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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-11-03
Strictly KnsIness

II thought" exclaimed the ardent
citizen, that you were for peace at
any price, 800 ma
WELL replied the heavy investor,
II did express myself to that effect
until Spanish arrogance began to bull
the market so outrageously. Wash
ington Evening Star. ~
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-11-03
How Ii This9

Always do right and your friends
will stand by you.
yes, but the time man needs
friends to stand by him is when he
does wrong. Chicago Record.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-11-03
A Climatic Response.

'I call for division of the house!'
exclaimed a member of the Colorado
legislature.
At that very moment cyclone hap
pened along and the division was
promptly and completely accom-.
plished.-Cleveland Leader.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-11-03
Case OF Long Standing.

Mrs. Filanthrop you are a suffer
er from nervous prostration, as you
say you are, why don't you do some
thing for it?
Tuffold Knutt--I do, ma'am; I'm
takin' wot they call the rest cure
Chicago Tribune.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-11-03
Two Little Girls.
othy Dump, Dorothy Dump,

Two Little Girls.
Dorothy Dump, Dorothy Dump,
Sat in her palace forlorn;
She ate her honey and counted her
money
And moped from morn to morn.
What dolorous world!'' said Dor
othy Dump:
IT wish had never been born. =
Barbara Bright, Barbara Bright. n
Toiled for the Wretched and poor:
She gave them money and fed them
with honey, Il
And taught them how to be truer.
What a beautiful world!, said Bar
bara Bright,
:. lis good to be living, I'm sureia
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-11-03
No Novice at Matrlmony.

Scott-So you didn't get married
after all?
Bowen-No, had a narrow escape;
just before the time fixed for the we'd
ding, I learned that my intended was
a widoW.-New York Vim.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-11-03
The Spy,s Mistake

subordinate-We have caught a
Spanish spy who was trying to find
out our plans.
American General-Why doesn't he
read the New York papers? They
know our plans before we do.--Puck.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-11-03
The Means:

Why do persons talk Of raising the
wind when they need moneys
Because It's the wind that raises
the dust. New York Vim.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-11-03
Quite likely,

Mrs. Benham-I wonder why Lots
wife looked back?
Benham Probably to see II her
dress dragged. New York Vim.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-11-03
OUR BUDGET OF FUN.
SOME GOOD JOKES. ORIGINAL
AND SELECTED. It

a Variety OF Jokes-Jibes and Ironics
Original and selected-Flotsam and
Jetsam from the Tide of Humor
Witty Sayings
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-11-03
THE I.and.man,. w,.h.

The Landsman's Wish.
I'd like to be sailor
And sail the salty sea,
Upon mighty cruiser
Oh, that's the life for me!
I'd like to be sailor,
A tar with grit and Drawn
+ I'd like to when there wasn't
Any fighting going on.
Chicago News.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-11-03

The Song That Reached His Heart.
She warbled Home Sweet Home t
him,
With all her girlish art; .
She tried Sweet Annie Laurie" but
She failed to reach his heart.
At last, despairfng, she began
On Yankee Doodle when
He cracked his heels together and
She won him there and then.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-11-03

Fanny Footlights-1 never go out
to supper with men after the show.
Willy Wilt Then you won't go with
me?
Fanny Footlights Why, certainly
will, Willy!-Up-to-Date.
He Got There.
His Wife-NoW you won't forget any
of those things asked you to bring
home?
The Suburbanite (doubtfully}-I
hope not. Suppose you give me sealed
orders, not to be opened till reach
New York.-Brooklyn Life.
Better Than Having Them Stolen.
First Actress Yes, Miss Starr at
tempted suicide by charging a musket
with her diamonds and firing them INTO
her body.
Second Actress What a glorious adj
vertisement! Jewellers Weekly.
The Portland daily press., 1898-02-08
STRIKE CONTINUES.

Brunswick, February 1.-THE machinery
at the CABOT Cotton mills, where strike
has been in progress for four weeks owing
to reduction in wages, started this
morning, but after the machinery had
been in motion about ten minutes it was
stopped, only sixty operatives being found
in their places. A bout seven hundred en-
Moved Agent Button announced today
that the mills would remain closed for IN
indefinite period. Practically all the en-
ployes state that they will seek work else
where rather than return under eleven
per cent reduction.
The Portland daily press., 1898-02-08

An Iowa agricultural editor, whose
paper has the largest circulation OF any
agricultural paper in that part sof the
country, delivered an address the other
day before the members of the legislature
on the question of the annexation or
Hawaii. This editor takes the ground
that the annexation of that island, ensur-
ing as it would, the free Importation OF
its sugar product perpetually would con-
stitute killing blow to the beet sugar in
dustry, of the West. To the claim that
Hawaii is now producing all the sugar
that it is capable of he replies that the
same claim was made twenty years ago
or in 1875 when the reciprocity treaty was
entered into which admitted Hawaiian
sugar free. Ths product was then about
81, 100000 pounds. During the next ten
years under the stimulus of free admit
lance to our markets it rose to 1870, 900, 600,
and during the last ten years it has aver
aged 273, 900, 900 pounds. He claims that
the limit has by no means been reached,
and that if annexed Hawaii will swamp
the infant beet sugar industry with its
cane product which can be produced at
cent pound less than beet sugar. Speak
ing of the claim recently set up that
Hawaii would go into the business OF
coffee raising after annexation he says:
One of the fairy tales advanced by an
nexationists is that Hawaii will substi-
tute coffee growing for sugar raising
Those who advance this argument must
be ignorant of the coffee situation. Coffee
culture has been SO stimulated in various
parts of the world as to create large
overproduction, though many new plan
tations have not yet come into bearing,
Green Rio coffee No. is the standard
SPECULATIVE brand upon which market
values are based. 1t has declined from
the usual average of is or 20 cents per
pound wholesale at New York to and
cents, the lowest prices in the history .of
the coffee trade. In view of the coffee
planters efforts to,Tcurtail production as
the only salvation from bankruptcy, it ia
evident that no material amount OF capt.
tai and labor now invested in Hawaiian
sugar will be diverted to coffee culture
for many years
The Portland daily press., 1898-02-08
CLIMATE NOT CHANGING.
why the coolest Inhabitant's' View Can
not Be Depended Upon in All Weather.
(Prof. Cleveland Able in Monthly Wealth
er Review.)

er Review
A correspondent in Northfield, Mass. j,
desires our opinion on the q question:
ssWere the winters of 80 or rs years ago
much colder or were the snowfalls deep
or than at present? The opinion Is wide
" held that the winters were colder and
the snowfalls deeper but can find moth.
ing to warrant the belief except that In
the first part of the century much larg-
er percentage of the population lived IN
the hill towns or in the interior, which
are both colder than the valley or the
coast towns.
On the general question as to appre-
ciable changes in climate the editor 8
opinion is that there has been no such
change in any respect whatever SO far as
meteorology proper is concerned. If we
divide our records Of the weather re-
corded in North America since the days
of Columbus into two periods, viz, be-
fore and after the year 1890, we shall
find that every popularity, such as re-
markable storms, winds, rains, floods,
frosts, etc., recorded in the current CEN
tury can be matched by corresponding
remarkable event before the year 1900.
The popular impressions alluded to by
our correspondent result almost entirely
from the imperfections of our records,
and especially of our memories. There
is large class of persons whose habits
of thought are SO crude that whom they
experience any very remarkable weather
they Jump to the conclusion that the
climate has changed, forgetting that they
themselves have had such limited per-
sonal experience that they are not fair
Judges Of the weather over the who lie
country OF of the climate OF century.
Our correspondent seems to suggest
that certain change in the habits of the
people, such as the removal from the in
terror to the coast, or from forests to
prairies, or from country to city, or vice
versa, will partly account for widespread
errors in respect to climate. The sugges-
tion is excellent. but the editor would
be inclined to interpret the phenomenon
somewhat differently. The general move
ment of the population in the past CEN
fury has been from the Atlantic States
westward, and from the country to the
city, or quite opposite to the movement
suggested by our correspondent. In fact,
we find no real agreement In the SO called
popular traditions with regard to the
weather. We have met with quite as
many persons who think the winters are
more severe as with those who think the
winters are less severe than formerly.
Everything seems to depend upon how
and where the "oldest inhabitant' lived
when he was boy as compared with his
present condition. The average climate
of New England SO far as the weather is
concerned has not appeciably changed
since the days when her Oldest forest trees
were young saplings end that carries us
back nearly five hundred years.
The Portland daily press., 1898-02-08
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The Portland daily press., 1898-02-08

There are signs of serious dissension
among the New Bedford strikers which
threaten to bring an early victory to the
mill companies. 1t was practically in
evitable from the start that the strikers
should be beaten, with or without dissen-
sion. The middle of the winter was an
exceedingly inopportune time to start
ouch an enterprise, especially as there had
been no preparation for it in the shape of
the accumulation of a Esubsistance fund.
The strikers have been well behaved. and
public sympathy appears to have been
largely on their side but the odds they
had to contend with have been altogether
too great. A little more knowledge OF
strategy would. help the laboring men i'm
mensely. AS it is now they too often
hurl themselves against solid stone wall
and waste their energies trying to carry
The Portland daily press., 1898-02-08

The women suffragists are preparing
to make test fight in Iowa, having Sc
Ieoted that state as the most promising
place in the country. They purpose to
get the legislature to submit constitu-
tional amendment to the people striking
out the word male where it occurs in the
suffrage clauses of the fundamental law.
We should not wonder if they succeeded.
The average. legislator is very gallant and
likes to oblige the ladies when he can do
so without assuming much responsibility.
This will be a case in which he can, be-
cause he can explain that all he has done
is to give the people chance to vote on
the subject. ,AndIafter he has done this
ten chances to.one he will go forth and
advise the people to vote it down.
The Portland daily press., 1898-02-08

The Republicans of the Sixth Illinois
district have just renominated Represen-
tative Henry A. Boutelle and expressed
their opinions about the currency. Their
utterances will make some OF our sena-
tors SILVER for they endorsed Secretary
Cages speech at Philadelphia and Presi-
dent McKinley's at New York, used the
word gold instead of "sound currency"
and ''best money on earth." condemned
the Teller resolution and applauded its
defeat under the leadership of Speaker
Reed in the House. There can be no
d ,ubt as to what the Republicans of the
sixth Illinois district believe in.
The Portland daily press., 1898-02-08

1t is now predicted that Congress will
be ready to adjourn about the first of
May The impracticability and impolicy
of attempting any currency legislation,
with the existing lack Of harmony as to
what that legislation should be, are be-
coming more evident daily. The cam.
paign this fall will in all probability be
fought on the issue of maintaining the
present gold standard and to complicate
that question with the numerous ques-
ton regarding banks would surely help
the free silver men.
The Portland daily press., 1898-02-08

The Hon. Lemuel Ely Quigg has again
been elected chairman of the
New York Republican county
committee. In the municipal
CAMPAIGN Mr.. Quigg showed himself to
b an exceedingly efficient..rainbow chaser
,redicting Republican success up to the
time of closing the polls on election day.
Perhaps it was for his efficiency in this
direction that he was reelected. Certain
" he showed none in any other.
The Portland daily press., 1898-02-08

A Madrid correspondent of the New
York Sun who appears to be particularly
-eli informed as to the Cuban situation
do lares that there Is no doubt that means
" which the Sagasta ministry hopes to
paoify the island is money distributed to
the insurgent leaders as bribes.H In
Madrid it is an open secret that it is
along this line that the ministry is work
ing and that it is along this line entirely
that if homes for success,
The Portland daily press., 1898-02-08

The City of Berlin is situated in Coos County,
New Hampshire, on the Androscoggin River,
which furnishes at this point one of the finest
water powers in New England.
The Boston Il Maine and Grand Trunk Rail
roads give ample facilities.
The large Plants of the Berlin Mills Co., the
Burgess Sulphite Fibre Company and the Glen
Co. are located at Berlin.
In 1880 Berlin had population OF 100, in
1890 the population was 1929, in 1895 1881 and is
now estimated to be over 5000.
In 1896 the Berlin Mills Company employed
575 men, the Glen Co. 400 the Burgess Sulphite
Fibre Company 125 and other smaller concerns
40 more.
Since then the Burgess Sulphte Fibre Com
pany have doubled the size of their plant, the
their three mills and shoe factory has been
built which now employs 45O operatives.
In addition to the water power required by
power is yet unemployed and its development
win result in q steady growth in population in
the future.
The Portland daily press., 1898-02-08
JAMES's TRIAL.BEGINs

Pennington, February THE trial of
Andrew James on the charge of ATTEMPT
to kill Joseph Tetro of Jay, was begun in
the Supreme court before jury this
afternoon. The witnesses were Tetro and
DR.. Cakes of the Central Maine bosnita1
The Portland daily press., 1898-02-08
CURRENT COMMENT.
POPULAR IN HALIFAX.
(From the Halifax Mail.

The Portland (Me) Press says that ''it
seems to be practically settled that the
Hon. Darius II. Ingraham will be the
next Democratic candidate for mayor"
of that city. Mr.. lngraham's many Hall
fax friends will heartily wish him sue
CESS.
The Portland daily press., 1898-02-08

impregnable positions by direct assault.
1t is common to lay all their mistakes to
the leaders, but the truth probably is that
the hot headed men in thesranks who will
submit to no restraint are more RESPONSE
BILE then they.
The Portland daily press., 1898-02-08

Boss Croker has abandoned Bryan and
is said to be organizing the Eastern
Democrats to beat him in the next Demo-
cratic national convention. Cookers
first choice Is said to be Carter Harrison
of Chicago. Harrison is less of silver
man than Bryan and he is less of a man
in other ways also.
The Portland daily press., 1898-02-08

general i1l-health by looking in her mirror
The sallow or blotched complexion, heavy
eyes and dark circles under them, the little
wrinkles that gradually creep around the
corners of her eyes and mouth and the
general look of 1istlessness and despond-
ency will tell the story. Special troubles
of this kind are too frequently neglected
because the natural and proper modesty OF
women keeps them from consulting the
average run of physicians. These men,
because they are without inherent delicacy
themselves, imagine that women are the
same. They insist upon obnoxious exam
nations and local treatment from which
any sensitive woman shrinks. DIR. P1erce's
Favorite Prescription will do more Tor
woman who suffers in this way than all the
doctors of this description together. Dur
ing the past thirty years it has been used
BY over ninety thousand women with mar
ye1ous results. 1t is an unfailing cure for
all weakness and disease peculiar to wom-
en-. All good medicine dealers sell 1t.
For number of years suffered with COM
plication of female troubles writes Mrs. J. E.
Ferguson of Edgmoor, Chester Co, S. c. ~
tried various remedies from physicians but
nothing seemed to do me any good 1t seemed
that my back would kill me had smothering
constipation. / took DR.. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scriptfon and Pleasant Pellets and was en-
tirely cured"
Send for DR.. Pierce's Common Sense
Medical Adviser. Paper bound, 81 one
cent stamps; cloth bound, ten cents more.
Address DR.. R. v. Pierce, Buffalo, N Y.
The Portland daily press., 1898-02-08
IBID PRESS.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY s.

ThelArgus would. do we'll to turn some
Of the attention which it is giving Alder
man Rounds to the Hon Darius II. In
graham. If his boom gets little more
Roadway the GENTLE portion of the
Democracy will have no chance at all.
The Portland daily press., 1898-02-08
BOARD GIVES 1T UP

rBiddeford, February 1.-THE arbitra-
tion committee of the Board of Trade
has given up present efforts to adjust
tho strike situation.
The Portland daily press., 1898-02-08

THE ASSETS OF THE COMPANY ARE,
Cash on hand, in bank and with
agents. ST47,147.73
State stocks and bonds, 29250. 90
Hartford bank stocks, 569 DC. 90
Miscellaneous bank stock $50 9O7. 90
Corporation and railroad stocks and
bonds 2T74,46.00
County, city and water bonds, 34i,27100
Real estate, 527,696.6I
Loans Oh collateral, 20,200.00
Loans on real estate, 1872, 10
Accumulated interest and rents. 1881 DO
Total cash assets, $553s, 1880
LIABILITIES.
Cash capital, $4,000, 00O.0O
Reserve for outstanding losses 375.410!3
Reserve for reinsurance, 2.139,993.40
Net surplus 1922 1851
Total assets, S5,53s, 5000
d. W. G. SKILTON. President.
EDWARD MILLlGAN, Secretary. J
feb3eod3w
The Portland daily press., 1898-02-08
ROOFING!
HOLLIVAN & PARKER,
Asphalt, Composition and
Gravel RoOfers,

Agents for Warren's Anchor Brand, Naturs
Asphalt Roofing, endorsed by leading archt
tects and engineers.
ASPHAE T READY ROOFING
, and 8 ply. Greatly superior to coal tar
preparations.
Asphalt Floors, also afvam-
ICED HrOm and copper Cutters
and COrnices, Tin and Iron
Roofing. IRON Siding Tor Fire
p'FOOf Buildings, Corrugated
conductors, Smoke Pspes for
Steam Heaters and Stationary
Boilers.
The Portland daily press., 1898-02-08

The report concludes with the statement
that, owing to the near approach of the
new municipal year it is inexpedient for
the present city council to contract for
gas engines and dynamos. The commit
tee, therefore, recommend that for the
present the new rates of the Consolidated
Electric Light company be accepted.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-04-06
NO REASON TO CROW.

The Portland (Me) authorities having
pointed with pride TO the fact that there
were only 1850 arrests for drunkenness
In that city last year-a decided falling
Off from the year before-the Boston
Herald rises to exult that Boston's re-
cord of DRINKS for the same period was
not much greater than Portland's. As
the Hubs population is put down at AS
4A, and Portland's at sc. l25, the Herald
thinks it has reason TO crow nightly.
Not bit of it. The facts do not prove,
as our Boston contemporary would imply,
that Portland is more degenerate than
the Bean city. As Portland is "A prohibi-
ton city. and drink can only be pro-
cured there on a physicians certificate.
the facts prove only that it is also very
sickly city, and that owing 10 their en-
feebled condition the people have no head
for whiskey. They canno; stand it like
the stalwart and hearty Bostonese.
1t appears that about the same health
conditions obtain in Portland that obtain
In Vermont, where last year, on physi-
clans certificates, an average Of 81 cents
worth Of liquor was sold to every man,
woman, and child in the State.
II must be said, however, that the de-
crease of DRINKS in Portland last year.
as compared with the year before, would
seem to make for indicating the evil
dent faith of the physicians OF the Maine
city in liquor as medicine. In short,
the practice of prescribing liquor seems
to be gradually resulting in putting a
head on the people in a way that liquor
doesn't usually put a head on; and If !
Portland's record continues TO improve
she will ere long be able to stand up |
With Boston when drinks are passed |
around.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-04-06
ISAAC WADE ARRESTED.
Alleged Wife-Murderer Said to Have
Been Appreciated.

FLOYD COURTHOUSE, April 6.-(Spe-
cial)-It was reported here yesterday
that Isaac Wade, who had been missing
since his wife was SO brutally murdered
ten days ago, had been arrested, charged
with the commission of the awful crime
Of Wife-murder. II was also said that
VIXEN Wade was asked why he killed his
wife, he replied 1.-THE devil got in me. l
reckon" Wade was taken before a JUS
tice yesterday, but the result Of the in
YestigatiOn has not been learned.
The war-fever is not very high here
Most people seem TO think that the blow
ing up Of the Maine is our chief cause
of complaint against Spain Some also
think that when the United States Gov
eminent complains to Spain OF the cruel
treatment of Cubans. that Spain might
cite to this government its treatment OF
Condemnation instance, Sheridan's
and Hunters vandalism in the Valley,
Sherman's desOlation of Georgia and
South Carolina, the placing Of 600 Con-
fcderate officers under fire on Morris
Island, the starving of many of them.
even unto death, afterwards at Fort
Pulaski and Hylton Head, when for
forty-three days they were fed on no.
thing but ten ounces of sour, mouldy,
spoiled. and wormy cOrnmeal-no salt
even-and half-pint sour pickle per day.
Of this latter treatment, the writer
knows whereof he speaks, as he does also
OF many other acts at which the true
revOlts