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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-03-07

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A LIVING WITNESS.
Mrs. Hoffman Describes How She
Wrote to Mrs. Pinkham for
Advice, and Is Now We'll.

DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM:-Before using
your Vegetable Compound 1 was a
great sufferer. I have been sick for
months, was troubled with severe pain
in both sides of abdomen, sore feeling
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CAUCUS ES
NORTH YARMOU rH.

The Republicans of North Yarmouth are re-
quested to meet at the town house n sag TOWN.
pose OF selecting candidates Tor the several
town Offices to be supported at the coming
municipal election and 10 choose toWit COM
mttee. Ell Vi'i'fh'
North Yarmouth. March p 1855
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CAPE ELIxaBETit.

The citizens OF Cape Elizabeth are requested
to meet il caucus at Grange Hall in said town
on Tuesday the eighth day of March. 1885, at
TWO O'Clock D. ~. to nominate candidates for
town Offices for the ensuing year. Per Order
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-03-07

your Vegetable Compound | was a
great sufferer. I have been sick for
months, was troubled with severe pain
in both sides of abdomen, sore feeling
,<uzsxzue. in lower part of bow
A@ : NSSsA els, also suffered
EMNY Y SS S 'sNSA headache, and
ks8 III ~" W ssA could not sleep.
EMss$AsA - EsSsR9a / wrote you
WHsA - MHaY letter describ-
sA/WSS ing my case and
W w asking your
advice. You
~ << replied tell
~ ing me just
what to do. l
followed your direc-
tions, and cannot praise your medicine
enough for what it has done for me-
Many thanks to you for your advice,
Lydia E. Pinlzham's Vegetable Com
pound has cured me, and / will recon-
mend it to my friends. Mrs. FLORENCE
r. HOFFMAN, 512 Roland ST., Canton, o.
The condition described by Mrs. Hof
man will appeal to many women, yet
lots of sick women struggle on with
their daily tasks disregarding the
urgent warnings until ovcrtalken by
actual collapse.
The present Mrs. Pinlzham's expert
ence in treating female ills is unparal-
leled, for years she worked side by side
with Mrs. Lydia Z. Pinlham, and for
sometimes past has had sole charge
of the correspondence department OF
her great business, treating by letter
as many as a hundred thousand ailing
women during single year.
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GOOD TIMES HAVE COME.

You can afford to indulge yourself or your
Family in the luxury of a good weekly news.
paper and a quarterly magazine of fiction
You can get both of these publications with
almost library of good novels for S. per year.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-03-07

All these conslderatlons had sumcIent
weight to defeat the bill signally. The
Repub licans gent Ally supported the bill.
as it promised to reduced the deficit in
the post flee department, and also be
cause the regularly established publica-
tions in the cities and country towns OF
their states generally favored the bill.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-07-07
The SnHolk : heep.

This beautiful sheep is a fair repre-
sentative of another descendant of the
Southdown breed to which it owes all
those pecularities, except size, that
have been given to every cross bred
race of sheep in which the SouthdoWn
blood flows. 1t more closely resembles
its half parent than the Shropshire
does, having a smoother body, finer
fleece, and more of the broad loin than
this possesses. 1t is new breed, hav-
ing only been admitted to the English
exhibitions as a distinct class ten years
ago, although it's foundation began by
the first cross of the Southdown on an
ancient race, hardy, horned, black
faced sheep existing from time I'M
memorial in the County of Suffolk, in
England. This sheep is special mutt
ton breed, its fleece, however, being
valued highly for the manufacture OF
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-07-07
In the Days OF Old.

The fashionable folk of Edward Tvs
court rose with the lark, dispatched
their dinner at IL o'clock, and shortly
after were wrapped in slumber. In
the Northumberland House Book for
1912, it is set forth that the family
rose at in the morning, breakfasted
at Z, dined at 10, and supped at in
the afternoon. The gates were all
shut at 9, and no further ingress or
egress permitted. In 1870, at the Uni
versity of Oxford, it was USUAL to dine
at II o'clock, and sup at 5 in the after
noon. The dinner hour, which was
once as early at 10 o'clock, has grad
ually got later and later, until now it
would be thought very eccentric in the
fashionable world to sit down to table
earlier than half-past six o'clock, while
others extend it to 8 or 10.-Chicayo
Times-Herald.
GET A WHOLE LOT FOR NOTHING.
The man who always wants some
thing for nothing made discovery in
Diamond street restaurant. A waiter
upset a glass on the handicapped
lunch counter, breaking the edge of
the glass. The waiter carelessly tossed
it under the counter and got another
with a smooth edge for the customer
he was serving.
what do you do with glasses thus
slightly damaged?" asked the customer
of the restaurant proprietor, relating
the circumstance.
ooh, we give them away; have to get
rid of them; can't endanger the lips Of
customers by serving them IN nicked
glasses. But why are you interested?"
"Why, I thought if you would give
me few of the old glasses my wife
might use them for jellies.''
"Give me your address and I'll send
YOU some" volunteered the restaur-
ant keeper.
The man for a longing for articles
without price went away gleefully, cali
culating mentally on how much he had
saved on jelly glasses. Two days
| later, when he went home from bust
| ness, he found thirteen barrels in his
back yard. His wife said she supposed
he had sent them and she paid the man
S4.75 for delivering them. When
opened. the barrels were found to con-
tain broken glassware and china of all
| sorts. None of it coufd be used, not
even for jelly glasses An ash hauler
charged So for taking away the rub
bish. The man who wants things for
nothing has withdrawn his patronage
from a particular restaurant in Dia,
mond street.-Pittsburg Chronicle-Te]
egraph.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-07-07
The Oldest Postal System.

We find the first recorded postal sys-
tenn in the Persian Empire, under Cy-
rus the Elder; but it is clear that Rome
of all the ancient States possessed the
best organized system of transmitting
letters through it's numerous provinces.
All along the great Roman roads
houses were erected at a distance OF
five or six miles from each other. At
each of these stations forty horses
were constantly kept, and by the help
of the relays it was easy to travel 100
miles in a day. These services were
intended for the State only, 1t being
imperative to secure the rapid inter
change of official communications.
In the time of julius Caesar the sys-
tenn was so well organized that of two
letters the great soldier wrote from
Britain to Cicero at Rome, the one
reached its destination IN twenty-sis
and the other in twenty-eigIt days
Private citizens had to trust TO the
services of slaves, and it g not till the
end of the third century that we hear
of the establishment of postal sys-
tenn for private persons by the Emper-
or Diocvletian, but how long this sys-
tenn remained history does not say
New York World.
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to the crew to hurry up, but was

to the crew to hurry up, but was
ashamed to do SO. rf
They had started when they heard
the tug whistle, but had seen that The
tide had damned the float again, so
| they took their time and came dowf
the bridge in a leisurely manner, smok-
ing their pipes, swinging their lam
terms, and talking and laughing as II
they had not care in the world.
My fireman was with them. My in
| digntion toward him rose to the point
Of fury.
My steam was nearly gone, but,
thank heaven! the float was moving
again, and was coming steadily ahead.
At last-the most grateful sound ever
heard-she bumped cumbrously into
the bridge.
I closed the throttle just as the con-
ductor-a big, overgrown bocby-camc
abreast of the cab, and leering up to
where stood. a breathless, persD;riDg,
nervous wreck, he asked:
''What you trying to do, engineer
saw the stop-block off,"
climbed weakly down to the bridge
and found that before leaving the crew
had fastened across the rails an old
lie that was used as stop-block when
the engine had to stop there for any
length of time.
The engine had stood foot or two
ahead of it, and as 1 was slipping her
furiously when she sagged back
against it, / hadn't been able to feel
her make the contact.
Two deep grooves In the Old tie
showed where the fanges of tho driv-
ers lad cut into it. as / frauticall.
slipped her for ten or fifteen minutes.
Even now the thought of that exper-
fence nearly overcomes me.-Herbert
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-07-07
A ppusAlc sERFNaDH.

Oh, come, my love, to your window
now!
The moon is shining clear,
And the night wind softly fans my
brow,
AS I stand singing here.
/ am picking away on my old guitar,
AS 1 MARBLE my little song,
But you know I'm sufferer from Ca
tarrh,
So l mustn't stay too long.
oh, come, my love! Look down on me
From your chamber window sweet!
There isn't a soul around to see,
There's nobody in the street.
Though across the way complaining
Is begging me to shut up,
And the fellow next door, as fast as he
Is loosing his brindle pup.
Oh, come, my love, to your window,
QUICK,
For soon f51aii have to go.
I was almost hit just now by brick
That I saw your father throw!
I love you, dear, and my love l sing
In the most melodious way,
But it's dangerous here and to life
cling,
And, SO, oh, my love, good-day!
-Somerville (Mass.) Journal.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-07-07
Take Care of the Old Newspapers.

Old newspapers form an important
item in domestic economy, and are use
full for polishing windows glasses, for
cleaning lamp chimneys, for testing.
and cleaning f1at-irons, and for dozen
other things. You will also need heaps
of them when you come to pack away
the winter clothing. The clOthes-moth,
like other evil-doers, has an aversion
to printers ink. An excellent moth
proof bag may be made of two thick
nesses of newspaper, with the edges
folded as If for an inchwide hem, and
securely pasted. Bags Of the same kind
are about the best thing you can cam
use for keeping seeds and dried herbs
They are dust and insect proof, and
can be labeled and hung In the. store
room until needed.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-07-07
Baked Stuffed Onions.

Select large onions as near Of a size
as possible; peel them, cover with boil
ing sailed water and simmer for ten
minutes. Drain, scoop out the center
of each onion and fill the cavity with
cold minced meat Of any kind, highly
seasoned and moistened with beaten
egg and a very little melted butter.
Place the onions closely together in a
baking pan, haste with little butter
and bake in a moderate oven until ten
der and Drowned, basting occasionally
with butter Prepare separately one
half of a cupful of nice brown sauce.
add the scooped-out centers after chop
ping very fine, season highly and pour
round the onions before serving.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-07-07
Asparagus Sauce.

Take one bunch Of green asparagus,
salt, one ounce of fresh butter, one
small bunch of parsley, three or four
green onions, one large lump Of sugar.
four tablespoonfuls Of white stock.
Break the asparagus in the tender part.
wash well, and put them into boiling
salt and water to render them green,
When they are tender, take them out
and put them into cold water; drain
them on a cloth till all the moisture
is absorbed from them. Put the butter
in a stewpan with the parsley and
onions; lay in the asparagus, and fry
the whole over sharp fire for five
minutes. Add salt, the sugar and
white stock, and simmer for another
FIVE minutes. Rub all through a tam
my, and if not very good color, use
little spinach green. This sauce
should be rather sweet. This is suita-
BILE for garnish.-American Cultivator-
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-07-07
Simple Incubator.

Some years ago hearing piping of
chicks on the side Of manure heap in
the barn yard, searched and found a
nest Of self-hatched live and hearty or
phans left on the cold world without a
mother. And if any living creature
knows best how hard thing it is to be
without a mother, it is a new born
chick. The chicks were saved, how
ever, by simply leaving them where
they were found and feeding them in a
coop fitted to the manure heap, by
which the warmth that had brought
them safely into this cold world, safely
nourished them until they were able
to take care Of themselves, which they
did in short time.
The natural warmth Of fermenting
manure was used to hatch chicks by
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-07-07
Judging Sheep.

1t requires familiarity with sheep to
enable one to judge beneath its coat of
wool whether it is fat or in poor con-
dition. An experienced shepherd will
not only know the various sheep in his
flock by differences in their faces, but
he can also tell by the looks of the
sheep what age it is, and whether 1t is
in thrifty or unthrifty condition. Yet
to most people flock of sheep pre-
sents no individual peculiarities.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-07-07
The Smallest Cows.

The smallest cows in the world are to
be found in the Samoan Islands. The
average weight of the males does not
exceed 200 pounds. The females usual
~ average about 100 pounds, are very
stocky built, and are seldom taller than
a merino sheep. In color these cattle
are nearly all alike, reddish mouse
color marked with white. They have
very large heads and their horns are OF
exceptional length.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-07-07
HoME-MApE RoBsLEDs.

pieces of 2 by inch stuff, set up edge
ways and followed out as shown. The
raves are made of ~ inch thick stuff, 4
inches wide. Beams are 8 by 4 inches
square; holsters the same. The blocks
under beam are by inches, cut of
square and bolted up through runner
and rave with two half-inch bolts.
This makes very strong pair of bobs,
that are just the thing to use in the
sugar bush and around on the farm in
the spring of the year.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-07-07
Cold Tom alto Pickle.

To one-half peck ripe tomatoes
pared, chopped fine and drained two
hours, add one quart vinegar, and al
low it to stand until the rest OF the in
gradients are made ready. Measure
out one cupful onion, chopped fine, one;
cup sugar one cup white mustard seed,
two tablespoonfuls black pepper. one
tablespoonful cinnamon, one Of cloves,
one teaspoonful mace, two or three
heads of chopped celery, one small red.
pepper, one cupful grated horseradish.-
one cupful nasturtium seed and one
half cup of salt. Stir together and bot
tie without cooking.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-07-07
The IJnapnreciated Hen,

There are many reasons why the hen,
and not the eagle, should be the ma
tional bird. The eagle is a cowardly
creature, and never makes war except
upon weaker things, and its daily food
is stolen from some poor bird too small
and too weak to defend itself and it's
property. Moreover, the eagle swoops
down upon children, lambs and other
innocent things and bears them to its
home among the mountain crags. This
alone is sufficient to Dust 1t from the po-
sition Of being the bird Of America and
prevent its picture from continuing on
orr dollars. The hen, however, Is q
sweet-tempered, hard-working, produc-
tive creature. She is identified with
eur home life and our domestic and ma
tienal prosper1tz. She lays $4,000, Q00
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-07-07

Reaumur, that noted French scientist
who invented the thermometer known
by his name. 1t is, and has been for
1000 years, in use by Egyptians for
Matching eggs artificially. Mons. Reau-
muir invented a neat box in which the
manure might be placed, and under a
nest kept covered by piece of sheep
skin or bunch or soft hay, to retain
the heat of the manure which seems to
be naturally that needed to hatch
chickens. Now this old self-regalating
apparatus may be set a-going by any
farmers boy, who is not aversc to the
healthful, if disagreeable odor of a
manure heap. The apparatus used for
this purpose is quite simple. A small
barrel, or box, may serve the purpose;
the manure being heaped and covered
with straw as shelter for the nest. A
regulator by which air is given is made
In the shape of pipe or spout having
q thermometer hung inside of it to note
the temperature. This device Is far
more certain than an incubator, heated
by a lamp or by boiling water, for
while the manure may cool down lit
tie it will never get too hot, and so cook
the chickens before their due time. Ger
tainly there is a field for the farmers
boys to try their skill and luck as we
may say, and rear some chicks without
the help or rather worry Of the willful
cross grained and generally unsatisfac-
tory hen, which will as soon as not beat
a little chick to death if it stray with
in her own special brood. II. s.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-07-07

clothing. 1t is doubtful If the breed has
been sufficiently long established to
confer on it the ability to maintain it.
self, as the Southdown or Shropshire
does in all it's special points. Time Is
required for this, but the Suffolk has
its usefulness in crossing an inferior
sheep to improve them in all the de-
sired points for the butcher and for it's
fleece.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-07-07
Delicious Strawberry Dum plings.

Delicious strawberry DumpA1ngBe
Put one pint Of -four into bowl; add
to it half teaspoonful Of salt and a
teaspoonful of baking powder; rub in
carefully tablespoonful of butter, and
add sufficient milk to just mOisten.
Knead lightly, and roll out into sheet
about 8. sixteenth of an inch in thick
ness. Cut with a large round cutter,
put three strawberries in the center OF,
each round; fold over the dough, roll
ing it carefully, SO that you can not see
the opening; stand In creased baking.
pan, brush the top with milk, and bake
in quick oven for fifteen minutes
Serve with strawberry butter, which'
may be made by beating two table
spoonfuls of butter to a cream and add
ing gradually one cup Of powdered
sugar. Add one mashed berry, beat
thoroughly, then another and another
until you have added at least four
good-sized berries. Dish and stand
aside to harden as you would any harda
sauce.-Ladies' Home Journal.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-07-07
Bread Making.

Save one pint Of yeast from the lass
baking. The day before baking cook
six large potatoes, put them in q gallon
Jar and mash. Then put the water the
potatoes were boiled In into q Jar; also,
one tablespoonful of salt and two OF
sugar and cool to rs degrees Fahren-
heit. Then put in the pint of yeast.
This should nearly fill the jar; let this
ferment over night. The next morning.
sift the bread pan two-thirds full Of
-four, hollow out the center, pour I'M
one quart Of boiling water. stirring all
the while, and cool with one quart Of
cold water. After taking out the pint.
Of yeast for next baking pour the re-
mainder into the prepared -four and
beat to stiff batter, cover with -four
and set in q warm place, wrapping the
whole in a blanket to keep a uniforms
temperature. Let rise and knead four
times, using more -four if needed. Then
put the loaves in well creased tin. let
rise until quite light; bake for one hour
This should make eight large loaves.--
Denver Field and Farm.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-07-07
Cru.t for Raised Pies.

;This crust may be used for all pies
with jelly.) Boil lard, good and fine, I'm
water; add as much excellent dripping
as there is lard; there must not be
much of either When stiIl hot, mix II,
with as much flour as you have caacu-
Lifted will do for your purpose Make
she paste stiff and smooth by kneading,
and also by beating It with q rolling
pin. When perfectly smooth, put a BAH
az 1t By ii cloth till cold, then use.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-07-07

worth of eggs every year, OF four and
a fraction eggs for each individual in
the land. When the eagle is loafng
around, waiting to steal something TO
eat, the meCest hen is attending to
business. How much better the hen
than the bald-headed eagle for our ma
tional bird? AS a just recognition of
her supremacy in the reproducing
industries she should dispLtce the eagle.
News.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-07-07
Pair of Bobsleds.

The figure represents a homemade
pair of bobsleds, or fat bottom mud
hobs, that will take the place of the old,
long mud sled. The runners are made
of plank 3 feet inches long by 4
inches wide and ~ inches thick, bolted
together with two three-eighths inch
bolts. The dark lines in cut "a AZ are
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-07-07
Asparagus.

Those who grow asparagus by level
culture object to the work of cutting
the shoots. The proper way is to hill
up the rows thirty inches high, so as
not to be compelled to bend the body
low In cutting. If the shoots are cut
just as the tips are appearing through
the ground, they will be tender from
the ends to the butts.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-07-07
Good Horses In Demand.

Good horses are in demand, not only
for army use, but on farms. A few
years ago horses fell in price to a point
which made it improbable to raise
them, but since that time they have be-
come scarce In some sections There
may be an abundant supply Of plugs"
but horses adapted Tor general work On
the sasne x,n And ready rals
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-07-07
The Value Of Nickel

Nickel is a modern metal. It wa,
not in use nor known of till 1715. It
has now largely taken the place of sil-
yer in plated ware, and as an alloy
with steel it is superior to any other
metal, for it is not only non-corrodible
itself. but it transfers the same quality
to steel: even when combined as low
as ave per cent. prevents oxidation.