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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05

The Mine Owners Demand.

There is nothing modest about In"
demands of the silver mine owners.
They simply want the earth and the
fullncss thereof. They insist that our
government shall coin the product of
their mines for them free of all charge
into twice as many dollars as this bull
lion is worth at market prices. and *
sue certificates based on this coinage
of fifty cent dollars which shall b."
made legal tender. and with which not
only the employees of the silver kings
shall be paid for their labor but also all
other wage earners throughout the
country.
No class of people in the world are
so much interested in having the best
dollar that can be coincd-a dollar
worth one hundred cents the world
over-as are those who sell their labor
Wage carriers should never forget the
fact that the purchasing value of bill
is absolutely determined hy the value
of the coin with which it is redeemed.
For example: If the government should
issue bills redeemabe in gold, silver
or copper at Is to and should redeem
with copper. what would such bills be
worth? 1t does not take any very pro
found student of financial problems 10
understand that the value of bills thus
redeemed would Immediately fall 20
the commercial value of the copper
used in redemption for each and every
dollar of them These are elementary
class of people in the world under
stand their truth and force any better
than the members of the eighteen great
silver producing companies which con-
stitute the powerful trust that through
the United States Senate has taken
Congress by the throat, and which
maintains at Washington the most
powerful lobby in the history of the
American capitol. 1t would seem as if
| these companies. with an annual profit
of seventy millions of dollars at present
| commercial prices of silver, should be
| satisfied but it is evident that even this
vast sum is unable to satisfy their in
| satiate greed.
There is no more reason why the
| United States government should fur
| nish an unlimited market for silver
| bullion at twice it's commercial value
| than why it should furnish similar
unlimited market for the egg product
of the country at twice he prices they
now command. Indeed if the govern
ment is to go into the business of fur
nshing markets for the products of tn,
| country, we are inclined to think thai
| eggs would have stronger claim t.
consideration than silver. BY furnish
| ing an unlimited market for eggs the
government would be bestowing its
| paternal benefits on thousands of PEG
while by bestowing this great benefit
/ upon the bonanza kings of the grea,
silver trust. it would profit--at the eX.
pense of the American maSses-only A
few enormously wealthy men located ir
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05
INFLAMmATORY RHEUMATISM.
From St Lawrence PlaindeaIcr, Canton.
n Y

From st. Lawrence PlaindeaIcr, Canton
n. y.
To suffer for years with prevailing
painful ailmcnt. which baiilcd skillfu
by simple household remedy. is the lot
which befell Mrs George l.. Rogers Of
West Main Street, Canton. N. y.
Thirteen years ago" said Mrs Rog-
ers to a reporter. ~ was attacked with
infia mmatOry rheumatism and compii-
cation OF diseases.
you can judge somewhat of what (
endured when you look at these hands.
They were distorted, twisted and swollen
Ny foot too. is so much out of shape that
the big toe lays across the others, the
end touching the little toe.
'Notwit hs ;anding ; am SiXty-fiSe years
old. have pleasant home ana other
comforts. life to me was far from enjoy
able for all other things pale into insig
niticance when YOU are without good
health.
Il tried different doctors and many
proprietary remedies. but no permanent
benefit was obtained.
Last March ! tried DIR. Williams
Pink Pills for Pale People and before |
had finished the first box ! began 10 feel
that they were doing me good. ! con
tin,ied using them and steadily grew bet
ter.
II have used thirteen boxes of the pills
and today feel better than for the past
fifteen years.
MY appetite Is good feel bright.
cheerful and have n desire to live and en-
JOY society.
II have been a member Of the Metho-
dist church for many years, but for six
wears was unable to attend ] am able
now To attend the church services regu-
larry and certainly appreciate that privi-
lcge.
II consider Dr. Williams Pink Pills for
Pale People Il wonderful medicine and
am confident no other medicine could
have effected the wonderful cure they
have in my case
II am glad to state this. hoping that
some sufferer may profit by it and obtain
relief.
1t was natures own remedy that ac-
complished this cure caused by impure
blood for DR.. Williams Pink Pills for
Pale People are composed of vegetable
remedies that exert powerful influence
in purifying and enrching the blood
Many diseases long supposed by the med
zeal profession to he incurable have sue
cumbed to the potent influence of these
pills. This universal remedy is sold by
all druggists.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05
Rattlesnake Bill.

Way down in oil Mass chusetts
Whar tn east wind allurs blows.
With fogs an rains throughout tn
Only 'ceptin' when it SHOWS:
Thar lived a chap sum years ago
Who hankered meath his vest.
10 be a cowboy fierce an brave,
In tn wild an woody West.
So with broad brmmcd nat an a pair ov
guns.
With Bowie an IL shirt ov red
He rived one day in Iowa
At tn town ov Boomn' ahead.
He made a bluff at tn Owl saloon.
Whar hz tank he begun to ill.,
That he was from Arizona wids
An that hiz handle wuz Rattlcsnake
Bill.
But tn boys soon tumbcd to Bits lay.
An his down-east Yankee drawl
And wnked when he ordered a dish ov
grub
In fortytwo calibre call;
Gin corn-bread an leg ov dog"
This would-be cowboy cried.
with a pint ov rye to wash it down.
An with rattlesnakes on tn side
tn dish of grub wuz soon brought forth.
An when Bill gazed on tn snakes.
He begun to tremble in hiz butes.
Like one with tn agur shakes
Then he whooped one long an piercin'
yell.
An bolted fer tn eastern trail
An probly rum fer HI entire night.
Eff his long legs did not fail.
An the crowd at tn Owl LATED loud an
long.
An mid thar laffing peals
They gaZed on tn leg ov mutton Bill
left.
An tn two Mississippi eels
WILL. j. liAYNER
Clinton Iowa. Jan. ~.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05

In some quarters, not only in Europe
hut also in this country. an effort Is
being made to entangle the United
States in the Chinese imbroglio. II
seems certain. however. that the ad-
ministration wise course of nonin-
reference is the only policy for thu
United States. If Russia and Germany
cut off slices of Germany it is difficult
to see how our commerce or intereS;
are TO he affected. We trade with Rus
STA and Germany. and with their col
onies it would be the same. England
has several grounds for Directing &c
China s partition, hut there is no res
son why We help pull her Chestnuts
out of the fire. and we are all right
whoever wins in the East. There will
be quite as much demand for our goods
in thriving German or Russian colonies
in China as there is now when AL
China is ignorant and unontcrprisine
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05

How differently the streams of go!i
has been flowing since the election Of
Ury pretty constantly since then. where
ass for a long time before that date Il
was flowing out. 1t flowed out 50 fast
that Cleveland had to sell $263, 900, 900 OF
bonds to replenish the gold stock.
without any bond sales at all, how
ever, the gold stock has become so larg.
recently that it is getting troublesome.
This is one of the embarrassments
which the country got by smashing
Organism, but the country can stand
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05


Wherever a railroad is under con-
struction in any part of the world now
adays there is pretty certain to he d
demand for American materials and
American workmanship. one hundred
and fifteen passenger cars are being
built by a Pennsylvania firm for the
Orange Free State Railway in South
Africa. America has also just booked
some enormous orders from China ana
Japan, and recently large quantities
of American steel rails and locomotives
have been sent to India,a market which
certainly ought to be under English
control if the price and quality of he:
wares could sustain competition with
orr own.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05

Mayor Van Wyck is evidently going
To prove just such a mayor as New
York had every reason to expect from
Tammany. one of his first acts was to
shock the Intelligent people of the city
by indulging in fierce dcnunciatioa
Of the action of his predecessor in con
Stnting to the granting Of the site for
the proposed new public library build
ing there free of charge. This outburSt
was charitably regarded as nothing
more than manifestation of the
mayors bad temper at the time, but.
in view of the attack he has just been
making on the president of the munich
pal board of education there, it would
seem as if Mayor Van Wyck cherished
IA deep seated animosity against any
thing and everything that contribute
to the education and enlightenment Of
the people In his attempt to overhaul
those having the public schools in
charge he betrayed an extraordinary
Ignorance of the commonest education
al methods, and he sneered at about all
the innovations that have been made in
the public schools of all intelligent COM
n1upitif.G
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05

L.andlady-What do you think of the
cheese?
Bparder-wcIl. it has its strong, poinss
Truth.
she-How did the fellows Performance
with the snakes come off? $50 AaA
He--Why. the snakes Missed him off
the stage.-Yonkers' Statesman.
politics. Jimpson?" "
You bet there is That's where All
mine went Detroit Free Press.
Who is that man talking so loud?
20. that's Nugget. the Klondike hero
Had remarka BILE luck
"Ah. got rich?"
No got home Odds and Ends
isn't good? Why. / told the cook inst
how 10 make il. Perhaps she didn't
catch the idea. z
Boarder-No: think it was the chick-
en- she failed TO catch.-Tit-Bits
"How about that bill you promised TO
Introduce" inquired the constituent.
Il kept my promise" replied the mem
Der of Congress. II introduced II. but
nobody appeared to desire its further ac-
duaintance. Washington Star.
Thin Boarder-l don't see how You
manage Ia fare 50 well at this boarding
house. have industriously courted the
landlady and all her daughters. but I'm
Fat Boardcr-I courted the cook.-New
York Weekly.
II want to get a couple Of books for
two young men, said the girl III the
book store. land | don't know what to
choose
'Er-what sort of Young men are
they asked the really intelligent clerk.
'One teaches in our Sunday school, and
the other-well he is not that kind of a
young man at all. you know
All, think have just what YOU
want" -.,
And he handed out two copies of QUO
Nadis. indianapolis Journal.
II am not expecting any package" said
the lady of the house.
This is the number persisted the
driver of the delivery wagon. looking at
his book again. Names Higgins, amt
it,
Yes.
NO. 31i?"
That's our number.
Then it's for YOU
Il think not. 1t must be Il case of mis-
taken IDENTITY
NO, mum. It's a case of beer.'-Tit-
Bits.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05

Private John Allen of Mississippi, is
the National House of Representa- tive.;,
and usually has good coon story. OF
most always succeeds in amusing and
entertaining the House-but rarely
swayS it,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05

a small number of rotten borough states,
nine of which. with total population of
&C., 900 only 2000 more than our own
good state of Maine has have not less
than eighteen members in the United
people of this country consider the in
solent and arrogant demands of the
silver barons upon the bounty of our
government. the more firmly will they
become convinced that the establish
ment of the free and unlimited coinage
of silver at a ratio of Is to |. or any
other fictitious ratio. would be the
greatest possible calamity that could
bcfall the American people.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05

If there is anything wild-eyed sill
Yer man hates 1t is horrid scarcity Of
gold. AS the value of the gold product
of the mines now is more than that of
the gold and silver together Il few
years ago. and is rapidly increasing.
any silver financier can see that we are
liza Die 10 perish in a gold famine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05
This Is a Kentucky Statesman.

: TNVW DIX NTdTT dTTT TNTITVss.
Statesman Rhea of Kentucky. was the
only free silver advocate who went out
of his way during the House debate on
the Teller resolution to insult a member
Of the government, and he did it by de-
claring that ''if there was any hole in
hades hotter than the others It should
he reserved especially for John Sher-
man" 1T costs the National government
5000 year to keep this moral and men
tai Kentucky freak on exhibition before
the country, and it is strange that no pri-
vatc museum manager has offered a high
ll Irill for il
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05
Criticism That Is a Tribute.
lSt. Louis Globe-Democrat.

Senator Stewart criticised the Prcsi-
dents New York speech" says Il Wash
ington dispatch. So will Bryan. Tilman.
Teller and all the other political bunko
sharps and regulators all over the coun-
try. Their hostility is a fine tribute to
it's financial honesty and sanity The
Presidents canvass in 1896 was made on
that line. and that is why he got his 600
900 plurality. The plurality would be t,
good deal larger than this if the election
were held today.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05

In San Francisco one day this week
eight cents per gallon. But still, most
of us here in the East will continue to
drink water
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05
Maine Gossip


l want no pledge of joys to be
No false, uncertain VOW;
That friend. alone, is kind to me
Who proves his friendship now.
Life's changing year is brief. so brief
And l shall slumber long.
When autumn binds the yellow sheaf.
And winter ends the song. -
Then. sweetheart, come today and bring
Loves flower in perfect bloom:
| shall not care what wreaths you fling
Tomorrow on my tomb.
Baltimore American.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05

1t is about time for Senator Lindsay
to call upon the members of the Ken
lucky Legislature to resign. In view of
his positive refusal to give up his
seat in the United States Senate, they
might as well be resigned.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05

Washington to his home in Gardiner,
with his pockets and grip full of coin
of the realm, has right to be the hap,
piest man i'm Maine. Stll. he only re-
ceved a part of what was his just due
from the government, and that, too,
after Il tedious delay Of some thirty
years.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05
VOICES OF THE PRESS.
Unfair Treatment.
Chicago TimeS-Herald

Chicago Times HeraldD
y Kansas man says he wrote to the
secretary of agriculture for some to-
bacCO seed and carefully specified that
he wanted Battle AK. Climax or star
plug. and was put off with the silly
excuse that they were giving out moth
in, INF on tbic
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05

Another senatorial deadlock is brok-
en- at last. The Tennessee Democrats
have united on Senator Turley to sue
coed himself and "Fiddling Bob" Tay-
lor, the governor of the state who lp-
pointed Turley to fill VancanCy. finds
his senatorial aspirations unceremoni
pllslV ShplNe1
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05

The New Jersey alchemst who says
he can make gold out of the -baSer met
ais has undertaken a much easier task
Than Mr.. Bryan would impose on, the
government in asking it to create val
iaS out of nothing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05

No Aotice whatever will be taken OF
unsigned communications.
The journal cannot be held respOn-
sible for the preservation or return OF
rejected communications.
Address all communication relating
to subscriptions and advertisements to
BURLEIGH & FLYNT. Publishers, Au-
gusta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05

The Reporter-Journal skipped an is
sue on the day of the storm and thinks
there was sufficient provocation. OF
the force only one boy and the foreman
reached the office. The girls coudn'
get there, and no team could go after
them. There We're no wires to bring
Geographic news, and no mails to seal
news from. If paper could have been
issued il could not have been delivered
to the subscribers. Gardiner was sore
ly afflicted by the blizzard and its local
paper seemed to have its share of truub-
les on that occasion.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05
The Cuban Situation.


Spain is desperate. Cuba is lost to her.
There is not one chance in a thousand
that Spanish control can be re-established
in the island. War, starvation. murder
and bribery have failed. Spain is practi-
L LIZ. In L
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05

No one arises in the present Hawai-
fanny" Cuckoo Gray still fingers in
the Senate, but he is silent on this
painful subject
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05

Certainly woman like Mrs. Grant
is a public bcnefactor in any commu-
nifty. What a glorious field there is for
her to do missionary work in the West
and South where the Christian art of
baking beans in civilized and appe-
tiZiug manner is almost unknown.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05

Boss McKane will complete his term
at Sing Sing April 80. Tammany vii.
probably have a good fat office in wait
ing for him.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05

The spirit of the once terrible Apache
]ndians seems to have been broken
forever. An Arizona paper asserts that
the main tribe of the Apaches, now
clustered about San Carlos, has fur
nished only one serious criminal in the
past five wears
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05

Love is always shy and coy, 50 we
are told, and the most extreme case in
modern history is reported from Knox
county. \ young man who resides at
Friendship was in Gushing last Satur-
day night to take a young lady for a
sleigh ride. When he got to her home,
not seeing her, he stayed nearly an
hour trying to muster up courage
enough to ask her mother where she
was. Failing to do so he drove back
home alone. He ought to have frozen
to death on that ride home, but prop
ably he didn't.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05

1t is presume bic that the Kalamazoo
minister who announces that the stage
is utterly degraded" will, hereafter,
attend no more performances.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05

it is impure every vital organ in the body is
improperly nourisked and becomes weak
and diseased and fails to perform its proper
functions in the economy of life. The vic
tim suffers from loss of appetite and sleep,
wind, pain, f,llness and swelling of the
stomach after meals, bad taste in the
mouth. foul breath, imaginary lump OF
food in the throat, headaches, giddiness,
drowsiness, heavy head and costiveness.
All of these conditions and their causes
are promptly cured by the use of Doctor
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. 1t
brings back the keen edge of appetite,
makes the digestion perfect and the liver
active 1t makes rich, red, pure blood,
filled with the life giving elements of the
food that build healthy tissues firm flesh,
strong muscles and vibrant nerve fbers. Il
invigorates and vitalizes the whole body.
and imparts mental power and elasticity.
1t cures oS per cent of all cases OF con
sumption, strengthens weak lungs stops
bleeding from lungs, splitting of blood,
obstinate lingering coughs and kindred
ailments.
Costiveness, constipation and torpidity
of the liver are surely, speedily and per
maneutly cured by DR.. Pierce's Pleasant
Pellets. They are tiny, sugar coated gran
ues. One little "Pellet" is gentle laxa-
tive, and two mild cathartic. They never
grippe. They stimulate and strengthen the
faded organs until regular habit Is formed
and may then be discontinued without a
return of the trouble. They stimulate.
invigorate and regulate the stomach. liver
and bowels. Medicine stores sell them,
and have no other pills that "art just
as good"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05

Mrs. Grant doubles upon the amount
and puts 81 quarts of dry beans to par
boil This amount, when cooked dish
- out an even 81 quarts. And when
some local secret order wants a real
old timer. they order a bushel or so Of
Mrs. Grants baked beans with a pro-
portionatc supply of brownbread.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05
Aqqravatinq the Drink Evil.


There is a rlImor on foot that the w C.
T. I. intends to petition the Legislature
to change the name of the largest of the
horoushs of New York City. 1t makes
The aVera", man so thirsty every time h.
repeats it,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05
Maine Iramps Should Do the Same
Chicago Times-IIerald. .,

A tramp arrested for vagrancy assured
Syracuse court that his regular trade
was CONSTRUCTION of air castles" For
the next thirty days, however. he will
break stone for the founda lions of more
substantial structures
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05

The man who takes a dark view OF
the world cannot live out of doors
much these days.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05

Tears and means for loved ones who
will never come back from the sea fol-
low the great storm in many a humble
home along the Maine coast.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05

Senator Murphy continues to mis-
represent New York in the United
States Senate.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05

Bath is justly proud of her harbor
and IL made a record i'm the late storm
that few New England harbors can
boast Of Not the slightest damage
was reported from the many steamers
and vessels anchored there.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05

Boston will never say another word
about down East snow storms.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05

Bar Harbor arises to dispute with
much emphasis the claim of Lewiston
that it has the best sewerage system in
Maine. Would that every city and
large town had right to claim the
best.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05

Hot times at Names Capitol are gen
orally reserved for legislative winters,
but yesterday mornings experience
was quite warm while it lasted
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-05

York county doesn't like the idea II
having the State stipend withheld from
its Saco fair just because pools Were
sold there, and because it was trint
free and easy in certain respects.