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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-03

Captain Justus Bickford, a native of
whales than any man living in Maine.
When he was but u years old he went
on whaling voyage with his father,
and when % years of age. he COM
manded whaling schooner, and fol-
lowed the occupation for 25 years.
Captain Bickford says that the best
hunting grounds in those days were
between Cape Cod and Grand Menan,
extending up the Maine coast to Mon
hogan. Il killed a whale once from
which took 100 barrels of ile' when 1
vas young man. said Captain Bick-
ford the other day. THAT was the big
gest whale ever killed. He measured
70 feet in length. His fins were IS feet
and from one fluke to the other, IS feet.
Oil at that time, 1885, was worth SIS
per barrel, so the whale fetched about
$780, 1t was in the month of October,
1916. We found the whale early in the
morning and about 10 o'clock we har-
pooned and fastened him. From that
time on till 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
we fought him with harpoons and
lances until finally we killed him. He
YES % PiuShy d monster as ever
tackled. | put six irons into him and
he carried EN- round with him as
though they We're needles. The whale
took us about Is miles out beyond
Monhegan in sou'westerly course be-
fore he made die of it. He loomed~|
up on the water as hig as Mt Katah-
din. A big storm came up The sea
became violent, and thunder and light
ming added to the wildness of the tenn
pest. We We're in small boat and had
to anchor the leviathan just off the
islands. When the storm abated we
found it drifted two miles out to sea,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-03

The first month of the new Canadian
tariff (Which imposes upon America.
goods about 25 per cent. higher dut5
than is imposed upon competing prod
ucts imported from Europe) has not as
yet proved successful in wiping out
trade between Canada and the United
States. OF course it will require more
than month to show the real effects
of the discrimination against the
United States; but it is at least consol-
ing to find that the statistics so far
obtainable do not show any noticeable
decrease in the trade between the two
countries. The new tariff has not yet
given the British manufacturers do
minion over the trade of the Dominion.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-03

Newport is having a lively movement
for a local board of trade.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-03

Sebago remembers last winters
storms and will hold a special town
meeting, Saturday, to vote upon the
question of building snow rollers to use
in breaking the roads.
There seems to be a wave of reform
passing over certain sections of South
Portland, and Sunday violators of the
law have been brought before the
proper judicial officers and given to
understand that no stone will be left
unturned in the prevention of such
agreeable diversions as foot ball and
golf on the Lords day.
Portland Express: While Holsters
have been reported unusually scarce
along the coast, the dealers and ship
pers say that the fishermen have been
supplying their demand and that they
have been able to supply their Western
customers in Bangor, Portland and
Boston without any trouble. HOLSTERS
have brought good price all summer
and the dealers and fishermen have
made some money at the business.
Some of the fishermen, though COM
planning of the scarcity of Holsters,
have been able to earn from 81 to So
per day with a number 6f traps.
Portland, and especially its board of
health, had sensation, the other day,
over the reported presence of a leper in
town. He could not be found, however.
Peace hath her perils as we'll as war.
Two members of the LIST Maine Regi-
ment, recently discharged from Uncle
Sans service. went to a Portland
tavern and blew out the gas Their
early discovery and the prompt action
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-03

Waterville Mail: The merchants of
Augusta have shown their good sense
by uniting in an agreement to have
nothing farther to do with trading
stamps. The Mail has always main
tanned that this trading stamp business
is scheme that is bound to enrich
the promoters of it and nobody else
The agents who sell the privilege. so
far as we have observed. have sold it
Unfortunately to any number of
merchants who cared to purchase with
the result that one trader has been SELL
ing at just the same prices as his
neighbor, both contributing to the
Golfers of the enterprising gentlemen
who have the interests of merchants at
heart-for consideration.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-03

WANTED.-Case Of bad breath that RI
PANS Will not benefit. Send cents % Ripans
Chemical Co.. New York. for 10 samples 81
t000 s~stimaalah. anIy0 m
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-03

Milbridge miss, age nine, has
started all alone for st. Louis to join
her father. She goes by express, how
ever, properly tagged, and doesn't
worry a Bit. So ee
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-03

FOR SALE.-Ten R-I-P.A-N.s foe cssb q
druggists. One gives relief. iuly93. nv
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-03

Every Sunday afternoon an electric
car leaves Lewiston at about half past
one o'clock that is pretty well freighted
with religion for the suburban towns.
Last Sunday, for instance, two young
men got on. They were going down
the line to hold a service in a school
house in Topsham. A couple of young
women We're bound for Lisbon Falls to
attend the Holy Ghost and Us meeting
at Durham. A revivalist was bound
for South Lewiston, where series of
Sunday afternoon meetings are held in
a parlor. Two Sisters of Charity from
the Hospital of the Sisters of Charity
got aboard and We're bound for Lisbon
Falls, where every Sunday afternoon
they teach the little ones of the Roman
Catholic parish Sunday school-and at
Lisbon Rev. Mr.. Williams, the Metho-
dist clergyman, got on and rode to
Lisbon Falls where he breaches in the
Methodist church every Sunday after
noon.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-03

New Orleans Picayune.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-03

Gilead is not the earliest revelation of
the fact that the soil of Maine is
capable of producing this indigenous
fruit of the tropcs.f' writes a CORES
pondent. Years ago specimen of
coffee grown in Harrington was on ex-
hibition at a fair of the Franklin Coun-
ty Agricultural Society. No official
notice was taken of the remarkable
fact and the exhibitor writing shortly
afterwards in a county newspaper
complained of the neglect. He as
serted that his exhibit was we'll
matured coffee and unlike the article OF
commerce only because the berry was
not divided in halves by process un-
known to the Pennington grower"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-03

1t was a Lewiston baby who has
been attending the caimpmeetings at
Old Orchard all through the summe:
that astonished one of the local pas
tors on recent Sabbath by shouting
a very loud Amen at the close of the
morning sermon.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-09
MlSSOULA NOTES.

ID. II. Ross is laid up with an at
tack of the grip.
J. w. Woodford and wife came in
from Martina tonight.
Rev. George w. Stewart will conduc
services at Hamilton next Sunday a. IL
a m.
Andrew II. Beckwith returned to-
night from his California trip much i'm
proved I'm health.
A good How OF water was struck to-
day In the new well at the race track.
and a pure. permanent supply is thus
assured.
The condition of Dan Kendall is not
much changed. He is very weak and
suffer- much pain, but there are hopes
now of his
The Northern Pacific flyer from the
East was on time his morning. The
~eastbound flyer was nearly two hours
late tonight, caused by delays on the
western division. The branch trains
nave all been on time.
The soldiers at Fort Missoula re-
ceived their monthly pay this morn
ing. and are making THEN last disburse-
ments in Missoula tonight. They are
all leaving with paid and
squared and a good financial record be-
hind them.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-09
OIsrUReERs or WORSHIP.
showing what vario ms Churche
Must Contend With.

Must Contend With.
Lawless people are often as ready as
others TO accept the general invitation
offered by an open church door, as is
shown by two incidents in Indiana last
week. While seated in her pew at the
Trinity Catholic church in Evansville
Mrs. Elizabeth Hun was robbed of her
pocketbook. containing $50 In none
and an $500 draft. Ii is thought the
work was done by a woman pickpocket.
James Bane and Miss Jane Rathgaber
were arrested and fined for disturbing
a religious meeting at Huntington.
They had entertained themselves by
shooting craps in a pew during services
In the Evangelical church.
kansas City has a gang Of cheap
rowdies. One night recently h e COL
lected near the Mount Zion negro Bap-
tlst church. The preacher had warmed
TO his theme and the sinners were
ocking TO the altar and shouting hal
ieiujah, as only negroes can flock and
shout. when a ponderous crash was
heard In the neighborhood of the third
row or pews from the pulpit on the
south side of the building. II was fol-
lowed by another and vet another, each
m than its predecessor. and IL De-
gan TO look as IL the ervices would
nave 10 be stopped. but Preacher Allen,
old and gray. decrepit and trembling,
arose to the emergency. He hobbled
out or the door jast in time to receive
a healthy -looking stone on the top Of
mis- gray head. He yelled to the ma
RAIDERS to stop. but his commands
We're answered by more stones. and he
grew desperate. His old cap-and-ball
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-09
WILL LEAVE TOMORROW
The Twenty-F Fifth Infantry tc
March to the Front.
PARADE ON EASTER
Troops OF Fort Missoula to Be Given .
Good Send-On-Orders to March
Received and Active Ser
ice Il Looked For.

Missoula, April S.-To add to the war;
like o Of the press dispatches this
morning. which indicated that the arm
istice talk was all talk. the 25th infan-
try has received its final orders to
march and will leave Fort Missoula
Sunday morning for the front. The
railway officers have received the or
ders for transportation. n the gal
liant regiment Will bid Missoula fare
well on Easter morning. 1t is expected
that the regiment will march through
the city In honor of many pleasant as
sociations that II has here and that the
embarkment of the troops will take
place at the railway station. The camp
equipage will all be loaded at the Bit
ter Root station and the soldiers will
take the cars there. They will ride as
far as the southern boundary of the
city. when they will alight and make
the march through the city while the
cars go around. The sight will be one
that Will attract general attention and
the old regiment will be given a good
send of. 1t deserves IL. At Fort Har-
rison the troops from here will be Joined
by the other companies Of the regi-
ment that are stationed there.
Fort Missoula is to be left in charge
Of a detail from the second regiment,
which is at present under the command
OF Lieutenant Fremont OF the Third in
fantry. Mr.. Fremont does not expect
to be here long, as he has received in
that his regiment, which is
stationed at Smelling. has been ordered
to prepare to move to the front at once
and the troops there are getting ready
to cave. Mr.. Fremont will be re-
lieved here by some other officer and
will join his regiment at the front He
is meeting many old friends here, as he
was stationed here when the Third gar
Fort Missoula. The impression
in local military circles is that war
be delayed more than a few
days at the most, and that the troops
who are now leaving expect to see ac-
tive service in a short time.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-09
a STORY.
IL Pays To Ne Polite, Particularly To n
Returned Miner.

1t Pays to Ne Polite, Particularly To n
Returned Miner.
From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Jimmy Brennan, 10 years old. and son
OF Police Officer Brennan OF Seattle,
was standing on Yesler way, when a
stranger came along. He looked like a
man who had just returned from a log
ginE amp.
Boys" he said, where is the Butler
hotel?"
I'll tell you for a quarter" said one
of Jimmy's companions.
I'll show you where it is for 10
cents" chimed in another.
Say, I'll do 1t for s cents,' remarked
a third.
Mister" said Jimmy, III point out
the Butler to you for nothing"
You're my man." said the rough
looking stranger, and the two went
down Yesler way together. while Jim
my's companions stayed behind to call
him a chump. Jimmy led the stranger
to the Butler.
Come in here" said the man, and he
led the boy into a clothing store. Give
this boy the best suit of clothes in the
house." said the stranger. Jimmy sim
ply opened his mouth. Soon he had on
a fine suit.
Nov give him an overcoat," said the
stranger, and Jimmy's eyes tried to pop
out of their X The clerk adorned
Jimmy with an o%vercoat.
Now a hat" said the stranger.
wanted to cry. He thought it
was Christmas time. and hat he was
by the side of a great fire reading one
of Anderson's fairy tales.
Soon he was arrayed in new hat, new
suit, new o~vercoat. The strange paid
for all. Jimmy started out of the store.
He was so bewildered that, If several
COLLINS a put in their appearance,
he would have Joined them in their
fairyland festivities.
Just wait a minute said the
stranger. Jimmy waited. If the
stranger a said. Go roll i'm the dust
of the street" Jimmy would have done
IL.
The stranger went down i'm his pock-
cts and closed his dealings with Jimmy
by giving him a SIS gold piece and a
gold nugget worth about s.. Then
Jimmy thanked the stranger and went
off to tell his companions about the
to whom he showed the Hotel
for nothing" The stranger
was a Klondiker, supposed to be Pat
rick Calvin. who returned on the Rosa
lie Saturday night with a fortune esti-
at about 500. 900. 1t pays to be
If you don't think SO. ask Jim
my Brennan.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-09
SUCCESSFUL AS AN EVANGELIST
Mrs. Davis of Jersey City and Her Gospel
Work.

Mrs. Davis, the wife OF Judge Davis
OF Jersey City, who has recently been
holding evangelistic meetings in her
home city, is described as one of the
most successful women evangelists in
the country. Ii Is said of her that even
Moody himself does not excel her in
power to convert the wicked.
Mrs. Davis Is not an ascetic. She Is
stout and Ii is evident that she has not
sought religion as some a sought Ii,
as an opiate for creature ills. She is
big and fair and healthy. Her face is
round and prettily colored-plnk and
white. Her fair hair, lis massed upon
the top of her head, with no p~retensions
to style in its arrangement, but in such
a way as to show every line of her
broad. high forehead and to cast no
shadow into her blue eyes, which are
shrewd and humorous, as well as very
kindly.
Besides being an evangelist she is a
singer, and there, doubtless, lies one of
her strongest weapons. A mellow
voice. singing to a touching melody
simple words that every one can under
stand, that appeal TO the ordinary ex-
periences of every one who hears-that
does much toward softening hardened
hearts and making sinners susceptible
to the beauty of salvation. Mrs. Davis
has such a voice. She has composed
the words and music of many of the
hymns used by her meetings. Before
the sermon n the -~exhortation she
a stirring song service. In
the old. familiar hymns that let the
lungs and heart expand together con-
gregations are cheered.
p One of her recent discourses is de-
scribed as a homely talk. Her text she
took from Genesis: And EnOch walk
ed with God; and he was not, for God
took him." There was no deep. exeget-
ical knowledge displayed. but there was
deep earnestness, deep e~motion-and
comon sense. That last quality more
perhaps than any other distinguishes
Mrs. Davis. She was not argumenta-
tive. but she made the reasonableness
of the doctrine she set forth-the rea-
sonableness of the Christian life, the
life of those who walk with Cod
seem indisputable.
Mrs. Davis has been i'm evangelistic
work for IA years, having begun before
her marriage. In New England and in
the middle states she has had remark.
able scucess.
To my actual knowledge" she says,
5000 persons have begun the Chris
tan life at my meetings. Two hundred
and seventy-eight of my converts are
IN the ministry now. My method Is
very simple. ! try to show the reason
ableness of being a Christian. I appeal
10 the emotions. and I also appeal to
the Will. To that l make the strongest
in fact, I speak as simply and
directly as | can and draw my illustra-
lions from everyday life"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-09
TOOTH IN HIS HAND.
startling Discovery of ~ Buffalo Barber
Day After n Fight.

From the Buffalo Express.
While william Manning and Richard
Witkowsky were assiduously moving
boards In their barber shop at 1858
broadway night before last "a couple of
strangers entered. Tn ragged appear
ance of their faces seemed sufficient
cause for their presence and the two
BARRIERS worked faster than ever on
h men i'm the chairs. Then the two
strangers cast about for something to
play with. Henry Eichoff. an inoYen-
sive German cigarmaker, who hap
pened to be in the shop. soon became
the target of their coarse wit. Eichoff
walked outside and the two ran after
him. They caught at his coat and
tried To pull il over his head. The poor
victim protested i'm vain.
Then the two BARRIERS. both husky
fellows. dropped their razors and took
"A hand in the fun. Manning went ham
mer and tongs at the two
while Witkowsky pulled Eichoff away.
The two fellows turned on Manning.
He let fly a whirlwind of jabs. hooks,
uppercuts and swings m put them To
rout. Then the pugilistic barber and
his partner repaired to the shop to take
an inventory of injuries received. Man
ming had a bad cut on the back of his
hand. near the base of the first two
fingers. Witkowski wrapped a piece of
cloth around IL. Manning went to bed
Witkowsky finished shaving the
men i'm the chairs.
When Manning got up Yesterday
morning his han was badly swollen.
IL grew worse as the day wore on. After
noon he N To press down on the
sore flesh near the cash and felt what
seemed to be a Jagged piece of bone.
He came To the conclusion that a bone
was broken and he took the next car
and called al the emergency hospital.
Move your fingers" said the doctor.
Manning did so easily. There's no
broken bone there" said the doctor.
Then. picking up a pair OF forceps,
he explored the recesses of the cash
and pulled out a broken tooth.
Gee. j must have hit that fellow an
awful whsck i'm the mouth" said Man.
ming.
More searching revealed two other
pieces of tooth. After the cut had
been cleaned out the wounded hand
was bandaged and Manning left the
hospital vowing vengeance on the man
who had left part OF his teeth in his
hand.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-09

revolver was In the bureau drawer at
nas little cabin Just back or the church.
and occurred II. "
NOW. come on. yo' pooh white trash
prats." he yelled in words Of ginger, as
ne stood in the doorway with the pistol
IN his hand. A brick whizzed past his
mead and tore OF a part OF the rickety
oio door in answer. Without saving
another word the old fellow emptied his
pistol at his tormentors. a welI-organ-
ized crowd of white boys. some 20
strong. who were intrenched on a hill
beneath which the church and the little
cabin rest. Some one Of the boys fired
at the old pastor three times. and then
they ran, leaving him the ield. The
church was deserted, and negro BROTH
ers and sisters scattered in all direc-
lions. When the police patrol wagon
arrived with a squad Of officers Deacon
Allen was still standing In his doorway
with the reloaded revolver in his hand.
He was not arrested. but the police are
looking for Charles Kerns and Bill
Murray. who are known to be the ring
leaders OF the Penn Street Avengers"
as the gang calls itself.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-09
THREE LIGHTNING STORIES.
Melted Watch and Hairpins, and Negro's
White Spine Tales.

A party OF commercial men lounged
in the easy chairs in the rotunda of the
Brown Palace hotel last evening.
A l was going to remark" said the
cologne man. II was travelling in Texas
a few years ago, and spent a day or
two at a place where a ang of men
were building a new railroad. There
were at least 200 of them. On this par
ticular day a thunder storm came up
and a bolt of lightning struck almost
I'm the center of the men. A dozen or
more OF them were stunned by the blow
and knocked down. One man, who was
standing very near where the bolt
struck. had his clothes burned a little.
He was all right in a few minutes, and
went about his work. About quitting
time he put his hand in his pocket to
look at his watch. and, much to his
surprise. found his pocket empty and
h bottom Of IL torn out. He went
back to where he fell when the light
ming struck and found a rough chunk
OF silver, all that remained of his
watch. The heat from the lightning
had evidently melted it, and ii burned
its way through the pocket and fell to
the ground"
on the SPOT. 1 have one hat WILL"
aid the pork packing mar from Kan
sas City.
Before i go further let me state that
this story is an actual fact and no fool
ing. In Arizona last summer Mrs. II. j.
Allen. wife OF the financial agent of the
United Verde mine. was seated i'm a
room with another woman sewing A
hunde storm was raging outside,
when suddenly a clap of thunder came
n a flash of light which blinded the
women sewing. After they had recov-
cred from the shock Mrs. Allen found
that a bolt had come dow the chin
ney and as IL flew across the room il
brushed against her back hair and
melted all the hair pins hat had held
II up a few moments before. a further
investigation revealed the fact that the
bolt had struck the corner of a bed i'm
the adjoining room, SCATTERING the
wood. Strange as IL may seem, Mrs.
Aliens hair was not even singed."
The other members of the party
moved ~uneasily i'm their chairs, except-
ing the Chicago man. Turning to his
he said:
While In Georgia a year ago last
spring a darby was struck by lightning
and lives to tell the tale. He was rid
home across a cotton field during a
storm, when a BOLT of lightning
him w the shoulders. IL
ran down his back, burned q hole In the
saddle, killing the mule under him He
on the mule and walked home i'm
the rain, bemoaning the loss of his suit
OF clothes, which had been badly torn
by the lightning. Upon his arrival
home. when he went to change his
his wife made the discovery
the lightning had made "a white
stripe down his black back. He carries
that mark to this day