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Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-21

Iron mantels-Mayberry & Watson.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-11

Congressman Dingley is reported as
saying that information he has, shows
that the loss of revenue from customs I'M
dervaluations under the advalorem sys-
tenn 10 "enormous-simply frigltful -
This NATURALIZATION has been greatest in
the textiles, especially woolens, and
amounts to millions of dollars. Notwith-
standing the history of customs duties in
this country had demonstrated conclusive,
ly, that the advalorem system was espec-
tally susceptible to fraud, the Democratic
tariff thinkers persisted in substituting
it for specific duties SO far as they dared
There is little doubt but that many of
them voted for it in the expectation of
fraud, believing that in this indirect
way the duties would be virtually made
lower than they cared to indicate in the
schedule of rates. This is only one of the
many ways in which the Democratic party
FASTENED to inform the public, that it is
utterly incompetent to properly manage
the affairs of this government.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-11
PlCKEREL TRAVEL IN PAIRS.
Major Crawford's Discovery of This Fact .
Disturbing Question.

"Its queer, isn't it, how pickerel al
ways travel in pairs?'' said Major Craw-
ford of Campbell Hall
"Why, do they, major?" inquired the
Hon. Charles L. Dunning, interested at
once.
do they?" replied the major. why,
certainly they do! l discovered the fact,
think, and in "a very curious way. / never
go pickerel fishing in the Waikiki without
taking my rifle along with me in the boat
for ducks are liable to come flying over
about this time OF year. mallards princi-
pally, and there isn't anything much bet
ter to follow pickerel at dinner than NAL
lard duck. My rifle always fitted with a
hair trigger, so there will be no delay in
its going when l pull, / invariably place
between my knees as sit and troll. so as
to have it handy.
lone day was out on the river this
way trolling for pickerel and ready for
ducks. / got a big strike on the troll.
hooked it and hauled in Just as / had
the pickerel almost to the boat l spied a
lot OF mallards coming up the river
kept cool, landed the pickerel all right,
and dropped the troll out so as not to lose
time just then the ducks came in nice
range. l fired Ducks began to tumble.
Chug came another strike on my line.
hooked it, and landed second pickerel
before the last duck had fallen. l couldn't
have done that, don't you see, if it wasn't
fact that pickerel travel in pairs, and
that's the way discovered the interesting
fact concluded the major.
II see, said Mr.. Dunning. How many
ducks did you kill, major?''
six" was the reply.
There was an impressive silence for
awhile. Wood Pitts of the st. Elms broke
it by asking:
Did they all fall'in tho boat, majors''
Mr. Cumming reproved Wood Pitts for
asking such adisturbing question, but the
major didn't deign to notice it.-Goshen
IN. " Cor. New York Sun.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-11
ENGLISH SPEAKING MEN.


The foreign born population in the
United States is very numerous, and in
some of the cities forms numerical ma
jority, but the legal rights and the RENE
dies are almost entirely American in prin-
ciple and form of expression. The CON
stitution of the United States contains tho
principle of Magma Charta and of every
subsequent declaration of political and re-
ligious liberty in the mother country.
Out of this condition it would seem natii-
raj that what are commonly styled An
glo- Saxon ideas and feelings would be more
apt to predominant in the United States
than those having any other racial
origin
This subject alone needs, however, a
much more comprehensive statement and
careful deduction than l am able at this
time to present, and can only express the
hope that the principle of civil and reli-
gious liberty which tends to keep each indi
vidual free and protect him against tyran
ny may long hold good among all English
speaking people, no matter where they
may find their homes, and that no inter-
national jealousy Or mutual disparage-
ment m,,H be allowed to weaken friendly
and cooperative support.
English influence on the American CONT
nent, it may be regarded as certain that,
| whatever happens, the English speaking
man is going to dominate the United
States, and the more non English people
come into the country the more will the
dominating English speakers feel them
selves bound to make common cause with
those who speak the English language out
side the political and geographical bound
aries of the great republic across the At
lantic. The spread Of English, perhaps
should say British, ideas is further evinced
by the increasing demand for works of lit
erature produced by living writers of the
! parent English stock. l merely instance
| this as (, further irrefragable proof that
J the fusion of races working on the Amer
lean continent is pouring forth English
| thinking and English speaking men who
bear foreign names. Sir Ashley Cooper in
Nineteenth Century.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-11
The Biggest Of Clubs,

A member of the house of commons Is
allowed TO attach to his name the magic
letters M. p" which are /. source of
pride and qualification to himself and Sc
cure for him the respect and Difference of
others. These initials undoubtedly con-
tribute too, to his social status. Doors of
social circles, hitherto locked and barred,
are open wide to him, and invitations to
social functions in the houses of the great
and wealthy members of his party reach
him during the session. Then he is a
member OF 1.-THE best club in London - II
is, indeed, frequently denied that the
house of commons still maintains that
pre-eminence as social haunt of men,
which, it is universally acknowledged,
once rightly belonged to it. But, as a mat
ter of fact, the house is more of a club
now than it has ever been in its centuried
existence.
1t is provided with handsome dining
rooms, smoking rooms, reading rooms and
suit of bathrooms and dressing rooms.
In its smoking room may be met, in the
pleasant relaxation of a chat and gossip.
not only some of the most distinguished
men in the kingdom, but far greater va.
riety of types OF men than can be encoun.
tered in the smoking room of any club II,
London. MIR. Labouchere, indeed, has said
that couple Of hours could be passed far
more enjoyably in the smoking room Of
the house Ok commons than in the sm0E.
ing room Of the Carlton or Reform club
1t was the member for Northampton also
who declared that the house of commons
was not only one of the pleasantest, but
one of the healthiest nlaceS in the world
and that he far preferred month on It's
green benches to month on the proIve-
made of Observation-Disclosures journal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-11
THE KITCHEN HER THEATER.
Mary Anderson's Story of Where She Di
Her First Acting.

In the south most OF the servants were
negroes. Among ours was IA little mulatto
girl t''nut brown maid - she called her
self whose chief attraction to me was
her enthusiasm for the theater. One night
in desperation | went to her while she
was washing dishes in the kitchen and
there unfolded all my hopes 1t was to her
| first acted and ii was she who gave me
my first applause The clapping Of those
soapy, steaming hands seemed to me a
workable triumph. Believing that "a tragic
manner alone would sufficiently impress
the situation on the nut brown maid,
began with Il hollow voice and much fur
rowing Of the brow. JUL, wilt thou fol-
low and assist me when | quit my child
hood home to walk in the path of Sid
dons, kcmblc and BoothE'' "Oh. Miss
Mamie, you kin count on dis pusson, TO
de Lor you kin! Why, my stars. what a
boss actor you isl But you mus low me
to call your NAV. And in a trice she WAS
gone.
A few moments later she re-entered the
kitchen with my mother, who was greatly
surprised by my performance in the fourth
act of The Lady of Lyons, which could
not have been acted in u more appropriate
part of the house. She, in turn, called the
critic of the family, DIR. Griffin, who, like
wise was astonished, and made my heart
beat with joy by saying: You II make u
good actress some day. Your scene has
thrilled me, and l would rather lave
rough work and a good thrill than any
amount of artistic work without it.
Spurred on by such encouragement,
worked harder than ever, often staying up
half the night to get some effect while try
ing to look into the heart and mind of the
character under study. After that even
ing in the kitchen, l read scenes or acted
them nightly TO our small household usn
ally from Hamlet, Richard" or Schi.
ler's Maid of Orleans. Mary Ander
son in North American Review.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-11


The following paragraphs are summa-
rized from recent issue Of the Frankfurter
Zeitung:
The late Professor Froude held that
the succession to the English crown lies
with the eldest child of the sovereign, not
the eldest son. consequently that the heir
to our gracious queen is not the Prince 81
Wales, but the Empress Frederick. The
Empress Frederick is reported to have said
that, should she succeed to the throne OF
England, she would make Prince Hen y
her heir The emperor, who was also
made acquainted with Professor Froude's
discovery, inuimated that if what was put
forward was true in its entirety the Eng
lish succession should go from eldest child
to eldest child, which in this case would
be himself, and that he certainly would
not waive his rights. Germans are now
Interpreting to each other u speech of their
emperor's that lately puzzled them--a
speech in which he said the German army
and the German fleet would pass beyond
the ocean. He was thinking, say his
commentators, of the time when England
will be an appanage of Germany"
The article says that in England the
partisans of Professor Froude opinion are
Lord Lonsdale, Lord Methuen and Mr.,
Stead, and that there was for some time
every disposition TO keep the notion secret,
but that now that Mr.. Stead knows it TIE
Review of Reviews will proclaim this
novel view of the succession.
We did not know before that The
Frankfurter was comic journal.
minister Gazette.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-11
Why?

Why is Germany interested in the
Transvaal? She has no territory that is
really menaced by the situation there
ID the Emperor in this affair only de-
sirous Of seeing the Beers have their
rights? II 80 why did he refuse to say q
word in behalf of suffering Armenia
whose deplorable condition was and is as
much worse than that OF the Beers as
murder 10 worse than a mortgage?
Did the Kaiser send that dispatch on
his own responsibility and on the spur Of
the moment? We knew he was ratified
headed and egotistical but we supposed
he. would know more than to say things
likely to place himself in predicament.
Is there secret understanding between
the grandmother aud the grandson, to af.
ford pretext for England to get its
lighting material in readiness for the
United States, without exciting the ap-
prehension of the latter?
Or does Germany really want q bout
with England? We don't believe she does.
but why was that dispatch sentSI : ~
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-11

Portugal may refuse Germany the Use
Of Delagoa bay for hostile purposes in
which event the latter country would find
it difficult to get into the Transvaal On
the whole, there couldn't be a safer war
than one between England and Germany.
The former has navy big enough to
bottle up the LATTER but the latter has an
army big enough to keep the naval forces
from landing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-11

Think Of 1t! The United States gov.
eminent hiring detectives to trace the
gold drawn out of the treasury in order to
discover to whom 1t goes. We wonder II
any Of 1t has been traced to the bond syn
dictate. If it has the great secretive capac
ity OF the administration will be used tc
suppress the fact
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-11

The death of +. B. Wight, the Wash
ington correspondent known TO readers of
the Boston journal as Webb, p" Is a loss to
journalism that will be felt all over
New England at least.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-11

Here the government has been making
q clown Of itself because Of insufficient
revenue and all the while the fish and
fiddle administration has allowed mil
lions to slip through its fingers because OF
underYaluationS.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-11

Cleveland's last administration will 60
country In debt to the amount OF n half
billion dollars, not to mention the mil
lions lost in commercial wrecks
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-11

Adlai Stevenson and Hoke Smith oele-
brated JAckson's day aud 50 got their
names into the papers, something which
hadn't happened to them for quite a long
time
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-11
Himself Again.

what, you, an inveterate smoker actu.
ally refuse cigarette?'
Voiciskitepate-The fact is, my doctor
has forbidden me to smoke.
A month later ID. meets his friend ",
with an enormous cigar in his mouth.
d. say! Didn't you tell me your
doctor had ordered you to give up smok-
ing?
v.-Certainly, but you must know he
died last week. --Reims Theatre.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-11

Just now and with England on her
hands Germany may wish she hadn't ccle-
brated her victories over the French so
boisterously, few months hack
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-11

Rousseau declared that IAN idle man III
the community is a thief This is rather
hard upon the gentlemen of elegant leisure
and may explain why only plated ware is
used at the fashionable dinners of the
season in always suspicious Vanity Fair.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-11

Venezuela 5 President is said TO be try
Ing to entangle Uncle Sam. But the lat
ter ought to have his eyes open by this
time.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-11
The conscientious Waiter,

Waiter Ito oook)-Steak for onel Gent
don't want It raw, ner he don't want 45
burned black.
Cook (angrily lis that what he said?
Waterloo, not exactly. asked him
Tow he wanted it, an he said, Medium"
New York Weekly.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-11

If but thirty days were required to de-
velop Olney into a presidential possibility
it will surely require thirty years before
he becomes presidential actually
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-11

The Democratic Congress didn't appro-
pirate enough by nearly three and a half
millions to pay the necessary expenses of
the United States courts.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-11
Avoiding An Evil.

An eccentric blacksmith at the bridge
oI Aiian was observed to plant his cab
oages zlgzag instead Of in rows On be.
!ng asked the reason he replied, "It's to
~ the snails ar the track !"-Household
Words
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-11

Isn't it rather early for the little Okla
homa hamlets to quarrel about the looa-
ton of the capital when that territory
shall become q state.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-11

1t is a singular fact that the quilts of
geese raised on the continent of Europe
tre more serviceable as pens than those
grown on English soil.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-11

Nearly twenty of our seventy millions
are church members, but they don't pay
all the church bills.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-11

No notice whatever will be taken of mn.
gned communications.
Tu1 JOURNAL CANNOT Bl HELD REsPoNsrBLn
Tor the preservation or return Of rejected COM
nHnications.
Addreaa Ill communications relating to sub
es1ptions and Advertisements to BURLEIeH 4
tLYnf. Publishers. Augusta. Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-11

AS to people saying q few idle words
about us, we must not mind that, any
more than the old church steeplea inds
jhe rocks cawing about it-George Eliot.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-11

England Is finding it difficult to get "A
sufficient amount of terror into her war
bluff
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-11

The Venezuelan commission Is under.
stood to be ready to begin. 1t can't be-
gin too soon.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-11

Growers last letter indicates that he
reads the newspapers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-11

A Calais lady in going to Cherryficd q
few days ago. went by train tn Franklin
Road, passing through New Brunswic
Washington county, Aroostook, Penobscot
and Hancock counties. Having made a
trip of the numerous other counties, she
then took a carriage into Washington
county, in order to reach her destina
ton. Such incidents serve to whet the
eagerness Of Washington county people
for that new railroad.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-11
ANNUAL MEETING

The stockholders of Granite N.,;o
VI augusta. Maine, will hold their anm,,n,
49, hhectlog lot the election Of directors AID s"r
me me- transaction OF any other Legitimate hus 3I
Tuss;a q. 'h Ter banking room in Augusta. or,
O'Clock in the forenoon. As'o' III ~
Ia. % roc. TREBY JOHNSON. Cashier
~ 1890 dec 10 jan 4 II IA
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-11
EXPECT SICKNESS,
After the ground freezes UP, all the
foul surface water runs direct
into the river.

1t is an acknowledged fact that nine
'eh'hs OF the sickness so prevalent during
the fall months can be traced to impure
water. 1t will cost you less TO buv
Diamond Spring Water for few months
than to pay Doctors bills Why run the
FISK OF sickness or possible death, when
you can be absolutely sure of pure water
for so small an outlay.
Order Diamond Spring Water TODAY.
One gallon delivered daily for as cents
per mouth ;'25 cents extra per month for
each additional gallon.
GEORGE +. TEMPLE
Cor western Ave. and Florence St,
augusta, maine apr1Sdtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-11

Premier Bowel is not yet bowled out.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-11

That high roller" who recently visited
Bangor is said to belong TO the name of
Spaulding, and careful investigation of
his trail failed to reveal any diamonds
scattered by him. about all the scint,la-
tions connected with his meteoric course
appearing in the newspaper accounts.
That cheap fellow on 5000 drunk
should be able to dazzls this part Of the
world may be used, possibly, as an argu
ment against our prohibitory law.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-11

Lewiston Journal: We were surprised
to see at the Bangor meeting of Maine
sportsmen sentiment in favor of the un-
American policy of compelling sportsmen
from other states to pay Il license fee. We
have carried our system of restriction far
enough-and let us now cultivate rep
utation for hospitality.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-11
! 'Es|131Vsfs0h9h2REEU WYSRf4!S@

Let's call 1t fine skating weather f
nothing better.
There were ten births and but six
deaths among the 1893 Indians at Old
Town. Quite progressive.
The Gardiner Reporter Journals re-
mark about dirty streets reminds us. We
wonder if Augusta people appreciate the
excellent care which has been taken of
Water street and our cross walks, not to
mention other blessings:
From 100 p NJ. to 10 p NJ, Lewiston
| towser sat by an office door where his
master told him to stay, afterward going
away and forgetting his faithful canine.
| Then the dog did not leave his post until
called away by his masters son. We are
willing to confess a liking for some dogs.
When eating your next clam chowder
think Of Thomaston, where In the month
of December last ESQ barrels of CLAIMS
were sent out over the Maine Central.
At the Thomaston prison there are $50
! doors to lock.
With little warm weather the digging
of cellars, interrupted by the cold wave,
could be resumed Some We're lucky
enough to complete their cellars the first
week OF January.
Skating OIL Sunday is prohibited at
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-11

This certihes that Dr. A. Johnson whose
name is signed to every genuine bottle of
Iohnson's Anodyne I.iniment. III the month Of
1880 first left at store some of the same
l have supplied my customers with it ever
since, lover fifty years. with increasing sales.
have used it III my family for sprains coughs.
colds, lame back. and consider it the best.
JABEZ KNowLToN Newburg, Maine
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-11

Skating OIL Sunday is prohibited at
South Portland
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-11

Send for Book Treatment for Diseases and Care of Sick Room Free
JOHNSON
The evening times., 1896-09-23
Games Today.
New York at Washington.
Cincinnati at Cleveland.

Capt. Joyce took his Giants o the la seball
park this afternoon, or this evening, as
they say down here, sure in his soulful soul
that he would dcfeatthe arch enemy. Alack
and alas for earthly assurance! There is
no such thing Hard luck and Ioyish
pitcher named James McJames proved tn.
Giants uDdoing. Six line hits went into
the hands of Washington ficlders, and
nearly every time there Were runners On
bases. The Senatorial mob concentrated
their hits at Mr. Sullivan's expense, and
the Boston lawyer made two errors to help
thIngs along
One of the two errors was cumulative
affair, in which Mike got grounder right
at the slab, which he fumbled, kicked,
punched and fell upon before he picked It
up But I understand the batsnan got a
hit on it from the official scorer.
The Giants claim that with the favor of
the scorers here it, is only wonder that all
the Senatorial batsmen are not / n the three
hundred per cent class. Up to the seventh
inning one scratch hit which Tcruan got
was the extent Of the New York's nxrcu-
ton against McJames. and 'Scrappy' ear
RED ON worse than one ofthose cared bears
in the police station eel, for il looked like
a shut-out. But Warner got base ON balls
in the seventh and went to second on Sulli-
van sout.-O- 7. Ca ylor in New York Herald.