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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-06
BATES COMMENCEMENT.
The Detailed Program for the Week
of June 2126.

Lewiston, Me, June 5.-(SpeciaD-
The following program is announced
for the exercises of Commencement
week, June 21-26. The graduating class
numbers 81 young men and % young
women. The baccalaureate sermon
will be delivered as usual by Pies. Geo.
Chase in the Main Street Free Baptist
church, Sunday, June q. In the eve
min. there will be a sermon before the
College Christian Associations.
Monday, June %, the Sophomore
Prize Debate at go p. NJ, and in the
evening at 7.45, the Junior Exhibition,
consisting of original declarations,
both in the Main Street church.
Tuesday, June %, the Annual Meet
ing of the Alumni, and the Alumni
dinner i'll City hall also, at the college
chapel at 80 p. NJ. the Glass Day
exercises, and at AS p. NJ. the concert
in Music hall.
Wednesday, June "a, at 8 A. NJ, cx-
aminations for admission to college
and meeting of corporation. In the
afternoon from 9 to 5 o'clock reccp-
ton to graduates by members of the
faculty. In the evening at 7.45, the
literary exercises of the Alumni.
Thursday, June %, Commencement
at 10 A. NJ. In the evening from s to
10 o'clock, band concert and illumna-
ton of campus and reception by the
young men in Parker hall.
Friday. June 26, Presidents recep-
ton to the graduating class.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-06
DUN'S REVIEW.
Trade Prospects All Right Ex-
Cept in Flood Districts.
Many More of the Unemployed Will
Resume Work, Monday.
So Easy.

New York, June 5.-R. G. Dun & Cos.
Weekly Review of Trade, tomorrow,
will say:
The elements provided the only I'M
favorable developments of the week
and while these may not prove far
reaching in their effect, the first result
is seen in greater conservatism.
Floods damaged property and delay
ed traffic in the Southwest, tornado
wrecked a Southern manufacturing
center, excessive rains retarded plant
ing and otherwise injured crops at
many Western points, while on the
other hand serious misfortune has
come to hay, vegetables and fruit at
the East through drouth, and great
timber tracts have been devastated by
fire. While all of these disasters will
exert only local influence, the COM
bined reduction in purchasing power
must to an appreciate extent diminish
the distribution of merchandise 1t is
somewhat doubtful whether any ma
terial loss of the great staple crops will
follow, as it has become almost an
axiom that excessive moisture never
produces great famine.
The week opened with a further large
'''dltipI " tIIC silIIly VI Tie ullpIlDlOy-
ed, but many plants have since re-
sumed, and settlements of other dis
putcs will take effect, Monday.
Dispatches regarding trade conditions
at the leading cities are generally en-
couraging. Railway earnings in May
were 1871 per cent. larger than last
year and 25.4 per cent. greater than in
1901
Textile industries show no material
improvements Lowell mills resumed
but with only about a third of their
employees the first week, while con-
siderable part of the Philadelphia mill
capacity is idle. Sellers of cotton goods
are unwilling to accept contracts for
distant delivery, and even on immedi-
ate business there is little disposition
to accept the prices offered.
Interior trade reports are less fav-
orable, Western business being affected
by floods, while drouth at the East and
numerous strikes restrict consumption.
Conditions as to wooden goods are prac-
tically unchanged. Prospects continue
bright in the footwear industry and
Boston shipments maintain large in
crease over preceding years. The aver
age of domestic hides is again higher
and Colorados sold on par with ma
tive steers.
Farm products fluctuatcd little until
late in the week, when reports of in
jury produced sharp advance, on the
theory that scarcity of hay and fodder
would make heavy demand for grain
Wheat prospects are still very bright
in some sections and q big yield is an
ticDated. Corn has been mt back
more than wheat but the acreage Is
very heavy. Cotton is maintaining a
Continued on page 80
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-06
FOURTEEN LARGE FIRES
In Patten Region Have Caused at Leas,
$250,0o0 Damage.

Patten, Me-, June 5-Fourteen large fires
in this section have been counted by ex-
rerienced lumbermen, who estimated the
loss in the lumber region at $3.50, 900. Great
forest conflagrations have ragged in the re-
gion north of here including Wissattia-
quoik, Little South Branch. Trout Brook,
Main Trout Brook. Wadlegh Brook, This
sic Brook and lumber in territory west of
Patten. Eight townships have been burn
ed over wholly or in part. the strip burn
cd being estimated to cover an area of Il
miles wide and q miles long. The Hugh
Cunningham camps with a large amount
of supplies were burned, also large nun.
Der of logs in the yards. Four camps
of B. w. Howe with several thousand dol
lars worth Of supplies We're burned, and
no doubt many others from which nothing
has been heard.
The fires ragged fiercely on Trout Brock
mountain and the township was complete
ly swept by the flames. The fire crossed
the Ea st Branch, Penobscot river, to Der
ry pond, four miles, reaching a point IL
Continued on page 81
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-06
THINGS TO KNOW
About Coffee and What 1t Does.

"Hcing a very hard worker and CT an
extremely nervous tcmperament / rcll
into the habit of making coffee do for
both food and drink when my work
was pushing me and my appetite
poor says a trained nurse.
This | would do for a day or two
and then be Frustrated with neart
trouble, tluttering, faint spells and
other disagreeable feelings. One day |
was persuaded to try Postum Food
Coffee in place of coffee. | liked the
Postum as well as the coffee and I
found | could drink as much of it and
as often as [ wished, and insteal Of
knocking me out as coffee used to [
steadily gained strength. I had no
more bloating, and no more stomach
sickness. l have now been using
Postum Is months in place of coffee
which means that l have given ,lp
coffee and sickness for all time. l will
stick to Postum and be we'll in the fu-
ture.
My mother had been a grea. coffee
drlnker from her youth and had suf-
1ered all of the minor coffee ills such as
stomach trouble, heartburn, severe
headaches, etc. She tried Postum but
did not make it right. Then I made
some for her. boiling it Is minutes ana
dld not tell her what it was: she want
ca 10 Know what brand of coffee it was
mat was so delicious. l had taken 1t
out or her own box of Postum and
"heh L told her so, she was much sur
prlSed and pleased and has been drink
ing 1t ever since with the result that
her coffee ills have disappeared and
she is now healthy and contented.
one of my patients q am trained
hurse) is great sufferer from ulcer
ated stomach and sometimes she does
not eat mouthful of food for several
days. At such times she relies on
Postum for nourishment. Since using
fostum she gets over her attacks much
qulcKer is stronger and the attacks are
less frequent than formerly. Her
stomach seems to be getting better
ana we are quite certain that Postum
VIII soon cure her completely.
Another patient is a splendid ex
ample of what Postum will do. Her
health had been very bad for three
years and year ago she was a wreck
from nervous prostration and the worst
'C'A'i VI ny pSio, boating, nGart
trouble, etc. l made her leave off
coffee and all other drinks and gave her
Postum and she improved Immediate
~. She is now able to attend to her
home and says that Postum has given
her new lease of life She feels like
new woman and is getting fat.
Il must tell you of one more case, a
person I nursed through what the ply
sicians termed a morphine breakdown.
This woman's stomach revolted at
sight or mention of food and she took
absolutely nothing but strong coffee
knew her heart would not much longer
stand up under coffee and / told her
husband to get box of Postum. I
made it strong for her and in less than
week she could take all necessary
food and not once was the Postum re-
fused and now after three months she
is well and strong and is kept go by
her steady use of Postum in place of
coffee" Name given by Postum Co.,
Battle Creek, Mich.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-06
HOULTON is SAFE
Though the Fires in the Vicinity Are
Still Raging.

Houlton, Me-, June 5.-The fire situa-
ton in this part of the country, today,
was more hopeful. Last night, grave
fears were entertained for the Bangor
& Aroostook station at Ashland juno
ton, which caught fire a number of
times, but men and engines succeeded
in preventing its destruction. The only
large fire near here now is at St. Croix,
where Prides lumber mill was in great
danger
South Of Houlton in Orient the tim
berlands owned by McAllister We're
ablaze. The light wind veers from
southeast to southwest.
A fine set of farm buildings owned by
George Auber, three miles from here
on the Bangor road was burned, this
afternoon. The loss was $500; partially
insured. Another fire sprung up on
the westerly side of Horseback, mile
west of the town.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-06
LOSS is ENORMOUS.
laundering Interests Especially Are
Heavy Losers by the Fires.

Portland, Me, June Traditional re-
ports of the sid havoc created by
Wednesdays forest fires continued to
come in, today, but no estimate of the
losses was possible. Only a few new
fires were reported owing to the favor
able condition of the wind, but the
brisk breeze which sprang up, tonight,
is likely to cause much additional loss.
Reports from every section of northern
Maine only confirm the first suspicious
of tremendous loss to the numbering
and other interests.
In addition at least one town has
been destroyed, hundreds of buildings
have been burned in all parts of the
State. at least two lives lost because of
the fires and much suffering, labor and
Inconvenience caused.
Names numbering interests are hard
hit by this misfortune following close
on the lack of snow in the woods this
winter and the drouth which caused
the loss of more than 100000 feet of
logs, representing a big financial loss.
A report of heavy losses in the vicin-
ity of Patten was received, tonight.
This town has been surrounded by the
fires at close range for As hours.
Eight townships have been burned
over, causing a loss of $250,00 to the
lumber interests by at least Ia fires.
Except in Aroostook county and other
parts of northern Maine the conditions,
today, were quite favorable, but all
was dependent upon wind and rain.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-06
MUST REFUND.
Pension Case Goes Against
Daniel H. Pooler, Palmyra.
Must Pay Back to Uncle Sam s1492.-
80 Fraudulent Pension Money.
Short Lobster Cases, IL in Number, APP
pear at RockIand.

Bangor, Me, June 5.-The jury at the
United States court returned a verdict,
at 8 o'clock this afternoon, in favor of
the plaintiff in the suit of United States
VS.. Daniel II. Pooler of Palmyra. This
was a civil action for money had and
received on which the government
sought to recover cash paid Pooler in
pensions alleged to have been fraud
ulently received. The verdict was for
the sum of $1492.S0, without interest
The story of the case, as unfolded
during the taking of Thursdays testi-
mony reads like page of vividly-col-
ored romance. Daniel r. Hodgdon, a
veteran of the 9Th Maine Volunteers,
the hero of many battlefields, soldier
holding the respect and affections of
hundreds of comrades, died of old age
al the Soldiers Home in Togus, and the
certificates of his discharge from the
service fell into the hands of one
Daniel H. Pooler, former associate
This POOler was Il soldier of differ
ent sort. His war record, scrutinized
under the searching light of much
learned testimony, showed many
lapses from the straight and narrow
path of strict military propriety. He
was a typical camp follower, it is al
legged, employed at irregular intervals
in the ambulance department, invari-
ably in evidence on payday, but sell
dom to be found amid the scenes of ac-
tual fighting; yet hardly had Hodgdon
been called to answer to the greater
roll-call than he came forward with
the dead mans valid certificate, threw
legal dust into the eyes of the pension
officials, and enjoyed for several years
the annual income of his former COM
rIde.
At least, so says the government;
and it adds that more daring and pic
turHsque attempt at false impersona-
ton was never before attempted in the
State of Maine.
For Pooler, although found guilty by
a Portland jury and sentenced to a
term of Imprisonment, still insists with
much Vehemence that the discharge
which he presented was legitimately
Continued on page %
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-06
READY TO LEAVE.
East Madrid People In Danger
from Forest Fires.
Many Belfast Families Also Ready to
Leave Their Homes.
Fires Abated in Some Sections and
Worse in Others.

Phillips, Me-, June 5.-Farmers at
East Madrid, six miles above Phillips,
today, were burying their furniture
and household effects in the ground
and were in readiness to flee from the
forest fires. Three new fires have start
ed within "a hours, the worst one being
on Dallas plantation. 1t was gaining
Roadway rapidly.
At Redington the flames climbed the
mountain and were working rapidly to-
ward the north side of Redington where
the Berlins Mills Co. have $4,000, 900 feet
of spruce. Unless rain comes or the
wind changes the sporting camps at
Redington pond probably will be
burned.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-06
BELFAST THREATENED.
Many Families Ready to Depart to
Cooler Regions.

Belfast, Me, June 5.-ITifty men from
the factories were sent by the chief en-
gineer of the fire department, today, tC
fight the forest fire two miles out of town
which was burning in close proximity tt
the residence of Wales Miller and War
rem Marsh. Ladders were placed on tbs
buildings and wet blankets stretched oven
the roofs. Many families have thei,
household effects in readiness to move al
Fully rs acres of woodland have beer
burned over. The loss has been heavy
but its extent not estimated.
Another fire broke out nearer the city
towards night, but the crew of men sent
at once quelled it. The damage was chief
~ to woodlots. Men will stay out until
rain comes, as no relief is expected unit
the ground becomes watcrSoaked.
Reports from Durham are to the effect
that a 500-acre Woodlot is atire near there
threatening the hamlet OF Winnecook.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-06
Conditions and General Forecast.

Washington, June 5.-Dry weather
continues in the northeast, today. Tenn
peratures changed but little in the
East. Sunday, generally fair weather
is indicated over all districts. Temporal
ture changes will be irregular and not
decided. On the New England coast
the winds will be light to fresh south;
on the middle Atlantic coast light east
to southeast.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-06

marvellous success, fortifying the
system for the weakening effects of the
hot weather. Mrs. H. L. Moore, York
Harbor, Me-, says
"One year ago last spring I was
taken with nervous prostration. / was
in such a condition that for six months
| did not sleep any TO speak Of l tried
various kinds of medicines, but got no
relief. l was induced by a friend to
try Paine's Celery Compound, which,
thanks be to God, has done me more
good than all the medicine l have ever
tried. My trouble was SO bad at times
l did not care to live. Now 1 am we'll
and strong. | cannot say too much in
praise of Paine's Celery Compound"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-06
MRS. HELEN L. MOORE
Did Not Care to Live.
PA|NE'S CELERY COMPOUND
Opened Up a New and Happy Life
for Lady who Suffered Intensely
from Nervous Prostitution and
SIeepIessness.

AS summer advances we are too
prone to neglect the little ills and the
warning symptoms of disease, simply
because We are not suffering acute
pain. 1t is well known fact that in
summer we too often neglect the
necessities of the system. Never for
set that sleeplessness, nervousness,
headaches, back and sideaches are
f0rcible reminders of fatal diseases.
We should therefore at this time
grapple with the trivial aches and
pains by using Paine's Celery Com
pound the great blood purifier, nerve
bracer, digestive regulator and system
builder To-day, tens of thousands are
using Paine's Celery Compound with
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-06

"A Successful Funeral" Wiggin
Percival Willard Keene.
Selection from Ben Hur,' Wallace
Adelaide Louise Allen.
Selection from The Man Without a
Country Hale
Arthur Greenwood Robinson.
From a Far Country Roberts
Edith Lincoln Kcnnison.
''Lasca," Desprez
William Spring Stevens.
*EXcuscd.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-06
Boston Forecast,

Boston, June 5.-Forecast for Boston
and vicinity: Partly cloudy, Saturday
and Sunday, possibly local showers,
Sunday afternoon or night, warmer;
light southerly winds.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-06
FAIR AND WARMER.

Washington, June 5.-Forecast: New
England, fair, Saturday, warmer except
in eastern Maine; Sunday, fair, light
tc. fresh winds, mostly south.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-06
IN GOVERNMENTS FAVOR.
Court of Appeals So Decides the Second
Class Mail Case.

Washington, June 5.-The court of
appeals in the District of Columbia, to-
day, decided the second class mail mat
ter cases in favor of the government
reversing the decision of the, lower
court.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-06

The diocese of Colorado of the Episcopal
church has voted down a resolution to rec
ommend to the General Assembly n change
in the name of the church
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-22
New Railroad for China.
From the Railway Gazette.


Chinese newspapers have published a re-
port that Chinese capital SITS have subscrib-
ed the capital for building railroad from
Picking northwest to Kalgan, the gate of
the Great Wall on the caravan route across
the desert to Kiakhta and Irkutsk. The
story may well be mere yarn, as "one of
the richest merchants of Formosa" (Which
now belongs to Japan is credited with sub
scribing a million, and a famous eunuch of
the court another million. which he is said
to have received from the Russians for
that purpose. Also 1t Is reported that 200
Russian pioneer troops have arrived at
Kiakhta. and the conclusion is drawn that
Russia is about TO render useless its exist
ing railroad from Lake Baikal to the
Pacific by building a short line to
Picking. more than a thousand miles long,
nine-tenths of the way through the desert.
From Picking to Kalgan. In China proper,
the distance is only about 100 miles. and
a railroad for that distance may well be a
reasonable project; but to build through
the desert 900 miles further to secure a
through traffic before the existing Chinese
eastern railroad has secured any to speak
of does not seem the part of wisdom. 1t
is not improbable. however. that a pre-
iiminary survey may be made.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-22

living near Kishineff, and according to the
custom a nurse was hired to have sole
charge Of the child until he became OLD
enough to be placed in the schools The
nurse was compelled to sign contract
binding her to service for five years. She
did her work faithfully for two years and
then broke her contract by marrying a
young workman who was often employed
at the nobleman's house. She had, how
ever, been so faithful to her little charge
and had done her work SO well. that the
father brought suit in the provincial court
to make her return and comply with her
contract.
In the trial in the lower courts the case
was decided in favor of the girl, but the
nobleman had money and the case was car
ried up by those mysterious methods
known only in Russia, until it finally reach
ed the highest court of the land.
This august body, called the high synod,
after considerable delay and argument.
rendered verdict to the effect that. mas
much as the girl had signed the contract,
she must return at once and fulfill 1t. I'M
prisonment is the penalty for refusing to
obey the courts orders, and the girl. now a
prosperous matron, is in a rquandary as to
her next move, for the little boy mentioned
in the contract Is now serving his time in
the Russian army. Mr. Maklei says he does
not know whether the high synod looked
at the date of the documents of appeal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-22
Logical, If Not Grammatical.
New York Tribune,

From the New York Tribune.
w. B. Yeats, the Irish poet, lectured last
month at the University Of Pennsylvania
upon Ireland's literary revival. Afterward,
in his apartment in Houston Hall, Mr.
Yeats talked for a while with some re-
porters.
He said. among other things, that Amer
lea reminded him of France. He said that
the clear air and the gay sunlight made
him imagine himself in Paris, so that he
was often under the impulse to enter the
American shops and ask the pric5 OF things
in bad French.
MY French Is very bad" ne explained.
Il have no doubt 1t is as bad as the Eng
lish of a Frenchman whom L met in Paris
once.
Il had told this Frenchman that young
lady whom we both knew was Ill. He be-
came sympathetic.
She is ILL.,? he said. 'Eet is too bad.
And what is re mattress?
"'What is the mattress? said i. on,
I see. You mean what is the matterY
"'Ah but objected the Frenchman. is
eet not of re feminine gendaire Eat we
Speak% +"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-22
WHY FRENCH COLONIES FAIL.
With an Explanation Of the CONNER
cial Depression in Tunis.

Tunis Correspondents London Globe.
Ono of the chief reasons Of the want OF
success In French colonies Is. no doubt,
that the capitalists OF the mother country
will not invest their money in the colonies.
Added to this. money made In
COLONY Is not spent there. To commence
with. the highly paid officials from the
governor general down. all seem to econo-
mize the utmost possible for eleven months
in the year in order to pass one month
in the mother country, where they leave
their economies, to the detriment or the
coIony. STILL In this instance. the mother
country Is not an actual loser.
Turning to the European working class IN
TlInisia. the best part of which Is ltaiian
and Sicilian, these people live very eco
nomically. ana send all their spare ca ean
home-i e.. to Italy and Sicily Take, for
instance, the Italian mason, who may earn
three and one-half francs per day. He
nourishes bodily on macaroni and the IKE,
at a cost of half franc per day. putting
by the three francs profit on his days work
to send home to his fatherland from time
to time. The French laboring classes are
not sufficiently encouraged. Inc employers
of labor engage the cheapest obtainable,
regardless that a good French workman
will do 80 per cent more work than an
Italian or Sicilian for his % per cent for
wage.
governmental departments. There are num-
berless administrations. Without doubt
they do give no end OF work in making
commerce as difficult as possible with their
restrictions and formalitfes in the way OF
all new enterprise. The mistake is made
by substituting such big undertakings as
railways mail boat service, etc. by guar
anteeing their profits at certain figure.
The result is that these subsidized under
takings realize that the more they gain
the less subsidy they receive, and conse-
quentiy they are content to do just what