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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-22
Maine Postal Changes.

washington. Jan. 21.-These changes i'll
the postal service in Maine are an
nounced:
ter Leave Skowhegan daily. except Sun
day. on arrival of train, but not later
than $50 P. M. Arrive at Madison Cen
ter in ~ hours. Leave Madison center
rive at Skowhegan by 7.45 p. NJ
Route 1851. Oceanville to Green's Land
ing. Leave Oceanville daily. except sun
day, at p. M. Arrive at Green Land
mo nv 6 p. NJ. Leave Green's Landing
daily except Sunday. on arrival of mail
from Rockland. but not later than r.
M. Arrive at Oceanyille in one hour
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-22

Thursday morning, while Edward
each of Brewer, employed as a section
man on the Bucksport branch of the
Maine Central, was walking along the
platform of Brewer station he slipped
and fell, breaking one leg in two places.
Leach is young man and unmarried.
His parents live in North Ellsworth.
In an bowling easterly snow storm
the fire department of Bath was sum-
moned, early Thursday morning, to the
Bath Iron Works where a fire started
in the large blacksmith shop, having
ignited the wood work near one of the
FORCES. The Iron Works fire crew
quickly put a stream on from the big
fire pump. The city firemen made a
quick run and ran lines of hose. but
further service was not needed as the
big pump got in it's work Early dis
covery of the fire averted disastrous
blaze, as part of the shop is occupied
as a wood working department and
much infiammable material.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-22
DECLARED A DRAW.
Brown Had Best Of Donovan, But Couldn'
Get the Decision.

RcckIand, Jan. 21-The eight-round
fight, tonight, between Joe Donovan,
the Rockland, Me-, middleweight cham
MON. and Allie Brown of Lewiston, was
a redhot contest. Brown had rather
the best of it, but both men were in
good condition at the end of the con-
test which was decided a draw.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-22

London, Jan. 21.-Edward ]. Ivory
alias Bell, the New York saloon keeper
who was arrested last September on
charge of conspiring to commit dyna-
mite explosions. has been released. The
crown prosecutor withdrew the charges.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-22
ssioaai Notes.

to withdraw from the supreme court
the jurisdiction Of criminal cases not
capital and confer the same on the
circuit court Of appeals: also an act
concerning the proper marking Of YES
sells.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-22
BY Mr.. Parsons of Piscataquis-Re
solve in favor of the town Of Monson
READ AND ASSIGNED.
HOUSE,.
Thursday, Jar

Thursday, Jan. 81, 1897.
Prayer by Rev. Mr.. Crosby of Au-
gusta.
Papers from the Senate disposed of
in concurrence.
Petitions, bills, etc., presented and
referred.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-22

14aconia, n. H.. Jan. 21.-Joseph Dock
ham, aged 45 years, who was engaged in
cutting ice ar L axe Paugus near Lake
port. yesterday afternoon, was instant
ly killed by fall. He was on the ice run,
rs feet from the ground, when he slipped
and fell headlong upon pile of ice below.
His neck was broken and his skull frac-
tured. He leaves a widow, three chill
dren, a brother and four sisters.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-22
NEWS NUGGETS.
Brought by the Wires from North, East
South and west.

"A dispatch from Bombay says tnat IN
three shocks of earthquake on tne Is :
land of Kishm. Persian gulf, Jan. 10,
thousands of houses were destroyed
and $500 persons were killed
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-22
AS75.OOO Loss by Fire at Boston.

Boston. Jan. 21.-The fire in the
wholesale grocery house of Chas. f.
Moody s, Co, IS and Il Commercial
street, this morning, caused a loss of
e7S O00
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-22
MAINE LEGISLATURE.
sIxlY.EIsHTH SESSION.
SENATE.
Thursday. La.

Thursday, Jan.s q, 1897. :.
Senate met according to adjournment
and was called to order by the Pres
ident.
Prayer by Rev. Mr.. Snyder of Au-
gusta.
Journal of yesterday read and APP
proved.
|. Papers from the House disposed of
in concurrence.
Bill an act relating to repairs on
highways in towns came from the
House referred to the committee on
highways and bridges. Upon motion
by Mr.. Merrill of Somerset, the bill
was laid on the table pending refer
ence.
The following bills. petitions, etc.,
We're presented and referred.
JUDICIARY.
By Mr.. Savage of Androscoggin-
Bill an act to amend section /, chap
ter 121 of the Revised Statutes relating
| to forgery.
Bill an act to amend chapter 30 of
the Public Laws of 1895 relating to
| liens on buildings.
Bill an act to amend section | of
chapter IS of the Revised Statutes as
| amended by chapter 157 of the Public
Laws of 1895 relating to title by de-
scent
By Mr.. Grindle of Hancock-Peti-
| ton of Ann F. Greeley and 1872 others
| of Ellsworth. Hancock county, in IA
vor of woman suffrage in municipal
elections.
| BY Mr.. Poor of Oxford-Bill an act
| relating to the Portland and Rumford
| Falls Railway, receiver of the Rum
| ford Falls and Buckfield Railroad
| Company.
Petition of Mrs. o. NJ. Mason of
| Bethel and others, to raise the age of
protection of girls from IA to IS.
LEGAL AFFAIRS.
BY Mr.. Reynolds of Cumberland
Bill an act to change the name of the
st. Lawrence Street Congregational
parish, Portland.
| Bill an act authorizing the construc-
| ton of a wharf into tide waters of
| Casco bay and bridges over tide wat
ers in the town of Harpswell.
RAILROADS. TELEGRAPHS AND
EXPRESSES.
| BY Mr.. Poor of Oxford-Bill an act
| relating to the Rumford Falls and
| Buckfield Railroad Company.
INLAND FISHERIES AND GAME.
/. BY Mr. Chamberlain of Lincoln
| Petition of Morrill, Glidden and 80 9TH
ers of Somervile, Lincoln county, ask
ing for appropriation for sufficient
warden service in Lincoln county for
the years 1897 and 1898.
| BY Mr.. Witham of Cumberland
Petition of d. w. Rounds. NJ. D. and
81 others of Naples, asking for suffi-
| cient appropriation for operation Of
| Sebago Lake hatchery and for suffi-
cient warden service in Cumberland
| county.
BY Mr.. Parsons of Piscataquis-Re-
solve in favor of the town Of Monson.
READ AND ASSIGNED.
Senate document No. 5. Resolve in
providing for State pensions for in
valid soldiers and sailors, their widows
| and orphans. and the dependent chill
| dren. parents and listers of deceased
soldiers and sailors eligible under eX-
listing laws.
Senate document No. l. An act in
relation to the bonds of trustees and
guardians.
On motion of Mr.. Mccullough of
We otop tba Sapata oIio,,rood
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-22

London. Jan. 21.--The British Foreign
Arbitration association has instructed
an American delegate to so to Washing
ton and present petition, praying that
the senate shall confirm the Anglo
American arbitration treaty.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-22
FAIR AND COLDER.

Boston, Jan. 2l.-Local forecast for
Friday: Partly cloudy; fair: slightly
colder: southwest winds.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-22

At the Bath Iron Works are $50 men
and FIVE ship contracts
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-22

two inches across formed and in walking
to favor it ! sprained my ankle. The sore
became worse; could not put my boot
on and thought should have to give up
at every step. l could not get any relief
and had to stop work. l read OF cure of
similar case by Hoods Sarsaperilla and
concluded to try it. Before had taken
all of two bottles the sore had healed and
the swelling had gone down. My
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-22
DOT

is now we'll and have been greatly bene-
fitted otherwise. ! have increased in
weight and am in better health. Icannot
say enough in praise OF Hoods Sarsapa
rilIa.n Mrs. II. BLAKE, So. Berwick, Me.
This and other similar cures prove that
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-03-12
A STEADY AIM.

among them. They scurried off in every
direction, some tapping frriously over
the water in vain efforts to rise; 9TH
ers circling laboriously into the air.
To the latter the young hunter de-
voted himself, and now stood leisurely
swinging the two balls around his
head, with a slight upward angle.
Faster they few, until they finally dis
appeared from sight; and then, the air
being filled with geese, he released the
ball in his hand, and the remarkable
weapon, with it's three balls widely
stretched in opposite directions, yet
whirling violently around, went
whistling into the air. Up it went, and
with almost human intelligence seemed
to glide in among the birds and wind
about them like the coils of snake.
One bird was stunned by blow from
the ball, while two others, completely
entangled in the cords, came fluttering
down into the water, where they were
easily secured, little later being fas-
tened to the horse and on their way to
the home Of the herders, miles out on
the moorland.
The bolas Is the natural weapon of
the Spanish South Americans, who are
remarkably proficient and skillful with
It. They use it on the continent in TAX
ing the ostrich, following the swift bird
on horseback, whirling the three or
four balls In the air with very long
cords, and sending them SO swiftly that
they rarely miss, whirling tightly
around the legs of the bird and bringing
1t down.
On the Falkland islands the bono
bolas is exclusively used by the young
Scotch herders, particularly by boys,
who in the chase of ducks and geese are
very expert.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-03-12
SUNNY ROOMS.
They DO Much Toward Making Sunny
Tivaa

They DO Much Toward Making SUNNY
Lives.
Light is one of the most active apen-
cies in enlivening and identifying "a
home. We all know the value of sun
light as health-giving agent to the
physical system; it is not leks so, to
our moral and spiritual natures. We
absorb light, and it nourishes us with
strange powers. We are more active
under its infuence-can think better
and work more vigorously. Let us take
the airiest, choicest room in the house
for our living room = the workshop
where brain and body are built up and
renewed. And let us there have bay
window, no matter how plain in struc-
ture, through which the good twin
angels of nature, sunlight and pure
air, can freely enter. We can hang no
picture ON our walls that can compare
with the living and everlasting pictures
which God shall paint for US through
our ample window-rosy dawns, gold
cn-hearted sunsets, the tender green
and changing tints of spring, the white
III WIuutI, SGOl SllluC,
and gloom-all these we can have and
enjoy while we sit in our sheltered
room, as the changing days glide on.
Dark rooms bring depression of spir-
its, imparting a sense of confinement,
of isolation, of powerlessness, which is
chilling to energy and vigor; but in
light is good cheer. Even in gloomy
house, where walls and furniture are
dingy and brown, you have but to take
down the heavy curtains, open wide
the windows, let light stream in, and
gloom vanishes and care and sadness
fee. Keep your house sunny, and keep
your soul sunny. Let the Sun of Right
eousness arise on you with healing in
his wings, and you shall find that light
II sown for the righteous, and gladness
for the upright in heart."-Detroit Free
Press.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-03-12

There are indications of cooperation
among the truck farmers of Florida.
AS a means of encouraging truck grow
ing along their lines in that state the
Plant system has called a meeting to
consult those who wish to cultivate
vegetables, to the end that the people
and the railroads may mutually benefit
each other in producing and marketing
vegetable crops. The proposition is
made by the Plant system that the grow
ers shall meet and form themselves into
an association in order that they may
be effcctually benefited, and it offers to
furnish the best seeds that can be Sc
cured of various crops that can be
grown successfully in that section at
cost, without any charges for transpor-
fation.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-03-12
LARGE EATERS.
Much Food Is Not Necessary to Coed
Health.

Much Food Is Not Necessary to Coed
Health.
Large eaters are generally deficient
In activity and endurance. l used to
know one who tried hard to be Chris
tian, but failed because of too much
dinner. That man was a curiosity. He
worked in a small wood-turning shop
and ate five times day. When he con-
suited me, about his poor stomach" /
told him fatty that he was pig. He
replied: you are mistaken; / am
faint half the time, and have to eat ex-
ira meals to keep up my strength"
went at him with fact and physiology.
At length he was convinced, and prom
Used me that he would follow my pre-
scription, which was this: Take but
two meals q day. In Is days
his faintness had disappeared and he
rapidly recovered. To-day he is q
healthy, active man, and warm advo-
cate of two meals day, and moderate
ones.
Temperate people with good diges-
ton never feel their stomachs-forget
they have stomachs-while these big
eaters are always hungry, faint or
bloated, troubled with eructations, acid
ity, diarrhea or some other unhappy
condition of the digestive apparatus.
Persons having a good stomach to
begin with can, by practice, learn to di-
gest an enormous quantity of food. If
they give their whole force and vitality
to this business of grinding grist they
can, in the course of even a short life,
grind through immense quantities. But
the wiser, the more human way, is to
find out just how much food is needed
to run the machine, exactly what fuel
will keep the system at the best work.
ing point, and never pass these bounds.
For years the author had eaten three
hearty meals a day. At length, upon
careful consideration of the physiology
Of digestion, he thought he was prob
ably using too much of his force in that
function. He reduced to two meals q
day. He cannot express what freedom
in mental and bodily activity he expe-
rienced. Men with large heads and
well-made bodies sometimes consume
so much of their nerve force in d.
gestion that they have nothing left with
which to achieve those triumphs that
otherwise would be easy to them.-Dio
Lewis. NJ D.. in Journal of Hygiene.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-03-12
EXPERT ON A TRICYCLE..

the shoulder of some local speedy
man." 1t makes friends with other
wheelmen, but refuses to ride with
more than one person on the same even
ing.
New York has bicycle pug owned by
Carroll Fleming, No. 81 West Twenty
second street, who is having an up
holstered wire basket constructed for
it's comfort during the autumn rides.
With the pug on the wheel no bell is
needed, for the animal has distinct
liking for the sound of it's own voice
and barks most of the time.
Charles Hemstreet, No. IL Dey street,
New York, had until recently bicycle
monkey. The monkey rode in any po-
sition on the wheel or the rider, as it
saw fit, and kept up a continual chat
tering all the time. 1t leaped from the
handlebars to the riders shoulder and
back again like a flash, and hung on
by feet and tail IT. most accomplished
manner. The cool weather, however,
proved too much for it and it caught
cold and died.
But a more remarkable bicycle ami.
NAL than any other yet heard of is Con-
sui H., chimpanzee, at Bellevue gar
dens, Manchester, England. R. L. Gar
ner, who has just published book
on the speech of monkeys, calls it the
most marvelously human ape in exist
ence.
Consul IL rides wheel, not as other
animals do through the help of the
real rider, but unaided. The ape is four
years old and was brought from the
west coast of Africa year and half
ago. Its aptitude for learning tricks
is immense. Music is one of it's chief
accomplishments, its efforts on the
violin and bugle being too ludicrous
to imagine. 1t is particularly fond of
its cigarette, and enjoys its tobacco
as only the prince of monkey con-
noisseurs can. Not content with using
soap and towels for its additions, it
also shaves, causing much amusement
when stropping its razor; and in addi-
ton to this shaves it's keeper in finished
style.
But its strong hold is the wheel. 1t
rides both the bicycle and the tricycle.,
and it is claimed that it is the only
monkey in the world that possesses
these accomplishments. 1t learned the
tricycle. first, and afterwards took to
the bicycle quite naturally. 1t is an
expert at the sport and steers the ma
chine worthy of study by beginners.
Consul gives performances daily, dis
plays of bicycle riding and other tricks,
all of which are out of the common.
While playing about the grounds the
ape often finds cigar stump. 1t knows
what it is, picks it up, puts it in its
mouth, and goes to the keeper for
light. 1t will not attempt to light the
pipe or cigar for fear of burning its
fingers, but it will light match and
hand it to the keeper TO hold. 1t some
times takes piece of paper, lights it
in the fire and hands it to some one
to light the pipe for it. 1t is afraid
of the fire and will not hold the paper
itself.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-03-12
An Autumn Night.


Some things are good on autumn nights
Wnen with the storm the forest fghts.
Ano In the room the heaped hearth lights
Oid-fashioned press and rafter:
Plump chestnuts kissing in the heat,
A mug of cider, sharp and sweet.
AND at your side face petite
With lips Of laughter.
upon the roof the rolling rain,
Anc, tapping at the window-pane.
the wind, that seems a witch's cane
That summons spells together.
hand within your own awhile.
mouth rejecting back your smile.
And eyes, two stars, whose beams exile
All thoughts of weather.
AND, while the wind lulls, still to sit
And watch her fire-lit needles fit
knittin' and to feel her knit
Your very heartstrings in it:
Then, the old clock ticks, tits late.
10 rise, and at the door to wait
Three words, or at the garden gate
A kissing minute.
Madison Cawein. In Century,
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-03-12
Ground Meats and Fish.

II you cannot get fresh meat for your
poultry, or If the expense is apparently
COO great, use the commercial ground
meat. Fish is also excellent for ducks
IL the eggs are to be used for Matching,
and ground fish will be very acceptable
TO them. In the winter season, when
grain Is largely used, meat or fish will
serve to supply the deficiency of nitro
gen. One cent pound is about the
cost for ground meat or fish. and they
are very cheap, even at double the
nrice.-National Stockman,
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-03-12

THE DRUMMER BOY OF ARcoLE.
while Andre followed, beating it as
though whole regiment was behind
him, whereas but few grenadiers had
rallied to his call, and waded or swan
to the opposite bank.
The enemy, surprised and believing
a whole corps advancing, abandoned
the cannons which had not ceased to
weep the bridge, from which Napoleon,
flag in hand, had just before been driv-
en- back into quagnire, and from
which ignoble position his grenadiers
now rescued him, and, fired by his I'M
daunted courage, the gallant lines were
formed once more.
The recognition which Andres brave
deed received at the time was pair Of
golden drumsticks.
In 1903, when Bonaparte was once re-
viewing the consul's guard, in which
Andre had been entered, he stopped be-
fore the little drummer, who was using
SO vigorously his golden sticks, and de-
manded of him on what field of battle
he had gained this recognition. The
drummer recounted to him his story.
ut is not enough. my brave boy" re-
piled Napoleon, and, detaching the
cross from his own coat, he fastened it
on the breast of the drummer.
Ettienne remained drummer to the
end of his life, and in 1880 entered the
Tenth legion of the national guard,
where he remained until his death in
1885. His act of heroism at the bridge
of Arcole was an army classic, and at
their banquets his story was often told.
In 1881 the officers of the garrison of
Paris were reunited at the Cafe Foy, In
the Palais Royal, under the presidency
of Gen. Lamarck. MERCER, his colonel,
invited this evening Andre to come
with his drum and famous drumsticks.
At dessert he was asked to tell his
story, which he did with great modesty,
and actually swooned when the officers
present eulogized him, recalling also
his heroic conduct at Marengo.
The story of his death is almost fabu-
lous. According TO Mistral, it followed
visit he made to the Pantheon.
Among the heroes scuIptured on the
pediment, he figured, beating his
drum; Andre himself, the little drum
nIer.
Look, father" said to him his daugh-
ter, who accompanied him, pointing to
the figure. The father looked, MUIR
muring: SIT is L; so hight" and fell
down dead.-M. W. Metcalf, in Boston
G1Ohe
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-03-12

The interpretive Scorcher.
am the scorcher!
Please observe
The curve
That appertains unto my spinel
With head ducked low
/ go
Ger man and beast, and woe
Unto the thing
That fails to scamper when ting a-lingl
Let people jaw
And go to law
To try to check my gait,
If that's their game!
/ hate
To kill folks. but I'll do it just the same.
/ guess.
Unless
They clear the track for me;
Because, you see,
/ am the scorcher, full of zeal,
And just the thing look like on the wheel
cleveland Leader.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-03-12

Sis head aloft. His eyes CLEAN with
imprisoned fire. His limbs are tense
with excitement and he bursts from his
stall with the speed of a cannon bail,
He dashes to the middle space before
the hose cart and bends his handsome
head beneath the suspended harness
rack He rushes away to the fire as
to u gambol in the pasture he left not
many years ago.
When the company returns the other
horses may need some guidance or urg-
ing 20 their stalls. Not so Niger.
de shakes himself free from the last
incubus of harness, and backs off, q
distance of 20 feet, to his proper habita-
ton, and relapses into contemplation.
NiggO@is so completely self-reliant and
SO entirely reliable that he has come
to be regarded as the most intelligent
horse In the fire department. The fire
laddies in engine house No. say he
is sef-made horse, that he took TO the
life of the fire department as a duck
to wafer He was led to his place at
the first alarm after his entry into
the department, and he rushed to his
particular post the next time as though
he had been to the tire-manner born.
He has never disappointed his admir-
ers; never been sulky or stupid OF sick
for an hour since his debut upon the
fiery stage.
Niger is in his equine prime, some
what less than ten years old. There are
some veterans in the department that
number their age by two decades,
equivalent to the human allotted three
score and ten."
What becomes Of the horses of the
fire DEPARTMENT. said Chief Swingiey.
1--WE keep them as long as they can do
their work. After that we sell them
TO the highest bidder. Some of them
go back to farms where most of them
come from. No, we don't pension them
yet. That is something that remains
to be considered."--St.L Louis Republic.