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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-07
viii Fill a Large Place.
IN. Y. Morning Advertiser.)

Governor Morton has gone back to AL
bany, Governor Mckinley has gone back
to Ohio and General Harrison will soon
leave New York for his home in In
dianapolis. Gotham is glad to have had
these distinguished Republicans within
her gates, and she hopes to entertain them
frequently in the future. But there is ON
other eminent Republican whom 1t would
rejoice to welcome, and, although his exact
whereabouts in the invigorating pine for
ests of Maine are unknown at the present
moment, it is absolutely certain that he
will fill very large place in the public eye
between now and the assemblage of the
next Republican national convention.
Thomas Brackett Reed will always be sure
of an enthusiastic greeting from New
York Republicans, who honor him for his
magnificent services to Republicanism
as speaker of the fifty first House of Rep
resontatives and who confidently expect
; o sac him score record equally brilliant
AS the speaker of the fifty fourth House.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-07

The Chicago Chronicle beseechs the old
leaders OF the Illinois Democracy to speak
and declares "that to be all silent at this
time is to be all damned" Senator
Palmer is the only one Of the influential
Democrats who has announced himself as
squarely opposed to the free coinage craze.
But then he wasn't always Democrat
and there arc indications he is tired Of the
cOmnanY he keeps.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-07
Two knights Errant in Texas.

The growing demand LOT Une rOnanIlc
in fiction and tho WEAKNESS with the
commonplace need drive no aspiring lit
terateur to plagiarizing Dumas, when
chivalrous deeds rivalling those of Monte
Christie are to be found right in this mat
ter of fact world today, rare material al
most completely moulded to the readers
taste and at best requiring but few
faint touches in proportion and color.
Material which in all other respects is cal
culated to hypnotize the novel fiend until
the last sentence shall release him to con-
seriousness. For the benefit of such would
be-story tellers, but more especially for
the interest of the general reader, it may
be well to outline one of these occurrences
which is admirably adapted to startle a
prosaic world.
The scene is laid in Mexico, not an I'M
known country by any means, and the in
cident is vouched for by correspondent
of the New Orleans Picayune, which can
leave no doubt of veracity. The heroes of
the affair are two sewing machine agents.
For that matter they might as we'll be
book agents, if the novelist In retouching
the story should so decide. One was .
New Yorker and the other Texan SO
there need be no suspicion of sectional feel
ing in the matter nor upon it can there
be based any claim that chivalry is wholly
confined to the region south of the now
defunct Mason and Dixon line.
These two young men, not supposed to
be more susceptible than the ordinary
sewing machine agent, had occasion to
visit the little town Antique Morelos In
the state of Tamaulipas, wherever that
may be- and while there learned of a
woman In Distress The chronicler doesn't
even tell us whether she was good look
ing but presumably she was young.
However, the novelist can arrange that
part of the story to suit himself. She had
been Natchez, Miss, miss and had
listened to an old man by the name OF
Dominick Reale who told her he had Il
palace in Mexico, servants and retainers
galore and money for ballast. 1t is sus-
pected that she herself had a weakness for
romantic fiction for on the strength of his
boasting she concluded 1t better to take
Dominick with his castle and gold and
minus the title than to seek foreign
prince for his title alone. Poor thing
When she got to Mexico she found that her
lord had a small interest in little gro
Gerry and sage bush ranch few miles
out. Then as II to make matters worse
he i'll treated her after time and finally
said he had given her away to a friend of
his, the district judge, to which business
he would attend on his return from a
short visit to another town. 1t was just
| at this nick of time the sewing machine
agents called at her house. She didn' t
buy a machine but told her story. They
promised to take her away on their re-
turn. But when they came back they
found that the Mexican judge to whom
the heartless husband had promised his
wife, had issued document forbiddinR
them to execute their purpose. Nothing
daunted the knights Grant made their
plans and then called upon the Judge.
The report says that they talked United
states to that bluebeard and that more
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-07

The disposition just now of certain
British financial authorities to cry down
American securities, when the future of
such securities is excellent leaves the i'm
preston that British Investments at home
have improved since the passage of the
Wilson tariff bill
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-07

The old Bearce house on Main street,
Lewiston, opposite the high school, which
has been used MS part Of the Central
Maine General hospital for the last two
or three years, was raised mp. Wednesday,
and moved back on the rear of the lot to
make room for the wing OF the new hospi-
tai. Work on tho foundation Will begin
e once The Bearco house has been one
of the landmarks of Lewiston for many
years.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-07

At a hospital In Honolulu experiments
are being made with view to discovering
q cure for leprosy. We trust this will not
afford Thos G. Sherman an argument for
the restoration of Queen Lii
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-07

The reason that Olney has kept very
quiet about the state portfolio is said to
be that before accepting no wishes to
know IL he can retain the $40, 200 year
in corporation counsel fees that he is said
to be receiving now.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-07

1t has been the custom for past fifty years
to give an agent two terms, in one in
stance, four, the authorities dceming it for
the best interest of the State and tribe to
reappoint, political influence, of course,
having it's effect
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-07

Where at this juncture are the crstwhile
Democratic leaders of Illinois?-Chicago
Chronicle.
And by the way where Is the erstwhile
Democratic party of the nation.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-07
MAINE GOSSIP.
A June Octette.

The Fiddle Bug fiddled, and the June Bug
sung,
And the Beetle beat the time;
The Tree Toad Joined the tree-o then,
And they played an air sublime.
The Lark was out for a skylark, too,
And the Horn bug blew his horn
The Locust sang, and Katy Did,
And the June octette was born.
boston Courier
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-07

Rockland has circus aggregation com.
posed entirely of local talent This
would not be considered novelty in some
towns "long bout lection time
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-07

Two men in New York have just con-
tossed to q burglary for which two other
men are now serving sentences. The
courts can't always get at the facts.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-07

1t Is possible that Russia is stiffening
Turkeys backbone, thinking little di-
version in Asia Minor may help her
schemes In Asia Major.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-07

No notice whatever viii - ssksn Of an
signed communications.
TIE JOURNAL oAHHo1 n HELD nDsPonsIBLn
for the reservation or return Of rejected COM
nunications.
Address all Communications relating 70 sub
pcYiptlons and advertisements to BuBLneH =
HIYu7, Publishers, Augusta. Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-07

over $500 month.
To Portland man is credited the in
vention of street letter box with several
improved features. Among them are
A dial which records automatically the
hours of collection, enabling one to tell
at glance If the collector has been there,
also new locking device lit is SO arranged
as to furnish the best of protection from
the weather to its contents, and mail
matter Is so directed as it falls into the re-
ceptacle that it is emptied with great ease
After all the Rickers are not Just pleased
with the site they chose for Maine
Worlds Fair building. Sometimes our
selves are more difficult to please than
other people.
1t is said to be as good as settled that
the Biddeford Masons will build fine
block there this season.
The humorous editor of the Rockland
Courier-Gazette has been giving his atten-
ton to gardening of late and like most
humorous men is open to suggestion and
fertile In device. So it perhaps is not
strange that he has been successful in
transplanting cucumbers. He says he
went into his hot bed and pulled some of
the cucumber plants up by the roots
Then he laid them fiat on the ground
sprinkled little fine Garth on the roots,
spread paper over them to shield them
from the heat of sun, and the next day
every one of the plants was standing up,
straight and smiling, and they have kept
even pace with the other plants in the
bed from whose midst they were SO ruth
lessly torn. abs
Those who may have thought that the
death of Gail Hamilton would impair the
history she was writing of the life of Mr.
Blaine will be pleased to learn that the
book will be out before long, the first
volumes probably within five weeks. Be
fore she was taken i'll, it is said, all had
been revised down to the close of the
Minneapolis convention, and was In type
The remaining chapters were completed
with the exception of the last half of the
very last chapter. AS soon as it was evil
dent there would be a delay, Mrs Harriet
Prescott Spofford was called in and the
matter finished, revised and approved by
Mrs. Blaine and is now in the hands ofthe
publishers. This book has been prepared
most carefully and every portion of it
compared and verified by records, and by
calling on the persons most familiar
with the different events In Mr.. Blaine's
career and amendments have been made
under direction of these friends wherever
necessary.
with each recurring Memorial day
visitors to the town from the surrounding
county stop at the grave of Knox, and as
they reflect over his valor and virtues,
drop tear over the fact that republics are
ungrateful and wonder why the right
hand man of Washington, the great chief
of artillery, the noble hearted, patriotic
Knox should be allowed to sleep in q
grave that Is noticeable only for its hum
bic and unkempt appearance in a cemetery
where noble memorial stones rise on every
side and where care and attention of the
graves of even the humblest are evident, -
writes the Thomaston correspondent of
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-07

The Illinois silver cranks In convention
claim to have received telegram from
Arthur Sewall of Bath, favoring the 1f
to I ratio
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-07

The Formosan fasco, q republic, is at
an end, but Formosan troubles aren't by
any means.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-07

The Massachusetts Legislature goes
homo having passed 647 measures, IL OF
which the governor vetoed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-07

Plans for tho Worlds Fair at Paris In
1900 are already assuming definite form
and give promise Of wonderful exposi-
ton.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-07

Pennant excitement in this State seems
to be greatest in the "Tan Bark Alley
Base Ball League" of Portland where the
"stars" are pretty evenly distributed
among the clubs.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-07

The obsequious Thurbcr ought to come
in somewhere In that cabinet juggle a.
Washington.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-07
Nervous People

And those who are all tired out and have
that tired feeling or sick headache can be
relieved of all these symptoms by taking
Hoods Sarsaparilla, which gives nerve,
mental and bodily strength and thorough
ly purifies the blood. 1t also creates a
good appetite, cures indigestion, heart
burn and dyspepsia.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-07

Indian relics and SO old English coins
were the product of pillow in Green
bush field, few days since.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-07
All Free But Honesty.
IN. Y. Tribune

On. 7. Tribune
After Altgeld's free jail delivery, tho
Illinois Democrats may quite properly
go In for free silver,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-07

They are accusing the Maine Medical
Association Of using allopathic words
If they will only write their prescrip-
lions in English the public will not
orumble
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-07

For rank corruption in state politics,
New Jersey appears to take the lead.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-07

The Calais Tannery Company is just
now having boom and its pay roll is
over $500 month
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-07

Hoods Pills are easy to take, easy in &C.
ton and sure in effect. csc. r.,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-07

The thirsty horse will doubtless wonder
why the Portland drinking fountains
should be closed. 1t is on account of the
spread of CHAMBERS that thorough cleans
ing is demanded
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-07


a Rockland paper. Zone thing Is quite
certain, and that is that the national gov
erEment, shielding itself behind the abb
surd proposition that all national monu-
ments should be erected in Washington.
will never expend q cent on Knox
memorial in that patriots home-historic
Thomaston. Congressman Dingley has
labored intelligently and assiduously in
the endeavor to secure an appropriation
for monument to the memory OF Gen.
Knox, but without avail 1t is time now
for the people to do something. If it cam
not be q state affair, let it be county
affair, and if'a county movement be to
feasible let the town push the project
Knox should have a suitable memorial,
and it should be erected in Thomaston. !"
Farmers field day at the State College
is becoming more popular each year II
we may judge from the large number
present, Wednesday, despite the unfavor-
able weather.
The Thornton Academy boys declare
that they will not take sides in the athle-
tic row between Portland and Bangor.
The thirsty horse will doubtless wonder
why the Portland drinking fountains
should be closed 1t is on account of the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-07

TRUsrEIs-Wm. 8. Badger, J. b. nanleY, 4
o. Cornish LendAll Titcomb, B. y. Pafrost.
Deposits received and placed on interest," she
drst day Of every month.
Interest paid Or credited on account IN ~
trst Wednesday Of February and Auen3
deposits are exempt by law fr0n ~
ana accounts are strictly oonndensisl.
Administrators, Guardians, xrustesss nssss
aS1o11 SpwIu o. DUDLEY, 4ssas
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-05-01
III. w.

The Union for Practical Progress is
going to hold mass meeting to protest
against the Union Railroad Company on
number OF counts, and there is evil
dence that the protest will be made ire
spective of any definite knowledge of
whether the counts are based on facts or
assumption. 1t is not difficult to find
things to find fault with providing your
mind and stomach dispose you to fault
finding. We came near having a
similar popular uprising not long ago
because the trolley company thought 4,
. good plan to paint its beauteous cars
a hideous green. We do not care TO enter
any plea for the defense of the Union
Railroad Company. but only to suggest
that in dealing with a semi-public in
stitution of this character it is Just as
well to approach the subject in a spirit
OF fairness and with a mind receptive
to facts rather than fapdoodle. Even
q soulless corporation. like a railroad
company doing business under con-
tract with another soulless corporation,
IKE municipality, is entitled to con-
sheration and ordinary business rules
and plain business sense must control
any and all transactions for the mutual
cood OF the railroad and the public.
Neither personal interests, nor the wall
OF the man with a grievance, nor the
complaint Of the social pessimist nor the
howl OF the anarchist, even when all
banded together in a common cause, can
long prevail even if they should seem toIbe
temporarily successful in kicking ups |
1uss.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-05-01
THE OPPORTUNITY ATKINGsTON

lt Is now generally admitted that Il
rem oval Of the Rhede Island College of
Agriculture ard Mechanic Arts to West
Kingston would inure 20 the conven-
fence Of students, parents ana visitors,
would promote the growth of the school.
and would secure greater economy aud
efficiency in its IN arageInent. II the
institution were a factory or even n
grocery store, and the main building
had burned after a serious mistake
had been found in its location, no busi-
ness max would think Of rebuilding in
the old place for the sake of utilizing his
subsidiary buildings. He would either
move or abandon them if he could rot
utilize them in the old place and build
again in desirable location.
Here the subsidiary buildings can be
used 10 more or less advantage where
they are, in case removal is decided
upon. The only question to be consid-
cred, If indeed the best good of the in
stitution should not be paramount
to any such question, is how
much sacrifice of money the busi-
ness can stand for the sake of a
proper location. The matter is easily
estimated. The Morrill, annuity of
$25, 1000, at current rates Of interest.
represents fund of half million. The
yearly $4,000 from the State, which
will have to be continued either regu.
larly or in occasional large appropria-
tions, especially If dormitory
be burned every half dozen
years, represents 100000 more.
The SIC, 900 yearly OF the Hatdl Fuud |
represents 100000 more; $1,000 of |
he Land Scrip Fund, $4,000 Of the
accumulated Morrill, payments, $50, 900
n movable material, 1000 asked for
o rebuild, and possible smaller items
ggregate fully $1,000, 900, after
making all allowable discounts. This
the amount really involved,
or the present use OF the
latch Fund is contingent upon the
of the school, A loss of
ven $1,000 would be but one per cent.
the amount really at issue, vet who
'ould say that a sacrifice of one per
ent. OF the plant should be considered
hen change Of location would in
rease the efficiency of the plant many
mes one per cent?
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-05-01
THE PULPIT AND IARnR

1t is a dull day for him when the
esteemed rector Of Grace Church isn't
asked to address some part of his
fellow-citizens on some subject or
Other somewhere about town
We note this here because yesterday
Rev. Mr.. ToMKINs seems to have been
little short of engagements. and ac-
cordingly turned up and talked about
an eight-hour day to the Carpenters
and Joiners' Union along with
HARRY LLOYD Of Boston, who is
known as an expert at solving the most
difficult labor problems 10 his own salts
faction, and of course that of his audi.
ence. We regret that we had not
TIE pleasure Of hearing Mr.. TongiSso
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-05-01

for years. 1t will be pu blished In two VOL
umes about October.
All of 0uida's property in Italy has been
sold for debt. 1t is stated that the popu-
lar novelist is almost penniless.
Henry NJ. Stanley's new book, "My
Early Travels and Adventures in America
and Asia," is on the scribner's press.
The first part OF the book, giving an ac-
count OF the two Indian campaigns OF
1857, contains much new information
about General Custer. The second part is
concerned with the early history of the
Suez Canal, the exploration of Palestine,
Persia and the regions Of the Caucasus.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-05-01

remarks on this occasion, but If
he is quoted correctly We suggest that
he make an early appointment with his
brother of the Baptist faith, DIR. e.
BENJAMIN ANDREWS, and learn the lat
ter's experience in chasing the butterfly
Of popularity at some little cost TO a
well-earned reputation FOR never slop-
ping over. Mr.. ToMKINs thought that
shorter hours of work are necessary,
today, TO lessen production due to inn
proved machinery and too many work
ers and that the workingman might fad
more time to devote to his intellectual
and moral welfare.
This sounds familiar and we all agree
with it in principle. We only fear that
Mr.. ToMKINs' hearers might presume
upon bis utterances to call upon him to
advocate making the laws of supply
and demand subject to legislation
and not to natural law-which
explains our solicitude for Mr.. TouKINs.
He must look out for himself. Even
now his own profession is over
crowded, and modern ideas de-
mand shorter sermons. Bat min
listers are thicker than huckleberries
and some of them poorer than the
mice that chew the music sheets in the
organ loft of Grace Church. Perhaps
some carpeater or joiner may rise up
aud suggest that the rector,
being 80 we'll started on the
right track. assist in the relief
of the overplus by associating with him
self half a dozen assistant rectors and
share his salary with them. thus also re-
ducing his own hours Of labor aud divid-
ing his speaking engagements.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-05-01
WHAT WILL THE HARVEST Re?

The proposed college for Kingston
Hill, as illustrated in these columns the
other day, dimensions s2x51 feet. base
ment and available room in roof" and
the proposed drill hall and recitation
rooms. "18Ox40 feet" apparently also
having basement and available room
in roof" counting all the available room
including porches and balconies, have
four and one-half stories or more, or
nearly an acre Of floor space.
This brings us to a question which
we find it hard to answer, and we are
unable to get any help from the diction-
aries or encyclopedias. How many
graduates should the annual crop be for
an acre of floor spaceg The graduating
class of the college numbered II in 1894,
but the dwindliug tendency we have
shown IN previous analyses of the
attendance, has reduced the number 10
eight for 1895, and a possible eight for
1896, with strong possibility that one
or more of these will drop out before
graduation. We have no wish 10
set up as an authority in this
matter, but in our humble opinion
nothing less than twenty year
should be considered fair crop. And
we don't see how we are likely TO get
such n crop unless we plant the institu-
tlon somewhere down near Kingston
depot. where we shall have the irriQat-
ing advantages Of the great streams of
travel which flow through daily on
Rhode Islands greatest railroad.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-05-01
Full Associated Press Dispatches
HIGH WATER MARK
CIRCULATION, p, 200.
WEDNESDAY. MAY /. 1896.
fo rHs EDITOR OF tn. NEWS:

roIHn EDITOR OF TIE NEWS;
SIR lost available cat, lost, strayed
or stolen. ] advertised for it in prom
linent newspaper, but didn't get the cat
back. Then tried The News. You
told'me, as you put the cash for the
advertisement in your money drawer,
that you had no doubt the cat would
SEQ the ad in THE NEWS and come back
OF herself. Within thirty-six hours
from the appearance of the advertise
ment the cat appeared at my window
land scrftched to come in. 1 am not
prepared to say whether the cat saw the
I'D herself and acted on IL or whether
someone found her, picked her up and
dropped her in my yard after seeing the
ad. At any rate the cat came back and
I feel grateful to THE NEWS.