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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01
Cuban Independence


The dawn of Cuba's freedom it at
hand. The night has been long and
dark. and filled with bitter struggle but
the light Of another day is breaking
over the bleeding isle. Many times has
Cuba struggled for freedom from her
inhuman oppressors. All the world has
honored the heroic devotion of her
patriots and wished for their success,
vet no nation has extended a helping
hand The rebellions have in turn been
suppressed by the barbaric methods o1
her stronger foes but the Cubans have
has brought them nearer to final vic
tory The present struggle has eX'
tended over three years, and today the
cause of Spain in Cuba is as dead as
was the cause of the Confederacy at
AppomattoX.
Spain has tried every expedient and
has ingloriously and hopelessly failed
The scheme of autonomy has been re
jected with scorn, and absolute and UNI
qualified Independence is as well as
sured as anything can be which is net
actually accomplished. President Nc
which his party is pledged, and which
is demanded by both common human
ity and American interests. The crisis
has come, and Spain has the bitter
choice of peacefully leaving the island
and giving it its independence or If
being driven from it by American
arms. The temper Of Congress IS Well
known. Both bodie' are for armed in
tervention at once if Spain refuses TO
abandon the island. Congress and the
country are united in supporting the
President in his attempts to bring about
a peaceful solution of the Gomplica-
tions between this country and Spain,
but if Spain does not yield at once 1t IS
difficult to see how war can be avoided
This country cannot and Will not back
down. 1t stands today absolutely com
mitted to Cuban independence, even if
the force of American arms is required
to bring this about.
Diplomatic negotiations have already
caused long delay, and Congress is
restless and impatient for immediate
action Some have shown an un-
fortunate tendency to hinder the Presi
But the statesmen and the masses If
the country trust the President. They
know he is committed to Cuban free
dom and has made unqualified demands
of Spain along this line. and if these
demands are not at once answered ia
vorably then aggressive action will no
longer be delayed Every preparation
for war has been made, and If Cuban
INDEPENDENCE cannot be secured by
peaceful means then Steiner methods
will be employed which cannot fail. |
However it comes. Cuban Independence
is assured Tor the near future.
The conduct of Spain in Cuba has
been the greatest crime Of the century, |
not even excepting Turkeys conduct in |
Armenia. a tragedy of horrors has
been enacted that defes all description. |
Tnspeaka BILE atrocities have devastated /
the beautiful island, and disgraced the
name of civilization and Christianity. |
Spain has committed the transgresslon, |
and now hers is the punishment. Cuba !
is lost to her forever.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01

What has become of all the retalll-
ton European nations We're going to
practice against us on account of the
Dingley bill? Where is the tariff war
they We're to wage against us? AS Il
matter of fact they are all buying
more goods from us now than under the
.'perfidy and dishonor" tariff of Prof.
Wilson
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01

Let the urgent demands of humanity
and freedom be answered first. then
comes the matter of PREPARATION for the
Maine. Not that the loss of the Maine
Is of less Importance, but that the needs
of the struggling and starving Cuban
patriots are Of greater Importance.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01

Senator Mason isn't content to kill off
the Spaniards one by one, as a Madrid
editor offers him an opportunity to do,
but he wants them all killed at once
by others.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01

A few more days like Tuesday and
Wednesday in Congress with their
belligerency resolutions and declara-
tions of war will make Spain suspect
our diplomatic assurances of friend
ship are much like those she extends
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01

The testimonials which the mail
brings in every day run thus: DIR
Bulls Cough Syrup cured the baby Of
Group" 1t cured me of most dis
tressing cough or ut cured my little
boy of sore throat" I'VE could not dc
without it."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01

No, not all the disappearing guns are
confined to the coast Notifications.
There are some of the largest bore in
Congress which would disappear with
startling alacrity in time of war.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01

Neither peace at any price nor war
for the sake of war is the American
policy at this time. but peace at the
American price, and war only in
preference to dishonor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01

Some cough mixtures
smother the cough, But the
next breeze fans it into life
again.
Better put the cough out.
That is, better 60 deeper
and smother the fires of in
tlammation. / Troches can
not do this. Neither can
plain cod-liver oil.
But SCOTS Emulsion can.
The glycerine soothes and
makes comfortable; the by
pophosphites give power and
stability to the nerves; and
the oil feeds and strengthens
the weakened tissues.
SOC. and $I.oo, all druggists.
SCOTT BOVINE. Chemists, New York.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01
An OminOus Number.



That coming Spanish totlla amounts
~ just thirteen vessels Circumstances
may cons ince il that it is certainly an
uniucltV number
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01
The Next Step.


Nv dNIIIIIs TNN SIdT.F
Germany has taken great liking 70
the American bicycle. This may lead the
government to take immediate steps to
discover trchinde in the silent steed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01
Business Before Pleasure.


It looks as if steam yachting for pleas
urc purposes would not be popular The
coming season Uncle sam has the CIl
an
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01
Washinqton's Memorable Words.

If we desire to avoid insult we must
be prepared to repel it," SO said George
Washington. in 1888. There is little dan
ger lest We forget.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01

work Looking up few moments later
she discovered the caller Wlnklng at
her At first she did not know what &c
think. She turned all shades OF the
rainbow and finally her face developed
into such a bright red that for fear OF
being seen she bent over her work Sc
far that her nose almost touched the
keys of her typewriter and she scarcely
knew what she was writing. For few
moments the poor girl was very uncom-
Portable. Finally she began to muster
up her courage and thought TO herself
that she would have one more sly look
at the young man even If 1t would cost
her a weeks sickness of nervous pros
tration. When she looked up again the
callers position was changed so that he
was facing her There he sat still un-
consciously winking and blinking. 1t
was simply "a habit of his and the
Young lady is angry now to think that
She wasted all her pretty bushes for
nothing. Now anybody can wink at
her the same as at other typeWriters,
and she doesn't mlnd.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01

Spain cannot afford to mistake
American patience and calmness Tor
cowardice. She Will find the buzz saw
if she insists on looking for it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01

Speaker Reed continues to sit on the
safety valve" and do his country Il
grand service for which it owes him al
eternal debt of gratitude.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01

If the excited dons in Madrid really
mean what they say when they shou,
Long live the army" they had better
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01
irresponsible Advisers.

(Florida Times mon and CitizenD
1t is an easy matter for men who have
no responsibility at stake in this great
national drama to urge the immediate
declaration of war.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01

1t is a great year for the naVies
Germany has just passed the bigges
naval appropriation in its history.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01

II is said that a Halowell man who
sold all Of his household goods, etc, a
few months ago and with his wife
turned his face klondikeWard, has
lust arrived home from Seattle, "A sad
der and considcra bly, poorer, but a
wiser man, and is willing to begin
again if an opportunity Is offered to
get together the necesSarleS Tor a nom"
away down in Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01
FASTING AND PRAYER.

1t is fitting that this time-honored Gus
tom should still be respected. and | earn
estly request all the people of our State
to properly observe the day in their
homes and churches, and to refrain from
all unnecessary labor. remembering. rev.
erently, the source from which so many
faVorS have come to us.
GIVEN at the Executive Chamber, in
Augusta, this twenty-fourth day of
March, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and ninety
eight and of the Independence of the
United States of America the one
hundred and twenty-second.
LLEWELLYN POWERS.
BY the Governor.
BYRON BOYD, Secretary of State.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01

h notleo whatever will be taken of
unsigned communications.
The Journal cannot be held respOn-
sible for the preservation or return Of
rejected communications.
Address all communications relating
- subscriptions AID advertisements to
BURhEIGH & FLYNT, Publishers, Au-
gusta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01

Deering comes to the front with
yarn about a big muskrat y hich fierce
ly attacked man as he was walking
along the highway. The man escaped
With his life. and the muskrat, which
is no doubt a maneater. is probably
looking for new victims
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01
a FAST DAY
PROCLAMATION.

In Difference to the practice of the early
settlers of New England. and following
precedent that has obtained ever since
Maine was admitted into the Union of
States. and also with the advice and con-
sent of the Executive Council. | do APP
point
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01

Bath has organized permanent
Good Roads Association. Long life and
great success TO it. Would that every
city and town had one like it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01

The term "a dogs life" evidently has
a bitter significance in Thomaston I'M
known elsewhere. Canine existence IN
that town will not be hereafter the
-rand carnival of former times. From
May l to November every dog in that
town must be chained up or,its owner
win he fined s..
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01

Thee Lewiston Board Of Trade has
taken up the good roads question and
gave the matter a great boom at a 'e-
cent meeting. once under way this
movement can march on only to vic
tory.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01

A rather amusing incident occurred
in an office of a Bangor attorney the
other day In the employ Of this Jaw
yer is typewriter. who, strange as It
may seem, is bashful. Last week the
esquire had q business caller. When
assigned to "A seat this caller was 50
placed that one eye was visible to the
lawyers typewriter, who at that mo-
ment was quite busily engaged in her
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01
Malme Gossip
April.

come, like a hope to a gloomy breast,
With comforting smiles and tears
OF sympathy for the earth's unrest,
And news that the summer nearS.
For the feet of the young year every day
Patter and patter and pattcr away.
thrill the world with a strange delight
The birds sing out with a will
And the herb-lorn lea is swift bedight
With cowslip ana daffodil
While the rain for an hour or two every
day
sing of love and my strains console
The wish of the wax ming mind.
And their echoes roll from soul to soul,
And grow on my murmurouS wind;
And hearts with true love every day
pattor and patter and patter away.
Pail Mall Magazine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01

Now that the Penobscot is free from
ice below Bangor the salmon fisher
men are getting ready for business,
and soon some good old fashioned fish
tories will be heard.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01

1t is almost too much to expect that
has been.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01

What is this? Isn't Portland. which
has been SO frantic for more adequatr
defenccs. patriotic enough to man the
monitor Montauk. provided by uncle
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01

In Bath it was not muskrat but Il
common rat. uncommonly large ana
smith, according to truthful loca
paper The rat had several friends
with him. and they rushed at the
startled blacksmith with shrll cries
like a pack Of hungry wolves BY the
quick and vigorous use Of heavy
sledge the blacksmith succeeded IN
holding the animals at bay until he
escaped from his shop. Truly, the
Maine rat is on the Warpath.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01

one fourth of this year has gone and
many of us still occasionally write il
1885,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01

The assessors take their books and
START on the Warpalh now. Of course
everybody is glad To see them
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01

BYRON BOYD, Secretary of State.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01

just a decade since the famous big
storm that blocked up the railroads and
highways for SeVerals days
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01

Now don't make a fool of yourself
trying to fool others.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01

What a cute little blizzard March
gave us in departing, after a whole
month without 4 snowflake
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-01

The first IS coupons are good today,
,ut they are not much good to most
# US.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-11-02
A GREAT DISCOVERY.

Inventor Tesla Asserts that He Will Trans
init Electricity from One End of the
Earth to tho Other without the Aid OF
Wires.
New York, Oct. 27.-Nikola Tesla,
the electrician, describes in yester-
days issue of the Electrical Review
a possibility in electric power trans
mission. His inventions for transmit
ting electricity at pressure over long
distances have been successfully ap-
piled at NAVY natural sources of pow
er. Probably the most important OF
these plants in the United States is
at Niagara Falls, costing over $6,O0o,-
900 to install, which supplies electric
ity to many large factories and sup
plies electric power for running the
trolley lines of the city of Buffalo, 26
miles distant.
The announcement is now made
that by employing apparatus which
he has invented, capable of generating
electrical pressure vastly in excess OF
any heretofore used, located at natur-
al sources of power, the current can
be conducted to a terminal maintain
ed at an elevation where the rarifed
atmosphere is capable of conducting
freely the particular current produc-
ed; then at distant point where the
energy is to be used commercially, to
maintain o second terminal at about
the same elevation, to attract and re-
ceive the current and to convey it to
earth through special means of trans
forming and utilizing it. With the
article an illustration is presented,
showing streams of electricity issuing
from single terminal, giving an esti-
mated electrical pressure of 2,500,0OO
volts.
The Electrical Review comments on
Mr.. Tesla's novel and startling ideas
as follows: "Tesla now proposes to
transmit without the use of any wires,
through the natural media-the earth
and the air-great amounts of power
to distances of thousands of miles.
This will appear dream-a tale from
the Arabian Nights. But the extraor-
binary discoveries Tesla has made
during number of years of incessant
labor, which are authoritatively de-
scribed in our present issue, make
it evident that his work in this field
has passed stage of laboratory ex
pertinent and is ready for practica'
test on an industrial scale. The sue
cess of his efforts means that power
from such sources as Niagara will
become available in any part of the
world, regardless of distance"
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-11-02
LATER NEWS.

The president has appointed Col. w.
S. Worth, of the Sixteenth infantry
and brigadier in the volunteer serv-
ice, to be a brigadier general in the
regular army, vice Coppinger, retired.
Gen. Worth was wounded at San Juan
and will be placed on the retired list
Immediately.
The Ninth regiment of New York
volunteers has been mustered out Of
the United States service.
At least dozen river steamers are
stuck on sandbars in the Yukon river
and all will probably be lost. The
Dawson City is total wreck. The
Herman and Tacoma are aground and
the other boats are in such perilous po-
sitions that when the ice breaks up
they may go to pieces.
The work of raising the Spanish
cruiser Reina Marcedcs, sunk just in
side the mouth of Santiago harbor, is
about to be begun. The task is COM
paratively easy. Work on the Cristobal
Colon continues, but much difficulty is
found in using the pontoons on ac-
count of the heavy seas.
Trouble is threatened by band of
young Sioux on the Pine Ridge agency
in North Dakota, who are reported to
have started an organized movement
for the forcible removal of Indian
Agent Clapp from the reservation.
The eastward movement of flour and
grain from the west through Buffalo,
N. Y, for October shows receipts of
1,S45, 912 barrels of -four and 80, III, ITO
bushels of grain.
The executive committee of the citi-
zens' state party has decided not to fill
the vacancy on the New York state
ticket caused by the death of Col.
George L. Waring, candidate for state
engineer.
The output of ore in the Cripple
Creek, Col, district in October was
valued at So, 4ss, 1870, the highest for any
month in the history of the camp.
BY direction of the president the
general field hospital at Camp Hamil-
ton, Lexington, KY, has been desig-
mated as John Blair Gibbs general
hospital, in honor of Assistant Surgeon
John Blair Gibbs, of the navy, who
died June 10, 1898, from wounds re-
ceived in an engagement with Spanish
infantry at Guantanamo.
The former Spanish cruiser Maria
Teresa, which was sunk during the
battle with Cervera's feet and raised
under the direction of Naval Con
structor Hobson, has sailed for Hamp
ton Roads. She is being towed by th,
Vulcan and Merritt, and is being con
lvoyed to Cape Maysi by the Cincinnati
and the Leonidaa.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-11-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Gathered from All Quarters.
WASHINcTON.


Official announcement was made at
the navy department on the 26th that
Rear Admiral j. M. Miller, command
ing the Pacific station, will be retired
on November % on account of age.
The award of the chief justice of
Canada, to whose arbitration was sub
mitted the claim of Victor H. McCord
against the government of Peru for
damages sustained by reason OF inn
prisonment during one of the revolu-
tionary outbreaks there, has been re-
ceived at the state department. Nc
Cord is awarded $4,000.
Secretary Long has declined to sub
stitute the name of any other state
for that of Connecticut, which he re-
Gently conferred upon one of the mon
itors whose construction is soon to be
begun. The naming of monitor
Connecticut was resented by the peo-
pie of that state, who think it should
grace battleship.
BY direction of the president the
following named officers of the volun-
teer army are honorably discharged
to take effect December 81, their serv'
ices being no longer required: Capt
James G. Blaine, son of ex-Secretary
Blaine; Capt. Edward Murphy, son Of
Senator Murphy, of New York;
Capt. Samuel w. Belford, from Col
orado.
Information has been received by
the government that the Spanish Off
GERS have ceased to break up anG
carry away things that are regarded
as immovable property in Cuba. Sucf
things as are now being taken are
giving no concern to the American
authorities.
The gunboat Helena has been or
dered to go to the Asiatic station
having been built with especial refer
ence to her usefulness in shallow
Chinese waters. The war outbreal
caused her to be recalled from the
European station when she was abou'
to proceed to Asia. 1t is now expect
ed that she will sail about Novembe,
for China.
President Mckinley has been delug
ed with letters from all parts of tn,
United States, and with resolutions
from commercial and religious bodies
urging that American sovereignty
should be maintained wherever tn,
flag has been planted.
Secretary Bliss has been investigat
ing the alleged scandals in connection
with the sale of the timber lands O
the Chippewa Indians and the charge,
are shown to be utterly without foun
dntion.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-11-02
FOREIGN.

Sixteen released Cubans from Ceuta
have Just been sent to New York by
the American consul at Gibraltar.
About 260 remain at Ceuta. Their
condition is distressful.
Some of the cannon captured at
Santiago are now on their way to the
United States. These pieces will be
stored at Governors island until dis
posed of by congress.
The Mazorra, an asylum in Havana
for the insane, which is a municipal
hospital, appears to have been dis
gracefully managed. The records of
the last Is months show that there
were 632 deaths there out of 700 in
mates.
An earthquake shock passed over
the city of Ottawa, Ont, on the 9th
ult. The duration was about ten
seconds.
The steamer Fuerst Bismarck,
which sailed from New York October
20 at 1858 a. M, arrived at Cher
bourg, France, on the 27th ult., max.
ing her time of passage six days, ten
hours and Is minutes, which is the
best record on that course held by
any steamer.