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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-08-08

Good House Girls!

Are generally considered hard &c find, but hun.
dresis Of families in the Kemebec Valley have &c.
cured them through the WANT COLUMN" Of
the KErNKBEC JOURNAL.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-08-08

Mrs. j. Il. Green and Miss Lillian M.
Written, left, Tuesday afternoon, for Var
mouth to make a two weeks visit.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-08-08
Why Are You Idle?

Cant ind situation? NoDsensei W little
sRC JOURNAL.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-08-08

The Maine Central Railroad will run an
excursion to Peaks Island, Saturday, for
$l,20 to attend the boating carnival on that
Joy
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-08-08

Handkerchief sale, today. C. NJ. Gid
den. aug7d2t'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-08-08

Mrs. A. II. Chadbourne, Miss Ina Chad
bourne aud Miss Gertrude Stone will leave
today, for Ocean Point.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-08-08

DIR. p. III. S. Vaughn and wife and Mrs.
M. S. Campbell left Tuesday morning, for
the Isle of Springs.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-08-08

Work has begun on the erection of new
house on Franklin street, CnshnOc Heights.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-08-08

Miss Wiunifre6 Partridge was a psssen.
ger on the 9.45 train, Tuesday morning, for
Monhegan. F"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-08-08

"ANTED-People of Augusta, Hallowel
w and Gardiner, to know that the Portland
Art and Portrait Co. has started branch at
lIallowell. Their canvassers may cal you
soon. aug2diwt
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-08-08

NyANTED.-By a responsible party, a house
w of eight or ten rooms, centrally located. in
good neighborhood Address Y. General De
livery. Post OIice. aug2dlw*
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-08-08

G. b. Chick left for Portland, Tuesday
morning.
4. S. Milliken went to Monhegan, Tues.
day morning.
Mrs. j. w. Mason left for Rockl,rd,
Tuesday morning.
j. w. Wills left for Boothbay, TUESDAY,
morning on the . As train.
The large E. c. Allen building would
make a splendid plant for shoe factory.
Joseph Latncau is building a grocery
store on Kendall street, Cushnoc Heights.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-08-08
TO LET.

ITO Lighthouse, No. 13 Grove ST., abou,
i Sept. LIST. Two Offices in North's bloc
Also Meonian Hall after July 1st Horace North
may2Sdtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-08-08

YINO LET-lialf of desirable house at Is Hos
i pital street. All separate, city water, heated
throughout with furnace. Stable and gar len.
*..>S.M;.% iuly2tdtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-08-08

TEAO LET-A new house of rooms in thorough
L order. Apply to John p. Wyman, 1913 Brdg
street aug6dtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-08-08

llHOh SALE-Best Granite Tool Bessemer
| Il and Machinery Steel, also Lathe and Planer
Tool steel, and Norway and Refped Iron at whole,
sale. Lowest prices quoted on large orders.
| Telephone. 0S Bangor st. ii. IL. Harvey.
mar2ldtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-08-08

IlOYS NAMTED-To catch bushels Of fish
~ for the seals at Oakwood Park. Vital
Pickard, Superintendent lakewood Park.
aug2dlwt
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-08-08

IJNO LET-Desirabe house on Lincoln street,
Owen. july16dtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-08-08

NOR SALE-Several houses. Prices ranging
Il from $500 upwards. Persons looking for u
home or an investment are invited to call on j..
+. Patterson. Middle ST. apr2ldf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-08-08

NOR SALE-Old papers, whole and clean.
IL at KENNEBEC JOURNAL Office, price
Is eta per hundred janl9dtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-08-08

HEHO LET-Well established dressmaking room
L at l29 Water street. aug4d1w*
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WANTED.

NTANTED-A girl middle-ag woman
w for general homework. Must be IL good
cook. Apply at 81 Bangor street, East Side, Au,
gusta. aug4dtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-08-08
FOR SALE.

NOR SALE-A frst.class pool fable very
Il cheap. Inquire of John III. Lord ,Halloweli.
auqn. diW~
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-08-08

ITO LET-A rent of six rooms. City waite
L Inquire at p Crescent St. aug6dlv
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-08-08

NOR SALE-0ne high.grade bicycle run but
e ashort time. price reasonable. Apply TO
j. J. Mailer, Augusta. aug3d1w
The advocate., 1894-12-12
CONSISTENCY.

The Atchison Champion of Novem-
Der 30 refers editorislly and approx
lngly to a solution of the labor prob.
lem recently favored by the Toledo
Blade. The Champion says:
The Toledo Blade, in discussing this ques-
tion, makes the point that the unemployed
are nearly all in the cities. The true remedy
for the 0ongested labor market lies in the
migration of enough persons back to the
country to restore the disturbed balance be-
tween demand and supply.
But what is the true remedy for
the congested produce market?
Theoretically residents of cities who
are, of course, on-producers of food
products are yet consumers and help
to sustain the demand. But even
now there is said to be an overpro-
duction of these products. In order
to remedy the congssted labor mar
keC" the champion proposes to send
enough persons back to the coun-
try to restore the disturbed balance
between demand and supply" But
in restoring this disturbed balance
in the labor market by this method
you will add to the disturbance in
the food market by increasing the
overproductiOn that you claim al
ready exists. What remedy do you
propose for thisl Wouldn'tlt be well
to do a little sensible thinking upon
these subjects and aim to be reason
ably consistent in their discussion!
The advocate., 1894-12-12

You sgain repeat the assertion that
the single-tax does not tax labor"
l have already shown that nothing
but labor can be made to pay either
taxes or anything else. Every charge,
whether public or private, of what
ever character, in its ultimate analy-
sis, falls upon labor and it can fall
nowhere else. You must certainly
admit this without further argument
as it is an inevitable inference from
the admission you have already
made-''that taxes are not paid by
insnimste or unorgsniz'd matter"
and that 'What single.taxers desire,
and what they think their plan alone
can accomplish, is that taxes levied
against an individual be paid by that
individual" It would seem to be
only question of whose labor shall
pay.
Will free trade, which is.an integral part
OF the single-tax, abolish trusts2
You think it will because you say
owing to the differing laws of differ
ent countries international trusts
would be imprRcticable. Permit me
to remind you that the money trust,
by far the greatest of them all, is mo.v
international, and It's success can
scarcely be questioned. I would also
again remind you of the progress
made towards a successful
international combination by the
Standard Oil trust; and I say the in
dications all point to the probability
that interested capitalists in differ
ent countries will combine for mu-
tual profit whenever tariff restrictions
are removed so as to open traffic to
worldwide competition. The ten
dency of the age is to crush compe.
tition, and the wider it's range, the
wider will be cspitslistie combination
to throttle it. This is too clear upon
the surface to require argument.
The advocate., 1894-12-12

&S Cne enOlr0 T0nb lS required Tor
taxes, would not the entire proceeds
Of the land of the resident owner be
likewise absorbed for taxes, and
would he not also be compelled to
surrender!
But you say the resident owner
would be relieved from all indirect
taxes resulting from tariff, etc., which
do not affect Lord Scully. Granted.
But would not Lord Scully's tenant
be likewise relieved from these in
direct taxes and therefore be able to
endure just that much more squeez-
ing by his landlord before being
compelled to surrender?
Up to this point, now, you have
not hurt Lord Scully very much.
The only loss he has thus far suf.
fered is q loss of income, but you
have squeezed his tenant and the
resident farmer to the very verge of
starvation. It is only when the en-
tire income from the land is cut off
in consequence of it's abandonment
by the tenant that Lord Scully sut-
fers an absolute loss by being com.
PEELED now to pay the taxes from his
reserve capital or surrender his land;
and when that alternative is pre-
sented to him, it Is likewise presented
to the resident land owner.
Now permit me to ask, if confsca-
ton of the land of Lord Scully is the
object of the single.tsx, why would
it not be far better to go directly
about it rather than attempt to &C.
oomplish it by an indirect method
the evil effects of which fall first and
heaviest upon tenants and resident
land owners?
Understand me now I am neither
advocating nor condemning direct
confsCation. It matters not what my
views upon the subject are. I have
traced the consequences of the sppli-
cation of the single-tax for the cure
of land monopoly to their ultimate as
it appears to me, and that ultimate
is confscstlon. If I am wrong cor
rect me. If I am right, the method
of accomplishing the confscation is
not only unnecessarily tsrdy but in
excusablY cruel, and it's worst effects
will fall upon the very class that is
now suffering most from existing
conditions.
All You say respecting my belief
IN "title by occupancy and use" Is
without point, from the fact that /
merely used that expression, as you
must certainly know, to indicate my
agreement with you that no man by
right should hold land out of use for
speculative purposes, and I said
nothing relative to detail that calls
for the space you consume upon this
subject. Let me beg of you again |
not to give quite SO much play to
your fancy concerning what I believe
upon any subject except the one now
specially under discussion-the sin
The advocate., 1894-12-12
TEE sINGLE.TAx.
NO. ".

5snb6nC9 Oh your COmuuulcbbAOn buAs
week, after begging pardon for lOcat-
ing me in the wrong camp, you say:
Il is difioulb to argue with one whose CON-
viOtiOns are unknown.
Pardon me for suggesting again
that my convictions, except upon the
single-tsx, are not under discussion.
How does it matter, then, Vhat
they may be? 1 think if you would
try right hard, you might discover
what my convictions are upon this
subject, and that will be sufficient
for the present Iquote again:
Your contention that the single-tax is not
an unsuitable tax, because the producer
may, under some circumstances, add taxes
TO other items in cost of production, is not
an answer to my demonstration that the
landlord cannot shift the TAX to bis tenant.
To which I reply: (I) You have
not demonstrated any such thing nor
have you attempted to. Here IS what
you asserted in your former letter:
What single-taXers desire, and what they
think their plan alone can accomplish, is
that ''bszes levied against an individual" be
paid by THAT individual, and not shifted TO
some "other men whose circumstances
make them tributary in some manner to
those against whom the taxes are levied"
Nothing here about shifting of the
single-tsx to tenants. The Iconten-
tion is that it cannot be shifted TO
anybody, but that the man against
aUhom 1t is Jevied must pay 1t.
(2) The single-tax cannot affect
the land monopolist to his dissdvan-
tage unless 1t is absolutely WnSbift-
able, and 80 long as he can shift it,
it does not matter, so far as the effect
upon him is concerned, whether it is
shifted to the tenant, or to the con-
sumer of his products: In either
case, the man against whom the tax
is levied does not pay it.
(3) If land is occupied by a ten
ant, the landlord, as a matter Of fact,
does assess the tax against the tenant
uuder the present system, and would
do 80 with any increase OF the tax up
to the point that would render the
tenant unable to pay it, and at this
point he would be compelled to
abandon it. My contention that the
single. tax is not unsuitable is, there.
fore, a complete answer to your prop.
osition, and you are compelled to
admit it in your former letter. Again
you say:
Taxes on high-value city lots enter into
cost Of goods bought for consumption to a
very slight extent, IL at all, under the pres
emit system, the power Of the landlord to ex-
aCt rent not depending on the rate Of his
taE.
Have you not contended that the
tenants of Lord Scully and Of the
Astors pay their tsxesY Did you not
attempt to make this point against
me IN both Of your former letters;
and did I not admit all you claimed
upon this pointi Why do you now
seek to abandon your own PROPOSE
tions? And do you pretend to say
The advocate., 1894-12-12

4
them.
Your attempt to escape from m!
contention, that a tax which woulC
compel Lord Scnlly to abandon hi,
land would also compel adjaeen
farmers to abandon theirs, is not
success, because you overlook certain
fundamental facts relating to both
Let US look at the conditions first 81
they are. Both the lands of Lore
Scully and OF surrounding farmer
are improved. Improvement is es
Sential to occupancy and use. Under
the present system, not ''land values
irrespective Of improvements" but
land values 1Vjtb improvements, are
taxed in both cases, and there can be
no material difference to-day in the
amount Of tax levied against Lord
Scully and against the man who owns
an adjoining farm. In the one case
the occupying owner pays the tax,
and in the other it is paid by Lord
Scully's tenant, and in the latter case
the tenant pays an additional tax to
the landlord from IUbicb the occupy
ing OaUner nOlU escapes. In other
words, the occupying owner is now
taxed less than the tenant by inst the
amount which the rent exceeds the
tax levied for public use. The oc-
cupying owner, then, has now just
this advantage over the tenant.
Now, let us change the system and
apply the single tax for the cure of
this land monopoly by Lord Scully.
When YOU relieve the occupying
owner Of land of the tax upon I'M,
provements, you likewise relieve
Lord Scully of the tax upon has inn
provements, and again place the two
upon terms of exact equality. The
assessment against the one will now
be levied "upon land values irrespeo,
tive of improvements" in like manner
as it is levied against the other. Let
us suppose, for arguments sake, that
the rate of taxation is not at first in
creased. The tenant upon Lord
Scully'S land would then pay his tax,
which wonld be again about the same
as the tax of the occupying farmer.
The tenant would likewise pay an
additional tax in the way of rent as
before, from aUhicb the occupying
oIUner aUOuld escape as before. Now,
let us suppose the rate of taxation to
be increased to absorb Lord Scully's
profit. This would likewise increase
the tax of the resident owner to an
equal extent, and cause HIM to pay
an amount greater than before by the
exact amount of Lord Scully's former
profit The tenant in the meantime
would pay no more than before. But
Lord Scully now seeks to cover his
loss and retain profit by an increase
of the rent. AS long as the tenant
can pay this increase and live he will
do so, because he can go nowhere
else and do better. Bat the single
The advocate., 1894-12-12

The Kansas Farmer and the ADvo.
CATE can both be had till q year from
next January tor 9l.50.
Asheville daily citizen., 1894-12-27
CHICAGO OUTLETS.

Ten pirates have been captured on the
Chicago river, but Chicago's streets are
still full of tAem.-Now York World.
There are ladies in Chicago who hear
with unconcealed envy that Mrs. Wander
bilt is to get SO, 900, 600 out of her divorce.
st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Chicago claims to be larger than New
York, but If she succeeds In driving out
all the gamblers she will have to fall In
behind st. Louis.-Galveston News
A Chicago wife murderer Of the name
Of Kurtz has been writing novel. 1t will
DO fully up to the Chicago standard. 1t
would not be below.-Albany Journal.
Chicago is rcveling in the luxury Of n
lady sandbaeger, who clubs women In
their own homes to rob them. The kind
Of criminal that Chicago cannot produce
Is hard to find Milwaukee News.
Pirates have been discovered who occu-
py boathouse In the Chicago river. Men
who would prefer to 1.-Two on the odorifer
Gus Chicago to confinement In tho peni'
tentiary arc the most debased Of hIman'
kind.--Ncw York Advertiser.
In Chicago the children get lessons in
penmanship on typcwrltcrs, walk tt
school on bicycles, learn foreign languages
by monograph and calculate the increase
In population by geomotrical progression
Who shall deny that this is progress'-
New York Sun.
Asheville daily citizen., 1894-12-27
A PECULIAR HABIT.
People Who Eat Clay and Thrive ON the
Repulsive Food.

People VINO Eat clay ana Thrive on tno
Repulsive Food.
The natives Of nearly all tropical cOun.
tries, and especially those Of the sea H.
lands, exhibit many vagaries Of taste In
tho matter Of food, In many cases showing
an almost irresistible desire to ill their
stomachs with tho various kinds OF earth,
generally clays. On first thought one
would imagine that this clay eating habit
had been formed through desire to get
alkaline substances into the stomach In
order to neutralize the aoids Of that organ,
but Investigations prove the contrary, the
clays which such people most crave being
unctuous and wholly devoid Of saline ele-
ments.
Humboldt says that tho female pottery
workers on the Madalena river, In South
America, put large Jumps Of clay into
their mouths quite frequently while shap-
ing their earthenware vessels, and that
the clay eating instinct Is SO strong In the
natives Of that region that Infants OF from
~ to 8 years Of age are tied In the huts
to prevent them from overlooking their
stomachs with the unwholesome diet. On
the Orinoco, too, our great traveller passed
several days with clay eating tribe Of In
dians called the Otomacs. He thus de-
scribes the peculiar habit as noted in that
queer people:
THE earth which the Otomacs eat Is a
soft, yellowish white potter's clay, with q
small quantity Of oxide Of iron as q con-
stituent part
They seek for 1t on the banks Of the
Orinoco and Meta rivers and select it with
great caro-, not considering all clays equal
ly agreeable to eat. A very intelligent
monk assured us that one Of them would
eat from throo-quarters Of a pound to l Il
pounds Of this food in a single day. II
you inquire of an Otomao Indian concern
Ing his winters provisions, he will point
to heap Of clay balls stored away in his
hut"
AS noted in the opening, We find this
queer earth eating practice diffused
throughout the torrid zone and occasion
ally hear Of the practice in Sweden, Nor
way, Finland and in New Caledonia a!
we'll as in the southern states Of our OWL
country. Why tho human system should
crave such odd food could probably be sci
cntiflcally explained. However, 1t Is moi
the purpose Of this mote" to seek remote
reasons for the existence Of tho habit, bu
simply to state that the practice, though
admittedly n curious one, is we'll knowI
in the various quarters Of tho globe. st
Louis Republic.
Asheville daily citizen., 1894-12-27
JOHNS FESTIVE IDEA.
But 1t Discouraged the Young Lady Who
Was Teaching Him.

But 1t Discouraged the Young Lady Who
Was Teaching Him.
A clever girl, who would make n scnsa.
ton in society II fate had been little
moro kind to her in material way, lives
on q sido street and Is constant source Of
amusement and joy to her little circle Of
friends. She Ia poor. Shcis compelled to
turn and return her gowns trim and re.
trim her bonnets and make all sorts of
little sacrifices, and all because fate dc.
creed that her father should bo aquiet,
unambitious, conscientious, dreaming sort
Of fellow, instead Of bustling, money
making, successful merchant. This girl
has brains and good looks, and, what is
better, originality, but she Ia compelled
very often to walk because she has no car
fare. She amuses herself with oil sorts Of
things that other girls seldom think Of
Her latest exploit is class Of Cinnamon,
into whose wooden heads she Is endeavor-
ing to inject faint idea Of the limitations
of the English language and incidentally
the Christian religion.
In her class, on recent Sunday, she
was giving Ching Poi an object lesson on
the wonderful creations Of God.
"Sec, Ching" she said, "see this beau
tiful rose. God made this rose. lie made
1t to look pretty and smell sweet. God
made all things, Ching He made you,
and he made me. Now, tell mo, Ching,
who made the roscs"
Ching grinned and said: God. He
makee lose."
That's right, Ching. Now, why did
he make the rosei'
"He makeo lose to look pletty and
smcllee sweet"
That's right Who made you, Chings'
God makee me-" replied Ching. HE
makce me to look pletty and smellet
sweet.
She is ndcavoring to teach tho China
men few other things, but will let per
sonal SMILES with the rose rest for awhile
kansas City Star.
Asheville daily citizen., 1894-12-27
4 DAYS RECORD,

Let us look at a paper printed the
morning after Christmas The first Two
columns is given up to the recital OF the
end Of race war it Qutman, Ga. The
second item is headed; White people
on guard to prevent negroes from lynch
ing ne of their race" This in Florida.
A telegram from Springfield, o.. says;
"Albert Lawson. a sixteen-ycar-old COZ
ored boy. was arrested tonight for as.
saulting the six-ycar.old daughter o
Vincent Rigio.' From Gainesville. Fla. {.
we have this: mir. W. S Jones, a prom
incnt fat mer who lives near this place
shot and killed black hend today whc
attempted to assault Mrs. Jones. Mr.
Jones appeared a few minutes after tht
negro had fled. Mrs. Jones having sue
cesstuly defended herself" In the sam,
column is anaCcount from Gadsdcr. Ala.
of the accidental shooting [ one Negro
by another.
In Otala, Fla, on Christmas day
negroes hanged one of their own color
TO: criminal assault on colorcd woman
At Reddick, Fla, negro was ARE stcc
for shooting into passenger train. II
Savannah, Ca, a negro threatened {
bartender, and was shot dead. Atlanta
Ca, was the scene Christmas day OF ha
dozen negro rows.
This list could be doubled again ana
again by carefully noting the dispatches
in several papers. Hundreds OF thous
ands OF dollars are expended every yeal
on the education of the colored youth
What becomts of this expenditure Doe:
it pay for the right kind of education'