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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-08-15

Two wealthy young ladies at Goose Rocks.
Maine, recently disguised themselves As
s,rolling gypsies, one with . banjo and the
other with q guitar. Their contributions
for the day amounted to 50 which they
give to one unfortunate family.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-08-15

'.He works, and though for othefS sake
BE seems 70 lover Of his race.
He Always nevs 20 ~ 70 make
Ths <kfrsn rg nm In anpvza NusSx fnee -
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-08-15

by your presence viii you
come and please your eyes :?
Or would you prefer to be a
might have been? An adver-
Using rule will be given to
every child who asks for one.
P1NKHAM & SHERBURNE.
To ThASat.tf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-08-15

In addition to regular trains the Accom-
mediation Train, leaving Augusta at o.
p. NJ, will run through to DRESDEN.
Returning to Augusta. after the enter
talnment. augl2dto2l
The Portland daily press., 1891-12-25
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AS CHILDREN SEE IT.
"a Miniature Drama with Small bat Pro-
gressiye Heroine.

IA Miniature Drama with a Small but Pre-
gressye Heroine.
Alice is seven. She was visiting al
Teddy's house in the country. Teddy
lis six. They were playing keeping
house" the other day when it rained
''I'll be the father" said Ted. land
go to the Office. You are the mother,
you must stay at home and dit the din
ner."
'No," rejoired Miss Alice, ST must go
to business, too. My mamma always
puts on her bonnet and goes to the Of
flee after breakfast" (Her mother is
an editor.)
''Who dts the dinner atyour housep"
asked Teddy, thinking of his stomach.
Nobody. We get things to eat at
some restaurant or we have them sent
in."
Haven't you any kitchen in your
house?"
mo; we have only mammals room,
the sitting room, the study and my
room. Don't you ever tell anyone. but
my room is just corner of the study
behind the screen"
Ted sat thinking. Then, crossing his
short, fat little legs, he said, with the
air of man who has thought much and
deeply upon the woman question:
t'Well, when dit married | shall have
a kitchen in my house and my wife shall
cook the dinner. fink it is funny for
mammas to go to offices. l fink they
ought to stay at home"
NJ I'll. t~..A
woman replied: ''It isn't funny one bit.
It's good deal nicer than cooking din
ners. When am grown up shall have
stylographic pen, wear it behind my
ear just like mamma. am not quite
sure, though, whether | shall be.
writer-woman or doctor-woman like
pAunty May"
Ted looked at Alice seriously out of
his big brown eyes. II don't fink I'll
marry you then; was linking / would.
maybe"
ST don't care" responded Alice, flip
PANTY. "I've wiped dishes once and /
don't like to. You might cook your
own dinner and see how you'd like it
for awhile. My papa says he can make
cocoa just as good as he wants it any
day. don't want to play house with
you If you want me to cook dinners.
You play you're sick and I'll div. you
some medicine. Let me feel your pulps;
where's your tongue?"
The eavesdropper tiptoed to the door
for peep at these wise children Alice
was standing over Ted trying to keep
her mothers eyeglasses on her puo
nose. Ted was rocking a scrubby-lool-
ing rag baby, and judging by the de-
jected look on his rosy face, he felt that
the years of servitude predicted by Alice
had begun.-N. Y. Recorder.
The Portland daily press., 1891-12-25
Our AtmospI,ere.

Our atmosphere is composed of air "a
mixture of n parts by weight of nitro
gen and 81 parts of oxygen) with vari-
able proportions of carbonic acid,
aqueous vapors and ammonia, the latter
in exceedingly small quantities How
il came here and whence it's origin no
man can venture to say. 1t is known
that the sun and the planets have at
mospheres, but at present little is
known concerning the component parts
of the atmospheres of those far-off
globes. The spectroscope is, however,
beginning to reveal something of their
true character. 1t is generally conceded
that the moon has no atmosphere, the
theory being that the scorial and vol
canic lavas absorbed the air and water
of that planet millions of years ago.
The Portland daily press., 1891-12-25
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subscription of six werks.
Persons wishing to leave town for long or
short periods may have the addresses of their
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In DAILY PRESS Si.5o per SQUIRE, first
week; 70 cents per week after. Three inser-
tions or less, $l.o0 per square. Every other
day advertisements, ono third less than these
rates,
Half square advertisements SLIGO per week,
frst week. half price each succeeding week.
Special Notices, on first page, one third
additional.
AnluSeDaellts and AUCTION Sales, So 90 per
square each week. Three insertions or less
81 80 per square.
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vertisements under these heading will be
charged at regular rates.
La MAINE sTATE PRESS S1.00 per square
or first insertion and 30 cents per square for
each subsequent insertion.
The Portland daily press., 1891-12-25
CONCERNING BOOKS.
BY e. CAvAZzA.

Letters of Charles Dickens to Wilkie
Collins. Edited by Laurence Hutton.
Everything relating to the life and work of
Dickens is sure of large number of inter-
ested readers; and these will have, by
means of the present volume of Letters. a
view of the author at work, in colabora-
ton and friendly exchange of thought with
Wilkie Collins. When the two first met,
in 1851, Collins was young man of twenty
five or six years. He had already pub
lished his first novel, AntOnina, and had
decided to devote himself to the career OF
letters. Dickens was about forty years
old. author of dczsn books, and had be-
gun. shortly before. to publish the weekly
journal, Household Words. The friend
ship between Dickens and Collins was
strengthened by the marriage. ten years
later, of Dickens's daughter to brother
of Collins, and continued until the death of
Dickens in 1870 1t is, of course, matter
Of regret that only one side of the CORES
pOndence Is accessible. 1t was matter of
principle with Dickens to destroy all let
tiers received, except those upon absolute
Hill and burned all the confidential letters
which he possessed-a literary holocaust
whence many precious expressions must
have gone up in fame and smoke For he
counted among his circle of friends Tback-
cray, Carlyle, Leigh Hunt, Macau ay,
Jerrold, Lander, Longfellow, Irving and
many more. Yet we may be tolerably con-
tent with only the Dickens letters, which
imply more or less intelligibly also those
of Collins-in the fashion that one side of
dialogue by telephone can afford notion
of it's affair.
Naturally, from the character of the two
men and the work in which they took part
together, much of the correspondence is
about dramas and representation. An in
teresting souvenir is the fac smile playbill
of the performance at Philharmonic Hall,
Liverpool, of the two-act comedy, Used Up,
lie which Dickens took the part of Sir
Charles Coldstream, andsColins appeared
as James, and the farce. Mr.. Nightingale's
Diary, by Dickens and Mark Lemon, when
the versatile playwrights each took several
characters, and to Collins was assigned the
part of the landlord of the Water Lily Inn.
Some very interesting notes about famous
people occur in these letters. 1t is anus
ing, perhaps. to hear Dickens complain,
that Mrs. Gaskell would not let him-"eyen
Mr.. Dickens"-change in the proof some
passages OF her novel, North and South.
very well" he writes to Collins, ''said
the gifted Man, she shall have her own
way, but after it's published show her
this Proof, and ask her to consider whether
her story would have been the better or
the worse for it." One would like to see
the chemical result of the work of that
gentlewoman and the amendments of
Dickens! Again, Dickens reports conf
caily the Impressions received from Ma
cready's criticisms of the version made by
George Sand of AS You Like 1t. "The
The Portland daily press., 1891-12-25

There is little room for doubt that WEIGH,
the New York election inspector who DISC
beyed the mandate of the Supreme Court
was prompted so to do by Gov. Hill. An
obligation was therefore imposed upon the
latter to take care of him if he got into
trouble. and Hill has now discharged it by
promptly issuing pardon. But what a
beautiful figure the executive of the fore
most state in the Union cuts In instigating
men to violate the laws of the state and
the mandates of the courts of justice, and
using his official preroeative to protect
them against the consequences of their
actsl Yet the man who does these things
is a candidate for the Democratic nOmina-
tion for the Presidency and is receiving a
wide and enthusiastic support; and such
acts as these instead of hurting him only
seem to accelerate his boom and make him
dearer TO the mass of his party.
The Portland daily press., 1891-12-25
An Easy way Out of 1t.

Not long ago young lady was spend
ing some weeks at Scotch country
house; and just before dinner one even
ing two cousins of the host-one Of
them the great man of the family
rived unexpectedly. Shortly before
dinner was announced the butler sought
the young lady, and said to her conf
dentially: "We're putin on yesterdays
soup; and, If there shouldna be eneuch,
you maun decline" Decline soupl"
exclaimed theyoung lady, much amused.
"But, you know, John, that wouldn't
be manners" "No," said John, coolly;
"but they'll think ye Ken nae better
-Cbrietian Woman
The Portland daily press., 1891-12-25

famous flagship, lies at the bottom of
Lake Erie, and experts think she can be
raised and made quite presentable.
General Arnold's flagship, the Royal
Savage, went down during the famous
battle on Lake Champlain, and at low
water her hull can still be seen. If even
the skeleton Of it will hold together long
enough to be got to Chicago the sight
would fill Americans with delight.
But all others yield in interest to the
famous frigate Constitution, "Old Iron
Sides" which lies in honored old age at
Portsmouth, N. Fl. In 1848, when she
was little more than a mere hulk, the
navy department proposed to break her
up, which brought forth Oliver Wendell
Holmes vigorous protest:
Aye, tear her tattered ensign DOWN. j.
Long has it waved on high;
And many an eye has danced to see
That bannerin the sky.
After that the breaking up simply
couldn't be done. The people would have
damned any administration that per-
mitted it. She was repaired and re-
stored by the son of Mr.. Hart, her first
builder. Her keel was laid at Harris
shipyard, in Boston, in 1894, and she
was launched in 1897. So her centen.
NAL is at hand and a way will be found
to get her to Chicago. In the war Of
1925 she killed nearly 100 British
bluejackets, wounded more than 200 and
captured more than 1000.
Next to her in interest is the famous
President, but the British captured her,
and she now lies at the West India
docks, London. She left New York in
heavy gale in January, 1915, got aground
on Sandy Hook and was "hogged" Tor
broken backed), so that her sailing quail
tiles were impaired. She beat off the
British ship Endymion, but the entire
squadron soon came up, and the Presi-
dent had to strike her colors. The Amer
leans regarded this as almost as glorious
as victory. The Constellation was the
fourth of the famous American frigates
of 1925, and she, too, is in fair preser-
walton.
The victories of the American navy in
that war amazed the nations as much as
the defeat of the Spartans by the The
bans did the ancient world-as much as
the overthrow of British power in India
now would. In 100 actions with the
French and their allies in the wars then
then raging, in which single ships en-
gagged, the English had lost but five ships;
but in the first six months of their war
with the Americans they did not gain
naval victory and suffered five tremen-
dous defeats. OF the fourteen battles
between single ships the British lost
twelve and gained but two, and during
the entire war the Americans captured
56S vessels and about $4,000 men. All
Europe had looked upon the Americans
as madmen, and predicted that Eng
Land would annihilate their navy in six
months.
The Portland daily press., 1891-12-25


waonda, the British force was scattered
and almost annihilated, and Father Jack
son had to walk forty miles across the
desert to reach an English post. He was
shut up with the troops in Kandahar,
suffered with them and did his turn like
the rest.
The pope then sent him to Borneo,
where he has reduced the native Malay
language to written form and built up a
church OF 1000 converts. He is now
project apostolic of northern Borneo and
is collecting funds for the native mis-
sion. The greatest man on the island is
the white sultan of Sarawak, an English
man by birth, ruling region nearly as
large as Ireland. BY his influence the
Malays are led to favor the missions,
but between Malays and Dyaks RACES
an incessant war attended with most
frightful cruelties.
The Portland daily press., 1891-12-25

speech of the Seven Ages delivered as a
light comedy joke; Jacques at the Court of
the Reigning Duke instead of tho banished
one and winding up the thing by marrying
Celial Everything as wide of Shakespeare
as possible, end confirming my previous
impression that she knew just nothing at
all about it," Something of the fellowship
of Dickens and Collins is oddly noted in
the letter from the former which laments
that they were not together, there by the
sea, resolving never to pluck leaf from
the Toady Tree, till this very small world
shall have rolled us off," There Is much
interest in the details of their collabora-
tion in the dramas of the Frozen Deep and
No Thoroughfare; the critical ideals OF
construction expressed by Dickens apropos
of the character OF DR.. Manette, in the
Tale of Two Cities; his pleasure and pride
in the success Of his readings; clever per-
captions Of the public mind, as when he
finds that the impression Of protection
and hope"-as when Nickleby goes away
protecting Snike-is exactly that which ian
audience most likes to be left with" How
true and warmhearted was the friendship
of Dickens for Collins is evident in his
generous praise, as of No Name and The
Woman In White, and the cheerful and
devoted proffer Of literary help at time
when Collins was i'll. These letters, tact
fully edited by Mr.. Hutton to whom book
lovers are indebted for many acceptable
and useful Observation-Disclosures some al
ready printed in the Letters of Charles
Dickens, published in 1880 as supplement
to FOrster's Life; many others were found
after the death of Collins, by his friend
and literary executor. Mr.. A, P. Watt who
obtained from Miss Hogarth, the only re-
naming executor of Dickens. permission
TO publish them. They will add to the es-
TEEN and affection in which Dickens has
long been neld by his admirers. New
York: Harper and Brothers; Portland:
Loring, Short d Harmon.
The Portland daily press., 1891-12-25

The meeting of prominent citizens at
Mr.. Atkinson's establishment yesterday,
a report of which is given elsewhere, de-
serves good deal of careful attention on
the part of people interested to see Port
land grow and prosper. We know that
there is among conservative men pre-
1udice against attempts to bring into ex-
istence all at once great manufacturing
establishment, the feeling being that such
attempts are generally unsuccessful. 1t is
doubtless true as rule that successful
businesses are a gradual growth. But
once in while 1t happens that the condi-
lions are such that an industry can be Gre
ated full-fiedged, so to speak, and there are
good many signs that point to the exist
ence of such conditions in the case under
discussion. There is a growing de-
mand for the goods that it is
proposed to produce, and by reason
of the existing tariff law there has been
great Gripping of the former source of
supplying the demand. English manufac-
turers can no longer put into our market
these goods at prices to compete with our
own manufactures, and these latter are
far from adequate to supply the existing
demand, There would seem, therefore, to
exist all the great essential conditions
for the successful establishment of a
new and prosperous mandatory of these
goods. Furthermore, it happens in this
case that the necessary knowledge and
skill are at hands so that there need be no
loss of time and money Ia experiments, but
such a factory as is proposed may 60 to
work with practical certainty that the
goods turned out will be from the start
such as the market demands. OF
course it would be foolish for
a newspaper to urge our business men to
embark in this enterprise. They are more
competent to judge of its prospects than
we are and SUCH urging would make very
little impression. But the above consider
atoms may very properly be commended
to them, as constituting sound reasons why
the enterprise proposed should receive
careful and thoughtful attention. To treat
project lightly without investigation
is quite as rash, as to hot-headedly en-
brace it. Every enterprise which if sue
cessful would be of benefit to our people
ought to be investigated by the people who
have the means to further 1t, upon its
merits, and that is ali that the projectors
of the scheme under consideration ask,
believing that such investigation will en-
list their sympathy and assistance.
The Portland daily press., 1891-12-25

Instead of supporting the anti-lottery
faction of the Democratic party it looks
now as If the Republicans would split up,
and the lottery crowd thus have walk
over. 1t looks as if the people
must reply entirely upon the nation
al government for protection against the
Louisiana swindle. The people of that
state. both Republicans and Democrats,
appear to have been pretty thoroughly
debauched by 1t.
The Portland daily press., 1891-12-25
Rain Making In India.

Rain making experiments are not con-
fined to the United States by any means.
Showers being badly needed in upper
Burmah awhile ago, Lieutenant Pitcher
was ordered to ascend hill 1900 feet
high and lire off two heavy charges of
gun cotton Of thirty and forty pounds
each. The sky had been cloudless be-
fore, but the explosions were followed
by gathering clouds and copious fall of
rain. The people there are convinced
that there is abundant rain in upper
Burmah if it can only be shaken out.
Fanny Davenport, the actress, is confined to
ner room at DeLrolt. Mich. with rheumatism.
The Portland daily press., 1891-12-25
A Familiar souna,

A lady in Paris was out of patience
and spirits at hearing nothing but
French day after day. One morning
she heard the cock growing. and ex-
claimed: ''Thank heaven, there's some
body who speaks English. London
Tit Bita -
The Portland daily press., 1891-12-25
THE HOUSE COMMITTEES.

The idea uppermost in Speaker Crisp's
mind in making up his committees appears
to have been to punish his enemies and re-
ward his friends. Certainly the usual
rule of making the ablest and most promi-
The Portland daily press., 1891-12-25

of Borneo," and
has had adven-
lures enough to
last several life
times. When or
dained he was
sent to India and
went with the
British army as
Catholic chap
lain into Afghan
istan. There ev-
cry man had to
fight, and he was
in four battles.
In the last. Mai
The Portland daily press., 1891-12-25
THE PRESS.
FRIDAY, DECEHBEg rs.

The Boston Globe is still industriously
nursing its Russell beom, but the results
are not very perceptible. Perhaps, how
ever. it will take start and grow later on.
The Portland daily press., 1891-12-25

The Democratic party appears to be in
fair way to be in the predicament of the
Kilkenny cats after their celebrated scrim-
mage, before the flowers bloom in the
spring,
The Portland daily press., 1891-12-25

The rejuvenated Boston Post remarks
that Mr.. George Fred Williams will be a
force upon the coinage comm ttee for
sound money. If Mr.. Williams should
tumble into a whirlpool he would be a
force. for short time aud just about as
effective force as he will be on the coin
age committee.
The Portland daily press., 1891-12-25
stirring Adventures Of . Priest.

Father Thomas jackson, now visiting
the United States and making his head
quarters at Chicago, is called by way of
compliment the "St. Francis Xavier
The Portland daily press., 1891-12-25
THEY SWEPT THE sEAo.

celebrated American Warships TO lie at
the Worlds Fair.
Old ships are not in the line of bric-a-
brac, but there will be some mighty in
teresting ones at the Worlds fair of 1898.
Two of them will probably be raised"
The brig Niagara, Commodore Perry's
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-10-17

Grace (who loves mt)-There isn't a
good collection In town these days, is
there, Toml
Dunwelle tabsently)-No, my dear, !
never knew collections to be so infer
nally poor since have been In bust.
ness. -PittsburS Bulletin.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-10-17

Our exhibit comprised ESQ different articles, 10 pieces
Of machinery notion $3.50 Premiums and eooo pounds
Of Souvenir advertisements givon away There Is nothing
anteduvlan above; DO olassed with dip
given while Noah's Ark being built.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-10-17

WAEEMAN'S WANDERINGS
a PEEP At ANCIENT COVENTRY

History aud Traditions Of Radiant Lady
oodi,s and Hasosliy peepinE Tom.
hooks and nest. Of Great Antiquity.
Rare old rord', Hospital and 81. Mays
Hall.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-07-17
Bennington Centre.

The Rev. NJ. d. Babcock Of Baltimore
Nd, win preach for Mr.. Severance mex
Sabbath morning at IL o'clock.
Maj. Harrington's condition is mucl
improved, since last week. His son, n
l.. and daughter, Mrs. Sears, with hel
children are here.
II Secretary of the Treasury Foster.
comes 10 the celebration, as is expected,
he will be entertained by his cousin,
Mrs. Geo. W. Robinson.
MIR. -Chas. +. Sears has made an ar.
rangement by which he takes n deed OF
the old home, and will soon commence
extensive repairs upon 1t.
James II. Kellogg, Esq, of Rochester,
friends in our village, and gave q very
fine practical talk at the Sunday School
concert in the afternoon. Mr.. kellogg Is
enjoying his home in Rochester, very
much. We regret that his estimable
wife was not with him.
After a very short illness, Frederick
W. Hicks, died this morning Of cOnges-
ton Of the brain. He was in his 22d
year, and in the third year of his college
life. He was the only child of his
mother, the centre and embodiment Of
all her love and hopes; the darling OBJ
ject of all the toll Of her life, was to
educate him for life of usefulness and
honor, and nobly had he responded to
her efforts, and had become an earnest.
studious, faithful, conscientious, Chris
tan young man, prepared to do good
work for the Master he loved. How
mysterious are the ways Of Providence;
and yet we must not question them,
HE doeth all things we'll" The mother
is crushed and only God can comfort her.
May His grace be sufficient for her in
this terrible affection. The funeral will
be attended from the Waters residence,
morning at IL o'clock.