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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-06-08
The Etnnfbee Journal
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Farm for Sale in Hallowel.

CITUATED on the Winthrop road, y miles from
- Hallowell depot, IA of a mile fIom the HALO
well granite quarries, known as the old Wingate
farm. Said farm contains 1913 acres of land, divd.
ed as follows about so acres in tlage, - acres in
pasturage, and the remaining 30 acres in wood.
Included in the tllage land is fine orchard, and
bearing, also some fine black heart cherry trees in
full bearing condition, besides a number of plum
and pear trees. This place is well watered and
has good buildings consisting of large two-story
house, three barns conveniently located, carriage
house, wood sheds, cattle sheds, &c. The fields
have all been moved with a moving machine for
tivation. This place cut 10 tons of hay in 1873 and
is a splendid chance for a stock or milk farm
ed. A wood lot of about 40 acres situated in the
town of Manchester, will be sold either in connec-
ton with the farm or separate as desired Price OF
farm and wood lot $1,000. For further information.
Apply on the premises, or address, -
W. S. x s. Il. WINSLOW,
milo Augusta, Maine.
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gCHE PENN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE
i CO., of Philadelphia, an old and successful
company, desires to secure experienced life insur-
ance solicitors as district agents. The Penn is en-.
tirely mutual. makes annual dividends, issues pol,
ices OF all desirable forms, all nonioreliaDe, ana
has large proportion OF assets to liabilities as
any company in the United States.
For contracts-which will be liberal to experience
ed agents-apply to
HIS STEPHENS w. OIL Chestnut ST., Phila-
delphia NJ. +. KICKER, Genn Agent, Canton,
Maipe june5 teod&w6w
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10 the Hon. the county Commissioners Of Tie c0HltJ
Of Piscufo1uis, in TIE state or Maine.
Respectfully represent the undersigned, cllZen'
of said county, that common convenience and ne
cesslty require that public highway should b 10
Gated and made In tow nship No. = Range :, IN sac
county called Howaid-it being q tract OF land III
said county, not within any town or plantation re
CURED by law 10 raise money TO make and repair
highways. said highway TO commence az or neal
the residence OF Charles Hammond in satd town
ship, running by orncar Wilson Falls, at the mouth
of Wilson Stream in said township, and ttlninat-
ing at near the Lake House ON land OF the Da-
yisc's in said township, occupied by A. u Crockett
as an inn Said petitioners therefore humbly pray
your Honorable Board to locate said highway, is
sue all proper notices, MAKE all legal assessments
and do all other things which the Statutes in such
case made and provided require to insure the com.
pletion OF said highway, and rs in duty bound will
ever pray.
Date September 10th, A. d, 157i.
Z. SANFORD. and II others.
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THE CHARTER OAK
LAWN MOWER,

Lightest best, easiest running and cheapest BE
azure and see Il before you purchase. For sale by
CHAs. W, STAFFORD, 4 son,
Augusta.
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FRANKLIN, SS.--Court Of county Commissioners,
4pril Term 1875.
Upon the foregoing petition it is con idered by the
Commits sioners that the petitioners are responsible,
and that they ought to be heard touching the matter
set forth in their petition and therefore Order That
the County Commits sloners meet at the tlwelliDg
house of VIM. ii. ii. Small, in SAID Letter Plan
taton, in said County of Franklin, on Tuesday, the
Slst day Of August 1915 at len A. NJ for a hearing
IN the premises and thence proceed to view the
route mentioned in said petition imLe diately after
which view, a hearing of the parties and wtnesses
viii be had at the dwelling house of Hiram y. Dun
ham in Sandy River Plantation, so called in said
county, 1t being convenient place III the vicinity
aud such further measures taken in the premises as
the Commits ioner shall judge proper.
And 1t is further ORDERED that notice of the time,
place and purpose Of the Commissioners meeting
aore said be given TO all persons and corporations
interested (the owners OF said townships ana plan
tations beng unknown), by serving attested copies
of the petition and this order thereon, upon the
clerk of the town of Madrid, and upon the clerks
OF Letter and Sandy River Plantations, and by
posting up attestcd copies as aforesaid IN three
public places in said town and plantations respec
tvelv thirty days at least before the time appointed
for such hearing and view, and also by publishing
the petition and order thereon three weeks success
sivelv in the Farmin gton Chronicle, newspaper
pub -ned in Farmngton in said county, and sin
weeks lively in the kennebec Journ al which
is the State paper, published in Augusta in kenne-
bee county, the last publication to he thirty days at
least before the time of said view that all persons
and corpor ttions interested may attend and be
heard it they think lit.
Attest JOSEPH {. HOLMAN. Clerk.
4 true copy of the petition abd o.'.ci oi Court
thereon,
6w2, Attest-JosEPH {. HOLMAN Clerk.
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leQaI ADVERTISEMENTS.
STATE OF MAINE.

To the Honorable County Commissioners Of TIE
County Of Franklin
YINIiE undersigned citizens of said county, re-
i specially repre- sent that the road or public
highway recently lai d out and established by said
Commissioners through Sandy River and Letter 4
Plantations from point near the dwelling house
of James small in Letter Plantation and termn-
ating near sandy River Pond, in said Sandy River
Plantation all in said county of Franklin, will in
its construction, be very expensive and burden.
some upon the public and the owners OF lands in
said townships, and is beside, not required call
ed for 10y the public as matter of convenience or
necessity; they would further represent that during
the time which has interviewed since the date OF the
location of said road or highway, ard prior to the
time of presenting this petition, certain hill and
mountain slides which have accrued along and up
on the line OF said road or highu ay have rendered
the construction OF passable road upon said route
almost, If not entirely, impossbe; and, If not i'm
possible, yet the construction would be much more
expensive than was contemplated at the time OF its
location, And your petitioners would further rep
resent that the road now travelled from Madrid TO
Rangeley could be altered at some points with very
little expense, and 10y means of such alterations
rendered much more convenient ana easier oil
travel than the first mentioned route ever be /;
they therefore pray that upon proper proceeding
first had, the said road or hghw ay be discontinued.
ABNER TOOTllAkER and 100 Others.
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Maine Central Railroad!
CHANGE OF TINE.

On and after Monday, March LIST, 1875,
trains will leave Augusta
. For Portland and Boston, 800, ll.30 a. NJ, 1880
7. NJ.
For Rockland, 90, IL 80 A. NJ.
For Pennington, III 80 A. NJ.
For Bath. Lewiston and Portland, Geo, 100 A.
NJ, 2.l5 L. NJ.
For Watervle and Skowhcgan, 1922 A. NJ, 4.15
Z, NJ.
For Watcrville, Skowhegan, Belfast and Bangor
4.I5 l.. NJ.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-16

nicely fitting dress, a jaunty white apron
with pockets in it, and a primrose tie,
with a smiling face to set them off
Whenever you met her, her toilet was
co1nne IL fdut and her manners were
lovely.
But lately paid visit to Mattie's own
home. What witch work had wrought
change in my darling? She wore the
most slipshOd shoes, the dingiest wrap
pers, and the most soiled and twisted col
lars. She hardly took the trouble to say
good morning when she came down
stairs.
HAS there been FREE" l inquired.
mol" was the astonished reply.
" Has Matties trunk been lost, or have
burglars got into her closct?"
"Why, certainly not"
Then, Matte, dear, where are all your
pretty clothes gone?'
"Oh, they are all in the house think
old things are good enough for home,
Aunt Marjory."
ties opinion. They consider anything fit
for father and mother to see. They take
no pains to be beautiful and attractive in
the household. And then they are sur
prised when their brothers think other
boys sisters nicer than themselves
A girls dress and girls behavior at
home can hardly be too carefully designed.
There is a brusque candor about home
folks too often that makes it harder TO be
good there than to be good on a visit.
But the daughter is the silver-clasp of the
family circle, and she should never forget
that it is her privilege to look pretty as
well as her duty.-Aunt Marjory, IN Chris
tian at Work.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-16
Farragut at Ten.

WOULD you like to know how l was en-
abled to serve my country? 1t was all
owing to resolution formed when was
ten years of age. My father was sent
down to New Orleans with the little navy
we then had, to look after the treason of
Burr. l accompanied him as cabin-boy.
l had some qualities that thought made
man of me- l could swear like an old
salt; could drink as stiff glass of grog
as if had doubled Cape Horn, and could
smoke like locomotive. 1 was great at
cards and fond of gambling in every
shape. At the close of the dinner, one
day, my father turned everybody out of
the cabin, locked the door, and said to
me:
david, what do you mean to be?"
81 mean to follow the sea.''
Follow the sea! Yes; be a poor, mis-
cradle, drunken sailor before the mast,
kicked and cuffed about the world, and
die in some fever-hospital in a foreign
Cline"
mo" said, "I'll tread the quarter
deck, and command, as you do"
"No, David no boy ever trod the quar-
ter-deck with such principles as you have
and such habits as you exhibit. You'll
have to change your whole course of life
If you ever become man,
My father left me and went on deck.
was stunned by the rebuke and over
whelmed with modification. "a poor,
drunken sailor before the mast,
kicked and cuffed about the world, and to
die in some fever-hospital! That's my
fate, is it? I'll change my life, and change
it at once. l will never utter another
oath; will never drink another drop of
liquors; will never gam
ble." And, as God is my witness, have
kept those three vows to this hour.-COns-
m0dOre Fd7rdg,n.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-16

was no Sarah TO laugh at the angel of the
Lord. What wonder then that they were
sweethearts at three score and ten?
1t was so with the wife of Thomas Car
lyle. The woman with the blood of old
John Knox coursing through her heart
upheld her husband through all weathers,
proud of his strength, tender of his weak
write so that people can understand you"
His wild, weird words might puzzle her
brain, but they were the simplest Saxon
to her heart, and so when she died he had
craven on her tomb: ''For forty years
she was the true and loving helpmate of
her husband, and by act and word I'M
weariedly forwarded him as none else
could in all of worthy that he did or at
tempted" And this was what this man
said of his wife, and this wife of her hus-
band, when one was taken and the other
left, and their prayer had been fully an
swered in beautiful old age.
Now this is a prayer we can all put up
to God on our wedding day, or, if we will,
on any day and every day after, and find
the spirit of the answer in the spirit ofthe
cry. Is there danger that we shall make
it impossible for Heaven to hear us in
the tale of the years because we are
using them up as the prOdigal used up his
fortune? We can guard against that. Is
there danger that while we may grow old
together in years there may be such a
growing difference of spirit and purpose
that at three score and ten we may merely
be two old people who have found each
other out but only to find it is all a mis-
take? We can guard against that. For
where this safeguard to our inner life, and
for that matter our outer life also, is
needed, the answer to our prayer comes
in the true asking. No man and woman
ever cried out to God with their whole
heart fervently, "Mercifully ordain that
we may grow aged together, who did not
find wellsprings in their dryest desert,
CLEANS of sunshine stealing into their
darkest shadows, an arm of power for
their most appalling sleeps, and sunny
resting places all the way.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-16
Before the Detroit Police Court.


"LUGGED in here at midnight, roarin.
drunk, John Ferguson" said the Court tt
the first prisoner.
Brought here sick, butjust as sober a.
1 am now" was the reply.
Then the officer couldn't see or smell
straight"
well, then, he couldn't"
The officer swore to finding Ferguson sc
drunk that he could have tied his legs il
hard knot.
Its simply a mistake" said the pris
oner, grandly waving his hand. Il never
saw your Honor before, but had read OF
you often, and last night l bought a gold
headed cane and started for your resi-
dence to present it to you"
Yes"
"While on the street fellow stopped
me and asked me if l knew Jones.
said no, and Just then this policeman ar
rested me. 1 am as innocent, sir, as a
babe.''
John Ferguson, you are the biggest
liar who has been here for fourteen
months! You couldn't buy two inches
of a gold-headed cane, and l wouldn't
take it If you could l shall put legal
derrick under you and lift you up, there to
stay fer ninety days.
"It's too bad, SIR" sighed the prisoner.
Yes. I'm sorry your parents didn't
wallop you oftener and harder. Go back
in there and sit down on the third saw
horse to the right"
AN EvADER.
"Susan Wall, do you plead guilty to
the charge of disturbing the peace ~ in
quired the Court of long female in a
brown dress and a solemn looking bonnet
might tomorrow" she replied.
"But you won't to-day?'
UT Shant cav that I WOn'tD
"Well, did you strike your husband
with a club?'
I" 1t wasn't stone, sir.''
"What started the fuss?"
81 didn't say there was FUSS" she re-
piled.
"Did you have any trouble with your
husband, Mrs. Wall ~
~ didn't say had husbardr'
"See here, Susan, can't have any
answers to my questions. Was there a
Mss?"
&C. didn't say there wasn't
Ibid you hit your husband?"
Pm not prepared to say did or
didn't"
Pm prepared, your Honorr' exclaimed
the husband, as he came forward and eX-
hibited fresh scalp-wound. Here's
where she hit me!''
You had trouble, eh:''
eyes, sir. She wanted new corset
and L says that this is to be hard winter
and we'd better have taters than cOrsets,
and she says l was the meanest man in
Detroit and hit me here with club"
'What have you got to say to this, Mrs.
Wall s''
81 may say something, or I may not"
she replied.
"Well, I'll give you thirty days in
which to make up your mind. Go in and
sit down beside Mr.. Ferguson and talk
about the grasshoppers until the Maria
drives p.''-Detroit Free Press.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-16
About Bats.

THE October number of the Popular
Science Monthly contains an article by
Prof Burt G. Wilder, entitled "Bats and
Their Young" Beginning his essay by
remarking that all parts of the world eX-
cepting the older regions are inhabited by
bats; that there are many kinds of bats
that they often occur in very large num-
bers and that there are very few persons,
young or old, who have not seen bat,
the writer adds: Yet, aside from pro-
fessed naturalists, it is equally probable
that there are still fewer who, from direct
observation, could give any accurate
description of their appearance, their
habits, their structure or their relations
with the birds of the air or the beasts
of the earth, to both of which bats bear
more or less resemblance" Prof. Wilder
thinks that this is not strange, for bats
pass the day in caves and deserted build
ings, and fly about in pursuit of prey only
in the twilight. Much less rapid than
that of birds, their flight is so irregular as
to render it difficult to follow their course,
and in the dusk they are often mistaken
for somewhat eccentric members of the
swallow family" The very aspect of
bats, we are told, is repulslve; they often
emit an unpleasant odor; they breed YER
min, which they often leave behind them
in houses; they bite fiercely when they
are captured, having sharp, " almost
eye-teeth. Bats have rarely
been domesticated, there being on record
only two instances of the tanning of bats.
Prof Wilder caught one when he was
boy, and he gives the following account
of his somewhat disagreeable pet:
Zone of our common bats (probably
either the little brown bat,' TesperttltO
subuyatus, or the little red baO flew into
the house one evening and was caught
under hat. 1t squeaked and snapped its
little jaws so viciously that all efforts
toward closer acquaintance were postponed
until morning.
When uncovered the next day it
seemed as fierce as before, but less active
in its movements, probably overpowered
by the glare of daylight When touched
were exposed, and from its little throat
came the sharp, steely clicks so character
stic of our bats. Nor did this fierce de-
neanor soften during the day, and when
light approached | was about to let it go
out the sight of a big fly on the window
an attempt TO feed the captive.
Held by the wings between the points of
pair of forceps, the fly had no sooner
ouched the bats nose than it was seized,
,runched and swallowed. The rapidity |
If its disappearance accorded with the |
width to which the eaters jaws were
opened to receive it, and but for the dis |
nal cracking of skin and wings re-
minded one of the sudden engulfment of |
beetles by IA hungry young robin.
A second fly went the same road. The |
bird was more deliberately masticated, |
md ventured TO pat the devourer's head.
instantly all was changed. The jaws |
,aped as if they would separate, the |
rushed fly dropped from the tongue and
he well-knoMn click proclaimed hatred ]
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-16
Capital and Experience.

THE" Drawer" was chatting a few weeks
ago on the piazza of the United States
Hotel, at Saratoga, with bright German
gentleman, retired from business, who re-
lated the following little anecdote:
"Going down to New York, the other
night, on the boat" said he, 81 got to
chatting with a German acquaintance,
and asked him what he was doing.
"'Vel,' he replied, "shoost now / am
doing holdings; but 1 have made arrange
ments to go into piZness.'
"Glad to hear it. What are you going
into?'
"Vell, 1 goes into partnership nit a
man.
do you put in much capitals'
No; doesn't put in no capital
"'Don't want to risk it, eh p
"' No, but puts in de experience
"'And he puts in the capital
"' Yes, dot is it. We goes into pizness
for dree years; he puts in the capital, l
puts in de experience. At the end OF de
dree years 1 will have de capital and he
will have de experiencep "-Harper's
Mdg0zine.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-10-16
Selected sHisreHat,g.
TWO CHRISTIANS.

Two CHRISTIANS travelled down a road,
Who viewed the world with different eye
The one v as pleased with earth's abode,
The other longing for the skies.
For one, the heavens were SO blue
They filled his mind with fancies fond;
The others eyes kept piercing through
Only for that which lies beyond.
For one, enchanting were the trees,
The distance was divinely dim,
The birds that fiuttered ON the breeze
Nodded their pretty heads for him.
The other scarcely saw the flowers,
And never knew the trees were grand;
He did but count the days and hours
Till he might reach the promised land.
And one little kind caress
Would to a tender rapture move;
He only oped his lips to bless
The God who gave him things to love.
The other journeyed on his way,
Afraid to handle or to touch;
He only oped his lips to pray
He might not love a thing too much.
Which was the best? Decide who can.
Yet why should we decide 'twixt them?
We may approve the mournful man,
Nor yet the joyful man condemn.
He is q Christian who has found
That earth, as well as heaven, is sweet,
Nor less is he who, heaven bound,
Has spurn'd the earth beneath his feet.
Good Words.