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The Portland daily press., 1899-12-22
TIE BEECHER CLUB.

The Beeeher club met yesterday after
noon at the home of Mrs. Philip Brown
on Vaughan street. There was a large st.
tendance and programme Of unusual
interest was carried out, A dainty lunf h
WAS served and the afternoon was made
still more enjoyable by the singing OF
Miss Helen Brown and Mrs. Brown. The
next meeting of the club will be with
Miss Elizabeth Varnum at which time
Suffrage" will to the topic of discus
sion. The Equal Suffrage club 10 Invited
to attend this meeting as guests of th'
Beechsr club.
The Portland daily press., 1899-12-22
CHRISTMAS OFFERINGS. Il

There will be two trees at the Gospel
Mission chapel corner Pearl and Lincoln
streets, Monday evening. and all who
wish to donate Rifts for the children will
send the same Saturday NJ the chapel, al
SO donations Of food and clothing will be
received at the chapel or at LAT Oxford
street.
The Portland daily press., 1899-12-22
NAMES GREATEST STORE.
Picture Bargains.

See our Soc table Of odd marked down
pictures. Some good ones here.
Etcbings one lot in rest gold frames
no mat, marked from Sl.35 to sS c
Platinum prints. psstels. oils. water ,colors
engrsvings at low prices.
The Portland daily press., 1899-12-22
NEW QUARTERS.

The Il. b. Davis Arms company have
removed from their old store on Middle
street to new and larger quarters at 3 and
8 Temple street. opposite the Falmouth
hotel where they will keep a complete
line of sportsmen's goods and supplies Of
All kinds.
The evening times., 1899-05-25
A Hint to History Makers.

There is good deal of excellent sense
in a remark made by Rear Admiral Schley
to an interviewer in Omaha the other lay
The newspaper man said 10 aim: Tine
magazines have not yet printed your story
of the campaign" The Admiral an
swered
No: have not written anything and have de-
c!ihed an requests for contributions Of literary
hlhd. do not believe that those who make bis
10Y of assist IN making history should write it.
Their field of vision is necessarily limited and
they view ii quite differently from one who
might obliqucly the entire situation Then
again there are personal interests that should be
eliminated, and the simple facts should be handed
down TO Subsequent generations II il facts that
the people want. and when the facts are in their
possession they 90 not have TO go To a normal
school 20 deduct conclusions.
But if all naval officers took the same
view of such matters what in the world
would become OF people like Sampson?
They also make, or assist 10 make. history.
but seldom except through the media of
the magazines. Take them away and
there would be no history, or what little
there might be would be silent as to the
lives and adventures of our marine maga-
zinists.
And. really. there is something charitable
TO be said for this class. II is all very
well for naval commanders who have won
battles and sunk fleets to affect a modest
demeanor and avoid exploiting themselves:
but bow about the other kind who desire
to claim the credit for engagements they
neither participated in nor saw even from
distance They are badly handicapped.
They cannot well describe their victories
By word Of mouth. because their auditors
would be sure TO ask disagreeable ques-
tions. and possibly pin them down 30 IN
comfortable facts. But they can always
find plenty of ammunition in their maga-
zine and use it to kill more foes than any
body. Sailing or fighting in a magazine
may be not withou, labor and anxiety
But, at least, the mortality list is at the
command of the writing admiral, who has
also the advantage of power and oppor-
tunity to make the maps and charts neces-
saTy to his profession coincide with his
purposes, without reference to anything
else. On the whole it would be cruel to
drive the naval makers of strictly rnaga-
zine history out of the business. which no
doubt is pleasant as well as profitable.
The evening times., 1899-05-25
CONDITIONS IN HONDURAS.
Former President BOnilR Tells of
AEairs in the Rcuullic

Affairs in the Republic.
New York. May 25.-Dr. P. Boniia. for
mer President of Honduras, talked about
his country and its people last evening.
DR.. Bonila is about forty years old, anu
has straight black hair, black eyes, and a
bristling black mustache. In complexion
and featuresi he looks something like on
Indian. He is powerfully built man.
more than six feet tall, and weighing about
100 pounds. He speaks English with
strong accent.
There is much that would like 20 tell
North Americans about Honduras" said
the doctor; $50 much. in fact. that 1t is
difficult to make beginning. Perhaps
may begin with what may seem to some a
very startling statement when made about
4 Central American country. There will
be no more revolution in Honduras for
long time to come. This comes largely
from the fact that the people throughout
the country are more prosperous than they
have been In years. and that they are con-
tented.
THE main reason for the satisfactory
condition of Honduras at present Is be-
cause We have abrogated the import Guty
we had on silver. We have plenty OF silver
in Honduras, taken from our mines, and l
cannot understand why American capital
lists who control some of the mines are op-
posed to free coinage here.
THE tobacco industry in Honduras Will
soon be extensive. but there is more money
to be made In rubber in my country than IN
tobacco Honduras is almost literally a
forest of rubber trees. but there has been
no attempt to develop the industry
The evening times., 1899-05-25
DYING FROM LoCKJAw.
Accident Insurance Men Excite
n~er the Vlctjn,,s Stnteusenss

Accident Insurance Men Excited
Over the Victim's Statements.
New York. May 25.-Austin Devereux. OF
% West Twenty third Street. is dying of
Iockjaw. in Bellevue Hospital. from the
effects of a gunshot wound in the left an
kle. Devereux is the New York agent of
the Grand Rapids School Furniture Com
pany and has wife and two children. On
May 16 shotgun he was carrying. explod-
ed, he asserts, while he was crossing the
East River on a ferryboat on his way to
do some shooting on Long Island.
Yesterday. representatives of FIVE acct
dent insurance companies in which Dever-
eux is insured were at the hospital and told
Deputy Superintendent Richard that Dew
ereux's policies amounted to s12, 500 with
conditional clauses, doubling this amount
if the accident happened on a ferryboat or
train. Mr.. Rickard said last night that the
insurance men had pooled their interests
and thar they intended to make a fight
against paying Devereux's policies.
The evening times., 1899-05-25
National Verncify.

An article on Public Lying which is
suggestive as well as interesting. appears
in the New York Commercial Advertis-
err" In it the racial tendencies of various
European nations are considered in their
| relations TO truth and accuracy-for the
two things are not quite the same. And
the conclusion seems to be that the Eng
lishman carries off the prize for absolute,
literal truthfulness.
Public lying, as may be inferred. is that
which is done in public documents in
speeches, and political harangues. and in
newspapers and although public and phi
vate lying usually go together. the sur
prising statement is made that there is
more public lying in Teutonic Germany
than in Italy, while in private life tie
German tells the truth and the Italian
the Latin races as untruthful in COMPARE
son with the Saxon; but there is another
paradox in the fact that the Romans were
generally truthful so long as they remained
unmixed in blood. Yet Caesar once de-
liberately exaggerated the strength of an
army which was marching against his own.
frankly representing to his soldiers the
meet very much as an Englishman might
at the present time. l. is a British trait
not to make the best If things in the sense
Of taking roseate views OF them, but ratL-
er ITO make them at their worst, and fare
the situation with stubborn self confi-
dence.
If the nations of the civilized world were
to be ranged in row. after the manner of
the old fashioned spelling class, and rank
ed according to veracity, it is little diff
cult to tell where America would be in the
line. The Englishman would undoubtedly
claim the place at the head with serene
and unquestioning confidence, but the
American could justly claim that what
his British friend calls truthfulness is
partly lack of imagination and of humor.
When, for instance. the newspapers Of this
country published mock-serious articles on
the dangers of Coxey's Army, some years
ago, the English press took it all seriously,
while it is not likely that single Ameri-
can reader did. So with some of our other
public utterances. The intelligent Ameri-
can can translate them accurately and sift
out the rhetoric from the plain statement
Of facts; the foreigner might be puzzled.
and. in fact. very often is. But when he
comes to live in this country he does not
have a great deal Of trouble in separating
the wheat from the chaff. He can tell,
when he hears a campaign speech. how
much Of the orators rhetoric is truth stat
ed in forcible way and how much Is en-
broidered exaggeration. He knows that
when the orator exclaims that the country
will go to absolute ruin II his man is not
The evening times., 1899-05-25
Good Roads,
To the Editor of The Times:

To the Editor OF The Times:
Your editorial concerning prison labor
and its relation to competitive honest free
labor will not apply to all communities.
There are thousands of miles Of country
roads that could be improved with profit
to city and country residents. Such i'm
provements could be made and INJURIOUS
ly affect no one, but rather result IN vast
benefits. Gravel beds and quarries could
be maintained where now such works are
impossible, where the annual appropria-
tions disappear but no improvements en-
the roads are noticeable: where the roor
farmer has been worked until the able
ones have left the farms and the poor
countryman behind and the promise for
future developments is not what it should
be with the natural advantages that are
overlooked. Within a short distance Of
Washington. certainly less than twelve
miles, are roads that are practically closed
a considerable part of each year. and an
enquiry into the possibility of their per-
manent improvement seems to properly
come within the efforts of the business
element ci Washington. OF positive detri-
ment to the city merchant and to
the farmer, these roads are serious re-
flection upon the efficiency of the authori-
ties who are in charge of them. and the
Washington Board of Trade nigh. profit
ably institute an enquiry into the matter
of road development for much depends,
after all modern methods of travel are con-
sidered. upon the good, old-fashioned hard
roads that do more to add to the content
ment and prosperity of mankind than the
general public has any knowledge Of.
II we possess deposits Of gravel and in
some places, suitable rock for road build
ing. why should communities too poor to
build good roads be compelled to support
numerous convicts in idleness. thereby ad-
ding to the honest poor mans burden?
There is no question OF competition in
vOlved. The convicts could be put to work
preparing the material for roads and hon.
est free labor could be employed where
now road funds become spoils. With good
roads constructed in such communities the
field for legitimate labor will thereby be
greatly increased. G. L. 8.
Ardwick, Nd, May Is. s
The evening times., 1899-05-25
COAL DUST IN BRICKS.
Chicago Mans scheme to Utilize
Euel Wasse


Chicago, May 25.-Mi.licns of tons o
ccal dust hitherto deemed Lite ter
than waste are to be reclaimed as fuel
through the medium of a new compound
which is soon to be manufactured in grsat
quantities by concern recently incorpo-
rated as the Briquette Coal Company.
The crumbiing atoms of hitumen ard an
thraeite are to be packed together in min
iature bricks and shipped in large quan-
titles to all parts of the country. fac
tory plant has already been constructed
at Morgan and Thirty eighth streets. where
the apparatus will shortly be paced in
working order.
inventor of the formula, which promises
to dispose Of the great quantiti OF tla:k
crumbs distributed in the swamps OF
dozen States by the mine operators, who
have feared that the dust would choke
up their shafts unless a more practical
method of disposition were evolved. Nc.
Corning will not diyulge the constitusn.
elements Of the composition which he Us
will assimilate with the coal dust.
He asserts that the use of pitch will
make the artificial cakes give out more
heat and be less productive of smoke than
the most valuable species Of hard coal.
1t Is estimated that 100000 tons Of coal
dust are distributed about the country by
mine owners. The stuff, which has been
regarded as almost worthless, has been
used for the bedding Of railroads and the
reclaiming Of submerged lands. In Duluth
last year 10000 tons of coal dust was used
in the construction Of the new docking sys-
TEN. AS soon as the Chicago mandatory
is in working order the concern Mr.. Corn
Ing heads will establish branch works in
different parts of the country convenient
to the coal centres.
According to the plans prepared by the
inventor. the coal dust will pass through
several processes before il is turned out in
brick FORM 1t Is first dumped into a huge
receptacle. where It is carried to a boiler
heated almost to the ignition temperature
OF the dust. Then the stuff is mixed with
the various ingredients which are to make
1t practical Out of this apparatus the
combined materials fall under a press
which turns the stuff into bricks ready for
consumption. The apparatus for producing
the coal brick is entirely automatic.
This has been vexatious problem for
centuries" said Mr.. Corning, but think
We have solved it at last. In ordinary soft
coal the more unstable substances are de-
composed. and. becoming volatile. go off in
smoke. In this way the best part OF the
coal is lost The combination which we
have prepared will burn without smoke and
will consequently create a much higher
temperature. For marine purposes. where
the storing capacity is limited, / believe
that 'briquettes will be found invaluable
"A system Of utilizing coal dust similar
to ours was begun in Germany last year
and 20.e00.GC0 tons Of the stuff were thus
disposed OF. Though the foreign prepara-
tion does not come up to ours. it is sold
much higher than coal as We ordinarily
see it, Our 'briGuettes' are as dense as
anthracite"
The evening times., 1899-05-25
PARDoNED BY THE PRESIDENT.
Jesse l.. MncDnnieI to BE Released
From the baltimore Jail.

Baltimore. May 25.-Jesse L. MacDaniel
who has been serving a sentence in the city
Jail. having been convicted in the United
States district court of conducting a bogus
lottery. will be released tomorrow on a
pardon granted by President Mckinley.
He will then have served seven months
and two days of a years sentence. The
pardon has been received by Warden Hall,
and bears the signature of President Nc
Kinley and Attorney General John W.
Griggs. United States Senators Nelson
and Wolcott are said TO have been inter-
ceded in MacDaniel's behalf in securing
the pardon.
MacDaniel has been assisting the clerk
to the Jail board MIR. Emmanuel Preiss. in
the clerical work. He is quite intelligent,
a bright talker. and has polished manners.
When released he will go to Minneapolis.
Mimi, to Join his wife and two children.
with my brother there, l will at once en-
gage in an advertising business" he.said.
MacDaniel's arrest in February. 1897.
was caused by Anthony Comstock. the
well known secretary of the New York So
ciety for the Suppression OF Vice. He was
charged with receiving. under a fictitious
name. Two letters concerning a lottery.
and the trial took place in the United
States district court June and 10. 1897.
Mr.. Comstock appeared and testified. The
trial was hotly contested, and the case was
taken to the United States Supreme Court.
The evening times., 1899-05-25

risk of contagion is concerned. both for
the sake of his immediate relatives and
those who may come after them. This
does not necessarily mean that he must be
quarantined in some distant place, tut
merely that reasonable care should be taxi
en- TO prevent the bacilli from being trans
planted into the system Of some other
member Of the family who is predisposed
to the disease. When the question first
came up whether consumption was conta-
gious, one might hear old country people
say, scornfully, that they guessed it
wasn't, for there was Mary Jane Smith
who was right over her husband for seven
years and she never caught it," Naturally
she did not, because she was not predis-
posed to lung diseases. Consumption is
not contagious in the way that smallpox
and measles are
The great difficulty in caring for con-
sumptives in city, especially among, the
very poor, is that isolation is practically
impossible. Where whole family is
obliged to live in two. three. or four rooms,
no one person can have a sleeping room
alone. 1t may become necessary for the
city to take up this matter, and provide
hospitals for consumptive patients. But
this. like many other matters in the gov
ernment Of concentrated masses of human
ity, is thing in which prevention is en-
phatically better than cure.
II proper building regulations were en-
forced. so that the poor could be housed
like human beings and not like animals;
if overcrowding were forbidden, and sani-
tary improvements insisted upon: if the
poor could live on good, unadulterated,
well-cooked food. there would be less
danger of consumption. because the race
would be stronger. Future generations
may come to regard the budding together
of our population in great cities as crime
against humanity. In the end. it costs less
to prevent disease wickedness, and ignor-
ance than it does to let them exist and
only attempt to restrain them when the
results promise to be uncomfortable for
the healthy. educated, and moral part of
the population
The evening times., 1899-05-25
A Quick-Witted auakerc.s.
(From the Youths Companion.


In the carly part Of this century there lived in
Nantucket young Quakeress whose wit caused
many a ripple in the demure circle Of the Friends
When this pretty Martha attended yearly meet
ing Newport at the age of eighteen, her youthful
spirits brought her occasional grave looks from
the elders, although her real goodness of heart
was never questioned.
One evening during the session of yearly meet
ing Martha was the centre Of a group of young
people, gathered the windows of the par
lor in the boarding house where of the
Friends lodged for the time. The young people
were playing the simple and amusing game of
humorous definitions Martha's wit caused
such frequent laughter that solemn-faced per-
son rose from his seat at the other end Of the
room, and asked, in loud. stern voice:
martha, thee give me the definition Of
gravityg"
The pretty Quakeress colored at this public
and unnecessary rebuke, but after scarcely per-
ceptible hesitation, she answered. demurely:
Il am not able to give thee definition Of
Of my own, Friend Brown, but perhaps that Of
De Ia Rochefoucauld will suit thee. He says that
Gravity Is 4 mysterious carriage Of the body,
Invented to cover the defects Of the mind"
The evening times., 1899-05-25
Alfred Austin is. or yesterday was, the

Alfred Austin is. or yesterday was, the
poet laureate OF England but II the
Queens eyesight is still good enough to
read his verses in honor of her birthday
the chances are that by next week he will
be hunting a clerkship in a boiler shop.
Any poet that can sit still without sneez-
ing and tell a respectable old lady that
now she has Glory, fame. universe's
love; for though no more the oblivious
cuckoo calls,' ought TO be taken out and
dealt with. Austin is bitter disappoint-
ment On. that Victoria had laureate
like our own Coogler.
The evening times., 1899-05-25
CUBAN FLAG FOR VESSELS.
Banner of Blue and White to Have
international status.


Cuba's blue and white provisional flag
will soon be seen upon the high seas.
Frank Pavey. of New York. attorney for
the Herrara Steamship Company. of Ha-
vana was here yesterday consulting with
officials as TO means TO remove the present
restrictions on Cuban steamships. which
are no longer entitled TO fly the Spanish
flag and cannot fly the American flag.
The blue and white flag adopted as the dis
tinctive mark of vessels of Cuban owner
ship engaged in coastwise trade has no
international status.
Mr. Pavey explained that the vessels of
the Herrara line are engaged in trade
among the West India islands and with
Mexico and Central America. and under
present conditions cannot secure clearance
papers from the United States military
authorities allowing them to leave Cuban
for foreign ports.
1t is understood that temporary ar
rangement will be made by the War De-
partment whereby these vessels will fly
the Cuban coastwise flag and be given
clearance for foreign ports, with the pro-
vision stated in the clearance papers that
the United States Government does not as
sumo any responsibility for the vessels.
Mr.. Pavey said his clients would be will
ing to accept this arrangement. Eventual
ly it is probable that all these vessels will
secure the right to fly the American own
erShip.
The evening times., 1899-05-25
The Quarrel Prorrc..e..

(From the New York Commercial Advertiser.)
Talk that the West is entitled to the Speaker
ship of the House of Representatives the
ground that it has contributed chiefly to the
triumph of the Republican party is exceedingly
foolish in the light of weil-known facts. The
North Atlantic States not only soidly Re
publican in 5iso6, but they rolled up a total
Republican plurality of nearly 1.00O,0OO. New
York. Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts alone
gave Mckinley plurality OF nearly 10000. The
only Western States that gave Mckinley i plur-
ality Of more than 100000 Illinois and Wis
consn and the combined plurality of these two
States was less than the Republican plurality
Of either New York Pennsylvania alone The
East is still something of factor in tine Re-
publican party.
The evening times., 1899-05-25
THE GREENWICH TRAGEDY.
Onicials Believe They Have the Aged
POstmaster'n Slayers.

Omcials Believe They Have the Aged
POstmaster's Slayers.
Greenwich, Conn, May 25.-Sheriff Fitz-
roy and Prosecuting Attorney Walsh are
sure they have the men who assaulted
Shadrach Jackson Close. in Jail here. They
say the sIayers Of the old postmaster OF
West Stanwich are WILDER Adams and Will
liam Smith. As circumstantial evidence
against Adams. the authorities have his
blood stained clothing found in Adams
home yesterday.
McCann, Green. Adams. and Smith. who
were arrested Tuesday were araigned in
the borough court yesterday. They were
remanded for hearing on Saturday.
According to stories told in the neigh
borhood. Adams and Smith got drunk on
Monday on hard cider They were out
driving in Smiths wagon. About 6:43 p.
m. they stopped at Closes store The
prisoners say they were at Steve Jones
farm at $50 p. IN. Jones says it was 9:30.
They reached Adams home about 10 p. IN.
There Adams changed his clothing. He
and Smith went to Smiths house where
they spent the night.
The alleged blood spots on Adams coat
are down the front. with one large stain
on the left breast. Adams has been twice
arrested for burglary Smith was twice
convicted Of theft
The autopsy showed that Closes skull
had been fractured his jaw broken and
bone in the neck crushed.