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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10

The Saco river is closed to navisation
Lieut.. Robert E. Peary the Arctic ex-
plorer. will speak in Bangor soon.
The Westbrook w c. T. L. is en-
deavoring to have the saloons there
closed
A young mems Hebrew club has been
organized at Portland. The object of the
club is social and educational
An epidemic of measles is making great
Roadway in Bangor In one school out of
| 30 scholars. 80 are at home on account OF
sickness.
! Rufus Hunnewell of Bath. has laid the
foundation at Southport for a new sum
| mer hotel of 16 rooms which he will build
there this winter. ~
The cigarmakers Of Portland have or
ganized union and applied for a char
| ter from the Cisarmakers' International
| Union of America.
j. S. Simmons Esq. of Portland. says
that his nephew. Franklin Simmons OF
Rome. the sculptor. will come to this
| country this winter.
| A pin was taken from the throat of the
two-year-old child of w. S. Morrill, OF
| Brunswick. recently. The little one had
| picked it up and swallowed it.
Mrs. Amy w. Addition of Portland. lives
alone. does her own work and enjoys
all her faculties. Moreover she and her
friends found time to celebrate her 9Sd
birthday anniversary few days ago.
The inhabitants. especially the ladies OF
North Appleton. are complaining because
shoulder. The COurier-GaZette thinks
| this may be because the people of North
Appleton are so good.
A Portland man collects and saves
| every postage stamp he can lay his
hands on. regardless whether it may
be rare or the commOnest variety that
passes through the mails.
A Jonesboro man narrowly escaped the
loss of an eye recently by a very peculiar
accident. One of the horses he was driv-
ing broke a shoe and threw one of the
broken halves with such force that it in
f1icted an ugly wound about the eye of his
driver.
The ladies of Rowland notified the
liquor sellers that they had determined
to see what they could do toward closing
the rum shops. Most of the shops were
closed and the sheriff has been up there
looking after those who e,-dnt comply
with the request.
At a meeting of the Maine Genealogical
Society held at Portland. Tuesday eve
ming. Willard |. Tyler Brigham of Chca-
go. and Peyton n. Clark OF Louisville,
KY. were elected to corresponding men,
bership. and George NJ. Sargent of Chi
cago, to active membership.
The Bath youth who fooled with 4 pair
of handouts and bound himself will be
more careful next time. His father filed
one bracelet off after much laborious eff
fort. and probably some labOred remarks.
and the lad wore the other till the next
day when a key was found.
Mrs. Winnie Ream HoXie. the noted
sculptor. who at the recent Y. Nj. c. A.
fair in Portland, made a hurried bust in
clay of Judge Strout, is now completing
it, at the request of the men who have
studied law with the judge. who wish to
have a bronze bust of him.
The finishing touches on the Home for
Aged Women in Camden are now being
put on and the home will soon be ready
for occupancy. This institution is going
to be just what its name implies and Yet
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10
VOICES OF THE PRESS.
The Passing Of Spain.
CThe outlook.

SPANS mineral wealth is greater than
that of almost any other European coun-
try: 50 per cent of her soil is rcckoned as
productive and her varied climate makes
possible Il great range of agricultural
products. There has been no considera-
BILE war since the days of Napoleon to
waste her resources. and her geoeraph-
zeal position has so protected her that she
has been spared the great expenditures
for fleets and standing armies which 9TH
err nations have had to meet. But. in
spite of all this she is today stricken
bankrupt, and impotent. with debts which
she can never meet, with the highest rate
of illiteracy in Europe. excepting that OF
Portugal and the Italian islands IN 1889.
the latest date for which figures can be
found. rs per cent could neither read nor
writep. and without even that hope for
the future which Il normally increasing
population would give.
From 1860 to 1871 the annual increase of
population was one-third of | per cent.
and in the next ten years it was one-halt
of one per cent per annum. The rate for
England for the period most nearly cor
responding to the last decade was II 60.
Russia alone. with her vast stretches OF
Arctic steppes to be taken into account
has Il lower average density of population
than Spain. The latter has but IS inhabi-
tants to the square mile: the average for
England is 497. The Spanish fields today
are vacant, the towns so strangely empty
that they seem unreal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10
ssu,h still a Disturbing Factor in Business

Ssuth Still Disturbing Factor in Business.
That report of a cut down in wages
at Fall River calls attention quite
forcibly to the fact that the South is
still disturbing factor in the business
Of the country. @ IL
The manufacturers say that with but
IS hours per week in competition with
Southern mills employing cheap labor
72 hours a week. paying on an average
of 40 per cent. lower wages. they are
forced to curtail. Whether this South
ern competition is proving in reality as
severe as they represent it exists and
for the present at least seems destined
to increase in intensity.
Many will remember when the South
had slave labor and manual toll was
there looked upon as degrading, the
cotton growers preferred to sell their
products in England and buy where
they sold of the goods they might need.
Accordingly they had no sympathy
with any tariff that induced them to
buy home made goods. This was OF
course very natural, purely business
view without thought of identifying
labor or building up home industry
outside that particular section, in fact
discouraging any tendency to diver
sified production there.
Today we hear much of the new era
in the South Manufacturing is
springing up there with remarkable
rapidity. The South is undoubtedly
gaining fast under the stimulus. This
is on the whole gratifying for this is a
common country and modern progress
:ive ideas there are keeping pace with
the progress in the South, and section
alism is disappearing. Nevertheless
the South is disturbing factor in the
business of the country though prac-
ticalIy blameless and unable to remedy
the disturbance except by slow and
tedious processes.
1t is true the climate does not require
SO much of the necessities OF life as the
colder climate of the North. On the
other hand it does not energize as do
the stimulating qualities of the North
ern climate. SO these features may be
said to offset each other. -...
But the labor of the South has not
yet risen from the disrepute into which
it fell under the system of slavery.
Until it does, until the laws of that
part Of the country better regulate fe-
male and child labor. until the en-
ployes recognize the need of better
living than they are now able to OBJ
tain from their wages, Industrial con-
ditions in that section must it would
seem, continue to disturb the business
Of the country.
AS it is, the South is adding greatly
to, the production of the country. most
of it's manufactured products being for
home consumption, while by reason Of
the meagre earnings of her working
people she does not contribute her
share toward maintaining the ratio If
consumption. She aggravates overpro-
duction without materially contribut-
ing towards the remedy, increased
consumption. Her influence, then. in
curing skilled labor adds a material
burden to those already borne by the
unskilled laborer of the North and these
dependent on the fruits of his toll.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10
tried three ply

sicians and gradually grew worse.
About year ago was advised by a
friend to try Mrs. Pinkhams Sanative
Wash and Vegetable Compound, which
I did. After using three bottles OF
the Vegetable Compound and one pack
age of Sanative Wash, / am now enjoy
ing better health than ever did, and
attribute the same to your wonderful
remedies. l cannot find words to ex-
press what Godsend they have been
to me.
Whenever begin to feelnervous and
Ill, know have never-failing ply
sician at hand. 1t would afford me
pleasure to know that my words had
directed some suffering sister to health
and strength through those most ex-
cellent remedies.-MIss MAY SACnNER.
34sh Z. Rich St., Columbus, 0
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10
Suns View Of Mr.. Walkers Objection.
On. Y. Sum-

Representative j. II. Walker of Massa-
chusetts. chairman of the House commit
tee on banking and currency. entertains
a very simple and bucolic conception of
the way in which banking business is
transacted in New York Commenting
upon that part of President Mckinley $
message which relates to the locking up
of redeemed government notes. he says:
THE recommendation that greenbackS
be not paid out except for gold when only
redeemed in gold if enacted into law.
would enable one man with 81, 900, 900 of
greenbacks demanding gold of the treas
ury and then depositing the gold in the
bank for greenbacks. and repeating the
process 346 times. to retire the whole
$S46, 0O0,OOO of greenbacks in the time it
would take him to oscillate between the
sub-treasury i'm New York and his con-
federate foreign broker.
Mr. Walker evidently thinks that a
million of dollars in gold can be handled
as easily as ii dozen of eggs or a barrel
of -four He has never seen that amount,
either of grcenbacks or of gold. and does
not consider that even if a million in
Greenbacks could be had from any bank
for the asking, a million in gold coin con-
sists of not less than $4,000 pieces and
weighs 25,S0O,OOO grains. WHICH. at 1909
grains to the pound. makes '3714 pounds
avoirdupois. or nearly two tons. TO
count in the greenhacks and then to
count out the gold for it, is an operation
which requires much time and labor. and
the treasury officials, if they We're so
disposed could easily make it consume
the best part Of a day. To repeat it GAG
times might require nearly year.
Surprising. however. the gold absorbing
operator and his confederate foreign
broker to persevere for year in their
nefarious efforts to deplete the treasury
they would have to find storage some
where for the $s46. 100000 in gold which
they would amass. They would have
either to build special vaults here to re-
expedient would be costly. and no pos
sible profit would compensate them for
the outlay involved in it.
Then. does Mr.. Walker fancy that any
thing like $34f. 600 900 i'm greenbacks could
be Withdrawn from the New York banks
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10

A short time ago it was to all appear
ances settled that large district meet
ing of Odd Fellows would take place at
Pittsfield early in the winter, that special
trains would be run from Oakland and
from Dover and FoXcroft to Pittsfield for
the accommodation of Odd Fellows. who
wished to be present. 1t was also pro-
posed to hold a district meeting of Re-
bekahs at the same place and at the
same time. Now this programme is
changed by the inability OF the local
lodge to provide for such a gathering.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10
Maine Gossip.
The Statesman.

He sits where the throng may behold
him,
And pcnsively gazes on high.
And they say, as gloom seems to en1old
him,
"Inspiration is certainly nigh.
Then swiftly paper he seizes
And traces 1t over with ink,
And they echo. like whispering breezes'
Now watch him: he's going to THINK!
And the shades Of the great seem to how
er
AS he struggles to drain wisdom $
fount;
And they'll probably never discover
He's at work on his mileage account.
Washington Star.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10

or from circulation and lockel up in the
treasury, without opposition from any
quarter? II he does, he does not know
our New York bank presidents. As soon
as they found out what was going on
they would shut down on the conspira-
tors. and defeat their plot. Even without
other action, the locking up of only n few
millions OF gold would produce finan-
cial CONFUSION which would effectualiy
stop further movement In the same d.
rectfOn
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10
AN OPEN LETTER
From Miss sachner, Of Columbus,
O., to Ailing Women.

To all women who are ill:-lt at
fords me great pleasure to tell you OF
the benefit have derived from TAX
ing Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound. can hardly find words to
express my gratitude for the boon
given to suffering women IN that ex-
cellent remedy. Before taking the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10

An Alaska bishop. DIR. Rowe, who
has travelled $1,000 miles in his jurs-
dlctlon and ought to know something
ABOUT the conditions, which the Klon
diker will have to face, warns the
would-be fortune seeker that nine out
of every ten will fail in their endeavor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10
MONROE

AT the annual meeting of f.. NJ. Billings
Woman's Relief corps of Monroe held
Dec. LIST. the officers elected for the en-
suing year were: President. Miss Helen
Nealley; S. V. p. Mrs. Belle Barden: T.
V. p. Mrs. Alice Putnam: Chap. Mrs
Caroline Durham: Treas. Mrs. Belle j
Palmer: Con. Mrs. Mary Putnam; guard
Mrs. Annie Ryder
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10
STATE NEWS.
Knox.
CA AIDEN.

The barn on the late William Barrett
farm on the Turnpike road was destroyed
by fire recently. 1t contained several tons
of hay and a horse rake. 1t is supposed
the fire was caused by tramps who
sought u nights lodging there.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10

Thousands are suffering exSrue night.
misery from that plague or the ,nmt il
Itching piles. and say nothing All such
through a sense of deiicaey. .,a nse Of
will find an instant reiiel ~ f,,, ,
Donn.s Ointment. 1t never faiis'
mon we'd fri&wky
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10

No 0oe30o Whatever VIA % taken OF un-
01enod oommunicataons.
Thu JOURNAL CANNOT BE HELD
A01PoN9IBLB for the preservation or
eotug1 ef rejected communications.
AD1Hoso Ill eemmunicattons relating to
0U1kM0H & J6YNT. Publishers, Au-
gugea, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10

The Dexter drummer who recently
travelled POO miles in six and a half
days besides selling quantities of goods
is something of hustler himself.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10

The customs authorities. havins ,n,,sicai
Cd that the Chinese tom-tom is a mn;,,ar
instrument. there is hope for ,,cnipes.
classification of jewsharps ana p"ep'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10

The Aroostook friend. who sent a
Portland physician a piece of bear
meat and later when he learned that
il on a certain evening sent a message
to them to the effect that as he couldn't
find bear he had sent piece of ole
COW, will do well to watch out, for the
doctor is something of practical
joker himself.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10

A Bangor man. who breaches that
the world is coming to an end in 1900.
has taken a lease of his business place
for term of ten years. He evidently
wants an anchor to the windward.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10

so the court again decides Durrant
must hang. Humph! it is about time.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10

When We become more civilized
these go-till-you-drop bicycle races
will be prohibited.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10

Bangor is talking of having an
athletic club, too, though it proposes to
term it a gymnasium club; Portland
has an athletic club, you know
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10

Now it is in Portland there is some
grumbling about alleged invasion Of
quarantine. 1t is not the easiest thin:,
in the world to enforce quarantine
regulations but it should be done
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10
Waldo.
SEARSAfONT.

l., l.. Cross attended the dairy meeting
at Bangor last week.-Misses Grace Sim
mons of Morrill, and Hattie Bean COM
menced the winter term of the village
school, Monday. This is Miss Simmons
third term here.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10

Bryant's Pond has six secret socie-
ties. That little community must be
fuller of initiation. mysteries than of
spare cash for other objects.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10

Those accustomed to seeing the
metropolitan street cars with crowded
platforms and passengers hanging on
by their eyelids should go to Calais and
rest their eyes; there the rule is no rid
ing on platforms.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10
General Debility
and Loss of Flesh

SCOTS Emission has been the
standard remedy for nearly a
auarter of a century. Physicians
readily admit that they obtain re-
sults from it that they cannot get
from any other f1esh-forming food.
There are many other prepara-
tons on the market that pretend
to do what
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10

Compound
I was thin,
sallow,and
nervous. I
was trou-
bled with
leucOr-
rl,ea, and
my men
strual Pc
RODS were
very irreg-
ular. I
ls1 Al.-~>
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10

When a traveller alighted at Belfast
the other day and told the hackman 20
drive him to the Crosby Inn they knew
him for an old acquaintance of years
gone by
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10

Discovering that a stock of goods in
a Biddeford store had been ransacked
the police concluded there had been a
burglary there. Investigation, how
ever. proved that the owner of the
store having very lame back. had not
picked up the night before when clos
ing up shop.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10

Who said there were no fiatterinS
openings in the ministry? Auburn
alone has three prosperous churches
that are pastorless.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10

Bath is of the opinion that the Old
tombs should be cared for The sub
ject was brought to mind by the dis
Covery that one was found recently in
the old cemetery broken open while
some of the bones had been dragged
from their resting place, evidently by
dogs
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10
SCOTS
EMUZ SION

does, but they fail to perform it.
The pure Norwegian Cod-liver OIL
made into a delightful cream, skill
folly blended with the Hypophos-
phites Of Lime and Soda, which
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10

tINSulSneu III OIner ways.
Fort Fairfield may be down on one
corner of the State but she is decidedly
in the world, nevertheless. Three
churches in the place occupy six eve
nings of the week with meetings.
There are two dancing schools each
week, two whist clubs on the tapis,
secret society meetings galore, not to
mention neighborly gatherings, which
we feel assured are not lacking in that
community. Places thrown upon their
own resources for entertainment sell
dom lack it. especially if they have
the get up and get" they have down
Fort Fairfield way.
Can animals reason? But perhaps
that question isn't interesting. 1t may.
however. be of interest to learn that d
Milo horse, that resides near a black.
smith shop, not liking the shoe which
his master renailed as it had come
partly off, deliberately walked to tn.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10

What with her splendid new theatre.
the same old Gaiety and her present
city council Portlanders appear to be
fairly revealing in amusement.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10

Bangor has William Cullen Bryant,
and, we may as well remark, is dis
tinguished in other ways.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10

A chopper of wood in Milo was found
at work recently with huge cow bell
attached to his back in such manner
that every motion Of his body caused
a clangor likely to drive away tlmld
wild cats and shatter the stiffness Oh
the forest When asked why he per-
sisted in creating such a disturbance
he remarked, mo fool shoots me for a
deer" Pity it's the fool hunters III
stead of the wise and peaceable citi-
zen cannot be beled. But judging
from the hesitancy generally shown Ii
the matter of enforcing any law
against those who shoot men by acct
dent the operation is looked upon as
being as hazardous as was the PROPOSE
ton of the mice to bell the cat.
In one school district in Kezar Falls
there are 3S cases of measles and the
smell Of driving out draughts is strong
enough to drive a newcomer out of
town.
Milbridge begins to think that Il
board of trade is the proper sequel of
the new railroad.
Cherryfield has been obliged to build
over her lookup to accommodate the
increased number of tramps passing
that way Ito work on the new rail-
read"
A Parkhurst family, or certain men,
bers of it recently declared they de-
tected an unpleasant taste in the well
water The man of the house, not be-
ing minded to clean out the well, de-
clared it was all a notion. Pretty soon
the old family horse declined to drink
OF the contents of the well and then
an investigation was begun with thu
result that a dead cat with rat in
her mouth was discovered. Some Of
that mans neighbors declare he hadn't
horse sense.
What with her splendid new theatre.
the same old Gaiety and her present
city council Portlanders appear to be
fairly revealing in amusement.
Dexter is entertaining the school
teachers.
Who said there were no hatterins
openings in the ministry? Auburn
alone has three prosperous churches
that are pastorless.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10

blacksmith shop instead of to the stall.
the moment he was released. On ar
irving at the shop he held up his foot
for the smith to examine. at least the
local chronicler so states and We do
not know that he is not man of
veracity.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10

Dexter is entertaining the school
teachers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10

The trustees of the public library in
Saco seem to have very liberal ideas.
Believing that the library was so
situated it could send some of its books
out to the country readers. it has es-
tabished two travelling libraries in the
outlying districts. and the plan is said
to be meeting with excellent success.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10

There are more short Holsters taken
along the Maine coast than ever be-
fore but they are shipped out Of town
instead of being brought into the home
market.-Biddeford Record. That's a
pretty bald statement for n reputable
paper to make. Can ii prove it?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10
Cherry
PectOra1.

eeud for the "curebook." 100 pages free
]. G. Aver Co., Lowell, Mass.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10

Cherryfield has been obliged to build
increased number of trampS passing
that way ito work on the new rail-
read"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-10

Milbridge begins to think that 4
board of trade is the proper sequel of
the new railroad.