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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08
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Bangor News: Our grandparents who
had lew DOCKS and fewer school privi-
reyes. ana whose education depended
TO 4 great extent upon their observa-
ti"h' had a saying that when the frogs
began TO pipe up in their spring chorus,
IL was Il sure sign that the frost was
out of the ground and farmers could
drive stakes into the soft mud without
fear OF meeting with distractions.
Early this week we heard the green
hacked frogs 'peeping' among the wet
lands, and only Thursday there came
the hoarser call of the toads Though
we have not been near the large
streams ana ponds we have no doubs
tlat the lordly bulfrog is oiling up his
croaklng apparatus and getting ready
to I'LL the night with hideous sounds.
Men OF science inform us that the
harsh and grating vocaliZation of the
toads and frogs are. the love notes or
the males, the sweet chansons which
they sing TO WOO their lady loves. IL
this report Is correct the education OF
the male frog has been sadly neglect
| ed, and the poor females are having
| solemn life while they sit up to their
| necks in muddy water and listen to the
nedlam notes which are enough to riisp
the soul out of most mortals. AS
rule, God has been very good to His
lower creatures, giving them voices
and forms of expression that mankind
could envy. But the call of the frog
| and the below of the farmyard bull
| are exceptions. There is something
lacking in the makeup Of creatures
which can pronounce either of tn"
| above named noises music. If ami
mails have souls, as many persons CON
| tend they do, just think of the discord
that a chorus OF frogs and bulls Will
produce among the choirs of the here
after. The agony is too intense for one
| to contemplate.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08
Gems of 1houqht.

Strive to impress upon your children
that the only disgrace attached to hon
est work is the disgrace of doing it
badly.
A new thought may be false; if it is,
it will pass away. When the new
truth has come to life it bursts the old
huskS.
What the rudder is to the ship, con-
science is to character; as the one is
valueless without skill, so is the other
without truth.
There is gift that is almost a
blow, and there is kind word that is
munificence; SO much is there in the
way we do things.
The modern majesty consists in
work. What a man can do is his
greatest ornament, and he always con-
suits his dignity by doing it.
When the heart is pure. there is
hardly anything that can mislead the
understanding in matters of immediate
personal Government.
Great efforts from great motives is
the best definition of happy life. The
easiest labor is a burden to him who
has no motive in performing it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08
Philadelphia Justice.

There may have been in the past,
and may be now, some grounds for the
many jokes about the slowness of
Philadelphia, but the speed with which
there, last week, should go far to re-
deem the reputation Of the city. On
Tuesday a colored butler shot dead his
mistress and her two daughters. 1t
was the act of an ugly brute. There
was no doubt of his guilt; no ex-
tenuating circumstances. special
Jury was drawn and on Friday, after
a trial of less than two hours, he was
found guilty and sentenced to death.
The sentence will be executed within
the month. How much better n prompt
and vigorous course like this-better
for the protection of society and better
as increasing respect for the law
than the delays that so often mark our
murder trials. If the communities of
the South should adopt this Philadel-
phia method, it is probable that there
would soon be many fewer lynchings in
that section, and it is possible that the
evil which is such a blot upon the
South would be, in a generation, wiped
out. The course in the Philadelphia
case is particularly pleasing when we
compare it with some of the cele-
brated New York murder cases which
have dragged out their weary length
| through months and years. New Jer-
sey justice has a good reputation for
prompt action hut Philadelphia beats
it. The rights of an accused man,
more particularly in capital, than in
| other crimes, should be strictly guard
ed, but the public also has its rights
and great evil is wrought by the per-
version of the law to cause un-
necessary delays and thwart justice.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08
New York Produce Market.

New York April I.
FLOUR-Receipts 2sSS1 bbls.; exports.
2i25 bbls. sales. 1890 pkgs.; unsettled
and about steady at old prices.
HEAT-Receipts, 1899 BUSH; exports.
c95. $50 bush sales. .i15.001 bush. future $
10000 bush. spot; spot st s.a' No red
Nj northern Duluth %lzs T o b afioat
No l hard Manitoba. S5H { b a1l1at.
CORN-Receipts, $50: sales, 2c0,rG) bush.
futures 5000 bush. spot: spot easier; No.
.. 467. elevator and G5as b a1oat.
OATS-Receipts, 80 $50; exports, 81 ,3i1:
spot steady: No. =. Az; No. ), A.; No. ,
white, 80; No. white. 49, track miXcf'
western l6iAMl4S; track white, $500.
BF,EF-Firm
CUT MEATS-Quict and firm.
LARD nsettled; western steamed,
9.S5; refined easy; continent, "1o; ;. ~
1919
PORK-tnscttlCd.
BI-TTf,E-Firm; creamery, ~ /; stat"
dairy. 23ft29.
t6iGS-StrnnS: state and Pcnna., l6:
western at market. 151-MlG.
SCGAE-Haw firm; fair refining, 81;
centrifugal 81 test, ~
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08
Personal Notes.

Admiral Sir Compton Domville, who
has been appointed to the command OF
the British Mediterranean Squadron
has had thirty-six years experience in
the navy.
Charles FELTON, Pidgin. author of the
well-knOwn novel Quincy Adams
Sawyer" has invented a number OF
machines for the mechanical tabula-
ton of statistics
Mrs. Leland Stanford has selected
Rev. DR.. Heber Newton to conduct the
opening services in the Memorial
Church attached to the Stanford Uni
versity at Palo Alto, Cal.
Archbishop Williams of Boston, al
though so years of age. led the chant
in the Cathedral on Holy Thursday
his voice sounding clear and full
throughout the large edifice.
Graham Paul Taber, editor of the
Argus Bulletin of La Porte, Ind, has
written a play which he has named
Indiana" the story being laid in the
capital city of the Hoosier state.
Prof. w. III. Brewster Norton, pro-
fessor of agriculture in the Sheffield
Scientific School at Yale, who is "A
years old, will retire from active work
at the end of the present college year.
Walter A. Payne. instructor and Sec
rotary of the university extension de-
partment at the University Of Chicago,
has been promoted to the rank of as
sOciate professor. and given charge of
the extension department Of which
Prof. James was formerly the chief.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08

That 25 or more persons We're killed
and two or three hundred badly in
jured by panic and the breaking
down of n grandstand at a football
game in Glasgow. Scotland, will give
fresh ammunition to the enemies OF
this great game. OF course, they will
argue that those who watch game
which is dangerous to life must expect
to find the looking on also dangerous.
1t was frightful catastrophe, and TO-
900 people are hard to manage safely,
but those who have seen our great
American college games with over half
That number present and easily
handled. Will be bound to believe that
the management Numbered somewhere.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08
The Isle Of Pines.

cuba is to be an Independent repub-
lic but Uncle Sam keeps grip on the
little Isle Of Pines which lies off the
south coast Of Cuba near its western
future of the Isle of Pines is not
definitely settled. 1t will be the sub
iect of diplomatic negotiations between
the United States and the republic of
cuba, but it will doubtless be the aim
of cur diplomacy to retain it perma-
ncntly in the possession of this coun-
try. In some respects the island would
be but an insignificant addition to our
domain, for its area is only $50 square
miles, its population about 1900, and
it's development il a most primitive
state But strategic considerations
make il a place of no little Importance,
as is pointed out in a pamphlet just
issued by the war department.
The island is protected from APP
preach on the north by the coast of
cuba, and from all sides facing the
Caribbean Sea by the shallow chan
nels and innumerable keys which en-
tirely surround il. These channels and
keys may be easily mined, and, at a
minimum outlay, made impregnab!c
in a Gefensinle point of view. On the
southwest Il rocky crescent shaped
peninsula extends into the ocean, form
ing the magnificent anchorage called
Siguanea. This is entirely protected,
ana at a small expense may be made
having an area sufficient to ac-
cammodata several navies. These
facts, together with the healthful eli
mate. the plentitude of fresh, pure
water ard the wealth of timber and
stone, make the spot an ideal enc for
the establishment of a great naval
station. base and rendezvous. BY ac-
quiring this island, utilizing and i'm
proving Siguanea, we should be able
TO increase our cOlnilldnu over tle
Caribbean Sea, absolutely control the
Yucatan Channel and add immensely
to the defenses of our Southern At
lantic and Gulf coasts. We should
thus push our Southern naval base III
miles beyond Key West and as much
nearer to Greytown. to the Colon en-
trance to the Panama Canal, and to
Jamaica and the coast of Yucatan.
These are considerations not to be
overlooked in caring for the future in
| terests of this country, and make the
| Isle of Pines of such Importance that
| it should be permanently retained by
| the United States.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08

Theodore Roosevelt is undoubtedly a
very busy man, these days, but it is
safe to assume that he is able to FIND
time to keep track of the police tangle
in New York city. 1t is an interesting
situation from the point of view OF
any citizen, but for the President it is
more than that. AS police commits
sioner of New York, he learned tho
ropes there. thoroughly and knows al
the ins and outs and the ways tina;
are dark and tricks that are not al
ways in vain, of the system" He
did a great work while there toward
reorganizing and purifying the metro
politan police and the situation evil
IDENTIFY needs n man like him at this
crisis. But such men are not easily
found.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08

The Massachusetts Legislature has
refused to endorse the scheme of
the popular election of United
states Senators. There is no doubt
much is to be said on both sides
OF the question but the East is
too conservative to take kindly
10 such radical innovation in orr
systems of government. Constitution
unkering, moreover, is bad business.
and if a convention is called for this
purpose there is no knowing what it
would do or where it would stop. The
american people have been wisely con-
servative as to amending the Constitu-
uon. Altogether. it is estimated that
not less than 1000 proposals for
amendment have been introduced in
congress; but of these only Is have
been adopted, and u of these wera rat-
lfied so soon after the Original, ;nstrn-
hheht mat they may fairly be regarded
as part of it. Fully so anendn,n..
10 the constitution have been intro
duced during the present session.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08
Mere Opinion.

Next to her desire for a title a wo-
mans greatest ambition is to be able
to hire doctor by the year.
Some people would be willing to quit
trying to get more if they only knew
that others We're to have less.
to buy their heirlooms ready-made.
A sensitive man never has to go far
to have his feelings hurt.
It's neither safe nor sensible
To judge men by their speech:
The Scarcest ones on earth are those
Who practice what they preach.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08
IW9lNNy8 Gossip
The Evolution of Light.

When grandma was little girl,
And was sent up to bed,
She carried then ''tallow dip,
Held high above her head.
When mama used to go up stairs,
After she'd said Good night"
Her mother aiv IS neld a lamp
So she could have its light
AS soon as sisters bedtime came,
W hen she was a little lass.
II she found the room- too dark,
Mama would light the gas.
Now, when the sandman comes Tor me
| like to have it bright;
So | reach up and turn the key
OF my electric light.
And maybe my dear dolly,
If she lives out her days,
VIII see right through the darkness
With the magical X-rays,
st. Nicholas for April
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08
The Minuet.

TIC N'"NSs'
Grandma told me about it,
Iold me so | couldn DOUBT IL,
How she danCed-my grandma danced
Long ago.
How she held ner pretty mead,
How her dainty skirt she spread,
How she turned her little toes
Smiling little human rose
Long ago.
Grandma's hair was bright and sunny,
Dlmpled checks, too-ah, how fuuny!
Really quite IA pretty GIRL
Long ago.
Bless her, why, she wears cap,
Grandma does. and takes 4 nap
Every single day; and yet
Grandma danced the minuet,
Long ago.
Now. she sits there. rocking, rocking,
Always knitting grandpa's stocking
(tVery girl was taught To KNIT
Long ago..
Yet her figure is so neat.
And her way SO staid and sweet,
! can almost see her now
BcndlnS to her partners DOW,
Long ago.
Grandma says our modern jumping.
Hoplans, Rushing. whirling, bImp.nS,
Would have shocked the sontiefolk
Motley moved with stately grace,
Everything in proper place,
Gliding slowly forward, then
Slowly courtesyinS, back again,
Long ago.
Modern ways are quite alarming,
Grandma says: but boys were charming
Girls and boys, L mean. of course
Long : o.
Bravely modest, grandly shy
What if all of US should try
just to feel like those who met
In the graceful minuet,
Long ago.
With the minuet in fashion,
Who could fly into a passion?
All would wear the calm they wore
Long ago.
In time to come, if | perchance,
Should tell my grandchild of our dance
! should really like to say,
I'VE did it. dear. in some such way,
Long ago..
Mary Mapes Dodge.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08
Refjectio MS of a Bachelor.

Widows know too much to let on
they know anything.
"A dead sure way to get poor is to try
to get rich too fast.
When unseasOned love develops into
affectionate companiOnship it becomes
quite durable.
1t is cheaper to get married than to
stay engaged and have to go on buying
flowers, theatre seats, suppers and
presents.
Every sensible man always makes
his wife an allowance so he can have
some one to borrow from and not pay
back.-New York Press.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08
Boston Market.

Boston. April Z.
FLOUR-Spring patent. 3.S5n4.2o.
CORN-Steamer yellow. 6SG6SH.
OATS-Two clip white, 81.
PORK-Backs. 2l25.
BEEF-Sides. 10Ml04
LAMB-9lam11.
BUTTER-Northern creamery, 30iAM
31k.
CHEESE-New northern twins, 12dl3i2
EGGS-Eastern, l6,s@l11A.
POTATOES-Hebron $685..
SUGAR-Gr3 nulated, 4.S0.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08
Easy Enough.

Some of these letters" said the new
correspondence editor, ARE enough to
drive one to drink. Here's Sweet Six
teen who asks: How do you play
golf?'"
That's easily answered." replied the
Snake Editor.
But 1 don't know anything about
the game; never played it,
Exactly. Just say: Sweet Sixteen,
/ DON'T"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08
Last on the List.

Creditor-See here! Now that
you've come in for some money, why
don't you pay my bill?
Slopay-Certainly,- beg pardon
what is your name?
CreditOr-Ziegler.
Slopay-Sorry. but you'll have to
wait. I'm paying my creditors in al
phabetical order.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08

The South will have n sincere and
gracious welcome for Theodore ROose-
than any President, save possibly
William Mckinley, has received, or
could have received, there in half a
century
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08

From Sweden comes $500 to the Nc
Kinley memorial fund 1t is not from
the American colony, for there is no
American colony there. The whole
world is bound to have a hand in
ton. for the world has learned to revere
the memory of the martyred President.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08
Just a Bluff.

City Editor-Why do you insist that
the colonel is a candidate? Didn't he
tell all you fellows that he wasn't?
Political RepOrter-YeS, but the very
next minute he invited us to have a
drink.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08

Come to the surface in the spring as in
no other season. It's pity they don't
run themselves all off that way; but in
spite of pimples and other eruptions,
they mostly remain in the system.
That's bad.
Hoods Sarsaparilla removes them
and cures all the painful and disfigur-
ing troubles they cause. Nothing else
cleanses the system and clears the
complexion like Hoods.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08
LIGHT AND AIRY.
Box Parties EspeciaIly.

There's movement on foot, | I'M
derStand, to have the women check
their hats and wraps when they go to
the theater.
Yes? A movement to have them
check their conversation at the same
time would be more satisfactory"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08

In the two years since the new bank
ing law was passed over 900 national
banks have been organized, two-thirds
of them with a capital of $4,000 or
less. This shows how well the law is
operating to promote the extension of
banking facilities to the smaller places
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08

The market closed active and easy AMI
generally at the lowest few Of IN"
GreCnor bond issues were advanced but
the general tendency was slightly easier.
Total sales par value. &5f9.vU. United
States bonds were all unchanged on the
last call.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08

When the New York World remarks
that the American mule is now
butting it's way into diplomacy it
shows n lamentable ignorance of the
mules way of doing business.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08
New York Cotton Market.

New York. April Z.
Cotton spot closed quiet. Middling Up
lands, 8 3-l6; Middling Gulf, 7-l6. Sales.
lS9 bales
Cotton futures closed steady. April,
9O2: May, S9i: June, $50; July. S93; Au-
gust, S.73; September. S.33: October, sic;
November, S.09; December, SOC; January,
S07.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08

Editor Watterson refuses to take
water regarding his apparitiOn of a
man on horseback in the White House.
No true Kentuckian will ever do that.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08

who wouldn't be a bali player with
an offer of $1,000 year for three
years? But there is only one such in
the land.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08
All in Trade.

\ title is a baited hook
That sundry ways doth snare us.
For oft It's used to sell a book,
And oft to buy an heiresS.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08

This is the season when neither the
coal man nor the ice man is able to
hold the public in his merciless grasp.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08

Pressure Isle has another claim to
distinction. A letter reached there
from California, last week, though the
writer had neglected to put the name
Of the State on the envelope.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08

A Pressure Isle man sowed his wheat
March 2S, and a Limestone farmer has
his potatoes all planted. What
county beats Aroostook?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08
There Are Many Such.

Mann Hatton-Yonr Congressman
has quite a reputation as a wit.
Penn-Yes, you see, he always man.
ages to have himself interviewed by a
bright reporter.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08

The Presumpscot food came late, but
it was 4 good one.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08

1t has been long time since Au
gusta had murder sensation.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08

Hasn't Maine more than this one
Saco heir to that 80,0OO, 900 fortune in
Holland:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08

Bncksport beat Bangor this year. in
catching the first salmon Of the sea-
son
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08

The inSurgent Democrats in the
Lewiston city government decided on
second thought not to bite of their own
noses.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08
Chicago Market.

Chicago. April :.
Grain spectators had conflicting opin-
ions regarding the outcome Of the winter
wheat crop which when they attempted
to reconcile them with the weekly sta
tistics produced something of a jagged
market. Prices rose and fell with The
changing sentiment. but in the end. in
spite of corn weakness, May wl1ea {
showed a gain of sc May corn closed -
lower and May oats &c down. Provisions
lost ) to 1gla. ~
The leading futures closed as followS&5y
WHEAT-May, haas; July, IA; S<4
CoRN-May, Stages; July, 5sas 4! blk.;
5sA. q.
oATs-May, 1915; July, S3A ,Sf6es =
as. -. ..sFSs Il. q 3g, 6
PORK-May, 16.4.1A; JuiSs sls.557 ~ n
LARD-May, 9.474; july 9.5Tz-- Sent,
81 SHORT RrBs-May, Ipiy, $50;
CASH FLOUR-stead
red. IT'S. -
CORN-No. yellow,sc0
OATS-No. 2, 42hs. Nd 2 white, 45l.T46.
No. white. 44l-4m4TA-
RYE-No. ., 81.
RYE-No. ?. 81.
BARLEY-Malting. 6sH67.
FLAXSEED-No, A. 1sz; No. ] north
western, 175. -
MESS PORK-16. 35G4G.
LARD-9 45ui11a.
\. SHORT RIBS, SIDES e. 7OGs5.
SHORT CLEAR SIDES@9 a0aa30.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08

Faith launched five vessels during tn
first quarter of 1902.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08

Portland reports the elms in bios
som, April 4, four days earlier than
the earliest date recorded in so years.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08
New York Money Market.

New York, April :.
Money firm at 2m7 per cent; last loan 4.
Prime mercantile paper 4zzn5 per cent.
Sterling exchange STEADY at iSTs for
demand and at 1855 for 60 days.
Posted rates 4.S6 and 1897.
Commercial bills iSlAgtoA.
Bar silver 537s.
~. 49,, III ....-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08

Milo is going to boom this summer,
according to the present indications.
Twenty-Five or thirty houses are going
to be erected, and Il fine boarding
house is to be built
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08

No notice whatever will be taken OF
unsigned communications.
The Journal cannot he held respOn
sibIe for the preservation or return OF
rejected communications.
Address all com nuntc0tiOns relating
to subscriptions and advertisements TO
BURLEIGH & FLYNT. Publishers
Augusta Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08

The beef situation is the golden OPP
portunity for the vegetariaE9.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-04-08
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.

Furnished Daily by the Federal Stock
and Grain Co.; Office, viekery Block,
Augusta, Maine.