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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-09-19
MISCELLANEOUS.
MISCELLANEOUS.
''K0-NUT y
A PURE COCOANUT FAR

A PURE COCOANUT FAT.
Not 'sSnbstitute" for, but com
plete ''Superseder" of lard or butter
for cooking.
The finest, purest and most health
1sli aa'tlcle for cooking Is the productof
the cOcOanut now being sold under the
trade mark name of ssKO-NUT.'7 This
material Is a perfect superseder of butter
or lard for every use to which those sub
stances are ever put, and being fruit
product of absolute pnrityis preferable in
every point of comparison.
1t Is more economical than lard. One
half or two-thirds as much KO-NuT is
required to do the same work as lard.
In 3 and 5 lb. cans, at all Gr0cers. If
your grocer does not keep it. send us yOur
name and address, with your grocer's name,
ana we will send you a 32-page cUek book
containing receipts and description of
KO-Nut.
MCCLELLAN 81 BRIGHAM co,
N. L. Agents,
40, 30. 81 and 81 Chatham Street, Boston.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-09-19

Mr.. StanchHeld, the Democratic candi-
date for governor of New York, standing
on an anti-imperial anti-expansionist
platform must feel particularly foolish,
when this extract from one Of his former
speeches is read to the people by his op-
ponents.
L am just enough OF Republican, let
me say, to advocate in the strongest
until all the fruits of It's efforts are tied
to us with a bond of the strongest iron.
We are now ut a critical stage Every
one knows, the whole world knows, that
we entered upon the Spanish war with
the best OF purposes and motives, and
who can rightly forbid our taking the
fruits? The question Is not one of the
territorial expansion, of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
That was settled for ali eternity when
Admiral Dewey planted the flag on the
Philippine Islands. The question is not
OF expansion, but deciding what we shall
do with these islands and their people,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-09-19

The South of course will vote for
Bryan but it's support viii be largely
perfunctory. There is restiveness in all
the business centers over his talk about
free silver, and the leading journals Of the
sections are making 1t very clear that his
anti-expansion Views are not popular with
the majority of the people, While none
OF these things will prevent him from get
ting all the electoral votes they may,
and probably VIII, prevent him from
getting House of Representatives that
win assent to the programme he has
mapped out in his various speeches and
letters, and blindly do his bidding.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-09-19

An the coal miners have not yet joined
in the strike, and In all probability all
viii not join. Some OF them appear to have
no grievance and are unwilling to join
the Others purely for the sake of assisting
the latter. The explanation of the fact
that some have not struck while others
have probably lies in the fact that there is
great difference in the operators-that
while some OF them treat their employees
as so many machines, others treat them
as human beings and are conslderate in
their treatment Of them. Not all labor
strikes could be avoided by fair and
humane treatment OF employees but a
great many OF them could be.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-09-19

DAILY PRESS

DAILY PRESS-
BY the year, Sc in advance Or 81 at the end OF
the year.
By the month, 30 cents.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-09-19

MAINE STATE PRESS (WeeklY)-
BY the year, 81 IN ADVANCE or SLIPS at the
end OF the year.
25 cents
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-09-19
MAINE PENSIONS.

MAINE PENSIONS.
Washington, September is The follow
ing Maine pensions have been announced:
ADDITIONAL.
Asa S. Strong, Soldiers Home, Togus,
S1s,
REISSUE.
Charles II. Cole. South Eliot, s6.
INCREAsE.
Abner S. Heal, Centre LincolnsviIIe,
Sl4; Horace Il. Cooley, Gray, $l2.
ORIGINAL, WIDOWS. ETo.
John S. Walker, father, Sanford, $40.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-09-19
For Vice President,
Theodore Roosevelt
OF New York.

Of New York.

At Large-Joseph O. Smith of Skowhegan'
George p. WescOtt of Portland
First Dist. Charles f. Libby of Portland.
Second Dist.-James w Wakefield of Bath.
Third Dist-Fred Atwood, Winterp0rt
Fourth Dist-Almon II. FOgg Houlton.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-09-19

The DAILY PRESS is delivered at these rates
every morning to subscribers in all parts OF
Portland. and in WestbrOok and South Port
land
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-09-19
LOCAL
and
CL1M ATTIC

Nothing but q local
remedy or change OF
climate VIII cure
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-23
Why He Is q Waiter.

W. E. B. Du Bots, in his book, "The
Philadelphia Negro" devotes much
space to authentic instances, proving
that, in the words of the author, "the
road to success is to have a white
face" Professor Du Bots cites many
individual cases in support of his
somewhat bitter deduction, one of the
most striking being the experience of
a graduate of the University of Penn
sylvania.
This young colOred man took a
course in mechanical engineering, was
an apt student, was we'll recommend
ed and by reason of his excellent rec
ord obtained a situation through an ad-
vertiSement. He reported for work, re-
manned only a few hours and was then
discharged for the simple reason that
his skin was not white. The expert
ence was repeated several times until
he became utterly discouraged. He is
now a waiter in the University club,
where he is forced to serve white fell
low graduates.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-23
The Result of Too Much PathOs.

zone day." says Jean Francois Raj
.fae1li, 'Daudet was arguing a point
that on the stage it is a mistake to in
sist too strongly on any one form of
sentiment, whatever it may be. lis
fen,,' said he. Il recall a little incident
which may serve to illustrate my
meaning: A woman dressed in black
one day entered an omnibus in which
I happened to be. She was in deep
mourning, and her cOuntenance was
so worn, so contracted, SO furrowed
with grief, that her neighbOr could not
refrain from asking what terrible sor
row it could be that had thus left it's
marks upon her.
'WhereupOn the woman, amid the
sympathetic attention of all the little
world in the omnibus, including the
conductor, who did nothing but blow
his nose SO as to hide his tears, told
how she had lost first one child and
within very few days another. Ev
cry one pitied her greatly, but when
she proceeded with many tears to tell
of the death of third child her hear
ers were somewhat less moved, and
finally, when she launched into a long
account Of the loss of q fOurth-de-
Aured by a crocodile on the banks of
tie Nile-every one in the omnibus
burst out laughing New Lippincott.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-23
Tragedies of the Grand Canyon.

Tragic stories are told of men who
have lost their lNes in the search for
precious metals which may lie hidden
or uncovered, says Harriet Monroe in
The Atlantic. The great primeval
flood cut it's broad V through all the
strata of rock, with all their veins Of
metallic ore, down to the earliest
shapeless mass, leaving in it's wake the
terraced temples and towers which
seem to have been planned by some
architect of divinest genius to guard
their inaccessible treasures till the end
of time. And the river, rising far to
the north among mountains rich in
mineral, has been washing for ages
the sands away and depositing thus
gold and silver and lead in the still
crevices of the inaccessible chasm.
Here the earth laughs at her human
master and bids him find her wealth
if he dare and bear it away if he can.
A young Californian who accepted the
challenge and set forth upon the turgid
water to sift it's sands for gold never
emerged with his hapless men to tell
the story of his search. Only near the
brink of the cleft are a few miners
burrOwing for copper and sending their
ore up to the rim on the backs of hardy
burros, as who should prick the noun
tain with a pin or measure the ocean
with a CUP.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-23
Fast Driving In Russ In.

In the larger cities of Russia there
as no limit to the speed at which a
horse may be driven through the pub
lie streets. The typical harness horse
is the Orloff, a breed founded by Count
OElof- ChemenSki, being a cross be-
tween the Arabian stallion Smetanka
and imported mares, principally Eng
liSh.
Az average roadster is Is hands high
and weighs LOO pounds, with heavy
name, q bushy tail that reaches nearly
to the ground and iron" limbs that
show great muscular development.
The fayGrite color is gray. Such an
animal is driven through the principal
streets of st. Petersburg at a furious
pace, that portion near the center and
beside the surface car tracks being re-
served for fast driving.
During the winter months teams of
two and three abreast are driven to
sleighs at a three minute gait. There
is racing all winter, the courses being
flooded at night to provide three inches
of solid ice. American pneumatic sui
kies, harness, boots, eating appli-
ances, etc., are in general use.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-23
Lungs and Long Life.

One of the most remarkable cases of
longevity on record was that of an
Englishman, born in 1888, whose deli
cate appearance made all the doctors
give him up when he was in the era
die. His chest was so narrow, says
the report, that he seemed to have
difficulty in breathing. Well, this
young moribund, condemned by the
doctors to die in short order, died in
1861 at the age of 169. He saw the
reign of ten kings.
Secundf Hango, consul of Venice at
Smyrna, measured only 81 centimeters
around the chest, and one of his lungs
was diseased. Nevertheless he lived
to the age of lis years. He was mar
ried five times and had 40 children.
When he was 100 years old, he got his
wisdom teeth. When he was ITO, his
hair turned black again. At 112 his
eyebrows and his beard turned black.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-23
His HaDDy Future.

The Saunterer happened to be dining
with a friend the other evening, and
of course the tables population includ-
ed the inevitable 5-year-old boy. The
latter had fallen into the habit of ask
ing for all kinds OF impossible things,
being refused and going bowling from
the room in obedience to the command.
He would re-enter TIVE minutes later
with half dozen dirty streaks and
bright I-accept-your-apolo smile on
his face.
On this evening, after the third eX
cursion, he suddenly conceived an af-
lection for the sugar bowl. He reached
for it, got it and as promptly gave it
up in response to the threatening hand
of his mother. His father glanced up
casually, waiting foI the usual out
burst before he sent him out. but in
stead the childs face frightened, and
his eyes twinkled with anticipation.
what are you so glad about. Will
lie?' asked his father.
Il WIZ thinkin,' answered Willie
81 wuz thinkin Of all the sugar I'm
gOin to have when everybody else in
this house is dead. "-Philadelphia In
Ouirer.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-23
Lord LansdovHe Visits Turner.

No one was admitted to Turner's
house in Queen Anne street unless spe-
cially invited. There was a sort of lit
tie iron grille in the center of the front
door, through which the old house
keeper used to look and see who was
there. AS an example Of the rarity Of
visitors the late Lord Lansdowne, who
was a great lover of art and a friend of
Turner's, told me that after receiving
no answers to his letters he resolved to
beard the lion in his den. He there
fore went and knocked at the door,
when a shock head appeared at the
iron grating, and it's owner called out,
Seats meat, supposeY
Eyes, cats meat" answered his
lordship and squeezed himself in
"MiIlais' Life Of Turner
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-23
-A.BeautifUI System.

The Memphis Scimitar tells of re-
cent bride whose husband noticed that
she was keeping an itemized account
of the household expenses. In locking
it over one day he noticed at the bot
tom Of each page or two the letters
sd. *. W. This somewhat puzzled
him. He really found it very difficult
to keep from thinking about what
these letters ceuld possibly mean. 1t
occurred to him THAT possibly his wife
was saving out some money to buy
something for him. But then he knew
that his initials were not I'D. K. W."
and this did not prove a satisfactory
solution to the matter.
So one day when his wife was in a
real good humOr he took her in his
arms and asked what she meant by
I'D. X. w, 80 CENTS" ed. X. W., 81"
and the like.
She replied: I'D. <. W. stand for
don't know what Whenever l went
to balance my account at the end of
each page and found | had spent mon
ey for which L could not account, l
just put in sufficient amount, with
the item ID. x. W. to make it balance
just exactly
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-23
The Old Man Had Changed.

A Lancaster county man once came
So a Philadelphia portraitsDainter with
q request that he paint a picture OF his
father. VERY Well,'' said the artist;
-.have the old gentleman come in when
:eext in town. and L will give him sit
ting The man replied: HE CANT do
dot; he is DAFT
-~"Oh, well. then, you have photo
graph of him?'
NO. l don't got no fottogEaf of him
cider
@HVell, how do you expect me to paint
the portrait of your father when | can
not see him and have nothing to give
mean idea of his appearance?'
~Nell,'' he replied, Il dinked maybe
of I dolt you about him you gan baint
him. from dot
~AIl right" said the artist, describe
him.
well, my. fadder was not so dali und
not sc short; he vas not fat und not SO
din And so the honest fellow pro-
ceedei to describe his father as he re-
called, him.
The artist undertook to paint the pic
ture, aald in due course it is completed,
and the. Lancaster county man comes in
to view the results of the artists eff
forts. AS the canvas is disclosed he
gazes long and reverently upon the pic
ture of .i1is departed parent. Then he
feelingly remarks: "Yah, dot is mine
fadder! Mine fadder vat l loafed SO
much! But. ach himmel, fadder, how
youhaf changedr' Philadelphia Times.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-23
Got the Correct Time.

Jake Foster was for many years one
of the characters of Oregon, Mo. He
drove the hack between Oregon and
Forest City and was known to every
man, woman and child in Holt county.
Oregon is three miles from the railroad
and for many years was not connected
with any other town by either tele-
graph or telephone. One morning Rob
ert Montgomery hailed Foster as the
hack started for Forest City and said:
Jake, 1 wish you would get the cor
rect time at Forest. My watch stopped
last night
''All right, Bob" said Jake.
When Jake returned from Forest, he
put up his team and walked around to
the bank where Montgomery presided.
Stalking into the bank, Jake stepped
up to the window and laid down a
soiled bit Of paper bearing the figures
"11:17."
"What is that?" asked Montgomery
in establishment.
'That," replied Jake, sis the correct
time at Forest.''-Omaha World-Her-
aid.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-23
Mast, 'COnLxIing and Curtis.

1T is to be suspected that some of
Tom Nast's wittiest work with his
marvellous pencil was printed, not
published"-was intended simply to
crafty his friends-and never met the
eyes of the general public. Not long
ago, in looking over the album of
lady who for years was a social leader
at Washington, l came across a c5n-
tribution of Nast's which was as eff
fective in its way as any of the car
ICONS which have made his name ia
nous.
He wanted to impress upon the lady
that Washington life had been too
much for him and did so by drawing
a capital full length picture of himself
as he appeared walking along the ave-
nue.. What gave the picture point and
rendered it irresistible was the fact
that the back of his head was where
his face ought to be-in other words,
Washington had turned his head.
1 suppose the politicians still recall
Roscoe Conkling's famous aIlusion to
the great cartOOniSt in his Rochester
speech "dedicated'' to George William
Curtis. Mr.. Curtis at the time was the
editor of Harper's Weekly, a position
which he had held for many years. In
the course of his philippe MI. Conkling
took occasion to refer to The Weekly,
and, although Mr.. Curtis sat listening
to him, he described it simply as 1.-THE
paper made famous by the pencil Of
ast."-New York Mail and Express.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-23
Siberian Post. Horses.

The horses, the small, hardy breed of
the steppes,; are worked, I'D to the last
ounce ia Them, on good road or bad,
and when they reach the welcome post
house are tied up under "a Jnere lean to
and there left all in lather to freeze
stiff until their. turn of service comes
round again. For some reason which
i have never been able to ascertain
they are invariably tied upFwith their
heads drawn as high. as they will go.
On taking them. out for another stage
the driver, whose whip has o sort of
saw tooth arrangement affixed to the
end on the side of the stock opposite
the lash, roughly scrapes off with it
the boar frost which has thickly in
crusted their legs and, indeed, their
whole bodies.
At first the poor beasts walk with
the gait of q Dutch doll; but, as the
driver says, he ''soon warns them sup"
Another popularity of these marvellous
&eeds is that they always get a pail
pGul or more Of ice cold water to drink
before starting out for their trick on
the road, with the result that they
nemble all oyer in a manner pitiable
to see, but otherwise seem to be only
the more fit for their work.-Black-
wood
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-23
The Craving For 'SI1muIants.

The blood normally contains stimu-
lants, and that these Stimulants eXer-
else a fayoring influence on function
and conduce to and may even be nee
essary factor in the production of the
feeling of we'll being explains the wide
spread liking in man and beast for
stimulating substances. This liking,
amounting often to a craving, is the
expression of a great physiological
principle. When health is perfect,
when the blood is we'll provided with
it's proper -timulants and not over
charged with depressants, there is ne
craving for eXtraneouS Stimulants, such
as alcohol, tea or coffee, but when the
blood is defective in the one or sur
charged with the other then is felt the
desire for the glass of wine or the cup
Of tea.
In order to obviate this desire the
body should be kept at the highest lev
ell of health. The more perfect the
health the more perfect will be the
composition of the blood in respect to
both physiological stimulants and dele
terious toxins. A blood properly con-
stituted in these and other respects
will exercise 4 gentle stimulant action
on the nervous system and induce a
condition of mild physiological intoXi-
cation, which expresses itself in a feel
ing of well being and happiness-a con-
dition that cannot be bettered.-Lan-
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-23
A Mountain of Alum.

In China. 1215 miles from the village
of Liou-Chek, there is s mountain of
alum which, in addition to being a nat
ural curiosity, is source of wealth
for the inhabitants of the country, who
dig from it yearly tons of alum. The
mountain is not less than ten miles in
circumference at it's base and has a
height of 1,94O feet. The alum is OBJ
tanned by quarrying large blocks of
stone, which are first heated in great
furnaces and then in watts filed with
boiling water. The alum crystaiijzes
out and forms a layer about six inches
in thickness. This layer is subsequent
1y broken up into blocks weighing
about ten pounds each.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-23
He Read Caine.

While Hall Caine was in this coun-
try several years ago the Aldine club
of New York city dined him. Among
those invited to meet Mr.. Game was
one of the most popular of our Ameri-
can authors. Soon after the dinner be-
gan dinner cards began to circulate
with requests for autographs. The
author in question whispered to his
neighbors:
"I'm going to send my card up to Mr.
Game as soon as I can, for am down
for a speech later on, and 1 want to be
able to say that I've read something
that Game has written."-New York
Mail and Express.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-23
4 POLITICAL TRICK.

"There is good deal of pure moon
of harness, sin the faculty of remem-
bering names and faces which is at
tributed to most successful politicians.
In nine cases out of ten they have no
abnormal powers of that kind, and
their apparent feats of memory are
very easily explained. Take, for ex-
ample, the case of political person
age at public reception. He is sure
TO be surrounded by a group of local
leaders who know every body in town.
Presently valuable constituent APP
proaches. Colonel whispers one of
the henchmen, here comes Mr.. Blank.
He's an active party worker and
great admirer of yours, He met you
here last fall
"The parsonage catches on prompt
ly. what does Blank do?' he whIs-
pers back.
"tHe's a produce merchant replies
the henchman. BY that time the val
liable Constituent gets in range.
Chow are you, my dear Mr.. Blank?'
exclaims the notable cordially. 'I'm
delighted to see you again. And how
is the produce business coming on?'
"Poor Blank has spasms of joy.
That the famous man should remem-
Der him so accurately makes him as
proud as peacock, and twenty spec
tators proceed to tell the story in
proof of the coloneps miraculous
mental gifts. Thus regulations are
made. New Orleans Times Democrat
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-23
Proved His Theory.

The late Hall McAllister some years
ago entertained a visiting scientist at
the Union club, before it's amalgama-
ton with the Pacific, and during the
evening, a particularly foggy one,
made some whimsical remark convey
ing the idea that fog was an excellent
conductor Of sound.
The scientist took exception to this
novel theory and asked Mr.. McAllister
on what it was based.
"On phenomena which we have all
observed" returned the ready jurist.
"On an evening like this we hear the
fog horn quite distinctly, but when
there is no fog we cannot hear it at
all."-San Francisco ,Argonaut.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-23
70 ReRA nf AlfffndA.

PERHAPS il. no state of the Union has
climate so much to do with the charac-
ter of the people as in Colorado is the
contention of writer in Ainslee's. He
says in part:
$50 into Colorado. climb the long
ascent from the level of the Missouri
and then as you emerge from the train
into the handsomely improved streets
and among the unsurpassed brick and
stone residences Of Denver feel your
head swim with the lofty altitude and
the rarefied air; then realize that the
miners went OF mile farther into the
air, that they are working and taking
out millions of dollars of gold to the
present day mile higher in the air at
Cripple Greek. at Leadville and dozen
other places. It~will make you pause
to think what eXaltation there is in
dwelling there always, what staying
powers the pioneers must have had
"Wait a day .or.sSo until the vertigo
has passed away and the eXhilaration
comes to you that always comes when
you have climbed a mountain and
stood upon it's top and gazed out over
q wide world that expands below you.
Then you will begin2tO feel that cleo
trio, that nervous snrcharge, that in
domitabIe, undiscOuFa geable, almost
towering spirit of elevation and still
further elevation that makes Colorado
almost the ,liyelieSt, the most ire
pressible, the most determined element
in the American body.~ssocial and poll
Ia