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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-06-01

i is interesting to watch the despot
trout in Brooks aquarium. This one
is the largest Of the family Of fishes.
and h2 rules supreme. One corner Of
the tank is his own especial property.
ana i'll is woe unto the fish that swims
in that vicinity. He will dash forward
With wide open mouth and take hold of
the other fish with as much gusto as
though he was after an archer spinner.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-06-01
Grain-O Brings Relief

to the coffee drinker. Coffee drinking is
q habit that is universally INDUCED In
ana almost as universally injurious.
Have you tried Grain-O? Ii IS almost
Ike coffee but the effects are Just the op-
posite. Coffee upsets the stomach ruins
the Objection, effects the heart and dis
turbs the whole nervous system. Grain
o tones up the stomach. aids digestion
and strengthens the nerves. There is
nothing but nourishment in Grain-O. 1t
can't be otherwise. 10 and 25c. per pack
age.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-06-01

Conductor Frank Gardiner Of tn
night Pullmans, With Mrs. Gardiner.
viii 20 TO Moosehead lake. today. on
2-Weeks' fishing trip Last year Mrs.
Gardiner captured the largest trout
eyer caught in MooSehead lake and
this year, Will try for the mate. Bag
gage Master L. j. Feeney will have
charge Of Mr.. Gardeners trains.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-06-01

F. NJ. Bowman caught 3h-pound
landiocked salmon in Great pond. Bel
grade. Wednesday, said to be the first
taken there since the pond was stock
Cd 10 ana > years ago. =. q. Vickcry
idhued TWO handsome 4-pound trout at
Great pond, yesterday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-06-01

A small party of the young ladies'
who work At the Nicleiy < Hill Pub
fishing House with young gentlemen
friends. called upon George w. Wick
cry at MS home on Western avenue.
Wednesday evening. Whist was en-
joyed ana later refreshments were ser
we'd. MIR. Nickcry proved himself to
be q capital host and the party passed
very pleasant evening.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-06-01

Advertising car 40. Of the COM
hlned Forepaugh ana Sells Bros. cir
Gus was IN the city. Wednesday. This
car carries the cloth advertising mat
ter that is tackled up all over the city
hy this time. The great circus visits
Augusta, next Wednesday, June :
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-06-01

A pile driver was in the Kennebec
opposite the city few hours. Wednes-
day morning. at work for the Augusta
Lumber co. in setting row Of piles
between the piers and the present
boom for use in holding another boom
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-06-01

This is the first Memorial day in Is
years when | have rot delivered an
Grafton in some part Of the county"
said an Augusta citizen. Tuesday.
and consequently | have not seen an
Augusta Memorial day in all that time.
1t seems very odd not to be on the
nll tfnrnl.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-06-01

The uniforms Of the Augusta Cadet
hand are rather neat. They We're worn
ror he first time. Tuesday. in the
paradps at Haliowcll and in this city.
The cloth is a nice one 81 the Vef|
darkest green. The trimming Is OF 4
vide black braid. There is nothing
about thcm that is snowy or loud yef
when the entire band IS together, the
anert IF the suits is far better than the
,,lry calurcd one.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-06-01

81. Marks Home is to have its an
.nual pound party. today, and it is
hoped many will avail themselves Of
the opportunity To aid this worthy
charity. Packages can lie sent to the
Home At any time during the day.
The home will he open from to =.
NJ. for an Informal reception To the
friends Of the institution, and all in
terested in its work are invited to be
present.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-06-01

Through the summer months. com
n,.ucing Monday June :, the IIthSoW
library will close each evening. Satur-
days excepted. at o'clock. 1t Will
Keep open until 3 o'clock Saturday
nNeninGs.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-06-01

The freight business is picking UP
along the line Of the Maine Central, for
4 number Of specials have been run to
take care Of the accumulated freight
during the last few days.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-06-01

When a man exhibits such fine line
81 couches, chairs, upholstery goods.
etc, as can be seen in A. A. Soule's
attractive store. it is to be expected
that trade will be good.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-06-01

Ofhcer Miron found little girl s
Years of age on the street. Wednesday
night at II o'clock. and took her to her
home. Her parents had missed her
earlier in the evening and had given
Up the search.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-06-01

MarceIlus B.aisdell Of Sidney, was
sentenced tn 30 days in Jail at an early
mnrrine session of the police court,
Wednesday. The sentence was sus-
pended upon good behavior
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-06-01

Just the weather for enjoying a drink
or healthful Deer from the stone mugs
i'm L. &. Einsman * Co.'S.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-06-01
Local and Business Tips.

A No. fresh mackerel II cents per
pound. Fresh steak halibut. II cents
at Jenkins market.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-06-01
North End Bicycle Store,
CYR & MICHAUD, Props.
= N-1apdff
No Crops Will Grow

I'm oor+ain weston lands unless streams of LIVING
water be carried to every part IL Is mus ms
the principle Of life is carried throushHutt o SaY
bodies by thy nerve system. We say anu 80
rightly thnt THE NERVES ARE TIE
LIFE. and II from any Sause they De eilie r.
at broken down. the miseres that result aI
BEYOND ALL TELLING. LasSitaue ai'a
.iebiiity sleerlcssness and discomfort gloom;
frctfulness and incipient mania, loss o. VIZ, VA
pOwrrs and the ten lency to consunip''oii' '0
other fata! malaiies are all due 70 TINS
The National tribune., 1899-09-07
ADJUrANr-GENERAL STEWART.

Comrade Thomas J. Stewart has con-
cluded second year of gratuitous service
to the Order as Adjutant General, and to
him are again due the warmest thanks
of all members of the Order. They should
thank him not only because he has given
year Of hard painstaking work gratuit-
ously. and so helped out the slender
finances of the Order, but also because he
has made an exceptionally good Adju-
tant General. The Order was very fortu-
nate in getting him to accept the position.
Good Adjutants-General are rare. Com
rade Stewart is one of the best that Penn
sylvania has ever had, and he has brought
all the knowledge and training he has re-
ceived in that position to the service of the
Grand Army of the Republic, and that
without fee or reward other than a fraternal
desire to aid the Order.
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EVANS MUST GO.

The following is officially communicated:
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF ORE
CON, MCMINNVILLE, ORE, June %,
1899.
The following resolution was unani-
mously adopted by the Department En-
campment of Oregon, GAR, on the above
date:
Be IL resolred By the Department of Ore
gon, Grand Army of the Republic, IN En-
campnlent assembled, That we recommend
that the President cause the removal OF
H. Clay Evans, Commissioner of Pensions.
and appoint some man in his stead more
favorably disposed toward eX-Union sol
diers and sailors, who will, while carefully
guarding the pension rolls against fraudu-
lent claims, interpret the pension laws
fairly and literally TO the end that speedy
and equitable decision of all claims may be
had without any unfair Interpretation OF
law or needless burden OF proof.
We. the members of John Trotter Post,
703, Department of Illinois, do condemn
the action of H. Clay Evans, Commissioner
of Pensions, in his illiberal policy toward
the old soldier in pension matters and the
inequality of the same; and We further ask
that the President remove Mr.. Evans, PEN
sion Commissioner, and put in his place
to 1865, and who will do justice to the old
soldier. The Post unanimously adopts
these resolutions.-S. NJ. ELLIS, p. c.;
Ayelsberry Gregory, Adjutant; keenville,
Ill.
FROM CALIFORNIA.
At regular meeting of Hamlin Post, 160:
GAR, Department of California and
Nevada, held at Crescent City, Cal, the
following resolutions were adopted:
+ Whereas H. Clay Evans, the present
Commissioner of Pensions, has rendered
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crowding each other, fighting for room to
grow, and sometimes growing past all grace,
so heavy and thick. From the extreme
scantiness Of vegetation We had come to
where it was rank and fairly unpleaSantly
profuse. One wanted the force to tip the
earth just little bit and let some of these
redundant waters flow to the thirsty plains
but then the picturesqueness would de-
part.
From New Orleans until we reached
Mobile, all along the bitches and little
waterways we saw the masses of water
hyacinth in blossom. 1t has a stalk of
lovely, delicate lavender blossoms spring.
ing from the shining dark-green leaves
massed in the water; but it has grown to be
as much OF pest to the Southern planter
as the poetical daisy is to the thrifty North
ern farmer.
Several years ago planter imported
from Europe n pretty little water hyacinth
to grace the waters of the pleasure grounds
of his plantation. The flower was much
admired, but in the favorable waters of
the South It soon spread far and wide, until,
with it's thick tangles of root and stems, it
blocked the bitches and waterways, and
became general nuisance. In these
years men fight it and devise means to get
rid of it, beautiful as tis.
ALABAMA AND NORTH CAROLINA.
AS we came up through Alabama and
North Carolina-througho ordinary country,
where the trees stand high and dry and
wave their green branches on the mountain
tops; where the little streams make pleas
ant sound and do no harm-my fellow
traveller, who had not been away from
Ell PaSo for 10 years or so, would eXclaim:
Theirs a mullen; and see that dodder
There's a sycamore tree. 1 declare, I'd
forgotten there We're sycamore trees. That's
The National tribune., 1899-09-07
REPORTS OF NATIONAL ENCAMP-
NENrS.

Gen. A. W. Greedy, Chief Signal Officer,
U. S. A, and in charge of the War Depart
ment Library, desires comrades to send him
all reports of Reunions, Regimental AS
sociations, and other literature relating to
the war and the surviving veterans. These
will be carefully filed in the War Depart
ment Library, and form valuable material
for future reference. He particularly de-
sires at present copies of reports Of the pro-
ceedings of the 9th, 2Sth, 29th, Both and
31st National Encampments. Any COM
rades having copies of these they do not
want, will confer favor by sending them
to Gen. Greely, care of the War Depart
ment. Washington. D. G.
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a blackberry bramble. Those daisies

blackberry bramble. Those daisies
look natural. There's lot of plantain
down that path, and that's a burdocS near
the big maple. There are some iocusts.
That lot of trees over there seems to be
mostly oak. That's mustard To tie right,
but | don't remember that white flower
beyond. Seems TO me its tansy. or ya.row.
No. II amt. 1 remember. now; It's wild
carrot"
Almost unconsciously his eye noted,
his memory identified, and his tongue
spoke the names of these plants. Ec mad
not given them any Thought in his abb
sence,-pro5ably had only vaguely no.
ticed that his ways in the Southwest were
not among them.-but as quickly as he
saw the plants and trees memories of them,
as of old neiChhors. when re was a Vir-
ginian, flashed back into his tho. ghts.
The fields and woods and roaGSiG,s o. his
boyhOod had not been really forgotten in
the busy rush and stampede of life in
FL Paso's early years; they were all lack
in his memory somewhere, and t:ooped
forth with his first moments in the land of
his birth.
North Carolina, as usual, caTe in for
critcism-the conductor scolded at all
North Carolnians as We passed mile after
mile of Spiudling corn, unweeded, with the
underbrush of the forest crowding into the
limits of the field, with fences all broken,
houses unpainteds sbottom-iands wasted,
and soil worn to death.
Washington seemed set in a beech forest,
so many of those beautiful trees did we
see. The poplars and China" trees OF
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fantastic clouds riding high in the heavens,
far away blue mountains, and certain in
teresting phases of life in the small towns
as one sees them while the engine drinks
from the big tanks.
Old yuccas-"Spanish bayonets" rather
their stiff. pointed, green leaves and tall
fioweriI G stalks raised three or four feet
from the ground on big brown trunks are
the chief floral grace of these stations-tak-
ing the place of the scarlet geraniums
which brighten the stations of the Eastern
railroads. Besides, usually. there is a
great bed of black cinders, whereon is pic
tured with shining white stones a brave
locomotive or track leading into the set
ting sun. This representation spread be
meath the eyes of the traveller as he gaZes
about him is almost the only testimony of
any art in this region. These pictures
picked out in white on the black-not
much, but more than nothing.
RAILROAD STATIONS.
Lounging about the stations are men in
brown, du Sty clothes, men with Sunburned
hair and mustsches and cheeks, with
dusty brown hats and dusty shoes. Mexi-
cans lounge about the walls in tie shade of
the station, their dark faces further shad-
owed by mantillas or sombreros.
Occasional cottonwoodS are the only
trees. The architecture of the station, and
Of the few houses and the store or two of the
town is usually of the, simplest type-re-
sembling dry-goods store boxes. Every
town is like all the others though in having
a radiantly ornamental courthouse. There
will be a few square, unpainted, porchless,
unadorned, ungabled houses, an equally
box-like store, or maybe two. and on some
crest or hill the courthouse. The court
house is invariably in striking contrast to
the scene it overlooks; being a lowered,
ornamented, dazzlingly-painted structure,
with deliberately doors and win
dows. They are actually fiorid in con-
trast with the barrenness roundabout.
THROUGH LOUISIANA.
After the desert come the green lowlands
of eastern Texas. with glimpses of gardens
glowing with color, and the next day one is
in the swamps of louisiana. travelling
through marshes so wet ard unending that
one wonders that a railway ever thought to
traverse them. 1t seems as though boats
were the proper vehicle for Il e region.
Here the farmers have as much trouble
getting rid of superfiuous water as the farm
ers of the day before had in getting enough
to scantily supply their thirsty fields. The
day before the bitches had all been on top of
the land. that the precious drink might be
carefully spread over the fields when neces-
sary; now all the bitches are below the level
of the fields to help the hard-worked farmer
get rid of some of the pesky water.
Suddenly one finds trees, moss, ferns,
sedges, grasses. innumerabie water plants,
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Gen. Harrison was Presidentfrom Marcl

Gen. Harrison was President from March
4, 1899, to March 4, 1898.
Grover Cleveland was President from the
latter date to March 4, 1897, when VIM. Nc
Kinley became President The Disability
Act was passed June 81, 1890, just at the
close of that official year, so that its effect
first appears in the report for 1891. Core
spondingly, the report for 1S93.shows seven
months of work under the Harrison Ad-
ministration. The astounding reduction
from net gain Of 199, ,9OS in 1892, to one of
1852 in 1894, shows the success of Loch-
ren's deadly work.
Dominic l. Murphy succeeded Lochren in
the last year of Clevelands s Administration,
and began a more liberal system of pensions.
Evanss first report-that for 1897
showed the results of eight months of
Dominic !. Murphy's administration, and
five months of his own.
The Commissioner reported that on June
80, 1895, there were ,765 claimants who
were getting no pension at all. On June
30, 1896, there We're 176, ,5S5 who were get
ting no pension at all. 1t is not clear how
many were getting no pensions on June 3d.
1897, but according to the Commissioner s
report of June 30, 1898, there were about
| 100000 who were getting no pensions.
The chances are more than even that there
| were at that time more than 100000 who
/ were receiving no pension. because large
number were dropped under the Lochren
administration, and thousands OF others
| were deferred from filing claims because of
the unfriendliness of the Administration
They filed their claims when Mckinley was
elected. 4
According to the Commissioners report
of June 30, 1898, there were, at that time,
635, ,059 claims pending, while on June 30,
1897, there wers only 57S,O99 claims pend
ing. There was THUS gain during the
year of $500, claims.
There has been no change in the law; but
slight change in the clerical force; no
reduction in the amount appropriated for
the payment of pensions, and yet the claims
are allowed to drag along until the appli-
cants die. q n
The National tribune., 1899-09-07
THE NATIONAL MONUMENT.

General Orders, No. q, from the Com
mander-in-Chief Union Veteran Legion,
w. S. Norcross, Lewiston, Me-, has the
following paragraph:
The attention of all members of the
Legion is hereby called to the joint resoluI-
ton of Congress. approved by the Presi-
dent April y. 1898, in regard to the National
Monument to the rank and file of soldiers,
sailors. and marines who served from 1861
to 1865. Comrades, this is a worthy oh
ject and the National Commander trusts
that each Encampment will take immedi-
ate action. and forward all donations by
their representatives to the National En-
campment, so that our complete contribu-
tions may be paid over to our representa-
tive of the association, Col. Theodore F.
Lang, of Encampment 100. Baltimore.
Md. All other soldier organizations have
contributed literally to this worthy cause,
and the father Of all veteran organizations
should not be unmindful or negligent in
such noble enterprise.
The National tribune., 1899-09-07

AN illustration of the way the commercial
value of metal affects its use for coins is
given by the shipment to this country of
great quantities of Hindu and Chinese coins
as scrap copper One firm recently received
$500 bags of these, weighing $50 pounds.
The Chinese and Hindus coin copper at the
rate of about 10 cents pound, while copper
is now bringing 1872 cents a pound in this
country. At this rate it is profitable to take
in the coins at their face value, and ship
them here.
The National tribune., 1899-09-07

BISHOPS Turner and Thomas, OF the
African Methodist Church, who want Con-
gress to appropriate s1Oo, ,ooo. GOO to deport
the Southern negroes, are singularly i'm
practicable gentlemen. In the first place,
any serious attempt to carry away the labor
Of the South would bring down upon them
q tornado of measureless wrath from the
Southern planters and employers. In the
next. what would we do with the negroes
starye? The Bishops had better think
again.
The National tribune., 1899-09-07
ACTING COMMANDER-IN-CHI JOHN

There can be nothing but praise from
all comrades for the manner in which
Acting Commander in Chief johnson has
performed the duties TO which he was un-
expectedly called by the death of Com
mander-in-Chief Sexton. Like the Vice
President of the United States, the Senior
Vice Commander-in-Ch of the Grand
Army of the Republic is never selected
with reference to or the expectation that he
will succeed to the higher Office. This is a
great mistake, and possibly the National
Enc2mpment at Philadelphia will take the
matter under consideration, and introduce
a change which will provide for future
contingencies.
But we could not have been more fortu-
nate than we were in the successor to Com
rade Sexton. We could not have had n
better Commander-inC Chief, no matter
by what process he had been selected.
Comrade johnson is representative OF the
lest type of the American volunteer. He
faithfully carried and welded his musket
in the ranks of splendid regiment during
the whole of its long and honorable career.
Since the war his record has been entirely
creditable. By his own unaided efforts
he has established himself among the solid
business men of the great city of Cincinnati,
All the time he has kept in touch with his
old comrades, and has been an active
worker in the GAR. He is strong,
clear headed, warm-hearted, manly man,
and has made friends for himself and the
Order wherever he has gone. His address
is an unusually able one, and will be read
with interest by comrades who have been
unable to attend the National Encamp-
ment.
The National tribune., 1899-09-07

THE main trouble with Secretary Alger has
been that his enemies and opponents have
has. He has not k:own how to work the
press as cmningly as has the ring in the War
Department and one or two of his colleagues
in the Cabinet These are like Commissioner
Evans in their Industrious attention to the
press and their daily supply of material to the
correspondents.
The National tribune., 1899-09-07

nifcent service in tho Philippines, and
started home to enjoy its weli-won honors.
The reports say that during the five months
that it was constantly at the front, leading
the van Of the fighting, it lost three officers
and 80 men killed, and 122 were wounded.
Only 10 died Of disease, though the regi
ment went through smallpox epidemic
About 200 of the regiment remained be.
hind, of whom $50 re-enlisted.
The National tribune., 1899-09-07
FROM SOUTHWEST
TO WASHINGTON.
From Desert to Swamps-Texas
Towns and COuriIlOuses-
Through Alabama and North
CarOIina-PlantS and Trees.

The trip from the far Southwest to the
North and Washington is north 10
one on the southern border 200 miles 10
the southwest-reveals something of the
infinite variety OF our broad country. The
skies. the land. the nights. tine plants, the
little crowds of human beings hanging
around the railway stations are different
each day of the trip.
Outside of FL Paso. away from what is
called the fertile" valley of the Rio Grarde
the train journeys across hundreds OF miles
of undeniabls desert; not an entirely un-
pleasant experience. notwithstanding that
the air is hot, the dust and grit whirls up
into the window with the rush of the train.
and the wide gray stretches of sand glare in
the sun. There are marvellous skies with
The National tribune., 1899-09-07
Shelby County dlI.) Reunion.

The Reunion, Aug. 10 and II. at Stew
ardson, of the Shelby County Veterans
Association was one of the most successful
in the Associations history. Over 200
veterans registered. The Reunions next
year will be held in Findlay. E. K.
Schwartz was elected Commander, and
G. T. Gwinup Adjutant of the Association.
III. FL. York. of Stewardson, is the retiring
Commander, and L. Boggs, retiring Ad-
jutant.
The National tribune., 1899-09-07

himself obnoxious to the old soldiers by his
arbitrary rulings and neutrality-suspicious. of
the various acts of the Congress of the
United States, granting pensions to the
soldiers of the civil war: Therefore, Be it
Resolred, That the attention of the Presi-
dent of the United States be invited to these
charges, and that he be respectfully re-
quested to nominate another Commissioner
of Pensions, whose rulings will be more in
accord with the spirit of the laws.
Resotred, That copy of these resolutions
be furnished THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE,
Washington, D. G. E. STRAUB, Chair.
man.
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THE great need of the day is for some man
to make practical suggestion in regard to
dealing with the trusts. We have quite
enough noisy, sterile defamation. Every
body indulges in it. without regard to race.
color, or previous condition of political servi-
tude. What we acutely want is for some man
to propose law which will secure all the
benefits of trusts and combinations, and yet
cure their evils