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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-28

Henry Sturg.s returned upon Wednes-
day nights Pullman, after business
trip up over the Somerset Railroad.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-28

Miss Mabel LOvejoy of the health de-
partment made a business trip to Wa
terville, Wednesday,.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-28

Walter H. Nelson, Maine Central tel
egraph operator at Ola Town. was III
the city, Wednesday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-28

A. w. Whitney returned, last eve
ming, from Burnham, where ne was
called by the death of his grandmother.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-28

w. H. Gannett returned from Bos
ton, Wednesday evening.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-28

Miss Sybil Howe. of the bank exam
iner's department, returned home from
Boston, Wednesday evening.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-28

II. Z. Merrill, H. H. Witherell and
e. J. Littlefield of Monmouth. were in
the city, Wednesday, upon business.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-28
GARDINER.

| Umpire and referee Hewins and Mon
roe. Linesmen, Dill and Murphy. Timers.
owen and Harrison. Touchdowns-Nash,
| 6: Sawtelle, 2. Goals-Russell. 5. Halves,
| 20 and Is minutes. Score, AZ to 0.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-28

Miss Julia Folsom visited friends in
Waterville, Wednesday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-28

The first London directory was printed
in 1870. 1t contained only o4 pases' WIN
the names of 1890 persons.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-28
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Lung Kuro cures a hacking cough.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-28

A man may stand
under the running slip
moose of death and not
realize it. Diseases, ia
tai to both body and
brain, like nervous pros
tration and exhaustion,
creep upon a man slow.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-28

- WE ARE offering some
y. very choice styles Of fancy
shirts which we had made
to our order from selected
Z patterns. All new designs.
These shirts are made to be worn
with white collars. Price of shirts
with cuffs to match
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-28

Judge William l.. Putnam has sent a
check for 500 to Windsor, N. S., to help
towards the relief of the sufferers from
the recent terrible fire in that city.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-04-24
SCHOOL AND U

Herbert Spencer has declined the
offer of Cambridge university to make
MIN a doctor of science. on the ground
that he has always refused to accept
such honors.
The Evangelist says it is a notable
fact that, with the accession of DIR. Hall,
nearly all the chairs in Union seminary
are filled by men who have been trained
by DIR. Briggs, and that there are mo-
less than % of his former pupils now
occupying professors chairs in differ
emit Institutions.
A number of papers of interest to
Methodists have been discovered in two
boxes at the Wesleyan conference Office
in London. Among them are A letters
of John Wesley to his brother Charles
and so by Selma. countess of Hunting
ton. the founder of the sect known as
the Countess of Huntington's Connec-
ton. written to Charles Wesley.
Bishop Grafton was on the streets
recently, and when asked what he
thought of the new cult of King Charles
l., which was begun in Philadelphia
the unveirlug of q portrait over one Of
the affairs of an Episcopal church-said
that it was "the worship of a king who
had his head chopped off by a num-
Der of very respectable persons who had
lost theirs!"
Cologne has been celebrating the
carnival by a historical and artistic pro-
cession around the cathedral, including
young women who represented St. Ur-
sula and her 1000 virgins, the town
tower, and the m~ercenaries employed by
the archbishops when they were secu-
lar princes. 1t is asserted that the
carnival has been held at Cologne since
Pre-Christian times and that it is the
direct representative of the Roman
Saturnalia.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-04-24
Fresh and Salt wnter.

a striking illustration of the different
effect of fresh and salt water on the
hulls of ships was recently afforded
by the steamers which ply on Loeb Lon
mond when undergoing their annual
overhaul. The woodwork of the YES
sells, as usual, showed signs of active
deterioration, but so well does the fresh
water of the loch preserve both iron
bulls and boilers from corrosion and
pitting that the makers name uporthe
material of one of the vessels built 80
years ago was found intact and per-
fectly clean and sharp. The inside OF
the boilers was also found extremely
free from The deleterious coating of
any kind. The effect of the sea water
upon iron and steel is exactly the re-
verse of this, but the saline properties
of the ocean tend to improve woodwork.
-Chiccro Tribune.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-04-24
when mind People See.

Blind peoples first experiences OF
sight are curious. An old man who was
born blind received his sight by The
removal of a cataract. When the band
age was first removed the patient start
ed violently. and cried out as if with
fear, and for awhile was quite nervous
from the effects of the shock. For the
first time in his life he looked upon
the earth. The first thing he noticed
was a flock of sparrows. In relating his
experience he said that he thought they
we're teacups, although a few moments
afterward he readily distinguished a
watch which was shown to him. It
is supposed that this recognition is
owing TO the fact that he heard ticking.
The blaze from a lamp excited the most
lively surprise in his mind. He had
no idea what it was, and when it was
brought near, wanted to pick it up
Golden DAVIS.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-04-24

"Waitin' for simple Jerry??" he said,
"You was'-he hesitated and did not
say ''afeared.' You was common,
sensed not to risk it. Give me your
| pole, Pierre" There seemed to be
something in his shining face which
separated him from them. George Ham
mond felt it, and began awkwardly: 1T
Ye don't sense it, Jerry. We can't let
We go-tomorry yen see" George re-
treated. Jerry confronting him, calm
and white.
Il am my own man." he replied.
"Give me the pole" With the steel
an instant, summoning all his powers
of mind and body. He looked smiling
ly at his silenced companions, easily
master of himself and them. Running
lightly forward, he drove the pole into
a fallen trunk and vaulted far out on
the ice. The men on the bank watched
breathlessly.
He'll do it'-"Look at that" "The
wind"-"He can't move! He's hurt!
He can't novel"
But he was not hurt. a lew sound,
a deep, ominouS roar, had made him
pause. He understood it well. The
jam was breaking. and in a few hundred
seconds the wreck would be upon him.
He remembered how fearful the tu-
multi was. and how Jake L.eary had
lost his footing the DreyiouS SDrinr
when the logs went out. When Jake's
foot slipped he was a doomed man;
there was yet time for Jerry to turn
and IL for life. But the wind swept
down and buffeted him, and its rage
entered his heart.
The huge mass of timber and ice
ouaked and groaned and the noise of
the surging water was louder. Jerry
glanced again at the pitiful figure on
the rock, and sprang toward it, run
ming as the watchers had never seen 4
MA run before. He shouted to Jim to
stand ready; and Jim, though he could
not hear, understood. With his friend
near he began to from his
numbing terror. AS the jam moved
with its first long, grinding swell, Jerry
reached him.
Come on! That's the way. Here We
be, old fellow. Don't let go. Eff you do
EFF you do"
Now there was a sharp, splitting, tear
ing sound above the dull roar, which
told Jerry that the jam was breaking
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-04-24
HAPPY As THE DAY is LONG.

Through the sunny bygone lays of early
life,
In a garden sweet and wild,
knowing naught Of sorrow knowing
naught Of strife
Played I as a little child;
porting with the sunbeams, romping with
the breeze,
: Pancing to the redbird's song,
aghtng at the blossoms falling from
the trees
zSppy as the day was ongI
III has been my motto, through the fleet.
ing years.:
"Never mind the shades of night,
They but show there's sunshine-Never
mind the tears,
They are only dew-drops bright"
Mid the blooming flowers of the summer
day,
This liz still my care-free song:
Earth is but a garden, I'm a child al
play
Happy as the day is long,"
In the royal garden of the Prince of Light,
Flowers blossom through the years;
Yet each shifting shadow hints of earthly
night
Ev'ry dew-drop hints of tears.
There, throughout the endless, golden sum-
mer day,
This shall be my heartfelt song:
but a garden, I'm a child at
play
Happy as the day is long,"
S. Q. Lapius, in Ohio Farmer.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-04-24
THE w OF CRETE.
Vow tab on Account of War
Rumors.

Vow Notable on of War
Rumors.
A writer in the st. Petersburg We'd
omosti gives the following account of
the towns of Crete: Gambia, Retimo,
Canea, are of the Crete of the hundred
towns the only thsee cities existing,
and in using the word city every at
tenuation must be understood. Gambia,
situated at the mouth of Il little river,
the Geofiro, was built in the ninth CEN
fury by the Saracens pn the site of
~IIeraklion, one of the ports of Cnossus.
The distance between Cnossus and Can
dia is under an hours walking, and in
antiquity the two places were connect
cd by walls, which recalled those be-
tween Piraeus and Athens. In the time
of Venetian sovereignty Gambia en-
.ioyed great prosperity. To-day its Is
pect is essentially Turkish on accoun
of its houses, its mosques, its minarets
and its bazars, in which are exposed all
the products of the east. 1t is sur
rounded by a Fashioned wall, almost
triangular in shape. Within there is
another wall separating the old town
from the new, the latter being nearer
the river. The Notifications date from
the Nenetians, but war and earthquakes
have left little or nothing of the city's
ancient splendor. T~ournefort has
called it only the carcass of Il city. It's
chief monuments are the remains OF
the church of st. Francis and the old
Latin cathedral to st. Titus. Its popu.
lation is between $4,000 and $4,000,
mostly Mussulmans. The port is pro-
tected by two moles, but the sand has
been allowed to silt up so much that
only very small vessels can enter. Its
chief trade is with Trieste, which takes
from it raisins and oil in return for
soap. Canea comes next to Gambia,
with a population of 11,O0O, equally d.
vided between Christians and Moham-
medans. Canea is the ancient Cydonia.
The modern town dates from 1852, and
is the principal port of the island, the
commercial capital, and the residence
of the foreign consuls. Not far from
Canea is the admirable anchorage of
Suda bay. Retimo, the third town, is
SIS miles southwest of Gambia. It's popu-
lation is not far above 3,OOO."-N. Y.
Post
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-04-24

ice, ignorantofdangc-. Theybeckonsd
him Wildly, but he vas now panic
struck, and would not move. The shores
opposite him were rocky and steep, and
spiked with drift wood. The men stood
at the only spot where he could reach
land. But none offered to go to him in
the face of almost certain death.
AS they waited, there came a sudden
pause, a moment when the wind rested,
and the Oswegatchie doomed less
tEreateningly against its barriers. 1t
was the moment to rescue him, and
the men faced each other. Then they
shrunk back with pale faces. Why
throw away their lives?
A moment later the wind swept
with a grim oar along the path which
it had moved through the forest 40
years before. The great Windfall was
like a tunnel opening on the river,
where already the log jam creaked
and swayed. Jim might live TO be
swept into hat whirlpool with its
craunching timbers. Sickened and
trembling, they awaited the dreadful
event; these men who braved dangers
daily were cravens now. There was
- only-one a man in such
a storm; but he was a mile away in the
upper camp.
They thought of Jerry with a COM
mon impulse.
He'll be wild. He'll say we was a
lot Of"
go after Jerry"
The speakers paused, for along the
footpath Jerry was coming rapidly to-
ward them. The great muscles of his
arms and chest knotted beneath his red
shirt as he breasted the wind. His sup
pie stride brought him quickly to the
bank. There was a CLEAN in his wild
eyes, and he laughed aloud in the pride
Of mastering the gale. The angry river
was as dear as the currents of his own
reused blood, and he longed to test the
great strength of his splendid body o.
find a problem for his crowdin$
thoughts. Life and spirit tingled wit
in him. 2
Suddenly his glance fell upon thS
cited faces of the men; and the
saw little Jim. He stood among tR1fH
speaking quietly, but with stern conf
tempt. I!
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-04-24
A TELLER'S
TOW He Cnused n Shortage of Five
Hundred Dollars.

VI
Hundred Dollars,
Beware of the man who professe.
never to make mistakes. The caution is
general, but is particularly applicable
to banking e A national bank ex-
aminer, who was c~onversing recently
with a reporter for the Dispatch. says
that as a rule errcrs are of daily oc-
currence in every large bank. Most of
them are at once corrected, of course,
but now and then a really serious error
seems for a time to be utterly inexpli-
cable. Upon this point the examiner
recalled an interesting case which hap
pened under his own eye.
"A curious error was discovered some
years ago in one of the banks of this
city, let us call it the Sixth national,
while under examination. Twas weigh
ing the gold in the vault with the teller,
end found a bag marked SIS, OGO, which
weighed about "a troy ounces less than
it should have done. 1 opened the bag
and counted 81, 500 only.
A search was made, lasting far into
the night for the missing $500 dollars.
The teller's cash book showed 20
overs or shorts" of any large
amounts recently, and his character for
honesty and integrity was unquestion-
able. In my report to the comptroller
Ispoke of it as one of those errors which
will sometimes occur, but which for the
time being are inexplicable, and added
that as the teller was heavily bonded, no
loss could occur to the bank.
Il pass over the mental sufferings Of
the teller, and of the officials also,
who feared there might be a thief in the
bank, but could not tell whom to sus-
pect.
Two or three weeks afterward 1 was
weighing the gold in another bank then
under eXamination-let us call it the
Seventh Newfoundland found a bag
marked $1,000, which weighed $5,500-
The seal showed that it had come
from the Sixth national and had
been received from the Seventh in pay
ment of clearing house exchanges. L
explained to the cashier the error dis
covered in the Sixth, and he promptly
sent for the teller and restored him his
money.
THE mistake had been made in the
simplest manner possible, as you may
suppose. The teller of the Sixth had
two open bags of gold on his counter;
one contained $4,000, as he knew, and
the other $4,000. At the close of the
days business he put $500 into the
wrong bag, tied and sealed up both
without first weighing them, labeled
each $1,000, and put them in his safe
1t is not necessary to say that no such
carelessness on his part ever occurred
agaiu."-Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-04-24
1T AGREED WITH HIM.
4 Parliamentary Candidates. Growtl
While Speaking.

willy SUCSNAhs
Mr.. c. w. Radcliffe Cooke, a member
of the British parliament, tells of an eX-
p~erience hat was more amusing in the
telling than in the experiencing. He
was to speak at al evening meeting in
a country town, and was first TO dine
with two elderly ladies of the place. Not
until he was dressed for dinner did he
discover that his servant had neglected
to pack his waistcoat.
There was no gentleman in the house
hold of whom he could borrow, but the
butler, 4 stout man, had a spare waist
coat, which, though not a match for the
rest of the clothing, was IA enough
to pass muster. But alas! the waist
coat was a mile too big.
He found a sympathetic housemaid
who took up a large pleat at the back Of
the waistcoat. and fastened it securely
with pins. Dinner over. the party drove
to the meeting, where the parliamenta-
~ candidate was to make the principal
speech. The candidate had been speak
ing ten minutes. and had warmed to his
work, when suddenly he felt a pin give
way, and then another and another.
Slowly the borrowed garment eX-
banded, until its wearer appeared in all
the ~capacious bulk of the true owner.
Luckily the main body of the audience
did not perceive the change, but a dis
tressing litter was heard among the
ladies in front. The best comment came
from a gentleman who greeted the
speaker after the meeting.
Public speaking evidently agrees
with you. sir" he said, in a compli-
mentary tone, 'for when you sat down
you were twice the man you were when
you rose."-English Illustrated Maya
zfpe.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-04-24
GALL RIGHT, III MAN, poc,LL CATCH YE."

His arm sank, and he was carried into
a clear place. All about, ice and logs
plunged and reared through the foam,
but some whim of wind or current held
them from the drowning man. The
river he loved was kind. For an in
slant they saw his blond head above
.the water and his hair gently lifted by
the stream. Then he sank quietly, and
the logs hurled themselves over the
spot where he had been.
When DIR. Mason tells this story he
says that, as he views it, Jerry Ia
his Town man" when he died.
CHARLOTTE KIMRALLL
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-04-24
THE GLORY OF GREECE.
bsul Stirring Memories of the For
mer COnquests.

With what burning words did Byron
at the beginning Of this century call
upon Greece to cast off the shackles
with which the Turk had bound her
and once more her rightful
place among the nations of the earth.
They were needed. With the soul-stir-
ring memories of Marathon and Their
uropylae, of Salamis, Platea and Arbela
in mind, the Greeks commanded by
Marco Bozzaris and Lord Byron him
self, succeeded in overwhelming the
Turks and achieving a ~hard-earned in
dependence.
1t is q well-defined axiom that in war
the morale engendered by the business
of the principle commended for frequent
ly nullifies the preponderating forces of
an adversary. Nowhere is this more
evidentthan in the history of the Greeks
themselves. When in the fifth century,
Z. c., the hordes of Darius and Xerxes
successfully burst upon southeastern
Europe it was not alone the eXisteR
of Greece that was threatened,
whole progress of human civil7
well. This truth is perth
pressed by Sir Edward
that had the battlss
ed differently -
prevailinaf eday.
Ofneo foresee
Lii heroism, but
Were fighting for
Id that was enough.
1oFer 100000 Persians were
It by 1000 men. At the
e of Salamis the Greek feet,
outnumbered seven to one,
esed an overwhelming victory, and
PThermopylae 800 Spartans and 700
fhespians, under Leonidas, held the
pass for three days against the assaults
of 2O0, 900 P~ersians.
Napoleon, 1.-The coarse-minded sa-
breur," as the Perfidious T%alleyrand
termed him. once remarked that God
was always on the side of the strongest
artillery, but he lived to realize his mis-
take. Had any such doctrine as that
been universally believed the round
heads of Cromwell, the minute men of
Lexington and Concord, and the pa
triots of Maceo and Gomez would never
have been heard of, and this it is that.
with her glorious past in mind, encour-
ages Greece 10 hope for victory in her
struggle with Turkey.-Syracuse Stand,
ard.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-04-24
Great San streamer.

During the eclipse of the Jul last
summer, a party of Russian observers
in Finland succeeded in getting ten
photographs of the solar corona, which
have been combined in a picture recent
" published in Nature. An enormous
Iy long streamer of lights extends
enthusiastically from the sun to a
length of mor than 2,O00,OO miles, or
about nine times the distance of the
moon from the earth!-Youth's Com
panion.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-04-24
biggest Heather Temple.

The leargest heather temple in the
world is in Seringapatam. and it COM
prises a square, each side being one
mile in length, inside of which are six
other squares. The walls are twenty
five feet high and five feet thick, and
the hall where pilgrims congregate is
supported by 1000 pillars. each cut from
o single block of stone.-San Francisco
Chronicle.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-04-24
SULTAN GOES AT FULL SPEED,
Ministers Have to Rum to Keep Up
with Him.


Abdul Hamid leads a life of retire
ment, n political necessity which does
not interfere with his a~musements.
Once 4 week his visit to the mosque, a
labOrious journey of some so yards,
provides the spectator with an admira-
bic entertainment. The card of the
British embassy admits you to a pa
vil:on where, as the ~sultan's guest, you
are handsomely refreshed with tea, cot.
fee, sweets and cigarettes-the eternal
cigarettes, without which the whole ma
chinery of Turkish administration
would cease to act. If Abdul Hamid
knew that 4 visitor had lacked a cigar
and refuse to exercise that subtle hui
maaity for which his regime is so just
ly renowned.
Once upon a time the commander
Ct the faithful used to ride 4 white horse
10 the mosque. That became too IA
tiguing. and he took to n carriage, which
was driven slowly back to the palace,
while the ministers walked on either
side. Sometimes, however, such Is the
impetuosity of the sultan's nature, he
drives himself back in a park phaeton
at so fiery a pace that the unfortunate
ministers have to run, clutching one
another by the ~coattails, for it is their
duty to reach the palace steps in time
to receive their gracious master when
he alights. Should they be o late
they would ID 1 presume, a very per-
emptory redistribution of salaries. So
the ministers have to engage in ath-
lctic exercise quite unsuited to their
mode of life in order to preserve their
~hard-earned emoluments and perquis-
ites-English Magazine.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-04-24

When the duke of Monmouth was ex-
ccuted, in the reign of James H., for
treason. the duchess ordered every oak
in the park to be cut on the fateful
morning. The new growth, belonging
to Lord Ebury, is one of the finest for
ests in Britain.-San Francisco Cnron-
icle.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-04-24

The Customer-Confound you, you
have cut my cheek.
The Barber-By Jove, 50 I have. 4
was wondering what bad taken thc5
edge off nv razor.-Tit-RitS-
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1897-04-24

She-Oh, Jack, here's a pearl in thiA
oyster.
II. (excitedly)-Ethel, may-may I
have It set in an engagement ringre
Pick-Me-Up