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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-01-23
Married.
kENNEREc,

In this city-Jan. 20, by Rev. j. S. William
son, Mr.. Frank A. Raynes and Miss Maggie w.
Brown of Waterville.
North Vassalboro-Jan II, Mr.. Pearl Ed
ridge and Miss Maggie Watts, both Of North
Vassalboro.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-01-23
State Pensions.

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The committee on State pensions con
sdefsl aAe bill to admit to State persons
all residents of Maine, whether or nont
tf,eyrerted in the quota Of Maine. Tht
committee will report ought to pass on
bill in new draft By this new draft th'
veterans who may receive State pensions
under it shall have been residents OF
Maine at the time of enlistment and FOL
five years prior to making application iol
State pension
The committee also voted In favor OF
special pension for Dorothy Stevens OF Lex
of $40 month. Mai. G. y. House ap
peared in her behalf.
The Sisters Of Charity Hospital.
There was a large delegation from
Lewiston at the hearing before the financ'
committee on the resolve to appropriate
$4,000 annually to the Sisters OF Charit.
hospital. Lewiston. Those who spoke II
favor of the resolve were ex-Governo
Garcelon, DR.. Dixon, DR.. Martel u. >
McGillicuddy, ex- Mayor Newell, e1- hep
resentatives Isaacson and Sylvester, am
others, Mayor-elect Noble closing win
very eloquent appeal for the appropria
ton. The applicants were closely qucs
toned by members Of the committee !
was claimed that the hospital admitte
all, regardless Of creed, and the expense
are very low, thus enabling poor pcopl
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-01-23
Soldiers and Sailors Poll Tax.

The committee on taxation gave hear
ing on the petitions to exempt soldiers
and sailors from paying poll tax. Rep
resentative Fairbanks of the House ap-
pearcd in opposition and circumstances
were laid before the committee from the
veterans in the House. The petitioners
for this exemption were given leave TO
withdraw.
Regarding the order which came over
from the last Legislature, for the com
mittee to inquire into the expediency OF
requiring banks to make returns annual!
to assessors of their interest-bearipg de-
posits the committee voted legislation
inexpedient.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-01-23
NEVER " ORkED.
A Professional Tramp Given His FRS
Lesson.


The pride of the Ancient Order of Llnger-
ing HOBBS appeared at the early session of
the police court yesterday morning and an
nounced that he had never worked in the
@ years that he has been earth, says
the Detroit Free Press. The individual is
Walter Hudson, who says that he was born
in New York, but for the past six years he
has been professional tramp, and he re-
Gently came from Chicago. When his honor
asked the prisoner what he did for a living,
Hudson answered that he had never worked
a day in his life, and ne looked it. The most
pronounced thing about his makeup
dirt while his hair had evidently not seen
a comb or brush for many months. Hudson
admitted that he had been in the work.
house but said that he had been discharged
because he would not work. He had never
heard of Capt. Joe.
Justice Whelan thought that it would be a
good idea to send his customer to the works
for 30 DAYS and see if the captain could in
duce him to go to work on the stone pile
ont of respect for Hudson's laZiness he was
taken to the House of Correction in the bus
and he was Immediately taken to the bath
ROOM The sight of water brought on a
SLIGHT attack Of commissions, but the tramp
had to stand it and came out 50 clean that
even Justice Whelan would have failed to
recognize him. Capt. Joe was not at home,
having gone to Bay City, but he heard
about the 'hobo'' and teegraphed to his
assistant either to put Hudson to- work or
| send in his resignation. Hudson was rather
| thin through the girth and he was given
| his dinner before hostiit:es commenced.
| The meal finished, he was conducted to the
stone pile in the yard, which looks big
enough to keep an army busy. The assis-
tant superintendent is no pigmy and when
he ierked his finger toward the pile where
| a convenient hammer lay Hudson lost his
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-01-23
THE TORTI RE OF THE HOUR.
The Small Boy Has New Kind OF
Clapper. and the Din Is DeafeninG.

Rafting bones,' or "clappers.' have
now become epidemic. and small boys are
adding to the din of the day and fracturing
the desired peace of the early evening by
means of fiendish toy which, through rea
son of its extreme cheapness, has already
obtained what the patent medicine man and
the ambitious country editor call "a univer-
sal circulation says the New York World.
When the father and grandfather of the
small boys who now roam through street,
hall and parlor with this noise-maker par
excellence wanted a set of bones in their
youthful days they induced the butcher not
to break the ribs in the family roast of
beef These bones, carefully cleaned and
dried, furnished instruments the melody
produced from which the juvenile ear alone
could appreciate.
But the toy maker has come to the aid
of the small boy of this genera ton. The
fin de steele youngster of today knows
nothing of the home made toys that were
the joy of his father. And SO the upto-
date youngster does not conspire with the
butcher and the cook for pair of bones,
or, better still, set of four, two for
each hand. He goes to the little notion
store near each school house and buys a
thin, polished piece of walnut, to the side of
which is affixed a thin, slender piece of
steel tipped with a little iron weight. A
slight motion of the hand causes the weight
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-01-23
THE EFFECT OF TOBACCO.
Smoked Away His Brains.

Philadelphia, Jan. 7.-Ralph w.
Bond, aged twenty-seven. of Pip Nor
ris street, was today sent to the Phial-
delphia hospital for the insane, suf-
fering from an attack of insanity
brought about, it is stated, by excess
sivc cigarette smoking.
Cigarette smoking Nonsense.
That's trick of the cigar makers. 1t
is tobacco smoking-nicotine- poison.
WHAT" said Ralph Waldo Emer-
son, put such rowbar as tobacco
into the delicate texture of the
brain."
it did him.
why" said he, sit puts me in a
drowsy dreamy condition-it soothes
me-"
"Well," we replied, I'VE have found
it hard enough to fight the battle of
life wide awake and 18th all our facul-
ties alert. Where would we have been
if we had been half asleep half the
time? You want mental activity
not mental torpidity.''
We can forgive the man advanced
in years for browsing over his pipe,
but for young men, just starting into
life, it is villainous practice. For
Emulation hath a thousand sons
Who one by one pursue. If you give way.
Or hedge aside from the direct fortnight
Like to an entered tide they all rush by
And leave you hindmOst."
For the young man, who means to
amount to anything in this world, to
bacco is Purgatory and whiskey is
He'll. l. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-01-23

Editor Howell Says Congress
Ought to Do Something With
Finance.

Washington, D. c., Jan. 18.-"This
out giving the country some financial
relief said Col. Evan 2. Howell, the
veteran editor Of the Atlanta Consti-
tuition at the Metropolitan. "The
| masses of the people may not under
stand all the intr;cacies of the money
question, but when they hear that
there is plenty Of money in the coun-
try and yet read every day in the
newspapers that the national treasury
is hard up and distressed for lack of
gold they can't make the two PROPOSE
tic ms agree.
The truth is that there is woeful
scarcity of money and that is why con-
gress should formulate some plan Of
currency legislation that would relieve
the strain and start up business in
the old prosperous channels. Any
sort Of a bill would be better than
| nothing, for it is we'll understood that
a continuance of present conditions
means the issue of more bonds in the
near future In Georgia there is
plenty to cat, and the corn cribs and
smokehOuses are so we'll filled that we
we're able to send provisions to our
distressed friends in Nebraska. Yet,
when it comes to raising money no.
body can get any, even on trst-claSS
security. That is why the people are
so desperately anxions that this con
gross should not act. They are not
welded to any particular sbheme
My own belief is that the tax on state
banks ought to be taken off, as was
promised in the Chicago platform, but
| have no hope that the promise will
be kent
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-01-23
SHIPPING SILVER INTO MEXICO
1t Is to Be Used in Coming Dollars
Silver Countries Prosperous.

New York, Jan. l3.-The firm of NJ.
Gugenheim's Sons of this city have
within the last few days shipped large
quantities of bar silver to the City Of
Mexico to be coined at the government
minis into Mexican silver dollars The
shipments were not only made from
New York, but from Omaha and Kan
sas City. The transportation and
mintage charges amount to nearly I
per cent. A member OF the firm said
The Mexican silver dollar is at Il
premium Of about per cent, and for
cign exchange in Mexico is at a dis
count Of about per cent, condition
the reverse of that which now prevails
in the United States. This is illus
trativc Of the fact that countries on a
silver basis are prospecting under the
low price Of silver. while gold basis
countries are sutfering"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-01-23
SONG OF THE FOOT.

Version from the French Of Du Maurier.
Poor Trilby, beautiful and good and dear!
am her foot. And who shall say:
What friend. who cherished hey so lately here,
Has framed. with fond regret and love sincere,
This relic by caprice inspired one day,
The next fade away?
l was a twin. What is my sisters fate?
Alasi Alas, Love led steps apart
But at the end of all. for which wait,
We two shall be united, though so late
In that last rest where more pain can dart
Through Trilby''s sleeping heart.
Oh tender friend where wander you today?
The door ia closed which Triiby often passed.
And paradise is very far away;
And earth, to us kind, to her so gay.
Has peer You may search far ant
fast,
But you will fail at last.
M. e. D., in the New York Sun.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-01-23
CHAMPAGNE CORKS.
Why Very Few of Them Are Made in
the United States.

when YOU pull champagne cork the
anticipation of the sparkling beverage
gives you little time to consider just
how important the cork is, said a prOm-
nent cork manufacturer to a Pittsburg
Dispatch man. "A champagne cork is
the most expensive made. You will prob
ably be surprised when I tell you they cost
to 10 cents each To keep champagne
in good condtioni,the cork must be as
near perfect possible So it is that
of Catalonia wood The utmost care is
taken in the selection of the wood, and
even after the corks are cut another
sorting process is gone through. Then,
by a chemical process, the corks are
tested to see if they can be relied upon to
do the particular work of tightly fasten-
ing champagne bottles The manufactu-
rer must learn Tor certainty whether
the corks are perfect or not before they
are permitted to be pitt upon the market.
OF course you lind some bad corks in
champagne bottles bit the defects are
or develop after the bottle is corked.
You will now appreciate that or il
cents is not suchh a very eXorbitant figure
as it would scent ~
There are very few champagne corks
made in America The corks could be
made here Just as well as in Europe
but at much less profit. AS the process
Of manufacture is mostly by hand the diff
| ference in the price of labor would re-
| duce the manufacturers profit to small
margin. We pay cutters on this side from
| 1925 to $3.50 a day as against 60 cents
| to 10 cents on the other side.
why don't Americans grow cork? Be-
cause they are too energetic, too progles
sive. You could grow just as fine cork.
wood in California, Florida, North Caro-
lima, and other states as they have on the
other side. But where will you find ar
American or an American family willing
to wait so years before they begin to re
alize on their investment? They will mo-
| do it. They want to see the profit coming
| Immediately. You see. you nave to wal
4 80 years for a. cork tree to grow befor,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-01-23
SHE FURNISHED DETAILS.
Stared Out of Patience. a Young
Woman Rebuked Her Fellow Pas


She sat in the corner of a Broadway cable
car nearest the gripman. She knew that
she was the cynosure of all eyes among the
passengers, and she felt the situation keen
ly. 1t was of no use to affect unconscious
ness, for the color came and went with the
| rapidity of the gripmans going, giving the
lie to any such affectation, and she knew
ii. Every block the travelled added to
the attention she attracted and the litter
ing became more and more audible. She
had but one course open to her, and she
took it SO quickly that the wel-dressed
men and women passengers who had been
amused at her appearance were surprised.
Il know that you are all looking at me-
she said, suddenly sitting forward in her
seat SO as to command full view of the
car, land / know that you are thoroughly
enjoying yourselves 1T my expense. Ia
glad of it, and for fear you will lack i'm
pOltant details when you describe me to
your relatives and friends, I'll give them to
YOU myself. To begin with, the style of
this bonnet, which amuses you much
was copied from one worn by my grand
mother and her grandmother before her.
The pattern of this dress dates back so
far that l can leave it entirely to your i'm
agination without the slightest fear of you
antedating it's time The brooch, which is,
as you will speak of it when you go home,
as large as a small-sized teacup, has been
in the family since it's earliest representa-
tives landed on Plymouth Rock, and this
bingham umbrella has a history that would
keep your metropolitan humorists busy for
a year and be worth its weight in gold as
fecund source of inspiration. The basket
speaks for itself, and needs no further de-
scription.
Il forgot to mention that these cotton
gloves have officiated At IS family we'd
dings and So christenins-, to say nothing
of outside events, which might be classed
as remote and occasional. My age, of
course, is immateral, and you'll each have
your different versions, but hint even on
this may be useful; therefore keep it be-
tween Sc and GO, and favor me all you can.
If there is any other little detail about my
personality you would care to know, just
mention it and I'll make it clear
You see, I've read a great deal, and
know the interest you city people take in
| these things, and l should feel real put out
| if you failed to grasp particulars for the
| want of little enlightenment. And then
| YOU are polite that, although from the
| country and without your opportunities of
| getting up in good breeding, | naturally
| try to do my best to emulate you in mat
| tiers of courtesy.
BY this time those among the passengers
| who were not buried behind friendly news
| papers found objects of the greatest IN
| terest to observe on the street, and the
| speaker waited vainly for reply. FINALLY
| she settled back in her corner with sign,
| and said in a disappointed tone:
| That's the worst of detail 1t always
| detracts from the main object New
| York Herald
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-01-23
THE REPRESENTATIVES, WEDNESDAY. JAN g. 1895.

to strike sharply upon the seasoned wood,
pair of these disturbers of the peace can
drive a nervous persoh Is distraction. A
group of half dozen urchins can drown
the roar of an Il" tr4 lin. But when 20 to
80 boys in a neighborhood get together and
march around the block. each vigorously
four of the rattlers, the 6fd soldier hears
again the rattle of maaeketry and the crash
of battle. ~ if
New York is doomeaf to this exaggerated
serenade of bones and castinets until the
first fall of snow sufficiently deep to bring
out the seds. or the aflr as1,a freeze that will
will be thrown under the bed or into the
closet of 1.-THE boys room along with last
summers bats, balls,7tops- and other rub
bish of that ilk. The sales of this toy dur
ing the past week have been enormous.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-01-23
TRiNsLENTS.
Hotel Population is increasing in Thi.
Country

The tenement house commission appointed
by Gov. Flower reports, among other
things, that the number of hotel residents
is constantly increasing. while the number
Of private houses or family dwellings is
steadily on the decrease when compared
with the total population of the city, says
the New York sun The total number of
dwelling houses in New York is $780, and
the average number of persons to a house
is 1s.5 Twenty years ago the average was
H5. In Brooklyn present ii is 9.S, and
in Philadelphia still smaller
In recent years the tendency has been for
people to concentrate in a smaller number
of houses through the building of hotels
and apartment houses. former dwellings be-
ing abandoned to business factory pur-
poses New York's hotel popuati ton has
grown each year. The number of hotels in
New York is 229. and putting the average
number of guests in each at 100, 23.000 is
found to be New Yorks hotel popula ion.
The newer hotels up town have an average
much nearer 250 guests than 100, and as the
big buildings replace the small old
houses, New York city's hotel popula ton
increases steadily Many Of the new apart
ment houses too are 10 all intents and
purposes hotels, except in name. They do
not, it is true. furnish accommodations to
transients, but they have separate restau-
rants and resemble in other respects big
hotels.
Among American cities Chicago stands
it's transient hotel population bears to the
entire populat ton of the city; New York
comes second and Boston is third. At the
present rate at which hotels are going
up in this city it will not be very long
before New York surpasses Chicago in
this respect. in every other. Chica go
claims to have 500 hotels now. and during
| the Worlds Fair period claimed to have
| 1,4O0. The great majority of these were
not hotels, but ordinary houses turned
over to hotel use temporarily. The act
ual number of bona fde hotels in Chi
cago is 400 and the reason why the num-
her is so large is that at nearly all sea-
sons Chicago is overrun with drummers,
who make it their favorite stopping place.
The very considerable transient popua ton
in Boston hotels is due to the fact that
| a good share of the business of New Eng
| land is done in the city of Boston, which
| is the accepted meeting place of New Eng
| land men generally. Among other Aneri-
can cities st. Louis, Baltimore, Cincinnati,
| Buffalo and New Orleans have a large hO-
| tel population, and Brooklyn, for obvious
| reasons has the smallest of any American
| city.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-01-23
FOR LABOR'S VEAL.
REPRESENTATIVES, OF THE UNIONS
IN THE STATE IN SESSION.
They Discuss Matters of Pending and
HOped-fOr Legislation in Their
interests.

ST. PAUL, Jan. H.-The joint labor leg
islative committee of all labor unions and
central bodies in the state met at labor
hall tonight J. A. McDaniels presided,
and J. Frye acted as secretary. Those
present from Minnea polls were w. H.
Warrington, A. Levy, j. Phillips, NJ.
Starr. The most important action was the
consideration of a bill for state board of
arbitration and Cancellation, drawn up by
Frank Nalesh, to be presented by Senator
II. f. Stevens. The bill combines the best
features of the laws already in operation
in Massachusetts, New York and New
Jersey, and introduces some provisions
specially suited for the industrial re-
quirements of Minnesota. 1t provides for
voluntary arbitration. 1t was thoroughly
discussed, and after a slight amendment
unanimously endorsed by the committee.
The Cigarmakers presented the proposed
amendments to their label law, and they
were agreed to. Senator Stevens and Re-
preventative Tailman will present the bill
both in the house and senate.
The Shoemakers' union of the Twin Cities
presented a general amendment to the pres
ent convict labor law. 1t provides for a
diversity of employment under the state
account system. 1t referred back to
special committee in order TO give the
st. Cloud granite cutters opportunity
to be represented in its provisions
The subject of free employment bureaus
was very decidedly turned down. The la
Dor unions have concluded that they do
not desire such an institution. The com
mittee will hold another meeting in Min
neapolis next Monday evening, at Labor
Temple.
ST. PAUL Jan. H-Representatives Of
the shoe manufacturers and members of
the Shoemakers' Unions of the Twin Cities
met here Yesterday afternoon and dis
cussed with several members of the iegls-
lature the proposed measure for the abolish
ment of contract labor at the state prison
The measure provides that no new con-
tracts shall be made after the eXpira tiUn Of
those now in force and that
the products made =, by prisoners
on state account snail sibe used far
as possible in state institutions, the re-
mainder to be sold in open market. 1t fur
Their provides that the number of prisoners
TO be employed in the manufacture OF any
product shall not exceed, one tw tieth of
the number employed as free labor IN the
manufacture of the. same product in the
state. 49,,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-01-23

The president of the Amer lean BIZ
metallic league, Gen. Warner, is out
with an interview declaring that there
the Democratic, Republican, or Popu-
list party ,and urging that new party
be formed. Bimetallism would have
been nearer at hand today had not the
Populists broken away from the Dem
than ever if the bimetalistS form
party of their own. The party of piu-
tocracy and monopoly will always win
if the essentially democratic voters
divide into hostile camps.-Chicago
Times.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-01-23
HOW TO ORGANIZE.
A Good Suggestion From II. c. HOdE-
son.

A Good Suggestion From r. c. HOdg-
To the Editor:
l have a suggestion to make. Our new
state Peoples Party League is fully
organized and | presume ready for the
work of starting local leagues all over the
state How can it be done best and cheap
est? To attempt to organize through a
paid agency plan will be to make it cost
more than it will come to. To expect a
large amount of unpaid volunteer work is
not fair To expect the people are so anX-
ious to join and pay their money that
they will rush over the prairies to enroll
themselves is to be disappointed
| suggest that we appoint a day and
that day be town election day. Let us
have it thoroughly advertised and have
proper papers in the hands of proper per-
sons at every polling place in the state
and let those persons spend just that one
day and ask every man who comes to the
polls to enroll and pay his dime or his
quarter or his fifty cents he may elect.
l think well organized plan of this kind
would secure anywhere from $1,000 to 1900
names on that one day
Just think of $4,000 paying 10c per month
from say, March IA until the next general
election-20 months-would amount to $780,
OoO Let us say $4,000 would do the state
central committee, we would still have an
average of $1,000 county left. Who will
say that we could not carry the state with
such a fund and how easy to raise. If
we expect to carry this state we must
have funds and we ought to begin to ac-
cunulate now so as to make it easy. Pop
ulst treasurers don't defalcate, never fear.
At the same time We should have every
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-01-23
Take Notice.

When you have finished reading
your REPRESENTATIVE hand it to
your neighbor, Cf he is not a SUBJ
scriber and let him read it. He may
want it sent to him regularly there
after. Spread the light all you can.
If you know of leading man any
where not Populist, but who is open
to reason, send us his name and %
cents, and we will send him the paper
for three months. This will cost you
about one-fOurth of a cent a day and
it may do grt q. good to the cause.