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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-02-05

Louis Arconette, a mason, had his right
leg broken in two places Saturday evening
while wrestling with man on Sand hill,
near where Arconette lives. DR.. Gaudreau
was summoned and reduced the fracture.
Fred Boynton of Hallowell had some lit
tie difficulty at the factory boarding house,
Sunday, and smashed in door to ease his
angry frame of mind. He reposed in the
station last night and will settle for the
whole business today.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-02-05

Miss Buck and Miss Robinson, milliners
over the American express Office, will leave
today for Washington, d. c., to visit
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES

Judge Bierer has denied continuance
in the Beall trial
"Shoestring'' Smith will represent l.
county in the legislature.
The gas we'll in Oklahoma. City is now
going through greasy red clay.
Blackwell is thirty-siX miles due north
of Perry, on the same section line.
New York people have furnished the
Episcopal church of FL Reno throughout.
At Perry yesterday a man went into the
courts to replevin corset from woman.
]. r. Corrigan, the witty lawyer Of
Perry, has located in Chicago. But he will
come back.
Horace Speed is out in an interview In
which he says that Oklahoma needs state
hood in her business.
Today most of the public schools in Ok
lahoma adjourn, out of respect to Santa
Claus, until January 3
The colored people Of Guthrie are on the
trail of School-teacher Austin for the way
he whipped Beulah Neal
The first commission issued to a member
of the legislature by Secretary Smithson
was given to Captain II. D. Baker.
The legislature will probably fix it so
that the courts of Oklahoma can put
asunder what man has joined together.
Some of the notices put up in the Okla
homa churches Christmas should read:
Peace on earth; good will to contest
ants
Santa Claus ought to call on the editors
in Oklahoma and find out where the de-
linquent subscribers live so that he could
avoid them.
DIR. Lundberg, DR.. Gillian and Tom
Grant of Cross. have built a flatboat in
which they will sail down the Arkansas
river to Arkansas where they expect to
hunt.
Jessie Pollard, grocer of Newkirk, ac-
shr etaoin shdrluetaoi shrdlu shrdlucfwy
cepted a $50 Confederate bill the other day
and gave SIS in change, back in good
money.
1t would be tragic and meat for the
eastern papers if right when Marshal Nix
and his deputies were banqueting, the
Cooks should step in and demand their
money or their breathing apparatus.
Guthrie Capital: The defense in the
Terrill trial did well to get him off with
manslaughter in the first degree and
twelve years sentence. They hope, how
ever, to get him clear on the plea in the
supreme court that TerrilPS life was once
in jeopardy for this charge. He was tried,
convicted, given a life sentence. and dug
coal for four months in the per at Lam
sing. The supreme court Of Kansas, In
the habeaS corpus grant, decided that the
adjournment of court by the clerk in the
absence of tn judge lapsed the term and
all trials thereafter, including TerrilrS :,
were void. The question then is, was Ter
riu tried at all? If not, then the present
conviction and sentence will stand; other
wise he goes free. Terril, while digging
that coal, undoubtedly felt as Though
something happened and perhaps finds ii
hard to conclude that his four months un-
der ground were all for fun. Many good
lawyers think the decisions are in Terrill {
3.ax-p
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

must q ben when ! seen the rest that
was comm. After the bear had skinned
the cat mebbe half a dozen times. he
pulled hisself up an hung by his toes
ag'in. Then he begun to swing, an
when he got to swingin' SOS he almost
stuck out straight one way an t'other,
he all OF q sudden let 60 his toes on the
limb, an shot over to another limb, an
ketched ON to it with his paws. He
swung there till he got goin' like all
possessed, an then he let go o the limb
an sailed to another one an ketched on
to il with his toes An SO he kept on
acoin' till he got so fur couldn't see
him
III pike for home now. These bears
is gittin' little too spooky fer me" l
says
picked myself up an started fer
home, but 1 hadn't gone fer when
bear jumped up on a log an went to
standin' on his head / didn't wait to
see what more ne could do. but made a
break on short cut to git out o. them
woods
THE strain o. keepin' this to myself
II be more'n kin stand as 1t ISL says
81 wish these bears hadn't done it!'
guess I'd gone mebbe q mile when /
come out into little openin', an fer q
a minute was sorry l had come that
way. But only fer minute. After
that / was glad, fer right afore my
ewes was the hull business bein' made
clear. A tremendous big bear, the
color of a saddle, an with collar
round his neck, stood in the middle of
the openin'. Around him was dozen
bears. all of 'em young chaps / had for
got all about that big brown bear, but
recognized him Last year couple
of Italians came through our district
with that bear. He was trained bear,
an could do more tricks than any bear
ever see. He could turn summersets,
an dance, an throw handsprings, an
stand on his head, an skin the cat from
a pole, an do lots of other things. Tho
bear liked the fun, but he didn't seem
to like the company he was travelling
with, an one night he gave 'em the slip
an run away. The Italians hunted
high and low, but they couldn't find
him, an they went away feelln' bad, l
tell you. Nobody never seen nor heard
nothin' o the trained bear. not till
run ag'in him there in the Eldred
woods. An what do you s'pose ne was
doin' when run ag'in him? Teachin'
them young bears of our'n all his
tricks. same as he'd done to their older
brothers an sisters, jist as I'd seen
some of them practisin' of 'em that day.
You bet was glad to know this, for
now l could go home an tell what I'd
seen without losing my reputation.
An thought mebbe it might be better
to let it get around, because hunters
ND our way this fall, runnin' ag in them
smart bears of our'n an seein' their an
ties, might be surprised an maybe
skeert tol'able bad But it seems a
crime to gether in scch bears as them,
don't it?.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21
DECLINE OF MEMORY.

1t is a well-knOwn fact that the long
works of Homer We're transmitted
from generation by word of mouth.
Homer never wrote his poems. He re-
cited them, and so practiced were the
memories of the early Greeks that
when anything was heard it was re
tained. and his whole poems were com.
mitted.
Written characters drove out this
talent for remembering. There is rea-
is becoming weaker every day in mem
ory. Ii is less necessary to depend on
the memory every year and as result
people have unconsciously lost the
close mental application which reached
its highest form with the Greeks.
Proof of this fact is shown in an in
Cident which is now almost national.
Although at the time of Baby Ruth 5
event, there is not one man in ten thou
sand in the United States today who
can name the month, or the year or
the city in which she was born.
In Warrington, W. Va, the other
day several citizens began TO talk
about the birth of Baby Ruth. and the
controversy over the date led TO several
bets. After the bets were up and in
the hands of the Stockholders. search
was made for some one who could de-
eide the mooted question. No such per,
son could be found. Inquiries were
telegraphed TO the newspapers in
Wheeling. The newspapers were un.
able TO decide. Finally a message had
ia be sent TO Washington and il is
likely that il was not settled finally,
without the aid Of Ruth's father and
mother
People have simply been losing the
! faculty of retention without being con
sciouS of il So much has been passed
before their eyes in the last year that
/ 1t Is not likely that one man in thou.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21
Street.-The in Canton.

A very noticeable feature OF tho
street.-The was the absence OF all such
animals as other nations use for draft
and burden. Cats, pigs and dogs were
the only lower apimals to be seen, the
two former being chiefly in baskets
for sale. The Cantonese dog Is most
remarkable and picturesque creature
of the fox type, and about his size.
but shorter in theubody. He is little
yellow, prickeared beast with bushy
tail curled over his back. He lolis
about lazily, his open mouth with pur-
ple-black lips and tongue giving him
the appearance of having just finished
a feast OF ripe mulberries-ando of hav-
ing eaten too much. The horse, the
donkey, the mule, or the OK were no.
where to be seen, save for an occa-
sional sad-looking, emaciated speci-
men tethered close to the brickwork
within the archways of one of the
gates of the outer walls, where coun-
tryman had left him while he visited
the town.-Florence ODriscoll, NJ. r.,
in Century.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21
SMART BEARS,

From the New York sun.
I've always said, an stusk 70 10
through thick an thin, said Uncle Bill
Hammond, of Eldred, that Sullivan
county bears, an specially them that
lives up Eldred way, was the smartest
bears on earth, an now I'm glad done
it, for they're provin' to me this season
in the most amazin' way that l hain't
the victim o misplaced confidence.
tell you, I'm proud o Sullivan county
bears this season. I'm kind o sorry
they done it, though, cause it seems
to me now that it hsin't much better'n
murder to go out an knock one o them
bears over.
/ gener'ly start out tol'able early in
the season to skirmish round in the
woods up in the Eldred district, SOS to
see what the prospects is for bear and
things, an while had always seen a
heap o evidence that our bears was un-
common smart it hadn't never s'prised
me much, KNOWN that they was Sui
livan county bears, livin' in the Eldred
woods, an SO couldn't help it. But
there hain't no doubt that when took
my skirInishin' tramps through the
woods this season l was s'prised from
the ground up. As | was goin' along
tol'ably fair-sized bear jumped out OF a
holler stump Course there wasn't
nothin sprisin' bout that, but Std o
givin' me a grin, as our bears usually
did when they seen me in the woods,
an then trottin' of, this bear riz up on
his hind fee5, gave few lively jig
steps. Topped over on his fore feet, as
slick as anything, an stood there as
stiddy as If he'd been planted there.
( Now that was s'prisin'.
'Great Natur'" says I. "If this was
any bear but one of our'n, says l, Il
wouldn't b'lieved it!''
The bear stood on his hands fer a
miute, an then Topped back ag'in to
his feet. an fore I'd hardly ketched
nv breath he turned a back summer
set clean over the stump. an, cockin'
his head to one side an GRIMM a. me,
as much as to say: Well. how does
brush. turnin' handspsings one after
t'other. Eastern could count 'em, till
he was out o sight!
Couldn't been a real bear" SAYS /.
( after got over my s'prise enough SOS
I could talk. Must a been a wound-up
| bear. with wheels inside of it, / says.
! But l went on skirmishin', an
! hadn't gone more'n quarter ot mile
when l come on TO sight that was SC
| snazin' that Jest had TO set down an
wonder how I'd ever dare 20 tell II,
even in the Eldred country. where
! they know'd how smart our bears was,
/ an s'pect 10 have my neighbors eve,
recognize me ag'in as feller citizen o
truth an veracity. An what was the
/ sight seen? On the limb of = tree
1 more'n forty foot from the ground a
| bear was haugin' head downwards by
/ his toes. Suddenly he pulled hiInse3t
4 uu an grabbed holt O. the limb by
( his paws, an went to skinuin' the
cat. twistin' hisself back'ards and for.
ards twixt his forelegs Jest "a easy IS
/ II he been born and brought up tc
I circusin' o that kind
- wisht hadn't seen it, ! SAYS u
wisht hadn't seen il, Ger I'll have Z
keep it all 10 myself, an I'll bust"
( says
But If / wisht I hadn't seen thai
| much. what do you s'pose nv teelin
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

"has the electricity stopped circu-
lating?"
II fear it has, ma,am."
'sAnd the car may be detained indeii-
nitely?"
indefinitely, ma'am, though 1t is
seldom over fifteen minutes before the
indefinite electricity is all right again
But can't wait.
Nom. you can't"
''And the company is responsible foi
any pecuniary loss that ! may suffer
through this detention?"
''I es'm-"
She lifts up her bundle and descends
and marches away. but has not yet set
foot on the curbstone when the car
moves on and everybody is happy
again. She raises a hand to the con-
ductor to stop. but she is too far away
and he shakes his head and nutters:
sometimes its the indefinite cleo
tricity. and then again it's the indeh-
mite woman. and between the two OF
'em it's wonder don't lose my inden-
mite hold on this ere job"
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

sand could today tell in what month
the great strike occurred: when Coxey
began his march on Washington; the
month in which Oliver Wendell
Holmes died, or of any event of the
year which at the time were of absorb
ing interest.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

The national debt was cut down
and paid off by the Harrison admin
istration just S229. 100000. or over So
100000 for every month Of his Repub-
Scan rule. Thus far under Cleveland
she debt has increased over 5000. .Oo0
per month. The contrast almost
passes belief but everybody knows it
80 be the exact truth.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

Tom Reed and his followers are be
ginning To realize that Mckinley can
keep his mouth shut with the greatest
technique and grace known TO the po-
iitical art.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

Senator Dawes says the average In
dian lives in q better house than he
does Certainly. You didn't suppose
that Poor Lo was an Indian for his
health, as long as he can dupe the
government
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21
A BrysterIous yisitor,

Johnnie Fewscads - Has anybody
been here since I left?
Valet-Mr. Macintosh called short
II after you left. sir.
johnnie Observation-Disclosures To
save my life / can't remember owing
money to anybody by that name
Texas Siftings.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

The Kansas City Star is afraid the
Republicans Of Kansas will not do the
right thing in regard TO United States
senator. Certainly hot, if they listen
10 that little lop-Sided autocrat-the
Star
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

Dealers buying fireworks from China
for next Fourth of July want To keep
their eyes peeled lest few of those
war torpedoeS are slipped in 10y mis-
tal-A
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

Perhaps the fact that SedCwick coun-
" gave the biggest majority against
female suffrage in the state has some
Thing to do with the present prosperity
of the city of Wichita.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

Another American girl-Jennie Eel
lows. has married an English noble
man. Ultimately we may rule Eng
land through our women.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

DIR. Pitcher says he was appointed
until July, 1895, and intends to remain
In his Office until then. Pitcher was
rut out for bull-dozer.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

That was pretty cute in the Yelling
ton minister who said of certain set:
NO doubt the Lord loves these people,
but he cannot admire them"
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

There is reason to believe that Sem
Rtor Turpie Of Indiana, has lately
succumbed to a spasmodic desire to
make grand stand plays.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

There was time when men were SO
afraid Of money that they preferred To
have their values and wealth in lands.
Is that what Carlisle is driving at?
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

In many households Santa Claus will
confer Il great favor by dropping Il
few buckets of coal down the chimney
into the fire before he deScends HIM
self
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

People have been given to believe
that the wealth of New York was on
Wall street But ii seems that every
police beat was lined with gold.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

Those Armenian outrages are horri-
BILE it is true, but it appears about time
for the supply of Armenian villages to
give ont.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21
A Long Drawn Out Game.

New York Boy Visiting in Rhode
Island)-What shall we play?
Rhode Island Boy-Let's play some
thing new. Let's play golf.
New York Boy (hesitatingly) I'm
afraid the state isn't long enough.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

Under Republican rule ''small
change" meant dollars and halves.
Under Democratic rule "small change
means pennies.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

Mr.. Carlisle will find the American
people a great deal closer to him If he
will take a knife and cut all his strings
connections with Wall street.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

Major Morrill, is said to be greatly
worried by office-seekers. de may
give out physically before he can give
ont anything in the way of offices.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

superintendent Byrnes of New, York,
is not exactly fallen idol, but the NOR
tar in his pedestal is certainly falling
ont
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

Somebody says that Carlisle is be-
ing driven to despair in his worries
over the finances. Why doesn't he get
out and walk?
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

There is a gnawing desire in the
breast of mankind to see Ii Hung
Chang take the field himself and give
the Japs one good threshing.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

Jerry Simpson says the Populist
party has been diyested of many of its
former cruditieS. Among them, he
might have added, Jerry Simpson.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

China and Japan have now been at
war over six months, but they are
lust beginning to get hot at each
other
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

Jim Corbett thinks that prize fight
ing has seen its best days. However
most of the prize fights come off at
night anyway.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

Agricultural item: There is no bet
ter season of the year than the holl-
DAYS TO scatter seeds of kindness.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

Possibly Mr.. Carlisle can see by this
time that the people do not bank much
on his plan.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

Beadle, the great dime-novel man,
;s dead. Carlisle should now call in
the 10-cent pieces.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

There is a tide in the affairs OF Kan
sas which taken at the flood means
Mitigation
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

The Kansas City Journal grows sus-
piciouS over the way Napoleon is work
ing the papers lately. 1t fears that he
Is getting ready TO lecture.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

Holm Burns says that Chicago is
pocket edition of hell. Whose pocket!
The aIderman'S:
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

An aged player had fit in gamb-
ling hall in Oklahoma City the otner
night. He drew four aces.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

Lady Somerset. it is said, never gets
off of q street car backward. There
is a Joke in this. Find it for yourself.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

Cleveland will get nothing In MS
stocking but Il gouty toe.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

Strangely enough the Whiskey Trust
is in sore need of a barrel.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

Presumably the japanese are in the
war business to kill.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

Cassius Clay says he is dead in
love- ANY man over eighty would be.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

Sticking TO sticking the pigs
is what will keep the packing
houses in Wichita running.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

Christmas comes, but wants year
of prosperity and full purses this time
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-12-21

worth-well, come and see fcr
yourself. then judge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-20

despordent AMI nnally decline ana de- when sun
elements preying upon them day and nlehtf
In Sc any wonder that some strong men grad
ually 60 dowa. becoming weaker. until finally
they are brought low by the zane csusei AN
these things tend 80 cause careful thoughtful p.er.
sons to guard against that great modern evil
Bright's disease. II il the most dangerous the
most trescheroas disease OF the present day. u
Is carrying on more prominent people thsn an
middle walks of llfe and u threatens an ,lasses
There 10 but one thing that be done when IL
TO the only remedy known 20 the world that can
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you doubt this read the following;
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fuii statement. will he pleased do 20. Four
family physician was called in and trea,ed me sor
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were boating badly. and ! had gotten 80 had
mat could not walk, and short -bFeathed. I
changed physicans. and got a very skillfui one
from another town, who made examination, and
TOD me that had Bright's disease In It's last
stages j was bloate1 up my chest. he said
the urine was on.-fourth altUnen, With some
Weeks, AID told my wife that could not live three
months. My sister came to me- and brought
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made She persuaded me TO try il. I told her hat
did not think there was any use 81 my doip,
so bu; she insisted telling she would send ma
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