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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-10-17

Ninety-nine men out of a hundred re-
fer with pride to the way their mothers
cook. But all the mothers in the world.
little or big, can't cook worth
cent If they haven't the proper
materials, and that's Where We come in.
If there's anything in the grocery line
you can't get here we want to know
about it, and we II get it. Here's some
thing you don't get every day and that is
Rival Java Coffee if you did you would
not be asking your wife, every morning,
what is the matter with the coffee?
HILL & LOCKE,
augusta 4, Mali e.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-10-17

EXPENDITURES IN
Claims by death, endoWments
and annuitieS, surrendered
policies and dividends or
returns premiums, total paid
policyholders ..................
Taxes. Expenses, including
agents commissions, adver-
Using, salaries, &c.
Profit and loss account, in
cludfng premiums on bonds
purchased, and $780, 600
charged of from real estate
to cover possible deprecla-
ton COMMUNICATION.
Total expenditures.
ASSETS JANUARY /.
Cash on hand and in banks.
Loans on collateral, U. S.
bonds and other securities. :
United States and other
bonds. par.
First bonds and mortgages
on real eState..................
Real estate. ......... ...........
Loans on policies In force.
Agents balances and cash
obligations ...........E...
Interest due and accrued Il =
e Net deferred and nnreported
Spremiums on policies IN force
Z r. E
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-10-17
,eAs. 1893
53d ANNUAL STATEMENT.
Mutual Benefit |
Life Insurance Co.
NEWARK, NJ.
AMZI DODD, President.
RECEIPTS IN 1897.

Received for premiums. 5000. s., 6O6, 191
Received for interest and rents 1927 ,SzI
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-10-17

Bates, 2; Richardson, Pratt, Holman,
Hunt, Slocum. Goals from touchdowns-
Richardson, 4; Sherlock, 2. Goals from
deld-Rice Umpire, Dickson. Referee,
Robinson. Linesmen, Phetteplace and
Jones. Time, two Som. halves.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-31
THE GREEN HORNETS.

The Spanish flotilla of torpedo boats,
now on their way to the Gulf are paint
ed sea green, being but barely discern
ible at close range because of their
color and because of their lying so low
in the water. The Dons name them
hornets" There has been much talk
of torpedo vessels Of late, but the truth
is that both the torpedo protector and
torpedo destroyer are an experiment.
This kind of machine has had no trial
or test in actual naval conflict. Still it
As not to be wondered at that a dread
of such craft exists, especially when
our own navy is SO stintedly supplied
with them. Spain ranks or stands be-
low this country in naval equipment,
but in the matter Of these torpedo ma
chimes they outstrip us. When in the
month of March, 1862, the first ironclad
ship, the Merrimac, made her way to
Hampton roads and destroyed the Con-
gress, the Cumberland and other ships
In the brief space of an hour or two,
the whole Union fleet being unable to
make telling resistance to the terrific
onslaught of the Confederate ironclad,
the country was filled with apprehen-
sion. There was CONSERVATION at
Washington as we'll But when the
next morning, the Merrimac came out
TO renew her work of destruction and
further emphasize her victory, the lit
lie Monitor, from which the torpedo
boat and destroyer are modelled, with
its black. solid back just above the sur
face, changed impending defeat into
glorious victory. That incident was the
signal for remodeling the navies of the
world. Heavy steel armOred ships OF
enormous tonnage and armament, with
crews numbering many hundreds and
of unheard of cost, took the place of
the wooden and iron ships. If now it
should be proved in conflict that these
little torpedo boats of $50 tons or less,
with crews of a score or so of men, are
able to destroy in a few minutes of ac-
ton the heaviest armed and most pow
erful battleships, it viii be manifest
that our costly navy is of little use
and We have spent our strength for
maught. 1t is this feeling of apprehen-
sion of the untried potency of the tor
pedo vessels that causes naval officers
30 ponder with doubt the result of an
actual engagement
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-31
Along the Kansas Nile,

Mrs. Charles Robinson has accused the
late Senator Plumb of murder, practi-
cally. Have the current issues in Kan
sas become so stale that we are going
to the grave yards for issues?
The architect under Morrill,, Mr.. Hol-
land, has answered the Populist charges
Of corruption in contracts. Hollands an
swer is good enough had he not ruined it
by first beginning his defense with mud.
The two Republican congressman from
Kansas did not join the House revolt
against Speaker Reed. Curtis might have
done so easily. as he will not go back to
the House and would have risked moth
ing.
It has been supposed that Major Hood
had the Wyandotte county delegation.
This turns out to be a mistake. the dele
CATION being non-committal on governor.
II is understood privately that the dele
cation will be for W. z. Stanley.
Hold" cried a Kansas man in ring
ing voice to the House as the Maine re-
port was being read. Il wish to drop a
pin. Tomorrow morning the papers will
say that you could have heard a pin
drop. and 1 want to see If you really
can"
William Allen White much as he abuses
iron-heel Of an appreciated currency on
the boil-scarred neck Of the mortgage
ridden serf. He has had a mortgage on
his property in Il Dorado and has just
paid It of.
In the Fourth congressional district the
Democrats insist on naming the fusion
nominee for congress. The POpulists con-
scented 10 hold a conference Three Dem
ocrats and three Populists have been eau
cusinz AZ Emporia with the result that
the Democrats VIII get the candidate.
The Kansas nintiaman and the Spanish
sentry could not understand each other
and finally the sentry said. angrily:
..Vamousa" Thank heaven" cried the
Kansas man as he lodged over the first
hill and shot for the American lines
That word -vamouse' happens 70 be both
Kansas and Spanish
Kansas congressman who are displeassd
with McKiniey's delay il the Cuban mat
ter and SO express themselves. should not
run for congress They must either 20
10 war when IT does come or stay a.
home They will not 20 20 Washington
The people want al those who are cali
ing FOR war 10 60. and ALL stand 70 mon
keying-
IN the dome OF the capitol at Topeka the
portraits OF several men connected vita
re history OF Kansas E1a - painted
Those selected Sc far are John Brown.
Jim Lane Governor Robinson. Genera
Lyons Captain Samuel Walker Governor
Ree6er. Governor Geery. James AoutzoE1-
cry. Charles Sumner and Henry Ward
BeecAsr-
The PopuHst officials 81 Topeka az sad
% &c bounding Reverend E1oree- i Is
charged that they hired Po2sl.st pzPsr
% rrznt Lena Crzth's mothers zrs6zv1r
a nasty tnsny which To reputable rzper
would toucn} and then Distributed copies
al ever Bridgeport. ccaaectscut. with ire
result thai the people tAers gave Ai-z tse
scs-oerglcAa heart EEbses vii get q
church or tie North SIDE II Topeka
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-31

a halt to the rest of the world through
it. China has agreed 10 all the Russian
demands, and given a twenty-five year
lease Of Ta-Lien-Wan as an open port
and as the terminus of the Trans-Man-
churian railway. Right of fertilization
is conceded as well as the right for the
Russians to construct a railway from
Petuna Gin Manchuria, on the Sungari
river) to Ta-Lien-Wan and Port Ar
thur on the same terms as stipulated
in the case of the rans-Manchurian
railway. In this deal China is allowed
to keep up appearances by retaining
her sovereign rights theoretically. But
as it is impossible TO assert any OF
these rights, the lease is practically
equivalent to a cession. Apart from
the moral side of such a transaction,
in which coercion and argument are
made synonymous terms, Russia de-
serves what she has acquired, in con-
sideration of her great trans-contin-
entail project, which entities her to am
Die terrnini on the Pacific.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-31
LONG WAYS AROUND.

In the face of an impending war the
importance of a ship canal between the
Pacific and Atlantic presses itself
home. The warship Oregon, fully am
rnunitioned and coaled, is wanted in
the vicinity Of the Keys, but when
wanted was found to be at San Fran
cisco. She left that port under orders
two weeks ago. She will stop at AGA
pulco in Mexico, at Panama, at Callao,
in Peru, and at Valparaiso, in Chile,
before rounding Cape Horn and max
ing her way up the Atlantic coast line.
It is understood that in order to save
fuel she will make only her average
speed. without attempting to run up to
her limit. In that case she will require
sixty days time to reach Key West.
The distance from San Francisco, by
the route the Oregon will take, is $4,000
miles. Advocates Of the Nicaragua
canal point out what an immense adj
vantage it would be to the United
States if that canal were completed,
and controlled by our government, as
treaty rights allow. The Oregon, if
there were such a canal need then
travel but 1000 miles to reach her des-
tination and she would. therefore,
make the trip in twenty days, with a
stop at Araculpo, or could do it in
less, because there would not be the
need to husband coal that there is on
the longer and rougher voyage. The
value of such a canal in war time be
comes apparent. General Tracy, for
merly secretary of the navy, express
ed it in one of his reports when he said
we must either build the canal of main
tain two navies-one for the Atlantic
and one for the Pacific. The cost of
two battleships would almost build the
canal.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-31
S0&iJ 9 gays
NJ. NJ. MURDOCH. Editor.
GLADSTONE GOING.

Gladstone the Great, the man who
has been more constantly in the eyes
of the world for a longer time than any
living man, is surely passing to the be-
yond. His dying hours, like those of
his active life, are being heightened
out, but the end may be even now as
we write. There was a pathetic touch
an his returning home to die, and al
most pitiful seemed the incident of his
faithful dogs demise. He is back to
Hawarden, viewing its familiar sur
roundings through its old-time win
dows, his last hours soothed by sympa-
thetic music and little disturbed by the
International throes which are being
viewed with such apprehension by the
whole world. With all these things he
has played full part and they no
longer concern the grand old man"
who was more disturbed by the death
of his dumb brute companion than he
could have been by the fall Of an en-
pire. Such are the limitations Of a
Iifes' mutations. So wonderfully bal
anced were his physical and mental
powers, so perfectly adjusted, that the
greatest possible limit of harmonious
existence has been reached Greater
men may have figured in the worlds
history, but none who have for so great
a length of time so constantly touched
and influenced its affairs. No corOnet
or crown ever touched his brow, no
ambition ever made him forget that he
was but a man. No honor or title was
valued by him except as it was won
of honesty and the highest purpose.
The royalty of heredity he has despised
TO the last. Not alone a nation, but
world viii mourn his death.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-31
THEY PAINTED.

As was the Coliseum TO Rome so is
the bull-ring to Madrid, the center Of
centers, the attraction of attractions
Mexico being Of Spanish origin. still
Clings to the bull-fght in the most Of
her capital cities, although President
Diaz has forced il into the background.
sim this bloody exhibition may be wit
messed in the national capital of that
republic generally as often as once 4
week. Diaz and the better element of
that country have long since tabooed
the brutal business. The best classes
of the city have long since ceased to
patronize the bloody sight. The horri-
bic death Of a matador in Mexico re-
Gently in the presence of 5000 people
at a bull fight has aroused President
Diaz to the necessity Of putting an end
10 the sport" in that republic. The re
port Of the fight emphasizes the fact
that while the Inflated matador was
being gored to death after the most
disgusting fashion. many American
ladies in the audience tainted"
1t seems that it has become quite a
custom for Americans visiting Mexico
incidentally to see 3 real bull fight
after the Spanish pattern. After the
bloody spectacle above mentioned those
American ladies" who had not been
carried out fainting We're treated 10 an
encounter between a woman bull fight
er Of note and a savage brute that
came near duplicating with her the
tate Of the torn and bleeding matador.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-31

All dry materials should be sifted be-
fore measuring.
\ cup holding just half a pint is the
standard measuring cup.
a cupful IS all the cup will hold without
running over-full TO the brim. a scant
cupful IS within fourth OF an inch Of the
top.
a tablespoonful OF -four. sugar or butter
IS a rounded tablespoonful.
4 teaspoonfuI OF salt. pepper and spice
is e level teaspoonful
A heaped spoonful is all the spoon Will
hold.
Half spoonful is measured by dividing
through the middle lengthwise.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-31
IN TEE ANTIPODEs.

Chinese nationality or sovereignty is
10 longer much more than empty
name The Russian lease, the German
enforced concession. and French occu-
patton. ali mean disintegrauon. The
overshadowing cloud which now hovers
about the Atlantic does not, probably.
after all. so concern England. Per Sc. as
the one which covers the Yellow seas.
only in so Tar as England hopes for
Professionalism alliance and the
accessibility. II not probability. of calling
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-31

The war viii be unsatisfactory as soon
as it starts. In the first place. the frst
battle VIII come in ar Irritating brief bul-
letia. II viii be far out at sea and the
public VIII so crazy waiting for The facts
A. sast il VIII arrive n detail The
chances are We viii be larruped cross-eyed
and paralyze6. ba; our officers Will claim
i; was a draw" The next time We WI
probably whale Spain into q wind-pudding
and Spain VIII claim tha, she whipped Us.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-31
Sage Observations.

n f0Il nc { l-cas0 heC0TC-l
knowledge is power, and yet when a
poor. weak woman knows anything she is
expected 70 hold il il
People waste time dreaming. and then
they waste mere time wondering why
their dreams don't come true.
When & girl suddenly begins lending
her wheel 20 her little brother she is get
ting ready TO ask her father for & Few
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-31
Remarksin Passing.

AL mankind does 10: love a lover; the
postman frequently hates him.
Robins are az right, but spring isn't
really here uE1il your neigh5o- hangs Ter
canary %, % doors.
Failure IS sometimes more profitable
than success. because We 6on'g waste any
tine Dragging about -
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-31

Our indemnity from Spain will be about
s25 600 900. We have alrea iy spent So, GUJ, 900
getting ready to ask for it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-31

1t is to be hoped that congress will load
up on smOkeless speeches and fire away
at Tom Reed. Congress at outs with Reed
would be as good as a Spanish bull-dgnt.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-31

1t is thought that with proper care Sec
rotary Long, who was so cock sure it was
an accident, will be cured to the degree
where he can read the Maine report
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-31

In the hottest war there is many a long
yawn. 1t is not all stimulating by long
shot with a short range gun.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-31

With the navy severely crippled because
sufficient men will not enlist, Major Nc
Kinley is probably sleeping with the mot
to: More haste and less speed under his
pillow.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-31

Give. oh give US war, that is as easily
read about when transpiring as the cid
wars in the school histories are.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-31

Fools frequently rush in where diplo-
mats fear to tread, with the result of
showing diplomats how groundless their
fears were.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-31

War Is a big thing and mus, be handled
carefully. a HORSEPOWER can move a
house four blocks in Two days. although
Il is hard 70 see The house moving. But
unlike the cyclone which viii move the
house instantaneously, the housemoye-
gets Il Ihere intact
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-31

During the thrill of war it IS almost
criminal to forget that in ten years, after
Cuba has become part of the Union, she
may be as big a blot on TIE nation as
Missouri
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-31

Campaigns are supposed to be the trying
times in candidates experience, but
there are moments now when Mckinley
longs for just one look at that old IA
miliar Canton lawn.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-31

Upon the hole the disaster to the Maine
was not an accident. And upon the whole
it is not an incident.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-31

Of ten Americans are saying calmly:
Spain will win the first battle" This is
largely the view because the Union forces
were whaled at Bull Run.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-31

II is impossible for the public to know
all the influencing news received in Wash
ington. Let US have patience. Possibly
they are waiting for General Miles linen
10 be returned from The laundry.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-31

Spain will ask to have the Maine mat
ter srbitrated. When our nation agrees
10 that. the world viii know that she has
completely, inglorioUsly and timidly
backed down before Spain.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-31

Excitement is an intoxlcant The peo-
pie poured the Maine report down and it
Just wet the throat and they rappeI the
glass down hard on the table and called
10 the waiter: FIJI her up again.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-31

The people are long-sunering. The next
congressman who makes q speech and
rings in that old age-corroded chestnut
about this nations fair escutcheoa"
ought 70 be promtly Drained with a coup
ung-pin.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-31
There will be war with Spain.

And, in the course of human events, it
is about time.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-08-03

Many complaints are heard this
year, mainly from those who have had
their first experience with an incuba-
tor, regarding the large proportion of
the chicks Matched which die during
the first two OF three weeks after
Matching. In most cases the fault is
laid TO the incubator, which is hardly
fair. The cold, wet weather which
has prevailed has been hard on the
little chicks and caused the loss of
many of them. Overheated brooders,
overcrowding and poor ventilation are
also responsible for many deaths
among chicks. 1t is safe to say, how
ever, that the main trouble, not only
this year, but sll years, is due to in
helited weakness, and when this is the
case NO amount of care or attention in
feeding will overcome the trouble.
Chicks will often hatch i'll the incuba-
tor ON time, or little before time,
and be extremely lively for few days
or even for two or three weeks, then
suddenly die Chicks hatched by the
old uen frequently do the same thing.
There is more in the proper selection
of stock for Matching than most peo-
pie are willing to believe, and it pays
every time to know something of the
ancestry of the embryo chick in the
egg you intend to hatch even if the
breed is pure. In the majority of
cases where a male runs with forty or
even more hens, the proportion of fer
tile eggs laid by the hens will be small
and even the fertile ones will produce
weak chicks. Other well-known causes
are responsible for weak chicks. At
lanta journal.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-08-03

The Importance of the thorough
cultivation of the soil is recognized by
all who experiment to an extent suffi-
cient to show results. Air is as nec-
essary to the soil MS moisture, for by
its admission the chemicals of the soil
are put INTO active operation and
brought into condition to be made
quickly available by the growing crop.
The manure, the remains of plants
and much of the humus of the soil is
converted into saltpetre, that valuable
chemical. When the soil is merely
stirred with hoe or cultivator forma-
ton of nitrates is promoted and an
increased state Of fertility brought
about by the action OF air on the or
ganic matter in the soil. Cultivation
on larger scale, therefore, cannot
fail to increase the fertility by the
admission of Increased air and mois.
ture to the soil for the direct feeding
OF the plants, rs we'll rs the action on
the elements in the soil, and the de-
struc.ion of noxious weeds which rob
the cultivated plaatg Of needed food.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-08-03

for these pests to again secure cover
ings, and after many years close sb-
servation of the habits of cutworms 1
doubt II single one can be destroyed
by simply stirring the soil.
In my experience have found two
distinct species of cutworms, one cut
ting the corn on the surface of the
ground and being readily found and
caught in the act of destruction. The
other is out of sight and cuts the corn
about an inch below the surface, and
the mischief is not detected until the
corn begins to wilt. Corn cut below
the surface of the ground is irretriev-
ably ruined, but when cut above the
ground, when small, with the excep-
tion of being retarded in growth, il is
seldom injured Corn planted on sod
that has been pastured the preceding
year is more liable to be damaged by
cutworms than il no stock had been
allowed upon the ground. John Cow
ME in Iowa Homestead.