The Portland daily press., 1899-08-10
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Now the glory OF the drummer slowly
pales and fades away,
Like the crimson OF the sunsst at the
fcloss OF summer day,
And he looks into the future that con-
tains no ray OF hope,
And he sees his finish waiting, without
aid Of telescope.
Soon, ah, soon he viii he jobless, stay at
home henceforth he must.
And 60 down Into oblivion as a victim OF
the Trust.
Minneapolis Journal.
Mrs. II. n. Piaisted, Niles PIaisted and
Ralph Ii. Plaisted who have been In
Europe for year, Will sail for home on
Aug. 20.
Seth III. Carter and family of Auburn,
and Miss Grace Conaut Of Auburn, have
gone to the Rangelsy lakes for two
weeks' Visit.
The annual reunion of the Hewitt
family occurs at Windsor. Kennetsc
county, on thursday. Aug. IL.
This weeks Zion's Advocate has va,-
uabls and interesting article on MARINE
biological Collecting" by Thomas Jayne
Burr age. Of this city.
Colorafc journalism Ia little surpris-
Ing sometimes In s innocence. "ihe
many friends of MIR. L. Cowdrey'' says
an Elbert contemporary "will re pleased
20 learn that he is at the Keeley instit ute
at Denver, taking course Ct treatment
for inebriety."
II do not care to stick sIear into a
dead tiger" was the reply of Methodist
Bishop Charles H. Fowler, to q reporter
who wanted him to talk about Robert
Ingersoli.
The Duke OF Wellington once wrote to
DR.. Hutton for information as to the sei.
entitlc requirements cf young officer
WHO had been under his instruction. The
doctor thought he could not do less than
answer the question verbally and made
an appointment accordingly. Directly
Wellington saw him he said: "I am OBJ
iiged to you, doctor, for the trouble you
are takingp Is - ut for the post ~
Clearing his throat, DIR. Hutton began:
No man more SO, my lord / can"
That's quite sufficient" said Wellington; /;
II know how saiuab le your time Is;
mine. just now. is equally SO. ! will not
detain you any longer. Good morning.
A few years ago tho logs in a certain
river in a, northwestern lumber district
had jammed into a nasty snari and no
one hankered for the job of going out
and startling the key-log. In tho crew
was On Indian who was noted for his
GOODNESS and his keenness. The boss e.
nally looked over In his direction. "La-
coote, he said, you go out and break
that jam and l'll see that you get q nice
pun In the paper. The redskin looked
at the logs and then at the boss. idea d
lnJnn look nice on paper" he grunted,
and walked away.
Foreign merchants In Constantinople
are exercised by the campaign carri, d ON
by the Turkish censor against trademarks
and advertisements entering the country.
Two recent examples illustrate the scope
of his control. A firm designed trade
mark for use In Turkey, In which the star
u nd crescent formed rart. 1he design
was forbidden. Another firm had the nd .
vertikement and directions that accom-
panied their Rcods-a special brand cf
soap-translated In Arabic The transla
tion was done In London, and In the
phrase which In English read 'ssoapmak.
ers to her majesty the queen" appeared a
title which in Iurkey IL applied to the
sultan. Tie censor offered the importer
the alternative OF returning the soap to
England or removing the obnoxious la
tel In the meantime merchants are
warned against sending any goods to
Turkey bearing trademarks or circulars
which could by any stretch Of the imagi-
nation be In any way connected with
Islamism or the Sultan