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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-11
Kitchener Anecdotes.

Lord Kitchener's tenderness to the
wounded is not generally known. He
does not court the apotheosis of tht
picture paper. One instance will suf-
fee to show how he does Christian
things which are heard of only by those
affected. A young officer in Pretoria
was getting convalescent when Lord
Kitchener. who knew nothing OF him.
came to his bedside and asked where
he was wounded and how he was get
ting along. '"All you want now Is fresh
air." Lord Kitchener is reported by the
young officer himself to have said; my
carriage shall call for you in the morn
ing" and Lord Kitchener, the story
goes, walked, while his carriage was
given up to men who had no other
claim on him than that of having suf-
fered hurt in the discharge Of their
duty.
Lord Kitchener has been a sort OF
emergency man in Africa. He clinched
his chance at the time of the outbreak
Of the Egyptian war in 1882, by r,ise
which is second best to Nelson's
blind eye. He was on leave of absence
in Alexandria. In order that he might
not have to depart just when war was
imminent, he wasted time by sending a
Geographic request that his leave
should be extended. The war had be-
gun before he got the reply calling
him: his knowledge Of Arabic made
him invaluable to the British general.
If he had not so readily detected and
so eagerly grasped his opportunity he
might not have been known today as
alike Of the Khalifa and the
Beers. In thea Sudan he conquered
with the railway, every length laid
being another nail in the Khalifa's cof-
fin: in South Africa he achieved SIM
liar end with the aid Of the blockhouse.
Military operations were simplified In
the one case as in the other by me
chanical contrivance. In India the
scientific northwest frontier is likely to
he made more scientific still when
Lord Kitchener is its warden.-Pu5lic
Opinion. -P'N XII
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-11

Booth Harrington, recently elected
to the Indiana Legislature, may turn
out popular novels in the future as in
the past, but he is not likely to figure
in the second edition of Modern Flo
auence." His only attempt at a
speech in the campaign was a COM
plete failure. However, he has the
consolation of the story of Daniel
Webster's equally unpromising begin
ming in the experimenting business.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-11
Pointed Paragraphs.

Most women-haters are fiOOr-walkers
in department stores.
There are few faces that can afford
not to smile occasionally.
The man who pushes the grass cut
ter is one kind of lawn party.
1t is astonishing how far a few
feminine tears will go with a man.
Any young man who is in love likes
to say good night the next morning.
A man may gush over woman OF
vice versa, but the gushing is seldom
mutual.
If the average man could only sell the
advice he gives away it would keeI
him busy looking after his income
Chicago News. : n ~
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-11

ure what plausible objection can De
made in Europe to the suggestion OF
the enterprising Chinaman. Whetner
an issue was joined simply az between
gold value or silver value, or, as II
seems to us to be more probable. as
between the silver value OF the taei
when the contract was made and It's
value today, the question would be a
fair one for arbitration. No nation
would go to war over such a matter.
On the other hand, no sensible man
wishes to see China crushed by try
ing to meet an obligation that she
says is beyond her ability. and that in
all probability she did not understand
herself as assuming.
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b Personal Notes.

Thomas c. Boyd, 62 years of age, OF
Chicago, has just graduated from
law school in that city, and hopes to
carve out a career for himself by
strenuous work.
In honor of Miss Julianna King mas
sive iron gates are being erected at the
entrance Of Oakland Cemetery. sag
Harbor, l.. l., by the Ladies Village
Improvement Society. ..
Samuel Gabrielson, 80 years of age,
came all the way from Norway to at
tend the semi-centennial of the Luther
an church, in Milwaukee, which he
helped to found fifty years ago.
Prof. Pierce Butler Wilson, of Bal
timore, is dead. He was for thirty five
years city chemist and gas inspector.
He was born in Branchtown, near this
city, sixty-siX years ago.
Handsome monuments have just been
erected over the graves of Generals
Barlow and McLaws at Laurel Grove
Cemetery, Savannah, Ga, by the Uni
ted Daughters of the Confederacy.
The Sultan of Turkey has issued an
edict fOrbidding the publication Of
books in his realm. The reason is said
to be that he is going to publish a book
himself and wants clear field for it.
F.. Il. Lamare, the Pittsburg COM
poser. has just returned from a trip of
several months to England. where he
has been working on an oratoriO, which
he will probably call "Nebuchadnez-
Zar.''
The oldest voter in Texas at the last
election was Antonio Lopez. aged LOG.
He has lived in the county where he
cast his ballot for eighty years, and
was friendly with the Indians in the
early days. d.
Postmaster General Payne is con-
siderEg the idea of placing portraits
of the late DIR. Charles F. McDonalds
on money order blanks. DR.. Nc
Donalds was the first head of the Mo-
ney Order Department and in the main
it's originator.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-11
The Maine General Hospital.

The annual report of the directors
and superintendent of the Maine Gen.
eral hospital, made public, this week.
has much of interest as to the good work
which this noble institution Is doing
for the sick and the suffering OF our
whole State. This report, when
covers the 32d years work of the hos
pital, is the last which will be issued
by DIR. Charles o. Hunt, who has been
the faithful and efficient superintend-
ent and resident physician for no fewer
than IS years. The reluctance with
which the directors accepted his res
ignation is equalled by the regret OF
all who have been, or are now, as
ISOLATED in any way with the hospital.
The report shows that for the year
ending Sept. 80, 1867 patients. 636
male and 631 female. were admitted.
There were 1O2 under treatment at the
close of the year, of whom 40 were
paying and So were free. The capacity
of the hospital is 14S. During the year
rs patients died at the hospital, TAI
were discharged as recovered, 297 as
relieved, 81 as not relieved, and there
were 112 who We're examined and ad-
vised but not treated. OF the patients
admitted, SOC resided in Portland. 76G
in Maine outside of Portland, 147 in
New Hampshire, Is in Massachusetts,
five in Vermont, two in Rhode Island,
and &c in other states and counties.
Among the Maine patients every coun-
ty in the State was represented, rang
ing from 4S2 from Cumberland and 1873
from York down to IL from Piscataquis
and two from Androscoggin. There
were IS from Kennebec county.
The total expenses of the hospital
for the year We're $G3,S05. There is
deficit for the year of about $1,000.
There was received from paying pa
tents 1855. This more than covered
the cost of supporting them. SO all the
other income was used for free pa
TENTS. During the year $29,674 was
received in gifts and legacies, including
500, 900 from the Joseph S. Kicker es-
tate. the income of which may only be
expended for free patients. The not
able event of the year has been the
completion of the nurses home to &C
commodate So nurses. AT present
there are 40 nurses. A building wholly
for surgical purposes is being con-
structed, costing about $4,000.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-11
The Football Veterans,

Weeks ago the season opened
For the players on the grid,
And by hundreds they enlisted,
Each for laurels making bid.
Some were types of manly beauty,
All were in the best of trim,
Every candidate for honors
Being sound in wind and limb.
But the changes have been many
Since the starting of the fray;
Many faces now are missing
When the time Is called for play.
Some in hospitals are lying,
Often giving vent to grOanS
AS they feel the painful twinges
In their slowly knitting bones.
Some are going round on crutches,
Every step denoting pain;
Here and there cOnvalescent
Only needs the aid of cane.
There are others who are nursing
Arms they're carrying in sllngs.
And they're stunning all crowds, fearin;
Contact with their crippled wings.
But the veterans are lining
Up as boldly as before; t-
Every muscle they are Straining
In their eagerness to score. -
They've been toughened by the jostling
And the bumps they had to share,
But each one of them is showing
\ The effects of wear and tear. D.
Here and there an ear rs missing,
Or q nose is turned awry;
Here and there are twisted fingers,
Here and there a bandaged eye.
Some around the fields are limping,
There are many stiff and sore.
Yet in all the plays they're mixing,
For they're gritty to the core.
But before the seasons over T-t.
There'll be others borne away, -
Bruised and shaken, torn and crippled,
From the scenes of fearful fray.
Many heroes will be missing fsr.
When is raised the final shout,
For if veterans of football ... -
There'll be few to muster out.
-Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-11

Speaking of the steadying effect of
the elections upon Industrial and finan-
ciai conditions and of the good business
outlook. Henry Clews says in his finan-
cial review: Modern history has al
ways given the iron trade the credit of
being the truest barometer OF business
conditions: and today it is still the
best index of both the present and the
future. Again, all great eras of pros
perity have been capped by phenome-
nal activity in real estate, which. usu-
ally being the safest and least profit
able of investments, is generally the
last to rise. Today the country, from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, is under
going one of the most extraordinary
real estate booms that have ever been
witnessed. differing from its predeces-
sors only in the fact that thus far il
has been more substantial than they.
Still. 1t is evident that building is about
reaching point beyond the REQUIRE
ments OF even our marvellous growth.
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S5c from augusta b fsulstu
via Augusta. Winthrop. Z asdlax -
RAILWAY 10 Winthrop.

Official time table in effect Septs,1ss ~
Cars leave Augusta for Togus ever
half hour from $50 A. NJ. to 10 p. n, 4 14
for or, H ;. and :, Gardiner y eSsi h.
Augusta for Winthrop Is minu.ee beeose
the hour every hour from SIS A. y. to4S
Cars leave Tosus FOR Augusta. 4allo
s A. M. to $50 r. NJ. and for Adg6stsfsalx
Cars leaving Togus ON the hour mn I
A. M. tog p. M. connect at AuguAfA1uith
'a Cars soi leaving t Gardiner b minutes af.s
the hour and Hallowell IS minutes aftss
the hour from els A. M. to SIS p. n.
make close connections at AfQto u
Junction with cas- for Winthrop. ~.
ro Sans Halloween lsass M ams GsPa ssr i
before the hour from GAS A. n. t0 &kP.
NJ. For Augusta only. 9.45 and 05 n r.
Car leaves coShosseecontes -sidass tor
with early moruing train at Auguete for
Lewiston, Portland and BpSton.
Cars on the Winthrop hne run w1tyvn 10
It. Of NJ e. r r. stations at .Ae1nsa
This is the most direct route from Au.
gusta to Lewiston, Pennington. and ILL
points on N. c. r. r. from Lewiston 70
The line from Augusta to Wihthfdp y
equipped with largo eight-wheel. vestibuls
cars and every other car will be a c0mDi-
nation car. Baggsge and freit8 VII b
carried on this car making u yeH -.
venient for commercial men, as IT, carr
pass by the principal hotels OF Augusts
a9 Sunday My'a time same as above eaiceptins
that cars begin tn run hours later.
Cars leave from the Opera H0nsek Az
gusta, for Togus. Gardiner and Win prop
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-11
By the Governor
A THANKSGIVING
PROCLAMATION.

The year about to close has been filled
with many occasions for Thanksgiving.
Both the State and the Nation have en-
1oyed to a remarkable degree the bless
ings Of prosperity. Our harvests have
been more than sufficient for our require
ments our wage earners have been well
employed and nearly every material In
terest has prospered as never before.
In accordance with the custom which
has prevailed since the time of the Pill
grims, who set apart n day of thanks
giving after the harvests had been gath
cred. and conforming to the proclamation
of the President. l, John f. Hill. Cover
nor of Maine, hereby designate Thursday
the twenty-seventh day of November in
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-11
China Before the Hague Tribunal.

The third case to come before the
Hague peace tribunal promises to be
one involving the Chinese empire and
will go there at the request of our
old friend, WI Ting Fang. who has
been called from Washington to Pekin
to help straighten out matters at
home The first case was the dispute
between the United States and Mexico
involving the payment of the so-called
Pious fund by the latter country to
the former. and the next case will be
a dispute between Japan on one side
and England, Germany and France on
the other and involves the interpreted
ton of a treaty. The third case. if
WI Ting Fang's suggestion carries
weight. will be with China as the
plaintiff and will be an equity case,
as it were.
1t is all about the payment of in
try and the powers of Europe as re-
suit of the Boxer troubles. This
country is not at odds over China
over the issue, but if it is taken into
court. Uncle Sam will naturally be
grouped with the rest of the treaty
power. The point involved is whether
China shall pay the indemnity in sill
yer or gold. Poor old China will find
1t hard enough to pay in silver and
this country is willing to accept that.
II the powers of Europe are not they
can hardly refuse the request of the
genial diplomat that the matter be
left to the newly established peace tri-
bunal which is itself on trial in these
days as well as the cases before it.
The contract for the payment of the
indemnity by China is indefinite. 1t
amounts to this, that China agrees to
pay in certain payments the sum of
nearly 450,OO0,O00 taels. Nothing is
said about the market value of the
taelS. There are a lot of taelS in
China. but they are all, we believe, of
silver; and the best of them is worth
no more than silver of the same fine
ness and weight. AS the price of the
metal fluctuates, so the value of the
coin changes; and since this contract
was made the value of the particular
tael named has declined. AS China
has no standard of value except sill
Yer. it follows that the payment of the
indemnity i'm gold value would amount
to an additional indemnity to the ex-
tent of the depreciation of the tael.
In respect to this additional amount
China says positively that she cannot
pay it; that she has to strain every
/ nerve in order to pay the nominal
| amount agreed upon in her own usual
coin; and that to ask her to pay more
will knock her out. In respect to
China's understanding of the contract,
| when it was made. the fair probabili-
ties are that no thought was given to
may o'he' S"iie"c tHaH tHal VI NufHd.
| Exactly how anyone can work a gold
| basis out Of this contract is not clear;
but a case could certainly be made out
for the difference between the value of
the tael when the contract was signed
and its reduced value today.
So far as We can see, Minister WI is
| quite within the region of good sense
| in proposing that the construction of
this contract be left to the tribunal at
The Hague. 1t Is difficult to conject-
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q
town where they were born and where
they grew to manhood the people who
have known them from infancy are
unable to distinguish Willard from
Willard. and both are victims OF mis-
takes which would be ludicrous, II the
errors were not so often annoying. The
inability to tell which is which extends
even to the parents of the twins. and
about the only persons who do moi
share in this peculiar mixing OF idenfi-
ties are the wives Of the twins. Love
NAV be blind in some instances. but
not in this case. for Mrs. Willard Wade
knows her husband by his step. and
Mrs Willard Wade is SO sure which Is
her husband that she marvels at the
mistakes which others make. They
were born in 1866, have been at sea all
their lives. as their father was before
them, and are most lucky sailors.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-11
Reflections Of a Bachelor.
ot. song that tWitters.

All is not song that twitters. ~
Women who wear switches shudder
at the very thought of a man who
wears n wig. -,f q
IS pi-# r--T -. nHt n1a3
The girl who never gets married can
never have any one to blame for her
being cross with the servants.
After a woman decides what she
thinks about the gowns worn in a play
she is ready to consider its morality.
1t is. a, funny thing. but no matter
how Innocent a girl is, she will never
put on pink stockings when she Is go
ing out with a red-headed man.-New
York Press.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-11
PARCEL HUNTERS.
They Are in Their Heyday During the
.....,.t.. Holiday Season.

"That is a parcel hunter" said a
floor walker in one of the big stores
recently. He nodded his head toward
woman wedging her way along the
crowded aisle. scanning the floor as
siduously as she went, says the Phila-
delphia Press. 49,
.They are an odd class" he ex-
planned. with the advent of the gift
buying season, which has already set
in, come small army of people who
make an annual practice of searching
the big stores and streets for parcels
'and money dropped by shoppers. -e-
destrians also have a hobby of looking
for things, and motormen have long
followed the practice in the business
districts. y
"You would hardly believe it, but
eight out of every hundred women
who go shopping lose something in the
way of money or valuables before they
get home. The average of carlessness
in men is only about one-half Of ! per
cent.-presumably on account Of the
advantages of numerous pockets and
the inherent masculine aversion to
carrying things in their, hands. When
you consider the thousands that in
wade the big stores each day you can
realize that hundreds of articles are
lost. Some one finds them. A num-
Der of the lost parcels turn up at the
Lost and found counters of the vari-
Gus stores. but the vast majority Of
things dropped are never accounted
for. The things picked up range from
n kid glove to a well-filled pocketboOk.
Oftentimes costly packages OF silks
and furs are found. 2sa @s HIT
The mOtorman is also often re-
warded by profitable finds. He knows
by experience that women getting on
hands are more or less agitated. That's
when they drop things. At this sea-
son Of the year. every day at the car
barns, you can hear the motormen talk
of their finds as they come in from
their trips" stf+ -4 4" at
2 A talk with a motorman at the Ridge
avenue car barn revealed the truth Of
the floor walkers assertion. He said:
There are even more things found in
the street than on the sidewalk. Money
and parcels dropped in the street are,
likely to remain undisturbed longer
than If dropped on the sidewalks. Sd
the motornan has practically the field
to himself. The biggest find I ever
made was pocketboo1k containing SIS.
The owners name was in It, and when
1 returned It he gave me SO cents. AM
other time found a diamond breast
pin at Tenth and Arch streets which I
sold for $12. aInaanASb
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-11

That unsavory Democratic fight in
the 9th Massa .iusetts promises now
to come before Congress as Conry de-
clares he will not submit to the verdict
of the recount board which gives Kel-
iher the election by a narrow margin
II half the charges he makes are true
most of the Democratic officials and n
large part of the Democratic voters in
that district are i'm for terms behind the
hare
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When Travelling

y Between Boston and New York ask
for tickets Via springfield Line" over
the Boston & Albany r. r.
Through express trains leave either
city . A. NJ; 1900 Noon: 400 p. M;
:1l.00 p. N. carrying Parlor cars on Day
trains. Sleeping cars on Night trains.
Dining cars on 4 r. NJ. trains.
Through trainri service (Parlor,
Sleeping, and Dining 'cars) to. the West
via New York Central Lines, leaving
Boston:-4.4O. 8.30. 1O.15. 10.45 ~ 3:
200. AIS, e.oD. SOC ara HIS 2. n. i.
oct31dtf,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-11

The Republican victory i'm Massachu-
sets is emphasized by the fact that
money In the campaign as had been
spent by both parties combined in any
previous campaign in the history of tine
state
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M6lNQuB G{Ql@Stlg||
The Joy of DOING.

| cannot think that heaven may be
A place that is devoid of care;
l cannot fancy that for me
No duties shall be waiting there:
| cannot think that heaven is free
From all the burdens mortals bear.
How can the sweetest joy, the best,
Be theirs that In Elysium dwell
If none may labor for the rest
And win their love i'm doing well?
Who toll that others may be blessed -
Their hearts with sweetest rapture:
swell
IS. e. Kiser.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-11

"A Bath newspaper man received
letter from a metropolitan paper a few
days ago asking him to send descrip-
ton of the cruiser Cleveland and mon
itor Nevada prior to the launching OF
each. As one craft has been over
board ~ months and the other two
years, it will be seen that even the
big papers make occasional slips.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-11

Passenger trains leave Augusts = y.
THROUGH TRAfNs.H
GOING WEST-6N 4. r. for $780,.
Farmington. Phillips. k06kknG
Quebec, 100 A. NJ Tor BrunsWicE -
1ksssn lEsrmRin ossand fs'RR
~. Conway. Tabyans. Eancasfers o..
ham, N. H., Berlin Falls, GrovsSos
N. Stratford, Island Pond, CoiebsnaS
and Beecher Fails; 40 r. ~, local =
wick. Portland and Boston, connsst,..
for Bath. Portland. Lewiston, Cor
Bridgton, No. Conway and Bartlett n
r. M. for 80. Gardiner: lO.38 p. N. Cnisrs
Pullman) every night for Lewiston. BstS
cept Monday. for Portland and B0eSSss -
GOING EAST-12.59 A. M. (night ~.
pressl for Skowhegan. Bangor. Bar H.
Dor. st.. Stephen. (Calais), 81. John. u.
,ax,d ana - Aroosfook county and to-WSs1.
east does not connect for Ekowheaas ~.
on Sunday morning for Belfast, Tcsspots
or beyond Bangor, except at Ellsuns.S
/ & Wash. Co. r. R.: So A. n. 10 ~.
Vile. Foxcroft and Bangor: $40 A. N. Ia
sna Bsifast Bangot
Bangor. Old Town. Patten. Houlton an
Caribou via. B. & A. X. R.. Vancsho.a
st. Stephen. (Calais), Houlton, Won.
stock. st. John and Halifax an: To ~.
iston, via Oakland and Winthrop: ~ ;
NJ. express for Waterviile. Bangor e.
Harbor, Wash. Co. r. R.. Old Ten
Greenville and Katahdin Iron WORKS. a
p. M. for Watervil!e, Oakland, Non
Arson. Bingham, Skowhegan, Belnsf
Foxcroft. Greenville. Bangor. Old Tow
and Mattawamkeag: 7.os P. II. Tor VA.
terville.
SUNDAYS-Goins west. rs 4. n. A.
Portland, Boston; 1928 A. NJ. lO3 Pm
for Brunswick, Bath, Portland ana ~.
ton. Going east. 1853 A. NJ, BanEoe. NY
Bangor
The Night Pullman Train leaving Il
1853 A. NJ. Monday morning, going sasf
does not connect for Skowhegan. nor -
Sunday morning for Belfast. FOxcpoft oP
east OF Bangor. except to Ellsworth AZ
Wash. Co. X. r.
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The reports that the Shamrock Ill.
IL going to be a wonder sound very
familiar. The Shamrock |. and the
Shamrock II. We're heraided as Won
ders and they lived up to their ad-
sorrow that wonders were not I'M
known in American waters.
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Boston's Jack the Slugger'' mystery
Is the greatest criminal sensation that
New England has had for a long time
Justice seems To be stumpling along
I'm the manner to be expected of a
blindfolded lady.