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TRADITION oF r4e HORSESHOE.
How 1t Came to I:c Protection Against
Evil Spirits.

In MnroCco iron Is considered a great
protection against demons, who arc the
ineal representatives, after all, OF the
hostile spirits. Hence it Is usua! 10 place
knife or dagger under sick man pll-
low, his illness bcinm, 0t course attributed
20 demoniacal possession. In India the
nourner who performs the necessary but
,omew hat dangerous duty of putting fire
into the dead man ; mouth carries Il key
Or a knife in his hand to keep off the evil
spirits In short. a bit of iron ia very
useful thing To have about you mt any
time ii you desire to escape the untaNora-
jie attention of the ghosts the trolls. the
fairios and the demons generally. This Is
good reason for buying pocketknife 1t
is also a reason for mailing up horseshoe.
But why's horseshoe in particular, you
ask more than any other odd piece OF
.ron.'' We'll, primarily the good luck de-
nentis more upon the iron as iron than on
the special shape or function of the horse
shoe as n horseshoe.
Bat there arc also many reasons why
the superstition should happen to fix itself
more particularly upon horscshoes. We
must remember that in Europe at least 1t
IS the cattle, the horses and the domestic
beasts in general that are specially liable
TO the hostile attacks of "thc little pco-
pie" Therefore the Gives and trolls are
most likely to be dreaded on farms or in
tho country, where horses and cattle most
do cGngrcgatc. Now, il you want TO nail
up a bit of iron as IL protection against the
fiery darts OF the evil ones on your stables
or cowhouscs, which is the place where
one oftencst secs them, nothing is more
likely To come handy tu your purpose than
a east horseshoe Besides it has obvious
consruty for the place and object, and it
can readily bo picked up in the road al
most anywhere Furthermore, it Is pro
yidcd beforehand with convenient holes,
by means Of which you can readily hang
it up, either over your own house door or
over your sheds and stables These various
advantages of chcapncss, case and rcadi-
ness for fixing would have given the horse
shoe fair start in life it is believed, as a
charm against fairies, trolls and evil
spirits generally, even without any other
and more special advantages.-Cornhill
Magazine
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-10
A St00. 900 LOSS.
Steamers Entire Cargo Ruined by Salt Wate'
Shipped During Rough Passage.

Philadelphia, Dec. 9.--Thc shipping o.
heavy seas by the steamer Remus during
the passage from Hamburg to this port
where she arrived, Friday, practically
ruined the entire cargo, valued at 500, 600
and the consignees refused to accept the
consignment.
The damage was done during stormy
passage consuming 20 days, ana iurthet
augmented by the action of salt water up
on a large quantity of beet sugar which
composed part of the cargo The salt wa
ter. which attained a depth of five feet in
the hold, coming in contact with the s'i-
gar. transformed it into practically q
valueIess black molasscs syrup.
This liquid syrup in turn mixed with
the balance of the cargo, composed OF
sauer kraut, rags, clay, zinc. dust, beans,
muriate of potash and arsenic and ruined
all not enclosed in perfectly tight casks.
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Exhaustion frequently mea ms sta

Exhaustion frequently means starva-
tion. 1t is quite true that a person may
consume great deal of food and yet
starve. The food that is not assimilated
is worse than no food, for it irritates and
clogs without nourishing There is no
harder task in the world than to rebuild
broken down stomacfi-a stomach that
has been crammed year after year with
stuff it could not convert into vital prin-
ciple. l do wish that my friends who
write me so much about their stomach
troubles would try Bovinine carefully and
conscientiously for few months. / wish
they would throw away their nasty, life
destroying drugs, and decline to admit
any indigestible stuff into their stomachs.
Bovinine is a preparation adapted to in :
famed and exhausted conditions. 1t is
pure raw food, made from the best meat,
and is certainly unmedieated. 1t is palat-
able, is digested withous an effort, and in
consequence is perfectly assimilated.
Try it, my friends, and Gthen write how
you feel. , Eleanor Kirk.
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Eeduced to the Ranks.

VIENNA. Dec. 9.-Lieutenant Leopold an
pfficer In the army reserve, was tried by
court martial Saturday for wearing crepe
on his arm at the funeral of the late Louis
Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, in def
ance of an army order forbidding officers
to do So Lieutenant Leopold was in
civilian dress at the time and he claimed
he acted as private citizen and as mar.
shall in the funeral ceremonies The court
reduced the lieutenant to the ranks.
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the PACIFIC BONDS.
conssessman Masuirs's Views On ths Pro.
posed Railroad Funding Proposition.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9-Representative
Mcguire Of California win make vigor-
Gus opposition to the effort to take up the
Pacific railroad funding bill. He will also
contest the measure on the door il Chair
man Riley succeeds in having Speaker
Crisp fx time for the bill before the holi-
days.
'There is a good deal Of misapplehension
about this measure" said Mr.. Mcguire
'It is true these bonds are about to mature,
and the government will have meet them.
But 1t has been paying interest on the
bonds for years. and these payments for IN
terest reach the amazing figure of sSO,O GOO, :
600, while the principal Of the bonds Is
only $27, 600 There should be no
alarm therefore over the payment OF the
principal when the government has already
quietly paid out twice as much as the
principal"
"The main objection to the pending bill
Is that it extends for 80 years the absolute
dominion Of the Pacific roads over the
traffic Of the great west. 1t also limits the
security of the government to certain
designated roads. 1t will be better il con-
gress lets the subject alone and makes no
adjustment rather than make one OF dis
advantage to the government, and to
western development"
Mr. Mcguire was asked what the effect
would be II congress did not act; whether
the Pacific roads would not lapse into
government control.
Undoubtedly they will, said he, "and
it would be practical realization OF the
government ownership Of railways. 1t
would not be necessary for the govern
ment to operate them, however unless
the private interests refused to carry them
on. Their forfeiture to the government
would follow the course of any other
mortgage forfeiture, and the actual as
sumption of government proprietorship
would come some time between Jan. 10,
1885 and June, 1890
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Wire Seats For Passenger Cars.

Wire seats arc, we hear, being expert
mentally introduced by the North British
railway into number of their carriages
The seat Is composed of series Of specially
manufactured steel rings Knit together
and firmly stretched, the chief features
claimed being comfort and durability al
though an important point is the facility
with which the seats can bc rugged up,
thereby materially expediting the process
Of coach construction This system Of
metallic seating has already been used ev-
erywhere, we believe, both in nEngland and
abroad, with certain measure of success.
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Herre,hon. Have No Orders.

Providence, Dec. 9.--Chas. w. Young,
head clerk for the Herreshoffs', was inter
viewed by a News reporter in regard to the
report that this well known firm had re-
ceiyed orders to build two new cup de-
fenders and pronounced the statement as
absolutely false and utterly without found
alton. There is no use in talking about
building, he said, when the firm has re.
ceived neither dimentions or plans for the
new boats. but If any new cup defenders
are to be built the Herreshoffs' will un
doubtedly figure prominently in the de-
signing and construction of the racers.
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Married..

CUMBERLAND.
Brunswick-Nov. %, Willard E. sherman of
Freeport, and Grace d. Webster OF George
town. -
FRANKLIN.
Temple-Noy. ", Edwin l.. Hodgkins and
Miss Lillian r. Keene, both Of Temple.
Farmington-Nov. n, G, Frank Collins and
Miss Ida Mae Brown, both Of Pennington.
KENSEBEC.
Benton-Nov. "a, Eugene Cain of Clinton and
Jennie NJ. Baston Of Benton.
Waterville-Nov. %, Mr.. YIN. T. Kimball
and Miss Corrie L. Dugans both of Waterville.
PESoBscoT.
Bangor-Nov. 2s, Mr.. C. Edward Edes, and
Miss Agnes Clay, both of Burlington; Nov. N,
John A.wickham and Miss Matilda L. Smith,
both of Bangor.
Passadumkeag-Nov. q, Mr.. Earl S. Page
and Miss George Clay, both OF Burlington.
Newburgh-Nov. %, Charles f. johnson and
Flora A. Mudgett, both OF Newburgb.
SAGADAHOC. -4.
woolwich-Nov. 80, Willard VI. Colby and
Nettie A. Cressy, both Of Westport.
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HIS FOREIGN POLICY.
President Cleveland Sharply Criticised
by the Paris Temps.
:.Indications That America Nay Become the
Seventh European Power"

Paris, Dec. 9.-The Temps has leader
on the 1.-THE new departure in foreign
policy of the United States" 1t says
nPresident Cleveland, who but recently
had only the Monroe doctrine on his lips,
now throws himself into the thick OF the
conflict in another hemisphere. Doubt
less the Chinese-Japanese war anects
American interests, but what Is to be
said of the sending of an American com
missioner to Armenia. There are indica-
tions that America may become the
seventh European power.
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WIDOWS PENSIONS.
Change OF Policy Announced on Ruling OF
Assistant Secretary Reynolds.


Assistant Secretary Reynolds.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9-The pension hu-
reau will hereafter refuse pensions to
Widows whose income from other sources.
,dded to the proceeds of reasonable effort
IN their part, affords them comfortable
support This policy is provided for in a
.ulinv Of Assistant Secretary Reynolds,
based on the June e. 1890 act.
In his decision the assistant secretary
saws: ut was evidently the intention Of
congress to supplement the widows means
# support from her own labor and all
,ther sources by tho pension, only when
.uch means were insufficient for her COM
,ortable support. Under ordinary circum-
stances. without intending to lay down an
arbitrary and infexible rule, when a
widow is shown to have an income con-
siderably in excess Of the pension provided
hv the third section Of the act from sources
independent of her daily labor she does
not occupy a pensionable status there
,pdar -
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De Lesseps' Death Not Unexpected.

PARIS, Dec 9. - The death of Count
Ferdinand lie Lesseps was not unexpected.
Since the Panama revelations, the great
engineer has been in state of semi con-
sciousness. His death was calm and pain.
less. The French newspapers dwell upon
and his melancholy end, saying that he
contributed TO extend abroad the great.
ness and influence Of France. They add
that the work in which he failed will be
forgotten and that the people will only
see that which he accomplished.
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Mothers J
Look
= = r
Has your Baby any OF
these symptoms z

Are its cheeks wan and pale?
Is it losing weight?
Is it puny and feeble?
Does its flesh lack firmness
Is it fretfui and peevisll ?
Does it sleep too much !
Does it pass its food urdigested {
Is it not doing we'll?
Does it throw up its food?
Is it backward in teething!
Is it recovering from illness
In all these conditions
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Pursuing Express Robbers.

Fort WORTH, Tex. Dsc. o-rhe
sheriff's posse are still in pursuit of the
men who robbed the Pacific express. Of
ficers think the robbers are making for
Cross Timbers, thence TO the Indian Terri
tory. Captain Mcdonald and the sta te
rangers have Joined in the pursuit. The
officers of ths express company say not
over 5000 was stolen.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-10
An E.-congre..man on frial.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Dee 9-Jese Haral.
son, said to be an ex-congressman from
Alabama, is on trial before Judge Edger
ton in the federal court here on the charge
of forgery The Indictment contains It
counts, of which seven charge forging
vouchers. four forging checks, three for
giving affidavits Of residence and two with
holding pension money from the prose
cutting witness, Louis Osbrook. during
1893 and 1S9s 80 ~ 81 :"
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A Chance For Britannia.

English Yacbtsman Ga few years hence)
II have brought over my yacht and want
race. Where is your course!
American Yachtsman (wbo has profited
by experience in British waters)-Up the
Raritan, thence 20 miles inland by canal,
returning in straight limo overland. 1
shall use canoe with wheels. York
Weekly .-.r
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searoi,,ox For suicides Body.

PrTTsFIELD, Mass, Dec. 9-The polics
have been searching tho Belair woolcn
mill dam with graphing hooks in search
of the body of Mrs. James Sheehan, who
is supposed TO have drowned herself. in s
fit of mental alteration. She is 35 year.
old, and has been ill for number oi
upsls
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winter Racing 1t New Orleans.

NEW ORLEANS, Dec 9-The Crescent
City Jockey clubs winter meeting opened
Saturday with a fine card Of six races. All
Of the stable room at the track has been
taken up and horses are arriving by every
train to occupy the quartars engaged for
them.
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surgeon Killed by . LIo.. /;

LONDON, Dec. 9-Advices received here
from southeast Africa announce that f.
Mckay, a surgeon attached to II. NJ. ).
Pioneer, a small special service vessel on
Lake Nyassa. was killed recently by a lion
while out shooting. A few years ago
Surgeon Mckay was The champion 5o-mile
bicyclist Of ireland.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-10

Boston, Dec. 9. 9.-Scsconer Oracle Ben.
son, which was sunk iii collision with the
steamer Reading off Long island, was
brought upto the city Saturday and placed
in the mud in the flats of East Boston.
No more bodies have yet been recovered.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-10
when Others Fail

Hoods Sarsaparilla builds up the shat
tered system by giving vigorous action to
the digestive organs, creating an appetite
and purifying the blood. 1t is prepared
by modern methods. possesses the greatest
eDative powers, and has the most won
dcrful record of actual cures of any medi-
cine in existence Take only Hoods
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-10
yixilans's Sad Fate.

LONDON, Dec 9-The Field says 1t y rs
ported that Howard Gould intends to use
che v:gilans xs . house boat next season
in Kngland while racing with his now
2O-ratar.
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Died.

SAGADAHoc.
Bath-Nov. 30, Mrs. Jennie NJ, wife OF Eben
Allen, aged 43 years, II months.
'Bangor--Dec. I, Elizabeth, widow of the late
Maurice Connors, aged 50 years.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-10

Hoods Pills are purely vegetable, and do
not purge. pain or gripe. 25e.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-10
THE STOCK MARKET.
Dealings In Leading Securities In Beseon
and New York.

BosToN, Dec SIN the outside market call
money is qouted at 3 per cent, and time money
is nominally per cent?
STOCK CI,OSINGS,
Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-10

Red Seal Sarsaparilla is sold by all drug
gists. 1t always cures.
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WILL SEEK 4 CHURCH, NOW.
Rev. ". K. Thomas Tired Of
n ice Tips on Marriage.
His 3ride-to-Be Indignant at so
Much Notoricty.

Rev. w. N. Thomas, OF England, who
called at the West one Hundreth street
police station yesterday afternoon for
Information as to where TO get married
In a hurry and at the same time quietly
has prohted by his experience. and will
get married to-day or tomorrow In
some church where he thinks the nup-
tials can be celebrated more quietly
than by inquring OF some facetious pc.
lice officer.
His flancee, Miss Margaret Lietze. OF
Cincinnati said this morning that such
were their present plans. Miss Lietze
was Indignant this morning at the news
paper accounts OF their experience yes.
terday. She denied all the interviews
printed. and said that "the false and
misleading" stories published about hei
and her betrothed. grew out of their
ignorance OF the marriage laws OF this
State.
Mr.. Thomas is from England and I
married Is necessary" said she. "When
We decided suddenly to get married we
Inquired where We could get license.
! learn now that a license In this State
IAN we did yesterday was to 10 to the
police station and ask where We could
get license Mr. Thomas is OF very
, nervous temperament, and I suppose
that is the reason the police poked fun
at us.
mir. Thomas came to this country six
years ago, when ! met him in the West.
He has no regular parish, but IL only
substituting and lives now at the
Windsor Hotel. New Rochelle. He left
me last evening at o'clock and / don I
expect TO see him until this afternoon"
Miss Lietze said that she came to this
city to visit Mrs. Dick, of 108 West One
Hundred and Third street where she Is
now staying. AS soon as she could see
Mr.. Thomas and her brother, whose ad-
dress she refused to give. Miss Lietze
said she would take some steps to have
the 'lbellous stories" corrected.
Miss Lietze would not explain why she
and Mr.. Thomas decided to get mar
red suddenly. She said that her father
lived in Cincinnati. but was not a
brewer, as reported.
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right and required little repairing He
would make big show of unscre wing
a nut here and easing valve there,
and then he would oil her and spill lot
came a-groaning and a-panting and
a-pufiing up the hill her driving wheels
would strike the oil and slip. and the
train would be stuck long enough to
minutes or so behind time. Matt knew
well enough that Hank was playing It
on him. but he couldn't prove anything,
to swear and take the reprimands that
himself
AFTER a while the girl made up her
blame her for though he was pretty old
for her, he was good man, with con-
siderable cash IN the bank and big
a cent beyond his pay and was liable
from his reckless ways TO be smashed
almost any day. OF course. Matt was
II II N hlsh spirits over his success. and
first time the TWO met Matt says: Look
her. Hank Stevens! I've bad about
enough OF your games, and I'm not go
ing to give you the right OF way many
m re tines, when you know as well as
I 30 that you're not entitled TO H. Some
ny Sou'li lull out Of that siding ahead
n' '1c Once too often
w Vat are You proposing for 10 do In
Tue lren'.cs" SIS Rank, who h I'd a
ma. r"u'aind OF lang l-g and could be
",s! IDLY polite "hen ne wansei To
J,:
i'Jpose, says Matt. for 10 open
ny throttle and smash your dirty little
'commolaion train N I'VE million
what I intend TO DO. and what ought
to have done long aEo. only I had
weak sort OF feeling for your Passen-
gers
An right, says Hank. You come
Along with your bullyrngging old eX-
press and try to smash me II you want
the top OF the heap. I've generally got
about two carloads OF coal just behind
my engine and ] callate you'll have
iome little trouble driving through
ihHu..
Nov Hank knew well enough that
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Matt meant what he said. Matt was.
as | have told you. a mighty careful and
conscientious man. but you could drive
him too far. and he had certainly made
up his mind TO run into Hanks train IL
II kept getting in his way, and ] dom
blame him. However. he never did run
Into Hanks train. though ne thought he
d.d. but Hank worked Il little game on
him that left him with no more nerve
than a race-horse that is frightened by a
bit OF paper and thinks lis going TO rise
up and tear him all TO pieces.
About a week went by, and Hank
never crowded the express OF the track
except once, and he did thai when he
knew that MATHS girl was on the train
by a collision, The very fact that the
girl was there Mt the time made II all
the more hard for Matt TO back his train
down and give Hank the right OF way,
for, OF course, she supposed that Matt
had made some sort of mistake In his
calculations and had endangered her
precious lie; SO the next time the two
men met. which was the very next day,
Matt sings out: You've done that trick
for the last time. You do II again and
sw ar sO.emu'y word without end that
III run you down
Please yourself says Hank, and
then he saw that the time had come for
carry ing out plan that he had devised
for destroying MHtts usefulness.
week, or meUbe ten days, or mebbc
f"rtn.S hi later the express came rouad
II sharp curve aeaT Antioch about 7
D clock at night, and precious dark II
was, TOO. at that time OF year. Matt vas
tao hours late, owing % a f'aifat tr n
having go: on the track ahead VI him,
and he rad received a telegram ordering
him 20 pa s the aSconm Il lion rr-
miles east of Antioch, where she would
wait fo- him on the siding, Matt Was
running at about forty-tive miles an
hour, tryirs 10 make up a lituc time,
would wait for him on that siding or
would pull out and come aloaG down
the road just so as 10 delay the EXPRESS
Matt 10 himself, loud enough for the
fireman 10 hear him. 'there'll he the big
gest smash that this Goad has seen this
year. Just az mat minute the express
an engine on the track not more than
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with her, which was his general rule.
She must have lived at Tiberius Centre.
where Hank laid up at night and where
Matt McGnnis LIVED when he s was .S at
lived there, and II isn't OF any conse-
quence where she did live, so far as
this hyer story is concerned .,
Both the men were dead In love with
the girl. and she didn't seem disposed
she NIKE liked u" Bes nef Hank i Used to to
about s o'clock. and Matt used to spend
most OF the two hours he had In Tiberius
Centre every day. from 100 to 3.34 at
her house. AS lar as / could Judge Matt
for he always had the girl to himself
when he called. while when Hank was
there in the evening her father and
mother were apt 10 be on hand.
Hank was terribly jealous of Matt
and he never lost a chance TO make
things unpleasant for him on the road.
He would pull out from the siding where
Re had been waiting for the express
a minute before she %as due, and when
he met her he would show his watch.
which he HI showed on until she MAS
that she was right. Reasoning with him
Won dn't Go any good, rner, was II s
uaiG on IN" TRACK and ne "ou "a
ba4se IN Inc S IN ne ,nd the tHp -
Hank would remark o. Matt ,h,t - nr
diin'l ger new "a'tA nH ""hli come
10 .-i"i some t.y.
why aldn H. complain 70 The super
lu-tnlult?' So b., did, h.t When Ia.
superb, GGvnt ,aied HANK VI and
questioned MN u iEh,s "his" WAS *.
IN The Superintendent nelieN ed him. and
he began t. lhinK that Matt was get
ting lttlc too old and too careless.
This wouldn't have made much odds 10
Matt II II hadn't been that he found
himself wondering II, possibly, Hanks
watch was right. and N he himself was
beginning to show signs OF failing. This
IL Just what Hank was working for for
he had sworn that he would make Matt
lose his nerve, providing Matt got the
better OF him with the girl
Then Hank took to battling his train
on u down grade, and informed the con-
ductor that his engine wasn't working