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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-06
RAIN-EAST WINDS-GALeS.

Boston. Feb. 5.-Local forecast for
Thursday: Threatening weather, with
rain, Thursday afternoon and night; east
erly winds, becoming brisk; and high,
probably dangerous gales off the coast,
Thursday night.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-06

g r. Vsyo of South Brewer, of the
Arm of Vayo & Puffer, is wanted by his
,,ortner and others. January 30, tbs
Grm s grocery store was burned, and sus-
,,icIous circumstances attach. The in
snrapce adjusters have not yet settled.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-06
A GOOD Investment PAYS.

We are stocked with q full line of Drugs
and Patent medicines. and can supply YOU
win al patent preparations at prices tina,
VIII astonlsh you. Look over the following
list, see saving of Is cents on every dollar
by trading with us. We quote you some leading
preparations All at rock bottom prices.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-06
A GOOD PREMIUM
Asked Tor The New Government Bond Issue
on New York Curb"

New York, Feb 5.-There was son
nveiy bidding for the new government
bonds on the curb, this afternoon. The
quotation on the street. at O'Clock, was
ll6A bid and III was asked
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-06
Washington Forecast.

Washington Feb. s. - Forecast for
Thursday: For Maine, generally fair,
Thursday; northeasterly to westerly
winds
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-06
Vote for U. S. Senator in Kentucky.

Frankfort, Ky, Feb. 5.-The vote for
United States senator in joint assembly,
today, was: Hunter, sc; Blackburn, 20 !;
McCreary, 2; Carlisle, .; Bate. 2 Neces-
S iry for choice is 60
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-06

The Citizens Bank of Connersville
Ind, owned by Elk United States Treas.
urer Houston, assigned, Wednesday. A
statement to the public says that all de-
posits will be paid In full, in three months.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-06


Regular. Our Price.
Oaha Sarsaparllla, Sl00 90
Ayers Sarsaparilla, 100 ~.
Browns Sarsaparlla 100 a:
Ayers Cherry Pectoral, LOO ~
Warmers Safe Cure, lbs so
Matine' fiain) leo 80
Maitine, with cascara) l.2i loo
Iaine bitterS, 10 It's
kickapoO Indian Sagwa LOO ~
Horsford's Acid Phos-
phate, (larRe) 100 ~
Horsford's Acid Prepare
ton, {small) so RS
Syrup of Figs. (large) 10 ~
Syrup of Figs, (smalD 30 as
Ponds Extract, (medium) leo ,:J
Ponds Extract, (smalD so RS
Kennedy's Discovery l50 III
II would take whole column to give Won a
list of all orr preparations, but if there's any
thing you want and don't find it here, we've
got IT, and at the same low price Our goods
are fresh and pure and their penuiness we
guarantee. Call and we'll convince you that
YOU cantearn dollar any easier than by
buying of us.
ALFRED q. HUTCHINSON.
Reliable Prescription Druggist. 1872 Water St.
Next Door to Post Office.
lIALLOWELL, MAINE.
feb4eod3mo
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-06
MONEY TO LOAN.

accommodation afforded parties needing
tES ~ loans, loans 50 to $500 on Household
monds. Can be repaid in instaliments.
Business Confidentiai.-
THE COLLATERAL LOAN COMPANY.
2lS Water St..opp. Cony House, Augusta.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-04-02
with the purpose of having his boy at

with the purpose of having his boy al
any cost.
The nows of Uinton's return and
PendletOn's consequent pardon had
preceded him to Georgia. 1t was toe
much for Mrs. Pendlcton, or rather
Mrs. Dewitt. She felt herself d biga-
mist. She Immediately left Dovit, and
q week before Pendleton arrived st
Atlanta she became a raving maniac
and had to be sent to tho asylum. Pen
dlctOn secured his boy and worked his
way to California. Being man of fer
tile resources, he soon got another
start in the world, and is now d pros
porous fruit grower.
Mr.. Pendleton's son, George, was too
young when the events above recor ded
occurred to remember much about his
mother, aud his father carefully kept
tho facts of this awful drama in real
life from him until he arrived at his
ago of twenty-one years the father
told him Of the sad romance Of their
lives.
George was anxious to learn what
had become Of his mOthcr, and, obtain
ing his fathers permission to 10 SO,
visited Georgia. On inquiry at the
asylum, he learned that sho had been
discharged years before as cured anu
that she had gone to 1.-Two with broth
er then residing at somo place in North
Carolina. In North Carolina he learned
that the brother with whom Mrs Dewitt
was living had removed to this (Win-
ston) county, Alabama. The young man
arrived hero about two months ago,
and sought out his parent. Tho meet
ing of the mother and son, SO long part
cd, was most affecting scene.
George subsequently wrote his father
OF his mothers course after lcarning OF
his innocence. That letter rekindcd
all the old love in George Pcndlton's
heart, and he crossed the continent as
fast as steam could bring him and ycs-
terday remarked the companion OF his
early manhood. Mrs. Pondcton is vet
a beautiful woman on the sunny side OF
forty. MI. Pendleton is in the prime
Of life.
The above facts were related to the
writer on the evening OF this happy
second marriage. MIR. Pcndleton also
told the writer that the body identified
as HintOn>s was that OF peddler
named McDabe, whom u negro who
was hanged ut Houston, Texas, some
years ago confessed to have murdered
and robbed.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-04-02

WONDERS OF SCIENCE. While we
arc having political agitation, the
men Of science promise startling dis
coveries and applications in the ma
terial universe. DR.. Rics Is confident
that tho day is near ut hand when
electricity will dominate usefully al
most ev erything in the way Of blowing
heids, harvesting crops, rail and water
transportation. cooking, heating and
ventilation. He says:
Electric current for power, heat-
Ing, cooking and lighting purposes
will be on tap in every house, just as
water is today. Electric elevators
and lifts will convert stair climbing
into q recreation and electric ventila-
tion, refrigeration and temperate re-
gulation will keep tho up-to-date home
In an ideal condition and permit the
owncr to manufacture his own climate,
| no matter what tho exterior weather
| condition may be.
| Electricity will play music, read
| books and write letters for the man
OF the future. 1t will prepare the food
and bring it to the table. 1t will i'm.
part nourishment and strength with.
out the necessity of eating and drink
ing.
" DR.. Ries is also certain that electric
communications, as tho telegraph, will
shortly be made between points with
out the necessity of wires botween the
places, and that the currents in the
earth may have bearing on the solu
tlon OF this question:"
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-04-02
OUR PHOSPHATE INTERESTS.
Gov. Evans Believes No State Can Compete
With Us.

Gov. Evans has returned from visit
to Florida. He had been in that State
week, accompanied by Phosphate
Inspector Jones, looking over the
phosphate mining industry Of that
State. The Governor comes back
firmly convinced of the fact that South
Carolina will always lead in tho phos-
phatc industry as long as the supply
lasts in our rivers. He won't over the
whole phosphate territory of Florida
and personally inspected the mines and
their operation. The rock, in the first
place, is inferior to ours and has to be
dug out of great banks of sand. 1t has
to be cleaned and then shipped by rail
to some seaport. This handling, of
course, adds much to the price of an
article inferior TO our own. IE the
second place Florida has no deep water
scaports ike Charleston or Beaufort or
Port Royal, and consequently only COM
paratlvely small cargOes can be car
ricd out. He found the nearest ap-
pronch to our rock that called "pcbble
rock" in that State. 1t ia small and
mixed with sand and has to he freed
from it before it is ready for shipment.
Gov. Evans found few fertilizer fac
tories in the State and he does not be
lievc they can ever successfully COM
to the long distance pyrites and sui
phur has to be hauled to the mines.
The only country that can come any
way near approaching us in the quality
OF our rock, is Algiors, but there tho
rock has to be hauled fifteen or twenty
miles to seaport and with royalty
about tho Same as ours and the extra
cost of handling, the Governor says
South Carolina can hold her own with
that country. On the whole the Gov
crnor Is Of the confident opinion that
Charleston and Beaufort and Port
Royal manufacturers have by odds the
advantage over the world and that as
soon as the present poriod of depres-
sion passes away there will be q great
revival in the business.
Gov. Evans came back impressed
with the fact that South Carolina was
the best State In the Union. While he
had pleasant time in Florida, he was
not greatly impressed with the looks OF
the country or its fertility.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-04-02

A FEW CONUNDRUMS.-W is
that which increases, the more you
take from it?-A hole.
Why are Goals in London like towns
pivcn up to plumber ?--Because they
are sacked and burnt.
Why is Il gatcpost like a potato?--
Because they are both put into the
ground to propagate.
What word may bo pronounced
quicker by adding a syllable to it?--
Quick.
What is that which Adam never
saw, never possessed, and yet gave two
to each Of his chiIdrcn?-Parent
What Is that which VIC often see
made, but mover see after it is made?
A noise.
What Is that which no one wishes to
nave and no one wishes to lose?-A
bald head.
What is the difference between a
sailor and q beer drinker?- One puts
ms sail up and the. other puts his ale
down.
What ID that which is above all hui
man perfcctions, and yet shelter.
and protects the weakest and wicked
est as well as the wisest and best o
mankind?--A hat.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-04-02

Gov, Evans, in his speech at Beau
tort, said THAI when the Port Royal
road was sold 1t would be bought by n
corporation which would make it q
INK IN a continuous line from San
Francisco to the Atlantic ocean. Tho
consummation of such 10 plan would
mean millions to Port Royal, but un-
fortunately some legal complications
nave arisen which may delay for an in
definite time the sale Of the road. Some
ofthe parties to the suit, it is understood
question the cOnstitutionulity of tho
act authorizing the sale and maybe it
vii! have to undergo long siege Of
yudlclal Interpretations and the laws de-
lay before the question is definitely do
cided.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-04-02

Times are changing to such an OK
tent that it will only be few years UNI
I'll. parents will be sent TO bed for talk
ing back.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-04-02

and county officers, does voting there
in bind one to support the national
Democratic nominee for President? !?
Has not any white man the right, ac-
, cOrding to the rules, to vote In the
primary election If he will simply
plodge him to abide by the result and
vote for the nominees Of the primary
at the general election, voting what
ticket he pleases for Presidential
from you on these questions at your
earliest convenience. It would be
we'll also for these matters to be laid
before your committee when 1t meets.
Some authoritative statement in re-
gard to these matters ought to be
given to tho public.
I desire to give this to tho press as
an open letter, but send 1t to you first
SO that your answer may appear with
1t. Yours respectfully,
J. w. REID.
WASHINGTON, March 21.-Mr. j. w.
Read, Dear Sir: Replying to your letter
Of recent date, will say that the ex-
ecutive committee, which meets on
the 7th of April, will take under con-
sideration the questions propounded
in your letter. AN answer from that
source, no doubt, will be more satis-
factory to you. In any event l prefer
20 wait until it meets.
Respectfully,
j. L. M. .uIRBY.
ItEIDVILLE, S. c., March 23.-HOn.
}. l.. Nj. lrby, Chairman State Demo-
cratic Executive Committee, Wash
ingtOn, ID. c.: Dear Sir: Your favor
of the 2lst instant received. I hope
you will lay these questions before
your committee when it meets and
publish u statement from them.
Your respectfully,
j. w. REID.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-04-02

What is that which is often brought
TO the table, always cut, and mover
eaten?-A pack Of cards.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-04-02

w hat are the most unsociable things
in the wor ld?-Milcston, 9, for you never
see two OF them together.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-08
A Homeless. Expedient.

John ]. Valentine, Pres. Wells, Fargo & Co.
If the government of the United States
can, by legal enactment. convert a given
cents in the worlds markets into 81 of
money of permanent value, why not
waive the 80 cents worth OF intrinsic value
and issue fiat money at once? If law can
effect it, why not make gold and silver
equal in value, ounce for ounce? If this
can be done, why levy taxes? The doctrine
advanced by the silver agitators is, in fact,
that. of the advocates of incontrovertible
paper: only the latter are more logical in
its support. If government is TO fix prices
at all, it is of course, cheapest and easiest
to go to incontrovertible paper at once.
The history of the world is replete with
examples of nations that have thought to
get over hard times and become suddenly
rich by depreciatng their currency. The
wrecks from this source line the pages of
history Not one has ever succeeded, and
not one ever will succeed, in bettering its
condition by depreciating its money stand
ard Our people must learn this important
truth, and the sooner they do SO the bet
liberty of quoting the language of San
Francisco writer of the present. in which
he characterizes the 'perverse spirit of the
times as everywhere manifesting itself in
wild aspirations for impossible advantages.
in the resurrection of the discredited beliefs
and methods of an:iquity-in cutting loose
from all that is conservative-in a reign of
unreason.'
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-08
LON sTEPHENs, HEGIRS..

Right in the midst of the state and ma
tional campaign Candidate Lon Stephens
who aspires to be governor of Missouri, and
is making an alleged race for that office
on a Popocrat silver platform with a
national bank foundation, has suddenly
shaken the dust off his feet and left for
the enemy's country. It is said that he
has hurried off to New York. intent on
duty's call, burt Democratic off1ceholders
are not wont to be go punctilious in the
matter OF duty when political fat is fry
ing, SO there must be some other reason for
the hegira. 1t is whispered around in the
inner circles Of Popocracy that Mr..
Stephens became so expert in putting his
foot in his mouth every time he opened it
that the progress Of the campaign was
seriously impeded, and that period Of
enforced silence on Lonnie's part would en-
able the party managers to rearrange their
shattered lines and make a fresh start.
The idea is a good one. but Its application
comes too late to do any practical good.
Mr.. Stephens goose is cooked. In the brief
period that he appeared on the hustings
in the role of statesman. he left no favor
able impress of his personality. His
speeches were of the namby-pamby order
that makes even a candidates own par
tisans tired, and did much more harm than
good. The mistake Of his managers was
in not sending Lonnie out of the state i'm
mediately after his nomina ton, and keep
ing him out.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-08
The Mexican Peon.

From the Mexican Herald.
Our pensive and philosophical peon Is to
be studied at close range by visiting dele
cations Of American labor organizations
What the peon doesn't know would fill
many books. and yet he is happier than if
a common school education with university
extension trimmings had been allowed him.
He belongs to no labor union, because he
has no natural passion for the cause of Ia
bor the less of it the better being his mot
to. His ingenuity in consuming time,
his consumption of cigarettes while at the
plow handle. his penchant for the piquant
pepper his deep devotion to a dimly under
stood religious ideal. and his propensity to
vary his devotional exercises with pulque,
make him a most interesting study.
And yet he is a good fellow. He Is al
WAYS polite. and no more doffs his hat to
his superiors than to his equals. He Is a
humble Chesterfield and American police
men might well come here to sit at his feet
and learn common courtesy OF him. He Is
Immensely contented. and does not need to
become parlor club Buddhist to learn the
lesson that life is not worth worrying
about, or death. either. for that matter.
He is a philosopher because he does not try
to remedy the universe in the manner OF
the people of Boston. His only opinion on
the silver question is that he would like
more money, provided he did not have to
work any harder than now. He knows the
delights of an unhurried existence. Wars
and rumors OF wars interest him not, nor
the rise and fall of exchange. II the amo
Is not too severe in his demands. II chiles
are cheap, and likewise frijoles and maize,
the English may chase Abdul Hamid across
the Bosphorus and the car lombard Lon
don and he will not move an eyeiash.
AS perfect and utter contrast to the
walking delegate style of Northern work.
inprran. the peon is immensely satisfacto-
ry. He is a primitive man at his best. He
has never been improved upon.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-08
THE TL,OWER PARADE.

It was a happy thought which suggested
to those in charge of the carnival arrange
ments the idea of a flower parade in con-
ton last year met with instant and hearty
approval, and the first parade was a de-
cided success, as it was bound to be when
the energy and good taste of Kansas City
people were brought into play to attain the
desired end Encouraged by the success
of that attempt, no efforts were spared this
year to eclipse 1t, and the result shows
how well they succeeded. While not in
any way aspiring to the gorgeous grandeur
of the procession of Pallas and her priests,
the flower parade of yesterday in point of
esthetic beauty eclipsed all other displays.
over one hundred entries of exauisitely
decked carriages threaded the streets in
the presence of vast multitudes. Ingenuity,
good taste and plenty of money were used
without stint, and the result was one Of
the most beautiful pageants that has ever
been witnessed in Kansas City. Some of
the turnouts were works of art and all of
them were marvels of beauty and admir-
able specimens of the handiwork of decora-
tor and designer.
The flower parade will. as it ought to, be
a permanent feature of the autumral fes-
tiyities. 1t strikes a popular chord and will
grow in beauty and loveliness from year
Ito year Those having immediate charge
of the undertaking are to be congratulated
on the splendid success of the flower fete
Of 1905
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-08
ALTGELD, THE HUMBUG.

Governor Altgeld processes to be the
friend of the poor man. In his political
campaigns he has loudly protested his SYM
pathy with the "downtrodden cause of la
bor." While upon the stump in 1892 as
candidate for governor he pledged the
workinggnen Of Illinois that if elected he
would use his power TO destroy the COM
petition then existing between the products
of prison labor and the products of the
free labor of the wage-workers OF the state.
Upon these representations he was sup
ported by nearly every trades union in IL
linois. and received the practically united
vote of all laborers in factories.
Did he keep this pledge? Did any dem
agogue of the Altgeld stripe ever keep a
pledge Of any description? Could a man
who prayed loud in the synagogue for the
restoration of silver and then went out and
forced his tenants to sign a gold lease be
trusted to work any reform whatsoever?
Most assuredly not. So far from attempt
ing to remove convict labor from compet-
ton with free labor, the loud pretender had
hardly warmed his seat at the state house
before he set on foot schemes to increase
the output Of Joliet.
Eight representatives OF labor unions in
Chicago have published card in which
they recite Altgeld's betrayal of this prom
Use. They show that almost his first act
as governor was to procure an appropria-
ton of $4,000 with which to purchase ma
chinery that would enormously increase
the output of the Joliet factories. Not con-
tent with this. he established factories
there which before had no existence, such,
cio fcc x.-ith on
pacity Of 5000 cigars q day. It is shown
by these labor representatives that the out
put of harness and saddlery, broom max
ing, wagon making, knit goods and willow
and rattan ware, was vastly increased un-
der the administration of Governor Alt
geld, who is accused of personally urging
the increase of facilities for all of these
manufactures. In conclusion, the labor
representatives accuse Governor Altgeld of
being now in negotiation for the establish
ment OF a vast bicycle plant at Joliet.
Governor Altgeld has come to the end of
the lane which every pretender traverses
There is no instance in American history
where man went upon the political stump
and sought election to office through al
legged friendship for the 1aboring man who
was not huanbug. There is no instance
on record where candidate presented
himself as the special champion of classes
who was not a fraud. The Altgelds and
the Bryans and the Dennis Kearneys may
flourish for time, but the humbug has
never yet been born so artful or the dema-
gogue SO skillful that his success had very
long duration. Altgeld has come to the
end Of his rope, and the men who are pull
. ing the strongest on it are the very men
who raised him to power and would have
continued him there If he had been an hon.
est man.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-08
Those Bonnx scots.

Tip In New York Press.
Ian Maclaren'' is here, Barrie is. here.
Robertson Nicol Is here, and reckon We
might as well expect Crockett on the next
steamer. They have come to console us
for the loss OF KipiiEs. Crockett is in
such habit of travelling from Scotland to
Norway. in the dead of winter. in an open
boat, that he might visit US in the same
way, fetching the ''Stickitt Minister" and
The Raiders along as life preservers. or
ballast-which? Crockett, Barrie and Mac
laren-what chapters Of accidents. The
first was a salaried writer for religious
weekly. Five years ago he received tel
egram instructing him to prepare lead
ing article. on the. duties of minister.
What did he know about the duties of a
minister? Ha, ha. In despair. he wrote
what purported to be an account of a
typical minister's days work. which
caught on and made his name and fame.
Very easy, and quite the usual order of
things. John Watson never would have
thought of writing stories and sketches
but for DIR. Nicol, who. having heard him
tell a few of them at his fireside, teased
and worried him for a year or two to let
him publish them In the British Weekly.
beside the Bonnie Brier Bush is a man $
book. Women are less moved by it than
men, for they read it in silence, while men
laugh and cry. Barrie-he can speak for
himself. Everyone knows Barrie.