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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

Mrs. Alice White and daughter, Miss
Marion White. Miss Tucker and Miss
Lillian Whitmore went to camp. yes
terday. at CobboseeecOntee pond.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

Mrs. Charles E. Dinsmore went to
the lake. Tuesday. for a visit to Camp
La Jolla," the guest of Mrs. F. f.
Beans.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

Mr.. Isaiah Noyes, aged so. and Mrs.
Noyes, aged y, living on the Belfast
road, near neighbors Of ours, have
hitc1ed up their team and started for
Bangor to visit their daughter, Mrs.
Charles Cheney. They intend driving
there and back.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

Charles D. Livermore, son OF Col
d. P. Livermore. is reported quite III
at the Portland hospital.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

Miss Edith Peacock. one Of the popu-
, lar teachers in the Gardiner high
school, rode on her bicycle to Lewiston,
yesterday morning.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

H. X. Morrill, went to Waterfalls
yesterday, to attend the meeting of tht
JOselyn Botanical Society.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

A large party of Augusta people
were on the islander, yesterday MORN
ing. bound for the islands and Booth
bay HarbOr.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

The Hecla Co. voted the other evening
to attend the firemen's muster at Lewis
ton next Tuesday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

J. Il. Townsend of Augusta, was in
this city, yesterday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

Mrs. Weston Lewis and son, Harry
Lewis went to their camp on Cob
bosseecontee, yesterday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

Mrs. futile and Miss Rogers. who
have been visiting at Mrs. Sherburn
Lawrence's, for a week. returned to
Boston on the boat, Tuesday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

Harry Ridley Of the U. s. "Resolute"
returned to his home in Gardiner. yes
terday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

Mrs. George Eowles OF Portland. is
visiting her sister. Mrs. H. p. Lowell,
Warren street. #st1&
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

The Rt. Rev. James A. Healy of
Portland. was visiting friends In the
city. yesterday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

Benjamin Vaughan returned to Bos-
ton on train No. A. Monday morning
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

Miss Amy Carter has returned from
a brief outing at Harmon's Harbor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

Charles Stevens has returned from
brief outing at Harmon's HarbOr.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

Miss Grace Marshall yagt tool Var
mouthville. yesterday. for a two
weeks visit.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

The members Of the Juvenile Templars
will hold their first meeting. Saturday.
Sept. 3, at 2.3O P. NJ. Election Of officers
will be in order. t.,s.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

Percy Moore of Bangor. one Of the Isl
Maine boys, took dinner with his rela-
tives H. K. Chadwick and family at
their home in Farmingdale. Monday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

Mr.. and Mrs. William Jenkyn and
daughter will move to Portland this
week,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

A movement is to be soon started to
raise funds by popular subscriptions
to continue the band concerts.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

Daniel ]. Deasey was passenger on
train No. 81. Tuesday morning, to Bos-
ton.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

Miss Flora Cross went to Bangor
Tuesday afternoon. for visit.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31
SOUTH GARDINER.

Henry Marston was in town for q
short time. Tuesday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

Chas. Stackpole left on the morning
train, yesterday. for Waterville and vi
cinity.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

Miss Vivian OF Walnut Hill Semi
nary. was the guest Of Mrs. F. E.
Beanie, Monday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31
FAIRFIELD.

Henry Newhall, Robert Parkins and
Ralph Files spent Tuesday afternoon
fishing at Lovejoy pond.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

The low water in the river at the
customary time of the Islanders sail
ing. has been the cause Of that. steamer
not going to Augusta this week.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

Ned Wing. who has been in New
York. has returned to his home in this
city.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

Arthur Sanborn Of Boston, Is visit
ing friends in Gardiner.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

Mrs. w. III. Swan of Boston. is the
guest of her mother. Mrs. Ann Stinch-
field. Mechanic street.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

Mrs. q. c. Douglass and SOM an ara
.slsiting relatives In Blue HILL Tor .
few weeks.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

The gentlemen Of the class of '9S. 8.
II. 8. will hold reunion at Water
vile. Saturday evening.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

Miss Clara Robinson, who has been
the quest Of Hon. J. Manchester
Haynes in Augusta for few days,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

Edward y. Turner is visiting rela.
tives in town.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

Mrs. j. w. Romeo left on the morn
ing train, yesterday. for Greenville.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

me Salvation Army was 80 years old
the other day.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31
HALLOWELL.

John Burns. Jr., attended the Liver
more races, Tuesday. s.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

2.17 CLASS-TROTTING- $780,
UNFINISHED.
Sixteen starters. Ed Locke, b. e.. by
Fayette Russell. "a. p. McDonald), Par
nell. Jr., CHI. g., by Parnell. (Foote). Edna
Simmons, blk. M. by Simmons. (Bower).
one heat each. Best time. 2.12hs
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

Willard I. Parker went to Brunswick,
Tuesday, for few days visit to-4xfa-
tives.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

w. +. Beedle IL spending a few days
with friends and relatives In town.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

Miss Carrie Stone arrived home, yes
terday, from BOwdoinhafn.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31

I Miss Mae Peckham has returned froE
visit to Old Orchard.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31
Daily kennebec Journal.

W4ll Peasiee and family are visiting
in Bangor. .Y
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31
READvIlLE, MASS, RACES.
The Crowd Mad Good Sport and Value
Received for Money.

Readville, Mass, Aug. SO.-Two COM
plete, a heat in an unfinished race of yes
terday, and three heats in a race which
goes over until tomorrow, furnished the
sport at the Grand Circuit meet today,
and good crowd saw many warm
brushes.
80 PACE-PURSE slTOA(FINISHED
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31
s!;'!KOWH ]!
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred N. viles and SON.
Bin, are passing the week at the Hub.

The street department has been busy
for the past few days flushing out the
sewers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-31
caurlSsi cordea ;4sion..

More than 100 collisions occurred on
Japanese railroad in 1897.
Theatrical companies in Mexico must
play everything they advertise or pay
fine. IN IN, ...,,.
Farinelli SSi9}HAa SHinggs S99 notes without
singers. ---
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-03-31
Written for The Prison Mirror,
FORCED TESTIMONY.

There can be no doubt that where
evidence is gained by pressure it
is unreliable and very dangerous to the
accused. This is especially so where
several persons are arrested and the
prosecuting attorney persuades one of
them to give states evidence. Cases
of this nature frequently happen and
it seems that it requires very little per-
suasion to impel them to swear to al.
most anything to get a conviction.
When one is thus under pressure, what
is to hinder him from committing per-
jury? When there is doubt as to the
guilty person, what is to prevent the
one most implicated from swearing to
falsehoods to save himself from i'm
prisonment? None whatever This
phase of the question is only too fire.
quently lost sight of when in pursuit
OF evidence to gain conviction.
States evidence has long been recog-
nized as justifiable means of gaining
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-03-31
Wfltten for The Prison Mirror.
MONEY OR MERIT,

We often hear the question asked:
GLOW much is he worth?" 1t brings
to my mind two men, one worth $780,
600, the other has nothing but an in
tense nature. The wealthy man was
mean enough to give his horses shay
ings and put green goggles on the ami
mails to make them believe it was
grass they were eating. He was so
selfish that the only friends he had
were those who loved him for his
money. These men worked together
and the wealthy one harassed and ma
ligned the other continually. At first
he exercised great kindness and for
bearance, but finding that useless, his
strong feeling prompted him to resent
the wrong. And as he did not dare to
thrash the fellow he had to resort to
something else. So after devoting a
great deal of energy and exercising his
intellect considerably he was success
full in giving the fellow the worst of it.
But the thought came to him one day:
why not direct as much force against
my own meanness as do against that
bulk of sluggish insensibility? That
day he resolved that when he was
again wronged he would patiently bear
the injustice and never again lower
himself by treating others meanly be-
cause they were unkind to him.
That was long time ago. His in
nate goodness has become so we'll de-
veloped since, that each chance he
meets of doing good he makes his own.
Helping the poor; bringing healing
balm to heavy hearts; speaking words
of love and comfort to the sorrowful,
encouraging the sick, sad and Wretched
taking the weak by the hand, lifting
UP the fallen, and leading those who
hesitate. He never does a hateful
deed, nor utterS an unkind word. In
deepest woe he works for the happi-
ness of others. When the burdens of
grief are bearing down heavily upon
him, he lightens his load by helping
others whose 'eyes are wet with tears
is not such man a monument of
merit? Honor bright, which of these
two men are worth the most-the one
whose gold is marked with the blood,
and baptized with the tears of his help
less victims, disgraced by cheating,
corrupted by hypocrisy, and covered
with impurity, or the other who has
merit instead of money? Let us Judge
people by what they are and aspire to
be, not by what they have. Which of
these men would you rather be in that
hour when familiar faces and other
objects in the room will blur, get dim,
then fade and disappear? CIR.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-03-31
<>spoEtFRfoM
Ssyzz@a@s98@SS~ f.
Billy, Hes In Trouble.

I've got letter, parson, from my son away
out West,
An my OIL hearts as heavy as an anvil in my
breast,
To think the boy whose futur' 1 had once so
proudly planned
Should wander from the path O. right an
come to such an end!
I told him when he left us only three short
years ago,
He'd find himself a-ploughin' in mighty
crooked row
He'd miss his fathers counsels. an his
mothers prayers, too,
But he said the farm was hateful, an he
guessed he'd have to go.
1 know tha's big temptation for younster in
the West,
resist,
An when he left l warned him o. the ever
waitn' Snares
That lie like hidden sarpints in life's pathway
everywhereS.
But Bill, he promised faithful to be keerful.
an allowed
He'd build reputation thatd make us mighty
proud,
But it seems as how my counsel sort O. faded
from his mind
An now the boys in trouble O. the very
wuStest kind!
His letters come so seldom that l somehow
sort O. knOwed
That Billy was a-trampin' on a mighty rocky
road.
But never once imagined he would bow my
head in shame,
An in the dust ID waller his Oh daddy's hon.
Ored name.
He writes from out in Denver. an the story's
mighty short;
L just can't tell his mother; it'd crush her
poor oil heart!
An so | reckoned, parson, you might break
the news to her
Bill's in the legislator, but he dosnt say what
Denver Post.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-03-31

room door the other afternoon, | could
hear inside peal after peal of silvery,
girlish laughter. 1t was Miss Ethel,
who was entertaining her school
friends with tea and bread and butter
and jokes. [ dare say the jokes would
not have made me smile. But when
the springtide is blOssOming, and the
sap is running upward in the trees,
and the vernal woods are bursting into
leaf and echoing with song, and,
wherever you look, all is verdure and
joy, almost anything can move quick
laughter Or there is an earlier stage.
when baby is being tickled by mama
and crows with delight Or though
this, it is true, is often silent, there is
that most beautiful of all sights-the
little blue eyed boy or girl, who lies in
the white cot at dawn and smiles, and
ripples with laughter at some innocent,
childish thought. 1t is good to hear
happy laughter; it is good to watch
these baby smiles. But laughter can
be not only grotesque, but very dread
full as well. TO hear maniac laugh,
is one of the most terrible experiences.
10 hear hundred laugh, as one does
in nearing the Isola del Pazzi at Ven
ice, is foretaste of the lower regions.
Farther on the downward path of
life, when the end is very near, the
failure of the mind is often proclaimed
by violent laughter. The old man is
back again in the scenes of boyhood,
and is going over in a dream the days
of long ago. l remember well, lying
awake in London lodgings, through an
otherwise still June night, unable to
sleep for the loud, incessant laughter
pealing from the room above, where
the old man of the house lay dying
When it ended, just before dawn, the
old life ended with it; and in the morn
ing his daughter came in to announce
the fact and express the hope that l
had not been much disturbed The
old man, she assured me, had been in
no pain, but had been going over his
boyish days again: the old brothers,
long years dead and forgotten, were
with him; and they were cricketing, or
gathering apples, or swinging, or swim
ming together across the old brook, all
that sleepless night. One was glad it
was so; but the laughter had an awful
sound. Colonel "John Joyce Wheeler
Wilcox says: Laugh and the world
laughs with your Let us laugh, deep
and hearty, and have the world laugh
with us.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-03-31
HARMFUL INFLUENCE
[From Minneapolis Times.

To say what influence is most harm.
full would be difficult, if not impossible
Undoubtedly one of the most powerful
influences on young mans life and
character is the books he reads. The
great majority of young men read
something. Most of them read news
papers mainly, and generally the least
useful and instructive portions OF
them.
Books stand for intellect; their
source, their method, their reception
is in the intellect. There is almost NO
conception ofintellectuality apart from
them. TO know them is to be intel.
lectual. Of all the things that help to
form the character of young man
and work out his success or failure
there is really nothing more potent
than his reading. Even the young
man who does not read learns much
from those who do. He may learn
much by observation, but far more by
reading. Observation intensifies and
sharpens few powers; reading broad
ems and awakens all to a wider and
higher activity. Reading is growing.
The reading man is growing man;
he multiplies himself by all that he
reads of the knowledge and experience
of those of whom he reads.
Unfortunately, all reading is not
good reading. A flood of it is con-
stantly pouring over the land that is
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-03-31
lR, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, MARCH 81, $685.

conviction. There are innumerable in
stances in the past where it has defeated
the ends of justice by freeing the real
instigator and severely Furnishing those
who, perhaps, deserved only Jail SEN
tence. There undoubtedly have been
cases where conviction depended upon
one of the parties betraying the rest.
In instances of this nature, where one
betrays another, it is quite evident to
even the dullest intellect that such an
individual would not hesitate to en-
large and wander from the facts in
order to save himself.
This evidence is not only the cause
of incalculable injury to the accused.
but the prosecution as well. When
turned over to the defendants LAWYER
it often happens that he becomes so
tantalized that he is unable so say posi-
lively whether Truth is living or dead.
The only thing that is uppermost in
his mind is the gruesome picture which
the prosecuting attorney drew in order
to force him into betrayal. There
are also instances where the accused
ones were intimidated and made as
pllable as putty by false reports as to
what their accomplices have said or
offered to do until they become so in
dignant and excited that the fear of
perjury has no terrOrs for them. They
will perjure themselves thousand
times and make accusations that defy
verifcation in order to be avenged.
Evidence that has been brought
forth under duress should be entirely
debarred; but, if absolutely necessary,
should only be accepted when all other
means of conviction have been ex-
hausted. There are numerous reasons
why it should be abolished. The prin-
cipal one-One which is quite evident
to attorneys-is that it puts premium
upon perjury. This, in itself, is suffi-
cient if none other were forthcoming.
JASPER.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-03-31
Written for The Prison Mirror
WHY PRISON BIRD?

note in recent issue of THE MIR
ROR the above expression used in re-
gard to liberated convict. Now allow
me to enter protest
When man is convicted of a tres
pass against the law his punishment is
fixed. This punishment he must suf-
fer as best he may. But when once he
has paid the ''pound of flesh nearest
the heart then the man who further
purSueS him either with scOrn or Op-
probrious epithets is merely carrion
bird unworthy of any notice or con-
slderation. There is no logical reason
why man should be pursued the bal
ance of his life, because he has paid
the penalty imposed on him. Neither
is there any justice in bringing the
fact of previous conviction of a
crime in as proof of a subsequent one.
But this, nevertheless, is done.
Why should this kind of evidence be
brought against a man when he is sup
posed to have the benefit of any doubt
that may exist? 1t seems that in cases
where a man is accused of crime it is
only necessary to establish the fact
that he has been previously convicted
in order to again saddle him with the
responsibility of another.
The state assumes to a certain ex-
tent to protect men liberated from
prison. Why should not this protec-
tion extend so far as to prevent this
kind OF evidence being submitted to a
jury? 1t might properly be called to
the attention of the judge after con-
viction had been secured. But it
should never have bearing on the
case before the conclusion of a trial.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-03-31

1t seems as if people do not laugh
enough. An old poet, 300 years ago
said: Laugh and be fat" A fat
man who shakes all over, does not
laugh for that purpose, but because lie
likes it. The thin man might laugh
until his thin sides ache, and not be-
come fat. Rabelais has it that Zone
inch of JOY surmounts of grief span;
because to laugh is proper to man"
Parrots and monkeys have sort of
imitation laugh, but it is not the real
thing. There is a laughter that is
catching, and it does good to those
who catch it. Children laugh as natur-
ally as birds sing, when they are happy.
Children pinched with want and the
little ones of Indian tribes do not even
smile. So the music of laughter is the
song of pleasure. Men who are laugh
Ing over good story are not conspir-
ing to do harm. The man remarkably
serious over thoughts of piety, or
crime, is the man to keep away from.
He will make you sad, though he may
do no other evil. Sir Lewis Morris in
the Forum, asks himself: "Has laugh
ter gone out? Are we never again to
have the honest guffaw-the loud
laugh, which, as the poet says, be-
speaks the vacant mind ?" Is this re-
ally a true account of the rationale
cachination? If so, probably it has
gone out, at any rate in polite circles.
Because we are nothing now, if we are
not cultured and refined; and to be vul-
gar and to be ignorant are worse Of
fenses in the decalogue. And yet it
almost seems pity too.
1t is not well, surely, to lose any
innocent and happily infectious ex-
preston of pleasure in world so be-
deviled as ours. Alas! 1 fear there is
no doubt that the power of irrepressi-
BILE laughter is the gift of youth, and
youth only, whether in nations or in
individuals. Passing the drawing
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1898-03-31

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of
your love and tenderness sealed up un-
til your friends are dead. Fill their
lives with sweetness. Speak approx
ing, cheerful words while their ears can
hear them, and while their hearts can
be thrilled by them. The things you
mean to say when they are gone say
before they go. The flowers you mean
to send for their coffins; send to
brighten and sweeten their homes be-
fore they leave them. If my friends
have alabaster boxes laid away full of
perfumes of sympathy and affection,
which they intend to break over my
dead body, would rather they would
bring them out in my weary hours, and
open them, that l may be refreshed
and cheered by them while 1 need
them.-Henry Ward Beecher.