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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-01-20
RossIN1 CLUB.

The Rossini club yesterday morning
gave the following programme;
Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano-Ga-
Vote. Bendix
Miss Cram. Miss winchell, Miss McGregor
Vocal Solo
"a, A Birding Sang on the Linden
BouQh. Soldernerg
h Shall | Tell Her, Mekerlin
Miss Libby.
Piano Duet:
IA, Night at Sea.
10. AGE of Chiyalry, Mcdowell
Miss PhilbTook and Miss Cobb
Vocal Solo-Blind Girls Song from
La Giaconda, Ponchielli
Miss Fletcher.
Piano Solo-Etude, Ravina
Mrs. Littlefield.
Piano Duo-Minet and Gavotts,
Submissions
Mrs Thompson and Mrs. johnson.
Vocal Solo Devotion, Schuinann
Miss Noyes.
Cello Solo-Mazurka Pepper
Miss Winchell.
Vocal Solo:
II, Fliehe hin, Naohugall
b, Du Dist vie cine Blume, Rubinstein
Mrs. Whitehouse.
Plano Solo-La Regatta Veneziana,
IdsZt
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BOWLING.

The willies AID the Freddies bowled at
Pines alleys last night. The Willies won
two of the three games played. johnson
bowled a fine game ami was high man.
A ha scara.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-01-20
MIS-, SteVtHs'
A CAT AND SNAKE STORY,

The Matinee Girl in the Dramatic Mir
ror says; up at the Cat show they
have one of the best cats have ever seen.
When the two boxing cats are sparring
he stands to one side holding a watch
and counting the seconds between rounds.
understand that he is going out on
the road with the two boxers when they
begin their season after the show. | was
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-01-20
THE FADETTES.

The numerous friends of the tadettes
will be pleased to learn something of their
movements since parting with them
at Riverton last summer. In November
and December they traversed Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio After respite at home
during the holidays they renewed their
trip in the West, and after fulfilling en-
gageInents of five weeks will 60 south
recurring five or six weeks more. 1t
hardly needs to be added that the lovers
of good music area shared wherever
they 80. The success that follows them
has been far beyond expect alton 1t will
not to very long before their delightful
strains will again be heard at Rivertop,
an event anticipated with pleasure by
them as we'll as their friends.
JOHN DREW.
John Drew will be seen In the be st play
of his career since he became, seven years
ago, a star under Charles Frohman' s
direction If all that has been said about
this seasons comedy, THE Liars," be
true, when he comes to the Jefferson
theatre Friday evening, January u, for
one night only. The play is from the
pen of Henry Arthur Jones, who wrote
'The Bauble Shop and Is comedy
of manners" dealing with the polite
fabrications of number OF people, some
of them. in love, and others who are not
smitten that way meddling with the
affairs of those who are. MIR. Drew
plays character who is not only in love
himself. but who attempts TO regulate
everybody else's courtship; as mendet
of broken hearts also he is conspicuous,
The novel and charming story with
the wonderful opportunities IL gives MIR.
Drew, and the exquisite London and
Paris gowns it permits the ladies of the
company TO display, combine to make
"The Liars popular and pretty enter
tsinment. In view of the many sided
and brilliant phases Of 1.-THE Liars, it
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-01-20

Is not surprising that, rs Charles Froh-
man declares. It has surpassed the great
financial record of Rosemary" and
demonstrated itself the most popular and
successful OF all the Drew plays Miss
Isabel Irving Is still Mr.. Drew's leading
lady, and tn sre are many OF the old ia
vorites, as well as some ew ones In the
cast Reserved seats on sale Wednesday
morning, January 25th at 10 O'Clock.
NOTES.
There will be vaudeville play at
havanagh hall Friday evening, Janu-
AIRY 20 for the benefit of the G. T. A. Ca
dets In order to raise money TO provide a
place and means of amusement to keep
the boys from falling into bad company.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-01-20

DIR. kulis Cough syrup cures bronchitis.
Why suffer when this wonderful remedy can
be had Tor only 25c. a bottle.
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OXFORD AFFAIR NOT POSTPONED.

The Oxford Affair, by the members
of the Congress Square annex, will be
presented at Lewis Hall. Woodfords to-
night, and has not been postponed as
statad
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-01-20
HORSE STRAYED.

Tuesday night the Gussies and
Freddies.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-09-27
Apparatus For Home Athletics.

In all well-appointed gymnasiums
for both men and women, both heavy
and light weight apparatus are to be
had for those desiring either sort.
But the apparatus most used in all
gymnasiums is OF very moderate
weight. The clubs and dumbbells
are of one or one and half pounds
each, and not exceeding two pounds.
These are preferred in development
work by both men and women. These
are the best sizes if used properly.
and no club or dumbbell exercise is
wo, th anything unless it is correctly
done, SO that each movement "tells"
on the proper muscle. A mere
swinging around of clubs will accom-
plish nothing.
It is said that the most powerful
athletes have trained the bodies and
developed their powers with ap-
paratus no heavier than this. 1t is
considered that heavy apparatus is
apt to overstrain the muscles instead
of hardening or Strengthening them,
and the best authorities say it should
not be used. The correct movements
of dumbbells are easily learned, and
much benefit can be got at home by
the proper use OF them. They can be
bought very cheaply at any large ath-
letic itters.-Woman's Life.
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Our Adopted Islands.

General Ludlow has suggested to the
American officers in the Department OF
Havana the advlsability Of learning Span
tsh.
Traces of gold have been found In the
Province OF Puerto Principe, Cuba.
William Owen Smith, who Is to represent
Hawaii at Washington during the coming
session of Congress, was born In Hawaii
about fifty years ago, and has for many
years been one Of the most prominent and
influential men in the islands.
The duty on Porto Rican coffee going to
Cuba has been modified as relief measure.
The city OF Neuvltas, Cuba, Is suffering
from a water famine, there being no wates
In the place except that which Is brought
from distance. The river water Is sold
at the rate Of fifteen cents for four gallons.
The health statistics OF Havana for the
month OF August, which have just been
Issued, show that during the month there
were eleven deaths from yellow fever.
The Mayor Of linus has disappeared. He
Is supposed to have Joined the insurgents.
A. rebel band north OF Manila was routed
by a body OF American troops under Cap
tain BUTLER, OF the Third Infantry.
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THE NEWS EPITOMlZEO.
Washinxton Items.

The value OF the principal articles OF do
mestic export for the month Of August was
$50, 1926, ,4SS. Compared with the same
month last year the value OF breadstuns
eI,mrtsd in August shows an increase OIL
IS .61l .023, provisions an increase OF 81
231 ,275, mineral oils an increase OF 81, 554,'
502, while cotton shows decrease OF $780,
s22.
General Miles has received reports on the
trials Of high explosives made at Sandy
Hook. The tests showed that proiectiles
containing high explosives can be thrown
with enough force to penetrate armoI
plate.
State Senator Emery, Of Pennsylvania,
testified before the Industrial Commission
that rebates granted by the railroads were
responsible for the power CT the Standard
Oil Company.
Secretary Gage has decided In the case
ofAppraiser Wakemsp, Of New York City,
that he is to be continued. In ofice, but
that he be asked to separate himself from
official relations with the Tariff League.
The President has approved.
An order for the organization Of two
colored regiments was issued from the
War Department. All Of the company OH.
GERS are colored men who served In the
war with Spain, either as regulars or as
volunteers. The regiments will be desig.
mated the Forty-eIshth and Forty-ninth
Volunteer Infantry.
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3OOC&3CCSJ3EEJJ 3EEJJCCEJt5s7SCSS
Terrible Effects Of
Porto oRico' 'sBurrIIcape

PONCE, Porto Rico. o.-The hurricane,
sad as is the havoc it wrought, great
as is the misery it caused, has &C
complished in a day what would have
taken diplomacy years to bring about.
It has taught the natives that the
Americans are their real friends. The
Americans, by their prompt and gem
erous assistance. have wiped out oil
lingering preiudices.
Porto Rico suffered more than any
As regards the actual financial loss
to the island occasioned by the hurri-
cane, estimates vary. So far as I can
figure it out the loss to the whole ISL
and will amount to about seventy-fve
million pesos, or more than $50, ,OOO,-
900.
. This amount covers damage to build
ings and machinery, damage to ware
houses and stores of coffee, tobacco
and sugar; damage to this years cane.
coffee and fruit crops, including esti-
mated loss on the next three years
other colony by the hurricane Of
August 9. Every district in the ISL
and has been devastated. Thousands
of homes have been ruined and crops
upon which the whole population de-
pended for subsistence have been
, laid waste beyond retrieve for at least
three years.
! Porto Rico to-day is as barren as
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the quarters. At every country station
the troops are living under canvas.
In most cases the barracks have been
blown down. At Aibonito not one
wall of the whole barracks is left
standing. The soldiers lost every.
thing they had, and those in the hos
pital had a narrow escape with thei1
lives.
The barracks collapsed during the
first hour OF the storm. Fifteen min
utes after the walls had toppled in the
men, who had even formed ranks out
side in the pelting rain, had appointed
delegation to wait upon Captain
Wheeler to ask permission to render
assistance to the town. The captain
Joined his men. Without thought
of their own loss, without thought OF
any danger, the whole troop crossed
the swollen river between the barracks
and the town, and were soon engaged
in the work of rescue, lodging pieces
of flying zinc or rushing into tumbling
houses.
On the night of the hurricane I was
sleeping on my own plantation in the
district of Bayamon, about ten miles
from the capital. At about half-past
seven o'clock Tuesday night my cap.
itaza, or head man, came to the door
and reported that the Government had
sent out notice that hurricane was
approaching, via st. Thomas. Like
many others, I did not give full cred
ence to the warning. At half.past five
the wind was blowing thirty miles an
hour.
Daylight was long in coming, for the
sky was inky black. When dawn did
come we could be sure the storm was
not far away, and everything movable
was taken in. Tenants began to run
to us for shelter and we took them
in also.
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undertakers dislike to give up the lib
oral commissions from livery establish
nents they once enjoyed, but popular
feeling is too strong to withstand. 1t
costs but S11 for a motor car and q
trailer, with an extra charge OF So for
every additional car needed.
On the line of the Chicago Electric
Traction Company, special funeral
car, the Virginia, is provided. It is
dark green in color. At each end is
q vestibule, having door in its front
for the admission of the casket. In
one of these vestibules the casket re-
mains during the journey to the ceme-
terry, screened from the rest of the car
by heavy curtains. The car proper is
richly furnished, and accommodates
twenty persons.
The Calumet Company has no special
funeral car, but the back is removed
from the seat of an ordinary motor
car and on this the casket is placed.
On either side of the casket the pail
bearers take their places, while rela.
tives and friends occupy the remain
ing seats.
On the Calumet line, which covers
a wide stretch of territory, south OF
Sizty-third street, the number OF troll
lev funerals sometimes reaches five a
day. Arrangements with the under
takers in suburbs along the line are
made by the company.
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WRECKED CAFE IN PLAZA ADJOINING CUSTOM HOUSE. ToNCE
here this winter, and which may now
be friobtened oway.

here this winter, and which may now
be frightened away.
The loss of growing crops is, be.
yond question, the most serious item
in the islands list of misfortunes.
Everything has been more or less de-
stroyed. What the hurricane left the
foods carried away. The mango,
bread fruit and avoeate trees, upon
which the natives depend to great
extent for subsistence, have been
swept bare or broken down. Only
the most sheltered banana groves are
left standing. The coffee crop is
wholly ruined, and all but the small
est of the trees have been destroyed.
A coffee plant takes five years to ma
ture. The half ripe orange crop is on
the ground. A few cane fields have
escaped, but with the factories de-
molished these are only valuable for
fodder.
The wholesale, indiscriminate dis
tributlon of food is being stopped.
else the whole population would be-
come pauperized. In all centres l
visited rations are now being dis
tributed to the old and lnfrm and to
young children. To all able-bodied
adults is offered work. At first this
course of action caused some COM
plant, but now the plan is beginning
to work we'll, and the poor are oil the
more independent, and better con-
tented for it.
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Aliens Sense of 1uinor.

No man in Congress has q keenel
sense of humor than John Allen, OF
Mississippi, who for various reasons
has been much in the public eye dur.
ing the past few months. Not long
ago, in the midst of very interesting
speech, a member on the otner side
of the Chamber asked:
"May T interrupt the gentleman
from Mississippi for moment?"
"Is it for applause?" queried MIR.
Allen. "The gentleman from Missis'
sippl allows no Interruptions except
for applause. "-Philadelphia Satur'
dey Evening Post.
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lee side of penguin fence to shack,
sheltered behind hill.

lee side of penguin fence to a shack,
sheltered behind bill,
1t was half.past twelve before tho
STERN was over and we could venture
forth. Our house, we found, had not
blown down entirely; but the wooden
walls were slanted at an angle OF thirty
degrees. The roof was completely OH
and everything inside absolutely
ruined by the water.
It was two days before we could
cross the river to get to market. Every
peasants hut for three miles around
was down. Four hundred houses OIL
the outskirts of Bayamon were piled
up in the public road The railroad
running to San Juan had been COM
pletely washed away. The highways
were blocked with rubbish. 1t was
two days before supplies OF bread
reached the town. In the interim the
people lived on half ripe fruit.
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Foreign.

General Jimenez has arrived In Santo
Domineo's capital and has issused mani
festo declaring that he would not accept
the Presidency until elected BY the people,.
A new Ministry was formed in Venezuela
with Senior Calcano as Minister OF Foreign
Affairs.
The Brazilian Government has protested
against the sale OF the lands OF the Duke
Of SAKE to the German Government.
The Atrorney-General of Spain has de.
manded that Admiral Montojo, who COM
manded the Spanish feet at Manila, be
dismissed from the service. He agrees to
the exoneration OF Major Sostoa. who com.'
manded the Cavite arsenal at the time Oh
Dewey's victory.
In view Of the agitation by the Carlists
and Autonomists in Biscay, which has as
sumed extensive proportions, the Spanish
Government has suspended the constitn.
tional guarantees In that province.
A new Cabinet has been formed at Lima,
Peru, with Senior Galvez as Premier and
launde as Minister Of Finance and Com
merce.
The Dowager Empress OF China has asked
that work begun by English and Americans
In the province OF Szechuen.
Ou Tie dEElfdl VI luo UoL n AoAA"t
from Franco at Glasgow the chief mate.
Charles Black, OF Montreal, was arrested
on charge OF shooting ana killing coloreo
seaman named Trott after quarrel.
Groceries have advanced ten to fifteen
per cent. at johannesburg, South Africa,
and supplies from the coast are anxiouslY
awaited.
The Korean Emperor has ordered re:
form in dress, and has Issued an cdlct toas
longer sleeves must be worn with long
coats.
The New South Wales Cabinet resigned
because OF IL vote OF lack OF confidence, and
Mr.. Lyme, leader OF the opposition, was
summoned to form Ministry.
General Benjamin F. Tracy, before the
Anglo.yenezuelan Boundary Arbitration
Commission at Paris, took up his argu'
mept In behalf Of the Venezuelan case, de.
voting the greater prrt OF the first day &c
a discussion OF the international rules re-
la.lI. , he rights OF discovery.
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Sold With the Coal.

A new carmun was engaged at q coal
yard and he went off to deliver his
first load. He failed to return and a
search was thereupon instituted.
The missing man was found at the
house where he had put the coal in
the cellar and had taken up his quar-.
ters in the kitchen. The cook said she
could not get him to leave, and the
carman was asked what he meant by
such conduct.
"Why," he replied, "I thought !
was sold with the COAL was weighed
with it."-Tit-B
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Domestic.

Paul Roehrlcht was shot and instantly
killed In North PlainHeld, NJ, by Mrs.
Peter Fingerhuth, whom he was about to
svict.
Captain N. Mayo Dyer, who commanded
the cruiser Baltimore at the Battle OF
Manila Bay, was feted in Baltimore. Mayor
Malster presented to the Captain mag
niacent sword, the gift of the City Coun-
ell and the people Of the city.
Peter Bateman, q prospector. has been
found dead on the Harquhala desert only
three miles from water at Cullen's Wells,
Arizona. Death plainly had been OF thirst.
Ho was ffty-five years old and veteran
of the Civil War. A brother lives at De.
troit, Mich.
Captain John 8. Fair has enlisted at
Harrisburg, Penn, full-blooded American
Indian for the Forty-third Regiment.
Charley halfway, OF the Apache tribe
Through the influence of General Crook,
Charley was sent East as pupil at the
Carlisle Indian School. For several months
he had been In the employ OF the Cambria
Iron Company at Johnstown.
By rear-end collision on the D Delaware'
Lackawanna and Western Railroad near
Nayaug, Penn, two men were killed, two
seriously injured and three bad narrow
escapes. The dead are Patrick Mullen,
brakeman, Of Scranton, leaves wife and
two children, and Joseph Parry, OF Nayaug,
brakeman, unmarried.
Major Hastings, a brother Of former Gov
.rnor Hastings, OF Pennsylvania, was sent
10 prison at Philadelphia In default OF
100000 bail, on charges OF forgery and
lalse pretense.
The Board OF Health at Jacksonville,
nQ.Jo1 al
een cases OF yellow fever at Mississippi
clty. Miss, and at once established
quarantine against that region.
The naval collier Matteawan arrived at
San Francisco, Cal., from Norfolk, Va,
With nine men In her crew who were sailors
IN the Spanish warship Almirante Oquen-
10. which was destroyed at Santiago by
SIMPSONS fest. The sailors declare they
will become American citizens, and say
they never will return to Spain.
Captain Richard Freeman and Nelson
Alguire, sailor, the survivors OF the
wreck OF the Canadian barge Lis9ar, Whfch
went down in Lake Huron, arrived In
Milwaukee, Mich, aboard the steamer
Case. The roof of the cabin Of the Lisgar
aoats about Lake Huron with the body OF
The captains wife aud two sailors lsshed
70 It. The bodies Of two other men are IN
Lake Huron.
The Garden City Hotel, built in part BY
A. T. Stewart as feature OF his scheme to
establish an ideal place OF residence on
Long Island, was destroyed by fire. Loss:
s260,000.
At the State Peoples Party Convention
at Philadelphia resolutions were adopted
condemning the war in the Phillpplnes.
! The platform also indorses the nomination
of the National Convention at Cincinnati
last year. A State ticket was put IN the
| field. &.
While digging a wall on Lookout Noun:
tain, G. H. Jarnagin and others discovered
gold quartz In large quantities about six
evidence OF being a rich vein. The dis
covery caused great deal OF excitement.
Lin Jug, Chinese lsper, died In hut
on Blackwell Island, New York City, IN
which he lived With another leper since
1897. Jug died from heart disease.
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First English Steam Vessel.

Eighty-two years ago on August IL
appeared in on English paper an ad-
vertisement OF the first steam vessel
to carry passengers in European
waters. 1t was the Comet, little
boat cf twenty-five tons burden, run
ming on the Clyde River, between
Glasgow aud Greenock. It's builder
and engineer was James Bell, a specu-
lative individual, who devoted him
self to inventions, while his wife ran
boarding house.
In 1907 Fulton's Clermont had
made its first trip on the Hudson.
Just 100 years before Fulton the
value of steam in navigation had been
demonstrated by Denys Papin in q
model steamboat on the Fulda, near
Cassel, Germany. After taking a
hundred years from the date OF the
first invention to put the idea into
practical force it has taken but eighty
years more to bring the total value OF
the steamboats, of the world up to con-
siderahly more than thousand mil
lions of dollars.
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..THEEr. lr.PoNef.
kTTek Tht 'FLeoF

At half-past seven o'clock the storm
began in earnest, and in half an hour
it was impossible to stand against the
wind. We had braced and tied down
the roof as best we could, but one sim
gle puff carried away all our stays. In
half an hour our roof was gone and
the rain pelting in. At ten o'clock the
wind was blowing seventy-fve miles
an hour. Once we made sortie, and
rescued q woman and two children,
but hardly had we got them inside
when the house began to creak and
groan, and we sought the open. Dodg-
ing flying branches of trees and stray
bits of timber, we crawled along the
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Million 4 Front Foot.

A mortgage OF $50, 900, 900 on tiny
town lot is rarely recorded in real es
tate annals. The city of San Jose,
CAL, has within her fowery limits a
little patch of ground which has actu.
ally borne an incumbrance of the above
named stupendous proportions.
This infnitesimal speck o. Cali
fornia's map has represented in money
precisely what America paid Spain for
the Philippine archipelago.
And this San Jose lot, only fair
size flower garden, according to the
California notion as to gardens, meas
ures 1496 square feet, while the Phil
ippene Islands comprise III, 600 square
miles.
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was Cuba at the close of the insurrec-
tion. Here, in Porto Rico, fields that
iwere once beautiful with waving canes,
hillsides but o few days ago covered
with the green coffee and banana trees
now present a bare and sorry view.
Homes that sheltered happy families
have been washed away. The vii
lagos are crowded with shelterless
people.
I The homeless to-day number about
one-third of the whole population of
the island.
I have passed through every dis
trlct from the capital to Ponce, and