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The Portland daily press., 1900-06-15
COMMENCEMENT A 7 KENT's HILL

winthrop, June 1.-THE commence
ment at the Maine Wesleyan seminary
and Female college at Kent's Hill began
today with the customary order Of exer.
cises during which class Of forty-six
was graduated. The alumni dinner was
The reception tonight was very enjoy
ahla
The Portland daily press., 1900-06-15
SUNDAYSAIL
TO-.
orr'S island
.uOho& Bay.
Steamer PEJEPsCOr

win leave Portland Pier at 1000 a. m, Sunday.
June nth. for Cousins. Lttleiohn's. Great
Chebeague and 0rr's Islands. A stop Of two
hours win be made az Orr's Island where din
ner can be obtained. then the steamer viii sail
up by Gun Point and around Pole lslsnd 10 the
head Of Quoh6g Bay, return TO Portland Via
above landings, arrive about go p. M. This Ii
q sail never given by any excursion steamer
before and Is one Of the most beautlfnl sails on
the coast. Fare 10 Urr's Islsnf aud Quohoz
bay, soc, other landings, 35c Round Trip.
1oiadSl y. II. MeDOaALDs Manager.
The Portland daily press., 1900-06-15

II the resolutions of the county conven-
tion had dealt less with national affairs
and more with county affairs 1t would
have been Just as well perhaps.
The Portland daily press., 1900-06-15

Subscribers whose papers are not delivered
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Portland Me.
The Portland daily press., 1900-06-15

Patrons Of the PRESS who are leaving town
temporarily may have the addresses OF their
papers changed as often as they may desire by
notifying the ofllcr
The Portland daily press., 1900-06-15

The DAILY PRESS Is delivered at these rates
every morning 10 subscribers In all parts oil
Portland. and In westbrook and South Fort
land.
MAINE STATE PRESS lweekly-
BY the year, 81 IN advance. or si.sb ct the
end Of the year.
For six months. 80 eentss for three months.
sb cents
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-06-16

most well-to-do settlers could not afford
to send their children hundreds of miles
away to the nearest big college. Among
the more thoughtful members of the
community his ambition to build a col
lege there met with a warm response
and he went at the project with viii
In a way ne succeeded. I believe his in
stitn1lon was at first called an academy,
but it soon Joined the ranks of fresh
water colleges: From the start it trained
men--sood, sound men-who became the
preachers, lawyers, merchants, editors,
school teachers, school commissioners and
legislators of that country. -
Finally it passed into the hands of a
young man named slocum. He was full
OF good business snap and saw he was
the young man to make that thing go
I safd to him: when you raise $50, 900
for the endowment of this college I will
pay you $4,000 in cash to bring the total
up to 5000, OOO'''
The upshot of the matter was that Mr..
slocum got the $4,000, and Mr. Pearsons
says that the college is everything that
could be desired and he instances others.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-06-16

Until the bus stopped and the old gen.
tleman entered we had been a contented
and genial company travelling from :
suburb into the city in high good fellow
ship, and our absolute monarch was
Baby. His mother was evidently the wife
of a well doing artisan, a wise-looking
capable, bonnie young woman, and Baby
was not q marvel of attire, nor could he
be called beautiful. He was dressed after
a careful, tidy, comfortable fashion, and
he was a clear-skinned, healthy child
that is all you would have noticed had you
met the two on the street &
In g. bus where there is nothing to do
for forty minutes except stare into one
another's faces a baby has the great
chance of his life, and this baby was made
to seize it. IIe was not hungry and there
were no pins about his clothes, and no.
body had made him afraid, and he was
by nature a human soul. So he took us in
hand one by one till he had reduced us all
to1a state of delighted subsection, to the
pretended scandal and secret pride Of his
mother. .s
his first conquest was easy and might
nave been discounted, for against such an
onset there was no power of resistance
in the elderly woman opposite-one of the
lower middles, fearfully stout, and, of
course a grandmother. He simply looked
at her-if he smiled, that was thrown in
Tor, without her knowledge her arms had
begun to shape for his reception-so often
mad children lain on that ample resting
place. "Bless is little cart; it do me
enod to see i'm" No one cared to critic:se
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-06-16

happy one in a rough sort of way and a
downright pandemonium. AS a wag said,
Pat was always heading either a love
feast or fight Mrs Smith was very
capable woman and kept her house and
her children much better than seemed
possible with her surroundings.
Young Pat was about eighteen at this
time-a true chip of the old block in all
respects, and all counted a pretty disrep-
utable pair the father and son were. In
an old shed a few rods back of the shop
Young Pat built out of scrap iron and
old bricks sort of furnace in which he
could heat irons red hot about four feet
long. These he passed through a sort
of roller made out of an old wagon axle
and which cut them up into short,
damned up sort of lengths, and these he
would take into the shop and finish into
nails. They, the Pats, took turn and turn
about in their drinking spells: About the
last day or so of Old Pats spree he
would kick that nail mill into flinders
and then sober up and go to work. Now
Young Pat would have a turn at drink
ing, and about the time Old Pat went off
again the other would be sober enough to
rebuild the nail mill.
One day "a gentleman's horse threw a
shoe in the hunting field and he came to
the shop to have it fixed. After some
trouble he found Young Pat putting hot
rod into the roller, but he came at once
on the gentleman, telling him what was
wanted. He won the strangers heart by
stopping short and quietly looking over
1 the splendid mare. He took the saddle off
and laid it in the sun to dry, threw a
blanket over her and then remarked that
he would like to see her top rasper
dump a bad fence). While Pat was
shoeing the mare the gentleman went
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-06-16

1t wide preface in early editions of Nor
mon Bihle), and afterwards build up a
Kingdom Of Wed-a-heap'' out of it I
they changed the name of their leader. I
don't think they would ever have had
anything like the picnic they have had
lately in Washington if they had stuck to
the Smiths. A Smith would have fired
them into congress somehow.
Then there was John Who but a Smith
would have thought of holding Pocahon-
tas up in front of him to keep the Indians
from killing him? ..t +
And our own Hoke. You don't suppose
that his ma ever thought that he would
rise to the dignity of going duck hunt
Ing in a punt with "a president. / tell
you the latent possibilities of a Smith
cannot be overestimated. ~.
But to go back to the Marthaxes or
Pats. Old Pat leased an old tumble
down blacksmith and wagon shop. He
was a large, powerful man, with a big
head and bushy. black hair He was mar
ried and had a lot of children. The eld-
est, young Pat, was the only boy, and
they were an exceptionally we'll grown,
handsome lot. He was a splendid work.
man, and when sober he could turn out
better work and more Of it than the
average man in his trade. He could work
steadily for a time, then go off on a
drunk, and when all was spent and the
pinch came he would go to work again
He was passionately fond of his hand
some wife and children, especially the
boy. Their home was alternately very
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-06-16

Inc words, and we remarked to ourselves
now the expression changes the counre.
nance. Not heavy and red, >far less dull.
the proper adjective for that face is moth.
erly
The next passenger, just above Grannie,
u a LADY, young and pretty and mother,
OF course; did you not see her look baby
over, as an expert at her sharpest? The
mother is conscious of inspection, and ad.
Justs ribbon his majesty had tossed
aside, and then she meekly awaited APP
proVaI. For moment we were anxious.
put that was our foolishness, for in half
minute the lady's face relaxed, and she
passed Baby. She leaned forward and
asked questions, and we overheard scraps
or technical detail: my first
fourteen months Z. six teeth
always well. One was a lady. the other
a Work1ng woman; they had not met be-
fore; they were not likely to meet again
E but they had forgotten strangeness and
ulHerences in the common bonds of
motherhood. Opposite me a priest wa 8
sitting and saying his office, but at this
point his eye fell on the mothers, and I
Inought his lips shaped the words s.Sancta
pointed portion. = ~.
s Baby had wearfed OF inaction and had
si'egun another campaign, and my heart
fanK, Tor this time he coqlrted defeat On
The other side OF GranI1ie and within
6aDys sphere of influence was a man
about whose profession there could he If
lie doubt, even IL he had not had q bag
on mas knee and were not reading from a
parchment document. After a long and
serious consideration Of the lawyers
clean-cut, clean-shaven bloodless face
BABY leaned forward and tapped gently
On the deed. and then, when the keen
lace looked up in quick INQUIRY. Rabv
replied with q smile Of rogl1igh intelli-
gence, as II to say, by the way. that
parchment would make an excellent
u oIla1 90 you mind "A tune has
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-06-16
ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS MINI.

Ea- ~ q Il. 2 ~ ; = p s-
back to the shed and looked over the
nail mill. When all was ready to go ex-
cept paying for the horseshoe he stood
minute or two tffoughtfully tossing
some coins in his hands. Finally he said:
Say, young fellow, I know all about
you and your father. You are never
going 70 do yourself any good here. Now,
You quit drinking and work steady for a
few days, then you take copy of that
thing you have In the shed there and go
to Birmingham that is the heart Of the
-nailtrade. Work tlaere--untn -yeu-hear
of a man who is good, liberal man with
his workmen; then so to him and show
him that machine
Dropping some money into Pats hand,
he said: Here are two quid "a sovereign
is called quid) to help you OUT" The
next moment the great blue roam had
topped tee stiff quickest hedge opposite
and the stranger was out of sight
Shortly after this Young Pat left in
such way that his father thought he
had gone on a timber ship to Canada.
He was not heard Of in that village for
nearly twelve years. r
Old Pat stopped drinking from, the dav
that his son left, and It was not nnany
years before his landlord built him a row
of new workshops and he was employing
number of men. He was one of the
klndest and best of employers and was
one OF the most deservedly influential
and respected men of the village
one Sunday morning a Well-dressed lady
and gentleman and little girl came
into church late. They were young Pat
and his wife and child. He was at that
time junior partner in a large rolling mill
near Birmingham. 49,. ....-
All of tae above, think, ought to con-
vince folks that they would better go
slow when they try to run up against
a Smith. II "
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-06-16
USEFUL FREsHwArER COLLEGES


Described by Mr.. Parsons, Who Has
Given $3,O0O,O0O to Education.
2 .. K. Pearsons has given to the smaller
colleges of the country almost three mill
lions Of dollars, and in the Saturday
Evening Post Re describes In full the
large usefulness of these "freshwater''
institutions. He expresses the liveliest
satisfaction with the results of his benefi-
cences. Speaking of one he says:
Out in Colorado Springs is a college to
which hundreds of students flock with a
consuming thirst for an education. All!
What sturdy set those fellows are.
Well, this college is an example of
what have said is the typical history Of
the freshwater college It must have
been almost thirty-five years ago when I
pitched camp almost on its site IN COM
pany with band Of Ute Indians. There
was ar Insignificant little hamlet on the
spot where the city Of Colorado Springs
now stands. The settlement grew and
the Inhabitants prospered. One day an
earnest and devoted Christian missionary
came along He read the hearts Of the
people or at least part Of them, IN
stantly he saw that the great need of
that community was q college. Even the
-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-06-16
sToNEWALL JAcKsoN'S COUSIN
Mrs. Emma Van Dusen took the oath

( NA1 E1AIu1le1 v oil DuS6u look the O0,Lh
of Office last week as deputy United
States marshal. Her HEADQUARTERS
will be at Dallas, Texas, and her duties
are those of any male deputy.
Mrs. Van Dusen is handsome, re-
fined woman Of thirty years. She is
the widow of Charles Palmer Van
Dusen, lawyer of Evansville, Ind.
She was appointed by United States
Marshal George n. Green. The mar
shall says he will arm Mrs. Van Dusen
with the regulation weapons, and in
sist that she carry a gun, the same as
man. The new deputy marshal sub
scribes modestly to this, and says she
knows how to use one, and will 40 so
if there is necessity for it.
Mrs. Van Dusen was born in Ellis
boro, N. G. Her father was Robert
#O'Daniel Of county Cork, Ireland. Her
mother was Miss Jackson of Virginia,
cousin of "Stonewall,' Jackson OF
Confederate fame. She was appointed
because it was known she was Of in-
trepid stock.-New York World.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-06-16
CARRYING OUT HIS WISHES

The Baroness Reinelt of Trieste
whose husband died, leaving fortune
of 100000 forms for benevolent pur
poses, went to a bazaar and was Of
fered pink by a lady in charge of the
STALL
HOW much may I pay for this
11ower?" she asked. -
Inere are no limits set to your gen.
erosity, baroness" was the reply.
We'll, then,''~ she said, II will paw
enough for it to cover the arrears Of
the music exhibition - "
The amout required for this purpose
was $4,000 forms, or nearly IS, o0G.-
Tit-Bits .>.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-06-16
GREEN FIRE.

Fair Flora with her jade devining rcd
Strikes thrice the springtime sod
Green fire! Green fire!
From base to spire 3A
OF everlasting tree
Under Heavens canopy!s
Green fire!
A bursting, warm desir
In every tiny seed
Of grass and reed,
An upward heart-beat-lo, the earth
In wantonness Of mirth
Leaps from the darkness Winter lulled,
A flaming emerald!
Green fire! Green fire!
The winds inquire
OF every flame its will
And instantly its fond desires fulfill!
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-06-16
AS THOUGH THEY WERE BOYS

AS THOUGH THEY WERE BOYS.
Two sisters living in San Francisco
are achieving success in unusual oc-
equations for women. One is a car
penter, the other a boss painter. The
former, girl Of twenty, has built
"a fve-room house, in which her fam
lily lives.
The father Of the girls is carpen-
ter and conceived the idea Of bring
CeniInseS n xnS l.xsra
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-06-16

81! All the lana IS one great WHIT
Where wreathing fires unfurl
To wondering eyes
Gods miracle Of dyes!
Green fire!
And Orpheus with his Tyre
Strikes up measure sweet
To flying feet
O hear the world in rapturous acclaim
AS Flora dances, beryl-wihged, through
flashing flame!
Clarence Urmy in Lippincotts Maya
zine.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-06-16
RAINBOW WITH THE ECLIPSE.

RAINBOW With The ECLIPSE.
The most striking feature of the
eclipse at Richmond, Va, Monday
was a short but brilliant rainbow on
the west, or contact side of the sun.
The phenomenon was the more sur
prising, as there was not a cloud in
the sky. It was observable with the
naked eye. The eclipse was nearly
total at Richmond. Boston Evening
TRANSCRIPT.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-06-16
MODEST MAN WAS WHEELER.

y I0u. JUG aWu06lGC Is Iu0 -IuOSL HUI
est of men. Like all great generals
he is unobtrusive and almost back
ward. The other day he had occa-
sion to visit the court of claims law IL
brary to see certain book. A young
man named Finch was in charge and
was rather pompous whell a quiet,
gray whiskered little man came up
and asked for a book. Are you a
member of this barr" asked Finch.
haughtily. mo, but am a member
of the supreme court bar was the
reply. Whats the Nance" asked
Finch in lofty manner. Wheeler"
was the soft voiced reply. What
Wheeler?" in even more vigorous and
ditrustful tones. Joseph Wheeler"
said the general, and Finch almost
tainted. He made apologies, got the
book and then went to another clerk
and taking out a watch said: Please
kick me for just twenty minutes. That
is Gen. Wheeler over there, and / had
the nerve to ask him what Wheeler .
Washing Letter.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-06-16

ace of spades. The Fprty-fourth was
the battery which accompanied the
City Imperial volunteers during their
Baptism of fire.""--London Leader.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-06-16
THE BEST FRIEND is THE. LAST

The BIS FRTENI#IS The .EAST.
Aunt Abby--I saWsUncle Abner to,
day. He was lookin. better than When
I saw him last. He told me he was
takin' DR.. Scrunch silver sand.
h Aunt Lovina Yes, he always feels
better when he changes remedies: but
we don know whether It's because he
quits takin,, the old one or because he
begins takiH the new one. Judge.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-06-16
SAVED BY THE ACE OF SPADES

SAVED BY THE ACE OF SPADES.
A remarkable instance of soldiers
escape from death is given in a letter
just received at Colchester from the
front The writer, member of Mes
bits horse, states that while in ac-
ton at Prieska, a gunner of the Forty
fourth battery, Royal Field artillery,
was struck in the left breast by rifle
bullet. He was unhurt and found that
the bullet had lodged in a pack Of
cards that he had in the pocket Of
his khaki jacket. It had passed through
the whole pack except one card the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-06-16
SOME SMART SMITHS

-. HAT was a queer old town
" where I was an apprentice boy
fifty years ago, and there were
--.- .,. some queer characters living.
in it. One Of the queerest was
Oh Gborlx Smith He was oriy
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-06-16

And instantly its fond desires fulfil!
Gilpin observer., 1900-09-13
August Mining Casualties.

Commissioner of Mines Harry A. Lee
reports for August, 1900, the following
casualties in the metalliferous mines of
Colorado: Sixl men lost their lives:
Isaac N. Post, in the Eclipse at Cripple
Creek; James Sims, in the Ibex at Lead
vile; Mitchell Roscoe, in the Ruby at
Cripple Creek; Leonzo Bianchetta, in
the Pease- Kansas, on Quartz hill,
Nevadavile, Gilpin county, and John
Aha, in the Yak tunnel, Lake county
All the six casualties were due to care
lessness. 1t is quite evident that the
mine owners are paying stricter atten-
tion to the law regarding high explosives
The list shows decrease compared with
other months.
Gilpin observer., 1900-09-13
FUSION CANDIDATES.

The Democratic, Populist and Silver
Republican parties in state convention
assembled in Denver, last evening made
fusion, and nominated the following
ticket:
Governor-Orman OF Pueblo, Demo-
crat.
Lieut.. Governor -Calderwood, Cripple
Creek, Populist.
Secy. of Stated. A. Mills, Denver,
Populist
Auoitor-Carier, Democrat.
Treasurer-Ripley, Silver Republican.
Supt of Public Instruction-Helen
Grenfel', Black Hawk, Silver Republican.
Attorney Genl-Post, Georgetown,
Populist.
Supreme Judge-R. Steele, Denver,
Silver Republican.
ongressmen-Shaffrot and Bell
Presidential Electors Robson, Dem;
Hughes Dem; Patterson, Pop; Eaton,
Silver Rep.
Gilpin observer., 1900-09-13
PERSONALS.

p. McCaun and son Morgan left for
Denver Monday morning, the latter be-
ing placed in the Jesuit College near
that city.
r. Sykes, president, II. A. Hoffman,
treasurer and Granville Moore, secre-
tary, OF the Kansas Burroughs G. NJ. Co.
came up from Denver Monday evening
Mr.. Hoffman will leave shortly for visit
with relatives IN England. Before re-
turning he will spend several weeks at
the Paris Exposition. Mr.. Hoffman will
be absent several months from Colorado.
John j. Reilley returned Saturday
from Park county, where he has been
examining mines for eastern parties, who
will develop them bp means OF a cross
cut tunnel.
Thomas Mitchell formerly with Den
mis- Pros, this city, now residing in
Texas, is visiting friends here.
Walter Morgan of Perigo was attend
ing to business at the county seat last
Saturday.
Hon. Samuel |. Lorah came up from
his home in Denver Saturday morning
to attend to business matters He re-
turned on the evening train.
Matt Huberty has returned from Idaho
Springs, where he had l35 ton lot OF
Phoenix Burroughs ore treated at the
Newton mill.
Squire Peter Peterson was in Friday
from Gilpin. He was accompanied by
his brother Charles.
John r. Reedy and family OF this city
leave here the first OF October for Routt
county, where they will take up u resi-
dence near Steamboat Springs.
Mrs. John Champion and son Albert
leave this city Friday for Denver.
Frank Ksngel and wife returned on
Thursday evenings train from II three
days visit in Denver.
Evan Morgan and wife returned from
Denver Saturday. Mr.. Morgan while in
that city underwent an operation for up.
pcndicitis and is now getting along very
nicely. His wife, who WAS taken sick
while nursing her husband, has recovered
her health.
Mrs. May Duffy accompanied by her
little son. OF Dubuque, Iowa, is in the
city the guest Of Mrs. NJ. Rank. Mrs
Duffy is the daughter OF Mr.. John
Murphy, editor OF the Dubuque Tele
graph She spent some length OF time
visiting in this city in 1892.
"Uncle" Jacob Derr OF Wheat Ridge
was around Friday calling ON his old
Gilpin observer., 1900-09-13
Married.

uAfTieu.
At the residence Of the brides mother,
in Central City, Colorado, Wednesday,
September IL, 1900, at $50 o'clock p.
M. Rev. A. Mackay, officiating, Miss
Hilda Peterson and Mr. Percy r. Ais.
dorf, both OF Central City.
The wedding was a very quiet affair
and was witnessed by only few friends
and relatives. The bride looked beauti-
ful in lovely dress OF white satin
with pearl trimmings. The groom had
on an evening dress suit. The happy
couple ,lsst on this MORNINGS train for
Denversfrom whence they leave for an
extended wedding trip through the east,
visiting Chicago, Mr.. AIsdorrs home in
Utica, Ohio, Richmond and Old Point
Comfort, Va, thence by boat to New
York, Boston, and returning by way Of
Philadelphia, Washington and Indianap-
oils, and thence to this city, where they
will reside in the future.
Bride and groom are both we'll known
in this city, both being prominent in So
cial circles and having large circle of
iEicuubs 4ho Is u t1OSL popular
young lady, having grown to woman
hood here, graduated from the high
school here with honors, and for the past
few years has been teaching in our pub
lie schools, ana by her admirable char
acteristics Of lovliness has the esteem
OF the younger as well as the older pco-
pie. The groo is prominent young
business man OF this city being proprie-
tor OF the Standard Assay Office, is we'll
liked and lea Ter in social circles.
They were the recipients OF many
beautiful and costly wedding presents.
They have the congratulations and best
wishes for long life filled with the
richest OF blessings.
At the residence OF the groom's brother,
Mr. John Ballard, Black Hawk, Colo.
RADIO, Sept. IL, 1900, Rev. j. +. Coffman
officiating, Miss Sophia Sanderson and
Thomas Orville Ballard, both OF Black
Hawk.
The young couple have the wish OF
their friends for a long and happy life,
with peace, plenty and prosperity forever
with them.