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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-06-05

The races advertised for June ), at the
Maine Central driving park. Dexter. have
been declared off on account of the bad
weather.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-06-05

All say they knew rupture in Spain
was inevitable bus want to know what
has been ruptured.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-06-05

Almighty Voice was not a pugilist
but an Indian brave.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-06-05
9aiIy &suutbst Spnraal.
rERMs, $500 PIN YEAR.

No notics whatever wiil - taksa Of nm
signed communications.
THE JOURNAL CANNOT BIN HELD
RE8PONSIBLN for the preservation or
return Of rejected communications.
Address all communications relating to
subscriptions and ADVERTISEMENTS to
BURLEIGH Z TLYNT. Publishers. Au-
eustA, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-06-05

1t was a question of abandoning the
Parsonsfield postofilce or getting vol
unteer to take it, A young school
marin stepped forward and saved the
office.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-06-05
Hspsiul sIaas.

Az this week nears its close the signs
OF greater hopefulness are more gen
eral and confidence is supplanting dis
trust on all sides.
Mush of this is undoubtedly due to
tho advancement made in the discus
sion OF the tariff schedules. Much Of
II also comes about by reason OF the
expre ssions Of confidence by those who
have intimate knowledge of the influ-
ences at work at Washington
We have previously alluded to the
speech of Secretary Gage. in which he
declared it to be the purpose or the
administration to take up the currency
question as soon as possible, and more
especially did his words encourage be-
cause they expressed the conviction
that the tariff would soon be suitably
adjusted to the needs of the country.
Since that time there have been
words of encouragement from the
President, and in the business world.
those who most quickly appreciate any
change in conditions, however slight,
have freely declared their belief that
business is improving and is on the
up grade. Among them are Carnegie,
Gould and Depew. whose names are
familiar to all.
Better times are beginning and we
believe that those who undertake en-
terprises in that assumption will be the
gamers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-06-05

Fairfield hopes to become one busy
burg before long and so there Is a
clamor for street signs.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-06-05

1t was not a comet or the approach Of
a Marian visitor that caused knot Of
Bar Harborites TO crane their necks
and peer long into rhe heavens the
other day. 1t was bit of blue sky no
bigger than a mans hand.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-06-05

BYRON BOYD, Secretary of State.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-06-05

Bangor may get so enthused over .ne
idea of having a military post as tn
forget all about the musical festival.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-06-05

On Memorial day fourteen years ago
from the cemetery in Rockland snow
balled one another from the harvest OF
a snow squat.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-06-05

A gloom well nigh impenetrable rests
upon the country store debating circle.
The weather is a worn-out subject ana
1t will not yield even to the previous
question.
The morning times., 1897-01-18
THINGS FOR BABY.

Perhaps baby fashions have never been
prettier than at present, and i'll choosing a
winter wardrobe for the wee tots the Ques-
ton is not what to select, but what not to
select.
Some of the newest caps are of white
silk, severely plain. covered entirely with
shirred white chiffon and edged with a
full soft puff of the same-a fashion as
pretty as It's perishablc.
The skirt OF babys little frock is quite
guiltless Of trimming. unless 1t be one
narrow row of finest embroidered inser
tion. or two or three bands Of Yalen-
ciennes lace sewn just above the hem.
Simplicity is the keynote of baby modes,
but is not simplicity which savors of
cheapness! Rather is it the elegant sim
plicity which is the effect OF real Valen-
ciennes lace and the finest and sheercst
OF materials.
Babys shoes, too, are almost as fine
and soft and dainty as are baby's pink
feet. Pale blue or white kid as soft as
glove, is generally used, and the tiny
one-piece shoe is laced with narrow rib
bon, and lined with white silk or softest
flannel.
first importance, and must be large enough
to keep out the rudest blast. Big squares of
chiffon or net are finished with narrow
lace, and are SO fastened at the back as to
be easily raised or lowered as necessity
requires.
The little circular yoke is made OF
alternate rows of Valenciennes lace and
finest beading, through which narrow
white satin ribbon is run, while two ro-
settles of the same, ending in short loops,
are fastened to the shoulders, where the
sleeves join the yoke.
The outdoor garments of baby are reve
lations of cozy elegance. Cloaks of heavy
white corded Silk wadded, perfumed and
lined with soft white silk are further
embellished with a series of very short
capes. each edged with Russian lace, at
least quarter OF a yard deep.
The last item is the afghan, which should
be pure white square of eiderdo wn j,
bound with white satin ribbon, guiltless Of
bows and embroidery, and over this again.
III the weather is severe, should he placed d
white fur rug, as soft and white as baby
itself
The Indispensable bib is also glorified,
and the thick quilted and embroidered
affair of long ago Is quite done away
with. The newest are of finest lawn
or even silk, edged with Valenciennes
lace, falling in double points or circu-
lar pieces over a soft square of white
flannel, whichis quite hidden from view
Baby's coach is also no small item in the
modish infants outfit. First soft white
fur rug must be laid in the bottom of the
carriage, TO keep out every draught of air
Then down pillow or two, covered with
finest lawn and daintily ruffled, are placed
at baby's back, and instead OF the coarse
leather strap which was formerly used for
the purpose of keeping the small occupant
from tuinbing out, there is now an en-
broidered strip of ribbon, buttoned Sc
eUrely from one side to the other
The morning times., 1897-01-18
Trouble in the Lee Family.

THERE'S great deal Of sorrow ami chagrin
among the members of the Lee family,
says the Chicago Record, because Cadet
George Mason Lee, son of Consul in eral
Lee at Havana, has been ''plucked' at West
Point and retires in disgrace from the
class of 1900 for deficiency in his studies.
The Lees lave furnished more cadets for
the Military Academy, and more officers
for the Regular Army than any other .amily
. in the United States, and this is the first time
that one Of them ever 'flunked.'' He is
said to be a very bright fellow, TOP, al
though cal eless in regard to his conduct and
lacking application. George Mason Lee is
the first of the Lee family that has been ap-
pointed to West Point since the war. His
grandfather, Robert f. Lee, stood high in
his class, and his father, Fitzhugh Lee,
came out with an excellent standing. The
Lees have always stood well, and the
pride OF the family will be seriousl ywounded
by the failure that was announced by the
Secretary OF War Saturday.
The morning times., 1897-01-18
APROPHECY NOW FULFILLED
Bishop satterIee's Sermon on the
Recent Arbitration Treaty.
He Declares That It's Influence
Cannot Be Stayed and That 1t
Will End War.

Bishop Satterlee delivered a sermon yes
terday morning at the Church of the AS
cension, taking as his text Micah iy.3, i.
And God shall judge among many people,
and rebuke strong nations afar off; and
they shall beat their swords into plow-
shares and their spears into pruning
no oks.'
Twenty y-five hundred years ago. said
Bishop satterIee, this prophet of ancient
Israel, Micah, was more sure that the day
would come when wars would cease than
thousands of enlightened Europeans AMI
Americans are today. Search in their
writings and you Will find this prophecy
regarding the ultimate peace OF the w orid
appearing now in this form and then in
that in connection with almost all their
utterances, while the Book of Psalms, as
though the end We're already accomplished,
makes it the theme of praise.
Through the kind of education that the
Anglo-Saxon race has thus been, half uu.
consciously, receiving In these and other
ways, in reverence for the majesty of
law and order, and the supremacy of law
over brute force, there has gradually been
growing up among us a desire for inter
national arbitration. Under the pressure
of new conviction, an eyergrowing body
OF intelligent men are asking If dueling
between man and man is wrong, why Shout
a duel between nation an d nation be right
Is there one moral code for individuals;
another for nations?'
Thus the day has at last arrived when
hundreds of thousands are echoing the
ancient prophets words, uttered twenty
five centuries ago. 1t was thus, far back
in the haZey past, that an obscure Hebrew
prophet anticipated the very thought of
the present time and taught that in place
OF war there would be substituted the
principle Of arbitration. And in this past
week that ancient prophecy, after the
lapse of untold ages, has reached its first
fulfillment.
''The United States and England have
put themselves in the forefront of the
world. They have responded to a principle
ofright which concerns our common civiiZa-
ton, our common Christianity, in that
treaty of arbitration which las just been
made. They have on the eve OF the
twentieth century opened out lew rossi-
bilitics before the world of tomorrow. They
have signed a document which, one hun.
dred years from today, viii be looked back
UPON as the great magma charta OF
higher civilization.
1T is not for US, With oar obscure human
v-ision, to forecast the future. But We
have all the prophets Of the old Tcsta-
rnent behind US, and all the Apostles OF the
New. i'll knowing that whatever tn,
checkered history of the future viii be,
the end itself, as foretold by those clarion
voices, is at hand.
THE influence of the deed that has al
ready been done, the signing Of the treaty
cannot be checked, cannot he stayed, can
not cease from growing until it makes it.
self felt as an irresistible moral force
among all the nations. Here is IA force
against which no standing army can hold
its own, and before which all standing
armies will eventually, one by one, melt
away
The morning times., 1897-01-18
ENDEAVORERS WILL MEET
The Fifth Annual Convention of the
Union This Week.
An Interesting Program Arranged
for the Three Days of the
Gathering.

The local Christian Endeavor Union
will hold its fifth annual convention ut
Calvary Baptist Church on the afternoons
of Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
OF this week. Prominent Endcavorers from
Baltimore, Boston and Philadelphia have
accepted invitations TO be present, and will
deliver addresses.
provisional program for the conven-
ton has been issued Itproyides for three
afternoon conferences at 4 o'clock and
for three evening meetings at 7:45 o'clock,
This afternoon viii be devoted
to q conference OF society officers
and committee chairmen, with five-minute
talks by Miss Anna ]. Bell and Messrs. w
w Tuckey, II. G.. Kimball, A s. Taylor
md Grant Leet, to be followed by general
discussion.
The two remaining afternoon conferences
Will have for their subject The spiritual
| life" Rev. NJ. Ross Fisburn is to con
duct both services. Tuesday the 9th, viii
have for its special subject Prayer" and
Wednesday. the Goth. Christian giving"
This evening there will be pastors
half hour, conducted by Rev. F.. B. Bagby
| and participated in by eight other pastors
or the city. The subject FOR discussion will
be how the young Christian can help his
church and pastor. Following this will
come an address on ''Some of the Things
| Christian Endeavor Stands For" by Rev.
Howard B. Grose OF Boston, vice president
OF the United Society OF Christian En-
| deavor.
Tuesday evening there will be patriotic
song service and an address by Rev Kerr
Boyce Tupper. d. D., OF Philadelphia, on
| The Young Christians Duty to His Coun-
| try" The ooBsecration service will be
| held Wednesday, evening, Rev! II. NJ.
Wharton. d. D, OF Baltimore, preaching
the sermon and conducting the consecra-
| tion exercises.
Mrs James L. Hill of Massachusetts,,
| the wife OF one of the trustees of the
| United Society Of Christian Endeav0r, and
herself much Interested in Junior Christian
| Endeavor work. is to}maiie tile address the
afternoon OF Saturday the 9th ult., to the
| Juniors al their annual rally. Mrs. Hill, it
| will be remembered, conducted the Junior
| exercises in one OF the tents during the
! Christian Endeavor convention here in
| July last, which aroused so much enthu-
| siasm and interest among the young En-
| deavorers. 80
The morning times., 1897-01-18
DIED.

sHAW-on Friday. January Is, 1897,
at 9:45 a. m, Alfred c. Shaw, In the
siXty-siXth year of his age.
Funeral from residence of his son, Lem
uel j. Shaw, No. 106 Ninth street south
east, at 8 H. Monday, January Is.
REQUIEM mass at St Peters. Relatives and
friends respectfully invited to attend. 1t
SEEBECK-On January s, 1897, Annie
Funeral from ST, AloysIus' church, Mon
day, January IL, at 2 p. m. 1t
QUEEN this life suddenly on
January 5, 1897, at / p. m, Anna Lee
Queen. beloved daughter OF Mary c. Lee
and sister of Emily B. Lee.
Street Baptist Church, corner Nineteenth
and l streets northwest. Friends and
relatives invited. 1t
COLE-The remains OF Laura Cole who
died january 10, 1897, are at the Capital
Burial CompanyS undertaking establish
ment, S11 Ninth street northwest Rela-
tiveS will call within thirty-siX hours and
make arrangements for burial.
1t G. b. NICHOLS, Funeral Director.
MANDERS-Saturda ay, January 16, Emma
Nanders, beloved wife of William j.
Manders departed this life, after a long
and painful Illness.
Funeral from her late residence, 1926
18th st ne, Monday, $50 p m. 1t
1897, at 1920 a. m. at her residence,
343 street south west. Jane. beloved wife
OF Richard Roland, in the thirty third year
OF her age.
A precious soul from US he's gone;
A voice we loved is stilled;
place is vacant in our home,
Which never can be filled.
God in His wisdom has recalled
The boon his love had given;
And though the body moiders here,
The soul is safe in heaven.
BY HER NIECE AND DAUGHTER.
The morning times., 1897-01-18

at first Autonomy might have
been considered in the days OF Campos, but
now we have seen innocent non-combatants
slaughtered and our prisoners put TO death
when captured, any further arrangement
by which we would live under the Spanish
flag is ont of the question:
Gomez realizes that he will live in his
tory as an emulator of Washington and
Bolivar. II addressing his followers
have heard him say, I'VE will sacrifice our
lives, our families and skins to the father
land and go up to glory together"
While travelling from MataBZas into San
ia ClaraProvince, on my way TO join Gomez
I saw many different forces and talked
autonomy with many officers and soldiers.
The spirit of these men invariably was
embodied in statement made me by Gen
Lacret: I'VE will fight until there is not a
Spanish flag or Spanish soldier in the
land!"
The morning times., 1897-01-18

The box occupied at the opera Saturday
night by Secretary and Mrs. Francis and
their guests. President and Mrs Cleveland.
was the focusing point for every lorg-
nette in the house.
There are always people in every audi
ence who consider that the presence of
the first lady of the land is SO much
addition TO the paid-for show If, how
ever, either Mrs. Cleveland or Mrs. Francis
were aware OF the sensation they were
creating, they were either too self-pos-
sessed TO notice it or too good natured
to m ind.
Mrs. Cleveland's loveliness Is a settled
fact and, yet, had Paris stepped out of
the classics into the Lafayette Saturday
night and been called on to award his
apple OF beauty to either the wife of
the President or the wife of the Secretary
OF the Interior, he would most likely have
improved on his first method by dividing
the fruit in half.
-Four big boys at college and two small
boys at home, make six boys who call
Mrs. Francis mother but the relationship
scarcely seems possible-unless she has
found the fountain that De Leon looked
for in vain.
Her girlishly slender figure was gowned
in white silk, striped with lilac satin
Lilac orchids were fastened on her corsage
and in her simply dressed hair. Around
her throat was a necklace OF amethysts,
set with diamonds, and the edge of her
low bodice was starred with jeweled moon
stones.
Ovid says that beauty that can be de:
scribed ceases to be beauty, and perhaps
that is the chief charm of the wife of the
Secretary OF the Interior: one feels her
loveliness without being able to put it
in tangible words.
The morning times., 1897-01-18
Kid One of FASHIONS Fads.

Kid as a trimming is noticed among the
novelties.
Neat little walking hats, in turban shape,
have bands and loops Of kid stitched in
narrow rows, giving to them corded
effect.
And then again, the tops of very smart
hats are covered with white kid, while the
seams of very modish cloth jackets are
strapped with kid.
Capes and tailor-made gowns, designed
for trayeling, are bound with kid in tan
black or dark colors, green being particu-
larly favored.
On outing suits kid is much Csed in place
of braid, and it is a most excellent substi-
tute, being very durable, and never grow
ing dingy through exposure to dust.
A very stylish travelling suit that belongs
in the trosseau OF a January bride is made
of smooth-faced cloth of hunters green,
bound in tan undressed kid. st. Louis Re
public
The morning times., 1897-01-18
FROCKS OF AN EMPRESS.
who Would Be Happy But for a
Threat of StoutneSs,

Almostallthe morning dresses wornb 10y the
German empress are made at Eome, and
her majesty in this way is atle to econo-
miZe greatly. When in private she likes
to he dressed as simply as POSSIBLE, and
her fay oritc costume is serge skirt with
pretty blouse and a simple straw hat.
She has, however, one great trial and that
is tendency to grow stout. For herself
horror of having q fat wife, and the poor
she would not mind, but the emperor has a
empress is obliged to diet herself, and to
wear clothes much too tight for her. This
is said to te the greatest trial OF her life,
as the emperor is always advising her what
to do, and insists upon her taking an i'm
mense amount OF exercise. Her majesty,
However, has still a shapely figure, and she
is less stout than she was year ago. The
Gentlewoman.
The morning times., 1897-01-18
GOMEZ ON AUTONOMY.
Grover Flint Gives Some Personal
Points About the General.

Grover Flint writes Interestingly on
the subject of Gen. Gomez, of the Cuban
army, on autonomy. He says in part:
The provisional government Of Cuba is
well organized, but occupies position ex-
actly similar o the continental congress of
our revolution. Foreign negotiations, not
the oriuct of the war, fall in it's province
1t may Ee worth while, Therefore, to quote
the words of President CisnerOs, given to
me last July, and re-ecEoed by DR.. EuSevio
Hernandez, the minister OF foreign affairs
and ailest member of the cabinet council.
They prove the unanimity of the rebels on
the question:
I'VE will never consent to autonomy. We
VIII reduce the island to ashes before we
accept Spanish government in any form
whatever"
In q formal statement made to me some
days after l joined him, Gomez wrote as
follows:
Il am now confident that we shall win,
though must confess to having had doubts
The morning times., 1897-01-18
Treatment of Stripes,

Fashionable stripes are not at all assert
i've, and. indeed, in England the striped
materials employed are few and far be-
tween. They show misty lines or are por-
tion of an almost invisible check. But in
Paris some vicuna cloths, which have a
hairy surface, have been brought out in
decided stripes, which have been made up
the wrong way of the stuff horizontally,
while the sleeves show perpendicular lines,
and the bodice is cut on the bias. No one
but first-rate dressmaker would dare to
attempt anything OF this kind.
The morning times., 1897-01-18
Brides in CO1OrS.

1t is rumored, but the rumor is one
scarcely to be believed, that the traditional
white satin of the usual bridal garment is to
be ousted in favor of colored robes, that are
supposed to be more becoming to everyday
womarhood. Certain it is, that several
fashionable marriages have been recorded
of late in which sacrificial white has not
played part. Nevertheless, some OF us
are old-fashioned enough to regret its alb
sence, and more than one prospective bride
has blushingly confessed that she would
feel defrauded II not welded in white satin
and orange blossoms.
The morning times., 1897-01-18
You can't get finer card

You can't get finer card
engraving than ours, because
the most expert engrayers do
it. You can't get better
" stock" +" than ours, because
ours is the best. Nobody
else in this city will e1grave
you so cards and give you
The copper plate for 75c.
They want tic. more.
Goldenberg's. 926-92S 9TH, 700 K ST.
The morning times., 1897-01-18
Jowett,s Pungent Brevitv.

The late Benjamin Jowetts brevity of
speech was never more remarkable than
when the council, met In solemn conclave.
summoned "the little heretic," as he used
to be called, into its awful presence. Then,
being asked, Now, Mr. Jowett, answer the
truth; can you 81 the thirty mine articias?''
he dumfounded them with, " IL YOU We q little
ink" In after years, when Jex Blake lad
been talking very prosily, he said: Il have
long known that law comes from Lex, but
1 never kne W till now that Jaw comes from
Jex''- Chicago Chronicle.
The morning times., 1897-01-18
SOCIETY HAS A BUSY WEEK
An Unusual Number of Affairs to
Engage 1t.
Dinners, Teas, and Receptions Ga
lore-Mrs. william Mathews
Lays Charming at Home.

Society viii need all it's reserve force
OF strength if it intends 10 participate IN
the gay affairs which will elbow each
ether for the next few days. People are
beginning TO feel desperate as the mouth
tain OF unreturncd calls, which must be
paid, looms up before them. How time
can he sufficiently economiZed TO fill all
the engagements is the question which is
forcing Dame Fashion to don her thinking
cap. In the list OF today's events are:
Mrs. Benjamin F, Leighton, o to Z.
MI. and Mrs. j. l.. NJ. Curry, dinner.
Mr Gorham, stag dinner.
Mrs Carey, dinner.
The morning times., 1897-01-18

There are many very popular hostesses
in this city. One of them is Mrs. Viii
liam Mathews Lay, whose Saturday after
Moons at home are always delight to her
friends. With beauty wit, and unlimited
tact at her command, the accomplished
lady is a social leader who will never lack
subjects to do her homage. For the past
three Saturdays Mrs. Lay has had with
her another favoritc in social and intel
lectcal circles, Mrs. Stanton, who, since
her return from abroad, has been the guest
of FRS. Lay at her home on jefferson place.
The morning times., 1897-01-18
Lodges. societies. and Caubs.

See Freund, SIS Tenth street, aLout the
banquet or supper Mr.. Freund takes en-
tire charge-furnishes everything-and
charges only what you wish to pay. His
magnificent banquet hall is al your dis
posal without extra charge.
The morning times., 1897-01-18

Mrs. Cushing, wife of Major Samuel
Cushing. L. S. A, is another charming
hostess whose Saturday afternoon reccp-
tions are always much appreciated by
her friends.
The past Saturday was no exception,
and the delightful home OF the Cushings on
Twentieth street was filled with friends.
The morning times., 1897-01-18
Money Purses.

The invention of the purse was no doubt
contemporaneous with that of monay.
The purse is mentioned in Old Testament
history as part of a Travellers outfit.
When the disciples, spoken of inthe gospels,
were sent forth to preach, they were com =.
manded to take neither gold Eor silver nor
brass in their purses-Chicago Chronicle.