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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-09-27

Like "Mr. Riley. that Kept the
hotel" Rsv, 8. G. Bettis, the revival
list. 10 also "doing right we'll" He
has been preaching to the Brockway
people and has made 22 converts and
shot big black bear. All this serves
but to stiffen his nerves preparatory
to itarting on his proposed catamarAn
voyage around the world. County fair
managers can get Bsttes ana his boat.
bear skin and evangelizing process for
exhibition, by addressing him at
Brockway Centre, Mich. He will
draw" like mustard plaster. DE
troit Evening News.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-09-27

What has become Of some Of cur
correspondents. Let us hear from
them next week to know whether they
arc alive or not.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-09-27

q a n a IN people are always OH the look
EEAH E9H out for chances to increase
Ek2S u % Ia their earnings, and in time be-
MM rHh come wealthy; those who do
GU q w. Ia not improve their opportuui-
ties remain in poverty. We
offer great chance to make money. We want
many men, Women, boys and girls TO work for US
right in their own localities. Any one can do tho
work properly from the first start The business
will pay more than ten times ordinary wages
Expensive outfit furnished free. No one who en-
cages fails to make money rapidly. You can de-
vote your whole time TO the work, or only your
spare moments. Full Information and all that is
needed senb free. Address, SrISsoa md Co.,
Portland. Maine
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-12-27
DaiIp kenneter jourual.

The dairymen who make specially OF
genuine butter have another enemy be-
sides oleomargarine to trouble them.
called "butterine. This is the worst
fraud yet developed. Oleomargarine is
made from suet and 10 chemically, when
honestly made. the same as butter. But
terine is simply Is per cent Of butter and
IS per cent of deodorized lard. 1t is \
comparatively new product OF the bound
less West. and is having large sale in
Eastern cities. Whether it has been do
mesticated yet in New England or not we
do not know, but it is dangerous and
disgusting fraud. as the heat necessary to
try out lard is not sufficient to destroy the
germs of trichina. Imitation butter has
invited hostile legislation in many States.
It is necessary that it be supplemented by
some vigorous criminal prosecutions. If
we are to be reasonably assured against
having raw hogs grease or suet palmed
off on rs for dairy butter.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-12-27

Il is the human heart and soul entering
into things that prevented them from be-
coming commonplace. Genius takes the
commOnest things and transforms them
into creations of beauty. or grandeur. or
power by infusing into them its own life.
Thus the painters soul shines through his
canvass. the sculptor's through his block
of marble. the poets through the printed
page. Each of rs dees the same in his
or her own way. Whatever there IL in
us of truth, or power. or love. or devotion
we infuse into our work, into our recrea-
tions, into our associates. into our lives.
They are largely reflections Of ourselves.
If we complain that our friends are dull.
that our pleasures are insipid, that our
lives are humdrum, that everything around
US IL commonplace. We may rest assured
that the fault lies in ourselves. We, and
We alone, can transform them all by bring
ing clear head. q strong will, and warm
heart to bear upon them by penetrating
into their realities and binding them to us,
through our very sympathiss.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-12-27
Used Railroad Tickets.

The number of tickets collected By lYss-
class railroad in the courss Of year 10 soas-
thing stupendous, says the Springfield Re-
publican. Five tons Of these trining psPes
slips accumulate in the Boston Albany rail-
road Office in this CITY yearly, and yield .
snug sum when sold for paper stock. The
colored tickets are bundled up BY themselves
in neat packages, and the white ones In sspss-
ate lots, the latter, Of CO urss, bringing ~
higher price. q
But there 10 many . clip between Agent
Grigg's department and and the pulp room Of
paper-mill; in fact, the danger Of having
tickets used twice is 50 great that those collect
ed for several years have been allowed 70 &C.
cumulate in . vacant room near the roof Of the
company's massive granite building.
Three months ago . ticket cutter Was aAdsa
to the roads equipment, and meanwhile eas
man and two boys have succeeded in chewing
up eight tons of tickets. A geod winters job
remains, however, ct least ten tons more
being ready for mssticatiou.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-12-27
Our Children.

Some children are more prone to show
temper than others, and sometimes on ac-
count of qualities which are valuable in
themselves. For instance, a child of ac-
tive temperament, sensitive feeling. and
eager purpose is more likely to meet with
constant jars and rubs than dull. passive
child and if he is of an open nature. his
inward irritation is Immediately shown in
bursts of passion. If you repress these
ebullitions by scolding aud punishment,
you only increase the evil by changing
passion into sulkiness. A cheerful. good
tempered tone of your own, a sympathy
with his trouble. whenever the trouble has
arisen from no ill.conduct, are the best
aDtidotes: but it would be better still to
prevent beforehand, as much as possible.
all sources of annoyance. Never fear
spelling children by making them happy.
If you want to do right, you must be
right. There is no such thing as we'll
doing apart from well being. As IN ORR
entail proverb has it. "You cannot drive
. straight furrow without q straight eye"
If you would do good to others. you must
be good before others. No one can be .
safe guide in . path he has not travelled.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-12-27
Senatorial Fun.

A veteran relates funny incident which
occurred in the Senate when Foots Of Ais-
sissippi and Hale Of New Hampshirs we're
Senators. Foot was bald headed, with .
venerable fringe of snowy white hair rua-
ming around the base Of the shining dome Of
his skull. One day Foots startled the 0sn-
ate by walking in with dead black curly
wig covering his head. Hale Of New Haap-
shire arose at once. He said that he aress
to = question Of the highest privilege.
He said further, In sxplanatioa,
that the Senate was too familiar with ths
venerable and distinguished featsrss Of the
Senator from Mississippi to Be- for one ne
ment deceived by the impudent and sudacisss
intsrlOpcr, who, upon the basis Of mere
facial resemblance to Mr.. Foots. had intro
duced himself into the Senate and into The
very seat of the venerable Senator. "Look. 7"
said he, amid great laughter, ''st this yssth-
full impostsr." and then, with . chsractsris-
tic flourish of sstirical suggestions, the Nav
Hampshire Senator moved the appointmsat
Of . special committee to invsstigats the case.
When he concluded, Foots turned very cool
ly toward Hale and lifting his black Wig frsn
his head, said: "Do you recognise ne nov
Do you think it nscessary to have . special
conmittee2" Hale then withdrew his motion
amid great laughter Rashixgton POsf.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-12-27

Home Items.
-"An your own faalt
II yoa remain sick when you can
Get hon bitfePS thai neyef-Fdil,

Home Items.
-"An yosr own faalt
II yoQ remain aick when you can
Get hop bitters that never-Fail.
The weakest woman, smallest child, and
sickest invalid can use hop bitters with safety
and great good.
old men tottering around from rheuma-
tism, kidney trouble or any weakness will be
almost new by using hop bitters.
My wife and daughter were made healthy
by the use of hop bitters and I recommend
them to my people.-Methodist Clergyman.
Ask any sooS doctor 4 hop
Bisser' ter S are not the best family medicine
-Mslarial fever, Ague and Biliousness,
will leave every neighborhood as soon As hop
bitters arrive.
-"My mother drove the paralysis and
neuralgia all out of her system with hop bit
ters.-Ed Oswego Sun.
Ice water 10 rendered harmless and more
refreshing and reviving with hop bitters in
each draught.
The vigor of youth for the aged and in
firm in hop bitters!
AT the change OF life nothing equals
r,a..,d Hop bit'er' to allay all troubles incident
1.-THE best periodical for ladies to take
onthly and from which they will receive
the greatest benefit is hop bitters."
Mothers with sickly, fretful, nursing
children, will cure the children and benefit
themselves BY taking hop bitters daily.
Thousands die annually from some form
of kidney disease that might have been pre-
vented by . timely use of hop bitters.
Indigestion, weak stomach, irregularities
of the bowels, cannot exist when hop bitters
are used.
A timely >" use Of hop
Bitters will keep whole family
In robust health year at little cost.
To produce real genuine sleep and child
like repose all night, take q little hop bitters
on retiring.
That indigestion or stomach gas At night,
preventing rest and sleep, will disappear BY
using hop bitters.
-Paralytic, nervous, tremu!ous old ladies
are made perfectly quiet and sprightly by
using hop bitters.
novl2d&wlm-tc-nr
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-12-27
Microscopic Animals in Bricks.

The veathering of brick walls into . ffia-
bic state 10 usually attributed TO the sctsea ef
heat, vet and frost, bat from recent obssfvs-
tions Of M. Parize the real destroyer y .
micropterou. creature. and the action played
by the weather is only secondary. He has
examined the red dust Of crumbling bricks
under the microscopl and fousd Il
to consist largely Of minute living organisms.
A sample Of brick dust taken from the heart II
. solid brick also showed the same snimalss.
lar. but in sm ,ller numbers. The magnify.
ing power Of the instrum ent was 900 dia1e.
ters. Every decaying brick showed the same
kind of population. but the harder the bsiek
the fewer were noticed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-12-27
Improving Farm Homes and
Grounds.

The immediate surroundings OF farmers
homes generally are far from being - At
tractive in appearance as they can easily
be made. Indeed tho rural front yards
are, as a rule, much less beautiful and in
teresting than those of people in the
same general circumstances in towns and
cities. In the latter. lawns are well cared
for. and choice ornamental trees. shrubs,
and flowers, are much oftener met with
than about country homes. There is no
valid reason for this. Such embellish.
ments are not more easily acquired in the
city, but just the reverse. The farmer
has teams. implements and manures for
putting the house grounds in the best con-
dition for ornamental treatment; labor 10
quite as cheap as in town. while sodding
q lawn costs far less in the country. Trees
and plants are as cheap to the farmer -
to any one. while in many places some of
the best kinds for ornament can be had
from the woods for the digging.
There may be points in which life on
the farm lacks the attractions common to
town life. but in charming home grounds
the farmer is certainly to blame if the city
dweller excels him. Il is often wondered
why country life has not charms sufficient
to hold the boys to the farm, and that they
grow up longing for the city. If more
attention was given to making their home
surroundings more cheerful and attractive
for the sons and others of the family.
there would be less heard of this trouble.
And in all such work every proper effort
is sure to be seconded by the wife; while
nothing is more natural than for the chill
dren to be enthusiastic helpers in this
work. Such improvements of course re-
quire some outlay, but this can hardly
prove otherwise than q good investment.
Every dollar judiciously spent in this
way will soon be returned many fold in
the increased valuation of any place,
should it be desirable to sell, to say moth
ing of the greater happiness and love of
home that will thus be inspired.
Now that long evenings are at hand.
this subject should receive due considers
ton. Plans may be drawn up for an i'm
proved arrangement of walks. drives,
flower beds. shrubbery. borders, and other
matters. Every detail of these can be de-
cided upon. and entered upon q map, long
before winter is over. 80 that when spring
opens the work can 60 on intelligently
and to the best advantage.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-12-27
NO. 3O4.
General News.

Five comets are now visible in BueAos
Ayres.
A crematirn society has been started II
San Francisco.
Buffalo boosts that one Of its vards Coz.
tains larger population than the State Of
Nevada
London has 700. 600 houses and nearly g..
000, 900 inhabitants-abolt seven people -
each house.
There are only IL lawyers among the a7S
members of the incoming Legislature Of Con.
necticut.
The city of Baltimore, i. is said, viii b
asked to indorse 81 ,O00. 900 worth Of he
stock Of the Industrial aAd Art Exhibitioa
Association now forming thsre.
Female prohibitionist lecturers are travel.
ing through New York State urging voesss -
petition the Legislature for . constitutional
amendment.
Mexican banana planters get three crops .
year. The plant is grown far more easily
than any grain or tuber in the Northern lati-
tudes, and the fruit is more nutritious.
Lager beer, which 80 years ago was practi-
cally unknown in this country. 10 now uade
by $500 immense establishments, with over
$l50, 600, 900 of capital invested. The value
of this production each year is over GOO, ,000,-
900.
Quite . number of Whitsisr's early
poems are now lost. and the peet has no trace
of them. Among those that are missing afo
''Isabella of Austria" written when hs was
20; "Palo Alto" "Boliver," and poem %
Henry Clay.
Here 10 description Of Russian prisea,
written BY Professor Thun. Of Leipzig:
"The prison At Kara, near Irkutsk. 10 said 70
be one Of the worst. II is an ordinary fAf0-
house. surrounded BY . high fence. There
which the prisoners lie packed like safdinss.
The food consists merely of brssd and sosp,
with . very little grit. There il NO hospital
or other care for the sick. All these cen
dsmned to hard labor are compelled to wsaf
chains. whether at work or il prison, and all
10 forbidden.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-12-27
AUGUSTA aAs-LIanI COMPANY.

Notice II hereby givea that the Annual Neetine of
the Augusta Gas Light Co., Win be held ct the ohoe
Of the company In Augusta, Tuesday. the 1T dey
of Jansay next. at 10 O'clock. A. NJ f6e the parpooe
q deetiDg Ave diree4sss for the ensuing year aad
for the xansaetion of any olhsr business that nay
Re1 ordsr e the directorp.
JAMES W. North, Clesk.
Augusta. Dee. 10. i@- dssssdtd
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-12-27
Proposals..
EASTERN BRANCH, N. H. d. v. g., .
Togus. Me-. Dec. 20. 1874.

EASTERN BRANCH, N. H. d. V. g.,
Togus. Me-. Dec. %, 1883.
Proposals for furnishing the Eastern Branch, N.
n. d. " s.. during the six months ending seth June,
1884, with five hundred 900 barrels Of Ne. four
and three hundred (3oo) barrels Of No. 2 -four,
more or less TO BE delivered at the Home. sample
Of each quality Of the nour with . copy Of the
The Home reserves he rixht to friect sov or Ill
bids
Proposals In sealed envelopes marked Proposals
for Flour" viii be received as the once Of the undsr-
siensd until noon Of the 18th Dec 1853.
ANDREW J. SMITH, Treasurer.
Approved: LUTHER STEPHENSON. JR.. Gsv.
dec42o5t
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Freeman's Natl Bank Of Augusta.
NOTICE.

The Annsal Meeting a the Stoekhojders Of the
Freeman's National Bank Of Augusta, Me-, win be
held at their banking room In Augusta. on Tuesday,
the 9Th day Il Janaafy. 1se4. u three o'clock r.
for The psrposs Of ehoosins g. Bos.d % q Dreetess.
which may come before then.
:. B. GLAZIRR, Caahisr.
Augusts, Dec. %. 1osa-
The National tribune., 1883-08-09
Coming Home to Die.

am coming home 10 you now, mother,
am coming home to-day;
i shall never go back TO the war again,
i am coming home to stay;
Coming To lay my head again
As used 10 on your breast.
Your boy has grown very weary, mother,
And Is coming home 20 rest.
am coming home to you now, mother,
You know not how pine
For mother love and q mothers care
And that sweet kiss of thine.
The thoughts of home and you, mother,
Would almost Danish pain;
But aIz coming To you now, mother.
lam coming home again. 1.
have not been q coward, mother,
You will never be ashamed
OF your b ny, and in future you
Win some time hear him named
As one who--but, no matter,
fought for truth and right,
And DOW ann coming home. mother,
will camp with you tonight
am coming home to yoa now, mother,
Be brave and strong to-day;
The National tribune., 1883-08-09
IA.saay eiFts.l Jo.rnaal

No comrade who would keep himself posted b.
regard to the great and good work being achieved
by the g. A. X shoalrf be without The NATIONAL
TIIsUNE, ths Official paper Of the national organ
iz.t..os-thc comrades true and stanch friend-and
one OF the largest and best HserAEy Tossrnalx pub
llsiled In America for the monsy-Si . year.
The National tribune., 1883-08-09

but express the sentiments prevalent at tha
time;
General sherman and His BOYS in Blue.
Hail glorious chief, the country's pride,
For victory follows thee;
Thy fslne IS spreading faT and wide,
Great chieitain Of the free.
The bravest army IN the world
i being led by you,
And freedoms banner is unfurled
BY bonny boys in blue.
C1oryts-General sherman, o,
General Sherman, O.
Tire boys IN blue viii fight with you,
General sherman. o.
On Shiloh's bloody battlefield
He met old BeauregaTd
Who found that Sherman would not yield,
And he took 1t very hard.
He'd water bis horse in the Tennessee
That's wllas he said he'd do
But Billy sherman got in the way
With his bSnny boys IN blue.
Cho-General Sherman, o, &c
And when the rebs on yiclshurg Heights
We're corrsiled in by Grant,
Joe Johrsion thought he'd give US fits,
But sherman said " you can't"
Joe Johnston found there were some things
That ne could never do;
He has TO run when Sherman brings
His bonny boys in blue.
CIo.-General Sherman, o, &c.
On Mission Ridge he met the foe
With Thomas and with Grant
And on that glorious field, you know.
Our banners we did plant.
Old Bragg and all his army fed
What else could BTaxton do
When Grant and Sherman nobiy led
The bonny boys IN blue?
Cho.-6IeneTal sherman, o, &c.
Atlanta, next was Sherman's aim,
Though Dalton blocked the way;
But hanEing the kind Of game
That Sherman knew would pay.
Joe JohRssen found tlast 10 retreat
Was all that he could do.
For Il was dangerous 10 meet
The honny boys III blue.
Cho.-GenerIl Sherman, o, &c.
From Dalton down to Kenesaw
Joe Johnston did retreat;
From there he found he must withdraw
Or meet sore defeat
And when within Atanta's walls
Says Hood: . ill show you. Joe,
That sherman soon before me fails
And all his boys III blue
Cho.-General sherman, o, &C.
Says Hood: "Ill try the fanEing game;
But ho didn't make it pay,
For Thomas brought old Hood TO shame
While Sherman went his way.
So down through Georgia Sherman went,
Cut rsbeldcm IN two,
And IN Savannah pitched his tent
With All his boys in blue.
Cho.-GeDeral Sherman. o, &c.
For General Sherman, then, We'll shout,
AND Charleston next must fall
The boys in blue viii clean them out
Old Besare+sslrd and all.
TiSis base rebellion soon viii end,
The bottom falling through
The National tribune., 1883-08-09
sssenty-Hias Tribune sss.eribsrs from oas Pcs

IneIosed please iud sfI for eleven new suSssrsb-
ers, which niss<es serenity nine IN ali froDs Gun
Post, whose membership In IA. whzs Poss ean
heat this IN. 3 Richardson. n. D.. Macon. Ne.
The National tribune., 1883-08-09
And cen the stars were fain to vail
That dark and bloody scene.
And here is the well-known SONG. written

And here is the we'll known song, written by
Lieutenant NOW Dr. William B. Hamilton,
Twenty second Michigan V. l., Lapeer, Mich,
entitled the Rock of Chickamauga." 1t has
special reference TO the part taken by his
regiment in the engagement, and in the next
TO the last stanza he names the three counties
in which the majority of the regiment were
recruited.
The National tribune., 1883-08-09

a union with that girl during the past sixteen
years has compensated me Thousand times for
all. Six children, three of kind, have blessed
our marriage. and happiness and cOntentment
are ours. When the poem was given to my
wife, the officer told her it was composed by
friend, and had not then been published" 1t
is az follows:
The National tribune., 1883-08-09
The Rock of Chlckamauga.

The Rock of Chickamauga.
Let rebels boast their Stonewall brave
Who fell to fill a traitors grave;
We have a hero, grander far
The Union was his guiding star
The Rock of Chickamauga.
When foot by foot stern Rosecrans
Round grim Lookout, with bold advance
Pressed back the rebels from their lair,
Our Thomas was the foremost there
The Rock of Chickamauga.
And when, in nightier force they came,
With serried ranks and sheets of flame,
Sweeping apart our shattered bands,
Who snatched the palm from rebel hands?
The Rock of Chiekamauga.
All day they surged and stormed in vain,
Lost ChiclSamaaga to regain;
In vain each furious battle shock;
They were but waves, and he the rock
The Rock OF Chicazamauga.
His clarion voice with cheering word
Above the din of battle heard
His bearing firm his kindiing eye
Fired every breast with ardor high
The Rock of ChickaInRuga.
A new Thermopyle we found
On Chickamangas bloody ground,
And in that rugged mountain pass
lie Stood-our true LeonidaS-
The Rock of Chickamauga.
Sons of Macosnb and broad ST. Clair
And Oakland's rolling fields were there,
And now they tell with patriot pride
How that great day they fought beside
The Rock of Chickamauga.
Gone is our hero, strong md brave,
Columbia weeps above his grave,
While high upon the roll of fame
She writes that loved and honored name
The Rock Of Chiekamauga
Equally beloved with the 'Rock of Chicka-
n
Is the boys universally called him,-and their
entiments are accurately embodied in the fol-
owing song, by E. w. Locke, army poet and
,alladist -
The National tribune., 1883-08-09

ofrerimental songs there were any number,
but few Of any poeiical value. The following
furnished Us by CosuTaie o. A. Diekerson, Cap
tain company Z, Forty-fourth Illinois volun-
teer infantry, was written at Stephenson, Ala
Just before the battle OF Chirkamangn, in which
the author, James d. Campbell, Of company T,
was killed:
The National tribune., 1883-08-09
OLD ARMY BALLADS.
Not Much for Poetry. but Character
Isle of the Soldier.

Aside from the patriotic songs which make
MP what is now generally accepted as the
"poetry of the war" there is a class Of army
ballads which at one time appealed quite as
stronclvto The feelings Of the soldier as Rally
Round the Flag, BOYS, Sherman's March to
the Sea. John Browns Body" or any Of the
stirring lyrics which are still heard at military
Reunions Few Of them, it is true, possess any
literary merit, and some are the veriest dog
gerel. but they illustrate as 10 other war poetry
does. ths earnestness Of purpose that character
ized the rank and file Of both our Eastern and
Western armies. It is for this reason that ont
ofthe hundreds Of such compositions that have
been sent as from time TO time,-some repro
duced from memory yand others resurrected from
old and misty scrap bOolls,-we present the fol-
lowing for the entertainment OF our readers.
In the early days Of the wsr the calls to arms
frequently took poetic turn. Here is a song
that syas once Guite popular: