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The Bossier banner., 1894-07-19
TO THOSE WHO FAIL.

Courage. brave heart, nor in thy purpose ftl-
ter;
Co on, and win the fight at any cost.
Hhough sick and weary after heavy conflict,
Rejoice to know the battle is not lost.
THE field is still open to those brave spirits
Who nobIy struggle till the strife is done,
Through sun and storm with courage all un-
daunted,
Working and waiting till the battles won.
Tbe fairest pearls are found in deepest waters,
The brightest jewels in the darkest mine
And through the very blackest hour of mid
night
The star of hope doth ever brightly shine.
Press on. press on! the path is steep and
rugged,
And storm-clouds almost hide hopes light
from view;
But YOU can pass where other feet have trod-
den
few more steps may bring you safely
through.
The battle DER, a victor crowned with honors-
BY patient toll each difficulty past
You then may see these days of bitter failure
But spurred you on to greater deeds at last.
Nellie Barlow, in Demorests Magazine.
The Bossier banner., 1894-07-19
a Fine Curriculum.

The young fellow had been at col
lege ior three months and was at home
on a short holiday. There he met a
visiting minister who was asking him
about his school.
II know that college very slightly"
he said; what kind of a curriculum
have you?"
"Oh," was the astonishing reply, I'VE
haven't any now. but a wealthy man
has promised to build one for us as fine
as any in the country, whenever we
win the football championship. De
troit Free Press.
The Bossier banner., 1894-07-19
Period of Incubation in Snake Eggs

The ophiologists mention but two in
stances of python laying her eggs
while in captivity-that at the Paris
Geological Gardens in 1S4l and the case
of DIR. Knox's pet at Danbury, Conn, in
July of last year. The eggs in each
case were something like forty in num-
Der, spherical in shape, six inches in
diameter, and of an ashy gray color. 1t
takes the brooding python almost two
months to hatcn her eggs. In the Paris
instance cited, eggs deposited on May
did not produce live young until July
2.-St. Louis Republic
The Bossier banner., 1894-07-19

in some of the Hindoo temples in
South India the collection is taken up
by an elephant that gees round with q
basket. Everybody contributes,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-08-16
There is an unusually large number o
i lie sailors in Bath the present summer.
The Maine Republican Platform.

The Republican party of Maine invite all the
people of the State who are in accord with the
principles of the following platform to unite in
a common course of action ..#<~
A financial policy not in favor of monometal
lism, either of gold or silver, as the basis of a
fnancialsystem, but international bimetallism to
be secured by strenuous efforts of the national
power. Now, and IN the future all dollars should
be of equal value to the end that suitable cur
rency, abundant for all wants shall secure to all
the people the full results of their labor.
The enactment and enforcement of all laws re-
quired for the proper recognition and protection
of labor.
The American Union, its citizens and their great
privileges can be protected in no surer way than
by absolute exclusion from our country. of the
paupers, criminals, and diseased of Europe. The
party, therefore, fayors the passage of such re-
strictive legislation as will admit to our shores
only those immigrants who have the capacity and
desire to become good American citizens.
A firm and unbtnding foreign policy, which will
prevent the interference of European powers In
the domestic government OF American states and
countries. The party sustains the course of
President Harrison and ex-Minister John l..
Stevens toward the people of the Hawaii islands,
and wholly disapproves the I'M American policy
of the Cleveland administration in relation there
to.
Legislation for the benefit of the Union soldiers
of the war of the rebellion, their widows and
children, and disapproval of the present policy of
the Pension Bureau in making such laws, to de-
gree, nullity.
Full recognition of the benefits to all the people
and prohibition and we pledge our continued and
hearty support of the enforcement of the prohibit
tory laws.
A tariff for the protection of American labor
against the underpaid and pauper labor of foreign
countries. #%
The Republican party calls upon all the voters
of the State TO express at the polls their disap.
proval of the Wilson tariff bill, the main vicious
features of which are maintained and added to in
the bill now before the Senate, which surrenders
the interests of Northern labor. while it protects
| hos ~ fI,o NIL NJ NV in
dustry OF Maine into HE hands of our nearest and
most hostile rival. the Dominion of Canada.
The Blaine system of reciprocity and opposition
to the Democratic policy which attempts its aban.
donnaent and repeal
Cordial approval of the course of the Maine del
egation, in the Senate and in the House of Repre-
sentatives, in fighting the Democratic tariff bill at
every stage, and continued support in every fur
ther effort to obstruct and defeat the bill.
A full endorsements Of the conduct of the affairs
of the State by the executive and Legislative
branches, and cordial recommendation OF Gov.
ernor Henry b. Cleaves for re election to the high
office which he has so admirably filed.
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suvN.s, WEBSTER ! COMPANY,

entertainment for many summer or win
ter evening. "The Flower Garden in Au-
gust" furnishes many excellent suggestions
for the care of flowers in midsummer; and
an especially timely paper in "Sanitarian, -
entitled Visiting the Sick" should be read
by everyone, also the illustrated article on
Holiday Comforts" for now is the time to
enjoy the m. In fact, these in addition &,
the stories and the bright matter in Chat
and "Society Fads" make this an ideal mid
summer number; and, as usual, the d.
partments abound with valuable suggestions
aud information. w. Jennings Demorest,
Is East 18th Street, New York.
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The President TO be Put TO the Test.

Certain people were inclined to give
President Cleveland great credit for the
truth contained in his letter to Wilson.
That he told part of the truth none can
deny but telling it in the manner he did
was open to criticism. 1t was deliberate
interference by the executive with the leg
islative department. The constitution pre-
scrites the duty of the executive in case
such pernicious legislation as the Presi-
dent declares the Senate bill to be, is
brought to him for approval. The country
expects him to do his duty as prescribed by
the constitution. Then is the time for him
to act. His letter to Wilson was indicative
of cowardice rather than of courage, as it
was an attempt to evade the responsibility
of having to sign or to veto the measure.
President Cleveland shrunk from perform
ing the duty of bis high Office and adopted
this unprecedented course Of letter writing.
But in that letter he placed himself on
record in words that admit of nothing short
of veto when the bill 10 brought to him. In
that letter to Mr.. Wilson, President Cleve-
land said How can we face the people
after indulging in such outrageous dis
ordinations and violations of principle?''
Every word of that sentence will apply to
the chief executive of this nation with
branding force if he does not veto the
measure. The country demands it. Every
best interest of the country demands it.
Out of the mouth of the party's tariff re-
form" prophet this Senate bill
is declared to be an outrage upon the Ameri-
can people, is declared to contain not one
Democratic principle. Those who went
into NAV kish ecstasies over what they were
pleased to call the lofty patriotism of Cleve-
land in writing that letter to Wilson are
now contenting themselves with saying
'the President will reluctantly .ign the
measure ins all probability, AZ that seems
the best course This is nauseatipg
Now is the time for Cleveland to show
whethtr he has cours be ~ Hhs allows tina,
bill TO become law then let every Mug.
wumpiin philosopher who has been parad.
ing before the public sandwich between
the placsrds cleveland better than his
party" and Craftsmanship on tapeat the
White House." let these get in out of the
rain of which their cuckoo calls were an
omen,
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American President ever undertook has
gone thrt ugh it, successive stages to this
ridiculous and hpmiliSibg conclusion. We
say humiliating, because no Democrat can
review the Democratic administrator
policy since Paramount Blount was sent
ont to Honolulu without feeling that. - q
Democrat. he must to some extent partake
of the administration's shame.
Wipe out the dismal story, If you can,
from your minds; and in affairs Of foreign
policy yet to come, Judge the President and
the secretary not by what they attempted
to do in Hawaii, but rather by the zeal for
American interests, the patriotic spirit, and
the true Americanism to which they may
be spurred by the singing memory of this
colossal blunder and Its consequences to
their reputation for common sense.
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Figures That Signify.

The second year of an administration is
its critical time. At the elections of the
second year you get the peoples verdict of
good or bad.
In the second year Of Mr. Cleveland's
first term, that is to say, in 1886, Rhode
Island led off on the first Wednesday in
April. The Republican plurality in that
Republican state was 1895.
At the corresponding election in April,
1894, the Republican plurality was 1922
The Democracy went all to pieces The
signal disaster which it encountered this
year was far greater tfA appears by the
comparison with 1885; for since that time
the Rhode Island Democrats have actually
carried the state last yessr by plurality of
1876 ms =
= Next came Oregon. In the second year
Of Mr. Clevelands first term the Demo-
Gratis carried the state for governor, on the
first Monday of June,r 1885. The Demo
cratic plurality was 3702.
At the corresponding election last June,
in the second year of Mr. Cleveland's Sec
ond term, the Republicans swept Oregon
from end to end. The carried everything
They elected their candidate for governor
by plurality of nearly 1000.
How about TennesseeP In that state at
the election the first Thursday OF. August
in 1885, the Democratic majority over the
Republican candidates was about IS 1000
From the corresponding election last
week the returns are not yet complete,
especially from the Republican counties
1t is known that the eighth congressional
district, which in November, 1886, went
Democratic by 5000 majority, was carried
last week by the Republicans for their
judicial ticket with at least 1000 to spare
The indications for the whole state point
to greatly reduced Democratic plurality in
Tennessee as compared with eight years
ago.
The last basis for comparison up to date
is afforded by the great Democratic state
Of Alabama. After Mr.. Cleveland had
been for II months in Office during his
first term, the Democrats af Alabama cleo
ted governor by the tremendous plural
ity of 107,62l. Nearly 80 per cent of all the
voters in that state was solidly Democratic
eight years ago.
AT the corresponding election on Mon
day, the remnants of this magnificent or
ganization managed, after an almost des-
perate campaign, to elect candidate for
governor, supposed to have the good
wishes of Mr.. Cleveland, by a majority
probably exceeding 1900. The legisla-
ture is close and doubtful. The Kolb-
ties are still claiming the state, but
there is no doubt that Oates has pulled
through; and when we say he pulled
through, whether his majority should fall
to 12,000 or mount to 10000 by the full
count, we have in mind Governor Seay's
majority of 107, 900 inslSS6.
Arkansas is still to be heard from, on
Sept. 3, Vermont on Sept 4, and Maine
on Sept. II. Then come the state elections
in most of the states, and the general cleo
tions for congress in all of the states, on
Nov. 8. The prospect is not encouraging.
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Democratic History Viewed by q Democrat.

For an evil ossom was born
OF sugar and iron and coal, .-
The seed of it Republican votes. 10
And the fruit OF II Populist com;
A Dennis deep-txed in the hole,
sprung of &. L. without sense,
Sprung from the Son ofthe fates. 49,
And the low gods took on their hands
The party of fakes and of lies. "a s-s ~
The party that feeds on its words.
The party ths1 humbug commands, F r.
The party encountered Of flies. 20 ---
he party that says and does not,
Consumed of the uncleauest birds.
The Baron OF Buncombe its head,
The maker of unctuous phrase,
The lord of extreme Tommyrot,
ON old polysyllables fed;
With the free wool sheep turned to Craze,
With the Cuckoos singing III notes,
A Democratic President, God wot!
The party to Sheol went feet,
The soup closed dark DER their eyes,
In their mouths Salt River ran Bile;
C.'s mouth was still ful of his fee,
The Cuckoos still called him tn. Wise,
He aud Thurber were stuck on him yet,
And his messages stuck on their style.
A. c. S. in New York Sun
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DAILY hEr NEBEC JoURN THURSDAY. AUGUST 16 1884,

The drift is all one way. Since the people
1t the b6ils began to register their opinion
of the firstyear of Mr.. Cleveland's second
term. the results have not been such as to
inspire even in the most sanguine mind
any enthusiastic expectation of a glorious
and general Democratic victory in No
yember.
All that Democrats can do under the
circumstances is to grit their teeth and go
ahead and do their utmost, keeping their
eyes not upon the past, but on the future.
No one man can kill great party unless
it makes itself consenting victim and o
willing sacrifice.-[New York Sun.
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Infantile Paralysis.

DR.. Lewis Jones of ST. Bartholomew
hospital, London, has narrated his success
full experience in combating infantile
paralysis with electrical treatment. He
said that the object IF this treatment was
the stimulation and development of sur.
viving fbers, and If possible to make them
strong and, numerous enough. to form a
useful muscle. A muscle that is greatly
atrophied and largely the seat of fatty de-
generation may still contain a fair number
Of active muscle fbers scattered In it
which may-remsin dormant for several
years and yet be capable Of Development If
eventually they come under the electrical
treatment. -s. ...,,.. . :
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SCREEN IN BENT IRON WORK.

may DO mentioned: Brackets, hanging
lamps and hanging baskets, picture and
looking glass frames, small easels, lam
terms, lamp shades, grilles for portieres, s
o'clock tea stands and many new designs
and purposes ingenious minds will devise
A common glass vase mounted in bent
IRON becomes a beautiful receptacle for
flowers, the black iron curves making an
effective setting to the bright colors
When used as table decoration, the
snowy tablecloth forms another pleasing
contrast. The rapid effects to be attained
the graceful curves, the delicate tracery,
are delightful to those who are fond of art,
and while tho taste is being satisfied the
nimblo fingers are learning skill in the
use of tools.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-08-16

Under the bill which Senator Hale term
ed in the Senate Tuesday. the sugar trust
tariff bill, there is and l-S cents more duty
per pound on sugar than under the Mckinley
bill, if Governor McKinley's estimate be
correct, and we have not seen it questioned.
And every cent of this difference will come
out of the consumers in addition to the bur-
den of monopoly fastened upon the throats
of the tax payers by Democratic adminis-
tration.
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WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING

President Cleveland has surrendered
like fat porpoise, and he can now go
bluefshing.--[New York Commercial Ad-
vertiser.
Under compulsion of the DARKEST and
foulest conspiracy in the annals Of any ma
ton, the house of representatives has
passed the senate tariff bill. Temporal ~,
the sun of Democracy is eclipsed, its ad-
ministration is put in the pillory of uni
versal contempt and, what is far worse,
the honor and all the material interests of
the whole nation are sacrificed and slaugh-
tered at the dictation of its long recognized
masters, the protected barons and
money kings.-[New York Herald
The last extreme of disgrace has been
accepted by the decision of full Demo
cratic caucus. and by the action of the
Democratic house. The caucus was dis
tinctly notified by Mr. Wilson that "the
sugar trust has the people by the throat, !"
yet he proposed, Speaker Crisp moved and
the caucus voted to give the trust its enor-
nous bride. Mr.. Wilson's reason was
that the tariff bill could not be passed at
all without giving this plumber to the
trust, but what decency iEthere in giving
50 shameful price for hi so bad.-[New
York Tribune.
The house having thus surrendered and
accepted the party dishonor that follows
party perfidy, and having asserted its
doubtful claim to the possession of the
tariff bill and its right to pass the same
and send it direct to the president, if Mr..
Cleveland in his turn should take hand
In the perfidy and accept his share of the
dishonor by signing the bill he has de-
nounced, or by otherwise permitting it to
become law, on what issue will the
Democracy go into the campaign soon to
open for the control of the Fifty-fourth
congress? God preserve the party that
goes to the people with such record of
perfidy, such a confession of dishonor.-
New York Sun.
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TIE "Bill of Sale" is not worthy the re-
spect of respectable men, it gives the lie
to Democratic professions, it brands with
hypocrisy every Democratic pledge, but it
gives forty millions to the sugar trust. So
the House tumbled over itself to accede to
its provisions and the President, who has
declared this bonus to the trust to be Dem
ocratic, will probably allow it to become a
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-08-16

According to an English paper, at re-
cent meeting of the Royal Botanic society
the secretary asserted that 10 years was
IS long as he had undoubted evidence of q
seed being kept and then terminating.
He secuted the idea that seed from the
hands of mummies had ever developed
and considered that no scientific and trust
worthy evidence Of such claim existed.
Sir B. w. Richardson took tho same
view -.-
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Prof. Wilson may have been one hun
dred millions out of the way in his statis-
tics on sugar importations. The sugar
trust declares be is. But the sugar trust is
not reliable as truth teller and Wilson's
versatility in free trade argument demon
strates his inability to deal with facts.
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. The wonder of the New England states,
an oddly Of which mention is, for some
unknown reason, seldom made in print, is
the monster fountain jet at the home of
destitute women and children, near Ben
nington, VT The column of water in this
jet rises to height of 1903 feet, being the
highest known single fountain jet in the
world
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-08-16

Those 'pop gun" bills passed by the
House are designed only as fig leaf aprons
for the campaign. Apparel too thin for
decency, however.
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York County.

Senafors-ChaYles II. Preec0tt, Biddeford;
Franklin N. Higgins, Limerick; Horsce Mitchell
Kittery.
Sherif-Nathaniel Hurd, Berwick.
County Treasurer-Charles 81. Adams, Liner
ick.s
County Attoruey-wiIlis T. Emmons. Saco.
County COMMUNICATIONS Hanec0m, Leb
anon.
Register of Desds-Justin n. Leavitt, Buxton.
Clerk Of Courts-James Il. Hewey, Alfred.
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Tammany is boycotling and otherwise
making sit hot" for those who testified be-
fore the Lexow committee. Tammany's
turn on the griddle will come soon however.
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PRESS COMMENTS.
Democratic Disaster.
(Biddeford journal. }
TERRIFIC SMASH-UP.

DEMOCRATIC TRAIN CRASHES INTO IT'S OWN
PLATFORM.
ALL ITS PLEDGES KILLED OR FATALLY
INJURED.
PARTY RECORD ED.-INCoMPETESCY
OF THE TRAIN HANDS.
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AND EVERYTHING

The London county council is consider
ing the advisability of establishing munic-
ipal pawnshops after the pattern of the
continental monts de piete.
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4 Professor Asa Gray says that the Wash
ington elm at Cambridge, Mass, has been
estimated to producee7, 100000 leaves,
which would make surface radiation of
about 25-acres in extent, and give out ev-
cry fair day in the growing season ~ tons
of moisture
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Another victim of the trolley. 1t was
through his horses shying at an electric
Car that the Archduke William of Austria
was thrown out and killed lately.
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The need of system of water works in
Mechanic Falls is being felt by the people
of that thriving town as never before. 1t
is tho ught that the lack of such system
will prevent shoe manufacturing concern,
doing business of 100000 per annum,
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[Chicsgo Record Dem.
Now that the House has surrendered to
the little group of strategists in the Senate,
the President has either to stand by his ut
terances and veto the bill, or else stultify
himself.
The Recognition Of President DoIs's Govern.
N. Y. Sum-
We congratulate the Hon. Charles A.
Boutelle of Maine upon his success in fore
ing the administration into tardy and un-
gracious recognition of the Hawaiian Re-
public. 1t can readily be understood that
since Mr.. Cleveland was mayor of Buffalo
he has never performed an official act more
distasteful to himself or more destructive of
public confidence in conservation. 1t is the
final abandonment of the Policy of Infamy,
and the reluctant confession that in matter
affecting the honor of this country the ad-
ministration has been not only wrong from
the first, and stubbornly wrong, but need
leesly wrong and uselessly stubborn.
To Mr.. Boutelle's vigorous, persistent.
and patriotic attitude in the House on the
Hawaiian question, 10 due. as much ~ to
any other cause. the belated return of Mr..
Cleveland and Secretary Gresham to their
senses with respect to Queen Lii and Hawaii.
The most amazing enterprise that any
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Daily geaafhse sonra'sl.
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BILE FOR THE PRESERVATION OF RETURN OF
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subscriptions and advertisements to BURLEIGB
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A Bath merchant who thought he would
raise some ducks for his own tooth, has de-
cided the cheapest way is to buy them. He
purchased hen and thirteen eggs and at
tended the hen like a child. Only seven
Matched out and after three days nursing
six died. He says "he will keep the other
one as long as she lives if it is century"
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from locating one of its plants thee. Nov
that 20 many of our Maine towns are put
ting in systens, Il is to be hoped thsfMe-
chanic Falls will not delay much longer on
such an important matter.