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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-13


the best rider in the world; physically
he is "hard as nails" be can shoot
quicker and faster and straighter than
any one else in the business, and he
would ''sooner fight than eat. :"
What will become Of the Spanish
regiment of drafted striplings which
gets in the way of these daredevils Of
the plains is almost pathetic to contem-
plate. Ordinarily cavalry would not be
sent against infantry, but the cowboy
regiments will be able TO cope with
anything except machine guns and
heavy ordnance. The average cavalry.
man guides his horse with one hand
and with the other uses either his saber
or his revolver. The rife slung across
his back he uses only when dismounted.
But the cowboy cavalryman will 60
into action in far different manner.
Guiding his we'll trained mustang only
with his knees and with six shooter
in either hand, he will charge on the
jump. Where he charges something
will give way too.
The. first regiment to be raised is
commanded by Colonel Leonard Wood
and LieutenantC Colonel Theodore Roose-
welt. Colonel Wood is also DR. Wood
for. he is the. army surgeon stationed in
Washington in care of the health of off
GERS and their families and is also at
tending physician to tho president.
1t was Mr.. Roosevelt's own selection
thaf hfr S,i,o,,Il NO ,,,nln
mand under DR. Wood Oil account Of
the latter thorough knowledge of mil
itary affairs. The doctor is already IA
nous as soldier, having won a medal
of honor for his distinguished gallantrv
while commanding detachmens of
against Geronimo
Secretary Alger selected Colonel
Wood and Mr.. Roosevelt for the places
because he felt that their training and
experience in the past peculiarly fitted
them to do good service with such Or
CARNATIONS. Mr.. Roosevelt, who resign
ed the post of assistant secretary of the
navy in order that he might have q
chance to do actual fighting when the
time came for the invasion of Cuba.
ought to make a dashng leader for such
a dashing troop. He has been cowboy
himself. has killed big game in the
Rockies and is an expert rifle shot AS
for his belligerency, toward Spain or
any old thing that merits the hostile
feeling of al honest man, it is never
failing.
Judge Jay L. Torrey of Wyoming is
the man who has. asked permission to
raise the other regiment of cowboys.
Judge Torrey is a wealthy rancher who
spends his summers among his cowboys
and his winters in Washington.
Concerning the uniforms and equip
ments of the men, the plan is to have q
distinct uniform which will be both
.serviceable aud ornamental and charac-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-13
MODERN SEA FIGHTING.
Lessons In Naval Warfare
Learned In Blood.
EXPLOSION ON THE ESMERELDA.

Modern Battleships In South American
War-Tragic Fate of Admiral Grau.
How the Huascar Crew Fought Against
Fate Until Shot to Pieces.
A few years ago the boundary troubles
between Chile, Peru and Bolivia resulted
in an alliance between tho latter two to
make war upon the former. For some
years Chile had been gathering modern
navy, and when hostilities were declared
she had several first rate cruisers, includ-
ing the O'Hi2gins and tho Cochrane
These vessels were of q little less than 49,
600 tons displacement, possessed tho twin
screw and were armored and equipped
with main batteries of 10 and inch guns,
with a full complement of rapid fire and
machine guns. To oppose these the allies
had but ono vessel which could be consid-
cred in any way match for them. That
vessel, the Huascar, of the Peruvian navy
was an armored cruiser about equal to the
Cochrane in displacement and armament.
A military historian in the Philadelphia
Times states that when war was declared
the Peruvian government placed Captain
Grau, a thoroughly experienced, brave and
competent sailor of German descent, in
command of the Huascar as the admiral of
the allied navies Captain Pratt, a friend
of Grau and an able seaman of English
descent, was placed in charge of the Chill
can squadron and put to sea in the Esmer-
elda, an unprotected cruiser, accompanied
only by her sister ship, the Independence.
While cruising off Iquique on the 22d
day of May these vessels were spied by the
Huascar, and Admiral Grau decided to en-
gage them both, cleared his deck for action
and bore down upon them. Captain Pratt
stood his ground, and an action COM
menced which soon demonstrated that 10
number of wooden ships can stand before
the armored cruiser. The shot from the
Esmerelda and the Independence, one of
which weighed 200 pounds, pelted the
Huascar steadily at a decreasing range, and
only one of them made dent III tho ar
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-13
P4O8iE OF AL SORTS.
the Word Builder Is Hard at Work In
venting Names.


In Il recent work of NJ. Gelineau on
Unhealthy Fear, Or Phobir," the author
gives a complete list of these morbid men
tai conditions. They are .aichiisophobia,
or fear of sharp points, as of needles or
pins; agroaphobia, or fear of open spaces,
with a subvariety; thalassophobia, or
dread Of the ocean; astrophobia, or@fear of
the stars and celestial space; catastrophe
G.;l, or fear of Enclosed spaces; mysopho-
va. or fear of filth; h;ematophobia, dread
"f blood; necrophobia, or horror of dead
bodies; thanatophobia, or dread of death ::
nnthropophobia. or fear Of crowds; mono
phobia, or fear of being left in solitude; ba-
cillophobia, or fear of microbes; siderodro-
mophobia, or dread of railways; pathopho.
bia, or fear of disease, with many subdi-
visions, of which the most important and
most frequent are anginophoba. fear Of
angina pectoris; ataxaphobia, syphilopho-
bia, lyssophobia, or fear of rabbies sper-
matophobia and zoophobia, or fear of ami
mails, which in its turn has subdivisions
of cats, dogs, horses, mice, ETC., ad totum
catalogum animalium.
Further, we find in the same list klepto.
phobia, fear of becoming kleptomaniac:
pyrophobia, fear of matches; stasophobia,
dread of standing upright; aerophobia, or
dread of drafts of air; nrophobia, fear OF
high places; toxicophobia, a fear of poisons;
dcmonophobia, dread of the devil (this
is rather rare)
There are also great number of pho
bin peculiar to certain professional per-
sons, as physicians, artists, merchants,
which haveyc+ to be Hellenized and CLASH
fled. The eliminating fear, however, the
quntessence of dread, is the fear of hay
ing fear, the dread of dread, or phobo-
phobia. The study of these phobie opens
up large subject, and the long names
will be hailed with delight by some I'M
scrupulous members of our profession. In
calming (or humbugging) hysterical pa
tients some of them would be invaluable,
for that useful and elastic term ''neuras-
thenia" is getting bit played out among
the laity. The hypochondriac old lady who
tells her sympathetic medical attendant
that even 10 think of travelling by a hor-
rid railway train sets her all of q -tremble "
will be greatly Gained and edited when
Dr. "osky gravely replies that such a
statement does not surprise him, as she is
suffering from that curious and interest
Ing complaint called sidcrodromophobia.
Medical Times and Hospital Gazette.
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EXPLOSION on THE EsNEREIDA

NOR. On the other hand, the IIuasoar's
shot Went through the wooden cruisers as
though they had been paper, converting
them into regular slaughter houses. In
vain did the brave Pratt try to ram the
steel monster until, driven to desperation,
with drawn sword, at the head of board
ing crew he jumped aboard the Huascar
and fell at the gangway pierced through
the brain by rilleman in the rigging.
Seeing that the battle was lost, the Es-
merelua escaped under the guns of shore
batteries, but in trying to follow her q
shot from the Huascar penetrated to the
magazine, and the Independence blew up,
with all on board.
Repairing his Slight damages. Admiral
Grau turned south along the Chilean coast
and began that cruise which, a few months
later, terminated in the most terrific naval
conflict of modern times. Bombardng
cities, sinking the wooden vessels of Chile
and destroying commerce, he swept every
thing before him until tho name of the
Huascar became the synonym of terror.
AT this time the admiral had an expert
ence with torpedo which permanently
prejudiced him against that engine of war
fare. Seeing Chilean vessel one day, he
decided to blow her up. The torpedo was
fired. proceeded about half way to the
mark, then turned and made q direct line
for the Huasoar, which was only saved by
seaman jumping overheard and catch
ing it. Lowering his stock Of torpedoes
into boat, he had them rowed ashore and
buried in the cemetery of the village, and
from that day refused to let ono come on
his ship
But the glorious career of brave old Grau
was near its end. Chile, thoroughly
aroused by tho depredations of the Huas-
| car, fitted out a powerful squadron, which
was sent out to hunt her down. Suspect
ing tho whereabouts of the Huascar. the
Chilean squadron took up favorable no.
stion and waited off the port Of Autofa-
gasta.
The first day of October dawn<d bright
and beautiful and witnessed the Huascar
| jogging leisurely up tho coast under an
easy head of steam. At ) o'clock in the aft
ernoon, while Grau was smoking his pipe
on the quarter deck and ENJOYING the soft
spring air, the lookout in the foretop de-
serted smoke on the horizon and gave the
alarm. A little later the Cochrane. the
Cayadanga and the Blanco hove in sight
TO the south, while almost at the same mo-
ment the O'Higgins, tho Ioa and the
| Causlna appeared on the north. Grau was
caught in trap. But he was a man of
resources and resolution, and his decision
was soon made. Heading his ship to tho
eastward, he steered toward africa under
full head of steam. Changing their
course also. tho two Chilean squadrons
paralleled his course. The Huascar was
now fairly trembling as she bounded for
ward under forced draft, but the black
clouds Of smoke from the pursuers showed
that they were straining every nerve to
o"ertake thu enemy. AS the afternoon
wore on the , Higgins forged ahead, fol.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-13
A CARD.

To my friends in Kennebec valley:
l take pleasure In introducing to you
Mr.. w. A. Carlisle, who represents The
NJ. Steinert 4 Sons Co., piano dealers,
Portland, Me. believe him to be up.
right in all his dealings. What he tells
you at night, you will find true in the
morning. He is located permanently in
this city, and those desiring a first class
piano at the lowest possible price, and on
the most liberal terms, will do we'll to
call on him before purchasing.
p. 0. vickery.
Augusta, Nc, April Z, 1898.
aprSdtf
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Steinway, Hardman, Gab|er, Pease
James & HoImstronl and other
High Grade Pianos.

The unique Aeolian and the Aeriol
(self playing piano)
A full line of music. small instruments
and musical merchandise.
If unable to call on us, write to us for
any information desired and your letter
will receive prompt attention. Catalogues
mailed free, lowest prices, most liberal
terms.
5l7 CONGRESS ST., PORTLAND, ME.
r. C. McGOULDRIC,
Manager.
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teristic of them. Their equipment is
the best that the world has ever seen,
and they will probably be permitted
to retain it, AS to arms, they would
wish to avoid everything that is useless
or simply ornamental, including sabers,
and to be furnished, if possible, each
with a couple of six shooters and long
range rife.
Said western congressman in speak
ing of the cowboy regiments: Wherever
they strike, they will make things hum.
When they reach a town, the inhabit.
ants will think that several circuses
and several kinds OF disaster have
broken i'll upon them"
ANDREW Downs.
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Obayiug Orders.

Kind Lady-Ah, if you had only done
what your mother told you, you might not
be in this situation.
Convict don't know She told me to
go out into the world and make money
Detroit Free Press.
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ovcrwcenln5 ana 1naccu lnexPTT-iDIe Idea
Of their own claim to the portable proper
ty they want, which is SO frequently ap
parent even in women who are genuinely
respectable. London Standard.
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EXPENDITURES IN 1897

Claims by death, endowments
and annuities, surrendered
policies and dividends or
returns premiums, total paid
policyh0lders ............
Taxes. Expenses, including
agents commissions, adver-
Using. salaries, &c.........
Profit and loss account, in
Guiding premiums on bonds
purchased, and 800. 900
charged off from real estate
to cover possible deprecia-
ton
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N. STElnERT &S0NS Co.

The leading piano and music house own
ing end operating fifteen large stores.
t,cie New England representatives for the
sale of
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sl,92S,147 s.

Reserve fund, per cent and
all other claims. ............s 5SS64. S4 50
Surplus, .company's standard. 4160.17 81
Surplus by legal standard of
n. j., N. Y. etc, based on
market value of assets and Z.
per cent. reserve. ............. 47S4, 925 Y,
Policies issued and revived in y
ISL lSa5; ls,lls, insuring a,sls.as s.
49, 1873, insUring.. sS4 496. 6SS 10
The company has paid over 81 900 in
Maine and has a larger per cent. of all
the insurance it has written in the Stars
now nsforce than any other company.
c.. f. DUNLAP, District Agent.
Is Exchange St, Portland, Me (
F.. n. ENWRfGHT, So. Gardiner, NJ .
Special Agent,
march4. eodtf
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Total expenditures. ............
ASSETS JANUARY l. l

Cash on hand and in banks.
Loans on collateral, u. S.
bonds and other securities.
United States and other
bonds, par.
First bonds and mortgages
on real estate.
Real estate.
Loans on policies in force.
Agents balances and cash
obligations ...............
Interest due and accrued.
Net deferred and unreported
premiums on policies in force
Total
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-13

Be very careful TO keep the feed troughs
clean. V'7 ''
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Good stock almost always find quick
sale.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-13

AN EVENING PARTY
or your every day table will be cater
to by US in all the choicest table de-
cacies in canned, potted and devi
meats, anchovies, sardines, salm
olives, preserves in glass. fruit, ia,
and jellies. and all kinds of cam
foods put up by the best Gamers
Europe and America. Our butt4
cheese and fine biscuits are unexcelI e
We also have a full line of choice tts
and coffees. ~
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ieAo. 1898,
SD ANNUAL STATEMENT.
OF THE
Mutual Benefit
Life insurance Co,
NEWARK, Nd.
AMZI DODD, President.
lQd5
RECEIPTS IN 1897.
s11,S34,lla1 II

Received for premiums........ $500, 49, 4
Received for interest and rents 3.227,s2a
S2I TO -
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LIABILITIES.

Total NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-02-27
NEVADA FOR NEVADANS.

ALT Chartz has the following in his
letter to the Genoa Courier:
A commission house to handle Ne
vada products, advocated by A. Liv-
ingston, is a very good idea, and so is
the establishment of Wholesale houses.
A concerted united effort to make the
Southern Pacific Company deal with
Nevada as it does with Utah and Cal
lfornla IN the matter of fares and
freights, would tend to double Ne
vada's population in a very few years.
The election of Nevadans only to office
would help a great deal. Judge Ris-
ing was thirty years on the bench
and he left the State for good before
his term of Office expired. Charley
Bicknell was Clerk of the Supreme
Court for over twenty years, and he
moved his box of paper collars and
socks with him-his entire invest
ments in this State-as O as he
got out of office. He got admitted
to practice law and he ran away with
out paying the SIS due for the certif-
cate. Controller Hallock skipped as
500 as he got out OF office. Judge
Bigelow held Office for 20 years, ard
left as soon as he could. Senators
Stewart and Jones have no invest.
ments in this State which they car
possibly get along without. The
total sum Nevada throws awav By
~electing and keeping men in office who
invest elsewhere is incalculable,
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-02-27
POOR RAILROAD ECONOMY.

There is an apparent proclivity on
the part ofrailroad managers to con
omize and reduce expenses to the
very lowest practicable point in order
to increase profits. Thus it IS tha'
whenever they think the number Of
their employees can possibly be re-
duced it is done, especially along the
lines of the great railroads. The
Central Pacific, for instance, has a far
less number of regular road M
ployes than formerly varying o .%fcourse
with the amount of travel and traffic.
But not so with the shops where
there is no let up torepairs of engines,
cars, snowplows and other railroad
equipments, repairing old and new.
There they have plenty of men, with
plenty to do. The other day a freight
train was wrecked heal Verdi. Some
said it was caused by a broken wheel,
but those who should know best said
it was from a damaged track-ra1ls
spreading or something of the sort.
At any rate thirteen cars were badly
smashed up, much track destroyed,
and the entire business of the road,
east and west, blockaded for several
hours. The locomotive was all right
and nobody was killed or hurt, which
was fortunate.
Another freight train was also
wrecked not long ago the other side
of the summit near Cape Horn, where
two locomotives and some cars went
to destruction over the embankment
The cause did not seem to be precisely
understood, therefore it was attri
buted to damaged track or spreading
rails, same as heart failure is as
signed as the cause of death, wher
the disease which kills a man is no
understood by his doctor.
Such accidents cause not only seri
Gus interruption to mail, public trave
and general business, but are very
costly, and where human life is invol
we'd, far more so The skilled
watchful eyes of one man employed 70
the purpose, in either Of the case
mentioned might have prevented al
hat trouble and expense, keeping
two extensive and very costly job
away from the shops. But we hea
of similar accidents every few days
somewhere east o. west, and NOR
from that cause than any other.
In conversation with a we'll know:
practical railroad contractor an
builder and section manager, sine
the Verdi disaster, he stated that o
this railroad there are enploye
merely a section boss with from thre
to half a dozen men to look out f(
each ten mile section of the tract
This was not men enough, he sait
No railroad, however we'll constructeC
can be too vigilantly guarded and col
stantly under skilled inspection
Railroad managers should apprecia
this idea as a matter of economy,
nothing more, but they do MOI seem t
and he closed with this very sign1:
cant remark: III they had more me
on the tracks they would need lie
in the shops.'-Reno Journal.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-02-27

When the children are
hungry, what do you give
them? Food.
When thirsty? Water.
Now use the same good
common sense, and what
would you give them when
they are too thin? The best
fat-forming food, of course.
Somehow you think Of
SCOTS Emulsion at once.
For a quarter of a century
it has been making thin
children, plump; weak child
rem, strong; sick children,
healthy.
SOC. and $500, all druggists.
SCOTT & BOVINE, Chemists, New York.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-25
BIG INCREASE N POSTAL BUSINESS.
EVIDENCES OF THE CoUYTRY's PROSPERITY

EVIDENCES OF THE COUNTRY's PROSPERITY
GIVEN IN Mr. HEATH's ANNUAL REPORT.
Washington. Nov. 24-Perry S Heath, the First
Assistant Postmaster General. has completed his
annual report except the portions relating TO mill
tary postof.ices at the Army camps and in the
Antilles and Philippines. and the rural free-deliv-
cry service both Of which await further adVlces.
The general business Of the Department shows
an increase Of over 100000 during the fiscal year
In All departments of the service the influence Of
prosperous times has made itself apparent. This
wear there were 2779SO7s domestic money orders
issued against % 1863 055 last year. the amount car
ried was slsl 354 21 against $l7iN2s76 There were
235s ne money -orcer Offices established
The recommendations from Congressional action
are numerous and interesting. Mr.. Heath recon-
mends that Gle ks in postofices be classified and
placed on a fixed Gale of salaries similar TO that
Of letter-carriers so as TO give fair prospects OF
advancement and certainty of compensation. Al
present there is no rule or system for The grazing
OF clerks at postofices. II is contended that an
efficient postofcc clerk is the peer OF Ietter-car-
rer and that there should be no discrimination
In the pay or privileges accorded to either class
The hours Of labor OF letter-carTler are HHl!'eu
by law TO eight day. and he has hIteeh
days cave Of absence. Posofice clerks nave 10
limitation on their hours and no vacation without
loss of salary. An appropriation OF s"V" Is re-
quested for the employment Of substitute cierks'
10 allow vacations An appropriation OF Nl.swVn'
an increase OF 10000 over this year. Is recon-
mended for the next nscal year for clerk mrs.
congress having appropated $'% co. les t ib the
Departments estimate for clerk hiie ~ tne nsi ~
dscal wear considerable embarrassment has ensued
in meeting emergencies incident ~ the great II.
crease Of public business. me consoiud4o" VI
rcsioffices Is again recommended 49, , an
Free Dc livery was extended TO hfty-nlne ON es.
Additional offices entitled to free delivery nun Der
liz in the current fiscal year service mas Dten
established a. ;hirtyiour OF those One %
scyenIv-s!x TO await the consideration o. tne ~
nortr'tr, ar leah recommends modlhc8toh
OF the Eight-hour law as applied 10 d ier
So as 10 provide fcrty-tiSht hours ioF SIX Gays
S,Sork and only as many hours on Sunday within
the eight hour Limit a are absolutely "e'e9'"'f '
Tho REQUIREMENTS OF the service
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-25
THE PRESIDENTS CIVIL SERVICE. ORDER.
TO BE ISSUED IN A FEW DAYs-THE EXEMP-
TIONs

TO BE ISSUED IN A FEW DAYs-THE EXEMP-
TONS
Washington. Nov. 24-The exact date Of the issue
the Presidents Civi. Service order has not been
fixed. though the President has asked TO have the
final departmental recommendations submitted at
the earliest moment The indications that II
will be out in few days. The President has dis
cussed the general scope of the forthcoming exemp-
tions with tho members Of the Cabinet and others,
and there have been several consultations OF late
among departmental officials. The exemptions. It
is understood in addition to those already
mentioned. will include members of the Board of
Pension Appeals to which appeals from the action
Of the Pension Bureau first go: law clerks in the
General Land Office. and. among others. per diem
employees in the Offices OF the surVeyors-general.
Some officers In the Indian service are said TO be
slated for exemption. and few officials in the
postal service, including cashiers and others in
postoffices for whose duties the postmasters are
held personally responsible, will he included Pri-
Vate secretaries to chiefs of bureaus also VIII be
taken Of the classified service. but chief Clerks
and chiefs Of divisions are not 10 be a1ected