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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-24
The Difference,

Born in palace on Golden square,
Swadded in laces rich and rare,
Rocked in cradle of gold filigree,
Imported expressly from over the sea.
Born to be petted, INDUCED and caressed,
Born to be always exquisitely dressed
Servants in legions to wait her command,
And all things about her the best in the land.
Born to be married some sunshiny day
High priest, grand old church and royal dis
play,
Bridesmaids all beauties and a bridegroom be-
side
With rent roll as long as the train of the
bride.
Who would not be born to life such as this,
Born and brought up to unvarying bliss,
And at last, when death comes to lie down to
To val,cn in heaven with the fairest and best?
3
Form in a hovol III Rattlebono lane,
Wrapped in coarse rags, neither plenty nor
clean,
A cradle of straw, carpet of earth,
And never II neighbor to welcome her birth.
Born to be tossed and tumbled about
Born to go hungry " cause mother is out,
Day after day left alone in the pen,
Unthought Of, uncared for by angels or men.
=
Born to wander about from her earliest days,
please, ma am, cold victuas," her oft ut
tered phrase,
Born to pick cinders and rags from the street,
Drest but in tatters, with poor, naked feet.
Born and brought up nursing of vice,
Its sounds for her ears and its sights for her
eyes,
Nothing but misery, darkness and shame
Till death ends it all like some terrible dream.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-24
GEMS OF VERSE.
VOICES OF THE BELLS.

Listen TO the Christmas belisi
While all the world is praying.
They are pealing, swelling, telling
And this is what the bells are sayings
We are the voices of vedas and sagas
We are the tongues of prophet and priest,
We are the lips of the sibilant sleepers
Who dreamed of star in the purple east
Hard by the gates of the mystical morn
When the Christ was born.
We are the prayers Of the wandering magi
On Syrian deserts all level and lone
We are the chorus of Jud;ean shepherds,
Tie are the notes that from heaven were blown
From the golden throat of an angels horn
When the Christ was born.
We are the teardrops Of grief and of sorrow,
We are the echoes of yesterdays pain,
We are the iubilant voice of tomorrow
10, peace on earth! Let thy good viii reign!
So our lips break silence on Christmas morn
When the Christ was born.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-24
Saga tah -.
BOWDOINHAM.

Invitations are out for the many friends
of r. c. Browne and wife tn meet at their
home on the point, tn celebrate the an
niyersary of their eth year OF married
1ife.a silver wedding.-W b. Donnc'l, &C
carding to report. is about ID go into the
undcrt liking business. having gone to Bos-
ton to acquire the art of e'nhaiminG. The
sual PREPARATIONS are bting made Tor
hristmas exercises in the several church
vestries The young are bting trained to
sptertain the old Ira ID. Frost, before
reporssd sick, is improving Saturday
evening. Dec 81. Thomas 7. Rideout Post
a .cted officers for 1896. as follows: +.
| Mer,inau. commander; W. b Trutant,
Y C.; c. A. Jordan, j. '. c +. o.
Fos.sr @. NJ. f r. Jacks u, chaplain;
C. tier O. d; d. =. Cormick. o. 6. !;
rc, raa NATIVE to en,appmsnt at Bangor,
~ A Jordan; alternate, W b. Trufant.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-24
AN ADDRESS
Or Undoubted Interest fo
the Public.
(from the Boston Herald !

9 An address may mean a DECENTRALIZATION
OF Mr., Somebody's ideas of metb1nv to
De expounded in crowded hall or crowd
me columns of some scientific iournal
Ihls address, however, is of a practical
kino, bearing on the every aay matter If
our common health. 1t is the home ad-
dress OF one who has been greatly bene-
lited alter long suffering, and who wants
the pubic to know it and benefit by The
truth
MIS- Mary MCCARTHY, So Albany street.
hoStoh' Mass, tells i'll a straightforward
manner that three years ago she first
hoIiceo pains III her back, but did not nav
huch attention to them. They became
worse however, and three months ago.
she says she was almost wreck. Even
sitting was painful and when attemptin o
anything requiring bending or stoopipg
OF the body it was excruciating. She saws
she mas applied mustard plasters all the
way round her body, but the pains re-
turned. She saw DOAN'S KIDNEY
FILLS advertised at BRADBURY'S
DRUG STORE and bought a box and be-
gan their use at once. She says, II am
now taking the second box, and they have
certainly helped me wonderfully, and l
nope others suffering from kidney
troubles will read this and get as much
good as 1 have
These are the kinds of adore sses we like
to make to the public. People must be-
convinced, and that by easily found
proof. We can send you addresses by the
score from every part of the country, but
we know you want, and should have, Dear
by testimony. Our daily message to you
is that DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS is the
never falling remedy for all diseases of
the kidneys, and are In daily use all over
the United States. Just think OF it A
remedy SO universally known that when
a man remarks, My kidneys aren t
right" there is some one near at hand to
say, Well, take Doan's Kidney Pills, and
that will settle it.
For sale by all dealers. Price so cents,
or mailed by Foster Milburn Co ,
Buffalo, n. Y, sole agents for the U. S.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-24
LITERARY.
SANTA CLAUS CAME.
"If you please, sir
Eth? What now?'

eff you please, sir
"Eh? What now"
The crusty old gentleman turned sud
denly and sharply and glared from beneath
his shaggy eyebrows at the little figure be-
side him The figure was that of a girl s
years old perhaps, but small and frail. She
wore an enormous sunbonnet that might
have been made for the wife Of the giant
Blunderbore, so out of proportion was it to
the diminutive wearer, and out of its
depths peered q thin little face, with big,
frightened brown eyes. Her clothing was
so clean and neat that one scarcely noticed
how very poor it was, and as she stared up
into the terrible face above her one of the
little feet wriggled uneasily in the depths
of the costly rug.
If you please, sir mother said to tell
you that she couldn't come up today be-
cause she's sick. F"
The childish treble was little shaken
this time, for the shaggy eyebrows We're
very close to her, and they gave the old
gentleman look that was terrible beyond
belief.
He was in a dreadful temper, this crus-
ty old gentleman, and nothing made him
angrier than for poor people to get into his
house He hated the sight Of poverty, and
all his servants had special orders to guard
the doors and the gates and to see that no
moan of woe or want ever reached his
ears. And yet, after all, this little beggar
had slipped past the bolts and bar into
his very study, where his own servants
scarcely dared to enter.
l don't know what dreadful thing might
have happened If it had not been for that
one little word mother" in the child's
fiuttering speech. Children so seldom
speak the word nowadays that it gave a
little shock of surprise. Instantly he found
himself looking beyond the child, at an
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-24
New LithQoW Library.

The work of moving the books from The
old quarters of the Lithgow Library
to the new building on Winthrop
throp street will soon be begun, probably
on Thursday. Monday, work was started
on removing a lot of old documents. AT
ter this is completed, the books will be
transported.
In all there are about 1000 volumes. In
the new library, the Cutter system will be
aGopted, the books being classified and ar
ranged in sections The work of changing
will take some time, and to assist the
librarian, the books in circulation have
been called in.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-24
STATE NEWS.
Franklin.
WEST HARRINGTON.

The West Village school closed, Sunday
last, day in advance on account of the
illness of Superintendent Farrington's
wife. They both taught in this school
till Mrs Farrin gtons illness. when he was
assisted by Miss Mabel Starbird Rev
freedom Starbird has been very sick with
pneumonia, but is on the gain Rev. Mr.
Stilphen of the Baptist church, preached
in the Free Baptist church, last Sabbath
The heavy rain of Sunday forenoon has
broken up the ice in Sandy river and I'M
dermined the railroad bridge, SO no cars
will pass for day or two. All will start
from this the west sales.--future will be Il
Christmas tree at the Free Baptist church,
Tuesday evening.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-24
Union Harvest Grange.

The officers of Union Harvest Grange. of
Center Montville, are as follows: Master, NJ .
f. Herman; overseer, Charles Ring; lee
turer, .. l.. Bartlett; steward, ID. Poland
asst steward, Geo Cove; chaplaip, j.
+. Ramsay; treasurer, G. II. Thompson
secretary, o. A. Ramsay; gate keeper,
Ernest Terry; Pomona, Edna Ring; Ceres,
Belle Edmonds; Flora, Florence Heal
lady asst steward, Hattie Gove; organ
ist and chorisser May Howard
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-24
Christmas Song.

Why do bells for Christmas ring'
Why do little children sing?
Once lovely shining star
Seen by shepherds from afar
Gently moved until its light
Made managers cradle bright.
There darling baby lay
Piliowed soft upon the hay,
And its mother sang and smiled,
"This is Christ, the holy child
Therefore bells !or Christmas ring;
Therefore little children sing.
Eugene Field in Chicago Herald.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-24

Mr. Lewis Lane of Monmouth, the well
known apple buyer, writes the journal
that last week he bought six carloads of
apples paving SO a barrel right through.
All OF the apples were Baldwins. Mr.
Lane SAYS that for so wears people have
been trying to duplicate the Baldw n
opnle and today are farther from it than
aYRr
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-24

NRs MISSIONS SoorHiyG SYRUP has been used for
over FIFTY YEARS By MILLIONS of MOTHERS for
Their CHILDREN while TEETHiNU, with PERFECT
SUCCESS. IL SOOTfiES the CHILD. SOFTENS the
GUMS, ALLAYS all PAtN; CURES WIND COLO,
and Is the best remedy for DiAERHtEA. Sold by
Druggists In every part Of the world BE sure and ask
for Mrs Wlnslow Soothing Syfup," and take ne
cher kind Twenty five cents a bottle. dtw1yr
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-24
Lincoln.
The following are the transfers of real
estate IN Lincoln county for one week:

patatt6 III EIHCUIu CUUH0y IUr UNt week
BsIsroL.-Wiiliam c. Achorn ct al. to Chas
Nj. Seaver, water right, sIt0.
BooTHBAy HARBoR.-George W. Moore TO
B. G. Matthews CT al, land and buildings, 81
etc; Annie Reed TO }. c. Holton, land, 81; &c
Holton 10 Annie Reed, land, 81.
EDsEcoMB.-Jsmes L. Colby to Susan L.
Colby. land and buildings, $500
NEwcAsTLE.-Alvau Hussey to E. F. Garlic
tor, laud, $3.50.
NoBLg8oRo.-Reuel E. York to William Day.
land, 800.
WALDoBoHo.-Emma Y. Patten to Isabel NJ
Patten. land and buildings, 81 etc; Geo, &c E.
Crawford ct at. to Isabel NJ. Patten, lana and
buildings, 81.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-24

Their, will be services at st. Mark S
church, Christmas at Z O'Clock In the
morning. and at 10. 80 with sermon.
The children Christmas festival VIII Dc
ot the 6. A. r. hall, Thursday, at Z
o'clock in the evening. Their parents
are invited
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-24
A Christmas Fact.

The future has golden tinge,
The past, too, may seem pleasant.
But Just about the Christmastide
There's nothing like the present.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-24
Love-,

The gem that clasps royal robe
The worldling's eye may dazzle,
But Love will light his glowworm lamp
In cot as well as castle.
Francis S. Osgood.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-24

Cushnoc Tribe, l. o. X. NJ VIII
kinale its council fire on Thursday S sleep
of this week. A gold attendance Is ae'
s,rcd as the nomination and election OF
chiefs for the ensuing term VIII tahe
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-24

George f. Frye, clerk for Guy o. NicN
bis home in Dover, Saturday,
,,,,,,,n he will make week S visit
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-24

Miss Alice Lawrence, returned nome
,,,;rac,d Monday, after visiting relatives
In the city.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-24

rhc preliminary hearing Of J. Albert
md Edgar J.. Thompson charged with
.,, n,,,,der of Augustus Sawyer, will be
hold Tuesday morning, before judge
A. q. Andrews.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-24
Married.
WALDO

WALDO.
MontviIle, Dec 8. Mr. Addin Crockett and
Miss Nessie Sawyer. both Of MoDtyilIe.
Brooks. Dec. 20, Mr.. Percy Crosby of Unity,
and Miss Bell Gordon of Thorndike.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-24
Failure.

In the lexicon Of youth fate reserves
For a bright manhood there is no such word
as fail
Lord Lytton.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-24
NOTICE

Of the nonresident taxes. in the town Of
Windsor, in the County OF Kepnebec, for the
year 1896 The following tat on real estate OF
non resident owners. In the town Of Windsor
for the year 1891. in bills committed. TO Orrinn
l.. Choas. Collector Of said Town. on the If
teenth day Of June, 1894, by his certificate Of
that date, and now remains unpaid add notice
is hereby given that n the i'd TAX and interest
and charges are not paid 10 the Treasury OF
the said Town, within nineteen months
from the date Of the commitment, Of the said
bills. so much Of the real estate taxed - will
be sufficient 10 pay the amount due. there
fore including interest and charges, will
without fnrther notice be sold at public
auction, at the Town house in said town, on
the twenty seventh day OF January, 1895, at
two O'Clock, ia the afternoon.
Name Tax due
Heirs Of Sec. Duglass. wood lot On
the road leading from Windsor to
Gardi"er, bounded as follows: on
the northwest by the Gardiner
road, on the south. west by Souer-
JneDt lot, on the so1th. east by the
Charl-s Shun lot the north
east. by the Barton lot, containing
about thirty acres. s5l0.
A II. WARE, Treasurer.
dec10dl aw3t
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-24

+ r. Estes LET'S for Hartford, Moh0ay
afternoon, where he Will spend u S''i'''
with his mother.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-24

II Is urgent that all books belonging TO
.,a Maine State Library will be returfe ca
by Jan. L.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-24
MONROE:
D0CTR |NE
ASSA|LED!!

England and Uncle
Sam having a little
unpleasantness, W e
trust that our cause
is just, and then de-
fend it against all
corners.
This does not have
anything to do with
the
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-09
WANTS A STABLE BASIS,

Engineering and Mining Journal.
What this country needs is the cheap
money that comes through good credit.
Absolute honesty and ability to pay are
the foundations of good credit and low
rates of interest--that Is, of cheap money
of the best quality. No other than the
best quality will or ever should satisfy
Americans. We advocate n real bime tai
lism, not merely. nor chiefly, because it
would advance the value of silver, but be-
cause universal bimetallism, by making
silver and gold interchangeable and there
fore both available, would greatly increase
the foundation for commercial credit,
which constitutes 95 per cent. of the
worlds circulating medium, and would
prevent those disastrous panics which are
largely due to the fear of the INSULT
cheney of that foundation.
An intelligent universal bimetallism
which would place the control of the ratio
between silver and gold in permanent
commission or clearing house, would alb
solutely prevent any danger of overpro-
duction of either metal. and would per-
nit, without danger. loss to individuals or
arrangement of industry, such changes in
the character of the worlds money as ex-
would do away with those blind and ignor-
ant experiments, in depreciating the
standard or in trying to ascertain whether
the business Of the world can be car
red on with one metal alone, which have
for many years been turning the business
of the world upside down.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-09
THE PENROSE PROBE.

Pittsburg Commercial-Gazette.
If in making and administering the laws
for the government of Philadelphia the
public interests have not been properly
guarded, the facts should be known that a
remedy may be applied. 1t is boldly
charged that the most fragrant abuses
have been practiced under the present
charter; that municipal franchises of
great value have been regularly procured
and disposed of by a combination COM
posed of councilmen and others; that cor
rupt contracts have been made, and that
the majority of councils have become so
venal and rapacious that the public safety
demands their exposure and punishment.
1t Is needless to say that IL half these
charges be true, the investigation should
be promptly ordered and thoroughly con-
Quoted. 1t should be made not alone in
the interest of the public, but in behalf
of the Republican party and for the honor
of its good name. 1t is so largely respon-
sble for the government of that great
city that it should be swift to vindicate
itself against such foul aspersions, either
by having them disproved, or placing its
faithess agents within the grasp of the
law. The Republican party cannot be
hurt by such process Of publication any
more than can a sound body be injured by
getting rid Of blood-sucking parasites.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-09
THE SONG OF THE PRESS.

s. d. Richardson, in the Post-Express.
Did you ever hear the wonderful rhyme
OF the printing press and its notes sub
lime,
With It's lines on lines of jeweled thought;
With its magic bars by genius wrought?
If not, then come on this day of May,
And listen with me to a musical lay
That shall span with a bow of rythmic
flow
From the headlands Of Now to the Long
Ago.
Listen to the song triumphant of the six
and thirty years;
Hear the chorus grandly sounding as the
crowning day appears;
'Tis medley pure of anthems that were
never sang before.
And they echo like the chimings from the
bells on heavens shore.
Hear the guns from crumbling Sumter II,
the far-of Charleston bay;
up, arouse, ye Northern freemen, God
and country calls todayw
Hear the drumbeats in each valley; hear
the mastering on each hill;
Hear the cheers around Old Glory born by
Puritanic will.
Hear the thunder of the battle, sounding
out the awful price
That true hearts were bravely giving in
that loyal sacrifice.
Hear the mourning of the mothers in their
homes so desolate.
Hear the bells in steeples tolling out the
dirges sad of fate.
But the notes now change to gladness;
hear the shouts of victory.
Hear the dusky millions praising God for
life and liberty.
Hear the tread of Peace returning like the
sound of mountain brooks;
Hear the clang of veterans beating swords
and spears to pruning hooks.
Now Inventions wand is waving, bringing
out the quick reply
OF the magic forces laden in the earth and
in the sky.
And they weave an ode of wonder that
no mind can understand
Save the One who holds all nature in the
hollow Of His hand.
Hear the bugle notes of conquest winding
DER the stormy seas;
Hear the crowns and scepters clashing,
breaking on each passing breeze,
Hear the tramp of millions moving up the
royal slopes of Right,
With their banners proud of freedom soon
to deck the topmost height.
Hear the requlems of sadness sounding
DER the brave and just,
Where immortal wreaths are falling to
embam the sacred dust
Hear the martial bands of music dedicat-
ing battle sod
To the memory of martyrs, to the cause
of Truth and God.
Hear the songs from home and firesides
where affection is the king.
Where the raven of contention never
broods with sable wing.
Hear the bells of Sabbath ringing out the
faith of humble prayer;
Hear the chant of saint in clolster free
from every worldly care.
Hear the click of metal music sounding
every note and tone
OF the great world In completeness from
Its central telephone.
Time and space are all forgotten In the
spell it's key board weaves-
Thrashing out a royal harvest from the
wealth of mental sheaves.
Hail, all hail the song triumphant of the
press; in future years
May its music never falter tho host of
wrong appears;
May its medley pure of anthems that were
never sang before
Be the keynotes to the nation sounding
justice evermore.
Rochester, May l, 1895.
Rochester Post-Express.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-09

the Vaccinations of a spokesman like
Thomas c. Platt. Nor do we believe
that that lack Of confidence has since
subslded. If anything, we believe that
1t has been increased by the manoeu-
vers of the Platt faction in Gotham and
at Albany since last November.
When men like Governor Morton,
Lieutenant Governor Saxton, Chaun-
cey M. Depew, ex-senator Warner Mil
Ter, ana even ex-senator Fassett him
self unite to condemn the obstructive
course pursued by the Plat following
in the Albany legislature toward meas
ures for the carrying into effect of
Mayor Strong's prediction pledges;
and when leading New York newspa-
pers like the Tribune, the Buffalo Ex
press, the Buffalo News, the Syracuse
Post and dozens of influential journals
in the smaller interior cities and towns
pronounce openly against Plattism as
menace to the retention by the Re-
publican party of the confidence of the
people of the Empire state, we can see
no reason for doubling that they
know what they are saying. The re-
volt against Plat. as we understand it.
Is not a revolt against the Republican
party, nor revolt against Necessary
party organization; but a revolt against
the perversion of Republicanism to
ends which not only are undesirable in
themselves, but which have, in the
past. uniformly brought on disaster at
the polls.
Mayor Strong, having been elected
upon a pledge to reform the municipal
government of New York city along
non-partisan lines, is entitled to clear
field and free hand. The Republican
party owes him this, because 1t owes
this to the people who elected Mr..
Strong mayor. Should he fail, after n
fair trial. to meet with the peoples ap-
proval, they can take care of him. The
present interference of any party or
faction with his administration is in
the Judgment of many an impertnence.
which we believe the people who make
and unmake parties will at the proper
time resent