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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-07-14

in lively fashion at apparently long range,
and the Oregon, with her locomotive
speed, was hanging we'll on the Colon, also
paying attention to the Vizcaya. The
Teresa and the Oquendo were in flames
OIL the beach just twenty minutes after
the first shot was fired. Fifty minutes
after the first shot was fred the Vizcaya
put her helm to port with great burst of
fame from the after part of the ship and
headed slowly for the rocks at Acerrod2-
ros, where she found her last resting
place.
LAS it was apparent that the Iowa could
not possibly catch the Cristobal Colon and
that the Oregon and Indiana undoubtedly
would and as the fast New York was also
on her trail, decided that the calls of hui
mainly should be answered and attention
given to the twelve or fifteen hundred
Spanish officers and men who had struck
their colors. | therefore headed for the
wreck of the Vizcaya, now burning furi-
ously fore and aft. When was in as far
as the depth Of water would admit, low
cred all my boats and sent them at once
to the assistance of the unfortunate men,
who were being drowned by dozens or
roasted on the decks. / soon discovered
that the insurgent Cubans from the shore
were shooting on men who were strug-
Cling in the water after having snrren-
dered to us. l Immediately put u stop
to this.
'My boat crews worked mAnfully and
succeeded in saving many Of the wounded
from the burning ship. One man who will
be recommended for promotion cEnmbercd
up the side of the Vizcaya and saved three
men from burning to death. AS l knew
the crews Of the first two ships wrecked
had not been visited by any of our yes
sells / ran down to them. l found the
Gloucester with Admiral Cervera and 4
number of his officers aboard and also
q large number Of wounded, some in a
frightfuly mangled condition. Many pris-
oners had been killed on shore by the
fire of the Cubans. The Harvard came off
and l requested Capt Cotton to go in and
take off the crews of the Incanta Maria
Teresa and the Almirante Oquendo and
by midnight the Harvard had 976 prison
ers aboard, a great number of them
wounded.
Capt Evans is intensely proud Of his
ship and her men. The Iowa fired 81
Pinch. 4S S-inch, 27O 4-inch, LOGO
G-pound and 12O 1-pound shots.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-07-14
Sensible Arrangement.

What Sir Daniel LySOnS believes TO
have been the first case of a settlement
of an affair of honor" on the Duke of
Wellingtons plan is described by him
in his early "reminiscences" 1t occur
red in Halifax about the middle Of the
present century.
One day Captain Evans came to me
boiling over with wrath and ind1gna-
ton. He said he had been grossly in
suited by Captain Harvey, the COVER
nor's son, and begged me to act as his
friend. agreed, provided he promised
to do exactly as I told him. He con-
scented.
l called on Captain Harveys friend,
CAPTAIN Bourke, and we agreed to abide
by the Duke of Wellington's order
about duelling, which had just then
been promulgated st Halifax.
We carried out our intention as fol-
lows: We made each Of our principals
write out his own version of what had
occurred. We then chose an umpire.
We selected Colonel Horn Of the Twen-
tieth Regiment, a clear-headed and
much-respected officer. With his APP
prevail we sent him the two statements,
and he directed us to come to his house
the following morning with our princi-
pals.
At the appointed time we arrived, and
were shown into the dining-roo We
bowed formally to each other across
the table, and awaited the appearance
of our referee. Colonel Horn soon en-
tered, and addressing our principals
said:
Gentlemen, in the first place, 1 must
thank you for having made my duty so
light. Nothing could be more open,
generous or gentlemanlike than your
statements. The best advice can give
YOU is that you shake hands and forget
thatthe occurrence has ever happened
They at once walked up to each other
and shook hands cordially. They were
the best Of friends ever after.-Youth's
Companion.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-07-14
HE BATTLESHIP IOWA.
vas poured into the Infanta Maria Tere- The off

The officers of the Vizcaya said they
simply could not hold their crew at the
guns on account of the rapid fire poured
in upon them. The decks were flooded
with water from the fire hose and blood
from the dead and wounded Oh deck.
Fragments of bodies foated in this along
the gun decks. Every instant the crack
of exploding shells told Of new havoc.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-07-14

United etates Postoffice in Cuba.
The first United States postoffice in
Cuba has been established at Baiquiri,
and is equipped for doing the business 81
city of 100000 Inhabitants.
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You made a bad break hast night, but you
are all right, boy, all right"
God bless you, my dear father. am
unworthy of those tearsr'
No, you're not, boy. No, you're not!r'
And the inspector led the old man from
the cell, as Robert cast himself, weeping,
full length upon his cot.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-07-14

In ancient times and among inland
peoples the possession Of salt spring
was regarded as special gift of the
gods. The Chamonians in Epirus had
one which flowed into stream where
there were no fish, and the legend was
that Heracles had allowed their fore
fathers to have salt instead IF fish.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-01-06

! at no cost whatever. Now after making
present of all these exceedingly valua.
BILE privileges to these roads the city asks
THAT it shall be compensated for the
amount it has expended to enable them to
cross tide water. And one Of them hest
| tates, and haggles. and threatens to take
| up its rails it the city insists that 1t shall
return the expense the city has been
put to for it's beReat--and that too after
practically promising in its charter, OF
agreement with the state, that it would
pay all the expense of changes in bridge 4
made on its account.
But it is said that this road is an ex-
pertinent, and 10 is not certain that 1t
can earn money enough to afford to pay
this expense. Does any one suppose that
such consideration Us that was
ever urged on anybody else who
furnished labor or material Tor
this roadf We're the people whom
this road bought it's iron of told
that they need not expect their pay if the
| hasiness of the road did not meet the ex-
pectation of its projectors? We're they
ever asked to accept interest on the cost
of the iron they furnished at 4 per cent
for SO years and 60 without tho principal?
We're the engineer and the contractors who
built the road settled with on this plan !?
We venture to say they were not, and we
venture to say that if such a proposition
had been made them they would have
laughed it to soorn. What right have the
members of the Board of Aldermen,
who are simply trustees Of
tina city's funds, who are bound by
scrupulous care of the funds committed to
them, to make present to this road or
to enter into a contract with 1T which
they as private individuals would not
consider for a moment?
We would net Cypress this road by de-
manding immediate payment in cash.
But we should insist that IL give some
sort of pledge tina. within reasonable
time it will return to the city the money
that has been spent to adapt the bridge
| to It's use. One result OF the concession
proposed to be made to this road will
be that we shall have to make the same
concession to the other one, and SO the
city will get back not one cent OF the
principal OF the sum that IT. has advanced
| for their benefit. We do not think 1t is
Just to the taxpayers of this town, who
are already pretty heavily burdened, to
saddle them with obligations that really
! belong to private corporations amply
able, we believe, to bear them themselves.
Furthermore. we do not believe the Board
of Aldermen have any right to do it.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-01-06
NEW WAY TO THE POLE.
A Fast Cruiser and Plenty OF Dynamite
the Plan of a Baltimore Man.
(The Pittsburg Commercial Gazette.

(The Pittsburg Commercial Gazette
4. A. Lewis, of Baltimore, has plan
for reaching the North Pole. He spent
several years on whaling vessel and
was shipwrecked in Cumberland Inlet,
passing the entire winter on its shores.
"You are doubtless aware" he said,
| THAT all the expeditions which have
gone northward were fitted out in slow
ships. The idea seems to have been to
reach point as far north as practicable
N some old wooden tub, cast anchor and
wait to be frozen to death. Whatever is
done in the frigid zons in summer by
way of sailing must be done quickly.
What is needed, therefore, is a large ship
run by powerful engines, provided with a
ram and torpedoes. with which to plough
its way through Davis Strait past Spitz-
bergen, or due north from Behring Strait
into the open Polar Sea. One of our
cruisers, for example, well stocked with
facilities for fighting agai nsU the ice pack
with two hundred men on board, plenty OF
coal and magazine Of dynamite, would
succeed in the undertaking, and sailing
to the North Pole will never be accom-
plished by other means.
"A bout June 10 each yearn Mr. Lewis
continued, "Davis Strsi; begins to get
clear of ice. At that time also the whales
come down from ttaie north and enter
Hudson Bay. aIi6Sere is much floating
ice, OF course, and probably several packs
might be Encountered on the passage,
but 1t is certain that in ordinary years
tnere ia comparatively free path for
ships ON the opening of Davis Strait to
the North Pole between July 10 and Au-
gust 80. AS fer bergs and any large ice
foes which might be met with, there
need be no fear During the entire TWEEN
ty four hours it would be light enough to
read newspaper on the deck of the crui-
ser, the approach of large masses of ice
could be seen, the ship could be got out
of their way, and the pack could be dealt
with by very simple means. Torpedoes
placed under it would blow 1t to atoms,
and the ships ram would make short
work of any ordinary areas which might
be encountered.
The route through Davis Strait,
Bafin's Bay and Smith Sound, past
Grinnell Land, or through Jones Sound
to the westward, is comparatively free
from ice by July of each year. Prof.
Heilprin, leader of the early relief expe-
dition, landed on the shores of McCor
mic Bay on July "a, and his ship pro
ceeded two days northward before II. struck
anything like solid ice. From the upper
end of Baftin's Bay, through Kennedy
Channel into Lincoln Sea, Is about six
hundred miles. The way is narrow. and
probably much floating ice would be
found, but the ram and torpedoes would
be at hand to demolish it, and the war
ship would sail through into the open sea
beyond in ten days, when it would find,
probably, an unimpeded path to the
North Pole.
"But while the passage north from the
Atlantic Ocean is possible, that from the
Pacific is much easier and more direct.
1t is well known that the Japan current
flows steadily through Behring Strait in
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-01-06
The decision of the Ohio Republicans

The decision of the Ohio Republicans
not to hold a senatorial caucus is dictated
of course by the belief that it will help
Mr.. Hanna. But in what way it is ex-
pected to help him must be to outsiders
a matter of speculation. Perhaps the
most likely explanation is that the Hanna
people have succeeded, IN converting
some of the recalcitrant Republicans, and
prefer that the fact should not be dis
closed until the vote is taken in the iegis-
lature, lest they be subjected to pressure
that may cause them to backsiiie.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-01-06

Tukey's bridge will cost the city when
completed in the neighborhood of 5000.
900. Had not two electric railroad con
panies asked that the bridge be built
wide enough to accommodate their tracks
the. expense would have been some SAC. 600
less. The question now before the people
of Portland, is whether tbs railroad oom-
panies shall pay this az itionaI expense
Incurred for their bennsnt or the CITY shall
bear it in whole or n part. That is the
simple question lending in the Board of
Aldermen.
Why shoulf not the roads pay 1t,
ana 'he whole of itP Somebody
says tneseroads are benefit to Portland,
u therefore they are entitled to consid-
Grafton. Granted that they are benefit.
So is every steam railroad line, but did
anybody ever hear of a steam railroad
asking city to build bridge for it
without compensation because it would
be benefit to the city? Such request
from a steam railroad would be laughed
at. Do the people ever think Of the tire
mendously valuable rights and privileges
which the electric railroad gets for moth
ing, which the steam railroads have to
pay forf Nor foot of land upon which
the steam railroad lays it's track but it
has to pay for at a fair ard oftentimes a
high price. Not bridge but it has to
build all at it's own expense. But the
electric railroad pays not a cent for the
land on which its road is laid. Streets
and roads which have COST the people
thousands. of dollars to construct and keep
in repair it takes possession of without
money and without price. Its expense
for stations is practically nothing while
the steam roads have to put thousands
and sometimes hundreds of thousand E
into them. The Portland Railroad oom-
pany occupies hundreds of miles of streets
and roads in this vicinity without paying
one cent to the people who have expended
thousands of dollars in their construction.
The Yarmouth railroad occupies many
miles efstown roads and has acquired the
right to occupy several of our city streets
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-01-06
The Surprise or All.

Mr.. james Jones, of the drug firm Of
Jones q Bon, Cowden, ILL.,, in speaking
of DR.. Kings New Discovery, says that
last winter his wife was attacked with
La Grippe, and her case grew so serious
that physicians at Cowden and Pana
could do nothing for her. 1t seemed to
develop into hasty consumption. Having
DR.. Kings New Discovery in store, and sell
ling lots of it, he took bottle home, and
to the surprise Of all she began to get
better from first dose, and half dozen
dollar bottles cured her sound and well.
DR.. Kings New Discovery for Consump-
ton, Coughs and Colds is guaranteed to
do this good work. Try 1t. Free triai
bottles at HIP. S. Goods Drug Stole.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-01-06

The York County Republican commit
tee has resolved that the civil service
law is fraud and ought to be repealed.
Yet concerning this civil service law the
last Republican platform used these
woi as:
The civil service law was placed on the
statute book by the Republican party,
which has always sustained it, and we
renew our repeated declarations that 1t
shall be thoroughly and honestly en-
forced and extended whenever praotica
BILE.
What has the York County Republican
committee to say about this plank of
the Platform?
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-01-06
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-01-06
ExECUTREx's NOTICE.
DISSOLUTION.

The firm of Charles Mclaughlin &
Co. was dissolved Dec. 81, 1897, by
fhe death OF Mr.. Geo. L. Davis. The
business will be continued under the
same firm name by the surviving part
ners. CHARLES WALKER,
ALBERT DRUMMOND,
ian5d1W
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-01-06

There are three periods in all life II the
time of the bud, of the flower and of the
perfect fruit It is thus that girlhood
energies into womanhood and womanhood
into motherhood. Almost all of the ills
from which women suffer have their incep-
ton in weakness and disease of the femi-
nine organism, which bears the burdens of
wifehood and motherhood. These disor-
ders usually begin with puberty, childbirth
or with the :" turn of life Thousands of
women suffer silently for years in this way,
rather than undergo the examinations and
local treatment insisted upon by the major
ity of physicians. This is unnecessary.
An eminent and skillful specialist, Dr.
R. v. Pierce, for thirty years chief consult
ING Musician to the Invalids' Hotel and
Surgical institute: at Rugaslsaa , Y long
since discovered wonderful medicine
that will cure all troubles of this nature
in the privacy of the home. This medi-
cine is known as Dr. Pierces Favorite Pre-
scription. 1t acts directly on the delicate
and important organs that make wifehood
and motherhood possible. 1t makes them
strong, healthy and vigorous. 1t allays in
fammation, heals liberation, soothes pain
and tones UP the nerves. 1t banishes the
indispositions of the period of impending
maternity, and makes baby's advent easy
and almost painless. 1t transforms weak,
sickly, nervous invalids into happy, healthy
wives and mothers All good medicine
dealers sell it, and no honest dealer will
urge a substitute upon you.
Dr. Pierce's Pellets cure constipation.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-01-06

If promises were all that were needed
to make an administration good Mayor
Van Wyck's administration of the city of
New York would be all that the most
exacting could require, for his inaugural
address is full Of excellent promises. But
we fear many of them will turn out like
the great majority of good resolutions on
New Years day-made only to be broken
later on. Perhaps Mayor Van Wyck is
sincere in making thempand intends now
that they shall be kept. But while he
proposes there is power greater than he
that disposes. That power.is Tammany
lIsll and to assume that it win dispose in
the direction of a wise, prudens and
honest administration is to affront prob
ability as violently as to assume that the
man who has made his living by stealing
will make an honest guardian Of other
peoples property committed to his care.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-01-06
THE PRESS.
THURSDAY, JANUARY

Women do not vote in Ohio, but when
"indignities are heaped upon them" they
become power in politics. Mr.. Griffith,
member of the legislature. can bear wit
ness to this.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-01-06

This Company is a corporation doing business
under charters granted by the Legislatures Of
both Maine and New Hampshire. and controls
and ans wi n
Dover, Rochester and Somersworth in New
HAMPSHIRE, and In the towns Of Berwick and
North Berwick in Maine The population of
This Company not only furnishes the light for
the cities and towns named, but also supplies
the power used in operating the street railway
power used for manufacturing purposes.
This branch of business has never been de-
veloped, and the next five years will show a
very large increase in the earning of this de-
partment. r
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
(From Onicial Statement of the Manager):
Capital Stock authorized and
issued fEt4 $3.50, 600. 90
Total amount of First Mortgage
Bond, authorized and issued, $50, 900 90
Earnings from April l, 1886, to
April /, 1897, the time of opera
ton under present management,
Gross Receipts, $3.50, 226.I7
Net Earnings. sc, 092. %
Original cost of this property, 72a.00.00
1t is certified to by two engineers
that the present Value of the
property is 504, 1851. so
We ara informed by the treasurer of the
corporation that the net earnings for the
wear ending in 1897, will exceed the interest
ON the bonds by at least 500
BOND ISSUE.
The total issue of bonds is $3.50, 000.0 90
Secured by mortgage certified by attorneys
to be a first lien on the entire property and
franchise of the company, now owned or
hereafter acquired. The full amount of this
mortgage has been issued, therefore no adj
ditional first mortgage bonds can be issued.
EXAMINATION.
We have the favorable reports of two engi-
neers who made a careful examination of
this property.
LEGALITY
The legal papers have been drawn under
the com bined direction of Charles H. Tyler,
Esq, of Boston, Frank S. Streeter, Esq, of
Concord, New Hampshire, and Druminond
s. Drummond of Portland, and thry have
passed their opinions favorably upon this
issue of bon s.
MANAGEMENT
The IN ,nagement of the Company is as
follows:
Albert Wallace, President, Rochester, New
Hampshire
Hon. H. l.. Shepherd. Treasurer and Cen
eral Manager, Rockport. Maine.
Direct rs, Albert Wallace, Rochester, N.
H., hn G. Kiyel. George K. Wall zee,
Rochest r. N. H.; Fred e. Richards, Port
land Me-; George e. MacOmbeT, Augusta.
Me; H. l.. Shepherd Rockport, Me-, and
Berney c. Parsons Boston, Mass.
This corporation Is controlled by Well
known New England men and the directors
are men of local standing and position.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-02-20

binding the feet Of their children, on the cha' sc
that the process gave excruciating pain 10 'he
,;,,,o oree hut in every instance so Tar inc
chinese have nroved by reputable white phys'-
oiana that the binding Of the feet when begun
IN babvbood is absolutely painless. The OIL
GERS Of the law are therefore powerless only
the other day the local society uieu II "e'
and found that If was useless to make such ar
rests -, ~,
The bandages are kept on the feet unit" '"e
woman attains her growth, and NATURE h'
longer attempts to force her way against tho
stout webs of silk and linen. Then they are
taken off and the Chinese girl hobbies through
life on two withered stumps.
A rich Chinese generally marries one or TWO
natural-foot wives and then buys littie-ioo'
wife. who at once becomes the head OF MS
establishment If times get hard ana money
scarce he may dispose Of one OF ms hatuidi-
foot wives but he must keep one OF them 10
wait upon Mrs Little Foot and help her move
about the house to escort, or, more correctly
speaking to haf-carry her up and down stars
to her carriage when she goes to a banquet or
the theatre and to do the housework for her
liepe lord and master and his litte-foot wife
Very rich merchants sometimes have two little
foot wives but they such an expensive
ouire. that one is usually all well-to-do Chi
nese can stand
The poorer class OF Chinese, who are unapIe
TO afford little-foot wives themselves not lhire-
ouentIy manage to make little-foot women out
of the daughters born to them by the natural
foot wives. 1t is a paying investment If the