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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-02-24
NEWMAN H. ATHOE,

,O;rganist, &c. st. Marks Church.
1MuSic-M Master. St Catharine's Hall.
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MnasNhs' Address, Hotel North, Augusta
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-02-24
I For All Readers Of
1.-The KennebeC Journal,

WITHIN THE REACH ALL
a ABSOLUTELY
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-02-24
VOLUME XII.
American Notes.
SIXTEEN CHAPTERS.
VOLUME XII.

VOLUME XII.
LETTERS OF MARQUE. Nineteen Let
tiers. Smith Administration. IS Chap
tiers. The first Indian edition Of 1891 il
now sold for 5000 a copy.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-22
SPECULATE IN HISTORIC SPOTS
What the Birthplace of Famous Mep
 Are Worth AS a Bustness

Last year no fewer than 36,000 peo. pie passed the turnstiles which guard the entrance to the little room ID which Burns first saw the light. In 1896, the centenary year of Burns, death, the number reached 2S, ,000. and as pence is demanded from each wis. itor very simple calculation will show what large sum of money is annually obtained by this means The cottage Is very humble, one-storied little erection, with thatched roof, and the poets father, when he first vert to live there, would have opened >his eyes pretty widely had anyone been able to tell him what a sum was one day to be received for it. The place was bought from him (after the poets death) by corporation of shoemakers, who afteTward sold it to the present trustees for $30,000 Another famous birthplace which attracts a large num- Der of people is that of Thomas Car. lyle at Ecclefeehan, which is twenty or thirty miles north Of Carlisle. There Is no fixed scale of charges for visiting this cottage, but as 1,205 people climbed the stairs last year and each probably left something with the care taker it Viii be easily seen that here, too, is nice little property. There are other places, more or less well known, scattered about in different parts of England and Wales, which The tourist often visits. Shakespeare is still a veritabIe little gold mine to Stratford-on-Avon. People from all parts of the world make pilgrimages to the little Warwiekshire town in order to see the famous poets birth- place. The charge for admission to the house is 6 pence, but as an interest ing museum is usually visited at the same time, for which an extra 6 pence is demanded, few persons leave the building without leaving 1 shilling be- hand them. Then there is Ann Batha- ways cottage to be also seen. This is a mile away from stratford, at the pretty little village of Shottery, and it is where the poets wife was wooed and won. The writer, during a recent visit ID it, was informed that on an average 100 people day all the year round came to see the cottage, and as each visitor pays 6 pence S, 800 or $4.0Q0 A year must be paade out of It.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-22
Il;iterate Russian Peasants.

The illiteraey of Russia exceeds that of any other country claiming to have q civilized government. The Humani- tarian states that in 10000 villages of the vast empire there is not a school. and it is estimated that not 20 per cent of the population of the empire has acquired even the rudiments of a common school education. It has been figured out that if the czar would dis band 100 900 men of his immense army he would thereby save money enough to provide a school for each of these villages. It is not surprising that the ezar should desire to reach some ar engagements with the other nations which would permit him to partially disarm.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-22
RAUDED.
By New Plan of Bank swindIIns ny
 Duplicate Draft.

By New Plan of Bank swipdIlnR Ry
 Duplicate Draft
 Boston Special Chicago Tribune: 4 new scheme to defraud the banking houses of this community has been dis covered through the officials e the Massachusetts National bank. The of ficials are assisting the police in this country and those of the Scot nd Yard force in unraveiing the matter The manner in which it is worked is as fol. lows: A man enters bank and pur- chases draft, at the same time tell. ing the c ,hier that he Is goi1 g abroad and would like to have a duplicate drawn. He takes Hath of the drafts away, a"d the original Is either taken or sent to Europe by the swindler. Some bank in London eashes the origi- nal draft, and the duplicate is cashed on the continent 5y some unsuspeeting person. In this way the swindlers double their money. Paper issued by the Massachusetts National bank was used by one of the sWindlers to secure S2, GOO from bank in Switzerland. The AlIet4A 9AlO lielu lLiC u niiS1CIlOl1 It'll lIIP local bank told the cashier that he was going abroad and that he would like to have the drafts in two parts. He pur- chased two drafts of S1,000 each. These were drawn on a London bank Re- gently word was received from London that one of the drafts marked dupli. cate had been cashed there. A few days ago letter was received from a banking house in Switzerland, stating that t had cashed. the original draft for the party to whom Miller had in- dorsed it. The cashier of the Massachu- sets National bank wrote to a bank ing house in Troy, N. Y, and asked that institution to look up man giv- ing the name of J. P Miller, who had bought the draft in March. The bank ing house replied that it found three people of that name all reputable bus mess men. No one of the three an- swered the description of the Miller who bought the drafts. The Switzer- land bank will be the loser in this case, as the person who cashed the draft should have demanded the dupli- cate as well as the original before cash Ing it
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-22
Copenhagen,s War Against Rats.

So great a nuisance have the rats recently become in Copenhagen that efforts are being made to exterminate them. h order to encourage the new occupation of rat hunting for profit and pleasure combined, a premium of 10 ore per rat is being paid for every one of the rodents produced whole but dead. For the past three weeks war against the rats has been waged. In the first week 6,094 were officially re- corded as killed; the number grew to 6,616 in the second week. and for the last week it had swelled to 6,7S0. It is hoped to reach a weeks mortality among the rats of 10000 in two or three weeks unless the supply becomes exhausted in the meantime. It is pro- posed to extend the rat-catching op- eration to the whole country. The rcrusade has become of national tn- terest.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-22
MORE GLACIERS THAN GOLD.
Scientists Found Many Natural Wonder.
 Up in Alaska.

Two members of E. H. Harriman's scientific party that has been explor- ing the Alaskan coast for some months past have returned to Vancouver and bring accounts of their cruise on the steamer Elder, which indicate that MT. Hartman and the scientists will return laden with many laurels. They seem to have developed a mania fol glaciers, having visited and explored more than thirty, some of which were unknown except to natives. In one haE, not shown on the maps or charts. t.sev discovered an immense glacier, "ff arge as the giant Muir. but @o1e grand and picturesque. The
 ends inland more than twenty E. md at poip, near tbe glacier a sea Ing line of forty fathoms did not touch bottom. This inlet they named Unknown bay. It was here that the Elder maneuvering among the cakes of ice broke from the glacier, broke propeller blade, making it necessary to return to 0rca. where repairs were made. At the head of Disenehantment bay they found four glaciers which had never been seen before by white men. in Icy bay. twenty miles across. ep- posite Carrolls glacier the party dis covered a new glacier with front of three-fourths Of a mile. This was named Harsiman's glacier. Observa. tions taken in the vicinity of Grand Pacific glacier showed that its Ice wall had receded three miles during the 20 years that have elapsed since Muir and Reed visited the place and established their survey. The different scientists are having gratifying success in all lines. The botantsts have found sey- eral new plant species and a collection Of marine species made by the party. 1t is said, will be superior to any other In existence. 0rnithologists have had phenomenal success and are able to show new bird specimens.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-22
A cHINAMAN'S OATH.
The Celestial Was Particular and Caused
 the Court Lots of Trouble.


 The various forms of oath-making, even in this country, are of consider able interest. It would not, however, be easy to find ar 7tance in which anything like so medium of attestation was ed as 8 guil- lohned black coclA. But no less an extraordinary medium than that was what the police of a country district in New South Wales had to provide the other day for fnical Chinaman, who declined to swear on anything else. Headless fowls were brought, but in vain, and as the matter was impor- tant, even 8 black swan. a luxury surely for a Chinese witness, was sug. gested, only to be immediately refused. After some time had elapsed, and when the representatives of the law seemed quite at their wits end, dead >cockatoo of the required hue was strangely discovered in a hut of one of the other celestials, who mulcted the anxious officials in $2.50 for the bird. Then the solemn and peculiar oath was duly administered, on which the dif1- cult witness with a bland and childlike expression, declared he knew nothing about the case and sat down smiling!
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-22
NATURAL TRAP.
~.tb Gulch Captures or Asphysiates
 Many Wild Animals.

Many Wild Animals.
 Death gulth Is a small and gloomy ~ovine in tle northeast corner of the Yellowstone national park, says Ap- n1eton,s Monthly "In this res lon the iovas which fill the ancient basin Of .ba mark rest upon the Hanks of noun tains forn.el of fragmentary volcanic aieeta. ... hile the hydrothermal sorres of the central portion of the mark show but feeble manifestation Of their energy in the almost extinct hot snring areas of Soda Butte, Lamar river. Cache creek and Miller creek" Although hot water no longer flows from these vents, gaseous emanations are now given off in considerable vol- ume" "On Cache creek, about two miles above it's confluence with Lamar river. are deposits of altered and erys- talline travertine, with pools in the creek violently efferveseing locally. This is due to the copious emission of gas. Above these deposits the creek cuts into bank of sulphur and gravel cemented by this material, and a few wards beyond is the debouehure of small lateral gully coming down from +be mountain side. h it's bot n Is a small stream of clear and cold water, sour with sulphuric acid, and flowing down narrow and steep channel cut in beds of dark gray volcanic tlff As cending this gulch the sides, closing together, become very steep slopes of white, decomposing rock. The only springs now flowing are small oozes of water issuing from the base of these slopes Or from the channel bed. forming a thick, creamy, white deposit about the vents and covering ss5e stream bed. This deposit consists
 hrgely of sulphate of arumina. :. 5. |. About 150 feet above the main stream these =oozing springs of acid water cease, but the channel of the guIch remains the same. The odor Of sul- phur now becomes stronger, though producing no other effect than slight irritation of the lungs. Climbing through this trough, frightfully weird and dismal place, and occupied by only tiny streamlet and an ap- palling odor, we at length discovered some brown furry masses lying scat tered about the floor of the ravins about quarter of a mile from the point where we left Cache creek. Ap- preaching cautiously, it became quick ly evident that we had before us a large group of huge, recumbent bears. The one nearest to us was lying with his nose between his paws, facing us, and so exactly like huge dog asleep that It did not seem possible that it was the sleep of death. To make sure, threw pebble at the animal, strik- ing him on the flank The distended skin resounded like a drum head, and .dthe only response was a belch of poi ysonous gas that almost overwhelmed us. Closer examination showed that the animal was a young silver tip grizzly (Ursus horribilis). A few drops of dark red blood stained his nostrils and the ground beneath. There proved to be five other eareasses, all bears, in various stages of decay; careful search revealed oval areas of hair and bones that represented two other bears, mak- ing total of eight carcasses in all.
 A CHINAMAN'S OATH.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-11-02
STOCK MARKET LIVELIER
Increased Animation in the Wall
Street Transactions.
A Generally Strong Tone Prevails
at the OpenIng-PeOpIe's Gas the
tive Activity American Shares
Advance in the London Dealings.

NEW YORK. Nov. 2.-The Stock Mar
ket today opened with dealings showing
increasing animation in comparison with
those of yesterday and with a generally
strung zone prevailing The only ex,ep-
ton Of note to the general tendency of
the market at the opening of business was
Peoples Gas, and elsewhere advances
were common.
Sugar Refining was particularly strCng
and active. Pennsylvania was larg u
dealt in. at yesterdays level. after al
lowing for the dividend On the stock
In the railway list. active features were
Missouri Pacific, Union Pacific, Northern
Pacific, and the Atcbis5n shares. The
Alton issues were also actively dealt in
and showed a disposition towards recov-
cry.
Apart from Sugar Refining, there were
aCt1ve dealings in the industrial quarter
in National Tube, which was decidedly
strong American Smelling and the
Leather shares.
Nothing that was particularly inter
esting took place in the local traction
group
The London market for American
stocks showed material advances todSy,
and foreign houses were disposed to buy
here Little OF interest aside from tn
progress of the political campaign, was
noted IN this mornings news.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-11-02
New York Cotton Market.
A HOT RACE WITH a GRIZZLY
Experience OF n Colorado Postmaster
With Bear.


w. H. Person, local manager of a local
typewriter company, received letter this
morning from Tom Hamilton, postmaster
at Hamilton, Routt County, describing a
thrilling race with a bear which he en-
joyed this week.
The bear was q big grizzly. The grizzly
when he sees a human form is bound to
do one of two things. He will either run
at or away from the stranger, and if he
does the former it is generally case of
doughnuts to pretZais that it is all off
with the stranger. IN this case the bear
that runs at a man yearne1 for closer
acquaintance witt the postmaster and
would probably haze int, tered seriously
with the future delivery of the United
States mail but for tie fact that Hamil-
ton is something of q rough rider and had
a horse under him.
Postmaster Hami ton had for the time
being left the affairs of state in the hands
Of a subordinate white he went out TO
round up some straying cattle. He went
about three miles from home and was
standing beside his horse wondering which
way to turn next when there was a stir
in some brush ahead OF him. 1t looked
too small disturbance for cow, but he
thought it might be calf and went for
ward to investigate. He was within a few
feet OF the brush when a big grizzly stood
on its hind legs and threw him q kiss.
Hamilton didn't stop 70 catch the kiss
but made a bolt for his horse. Tbs steed
had seen Mr.. Bear and started away
almost as eagerly as did his master, and
1t was nip and tuck for the saddle be-
tween bruin and the postmaster. After a
ru;: of 100 yards Hamilton caught the
pummel of the saddle and threw himself
aboard Just as the bear made a bound
for him A pair Of spurs went into the
horses hide and the animal leaped for
ward with bound which made the bear
feel that his meal of man was apt to
escape. But he doubled himself up into
a ball of fury and started red hot after
his intended victim. The chase kept up
until the door of the postmaster's cabin
was reached, when bruin turned about
and made for the woods. He was allowed
to escape.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-11-02
POINTS FROM INDIANS.
Methods of Modern warfare Learned
From Them
From the Philadelphia Times.)

(From the Philadelphia Times)
Anybody who knows anything at all
about the modern fighting knows that the
North American Indian is the man who
sets the pace. First the American from
tiersman studied his ways and adopted
his tactics and the soldiers took them up
Baden-Powen, SO the plucky little South
African general confesses, first read about
American scouts and then took lessons
from their teachers, the Indians them
selves But now there is a slip in the
chain, and France is studying the Indian
without going to the trouble of first as
certaining what the best scout in the
world. the American soldier, thinks about
1t. France is trying the .'fiexicon march. ."
Never get the leg straight" are the
French instructions. Keep the back
straight, but bent forward. Do not throw
the shoulders either back or up
: That is about the way an Indian walks
so Captain Uline, of the Twentieth Infan-
try, confesses, but, he goes on, he never
heard of the trick being tried by mill
tary.
Il cannot discuss the merits of the
hexicon, the captain said, because 1
am not familiar with it, From the
description it is just about the way the
Indian walks DIS knee is never locked
or thrust back, SO as TO have the leg quite
straight. The Indian never uses the heel
but puts the sole down all at once Not
all Indians are footmen. I could name half
e dozen tribes which to my personal knowl-
edge go mounted always and almost every
where even about their camp"
An English Army officer, a subaltern,
here with the horse buyers, said concern
ing the new movement.
The French are the greatest bunglers
IN the world They get the widest no.
tions-fads,' / ought 10 call thern-fn their
pates- 1 remember once they decided to
dress every man in Madagascar in red
flannel underciothing. Every man in the
place got skin disease. Then they went in
for natural wool and the men got worse
They admitted red iTTitated the skin. and
then found that natural wool, being al
ready charged with OIL could take no
more, so was worthless for absorbing per-
SEPARATION. Now they are fddling with the
'fexicon' movement, evidently trying TO
step ahead of the United States in follow
ing the Indian, and, overlooking the work
the Indian does when he goes on what we
will call his cog trot. scouting, they pro-
pose to initiate his walk
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-11-02
ENTHUSIASTIC CONVERTS.
There Are Thousands of Them Who
Believe as This Woman Does.


Mrs Ira Knowlton, of Butte, Mon, is
a most enthusiastic convert to the virtues
of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a cure
for obstinate stomach trouble. She says:
Il had poor digestion nearly all my life.
1t now seems to me that for years i never
knew what it was to be hungry, to have a
good, natural appetite. rszihss
Il was troubled with gas in stomach
causing pressure on the heart with palpl-
tation and short breath Nearly every
thing l ate snured on my stomach. Some
times / had cramps in the stomach which
almost resembied spasms.
Doctors told me / had catarrh of the
stomach, but their medicines would not
reach 1t and 1 would still be a sufferer had
l not, in sheer desperation, decided go try
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets.
Il knew they were an advertised reme-
dy and / didn't believe anything I read
about them, as l had no confidence in ad
vertised remedies, but my sister living in
Pittsburg wrote me last spring telling me
how Stuarts Tablets had cured her and
her little daughter of indigestion and loss
of flesh and appetite, and l hesitatsd no
longer
II boughs 50-cent box al my drug store
and took two of the large tablets after
each meal and found them delightful TO
take, being as pleasant 20 the taste as
6tAiSf ~ DSISNST. Tie "a
or night I felt any pain or uneasiness IN
the stomach or about the heart took one
of the small tablets and in three weeks it
seemed TO me as IL | had never known
what stomach trouble was
81 keep Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets In
the house and every member Of our family
uses them occasionally after a hearty meal
or when any OF us have a pain or ache il
the digestive organs
Mr.. E. II. Davis, OF Hampton, Va, says
Il doctored five years for dyspepsia, but in
two months l got more benefit from Stu
arts Dyspepsia Tablets than in ave years
Of the doctors treatment
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets is the safest
as well the simplest and most con-
venient remedy for any form of indiges-
ton. catarrh of stomach, biEousness sour
stomach. bloating after meals, sympathetic
heart troubles. sf.
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets Is not cheap
cathartic. but an active digestive remedy.
containing the pepsia and diastase which
every weak stomach lacks, and they cure
stomach troubles because they digest the
food eaten and give the weak abused
overworked stomach chance to rest and
recuperate
Stuarts Dyspepsia Tablets are sold in
every drug store in tie United States
Canada. and Great Britain.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-11-02
cosTLIEsT sAUsAGEs MADE.
Some in Frunce That Only Capital
lists San Afford to Eat
f. +ka Nv vi

The coztliest Of all sausages,' said a
man with the trade, lis Lyons sau-
sage sells in Paris at francs and more 2
pound Here it Is sold al so cents 10 81
a pound Lyons sausage is also produced
in this country. That made here is even
finer than the imported, but sells here,
however, for somewhat less.
Lyons is rather a large sausage 1t is
put up in the largest size hog castings and
1t is made of beef and pork The meats
USED IN making it are OF the very best.
and they are prepared with the greatest
care From the beef all the sinews and
veins are removed, and there is left only
the selected parts4s the meat. The beef
is chopped very fine, 50 as to make of it
practically paste The pork used is from
the back fat of hogs. This is not chopped
fine. as the beef is but is cut into irregu-
lar shaped pieces which show In the sau-
sage when it is cut. The spices used in
the seasoning are. OF course. of the choic-
est The Lyons sausage is hard smoked.
The art of sausage making has So i'm
proved in this country that now, as you
can say without reservati ton the finest
sausages produced in the world are made
in the United States. This Is true without
exception. The American Lyons sausage.
for example, is better than the imported.
Some American Lyons is exported to
France and sold there, and some OF that
as imported Lyons.
Lyons sausage is served in the very
finest of hotels and restaurants. and ii
may be found on bills of fare before the
soup, served as an appetizer. For that
| purpose it is very excellent. / fancy that
| its increasing use in this manner in New
York in recent years is due in great
| measure to cells for 1t from Russian Wis
| itors. The Russians have always been
| fond Of Lyons sausage, as they are also
| of cayiare
In Chicago sausage factory making
| fine saEsages the owner, who was showing
| us over the establishment. said, when ii
came noon.
'2'Now we will have luncheon
What he gave us was Lyons sausage OF
his own make, pumpe-nicke!, fresh butter
and Burgundy, and an admirable luncheon
| it was