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Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-04-21
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The Newichawanick Cos blanket
mills at Great Works. n. H., started
on full time. Monday. after a shutdown
of eight weeks. They were damas sec
by the recent flood. $1,000
The river Etchemin in Quebec has
rverilowed its banks and great mum
ber of bridges have been carried away
The whole Chaudiere valley is flooded
Everybody moving to higher ground
The damage is reported as enormous
everywhere. The unusual quantity oi
snow which fell during the winter. Is
now melting rapidly and the streams
cannot afford an outlet to the iinmens,
volume of water.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-04-21
Lake champIain Open to Navigation.

Burlington, VT, April 2o.-The ice
has cleared from Lake Champlain dur
ing the past As hours, three days earlier
than last year, and navigation was re-
sumed. today. The lake is higher, to-
day. than for 20 years and has over
flowed docks and flooded some cellars.
The rivers emptyins into Chmaplain
have reached their highest point and
have begun receding.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-04-21
Chicago Produce Market.

Chicago. April 90
FLOUR-Dull. steady.
WHEAT-No. 2 spring, 64AM65N: No.
red. s7aM69A.
CORN-No. 2. 297k@30.
OATS-No. 2. 19M@197s.
RYE-No. 2. 311a.
BARLEY-No. 9. 36M3S.
FLAXSEED-NO. l. MY.
PORK-S. S.506fS. S.
sLARD-4.S7lsGI4.?
Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-04-21
National League Standing.
Other Games.

At Observation-Disclosures, 20: Tufts, 1.
At Worcester-Brown. I: Holy Cross. &.
= A. Fall River-Providence. I; Fall
River, 5.
At New Bedford-New Bedford, !;
Scranton, l.
AT N'wton, Mass.-Harvarl. ); New
ten A. A.. 8.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-04-21
Mckinley viii Claim Them.

Houston. Texas. April 20.-The RE
form or Lilly White" Republicans
held their state convention here, today,
and selected delegates to the ST Louis
convention. They were not instructed
Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-04-21
UNITED STATES BONDS.
STOCKS. GRAIN. COTTON.
INVESTMENT SECURITIES.

Securities bought for cash and certifi-
Gates delivered or carried on margin Of
from to ) per cent.
MARKET LETTERS were originally
sent ont by Brokers to keep clients post
cd who could not watch the fluctuations.
For some time. however, letters have
been sent out merely as an advertise
snent and by always looking at the
rosy side of things 10 induce buying.
II you want the opinion of one who
MAKES CAREFUL STUDY of the
MARKET. who Keeps UP to date in
news. who knows that predominance
of buyers or sellers rules prices and who
will tell you 10 sell as well as to buy,
SEND FOR OUR LETTER. Our CIR
CCLAR suggesting how to avoid losses
is also well worth reading.
OUR FACILITIES for dealing in all
kinds of securities cannot possibly be ex-
celed. They include AMPLE CAPITAL.
he LARGEST and FINEST OFFICES
in NEW YORK, and every possible attri-
butte that could contribute to the success
Of an investor or operator.
Boston Office.
w. II. ALBERTSON & CO. Is State st.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-04-21

Frances vintage for 1895, is 500 40. iiS
gallons, the smallest for several years
but OF tirst-rate quality.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-04-21
Financial.
T. e. WARD & Co.,

Bankers 1873 Broadway. New York.
Deposits Received. Check Books Fur
nished. INTEREST ALLOWED. Loans
Made on Listed Stocks and Bonds.
Dealers in
Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-04-21
MARKET REPORTS.


New York. April 20.
Money. easy
Prime mercantile paper, 5izq6.
Governments steady.
H. l.. 1.x.y.
Smyrna times., 1896-01-15
Delaware Railroad Colts FOrty.fOurtb
Annual Meeting.

The 44th annual meeting of rbe
stockholders of the Delaware Railroad
Company was held at Dover Thursday
The following directors were elected
Tor the ensuing year: f. Tatnall
Warner, Wilmington, President; John
T. Green, Philadelphia; Henry D.
Welsh, Philadelphia; George GRAY.
Wilmington; William T. Porter. vii
mlngton; George V. Massey, of Dover:
John IL. HOffecker, Smyrna; Manlove
Hayes, Dover; Alex. johnson. Farm
lngton; Charles J. Harrington. Farm
lngton; Thomas Curry, Greenwood;
James j. Ross, Seaford, and William
L. Records, Laurel. Manlove Haves
was reelected secretary and treasurer.
The annual dinner was served at Hotel
Richardson.
The annual statement of the com
pany shows earnings for the wear as
follows: From passengers, S345, 1856. 43:
from freights, 1884, 719. "a; from mails.
express, &c, 1928. 8S: total gross
earnings, 81, ,259, 1895. The operating
expenses were $3.50, 682. 52; interest on
equipment, $22, ,949 63; total, 1858, ,632,-
10. The net earnings were S4O5, ,497. 50.
from which deduct interest on bonds
paid and accrued, 800, 200; dividends
paid and accrued, S157, ,471.44; taxes
S4,695.96; total, $191, ,367.4O; surplus,
1914, l3O.4O. The result for 1895, com
pared with the previous year, shows an
increase IN passenger receipts of So
S4@.5O; freight, $50, 121 "a; mails, ex-
press and rents, $12, 93O 40; total in
crease, $1O3, ,S9454.
Smyrna times., 1896-01-15
FLORIDA.
PersOnally-COnducted Tours via Penusyl.
Vania Railroad.

1t would be hard to find anv condi-
tlOn OF human ailment that a winter
visit to Florida would fail to improve.
while those who enjoy good health
cannot realize, without experience.
what true enjoyment there is in life
passed under the golden skies of the
Land of Flowers
In order to give the public ano ppOr-
tunlty to visit Florida at a very reason
able cost, the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company has arranged for a series of
tours to Jacksonville. Since the svs-
tenn OF persOnally-conducted tours in
augurated by that company has been
IN effect, none but words of commep-
datiOn have been received. It's unex-
celled train service, experienced tourist
agents and chaperons, and above all,
It's moderate charges, leaving nothing
to be desired.
The tours to Jacksonville, allowing
two weeks stay in Florida, will leave
New York and Philadelphia on January
%, February 4, IL, 1S, and 25. and
March 3, 1896. The rate, including
transportation, meals en- route. and
Pullman berth on special train, $50. 90
from New York, and S4S. 90 from Phil
adelphia; prOpOrtiOnate rates from
other points.
-. For further information apply to
1lcket Agents, or address Tourist
Agent, 1896 Broadway, New York, or
Room All, Broad Street Station. Phila-
delphla, to whom application for space
should also be made,
Smyrna times., 1896-01-15
Highest of all in Leavenng Power-Latest u Govt Repor
R>:a!aII. q. Bs%asgE BBskiRg
ABSOLUTELY PURE
ABSOLUTELY PURE

will have to be governed by the Gin
spiratiOn" in this. L was told that one
could not get the underground meal
up North, so had my husband ship a
twenty-fve-pOund sack home from At
lanta, much against his will.
[ will know better thenext time. He
happened to mention the matter to Mr..
Lea, president of the Lea's mills in this
city, and now [ suppose I'll never hear
the last of it. ''Why," said Mr.. Lea,
"we ship thousands of tons of our
cOarse-grOund corn meal to the South
every year, and they put it in their own
bags and sell it for underground meal.
You are probably using LEAFS meal and
found no difference, and my husband
declares 1 was simply the victim of
Southern hospitality. After week in
Atlanta, however, one gets used to that
sort of thing. H. L. L.
Mrs. Saran T. Rorer gives the fol-
lowing recipes for corn bread, made
of LEAFS meal:
Hot corn bread. .-Scald as before di-
rected, one quart meal, add to it while
hot large tablespoonful of butter.
Beat without separating, two eggs.
Dissolve one teaspoonful of soda in two
tablespOonfuls of warm water, then add
it to one pint of sour milk or butter
milk; add to meal, beat; add first,
yolks, then whites of eggs, one tea
spoonful salt, and bake in shallow pans
forty minutes. (Good).-
Southern rice bread. Beat three
eggs, without separating, add to them
one and half pints of of milk, one tea
spoonful of salt, then one pint of white
Indian meal, one tablespoonful of but
ter melted, one cup of cold boiled rice.
Beat all well together, add two tea
spoonfuls of baking powder. Mix, and
bake in CREASED round shallow pans
thirty minutes. Serve hot
Louisiana corn bread. One and a
half cups of corn meal, one and a half
cups of corn flour, half cup of sugar,
two teaspoOnspOonfuls of baking pow
der, one-half teaspOOnful salt, two eggs,
one tablespoonful of butter. Sweet
milk to make thin batter. Bake in
shallow pan thirty minutes. (Virden
Club. Excellent.
Smyrna times., 1896-01-15
UP-TO-DATE JOURNALISM.
Ihe Preparations Of a Great Newspaper to
Report International Events.

The most important news centers of
the world to-day are Cuba, where the
revolution is steadily gaining ground;
Venezuela, where preparations are be-
ing made to sturdily resist British ag-
gresslon; London, where the British
views with reference to the Venezuelan
and South African disputes will first
come to light, and Washington, where
the Venezuelan Commission will begin
its work and where Congress is wrest-
ling with subjects of vital interest to
all classes of the American people.
In order to get the news from these
great eenters promptly and accurately
the Philadelphia Press has established
Julian Ralph in London; has started
Col. George NOx Mccain, of Governor
Hastings staff, to Venezuela; has To-
Gated William +. Mannix in Cuba and
has strengthened its corps of special
Washington correspondents. Every
phase of events which will probably
prove the most exciting of this decade
Will be fully reported and graphically
illustrated. The Press is admittedly
the leading newspaper of Pennsylvania
and one of the greatest of the national
newspapers of the country, In this
enterprise it leads all competitors.
Smyrna times., 1896-01-15
CORN PONE.
Southern Corn or Egg Bread A vii.
mingtOn HOusekeeper Tells How to
Make II.

No doubt many Wilningtonians had
the satisfaction of eating the old-fash-
loned corn bread, while attending the
Atlanta Exposition. They certainly
did If they had the good fortune to find
resting place iii one OF the numerous
boarding houses kept by the old-time
Southern people. There are very few
Northern housekeepets who know how
to make this bread. Almost any cook
can bake a corn pone, as it is called,
but it does not taste like "Aunt Dinah's
Egg Bread" of Georgia, and it was TO
gain this information that lady reader
OF the Morning Ne1OS while attending
the exposition, made a friend of her
clearinghouse keeper by praising her
table, and expressing a desire to visit
her kitchen while the dinner was being
prepared, in order that she might be
given a lesson by the old colored
"Aunty, who reigned supreme in her
domain. The knowledge thus gained
will no doubt prove interesting reading
to lady readers of the Moraiag Ne,Os,
To the Editor Of the Morning Neps,
Sgl II affords me great pleasure to
comply with your request and relate
my experience in baking the Southern
Egg Bread, "but like myself, my friends
will find at first, that something has
been left out. / tried 1t before leaving
Atlanta, and failed misererably, al
though followed "Auntie's" directions
implicitly. 1t did not look right. and
1t did not taste right, and / was dis
couraged, but my instructor simply
took piece of it in her hand tasted Of
II gingerly, and remarked: "It's all
right, honey" But / replied. 81
must have left something out" Yes. .
she said earnestly. you've left ont
the inspiration" / have tried II sew.
eral times, since my return, and / find
'Aunty' was right, / am now able to
give my bread the 'inspiration" or
something else born of experience
There is something in the touch or
mixing that comes after about the third
trial, and / have found it. The recipe
is as follows;
One quart of corn meal. more or less;
three to five eggs beat the white and
the yolks repeatedly one-half teaspoon
iul Of salt, one-half teaspconful OF bak-
ing soda, and enough butter milk 10
make a good batter, not too thick. Put
IN q piece Of butter the size Of walnut
and bake in a slow oye6
I might add that the more eggs and
After used, the r Gher the bread. You
Smyrna times., 1896-01-15
SHIPPING CORN MEAL TO ENGLAND.
William Lea and Sons Company Making an
Effort to Ship Corn Products to
Europe.

The steamship Mohawk which sailed
from New York for Liverpool on Sat
urday, carried as part of her cargo a
ton of granulated white corn meal
shipped by the William Lea and Sons
Company, of Wilmington, to the Hon.
G. j. Murphy, who for several years
has been labOring to introduce Ameri-
can corn products into Europe. The
meal shipped on Saturday will be dis
tributed under the personal direction
of Mr.. Murphy among the twenty-four
cooking schools connected with the
London public school system, and
among the charitable institutions of
the same city. The cooking schools
will make reports of their work with
the meal.
Mr.. Murphy has for several years
been labOring to introduce corn pro-
ducts into various European countries.
He has given his timeto the work both
as United States Commissioner for
that purpose and as q private individ-
ual. In Germany some time ago he
succeeded in having corn meal used as
food for the German army. 1t was
mixed with rye -four and made excell-
ent bread. Whether the Germans will
finally adopt that as the bread for the
army remains to be seen. It gave gen
eral satisfaction while used. In Eng
land and Scotland Mr. Murphy has
made successful experiments, and is
gradually making way to introduce
corn meal into Europe. In Europe
the only corn product known is corn
starch, or as they call it, corn flour.
This will not, of coure, serve the same
purpose as corn meal. The difference
between the two is one of the things
which Europeans must learn, what is
wanted for food is not corn flour, but
good corn meal.
Mr.. Murphy believes that there will
some day be a great market for corn
meal in Germany. It furnishes
cheap, wholesome food, which is ex-
actly what is needed there. When this
Is accomplished there will be a market
for the corn which America raises and |
no more of it will be burned for fuel.
The work of introducing corn meal
into Europe is but-little more difficult
than in the northern part of the United
State. The Northern people do not
seem to appreciate like the Southern
people the value of corn as food. In
the South it is appreciated and is used
extensively, Northern people seem
against corn products, but
that is gradually wearing out, and
sometime the corn products will be
staple article of food
Corn raised in the United States is
admitted to be better than corn raised
anywhere else. For this reason, if the
markets of Europe can be opened to
corn meal the American article will be
able to outstrip all others in the race
for trade.
Wilmingtonians have every reason
to be interested in the matter, because
much Of the corn meal which has been
used in these experiments in Europe
has been sent from this city. In the ,
people in this country might
also try corn meal as q food, Moming
Ne,oS,
Smyrna times., 1896-01-15

Say. why don't you try DeWitts Little Rsr,v
hisers These little pills cure headache. indf-
gesllon and constipation. They're small but do
the work. Clifton Raymond
Smyrna times., 1896-01-15
FEW TAXES FROM TURKS.

The necessary funds cannot be OBJ
tanned from the Turkish population.
In the first place, the Turk is lazy,
thrlftless and, naturally, poor. Sec
Ondly, the Ottoman Turks have con-
sidered themselves for 500 years the
natural lords of the lands. They never
paid theirssfair proportion of taxes, even
IN prosperous times. In some districts
they have been practically exempt from
taxation. Military service has been
their sole contribution to the glory of
the Ottoman throne. The expenses of
the Government have been paid by the
Christian subjects of the Porte. Now,
If the Government attempts to collect
its taxes from the Turkish population.
IN view of the impoverishment of the
Armenians, it will find itself obliged to
deal with open rebellion. Devotion to
the House of Osman is not carried
among the Mahometans to the point of
submitting to taxation. The peasantrv
is armed, accustomed to war and is al
ready disaffected. Moreover, no troops
that the Sultan could put in the field
would act against the native Turkish
speaking Mahometan population. The
Turkish villagers who have been SC
enthusiastically raiding Armenian vii
lagos consider it quite another affair
when Turks are to be raided. 1t is
certain that rather than submit to tax
alton sufficient to support the Govern
ment, the Moslems would fight or take
to the mountains.
Smyrna times., 1896-01-15

The new year has come with its usual
train of Introductory features. Among
these there is none more familiar to
mankind in general than the receipt of
a collection of little 'billet-doux" with
the request ''please remit, " beautifully
subscribed on the sheet. The inter.
esting missives, about this time of the
year, are as plentiful as valentines on
the fourteenth Of February. Perhaps
it would be we'll to state to the public
that these little reminders are not sent
out as matters of conventional form.
Oh! no. Nor is it the Intention of the
sender to have recipients conclude that
they are novel schemes of advertising.
On the contrary, they are Of q solemn,
serious tenor,
Smyrna times., 1896-01-15
SOWING THE WIND.
Turkeys Armenian Wickedness Sure
to End in Disaster.

Constantinople is tranquil again.
For week no disquieting rumOrs have
troubled even the most nervous. The
gunbOats of the Powers have taken up
their positions in the Bosphorus, where
their defiant flags may be plainly seen
from Yildiz Kiosk.
It will be remembered that after the
demonstration of Monday, September
80, in the city, several hundred Armen-
ians took refuge in the churches both
in Pera and in Kum-Kapou and con-
sented to come forth only on personal
guarantee of safety from the three
Ambassadors of England, Russia and
France. These Armenians received
promise of immunity from punishment
on the honor of the Sultan, witnessed
by the three Ambassadors. AS a pro-
lection against the Turkish police, the
refugees received cards signed by the
dragomans of the different embassies,
guaranteeing their safety Two months
passed, and recently the agents of the
secret police have been extraordinarily
busy. Armenians have been arrested
by scores in the city. The cards of the
Ambassadors have been torn to pieces
and spit upon, and the unfortunate
holders dragged to the great prison.
The doors of that prison clang behind
them and their friends know nothing
more. The Government says they
have been sent ''to their country" to
keep them from doing harm; but their
relatives look no further. They know
at night, while Constantinople sleeps,
a gang of prisoners is marched silently
from the great prison in Stamboul to
the Bosphorus, and is there embarked
on Turkish steamer. But the cOun-
try to which those poor creatures are
to behold is the country from which no
traveller ever returns. By sword, by
famine, by fire, by water, the road is
short.
Naturally the Sultan is to-day the
most complacent man in the Empire.
Now that the strain has been removed,
he is in the best of humor. The mem
bers of the diplomatic body find him
agreeable, affable, disposed to chat on
all topics, and ready to listen with
hattering cOndecension to whatever
they propose, so long as the execution
of the plan of reform is left to himself.
He is again in the best of health, and
with apparent good reason considers
that the crisis of his reign has been
successfully passed. The Turkish Gov
ernment has massacred 10000 Armen-
ians with perfect immunity, in defiance
of all Europe, has frightened many
thousand Christians into a profession
of Islam, and has thus made the un-
welcome reforms Of no avail. One
cannot but contrast the Sultan of to-
day with the Sultan of six weeks ago
when he was represented by common
gossip to be half-mad between regret
for the past and fear for the future.
To-day he smiles and salutes the world
with confidence.
Smyrna times., 1896-01-15
THE wHIRLwIND TO COME.

Nevertheless, in spite of the momen-
tary triumph, the Turkish Government
has sOwed the wind, and, unless his
tory is proved false, it shall reap the
whirlwind. In its thirst for revenge it
has failed to reflect upon the conse-
quence that must follow the impover-
ishment of the Armenian population.
For centuries the Armenians have been
the most industrious of all the people
that inhabit the Turkish Empire.
They are frugal, hard working and
thrifty, and are endowed with an apti-
tude for business that has made them
the rivals of the Jews in the East.
Twenty years ago the largest and rich
est banking and mercantile houses in
COnstantinople were in the hands of the
Armenians. In the interior of Asia
Minor and in Erzeroum, Sivas. Har-
poot and other cities practically all the
business is conducted by Armenians,
or rather, was until two months ago.
In the country districts they have been
farmers and shepherds from the days
of the mythical Halk. Both in city
and country they had adquired con
siderable wealth, in spite of the exact
ions of the Turkish tax collector.
But by the work of devastation that
began October 90 at Trebizond and has
since then continued INCREASINGLY, this
Armenian population in six great prov
inces has been utterly yruined-reduced
to absolute beggary. Bankers and
merchants in Ezreroum and Trebizond
who a few months ago were paying
taxes on thousands of pounds of prop
erty are to-day begging for bread at
the doors of the American missionaries
From men so utterly ruined not even
the lash and tOrtures of Turkish pub
hcan can wiring taxes. According to
the best estimates obtainable, several
hundred thousand Armenians have
been thus impoverished. They have
been robbed not only of their stock,
DuI every means OF obtaining q liveli-
hood in the future has been taken away.
Thus reduced to starvation, thous-
ands have taken to fight. The steam
ers which touch at Trebizond have
conveyed at least three thousand from
that port, free of charge, to the friendly
asylum Of Batoum. From the vilayet
Of Van a constant stream of pillaged,
starving, halfspaked Wretches is cross.
ing the frontier to find refuge under
the empire of the Gar In short, it is
beyond dispute that the devastation
policy of the Government has resulted
In the expatriation of thousands of the
most industrious wealth-producers of
the empire, to say nothing of the
thousands who have died by the sword
and by famine.
Smyrna times., 1896-01-15
A WEAPON FOR RUSSIA.

We're the Turkish authorities less in
fatuated with their policy, they would
observe the inevitable result of this
line Of conduct. Primarily, they are
placing in the hands Of Russia fearful
weapon. For when the day Of revenge
comes and the Russian eagle descends
from the peaks of the Caucasus. the
Armenian refugees win be the bitterest
enemies of Turkey.
But danger much more imminent
than a possible war threatens Turkey
at present. National bankruptcy stares
the empire in the face. The disorders
IN Asia Minor have, of course, ,paralized
trade, Business between CONSTANT
nople and the interior is at standstill
No merchant dares to buy with the
prospect Of having his shop piIlaeed At
any moment. Consequently the mer-
chants Of Constantinople who have in
deed, escaped being plundered are
now almost ruined by the depressio,n