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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-25
ding VIII nave to be postponed. and
that's q very bad sign"
"What1l you do?" asked Joshua

ding viii nave to be postponed, ana
that's very bad sign"
''What1l you do?" asked joshua
Simmons, hesitatingly.
Aunt Love united the green bandbox.
'Put on this bonnet" said she. It'll
be so dark when we get home that the
neighbors can't see it."
So Joshua put on the hood and
Aunt Love the wedding bonnet, and it
happened that when they finally over
took Solomon Solely, who had not much
the start, and whose horse had got a
stone in his shoe once and made delay,
that the occupants of the two chaises
looked hard at each other and saw
nothing that they were looking for.
For Joshua Simmons, who was nat
urally somewhat ashamed Of his
woman's headgear, kept his face
turned well away, and both solomon
Solely and his sister, Pamela, thought
there were two ladies in the chaisc,
and not the aunt and the young man
for whom they were looking.
AS for Serena Ann, she was fast
asleep under the camlet cloak and saw
AOCobf; -iiNl uCk -ACuN lLtNC tiiiA IOSAittsi
never dreamed she was there. More
over, they were looking for one gentle
man in the chaise with her, and here
was young lady also. He wore a
camlet cloak, too, instead of n null
berry TX, as they had been told.
So the two chaises ratified on almost
abreast for quite a stretch on tho turn
pike, but finally solomon Soley's forged
aheada little, for his horse was fresher.
They reached Braintree and when
they were within half mile of the
Bagley farmhouse, Joshua Simmons
turned into another road, which was n
little shorter cut. Aunt Love was i'm
patient to see if Serena Ann had reached
home. And SO it happened, since Solo
mon Soley's horse was a little faster,
that both chaises turned into the Bag
ley yard at the same time, and Serena
returned from her Christmas outing
with something more exciting than a
flourish of trumpets.
Serena Ann herself was so tired and
sleepy that she could not fairly realize
anything. 1t seemed to her like a
dream; the chorus of surprise and de-
light, Mr.. Solomon's and Miss Pamela's
coming into the house and getting
warm, and eating supper, and borrow
ing footstove before they started on
their homeward journey, and every
thing. She scarcely even grasped in
its full measure of delight the fact that
Miss Pamela presented her with the
rosewood workbox and the doll when
she kissed her good-by, but Serena Ann
had gotten one Of the pleasantest men,
cries of her life, and had her first Christ
mas keeping. 1.-THE ENID
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-25

One Lewiston man made $4,000 on ap-
pies this winter. This has been lively
season for the buyers all over Maine.
Harrison Davis of Onawa has sold $50
barrels of apples from his orchard this
year. and has enough left to last until
apples come again.
At meeting of the trustees of the
Waldo County Agricultural Society,
March 16, it was voted to pay So per cent.
of the premiums awarded at the fair OF
1894.
Damariscotta Mills is to have creamery
and cheese factory. The plant will cost
about $4,000 and will be built on the CO.
operative plan. Stock is being taken
rapidly.
The outlook for big hay crop the com
ing season, it is reported, is not prom
isjnc one. The large amount of ice now
living on the fields will have a tendency tc
kill the grass roots.
The six years old Holstein and Durham
! COW of f. Il. Stoddard of Machias, is max
ing record that is hard to beat. One
day last week in two millSings she gave
81 pounds of milk equal to q quarts.
| Mr.. w. L. Grover of Harrison believes
| that sheep are profitable, and makes g
speciality of this kind of stock. He has
several nice lambs and ono in particular,
which is eight weeks old and weighs &C
pounds.
The creamery started at Exeter about
three months ago. by Hill and Jewett, is
now making 600 pounds of butter day
The butter is made by the separator sys-
tenn, and the customers ere highly pleased
with it.
| Turney White Of White Settlement,
| Hodudon, has flock of twenty ewes,
which have proved very productive this
season. He has already from nine sheep,
eighteen lambs. One has four lambs,
alive and smart.
| Alvah r. Donnell of West Bath raised
nearly 5000 worth of Strawberries from
a half acre of ground last year and he ex.
poets much more the coming season. he
raised IS bushels and they netted him an
average of Is cents per basket, muef
lower price than the previous year.
Mrs. Ciarassa Benner Of Nobleboro
makes success keeping hens Her re
ceipts from eggs sold for the year 1891
was sl79. 43; 1899. Si9o.72 for eggs anf
500. 90 for poultry; 1898 eggs s3l3.s4,
poultry s101.2 1894, eggs 1901 SO, poui
try 500. Is. She winters from us to 2Ot
hens. Mrs. Benner keeps an account ane
| knows that her hens are paying bettel
| than any Shing on the farm.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-25
Unfortunately Placed.

Bishop Wilberforce was much be-
loved in Yorkshire, and in Hull the
house where his boyhood was spent has
always been regarded with reverence.
With the Wilberforce monument, how
ever, which stands in st. Johns church,
an absurd incident is connected, one
which vastly amused the good bishop.
BY some unlucky chance the statue Of
William Wilberforce, the great man on
the top of the column, was so placed as
to face some noted wine and spirit
vaults, while its back was turned
toward st. Johns. Some Sailors saw
the joke first and managed to scribble
on the pedestal:
" So, Billy wilbcrforce. thoust left US In the
lureh
Tnrnid thy face to the ginshop, and thy back
to the church"
Youths Companion,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-25

In 1893. She won the race in straight
heats. Nora is six years old, stands 1e
hands high and weighs 1000 pounds. She
is by Thaclsambau dam by Proctor Knott
Her best record is 2 81 made in Rockland.
July 4, 1893. She is fine styled horse
and is good roadster.
W. H. Norton of Dover, recently sold
his pacing six year-old gelding to e. 4.
Monroe, receiving good round price.
This horse was by Judge Advocate and
his dam Kentucky bred pacing mare.
He has shown 80 gait on the track
without special training
Geo. A. Bailey Of Belfast has boucbt
the young trotter Prince Onawa. and will
continue his training on the track.
Farm Notes.
The bending down and covering with
earth OF the tips of blackberry canes at
the Massachusetts station prevented their
being winter killed, while many of the
canes not so protected were seriously in
jured. S. L. Maynard recommends the
Agawam, Snyder and Talyor blackberries
as profitable varieties. The new straw
berries which proved the best were the
Bubach, Lovett' s. Golden Defiance, Green
vile, Haverland and Marshal The worms
of the June beetle were dug out as soon as
noticed. A spray of the Bordeaux mix
ure was used for the leaf-blight The
most valuable black raspberries were the
Ohio, Hilborn, Kansas, Lovett and Sou
hogan The canes were sprayed for spot
disease or anthracnose. OF red raspber-
ries, the Hansel, Marlboro and Cuthbert
are recommended, though there is much
of promise IN Victor, Stayman's No. )
and Thompson Early Prolific The canes
were sprayed with copper sulphate solu-
tion in early spring and with Bordeaux
mixture Just before the blossoms opened
to kill the yellow rust.
A correspondent of the Rural New
Yorker says that in 1898 he planted an
acre to peas, putting in one-third for ex-
ira early, one-third for medium, and one
third for late. He put 400 pounds of pota-
to fertilizer in the drills, and 100 pounds
of nitrate of soda on the one-third acre
Of early. He harvested from that acre, 100
bushels OF peas, and after taking off the
o,,l,v ,,oac ha cot tba 0ne-tbird acre to
cauliGower and cabbage, and had good
crop in October. Last season, he planted
two acres of peas, but used no fertilizer,
and harvested only 107 bushels. The last
two acres were on both sides of the first
acre, and just as good land. On one
half of the first acre this season he sci
tomatoes, using no manure or fertilizer,
and he picked nearly 500 bushels.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-25

to her JOY and wonder, that she was To
go to Boston with Aunt Love and
Joshua Simmons. But you must be
good girl and not make any trouble. !"
said her mother, ''for your Aunt Love
has a great deal to do. She is going to
buy some of her furniture, and her
wedding bonnet and shoes, and she is
very kind to take you"
And Serena Ann promised beaminp-
~. She had never felt so happy in her
life as she did that Christmas morning.
when she set forth to visit Boston.
tucked IN between Aunt Love and
Joshua Simmons in the chaise. 1t was
very pleasant, but cold; there was
slight rime of snow on the ground,
which shone like silver. Serena Ann
wore her thick wadded coat, her lambs
wool tippet and her wadded brown
silk hood with cherry strings. She
was quite warm, and her face was so
pink and radiant with bliss that Aunt
Love and Joshua looked at her, and
smiled at each other above her head.
Serena Ann, moreover, had, tightly
grasped in one red-mittened hand, her
mothers silk purse, and it contained
two ninepences, one of which she was
to spend for herself, and the other for a
jack-knife for Ebenezer. Her father
had given them to her when she start
ed. She made up her mind, as they
logged along over the frozen road, that
she would spend her ninepence for an
apron for her mother instead of any
thing for herself, because she could not
go to Boston in a chaise.
When they reached the city they
stopped at the Sign OF the Lamb, where
Joshua Simmons put up his team; then
they all went shopping down Hanover
street, where the fashionable stores
were at that time.
Serena Ann enjoyed buying Aunt
Loves and Joshua Simmons wedding
furniture quite as much as they did.
She thought there was never anything
quite SO handsome as their haircloth
sofa, and mahogany card-table, and
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-25

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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-25
The Discovery Saved His Life.

Mr.. G. Caillouette, Druggist, Beavers
vile, ILL.,, says: .sTo DIR. Kings New
Discovery I owe my life Was taken with
In Grippe and tried all the physicians for
miles about, but of no avail. and was
given up and told | could not live. Hav-
ing Dr.. Kings New Discovery in my store
sent for a bottle and began its use and
from the first dose began to get better. and
after using three bottles was up and about
again. 1t is worth its weight in gold.
We won t keep store or house without 1t. !"
Get a free trial at j. A., Jackson's and
Emery s Wards Drug Stores, Gardiner.
DIM, W, ft&wfolrm
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-25
SERENA ANN.
Her First Christmas
Keeping.
By Mary E. WILKINS.

copyright, 1894, by Bachelor johnson 6
Bachelor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-25

Jederson-March II, Hiram Murphy.
Boothbay Harbor-March I, Mrs. May Bar
ter, aged 20 years and IL months.
Damariscotta-M March 8, Gilbert Chapman
Gay. aged years.
Westport-March 3, Mr.. Galen o. Mitchell,
aged 70.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-25
Sc. Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed

A friend advised me TO try Ely's Cream
Balm and after using it six weeks | be-
Iieve myself cured Of catarrh. 1t is a most
valuable remedy. Sewart, GA
Grand Avenue, Brooklyn, N. y.
MY son was afflicted with catarrh, / IN
duced him to try Ely's Cream Balm and
the disagreeable catarrhal smell all left
him. He appears as well as any one
u C. Olmstead, Arcola, Ill,
Price OF Cream Balm is fifty cents.
NV, f&w
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-10-03
LARGEST ARENA IN TEE WoLD:

After a triumphant tour OF Eu-
rope during several seasons, But
falo Bill aud his great Wild
West exhibition was located at
Chicago, and excited almost
equal interest with the great
Worlds Columbian Fair in 1893.
Last wear this wonderful exhi~
bition was given before enor-
nous audiences for several
months at Ambrose Park, New
York. and this year, in enlarged
and improved form, is being pre-
sented at various points outside
of the Metropolis; it is coming
in this direction, and our people
will naturally be on the qui vlve
to avail themselves Of the un-
usual opportunity for studying
this grand object lesson OF our
Nations history, including as It
does, many stirring scenes and
reproductions OF exciting cpl
sodes of the romantic period Of
pioneer life in the far West. 70
adequately represent that events
full period, requires an army OF
men and a vast gathering Of
horses and other animals,
In connection with this feature
of the Wild West entertainment
will be a Congress Of Rough
Riders of the World, selected
from among the most celebrated
of the universe of all ace OF
men who ride, and also include
the grand international military
tournament, introducing among
others, the American cowboy,
the rowing Ranchero, the Bronco
Buck Rider, U. S, Cavalrymen,
the French Chasseur, English
Irish Lancers, German CHiras-
siers, the Hungarian Magui, Be
dod4n Arab, the Russian Cos
sack, South American Gaucho,
the Tartar of Asia, the Mexican
Roalie, the Native American Red
skin, and the Afro American
Jockey, All these will give ex-
hibitions of their marvellous
skill, courage and dexterity in
the saddle.
The exhibition will be given in
the largest entertainment arena
in the world, and seating capac>
ity will be provided for twenty
thousand people, who will be
sheltered amply from rain OF
sunshine.
AT night the arena will be
lighted most brilliantly by an
electric outfit Of two hundred
and fifty thousand candle power.
the largest portable apparatus OF
the kind yet manufactured.
In the morning there will be
free cavalcade of detachments
from each department Of the ex-
hibition, in which also three
splendid bands will participate
one of them being the exception
ally fine and famous mountet
Cowboy Band. This unique an
remarkable entertainment will b'
given here on Tuesday the 8tl
of. October.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-10-03
The Qrads.
A Democratic Newspaper.
ABOUT COTTON.

In their latest circular Messrs.
Latham, Alexander & Co. puts
the total crop of the country last
year at 9,9O1, PSI bales and its
value at $3.50, 8o9, GIG. The total
exports were 6,883.188 bales,
valued at S2O1, $50, o61. The
total consumption of northern
mills was 2,O83, $50 bales and that
of the southern mills 862, 838
bales. The average price Of
middling uplands in New York
was $50 cents.
The circular takes issue with
the recent advice Of President
Hector D. Lane, president Of the
Cotton Growers Association, on
the question of holding cotton
for better prices. It says:
There is one feature Of the
situation, which as yet does not
amount to much, but if devel-
oped into importance, will, later
on in the cotton year, cause ma
terial decline in prices and dis
aster to the planter. We allude
to the effort being made IN some
sections of the South to have
planters hold back their cotton,
decline present prices and pre-
vent the natural movement Of
the crop to market-the object
being to force a further advance
in the price. The belief is now
general that the crop must prove
q short one and comparatively
small receipts ale expected, but
should the policy to have the
planters hold back their cotton
prevail and become known
throughout the markets Of tbs
world, the small receipts wouid
soon be considered purely arti
fetal, and the belief would be-
come widespread that the crop i.
larger than it really is. This
would cause a waiting policy OF
the part of both buyers and spin
ners, they knowing full well tina
the cotton crop must be market
ed sooner or later, aud when tht
planters gets tired Of it, it vii
be offered in unusually large
quantities, and a heavy decline
ensue.'
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-10-03

bliss -4NAIE O1hLET The Peerless Lady Wing Shot
OHM h Tn skilled Shooting Expert.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-10-03
ARNICA SALvF

The Best Salve in the World Tor
Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt
Rheum. Fever. Sores, letter, Char
ped Hands, Chllbialns, Corns, and all
Skin Eruptions, and positively cures
Piles. or no pay required. It is guar
antesd to give perfect satisfaction or
moncy refunded. Price 25 cents per
bottle, for sale BY J. Fl. Hill = Son,
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-10-03

We sell you all goods at most reasonable prices. They are selected
with great care and you car make your selection with confidence $ res
CARDS quality and price. All our goods have been purchased before the
advance and we will give our customers and friends the benefit of our
low purchases. Now is the time to make your fall purchases. You will
not be able TO duplicate at the prices We offer them now Call and convince
YOURSELF Special indueement offered to the wholesale rade.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1895-10-24

chandise. Do you not think this way
child's play ON the part OF the govern
ment, with the people pleading tn
begin the game again. Instead OF
working at the head gate. let us
with the known material of ''pro-
lection and reciprocity" build n wall
arrosS the outlet and then the ell
tire country would be on Il level
with this circuitous activity and the
waller" eagles with their messages
of comfort would return and he con
stant visitors and inmates of the
morkingman' home.
AS an illustration take the isolated
but stirring little metropolis of Lew
istOwn Montana. where -all manner
of business il seen to he alive and ON
the alert. Where industry and en-
terprise give accelerated force To the
commercial pulse. you always find
plenty of money-abundant to meet
all the requirements of exchange.
In such like towns the neighboring
producer always finds a ready cash
market for all kinds of product. Now
i'm Il relative point of view. does the
money make the activity of the town.
or does the business of the town
bring the money? Neither. Their
domestic relations one to the other,
is similar to that of man and wife.
The business attracts and brings
the money whilst the money con
ducts and regulates the volume of
business. Then presence is actually
dependent on each other. in order for II
free exercise of their expanding
abilities.
Free coinage of silver Is nothing
more nor less, than n covert act oi
repudiating all our foreign debts,
and utterly destroying our credit
| with civilized nations of the earth.
JoHN JONES.
Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1895-10-24
NEW RIFLE NO GOOD.
Second Test Of the krag-Jorgenson Gun at
Fort Sheridan.

CHICAGO, Oct. 10.-The krag-Jor-
gensop rifle was adopted by the war
department recently us the standard
rifle of the United States, and at the
enormous expenditure of nearly half
a million dollars. Almost immedi-
ately following its official accept
ance. or ;is soon as ii was placed in
the hands of the troops, numerous
defects were found i'm its construction
and serviccablencss. These defects
were followed by repeated trials and
tests under varied conditions, to
ascertain il possiblc whether the
alleged had features existed. As
each defect was brought to the sur
face officials at Washington attrib-
uted them not to the weapon itself,
but to the ineXperience of the men
who condemned them. The results
of numerous trials are well known,
but none of them created such inter
est as the one recently made at Fort
Sheridan by the Fifteenth United
States infantry. This test was made
under the most favorable conditions
and resulted i'm proving that the wal
department had not only made a
mistake in it's adoption, but had
accepted a weapon that could not bo
depended upon. and in consequence
thereof the army was considered as
good as useless SO far as their effec
tiyeness was concerned i'm accurate
shooting. The report of the officer
who conducted the test at the fori
was i'm due time forwarded to- army
headquarters in this city, but foi
some reason the report was nOi
satisfactory. and in consequence
thereof the rifle was subjected t(
another test at the fort yesterday
the marksmen being among the best
i'm the fort.
The test was of short duration
as those conducting ii gave up il
disgust after they had used fift,
rounds of ammunition. The rang,
: was in fine condition and the atmos
phere all the most fastidious marks
: man could desire. 1t was the hop
of the officers who We're trying tn
rifle to find some iustifiable excuse Il
, set aside the verdict that the weapon
I was unreliable in it's accuracy of fire
but I'm this hope they We're disaT
pointed, for of the fifty shots fire.
the best score was thirteen. wit
I only one center and threefours. Th
Z judges were perplexed and Shove
it as they marched from the range
When asked for an opinion of TIL
! qualities Of the rifle tested they I,
: fused to reply. From reports mad
4 on the merits and defects of the riff
it is predicted the Springfield riff
: will again he i'm the hands of I'll
troops, as strong recommendation
n to that effect have already been sen
r to the war department by officers
the army who are deemed competeI
Judges of the weapon most adapte
: for the general use Of a soldier.