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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-04-08

Eank Examiner F. T.. Timberlake
we in Oakland. examining the savings
bank there. Friday. Assistant y.
Ellis examined the WaterVl'ie oaNl"A'
Bank. Thursday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-04-08
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mgs with CCRA OINTMENT
IUKA kEStl EN- TO the blood SOAP
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-04-08

This has been a good month for the
state Of Maine in the way of income
from tie corporations. though the
month is still young. There have beer
several million dollar corporations
which bring in a good sum 10 tht
treasury. over $1100 has been received
already.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-04-08

wfs troubled for eight years with
pimplcs on the face. | commenced using
CuTltuRA SOAP. In very short time
the pimpies all disappeared. and my skin
Is now N . healthy condition
JAMES FOSTER,
Dixmount. Allegheny Co. "A,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-04-08

suffered with blackheads and pimples
Tor Two or three years. until IL becsm@
chc1ic. ! tried everything ima.ina5l =
but il did me no good. CUTICURA SOAP
cured me
l. V. GILLIAN, Oak +. o., va.
The morning news., 1899-11-16
Stories of the Stage.

Taswell was once engaged in a green
room wrangle with Mrs Give. This was
his parting shot: Madame, have heard
of tartar and birthstone and know the eff
fects of both. You. madame, are the cream
of one and the flower of the other"
A shabby individual once told Garriclz
that he had the honor of playing in the
same scene with him. with me?" ex-
claimed Garrick. 81 don't recolIect it.
Pray, what was your part?" "The cock
in hamlet, sir!" Formerly a man behind
the scenes used to do the cock-crowins
in the ghost scene. But the bogus char
acter of the bird was usually so apparent
that it was apt to provoke jeers. So they
killed the cock.
When Leon Hermann PLAYED at Wich
ita, Kan, recently, a rustic from the re-
gion thereabouts approached the box Of
nee of the theater and inquired the ma
ture of the bill and the price of admis-
sion says the Dramatic Mirror.
Hermann is playing here" said tho
box office man, 'and can give you a seat
downstairs for a dollar" The seeker aft
er entertainment thought for a moment
and then made toward the door, but the
man behind the window called him bach.
Il can give you a seat upstairs for a
quarter" shouted the ticket manipulator
The rustic paused in his flight and came
slowly back to the window, the light of
newborn hope cleaning in his kindly
eyes.
Well" said he. what is going on up-
stairs?" F
The morning news., 1899-11-16
This Dog Jokes.

Mrs. Storms, who keeps a ''naturalist's s
emporium in Third avenue in which one
may get anything in the natural history
line from monkey to pug dog or a big
rattler to pollywog, is the owner of a
greyhound that Is practical joker, says
the New York Herald. When the warm
weather came he was obliged to keep his
store door open in order to get more air
for his numerous animals. That some of
his dogs, cats, tortoises, etc. that ran
about in the store might not wander into
the street Mr.. Storms had a closely woven
IRON gate about four feet in hight put In
the doorway
The greyhound is the pet of the family.
ana has been taught many tricks One of
her accomplishments is high jumping. and
her master, in order to amuse the children
OF the neighborhood and exercise the dog
at the same time, has often made her
jump the iron gate
A woman carrying a large bundle on her
head short time ago was frightened into
dropping 1t and running off with a pierc-
ing shrek when large greyhound alight-
ed on the sidewalk right in front of her
as IL 1t had dropped from the sky. The
dog seemed to join in the laughter of the
crowd which had collected to watch her
graceful leaps, for her eyes twinkled and
her tail wagged a a great rate
SINCE Ihen the dOg mas made practice
of thus startling pedestrian by iumping
the gate and landing lightly in front of
them and after escaping into the middle
of the street, to be out of reach of a kick
or blow it has added insult to injury by
appearing to laugh at their discontinue.
Watching the dog after one of these
pranks 1t is easy to believe with Mr..
Storms that dogs like joke just as a man
would and that the greyhound plays those
jokes out of pure fun.
Like many other practical jokers the
greyhound has got into trouble, or rather
she has succeeded in getting her master
into trouble with the police. Somebody
has complained about the dogs humorous
proclivities, and Mr.. Storms has been no
tilted that while it is not unlawful to
keep licensed dog, or to use a wire gate.
or for the licensed dog to leap over the
wire gate, yet all combined for the pur-
pose of frightening persons will amount
to misdemeanor If continued.
The morning news., 1899-11-16
PORT ROYALS CONTPLATNT.

1t looks very much as IL the government
were discriminating against the Port
Royal Dry Dock. As we understand it
there is every convenience there for maxi
ing repairs to war shirs. Why then are
not ships sent there?
In our dispatches yesterday 1t was slated
that men in \the governments employ at
Port Royal are being discharged and that
no warships are being sent there for re-
pairs. They are being sent to other dry
docks and ship yards. If the work could
not be done at Port Royal there would
be no ground for complaint but as it can
be done there it seems strange that vessels
which need overhauling are not sent there
The climate at Port Royal in the fan and
winter seasons is delightful. There is sell
dom a day, except when 1t rains, that
workmen need Their coats in the open air.
This is just the tine of the year that the
government works at Port Royal could
be used TO the best advantage. II is rather
remarkable therefore that the governme mt
is not employing more workmen instead
of discharging those in its service there.
The congressman for the Port Royal dis
trlct should bring this matter to the al
tention of the navy department, and see ii
something cannot be done to make the gov
ernment plant al Port Royal more popu-
lar with those naval officers who have
control of the work of repairing the war
ships.
The people of Port Royal were led to be-
lieve that a dry dock would be of very
great benefit TO their town and no doubt
it would if the government plant there
were used to its full capacity pretty much
all the time.
The morning news., 1899-11-16
Slang Phrases.

Writes Sir Walter Besant in an English
weekly: Il was looking the other day at
the learned DR.. Samuel Pegge's 'Anec-
dotes of the English Language. He gives
there list of vulgarisms and cockneyisms
common in his day He died in the year
1900, so that he has preserved for US the
speech OF the vulgar and the uneducated
about the end of the eighteenth century.
There are cant words and gypsies' tink-
ers' and thieves talk preserved for US as
far back as the sixteenth century; but
the talk of the uneducated townsmen is
practically unknown 70 US, save in scraps.
"One thing is certain-that it Is a dia-
lect always changing, and that the use of
1873 was very far from the use of 1899
For instance, here are some of the cock
neyisms noted by Pegge-the words need
very little explanation: 'Vulgarity, ne
cessuated, curiosity, impossible, command
cment, gownd, bartender (partner), perdig-
ious, argufy, bachelor, kiver (cover),
chimley. darteT, duberOus dubious squits
quits; scrowdge, scholard, ruinated,
scrimmage (skirmish); this word still re-
mains, though its origin has been forgot
ten
There are, of course, many more. Ev-
erybody remembers how Sam Weller
changed his " into w and vice versa
The custom has completely died out; this
transformation is never heard now, but
1t lasted, il is evident, for forty years.
If it was the custom in 1896 and also in 1895,
when Dickens wrote. The following is
Pegge's Imaginary dialogues:
William, 1 want my Wig
Witch Wig, sir?'
Wy, the vie Wig in the wooden Wig box.
witch L wore last Vensday at the westry..
You may hear the we put for the W
IN Suffolk to this day. l myself heard it,.
at Southwold a few years ago.
Now, viii any modern observer be so
good as 10 note and set down the peculiar
tiles of cockney speech at the present day?
Ihat II turns the "a into i we ali know.
1t is an Essex custom. But there are a
great many other usages to which we who
are accustomed to hear daily fail to notice.
Inc American ear, however, does notice
them with amusement the Scottish ear
hears these colloquial dissertations with
contempt. 1t would be a most useful con-
tribution TO the study of manners in this
the last year but one of the century if
some one quick to observe and ready to
note would form such a short dictionary
as Pegge put together in 1888"
The morning news., 1899-11-16
BRIGHT BITS.

Mr.. Brush: I wonder why Morton al
ways speaks of his wife as a dream!
Mrs Brush: 1 suppose because she al
ways goes by ontraries.-Harlem Life.
-"Henderson tells me he means to name
his new boy George"
"Od or new style?"
'What do you mean?"
Washington or Dewey? y?''-Indianapolis
Journal.
"A Necessary Requisite.-Dorothy had
never seen any pumpkin pie until her first
visit TO the country, and to her grand
mothers asking her if she'd have a piece
the little girl replied:
No, thank you. I never eat pie with
out roof on it."-Judge.
Little Mike (who has struck a hard
spot in his reading): Feyther, phwot is
an autopsy?
McLubberty (promptly): An autopsy, is
ut? Sure, thot's phwin a dead man re-
quists dhe docthors to cut him up, so thot
he can foind out phwat is dhe matther wild
him.-Harper's Bazaar.
The morning news., 1899-11-16
PERSONAL.

Tom Gould. who, since he was deposed
as king of the dive keepers in New York,
has been making a bare living as a night
watchman, has Joined the Salvation Army.
and will go to Chicago, not as a terrible
example, but as a uniformed exhorter.
The author Of "Our Destiny" the
verses quoted by President Mckinley in
Chicago and the South, is Casper S. Yost,
assistant managing editor of the St Louis
Globe-Democrat. The verses were written
in hurry, and We're thought to have gone
the way of most newspaper verse until
quoted by President Mckinley.
Ernest Bauer an extensive poultry
raiser of Coffeyville, Kas., having read in
an agricultural journal that boracic acid
would preserve chicken meat almost in
definitely, assumed that the chemical
should be mixed with the feed of the
fowls and given 10 them to eat He tried
the experiment, with the result that 1852
of his 800 chickens died within twenty
four hours lie sued the editor of the
paper, but the court held that any man
of ordinary intelligence should have known
better than TO try to preserve the flesh of
living fowls by means of chemicals.
The morning news., 1899-11-16
Got the Wrong BOOK.

George Jarvice Of Chicago told a story
on friend of his yesterday at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, says the New York Tri-
bune. Some years ago." said Mr.. Jarvica
when the book, AS in Looking Glass
was the rage, you may remember that
there was considerable outcry against The
work on the score that it was immoral.
This led my friends wife who was bevond
question the head Of the house, to instruct
her spouse on no account to read the work
He, as was natural, rushed downtown
straightway and purchased the forbidden
volume. At dinner that night he said.
"'Wel Sally, l don't see why YOU didn't
want me to read that Looking Glass book
for although I've read through every mace
I must say 1 couldn't find anything out
of the way with it.
after some further argument he pro-
duced the book he had purchased. which
turned out TO be Lewis CarroTs 'Througb
the Looking Glass, aud What Alice Found
There.
Il can match that story in kind" said a
friend of Mr. Jarvice who was in The
group. for l remember about the same
time a small niece of mine went to church
and on being asked the text on her re-
turn home said 1t had been AS in a Look
ing Glass" Subsequent inquiry showed
her to have been not so far out of the
way as the actual text given out was:
For now we see though a glass. darkIy
but then face to face. 1 Corinthians xiii
l2.'''
The morning news., 1899-11-16
THE KENTUCKY CONTEST.

The indications are that william Goe-
bel Democrat, will be the next Governor
of Kentucky. But it does not yet ap-
pear that he received a plurality Of the
votes cast The facts thus far made pub
lie leave the impression that more OF the
votes cast we're intended for ". S. Tay-
lor, the Republican candidate for Govern
or, than for Mr.. Goebel. but great many
votes intended for ". 8. Taylor were put
into the ballot box for W. p. Taylor. The
Democratic election officers refused TO
count these votes for W. 5. Taylor. There
were other irregularities in various parts
of the state in connection with the Taylor
ballots The Republican leaders are try
ing to have these irregular votes counted
for their candidate, but it Is doubtful If
they will succeed.
The state returning beard is composed
of Democrats who are friendly to Mr. Goe-
bel, and they will not throw away any
advantage which the law gives him. While
# is morally certain that the persons WHO
voted for W. 2. Taylor intended to vote
for the Republican candidate, there is
nothing to show absolutely that such was
in all probability be iost 10 him.
If the contest should get beyond che re-
turning board and into the legislature Mr..
Goebel would have the advantage there,
because a majority of that body are DEM
ocrats. Assuming therefore that there are
enough Taylor votes that can be legally
thrown out for one cause and another,
and it looks as if there are, Mr. Goebel
is pretty certain to be awarded the Office.
The Republicans are going to make a
long and hard fight, but It will probably
be an unsuccessful one. Mr.. Goebel and
his friends have been saying very little
since the election. They have at all times,
however. asserted that the Democrats
carried the state. When the number of
legally cast ballots is ascertained it will
be found in all proba bility that Mr. Goebel
mas a plurality of them.
The morning news., 1899-11-16
COTTON FUTURES HURT TRADE.

In a communication In the Post Of Hons
ton, Tex, Mr.. r. r. Dancy, a cotton mer-
chant of that city, undertakes to reply to
the complaint of New Orleans that there
is a strong effort made by the business
men Of Texas to prevent cotton of that
state from going to New Orleans. Mr.. Dan
cy's idea is that the real reason cotton
from Texas does not go TO New Orleans as
freely now as it once did, is not because
there is a combined effort to prevent it
from going there, but because the men in
the cotton trade there are paying more at
tention to future cotton contracts and op-
tions than to the buying and selling Of
cotton. There may be some truth in this
view of the matter. While the cotton men
Of New Orleans are devoting their time to
cotton futures in their exchange the cotton
men of Galveston and Houston are study
ing how they can handle cotton so cheap,y
that it will come to them instead of going
to the merchants of New Orleans
MIR. Dancy points out that the cotton
yards and warehouses of New Orleans and
New York, the two cotton ports in which
cotton futures are dealt in, are about al
ways full of the lowest grade of cotton
This class of cotton finds its way to those
cities because it is used there in the cotton
future business. The other ports get very
little of this kind of cotton. They have no
such use for it as New Orleans has.
Mr.. Dancy says that Savannah and
Charleston established the future business
in their exchanges. but finally abandoned
it, because they found it was injuring the
business of buying and selling actual cot
ton. If this view of Mr.. Dancy's is cor
rect, New Orleans has only herself to
blame for the loss of the Texas cotton bust
ness.
1t would be good thing for the South,
in one respect, If there were no dealings in
cotton futures. A vast amount of money
goes out of the South every year into the
pockets of those who are financially able
to influence the cotton future market
sufficiently to wipe out margins. If the
South had all of the money she has
dropped in the New York future market
since the close of the Civil War, she would
be about the richest section of the coun-
Srxr
The morning news., 1899-11-16
AGIINALno,s FLIGHT.

It Is too soon yet TO say that Aguinaldo 6
power is broken. ard that the end OF the
insurrecuon in the Philippines is in sight.
II Is true that AEuinaldo is practically a
fugitive with a small part Of his army,
and news may be received at any time that
he has been captured, or that he has left
the island of Luzon. The impression In
military circles in washington Is that he
/ has gone into the mountains and esta blish-
/ ed a new capital a Bayombong. This
! impression Is, of course, gained from the
! dispatches OF Gen. Otis to the war de-
/ partment
| There is no place in the island Of Luzon,
! however, at which Aguinaldo can make
a stand and resist for any considerable
! length of time the advance of our forces.
Now that the roads are improving rapidly
It is probable that he win not be able to es-
tabish his capital at any place. The
movement of our army is as rapid as that
of the insurgents, and il is undoubtedly
the purpose of Gen. Otis to pursue them
vigorously and capture or scatter theil
army.
OF course 1t is possible for the insurg-
ents to keep up a sort of guerrilla warfare
for a long time Bands Of the insurgents
may hide in the swamps and in the noun
tains, and. when opportunities present
themselves. rush forth and attack towns
and villages which are garrisoned by our
troops, but il Is doubtful If the natives
would sanction warfare of this kind very
long. They would be the chief losers.
When they become satisfied that our gov
ornment is not in any sense oppressive,
and that they will have absolute control
Of their own local affairs they will become
anxious for peace.
1t was hoped that Aguinaldo and his
entire government with the greater part
Of his army, would be captured at Tarlac.
The condition Of the roads, however, pre-
vented our army from reaching there as
soon as it was expected il would 1t is be-
lieved that he, the officers Of his cabinet
and the main part Of his army, are sur
rounded, and that they will find it difficult
TO escape. If they should be captured il
could then be said with very considera-
bic degree of truth that the war was prac-
tically ended
Gen. Otis is conducting the present cam
paign under much more favorable condi-
tons than the last one. He has men
enough now TO hold the places he cap
lures. In the last campaign towns were
abandoned and the insurgents returned
and took possession of them. In that way
the Filpinos got the impression that their
soldiers were all the time victorious In
fact, It is stated that Aguinaldo used our
desertion of the towns we captured as an
argument that he was defeating us at
every point, and would soon drive US
from the island of Luzon
The morning news., 1899-11-16

THE wherea bouts of Aguinaldo and his
army and cabinet is a perfect enigma, -
says cable dispatch from Manila. The
Filipinos are cowards," says Gen. Whea-
tom they will not stand up and fight"
II the Filipinos would stand up and fight,
the American troops would make short
work of them. But by running and dodg-
ing, and crawling up unawares and shoot
ing into our outposts, they are giving US
ten times the annoyance that it would be
possible for them to give if they stood
their ground. Thus it appears that there
is shrewd method in Aguinaldo's plan of
campaign. The Spaniards used to .ud
the same fault with the Filipinos and the
Cubans that Gen. Wheaton is now finding
with the former-that they would not
stand up and fight
The morning news., 1899-11-16
A TRUST THAT ALARMS PROMO
TIERS.

The promoters of the Hanna-Payne Ship
Subsidy bill are very much afraid that
the movement TO combine the shipyards
of the country into one great trust will
operate against the bill. even If it should
not be successful, and that 1t would prac-
ticaly kill the bill if it should be sue
cessful
If the shipbuilding companies should be
combined into a trust it would be said,
and with some show of truth. that the
ship-subsidy bill was in the interest of the
trust. That would be enough to kill it,
Very few members of Congress would dare
to vote for it. They would be informed
by their constituents that if they did they
would not stand a ghost of a chance for
reelection.
Under the circumstances 1t is probable
that the movement to combine the ship
yards viii be postponed until it is seen
what Congress is likely to do with the
ship-subsidy bill There Is going to be
a great effort made to pass that bill this
winter. The promoters of it are getting
ready for big fight for It, There is no
reliable information as to it's chances for
becoming a law. II the shipbuilding
plants should combine. however, it could
not get respectable support in either
house of Congress.
The morning news., 1899-11-16

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The morning news., 1899-11-16

Thomas a. Edison, Jr., and Nlkola Tesla
seem to be sonnet hing of rivals in the mat
ter of inventlng means for transmitting
messages across the ocean at greatly re-
duced rates. Young Edison is said TO
have invented telephone apparatus by
the means Of which conversation may 'bs
carried on between New York and Liver
pool at rates much cheaper than these
charged for cable messages, and Mr.. Tesla,
who is in Colorado carrying on wireles s
telegraphy experiments, predicts that he
will be able to transmit messages be-
tween New York and Paris in 1900 with
out wires and at a cost much cheaper
than cable rates. The public, having had
some experience with the claims of both
young Edison and Mr.. Tesla, will wait TO
see what they can do before forming an
opinion.
The morning news., 1899-11-16

The Geodetic and Coast Survey is now
al work surveying the Island of Porto
Rico. The work is not yet near comp e.
ton, but enough has been done to show
that the real shape of the island is radio
ally different from that which appears on
all maps extant from Spanish surveys. In
stead of being shaped like the top of a
cigar box, as the Spaniards have always
shown it, it is said that it is not
different from other islands in showing
irregular, heak!sh and uneven outlines.
The spaniarjs, IT seems, never thought
enough Of either Porto Rico or Cuba 10
correctly survey them and chart their
coasts, harbors and rivers.