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The Portland daily press., 1898-01-11

FOR SALE-A traverse runner pnng, worth
$40. to be sold for S35; also small movable
store office, cost $50, will sell for S12; meat
bench, 2 harnesses, best P beans by the barrel.
S. HOBART, 143 Bracket street. II
The Portland daily press., 1898-01-11

VIVA MEDIC lease furnished hotel within
w twenty miles of Portland. Address C. Ell.
SHORT, No. 60 Free ST., Portland, Me. 1O1
The Portland daily press., 1898-01-11
WANTED.

WANTED-Ge Gentleman to open real estate
w and insurance Office with an experienced
man. chance to learn the business and receive
big income as partner. $500 required for office
furniture, advertising, etc. Address REAL
ESTATE MANAGER, Station A, Boston,
Mass. 101
The Portland daily press., 1898-01-11

TE1O LET-Good desk room in Oxford Build
u ing, 1876 Middle street. Inquire at room 5.
The Portland daily press., 1898-01-11

FOR SALE-First class detached brick house
IA rooms and bath, perfect repair, steam
heat and all modern improvements, rental of
rooms are $50 per month aside from what the
owner occupies; best central part of Congress
street. Price Sc 90. w. II. WALDRON & CO.,
$50 Middle street 81
The Portland daily press., 1898-01-11

Glove is strong, but race is stronger
1t was Jewish woman who destroyed
the Captain of the Assyrians, and smote
off his head with his own fauchion.
FIRST PART.
The Portland daily press., 1898-01-11

Il furnished, steam heat gas etc. Also
large sunny alcOve room unfinished. is Gray
street between State and Park. II
The Portland daily press., 1898-01-11

TO LEL-A very desirable tenement of six
rooms, centrally located, newly painted
and papered throughout Price $40 per month.
y. Z. WOODMAN, 90 Exchange street. 51El
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-02-24
A HRGe Breakwater.

The new brealwater now under
construction by the Government st
Buffalo. n. Y, under the charge of
Major Thomas W. Symonds. engineer
corps, United States Army, will be
the largest in the world. The origi.
nal breakwater was begun in 1868,
with projected length of 1000 feet;
this was increased to 1900 feet!by the
project of 1874, and the work was
finished in 1894. The inclosed water
harbor thus formed by the breakwater
and the sand-catch pier was one and
a half miles long. The new breakwater
now being built will be II, 500 eetlongs
making total length of 20,l00 feet
from the light house to Stony Point.
The nearest approach to this construc-
ton IN length. said Major Symonds,
in la.e address before the Buffalo
Real Es.a:s Exchange, is the cele-
brated breakwater at Cheroough,
France, which is 12, 200 feet long, cost
$4,000, 900, and was seventy years in
building.-Engineering News.
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OUR LAWMAKERS.
The Session of the General Assembly
for 1898 Closed.

The Session of the General Assembly
for 1898 Closed.
The following are the last days pro-
ceedings of the Senate and the House.
Will publish next week first install
ment of the new acts:
THE SENATE.
TUESDAY, 18TH. The work Of the
Senate was confined principally to re-
ports of conference committees and
free conference quantities. and dis
cussions of q legal nature. The
lawyers dilated upon various legal
technicalities involved in different
bills which came up for con-
sideration. The bill to tax telephone,
telegraph and palace car companies,
was passed after prolonged
contest. The dispensary management
came in for another airing. The SAM
nles sent to Columbia BY companies for
distribution, constituted the thorn In
the flesh" A committee was final v
appointed to Investigate the distri-
button of the samples. Ragsdale was
chosen on the said committee. .
Garris is sill looking after good
roads and succ seded in getting COM
mission appointed to examine into
the matter aad report at the next ses-
sion.
Tho yea and nay vote on the whiskey
investigation resolution is as follows:
Yeas Alexander, Archer, Brown, Buist.
Connor, Dean, Dennis, Douglass, Du
Bose, Griffith, Hay. Henderson, Love,
Mayfeld, McAlhany, Miller, Moses,
Mower, Norris, O'Dell, Pettigrew,
Scarborough, Sloan. Talbird, Turner,
Waller.-27 Nays-Gaines, Lesesne,
McCalla, McDadiel, Stackhouse, Sud-
dath, Wallace.
At the night session an attempt was
made to kill the separate coach bill, but
it failed by vote of % to II.
WEDNESDAY, 16TH.-The closing
scenes of the Senate were the most i'm
pressiye in years. The Senators in
fitting speeches feelingly expressed
their high regards for the presiding
officer and their satisfaction that the
session had closed with amity and
good will existing between them all.
Most striking of all YVES the utterance
of Lieutenant. .Governar McSweeney
when he solemnly asseverated that with
him factionalism was thing Of the
past, and that his every effort had been
and would be, while filling the chair OF
the Senate, to promote harmony and
good fellowship.
The report of the printing committee
awarding the public printing to r. L.
Bryan & Co., was received during the
afternoon and the choice confirmed.
The president appointed Moses on
the part of the Senate to examine the
books of the treasurer and the comp
troler general and Mauldin TO examine
the books of the dispensary. At this
juncture the House came over and the
remaining few acts were ratified, and
the president gravely raped his gavel
and declared the Senate adjourned sine
die.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-02-24

aWhat the States want in their pop.

"What the States want In their pop
ulous country districts, !" says the Lon.
don Spectator, apropos Of the HazletoH
riots, .1s a well-trained, well-discipii
lined, well-paid, and well-led police. H
Luzerne County had been In the charge
of an experienced chief constable from
an English or Scotch county supported
by body Of English police, he would
have prevented disorder without re-
course to the methods which the Amer:
lean sheriff considered absolutely necS
essary." During the twenties and thlr.
ties Of the present century, strike riots
and mobs were dealt with In England
almost exactly as they are dealt With
now in America. There was no organ
lied and expert police force, and those
who wished to riot were given q per-
fectly free hand up to certain point
that Is, up to the point where they got
on the nerves Of the peaceful inhabitl
ants and appeared to be threatening
the foundations Of public order. Then,
rs in America now, special constables
were sworn In and armed and the yeoi
manry-answering to the American MI
litia-were called out. When once they
we're sworn in or called out, their OBJ
ject was to give as sharp and quick Q
lesson as possible; and they cared vWy
little whether the mob was actually
committing any Illegal act when they
encountered it. 1T was not till we got
a really well-organized police force"
the Spectator AYERS, "and maintained
law and order thoroughly and consisi
tently, and dot merely spasmodicany4
that we were able to put an end To- q
state Of things under which eysy
strike carried with it the probability Of
bloodshed. If the States want, like us,
to put down the scandal of bloodshed
in peace time, they must follow our
path." f--5
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the county government bill. Pracsi-
cslly all house amendments were agreed
to by the committee. The committee
put in an amendment making the bill
effective in Aiken county on July 1,
next, and providing for Senator Hen
derson's jury scheme In that particular
county.
mitted ito report on the general appro-
pristion bill. It left the board Of health
with only 1,500 and gave the South
Carolina college S25, ,o04. It gave
81, 200 for the State Fair Society, The
$1S, 900 for election e1penses was cut
to SO, 900. The 81, 800 fot the phos-
phate inspectors sslAry was allowed
The following report was made by
the special committee Of investigation
of the liquor sample matter:
The committee appointed pursuant to
concurrent resolution to investigate and re-
mort to this General Assembly what DISPOSE
ton has been made Of the liquor samples OF
the dispensary beg leave respectfully to re-
port:
That they have made such investigation as
the very limited time at the disposal OF the
committee would permit. The committee
not having been appointed until the last
hours Of the session OF the General Assembly,
have found it impossible under the pressure
OF legislative duties to examine fully such
witnesses as would enable the committee t,
make an adequate investigation OF the mat
ters which come within the scope ofthe reso-
luton. But the committee are deeply I'm
pressed with the gravity OF certain abuses
In the management Of the dlspensary
liquor samples which are not denied by
the dispensary officials. The committee
view with great apprehension the
practice which has grown up OF distributing
gratis among members Of the General Assem-
bly, samples Of liquor left In the dispensary.
Such practice your committee feels assured
will be fruitful OF tho most pernicious results.
The members OF the board Of control who
were examined by the committee declined to
disclose the names OF the members otthe
General Assembly who have received these
samples and while the committee think that
the names OF members OF the General Assem-
bly who have received these donations OF
whiskey should be published, the resolution
does not empower the committee to compel
witnesses to attend and answer and the linn
tied lime ut the disposal Of the committee
will not admit OF further inquiry to that end.
The committee respectfully recommend the
enactment OF law making all liquor graf
uitioasly presented to the dispensary or to
the board of control the property OF the State
to be disposed of in all respects as other
liquors purchased for the dispensary.
MIR. Wyche moved that it be received
as information and it was SO ordered
printed in the journal. The Governor
sent message than he approved the
general and legislative appropriation
and supply bill.
So ends the session of 1898.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-02-24

Again the foreign dispatches arc
Oiled with warnings in regard to
things which proud nation" like
Spain cannot endure, and again, in
consequence, arises the impulse to ask
what right or excuse Spain has to be
'sproud." Surely there is strangely
little !, in her story to explain her
haughtiness, maintains the New York
Times. Since the expulsion Of the
Moors-and of learning and civiliza-
tion with them-her record has been
one of great opportunities wasted, of
cruel prosecutions as the only evidence
Of power, and of steady drep in the
scale of European influence. Does
she claim credit because to-day only
three in ten of her population can
read or write? What has shs to show
for the gold brought by shipleads from
Mexico, and Peru? Yet, after all, if
Spain really is proud, she can at least
be proud Of her pride, for surely
never was there another nation able
to be anything else than humble when
considering a record half as black as
hers,
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obscurity ard gave painful vogue TO
In his irrepressible "Trilby." The
writer of Ben Bolt" is a native Of
Philadelphia, and has written under
humber of aliases. He has never risen
nbove mcdiocrity, but many OF his
songs are sweet and simple and were
once popular. He wrote under various
pen names, because he was a lawyer
with good practice, and did not care
to be thought so trivial as to write
verses. He was first graduated as
medical doctor from the University OF
Pennsylvania. That was as long ago
as 1880, but three years later he left
medicine for the law. He was some
thing of politician in his young days,
but never rose in craftsmanship above
the New Jersey Legislature. His new
play will certainly get fair hearing
from all who have heard his low IA
nous song. ..-- -------.-
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STRANGE SHEEP STORY.
After the HerGer Was Killed the Largo
Herd Wandered 500 Miles.


Herd Wandered 500 Miles.
A herder in charge of flock of 2000
sheep, which were grazing near the
base of the San Francisco mountains,
in Arizona, was killed by lightning
during terrific storm which visited
that section abou. August l. AS the
herder was not expected to come in
with his sheep until the 1st of October,
his absence during August and Sep
tember attracted no attention. When
the middle of October came and he
did not show up, messengers were sent
ont to find him.
After search of some days in the
vicinity of where he was last seen, the
remains OF camp were found under a
tree which had been riven by the
lightning. The cooking utensils were
scattered about, and the remains OF
blanket were found. which were iden-
titled as parts of one which the man
had taken with him. The water keg
also was recognized by mark which
had been burned into one of the
slaves.
A further search revealed tho bones
o. human being scattered about over
the ground, some of them more than a
hundred yards from the tree, having
evidently been carried about by
wolves. A prospector who had passed
that way had camped for night with
the man about the 1st of August, and
said the herd was then moving north
ward. The tree around which these
articles were found was just about far
enough north to be the next camping
place, and when it was remembered
that there was q severe storm of thun-
der and lightning in that section one
night about the time referred to, it
was clear that the man had made his
camp under this tree, and had been
killed by lightning and his body de-
voured by wolves. The sheep had
never been heard of, and no trace OF
them could be found anywhere in that
part of the country.
But now comes the strange part OF
the story. About two weeks ago a
herd of about 1000 sheep was found
on the plain in San Miguel County, in
this Territory, with no one in charge
of them, and to all appearances belong
ing to nobody. The parties in Arizona
heard of this fact, and wrote to an Off
Ger in this Territory, giving their
marks and explaining how the sheep
could be identified. 1t was found be-
yond any doub. that this was the herd
that had disappeared from the range
in Arizona about August 1. The ami
ma,s had been shifting for themselves
for more than three months, and
turned up at point fully 500 miles
from the place where the herder was
killed. They had crossed the Rio
Graude on the way.-San Francisco
Call
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-02-24

ct recent lecture on Alpine climb
ing delivered in London photograph
WAS thrown on the screen showing
how e guide saved whole party by
his presence Of mind. They were
crossing a perilously steep and narrow
slope or spur when they suddenly
slipped end disappeared down the
side of the precipice. The guide
promptly threw himself down the
other side Of the slope and struck his
axe into the snow, thus breaking the
fall. In the picture the tourists were
out of sight and only the guide could
be seen sticking like grim death tc the
pide of the precipice. The terrible
strain upon the rope was shown by
the way in which it had cut into the
snow at the top. But the rope held,
and the party was saved.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-02-24
Professor Falb, Of Vienna, who

Professor Falb, Of Vienna. whose
profession seems to be the prediction
OF the worlds destruction, now fixes
the date for November 13, 1899, by
means of Temples comet. One thing
that will 60 far toward reconciling
mankind to the destruction Of the
world, confesses the Louisville Cour-
ier-Journal, is that when it does come
it will destroy also these predicting
professors.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-02-24

There is now pending in ths Legis-
lature of Maryland msasuro which
provides for the protection cf song
birds in that State. On account of
the -rapidIy. iRcressing demand for
.songbrds made by the millinery estab-
lishments Of Maryland, the forests OF
that State have been almost completely
depopulated of their tuneful iahabi-
tants. From present indications this
wise measure is more than apt to meet
with the hearty support of the Mary
land lawmakers. Throughout tie en-
tire State there is strong sentiment
.crystallizing in its favor, and even the
women seem to be joining heartily in
advocating the proposed reform. This
lis Just as il should be; for the prsctice
of slaughtering natures songoirds
merely for the purpose Of decorating
gaudy bonnets for the fair sex is sbso-
lutely barbarous. Other States ara in
terested IN similar movements. Wishin
the last few months. the matter of pro-
tecting songbirds has been asitate.a in
New York, Rhode Island, Massac!.u-
setts and other States, with hop sful
results. AS millions Of dollars are
spent annually for the purchase OF
songbirds in Europe and Americs, il
is almost useless to hope that the ss.lu-
tary reform which is now being nj
tempted will ever become universal;
but still there IS no reason why the
most vigorous efforts should not be
put forward in that direction. It can
not be argued that songbirds are aEso-
luteiy necessary to the artistic emfsl-
5lishments of hats, for the world is .sch
in ornamental products which miGhs
.be used to even better advantage.
Surely no good can come of the prac-
tee which robs the world of It's melody
In order to enrich its vanity.
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A Land Which Is Without Any Life.

n Lanu w hlcn ID WITHOUT ANY AiAcs
The West Coast of South America
from north of Callao, reru, to the port
Of Coquimbo, Chile, is rainless re-
gion. From the Andes to the Pacific
no rain falls, and no vegetation or an
imal life exists beyond what man
brings there. 1t is dead world. The
last rain which fell in Antofogasta,
Chile, was the first that had fallen in
sixteen years, and the last shower in
Iquique, Chile, was the first rain which
had fallen in tweuty-four years. The
hills or mountains back of both ofthese
cities are bare rock and sand and red
loose clay, yet the day after the rain o
greenish tinge began to show itself and
by the second day these bare and in
hospitable hills were dressed in green
coat from top to bottom. As no more
rain fell, this verdure quickly dried
up and died. The queryrises naturally
whence did this vegetation come? If
from seeds lying dormant in the soil,
then once sprouting would finish this
source, and the short life of this plant
gives no opportunity for the develop
ment of seed.
Every succeeding time when rain
falls in these regions in periods Of
from fifteen to forty years, the same
phenomenon occurs. The growth evil
IDENTIFY springs from some root which
lies dormant in the soil, and is another
remarkable proof of the power of ma
ture to adapt life to. hard conditions,
as there is no evidence that for several
million years past there have been any
more favorable conditions for life on
this coast than existed now. No evil
dence exists that at any time vegetable
life has existed in all this region, and
until the course of the winds change,
all this region is destined to remain,
as it is to-day, barren desert; but
this strange phenix-like vegetation is
worthy of the attention of the scientist
querist. City Journal.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-02-24
Ducks From China.

The latest gift of China to the
West IS variety Of duck. 1t is
called the mandarin duck, and it is
regarded as particularly delicious in
-tAtrvc- aad highly ornamental. It is
therefore likely to prove o feaS%re OF
C tho ponds in landscape gardened
estates. AMI also of those in plain but
far-seeing po..terers' placcs.-New
York Journal.
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AUTHOR OF "sEN BOLT"
Ee IL Now at Work on ON Irish Play
Soon to Be Produced.

Thomas Dunn English, the author of
'Ben Bolt" announces that he is at
work on IN Irish play, which he hopes
will be produced very soon. DR.. Eng
lish has written prose and verse for
sixty years, and he says that he Is as
coed at either to-day, when he Is u, as
he was sixty years ago, when he was
IL. The one song that people nowadays
know him by is ben Bolt" which Du
Maurier dragged from O well-merited
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-02-24

There is one social dishonor about
which no one thinks it worth while to
say much in reprobation, but which
does more harm than any other known
to us-we mean the diShonor of repeat
ing conversations, opinions, circun-
stances, not made under promise Of Sc
crecy, but which n high sense Of honor
would treat as confidential, If haply q
high sense of honor were the rule.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1898-02-24

Here Is another thing against whisky:
those who drink 1t are always looking
for q better quality.
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Y it is now proposed to
ELECTORS at thirty, instead
i've years. This is a vindic-
at woman suffrage, declares
York Mail and Express.
y4ghity may admit TO twenty-five
Eears. bat with the limit at thirty ii
! is going to take tremendous sense OF
moral duty to drag it to the polls.
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RECORD.
very Thursday

cage court which decided
is legally worth twenty
is no friend Of the news
inns the New York Tele
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-02-16
PRICE FIVE CENTS.

utter another word, though she would
not deny her deceit. The railroad peo-
pie were so angered over the affair
that they had the girl jailed at San
Francisco
The papers were mad TO get the
story of the interesting imposter. She
smiled and sulked and cried, but not
a word would she yield. The police
tried to frighten her and women re-
porters, then quite rare. used their
Establishments, but she was impervi-
Gus to all manner of inducement.
Finally, Ben Napthaly, then DASH
ing the girl was too easy altogether,
that he would get her story in ten
minutes if he could be allowed to meet
her privately. 1t was supposed to- be
a secret conversation, but officers vert
listening and afterwards the accounts
were given identically by Napthaly and
the girl. Ben told her a few fairy
tales of what he personally and the
great paper he represented would do
for her if she would only let loose of
the STORY" 1t was a forlorn hope
SdoC SiCeih anu DCh Soc
about to give up, when a thought of
meteoric brilliancy struk him. In a
few well chosen sentences he made a
formal proposal of marriage to the
girl. She accepted him. The knot was
tied without delay and the Chronicle
had the story exclusive" and made
the biggest kind of first page spread
out of it. The romantic value of this
narrative is impaired to some extent
from the fact that the match was not
happy one at all. The affair ended
in month. However, Mr.. Napthaly
welded again and it is one of the
things said of him in San Francisco
that he and his present wife are very
devoted to each other.
This is only page or so from The
life of Napthaly. He is a a61616 warm
hearted, generous fellow a6c1ares
that will show here that h& has passed
beyond all youthful playfulness and
that he can become a solid and sedate
citizen.