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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29
Bryan's Amusing Inconsistency.

That reported letter by Mr.. Bryan or
the Greater New York situation may
be nothing more than a hoax, though il
would surprise no n acquainted with
the mans career to learn that the let
ter is genuine. 1t is amusing to
think of the boy orator as
Stunning that the "enemy's country" is
in need of his advice, especially when
that advice is so distinctly contrary "a
the attitude of Mr.. Bryan prior to the
Chicago convention. Then he was
ready to desert the Democratic party
if it could not be forced to gulp down
the Populistic bolus, and he said so.
Then Mr.. Bryan was non-partisan to
the extent that he proposed to sacrifice
one of his notions to party loyalty.
Unfortunately the theories which he
held were forced upon the Democratic
party; or to state the situation correct
ly those principles which had been the
distinguishing characteristics of the
party We're repudiated. Others were
juggled into their place INC the party
name was stolen as a cloak for them.
But for this where would Bryan have
been? But for the likelihood hat this
metamorphosis is to be permanent
where would Mr.. Bryan be today?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29
THE CONVICT LEASE SYSTEM.
How II Effects the Colored Race in the
South.

Bishop Gillespie has said:
Public abuses do not exist where there
is public knowledge"
1t seems due to the Southern people to
say that they cannot be cognizant as to
the relation which law bears to society
or they would see how the Ubiquitous
method of leasing prisoners to men seek
ing self ACKNOWLEDGMENT brings reprOach
and disgrace upon the good name of the
South. When the people of that section
comprehend this important fact. h
may the country at large expect the nee
essary changes in prison, n in all Other
much needed reforms in the South. The
person who will rise in the majority OF
his or her Christian patriotism, and teach
the wisdom of such reforms to the South
crn people, must prove to be their best
friend. Any doctrine that has a tendency
to lull the passion of these people and to
continue, by shifting the causes for out
RACES or the colored people. is a doctrine
that initiates against the South and Is
inimical to American institutions.
Plain facts should be presented at all
times, tina civilized and christianized
mankind everywhere may learn of the
grave needs of the South. There is MOTH
ing that ~discourages and retards the mod
ern idea of reform from entering the
Southern states, so much as the inatten-
ton which the educators and lawmakers
of the South pay to the cardinal princi-
pie which underlies the entire Southern
regime. In the abuse of the colored peo-
pie, the whole structure of Southern So
ciety is effected and all the people are
necessarily degraded alike, as they were
under the baneful system of slavery of
which present atrocities are a relic and
consequence Hence it is obvious that the
keynote to the solution of Southern diff
culties, must be sounded from within and
the moral war, for that is what it is. will
have to be fought out in the South.
What is needed at his stage is a thor
ough ventilation of the ills of the South
that the public may become educated to
the real needs in that part of the coun-
try.
There is a principle involved in the sem
timent of this important question, of
deeper significance than the mere tempo
rary satisfaction of any particular class
of people. 1t is that or national honor
and integrity. To preserve this. the fu-
ture question may be, what will the ma
ton do?
The nation responded to such a call
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29

such maps as can be collected thai
would be useful in military operations
and also by q confidential supplement
giving names and details concerning
every officer of the guard considered t.
be of special ability. t .
Raspberries. apple blossoms, rosebuds
and full grown roses of several kinds
poured into editorial sanctum In
profusion, Saturday. MISSIONER had
we acknowledged the receipt of the
| contribution from Mr.. Brickett Of Lee
want, than we received from Mr.. Simon
Emery of Garland street, this city,
some luscious, big red raspberries, from
his w bushes, and several roses and
rosebuds. samples of more than. 20 buds
and fully opened blooms upon his
bushes. Just after this unseasonal
contribution to our sanctum came the
earthquake! What unusual things do
happen these prosperous times. And
our friends will please accept thanks
Bangor Commercial.
S., M. Leighton of Dexter, who Is
quite an ornithologist, says that he has
noted on divers occasions in the past
few weeks a flock of sparrows that fire.
quent Church street from a point near
the wooden mill up as far as the M. C.
station. Among them is a bird twice
the size of a sparrow, color black, with
brown markings. The bird closely re-
sembles the Cow Bunting in all but the
length of his tail, which Is very short
and appears forked when the bird flies.
The Cow Bunting is a bird of rather
peculiar habits. never building a nest Of
it's own. and ~depositing it's eggs in the
nest of some other specie. Possibly
the bird mentioned above may have
been reared in the nest of an English
sparrow and thus continues to ASSOC
ciate with the flock. His appearance
among them for SO long a time Is sin.
gular to say the least. /
The clothing store of Frank M. Stet-
son at Brunswick, was entered byatwo
supposed fastidious tramps the other
night. The goods in the store were
scattered about as the two personS
found 1t difficult to obtain clothing to
fit them. Over $50 pairs Of pants had
been looked over and thrown asideHand
a large number of coats. This act
seems to be among the bOldest that has
ever occurred there. Three lights are
always kept burning in the store dur
ing the night. The thieves looked over
the entire stock of clothing and fitted
themselves out from hats to UNDER
clothing. They used the same place for
a dressing room and left their discard
ed clothing. The loss to Mr.. Stets0n Ia
about SIS. Besides taking two suits.
the same OF underclothing, two hats
and one light colored o%vercoat. they
helped themselves freely to Collar, CUTS
and neckwear and . large lot Of jewell
ry and silk mufiers, about three dozen
in number.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29

The state fire marshal of Massachu-
sets has in his report for 1896 included
some facts which tend to show n adj
visibility of continuing his office. OF
the 1927 fires in thai state during last
year. 40S were adjudged incendiary
and 81 of unknown origin. OF seven
ty-nine arrests for incendiarism there
have been sixty-four convictions. indi-
eating that the authorities were con-
sentative in bringing action. Prior to
the establishment of the office of state
fire marshal less than eighteen per
cent. of the arrests resulted in convic-
ton.
Thirty-five per cent. of the total
number of incendiary fires were set for
the purpose of defrauding insurance
companies; II per cent. were the result
of pyromania; 5 per cent. revenge; to
conceal crime, 2 per cent; motive I'M
known, AZ per cent. In II per cent. Of
MISUNDERSTANDING fires the insured
parties had had more than one fire, and
in one instance seventeen fires. The
proportion of loss to valuation of the
property damaged has been greater in
fires occurring outside of the city of
Boston than in that city, and the pro-
portion of loss to valuation on incen-
diary fires outside of Boston has been
nearly twice as great as in the city.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29
The Greater New York Middle.

However much one may believe in
non-partisanship in municipal affairs
it is clear to all that Tammany success
in Greater New York this fall
might have a partisan effect upon
the state and possibly upon the coun-
try. Tammany in control of the vot-
ing machinery in that great city would
exert a power that nothing short OF
such a revolution as purged that town
of the Croker regime could break.
That power might be able to affect
the election of a United States senator.
In view of all this it would be more
strange if President Mckinley did not
have m interest in the contest now
being waged in the metropolis than if
he did.
This need not signify tina he propos-
es to NEEDLE but who can believe that
he would not like to bring about a
more harmonious condition there if
possible? Those who have watched the
conservative attitude he has shown
toward all such matters will feel con-
fidcnt that he will do nothing in. this
instance which would not be com
patible with the dignity and prophecies
of the high office he holds. There will
be no cracking of the administrator
lash but the President is capable o
giving good advice and it would have
weight.
According to Washington gossip tn,
nomination of General Tracy by tn
Republicans looks like a bid for the adj
ministration to induce Mr.. Bliss, 70
instance. to become a compromise ear
didate. Even in New York the impress
sion appears to be quite general tina
Tracy does not want the office an
some of those who have talked witt
= him left his presence with the feelin;
that he would like to withdraw alon:
with Low in favor of a compounds
candidate. Mr.. Low has said he Shout,
not withdraw until requested to do 81
by the Citizens Union. But is that bod,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29

penditures for September afford a more
favorable outlook than did those for
August. The treasury officials are
looking for receipts to equal expendi-
lures by the first of the new year No
material increase is expected, however,
in the revenue from imports much be-
fore that time. The present gain is
chiefly from internal revenue. The de-
about 49, OO, 600.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29

Those expeditions hat are going ia
the Alaskan gold regions via Cape Horn
might do better to stop at the Horn. A
party hat has returned from prospect
ing for gold Whereabouts report they
found it in the sands of the seashore.
The only suspicious features of their
statements is, however, that they pro-
pose to form a stock company and
brought no gold back with them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29
Wages Will Rise in Time.

tLOulSVlllG CouTleT-JQuTHitI, DeHl.J
Mr.. Bryan, in a desperate attempt to
distract attention from the return of pros
perity. is calling upon laborers to demand
an increase of Doubtless this Will
come in good time. Atfspresent there is
scarcely a manufacturing concern any
where that has not untitled contracts taxi
en- at a lower rate than the market for
raw material now justifes. A few month
ago they were willing to sell goods at any
price in order to keep their works going
and afford employment for the operators
dependent upon them for bread. 1t is al
ways a little harder to force up the price
of finished products a to advance the
raw material, but this must come in due
time. .eA
Meanwhile, there is a far greater abun-
dance of work now than there was a year
ago. and this is a material Improvement
in the condition of the laborer. Accord
ing to one of the great commercial agen-
cies the number of men at work last
week. even before the settlement of the
bituminous coal strike. was 100000 in ex-
cess of those employed at the same time
last year. This is a wonderful gain in it
self. Then as the price of iron, steel and
coal rises the wages of men engaged in
mining and metal working must automat-
ically increase in accordance with the
pay Scales under which they are engaged.
The Tennessee Coal and Iron Company
announced last week that another 25-
cent rise in pig iron would mean a 10 per
cent increase in the wages of its 10000 OPP
eratives. and, of course, other furnaces
must follow it's example. The good times
may be a little slow in getting around.
but they are bound to come to the wage
Garner as we'll as to other classes.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29
VOICES OF the PRESS.
Different Kinds Of Pills.
(Biddeford J~ournal.)

NDiuueIOru JOurnaI.)
The latest issue of the journal of Med
1cine and Science" the official organ OF
the Maine academy of medicine and
science. edited by DR.. Holt of Portland.
contains a half tone Photographic repro
duction of Il white-pine board INTO which
over 20 pills. all of different kinds, have
been driven completely into the wood with
Il hammer The accompanying descrip-
tive article says hat bur two pills, out of
the 26 experimental with. powdered up
under the hammer, two or three more
fiattened out a little when struck but
went into the wood half their bigness.
and the other 20 or so were driven clear
into the wood as far as they would go
and changed their shape no more than as
II they had been made of steel. With a
tiny hard wood punch he drove one clear
through the inch board, knocking a big
splinter off the under side. Another pill
he not only drove through the board but
also through the side of an ordinary piece
of lead pipe without even cracking its
coating.
If this doctors story seems incredible
to YOU. you can satisfy yourself by max
ing the experiment at home. 1t at least
tends to show a reason why physicians
wuz in vain and why medicine taken in
this particular form don't have any ef-
feet on me-" OF course. the human stom-
ach can break up some things that even
Il hammer fails to affect, but consider the
chances.
ms is no IaDle, Dut II teaches, just
the same. All of us are more or less
prone to administering little pills of adj
vice and warning to other people and ex-
pecting them to take effect. without stop
ping to consider their hardness.
One man gives a friend a "~raking-over"
for certain conduct of his and tells him
he is acting like a fool and that If he
doesn't quit he will get into rouble. He
is dissatisfied later to find that his talk
did no good. But while the medicine was
well meant. the pill was too hard.
The authoritative father is constantly
administering pills of the Don't sort.
Don't do this n Don't do that"
They are often administered with energy
enough to drive them through a pine
board. Sometimes they take effect. but
much more often they don't-a thing
which the father can't understand. Pos
sibly if he had to take them himself he
would realize how hard they are.
Some wives are administering such pills
to their worser halves. one with each
meal and one before retiring. in the ex-
pectation of curing them of some fault"
Generally it turns out to be a case of I've
talked to him about 1t. and it doesn't
seem to have any effect at all; / never
saw such a nan May it not be that the
pills are too hard?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29

The Spanish say the insurgents are
cruel. They would be more than hui
man were they not. But when Spain
asks us to believe all her stories of
Cuban atrocity we are reminded that
she has told similar tales before and
they have been disproved.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29

Now if it can be proved that it was
something like the Chicago platform
on which the Kilkenny cats so materi-
ally differed, hat Democratic episode
in Massachusetts yesterday furnishes
a striking parallel.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29

Come to think Of it there is a funny
rival of the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm
der Crosse, that her maiden trip beat
the record.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29

The idea of Turkey through Russia
debating to England terms of
ton Of Egypt is enough to call forth
another of Gladstone's postal card ex-
cOriatiOnS,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29

How those English editors can be-
lieve such nonsense as they write about
a feeling of hostility on the part of
Americans toward England, is beyond
they believed it and that makes what
otherwise would be laughable, a serious
matter
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29

Millers are complaining that their
rivals are adulterating flour with corn
and of beer think the liquid
doesn't agree with them since the
brewers began to substitute corn for
some of the barley. Dollar corr seems
to be the needed remedy.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29

The State convention of the Massa-
chusetts Democracy appears to have
been really a convention of George
Fred Williams. Who would have
thought it possible two years ago?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29


was in it's infancy half q GEN.
tury ago. To-day it doth 'be-
stride the narrow world like a
colossus" What is the secret
of its power? It's curesl, The
number Of themi The wonder
Of themi Imitators have fol-
lowed it from the beginning Of
its success. They are still be-
hind it. Wearing the only
medal granted to sarsaparilla
in the Worlds Fair Of 1893,
it points proudly to its record.
Others initiate the remedy:
they can't initiate the record:
IN Wears NJ Casnee.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29

All the firms Bath has invited to &C.
cupy her new shoe shop want the earth
and someone else to pay the taxes On
it. In consequence the Bath factory
remains unoccupied.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29

No notice Whatever win b taken Of I'M
signed communications.
THE JOURNAL CANNOT BE HELD
RESPONSIBLE for the preservation or
return Of rejected communications.
Address all communicati<s,s relating to
subscriptions and Advertisements to
BURLEIGH 4 FLYNT. Publishers. Au-
guGta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29

Hired help about some of the Aroos-
took farms is scarce; but tramps arr
superintendent. They however. are
skilled only in toiling not.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29

All aboard from the Red Sea ia
Mount Sinai is the irreverent talk OF
certain railroad projectors in Palestine
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29
dormant vitality by making things
lively for miles around. We are led to
infer that Bath is in the lively mood.

Bridgton News: About the best SER
vice to the cause of practical agricul-
u our local agricultural society a
render is the cultivation of that large
area Of u~noccupied land enclosed by
their fine racing course. A crop OF po-
tatoes cultivated on the Aroostook
plan with the barrel paris green
sprinkler and the employment of a ma
chine anti back breaking ~potato-dfg-
ger, might afford an opportunity for an
attractive exhibition of modern meth
DDS in the agricultural art.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29
granlme.

There's nothing stuck up about the
Aroostook starch manufacturers in the
midst of their prosperity, they're TAX
ing all the potatoes they can get.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29
Maine QOssam.
September Sunshine.

The day of the blossom is over, the Glenn
ats twines it's wreath:
The lace-fiower waves in the meadow, the
corn is ripe in the sheath;
Sweet in the air is the scent of the vine,
the orchard bends with its load:
Armies with banners in serried ranks
march upon every road;
Goldenrod, sumac, and aster are guarding
each wayside pass,
And the hOneyed watt of the aftermath
drifts from the springing grass.
Lazily homeward wings the bee when his
spOils are gathered in:
The tree toad hides in the ShadOwy wood
the lilies that toll nor spin,
That listen all night to the crickets and
sway in the moOnlit dew,
Stand taper and tall in the sunshine the
beautiful long day through.
Fair is the royal September, and rich is
the wine OutpOured:
In these hours of blithe fulfilment at Ma
lures bounteous board;
For the hour of the blossom is over, the
hour of the bud in blow,
And here is the crown of the summer, ere
yet It's her time to 60.
With the lace-flower white on the mead
ow. the clematis twining it's wreath
Purple the grape in the cluster, n rip.
ened the corr in the sheath.
Harper's Bazaar.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29

Cherryfield wants a corn factory
Most towns would be satisfied with tn
corr this fall.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29

1t can't be said of the base ball pen.
nant that it's going to B or not to B.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29

The cry of the Cubans now seems to
be "on to Havana"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29

One needed to take a long look at the
calendar the past W days to make
sure November wasn't next on the pre-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29
Fifty Years Ago.

T1Iy Tears A$Oe
This 10 the cradle In which there grew
That thought Of . philanthropic brain:
4 remedy that would make life new
For the multitudes that were racked
with pain.
Twas sarsaparilla, - made. you know
BY Aver, some 80 years ago.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29

The Auburn clerk, who offered to
give two girls three pints of ice cream
if they would eat it, wishes he hadn't
made the offer. They ate it, of course
they did. ..--
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29

Tim Tum Phago is the name of a cat;
nor is he one of the Afghan variety.
Notwithstanding his Outlandish name.
No, he is a feline that travels on the
trains much as Owney used to travel
with the mails. When last heard from
he was visiting in Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29

The Ellsworth barber who Is getting
up his muscle by toting a 80 pound cast
iron cog-wheel about the country
seems to have overlooked the fact that
wood saving affords the best toughen-
ing exercise known.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29

Also that there will be, at least, a few
old fashioned huskings, this fall.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29

The Portland detective in searching
for that firebug evidently acted on the
idea that all things come round to him
who will bait Waite.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29

Yarmouthville boys serenade a local
dentist every night, but for the life of
them can't learn whether he really has
been married or not. The race is de-
generating when the serenaded can
stand it longer than the serenaders.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29

willing to run amuck and assume the
lions share of the responsibility of re-
turning Tammany to power?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29

The A. o. U. w. label is an O. X. on
field days or other of that orders un-
dertakings in this city.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29

Let's trust the red ears weren't nip
ped by the frost.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29

The HallOwell Register thinks the
scholars in that town should have the
advantages of some sort of a gymna-
Sium. -
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29

The Narraguagus Times trots out a
rooster on the strength of the report
that the Washington county railroad is
to be built,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-29

The Bath Independent likens Bath to
the man out West who every little
While had a fit of the blues hat he
mistook for consumption on which &C.
casions he was accustomed to go to
bed to die. Occasionally some well
meaning friend would come in to offer
consolation when up he'd get, his wrath
driving all signs of illness away and.
DOMINIC his boots, spurs and pistols,
proceed at ice to demonstrate his