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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-01-30

The next meeting Of the Columbian
Whist Ciab will be with Miss Hattie Mari
FRIDAY evening.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-01-30

Mr.. G. 4. Wentworth returned Saturday
from two weeks visit in Dexter.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-01-30

Miss &. Reile yarrev of the sorham
Normal SCHOOL returned to her stnsiies this
week. after = vacation of 10 days with
Friends
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-01-30

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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-01-30

GARDINER.

rre.i,irn, spear Was in wsterviiie satnr-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-03-21
THE LISTING SYSTEM.

Just at the time when the exodus of
Maine capital to build UP the industries
of other States has been stopped, and
the capital Of other States, having dis
covered our preeminent advantages for
manufacturing, is flowing in upon us;
just at the time when the outlook for
the future of the State is exceedingly
promising, the legislature Of Maine has
stepped in and is threatening by a
drastic and inquisitorial tax measure to
roll back this tide OF foreign capital and
to start anew the investment of our own
capital in foreign enterprises. There
never was clearer case Of industrial
suicide than is presented by the advocacy
of the so called listing bill now pending
in the Senate. The moment it passes
foreign capital will shun the State as
completely as if we should station line
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-03-21

of armed men along our boundary with
orders to shoot every man who ap-
preached the State with dollar in his
pocket, while home capital will stealthily
steal away to States where mems peck
cts are not searched by law, and where
the right of man to keep his private
business affairs to himself is recog-
nized and respected. The bill is being
supported upon the plea that the cities
are not paying their fair share of the
taxes. and that this measure will compel
them to. The first assumption is wrong,
and the second assumption is wrong
also. The cities are not only paying
fair share of the taxes, they are paying
more. The cities of Maine today are pay
ing to very large extent for the support
of the schools in the country districts
Town after town is receiving back more
money through the operation of the
school mill tax than it pays for State
taxes The only tax that burdens the
farmer is his town tax, which represents
the money that he votes annually for
roads and schools and paupers and other
town charges. Were the taxes of the
cities to be doubled the towns would be
in no measure relieved from these taxes.
But the second assumption Is as false as
the first The listing system would not
in the long run produce more taxes from
the cities. Exactly the reverse has been
the case wherever it has been tried.
Prof. Ely, who has made as complete
a study of the effect of the listing system
as anybody in this country, lays it down
as a general rule that wherever this sys-
tenn is in vogue the ''great cities
Ito quote his language] escape the per-
sonal property tax to more considera-
BILE extent than the smaller cities and
villages. and still more than the rural DIS
tricts." Thus this system of taxation
which the farmers of this State are
shouting for has always worked against
the farmers instead of for them.
Directly and indirectly this listing
system is certain to be detrimental to
the farmers. Directly, because expert
ence has shown that their personal prop
erty is more fully assessed under it than
the personal property of the cities. In
directly, because its tendency is to re-
tard the growth Of the cities, to prevent
the establishment of new industries, to
stop the growth of population and thus
to narrow the market on which the, far
mers depend largely for the disposal of
their products.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-03-21

the students of the New Haven Theology
cal Seminary, and afterwards recon
structed and repeated from the chair OF
the Adm Ballou Lectureship at Mead
vile, Pennsylvania, the topic being the
social aspects of the religion of Christ,
and the consequent duty and Importance
of applying the principles and spirit OF
that religion to the intercourse and con-
duct of man with man, in all the ac-
tivities and relations Of life" The sub
ject is handled with great breadth and in
large spirit, in that luminous style and
with that shrewd wit that make DR..
Gladden's sermons more entertaining
than the novels of other men and more
edifying than many pretentious treatises
on ethics. Perhaps the ground covered
by the volume cannot be better indicated
than by transcribing the chapter head
ings: The Christianization of Society;
Economical and Christian Ethics; Prop
erty in Land; Property in General; The
Labor Question; The Collapse Of Com
petition; Cooperation the Logic OF
Christianity; The Reorganization Of In
dustry: Scientific Socialism; Christian
Socialism.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Com
pany; Portland: Loring, Short & Har-
mon. Price $1.25.
Louis Agassiz, His Life and Work, by
Charles Frederick Holder, is the latest
of the Leaders in Science Series, pub
lished by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New
York. The handsome volume is a
worthy memorial and adequate biography
of the great naturalist who came to us
from the foothills of the Bernese Alps
and won all mems love by his kindly
ways and their admiration by his wide
conquests in the domain of knowledge.
The life of Agassiz is in great measure
the record of scientific achievement, and
properly enough his biographer makes
large use of the Switzer's labors as a
naturalist; but the book is chatty, too,
and the element of personal interest
never lost sight of. Much stress is put
upon Agassiz's strong theistic convic-
tions,-by which he, the descendant of a
long line of clergymen, came honestly
enough, and to which he tenaciously
held. cortland, Loring, Short & Har
mon, Price $1.50)
Four new volumes have been issued by
Harper & Brothers in the dainty Black
and White series: John Kendrick Bangs's
delightfully."- dro1l Coffee and Repartee.
in which an Inspired Idiot is the pro-
tagonist; Mary E. Wilkinss witchcraft
drama of Giles Corey, yeoman; the SYM
pathetic and interesting "reminiscences of
Whittier. by Mrs. James T. Fields;
and the boldly written and plain-spoken
Japanese Bride by Naomi Tamura, in
which so many illusions are dissipated
and so many travellers tales proved I'M
true. These volumes are fifty cents
each, and for sale in this city by Loring,
Short & Harmon.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-03-21

The New York Sun has obtained
likeness of the Hon. Dink Bolts of Geor-
gia. which it vouches for as an exceed
ingly faithful representation of the form
and feature of that distinguished states
man. In close proximity to the Hon.
Mr.. Bolts is a capacious demijohn, al
legged to contain mineral water. If there
is any connection between Mr.. Botts's
great circumference at the equator and
this demijohn, we should say that the
proprietor of the mineral spring from
which the jug was filled has fortune in
sight,
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-03-21

The Hon. Simon S. Brown is an appli-
cant for the surveyorship at this port and
has filed his papers. AS the term of the
present incumbent does not expire for
about two years Mr.. Brown has evident
1y taken time by the forelock. 1t would
be somewhat interesting to know if
among Mr.. Browns papers is history
of the famous count-out in which his SER
vices to the Democracy were so con-
spicuous.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-03-21

the system the city Of
railways the city Pawtucket towns
Lincoln Cumberland the aggregate $40 miles track and serve popu
of pledged
described controlled BY the United
building
confidently believed
additional completed will
railway the system security for these bonds
control the United and
the extensions when completed will
Electric
furnished with electrical equipment will
total authorized issue of bonds
mortgage
Of Stlman Hubbard William G.
Rocker, Esq, of Providence
maturity They registered
be Trustee,
These will be
bonds ready for delivery.
the
OFFER these bonds and
CENTRAL YORK, CLARK, DODGE CO..
wa streetNe York sreetN York.
RHODE HGGINsON
wesmi Streets Provide r Boston.
MARIO
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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-03-21

The savings bank manager who allows
himself to be tempted by the discrimi-
mating tax bill to invest in securities that
his Judgment does not approve will be
recreant to his trust. Let the dividends
to depositors be cut down rather than
the principal put in the slightest
ieonardY.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-03-21

If the legislature proposes to relieve
the people of Biddeford from the grip of
the political machine, disguised as a
police force, it should restore the police
commission bill to it's original form. AS
it is now it is of no benefit to anybody.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-03-21

The talk of the Argus about fraud in the
count in Wards 5, 6 and lis simply non
sense. The ballots in those wards were
counted by Democrats as well as Repub-
licans, and their determination was
honest and accurate. Our esteemed con-
temporary should cease to be silly.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-03-21

The House one day passes listing bill
that will drive capital from the state and
the next passes discriminating savings
bank bill on the ground that it will keep
capital at home. Consistency is not one
of the jewels of the present popular
branch of the legislature.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-03-21

The wise thing for the Bangor Wing
to do is to reconcile itself to the Austral-
ian ballot law. Kicking against the
pricks is very Improbable business and
hurts nobody but the kicker.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-03-21
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

~@>~N~~~OS-t
Sophomore in Bowdoin college-class
not given, but perhaps that Of 1850,
which sent so many men to war; for
Paul fought and fell wounded at Gettys-
burg-and The Down East Masters First
School is the account of his youthful
experiences as a pedagogue, related by
Edward A. Rand. The story is enter
tanning, told with humor and vivacity
and narrative skill; and certain bump
tiousness" which suggests that the au-
thor himself is not entirely lacking in
that useful quality. The time is before
the war, when kerosene was unknown
and people nightly hazarded their lives
by the use of burning fluid" The
scene is a Down East school district;
and as description of state of things
now justpassing away the book possesses
value as well as immediate interest It
is difficult to tell who will be most en-
tertained by it, teachers, pupils OF school
agents-which last, by the way, are not
treated tenderly-for it concerns them
all. Some time after his teaching days
are over Paul goesito the war, and comes
back to marry Annie Alton-which the
reader will rather regret, if, like the re-
viewer, he is half in love with her him
self. Boston: D. Lothrop Company
Maturin M. Ballou's Story of Malta
Boston: Houghton, Mif1in & Co.; Port
land: Loring, Short & Harmony is one of
those photographically faithful books of
travel to which he has accustomed the
public, and which the public seems to
like-a story told in pleasant way, in a
style that is Incidentally commonplace
and studded with quotations that have
been in use until they smell somewhat
musty. Yet Mr.. Ballou does succeed in
conveying a distinct impression of
the places he visits, and we come
away from his books with some in
crease of knowledge. Malta is some
thing more than book of travel; for
the history of the island, at least since
the time the Hospitallers established
themselves there, is told with tolerable
fullness. price $1.50)
But Men Must Work, by Rosa Nou-
Ghetto Carey philadelphia: J. B. Lip
pincott Company is moderately enter
tanning novel-a piece off the same goods
which have been on sale at the booksel-
lers counter for the last ten years. The
style of the article is sufficiently indica-
ted by the fact that the women in the
book are named Sybil and Muriel and
the men Horace Haldane and Bryan
Royston. But what else can be expected
of an author capable of imposing such
honeymoon title as "Wee Wife" upon
a novel? Price so cents.
Tools and the Man, by Washington
GLADDEN., takes its title from passage in
Carlyle's Past and Present, printed on
the title page as motto: MAY it please
your Serene Highnesses, your Majesties,
Lordships, and Law-wardships, the
proper Epic of this world is not now
Arms and the Man,; how much less
'Shirt-frills and the Man, No, it is now
Tools and the Man, that, henceforth to
all time, is now our Epic;-and you, first
of all others, 1 think, were wise to take
note of that.
The subtitle of the book, Property and
Industry Under the Christian Law, con-
veys an idea more nearly exact of it's
scope. The chapters contain the sub
stance of course of lectures spoken to
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-03-21

President Cleveland relaxes his rule OF
reappointing none of the old Office
holders when it appears that the whole
community is for them. The exception
will benefit very few of them indeed.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-03-21
THE PRESS.
TUESDAY, MARCH 81.
SECOND ELECTION, APRIL 18TH.
FOR MAYOR,
JAMES p. BAXTER

Warden Harper still defies public
opinion by sticking to his office.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-03-21
CENTRAL TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK. Trustee.

substantially all the stock and mortgage
Of Providence, which In turn
Providence Cable Tramway
Company mortgage substantially all the shares Of
the PaWtucket Street Railway Company.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-03-21

$4,000, 900
Providence & PaWtucket Street Rail-
way Issue
United Traction and Electric Company.
FIRST MORTGAGE FORTY YEARS
Five Per Cent Cold Bonds.
DUE MARCH IsT 1888,
Payable and September ls at the office
of the Central Company, New York.

the by
nung equipmen within eighteen
City Hall Of Providence R. and additional to the
miles of track hereinafter mentioned but at a rate
exceeding $4,000 mile of such new track
The Forrest City times., 1893-03-24
Refuses to Abandon All Hope.

NEW YORK, March 21.-Mr. II. Malt land Kersey, the New York agent of the White Star line, to which the Ma ronic belongs, still has hopes that the Naronic has not gone down, and says: ''The finding of the boats reported by the steamship Coventry does not in any way prove that the Naronic is lost A big sea may have carried these boats overheard while the Naronic, perhaps with her machinery disa bled, was la boring against the storm"
 This opinion, however, is hardly borne out by the facts as cabled yesterday from Bremen, which show that the boats had been occupied and navigated. It is quite probable that some vessel has picked up the occupants of these boats, and they will eventually be heard from and the fate of the Naronic known.
The Forrest City times., 1893-03-24
THE HAWAIIAN MISSION,
xx-Congressman Blount Leaves San Fran
 cisco for Honolulu.


 SAN FRANCISCO, March 21.-Ex-Con- gressman James H. Blount, commits sioner to Hawaii, accompanied by Mrs. Blount and Ellis Mills, stenographer of the state department, as secretary, arrived from Washington yesterday morning and shortly after noon started for Honolulu on the United States revenue cutter Richard Rush. Senator EIount was seen for few minutes be- fore boarding the Rush, and upon be- ing requested to say something about ais mission, replied: My mission, so far as instructions connected with it are concerned, is secret one, and in regard to those instructions I am ab- soluteiy unable at present to give any information to the public. l would like to do so but l cannot"
 When asked if he had any idea as to how long he would be away he said: .I imagine may be absent about three months. The Rush will probably, ac- cording to what hear remain at the islands as long as l am there, and shall very likely return on her"
 Capt Mooper, who commands the arskr expects to make the trip in about eight days.
The Forrest City times., 1893-03-24
A Sad Father.

The Little Rock Gazette few days ago contained the following:
 MT. Richard Miles. farmer of Hickory Plains. Ark, was in the city yesterday on his way home from Lamar Mo. where he had gone to witness the execution of Amos Avery. Avery murdered his 20-year-old son. J. A. Miles. near Liberal. Mo. September % 1891. was tried. con victed and sentenced 10 be hanged on the 18th inst, but Gov. Stone Of Missouri respited the prisoner for thirty days Young Miles a visitor to Missouri when he was brutally murdered by Avery, who was a fellow-traveler with him over a country road. Avery stole his victims horse and buggy. together with his hat and other things, and skipped out leaving the dead body by the roadside The murderer was detected through the initials of the mur dered boy found in the hat he wore. When he exchanged his own hat for that of his victim he had failed to notice that it was marked MT. Miles is a broken hearted father. and he thinks Gov Stone did wrong in respiting Avery
The Forrest City times., 1893-03-24
OYNAMiTERS AT WORK.
Another Serfous Explosion at Rome-A Bomb Let Loose at the Entrance of the Narigold Palace.

Another serfous Explosion at Rome-A
 Bomb Let Loose at the Entrance of the
 Marigold Palace.
 RoME, March 21.--A bomb exploded last evening at the entrance of the Marigold palace. The explosion was heard distin ctly in the middle of the city, although the palace is in the suburbs The houses throughout the neighborhood were shaken by the shock, and for 200 yards in every direc- lion windows were smashed and plas- ter was shaken from ceilings. In the palace every window was smashed, everything was thrown from the shelves and much of the furniture was broken. The stones at the entrance were thrown out of place and deep hole was driven in the ground. Hun Greds of persons ran from houses in she neighborhood and gathered at the entrance. A company of soldiers cleared the streets It was found that no one had been injured, though the damage to the property had been con- siderable No arrests have been made, and no evidence as to the identity of she man who placed the bomb has been obtained.
The Forrest City times., 1893-03-24
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.
Are the Clayton Murderers Fo.nd |:

The Little Rock police assert that there is some ground for believing that the murdercrs of John NJ. Clayton, at Plummerville, are now in the hands of the authorities at Butte, Mont Dur ing the Breckinridge investigation by the congressional subcommittee on elections the evidence showed that the pistol from which the bullet was fired that killed Clayton had been sold by the Simmons Hardware Go. of St. Louis to Butte (Mont) hardware dealer, and from him it was purchased by a stranger. The authorities claim that they have positively identified the mur- derer. Four years ago the legislature passed an act offering a reward of sl, ,000 for the capture and conviction of the murderer, and this act has never been repealed.
The Forrest City times., 1893-03-24
An Election Muddle at Tine BIun.

There is no little speculation as to what will be the outcome of the munich pal election to be held at Pine Bluff on April 4.
 Acting under the last election law the cleo tion commissioners, short while ago. appoint ed judges and places of voting. The city coun- ell contended that under the law which was never repealed. 1t their duty to appoint judges and places of voting. they, at special meeting appointed tdistinct from commission CTS judges of election and places of voting. So as it stands there will be two distinct cleo tions for the same offices. and there's the rub" The outcome is anxiously looked for by all
The Forrest City times., 1893-03-24

Word About that Cotton Convention.
 The St. Louis Globe Democrat of recent date contained the following:
 The farmers convention. held in Little Rock Ark. on the 10th of March was quite an able and influential gathering of planters. After urging their people to reduce the acreage of cotton the coming season. and to make like increase in the acreage of cereals. giving good reasons for such conduct, they addressed strong memorial to the New Orleans cotton ex- change, urging that body to make its contracts for the handling of cotton commercial transac- tions. and not lottery deals, as they claimed to be. This is most remarkable ap- peal and it is hard to see how this southern city can fail to notice and act upon this vail from the dispirited cotton planters of the south. Sure ly they could not ask for less from an honor able exchange, the largest in the southern states, than that they should have fair com mercial transactions in the sale and delivery of their cotton. If it is, as is suggested in this memorial, fact that the present system makes that exchage lottery institution. it should be condemned by all commercial bodies in this country. and. if necessary. suppressed by the national and state governments