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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-01

GRADE SHROPSHIRE
a NJ D

S;nuthdcwn sheep and lHnh;. Must Ice
SOLD This week 'r shall inN f"nriiIg ana
Lc. = them. .. W. I-.ttl"i!c!d. FOX T. "I
tri 2".'-l. Augusta. mldJt7
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-01

two years experience. ludustri"uN S'.h'r
and well recommended. Address II. T..
Bowman MaSoun 81, Winter Hill. li"s
Ton. Mass. n@>dlW+
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-01
70 ENGAGE FROM 100 TO 500 LBS.

of butter weekly tn" year rGUrd in tubs.
Only good butter from separator cream
wanted Any farmer making th"t
amount car lind cash customer by Hd-
dressing Maple Grove Creamery Co, No.
IL. Bcattic St, Cambidge. Mass. Stat"
lowest urircs a.1,llWs
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-01
AM LOOKING FOR A SECOND
AN ALL-ROUND PRINTER, I'M

hand bicycle. Must ho in good condition
ana offered 1T Il fair price. Address finN
2li, Augusta. apr5d3t
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-01

,rtcl once for I5cts and Tcts ior each
charges arc too small TO open accounts
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-01
DOUBLE FARM WAGON. TWO HAY

racks u So. foot cut Waiter \. Wood
moving machine and Worcester horse
rake. all in good repair. Address Mrs.
I!llrn A. barton. Est. "l ]. II. i:"ri9n,
". st Windsor or l.. +. H. NJ" u. Weeks
nan. u.rlIW
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-01
FARM OF 1926 ACRES, IN HIGH

FARM OF 1875 ACRES, IN HIGH
state of cultivation; POO apple trees; Il
acres ready for potatoes; large 2-story
house and ell wood shed, carriage house
and barn, 40XIo, all connected ice house,
hen house, cellar under house and barn.
two wells and cistern; buildings all in
good repair fine maple shade; only five
minutes walk to p. o.. store and church
and school; one mile to Oak Grove Semi
nary on river road; miles from city. TO
make quick sale will put in five tons hay,
seed potatoes, grain. corn and beans; all
farming tools, nearly new; two wagons
and sleds, al fer $1,000, half down, bal
ancc on easy terms. Don't write but
come and zee. F.. Q. Hackett. VassalbGro.
Me nch22dtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-01
CRACKER FACTORY AID GENER-

al bakery in Gardiner, Maine. The bust
ness includes three-story brick block, one
tile oven, one six-pan reel oven, one six
horsepower engine and 1J-horsepower
boiler, latest improved cracker machinery
and complete bakery outfit. This bust
ness was esta blished In 1874 and has been
in the hams Of the present owners 81
years. Adiro Smith Bros mar16dtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-01
A CENTURY DICTIONARY IN Elk.

change for full set of the Encyclopedia
Brittanica-25 volumes-as good as new.
please write c. B. at the Journal Office
diff
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-01
A MIDDLE-AeED LADY WHO DE-
TX OR EIGHT MEN AT SHAW'S

mill on the Gnrhan lot. Windsor. hd
dress J. A. Shaw, Augusta, Maine, r f..
y. No. =. Hl>d-W@
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-01

Business was brisk at the police
court room for n short time Monday
morning. Thomas White, who will be
remembered as the young man who
kicked in one of the basement VIM
dows at the city building some time
ago and was given Jail sentence, was
up for drunkenness and also for SELL
ing liquor. He was only liberated
from the county institution Saturday,
but his exile did not seem to have
proved of much benefit to him, for he
lost no time in getting into trouble
again. His sojourn this time will be
longer as he was given 90 days on
charge Of drunkenness and a fine OF
$50 and 80 days in Jail for the other
offense Emil Villeur was in for
disturbance and was given his choice
of paying So fine or going up for 30
days. He chose the former. Peter
Cyr, who was arrested on a complaint
of malicious mischief. which consisted
of breaking down a fence, was allowed
to go on promise that he would forth
with make the necessary repairs and
report to the city marshal in two
hours from the time of promise.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-01

Harry Knowles Of this citv. who is
employed at Cambridgeport. Mass, ar
rived in town Saturday, tor short
vacation, bringing with him two
horsepower gasolene engine which he
will install in a yawl owned by him
self and Clarence Partridge at Cob
bosscccontee. The yawl is an IS
footer. and the boys intend to have her
in good cruising trim by the time that
the summer season opens.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-01
SHAW BROS, REAL ESTATE ACTS,

EolrraIc sir For $40 cash hay" nus
IT,. Il:tr" tn >ta-'t tin" poultry h'&ino%S, =
:irr..s carry land. V"ry high "l'N'tI"l, 7
yirN for miles good uN" md "u"-half
ytor,- n, tIS.. chnnr" for ltlS" and "oE,
only > miles from Augusta On Il we'll tray
r}rd road Must be sold ucty. H-.rl.t'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-01
cards Of thanks. obituary notices, ~,

Cards Of thanks, obituary notices. rsss
buttons Of respect. etc., will b
charged at the rate Of ten cents 20
line. No charge less than rs cents.
All advertising announcements Of On.
tertainments, whose object IL the
raising of money, will be charged q
the rate Of fifteen cents q line.
Advertising notices, news form, will b
excluded from our local columns, az.
cept such as refer to advertisers o.
cupying space In our advertisina
columns, and will be run under a
separate head on one Of the losaa
pages.
Subscribers who fail to receive "
Journal promptly will confer q favou
BY notifying the office immediatHlu.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-01
WALL SODA FOUNTAIN, MIRROR

In back, two gas side lights. three
draughts. ten syrup tanks. counter slab,
draincr with sink combined Has been
very little used; all in perfect running or
der. VIII sell for 0ne-half the original
Court House. f23dtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-01
SPECIAL TO MAKE ROOM FOR

other stock will sacrifice one of the finest
fields of -stra wberry plants We have ever
grown. Varieties and price on request
' m6dtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-01
lIDDLEAeED WOMAN AS HOUSE
WAKE BIG MONEY FAST SELLING

keeper Work very light. Write CT ctll at
y Lincoln St, HIllnW"ll. W. Il. l.1n@-
maid ;ioilWS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-01
THE ALLEN LAMBA3D HOME

stead in this city. Very large lot fine Oh
house. excellent stable. beautiful sind"
trees. Bargain. G. $. IIichhorn julyNdtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-01
RIVALS cAE BUSINESS. HORSES,

Inruces. cab. c:trrNHIl prlr ANA runners
I:tl@un f"r y Hing. i'll health. ~. High
Hand Ave. Gardiner, or Cleo. Royal. EIrk-
,r'; store August. Hpr.>dlwS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-01

MIDDLE AGED FARMER AND WIFE
without children to manage farm and
Me. - - r,SoI tt
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WANTED


ter. Only $l00 book Ear uutS"lIs higher
priced books. l.arg" fully illustrated
Extra terms. Freight paid. Crc,iit ,H On.
Outfit free. IicGlcr 20. ~ Locust 81.
Pa. mldi;
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-01
We WANT THE PEOPLE OF AU-
ADVERTISING WORLD, coLUM.

bus. Ohio. A monthly journal Of infor-
nation. plans, suggestions and ideas for
advertising. Send today for free sample
or 10c. for four months trial. m23dtf
POLITE, SMART AND ACTIVE
house to house canvasserS. Very LIBERAL
terms. Apply TO the Portland FIavorins
Co.. 20S Commercial St, Portland, Me.
m29dlmns
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-01
LADIES' BLACK HABIT CLOTH,

riding habit. may by Parsons of Boston.
Has been worn but u few times. Iri"''
very low. Address "ParSonS,' Care N'n-
ncbcc journal. Augusta, Me. al'dtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-01

COOK, NO WASHING or FROM
ing. High wages to a comnetent woman
AAppiy to Mrs. j. NJ. Haynes, western
>S- a26sf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-01
DOUBLE FARM WAGON, TWO
HoLsTEIN cow
, TOOLS, INCLUDING
ONE DAISY DE LAVAL CREAM

ScparatOr. been used about two months.
Address Bert b. Brown, Weeks Nils,
Ne alSdtf
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HOUSE CLEANING, TAKE UP

and lay carpets, etc DO all kinds of
lawn and garden work and pruning
Prices right. by day or hour. c. Z. John
son. 8 Bennett st. a11d20tt
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TWO BAY HORSES, WEIGH 1850
and 1lj9. one single harness, one express
wagon. Inquire Of John Hersom. 81 Ar
S"nal st a2dlmOa
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-01
MOUND CITY DISH WASHER, TIE

greatest thing of it's kind ever invented.
DISTINGUISHING mad" easy. No NOR" rcd
hands Apply to Mrs II. White, agent,
AIS Water St, Gardiner. Mo. nar22dtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-01
JOB PRINTER. WE WANT A

good all around printer also 4 good
prcSsman. Write stating az" ana cNrcr-
cncc The Thomas W. Eurr Itg. My.
co. Bangor, Maine. t3JilW
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-01

BARRED RoCK cockERELs, Ex-
trl nice birds for s.. Light or dark.
Barred standard hrcd, fully matIr"d;
eggs for hHtchinG SI01 for l.. +. :. Col
Inns, Gardiner, Maine, l.. f. ID. j..
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01

'The people who buy in this manner are
either New Workers or Westerners. Anew
Highlander seems to have scruples about It,
and it is a fact that the instalment establish.
ment as it exists here and in the West IL
unknown there. Some day the New Eng
lander will shake himself and wake up.
Then there won't be SO many unmarried
schoolma'ams down Boston way.
THE reason the New Yorker prefers to
furnish his rooms in this way Is often that
he wants his money in his business, who're
it is drawing interest, and the Westarner
is 30 used TO cutting of coupons and pluhing
that he gravitates naturally toward us.
There il no city in the West which has so
many people whose houses arc furnished
on the instalment plan as Pittsburg. The
nillionaires set the pace and the rect have
to keep up with the procession, and they
find the instalment plan a very good way to
obviate the difference in income"
Over the oounter in a Maiden lane jewelry
shop the manager admitted that people did
buy diamonds on the instalment plan.
why not?" he asked cheerily. you want
a diamond, and you want it now. Tho
trouble with most people Is that they get
what they want, but they get 80 tired wait
ing for it that when it comes all they can
do is to cuss.
ITS an awful thing for a man to want to
ask a girl to marry him and have TO tell her
she must wait for the ring. II his credits
good and he's got a position why we hand
out the sinner. get his money down and keep
a sharp lookout on him. Cheated? Vel IL
takes q fairly clever fellow to get away from
our hooks.
You wouldn't think. would you, that the
fashion in mustaches would make n differ
ence in selling diamonds on the instalment
plan, but so it goes. You see the average
mar doesn't care much for a diamond ring
unless he has got a mustache to stroke. II
the fashion would change our business
would go up 100 per cent.
"You can get a $500 diamond for q hun.
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ALL On THE INsTALMENT PLAN.

bred down and IS a week. A good part Of
the diamond trade is with business women
who consider buying diamonds a better in
vestment than putting money in the bank.
and they have something satisfactory to
look at"
The Weeterner and the Southerner mist
have a piano; to them it spells success, and
they must nave it on instalments. They
differ from the Manhattanite, however, for
they want the biggest piano they can get.
while the New Yorker is using at present o
piano especially designed for fats. 1t IL
very small and is provided with pads to put
on at night so that it can't be heard through
the walls.
You can buy clothes on the instalment
plan, too.
Our trade used to be mostly with ele-
vator boys and sporty people,; now we sell to
Wal Street brokers n no end Of chorus
girls, " said the manage Of such a shop.
Don't | think it's a scheme to make peo-
pie live beyond their incomes? Not at oil.
There's no difference, so far as l can see,
between renting a house and renting q
years supply OF clothes. We can fit you
out with everything but shoes-for shoes
amt any good after they've been worn q
couple Of months.
More than two-thirds of the people in this
town are living on time, were the last words
heard as the elevator descended.
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their home, and when they went into it
they would have the feeling that they owed
no ~ a cent.
so he worked on, and bride-to-b be waited
p~atientl while the years rolled away.
First they bought a carpet, and by the
time they had purchased a few other odd
bits, like a s~ideboard, dining room chairs
and curtains, carpets had gone out Of
style, and bride-to-be absolutely refused
to have a home without rugs.
The young man sold the carpet at auc-
ton and got a mere song for it and started
In to save money for rugs. Meanwhile
the style Of the furniture changed, and
when the br~ide-to-be, who was getting
FESTIVE by this time, limited rather sati.ically
that she preferred the mission style to
the painted ash, the young man W
@ bit hotly.
"A quarrel ensued, and finally all the
furniture went the way Of the carpet
that is, to an auction room. Bride-to-be
married some one else, and when the young
man made up his mind to take Number 9.
be decided that he would make no such
mistake again and started III with a fat
furnished right up to date. for which he
paid a small sum down and gave large
promises, which he kept.
There was absolutely no hitch in the
whole proceeding except that he didn't
care SO much for No. ?, and if he had had
a little more experience in the first place
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There is no earthly reason" said the
inntalment plan man, why anybody in
these days should live in boarding houses
ar lodgings. With a little ready money
and an assured position anybody can start
housekeeping at once.
s04r very best custom comes from young
married couples. To-day, il a mar has
$40 in his pocket and good references, We
can put together a nice four room fiat for
a bride and bridegroom. There is no
doubt that the instalment plan is a short
road to matrimony.
a rather pathetic story m to mind
apropos of this. l hope you will think it
pathetic" and he shifted his feet off an
Oriental rug that had a ticket on it labeled
$3.50 and placed them carelessly on a bit
Of mating marked 80 cents.
There was a young chap came in here
TO get goods for housekeeping. He told
me In the confidence that comes from pick
ing out bits Of furniture nov he had been
engaged before and, not being able to
afford the necessary outlay, he and BRIDE
to-be agreed to wait until they had bought
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and third button OF his frock coat. He wore
a shiny hat and long hair.
Hes theatrical. l can tell 'em just
as quick as that" the dealer continued.
'The theatrical people are among the
best customers Of i%nstalnent establish
ments. . They get so tired travelling on
one night stands that the mere thought
that they nave left a little home behind
for them to step right into when they return
is a delight"
He made a gesture toward a we'll gowned
woman, who walked furtively toward the
desk where payments are made.
There is a type. She is a woman whose
husband gave her a large sum OF money
to buy a certain piece OF furniture. In
stead Of buying 1t outright, as he supposed
she came here, purchased it on the install
ment plan OF a dollar or 30 a week.
Il suppose she bought herself some
clothes. They usually do. There are lots
Of women who never get any ready money
except by some sneak Of that kind. The
husbands play the same game too, some
times.
One very dependable class OF people
who buy on time are the young people who
20 into business with a small capital. Mil
liners, dressmakers, doctors, dentists and
scores Of others have to begin right, for
that lie half the game. and II they waited to
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01

sIn the twenty-seventh century eaid
the lecturer, we are prone to forget the
struggle that preceded the discovery of
the North Pole. That the North Pole was
over a point to be discovered seems impos-
siole to us in this age, when palatial radiatic
Airships make regular afternoon trips to
1t from London, San Francisco and Krakow;
iust as it taxes our imagination TO COM
prehend the time when men believed that
fine Canary Islands were the outposts Of
the world, beyond which all was chaos.
Yet most of us do know that in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and
during the early part Of the twentieth the
Pole was the aim OF hardy and daring
explorers, and that its attainment seemed
a feat almost beyond the imagination OF
man. The details Of that struggle, however,
have been very largely lost in the mists
Of history.
Il say mists, and rightly. 1t is mist and
not darkness that obscures the nineteenth
century from our view. In considering
remoter periods, notably the so-called Dark
Ages. Europe is obscured from the sight of
historians by the paucity of contemporary
records. There was veritable darkness.
Far different is it with the uncertainty
With which historians must grapple when
they turn to that blind, turbulent, siren
uous and yet vital period which we call
conventionally the nineteenth century, for
co great was the mass OF contemporary
publications and so conflicting their tcsti-
mony that we are totally at a loss when
we try to deal with its problems.
Il mention only one slight and yet ANUS
ing example. In my Students History
of the Rise and Fall Of the City Of New
York took it for granted that George
Maklellan was 'Maier,' as they used to call
the chief ruler Of the town, from 1908 to 1900
That seemed to be as undisputed as any
fact in tho history of the city. Yet only
yesterday my attention was called TO a on
temporary newspaper Of December, 1915
containing this headline:
HEARST Is MAYOR OF NEW YORK;
Somewhere in my researches / find
mention of one Timothy Hurst or Hcrst,
who occupied n position of undetermined
importance known as umpire in the then
fashionable game Of baseball. II s quite
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possible, in view of the undue interee
taken in athletics in those over refined yet
barbarous times. that a palace revolution
somewhat like those which overthrow some
Of the Frankish kings a few centuries be-
fore was organized by this Hurst, and that
it succeeded temporarily in depriving OF
his seat this Maklellan, who had been a
noted leader in the civil war, which the
American people waged some forty years
before, but who. therefore, must have been
getting old aud past his vigor in those short
lived times.
But, ladies and gentlemen, ! digress
II / have taxed your patience by the di-
erosion, it is simply to show you how con-
fused are the contemporary records and
how difficult the task Of a person who tries
to present to you anything like an accurate
picture of the times. And tonight / am
here not as an apologist for the turbulent
and yet efficient nineteenth century, or
the bloody but awakening twentieth, but
simply to tell you of an episode which has
been obs cured by the greater events of the
time and is kept in history only as a refer
ence.
1T was only last Saturday that l took
an airship from New York to get a breath
Of cold air at the Pole. In the middle OF
the morning we stopped at the regular
station on the northern shore Of Franz
Josef Land while the mechanics tanked
the ship for the last stage Of the mornings
journey.
"To the right stretched the ruins Of the
old coal mines, relic OF ar age that has
passed for the world; but it was not these
which fastened my attention. 1t was q
simple pole Of granite, pushing its way out
Of the snow where disseminators werc not
working.
Il wonder how many Of you have ever
noticed it. This marks the spot where
Ffala made his record. which rang through
the world in his time, OF Farthest North.
1t recalled to me that long lipe Of hardy
men who pioneered the arctic before modern
invention made the passage easy, and 70
my mind there sprang that squirrel track
of h~istory-the search for the Pole. And
especially. l thought of that most romantic
episode in the whole tale, that Of J.. Wycherly
Webb
The lecturer then reviewed at length the
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conspiracy. They had planned it out
before they left New York. They had
gone away from the expedition, camped
out under a warm and comfortable ice foe
for a month, and there perfected the de-
tails OF the plot. 1t was there, too, that
Webb composed his magazine articles and
his lectures.
For a time the world was in a turmoil
Webb declared that the sailor was insane:
and many others agreed with him. The
question might never have been settled
but for an invention which had just then
been perfected, and the details of which
had been kept secret until that time.
1T was no less than Merriam's Dis
seminator, that device which you all knew
30 well, which surrounds u ship or man
with an atm osphere OF calm and OF measured
warmth even in the highest storms and
the coolest climate. That device to which
we now owe the comfort OF our Arctic ravel
was perfected almost at the same moment
with kunz's airship,
These two inventors, looking for adver-
Using, seized upon this event which doomed
so large in the public mind as a proper
means Of introduction. From the sailor
Tibbetts, who was under guard of a detec-
tive agency and in fear Of his life, they
obtained the exact location OF that summer
camp and Of the place where they had
buried the gold plate.
They took their apparatus to Norway,
made in eighteen hour the spot indicated
by the sailor, found and photographed the
camp and dug up from the SHOWS the gold
plate. Rising, they sailed over the Pole
and found that it lay in the open sea.
There wal no exact law on the statute
books Of that time covering the offence OF
Webb. He was allowed TO go free, eXecrated
by one part Of the community and admired
by the other. From a quaint old work OF
the time I have the details Of Il confession,
which he is said to have made in 1890.
~ deserve great credit, he said. 1t is
true that I deceived the public and that l
took a great deal of their money, but the
idea deserved 1t.
Consider, I found a new idea. No one
before had ever realized that you have to
take the explorers WORD for it. | was sure
that the North Pole could never be dis
covered. II, therefore, ! said that | had
found it who was to go to contradict me?
Il made two slips. First, ! should have
zone alone. But ! wanted some one to
photograph me, and, besides. it gets lonely
up there on the ice. The second, and a
child should havc known better than that,
was when / buried that plate instead of
throwing IL into the sea. All great deceivers
make their mistakes
"In tirae the odium against him died out
and only admiration remained. n SO
in his later years he found a position singu-
larly suited to his talents, in which be led
. useful life. He became a press AGENT,