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The Portland daily press., 1899-04-11
Portland wholesale Market.

PORTLAND. April I
This following quotations represent the w,lo,c
| safe prices for this market;
The Portland daily press., 1899-04-11
SEBAGO.

Sebsgo, April 10.-The 5. 5. COM
mittee OF Sebago and superintende MT
have assigned the teachers to m st OF
trict, which Is not decided. and the Con
vene district. The schools will be taught
mostly by the same teachers as last year,
but not in the same districts. Politics
will not enter into the selection of teach
ers so far as was expected Miss Poor,
Miss White Miss McKenney, Mrs Kim
ball, Miss Clough are among those who
taught last year that are already engaged
Miss Hill can have one school not yet
engaged at Brick school II she desires it,,
but the Convene school yet seems to be
conundrum to many; but perhaps 1t is
well not to hurry in making selections of
teacher for such school, as it will at last
be provided for as we'll as the rest OF
schools in town
The Portland daily press., 1899-04-11
NEW GLOUCESTER.

The George K. Whitman Post, No. ca,
G.. a Z OF New Gloucester. are congrst-
ulntiI4 Themselves on having secured
Rev. 1eorge W. Bicknell of the First
Universalist church OF Cambridgeport
Mass. to deliver the Memorial address
Music Will be furnished by quartette
from Auburn, led by MIR. Lewis +. Smith.
The Portland daily press., 1899-04-11

Portland Daily Presssteck OsstAsions
corrected BY Swan s Barrett BANKERS, asa
Middle street
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CUBAN CABLE MONOPOLY.
Efficient Service at Reasonable
Rates Demanded

Now that Elihu Root has become
we'll Installed at the head of the War
Department, it is to be hoped he will
lose no time in taking up and rescind-
ing Secretary Ayers order directing
Genefaf Brooke to prevent the Com
mefcIaf cable Company from landing
its proposed cable on that island.
Ihls drastic action was taken on the
claim of the Western Union Telegraph
Company that it has an exclusive right
to cable landing there. and hence Il
monopoly of telegraphic service between
Cuba and the United States. The va
l1dlty OF this claim is denied by the
Commercial Cable Company, which
charges and holds itself ready TO
prove, that the Western Union con-
cession was obtained by false and
fraudulent representations.
Attorney General Griggs, to whom the
question was referred, gave the opin-
ion that the Government should pro-
tect the monopoly, and yet he de-
clared that this department has not
assumed to pass upon the validity of
the exclusive right which the Western
Union Telegraph Company and it's
leased companies claim'' Then why
should the Government assume to pro
tect that right when it's validity is
denied and proof of it's inyalidity is
offered? If this charge is true, the
monopoly is not only without any legal
or official warrant, but is a fraud on
the Government and an imposition on
the public. Can the Government af-
ford to protect a concern under such a
cloud or lend itself to such an alleged
fraud and imposition?
In his letter to Secretary Alger. Clar-
ence ii. Mackay, President of the Com
mercial Gable Company of Cuba, says:
I'VE desire to lay competing cable
We ask no money from the Govern
ment. We are bound in writing to
place this cable at the service of the
Government, and allow the Govern
ment to fix it's own rates for the use
thereof. We have agreed in writing to
allow the Government to take the title
to the cable at any time, and pay us
the appraised value thereof.
eve ask nothing from the Govern
ment in return for, all this except to be
let alone!'
made? What better assurance is
needed of the Commercial Gable Com
pany's confidence in it's ability to sub
stantiate it's charge of fraud and in
validity in a court of law if the West
ern Union should attempt there to as
sert it's monopoly? Under what obli-
cation is the Government of the United
States to defend the Western Union
monopoly against direct charges of
fraud and protect it against eompeti-
ton? Why not let it defend itself,
fight its own battles and make good it's
own claim, if it can, in a court of law ::
That is all the Commercial asks. What
right, reason or business has the West
ern Union to ask for more?
There is q paramount public aspect of
this matter which the Government
The record-union., 1899-09-07
THE PRESS ASSOCIATION.


The California Press Association was
organized in this city just ten years
ago. 1t reassembles here to-day to en-
ter formally upon the second decade of
it's existence. The membership is SO
widely distributed throughout the
State that it may not be expected that
very large attendance will mark the
occasion, but there will be here suf1i-
cient of the membership to honor the
session and give fair representation OF
the character of its composition.
The association is welcomed to the
city of it's birth most cordially. 1t
represents intelligence and influence.
which have to do with the most poten-
tiaI agency of the day, in the education
of public opinion and the defense of
the institutions of our country. 1t is
composed Of men who in most part
have given the best years Of their lives
and all the energies of their being to the
furtherance of the highest best interests
of the State of their birth or adoption,
with the very least compensating re-
ward that come to any man, the con-
sciousness of having benefited and bet
tered his fellows, and of having given
new impulse to the uplift of the State
of his love.
The record-union., 1899-09-07
MARRIED TEACHERS.
Land Patents Signed.

Governor Gage has signed land pa
tents as follows:
Swamp and overfowed-Lewis Cut
ting, 605 acres in Fresno County; ]. O.
Halsey, $40 acres in Fresno County.
School lands-Marcus DAILY, 320 acres
in Los Angeles County; Esther E.
Trigg, 240 acres in Humboldt County;
J. A. Sargent, so acres in Fresno;
James f. Morgan, SO acres in Fresno;
F. O. Hyde, ago acres in Fresno; Geo.
Gardner, 120 acres in Fresno; Geo. w.
Foote, 80 acres in Santa Cruz; L. H.
Shotweli, $50 acres in Fresno; G. E.
Beutholf 160 acres in Merced; James
Cass, 49O acres in San Luis Obispo;
Charles Sutro, 320 acres in Fresno;
Thomas Kemode. 80 acres in Tulare
Daniel Burke, $40 acres in Kern; c. L.
Goddard. 40 acres in Tulare; Kern
County Land Company 2,4S0 acres in
Kern; Mrs. Emma c. Knox, 640 acres
in Riverside; C. B. Rush. 440 acres in
Tulare; Avenal Land and Oil Company,
l ,160 acres in Kings; Mabel Symmes,
4S0 acres in Los Angeles; S. B. Welch,
GAO acres in Riverside: c. H. Manning,
40 acres in Siskiyou; H. F. Congdon,
$40 acres in Kern; Leon Hart, $50
acres in Fresno; julius Hart, $50 acres
in Fresno: Annie Poole, 640 acres in
Santa Barbara; Marcus Hart, $50 acres
in Fresno. Redlands Electric Light and
Power Company ca corporation), 4O
acres in San Bernardino: F. c. Luck,
$40 acres in Ventura: S. G. Lillis, 4SO
acres in Fresno; C. H. Maginnis, 640
acres in Ventura: w. P. Regan, SO
acres in Santa Clara; C. w. Clark, 640
acres in Tulare; Mary E. Benson, 56O
acres in Kern; r. S. Wheeler, $50 acres
in Tulare; c. w. Clark. $50 acres in
Kern
The record-union., 1899-09-07

cannot afford either to lose sight of or
underestimate its Importance Monop-
olies are always odious in the eyes Of
the law and against public policy. Fair.
open competition is favored by the peo-
pie and should be encouraged by the
Government, which represents the peo-
pie and whose business it is to foster
their interests. This is specially true
with regard to telegraphic communica.
ton between Cuba and the United
States. That island has now passed
under American control. New life Is
to be infused into it by American en-
terprise, activity and capital. The
business and personal relations be-
tween it's people and those of the
United States have entered upon a
new era. The time has passed for an
inefficient cable monopoly at exorbitant
rates. What is imperatively needed
and demanded is that efficient service
at reasonable rates which is denied
by monopoly and afforded by fair COM
petition.
The Commercial Cable Company of
Cuba proposes to give the press. the
business world and the general public Il
better and cheaper service. That would
be boon both to Cuba and this coun-
try. 1t is the part of the Government
to do everything in it's power to bring
it about. We trust that the authorities
at Washington WILL on reconsidera-
ton, take this view of the matter and
act accordingly.-New York Herald.
The record-union., 1899-09-07
Hats Off in a Pittsburg Church

Recently the wife of Rev. DR.. L. c..
Barnes of the Fourth Avenue Baptist
Church, Pittsburg, became i'll in church
and swooned. She attributed her
faintness to a heavy hat she had worn
throughout the sermon. This incident
gave inspiration to the pastor to re-
quest, on the Sunday following, just be-
fore commencing his sermon that the
ladies of his congregation should re-
move their headgear. There was gen
eral surprise at such a suggestion but it
was respected and the ladies have since
expressed satisfaction over the expert
ment by deciding that in all future SER
vices every one would remove her hat
or bonnet before entering a pew.
The scene in the church is said to
have been a very pretty one aside from
the novelty, although there was natur-
ally some inconvenience by reason of
the absence of mirrors. This instance
is claimed to be the first on record in
modern churches that women have been
known to sit through a sermon with
their heads uncovered. - Philadelphia
Press
The record-union., 1899-09-07

The freedom and liberality with
which the witnesses in the Dreyfus
trial call one another liars is one sur
prising fact, but still more astonish~
ing one is that to date not
nose has been punched nor a chal-
lenge to mortal combat delivered
The more we hear of the French
man the less we understand him.
Wednesdays scene in the court :
tial, where a witness. denounced Colonel
Picquart as a perjurer, and the latter
contented himself with, Il protest ab'
solutely," would be worthy the pen OF
the dramatic satirist and the genius
of a Cruikshank.
The record-union., 1899-09-07

ed that is to be conveyed in any kind
of metal piping to ascertain if it con-
tains anything likely to act upon the
constituents of the metal with harmful
effect. Fortunately there are very few
instances of ! waters. except those OF
mineral springs, which contain cheml-
Gals having detrimental action on COM
mon materials. Lead pipe should not
be used at all, where it is possible to
have iron in place of it or lined lead
The record-union., 1899-09-07
Leo XIII. and His Cardinals.

Including the creations at this week S
consistory, Leo XIII. has already dur
ing his long pontificate created 12S Car
dinals. of whom 90, or more than half.
have died. And, strangely enough, the
total numberof deaths in the sacred col
lege during the pontificate has been 1T,
of whom "a were of the creation of Plus
TX and went back to Gregory XVI.
At the present moment the sacred col
lege contains 81 Italians and u non
Italians, viz: French, 6 belonging to
Austria Hungary, 5 to Spain, to Ger
man Empire and 1 each to England,
Ireland, Austria, the United States,
Belgium, Poland and Portugal.-Tablet.
The sun rises in the east, but bread
rises with the yeast in it.
The record-union., 1899-09-07

Labori has his gloves off and his fists
doubled. In the Dreyfus ->trial on
Wednesday the way he handled the
President of the court, Colonel Jouaust
would excite the envy of the best of
American criminal lawyers. Labori
should pack his green bag and come
over to us the moment the Dreyfus
case is ended. He will find a fine field
in this country for such talents as his.
In France he is cribbed and confined.
Really, as all Americans enjoy good
fight, this scrimmage of wits between
Labori and Jouaust excites the adj
miration of the American spirit
The record-union., 1899-09-07

All the signsaof the hour point to a
war between England and the Beers.
So much of hope has been defeated
and denied in the affair between the
two that we look now for hostilities to
be declared at any moment. And SO
the partition of Africa goes on. The
great European Powers propose to dI-
cisely in like manner would they fall
foul of the Philippines should we forego
our occupation OF those islands. 1T is
call a halt in the Orient, at least.
The record-union., 1899-09-07

Fifty-two per cent. of the Thirtieth
Regiment, now en- route from Fort
Sheridan for San Francisco to sail for
the Philippines are veterans who re
enlisted to go to the Orient to main
tain the supremacy of the authority
of the United States in possession OF
the Philippines by hap of war, by pur-
chase and treaty and by the destiny of
the nation to which we are moved for
ward by forces irresistible; forces which
have all these years been making fer
the good and expansion of the greatest
of republics. This re-enlistment proves
that the forecasts of the pessimists con-
cerning the soldiers of the nation are at
fault.
The record-union., 1899-09-07

Professor R. E. Jones, President of
Hobart College, has a monograph in
the current Forum" analyzing Wash
ington's farewell address, in which he
shows that it is misinterpreted and
misquoted, and that it clearly justi-
fies expansion; that it has looked for
ward TO it, and indicates our destiny in
the occupation of the Philippines, in
order to call halt upon European
equivalence, and prevent once and for
all the dismemberment of South Amer
ica and such domination of the Orient
as would exclude us from our position
as one of the family Of nations. We
shall consider this remarkable and
most ingenious monograph more at
length presently.
The record-union., 1899-09-07
Familiar With Oaths.

by Justice Lawrence against himself.
He is an ardent golfer. He tells how
he had recently a case before him in
which he felt it necessary to ask one
of the witnesses. a boy, the usual ques-
tion whether he was acquainted with
the nature of an OATH
The ingenious youth calmly replied:
"Of course I am. Amt I your cad
die ?"-Tid-Bits.
Many woman speaks of her emo
tional temperament. but others call 1T
temper.
The record-union., 1899-09-07

General Buckner of Kentucky is es-
teemed a pretty sound Democrat in his
State He has proved it by a good
many years of loyalty to the party.
But he turns at last, and protests in
most emphatic and understandable
language, when in response to the ap-
peal to Democrats to stand by Colonel
Bryan and the Chicago platform he
exclaims;
Not until they shall cease to distin-
guish between principle and temporary
expediency; between national faith and
national dishonor; between the welfare
of the people and the exaltation Of as
piring political charlatans; between pa
triotism and party servility, will the
National Democracy consent to be
merged with the motley supporters of
that mosaic of populism, anarchy and
public dishonor known as the Chicago
platform of 1896.
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would form
in the womb.
| had four
t u m ors in
two years. /
went through
tire a t m e n I
with doctors,
but they did
The record-union., 1899-09-07

Another revolution in Venezuela is
reported at the State Department in
Washington. What? Has it been three
months since the last one? How time
tdiAS $50
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LETTER TO MRS. PrNkHAM NO. ao,6o2I
"Two years ago l was great
sufferer from womb trouble and pro-
fuse flowing each month, and tumors
The record-union., 1899-09-07

Some fools actually go hungry that
they may crafty their desire for fine
clothes.
The record-union., 1899-09-07
Weather Forecast.

Northern California;: Fair Thursday;
continued warm weather; warmer in the
San joaquin Valley; northerly winds;
westerly on. the coast
The record-union., 1899-09-07
Another 7sssssor
Rers0vea by
Lydia {. Pink
bassss Negefa-
bic Compound

me no good, and l thought 1 would
have to resort to morphine.
"The doctor said that all that could
help me was to have an operation and
have the womb removed, but L had
heard of Mrs. Pinkham's medicine and
decided to try it, and wrote for her
advice, and after taking her Vegetable
Compound the tumors were expelled
and l began to get stronger right
along, and am as well as ever before.
Can truly say that would never had
gotten well had it not been for Lydia E.
Pinkham's Compound. F" - MARY A.
STAHL, WATsoNTowN, PA.
The record-union., 1899-09-07

The more you pay for the experience
the more it is worth to you.
The record-union., 1899-09-07
What Mrs. Pinkham,s Letter Did.

"DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM-Afterf follow
ing the directions given in your kind
letter for the treatment of leucorrhea,
/ can say that / have been entirely
cured by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's
remedies, and will gladly recommend
them to my friends.
9 Thanking you for your kindness, /
am gratefully yours, A. B. DAvIDs,
BINGHAMPToN, N. Y"
The record-union., 1899-09-07
VOICE or THE PRESS.
EXTRACTS FROM EDITORIAL
EXPRESSIONS.
State and Coast Opinions on SUBJ
jects of Living News
Interest.

Oakland Enquirer: AS a maker Of
sensations for the world France is equal
to all the demands Of the most exacting
journalist and 1T is entirely safe to
take up the morning newspaper with
the inquiry, What have those excita
bic Frenchmen done now?" The latest
is the slaughter in the French Soudan
of the officers who were sent to relieve
Captain Voulet of the command of an
expedition and who, instead of being
welcomed, were promptly killed. Even
Parisians can find no explanation of
this except that Voulet had gone in
sane.
The record-union., 1899-09-07
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

A laundry that will do up your linen just
as you want it, and just when you want
it, should deserve your patronage. That
is what we do. Try us. UNION IAUN-
The record-union., 1899-09-07
SAC'TO COFFEE HOUSE

is the best place in town to go to; every
thing frst-class. Open night and day.
5l5 X street S. NIELSEN. Proprietor.
The record-union., 1899-09-07
PACIFIC GROVE BAKERY
CARRIAGE TRIMMING,

cushions, tops, lazy backs, etc, made to
order. Repairing promptly done. Salts
faction guaranteed. j. b. HEISLER, 1916
] street.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-03-06

One dark, cloudy night last fall a
two days old baby was left at the home
of Mrs. st. John in Edgerton. Par
entage of the wee one was shrouded in
a mystery, but nevertheless the kind
hearted lady took it in and gave it
all the attention a mother could have
done. Under the care Of the foster
mother it has thrived and gives prom
Use of some day being queen among
it's sex. Every week that the little
thing has been with Mrs. ST. John she
has received a SIS note to partially rec
ompense her for the hours of care and
trouble which a young babe of neces-
sity makes. But the little one has
gone to another home. One evening
not long ago stranger called and took
it away, whence no one knows, but in
all probability it has passed to other
hands that will tenderly and kindly
care for it in the years that are to
come.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-03-06
HE DIDN'T BULGE.

One time Quaker in a carriage met
a young man in a buggy driving in
a narrow lane, where they couldn' t
pass.
81 shant make way for you" said
the young man.
81 am older than thou art, replied
the Quaker, "and therefore have
right to expect thee to give way so that
[ can pass"
well, I WON'T" resumed the young
fellow. Then he pulled out a news
paper and began to read, as he sat still
in his carriage.
The Quaker, observing him, pulled
a pipe and some tobacco from his
pocket, struck light, and sat and
puffed away very comfortably.
Friend" said he, when thou hast
read that paper 1 should be very glad
if thou wouldst lend it to me"
The young man gave up the contest.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-03-06

travelled far enough to dry the gela-
tine the threads are picked up auto
matically and wound upon spools
The whole apparatus is said to re-
quire very little attention, single
workman overseeing enough machines
to produce 100000 yards Of thread per
day-equal to the production of a.
900 cocoons. To make the gelatine
threads proof against being dissolved
in warm water or any other solution
they are lightly wound on drums and
subjected to the fumes Of formalde-
hyde in a close room for several
hours. Coloring matter added in
very small proportions to the liquid
gelatine produced any shade Of thread
desired This artificial silk is said to
be extremely brilliant and very uni
form in thickness.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-03-06
SILK MADE OF GELATINE.

A very curious report comes to the
state department from Consul Frank
enthal at Berne, Switzerland, on the
manufacture of artificial silk from
gelatine. The consul says that his
information is from Professor Hum
mel, Of Yorkshire college, Leeds, Eng
land, who is the inventor Of the pro-
cess and who has submitted specimens
OF his product to Swiss silk manu-
facturers.
The gelatine to be turned into silk
is heated at a certain temperature,
which keeps it continually in liquid
form. The reservoir containing tue
liquid has a cover with innumeraD4e
small openings, through which tne
gelatine oozes in very fine streams.
These tiny threads are discharged on
an endless strip Of linen cloth running
over pulleys. When the strip has
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-03-06
CLIMATE, BOTHERED HIM.

A recently arrived Frenchman, who
visited well-known Boston establish
ment one day to fit himself out for
long journey to the west, says the
Boston Transcript, was complaining
bitterly of the cold Don't you have
cold weather in France?" asked the
salesman who waited on him. why,
certainly, we have re cold weather in
France" was the reply, but we do
not have re all four seasons in one day
in France"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-03-06
DOMESTIC.

Henry Irving is coming to America
next season.
A million dollar pine sale was made
at Chippewa Falls.
The California bill prohibiting car
toOns becomes a law.
Rev. DIR. Alpha J. Kynett, aged 70,
is dead at Harrisburg, Pa.
Fire destroyed the Minneapolis Tri-
bune building. Loss, $250,00O.
Senator Jones of Arkansas is con-
fined to his bed with lung trouble.
The Lake Superior Iron company IS
said to have disposed of its property.
The Southern railway has absorbed
the Mobile and Birmingham railroad.
Fire destroyed the entire business
portion of Muscogee, 1. T. Loss,
$500,0OO.
A ar-manufacturing combine with
$60,O60,OO0 capital was formed in New
Jersey.
Archbishop Ireland writes to the
pope indOrsing his encyclical on
AmericaNism.
DR.. J. w. Bashford has been nomi-
mated for governor of Ohio by the pro-
hibitionists.
w. Bourke Cochran in a speech at
Chicago opposed the suggested Anglo
Saxon alliance.
An attempt is made to drive the
Pennsylvania and another railroad out
of Ohio for pooling.
Chicago May wheat, 1873 and 73Ac.
Edward F. Scott is dead at Jack
sonville, ILL.,, aged II.
Surgeons at Bellevue Hospital
opened a little child's skull to per-
nit her brain to develop.
Rev. DR.. T. N. Morrison was con-
secrated in Chicago as Protestant
Episcopal Bishop of Iowa.
Daniel O'Connell, literteur, poet
and playwright, is dead at his subur-
ban home in SausalitO, Cal.
Mrs. Agnes Gordon Soutter, ma
tive of Virginia, and mother-in-law OF
Rev. DR. Morgan Dix, died in New
York.
Both of Rudyard Kipling's lungs
are now involved in the infamma-
ton from which he is suffering in
New York
The Navy Department has asked
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-03-06
SHOT DEAD BY HIS DOG.

e. x. Blades, formerly a well-known
lawyer of Salina, was killed by a
shotgun in the paws of his dog at
Los Angeles, Cal, the other day. He
had been duck hunting on the water.
Arriving at the shore, he stepped out
of his boat His dog was leaping
about, anxious to get out also, and
his paws struck the trigger of Blades
gun, discharging it and killing Blades
almost instantly.