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The Portland daily press., 1899-10-17

The manufacture of flour In Aroos.
took county sesms to have passed the ex-
Ierimental stage. Ihsre ara now three
rolling mills IN the county and two 9th.
ers are soon to be ere,ted. or are being
erected. ore by Thomas Phair ut Wash
bum, the other by Purinton s. Cox at
Pressure Isle The five will have a
capacity Of 200 barrels daily.
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public schools of Chicago te'aus, its fire.
qusnt references 20 the Lord God of Hosts
might be offensive to children of atheists.
This Is resreUtlng religious prsjudiees
with vengeance.
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All signs point to one gratifying fact
in regard to Maine business. The -ail.
roads are doing an unprecedented bust.
ness. The returns at the Stlts Insurance
commissioners Office show TINT the re-
oeipts for the last quarter will aggregate
tan thousand dollars. the grsat,st on
record. This indicates that tho insurance
companies are doing large business.
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atls experience in African exploration de-

allie experience in African exploration de-
clares that the natives tf Africa have
the system of distributing news,very well
organized. Ihs official cited. as an ex.
ample OF this organization, the fact that
known at Laghuat, which Is $50 miles
south Of Alg.ers, twenty mine hours be
fore the official announcement was re-
ceived by telegraph at the same station.
The natives use bonfrss upon the noun
tains. which are visible at great dis
lance, and native hurssmen gallop from
tribe to tribe carrying the news that is to
be made known.
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1t looks as though a lively row was In
prospect between Admiral Sampson and
Gen. Shafser over the credit of the sur
render of Gen Teral at Santiago. In his
speech at Morganstown. West Virginia,
last week the Admiral said:
"General Shaftsr, commanding the
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Observation-Disclosures
affairs cost you. Shall we take your
measure?
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COMPANY CUSTOMERS,

OOHl uItI UUUl UnlLilUs
The following list comprises the con.
nections that have been made and those
to be made within Jew days. 1t is
easy to tell those that have beer connect
ed from those that have not by the color
of the lights. Those produced from
water power are white, clear and steady
J.R. LIBBY co.
BROWN BLOCK
X. NJ LEWSEN q co.
A. f. STEVENS & CO.
FALMOUTH HOTEL
IRA CLARK & co.
w. s. PARKER & co.
SIMMONS g. HAMMOND.
IRVING A. LIBBY.
X. L. WHITC0MB & co.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS HAIL.
+ kE i, MEMS MEMS HALL
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MRS. Q. b. LEIGHTON.
E. ". BENNER.
X. NINT0N EARLE.
ATKINSON FURNISHING CO.
MAINE PROVISION & COLD STORAGE
WEST END HOTEL.
If. II. Hay u son.
I. +. HoMSTED co.
SULLIVAN & OsGoOD.
WILLIS GATES.
LOMBARD FISH MARKET.
III. p. G00LD TEA CO.
W. w. ALLEN.
A. L. MARKS.
ORIENT HALL.
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FREEMAN MILLIKEN
JAMES CONWELI
ODD FELLOWS HALF.
FOSTER, AVERY & co.
TRAVELLERS INSURANC Co
SARG ENT. DENNISON & co.
MRS. j. W. PERRY.
LADD q ROSS.
G. w. S0LKEY.
JOHN BOLIVIAN
W, w. MITCHELL.
HIRAM PIERCE.
L. A. DIXON.
j. T.. GIBBS RESTAURANT.
WALDO HOTEL.
w. NJ. WADE.
PARK HOTEL.
EASTMAN BROS. & BANCROFT.
COFFIN BROS.
Il. b. CARBEE.
g. b. DAMON.
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New customers are being added daily.
The total number now being supplied
with WATER POWER ELECTRICITY
in Greater Portland is about 266.
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TIT s. ENGINEER OFFICE, 537 Congress St
Is Portland, Me-, Aug. 30, l69e.-Sealea
by exeayafing leege IN ffont OF steamship wharf
and by dredging the mouth of Kenduskeag
Stream Goth In Bangor Harborl, will be re-
ceiyed here until ~ NJ, Oct ~ 1893, and then
publicly opened. Information furnished on APP
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If all young women could have the
right sort of motherly advice much of
the unhappiness of the world would be
avoided.
There are two troubles in the way.
The girls hesitate to consult the a
mothers and the mothers really
know only a little more than
The Portland daily press., 1899-10-17

Course tickets. SI.00. Evening tickets a5e
ricketts, on sale at Cressey. Jones q Aliens
and at Chapman s. Wyman's, Woodford's
0ct10 to 10
The record-union., 1899-09-24
Mr.. Hawkins as a Hobo.

j. r. Hawkins. Superintendent of the
Detroit and Lima Northern Railroad
while East a few days ago, was look
ing with considerable interest at some
rails that had been laid by machine on
the Pennsylvania Railroad track He
had been travelling and did not look
very spruce. He was also shy on a
shave. His hands were dug into his
pockets as if he was trying to find a
nickel. He was startled by a voice
saying:
Il wud'n try dis line, pard. Dey's
stiff on de Penn. Ever try dem? Las
time I did dey trun me off an / wuz
near passin' in me chips. Let's hoof
it ter jamestown; Were we kin ketch
d Erie. D. Erie's dead easy. 1 knows
lots o. good places for a han out on
de route
Hawkins smiled.
II appreciate your kindly proffers of
advice and assistance, my friend" he
said, but I happen to- be a railroad
Superintendent myself and don't have
to walk. Whenever you're UP my way
I'll give you a trip over our road.
There's my card and something to get
a drink with
The hobo stuck the card inside the
band of his hat muttering: "Wud'n dat
paralyze YEP and with tramp's BEN
ediction, started on his hoof to James
town to catch the Erie.-Detroit Jour-
nal.
The record-union., 1899-09-24

but is, nevertheless, almost certain to
prove popular and to make a great
sum of money for its proprietors. The
most noteworthy thing about it appears
to be a striking performance of the
villain in chief by Mr.. Abingdon.
F. r. Benson recently gave a per-
formance of Richard I'LL" at Flint
Castle in celebration of the quincente-
nary of the surrender of the King at
that spot to Bolingbroke.
II. A. Saintsbury is the author of a
new translation of Don Caesar de Ba-
zan," which has just been tried at the
Princess of Wales Theater, Kenning-
ton, London.
Sir Theodore Martin has presented a
pulpit worth f1,000 to St. Mary's $
Church at Stratford- n-Avon in mem
ory of his wife, Helen Faucit, who was
one of the most famous impersonators
of Shakespearian heroines of the pres
ent century, being especially success
full as Juliet, Rosalind and Imogen.
Eden Phillpotts has just completed a
man Nature" of which Charles Froh.
man is the possessor.
Here is one of Happy" Ward s
stories as told by the comedian on HIM
self II have in my time played many
parts, but it has fallen to my lot that
l must get to be star before l played
in a livery stable. 1 won't say that the
place was really livery stable, though
it was certainly used for stable pur-
poses. 1t was one-night stand, and in
the progressive State of Illinois at that
/ went TO the theater early that night,
for you know there is not much to in
terest a fellow in those towns after
dark. The house was in total dark
ness, excepting the one guide light on
the stage. l felt my way down the
narrow flight of stairs carefully and
arrived at the bottom / struck a match
to get the lay of the land. l saw several
doors which | took to be the dressing
rooms, and by this time my match had
gone out and l knew that Izhad but
one more in my match safe so I went
in the direction of the doors had seen
, and opening one walked carefully in
/ felt about me for a moment when my
hand struck something which gave me
mighty peculiar sensation. and l went
for that one match quick. Imagine my
surprise when / struck the light to see
standing there complacently chewing
some hay an old, raw-boned horse
told myself a few things about that
The record-union., 1899-09-24

She is the wife of a polish Count, fam
ed for his knowledge of Sanskrit and
kindred subjects. Mrs. Voynich is Eng
lish by birth and has deeply rooted
objection to interviewers.
*
There were no women on the English
played by men.
Henry Savage Lander, the traveller
and lecturer. has written a farce, which
report says is soon to be seen on the
London boards.
London, which has a larger German
population than Hamburg, is thinking
of establishing it's first German theater.
Rostand received more than $4,000
from Mansfield for the use of a play
C'Cyrano de Bergerac" that anybody
could use for nothing, and that many
did use on those terms.
There are rumors of Richard Mans
field and Ada Rehan appearing togeth-
er in THE Merchant of Venice" next
spring at a London theater. The ru-
NOR is probably false.
Miss Eleanor Calhoun will appear in
Mr.. Fernald's piece, 'The Moonlight
Blossom with Forbes Robertson and
Mrs. Patrick Campbell when it is pro-
duced in London
There is a report that the new his
torical play in which Sir Henry Irv-
ing is to act in the London Lyceum
Theater next year belongs to the per-
iod of Charles TX of France, and that
one of the great effects will be a rep
resentation of the massacre of ST. Bar
tholomeW.
1t is announced that Mrs. Langtry's
marriage will not interfere with her
professional engagements. After her
season at the London Haymarket she
will come to this country to fill her
engagement with Charles Frohman.
She will continue to act under the
name by which she has been known
hitherto. .I&I
The new melodrama, with Flying
Colors,' which Messrs. Seymour Hicks
and F. G. Latham have written for the
London Adelphi Theater, appears to be
one of the most remarkable compila-
tions of theatrical sensations ever Wit
messed. The London World describes
it as an epitome of the inventions Of
all the melodramatists that ever lived.
1t is, of course, an absurd monstrosity,
The record-union., 1899-09-24

"a Yenuine Yentleman," elaborately
mounted and carefully cast by Manager
Arthur c. Aston, will be seen at the
Clunie Opera House Thursday, Friday
and Saturday next. OF course the play
deals with the vicissitudes of noble
hearted Swedish emigrant, and Ben
Hendricks will be seen in this role.
Hendricks has never failed TO amuse
and instruct, nor has he been accused
of pre-empting the entire dialogue, ac-
tion and situations of his plays. THESE
virtues alone deserve commentator
and place him among the very few un-
selfish and progressive star actors Ihe
new piece is pronounced free from SEN
sationalism and overfiowing with nov
city and effects. 1t differs from for
mer Scandinavian dialect plays in that
the hero was before poor, unlettered
peasant; in the new play he is an ac-
complished scholar, a mining engineer
and a polished man in manners.
Victory Bateman is in the best of
health and will originate the leading
roles in two new plays this season, The
City of New York. and THE Toll Gate
Inn"
San Francisco Music and Drama:
Ernest Hogan and the rest of the
coons who went to Australia under the
management of NJ. B. Curtis are on
their large and comprehensive uppers.
Hogan made a mistake in breaking his
contract with Voelckel & Nolan who
paid him a big salary and treated him
well.
Charles Frohman's Criterion Theater
in New York where 1.-The Girl From
Maxims'' is being played, is said to be
a poem in red and gold. It is excep-
tionally rich and attractive in it's new
arrangement and brilliant decorations.
Nance O'Neil who is at present
charming the theater- -goers of Portland,
Or, with her artistic work, will be
seen at the Herald Square Theater,
New York, January 22d, in an elabor-
ate production of Elizabeth which
is expected to have long run.
Maude Adams in a new version of
Peg Wellington" may be one of the
features of the coming theatrical sea-
son. 81 am having a new version of the
play Masks and Faces made in Eng
land by well known playwright" said
Mr. Frohman the other day, ''and I am
also having a dramatization of the nov
el Peg Woffington' made here by an
American author. Out of these two
plays I intend to construct the piece
The record-union., 1899-09-24

which Miss Adams will produce. She
Will in all likelihood do it just as she
did Romeo and Juliet last spring after
her regular season is over. If, how
ever, the new Barrie play isn't ready
for her when she wants it she may
do Peg Wellington during her engage
ment next winter at the Criterion thea
ter.
Sarah Bernhardt refuses to disclose
her age, further than to declare that
she never intends to get old. Still,
no matter what her age may be, she is
one of the greatest actresses of her age
Belle Archer has purchased a play
entitled ~
Adele Ritchie will appear in Bar
nets Three Little Lambs"
Joseffy will make Brahms the prom
inent feature of his concerts this win
ter
Mrs. Grace Meltimore Stivers has
been engaged as soprano and leader of
the Central Presbyterian Church choir;
Miss Louise TORY as contralto, r. p
Shilling as bass and Mrs. Larrabee as
pianist. Roy Day will supply for tenor
on Sunday.
The California Ladies' Quartet is a
new organization that is contemplating
a tour of the principal coast cities. The
quartet is composed of Nine. Jeanette
Webster Crawford, piano and director;
Miss Eloise Lemon, violin; Miss La
velle Knox, viola Miss Simons, cello;
Willis Ames, manager.
John Philip Sousa's former manager
and one which her husband left her,
and the unfortunate March King will
probably have to write 100000 worth
of new marches to reimburse his ex-
chequer when the esteemed widow and
her lawyer have taken a few rings out
of his Liberty Bell
Around the Clock" play of Angus
tin Daly's. produced in 1872, is still
in use in England by Frank Majilton,
one of the famous Majilton brothers.
grotesques. who was in the original
performance.
Mrs. E. L. voynich, who wrote "The
Gadny," which Stuart Robson is to pro-
duce at Wallacks Theater on Septem-
Der 18th, worked thirteen years on the
play and on the novel founded on the
play. It is her only literary effort.
The record-union., 1899-09-24

through country almost as rugged as
that bordering the main stream. Scott
and Shasta Rivers, which are thesoally
other notable tributaries of the Kla>
math, water valleys of rich bottom
land about five miles long and forty
miles wide
The record-union., 1899-09-24
The Man Who Prayed and Quit.

He knelt in prayer at night
To ask his Makers love,
And likewise that he might
Have joy, at last, above.
He never sought his bed
Until he'd bent he knee
Until, with humble head,
He'd offered up his plea.
He prayed the Lord to give
Him love for those distres ssed,
To teach him how 20 live
And labor for the best.
1t happened on a day.
Ere Age had come by stealth,
That Luck stood in his way
And gave him lordly wealth.
He knelt no more at night
He made no humble plea
For love of those who might
Be favored less than he.
IS. E. Kiser in Chicago Times Herald.
The girl who can speak seven lam
guages is less sought after than the girl
who can hold her tongue in one.
The record-union., 1899-09-24

and Fever is bottle of Groves Tasteless
Chill Tonic. 1t is simply iron and quinine
in a tasteless form. No cure-no pay.
Price, so cents.
The record-union., 1899-09-24

Glenbrook Whisky. Blauth.
The record-union., 1899-09-24

Mrs. E. l. Voynich, who wrote "The
Gadfly," which Stuart Robson is to pro-
duce at Wallaclx's Theater on Septem-
ber 18th. worked thirteen years on the
play and on the novel founded on the
play. It is her only literary effort.
The record-union., 1899-09-24

Around the Clock play of Angus
tin Daly's. produced in 1872, is still
in use in England by Frank Majilton
one of the famous Majilton brothers
grotesques. who was in the original
performance.
The record-union., 1899-09-24


The manager of a western theater
has had track constructed from the
nearby railway depot to his stage door
in order that the scenery of combina-
tions playing at his house may be load
ed and unloaded without trouble. In
advertising for bookings this director
might make a suitable catch line of the
old proverb, Easy come-easy co.
4 +
That clean and wholesome comedy
Mistakes Will Happen will make a
comprehensive tour of the northwest
ern country the coming season under
the management of Jacob Lift Charles
Dickson heads the company, which
is reported to be an extremely good
one.
S. F. Music and Drama: John E. Kel-
lerd, who will play leading roles with
Madame Modjeska this season, made
nearly a record breaking trip from
London to San Diego to answer the call
for rehearsals. He left the British
metropolis July 22d and arrived in San
Diego August 9th. Mr.. Kellerd brought
with him magnificent new costumes for
all his important roles This excellent
actor will be pleasantly remembered for
his artistic works as leading man with
Marie Burroughs
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-04-08
SUIT DISMISSED.
,fr. Ryan's Trouble with the Seaboard
Air Line Adjusted.

The suit which has long been pending
between Thomas +. Ryan and the sea
board and Roanoke Railroad Company IN
the United States District Court for the
Eastern District of Virginia has been dis
missed
Messrs. Stiles & Holiday. counsel for
the Ryan interest, stated yesterday tnat
the occasion for the suit no longer eX-
listed. and hence this action was taken
The following is the authorized status OF
tho RYAN interest from the same source:
This was a suit instituted by Mr.. Ryan
for the purpose OF recovering possession
OF a certificate for lj3 shares Of the Sea-
board stock ard incidentally 10 secure a
cancellation Of the pooling agreement I'M
der which the stock was deposited. This
certificate had been deposited with the
Pooling Committee and the committee re-
fused to deliver IL 10 Mr.. Ryan upon the
ground that under the pooling agreement
they were entitled 10 retain possession
OF H.
When the late sale 10 the Williams syn
dictate took place tho pool was dissolved
and the stock in question was surrendered
to Mr. RYAN. thus rendering further
prosecution ~ the case unnecessary
The case I'm the Supreme Court ~ APP
peals Of virginia was 2 suit instituted
by Mr. Ryan in which he prayed for a
writ Of mandamus 10 compel the officers
of the Seaboard and Roanoke Ra'lroad
Company To allow him as large stock
holder in that company. 10 Inspect the
books Of the company I'm connection with
certain charges which he was making
against the then managememnt Of the
company. Since the institution OF that
suit the management has changed. and
presumably there IS no occasion for the
further prosecution Of this case. For
that reason the suit is withdrawn.
or course. II the same state Of affairs
were 10 grow M under the new manage
r1ent az any time Mr. RYAN could renew
the suit. but IL Is NOT anticipated that any
such occasion will arise.
The dismissal Of these suits DO not ar
feet the suit which is now pending In the
courts OF MARYLAND IN which Mr.. Ryan
socks to compel the delivery OF between
three and four thousand OF thu shares
OF tho Seaboard stock by his contract
with Messrs Mcrand and others and
that case wifi 10 prosecuted 20 q dnal fe-
cision IN the Court n Appeals OF Mary
land. ana will probably come m FOR n
hearing some tins IN October or November
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