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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-04-06
A Card.

We, the undersigned, do hereby agree
to refund the money on a fifty cent bottle
of Greene's Syrup of Tar if 1t fails to
cure your cold or cough. we also warrant
twenty-five cent bottle to prove salts
factory or no pay.
Bowditch & Webster,
John Coughlin,
+. X. Courtemauche,
Arthur Tetrault.
J. NJ. Mixer.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-04-06

a hog owned by l.. NJ. Staples of
Washington, dressed 200 pounds.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-04-06
FREE BAPTIST CHURCH.
Thursday Evening,
APRIL 8,
GRAND CONCERT
Bates College
GLEE CLUB

and Orchestra, assisted by Maze quartet.
violin. clarinet. cornei. ana .hree vocal
,aIaiete together with a reader and i'm
nersonator. Admission, % cents. Chill
aren under u years 10 cents, Concert at
3 o'clock. Tickets on sale at state street
cafe. T. +. Davis & Co., and Ward $
,orhar ebon april 5dit
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-04-06

n Guns u ia "
tive hopes and
hopes, but a
time comes
when hope
ends. and the
black shadow
of despair
forecasts the
c O III ing OF
death. Thou
sands of doc
tors say that
consumption
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-04-06

Tarded as follows:
The 1 Competitor who sends in the
Largest Number OF coupons from
will receive a. 100 Cash.
Tho 5 Competitions who send in the
Next Largest. Numbers of cou-
pons from the district in which they
reside will Each receive at winners
option a lady's orgentleman's Pierce
Special bicycle. price y io0, 90.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-04-06
SOAP
WRAPPERS
Total given during I2mos. 1897, $40,SOO.OO

HOGEos
l. Every month during 1897 in each OF the districts
prizes will be awarded as follows:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-04-06
SCENE ".
MORAL.

Ii takes an expert machinest about
,hree hours to clean in the proper way.
IN every day bicycle. is it is generally
found in the spring. You can do it, il
YOU have talent and genius. But take
your time. It's no easy job.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-04
For the Record Union"
HENRY w. LONGFELLOw.

Alone upon the summit many years
ne Whlte-halred poet, the great-hearted
Long had he taught "the melody of tears >,
Ills tender pathos glorifies the age
We yainly turn to his departed shade
In humble reverence-he was all our own
10 shfine more sacred never VOWS We're
paid,
And rarely has the human soul climbed
to a higher throne
How light are earthly dynasties comnared
To one supreme imponderable souli
How thankful should we be his life was
spared
With, all it's factors blended and made
whole,
That we might look upon the ripened fruit,
And gather from the branches all it bore
And be repleted ere the harp was mute.
Whose echoes down the aisles of time
shall linger evermore.
We bend with Hiawatha at the side
OF dying Minnehaha (never dead,
Our moistened eyelids watched the heav-
ing tide
AS Ger the lake the fading chieftain
Our hearts are melted with Acadia's
We wander with Evangeline entranced
With all the SacrednesS of love: outgrowr
Only, when death and deathless love
upon each other glanced.
How speaks the Psalm of Life" to every
How urgent is Excelsior to the youth
Our ships are launched and 10. from
Shines forth the sweet apostle of the
truth.
Thank God, such lives are possible or
It brings back Eden to our fallen race
The star of Bethlehem returns at birth
Once more upon the human form Gods
likeness may trace.
HIRAM HoYT RICHMOND.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-04

Jacket bodice opnes to show bit OF
shirt waist and necktie. The entire
costume of the stripe is about as be-
coming a gown as a woman can have
for certain uses. 1t can be worn at
present with a fur collarette, and also
be appropriate for warmer weather
| when no sort of wrap is needed.
| No prettier garment of its class was
ever designed than the bolero. 1t comes
| from Spain, along with the mantilla,
the poncho, sombrero and the rich lace
of which the Spaniards obtained the
secret from the Moors.
| AS the name indicates, it is a dancing
| jacket. The black-eyed bellies who in
vented it use it partly as a delightful
| ornament to their costume and partly
as a protection against taking cold in
| the rest which follows a dance.
In Spain it is light and graceful, a
thing of lace and ribbon, of beads and
embroidery, of silk or satin, of drawn
work and applique.
1t has neither collar nor sleeves. It's
outline is a graceful and continuous
cureve
| When first adopted by Dame Fashion
here the bolero preserved it's original
features. By degrees, however, it be-
| gan to change. Opulent and even mas
sive passementeries replaced the lace
and drawn work. Velvet and brocade
stripes were substituted for the thin
and filmy ribbons.
| The process went so far that last Win
| ter there We're fashionable boleros SO
| heavy and stiff that no Spanish girl
who ever lived could have used one as
a dancing jacket on a warm spring
evening or a summer night.
This would seem to be far enough
departure from the original model, but
the leaders of the mode are now trying
| the experiment of combining the Elton
Jacket ard the bolero.
The effect in some instances is very
striking, in others commonplace; in
some very pretty and in others just the
| reverse.
plain affair was one in dark brown
| faced cloth with a generous black vel
vet collar and lapels, which just
reached the waist.
The decoration was in black silk
| braid and was extremely simple 1t con-
sisted of a single line of braid parallel
TO the edge of each lapel and to the
lower edge of the jacket and the end
of each sleeve. On the side of the jack
ct, half way between the lapel and the
seam under the arm, the braid was ap-
! piled in the conventional form of lily
! and stem.
Much more stylish was a jacket on
| exhibition in a New York dry goods
| palace. 1t was made of rich green
| cloth. The collar was a modified Tu-
dor collar running out into long points
1t was fastened together just below the
chin. From this point the sides of the
| jacket made diverging oval curves,
which turned and went back around
| the waist about two inches above a
| broad ceinture, or three inches above
| the ordinary belt
| The collar was trimmed with a single
| line of heavy black braid From the
collar downward the braid was applied
/ so as to form five-looped figures con-
nected by curved lines The figures all
| most touched and We're four inches
! deep, so that the braided surface in
front was twice that width
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-04
Some Appropriate Intersections.

For the lumberman-Gosh all hem
lock,
For the inebriate-Great snakes,
For the agriculturist-Good land!
For the Old bachelor-Alas,
For the widow-Man alivei
For the tailor-Oh. scissors,
For the novel reader-Great Scott,
For the bellicose statesman-By
lingo.
For the cyclone sufferer-Well, I'm
blowedi
For the image vender-By Jupiter!
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-04

Let friendship creep gently to a
height; If it rush to it, it may soon run
itself out of breath.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-04

All that night the cobbler was sorely
troubled and disturbed in mind by daz-
zling visions of greatness which every
guiding principle of his life bade him
despise and reject. He was torn asun-
der by conflicting emotions, for he had
always stoutly maintained that all men
were equal, that everyone should have a
like share of the land, and that the
squires were tyrants and oppressors of
the poor man. On the strength of all
this he had been elected to the Parish
Council by his neighbors, and how
could he desert them at the first touch
| of temptation?
Daybreak found him still restless and
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-12-22
Perfectly Practical.

An odd and convenient custom exists
In Genoa. Many of the well-to-do peo-
pie as we'll rs those In moderate cir
cumstances do not own either horses
or coaches: they own only an interest
in them. Four or five or a half-dozen
great families club together and buy a
coach and horses, then they arrange
among themselves the days the differ
ent families will use 1t. Thus one fam
ily uses the coach on Mondays, another
on Tuesdays and a third on Wednes-
DAYS, so that an establishment that
would be impossible for one family be-
comes perfectly practical when the cost
is divided among five or six. Each fam-
ily has set of doors for the coach with
their own coat-of-arms on the panels,
which are changed according TO the
family which is going to use the coach.
The builders OF these vehicles seldom
think OF building a coach without five
or six sets OF doors, and arrangements
are made 50 that they are very easily
changed.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-12-22
Corean Geomancera.

The influence of the geomancers ex-
tends from the King to his humblest
subjects, and illustrates the cunning
and simplicity which are combined In
the Corean character. These profess
slonal oracles are consulted on all occa-
slons by all sorts of people. The King
never thinks of doing anything without
first asking their opinion They are
more important to him than legal adj
visers are to railways and other corpor-
ations that employ them, and they are
attached to all the departments of the
government. At the same time they are
VIGOROUSLY corrupt, and their advice
is always Influenced by the payment of
money.
Ii any one desires to obtain a favor
from the King he usually endeavors to
secure the good Offices of the geomancer
who is likely to be consulted, and the
amount Of the bride corresponds to the
importance of the matter. While the
geomancer pretends to consult the spr-
Its and observe the movements of the
stars, his client knows that 1t is the
money that governs his action. Never
theless, when the client is required to
perform some official act, he consults
the same old humbug, who has been
bribed by some one else 10 influence
his decision, and he Is perfectly aware
of the fact.-Chautauquan.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-12-22
Atrhison Globe sights.

The druggist and the doctor are
cousins.
People are tired Of see. smart chill
dren do smart things.
Some people ACT all the time as
though they were at a picaic.
Every man who starye, h:s wife is
said by the neishbors 10 be rich.
The woman who never marries never
finds out what a poor cook she is.
A good many cooks make a good
quality of hard tack and don't know It.
II is never safe TO accept an amateur
singers verdict Of an opera company.
A woman's idea of getting real reck-
less is 10 cut loose. and tell all she
knows.
Cirosis OF the liver is hard to spell;
think how much harder ii must be 10
have it.
Atchson has man who refuses to
go TO places because his wife won't go
with him.
Every girl who has never known
grief in her life tries particularly hard
to look pensiye.
A woman never becomes so rich that
she can resist the temptation TO wear
calico shirt waists.
After woman passes 81. II she mar
rles at all. the chances are that she
will marry man younger than herself.
A 10 Ill oIxO
longing for higher life do least to inn
prove the life they are compelled 10
live.
You can occasionally meet all kinds
when he asks you to come and visit
him.
About half the time a man feels like
cat which has just eaten the canary;
he is getting a lot OF abuse for eating
a mighty poor bird.
The man whose hair has come out
can make himself very interesting to
any woman by announcing that it came
out through fever.
There isn't any one so good that 1t
doesn't make him mad 10 go home to
dinner, and find some one sitting in
his chair at the table.
Whenever we see man having a
good time we are glad that we have
quit. There is nothing so dismal as
having good time"
1t should be as muclli the duty OF the
committee OF safety to get loafers
out of town as 1t should ,be TO bring de-
sirable men To town.
Whenever you see girl with her
hair neatly braided in two bralds you
can make pretty good guess that her
mother is neat housekeeper.
A man went into store to-day, and
said: Il want enough rope 10 rope my
bed" Are You old-fashioned enough
to remember bed that was roped?
Young people are apt to stuff their
pocket books with paper, to appear rich
Older people, however, have found ii
wise to appear poorer than they are.
1t Is well to remember that il your
friends think you are charming con-
versationallst, your enemies regard you
as great gossip, and that they may be
eight
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-12-22
FOR THE FARMERS.
Some Interesting News for the
Ruralist
SPOKEN OF IN THIS COLUMN.
A Few EsnsIbIs HInts to Suit the Busy
AErieuIturist.-Itsms That May
Benefit our Readers.
A Farmer. Iee-Houss.

To erect a building 12 By ~ feet, 10
feet in height, not including the roof
select a location somewhat sheltered
from the direct rays Of the sun. Build
strong stone foundation wall perfectly
level for the stills to rest upon. The
inside OF the wall must be solidly
banked around with earth. The stills
are 8 by 8 in. strongly framed together.
They may be either of sawed lumber
or Of timbeTs flattened upon two sides.
The floor joists are by inches.
A strong support should be placed
under the center OF each joist. The
studding are 2 by IL inches placed in
edgewise, thus forming an inside space
OF IL in. for sawdust. The outside is
Of boards, nailed to the studding cross
wise instead of up and down. The
flooring is inch boards. Use IL feet
2-inoh boards for roof plates. These
should be placed across the tops OF the
studding and strongly spiked to them.
Rafters are of 2 by inch material,
spiked to the plates. The roof has
slope of As degrees and ventilator 2
by feet. The inside boards should
be nailed to the studding crosswise
Fill the II inch space with sawdust
when boarding it up. Place the door,
which is go inches wide, upon the
north side and let it extend from the
bottom to the top of the building. This
long door is to be divided into three
separate doors, thus making it more
convenient for putting in and taking
out ice.
To fill with ice, first put IL inches
Of sawdust on the floor, allowing a
space of inches around the outside
OF the ice and next to the inside board
ing for sawdust. There will then be
remaining 9 by 8 feet OF space for the
ice. The ice should be raked out into
cases of feet by foot before saving.
This will fill the space intended for it.
In placing the cakes in position, put
one layer lengthwise, the next cross
wise, being particular to have the ice
as level as possible.
1t is also very necessary for the sue
cessful preservation of the ice that no
crevioes or holes remain untitled. TIC
prevent this have ready pail OF thick
snow water. II there is no show, use
finely cracked ice, also in water. With
this fill all cracks, holes or rough
places, SO that the cakes of ice will fiji
smoothly and compactly together. By
thus increasing its solidity it will
keep much better than when packed in
the usual way. When filed, put 90
in. or more sawdust on the top all over
An ice-house built and filled in thi,
manner has now in it 4 feet of solid ict
of last years filling, which will remain
undisturbd when the house is AGAR
filed.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-12-22
sawdust For smudra FIRING.

1t is the season for protection against
frost, and though smudging has some-
thing of bad name because it does not
act through as many degrees OF low
temperature as some would like, it is
still an effective method of avoiding
frost injuries within certain limits.
For this reason discussion of smoking
materials is interesting, and the OBJ
servations which Mr.. T. M. Richards
Of Poca Ration, Florida, writes to Mr..
J. Il. Ingraham, land commissioner of
the East Coast Railway, may prove of
benefit to fruit growers on this coast.
He describes the plan commonly in
use, and very successfully so, in parts
OF Carolina and Virginia as follows: In
the fall, some weeks before the danger
of cold, one should secure supply of
pine sawdust from the mills. Around
each field of not more than four acres
area (and two acres is better the saw
dust should be, deposited in conical
piles, 40 feet apart and two bushels OF
sawdust in each heap. These heaps
should be placed all the way around
each lot, as the wind may shift to any
quarter. When the thermometer
shows danger OF frost, at three O'Clock
in the morning let men take cans OF
common kerosene and go to each alter
native heap, make little opening in
the top of it, pour in one or two table
spoonfuls Of kerosene and set it on fire.
1t will not blaze much, but by giving
little time for the oil to spread before
firing the sawdust will shoulder and
burn slowly until it is all consumed,
all the while sending forth volumes of
thick smoke, which will protect the
plants from the direct rays OF the sun,
and prevent them from scalding until
the frost is slowly drawn out.
In many instances it has been dem
onstrated that the sun was response
BILE for the damage done after freezing.
Wherever there was shade through the
forenoon no plants were injured. This
is also the case among the orange
groves. This plan has proved extreme
ly successful where tried. 1t is very
cheap protection and does not require
much work. In our pineries, laid of
as they are in beds, the small heaps Of
sawdust could be placed at the corner of
each bed and one series out of four or
five burned at time, leaving supply
by alternating fires for the next nip.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-12-22
Covering for wounds.

In pruning fruit trees, the untreated
wounds often heal quite as well as
those that are treated with some cover
ing, but this is done at the expense of
checking the growth and vigor of the
tree or plant. This point seems to have
become well established. Our own ex-
perience quite agrees with that OF Prof.
Card at the Nebraska station (Bulletin
SOY, who says: Taking, all things to-
gether, nothing seems to be better for
covering the wounds made in pruning
than common lead-paint, which is
closely followed by grating wax. The
wax is superior to paint in the matter
of healing, but does not last as we'll
and is not so convenient to apply, al
though in warm weather, when it
works well, there is little trouble in
this regard. Coal tar is useful in pre-
venting the wood from checking, but
appears to be positive hindrance to
healing, so that, in spite of the fact that
it stays well, there is little to recon-
mend it. Pine tar is no aid to heal
ing, being apparently a trif1e detrimen-
tai, while 1t helps only slightly in the
matter of checking and does not last
we'll, therefore it has nothing to recon-
mend it. Shellac Is failure. 1t does
not last and neither aids the wound in
healing nor to any appreciable extent
prevents it from checking.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-12-22
COLLEGE MEN IN THE ARMY.
Advantages OF Military Training In the
Schools are Plainly shown.


Washington. The annual report OF
the Inspectors of the Army,
which has just been made public, raises
highly the conduct OF the war. He
emphasizes strongly the need of peri
odical military maneuvers and expert
mental mobilization to insure the
health and safety of the troops in
actual service. Ii this is omitted, he
declares, the most lavish expenditure,
with the best intentions and most I'M
firing energy as substitute for prac-
tical skill, is but a poor makeshift.
One OF the most interesting features
of the report is that upon military col
leges. Except for the interruption of
military instruction by the withdrawal
OF regular Army instructors during the
war, 10000 students are being an
nually trained in practical and theo-
retical military service in private and
public schools and colleges. The pres
idents of forty-six of these colleges,
whose military departments numbered
100 students, reported that twenty
nine of their regular students and
fifty-nine alumni had been commits
stoned in the regular Army, and l57
students and 900 alumni in the volun-
teer army, total of 54l officers, or
enough for about twelve regiments
Further, 1884 students and ex.students
Joined the Army as non-commissioned
officers or privates Accepting these
statistics as fair average, it would
appear, says the report, that the regu-
lar and volunteer armies secured from
the students annually instructed by
regular Army officers at the various
colleges enough officers for twenty-four
regiments.
In conclusion on this subject the In
spector-General says that some SUBJ
stantial recognition should be accorded
the students who spend large part of
their school life in military study,
and he recommends the selection of
some of the best OF these students for
appointment annually in the Army.
Such a policy, he says, would benefit
both the students, the colleges and the
Government.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-12-22
New Pension Bin. introduced.

Washington. Some interesting his
tory is attached to two bills recently
introduced in the House by Underwood
for General Wheeler. The bills are to
grant pensions to Mrs. Margaret B.
Ship, who was killed at the battle of
San Juan hill, and OF Mrs. Louisa d.
Smith, widow OF Lieutenant William
IL. Smith who was killed at the same
place. There was remarkable SINH
larity in the history of these two SOL
diers. They studied together at West
Point, graduated together, and, after
leaving the academy, both rose to the
rank of Lieutenant. They met their
deaths in the same battle within fifteen
minutes OF each other, and finally, the
bills to pension their wives were intro
duced in Congress simultaneously.