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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-11-03
MAINE INDUSTRIES.

c. l.. Ryerson OF Bethel will put
| about 100000 feet Of lumber in Rapid
river and Umbagog lake during the
| coming winter. It will be cut in t
| township.
! $. w Collins & Son of Caribou,
have 80 Men at work cutting spruce
and cedar on Mud brook and viii in
crease that number to 100 later in the
| season.
! II is rumored in MilbridSe that local
| capital Will be employed next sea son
! in building and operating a sardine
factory equipped with modern plant.
affording employment to 100 hands
At the brick yard of II. r. Phillips.
Ellsworth. some 500, 900 bricks are be-
| ing burned Mr.. Phillips is furnishing
brick for a cottage at Bar Harbor. the
first one OF brick built in that county
for some 50 years.
Work on the new recovery depart
ment al the pulp mills. Yarmouth. is
| progressing satisfactorily. Six new
| bleaching tanks are to be put in, max
ing l. in all: also a new furnace. The
| machinery is already there and will
| be placed as soon as possible. Better
and more economical work will be the
| result of these additions.
/ NJ. F. Dorsey and others, Of Fit. Fair
| field. are hiring men for the woods
| During the past week a large number
| have passed through there from the
| Provinces on their way to the Moose
head region. and still others in tho
vicinity of Patten. Ashland and other
! numbering centres. They are offered
| good wages and the outlook is very
encouraging to the laboring man in
| almost any vocation he may choose.
Sixteen women and three men have
, been discharged from the rag sorting
department of the S. D. Warren paper
mill company, Westbrook. and the pay
| of the men remaining has been affect
ed 50 that they cannot earn more than
IA dollar a day, where formerly they
earned a dollar and a half This de-
crease comes from the shortening of
the hours in their department. More
work is being done with wood pulp to
day than in the past. so that the de
mand for help in the rag stock depart
ment is diminishing to considerable
| extent.
Fish dealers in Ellsworth and vicin-
ity are busily engaged shipping. At
Corea. in Gouldsboro. S. +. Doyle
shipped cargo of 700 quintals worth
$500 to Gloucester. by schooner Maud
S Mr.. Doyle has still other fish on
hand. which will be disposed of to
Bangor parties At Southwest Harbor
schooner {. NJ. Walton is being loaded
by John l.. Stanley with cargo
valued at some $1,000 for Gloucester.
James Parker, the king of fish dealer,
will have two vessels laden this week.
for the same port Mr.. Parker has
several thousand quintals for ship
ment John A. Hopkins of Manset
made a huge shipment last week
amounting 10 $500. Hancock county
is fast becoming the banner one Of
Maine for the catching and curing OF
| fish. and Southwest Harbor sends out
the largest quantity. with Corea in
GOuldSbOro second.
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MAINE PEOPLE.


| Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Winter Of west
Bath. will observe the 5Oth ami
versary of their marriage. Nov. 10.
| James r. Dyer has entered the New
York law school for two vears,
course, which will admit him 10 the
New York bar.
At recent special meeting of Co NJ.
Cleaves Rifles, Westbrook. ex-Serpaant
Eugene Cummings was elected TO fiji
the vacancy Of second lieutenant.
Miss Mary 4. Jackson of Portland
has lately been appointed to a place az
| stenographer and typewriter in the
Smithsonian institution, Washington.
D. c. 1t is one of the most desirab le
bureaus of the government for en-
ployes.
First Lieutenant William H. Clifford
Of the United States marine corps has
returned to Cavite, after service in
China. First Lieutenant James w.
Lynch, another Portland bow. who was
several months ago sent home by Or
ders of medical board, has recovered
his health and is again on duty in the
Philippines.
The following were admitted to the
bar at the recent term Of the S. J.
court at Dover: Asher F. Palmer Of
Foxcroft; Hiram Gerrish, Brownville:
Claude d. Grafton. Burlington, VI. Mr..
Palmer. who is well known as a public
speaker has been a student with c. W
Hayes. Esq. Mr.. Grafton and Mr.
Gerrish are graduates Of the L. of NJ
Law school.
Harry f. Merrill has resigned his
position as basso in the State Street
Congregational church, Portland, to
accept a position in the new Emanuel
church on NeWbury street, Boston
Mr.. Merrill will retain his position as
teller at the Chapman National Bank
in Portland. going TO Boston to be at
the Emanuel church on Sundays
Charles F. Cannon, formerly %
Portland. who has been living in China
Tor several years as an instructor in
Ii Hung Chang's college and who was
thought TO have been killed by Boxers.
has arrived safely in this country and
is now at Beloit Wis He writes TO Port
land friends that he is 10 spend some
time in lecturing and that he may
visit this section before spring.
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IN THE scHo0la00M.
What Is Being Done Ia Maine Tor the Ad
vaAeement Of Education.

The new school building at South
Gorham is nearly completed.
The Somerset Teachers Association
will hold its annual meeting az Hartland
Nov. u and i.
\ movement is on foot in Ellsworth to
form a class in physical culture and TO
have a competent instructor for the
same.
June Freeze. five years of age. won the
prize in the third reader class at the
Corner school. Atkinson. for leaving Oft
al the head the largest number of times.
Alonzo j. Knowlton of Belfast. a grad
uatc of Castinc normal school. has been
elected professor Of natural sciences in
the New Hampshire state normal school
at Plymouth.
at University OF Maine. has been select
be heard at the sophomore debate at
Orono town hall. December 9TH.
The Searsport school Improvement
league has made some much needed i'm
provements in the high school room Ii
has now undertaken TO raise money to
place new seats in the same.
w. w. Woodman, for several years
| principal of the Gorham High school.
recently delivered an address upon the
relation of the high school to the col
| lege. in Peabody, Mass, at a conven
ton of teachers, numbering 1000.
| The young ladies' of the Presque
Isle High school, who have recently
organized "A basket ball club gave a
dance recently for the purpose Of
| raising funds for incidental purposes.
Between eight and nine dollars was
realized.
At the annual session Of the Banso" ~
sociation OF Normal Alumni OF ta>-ine
| Normal school held Friday evening in
| Bangor the election of officers for the
association for the coming year resu Ute
! liam Jarvis. vice president: Miss Beulah
Robinson, secretary: Miss Susie Bicktord.
| treasurer: o. l.. Clement. Katherine I'll.
Quigley and Susie Bickford. executive
| committee.
| Miss Martha S Buchanan Of Columbia
| Falls has been engaged as teacher of
| drawing in the Bangor public schools TO
| fill the vacancy caused by the resigns-
ton of Miss Amy r. Whittier. who with
| drew at the beginning Of the present
term to take a position In Massachusetts.
| Miss Buchanan is a graduate OF the bos-
Ton Normal Art school, and has been
teacher of drawing in the Marlboro.
Mass. schools for the past two years.
Superintendent Winslow of the Bath
schools has recently received word
| from State superintendent Stetson
| that Monday. Dec. 10. is the first date
when the latter can be present at Z
| Sagadahoc county teachers conVen-
| ton. SO the annual convention is like
~ to be held on that date and will
meet in Bath. Rev. A. F. Winship.
editor of the Journal of Education and
one of the most brilliant educational
speakers in the country. has sisnifled
his intention of being present and VIII
deliver the address in the evening.
Professor K. c. Metcalf. supervisor
of city schools in Boston. finds it rath-
err a profitless task to teach children
out of Biographies any sort OF salts
| factory knowledge as to our great ma
/ tional industries. Professor Metcalf
has hit on the pretty plan of asking
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Maine Fraternities.

Sir Knight J. w Chase of Pittsfield.
is in Belfast in the interest of the
knights of Malta, and will organize a
commandvry in that city.
Beulah Chapter. Eastern Star. con
ferred the degrees of the order on two
candidates at recent meeting. The
society is gaining constantly in men,
bership.
If there has been busy lodge in the
State since January l. 1900. it is cres-
cent No. 20. X. of p. Steep Falls. as
il has conferred one or more of the
different ranks at each convention.
also built new hall.
The members of Union Lodge. A. o.
l.. w. Old Town. are talking of organ
izing Degree of Honor Lodge and
committees have been appointed who
are at work upon the charter list and
il is expected that the auxiliary lodge
will be instituted in about two weeks.
A Woman's Christian Temperance
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r. BANGOR & AR00ST0Ok
I'm RAILROAD
~A Arrangement Of Trains
In Effect October 8. 1900

Pullman Buffet Parlor cars, petW cen
Caribou and Bangor on a trans Pansor ls "a e
LEAVE Portland, 100 P. NJ; Augusta,
is A. NJ: Waterville. rs A. NJ; Ban
IRON Works. $50 A. NJ: Norcross, 9.42 A:
~; Millinocket. 9.55 A. NJ: sherman 10 %
A. NJ; Patten. u.0S 4: NJ; Island tans'
sardis, los p. NJ; Ashland. $50 P. NJ, /;
Houlton, 1910 T. NJ; Bridgewater, Log +:
NJ. Presque Isle. 1.57 P. NJ; Caribou, 20
p. NJ; New Sweden, 2.5S P. NJ. Van ~.
Fort Fairfield, 2.l5 P. M; Dover and Fox
croft, 9.l0 A. NJ; Guilford. 9.S5 A. NJ, {;
MOnson, 1918 A. NJ; Greenville. 1850 A.
LEAVE Portland, u 40 P. NJ; Augusta
go r. NJ; Waterville, $40 P. NJ; Ban
= gor, AS p. NJ; Arrive Brownyille: $50 +;
NJ. Norcross.g72 20 P; NJ; Millinoc5et, III
80 P. n: Presaue Isle 1850 p: N. Car
ibou. II Is p NJ; Fort Fairfield. lilo p. NJ.
LEAVE Greenville. $40 A. NJ: Monsoon
Junction, SIS A. NJ: Guilford. 6.42 A. N. J:
Dover and Foxcrott, 100 4; NJ: katahdi Y
A. NJ: Lagrange. '.57 a. M
ARRIVE Bangor. go A. NJ.
ieod SIS 4. NJ; Presaue Isle, Sc \. 4:
Houton. $50 A. Nj: Ashland, 100 A. a.;
Mssardis. rs 4. NJ; Smyrna Mills. So
A. NJ: Island Falls. 9.l5 A. NJ; patten,
e.lo a NJ: Sherman, $40 A. M; Millinoc-
ket. 70. Is A. NJ; Norcross. 1910 a. NJ.
Brownville. 1874 A. NJ; Arrive Bangor,
gusta $50 F. NJ: Portland. So p. NJ.
LEAVE Caribou. l1.45 A. M: Van Eu-
ren. 1906 A. NJ: New Sweden. 1l.o7 A. NJ.
Limestone. 1910 A. NJ; Pressure Isle
1215 r. NJ; Fort Fairfield. Ills \:
NJ; Bridgev alter, 1.03 p. NJ; Houlton, 2oc
r. NJ; Island Falls, 2.5s 2. NJ; Patten
$50 p NJ: Sherman. 3.24 P. NJ: Norcross
rs +. NJ: katahdin Iron Works, 500 r
NJ: Brownville. 81 P. NJ: Lagrange
sos r NJ; Greenville 3.S5 P. NJ; Monson
3.SoP NJ; Guilford. Al 2. NJ: Dover and
foxcroft. 5.G5 p. M; Arrive Bangor, I2(
=. NJ; Waterville. as p. NJ: Augusta
lG.is P M; Portland. i.25 A. NJ.
GEO. NJ. HOUGHTON. G. p. 4 7. 4,
Z. W. CRAM, V. P. & Gen. Man.
panror 0ct 1910
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plications for membership. The Al.
susta camp now holds the State BAN
ner for the largest membership. but
the members of Rockland Camp are
confident that by January 1st they car
bring the trophy to that city.
r. p. Young Camp 1874. of Modern
Woodmen of America. was Instituted
recently at Odd Fellows hall. Els
worth, by Deputy Head Consul John
{. Campbell. with - charter members.
The officers are as follows: Venerable
consul. Elmer l.. kingman: worthy
adviser. H. c. Dodge; banker. Horace
F. Wescott; clerk. Fred l.. Mason: es-
cort. Louis G. bennett: camp physi-
cian Harry n. Osgood, NJ. D.. watch
man. Charles l.. Staples: sentinel
James 7. Frazier: chief forester
George w. Downing; managers, Z. c.
Osgood. l.. F. Giles, and Geo. {.
Hagerthy. This camp is fraternal
and benefit order. II is the first organ
lied in Hancock county, but there are
- in the State. and the total member
ship of the United States is 54S.0
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Bowditch, Webster & Co.'s
CITY DRUG STORE

Union has been organized at North
Waldoboro with the following officers:
President. Mrs. J. NJ. l.. Price: vice
president. Mrs. Ann Burnheimer: re-
cording secretary Miss Della Burn
heimer; corresponding secretary. Mrs.
Addie NJ. Walter: treasurer Mrs. Il. l..
Hoffses.
The Junior Order of American Me-
chanics Of Auburn. held meeting
Tuesday evening and voted TO disband
and surrender the charter. The order
was formed sometime ago and was
thought to be in a most prosperous
condition until very recently. when it
was announced that the matter of dis
banding would be brought before the
next meeting.
Camden Camp. No. s7SS Modern
Woodmen of America. was organized
recently by Deputy Head Consuls
Bailey and Bradbury in Adams Hall.
with a charter list of % names. The
officers are. Oscar Payson. venerable
CONSUL George w. Farney. worthy ad-
wiser: George W. Simonton. banker:
o. =. Fuller, clerk; Drs. Hart and
Shorkley, camp physicians: Lue A.
Tiffany. escort: p. d. Lancaster
watchman: Ruel Sanford. sentry:
trustees. DR. Hart, r. r. Wilbur. j. F.
Burgess.
Rockland Camp. Modern Woodmen
of America. organized about three
months ago has a membership of over
sixty, with about twenty-five applica-
tons for membership in the hands of
physicians and Head Camp officers AT
the meeting last Monday evening.
there We're two adoptions and six ap-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-11-03

Nearly 20 years ago Jonas Silver
man. farmer living near Springfield.
O. was swindied out of $500 by
sharpers while on train near VAL
paraiso. Ind. The criminals escaped
and ere long one Of the three died. The
other two drifted to the klondike
year or two ago, became rich and have
just returned TO the States. HEX
hunted up MI. Silverman, paid him the
s,.50o and gave him 81 900 more by way
Of interest on the forced loan
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Railroads and Steamboats,.
In Effect Oct. 8, 1900

Passenger trains leave Augusta ~ fol-
lows Through TRAINS.
GOING WEST-6.40 A. NJ. for Lewiston,
rsrmington. Phillips. Roekland, Port:
nnebec; 1000 A. NJ. for Brunswick, Lew
iston. Farmington. Philiips; Carrabasset.
No. Conway. F'abyans. Lancaster, Cor
ham. n. H., Berlin Falls. Groveton.
No. stratford; Island Pond, Colebrook
fSr s.5o p NJ. (express} for Bruins
rick Portland and Boston, connecting
for Bath, Portland. Lewiston, Cornish,
Bridgton. No. Conway and Bartlett; 1855
lewiston Bath. Portland and Boston: I55
a. NJ. daily except Monday for Portland
any EaoiSG EAST-l.35 A. NJ. might ex
,ress( for Skowhegan. Bangor. Bar Har-
bor, St stephen, Calais. 1t. John. Hall
Ssr and Aroostook coun;t and 10 Wash
ineton co. Il. r. Monday morning. going
east does not connect for Sko~hegan no.
en sunday morning for Belfast. Foxcrofr
or beyond Bangor. 80 A. NJ. for Water
VILE Belfast. Skowhegan. Bangor and
Bucksport Nancehoro. 81. stephen. Houl-
ton. Woodstock. St. John and Halifax;
,sss P. NJ. local to Waterville and Ban
aor and to Lewiston. via Oakland and
Winthrop: 80 =. NJ. express for Water
vile Bangor, Bar Harbor. Wash. Co. r.
r.. Old Town, Patton. iIoulton and Carl
bou. via +. 4 A. Il. r.; 80 p. NJ. for Wa
teryille. Oakland, North Arson. Bingham
skowhegan. Belfast, FoXcroft Greenvillo.
Bangor, Old Town and Mattawamkeag;
1oS p NJ for Waterville.
StNDAYS-Going West. l.55 A. NJ. Ior
Portland. Boston: 1927 =. ~ fe.55 p. NJ.
for Brunswick, Bath, Portland and Bos-
ton. Going East, 1.35 a. NJ. Bangor: 9.l5
An. and go F. NJ. for Waterville and
Bangor
Ia A. NJ Monday morning, going east
does not connect for Skowhegan nor on
Sunday morning for Belfast, Foxcroft or
beyond Bangor
ACCOMMODATION TRAINS.
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here?' What has he done to entitle
him to a place in the Hall of Fame"
Reproductions Of the best portraits OBJ
tainable will be given. The book will
be published first as an elaborate sub
scription volume and later in a more
popular form.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-11-03

As soon as election shall be over and
business gets back into its wontad chan
neis il will be time for us TO select the
books and magazines We arr going to
read this winter. It is good plan TO
exercise great care in our selection OF
books. Most of the books published to-
day are written for one of Two purposes
Fist, for amusement. for plot. excite
ment and go" Second, for both omuse-
ment and instruction. OF these classes
the latter is grea lily 70 be preferred.
Books like Carlyle's French Revolution
Prescott's Mexico or Peru. Parkman' :
Jesuits in North America. Dickens Child
History of England and many Others are
written in a. style as Interesting as 70
nance. The pill of knowledge is sugar
coated by the charm Of telling. and while
We read for pleasure We are forced TO ib-
serb much valuable knowledge. TheSp
are the books that one should read. If
he has already been through them Ley
him read them again Let us AL make
wise selections now. and then see how
much We can learn this win;e-. Bangor
News.
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This weeks attractions
at Bowditch, Webster
Coos.

L. hair brushes, white backs. regular
sl.oo, soc. ca.
10 hair brushes. all bristle assorted,
15c., CSC. ca
A large assortment Of combs in
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TO THE NATIONAL HOME,
Eastern Branch, D. V. s., at Togus.
kennebeC Central R. R.

Connects at Gardiner with the Maine
Central Railroad. and Augusta. Halo
well and Gardiner Electric Railroad to
Augusta, and steamer for Boston.
TIMETABLE.
Fall Arrangement in Effect Monday.
Oct !. 1900.
Leave Randolph: Ar. National Home:
10, 900 & 1870 A. NJ. 7.42, $50 & 1880 A. NJ.
LOO. 2.30 & 4.55 P. NJ. 10, $50 & SIS P. NJ.
Lv. National Home: Ar. at Randolph:
s.0p, 9.25 & Ills A. NJ so, 945 e. lbs A. NJ.
lSN. so 4 $50 p. NJ. $50, $50 &; $40 P. NJ.
Visitors are cordially welcomed at the
Home and receive special attention from
the official guides on duty, who will es-
cort them through the buildings and
about the grounds. visiting the deer park,
containing deer, bears. &c. The restau-
rant at the Home Station is open every
day. where lunch can be procured for any
humber of visitors. Special rates given
10 excursion parties.
+. A. LAYTON. Supt.
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An exceptionally striking examPle VI
book making as well as an extremely
novel kind of childrens books is the
Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes
which is Just from the Reve!l COM
nanv's press. Each of the verses Is
Illustrated by some charac'erlS.ic
photograph of Chinese children. me
hook is intended to be read by ChineSe
az we'll as English people. Chou IZo-
chi the Chinese consul in New YORK
wrote of the book to the author. isaac
TAYLOR Headland: Il hope it may lead
,ha children of the West to love the
children of the East. and thus uniNer-
sal neace may be brought about. the
e,,,,,a.,;ons of which shall be the love
of the children.
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The British Museum authors catalogue
is now completed. after ~ years IA Dor
and has cost 500. GI1. Il consists Of t10
volumes and 20 supplements.
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The inventor of Chimmie Fadden
has not been much in public view
since the excitement caused by his ex-
ploitation of the Bowery valet SUBJ
sided. Mr.. Townsend VIII soon emerge
again, however in a novel called In.
comes study Of New York life, that
the Harpers will publish as soon as it
can be cot ready
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The book about the twenty-nlne men
first chosen for a place in the Hail OF
Fame will be written for the Putnams
NV George cary Eggleston. His work
III, consist of a series of twenty-nlne
monographs. intended [" ahs"ei !"
each case the question, why "
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ACCOMMODATION TRAINS.

points South and West may be had OF E
H. Walker. ticket agent. Augusta. the
only office in Augusta selling via all
routes and checking baggage free of ex-
GEO. F. EVANS. V. P. & Gen. Man.
F. f. BOOTHBY, G. P. & 7. A.
md Maine
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10 hair brushes. Foxwood, &c. ca:
8 hair brushes. imitation of ebony,
2Se. "a.
These are factory jobs aud gill Mt
be duplicated. z.C u.
;elluloid, horn and rubber. ~ TN
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The land OF Mary Johnston has pro-
duced another historical romance writer
Miss 4. NJ. Ewell. who has written what
is said to be an excellent historical! novel
Of the time of B,icons Rebellion in Viz
Sina in 1916. The story will be known
by the title. "A White Guard TO Satar.
the title being derived from an incident
of Bacons struggle. which forms the in
troductory episode of the novel II = a
love story in an historical setting he
latter made more suggestive by the as
sumption of the speech Of the :inc-an
undertaking in which Il J. sad The 1u-
thor has been very sue 80 Sfu1. Governor
Berkeley and Bacon We're utterly unlike
in character. and their followers were no
less so: Bacon'S wife was also Il strangely
unique character: there Were a mum per
OF men and maids then now to fill in
love with each other. the re suit here be
ing a most pleasing one il furnishing
several romances of more tnal usual in
|dereSt.
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Collectors Advertisement of Sale of Real Estat1
of NONRESIDENT Owners.
STATE OF NAME -

tax Of o
olowing lis faxes
the
AZ
on De f A. NJ -.
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Those who are privileged to read
Pocket Island" by Charles Clark
Mum, will agree that the >author.
world" as he says of himself. is well
fitted to do for New England what the
lamented Edward Westcott did for
rural New York with David Harum. .
He has more than met expectations
with Uncle Terry, a Story of the
Maine Coast" to be published in few
weeks, by Lee Shepard,
study of typical New Eng
land characters, strongly drawn.
and even more true to their environ
ment than those met in the delightful
Pocket Island" In Uncle Terry
the reader will meet an original
Yankee. full of native wit and humor.
genial, honest. kind hearted, a jack
at-all trades" respected by all. and
full of the milk of human kindness. In
addition. one of the heroines for there
are two of equal interest is genuine
country 'schoolma am. bright,
piquant, and winsome. There is a
hero. also, born and reared amid the
hills of Vermont, who by reason of his
sturdy character and manly persever-
ance Will win the hearts of all woman
story takes place among the charming
coast scenery of Maine. and the rest
has for its setting the hills and lakes
of the Green Mountain state. all 50
familiar TO the author
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According to the American Bookman
a,d tho English Academy, The
Reign Of Law" is the best selling nov
., in both countries at the present
time. The Macmillan Company nov
has the Tooth thousand of this popu-
lar book on the press.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-11-03

Just two weeks after its publication
10000 copies of Alice in Old Vim
cennes." Maurice Thompson's story OF
American life, had been sold. From
Canada came one order of 10000
copies. a very unusual order from shat
colony. where the sale of books is
necessarily limited. The publishers re-
port that they are sending out a
steady average of $500 copies day.
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Passenger trains leave Augusta o. {
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a short story by Mary r. Wilkins.
The Scent Of the Roses" has been
made into 4 play of one act and two
scenes.