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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-12-15
RAILROADS & STEAMBOATS,.
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.SfsNy kcSG0 NJ
In Effect, Oct. IL. 1909.
Passenger trains leave Augusta n t.
THROUGH TRAINS.
GOING WEST-6.4o A. NJ. for LAwlstca.
Pennington. Phillips. Rockland. Port.
oasbea B II foT and
iston. Pennington, Phillips. Carrabasset.
Rangeley. Roekland. Portland. Boston.
n Conway Fasyains' r bassas;sr Cor
". Stratford Island Pond, ColebrooE
and Beecher Falls: $40 2. NJ, local 10
Portland: $50 p. NJ. teNpress) for Bruns-
for Bath, Portland. Lewiston. Cornish,
Bridgton. No. Conway and Bartlett 106
I. NJ for So. Gardiner; loss =. NJ. might
Portland and Boston: ass A. NJ. daily ex-
cept> Monday, for Portland and Boston.
GOING EAsT--12.59 A. NJ. might ex-
Dor. It. IS Stephen. Calais, s. john, Han
fax and Aroostook county and to Wash
inston Co. II. r.; Monday morning. going
On Sunday morning - Belfast. Foxcroft
or beyond Bangor. eAcept at Ellsworth
& Wash. Co, r., r.: s.s7 \. n. for Wsssr.
vile. Foxcroft and Bangor; $40 A. M, for
and Bucksport: l2.35 p. NJ. Waterville.
Bangor, Old Town. Patten. Houlton and
Caribou via. ID. & a. r. r.. vancebore.
stock. st. John and Halifax and to Lew
iston. via Oakland and winthrop: ECO p.
NJ, express for Waterville. Bangor bar
Harbor. Wash. Co +. r.. old Town,
Greenville and Katahdin Iron Works. 40
y. NJ. for Waterville, Oakland. North
Arson, Bingham, SkowaeSan. Belfast,
Foxcroft. Greenvlle. Bangor, Old Town
ard Malta wamkeag: 7.eS =. NJ. for Wa
tervile.
SUNDAYS-Goins west ees 4. n. for
Portland, Boston; 1923 A. NJ. 1898 p. N.
for Brunswick. Bath. Portland and Bcs-
ton. Going east. 1853 A. NJ. Bangor. a15
4. NJ. and go p. NJ. fer WaterviIle and
Bangor
The Niehr Pullman Train leaving at
1858 A. NJ. Monday morning, gong east
does not connect for Saownegan. nor ON
Sunday morning for Belfast. Foxcroft or
east of Bangor. except to Ellsworth and
wash. Co. r. r.
ACCOMMODATION TRAINS
AUGUSTA TO SOUTH GARDNER
A AsfIsssil " ia: Es e IS 81 81
Gardiner .........Sea 20 40 $40
Sc. Gardincg. ar. sic 2.SO 40 SO
SOUTH GARDINER TO AUGUSTA.
A. M. r. NJ. p. NJ. PM
So. Gardiner. ". go LOO 800 Sec
Gardiner .........6.S0 Ito $40 k10
Hallowei ........6.43 123 323 81
Augusta, ar. $50 100 $50 6.2a
Through tickets to California and all
points South and West may be had Of 3.
II. Walker. ticket agent. Augusta, the
only Office in Augusta selling via all
routes and checking baggage freS Of az
penSe.
GEO. E. EVANS. v. p. & Gen. Mar
+. L. BOoTHBY, G. =. & T. A.
Portland. Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-12-15

IN the law court, Saturday. Knox
Nouiity cases We're argued. Court will
convene at $50 O'Clock, this morning
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.,,c,,s1A LODGE DIRECTORY.

AUGUSTA LODGE. NO. al. F. &
NJ. Special comrlunicat ton.
"a. Tresday evening. Dec. 16. at 100
N n,cIock' Work in NJ. NJ. degree.
" ,,etrtsnnlents. All sojourning
,..,b-fn are cordially invited to be
present.. -r,r, n poyNToN w NJ
cfAT,DE W. TOWNSEND, Sec'y.
FETHLEICEM LODGE. NO. 80,
x + & 4. NJ. stated communication,
.nA, Nondav, Dec 18th, at 40 p NJ, at
~ Masonic Temple. Work in L. A.
Degree. All sojoIrning brethren
arc J. T. BLANCHARD. w. NJ
THOS. II. BODICE. Sec.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-12-15
Daily ksnneber Journal
LOCAL MATTERS

ihere VIII he work in the E. A. de-
see az the melting of Bethlehem Lodge.
No. 81, this evening.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-12-15

There was large crowd skating or
the ice above the dam, all day, yester-
day.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-12-15

Scrofula

~ 10 cOnAAuonIy lnnerlteos
Few are entirely free from Il.
Pale, weak, puny children are
afflicted with it in nine cases out Of
ten, and many adults suffer from it.
Common indications are punches in
the neck, assesses, cutaneous erup-
tons, inlamed eyelids, sore ears,
ricketts,, catarrh, wasting, and general
debility.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-28
The Sabbath in Scotland.
m the New York Tribune.

FROM the New York Tribune.
Scotland Is the home of Presbyterianism
and we usually think of that country as
one where the most rigid tenets of the faith
are maintained in all their ancient strict
ness. But it seems that public opinion in
Presbyterian Scotland has felt the liberal
izing tendencies of the time to a consider
ably greater extent than some of the fore
most representatives of the Presbyterian
Church in this country. This is especially
true in the matter of Sunday observance
to the ancient rules of which the Scots
have been additionally supposed to be in
fieXibly devoted. But they have got further
away from these rules, and are more in
sympathy with the needs of the present
day than some of their brethren on this
side of the water. Edinburgh, for instance
has met the question of running its tram
ways on Sunday in the only possible way,
by running them on that day. The Scots
man of Edinburgh is undoubtedly the
most influential and thoroughly representa-
tive newspaper of North Britain. 1t pub
llshed an editorial the other day respecting
meeting of the members Of the Sab
bath Alliance Of Scotland in that city in
which it asserts that their lamentations over
the sorrowful decensons of a once Sab
batarian land in no way represent Scot
land or even any considerable section of
Scottish opinion. The sense of the country
finds no expression in their reports and
speeches. They are, it says, collection of
well-meaning Mrs. Partingtons, yainly and
somewhat fooishly striving to arrest and
turn backward the tide of time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-28

in brief, the managers report when he had
me to lunch, four days later in a room
back of his office.
The explosion was purely accidental
ne SAID. AT first | thought it must have
been the work of that hunchback, but it
was not. He was somewhere near and was
undoubtedly killed with the rest, but one of
the searchers was seen going into the dyna-
mite room with his torch, and the explosion
followed immediately
In reply l simply said: 1T has proved
rather tragic and expensive diamond to
you, so far. Pity that after all it should
be lost
LOST he exclaimed. "A diamond is
never lost. True, We estimate on free
margin, that a tenth of our output is stolen
before it reaches us, which may be and
may not be so, but those are diamonds We
have never seen. l should know this one
again instantly. But it Is only in the
debris, not outside, and will turn up direct
ly. Where do you expect to be one wear
from now? he asked, and when l told him
on the Nubian desert he pulled out his pen
and notebook and said: Let's fix up little
wager indicating our opinions 1 bet YOU
the largest rough diamond in our possession
at the time against 100 that this particular
stone is recovered and in the hands of the
cutters before you reach Cairo
Nail it, replied, and we left the lunch
room for the office, to learn that a gang of
natives on the way to work In the mines
met the hunchback two days before, alive
anu WSii- nc toiu tIltIIi OI the EXPLOSION,
and that he was on his way home to be a
great chief, as he had made a fortune in
the mines
The manager smiled and remarked: I
have simply to telegraph the commander of
the district and have him taken diamr,nI
and all, before he gets. there I'm afraid
you've lost your EGO already 1t would
have been folly to tell him so, but I knew
very well that the hunchback was only
sending him word that he was safely away
with the diamond and was likely to be any
where but toward his home.
when l left Kimberley was thick with
posters offering f10O for the Door little
hunchback, dead or alive. Then the whole
incident went out of my life in the beastly
| time had of it getting north. 1t was four
| teen months before 1 reached Nubia and
was so well worn out that 1 made for the
Nile and did the rest by dahabiah. We had
| to pull up every night, the boatmen are so
| in horror of the dark, but made the long
| est days possible by plotting and bribery.
One evening we came on a fleet of fiat
| boats that had just moored. They were
! lieved some long distance caravan below
| the cataracts. l made a chance for a free
and early start by forcing my men to pass
them and moor quarter of mile below
but 1t came near costing me my life.
AT night always had my sleeping mat
and mosquito net on the ,rudder platform.
for was too we'll used to the free air to
endure the fetid, vermn- ha united cabin
but the boatmen and even my own servants
scrupulously went below
THAT night, without an idea of what
Weakened me, l opened my eyes on the out
line OF head with long knife in it's
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-28

two short squares from the Department
OF Justice. 1t is the former George w
Childs residence. and was purchased re-
Gently by General Knox for the sum Of
$4,000 The Plttsburg home of the
knoxes- Is. on Ellsworth avenue, a large.
magnificently furnished stone house. stand
ing on slight eminence surrounded by
sioping lawns and old shade trees. The
Striking feature OF this home Is the library
whose, walls are entirely concealed by
paintings of Indian and frontier life ex-
ecuted on the pelts OF Wild animals by A
r. Harmer of California. painter whom
MI: Knox specially engaged FOR this work
The family OF General Knox consists OF
ms WIFE. who was formerly Miss Smith,
daughter of one of the pioneer iron manu-
Iacturers or Pittsburg, three sons and a
daughter, the latter just reaching woman
mood The knoxeS are Protestant Epis-
copalians. Mr.. Knox being a vestryman I'm
the Church OF the Ascension, Pittsburg
Discussing religious creeds one day with
some friends. the Attorney General. I'm re-
ply TO question as to his belief said:
My creed is TO live for those 1 love. and
to do all the good / can"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-28
London Women.
From the London Chronicle

From the London Chronicle
An american lady who was watching the
ehurch parade yesterday between the statue
OF Achilles and Stanhope Gate pronounced
IL TO be as good as, If not better than any
thlng that New York could produce. ..Possi-
bly, she said 18th avenue on some spccIal
occasion might turn out a few lovelier
dresses, but the London average is above
the New York average You see fewer all
solute failures here among the women
WINE ihe men are quite unapproac hable-
surely Londoners are the best-dressed n,n
In the world. But the days when the Lon
don girl was really badly dressed are dead
ana gone. We have educated her. we
Americans. until she has all but reached
our standard Just think what the London
shops were fifteen and even ten wears a go'
but now L can buy in them everything 1
want Just as easily though | were in
Paris or New York. / don't know whether
the supply of pretty dresses and dainty ct
ceteras made the demand. or whether IL
was the other way about, but at any ra re
there has been a change within the last
decade that is almost a revolution. The
London girl of today dresses quite as well
as her sister across the Atlantic or the
channel"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-28

ton which caused the fingers to close again
like a trap :
. Let me see it. shouted the white man.
Seeing is not touching, for you, replied
the hunchback, stepping farther off and
cautiously opening his hand. Give me a
pass for will take 1t to the baas.' Which,
believe Is the one privilege possessed by
those Wretches down in that hole; If they
find diamond they can take it to the man
ager and receive reward. 1t is the only
inducement offered them not to steal The
rest is all threat and punishment They are
sant naked into the mines, and still are
searched each time they come out. They
never pass the outer gate during their con-
tract time, and the last week before it ex-
pires are kept in solitary confinement,
leather mittens locked on their hands Then
they have a grand final search, by white
men, whose sole occupation is mining dia-
monds in the black hides of departing
gangs.
THE hunchback received his pass and we
went pretty well together up to the man.
ayers office, 500 feet above. There was ex-
spread that the hunchback was carrying q
huge diamond, but when we reached the
office it utterly failed.
1T was two ways of applying the same
formula. In the mines they said that as it
took a trackload of blue to give a cara.
and half of diamond, this find was as
good as sending out over 300 loads. In the
office they reasoned that those 300 loads
were yet to come. They knew that the final
average would not be changed, and that a
5OO-carat stone, even if it had no flaw
would not yield the profit of 100 five-carat
diamonds, though it demanded in the aver
age, the same amount of labor. expense and
blue. So the manager took it with frown,
while the hunchback watched him with
glistening eyes.
He tossed it carelessly in his palm. then
handed it to clerk, who shortly returned
it washed in acid and accompanied by
slip of paper, recording it's exact weight
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-28

wasn't the bride beauty, jack
..ReaIIv couldn't say, Rob, for l didn
look at her
"Why. man. When you were Preseli'e"
you fairly glared.'
Optical Illusion. Rob. for as 1 raised my
eyes to her face they stuck on the blue dla-
n,ond she wore and never got further"
Jack. otherwise the celebrated African
explorer. Col. John Richmond, while suf-
fering brief sojourn in London. had been
dragged by a friend to the reception of the
last AnglO-AmeriCan alliance. They were
now recuperating on whisky and soda and
cigars at the club.
Since you're so much more interested in
the diamond than the bride the friend re-
marked. Il give you bit of gossip as to
how it came where you could see it, My
Iady's father, as you know, is an unlimited
millionaire. \ baGatelle of ten millions
went with her as apology for dover. ana
papa thought he ought to do some trifle by
way of wedding gift beside. The Hope dia-
mond had just emerged from the vaults and
gone to America. Rumor said II had been
purchased by papa. but gossip says he only
proposed to purchase it when his baby girl
declared she'd none of it; cringed over it's
history. No. no. papa: don't give me the
Hope. Give me something free and clean
from history, bloOdstains and tragedy
But papa had set his heart on having
his gift a blue diamond. Presto! he was
off to Amsterdam with a Kimberley agent
and two of the best diamond experts in the
kingdom. The result? The diamond which
prevented your seeing the bride. A dia-
mOnd right from the mines and the cutters,
which her grace can wear knowing that no
other grace or disgrace ever contaminated
1t: that it has no history but what she
makes for it
wherein she was right said Col. Rich
mond, stroking his mustache. "A diamond
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without a history, bloodstain or tragedy is
the only one for such a resting place. [
felt that same adherence for diamond
once myself; ma gnificent stone. presented
to me. but l refused it, simply because
there was too much blood and tragedy in
its history"
Good heavens. Jack. Who'd ever credit
you with sentiment? How did it come
abOut2"
Simply enough in a way. old man.
was in Kimberley. preparing for the trip
i made north to the Nile Rhodes was in
terested in it and introduced me to the
manager Of the mines. which resulted in
my inspecting them. In that vast labyrinth
Of tunnels and galleries 700 to 600 feet IN
der ground an army of blacks and regi-
ment of white men work like demons, night
and day, as if the destiny of the world
hung upon the number OF fitting trucks
they filled with blue and sent flying down
the inclined tracks from every direction
toward the main shaft.
Where several working galleries meet a
main tunnel a chamber is exCavated lighed
by electricity. supplied with water for the
miners and occupied by two white men,
one to signal a gallery when the way Is
clear for the trucks it has filed the other
to tally them as they come out. In the
working galleries the only lights are tapers,
fixed on wires stuck into the wool of the
black miners. They dance about like shoot
ing stars, those little taper lights down the
dark passages q The heat was terrific,
sitting but ii was intensely interesting
help their picks. and set off a blast while
i was in a gallery watching a gang of
eight or ten under a native hunchback. A
sharp gust swept out of the tunnel with
the blast. and quickly back again, blow
Ing out every taper, but they were used to
II and had them lighted again in an in
stant-all but three of the fellows who lay
unconscious, directly under a assure in the
roof opened by the dynamite.
They were simply stunned, and would
recover in a moment, but with the first
light the hunchback saw something He
stood on one of the bodies to reach It, but
the opening was too narrow for his hand
He caught a bar. thrust il in and pulled
till huge muscles bulged all over him. Sud
denly a ton or more of solid blue clay fell
on the three unconscious men, crushing the
life out Of them; but the rest had no time
to care. They began filling the nearest
truck. while the hunchback scrambled in
the mass on hands and knees, pulled out
something the size of a hens egg and start
ed down the track toward the lighted
chamber.
After the sickening sight l had no de-
sire to stay longer, and followed him out
Against the light his crooked body seemed
10 wriggle more than walk. AS he reached
the supervisor a truck shot past us through
the chamber, with two dead bodies thrown
on top. The hunchback glanced toward
them and muttered: Another to come
They are the price of this
1.-The supervisor nodded impatiently as
though a foreman should not waste his
time reporting trivial matters, but when he
glanced in the opening hand and saw a
dirty. grimy octahedron-a 500-karat dia
monu he started forward with an exclama
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-28

and measurements, and noting a fact which
seemed to disturb the manager yet more,
for he caught up his glass and examined
IT closely AS he laid it down he noticed
the hunchback, who had not so much as
Withdrawn his open hand. oh, you're the
fellow who found it, waiting for a reward?'
he said. We'll, here's ten shillings and
may you never find another
He tossed the half sovereign into the
open hand. The hunchback looked at It,,
then at the manager, and replied: 'Baas,
Mhen l was but an olive branch, Arabs
from the north burned our village killed my
father and took my mother captive. Be
cause | struggled they twisted my back and
left me for dead. They sold my mother as
slave in the yellow country on the sea. 1
did not die, baaS 1 vowed to buy my
mother back or kill, and KILL and kill till
she had been avenged. To accomplish that
VOW, baas, l have worked hard for money
and for this BY some kind of a contortion
he threw out those bullying muscles from
head to foot, till he seemed one distorted
mass of gigantic strength Today my god
helped me. He showed me the diamond. 1t
carry on my back. 1 might have kept it,
but | brought 1t here. Does the baas say
that this is my reward?
From the managers point, the find
meant a serious loss and he replied, i'm
patiently: You couldn't get a diamond the
size of a bean outside this yard. You are
welcome to all you can carry away with
you when you go He glanced through
feet high, completely surrounding the
| mines. On both sides of it there is a barbed-
wire net fence, and the space between,
| lighted at night by electricity, is constantly
| patrolled by armed men.
THE hunchback Smiled-at least his teeth
and eyes glistened among the wrinkles on
his face; but he spat upon the coin in his
hand, threw 1t out of the open window, and,
| turning, wriggled himself slowly back to
work
Il went to the managers office next
morning to say goodbye. In the course of
! our chat l referred to the incident and re-
| marked that l didn't believe he had heard
! the last from the hunchback He simply
/ smiled and said: Let's have look a the
stone by morning light A clerk went to
/ fetch it from safe filled with small tin
| boxes, but after some delay returned white
| and frightened, and whispered to the mana
ger.
| Gone! he cried, jumping from his chair
| He caught a box from the clerk and
| emptied the contents on his desk-a slip OF
| paper and a half sovereign. Who put il
4 away and locked the safe last night? You!
| And you are sure the diamond was there:
| Then how under heaven came this coin In
| its place this morning? And it's the very
| one / gave that black devil. l remember
| gate since shutdown. and let one, white
| or black, pass or no pass, go in or out till
| further orders from me-
| so the excitement, over the diamond
| reached the office at last; for while it's adj
vent meant only sudden settling of the
| scales on one side to be slowly but surely
| adjusted, its exit meant an enormous loss.
! I've shall find it all right before sun.
down. he remarked, cheerfully, nodding and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-28
Appendicitis is Not New.
| the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
why is IT," asked a man of a physician
that so many people are suffering these
days with appendicitis and have to be on
Grated upon, when there didn't use TO be
any of them?"
My young friend" the doctor answered.
this disease has been in the world since
Adam was-perhaps that story of losing
a RIB may have arisen because he was on
Grated on for appendicitis. When Your
grandfather was boy his neighbors had it
all around him, and so they did when YOU
were boy. But they called it inhamma-
ton of the bowels, stomach ache, acute in
digestion, liver trouble or something of
that sort. The patient got well or he died
put no one ever opened him when living to
see what the matter was. Perhaps il is a
well that they did not, for much of the sur
gerry of those days was more dangerous
than any disease"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-28
International Bird Protection.
q the New York sun.

From the New York Sun.
An international agreement for the pro-
lection of birds useful to agriculture was
concluded in Paris this spring The parties
to the agreement are Belgium, France,
Greece, Austria, Portugal, Sweden Switzer-
land and Spain, and a few smaller states.
All birds useful to agriculture are to en-
joy unconditional protection. and the de-
struction OF these birds or OF their nests
and eggs is prohibited. Certain other birds
are named as mischievous. Sporting rights
are protected. Italy, a country in which
the capture Of northwardbound birds is a
regular trade. does not appear as Of the
treaty signers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-28
/
The. TOYS.

My little son, who look'd from thoughtful eyes
And moved and spoke in quite grown-up wise,
Having my law the seventh time disobeyed
l struck him, and DISMISSED az
With hard words and unkiss'd,
His mother, who was patient, being dead.
Then, fearing lest his grief should hinder sleep,
l visited his bed;
But found him slumbering deep,
With darken'd eyelids and their lashes vet
From his late sobbing wet,
And l; with moan,
Kissing away his tears, left others of my own;
For, on table drawn beside his head
He had put, within his reach,
box Of counters and a red-vein'd stone
piece of glass abraded by the beach
And six seven shells,
bottle with bluebells
And two French copper coins, ranged there will
careful art,
To comfort his sad heart.
So when that night pray'd
To God, wept, and said:
All, when at last We lie with tranced breath
Not vexing Thee in death,
And Thou renemberest Of what toys
We made our joys,
How weakly understood
Thy great commanded good,
Then, fatherly not less
Than whom Thou hast nodded from the clay,
Thou'lt leave Thy wrath, and say,
Il will be sorry for their ehiidishness'
COVENTRY PATMORE.