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The times., 1899-12-01
A QUIET THANKSGIVING
NashingtOnianS Celebrated the Day
in Various Ways.

The Streets Of the Capital City De-
serted During the Early Morning
Honrs-DevOtionaIE Exercises nt the
Churches - The Poor Not For
gotten in the General Rejoicing.
The times., 1899-12-01
Special Warmth and Worth in Bed Coverings.

1914 Heavy Southern FIeeced Blankets.
with red and blue borders Worth
81 apiece, for Observation-Disclosures. 79c
\ Pair.
ia California Blankets. with red and
blue borders and soft woolly nap;
heavy and warm. Worth $3.50 a
pair ........-............ sIS9
Pair
The times., 1899-12-01
senIinr ILL., nnnn

From the New York Commercial Adyertiser)
ie-Positiyely, you're the first girl ever kiss
cd
she-It felt like it,
The times., 1899-12-01

100 pairs Baby Crib Blankets heavily
feeced, with pink and blue borders
and neat crochet edge Worth see a
pair for.......-.-......... 39c
a Pair
% Heavy Crochet Sprcsds in MarseiIIes
patterns; finished on both sides. reg
Each
The times., 1899-12-01

so japanese and Beaded
Bamboo Porisres. fun
size, and worth $50
each. for. T..........- 9Sc
The times., 1899-12-01
Mems Unlaundered Shirts, 80 cents.


quality the muslin the
maxim the
another lot had this
The times., 1899-12-01

goo pairs Fine Tapestry
PCrJieres. handsome de-
design iu shOwy COlOrings,
good variety 20 select
from: worth s. a
pair. for-,-.----...-. $500
The times., 1899-12-01

Mr. and Mrs. Findlay Harris have rent
ed their home 171O Sixteenth Street, TO
Senator Kenney, and. with their daughter.
are at the Westminster for the winter.
The times., 1899-12-01

General and Mrs. Haywood are enter
tanning Miss Blossom Benson, Of Brooklyn.
The times., 1899-12-01
SAKS & COMPANY.

home Office. the Evans Dental Parlors.
Established 1850. 1909 + St.
The times., 1899-12-01

Mrs. Edwin Franklin Townsend and Miss
townsend have cards out for a tea on Sat
urday, December =, i to 7.
The times., 1899-12-01

curtains. pillows and 50 forth. very handsome pa
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-10-14
Two Tested Receipts.

A contributor to the Ellsworth
American gives the following receipts
which are well worth trying:
APPLE CREAM-The whites of two
eggs we'll beaten with two cups sugar,
peal and CRATE into this four tart ap-
pies. whip until very stiff and white,
flavor with lemon or vanilla. One-half
the quantity is enough to fill quite a
large cake.
CREAM PUFFS-One cup hot water.
one-half cup butter boil together and
while boiling stir in one cup sifted
-four dry. Take from the stove and
stir to smooth paste. After this cools
stir in three eggs not beaten. Stir five
minutes Drop in tabespoonfuls on a
buttered tin and bake in a quick oven
20 minutes. Don't let them touch each
other in the pan nor open the oven
door until done.
For the cream, one cup milk. one
half cup sugar. one egg. three table
spoons flour or two of cornStarch.
Dissolve starch in a little milk. When
the rest of the milk is hot. stir in the
egg, sugar and cOrnstarch beaten to-
gether, cook until thick, flavor with
vanilla. When this and puffs are cool.
open one side of the puffs and fill with
cream.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-10-14
ii. w. JEWETT, GARDINER

To acquire the vernacuIar of the log
watch and his assistants will reonire
quite an effort.
II, chain girdle, II cross" viii shout
the watch. The man who is connected
with the Augusta Lumber COMPANY
will at once recognize this as one of
their logs.
Spear A, H. will be the next log
that is also one of the Augusta Lum-
Der Company.
Star grdle A T star girdle," is what
they call one of the 1899 marks of the
Cushnoc Fibre Company.
Flying Devil" is the mark of F. r.
Bradstreet. Double girdle f" is one
of Bradstreet's. This seems to be one
of Bradstreet's favorites. the double
girdle. The Moose Horn is also one
Of the marks that Bradstreet has.
Tail II" sounds sort Of odd but this
is one Of the distinguishing marks of
the South Gardiner Lumber Company.
1t was once the mark of Foster &
Spaulding. but the company mentioned
now has the fun patent to it,
The men viii speak Of notches,
crosses, girdles, diamonds, spots,
squares, spades. and all sorts of odd
things in n most confusing manner
and in case they are stuck they have
but To look at book which contains
instant to whom the log belongs.
1t is a great business. this sorting
of logs.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-10-14
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CUsHNoC FIBRE CO., AUGUSTA.

CUSHNOC FIBRE CO., AUGUSTA.
distinguished from each other from the
start to the mill.
People have doubtless heard of prize
logs. These are logs to which there
are no owners. Often a man selling
logs will neglect to mark some of them
These cannot be stopped on the way
They must be let go to the last boom
where they are taken together with the
ones on which the marks have become
so defaced that they cannot be recog-
niZed. These are prize logs and they
are sold each year to the highest bid
der at the annual meeting of the Log
Driving Company so that everyone
knows who will have the prize logs
that year. In case a man living up at
Skowhegan buys the prize logs he has
to take them from Hallowell boom and
ship them back by rail to Skowhegan
or sell them to someone down the line
of the river. This year there were
5000 sticks of timber in the prize log
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-10-14

The log is marked on both ends so
that in case it gets into jam and has
to be cut in two pieces it will still
reach it's destination.
Spring comes and the logs are re-
leased with the ice, and the sooner they
are down the river the better, as the
drive is in all cases gotten out of the
small streams and into the great
Moosehead lake with the high water
Then they are all RATED across the
lake and into the Kennebec. Here
they are separated from one another, and
the cuts of an 10Ocamps, and possibly 200,
camps will be mixed in together, as they
are carried down the broad bosom of the
Kennebec river. Here they are held up
by an island, and there they go
through narrow place where the
rapids are fearful. Through places
they go where great sticks that are
caught will be twisted into atoms by
the great force behind On, all of it
goes to its destination.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-10-14
NJ. G. SHAW, BATH.

says: This is the property of r. L.
Rradstteet of Gardiner. Please do not
hold back any longer than possible, as
it is needed at the mills in the Gar
diner city" Perhaps it has a dart fol
lowed by an A and an III. In that
case send it along quickly. for it has
the tag of the Augusta Lumber Com
pany attached to it, and there are men
waiting for it here in this city. If it
has a spade, a diamond and spade you
can read the tag that says, This is
the property of the South Gardiner
Lumber Company. Hearts are not
trumps with us. We are spades and
diamonds
Well. no, perhaps it doesn't say any
thing Of this sort, but that is what it
means. Every company that owns a
log that floats down the river has 4
mark that is placed on the log previous
to its trip over the rapids and along
the smooth places, through the booms
to the final resting place on the prop
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-10-14
M
]. GREY 6. SONS, GARDINER.

J. GREY & SONS, GARDINER.
crews are put on and more extensive
methods are employed.
When the log has reached the Halo
well boom it is nearly at the end of its
yachting trip down the Kennebec river
Here all the sorting is done. 1t is a
case Of 'all change here" The log
watches must know every mark. Here
the logs are sorted according to the
owners. Crews raft those going below.
As every log of a mark is checked
as it goes through the sorting BOOM
the man who has bought the log can
compare the number that has been re-
ceived by him with the number that he
has paid for, and see if there is any
discrepancy and if any have been lost,
strayed or stolen.
There are a thousand and one little
things to be done on the way but this
is the manner in which the logs are
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-10-14
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F. T. BRADSTREET. GARDINER.
they have a different mark for each
one.
1t was through the kindness of c. l..
Marston of Augusta that the Journal
was able to learn much of this infor-
nation. Mr.. Marston is a veteran log
watch at the lower station on the
river. known as "Harvey's," which is
in HallOwell. Here everything is
stopped and the firms from down the
line take theirs and raft them, towing
them down in the RATS. Thus Mr.. Mars
tons position as the watch makes him
acquainted with all the marks for
many "scallawags' come floating down
from above. A scallawag is a log that
belongs to those above the place
where it is found, and at this lower
station it is sorted and if the owner
comes after it. all is well and good,
otherwise it goes in among the prize
logs which will be spoken of later.
Mr. Marston has devoted years of his
time to numbering and experimenting
ice cutting and shipping, so that these
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-10-14
Pictorial Posia Is

A craze that is novel and to be add
mlred owes its start in life to the
young Queen of Holland. 1t will be
known to the historians Of nineteenth
century fads as the souvenir postal
card craze" 1t began with the issu-
ance of souvenir postal card. on the
front of which was a good likeness of
Queen Wilhelmina, inclosed in pretty
frame. on which was imprinted the
royal arms of Holland and various
symbols Of the girl Queens virtues.
This was a sensible card. and had a
meaning to justify its existence. but
since then the craze has. like all such
things. been carried to extremes until
grotesque and startling designs are
flying around the world on the face of
innocent postal cards. l send copy
Of the postcard kitten. which has been
voted here the best thing produced by
the deNoteeS of the new fad. The
mouse trimmed hat is a clever idea
that stamps this design as a bright
novelty. as well as a work Of art. An
other interesting design of the animal
series has a German band of frogs sit
ting upon lily pads and conducting an
opera in the middle of the pond. which
is where many people would have all
German band performances conducted
but without the lily pads. Another funny
animal card is n group of monkeys.
armed with paint pots and brushes, al
though the monkeys themselves. judg-
ing by the settled melancholy of their
countenances. fail to perceive the hui
NOR of the situation.
All Italy is to be had pictured on
post cards: the beautiful bay at
Naples. the Cathedral at Pisa. the
peasants dancing the trantella at Sor-
rcnto the Tower at Bologna, even the
Pope himself. with his beautiful
bengnant countenance, does not dis
dain to look out a greeting to his dis
tant children from n post card.
The mania is as widely spread as the
influenza. north as we'll as south the
card microbe has penetrated When
the traveller to Sweden lands at
Gothenburg, the Brekfort meets him
on the quay. and, according to the
card. it appears to be a city of the
MONDAY moon. or. perhaps. on the
contrary. the round. white orb is in
tended for pale midnight sun.
Whatever it is, it is apparently found
also i'm bright, clean little Stockholm.
for it appears behind the opera house.
Illuminating the shipping in the docks
and the gardens.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-10-14
INK VIM
AV<" HIN
VIC TAH
HVO
AUGUSTA LUMBER co.

erty of the company. There are doz-
ems of firms along the Kennebec river.
and every one has from one to 20
marks, so the chaos of the new log
watchs mind can be easily accounted
for.
But | should think the different
companies would duplicate marks
sometimes" the reader will say.
They can't do that for it is all regu-
lated by S. w. Philbrick of Skowhegan,
the clerk and treasurer of the Kenne-
bee Log Driving Company. When a
man wishes to enter a mark upon the
waters of the Kennebec. he sends this
mark to Mr.. Phlbrick. who has every
mark in use right before him. He
knows every one by heart, and his
paber with the different ones on it will
assist him. If there is no mark like it
this new one is entered under the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-10-14
SORTING THE LOGS.
The Methods Employed to Keep Every Mans
Logs Distinguishable on Their Trip Down
the Kennebec River--Some of the Marks.

mans name who owns the logs, and
who is about to begin to cut. If there
is a mark of the sort Mr.. Philbrlck
loses no time in notifying the man
that he must choose a new one.
Thus one can see Mr.. Philbrck is
the department of the Kennebec Log
Driving Company where the marks are
registered. He is the trade mark Off
cial of the company. Perhaps his au-
thority may not be as great as the
patent Office in Washington, but this
law of the company is as strictly fol-
lowed as any of the United States
laws. so Mr.. Philbrook might be called
the commissioner of patents or trade
marks of the Kennebec.
Every firm doing business requiring
the running of logs has from one to 20
marks People often wonder why this
is so.
1t is like this. They do not cut all
their timber. For instance. the Au
gusta Lumber Company may be pur
chasing lumber of a dozen different
firms along the Kennebec who will
float the logs into the river. Each diff
ferent firm that sells the logs to the
Augusta company affiXes a different
mark to his logs so that at this end of
the line they may be sorted if need be,
or counted as they are received and
though the receipts from the dozen
different ones at one time may be
taken from the river they can tell
whether they have received all the logs
from each individual firm that they
paid for, or that each OF their camps
cut as much as they said they did If
each mill had but one source from
which it received its logs or but one
lumber camp cutting, they would mark
all alike and there would be no mixing
of them in the least. but where they re-
ceive from SO many sources and places
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-10-14

account and if the Journal is not mis-
taken President Bradstreet Of the Log
Driving Company bought them at the
last meeting of the company in the
early part of the year. All the SCALA
wags that have escaped the eyes of the
watches, and even the best of them
will let some of their own logs slip
through when there are so many that
are 50 nearly alike, are kept a certain
length of time ana if not called for
they are sold. Each years work is
cleaned up at the lower end of the
drive before the next is undertaken.
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NER
This kind of shorthand is the kind
that is used to mark the millions of
logs that float down the broad rivers of
the State for the dozens of mills along
the banks. There they come floating
along on the top of the water, all a
mass of wood, and how under heavens,
the uninitiated will think, are they
ever going to tell which is which and
what belongs to who?' Ones mind is
in a state of timbermatic chaos when
he tried to think of the different way
in which he would sort those logs
But it is so simple. Why it is as easy
as it is to mark ones books in school, 50
they can be told from all the Others. or
il is as easy to pick ones checks from
out of a pile of them, as easy as sort
ing the fives from the 50-dolar bills
in ones pockets, to speak lumberingly,
it is as easy as falling off log. 1t is
so easy that it is almost embarrassing
to the man who knows, but to the man
who does not know it is a puzzle.
Did YOU ever notice a log as it float
ed along a placid river and see the
hieroglyphics upon one or both ends
You will see several cuts with the axe
that have defaced the bark. Do you
know what that says?
If it has the form of a flying devil, it
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-10-14
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Xxx MuH
WY 900
SOUTH GARDINER LUMBER co.

SOUTH GARDINER LUMBER co.
two industries of the Kennebec are
known to him from A to u. He has
seen all sorts of conditions in which
the two industries have been and all
the methods employed in the two. In
both he can be called a veteran.
First of all comes the marking of
the logs, which Mr.. Marston informs
us is done in the same manner, though
in many different degrees of care in
regard to thoroughness.
Everyone knows how the logs are
''yarded' after they are cut. Logs are
often marked in these yards. If the
landing place to the river is. as in
many cases, place where the logs go
over a high bluff, the logs are marked
at the yard before being hauled to the
landing. If, however. the landing
place is a level one. the marking is not
done until this place is reached.
A sharp axe is used by the marker
and he affixes the mark of his COM
pany to both ends of the logs. Anyone
can see by the different marks pre-
scented herewith, that in some cases it
must require skill to execute the diff
ferent marks properly.
THE appearance of the mark will
change that of the whole log" said
Mr. Marston. IF a log is marked
clearly and neatly the log looks better
than as though the marking is slack
and almost indistinguishable. Some
concerns pay more attention to theiI
markings than Others"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-10-14
T. W. FOGG, ROWDOINHAM.

I. W. FOGG, BOWDOlNHAM.
Fibre Company above the dam, two or
three miles from the city.
We have all seen the booms and the
houses where the river drivers live. to-
gether with the little houses erected on
the booms. These are the places where
the log watches stay with the account
ants and others. The logs are caught
in the great boom so that every log
that goes down the river has to pass
through here. The men with long
pickpoles arrange the logs and pull
them out of the jam so that they float
sideways through the sorting place. A
man deNterously rolls the logs 50 that
the mark is disclosed, and if it has any
of those of the Augusta Lumber Com
pany or of the Cushnoc Fibre Com
pany they are called off by the watch
to whichever they belong, so that the
accountants check down a mark to
whichever company has the log. These
logs selected are switched off into an
other boom and held while the others
are set over toward the outer channel
Hallowell.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-10-14
IL,
r. T. HAYES & co.

This is the manner in which they are
sorted at every point. Every log
passes under the eye of the different
log watches and sorters all along the
river. 1t will be seen that the sorters
at Scion, Madison and Skowhegan
have a much greater number of logs
to handle than the ones here. More
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-10-14

els with the learning of the gram
stenographer has to learn; neither does
il require the use Of a pencil sharpened
just SO. All that is needed to write it
a good eye. 1t can be written better
in the coolest weather and with snow
all about one. To read it one must
have practice and it is read oftenest in
the water.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-10-14
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Y9H 81:
DID N/H
LAWRENCE, NEWHALL & co, FAIR
FIELD.

LAWRENCE, NEWHALL Z Co, FAIR
FIELD.
Then comes the sorting. The first is
done at Scion, the second at Madison,
again at Skowhegan, Pishon's Ferry
Shawmut, Fairfield. Waterville, Wins
low. Augusta and finally the Halo
Well boom.
Now this sorting is something inter-
esting. 1t is done the same, practical
ly, all along the river, so let us take
the sorting booms of the Augusta
Lumber Company and the Cushnoc
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-10-14

The class of 1900 Yarmouth high school.
has elected the following officers for the
fall and winter term: Glass president,
Laura b. Hall; secretary and treasurer,
May Libby; executive committee, Edna
Fogg. Lena Carswell, Wilfred Weber.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-10-14

HE mill owners
shorthand is a
wonderful thing
and it is easy to
learn when one
once under
stands the first
rudiments. IL
+ G Il u ir e s no
study of conso-
nantS and vow
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-10-14
Who Has CataPPh?
A COMMON SENSE CURE

TaO those who know what Catarrh
really is. the old-fashioned way
of treating it. still used by
thousands who cling to old
methods, seems a woeful waste Of
good energy. N
Catarrh is inflammation Of the
mucous membranes Of the nostrils,
throat and air passages.
1t needs soothing. not irritating.
The constant hawking, the chok-
ing, plugged-up. disagreeable SEN
sation Of tightncss - troublesome
especially in the early morning,
when the cold air contracts the air
passages and initiates the infamed
membranes-is relieved Immediate
ly by the simple application of
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F7~"A N ft S1%,e
/o" s,SoLe x ~0 Hoer
u CIRCLE Z GtRDlE

WHAT SOME OF THE PECULIAR
MARKS ARE CALLED
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LAWRENCE BROS. SOUTH GARDl
NE,R
The age-herald., 1899-10-13
Romance of a southern Girl

From over the water comes the story or a romance that began in a music room in New York, was continued in London and had another chapter in a cottage in the Adrondacks. girl with voice and young business man are the characters in it, and the end of the story will be we'd ding in the early spring.
 Three years ago Miss Margaret Sanders, a pretty southern girl and her mother went to New York. They had but limited means. Miss Sanders was possessed of a soprano voice of excellent quality, and she hoped to secure an engagement on the concert stage. In this she was disappointed, and finally resolved to stake all her limited means and go to London.
 Miss Sanders had met in New York fellow music pupil Albert G. Smith, who gave her letters of introduction in London which secured her an opening. Her voice developed wonderfully and her professional future seemed assured.
 Last spring MT. Smith went to London. and when he returned it was said that he had made a proposition to Miss Sanders, the answer to which he was unable to get at once. He returned to his hunting camp in the Adirondacks, where an acceptance to his proposition was forwarded to him. Miss Sanders will abandon her professional ca- reer and wedding Will take place in the early spring.
The age-herald., 1899-10-13

no difficulty in inducing Admiral Dewey to visit Atlanta. He is so much attached to Lieutenant Brumby that he almost met the mayor half way. He was glad of an op- portunity to honor his friend. Lieutenant Brumby was, in other words, Atlanta's friend at court.
 As the sword presentation is to take place in the early days of November. it ought not to be difficult to induce both Brumby and Dewey to visit the chief city of Alabama during the state fair week. The city of fur naees and mines is widely known, and pos sibly both of uor naval heroes would be glad to see the town that may yet make the armor that protects the navy. Ex-Secreta- ry Herbert could explain to them the facts they do not possess, but Lieutenant Brum- by understands the situation.
 The people of Alabama would be glad to see the great admiral and his flag lieuten- ant, and it is within bounds to say that in no other state would they be more warmly welcomed The third admiral has thous- ands of admirers here who would be glad to see his face, and they would not expect him to make a speech.