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The Portland daily press., 1900-12-28
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

Ex-President Harrison has declined an
invitation to deliver an address before
the Illinois Bar Association ut Spring
field of the occasion OF the celebration Of
Chief Justice John MarshalI's centsna ~,
in February next.
A copy of Andrea del Sarto's Madonna,
the gem of the Pitt Gallery at Florence,
was presented to the Congregational So
clety OF Ellsworth, Me-, last night, by
Mrs. Eugene Hale, wife Of Senator Hale.
The value OF the painting Is $1,000.
Alison s. Sherman, who was the third
mayor of Chicago, Is stiIl living, at the
age OF ninety three. He was born In
Vermont. His present home Ia in Waaks-
gan, Ill, and he seldom visits Chicago.
He moved out OF Chicago before the big
fire.
1T is announced by Ann Arbor railway
officials that what are supposed to be the
remains OF Father Marquette, intrepid
missionary and explorer. have been tx
humed by workmen near Frankfort,
Mich. Only the skull and some imperfect
bones remain, aud experts declare them
to be those OF a white man. Rust and
small remains close 20 the head are be-
and cross. Inc lind was made at CON-
siderable depth while excavetin for big
ummer hotel. The Michigan Historical
The Portland daily press., 1900-12-28

MIR. Bryan's speech at Lincoln may be
regarded as response to Mr.. Cleveland S
recent appeal to the Democrats TO 60
back to their old principles and policies
and A. such 1t has little in it to encour'
age the "old Democracy. Every policy
which Mir. Bryan advocated in the last
two campaigns he sticks to now, and he
calls upon his party to stand by them and
fight for them still. Evidently no con-
cessions are to be made by Mr.. Bryan's
side to the reorgsnizers. Only by the
complete surrender of one side or the
other can the two wings be brought to-
gether, and az Mr.. Bryan's eide contains
the great mass OF the voting element Of
the party today It is not likely that 1t
will he the one 20 surrender. Talk OF re-
organization SO far has only served to
show that the differences betwsen the
two wings are irreco Notable, and do not
admit OF compromise.
The Portland daily press., 1900-12-28

Society claims 70 possess the proof that
Father Marquette was buried &C this
point in the year 1915 In the bed OF q
small stream. 10 was In changing the
course OF n stream that the remains were
found. Great interest IL being taken In
the ind by Michigan historians. A
thorough Investigation IL bsing made. .
The daughter OF NJ. Souvorln, the ell.
tor OF Novoe vremya. OF st. Petersburg.
has been married to the son OF NJ. Mails
iedoff-Ivanof. minister Of ways and
communications, and the wedding eift OF
the editor IL the daily profits OF one OF
the paper's pages OF advertising.
At John II. Rockefeller's country home
at Pocantico Hills. near Tsrrytown, the
two children OF Mr.. and Mrs. Harold II.
Mccormick lie III with scarlet fever.
Mrs. Mccormick is the second daughter
of MIR. Rockefeller. She and MIR. Mo-
Cormick are at Pocantico Hills with the
physicians ana nurses. The condition OF
the children IL serious.
The Washington Post says that alto
gether the most conspicuous thing In tie
Senate Is the brilliant red bandsnna Of
Senator Pettus OF Alabama. When It IL
unfurled 1t Hills the whole landscape with
q lurid blaze. Senator Pettus Is old
fashioned, ana his use of a bandanna Is
one OF the ancient habits to which he etiil
olinQs Nobody In the Senate has ussd
a handanna sinos the days Of Allen q.
Thurman, and for him IL was an oriflahne
of victory at SC. Louis In 1888. In that
convention the bandannas moved when
ever Thurman's name was mentione1.
James J. Csvsnaugh of watsrtown was
ITO years old Tuesday. He is probably
the oldest person in New England. and II
he lives one week-and there is every
reason to believe that he wiil-this re-
markable old man will have lived In three
centuries. He was born in County
Monaghan, Ireland, Deo. 20, 17S0. When
he was tsn years old his parents moved to
London. He came to America in 1887,
lived for time In the city Of New York
and then came TO Boston, where for forty
years or mora he was resident OF the
North End, and later OF South Boston.
During these years he followed the occu.
patton OF tailor. May ], 1S4l, be was
married to Miss Hannah bartlett. by
Rev. Father Harkips, pastor of the old
Hanover Street Catholic church. His
wife died nineteen years ago, and since
then he has made his home with his
daughter In Watertown.
An interesting experiment has just
been made at Key West, showing the pos
sibility OF successful telephone cable com-
munication with foreign country. The
officials OF the Southern Bell Telephone
Company connected the telephone wires
at Key West, and at Havana with the
Gulf cable bstween the two cities. For
a few minutes a roaring noise prevented
any communication, but finally this SUBJ
sided, and the officials heard from Havana
distinctly the words: 81 cannot under
stand" Havana, however, failed to
clearly understand the message from
Key West.
The Portland daily press., 1900-12-28

1t appears that when the United States
signed the joint note of the powers it ex.
pressly stipulated that in case of its Teieo-
tion this government should not be bound
TO ioin the ether powers IN resuming
hostIlltiss; also that 1t should not be
bound to maintain legation guards or to
prevent the Importation of arms or NUM-
tions OF war. 1t Is said, too, that in case
the note is rejected the United States
will not be bound to join with the other
powers In indefinite occupancy OF the
country. Apparently we are bound by
none Of the clauses in the note that
contemplate this USE of force against the
empire. We have Joined with the powers
in asking certain things, but we have
refused to join them in taking measures
for the enforcement OF these demands,
in case the Chinese government does not
accede TO them voluntarily. Our concord
extends only to the asking of
certain things. II they ara not
granted, then we are free to take what
action we see tit or to take no action If
that suits US bstter.
The Portland daily press., 1900-12-28

The next Legislature is TO be asked for
s., 900 for the establishment Of a dairy
bureau. The State grange is said to be
behind the movement which goes to show
that farmers are q good deal like other
Ieopls-anxious that the other fellows
shall do the soonomizing, hut reluctant
to do any themselves
There's where you make your mistake.
Here IL an industry worth to the state
at least i've millions yearly, and capable
q unlimited extension and also OF i'm
provement. Tbs dairy bureau win by
Instruction quicken the former and in
sure the latter and beyond this will pro-
tect the State against the sale OF imita-
tion butter products. We have law
today, but no officer whose duty y shall
he to enforce. The farmers e-s not seek
Ing any favors only . fitting recognition,
and this we are certain the PRESS will
accord Our uairy interests must be
strengthened by legal protection and
superivsion-Maine Farmer.
There is no more reason for the super
vision of the dairy interests, ana no more
justification for it. than for q dozen other
interests which nobody would think Of
supervising. Why not have somebody
appointed to supervise the lum Der busi-
ness, or the wood pulp business. There
is great deal of money invested In both
of them, and they are capable, no doubt,
of great extension. We have Board Of
Agriculture now, and dairying Is a
branch Of agriculture. Why can't Mr..
Is. Walker Mokeen, who Is secretary OF
this board, deliver all the lectures on
butter and cheese which are needed. As
for imitation butter, II people want to
buy it we can't see any reason why they
shouldn't. Nobody can reasonably OBJ
jsct to its sale SO long as it Is sold for
what 1t Is. Two years ago great outcry
was made that all the cotton seed meal
must be inspected and tagged, last the
farmers be cheated. But as far as we
can learn as protection the law has not
amounted to anything. The chief bsnetit
doubtless OF the dairy bureau will be to
give somebody a job. Industries gener-
ally can take care Of themselves much
Better than they can BIS ia ken care OF.
The Portland daily press., 1900-12-28

Those persons who look upon war as a
great civiIizer must lind 1t difficult to
reconcile their theory with the facts OF
the allied expedition to China and the
British invasion of South Africa, to say
nothing of our own enterprise in the
Philippine islands. Along tract ten
miles in width from lien Tsin TO Pekin
the allies left nothing but desoIation.
Every Chinese hut was burned, and most
Of the people in them, who were chiefly
dscrepid men and women and children
who could nat get away, were bayoneted
in cold Hood. The Russians were espec-
tally cruel, but the soldiers OF none of the
allied powers were guiltless of barbarities
In South Africa women and children are
being turned adritt without shelter be-
cause their husbands and fathers are sus-
pected of being in the Boer armies, and
the farm buildings are being RACED to the
ground in all districts where attacks
have been made on British troops. Nee
essary as the invasion of China was, the
lessons which the soldiers have been
teaching are not lessons In civilization
but lessons in savagery. Ths S@rY things
The Portland daily press., 1900-12-28

Unquestiona q subsidy for ships Is
quito In line with our protective policy,
though owing TO the difference of con-
ditions the stimulus TO our shipping!has
to differ in character and in method Of
appl cati IN from that Of cur land indus
tries The latter we foster by securing TO
them the home market, We cannot give
tn our ships a monopoly of the carrying
trade, ami the only way we can help
them secure a share of that business is
by subsidies Subsidies are just as defen-
sible as the protective tariff provided they
promote the general welfare. A tariff
tax that did not dfrnse it's benefits
wolld be iudefensibie. 30 subsidy
which simply enr' caed one man or
group of men could not be tolerated, But
subsidy which ditfuEes its benefits
throughout the community, as the SUBJ
sidy provided for in the Hanna bill is
expected to do, is not only defensible,
but so advantageous to the people at
large as to merit the warm support of
their REPRESENTATIVES. Or course apostles
OF free t;a1e cannot consistently sup
port subsidies, but believers In proteo-
sion not only can but ought to suppors
thsm when they are calculated to foster
an interest whose growth VIII promote
the general welfare
The Portland daily press., 1900-12-28

The British. 1t is now said. will use
the Maoris, who are black, In fighting the
Beers. This they pledged themselves
not to do at the beginning OF the war on
grounds OF humanity. Their change OF
policy only emphasizes the fact that the
war is by no meaus over and that the
British recognize It, OF course IL the
British use blacks. the Beers VIII try to
do the same by stirring.up the Kafiirs
to revolt. II the native races should get
into the war there might be an exhi-
billion of savagery that would shock the
world,
The Portland daily press., 1900-12-28

which they invaded China to punish the
Chinese for they have been guilty OF
themselves. Their killing OF detenceless
men and women has Esen quite as iude-
fennbls as the Boxers killing OF the
missionaries. War may be necessary
sometimes, but IL is very poor agent OF
civilization, and the man who welcomes
it as a means OF carrying Christianity
into the dark places of the earth either
has very inadequate conception Of It's
horrors or is ready 20 do good deal OF
evil In the hope that eventually some
good may come. Lows. not hate, IL the
foundation of Christianity, and 10 Is hate
not love, that war develops.
The Portland daily press., 1900-12-28
How's Thisa

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The Portland daily press., 1900-12-28

The Belfast Republican can't bslieve
that Mr.. Marshall OF the Board of Asses
sors will bs dropped By the Legislature
and another man elected. Nevertheless
that is the outlook at the present time.
Indeed, MIR. simpsons friends profess to
BE- certain that Simpson VIII De
chosen with little opposit,..n.
The Portland daily press., 1900-12-28
CURRENT COMMENT.
A CANADIAN VIEW.
(ualifax Herald.

thing that would be very remarkable
If it had taken place In a great country
having a responsible government, has
taken place in the United States. The
government of that country some time
az drew up certain note or treaty
touching the Buiwer-Clayton treaty and
the building of a caal through Nicaragua
connecting the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans. This note or draft treaty was
cent TO the British government FOR acceD-
tRnce. The British government directed
Lord Pauncefote, British am bassador at
Washington, to accept 1t; and accordingly
it was accepted without any change or
suggestion, The treaty or agreement as
1t then became was thus entirely the
creation OF the Washington government;
or, as 1t has since BEEN remarked, it
should rathsr be called the Hay treaty,
than the Hay Pauncefote treaty, for Lord
Paunosfots had done nothing hut simply
accept what Mr.. Hay had proposed.
Now IL this government OF the United
States were like the government OF al
most any other country on earth that
would have practically ended the matter.
The government having got all It asked,
without murmur or reservation, one
would hardly have expected to find the
Senate OF the United States ob1ectina,
aud thus making direct attack on its
own government. But that Is just what
has happened. The Senate has refused
to accept the new treaty though II 10 ex-
acty, word for word, the treaty proposed
by the United States government, and
the senate has proposed and passed
amendments calculated to cause inter
national irritation.
The British government lie finding out
that our republican neighbours are q very
hard paople TO get along with. Thew are
In the habit OF aftording too many Illus
trations to the proverb, "Give them an
inoh and they'll want an ELL" The
British government has been manifeeting
disposition to be generous and to con-
cede much 60 the United States, and the
demands OF the latter have increased ac-
cordingly. Nothing that can be given the
United States will ever quite satisfy them.
The worst possible kind of diplomacy
to use with them Is to grant them readily
all they ask, as Britain has been doing
The recent action Of the Senate Is very
Irritating under the circumstances, but IL
will probably be committed TO the cold
storage OF diplomatic delay.
The Portland daily press., 1900-12-28

FINANCIAL
We Own and Offer

W. OWu uuu UItUI
SUBJECT TO SALE
City Of Portland Is, due 1eO2-fel2.
Town Of Cape Elizabeth As, due 1901.
Town Of Yarmouth 8 les, duo 1902.
Town OF Gorham As, due 1901.
County OF Lawrence (ohio) SIS. due 1914.
City Of Portsmouth (ohiol SIS, due 1923.
City OF GAINESVILLE (Ohio) Ps, due 1918.
City Of Urbana (Ohio) 4 1-2's. due 1905.
City Of saltwater (aTinn.) SIS. due 1921.
County Of Daviess lind 6's, due 1908.
Maine Central II. r. As, due 1912.
Maine Central r. r. rs, due 1912.
Portland Railroad Co. First Mortgage
1-2's, due 1913
Portland & Cape Elizabeth Railway Co.
First Mortgage SIS. due 1915.
Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Ry. First
Mortgage As. due 1915.
Cleveland City Ry. First Mortgage SIS,
due 1909.
Duluth Street Ry. First Mortgage SIS,
due 1890.
Denver City Tramway Co. First Mort
gage SIS, due 1919.
Omaha Street Ry. First Mortgage Us,
due 1914.
Grand Rapids Ry. Co. First Mortgage
SIS, due 1915.
Medfield & Midway (Mass.) Street Ry.
First Mortgage SIS, due 1920.
Portland Water Co. Gold As, due 1877.
Calais Water Co. First Mortgage SIS. due
1905.
St Croix (. L. & W. Co. First Mortgage
5's, due 1905.
FramlpgbNm (Mass.) Water Co. First
MortLsgs 1-3s, due 1925.
Fond du Lac (Wis) Water Co. First
Mortgage SIS. due 1915.
Erie Telegraph & Telephone Co. Cola
teral Trust 5's, due 1926.
Niagara Falls Power Co. First Mortgage
5's, due 1882.
Particulars upon application; cores
pondence solicited.
The Portland daily press., 1900-12-28

Patrons OF the PRESS who are leaving town
temporarily may have the addresses of their
papers changed as often as they play desire by
notifying the office.
The Portland daily press., 1900-12-28

Subscribers whose papers are not delivered
promptly are requested TO notify the office OF
the DAILY PRESS, No. 81 Exchange street,
Portland. Me.
The Portland daily press., 1900-12-28

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The Portland daily press., 1900-12-28
THE WORST OF IT.
(Waterville Mail,l

The possible loss OF a congressman from
Maine would not be considered SO serious
a matter as 1t would II the prospect were
brighter for a man 60 suceeed Congress-
man Boutelle who would prove some
where sRrly his equal in character and
ability. 1t has always been quality rather
than numbers that has made Maine con-
gregsmen famous.
The Portland daily press., 1900-12-28

The DAILY PRESS Is delivered at these rates
every morning 10 subscribers in all parts OF
Portland, and in Westbrook and South Port
The Portland daily press., 1900-12-28

MAINE STATE PRESS weekly
BY the year, 81 in advance, or si.25 at the end
of the year.
For six months, 50 cents; for three months, %
cents.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1900-02-28
THE CITY
SHORT ITEMS cAZETTE0.

A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Irving Tiffany last Wednesday,.
Fred L. Warner spent Sunday
with relatives and friends in St.
Paul and Minneapolis.
J. H. Engerman has gone to Miles,
station on the Milwaukee in Rem
vile county, where he will reside
in the future.
E. T. Eastonson of Lamberton,
proprietor of the Banner Hotel
property of that town, was in Red
wood Falls last Thursday and Fri
day.
Mrs. Maud Gordon of Boyd,
South Dakota, has been the guest
Ct Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Fountain at
Hotel Francois during the past
week.
E.. G.. Green left for Owatonna and
Winona last Wednesday and re-
manned in the latter city for several
days, returning to his business
here Monday afternoon.
The Northwestern has ordered
10000 tons of steel rails to be used
in the cutoff at Boone, Ia. This
cutoff will shorten the main line
about seven miles, and will DE an
expensive piece of work, including
1,OOO,O 900 bridge.
According to some of our excnang-
es a man claiming to be an agent for
a cornsheller has faxed the farmers
in the eastern part of the State. He
came around and took orders for
shelters aud received half the price
in advance. The agent did not put
in an appearance again, but each
purchaser received a board six by
twelve inches, with piece of sheet
iron on one epd of it, with these di-
rections; sit on the board and
draw the corn over the iron end
and it will shell with ease. =
Lamberton Star: Monday while
speaking of the recent mad-dog
scare east of town, Ben Coulter,
who resides north of here, remarked
that there was mad dog at his
farm last fall and bit hog for him,
which went crazy, frothed at the
mouth and the animal had to be
killed. The dog killed.a number Of
chickens for Que farmer, killed and
almost ate up a small dog for another
farmer, aud was in the act of en-
deavoring to kill some chickens and
turkeys for Hugh Ruddy when the
animal was shot.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1900-02-28

T. H. Inglis and family have re-
turned from their winter visit with
friends and relatives in and around
Columbus. Wis.
The Cycle of the Presbyterian
church gave social at the home of
Mr.. ard Mrs. Kunepple on Friday
eve ming Of last week.
Thos Dennistoun left over the
Northwestern last Wednesday for
Lincoln, Nebraska, where he has
since been attending the annual
convention of the National Butter
makers Association.
Louis Pearlman expects to have
his new clothing store in the Multi
gan building opened by March 10th.
New shelving is being prepared for
the building. and the interior of the
store is being renovated.
Quite number of owners of land
listed on the forfeited tax list pub
lished in this paper during the
past two weeks have called at the
auditor S Office and paid over the
amount due on the land and had
the same stricken from the roll.
Very few, if any, descriptions will
be left when the day ofabsolute sale
arrives.
Lamberton Star: VIM Comstock,
aged "A years, died at his home in
Granite Rock Feb. 9Th, the cause of
death being cancer. The deceased
was a native of New York State,
and leaves a wife and number of
children to mourn his loss. Mr.
Comstock was not feeling very we'll
the night before he died. so his wife
sat up with him until about mid
night, when she was urged by the
sick man to retire and get some
rest. When she awoke about six
o'clock the next morning, and going
to the bedside of her husband, she
found that the angel of death had
called the sufferer to his home dur
ing the night. The funeral was
held on the 18th. Rev j. Morten-
sen of the Scandinavian Lutheran
church of this city, conducting the
services. He was an early settler
and leaves many relatives and
friends in that part of the county,
who will greatly miss him.