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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-02-10
MAINE TOWNS.
Items of Interest Gathered by Cores
porderts OF the PsssA
NORWAY.

Norway, Feb. 9 --Business is very dull,
and everybody complaining of hard times
and great scarcity of money. Many poor
people, especially day laborers, are obliged
to practice the most rigid economy tc
keep the wolf from the door.
The late heavy SHOWS were God-send,
however, giving employment at good
wages for the time being. The late warm
days have settled the snow several inches,
leaving about three feet on the level,
which is light and dry, stout heavy
horses plodding through without great
difficulty. So the tealnsters and 1oggers
are about their business as usual. Ad-
vices from the more northern portions of
Oxford County report five feet in the deep
woods, and many teams coming out.
There is great scarcity of firewood for the
time being, but the farmers are waking
ND to their interests, and large quantities
are now coming in daily.
No lack of candidates for the postofflce
tho time for a change being near at hand.
Seven aspirants are circulating petitions,
all bearing many names, of our most in
fiuential and respectable citizens. Coca
sionally the same names appear on several
petitions. They are all good men and
well qualified for the office. The matter
may yet have to be settled by caucus,
as at South Paris
Several weeks since little daughter of
+ ley Wheeler, aged IL years, was found
to be afflicted with appendicitis. An OPP
Grafton was performed by Drs. Bradbury
and Barker, who found matters so far
gone as to give small hope of recovery,
but bv skillful treatment and nursing
the lit @ sufferer was soon thought to be
out of danger; but by some means the
incision healed too soon, and second
operation became necessary. The little
sufferer is all courage and it is thought
will soon be as we'll as ever.
CUM BERLAND.
Cumberland Centre, Feb. 9-Monday
evening January GATH an illustrated
Hampshire and the Berkshire Hills of
Massachusetts, was given under the aus
pices of the Y. P. S. G. E., by W. G.
Rideout, of Portland, formerly a resident
of the place. The lecture was well at
tended,and much enjoyed.
The Endeavor society celebrated En-
deavor Day. Sunday evening, January
3Oth, using for programme the exercises
Tin pert) as pro pared by the United So
cety ami the remainder as prepared by q
committee. sThe annual meeting of the
Y. P. S. G. f. was held last Monday
evening at which the following officers
were elected:
Presidents. S. J. Porter.
Vice President-Howard G. Blanchard.
Secretary and Observation-Disclosures W.
Ciiokett.
Chair man Lookout CoInmittee-F. A.
Shaw.
9 Chairman Prayer Meeting Committee
Bessie l.. Powell.
Chairman Social Committee-Carrie l..
Blanchard.
Chairman Missionary Committee-E.
L. Pennell.
Chairman Music Committee-A. S.
Chase.
Chairman Temperance Commiteet-G.
ID SweatSar
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-02-10

, The wares OF reputable. responsible
firms are advertised in these columns, and
are for sale by enterprisng dealers. No
substitutes or limitations should be &C
cepted. Be firm. andyou can get what
you want.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-02-10
wRECKAGE FROM THE MARCELLUs

Provincetown, Mass, February e.
Captain John began Of the Boston tug
Herald, reports that while cruising twenty
miles southeast by east off Highland light
at noon yesterday he passed a large
quantity of wreckage. Among it was part
of vessels stern with the letters MAR
cellus, Searsport. - IT is thought that the
stern was that Of the Bucksport, Ne,
schooner Marcellus, which was wrecked
on Delivers neck during the storm of
last week. All Of her crew were lost. The
tug picked up @ barrel containing para
fine, marked "a. q. b., 1913 Atlantic
avenue, Boston.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-02-10
BuckIen's Arnica sa,ye.

THE BEST sALvE In the world for
Cuts Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt
Rheum, Fever Sores, letter, Chapped
Hands. Chilblains, Corns and all Skin
Eruptions and positively cures Piles. or
no pay required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or money refun aed.
Price % cents per box. For sale by II. z.
$. Goold, b77 Congress 81. unosr Con-
gress Square Hotel
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-02-10

magnificent ex-
ample of what
care of health
will do for a
man is pre-
scented in the
life of M r..
Gladstone, the
Sgreatest states
I man of t b e
century. This
"Gran d Old
Man " at
eighty-si six
years of age,
retained b i S
intellectual
vigor unabat-
ed, and had
not lost the
ST n e wy grlp
with which he
j
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-02-10
THE BILL MAKER.

:. H. HUTCHINS, Chairman.
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Agents for warren's Anchor Brand, Natural
Asphalt Roofing, endorsed by leading archi-
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HANDSOME COMPLIMENT

DOUBLE ANTI.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-04-16
GOOD ROAD SCHEMES.
An Ohio Legislator Has Some Ideas
Which Certainly Are Worthy
of Confederation.

An Ohio state senator with a hobby
for good roads, Senator Dodge, has in
troduced bill to abolish the contract
prison labor and to provide for the en-
ployment of convict labor in preparing
road material in such manner as not
to compete with free labor. His plan is
to have the state purchase necessary
plants for the manufacture of suitable
paving brick and suitable steel rails
and macadam for public roads, and use
The necessary convict labor primarily in
manufacturing the material for road
improvement The product of the pris-
on labor is to be used only for public
road improvement and sold to the au-
thorities at cost. The stone quarries
owned by the state are to be worked in
preparing macadam. The same pro-
visions extend to the intermediate pen
itentiary and the workhouse. Ten per
cent. of the inmates of all the penal in
situations are to be put to work prepar-
lug road material, and SEC, 700 is appro-
priated to carry out the plan.
1t would seem that when the convict
labor of a state is at work improving
the surface of the planet for the general
public good, no branch of labor is in
jured.
Why shouldn't the convicts of Mime
sofa build us a set of magnificent pub
lis highways along the lines Of traffic ?
Minneapolis journal.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-04-16
AGRICULTURAL HINTS
STATE AID FOR ROADS.
New York Has just Pointed Out the
Probable Ultimate solution of
the Good Roads Problem

The strongest impetus which the
good roads movement has received in
many years past was the passage by
the New York assembly of the Higbie-
Armstrong good roads bill.
1t is significant of the rapid growth
OF public sentiment in favor of state
aid to highway construction that the
opposition Ia the measure could mus
ter only 80 votes. Under this bill the
state appropriation for this year to ex-
pend for highway improvement will be
$4,000, which, it is estimated, will
amount to one cent per $1,000 of as
sessed valuation, or 2H cents on the
average So, 500 farm.
The size of each years appropriation
Is fixed by the legislature, and as the
good results of the law become more
discernible and more generally recog-
nized it is not improbable that public
sentiment will demand in a few years
a much larger appropriation. Under
the provisions by which county is au-
thorized TO apply for portion of the
good roads appropriation the law be-
comes home rule measure. If the APP
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-04-16
THINNING OUT FRUIT.
Wherever 1t Is Done the Trees Are
Almost Sure to Bear Good
Crops Every Season.

The method employed in some i'm
portant fruit growing districts to Sc
cure a crop of fruit, such as peaches,
apples, plums, pears, etc, with uni
formity every year providing the
flowers are not rendered sterile by
freezing) is to Systematically thin out
the young fruit after danger from frost
in the spring, and before the fruit gets
large enough to become tax on the
tree. Fruit is seldom produced on the
same spur every year; therefore, in
thinning, they remove all of the fruits
from one spur without injuring it, so
it may produce fruit buds for the next
year, allowing the next spur to bear
of course, discriminating between
promising and poor fruit. Various con-
trivances have been invented for this
work, but they have proved impracti-
cable, for they do not discriminate be-
tween the good and poor fruit, and, be-
sides, often injure or break off spurs.
So thinning has to be done by hand.
and, aside from the great advantage Of
insuring a crop for the following year,
it pays the same season on account of
far larger proportion of the fruit be-
ing of superior quality and of higher
market value.-Prairie Farmer.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-04-16
Good Points of Kohlrabi.

One of the vegetables which every
farmer should grow is kohlrabi, which
in growth and flavor is intermediate be-
tween the turnip or rutabaga and a
cabbage. 1t is hard, like the turnip,
but, like the cabbage, all its valuable
part is above ground. 1t is vegetable
that comes to us from Germany, where
it is grown to large size, and is mainly
used for cattle feeding. But to be fit
for table use it should be sown late in
the spring, when the ground is warm,
and the young growth will be very rap
i'd. Then it will be sweet and tender
and wholly different from the coarse
kohlrabi sown early, and which has
taken the whole season to grow in. All
roots for table use are best gathered
while young and after growing rapid
ly. Most of the roots grow either tough
or dry. or both, late in spring.-Arner-
lean Cultivator.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-04-16
HINTS FOR DAIRYMEN.

A large mouth in COW is one in
dication of good digestion.
Get good knowledge of the dairy be-
fore you look for good herd.
Keep good clover hay, il you have
s., before the calf at two weeks old.
Separator milk, with oil meal, shorts
or corn meal added, will raise calves.
The flies in summer keep the cali
from doing as well as 1t might, and IL
should be protected as much as pos
sible.
Calves not under six weeks old car
be raised on sour milk, with little OF
meal added. We don't approve of it
however, il 1t can be avoided.
Feed has very little If any effect
upon the quality Of milk, but has upon
the quantity. The COW must give the
quality.-Western Plowman.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-04-16

preparation should be increased to
$i,000,000 in any year the average tax
Oh each $500 farm would be only so
cents, which seems a trihing eXpendi-
ture considering the Unreasonable
benefits that accrue to agriculturists
through good highways to the mar
kets.
With such notable example of what
the state can do in the way of encour-
aging the construction of good high
ways afforded by her neighbor, New
Jersey, the wonder is that New York
did not inaugurate the state aid sys-
tenn long ago. Under the New Jersey
law the state bears onc-third the ex-
pense, the size of the appropriation be-
ing determined by the legislature. I'm
der the stimulus of state aid nearly
every county in the state is now build
ing macadam roads, while there are
already SO many miles of stone roads
In the state that 1t can be travelled in
every direction without leaving them.
Nineteen of the 81 counties of the state
have this year made application for
their shares of the appropriation.
The action of the New York legisla-
. ture is gratifying recognition of the
fact that state aid is the ultimate So
luton of the good roads problem
Chicago Times-Herald
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-04-16

Twenty years ago, after years of investi.
cation and study, DR.. p. Harold Hayes an.
nounced that he had discovered and per-
fected treatment which would cure
Asthma so that the patient should stay
cured. Up to this time the best that could
be done by the most eminent physicians was
to give mere temporary relief, and they
frankly acknowledged their inability to do
more. DIR. Hayes treatment has been ad.
vancing steadily ever since and now more
than forty thousand sufferers have been
under care, giving to him and his associates
vast experience and the highest attainable
skill in dealing with this most distressing
disease. DR.. Hayes system is such that
patients are treated at their own homes,
and through perfected plan of giving ad-
vice and directions by mail and sending med
icines prepared in his own laboratory to
suit each individual patients needs, anyone
anywhere can be successfully treated. DIR.
Hayes will mail his Thesis with Reports of
Cases and blanks for free Examination on
application to him at Buffalo, N Y.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-04-16
BERRY SEEDLINGS.
Some Facts which Illustrate the
Wonderful Workings of Nature In
Her Relations to Man.

Each little strawberry seed contains
the elements to produce a plant that
will bear fruit peculiar to itself, when
il is grown without restrictions. The
artist in preparing his paint for n GER
| tain color, puts together little of one
shade and little of some other and
mixes them together, each new addi-
| tion changes the color. So in like man
ner, the Great Artist employs the in
sects to mix together the pollen from
the blossoms of the various qualities
of the strawberry and to deposit it in
the receptacles or seed tubes of other
blossoms. The mixing of each addi-
ton changes the quality of the prod
uct from that seed.
Watch the busy bee as he flies from
blossom 10 blossom till he has visited
hundreds of flowers. Some of these
plants produce fruit that is very acid,
some fruit which is very sweet, some
of medium quality, and so nn through
all the various fiavors and from all CT
these he has made a collection and a
deposit to this mixture. The deposit
may not have been intentional on the
part of the bee, but il has been done.
The next bee may visit other varieties,
and some of the same, each adding to
the variety collected, and it is not
strange that each seed should produce
a product peculiar to itself.
If we take n staminate variety and re-
move il from all the other varieties and
exclude il from insects so there shall
be no mixture from the other varieties
when in bloom, the product of that seed
should be like its parent. For an ex-
ample, we will take the Sharpless
plant. The combination, the makeup,
of that seed from which the first Sharp
less plant grew gave it its distinct char
acter; every root and fiber in that plant
is distinct from all other plants, al
though that may not be visible to the
eye. We know it by its blossom, color,
or shade of its leaf, manner of growth
OF plant, the general shape OF its fruit,
color and flavor of same. and its tex
ture. Remove the plant to any part OF
the world, and its general character
istics will be the same and the seed
! from this Sharpless plant will pro-
duce plants and fruit like itself. if we
carry out the principle from which we
started.-S. II. Warren, in American
| Gardening
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-04-16

Mother, come here quick, there goes
Jane Albright in that everlasting calico
dress of hers. declare, | should think
she'd be tired of wearing it. This is the
fifth year if it's a day. l never did see such
"a careful woman with her clothes"
ut amt the care she takes OF it. Mandy,
child, it's the goods. Them's William Simp-
son 4 Sons prints, the same as my old black
and white which is almost as good now as
the day bought it, nigh four year ago come
Easter. | was at the store with Jane when
she bought that dress, Mandy, and so far as
] can see the colors is just as bright to-day
as they was then, tho she wore it con
slant ever since. 1t proves old Jones, what
keeps the store, was tellin' truth when he
says that the name of William Simpson &
Sons on the ticket to a package of calikeI
or prints was a certain sure guarantee OF
gettn' your moneys worth, for never seen
such colors keep bright and last so long"
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-04-16
"MY WIFE'S LIFE"
How | was the means
of saving it.

When the lungs are attacked and the
symptoms of consumption appear, then
begins the struggle between affection and
that destroying disease which Stays its
thousands annually. II Is happy issue
to the struggle when disease is conquered
and health restored. Such au issue does
not always end the struggle. but IT did in
the case Of Mr.. X. Morris, Memphis, Tenn,
who saw his wife wasting and weakening
and physicians helpless, and then sug-
gested the simple remedy that wrought
the cure. He tells the story thus
"Seven years ago, my wife had a severe
attack of lung trouble which the ply
sicians pronounced consumption. The
cough was extremely distressing, espe-
ciaily at night, and was frequently
attended with the splitting OF blood. The
doctors being unable to help her, in
duced her to try DIR. Ayers Cherry Pectoral
and was surprised at the great relief 1t
gave. Before using one whole bottle she
was cured, so that now she Is strong and
quite healthy. That this medicine saved
my wife's life have not the least doubt.
I always keep DIR. Ayers Cherry Pectoral
in the house. whenever any of my family
have q cold OF cough we use 1t. and are
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-04-16
Goes 10 Church.

tried different doctors and many proprietary
remedies, but was not benefited.
Last March l tried DR.. Williams Pink
Pills for Pale People and before l had fin.
ished the first box l began to feel that they
were doing me good. | continued using
them and steadily grew better.
II have used thirteen boxes of the pills
and to-day feel better than for the past fif.
teen years. Myappetite is good, l feel bright,
cheerful and have desire to live and enjoy
society.
81 have been a member of the Methodist
church for many years, but for six years
was unable to attend. am able now to at
tend the church services regularly and GER
nr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People a
wonderful medicine and am confident no
other, medicine could have effected the won
derful cure they haye in my case" DR..
Williams Pink Pills for Pale People are
composed of vegetable remedies that exert
powerful influence in purifying and enrich
ing the blood, thus curing many diseases.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-04-16
Deafness. Cannot Ne Cured

by local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There il
only one way to cure deafness, and that is
by constitutional remedies. Deafness ID
caused by an inhamed condition of the mu-
cous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When
this tube gets inhamed you have a rumbling
sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is
entirely closed deafness is the result, and
unless the Inflammation can be taken out
and this tube restored to it's normal con-
dition, hearing will be destroyed forever;
nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh,
which is nothing but an infamed condition
of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that
cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
Send for circulars, free.
f, j. Cheney & Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-04-16
A Remarkable Book.

A Comic History of Greece, from the Ear
Hest Times to the Death of Alexander the
Great. BY Charles NJ. Snyder. Philadel
phia: j. B. Lippincott Company.
The author Of this work has set himself
the task of making truly serious set of cir
cumstances, exceedingly funny. He has
unquestionably succeeded, as he espresso:
it. He wrote the book for the purpose OF
getting even with the myths and heroes OF
antiquity who caused him such anguish in
school days. The Comic History of Greece
is witty and humorous, without being vul-
gar. About $50 illustrations illuminate the
lines from the pencils of half dozen artists.
The book is truly tickle tonic for the mel
ancholy
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-04-16
TRELLIs FOR TOMATOES

length of row desired. A few green
poles are cut and bent into a bow over
the rows. To these are nailed light
strips, with open spaces through which
the growing plants can send up their
branches. Set the trellis low enough
so that the body of the plant will be
above the Stats. This'will give a round
ish surface for the tomatoes to lie upon,
which tends to open the plants in way
TO let in plenty Of sunshine.-Orange
Judd Farmer.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-04-16
A CHEAP TRIP.
Semi-MOnthly Excursions to the
sunny south.

The opportunity to visit the Southern
States afforded by the sem-monthly ex-
cursions of the Louisville & Nashville Rail
road is one that should be taken advantage
of by every one interested. These excur-
sions are arranged for the first and third
Tuesdays of April. The tickets are good OH
the regular trains of those dates leaving
Northern terminals, and can also be pur-
chased through from agents of connect
ing lines. Tickets are sold to many
points in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama,
the Carolinas. Mississippi, Georgia and
the western portion of Florida. They
are good for return passage on any Tuesday
or Friday within twenty-one days, and al
low fifteen days on the going trip to stop
of and examine the country. The cost for
the round trip is about the regular one-way
rate, and on same dates one-way tickets are
sold at about two-thirds of the regular rates.
For full particulars write to G. p. Atmore,
q. p. A., Louisville, Ky, or j. X. Ridgely,
\. w. u. a., Chicago, ILL.,
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-04-16
Shake Into Your shoes

feet and instantly takes the sting out of
corns and bunions It's the greatest comfort
discovery of the age. Allen Foot Ease makes
tight or new shoes feel easy. 1t is a certain
cure for sweating, callous and hot. tired, ach.
ing feet. TRY It today Soldby all druggists
and shoe stores, Csc. Trial package FREE.
Address Allen S. Olmsted, LIE Roy, N. Y.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-04-16
promptly eured."-K. MORRIS, Memphis.

promptly cured"-K. Morris, Memphis.
Tenn.
The question: ats consumption cura-
BILE ?" Is still debated, and still debatablc.
II is easy to say that this was not case OF
consumption. Yet the physicians said II
was. They should know. As matter
OF fact, Or. Ayers Cherry Pectoral has
wrought SO many similar cures that II
seems to argue the curableness OF con-
sumption in it's earlier stages, blythe use
OF this remedy. There Is no better mcdi-
cine for pulmonary troubles than Dr.
Ayers Cherry PICTORIAL. II gives relief in
cases of Asthma, and Bronchitis, where re-
lief has been heretofore unattainable. IL
promptly cures Coughs and Colds, La
Grippe, and all affections of the throat
and lungs. Heretofore. DIR. Ayers Cherry
Pectoral has been put up in full size
bottles only, at SIoo per bottle. To meet
a wor ldwide demand for a smaller pack
age. the remedy is now put up in half sire
bottles, at half price-so cents. Write Tor
DR.. Ayers Curebook (free) and learn more
of the cures effected by Dr. Ayers Cherry
Pectorai. Address J. c. Aver Co., Lowell.
Mass.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-04-16

The opportunity is now offered to make a
trip to the South at small cost On the first
and third Tuesday of each month, the Chica-
go & Eastern Illinois r. r. will sell Home
Seekers round trip tickets at about one-hali
rate.
Stop-overs will be granted on going trip
to enable inspection of lands for sale and
the many advantages of different localities
Write to Charles l.. Stone, General Passen.
ger Agent, Chicago & Eastern Illinois r. r.,
Chicago, for land maps of southern states, de.
scriptive pamphlets and full information az
to rates, routes and time of trains.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-04-16
Made Him Sick.

Doctor ION ocean steamer)-Yourt turn has
come, | see, sir Allow me to
Sea-Sck Passenger ian old bachelor)-
No, no, doctor. Tit will soon pass off.
1t isn't sea-seasickness. / looked too long
at those-those bridal couples.-N. Y.
Weekly.