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Daily Kennebec journal., 1899-05-08

a number or shade trees We're set
out on the library grounds, Saturday.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1899-05-08

II. w. Frost of Bangor. was a bust
ness visitor To the city, Saturday.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1899-05-08

+. Il. Mansfield of Orouo. was calling
On friends in tn cily. Saturday.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1899-05-08

L. $. Sanborn of Readfeld, was in
the city ou business. saturday.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1899-05-08

Harvey Gatch-ll passed Saturday
ana sunday ut Lake Cobbusscecontee.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1899-05-08

p. H. Carey was al home from North
JAY, over sunday.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1899-05-08

T.. =. Bacon went I'd Scarboro. SET.
urday for visit
Daily Kennebec journal., 1899-05-08
Daily kennebee Journal.
GARDINER.

= l. 4
Uriah Stone returned to Boston, yes
terday.
Gertrude Coaling left. Saturday, for
Boston.
Mrs. McClain is visiting in Massa-
chusetts.
Miss Mckay is spending few days
in Boston.
Charles Lewis is the guest Of friends
at the Hub
w. j. Landers left on business trip
to Boston, Saturday.
Gardiner sportsmen report large
catches of fish at the outlet.
Special town meeting at West Gar
diner, Tuesday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Lee are the
guests Of friends in Massachusetts.
The /. o. @. r. Lodge at Gardines-
VILE. will hold n meeting, Wednesday.
Miss Lillian Brown Of New York, was
in Farmingdale, Saturday, calling on
friends.
Hon. ]. S. Maxcy returned, Saturday
evening. from a weeks business trip
in Boston.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-16
RURAL

----
New York Sun: The Miller syndicate's
most profitable fields. as shown bv the
ponce examination If the books and by
the thousands OF letters stopped at the
postof1'ce. We're the rural districts, where
very vague notions Of the possibilities of
stock speculation prevail. A private de-
tective who has been Investigating a very
similar fraud at the request of a coun-
trNman. who had thrown good money
after bad in the hope of recovering his
losses. said last week: "
Most of these companies which offer
very large profits and guarantee against
loss depend for their patronage on the
country districts. The small trauesman
and the~farrler who hay saved a little
money by hard work and strict economy
are the men most easily lured by these
schemes. A year or two age a bucket
shop that had flourished in the Tender
loin only d door or two from Broadway,
was raided by the police on the com
plant of one of the customers from the
country. He had specialized with them
by mail and made Il small profit. He
saw possibilities of big profits. and,
drawing his money from the bank. he
came to New York to get rich at once.
The bucket shop men worked him until
they got all of his money. but in doing
it they aroused mis- suspicion. He
watched them, and when he was con-
WINGED of fraud he asked aid of the po-
lice. The aid disclosed the way in
which they manufactured their quota
lions to suit the customer. A telegraph
instrument in their main office was con-
nected with the inside office by wire.
That was as near the stock exchange as
it reached. The man in the inside office
received some correct quotations and
these he telegraphed to the operator in
the main office if 1t suited the company's
trading to do it, and II it didn't he sent
quotations that did. This office was the
headquarters of a. lot of cOuntrymen
when they came to New York, and the
men'Who ran 1t entertained them so we'll
that they didn't protest about their
losses, but came again to make them
good. Some time & there was a reg
ular chain of bucket shops up through
the state, and their profits were enOr-
NOUS. When the market went heavily
against them they simply failed and dis
appeared. Their victims had no chance
to recover anything. From the state-
ments made by many of the investors in
the Miller syndicate who lived in the
neighborhood of the office they were not
deceived as to the character of Miller's
game. Being right On the spot, however,
they felt that they might draw large
profits while the reputation Of the syndi-
cate was good and then draw out before
the crash came. The Sun told what sort
of a business Miller was doing a month
before he disappeared, and this was plain
enough warning for any one. The men
who have stated that they knew the
business was a fraud and who stayed in
the syndicate long enough to lose their
money are worthy of about as much
sympathy as the men who buy green
goods.
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got on his feet from an attack of inflam-
matory rheumatism,

matory rheumatism.
AT the Whist club meeting at Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph A. Hyde's last Wednesday
evening Mrs. ~. j. B%ielenberg was award
ca the ladies' first prize, while Mis-. A..
y. BroWn was given the second prize.
Fred H.. Hoss took the gentlamen's first
prize, while F. S. Davey got away with
the BOBBY prize.
Master Charlie Evans, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Warren E. Evans, celebrated his
nlhth birthday last Friday evening by
inviting and making merry at his home
with a large lumber Of his little friends
ana playmates. Music. games and re-
ifeshments were provided and richly en-
Joyed by the little souls.
Mrs. Armstrong, nee Miss Mary Stuart.
AFTER a bridal tour of about a month to
the prlnclpal eastern cities. returned last
week. ana is a guess. Of her parents, Mr..
ana Mrs. Thomas Stuart. Mr.. and Mrs.
Armstrong Will shortly go to housekasp-
ing at Girrison, where he is an e,nplove
as telegraph operator for the Northern
Facltlc railway company.
Inc sociable givca by the Kings
daughters at the Presbyterian church
iast Friday evening was quite a success.
every way. Captain John Hallahan of
Anaconda, Who was President Martins
guest, was there and. much to the de-
hSnt or those present. exhibited a lot Of
cufios which he had brought from Manila
With him.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-16

Mrs. Bremen of Red Rock, is the guest
of Mrs. J.. B.. Welcome.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-16

Mrs. j. J. Cole Of Seattle is the guest
of Mrs. M. r. Mayer.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-16

J. H. Fariss is back from a six weeks
~sojourn at his old home in North Caro-
lima.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-16

Mr. J. V. Long is convalesing after a
brief Illness.
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"a Good P4ynaster
Starts Not at
A.ssurances."

There IS one good pay.
master who Is around on
time. goes fuH value. and
never fails tn his duty. Il
IS your privilege to select
him. and his name is pare.
wholesome blood. This
~paymaster makes the
rounds of the body. vtsfts
brain, stomach, kidneys,
Hver, heart and head allie.
Hoods SarsaparfAa acts as
a guarantor that this pay
master wM do his duty.
IF the blood Is impure. It cannot DO it,
duty, and you are the sufferer, but you
need not Be. Hoods SarsaparMa puri-
fies. paahses and enriches the Blood.
It neVer d~isappoints.
Catarrh Ny throat was IN such Z
condition eu1h catArrh that / could hardly
szualozv and had no appetite. found
Hoods SarsaparMa an excellent remedy.
and nozu haze a good appetite" MaL
White. Ennis. Texas.
Boils-"'My boas vanished after Itock
Hoods Sarsaparaga. It purified my Blood
ard GAGE me strength. Hoods Fills aue.1
n,ysick headacfe.'JW CapeA. CeLy.S.c.
12ayt p,,A,,-Lo,;K
~S.Z:sAasslSi
Hoods pills cure liver ills; tile nor-irtitating and
only c~aslartic to take with Hvod's SarsapaiiilAs
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-16

Miss Veva Marks Of Townsend arrived
in Butte this week and will remain sew.
eral weeks visiting relatives and friends
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-16

Miss Mary Fosselman's very we'll writ
ten paper on The Church and the House
of Commons during the reign of King
Henry w." was the main feature of the
last meeting of the West Side Shakespeare
club, which met With Mrs. Dan Yalcy on
Caledonia street. The first and second
acts of Part III of King Henry ~ were
read and discussed, followed Wy the
usual programme; roll call. quotations
and adjournment. The club will meet
with Mrs. Richard White on Caledonia
street, Tuesday, Dec. 10, after which a
short vacation will he taken until after
the holidays.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-16

Mrs. }. V. Long gave q very dainty
luncheon on Thursday III honor of Mrs.
James w. Forbis, who leaves this evening
for a visit to New York. The table was
artisticaily decorated in yellow and white
cnrysaIthenums, a beautiful basket of
these effective flowers forming the CEN
terpicce. Avery original idea was the
place card in the shape of a chrysanthe-
mum in the prevailing shade, yellow. Be
sides the guest of honor, Mrs. Forbis, the
guests were Mrs. Nice. White. Mis-. Cot
te-, Mrs. Dixon, Mrs. Tom Noyes, Mrs.
Freund and Mrs. Murray.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-16

Mr.. and Mrs. H. e. Owen and childrt
have returned from Arizona where thu
have resided during the last three year
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-16

Mr.. "A. j. Come has eturned fir ON an
extended hunting trip and In honor OF his
safe return Mrs. Council gave a delight
full little dinner on Thursday evening
MIS-. Gomez is we'll known as a m ost
delightful dinner hostess and the affair.
proved no exception to the rule. Thu
table was prettily trimmed with pink and
white roses and the menu was. d most Ella
borate me. The guests We're. Mr.. and
Mrs. Shaw. Mr.. and Mrs. j. Ross Clark.
Mr. Alex tombstone, DR.. Hal aad MIR,
Horgan
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-16

The Union club was r~eorganized for the
season last Monday, the following per-
sons being elected officers: President,
Charles w. Clark; vice president, John
W. Coiter; secretary and treasurer, Geof-
frey Lauzier; trustees, II. S. Tuttle,
Charles d. French, A. X. Erwin, E. w.
Beattie, Jr.. and John Moves, Jr. The
f1rst reception under the new organiza-
ton will be held on the eth of this
month.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-16

Mrs. w. A. Hensley and her daughte,
Miss Oleta Hensley, left Wednesday ia
California, where they expect to spen
the winter.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-16

Mr.. Harry Yeaeer of Helena, and Miss
Anna Olive Arnold of MINNEAPOLIS wers
united in marriage at the home of the
latter's parents last Monday evening,
Ihey VIII be at no me at 531 Hemlock
street, Helena on Tuesdays of January
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-16

Mr.. and Mrs. HesIet gave a theater
party tn witness THE Gay Mr.. Bender"
last night, their guests being Mr.. and
Mrs. Ed. Thompson, Miss Young and Mr..
j. Ross Clark.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-16

Miss Rickford, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. nj. Bickford. entertained the b..
G. I. Whist club on Wednesday evening,
the 9th, at her home on Colorado street.
The favors We're won by Mrs. j. *. Mac
donald, Miss Sue M~cI4anahan. Mr.. White
and Mr.. 3. II. Dunshee. Those present
Were Mrs. Macdonald, Miss Foster, Miss
Russell, Miss Dawson. Miss Pearl Han
son, Miss Sullivan, Miss Thir1oway,
Misses Eliza and Theo Russell: N:essrs.
DoWnie, Putnam, White, P3s*a.orc, Dun
shee, Black, Metzger and WIFI Dixon.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-16

Miss Belle Calkins, entertained the fol-
lowing persons at cards last Tuesday
evening: Misses Sue Baldwin, Kooser
Vo!tz AM DR.. Kennedy; Messrs, New
ton, Hamilton and Leamy.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-16

Mrs, II. Heilbronner left Tuesday for
southern California, where she expects to
spend the winter. At Portland she was
joined by Mrs. NJ. NJ. Miller, who accom-
panied her to the land of perpetual sun
shine and flowers.
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way that tip got circulated. but Il ciIrcu-
lated good and plenty. II was a newspaper
and operators tip almost altogether, and
II went on the wire all over the country
from Milwaukee to New Orleans and from
New YORK TO San Francisco. These wise
guys had got General Jackson into field
where he could have broken a leg and won
IN MS earlier days. and they had him nursed
up so that II was 100 to / shot that he
would last the distance The bookmalsers
inquired II out a 100 to ! shot that he
wouldn't. and that was the odds IN the over
night betting But he was played 80 hcav-
lily all over the country that the odds COM
meneed TO slide next morning. and l only
got In at 40 to l, and he went to the post
at 10 TO i. with the pool rooms playing
safety.
Il spent the afternoon in a pool room
down on Clark street, where I had offered
up my wad, and when the report Of the
race started II sure looked Ike Sec and
perfectos for the balance of the winter It
was General Jackson at the quarter and
General Jackson al the half and General
Jackson by two lengths a. the three-quar-
ters,' and then Silver King wins Tam
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10. Most of the buildings are now we'll on
their way toward completion, and the land
sCape gardener is finishing his preliminary
work. The area of the coming exposition
which was utilized in 1889. There has been
added a space-triangular in shape-in the
Champs Elysees, bounded by the Seine on
one side and by the Avenues deS Champs
Elysees and d'Antin on the others. The
broad walks on the banks of the river be-
tween the Invalides bridge and the Champ
de Mars are also included within the
boundaries. The familiar, but somewhat
antiquated, Palais de TIndustrie, for many
years considered one of the attractive
buildings of the city. has now been demol-
1shed, and handsome new bridge, called
Pont Alexandra III, the memorial stone
of which was laid by the Car Nicholas H.
has been built across the Seine opposite
the Hotel des Invalides.
How 1t Looks Today
The main approach to the exposition will
be gorgeous entrance adjoining the Place
de la ConcOrde, where commodious facili-
ties are being arranged for the Ambulance
of visitors at the rate of 10000 per hour
Once within the exposition Enclosure the
visitor finds himself on Quay de la Con-
ference, on his right the beautiful walk
known as COur-la-Reine, and that part Of
the Champs Elysees comprised in the cx-
position 1t is in this section that two
magnificent temples of art have been erect
ed. They will remain as memorials of the
1900 celebration to enhance the beauty of
Paris The new Alexandra III bridge is
distant but a few hundred wards from the
main or monumental entrance: it connects
the Champs Elysees with the Esplanade of
the lnval1des, beyond which is the old and
famous Soldiers Home, with its gilded
dome, beneath which is the magnificent
tomb OF the great Napoleon.
So here we see realized that which Paris
alone OF all the capitals of the world has
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Costly Autographs.
From Tit Bits.


Two distinguished men have been made
to pay long price for the autographs of
writer's whom they admired. When Prince
Metternich asked Alexandra Dumas to give
him his autograph, the author wrote in his
best round hand. Received from Prince
Metternich twenty-five bottles Of his old
est Johannisberg' We are told that Prince
Metternich sent the wine with very good
grace, and that Dumas drank it with an
equal.
The story related of the French author
ess "Gyp" and Baron Rothschild is some
what similar. "Gyp" had a stall at a
charitable sale, and asked Baron Roths-
child, who was passing, to buy something.
thing.
You have nothing to suit me-" said the
baron, "unless-will you sell me your auto
graph?'
Certainly, baron" replied "Gyp," and
wrote on a sheet Of paper. Received from
Baron Rothschild the sum Of 1000 francs
for the benefit of the charity-'Gyp.'
The baron handed over the money and
walked off delighted.
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be absolutely exact. $4,000 900, for 81 .OOO,-
GOO were swallowed up by the expenses of
the issue In addition TO these funds the
French government guaranteed $1,000. 600
and the municipality Of Paris promised an
Identical amount, on condition that the
fair be held within the city boundaries
The bond-adnlittance tickets alluded to
above contain twenty coupons available
for as many visits TO the exposition. Apart
from this. TWO other privileges are attached
to them-holders are entitled TO participate
in q fixed number Of lottery drawings
which have been in process since 1896. and
which Will be continued until the end OF
the year 1900. and the holders have also
the privilege of choosing between reduc-
ton of 25 per cent in the charges Of ad-
nittance TO all places of amusement on the
exposition grounds. and a liberal discount
on French railroads to and from Paris dur
ing the period OF the exposition. The bonds,
however, will never be redeemed.
A stroll about the grounds today dispels
any apprehension that the exposition may
not be ready to open on the day set. April
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the glory to possess, and which IS abso-
lutely unrealizable elsewhere: a m0nu-
mental vestibule, la Place de la Concord;
a double entrance road; the avenue OF the
Champs Elysees and the river Seine, pro-
yiCed, one with magnificent and shady
trees, the other with wide quays, beyond
which the Palaces Of Fine Arts have been
built to prove to those who may yet be is-
no1ant of the fact that France is the real
fatherland Of modern art.
Continuing the promenade, the invalides
bridge is next reached. From this point 20
the Champ de Mars both banks of the
Seine are studded with attractive buildings,
the pavilions of foreign nations on the left
bank. while on the right are the Palace Of
Horticulture. Congress Hall, the building
Of the city of Paris ana a host of minor
structures. Opposite TIE Champ de Mars,
across the lena bridge, are the gardens Of
the TroCaderO, which are being rendered
esp aCially attractive by the curious French
and foreign colonial exhibitions. housed in
buildings Of quaint architectural design.
Finally one reaches the Champ de Mars,
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Cut OFF the Wrong Leg.

From Tit-Rits.
There is an enterprising Liverpool tailor
who has never been known to acknowledge
that he didn't have anything possible Gus
toner might ask for.
One day a customer entered the shop and
asked if he had any trousers made espe-
cially for one-legged men.
Certainly" replied the merchant. What
kind do you want?'
Dress trousers" said the man. 1.-THE
best you've got.
Hurrying into the rear Of the store. the
enterprising merchant snatched up a pair
of trousers and shipped off the right leg
with a pair of scissors. Hastily turning
under the edges, he presented them to the
customer.
That's the kind 1 want. What's the
price,"
"One guinea"
well, give me pair with the left leg
off,"
A month later the merchant was pro-
nounced convalescent and on the high road
to recovery.
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of 1880. The side galleries. between which
will be placed the garden before mentioned
are each designed TO be about $50 feet wide
and l.SO0 feet long. The transverse gallery
connecting them is about 800 feet wide and
1900 feet long. The dimensions of the old
Machinery Hall are about 500 feet by /, 400
feet. Although the side galleries are con-
unuous, they are divided into separate
courts, each devoted to a special branch Of
industry.
Thus. standing with ones back to the
Einel tower. the order of the courts and
the corresponding groups of exhibits will
be as follows: On the right hand % the
Palace of Literature, Science, Education
ard Instruction; q the Palace of Civil En-
gineering and Transportation, 60 the Pal
ace OF Chemical Industries. On the left
hand, % the Palace Of Mines and Metal
lurgy. CD the Palace of Textile Fabrics, (s)
the Palace of Mechanical Engineering The
transverse building connecting these gal
leries and screening the Machinery Hall
Will be devoted to electrical exhibits. In
front OF the Palace Of Electricity n the
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which has so nobly played its part at pre-
vious fairs. Here the Eiffel tower and the
distant Machinery Hall-the greatest build
ing of its time in 1885, but since the world s
Columbian exposition merely an ordinary
production of the engineers skill-have
alone been allowed to remain.
Champ de Mars Covered.
Except for a long and relatively narrow
central garden, and for the space around
the foundations of the Eiffel tower, the
whole vast area of the Champ de Mars will
be covered by buildings Speaking gen.
orally. these may be described as two great
halls. one on each side of the Champ de
Mars, connected at the end furthest from
the Eiffel tower by transverse building
standing in front of and screening with a
highly ornate facade the Machinery Hall
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TALES OF THE WIRE
Funny Things That Have Happened
to Telegraph Operators.
how ONE MAN GOT some TOBACCO
Two Tips on the Races and What
Occurred Afterward.
w HEN THE NILE FROZE

Talking about wire trouble" remarked
an old telegraph operator the other night
as half a dozen of the craft were taking a
post midnight luncheon, the worst case l
ever struck was when a long-suffering cor
poration had to route about $500 miles of
wires. not to get a message sent, but to
stop one that was going. 1t was when /
was working in the Galveston office one
night and Kid Burrows insisted on work
Ing when he was drunk enough to lay off
Kid was pretty near as much of a tramp
In the business as Peg Hudson or p ].
Delaney, who is known all over the coun-
try as P. j. that being his wire sig, and
half his acquaintances not knowing his
other name. Kid was a pretty fine opera
tor as long as he was sober enough to see,
but the reason he never held one job very
long at a time was that he was In the
habit of getting blind drunk and not know
ing enough to lay off. He was working the
one wire we had at the time from Gal
weston down to the City of Mexico. He'd
only had the job about q month when he
came in one night with still jag on. Some
of US saw him and we tried to make him
put on sub and take a night off. But
he knew better, swore he was sober as
the night manager and insisted on going
to work.
How They Broke Him OF.
He went over and opened his wire all
right. and as he seemed to be running pref
ty smooth We didn't pay much attention to
him. He had a little bunch Of commercial
messages in front of him, and he was send
Ing rather irregular, loafng a bit and then
sprinting, for he could send like chain
lightning when he got ready. So nobody
thought anything about him till MESA &c
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No Trouble About ChoIIy.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Cholly-"What qualifications must a fel.
lsh have to join your club, old chapter
Old Chappie-"He's got TO have either
brains or money. Have you got any mon.
ey?'
Cholly-''Yes; lots of IT"
Old Chappie-"You'u set through aIl
right"
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for a large Festival Hall, in which seat
will be provided for 10000 persons.
The great and essential difference be-
tween the universal exposition of 1900 and
its predecessors is that whereas in previous
international fairs all the exhibits from one
country were grouped together, in 1900 sim
liar products, from whatever part of the
world they may come, will be Displayed
side by side. This will permit of a ready
comparison of the arts and Industries of