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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES,

William T. Littleheld. the oldest resi-
Thursday Of old age. lie was S, and 4
wcll-known citizen.
An alarm rung in for slight fire in
ne upper house at Nights Corner. Ca
laiS. Wednesday evening. When the Mill.
town. y. r.. hose cart was returning.
theN ran into COW owned BY Michael
l-ydeck. Midtown. Me. which was being
driven home from pasture and dchorneil
her, besides breaking five ribs on one SHE
ana four on the other.
The Italian sailor Of the Italian barken-
tine Walter e.. now unloading salt at r.
F. Milliken X Sons wharf PASSPORT who
died there. was named Andrea Barborgc-
lotta. aged 81 years. He is survived by a
wife at his former home AT Genoa from
where the barkentine halls from. her
cargo being from Trapani. The dead
sailor was buried during the week at the
Lubec cemetery. the day following his
unexpected death.
Fire broke out in the carding mill stu
ated on HARDWOOD dam. Machas Thurs
day a 2.l5 \. NJ, and in less than half
hour the building and its contents were
destroyed. The machinery. owned and
operated by John w. Remission, and the
building. owned by Sargent IL Gardner
are total loss estimated at about $500
with no insurance. Mr.. Remission had
MS eyebrows severely scorched while
lighting the fire. Customers will lose over
$500 worth of wool. The fire company did
excellent work.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05
Reflections OF a Bachelor.

| Babies are always q shock to a man
till they become habit
a man always feels queer when a
woman tells him she is crying be
cause she is glad"
| When girl first gets engaged to q
man she wonders how she was ever
able to live so long without expressing
| herself.
! Among the women Il newcomer rs
never considered neighbOrly until she
| has sent the hired girl To borrow AT
| least two ersatsaegs and three cups OF
sugar.
The average girl has the idea that
the main duty IN married life Is to Or
der things for dinner and to make a
fancy smoking jacket for her husband
TO wear when he comes home from
business.
The sweetest music Love knows IL
the sound ~ her own name.
Some men have no excuse FOR living
others have no living for an excuse.
There are two ways to make 4
woman love you. one y to tel her To-,
ana the other is 10 tell hcr not to.
II women could 60 to heaven for
husbands. there are probably some
VII" would insist on having one OF the
four winged beasts.
y great hate is more all-absorbinp
than 4 great love because it has more
of patience: and patience is the great
est of the passions.
When woman happens to hit upon
h..
other " hich kills it,
When wise man wants la advertise
anything to a neighborhood he con
hd"s ii as secret To- his wife
y" matter how much mother-in-Iaw
there is in her own family. every
woman thanks God there is more In
her neighbours. X.
\ woman really has only two moods
one il when she doesn't mean what
she says: the other Is, when she doesn't
say what She means.
After one woman has explained that
she likes another because she never
says n!-natured things about people
sh" rehashcs two hours Of scandaIous
gossip which she has just received
from her.
Probably every woman wishes her
nose WAS either bigger or hitler.
Every woman. no matter how home
~ she is. believes in her heart that
she has an aristocratic air.
You can always judge woman's
talking speed by watching her in a
restaurant when she thinks no one is
looking
The instinct that makes a man fall
IN love probably is the same one that
makes child, when it can't think of
anything else to do, want a piece of
bread and butter.
There was once big lookingglass in
a department store. and one day a |
woman passed ii without looking to |
see how she looked tn other people |
when they looked at her. This is not |
fairy story: the woman was blind
New York Press
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05
NO MORE RANCID FATS. OILS OR DANGEROUS ALKAlI
ct SKIN HEALER AND DELIGHTFUL. REFREsHrrc
CLEANSING TO II.ET ARTICLE



tat heretofore has
fats oil akai These
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think
true To be of them doubt 1850
the
strong enough to kill the and
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al
these ingredients made
Blue
profession the harmless
and Hvome
|
parting the peachlike health m
a diseases Of the skin
Is by all druggists prico
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to
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

The huckleberrics are beginning to
ripen. There are people who think OF
these as sort of second-rate blue
berry; but there are others for whom
the huckleberry fills spot where no
other berry can substitute satisfac-
torily. There is bit Of pucker to
the interchangeable the
poets and makers Of old cook books
call them-that gives the flavor an
added charm for some people, and to
one who has once lived where this
berry flourishes the sight or taste Of il
recalls visions of wide pasture. lands
covered with the deep blue Of these
berries, the heat and glare Of an Au-
gust day relieved by clumps OF cedar
and perhaps bayberry. and whiff Of
sea breeze from the not distant ocean
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

The deadlocks in several Legisla-
lures. last winter, which resulted in
failures to elect a United States SEN
alter in three or four states, have
brought forward a number of plans
whereby this unpleasant complication
may be avoided in the future. Sen
atOr Stewart of Nevada, now suggests
the plurality method of election if
three weeks of Legislature have
elapsed without majority election
This would make an election a sure
thing, but several objections would be
raised to it. Election of United States
senators by popular vote is gaining
many supporters, and the deadlocks in
the various Legislatures resulting in
the existing vacancies, have given
much strength to the movement. But
constitutional amendments come slow
and it is not likely that the proposed
change will be made for many years.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

The death of Colonel Hawkins of the
10th Pennsylvania Volunteers while on
the homeward bound transport makes
a sad homecoming for this gallant
regiment. This regiment is the only
Eastern volunteer regiment to see SER
vice in the Philippines, and its record
for over year has been one to reflect
great credit upon its state and upon
the nation. No regiment has done its
duty better, and no regimental COM
mander has been ADLER or Drawer than
Colonel Hawkins. Pennsylvania will
give the boys a welcome home, but the
welcome will be in a different spirit
The glad holiday will give place to a
tribute of respect to the dead heroes
Colonel Hawkins has been at the head
of this regiment i'll the Pennsylvania
National Guard for 20 years, and al
the time of his death was a member of
the state Senate of Pennsylvania. He
has two sons now in the regular SER
vice in the Philippines.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

The regiments of returning volun-
teers now arriving from the Philip
pines bring few crumbs of comfort for
the 'anti-imperialists." They are in
remarkably good health and spirits.
and complaints against the commits
sariat or the commanding generals
are few and far between. OF course.
they are glad to get home after an
absence of over year amid the hard
ships of an active foreign campaign.
but they come back better Americans
than when they went away, and with
the proud consciousness that their
valor has added imperishabIe Iaurels
to American arms. In general they
express the belief that the backbone of
the rebellion is broken, and that the
remnants of the Filipino resistance
will quickly disappear when the CAM
paign is opened at the close of the
rainy season. An occasional grumbler
and pessimist is found in the ranks
who thinks America should withdrau u,
from the Philippines and that he couId
nave managed the campaign better
IMAM General Otis. and on the ire
sponsible talk of such privates the vel
low journals base their "anti-im-
perialistic" news.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

The New York Mail and Express has
discovered that there is a general feel
ing among the Democrats of Maine
year, Mr.. SewaIl should also be named
for his old place on the ticket. 1t says
that Mr.. Sewall will be remembered
here and there as the gentleman who
ran for vice president in 1896 on "a
schedule which favored free silver for
other folks and gold-clause contracts
for himself
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

The American Agricuturalst pre-
that of $1,000 students in the 200 lead
ing colleges and universities of the
country, 21.000 or 40 per cent, are boys
from the farm. This is another way
of proving what really needs no proof,
namely, that the country boys have an
energy to attain it. In the future, as
at the present time, the leaders of the
world in all lines of thought and ac-
ton will be the country bred boys.
But this leaves unsolved the problem
of who will be the farmers of the
future
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05
Americans Who Became EnqIishmen.

| William Waldorf Astor is the fourth
famous American to leave this eoun-
try and become an English citizen.
There may have been few lesser
lights who have done the same thing,
but history has not bothered to record
such unusual happenings. Mr.. Astor
has lived in London for several years
though he still owns a great amount
of real estate in New York. He was
too aristocratic for this country where
his ancestors made their money so he
has figured out line of ancestry
which makes him laughed at and now
speaks bitterly against America and
Americans. He has purchased a mag
| nificent estate on the Thames and
hopes to become a member of Parlia-
ment and to be elevated to the peerage.
His course has failed to win him the re-
he has 50 cringingly craved, and, the
other day, the Prince of Wales public
ly declared him "a bore" The loss of
such a man to America is not to be
regretted. 1t was to the honor of this
country when he became a naturaliZed
British subject, last July.
Other well-known Americans who
have left these shores to become
British subjects have been Benedict
al i, l. 1 Ia,
Oakley Hall. Arnolds dark career of
shame is we'll known. He deserted his
flag for money. He failed in his at
tempt to betray an American post into
British hands, and he died friendless
outcast in London. Benjamin was
secretary of state in Jefferson Davis
Confederate cabinet, and he fled TO
England rather than take the oath Of
allegiance to the United States when
the leading lawyers of London. Hall
was at one time mayor of NeW York.
and he became a British subject be
cause he wanted to practice law in
London. Thus, of these four men, one
became Briton for social distinction
one to betray his country for gold, one
because he was too proud to bow his
knee to the conqueror. and one be
cause he wanted to exercise his talents
i'll the largest city in the world. Eng
land cannot be proud of the distinction
of acquiring three of these four men
1t is a safe rule that the American
who ever swears allegiance to any
other flag than our own is not a loss
worth considering. This country aC-
quircS many good citizens, every year
from England and other countries but
it very rarely gives them back any in
return. The wealthy American girls
who buy foreign titles thereby become
subjects Of alien powers, but they gen
orally remain intensely American in
their Sympathies to the end. and. any
way. they are quite another story.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05
'M@laae G0ssfn>
The Boy on the Farm.

Under a spreading apple tree
The boy with bare feet stands:
He has ten apples in him and
some more are in his hands
| Beneath his waist of calico
His tummy-tum expands.
His hair was shingled by his ma.
Who cut it straight behind:
He has a lurid color that
is due to sun and wind
He's lost the teeth he had in front.
But doeSn seem to mind.
Week in, week out. from morn till night
He tears around the place,
With briar scratches on his legs
And freckles on his face
The neighbors candidly admit
/ That hes Il hopeless case.
He wears his trousers at half mast,
| He rises with the sun:
The chores his busy father leaves
| For him are seldom done,
And he is always gone when there
Are errands to be rum
He goes on Sunday to the church
And stays to Sabbath school.
And, by propounding questions, makes
His teacher seem Il foot;
He pinches smaller boys than he
And learns the golden rule.
His mother sits up every night
To patch the clothes ne wears.
And every night he takes them off
With more emphatic tears
He falls from trees and into wells
And smokes and chews and swears.
The frightened chickens duck their heads
And cackle where he goes.
| With ugly sites upon his eyes
And bruises on his toes
lie eats things with his knife, nor cares
| For any wind that blows.
You gorge with undeveloped fruit,
! Which is foolish plan:
| No poetry is in you. but
| Know this, my little man:
| 1t takes much more than genius
| To stand the things you can.
| Chicago Times-Herald.
| Going to Bar Harbor to see the war
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

7 -
from the dirt thrown out of the ditch
several varieties of flowers have grown
thriftily all Esummer, These same
species Of plants have not been. grown
on the place for over so years The
last grown was about this spot, which
shows that the seeds must have lain
dormant that length of time and re-
tanned their vitality.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

No notice whatever will be taken of
unsigned communications.
The journal cannot he held fespOn-
sible for the preservation or return Of
rejected communications.
address all communications relating
to subscriptions and advertisements to
BURLEIGH & FLYNT, Publishers,
Augusta. Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

The Iowa Republicans are preparing
for one of the biggest victories, this
fall. in three long lists of glorious vic
tories. They have renominated Gov
ernor Shaw and adopted gold plat
form that hasn't a flaw in its con-
ctructiop
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

That yarn about an alliance of the
South American republics against the
United States is the most idiotic that
the summers silly season has pro-
duced.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

Americans who return from abroad
report that England is afraid of only
one thing in the whole world, and that
is that the United States will steal
aWav her markets
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

The name of JimineZ, the San
Domingo leader, is a great temptation
to the newspaper photographers and
few are able to resist
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

The proposed congressional inves-
'iGation of Southern lynchings will do
no good. The facts are already known
and such an investigation would only
arouse political feeling. The South
needs education more than investiga-
tiOn
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

A safe and speedy voyage to the
Diana which is carrying relief to Lieu
tenant Peary. May it find him safe
and WELL having won new fame for
himself and accomplished much for
the cause of science
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

The Boston Transcript is authority
for the assertion that the following
was picked up in one of the writing
rooms of a Maine seashorc hotel:
Get two words out of enough mean
ing not enough. Answer, one hug "
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

The latest and unique summer school
is to be started by Editor McLaugh-
lin. 1t is to be a summer school of
economies in the town of Scarboro. A
large tent will be erected, and the plan
is for frequent gatherings of the farm
ers of York and Cumberland counties
interested in the movement.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

Two more commissions have come to
Maine men who served with the
Maine Volunteers. Captain Paul has
been. offered a captaincy in the 10Th
Volunteers. and Lieutenant Hubbard
Il Captaincy in the 10Th Volunteers
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

How long will seeds keep alive? "A
Naples correspondent says that on the
farm of W. F. Leavitt a portion Of a
cellar drain next the house was opened
this spring, it having become clogged.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

The Samoan kings have been lost in
the shuttle, but the game Will be
played to the end.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

visitors get first water upon Il local fire
show that they understand what hos
pitality really Isl
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

How much better for themselves and
their friends if that Rockland couple
had married when they eloped instead
of two weeks later
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

The Reporter-Journals says q Massa-
Chusctts woman accosted a Gardiner
man, the other day, on the station plat
form, and struck up conversation
with him. After commenting upon the
natural beauties of Gardiner and
vicinity, she said: II think | never
saw such terribly homely people as
you have in Maine" oh" replied the
Gardiner man. these are summer
visitors that you see now" As the
lady was not endowed with beauty
herself, the conversation soon ended
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

1t is rare farmhouse that hasn't a
few summer visitors, or isn't expecting
few, little later.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

Lewiston Journal: Rev. w. f.
Berry. State secretary of the Maine
Enforcement League, not only hits
the nail on the head but drives it in
when he says that what Maine needs
is not to lower her standard to please
the law-breakers but to bring the law
breakers themselves into line. In fact,
SO sclf-evident is this proposition that
it is strange any other view was ever
taken of the situation.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

1t is the usual season for giving that
list of Maine towns to show that on,
can make an extensive tour of Europe
Asia and South America without leav-
ing the confines Of our State. If you
examine the map carefully you viii
find that the itinerary might be some
thing like this: Yarmouth. Wales.
E,dinburg. Cambridge, Windsor. Dover
Calais, Paris, Bremen. Dresden. Frank
fort, Hanover. Denmark. Norway, Swe-
den, Lisbon, Madrid. Palermo. Etna
Naples, Rome, Verona, Vienna. Po-
land, Moscow, Belgrade. Athens. Cor
NTH, Smyrna. Damascus, Canaan,
Carmel, Lebanon, Jerusalem. China.
Peru and Mexico. Is there another
state in the Union within whose con-
fines such an extended tour can be
made.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

The season is almost at the high
water mark at the coast resorts.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

woods report the game more abundant
than for years.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

The August vacation rule is in force
at most Of the city churches.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

Portland has changed the names of
40 streets to avoid the complications
arising from the annexation of Deer
ing
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

Rt. Rev. John F. Spaulding, 5. T. d.
of Denver. Colorado. has just COM
pleted the 25th year of his Episcopate
as bishop of the diocese of Colorado
Bishop Spaulding WAS Il native OF Bel
grade. and attended Bowdoin College.
from which he graduated in 1853. in
the same class with chief Justice
Fuller
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

The Maine Press party is hnmeward
bound. today. after a delightful week
over the Sunrise route. Washington
county may be- excused If il expects a
nice little write up or two in part pay
mcnt for its hospitality.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

Mondays regatta ut Lake Cobbos-
seecontce will be the aquatic event Of
the season in inland Maine This Is
the 18th season that this delightful
feature of summer at tn" lake has
been enjoyed and the prospects for
exciting sport. this year, are better
than ever before. There will be- a big
crowd on the wooded shore and on the
beautiful lake to enjoy Monday after
Moons races.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

The family reunions ana rcgimental
reunions are coming right along.
They are great occasions, for there Il
nothing dearer to the heart than the
renewal Of the cherished associations
Of aud lang syne.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-08-05

Going to Bar Harbor to see the war
ships, tomorrow?
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1899-02-02
POOL BROKEN.
1ron Orc Combine Will Not Govern thu
Output This Season.

Ison Orc Combine Will Not Govern the
Output This Season.
DULUTH, Feb. 2.-Tne combination of
iron ore miners that for the past half
dozen years has governed the price of
bessemer ores and has allotted to each
range and every mine the amount it
could sell in the market, is broken.
1t got together this month in Cleve-
land, but the interests failed to agree on
an allotment and the whole thing broke
up. Before the break, however, the
pool managed to make price on ore
for the coming year about 20 cents
above that Of last year.
Contrary to the general result when
pools are broken, there will probably b
no decline when the prices arranged BY
the agreement are changed, but an ID
vance. 1t was the fact that some inter
ests thought the pool prices too low thai
caused the failure Of negotiations for o.
allotment agreement.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1899-02-02

OrTuAwA. Ia, Feb. 2.-Dr. Theodore
n. Morrison Of Chicago will be the mex,
bishop Of the Episcopal church Of Iowa.
This was definitely settled when Rev.
J. Hollister Lynch received word from
Bishop Doane Of Albany. N. u, that a
majority Of the house Of bishops had
gwen consent to his consecration. Thi.
finishes all the canonical requirements,
and DR.. Morrison will be consecrated ir
the Church Of the Epiphany, Chicago,
Feb, 20.