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Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-06-13
ABUNDANCE OF WATER
In Moosehead 100. 900 900 Feet Of
Logs Will Come Down River.

The treasurer of the Kennebec Log
Driving Company, Mr.. S. w. Philbrick OF
Skowhegan. says that it is expected that
there will be about 100000 900 feet of logs
to come down the Kennebec river this
season. There are now 200 men at work
all along the river pushing the logs
along.
one can't look out on the river with
out seeing masses of the logs passing
down, and things are getting along very
satisfactorily. MIR. Philbrck says that
this years drive is in the neghborhood
of being 1870 900 feet short of last years.
The prospect of water. is much brighter
than it was at the same time last year,
and 10 such difficulty is anticipated as
there was then. Although the river it
self is about the same as it was a
year ago. the lakes at the source are
much higher, Moosehead being very full
The Augusta City Hospital Corpora
ton met, last evening, in the city gov.
ernment rooms. and discussed themat-
ter of hospital at some length. The
meeting was adjourned to tomorrow
evening at o'clock, sharp.
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A Reporter Living MastOdon.

In conversation with gentleman,
formerly of Denver, who came out this
fall with a party Of miners, we learned
that the existence Of living mastodons
near the headwaters of the White River
was not the mere fabrication of the
northern furriers. but that the Stick
Indians had positively zold him that not
later than five years ago such animals
had been seen by them. One of the
Indians said that while hunting one
day in that unknown section, he came
across an immense track, sunk to a
depth of several inches in the moss,
and from the description as the Indian
marked it out to him in the sand it
much resembled an elephants track,
and was larger around than a barrel.
Upon striking it the Indian followed
up this curious trail, which to all ap-
pearances was very fresh, and tracking
from one immense stride to the other
for distance of some miles, he came
in full view of his game. And what
game! The hunter gave one look, then
turned and fed as though pursued by
the evil one
These Indians as a class are the
pldNcSI VI HuHlcIS, diu Will IlO ClueT
weapon than the spear will attack and
slay the ST. Elias grizzly. But the i'm
mense proportions Of this new kind of
game both startled and filled the hun
ter, brave as he was. with great fear,
and he imagined his only safety lay in
swift and immediate flight. He de-
scribed it as being larger than Har-
per's 0he post trader's) store, with
great shining yellowish tusks and a
mouth large enough to swallow him at
The record-union., 1896-11-27
GENIUS AS CAPITAL.

Alfred c.. Harmsworth Of England
enjoys the distinction Of being more
times journalist than any man living.
He is not yet 80 years Of age, and has
been In the business only eight years,
but he Is now the proprietor of eigh-
teen periodicals, four of them being
dajlfes, two of which are London dali
les. In eight years he has from this
business amassed a handsome fortune,
and with his three brothers whom he
has taken into the business is at the
head Of corporation with $4,000 900
capital stock Of which he and his
brothers hold a controlling interest.
This corporation owns all the period
icals except the two London dailies,
and these he reserves to his private ac-
count and management. He appears to
genius for the management of jour
nails that is phenomenal and is success
full in all 1t touches.
A remarkable thing about Harms
NpTlD - lat idcl that LS SptA0s put
three days a week In his business Office
All the rest of the week he stays at
his Kentish home, which is related to
all the paper offices, all the telegraphic
offices, and all the leading cities of
the United Kingdom by telephone lines,
which he uses with freedom few men
indulge in.
Can this man be called a monopolist?
What he has is the due result of his
genius. The properties he owns he Gre
ated Their growth and strength are
due to his managerial ability, and with
which he has been invested, appar-
emily, by nature, since he is too young
to have acquired 1t by experience.
VIII it be argued that this man has
crowded any others out of opportunity,
since the same opportunities were open
to all before he came upon the stage
of action. and have been while he has
been building? Will it be contended
that this man has not alone produced.
but that the results we have recited
fjow from the labor he employed, and
that therefore it Is not in receipt OF Its
due and just share of reward, because
il has no property interest in the
khlngs crsAtsd2 surelx hns 1or ds
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OF THE EUROPEAN
POWERS.

The London Standard is supposed
to reflect English official opinion. 1t
has so frequently hit the nail on the
head that its utterances have come to
be considered that Of an oracle. It now
declares that European concert against
the Turk is hopelessly broken down, be-
cause of ''the mean motives and jeal-
ousies of the Powers
This is really no news, since it has
been the common criticism for years
that the jealousy of the Powers alone
has prevented the Sultan being forced
to inaugurate and carry out reforms.
But it has not, we believe, been before
announced or confessed from even
semi official source. The STANDARD"
unwilling to bring down the wrath of
all England upon it, hedges enough to
say that so far as Great Britain is con-
cerned there is only disinterestedness,
and that the Queen is ready to act re-
gardless of any other considerations
than those of justice, if the European
Powers will join with her.
This sounds in the same strain with
the expression of Lord Salisbury last
summer, when he declared in response
to any inquiry upon the floor Of the
Commons that England has not the
physical ability to engage in the task of
reducing the Turk to decency. But, as
the standard" indicates, England
would gladly leave the whole business
to Germany, Russia and France. This
is adroit, for the standard" knows, as
does all the world, that these three
Powers will not operate in concert. and
that Russia first conserves her own in
terests, no matter who suffers, and that
France will do nothing in the premises
that the Car wishes left undone. In
the meantime Russia is placing Eng
land under obligations by subscribing
literally for the famine relief fund for
India
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genius and managerial skill, which was
the capital brought into the business,
the labor employed would not have en-
joyed the opportunity to earn as Harms
worth has enabled it to do.
Yet as the radical socialistic idea is
understood, the workers upon these
eighteen journals ought to share m
the property developed. Their wage
has not been sufficient reward, and the
share of the creditor OF the business is
too large, because he only planned
while others worked. But who shall
he appointed to measure the value Of
planning and executive ability? Where
will be found the rule by which
TO determine how large a part Of the
result of the skill of the manager and
creator shall go to those who labor
under it?
Without the labor of hand and brain
by many workers he could not have
built UP his eighteen periodicals and
made them properties of great value
with a good will to each, intangible,
but worth money and capable cf trans
fer On the other hand, without the
genius of the creator of the enterprise,
without his direction and care taking,
without his assumption Of the risks
involved, what would labor have done?
Would it have produced as much and
well; would it have built up and es-
tablished such an industry? The in
cident serves at once to expose the
tallacy of the argument Of the ex-
tremists, and to demonstrate the in
Independence Of labor and capital,
be it genius or money.
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Admonished by the Court.

The venerable Judge Allen of the
United States Circuit Court at Spring
field. ILL.,, was hearing a case few
years ago, in which James c. Courtney
was one of the attorneys. The counsel
On the opposite side had asked a ques-
ton of witness, and Courtney had
objected. The point was argued by
both sides, and the objection was
overruled. The opposite lawyer asked
the same question of the next witness,
and Courtney again objected and be-
gan to argue 1t over again. Judge
Allen interrupted him with this obser-
walton: Mr.. Courtney, you remind me
of dog that keeps barking UP the
tree after the coon is gone" Mr..
Courtney subsided.--Argonaut.
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Played 1t Low Down on Him.

THAT scoundrel in the hat above Is
footing another cornet."
Mr.. Btckers was excessively angry.
Il paid him $50 for the measly ;nstru-
ment he had been playing OH
Mr.. Bickers scowling at the ceiling
for the express purpose of putting
a stop to the confounded racket; but he
must have used part of the money to
buy another instrument, which is quite
as big a nuisance as the one which tor
tured us so long
mo; he did not buy another instru-
ment"
Mr.. Bickers looked at his wife as she
made this statement, and waited for
her to proceed, but as she seemed to be
waiting for her husband to say some
thing, he asked:
Some one made him a present,
suppose?"
NO; he sent down this morning and
borrowed the one you bought from
him. "-Harper's Bazaar.
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CLIMATE OF MOROCCO.
A Summer Paradise-Never Too
Warm or Too Cold.

August in Morocco" certainly does
not sound inviting from the point Of
view of temperature. Ritchie, if l mis-
take moi, is quoted by Alexander Won
Humboldt as having found tempera-
ture near Nourzouk Of 13o degrees
Fahrenheit in the shade, and Du Chail-
lu, in western equatorial Africa, records
even more than this. says Tangler let
ter to an exchange. We had ourselves
prepared for a possible 1O5 degrees to
no degrees, even without the assistance
of the sfrocco, as August is really the
hottest month Of the year. Can one con-
ceive a greater surprise-and disap-
pointment, if you choose-to find, on
landing at Tangier, on the 18th Of that
month, a temperature of only 20 de-
grees? But so it was, the highest regis
try of the mercury for that day being
72-13 degrees, very nearly 25 degrees
less than it was at New York on the day
Of our departure, ten days earlier. To
what extent this absolutely low tenn
perature was exceptional I am hardly
IN a position to say, but If official me-
teorological records are of value 1t
would seem that the mercury rarely II
ever rises to 80 degrees and generally
falls short of 81 degrees. During a
period of fourteen years l believe the
mercury but once rose to S6 degrees.
Tangier, so far as temperature is con-
cerned, may thus be said to be a sum-
mer paradise-less warm in extreme
heat than Jefferson, in the White Noun
tains.
He who has not felt the balmy zeph-
yrs Of the Mediterranean blowing land
ward does not know what it is to be in
toxicated by sea breeze. From early
in the morning until late at night a
steady stream Of ocean atmosphere
swept through the town, bending to the
wind the ragged and deeply signing
leaves of the few date-palms that are
here and there scattered about. In our
journey into the interior we found the
temperature somewhat higher, but yet
low in comparison with our own summer
heat. The highest marking that we OBJ
served in a weeks time was Cat the
| fondak, somewhat more than half way
| between Tangier and Tetuan), IS de-
grees, and 104 degrees in the sun, which
was is no way oppressive. In the same
night, with the mercury down to 6S
| degrees, OR even less, blanketing be-
came a pleasant exercise on the roofs
| of Tetuan, whittier we had climbed to
pass the night. A night on the open
| field three days later was more than
chilly, despite blanket and an assisting
coat Thus we are taught to unlearn
our notions of things. and no school so
rapidly accomplishes this end as travel
| iAn
The record-union., 1896-11-27

Prince Hilkoff is member Of one OF
the oldest and proudest families in
Russia. In 1861 the family was ruined
financially by the emancipation Of q
100000 serfs. The young Prince, see
ing the needs of railroads in Russia,
came to America with his young wife,
under the name of John Magill, entering
a Philadelphia locomotive shop as la
boring man at 81 day. BY his pluck
and brains he was rapidly promoted
and became thoroughly acquainted with
American railways. He went home.
raised the family fortune to its former
exalted level, and is himself the Impe-
rial Minister Of Ways of Communica-
ton to Car Nicholas H., and the great
est railroad man in all Europe besides.
He paid his first visit to America in
1877
The record-union., 1896-11-27

THE story Of the air-ship has awak-
ened latent Californian talent in fic-
ton of the Munchausen type, and those
who like that kind of literature can
now revel in it," says the Stockton en-
dependent" Like everything else Cali
fornian, the thing has been run to the
extreme. We are not so very gullible in
this State, but we do dearly love the
mysterious and marvellous. This air.
ship business has fully demonstrated
that
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PROTECTION SENTIMENT IN ENG
LAND.

The home of John Bright, Rochdale in
the birthplace and home of free trade
sentiment. Around that place the free
trade idea has always crystallized. Now
comes great surprise. This same town
has just made the most emphatic and
remarkable protection utterance ever
heard in the United Kingdom. The Con-
servative Associations have held a
meeting there, in which the Rochdale
people took active part, and declared in
the most emphatic terms in favor of
shilling duty on foreign wheat, provis-
ion for state granaries to provide
against scarcity, and in favor of COM
mercial federation of the Empire on the
basis of preference for colonial imports.
Now the Conservatives are in power in
England, having a great majority, and
therefore this expression might mean
reversal of English policy that would
create a great sensation in the world.
Against this possibility is the fact that
the expression is unofficial, and is but
the utterance of private opinion. But
such opinion in a free land, when COM
ing from men of the majority party,
may crystalline into law.
a few years ago, says the New York
POSTS" correspondent, when these
same Conservatives preached protection
doctrines, Lord Salisbury said that if it
were attempted to make such expression
effective the result would be civil war.
Mr.. Balfour in addressing the Conser-
vative convocation at Rochdale the
other day, ignored the resolutions entire
ly, and few days later at Sheffield,
protectionist community, preached free
trade principles, remarking with
laugh that all the world except England
and the Turk is against free trade. The
correspondent referred to, who has al
ways proved himself prescient, says
that really the protection outcry is only
a vote-catohing device, and that just
1t not for grain importations from
America, and hence it is absurd to think
for moment that the leaders in Eng
lish politics will carry any protection
theory or propositions into Parliament.
Realizing this, it is added, the Tory
party will lend it's energies to carrying
protection by a series Of side winds. The
exclusion of cattle from foreign parts
on the pretext Of danger from disease,
was really a measure in that direction,
and at the next session of Parliament
til y hope to carry a measure that will
put a protection wall arodnd Rhodesia
to keep out American, German and all
other foreign imports.
All this is true, but we cannot resist
the thought that If protection doctrine
is capable of such use now In the EN-
pire, it may take a hold upon the Eng
lish mind eventually that will work
great modification of the old time free
trade sentiment Of that country.
The record-union., 1896-11-27

The German military men in their
anger at the people who dare to COM
ment upon the Brusewitz incident, are
now threatening that If the newspapers
do not shut up and the people close
their mouths, the military power will
employ force against such influences.
The Minister of War has now openly
stated in the Reichstag that the utter
ances Of the press on the Brusewitz
case have compelled him to send to
proper quarters whole series of COM
plants against civilians for insulting
the army. If the press continues in
have to reckon with the silent, but ever
growing evaporation of the army" So,
then, the people are threatened With
the army if they do not pay it that ex-
treme formal reverence that demands
the life of the dirty dog of a citizen"
who happens to brush against the coat
of a soldier. Military evaporation is
scowling thing to conjure with, but
there is something more dreaded-the
wrath of people who have their eyes
open. Emperor William and his ollie
tante officers Of the army are doing
more than the socialists themselves to
further the march Of the doctrine OF
political equality. And, by the way,
how comes it that the army should be
so frequently insulted, as the Minister
says it is? What is the matter in
Germany that civilians should be led
to express dislike for that in which we
have been told heretofore they took
such pride?
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a single gulp He said the animal was
undoubtedly the same as were the huge
bones scattered over that sction. II
such an animal is now in existence, and
other Indians, and also Mr.. Harper,
have confirmed the report. they inhab;t
a section of very high altitude and one
but rarely visited by human beings,
and these only Indians. We also have
no reason to doubt the Indians tale,
for at no very distant period the Yukon
country was inhabited by these ami
mails, and hundreds of their massive
skeletons found strewn along the creeks
are the silent but truthful Witnesses
Ala ska News
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Certainly ii is time for a radical
pouring money into that rathole too
long. The State needs good roads, and
the people are expending enough
money TO have them. Henceforth some
return for the constant outlay should
be visible.-Fresno Republican.
Very true; but 1t viii not be remedied
by simply amending road laws so long
as construction and maintenance are
political jobs. or are, even with best
intentions, committed to the unskilled.
When we resolve to build a house we
call in carpenter. one who knows the
trade Of carpentry. When we build
roads We intrust the work to men who
have no other qualification than that
they have been chosen to fill political
offices. Have we any reason to expect
good results? We certainly want sys-
tem-we have none now-but We want
also capacity TO administer the system.
To disabuse the public mind Of the
idea that because a man is elected Su-
pervisor he is therefore a competent
and economical road builder Is the first
task. Until that is done It will make
no difference whether we have this,
that or the other system of road laws.
The record-union., 1896-11-27
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two in different parts of this county.
The offer ought to be accepted. There
is reason to believe that soils in this
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results. AS yet the acreage in this
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At Sweet Sixteen.

Mamma-What do you and Jack talk
about all evening?
May-Oh, everything.
Mamma-What, for instance?
May-Love.
Mamma-What else?
May--Why, nothing else. OF course.
Love Is everything.-Truth.
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PRINCE HILKOFF.
A Russian Sent by the Gar to Study
American RAILWAYS.

Prince Hilkoff, a great Russian, with
most romantic history. has recently
been a guest OF the United States. He
came on a special mission from the
Czar, this being to further study Amer
lean RAILWAYS
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old In One Day

To Cure a Cold In Ono Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money IL 1t
fails to cure. 20c.
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The Vallejo Chronicle" says: I'm
der a Republican administration of ma
tional affairs the beet sugar industry
of the United States will be built UP
and the s100,00000o annually sent
abroad for the one article of sugar will
be kept at home and paid to Ameri-
can laborers. California viii get a
big share of the business"
That depends upon what experiment
In several sections where the culture OF
the sugar beet has not been attempted
this city has made very liberal offer
to cid farmers who WILL AxperimAnA
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Il don't care how much you talk
said Mrs. Tiff, In the course Of joint
debate with her husband, "for am de-
termined to have the last word.''
I am perfectly willing for you to
have the last word," replied Mr.. Tiff.
"All I ask is that you have it soon."-
Harper's; Bazaar.
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The balance of Lesser Bros stock Of
fine clothing at so cents on the dollar
to-day and tomorrow at THE Model"
corner Sixth and X.
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