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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-12-14
In the Drapery Dept.

screens-oak Frame fold silkoeno filed. Worth sl75
0s cfnts
India Seats worth $780,
Utility Boxes, the 200 kind, Sl.39
Pillow Tops of beautifully decorated silk made
sell at sl.50, 0s cents
2Tapestry Mantel Grapes $3.50 ones, cents
2Denim Table Covers embroidered, 25c instead
25 Jap. Crepe Picture Grapes, made to sell at 2Jc.
SC each
India SILK Table Covers coors embroidered with
gold sl.35 CSC
Heavy SILK Table Covers with elaborate gold
broidery worth $50. Choice S3.9s
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-12-14
Ba sement Things.

Basement Things.
lin Clothes Sprinlxiers with
handle, &c instead of 15c
35c Enamel Quart Measures,
while they last, 2 for csc
Heavy retained ten sirainers.
sc kind, &c
EnaoOr Ciothesiines, 10 #. long,
with patent "Holdfast" fasteners,
&c Instead of Is
Handled Pot Chains, 1Oc kind, &c
White Meiai Ten spoons.
15c "A dozen
EuffaIO Egg Poachers with
chance for individual eggs, 75c kind.
csc
Towel Racks. oak racks and
shelves 81 90 ones, soc
bar Racks, nickel trimmed, 19c
sleeve Ironing Boards, 35c ones,
I7c
Bag Dust Pans.
lac instead of SOC
Ash Barrels of heavy galvanized
iron. Insurance reducers. Sl.75 ones,
9Se
Ash Sifiers. with covers, soc
Glazed Kettles, good sizo. soc
Steel ShOd snow shoyeis, I9c
Double steel Roasting Pans.
35c kind, 17c
Stove ShOveis, strong, long han
died, 25c ones, lac
Odoriess spiders, with cover. SOC
kind, 45c
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-12-14

Bears the signature Of cHAs II FLETCHER.
In use for more than thirty years, and
The Kind You Haze AlseaJs Bought.
CASToRIA
Bears the signature of cHAs. II. FLETCHER.
In use for more than thirty years, and
The Kind YoH Haze AlVays Bought
cASToRIA
Bears the signature of CHAs. H. FLETCHER.
In use for more than thirty years, and
The Kind You Haze AluGJy BoAgAL
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-12-14
State Board of Bar Examiners.
NOfice.
Notice.

Notice Is hereby given that Albert w. Hunt
OF sanford has made application TO the State
Board Of Bar Examiners for Examination for
admission to the bar at the next session or the
Board 10 be held at Portland, Maine, on the
second Tuesday OF January 1901.
Dee ~ 1900 JOHN b. MADIGAN.
Secretary of the Board.
dec141aw3wF
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-12-14

Par1or Furniture.
\ Chair Corduroy, mahogany Frame
instead of
OnL Pat 20 n
n, 4 So. OF
4 n Velour, barrear instead
On leather instead of
Seat in plush, o
Students Easy chairs upholstered Saturday
elegant Bocelle
To adve
rich
damask o.
OF
glass drawers, cabinets
shelves and $S25 instead of S160
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-12-14
Carpet Dept.

Persian Wilton Rugs, 27x54
inches, just convenient size; brand
new, and in desirable colorings. Made
to sell at $500. Saturday 0S cents
Hnss0cks. sl.O0 ones. Saturday
50 ceuts.
Oriental Rugs, for gifts, in small
givable sizes,
@ Persians, worth ell. ~, 10.
choice S0.SJ
a. Carabaghs, worth 1915 to
IL, $40
= Anaioiinus, worth 5000 to
7.50, $40
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-12-14

4 Hail. settle nndM Mirror in quarterod carved oak
o
Morris Chairs frames finished beautiful
vrsibe rCushion
Chairs
red.
\, $1,000
l., Cushions So instead of $IA.
Mahogany Norris Tapestry Cushions
1925 instead of $Ia.5O. 5000 instead of $1,000.
Chairs polished
cushions of selecting
sill
cushions, $3.50 each, instead of sl70o
Lea ere ComcI q
in the
COuches with upholstery viii
tufd in both
4, of S25 4. sea instead o
Velour make, 1915
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Sleds.

8 dozen boys and girls sleds, hard
wood, with spring steel runners; worth
70 cents.
80 cents
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ad
ao cash.
wish profitable readings
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Games.

All our 5Oc., 75c., and S1.oo games Sat
urday at % cents. All high grade box
games. Don't miss these.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-12-14

Umbrella Stands In wrought $oE7 instead 1926
House Desk. beautiful roll top desk, with quaint
legs side pedestal of drawers the other Richly
carved panel work galore Always Saturday only $.7
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-12-20
Copper i'm
Great Demand

Producing by far larger amount of
copper than any other country, the
United States is extremely fortunate in
being able to supply to a great extent
the ever-increasing demand for this
useful metal. All this year the United
States has been selling over million
pounds Of copper day to foreign
consumers and yet the supply is not
equal to the demand. In proportion to
the worlds supply no metal is now in
SO great demand as copper. The mar
ket for it is very active because,
though the United States and all the
leading nations of Europe are great
consumers, none of them produces it in
large quantities except this country.
The United Kingdom, France and Ger
many are by far the largest buyers of
copper ingots, bars and plates in Eu
rope, but none of them produces the
metal except Germany, and the Ger
man output is only from 1900 to TO-
900 tons a year. Great Britain can
buy copper in no parts of her vast en-
pire except in Australasia and Canada,
and the receipts from these sources are
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-12-20

In letter to DR.. Hartman concern
ing the merits. of Pe-ru-na, Mrs. Brew
er writes, among other things: -.
Westerly, RI.
Dear DIR. Hartmann, find Pe-ru-na
a sure cure for all catarrhal affections
so common in this part of the country.
It cures a cold at once There is 20
cough medicine that can at all equal
Pe-ru-na. AS for la grippe, there is
no other remedy that can at all COM
pare with Pe-ru-na.-
II am among, the sick a great deal
in our city and have supplied many
invalids with Pe-ru-na, simply j. be-
cause 4 am enthusiastic in my faith
as to its results. I have never known
1t to fail to quickly and permanently
remove that demoralized state of the
human system which follows la grippe.
I'm all cases of extreme weakness
! use Pe-ru-na with perfect confidence
of a good result. In cases of weak
ness peculiar to my sex + am sure that
no other remedy can approach in good
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-12-20
Only Il Woman.

The good man, weighing a hundred
stone, knocked timidly at the portal Of
the culinary department, and as the
door swung heavily back upon its
hinges, DOTTED his tattered 1--WE must
omit the firm name, as this is not an
adj hat, and piteously whispered:
Kind lady
I'm not kind" she interrupted, rude
ly.
Excuse me, lady"
Don't lady mel" was her quick re-
Spouse.
Eyer don't mean ter say yer only a
woman?' he asked, scarcely.
That's what ami" she shouted.
And, as the heavy bolts shot back
into their places the vagrant took an
other reef i'll the clothesline about his
waist and sighed:
ooh, my! why didn't take notice of
dat bicycle on de stoop before spoke"
-Leslie's Weekly.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-12-20

friendships are perhaps not as plenti-
full as they might be, and it may be
that our pride often binders their
growth. We may have strong liking
for some one in rather better posi-
uon than ourselves which feeling is
reciprocated; but we nip in the bud the
friendship that seems likely to grow
up, because, as we say, all the benefits
would be on one side; we are always
accepting kindnesses and can never
return them.
What folly! Think of the ideal
friendship between David and Jona-
than. Was not the case the same
there? Yet the thought never hinder
ed their love, for each knew that the
other had the heart and the will to do
likewise whenever he accepted an act
of kindness, and that in accepting it
he conferred a favor
We all know what Shakespeare says
Of mercy: ut is twice blessed. 1t
blesseth him that gives and him that
takes" and we should do well to re-
member that the same is the case in
the matter of favors. Between friends
these should be given and taken freely
and gladly, for dependence on one an
other is law of our nature, and on
whom would we more willingly be de-
pendent for help and sympathy in time
of need than on those whom we call
friends New York Weekly.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-12-20
American Nervousness.

A man of good habits and regular
life, taking judicious amount of rest
and recreation. need be none the worse
mentally and physically for rather
intense concentration upon the work of
his life, While that work is going on.
Some of the worlds greatest thinkers,
in lines where the most perfect con-
centration and specialization We're re-
quired, have been men of perfect
health and nerves and of long and Wig
orous life. But they have not INDUCED
in fads and follies, their recreations
have been simple, they have not UNDER
taken to compass the whole field of
human effort, and they have kept their
lives free from excuses in all direc-
lions.
DR.. Wettler thinks that it is the con-
tinuity O.. work and worry that do
harm, rather than the work and worry
in them selves. In a measure, this is
true: but many persons work for that
Which does them no good and worry
about that which is of no account. If
they are made nervous, we do not see
why the fault should be charged to civ
ilization. In this respect they are dis
tinctly uncivilized.- New Bedford
Standard.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-12-20
Sweat and fruit acids will not dis
color goods dyed with PUTNAM
FADELESS DYES.
The Decay of Oratorv.

Last winter the Hon. Henry Waiter
son of Kentucky sat in a retired corner
of Chamberlains, drinking high balls,
so they say, when Senator Thurston
walked over to his table. 49,
what is the matter, Watterson?" he
inquired. "You look down in the
mouth" .-&..
81 was thinking" said the great ed
itor, "of the decay Of oratory in-this
country. Years ago we had many not
able orators, Clay, Calhoun, Webster
and others--but to-day you can count
them on the fingers of one hand. Why,
Thurston. know of but three men Ill
all of the United States who are enti-
tied to be called orators
WHO are they?" inquired Illusion.
yourself, myself and George R.
Peck"
The senator from Nebraska smiled
contemptuously and remarked:
What in thunder is the use of drag
ging George Peck in at all? He is. not
here at all."-Washington Times.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-12-20
To Harness tho Missouri.

Yankton, S. D., Spe. New York
Times: NJ. r. Muth, a mechanical en-
gineer and inventor, has solved appar-
emily the problem of Harvesting the
immense power of the Missouri river,
which is now going to waste, and using
1t for practical purposes. An examina-
ton OF Muth's invention showed sim :
pie looking machine, made to work
under the current SO that the ice will
not interfere with Its usefulness. A
four-foot wheel on experiment yields
a tested pressure OF 200 pounds, with
the probability Of greater power when
perfected. This brings within prob
abilities power great enough to pump
Missouri river water into the city for
drinking and fire purposes, and also
for manufacturing and lighting pur-
poses. The wheel has already been
submitted for examination to leading
experts. who pronounce 1t entirely
practical and capable OF accomplishing
all its inventor claims for It.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-12-20
HER HEART WAS TOUCHED.
A South Dakota Mother and Her Little
Girl Express Their Gratitude In

an Open Letter.
FOLSOM, Custer Co., South Dakota,
Dec. 15.-(Special) Mrs. H. D. Hyde
has given for publication letter eX-
pressing her unbounded gratitude to
Doddfs Kidney Pills for the double
cure of herself and little daughter.
Mrs. Hyde has been troubled with
pains in her heart for over three years
and for long time her little girl suf-
fered from weak kidneys. The grateful
lady does not seem able to find words
strong enough to express her gratitude.
She has written the following:
cannot say too much in praise Of
Dodd's Kidney Pills. They are the
greatest kidney and heart medicine
ever used. I had been troubled for over
three years with severe pain in my
heart, which entirely disappeared after
/ had taken a few doses of Dodd's
Kidney Pills. also gave them to my
little girl, whose kidneys had been
weak, and she commenced to improve
from the very first dose. Dodd's Kid
ney Pills are certainly wonderful
medicine. 1 would be pleased to have
this, my statement, published, as feel
it my duty to let others know just
what the Pills will do for them.
MRS. H. D. HYDE.
Dodd's Kidney Pills always cure.
60c box. All dealers.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-12-20
norB FOR TUE N ii ]; 81

Free ana. Easy Lif3 oil ;the;43lncN Man
Contrasted With That pfIthe White
!, n t Is strange that two. rscss ,xSrkinf
sside by side should possess so many
opposite traits of character. The white.
man has strong will and convictions.
and is set in his ways. He lives an In
door, monotonous life. restraining him
self like a Puritan, and is inclined. tol
melancholy. The prevalence. of Popu
hsm throughout the. South lis nothing
but the outcome of this morbid tend
ency. Farmers and merchants are en-
tirely absorbed in their business, and
the women, especially the married wo-
men, contrast with the women of Ger
many. France, and even England, in
their indoor life and dissemination to
lningle with the world outside Pub
lie parks and public concerts, such as
are found in Europe, which call out
husband, wife and children for few
hours of rest and communion with
their friends, are almost unknown in
the South. The few entertainments
that receive sanction generally exclude
all but the well-to-do, by the cost of
admission. The life of the poor in
town and country is bleak and bare to
the last degree. :. 80.
Contrasting with this tendency is the
free and-easy-life of the blacks. The
burdens of the present and future sit
lightly upon their shoulders. They love
all the worldly amusements; in their
homes they are free entertainers. and
in their fondness for conversation and
love of street life they ARE equal to the
French and Italians. :,
May we not hope that the conflict Of
these two opposite races is working
out some advantages to both, and that
the final result. will justify all the con-
f1ict has cost ?.Prof. .Gerome Dowd, in
the Century.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-12-20
United States Fortunate
in Producing a Vast
Quantity of this Metal

only small part of the metal she con-
sumes. OF all the copper mined, the
United States produces more than one
half and Spain and Portugal about
one-fourth. About half the copper
mined here is sold abroad and half OF
this is returned for conversion at the
Atlantic: refineries into plates and wire
for foreign use. Although the worlds
production of copper has increased
about one-third in the past decade, the
demand has grown faster, being swoll-
en- constantly by the expansion of the
electric industries. Next to silver,
copper is the best conductor Of heat
and electricity; and with the vast de-
velopment of the telegraph and tele-
phone services and the new use of cleo
tricity to transmit power and thus
supplant the horse and the steam en-
CINE, the demand for the metal steadily
grows. In addition to the large use Of
the metal for electrical purposes, enor-
nous quantities also are alleged with
zinc in the production of brass, which
next to iron is the most important
metal used in the arts. And copper
goes with tin to make bronze.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-12-20
have made Us familiar. Fiercer.,, m / ! &
formidable looking animals, MIGHT he

have made Us familiar. Nercer. more = 4 ! &
formidable looking animals might be
difticult TO discover; more harmless
ones cannot be found at all. They
never dream Of biting, and their only
defense when brought to bay is to
squirt e few drops Of fluid from their
nostris. Their habits are as peculiar
as is their appearance. Though ex-
tremely numerous along the rocky
coasts OF their native islands, they are
seldom seen more than twenty or thir-
ty feet from shore, though as might
be expected, they are perfectly at
home in the sea-swimming by'serpen-
tine, nndulating movements of tho
f1attened body. and tail, and moving
without apparent effort gracefully and
swiftly through the water, with their
limbs, which they do not use in
swimming, pressed closely to their
sides. Yet, strange as it may-and
certainly does appear, it is neverthe-
less a fact that you cannot drive one
OF these creatures which happens TO
be ashore, into the sea. Try it and
the big fellow scampers off in any di-
rection but that you would naturally
suppose he would take, toward what
would almost seem to be his natural
element. He will hide, as occasion
serves, in crevices, he will dodge be-
hind powders, he will double and
turn, and if nothing else will do, rush
between your feet and upset you, or
climb. the almost perpendicular face
of the rock; bit into the water he viii
not go; he will seven allow himself
to Pc captured If it comes to choice
between that and plunging into the
sea. where he could so easily escape.
If, having caught him, you manage to
drop him from some overhanging rock
into the water, he 'incontinently swims
ashore as fast as he can. Thus in
carnate nightmare of a reptile, living
upon seaweed, and incapable of harm
ing living creature, is, perhaps, as
perfect an example and proof as exists
of the fallacy of judgment founded
merely on appearances.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-12-20
o'Neil1's story of Dumas.

Alexander Dumas, the author of
Monte Cristo," was an octoroon, hence
the point of the story which James
O'Neill tells of the famous Frenchman's
encounter with an interviewer.
you are an octoroon, are you not,
Mr.. Dumas?"
Certainly"
"And your father?"
"He was a quadroon."
"And his father?'
"a mulatto, sir a mulatto."
"And his father?"
"a negro, sir, negro"
might I presume so far as to ask
what his father wasp
IAN ape, sir; mon Dieu, an ape. My
pedigree ends where yours commence
es!"-New York Sun.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-12-20
Asking Fsvors.

A proud, Independent man was once
heard to say: IT rely entirely upon
myself. never ask favor Of any
one Now, fortune might turn against
this man some day; then his pride
would desert him; necessity might
force him to ask favor Of the very
man whom in the days Of his prosper
ity he had despised.
Fancy never asking a favor! Why.
It simply means one is friendless, for
IN asking a favor one virtually grants
one. between friends there ts no
sanse Of obligation when one goes to
the other and says. please do this or
that for me-, for the one who claims
the service knows It Will be = pleasure
Il the other to render II. having him
eli experienced the happinsss Of being
ahls % hslp those whom he loves. Asal
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-12-20
SEA LIZARD::4 ]:
LrNEAL DESCENDANT OF PRE-
HUMAN WORLD MONSTERS.
ae L Found II tho Galapagos, .Archipel-
ago in the. Pacific ocean-Hl. so,en-
.tific Name. Is Ieuanida Ambiyrkynchus
Cristatus. "

]. Carter Beard, in an interesting
article in Truth, tells of the wonderful
animals peculiar to the Galapagos Ar
chipelago, in the Pacific Ocean,; and
mentions among others, the Galapagos
sea lizard, which, to quote the author,
is a lineal descendant of the monsters
OF the old, prehuman world, and, to
some extent, attests his descent by his
size as we'll as by his looks, for the
creature is almost, or quite, five feet
long. 1t may be added that his scien-
tific name is, in its way, almost as
long and ugly as himself-1guanida
amblyrkynchus cristatus The creature
is black, or almost black, in color; his
body, including the tail, is flattened
like that of fish. He is furnished
with a crest OF we'll developed. spines,
reaching from the nape of his neck to
the extremity Of his caudal appendage.
His color, his shape, and his armament
Of scales, the cruel malignant glare of
his reptilian eyes, his truncated, trucu-
lent, bull dog shaped head with it's
helmet of conical projections, and his
enormous mouth, that looks fit to
breathe out fire and smoke, after the
manner of his kind in song and story,
seem to perfectly adapt him to his
place among the impossible creations
OF heraldry, or to perform his part in
a representation of st. George and the
dragon; or, perchance, to make real
one Of those more or less imaginative
reconstructions of extinct monsters,
with which books of pseudo-science
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-12-20
s1l54nyi3

results the the action . Of Pe-ru-na. u
meets. all the bad symptoms to which
females are subject, The i. irregulari-
ties and nervousness, the debility and
.miser1es which aftlict more or less the
women from girlhood to change OF
life, are one and all met and over
come by this excellent remedy. WISH
every young lady in our city could
read your book. r..
- Mrs. Lizzie M. Brewer"
-. Pe-ru-na= will cure the worst cases
of catarrh.. La grippe is acute epi-
'demic catarrh, for which Pe-ru-na 10
Mrs. J. w. Reynolds, New Lisbon
Ohio. suffered for many years with
chronic catarrh Of the lungs; head and
throat; continuous cough; manya
physicians failed to cure. Permanent
ly cured by Pe-ru-na. Thousands OF
testimonials could be produced. Al
valuable treatise on catarrh sent free
by The Pe-ru-na Medicine Company.
Columbus. O.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-12-20
WHEN THE EXPECTED HAPPENS
More Humorous than Even the Most
Sanrufne Could Expect.

More Humorous than Even the Most
saneuine Could Expect.
An old "sea-going' hack went clat-
fering up Broadway. On the box with
the driver were three weather beaten
trunks and little barrel, stoutly
roped Inside the ancient vehicle was
q man who looked like a foreigner, and
from one window stuck the legs of a
high chair. The driver seemed to be
ending his venerable steeds with his
eyes shut. The hack rocked from side
TO side like a ship in distress, and
creaked and groaned ominously. 1t
was the rusty "one-hoss shay" come
hack to earth with four wheels instead
nf two. says the New York Mail and
Express. Every one looked for some
mishap and it came.
At Canal street the carriage swerved
sharply to the left, and one decrepit
wheel caught in the car track. There
was crash and scream. and two
nantalooned legs suddenly descended
To the pavement through the big rent
in the bottom of the carriage. The
driver. too absorbed to notice any
thing chirruped to his horses, and the
hack went rolling through Canal
street at a top speed Of five miles an
hour. while the two legs tried to keep
anace with the rapidly revolving
wheels.
Wells and profane protests and ap-
DEALS for help in steady stream came
from the windows of the vehicle. but
the driver paid no attention to them
until he reached West Broadway. Then
he slowly descended from the box.
crawledIunder the carriage, pushed
the legs back, went back to his seat
and turned his horses north.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-12-20
M pust-Raisers Here.

There will be no bedraggled skirts
upon the women of Vienna after the
present date, if they observe the law.
The local council has directed all wo-
men frequenting the public parks and
gardens to hold up their skirts If they
would otherwise trail upon the ground:
The reason for this measure is rather
puerile. The notice states that these
Enclosures are devoted to the recreation
of persons DESTROYS of escaping from
the dusty town, and, therefore, the au-
thorities object to the dust being swept
into heaps by the trailing skirts.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1900-12-20
PATENTS.
List of Patents Issued Last Week to
NQctlXcStecu InYentOra.

List of Patents Issued Last Week to
Northwestern Inventors.
Gustav A. Beltz, RenYille, Mimi,
draft equalizer; Orville A. Hulett, Lu-
verne, Mimi, milk stool; Joseph M.
Nesley, Grant, Mont, reversible
wrench; Chris E. Paulson, Boyd,
Mimi, car coupling; Henry G. Roth,
Minneapolis, Mimi, sampling tube for
cheese; Carl G. Skoog, ST. Paul, Mimi,
convertible stool and cane; Perley b.
Stevens, ST. Paul, Mimi, guide for pic
ture trimming.
Lothrop & johnson. patent attorneys III
&: O12 Pioneer Press Bldg, st. Paul, MINI.