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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-06-02

According to correspon dent of a
Chicago paper large share of the re-
sponsibility for the present outbreak in
China rests upon the German and Bel
gian engineers who are running u rail
road through the region where the riots
have occurred. 1t is u densely populated
country, and every inch of ground has to
be cultivated with great care to furnish
food enough to keep the population alive.
1t is alleged that the European engineers
have shown most brutal Indifference to
the rights and property of the people.
They run their lines across the gardens,
tear down houses, burn villages, destroy
crops, seize supplies, impress labor and
treat the people in most cruel and arbi-
trary manner IF the same things should
occur In the United States or in Europe
or in any other part of the world, they
would be attended" says the correspond
ent, with the same results" The cor
respondent believes that II the German
and Belgian railroad people would treat
the poor coolie farmers of the Shangtung
province In just and honorable manner,
and give them fair compensation for the
property they have taken or destroyed,
there would be no need of sending fleets
to the Chinese waters or demanding in
demnity at the Tsung Ii-aymen.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-06-02
A YEAR OF EXTRAORDINARY sue
CESS.

The missionary work of the American
Sunday School Union in the year closing
February %, 1900, was attended with
most remarkable enlargement and sue
cess. Not only We're the labors of the
missionaries crowned with abundant
blessing from God, but new plans for
efficient work were carried into operation
and many new friends enlisted in support
of the Society.
The amount received for the support Of
the missionary work was Sl3l 1856, against
1921 ,0lS for the previous year.
There have been In the field 1872 men
employed, of whom 102 were at work
during the whole year and 30 during
portion of the year. Those serving part
of the year labored All months, or nearly
IS full years. making all equal to full
years work for 1877 men. As one result
of their labers, 1880 new Sunday schools
were organized in destitute places, hav-
ing u, SS2 teachers and scholars; 5lo were
reorganized, with 49, 44 members; there
were thus 1895 schools set in operation
that were not in existence one year ago
aid was given for the first time, to 1881
schools, with 2l3, Sl6 members; while Wis
its were made in Z ,4S5 cases to schools
previously reported, having 800, 46S menu
bers
In addition to this great work of estab-
fishing and aiding Sunday schools, the
most abundant blessings have followed
the evangelistic labors of the mission
aries. General statements of the results
occur frequently in the reports, because
only partial returns are made from the
schools, so that they can only tell OF
numerous conversions" Yet, leaving
all these statements out, there have been
definite reports made of q, 3l5 hopeful con-
versions as having occurred in connection
with the work of these consecrated men.
They also made IA, U15 visits to families
for religious conversation and prayer,
gave lis, IA sermons and addresses, and
distributed IL, 1873 Bibles and Testaments-
The organization of churches had followed
| in 80 cases.
Such results Of our work In the last
year give token Of the gracious favor OF
God TO a very gratifying extent, and also
| show the large need that exists for the
special work that the American Sunday
school Union Is adapted to accom- plish In
the waste places of our land.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-06-02

Mr.. Wharton Barker, candidate of the
Peoples Party for President, has issued
letter of acceptance. 1t is duty and
a pleasure, he says, to accept the nominal
ton, and he promises that his unceasing
effort will be to so comport himself during
the campaign, and so act If elected Presi-
dent, that he may not be judged unworthy
of the trust reposed in him. If he had
stopped there his letter would have been
a creditable one. But he doesn't. He
goes ON TO the extent of three or four
columns discussing issues with which he
and his party are likely to have about as
much to do as fly upon stage coach
has to do with the propulsion Of that
vehicle There is this to be urged In ex-
tenuation, however. 1t Is probably the
only chance he will have to appear in this
campaign, and so there Is strong
temptation to make the most of 1t.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-06-02

Nothing more win be hea rd OF the
Clark case at this session of the Senate,
nor ut the next probably. In all like
hood the matter will be reinanded to
Montana for settlement. If we can judge
by the past this means another orgie OF
bribery, and probably worse one than
that of last winter. Practically the
voters of the state are divided into thu
retaiuers of Marcus DAILY and Mr.. Clark
and the struggle is really between these
bosses, who are both multi millionaires,
for supremacy. Politics really cut but
very little figure in the matter.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-06-02
FATHER mAINE.


-"
There's good deal Of talk, one way and
another,
About the Children a-ooming home
To stay a week with us, ms and mother.
An do really hope They'll come.
I don't most gener'iy do much talking;
When mother speaks up, why give
way;
But think q sight, as set here rocking,
AS much as them that has more to say.
Ifn cost, no doubt, an take or the but
ter,
But we always raise our own garden
stuff
An we hav'nt never been apt to mutter,
So long as we're sure we shall have
enough.
And I make no doubt we shall, for
whether
The seasons dry, or tho 80 ason's wet,
never knew all crops fail together,
There's always seed time an harvest
yet.
SO hope the Children will all be coming,
When the corn Is tosseled, and wheat
an rye
Wave In the wind, an the bees album
ming
Make you feel glad without sensin' why.
They'll be some changed, 1 expect
some older;
And like rs not they'll SEQ change In
me;
But mother-why, many time I've told
her
She's younger than what she used TO
be.
An spryer,-why once, though say It
that shouldn't,
She kinder made gods of her churn
and tub;
My means was such, that to help 1t 1
couldn't,
Till got forehand, an she--joined
the club.
wings.
Why, besides the Bible, she reads books
so,
That now she knows-mother knows more
things
Than even the minister used to know.
I never have been much on book knowl-
edge,
Not so much as ought to have been,
may be;
But sent my boys an girls to college,
An that's my part, as fur's see.
An my heart Is warm with the love
that's burning
The same as hers, for our Children
| dear;
1 couldn't feel more. II had mo re learn
ing,
Nor sorrow deeper, as time draws near,
For them that i know will come back
| never,
| Some ships must founder, some sail
ors DROWN
And some have gone to sleep forever,
With only strangers to lay 'em down.
But 1 try to think, as set here rocking
OF only the living. the cheerful noise,
The hearty words, and the lively talking
When they all get here, our girls an
boys.
An when they come, an we greet one
another,
An set still amongst all the stir,
An see 'em talking an hearing mother.
l know II shall be proud Of her.
CLARA MARCELLE GREENE
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-06-02

The Confederate battle flags are now re-
posing in boxes in the attic Of the capitol
at Washington. They are not Haunted
in the faces of the Southerners and are
not used in any way to remind them of
the overthrow of their cause. A move
ment has been started at Chicago for the
return of these flags to the Southern
states. Doubtless 1t is well meant, but 1t
Is mistaken. 1t will be sure to excite
opposition in the North, and out of 1t
will grow lot of hard words between
the North and South which will be Ger
tain to stir up the old bad feeling. While
many of the people both North and South
are not ready to forgive, they are all
ready to forget, and anything that inter
feres with the latter process checks and
retards the cure that time is making.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-06-02
BLEACHING SMOKE.

How an ingenious young man from a
York county town tried 1t when rail-
reading in Maine was an infant indus
try, as related by the truthful switch ten
der In tomorrow's issue of the Portland
Sunday Times. .
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-06-02
CURRENT COMMENT.
KENTUCKY'S GOVERNOR.
(Chattanoopa Times dem \

We believe any governor who has been
honestly elected should refuse to show
any courtesy or consideration to the mere
-facto magistrate of Kentucky, who is
half an accident and half u fraud, in his
gubernatorial character.
He was elected to no office. He Is gov
ernor by the grace of u band of violent
|oligarchists, who use most infamous
law for their purpose, and have so man
aged that the courts refuse to take Juris-
diction of the case.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-06-02

AS device for showing up the hypoc-
risy of the Democracy in regard to trusts
the constitutional amendment now un-
Ter debate In the House Is a success. The
plan proposed by this amendment is in
substance that suggested by Mr.. Bryan
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-06-02
The extreme Bryan wing Of the New

The extreme. Bryan wing Of the New
Jersey Democracy, who wanted to tag all
the delegates to Kansas City for the Ne
braskan and swallow the Chicago plat
form whole, were beaten In the state con-
vention, and an unpledged delegation
will be- sent. The delegation Is, however,
ready to accept Bryan. Indeed,
that is all there Is for them to do. Like
the Dutchman's wife, they have got to
be reconciled.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-06-02
Volcanic Eruptions

Are grand, but Skin Eruptions rob life
of joy. Bucklen's Arnica Salve cures
them; also Old, Running and Fever
Sores, Ulcers, Boils, Felons, Corns,
Warts, Cuts, Bruises, Burns, Scalds,
Chapped Hands, Chilblains. Best Pile
cure ON earth. Drives out Pains and
Aches Only 25 cts. Q box. Cure guaran-
teed. Sold by H. p. 8. Goold, on Con-
gross strsst. and H. G. Starr, Cumbsr-
land Mills, Druggists.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-06-02

Patrons OF tho PRESS who arc leaving town
temporarily may have the addresses Of their
papers changed as often ~ thsy may desire By
notifying the ONCE
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-06-02

Subscribers whose papers are not delivered
promptly are requested to notify the ONCE Of
the DAILY PRESS. No. "a Exchange street.
Portland Me.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-06-02

The DAILY PRESS Is delivered at these rates
every morning to subscribers In all parts oil
Portland, aud In westbrook and South Fort
land.
MAINE STATE PRESS weekly
BY the year. 81 in advance. OF si.2b ct the
end OF the year.
For six months. so cents; for three months.
eb cents
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-04-20

book, which Is worth several times its
weight in gold, is Charles II. Meigs Of
% Eastman street. who is also the
publisher of the other tiny book men
TONED, the one tina. Is the smallest in
me world. This smallest book in the
world measures Just three-eighths OF
an inch by half an inch over all. There
are thirteen pages In 1t. and the work
has been done I'm a Cleveland printing
establishment. The type was set by
hand. and then the page photographed
down to the limit of distinctness,
though the book can only be read with
a magnifying glass. Under a strong
glass. however. the work is seen to be
distinct and perfect. 1t is printed on
genuine India paper, and this is one
OF the most interesting things about
the tiny book. The Oxford Press, the
English Bible publishing concern. con-
trolls all the genuine India paper pro-
duced, and ii was with the greatest
difficulty that enough was procured to
make even the ten copies of this tiny
book. Ii is said that the PAPER was
snrreptitiously obtained. The title OF
the book is Thus Spake the Wind
a very old religious poem of no par
lar interest.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-04-20

with various earth batteries, the cir
Gle OF the larger works defending the
Boer capital. Behind the great redoubt
mentioned are the principal magazines,
one excavated ont OF the solid rock.
with a bombproof roof. and the other
built into the kloop, also bombproof.
Communication between the redoubt
and the aforementioned magazine Is by
means of a covered way. Roads con-
meet all these forts with the capital,
and they have pipes laid for water. as
we'll as electric lights for the search
lights.
An English view of what can be done
with the Pretoria Notifications Is
found In the following description of
the liege train en- route from England.
This Is the second train of its kind
sent out from England during the last
~forty-six years. The last occasion was
when slxty-ive heavy guns and NOR
tars were sent from Woolwich for the
siege of Sebastopol. where, with fifty
ship guns, they took part in the bonn
bardment OF that city In connection
with the French siege train. The train
now on It's way ont from England com
prizes thirty howItzers, fourteen Of s.
inch caliber, eight OF 5-Inch and eight
of i-inch. II is calculated that the in
vestment of Pretoria will require A.
900 British troops, leaving the remain
der OF the army to guard the fortifica-
tions, occupy certain strategetic points
and operate against that part of the
Boer army not required for the defense
of Pretoria. This part OF the Boer army
Is expected to fall back into the north
in the ~Zoutpansberg mountains, which
the Beers are reported to intend TO
make their stronghold, and where they
expect TO carry on the wal against
England indefinitely.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-04-20
HELD SERVICE IN A HELMET.
Curate Found II Was Easier to Put 1t
On Than Take IL On.

A newly appointed curate to a parish
in the south of England had a funeral
service to conduct. Arriving at the
church before his services were re-
CURED he was looking over it and saw
an old iron helmet, which he thought
he would try on. After he had sur
veyed himself in it he was about TO
take 1t off, when, to his great conster-
nation, he found that he could not re-
move 1t. In his dilemma he went 10
the sexton, who. as soon as he saw
him, began to run away, thinking he
was mad. Having assured him that
he was not, he asked the sexton to
help him to remove it, but they found
they could not, it having closed with
a spring, which they failed to find.
AS the funeral cortege had arrived the
sexton had to inform the mourners Of
the predicament the curate was in,
asking il they would consent to his
conducting the service while wearing
the helmet, to which they 1t last con-
scented. After the service, with the
help OF the village blacksmith, the
helmet vas removed, much to the
qualification of the curate, who vowed
that his curiosity would be restrained
in the future,-Stray Stories.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-04-20
BOLD ROBBERY OF FARO BANK
Cowboy seixes II Handful of Gold and
Keeps u Crowd at Bay.

Jim Hanifan, cowboy, committed d
daring robbery in the faro bank in the
Palace saloon at Phoenix. Ariz., the
other afternoon. Hanifan entered the
crowded saloon, and sauntered toward
the faro game. where he seized a hand
full of gold pieces. He walked out the
front entrance and was pursued
through the principal street, keeping
the crowd at bay with a knife, his
only weapon. He was finally captured
by officers and the money returned.
Hanifan's boldness in the gambling
house so electrified those present that
they appeared unable to move, and no
was made to stop him, or to
produce the pistols with which the
house had been literally supplied
since the recent raids on faro banks.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-04-20

RES mas discovered the real reason
why girls are so much taller at the end
Oh the century than they were at the
beginning and middle. The truth. we
are told. Is that they eat twice as much
as their predecessors. A small appe-
lite used to be considered de rigueur:
10 De hungry per contra, was vulgar.
BUT the modern maiden makes no pre-
tense OF living on air, or love, or
m~erlngues, or jelly, or whatever I'M
substantial fare it was that was SUD-
posed TO nourish the girl of other days
She mas a good hearty appetite. and
she Is at no pains to conceal It: indeed.
she, rather vaunts 1t than otherwise. A
good dinner she thoroughly appreci-
ates. and when she can get meat she
never tribes with fripperies. There is
doubtless a great deal in this very pro-
sale explanation of an obvious fact.
But II 1t be true, then we must keen
u girls well in hand. Increase of
appetite, the immortal maker of ant
quotations has told us, grows on that
IL leeds on and IL our maidens con
tihue TO develop good appetites. and
engender them by much outdoor ey-
ercise' the women of the future will
oe u race OF giantesses.-London
Queen.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-04-20
AGAINST THE ORGAN,
A Maine Parson Struggles and Comes
Out Second Hest.

In a Kennebec church Sunday week,
says the Lewiston Journal. u new min
ister-that is, one who was being given
a try-had about as much trouble as
usually falls to the lot OF one poor
candidate. He arrived early at the
church and found hat the furnace was
out of gear and that the auditorium
was densely filled with smoke. The
~janitor and the gathering congregation
opened the windows and labored with
the furnace, and at last cleared the
room enough SC that the minister was
dimly discernible through the blue
toar-producing haze. The services
started with a congregation whose
eyes were ailame and a minister who
was beginning to get uneasy. The vol
untary was nearly over when one of
the stops failed and a shrill, high pine
began to whistle. 1t pervaded the score
OF the music and the ~organist couldn't
drown II out, no matter how much he
hammered the other keys. At last he
stopped But the high whistle kept
rlght on The organist jabbed the
stop In hopeless wrath, bur to no avail.
The music kept pouring out DESPITE all
he could do. The congregation wore
a broad grin. The minister tried to
look as though nothing had happened,
and the services went on. The next
hymn went all right-it didn't contain
then note that bothered--and the parson
and the organist breathed easier. Then
came the last hymn before Vie ermon
ana once more the single, piercing note
rose high above the tune the organist
was playing. The last verse was sung.
the organist paused and the congrega-
ton rustled into their seats and settled
themselves for the sermon. But the
organ kept on. The minister rose and
stepped forward to begin. But he
couldn't with that ear-piercing whistle
in the ai,. He looked reproachfully at
he organ, but the brazen thing only
whistled away in the same hooking
way. The audience was smiling broad
ly, and the minister could not helm
but smile, too. And there they sat
cycling each other till the organ had
exhausted the supply OF wind In it's
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-04-20

bay forever. Right or wrong, he main
tains that occupying a besieging po-
sition, devoid OF ~sustenance. the Eng
fish will be in greater danger OF starva-
ton than the Beers, and that convoy
supplies cannot be brought in with
such repldity and success as to make
the siege successful.
The fountains, or water supply. OF
Pretoria Is within the radius Of forts.
The westernmost fort is on the range
OF hills behind Pretoria. and lies at a
distance Of 81 900 feet from the clty's
center. There is a powerful redoubt
to the southwest on the range Of hills
through which the transport road to
Johannesburg passes. This completes,
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-04-20
jealousy Leads 10 Murder.

George b. French shot and killed
Loie Pearl. a l7-year-old girl, at her
sisters home at Pennington, n. H.,
and then blew out his brains. French,
who was 40 years old and divorced, was
insanely jealous over attentions which
the girl received at a ball. In the
presence of several fellow boarders he
threatened to kill her, Alvah Pike, the
l5-year-old nephew of the girl, endeav-
ored to act as peacemaker, and when
French drew a revolver he tried 10
wrest it from him, but failed.
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-04-20
ROMANCE BEHIND HIS DEATH.
Yozss Came Here with a Fortune ana
Lost 1t.

DS
A letter written in Hungarian from
Mary Yozsa of Cincinnati, has called
the attention of the Chicago police 10
the death OF her brother, Nicholas
fozsa, at the county hospital, on
March Z. In the same mail came a
letter addressed to Chief of Detectives
Colleran from w. A. Bieck of Chicago,
inclosing a letter signed Nicholas
Yozsa, dated June 8, 1897. 1t stated
that in case of his death the authori-
ties in Cincinnati should be notified
and that he desired his remains cre-
mated. The dead man had for five
months boarded with Mr.. BECK. Back
of this is a romance. Ostracized from
all family connections, disinherited by
an angry father and disgraced in the
eyes of his fellow officers in the royal
army of Hungary. Nicholas Yozsa left
his home in the Province of Zemplin
five years ago. With the snug sum of
$1,000, given him 10y his uncle, Count
Andras Y, the young man landed in
New York. The fast ways of the east
ern metropolis were new to the for
eigner, but not distasteful, for he soon
joined a set of fellow countrymen, and
in less than six months time he was
minus his money, and compelled to
seek employment. Yozsa knew prac-
tically nothing of commercial work,
nor was he experienced in any Of the
mercantile lines. AS a result he drift
ed into the laboring class, and two
years later he was one of the many
employed about the streets Of Gin
cinnati. The young Hungarian's pride
prevented him from writing to his
wealthy relatives at home, and he be-
came very respondent. Suicide was
one OF the many gloomy thoughts that
passed through his brain. Depressed
over his poverty, Yozsa went to Chica-
go and sought admission to the county
hospital and remained there until
death overlook him. From letter,
found In his possession it is believed
he committed suicide. The letter
which was written by Yozsa while in
Cincinnati, reads: II have lost every
thing. My home. money and friends.
II | die please find inclosed letters,
which Is to the authorities of my
home. They will notify folks. | wish
to be cremated and have my ashes sent
to my family. All expenses will be
paid by my relatives"
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-04-20

has been that. The Cleveland book
breaks the record in size, or lack of
size, for printed books. There are rare
little volumes engraved on ivory
fastened together like a book, but
they are not really books In the estl-
nation OF collectors Of miniature vol
umes. The Bijou Almanac is a real
book, printed On real paper. and bound
in stiff little blue overs. II was made
in London in 1886 by Schloss. 1t has
sixty pages, a calendar for each month.
and some wonderfully delicate little
steel engravings. 1t is half an inch
wide and hve-eighths long, and not
much thicker than the cover OF an or
binary book. The owner of this little
The Red Cloud chief., 1900-04-20
Used Telephone to Gain Rcspite.

Fol- fear that the train bearing him
to Helena. Mont, might not arrive in
time to catch the Butte mail train up
sheriff at that place a respite for Jo-
seph Schafer, the innocent mar under
sentence to be hanged there, Lieut.
Gov. SpriSgs telephoned the official OF
his intention, and upon arrival at He
lena he attached his signature to the
temporary respite in order that the
Supreme court might have an oppor-
tunity to pass upon Skaters appeal.
This is believed to be the first instance
N which a telephone served such a
purpose.