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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-01-03
Merchants National Bank.

The annual meeting OF the stockholders Of the
Merchants National Bank. Portland. Maine
for the election OF seven directors for the en-
suing year. and the transaction OF any othei
bushes that may legally be presented, viii be
held at their banking house, on Tuesday, the
10th day OF January, 1899. at 10 o'clock m.
c. .. BANCROFT, Cashier.
nac 9Th fsQa derddtd
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
WOMEN AT MEMS COLLEGES
There Has Been Large Increase
I'm the Number of Girls At
tending Yale.

Women are rapidly invading the do
main of the men in college work in
America as they are competing with
the members Of the sterner sex abroad.
The large number of women students
enrolled in the graduate department of
Yale at the present time calls attention
to a feature of academic life which is
assuming larger proportions every
year. 1t was in 1892 that the educa-
tional world was somewhat startled by
the information that the corporation
of Yale had decided to open its grad
uate department to bachelors of art
without distinction of sex, and there
were many forewarnings concerning
the failure of such an iconodastic de-
parture.
During the SIX years that the expert
ment has been under way the women
students have had TO struggle agains,
innumerable difficulties, but it is be-
lieved that at last they have established
their position upon a permanent foot
ing. There is hardly any member OF
the faculty who does not have a good
word 10 say in their favor, and even the
undergraduates are beginning 10 re-
gard their presence upon the campus
with indifference. The official cata
logue of the present year has not yet
been published but il is known that
there are, at the present time, about Al
women students at Yale and there are
not lacking those who claim that il
would be impossible to find among the
$500 members of the university 40 stu
dents who contribute more TO the rea
scholarship of the institution, and whC
are regarded with greater respect 10y
the professors under whose instruction
they come.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
AMERICAN GENERALS.
Two Who Are Splendid Types of the
Courageous American
soldier.

We had not seen the fight of the cav
airy brigade, says Frederic Remington
in Harper's Monthly, because we were
not at the front We would not let ii
happen again. We slung our packs and
most industriously plodded up the Via
del Rey until we got to within hailing
distance of the picket posts, and he
said: "Now, Frederic, we will stay
here. They will pull off no more fights
of which we are not party of the first
part" And stay we did. If Gen. Law
ton moved ahead, we went up and cult
waited Lawton; but if Gen. Chaffee got
ahead, we were his friends, and gath
cred at his mess fire. To be popular
with us it was necessary TO have com
mand of the advance.
But what satisfying soldiers Lawton
and Chaffee are! Both seasoned, pro-
fessional military types. Lawton, big
and long, forceful and with iron deter
mination. Chaffee, who never dis
mounts but for little sleep during the
darkest hours of the night and whose
head might have been presented to him
by one of Williams Norman barons
Such head! We used to sit around and
study that head. 1t does not belong tC
the period; il is remote, when the race
was young and strong; and it has war.
rior" sculptured in every line. 1t may
seem trivial to you, but / must have
people 'look their part" That so many
do not in this age is probably because
men are so complicated; but ''war is @
primitive art" and that is the one objec
tion l had to Won Moltke, with his sim
pie student face. He might have been
anything. Chaffee is a soldier.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
HOW BRADY LOST HIS MONEY.
The Bowery Celebrity Died the Day
Before the Annual Vanderbilt
Check Was Due.

By the death of John Brady, who
choked TO death on a mutton chop late
ly, the Bowery has lost one of its typ
ical characters. He was known 10 shop
and hotel keepers from Chatham square
10 Cooper Union. Brady bore the repu-
tation of an honest man who loved
horses and reveled i'm races, who thought
the Vanderbilts "up 10 the limit, ",and
who was faithful follower Of Tam
many Hall. For several months he had
lived at a hotel at No. Bowery. In
the last day of 1898 be went into res
taurant and with friends ordered drinks
and mutton chops. While eating one he
became purple in the face and fell TO
the floor, where in a few minutes he
died, reports the New York Times.
Since Brady came to this country
from Ireland, so years ago, he had con-
tinually hung around race track sta
bes. His favorite story was how he
saved the life of Vanderbilt, and he
had just finished telling it when he died.
Several years ago." he had said, "a
team came running down Fifth avenue.
A spanking team il was, boys, with a
footman and coachman full of buttons
sitting on the box. A lady all dressed
in furs and silks was sitting in the car
riage. The coachman had lost the
horses heads and they were tearing
down the avenue like wild. / saw them,
and there's no man knows more about
stopping wild horses than | do; so
steps out in front of them, grabs the
brides as they got TO me, and in half a
block had them stopped as still as a
mouse. The lady thanks me and the
coachman drives away. Next day gets
word 10 come to the Nanderbilts' house
Oh the avenue, and there ! gets 500
Every New Years day till now | got my
500, and tomorrow | gets ii again
He pointed at the man opposite and be.
gan to resume the story, when he
choked.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31

Strange as ID May seem, Dress SUITS
Are Important Requisites at
social Functions.

That dress suits should be considered
important requisites in Sitka is some
what startling anomaly, says the San
Francisco Chronicle. The fact remains,
however. that the most rigid social rules
prevail. Whether il be a ball, tea
fight or a muffin struggle, evening dress
is imperative. Dinner parties of ten
and twelve courses are frequently on
the tapis, and, since none of the officials
come prepared to entertain on lavish
scale, every prospective hostess bor-
rows from her neighbors. All the day
long preceding an important function
a more or less intermittent procession
of men, women and children and hand
carts may be seen carrying lamps and
furniture, punchbowls, crockery, glass
and silverware and other paraphernalia
10 the scene of festivity.
Everybody lives In small, cramped
quarters, and when an entertainment
of unusual scope is desirable a vacant
store or other unoccupied building is
appropriated. Sometimes the court
room is denuded of its cumbrous furni-
ture, the walls decorated with flags,
punches of scarlet elderberry. festoons
of spruce and cedar, moss and ferns,
and behold an attractive ballroom. A
guitar and concertina, or perhaps a
couple of banjos and a flute, compose
the more or less tuneful orchestra
Sandwiches of cucumbers or nastur-
tium leaves and blossoms are among the
surprises of the refreshment table.
The courtroom is over the jail and
the rhythmic tread of the dancers and
enlivening strains of music are vastly
enjoyed by the prisoners. In fact, they
look forward to these festive occasions
with quite as much pleasurable antici-
patton as the invited guests. The court
room is also used for divers other enter
tainments, the inmates of the Jail draw
ing the line at amateur concerts. They
think that they have already suffered
enough, and that it is taking an unfair
advantage Of their limited sphere of ac-
ton.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
DRosATE ORDER state of Michigan

u
At session of the probate court for the county of
Van Buren, holden at the probate office. in the viii
lage of Paw Paw, on Wednesday, the 10th day of
May in the year one thousand eight hundred
and nnety-nine:
Present, Hon. James II. Johnson, Judge of
Probate.
In the matter of the estate of Angeline Rock,
deceased.
On reading and filing the petition, duly verified
of II. NJ. j. Hall, administrator of said deceased,
praying for reasons therein stated that he may be
authorized empowered aud licensed to sell the real
estate in said petition described.
Thereupon ii is ordered that Monday/eh 18th day
of June, 1899, at ten O'Clock in tne forenoon,
be assigned for the hearing of said petition and all
persons interested in said estate required ap
pear at session of said court, then to be holden at
the probate Office in the village of Paw Paw, and
show cause, If any there be, why the prayer of the
petitioner should not be granted.
And IL is further ordered That said petitioner
give notice TO the persons interested in said estate
of the pendency of said petition, and the hearing
thereof, by causing copy of this order to be pub
lished IN the True Northerner, newspaper printed
and circulating in said county of Van Buren, for
three successive weeks ateast previous to saidda
of hearing.
2340t4o7 JAMES Ii. JOHNSON,
judge of Probate.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
DROBATE ORDER


1 County of Van Buren-ss.
At a session of the Probate Court for the county
of Van Buren. holden at the probate office, in the
village of Paw Paw. on Saturday, the 9th day of
May, in the year one thousand eight hundred
and ninety-nine.
Present, Hon. James III. Johnson, Judge of Pro-
bate.
In the matter of the estate of Mary j. Har-
mon, deceased
On readi' and filing the petition duly verified, of
William T.. Harmon, as a legatee of said deceased,
praying Tor reasons therein stated that certain
Instrument in writing file with this Court
purportng TO be the last will and testament of said
deceased, may be proved, allowed and admitted to
probate such and that execution thereof may be
granted to George Walker, the executor in said will
named.
Thereupon IL is ordered that Monday, the 18th day
of June, 1899, at ten O'Clock in the forenoon,
be assigned for the hearing of said petition,
and all persons interested In said estate required
TO appear at session of said court then to be hold
en- at the Probate Office in the village of Paw Paw,
and show cause if any there be, why the prayer of
the petitioner should not be granted.
And il is further ordered that said petitioner give
notice to the persons interested in said estate, of the
tendency of said petition and the hearing thereof,
by causing copy of this order to be published in
the True Northerner, newspaper printed and cir
culating in said county of Van Buren,, for three
successive weeks at least previous TO said day of
hearing. JAMES II. JOHNSON,
2303t4o2306 Judge of Probate.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
LOTS OF WAR WIDOWS.
Pension Report shows RemRrka bI e
Facts in Regard 10 Lon
EeVity.

One of the curiosities of the United
States pension service is the astonish-
iDS survival Of war widows. The re-
port of the Unit>d StatsZ commissioner
of pensions, just issded, shows some re-
markable and interesting facts in re-
gard TO the longevity of the widows of
soldiers. For instance, while there is
not single soldier of the war of the
revolution alive to-day. there are still
12 widows and daughters of soldiers of
the revolution. OF the war of 1912
there are only three soldiers still alive,
but of their widows there are still sur
viving and drawing pensions the aston
ishing number of 2,407, says the New
Orleans Picayune.
The war of the revolution closed in
1888 and period of lis years has
elapsed, and, while there are no male
survivors, there are still some Of their
widows alive. This state of affairs can
only be possible on the ground that
some Of the soldiers, after they had at
tained old age, married young wives.
The war Of 1S12-14 closed with the bat
tie of New Orleans on January S, 1915.
So years ago. Supposing that the
youngest soldiers were Is years old, a
period of 10l years has elapsed since
the birth of such soldier. Evidently
many Of them, after they were old, mar
ried young women, so that, although
all the men but three are dead, they
have left behind more than 1900 wild
ows. BY the same rule Of procedure it
is plain that there will be widows of sol
diers of the civil war on the pension
rolls in 1850. and even a few in the year
1000, more than a century hence, for if
a soldier of 1861 should marry when he
has reached the age of so years in 1923,
a girl 16 years old, she might hope to
live II years longer. or TO the age of 93,
which would bring her up TO the year
1000. OF course, it is not likely there
will be many such. but there will, in all
probability, be some.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
DOWN ON THE FARM.
TILLERs OF THE SOIL APPRECIATE THI
LITTLE WONDER WORKERS.

LITTLE WONDER WORKERS.
Near the little town of Woods Corners,
about six miles from Ionia, resides K. L.
Pierson, a farmer by occupation, and like
all hard working tillers of the soil he has
found the burdens the back must bear
no light load To carry. Few people who
never lived on the farm appreciate what
it means to follow the plow from sunrise
to sunset, but if the public in general
don't know how hard such work is, the
kidneys do. Long hours of work of any
kind means long hours for the kidneys,
and they can't stand it without rebelling,
When the farmer comes home tired out
at night, if he only realized that the
tired feelings mostly always came from
tired kidneys, and that the little wonder
workers, Doan's Kidney Pills, would
right the wrong brought on by overwork,
life would be easier for him. Read what
Mr.. Pierson says about his experience:
II noticed when / stopped, lifted or
changed my position suddenly, early in
the fall of 1897, that / was always re-
warded with sharp pains across the small
of my back, and in the morning / was so
lame and sore that / could scarcely get
out of bed. The too freqnent action of
the kidney secretions, especially annoy
ing at night, painfully indicated that my
kidneys were the cause of the trouble.
| had often heard Doan's Kidney Pills
spoken about by my neighbors, and as it
was the first time | required such a pre-
paration / procured a box. / noticed
their beneficial effects in day or two
and continued the treatment until my
backache was cured and the other weak
ness was thoroughly relieved. / make
no mistake when | say that Doan's Kid
ney Pills cure backache and kidney com
plant"
Doans Kidney Pills are sold by all
dealers. Price, 30 cents per box, or six
boxes for $3.50. Mailed by Foster Mil
burn Co, Buffalo, n. Y. Sole agents
for the United States.
Remember the name Doans and take
no substitute.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
BERLIN BICYCLE ENGINES.
The Fire Department Of the Ger
man City Has . Most Unique
Equipment.

German fire apparatus builders have,
after several years of trial, produced a
fire bicycle which. if il falls short of be-
ing perfect, is an invention far ahead
of anything of its kind in use else
where. 1t is four-wheeled truck. with
low. compact superstructure, is fully
equipped as an engine, and has com
plete outfit of life-saving apparatus.
The wheels have solid rubber tires, ii
is pedaled by two firemen, sitting tan
dem. and runs rapidly on good roads,
while its handling is extremely simple
The firemen having the one in charge
at Gruenewald, a suburb Of Berlin. re-
Gently covered mile. made the hydrant
attachment, and were at work in
something less than five minutes. The
bicycle engine carries lot of tools and
implements, slowed snugly away, and
each held securely in place.
The weight of the bicycle itself and
all it carries, is 377 pounds, and the
price of the entire outfit is 900 marks
or about $275.
In other particulars of fire equip
ment, also, the Germans are ahead OF
us. In Berlin the firemen wear water
jackets, with double skin, which they
are able TO fill with water from the
hose. If the space between the layers
becomes overfilled, the water escapes
through valve at the top of the hel
met and flows down over the fireman
like a cascade, thus doubly protecting
him. The smoke helmets. also German
invention, are largely used Throughout
Germany, and in Austria. Holland anC
Italy, and are now on trial in some ot
our fire departments. The smoke hel
NETS enable the wearer TO breathe anC
TO see with some degree of comfort il
a smoke-laden atmosphere; some o.
the newer patterns contain a means O
telephone communication leading ou
of the building and into the street be
low
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
Colony of Outlaws.

Writers of fiction have frequently
pictured the idea Of an unknown tropic-
al paradise being turned into a general
asylum for outlaws and criminals, says
the Western Morning News. In the
BONN isles, not far from Japan, such a
refuge has actually been discovered.
Men of every nationality, who have
made civilization too warm for them.
selves, have decamped to this ideal ren
devious, leaving the police to record the
unsatisfactory result of their investi-
cations as gone abroad" No rates or
taxes have to be paid, and government
seems to be entirely dispensed with
The discovery was made by japanese
vessel which called at the island. In
future the aliens will have less freedom
and consequently less happiness, for
the japanese dominion will have to be
recognized. Their dream is over.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
pRoBATEoRDER.-state of Michigan


At a session of the probate court for the county
of Van Buren,, holden at the probate Office, in the
village of Paw Paw, on Friday, the 26th day of
May, in the year thousand eight hundred
and ninety-nine.
Present, Hon. James II. Johnson, Judge of
Probate.
In the matter of the estate of John Bacon.
deceased.
On reading and filing the petition, duly verified
of Mrs. Susan Il. Bacon, widow of said deceased
praying for reasons therein stated that admins,
tration of said estate be granted TO Mrs. Susan f.
Bacon.
Thereupon ii is ordered that Monday, the 26th dav
of June, 1899, at ten o'clock I'm the forenoon he
assigned for the hearing of said petition and Ali
persons interested in said estate are required
to appear at session of said court then 10
be holden at the probate Office, I'm the village of
Paw Paw, and show cause, IL any there he
why the prayer of the petitioner should not be
granted.
And 10 IL further ordered that said petitioner
give notice to the persons interested in said ~
the pendency of said petition, and the hearing q
thereof, by causing copy Of this order to be puh
lished in the True Northerner, newspaper printed
and circulating I'm said county of Van Buren, for
three successive weeks at least previous to said
Of hearing.
JAMES III. JOHNSON.
25O6t4oO'l Judge Of Probate.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
INTERNATIONAL MEDlChL CO.,
Station a." Chicago, Illinois.
DENTON this Paper Iz3ootI7o2:
LEGAL NOTICES.
4 lNAANCERY SALE

A z
y virtue of order and decree of the circuit
court for the county of Van Buren,, in chancery,
made and dated on the 5th day of May, 1899, in a
certain cause therein pending. wherein John w
Sterling and the New York Security and Trust
Company, a corporation doing business in the state
of New York, trustees of the estate of Charles +
Park, deceased, are complaInants, and David II
Francis Harriet Francis, Elias III. Gaut. Triphena
Goodenough, Eugena S. Mudica, Eugena S. Muir
dock, Philo A. sheldon, William Mulliean, ad.
ministrator of 'he estate of Caroline T.. Muiligan,
deceased, Chas. +. Park and Anna @. Gilman, are
defendants.
Notice is hereby given, that 1 shall sell at public
auction. 10 the highest bidder, al the front door o.
the court house, in the village of Paw Paw and
county OF Van Buren, lsaid court house being the
place for holding the circuit court for said county,
on the 3Oth day of june A. ID. 1899, at ten O'Clock
in the forenoon, all or so much thereof may be
necessary to raise the amount due to the said COM
plaiuans for principal, interest and costs in this
cause of the following described parcels of land
to-wt: The southeast quarter a of the south least
quarter Il of section ten TlOl, containing forty
of land aud the southwest fractional quarter
a of section eleven III containing hundred
and thirty 1901 more less all of said land
being in township fourl4l south, of range thirteen
49, west, in the county of Van Buren and state of
Michigan.
In making said sale the first one of the two par
cells hereinbefore described will be first Sold and il
the moneys received on the sale of said first de-
scrbed parcel shall be insufficient TO pay the afore
said principal sum- interest and costs, together with
the expenses of this sale, then and in such case
the second parcel of land hereDbefore described Oh
so much thereof as may be necessary TO pay the
balance remaining due, with interest and COSTS will
be next sold In accordance with the terms of said
decree.
Dated May 18th, 1899.
DAVID ANDERSON,
Circuit Court Commissioner, in and for Van BureI
County, Mich.
JAMES III. KINNANE.
Solicitor for Complainants. 4t7o1C
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
BRITISH WEST INDIES.
An English scheme to Give Finan-
cinI Aid to AgricuIturists in
Those Islands.

1t is reported in London that the
colonial office has completed plan
for the relief of the British possessions
in the West Indies, the details of which
will shortly be made public. 1t is said
that the rehabilitation of the sugar
industry of the islands has not been
left entirely in the hands Of Sir Thomas
j. Upton. although Mr.. Chamberlain
has accepted the general scheme pro-
posed by that well-known merchant
and financier. There are four groups
of financiers who will work at the sub
ject along distinct and separate lines
One of these groups is directly under
the control of Mr.. Chamberlain and will
confine its efforts solely TO Jamaica
Two other groups Will confine their
work to Barbados and St. Vincent
while St. Lucia, ii is said, will be con-
fined 10 the special care of Sir Thomas
j. Upton. Sir Thomas will also have
general charge of refining the sugar
and selecting markets for il. II is re-
ported in the colonial Office that as soou
as the plans are made known the gen
eral public will be allowed 10 join two
or more groups, which will becomv
stock companies 1t iseXpected that the
foresight and business capacities of Mr.
Chamberlain. combined with govern
ment guarantees. will insure hearty
response and financially successful is.
sue for all concerned. The combined
capitals of these several undertaking.
will not, it is anticipated exceed e1.'
100000 in all.
The true northerner., 1899-05-31
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