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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-10-13

Of course the outcome of war between
tn British and the Beers cannot admit
of doubt. The contest is as unequal as
that between the United States and the
Filipinos. Owing TO the fact that there
are but few English troops In South
Africa at present the Beers, If they strike
quickly, are likely to win some successes.
But eventually the British will retrieve
themselves and the Boer republic as an
independent tate will be wiped from the
map. The only escape from this fate
could come through European complioa-
ton that would compel England to draw
away her army for defence elsewhere, but
there is small chance. of any such thing
happening. The Beers are undoubtedly
q plucky and a sturdy race, and they
have the reputation of shooting straight.
But the population OF the Transvaal is
too small TO permit of the raising of a
large army and its resources too meaure to
keep one in the field II 1t were possible to
raise 1t. In time they must be worn out
BY the vastly superior numbers the Eng
lish can pit against them. Nevertheless
the British have no ohild's play before
them. They will not occupy the Trans
wal until thousands of the Queens sol
dieTs have lost their lives, and many
millions of money have been expended.
Majuba Hin will be avenged, perhaps.
bnt only after the sacrifics OF many more
Englishmen than lost their lives there In
1881.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-10-13
NOTES.
STATE OF ONO, CRY OF ToLnDo,

STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, /
LUCAS COUNTY, 50.
FRANK j. CHENEY makes oath that he is
the senior partner of the firm Of 4. j. CHENEY
Connty AMI sts,e aanrsa,a and ia, =. .,
will pay the sum OF ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS
for each and every case of CATARRH thar can.
not be cured by the use OF HALLS CATARRH
CURE.
FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence. this 9th day OF December, A. ID. 1886.
A. W. GLEASON,
t---j Notary Public.
Halls CatarFh Cure Is taken internally. aud
acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces
OF the system. send for testimonials fre-
J. CHENEY & CO. Toledo @,
Sold by Druggist T5c.
Halls Family Pills are the best:
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-10-13
OBITUARY.
ISAAC c. LIBBY.

Isaac G. Libby died Thursday ut bis
home In Waterville. Me-. after lOng III
ness.
Ar. Libby. who was Tor many years
known as the Seattle King of Maine.
and more recently engaged In banking,
real estate, farming. street railway aud
other business enterprises, was born In
Exeter, Penobscot county, Maine. Juns
.. 1887 He was the son Of James and
Mary Ann (Boston) Libby. His parents
came from Kittery and Newfeld In York
county, and were early settlers in the
town OF Wellington. Somerset county.
The father was a mechanic, and subse-
quently moved to Exeter, where Isaac, the
subject of this sketch, was born. He
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-10-13

Archbishop Ksene has come back from
Europe convinced by some evidence
privately CONN unicated to him that
Dreyfus was guilty. 1t is little strange
that tie evidences which convinced him
was not used iefcra the court, and for
garles resorted to instead.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-10-13

Mr.. Croker has earned the Democratic
StEte committee of New Yotk for Bryan
in spite Of all that David b. Hill could
DO. Hill was finally betrayed into a
heated speech wherein he twitted Croker
OF insincerity. Hill must have been deep.
ly panied TO find himself In sssociatiou
with an insincere man.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-10-13

Shurtleff, who was removed from the
Unt9d States Beard of Appraisers, Is
keeping account of the salary he would
have earned in office, and when it amounts
~ enough is going to bring suit for it In
the Court of Claims. He claims that he
was legally removable only for inefl =
cheney, neglect of duty or malfessanoe
and that not one of these things has ever
been alleged AGAINST him.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-10-13

Monday the close time is off moose,
and the mightiest hunters of all, with
the newest guns, win be on hand from
all the eastern portion of the nation.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-10-13

Patrons of the PRESS who are leaving town
temporarily may have the addresses Of their
papers changed as often as they may desire by
notifying tie office
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-10-13

The Board Of Aldermen ought, If posi-
bic, to discontinue the practice of oonsid
ering insane cases in the presence of the
person alleged to be of unsonnd mind and
allowing hisAto address them In reference
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-10-13
For Representative to Congress,
AMOS L. ALLEN.

1t begins TO look ominous when Sena-
tor Proctor declares that he has not talked
politics with Dewey.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-10-13

Subscribers whose papers are not delivered
promptly are requested to notify the Office Of
the DAILY PRESS. No. 90 Exchange street.
Portland Me.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-10-13
FRIDAY. OCTOBER 10.


DAILY PRESS
By the year. SO in advance or o. at the end Of
the year.
BY the month, so cents.
The DAILY PRESS Is delivered at these rates
every morning TO subscribers In all parts Of
Portland. and IN westbrook and South Port
land.
MAINE STATE PRESS weekly
BY the year, 81 IN advance. or s1.2b at the
end OF the year
For SIX months, 80 cents; for three months,
rs cents
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-10-13

We give you the highest price for Old Gold As
we use u for making rings. MCKINNEY the
Jewelef. Monument Square. oct27dtf
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-10-13
PoPULIsTs DYING OFF.
{ Washington Star.)


In all the accounts we get of politioaj
conditions In the west, there occurs prac-
ticaliy the same statement as to the de.
cay OF the popuiist party. In Kansas 1t
has all but disappeared. The divisions
there are again under the names of the
two old parties. In Idaho, Wyoming, the
Dakotas even In Washington, the Rspub.
ilcan and the Democratic seceeders hay 9
In large numbers returned to their old
associations. Only In Nebraska Iare 1.-THE
popuiists now strong, and there they
have quite absorbed the Democrats and
are at the head of the opposition to the
Republians. 1t 10 to them that Mr..
Bryan looks for success next month.
But vhy should the popuiist party sur
vive. even in NebraskaS What need is
there for 1t now anywhereS 1t has i'm
posed nearly all of its original contsn-
tions on the democracy; and their trI.
umph at the polls under any name would
be sweet to those who believe In them.
The Democracy has been almost com
pletely transformed by populism. Free
silver Is the only thing that remains 10 If
out of its old Quilt.
The income tax In time of peaos: the
initiative and referendum, TO which Mr..
MeLsan In Ohio has affixed the seal Of
his approval; short tsnures on the bench
Of the supreme court-aIl are of popu-
list origin.
Appropriately enough. therefore. Mr..
bryan Is the leader Of this transformed
party.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-10-13
CURRENT COMMENT.
DISTRUST OF. LATIN AMERICA.
New Orleans Picayuneo

This distrust felt towards us by the
Latin American countries is most unfor.
tunate because 1t is calculated to hurt our
trade interests in that part of the world.
Some way of restoring confidence among
them ought TO be devised. The annex
alton OF Cuba would strongly confirm
them in their suspicious, whereas the
granting of full Independence to the Ia
land would, or at least should, convince
them that we ara not seeking new terri
tory nor do we desire to acquire the
domain OF any other Power. The annex
alton of Cuba would be offensive to all
Latin America, and would no doubt
cause the coalition against US to grow in
strength and become more patent as well
as active.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-10-13
Dated July 1893. Due July 1909.
With, ut optlon Of earlier redsmplion.

Principal and interest payable in gold at the
office OF the Farmers Loan e. Trust Co., Trus
tee. New York City.
Issued with approval of the City OF Memphis.
10 pay indebtedness incurred for extensions
Improvements and bettarments TO the water
works plant OF said company. This water COM
pany Is operating under a charter granted by
the State OF Tennessee, which we are legally
advised gives II a perpetual right 10 occupy
the streets and supply water in the City OF
Memphis, and also under franchise-contiacf
with the city giving II the right of purchasing
the waller works and properties, and fixing the
water rates on basis that shall yield the com
pany yearly income sufficient TO pay lall costs
of operation ana maintenance all taxes, Ave
per cent interest on its outstanding bonds, and
six per cent dividends on Its capital stock OF
81 100, 900.
The City Of Memphis has an option until
Sept list, 1903. TO purchase the water works and
properties of the company at n price equivalent
10 par for Its Sll00,000 capital stock subject TO
the bonds outstanding. The City OF Memphis
wish recently annexed suburbs, has a popula-
Mississippi river gives It unusual transporta-
tion advantages by water and railway. and as
Sures its continued and permanent prosperity
These water works have been established
for many years, and are considered one of the
most successful ia the United States,
Price lo4 and interest
49,. ..FoR SALE BY...
H. M. PAYS0M & CO.,
30 EXCHANGE STREET.
oet3dn
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-10-13
MARCIA A. STILKEY.

Marcia A, the daughter of b. f.
Stiikey OF Augusta, died early Wednes-
day morning, stter years illness with
consumption. Her age was rs years, nine
months and % days. About two years
ago she came with her father from APP
pleton, Minnesota, TO Freeport, Maine
and for the past year has lived in Au-
gusta. Her mother died in the West
three years ago.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-03-01
Barbet s ON the Ocean.

One OF the most important persons on
board we'll equipped ocean liner is the
barber. If he is gifted with a good bust
ness instinct, he is in position to make
a good deal of money.
10 the average man shaving while at
sea is difficult and hazardous opera
ton. He therefore calls into requisition
the services Of the ships barber, man
who 10y long training is qualified to
WELD the razor with skill and safety,
no matter how much the vessel rolls or
pitches,
He is always one of the most heavily
Clipped officials on the ship. If the
ship travels on route with interesting
ports of call, the ships barber makes it
his business to lay in stock of native
knickknacks and curios of all kinds.
The inexperienced traveller is natu-
rally little suspicious of the native
peddlers who swarm on board with their
wares directly the ship is at anchor. He
prefers to- purchase his mementos of
foreign travel of the barber, who, hav-
ing bought his stock at wholesale rates.
is able to retail the various articles to
passengers at prices little if at all high
er than those charged by the native
esman,-Rxohange.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-03-01
The Leopard arid the Pan.

One day worthy Kulu housewife
came out from her cooking and, stand
ing on the ledge of rock at her door,
emptied pan of boiling water into the
rank heritage growing below. 1t fell,
splash, on the back of a sleeping leo
pard, who jumped perpendicularIy into
the air as high as the roof of the hut.
What might have happened next? Who
can say? But the astonished woman
dropped the pan with a clang upon the
rock, and the leopard took one leap
down hill. The pan followed, and the
leopard's downward leaps became Ion
ger and swifter as the pan bounded aft
er it from rock to rock.
When last seen the leopard had Just
achieved leap of about $50 feet to the
very bottom of the rayine, thousands of
feet below, and the pan had whirled
about 500 feet over it on to the opposite
side. The leopard would have eaten the
old woman with pleasure, but a pan
which first scalded half the hide off
him and then bounded changing in his
wake from the top of the Himalayas to
the plains below was something which
he could not face. Good Words.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-03-01
TIE MAD POE r's KEtoRr.

Many stories are told of Mcdonald
Clarke, known so years ago in New
York as the "Mad Poet" which show
that he had vein of great shrewdness,
such as is often possessed by people
who are counted insane.
One day he was seated at table in a
New York hotel quietly eating his sim
pie dinner when two young men took
their seats at the same table, They were
not gentlemen in the best sense of the
word, and 1T occurred to them that they
might have some sport with the poor
poet. Consequently one of them said in
an unnecessarily clear tone:
II have seen almost everything and
everybody in New York except McDon-
aid Clarke. l have a great admiration
for his poems, and I would give a great
deal to see the man"
When he paused, the mad poet leaned
forward and said with evident gratifica-
tion
"Sir, 1 am Mcdonald Clarke, whom
you say you wish to see.
The young man stared at him with
much rudeness for moment, and then,
drawing quarter from his pocket, he
laid it on the poets plate, saying,
That's for the sightp'
Clarke looked at the coin for an in
slant, and then, placing it in his pocket,
he took out "York shilling" 1873
cents. This he handed to the young
man, saying graveIy, Children half
price. youths Companion.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-03-01
Farthest North For Wheat.

Wheat was last year grown farther
north than ever before. At Fort Provi-
dence on the Mackenzie river, lust
above the sixty-second parallel of lati
tude. there is a Roman Catholic mis-
sion, and at this institution a very fine
wheat crop has been grown The crop
was grown and harvested in 80 days
The latitude of Fort Providence is 2u0
miles farther north than Sitka, Alaska.
and Is about the same as that OF
'Greenland's icy mountains. Land
Agents Record.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-03-01
Is Your Name Here

A contributor has been amusing him
self by trying to answer the question OF
series of questions, What man in the
history of the world whose name began
with A-and after that every other let
ter of the alphabet in order-exerted the
greatest influence upon the thought and
conduct of mankind?
Of course there are some letters which
are not very prolific in the names of
great men, but we think most of our
readers will be surprised to see how
many of the most illustrious names in
history are included and how few are
excluded.
In some cases the compiler seems ia
have selected names quite as much with
view to compromising in the list
men of many countries, as because the
name given was that of the greatest
man of his time. Rho list follows;
Aristotle, Baco, Confucius, Darwin
Ezra, Franklin, Goethe, Homer Isaiah,
Justinian, Kant, Luther, Mohammed,I
Newton, Ossian, Plato, Ouiptiiliap,
Rousseau, Shakespeare, Tasso, Upland,
Virgil, Washington, Xavier, Young,
Zoroaster. London Globe.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-03-01
BRUTALITY OF WHIPPING POST.
Frozen Prisoners Thawed and Then
FIOgged Until They Bled.

The advocates of the whipping post
must have found keen enjoyment IN
the flogging of prisoners in the jail
yard at New Castle, Delaware, on Sat
urday. With the mercury below zero
the men were placed in the stocks for
an hour. Almost helpless from the
cold, they were taken to their cells and
considerably thawed out, when
they were returned to the jail yard
and stripped and dashed upon the bare
back until the blood ran from their
wounds.
One of the prisoners, who had been
sentenced to Jail for ten years for rob-
berry, was put in the stocks and then
given forty lashes. Eight men in all
were mercilessly whipped for various
offences. Under the Delaware law
whipping must be done IN public, and
number Of people witnessed the de-
grading spectacle.
That mode of punishment is no a
deterrent Of crime, but is brutaliz,ng
in the extreme, was shown in the case
of a prisoner named Allen, whose back
revealed the scars cf former fioggings.
New York Journal.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-03-01
HnlE0Om Searchlight.

The Russian ministry of war has re-
Gently caused some war balloon expert
ments to be made in the vicinity of St.
Petersburg The particular feature Of
the experiments was that a searchlight
was carried up in The balloon the as
cension being made at night 1t was
demonstrated that a searchlight Of 5, 900
candle power at a height Of 600 meters
could throw light upon a circular
surface of 500 meters in diameter 1t is
considered that captive balloon thus
employed may be invaluable in night
attacks, for while the enemy can be re-
vealed under the full glare of the light
their opponents can shoot from the
darkness. -Electrician.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-03-01
GOINsmifh,s Actor.

Lord Nugent was one evening very
eloquent to Goldsmith in praise of M.
"a bad actor, "But, my lord" said
Goldsmith, "you must allow he treade
the stage very ill-he waddles. " "Wad-
dles:" said Lord Nugent. Eyes, he wad-
dies like goose. Why, you know we
call him Goose M" "Well, and then,
you know, when he endeavors to ex-
press strong passion he bellows. " "Bel-
lows?" said Lord Nugent "To be sure
he does-bellows like a bull. Why, We
call him Bull NJ" "WelI, then, con-
tinuel Goldsmith, pursuing his tri,
umph, CHS voice breaks and he
croaks." "Croaks?" said Lord Nugent.
why, the fellow oroaks like frog.
We call him Frog M. But M. is good
actor -
"Why, yes" said Goldsmith, "bar-
ring the goose, and the bull, and the
frog, and few other things / could
mention, and not wishing to speak i'll
of my neighbors, will allow M. is a
good actor. "-"Memoirs of the Earl Of
Nugent."
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-03-01
WOMAN'S QUEER SUICIDE.
FOUND MORPHINE WAS TOO
SLOW AND USED A RAZOR.

Mrs. Bells Sen First Thought she Had
Been Murdered, but Note From Her
Explained the situation. Told Him 1t
Was a. Act of His Crazy Mother.
WAYNEsBORO, GA. Tonight at
O'Clock Mr.. Elias Bell, prosperous
young farmer, returned TO his home,
five miles from Waynesboro, where he
had left his widowed mother this MORN
n at 10 o'clock.
Finding the house locked he suspect
ed that there was something wrong
and broke open the door and proceeded
to his mothers bed room, where he
found her lying across her bed with
her throat cut. She had all the appear
ances of having been dead two or three
hours.
A foul murder was suspected at once
and some alarm was raised, but after
the excitement quieted down a note
was found from the mother tie ling her
son that it was nothing that he had
done that prompted her to commit the
rash act.
The note was rather queer in Its ma.
ture, inasmuch as she said she had Sc
cured the fire so that the house would
not be burned, and that she wanted a
certain old family daFkey to dig her
grave beside her husbands.
She told her son that 1t Was lust an
act OF his crazy mother. The note also
rxGGid where suitable clothing would be
found to dress her for burial; that she
had morphine at II O'Clock and would
be dead when he returned.
A late post script to the note stated
that the morphine had not had the de-
sired effect and she would have to- re-
sort to the razor, which she did.
She advised her son to board with
his cousin, Mr.. George Bell, the bal
ance of this year, and finish the crop
he had started.
Mrs. Bell was about so years old and
a lady highly respected by all who
knew her, No apparent cause is
known for the rash act save that of
despondency,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-03-01
After the War

We thank the Lord our William back
From living III a tent 7
We're glad to see him tannEs
He AiA - .-.e well spent.
$500. not night a battle. for
He camped I'M just one spot,
Yet it is well he went to war;
Such discipline he got!
We used to have to call him twice
To make him rise at eight,
But now it seems his only vice
Is quite another gait
He's mp at SIX; he builds the fire.
He does the chores with joy;
No work too hard no task too dire,
For this cur soldier boy
And food! He slows away all stuff
With equal zest and ease
Except, he says, I've had enough
Of beans and bacon, please"
Once finicky and fussy, too
He now has not whim.
Such wonders have a suit of blue
And hard tack wrought in him.
A wrinkled sheet no longer keeps
Him restless through the night
From what he says we guess he sleeps
In luxury till light.
1t tickles US that naught he finds
OF which he can complain,
And therefore to our humble minds
He's soldiered not in vain.
-Munsey's Magazine.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-03-01
ON THE OPEN TRAIL.

This paltry earth and the low hung sky,
Like little tent around ii,
Too cramped find to feel at home,
T2Q cramped always found it. .~..
zl+-~7- -.ss5.a.
Since 1 was ever vagabond, -
A vagrant-foot and rover,
Oh, give me the width of the skies to roam
When my earthly days are over!
.ssa-,.Ts7'-
Let me out where worlds the milestones
are,
Where the unresting stars walk my way
Out, out, where a man has elbow room
To travel his old time highway!
And when the journey is done God grant
That one lone inn l find me
Where l may enter and greet but her
And close the door behind me!
Arthur j. Stringer in Ainslee's Maya.
zine.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-03-01
The sea Gull and the Fishermnn.

The Sea Gull and the Fisherman,
In the fishing village of Auchmithie
(the Musseloraig of Soott's CAN'T
quary'O you may frequently witness
sea gulls flying into the houses of the
fishermen and partaking of food from
their hands. One of these sea birds was
in the habit of staying in a fisherman 8
house all the year round except at the
breeding season, when it left. Quite re-
Gently, while the gull was away, the
fisherman removed his home from
Auchmithie to Arbroath (the Fairp6rt
OF Scott's Antiquary''), distant some
81 miles from the former place, taking
up his residence in South street of Ar
breath. The fisherman never expected
to see his old friend the gull again. It
was therefore much to his establishment
that he beheld fortnight later the sea
bird come walking into his new resi-
dence with stately steps to resume his
old familiarities and household ways
with his housekeeper. London Lady.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1899-03-01
Voice MtracuIOusly Restored.

After more than a year of silence
Miss Anna Geap Qf Athens. Ga. !, can
speak again. Miss Gean, who has been
confined to her bed for more than 18
months lost her voice entirely about a
year since, and no one ever expected
that she would be able to speak again
in this life. Yet the other morning at
her home in this city, surrounded by a
few friends and relatives she found her
voice again as if by divine miracle and
began speaking to those around her,
who were as thoroughly astonished as if
they had witnessed the resurrection of
a dead person. Not only can Miss Gean
now talk at will, but she can sing and
use her voice just as she could before it
left her year ago. Athens (Ga. Ban
nar.