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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-12

The supreme council of the American
Protective Association began its annual
meeting at Washington, Tuesday. The
reports will show that during the year
about 312 lodges have been established
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-12
Greek Troops AIreafy Leaving Crete.

Canea, Crete. May 1.-THE Greek
troops are already leaving Crete on
board three Greek steamers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-12
Fall River Print Market.

Fall River Mass. May II.
Print cloths quiet at 7-16 cents; some
demand. but mills not disposed to sell at
this price.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-12

New y ork, May II.
Money on call easy at 1hHt1l2 per cent.
Prime mercantile paper SIZ@4 per cent.
Sterling exchange easier. with actual
business in bankers bills at AS1AN$iS1la
for demand and siS6i4 mSiS6i2 for GO
days: posted rates. $lS76sLS3izHStSSis
mA.S9; commercial bills. $LS5AG$iS5l2.
Bar silver. CO.'S.
Mexican dollars. AIS.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-12

For bronchitis. asthma or kindred
troubles of the throat or lungs. take Dr
Woods Norway Pine Syrup. househoid
mw&f&wky
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-12

When you buy a proprietary article.
look at 1t before the salesman wraps it
up. and assure yourself that you are get
ting the right thing. Substitution is ram
pant.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-12

Examine the labels and trademarks OIL
proprietary articles. limitations are com
mon, and in some cases the difference
between them and the genuine Is 50
slight as to escape careless observation;
Beware of dishonest shopkcepers ana
statesmen
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-12

The House continued the legislative
day of yesterday when it met, today,
day took up the subject of forest reser-
vations. Underwood, Dem, of Ala
bama, spoke briefly and was followed
by Ellis, Rep, of Oregon, both of whom
advocated the restoration of reserva-
tions made by President Cleveland. to
the people.
CASTLE, Pop, of Cal, proposed an
amendment by which any settler whose
lands might be included in forest re-
servation might apply for an appraisal
of his lands to the secretary of the in
terror: the secretary, to include the
amount of the appraisal in the estima-
ton for his department if the settler
accepted the appraisal within six
months.
Cannon, Rep, H.. deplored the prac
tice of including general legislation in
appropriation bills.
Hartman, Silver-Rep.. Mont. declared
that by the reservation order 1900
citizens CT South Dakota had been de
prived of the right to maintain sch6ei
districts or municipal governments. lie
wanted the order annulled absolutely.
Lacey remarked that Hartman as
sumed that President Mckinley would
repeal the mistakes Of President Cleve-
land.
Il don't think there is any man on
the face of the earth such a blundcr-
head that he could make one-thou-
saadth part of the mistakes made ly
President Cleveland" retorted Hart
man. q did not support President Nc
kinley but. thank God, he is an Ameri-
can President ana the first one we have
had in four years"
Az amendment offered by Shafroth
CT Colorado, to enable the President to
include any of the lands in the reserva-
tions in future reservations With proper
protection to the settlers, was lost.
Lacey withdrew the amendment pro-
posed by him. yesterday. Other pend
ing amendments were withdrawn, and
the House voted 100 to SO, to non con
cur in the Senate amendment, with the
understanding that instructions be
made to the conferees later.
The Senate amendment providing
that the mineral land commissioner
be appointed by the President, with the
advice and consent of the Senate" was
ppDOsEu ny iJt-ii, 4hOs W l4b
asserted that its only effect was "a
take the officials ont of the classified
service. He tainted the Republicans
with repudiating their platform declar-
ations in favor of civil service reform
Cannon replied that such officials
could best be selected by the President.
Only clerical positions in his opinion,
should be included in the classified
service and those who sought to in
clude ether positions desired to break
down the system.
"In view of this assault on the civil
service law" Dockery concluded, Il
call on the chairman of the civil service
reform (Mr. Brosius) to give the views
of his party" Brosius did not respond.
1t was commended by Lacey that the
IL commissioners We're Democrats, APP
pointed by Mr. Cleveland, who en-
deavored by his order to continue them
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-12

The retail dealer who advartisas eve
asiMays give Just what You ask for, and
NJ UP 70 his promise, is certain of 4
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-01-20

and n regular cavalcade enters the
camp, under the superintendent of
"De Boss van de Plaats"-the master
of the farm. They split up into par
ties OF two each, and start or in diff
ferent directions to drive up the birds
from the remote spots to which they
have wandered. Warfare, OF course,
is freely INDUCED in. 1t Is immsteri-
al to an ostrich IL there be one or fifty
against him, he fights just as merrily.
There exists traveller 8 tale at home
that, as soon as an ostrich catches
sight Of a human being, he turns tell
and bolts in an opposite direction 10
hide his head in tho sand. Another
fallacy, equally devoid Of foundation,
is the belief that the female leaves her
eggs in the sand to be hatched out IN
! the sun. This is not so. The male
and female sit alternately for forty
four days: the male at night, the
female during the daytime. As an
article of food an ostrich egg is, to my
taste, the most nauseous of dishes, and
far more suitable ms an effective weapon
in Chinese and political warfare than
to grace n breakfast table.
From all one had heard previous to
becoming oneselfan owner of ostriches,
the actual pluckine of the birds is very
uuirteresting and disappointing. The
birds are all huddled together in n
kraal--when every bird becomes as
meek as lamb-and are caught one
by one; a bag or stocking is placed
over the head and neck, while two ex-
perienced natives clip the feathers.
During winter the birds must be at
tended to and carefully watched, as
sometimes the weather is very in
element for weeks together the ther.
mometer often registering ten degrees
of frost-and birds are apt to fall of
in condition. If q bird once begin:
to sink in condition, the greatest diff.
ficnlty is experienced in getting hin
right again, and often no amount oi
extra feeding will pull him through. =
Strand Magazine.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-01-20
Tomb Of the First Harrison.

The tomb OF General William Henry
Harrison near North Bend, on the
Ohio River, is soon to be remodelea.
the cost OF the improvement is esti-
mated ut $4,000 and only Indiana
marble is to be used. The old tom6,
which was built in the latter part Of
the fortios, has for some years beep
the subject of much comment. IL y
on the crest of beautiful knoll COM
manding a view of the lordy Ohio and
the blue Kentucky hills beyond. Ma
ture has invested the spot with romentic
charms, aud when the tomb is com
pleted it will add fresh element Of
interest to the scene. Atlanta Consti-
tuition.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-01-20
AN OSTRICH CAMP.
ONE OF SOUTH AFRICA'S lit
TLE-KNOwN INDUSTRIES.
Rearing the Ungainly Birds For
Their beautiful Feathcrs-Thcy
Arc quite Savage Mt Times
Clipping an Ostrich.
TTHE rearing of ostriches for

he rearing oil Ostr1cnes 1Or
the sake OF their beautiful
feathers is nn industry OF
which little is known. An
attempt has lately been made to i'm
port the birds into the United States
Tor breeding purposes, but it has not
get seriously interfered with the In
dusiry in South Africa, where the os-
trich is at home.
Let me give you some sort OF nm
iden of the country IN which the
ostrich lives. 1t is country unlike
any other on the globe. The general
character is fiat and sandy, relieved
only by long, low, rocky sierrns.
These mountain ranges are the saliva
iion of the landscape. Their craggy
outlines are carved into q thousand
abrupt and striking forms, their heads
pre constantly haunted by low lying
clouds of vnpor, which the contend.
ing sun and wind draw together and
dispprsc. Their sides are followed
into ravines, or "kloofs," and painted
by the clear distance into perfect
argosy of changing hines. The APP
parently pnrched and sandy flats are
covered by different varieties of
dwarf bush. which are nibbled at by
the sheep.
A dry and arid prospect, and it is
hard to conceive every inch OF ii is
loaded below with vegetable life ready
TO shoot after the rains OF spring into
wealth of verdant grasses. Here and
there dotted about on these flats can
be seen the white buildings nest
| ling among the trees an oasis in the
desert. in fnct. These green spots can
be seen for miles away, with the white
washed buildings glittering in the sun.
Foliage is only to be seen around the
homesteads and occasionally Mt an iso.
! lated fountain. The yeldt all round is
cheerless and naked, without SO much
ns n rug of vegetation to cover it, and
the eye hungers for tree; the bones
or stones stick painfully ont, sight
for the geologist, not the artist.
| You arrive at the homestead, n
square, red.brick building, with a
sigh of relief, and glad to be out Of
the binding glare and sandy plain.
| vi iNflN Nuiit
sights meet the eye. On the one side
of the house stand the kraals; ON the
other, the shed and wagon-house. In
front stands the dam, adjoining the
vegetable garden aud lands, with far.
ther away the camp. Behind tn,
house are the chat. house, tramp-door,
and butchers shop. where the natives
are rationed. In the camp run the
large stock, cattle, ostrches, and
horses; and on the flats and noun
tains the sheep and goats.
A well fenced and secure inclosure is q
luxury in the colony, and is only tc
be met with on the wealthier farms
the owners of which can afford to keeI
them in repair, and to place them il
stock of the more expensive kinds
Every ostrich farmer has his camp
which varies in size considerably
from 5000 to 5000 acres, and in ii h,
keeps his 800 or 500 birds, as well NJ
few cattle and horses. A camp u
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-01-20
Projects Of a Queer Genius.

Colonel d. W. Hughes is queer
genius who lives in Audrain County.
Missouri. He has invented many con
trivances Of one sort or another in the
course OF his wandering career, the
most important OF which is corn.
planting machine. Out OF this he
made considerable money, but his
hopes of fortune are now founded on
an instrument which, by means OF X
rays, perhaps, will not only reveal the
culinary value OF egg. but also the
gender Of their embryonic occupants.
Both these things. the colonel says,
his invention will do with speed and
certainty, and ho expects to sell one
of the new machines to every raiser OF
poultry and every dealer in eggs in
the country.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-01-20

tinuous sitting OF the birds on the one
spot. One pair of birds will lay from
ten TO twenty eggs; but, ns is often
the case, three or four birds will 10y
in the one nest, thus making the num-
Der of eggs up to seventy or eighty.
These, of course, have to be weeded
ont, as bird cannot comfortably cover
more than sixteen eggs, the remainder
being thrown on one side and left to
decay.
Forty.four days is the recognized
time to allow for Matching. When a
nest is hatched out the family are
taken out of the camp, and brought to
the homestead to be tanned, where they
come in continual contact with the
farm hands. and are housed at night
out of the reach OF wild animals. Dur.
ing the winter they will do we'll, but
in winter, when food becomes
scarcer. must be fed morning and
evening on barley or rape.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-01-20

always selected as being the best piece
of grazing ground on the farm, and
capable OF holding more stock in pro-
portion than any other part of the
farm. Here the bird remain year in
and year out, and are only collected
and brought together, on the average,
once every four months.
These occasions are, let us say, in
June, to pluck prime feathers. BY
these We mean the long whites, num-
bering from eighteen to twenty in each
wing, eight or nine fancy feathers,
and few long blacks, all taken at the
same time. Four months later the
stumps of these feathers gre drawn
out, and two months later again that
is, six months after the primes-the
short blacks and tail feathers are
taken. OF these il is impossible to
give any accurate number. Az rnle,
you pluck as many as possible with
out inhicting pain on the bird, and at
the same time leaving enough to keep
out the cold.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-01-20

II is during the breeding season that
the male becomes SO savage, and his
note of defiance" "brooming," as the
Dutch call it is heard night and day.
The bird initiates his neck in q cobra
like fashion and gives utteranco to
three deep roars. The first two are
short, but the third very prolonged.
Lion-hunt ers oil agree in asserting
that the roar of the king of beasts and
the most foolish OF birds resemble one
another almost exactly. When the
birds are properly savage they become
great source of amusement-or, as
some think, OF danger. Certainly, to
be overtaken all on a sudden without
time for preparation by cheeky bird
is ono OF the greatest ils flesh is heir
to, and might result disastrously to
the uninitiated; but old hands are al
ways all there on M emergency.
Undoubtedly the best weapon--bar-
ring wire fence--is q good stout
stick or blunt pitchfork. As q
rule, il bird means to have your life
or die in the attempt, he charges from
about thirty yards, when you receive
him at the bayonet's point. He rushes
at you with flashing eye, looking the
very embodiment OF fury. Drawing
himself up to height of ten feet or
more, with wings outstretched and
kissing like cobra, he makes four or
five strikes. You retreat pace or
two, SO as to avoid the fork piercing
through his neck, and hold him off at
arms length till he learns that his
efforts are useless. Drawing the fork
sharply away, you strike him blow
on the neck, rendering him insensible
and taking away his breath. This
quiets him for q while, till he RECEIVERS
from his bewilderment and makes q
fresh charge, when the fork is again
presented.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-01-20
The Labor World.

Mexico has women street cleaners.
Samuel Gompers was born In London.
In Mexico miners get fifty cents day.
Detroit (AIich.) servant girls wal organize.
Organization has increased wages in Japan.
Some New York gold beaters got $3.50 a
week.
Michigan vehicle makers average sl.soJf
q day.
Washington City has union OF colored
bottlers.
In four years there has not been y labor
organization that has not lost members ex-
cept the cigarmakers.
English coal miners will demand ten per
cent. advance.
There are over 1000 enrolled members of
the new American Longshoremen's Union.
The International Union OF Ship Dock and
River Workers has a membership OF $50 900.
The Kansas City (Mo. Council has ordered
the eight-hour day to be introduced In city
work.
Minneapolis (Minn.) walters have inaugu-
rated series OF opeI social AMI educational
meetings.
The last day OF the past year saw over
1901 900 wage earners out OF work Ia New
York City.
The Building Trndes Council oiClevelsnd.
Ohio, has decided to demand an elghl-hour
day Tor all trades connected with that organ.
izstion ON and after April 1.
An eight-hour agitation meeting OF gigan'
tic proportions Is to be held IN Boston or
Washington's Birthday.
There are over 10, 900 brass workers In Now
York City, and fully one-half OF them wer,
idle the greater part OF tho last year.
The Detroit Railway employees hav,
adopted o ruls that In future promotion
must DO made on the basis Of ago In th'
,uservice.
10Th among rho nHtive soldiers and tn
HIas OF the State railways In lndii
ipsubordtnation. II reported. AM
ntlway strike has been began
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-01-20

An ostrich, like most other animals,
in its wild state is terribly afraid OF
man or Of any unfamiliar sight, and
fees at the appearance of anything
new to its ken. When domesticated
1t becomes docile, and after time
assumes position of authority and
becomes master of the situation.
From June up to September, or, in
fact. till Christmas, thousands OF
chicks are reared every year, and
thousands meet with death every year
from some form Of accident. Chicks
mp to twelve months old die from
various maladies. but seldom after
they are tull grown are they the vic.
Tins OF any sickness. death usually
resulting from = broken leg. killed
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-01-20
I have seen a bird so savage as to
AN OSTRICH FARM IN CAPE COLONY.

I have seen q bird SO savage as to
charge seven times in fifteen minutes,
twice receiving the prougs OF the fork
through his neck. On horseback one
is even more obnoxious to an ostrich
than on foot, but, SO long rs the horse
is not afraid and will stand up to the
bird, there is no fear of an accident.
AS he charges take care to have your
horse we'll in hand, and as the bird
makes his first strike, catch him by
the neck and hold ON for all you're
worth, till the bird becomes exhausted
from want OF breath and falls.
The female bird is seldom vicious.
When she has nest or brood oi
young chicks one must be prepared.
but her manner Of charging ana whole
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-01-20
Cost of War.

According to the estimate. of Ger.
man and French statisticians the wars
of the last forty years have cost the
Nations engaged in them, in money
alone, the almost inconceivable sum
OF S13, 900, 10000 or this amount
France has paid nearly SO, 900, 900. 600
as the cost Of her war with Prussia.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-01-20
KEYSTONE STATE NEWS CONDENSED.
JUDGE MILLER'S LIBEL SUIT.
Editor Robbins, Of areenville, Held for
Trial.

A. II. Robbins, editor OF the Greenvillc
Independent, weekly paper, who is under
arrest for criminal libel against Samuel II.
Miller, judge of Mercer county, was given n
hearing The alleged libelous article ap-
pcared in the issue of October 2S, 1896, and
read to the effect that Z. J. Mcfarland. who
was then under indictment, had attempted
to bribe the judge by presenting him with u
blooded calf The evidence was heard be-
fore Squire Loutzenhiser, who bound the
defendant over to count under SGO0 bail.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-01-20
q foot long

Each head has apparently separate
will. The heads fight each other.
They must be fed with milk, raw r9en'
and blood at one time, or there is wa
Often the two heads are friendly and
play with each other. The little
monstrosity has much strength for its
age and size. Its owner keeps it in q
glass case. 1t likes the warmth of the
sun, but holds the light in horror
New York World.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-01-20

fighting, or from scarcity Of food in
times OF drought.
The nest of the ostrich is n very
crude affair, consisting simply OF a
round hollow carved out in the sandy
ground. Sometimes the female bird
may be seen scratching in the ground
preparatory to laying her first egg !;
but this is not often the case, the hol-
low generally being made by the con-
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-01-20

demeanor is very mild affair com.
pared to the males
Collecting bir DIS for plucking is al
ways a great day on the farm. Orders
are given overnight to the Kaifirs and
Hottentots to catch every available
riding horse and have them saddled up
and ready next morning at sunrise.
This is done, and every "boy" on the
farm who can find horse is mounted,
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-01-20
CYCLING NOTES.

Winter bicycle riders are comparatively
few.
Bicycle polo is game much encouraged
ey repairers.
The French Government purposes to test
shainless bicycles in military service.
Many riders are now figuring on the 1897
exchange value OF 1896 nineteea-dollar
wheels.
or $4,000 nnrlications for patents in Eng.
tand during 1896 more than one-third were
'or Improvements in bicycles.
Philadelphia recently voted $lf0, 900 for
park improvements. and OF that amount
$4,000 will be expended for cycle paths.
The statistical crank has turned his atten-
tion TO tho bicycle and says there are a.
e00, 900 wheels in actual use in tho world.
Certain Wisconsin counties are experl-
menting with free mail delivery among tho
farmers, with tho postmaa mounted on q
bicycle.
1t has been rsma,lsed that tire makers
nave succeeded in educating bicycle riders
mp to the idea that road tires should differ
from track tires in size and weight.
1t Is said that much quiet work has been
dom by manufacturers In the attempt to
mud out what the special requirements in BIZ
Cycles are In various parts OF the country.
England gives employ nent to 80 900 per.
sons In her bicycle factories. The number
OF whee.s made last year amounts to 250, 900.
and the capital invested In this industry Is
e65 .000, 900.
Bicycle bells to be attached to the end OF
the pedal pin are new. They permit the
xidey to ring his bell without removing his
hands from the handles or leave one hand
1see for carrying anything.
Tho Park Board OF Baltimore has prohibit.
tod the use By cyclars OF bells larger than
three inches IN diameter. The suppositlon
had evidently been raised that the bells were
IN danger OF swelling out TO ths size OF Dire
engine gong.
unique av ,npeement for riding on the
zee was seen In an Eastern city the othee day.
Tue rider hal lifted skates on the front wheel
Of the machine, and mad fast ensd some small
spikes on the rim OF .he rear wheel, which.
acting like crseper-, ma 10 the wheel capable
OF very high speed. The arrangement was
rough AMI only temporary, but the idea 10
good and mtghs easily bS considerably ime
0ruved pop.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-01-20

The Queen of England's descend
ants either now occupy or will in due
course sit upon seven thrones, namely,
those of the British Empire, the Rus
sian Empire, tho German Empire, the
Kingdom of Greece, the Duchy OF
Saxe.Coburg and Gotha, the Grand
Duchy OF Hesse and the Duchy Of
Saxe.Meiningen.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-01-20
Income of Chinese Gardeners.

Some Chinese gardeners tell with
apparent truthfulness OF making $1,000
year apiece out of their business.
Vegetables in five and ten cent lots
seems small business, but it counts in
the course of year. There are ten
or dozen wagons making regular
trips into Tulare. and they gather up
a good deal of coin.-Tulare Cal
Register.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-01-20
A Freak That Fights With Itself.

A two-headed snake, hog-nosed--
Heterodon Simus-has come fSom
Central America into the possession of
+. O. Fischer. 1t is four months old.
OF brownish green color, and not yet
q foot long.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-01-20

The g.oss debts of Boston at the end
Of No"emhGS 1896, footed up to S69,-
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-01-20

~ Brittsh, the Canadian and Australian
governmental recommends the laying OF an
eoeAn cable from Vancouver 20 Australia By
~ I'D Of Joint subsidies. The cable will cost
$4,000 900, and will bs ready for use, It II
1peeeed. n two yesrs. branch uhs Will
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-01-20

H. the Midland Railway will
the important railway magnae Ia the Southwest Mr. Green's
engineering
power The Midland Mr.
and Galveston will
United
100000 40 ocNoou H. Green her
oulys son.,
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1897-01-20

Rev. II. Leighton Gearhart has resigned
the pastorate OF the Reformed church OF
Bellefonte. Christmas evening, after de-
liyering a talk at an entertainment for the
sunday school, the pa tor, with his two
daughters and son, attended select dance
given IN the armory. The congregation ut
once put In circulation petition calling for
their pastors resignation, but the latter
handed in his resignation voluntarily.