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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-07-20

,r,onp the many and varied types
.a,;cs of the civil War. which are
.arved as treasures in thousands of
pps,as throughout the Union. and in
~ rational and state museums. are
,,anv which, aside from the Faiue
,hot attaches itself to them as me
.oar,oes. are curioSities of the highest
dor one Of these WAS recently
onovr TO the Journal in the form OF IA
,,aner that was published in the rebel
rison of Camp Ford. in Tyler, Smith
county, Texas. in 1864.
Tho nublisher of the paper. when
,as called The Old Flag" was Capt.
Wm. H. May of the 2Sd regiment, Z.
" ond three issues were printed by
rim during an Imprisonment OF thT-
teen months at the camp. 1t is WITH
o,t Doubt one of the most curious
srsc;mens of a newspaper that was
s,,ar nublished. and when the fact De-
oomas known that the entire COMPOSE
ION Of the sheet, advertisements ana
n was executed with steel pen,
.he curiosity increases hundredfold.
:, general arrangement. The Ola
r,.a, ;s not unlike the weekly news
naners TO today. 1t contained. be-
s;das its budget of local news. an edi-
.orio, column in which the editor
a;red his views on general and local
,onics the market reports. ms
oo,,aneous matter stories. jokes. teie-
.onb;e news '.by L. G.. telegraph.
va advertisements-a among the
litter appeared. as it does today IN
o,,orv we'll regulated weekly office, the
Unavailable: "All kinds of plain ana
fancy job printing neatly executed at
the lowest cash prices. at TINS once.
If was A four page sheet. printed on
,n,n,ed letter paper. and Of course, as
!, was printed by such a SLOW process
nc men and ink, but one copy of eacif
number could be issued, TINS copy
was read aloud at the various cabihs
NV some member Of the ness ana
whom all had read. or Eeard ii read. the
>ame was returned by the snbserib-
orr m the office of publications.
In the preface to the bound copy OF
tho naper. the editor says: But one
aim ever actuated the proprietor IN
,his undertaking, which was to con
tibute as far as possible towards en-
almost unbearably eventless life OF
Camp Ford-and to cultivate a mu-
,ual good feeling between all. Ana
the CHEEKY tone that pervaded the en-
tire contents of. the paper would seem
10 indicate that he musthave succeeded
in his mission. and to have brought to
the hearts of his fellow prisoners an
occasional ray of light that enabled
them to forget for time their dismal
life of confinement.
In order to give its readers a better
idea of the contents of the paper. the
Journal takes the liberty of making
several quotations therefrom. and also
few reproductions of the printing.
In the first number of The Old
Flag" which was issued Feb. Il. 1864,
Included in the publishers card. which
gives the terms of subscription. rates
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-07-20

This portion OF this page got wet. and
tore of in taking it from under my
shoulder straps upon arriving in the
Federal lines"
The prisoners at Camp Ford were
mostly men from the central and west
ern states. with quite sprinkling from
the U. S. navy. the latter having been
captured at Sabine Pass. The only
two Maine men in the list at that time
were 1t. John w. Dana, Of the 18th
Maine Volunteers, and 1t. Freeman H.
Chase. of the same regiment
At the close of the war, CAPTAIN MAY
had the original copies Of his paper
reproduced by lithograph, and sent
these reproductions to his friends who
had been his fellow prisoners at Camp
Ford. The copy from which this arti-
Gle is written is owned by James A.
Proctor of Richmond, who received it
from his father. the late captain A. NJ.
Proctor of Boston. Mass CAPTAIN
Proctor held his commission in the 42d
Mass. Volunteers. and was captured
at Galveston. Texas. Jan. LIST, 1863.
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fully aroused. science Is TeIIioi se'c'''''
Peace be with her victims; their loss IS
our gain.
Here are few conundrums:
Why is the Southern Confederacy
like a teakettle? Because the Black Is
nj the bottom of it. and hollow within.
WHY are Texas state troops ike lght
machinery? Because they run with
little betting. $50
WHY are Magruder's cOnscripts IKE
the Rebel papers? Because they can
not be depended upon.
The foregoing paragraphs snow III
part the makeup of the paper, anu
give to the reader a good idea OF the
general tone of the sheet. Or course
there is, among the shorter locals
great deal of matter that we OF To-Day
c.pnot appreciate, but which, to the
men who were imprisoned at the time
in Camp Ford. and were famillar WIN
the circumstances. meant Il great "e"''
And then, through the different copies
az the paper there runs VEN Oh VI!
that cannot fail to be appreciated, anu
must have caused great deai vi
amusement at the one time. That Cap
tain Nav was thorough hewspape'
man there is not dOuDt'-the az
rangement Of the matter. heads' e't.'
chow that. while the matter l'sei'
snaaks volumes for brilliant anu az!
Two intellect. The wonder IS. that l"
tho midst of such dismal surround'hss
n man could produce volume. Ut e.en
a single sheet that was so full OF , .sI
&c :. "The Old Flag" Perhaps the
secret of it all was the noble oo)ec'
that the publisher had in view-to keel
nm the spirits of his fellow prlslonels prisoner,
When Captain May was excnans. ~,
no secreted the original copies OF t"'
naner under his shoulder straps. an'
hraueht them North with him. This i
ornIained by a marginal note or tn
first page Of the first edition" OF tn tn
naner for in the last column Co"
Siderable par portion of a poem is missing
and in the space left blank is wr'tte"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-07-20

Harry f. Swan Of South Paris begun
work recently on the Lewiston Sun as
city reporter.
Miss Mary Grace Hills. superin-
.endent of nurses and matron Of the
Central Maine General hospital. has
resigned her position.
William F. Curran of Bangor. has
been chosen an incorporation OF the
Bangor Savings bank to fill the va
cancy caused by the death Of John H.
Crosby.
The engagement is announced of NJ.
X. Murray. general secretary of the Y.
NJ. c. A. in Bath and Miss Effie Nj. Lit
tlefield of Winterport. State organizer
of the Y. p. c. T. L.
DR.. G. p. Thomas of Brewer has been
appointed on the medical staff OF the
Eastern Maine hospital in Bangor. DR..
| Thomas is the first Brewer physician
to receive an appointment on the stan
of this hospital.
Associate Justice Joseph Mckenna
of the United States supreme court is
Spending the summer with his family
at York Harbor This is the third sea
son spent by Justice McKenna at
York HarbOr.
DR.. F. f.. Wheeler. formerly of West
Paris. who graduated from the Maine
Medical school, has received an ap-
pointment as house surgeon and physl-
elan in the Providence. Rhode lslanu'
State hospital. and commences HIS
services. August list.
DR.. Mary l.. Burnham of Ellsworth
who has been on the Chinese coast
since the Boxers outbreak. is now IN
| Korea for the summer. She expects
| tn roturn to her mission field in the in
terror of China in the fall. by which
time it is hoped it will be safe for mis-
sionaries there.
| Miss Florence f. Bishop. graduate
of the Maine General Hospital Iraihihs
school and former superintendent o'
nurses at the Maine Eye and Ear In
Urinary. Portland. has accepted the
position Of directress OF nurses at the
Medico- Chirugical hospital of Phila'
delphia.
| William Donovan has resigned his
nosition as instructor at the Sorrento
Golf Club to accept like situation al
MI Kineo. He is succeeded by James
Stewart of Edinburgh. Scotland. Mr.
stewart Is a professional golf player OF
lcng experience. and the Sorrento Clut
is to be congratulated on securing hi
services.
The marriage of Rev. Walter Reit
Hunt and Miss Alice WinslOw viii
take place in the Unitarian church a
south Duxbury. Mass. July Is. Rev
Mr.. Hunt is the son Of Mr.. and Mrs
Abel Hunt of Bangor. and is at pres
ont pastor of the Unitarian church III
orange. N. J. He is graduate
Rowdoin College and Harvard Divinit!
school.
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Of advertising. etc. appears the follow
ing amusing paragraph:
In order to render payments more
easy for our patrons we will accept
instead of the east, Lincoln coffee.
green or black tea, spices, butter,
beans cheese, Irish potatoes, ice.
saleratuS. fine-cut or Kilike1ick to-
bacco. wines. liquors or segars."
Then follows the leading editorial on
SAYS:
The work Of regeneration has be-
gun. The tenth part of the people of
Texas, represented by the Union in
habitants OF Camp Ford. embracing
the gallant soldier. the patriotic
refugee, and the unterritied exile. have
sworn to uphold our magnanimous
President in his generous endeavor to
unite all parties for his own support
In the words of the new and original
motto, at the head of our editorial
column. Long may he wave AL
ready we rally distinguished officers
enough to hold all the positions Of an
army corps; men who have trod the
sacred soil of Texas. from Sabine
Pass to Camp Grove. from Galveston to
tyler. from the Rio Grande to tine
san Jacinto: men who are familiar
with. the guard houses and peniten-
nafies and who have got their eye
teeth cut on corn dodgers. and who
iaush to scorn an eruption of gray
nacks To such veterans victory must
oe sure. and with the old flag wrapped
around them. they will face a world in
arms on mustang ponies. We call
upon loyal Texans to cluster around
our flagstaff. We know that they have
lung cried FOR us as tender infant
oiies Tor 1t Shei mans Lozengcs. We
"hroii the banner of their redemption
over IeNan groves.
Te'er noat our standard sheet,
VIZ uil\t dSioNal RebS before us
nv freedom soil beneath our feet
VIZ ne continued in our neXp'
mere IS a sample news item. rala-
eve 10 the doings of the Confederate
.oheress. which the editor credited tt
"e shreveport FiIe-eater:
An Act in addition to an Act r.,at.
"s 10 an Act entitled an Act to pre.
WI" the enlistment of men over. q!
dis OF age. except as nurses. cook,
and biacksmi,hs
he Congress Of The 4. < "A.
mat 10 person above the ae.
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out any apparent cause. The Captain
watched it closely-how closely. those
of our readers. who have seen him
sitting on the hillsides his eyes rivet-
ed on the mule for hours at a time. lost
in deep thought. can only know. At
last the mule disappeared. The Cap
tain was seen afterwards frequently
leaving camp and remaining long
periods. What became of the mule is
not for us to say. but we all know
what scientific men of the purest l06s
are compelled to resort to. to obtain
the secrets of human anatomy. The
problem which baffied him so long. has
been solved, and the author trium-
phantly presents the solution in this
little volume. We wish it could have
been done at less sacrifice-but when
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-07-20
PUBLISHED IN A REBEL PRISON.

mentioped shall be admitted into the
military service of the &. S. of A. hav-
ing already furnished substitute over
the exemption age. which by Act Of
Jan. 2lst, is extended to IS years.
(Approved, Feb. LIST. 1861"
On the third page, under the head
ing. Editors Chair" appears the fol-
lowing:
We think OF naming this depart
ment of our paper the Editors Easy
Chair" but as we seated ourselves
upon our coarse. hard. sliver-bottomed
stool. minus back and cushion. the alb
surditSspf saying easy chair arrested
our pen in the act of so inditing it, and
rather. than have SO unpleasant a
heading in our columns as uneasy,
we drop the term altogether.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-07-20

To the holders Of the First Mortgage
bonds of the Augusta. HallOwell & Gardt-
ner Railroad Co.
Holders of the First Mortgage bonds Of
the Augusta, HallOwell & Gardiner Rail-
road may have the privilege of exchang-
ing their bonds for the new 4 per cent.
convertible gold bonds of the Company,
which are secured by a mortgage upon
all its property and franchises, the pres
ent outstanding bonds being taken and
the new ones given In exchange upon q
I per cent basis.
Apply at the Office Of the Company or
! to Geo. E. MacOmber. Treasurer.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-07-20

There is a movement on foot to have
a complete uniform adopted by the
ushers Of the Bangor Opera House.
fishers in the large cities always APP
pear in uniform. but the CUSTOM mas
never yet extended as far as Bangor.
1t is a good custom. however, ana Il
or Is ushers ,an in uniform would Ger,
tainly make a handsome showing. ana
give to the house a decidedly metro
pOlitan air.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-07-20
0. R. WELLMAM.
AUGUSTA SAVINGS Bank.
ORGANIZED lsla.

RANKING MOONS as WATER STREET.
rRUSTEEs-J. H. Manley. L. c. Cor
atsh. Lendall .Titcomb. B. F. Parrott.
rreby johnson. ~.
Deposits are placed on interest TIE ntst
Interest paid or credited on account on
Il wednesday Of February ane August
deposits are exempt by law from All
axes. and accounts are stnctiy co"uos"-
Fsuecial privileges a6osded to exeeu-
,ora. Administrators. 0uard1ans. Trus-
to. maev1eA W0men ana mlnors.
EDWIN e. DUDLEY, Tvoo0.
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MAINE FRATERNITIEs.

A special communication of the Gra Trans
Lodge Of Masons will be held at MILL
nocket on Thursday, August l. AZ , ~
M for the constitution OF Nohesmic
lodge, No. 2O5.
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A HOME INVESTMENT.
S 10000
Augusta, ha||ows|| & Gardner Railroad
4 per cent. First Mortgage Gold Bonds.

These bonds are secured by a mort
gage upon all the property and the fran
chises of the company. and convertible
into preferred stock. bearing the same
curity, at the option Of the holder. The
deed Of trust securing these bonds and
preferred stock was drawn by the Hon.
H. NJ. Heath. For further particulars ap-
Geo. +. Macomber. or Thos. j. Lynch.
| june26dtf
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This reproduction of a portion of one OF
the columns OF the Old Flag. shows the
style of printing and also the part tina
was lost by becoming torn while being
taken from under the editors shoulder
straps where he had concealed the paper
while coming North
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-07-20

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MAINE PEOPLE.

Harry E. Swan Of South Paris. begun
work recently on the Lewiston Sun as
city reporter.
Evening star., 1901-09-14
RECRUITING. IN RUSSIA,
Educated Men Need Not Serve tn,
Legal Term
From Pearson's.


From Pearsons.
Men of good education have the privilege
of serving for less than the legal term
Moreover. they may offer themselves as
vclunteers-a form Of service which has
many advantages over the regular army
Men who have completed their education
In the higher schools and colleges only
serve two years In the line and sixteen
years in the reserves; while those who have
completed their education In the secondary
schools must serve for three and sometimes
four years in the line and for fourteen or
fifteen years in the reserves
But the humble, uneducated peasant, who
must also serve his country for not fewer
than eighteen years, must pass four years
IN active service and fourteen in the re-
serves. Long as is the term of service 1t
cannot be compared to what it was in the
days OF Nicholas. when to be a soldier
once meant to be a soldier always. In
those days when man was taken for mill
tary service his relatives followed him out
of his village weeping and wailing as If he
were going to his death. But now when
man draws the fateful number which means
that he must serve in the army he does
not look upon himself as lost forever He
knows that in four years he will return.
The women may weep, but not the men
themselves unless perhaps they have a
young wife behind them This Is not un-
common, for the peasants often marry at
eighteen with the sole idea Of leaving some
one to care for their property during their
absence. Only too often it happens that
when the soldier comes back from SER
vice he Is not the simple. honest fellow
he was when he left home, and the sharer
of his joys and sorrows, alas, is often no
better than he. 1t Is for this reason that
soldiers in the Russian army are seldom
given official permission to marry until
they have served their four years
Having been chosen for a soldier, Ivan
ffah
his joy In plentiful libations of vodka
with such disastrous effects that he often
does not come to his senses again until he
has arrived at the nearest military depot
tons rapidly sober him. From the depot
he Is dispatched to the future scene Of his
military training. This will be as far from
home and its surroundings as possible
But before leaving he will be supplied with
warm clothes and boots. Of which he usu-
ally stands In considerable need.
Evening star., 1901-09-14
GUESTS DID NOT LEAVE.
The Black and White Incident Mt a
London Hotel.
From tba Iandon Mail Aupusf


The color line is drawn very clearly in
the United States, especially In the south
and the black man Is not allowed to mingle
with the white or meet him on terms Of
equality. He does not enter the same
hotels as the superior white-except to act
as servant. In England color does not mat
ter, and hotel keepers, following the gen.
eral practice, make no distinction between
guests with white faces and those with
black Indian princes are treated like Eng
lish gentlemen, or Americans, or French
men, and hitherto there has been no trou-
BILE. Certain American visitors appear to
consider that by this arrangement their
susceptibilities are outraged, and they have
been trying to have the colored people
housed In separate hotels.
few days ago nine cOlored gentlemen
arrived at st. Ermin's Hotel, Westminster
for the Methodist ecumenical conference
Only one or two Of them are negroes. Two
are bishops, one Is a professor in the
United States. and all are highly educated
persons. For some days after they took
up residence at st. Ermin's Hotel the
Americans were observed in groups ear
In the dining room and in the smoking
room. The explanation came the other
evening, when six Americans-two ladies
and four gentiemen-waited on the man.
ager and practically demanded that he
should send away the colored visitors on
pain of all the Americans leaving the hotel
There were then 200 Americans in resi-
dence. The manager expressed himself sur
prised that a people who boasted so much
OF their democracy should seek to draw
such a distinction between two sections Of
the human race. Their suggestion was i'm
possible. he told them. so long as the col
ored gentlemen behaved themselves, end
he had no reason to expect they would do
otherwise. The only stipulations for adj
mission to the hotel were good behavior
and punctual payment
although the whole OF the Americans
had left, and there had been only two COL
-ored visitors. I would not have violated a
well recognized English principle" the
manager subsequently said. The threat
ened exodus Of the American visitors did
not take place.
Evening star., 1901-09-14
Danger to st, Pau1's.

From the Scientific American
1t Is seldom that modern building opera
tions and engineering works injure great
edifice; SO the news that st. PauPs Cathe-
dral, in London, Is In danger comes as a
painful surprise, for 1t is one of the most
celebrated buildings in the entire world
The report Of the architect to the dean and
chapter states that st. Pauls Is cracked
from top to bottom, and while the present
damage can be readily repaired it shows a
condition Of affairs which is really alarm
ing. Sir Christopher Wren built the cathe-
dral after the great fire of 1866 when the
older Gothic building was destroyed.
Unfortunately for his fame as an engi-
neer, he failed to drive piles or to excavate
deep enough to place its foundation on q
firm subsoil, so that he practically foated
the cathedral on a layer of fine clay or
'pot-earth, as he was pleased to call IL
resting on a strata of sand mixed with
gravel and water; but he knew of the ex-
istence Of a bed of hard clay some forty
feet below the surface, but did not carry
his foundation SO far down, owing probably
to the smallness of the available funds. 1t
would have been wise, however, to have
built slightly smaller building on a more
suitable foundation. The cathedral with
Its great dome, has successfully stood for
centuries without perceptible damage, and
II 1t were not for the great excavations
which have recently been made in it's vcn-
ity 1t would probably remain In it's pristine
state. Sewer after sewer has been built,
causing the foundation to settle. The old
underground railway tunnel was some 500
feet away, and this also had it's effect but
1T is later tunnel which has caused the
present perceptible and alarming damage
A number of borings have been made for
a new underground line on the south side
of the cathedral. 1t Is to be hoped that
means will be found to alter the course of
this line, so that the noble example Of Sir
Christopher Wren's work may remain in
for
Evening star., 1901-09-14
IN CHESS CIRCLES.

Lasker Is the chess editor OF the Man
chester Evening News, and announces IN
it's columns that he Is in receipt OF chai-
lenge from H. N. Pillsbury to play match
for the championship Of the world. For
some years 1t has been the expectation
here and abroad that such would be the
case, and the event will be hailed with
pleasure by the followers Of the game
everywhere. DR.. Lasker makes no COM
ment as to the challenge, and If there were
any reason preventing it 1t is assumed he
would so state. t.
The results Of the past meetings Of these
two great players naturally lead to the ex-
pectation of a series of fine games. They
have met in about dozen different en-
counters and the score is about a stand
Off One Of Pillsburys most masterful ef-
forts was his defeat - of, Lasker at the
Nuremberg tourney.
The only game finished in the east and
west mat tch the past week came to the for
mer, leaving them still six behind, 26lh to
321s
In correspondence match with Nebraska
those hustling players in Mississippi took
pretty near everything In sight.
The idea Of cable matches is spreading.
Recently the Netherlands Chess Associa-
tion took the first steps for match with
the British players and Schlecter and
Marco are talking Of a meeting with the
American players. Berlin Is also rousing
up and Is looking for trouble with some
body.