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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-02-04


The Temperature Low.
The merry ring of the sleigh bells
was heard In Wilmington or Thursday.
The snow storm which began shortly
after Wednesday continued through
the night and covered tho ground vita
four to six inches of snow. 1t was ac-
companied by wind enough to drift tho
snow in some places to much greater
depth, and to leave other paces almost
bare OF snow. The temperature fell to
z degrees during the night.
The snow caused tho electric sweeper
to be brought out to clear the street
railway tracks.
The fall of snow throughout tho lower
portion of the State was much heavier
than in this city. Train No. 50 over
the Delaware railroad had two engines
attached TO il, as had train No. 81,
southbound over the r., W. IL l}. rail.
road. The snow sweeper OF the r., W.
81 Is. railroad was out all night making
runs over the road
Dover, Jan. %. Tho snow storm in
this vicinity il severe. The wind is
terrific and the snow is being blown
into deep drifts. Trains are from 10
to 80 minutes late, and some are drawn
by two engines. A Delaware, Mary
land ~ Virginia train was stalled ut
Gravel Hill for half an hour last night.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-02-04
. III r {,

Blood means sound health. With pure rlcb
healthy blood, the stomach and dees,'a
organs viii be vigorous. and there will bs M
dyspepsia. Rheumatism and neuralgia vii, ha
unknown. Scrofula and salt ricum will disa,s
pear. Your nerves will he stFnng. your elcan
sound, sweet and refreshing. Hoods sarsopa.
rilla makes pure blood That is why 1t curea So
r,any diseases. That is why thousands tax,
tito cure disease, retain good health. Remember
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-02-04

17'-''esl UT 2IVs FsV'TKIWFFs
st: Petersburg, Russia, Jan. IS. -
i3r. lcdkauer, the private physical of
the Gear, is dead.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-02-04
LOVES GoSaRY.



Sweet names, the rosary of my evening
prayer,
Told ON my lips like kisses of GOODNIGHT
To friends who goa little from my sight
And some through distant years shine clear
and fair!
So this dear burden that daily bear
Nightly God tuKeth, and doth loose me
quite.
And soft sink in slumbers pure and liobt
WIN thoughts Of human love and heavenly
care.
But when mark how into shadow Sins
My manhnnd's prime, and weep fast
passing friends,
And heavens riches making moor my Inns
And think how in the dust loves labor
ends.
Then, where the cluster OF my hcarth-stone
Shonc,
Bid me not live" sigh, It'll all be gone, u
-Harper's Magazine.
s-.zs--4-.--------
THE JjPiSESE GOUD-2OHNISt;
y fall to the knees
turn to the toes,
a spread of tine hands,
Anu dip of the nose
IT takes all these just to say good-dav.
In Chrysanthemum land. so far awav.
--Boston Herald,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-02-04

DR.. $. Wier Mitchell of Philadel-
nhla' the famous physician, is pub
iishinS a story of Washington and his
times, in the Century Magazine, which
IS described as great book. Traces
OF pr. Mitchell's metIica! experience
Will he found in this new noyai.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-02-04
CURRENT EtTEEdwUEE


All lovera of "irilby" will hail with
delight Felix Moschoies' ''In Bohemia
with dn Maurier. :" MIR. MoscheIos
says in tho preface: 'The introauctory
words to this volume wore written and
the last proofs posted before the fatal
news reacned me in Venice" thus
showing that this charming volume is
not an effort on his part to make out of
the death of his friend an occasion for
the billing UP of filthy lucre. Tho
book IS a collection of memoirs, Of days
when du Maurier, alias Rug" and
Moscheles, alias Bobtail," wers com.
panions, Rag" contributes The draw
iin&a. In Eirgtnie" one recognizes tho
living prototype of "I,rilby'' herself.
III Is rash 10 forecast the fortune of a
book that in matter OF popular
caprice; but it will be strange indeed
II TINS delightful volume of anecdotes,
letters, humorous tales and drawings
OF tho charming du Maurier and his
c;huri, Mosche!es. does not take with the
American public.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-02-04

Bridgeport, Conn, Jan. %. The
heaviest snowstorm of tho winter
started last evening, and continued
with unabated fury all night, aud
there is now about 10 inches of snow,
and it is still showing. In all respects
the storm is a blizzard, and travel is at
a standstill.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-02-04

Saybrools Point, Conn. Jan. 2S. -
Everything in sight in this vicinity is
snowbound, and the heaviest snow
storm of the year is still raging tiercely.
Over one foot of snow has already fallen.
The weather on the sound is thick and
Ugly, and no ships are passing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-06
DAILY KENNEBEc JoURNAIe WEDNESDAY,. OCTOBER s. 1897

Loftin, the postmaster. was inspired more
by personal than by political and public
onmity. But with al the ingenious pre-
the gravity and true Significance Of the
attempted crime, Southern opinion does
not shrink from plainly owning its rooted
aversion to any recognition Of the Negroes
eligibility to Office, or from confessing its
determination to resist by every method
possible the elevation Of negroes to posts
of political responsibility or power. The
administration having appointed Loftin
to Office has properly maintained him In
possession, In spite OF the local conspiracy
to GUST him by fair means or foul. His
right to receive the appointment was UNI
questioned. and he should be sustained in
its enjoyment in spite of local terrorism
and lawlessness. The postofice depart,
the people Of Hogansville to lift the boy
colt put upon the new postmaster by the
white citizens Of the town and has for
hidden their use of private mail route
to get their letters in and out without re-
course to the local Office. But doubtless
public resentment will somehow find
way to make the new functionary's adj
ministration both a profitless and an en-
Filtered one.
How long the South will continue to
battle against the recognition from any
quarter of the political rights and priv
ileges OF Its negro citizens no present-day
observer can tell For twenty years past
PdSliSnHy pIOBEeSS has Uetu uduc ny
the Southern negro toward substantial
political equality with the whites. 1t is
gratifying to learn from so conservative
an authority as 1.-The Augusta Chronicle
that In Georgia at least tne negro race is
making marked industrial progress, and
is rapidly adapting itself to employment
in the higher mechanical trades. With
this progress in skill has come an advance
in education, sObriety and character: and
negro labor may be said to command a
far higher regard today in the South
than could have been thought possible
or credible a generation ago. In the field
of industry, apparently. the colored man
Is to have that scope and opportunity
now denied him In the field of politics;
and through Industrial achievement may
lie the races true road to recognition as
factor OF genuine consequence in South
ern life. But 1t is evident that till that
recognition, or something like II. comes.
the status of the negro in Southern pol
tiles will remain as hopelessly narrowed
and anomalous as the discouraging in
cidents at Hogansville clearly show II to
be today.
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the wonders of the cave. Boatmen
have raked in many a dollar from the
trips. Five dollars was the usual
charge to divulge the location and TO
row the explorers across to Bald Porcu-
pine.
Albert and Humphrey Pinhorn of
East Orrington, got two new half dol
lars and stamped their initials on them
in 1856. They spent them for dinners
at Bangor hotel. In 1860, making
change in Rockland, Pinhorn was paid
one of these stamped half dollars. The
Pinhorns went to the wars and silver
went out of circulation. In 1880 George
received the half dollar which he got in
1856. He spent it for tobacco In 1882
George got the half dollar again in
change, and again in 1884, in 1885 AMI
1856. Pinhorn got it four times and in
1884 he got it back in change again
He then advertised for the other half
dollar-and some spurious half. dollars
were offered but he spurned Them
Last week George was paid the long
missing half by Bangor bank, cash
ing his pension fund. 1- A.
A mothermink has taken up her abode
among the logs and piling at a Bow
doinham wharf. Near their home
George Church has been wont to sit
and fish on leisure days when he was
not at work. One day he landed a fat
perch. when out ran a mink and took
1t In under pile of slabs and devoured
1t. From that time out sort of friend
ship seemed to spring up between
church and the young minklets, and as
soon as George goes down to fish, out
comes the young fellows for their share
Of the fish, which he generously divides.
SO tame have they become that Church
will fasten fish to the line and troll it
over the ground and the young mink
will skip and gambol after it like a
kitten after ball. Sunday one fol-
lowed him way up to the Main street
crossing where large crowd of people
had assembled to witness his antics,
and he displayed no more fear than a
domestic cat would among it's most in
innate friends.
avid d. Dana, a brother of the cele-
ed American journalist, Charles A.
Dana of the New York Sun. is living
quietly on farm in West Lubec at the
advanced age of 20 years. Dana, who
is miner, came to Lubec some twenty
years ago, being sent there by Messrs.
Bloodgood & Co.. New York capitalists,
to investigate and report on the lead
discovered there. He reported favor
ably, but the lead mine was run, ten
years without profit to the owners.
The same company now talk of reopen
ing the mine next season. Mr.. Dana at
one time was worth $4,000 all Of which
he made and lost in California during
the gold days. David has one other
brother whose name is Junius. living in
Warren. Ohio. The Maine Dana is a
great reader, but quite eccentric. It is
doubtful If there is any man living who
possesses a greater memory than David
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The HogansviIIe incident.
IN. Y. rfibune.)

Wv. L 1IIuuIle.J
The attempt recently made on the life
of the colored postmaster at Hogans
vile, Ga, has served to call attention
afreSh to the uncertain and trying
status of the negro, as such, in the life
and politics of the South. To the
Northern mind no attitude could well
involve more contradictions of logic
and feeling than that habitually as
sumed by Southerners toward the ne
gro race. Marked kindness and SYM
pathy in most of the practical relations
of life are displaced along certain lines
of contact by tierceness of intolerance
and vehemence of prejudice which
seem to argue only. the most rooted
and violent race antipathy. In politics.
of course, the sense of irritation be-
tween the two races has been carried
to it's acutest pitch; for on no other
field do white and black meet on level
however slippery and elusive-of
recognized and unavoidable equality.
Thirty years of life under the cOndi-
tions imposed by reconstruction have
failed, however, to extort from South
ern sentiment any full or substantial
acknowledgment of the parity of
rights and duties established by the
negro's enfranchisement and elevation
to citizenship. That the savage protest
against the negroes possession or EN-
ployment of political power, which
famed out in the organized terrorism
of the KU-Klux conspiracy, finds no
general echo now in Southern senti-
ment may be freely admitted.
Yet the old spirit which sees in even the
slightest recognition of the negros equal
right to political preferment mortal af-
front to cherished Southern prejudices
still survives in many communities, and
its intensity and vitality are constantly
disclosed by exhibitions of race antipathy
as wanton and indefensible as the shoot
ing and manning of the colOred office
holder whom the administration had Sc
lected for the paltry dignity and duties of
a fourth-class postmastership.
1t has been encouraging to find in many
Southern comments on the ATTEMPTED
murder certain note of apology and
depreciation. Many unusual burdens and
annoyances are alleged to have been inn
posed on the people of Hogansville by
the change in the administration of the
local postoffice. and some color is sought
to be given to the view that the attack on
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-06
An lnhospitable Country.

1t is common impression that all
inhabited parts of the earth have now
comparatively little in the way of re-
ward for the explorer, and excepting
the jungles of the Dark Continent or
the wastes where Esquimaux find an
existence possible no great hardships
await the traveller
This impression is not borne out by
the report, which comes from Bombay
to the effect that a we'll known travel
er, who recently undertook tour in
Thibet, barely escaped with his life.
fenced to death, tortured with hot irons
and carried to the ground for execu-
ton. Instead of killing him, however,
they put him on a rude sort of rack
and stretched him. After being
chained for eight days he was released
and finally got back to civilization with
% wounds to show for the torture nc
endured If this report be correct in
all particulars it would seem that the
Thibetans do not intend that the fact
two Russian explorers a few years ago
penetrated the sacred city of Lassa,
the only civilized being to accomplish
the feat within the living memory of
the world, should be regarded as a pre-
cedent.
Thibet is surrounded by almost in
surmountable mountains and passes
perilous of passage were it not for the
dangers that threaten from hui
man being. Once within the confines
of the country everything is found to
be most uninviting. The wild wastes
are sparsely populated and afford sus-
tenance only for an inferior race of
of people, requiring nothing save
the barest necessities of life. The
Siberian Esquimaux, but have especial
ly repulsive and inferior countenances,
low foreheads, high cheekbones and
little noses. They are the personifica-
ton of treachery, incapable of graft
tude, cowardly, and only refrain from
killing and robbing their guests
through lack of courage.
Their religion bears about the same
resemblance to Buddhism as Moham..
mechanism does to Christianity. They
are completely under the sway of their
priest or lamas Aside from the char
acter of the people the lamas are the
insurmountable obstacles to foreigners.
They fear loss of power through intro
duction of christian devils" who
might obtain information of the wealth
they have stored in their temples. The
almost inaccessible location and UNI
desirahility of their country together
with their hostility to visitors have
succeeded in keeping Thibet almost as
little known to the world generally AS
is the region Immediately about the
North Pole.
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The Journal is pleased to note that
the Wing and Courier is determined to
give it's patrons the best that the most
modern and complete newspaper plant
can provide. There have been great
changes in the mechanical development
of the newspaper within very few years
put none of those make a paper any
more reliable. The Wing and Courier
has always been that and will continue
ment
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-06

1t is doubtless gratifying to Hon. B.
w. McKeen, the. secretary of the
State board of agriculture. to note the
general conimendation his administra-
ton is receiving, all the more so in that
he must realize the commentator is
deserved. He has applied himself to
the duties of his office with zeal and
excellent judgment. Through his eff
forts improvements have been brought
about. He has greatly broadened the
sphere of usefulness of his office. He
has uncompromisingly opposed any
and every scheme to swindle the farm
ers of the State and has been success
full in his opposition. He established
the monthly bulletin by means of which
the department is brought into closer
touch with the farmers and valuable
information is disseminated. Secretary
Mckeen has from the first taken a deep
interest in the development of the dairy
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Dana. He is not on good terms with
his brother Charles, is a Bryan man,
and for free silver. -,

MS Df0tner CnarleS, IS q Bryan man,
and for free silver. ~
Wah Ngock Lee of Pittsfield, is one
of the very few naturalized Cinnamon
in Maine. Mongolians cannot now be-
come citizens of the United States and
Lee only got in when he did because he
had been a long time in this country
and was educated and intelligent far
beyond the average of his countrymen
in America. He received his papers re-
nouncing allegiance to the emperor OF
China and becoming one of Uncle
Sans freemen in Judge Philbrook's
court at Waterville on Sept Z, 1892, and
cast his first votes that year for Cleaves
and Harrison. Lee was born in 1859 At
San Ming, in the province Of Canton.
and is the eldest son of Sung Chin Lee
fruit merchant, doing business in the
populOus Chinese city of Canton. From
the age of until he was 15 he attended
private schools in his native town.
Then, with the consent of his fathexthe
struck out for the promised land Of the
far west. and in due time .aTTive6lat
San Francisco. He had no knoWl1dge
of the English language. And after q
while proceeded to New York. where
for two years he was under private
English tutor. Afterward he made sew
eral business ventures in different parts
of New England, and finally. in t9ek
opened tea store in New Haven. NH&
Ada E. Spaulding of Pittsfeld. Me, we
at that time teaching school in
New Haven. and was one Of the.
teachers in a Sunday achDdX
which Lee attended. A mutual attach
ment followed, and on Christmas, 1857
they were married. Mrs. Lee ID .
daughter of Benjamin F. SpauldinatidH
we'll known citizen of Pittsfield, bsa
graduate of Maine Central insti61k&
class of so, and was very succes
school teacher before her maertA(
Lee sacrificed his queue several Yskn
ago, and dresses agreeably to Ame4cen
customs. In 1889 the Lees movedStO
Pittsfield. since which time Lee has
been in successful business there. He
and his wife have retained their menu
bership in the State street Baptist
church of Springfield, Mass. They have
three bright children. boys, who re-
semble their father, and in this and
other ways Lee has made q good ctti-
zen. n ~ Il ~
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9aiIy Eeuufhte ypnrual.
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TERMs:lS7 90 PER YEAR.

No notice Whatever win b taken Of un-
signed communications.
THE JOURNAL CANNOT BE HELD
RESPONSIBLE for tho preservation or
return Of rejected communications.
'AAdress all communications relating to
subscriptions and advertisements to
BURkE1GH q FLYNT. Publishers. Au-
systa, Maine.
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J Maine GOssap.
"Teil de MaWnin'."

Sich liz Teller en- he settin up SO wise!
Say he like his daddy, but he got his
mammy'S eyes; &c.,.
Angel took en- drap him from winder in
de skies
By-bye, honey, tell de mawnin'.
Sich a liz feller en- he talkin' like a
close!
Say he love his daddy, but his nanny S
what he knows.
Foun him in de springtime, en- dey took
him fer a rose-.y....s. ~ -, Sc T..
By-bye, honey, tell de mawnin.
Sich n liz Teller, en- he talkin' like a
man.
By-byc, by-bye, kiss yo' lii hand;
Lots er liz chillun' in de sleepy lam
By-bye, honey, tell de mawnin'.
-. Frank L. Stanton.
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Railroad projectors say that it will
be necessary to build only 80 miles Of
railroad connecting with the Canadian
Pacific to make a good rail and water
route to Dawson City during the sum-
mer. Two surveys are now being
made, one by the Canadian government
and one by the railroad
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-06

Letters are being sent out from the
national department of agriculture at
Washington requesting cooperation on
the part of the press in securing infor-
nation respecting the adulteration,
sophistication imitation and misbrand-
ing of foods, drugs and liquors; also
how the state laws regulating such
practices are enforced and with
from all or any a statement of facts
on this matter statements that can be
SubStantiated if necessary.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-06

business in Maine and has been in
strumental in advancing 1t to marked
degree and in calling attention to the
excellent quality of our dairy products
These are only some of the more no.
ticeable of the features of his work
which come to mind but they are suffi-
cient to indicate the progressive nature
of the whole.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-06

The New York Sun is not worried lest
the new president of Columbia college
be not a most excellent one though it
is not always easy to find such. The
Sun has no more solicitude for Column
bia now that Low has resigned, except
to advise against the choice of one who
may have any of Mr.. Lows character
istics, as the Sun sees Them
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VOICES OF THE PRESS.
Well wishing.
Lewiston Journal.l

The Bangor Daily Wing and Courier,
which has for SO many. years borne
aloft the banner Of Republicanism' in
Eastern Maine, announces improve-
ments which will adj materially to the
value and popularity of that paper.
We wish the Wing most abundant
prosperity in it's work.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-06

An old Kentucky gentleman is au-
thority for the statement that when as
a child he went to school with Abra-
ham Lincoln he once found little "Abe"
in fence corner bitterly crying be-
cause the school boys made fun of his
patched clothes. Today the tomb of
Lincoln is not kept up, is shabby in ap-
pearance and is falling to pieces, and
the state of Illinois, which assumed
the sacred trust, is being criticised
from one end of the country to the
other. The good name of Abraham
Lincoln can no longer be affected either
by the clothes he wore nor by the tomb
that marks his last resting place. 1t
might be well, however, if the people
of Illinois could feel about their neglect
as did little ABE" when crying over
what he considered his shame.
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The starch manufacturers are not
raising the price of potatoes on the
strength of a claim by German
chemist that he can make sugar from
potato starch.
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The funny fellow now maintains n
acquaintance, Waterville vulcan.
The other morning he poked his nose
into the blacksmith shop wanting to
know if the blacksmith could shoe him.
Tomorrow" came the reply, will be
my day for shoeing jackasses, come
then"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-06

Mclean says he is no longer can
didate for the Ohio senatorship. If he
means it the sinews of war he other
wise would have supplied will also be
withdrawn.
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The Chicago Tribune calls Boston the
home plate of the universe. Just at pres
ent it is heaped up and running over
with something besides beans.
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Connecticut has voted that electors
not only must be able to read any arti-
Gle of the constitution but must read
it in English.
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What's the matter with the Bowdoin-
ham correspondent of the Richmond
Bee? He writes: 1"Robert Warren has
a hen that crows. and like most things
of the feminine gender. never knows
when to stop" H. E
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Weyler is to take home with him the
report that Cuba is pacified. He evil.
IDENTIFY does this for the benefit Of
ignorant posterity.