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The Portland daily press., 1900-09-05

If the reports are to be relied upon the
allies in their march to Pekin were
guilty OF excuses quite as cruel as those
committed by 1.-The Boxers. The chief
participators in these barbarities appear
to have been the Cossacks, but 1t is to
be feared that they were assisted more or
less by other TROOPS. The Cossacks are
little better than barbarians anyway, but
the soldiers of the other powers are civil
lied and enlightened. Ii they have Joined
in the excuses it only goes to show how
quickly scenes of carnage bring out the
savage side of men natures, which
though ordinarily suppressed, Fare still
there ready to manifest themselves when
the surroundings are congen1al to savag-
cry
The Portland daily press., 1900-09-05
ORIGINAL PLAN EFoR CATCHING

IN his annual report for the past fiscal
year of affairs at the Insane Asylum DIR.
K @. Runge, the superintendent, relates
a number of very interesting anecdotes
Of his patients Some of the buildings
comprising the institution, it appears
from the report, have been infested with
rats for years, and various remedies were
tried to get rid of them, without success.
1t remained for one Of DR.. Runges I'M
fortunate charges to devise a scheme
which resulted disastrously to the army
of rodents. Concerning this PATIENTS
operations DIR. Runge says:
lin touching upon the vital subject, of
these pes5iferous rodents, l may mention
an ingenious method of determination
which helped Us greatly in Kidding the
buildings OF large number of rats. One
Of our most enthusiastic patients would
catch rat in a trap and release him
again, after having fed him. The ami
mai gratefully acknowledged the hospi-
tally thus protfered by reappearing in
the trap the very next morning. After
an exchange Of these mutual compliments
for three or tour days a bell was attached
to the rat S neck, and from ten to twenty
of its cOnfreres were found in the trap.
having evidently followed the lead OF the
bell rat Our rat terriers did the
rest. st. Louis GlObe-Democrat.
The Portland daily press., 1900-09-05
cARL scHURz,s LETTER.

The reply which the Hon Carl Schurz
makes to Secretary Cages statement that
Mr.. Bryan, if elected President, could
practically break down the gold standard
by ordering bonds payable in coin to be
paid in silver is not conclusive. Mr..
Schurz says in substance that II there
are any holes in the gold standard law
they can be stopped at the next session of
Congress, since both branches will be in
control of the Republicans, and 1t can
be made impossible for Mr. Bryan, if
elected President, to do anything what
ever for silver. Mr.. Schurz assumes that
because the Republicans are in major
ity they can enact any legislation that
they see fit. THAT would be true If the
coming session were thu long sess ion OF
Congress, that is the session not limited in
It's extent by law. But the coming ses-
sion is the short session. Tt must come
to an end on the fourth of March, because
the present Congress expires at that time
1t is by no means certain that between
the first Monday of December and the
could cure all the deficiencies
in the gold standard law, even
though they set about 1t as earnestly and
vigorously as possible. The minority
must be reckoned with, especially in the
Senate, where it has the power to obstruct
legislation almost indefinitely. There are
Democratic Senators enough to make 1t
impossible to pass measure supplement
tary to the gold standard law before the
fourth Of March, if they set about in dead
earnest to prevent it; as they most Ii kelly
would if Bryan was elected, because they
would claim with a good deal of plausi-
bility that the voters had endorsed free
silver by electing Bryan, and it was their
duty, therefore, to prevent any legislation
which would obstruct the realization of
what the people had voted for. II Bryan
is elected the Republicans will not be
able, no matter how vigorously and sin
cerely they labor to that end, to stop up
all the holes In the gold standard law,
nuless they adopt cloture IN the Senate,
but cloture would be resisted as heroely
as amendment of the gold standard law.
The Portland daily press., 1900-09-05
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

A mesmeric healer and a specialist in
occult science In New York city says that
he can cure John d. Rockefeller of his in
digestion. He proposes to charge the
gentleman with electricity and then give
him a series of sessions in the steam box.
The apparatus is all really and the invi-
tatlon has been sent out with an r. S.
V. p. The professor is waiting,
Richard Croker, ESQ is reported to have
taken the Bryan end of heavy election
bet, He wagered on Friday $780, 900
against 500, 900 that the democratic ma
tional ticket would be elected The mat
ter was arranged through the brokers,
Bell and Co. 1t is proper at this time
to recall the losses Croker sustained in
beaten for the gOvernship by Therefore
Roosevelt. They were reputed to be
$50, 900.
Several Chicago men, led by Charles
f. Gunther, shave promised to contribute
generously to fund for reproducing in
marble one of the arches which orna-
Army veterans.
The University of Zurich was the first
university at which the German tongue is
used that admitted women not only as
students but as instructors. Frau Kemp
pin was a "Privat decent" in the law
faculty there for a number of years pre-
ceding her departure for Berlin, and the
growing tnfirmity Of her mind.
Prof. K. A. Barack, who recently
died at Srassburg. aged seventy four,
became famous in 1870 through his plan
of restoring, by means OF public contri-
buttons, the Strassburg library, which
had been destroyed during the Franco
German war. The plan was so successful
that the new library, over which he
has presided since 1872, now ranks among
the three or four leading German institu-
tions of its kind.
The Portland daily press., 1900-09-05

We are likely to have another presiden-
tial ticket in the field in day or two
for the Nabionalists, so called, are to
meet in New York tomorrow, adopt a
platform, and nominate candidate S for
the presidency and vice presidency If they
can find men who Will accept. The
Nationalist are first of all anti-Imperial-
lists, but they are opposed to free silver,
and so they cannot swallow Bryan. They
first urged the Gold Democrats to nOmi-
nate an independent ticket, hoping to
join with them. But many of the Gold
Democrats are imperialists or expansion
lists, and besides the futillty of a third
ticket was disclosed to them in 1896.
They therefore refused to join with the
Nationalist or to put an independent
ticket in the field. Next the Nationalist
went to Indianapolis, and urged Mr..
Schurz and the other anti-Imperialists
gathered there to put an independent
ticket in the field, but Bryan was good
enough for them, and they were turned
down there. Now they are going to
flock by themselves and form a brand
new party and nominate a brand new
ticket. Probably there are not a dozen Of
them all told, but thers is no law against
one mans nominating ticket if he is
so disposed.
The Portland daily press., 1900-09-05
THE AUDITOR AMENDMENT.
To the Editor Of the Press:

1t is to he hoped that farmers and tax
payers who are in earnest in their recen t
complaints of the increase of useless
offices and the increasing of salaries, and
kindred extravagances, will not fail to
register a mo vote upon this squestion.
This whole thing is so utterly indefensi-
BILE that no speaker during the campaign
has sventured to indorse it and Gov
Powers alone is put forward to recon-
mend it, which is safe for him to do, as
he is not candidate for any Office this
year. but the ''BridgtOn News quotes
the governor as being on record as OPP
posing an auditor and not so very long
ago. But the entire class of office holders
and Office seekers, on the stump while
not venturing to 1ndOrse it, seek to gain
the same end, by giving out assurance
from the state house. that the lOfjce is
sure to be created by the voters, and the
candidates to ill the berth at a salary Of
prOba bly, 5000, are already hurrying to
the fore to be in the front row when the
squab0le for the place begins in the next
legislature.
There are many unnecessary offices
created by our legislatures by the
malign influence of the lobby, paid and
we'll paid by the very ones that are after
the office. but such legislation does not
reflect the views of the taxpay ers, as is
we'll understood, but if this amendment
is carried 1t will be by the direct vote
and sanction of the voters, and will te
hailed as a sure indication that the pro-
tests Of the farmers and taxpayers aga1ns t
this office creating and salary raising ten
dency has spent it's force, and that they
are incapable intellectually lof pursuing
any line Of political action to success
ful termination.
There are many schemes on b atch to
create new offices and commissions, that
the next legislature VIII be called upon
to warm into life. and the promoters are
all anxiously awaiting the fate of this
auditor amendment and If it goes, 1t
VIII open wide door through which
many similar projects VIII stalk through
the next legislature.
w. II. McLA UGHHIN.
The Portland daily press., 1900-09-05

The long delay of the European govern
ments in answering Russia S proposal for
Withdrawing the troops from Pekin is
taken to mean that they are opposed to
such policy, Germany, it Is alleged
has expressed decided opposition to it
and will not adopt it even if the
other powers do. 1t is also said that
though the United States had decided to
withdraw It's troops If Russia with
drew hers, our government would
prefer that the troops of all the
powers remain until some definite
solution of the Chinese question is ar
rived at; and hopes that the reluctance of
theHother European governments to fol-
low Russia Will lead that power to recon
slider her determination to withdraw her
troops
The Portland daily press., 1900-09-05
CURRENT COMMENT.
THE CANTEEN ISSUE.
(Bostond Avertlser.)

The efforts of some prohibitionfst lead
ers to make a presidential issue OF the
canteen question are successful I'D to a
certain point; but is there any reason to
believe that the vote Taffected by that
issue would not go for the prohibitionist
candidate, anyway? 1t is impossible to
speak positively on that point, this early
In the campaign; but from the attention
which religious papers are paying to the
matter, the canteen issue seems to have a
little more prominence than the Erohibi-
Zionist campaign usually gets Evidently
the movement is taken rather seriously at
Washington, for the war department. has
just given out a statement from the ad-
Jutant general in defense OF the canteen.
Perhaps this would be more convincing
II 1t were not for the fact that last year
cen Coroin was quoted as saying that
the army oanteen had ruined some good
soldiers. The navy department. appar-
entity does not share the views of the
war department. on the question of the
The Portland daily press., 1900-09-05
HOW'S This q

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
any case OF Catarrh that cannot be cured by
Halls CaSarrh Cure.
F. j. CHENEY & CO., Props, Toledo. O.
we, the undersigned have known F. J.
Cheney for the last is years, ana believe him
perfectly honorable in all business transactions
and financially able to carry out any obligations
made by the firm
WEST q TRUAx, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo,
.. WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN. Wholesale
Druggists. Toledo O.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally act
ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces Of the system. Testimonials sent fire Q.
Price 75c per bottle. Sold bv all druggists,
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Portland daily press., 1900-09-05
canteen, and the prohIbitionists are
making a good deal of that fact.
THE PARIS FAIR,
providence Journal. }

Returning tourists are pretty gener ally
agreed that the Paris fair is not as fine
as was to be expected. They compare 1t
with the Chicago exposition and declare
that the latter was much superior. 1t
might have been thought that the French
would organize the greatest fair In the
history of the world with the Chicago
enterprise to improve upon and seven
years interval for the development of APP
propriate plans, but the opposite appears
TO be true. Those of us who have had to
stay at home this year will feel our regret
waning when we hear these reports from
Paris
The Portland daily press., 1900-09-05

Mr. Schurz' letter to Mr.. Gage is vir-
tually an admissionsthat Mr.. Bryan's cleo
tion VIII threaten the stability of the gold
standard but he thinks Republicans can
ward off the danger They propose to,
but not in Mr.. Schurz's way. Their
method Is to elect a friend of the gold
standard President, not to elect an enemy
and then undertake to prevent him from
doing mischief, which is the Schurz plan.
The Portland daily press., 1900-09-05

former that her enumeration in 1890 was
fraudulently stuffed, and that the loss
which the present census shows is more
apparent than real, Sioux City S
loss is explained, of course, by the fact
that the great boom that was expecte
there did not materialize, and so the people
who had gathered to participate in it had
to seek living elsewhere.
The Portland daily press., 1900-09-05

& Mr.. Bryan says he.beIieves he will carry
several of the eastern states, but just what
ones he thinks 1t would not be polite
for him to mention. Mr.. Bryan has evil
IDENTIFY learned from experience that it is
dangerous to make specific prophecies.
The Portland daily press., 1900-09-05
CUMBERLAND COUNTY.

SenatoIs-Hary R. Virgin, Portland,
ThurSton S. Burns. WestbroOk,
Joseph Y. HOdsdOn. Yarmouth.
Winburn NJ staples Bridgton.
Atuorney-ROAert I. Whitehouse. Portland.
Sherf--Oren 7. Deipeaux, Portland.
Judge Of Probate-Henry G. Peabody, Port
land.
Register Of PrGbate-Joseph B. Reed, Port
land.
Commissioner-Geo rge P. Plaisted. Gorham.
Treasuer-James M. Thompson, New Glou-
cester.
The Portland daily press., 1900-09-05

IT Mr.. Barton succeeds in convincing
his Democratic brethren that he really
intends to enforce the prohibitory law
he will get wofulIy small vote.
The Portland daily press., 1900-09-05
NEARBY FIVE MIILION.

London, September 4.-The viceroy OF
India, Lord Curzon, cables that the total
mum Der of persons receiving relief is
4 891 600
The Portland daily press., 1900-09-05

There can be no doubt that the sheriff
contest is getting warm. Mr.. Barton is
hurting back lies and issuing challenges.
The Portland daily press., 1900-09-05

Politics are always lively in Kentucky.
This year they promise to be furious.
The Portland daily press., 1900-09-05

The DAILY PRESS is delivered at these rates
every morning to subscribers in all parts OF
Portland and in WestbroOk and South Port
land.
MAINE STATE PRESS (Weekly)-
By the year, 81 IN ADVANCE. Or $l.25 at the
end OF the year.
For six months, 30 cents; for three months,
20 cents
The Portland daily press., 1900-09-05
REPUBLICAN MEETINGS.
SEPTEMBER 5.

John Barrett at So. Portland.
Robert Il. Whitehouse at So. Portland
ID. e. Moulton at So. Portland.
q. w. Atkinson at W. Buxton.
Amos l.. Allen at w. Buxton.
The Portland daily press., 1900-09-05
SEPTEMBER 6.

Edward Payson Brown at Baldwin.
Edward @. SWEET at Baldwin.
John Barrett at Limerick.
q. w. Atkinson at Limerick.
Amos l.. Allen at Limerick.
SEPTEMBER z.
Edward Payson Brown at New
Gloucester.
Charles p. MatlOcks atNeW Gloucester.
Curtis Guild at Bridgton.
Walter G. Emerson at Bridgton.
John Barrett at South Berwick.
Chas. e, Smith at BiddefOrd
Richard Webb at Biddeford.
Horace II. Burbank at South Berwick.
SEPTEMBER s.
John Barrett at Berwick
q. w. Atkinson at Berwick.
Edward Payson Brown at Brunswick.
Charles p. MattOcks at Brunswick
Curtis Guild Jr. at Underwood Spring,
afternoon.
Henry Cabot Lodge at Underwood
Spring, afternoon.
Edward Payson Brown at Underwood
Spring, afternoon
Amos Il. Allen at Underwood Spring,
afternoon.
Edward Q. SWEET at Underwood Spring,
afternoon.
Henry Cabot Lodge at Portland.
Curtis Guild at Portland, evening,
The Portland daily press., 1900-09-05

M eeaniiIe Trust c.,
OF PORTLAND.

This Company takes pleasure
in announcing that il is now
located I'm IFS new banking
rooms situated in the Boyd
Block, at the corner OF Middle
and Exchange SIS. With its iHa-
proved and cOmmOaIOus quart
ers the Company will endeavOr
20 furnish its customers every
possible facility for Ehe prompt
and efficient handling OF ALI
their banking business, ANA
every accommodation VIII be
extended consistent with a
broad and conservative policy
OF management.
Correspondence and personal
interviews are cordially invited.
The Portland daily press., 1900-09-05

Patrons Of the PRESS who are leaving town
temporarily may have the addresses OF their
papers changed az often as they may desire by
notifying the office
The Portland daily press., 1900-09-05
For Governor,
JOHN It. HILL.
For representative to Congress,
AMOS Il. ALLEN.

FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
At Large-Joseph o. Smith Of Skowhegan
George P. WescOtt of Portland.
First Dist.-CharleS E. Libby of Portland.
Second Dist.-James w Wakefield of Bath.
Third Dist-Fred Atwood, Winterport
Fourth Dist-AlmOn II. FOgg HOutOn.
The Portland daily press., 1900-09-05

DAILY PRESS
By the year. Sc in advance or 81 1.-THE end of
the year.
By the month. 80 cents.
The Portland daily press., 1900-09-05

If Mr.. Bryan-is so friendly to the con-
sent OF the governed theory, why does he
not labor with his party to give 1t some
recognition In the South where they are
in complete control. There half a mill
lion people guaranteed the right to vote
by the constitution are governed entirely
without their consent. Mr.. Bryan thinks
the denial Of this doctrine in Luzon may
react and gradually enslave this country.
Won 1t react more quickly when denied
within our own bordersP
The Portland daily press., 1900-09-05

Some Of the Western ''boom" cities are
showing considerable less of population.
Omaha is one OF them, and Sioux City Is
another. 1t is suspected as regards the
The Portland daily press., 1900-09-05

Subscribers whose papers are not delivered
promptly are requested to notify the office OF
the DAILY PRESS. No. 81 Exchange street
Portland Me.
The Portland daily press., 1900-09-05

State Election, Monday, Sept 10,
Presidential Election. Tues, Nov. 6.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-12-22

their contortions. Once the ratt1er got
ratified and attempted to run away.
The folds Of the king snake were
wound too tightly about him, how
ever. and he was held to the battle
ground, After that the King had the
fighting all his way and made the go
Ing according to his own ideas.
Finally the rattler gave up. He lay
stretched out with his head fiat on the
ground, the king twined about him
with uplifted head directly over the
head of the vanquished.. Mike saw
the coils Of the king tighten about the
BODY, Of the other There was a con-.
vulsiye shudder In the rattler's frame
as the bones in the diamond back bent
and snapped. Fhe fight, which lasted
half an hour, was over.
The boy in the bushes saw the king
snake lean forward and touch the tip
OF. the rattler's nose with his nose.
Then the red mouth of the king open
ed wide: in exultatian and satisfied
anticipation of: the feast perhaps. In
another minute the King was engaged
in eating his last adversary, in keep
ing with. a. time-honored habit of his
race. -.
When the RATHER had half disappear
ed into the. face Of the king Mike Nc
Dermott sprang out Of the bushes and
captured the victor with forked stick.
Chucking him, with his partly swal-
lowed breakfast in a. hTTnLxet Milo
carried the snake home.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-12-22

the passengers hurry ashore for "a
swim or a bath. and the scene on the
river bank is lively and amusing. The
current sweeps along at the rate OF
/ five miles an hour. and the prudent
swimmer keeps well in. their protect
ing bends. Children are bathed near
the steamer, and no matter how much
they struggle the little ones have to
take their dose of scrubbing. Once
cleansed by the maternal parent, they
may play among the rocks. He has
been dipped and kneaded and washed,
and now sits in the sun without
care. In a few minutes the steamer
will whistle a warning and everyb body
will rush for the gangplanks The
captain knows he must take advantage
of the high water to reach the upper
station on the river, and therefore
waits for no one. Nineteen hundred
miles from the mouth of the Amur, on
branch named Shilka, is the town
of Stretyinsk. The Trans Siberian
railway terminates at this point at
present, and here is practically the
head of navigation for the Amur sys-
tenn. The steamers usually winter at
.Stretyinsk, and the captains and en-
gineers stay in the town till the icy
barriers are broken. During the last
three years Russia has been colonizing
Siberia as fast as possible: At least
100000 colonists have been sent into
the country over the Trans-Siberian
railway, more particularly in the Amur
valley. At one time the rush to ST.
IBERIA was so great that intending col
onists could not get immediate trans
portation, and for weeks they we're
obliged to camp beside the station and
hWait their turn.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-12-22
Elbe' and Trave:.

The new Elbe and Trave canal which
has been building five years and has
been completed at a cost of "a, 500 900
marks ($5,831,000), was formally open
ed by the German emperor in June.
The length of: the new canal is about
+forty-one miles: The available breadth
OF the canal is seventy-two feet;
breadth of the lock gates, forty-six
feet; length of the locks, eighty-seven
yards; depth Of the locks, eight feet
two inches. The canal is crossed by
tWenty-nine bridges, erected at a cost
of 81 100000. The span Of the bridges
is in all cases not less than thirty
yards and their height above water
level about fifteen feet. There are
seven locks.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-12-22
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This is the season for the semi-tra-
gic stories of big winnings and losses
at the Long Branch gambling clubs,
but the best that the American Monte
Carlo has been able to provide so far
are tales of quite another character.
One of these concerns two very smart
young men from New York. These
knowing summer visitors were only
occasional players at the start. Then
they arranged a scheme and became
nightly visitors at the clubs where the
best suppers were served. They in
variably made few bets when the
roulette wheel was spinning it's live
1iest and there was d crowd about, and
then strolled away, after having
supped on the best that the house
could furnish. >- 80 l. ..-...- 49,. .
The expose came one night when
there was a big play. The schemers
seemingly took the opportunity to i'm
press the spectators Each had a big
pile of checks bet. the ball ratified
around, jumped from one compartment
of the wheel to another. and as it
finally settled the club employe CON
ducting the game called out: Double o
and in the green. !" 0 49,
i The two young men looked at each
other anxiously, backed away, and de-
jectedly departed. After they had gone
the gambler in charge laughed and
said: 4 have been watching those
chaps for long time and waiting for
this chance. Know what they've been
doing? Playing against each other, to
make a stand off: what one lost the
other won. and all the time they've
been eating and drinking here as if
the house belonged to them. One
would back the red. the other black,
and each eat a two or three dollar
luncheon on every visit for nothing
until tonight. Each had $50 down
when the O turned up to make them
pay their board I guess we are just
about even. 8 Sd 81
Another player at one Of the most
famous clubs had an unusual expert
1ence hardly less amusing to spectators.
He had dined exceedingly well when
he strolled into the gaming room and
.signified . desire to try his fortune at