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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-28

II. F. Cummings, who has been top-
Grating a portable saw mill in Man.
chester during the winter, reports hav-
ing done rushing business, and eX-
poets to finish work at that place in
about two weeks.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-28

Harry Colder and John Buckley Wis
tied Great pond and brought back the
handsomest trout seen here this sea-
son. 1t measured 21h inches and was
is inches through. weighing 6k pounds.
Harry handled the pole but is willing
that John shall share the credit, for he
handled the landing net.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-28
Mrs. Josie BusheIl.

Mrs. Josie Bushell, formerly of this
city and a daughter of the late James
Murphy, died in Chelsea, Friday. Be-
sides a husband. four children and a
sister survive her. The funeral was
held in Chelsea, Sunday afternoon.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-28

Don't neglect biliousness and constipa-
ton. DeWitt's Little Early Risers cure
such cases. M. 3. Smith, Butternut.
Mich, says "DeWitt's Little Early Ris-
ers are the most satisfactory pills | ev-
err took. Never grippe or cause nausea.
Percy w. Means.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-28

The following additional towns have
filed notices that they will apply for
State aid under the good roads i'm
prOvement law: Buxton, Steuben, Will
ton. Frankfort, Dcnnysville, Palermo,
Crawford and Perry, making Sc in all.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-28

Governor Hill has received the fol-
lowing letter which is elf-eXplanatory.
Bishops House. Portland,
April 80, 1902
His FXceilency. Hon. John f. Hill,
Governor of Maine:
Your EXcellency-I desire to thank
you and the members of your Council
FOR the grant of land recently made
Tor the benefit of the cemetery for the
catholic parish of Millinocket. I am
sure that the Catholics in that portion
OF the State will appreciate the matter
very much. Hoping that l may soon
again have the pleasure of meeting
you,
l am, Your Excellency,
Very sincerely yours,
w. H. O'CONNELL,
Bishop of Portland.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-28

1t is expected that every member of
the Executive Council will be present
at the meeting, Wednesday. The prob
ability is that the pardon application
of Mrs. Mary f. BarrOws, a life pris-
oner at Thomaston, will be considered
at the coming meeting. The application
of James Newcomb. another life pris-
oner in the State prison, will go over
to the following meeting, as the proper
legal notices have not been made
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-28

The Kent's Hill baseball team ar
rived in this city. on the Saturday
night Pullman, on their way home
from their eastern trip. Later they
went to the Hill by team.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-28

seed into the ground and have them
sprouting in good shape said Mr.
Gilman, Saturday. Then we will have
some institutes in Washington county
and in the northern section of the State
while the weather is warm"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-28
A Sure Cure.

For all kinds Of sores. burns. bruises, or
other wounds DeWitts Witch Hazel
Salve is sure cure. Skin diseases yield
to it at once. Never fails in cases OF
piles. Beware OF counterfeits. Percy w.
Means.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-28

Adamson's Botanic Balsam loosens
the cough, clears the lungs, allays irri-
tation. leaves the organs sound and
well.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-28

Commissioner A. W. Gilman of the
agricultural department, says he WI.
hold no more farmers institutes unt'
well into the summer. I've want -
give the farmers a chance to get the''
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-10
INITIALS ON THEIR LOAVES.
bringing Sbort-Weigbt Bak-
crs to Time

The city Of Montreal lately passed
law 10 improve it's bread supply.
All Montreal loavcs hereafter must
be stamped with number indicating
their weight and with the initials OF
the baker, reports the New York
sun.
A $40 fine and two months impris-
onment are the alternative penalties
provided for each violation, and all
bread not fulfilling requirements is
To be seized. BESIDES this il is pro-
yidcd also under heavy penalties that
all rooms for the manufacture of
food products shall he ut least eight
feet high and iloorcd with cement,
tiles or wood properly saturated
with ,insecd oil.
The walls and ceilings must be
whitcwashcd at least once in six
months. and no animals, except eats,
shall be allowed in any rooms used
for the manufacture or storage OF
bread or pastry.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-10
New and Improved Service to st
Paul and Minneapolis

Via the North Western Line To fur
Their accommodate its many patrons en-
route to the Twin Cities from points
north of Milwaukee, the Chicago q
North Western R'y now runs Free Re-
Ginning Chair Car on the evening train
Milwaukee, Via Fond du Lac, connect
ing at Appleton Jet. with train leaving
Manitowoc at 4:20 p. NJ, connecting
with train leaving Appleton Jet. 1925
2. M. arriving at st. Paul and Mime
apolis carly she next morning, and con-
Meeting at Mcmillan with similarly equ
ped train for Duluth and the Supporters.
Like service southbound This in addi-
ton to the Pullman Sleeping Cars which
are run on the same trains daily between
Fon du Lac and Minneapolis. Apply to
agents Chicago andNorth- Western.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-10
DOGS REFUSE TO STARVE.
The Clever Little Joke of n German
Professor Who Was Called to
Columbia UnIyersity.

Some little time ago Prof. Hirth,
who was called from Munich, Ger
many, to Columbia university as Chi
nese lecturer, lived in the same house
with rabid vivisectionist, then prac-
ticing on half n dozen large dogs.
Ilirth's colleague was trying to find
out how long the dogs could stand
being left without food before they
would fall upon and devour each
other. The dogs were fed on wind
for two weeks, yet looked round and
happy. The vivisectionist couldn't
understand it, says the Washington
Post.
The kennel being closed on all
sides, it seemed impossible for any
one to feed the dogs on the sly.
Still, the fact remained that they re-
fused to starvc, even after n months
apparent fasting. Then the vivisec-
ZIONIST watched. and discovered that
late at night Prof lIirth had lowered
large chunks of horse meat into the
kennel from above. lIirth had al
lowed each dog six pounds of horse
steak and bone a day.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-10
MUST HAVE THE SWORD.
An Article That Is Necessary to the
Completeness of u Naval
Surrender.

Naval red tape is as stringent as
that existing in the army, and some
times the enforcement of the regula-
tiOns leads to ludicrous results. Some
years ago, when the late Admiral Skier
rett was a captain, an officer who had
been charged with an offense and or
dered under arrest presented himself
to be arrested. Tn regulations pro-
vide that on such occasion the officer
shall be in full dress and wear a sword
The officer wore his uniform, but had
no sword.
Il can't arrest YOU" said Capt. Skier
rett, looking for the missing sword,
"unless you come prepared to submit
your sword to me-"
The officer explained that he had
not received his sword from home,
although it had been expressed t o him.
"Well, you'll have to get one" was
the reply.
So the officer skirmished about in
the navy yard for someone who had a
sword to lend. Finding one, the Of
fender returned to Capt. Skerrett and
was promptly and regularly put under
arrest according to regulations.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-10
APPENDICITIS IS NOT NEW.
Hut the Doctors Did Not
Know IT,.

"Why Is it," asked u man of ply
stefan, that so many people are suf-
fering these days with appendicitis
aud have to be operated upon, when
there was formerly nothing Of the kind
in existence" according 20 the Chi
cago Chronicle.
MY young friend" the doctor an
swered, this disease has been in the
world ever since Adam was-perhaps
that story Of his losing rib may have
arisen because he was operated upon
for appendicitis. When your grand
father was boy his neighbors had it
all around him, and so they did when
you were a boy. But they called it
Inflammation Of the bowels, stomach
ache, acute Indigestion, liver trouble
or something Of that sort. The pa
tenth got well or he died, but no one
ever opened him when living to see
what the matter was. Perhaps 1t is
as well that they did not, for much Of
the surgery Of those days was more
dangerous than any disease"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-10

Then one night, after he had fallen
asleep from sheer WEAKNESS, he was
aroused by the squaking Of the front
door as if it was softly opened. mo-
ment later there was slight click and
scrabbling, and the trap had got in
its work!
Before Jugger could spring up, the
door squeaked again and another bur
glar was captured. 1t was evident
that the first victim was just rising up
under the trap when 1t fell the sec
ond time, for there was a heavy thump
and a smothered groan, as if the heavy
door had struck on the intellectual CO.
c0anut Of thinker below.
Again and again the door responded
to encores. and Jugger, keeping horri-
fed tally, felt his hair rise as he men
tally contcmplatedth extent 10 which
the house would have been mussed up
if the II burglars, who were now in the
cellar, had been at liberty in the house,
and he had been obliged to get up and
kill them all
Nearly all yelled and clutched fran
tically at the atmosphere, as their
chins struck the edge Of the floor as
they fell, and Jugger was astonished
that the sounds did not alarm those
outside.
There were Indications that serious
complications had resulted in the eel
lar, and for time Jugger was OF the
opinion that they were tearing each
other into pieces too small ia be OF
value. The portable contents OF the
cellarwere knocked down and trampled
on, and from the sounds that iloatcd up
through the floor for time, one might
have imagined that the burglars were
mixed in an ineXtricable tangle below.
The earnest remarks they INDUCED in
seemed to indicate that they had got
their tempers hopelessly strabis-
mussed.
At first JuRger decided TO sail in with
his club and slaughter the game &C
cording to programme, but as the doc
tor had cautioned him in regard to over
doing the club exercise, he contented
himself with opening the trap little
ana rcmarklng earnestly 'Apfll 1901!
in a voice suitable for elocutionary
purposes, Then he slammed the trap
down upon the fingers that were poked
up through the crack.
When the police arrived next morn
ing Jugger found himself seriously dis
liked by IL members Of the church at
which he had regular sleeping accom-
modations. They seemed to think that
affairs had been carried beyond the
boundary line of humor when a sur
prise party was shot into the cellar,
there to minglc with each other and
six varieties Of soft pies and the other
refreshments with which they had
armed themselves.
There were few wclI-timcd re-
marks from the good minister, who had
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-10
CANALS IN THE NORTHWEST.
The Great Development and Increase
of Traffic During the Last
Few Years.

The first locks at st. Mary's falls
were opened in 1855, in which year
the registered tonnage was 106,296
The half-million mark was reached in
1863, and the 1000, 900 mark was passed
in 1873. In 1881, exactly coincident
with the opening of a new and much
larger lock, the northwest began to
grow by leaps and bounds, and the ton
mage of the canal rose from 2,000,0 900
tons in 1882 to 5000 900 in 1890 and to
100000 in 1896. During the past five
years, two more enormous locks have
been in operation, one of them on the
Canadian side of the river, and in this
short time the tonnage of the canal
has leaped up to nearly 28,500, 900 tons.
This colossal tonnage is simply amani-
festation OF the development which
has taken place in the northwest, along
with which has come the building of
thousands of miles of railroad, includ
ing two lines from the head of Lake
Superior to the Pacific coast, says the
Engineering Magazine. If by some cat
aclysm of nature the great lakes
should be dried up, the enormous traf
fc now carried on their waters would
be divided among the railroads - it
would simply cease to exist. The whole
galaxy Of cities from Buffalo to Chi.
cago and Duluth would be over
whelmed in hopeless, irretrievable ruin
and the railroads could in no wise es-
cape the general disaster.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-10
RELIEF In SIX HOURS.

Distressing Kidney Id Bladder dis
eases relieved in six hour by the New
Great South American Aidney Cure. J."
This new remedy is great surprise on
account of its exceeding romptness in
relieving gain in the BLADDER, kidneys,
back and every part Of the urinary pas
sages in male or female. 1t relieves re-
tention of water and pain in passingit
almost immediately. If you wantquick
relief and cure this is your only semedy.
Sold by F. c. Buerstatte, Druggist, Man
towoc, Wis.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-10
RAILWAY FARM LAND FREE

In Northern Wisconsin on the North
Western Line. Low rates and easy
terms of payments. About 400, 600 acres
of choice farm lands. Early buyers will
secure the advantage of location on the
many beautiful streams and lakes
which abound with fish and furnish a
never ending and most excellent
water supply both for family and for
stock
Land is generally well timbered, tn,
soil fertile and easy of cultivation. Chi.
cago, Milwaukee. st. Paul, Minneapolis
Duluth, Superior, Ashland and numer
ous other thriving cities furnish good
markets for farm produce.
For further particulars address Geo
w Bell, Land Commissioner, Hudson
Wis, or & II. McRea, A. q. p. A, 81
Paul, Mimi
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-10

4 very interesting report by Mr..
Parel, 81 Edinburgh. issued by the
board 81 education, discusses the qucs-
tiun Of mental fatigue. Attempts have
been made TO estimate fatigue 10y such
tests as the loss Of muscular power.
the decrease 81 scnsihility in the skin,
or Increase ~ inaccuracy in work done.
Mathematics and (strangc To say gym.
uastics prove to be the most exhaust.
ing subjects foreign languages and
religious instruction come next, but
at a long interval, the mother tongue,
Natural science, geography and his
tory make but little calls on the sys-
TEN: singing and drawing still less.
Afternoon work rs Inferior 60 and more
,iring than that don" Ia the morning.
and even ia the latter efficiency in.
crenscs mp "a IA maximum, and then be
gins 10 decline
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-10
GATHERING OPIUM.
CuItivatOrs Go Forth in the Evening
with Lances and in the Early
Morning with Pots.

1t is a sort of garden cultivation. the
poppy plant being grown in little
squares or beds intersected by tiny
water channels for irrigation wherever
this is possible. The growth of the
plants is carefully tended, and at
length the time comes when they
burst out into flower, and the fields
look like sheet of silver as the white
petals of the flowers glisten in the
morning dew.
These beautiful petals are the first
produce of the crop, for the women
and children of the cultivators' fami-
lies come forth and pick them off one
by one and carefully dry them. so that
they may serve afterwart. as the COW
ering of the manufactured cakes of
opium. Then the peoples, with their
bare capsule heads, remain standing
in the open field until it is considered
that they are ripe for dancing. The
cultiyators then come forth in the
evening, and, with an implement not
unlike the knives of a coupling instru-
ment, they scarify the capsule on it's
sides with deep missions, so that the
juice may eXude. In the early morn
ing the cultivators reappear with a
scraping knife and their earthenware
pots, and they scrape Off the exuded
juice and collect it in their pots. And
this is crude opium.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-10
THE TRAP HAD COT IN ITS WORK.

fallen in first, and had caught the
heavy door on top Of his thpkcr when
the second victim fell in. Waving all
that was left Of the gold-hcaded cane,
which was to have been presented to
Juggcr, but which had been broken
over the head Of n friend in the cellar
whom he had suspected Of desire to
throttle his pastor, and, pulling an egg
out Of his ear and his hand out through
squash pie, he remarked that, in his
humble opinion, man who would seek
TO assassinate brethren and sisters
who had borrowed Of him time and
time again without reserve, was worse
than an inGdel and ought to be ostra-
cized socially and politically.
Jugger, who had been ostracized be
fore, replied scornfully that he wasn't
afraid, for it wouldn't take" anyhow.
Juggcr was tried for attempted man
and woman slaughter, but was speed
lily acquitted on the ground that il was
not his fault IL Providence, Justice
and Rctrbution dubbed together
and sent in his direction a surprise
party which, until then, had gone on it's
devastating way up and down the earth
like roaring lion, so To speak seek
ing whom !, might jump onto with
both fcct.-Good Literature.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-10
MECHANICAL STOKING.
Labor Saving Machinery Taking the
Place of Many Men In shops
and Foundrles.

The small number of men to be seen
in a modern large machine works or
steel mill, as compared with an old
time shop of similar Importance, is a
matter which has been a frequent
occasion for comment, and this is
doubtless due to the very general use
of labor-saving machinery, says the
Engineering Magazine. The cost Of
production in industrial establish
ments Is made up of the costs of raw
material, wages, toolage, taxes and in
terest, of which the largest single item
usually is the wages cost. One way by
which this item may be reduced is by
the installment of mechanical stokers.
In the great ma Iority Of steam plants
the coal is wheeled to the boiler room
by hand, it is fired by hand, and the
ashes are removed by hand, making,
in plants Of 1000 boiler horse power
or over, a wage. cost OF some consid-
cradle amount.
The mechanical stoker may be de-
fined as a system OF great bars, dump
ing bars, coal feeders and automatic
devices to feed fuel and control its
combustion, and subsequently, to drop
the ashes and unburnt coal. That it
Is not In any sense new invention
is to be learned from the fact that
James Watt took out a patent in 1888
for such device. The mechanical
stokcr is Of English origin, though it
has been very thoroughly developed in
the United States to suit the local fuels
and boiler furnace conditions.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-10
aLET YOUR LIGHT SO SHINE"

A bark drives DER the stormy waves.
The pillows loudly roar;
She cannot gain the open sea,
But nears the dreaded shore.
A friendly port is close at hand,
Yet that cannot avail
Unless into Its channel deep
That storm-pressed craft can SAIL
With straining eyes and listning ears
Each sailor stands In fear
The breakers foam near by to see,
Their angry voice TO hear
But hark To port the fog-belis sound;
No. starboard is the side;
Anon no sound OF bell is heard
Its faintest note has died
Again the siren whistles scream
Comes Ser the bolst'rous sea;
From windward side one seems TO come,
Another from the lee.
The captain knows full well the place
Where bell and whistle stand.
But still IN doubt his bark keeps on
They sound on every hand.
And now the whistles long drawn blast
Divided is by four;
The signal OF another bay
Just down the eastern shore.
Another sound now startles all
There's no mistaklng this.
AS on the rocks the breakers roll.
The seething pillows hiss.
Put thro' the storm the mate dlscerns
A faint but steady light
The beacon IN the lighthouse top
See! Now It glows more bright.
The course Is changed. The channels
depths
Are found without delay:
The bark at last an anchor rides,
Safe in the land-locked bay.
'TYs not the man who says: Lord. Lord"
or he who loudest prays,
Whose work shall count the most to change
The errlng to right ways;
But he who lets his light so shine
That men his works may see,
May save them from a fate far worse
Than breakers on the lee.
John S. Fernald, in Union Signal.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-10
LAPLAND'S INSECT PESTS.
Black Flies and Mosquitoes Make
Life In That Country Very
Undesirable.

We shall never forget one awful day,
just before a heavy thunderstorm,
when we attempted to work marsh,
but found it quite impossible to go
more than 90 yards without resting.
A veil is great handicap in shooting,
and we found it exceedingly difficult
to judge distance at all accurately. As
try it was impossible TO do so for any
length Of time. Directly one stopped,
such a cloud Of mosquitoes gathered
round ones head that after short
time the bird could not he seen through
the binoculars owing % the dense
swarm of mosquitoes which quickly
gathered in front Of the glass, relates
n writer in knowledge.
The only times in which we were
able to discard our wells was after we
had beaten the mosquitoes out of the
tent and fixed the curtain over the
doorway, and when after rowing hard
for an hour or so on lake we left
the mosquitoes behind. At one place,
however, we met tiny black fly in
such myriads that 1t became far
worse pest than the mosquitoes. This
fly was so small that no ordinary net
ting would keep it out, and it crept
int our hair and ears and bit so hard
and unpleasantly that to escape going
mad we were forced to pack up our
things and run away from the place.
But no one who has been in the in
terror of Lapland in summer can ade-
quately describe the blood-sucking in
sectS which nossesS that country
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-10

Sheep and cattle cannot pasture
over the same territory. Where the
sheep wander the grass is CLEANED
with the devastation Of prairie fire,
and the odor is src1 that cattle viii
for weeks shun the range.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-10
HOME SEEKERS EXCURSIONS To THE
NORTHWEST, WEST AND
SOUTHWEST,

Via the North Western Line Home
Seekers Excursion Tickets at greatly
reduced rates will be sold on the first
and third Tuesdays of each month,
June to October, inclusive 1902, to the
territory indicated above. Standard and
Tourist Sleeping Cars, Free Reclining
Chair Cars, and THE Best of Every
thing
For full particulars apply to agents
Chicago 81 North Western R'y. Oct 0
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-10
SPAWN Liniment.

English Spawn Liniment removes All
Hard, Soft or Calloused Lumps ond Blem-
ishes from horses, Blood Spavins, Curbs,
Splints, Sweeney Ring Bone, Stiles
Sprains, all Swollen Threats, Coughs,
etc. Save $50 by the use of one bottle.
Warranted the most wonderful Blemish
Cure ever known. Sold by F. G. Buer-
tatte.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1902-07-10
If you could have your own way,
what lot of changes you would makel

VERY LOW EXCURSION RATNS TO
PORTLAND, TACOMA, SEATTLE,
VANCOUVER AND VICTORIA,
Via the North Western Line. Excur-
sion tickets will be sold July II to 81, in
elusive, with final return limit by extern
sion until September ID, inclusive, &C
count Y. P. G. M. meeting Pullman
Standard and Tourist Sleepers, Dining
Cars, Scenic Route. Apply to agents
Chicago & North. Western R'y. 10