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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-17
kENNEBEc VALLEY CHORUS.
Everyone Interested in the Work Should At.
tend Friday Evenings Meeting.

Every friend of good music should
lend his influence in aiding the estab-
lishment of the Kennebec Valley
chorus upon a sound basis. The work
of the past two years has developed a
number of fine voices which are being
trained for chorus work in an admira-
BILE manner. The chorus has secured
the services of the best director in
Maine, Mr.. Arthur Hyde, Bath, and he
is to meet the singers every Friday.
Mr.. Hyde is to direct Portland, Lew
iston, Bath, Brunswick and Bangor
choruses as we'll as Augusta. The
grand oratorio of the Messiah" IS
enough in itself to provoke the enthu-
siasm of every friend of music. At the
Baptist vestry, tomorrow, Friday even
ing, every singer who contemplates
joining the chorus, this winter, should
be present to meet Mr.. Hyde, secure
tickets and music and prepare for work
for the grand festival of 1899.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-17


The three following companies filed
certificates of Incorporation, Wednes-
day:
National Cooperative Commission
Association has been organized at
Portland for the purpose of carrying on
a general commission business, with
$4,000 capital stock, of which nothing
is paid in. The officers are: Presi-
dent, Robert C. Fuller of Boston,
Mass; treasurer, Sherbourne H. Sleep
er of Portland, Me. Certificate ap-
proved, November A,p1S9S.
International Cooperative Company
has been organized at Portland for
the purpose of doing general printing
and publishing business. with $4,000
capital stock, of which nothing is paid
in The officers are: President, D.
Howard Fuller of Boston, Mass. treas
urer, Lyman H. Nelson of Portland,
Me. Certificate approved, November
IA, 1898.
Peter Ross Company has been or
ganized at Portland for the purpose of
quarrying, cutting and dealing IN
stone. with 100000 capital stock, Of
which $500 is paid in. The officers are:
President, Peter F. Ross of Milford
Mass; treasurer, Peter Ross of Mil
ford, Mass. Certificate approved, No
vember IA, 1898.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-17
Our Little Gray Helper

Myrty Lodkett Avary, under the above
title,. tells in st. Nicholas of the work
done by the humble earthworm. The au-
u or says:
We have a little gray helper who can
not hear, nor see, nor make any noise.
He wears a little gray coat. and he lives
in tiny caves which he burrows out for
himself. Our little gray helper has no
feet. SO he crawlS.
He works busily for us all day in the
ground under our feet, coming out chief
not take anything which any one wants.
but only fallen leaves and bits of stuff
which no one cares about and which are
best out of the way.
having neither legs, nor feet, nor hands,
nor eyes, nor ears. he has all that is nee
essary to the performance of .le work
he has to do; and since our little gray
helper has all he needs, and does his
work and does it WELL we may think OF
him as being quite content and happy
Ana since the work that he does for us Is
very necessary and important work and
since he does it excehently well, we need
not regard him with less than respect.
He mas system of blood vessels ner-
vous svstem and-yes. brain. When
you come to consider him under a micro
scone and in relation % the work he has
to do, he is quite an interesting and ex-
quisite bit of mechanism. He uses his
LTdlIl, anu lids WlSuOIl 10 hliOW Wfldl u
cat and how to gel it. Though ne has
neither eyes nor hands,. before taking
anything into his cave he. examines IL
carefully by means of his one sense
(touch). and with his little upper lip
which the scientists call prostomium
TINS lip is very sensitive.
He is prudent and thrifty, always drag
ging into his little house enough to Sc
cure him against the coming day, for
blind and deaf as he is. he knows it is not
wise to be out in the dav-time, for the
birds and their babies like him entirely
too well. He also knows that. being OF
chilly nature. he will need to be
wrapped I'm bit when he goes to sleel
in his cave. so he makes hi, own little
bed of blades of grass and bits of leave.
which he has dragged in with the little
lip that does so much He seems TO like
fresh air when he can get II. SO he rest.
VIA. his head near the mouth of HI:
cave; and Mother Nature, realizing tina
this might give Robin Redbreast an un
fair advantage of him, provided him will
a head covering darker than the rest O.
his coat and very nearly the color of thu
earth.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-17
What shaII We DO with Our Bad Bo,.7

CITY Marshal Wing says that we have
lot of bad boys in lewiston He goes
farther and says that they are so bad
that they are problem and a problem in
boys is mighty tough thing even for a
chief of police. In his quarterly report
to the city government, he says that a
perfect swarm of them between the ages
OF six and twelve years, run about the
streets TO the modification Of the police
and to the decay of good morals and good
manners. The cause of it is lack Of pa
rental discipline. The remedy he does
not propose, farther than to say that the
police are neither wet nurses nor day
to stand as sponsors for anything but
public peace.
So far as the suggestions of the city
marshal goes the situation is rather seri-
GUS. Bad boys have recently developed
into burglars, highwaymen, perpetrators
of malicious mischief, notorious disturb
ers OF public meetings, victims of the
tobacco and the drink habits. We do not
know that they average worse than in
other cities of this size but the city mar
shall seems to think that they average
bad enough. No law is adequate to driv-
ing. them to bed at nine or ten o'clock
and as there seems no parental hand
stretching out for them they are at lip-
erty to go to the devil if they have lean
ings in that direction. OF course the
legitimate control of the twelve year old
boy. is his father. If the parental hand
can't control the boy and if mothers
slipper is on her foot when it ought to be
elsewhere-on the boy-vou can't expect
twenty men on police force to round
up, the recalcitrants and send them to
bedtime prayers at the curfew.
No wonder the city marshal is discour-
aged. These bad boys even mock the
law, reliant upon their agile feet to get
away from the officers. They stand OH
street corners and nhaust the pernicious
cigarette while the air smells likes punk
factory in distress They fear nobody
fore not so much for better boys as for
better parents. Some of the boys have
no parents-so much the more serious
the problem. Some of them would be
better off if they had none-so much the
worse for them. Mr. Henry George, the
founder of the Juniors Republic in New
York state, has come nearest to solving
the problem of such boys-but we have
no Junior Republic here and so therefore
there is still the problem-what is to be
done with them. Can not some of the
women's clubs discuss this question with
interest and perhaps embellish the dis
cussion by practical research and illus
naturalization Journal. ID
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-17

higher and higher until 1t at last re-
generated into monkey. This process
was SO slow that neither the monkey
nor the man knew anything about IT..
"A germ is name applied to par
ticuiar particle, tiny subbacterial or
ganlsm which. when demonstrated
causes disease"
"A germ is tiny insect, sometimes
found in diseases or organs. 1t is so
very small that it can only be seen by
telescope. That is why diseases are
contagious. At times it appears like
the mead OF a pin. but it goes floating
around into the atmosphere"
Habeas corpus means, you may
have the head, and / will take the
body"
The germ theory of diseases is con-
tinually floating around in the air. and
Is very dangerous, especially when the
atmosphere is unwholesome.
"A dowager is a widow without
joints" (Jointures?
Pitt. Earl of Chatham. Premier of
England, entered life at a very early
age, which office he held at a very
early period in life, the time when
most men are just finishing a profess
sional education
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-17

Camp Powers is now ready for the
return of the Maine troops, whether It
is tomorrow, or two years from that
time. Speaking of the soldiers, the
merchants of the city did not know
how badly they would miss the money
that was passed over to them from the
soldiers. 1t is estimated that for what
supplies were bought here by the COM
missary department. and the spending
money parted with. over 5000 a day
was left in the city<by the soldiers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-17

1t was on a car bound for Hallowell
ana among the passengers was young
woman of about Is or 26, with a baby
that gave indications of distress of
some sort the moment it was brought
into the car. There were about A
dozen ether passengers, all looking
around, at each either, trying to find
something to interest themselves.
Finally the baby's wailing got so an
moving that even mamma, after vainly
trying to quiet her offspring decided
upon radical measures. She wore
large, fur-lined cape and from it's re-
cesses drew a bottle of milk, the GUS
tomary nursing bottle, with hose. etc.
Offering it to the baby the latter re-
fused and started on fresh weep.
There, there, there crooned mamma
Sh-sh -sh-sh-Sh. There there there.
Take it, take it, she expostulated,
trying to force the nipple into baby's
mouth. IF you don't take it I'll give
it to the conductor" at which threat the
conductor, who was in the middle of
the car collecting fares, made a hasty
retreat to the rear platform. The baby
kept on squalling.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-17

A good plain family tapioca pudding
that is always in season, and is war
ranted not to give dyspepsia, is made
in this wise: Soak one cup of tapiOca
over night in two cups of cold water.
In the morning fill q buttered baking
dish two-thirds full of tart quartered
apples, peaches or berries. Add ona
cup of sugar to the tapioca, and pour
over the fruit. Cover and bake two
hours. A correspondingly simple pud-
ding sauce to go with this is made Of a
beaten egg favored and sweetened to
taste.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-17

w. V. Couvrette cut his right hand
quite badly on a saw in the wood yard
of his father at the North end of State
street Wednesday afternoon. He was
saving wood with circular saw, and
lightly hit the saw with his left hand,
while throwing a stick of wood. The
first three fingers of the hand were
badly torn. but none will be lost.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-17

A fashionable London doctor. whose
visits to his many PATIENTS. has succeeded
in effecting decided economy. He may
be seen driving through West End
squares, eating his breakfast in ..is
brougham. his morning meal is nicely
packed in hamper. A wooden flap is in
The front of his carriage. This is prop
ped up and the table spread. The doctor
thus eats comfortably and at leisure
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-17
Picked Up at the State House.

in demand now, at the State and the
Lithgow libraries, than those of Rich
ard Harding Davis. Since his recent
additional renown as a writer of maya
zine articles on the late war, his style
has attracted great attention. At tbs
Lithgow library some of the books
that are upon the list of those to De
purchased are Mr.. Davis works. A
good number of the works are in the
State library. To read one of the
books. be it historical and descriptive
of travels. or fiction, leaves desire to
read more.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-17
Tues, Wed,
Tuesday Eve, Nov. AZ

HATCH & SKILLIN CONCERT co.
Comprising Fl. Il. Skillin, Geo. McCon-
nell. w. H. Hatch, Pauline Devereaux,
soprano.
This organization is, undoubtedly, the
strongest concert combination, and can
present more varied and pleasing pro-
gramme than any other organization Of
four people.
Dancing in banquet hall.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-17

The Young People Society of the Free
Baptist church, will hold Nut Soci-
able" in the vestry, Thursday evening.
A short programme has been arranged
by the committee, after which refresh
ments will be served.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-17

Hon. T. S. Burns of Westbrook, who
succeeds himself in the House the
coming session, is in the city for few
days.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-17
GENER Al.
Wed. Eve, Nov. "a.

Mr.. Louis kelso Brennan, general en-
tertainer, singing humorist and imper-
senator.
He has fine tenor voice, wonderful
facial expression, power of mimicry.
master of dialects, originality and ma
tional comedy.
/ A good orchestra in attendance
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-17
Thanksgiving Evening.

Emma L. Ladd, mandola and BAN
EIeanore' s. Hayden. mand6lin and ban
jo.
May l.. Cloyes, guitar.
Grace f. Sanborn, guitar and reader.
The Arion is the only recognized high
class Ladies Mandolin, Banjo and Guitar
Club travelling. =.
nou14 dff 49, -
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-17

V. W. Macfarlane of Greenville, the
representative-elect of that town, ar
rived in the city, on the evening train,
Wednesday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-17

Mrs. H. w. Plummer went to Boston
Tuesday, for visit.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-17

The State assessors passed a part Of
the day at Gardiner, Wednesday, on
business with the local assessors.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-17

The first rehearsal of the Cony Min
strels will be held in Golden Cross hall
Monday evening, at !.3O
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-17
A. MIME.

Thanksgiving Afternoon.
Entertainment to be announced later
Children admitted for 10 cents.
Sunlight hop in banquet hail.
Thanksgiving Evening.
The Arion Mandolin. Banjo and Guitar
Club.
Ina G. Bagnall, mandolin and ban
jeaurine,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-17

E. E. BOND, THE PHOTOGRAPHER.
e. E. BOND, THE~PHOTOGRAPH
E. E. BOND, THE PHOTOGRAPHERS.
E. e. BOND, THE PHOTOGRAPHERS.
E. e. BOND, THE PHOTOGRAPHER.
z. E. BOND, THE PHOTOGRAPHER.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-07-30
Who Built the Old English Churchesq

Rev. Dr. Jessop in the Nineteenth Century.
The evidence is abundant and positive,
and Is increasing upon us year by year,
that the work done upon the fabrics of
our churches and the other work done in
the beautifying of the interior of our
churches, such as the wood carving of our
screens, the painting of the lovely figures
in the panels of those screens, the en-
broidery of the banners and vestments, the
frescoes of the walls, the engraving of the
monumental brasses, the stained glass in
the windows, and all that vast aggregate
of artistic achievements which existed in
immense profusion in our village churches
till the frightful spoliation of those churches
in the sixteenth century stripped them
bare-all this was executed by local crafts
men. The evidence of this is accumulat-
ing upon us every year as one antiquary
after another succeeds in unearthing frag-
ments of pre-Reformation Church War
dens' accounts.
We have actual contracts for church
building and church repairing undertaken
by village contractors. We have the cost
of road screen paid to a village carpen-
ter, of painting executed by local artists
We find the names of artifcers, described
as aurifaber, or worker in gold and silver,
living in parish which could never have
had 500 inhabitants; we find the people
in another place casting new bell and
making the mould for it themselves; we
find the blacksmith of another place forg-
ing the ironwork for the church door, or
we get payment entered for the carving
of the bench ends in little church. 500
years ago, which bench ends are to be
seen in that church at the present mo-
ment.
And we get fairly bewildered by the as
tonishing wealth of skill and artistic taste
and aesthetic feeling which there must
have been in this England of ours in times
which till lately we had assumed to be
barbaric times. Bewildered, [ say, be-
cause we cannot understand how it all came
to dead stop in a single generation, not
knowing that the frightful spoliation of our
churches and other parish buildings, and
the outrageous pluDder of the parish guilds
in the reign of Edward VI, by the horri-
BILE bands of robbers that carried on their
destable work, effected such hideous
obliteration, such clean sweep of the
precious treasures that were dispersed in
rich profusion over the whole land, that
dull despair Of ever replacing what had
been ruthlessly pillaged crushed the spirit
OF the whole nation, and art died out in
rural England, and King Whitewash and
Queen Ugliness ruled supreme for CEN
turies.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-07-30
Things to Remember.

In wiping china dishes do not pile one
upon another while still hot Spread out
to cool off, then pack Piling together
while warm is apt to make the glaze crack.
Bread may be made in French style by
shaping it in long, slender loaves and bak-
ing until there is thick crust.
A good hair tonic is made by mixing
one pint of bay rum, one dram of quinine
and one ounce of glycerine.
A crib, with hair mattress and hair pill
low, is far better for baby than cradle
with feather bed and pillow.
All water that is to be used for drinking
purposes should be boiled and cooled by
being placed beside the ice, instead of put
ting ice into the water.
Tea, coffee and spices should be kept in
tightly covered tin or glass jars if the flavor
is to be properly retained.
1t is said that if horseradish is applied
to the temples when one is suffering with
a neuralgia headache it will give relief.
In French cooking the ''bouquet of
sweet herbs, which is so often given in
recipes, is composed of few sprigs of
parsley, piece of thyme, Glove of gar
lie, bay leaf, a couple of cloves and some
peppercorns. Wrap the parsley around
the other herbs and tie thread around
them. Put into soups or sauces in this
shape it is then more easily removed.
A correspondent of London paper as
serts that no fatal results need be feared
from yellow fever if the persOn attacked,
as soon as the symptoms appear, take
tumblerful of olive oil with the juice of a
lime squeezed into it. This dose should
be repeated till vomiting and purging ensue.
This is infallible in checking the virulence
of the complaint says the letter writer,
''and speedy convalescence invariably
follows l have not only proved its eff
cheney personally, but have witnessed its
complete success in dozens of cases, both
in Cuba and South America. -
The best thing to use to mount pictures
is boiled flour paste. 1t tshould be entirely
free from Jumps and made about as thick
as boiled starch. In applying it use a
fiat brush and also rub the paste smooth
in case of any possible Jumps. IF mucilage
or gum arabic and water are used it should
be remembered that the picture should be
moistened on the back before the mucilage
is applied; otherwise they will dry in bis
ters So many good pictures are in circu
lation it is a pity not to attempt the
mounting of them in inexpensive fashion.
Passe-partout mountings are within the
reach of every one, and are perfect pro-
lection to the picture, as well as an effec-
tive method of displaying them.
A farmer quoted by The Waterbury
(Conn. } American says of the caterpillar
nuisance EVERY year l hear of cater
pillars destroying whole orchards. There
is nothing 50 easy to dispose Of. I bore
hole in the tree deep enough to reach the
sap, fill the hole with sulphur and plug it
up. The sap takes the sulphur to every
limb and twig, and the caterpillars disap-
pear at once. have used it for years. f"
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-07-30
Church Bells.
From the Baltimore Methodist Protestant

From the Baltimore Methodist Protestant.
Ii there ever was useless appendage to
a church it is a great, ponderous, nerve
distressing bell. To be near them is most
exaspirating, and often weak and sick peo-
Pile can hardly endure the vibrations that
come from them There is vast amount
Of money invested in them that ought to
be started upon a better mission. People
who will not 60 to church except as they
are warned of the time by the ringing of
the bells will not 60 at all, and those who
will 90 do not need this sort of noisy ad-
monition
Millions of dollars are wasted in them
that would build churches, schools, hos
pitfalls and asylums, all to create a noise and
to distress those who are so unfortunate as
to be located near them
We are aware that what we have said
will be regarded as crankiness, but we
challenge anybody to show that bells are
of any genuine advantage to religion, and
we do know that they are exaspirating to
people in the last degree who are compell-
ed to live near them, and to sick and nerv-
GUS people they are simply uncomfortable.
We are in favor of blessing all church bells.
We think they ought to be passed through
a baptism of fire and started on different
and better mission, and let people consult
their clocks and their common sense as to
the time to 90 to church.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-07-30
Extraordinary Drinks.
From the New York Times.


Of the many extraordinary drinks regu-
larly consumed the blood of living horses
may perhaps be considered the most So
Marco Polo and Carpini were the first to
tell the world of the practice of the Tar
tars and Mongols opening the vein in their
horses necks, taking a drink and closing
the wound again. As far as can be seen,
this has been the practice from time i'm
memorial.
A writer in Tit Bits tells of wine
habitually consumed in China, which is
made from the flesh of lambs reduced to
paste with milk, or bruised into pulp with
rice, and then fermented: tits extremely
strong and nutritious, and powfully stimu-
lating to the physical organism
The Laplanders drink a great deal of
smoked snow water, and one of the ma
tional drinks of the Tonquinese is arrack
favored with chickens blood. The list
would scarcely be complete without men
ton of absinthe, which may be called the
national spirtuous drink of France. 1t is
horrible compound of alcohol, anise, cor
lander, fennel, wormwood, indigo and sui
phate OF copper. 1t is strong, nasty, and
a moral and physical poison.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-07-30
AS the Celestials See Us.

A Chinese writer in one of the publica-
tions of his own country has summed up
the peculiarities of the American people in
paragraph, which is translated as fol-
lows; ''They live months without eating
a mouthful Of rice; they eat bullocks and
sheep in enormous quantities; they have
to bathe frequently; the men dress all alike,
and to judge from their appearance, they
are all coolies; neither are they ever to be
seen carrying fan or an UMBRELLA, for
they manifest their ignorant contempt for
these insignia of gentleman by leaving
them entirely to women; none of them
have fngernails more than an eighth of an
inch long; they eat meat with knives and
prongs; the ~ never enjoy themselves by
sitting quietly on their ancestors graves,
but jump around and kick balls as if paid
to do it, and they have no dignity, for
they may be found walking with women. .