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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-11-20
SECRET DIED WITH HIM.

Savannah, Ga. November 19.-John G..
Carter. formerly of Boston, Mass, the
inventor OF a process for making sub
stitute for rubber from cotton seed OIL.
died in the hospital this morning after
a brief illness. The process was known
only to MIR. Cartsr ann unless he left
written instructions and directions for
the continuance OF the work, it is prob
able the secret died with him.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-11-20
Will Boom His Business.

s. Laval, a merchant of Dallas, Tex,
writes; III thought l would have to give
nom general debility brought on by over
work and long hours, bus four BOTTLES
of Electric Bitters gave me new life. l
can now eat anything, sleep well and
feel like working all the time. It's the
best medicine on earth" It's wonder
ful tonic and health builder for tired,
weak, sickiy and rundown people Iry
n. Satisfnction guaranteed. Only s0s
&C Il. p. 5. Goold, bI7 Congress street
drug store.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-11-20
FEMALE BICYCLE RACE.

New York, November 1o-At the con-
clusion of the fourth hour of the
womens six-day bicycle race at the
Clermont Avenue rink, in Brooklyn at
1880 o'clock tonight. Miss Marguerite
CAST of Brooklyn, held the lead with SO
miles and fifteen laps to her credit.
Seven of the eight women who entered
held the track.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-11-20
BIDDEFoRD woMAN's SUICIDE:

Wilmington, Mass November 19.-Mrs.
Winthrop q. Bedell committed suicide at
her homs here late last night by shooting
I'm the head. lt is thought the ast was
due to dependency following period OF
III health. Mrs. BedeI was 81 years OF
age. Her husband, who is telegraph
operator on the Wilmington branch OF
the southern division OF the Boston and
Maine railroad, and three young boys,
survive.
Mrs. Beden was a native oil Biddeford.
Me-, and she had been employed both be-
fore and since her marriage as q tele-
graph operator at various points.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-11-20
STOLE A BOOK AND A COAT.

Officer Ball arrested q man named
Fred c. Hoyr on Exchange street, last
evening on the charge of having stolen
two coats and book. The coats be.
long. to Charles o Donnell and the book
was taken from the public library.
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poEsN.T eco TO BUY.

Washington, November 1e.-t Is
learned that the reported visit OF Govern
or Allen Of Porto kico to Sc. Thomas Is
In no wise connected with any project
that may be in contemplation looking to
the acquisition OF the Danish West Indies
by the United States.
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SENATOR DAvIs's CONDITION.

Sc. Paul, Mimi, November 1a-Dr.
Stone bulletin tonight Is rs follows:
Senator Davis has been resting quiet
ly throughout the day with lucid inter
walls. he has been free from pain. His
temperature tonight is " 40. pulse, lOS,
and respiration, Is.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-11-20
RAILWAY ALMOST COMPLETE.

TAKU, November 19--Through COM
mueation by railway between Pekin and
lien Tsin, will be completed by the end
of this month. Arrangements have been
made to bring the terminus at the China
city close to the Temple Of Heaven.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-11-20
POPULATION on MINNEsorA.

Washington, November i9.-The popu-
Iation OF Minnesota rs announced by tbs
census bureau Is IDOL, Sy4, against l. soc.
$40 in 1870 This Is an increase OF IL, 5eS
or B4.5 per cent.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-11-20
Building the Body.
ISN'T 1T OFTEN THE CASE
WITH MANY?
THAT THEY ARE PALE, WEAK,
NERVOUS, DEsPONDENT, DIS
Outraged
Building the Body a Great Ambition
Nowadays.
Smiths Green Mountain Renovator
the Greatest Rody Builder.

It's fact. What : That the major
ity of the American people to-day work
themselves to death and hence suffer a
natural exhaustion OF muscle. nerve and
mind, or else fall victim to disease, and
the result in either case is a pale. ner-
vous, weak. respondent, unambitious,
hopeless person. All that is needed is
STRENeTH-not a false STRENGTH.
but real STRENGTH-sucha as SMITH's
GREEN MOUNTAIN RENOVATION can
give, being made of pure, wholesome
plants and herbs, redolent of the green
fields, fragrant woods and bracing air
of the Green Mountains Of Vermont.
Try it. 1t is helping thousands. 1t will
help Iyou-give you the much needed
STRENGTH-quiet sleep, good appetite.
Build you up.
AFTER twenty years Of suffering salt
rheum resulting in loss of flesh, nervous res
sion, loss of appetite and strength, six b, OF
your grand blood Renovation has put me my
feet. / was badly broken out on shoulder see,
legs tried physicians and many patent meo .-ses
but TO no avail Your Renovation has made new
man OF me, and cannot say enough IN its praise
as a great blood and nerve invigorator."
Q HoRAcK +. WEEKS Bakersfield. VT
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ROCKLAND STILL WINS.
Defeated Lewiston Last Evening Mine
TO Five.

Rooklsnd, November i9.-The Lewis
tons were defeatedsby Rockland to 5
this evening in a lively game. AIRING
ton, goal tender for the visitors, was
fined for hooking the ball out OF the
cage at the tenth goal. Line up:
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Score, Rocklanu, o; Lewiston, 5. stops,
White, 81; Arlington, ~. Fouls, Rock
land, /. Referee, Connolly. Timer,
Davies. Attendance, 500.
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70 Guns com m ONE DAY

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets All
druggists refund the money II II fails to cnre
&. w. Groves signature ID On each boz. sbcs
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"WE DESIRE OUR SHARE. !"


the foreign ENJOYS, LII Hung Chang sub
mits 1t as the final punishment the court
Ia able to infiict and repeats the stsreo-
typed plea of ali Chinese plenipotsntIaries
namely, that the Emperor threatens him
self and Prince Ching with severe pun
ishmsnt II they fall 60 induce the reprs-
sentatives Of the powers to accept the
compromise.
1.-THE miidness OF the sentences excitss
ridicule and strengthens the ministers In
their determination to demand the death
penalty. The punisnments are illusory.
Prince Tuan Is merely banished TO his
home, and othars undergo a merely nomi-
nal lowering of rank. Perpetual impris-
onmsnt means life OF honored retire.
merS.''
ALLIES CA PTURE PASSES.
London, November GA Chinese
official reports" says the Shanghai cor
respondent OF the Standard, THAT the
allies have captured two passes leading
from Chi Ii into shan 81. Herr Knappe,
tina German consul has returned from
Nankin. He reports that he asked the
viceroy to permit foreign troops to ascend
the Yang Use Kiang and to stop sending
supplies 10 Sian Flu"
800 BOXERS KILLED.
Paris, November 10 Official sdvices
from General Voyron. commander OF the
French troops in China, announce tnat
international coIumnssare occupying the
tombs east and southwest of PskIn. He
reports small engagement with the
Boxers In which they lost three hundred
killed the foreign troops sustaining no
casualties.
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The Portland police said last night
that they had never heard Of any of these
men, and do not believe any OF them be.
longed in Portland.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1900-02-03
L.se Ponce H.. !. Big Case.

San Francisco, Cal, Jan. 29.-Attor-
ney Lafe Pence, former congressman
from Colorado. now practicing law in
this city, has been chosen by Mrs. Net
tie Craven Fair to represent her In her
contest to secure portion of the estate
of the late United States Senator Fair,
The Fair estate is now estimated to
be worth no less than $4,000 600, and
Mrs. Craven Fairs claim for a one
third share has been, In the courts for
years.
1t is now reported that the heirs are
seeking compromise by which the
contestants claim will he settled by the
payment of large share of money
said to be In the neighborhood Of 81
OOO,OOO. II this compromise is effected,
1t is safe to assume that Lafe Fences
fee in itself will constitute no small
fortune.
The heirs are two married daughters,
Mrs. Herman Olerichs and Mrs, w. X.
Vanderbilt, Jr., the Inter formerly Miss
Virginia Fair.
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GENERAL euLLER.s LOSSES.
r..r That They Nay Ran Iato the rAs.s-
Ands.

Fear That They Nay Ran Iato the Ths1s-
Ands.
London. Jan. 3O-It begins to look a.
n the Spion kop fight was one Of the
greatest of modern times. According
TO the usual percentage Of officers and
men killed, General Warren must have
lost several thousand men.
The names. of the men are not here
VET. only those of officers. There are
forty-eIght of these In the list signed
by Warren. In the report Of Clery are
eleven officers, and the statement is
made that 800 were killed and wound
ed on January Goth only.
This Ia the first London has heard Of
any fight that Clery was in.
This tardy news confirms the view
that the war office is letting the news
come out In driblets, holding 1t back
when first received, and giving the pub
lie its bitter medicine In homeopathic
doses.
The interest now centers in the num-
her of men Warren lost on Spion kop.
The Boer reports-at which England
no longer sneers, having learned how
horribly accurate they are-told Of q
700 killed and wounded.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1900-02-03
ILLINOIS ANTITRUST LAW.
Judge @. q. Kohlsaat of the United STATED
Circuit Cont says 1t Ii Unconstltutiooai.

sudrs @. O Kohlsaat of the United States
Circuit Cont Says 1t Is Unconstitutional.
Chicago. Jan. 20.-Judge G. G. Kohl
saat, in the United States Circuit
Court to-day decided the antitrust act
of the Illinois Legislature in 1888 VOID,
on the ground that the statute contains
both class and special legislation and
Is in contravention of the federal and
state constitutions.
The Union Sewer Pipe Company
brought suit to recover upon promis-
sorry notes given by defeEdnnts, who
contended that the plaintiff was trust
or combination organized for the ex-
press purpose of creating and carry
Ing out restrictions in trade.
Opinions differ widely us to whether
Judge Kohlsaat's decision leaves the
state without antitrust laws. 1t II
held by some lawyers that the act Of
1893 did not supersede that Of 1891
and that the latter statute Is still II
force. Judge Kohlsaat did not touch
upon this point In his decision. The
advance sheets of the last Illinois re
ports treat the laws as separate
statutes. However that may be, the
opinion Is regarded as an extremel!
Important one because of the nullify
ing clause nine of the law Of 1S0:
(exempting farmers and cattle raiser.
from its provisions). affect nearl!
three-fourths of the people Of the state
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FER SUCCE So.
She Started a shopping Service for Out
of-Town uuyers.

Oh. started a Shopping Service for Out
of-Town tiuyers.
Young woman in southern city,
some years ago. placed a modest little
advertisement in the paper. to the eff
feet that she would purchase on COM
mission for out-of-town buyers. She
maid for keeping her advertisement in
the paper by writing short articles on
TOPICS with which she was familiar.
such as the best way to do up a white;
muslin dress, the making of jelly, etc.
A few small orders began to come in.
Her commission was small, and in Or
der to make 1t, to lay the money to
the best advantage. and to satisfy her
customers, she resorted to various ex-
pedients. II hat was included in the
order, instead of buying 1t ready
trimmed she would buy the hat and
the trimming, thus getting much bet
ter quality for the money, and trim II
herself, charging nothing for her work
This, however, was only necessary
with a very limited amount OF money
and a very long list. She received or
ders for farming tools, mems clothing
and various things she would natural
ly know nothing about. She hlled
them all by calling on her brother-in-
law for advice. Soon her name began
to be known for the painstaking ana
thoroughly satisfactory way In which
she filled hcr orders. All who had tried
her recommended her to their friends.
From the first she made enough to
support herself, and as business I'M
proved she began to extend help to
her friends. A young cousin, with
taste for dressmaking. was thoroughly
taught and was given all the orders Tor
dressmaking. Business continued to
improve; another cousin was Installed
as bookkeeper, and third as errand
girl and general helper. Now at the
end OF about twenty years the young
woman who started SO modestly hnds
her3elf in middle life at the head OF
large household. whom she has placed
in comfort, and carrying on an excel
lent business, while the originator and
head does little more than dispense
tho money and take her ease.-Albany
Argus.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1900-02-03
DAWSON clrv.s PROGRESS.

Con ditions of Life Getttng Easier In the
Great Gold Camp.
Dawson City Is getting to have many
OF The earmarks Of civilization. II ID
con aected now with the outside world
BY telegraph; 1t is making its own
brick; it is preparing to have Its own
schools; 1t has stood up and been
counted; 1t is getting fresh beef, NUT
ton and pork, and everybody seems to
be- happy. Vice-Consul Morrison re-
ports that the Canadian government
telegraph line, from Bennett to Daw-
son. 600 miles. with a branch to Atlin
from Bennett OF rs miles, is completed
to-l)awson. at a reported cost Of less
thu $130.000. Connection Is made 1t
Bennett with the line of the White
Psss railroad to skagdU. 40 miles.
messages being FORWARDED from SKA
quay by first steame1to Vancouver.
thence by Canadian Pacific wire to
destination. Rates as now established
for the United States range from 34.36
to 34.75 for ten words. and from 23 to
~ cents for each additional word. No
arrangements have yet been made for
the transfer Of money by wire. The
population OF Dawson is set down as
4,4tE (3,659 male and 1856 female), and
1853 children under IA years Of age.
OF the inhabitants of Dawson, 3,205
are from the United States, GAS from
Canada and 200 from England. the
remainder scattering. 1t is estimated
that 1000 people left for Cape Nome
district from August 26 to September
26. The question of food supplies no
longer agitates the community. In
addition to ample stocks OF canned
goods, there is an abundance of fresh
beef. mutton and pork, and plenty Of
fresk vegetables. There are also in
the market wild swan, geese, ducks.
ptarmigan. grouse, Arctic hare, squir-
rels. beaver. bear. moose and caribou.
Boots, shoes and clothing are much
lower in price than last year.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1900-02-03

Four hundred British cavalry horses
In South Africa. 1t Is said, have already
been shot. owing to the occurrence Of
glanders. The disease Is likely to
spread with much greater rapidity
among the British horses than among
the hardy Aosr ponies. and this may
mean considerable prolongation OF
the campaign. Horse sickness In
south Africa generally appears during
the latter part Of January and lasts
three months. The present outbreak
10 unusually early.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1900-02-03
SITUATION IN SOUTH AFRICA.
Lord Roberts Will Soon Have Big Force
at Ills Command

Lord Roberts Will Soon Have = Big Force
at His Command
London, Jan. 3O-Iistory pauses for
a time In South Africa. 1t Is one Of
those unsatisfactory pnuses that are
nearly ms trying to British nerves az
n sequence of reverses, and apparently
1t will terminate only when Lord
Roberts gives the word for the forward
movement into the Free State, which,
according to the most cheerful view,
he will be unable to do for a fort
night.
Whether he will permit General Bull
Ter TO make another attempt to relieve
Ladysmith Is quite outside the knowl-
edge even of those closely connected
with the war office. With the troops
due to arrive next month he may think
himself strong enough to try two large
operations. Combining the forces
under Generals Methuen, French and
Gatacre, and adding to them the ar
irving troops, Lord Roberts would
have 10000 for the invasion Of the
Free State, with 10000 to $4,000 guard.
ing communications and 10000 trying
to rescue Ladysmith.
There are 20,222 men and 1856 guns
now at sea. Eleven thousand infantry
and 5000 cavalry, including 5000 yeo-
men are practically ready to embark
Therefore the government, without
doing more, can place Mt the disposal
Of Lord Roberts 10000 additional men
and 1855 guns. The further purpose OF
the war office officials are supposed to
embrace somewhere in the neighbor
hood of $4,000 more men. As the in.
dication is that candidates will bs
rather scarce, the war office will issue
orders for those reservists who were
found unfit ut the previous mobiliza
ton examinations to report for further
examination. Applicants for cavalry
service are still freely Offering a. yeo
many. General Buffers operations
has cost Oh men so far officially re
ported within ten days.
Applying to the 2O6 Spion kop casual
ties reported to-day the rule of proper
ton, the losses of officers Indicate SOC
casualties yet to come. The totaI
casualties of the war. compiled from
official reports, are 9,523, nearly a d.
vision. Of,these 2,4S6 are killed, 4,S11
wounded and the rest are prisoners.
The aggregate British home troops
In South Africa number 10000, the
Natalian 7,158 and Cape Colonials 81.
zoo.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1900-02-03

For. 1899 the worlds corn crop is g.
GIL ,OO0. 900 bushels, Of which the United
States furnishes 1900. O0e, 900 bushels;
Austria Hungary furnishes 98,000,000
1853 900. 900 bushels Of last year. Ar
gentina comes next, with $4,000. 900
bushels: then comes italy with 68.000,-
900 bushels. The crop is about Ill.,
900 900 bushels more than the average
crop of the last four years.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1900-02-03

Vionna's chief Of police has ordered
the cessation Of all gambling, and will
not even allow poker games in private
clubs. It may be added that the order
will be enforced and that no alderman
or citizen with a gutta-percha pull will
BE- allowed to have quiet little place
Just for the boys" Those European
capitals are indeed slow. far behind the
times and sadly at discount as COM
pared with real American municipal
perfection - established In Chicago.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1900-02-03
r..o, society beg. Pre.,d.n. to m.d,...

Boston, Jan. Gothic board of direc.
tors of the American Peace Society to-
day forwarded nm appeal to President
Mckinley to offer the good offices and
mediation of the United States In the
South African war, basing the action
on the fact that the whole civilized
world has not forgotten that one of the
most benign features of the scheme ap-
proved by all at The Hague conference
was that entitled good offices sad
mediation"
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1900-02-03

A little fellow Of four years went 70 .
blacksmith shop in a neighboring town
to zee his fathers horse shod ana was
watching closely the work OF shosin8.
The blacksmith began to pare the
horses hoofs, and thinking this was
wrong, the little fellow said, earnest
~: my pa don't want his horse MADE
any smalier. "-Ohio State Journal.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1900-02-03

1t may be safely said that the one
man who regards the present Trans
vaAl war and the prospect Of Euro
pean complications with unflinching
equanimity IL Herr Krupp. the estima-
BILE German cannon maker.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1900-02-03

A Kansas ministers religious book
has been dramatized by . London
playwright and the former ID highly
indignant. Evidently the pastor had
NO ambition TO elevate the stage.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1900-02-03

Three boys undertook to find out
what was in Illuminating cap. Later
the surgeons explained the matter to
them.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1900-02-03

French dragons have been routed
by strikers and driven out Of st. Ell
enne. Fin de steele evidently means
the same as It did in 1883.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1900-02-03

Abyssinia has . telephone line 800
miles long connecting the capital and
the important city. 1t was construct
cd by q Franco Russian company.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1900-02-03

A Chicago double tragedy is laid to
reading sensational novels. The yell
low-backad thriller" never loses its
gait.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1900-02-03

Lawmakers who would limit the
height Of fiat buildings are encroach-
Ing on the aerial domain of his majesty
the janitor.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1900-02-03

The agricultural department Il deep
" interested in the raising Of cram
berries. Thanksgiving dinners are
bssnd to have tss-rsseaing enseA,
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1900-02-03

DO unto others as you would tina
others should do unto you" is as goo
advice today as It ever was.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1900-02-03

Perhaps the crank who pulled tn
hair of Frank L. Stanton, the poet
was an unbalanced football player.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1900-02-03

Block s of Grassy school section is
being operated by Il number of the
Colorado Midland employees, and the
prospects seem to be quite promising
for Il valuable find.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1900-02-03

When a man gets into q peck OF
trouble he 10 quite content to hide his
light under bushel
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Recently the mining town Of Ma
niversary, having been founded in 1898.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1900-02-03

The wisest politician Is the one that
always tails the truth.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1900-02-03

The man who would rather be right
than be president" may never be
either.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1900-02-03

The coffee war is reported to hav'
ended by the coffee firms taking sugar
trust In theirs
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1900-02-03

Within the last eighteen years s.
$40, 100 square miles have been added
to the colonial empires of the great
colonizing powers. The total, not in
Guiding Egypt nor the Sudan. u ~ fol-
lows: Great Britain, 3.ss7 .113; France,
$3.50. 500; Germany, 1.020.070: Russia,
1851; United States. 16O.601; Meth
srlands, l2a.e77; Portugal. s6,6o6;
Spain, 1911
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1900-02-03

Never speak Ill OF your neighbor. !
gives him license to talk about you.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1900-02-03

OF the making of books and Carne-
gle libraries there is no end.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1900-02-03

EVIL always suecumbs to seastan;
hammerins.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1900-02-03

No hrst-class housekeeper has less
than dozen ways Of using breadcrusts,
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1900-02-03

Commissioner Of Agriculture Welt
ing of New York, who was unable to
appear before the United States Indus
trial COMMITTEES to testify - to the
farming conditions In that state. has
written letter to the commission in
which he says that the Agricultural
pursuit In New York state 10 not as
profitable A. It was from 1850 to 1875.
but that conditions are improving. and
to him 1t looks ~ though the year 1899
will be more profitable for the farmers
TN this state than any preceding year.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1900-02-03

Corruption of the ballot box IL the
hrst step toward revolution.