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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-02-13
FOR SALE.

WATCHES. DIAMONDS. VIOLIN.
17-iewel Waltham watches, 1 Appleton.
Tracy & Co. 11-jewel Walthams, 5 Z
jewel Walthams, ladies' watches, dia-
nlond rings. solitaire and twin stones I
violin. l guitar. Must be sold at once
for whom 1t may concern. Collateral
Loan Co, Opp. cony House. Augusta.
feblod3is
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-02-13
THE YEARLY SALE.


The new all SILK Lining is very
superior in quality and finish. possess
ing q high standard of excellence COM
bined with pleasant price 1t makes
silken lining a small expenditure. In all
coIors. width 10 inches. price 45c. per
yard.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-02-13
4 TWO. STORY HOUSE ON SCHOOL

Street, nearly new; all modern conven-
fences. Terms easy. w. r.. Russell. Au-
susta. feb12.dtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-02-13

A YOUNG LADY As ASSISTANT
cashier Address Cashier. care Journal
fehS dtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-02-13

TENEMENT AT 81 GROVE ST. 81
rooms and bath. Also desirable rent Of ?
rooms or Crescent ST. South exposure.
Inquire of J. II. Sturgts, Opera House
Block. novlS.dtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-02-13

HOGS WANTED BY GARDINER
Beef Co. VIII, pay nc. and up, accord
ing to quality. febe.d2w
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-02-13

a TAeLE GIRL At ONCE. RICH
mond Hotel. Richmond, Maine. feb7ds,.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-02-13

water business. Fifty customers already
State paid $9io 40 last muster for water.
Let cheap If taken at once. G. +. Temple,
Is Weston ST., city. fehS.d1
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-05-22

er efforts to defend the beet sugar in
dustry. What we have done for Cuba
all the world knows; and now 1 pro-
pose that we shall look out for our
folks at home"
Senator Teller, of Colorado, voicing
a sentiment similar to that uttered by
Mr. Shafroth, says: "You may be
sure that there will be no reciprocity
law enacted during this session of
congress, so far as our relations with
Cuba are concerned. The members of
the popular branch of the congress
have shown that a majority of them
are in favor of the beet sugar indus
try. The senate would be wasting time
to pass an amended bill, because we
know that it would not be accepted by
the house of representatives, and
therefore would not become a law.
Considerable time is sometimes
wasted in the senate, but never over
affairs which are absolutely futile
Because this is a subject of great
interest not only to the beet rails
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-05-22

only IA colleges of the nearly 500 in
the country that have as much money
for their entire endowment as this one
playground costs.
An opera box is worth $40, 000-half
of one has just been sold for $35, 900.
A seat in the stock exchange costs
about the former sum. The new hall
of records, merely for storing deeds
and mortgages, utilitarian building
showed away out Of sight behind the
bridge entrance, is honestly costing as
much as the magnificent congressional
library, the wonder of Washington.
IT is part of the handicap of living
in a great city, especially one that has
only the dimension of1ength, that it
gives a new definition to DIR. Johnson's
ponderous phrase about the potential
ity of wealth beyond the dreams of
avarice." You do not now look for that
in Mrs. Thrale's beer watts, as did the
philosopher, but in city land, if one is
so fortunate as to own any, or in shares
of bank stock to which the owners can
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-05-22

StuIudIy, Chc JEJ-
al of which convulsed the denomina-
ton. Afterward DR.. Birch brought
similar charges against DR.. McGif-
fert, of the same seminary. The net
effect of the trials was the loss of
both men to the denomination. DR..
Briggs is now valued Episcopalian
clergyman in this city.
DIR. Birch was a close friend of a
newspaper man whom | know. On
the night after the charges were
brought my friend happened to meet
DR.. Birch and chatted with him upon
various topics, until the doctor hap
pened to mention the heresy case.
No one had thought of it as mat
ter of possible interest as news. 1t
was then nine in the evening.
"Tell me all ABOUT it," demanded
the writer. Quick ant. sharp he piled
questions, until he mad an under
standing of the whole matter; then
he started for the telegraph office,
leaving the astonished doctor gazing
after his horizontal coat tails. By
writing three reports of varying
lengths to suit three classes of pa
pers the reporter managed that
night to serve one paper in each of
perhaps 40 cities with ''Deat" at
exclusive" rates. never knew how
much he made out of it, but the
separate payments ran from $40
down. Nowadays $50 would not be
too much to demand for such an tex
elusive" in ohis city, and nearly as
much would be obtained in PhiIadel-
phia. OWEN LANGDoN.
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ing farmers, whose name is legion,
but interesting also to the beet sugar
manufacturers, and ultimately to all
classes of business men, considerable
time has been devoted to underta king
tosso ascertain the situation as to fore
cast the result. The representatives
of a number of prominent metropol-
itan newspapers have been urged to
this quest by their managing editors.
When the words of Senator Teller
are quoted, you will understand that
they are the words of a statesman of
well nigh half century of experience
in national affairs. just as men can
usually tell what their wives or chill
dren would do under certain condi-
tions. so venerable senators who know
their legislative body well can tell
what is most likely to be DONE
Senator Burrows, of Michigan, is an
other statesman of many years of ex-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-05-22

ly there in the early dawn, and be-
hind is the prettiest, quaintest, most
rambling and inconsequential church
in the city. 1t is called THE Little
Church Around the Corner" and
there are few who do not know it's
pathetic story. 1t was 80 years ago
that George Holland died and his
family provided for funeral from
the "big church on the corner" of
the same street. When the rector,
the Rev. DR.. Sabine, learned that
the dead man was an actor he told
the brother, Z. M. Holland, and dear,
kindly old Joseph Jefferson that
they would better make arrange
ments at ''the little church around
the corner, where they do such
things" They told the story in the
flush of their Indignation, DIR. Sa-
bine was driven from the city and
the popular title was fixed for the
smaller church for so long as it shall
stand. Really, it is the Church of
the TRANSPORTATION; really it's ven
cradle pastor, the Rev. DR.. Hough-
ton, is a stern old man who does not
approve of the theater, but does not
deem himself justified in spurning
any who come to him for Christian
ministration, as actor folk steadily
do and will
DR.. Houghton was middle-aged
man when George Holland died; he
is a very old one now, assisted in his
parish by his son; but he himself
spoke the last words the other day
over the widow of George Holland,
gone after long waiting to join him
in the beyond. She has left a son to
carry out the traditions of a family
of able actors in Joseph Holland,
strong actor and loving son.
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start Dank Oh
trust company; then they make 1t the
depository of the funds OF the lnsur-
ance company, and at a moments no
tice it becomes a paying concern, anu
shares obtained on 'the ground hoor
ara worth several hundred dollars
each. The directors of one insurance
company have in this way become the
owners of three great subsidiary
financial institutions. This is not
technically dishonest. The insurance
funds are well handled, and policy
holders get the benefit of the insur-
ance dividends-but not of the dlvi-
dends of the banks and trust COM
panies founded upon their money.
Directors who attend meetings of
financial bodies draw five dollars in
gold for each session, but that isn't
why they attend. The business of a
single great corporation can make a
big bank, a big firm of lawyers and a
unmber of minor and feeding concerns
al prosperous.
Take an instance so far removed
from the banking business as to seem
wholly foreign. The capital of the
Fuller Construction company has just
been increased to $10,000,000; it's sole
business is specializing in land and
the erection of "sky-scrapers." Mr..
Stillman, president of the Standard Oil
bank, and Mr.. Henry Morgenthau, are
the heavy men in the concern, with ex-
Mayor Grant and others to manage the
technical and political ends. [
wouldn't wonder if the Fuller company
would brild the new City bank upon
the vast site of the old Custom House.
And why not?
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-05-22
WEN OF MONEY AND THEIR
mETHODS IN NEW york CITY.

give value by diverting thither the
business of vast corporations.
How rapid this process may be
Baker No. is an instance. There are
in finance two great Bakers-the pres
ident of the First national bank, Nor
gan's associate, and the president OF
the Atlantic Transport line of steam
ers-the latter also Mr.. Morgan's as
sociate in the newly-formed ocean traf-
fic trust.
Only three years ago the Transport
boats were sneeringly referred to as
cattle steamers" And it was the
truth. They did carry cattle; you
could smell COWS. People used to say
that the cows wandered into the dim
ing-room, but that was a pleasant lie.
What was true was that only people
looking for cheap passage tried the
Baker boats. Then came the first pool;
then the Atlantic people began build
ing bigger boats. Now their concern
is the mainstay of the Morgan merger,
Baker is the head of it as a practical
ship man and his boats are a link in
the chain of transportation com
panies reaching by Hill and Morgan's
railroads and Pacific steamers from
China to Europe. So much for the
power of combination.
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from Cuba and Porto Rico. There
are besides 100 little children in the
training school; there's night
school for the town youth, and an
afternoon cooking school-in all over
800 pupils. There are some so build
ings devoted to various purposes,
many built by the students, brick
layers and carpenters. The wagons
used on the farms are made by the
students, the tools they need are
turned out on the grounds. Girls ara
taught gardening and hen-raising as
well as domestic arts. The school
has an endowment of over a quarter
of million, which is rapidly grow
ing. The state of Alabama votes it
$4,000 every year, and the white
neighbors have the kindliest feelings
toward it.
Over 500 former students of the in
stitute are scattered about the south
at work in smaller, less known train
ing schools, or on farms and in fac
tories.
One of these smaller schools is
known as the Snow Hill Institute, and
it has history.
Some years ago one William j. Ed
wards, of Snow Hill, who was and is
as black as the ace of spades, and
was then IL years old, ragged and
half starved to boot, started for Tus-
kegee on foot. He got there some
how and worked his way through,
but at one particularly knotty place
applied to a white man whom he had
known in Snow Hill for loan of SIS.
This man, Mr.. r. o. Simpson, had for
gotten the boy, but sent the money.
And he had forgotten boy and money
both when, years later, well-dressed
negro came up to him one day and
counted out SIS with the interest.
The white mans share in what fol-
lowed was quite as creditable as the
blacks. He furnished 40 acres of
land upon which Edwards started a
little school in an abandoned one
room log cabin. Now it has ten
teachers, ten buildings, all small but
necessary to the 13 different indus
tries carried on, more than 400 pupils
and the necessary cattle, pigs, mules,
etc. Mr.. Simpson is the president.
Negroes who do things like this
agree that white men wish to help
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-05-22

now prosperous tell of early struggles
when they and their families lived on
bread and ''sassafras tea" or ICON
fedrit coffee"-the latter cracked corn
or wheat dried and Drowned, precisely
like the much advertised coffee SUBJ
stitutes of to-day.
r. L. Smith, principal of the colored
public school in Oakland, Tex, has a
sense of humor along with his COM
mon sense. He encouraged hen-rais-
ing and Bookkeeping among the
colored women in his region by
organizing Ladies' Barnyard
Auxiliary to the Farmers I'm
provement society" The grandil-
oquent title was so attractive that
thousands of dollars were brought
to town thereby. James Elder, a ne
gro farmer of Bullock county, Ala,
has 700 fruit trees. Henry Overton,
of Tennessee, began life without a
penny, earning dollar day and Nv
ing in hired house. Within two
years he was a contractor, hiring men
to work for him. Now he has 200
acres of land, 25 horses and mules
and some town real estate. There
are richer negroes in the country
than these, but the town man IS
less important industrially than the
farmer.
I am told that Tuskegee (accent
the second syllable; the ''g" is
hard) is the largest technical school
in the United States, without regard
to color. I do not vouch for, the
statement, but last year there were
1858 students from 20 states and ter
ritories; six foreign countries were
represented, including IA students
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-05-22

@ooo'ooo' not only twice as
large as any other bank in New York
and five times as large as any in other
parts of the country, but with its
strong affiliations with 16 other banks
and trust companies in New York and
with not few outside, makes it real
iy the equal of the Credit Lyonnais ana
the Deutsche bank and many other
famous European institutions?
Not to mention it would be to ignore
what everybody talks about.
Only three years ago no bank in
New York had a capital larger than
$5,O00,000. In those days the number
of banks was greater than with all the
increase of business it is now. The
two great Morgan banks, the First ma
tional and the Bank of Commerce, have
but $10,000,000 each to-day; and when
the conservative old First national in
creased it's capital within the year to
that sum the feat was more than a
nine days sensation.
The resources of these institutions
are but family Indicated by their cap
ital While the City bank capital was
$10,000,000 the shares sold at 5000 each,
making their total value $60000,0O0;
with the increase the total share value
will be at least twice this sum. For
every dollar of capital in the Chemical
bank-Hetty Green's-there are $23 of
surplus. The First national was so
rich that it's note clerk, Alvord, was
able to loot it of 100000 by robbing
the receipts every day and making a
temporary balance good only for that
day. And when the defalcation be-
came known it was comparatively such
trifie that confidence in the bank was
not so much as menaced for moment.
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doing the work; but if you ask a white
man about his success at it, the an
swer is always that the colored man is
crowding into town and leaving the
broad fields of the south to weeds.
Just as the colonel said.
IF that is the case" I asked, show
is it that Texas alone raised more
cotton last year than the entire south
in 1882"
certainly, sir, we raise more cotton
all the time" said the colonel. That's
the trouble; there's too much cotton,
and the price is beggarly; beggarIy,
sir. No one in the north can under
stand the difficulties-but permit me,
If / do not exhaust your patience, to il
lustrate with a bit of my own expert
ence.
although my own time is mainly
devoted to the larger world Of affairs,
/ have a, small plantation of thou
sand acres up the state, which for SEN
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-05-22

them. Says Ed
wards: SAT first
the white folks
didn't feel very
kindly iowa T d s
us, but we went
on trying to do
right, and in the
seven years we
have been run
ming the preju-
dice has died out.
They patron i z e
our blacks m j t h
shop instead of
oOinU elSeuh ere.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-05-22

little while ago they subscribed lum-
Der, nails and money. Most of them
are poor and can't give much, but
they give what they can. / believe
that the way to get along with the
white people is to be patient and po-
lite, bear with them when they mis-
understand US, and make it rule to
put something valuable into the COM
munity where we live instead of TAX
ing everything out"
This may not be as amusing as the
coloners story about Andy and the
''two-mule farm" but it takes both
sides to make the thing complete.
JOHN LANGDoN HEATON.
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talks that they
think it the only
thing that, does.
Mr.. Stillman and
Mr.. Morgenthau,
for another in
stance, have just
bought for Colum-
bia university an
athletic field of
nine acres seven
miles from Wall
street upon an al
most inaccessible
height. 1t cost 49,
S00 0Q0 Tbara ora
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-05-22

vast deposits of
the STANDARD Oil
C T. o w d." all of
whom are more or
less interested in
it. This is a lucra-
tive way of en-
abling' a rich man
to grow richer yet.
Suppose, for in
stance, that he is
a director in a mu-
tual in S u + a n C e
company. The di-
rectors buy or
~ hon or
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-05-22
The Brute

Mr.. Kawdle-I wish you wouldn't in
corrupt me- every time 1 try to say
something. Do / ever break in when
you are talking?
Mrs. Kawdle-No you wretchi You
go to sleep.-Tit-Bits
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-05-22

t h e theological
waves, yet was
once t II e time
when he raised
thereon a tenn
pest.
1t w a s DR..
Birch, then in the
prime of vigor-
o u S manhood,
w h o in 1S9 9
brought charges
of heresy against
DR.. Briggs, of the
Union theological
Al 49,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-05-22
A phase of Contrarines

''What has made you such deter
mined optimistic"
swell. to be honest about it, I began
it because l boarded where the folks
were all pessimists."-Puck.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-05-22
Well Fitted.

She-The new member, Mr.. Stuck
er, is going to help US think Of some
new schemes for making money for
the church.
He-What does he know about it2
"He is a reformed gambler. Life.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-05-22
A PIeasant Feelinr

Binks- Magnificent library you have!
Winks-Yes. When I think of the
pile of money I've sunk in that collec-
ton of books it makes me feel quite in
teuectual.-N. Y. Weekly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-05-22

said the colonel IN
the hotel lobby.
"Well, sir, he isn't
getting on at all;
he's getting off
off the pla n t a
toni"
If a norther
man may trust his
feelings, it is sum-
mer here; and on
a hundred thou
sand plantations
t h e process of
maxim a crap" of
cotton is well be-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-05-22
Donestic Trials.

Mr.. Nugget-Oh, what's the matter
with you. You're forever finding
fault.
Mrs. Nagget (sweetly)-Well, that
equalizes things; you're forever losing
one.
Mr.. Nagget-Losing one?
Mrs. Nagget-Yes, your temper
Surely that's fault.-Catholic Stand
ard and Times.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-05-22

Rockefeller" too
often in these let
tiers?
l fear it; but
what is a poor fell
low to do when,
for instance, the
c a p i t a l of the
Standard Oil bank
has just been in
creased to $25,000,-
900 and its sur
plus to $15,0OO,0 900?
When t h j S in
crea Sc makes il
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oh Those Girls

Patience-Did you ever let a man win
a pair of gloves by kissing you when
you were supposed to be asleep?
Patrice-Oh, yes; I was wide awake
enough for that.-Yonkers Statesman.
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at tall buildings,
or is blinded by
the dazzle of be-
diamonded ladies
so that he thinks
money is every
thing, there is a
near corrective.
A + e w PAGES
east on Twenty
ninth street a
beautiful s p a c e
of green is dis
closed. T e e S
shade it, birds
I.4L
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-05-22
WOMAN WITH QUEER JOB.
Los Angeles Female Detective Takes
Medicine Prescribed by I'm
licensed Doctors

Chief among the witnesses in re
cent police court case was woman
who has about the queerest job in the
world. She makes her living, not by
doctoring people, but by being doc
tored, says a Los Angeles report.
She is a female detective hired by
the Los Angeles Medical society to go
around to doctors suspected of prac-
ticing without licenses and get them
to prescribe for her purported ills.
She has been treated for everything
she ever had suspicion of several
times, and has now started in on some
fancy ailments of which she had heard
rumorS.
Miss Brooks-that is her name-is a
very pretty woman and very demure.
She is the last person on the face of
the earth who would be taken for fe.
male sleuth.
Her latest exploit was to visit the
office of certain doctor" with a
woman friend, and tell him that she
had rheumatism in the left shoulder.
Had she ever been treated by cleo
tricity, was what DIR. Macrae wanted
to know.
No, Miss Brooks had not, but she
had heard that electricity was very
good for rheumatism.
She made an appointment with him,
and came again in a day or so, with
her friend, barred her shoulder, and
got shivering shock added to her sin
gular medical history.
In court the doctor advanced as de-
Tense the claim that he was not prac-
ticing for himself, but was employed
by another physician. 1t was admitted,
however, that he put his own name in
4ho advertisements
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-05-22
Omit Joking.

.'He proposed to her as joke"
"Yes?'
sWell, she accepted hirl. He does
not regard himself as humorist any
more n-Brook.fn Life.
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Nau,mou,s Acrobatics

"a financial crash, and poor fellow,
he went under"
''And then she threw him over, I
hear" Baltimore Herald.
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The LAST Thgn~.

The professor of chemistry in GER
tain college asked student the other
day: 'Now, suppose you were called
to a patient who had swallowed q
heavy dose of oxalic acid, what would
you administer"
ST would administer the sacrament"
replied the student, who is studying
for the ministry and takes chemistry
only because it is obligatory Y.
Tribune.
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How a Bank Grows Great.

The City bank can pay dividends upon
S25. 900 900 of CAPITAL from CARRYING the
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-05-22

''You wish to know, sir, how the
plantation negro is getting on?"
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DR.. Birch, Heresy Hunter.
The death of the Rev. George w. F.
Birch caused hardly ripple upon
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Does it sometimes seem to you that
use the words Vanderbilt" and