark
And roared like fiends in revelry,
Then loud above the creaking spars,
The furious hell of storms discord,
A cry rang out that sought the stars
The frenzied cry, Man overboardl"
The beatling seas bore hard behind,
Their sAmmits capped with glistening
foam,
And screaming furies in the wind
Forbade the ship in tstays'' to come,
And bobbing there within the deep,
The rushing waters in his ears,
The man essayed to climb the steep,
The vast and yielding hemispheres.
And there he swan alone with death.
Beneath, the water sobbing slips.
How fercely drawn his quick ming breath
Between his bloodless lipsl
And, 10, like one who views the past,
Sweet vistas soon to be forsook,
He turned his head and for last
Heartbroken, lingering look.
.
A sun kissed stretch of yellow sand,
A dimpling waste of sunlit sea,
That lately roared when wizards wand
Disturbed the summer harmony.
A ravaged form there, dark and still,
Unmoved, unknown, forsook, forgot,
Yet once it braved the tempest's will,
Creature of circumstance-or what
Fishing Gazette.
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THEY WERE WE'D.

Pretty Miss Polly declared she'd not wed.
She'd rather. yes, rather, far rather, be dead.
'TweIe better to lie in the cold, cold grave
Than be some horrid mans humble slave
For what is a wife but slave?' she said,
"a slave when once she is wed'
Handsome young Harry, too, said he'd not
wed,
For wife must be petted and pampered and
fed.
'Twere better to live your life all alone,
That your nose may escape the proverbial
grindstone,
'For husband is naught but a slavel' he
said
"A slave when once he is wed"
AS might be expected this perverse young
pair
Fell in love at first sight and did straightway
declare,
'Twere better, far better, they twain should
be one
Than lonely to sigh and true happiness shun,
"For love is slave, yes, slavei' so they
said,
Forever a slave, i" and they wed.
Anne Fl Woodruff in Chicago Times Her
AID
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JAPANESE MUSIC. ss
There's Art In 1t That Cannot Be Ana
lyzed by OccidentaIs.

There's Art In 1t That Cannot Be Ana
lyzed by Occidentals.
To one who never heard it it is impos-
sible to give definite idea of japanese
music, and to one who hears it for the
first time it must either repel or strange
~ attract, for its fantastic intervals and
fractional tones demand totally new
sense of musical appreciation and call
into being a new set of musical sensa-
tions. 1t is as if hitherto closed door
between sense and spirit had been sud-
denly thrown open. One feels that if
reincarnation be true, one might through
this door alone remember and recon-
struct those vanished existences Only
in the tones of their own unguisu,
bird which has but three notes, have l
heard anything so occult.
Japanese music is like Japanese art,
which, with its unperceived spirit,
sense and symbolism, its strange method
of brush handling, might seem merely
grotesque at first, but which gradually
reveals to the initiated eye mysteries
within mysteries of artistic form and
perception, until presently one finds
oneself encompassed by a new art
world, where technic is subordinated
to feeling and whose finest effects are
obtained through the art of omission.
AS, for instance, in the greatest paint
ings of Fujiyama, the sacred mountain
itself Is discovered to be the bare,
white, implanted silk, as if color and
line could be but the boundaries and
0uter confines Of pure isolated idea. So
in Japanese music, its methods are not
ours, its olimaxes come in crashes of ST.
lence, in sustained and soundless pause,
the notes subordinated to silent some
thing, an inner sense, which, while re-
straining or even depressing sound, is
the very ecstasy of musical sensation.
In vain we attempted to analyze this
subtle effect, to reduce it to the terms
of our musical consciousness. 1t defed
and eluded us as spirit must always defy
and elude sense, and we perforce con-
tented ourselves with following the
strange, rounded, isolated notes. sus-
tanning ourselves breathlessly on it's
wonderful pauses and yielding to the
irregular cadenced charm of the singer,
whose face, at first so uncomfortable,
seemed to grow of shining effulgence
as she thus interpreted to us an I'M
known world. Washington Star.
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Japan, it seems, intends sending to
the Paris exhibition huge house, hex
agonal in shape and composed entirely
Of porcelain. 1t measures several yards
in circumference, and its weight will
not be less than 70 tons. From the ar
tistic point of view. according to the
several models already finished, it will
be exquisite. It is estimated that the
cost of making it will be about So, 600,
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VOL. XIX. NO. 81.
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.
The Standard Railroad of Ame,iea. Pro-
teeted throughout BY Block Signals
and Interl0cking SzOifcheS.
IN EFFECT JUNE 20, 1898.

Trains LEAVE Mount Holly as JoELoios:
For Philadelphia, $50. 6.OO 6.5l, ITO. 74s 7.4s,
$50. 9.l5. ll.H A. M, 1888, 25, 235 456' 5.1s,
ON sundays SOP A. M. Il. O5. 6 IS, 7.34, $50 p M
For Pemberton, 702 9.25, 10 SO A. NJ, LA. 200,
4.lS, 4.40. 5.43, SIG, 729, M.
On Sundays, .I6, TO- rs A. M, Ic5 Pm
For fsordenIown, trenton and New York. $780,
749 9.ls, ll05. A. NJ, $780, 800, $40, AL, 5.5S
on sundays, 925 A. M, 2O5 6.qOPM.
For East Burlington, $50, 7.25, 7.49. s.22, $780,
9.ls l0.l5, ll.O5 A. M, 1870, (l.l5 Saturdays
only, 300, $40, AT, $40, $685. 6.2e, 7.26. s45
On sundays z25, $50, a25 A. M, 90, 2.O5, $50
S.l5. BAL 4.lO, 800, 5S5. $40. 7.O5, 7.55 $50.
For Lewistown, Columbus, Ktnkora. etc,
On Sundays, 7.05 P. M.
For LumDerton, Medford, Marion ana Had
donheld. 9.35 A. M.
For wincentown, 1926. l6 P. M.
For Toms River, 9.25, 95l A. M, 200, 4.40, SAB
Pm.
ON Sundays s.l6 AM
For Tuckerton, Beach Haven and Barnegat
City, 95l A. M, 4.40P.M.
For Aspury Park and Long Branch. 9.5l, A. M,
2.09. 40PM.
For Long Branch, Sundays, SIG AN.
Trains LEAVE for Mount Holly as JottOa0s:
From Philadelphia. $780, 6.s5, $50, $40. 1890.
l120 1870, A. M, 80 $40, 400, 430, 800, $40
$40. $780, 800, 1890 ll.45 P. NJ
From New York via Trenton and Burlington,
500. $780, HOO A. M, LOO. 2.l0. 400, 500. 800.
ON Sundays. 1000 A. NJ, 7oOPM
From Trenton. 6.45. TAO. 9.25, ILL A. M, 2.5S,
Ala, $40. 100, 955 p. M.
On Sundays. $40. Il.5O. A. NJ, 4.05, 9.0S, Pm.
From East Burlington 100, 1853, S.26, S.4S, q.
1908, l045. l5i A. M, LOS, COS Saturdays
only. $3.50, 4l0, SIC 5.5S $50, 100. 7.50, $50,
1920 p. M.
on Sundays, 1855, 800, 1890. A. M. 1890. 2.35.
305 345 4.30, 4.55. $780, $40, 100, 7.30. 800, 1855.
l0.00P. M.
From Toms River. 6.5s, 1853 A. M. l2.s5, s.4b,
64lP.M
From AsDury Park, $40, ll.2s A. M, 2.ls. 5.l5
Pm.
From Medford, ll.55 Am.
From Long Branch, 6.2s. LOS A. M. Los. 800
P. Sundays 500.
HOO A. NJ, 1897, 10, 40, $40 P. M.
On sundays, 7.2S A. M, COOP. NJ.
From Pemberton tsouth) 7.33 A. M, ABA P. M.
On Sundays, TIA P. M.
From vincenIown. $50 A. NJ. LEM.
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Medford. Marlton and PbiIadeIubia.

Medford, Marlton and Philadelphia.
Leave Medford for Philadelphia at $50. 1912
A.. 2l3 5.24, Pm.
On Sundays, 6. l5 A. M, $40 Pm.
Leave Marion for Philadelphia at ga, 1925
A. M, 2.35, 5.35, Pm.
On Sundays 6.28 A. M, 5.22P.
Leave Philadelphia, Market Street, for Med
ford and Marion at 655, 1880, A. M, $50, $50.
P. m.
On Sundays, 100 A. M, $40 P. M.
Leave Marion tor MedfOrd, 8O7, 1l3S A. M,
Alb $40, Pm.
On Sundays, 9.52, A. M. I3l Pm.
For further particulars apply to the ticket
agent at the station.
j. b. HUTCHINSON j. r. WOOD,
General Manager. Gen. Pass. Agent.
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on transportation company.
Tuckerton Railroad.

Leave Mount Holly tor Tuckerton 9.5l A.
40 P. M, daily except Sunday, and on Sat-
urday at 200.
l.. ave Tuckerton tor Mount Holly, 7.0S A. M,
3.U3 p. M daily except Sunday.
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After Scarlet Fever
Great Weakness Overcome by
Hoods SarsapariiIa
Headaches and Dizziness Cured -
a Mothers Statement.

Headaches and Dizziness Cured
A Mothers Statement.
"My three little boys had scarlet fever
which left them very weak. gave them
Hoods Sarsaparilla and it built them up
SO that in short time no one would ever
know they had been sick. l became very
much run down and was troubled SO
much with headache and dizziness that
would often be obliged to lie down. My
limbs would get numb and feared paraly-
sis. thought as Hoods Sarsaparilla had
helped the children SO much it might
help me. l began taking it and soon the
headache and dizziness disappeared, /
gained in flesh, and began to feel like
another person. AS for Hoods Pills, we
are never without them" MRS G. II.
SHAW, Prospect Plains, New Jersey.
Hoods Sa psriiia
Is the One True Blood Purifier All druggists. 81;
six for So. G. l. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.
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In many part of France the coffin Of
peasant woman is borne to the grave
upon the shoulders of women. ia
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cried the girl, hope, longing, anguish,
expressed in her voice.
A loud groan answered in the dis
lance. The girl trembled "Help, helpl'
cried the voice of man.
Martha's first impulse was to fly to
the house. but her better nature assert
ed itself A human being was in dis
The Portland daily press., 1898-02-03

be i1nagined-the gnawing anxiety, the
dread of arriving too late, the seeming
slowness of the swiftest express. From
Waterloo she had the presence Of mind
to telegraph to Carew's solicitor. By
the time they reached Newcross Ruth
could scarcely stand Brett, however,
soon found cab for his young mistress,
and few more minutes brought them
to the door of James Hastings Temporal
ry abode.
The moment the cab stopped the door
was opened by a respectable looking
man, not servant, not gentleman, a
quiet heavy person with watchful eyes.
He looked greatly surprised when Ruth,
closely followed by Brett, assembled the
steps and paused because he blocked the
way.
"Mrs. Smithson amt come back
yet. %
"I suppose not" returned Ruth
promptly "That's the reason she has
telegraphed for me-" and she held out
the telegram for his inspection.
'.Eh, oh'' exclaimed the man as if
puzzled. "It's all right then. Come in.
Is this person, nodding toward Brett,
with your"
'He is. NAV require his services. I"
ITO be continued
The Portland daily press., 1898-02-03

The pulp mill has been obliged to prac-
tically suspend operations during the
past two days owing to inability to get
poplar wood into the yards on account Of
the snow.
The concert which was to have been
given last evening at the Westbrook
Congregational church by NJ o. Stewart
Tay lor, assisted by a chorus Of 115 voices,
has been postponed one week, and will be
given Wednesday the 9th at the above
named church, and on the 10th at the
Warren Congregational church.
There were about 200 persons in atten-
dance upon the charity concert held Mon
day evening at the Westbrook, under the
direction of the musicians of Westbrook,
for the benefit of the worthy poor Of the
city.
The no school signal sounded Tuesday
for the several grades Of the city schools.
and yesterday forenoon the signal was
given for the lower grades owing to the
difficult travelling during the morning
hours ts
A horse belonging to Mr.. Alexander
early yesterday afternoon. The horse
was near the Portland & Rochester rail-
road tracks at the time and in his wild
run proceeded down the tracks. The
horse had only run short distance when
he came to a short trestle near the freight
sheds In crossing the trestle one of the
horses legs went through and was
broken. The animal was killed later in
the afternoon to relieve his suffering. |:
The Republican ward oancuses of West
brook are to be held on Wednesday, Feb
ruary 23. The general caucus has been
called for Friday evening, February 25th
in Odd Fellows hail, West End. The
ward caucuses are held to nominate the
aldermen, ward clerks, constable and
school committee. The general caucus
dominates the mayor, clerk and three
aldermen at large.
Judge Tolman Of the Westbrook mum.
cipal court is confined to the house with
o severe cold.
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WESTBROOK.

The Festival concerts are postponed one
week; West End Congregational church
Wednesday, February 9th and Warren
church, Thursday, February 10th.
The passengers who were showed in on
Monday evening of this week, were given
breakfast early Tuesday morning at the
home of one of the residents near where
the car was blocked by the railroad com-
pany. The passengers were then taken
to the P & R. X. station and from there
were transported by the steam railroad.
Conductor Roberts's car, which left
Portland at 1920 Monday evening, reached
the turnout of B. f. Roberts's, and was
detained there until late Tuesday night.
A large crew of men ware at work near
w all night shovelling Tuesday night,
and at about o'olock Conductor Whit
tiers car was the first one to reach Port
land from Cumberland Mills. Later in
tho afternoon the tracks were all cleared
and Conductor Harry Roberts at o'clook
run the first car into Portland, starting
from the car house at Westbrook. The
streets are now in good condition as q
result of the excellent work done by the
large crew of men that have bsen en-
ployed since Tuesday.
The funeral services ofsthe late Collin
Mckenzie, the victim of the railroad &C.
oideut at Cumberland Mills, last Saturday
evening, were held yesterday afternoon
at 2 O'Clock from the Warren Congrega-
+;onal church The services were cop
Quoted by the Rev. G. G. .Phelan, pastor
Of the Methodist church. There were in
attendance large number of the friends
of the deceased to whom he was greatly
endeared. There were in attendance
of Pequawket tribe, 10. RIM,
lodge, 1. o. o. f., and a
delegation from the society of j.. o. L.
The remains were taken on the evening
train by brother-in-law, Mr.. Arthur
Allen, to Alma, Albert county, N. B. for
burial.
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THE JOYCE CASE.
Judge Ro inson GRANTEES Another Con-
tinuance.

1t will be recalled that several weeks
ago the police arrested William Joyce,
boy who had been attending the Center
street grammar school for larceny, and
Judge Robinson sentenced him to the Re-
form school, but the parents claimed that
he was too old to be sent to the school
and the case was continued until.yester-
day in order to have that point settled.
Father Hurley wrote to the town. autho-
rites in. England to get the exact date of
the boys birth.
Yesterday the boy, accompanied by his
sister and his counsel, G. A. True. came
into the court room. The attorney held
lengthy conference with tho court and
said, that no word had as yet been re-
ceived from the authorities. Another
month was asked for in.which to look
up the desired information This request
was granted and bail in the sum of 500
was again furnished for the appearance
of the boy at that time.
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TOURS TO WASHINGTON. sas. do.

On February I, the next OF the present
series of Pennsylvania Railroad Person
ally Conducted Tours to Washington wi IL
leave Boston. With the exception of
supper on the steamer returning, the
rate, $23.00, covers all necessary ex-
penses during the entire time absent, in
Guiding trip to Mount Vernon and Ar
lington; complete review, under per-
sonal escort, of the principal buildings of
Washington and Philadelphia.
Additional tours to Washington will be
run March IA, April and IS, and May
Is. Tours to Washington and Old Point
Comfort will leave Boston, February %,
March %. and April II; rate, $500.
Itineraries of d. N. Bell, Tourist
Agent. POS Washington street, Boston.
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WOMAN'S COUNCIL.

The teachers of Portland schools are
especially invited to attend the lecture of
Miss Arnold, supervisor of Boston s
schools. Those who have previously had
the pleasure of listening to her know how
gifted she is, know how helpful her books
are. Miss Arnold is able to formulate
and present ideas to stimulate and in
terest the general public as well as the
teacher. She will speak on Saturday
afternoon in st. Lawrence chapel at three
O'Clock; in the evening at 8 at the Advent
church, on ''the Duties of Mothers to the
Public Schools A cordial invitation Is
extended to all.
The Portland daily press., 1898-02-03
MAINE CENTRAL BRAKEMAN IN.
JURED.

George E. Beak, a brakeman employed
or the Maine Central, was quite badly
injured at Thompson's Point at 5. 80
yesterday morning. He was engaged in
coupling a snow pillow to an engine. The
engine had no COW catcher, and the
young man WAS crushed against the
blow. He was taken Immediately to the
city and conveyed to the hospital in
Rich's ambulance. 1t has not been pos
sible vet to determine just what his in
juries are, but it is supposed that the
pelvis was fractured and it may be that
he was hurt in other ways.
The injuries are, however, not likely to
prove fatal Beak's home is in BARTLETT
N. 81. He is "a years old and unmarried.
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BROOKLYN, N. Y. Dec. 10. 1856

I'IUUhIy II, NJ l., DtC, u, 1910.
Messrs. Ely Bros II have used Ely's Cream
Balm a number of years and find it works like
charm 1t has cured me Of the most obstinate
case OF cold in the head in less than 4S hours
from the time l felt the cold coming on. 1 would
not be without it. Respectfully yours,
2S3 Hart st. Fred'k Fries
Cream Balm is kept by all druggists. Full
size SOC. Trial size 1Oc. We mail it. ELY
BROS, So Warren ST., N. Y. City.
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COLD IN NEW YORK.

New York, February 2.-This is the
coolest cay Of the season. New York
escaped he blizzard by narrow margin,
but the extreme cold prevailed. The
temperature last night fell % degrees, the
thermometer showit five above this
morning. East and North rivers are full
of ice and try boats ara delayed.