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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-11-06
CHAIRMAN JONES
Modestly Claims the Triumphant Election tt
The 0emocr attic Ticket

Chicago. Nov. 5.-Chairman Jones or
the Democratic national committee. to-
night. said: Il have no doubt that tn
result Of the ballot. tomorrow, Will be the
triumphant election of Bryan and Stew
enson. The Democratic party has ap
peAled in this campaign 70 the reason
and conscience of the people. while the
Republicans have appealed % Passion
and prejudice. In the great forum OF
public opinion have no doubt the
Democratic party has Won in this. the
greatest Of its national political strug
giles Four years ago. the Democratic
party was deficient in organization.
whereas now 1t Is more perfectly organ
ICED and more efficient than il has been
in any campaign. The national COM
mittse has been in touch with every
part nj the country and familiar with
all the details Of the work. While The
campaign fund has not been enriched
BY the contributions Of great trusts. IL
has received the patriotic mites Of the
grea working classes in sufficient guam
tity to defray the expenses Of the cam
paign. which was even more sati=fac-
tory II il had been otherwise. The
country is now aroused as il has never
been before since the great Civil War
and the result can be nothing less than
the triumphant election Of tho Demo
cratic ticket
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-11-06
BlANEY STILL IN JAll.
Denies That Ne Is Hall, the Murderer. Wanted
in Maine.

BOSTON. Nov 5-Edvard T. Bianey.
Alias Edward Z. Hall. was given = hear
ing. today in the RoXbury district court
before Judge Bolster. on he complaint OF
h.s wife. who charged him with making
threats upon her lie. He was bound over
in sI0] 10 keep the peace tor six months
Ue was unable 10 secure bail and w4s
sent To Jail Blaney. who. his wife says
is wanted on a charge Of murder in
Maine. indignantly denied The charge. an
said he never Wa known under the name
~ II sii
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-11-06

Sir Charles upper who j. at present in
Cape Breton, has ISSUED a manifesto On
behalf OF the Conservative party in VI iCn
among other points n: criticism OF III
Laurier government he condemns the
manner in which the Canadian case was
conducted in the deliberations OF the
Joint high commission. Excitement r.
.ardinc the elections Wednesday. has
reached fever heat in the provinces. Con-
~ervdtives and Liberals both claim "a vie
-ory on polling DAY
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-11-06
MAINE PENSIONS.

Washinston. Nov. 5.-The following pen
sion changes i'll Maine are announced.
Additional Benz L. Reeder. Canton.
81 Renewal and increase, Lewis Hatcn-
Wells Depot 81. Increase. Thomas }.
Rockwell Dover. $l2 Original. widows
80 Sar.h ]. Harrington. \ewnort 81.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-11-06
Total

Silas T. Piummer. one Of the most
prominent and wealthy citizens Of Arooe-
took county died suddenly AZ his home
in HouItOn. Monday. aged g years. Mr..
Plummer is survived by widow. one son
and 4 granddaughter.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-11-06

Sunday night. At the Lewiston police
station there were Il drunka. four girls
and seven men. All III the girls but nne
hd- been in the lookup before for iHtoXi-
Ga ton.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-11-06

The Pangor police made two liquor seiz-
ures. Saturday night at the houses 81
Annie F1tzherbert and Bert kenniSon on
Pine street.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-11-06

George F. Champion. tne c soa-, IF
Newfield murderer. was 'tseT 1-I,,,..sr,,
Wanda Charnpion ANA his wife parted
y he Office II Jailer Anderson. Mrs
/ Chamni0n kissed her husband ana "" ~,
profuseIy- Champion Hil--es'TH II
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-11-06
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The President has issued an executive
order admitting free OF duty Christmas
presents and souvenirs sent by soldiers IN
China TO friends in the United States Inc
privilege is the same as was extended %
soldiers in the Philippines one year aS'-
John Williams convicted OF murder III
H.. second degree in causing the death
ot Thomas DOnbiRs IN July I, ana y A.
sauh with intent tn kill upon Arthur Rus
sell on the some date. was sentenced IL
Dover. y IL Monday. By Judge founS
TN al wears IN Tie frs ana y years pl
the second charge. making an aE5t"-''e
term ii 81 years in State prison
The. board nj bishops Of .he Aetholi-l
Eujsr0paI church ~ the nltet safes
concluded thelr semi-annual meeting M
Trenton. y j. Monday night In "ily
.t,tsinasss 0f public Importance transacted
ysIS the selecting ~ tne blSnops ~ rs
~i,i.. n the different conferences through
Inttt he United States during IN" hrN'
III. months Among the assignments were
tn.. relieving: East Maine conference
Clinton Ne April - Bishop Joyct,
Min conference. Yarmouth. Ne. April
ri Htshop Firzstrati; New England SON
terence. April H. bishop CrtHst"A-
saturday afternoon Deputy MARSHAL
1,-itL III Portland received 4 telephone
frnnl kenueoUnkpurt officers. s'tylh 'tlt 7
Rofar- Armstrong OF Cape EllZaot IN.
.1risSi-r- from his home since Monday
r-is-ht haf been found in that Hl!!age.
/ trS,5s-i1c about in a demer5ed cohdtl!nn
- 1fr4bI. 10 give either his udnle OF al
- Ills -eIItiveS were IT once notliird-
r,,,-ya champion the convicted
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-14

AT our home, said a North Alabama
street woman, we have the Dest-man-
nered, best-natured dog | ever knew.
We have no allowed the boys to teach
him any tricks, and thus, while we
have made life pleasant to him. he, in
return, has suffered life to be pleasant
to us. When l was a child on the farm
we had a Scotch collie, a handsome,
knowing dog. One day a Yankee ped
dler came along and sold father a
treadmill. He showed how to put the
dog in the mill to do the churning.
The boys of the family, who mad pre-
Vlously had to churn, thoIght this new
arrangement was admirable, as 1t gave
them more time to play, but to do them
justice they did feel soma sympathy
for the dog, who was compelled to do
this part of their work. Rover, that
was the dog, soon came to know when
churning day came and would sneak off
to hide Under the barn, whence he
would be dragged to his task. His
cheerful, playful disposition was gone
and he became surly and %snappish.
ChC uoy hS ulodPpCdl GU, anu We ASdlu
Of him miles away down the road
following a couple of tramps. His alb
sence had it's effect on all the family,
and whenever his name was mentioned
we young ones could scarcely keep
from crying. Rover was gone about
two weeks. One morning we saw him
crawling through the fence, not jump
ing over it, as had been his custom,
heading for the back porch. The tread
mill stood on the porch in its accus-
toned place, and, to our establishment,
the poor fellow, who looked as if he
had seen all manner Of bad treatment,
including starvation, got into The ma
chine, as much as to say, We'll, here 1
am; | have come back to you ready to
take up my task again for the sake Of
being with you" Mother brushed n
tear from her eye as she patted the
dear fellow on the back, and we chill
dren cried outright. There wasn't much
sentiment then and there to the wood
pile, and, with all the family looking
on, including Rover. he chopped the
thing to pieces.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-14

IN the best way. In all records OF the
habits of this fish we are told that it
can, and does, bite out large chunks
OF flesh from the dead bodies OF
whales, and even from living victims
OF It's attack; and it is easily seen that
II its mouth was like those of other
fishes the necessary leverage would be
lacking. A further reason seems to
be that the shark by this peculiar po-
sltlon of its mouth is compelled to
turn upon its back to strike. and is
thus able to deliver it's onset from be-
low with more deadly effect. This for
mldable strength of jaw is backed up
by a most terrible array of teeth, of
winch in some species there are as
many as six rooms all round. Each
tooth is sawedged and pointed, and
some of the largest are as much as
two inche in breadth at their base.
These lie fiat against the jaws, and
can be raised by separate muscles at
VIII, so that, as the shark darts upon
us prey, they spring on end, as a
cats claws are stuck out from its paws.
ms arrangement will not allow any
thing once bolted to return, so that a
sharks mouth is a veritable death
trap.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-14


The worlds output of gold in 1893
was 1887, 42S, 800, and that in the Unit
ed States was $64, 463, 900. The value
of the cotton crop in the United States,
that is, the raw cotton, in 1897. was
$319,491, Alp. The cotton crop in the
United States is therefore eleven per
cent greater than the gold output of
the world, and five times as great as
the gold output of the United States.
To this great value, however, we must
add the value of the seed products, and
we have a total something like $780,
100000. But the grand total is no yet
reached, for we are working 7.570.0 600
spindles in the United States in max
ing cotton cloths. The output of these,
minus the cost of the raw cotton con-
sumed, must be added before we have
the grand total of the value of the
product and of the industry to the PEG
pie.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-14

Now that we are IN earnest begin
ming to transform our fine corn crop
into pork for the market. it is well to
bear in mind the value of charcoal as
a relish and medicine for hogs. Every
farmer who has noticed his hogs eat
ing charred wood from the brush pile,
even before they were cool. must have
come to the conclusion that charcoal
is good for hogs. 1t is not necessary
for us to state just why it is good, The
admitted fact is enough to know al
present; the more important question
is how to get the charcoal the easiest,
and the answer is Through burnt
cobs," says Wallace's Farmer. 1t will
pay every farmer to make a pit in his
barnyard a couple of feet square and
as many deep, start in it a good fire
and fill it gradually with dry corr
cobs, and when it has reached tho
proper point smother it out by cover
ing it over with a piece of sheet iron.
putting some dirt around the edges
Practice will furnish any man with
the know how" to do it. After it has
ueeH eIllGelN SLlOIItItu OUT, iuu SAT-
and a little lime and wood ashes il
convenient, and keep more or less OF
this mixture within reach of the hogs
at all times in the winter season. They
will eat large quantities Of it, and its
benefit will be evident in the thrift OF
the growing pigs. 1t will not only aid
digestion, but add materially to the
development of bone, Il of the things
greatly to be desired, especially in
hogs. The beauty of this kind OF
charcoal is that it costs nothing but
a little application of brains, a little
work, and a little salt and lime, and
there is no article of feed grown on
the farm that costs SO little and pays
as large dividends on its cost. If this
is too much bother. rake up a pile Of
cobs, char them, and see how greedy
hogs are to get at them, then go and
dig yolr pit and have a supply for
the winter, when cobs that are lying
around on the farm will be too wet to
burn.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-14

Some birds use water only, some wa
ter and dust, while others prefer dust
and no water in their toilet. Birds are
not only nice in the choice of bath
water, but also very particular about
the quality of their toilet dust. Wild
ducks, though feeding by salt water,
prefer to battle in fresh-water pools,
and will fly long distances inland to
running brooks and ponds, where they
preen and dress their feathers in the
early hours of the morning. Sparrows
battle often, both in water and in dust.
They are not so particular about the
quality OF water as about the
quality of the dust. The city sparrow
must take a water bath where he can
get it. Road dust, the driest and finest
possible, suits him best. Patridges pre-
fer dry loan. They like to scratch
out the soil from under the grass, and
fill their feathers with cool earth. Most
birds are fond of ashes. Take a walk
some early morning across a field
where bonfires have burned, and see
the numbers of winged creatures that
rise suddenly from the ash heaps. A
darting form, a small cloud of ashes,
and the bathers disappear.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-14
HIGH PRICE OFPAPER.
TARIFF TAX ON WOOD PULP A
COSTLY ONE.
May Compel Subscribers to Pay More
for Their Country Newspaper The
Cry for It's Instant Repeal Is Very
Loud-Paper Trust Robbery.

There are very conclusive reasons
pulp and printing paper should be re-
pealed, and there is no reason in the
interest of American industry that
pleads for the continuance of these
taxes. They are now simply an ele-
ment Of robbery under color of law,
and they should be effaced from our
statutes.
The paper trust is now taxing the
newspaper and book publishers of the
country many millions, not because of
any such actual increase in the cost of
producing paper, but because the trust
has the power to extort from the pur-
chasers of paper up to the extent that
would make tariff-taxed foreign paper
and pulp cheaper than the prices de
manded here. This trust has played its
scheme of extortion to the uttermost
and congress should at once remove
the tax hat protects no American in
dustry and that has become only an
agent to rob the consumers.
Two-thirds of the wood pulp used in
the manufacture of paper for American
consumption should come from Can
ada, but it is excluded by a tariff tax,
and we are now rushing headlong in
the destruction of our forests, while
Canada, with it's almost limitless sup
ply of timber, cannot reach our mar
kets because of the tax imposed by
the tariff.
The two conclusive reasons which
| should make congress act promptly are
first, that the paper trust should be
at once halted in it's rapid destruction
of our American forests by the admis-
sion of free wood pulp from Canada;
and, second, that the present eXtortion
practiced by the paper trust upon pub
fishers of newspapers and books shall
cease to have the protection of the gov
eminent.
The time has come when any trust
that makes arbitrary profits by tariff
duties must cease to be protected by
the government. Where American in
| dustry needs protection it is reason
| able to permit it, but where alleged
protection is used only for systematic
robbery, it must be overthrown.
We a nov manufacture paper as
cheaply as any country in the world.
There is no excuse whatever for a tax
Upon the manufactured articles, and
the raw material should be free, not
only because the general principle is
correct, but because if it shall not be
done promptly our forests will be prac-
tically destroyed within a few years by
tariff taxes excluding the lumber of
Canada from our markets.
Paper and pulp must be made free
of all taxes, as the paper trust has dem
onstrated that these taxes serve only a
single purpose-that is to invite rob-
berry under color of law.-Philadelphia
Times.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-14
Cranberry Cultivation IN Canada.

At a large meeting of fruit growers
Of New Brunswick and Prince Edward
Island, which recently took place in
Charlottetown, at which some import
ant questions in reference to the grow
ing of cranberries were considered. n
OF the leading fruit growers gave his
experience with cranberries, of which
the following is a synopsis furnished
by a commercial agent of the depart
ment Of state:
Some years ago, while clearing some
land, | discovered a patch of cranber-
ries. Not knowing the value Of it, l
prepared the land for a 7 of oats.
When the oats were reaped. the vines
were so healthy that concluded there
fenced the patch. After a few years,
quart was picked. The year follow
ing l gathered ? bushels the next year
Z bushels, and the following 20 BUSH
els. l then began exhibiting my fruit
at the exhibitions, where | carried Of
prizes. There are several varieties,
but mine is the Cherry Bell, which
takes well in the English market.
The land for planting cranbcrries
should be worked up and sandcd. the
sand to be from 8 to 6 inches deep. The
irrigation is important-in fact, is es-
sential to cranberry growing. The
land should always be kept damp. Be
fore the frost comes, the patch should
be flooded and kept so until the LIST
of May. The berries do not thrive we'll
when exposed to the winters frost.
If a long spell of dry weather takes
place in the summer, irrigation should
be repeated.
l realized $500 net for what | grew ON
l acre last year. | would like to know
if there is anything else one could put
an acre to that would bring the same
returns. Sand will correct all weeds.
AS to prices, | realized los. to l3c.
($2.43 to $3.50 fol- mine in the English
market, while others only receive 9s.
to lis. ($2.19 to $2.6S). l ship in boxes.
The expense amounts to about 7 cents
per box. It costs 20 cents per box fol
freight around by Montreal, but this
should be very materially reduced now
as we have direct steam communica-
ton.
l have now Is acres under cultiva-
ton, and all my neighbors have taken
up the industry, although they laughed
at me when | started mine. | can rec
ommend the cultivation Of cranberries
as a profitable business, from the eX-
%perience | have had.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-14
The Wrong Bird.


One of the well-known magicians not
long ago had a queer thing to happen
but the people in the theater had more
fun out of it than he did. One of his
tricks was to shake a sack to show that
it was empty, and then to draw out
of it an egg, after which he would al
ways reach in again and bring out the
hen that laid the egg. OF course he
had to have help in this, and one night
he had a new man who did everything
just as he had been told. until it came
to this act. Reaching into the bag he
drew forth the fowl at the usual time,
but instead of the hen an old rooster
hoped down onto the stage RULED its
feathers and strutted around, growing
all his might, while the audience
laughed, and the magician went out to
hunt his new helper.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-14
Times.

SIT rains a great deal in the Puget
sound country" said the man from
that section, land | heard of a funny
incident not long ago about it. Some
chap had come from the -Missippi val
ley to take up his residence at What
com on B%ellingham bay, where there
are very high tides. When the boat
landed him at the end of the long pier
extending over the tide flats the water
was low and the new man didn't notice
anything but a wide stretch of sand
between the boat and the town. 1t
was in the evening about dark and was
raining, and he went to the hotel on
the front street and stayed there, going
to bed without having gone Il for a
walk. The next morning when he got
up he looked out and the tide was in,
the water coming up close to the hotel.
He gazed at the widespread waters for
an instant, and, throwing up his hands
in establishment, he exclaimed, Gee
whiz, but it must have rained hard
last night Then he hurried down
stairs to the office to find out if there
was any danger from the food, and the
clerk smiled four or five times and
gave him some much-needed informa-
tion."-Washington Star.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-14

This is the name given to DioscOrea
bulbifera, now raised in New Orleans
and about there. The plant is a close
relative of what is known as the Gin
namon Vine, which is Dioscorea ba-
tatas, and which is cultivated as a
climbing vine with sweet smelling
flowers. and which at one time was
thought would prove a substitute for
the potato. A Mr.. Normand in the
Rural New Yorker, says this about D.
bulbifera:
After testing it for two years on
my experiment grounds, l find it equal
to the Irish potato, with the required
seasoning. The plants produce much
more than those of the Irish potato
on the same space of land. 1t natures
its tubers during the summer, and con
tinues until frost. The tubers are
formed in the axis of each leaf, and
to see a vine in full bearing is a sight
to behold. Some of them are quite
large. An analysis of the tuber made
by the assistant chemist of our state
experiment station, shows that it con-
tains protein, 1872 per cent; fat, So;
carbohydrates. 20.70. In carbohydrates
1t compares favorably with beans,
sweet potatoes, peanuts and Irish DO
tatoes.
"The tubers are a curiosity on ac-
count of their various forms. Thew
look like petriied rocks of a gray sill
very color, of the most intricate carved
stone work. They suggest the missing
link between the vegetable and animal
kingdom"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-14
Both In the Same Box.

A parson who occasionally breaches
in South London arrived to take the
place of the vicar, who had been called
away on account of some family be-
reavement, and found an old and rather
asthmatic lady struggling up the steps
which led to the front door. He cour-
teously gave her his arm to assist her
and when they reached the top the
dame asked him if he knew who was
going to preach. 'Mr. So-and-So," re-
piled the parson, giving his own lame.
ooh, lear me-" exclaimed the old lady;
"help me down again, if you please;
I'd rather listen to the grooming and
creaking of a windmill than sit under
him." and she prepared to descend. The
parson gently assisted her downstairs
and sighfully remarked as he bade her
good-by: Il wouldn't go in, either, if l
weren't the preacher"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1900-04-14

The students of the Waterloo high
school of Auburn, Ind, have sub
scIibed to the following rules of pro-
prlety, which makes quite a departure
from the usual rowdyism of college
boys: /. We will not communicate
nor ask to communicate while in the
school building. 2. We will keep re-
hned positions in our school seats. 8.
We will cultivate a light step. 4. We
Will not ask for individual favors. 5.
we will prepare all writing material
In the morning. 6. We will make the
schoolroom a place of q%uietude. These
rules on general have also
been signed: l.. We will not allow
others to be mole polite to us than
we are to them. 2. We will not make
ourselves odfous in the use of tobacco.
And here are some street
/. We will, on passing people on the
street, give them half of the walk.
2. We will not ieer at any one on the
street or off the street. 3. We, the
gentlemen, will tip our hats to the
ladies'. 4. We will avoid being bois-
ferrous wherever we may be. This
novel plan for getting the observance
of rules of good behavior has taken a
strong hold on the children of all
ages.