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Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-25
QUEEN ALExANDRA'S YOUTH

It is creditable to Queen Alexandra of England that she has not forgotten the governess under whose care her youthful mind was trained in lines of usefulness. 1t is announced that she has invited Miss Krundson to the cor onation ceremonies next June Ger tain circumstances at the court made Prince Christian Frederick elect to bring up his family in a semi-private manner, and he lived in the big old fashioned mansion which still stands in the principal street of Copenhagen. Herefa homely, simple life was led, and the children who were destined to be kings, expresses and queens slept in modest bedrooms. the windows of which looked out upon the old coach yard.
 But it was the castle of Bernstorff which was really home in those days There in the quiet country they threw off all ceremonial restraint, and lived among the peasantry the unassuming lives of a landowners family Every Sunday the father and mother and their boys and girls walked to the parish church with their humber neighbors; and all the week the chiI- uA ASA LOLup0Q III Ine WOODS ana meaQ- ows. Many stories are told of their escapades. Once the two little maid ems, Alexandra and Daglna, coaxed 8 carter to let them ride in his wagon back to Bernstorff and their nurse was properly mortified on their arrival by their crumpled condition.
 One afternoon there was q tea party i'll the woods at Bernstorff, and the three sisters had a few little girl friends with them. After their tea they swung on the low boughs of the great trees and fell to talking, as chil- dren do, of what they wanted in life. Each little maid had her say. The Princess Dagma wanted to be very grand and great and have everyone obey her. The present Duchess of Cumberland would ask her fairy if she gave a wish that she might be won- drously beautiful. When it came to Queen Alexandra's turn she said: Well, l should like to be very good and have everybody love me very much."--Chicago Chronicle.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-25

We are accustomed to hear the navy spoken of as the pride of the American people, writes q correspon- dent in the April number of the Pill grim. 1.-The beauty, speed and power of its ships, the fact that they were all built in American ship yards, the good account which officers and men have always given of themselves when oc- series of victories our ships have won since the days of Paul Jones, justify national admiration But without being q puffed-up people. we are en- titled to be proud of other things. There, for example. is the new build ing of the library of congress at Wash- ington. No modern building of Europe surpasses 1t in beauty; no library building in the world equals it. Every day 1t is visited by hundreds of our people coming from all parts of the Union. Scholars delye 1n it's. ample reading rooms. Art lovers stroll
 sf
 through the spacious corridors dec orated by the most eminent American painters. As q treasury of learning and of art it is justly the pride of the American people, and it cost only the price of one battleship. \ recent off cial document issued by the navy de- pertinent gives, for the first time, in- telligible information concerning what it. costs to keep these battleships, each of which represents q possible library of congress building, in repairs. The Indiana, for example, costs i'll round numbers $6,000,000 and has had $2S2, GOO spent on her i'll repairs, though one of the newest of the new navy. The Massachusetts, costing about the same, has needed $223, ,000 repairs, while the Philadelphia, costing q beggarly S2,- 100000, has cost $514. GOO, or more than 9 per cent of her cost, to keep her ill order Since 1888 the navy depart, ment has paid out $9,346,0OO for re pairs, or. including construction, more than $110,0OO,OOO in all Wfthal we are only fifth among naval powers, and out of the only war our new navy has en- gagged ill we have acquired q useless, expensive and cruel war against the principles of democracy in the Philip pines, and scandal among the officers of our navy at home which will not be downed by the presidents plan of call ing Schiey coward denying him all credit for the victory off Santiago, and begging everybody to say no more about it."
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-25
A.MIsHAP AT THE DENTISTS.

J. K. l.. Carter is young man of considerable personal dignity. He Is also extremely careful of his personal appearance, and therefore he has been of late spending some time in the den- 1 lists chair.
 Last Thursday Carter went to his dentists office to see about having one of his front teeth fitted with a crown. As preliminary step it was necessary for the dentist to take plaster cast of Carter's mouth.
 Carter leaned back in the chair and the plaster was inserted and Carter was told to shut his teeth down hard.
 It'll take five minutes, the dentist said, for the cast to harden Then I'll come in and relieve you.''
 Then the dentist and his assistant went out of the operating room, leavine the young man ill the chair. Just as they left the room the telephone bell rang, and the dentists wife asked him to meet her on the ground floor.
 I've got somebody here I want you to meet,' she said. "I'll only keep you a moment.''
 The dentist went down on the eIe- yator. saw his wife and started to re- turn, but he was met at the elevator door by the starter, who gave this startling news:
 I'm sorry. sir. but there is some thing the matter with the elevators and they are all shut down. They'll be running again in ten minutes"
 The dentists office was on the sey- enteenth fioor and he knew it would take him half an hour to climb up. even if he survived the trip. So he sat down and waited.
 Meantime Carter in the dentists chair sat and felt the plaster harden into q rocklike grip on his bicuspids and molars. Soon he found himself unable to move his jaws. He went out into the reception room. The waiting patients in the reception room looked at him as if he were crazy.
 Half an hour later the dentist got back to his office. It took the joint and long continued efforts of the dentist. his assistant. q cold chisel. a couple Of drills and q gimlet to separate Mir Car ter and the cast. The first thing he said when he recovered the power of speech was not fit for publication.
 MT Carter is now patronizing anoth- CT dentist.-Chicago Tribune
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-25
THE TRACTION ENGINE.

"Ours is a peaceful section" said Colonel Dan Turner of Memphis Tenn, to group of Western men who had been discussing robberies, hold-ups and crime in general in the lobby of the Raleigh last night. "But when we do thing down i'll Tennessee, we do right. and robbing people or corpora tions is done to the queens taste, when one of our citizens sets out to do it.
 Not long ago it became necessary for one of the railroads to build q small branch line. and traction en- zine was sent down there with the first load of road-building material to haul ties on heavy trucks from a little mountain hamlet near where the road was being built. When the workman had finished hauling the ties, the en- zine was placed alongside the road un- til it should be convenient to haul it away. 1t remained beside the road about six months, and when the con- tractor came along to clear up, he was rather amazed to find that nothing but the boiler of the traction engine re- mained where he had placed it. To make matters worse, every bolt and rivet that could be removed from the boiler was missing, too. A search was instituted, but the missing parts of the machine could not be found Some time after the theft of his engine the contractor had occasion to drive through the country again, and stop ped at a negro's blacksmith shop to have shoe fastened on his horse While the smithy was at work the con tractor walked around the shop, and to his amazement, found i'll one corner of the place the missing parts of his engine. He immediately charged the negro with stealing it, and the man admitted his guilt. When the contrac- tor had recovered from his surprise at the find he asked the smithy why he had not taken the boiler too, and the latter replied that he was making tackle to take to the roadside and lit the boiler into his wagon when the contractor took the thing away
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-25
Hubar C Co.
 I2I South Main Street.

There's advertising every dasA And each on fancy lines; There's patent cures for all diseases
 Except the use of wines. We know not if they tell the truth,
 But this we say to thee: For health and strength and merri-
 ment,
 Drink Fenton's Breakfast Tea. There are many imitators
 Of our business and our art, And there may be some pretenders
 Who may fancy they are smart. But we stand before the public
 As solid as can be, And the best produce from China
 Is Fenton's Oolong Tea. We are not monopolistic
 In the race for mundane game; We'll treat you well whene'er you call At Jefferson and South Main. That is an old established house
 Where many things are free. And all our goods are up to date, Like Fenton's Ceylon Tea.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-25

I'of the sturdy Boers in all parts of the world Nos doubt there are among them a number who are anxious for the war to cease, but whether they will be able to make De Wet. Delarey and their followers lay down their arms remains to be seen. This morn ing's Hartford Courant closes an edi- torial on the question with the follow ing paragraph: "The burghers have
 done enough for fame; they have as tonished the world, perhaps they have astonished themselves as we'll. No
 where is their bravery more admired
 than in England, and nowhere would
 Delarey and De Wet and Botha be
 greeted more warmly than in the ser vice clubs of London. The past is past
 and irrevocable--the insensate def of
 the Transvaal and the chivalrous sui eide of the Orange Free State, one of the most tragic incidents in modern
 The future is bringing the United
 States of South Africa, that splendid
 confederacy of which Cecil Rhodes
 dreamed twenty years ago and more,
 as free as Canada or Australia or Eng land herself the home not of two jar
 ring and pickering races, but of a
 mighty nation of self-governing men,
 the seat of q prosperity to which the
 most far-seeing statesman or economist alive cannot set a limit. The burghers can have their full share in all this, and they should be turning their faces
 toward the future that is bringing it.''
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-25

Boss Hanna has partially made good his claim of being able to control the republican steering" committee and prevent the Nicaragua canal bill being made the unfinished business" of the senate, which would make it reasona- ply certain of being voted upon at this session. The committee has decided that the Chinese exclusion bill shah follow the oleomargarine bill, which now has the call, and ignored the Mic aragua bill, which it was asked to make '.next' on the legislative pro- gram, but individual members of the committee have promised that the canal bill shall have chance later,
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-25
Feminine Gamt,lsrg

The ladies of the town of Arens- burg, Germany, are passionate card players. Since they are not allowed to pay a the local clubs, they make up games at their friends houses and gamble all day through. As soon as the cash funds run short they take to various articles, mostly toilet belong ings. Thus one lost to another her cor set, one lost a bonnet, third some lace and perfumes, and they go even so far as losing their prayer books Arensburg Tageblatt.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-25
The United States senate committee

The United States senate committee on privileges and elections made a bluff at considering the joint resolu- tion for election of senators by the peo- pie this week, and agreed to hold week ly meetings until a. conclusion is reached. A conclusion could be reached in five minutes if the majority of the committee wished to do so. It would be an adverse one, but it would serve as well for a record vote in the senate as a favorable one.
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-25

Is there to be peace at last in South Africa, or will this latest scheme fail as others before 1t have? The outcome of the visit of Schalk- Burger and his companions to Lord Kitchener will be awaited with interest by the friends
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-25
Ills Cunfnr,a.

Uncle Bob-Say, does the baby al- ways holler like that till he gets what he wants?
 Papa-Yes; and then he generally hollers. for something else.--Broo ooklyn Life
Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-25
coInnials i'm nrifnin

There are 165,O0o Britons living in the United Kingdom at present who were born in the colonies
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-07-09
CUbANS WANT A LOAN.
Bankers Cannot Lend Sugar Planters
the Sur-Others Offer 1t.

Havana. July 8.-The reply of the
bankers of Havana to the request made
by the government to present projects
for the raising of loan Of 100000 to
assist the sugar cane cultfVatOrS Of
cuba was received, Monday. The bank
ers sent Senior Mentes, secretary of
finance a communication in which they
said they did not consider that the loan
in question could be raised. This an
swer was conveyed by Senior Mentes to
the cabinet at Mondays meeting. The
finance secretary also informed the
cabinet that he had received two offers
to supply money one of which was
from a New York firm. Both these bids
were referred to Senior Mentes.
Senior Zaldo. secretary of state and
justice, has requested United States
Minister Squires to ask Washington
when the American government could
remove its stores from the wharf at
Trscornia. in Havana harbor, as the
Cuban government wished to use that
wharf for storage purposes.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-07-09
Tnited States As
New York Produce Market.

New YORK, July y,
FIOUR-Receipts, 1903 bbls.; exports
3,26S; sales, 800: market quiet and barely
steady; winter patents, $50; winter
WfIiiAT-Receipts. 121,575; sales. 1852
600 bu. futures, 5000 bu. spot spot mar
ket easy; No. = red, S0$s elevator; No.
red, So7.mSi1. ahoat; No. 1 north
Crn Duluth. S23a + 0 l. atioat; No. / hard
Manitoba, S53s t 0 i af0at
CORN-Receipts none; exports, 5G1,
bu.; sales. 5000 Blu. futures; spot steady
NO. :, 20 elevator and 1UA o b afloat.
OATS-Receipts, 10000 bu.; exports, 2l60
bu.; spot easy; No. 23S5; No. 2 white. 60;
No. white, 49, track mixed western
5lu56 track white western, 57MG3. track
white state, .57d63
BEEF-Quiet.
CUT MEATS-Firm; picked bellies, 9
m9h 8
LARD-Easier: western steamed, II %
July closed lbs nominal; refined easy
continent, 11.i0; s. A., 1i.S0; compound,
PORK-Firm.
BUTTER-Firm; creamery, 1S4M2lz3
factory, 1l14n2Tz.
CHEESE-Irregular new state full
cream small coloreG fancy. 10Gtl0H.
realistically; state and Penna., 200
2JE; western candleG. 1872.
PE.TROLEUM-Srca
OLASSES-Steady
SUGAR-Steady; fair refining, 2 1916;
centrifugal 90 test. SIG; molas3es sugar
Is; refined, steady.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-07-09
Patent Medicine Secrets.

\ drummer who had the formula for
what is now We'll known alcoholic
beverage, disguised and sold under the
naine of some cure, disposed of it 10
druggist, the latter being convinced
that il would sell well because his
drug store was in 4 district where LID
uor was not for sale. 1t is from sucn
preparations that young men and
women rnconsciou3ly develop an appe-
title for strong drink-these injurious
mixtures should be avoided, particular
ly should children DE protected against
them.
This Information is of value to you,
regardless of the purpose in writing
this 70 tell you that because it con-
tains no alcohol, no injurious drugs,
and because it is pure and wholesome
is why Father Johns Medicine has
been 50 successful in curing colds ana
all throat and lung troubles, and as
q spring tonic and body builder. 1t is
prescribed by physicians and hospitals
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-07-09
EoUALLED JoHNsToWN.
The New York Floods Riva!led the
Greatest of Recent Years.

Buffalo, n. Y, July S.-A message re
ceived here, Sunday evening. from Bel
fast below Portageville on the Rochester
branch of the Pennsylvania, says the
flood there equalled the deluge in the
year of the Johnstown flood 1t was
reported that there had been loss of
life at Belfast, but the message made
no mention of any casualties.
CananGiagua. n. Y, July Sit rs es-
timated that the total loss from the
succession of cloudbursts accompanied
by cyclonic winds that visited the sec
ton of country lying between Seneca
point on the west side Of Canandlagua
lake. and Woodville at the head of the
lake. and between Vine valley on the
east side and Naples, Saturday after
noon and Sunday morning, will be
100000.
The first storm arose little after
noon on Saturday, and a very few min
utes later. all the ravines that cleaVe
the mountain side at short intervals
began to pour down torrents which
found the natural courses to the lake
blocked by drift wood at numerous
stone bridges or culvertS on the high
way on the mountain side. Soon these
dams gave way and the large volume
of water swept down the valleys carry
ing everything before it. Houses, barns
and other outbuildings together with
their contents including live stock
were swept into the lake, and hundreds
of acres of valuable vineyards, grow
ing crops and gardens were swept
away. In many cases the vineyards
cannot be restored for years to come.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-07-09

The members of the Farmingdale fire
department came down to this city,
Tuesday evening, and hauled their
new hose cart to its house in Farming
dale. The cart has recently been built
~ Jas. r. Gibson and is beautiful
specimen of his reputable work. Dedi-
catory exercises were held at the house
on the arrival of the cart there and
party Of Gardiner firemen were in at
tendance on invitation of the Farm
irgdale company and very pleasant
evening was passed. Farmingdale may
well feel proud of this latest addition
to the fire fighting apparatus of the
town. for this new cart with its fittings
and improvements is considered one of
the finest in the State, both in appear
ance and workmanship.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-07-09

The installation of the newly elected
officers of Court Robert Emmett, For
esters of America, was held in their
hall. Tuesday evening, and the affair
was a pleasant one to the officers in
stalled as well as other members. The
installing officer was Deputy Chlef
Ranger A. NJ Wheeler of this city, as
sisted by his herald, VIM. II. OBrien.
The officers installed We're: J. Z. {. X,
Ben Keene; c. R., Fred c. Blackstone;
s. C. r.. w. c. Atkins; fin. sec, John T..
Cunningham; treas, M. A. Haraden;
rec. sec. John r. Kelley; S. W., Fred
Heath: J. W., George t. Marley; S B.,
Frank Lawrence; J. b., p. kierns.
After the installation refreshments
were served and the remainder of the
evening was passed very pleasantly.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-07-09
MARKET REPORTS.
!. NEW YORK STOCK MARKET.
Features of the Days Dealings in ali
% .the Leading Stocks.

New York. July S.-Something very like
the day 3served to throw some aiscredlit
in stesks. which had reached canskae ole
proporGons ard Will 4 fssemblance Of
much. hore supsta ntial character than
anythHfs in the tfectnt market. The or
ders fiAm single commission houses ana
the-.ti93Yidual blocks taken Of some Of
the hi.sfs grade stiiroad stocks fairy
arFa ID an p5sEcsse ef inyeztmen[
resalf =; ial9esa tsil1fe by the ,IuIy dis
bursennslrs anIE fgrrt of Upside controll-
ing f1ucrests. .ihs8osae.o the properties,
where this Is knows to be a custom year
after. year. This irabibly had more than
any one thing 10 do with dissipat ting the
feeling Of .s.spiclof tshich has been per.
aistently FELT towartfsthe whole recent up.
ward movsment.
The reactiGh at the, close Of the days
buying orders. which We're for Western
account. kert alive the supposition that
The Western contingent We're actively
manipulating the market, in connection
With Inc renewed pressure upon the
shorts in July corn.
Todays reports Of very favorable
weather for harvesting and for ripening
The crops were an influence in the al
vance.
The soft coal carriers were taken on
the demonstrated benefit they are Teceiv-
ing from the paralysis of the anthracite
coal traffic.
4 marked influence was caused upon
sentiment by the sagSing of the foreign
exchange rate away from the gold eX-
port point, after tentative arrangements
had actually been made for a shipment
on Thursday.
United States Steel fell nearly a point
in the late dealings on the postpunemert
Of the decision Of the appeal Of the suit
against the stock conversion plan. and on
the beginning of a new suit. This and
the sharp break in Colorado Fuel aggra-
waited the reaction and the closing was
easy.
Business in bonds brOadened out some,
what, but the market was irregular. To-
tai sales. par value, $3.50 900. United
States new Is declined x on the last call.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-07-09
The Same Old Story.

]. 4. Kelley relates an experience
similar to that which has happened in
almost very neighborhood in the
United States ard has been told and
III Told by thousands Of others. He
says: Last summer i Had an attack
Of dysentery and purchased a bottle of
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy, which used ac-
cording to directions and with entirely
satisfactory results. Thea trouble was
controlled much quicker than former
attacks when l used other remedies"
Mr.. Kelly is Il we'll known citizen of
Henderson, N. C. EgE sales b. John
Coushlin, III Waterg streets IL. G.
Houlehan, Gardiner.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-07-09

Homer r. Dill has recently mounted
for the Biddeford Museum collection
of birds and shipped part of them by
express. Tuesday The shipment con-
sisted of northern diver, snowy owl.
a Hoebills grebe, a horn grebe, a Vir-
ginia rail. a yellow bellied woodpecller
and two Japanese finches. The museum
is conducted in connection with the
public library of Biddeford and val
liable collection of birds and animals
will form the exhibit. Some valuable
specimens have been purchased from
Mr.. Dill and others are to be sent to
him for mounting.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-07-09
Elr1s-Mitcten.

A quiet home wedding took place at
the residence of Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac
Mitchell. Beech street, Tuesday after
noon. when their daughter, Abbie M
Mitchell. was united in marriage 10 =.
Carlton Fins Of Parral. Mexico. me
ceremony was performed by Rev q. T..
Hope. pastor of the First Baptlst
church of Augusta, in the presence OF
the immediate family and relatives of
the bride. The couple left on the Ken
nebec. Tuesday afternoon, for the
Journey to Mr.. Fins home in Parral.
Movjco. where they will make their
homo
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-07-09

A call was issued at Rutland, VT,
Monday night, by J. c. Jones, secretary
of the Vermont Local Option League,
for meeting of the high license and
local option forces of the state to be
held in Burlington, July IS. Although
the call makes no mention of the pro-
ject, it is generally expected that q
high license ticket for state officers will
be placed in the field at that time with
Percival w. Clement, who was q can
didate for governor before the RsRub-
lican convention, at the head.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-07-09

At the last meeting of the board Of
mana gers -the following amounts We're
appropriated for the support of this
Branch for quarter ending September
30: Current expenses, $4,000 subsistence,
$4,000; household, $4,000; hoarital
$S125; transportation, 1913: repairs
$3.50: new barrack. $4,000 (half of the
congressional appropriation; new
boilers. $500; guard barrack, $1,000;
farm, $500.