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The Portland daily press., 1900-11-09
CURRENT COMMENT.
A LESSON TO CORPORATIONS.

(New York Home Journal)
The Supreme Court has heard all the
testimony and arguments as 60 great
explosion of gas which occurred IN Bos-
ton two years ago. And the Boston Gas
Company is pronounced responsible
There are hundreds of suits for damages
depending on the decision, and the COM
pany will have to pay at least two hum
Cred and fifty thousand dollars IN "dam-
ages" A significant feature of the mat.
ter is that one observes a general Joy
with which people speak OF the decision.
Every body who has lighted a gaslight in
Boston In the last twenty years Is glad
unless he be a stakeholder that the gas
company has blow between the eyes.
This sentiment Is the natural reaction
against that low-life air Of dignity which
rich corporations everywhere and their
servants are apt to assume. This com-
pany, for instance, would not accept pay
ment In advance for their wares, because
their system Of bookkeeping did not
permit " They would send one a note to
say that personal attendance at their
office was necessary, as sovereign might
say to someone who wanted to be touched
for the kings evil. When you came TO the
office, one was liable to be told that the
Office was technically closed at that hour,
although the people were there In at
tendance. ALI the juries decided steadily
against them. They did not understand
why, when O man received note telling
him that there was leak, someone
should not have been sent TO stop that
leak. But the customers understand
very well that II they did not call at the
office at the technical time, they were
considered as not having called ut all.
The company received sufficient testi-
mony as Co the leak, but the rules of the
office did not permit attention to Ii be.
fore the explosion. The rebuff which
they have received by the courts ought
to be q lesson to all great corporations.
Every such incident Strengthens the posi-
tion OF those who advocate the idea OF
the city or the state taking over such
public enterprises which are necessary for
all One Is not apt 60 meet inciviiity at
the state house or at the city hall, at the
watar works, or at the post office. Ridio-
uious assumption OF grandeur shows
itself only In the Office Of private corpor-
ati0ns.
The Portland daily press., 1900-11-09
ANTIQUE FURNITURE.
Why am Enterprising Ola Lady I'm New
Orleans Failed 10 Make n Sale.
fNen orleans Times-p emocrat. }

New Orleans Times Democrat
New Orleans is still fine hunting
ground for antique furniture, said local
auctioneer. land scores of Northern tour.
lists prowl over the field every winter,
looking for treasure troves In that line.
1t is lots of fun, and sometimes they pick
up a good thing. can tell you rather
a quaint little story. Last fall a Boston
lady, who is well known here, and a
great collector Of antiques, was looking
up an address on Ursuline street and
stopped at a certain house to make some
inquiries. While talking with widow
and her daughter, who live on the PREM
ises, she caught sight OF q beautiful old
dutch cabinet in the front room. The
ures of the Apostles and the brass hinges
and lock were in themselves fine exam.
pies OF early eighteenth century work
manship.
1.-The Boston visitor was greatly inter-
estei, but she was in hurry and, keep
ing the address, promised to call again
and make an offer for the ourio. A day
or two later, however, she was summoned
North, and 1t was only last month that
she wrote to say she would be in the
city shortly and would be around TO have
a talk about the cabinet.
"This great letter excited the widow
and her daughter, ana they decided 1t
would be good idea to Turkish up the
old piece of furniture before the stranger
arrived. Accordingly they scrubbed 1t
with lye and pulnice stone until they re-
moved all the mellow lustre of age; put
on nice, strong hinges they bought at a
hardware store around the corner, end
equipped the door with q patent Yale
lock. Then they touched mp the Apostles
with pink enamel paint and gave the
whole thing several coats of shiny var
nish.
when the Boston connoisssur arrived
they met hsr with beaning smiles. Yes,
we still have the cabinet said the
widow, but you wouldn't hardly know
tit looks exactly like newl' The wish
tor gave a glance at the thing and came
near fainting, She is an old customer
of mine, and when she told ms tine story
she shed tears. She declared those
salmon pink Apostles would haunt her to
the last day of her life. i understand
the widow ana her daughter were highly
indignant over their failure to effect a
sale. They felt they hal been imposed
on somehow -
The Portland daily press., 1900-11-09
ALIyING MONUMENT.
What Rich New Yorker Did For AM
other Man.

"Tne lats Col. Elliott Shepard of my
town." said New Yorker the other. day
to an indianapolis News reporter, "may
not at all times have been exactly the
kind of man his distinguished father
in-law would have liked to have him be,
just as that father-in-la Jaws father thought
and said sometimes OF mis- son; and he
may have had peculiaritias noticeable by
other people less intimately associated
with him, but he was man who always
meant we'll, and very many times did
we'll. One instance came under my
notice only last week. My son, who Is
In New York office, introduced me TO a
young fellow In the same office with him.
He was very bright fellow, and incl
dentaliy learned that his given name
was Elliott Shepard. Later asked him
who he happened 30 be SO named, and he
told me tnat Col. Shepard had done a
great deal for his father, and hs had
named him for him in remem brance.
Later, some one else told me the story OF
the colonel kindness to the boys father.
He was German barber, but of such
sup erior Intelligence that the colonel
became interested in him, as he saw him
from time to time when he was being
shaved, and at last suggested that he
had q better thing for him than barbertng
This was a position was sexton OF fash-
ionable church, and the German took II
at once. Col. shepard was no less his
friend here than in the barber shop, and
whenever he could do him good turn,
he did 1t. With the usual thrift OF the
German race, the sexton saved his
money and in time he added an under
taking establishment to his other duties.
He had Q first-eiass acquaintance,
through his connection with the church,
The Portland daily press., 1900-11-09

ssSrhe election In the Dominion has not
very much interest for the United States,
unless 1t should be the means of putting
into execution the threat of the Canadian
Pacific road to carry all their winter
business to Boston, and that is not very
probable, though the results on which
the threat was predicatsd seem
to have come about. The attitude
of both parties toward the United States
in matters OF trade Is practically the
same. Both are in favor OF tariff
against us and a preferential tariff In
favor OF Great Britain. The great factor
in Laurier' S campaign was general pros
perity, and 1t seems to have been as
potent on that as on this side of the
border. The government appears to
have won its greatest su ccess in the Mari
time Provinces, where 1t has not only
carried large majority OF the seats,
but has defeated Sir Charles Upper,
the leader of the opposition, and promi-
nent figure in Canadian politics for forty
years. In Quebec 1t has about held its
own, and its losses In Ontario are much
smaller than anticipated.
The Portland daily press., 1900-11-09

The course of the Southern voters IN
the campaign has not been such as to call
for any consideration when the Republi-
cans make the new Congressional appor-
tionment. IL Is bad enough that the
South should have dispropor5ionate power
and influence when 1t uses 1t with regard
for tine public welfare; 1t Ii much
worse when it uses it without consider
ing the public welfare at all, as 1t has in
this election. A large part of the white
voters of the South realized just as well
as the voters at the North that Bryan's
election would be blow to prosperity,
would check business and might bring
serious financial evils which would affect
their section as seriously as the Northern
section of the country. Yet they all went
to the polls and voted solidly for Bryan.
There has been no seotionalism in the
Mckinley administration in the past,
and there was no danger that there
would be any in the future, SO the South
had not the excuse for Its solidlty which
1t has had at times In the past. Il is
difficult to see how Congress in making
the next apportionment could, II 1t
wanted to, neglect to REFUGE Southern
representation, and It is equally difficult
to see why it should not want to altar
the exhibition that has just been made
by the South.
The Portland daily press., 1900-11-09

The New York papersEare now stirring
up the public to move on Croker. The
time would certainly seem to be oppor-
tune. Croker's performances during the
campaign must have weakened him with
Tammany. A boss OF his stamp, without
principles or policies. has nothing to rely
upon but success. As long as his follow
ers can bs made to believe that ne is in
vincible, they viii stick to him partly
through fear and partly through cupidi-
ty. He is generally a tyrant whom they
despise at heart. Once create the i'm
preston that successful opposition can
be made to him and plenty of his follow
ers are ready to rise up in rebellion.
Cookers management of the campaign
must have greatly weakened his prestige.
He loudly proclaimed that he could carry
the city for Bryan by $4,000. He actual
lygot beggarly $1,000. He
made loud threats, and then
completely wilted. Hel inspired the
The Portland daily press., 1900-11-09

To remove q troublesome corn or bum
ION: First soak the corn or bunion In
warm water to soften it. then pare it
down as closely as possible without draw
ing blood and apply Chamberlain's Pain
Balm twice daily; rubbing vigorously for
five minutes at each application. A corn
plaster should be worn for a few days, to
protect 1t from the shoe. As q general
IMMINENT for sprains, bruises, lameEess
ana rheumatism, Pain Balm Is I'M
equaled. For sale by Hazelton, SS7 Con-
gress St.; Stevens. l07 Portland st. ;
Goold, Congress Square, and Raymond.
cumberland Mills.
The Portland daily press., 1900-11-09

and before great while his undertaking
busincs SIS claimed all his attention. In
the meantime, his family grew up around
MIN, and he had a handsome home and
other possessions, but there was nothing
he priced more highly than the colonel S
friendship When Col. Shepard died, his
German friend was ON the high road to
success, and today he is worth $50, GOO,
and is getting richer every day. IL isn't
every rich man who docs as well by those
less fortunate, and surely man can
have no better monument than this"
The Portland daily press., 1900-11-09

MIR. q. A. Gilbert, writing in the Maine
Farmer Oh reform in the tax laws, says
the farmers will call for such change in
the laws as shall levy taxes on all proper
ty alike; and will demand that franchises,
corporations and companies pay tax
proportionate to the value of the property
represented. There is nothing unreason-
able In those demands, and If the farmers
are united they can probably get compli.
ance with them.
The Portland daily press., 1900-11-09

Already we hear the rumbiings OF the
coming storm In the Democratic party.
Talk about reorganization by the gold
faction has called out from Ex-Governor
Stone Of Missouri the tart remark that
they who talk most about the reorganiza-
ton Of party are the ones who have had
the most to do with defeating 1t.
The Portland daily press., 1900-11-09

The free silver sentiment OF the West
was the outcome OF vague belief that In
some way free coinage would prove a
remedy f,r hard times, rather than oon-
fidence In its scientific value 1t was
therefore Inevitable that when the hard
times passed away the craze for free sill
yer SHOULD pass away also. doubtless
education has had something to do with
eliminating 10 to one, but prosperity has
had much more to do with 1t
The Portland daily press., 1900-11-09

Bryan's prompt announcement that ne
INTENDS to have nothing to do with the
Nebraska Senatorship Is ominous. IL
will naturally be taken as meaning that
he st II intends TO remain the leader, with
his eye fixed upon another presidential
nomination.
The Portland daily press., 1900-11-09

Patrons OF the PRESS who are leaving town
temporarily may have the addresses Of their
rapers changed rs often as they may desire By
notifying the Office
The Portland daily press., 1900-11-09

Colorado is not quite cured of the sill
yer craze, but reduction In majority BY
q hundred thousand shows 1t Is rapidly
convalescinR.
The Portland daily press., 1900-11-09
STATEMENT OF TaE CONDITION
....OF THE.
Mercantile Trust Company
Portland.


Portland.
October s 1900.
HENRY T. cox, President.
CHESTER ii. PEASE, Secretary
HUTS0N D. SAUNDBRS. Treasurer.
Directors-Seth L. Larrabee, Henry r. Cox, W.
II. Milliken, A. S. Kinds, Frederick
N. Dow. james +. hawkes., Hutson
b. Saunders, Thomas z. shaw, II. 4.
Holt, y. q. Gordon, Adam r. Leigh
Merrill Ammi Whitney. Ellsha w.
Conley, George w. York, Edward b
winslow, John F. Liscomb.
Organized May q 1885,
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock Sl000oo00
Undivided profits 3a03I 81
Demand deposits 424, 503.9l
Demand certificates o deposit IS ISL 90
Time certificates OF deposit 1Cs.GT7.45
Bills payable 100000
s9A2, 1906
Loans on collateral soc, SIS 90
Other loans 67,9iS.5e
United states bonds i05 O0ae0
Other bonds eco. 045.0o
Furniture and fixtures 3.4ss.s0
Expense account 2.37S.9S
Cash Oh deposit 9i.es2.9i
Cash on hand i4.496o6
Ss42, ass
FEE. TIMBERLAKE,
oct2I-dti Bank Examiner.
The Portland daily press., 1900-11-09

Both sides are still claiming Nebraska
and the official count will probably ps
necessary to determine which is right.
The Portland daily press., 1900-11-09

Subscribers whose papers ars not delivered
promptly are requested to notify the onice OF
the DAILY PRESS. No. VI Exchange sreet
Portland Me.
The Portland daily press., 1900-11-09

The DAILY PRESS is delivered at these rates
every morning 70 subscribers In an parts o.
Portland, and In westbrook and South Port
land.
MAINE STATE PRESS weekly
BY the year, 81 In ADVANCE. or sl.2s at the
end Of the year.
For six months. so cents for three months
S6 cents
The Portland daily press., 1900-11-09
BONDS.

LIMERICK Railroad Co. First
Mortgage as. I92s.
kennebec Light and Heat Co.
First Mortgage SIS, a9aS.
Semitic Electric Co. First Mort
gage SIS, 1880.
Cincinnati Edison Electric liiu-
suinaiins Co. First Mortgage
SIS, 1917.
New England Cotton Yarn First
Mortgage SIS. 1929.
Clifton Forge Light and Winter
Co. First Mortgage Is. 1929.
Sterling Water Co. First Mort
gage SIS, 1928.
Michigan Telephone Co. COnsOi.
SIS. 1929.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1900-11-21


The l. l.u bones Of birds are fire.
quently cilra beautiful instances OF
proyidential mechanics in building the
strongest and largest possible ilmh
with the least expenditure Of material
and this is largely true, and yet birds,
like ducks, which clcavc the air with
the speed Of an express train have thu
long bones filed with marrow OF satu-
rated with fat while the numbering
hornbnl, that fairly turtles over the
tree tops has one Of the most complete
" Pneumatic skeletons Imaginable,
pcrneatcd with air TO the very toe tips,
ana the uneainly pelican Is nearl, as
we'll off. still it IS but fair to say that
the frieate bird and turkey buzzards,
creatures which are most at ease when
GA The wing have extremely light and
hollow bones; but, comparing one bird
with another the paramount impor-
lance Of pneumatic skeleton to n bird
Is not AS evident as that Of pnennat-
ie fire TO a bicycle Popular Science
MautHlV
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1900-11-21
THE RAPID GROWTH OF ENGLISH
TRUSTS.

Ten years ago, the heading TRUSTS
Ia England" would have been as great
an anomaly as the oft-quoted title of
an article on Snakes in Iceland, "
which read, 'Ihere are no snakes in
Iceland. For many years the Man
chester school of hissce. tuj,c had
dominated English political economy.
| Under free trade, commercial freedom,
every one Thought, was guaranteed;
competition had full play. English
economists pointed to the fruits Of
protection in the trusts organized in
the United States, and predicted that
these gigantic monopOlies would en-
danger free institutions, and stranele
the political as well as the commercial
liberties Of the republic With free
trade $50 they held there could be no
trusts. trusts could not be organized
without high protection and the assist
ance of powerful railroad corporations;
and, even il they were established,
they could not exist any length of
time, and would never succeed. These
views were also held by free traders
and economists in America Eeono-
mists must now revise their views, and
politicians change their tactics Enc
land no longer enjoys that immunity
from monopoly which was the boast Of
lis own economists and the obiect-les-
81 Gro Il l..
the position Of trusts has not greatly
changed in the United States during
the past ten years, except to develop
on the same line, commercial revo-
luton is taking place in England. The
country is becoming honey combed
with combinations and trusts; and,
what il more and perhaps worse, there
is no agitation against the system. No
effort is made to check trusts or CON
troll them. Not word has been said
III Parliament on the subject. News
papers record the news of combinations
without much comment, except on the
financial or investors aspect of them.
| can trace only two serious review
articles ON this important development
one superficial and ill-informed; the
other by the promoter of some of the
combines. The fact is that the new
phase Of industrial combination Is an
easy, natural, aud perhaps inevitable
| development of the Joint stock limited
company system, together with the
publicity and checks that accompany
1t. We have now in England rs many
varieties of combinations as exist in
the United States These are a. loose
understandings for apportioning trade;
90 working agreements between
groups of manufacturers for regulating
prices; t3l great amalgamations which
practically control the markets, a.
local trusts supreme in their own afens
and in their own trades % national
monopolies, aud q international mono
poles. From "Hrusta III England,
by Robert Donald, in the 1mctfea,
HoHthlg Rcrjep Of Reeieps for Nov
ember.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1900-11-21

Democratic papers since the cleo
ton are continuing to SOW the seeds Of
discomfort aud anarchy by claiming
that the increase of the price Of meats
Of one cent per pound by the Chicago
packers, il the result OF Republican
success A few years ago they We're
BEN Gaming that the farmer was getting
too little for the cattle he raised, and
now that the price bus gone up under
more prosperous conditions, tor per
haps because Of scarcity they sym
pathiZe with the meat buyer IA against
the meat producer. Nothing seems to
suit them, unless it ia general misery,
upon which they thrive. 1t follows
from What they intimate, that if Bryan
had been elected, the prices of meats
aud other commodities would not have
advanced, every other condition being
the same as'now, and that wages would
not have been reduced in some cases,
~ ii il alleged has been done. Only u
demagogue or mon compos' would
make such statements. As long as our
present commercial and business sys-
tenn exists, prices for goods and labor
will so up or down in proportion TO
the scarcity of these and the demand
for them.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1900-11-21
siberian tiiiea.

"l'erhapS the most curious feature
of all siberian cities aud Villages Is the
quiet of them. says Anna \ Bcniamin
In Ainslee'S The American finds II
depressing The places seem half dead,
yet they are alive and thriving cur
conception of prosperity in new cities
Is so associated with the olang of the
trolley, the smoke OF the factory, the
weird writings of the steam siren and
the hustle Of the population that II is
hard for MS Ia realize that prosperity
may exist In a place of dead calm
"NladiVostok. khahnroNsk, BlaguNVSt
chensk and lrkutsk all present the
same features BlagoVestchensk, in the
heart of eastern Siberia, on the june
ton of the Xcya river with the Anur,
Is perhaps the most Interesting city
On the central square of the city where
the market Is, face two large depart
mrut stores which for size, beauty of
architecture and variety of stock would
do credit To any American city fhe
bank buildings. the museum and other
business and government houses are
of brick or stone. Good schools have
been established, So that 1t Is possible
for n boy here, as well rs in all 81
beriau cities, 10 receive IL thorough cd
ucation. In Nladivostok training
school for eastern diplomats turns out
graduates accomplished in oriental Ian
guages to begin their careers as inter
prefers or secretaries of legations
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1900-11-21

An important revelation of the late
census of New Jersey Is that the three
rural counties TINT are welded to the
Democratic purity, Hlnnterdon, Sussex
aud Warren, have had the slowest and
smallest growth. Sussex shows gain
of eight per cont. during the decade,
Warren sain of only three per cent,
and huntefdon shows up n loss of sis
people.
All the either rural counties of the
Slate formerly counted upon by the
Democracy. but which have thrown oil
the Bryan yoke aud taken their places
iii the Republican column, have in
creased their population hy from eleven
to SIXTY siX per cent.
Sussex IL gradually undergoing II
political change, but Warren and Hun
terdon give slight signs of II desire To
get in the procession of prosperous
counties Hudson is SO closely allied
to the province of Tammany that it's
Democracy ia easily accounted for,
but it is gradually reducing its ma ori-
ties, having fallen of one half in ten
years, so that in the not fnr distant
fnLhre 1t will become Republican.
GaHdea Courier.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1900-11-21

There is a strung demand that the
election law be amended SO rs to pro-
hibit the giving ont of official ballots
before election except 10 regularly
sworn election officers. In Passaic
county at the last election the official
ballot WIS counterfeited, aud ballots
distributed with the name of one can
didate substituted for another. When
the present law was passed Senator
Werts remarked TINT the giving ont of
official ballots destroyed the secrecy
of the ballot and ii was only included
because of the demand for il in certain
localities lfthis questionable feature
of the law was eliminated all the parties
would he just IA well of