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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-12-03
HE FEARED INSANITY.
Geo. w. Leighton of Haveri..n Ends His
Lift Rather Than Face 1t.

Hayerhill, Mass. Dec. 2-Georse W.
leighton. shoe manufacturer here, COM
mitted suicide by shooting while in the
Eagle house, tonight. A letter addressed
to his wife was found in which he stated
that things were going wrong and he
feared recurrence Oh an attack of in
sanity from, which he had suffered five
mess here for several years and was
thought to be in prosperous circum-
stances. He leaves a widow and one
daughter.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-12-03

The Brown brothers of East Guilford.
have contracted to cut 100 cords or pulp
WOO. for John Ireland stS:t
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-12-03

DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup In un-
equalled for bronchitis. loss of voice.
hoarseness. and other throat and lung az
other medicine. 80
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-12-03

afternoon, to see the Strange Adven-
lures OF MISS Brown and at the even
ing performance which is to be Miss
Harum Scarum,'' Will probably be
large
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-12-03
AUGUSTA WINS.
We Capture a Game from Bangor,
Maine League Leaders.
Our Old Friend Dick Furbush and Others
in the Game.

ROBABLY the
average person
does not appreciate
the work that
eastman the Ban
gor goal, was made
to do, in the polo
game, Friday even
ing. He was not
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-12-03
Maine Polo League Standing.
Other Polo Games.

At New Haven-Hartford, 5; New Ha-
ven, 4.
At ringfield-Springfield .; Meri-
den, 5.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-12-03
CITY HALL.
o
NOTICE..
District of Maine,

DIStIICt OI NHII1p, !
Portland, Nov IS 1895
Pursuant to the rules of the circuit
court of the United States for the Dis
that Dana p. Foster of Watervilie. in
ssaid district. has applied for admisspn
as an attorney and counsellor of said
circuit court. A. r. DAVIS
Clerk U. S. Circuit Court, Maine District.
dec3d3t
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-12-03
AUGUSTA.
BANGOR

Score-Augusta, 10; Bangor, s. Stops
eastman, %; O'Malley, L. Referee, Con-
nelly. Timer, Mccain. Attendance $50.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-12-03

Charles Messer of the Hoyt's Express
a hunting trip.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-02

nEADERS of The Call will remember that
* few days ago we published roll OF the names
and places OF birth OF the seamen who mac per-
ished with the destruction of the Maine at Havana
Those who read the roll with attention must have
been impressed with the number OF names on 1T re-
corded of foreign birth. 1t was American
battleship charged with the high duty OF MAINTAIN
ing the honor Of the American flag, but a very large
proportion of the who served its engines and
its guns were foreigners.
There nothing new to the public in the facts
disclosed. 1t has long been known that navy and
to great extent our merchant marine IS manned by
men who at best Americans by adoption only.
Several Secretaries Of the Navy have directed the at
ention of Congress to the evil for evil 1t is, but
nothing has been done to provide remedy. 1t now
appears likely however, that the new stimulus to
patriotism given by the disaster at Havana will
Congress to act in this we'll as in other matters
OF naval improvement, and that we shall have within a
comparatively short time some we'll devised egisla
ton tending to make the naval service more attrac-
tive to Americans than it has been in times past.
The objection of Americans to service at sea does
not spring from any lack of ocean daring or any
want of popular pride in navy and Its history,
The cause is due mainly to the laws which govern
the sailor while at The young American, born
and raised in the freedom OF American institutions
and having ambition to rise in life, is not attracted
by the conditions which still prevail in the ocean ser
vice OF the country With the exception, therefore, OF
those who have dominating inclination Tor sea-
mans life the American leaves service Tor
Europeans and stays ashore until the outbreak OF war
calls him to respond patriotic duty.
AS one OF the means of encouraging the enlistment
of young Americans it has been proposed to open in
the naval service for advancement and pro-
motion to all who enlist At the present time our
method OF providing officers for the navy bars the
man who enters it seaman from any chance OF
rising, no matter how competent and faithful he may
be. If this exclusive system done away with
and the young sailor we'll the cadet from An
napolis could before him in the naval service an
opportunity for advancement that would appeal to his
ambition there can be question that the number
OF enstments would increase and the class OF those
seeking the service would improve.
The change suggested will not be wholly untried
experiment. The exclusive system once prevailed in
the army as in the navy, but some years since a
means was provided by which private soldier who
is able to pass the required tests may become COM
mssioned officer, and the results have been beneficial
in every respect. 1t is fair to assume that what
worked we'll in the army will be beneficial in the
navy and if the proposed reform takes place we may
reasonably expect navy which shall be manned by
any American youth the opportunities for adj
vancement and honor that open to him in every
other service of his country
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-02
REBELLIOIJS SUSIE ILLINOIS.
She Believes That Taxation Without Representation
Is Turannu,

Chicago s0oooooo worth Of property are
of their property from
taxation.
administer the Gov
selection
provided toward such undat least
be Illegal"
to rules which we
shai fair We'll things and go nome
This is the position of of Illinois ,,..
DOM poutng to bundle up her
and sukny
millions Gin Chicago one
small item of the
ouing the onIv hack ward in the world for her There
suppose Suppose Susie with
stay off, That's exempt from
yourself all
the
benefit which
woman being the weaker partner in the benefits most
supposedly fed
of the
millions
Johnnie
moment that
the is
endeared Susie lifetime
world time of common joys
feminine thrift still be added John
unjust that we do not vote but that wise and that
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-02
BISMARCK THE SOLDIER.

Prince Bismarck on March Is next will
celebrate the siXtieth anniversary of his
entering the Prussian army, to which he
now belongs as Colonel General of Cav
airy and chief of the regiment of Seyd-
litz Cuirassiers, which is named after a
famous general of Frederick the Great
On that date in 1883 young Bismarck was
the Royal Guards at Potsdam as a one
year volunteer. year later he received
his discharge as non-commissioned Of
flcer and was transferred to the reserve.
In 1854 he was promoted to first ieuten-
ant in the cavalry of the Landwehr (la-
tional militia; in 1859 he became captain,
and in 1861 major. During the Austro-
Prussian war in 1866 he was made a ma
jor-general; at the proclamation of the
German Empire in Versailles in 1871, he
1876 he was made general of cavalry. Will
liam II in March of 1890 appointed him
colonel general
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-02
mo SPECIAL SIGNIFICANCE

~ NE of the strangest features OF the present at
ttude of this country toward Spain is that no
~ matter what is done mo special significance
attaches to it. This information may be obtained
from any official who may consider himself at liberty
TO speak but the fact that many feel constrained
to curb the agility of their tongues by firmly gripping
them between their teeth merely another OF the cir
cumstances so strikingly devoid OF significance. II
rumor set ahoat by diplomacy is to be credited there
is nothing left to mortal ken to which may be at
trbuted the quality of significance Indeed how there
should have happened to be human environment
made up entirely of fhe insignificant is enough to
puzzle people who happen to think about it
Work is rushed at navy yard and army post, NUM-
tions of war hurried from point to point, Senator
sent to Havana secret conferences held among
statesmen, efforts made to increase the number OF
ships and man them hide the real opinion of the
board of inquiry. All these things might unite in
creating feeling Of uneasiness theory that the
usual was about to happen. But no. Tackled to each
OF them as rider is the statement that it has no
significance" Thus the country is treasured, and
aside from wondering why energy is being bent to
the accomplishment of that which indicates naught
but the unbridled sway of the Insignificant the If
relevant and the immaterial, finds excuse for
being aroused to emotion.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-02
Q Q o Q Q Q Q Q .
CAPTAIN
McGREGOR'S
DOG
SCUTTLEBUTT. n
} O O 0 0 o o o o

command of that old hooker, the South
ern Cross, and used to run from Liverpool
around the Cape to Australia said cap
tain McGregor, as the Ancient Mariner
Club assembled in the room back of the
hotel bar for their regular afternoon ses-
sion.
'.There are ships dogs and ships dogs,
but. in over fifty years of wind-jamming
on every bit of blue water from Halifax
to Hakodate, / have never seen the equal
of old Scuttlebutt. He was born sailor,
his father being beachcomber OF VAL
paraiso. and his mother the ships dog
on the old brig Spunyarn, under whose
fo'castle he first saw the light of day as
he lay amid lot of dunnage and gazed
out at the big green seas that Cape
Horn blow sent sweeping over her sides
and along her decks.
1.-The first word he ever heard was the
cursing of the bo'swain as he kicked him
out of the way while hunting for watch
tackle and he learned to drink coffee in
the morning watch at an age when ordi-
nary shore dogs find it hard to digest
bread and milk.
HE was nearly year old when he
came to me. as the two vessels were
canning during a calm. / knew the min
ute 1 looked at him and saw the manner
he moved about the decks that he would
prove valuable acquisition to the ships
company, so l proposed to the captain
of the Spunyarn that he let me have the
pup for half sack of potatoes. The trade
went, and Scuttlebutt became mine. He
rapidly developed into the best all-round
sea-dog that ever weathered a nor wester.
But the particular accomplishment that
1 was going to tell you of was his ability
as climber. There was no place allow
or aloft that he could not get to- He
would come aboard over a swinging boom
as handily as a man-o'-warsman, and we
used to stick his tail in slush pot and
send him aloft to grease down from the
truck. He would lay out on a yard with
his hind feet on the foot rope and his
fore paws over the stick and help furl
with his teeth. and 1t was a common
practice of his to hang head downward
from the back ropes and play with the
dolphins under the bow when we were
in the tropics
what became of him? Poor old Scut-
tlebutt. 1 lost him off the tops'lyard one
dark night during terrific gale off the
Cape. We were taking a double reef in
the sail, Scuttlebutt was out on the lee
e'rring with one paw on the foot rope and
one on the brace. The brace parted and
he went over the side and was never seen
again."
A. Sacwan, prominent merchant from
Bombay, India, is at the Palace.
w. Booth, wealthy tourist from Lon
don, is staying at the Occidental.
A. Marka of New York is one of yes
terday's arrivals at the California.
G. e. Pratt, coffee planter of San SAL
vador, is staying at the Occidental.
J. E. Rugg and wife of Boise City,
Idaho, are registered at the Occidental.
| w. w. Treglown arrived from Yoko-
| hama on the Doric and is at the Palace.
Rev. w Middleton was one. of the ar
rivals at the Palace yesterday from Yoko-
| hama.
! Mrs. o. S. Fowler, the widow of the
famous phrenologist, is registered at the
| California from New York
| C. F. Bliss. mining man of Nevada.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-02
HUNTINGTON'S LAST STAND.

HROCEED1NGS in the House OF Representa-
I)tves on Friday during the debate the ap-
preparation bill disclose the fact that Hunting
ton has not yet given up his fight against the i'm
provement of San Pedro harbor, but fortunately
also show that he has lost his power in the House
and that his last struggle will be unavailng and flu
tile.
TO pave the way for the assault on the proposed
appropriation for San Pedro the attack was begun
the clause of the bill appropratng $4,000 for the
improvement of Oakland harbor. The opponents of
the measure took stand ostensbly in the interests
of economy and urged that as no contract had yet
been made for the work Oakland it should not be
undertaken at this time. 1t generally recognized
that this was but a preliminary in the fight
against San Pedro since adverse vote on that
ground against the Oakland appropriation would
have established precedent for defeating the i'm
provement Of the southern harbor.
The attempt to strike the Oakland appropriation
from the bill failed, and then the fight against San
Pedro began in earnest The most significant feature
OF it was the speech made by General Grosvenor of
Ohio, who, after attacking the appropriation the
ground that the contemplated Improvement would be
unwise, that it would cost than the amount
fixed by law, and that contract had yet been made
for the work. went to say that excellent har-
Dor in that vicinity would be constructed by private
enterprise and turned to the Government with
out cOSI PROVIDED the Government SnOulQ not pro-
coed with the improvement at San Pedro He is re-
ported to have stated also that offer in writing to
that effect has been filed with the Secretary of War
by persons of unquestionable responsibility.
The statement of General Grosvenor was Under
stood to refer to Mr.. Huntington, but appears that
investigation failed to discover any evidence that
such proposition had been made to the Secretary
of War. Possibly General Grosvenor may have been
assured that "the responsible parties" willing to
make the offer and assumed they had done SO. How
ever the mistake may have occurred the statement
made openly the floor of Congress shows how
desperate are the tactics of the Southern Pacific
managers and to what extent they are willing to go
in their efforts to maintain their old-time monopoly
Of transcontinental communication with the ports and
harbors OF California.
Despite the efforts of the opposition the appropri-
alton was agreed to and victory for the people &C
complished in the House. Thus another step has
been taken toward the emancipation of the indus
tries and commerce of California from the thralldon
OF the Southern Pacific Company Mr.. Huntington
may il he chooses improve Santa Monica harbor a,
his own expense, but if he does he will not be in
position to monopoze the traffic of the counties
back of Los Angeles and compel it to deray the cost
OF the improvement He will have competition there
as in the San Joaquin and no longer fix fregfts
and fares at all the traffic will bear
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-02
COLLECTED in
THE CORRIDORS.

c. B. Kimbella and wife Of Chicago are
at the Lick.
Brander H. Lee is at the Palace from
Los Angeles.
]. w. Houston of CORTLAND is a guest
at the Grand.
d. H. Wallis of Sacramento is guest
at the Grand.
S. j. Allard, the Eureka insurance man,
is at the Grand.
j. F. Camp, mine owner of Chicago.
is at the Grand.
w. Aherns is registered at the Califor-
MIA from Alaska.
J. F. Peck of MERGED arrived at the
Lick last evening.
r. L. Thornton and wife are guests at
the Lick from Seattle.
J. ]. McGinnity, a mining man Of Den
yer, is at the California.
w. Palmtag, big rancher of Hollister.
is staying at the California.
w. A. Anderson, prominent lawyer of
Sacramento is at the Lick.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-02

OF this number only five or six make in
comes of from $4,000 to 100000 a year;
from ten to fifteen make from S2eoo0 to
$40 900 a year, TO- make perhaps $4,000
wear. 800 make from $4,000 to $1,000 year,
500 make from $500 to $1,000, while 200 earn
less than $500 a year. Coming to the
LAWYERS. of whom there are 5000 in Paris
alone. we find that there are not 4O0 OF
them who make as much as $1,000 year;
A couple of score make incomes OF SlOOO0
advocates is made a magistrate his salary
is only from $500 to $500 a year, while for
the Justices of the Peacefully qualified
from 5000 to 5000 a year Think of it! And
an i English siE judgeship is worth from s25 900
to $50 600 1t seems that college profes-
sor is paid from 5000 to $500 year. lycee
professor from $3.50 to $1,000 a year An
English university professor earns an
average of $500 year.-Boston journal.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-02
SENATOR GEAR AND HAWAII.
Philadelphia Times.

Philadelphia Times.
Senator Gear of Iowa has joined SEN
ator Morrill, of Vermont In his opposition
to the annexation or HAWAII on the
ground that population of 1000 of whites
sandwiched with $4,000 more or less ig-
norant and diseased natives and 71.OoO
Chinese andsJapanese hardly constitute
suitable constituency for sel1-goVeInlns
State II will be noted that Senator Gear
has ignored all questions of sugar grow
ing and manifest destiny, and considered
only the fitness of the country, with Its
mixed and ignorant population, to be
come one of the American States Most
intelligent people will regard senator
Gears reason for opposing the treaty as
a very sensible one and will wonder why
he should have. so few. Republican col,
leagues in the Senate of a like way Of
thinking. They will be gratifed, how
ever, with the assurance that the odds
and ends of opposition, made up of Dem
ocrats, PopulistS anad a few Republicans
like Morrill, and Gear. are likely to pre-
vent the confirmation Of the treaty.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-02
PREPARE FOR A GALE.
New York Sun.

The Hon. William Jennings Bryan, the
Hon. George Fred Williams, and the Hon.
Jim Jones have promised to go to the
spring meeting of the Bimetallic League
at Indianapolis. Joy sparkles in the eyes
of the silver Hoosiers. 1.-THE size of the
crowd on that OCCASION says the Delphi
monetary convention look like a knot on
a street corner The poor old monetary
convention CONVEX ION was was not wild uprising OF the
ing causes alarm already. Mr.. Bryan Is
a large crowd The Hon. Jim Jones is q
multitude. The Hon. George Fred Will
three such vast babies come together
without danger to themselves and others
If there are any others?
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-02
IN LENT.

No smiles allure,
She looks demure
And like nun all gowned in gray,
With modest mein,
And face serene
AS down the aisle she takes her way
I upward look
From my hymn book.
And wonder as my pew she passes,
'Can this be May,
This saint in gray,
Devout in penitential ashes?
She looks intent
On prayer full bent
Her thoughts are far from summer peacneA
Her heart inclineS
To Lenten shrines,
And rather psalms than tender speeches.
In other guise
/ saw her eyes,
(Ah, summers gone and seasons SPENT,
o Time, how strange
You wrought the change
In May, my summer girl in Lent. :,
Alice Van Laer Carrick in Boston Herald.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-02
FIRING BOTH BARRELS AT OAKLAND

THE big six in the Oakland City Council, which
passed the water rate ordinance, is still IN Dusl-
ness at the old stand and seems to nave Deen
re enforced since its first skirmish and victory.
After passing the water ordinance it prepared to
take another fall out of the people by putting through
a real estate job under the guise OF park PROPOSE
ton 1t is noteworthy that the park job ordinance
describes the ground to be bought by metes and
bounds but does not give the number OF acres nor
the price 1t is known outside the text OF the ord-
nance that the price about $1,000 per acre and the
area about sixty acres. Land bought at that price
for park purposes is most luxurious investment 1t
may fit into the financial views OF the rank Council
men who have just watered their official stock, but
only cities Of three quarters OF million people can
afford to pay that price for park sites.
The vote for the water ordinance was Bros
nahan Earl Heitmann, Henneberry, Watkinson and
Woodward. President Pringle denounced these SIX
men to their faces in the Council and took pains
to rife the vocabulary OF anger and contempt to ex-
press his opinion of their treachery and probable cor
ruption. Then the roll called on the park job,
and Pringle compacently voted with the same six
for that ob
These are hard lines for the people OF Oakland. 1t
is noticed that the local papers, which have been very
indignant over the water ordinance indulglng in
a pleased and smiling silence the real estate job
nut through by the same combination.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-03-02
THE TELLER ON MY KNEE.

EFF the country goes ter f1ghtin',"
Says the Teller on my knee,
Would you go an be a soJer,
Like they say you use ter be?'
q wuz all erlong with Jackson.
An I faced the fight with Lee)
~ think l would" / answers
Ter the Teller my knee.
Then my mind went back a minute
Ter the days o sixty-one;
1 saw the bayonets bristle-
Heard the thunder o the gun.
q wuz mixed up in the 1ghtin
Fore Sherman struck the sea.)
81 think I'd co. 1 answers
Ter the Teller on my knee
s'Would YOU go an leave my mother
Would YOU kiss good-by ter me
An go marchin' with the sojers?
Says the Teller on my knee
An l feel a tear-drop tr1ckle
Ger I'm TEDIOUS as kin beD
81 think 1 would / answers
Ter the Teller on my knee
''But 1 hope the wars air over
That We'll dwell upon the 500
Forever an forever
In the lovin' peace o God!
''But-sfpose they went ter ngntln
Would you help 'em out? says me-
I'm shore 1 wouldp' I answers
Ter the Teller on my knee.
Frank L. Stanton in Chicago Times-Heraic