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Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-03-04
ELECTION RECESS.
Difference in Opinion as to LegisIa-
tion Needed for Loens.
Wants the County to Receive Fines Tor Viola.
tions Of Game Law.

T.. l.
M. Tuesday, on account Of the municipal
elections. OF the 1888 acts and As resolves
already signed by the Governor, As acts
and 16 resolves were signed the past week
and there is small mountain of them
awaiting his Endorsement. There have
been in the House alone 276 "House
prints. The number of bills and re-
solves ordered printed in the Senate thus
far is 1888. These numbers are in excess
of those of any previous year for Che same
time.
Want Bounty on Looms.
A new phase of the loon agitation has
appeared as a result probably, of the at
tempt to have the killing of looms pro-
ibited. J. A. Fairbanks and "a others
of Manchester Augusta, Hallowell, Read
and Presque Isle, petition for bounty on
looms. The petitioners for destruction of
looms say that long and careful observa-
tion and investigation show that the loon
is great destroyer of fish, TO the extent
of thousands annually, aggregating in all
of the waters of the State to many thou
sands of pounds of trout and salmon.
This is fish protection in earnest
Representative Leighton of Columbia
Falls has put in a bill to amend the law
relating to disposal of fines collected for
,e Ia IJn
that as the county must pay the costs of
prosecution the fines should go to the
conuty instead of to the STATE. He argues
that there would be more interest in the
county for enforcing these laws He
says that his county of Washington has
expended several hundreds of dollars the
past year for prosecuting offenders of the
game law while the fines from these
prosecutions have gone to the State.
The committee an shore fisheries report
favorably a bill defining the duties OF the
commissioner of shore fisheries. This bill
provides that the commissioners salary
shall be $1,000 a year. The committee
also reports in favor of codifying the laws
relating to sea shore fisheries and in favor
of an appropriation of $4,000 for use OF
the commissioners.
Resolves appropriating $500 each for
Wilton, Parsons1eld, Cherryfield and
Monmouth academies, were sent from the
Senate to the Governor Saturday.
Among the bills passed to be enacted in
the House was the one introduced by Mr..
Lane, to amend the charter of the city OF
Augusta, fixing the time when the new
city government shall go into office each
wear. The time fixed is April 1st. 1t is
believed that the change will simplify
matters and be an improvement upon the
existing arrangement.
The members of the committee on
towns who voted in favor OF division of
the town of Madison are Messrs. Penney,
Lsavitt, Wood, Gordon and Dole. Those
who make minority report are Messrs.
Ryerson, Trafton, Smith and Merrill,
Beedle not voting. The committee was
not long in deciding against the propo-
sition to have Deering vote on the ques-
tion of annexation.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-03-04

Mr.. and Mrs Vim. Dutton were in the
city from Vassalboro, Saturday.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-03-04

JFor routine matters, remarks. etc..see stem
ographic report.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1895-03-04

day.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-08-24

of swamps and stunted pines, into
which no white man has ever pene-
tratcd far, and where the red man still
reigns supreme. 1t is bounded on the
north by the Lizard and Mackenzie riv-
ers, on the east by the Slave river, on
the south by the Peace river, and on
the west by the Rocky mountains. Mr..
Warburton Pike says it is now the
greatest beaver country in the world,
and that it also contains few bands
of the so-called wood buffalo. "Some-
times they are heard of at Forts Smith
and Vermillion, sometimes at Fort st.
John, on the Peace river, and OCCASION
ally at Fort Nelson, on the Lizard;
but it is impossible to say any
thing about their numbers" At all
events, in February, 1900, Mr.. Pike
found eight buffaloes only four days
travel from Fort Resolution, on Great
Slave lake, and succeeded in killing
one. The Canadian authorities estimate
the total number in that region ut three
hundred. wv. Il. Hornaday, in st.
Nicholas.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-08-24
THE AMERICAN BISON.
Only Two Hundred Wild Buffalocs stiu
Alive In the United States.


Alive In the United States.
In wild state, the American bison,
or buffalo, is practically, though not
quite wholly, extinct. AT the present
moment there are about 200 wild buff
faloes alive and on foot in the United
States. To obtain these high figures
we include the $50 individuals that the
white head hunters and red meat hunt
ers have thus far left alive in the yell
lowstonc park, where the buffaloes are
fondly supposed to be protected from
slaughter. Besides these, there are
only two other punches; one of about 20
head in Lost park, Col, protected by
state laws, and another, con-
tanning between 30 and 40 head, in Val
Verde county, Tex, between DEVILS
river and the Rio Grandc.
Four years ago there were over 300
head in the Yellowstone park, thriving
and increasing quite satisfactorily.
Through them we fondly hoped the
species would yet be saved from abso-
lnto extinction. But, alas! we were
reckoning without the poachers. Con-
gress provides pay for just one solitary
scout to guard i'll winter 1919 square
miles of rugged mountain country
against the horde of lawless white
men and Indians who surround the
park on all sides, eager to kill the last
buffalo! The poachers have been hard
at work, and as result our park herd
has recently decreased more than one
half in number. 1t is brutal, burn
ing shame that formerly, through lack
of congressional law adequately to pun
ish such poachcrs as the wretch who
was actually caught red-handcd in
January, 1894, while skinNing seven
dead buffaloes! and now, through lack
of u paltry s1,s00 II year to pay four
more scouts, the park buffaloes are all
doomed TO certain and speedy destruc-
ton.
Besides the places mentioned, there
Is only one other spot in all North
America that contains wild buffaloes.
Immediately southwestward Of Great
Slave lake there lies vast wilderness
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-08-24
HOUSES IN TREES.
Travellers Have Seen Them In All Por-
lions OF the Earth.

Travellers Have Seen Them In All Por-
lions OF tho Earth.
Not many years ago the custom Of
building houses in the branches of
trees was n common one among many
of the savage peoples Of the Pacific
islands, but latterly the custom has
become less general. Tree houses have
also been seen by travellers in three
districts Of Africa-by Nachtigal, near
the Shari river in the Soudan; by
Greenfell, on the Mobangi, and by
Wolf, on the Lomami.
The natives whom Nachtigal and
Grccnfell saw in their little houses,
perchcd high up among the branches,
appear to use these elevated struc-
lures only as places Of refuge in time
mani, discovered trce-dwellers who
prefer to live always among tho
branches, out of the easy reach of their
enemies and of the freshets that fire.
quently inundate their lands.
We have heard more of the tree
jewellers in Borneo than of those in
any other part OF the world. But
these buildings are also found in con-
siderable numbers in New Guinea and
the Solomon islands.
Some tribes there have long been in
the habit of building houses fifty or
sixty feet from the ground. When their
lookouts report the approach of tho
enemy in their rowboats the danger
signal is communicated by peculiar
cry. Then the women and children
climb into the tree-houses by means of
rough ladders, and watch, safe from
harm, the conflict which ensues.
Firearms are responsible for the
abandonment of these tree-houses for
ground dwellings. It is against the
law to sell firearms to these Pacific saw
ages, but in one way or another they
are able to secure considerable guam
tity. When they are used the natives
find the perches Intellectual refugees
for the women and children against
guns and rifles. The poor creatures
prefer to take their chances of being
shot on the ground, and so the practice
of building tree-huts has come to DO
abandoned. Golden Days.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-08-24
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
BRIDES TROUBLES.

Oh. dear, am nearly distracted to-day,
My family worries me so;
For sweet Angelina, my very best doll.
Has Quarreled with BENJAMIN Joe
Poor Margaret Mabel has torn her best dress
And Jane has cracked three OF her toes;
Jemima has hurt her right arm and been
scalped.
And Daisy has broken her nosa
Then Eleanor Rose has got sore mouth,
Just while she was learning to talk;
Dear Bessie has lost both shoes and her hat:
a And so can't take her to walk.
The twins, Jack and jill, have got such bad
cold.
And Elsie has measles; and
Have sent for the doctor. who hasn't come yet,
And fear they will certainly die.
My kitty has scratched; my mammals asleep;
can't find my slate when look;
My tea-sct is broken and sister is cross,
And Johnny has hidden my book.
II papa was here he would sing me song.
Or tell me n story. know,
And II he would ride me downstairs on his
back
believe oil my troubles would 60
do feel so bad; do you spose It's my nervesi
And do you know what will relievc'
But there; heard somebody open the door;
It's papa-I really believe!
Presbyterian Journal
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-08-24
Humming Birds and Flowers.

1t has long been known that insects
assist plants by carrying the fertilizing
pollen from flower to flower, but the fact
has only recently been prominently
brought forward that humming birds
IRE just rs effective distributors Of pol
len us insects are. 1t has been shown
that these little birds, which are as
fond as bees of the honey of flowers,
carry the pollen grains in great guam
tity, not only on their feathers but on
their long bills also. Indeed, so well
suited is the humming bird to do this
work of distribution, without any in
tention of it's own, that the question
has been raised whether 1t may not be
the most bencficent of all the uncon-
scious friends that the flowers have in
the animal world.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-08-24
The OLD STRAW Hal.


knocked 1t from the chimney shelf,
With stroke OF careless hand
The prototype OF that brave self,
Time-tried, toil-solled and tanned.
Its narrow brim and sunken crown
Are touched with oil the grace
That glowed beneath It In the brown
or fathers honest face.
Harsh edges OF the autumn corn
Have sawed its ragged brim,
Until IN every line forlorn
read field-told hymn.
1t brought me berries from the patch,
Picked by his plow-worn hands:
White stores OF eggs from rick and thatch,
Treasures from field and sands
Each year he called it's service done,
But when the bluebirds came
He said they would not find the sun
And flowers OF spring the same
II mover moved about the yard
The old familiar hat:
They'd miss II from the orchard sward
Beside him where he sat;
And as hear their plaintive note
From out the sour-bough tree.
l catch from every warbler's throat
strain OF sympathy.
What like these strands, tathed in the dew
And bronzed by summer skies.
Beneath l see that face so true,
Those patient, honest eyes,
Forrest Crlssey, in Chicago Post
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-08-24
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

-Bulwer-Lytton almost adored his
mother. In "What viii lie Do with
It?" he alludes to her MS natures low
ing proxy. the watchful mother"
Marquis de Maha Yotha, the Siam
ese minister accredited to the United
States, has been recalled. lie has never
been In Washington. having transacted
his business with the state department
from London. to which he is also ac-
credited, by mail. -
Sarah Bernhardt says: "If am in
a crowd Of people and dog or cat is
near 1t will come naturally to me with
ment. Why this is the case can not
say, unless there is developed in me
another sense, the existence of which
animals at once perceive
Mrs. Mary Jean Bradford, of Bos-
ton, left will in which she showed
her love for n favorite parrot. One
clause reads thus: 81 give "a. 900 in
trust to G. II. Pierce, to be invested in
good mortgage or mortgages, and the
income thereof to be paid to the person
who may take care of my poll-parrot."
"A funny young man IN Milledge-
vile Ga, rugged himself up as ghost,
and in the midnight gloom visited the
house of neighbor, to brighten him,
and have a laugh at his expense. The
ghost interrupted burglar at his
work, and the burglar turned the
laugh against the ghost by robbing
him of his watch and twenty dollars.
The word prevaricator is from the
Latin, and originally meant st;ad-
dler with distorted or misshapen legs.
In the Roman courts of law the ex-
suit was discovered to be in collision
with his opponent to compass some dis
honesty. AS falsehood was the neces-
sary part of such performance, the
word by and by came to have the
significance at present attached to it.
Mile Pauline de Grandpre proba-
bly, knows more of the prison life of
French women than anyone else in
France. She lived in the ST. Lazare
prison as the housckeeper of her uncle,
who was chaplain there during the
empire. In the twenty-five years that
have elapsed since he died she has de-
Nobco htIoii W NlSltlhb
prisoners and obtaining situations for
them when they have undergone their
sentences.
An enthusiastic admirer of Victor
Hugo has made collection of all the
black and white and colored portraits
of the poet that he could find. Alto
gether they number nearly 1000, of
which about $500 are caricatures and
cartoons. The collector, NJ. Beuve, has
also gathered together with infinite
pains innumerable pipes, canes, tobac-
co jars, bottles, scarf pins, handker-
chiefs, even cakes Of soap, on which
the head of the poet appears.
DR.. Emma Johnson Lucas, who has
been appointed health commissioner of
Peoria, H., is tho first woman in that
city to hold any public Office. The
medical men of Peoria, as well as the
Women's club, strongly Endorsed her
candidacy. Mrs. Lucas is a native of
Peoria, where she has been practicing
medicine for about n year She stands
high I'M the profession and has built up
a good practice. She is the daughter
of one physician and the widow of an
other
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-08-24
HAD A RuBBER BAND IN Ills HAND.

close that the pelican grew quite tame
and few days ago it swan up to take
piece of bread from the hand of a
small boy on the bank.
The youngster had rubber band in
his hand. This he slipped over the big
birds bill.
The pelican at once felt something
decidedly unusual had happened. Ha
tried to shake the band off.
The band didn't move; then the bird
opened it's bill, but as it gave it's head
an impatient shake the muscles re-
Taxed. ''Snap," the rubber band got
in its work and the mandibles came to-
gether with noise like the slapping of
Stats.
The big bird looked surprised. It's
round eyes were focused on its bill,
which it again essayed to open.
But the rubber band, being near the
end, had too great leverage and the
mandibles could be separated but four
orfivc inches, only to audibly snap to-
gethcr.
A most amusing struggle ensucd. Tho
birds bill opened, only to snap shut.
Each time the pelican was more sur
prised than before.
1t tried to rub the band off on its
back. Then it stuck it's bill under
water and in the mud. Still the band
stuck.
Then the unhappy fowl made for the
land.
AS it walked, it lifted it's big, broad
feet unnaturally high, and after going
short distance brought its right foot
down on it's left. Then it couldn't pick
the left foot up.
The ungainly bird, with it's big bill
stuck heavenward, teetcred for awhile
and then lost its balance and fell over.
This released the foot, and the peli-
scan started for the water, where it con-
tinued to struggle with the tenacious
band while the crowd fairly shrieked
it's applause.-San Francisco Call.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-08-24
HUMOROUS.
Constitution.
Dicks big man In the nation
DOM lots an lots BLOWN;
Jerry's plowin' the plantation

Makes enough 10 keep DICK golnl ...
Atlanta Constitution.
Mr.. Wheeler-''Why, yes, Mr..
Wheeler-even the beans go through
course of Browning before they
come to the table. p. & $. $. Co. Bull
letin.
-"Papa!" "What is it, Jonny?' II
read poem in my school reader which
spoke of dogs of high degree "Well?"
Papa, does that mean skye tcrriers?'
Pittsburgh Chronicle.
--"Mamma?" "Well?" "You licked
me last week for whaling Jinsnie
Watts, and papa licked me yesterday
cause Johnny Phelps walloped me. :"
"Wcll?" 'T'm wondering whatll hap
pen some time when it's draw
Chicago Record.
-"What kind of reptile is that?"
she asked, pointing to silver coil
with ruby eyes in the jewelry store.
II think it's garter snake" he re-
piled. And she didn't ask any more
questions for five minutes. -Philadel-
phia Record.
-"Did You hear about the burglar
who was arrested this morning?"
mo! What for?" well, suppose it
must have been for breaking into song,
for l hear that he had got through two
bars when some one hit him with a
stavc. Chicago Tribune,
-"And now" shouted the exhorter,
"what is to be done, when man is
rushing hcadlong with lightning speed
along the road to destruction
Deacon Jones (between snores)--"Re-
duce-size o. yer-sprocleet! She's too
high gear!'-Cleveland Plaindcaler.
tin the court of appeals in Dublin
not so very long ago." says the Lamp,
counsel, while arguing with earnest
ness in his cause, stated point
which the bench ruled against him.
We'll, said he, If it please the court,
IL l am wrong in this, have yet an
other point that is equally as con.
elusive"
objectionable Obliviousness. The
Little Viscount to baroness dc W
"You wouldn't believe. how absent.
minded / am, baroness! 1t Is difficult to
imagine how anyone can be so thought
lessv' What have you done this time?'
81 had bought you bag OF sweets, and
while coming along" "You lost
thcm?" mo, ate them. La Cloche.
Laura" said the young lady's
mother, not unkindly ''it seems to me
that you had the gas turned rather low
last evening" 1T was solely for
economy, mamma" the maiden an
swered "Thcre is no use trying to
beat the gas company, my daughter.
have noticed that the shutting of Of
the gas Is always followed by corre-
spending increase OF pressure"
"Weil, that lessons the waist, doesn't
IL, mamma. dear?" replied the artless
girl Scimitar.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-08-24
Good story from tho south.

According to q southern corrcspon-
dent, great, gaunt, colored man
entered the express Office in n small
town and asked IL there had been any
thing received for George Washington
The clerk gave him a knowing look,
and said, sharply: "What game are you
trying to work on me? Washington
died long ago." This is q companion to
the story of the congressman who be-
gan an address by saying: AS Daniel
Webster says in his great dictionary"
ut was Noah who wrote the diction-
ary," whispered member ut the next
desk. 'Noah?' replied the speaker,
contemptuously. "Nonscnsei Noah
built the arli"
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-08-24
DoIIy's Feat.

A little girl was overheard talking to
her doll, whose arm had come off, ex-
posing the sawdust stuffing: "You
dear, good, obcdient dolly, 1 knew ]
told you to chew your food fine, but ]
didn't think that you would chew IL %
fne as that.--Home and Country.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-08-24
A BAD BOYS PRANK.
How He Made n Big Pelican Struggle
with q Rubber Band.

with Rubber Band.
Several hundred people were intense
ly amused at the queer antics of the
usually dignified pelican who swims
around in Stow lake at Golden Gate
park.
OF course, a small boy was at the bot
tom of it, and the bird is undoubtedly
still wondering how 1t all happened.
The pelican's enormous bill with its
membranous sack has made the bird
an object of more than ordinary in
terest to visitors.
So much bread was thrown TO 1t for
the sake of seeing the big bill open and
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-08-24

The Pharisees mentioned in the
New Testament took their name from
the Hebrew word meaning separated.
They were SO called because they con-
sidered themselves better than the
other people Of that time and separated
themselves from them
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-24
DYSPEPSIA THE CHIEF CAUSE OF
CONSUMPTION.
FACTS WITH WHICH FEW ARE
FAMILIAR.

Dyspepsia or ordinary indigestion is sell
dom regarded as a dangerous disease, yet
doctors now realize that any disturbance
of the digestive function is but a stepping
stone to the most dangerous and fatal of
all diseases-dread consumption.
This appears very clear when we consider
that consumption, as the name implies, is
but consuming of the body's substance.
Weakness and emaciation naturally re-
suit.
The body of a person who does not prop
erly digest food undergoes wasting, and
you may safely assume that every pale,
properly digesting and absorbing food. In
other words, the substance of the body is
being consumed and when the cough puts
in an appearance they will be regarded
as cOnSumptiveS.
The symptoms Of consumption and those
arising from certain forms of Indigestion
are practical identical Therefore don't
despair even if you think your lungs may
be affected First try to repair your stom-
by very harmless though very ingenious
remedy-the Shaker Digestive Cordial.
This product, prepared by the Shakers
of Mount Lebanon, aids the digestion of
food in the stomach and when food is
once digested, IT is quickly absorbed
If you are dyspeptic, don't wait until
some more dangerous disease has appear
ed. Correct the trouble at once.
A single 10 cent bottle Of the Shaker Dr.
gestive Cordial will be sufficient to con-
vince you Of its merit, and its continued
use is almost certain 20 effect a cure. All
druggists keep 1t and can supply you with
an Interesting descriptive pamphlet.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-24
LOCAL Personal.

Mr.. r. H. Mcdowell Of Atlanta is stop
ping at the DeSotO-
Mr. q. l.. Thompson Of Atlanta is regis
tered at the DeSotO.
". c. Brantley. Esq. Of Brunswick, is
registered at the DeSoto-
Mr.. r. ". Saussy Of New York VIII
spend the holidays in the city.
Miss Kate Brigham was a passenger on
the City Of Augusta from New York last
night.
DR.. J. G. farrell left the city last night
for Gainesville TO spend the holidays with
his family.
Z. r. Mcclellan. Esq. left yesterday
for North Carolina, 10 spend the Christ
mas holidays.
Mr. William strachan returned from
New York yesterday, to spend the holioays
in Savannah
Cant. John Reilly left last night for At
lanta, where he viii spend several days
seeing the sights.
Miss Mabel Strachan returned home
from school in Waterbury. Conn, last
night on the city Of Augusta, 10 spend
the holidays.
Master Joseph Elton Kelly has returned
from ST. Mary's College at Belmont, n
G., 10 spend the holidays with his rather,
Mr.. Lawrence Kelly.
Mr.. Peyton Douglas Of Atlanta, secretary
and general manager Of the Manufacturers
Mutual Insurance Company, has been IN
the city several days on business.
Mr. William c. WOOdfn, deputy clerk
of the city court, returned yesterday from
Reynolds, where he had been 10 attend the
funeral Of his father, Prof. William G.
Woocfin.
Mr.. William Spears, the veteran gar
dener, has sent the Morning News a
bunch Of magnificent celery grown on his
farm on the ThunderbOlt road. 1t is equal
10 the best that is raised anywhere.
Mr.. James Hunter is suffering from a
broken wrist, sustained by a fall through
an elevator opening in the Provident build
ing. The fail was fortunately a short
one. or il might have resulted more seri-
ousiy.
Capt. o. NJ. Gordon Of Camilla, president
of the Flint Railroad Steamboat Com
pany. and leading naval stores man Of
Southwest Georgia, is in the city. Capt.
Gordon is one of the stanchest men OF
his section of the state.
Mr. George S. McAlpin of New York
arrived here yesterday TO spend the hol-
idays. Mr. McAlpsn is rapidly forging to
the front as one of the most popular and
successful writers of insurance in the
metropolis. He is also keeping up his
reputation as a crack shot and has divided
several prizes with Mr.. Hoey. the cham
pion shot among the gentlemen sports
men of the world.