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Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-15
MARKET REPORTS.
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.
Features of the Days Dealings in All
the Leading Stocks.

New York, April 14.-There was a fever
lsh close in today's market. The earlier
strength was not maintained and the
course was gradually downward until the
last dealings. when there was a general
break all around. Prices had risen again
after the sasging tendency under the
stimulus of the extraordinary advances
IN some of the Changers and Northwest
erns. But the perception of realizing un-
der cover of this strength and the sensa-
tIonal advance to 133 in Louisville e.
Nashville again unsettled sentiment and
led to the general unloading in the final
dealings. Much attention and surmise
were given to the Louisville & Nashville
situation and the disposition to be mada
OF Its control which is now without dis
sent understood to have escaped its long
time holders.
Some hope is entertained that a com
munity of interest amongst the Southern
trunk lines will be worked out. 1t is
patent that great financial and railroad
interests are now striving to readjust the
situation from the standpoint of railroad
policy which has secured the control al
most by chance. The remarkable rise in
Northwestern Changers was without ex-
PLANTATION. The Chicago Northwestern
stocks. st. Paul Omaha and the St
Paul stocks were marked up in a short
period from 2A to Is points. st. Paul re-
lapsed as suddenly to below Saturday and
fiuctuated at the last almost as wildly
as Louisville itself.
The money market was appreeiably
easier. Reports of rains in the winter
wheat belt were productive of some buy
ing of stocks and reports were received
of a very heavy merchandise movement
on Western railroads. The February
statement of Missouri Pacific did not
serve to corroborate this view, the net
earnings for the month declining 1886, ,926
and for two months $95S, ,226 compared
with the corresponding period of last
year. Peace rumors from London helped
the early strength in the market. all
though the buying from that source
seemed to be in the nature of re-invest-
ment of the proceeds of Louisville &
Nashville stock sold. Wide advances in
International Power. American Snuff.
New York Dock pfd. and Des Moines &
Fort Dodge were without special ex-
PLANTATION.
Heavy realizing in the Central of Geor-
gia income bonds unsettled the bond
market Total sales, par value s.. .905 900.
United States 2s advanced Il and 3's reg
istered Il and the old As coupon Il on
the last call.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-15
RecIaiming the Arid Lands.

The problem of making rich and
fertile by the process of irrigation the
great arid regions Of the West has
been getting more and more pressing
in recent years. Great as is our do
main it is not so great that we can af-
ford to have those vast arid and semi
arid areas forever desolate and un-
productive. President Roosevelt, who
knows the remoter West more inti-
mately than any President we have
ever had, has shown much interest in
this matter and discussed it, advising
congressional action, in his message at
the opening of Congress in December.
A bill has now been passed by the
Senate and stands a good chance of be-
coming law which is hailed as mark
ing a new era for the region west OF
the Mississippi when the development
of the country is yet in its infancy
We have not heard much about this
bill here in the East, but it means
much to the far West, and has no lit
tie bearing on the welfare of the
whole country.
The bill provides that all moneys re-
ceivcd by the government from the sale
of public lands in the arid or semi
arid states and territories after June
20 1901 shall he, SET aside for tho GRO
alton of all arid land reclamation fund
to provide for the construction of
reservoirs and hydraulic works for the
storage and diversion of water to be
used in irrigation, and in making
fertile fields of what are now barren
plains and useless sand hills. The bill
directs that the geological survey of
the United States shall continue its
examination of the arid regions with a
view to ascertaining what will be the
best plan to be carried out in storing
and distributing the water. This sur
vey is to report the best possible plan,
and to make estimates of the cost.
AT first the irrigation schemerc
wanted the government to foot the
whole bill, and let them reap the re-
ward. but they were checkmated in
that move. The cost of the irrigation
works built by the government will now
De paid out of the fund raised from
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-15
Personal Notes.

Secretary Shaw, Attorney General
Knox and Postmaster General Payne
will speak at the Grant day dinner in
Pittsburg, on April 70.
Signor Piccolomini, the celebrated
composer, is dead in London. He was
for a time the organist of st. Peters,
pome, and wrote about four hundred
pieces of music.
Most Reverend Frederick Xavier Kat
ger, archbishop of the diocese of Mil
waullee, started for Rome this week
During his trip he will visit Lordes, as
well as Linz, Austria, his birthplace.
Dr. I.eyds is organizing a demonstra-
ton for coronation day. The Continent
al and American prO-Boers are to show
their feelings by displaying Boer flags
and sending kilograms to Mr.. Kruger.
Captain Fritz Honig, the noted Ger
man writer on military affairs, is dead
His three best known books are: His
tory of Oliver CROMWELL Two Bri-
gades' and War of Nations on the
Loire"
Mrs. Elizabeth r. Horton Of Salem
Mass, owner of the famous 1nterna-
tional Doll Collection, which has earned
nearly $4,000 for charity. has just re-
ceived, from the Queen of Roumania,
a doll with which the Queen once
played.
George Bromley, a pioneer resident
of San Francisco, will be So on April IA,
and the Bohemian Club will celebra te
the event with a banquet. He has writ
ten volume of "reminiscences, en-
titled THE Long Ago and Later On
extracts of which he will read at the
dinner
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-15
Chicago Market.

Chicago, April IA.
Spectators in grains had feverish
time of ii, today. Corn shorts were badly
scared over the continued bulges in Tho
Southwestern markets and fearing pos
Sibie manipulation Of the market by bulls
in its present peculiar condition, bid
prices up &C. Wheat had an early bear
ish tendency but had to follow the corr
marked activity and prices fluctuated
erraticllly. After the early excitement
conditions became somewhat normal ana
May wheat closed y lower, May corn q,
higher and May oats " up. Provisions
closed d shade lower to &c. higher.
The leading futures closed as follows:
WHEAT-May. 1Z@s; July, 73A; Sept,
CORN-May, 62A; July. G17s062; Sept,
G11s.
OATs-May. 421z; July (oiD, 25; July
tnew), 36l4M3G1s; Sept (old), 30a301s; Sept.
Pc PoRE@May, IN $ls.sa,g; July, a7o9N.
$995. ''' '''''' '''' S''o'' '''pt''
SHORT RIBs-May. s912k; July,
$9.27l@; Sept. S9.37i2.
Cash quotations were as follows:
FLOUR-Steady.
WHEAT-No. 3 spring. c9a72lz; NO .
CoRN-No. . g; No yellow, 81.
OATS-No. :, 43: No. 2 white, AL; Il 1914 t:
No. 3 white, 441sm45.
RYE-No; 2 51@5V3a; fair to choice
FLAxsEED-No. l, SIG; No, North
TIMOTHY sEED-Prime, $3.50.
MESS PORK-$i5.S S0n $16S5.
LARD-$9. I2j jhIS9. 10.
SHORT RIBS SIDES-S91S9.15.
DRY SAITIID SHOULDERS-7Jlf
SHORT CLEAR 9.65a$9.i5.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-15

spot easy; No. red. S2ai elevator; No.
red, 8iA I. O.. b. ahoat; No ! Northern
Duluth, S2A +. o. b. afoat; No. l hard
Manitoba, S5H f. o. b. aaoat.
CORN-Receipts. 1850 bush; exports.
$50 bush; sales, 10000 bush; spot firm
No 2, G3H elevator and 69A f. o. b. afoat.
OATS-Receipts, $500 bush; exports,
14,152 bush; spot lirmer; No. 2, Al; No 3,
4GH; No. 2 white, SLASH; No. 8 white.
5014; track mixed Western, 4Gg1tS track
white Western, 51Z6t5f1A-
BEEF-Firm; cut meats. firmer.
LARD-Firm; Western steamed, s1010;
refined, firm; continent, $l025; S. A.,
$l0.75.
PORK-Firm; family, $1S.50M$I9
BUTTER-Strons; creamery. 2Gn31 do
factory. 2Gd26; state dairy, 25fl31.
EGGS-Strong; state and Pennsylvania,
1601Gal.
POTATOES-Firm; Maine bag, 50 4Ofs
&. 80; New York fair to prime sack 81 15lt
s.. 2.25; Jersey sweets, bbl., S3.j0n$5.
SUGAR-Raw, steady; fair refining. 2T,
centrifugal 81 test, 81; refined, steady.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-15

Another Chicago professor has
broken loose. 1t is a rare week when
one of the many freaks in President
Harpers collection doesn't open his
mouth and put one of his feet, or both
of them, into it's capacious depths.
This time it is a Prof. Starr, and he has
won fame by telling his class of fair
co-eds that the wedding ring is relic
of barbarism, token of slavery which
has come down from earlier ages and
which the goth century woman should
cast off and trample under foot And
the aforesaid fair co-eds looked at each
other and then at the taper finger
where each hopes a wedding ring will
rcpose in due time and unanimously
voted that Prof. Starr is a lesser
luminary and likewise an unromantic
and iconoclastic old brute.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-15
Pointed Paragraphs.

Artlessness is at the head of the high
art class.
When a man lends his influence he rare
ly gets it back.
Many a man uses his religion as sor'
of lightning rod.
Any man who is unable to bear mls1oft-
une is truly unfortunate.
Nothing provokes q proud woman likt
the pride OF some other woman.
When a man boasts of his ancestors
probably he has nothing to look FORWARD
TO.
A statesman amiaby in the right Is nc
match for politician puSnaciously III III.
wrong.
If bootjacks were bouquets the nine
lives of the musical midnight cat would
be strewn with flowers.
Many a mans success In HE IS duc 60
the fact that he is foolish in ms tax
but wise in his actions. news.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-15
A REPUBLICAN STATE
CONVENTION
will be held in
CITY HALL, PORTLAND.
Wednesday, June II, 1902,
at 1.30 o'clock, p. NJ,

a. Lou . CLOCK, 4. M,
Tor the purpose of nominating a candidate
FOR Governor to be supported at the Sep
tember Election, and transacting any 9TH
fore it.
The basis of representation will be as
!oIows: Each City. Town and Planta-
uon VIII pc entitled to one delegate: and
ior eacf 40 votes cast for the iSepupiican
canoidate for Governor in 1900 an aidi-
tonal delegate; and for fraction of "a
votes IN excess of 75 votes, a further ad-
oluonal delegate. Vacancies in the dele.
cation of any City, Town or PLANTATION
can only be filled by residents of the
county IN which the vacancies exist.
Inc State Committee viii be in session
III the reception room of the Hall at - n
+. M, on the day of the Convention for
inc purpose of receiving the credentiai &
oL oeiegateS. Delegates in order 10 ~
engloie to participate in the Convention
must be elected subsequent to the date "a
call for this Convention. VI
All electors of Maine, without regard -
past political affiliations, who believe IN
Republican principles and endorse thn
Poncy OF the Republican party. are COZ
oiaiiy invited to unite under this cal, =,
eiscting delegates to this Conventinn al
Fer order, Republican State COMMITTEES
F. NJ SIMPSON. Chairmar
BfRON BOYD, Secretary.
Bangor. April 10, 1902.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-15
Indirection.

Fair are the flowers and the children,
But their subtle suggestion is fairer;
Rare is the rose-burst of dawn,
But the secret that clasps it is rarer;
Sweet the eXtlIance of song
But the strain that proceeds it is sweet
And never was poem yet writ,
But the meaning outmastered the me-
ter.
Never a daisy that grows
But mystery guideth the growing;
Never a river that flows,
But a majesty scepters the flowing;
Never Shakespeare that scared,
But a stronger than he did enfold him
Nor ever a prophet foretells
But a mlSntier seer hath foretold him.
Back of the canvas that throbs.
The painter is hinted and hidden;
Into the statue that breathes
The soul of the sculptor is bidden;
Under the joy that is felt,
Lie the infinite issues of feeling;
Growing the glory, revealed,
Is the glory that crowns the revealing.
Great are the symbols of being
But that which is Symboled is greater;
Vast the create and beheld-
But vaster the inward creator;
Back of the sound broods the silence,
Back of the gift stands the giving,
Back of the hand that receives,
Thrill the sensitive nerves of receiving.
Space is as nothing to spirit,
The deed is outdone by the doing;
The heart of the wooer is warm
But warmer the heart of the wooing.
And up from the pits where these shiver.
And up from the heights where those
shine,
Twin voices and shadows swim starward,
And the essence of life is Divine.
Richard Realf.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-15
Reflections of a Bachelor.

Greed to seize somebody else's honors
is politely called ambition
Young devices in old bodies are IKE
live coal falling on cake or ice.
NO woman would care whether she nau
money or not if her bills would set lost
in the mails.
The woman who at 80 has known no
children of her own is only half of what
the Lord intended her to be.
The frightful thing about the woman
who lies is tnat, when she does II, sne
actually believes she is telling the truth.
New York Press.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-15
Wg8lgNgB GOSSIP.
Some Mo-alizinq,

When John and Bill were younger
They labored side by side;
Bill did his task with grumbling;
John went at his with pride.
what makes you hustle that way?"
Bill oftentimes would mock,
81 work for what I'm getting
Six dollars and six o'clock
Now, strange to say-or, rather,
It's what you might have guessed
John owns the plant and building,
But still he works his best.
And Bill? Well, Bill still grumbles
When handling goods and stock:
81 work for what m getting
Six dollars and six o'clock"
Baltimore American.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-15
Catarrh,

Called an American disease, is cured
by an American medicine, originated
and prepared in the most catarrhal Of
American countries.
That medicine is Hoods Sarsaparilla.
1t cures radically and permanently,
In that it removes the cause, cleansing
the blood of scrofulous and all other
impurities. 1t overcomes all the effects
of catarrh, too, and builds up the whole
system.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-15
Boston Market

Boston, April IA.
FLOUR-Firmer.
CORN--Firmer, with about &c. advance.
OATS-Efrmer.
backs, 81. IS.
BEEF-Firmer; choice extra sides, 10a
@1Gl4.
L.ARD-Higher: in pals, 125s a12k
BUTTER-Firmer.
CHEEsE-Firm; round lots. 12Q131A
EGGS-Firmer
POTATOES-steady; best, 95m97.
SUGAR-LoWer
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-15
Queer Man.

Cassidy-Phwere did ye git thot pipeful
O. terbacker?
Casey-From Clancy, beyant.
Cassidy-Well, well, did he open his
heart t ye?
Casey-Open his heart? My, oh! my.
has he got terbacker heart?
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-15
LIGHT AND AIRY.
Beyond His Means.

Townc-Poor fellow. He certainly does
love her for all he's worth.
Browne-He loved her even more than
that today.
Towne--How do you mean?
BroWne-He sent her q. ten n-dollar bunch
of roses and borrowed the price from me.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-15

Bath Times: The Lewiston coroners
and police authorities are said to be in
Thursday evening of one Polonius, an
aged Dane, which is mysteriously
connected with series of tragedies re-
sulting in demise of another Dane
named Hamlet, his mother, his uncle
and his bosom friend and the suicide
of Hamlet's sweetheart. 1t is thought
that in fit of temporary insanity
Hamlet became the author of the
crimes. lie was promising youth or
bright prospects and the case is every
way very sad one.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-15

Lots Of good people wonder how long
Joseph Fogg, Jr., of Bucksport, Will
cling to his story, this time.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-15
New York Cotton Market.

New York, April IA
Cotton futures closed very steady. April.
9.03: May, S.9i; June. S.9S; July, S.9i; An
gust. S.77 September, S.35; October, SIS;
November sos; December. S.07; January,
sos.
Spot cotton closed quiet. Middling Up
lands, 8 3-16; do. Gulf, ZIG Sales, 800
bales.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-15
Watch Them.

Beneath the best appearances
A fraud quite often turks.
'Tis true of men and watches for
You know them by their works.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-15

Bangor is recovering from ''Nico-
Minstrels, and both cities have good
reason to be proud of the success
scored by local talent.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-15

Their out of-theState trip with five
games played should have gotten the
u. of NJ. baseballists in good trim to
meet the other Maine college teams.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-15
True Enouuh,

What do you mean by saying she just
celebrated her wooden wedding?'
She married a bIockhead."
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-15

II may be that the Sarah Ware mys-
terry is about to be unravelled at last,
but VIM. T. Trcworgy refuses TO be-
lieYc it.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-15
Spoons.

Ned-No. 1 don't see May as much as
l used to.
Fay-Why. / thought you were engaged
Ned-ThatS just it. The lights always
turned out in the parlor when l call now.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-15

New York, April II.
FLOUR-Receipts. 14,29S bbls.: exports.
51S9 bbls.; sales, 1850 pkgs; irregular and
about steady.
ports. s4.253 BUSH; sales, 900 600 bush.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-15
New York Money Market.

New York, April II.
Money on call closed firm at 4lz16 per
cent; last loan at 5 per cent.
Prime mercantile paper, 4lzM5A per
cent.
Sterling exchange, steady at s4.S79s for
demand and at sLS5k for 60 days.
Posted rates, A.sG and s4.sSh.
Commercial bills, $4.SiAMsi.S51
Bar silver. 53k.
Mexican dollars, 49,
Government bonds, strong
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-15

An aftermath of the Bangor opera
is a. solemn protest against its intro
duction of drinking song. To be
sure. the mugs were empty, but even
the tuneful suggestion of anything
cOnvivial shocks the sensitive spots in
BANGOR.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-15

vaterville has monopoly of the
baseball enthusiasm in this section.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-15
NEW YORK STOCK. MARKET.

Furnished Daily by the Federal Stock
and Grain Co.; office, viekery Block,
Augusta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-15
"IronquiII" Of Kansas.


Secretary Hay will no longer be the
only man prominent in public life to
he haunted by early crimes of a poetic
nature. Eugene F. Ware of Kansas,
who succeeds Henry Clay Evans as
commissioner of pensions, is one of the
| leading men of his state; he was a
brave soldier and an eminent lawyer:
| mis- political record is clean and in
every way his fitness for the position
is recognized; but the press at this time
is dwelling more upon his poetic ten
denotes than upon all his other achieve
ments and characteristics. His pen
name of "Ironquill'' is familiar all over
the country where his real name has
never been heard. He has written
much verse of real merit. This
should be conceded at the start,
though few of the critics will mention
this fact. Doubtless some of his
c themes have won the admiration of
the President, but the poems which he
must now expect to have Haunted in
his face are those rough and ready
nonsense rhymes which have started in
Kansas and have gone broadcast over
the land. For instance it was he who
perpetrated that famous poem be-
ginning:
Once a Kansas zephyr Straycd
Where a brass-eyed bird pup played.
To him also belong the questionable
distinction of springing the first batch
of Dewey pens after the battle of
Manila This effort, which was print
ed in almost every newspaper in the
United States, and which created
riot in a Nebraska school, where
schoolboy recited it in place OF the
more sonorous and serious poetry,
| which his teacher thought the great
event called for, was as follows:
oh. Dewey was the morning
That Dewey first of May
And Dewey was the Admiral
Down in Manila Bay.
And Dewey are the Regents orbs.
Those eyes of heavenly blue,
And Dewey feel discouraged?
We Dew not think we Dew.
Only great victory can excuse such
poem as that. During the Russo
Turkish war 'Ironquill' leaped into
fame by poem dealing with one of the
most irritating features of that strug
gle 1t was entitled THE Siege of
Dilkprwbz," and ran thus:
Before a Turkish town
The Russians came,
And with huge cannon
Did lombard the same
They got uD close
And rained fat bombsEcllS down,
And blew out every
Vowel in the town.
And then the Turks,
Becoming somewhat sad,
Surrendered every
ConSOnant they had.
THE Washerwomans Song" which
is the first of the poems of Mr.. Wares
published collection, is more serious
and creditable production, beginning as
| follows:
In very humble cot,
In very quiet spot,
In the suds and in the soap,
Worked a woman full of hope;
Working. singing, all alone,
In n sort of undertone,
with a Saviour for Il friend,
He will keep me to the end"
Eugene +. Ware is a versatile poet
most every subject, as his book Of poems
shows. He isn't a LOngfellow or a
| Browning or Kipling or even an
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, but he is 81 poet
of the people and the verse-wrights of
the country have been given due
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-15

A good story apropos of the Calais
municipal election is going the rounds
at present. A certain good citizen re-
marked that if so and so was nomi
mated for such an Office he would sell
out all his worldly possessions and go
West. So and so was nominated, and
the morning following the nomina-
ton the good citizen awoke to find his
abiding place. covered with signs read
ing as follows: For sale" He was
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-15

No notice whatever will be taken of
unsigned communications.
The journal cannot be held respon-
sible for the preservation or return OF
rejected communications.
Address MI com m municatlOns relating
to subscriptions and advertisements to
BURLEIGH & FLYNT, Publishers,
Augusta Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-15

The Bridgton News seems to hold the
opinion that the trading stamp idea is
a good scheme-and so it is, but not for
the merchants or the public For
particulars, inquire of dozen Maine
cities that had the habit and have now
reformed.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-15

Business has increased in Madison,
it is said, to most suspicious extent
since rigid enforcement has been the
order in Skowhegan.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-15
FEzz.

Tess-He told me / had a complexio,
like a peach.
Jess-How mean of him,
TeSS-Mean?
Jess-Yes, he told me the fuzz on
peach made his blood run cold.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-15

Il expect to see the Rockland.
Thomaston and Camden Street Rail-
way Company extend its line through
to Augusta by next fall" remarked u
prominent official CT the company to
the Thomaston Herald man last week.
Yet. while many improvements Will
be made at the power house this sea-
son, there will be a much larger in
crease in equipments next year. quite
an amount of new machinery and ap-
paratus has just been ordered for the
plant"
Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-04-15

The Portland Express tells this in
teresting tale of an economical man.:
Can l get a dollar on this?" asked a
well dressed man, as he rendered a
handsome fur lined overcoat to the
pawnbroker. well, l should say so, y
replied the money lender, visibly sur
priscd, land a lot more, if you want
it" No: one dollars enough" was
the mans answer, as he took the ticket
after the usual preliminaries had been
gone through with. Later in the day
the owner Of the coat came back, paid
the pawnbrOker the dollar with the
legal charge of three cents, and took
his property back. Say" said the
man of loans, handing over the coat
regretfully, you're a queer customer.
Don't you know you might have left
the garment here for a month and it
would only have cost you three cents,
Just what you have paid for the use
of the dollar for one day." "Oh, |
didn't need the dollar" answered the
customer. and in proof OF his assertion
he pulled out a roll of bills large
enough to choke a cow" as a sporting
man would say. THAT beats me-" said
the pawnbroker, now thoroughly inter-
ested. What did you pawn it for,
them" Simply for safekeeping,' -
coollv replied the customer. you see,
it's like this: It's q warm day, and 1
didn't want TO lug the coat around with
me. I'm not stopping at hotel,
because I'm only in town between
trains. At the depot parcel room the
boy in charge wanted 10 cents for
checking it, SO 1 concluded to make
seven cents by letting you take care CT
it for me-