An Independent Journal, Devoted to Home Interests. Established in 1878.

VOLUME 23 HALLOWELL. ME.. SATURDAY. MARCH 24. 1900. N U M B E R 7

Now is the Time to BugCarpets, Rugs, Mattings, Oilcloths or any other goods in this line.

E veryth ing in our C arpet Room m arked down to close. Good B argains in m any o f our o ther departm ents.

FOWLER & HAMLIN, Augusta.POOR PUERTO RICO

Has received a rather chilly welcome. The welcome we extend to you in giving you the greatest trade in Rubber Boots will prove far from chilly.

Will give you a few prices on Rubber Boots and you can judge for yourself:C h i l d r e n ’s , 5 to lOjU o n l y $ 1 . 2 5 L a d i e s ’, 2% to 8 o n l y 1 .6 1 )M i s s e s ( , 11 to 2 o n l y 1 .4 ! )M e n ’s o n l y $ 2 . 4 9 , $ 2 . 7 5 , a n d $ 3 . 0 0 M e n ’s l o n g l e g g e d o n l y $ 3 5 0

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The Smoking Pine.

On Bombahook’s high bank it stands,The ancient smoking pine;

It lifts aloft its hoary hands Above the wooded pleasure lands,

And makes its mystic sign.Its gray-green branches sway,—and then

Their ghostly murmurs cease;A solemn silence fills the glen,While Assonimo smokes again

The spectral pipe of peace.We watch the blue-tinged vaporous haze

In curling mist arise;And lo; to greet our wondering gaze,The phantom camp-fire start and blaze

Beneath the twilight skies.Across the wildly dashing stream

That swirls and foams below,The fire-light throws its ruddy gleam,And dusky forms, as in a dream,

Flit softly to aud fro.Hush! ’tis the Indian chieftain’s hand

That lights the calumet;He speaks: “In this, our fathers’ land,Too long we roam, an outcast band,

On whom the curse is set!“For us the hopeless strife is o’er;

No warrior waits our call.White brothers! bid us place once more Upon the Bombahook’s fair shore

Our wigwams few and small!“And while the torrent, o’er the rocks,

Flows downward to the tide.And with its thundering echo mocks The death chant of the Wawenocs,

In peace let us abide!“Our doom is sealed, our glory past,

Our hearth fires, faintly fanned,D}e out; and, from the heavens o’ercast,The whirlwind and the temp st-blast

Shall smite us from the land!“But from the chieftain’s heart a pine,

Blood-set, shall rise and sway,Where Assonimo’s ghostly line Shall smoke, as a perpetual sign,

The pipe of peace for aye!”The tempest came; the prophet chief,

With all his people, fell.No death-dirge droned for their relief;Only the pale-face gazed in grief

Upon the wasted dell.The new moons o’er the forest nave,

Waxed full and slowly swung;But when the springtide kissed the wave, From out the Wawenoc’s deep grave

The mighty pine tree sprung.Today, above the waters swift,

Its lofty branches fiare;And see, the smoke-wreaths curl and lift! From Assonimo’s pine they drift,

And vanish into air.—Emma H untington N ason in N ew Eng-land M agazine.

A SERMON ON STEALING.

If the Pacific coast does not mend all its bad ways it will not be because Dr. J. B. Silcox has failed to preach right-eousness or because the Sacramento press has failed to waft liis sermons away to the multitude. The preacher and the press are working together nobly, and with mutual advantage. For Dr. Silcox’s Sermons make what newspaper men call “good stuff.” His sermon on “ Quit your Stealing,” which has just come to hand in the Record- Union of the California capital, is rat-tling “good stuff.”

Dr. Silcox, not being afraid of Paul, selected his text from the apostle’s let-ter to the Ephesians:

“ Let him that stole steal no more, but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good that he may have whereof to give to him that needeth.” Then he said:

I do not know how you could pack more common sense religion in a single sentence than in my text. It is the gospel of repentance and conversion expressed in language everyone can comprehend. There are no meta-physical subtleties or theological tangles about this. The gospel expels the low motive of theft by bringing in the high motive of benevol-ence.

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PRACTICAL CONVERSION.

That is genuine practical conversion. It is a kind of conversion that many people need to-day. It is conversion from idleness to industry. It is conver-sion from a dishonest way of getting property to an honest way. The man who gets wealth by theft, will, when converted get it by thrift. There is a wide difference between getting wealth by theft and getting it by thrift. The man who was a parasite on society be-comes a benefactor to society. He who was a burden on society becomes a bur-den-bearer. He who was a disreputa-ble criminal has become an honorable citizen. This is the kind of religion that needs to be preached—a religion of wealth gained by honest labor and de-voted to humane objects. This text shows how practical a thing the religion of Christ was in the minds of the apos-tles who first preached it.

W HAT IS A TH IEF?

Let him that stole steal no more. What is a thief? A person who takes what does not belong to him is a thief. He who takes from society without ren-dering an honest equivalent is a thief. He whose aim is to get from society as much as possible and give to society

as little as possible is a thief. The man who gives poor pay for good work is a thief. He ’steals the labor of men. There is a good deal of this kind of thieving in industrial life to-day. He who does poor work for good pay is a thief. He steals the wealth of his em-ployer. There is a gix>d deal of this kind of thieving in the industrial world today. The contractor who puts in poor material and defective work is a thief. The man who buys goods and does not pay for them is a thief. The man whose samples are superior to the goods delivered is a thief. Any man who gets money or property from his fellowman by deceit or dishonesty is a thief. Highway robbers, burglars, safe- breakers, train wreckers are not the only thieves of society by any means. There are many people who need some one to look them straight in the face and say to them, quit your stealing. There are corporations that by a carefully con-cealed system of bribery get advantages from Citv Councils and National Legis- latures. In these ways they get into their possessions right* and privileges and property that belong to the people, and in God’s sight they are thieves. In the financial world they may be rated high and carry titles of honor, but in the court of heaven opposite their name is written the word thief. To all such come the divine command, let him that stole steal no more. Do honest work. Pay honest wages. Perform according to contract. Deliver according to sam-ple. Give an equivalent for every char-ter or franchise you obtain. Let the employer see that he gives a dollar for a dollar’s worth of labor. Let the em-ploye conscientiously give a dollar's worth of labor for every .dollar he re-ceives. In these practical ways obey the apostolic injunction, let him that stole steal no more.

THE NOBILITY OF LABOR.“ Let him labor, working with his’

hand the thing which is good.” That means be employed in some useful form of service. The Christian religion hon-ors labor. The nobility of manual labor needs to be preached. I believe that the plow is as honorable as the pulpit. Service in the kitchen is as royal in the sight of God as service in the palace or on the throne. The nurse girl faithfully caring for the little child committed to her care is doing as divine a work as the missionary. The blacksmith at the forge, the carpenter at his bench, the factory girl at the spindle, are as worthy in God’s sight as the editor at his desk or the professor before his class. In the republic of God there are no grada-tions of rank or service. One is your Master, even Christ, and all ye are brethren.

ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY.The acquisition of property ought to

be a means of grace to a man. It should call into play and develop the various faculties with which God has endowed him. This world of trade and work is God’s great university for train-ing men in industry, frugality, truth, justice, mercy, patience, kindness, nobleness

I say to young men, get a title deed to a strip of land somewhere. Resolve to he a possessor of property in some shape. Be able to say, this is mine, I earned it by hard labor and enterprise. You will be a better man in the com-munity, a better husband to your wife a better father to your children, a better citizen to your country, a better mem-ber to your church, if yon have some-thing laid aside for a rainy day. It is your duty to do this.

There are hosts of young men, and young women too, who are selfishly using up on themselves every dollar they earn, and some of them using it be-fore they earn it. They are laying the foundations of coming poverty. If they do not graduate into tramps they will come perilously near it. Instead of being benefactors to the community, they will be burdens on it. They will have their noses to the grindstone all their days.

NEITHER MISER NOR SPENDTHRIFT.

The man a v Ii o obeys the counsel of my text will be neither a spendthrift nor a miser. He will labor and save that he may have something to give the word’s betterment. The highest and noblest use of wealth is to make it min-ister to the good of humanity.

You can make gold do most damna-ble things and you can make it do most divine things. You can make it a bribe to seduce man from honor and woman

from virtue. You can make it an angel of mercy to lift man and woman up to God and goodness. You can make it wipe tears from orphans’ cheeks, and cool fevered brows in lonely hospital wards. By your gifts of gold you :an link yourselves with God the Great Giver, and realize the truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Use your wealth, whether much or little in the service of God and humanity. Be a giver. Cultivate the divine art of giving. Make your life a life of service. Make it your study, not how much von can get out of this world, but how much you can give to it. Do your part of the world’s hard work. Be a sharer and not a shirker in the fields of service. “ Get all you can, save all you can, give all you can.” Carry integrity and honor with you wherever you go. Sell your goods but not your principles. Remember that there is something more valuable than gold. Honor is a richer possession than stocks or bonds. “A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches,” “A little with righteous-ness is better than great revenues with-out right.” Jesus said it and the ages echo it, “A man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.”

If you live in this spirit you will find that when your earthly house of this tabernacle is dissolved, you have a building of God eternal in the heavens.

TAXING PUERTO RICO,

Last week we said that we had seen no adequate evidence that the President had changed his mind since his message of last December recommending free trade between America and Puerto Rico. We can say so no longer. Mr. Brom- well, of Ohio, Mr. Sperry, of Connecti-cut, all members of the House of Repre-sentatives, are all reported as saying that the President urged them to vote for the measure levying a tariff of fifteen per cent, on all exports from and on all imports into Puerto Rico. In such a time as this the people need and desire a leader; one who has time and oppor-tunity to study the specific questions in-volved in our new National policy, and one in whose judgment and courage they can trust. The President is the natural leader of those who believe in expansion and do not believe in im-perialism—that is, who believe in ex-tending the American flag, with all which it involves, over Puerto Rico and the Philippines, and who believe that it involves government for the benefit of the governed now, and eventually self- government.

But the people cannot follow a Presi-dent who does not lead; and they can-not escape the impression that he is him-self following some one else, He at first, in a public message, urged free trade with Puerto Rico; he now, in pri-vate interviews, urges a tariff between us and Puerto Rico. Why? This is the question which the people are asking, which the President’s best friends and warmest supporters are asking, and to which he ought to grve an answer as public and as authoritative as his origi-nal message. We do not accuse him of saying one thing in public and another in private for political effect; we do not suspect him of this; we believe in his integrity; but lie is suspected of this by others, and bis friends cannot deny that his course has given some ground for such suspicion. Meanwhile bis friends and supporters, who were satisfied by the reasons given for his first and pub-lic counsel, cannot be satisfied by his reasons for bis second and private coun-sels, for lie gives no reasons—that is, to the public. They cannot follow a leader blindW , and therefore they en-deavor to construe for themselves bis reason for this unexplained change. What is it?

The reason cannot well be the neces-sity of Puerto Rico for an income; for the President knew that necessity last December as well as lie knows it now ; he has shown by his emergency message that the immediate needs can be other-wise provided for; and the House has made the necessary appropriation, which onlv waits confirmation by the Senate. The reason cannot be new light on the desires of the Puerto Ricans, for they have affirmed, through such representa-tion as they possess, that they prefer to borrow the money and repay it out of local taxation than see a tariff wall erected between their island and America. The reason cannot be a de-

sire to raise an issue which can be pre-sented to the Supreme Court for its de-cision on the constitutional relations of Puerto Rico to America, for a tax of one percent, on one import would have sufficed for that purpose. The reason cannot be to protect the Puerto Ricans from America’s competition, for the Puerto Ricans beg us not to protect them. No wonder, then, that the Pre-sident’s friends and supporters are reluc-tantly coming to the conclusion that lie yielded partly to a demand by tobacco- growers, sugar-growers, and fruit grow-ers for protection against Puerto Rican competition, and partly to the dread of protected industries, not directly af-fected, lest, if protection be abandoned at one point, it will presently be aban- oned at all points.

This is not a question for compromise. If it be true that the President has not changed his mind but only liis policy, and has reluctantly become an advocate of a fifteen per cent, tariff in order to unite liis party, he has made a most serious political mistake. Questions of method are always subjects of comprom-ise; questions of principle are not. The question how an income can best be raised for Puerto Rico is a question of method, and in that compromise is legiti-mate. The question whether Puerto Rico is to be governed for her benefit or for ours, until the time when she shall be a self-governing community, is a question of principle, as truly involved in a fifteen per cent, tariff levied against her interests and supposedly in ours, as if it were a tariff of twenty-five or fifty per cent. It is the widespread and growing suspicion that this tariff is levied, not in the interests of Puerto Rico, but in the interests of the United States, which is arousing the conscience of the American peeple against the Puerto Rican tariff. That suspicion is fast becoming a conviction; two weeks ago it might perhaps have been allayed: every day widens and deepens it; and if the Senate passes the bill as it comes from the House and the President signs it, though he may succeed in uniting the party representatives in Congress, he will find himself entering into the Presidential election with a divided party which it will lie difficult, if not impossible, to unite.

Americans are expansionists blit they are not imperialists. They believe in expansion of American principles and American spirit, but they do not be-lieve in abandoning American principles and the American spirit for the sake of extending American soverignty and American commerce. If they cannot have expansion of American territory without the abandonment of American principles, they will have no expansion of American territory. By his change of policy, unaccompanied by any public statement of his reasons, on a question which, though not financially of great importance, rightly seems to the Ameri-can people fundamental in principle, the President has subjected himself to the suspicion of compromising those principles of justice and liberty which are far dearer to the people than any conceivable trade advantages. It is not too late for the Senate to retrieve liis error; but if it is not retrieved, if by the action of the Senate the Republican party, despite the protests of some of its strongest men and nearly all its strongest journals, commits itself to a policy of levying taxation for our apparent bene-fit against the protests of an unrepre-sented dependency, the- possible conse-quences to the party it is not easy to forecast. The strength of the President lias consisted in this, that he has repre-sented the conscience and judgment of the American people. If he allows himself to he separated from the people, though on but a single issue, liis strength would depart from him as it did from Antieus when Hercules lifted him from the earth.— The O u tlook .

A PROPOSED NATIONAL MUSEUM.

It is a good omen for the future of this republic, devoted as its energies have been to the building of commerce and multiplying of products, that there should lie found here and there some citizens who realize that in the future our place among the nations should not be judged alone by commercial great-ness.

As the republic grows older the gent-ler arts of life must find a higher place within our borders; examples of these arts must be preserved as our contribu-

tion toward making the world a sweeter and better place in which to live.

It is no reflection upon our progress that our advances in the arts have often been made in moments snatched from those intended to be used for meet-ing sterner necessities.

The need for more concentrated pro-tection for the genius that each advanc-ing year will develop has not impressed itself very deeply upon our national life. But there is one to be found here and there who, looking ahead, lias caught glimpses of what coming days will de-mand, and, instead of bewailing the general lack of preparation for the fu-ture, has reminded his fellows to pre-pare for it aright.

After some fifteen years of careful preparation and planning there is matur-ing in New York city—probably the most fitting place for it—a project which commends itself as something desirable and possible to be realized.

The project is nothing less than the founding of a great National Museum, such as other nations possess, for the benefit of those who will come after us.

In brief, the National Museum will serve as an Inspiration to the worker, an incentive to the student, and a place where our people at large may come in contact with the legacies of the ages. Within its portals they will be able to read what has hitherto been to them a sealed book. The treasures which it is intended the Museum shall contain will enable our people to realize something of the struggles, the heroism, and the success of their ancestors and of their fellow-men in every part of the globe.

The project is being started by a re-tired New York business man, who is willing to devote liis time to procuring priceless treasures to find lodgment in the Museum. He is, by virtue of liis acquaintances and friendships abroad, probably the best one for the gigantic undertaking.

Scarcely a detail connected with the plan remains to be worked out. An architect of national reputation has designed an imposing building, with a magnificent approach on the Hudson water front.

AYe have often been accused as a peo-ple of worshiping the almighty dollar; and perhaps there is some ground for the accusation. But there are thousands who have a higher motive in life than mere money-making. To all such, whether they dwell on our Eastern bor-ders, along the Pacific, or in those islands of the sea which now form a part of our possessions, the National Museum will be of absorbing interest.

There is nothing in our country which covers science, art, and industry as they wall be represented in the Museum herein mentioned.— The G rea t R o u n d W orld .

REED’S WIT.

Ex-Speaker Thomas B. Reed rode up to the Capitol this morning in an F street car.

“ What do you think of the Puerto Rico tariff muddle?” asked the man who sat next to him.

“ I refuse to be quoted,” answered Mr. Reed. “ I have a reputation for piety and chaste language to preserve.”

Somebody showed Mr. Reed a copy of a Manila paper in which appeared this paragraph: “ The difference between Tom Reed and Billy Mason is that when Tom Reed says he will resign he re-signs.”

“ Ah,” said Mr. Reed reflectively, “ a great journalist is evidently wasting his talents on the Filipinos.”

“ It’s a pity you are not in this Con-gress,” he was told by an admirer.

“ Think so?” asked Reed disinterest-edly.

“ Yes, indeed; they need you down here to tell them what to do.’

‘Well,” drawled Reed, “ they don’t seem to need me to tell them whom to do.”

He came here on some Supreme Court business. He sat for an hour in the ways and means committee room and chatted Avitli old friends. His longest talks were with Representatives Payne, Dalzell, Tawonev and Allen.

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thus comparing him to the great Napo- I loon. But it is a little hard on England it she cannot use her real estate as she wants to. She probably didn't expect when she sent Napoleon there that it would constitute an encumbrance upon the island.

Chicago has the latest trust—the unionizing of the coffin factories. The next step would naturally be to unionize the doctors and undertakers.

Our great exports keep on growing in size and diversity. In a shipment of pork products to San Domingo by an American packing house last week there were included five tierces of pigs’ tails!

State Librarian Carver has sent a traveling library to Small Point, from funds furnished by a Bath woman’s club for that purpose. That is certainly a good disposition of funds.

Presque Isle has adopted the Curfew Law. But the town has no policeman. That is more consistent however, than for a city to pass an ordinance, and then forever neglect its enforcement.

Is Massachusetts truancy law a dead letter? A Holyoke business man had oc-casion to employ a boy of 16 a few days ago, and found, to his great surprise, that although the boy had lived in Hol-yoke nearly all his life he could neither read nor write.

gressman Burleigh F. Spaulding, of North Dakota struck out from the shoul-der, in his address at the banquet of the Boston Alumni Association, of Norwich University, Thursday evening, when he said that “Our public school has been diverted from its original purpose. The State owe it to every pupil to give him a

What is believed to be the largest sound education, an education which single life insurance policy ever written will fit him for the duties of citizenship at one time on the life of "one man was j an$ the serious business of life. All placed last week by August Belmont on ! through the country the system has but the life of Judge McDonald, contractor | ohe object to-day, and that object is to for the New York Rapid Transit Tunnel. : fit the student for a higher school or The policy is for $2,000,000 for the! college, instead of fitting them for their

WASHINGTON LETTER.

term of five years and was taken by a New York life insurance company, the amount to be distributed among the companies in this country and some in England.

Senator Foraker argues in Leslie’s Weekly that the passage of the free- trade bill with Porto Rico will imperil the entire protective system, deprive the government of its necessary revenues and threaten the nation with a deficit amounting almost to half its necessary income. All these are evils to come •from doing justice to a little island con-taining less than a million people! Who believes it?

work in life. The result is that instead of being fitted for the ordinary avoca-tions the education is fitted for the bene-fit of a few who can and will eventually take a higher education, which makes most of them mere theorists.”

The Texas Anti-Trust law has been declared constitutional and the public has now the basis for future action. If that State can punish the national thieves who plunder the people in ex-orbitant prices on life's necessities, other States can and will do the same.

The Baker family, brought North by Boston philanthropists, seems to be in as great distress as if left in the old South Carolina home. The South Boston home in which they live is said to be old and dilapidated, and the family sick and wan for lack of food.

One man at Castine, Monday, voted against accepting the offer of a former resident to present the town with a $ 10,- 000 town ball. Perhaps the attendant expenses of running it would add an unnecessary expense. It is funny that no one else looked at it in the same light.

Mr. Bryan has announced the platform upon which he will stand if nominated at Kansas. City. It .e-affinns the Chicago platform, declares for “ 16 to l ,” opposes a large standing army, de-nounces the action of ' he republican party on the Porto Rico tariff bill, de-clares against trusts and imperialism, and favors the income tax and the choice of the LTiited States senators by popular vote. There are some good planks in this platform, particularly the last two items; but all political parties have bet-ter platforms than records.

The press of late has been scoring Maine for its degeneracy in religious matters; and now President Hyde, who started the story several years ago, dis-closes his discovery that McKinley’s ad-ministration is a failure! Both Maine’s religious condition and McKinley’s ad-ministration are subject to improvement, but they have many ardent defenders.

The senate has assigned April 3d as the date for the taking up of the Quay case. It is encouraging to know that the end of the case is in sight, and it is to be hoped that it will be the finish of Quay also.

They are finding the professions over-crowded out west, too. Estimates place the numbers of the professions in Chicago as follows: Lawyers, 4000; physicians, 4000; ministers, 750. Three-fourths of these in each case are said to be making incomes hardly suffi-cient to pay rent, and the number ot doctors and preachers deserting their professions for business giving im-mediate returns is said to be alarming.

Political affairs are outwardly quiet and inwardly active, but all the parties are busily engaged in preparing for the campaign. For convenience of refer-ence we append the dates of the various conventions. The Democrats meet in Kansas City, July 4; the Republicans in Philadelphia, June 19, the Populists in Sioux Falls, May 9; the Middle-of-the Road Populists in Cincinnati, May 9; and the Prohibitionists in Chicago, June 27.

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The fund for a home for Admiral Schley is receiving very few contribu-tions from naval officers, and the ex-planation is that he is not popular with them. Another reason which would be a good one for not subscribing is that there exists no more cause for giving Admiral Schley a home than there is for conferring the same reward or testimo-nial upon dozens of other officers who might be named. A naval officer of high rank is well paid for his services.

That the Republicans at length ap-preciate in some measure the need of Trust legislation is seen in the appoint-ment of a sub-committee on the subject by Judge Ray, chairman of the House committee on the judiciary. The sub-committee consists of Judge Ray him-self, Representative Jenkins of Wis-consin, who ranks near the head of the lawyers of the House; Representative Overstreet of Indiana and Representa-tive C. E. Littlefield of Maine. But to simply appoint this committee and defer action to another Congress, will prove a cause for considerable idignation in tin- nation.

A London dispatch conveys the inter-esting information that, when the loyal address of the corporation of Dublin is presented to the Queen on her forthcom-ing visit to Ireland, the keys of the city will be banded to her majesty by City Marshal Parnell, a brother of the dead Irish leader. The sword bearer on this occasion will lie J. F. Egan, the dyn-amiter, who was released from prison some years ago, while the town clerk is II. Campbell, who was Charles Stewart Parnell’s private secretary.

The petition which the people of Porto Rico have drawn up to submit to the Congress of the United States asks for one thing only, and that is the settle-ment of their trade relations. Whether there shall be a tariff or no tariff, and if a tariff what it shall be, the people do not undertake to dictate or even suggest. They simply ask that the existing uncer-tainty which is completely paralyzing all industry in the island and plunging the inhabitants into the direst poverty shall cease. The request is a reasonable one. Congress has been in session almost four mouths, and the Porto Ricans are as much in the dark as to their future trade relations with the United States as ever. Our promises to the islands are entirely unfulfilled. Nothing can be so disastrous to the island as t continuance of the present uncer-tainty, and nothing can be more disas-trous to the future of the party which is so low in carrying out its pledges and promises to an impoverished people.

Any well-regulated daily does more for religion and morality in each issue than Brother Sheldon lias accomplished in a week. 11 is will i - good, but lie doesn't known how.— S t . L o u is G lobe D em o cra t.

We doubt any* such statement. Of the half dozen dailies coming to the R e g i s t e r office, not one makes pretense to carry out the ideas of Mr. Sheldon. There are clean daily papers, free from sensational vulgarism, but they are largely exceptions. The paper quoted is not otic of them.

Mrs. Leonardo de Barros, a former Portland girl, and a granddaughter of the late Commodore Ja'mes L. Churchill of Portland, is the translator of the American national songs, “ Star Spangled Banner,” “Columbia,” and “ America’ into the .Spanish language, and the translation has bt-en sent by the Sons of ■ the Revolution to Porto Rico for the : children to learn in their schools after | being highly complimented by the Span-ish professor of tin; New York college. Mrs. De Barros’s mother was the late Mrs. Satrustequi, daughter of Commo-dore Churchill. Mrs. Dc. Banos lived in Cuba but came to'New York at the time of the late Spanish war, where she now resides.

Here is what Charles Sumner said in his speech on San Domingo, in ̂ 1870 ; and his words are as pertinent now as, nay ten-fold more pertinent now than they were then:

Go to the President, I ask you, and address him frankly wi ll the voice of a friend to whom he must hearken. Counsel him to shun all approach to the example of Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, aud Andrew Johnson; tell him not to allow the oppression of a weak and humble people; ask him not to exercise war powers without author-ity of Coiigi-pss; aud remind him, kindly but firmly, that there is a grandeur in justice and peace beyond anything in material aggrandizement, beyond any-thing in war.

I am not insensible to the commercial and material prosperity of my country. But there is something above these. It is the honor and good name of the repub-lic, now darkened by an act of Wrong. If this territory so much coveted by the President were infinitely more valua-ble than it is, I hope the Senate would not be tempted to obtain it by tramping on the weak and humble.

How much truth there is in the story of a discovery of a conspiracy to murder Goebel in which some former Kentucky officials were participants, can only be told after an investigation by the courts, but it is well to keep in mind that the discovery has been made under the powerful stimulus of $ 100,000 reward. A late statement is to the effect that Kentucky whiskey is responsible for the story sent out of discovery of the as-sassin.

4' To Do III Costs MoreThan To Do Well

This might properly read, 4 4It costs more to BE ill than to BE w ell . ' ' The source o f all health is rich, strong blood. It is to the body what the m i g h t y streams are to the earth. If the blood is pure, the body thrives; if the blood is weak or impoverished, then every pulse-be at car-ries weakness instead ofstrength. The only perfect blood purifier and cvigor-maker in existence is the 'world- famed Hood's Sarsaparilla. It brings good, perfect health.

Catarrh and Deafness — “I am68 years old and suffered from catarrh for many years, becoming quite deaf. It took nine bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla to effectually cure me. I can hear quite 'well novo." John K. Houk, Hamilton, cMontana.

Rheumatism — " / was worn out with rheumatism, but took HoocTs Sarsa-parilla and I now have a good appetite and am as well as any woman." Mrs. H. H. Gray, Emporia, Kan.

N e v e r DisappointH ood’s P ills cu re liv e r Ills; the non -irrita tin g and

‘only cathartic to take with Hood's Sarsaparilla.

M arch 1 9 th , 1 9 0 0 .

Admiral Dewey differs with the Naval Board which not long ago reported against the purchase of the submarine boat Holland, by the government. He has forwarded to the House Naval Com-mittee, with a favorable endorsement, a report of his aid, Lieutenant H. II. Caldwell, who was aboard of the Hol-land during last week’s tests in the Potomac river, declaring the tests suc-cessful and adding that a similar boat in the hands of a brave and determined enemy would have made Admiral Dewy’s occupancy of Manila Bay an im-possibility.

The President has requested Gen. Joe Wheeler to withdraw his resignation, aud the report is revised that he intends to send a message to Congress asking for legislation authorizing the placing of Gen. Wheeler and Gen. Fitz Lee on the retired list of the army with the rank of Brigadier General, as a reward for their services in the war with Spain. It is significant that when Gen. Wheeler first arrived in Washington, he said he intended insisting upon the acceptance of his resignation, and would ask to be sworn in as a member of the House, while now he says lie has the matter under consideration.

The action of the Senate in passing without a division the Emergency Porto Rican Bill, which places at the disposal of the President, a little more than $2 ,- 000,000, collected tip to Jan. 15, on Porto Rican products, under theDingley tariff", to be used for public purposes in Porto Rico, means that the other Porto Rico bill providing a form of government for tin- island and imposing a 15 per cent duty ou its products is not to be hurried. There is still a difference of opinion among the majority of the Senate, as to that bill, but the vote by which Senator Allen’s amendment to the Emergency Bill, declaring that the Treaty of Peace extended the Constitu'ion over Porto Rico, was tabled, showed that there was no difference of opinion among them a s

to the principle involved,—that the con-stitution does not extend to outside pos-sessions of the U ited States without an Act of Congress so extending it. On that question the President, the major-ity of the House and the majority of tIn- Senate are of one mind. How the Su-preme Court stands upon it is vet to in- ascertained, and the President is in favor of ascertaining" as early as possible. It the Court agrees with the executive and legislative branc'..es of the government, the administration will have smooth sailing; but if the Court lakes the oppo-site view—that the Constitution neces-sarily follows the fiag, — the policy ot the administration towards our new p >s- sessions will have to be entirely changed.

The officers of the National Guard ot 38 states, who have been in Washington for the purpose of trying to get the an-nual Congressional Appropriation for National Guard increased from $400,000 to $2,000,000, succeeded with the House Military Committtee, which favorably reported a hill for the increase, and the favorable attitude of Representatives and Senators toward the National Guard makes it very probable that the bill will get through.

It is not generally known that the President lias the right to attend the ex-ecutive sessions of the Senate, but lie has, and Washington and other earlier Presidents frequently exercised that right. A rule of the Senate says: “When the President of the United States shall meet the Senate in the Sen-ate Chamber for the considerat'on of ex-ecutive business, he shall have a seat on the right of the presiding officer.” Another rule of the Senate gives the authority to convene the Senate in any place lie pleases other than the Senate Chamber, and expressly directs the pre-siding officer and Senators to assemble at the place appointed by ttie President. There are lots of things about this gov-ernment of ours not generally known even among those whose business it should be to know. It is doubtful whether a dozen Senators knew of the existence of these two rules until a newspaper man pointed them out.

Recognizing the impossibility of get-ting action from the Senate on the several reciprocity treaties with British colonies, Secretary Hay has arranged for an extension of the time within which they-may be ratified, which had almost expired, for one year.

If the number of applications lot- charters for National banks with $25,- 000 capital, in towns of less than 3,000 population, under the Hew financial law, continues to increase at the present rate, there will be few towns without their National Banks, when they are all acted upon.

Although the Senate has agreed to take up theQuay case April 3d some be-lieve that the case will not reach a vote at this session. The reason for this be-lief is that the agreement was accom-panied by a provise that the case should not be allowed to displace any appr >-

priation bill, or the “ unfinished busi-ness” of the Senate. It is now admitted that those opposed to the seating of Mr. Quay are in the minority, lint it is a minority skilled in parliamentary tactics and if it desires to stave oil" a vote dur-ing the session, can doubtless do so, but none of them will acknowledge^ such a desire.

Carl Schurz, a prominent man and leader of thought in his active days, an-nounces his purpose to support Mr. Bryan. If that means similar action of leading Germans in the West, it means much to the Nebraskan.

The busy world takes little or no note of the ravages of the plague in India which .is carrying off about 500 victims a week at present. There’s no more startling record than this in tbe whole range of modern calamities.

Democratic papers are giving promi-nence to the rumor that Cleveland is to support Bryan this year. Ever since 1893 or 1894 the majority of Cleveland's party have been disowning him, and pretending he was a (Republican, but now they are beginning to say he is a Democrat after all. They are right about his politics, and it is safe to pre-dict Cleveland will hold an independ-ent position in whatever he does. The- silver clause may give way to other is-sues, which Ex-President, Cleveland may regard of vastly greater impor-tance.

W ILSO N H A LL , H A LLO W E LL, - - ONE N IG H T O N LY .X IVTIOHT, MOISTDAY, A FR . 2.

S p e c i a l t y C o .R e o r g a n i z e d a n d A u g -m e n te d fo r T h i s S e a so n -

AL AND MAMIE ANDERSON,The Coon and the Cherub.

THE THREE GRUNDYS,Amerca’s Fatuous Dancing Trio.

MADAME GROSS,The Creole Nightingale.

PEARL WOODS,Phenomenal Contortionist.

COOPER AND BAILEY,A Tip on Coontown Races.r LULU COATES,The Ragtime Soubrette.JAMES P. REED,

The Greatest Colored Basso in America.WILL A. COOK,

1 he Leading Character Actor of His Race.JAMES J. YAUGHAN,

The Greatest Ragtime Soloist.EMPIRE QUARTETTE,Singers, Dancers, Comedians.

QAChorus of Creole Beauties Q A QHChampion Cake W alkers, i'll I

Prize Buck & Wing Dancers v vAL AND MAMIE ANDRSON.

P R I C E S : 2 o , S o u n i t 5 0 c . Reserved Seats on Sale at the usual places.SOUVENIR— We will present to every lady patron holding a coupon for a Fifty Cent Re-

served Seat a complete piano solo copy of the famous “Blackville Society Cake Walk.” This is the most remarkable ragtime composition ever written. Pure Ethiopian Melody. Contains the right swing for a Two-Step. Played by the famous bandmaster, John Philip Sousa, at all his concerts.

Bishop Codman, the newly elected Bishop of the Maine Episcopal church, in a sermon at Roxbnry, Mass., recently -mid some uncomplimentary things of Maine people. The Herald and Journal of Boston, quote him substantially the same, as saying: “The people mean well, but they are very illiterate, and do not know how important it is to wor-ship God.” The Bishop complains that all the words complimentary to Maine were omitted. It would require many complimentary words to counterbalance the words above.

A special meeting of the New York Board of Trade and transpoi tation to consider the Porto Rican tarifi matter was held Thursday. Nicholas Oyang- oren, a merchant of San Juan, Porto Rico, addressed the board. “ Never in tbe history of the island of Porto Rico,’ he said, “ has there been known such ex-treme general misery, such want of credit and absolute stagnation. Before the Cuban war, our island was in a prosperous condition, and free trade and civil government is the only means by which to bring it back to this normal condition.” A resolution was adopted declaring that the policy of the United States D ward Porto Rico should be de-finitely and immediately determined upon conditions and considerations which relate to that island alone.

Dr. Humphreys’Specifics cure by acting directly upon the disease, without exciting disorder in any other part of the system.NO. CURES. PRICES.

1— F evers, Congestions, Inflammations. .2 52 — W orm s, Worm Fever, Worm Colic... .2 53 — T eeth in g , Colic,Crying,Wakefulness .2 54 — D iarrhea, of Children or Adults........... 2 57 — Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis........................2 58 — -N euralgia, Toothache, Faceache.......... 2 59 — H eadache, Sick Headache, Vertigo.. .2 5

1 0 — D yspepsia, Indigestion,Weak Stomach.2 51 1 — Suppressed or P a in fu l P e r io d s..2 51 2 — W hites, Too Profuse Periods.....2 51 3 — Croup, L a ry n g itis , Hoarseness.....2 51 4 — S alt R h eu m , Erysipelas,Eruptions.. .2 51 5 — R heum atism , Rheumatic Pains .. .2 51 6 — M alaria , Chills, Fever and Ague........... 2 51 9 — C atarrh, Influenza. Cold in the Head .2 52 0 — W hoop ing-C ough ......... 2 52 7 — K idney D is e a s e s ......................... 2 52 8 — N ervous D e b ility ............................. 1 .0 03 0 —U rinary W eak n ess, Wetting Bed__ .2 57 7 —Grip, Hay Fever........................................... 2 5

Dr. Humphreys’ Manual of all Diseases at your Druggists or Mailed Free.

Sold by druggists, or sent on receipt of prree. Humphreys’ Med. Co Cor. William & John Sts.

S T A T E M E N T *Agricultural

Insurance Company, of Watertown, N Y.

A8 SETS, DEC. 3 1 , 189 9 .Real Estate, ..............

Collateral Loans,............Stocks and Bonds,..........Cash in office and Bank,.Bills Receivable,............Agents’ Balances,............Interest and Rents,........All other assets,..............

Deduct items not admitted,

Admitted Assets, .. LIABILITIES, DEC.

Nut unpaid lo sses............Unearned Premiums,. . . . All other liabilities,..........

Cash Capital,......................Surplus over all liabilities.

Total liabilities and sur- • p lu s ,.............................. $2,209,129 55

Macomber, Farr& WhittenA G E N T S .

HALLOWELL AND AUGUSTA.

$ 314,375 00849,332 72211.291 01527,021 25144,447 36

3.634 27131.268 9636,157 79

6,633 30

$2 ,224,161 6615,032 O

$2 ,209,129 55

3G 18 9 9 .$ 91,840 271,C30,971 94

24,094 83

146,907 04500,000 00562,222 51

IS DEHONSTRATEDBy the Fact o f O ur Having so much o f it to do.

Reasonable PricesFor the kind o f w o rk worth pay-ing fo r. - -

Be one o f the 4 0 0 and have yo ur Shoes Repaired Here.

OVERSHOES REBOTTOMED BETTER THAN NEW .

Palmer Shoe Company,I f y o u h a v e a G o o d O n e

*Better t a k e it to

W H E E L E R & C R O S S .

T h e y u n d e r s t a n d t h e a r t of

IRepatring UHorka n d g u a r a n t e e s a t i s f a c t i o n .

W heeler & Cross,REmOVAL.

Hallow ed Patrons w ill find us pleasantly located in our NEW STO RE - - - -

2 2 5 W ater Street, Augusta.Com e in and Inspect our Store and Goods- Special attention to Upholstering and Furn itu re R epairing.

A . S O U U K .

Furniture, Couches, Chairs, Tables.THE WHOLE WORLD OVER 1

NO WOMAN TOO POORTO USE

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ROB R O Y FLOOR. 55

No Man Wealthy EnoughTO BUY BETTER.

S P EC IA L CASH PRICE A T STO R E, $ 4 - 2 5 PER BBL.

IE \ S . W D T G A T ESOLE AGENT FOR THE “ROB ROY

yFLOUR,

HAVE YOU HEARD THE NEWS ?T hat jVI, ROBERTS is selling W in -ter Goods W A Y D O WN to Close them out and m ake room for

S P R IN G G G 0 D 5 .Come in and he will make prices for you. Have not space to quote them

IM R R O B E R T S ,

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HALLOWELL REGISTER—SATURDAY, MARCH 24,1900

R o y a lt A b s o l u t e l y P u k e

B a k in & Po w d e r

M akes th e food m ore de licious and w h olesom eROYAL BAKING POWDER CO ., NEW YORK.

,-Soccd '"3TTotesLMr. C. J. Collins, of Manchester, who

has been seriously sick with stomach trou-ble, has rallied radically from his sickness.

Capt. Jas. H. Dudley, of Loudon Hill, was drawn Tuesday last as juryman for the services of the Supreme Court.

Gardiner has had but one political party represented at the polls of late years, and yet tbe upper branch of the City Govern-ment is in a dead-lock over the election of apresident.

The public schools of the city resume their sessions Monday next. There will be no changes in the teaching force.

Dr. II. A. Milliken has moved his office to t ie residence of Miss Carrie Macomber, Second street, near Overhead Bridge.

A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Industrial School was held Monday. Hon. Andrew Hawes, Mrs. I*. M. Martin and C. II. Dudley were present. Routine business only.

It is understood that Mr. Dutch accepts the position marked out by his own regard for his obligations to the school and Com-mittee, and will ieturn to his work here for the Spring term.

Rev. E. B. Barber, who formerly preached here, has recently gone from Gardiner to Westbrook, and this week resigns his posi-tion as superintendent of the Gardiner schools.

Our present City Fathers have the advan-tage of immediate study of the expenditures of the different departments, in the reports sent out. at the close of the business year.

We are glad to learn that Mr. Eugene Howe, sick with pneumonia, was somewhat better the middle of the week. This attack following so soon after recovery from gastric fever, gives the sick man an unusually long irun. Mr. Will Ilowe, of Portland was at ’Rome over the Sabbath.

PERSONAL NOTES.

Miss K a t e E. C o u c h went to Waltham, M ass., Wednesday, for a fortnight’s visit with Mrs. Kate Randall and her daughter, Miss Mattie Randall.

Miss M a r y D o y l e , of Portland, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Leighton, upper Second street.

M a j o r E . Ro w e l l , who has been passing the winter in the West, principally with his son, Mr. W. W. Rowell, of Minneapolis, writes Hallowell friends that he will return home in April. We shall all be glad to see him.

Mr. H. C. Todd, of Portland, will supply the Baptist pulpit tomorrow. His ser-mons already given here have proved very interesting.

At the meeting of the Current Events Club held Wednesday afternoon, Miss Ellen Hamlin Butler presented the paper, a most interesting sketch of the life of John Ruskin. The ladies were fortunate in having Miss Butler with them.

The olllcials of the State Savings Banks have been active of late, holding several meetings in Portland. An interesting address on the Taxation of Savings Banks will be found on our fourth page.

Hamilton & Co. are drawing coal supplies from Portland by way of the Maine Central. Four carloads of handsome coal have been consigned of late to this firm.

Mr. Geo. W. Strout, of the Wilder Cor-poration, has been in Boston and New York this past week.

The Junior Sewing Bee will be enter-tained Saturday afternoon by Miss Dorothy Marston. Wednesday last they were guests of Miss Helen Strout and the Saturday previ" ous of Miss Grace Dinsmore.

Matters are in status quo in the School Board. It is unfortunate to have any quar- teis enter into the general management of

I our schools, and more unfortunate that the schools should be bandied about by politi-cians.

Mr. I). F. Somes has started up his carpet- : cleaning machines for the spring'business, and will be glad to call for any carpets. An order slate will be found at Mr. J. \\ . Church’s.

Mr. C. II. O'Brien was out for the first time Tuesday noon—making the trip to Augusta. We were all glad to see him.

I t is now in order to prophesy in regard to the date of the ice leaving the river. Fix upon a Sunday near the probable time, and that will come pretty near the right day.

Has any one seen the Spriug Robin as jet? It is about time; some of our thrifty housewives are cleaning house; the crows are with us; the festive rivulets flow noisily down our hills; and our grocers here have the “new maple sugar cakes.”

Mr. Dutch leaves his father aud mother both sick with the prevailing grippe, the former still seriously ill.

The smelt fishermen are taking possession of their old fishing grounds along the Chelsea shore. They ought to put up some little camps for protection from the winds.

Mr. Brann’s election to the sehool board cost something, for the political aspirations of two ex-Mayors were sacrificed in his pro-motion.

TENNiS HALLS

Are of two 1 i’-vJA; t o ball that is used in p 'a \. w l c pai <*, and the dancing parly v ich is < f en given at th e tn t i M.i.e t ".in m int.

Some pc'T-. ro n u n d jou cannot make a j.>ou , of tea v.fl.iout a tea ball, but v. e |-m,w that if you use Clw.se U Sanborn's package teas y< u < a a make good tea by any of the app o' a. d met hods.

i l s m lc lau se you have good te l to bi gm v ita.

Poor teas cannot result, in a health-fu l,de'ici. I’:; verage. no matter how carefu ly \<m try to brew them.

With Chase & Sanb rn 's package teas you are aure of getting the best that money, ski 1 and experience can produce.

It makes no difference whether rou t rv their Koiiinoor, which is a fn e breakfast tea, the Orloff, a 1 orinosa Oolong with a delicate ] h’C flavor, or the Orange Pekoe, \ oh its rich wine-like body.

inasmuch as these teas are sold on y in i ound and half-pound air tight T t i Lead packages you are s ire of getting the genuine .article, w ith a 1 its natural strength and iieshrm ss preserved.

One pound makes over 200 cups,

Chase & Santoi's Teas.

The members of the Junior Sewing Bee, formerly the Jolly Sun-Bonnets, are making preparations for their Annual Easter Sale. These young misses hustle the needle and thimble for several weeks, making novelties and useful articles. The proceeds of the sale

' will go to the different schools with which they are associated.

Arthur Gilman, now on board the “Nash-ville” at Manila, sends home some very in-teresting letters. His ship has been in sev-eral scraps of late, in one of which Ensign Gilpin was seriously wounded and placed under his care. The “ Nashville” is en-gaged in expeditions to different parts of the Islands.

Macomber, Farr & Whitten, insurance agents, present in this issue the annual state-ment of one of their strong companies—the Agricultural Insurance Co., of Watertown, N. Y. This company has gross assets of over two millions, and surplus over all liabilities of $562,222.51. The firm carries a large number of Hallowell policies, and recommends the Agricultural as a first-class company.

The Maine Bankers’ Association was or-ganized in Portland Saturday evening, and the following were elected officers: C. S. Hichborn, Augusta, pres.; C. G. Allen, Portland,vice pres.; John R. Gould,Augusta, sec.; Geo. A. Safford, Hallowell, treas.; W. D. Mussenden, Bath, Clras, D- Crosby, Ban" gor, J. F. Stetson, Camden, A. H. Plaisted, Waterville, A, I. Templeton, Lewiston, executive committee.

The Sewing school closed Saturday after-noon last its course of 14 weeks with a bit of banquet. The materials for the school were furnished by the Thimble Club, with Mrs. Vaughan’s practical assistance. The prize for improvement in work was awarded Amelia Falconi. The young ladies manag. ing the school wish to extend their thanks to' Mrs. C. H. Wells and to Messrs J. H. Leigh, B. F. Warner and Lunt & Brann for favors received.

The School Board has received definite word from Mr. Dutch that he will finish out the coming term as principal of the High School. Mr. Lovering, of the School Com" mittee, also sends word that he will not press his claims farther—from which it is to be inferred that Mr. Dutch will go to Win-chester in the Fall. This solution will make smooth sailing for all parties. The hours of the atternoon sessions will be from 1.30 to 4 o’clock, as usual in the spring term.

The engagement is announced of Hon. Samuel L. Boardman, editor of the Bangor Commercial and Miss Alma G. Staples of Bangor, and their many friends are extend-ing their congratulations. Mr. Boardman is one of the best known newspaper men in the State. Miss Staples has been connected with the newspapers in Bangor and else-where for several years in various capacities. Their w’edding will take place in about a month. Mr. Boardman has many Hallowell friends who extend their good wishes and congratulations.

Ice operations at Shepard's Point closed Tuesday morning—with the houses lacking only one or two tiers in each. Probably the men here had as hard an experience as any on the river. The high water made it diffi-cult to operate, and latterly the wind and rain broke up some of their fields. The ice for the last few’ days showed signs of weak-ening, but no accidents occurred. The “Knicks” wTere lucky.

FORTY-SIX YEARS OF SERVICE.

Mr. Frank Dunphy, of Gardiner, steward •of the steamer “ Kennebec,” resigns his po-sition this week after 46 years of continuous service—the longest term of service with the one exception of Capt. Collins, in the history of the company. Mr. Dunphy is favorably known by the hosts of people who have traveled the Kennebec for all these years.

Mr. Dunphy is a native of Ireland, and was born in Kilkenny county, March 21, 1836. In January, 1850, he came with his parents to America, locating in Gardiner, where he has since made his home when off duty during the winter season.

His steamboat life began in 1854, on the steamer “Ocean,” He was on board the steamer when she was run into by the Cun- ard steamship “Canada” and burned to the water’s edge off the Brewsters, outside of Boston harbor.

When the steamer “Governor” was placed on the route. Mr. Dunphy was given the otflee of steward and served in that capacity until the “Eastern Queen” was built in 1857, when he was transferred to her. During his service on the Queen, the Civil War was begun, and in 1861 he went South on the steamer. lie was eight months with Burn-side’s expedition in North Carolina, and the next year went to New Orleans qji the same steamer with the expedition under Gen. Banks.

In 1866, the “Star of the East” (now the Sagadahoc) was built and Mr. Dunphy was again transferred to the new boat, where he remained 23 years. When the “Kennebec” was built in 1889, and placed on the line, to run in connection with the “Sagadahoc” and meet the demands of the steadily growing patronage, the older officers of the latter steamer were transferred to the new one, Mr. Dunphy among them, where he has since served the company faithfully. Tbe genial face of the steward does not tell it, but a man who has been stearaboating 50 years, needs and deserves a liberal vacation.

ONE FIRM SETTLES.

Mr. Geo. B. Lord signed a temporary bill of prices Wednesday morning, and will com-mence work again at once, with a crew of 14 men, to close up contracts on hand. The understanding is that Mr. Lord will pay the 8-hour $3.00-wages, pending the general settlement. Once before, the same offer was made, but failed to materialize in writ-ing. This action may be taken as an indi-cation of the probable settlement of other firms—if not on the headquarter’s terms, on the figures endorsed at Barre, Vt. The action of the manufacturers there has bene-fited the early settlement all round, and April 1 ought to see a different outlook among granite workmen. We hope that will prove the case.

School matters in Winchester, Mass,, seem to be in an agitated condition as well as in Hallowell. The Lynn City Item, of March 16, says:

The town meeting of Winchester, took a common sense view of the educational sys-tem in that village. The School Committee spent $3500 last year, and asked for $3800 for the year to come. Like School Commit-tees in other localities, the Winchester Board has favored fads and frills until the plain people, who want the real thing for their children, have risen and declared that the limit has been reached. The School Committee, naturally disturbed at the pros-pect of seeing their pet hobbies swept away, say they will resign. This would relieve them of responsibility, but there would be no difficulty in filling their places, and perhaps if new members were chosen more attention would be given, for a time at least, to the rudiments of knowledge, which have small chance in these days of fads.

The first trip of the Boston boat last season was made April 15, but as a general thing the first trips come before April 5th. We shall all be a little surer of the approach of summer with the steamers of the Kennebec & Boston line plying back and forth.

Mrs. Oldham and Miss Mitchell returned Saturday last from a week’s inspection of new styles in Millinery as displayed in Bos-ton; they brought home a liberal supply of new goods, and wifi soon display them in their new store,

Mr. A. S. Chadbourne recently elected to the School Board declines to qualify for busi-ness reasons. This makes it necessary to elect another member at once. Mr. Fuller will accept the position.

Mrs. C. II. Oldham wifi move another week into the store formerly occupied by Morton & Allen. The stand is now being renovated with paint and paper. For 25 years at least, a millinery business has been conducted there; before that it was a saloonfor a long term of years.

The Trustees of the First Baptist Church have put their parsonage in fine order for their new minister who is expected to move in early next week, and will lead the mid-week prayer meeting.

The meeting of the Current Events Club Wednesday afternoon next will be held with Miss Emma Cass, Academy street. Miss Annie F. Page will present the paper: theme, “The Use and Abuse of Libraries.”

Miss Grace Maddox entertained the menu bers of tbe Q. L. C. Wednesday evening. A very pleasant occasion all voted it to be.

SOUVENIR.

The Graham Genuine Southern Specialty Co., wifi present to every lady patron holding a coupon for a 50 ct. reserved seat, a complete piano solo copy of the famous “ Blackville Society Cake Walk.” This Is the most remat k- able rag-time compo-sition ever written, pure Ethropian melo-dy, contains the right swing for a two-step,

piayed by the famous John Philip Sousa at all his concerts. At Wilson Hall, Monday evening, April 2.

QUEEN ESTHER CHAPTER.

Queen Esther Chapter, No. 10, O. E. S., gladly welcomed to Masonic hall Wednesday evening, visitors from Ml. Carmel Chapter, No. 21, Richmond, and Orient Chapter, No. 30, Union, at the official inspection Flora E. Haskell, Grand Deputy.

A more pleasant evening has never been passed by the O. E. S. within the beautiful Chapter rooms. The work was exemplified in a very pleasing manner and received high commendatiop by the Grand Deputy. In-teresting remarks for the good of the order were made by Brothers Knight and Hawes, and Sister Day, W. M. of Mt. Carmel Chap-ter. A bountiful repast was served in the banquet hall.

A WINTER PICNIC.

The Ladies of the Society for Woman’s work of the Old South church will enter-tain themselves and their invited friends with a Picnic on Monday next in their vestry. It is a 5c picnic which means that every one present pays 5 cents for 50 cents worth of pleasure. Each lady carries as much food as she and her party can possibly eat. It is also very desirable that she should carry some articles which she is making for the Esster Sale to work upon in the afternoon. The ladies will gather about 2.30 o’clock for the regular meeting of the Society and the picnic will be served at 6 o’clock, when the gentlemen whose wives, or other lady friends have invited them, wifi be expected to ap-pear.

CITY GOVERENMENT,

A special meeting of the City Council was called Thursday evening. The principal item of business was the election of a member of the school board in place of Mr. Chadbourne, who declines to serve. The same division of the Board as at a former meeting was shown by the election of Mr. C. E. Brann.

Messrs. Harvey and Quinn were re-elected night-watchmen on recommendation of City Marshal Church.

Tne following standing committees were announced by Mayor Tenney:—

Claims, Fuller and Blatchford.Highways, Gelchell and Perkins.Fire Department, Harrington and Lord.Lights, Lord and Lunt.Sewers, Blatchford and Gelchell.Finance, Lunt and Fuller.

There is one satisfaction in having the snow and ice leave us. We shqll fie able to locate some of our submerged sidewalks. Of all the uncomfortable combinations for the pedestrian, concrete, mud and ice wifi take the cake! If we build more walks this year we hope pl&nk walks will go down. Every street commissioner for the past 10 years, has not believed in concrete walks for our side hills, and yet the authorities have kept right on with the mud and concrete combi-nation. Foot travelers should kick.

Supt. Taylor, of the Electric Road, has quite a job on his hands at foot of Chestnut street. The old man-hole near is filled, or refuses duty—so the tracks are undermined at nearly every storm. He is ballasting the road bed with granite chips.

Auburn owns its own water-works. Last year the net profit accruing to the city from that source was almost $9,000 and the total net profit since the city has owned the plant is about $57,000. Hallowell wifi some time be able to duplicate such a report, in a measure at least.

Portland and Lewiston vie with each other as centres of pugilistic sports. The former city had three mills in one night this last week.

The afternoon hours of the public schools for the spring term are to be from 1.30 to 4 o’clock as usual at this time of the year.

In the event of no settlement of the sched-ule question here, granite workmen will soon be scattering to points where the ques-tion in dispute has already been settled.

Mr. Jas. F. Atkins is quite sick at his boarding house in Augusta, threatened witli typhoid fever.

Several of our stonecutters left Wednes-day for Barre. Yt., where matters have been settled on a 35c minimum basis.

One of the Spaniards employed by the Hallowell Granite Works started Friday morning for San Lois Potosi, Mexico.

We were all ready to sympathize with Madison Beane on his recent reported expe-rience with the Augusta cyclone, when in-formed that “Madison” wasn’t in it at all. It was another man and another cart.

It is given out that the Rev. D. E. Miller will be returned to his pastorate here at the coming conference in Gardiner.

A CARD.

The Committee in charge of the Mother Goose party, given by the Girls’ Brigade Tuesday last, wish to express their regret that the respectable part of the audience should have been so annoyed byEthe disor-derly conduct of some of the boys present. The little entertainment had taken consid-erable thonght and trouble and would have been quite worth the small admission charged, had the children had a fair chance. The Committee were utterly unable to cope with the rowdy element present, but are assured by thos.e having authority that steps are being taken to prevent a recurrence of this outrage.

S t a n d i n g C o m m i t t e e G i r l s ’ B r i g a d e

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LOUDON HILL NOTES.

Miss Hattie Clifford of Waterville, spent a few days last week with her sister Mrs. Ernest Williamson.

Miss Ada Philbrick and Miss Elsie Knowles of Augusta, are visiting Mrs. Leslie Young.

Miss Julia Springer of Chelsea, formerly of Loudon Hill, was calling on friends Thursday.

Sp ring Sam ples now ReadyW e have one of the most complete lines of Samples ever

shown in the city, from which you can make a selection of goods. W e will make it up, so that you will not only be pleased with

Mrs. Anderson Lynn has recovered from bier recent illness.

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ileald were the guests of relatives in Chelsea a few days last week,

Mr. John P. Jewett who is ill with pneu tnonia, is improving.

L. A. Langmaid of the Bath Iron Works, spent Sunday at home. .

IMPORTANT NOTICES.

The Hub Shoe Store, Gardiner, quotes a few “Porto Rico” prices on Rubber Boots for Children, Misses, Ladies and Gents Read their announcement on the first page.

Mrs. Schaffer will occupy the pulpit of the Universalist church, Sunday March 25th at 10.30 A. M.

H A L L O W E L L W E A T H E R .Temperature taken at 5 A. M. and 7 P. M.

Mar. Wind 5 A. M. 7 P.M14 W Fair 10 a 31 a15 W NW Cloudy 11 a 29 a16 NE Snow 23 a 38 a17 SW Fair 16 a 28 a18 NW Fair 8 a 22 a19 SE Snow 26 a 43 a20 SW Fair 44 a 40 a

There is more catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease aud prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it in curable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 19 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous sur-faces of the system. They offer one hun-dred dollars for any cases they fail to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials.

F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.Sold by druggists, 75 cts.Hall’s Family Pills are the best.

ASSESSORS' NOTICE.The Inhabitants of the City of Hallo- well and others having Taxable Property in said City, are hereby notified and requested to bring in to tbe undersigned, Assessors of said City, true and perfect lists of their Polls and all their Estates, Real and Personal, in-cluding money on hand or at interest, Debts due more than owing, and all Property held in trust as Guardian, Executor, or Adminis-trator, or otherwise, which they were pos-sessed of on the first day of April 1900, and to be prepared to substaniate the same by oath. And to receive said lists the undersigned will be in session at the ASSESSORS’ OFFICE, CITY HALL,

Commencing Monday, April 2, 1900, and continuing each day till Saturday, April 7th inclusive, from 2 to 4 P. M. Also from April 9tli to 14th inclusive, from 9 to 12 A. M., aud from 2 to 4 P. M.

Those who neglect to comply with this notice, will he barred by law from appealing from the decision of the Assessors on their application for abatements.

C. G. WALL, )JAMES ATKINS, ? Assessors. S. G. OTIS, )

Hallowell, Me., March 26, 1900.

L O S T !Hallowell Savings Institution Book No.

265; finder please return to above Institution and oblige

H. K. B a k e r , Treasurer. Hallowell, Maine, March 15, 1900.

KENNEBEC COUNTY—In Probate Court, at A u-gusta, on the second Monday o f March 1900.

Fred Emery Beane, Administrator on the Estate of R i c h a r d M e r r i d k t h late of Hallowell in said County, deceased, having petitioned for license to sell the fol-lowing real estate of said deceased, for the payment of debts, Arc., viz;

Lot and buildings, No. 304 Water stieet, Hallowell, bounded as follows: North by the land of Alger Y. Currier: East by Kennebec River: South by land of Frank Fuller: West by Water street.

Or d e r e d , That notice thereof be given for three weeks successively, prior to the second Monday of April next, in the Ha l l o w e l l R e g i s t e r , a news-paper printed in Hallowell, that all persons interested may attend at a Court of Probate then to be holden at Augusta, and show cause, if any, why the prayer of said petition should not be granted.

G. T. STEVENS, Judge Attest: W. A. NEWCOMB. Register. 7—3

Mrs. C. H. Oldham,Announces that she will move another week to the store formerly occupied by Morton & Allen— where will be displayed a com-plete line of

NEW MILLINERY OF LATEST DESIGNS.

The Annual Spring Open-ing will occur at an early date.

M R S . C . H O L D H A M .Apprentice wanted.

PISCTS C U R E FORH BURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS.Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use |

in time. Sold by druggists.

Its Fit and Stylo, but Its Durability.Remember our Custom Clothing is made in our own work

rooms, under our own supevrision, so they are far superior to suits which you purchase of agents, which are in most cases made up about the same as ready-made clothing.

We guarantee a Fit and First-Class Work.

ANDREWS BROTHERS,TAILORS, CLOTHIERS AND FURNISHERS.

O P P . P. O., H A L L O W E L L , M E .

" D u r e a u , C o m m o d e O p l a s h e r s , D o i l i e s ^ a n d S t a n d ^ C e n t e r P i e c e s

Covers, Linen Goods,LUNT & BRANN, Hallowell.

Carpets and Straw Mattings.We have just added to our stock .

Tapestry, Velvet n A 'Q 'P ' t f 'T ' C and Brussels v n i A i L X. O

b u t and M ade to O rder— at Prices that Defy Com petition,K C H O I C E LO T OH P H T T E R N S ,

NEW RUGS.

T h at Cresco CorsetHas capture*! the corset-wearing portion of

this community.The demand increases daily'. This is as it

should be.Merit wins every time. The greatest merit

of the Cresco is that it cannot break at the waist line.

Pleased to have you try a “ Cresco” aud test the truth of our assertion.

JAM ES H. LEIGH & CO.

You get your Money’s Worth.California Navel Oranges, \ No, 1 Fancy Lem on,\ new Rice,Nice Prunes, [ 4 0 to 5 0 ] C rom arty Bloaters,

2 0 c per Dozen2 0 c “ “

6 c per lb, 5 lbs, fo r 2 5 c 10c per lb. 3 lbs fo r 2 5 c

2c each, 3 fo r 5cA R i Coffee? used by 100 fam ilies n twn» 15c. 2 lbs, for 2 5 c

M any m re such b a rg a in s which we haven’ t space to m enti n,

We guarantee our goods worth all we ask.O U R P R I C E S

A R EW A Y

D O W N L O W .Come in ami see us, we can save you money.

The Corner Grocery Company.

We carry the largest line ofMEN' FINE SHOES IN MAINE

Geo. E. Keith’s $3.50

W a l k - O v e r s

have no equal at the price. None others are superior at any price.

HASKELL BROTHERS,182 W ater $t„ - - Augusta, Me.

W e polish all shoes sold by us Free o f C harge.

HALLOWELL REGISTER—SATURDAY, MARCH 24.1900SAVINGS BANK TAXES.

From the Address of Edwin II. Lawryat Portland, Before the Maine

Savings Bank Association.

The stock arguments for the excessive taxes Maine Savings banks are pay-ing are practically limited to two. The first, that justifying hitting the head in sight, and hitting it harder because others are experts at dodging, savors too strongly of highway robbery to merit answer. The other, that the vaults of our savings bank are the depositories of the otherwise idle money of those who seek to screen it from taxes, is nearly as difficult to consider with patience. Eliminate from the largest deposit^ those made during the process of settle-ment of estates, and those consisting of trust funds deposited for frequent 01 early withdrawals, and a number would remain hardly sufficient to prove th rule t : t all deposits are small. 'But suppose there should creep into out vaults relatively large amounts from few so short-sighted and so ignorant of conditions to expect to escape taxation, should that fact, if it is a fact, impaii the strength of claims for fair play and justice, from the 140,000 whose accounts represent the penny savings of the schoolboy, and the larger accumulations of others which have yet to reach the $500 mark, or of the smaller number, who by economy and self-denial hav( succeeded in building their deposit somewhat beyond that figure.

If people of wealth have intrusted their money to our care from the un wo thy motives suggested, they may be interested to know that it required it 1899 the combined efforts of all the as-sessors of the state to uuearth $57,000 in bonds upon which to levy tax.

These two arguments answered, so far as they merit answer, we are met by the question, common when justice is demanded, and no reason for denying it is found; “ What are you going to d<> about it?”

What are we going to do about it?The taxes have been increased by

nearly every law enacted for years, re-gardless of the protests and in opposi-tion to the efforts of those in position best to foreshadow the unjust and pos-sibly dangerous results to follow. I would not presume to question or criti-cise the methods pursued in the past to protect our depositors from what we consider the unreasonable demands of the State, and it would not be in good taste for me to offer recommendations or suggest plans; but I have wondered I if that course is wisest which has left I this task to be assumed wholly by the savings bank officials.

It has been said that the depositors have manifested but little interest in this subject of taxes upon their property. If this is true, may not such lack of in-terest be attributed to lack of knowledge of it and of its details? Is it remarkable that they are not familiar with it and them? It is doubtful if in each of the communities represented by the gentle-men present, there are a dozen people, other than those who have found it necessary to investigate, wdio can name the tax rate we have paid in any year since the taxes were first assessed.

We know, largely because we have been obliged to know, that the taxes exceed those of any of the other eastern States, and any of the middle States, the rates varying from entire exemption in New York, New Jersey and Pennsyl-vania, to those which we are paying; that while the tax rates have increased sixty per cent, since 1872, the rates of dividend have decreased forty-five per cent.; and that while the state tax rate has decreased fifty-two per cent, the bank tax has increased to the extent I have named. We know that while some of our railroad properties pay to stock-holders (nearly one-half of whom are non-residents,) ten dollars or more of dividends for every dollar the same pro-perties contribute to the State’s revenue, our depositors are paying to the State one dollar of tax to less than five dollars of dividends. It is well known to us that Maine exacts from all the steam railroads in and entering the State less than forty-one per cent, of the taxes the savings banks are paying. We learn from the annual reports that Maine risks, written in 1898, by 233 foreign and domestic life, fire, marine and mis-cellaneous insurance companies amount-ed in the aggregate to $193,0O0,0C0 and that the total contribution to the Stale’s revenue from these several companies, in licenses, fees and taxes, was less than nineteen per cent, of taxes paid by the Maine savings banks. We know that the tax upon the vast tracts of wild land, from which have grown some of the largest fortunes of the State, and which have fallen to their present own-ers at a cost hardly worth considering, is but ten per cent, of the amount the savings banks are contributing. We know that the combined taxes, of all the loan and birlding associations, street

railways, telegraph, telephone and ex-press companies, in and doing business n the State, are but seven tier cent, f

the annual savings bank tax. And we easily determine that the State receives from all of the corporations, institutions and properties which I have named but little more than seventy-five per cent, of the amount annually assessed upon savings bank deposits.

But with how much of all this are the depositors familiar? They sometimes complain of the shrinkage in the earn-ing power of securities; but I doubt if we often explain that the law exacts in taxes twenty-five per cent, of such dim-inished revenue. We may refer them to results of unfortunate investments; but not often, I think, to the fact that for every dollar of loss upon deposit-, in eighty years, the State annually d* - demands fifty cents and more in taxe«. We refer them to the expense account of two mills on each dollar of the assets; but I imagine some of them have yet to learn that for every dollar of cost for management, the State de-mands nearly three dollars for its own revenue. We refer them to the appro-priation each six months for reservi with which to strengthen the condition of the banks, and protect the interest* of the depositors; but 1 doubt very much if we often emphasize the fact that the State demands one dollar and fifty cents in taxes, for every dollar so appropriated for their protection. We may refer them to such reservation from profits; but do we explain that the State each six months, demands a tax upon accumulations of earnings in reserve, and upon protits necessary for dividend- and that a tax upon earnings or profit if exacted of industries we are asked b aid in promoting, would be resisted by (‘very means which ingenuity could de-vise, and by every process- known t law which such industries could find t employ? The depositors may regard tax a even upon wages for daily toil as a relic of ages that are past, or as the custom of peoples whom we seek to en-lighten and civilize but how many of such depositors are aware that their own State, self-conscious of its enlight-enment and intelligence, boasting of beneficent laws enacted for the ameliora-tion of the condition of its people, and proud of the frugal habits of its citizens which habits it claims to have fostered and encouraged, exacts a revenue, not only upon the pitiful savings from wages of daily toil, but upon the mea-gre earnings of such savings as well?

At the inception of the movement for establishing savings banks in the State of New York, acts of incorporation pre-scribed that for the purpos of en-couraging habits of industry and econo-my, such institutions should receive and carefully invest the savings which such habits might make possible and insure. Ownership of principal, revenue and surplus was vested in depository, and declared absolute and entire, with no reduction from revenue except for ex-pense of management, and no reserva-tion of surplus and accumulations except 8uch as wisdom and prudence might sug-gest as necessary for safety and protec_ tion. From the date of the incorpora, tion of its first savings bank until now, that State has kept the pledges first made, and adhered to the policy first adopted, resisting every effort to secure a violation of the one o r a modification of the other. The “ Treat” bill, for a partial taxation of savings bank deposits, recently before the present New York legislature, exempted all sums of one thousand dollars and less, an exemption which, in our own State, would include ninety per cent, or more of Maine de-posits. But even this measure, which, if applied to Maine banks, might justly be considered practical exemption, met with such a reception that but few have been found for its support other than its originators, and those who hoped to pro-fit by its adaption as law. Appeal from railroad corporations, to which enor-mous gifts in franchise and rights o f way had been made and conceded by State and communities, were of no avail, influence of great water ways, with extravagant subsidies granted by legislative enactment, counted for noth-ing. Great corporations, practically owning by gift the streets of cities and towns for the supply of water and light, sought to aid a measure for taxing the savings of the poor, and received n > re-ward for their labors. The efforts of electric light, street railway, telegraph and telephone corporations, with fran-chises, concessions and privileges, the value of which may be known only by those who profit by them, and whose countlesss miles of wires are a constant menace to safety of life and property, were no mere fruitful or effective. Riv al inst:tutions schemed, without success, to secure for their own vaults, for profit to stockholders, funds, the safety of which the State had pledged itself to in-sure, and the earning of which the law vested in depositors alone. Corpora-tions whose glowing accounts of values and earnings were necessary for the floating of securities, and whose state-ments of poverty and meagre profits were for the eyes of the assessors alone, sought in vain to substitute their own for the securities which made possible

Rain * r Shine,The station agent is on duty. On his Axact communication of train orders depends thousands of lives, and millions of dollars in property, each day. In his haste he runs out in the rain or the snow hatless and' unprotected. Then comes the sequel — bron-chitis, or some

other disease of the respiratory or-gans. The most effective remedy fo*r bronchial or pulmonary disease

Doctor Pierce’s Golden Medical

Discovery. Almost all remedies pre-

scribed for such diseases contain opium or some

narcotic which soothes by stupe-faction. ” Golden Medical Discov-

ery ” contains aeither narcotics nor alcohol. It stops coughs by curing their cause.I t h e a l s w e a k lungs, builds up wasted tissues, and

promotes the health of every or-gan of the body.

"I am a railroad agent,” writes I. B.Staples, F,sq., o f Barclay, Osage County, Kans., "and four years ago m y work keeping me in a warm room and stepping out frequently into the cold air gave me bronchitis, which became chronic and deep-seated. Doctors failed to reach my case and advised me to try a higher air, but, fortunately for me, a friend advised me to try Dr. Pierce’s m edicines. I commenced taking your ‘Golden Medical Discovery,’ and by the tim e I had taken the first bottle I was better, and after taking four bottles m y cough was entirely gone. I have found no necessity for seeking another clim ate.”

Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets regulate the stomach, liver and bowels.

and assured the safety of deposits. And the claim, familiar to us, that deposits were not alone the property of the poor, but of some of tlie rich, who sought safety, and immunity from taxes met the

j answer, “ We will not punish the many poor to reach the fewr rich.” Two mii- 'ion depositors, warned by banks and public press of the threatened dangers of fin attack upon that which they had saved

meet the demands of common com-forts, actual necessities and possible mis-fortune, triumphed over corporate greed

nd private avarice; and to the great c.iedit of that great State it can be said, that it still keeps inviolate that contract first made, that funds intrusted to its Savings Banks, and all they may earn, shall continue, absolutely, and w ithout contribution to state, corporations or private interests the property of those who deposit them.

Gentlemen: The depositors in our Savings Banks, are in number one quar-ter of the entire State population. They are the poorer—therefore it is a fashion or a fad to style them the “ common”— people and they contribute annually nearly one quarter of t e State’s entire •evenue. They are in every plantation, hamlet, town and city in Maine. Were they familiar with the important hearing of this question of taxes upon the meagre earnings of their small savings and were they aware from what source relief must ;ome, if it comes at all, would the ears of the law-mak( rs who represent them be as deaf to their demands as they have been to yours in their behalf?

FAVORITE POEMS.The Old Hymns.

There’s lots o’ music in ’em—the hymns o’ long ago.

An’ when some grey-haired brother sings the ones I used to know

I sorter want to take a hand!—I think o’ days gone by;

“On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand and cast a wistful eye!”

There’s lots o’ music in ’em—those dear sweet hymns of old—

With visions bright of lands of light, and and shining streets of gold;

And 1 hear ’em ringing—singing, where mem’ry dreaming stands,

“From Geenland’s icy mountains to India’s coral strands.”

They seem to sing forever, of holier, sweeter days,

When the lilies of the love of God bloomed white in all the ways;

And I want to hear their music from the old-time meetin’srise

Till “ I can read my title clear to mansions in the skies.”

We never needed singin’ books in them old days—we knew

The words, the tunes of every one the dear old hymn book through.

We didn’t have no trumpets then, no organs built for show;

We only sang to praise the Lord “from whom all blessings flow.”

An’ so I love the old hymns, and when my time shall come,

Before the light has left me, and my singing lips are dumb,

If I can only hear ’em then, I’ll pass with out a s.gh

“To Canaan’s fair and happy land, where my possessions lie!”

—Frank L. Stanton

When Father Signs a Check.

They’ve lately served poor father up In quite sarcastic truck,

“When father sings a lullaby,”“ When father carves the duck,”

And when he monkeys this or that To any rhymster’s beck,

But no one yet has sung about When father signs a check.

The old man isn’t up to date In table manners, p’raps,

And doesn’t talk, or walk, or dress Like modern college chaps,

But on his business habits, sirs,There’s neither flaw nor fleck,

You’ve got a paper good as gold When father signs a check.

He uses the colonial quill,The letters of his name

And rugged is the hand that writes Unevenly the same,

But you can bet the jewels all That kingly crowns bedeck,

The banks hand out the requisite When father signs a check.

—Boston Courier.

“ He that seeks finds.” He that takes Hood’s Sarsaparilla finds in its use pure, rich blood and consequently good health.

The Sages and the Shepherds.

Come north and south, and east and west, Four sages to a mountain crest,Each pledged to search the world around Until the woudrous well he found.Before a crag they made their seat,Pure bubbling waters at their feet.Said one: “This well is small and mean,Too petty for a village green!”Another said: “So small and dumb,From earth’s deep centre can it come?”The third: “ This water seems not rare,Not even bright, but pale as air!”The fourth : “Thick crowds I looked to see; Where the true well is, there must be.”They rose and left the mountain crest,— One north, one south, one east, one west, O'er many seas and deserts wide They wandered, thirsting till they died.The simple shepherds by the mountain dwell And dip their pitchers in the wondrous well.

The Gingerbread Man.

Humpty, dumpty, dickerydan,Sing hey, sing ho, for the gingerbread man !With his smile so sweet, and his form so

neat,And his gingerbread shoes on his ginger-

bread feet.His eyes are two currants, so round and

black;He’s baked in a pan lying flat on his back;He comes from the oven so glossy and brownThe loveliest gingerbread man in town!And why is his gingerbread smile so sweet?And why is his gingerbread form so neat?And why has he shoes on his gingerbread

feet?Because—he is made for my Teddy to eat.

—The Outlook.

© n j }• ¥ To i w c t s

SIMMONS & STEARN S,. . . . O F T H E S O U T H E N D M A R K E T .

Call Especial Attention to a new brand of Fine Coffee, Put up Expressly for them, and known as .

Our “ Club-house ” Coffee.o n ly 25 cts. per Pound.

Many ot our best customers, who are particular about their coffee regard this as better than the higher-priced goods.

A VERY COMPLETE LINE OF

Fine Groceries, Meats and Provisions.S IM M O N S & S T E A R N S , P r o p r s .

PERLEY BLOCK, - ’- - HALLOWELL, MAINE.

O n e o f t h e B e s t B r a n d s i n th e M a rk e t , h a s b e e n s o ld in o u r th r e e c i t ie s th e p a s t F i v e Yr e a rs , a n d h a s g iv e n E x -c e l le n t S a t i s f a c t io n . H a v e j u s t p u t in -

F U L L CARLOAD.C O M E IN A N D B E T U S T A B IC F B O U R .

FOR ALL OCCASIONSFlowers for Funerals furnished

at short notice.Society Emblems a Specialty.

I have the agency for the best Florists in Maine and Massachu-setts.

Frank B. Wood,

ALL BEST BRANDS COFFEES. C. A. COLE

6.45

A r r a n g e m e n t o f T r a in s in E ffe c t D ec. 3 r d , 18!)!).

Until further notice trains will leave Hallowel as 1- lows :

GOTNG W EST.h- M-—For Lewiston, Farmington, Phillips, Rock-

land, Portland, Boston. Quebec, Montreal and Chicago.

10.06 A. M —For Lewiston, Farmington, Phillips, Range- ley. Bath, Rockland, Portland, Boston, No, Conway, Fab.vans, Gorham, Berlin Falls. Lancaster, Groveton, No. Stratford, Island Pond, Colebrook, and Beecher Falls.

3 16 P. M.—For Portland and way stations.3.56 P. M.—For Lewiston, Bath. Rockland, Portland

and Boston, Bridgton, No. Conway and Ba> tlett.

*11.02 P. M.— Night Pullman for Lewiston, Bath, Port-land and Boston.

10.31 A. M.—Sundays only for Portland and Boston.GOING EAST.

*1.22 A. M.— Night Pullman for Skov began, Belfast, Dextei, Dover. Foxcroft, GreenvilU,Bangor, Bucksport. Bar Harbor, Aroostook County St. Stephen and St. John.

9.03 A M.—For Waterville, Skowehgan, Bangor, Vanceboro, St. Stephen, Houlton, Woodstock an.l St. John.

9.10 A. M —Sundays only to Bangor.12.27 P. M—For Augusta, Waterville and Bangor.*2.22 P. M.—For Waterville, Bangor, Bar Harbor

Bucksport, Old Town, Greenville. Patren and Houlto Does i ot run beyond Bangor on Sunday

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7.17 P. M.—For Augusta and Waterville.* The Nignt Pullman Trains run each way every nigl t

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