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Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-06-29
Maine G. A. r. Notes.

-
The annual reunion Of Co. II. lNir:An
Vol, was held Tuesday, June lGsal tGt
residence of c. W. Sanborn of Otisils ~
me forenoon WAS passed in talkingFote.
Incidents of army life At i2 O'clock z
iumptuous repast WAS served IM the Ii,
lies of the association. to which all die
Justice. After dinner a business meetina
vas held and officers chosen for the en-
suing year. The remainder of the after.
noon was passed talking over old times
when they were fighting for the Union
1t was a very enjoyable occasion. Oi
those present belonging to Co. II, there
were but Two who bore the mark of rebei
snt: II. N Bracket, wife and son soS
East Abingdon. Mass. l.. Spur and wife
Of Otisiield Cyrus L. Wardwell and wife
Of Oxford, Cyrus Chaplin and wife of on
ford. Geo. w Rackliffe and wife of East
Sebago. Charles r. Meserve OF Norway.
Thomas II. Jordan OF. Lewiston. Mrs.
Frank Morse and Son, John I.akin. Goth
Maine. of Windham, Charles Sanborn and
wife of Otisfietd.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-06-29
'iBR EVlTY is THE SOUL OF WIT"
GOOD WIFE! YOU NEED
SAPOL 10
W.. c. T. u. COLUMN.

MOTTO: For God and Home and
Every Land"
OBJECT: To unity the methods OF
woman's temperance work the world
over
BADGE: A knot of white ribbon.
HOUR OF PRAYER: Noon.
METHODS: Agitate. educate. organize
DEPARTMENTS: preventive, educar
tional, evangelistic, sociafand legal. =
'ELAE POLYGLOT. PETITfON has been
ssfs'aefa ssnea by .repfs sae xSs,a a, fas
countries. Il as1ne 4 y "a eiArH & pi
te a@eohoI and SRpidlG ade sbs
- of, legahked cS : TIA !$hiHt
aSxili3 lies Of the ~ IN n. u saille36:
unites8 States, ca Efeat .E1t
australia. South Il India, r. y "a
and the Sandwich
s.The Trainiase Our Boys. a'.' ss'.. :
80
ny BETII. YEyOU
Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-06-29
DEAD MEMS SHOES.
Peculiar Rlliefs Concerning Them Tbs
Exist In the Ola World.

Exist In the OLD World.
dead mems shoes" Is q common ex,
preston, but means much In many parts
Of the old world, where the boots of the
dead are accorded much Importance.
In Scotland, in tho northern parts OF
England, in Scandinavia, as we'll as in
Hungary, Croatia and Roumania, the. ut.
most care is taken among the lower Classes
that each corpse is provided with pair u
good shoes before being laid into the
ground. If the dead person happens to bq
tramp andto have been found dead bare;
footed, there will always be some chart
table soulto furnish pair Of good boots
for interinent along with the corpse. e,
An inspector Of police in Scotland has
been known. to purchase Of. his own accord
. new pair of boots and to place them IN
thegraye reopened for, the purpose of a
murdered stranger who had been iDnaycr-
tently inferred barefooted the day before.
This pfactieR, which likewise prevails
among the TsiAGnes, as we'll as in many
parts of Asia. Aattributable to the belief
buried their ghosts come back 10 haunt
tho locality where they breathed their last
In search Of pair of boots.
: The shoes are populariy supposed to he
needed to pass in comfort and safety the
brpad plains which thedepar.ed soul must
traverse before 1t can reach paradise
AmonE nations these plains arc Do
cl4redsto be covered withSfurzas thorns
Afamorass, while other raees say that the,
consist Of burni9s%ands. These plains OF
snffering are pop6lariy credited with form
iDg.a sort OF antzthamber to hell. 1t is for
.tssls reason thattha boots of the dead are
s6lSed ''hc!l sti,' in Norway, Sweden
1tnlard end Z 1nmark. New York World
Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-06-29
YEsTERDAY.,

Oh. you are mine. and mine AWAY.
More mine than in orr marriage. May.
And yet want your yesterday.
And yet want your yester year.
Tho strange. sad season when we were
Cold as stone to each other. dear.
Ignorant. we went up and down
Tho wind blown streets of the old town,
Where oft. perchance. you brushed my
gown:
Where we, perchance. as cold as ice
Looked in each others stranger eyes.
Dear eyes that light my paradisel
Your name. that now with tears say,
Moro dear than in our marriage Mny.
Had no place in my prayers that day.
Your face had no place in my dreams
Came in no faint prophetic CLEANS.
Across the starbeams and moonbeams!
Another woman held the key
OF your truv heart that knew not mo
Nor oil the heaven that was to be.
And yet my place was mine alway,
Mine still as in our marriage May.
But, love, want your yesterday!
Katharine lyman in Illustrated London
News.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-06-29
i In me Anda,nan Islands.

Al ngi!shman tells in tho London
Field Of A'paiRfnl experience he had at tho
Ahdaniap islands with parrot fbslt. TIE
parrot hsh was of dirty olive tlnss.switll
brown spots, and was possessed 6f asfor-
midablo beak, not unlike nlacaw ~ only
the points met instead Of overlapping, aud
1t was composed Of bone instead of iiurn.
1t was brought to the surface by some OK
perimental torpedoes, and the Englishman
picked 1t up and began poking his finger
around it, supposing the brute to be dead.
All OF sudden the open beaks camo to-
gether with "A snap and the Englishman n
lost the top of his thumb The e'chunk bit
ten Off was given by the coxswain to a
panther Jeopardy cub.
This same coxswain and number Of
sailors were drawing seine for carnation
carp, whose scales were tho size of rupees
and skin as tough as leather, when, as the
seine closed up. . big fish fetched the cox
swain blow in heabdomen that knocked
him galley west over the boats rail and
into the water. That upset the boat, but
all hands were rescued, and the fish were
taken out to be eaten.
The Andalnan islands furnish, consider.
able sport with guns as we'll as rods, snipe
and wild pigs being abundant at proper
seasons.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-06-29
THE STOCK MARKET.
Leading steoil Quotations at Boston and
New York.

Boston, june 2'-ln the outside market cali
money Is QTutvd a 5N} Dnr cen all tim.
money isnonia;s!iY .'G i per cent.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-06-29

Thsst stene business at Blaehill still re-
- Mary a. Llvcrmore will preach al
& stsS sffaaTe unisersalist Church
Sale pafa Young ,os.sgftfi + Paris. 3.
fsss vsSs 81 ,scsst spriss ! .G1h Hpa-i'e cords
HuTaberland county will hold their con
$vention at Portland. July e..
. Hancock. countys 'youngest bride is
Mrs Harry Higgins. of West. E,ils i3ftl
not yet fourteen years of age.
Deer. Isle Is already talking abut the
proposed division of the town which VIII
come before the legislature next winter.
:. Burglars entered the store of o. S.
Townsend at Montague, one might re-
Gently and took one suit OF clothes ane
:,ewelry to the amount Of about S2s.
-t4'hc Portland Mechautc Blues cele-
sst Wednesday sia ass rhey Mil a tarf
Ration. s-ssss 3 =
ftLast week. Mr.. f. II Day of Les.aisf fts. 81
mad written his mother. Mrs. Mary Fff..
OF brunswick, and mailed .fdsur= years ago,
Win the letter came an official 'ejlvelop'
and letter from Postmaster Pennei o;
brunswick. Which said that they had res
Gently been tearing away partitions II
the postofiice and that IN a crack be-
mind desk they had found this letter
II had evidently worked its way down
there and been lost Mr.. Day says tla.
this letter was particularly full OF news
His mother was then z years Old. -
month or so later he referred to mat
ters of family interest referred TO in tha;
letter and his mother seemed to know
nothing about if Her memory is fsfl-
ing" said he to. himself and he felt SAD
at this mark OF advancing years. She i:
now IL and is well and strong. and ha,
had no lapses of memory since.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-06-29
NICHOLAS FESSENDEN,
Secretary of STATE

The funeral services over the re-
mains of the late George Tibhetts, the
little Son of Mr.. and Mrs. James Tib-
belts, were held, Sunday afternoon, at
4 o'clock. at the home OF the parents
on Cedar street. The services We're
conducted by Rev. f. c. Hayes. The
singing was furnished by a quartet
Mr. Beck and Mr.. Hawes. The inter-
mcnt was in Mount Pleasant cemetery.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-06-29

The Children's day services at the
Methodist and the Free Baptist
churches, which were given, Sunday,
We're very successful and largely at
tended. The complete programmes
were severally given, many pieces
having been omitted on the previous
Sunday on account of the bad
" ca her
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-06-11

side of the wall. Initiate q window sash
by stretching two tapes or pieces of rope
across this opening and loop little cur
tains over them.
As this is to be not only o playhouse,
but a place to keep toys in when not in
use, put up pockets made of awning cloth
or bedticking, in which books, states, ETC.,
can be kept. Long curtains hung on a rod
across the top will serve as doors il
playtime and to conceal the inside of the
house when you are not using it. The
place will not hold much furniture. A
table, which can be folded up and tucked
away into a corner, with two seats-really
boxes with padded covers, where toys are
kept--will be enough.
To put the table in, nail two cleats Of
wood against the back of the wall at just
the height the table is to be- and eight
inches apart. Nail little slat of wood
from one to the other side on their front
sides. The table is board two feet square.
A cleat just the thickness of the other
cleats, and exactly eight inches long, is
nailed underneath the board, along the
back edge. This cleat slips into the space
between the other cleats when the table is
set up. Two legs support the front. They
are fastened on with hinges, so they will
fold fiat under the table, and when put
In place, rest in holes in the floor provided
for them. The two boxes for toys are to be
used as seats and are to be covered with
dark denim, cretonne or calico, with han
dies of heavy cord to pull them around by.
Both table and seats you see, can be taken
from the house, and the dolls table and
your own rocking chair used instead If
you have table, that will do; there will
be no need of taking the trouble to put
one in,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-06-11
1T CAN'T BE DONE.
No One Can Remain Well, No Chronic
Disease Can be Cured Unless the
Stomach is First Made Strong
and Vigorous,

This is plain because every organ in the
body depends on the stomach for its nour-
ishment. Nerve bone, sinew, blood are
made from the food which the stomach
converts to our use.
How useless to treat disease with this,
that and the other remedy and neglect the
most important of all, the stomach.
The earliest symptoms OF indigestion
are sour risings, bad taste in the mouth,
gas in stomach and bowels, palpitation,
all. gone feeling, faintness, headaches, con-
stipation; later comes loss of flesh, con-
sumption, liver and dna heart troubles,
kidney diseases, nervous prostration, all
OF which are the indirect result of poor
nutrition.
Any person suffering froom indigestion
should make it practice to take after
each meal one Of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tab
let's, allowing it to dissolve in the mouth
and thus mingle,with the saliva and enter
the stomach In the most natural way.
These Tablets are highly recommended by
DIR. Jennison because they are composed
of the natural digestive acids and fruit
essences which assist the stomach in diges-
ting all wholesome food before it has
time to ferment and sour.
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are sold by
druggists, full sized packages at 30 cents.
They are also excellent for invalids and
children. A book on stomach diseases
and thousands of testimonials of genuine
cures sent free by addressing Stuart Co.,
Marshall, Mich. (S-10-12-w)
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-06-11
The Oyster at Home.

How would you like to live in house
all by yourself and never be able to go
out a single time in your lifeP
don't think the oyster wants to leave
his home, but he can't do it If he does
want to- because he is tied in. 1t Is made
of two pieces Of shell, and he can open and
shut it as he pleases But he never pleases
to open it for us, so II we want to get in
we shall have to break in like burglar.
When we see him in his home, we shall
know why 1t Is best for him not to go out
into the water where he lives. In the first
place, there are many enemies on the out
side who would like to catch and eat him,
and, poor fellow, he has nothing to fight
them with Then he could not get along
very we'll, for he has no head, no feet, no
fms.
was talking to a little girl about him
last summer and she said, "He is moth
ing but stomach and house."
OF course you know, IL you have ever
eaten him, that he has no bones, but did
you ever hear before that he has hearth
Yes, he has heart but it does not send
out red blood like yours and mine-his
blood Is white.
There are many tiny creatures In the
salt water too small for us to see; these
are what he eats.
Although the old oysters do not move
about, the babies float around, and are
very lively. Sometimes there are as many
as 5000 In one family at a time. Just
think of that l-Examiner
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-06-11
Sulphur Baths.

Some Of the sulphur baths in Hun
gary and Bosnia are sights worth going
far to see.
At one place, Ilidze, near Serajevo.
those who thirst for sulphur are shown
into small cells just like the cells Of q
prison. Light streams in family from a
small slIylight but the bath is not to be
discovered until the bather's eyes are
accustomed to the semidarkness and he
has been in the place some minutes.
Then he becomes aware that there is
in one corner of his cell small fight
of steps leading to rough hewn basin in
the very bowels of the earth, so to speak.
The sulphurous water gushes up in
the basin, and the odor of it is not to be
described. Yet people travel hundreds
of miles to enjoy it, and the doctors rave
about its medicinal qualities. London
Tit. Bits
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-06-11
Definition of n Good Wife.

Following is the letter that won the
New York World prize for the best an
swer to "What constitutes the best and
most contented wife?"
The best and most contented wife is
one who has marched in line with wage
earners through every stage Of mental
and physical tiredness; who from the
severely practical standpoint of expert
ence in earning a dollar has learned the
value Of it; whose contact with the out
side world has broadened her sympathy
and general knowledge; who has been
denied care and consideration, and who,
though earning enough Of salary, per-
haps, to partially satisfy her taste for
the beautiful in life, in art or study, is
allowed no time for anything but an in
satiable longing for the same. To such
a woman the care and protection Of a
husband and the shelter Of home are a
heaven. Any womanly woman from out
the ranks Of the business world will
prove by a lifetime of devotion and
helpfulness her appreciation Of and her
fitness for domestic life if her husband
be half worthy. Mrs. E. Van p. Cum
mings.
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Miss Mary Lord Drake.

Iowa's "t1rst lady of the land," Miss
Mary Lord Drake, bids fair to be sue
cess as the mistress of the gubernatorial
mansion. Her father, Governor Francis
Marion Drake, is widower, and this
daughter is his only unmarried child.
She is cultivated and dignified. More
over, she has no whims.
"No, haven't any particular fad.
am not girl Of fads. l like all good
things" she said to some one who ask
ed her il she was making collection of
anything, or had any hobby that she
would undertake to popularize. She is
an extensive reader in nearly all liter
ary lines, especially with current maya
zines, and she keeps up to the times in
the newspapers. Her devotion to her IA
ther is SO deep that she strives to keep
pace with him in everything that he
docs, and she thoroughly understands
and sympathizes with him, taking the
place, to very large extent, of her
mother.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-06-11

at the U. S. Grant school, which was
also attended by Miss Eyre, The latter's
name in the Indian language is Chitah-
kah. Miss Eyre is from the Pawnee
tribe, in Indian Territory, where she at
tended q reservation school prior to 60
ing to Carlisle in 1888. She was a stu
dent of the q. s. Grant school with
Miss Gordon, and both entered the High
school and completed the course to.
gether.
Miss Eyre goes to Kansas to become
an assistant teacher at the Pottawato-
mie Agency boarding school, Miss Cor
don has been appointed teacher in the
Fort Peck Agency boarding school,
Montana. They are the first of their race
whom the Normal school sends back to
become teachers Of their own people.
The two girls were very much affected
at parting with the teachers, and when
they left the school carried with them
very sad young faces. Philadelphia
Times
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-06-11
SHOOTING STARS.

Across the strings Of memory
zephyr breathes from out the past,
When youth believed the shooting stars
That night athwart the heavens cast
They told him that the soulfelt wish
Asked while still glowed the flashing brand,
We're sure TO fall-a wondrous gift
Within faiths supplicating hand.
How many dreams Of love and wealth.
How many hopes Of name and fame
With boyish trust-so soon outgrown--
We're loaded on each fitting flannel
Say twas the credence Of the fool,
A farce where folly played chief part
Il had what too much after lacks,
The earnest service Of the heart.
And so OF all those radiant ships
That one time sped o'er seas OF air
And piled up high with golden dreams,
Struck Ages rock and foundered there,
Hung in the sanctum Of the soul,
Where death can only force the bar,
Alone remains that Joy we knew
And lived when dreaming Of tho star.
Philadelphia Times.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-06-11

"'well, yes, I love you. But come,
tell me frankly, looking me straight in
the eye-it is not very disagreeable to
do so, is it?-have you nothing, abso-
lutely nothing, to reproach yourself
with-if not as regards men, as regards
womenP
Nothing, he replied, with an in
genuous earnestness that made me wish
to throw myself into his arms.
"Then he suddenly blushed. I had
forgotten one incident, he said L con-
fess that l have committed, or almost
committed,' bad, very bad, action.
''Blushing at first, he had now turned
pale. 1 almost regretted having asked
him. But it was too late to curb my
curiosity.
Tell me everything.
i obey. Twelve years ago I was in
garrison at T. There was talk Of
war in the air at the time, and this,
added to our youth. gave us an auda-
cious, almost ferocious, gayety. One
evening when we were all tipsy-for we
got tipsy in those days, which l hope
you will pardon--a sublieutenant, more
tipsy than the others, proposed that we
scale the walls of convent in the neigh
borhood and frighten the nuns and pu-
pills in their sleep. 1t was stupid, an
infamous ideal Wine is q bad counselor:
not man there brave and honorable
though they were, slapped the face Of
the man who had made the wretched
proposition. We rushed out of. the tav-
erp, found ladders l don't know where,
scaled the wall, and ran across the gar
den like looters in captured city.
"'Ohr cried.
"'You despise me, do you not? You
will never be my wife?'
"'I have not said that yet. sin
cerely hope you did not carry out your
horrible project?'
Chance saved us. AS we reached
the convent door we heard deep voices
in the garden, swearing the strangest
oaths. There could be no doubt that
rough fellows Of some sort-gardeners
or peasants come to pay their rent
were near at hand in considerable num-
bers. Yes, they were countrymen, for
under the trees we could see garments
that looked like skirts-they must have
been long blouses. We began to be less
courageous, remorse seized us, and we
fed to the ladders; and no one ever
knew that we had entered the convent
garden. But have always had bitter
recollection Of that nights escapade.
"The dear fellowl l assured him that
thought none the worse Of him for it,
and, month later, was the Marquise
de Lionne.
When we had finished laughing-for,
it must be confessed, the adventure was
amusing-we demanded of the mar.
quise:
"And did your husband never know
the truth? Did he never learn that il
was you and your schoolmates'-
Perhaps he guessed it. The night
we were married, just as he was about
| to take me in his arms and kiss me,
suddenly sprang away, crying: 'Damme,
sir Ten thousand devils! By thunderl
"But he didn't run away that time. u
From the French in San Francisco
Argonaut
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-06-11
The Happiness of a Smile.

~ remember" says DR.. A. Conan
Doyle, Sin my earliest childhood man of
giant frame who used to visit our house.
He was broad Of shoulder and deep OF
chest; his head was massive, his hands
were big, and he could just squeeze through
the door of our home. remember he used
to trot me on his knee, and his face al
ways fascinated my gaze, because it was
always smiling faoe--a face that attract
ed every one as light attracts our gaze
on dark night. This man was William
Makepeace Thaokeray. He always seemed
to make me happy. And all because he
smiled
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-06-11
She Gave Him Her Note.

A youth who has worked in an Au-
gusta store long enough to absorb the
idea that he is business man was asked
by his sister for loan Of 90 cents few
days ago. He insisted that she should
give him a note for it. This she did,
and he, in his hurry, pocketed it with
out reading. When he thought it time
for her to pay the debt. he spoke of it.
She replied that it wasn't convenient
for her to do so. "But ! have your
note" he said. He pulled it from his
pocket, and on reading found out that,
for value received, she promised to pay
90 cents "when convenient. "--Chicago
Inter Ocean.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-06-11
Winnie Dav.a.

Miss Varina Annie Jefferson Davis,
better known as Winnie Davis. will, it
is reported, make New York her perma-
nent residence and literature her profess
sion. She has displayed considerable
ability in essays and fiction and has a
very we'll written story in current
magazine. The ability to write short
stories in first class style is exceedingly
rare, and il Miss Davis can keep up the
successes she has already made she has
q bright future for her literary career.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-06-11
A DEAD CITY.

Der lone Pcmpeil when N % wild bird flies,
Slower its piaions and m ore sad Its song,
The wind that steals its trembling walls
among
Howls follower there. and there more softly
sighs
OF ruin, death and fatal destinies,
The silence palpitates as 'twere the strong
Pulse Of giant heart 10 break e'er so long
Beneath the weight Of unsaid miseries.
In utter sadness DER the amber waves
The setting sun filings forth his last goodby;
Thy infinite bosom Of the hills and caves
Re-echoes 10 the universal sigh
A city which the sunlight Ecantly layes,
Dead IN the past, dead now, again 20 die.
-~1taxeeret Thomas IN Youth'E Companion.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-06-11
An Unpopular Musician.

Henry Handel Tosti Jones
Played the flute in divers tones.
Some were low, and some were shrill;
Some suggested something ill;
Some We're old, and some were new;
Some went "whee," and some went
"whoo,"
But, as folks discovered soon,
All were sadly out of tune
People, TO escape such shocks,
Left the neighborhood in floclxs.
Some sped east, and some sped west;
Some took goods, but none took rest:
Some were seen across the main;
Some were never seen again
Just because boy called Jones
Played the flute in divers tones.