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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-01-04

coin and bullion equal to - per cent. IF
the aggregate amount of both the
United States notes and treasury notes
issued under the act of July IA. 1890.
outstanding, and a further sum in gold
equal to five per cent. of the-aGgregate
amount of the coinage of silver dollars.
This reserve shall lie held as a ommon
fund ard used solely for the redemp-
ton Of such notes and in exchange for
such notes and for silver and sub
sidiary and minor coins.
The secretary by this plan would he
empowered to issue and sell bonds
bearing interest not to exceed three
per cent. and to run but 20 years and to
provide for any temporary deficit he
would be authorized at his discretion
to issue certificates of Indebtedness
payable in from ore to five years from
their date at a rate of interest not 10
exceed three per cent.
This brief outline Of the more salient
features of the report show that =
differs chiefly in degree from the plan
proposed by Secretary Gage but t."
degree is considerable in several par
ticuIars.
This report will receive. as it should,
much careful consideration Undoubt-
eddy no one not even the most SAN
guine member OF The commission sup
rosed thai TIE report would he re-
ceived with anything approaching
unanimous approval. 1t appears fro;n
the introduction otherwise. Nor
was it generally expected that
the commission would be able
to do more than to assist in
Crystallizing public sentiment in such
d way that some OF the existing evils
might be eliminated. This commission
is made up of representative me1, they
DO not appear to have been influenced
in any degree by partisan considefa~
tiras. The commission was made up
as follows:
Ex-senator George +. Edmunds of
Vermont. chairman: Charles :. Fair
child Of New York, who vas Mr.. CleVe-
lands first secretary of the treasury
Prof. j. Lawrence Laughlin of Chica-
go University. an eminent authority on
money matters. was chosen as the one
commemorative. tf tln brnfpGSinp3l SIN
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-01-04

Harbor where an Infatuated man
chased another with an ak n PROP
ably would have killed him but for the
interference of "a third party. Nov
10Th are grateful to the one who in
terfered. and with good reason.
A lady in Rumford was somewhat
surprised the other day to pluck a
needle from her thigh, She wondered
where it came rom. Her husband re-
called that IS years before she had &C
cidentally swallowed two needles she
was holding in her mouth. The othe'
needle has not been heard from.
Some of Brewers parents were re-
Gently assured that the example set by
prize fighters is pe~rnicious. They DIS
covered their young hopefuls engage
in a regular Set-to in Il stable. one
who was called by his admiring mates
Corbett, had Just licked FltzsimHo5is
and was challenging Kid Mccoy. IN"
gate admission was ten pins and all the
dead game sports were there, me
moral does not appear to need eiahora
ton.
Here is a little good advice offered by
the jefferson correspondent Of an e%-
change which may prove beneficial IN
other communities than the one i"r
which lie evidently intended it: When
parents take scholars from school be
cause they receive a light repflmand.
they deprive them of instruction ana
spoil their children for the future az
scholars OF CitiZenS.'
The Hartland correspondent of the
Pittsfield Advertiser has this to say tn
the people in that community and II IS
worthy Of the attention of all who Ike
10 see accurate, complete, in short
newsy reports in their papers: Please
let US know if you break you limbs. II
your ~nci9hbors are sick or well. il Nou'
aunt or uncle or cousin or friends p
sweetheart visits you, " anything IN
the shape of good, wholesome neWs
that would look well in print, we u,
it for the Hartland column Don
wait until the happenings in your
neighborhood become ancient history.
don't wait until lou come for US T."
preach the funeral sermon ,'cfnre you
let us NOV that your fri"nds are SIck.
Remember thai delays are dangerous
50 he on time with your Items.
What is there III the Weatner Ia him
der those, who wanted the old fash
toned winter variety. from being happy
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-01-04
4 Common
COld

and common ca~relessness can make a
combination strong enough to defy
all the healing skill of the physician.
Common carelessness lets the cold
root and grow. Common carelessness
says, between p%aroxysms of cough
ing, 1T will be all right in a day or
two" and the common end is con-
iirmed lung trouble, perhaps con-
sumption. The common-sense treat
ment of a common cold is a prompt
dose Of Ayers Cherry Pectoral. 1t
Is the most efficient and reliable cure
for colds and coughs, and is con-
stantly prescribed by physicians.
S. HAYNES, M. D., Saranac, N. Y. saws =
II have used Ayers Cherry Pectoral in nv
practice since 1853, and have ALWAYS found
it reliable for the cure of colds, coughs, and
all lung diseases"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-01-04

Santa Claus is the only one who ha'
ever really learned the secret OF YOUTH
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-01-04

A lady in Iiumford was somewhat
surprised the other day to pluck a
reedle from her thigh. she wondered
where it came rom. Her HUSBAND re-
called hat IS years before she a ac-
cidentally swallowed two needles she
was holding in her mouth. The othe'
needle has not been heard from.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-01-04

was at first supposed, it MAY be more
are s,,nposed ia he in existence than
really are. il nay be supposed that tue
buvers suppos that If the farmers SUP
nose so they VIII lie ..tillino TO sell thel'
tubers for less than they are fea'a5
worth We suppose that other sup
positions are supposabie.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-01-04

N~obleboro's noble selectmen are put
ting up guide boards. VIII the !. \
w. please take notice?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-01-04

Lewiston Sun: Maine was hii'h"'
,,i, ,,oa,. IA the tune of 1900 deer, 30
moose and 100 caribou. That means
more legislation.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-01-04

a line looking man was sentenced hv
the Auburn court the other day to 50
days in the Androscoggin Jail and begged
the judge to make it 80 days. H
knew what he wanted for he had been
at thai hostelry before, in fact. had
been released from there but a few
days. He is a barber and drink is his
weakness. While in Jail the county
boards him and he shaNes and cuts hal"
al cut rates making a good thing out
OF it besides keeping sober.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-01-04

one seldom gets any thanks for in
terfering in a quarrel, at least from
the parties engaged in the alteration.
An exception is reported from Bar
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-01-04

Here is a little good advice offered by
the jefferson correspondent Of an e%-
change which may prove beneficial ~
other communities thar The one for
which he evidently intended it: When
parents take scholars from school be-
cause they receive a light r~eprimand.
they deprive them of instruction ano
spoil their children for the future a.
scholars or citizens"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-26

kiah Smith "a tory). A. George Starr: page
10 ST. Henry Clinton, ]. II. Clarke
meeting will he held this evening TO
eiect officers for the Law School Debating
society to serve for the rest Of the prrsen;
term IL is the custom to hold elections
OF Officers three times each year: the post
srauuate. senior and junior class nlling all
the positions from their ranks successive
ly, and this being the third term. the can
dldatss, are all from the junior class
Messrs Ralph and Sullivan are the strong
est Probabilities for president. and there
are "A number of candidates for the other
positions.
Mr. Perry. lecturer on domestic relations
at the law school, is delivering a series OF
four lectures, one each week. 10 the Junior
class, on general principles OF the law
conhning his instruction TO matters con-
tanned IN the text book and to qulzzes
on thursdays and Saturdays.
he junior law school deba ting society
held a meeting last evening at which the
following speakers discussed the question
isesoNed, Tha; the United States should
construct. operate and control the proposed
Nicaraguaa canal; Messrs Townsend and
hi!cuilc?, afirrna live, and Messrs. Holla nd
er and Berger, negative
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-26

from San Francisco to New York. 1t got
all the gold passengers of the early sos
VINO crossed the isthmus. and made them
pay heavily for carrying their gold min
Ing outfits in addition to the $25 fare.
Even at these rates the trip was a cheap
enc, for it shortened the danger of the
levers which often caught these gold hun
tiers who crossed on foot. The ride by rail
is less than four hours. BY mule or on
loot II took two or more days. The health
Of the istbmus Was then worse than it is
BOW. During the building of the road the
company ran funeral train. and 1t is said
that there were more deaths than there are
ties in the entire line l was talking yes
terday with an American who the flu
neral train. He says they put the dead in
rows, piling one row croSSwiSe ON the top
of that beneath it. until the big hole made
for the days burial was nearly filed, when
earth was thrown in to ill up. One thou
sand Cinnamon We're imported for the
work. Within month number of them
had died, and hundreds of the remainder
committed suicide. 50 that the station where
they worked is now called Mato-chne.
which means kill-Chinaman. We brought
down Brooklyn boy. who has the job of
station agent at this place, with US. +
would not take the place for the isthmus
| met yesterday a graduate of the Boston
School of Technology, who has come here
TO work on The ;aiiroad. He told me he re-
ceived $3.50 month, which was better than
he could 40 in the states, but that he had
just gotten up from an attack of malarlal
II.
Hodgcs-who is employed in the general
offices, who told me he had mad siege CT
yellow fever last year, and, In short, /
have found but few Americans who have
not been fever-stricken at some time or
other during their stay here. Many of
them say, however. that the isthmus is no
worse than some of our southern ports,
and that If one takes good care of himself
ii ere is not much danger. l am told that
of all the foreigners Americans stand the
climate best, English next, then French,
and then Italians.
Across the Isthmus.
The ride across the isthmus is a delightful
one The country after you pass the few
miles of lowland on the Atlantic side rises
into many wooded hills, and the distant
views make you think of the forest-cov-
cred rolling lands of the United States
rather than of the tropics. There are few
palm trees. though you now and then pass
a banana plantation You go by villages of
matched huts and the buildings of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-26

Isthmus of Panama which is as l told
you, 400 miles long. No one can make
even wagon road across the isthmus
without this company's permission, and so
far no road of any kind has been attempt
ed AS we went over The railroad Colonel
Shaler, the superintendent, told me that
the natives whom found walking or
riding on the edge of the track We're able
to do so only by the sufferance of the COM
pany- The original grant gave the COM
pany all the public lands on the line of the
track. end provided that the ports of Pan
anna and Colon We're to be free ports. This
last is the case today. The original con-
cession was for only 40 years. but it has
since been extended, with some modifica-
lions. to 80 years, during which the COM
pany pays the government s25O,0OO year
for the privilege
Immense Traffic.
1t took five years to build the road. When
it was begun the isthmus was a miasmatic
wilderness, and the line ran through the
swamps and along the valleys of the Cha
gres and Rio Grande rivers. crossing the
mountain range at an elevation of 26S feet.
Forty-seven miles of such road could be
easily and comparatively cheaply built in
the United States. Here 1t cost, by the
time it was completed. 100000. 1t began
to earn money as soon as the first few
miles of track were laid, and when the
road was opened for traffic. in 1855, 1t had
already received over s2,0O0000 for trans
pCrtation, and within four years its earn
iHgs We're more than its original cost, and
the owners were walking on velvet. Dur
irg one year it carried 1,200.000 passen-
rs, receiving S3Do00,OUO from that source
alone. 1t has carried much as 100000
tons of freight in a year, and within twelve
years after it was finished $3.50 900
worth Of specie passed over it on its way
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-26
! N THE CHU RICHES

A movement has been inaugurated look
ing to holding of triennia instead of annual
sessions of the general assembly of the
presbyterian Church. Leading members of
that denomination in this city, who have
been interviewed on the subject by Star
reporter, expressed the opinion that IAN
interval of three years between general as
semblles would aggravate many of the
d.hculties now existing. Suppose an OBJ
1ectlonable combination were in power;
were this to continue for three years it
would break the denomination in two But
the annual elections and assembly meet
1ngs afford opportunity for speedy change
and thus constitute q safety valve. 1t is
much better to have frequent conferences
and discussion on live issues"
The following is a statement of funds
collected and paid out during the confer
ence year just ended on the debt of Ep-
worth M. f. Church South: Collected from
bonds and Ladies' Aid Society, s1,76252;
from other sources, $1S4.4; donated by
Church Extension Society, $500. Total,
s2-s46.16: expenditures on mortgage. 81, 800;
pews, S2l5; heater, $50; windows, by pas
tor, S12o; on piano, by league, $50, and on
same by Sunday school, $4.79; on organ,
$40; on interest and incidentals, $685. 40;
total paid out. s2,S13.24. Amount on hand,
fO.tO
current expenses and conference colec-
tons, about s2,400; total raised, $5,246.I6
Rev. DR.. L. T. Townsend of this city
has accepted an invitation to participate in
the reopening of Waverly NJ. E. Church,
Baltimore, tomorrow.
Sunday school workers generally are in
terested in the information that the
worlds third Sunday school convention will
convene in London July IL and continue
until the 18th, inclusive. The delegates
will leave Boston on a Cunarder Wednes-
day. June %. The party will include many
of the best-known and most successful
Sunday school workers in the United
States.
Senator Allen of Nebraska has accepted
an invitation to make an address at the
annual meeting of the Society for the Pro-
lection of Children from Cruelty and I'M
morality in Baltimore.
Rev. Dr. Milburn, chaplain Of the United
States Senate, has consented to address
the anniversary meeting of the Maryland
Sunday School Union at Baltimore April 1S
Cardinal Gibbons is expected to preach at
high mass tomorrow at st. August.nes
Catholic Church, and in the afternoon will
confirm large class of candidates
1t is expected that forty new members
will be admitted into the Young Mems
Catholic Institute at the meeting to be held
in GonZaga College Hall tomorrow evening
A donation party for the benefit of the
inmates Of st. AIMS Infant Asylum will
take place Easter Monday afternoon. The
sisters in charge are in need of groceries
and dry goods for their wards.
1t is understood that Rev. DR.. Frank NJ
Bristol. late of Evanston. H.. who has
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-26

years of it's existence. The length of the
road is forty-seven miles. and the fare up
until 1859 was So in gold. All through
passengers on the New York steamers
who have tickets for Panama are now
charged $40 in gold for this railroad trip,
and the local fare from Colon 20 Panama
is 81 i'll gold, but the baggage rates of 3
cents pound makes this much higher, as
only fifteen pounds are allowed free.
Inc Panama railroad is emphatically an
american institution. though the ma iority
OF the stock Is now in the hands of the
Panama Canal Company. being. in fact.
about the only valuable asset the compan,
has The road was built by Americans,
ana today all of its officials. including the
ticket agents, conductors and engineers,
come from the United States. 1t is a gold
en- monument to American pluck and en-
ergy. The concession for 1t was granted
10 an American syndicate in 1850 and this
included all the rights of way across the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-26
BUSINESS WOMEN.
They Know the Trials of the Busy
Man.
From the Anaconda Standard.

From the Anaconda Standard.
1t has frequently been said that women
il business employments do not make as
desirable wives their sisters who have
lived only domestic lives, but a recent OBJ
server takes wholly different view OF the
case. He holds that the effect of the wo-
man in business is not so much to the adj
vantage of the woman to the business
man. Such a woman has more respect for
him, more regard, more sympathy. She is
altogether less likely voluntarily TO inn
pose upon him or involuntariiy TO harass
and worry him. She has been there, she
knows how il is herself, and this personal
experience and knowledge make her more
lenient and considerate
Every woman wage-earner worthy of the
name learns first. last and all She time that
success IS attained by close attention and
single-nindedness. The woman who real
ICES this must also realize that the same
rule holds good of the business man. In
present capacity OF daughter and sister.
in future capacity as wifs, she Is certain
to show such keen consideration for the
business memberg of the household as is
undreamed of in the philosophy of the
other kind of woman.
There is TO danger of her HI sband being
besought to just stop on his way down
town and attend some specially seductive
hour or so earlier in order that he may
bring her home a lot of samples" She
as had practical and personal proof that
1t is through this sort of thing that BUSH
ness Interests are made to suffer, and she
does not propose 10 let this knowledge play
her false. A woman's appreciation of
business and business ways and means
thus insures domestic comfort: If con-
ditions warrant it, IL be 1efits the business
man even more than it benefits the business
woman herself
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-26

Company A. National Guard. Lieut. E. S.
Allen: Company b, National Guard, Capt.
T. E. Lloyd; Company c. National Guard.
Capt. 8. A. H. Mckim: Company u. Ma
tional Guard. Capt. r. Morgan; Company
F. National Guard. Capt. w. p. Ferguson.
seventh Battalion tnear almshouse)-Maj.
Guards, Capt. Robt. Clark; Mechanics
Union Rifles. Capt. Rutherford; Company
c. Union Regiment. Capt. G. w. Miller.
Eighth Battalion near Baltimore and
Ohio depoU-Major Balbach. adjutant;
Washington Rifles. Capt. A. Loeffier; Com
pany A. Turner Rifles. L. Braun: Company
b. Turner Rifles. Capt. Kzyanowski.
Plot Lincoln.
These served till July on the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad, on The Potomac and in
guarding the public property. Two of the
men of the Sth Battalion, while on picket
near the Great Falls, were killed by
sharpshooter from the Virginia side. One
of the Presidents Mounted Guard was be-
trayed while visiting friends near Ed
wards Ferry, captured and spent some
months in Libby prison.
Possibly the vigilance Of some of Col.
Towers comm; nd prevented the capture
of President Lincoln. Chain bridge above
Georgetown, was being guarded. the COM
mand being in camp on the north side in
the carly part of June. While this side
was fortified. the southern shore was not
Yet FULLY in possession of the Union forces.
anu some c1 tne enemy had been seen not
far from the bridge on the day in Ques-
ton. In the afternoon the Presidents car
riaSc, III viii Nj. Lincoln and his son
Tad were seated, BOWED aiorg making
directly over the bridge. Haiti called
the sentry. ard the driver checked the
horses Corporal Sheenan stepped out and
the President said lie wished 10 drive over
the bridge a short distance. We'll. sir,
you II have to turn back" answered the
corporal DO you know me?' asked the
no
President of the United States: but he
cannot pass. Which way shall | go.
then ?" asked Mr.. Lincoln, and CORPORAL
Shechar. directing the driver up the hill.
remarked to the President. by Colonel
Towers quarters, accompanied the car
riage Colonel Towers greeted the Presi-
dent. and. explaining to him the danger
to risi<:ng his person in that section of
Virginia. the President acknowledged the
necessity of being cautious. and. compli-
mentag Colonel Towers on having SO eff
Gent body of man, drove along other
roads than the Virginia highways that af-
teIDBun.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-03-26
SHAKESPEARE AND POLITICS,
Julius Cnesar'' the Expression O
Crisis and Revolt.

From the London Spectator
1t is In its unmesking of the mechanism
CT coup detat that Julius Caesar" is
most memorable In this respect it is. as
We Rave already suggested, one of the
most wonderful of political documents
Cassius asks:
How many ages hence
shall this our lofty scene be acted over
III states unborn, and accents yet unknown?''
He speaks with his sword dripping blood
and only of the murder put his words are
as true of the plot and the counterplot as
OF the supreme tragedy. Wherever men
like B1utus ara Cassus CHINA and Casca
conSpire, wherever men like Antony and
Cctavius turn the turmoil of the state to
their own advantage, wherever civil war
raises It's head, there men will follow some
pert or the path marked out by Shakes
pcare. So ellen entail. so universal, is mis-
rendering OF the plot that We see in this
archetypal conspiracy and murder all con-
spirac1es and murders before and since.
When the mobiles who plotted the death of
Gustavus of Sweden struck him down at
the masque. they unconsciously tracked
Shakespeare. Though Essex planned and
executed his treason before Shakespeare
wrote, if not before he thought the play
his waverinss and his flights of ambition
are all there. When Booth and his COM
panions conspired to kill Mr.. Lincoln, they
could not avoid the sophistries, any more
than the SaVagerieS, of BrutuS, CaSSiuS and
Casca. Booth, indeed, may, we had almost
said must, nave had the very words of the
play ringing in his ears. The lines we have
just quoted must have come back to him
ere he fired and struck his blow. Can we
doubt, too, that when Booth sprang upon
the stage, and holding UP his dagger, shout
ed to the audience, sic semper tyrannis!"
he had in his mind the cry Freedom and
Liberty!' raised by the conspiratorS in the
play. as they brandished their daggers over
Caesars corpse? Again, has not every con-
splrator instantly tried to enlarge the circle
of the crime as does Cassius when he calls
to Mark Antony
Your voice shall be as strong any mans
In the disposing of new dignities.'
That voice was beard again and again in
tie revolution-a at ThermidCr, at Vende-
miaire, and at every stage of Napo-
Icons ascent to empire 1t was heard,
too, in 1851, when the third Napoleon made
the Partisan cutters run with blood. Who
knows but at this moment such a voice is
whispering in Paris? Again. when we read
the scene at AntCny's houSe-it is one of
the very few scenes omitted at Her Maj
e5ty's-in which Antony; Octavius and Lep-
iduS discuss their plans, how Is it possible
tc forget kinglake's description of how
"the Brethren of the Elysee' plotted and
betrayed? When, too. we read how Brutus
Is persuaded by his friends, There rises up
the squalid and unfortunate parody of
great part which was enacted by General
BGulanger. Without question, the essen
tial part of the works" of every coup
d'etat that ever was will be made is to
be found, given or suggested, In Shakes
peare's Julius Caesar"