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The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-11
SHINES IN PORTO RICO.
How an American Bootblack Founded a
 New Industry.

How an American Bootblack Founded a
 New Industry.
 'The American occupation of Porto Rico has resulted in the introduction of one Anglo-Saxon institution among the Latin peoples of the West Indies, that has already become fast and perlna- nent," said Dr. J. W. Fewkes of the bu- reau of ethnology, who returned last Saturday from an archaeological tour of that island, in the course of which he was afforded unusual opportunities for viewing the life and customs of the is- flanders tempered by American influ- ences Continuing, he said:
 'The first American troops that land ed on the island were accompanied by a colored bootblack; boy about twelve or fourteen years of age, from New York, who drove g. thriving business shining the shoes of the officers. The Porto Ricans were strangers to such an institution, but being of an initiative turn. were not long in adopting what to them seemed worth copying. Following on the heels of the army came other Americans, so that the little bootblack from New York soon had more busi- ness than he could attend to. But this, however, did not last very long, and in less than two months after his arrival, he experienced very lively competition from the youngsters of San Juan, who, watching his movements, straightWay provided themselves with boxes, brushes and backing, and learning the word Shine were ready to black shoes after the most approved American fash ion.
 To-day every city and town in Porto Rico is full of little bootblacks; for the natives having noticed that propery polished shoes constituted part of the makeup of we'll dressed Americans, and anxious not to be outdone in the matter of style, adopted the custom of keeping their shoes shined.
 "The American occupation and influ- ence is being felt in other ways throughout the island, and is more es- peciaily noticeable in the schools. The people are anxious to learn, and educa- tion is looking up all over the island. During my sojourn among these people I visited a country school one day where the teacher, a bright young Porto Rican, called ono of his pupils, a little boy ten years of age, to the blackboard and directed him to draw may of the state of Pennsylvania. The little fellow executed the may as well, if not better, than could have done myself, putting in the rivers and cities, the names of which he wrote out in Spanish. Anoth- CT little fellow drew a map of Connect icut, and I am free to confess that I never in my life saw brighter class in geography.
 Another thing I noticed is that eve rybody on the island is anxious to learn English, which is coming into use more and more every day. It is now being taught in all the schools, and the generation now growing up will be able to speak and read the language as well as their native Spanish. Washington Post.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-11
IRISH HUSBANDRY.

When 8 man begins to cultivate patch of ground in the Swinford Union of County Mayo, the first three crops he gets consist of stones.
 I state the plain fact There is no room for humorous eXagger4tion with respect to that amazing wilderness of glacial debris. The peasant goes to work with hammer and chisel on stones of hundredwelsilr and Up- wards. Then. with a pick. he gets out the stones of moderate size. In the third year he collects ianumerabl4 small stones. There is no land until he has made it.
 That is to say, ther2 is 10 place where he can put the stones to have them out of the way. He lias to pile then up in the middle of his hard-won patch.
 spread of elementary ruin.
 gi ay spread of elementary ruin.
 I fixed my attention on Q little space of less than an acre. It was in no way worse than the rest, but wanted to re- alize this incredible labor. The yield of three such harvests had been a strong bounda- wall and a heap of certainly not ,ess han forty tons weight No- body shall tell me again that the Irish peasant is lazy. The whole west of Ireland is jewelled with such monu- rent ot courage. They are of all di- mensions up to that of a large house.
 Yet SWinford nion accommodates more wives and children to the acre than any other union in Ireland.
 fhnI,poy,I which is valued for rating at forty-one thousand pounds, and the valuation in- cludes villages. No man knows now why people ever went there. There they are heroically.
 l counted fifty-six homes in one cluster at Cleragh. I am sure that if the land they stand on were offered in one estate as free gift to the meanest little farmer in England, he would think it bad joke. But. as a fact, rent is charged for it. Between them the fifty-six farmers pay, at very moderate computation, one hundred and fifty or one hundred and sixty pounds a year for the privilege of residing on it. Each has four or five acres of stones.
 Of course. it is impossible to make living so, even in the utmost misery. What these farmers do. in order to pay their rents. is to work in England during nine or ten months of the year. They bring home sixteen or twenty pounds in November. That frees them and keeps starvation just at arm S length. These are some of the men I have met in the north, such hard work CTS in the hayfield that a Yorkshire far mer prefers the best of these to all oth- CTS. One man will come over to the same form for twenty, thirty and farty years. If he is not there when the grass is ready, the Yorkshire farmer knows that he has not the money to pay his fare, and sends it.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-11
OLD ENGLISH SPORT.


 In the History of Hertfordshire' Mir Doubleday gives a very full account of Hertfordshire sport, both oncient and modern. James the First's hunting es- tablishment at Royston is well known; and, to judge from the following, his visits must have been somewhat bur densome to the neighborhood.
 There was one os the kings special hounds, called fowler, missing one day The next day, when they were on the field, fowler came in among the rest Of the hounds. The king was told of him, and was very glad: and, looking on him, he spied paper about his neck, and in the paper was written, Good MT fowler, we pray you speak to the king (for he hears you every day. and so doth he not us), that it will please his majesty to go back to London, for else the country will be undone; all our provision is spent already, and we are not able to entertain him longer. In 1917, by the kings express com mand, notice was given to the occu- pants of arabic land that they were not to plough their land in narrow ridges. or allow their pigs to go loose without being ringed, so that they should not make holes in the ground, which en- dangered his majesty and the prince in hawking and hunting. Also they were to lower the fences which hinder his majesty's ready passage
 The first public pack of foxhounds was established in 1725, and was known as the Fiertfordshire Hounds. When Lady Salisbury's fame as mistress of foxhounds and as daring rider and sportsWoman is very remarkable. She enjoyed the distinction of being one of the first English ladies who gained such reputation. Many are the tales told of her daring exploits and of her hair breadth escapes in the hunting-field. It was usual for Lady Salisbury to drive to the meets in a carriage drawn by four black horses, with an outrider, her hunters being led by a groom who act ed as her pilot"
 "A note in the Sporting Magazine for January, 1900, states that Lady Sails bury, one of the boldest female riders in the kingdom, relaxes little with her own foxhounds. Some few years ago she invariably went over the gate; she now waits with more prudence until the gate Is opened. It was not until Lady Salisbury was seventy-eigh years of age that she gave up the hounds and ceased following the foxhounds, and even then she said she thought she was good enough to hunt with the har- riers" The fine old lady was burned to death at Hatfield House, in November 1886, at the age of eighty-six.
 It is surprising to find it asserted in this history of Hertfordshire. that shooting at flying game was not prac- tised till the end of the eighteenth cen tury." It was the practice in the reign of Queen Anne. when Pope wrote Windsor Forest Sir Roger de Cover ley tells MT. Spectator that the yeoman who overtakes them on the road is a worthy man and shoots flying. In 1727 a poem on the art Of shooting flying, called "Pterypiegia," was published by Fellow of St. Johns college, Oxfrrd. In 17S0 we find graphic description of it in Thomsons Autumn, London Standard.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-11
CUTTING THE KEY LOG.

A Story of Heroic Self-Sacriflce in Re-
 leasing the Victim of a Log Jam.
 The logs heaped upon themselves, wedged and ground into one another in what seemed to be an inextricable mass. A few individual logs were drawn out with the rope and horses but the other logs only seemed to groan, make little move and pack the closer. One. two, three, four days they all worked and failed. The water had risen considera- bly because of the jam and was forcing other logs back against the banks above the falls.
 Almost distracted with his perplexity, MT George was carefully examining this backward action, when the logs un- der him made move, dropping him into the water and pinning him at the thigh between the logs and the rocky
 shore. It looked as if his legs wiould be crushed-such was the backward force
 of the water and logs. Alarm was
 sounded. Men tried to force the logs back and get the young master out, but in vain. A rope was tied around his NdlOls anu LhCy tIIcu lu uIdW IllItl out,
 but that also was in vain.
 The foreman, who had been making a new and careful survey of the jam, came up to report to MT. George that he had found the key log, and that there
 was no other way in which to break the jam than by getting that log out, or by
 having some one go out over the falls, in front of that mighty mass of timber, and accumulated water, and cut that log. But he found his young master pinned by the logs anl unconscious with pain.
 He called some of his men for consul
 tation. They all agreed that the only
 way to break the jam and free their
 master was to get that key log started
 or broken To this log the rope was
 fastened, and with horses and men an other effort was made to eXtrcate it;
 but it would not move The foreman seized an axe and started for the log. Boys" said he, Hook after MT. George. When the logs move, drag him out quickly at all hazards. If I am killed give him my respects" And the noble, stalwart man, nimble
 as a cat, ran over the logs and began
 chopping the key log in two. There were men on the bank ready to help him if he could be helped. Swiftly the big chips flew. Suddenly, with growl, | crash, laundering roar, the jam broke, and ere the brave man could reach the shore it carried him among
 the tumbling logs and seething waters to an untimely end. At the first move-
 ment of the jam the logs that pinned the master were loosened and he was dragged up and laid on the bank, bruised, but with no bones broken. It was not. however till after four days search that the body of the brave fore-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-11

The ridiculous patch in County Mayo, with it's whitewashed hovel, meaner and more vilely kept than any dwelling have seen in city slums, is Pats winter residence; no more.
 If you want notion of simple patrio- tism, here it is, absurd and sublime. He goes back from a thriving land eve ry winter, and still clings to the place where he was born
 But his sons and daughters leave him.
 The stream of emigrants going west over seas flows on, by forty thousand a year, after all that has been done for Ireland. The merriest song in the land still is, of to Philadelphia in the Morning. .''-London Daily Mall.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-11
New Haven Steamboat Line

For New York, the South and West. Steamers c. H. NORTHAM and RICHARD
 PECK ins commission. .
 Week days: Leave New Haven, 10 :3O q. m. and 12:45 night; due New York 3:3O D. m. and 600 a. m. respectively.
 Returning: Leave New York at BOO D. m. D. m. and 800 a. m. respectively.
 Sundays: Steamer Richard Peck leaves New York 9:30 a. m; due New Haven 200 ?. m. Leave New Haven 3:15 T. na.; due New York 500 p. m. Sunday steamer touches at East 21st Street, mornings 9:45, evenings 7:45. 5:Z. 7 P,s'
 Boats arrive and depart from Belle Dock, New Haven. and Pier 25 E. R., foot of Peck Slip, New York. 4n
 Tickets and all information at office of Bishop & Co.,. 703-705 Chapel Street, w E. Morgan, Agent Belle Dock, and at Pursers office on Steamer. n2o
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-11
RED STAR LINE.
NEW YoRK-ANTWERp-PARIs

NEW YOkK-ANTWEkP-PA
 Friesland, July F, n Kroonland, July2e, nh Vaderland, July 19, n'nlzeeland, Aug. ?, m internatlonal Navigation Company Piers IA and 15 North River, Office 73 Broadway, cor Rector st., N. r.; Peck X Bishop, TOP Chapel st., M. Zunder x Sons. 253 State st., Newton & Parish, S6 Orange st. T. H. Pease Son, 1o2 Church st.. New Haven. d5 cod
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-11
STARIN'S New Haven Transportation Go.

DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY..
 Steamer JOHN Il. SrARIN, CaptaIn Me Allister, leaves New Haven from Starin's Pier, foot of Brown street, at 1O:15 b. m.. Sundays. Tuesdays and Thursdays. Steamar EkASTUS CUkNING, Captain Thompson. Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays. Tha STARIN leaves New York from Pier f3. North River, at g p. m. Mondays, Wednes. days and Fridays; the ERASTUS CORNING Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Fare rooms, $I.O0.
 Tickets ard staterooms for sale at |. B. Judson's, SS6 Chapel street: Peck Bish. the depot on arrival of Hartford train and From corner of Chapel and Church streets every half hour. commencing at S30 |. n.
 Through freight rates gwen and bifir of lading to all points West, South. ;nd South vest. c. H. FISHER. Aren't.
 Order your freight via Staria LinA
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-11
IT che Baby is Cutting Teeth.

Be sure and use that old and well-tried remedy. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, for chiiSTen's teething. It soothes the child. softens the gums allays all pain, cures rhoea. Twenty-Five cents bottle.
 d11 MWE & W 1y
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-11
AMERICAN LINE.

NEW WORKS -souTHAMpToN-L StPaul, ,July16, ,10amI+ +Southwk Aug. .5,7. .30am St. Louis, July B, foam Phila., Aug. 6, 10 am
 *From Pier 'C,' foot Of York St., Jersey City N J.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-11
Fambure-America,,.

TwIN-ScREw EXPRESS SERVICE.
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS RBoURG-HAMBURG F. Bismarck, July 24IA. Victoria, Aug. IA Columbia. July 31!F. Bismarck, Aug. 2f TWIN-ScREW PASSENGER SERVICE PLYMoUTH-CHERB ERBoURG-HAMBURG Moltke. ...... July 15IBuecher. .... July 29 Patricia. .... July p IWaldersee. .. Aug. ! Hamburg rg-American Line, 37 B'way,N,Y.
 LnOS, h. Pease & Son, luz Church st.. M. Zunder & Son, 249, 251 State St., Newton E Parish, S6 Orange St., New Haven, Bishou & Co.,, 70S-705 Chapel St. fir 5 mos,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-11

man was found. and then it was an al- most unrecognizable mass of pounded flesh and broken bones.-Christian En- deavor World.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-05-20
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Billy Gardner of Lowell, and Jack Car.
rig OF Chicago, fought a very fast 10
round draw before the Bowdoin Square
A. Z. at Boston. Monday night.
Solicitor General Richards and Special
Attorney VIM. A. Day arrived i'm Chica
go, Monday night, from Washington to
assist District Attorney Bethea in the
Beef Trust case. which will come up,
Tuesday. in the United States circuit
court.
A fight between Sheriff Broadwater Of
scott county. Va, and the Wright gang
OF outlaws has taken place In the moun-
talns OF Hancock county, Tennessee. Two
members of the gang, John Van SAINT and
Jonn Templeton, were killed Sheriff
Broadwater and his posse is still in pur-
suit of the gang.
The United States Steel CORPORATION.
Monday night, filed with the secretary of
state at Trenton, n. j.. a certificate sci
ting forth the action taken at a stock
holders meeting, Monday, authorizing
the retirement of $500, 600 600 of the pre,
ferred stock of the company and the is
suance of $2500OO,0O0 of per cent. bonds
AS General Won VAIL was leaving the
circus at Wilma Russia, at about mid
night. man stepped up behind him and
hred twice with a revolver, wounding the
governor In the left hand and right foot
Ihe Wouldbe ASSASSIN was pounced upon
by the police. In the struggle he fired
a third shot which passed harmless. To
the police he gave the name of Hirschel
bert.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-05-20
MARKET REPORTS.
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.
Features Of the Days Dealings in Al
the Leading Stocks.

New York, May 19.-There was a dull
and professional stock market, today
with a sagging tendency, running to acute
weakness at times at one or o~points
Covering by room shorts caused some
slight improvement during the final hour
but the tone became heavy again and
closed so. There was some irregularity
In the opening dealings and the hard and
soft coal stocks MADE some stand against
depression. The grain carriers on the
other hand were weak and made quite
general declines of a point or more. The
reports of heavy rains in the Northwest
were considered unfavorable for spring
wheat but the weather in the Southwest
was good and winter wheat was reported
doing well. This weakness permeated the
list pretty generally. There was notable
which seemed to gain force when an
nouncement was made of the several pro-
tests presented at the stockholders meet
ing, today, against the plan for the con.
version of stock ana issuance of bonds
The relative firmness Of the Coal stocks
was due to current reports that the Ma
tional Civic Federation was still making
efforts to settle the strike. The money
market was rather easy, today.
There was a significant stiffening of the
foreign exchange rate. There We're some
violent relapses in prices of high-priced
Power dropped back IS points again or
nominal sales. The market closed dul
and heavy throughout. Total sales, pal
value, $1,955,000 United States bonds werf
unchanged on the last call.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-05-20
GAS FACTORIES
In People Who Do Not Know How to
Select Food and Drink Properly.

On tho coffee question lady says, j
USED to be so miserable after breakfast
that did not know how to get through
the day. Life was a burden to me.
When | tried to sleep / was miserable
bv having horrible dreams followed by
hours Of wakefulness. Gas would rise
on NV stomach and | would belch al
most continually Then every rev
weeks I would have long siege OF SICK
headaches. | tried list of medicines
and physicians without benef1t.
Finally | concluded to give up my
coffee and tea altogether and use POS
tum Coffee. The first cup was a iaii-
IRE. II was wishy-washy and onefea
70 give the remainder of the package 10
anyone who would take it,
noticed later on in one of the al
vertisements that Postum should DC
boiled at least l. minutes TO make II
GOOD. | asked the cook how she maue
II and she said. Just the same as dlo
| tea. being careful not to let II steep Toe
| long
| read the directions and concluded
Postum had not had q fair trial. so We
made n new lot and boiled ii IL or =
minutes. That time it came TO TN
table n different beverage and was So
delicious that we have been using i
ever since.
Nv sick headaches left entirely as die
my sleepless nights, and L am now
lif,erent woman, Name given by Pos
! tum Co, Battle Creek, Mich.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-05-20

late President Mckinley, saying there
is no note of greed in his policy. Nc
Kinley had put the seal of his approval
on holding the Philippines in trust of
their inhabitants. He said that Con-
gress was more likely to cede back the
valley of the Mississippi than leave the
Philippines to anarchy.
Deliver paid a beautiful tribute to
the late President Mckinley and his
policy in the Philippines. William Nc
Kinley had put the seal of his approval
on the holding of the Philippines by
the United States in trust for their in
habitants, and, he said, the action of
Mckinley was pregnant with great
ness and humanity. He said the
Philippine insurrection as a military
proposition, was a thing of the past.
Practically nothing of the insurrection
had been left for a year.
Warren then presented the confer
ence report on the omnibus claims bill
AS passed by the House the bill ag-
gregated $213, 105. The net increase
made by the Senate was 1929, 252 The
conference reports shows that the
House has agreed to 81, 400, 1893 of the
amount added by the Senate, so that
the amount carried by the measure
agreed to is 81, 6lS. 1875
Warren explained that the Selfridee
board claims had been omitted from
the bill the House refusing to agree to
them.
Hoar declared it was just as dis
reputable on the part of a great and
rlch government like the United States
TO refuse to pay these claims as it
would be for him or any other senator
TO refuse 10 pay for house he had or
dered built.
inc conference report was agreed to.
1t was expected that Burrows would
follow Dolliver in the discussion of the
Philippine bill, but as explained by
Lodge, he was detained from the SEN
ate by an afiliction in his family
Perkins, Warren, and Tillman We're
appointed conferees on the fortifica-
ton appropriation bill.
The following bill was passed: Au-
thoriZing the use and Improvement of
Governors island, Boston harbor.
The Senate then at 2.35 F. NJ went
into executive session ana at 325 +. NJ
adjourned.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-05-20

Miss Nina Jones. who has been visit
ing her grandmother. Mrs. w. S
Cieaves. has returned to her home II
Sheepscot.
Miss Alice Hanley of Gardiner, spen,
sunday with her parents in this place.
FARMINcDALE.
Arthur Jewett was in town over Sun
day.
| Miss Eliza Atkins remains about the
same in health all are in hopes to see
her out again.
Alice Wing mas been confined to the
house for some time past by illness.
| E. A. Lewis has had a crew of men at
work on the driveway in his yard and
it looks very fine.
big Improvement in the looks of the
Old Pottery site since the brush and
bushes have been cleared away.
Edna Dove of East Pittston, has re-
turend to Oscar McCausland's.
The roads are getting very dusty and
people who have a hose and city water
nave chance to be thankful.
LAkEsHoRE.
The annual meeting of the w. C. T.
union was held last Wednesday at
West Sidney. The officers elected for
the coming year aree Mrs. Lucy A..
Wyman, president Miss Gertrude
Weeks. secretary: Mrs. Esther Wyman,
treasurer; Mrs. Cora Bailey. vice presi-
dent. Mr.. Kelley, grand chaplain Of the
Good Templars was present
Will Butterfield of Manchester, N. H.,
was calling on old friends, last week.
Arson Tilson has gone to the "Bel-
grade" for the summer
Charles Rowe of the Soldiers Home
Is the guest of Mrs. w. w. Carter.
L. I. Wyman and family Of Water.
vile. spent Saturday at F. G. Morri.
sons.