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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-20

For sale by the following dealers: Augusta
G. X. Partridge. e.. n. Hutchius +. p. smart
Bowditch, Webster Il Go Hallowell. II. .
Clearwater, n. f. O'Hehir. Gardiner. 9. II.
Feane, Eme'y & ~ar7. +. NJ. Noyes, ]. A.
Jackson, J. &. HOulehau.
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Inspection Of New Liihgow Library b.
Scholars.

Thursday afternoon, the scholars Of the
William r. Smith grammar school, made
a formal inspection of the new Lithgow
library. and the general opinion of the
Young inspectors is that the library Is
perfectly satisfactory in every way.
Each of the classes in turn, the smaller
one going two at time, filed in an order
u. fashion from the school to the library
and were given a good chance to see the
inter;or of the new building.
They evidently enjoyed it very much
and will, no doubt, later become the IL
brary's most persistent patrons.
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Do you know why the ladies flock into
D,ssp,, & Weston's? The writer discov-
cred one cause for it, Why Just think OF
such a bargain, a lovely plush mead resi-
As many colors as Joseph's coat for only
1917 cents, and $1,000 jacket, lur
trimmed, for 5000.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-20

Miss Ida Higgins, who has been study
ing music in Be- ston, since October, re-
turred home Thuri6aY afternoon, to
speud a three weeks vacation.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-12-20

Good advice; Never leave home on a
Journey without bottle ot Chamr efialn
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhtea remedy
For sale by City Drug store, HaliowelL
octl6eodfolrmtf
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AUGUSTA SAVINGS BANK.
Organized 1S4s
BANKING ROOMS 235 WATER STREET.

TRusrRKs-wm. S Badger, J. d. Msnley' L.
Q. Cornish, Lendall Titcomb. b. f. Parrott.
Deposits received and placed on lnterestthe
first day OF every month.
first Wedn esday of February and August.
Deposits are exempt by law from all taxes
and accounts are strictly confidential.
Especial privileges afforded to Executors.
Administrators, Guardians. Trustees, married
women and minors.
spr2dtf EDWIN 9 DUDLEf' TreAs'
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Rapid Flight.

Although something is known about
the speed of birds and animals, there arc
few ascertained facts concerning that OF
insects and fishes. They rarely move In
anything like straight line, and it Is
hard to arrive at anything moro than APP
proximate results. In "Poachers and
Poaching" the following example is CIV
en-:
II have frequently had the opportunity
of dropping into company with our largest
species of dragon fly along "a particular
roadside in autumn.
"On foot one has scarcely any means of
judging of its speed, for in moment 1t Is
past you and out of sight, but whit Is tho
experience when you are driving say Mt
the rate of eight or ten miles an hour.
1.-THE rapid voyager shoots by you al
most out OF sight, then turns, swerving
widely from right to left, and passes you
again in both directions, travorsing re-
peatedly the ground over which you ore
travelling but once.
I'VE are apt to exaggerate In these mat
tiers, but with every allowance, having
compared the flight of the dragon fly with
that of o passing hawk, swallow and
cuckoo, have computed that 1t is capable
of flying at speed of 100 miles an hour"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-09-20
The Secret of CLAIMS.

In a certain drawing room the other aft
ernoon we were talking of some well
known superstitions, and, among Others
of that secret room in the castle of Gla-
mis- which. Sir Walter Scott tells US, is
known only to the Earl of Strathmorc
his heir apparent and one other person in
whom the earl may choose to confide. One
of our party told us an amusing story con-
corning this secret chamber of Glamis
Once, when stopping at the castle in au-
tumn, curious and indiscreot visitor took
advantage of the hosts absence to suggest
a plan by which the whereabouts of the
hidden chamber should be revealed. Tho
castle was full, and it was proposed that
each guest should hasten to his or her
room and hang his or her pillow out of
the window, while one visitor was told to
mark off such window as displayed no
white signal. In the middle of carrying
out this pretty plan the master of the cas-
tie returned unexpectedly, and great was
his wrath at this unseemly curiosity. New
or had the owner of Glamis appeared in so
towering q passion. The display of tenn
per is hardly to be wondered at, for tho
CLAIMS secret is regarded with an extraor-
binary seriousness by the Strathmorc
family, and when impaired to the heir has
been known to fill him with gloom hard
to disqualification Sketch.
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The Free Fights of the Koreans.

Remarkable features of the social life OF
the capital, Chosen, are the various guilds
and their great stone and stick fights.
Neighboring towns and villsges who arc
jealous of each other also settle their diff
fcrences by stone fight in the first moon,
such period being universally set aside for
fights, both public and private. Children
are encouraged to fight by their parents,
who hope to make them hardy and cour-
ageous; sides are made up, and they fight
till they arc exhausted. The butchers ana
the mud plasterers had fierce feud, ard
it was decided to settle it by a pitched bat
tic on a plain outside the south gate. On
the day appointed some 800 men went
down to fight, a stream dividing the two
camps.
The battle began with volleys of stones
as the belligercnts nearod each other, and
when one party forced its way over the
stream and all came to close quarters the
fighting was carried on with clubs and
knives. 1t was "a drawn battle, so the
leaders decided, and was renewed few
days later victory eventually resting with
the plasterers. Very few were killed, says
Mr.. Lander, though none escaped without
q wound. But the whole affair sounds
like one of Lucian's Rrotesque battles
The court patronizcs these extraordinary
duels, and the king is kept informed of
tho results. The police, of course, take
care that the bystandcrs do not como in
for any hard knocks. After the fighting
moon has waned life in "thc land of the
morning calm" sinks back into the usual
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Spectator.
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THE POTATO A MlSSOURIAN.
Claim That 1t Is Native to the SacA'on
County Soil.

jackson county promises to be iaiiious
in history as the birthplace OF tho lrssn ~
tato. Some of the local botanlsts oi ihuo,
pendence have discovered TINS i''o. " ,,,'
have traced the lineage OF the veSc'ao,o'
which is now known to every taDie III 'i.o
world MS the Irish potato, Dach " i's
birrhplace. Little Santa Fc, IN the sou.h-
ern mart of this county. The botanlsts give
the name of the plant from whlch inc 20,
toto grew as "Dioscorea batata, ana leei
copfdopt in their assertion that the hlsto-
NV of tho notato can be traced back TO lhe
town of LITTLE Santa Fe. Dr. Ballaru'
we'll known botanist and gcologlst, hao III
his nossession recently plant when he
eIaimcd RI he a specimen of the Dioscoroi'
hotota found Mt Little Santa Fc. by trac-
;pe, the nlant back some 300 years the DOC
tor saws that undoubtedly the Dioscorea
batota was the progenitor of the so caiieo
Trisb notato. 1t appears that the aborlsi-
nos of This section knew the art OF propa-
carton of plants by cultivation from eheir
wiId state. and by such knowledge pro-
dncad the tuber now so generally IN use
and found on every table.
..It,s a matter of history" said the doc
tor "that the potato was first USED as al
Known as Little Santa Fe, jackson coun-
tv Mo From there it became an article
Of barter. The edible was so palatable that
its use spread rapidly and became com i
mon among the Indians in Virginia: Inc
notnto fell into the hands of Sir waiter
Raleigh in Virginia, who recognized a
GOOD thing when he saw it. Sir Walter
took it on one of his trips to Europe, ana
Inv reason of the soil and climate OF Ire,
land it at once became staple article OF
food; hence the name Irish potato. Ihe
little town of Santa Fe has never set up
its claim for being the birthplace OF Ire
lands staple food, for outside of the bot
anists the matter is not possibly known
TO tho citizens of that locality. mat the
potato flourishes in this locality, more SO
than in any other section Of the country,
is "a well known fact, and the Dloscorea
batata grows in great abundance there.
BY experimental tosts the plant finally
produces Il small potato, from which larger
ones will grow.-Kansas City Journal
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FREE BAPTIST SOCIETY.
Closes Seventh Annual Session at Auburn
Addresses officers Elect.

Lewiston, Sept 19.-The seventh an
nual meeting Of the Maine Free Baptist
Society In Auburn, closed, this evening,
the principal feature being an address OF
81 ne Denomination Its Missions, Plans,
Needs and Heroic History" by Rev. H.
NJ Ford, National Field Society.
This afternoon part of the programme
was carried out in the new Cobb Divinity
school building, Lewiston, with address @
by resident Chase and Prof. Howe OF
Bates College, Rev. 6, G Wilson. State
snpe, intendent of Bible Society, Rev. W.
NJ. Davis and Rev. Il. N Fernald
Those officers were elected: President
+. +. Davis, Augusta; first vice president
Rev, g. F. Penney, Auburn; second vice
president Rev. A. 6. Hill, Fairfield
third vice president, o. W. Fnllum
clerk Miss Dora Jordan, Alfred
corresponding secretary, Rev. j. B. Jor
dan, Pawtucket, r. l. treasurer, George
II. BcowD, Auburn; auditor, Hon Hiram
Knowlton, Portland; executive board
Hon Benjamin +. Hinckley, Georgetown
b. G. Jordan, Alfred, H. J. Preble, Ban
pOr
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Three people have been Killed at differ
cnt times on the Bubier crossing below
Lewiston. while numberlcss accidents
have occurred there
A. G. Chambers and Hinch & Kelly of
nanforth have taken n contract to cut
9 600, 900 feet of pulp wood this winter
for the Bangor Pulp and Paper Company,
at Basin Mills.
Roy, the five year-old son of Charles II.
Greeley of Clinton, Saturday, got his leg
caught in wagon wheel while in mo-
ton, breaking his leg above the knee. A
number of pieces of bone were removed
DR. Best. of Clinton, and DR.. A. +. Thayer
of Waterville, reduced tho fracture and
they are in hopes to save the leg.
The officials of the Bangor and ARGOS
took railroad and the officials from other
interested roads will soon meet the COM
mittees from the principle towns in -.roos-
took county to consult in regard to lower
ing the freight rates on potatoes from
Aroostook TO she markets The potato
harvest is fairly under way, and the yield
is large. In some localities the crop is
rotting badly, and then. TO add to the far
mers' discouragement. the prices are very
low.
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coLsY's ENTERING CLASS
Not So Large as UsuaI-Ihe List OF Ladies
and Gentlemen.

Wateryille, Sept. 10 -tSpsciaD -Ihe
entering class at Colby this fall is slightly
smaller than usual, owing, no DOUBT, very
largely to the fact of President Whitman
resionstion at the close Of the last college
wear. and the doubt which has existed all
simmer as to who would be his successor.
There were, today, % new pupils en-
rolled in the mems college and go In the
women college. 1t is known that thtre
will he at lest half dozen more come III
during the remain der Of the week, ard 1t
is nosslble that there will be Others. The
following were present, today:
Mems College-Harry H. Bishop, West
brook; Henry S. Brown, Fairfield; vii
liam B Chase Waterville; George +.
Cornfo,th, Waterville; Collie H. Dascombs,
Wilton; Joseph o. Eells, Rockport; For
rest F., Giideas, Sebec; Alfred 5 Goody,
Winslow; Erlon X. Guild, Fort Fairfield
Lawrence E. Quincy, Buckfield; Harold
L Hanson, Skowhegan; Charles A. Hat
field. Princeton; Ernest H. Mailing, Port
land; George A. Martin, Guilford; Parker
II. Pearson. Pennington; MyIon A. Pills
bury. Fairfield: John N. Plummer, Port
land Narney A. Putnam, Danforth; Al
bert g. Robbins, Winthrop; Charles 4. G.
shannon. Saco Charles l. Spear, West
brock; Henry r. Spencer, WatervilIe
William o. Stevens, Waterville; Frank
Fl. Stewart Cherryfield; Harry S. Vose,
WatervilIe; William L. Waldron, Water
Vile; An brose r. Warren, Norway.
Women's College-Edith NJ. Bowman,
Sidney. Jennie NJ Buck. WatervilIe; Alice
". Chase, Buckfield; Edith Corson, Water
Vile; Rachel J. Foster Woodfords; Elevia
b. Hartman, Brookline, Mass Maud l..
Hoxie, Wstevllle; Annie II. Hall, Deer
ing Center; May 6, Lamont, Richmond
Alice +. Lowe, Wat rville; Margares +.
Mathews, Westbrook; Pearl c. MoIntirr,
Scion; Alice NJ. PurinetoD, Watcrville;
Eta T. Purington, North Jay: Grace L..
Russell, Skowbegan; Mullis S. Small,
Westbrook; Agnes c. Stotson, Moth Vas
salboro; Josie A. Towart, W.terville
Josephine 7. Ward, Augusta; Mary l.
WILDER, Saxton's River, Vt.
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Ought not to have been slain. Her fate wa
wholly unmerited. She was most useful
fowl. There are lots OF bipeds of our race who
don't know half as much as she did. Conspic-
uous for their folly among this class are
the people who persistently dose themselves
with violent drugs. which either have a
tendency to aggravate the complaints they
are claimed to cure, or else to cause mos,
pernicious disturbance of the system. Among
intelligent physicians the use OF drastic
or violent medicines has passed away with
Other fallacies like blistering and bleeding
The Doctor Sangrados are an extinct race
happily for mankind. Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters is the best possible substitute TO drugs
in malaria, dyspeptic or bilious cases, and
when the kidneys or bladder arc inactive, OF
where thereis a tendency to rheumatism. II
is also an unequalled tonic and medicinal
stimulant.
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THE N0N.PARTlSANS
in Convention at Belfast, Lay Out Plans for
Future Work

Belfast, Sept. 19.-The Non Partisan
convention closed, this evening. The plan
of work for the coming year calls for
greater attention to pledge signing in Sun
day schools, holding mothers meeting,
visiting prisons, jails and almshouses,
carrying the paupers flowers presents at
Christmas time, temperance instruction
in the public schools, reading rooms for
temperance books, kindergarten and
manual training school, the study of con
stitutional law and the prohibitury law.
the better enforcement of laws and the eX-
tension Of local unions
Z. Charlotte II. Sibley of Belfat, addressed
the evening convention. Georgia f. Por-
ter of Old Town read paper on THE
Scientific Treatment OF Alcoholism -
Row. Myra Kingsbury gave a talk on "The
Boys Brigade.
The usual vote of thanks was passed
for the various courteses received
The president appointed the follow
ing committees:
Mrs. +. H. Beale of Augusta, and Mrs.
Flagg, Skowhegan, committee on credcn
tials.
Mrs H G. Porter, Caribou, Mrs. Nicholas
Fessendcn, Fort Fairfield, committee on
business.
Mrs c. A. Pillsbury and Mrs Griffin,
Belfast, committee on courtesies.
Mrs A. l. Brown, Belfast. and Mrs j.
H. Burleigh, South Berwick, committee
on auditing.
Mrs. n. Fcssenden Fort Fairfield, Mrs
C. A. Pillsbury Belfast, and Mrs G. p .Por-
ter, Old Town, committee on reports
Mrs. b. T. Dinsmore, Foxcroft, Mrs. A. /.
Brown, Belfast Mrs. G. II. DEMO Bangor,
Mrs J. Fl. Burleigh, South Berwick, and
Mrs. G. G. Afford, Massachusetts,, com
mittee on resolutions
Committee on plan OF work-Mrs c. a
Pillsbury Belfast; +. G. Porter, Caribou
Mrs. l. W. Weston, Sllowhegan: Mrs E.
G. Ober Foxcroft; Miss b. A. Washburn,
Augusta; Miss Kate Sanborn, South Ber-
wick; Mrs. DEMO, Bangor
:. One of the most pleasing feathers Of this
for the Girls Home of two little girls,
Katie and lisa Lowe of Sherman Mills
When the Aroostook delegation reached
Sherman, the little sisters, with their
mother, met them. The girls will be taken
to the home on Northport avenue.
Mrs. Dcnio of Bangor, treasurer, read
her annual report She said the receipts
Of the year, including $50. Oh at the begin
ming We're $751; SO. The expenses of the
year have been $50 80, leaving sos SO, cash
on hand
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When Two Virginians Meet.

The first thing two Virginians do when
they meet is to take mint julep together.
They next talk kin.
If they are strangers to one another, the
first requisite is to locate and thus identify
each other Then they take another julep.
Then the wild hunt for relationship begins
and generally ends in establishing cousin
ship from first to tenth degree from a
marriage somewhere between 1850 and the
present. Then they take another julcp,
and the conversation takes this turn and
goes on for hours:
"You say YOU are one of the Randolphs
of 'CurlsY
ono, but my mother was Page. Her
mother was Burwell. My great-grand-
mother was a Carry. My great GRANDPA
Their was Lee. My groat-great-
grandmother was a Washington, and my
great-grcat- great great grandfather was q
Randolph of Tuckahoe, and, ah"-
Here another mint julep stops him -
Washington Post.
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TIE ART or CORRESPONDENCE.
To Write q Charming Letter IN ACCOM-
plishmcnt-Wax and Sealing. Il

Tho most delightfully."- worth while of all
| accomplishments, writes Mrs. hosor a
| Pryor is, to my mind, that OF Writih9
| charming letters. However sweet song
| may be, it is cvanescent as Drealh anu
survives rs divine memory only. Con.
vcrsation requires the actual presence OF
| those who engage in it, and the pleasure 1t
| gives depends upon many things-a melo-
| dious voice, an attractive appearance
| nnaybc cheerful rooms. congenial surround
| incs. freedom from the cares and Interrupt
| lions Of life. But it matters not how cola
and bare garrett home may be, nor how
| forbidding its outlook upon the chimney
pots under wintry sky, or whether tho
| lodge be in a wilderness or foreign land,
| given some measure of leisure, good sta
| tionery and convenient postofiicc, all tho
world may be ours. We may daily seno
| forth on white wings our highest thought
| and most gracious words, ana q 1ull Mccu
of appreciation will surely return to us.
Such correspondence may be independ-
ent of the formalities of an Introduction.
No third person is needed If we wish 10
congratulate an artist or author or ex-
press our gratitude to philanthropist,
philosopher or poet. These dwellers In
The realms of thought are peculiarly sus-
Momentous consequences have occasional
iy been tho uutgrowth of acquaintance
thus begun. knew a happy marriage to
result from such a correspondence with
poet, and We all have known friendships,
ending only with life, which have been
nourished as they were begun by letters
only.
OF course in the high thinking that
cnrracnonloncn hri ,,i,
about such results, formulas of expression
and matters of stationery are quite swept
into the background. And yet, fancy,
tho initial letters in most cases must be
immaculatc-prim, trig little affairs, neat
and trim as an epigram, producing some
thing like the impression one receives from
perfectly gloved hand extended for its
first greeting. The Introductory letters
must be happily worded-cela va sans dire
but am sure they should also be neatly
written. Ono should have an alcohol
lamp or roll of the wax tapcrs sold for
the purpose and still air in the room to
properly seal letters. With the seal and
envelope before you, turn one end of the
stick of WAX rapidly over the flame, not
near enough to ignite it, until it is creamy
and ready to drop, then deity rub it round
and round over the point of the envelope
flap until enough is deposited, when tho
dab of wax may be held a moment immc-
diatcly over the flame. Then firmly press
the seal into it, If drop of the hot wax
is first placed under the point of the flap,
the seal will be less likely to break a
well cut seal will never stick and practice
will insure firm impression, with the
wax nodded neatly and evenly around the
seal. In all this pray be careful! Blaz-
ing wax in some hands is dangerous. Re-
member Mrs. Longfellow's sad fate from
the lace of her gown catching fire Us she
sealed her letters .-Delineator
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-09-20

Some time ago an amorous young mar
sont Il letter to u German lady, and thi,
postscript was added:
"That my darling may make no mis-
take, remember that / will wear Il light
pair of trousers and a dark cutaway coat
In my right hand l will carry small cane
and in my left cigar. Yours ever
Adolphc."
The father replied courteously, stating
that his daughter had given him authority
to represent her at the appointed place a;
the time agreed on. His postscript was as
follows:
Dot mino son may make no mishdakes
viii be drcshod in mine shirt sleeves.
will wear in mine right hand Club; In
mine left hand l will wear II six shooter
You will recognize me by dc way bats you
on dc head goople times twice mid dc
Club. Wait for me ut de corner, as have
Something's important to inform you nit
Your trent, Heinrich Muller. '-Philadel
phia Record.
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EARLY FIRE IMPLEMENTS.
Appliances Used In This Country In the
Seventeenth Century.

Undoubtedly the first fire company or
ganizcd in this country was formed In
New York in 1868. 1t was called the
Providers and was composed Of eight men
with $50 buckets, hooks and small lad
dcrs Where the buckets were obtained and
whether or not they were in addition to
those owned by the town the records fail
to state. In 1879 Salem purchased two or
thrcc dozen cedar buckets, besides hooks
and other implements; also the selectmen
and two others were authorized to take
command at fires and to blow up and pull
down buildings when such action was
necessary. This practice appears to have
been much more common before the use OF
engines than afterward. Boston, on Sept.
O. 1879, ordered that every quarter of the
town should be provided with 60 swobes
two scopes and six axes. The swobes, or
swabs, as they are now called, were long
handled mops that could be used to put
out roof fires. The general use of swabs
has long since disappeared, but when a
slight blaze is beyond the reach Of pail
OF water and more improved apparatus is
not at hand long handled mop is today
the most efficient article to be used In
Japan these swabs may be seen on many
roof tops.
In 1890 New York ordered that five lad
ders and also hooks be made. In Philadel-
phia no mention is made Of public precau-
ton against fire until 1896, when law
was passed forbidding the firing of chin
ncys or allowing the Same to become foul.
Each house was TO have swab, bucket or
pail. Another act was passed in 100, or
dering every household to have two leather
buckets. In the following year six or eight
hooks for tho purpose of tearing down
houses were ordered to be made.-John G.
Morse in Popular Science Monthly.
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Arsenic.

Arsenic has been known from very carly
times as q deadly poison. 1t is believed to
have been the means employed by Nero to
remove his enemies, and there is little
doubt that 1t was also known to and en-
ployed by Messalina and Agrippina Dur
ing the middle ages 1t was extensively
used as a secret poison, being sold by al
chemists and PRISONERS Of Italy under the
name Of widows powders or 'succcs-
sion powders" Its properties were def
nitely ascertained and made public by
Brandt In 1893.
The plant from which assafetida Is pro-
duced Is native Of Persia, Afghanistan
and northern India. In oil these countries
the Inhabitants use 1t as seasoning for
their meat and vegetables, much as red
pepper Is employed by the natives OF Mox-
leo and South American states. The odor
is not deemed by them In the least otfen-
sive.