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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-01-11
EXPERT REPORT.

The property this has been examined by the
Capt Frank Nicholson. His file
Boston office
Mr. Nicholson in his report dated July 5, $780,
GAS developed the tract to be thoroughly mineral
d shaft having yet been sunk to the horizon without
catching the ore. The great majority of the
be eased medium ground neither hard soft
and while occasional ers be required yet If the roof is
carefully trimmed and the red ground just above the Of the
taken reached that found
be safe without tmbeng. Altogether the conditions for
mining good. In conclusion l beg TO state
that opinion that the tract owned the BostonSpringfed
Zinc Company valuable property The mining present
quite shallow but there evidence that the exists In
quantity and is fairly well distributed the entire tract
The body is large and attracting attention from the
the in the
Section which such of shafts sunk
quantities. $50 of all
shafts sunk h number being this me) the depth OF eighty
@ bang found and of the remaining twenty (O cent Is
probable that many would develop alower depth
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NEM YORK. Ian. 10

Money on call steady from 4Ia q 5ls ;last loan
5ls pr ct; prime mercantile paper 6iaa6 pr ct
sterling Exchange easier. with actual busi-
ness in bankers bills alta s71sa4 STA for de
mand and A s3laa4 1884 Tor sixty days ;posied
rates at 4 s4ls and $50. Commercial bills
4 s2aa4 SO.
silver certificates 5s1aa59h.
Bar Silverl687s.
Mexican dollarsi47h.
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Eo.ton stock MARKET.

BOSTON. Jan. 10 90 Inc ioilo wax ~.
tj-3sS's auoI.s,' ~ ~ RI. ..ioh.. ct.
springp tents 3 50 "a 40
- ,t,tei natents 3 IL q A 70
Clear and syraIvht 2Jp4 90
Corn-sIeamer yellow 42e.
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Portland wholesale nsrkst

PORTLAND Jan. 10.
Wheat was weak and lower to-day, closing "a
a u under yesterday. Flour very steady but
unchanged. Corn and Oats firmer. Provisions
quiet and unchanged Eggs weak and lower.
Or nges and Lemons easier. Linseed oil firm
ana &c higher.
The followingquotations repre- sent the whole
sale prices for this market;
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Hides.


Portland marKet-cut loaf &c: confectioners
Sc; powdered at &C; granulated az sac; coffee
crushed &c yellow 4lac.
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European MarketP

LONDON. Jan. 10 iS99-Consois closed at
o8a. for money and 9SsA for account.
LIVERPOOL. Jan. 10. 19op.-The Cotton
market Is ST adv quoted 13-32d :sales1 900
bales.
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LOCATION.

The consists of three hundred and twenty 600 in fee
hundred
sixty goo being three and oneha ( miles from Joplin
the Railroad and onehaf %
Electric Railway Lne midway between
Joplin and Gaena
The other hundred and Q6o undeveped
present, lies and oncha % miles southwest of the first
tract
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FNcHANGE nIsPArCmrs.

Ar a. Hamburg 10Th. steamer Chrlstianla.
Portland.
Ar AZ London 10th. steamer Istok, from
Pnr leId.
Ar at Londan 10th. steamer Menomneo. FIN
New York,
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Cotton Markets.
lBy Telegraph.)

NEW YORK-rhc Cotton market to-day was
firm; middling upiands at 8-16; do gulf at
1916; sales 800 bales.
CHARJES rON-The Cotton market to-day
closed steady; mlddlings rae.
GAIN ESToN-The Cotton market closed
steady; middlings 7l4c.
MKMPHIs-The Cotton market to-day closed
steady; middlings 7iSe.
NEW ORLEANs-The Cotton market closed
firm; middlngs 7he
MoBILE-Cotton market Is dun; middling at
7 slice.
sAvANNAH-The Cotton market closed
dull. easy middllngs slice.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-01-11
FOUR NEW MILLS

Have been erected the three 100 capacity shift of
hours each and $50 cap having been let for
responsible and oblg
by providing for the erection of eight additional mills
Of 100 capacity EACH
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NORFOLK Ar 9th. sch John Prescott,
Providence.
Cld 0th, sch Fred jackson, Boston.
Ar at Old Point oh. sch David + Davis. En-
NEW BEDFORD-sid 9th, sch Katharine ID
Ferry, Garfield. Baltimore.
PORT TAMPA-Ar OH. sch Chas s GlIdden,
Faies Baltimore. u days.
sawy 2. Reynolds, sullivan, thas been reported
overhaul
Cld 90, tug Sweepstakes with barge Anna NJ
Ash. for Portland.
Reedy Isand-Passsd up 9th. sch Rw Hop
kins. Sabine Pass for Philadelphia.
Passed down 9th, sch Harry w Haynes, for
San JuaR. PR.
PROyIDENCE--Ar 9Th, sch Grace webster,
Harvey, south Amboy.
Sid 9th. sch Gertrude l. Irundy Dodge for
Savannah; Annie 4 Chase. Ellis New York.
POhTSMOUTH-Ar Tth schs Lydia N Web
ster, BOckland, Ella May.d0 for Boston; Nom
ing star, Perkins, Boston for Portland; Il Areu-
larius, Rockland for New York; Mabel Goss,
Stonington for Boston.
SAN fRANCISCO-Sid 10th. U transport
Tartar. Manila direct.
sATILLA-Ar 7tn, sch Anna Pendleton, Pat
sAvANNAH-Ar 9Th. schs Isaac t Camp
bell. stevens. Boston; Geo A Ames Watts do.
SALkM-Ar 9th schs Stephen Bennett, and
j Frank Seayey, Stonlngton log New York.
sALEM-Ar 10 b, sch Silver Spray, Rondout
Sid ION schs Fannie & Edith Cor Rockland;
George ID Loud. Sands River, rs
IACOMA-Ar 9th. US Transport Sheridan.
Pierce. san Francisco.
vINElARD-HAVEN-A 10th. schs Hattie
a Marsh, StoEington for New York land sld)
Yankee Maid. Commerce. and Helena, Rock
land for New York; Frank seavy, Stonlngion
for do; Lucy A Dauls, Portland Tor do; Stephen
WILMINGTON, NC - Ar OH. sen Lois
Chaples. Medoro, salem.
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OUR PROPERTY

Consists ownership fee and leased direct the miners giving the
control of the property being the policy of the
present except parties will
TO erect standard one hundred Q00) mills
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|: The four mastsd schooner Marie Pal
mer was successfully launched yesterday
forenoon at Bath.
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Ar at Sydney. xsw. previous to 9th inst. ship
Florence. Ryder. Cnemainus.
Sid I'm Manila Nov &c, barque J b Walker
Wallace, New York.
AT singapore Dec 49, ship Paul Revere, VIII
son. for New York, ldg.
Ar ut Antwerp 9Th, steamer westernland,
New York.
AR az Rotterdam 10th, steamer Maasdam,
New York.
Passed LizaId 9th. steamer MeDomnee. from
New York for London.
Ar At Plymouth oh, steamer Graf Wsldersee,
from New York for Hamburg, (and proceeded.l
SD 9th, steamer Pretoria, for New York
Ar auQu.enstown Jan 9TH ship kenliworth
TAYLOR. San Francisco.
Sid I'm Bahia Jan 8. steamer Victoria, for New
York.
Ar az Buenos Ayres 9th inst. barque BeIyi-
dere, Mo treal.
SID I'm Buenos Ayres Dec 10. barqus Norman
dy. Chase Port Natal.
Sid I'm st Jago eth inst, steamer Santiago. for
Nassau. Mp. and New York.
Ar at Barbados I6th. sch ID j Sawyer. Kelley,
Wilmington.
Sid Dec l4th, sch Jas b Jordan, Hempel. for
COnetable Island
Sid I'm Laguayra 9Th, steamer Philadelphia for
New York Via Ponce and San Juan.
Ar at uracoa 9Th. steamer Merida, New York
Ar at Havana sth steamer YucataD, I'm Vera
Cruz for New York.
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Dec 6. lat 80 90 N. Ion 40 40 W. ship sus1ue
cisco,
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DIVIDEND

Uis the intention of the directors beginning with the month Of
March, $780, declare and regular monthly dividends of
the capital stock en annum and to utilize
part surplus earnings immediate development of the
southwestern
Subscriptions for this stock will be received offices in
Providence particulars obtained if
desired.
right any offer
subscriptions aot number of shares than
be subscribed for
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-11
A PARENTS DUTY.

Under the title of Turn Fresh
Leaf" the New Sharon Star takes oc-
casion to offer a quantity of advice to
parents concerning the parents duty
toward child in the matter of amuse-
ments. The article shows that the
writer has done a little rejecting on
his own account, and has come to the
following conclusions, which busy
men absorbed in the struggle for ex-
istence, would do well to heed.
1t is worse than useless to under
take to put old heads on young Shout
ders. Boys will be boys and girls will
be girls, no matter how hard you try
to have them be something else, and
the boys and girls of today are just
such boys and girls as have occupied
the boards during every generation
since Adam and Eve were turned out
of the garden for being a bit fresh.
You cannot have it otherwise and we
rejoice that such is the case. The per-
iod of youth is as distinct and natural
as that of middle life or old age and
vastly more important, as 1t is the
foundation period. 1t is exceedingly
important to properly provide for the
training and entertainment of the
young people. The exuberant spirits
of the young should be properly df-
rected, not suppressed. They are not
to be robbed Of amusement, enter
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LEAD THEM ALL.

The commerce of forty-seven coun-
tries other than the United States is
pictured in the opening tables of a
proposed volume soon to be issued by
the Bureau OF Statistics of the treas
ury department. OF this number eigh-
teen countries show an excess of eX-
ports over imports, and twenty-nine
show an excess of imports over ex-
ports. The principal countries which
show an excess of exports over i'm
ports are Canada, Mexico, Argentina.
Chile, Australasia, India, Egypt, Spain,
Austria-Hungary, and Russia. A study
of the detailed figures in this group
of favored countries whose exports eX-
coed their imports, and comparison
of their exports with that of
the United States alone furnishes a
striking evidence of the phenomenal
prosperity of our own country. No
one of the eighteen countries whose
exports exceed imports shows fav-
orable balance of trade approaching
that enjoyed by the United States, and
a compilation of the excess of exports
in the entire group of eighteen coun-
tries having such excess gives grand
total of only $414, S45,000, in the latest
attainable year, as against an excess
of $544,542, 131 in favor of the United
States alone in the fiscal year 1900.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-11

Really now this is too bad. The
Kansas City platform told us that the
Porto Rican tariff was an outrage and
robbery of an innocent, and defense
less people. The democratic spell
binders, during the campaign, told us
that the malign influence of the trusts
forced this ubiquitous measure" on
the Porto Rican people because they
could not help themselves. 1t was
truly a sad case, but the amazing
thing about it is that the Porto Ricans
like 1t and want it continued. They
say, truly, that it is the easiest and
best manner to raise the revenue
needed by the island for governmental
purposes, and they do not propose to
give up so good a thing and adopt
some other plan that will not work
half as we'll. This seems like rubbing
it in on the Bryanite democrats of the
United States, but the people of Porto
Rico know when they have good
thing and they propose to keep it.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-11
Ahraded Coins.

To settle a dispute in regard to
abraded coins, Dubuque man wrote
Senator Allison on the subject, and
this is the reply he received
Dear Sir:-I have yours of the
10th instant, and note contents. If
you send $500 of worn silver coins to
the United States mint the govern
ment of the United States will lose
the shortage, but you cannot send
500 of worn silver coins to the United
States mint. The treasury of the
United States redeems these coins ct
par, no matter what the shortage is,
and If they are re-coined they are re-
coined at the expense of the United
States and sent to the mint from the
United States treasury. Therefore,
no matter what the abrasion &C the
coins the treasury is bound to redeem
them, or rather to take them, and you
can refuse to take abraded coins, il
you wish to. Abraded gold is treat
ed differently. If you carry 500 of
worn gold to the treasury, if the abra-
sion does not exceed one-half per cent,
the treasury is bound to redeem it at
par, and when SO redeemed, IL It is
sent to the mint, it is re.coined at the
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-11
CHINESE cULPABlLlTY.

From President McKinley's mes
sage to congress: Not only are the
protestations of the Chinese govern
ment that il protected and succored
the legations positively contradicted,
but irresistible proof accumulates that
the attacks upon them were made by
imperial troops, regularly uniformed,
armed and differed. belonging to the
command of Jung Lu, the imperial com.
mander-in-chief. DEGREES encouraging
the Boxers, organizing them under
prominent imperial officers, provision.
ing them,a even granting them large
sums in the name of the Empress Dow
ager, are known to exist. Members of
the Tsung-li-Yamen who counseled
protection of the foreigners were be-
headed. Even in the distant prov
inces men suspected of foreign sympa-
thy were put to death, prominent
among these being Chang Yen-Hoon,
formerly Chinese minister in Wash
ington.
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tainment. 1t is rather the duty of old
er people to see that they are properly
supplied with it. As well might you
forbid the birds to sing as
to issue an edict that your
children shall avoid entertain
ment in keeping with their youthful
more important for parents to learn
to guide their children rather than to
undertake to suppress them. Make
home and it's entertainments SO en-.
joyable that they would rather be at
home than any place else on earth.
Don't think to satisfy their young
hearts by telling them to have good
time, but help them in having it. You
have no business to be too old for liz
nocent pleasure, to romp and play
with little folks, to enter with real
zest into such entertainments as make
glad the hearts of young men and
maidens. Throw wide the doors of
your hearts and homes to the little
folks and young people. Invite them
to come, have a good time, then see
that they have it, If you are too
stingy and too crusty to do that the
sooner you get off the earth and out
Of the way of better people the better
it will please all concerned. Your
boys and your neighbours boys would
be vastly better entertained in that
manner than in drifting out into the
street then into some dark corner to
play crap or poker. 1t would also be
better for the girls in short skirts to
be thus provided for than to be CAD
ding about the streets with toughs
while their parents are in bed.
Wake up! you crusty old mossbacks.
both male and female!-parents if
You please, and proceed to do some
thing sensible and practical for the
salvation of your children. If you fail
to do that, the blame for their uestruc-
tion will rest upon you rather than up
on them. Be sensible enough to re-
member that you once were young and
needed entertainment. wanted and
would have amusement. Be wise
enough to know that if you permit the
street and crap joint to be more plea
SAINT than your home the shame is
yours. Help your children to be hap
Ply at home and they will not care to
wander elsewhere, you will be doing
much to keep them innocent. Make
them miserable and they will reward
you by filling your cup of sorrow to
overflowing. When you see boy or
girl on the street late at night it is
easy to imagine what kind of home
they have escaped from. You ought
to be ashamed to think of your child,
boy or girl, being compelled to go
away from home to find pleasure, to
kid time, to escape misery Get a
move on yourself. Turn over a fresh
leaf. Do something for your chill
dren's safety and happiness, look
pleasant, be happy and you will make
others happy. Revolutfonize yourself
first if you want your children to re-
spect and honor you.
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is speeding forward faster than at any
time or place in human history.
The United States needs Cuba for
our protection; but Cuba needs the
United States for Cuba's salvation.
The resolution, hastily passed by all
parties in congress, at an excited hour,
was an error which years of time, pro-
pinquity of location, common COM
merce, mutual interests, and similar
dangers will surely attest.
1T will be an evil day for Cuba
when the stars and stripes come down
from MORO Castle. predict that
within twenty-five years we shall
again be forced to assume the govern
ment of the island, but only after her
commerce has again been paralyzed
by revolution, after internal dissen-
sion has again spilled rivers of Cuban
blood, and after we have assumed
hundreds of millions of dollars of Gu
ban debt to prevent the islands from
falling into the hands of a foreign
power"
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expense of the United States; but if
it is abraded below one-half per cent
it is received at the treasury accord
ing to its weight, and redeemed &C
cordingly. So if you have gold coin
that is abraded one-half per cent be-
low par, according to weight, it is re-
ceived at its bullion value, whereas, If
it is not less than one-half per cent
below par the government receives it
at par and re-coins it at it's own ex-
pense if it is re-coined. But the gov
eminent is not allowed to pay out gold
that is abraded to the extent of one
half per cent. In no event does the
holder of silver coin lose because of
abrasion, but in the case of gold if it
is abraded to the extent of more than
one-half per cent the holder must lose
the amount of the abrasion. This is,
as I understand, the law.
Very truly yours,
wv. B. Allison"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-11
THE BETTER WAY.

That the American policy of dealing
with the Chinese, in the matter of in
ficting punishment and fixing indem.
nifty for the late Boxer outrages, is the
one that will prevail is now generally
recognized. If it had not been for the
firm stand taken by our government
the European powers undoubtedly
would have agreed upon much Harsh,
err measures. 1t has been their Gus
tom from the early ages to settle such
troubles in a way that would minister
to their own greed. But the United
States desires only fairness coupled
with mercy. 1t is not actuated by mo-
tives of self-aggrandizement. It be-
lieves that in dealing with even so
ignorant and untrustworthy a people
as the Chinese the best way is the hui
name way.
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But three times in the political his

But three times in the political his
tory of our country have vice presi-
dents been nominated and elected to
succeed their chiefs, and the second
office is no longer considered as a
stepping stone to the first, altho at the
beginning of our history, under the con-
stitution, such was the case. Adams
Jefferson and Van Buren, were nomi-
mated and elected to succeed to the
presidency, but since the days of Van
Buren, no one has seriously thought of
making presidential candidate out OF
vice president. This being SO, it is
one of the mysteries of politics that,
under nearly every administration, be-
ginning with that of Washington and
ending with that about to close, the re.
lations between the chief executive
and the second officer of the govern.
ment have been, to say the least,
strained. The case of Mr.. Mckinley
and Mr.. Hobart was a notable excep.
ton to the rule.
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pie. Now the bond holder, if he SO
chooses, will accept silver at it's
bullion weight, so he practically gets
two silver dollars for one. Labor has
to pay the dept. He is by the scheme
cheated out of fifty cents on every
dollar he earns. The mine owners
pay just half to the miners, SO labor
is being paid in a 50-cent dollar. They
may dispute 1t, but they can't dis
prove it. Both gold and silver, free
and unlimited, at 16 to is the true
solution of the money question.
H. H. Canaday. !,
Our correspondent is evidently sim
cere, but his argument will not hold
because he starts in wrong. Let us
apply the same argument to the green
back. The government buys the paper
and does the printing of the green
back. 1t costs but fraction Of a cent
to produce dollar greenbacks. yet the
government hands it out as a 100-cent
dollar. The laborer is glad to get it
and accept it as a 10O-cent dollar.
But according to Mr.. Canaday the Ia
borer is cheated out Of 80 and a frac-
ton cents on every breenback dollar
put in circulation. This Is nonsense,
aud so is the same argument applied
to the silver dollar.
What makes the greenback worth
one hundred cents on the dollar is the
fact that the government stands be-
hind the greenback and will redeem it
on demand in gold. What makes fifty
cents worth of silver, when coined,
pass as one dollar is the fact that the
government is pledged to maintain the
parity of all money issued and thus in
directly redeems the silver dollar on
demand. The government can only
maintain the parity when, as now, il
controls and regulates the coinage OF
the silver dollar. With free coinage
of silver, the coined dollar would only
be worth it's bullion value, and the
four or five hundreds millions of gold
now in circulation in this country
would at once be withdrawn, for the
reason that no one, not even our cor
respondent, would exchange one dol
lars worth of gold for fifty cents
worth of silver. If the government
should print unlimited numbers of
greenbacks it could not redeem them
ami the greenbacks would then be OF
little or no value. So if the govern.
ment should coin unlimited amounts
of silver, using fifty cents worth Of
silver to coin a silver dollar, it could
not maintain the parity, and the coin
ed silver dollar would only be worth
the value of the bullion which it con-
tanned. Then in fact we would have
fifty-cent dollar. and if it was made
legal tender the laborer, and every
body else, would have to take II, and
the national finances would go to the
silver basis.
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SENATOR REvERIpeE ON cuRA


Senator Albert J. Beveridge, of In.
dlana, recently gave voice to bril-
liant peroration on the question of Gu
ba's freedom, which he set to the fol
lowing music. 1t may sound like dis
cord to the ears of some, but the more
1t Is considered, the more carefully the
intelligent and progressive people of
botn the United States and Cuba ex-
anime into the matter, the more they
VIII come to the conclusion that the
senator is right Cuba deserves a bet.
ter fate than will be hers under an at
tempt at Independent national govern
ment. without the protection and fos-
teling care of the United States. Here
is what Senator Beveridge says:
"For the good of Cuba more even
than that, for the good of the United
States, separate government over
Cuba, uncontrolled by the American
Republic, never should have been pro-
missed. Cuba is a mere extension Of
our Atlantic coast line. 1t commands
the entrances to the Mississippi and
the Isthmian canal. To possess this
textension of American soil has been
/ the wish of every far-seeing American
statesman from Jefferson to, Blaine.
Annexation to the greatest nation the
world has ever seen would have been
a prouder Cuban destiny than separ-
ate nationality. AS an American pos.
session, Cuba might possibly have
been fitted for statehood Even now
the work of regeneration-of cleans
| ing cities, building roads, establishing
posts, erecting system of universal
education, and the action of all the
forces that make up our civilization