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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-29

A very peculiar excuse is made for
famous Seeley dinner in New York to
trial on the indictments found against
them, The prosecutor says he has
been beseeched by moralists and re-
formers not to again drag the nauseat-
ing affair into the public prints.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-29

1t has been noticed that always under
a Populist regime there have never been
offices enough to go around. Governor
Blow blood i'm their-ears Leedy of
Kansas, has discovered remedy for
this trouble, state ownership of a rail-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-29

This statement attributed two years
ago to director of the sugar trust:
I'VE own the United States Senate,
body, boots and breaches; brains, NOR
ais and ALL remains to be disproved.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-29

directory company claims to have
discovered 100000 population in Chi
cago, an increase of 81 900 in 1896. That
company ought to get fat order for
its directories.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-29
By the Governor:
BYRON BOYD, Secretary of State.

Senior Canovas very emphatically de-
clares Spain will never sell Cuba Has
anyone tried to buy it? Spain doth
protest Ger much.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-29

No notics whatever WIN - taken Of nm
signed communications
THE JOURNAL CANNOT BE HELD
RESPONSIBLE for the preservation or
return Of rejected communications.
Address all communication relating to
subscriptions and Advertisements to
BURLEIGH 4 TLYNT. Publishers. Au-
gusta. Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-29
STATE NEWS.
Sagadahoc.

WOoLWlCH. asa
Miss Fannie Barnes is quite sick with
nAiarial fever at Southern Pines. n. {"
and her sister Emma, has gone there TO
take care Of her until she IS able to re-
turn home.-Mrs. Frank II. Snpe and
Harold, have returned home after visit
Of two weeks with her mother.-Mrs.
Fred Belts has returned from TWO
weeks visit in Boston.-The dance at
Hawthorne hail. Wednesday evening, was
attended by a large number and much
enjoyed Ices and cake were served at
intermission. also oyster stew.-N. II.
POINTER OF Kentucky. Star route agent.
was in town. recently.-W. n. Metcalf
went to Camden TO visit his relatives re-
cently.-Misses Hannah and Martha
Helen have gone to Mr.. James n. Gill
more : 10 spend the summer.-Rev. 5. F.
Chaplin cl)ses his labors with the Con-
gregational church of Woolwich next
Sabbath 1t is understood that he ex-
poets to go to New Sharon.-Lorenzo f..
Wade of Lisbon Falls, is visiting his
mother at Days Ferry.-Miss Nellie
Hawthorne is spending the month in
Washington. ID. CD. G. Potter has dis
continued his trips with his grocery team
through Arrowsic,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-29

The Iowa state fair directors have
been compelled by public sentiment to
rescind their order to keep the build
ings open Sunday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-29
2 lbs. Counterfeit
Same Price
l lb. Genuine.

Hundreds of imitators of the genuine
Postum Cereal Food Coffee havespruhs
UP with no idea of food value.
Some are drugged to give the cohee
taste. The L. S. Court has called tue
makers of Grain-O to account
Grocers who persist in giving OUT i'''i
tation Cereal Coffee" in packages III
fringing the u S. trade marx oil '"e
genuine Postum will court troupie ioi
themselves and the condemnation Vi
every lover of pure and honestly i''ao'
food and drink.
Customers are requested to sc"u
name and address of grocers VINO o'ie'
imitation Cereal Coffee"
Look for the name Postum Cerea'
Battle Creek, Mich, and the red sears
- ,.-n.A
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-29


Experience similar to that so charm
ingly related by the western writer
was had by wealthy retired ship
master of Massachusetts, who recently
revisited his old home in Liberty. Me.
His widowed mother was very poor
when he lived with her in little cot on
Goose Pecker Ridge. And when he left
there IL was without shoes to wear and
all their earthly goods were carried
tied in two cotton handkerchiefs. He
had long wished, however, to visit the
spot. to drink out of the spring that
dubbed out from under big boulder
near the house and to stand upon the
big rock once more. He found where
the cot stood found the rock and the
spring. but he was greatly disappoint-
ed. He said that neither the rock nor
the spring were one-fourth as large as
he had pictured them, and a drink from
the spring afforded him no satisfaction.
Nevertheless some of the pleasantest
recollections vouchsafed are those of
the childhood home and not all returns
are as unpleasant as those here de-
scribed.
Belfast rejoiees in a newspaper re
porter who is grandpa. Well it
ought to- they are very rare.
The editor of the rod and gun col
,, umn in the Courier Gazette has a time
ly word respecting the bobolink. He
says: 81 am very sorry to say that
this beautiful songster is growing less
in number every year and unless some
| thing is done to stop his wanton de-
| struction we shall soon lose him for
ever. A few years ago you could go
out in the morning and listen to a
concert fit for the angels-mayhap
| thirty bobolinks in one tree, every one
| a glorious singer. every one dressed
| in his best suit of black and buff. Sousa
| is not to be compared with it. For a
jolly, rolicking song give me the bobo-
link A fortnight later the females ar
rive. Then the grand chorus breaks
up and the love season begins. Who
saw them when they came? No one.
You go out into the field. you hear the
! robins, the sparrows. the twitter of the
swallows. but not a bobolink. They
swept down amid the silence of the
night when you We're sleeping, and in
the morning hours rises that great and
unmistakable gush of melodious song,
which neither l nor any man, nay. not
even my hooking bird. can initiate.
Now if the bobolnks are disappearing
so fast where are they going to? DO
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-29

The annual report of the Shefheid
Chamber of Commerce asserts that W
per cent of the razors used in the Aus
tralian colonies are supplied by Ger
many and the United States.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-29
REPUBLICAN NOMINATION

For Representative to Congress from
the Third District,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-29
Parsons
PILLS

Best Liver Pill Made
They positively cure Sick Headache and Bill
iousness, all Liver and Bowel Complaints. One
a dose. They expel all impurities from the
for rs cts, five bottles sr.oo. Full Particulars
free. 1. S. JOHNSON & CO., Boston, Mass.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-29

The tariff bill has withstood both
the acid and the alkaline tests.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-29

Two East Belfast ladies were startled
the other day not by man under the
bed, but by a noise proceeding from
under the seat of the carriage in which
they were riding. They, however, had
courage to investigate and FOUND there
a biddy that just laid an egg while IN
joying the ride.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-29
Jopf}9'Ea;iiiS$$2e3S;7i

Over eighty years the demand, for it has
steadily increased. It was devised by an old
Family Physician. Trust what time endorses.
The great vital and muscle nervine. It's electric
energy everlastingly eradicates inflammation.
have used your Anodyne Liniment during the
past few years for removing stiffness Of the muscles
after long rides and have never found anything SO
effective have also used it very successfully for
muscular rheumatism.
J. J. FEcITT, President Roxbury Bicycle Club.
Send for our New Book Treatment for Diseases
The Doctors Signature and Directions every bottle.
Sold by all Druggists Price, 81 Six bottles A2tD.
s. JOHNSON CO. % Custom House ST. Boston. Mass
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-29

The York county fair management is
trying to get Fitzsimmons to so on eX-
hibition along with the prize beets.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-29

An inquisitive advertiser who noted
the rapidity with which tin advertis-
ing signs disappear from alongside the
country roads has discovered that the
boys use them to line squirrel traps.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-29

The editor of the Madison Bulletin
remarks that she rarely allows her do
ings to appear in its local columns but
she makes an exception in the fine
catch of trout she recently made. Such
an exception is entirely natural and no
doubt viii be generally excusable. But
what are common everyday fish yarn
narrators to do when the editors begin
to relate their own experiences?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-29

The Bath Enterprise says it's really
stimulating and inspiring to see the
committees on the approaching Fourth
of July celebration work.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-29

Not long ago was published volume
of sketches from the pen of the Kansas
editor whose editorial What's the
Matter with Kansas attracted ma
tional attention last fall. Among the
sketches was one describing the visit
of western farmer and wife 10 their
early home In the East. They went
fun of longing for the old scenes.
which had grown In magnitude with
the flight of the years. But when
they arrived at the "old place" the
stream that turned the mill-wheel
had become a mere rivulet, the
mill itself had a shrunken appearance
and the big rock in the pasture was
far from being the granite mountain
the old folks had pictured in their
recollections. They returned 10 their
western home disappointed with
what they had seen and more than ever
contented with the lot which there
awaited them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-29
Pluvius made a week of it.

The farmers would like the next
week to themselves.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-29

The resignation of several of the
pillars of a church in Gorham is the
latest sensation in that town. 1t is
said the pastor wanted the new chapel
in one place and is carrying his point
Notwithstanding many wanted the
chapel elsewhere. As he has a way
of getting what he goes after the afore-
said pillars propose to let him run the
church to suit himself and without any
of their assistance.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-29

Officers detailed to capture unlicensed
dogs in Belfast, found one belonging 10
poor woman, who felt so badly at
prospect of losing him the officers re-
Tented and raised sufficient money to
pay the tax. We fear they'll ma that
bread cast upon the waters unpalatapie
by the time il gets back To them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-29

1t Is thought the presence OF the CO.
burn cadets may prompt the Bath
high school boys to reorganize the old
cadets. No doubt there's been a fee
ing of rivalry there.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-29

Now that Maine has been covered
with prospective trolley lines a scheme
to build one from Fort Kent 10 the
north pole seems to be in order. II
would open fine hot weather fishing all
along.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-29

The Portland school committee has
decided that the school children may
ride i'm the parade on the Fourth of
July If the city viii furnish barges al
ready trimmed but that they have no
time TO spend In trimming the barges
for prizes.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-29

over in Bradley the. other night a
tramp stole bottle of patent medicine.
Cold victuals may have impaired his
digestion.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-29

With so much of the money voted 70
him as a chairman of "a committee, as
he considered above what he had
has bought forty volumes for the pub
lie library.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-29

Several Bath newspaper men We're
recently gathered in a certain ONCE
and there was evidently no little rival
nv to see who could get OFF, the long
est words Some very lengthy ones
had been worked into the conversation
when suddenly and from unseen cause
a large dictionary fell from a table to
the floor and when it struck ii opened
The word in large type at the head OF
the page was "mierospectroscope.'
Served EN- right ttas
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-29

Belfast rejoices in a newspaper re-
porter who is grandpa. Well it
ought to, they are very rare.
The advocate., 1897-03-10
School Book Question.

EDITOR ADVOCATE:--That q good
textbook law would be O blessing TO
the State, all agree; that matters might
be worse, reasonable people will allow.
The prices given by the ADVOCATE as
those of Nebraska and MinneSOta are
almost exactly duplicates Of Lincoln
county under county uniformity.
Having occasion to examine a school
book in an adjoining county not under
uniformity, found the price Of it 81;
in our county 1t is 72 cents-the same
as Nebraska. Textbooks can and
ought to be sold lower; but we must
recognize the fact that textbooks are,
or should be, better than other books
Of the same size, and would therefore
cost more.
John Davis recently expressed the
views Of those who have studied the
question most. have always thought
textbooks could be furnished through
the County Superintendent to the dis
trict bosrl and through them to the
patrons at cost, thus saving from Is to
SO per cent. Even under uniformity,
from Is to 20 per cent. is allowed for
handling, and the druggists, who
largely handle the books in small
towns, do not take kindly to so small
profit.
The people will not be satisfied with
out q trial Of the maximum freight bill,
a general salary bill, and an honest
effort for the initiative and referen-
dunn. If the latter cannot be carried,
the Republicans can be put on record
as opposed to letting the people gov
eEn themselves. A, 7. BIaGs,
Sylvan Grove, Kas.
The advocate., 1897-03-10
A Word TO AGsesaOrg.

EDITOR ADvOCATE:-The time is at
hand when the Township Assessors
are beginning their annual tasks, in
cluding the gathering Of the Rgricul-
tural, live stock and other industrial
statistics which, when compiled by the
State Board Of Agriculture, 60 to the
world as official and presumably reIi'
able. Figures pertaining to dsirying
or creamery and COW products and the
areas In nurseries and vineyards are
perhaps criticised more severely than
any Others. For this reason would
ask any Of your readers who may have
In charge the work Of collecting such
statistics that they be ct special pains
60 see that these figures are 90 sCcu.
rate 90 possible. While every pound
OF butter and cheese made on the farms
and In factories and every rod In nuT-
series and vineyards should be care.
fully set down, equal pains should be
taken chat no township is credited
with any Of these that they do not
produce or possess.
In saying this I do not wish to 8ug-
gest, however, that any other item
should be In the least sighted. What.
ever their faults may be, am thor
Oughly convinced that the Official
statistics published by Kansas are
more nearly accurate than those Of
any other State or Of the United States.
l desire to have them very much bet
tered each year, but this is only pos
stble through the hearty, painstaking
cooperation of the LOO Assessors and
the 100 County Clerks upon whom the
State Board Of Agriculture Is by law
dependent for most of its statistics.
F. ID. CoBURN, Secretary,
Topeka, February 81, 1897
The advocate., 1897-03-10
FlDbuaterlng iS a Fraud.

Once in while Joe Bristow, MOrrill's
late private secretary, gets of on the
right foot In recent issue Of the OF
taws Herald he says:
1--WE do not think the Republican
minority is justified In filibustering to
prevent legislation. They can protest
against wild and dangerous schemes Of
the Populists and make every possible
legitimate effort to prevent them from
ensctinG unwise and dangerous measures,
but to resort to fllibustering and quib-
bles and delays is un-Republican. Ithas
always been the policy Of the Democracy.
Reed as Republican leader has made o
place in history by breaking up this GUS
tom, and the Republicans in the Kansas
Legislature will mot gain anything by
dropping into this old Democratic GUS
tom. We think that Mr.. Weilep did
right in running the band-wagon over
them. IL any Of our Republican leaders
had been situated as he was and had TO
deal with refractory Popullst minority,
they should have done as he did, and the
same Republicans who howled at Weilep
would have Cheered their own man. If
the Populist proposed measures are bad,
the Republican minority should con-
vince the people Of Kansas that they arO
by argunents and mot attempt ohatruc-
ltioR by tllibuSterlng.D
The advocate., 1897-03-10
Taxing Money.

EDITOR ADVOCATE: If the prIn@
Clple to tax money, notes, mortgages,
etc., is just and right, then the bill
lately introduced In the Legislature
compelling the listing Of the same is
timely and proper. AS the case now
stands only the honest will pay tax on
their evidence Of indebtedness. Good
moral church people as well as Others
commit perjury as often au the Az
SCISSOR comes around.
But is It right to tax money any
wsyP What is money! ANY ALI.
anCe sister of 20 could answer that
question. Money is only q medium Of
exchange. AS such It is neither wealth
nor property. 1t has neither intrinsic
NOR any other value. Lt 10 q mere re-
Ceipt and order for value, and AS soon
90 you tax lt you institute double tax.
alton. How SO9 TO illustrate: / sell to
my neighbOr A on February 28 q horse
for 800. On March l the Assessor
finds A with the horse and lists him.
He finds the 800 with me- and taxes
me. He also flnds four COWS with my
neighbOr B and taxes B with them.
On March s buy the four COWS and
pay B the 300. B, owing a bll for
store goods OF 800 and on which the
merchant had paid taxes, liquidates
that debt. But how did A get tthe 500
i'm the flrst placer The same as other
people get money-either by stealing
or by giving property (that has been
taxed) for IL. There are only two
values In the transACtiOn-the horse
and the cows, yet there are three taxa
tiOng. This same line Of argument "a
applicable 10 mortgages. II we had
. D. l. j. d a.
The advocate., 1897-03-10
Buslnesg Mem tor Government.

EDITOR ADVOCATE: - The great
point with business men, who deem
themselves alone 6t to run the govern
ment, Is that they make every COnsid-
GRAFTON subject and subordinate to
business interests. The dignity and
honor or general welfare Of the COun-
try 90 for nothing providing they don't
promote business, which means trade
and traffic, money making and ex-
change. Hence that element has al
ways opposed any great movement Of
the people toward an enlarged free
dom or q betterment Of their COndi-
'tiOn, whether In the Old World or the
New. They adhered to King George
and were rank Tories, as is well known,
In New York and our principal cities
during the American Revolution, be-
cause the latter would injure trade and
disturb business. For the same reG-
son they opposed the war Of 1872
against England, which was waged
for the freedom Of the seas and In de
Tense Of American sailors and citizens,
$4,000 Of whom had been torn from our
ships by British cruisers and compelled
to fight against their own flag end
country. In like manner this spirit
exploited itself at the the commence
ment Of our war of the Rebellion, par
ticulsrly In the city Of New York,
where it openly espOused the Southern
cause and opposed any demonstration
Of the government toward military Co
ercion, and actually dragOOned Score
tary Seward, Mr.. LlnCOln's chief
adviser, to proclaim that no coercion
would be used, which Providence and
the progress Of events radically and
thoroughly Overruled.
And so In every upheaval Of The
masses against public abuses or for re
form In State, the conservatism o.
trade and business (as &C ia called
erects its head above Che surface d
The advocate., 1897-03-10
Fight tho Other Fellows.


A number of POpulists throughout
the union are getting into q state Of
mind without any good cause or reason.
The President Of the Reform Press
Association, Paul Van DervOort, called
the meeting Of that body to meet at
Memphis February % Then A. Rozelle
the Secretary, got out call for meet
ing on the same day at Kansas City, and
j. A. Edgerton, Secretary OF the National
Executive committee, called a conference
Of Populists at the same time and place
and expects Chairman Butler to indorse
it, who refuses to do so, however.
AS a result there is quite breeze
blowing in some Of the papers and they
are turning the thing into row between
the fusionists and the middle-of-the-
readers.
Now, boys, remember there is no
election Of any general Importance this
year; that there is lots Of educational
work to do, and we have got to do it.
Don't fire at one another, but turn your
editorial guns ON the common enemy.
The average fool voter still believes
that confidence which was to appear with
the election Of the advance agent OF
prosperity has only missed the train and
will surely arrive when Mckinley gets
to the White House depot.
Now what's the use of conferences
and conventions? What good are they
going to accomplish unless it be to give
a few men a chance to vent their spleen
on personal enemies.
So let up on your raising row with
others who believe as you do, but think
they can. get to the goal little sooner
by taking a different road from yours. All
roads, you know, lead to Rome, and IL
one Of the boys thinks he can get there
little sooner by taking another road,
don't stand and swear st him. Swear
at the fools that are not in the road at
all or that are going in the wrong direc-
tiOn.
Let us all work together hsrmoniOusly
and pleasantly and agitate for principle
until the next election comes around.
Then let us get together and settle ON
the best road, but at the same time let
us be very careful who we put in todrive
the team. m.-Mil,OGWkee A1OGNCe (SchiI-
Itng'S paper.
The advocate., 1897-03-10
CORRESPONDENCE.

Space in this department 10 open for brief
statements Of the Views Of readers on any
publi0 question. Short articles viii receive
The preference In all cases, Keep copies OF
manuscript, 90 we will not agree 10 return
same WhOthaF used or not The ADVOCATE As.
sumOs no responsibility for matter contained
in signed article.