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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-28
Questions Presidents Motive.

The Chicago Times Herald remarks ed.
itorially that President Cleveland seems
to be changing newspaper supporters
while crossing the stream. This remark
is all the more noticeable from the fact
that In thi. same issue Of the Times
Herald there is Washington letter from
Walter Wellman, the Washington cores
pondent Wellman has hitherto been a
staunch supporter of the administration
so that his recent conversion is all the
more 81 gniflcant The first signs of this
change of heart were manifested when he
declared several weeks ago that Cleveland
was really candidat, for third term.
From this letter referred to above we
quote
THE poison of suspicion has already
permeated the entire public system at this
capital. 1t has its origin in the fear that
the President of the United States Is
soheming for reelection and that he is
using great issues, even the menace of in
ternational war and financial stress, to
whether well or i'll founded, whether just
or unjust, has produced deplorable state
of feeling 1t has degraded every man
and everything it has touched. 1t has
changed patriots into partisans.
"You who live in Chicago or in one OF
the great states of the Mississippi valley
ask me IL President Cleveland's motives
are really suspected by public men at the
capital. if in their honest Judgment he
falls under the sus picion Of being narrow,
self sh and schemipg? | answer, unhesi
tatingly. yes. 1t should not be so, but
we are dealing with things as we FIND
them No pen picture Of political life IN
this capital would be complete without
portrayal of the prevalent opinion touch
ing the President. In fact, it is centrs
factor in the situation. The general be
lief is that President Cleveland is u con
ming politician; that he long ago decideC
to take up the Monroe doctrine because il
offered oDportunities'fer a bold stroke fol
popularity that be is either ambitious FOL
a third term for himself or DESTROYS o
placing one of his favorites in the chat
which he now occupies. and that every
thing he does Is governed by genera
motive in which ambition, cunning ant
wilfulness are mingled. l know this i
| so because of the conversations which
| have had with men of all parties, will
men who represent all phases of human
| temperament, from the grave ant
thoughtful to the superficial and excit
able" "Some of my editoria
! friends in the Vast say am cuckoo.
y 4 a.
them, even if they are to the President
credit. The most conspicuous fact il
Washington today is that Mr.. Cleveland
duty to himself and to his country is I
renounce ambition for a third term.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-28
THE CAPITOL CRYPT.
Tragic Story of a Young Bride Who Spent
One Night There.

"For several years l was an official
guide at the capitol in Washington, said
Colonel Brent Stacy of Springfield, o.,
land during that time 1 saw some queer
things about the building. But was al
ways most interested in the wandering
ghost in the crypt. Report has it that Il
soldier was left in the crypt one night and
was never heard of afterward, but his spir-
it is supposed to be wandering around
there yet looking for way out.
''This ghost story has crept into print
many times, but that crypt did come very
nearly causing tragedy once. Late one
afternoon young lady, married to new
congressman but short time, on her first
visit to Washington, was shown through
the crypt with some friends. Somehow the
bride became separated from her friends
and couldn't find her way out. The con-
gresham looked for her everywhere, and
everybody joinedin the search No trace
of her could be found, so they went home
thinking she might have gone out ahead
! of them.
'But she was not there either. Another
search was made next morning, and at
last they found her way down in one OF
the darkest passages of the crypt, where
she had been all night With the rats ana
bugs. They picked her up but when she
got home she was raving maniac. The
terrors of the night had been too much for
her. The congressman took her to their
Illinois home, and l never heard of her
afterward until on recent visit to Jack
sonville, Ills. The superintendent of the
State Insane asylum is a personal friend of
mine, and called on him. He conducted
me through the institution, and while l
was pa sing out of one of the violent wards
for women / heard a shrek come from a
woman. 1t startled me, and when 1 turn
ed my eyes fell upon wild looking crea-
ture whose hair was snow white, but who
was apparently yet q young woman. Her
1gure and features, although the latter
had lost their intelligence, bore evidence
of great beauty once. Who is that woman
| asked she is the wife of Congressman
F., he replied. l asked him no more
about her, because l knew only too well
the story of her misfortune, and was only
too glad TO dismiss the horrible details of
her mental dcthronement and confinement
from my mind. kansas City Times,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-28
PRESS COM MENTS.
An Englishman's View Of II.
Goodwin Smith in the Saturday Review,s

Goodwin Smith in the Saturday ReviewE
The Monroe Goctrine seems to have
been of late the theme of active discussion
in the British press, and to have been
treated by different Journals in different
ways. Some journals seem to have
treated it as an aggression, Others as a.
fanfaronade, and others again as ny
pot hesis which they might safely concedc
in dealing with the Venezuelan question.
BY this time Englishmen must all know
pretty well what the Monroe doctrine
really is. They must be aware that there
are, in fact, two doctrines comprised in
the same message of President Monroe.
c0gnate, vet distinct from each other, and
directed as warning to different powers.
To Russia is directed the warning that
the American continent is no longer TO be
regarded as field for European colonial
ton. To the holy alliance. which was in
Glued to NEEDLE with the new born re-
publicanism of South America is directed
the warning that no European power can
be allowed to interfere with the political
acknowledgements of American commun-
tiles. In intniating that interference
with the political freedom of the South
American republics will be regarded as
an unfriendly act by the United States,
Monroe manifestly claimed for his Repub-
lie tutelary power. On the other hand,
there is nothing in the message that can
be construed as preteDs:on to territorial
ACKNOWLEDGMENT on the part OF the United
States
Whether the Monroe doctrine thus
stated is part of International law seems
not very practical question. Interna-
tional law is law withouJ legislature,
without policeman, and without a
Judge. Its highest court of appeal is the
cannon. The Monroe doctrine will be
| law if America is strong enough to en-
force it. Louis Napoleon did not regard
it as law, but he nevertheless had to
accept it and retire from Mexico. In this
respect it seems to stand ON much the
same footing as the European protectorate
Of Turkey, the guaranteed independence
of Belgium, and other understanding
respected in diplomacy, which rest, not
on universal law, but on the readiness of
| the parties interested to fight for their en-
/ foresment.
1t is, however, not with the Monroe
doctrine as formulated in the famous
message that Enelishmen ara now in con
tact, and, If Mr.. Chamberlain pursues his
dream of imperial confederation. maybe
one day brought into collision, SO much
as with the Monroe sentiment The
Monroe sentiment imports that the new
world shall be free from interference IN
the part of the Old world; that it shall I've
allowed to follow its own destinies and
to work out its own civilization: that il
shall not be made the field or the high
way of European war; bus shall h. left
without molcstation TO dedicate ELF to
peaceful industry and the improvement
of the human lot There Is in this, at all
events. nothing of vulgar ambition or
rapaclty.
OF mere territorial aggrandizement /
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-28
Wine Had For the Complexion.

More than one doctor has declared that
clarct and water mixed is the best of bey-
erages for woman, but that she is better
in health without wine at all, If not suf
feriDg from anamia; that wine is acid,
and therefore not good for the complexion
10 nourish our nineteenth century nerves
we should take as much butter, cream
ana cream cheese as we can stand. Or
have a cup Of good homemade beef tea, if
we feel sinking. 1t is told that glass OF
hot milk sprinkled with nutmeg $50 good
for the nerves. is always given to Mrs.
Cleveland before her receptions at the
White House. Women nowadays want
stimulants, but they want the right sort,
and wine, believe the medicine men, is
not Of tho best.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-28

Tho ridiculous superstition which at
tributes i'll luck to the breaking of look
Ing glass is simply due to the old custom
If consulting the magic mirrors of the
nagicians. If the mirror was broken dur
ing the operation, the fortune telling could
not go on, and the disappointed inquirer
regarded the incident as of bad. omen.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-28

There is an odor of tommy rot about
tho report of OH alliance between Eng
of opposing the Monroe doctrine. Should
such an alliance be formed and enter into
operation against the United States
something would drop over in Europe.
And when the alliance got home and the
dust had settled they wouldn't recognize
the old world map.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-28

~ n .
Isn't tabout time subscriilsions el6r re-
lief of the Armenians were pouring in?
The Lincoln County News is Informed
that it has not stormed on the 18th of
December for 46 years.
The 70 members of the Defenders crew
who have gone on to New York to testify,
will probably have us much weight with
the distinguished jury as Lord Dunraven
himself.
The orators of Portland's new civic
league all had chance to speak at the
first NEE ting. We presume they'd all had
a chance to act ere that.
Starch trains have begun to run over
the Ashland branch
This Christmas was the first green one
Aroostook people have seen in 80 years.
The killing and fighting reported from
South and West did not extend to Farm
ington, Ne, where the officers seized all
the rum in town.
Some Penobscot people are very in
quisitive in the matter of assets just now.
Tuberculosis has difficulty in getting a
foothold in Maine, thanks to prompt
measures, one OF which was the killing,
Thursday, of Is cattle in the herd of Fred
H. Chandler of New Gloucester. The
disease, is believed to have been intro
duced into the herd by imported cattle.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-28

TERMS: 800 Per Yea-.

No notice Whatever win be taken Of ua-
signed communications.
TIE JOURNAL cAHsoT BE HELD EBsPoHsrBLR
for the preservation or return OF rejected COM
munications.
Addfeas all communications relating to rub
scriptions and sdve rtisemsnts to BURLKIsH i
FLYnT. Publishers. Augusta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-28

Ounraven's coming excites little notice
There are other matters Of vastly greater
importance to engross the attention Of
people.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-28

If the Cuban insurgents should capture
Havana, those who have opposed grant
ing tho patriots belligercnt, rights on the
ground that they had no seaport, will be
compelled to seek some other excuse for
their opposition
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-28

The Republicans set the President II
good example In repeating the silver pur
chase law Is he willing to reciprocatc
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-28

The merely sentimental doesn't usual!
affect Wall street but that sonnet b,
Billy Watson is al exception.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-28

It Is noticeable that President Cleve
land has practically no influence with
the Democratic minority.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-28

Why not put duty on wool, as well a:
on tea and coffee?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-28

The Christmas trade was good despit'
rumors OF war.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-28

Now for Democratic flibustering IN the
Senate.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-28

No one but Vanderbilt could have
Biltmorc.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-28

More Armenian murders, and England
yet too busy to attend to them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-28
ns' Anodyne Lininent
Cures Every Form of Inflammation.

treatment for inflammation
every person
disease at home
Roon
cents, SIX
all House
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-28
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-28
!. 1ytsS ahsf

The country roads arc rough enough to
stimulate flying. machine inventions.I
Isn't it'about time subscritsions for re-
lief of the Arnenians were pouring in?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-28

Some Penobscot people are very in
quisitive in the matter of assets just now
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-28

The Lincoln County News is Informed
that it has not stormed on the 18th OF
December for 46 years
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-07

Island, which are acknowledged to be
far in advance of other states in this re-
spect
One of the most important changes is
in the state board of charities. This
board is reduced from five to four mem
bers, two of whom shall be appointed
from the party casting the highest num-
Der of votes at tbs last election, and two
shall be from the party casting the next
highest number of votes. This is aimed
to make the board non-partisan as nearly
as possible. The governor, by virtue of
his office, is president of the board and
has the deciding vote in all matters. The
members will be paid about 1900 a
year, and any person who accepts posi-
ton on the board of charities is required
to give up any private or public positions
of profit or trust that they may occupy.
The members will also be allowed their
actual railroad fare.
Another good feature of the bill is one
that the governor recommended to the
Legislature in relation to trials by
lunacy. Instead of a deputy sheriff en-
tering a private home and taking away
a young woman of unsound mind into
court room fu II of gawking and morbid
men, to be tried like criminal regard
ing her mental balance, these inquiries
into the soundness of mind shall be held
by lunacy commission OF three
members, two of whom shall be
physicians. This inquest is to
be held at the defendants home, and the
commission is required to make a report
under oath to the probate court.
Another feature of the bill, one which
was defeated yesterday, but which may
be reinserted today, is the cause giving
the board of charities supervision over
all the county jails in Kansas. The
board. if it found Jail unfit for the habi-
tation even of criminals, could. with the
approval of the district judge. condemn
the Jail
The bill will pass the senate. 1t will
probably not pass the house at this ses-
sion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-07
MAI. SIMS OBJECTIONS
To the Present Inc ONE Tax, Although lie
Believes in Another Kind.

To the Present Inc ONE Tax, Although lie
Believes in Another Kind.
Major William Sims, president of the
First National bank, is the only banker
in Topeka who is in favor of an income
tax law, though he finds fault with the
national law about to be enforced
81 am believer in both county and
state income tax" said he to a JOURNAL
reporter. 81 believe that a man should
be taxed according to his ability to pay,
rather than on what he owns. A man
and still lose money, but the property is
taxed lust the same as if he received
100000 income from it.
Suppose there are two boys. They
have $4,000 apiece. One invests his
money in property and buys little farm
and settles down. The other invests his
money in an education-spends it al,
and the result is all in his head He be-
comes a lawyer, but has no capital be-
yond the education he acquired. In a
few years he makes $50, 900, the result of
his investment The other man has his
little farm, the result of his investment
and from which he makes no more than
living. Still he is taxed, while the man
who put his investment into his head
escapes taxation, though he is much
more able to pay
"My greatest objection to the present
income tax law is that it discriminates.
A man may have an income of 1000
and escape the law but if his income is
derived from the stock of a corporation
the income is taxed even if it amounts to
no more than $500 a year. While in
dividuals are allowed a $4,000 exemption
the corporations are given no exemption
whatever"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-07
FEAR THE COLORED WOMEN
Plea Made In the South Against Woman
Suffrage.

&AAAASs
Suffrage.
ATLANTA, Ga, Feb. THE Atlanta
Constitution, in "a editorial, explains
why the South is opposed to woman sui
frage. 1t says:
"The right Of women to vote is another
matter. In half of the republic it would
send every negro woman to the polls,
while the whites would stay at home.
1t would plunge a land of peace into
horrible discord.
alt is better to allow events to occur
in the order of nature. At the present
time women have all the rights they
need in the courts and elsewhere. If
they desire to make themselves felt in
politics they can through their fathers,
husbands, brothers and sweethearts.
They are felt at the polls just as much
as if they were present themselves. In
regard to occupations, every gate is open
to them. In every state in the Union
women may 90 found actively engaged
in every line of business, and they are
universally respected. Certainly, this is
the case in Atlanta"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-07
Contributed to the s.Char1ties..

The following are among the contribu-
tions received at the Office of the Associ-
ated Charities during January: Chas.
Wolff, 700 pounds meat; ]. Weiss & Co.,
100 pounds sugar; Henry Vesper, 200
loaves of bread; French Bakery, 20
loaves of bread; ]. 8. Clark, so loaves Of
bread; Messrs. Driesbach, Schleigel,
Morrow and Mrs. Downing, frequent
contributions of soup stock; ]. B. Billiard,
200 pounds meal, 100 pounds hominy;
M. n. Shoecraft, mince meat and soup
stock; Frank Rude, bushel sweet pota-
toes; Kellam, blank book; Messrs. Pierce,
Ebright, PhilIippi. Fitche, Sheffield,
Stout, Sargent, and Mesdames Higgins.
Board. Levy, and several others whose
names were not given, have contributed
clothing. Mrs. Ewart gave gallons of
milk; Mrs. 7. D. Thatcher and Judge
Kingmsn, 81 each.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-07

about to throw something at him and he
seemed willing to shrink out of sight for
fear attention should be directed to his
connection with the affair But he was
spared.
The resolution carried with enthusi-
asm and laughter. Even the bitter snow
burdene ed wind which howled about the
state house failed to arouse a compass
sionate thought for the twelve pretty
beguiling young women who would be
turned away from their comfortab BILE
places at the pie counter out into the
biting blizzard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-07

Among all the daily papers that come
to this office, none is so thoroughly ap-
preciated as the TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL
During the legislative middle two years
ago, no paper in the state, or outside of
it, gave such fair and impartial accounts
of the doings from day to day, as the
JOURNAL 1t speaks fearlessly for the
right always, and is not ashamed to ''ren-
der unto Caesar the things that are Cea-
sar's." If you want a truthful account
of the present legislative proceedings
and all the news, send for the TOPEKA
STATE JoURNAL-GrenolaC Chief
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-07
LONGEST BILL ON RECORD.
It Provides for New Ways of Managing
State Charities.


Imagine if you please a bill as long as
the messages of both Governor Morrill,
and Mr.. Lewelling pasted together-a
bill of 158 sections, covering nearly 100
pages, and you have the bill which SEN
ator Householder is trying to engineer
through the committee of the whole.
Yesterday the senate, after spending most
of the afternoon on the bill, got as far as
section 5. At this rate it would take a
month to pass the bill Senator House
holder thinks the bill will progress more
rapidly today.
The bill seeks to establish complete
code of charities which shall govern and
control every branch of the state chart
table institutions and meet every ext
gency. The bill is prepared not by Mr..
Householder alone, who is also a mem
Der of the state board of charities, but
by suggestions from some of the best
informed men in this profession, and
from the laws of Wisconsin and Rhode
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-07
ADJUSTMENTS COMING.
The Lady Ministries Friday and Saturday
and Jarbeau's Company.

Inc Lazy nA1nSLre1S FRIDAY ana SATURDAY
and Jarbeau's Company.
The next attraction at the Grand opera
house is the "Iady minstrels" which will
hold the stage there on Friday and Sat
urday nights for the benefit of Ingleside.
Among the singers and performers
will be the society ladies of Topeka
W. l. Haskell, who came from Salt
Lake city to manage the production and
who makes a business of coaching"
amateur entertainments, is very enthu-
siastic about the Topeka performers, and
says they will give really meritorious
performance.
Jarbeau company will be at the Grand
in the musical comedy f'Starlight" The
company and the piece are well known
and the principal feature is the singing
and dancing specialties. Jarbeau is not
with the company this season.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-07
First Confederate Appointed.

WASHINGTON, Feb. THE first con-
federate to be appointed lieutenant OF
the watch is Captain Laban r. Exline, of
North Carolina, whose appointment has
just been made. Capt Exline lost an
arm during the war, and Secretary Smith
appointed him a Waterman at the begin
ming of the administration.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-07
WAS SHE QUITE SANE9
Poverty Seems to Have Turned An OIL
Lady's Head.

Lady's Head.
A vindictive old lady who applied for
charity at the Associate Charities the
other day remarked: 81 just wish the leg
islators would keep on quarreling and
kill each other all off "
There were several ladies present and
they were astonished and said So
"Oh, that's nothing" continued the
woman. ''thirty years ago was boarding
Legislators and l told them one day that
l wished Abe Lincoln would get bullet
through his head and he did that very
spring"
The woman didn't get the charity she
went after.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-07
OUR LIGHTS ARE CHEAPER
The City Can Knock Corporation Clear
Out On the Cost.

An excellent argument for the munich
pal ownership of public utilities will ap-
pear from comparison of the cost of
lighting Topeka, which is done by the
city itself, with the cost of lighting other
cities by contract
The figures given are reliable and may
be seen at the Office of the city clerk. 1t
should be remembered, however, that
the comparison is somewhat unfair to
Topeka for all the cities named are much
larger and the cost per light is material
ly less in large cities because a great
many more lights are maintained and it
does not cost great deal more for ma
chinery than where there are fewer
lights.
Following are the figures; (cost per
lioht mar voarl.