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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-11-21
ST. MARYS EEVEE.
A Successful Opening at Meonian
Hall, Tuesday Evening.
A Good Attendance and a Well Executed
Programme.

The opening night at st. Mary's Lcvet
in Meonian hall. was gratifying success,
both MS regards attendance and the happy
manner in which every part of the pro
gramme was carried through. The tables
presented most attractive appearance,
being loaded with beautiful fancy work OF
all descriptions contributed by members
of the parish. Naturally the interest
conferred quite largely about
the beautiful silk damask par
lor set, contributed by the
Catholic Legion, and the handsome cham
Der set. the gift of the st. Mary's Literary
Society The question of who will secure
them was much discussed, and the out
come will be awaited with no little inter
est.
The programme of the evening was as
follows:
Vocal duet-"Whispering Hope
Misses Ivy Matthews and Hannah FOX.
Song -Four Little Curly Headed Coons''
Robert Murphy, Thomas Cony, Daniei cohy
Charles Dill,
The Family Album AS eAhipi'e" ~ '
Mrs j. ]. Druary.
Sonp-The Fatal Wedding,
Miss Ivy Matthews.
Fan Drill-Miss Sadie Leary, Miss Lizzie me Nc
Miss Alice Kelley, Miss Maggie Sutherla an
Miss Julia Buckley, Miss May Clancy, Miss
Josephine Murray. MISS Sat sa rstb ~ps
p;nopIEst Miss Abbey Buckley
~ Miss Myrtle Bryant. ,,,
Finale, laoiea"
Everything passed off without break
and in n manner creditable to all the par
ticipants. The vocal duet, Whispering
Hope" by Miss Ivy Mathews and Miss
Hannah Fox. was charmingly rendered
and warmly applauded by the audience
Robert Murphy, Daniel Coney, Thomas
Coney snd Chas Din won the house by their
song -Four Little Curley Headed Coons.
while everybody was made company
and delightfully."- entertained by "The
FAMILY Album as exhibited by Mrs
A,min Pease' (Mrs. J. J. Druary,
Miss Ivy Matthews held the closest
attention OF all with her song, The fatal
Wedding" Miss Matthews has voice
If fine compass and exceptional sweet
ness.
feature of the evening, thoroughly
enioyed by all present, was the Fan
Drill'' participated i'm by Misses Sadie
Ieary, Annie Cook, Annie Kelley, Julia
Ruckley. Josie Murray Annie McFadden,
lizzie Mccormick, May Duff, Maggie
Sutherland. May Clancy, Katie Coney and
Katie Doyle This drill was under the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-11-21
Take Your Work There and 1t Will
Be Done Quickly, Neatly and Well.

direction of Miss Lucy H. lie Prohon.
All of the movements of the drill were in
perfect time to piano accompaniment.
The young ladies who took part in it were
very tastefully dressed in costumes of the
same design. There We're six different
colors used, with fans to match, and the
effect was beautiful.
Following this drill was song by Miss
Myrtle Bryant, which was finely rendered
Miss Bryant has voice to be proud of
and well merited the hearty encore that
was given her.
The finale was a tableaux given by the
young ladies who participated in the fan
drill, which, with the aid of colored lights,
was rendered very effective. The financial
results of the evening We're exceedingly
satisfactory.
The programme for tonight will be found
elsewhere in this issue under the head of
" Amusements. "
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-11-21

The frosty weather has given Market
SQUARE a deserted appearance. Few men
want money badly enough to wait around
In the open air such weather as We have
had during the past two days, and. be-
sides people are too busy seeking comfor-
table indoor quarters to stop to buy.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-11-21

One of the most unique window attrac-
tions ever seen in this city is the little col
orcd banjo player in Davis Bros. hand
some show window He is as gorgeous in
attire as the princely lend man, : and the
grace of his movements is source of dc
light to the many who pause for look at
any and all times of the day
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-11-21

The Current Events Club will meet this
afternoon, at O'Clock. with Mrs. A. W.
Pbilbrook. 81 Grove street. Mrs. f. c. Dud-
lev will present a sketch of Oliver Wen
dell Holmes. There will be select read
ings, and members of the club will give
quotations from his writings, instead of
the usual items. az
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-11-21
Railroad and Steamboats,.
ARRANGEMENTS OF TRAINS IN EFFECT SEPT,
80, 1884.
Passenger Trains Leave Augusta as
Follows:
THROUGH TRAINS.

GOING WEST-G30 A. NJ. for Lewiston,
Rockland. Portland, Boston and Montreal;
1910 A. NJ. for Brunswick, Lewiston. Farming
ton, Phillips, Rangclcy, Rockland, Portland
and Montreal, Boston: daily Sundays includ-
ed Lewiston, Bath, Portland, and Boston,
80 and 3.45 z. NJ. for Brunswick, Bath sport
land, Boston; 11.0O p. VI. might Pullman) every
night for Lewiston, Bath. Rockland. Portland
and Boston.
GOING EAST-150 A. NJ. might express) for
Skowhegan, Belfast. Bangor, Bar Harbor. St.
stephen, St. John and Aroostook county; 9.33
A. NJ. for Waterville, Skowhegan and Bangor;
12.37, for Waterville. Oakland, Winthrop and
Lewiston: 342 r. NJ. for Waterville. Oakland,
Skowhcgan, Belfast. Bangor, St stephen. st.
John and Aroostook county; 745 =. NJ. (miXcd
for WateTville) 9.15 a. NJ, sundays onlyl for
WateTviile and Bangor; $40 y. NJ. (Sundays
only) for Wateryille, Bangor and St. John.
The Night Pullman Train going East at 1.50
A. NJ, going West at HOO p. NJ, runs every
night, sunday included, connecting for and
from Lewiston, but not to Skowhegan on Mon
day mornings, or TO Belfast, Dexter or beyond
Bangor, Sunday mornings.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-11-21

The members of Trinity Commandery
are fortunate in securing early their quar-
tiers at the Quincy house for the triennial
conclave of the Knights Templars of this
country in1 Boston next August, Mr..
+. W. Plaistcd was at Boston a few days
ago and completed arrangements. The
contract was made for rooms before the
Boston hotel managers realized the extent
of the celebration OR the demands that
would be made made upon their facilities
of accommodation. AS a result the mem
bers of the Trinity Commandery get front
rooms at very low figure, while many
other communicates have to pay almost
fabulous prices. The California Sir
knights will come on in force. They pay
$40 each for their rooms. They came on
and engaged Boston bands, and by the
time one of the Boston communicates had
made its arrangements it found that no
band was to be had in Boston and secured
the services of a band from Cincinnati.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-11-21
ACCOMMODATION TRAINS.

X run daily, Sundays included runs sun
days only.
Through tickets to California and all points
South and West may be had of T.. II. Walker,
ticket agent, Augusta. the only office in Angus
ia selling via all routes and checking.baggage
free Of expense
PAYsoS TUCKER.Vice Pres. and Cen Manager
+. f.. BooTHBY, Genl Pass. and Ticket Agent.
PORTLAND, Sept. Is. 1891.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-11-21

Inc Granite National Bank has several
sue deposit boxes unoccupied and would
o'ii public attention to them These safe
"'posit boxes are as perfectly safe reposi-
'oties Tor bonds, deeds, wills and other
'"uabie papers, jewe!rs, ETC., as it is pos
e'"'e Tor any place OH earth to he.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-11-21

The meeting of Augusta lodge was
postponed from last evening to this, We'd
nesday evening.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-11-21

IL is rumored that Mr.. Stephen Stilke!
VIII soon be in possession of tho Airing
ION house stable again.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-11-21

The cold weather has rendered neces-
Sary the building of false front to the
new Masonic temple.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-11-21

ar l.. X. Smith says that the correct
lame of his race horse is Cylex and not
'!iax, as given by one of our contempora-
ries.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-11-21

The work of collecting in the city taxes
Is being vigorously pushed
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-11-21

Hon. Josiah II. Greeley of China, was
III Augusta, Tuesday
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-11-21
AUGUSTA LOCALS.

A new stairway is being built in the
Haskell block.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-11-21

fine entertainment to be given at the hall,
the evening of Nov. %
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-02-03

To the artist the silvery, shrunken
Ohio, winding feebly between green and
everlasting hills, is a charming spectacle
worthy Of transfer to canvas and subse-
quent hanging in favored place in the
home of a purchaser.
But TO the practical Pittsburger the
swollen, turbid, oil stained Ohio, career
ing to the Mississippi through n bleak
landscape Of snow sprinkled hills, is u
sight more attractive than any afforded
in midsummer.
For the larger Ohio bears ON its muddy
breast the deep laden coalboats whose
contents are not more needed by New Or
leans and Memphis than the money tho
coal represents is needed by our river
operators and shippers. These regard
the Ohio rs most loyable stream when,
after months Of picturesque idleness, it
arises in its highland boasts of zig feet. -
II our local artists wish 10 make a
painting Of the Ohio which will be sala-
BILE to a coal shipper, they must portray
the stream with that number Of feet.
with the tawny name Of swirling water
and procession Of coalboats heading
for the sunny south. A "coalbOat,' IL
might be added, is one that requires Id
feet of water 20 float it and is helpless
to reach the lower markets on stage Of
water that will let out coal barge. -
Pittsburg Bulletin.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-02-03

Constant practice indeed has given to
Helen Keller's sense of touch delicacy
and precision seldom attained even by
the blind. Sometimes it seems as if her
very soul were in her fingers, she finds
so much to interest her everywhere. Peo-
pie frequently said to me at the fair,
"She sees more with her fingers than we
do with our eyes" And in one of her
letters she says, Il am like the people
my dear friend DR.. Holmes tells about,
with eyes in their fingers that spy out
everything interesting and take hold of
it as the magnet picks out iron filings"
Descriptions are to Helen what paint
ings are to us, and her well trained i'm
agination gives the light and color One
evening as we sat in gondola l tried
to tell Helen how the thousands of tiny
electric lights were reflected in the wa
ter of the lagoons, when she asked,
docs it look as if shower of golden
fish had been caught in an invisible metz
Is it any wonder that DR.. Holmes says
of her. 'She is a poet whose Tyre was
taken from her in her early youth, but
whose soul is full of music"
SO we see, pathetic as Helen's life must
always seem to those who enjoy the
blessings of sight and hearing, that it is
yet full of brightness and cheer, courage
and hope.--St. Nicholas.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-02-03

MRS. BLAND WITH THE SCRUBBRUSH.
and admiration of the nation. Mr.. Bland,
who is known in private and domestic
circles to have somewhat of disregard
for the conventional cuspidor. is fond of
dilating upon his wife's veneration for
the scrubbrush. In outward appearance
there seems to be nothing compatible be-
tween the pretty, dark eyed senator's
wife and big tub full Of soapsuds with
a floating sponge and u hard bristled
scruhbrush, as Mr.. Bland says there is.
On the same authority, which is GER
tainly good one on silver coinage and
equally important matters, it is said that
Mrs. Bland can retire gracefully from
the piano or from a profound discussion
ON political economy participated in by
the distinguished statesmen of the CAPT
toll, and away to some obscure corner of
the garnet or perched upon some lofty
pantry shelf she may be traced, indulg-
ing in that housewifely virtue which
many people believe will take all women
TO heayen-it is so near godliness.
Ii there is one subject ON which Mrs.
John Dewitt Warner is more enthusi-
astic than any other it is her solution of
the servant girl problem. Mrs. Warner
ought certainly to be taken into the dip
lonatic service, for she SAYS she has new.
er had any difficulty in managing her
servants. She doesn't know what it is
to be informed that this is a free coun-
try, where servant girls is just as good
nc npv1,odv alsa aud ,,npff cfo,,1 80, a.,
position" In other words, Mrs. Warner
is in the habit of bringing q whole colony
of colored help, male and female, with
her to New York from Washington each
year. She distributes colored help among
all her friends and employs a corps of
maids, mattresses and cooks for her own
use, as she is accustomed to entertain
lavishly during the summer at her coun-
try home in Ithaca.
This is what she SAYS for the benefit of
the wives, cooks and mothers of the ma
ton: Il find that colored servants hired
at intelligence offices in Washington are
much more competent and obliging than
the run of imported white help. Ii two
girlsor men are hired together, there will
never be any dlificulty IN retaining them.
Most of the servants obtained at the cap
ital are trained to the needs of Wash.
ington society, and find that even a
new cook will surprise me by her de-
licious cakes, fruit preparations. ices,
and so forth. They seldom need any
teaching, which advantage is seldom to
be found in hiring servants Of the various
natioualities in the north. do not think
that the negro servant could possibly bo
improved upon"
Mrs. Senator Charles II. Gibson Of
Maryland has a fad that is unquestion
ably shared by thousands Of her country
women. 1t is almost too closely allied
with nature and art to be vulgarly
termed fad. 1t should he called tn,
farming instinct Mrs Gibson is hand
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-02-03

He sprang up and turned the key in
the door. Then he stood listening. The
action was guilty, almost before the
thought:
No one will know if make it mine"
1t was foolish to tremble so, of course.
The cold drops on his forehead We're
foolish, too, and his fast beating heart.
mo one will know" he said again,
and there was note of defiant joy in
the breathless cry as be picked mp the
play.
a sound attracted his attention. 1t
was the faraway throbbing of street
band; the air, a German battle march.
Ii was long since he had heard its heavy,
rolling sweetness, with that flowing un-
derbeat Of sadness creeping in like a
knell for many of the multitude who
marched onward to its swing. A flicker
of pain crossed his uneasy eyes. He
knew that march Virginia had often
played it, and it pulsed through the
warm night with wake of memories.
Her face in its diurnal beauty rose be-
fore him; then a slim, white ROBBED body
fioated to join the face, an arm, hand
with finger pointing at the play, crushed
in his grasp. Yes, her very voice was in
his ears.
"You will not-you will not steal it.,
Tom! You could not fall as low as thatr'
He dropped into a chair, hiding his
face upon his clinched hands. A sud-
den nostalgia weighed sickeningly upon
him.
"You will not steal it, Tom, rang the
voice in his soul.
But he looked up again after awhile.
The face was gone. The German march
had dwindled to an echo.
Eyes, will. he said steadily, as if
defying an invisible mentor. IN take
it. I'll not be a fool. It's a chance 10
redeem myself, and l cannot let it so. l
can't. The man who wrote it must be
dead-he is dead-and-there's no copy
of it, / can choke down Delatole's
sneers-I can pay my debts-I can start
afresh. 1t will be life, hope, bread to
my soul. I'm not going to let fancy
befool me. If it had fallen from heaven,
it could not have come more opportune-
ly. Conscience? Bah.'
But for all his bravado the violence OF
tine temptation made him stand petrified
peering into the shadowy corners. Every
creak in the silent house appalled, him as
he mentally weighed the chances for and
against detection. He passed his hand
across his trembling lips. his narrowed
ewes upon the locked door.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-02-03

MRs. CARLISLE DISCUSSING FINANCE.
some, wears jaunty tailor made gowns
that bespeak $50 fit right on the sur
face of them. and with four-in-hand ties,
jeweled studs and proud. faultless car
that she is She likes horses, farming.
and cows and is very much ayerse to
protection, whether IN political econo-
my or elsewhere. Mrs. Gibson was
asked to discuss her hobbies. About
farming size said: Il own lovely farm
ON the shores OF Chesapeake bay. II is
known as Radcliffe Manor and has been
in my family for many years. There is
a peach orchard of several hundred trees
ON the estate, and | send my peaches to
Baltimore to the canneries every year"
About protection she said: IL raise
wheat IN large quantities and get only
81 cents bushel for it. Scandalous'
IL has all been on account OF that Nc
Kinley tariff. Protection makes us pay
all sorts Of fabulous prices for imports
and lowers the prices OF orr own prod
ucts." About horses and cows she said:
Il have large grazing area and own
several cows which are my especial de-
light. Horses? Well, l guessi | am
fonder Of driving than Of any other
pastime, and ! remain ont in the conn-
try all the year round. with the excep-
ton Of the short season that am com
PEELED TO s,ay in Washington. in order to
be near my horses and cattle and farm
ing interests geuerallyr
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-02-03
. He Added a po.sserlp,.

The following genuine ''bull' story is
related by down town merchant: An
out of town customer, 70 whom some
goods had been shipped, discovered, as
he thought, a mistake in the bill over
charging him to a considerable amount.
He wrote TO the merchant in the city
without delay, and the letter was duly
received. 1t dwelt at length on careless
ness in general and particularly in the
case Of this bill, waxing indignant OYER
the foolish mistake and demanding acor-
rect bill at once. Al the foot Of the let
ter was the hastily written postscript 70
this effect. '-Sfnee writing the above
have re-examined yoar bill and End u
correct after ali. New York Tribune.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-02-03

Recently young girl from Chicago, a
college student, upon her first visit to
Boston, was invited to begin her tour of
inspection in company with an elderly
Boston lady, who instinctively selected
the route according to her ideas of what
would be worth showing, and conse-
quently began at what proved to be the
wrong end for the desired impression
upon the Chicago mind. In other words,
she did not select the Back Bay costli-
ness and did select the district of histor-
ical interest, which interest she at once
found herself called upon to bring into
high relief as an offset to the damaging
comparison of the city's poorly planned
streets" with those of other cities within
the western girls acquaintance. The
lady began to have twinges OF misgiving
as TO her success in the character of d
guide to Boston, but directed the steps
of the pair TO Park street and at the
most favorable point of observation call
ed attention to our statehouse, her heart
swelling with pride. There was an i'm
pressive pause, and then from the Chica-
go girl:
How much did it cost?''
The elderly Boston lady did not re-
member to have read.-Boston Tran
script
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-02-03

MRS. GEARNS INTERESTING FADS.
hair, full red cheeks, and big. round
black eyes, like beads. They succeed
admirably in excluding all other fads.
Mrs. Senator Bate of Tennessee is de-
voted to the "divine art" She says she
never NEEDLES in politics and spends
most of her time at her piano studying
the German composers.
Mrs. Crisp, wife of Speaker Crisp, has
been unfortunate enough to lose her fad
1t was her dear old antebellum "mam-
N.Y." The recent death of nanny, who
has always called her "honey." almost
Frustrated the distinguished southern
lady, No one who has not suffered from
the cruel reverses of the late war can
understand the devotion of those faithful
slaves, who, after the law of might and
bloodshed had said that they were free,
still remained with their old masters and
shared all their hardships with them.
Nanny" had nursed every one of her
honey's seven children. and when the
fate of war deprived them of their home
on an aristocratic southern estate, aud IL
succession of misfortunes and depriva-
tons followed, it was always nanny
who smoothed the troubled brow of Mrs.
Crisp. When nanny became sick years
afterward and needed some one to care
for her, it was Mrs. Crisp who watched
by her bedside until she died Mammy's
only daughter was her legacy to the mis-
tress she had loved
Woman suffrage" is declared to be
the fad of Mrs. Senator PETER. Accord
ing to Mrs. PETER, who is keen OBJ
server, kansas is the cleanest, best gov
erned state in the Union, because il has
white ribbon legislation and women mu.
nicipal authorities" When asked about
her personal exercise of the franchise,
she said II never voted but once. and
then voted for the wrong man-that is,
the man who turned out to be the poor
est candidate did 1t because he was a
friend of my family"
Mrs. Savers of Texas, who is beauty
and favorite of Washington society. is
feverish on the subject of the brush aud
palette. OF course she has painted soma
pretty pictures. When asked to discuss
painting as her well known fad, she said
she had done considerable scenery IN oil
and had indefinable aspirations in ths
line of portraiture She has painted
several portraits of members of her fam
lily and is now engaged in doing one of
relative, which she is going TO keep Sc
cret until it is finished. One OF Mrs.
Sayers' strongest ambitions is to retire
from the world and live in an obscure
and uninteresting fashion. after the Gus
tom of grand traditional artists who used
to starve for inspiration. Nobody in
Washington will let her have her wish.
so she just goes on making pictures OF
them all and forms pretty picture her
self at all the notable society events in
Washington. LILLIAN DE GRoFF.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-02-03
soIdfers Of tn Eternal King.

Soldiers of tn eternal King,
Speed the watchword, give it wing,
Let it through the churches ring,
Up! fer Jesus stand.
Write it on the temples spire,
Utter it with tongues of fire,
Sire to son and son to sire,
Up! for Jesus stand;
Sire to son and son to sire,
Up for Jesus, Jesus stand.
Chorus.
Up! for Jesus stand,
Up! for Jesus stand;
Speed the watchword, give it wing,
And upl for Jesus stand.
Label it on ev'ry door,
Place it high the pulpit DER,
Let it stand or evermorel
Up! for Jesus stand.
Blazon it in mansion halls,
Pencil it on prison walls;
Do and dare, as duty calls,
Up! for Jesus stand.
Do and dare, as duty calls,
Up for esus, Jesus stand.
Place it on the chiseld stone,
Where the mourners weep alone;
Grave it on the monarch's throne,
Up for Jesus stand.
Let the press, whose wheels of might
Roll for reason and for right,
Flash it on the nations sight
Up! for Jesus stand.
Flash it on the nations sight;
Upl for Jesus, Jesus stand.