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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-12-01
True Charity.

We know a man. not rich. who kept a
poor fund of his own, amounting to $50.
He refused to give cent of this money,
but loaned it in small sums on sufficient
security for short periods. without inter-
est. 1t was in constant demand. 1t as
sisted poor women to pay their rent when
they had been unable to collect their dues.
and to buy shoes when to go without
would have caused cold and sickness. 1t
started lame boy in peanut stall, and
another in a newspaper stand And il
brought him in constant friendly relations
with the poor. whose confidence he
gained, and whom he was able to help by
wise counsel. 1t is obvious that such a
method Of helping the poor must be vast
ly superior to the giving Of aims
E,Hu0efisf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-12-01
ISTA. MAINE, SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER l.


The Princess Louise is glad to get back to
English country life. She is described a
having the busy German wife strongly devel.
oped in her, and while at her country place
Of Dornden to have hustled about all
day, looked after all the domestic arrange
ments, carved at meals, and made herself
generally useful. After dinner she went
round to the sta lies and kitchen garden, and
Joined . game of billiards. The queen Is
anxious for Lorne to succeed Lord Ripon in
India The Princess does not care for it, and
Gladstone and public opinion go for Duff
ferin.
The late William Cullen Bryant. says Har-
per's Weekly, was often humorous in his
after dinner speeches. At dinner given
some years ago in New York to Mr.. William
Black, the novelist. Mr.. Bryant responded to
toast on poetry by saving that, although the
novelist has laid society under great obliga-
tiops, the poet should not be forgotten, since
it is to him that we are indebted for some of
our most labor saving productions. 'What, ="
he continued in his gravest manner, "could
be more useful more winning, more worthy
of being remembered. than that immortal
song"-here the audience held themselves in
breathless silence-beginning, Thirty days
hath September'?"
OF the two American singers who have
Sucn Iame IN farlSs an lhtcf-Ocean cOrre-
sponde mt writes that ''Miss Van Zandt is a
lively, laughing, capricious child, delicstely
pretty as q shepardess in Dresden China.
singing, as Patti does, by the grace of God,
gay and gifted and winsome, and withal the
best business woman in the world oftheatres.
Miss Nevada (Wixom) is sweet and
serious young artistic, whose passion is her
art. who studies indefatigably, and seems to
live less for the applause and gold of the
stage than for the realization of her own high
ideals. She has beautiful blue eyes, large,
soft and expressive. In society she presents
the aspect of modest retiring young girl,
shrinking from the notice excited BY her re-
nown. Both young ladies live simply and
quietly without anv attempt at ostentation or
display, and both are good, modest, virtuous,
against whom, despite the trials and tempta-
tions of theatrical life. slander has never
been able to breathe word.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-12-01
General News.

Princess Louise and Lord Lorne took home
with them a rare and beautiful collection of
Canadian birds. There are eight cases, con-
tanning about l20 varieties.
Nearly all the Justices of the United States
Supreme Court are good whist players, and
they have formed themselves and their fami-
lies into whist party, meeting every Satur-
day evening at the home of one of their num-
Der. Justice Miller is probably one of the
best whist PLAYERS among them, and Chief
Justices Waite and Justices Blatchford,
Woods and Matthews are said to be expert
euchre players.
Ex-Gov. James +. English is the richest
man in New Haven, Conn. having sc, coo, 900
which he made himself. He started on farm
at Bethlehem, learned the carpenters trade,
followed it a couple of years, and went into
the lumber business, in which he is still in
terested. John c. Anderson comes next with
81, 900, 900. His father started poor in the
tobacco business in at New York, and the son
inherited the business and the fathers earn
ings. Treadwell Ketcham has between S3,-
0OO,0 900 and "a, ,000, 900, which he madeshim-
SELF
A writer in a Boston paper says that the
traveller in passing along the highway, mile
or so above the village of North Haverhill
N. H., reaches and beside little pine grove
finds a small graveyard which contains the
remains of some of the earliest settlers of
that section of the State, and here for over 20
years have repOsed the remains of the brave
Mcintosh, the leader of the Boston Tea
Party, unmarked by stone and known to but
few aged people now living. who remember
his burial. He fills a pauper's grave, having
died in 1910 or 1871 at the house of MIR.
Hurlburt, who resided at what is now known
as the Poor Farm, and to whose care he had
been bid of as public pauper at public auc-
ton As the lowest bidder, according to an
cient custom.
"a pretty little story is told" says the
Newport correspondent Of the Boston Jour
nal, ''of the Earl and Countess of Rosebery,
who were at Newport short time since. A
day or two before their wedding took place
Miss Rothschild asked the young Earl what
he would like for . wedding present from
her. Oh, he replied, suppose you give me 4
box Of gloves. The box of gloves was sent
enclosed in an elegant inlaid case. On open
ing the box the Earl discovered an envelope
addressed to him in a well-known hand. He
expected it contained dainty little note. 1t
did. but not the sort of note he imagined.
The contents of the envelope was . check
written out and signed by Miss Rothschild,
and in favor of the Earl, and was for the
modest little sum of 100000.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-12-01
Selected Miscellany.

At the bottom of good deal of the brav-
cry that appears in the world there turks
a miserable cowardice. Men will face
powder and steel because they cannot face
public opinion.-Chapin.
There are royal roads to learning.
Flooding is common word. 1t is plain
and homely and it is significant of sturdy
labor. 1t carries with it a degree of slow
ness. and assures ultimate certainty.
The way to subject all thing to thyself
ia to subject thyselfto reason. 1hou shalt
govern many If reason govern thee.
Wouldst thou be crowned the monarch Of
little world? Command thyself.-Quar-
iss
One watch set right will do to set many
by: on the other hand, one that goes
wrong may be the means of misleading
whole neighborhood; aud the same may
b said q The example We each sst to
theoo aroaod n.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-12-01

Concerning Eggs.

The prevailing high prices of eggs dur
ing the past year or two shows that there
has been no over-production of eggs, GER
tainly not of those which are marketed in
q strictly fresh condition. Every farmer
can make a small flock of hens source of
profit with reasonable care and outlay.
To secure the highest prices in the market
where eggs are sold on their merits. the
matter of feeding the fowls is one OF con-
siderable importance. Wheat or wheat
screenings and barley are the best grain
food for the chief supply. Corn should
be given in moderate quantities only. on
account Of its tendency to fatten. Oats are
good grain for change. but they con-
tain too much husk to be favorite food
with poultry. Sorghum seed is an excel
lent food; so is milk, even skim milk,
sweet or sour. mixed with wheat bran.
Green vegetables of all sorts are desirable
through the Fall and Winter Many poul-
try men have successfully fed their fowls
with ensilage as substitute for other veg
etable food. Fowls fed largely on buck
wheat produce inferior eggs of thin. white
contents.
Eggs packed in sawdust will certainly
taste of the packing material. A few
dozen eggs packed in resinous product
and forwarded few miles by express
were rendered almost worthless in two
hours from such exposure. Similar in
jury is inflicted upon eggs by the use of
musty hay or straw in packages. OF
course sweet hay or straw finely chopped
are unobjectionable. Egg merchants now
use, in almost all cases, patent egg boxes.
provided with separate paper compart-
ments for each egg. Thus transported.
the percentage of breakage is very mod
crate; while the packing imparts no disa-
agreeable Odor or flavor 10 the eggs.
Air-slacked lime is sometimes used in
the bottom of barrels in which eggs are
packed in hay. to correct or absorb any
unpleasant gasses or liquids arising from
eggs broken in transit. A well-known
chemist of Boston, feeling cartain that he
could improve on the use of lime, made
a test with disinfectant in which carbolc
acid was construct. The whole ship.
ment of eggs was ruined by reason of the
odor of the disintectant permeating the
porous shell of the egg. Few people
realize the rapidity and certainty with
which eggs will absob noxious gasses and
odors.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-12-01
A Gentleman.

A gentleman is rarer thing than some
of US think for. Which of US can point out
many such in his circle-men who are gen.
erous, whose truth is constant and elevat-
ed, who can look the world honestly in the
face, with an equal, manly sympathy for
the great and small ? We all know hun
dred whose coats are well made, and
score who have excellent manners. but of
gentlemen how manyP Let US each take a
little scrap Of paper and each make his
list ThIcEerU
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-12-01
A gentleman afflicted with the chronic rbeu.

A gentleman afflicted with the chronic rheu-
matism says: mo description of my case
can convey the vast amount OF benefit have
received from the use of Johnson's Anodyne
Linament. believe it is the best article in
the world for rheumatism.
The season has arrived when everybody
who owns horses, cattle, sheep, hogs and
fowl should begin to feed out Sheridan's Con.
dition Powders. They all need to be braced
up for winter. Get Sheridan's. The large
packs are worthless. uov27d&w1w
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-12-01
Extract From Letter.

"In the winter of 1877 8, was confined to
the house for or months and to the bed
weeks with Rheumatism. could get no re-
lief. l began using Henry G Johnson's Ar
MICA & Oil Liniment, and in ten days by the
use of halt bottle was cured.
NATHAN JgwETT, East Haddam, c."
Baxter's Mandrake Bitters cure all diseas-
es arising from biliousness. N. II. Downs
Vegetable Balsamic Elixir cures Coughs,
Colds and Consumption. nov20teod&wlm
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-12-01
To Repair Damages.

Dear lady, there is probably no use telling
you that fashionable life in a great city 10 .
rough one on your beauty. Late hours. loss
of sleep and mental excitement will leave you
by and by shorn Of those beautiful tresses
which drew lovers around you in other years.
Artificial substitutes can never pass for those
rich and glossy locks. Parker's Hair Balsam
will stop your hair from falling out, restore
its natural color and softness, and prove
cleansing and beneficial to the scalp.
nov6tw w&s&wlm
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-12-01

81 sometimes wish could take hold of the
sale Of Thomas Electric Oil for tell yon it
is . grand thing, and am conscientious in
saying could do good work" Rev. r. r.
Crane, Cory, Pa.
Electric Oil cured this gentleman of quinsy
Of many years standing. n0v27d&wlw4p
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-12-01

Money saved and health obtained By taking
the true ~. T." Atwood Medicine. Al.
ways bsaEs red trade mark IL. r."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-12-01

The Hop Plastefs have q wonderful sale,
and why Because they cure Back Ache,
Stiff joints, Pain in the Side and all Soreness
in any part. People appreciate them. Any
druggist 25cts. noy27d&v1w
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-12-01

The only known specific for Epileptic Fits.
Also for spasms and Falling Sickness. Nervous
Weakness 1t instantly relieves and cures. Cleanses
blood and Quickens sluggish circulation. EeutrA
Lies germs Of disease and saves sickness. Cures
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1883-12-01
Notice!
Photographs Taken in
an Instant.

Having taken advantage Of the very latest i'm
provements in the Art Of Photography. I am pre-
pared to make absolutely instantaneous exposures.
The likeness being taken In an instant, the expres-
sion, which Is everything TO photograph, 10 caught
before the muscles of the face have time 70 relax
and lose expression In the case Of long exposures
This process Is especially adapted to the photo.
graphing Of children A true likeness 10 guaranteed
without worriment or lose Of time, showing every
feature sharp and clear.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-08-31

"Sam, you are getting pretty well
along in years" said an Austin lawyer
to an aged darkey; don't you feel
afraid you will die some day?"
"No, boss, isn't bit afraid of death.
It's how to scrub along and get ibbin'
in dis worP what's boderin' me, heah,
heahy"
Don't you think you will kinder
vince when old man Death knocks at
the door and says, Come along, Sam,
we have got use for you in the other
world? p"
"Not bit, boss, not bit. I'll tell yer
about dat. Did you ebber go to der
cirkus?"
"Oh, yes!"
"Did, hay? Well, after de show was
all ober an yer was streamin' out OF
de front door of de canvass, didn't yeI
nebber feel sober-like, an as though
yer'd spent yer so cents fer nuffin?"
well, Sam, that about illustrates
it."
"Yes. Well, when de icy ham OF
death is laid on yer pulse, dat's jes
about how yer will feel. Yer'll feel as
if yer wanted ter go hum an see de ole
folks an de chums what's gone afore,
an yer'll jist feel tired an out of sorts
an all yer'll want is ter rest, jist rest
OATS my theology, boss, an done got
through carin' what de preachers say.
TEXAS SiftinQs.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-08-31
Legal Intelligence.

Not long since an Austin lawyer was
appointed by the District Judge to ex-
anime candidate for admission to the
bar. The young man was rather de-
ficient in Blackstone and Greenleaf. 1t
looked very much as though he lacked
the requisite preparation.
"Do you know what fraud is, In the
judicial sense of the word?" inquired
the examining attorney.
Il DON'T hardly think l do" was
the stammering reply
"Well, fraud exists when a man takes
advantage of his superior knowledge to
injure an ignorant person.
$50 that's it, is itg Then if you take
advantage of your superior knowledge
of law to ask me questions can't an
swer, owing to my ignorance, and, in
consequence thereby, l am refused q
license, L will be injured and you will
be guilty of fraud. Won't you, Judge? ?"
The lawyer was very thoughtful for
few moments and then added, re-
| fectively:
my young friend, 1 perceive you
have great natural qualifications for the
bar, and / shall recommend that O
large, acknowledgement and richly.
engraved license be granted you, in
spite of your ignorance. "-Teras Slit
| mas
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-08-31
A Last Legal Resort.

"There doesn't seem to he any Justice
left in this country for murderers," OBJ
served an Austin merchant to COM
panion; "iuries are continually dis
agreeing, and law and order are suffer-
ing a relapse.
II know good way to enforce the
law, if they would only do it."
"How would you proceed?" inquired
the Austin merchant, with some show
of curiosity.
why, you say that juries are always
disagreeing, don't you?"
yes"
well, then, I'd put the murderer on
the jury, and then he would be sure to
be hung, wouldn't hep"
Eyes, L suppose so, but then he
wouldn't mind it much, as long as he
got 81 jury fee for being hung. y
Texas SUtings.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-08-31
Edison as an Operator.

Edison used to work the other end
of circuit with me-" says telegraph
operator, "and 1 knew him when he
was in Memphis some thirteen or four
teen years ago. He always looked rat
ty and never spent his money on
clothes, but the reason was that he was
always tinkering with some new con-
trivance or other, and spent his money
in paying for material to work out his
inventions. He used to take press in
Memphis. He was as fast as they make
'em, and his copy never gave tele-
graph editor bit of trouble. He had
a way while waiting for copy of draw
ing caricatures, illustrating the charac-
ter of news he was getting, and putting
them along in the spaces of the copy
he sent into the press. This made one
of the papers up there, 1 forget which,
red-hot, and it opened on him and had
q good deal to do with his being fired
by the manager. Edison didn't want
the fool editor to print his funny
pictures in his telegraphic news. He
only drew them for his own amusement.
When he went to Boston with his yell
low linen breeches on in the middle OF
winter the manager of the Office, find
ing he was an expert, hired him to
keep the repeaters in order. Edison
worked part of two days, and then
was caught by the manager of the Of
flee fooling with some continuance OF
his own. Thought hired you to keep
those repeaters in order, said the man
ager You did, said Edison, but I've
put kink or two into them that will
make them keep themselves to order
From that day his fortune was made.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-08-31

Is more effectually purified by Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters than by any other depurent. It
expels every trace OF the poison from system
impremated with it, and for the reason that It
gives vigorous impulse to all those functions
whose regularity IL essential TO health, 10 Is q
hrst-rate preventive OF malarial and bilious en-
denies. 1t promotes regularity In the bile
feebled digestion, enriches the circulation, and
imparts TO faccid, attenuated and enfeebled
frames an amount of vigor which ordinary med
ication fails TO yield. Since IL Is well known
that persons OF bilious tendency irregular
digestion and a constipated habit OF body are
the best subjects for malaria, the wisdom OF
using this fine protective agent in time will be
appreciated. IL dtduses genial warmth
through the system, which count racts the
effects of damp and exposure, and defends It
from causes productive OF rheumatism, kidney
troubles and other serious maladies.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-08-31
Queer, Very Queer, Discoveries.

The excavations made at the city of
Herculaneum, buried beneath a shower
of volcanic ashes in the year A. ID. 70,
unfold great many curious facts,
showing that city life ], 800 years ago
was very similar to what it is now.
There were theaters, gymnasiuns,
public baths and libraries, same as we
have now. There was baseball
ground, too, and the remains of man
supposed to have been an umpire in a
close game, were found buried under
the home plate. The score of the last
game played between the Pompeii
shows they were the worst kickers out
of Jail"
We are informed that telephone
has recently been discovered with the
following words CONCEALED and petrified
in the mouth-piece: Hello! Hellol
That you, wife? All right. Say, wife,
1 can't come--hello, hello there-well,
don't stand so close to the microphone
i say 1 can't come home to dinner"
ooh, Charley, why not? You know
you promised" Eyes, / know, but I've
got business of Importance; by-by." In
an adjoining room the skeleton of a
man supposed to be Charley was found
sitting ut a card table with four others,
holding in his bony fingers an ace full
on queens.
Another curious find was in the house
of a plumber, where three bathtubs full
of gold coin, greenbacks and govern
ment bends were turned up in a cellar.
But one of the most striking and
pathetic illustrations of the similarity
of these old days to our own, was in the
discovery of a skeleton standing before
door, still holding night-key in close
proximity to the key-hole, which for
800 years he had searched for in vain.
An empty flask in the doorway told the
sad tale. He had been out with the
boys Cincinnati Saturday Night.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-08-31
The Shadow of a Hand.

In the year 1916, the inhabitants of
Dieppe we're thrown into state of the
utmost CONSERVATION by series of rob-
berries and murders, evidently the work
of one man. No trace of the perpe-
traitor could be discovered, though one
of his intended victims who had mar
rowly escaped, averred that he had
only three fingers on one of his hands.
The Government offered large re-
ward for his apprehension, and the po-
lice displayed the greatest activity. In
the outskirts of Dieppe there lived an
elderly lady, of the name of Beaumau-
rice, alone with one servant, in q rather
solitary house. She was the widow of
an officer, and noted for her strength of
character and personal courage. The
excitement prevailing in the town
made no visible impression upon her,
though the contrary might have been
expected from one in her lonely posi-
ton. On the Both of April, Madame
Baumaurice, who had been suffering
all day from nervous headache, retired
to her bed-chamber at about 10 o'clock
in the evening. Feeling very tired,
she sat down in an easy chair to take a
little rest. Before her stood the dress
ing table, draped with curtains reach.
ing to the floor. A lamp was burning
behind her, on little table The lady
had begun to undress herself when she
saw something that stopped the beat.
ing of her heart. There appeared on
the floor the shadow of mans hand.
The hand had only three fingers The
position of affairs was clear enough
the murderer was concealed under the
dressing table. The lady kept per.
fectly still and considered what was tc
be DONE After few moments refec
ton, she went to the door and called
her servant, and asked her, as soon as
she made her appearances: MARY, dc
you kow where Mr.. Bernard lives p
Eyes, Madame" Il had quite forgot
ten that 1 have 5000 francs to pay to.
morrow morning. You had better &c
ut once and get the money" "Very
we'll, Madame" And lest he should
hesitate about giving you the notes,
will give you written order to take tc
him." The girl waited, and her mis-
tress wrote: Dear Mr.. Bernard, tho
murderer of the Rue DIES Armes and the
Rue Grenard is in my house. Come
Immediately with two or three gend
armes, and take him into custody. -
Helene Beaumaurice. She gave the
note to the servant maid and sent hei
away. Then she sat down again anC
waited. Yes, the lady sat a whole hour
in the room, in the presence of 9
notorious murderer who lay concealed
under her dressing-table. There she
sat-calm. cool and resolute. Tn,
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-08-31

II the statement of parties who have been sufferers
from disorders of the blood TO be believed Hoods
SarsaparllG has been remarkably successful IN Grad
icating poisons from the system and curing their
complaints
Paris Green.
II. S. CLARK, of Glen Falls, n. Y. became pois-
oned by paris green that his face broke out in pmpes
and blotches. he found nothing that did him any
good till Hoods Sarsaparilla, which purified his blood
and expelled the malignant venom.
X. BRUCE, Maiden, Mass, poisoned in his left
leg. which much swollen Hoods Sarsaparilla
reduced the swelling, expelled the poison and Mr..
Bruce again walks with ease.
After Scarlet Fever.
EDWARD BAssETT's daughter, of Chelsea, Mass,
left with Jumps in her neck and partial blindness.
For six eight months at time she could not at
all. Hoods Sarsaparilla removed the Jumps from
her throat and restored her eyesight.
Scrofula.
young girl In Newark, n. j.. had disorder in her
blood from infancy Her sight well her hearing
affected. She was obliged 10 leave school, for
none Of the children would sit beside her. Her
mother resolved to try Hoods Sarsaparila. On the
second bottle the child began 10 improve, and after
three bottles her sight and hearing returned.
Hoods Sarsapariila
Sold by Druggists. 81 six for IS. Prepared only by
CT. HOOD x CO. Apothecaries. Lowell. Mass.