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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-16
Ia the Railway World.

The Maine Central Railroad Com
pany are widening their yard at Mil
ford. There is steam shovel and six
or eight men at work.
Next year the Maine Central Rail-
read Company are to make extensive
improvements at Bangor. including the
erection of a new round house.
j. e. Galbraith. who has been APP
Pointed traffic manager of the Cleve-
and Terminal and Valley Railroad
Company with headquarters at Cleve-
land, vii, also 10 the general agen. ,;
the B. & Q. at that point. These two
positions We're formerly held by l.
Rush Brockenbrough. who is now gen.
eral freight agent of the b. & o. lines
west of the Ohio river with head
quarters at Pittsburg.
Buffalo has one of the only stwo
Decentralization cars in the country.
Ii is small postoffice on wheels. The
horses draw it. The interior is 12-6xI
and contains all the fittings of a mail
car. 1t makes nine round trips day
and is intended to facilitate the sorting
and shipping of mail Two clerks work
in the car and two collectors gather the
mail from the boxes The car was
tried first in New York and two horses
could not drag it on the streets tne4e'
but on BuffalO's almost perfect stree''
two, horses are sufficient to draw II.
The locomotive engines, whlch u.u
service for more than so years OIL ."e
Whitneyville and Machiaspou HA"
road, have been purchased by Ihon"s
Towle of Portland. and will be hauieu
from Whitneyville to Machias for sup
ment to Portland in the schooner L
zie. During the time they were Oh t ano
road they hauled more than 4WoVv'%v
feet of long lumber. 4.000. 900. Oos OF ~"
120,000.000 of shingles. and coun'ies
pickets, Oakum sticks. clapDoatu,.
spool bars. masts and bowsprits. sol.
and hard wood, and thousands OF .ons
of freight of every description. ihes'
two engines were among the first MAJ.
ufactured in the United States, ana !"
appearance they cut a sorry hsu.N
with the modern article, their eo"
bined weight being but about II 'o"''
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-16

The South cannot be expected to get
over In one generation her liking for
cheap labor. And now that she finds
her wages that would mean starvation
for the Northern laborer are rendering
her q dangerous competitor for the
Northern cotton manufacturers she
will be in no hurry to change her
prejudices on that score. And yet
there undoubtedly will come a time
when child labor. unreasonably long
hours and petty wages will have to
g:ve way before public sentiment in the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-16

On Friday. Dr. William G. Baker Of
Lincoln came to Bangor and registered
at uae renobscot Exchange as James
oH.Sn. orpana, Ohio. During the day and
evening ne attracted considerable atten-
ton by his strange actions and at
0 CLOCK on Saturday morning it was found
necessary to have him taken in charge by
tne police; At the police station his iden-
tity Was learned and his friends in Lin
con notified Dr.. Baker graduated from
une columbus College. Columbus, Ohio.
u 1871; He has been committed to the
AIDS az n.s., mousse to await the arrival Of
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-16

Foreign dispatches say Turkey is
assuming a domineering attitude to-
ward Bulgaria. Turkeys pride goes
before a fall about this time of year.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-16

Mrs. NackS first, or rather her only
husband, shakes his head when they
tell him she has been converted and ex-
poets to die.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-16

A Missouri Judge has permitted a
phrenologist to go on the witness stand
and testify that he had examined a
murderer's head and found from the
bumps that the man was insane.
Perhaps it may yet be necessary for
phrenologists to examine the bumps of
candidates for judgeships to determine
II they are eligible,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-16

The big horse show began in New
York Monday night. 1t undoubt eddy
will prove more satisfactory than the
great donkey show of Nov. 2.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-16

Think of a POpulist being thankful
and hopeful! And yet the Thanks
giving proclamation of the chief execu-
tive of Kansas shows him to be both.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-16

Judging from the comments the only
remarkable thing about that Harvard
Yale foot ball game was that no player
was killed or seriously injured. The
spectators have not as yet taken a vote
on that kind Of a game.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-16

greatest demands for relief is that
which comes from the Spanish army on
the island. He finds 1T in a most de-
plorable condition, swindled, sick and
disconnected.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-16

The attention of base ball players
who receive wounds Of one kind OF an
either every day, from bat or pai'' -,
directed to the fact, that Salvation ~
is the best application in use 1er Nv
cure of cuts, bruises and spraiis'
cents.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-16
THANKSGIVING
PROCLAMATION
By the Governor.

The time honored custom of recognizing
and giving thanks to Almighty God as
the year draws to a close, for His mani
fold mercies, was instituted in Plymouth
4 Colony by the Puritans in the early set
Element of our country. The present year
has brought to the people of Maine a fair
degree OF prosperity. and though the har-
vest has been less bountiful than usual,
we have moved onward in liberty and
peace. We have been signally preserved
from great calamities and pestilence and
have very much for which to be truly
thankful. In grateful recognition Of our
Indebtedness to. and dependence upon the
Gver of these blessings, and also con-
forming to the Proclamatio of the Pres
ident Of the United States, I, Llewellyn
Powers, Governor of the State of Maine.
do hereby designate and set apart. with
the advice and consent of the Council.
THURSDAY, THE 2sth DAY OF NOVEMBER,
A.D 1897.
as a day of Thanksgiving and Prayer.
And I do earnestly request all the citizens
of our. State to refrain on that day from
any unnecessary labor and with heart
felt gratitude render thanks to God for
His care and goodness to us as people.
And especially would enjoin those who
have abundance to give substantial evil
dence of their thankfulness by remem-
bering, on this day, the poor and unfor-
tunate.
Given at the Executive Chamber at Au-
gusta. this fifth day of November, in
the year of our Lord eighteen hun
dred and ninety-seven, and the Inde-
pendence of the United States of
America the one hundred and twenty
second. LLEWELLYN POWERS,
BYRON BOYD. Secretary of State.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-16

The color line was drawn too taut
when three red men in North Dakota
and one negro in Arkansas were
hanged by mobs Saturday
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-16

Look out for an explosion at tn,
Hub; the mayorality campaign is o,
and 50-cent gas is in sight.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-16

sells goods to certain Boston people
who have learned they can buy the
goods cheaper in the Maine village
than in the Hub of the Universe.
There is nothing novel about this
Travelling men not infrequently get
their clothes in Augusta for the same
reason, they cost less.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-16

An early riser in Orono found two
tramps slumbering on his, front door
step. Their repose was not troubled
by thoughts of the morrow. Serenely
confident of the generosity and long
suffering patience of an abused public
these drones Of the human hive snored
On till time to awake and demand
free breakfast to go with their free
lodging might arrive
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-16

Harvard talks as if she had really
expected to win.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-16

The Pittsfield Board of Trade is in ,
evening to talk over the new railroad
also the proposition for a new dam and
electric light plant.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-16

TIE commissioners of pharmacy are
acting on the theory that the pharmacy
their best to enforce it. They are send
ing circulars containing a copy Of the
law and advice to observe il to those
druggists. who they learn have been
Violating il. Probably there are sew
eral saloon keepers in this State who
will now take down the bottles of
colored water that adorn the shelves
of the outer room of their establish
ments.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-16

A raccoon entered Leverett Tuppsss.S
hem pen in Marshfield recently. ana ki ns,r
fifteen full-grown chickens and pe""'
duck.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-16

The Cuban insurgents are again
razing cane.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-16
Maine Gossip.

The gobblers are going to town TO
be gobbled.
Some say Waterville is welded to the
city building project. At last accounts,
however, the long courtship was not
ended.
Minnesota potatoes are coming to
Maine. Now Goals Will be going to
Newcastle
The Pittsfield Board of Trade is in I
commendabie flutter and met Monday
evening to talk over the new railroad,
also the proposition for a new dam and
electric Light plant.
The committee of the Bucksport
Seminary has gone to the aid of the
institutions boarding house by abolish
ing private clubs and reducing the
price of board at the boarding house
from $2.75 to $225 per week. The liz
stitution needs the boarding house but
under the old conditions the students
were not making it self supporting.
| A West Waldoboro man of Sc, con-
| fined to the house with a broken leg,
| is a living example of the contented
| spirit his neighbors say. AS a mason
| he has laid the foundation of 20 houses
in that town and also the sure founda-
| tons of a worthy old age.
The Hallowell Register will issue
| special editions in celebration OF
Thanksgiving. Christmas and of 20
years work in Hallowell. all worthy
subjects for celebration. and we doubt
rot will be worthily celebrated.
Two pupils in a Monticello school,
aged 10 and Is years. started out to
| shoot deer before school few morn
ings since. They discovered the deer
and both fired. and both killed the
deer, one putting three buck shot and
the other bullet through the vitals of
the beast. They got their prize home
| and dressed and We're at school in time
for all their lessons. They didn't shoot
human being by mistake IT'S not
the way of AroOstOOk lads. Great
grown men with less sense and expert
| ence do that
Had one or two of those IS notes
spent on experts for examining the
city books been used for advertising
the Bath shoe shop in shoe trade jour-
nails. an occupant for the factory by
this time might have been found
Bath Observation-Disclosures speak
ing. however, 1T is a good plan to occa-
s.onally examine accounts, to rectify
mistakes If nothing more.
Now arises the cry that our coast
scenery is being injured by the slaugh-
ter of spruce trees for the Christmas
| tree trade. 1t has been a paying
/ though an exhausting crop.
| M2Slnicus loodlums who have been
disturbing people in the south end Of
| the town are warned that they are in
| vitiilg trouble. It's warning for
hoodlums everywhere
ono Of our SKATE exchanges ccm-
a.nsanfs en- The fact that local clothler
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-16

A full hedged English lawn daisy
burst forth in the eager and nipping air
of Nov. 10 on Lewiston lawn. BY
this time that daisy has found that
what's quite English, you know
doesn't go in Maine
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-16

Bath Independents: Citizens of in
fluence are planning for the near
future an industrial movement which.
il successfully accomplished. means
more to Baths future prosperity even
than the building the two big steel
ships. More We cannot say because
too much publicity would probably in
terfere with the successful accom-
plishment of the deal. We refer to the
matter because the nature of the move
ment is of the greatest encouragement
to our citizens.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-16

These who thought the field for
electric railroad projects inSthis State
was well exploited may change theil
minds on reading of the plans OF
Messrs. Gerald and Libby, the king
builders OF the "broomstick" roads in
Maine. They are making plans fol
building lines to make a system con-
Meeting Turner, Sabattus. Lewiston and
Auburn, Lisbon and Lisbon Falls.
Pe1epscot, Topsham. Brunswick, Bath
and Harpswell Neck.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-16

There's going to be a clean sweep in
many Dover households, judging from
the big demand for brooms at sale
there the other day. Good brooms at
ten cents each went like hot cakes
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-16

Minnesota potatoes are coming t
Maine. Now Goals Will be going L
Newcastle.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-16

The Bangor foot ball team has con.
cluded it must make a brace in order
to defeat Portland and the Bowdoir
team is wishing it had made a brace
earlier in the season. 1t is also worthy
of note that no fatalities this season
are attributed to the Maine gridiron.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-16

Gardiner ReporterJournal: Avast
there! We croakers. ye who see Nothing
but hard times and slow business
ahead for Gardiner during the coming
long. cold winter. Why. don't you
know that Gardeners prospects are
several per cent ahead of last year at
this time? We've got the shoe factory,
which is now employing 200 hands or
more. and allowing at a very low
estimate that the salaries average five
dollars per week per person. right
there is $1,000 dollars per week being
distributed here in town that We didn't
have last year. and all must receive
direct or indirect benefit from it. and
what is better the output from this
source is daily increasing. Don't sit on
the barrel heads and groan. but stir
yourselves and be prepared to catch on
20 the prosperity when it comes your
way. Take an optimistic rather than
pessimistic view of the situation and
you will come out in the spring as fat
IS 9 cub and slide up old March hill a
i:it.Eg.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-16

Msslnicus lloodlums who have been
disturbing people in the south end of
the town are warned that they are in
wiring trouble. It's a warning for
hoodlums everywhere.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-16
Fifty Years Ago.,

No theory Of germs to chill
Affections budding blisses;
when ardent lovers took their fill.
No microbes on their kisses.
How happy they were not to know
The germ-fad-so years ago.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-16

Some say Waterville is welded to the
city building project. At last accounts,
however, the long courtship was not
ended
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-16

ono Of our State exchanges com
1aanfs on the fact4hat local CLOTHES,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-16

Now arises the cry that our coast
scenery is being injured by the slaueh-
ter of spruce trees for the Christmas
tree trade. 1t has been a paying
though an exhausting crop.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-16

The gobblers are going to town {
be gobbled
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-16

A West Waldoboro man of Sc, con-
fined to the house with broken leg,
is living example of the cOntented
spirit his neighbors say. AS a mason
he has laid the foundation of 20 houses
in that town and alsoth sure founda-
tons of worthy old age
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-16

The Hallowell Register will issue
special editions in celebration OF
Thanksgiving, Christmas and of 20
years work in HalIowell. all worthy
subjects for celebration, and we doubt
rot will be worthily celebrated.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-13
ALCOHOL IN MANUFACTURES.

The United States is the only civ
ilized country that taxes heavily the
raw materials, or those finished mate
rails of other industries which lie at
the base of and are components of fin-
ished products. The principle Of pro-
logical strictness as to defeat the very
purpose of protection, the creation of
new lines Of industrial production. The
case of alcohol is an illustration of this
cess. Ninety-four per cent alco-
hol, costing now at the distiI-
lery about 10 cents gallon.
pays a revenue tax of $2O7. or 2245
per cent. The extent to which it is used
in the arts and manufactures in coun-
tries where it Is untaXed for such use
is surprising to those who regard it
simply as a beverage or the constituent
and varnishes, it is a necessary factor
in producing celluloid, gunpowder, beet
and sorghum sugar, aniline colors,
dyes, vegetable extracts, perfumes.
chloroform and other medicines and
numerous other articles.
The tax of $1.10 per proof gallon is
on its use as beverage. 1t falls also
on its use in manufactures because it
is supposed to be impossible to provide
safeguards against frauds. The Wilson
bill provided for a rebate of the tax
where alcohol was used in the arts or
manufactures, under such restrictions
to prevent frauds as the secretary of
the treasury might provide. Secretary
Carlisle, pressed for revenue, naturally
looked with disfavor on rebates, to say
nothing of the difficulties of devising
means to prevent the frauds that the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-13

tremendous tax would certainly incite
Congress, at his request, repealed the
provision, and our manufacturers who
have to use alcohol pay a tax on their
material averaging on proof" alcohol
over 1,0oe per cent. In repeating the
clause congress provided a committee
to examine the provisions made by
other countries for the exemption of
alcohol used in manufactures from the
internal revenue tax, and an expert
visited England and Germany and has
made his report to the senate commit
tee. In neither country is any difficulty
found in taxing spirits when used as
a beverage and exempting them when
used as a material in manufacturing.
The result Of our thus taxing one of
the materials Of manufactures is to
prevent or discourage manufacturing,
and another result is to discriminate
against our own consumers Of the arti-
cles into which it enters. Germany not
only RENTS the tax, but, pursuing her
sugar policy, grants a. bonus to the
exporter Of articles into which alcohol
enters equivalent to about 30 per cent.
This gives the German exporter an ad-
vantage in our markets over the do
nestle manufacturer, who pays our full
tax, that handicaps the latter heavily.
On the other hand the tax on domestic
alcohol so increases the cost of prod
ucts into which it enters that export
ing is practically impossible. Again,
our tariff act allows a rebate of 80
per cent on all imports used in manu-
featuring products that are exported.
The result of this policy is that articles
into which alcohol enters, made in this
country for export are made from for
etgn alcohol on which all but per cent
Of the tax is refunded, while the do
nestle consumer has to pay the en-
HANGED cost of his article whether made
from native or foreign alcohol. The
effect is to cheaper the cost to the for
eign consumer and increase it to the
home consumer. 1t furnishes a very
fine illustration Of the consequences of
all our artificial arrangements for the
fostering of industry and the regula-
ton of trade.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-13
DANGER SIGNALS.

Our Republican contemporaries are
endeavoring to discount the apparent
drift toward Populism in the spring
elections by showing that Republicans
and Democrats do not go out in stormy
weather to vote, while Populists do. and
that politics cut no figure in Spring
elections, anyway. Their anxiety shows
their disturbance, and they have rea-
son for it. We suppose no intelligent
and honest man questions that a very
decided movement has taken place to-
ward the Populist cause in this portion
of the country since the election last
November. For this the managers of
the Republican party are wholly to
blame. They themselves set I'D a test
that was unnecessary, absurd and GER
tain to react unfavorably upon them
selves. Prosperity was the only
word in their mouths from morning
contented man that he was suffering
the consequences of his own folly and
that Of others; that the country was
passing through the inevitable reaction
from boom period; that we were hav-
ing the experience of every country on
the face of the globe in declining prices
with increasing age, and that industry
and frugality were the only remedies.
Not a bit Of it. They told him that he
was, suffering because the country had
had Democratic administration. They
confirmed his belief that commercial
conditions can be changed or created
at will by party legislation; and they
Furthermore, pledged themselves SOL
emily to give the country prosperity if
they were returned to power. All this
motto business about the advance
agent of prosperity was simply pre-
pairing the way for Republican disaster
and the increase of Populism.
With the exception of q few fanatics
who have made craven image of the
tariff and get down on their knees he
fore it night and morning. Republicans
as well as Democrats. knew that the in
dustrial conditions prevailing We're
such as no tariff change could cure.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-13
WHERE DOCTORS DISAGREE,

The old contest about the muzzling Of
dogs is on again, and We shall have the
usual rivalry Of inefttciencies to see
whether any ordinance that means
anything can be passed and enforced.
It is small wonder, however, that mem
bers Of the council and laymen should
not know quite where they stand in
matter where doctors disagree, as they
do on the question of prevalence OF
rabies. In the records the disease is so
rare that many people are skeptieal
Of it's existence, and many reputable
physicians can be found who insist
that to make elaborate provisions for
muzzIing dogs and killing strays is
a waste Of time and money. Some Of
them assert that there is no such thing
as an authenticated case of hydropho-
bia in humaro beings. Those who do
not go to this extreme will say that the
possibility is so remote that one might
as we'll take precaution against being
struck by q meteor. On the other
side are physicians, equally competent
and well read, who declare that the
mad dog scare is founded upon real
and terrible danger; who say that
rabies is a disease as frightful as it Is
rare; that the occurrence Of a single
case In any community is followed by
periodical outbreaks; and that few
cities in the world can show as many
established cases in human beings, in
proportion to population, as ST. Paul.
Where authorities differ so pointedly
and positively as this it is difficult
to decide. The life and liberty of
all the dogs in the country are not
worth the life of a single human being;
and, on the other hand, inhuman cruel
ty to animals may grow out Of a
groundless' scare. Our authorities seem
inclined to represent this indecision in
their policy which is to pass an ordi-
nance, but leave it so devoid of any
penalty that it will be of no effect.