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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21
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BITS OF MAINE NEWS.

| Several Bath people fall heir to consid-
cradle property that has been tied up by
law suit for Is years. a. zsaxysF5
The Bath Base Ball Association COM
plains that it has lost about $50 worth of
uniforms and paraphernalia.
1t is announced that Commander and
Consul BOOth-Tucker. the leading officers
of the Salvation Army of the United
States, will make a visit to Portland.
Monday. Nov. Is.
The contract has been let for the MAX
ing of 100000 cans at the St. Adams corn
factory for next year and the factory Is
to be enlarged and most all of 1t newly
shingled this fall.
Wheat is pouring into Portland so rap
idly that although the bins in the new
elevator have tremendous storage ca
Iaclty there Is every reason to believe
before the first ocean liner of the season
arrives. On some days a whole trainload
of wheat is received.
J. Marshall Brown of Portland is hav-
ing an old sofa he recently brought from
the South repaired. Henry Clay formerly
owned it and it was on this sofa that he
died. Its high back and arms are made of
heavy carved walnut. The sofa is about
nine feet in length and its only sign of an
black hairclOth covering.
The total cost of holding the September
term of supreme judicial court in Knox
county. was $275S.09 divided as follows:
General bills of cost, $1O5333; first traverse
jury. $456.64; second traverse jury, $45l. IS;
supernumerary traverse Jurors. sM.32:
stenographer's bills. $14694: constables
fees for serving venires. $40; sheriffs
fees. SELLS; grand jury. $1S962. The re-
eeipts We're $4l03 all but $2S being from
liquor fines and costs.
Notices have been posted in the various
rooms of the York mills Saco, forbidding
employees from CARRYING lunches m their
work. and also against carrying dinners
ana staying in the mill during the noon
hour to eat them. An order is also issued
declaring that no person shall be allowed
TO take package out of the corporation
yard except on Saturday afternoon, and
then the ends of such a bundle must be
opered so that the Waterman may see at
a glance what is In ti1R5Rrcel.
Good progress hasa ia been made
towards the construqf 81 ofsahe new fra.
ternity dwelling hous to be erected by
me me = 81, IL "; at thsse'1Iversity Of Maine
work will soon co1aence upon the struc-
ture. The building u the second to be
constructed at thdflp3vetsity, particular
~ for the accomla1 aation OF the men,
i 6ers OF fraterny snd It promises be.
campus. - -. ~
Knox county is very prolific in smart
Old people. For instance take Abner Dun
ton or Hope, who is 81 years old. He
thinks nothing of walking from Hope to
Camden or in climbing the mountains.
And there is George Montgomery of War
rem, who is also 81. He still continues to
chop his own wood, walks a mile to get
shaved and does other things that the ma
!orlty OF young men would think twice
peIore doing. Marcus Starrett of Warren.
is 80 yet he walks three and half miles
10 ms wood lot and gets in good days
work.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21

"Charles Anderson Dana, editor of
the Sun, died yesterday afternoon"
This was the brief announcement at
the head of the editorial page
of the Sun which for nearly
30 years has reflected Mr.. Dana's
personality and attained much of its
distinction on that account. 1t was al
ways a desire of the veteran editor to
do something out of the ordinary, if not
startling. Possibly this will account for
the noticeable absence of all comment
and demonstration, even such notice as
good taste would seem to demand. But
possibly this was the request of Mr..
Dana himself and was suggested not
by desire to excite comment, but by
remembrance of these lines which
Eugene Field once wrote in tribute to
him:
but bless We, Mr.. Dana! may you live a
thousan' years,
To sort O. keep things lively in this vale
OF human tears:
An may l live thousan', too,-a thou
san less day.
For shouldn't like to be on earth to hear
you'd passed away.
And when 1t comes your time to go you'll
need no Latin chaff
Nor Geographic data put in your epitaph:
But one straight line of English and of
truth will let folks know
The homage nd the gratitude md rever-
snce they owe;
You'll need no epitaph but this: Here
sleeps the man who run
That hest nd brightest paper, the Moo
York Sum-"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21

1t was to be expected that the STAN
dard would take conspicuous part in
New Bedfords celebration last week,
for it reflects the prosperity and enter
prise of that city as accurately as it
seems possible for we'll conducted
newspaper to do. But the Standard
seems not to have been satisfied with
doing only that which the public had
reason to expect and for every day of
the celebration got out handsomely
illustrated issue, any one of which
would have made fitting souvenir of
the whole event.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21

There is work for Good Templars in
Augusta, as indeed there is in every
community and We wish the new
lodge abundant success. Ex-President
Harrison has said that no statesmen or
body of statesmen ever lived who could
form sucha government as could be left
to run itself. The principles of tenn
perance and the evils of intemperance
are trite subjects but they are just as
significant to human welfare as they
ever were, and there Is just as much
need of promoting the influences which
make for temperance as ever existed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21

My little boy suffered with abscess-
es for nearly three years. I concluded
to give him Hoods Sarsaparilla and
after he had taken five or six bottles
he was completely cured. Since then
other members of my family have TAX
en- Hoods with benefit" Mrs. M. Shat
Ter, Lyman, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21

The substance, of the reply which the
proprietor of the Baltimore Sun made
to Germans polite offer Of the leader
ship of the Maryland Democracy is
worth remembering. He replied:
Meet him half way? The Sun does
not do things BY halves. There is no
half way between an honest currency
and a spurious one; between an honest
ballot and a fraudulent one"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21

Weyler pardons more prisoners bat
he doesn't relieve the starvation ne has
caused, restore the lives Of those he has
murdered nor return the plumber he
has secured Indeed it looks as if his
clemency might be actuated as much
by a desire to embarrass his successor
as by a sense of justice.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21

Today Boston celebrates the 10Otn
anniversary Of the launching of the
frigate Constitution. Judging from the
prepare tons she may be relied upon to
do it properly. On Tuesday Hartford
celebrated Hartford day" in honor of
the historic ship of that name.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21

1t is sometimes thought by at least a
few that part of the New York press
is susceptible to the kind of influence
Tammany knows so well how to en-
ploy to further it's end. Accordingly it
is significant that Tammany has no
newspaper support in the present cam
paign.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21
Maine Gossip.
Still Another Description Of October.

Hoydenish October
Flounces through the land,
Touching. when she pleases
With a glad warm hand;
Then her tickle fancy
Changes in trice,
And the wild grape flinches
AT her touch of ice.
Clothed in gorgeous raiment,
Purple, red and gold,
Meadowland and forest
In brilliant guise unfold,
But this rich apparel
Fails to hide distress,
There are rags and tatterS
OF old summers dress.
Goldenrod may lavish
All his yellow store.
Myriad aSters flourish
On ev'ry field and moor;
Never seemed the clover
Half so fond as now.
Doubly sweet the wild rose
On her lonely bough.
Hoydenish October,
Stay with us awhile,
For thy frOwn Is kinder
Then NOvember's smile
Though winter cometh nimbly
And summers but a dream.
Still bravely blooms the gentian
Beside the silent stream.
Hale Howard Richardson in Boston
Transcript.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21

A Chicago alderman was shot the
other night while trying to bite Off the
nose of an antagonist in bar room
brawl. Evidently he belongs to the
'YDell with reform contingent.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21

Hon. A. J. Pothier, lieutenant governor
of Rhode Island, is to be guest of the
St. Jean Baptiste Society, Biddeford.
Jan. II. A banquet will be given In his
honor and 1t is expected that prominent
Canadians from Maine and the other New
England states will also be present.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21

The frozen silence Of Mayor Quincy
didn't yield to the recent thaw, all of
which is cold comfort to the George
Fredites.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21

A spending government has always
been popular in Canada though the
debt increases. The Liberals are said
to be using this popular weakness for
all it is worth, politically.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21

Stageland was a real land to a little
Eastport fellow who, according to the
Sentinel, got so excited while the hero
and the villain were getting ready to
knock the sawdust out of each other,
that he unceremoniously roared out to
the under fellow In the fight why don't
you hit him.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21
Saily gsuasbse ypasaal.
AN
reRMsaS7 90 PER YEAR

No notice Whatever VIII b taken Of I'M
oigned communications.
THE JOURNAL CANNOT BE HELD
RESPONSIBLE for the preservation or
return Of rejected communications.
Address all oommunicati>s,s relating to
subscriptions and advertisements to
BURkEIGH Z FLINT. Publishers. Al
enGtA, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21

All parties claim a share in the in
crease of registration, for claiming
everything in order in Greater New
York nowadays.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21

=. II. smith of Machias. recently bought
the heaviest COW hide purchased by him
since he has been in the business. The
nide was purchased of John Gooch OF
Jacksonville and weighed 107 pounds. The
price paid was $685.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21

East jefferson has known that there
We're three applicants for his job but
realize there was fourth. He found
him standing in the entrance to the
office extending a placard on which
was written q demand for the keys.
The dummy fell over when the post
master attempted to investigate.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21

Those who wore big hats at the fes-
tival in Bangor were conspicuous by
their fewness. Good!
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21

The sickest boaster in Rockland was
the man who claimed ne could eat nine
bottles of mustard at sitting and was
put to the test. He ate one. when the
mustard proved counter irritant TO
his ardor and he stopped.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21

The Ashland Reporter says there are
plenty of moose in the woods this fall
The editor doesn't appear to have killed
any, however.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21

Never blister, burn or irritate.
Quickest acting, most effective plaster
ever prepared. Hop Plasters-cost you
little to try them. Sold everywhere.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21

Boston Transcript: Two men killed
and a boy seriously wounded was the
deer-hunting record for the closing
days of last week. Great sport!
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21

Time for preparations for winters
rations have not been very extensive.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21

While the new Y. M. c. A. building
has been in process of building, it is
not yet completed, there have been two
deaths in it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21

Bismarck says the Monroe Doctrine
is a piece of exceptional insolence. But
Bismarck is dOddering.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21
Before
Retiring.

take Ayers Pills, and you will
sleep better and wake in better
condition for the days work.
Ayers Cathartic Pills have no
equal as a pleasant and effect
ual remedy for constipation,
biliousness, sick headache, and
all liver troubles. They are
sugar-coated, and 50 perfectly
prepared, that they cure with
out the annoyances experienced
in the use Of so many of the
pills on the market. Ask your
druggist for Ayers Cathartic
Pills. When other pills won't
help you, Ayers is
THE PILL THAT WILL.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21

Hoods Pills are the best family ca
thartic and liver tonic. Gentle, relia-
BILE, sure.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21

Some of the cider mills are in brisk
operation but no one seems to know
where the apples come from.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21

Portland has been hypnotiZed by
Director Chapman and exposed to the
measles.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21

Has anyone missed the golden rod
poetry this fall? rF
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21

No light, no money is the gist of Gar
diners light contract; but will it be en-
forced?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21

No sooner had a Winthrop lad, who
was leading a cow,tied the rope around
his waist than mooley ran away.
That's usually what happens in such
instances.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21

A Cape Elizabeth man having COM
pleted a dog house the other day found
the entrance wasn't big enough to per-
was on the inside. Probably some
thing resembling ''Demnition bow
vows" was heard in that neighborhood
about that time.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21

Somewhere in the land building oper-
atoms are. brisk and the call for Knox
county lime is unusually, great for this
season of the year.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21
.Johnsons1 AnodyneL inirnent
Cures Every Form of Inflammation.

what will be practically an extensive
library.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21

Fredericton, N. B., has rumor to
the effect that the big Ashland mill will
be moved to that place. Ashland isn't
worried, we are informed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21

The Lewiston Y. M. c. A. is trying to
meet what is considered a popular de-
mand there for a debating society.
properly conducted and well attended.
Lack of interest has been such of re-
cent years as to make those that con-
tinued to exist of little practical value.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21

Another contribution of $50 has just
been made to the fund started for manual
training in connection with the Maine
school for the deaf at Portland.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21

The library committee of the DYER
Library Association, Saco, will under
take a work novel in this State. They
intend to place in different parts of the
town, some distance removed from the
library building. branch libraries, each
containing so selected volumes. After
remaining in a neighborhood a certain
time' the branch libraries will be re-
moved to other districts, each being
replaced by another from different
locality. AS the branch libraries will
contain different collections Of books.
this VIII provide every district with
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-21

A story from Greene to the effect
that a school girl of that town clam
bers into the schoolhouse through "a
window on Sundays in order. do sums
on the black board and thus get ahead
of her class needs confirmation. If
true. she should be given exceptional
advantages. Such thirst for learning
is uncommon.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-01-02
Total Cotton Yield.

The December returns ID tue
statistical division Of the depart
ment OF agriculture shows consider
able improvement in the condition
Of the cotton crop as compared
with the last report. This applies
especially to North Carolina, Flori-
da and Georgia. Many reports say
the yield exceeds expectations ow-
ing to the large acreage this year
and the late dry fall favoring matu-
ration OF the late crop. The fol-
lowing is the reported yield BY
States as compared with last year !:
Alabama, IlG; Arkansas, 112 /;
Florida, ITO, Georgia, ITO; Indian
Territory. l18; Louisiana, 126 /;
Mississippi, ll2; Missouri, 100;
North Carolina. 1O9; Oklahoma,
100; South Carolina, 105; Ten
nessee, 1l3; Texas, 1923; Virginia,
ll8. General average, 1852.
The departments final estimate
based on the complete revised re-
ports from each state ia that the to-
tai crop will be 1851, O94 bales.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-01-02

A Swedish colony is 5000 N be
established near Bristol. Va. An
agent Of the Swedish government
has purchased = tract Of land con-
tanning 1000 acres. THIS tract is to
be divided into ESQ farms Of twenty
acres each. A family Of Swedes
viii settle on each Of these small
farms, and thus q colony Of about
1900 population will be estab-
lished. These colonists will have
their own churches, aehool-houses
and mercantile establishments.
They are to be Protestants IN re-
ligion and Lutherans in denomina-
ton. II i understood that = large
percentage Of the coloDists will
establish Vineyards and will manu-
facturs olsrst extensively.
Such . csloEy would lourish n st.
'rammany Parish. There ! No BET
- gtaps cooEtry IL - world thes
tlsis. DER entire parish coald -
flrnpd - ! go viseyard, asd
- - I seppl5 - wl,6le
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-01-02
Our 22d Birthday.

With this issue the FARMER cele-
brates the 22d anniversary Of its
existence. The past year has been
m exciting one, politically, with
the State and National elections,
and in these contests the FARMER, -
usual. earnestly champoined the
cause Of Democracy, and this will
continue to be its course in The fu-
ture. It has been = year Of hard
times. but there is > promise Of inn
provement in the near future
Thanking our patrons for their
past favors. and soliciting con-
tlnuance OF the same, we open our
new volume to-day. May It's pages
record . better condition Of affairs,
aud the new year bring health and
prosperity to you, one and all.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-01-02
EDITOR QUOTES SCRIPTURE.

II you are down with the blues,
read the twenty-seventh Psalm. IL
there il : chilly sensation about
the heart, read the third chapter OF
Revelation. 1t you don't know
where to look for the months rent
that Is now due, read the thirty
seventh Psalm. II the stovepipe
has fallen down and the cook gone
OF to pout, pnt up the pipe, wash
your hands and then read the tliril
chapter 0f James. II son find
yourself losing confidence in men,
read the thirteenth chapter Of First
Corinthians. Il people pelt you
with hard words, read die fifteenth
chapter q John. II von are get
ding disooorassd about your busi-
dsss, read ons hundred and twenty
eixth Rsalm and The fonrtl, chapter
q 0slatians, versss Z to =. II
yoa are Oot q eoete. Tead ~
tosllah chaptec - Hebrews. r.
80 Ind YoocoG1e l6oo - oonod oQee
ia1eQe eolicllA1 ~ = u, nd
ls I - & ~ Essi !
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-01-02

The government has granted per-
mission to the steamer Dauntless,
70 sail from Jacksonville. Florida,
with : cargo Of arms aud ammuni-
ton for cuba. Ihls is considered .
victory for the Cuban Junta, 10
diplomatic circles.
A peculiar sight vas witnessed in
Rome, Ga, the other day, when
there appeared on the streets an old
negro harnessed to . wagon with =
mule. Together they bad travelled
for several miles through the conn
try. The negro had only one ami
NAL, with which he made two bales
OF cotton, aud being anxious TO
market the product Of his little
patc;l at once. he contrived the
novel plan Of harnesslng himself
with the mule and taking the cotton
to the city.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-01-02
Good Roads.

The country press has again taken
up the question Of good roads.
The Rayne Tribune, for instance,
says on this subject:
s'One of the most serious draw.
backs to \ community is bad roade.
The very life Of q town depends on
the country, and without that there
would be no town. When the farm
ers have to undergo the severe strain
on horses, breaking Of wagons, bug
gies etc., in order to reach towns to
do business. then it is time for &C.
ton. and that quickly. When per-
son stops for moment and fully re-
Allies what bad roads mean, then he
can behold the serious hardships it.
works both to the gentlemen Of the
rural districts and the business of
cities and towns. Nearly all the
parishes Of the State are clamorin9
for better roads, and the time is ripe
for something to be done. We
think great deal Of the fault lies in
our present manner Of working the
roads. 1t would be far better to
have q direct tax collected from each
male citizen, say at least 81 . year.
than to put up with The present sys-
tenn. Let the parishes hire help, or
let out by contract the keeping of
the roads in good repair, and you
will see . vast Improvement"
The last proposition Of the Trib-
une puts the matter exactly right.
The old system of trying to keep the
roads in good condition by requir-
ing each citizen to work 90 many
days upon the public highways is y
complete failure, and hiss proved
such wherever it has been tried.
Good roads can be secured only by
expenditure of money, aud a road
tax is essential for success.
The road tax has been adopted in
several Southern States Of late
years, and has been invariably fol.
lowed by better roads. Louisiana
has not got that far yet. Strange
to say, when it is considered that 1t
was one Of the frat States to take
up the agitation for good roads, it
has done as little for their improve
ment rs any part Of the country.
We understand, however that the
Legislature ct its next session will
be approached on this subject and
asked to pass road law similar to
those laws which have accomplished
50 mnch elsewhere in the way Of
road building. A law Of ibis kind
will have the support and backing
Of the entire com munity.-rimes-
Democrat.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-01-02

DIED.-In New Orleans, Mon
day, Dec. 20, 1896. Vim. b. Lam
caster, aged 20 years and 8 months.
A resident Of New Orleans for the
past fifty years.
The deceased was . distinguished
lawyer, journalist and linguist, and
was highly esteemed for his great
learning and rare social qualities.
He was a veteran Of both the Con-
federate and Mexican wals. He
leaves several children, one of whom
is Mr.. Jos. b. Lancaster, Of Cow
ington. who has the sympathy Of
many friends in his sad bereave-
ment.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-01-02
In Memorialll.

Dedicated to the memory Of Mrs. w.
N. Keen, who departed this life on
Dec. 3, 1896, aged 50 years.
Dear friend. I cannot think of thee as
dead.
Although the weight Of ffty-plne years
crowned thy head.
Feebler hast grown thy steps from day
to day.
Till like flower, we beheld thee fade
away.
But this is only sad, transient scene,
And thoughts should range them
selves on high,
Where no sad partings rend the heart.
No more Is said the word-GoOd-bye
FROM A FRIEND.
Madisonville, Dec. 10, 1896.