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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-20
STATE NEWS.
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The members of the New England Or
der of Protection gave an entertainments
and supper to their friends at Golden
Cross hall. Friday evening. On the pro-
gramme were remarks and reading of in
teresting society matter by Mr.. Nell
Alley; reading. Mrs. Sadie Benson; organ
solo, Mrs. Carrie Osborne; imitation of
spinning, Mr.. w. II. Frost; school song
Master Albert Adams and Miss Ina
Thompson; banjo solo, Miss Bertha Hall.
In conclusion, Mr.. Frank Jackson, the
traveller. was called upon for remarks.
and in response he described most enter
tainingly his recent travels in India.
After an excellent supper the evening s
festivities were closed with dancing to
music by Pedro Libbey on the VIOLIN
The Universalist church of Winthrop will
be opened for services. Dec. rs and Jan. q
Rev. F. F. Eddy of Neenah, Wis, will
preach. Dec. &C. He is an able young
man. Rev. w. w. Hooper will preach.
Jan. 2. The service hour will be 1.3O r.
M.-Rev. George Credeford of the Con-
gregationalist church here. has resigned
his resignation to take effect. April l.
A directions safe was placed, Saturday.
in the building where the Augusta SAFE
Deposit and Trust Co. will shortly open
branch establishment
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-20
Welcome. Gsanasrs.

The welcome the Capital city extends
to the visiting Changers is most
hearty one. We are sincerely glad to
see you. proud to think that you have
been pleased to hold your State con-
vention here, again, and we trust you
will find your stay with us more prof
table and pleasant, if possible, than
it was last year. l.
All this might well ne taken for
granted, for Augusta is the capital If
a State that has those who have titled
her acres to thank for very much of
her success and fame and will continue
in their debt so long as the States
good name shall remain.
Not all the soil of the pine Tree
State" has the richest rewards for the
no state in the union has fairer acres
than old Dirigo, and there are none
that can boast of tillers of the soil
more intelligent, thrifty and lawabid
ing. tSN
The homes Of the Maine farmer, to-
day, are types of the best. In none
the wide world over have truer men
and women been born and bred. In
them are found the comforts of life
to a greater degree than in the farm
homes of any other part of the country
and the influences which help to make
the world better.
In no other way have been devised
SO practicable and profitable methods
for cultivating the best in these farm
homes, for elevating the social inter-
ests of the agricultural communities,
as the Grange affords. Everyone truly
interested in the welfare of the State
is interested directly or indirectly in
the successes of the Grange. May its
meetings here, this week, prove the
best in every sense of the word it ever
held
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-20
Croker Like The Green Bay Tree.

Bacon said that Men in great place
are thrice servants" Possibly Mr.
Croker's erudition absorbed that idea
in his youthful days for he has long
acted upon it. He selects the man he
would like to see thrice a servant and
puts him in the great place with the
understanding that instead of being Il
servant to the sovereign or state, he is
to regard Croker as both the
sovereign and the state and
act accordingly. On no other SUPPOSE
ton would Mr.. Van Wyck ever have
been selected for he was an utterly I'M
known quantity in the politics of that
metropolis.
All this is brought to mind by the
reports from New York to the effect
that Mr.. Croker finds himself an ex-
ceedingly important parsonage. For
the first time in it's history Tammany
power is likely to become master Of the
New York Democracy; moreover it is
not altogether impossible that Mr..
Croker may have something to say
respecting the selection of Demo-
cratic presidential candidate. He
just now has the strings in hand. Hill
is in bad odor, Sheehan has been
robbed of his chief strength because
he came by it as loan from Croker in
the first place. The willy Richard is
ccnsorting with Senator Murphy and it
it not unreasonable to suppose that the
politicians are now playing into his
hands on the possibility that New York
may be a pivotal state once again and
that Tammany or Dick Croker will
control the Democratic machine in the
state. All thieves do not thrive SO
long in the role of the green bay tree
as has Mr. Croker.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-20
New Year in China,

New Year is the national PAYDAY in
China. All accounts must be squared
up at that time, and the man who
can't raise money enough to pay his
debts has to go into bankruptcy. The
laws are such that the creditor can
enter the debtors house and take what
he pleases if there is no settlement.
To prevent such action families club
together and make all sorts of COM
promises to keep up the business repu-
tation of the clan. New Year is q
great day for the pawnbrokers. Their
shops are crowded with people who
want to redeem their best clothes be-
fore New Year There are crowds,
also. who want to pawn other things in
order to get money to pay their debts.
Pawnbrokers receive high rates of in
terest, in which they are protected by
the government.
The Chinese paint the whole country
red, fguratively speaking, on New
Year day, in more senses than one.
Red is the color which with them de-
notes good luck and prosperity, and ALI
the New Year cards and invitations
are on paper of that color. Every.
child gets it's New Year present :
wrapped in red paper. and red inscrip-
tions are pasted over the doors of the
houses. These Inscriptions bear char
acters. praying for good fortune, wealth..
and happiness, and they are posted on
each side of the outer doors of the
houses. New pictures of Chinese gen.
erals are put on the front doors, and
the houses are secured and made clean.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-20

papers that there has been a cockfght
in the bar room Of a hotel between
two birds owned respectively by Dex-
ter and Exeter men. Well, there
this consolation. Maine can yet lay
claim to noticeable freedom from
.lynchings, SO all is not lost in the way
of reputation.
One Skowhegan neighborhood is sad
to be. SO neighborly that it il not an
uncommon thing for ovens, doors,
window screens and 'sich like" to De
loaned on the slightest provocation.
Report comes from Blanchard that a
man saving wood in his door yard was
recently mistaken for a deer and fired
at.
Sangerville's postoffice receipts have
been steadily growing. which is taken
to signify that Sangerville has been
doing likewise.
The people of this town are very
proud of their new hearse and they
certainly have cause for it is the best
hearse of any in surrounding towns
Jackson correspondence.
Returns from the rural communities
show that the hogs thereof have not
run down steep place into the sea.
L., u.
live so families that will kill 45 porkers
this fall
Alder bushes in full leaf down in
Aroostook county and yet some insist
the Gulf stream has not of late years
been DETECTED toward the land.
A Portland lady dropped her watch
the other day. There is nothing very
remarka BILE about that as all who have
watches will agree. but what happened
to the watch was decidedly unusual.
The dropping occurred up stairs and
the time piece fell to the floor. bounded
between the rails and struck the stairs.
and then. with another series of
btuHuS, iduueu, as the oN HeT SuppoSfu.
in a most dilapidated condition in the
hall near the front door. She expected
to be half the forenoon picking up the
pieces, and imagine her surprise. when.
upon closer inspection. she found the
time piece intact. 1t was a hunters
case watch, and when picked up the lid
was closed tight. And here is where
the remarkable part Of the catastrophe
comes in. The rim and crystal of the
watch was gone. both being found on
the stairs leaving the superstition that
the lid must have flown open. and then
in the next few bounds closed itself
But at first glance it looked like :,
fete of legerdemain that would do
justice to a Hermann. The watch.
when wound. started running at its
usual pace as though nothing had
happened.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-20
Maine Gossip.

How many Maine grandmothers the
past few weeks have been knitting nit
tens and stockings for the
grandchildren's Christmas, do you
suppose? The number must
be legion. If all We're as
sensible in the manner of giving foe
the Christmas holidays as the Maine
grandmothers there would be less liv
ing beyond ones income.
The latest in that line is the attempt
made the other day by three Eastport
toughs to get into Jail at Machas
where the bliss of idleness might be
theirs and three good meals a day
would be served them without more
effort on their part than mastication OF
the victuals might require. They
thought of breaking a plate glass WIN
dow to effect their purpose but fear OF
States prison deferred them so they
resorted to breaking up a Salvation
Army meeting. When what they
wanted was discovered instead of be-
ing sent to innocpous desuetude at
Machias they We're given a term at
hard labor in Bangor JAIL
On Saturday there was knitting
bee at Jacksonville land the gents ap-
peared after tea" The following
Monday night young woman cele-
brated her coming of age Tuesday
night the boys serenaded Gideon
Gooch and his bride" And yet there
are thosetliving in Jacksonville, it is
said, who expect yet livelier times
when the new railroad gets along.
A resident of South Paris, who draws
a pension for facing Confederate bat
teries, fled in CONSERVATION the other
day when he saw the fragile glass
globe of an electric light coming in his
direction. The trimmer asked him to
take one end of rope while the latter
went up the pole, took therefrom the
globe to have it cleaned, threaded it on
the rope and let it slide toward the
veteran holding the other end. When
the latter saw that globe coming to-
ward him he lost his nerve and sought
refuge behind a tree. OF course the
globe was smashed and the veterans
reputation is somewhat impaired.
Trouble? What would you call it if
like the conditions prevailing in an
Athens family, your wife had been con-
fined to her room for months by illness.
yourself was Frustrated with tonsilitis,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-20
Nj PASSENGER Lost.

The matter of the life and safety of
those who travel over the waters of
our great inland seas is Of interest to
more than those who dwell by the side
of those waters or whose business in
terests are centered thereabout. The
traffic on these bodies Of water has
grown to enormous dimensions. and
every person who relies in any degree
upon the food stuffs and commodities
that pass over those lake routes to the
East and the seaboard and beyond is
vitality concerned to greater or less
degree in the extraordinary develop
ment there. And along with the great
er freight carrying capacity there has
been great increase in the passenger
traffic.
1t is very well known that dangers
more sudden and as terrible lurk in the
power of those inland seas as in the
great waters of the earth. The treach-
cry of these lakes has been told in
fiction as well as in compilation of fact
The names given to several of these
bodies of water by the Indians bear
evidence of the red mans dread Of
their wrath. Lake Michigan was
known to them as the stormy water"
and the great vessels that might
breast the waters of the Atlantic are
occasionally tossed TO their doom by
the huge waves that leap up so sud-
denly in those tickle waters. But what
with better construction of boats and
better facilities for guarding against
danger throughout the season of 1897
not one passenger of all carried went
down to death through peril of the
deep. The Chicago lines alone carried
over half a million passengers and that
class of traffic was enormous in the
aggregate. This is truly remarkable
showing very creditable to the trans
portation companies.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-20

1t was announced at Dover N. H., Sat-
urday. that the hearing of the case of
Alfred w. Jones of Milton, who is charged
with causing the death of his mother.
Mrs. Sally Jones. by poisoning. will be
continued, Monday, until Jan. ). by agree
ment of counsel as Prof. Wood. the
Harvard University expert. will not be
able to attend court before that date.
owing to other engagements. Jones VIII
be brought into court, Monday, and the
formal announcement of postponement
will be made. John Kivel who defended
Isaac B. Sawtelle and Daniel Crowley or
Salem, Mass, have been retained by
ToneS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-20

of his debts and expects to soon settle
with his creditors. We hope he has
been able to find the humorous side of
his arduous though most laudable
undertaking.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-20
The Living Ase.

Recent numbers of this valuable weekly
eclectic present many valuable articles
from the leading foreign magazines, chief
among which are noted the following:
1.-The Treatment of Dissent in English
Fiction" 1.-The Dual and the Triple ALI
lnce." "The Superiority of the Anglo
Saxon" "Does America Hate England?''
Russian Plans and English Anxieties,"
The House of Blackwood." Mrs.
Brownings Letters" "Who viii Exploit
Gilman" '"rennyson." 1.-THE Murder OF
the Duke of Gandia." and 1.-THE Italian
Novels of Marion Crawford" In addition
here is a supplement containing reading
rom the American magazines and from
The new books. This supplement is prov
ing to be a strong and attractive feature.
The Boston Cooking School magszins
for December and January opens with
Part II of Catharine j. Coolidge s excellent
series of articles on Serving" In this
paper Luncheon and Dinner" are con-
sidered. Kate Sanborn gives an amusing
account of her experiences with the
modern servant girl in an article en-
titled I'm Medic" Fannie Merritt Farmer
contributes a valuable paper on market
ing. "The Chafing-Dish" is the subject
of helpful article by Janet HILL The edi-
torial departments give much entertain
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-20

1t seems almost too bad that the
ladies should have discovered at just
this time, when seal skin garments
would make such acceptable gifts, that
the bill before Congress to prohibit
pelagic sealing has clause that would
likewise prohibit the importation of
sealskins into this country, if taken by
pelagic sealing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-20

Now the anti-anneXationists are
pooh pooling the idea that England,
as Mr.. Foster has intimated. could
possibly want Hawaii. Do they as
sumo that England never wanted Ha-
wall? That she never wanted to es-
President Tyler was talking through
his headgear, to stoop to a modern bit
France to keep their hands off? Or
have times changed, and if so in what
respect have they changed?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-20

Boston has decided to have no horse
decided, 1t is said, what plan she will
adopt as a substitute for displaying
her new gowns.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-20

The rubber trust has agreed to ad-
vance prices from five to ten per cent.
But what are those of us, who are
unable to advance our income to what
we may think proper or expedient, to
do about it? There's the rub.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-20

That Spanish bomb didn't go off and
Consul General Lee doesn't propose to.
he'll face the music.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-20

The cost of transportation and red
tape will figure in the incidentals of
that Yukon relief expedition but do not
detract from the merits of the under
taking
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-20

Does anyone know why Mexico
shouldn't make much of Mr.. Bryan?
Most people understand why she
should
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-20

Secretary Cages bill for currency
reform, as was expected. embodies the
views he expressed in his report.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-20

Mr.. McKenna, who has been named
by the President as the successor of
Justice Field, is representative of the
Pacific coast, although Philadelphia
born. He was but lad when his
parents moved to California, where he
has since lived, and attained distinction
by the force of his character and quail
ties of mind. Beginning in 1884 he
served four terms in Congress and
was member of the ways and means
committee when Mr.. Mckinley was
chairman, SO the latter has had OPP
portunity to inform himself respecting
the abilities of the gentleman he has
respectively appointed his attorney
general and row to the supreme bench.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-20

Weyler has developed considerable
hghting blood since his return TO
Spain.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-20

About fifteen Brunswick citizens will
go to Klondike in the spring among
whom will be three store keepers. two
carpenters and the rest are mill opera
tives.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-20

Ne no1loo WhAsevef WIN D taken Of un-
o1Gnod oommunicanon1.
THD JOURNAL CANNOT BE HELD
PoNeIBLB for the preservation Or
sstus1 sf Es6setsd oommunicakions.
A61ress al Recommendations relating to
Ou1osg1p&1onD and advertisements to
DU1kE10H 4 JLYNT. Publisher. An
0nDeA, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-20

your two children were down with
scarlet fever and your mother. not
mother-in-law, was sick with cry
sipelas?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-20

ing and instructive matter. The hand
some half-tone illustrations given add
much to this number.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-20

In the variety. interest and timeliness
of it's literary features. and in the beauty
of its illustrations, the December Wo-
mans Home Companion is notable num-
Der. Christmas stories are contributed by
the following popular writer's: Lillian Bell,
Harriet Prescott Spofford, Opie Read and
Abbie Farwell Brown. In Songs of
Yuetide.' a number of clever verse
makers are represented. Among the
many articles suited to the holiday sea-
son are: AT the Court of King Winter,
THE Spirit of Christmas 1.-THE Christ
mas Tree christmas Merriments. "
and Holiday Parties and Feasts.' III
addition there are number of bright
special articles. the usual household and
fashion departments and much interest
ing miscellaneous matter.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-20

ilotHeI-lH-idW, Was SICK Will cry :
sipelas?
Three vessels were in the Kennebec
loading with lumber, Sunday. Dec. 49,
condition of things old rivermen
say is unprecedented on the Kennebec
At the Maine General Hospital the
number of admissions the past year
was larger than ever before, and the
daily average is larger than that of
last year by $50. Notwithstanding
this increase the total cost of main
tenance is s2,OSS.4S less than last year.
The amount of relief to free patients
was q per cent greater than last year,
DR.. Hunt in his report says the hos
pital is beginning to feel the need of n
new ward, more nurses and another
building for nurses dormitory.
Just at present no one is disputinG
Uncle Joe Holden's fellow townsman
who ascribes our milder winters to the
shipping of so much granite from
Maine to other parts of the world. and
Tic CONSEQUENT DdlCe III tIt
earth's revolutions. Nor for that mat
ter no one is trying to argue Uncle Joe
Holden out of his theory that the earth
is fiat.
Eastern Argus: So Hallowell gets a
100000 New York contract tor
granite for Gotham's new hall of
record. Santa Claus will have hard
work to crowd such gigantic Christ
mas box as that into the HallOwell
stocking.
There was a trace of irony in the
feat of the man who recently stole SIX
barrels of flour, four tubs of lard, sew
eral bags of grain, etc, from the
storehouse of deputy sheriff in West
fremont.
Calais has a sort of curfew arrange
ment which goes into effect at mid
night. At that hour any person with a
police court record is arrested if found
out on the street. The recent bur
glaries there led the city marshal to
adopt this method.
An instance of supreme satisfaction
is reported by the Brewer correspond
ent of the Bangor Whig. A big dog
had been in the habit of maltreating
little dog. The latter was out walking
with his master when the big cur gave
chase. The little fellow ran through
small hole in the fence and the big
fellow tried to but was caught and
held fast midway through. Then the
little dog attended to one end of his
imprisoned foe and his master bella
bored the other with club oh, but
to think of the fun they must have
had.
We notice by one of the PiScataquiS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-20

Three vessels We're in the kennebec
loading with lumber, Sunday. Dec. 10.
a condition of things old rivermen
say is unprecedented on the Kennebec.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-20

They do gossip shamefully about
An3a-Fanna.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-20
The Globe Quarterly Review.

The December issue Of that able quar-
strong list of articles. The papers given
many of which are from the vigorous
pen of the editor of the Review, include
the following: Greater New York and
More" Religions and the Religion"
Must the Negro Coz" 1.-The Magnetic
Power of Rome" about Shelving Pro-
testant Parsons "Hildebrand the Great
Pope Gregory VII Love as a Factor
of Development" Some Spanish and
Cuban Poets" 1.-THE Master Force of
All,' and thine Are Hard" A number
of dainty poems are also given That
always interesting feature of this quar-
terly, the "Globe Notes. has much valu-
able matter.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-20

President Polk in the White House chais,
While In Lowell was Doctor Aver;
Both were busy for human veal
One to govern and ono to heal.
And. as presidents power of will
Sometimes depends on liver-pill,
Mr.. Polk took Ayers Pills trow
For his liver. 30 years ego.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-20

There was trace of irony in the
feat of the man who recently stole SIX
barrels of flour, four tubs of lard, sew
eral bags of grain, etc. from the
storehouse of deputy sheriff in West
fremont.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-20

Calais has sort of curfew arrange
night. At that hour any person with a
police court record is arrested if found
out on the street, The recent bur
glaries there led the city marshal to
adopt this method.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-20
Ayers Cathartic Pills

AyOA = S01Q01 IlV Ills
were designed to supply a
model purgative to people who
had SO long injured themselves
with gripping medicines. Being
carefully prepared and their in-
gradients adjusted to the exact
necessities OF the bowels and
liver. their popularity was in
stantaneous. That this popu-
1arlty has been maintained is
well marked in the m ed al
awarded these pills at the
Worlds Fair 1893.
so Years of Cures.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-20

Eastern Argus: So Hallowell gets
s., 000, 900 New York contract tor
granite for Gothams new hall of
record! Santa Claus will have hard
work to crowd such a gigantic Christ
mas box as that into the HallOwell
stocking