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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-27
A Letter from the Klondike.

Mr. Win E. Hall of Portland, recently
received a letter from his cousins, j. Ar
thur anu John Hall, who are in the Klon-
dixie region From this letter we are al
lowed to make the following extract for
the benefit of the readers of the Express.
The letter was sent from Dawson City,
Northwest Territory. After telling why
the young men (they are brothers) decid-
country the letter says:
We left Seattle the 29th of April and ar
rived after many varied experiences at
Dawson City on July l. We brought
about a ton of goods with us. We came
by steamer to Juneau and from there by
small steamer to Dyea river, and there
our hard work began. 1t is % miles from
Dyea to Lake Linderman; about Is miles
to the summit of Chlcoot pass and eight
miles down to the lake and they were
long miles at that. The snow was off on
the Dyea side so we had to pack our ton
of goods up to the summit. packing from
70 to 100 pounds at time over a three
miles course or such Il matter, then maxi
ing a cache and going back for another
load. 1t usually took us three or four
days to move our goods one stage. Much
of the way was up steep hills. which
made the work very difficult. On the last
way with ropes and pulley that we
brought with us, and so landed on the
summit. From there we had shedding for
six miles, after we had let our goods
down the first steep pitch on to Crater
lake by ropes. Then we packed the other
two miles over the mountains to Lake
Linderman E'
We were little over month making
the % miles. We then had to build our
boat and so we went up river on the
west side of the lake and got our logs.
RATED them down to the lake. built a saw
pit and began whip-sawing lumber in the
good old fashioned style. We built a
good boat and loaded our goods and we
were happy lads when we got afloat. We
made the 500 miles in our boat all right,
shooting the Grand canyon, White Horse
rapids. Five Finger rapids. Sink rapids.
One Mile river Thirty Mile river, and
the other difficult places without any
mishap. We saw quite number of
wrecked boats on the way. Some lost all
they had.
Conditions here were about as I had
heard. The diggings are the richest ever
known; wages are from $40 to SIS a day;
provisions are very high. Bacon sells
from 40 cents to 81 a pound according to
the supply. When We arrived 1t was sell
ing for 81 a pound and potatoes were sell
ing at the same price. Flour is from 81
to $50 hundred pounds and other things
are in proportion so far as you can get
them at all. Already the people begin to
fear a famine here this winter. The wa
ers find it difficult to get up from st.
Michaels.
We have been at work most of the time
since we came. building log cabins. The
prospects for work this winter have been
very good. but hear that there has been
a great rush from the outside, SO the
thing NAV be over done.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-27


which is to be presented to the rulers of
all nations, as it is signed by the sub
Jects or each, was received by President
Grover Cleveland in 1894, and has recently
been brought to the attention of the
Queen of England. The petition is now
so bulky that it fills six immense packing
boxes. and in order to present it in at
tractive form. Lady Henry Somerset. ut
personal expense of $500. had the pages
containing the signatures of the Queen s
subjects, seven millions in numbers. pho
tographed and bound in two volumes.
The covers are blue morocco with strips
OF white morocco crossing the cover SIM
ulating the white ribbon. The lettering
of the motto. For God and Home and
Every Land is in gilt. A handsome
hand illuminated title page explains the
petitions mission to Her Majesty. Later
the petition will be taken to other rulers.
w. c. 7. U. day at Ocean Park and also
at Greenacre were most successful. Miss
Agnes Slack. Mrs. Stevens and Mrs. Ole
Bull were among the speakers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-27
Hungry Italians at Portland.

The Eastern Argus graphically de-
scribes the appearance OF those ltaIians
sent from Norway, when they arrived IN
Portland. Thursday. en- route for Boston:
They arrived in this city shortly before
noon and piled out of the cars at the
Grand Trunk station carrying baggage or
all descriptions and chatterlng like a lOt
of monkeys. They were not going to
leave the cars at first, as they thought
they were to go through to Boston by rail
and as they have been tricked so often
they imagined that it was simply a
scheme to get them out of Norway and
leave them stranded i'm Portland by
means of an interpreter it was explained
to the Italians that they We're to be sent
to Boston on the boat and they then va
Gated the cars. -.-.
One could not help plying the poor fell
lows for they have certainly been treated
most unjustly For two long months they
toiled like slaves in the hot sun and have
not received a cent of pay and probably
never will. None of the men can speak
good English and the majority of them
can scarcely understand word OF 1t.
They are without money and all that
they have had to eat for some days Is dry
bread and whatever might be given them
by charitably disposed persons.
The writer saw several of the Italians,
yesterday afternoon, munching at crust
of bread, and they guarded 1t as though u
was gold for they realized that 1t was all
the food they were likely to receive until
they reached Boston.
| Some of the Italians had nothing to eat
at all, yesterday. One of them approached
| a man in the Grand Trunk station and
| said: Me have no breakfast, this morn
| ing. no dinner. and as he placed his
| hand on his stomach. me awful hungry
| One of the trainmen who overheard the
Italian brought out his pan and gave the
| poor Dago his own dinner.
| Two other Italians in broken English
| managed to tell another gentleman that
they were very hungry He bought them
| a large loaf of bread, which they first
| carefully divided and stored half away
for supper. and then they devoured the
remainder like half-starved animals.
The writer spoke to one of the most in
| teligent looking of the Italians in the
hope that he might know English enough
| to tell his side of the story. The man
smiled pleasantly but shook his head in
rather doubtful way when the reporter
| commenced to talk, as though he was
afraid he could not understand.
| He managed to get the meaning of the
writer's questions. but he could not speak
English well enough to give the desired
information. He said: Me been at Nor
way work two months. get no mon. nc
right at all.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-27
FAIRS TO occua.

Androscoggin valley-At Canton, Sept. %.
20 and 30.
Cumberland Farmers Club Fair-At
West Cumberland. Sept % and 70.
Lake View Park--At East SebAgo, Oct.
and 6.
Lincoln County Agricultural soclety--At
T Damariscotta, Oct. 5. and T.
Northern Hancock Agricultural Society
AT Amherst, Sept. Is and %.
New Gloucester and Danville--At Upper
Gloucester. Sept 20 and 30.
North Franklin-At Phillips. Sept. u. q
and %.
North Waldo Agricultural Society-At
Unity Trotting Park, Sept. . and 30.
Richmond Farmers Club-At Richmond
Corner, Sept. Is.
Sagadahoc Agricultural and Hopticultu-
raj Society-At Topsham. Oct. IL. Is and
IA.
West Penobscot-At Exeter, Sept. q. 2.
and 3d.
West Oxford-At Fryeburg; Sept. .2s. 2.
and 30.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-27
Secretary Worlds w. c. I. U.

Literature in our day processes to
cultivate sympathy for all classes
even for those who trade in vice and
eat the bread of wickedness. 1t has
discovered that highwaymen. prosti-
tutes and pickpockets have their liter
airy rights, and should be fully repre-
scented in their own fashions in the
great commonwealth of letters A lit.
erature Of felons is accordingly writ
ten, and alas, it is also read. corrupt
ing our language with the slang of cut
throats, ard our youth with their con-
tagious immortality. Was this, now the
spirit Of our crucified Lord? He was
indeed the friend of sinners He sat in
the publicans house as guest; he
frowned not from his feet the weeping
penitent whose very presence seemed
TO others to shed contamination around
her. But though thus fOrgiving to tht
sinner when contrite he never dallied
with sin itself.
Paul seemed to have found converts
to the cross in the household of thu
atrocious Nero, but he never improves
the advantages thus afforded him t(
draw revolving pictures Of the excuses
recorded, what to our modern novellsts
would have been invaluable, the con
LESSONS he might have heard IRON
criminals who were waited with hin
over the Mediterranean, in the prison
ship that bore him to Rome. There
were things of which Paul says he
thought it shame even TO speak.
well had it been for the purity 0
our literature and the innocence o
youth, had the writer's of our age con
descended to learn wisdom at the fee
of Paul, the apostle to the Gentlles
Peter, another of the first preachers o.
the cross, speaks of sinners who had
like the dogs, turned to their own vom
1t again, and like the SOW that wa
washed to her wallowing in the mlre
But the apostle of the circumcision
never stopped to picture the loath
some detail. and thus in effect to par
take the banquet of the one, and sham
the bath of the other.
Modern literature, aye, elegant ut
erature, amid all the Wanted rehne
ment of the nineteenth century ha
done both, in order to enlarge OH
knowledge of nature and life, ana
seach us superiority to the exclusive
ness of vulgar prejudices. With sue
forms Of liberalism, the cross and IL
preachers have no sympathy. writ
ings of Dr. W. r. Williams.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-27
The spartan virtue Of Fortitude

The Spartan Virtue of Fortitude
Must be possessed In no ordinary degree
by those who bear the pangs Of rheuma-
tism without complaint. We have never
heard of such an individual. But why
not, ere the lifelong martyrdom begins,
extinguish the germ of this atrociOus
malady with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters.
the efficiency of which as a preventive OF
the disease, as well as a means of reliev-
ing it, is well established and amply at
tested. during the last forty-five years,
gates from the blood those acrid princi-
pies which beget the pain and fnflamna-
ton characteristic of this complaint,
which, it should be recollected, is always
liable to terminate life suddenly when 1t
attacks q vital part. The, Bitters also ex-
pels the virus of malaria from the sys-
tenn, remedies dyspepsia, kidney COM
plant, constipation. and biliousness, quiets
the nerves, and invigorates the whole
physical organism.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-27
BUSINESS CHANCES


5000. Stock and furniture OF one OF the
best all round genuine drug stores IN
Massachusetts,; located In the well known
town of Ailston, three miles from Boston,
on b. & A. r. R.: finely located near
depot: insures q large transient trade.
added to the unusually large prescription
mentioned; branch of public library Ii To-
Gated in this store. This ad IL intend6d
for druggist who knows and expects 10
attend to his business: under these con-
ditions the store would be succees, "a
yourself.
w. F.. CARRUTHERS.
u School St., Boston.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-27
FOR sale.

$500 buys stock. fixtures ana teasna Of
first class provision. meat, fruit and vee-
etable market located in smart growing
town OF FoxborO. Mass. Price above In
80 per year; as one !. route runs butcher
cart. two horses and wagons, first clnSS
patronage. get good prices; has been fyfl
BY present owner ten years: does ilno
business. No better opening FOR 3ha
money to get good provision b,islno1n
in Massachusetts. Foxboro Is manti-
featuring town with large factories NOV
being built s miles from Boston. 800
w. F. CARRUTHER4.
u School D.. Boheoa.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-27
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
A aREA1 SURPRISE IS IN STORE

for those who will go today and get a
package of GRA1N-O. 1t takes the place
Of coffee at about " the cost. It is a food
drink. full of health, and can be given TO
the children as well as the adult with
great benefit. 1t is made of pure grains
and looks and tastes like the finest
grades of Mocha or Java coffee. 1t sat
isles everyone. A cup of Grain-O is bet
ter for the system than IL tonic, because
its benefit Is permanent. What coffee
breaks down Grain-O builds up. Ask
your grocer for Grain-O. 15c. and Csc.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-27
EASTERN STEAMBOAT CO.,
Fall Time Table.
coM.EaclAo, MONDAY, SEPT. 20, 1897


MAIL BOAT leaves Boothbay Harbor
daily. Sundays excepted.) at 7.30 A. NJ.
Leaves Bat.l daily. Sundays excepted
3.15 r. NJ. and continuing until Oct. 4.
when steamer will leave BoOthbay Har-
Dor ut A: M. and Bath S.15 P. M. Lands
daily at Mouse Island. Southport. Riggs
vile, Westport Junction and Westport.
Lands at Sawyer's Island. Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday; at Five Islands
on Monday. Wednesday and Friday.
EXPRESS BOAT leaves Bath daily,
Sundays excepted. at S.35 A. M. Leaves
Boothbay Harbor. Sundays excepted. at
2.45 p. NJ. and continuing until Oct. 1.
when steamer will leave Bath at SIS A.
M and BOOthbay Harbor Mt 100 p. M.
IIhnds ION signaD each way Mt Westport
Junction. Southport and Mouse Island; at
Rlggsville, Sawyer's and Squirrel Islands.
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday: Nc
Mahan's and Five Islands, Wednesday
and Friday; at Ocean Point, Tuesday and
Saturday. Arrives at Bath at $50 p. NJ.
JAMES B. DRAKE, Pres. q Gen. Man.
w. w. MASON, Agent. Bath.
K. A. LEWIS. Agt. Boothbay.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-27

$l2oo-Or actual value. STOCK. ana ~
lures Of first class kitchen ftfr1ilDHini
goods, stove. crockery. china, giaaatk0rS.
wooden ware. &C., &C.: 5 and 10 cent
counters are special features here: lot23-
Charlestown district, Boston. R21if n
only 50 per month and any one wab VIA
attend to business con mike money hofo.
Only reason for offering this Bt0f& III
sale ~ that the owner cannot ptopeFtH ~
even more than this ad calls f0f. z
w. F. CAHRuyHNnRfi
sept2l. d1ws 81 8 u
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-27
WHAT 90 the CHILDREN DRINK !?

Don't give them tea or coffee. Have you
tried the new food drink called GRA1N-O?
1t Is delicious and nourishing and takes
the place of coffee. The more Grain-O
you give the children the more health you
distribute through their systems Grain
o Is made of pure grains, and when prop
erly prepared tastes like the choice grades
of coffee but costs about n as much.
All grocers sell It. 15c. and Csc.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-27
DAILY KENNEBEO JOURNAL MONDAY SEPTEMBER % 1891

spring, and closes by signing herself,
your loving and repentant, but awfully
Mrs. Brown says that the only punish
ment that she shall visit on her daughter
will be to make her go out and spend half
day sitting in front Of that gravestone
In the family lot.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-27
Daily ysaa'sbst Journal
w. C. T. U. COLUMN.

MOTTO: For God ana Home ana
Every Land"
OBJECT: To unity the methods at
woman's temperance work the world
over. &E
BADGE: A knot Of white ribbon.
HOUR OF PRAYER: Noon.
METHODS: Agitate. educate. organise.
tional. evangelistic. social ana legal.
THE POLYGLOT PETITION has been
circulated throughout the world and
signed by representatives Of over Atty
countries: It asks for the outlawing OF
system Of legalized vice. The chief
auxiliaries OF the w. c. r. u. are the
United States. Canada. Great Britain,
Australia, South Africa, India, Japan
and the Sandwich Islands,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-27
x Z O N d I x i
GOLD.

The Greatest Gold District on Earth"
Shares 500. Agents Wanted
Why not share in the millions that are
being taken out OF Alaska? We offer a
golden opportunity. We shall send an
expedition with q large stock of merchant
disc and fully equipped with mining APP
pliances. This merchandise will return q
handsome profit in addition to the enor-
nous sums to be made from economic
mining. We confidently expect to return
500 FOR EVERY 81 INVESTED.
Holders Of $50 shares entitled to accom-
pany expedition with all expenses paid.
Prospectus Free
A limited number Of shares row on sale,
81 90. ALASKA GOLD MINING.
TRADING & TRANSPORTATION CO..
No. go Broadway, New York City.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-27

The business men of Lubec village have
become thoroughly Disguised with the
mail service as 1t has been performed
during the past year; quite frequently of
late, there having been failures in deliv-
ering any but local mail at night.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-27

Miss Anna Forbes Goodyear of Bos-
ton, well known for her work for the
advancement of the poorer classes, is
hard at work at present to perfect a
plan to establish a farming colony in
Washington, where the poor of the east
may make comfortable homes.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-27

Through tickets to California ana a1
points South and West nay he haA Ut =
n. Walker, ticket agent. Augusta, ~
only once IN Augusta selling ~ -
routes and checking eaggags ne. a n
0Do. r. EVANS, 0Sueeai 1aAaAese.
r. e. BOOTHHY. q. r. = 3. 4.
Portland, June Ia M.
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TO THE NATIONAL HOME.
Eastern Branch. N. H. d. v. s.. 'Tosus
gla,IIn cs,tl laa,sll

Connects at Gardiner with the Maine
Central Railroad. and Augusta, HALO
well and Gardiner Electric Railroad to
Augusta. and Kennebec Steamboats, for
Boston. aS
Summer arrangement. in efrect May 80.
'97 4 49, 4el1 'l.9.g-7 Il s
LEAVE RANDOLPH: Ia and to.s7 A.
M: 1.52, 800 and AZ p. M.
ARRIVE AT NATL HOME: 7.4z and
II A. M; PIP. $40 and 4.42 p. NJ
LEAVE NATL HOME: SIS ana liz
a. M; 2.25. 3.15 and 500 p. M.
ARRIVE AT RANDOLPH: SIS and
II. 40 A. M; rs, s3.45 and $40 p. N. y :,
Il 9shtiF. A. LAYTON. eupt.
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Railroads and Steamboats,.

Caribou and Bangor on tratns ieAvinS
Caribou at 646 A. II. and Bangor. Ut an
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Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-20
JustIce FOR the railways.

Over the entrance to the great build
ing devoted to transportation at the
Worlds Fair was written these words
from Lord Bacon: There are three
things which make q nation great: fer
tile fields, busy workshops and easy
transportation Of men and goods from
place to place"
We have the fertile fields and we
have had the fruits resulting from the
rest Of the proposition. We have be-
come great. The present condition OF
our workshops and our railways sug-
gests the consideration of the problem
whether both cannot increase our
greatness and national prosperity II
the railways are placed upon a strong
er financial foundation than they are
now struggling upon.
The conditions OF railway transpor-
tation are such that it is practically
impossible, except in few special in
stances, to maintain for a long period
rates which are exorbitant. Railway
managers have rarely failed to appre-
ciate the fact that the development Of
commerce along their lines, and the
consequent prosperity Of the projectors,
depend largely upon easy Transports
ton coupled with low rates. Look ct
our railway stocks as reported by the
last government report, that Of 1896;
Per
cent
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-05-20
Onlng the Harness.


Harness will last much longer and
look much better if kept we'll oiled, and
will not get so stiff after being exposed
to a days rain, says Journal of Agri-
culture. During the spring it is diff
ficult to keep harness from getting wet,
and 1t will pay we'll before the seasons
work begins to see that 1t is thoroughly
oiled. In doing the work, the harness
should be taken apart, washed clean,
using warm water and CASTLE soap, and
then wiped dry, when the oil should be
applied. II so clean that washing Is not
needed, 1t will be better to wipe off with
a wet rag as the oiling can be done bet
ter. It is best to take harness all
apart, in order to get at all of the parts
and oil thoroughly. Good harness oil
can 'be purchased all ready for use, or
neatsfoOt oil, with little lamp black,
will be found good. II the harness has
not been oiled for some time and is
hard and dry, 1t will be best to go over
them twice, finishing all up, and then
commencing with the first piece and
going over again. After every part has
been thoroughly oiled, it should all be
hung up over frame of some kind
and allowed to dry. It should not be
hung in the sun or where the wind
strikes, as 1t will dry too rapidly. The
oil should have plenty of time to soak
in. Like most other work on the farm,
II undertaken it will pay to do well.
Native Shrubs.-I would like to say
a good word for some native shrubs,
The black alder belonging to the holly
family, is hardy shrub and a beauti-
full plant, especially when the fruit is
ripe. Then there Is the Nine-Bark
(spiraea prunifolia), beautiful in It's
bloom and beautiful in its seed. Both
Of these shrubs are hardy native shrubs,
with their fruit turning a beautiful
crimson in the fall Among other
things, not perhaps in the line Of
shrubs, are the climbing vines or
plants, such as the Boston Ivy. Il
gives character to the buildings In the
eastern states and adds beauty and
charms to the common brick walls. II
we can make It do half as we'll as they
grow It there, 1t would change the
looks OF a village like Sparta more
than any other thing that could be
planted. The Five-leaved Ivy Ampe-
lopsls yuinyuefolia), commonly called
Virginia Creeper, Is another native vine
and will grow we'll almost anywhere
A. L. Hatch.
WEAVING Time.-When the weaving
time comes for the eve flock they
should be watched closely in meadow
or pasture, and II they cannot have this
care they should be kept in a lot where
they can have access to a warm barn.
As fast as they wean they should lie
put into what might be called the nur-
sery flock and fed for all that the milk
and lambs are worth. Feed for milk.
This will make another flock with a lit
tie different feeding.-Ex.