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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-18

General Manager George F. Evans
and Chief Engineer Dunn of the Maine
Central, will come TO this city, today,
on the 1920 train, from Portland, for
the purpose of comforting with the
committee of the city council on the
matter Of the Rines' Hill crossing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-18

There We're hundreds of Augusta peo-
pie who went to Craigs Point, Sunday
afternoon, and they all have u good
word for the enjoyable sacred concert
given by the Augusta band. Leader
Dennis had 80 pieces and the organiza-
ton did itself proud.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-18

CoLzI1sH II. Kelldsll of Biddeford, and
NJ @. Peterson of Brunswick, of
the fst RegnnegG were in the city, yes
terdax; on MATTERS connected with the
coming war maneuvres around Port
land. 49,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-18

Sarah A. Stanley, chiropodist and
manicure, will be at The Winthrop,
August 18th, for one week. Room No.
20. Up one flight. aug14d1w
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-18

W. Up. Smith Of Bangor, was in the
city, Monday. for a Short time on bust
ness. MI. Smith is.a well known rail
road contractor aid built TIE Augusta
q Winthrop haes
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-18
LOCAL MATTERS.
journal Telephone Call, 1864.
The Pessimist.

The path was cool. Sweet nature threw
Widespread the doors of her abode.
lie turned from paths of sparkling dew,
And chose the dusty road.
Kenneth Bruce.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-18

City Clerk Harrington reported 1912
enrollments UP to yesterday morning.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-18
A MiCrObe
Dialogue

FIRST MICROBE-Have you made any
plans for the coming winter yet?
SECOND MICROBE-Wel no. You see
1 prospered so we'll last winter that 1
have hardly thought of it. Spent the
whole winter in Augusta and there was
something doing all the time. Several
hot air" artists tried to down US, but we
went the limit. We had one enemy,
though: that fellow that peddles Diamond
Spring Water met us in several instances
and spoiled our plans, and the worst of it
is he is still in the business and will
bear watching in the coming campaign.
Yon know he sells that water they call
ABSOLUTELY PURE. Ugh, None of
that for me; give me good old river water.
there is plenty to live on in that
C. F.TEMPLE,
coIo pron diamond Snrnu Watar
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-18
FINE SUBURBAN HOME AND PRO


ductive farm l mile from P. o. on Win
throp Street. Situation unsurpassed;
house of 2 stories and ell in good repair,
u rooms, electric lights. telephone, fire.
places, new furnace, water; large stable
and barn new poultry house 16x64; farm
of 100 acres, among best in County; 30 to
40 tons hay; large apple yield; % acres
hard wood; seven acres in grain and
% years. Buildings alone worth more
than price of farm; value wood and oak
timber $500. To leave State, will sell at
once. e. E. Newbert, Augusta, Me
iune24dtf
HOUSES IN THE CITY, ALSO SEW
eral farms in Augusta and vicinity.
Property of persons absent from the city
carefully looked after and rents collected
Mrs. e. S. Fogg, Real estate agent,
Augusta Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-18
MISCELLANEOUS,
MRS. CRAM, cLAIRvoYANT,

MRS. CRAM, CLAIRvoYANT, CAN
be consulted on health or business. Ref
Hours 10 A. M. to 10 P. NJ Cases taken
by mail, 3 Capitol St, near river. Au-
gusta, Maine. augl2d1W*
BARROW'S COTTAGE, NORTH
shore, Togus lake Good fishing. boats to
let, horse feed, &c. Fish chowder a spec
ialty. w. E. Barrows. Prop. july1Sdtf
PIANOS AND ORGANS FOR SALE
or to let by the day, week. month or year
G. 8. Downing. 206 Water Street. Augusta
Me. Telephone 159~R. limo
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-18

Malcolm & Dyer began. yesterday,
l to plumb S. C. C. Wards house onSs
SEangor street. They will fit 1t
Ethruughout.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-18

Social dance, tonight, in open air
pavilion at Pettingill's Corner.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-18

ssk C.. c. Markham, travelling for the
UTfdhilay OIL co. sold a ton of putty.
osLawrence9 ghall s. Page, yester-
day. A
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-18
LOST.

LADIES' GOLD HUNTING CASE
watch with name of owner on the back
case-Vida 3. Savage. Lost between Au-
gusta and Windsor. Sunday night Finder
please leave at No. 5, Maple Street, Au-
gusta. aug1Sd3t*
A GOLD WATCH. CRESCENT 25-
year case, No. l engraving, No. 6053S.
American Waltham, II jewels. Works No.
1905. Lost at boom house of the Hollings-
worth & Whitney Co. in Winslow Finder
will receive reward of $25 by notifying Ar
thur w. Smith, 81 Front street, Water
vile, Me. aug15dlW*
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-12-26
Navigation Exploit,

Exploits in navigation by small
boat are extending to Eastern
Europe. Simon Strabrovsky, a
hardy Russian fisherman of Odes.
sa, has just accomplished the feat
of navigating alone a small sail.
ing boat from that port across the
Black sea to Constantinople and
back, putting in at Constanza
and Salina on the return voyage.
One popularity of the adventure
is that S%trabrovsky navigated
without a compass, declaring that
the stars were enough. He re-
ceived a sum Of $1,000 for his ex-
plot.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-12-26
MEDICAL VIRTUES OF FISH.
The Carp and the Teneh Are yainsbl.
as curatives.

as Curatives.
Fishing literature, prior to the
days and writings of Izaak Wal
ton, opens up points of interest
which are unique, says the Brook
Ign Eagle. Not the least interest
ing are the constant references of
the early writer's to the medical
virtues of fish. Ofcourse, many Of
the salt and fresh water fishes
mentioned by the old writer's are
not recognized in the waters of
to-day, but the fresh water perch,
carp, tench and eel are yet recOg-
nized, and it is in connection with
these fish that some of the quaint
est ideas as to their medical vir-
tues have prevailed.
In the art of healing the carp
plays a respectable part. One old
writer speaks of the fat of the
carp as being of miraculous pow
ers for the alienation of "hOt
rheumatism" The manner of its
application was by frequent rub
bing on the painful part, and the
effect was said to be eminently
modifying and salutary. The
triangular bones in the throat of
the carp, on being ground to a
powder and applied to a wound or
bleeding nose, were said to act as
styptic. The gall was also said to
have been used for sore eyes, and
"above the eyes" says an old
Aesculapius, "two little bones ex-
list, simi-circular in shape, which
are diligently preserved by noble
females against the lunatical dis
ease"
The eel has also a respectable
medical history. Members of the
profession from Galen to the pres
ent day recommend it. Hippoc-
rates, however, makes this ex.
ception: "This food is forbidden
in tables and diseased Spleen
Galen prescribed it in nephritis.
The monks of Salermo held the
eel in adherence. They say, ac.
cording to DR.. Badham, in
their dietetic code, "to live on cells
is a sure recipe for spelling the
voice" Pliny also held this opin.
ion but says, also, singular are
they holden to be to cleanse the
humOrs, either cholerick or phleg.
matte, likewise to cure the in.
firmities of the spleen, and only
that they be hUrtful to the throat
and make a man to lose his voice
they be harmless enow."
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-12-26
FARMER AND THE BIRDS.
How the Crops and Trees Are Saved
by In sect Eaters.

now u crops ana Trees Are Saved
by In sect Eaters.
There was a time when the
farmer looked on nearly every
bird except the buzzard as his enc
my, says the Galveston News.
That was in the long ago, when
the average man had not given
any study to ornithology. The
"used-to.be-a-farmer" robbed the
nests Of quails for the eggs, and
killed the birds in droves when he
could get them in a line on the
ground. The blackbird was an
especial object of his dislike, and
he did not see any use for the com
mon meadow lark. He despised
any bird that picked a grape or a
cherry, and s%apsuckers and wood
peckers were an abomination in
his eyes. If he respected the dove
at all it was because he supposed
that it was a descendant of the
identical dove which brought
back a branch to Noah in his ark,
and thus saved the world from
everlasting food. He had a cor.
dial and religious hatred of the
raven because it disappointed
Noah when it was sent out to
make inquiries as to the condition
of the food.
But now it has been proved
c%onclusively that the blackbird
kills a million worms and bugs in
their chrysalis stage-worms and
bugs which destroy crops. The
redbrid or grossbeak may fly into
a crib on a winters day and steal a
grain of corn, but he has killed a
Thousand enemies OF that corn and
is entitled to his reward. The agri.
cultural department at Washing.
ton declares that the dove is the
greatest destroyer of weeds in all
nature, since doves consume un.
told millions Of seeds. Anyone
who has watched the hooking bird
feed its young can have some idea
Of the number of insects which is
required for the brood. Observa.
tion and study have only resulted
in demonstration of the value Of
bird life from the cold standpoint
Of business The "has been
@used-to-be" farmers may not
know these things, but the pre-.
sent day farmer and truckman
knows them. They know that
thousands Of trees are saved year,
" by the sapsuckers and wood.
peckers.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-12-26
Peculiarities Of Eyeuight.

When the average man or WON
an comes to be fitted with the first
pair of glasses some curious dis.
coveries are made. Seven out Of
ten have stronger sight in one eye
than the other. In two cases out
Of five, one eye is out of line. Near.
ly oDe-half Of the people are color
blind to some extent, and only one
pair Of eyes out of every fifteen
are right in all respects.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1903-12-26
we Are Growing Larper.

A hundred years ago the aver.
age chest measure Of men record
ed in tailors' books was SO inches,
now it is SO inches.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-12-11

are a few who can pay well for the best
seats. The others cannot, and aren't ex
pected to.
All incidentals are cheaper in London,
much cheaper in Paris, unless one in
sists upon taking midnight supper
at the Ritz or Metropole. In New York
the best seats are two dollars at the high
class houses. Cab hire is prohibitive;
the restaurants that make speciality
of catering to the 'theater crowd" are
all costly. Not only such resorts as
Sherry's, Delmonico's and the Waldorf
and Holland house, whose fame has gone
over the land, but such typical Tender
loin strongholds as Shanley's and Rec
tors spoil' a five-dollar bill for any
young man who ventures to take his
best girl there after the show. A new
restaurant has recently been opened in
this region. 1t soon became a favorite,
because after the show actors and musi-
clans frequent it. The price of a din
ner or supper is $1.50; and the thrifty
proprietor charges an additional 25
cents for every guest who does not or
der wine "for the good of the house. /"
All told, it tires out $40 bill to take in
the theater. Young men who have their
way to make think twice before trying it
often.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-12-11


their way up through service in the
Office at London, or in minor places
in legations. Sir Julian Pauncefote,
when he came to Washington, had
never held real diplomatic post in his
life. He had grown gray as an under
secretary in the foreign Office and was
strictly an Office man. Sir Michael
Herbert likewise, although he had
served as secretary of legation both in
Washington and Paris, had spent
years in the foreign office; and he had
never served even as minister before
he came to Washington as an ambas-
sador.
Sir Mortimer Durand, on the other
hand, has had strictly diplomatic
career of the strenuous sort. He has
trained his mind and sharpened his
wits by conflict with the machiavellian
intellects of the Orient, and Washing
ton is by far the most civilized post
that has ever fallen to his lot.
Sir Mortimer comes from a family
that has been in the Indian service for
generations, and that doubtless &C
counts for the bent of his mind. His
training will stand him in good stead
in Washington now, for questions af-
fecting oriental countries are coming
more and more to the front in Ameri-
can diplomacy.
LOUIS A. COOLIDGE.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-12-11
Scholar or Athlete.

Statistics would tend to show that
while the chance of the kind of dis
tinction recorded in Who's Who is
about the same for the crew as for the
average of the class, and is much
greater for the captains of the crew,
it is for the football and baseball men
far less than for the average graduate
Such result cannot be attributed en-
tirely to the fact that high scholars
no longer play upon the nine or eleven,
for this is equally true of the crew
In fact from 1861 to 1898 no member Of
the crew won Bowdoin prize or stood
in the first seventh of his class, and
only one took final honors in any sub
ject; but the oarsmen proved in other
ways that they possessed in as great
a degree as the average of the class the
qualities that make for distinction
Why should this not be true of the
baseball and football men also?-A.
Lawrence Lowell, in Atlantic.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-12-11


in the civil war, and was afterwards
provisional governor of Mississippi in
the reconstruction period and United
States senator from that state.
Young Ames has just shade of re-
semblance to his grandfather, and he
has the old generals faculty for at
taching friends to himself. Young as
he is he has record in which he
ought to take good deal of pride He
was lieutenant in the Massachusetts,
militia when the war with Spain broke
out. He went to the front with his
regiment and came out of the Porto
Rico campaign a lieutenant colonel
Then he went home and served three
years in the legislature, and now he is
in congress.
When Ames was stationed at Camp
Alger early in the spring of 1898 he
was engineer officer of the camp, and
In the course of his duties he had a
good many scraps, owing to the fact
that, though merely a lieutenant. he
sometimes had to give directions to
officers of regiments of much higher
rank. One of his troubles as with Rep
resentatiVe Dick, who was lieutenant
colonel of an Ohio regiment. The two
had not met since till the opening day
of congress, when they happened to sit
side by side in the street car leaving
the capitol. They matched pennies for
the fare and made up for good.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-12-11

recruits. Hunting in this fashion is
common in the south, where it grew up
naturally by direct importation from
English packs of hounds and studs of
hunters. So far as know there is only
one place in the north where it is not
exotic. That is the Genesee valley,
in western New York, where the Wads-
worths have long maintained a hunt,
the original of that described in David
Gray's "Gallops." At the Genesee hunts
it was once no rare sight to see the
neighboring farmers riding to hounds
with the master and his guests. fancy
that arcadian simplicity is past now.
The Long Island hunt is distinguished
by the daring of it's women riders. Mrs.
Hitchcock, Mrs Kernochan, Mrs. Laden
burg and others have made the Meadow
brook famous by deeds of daring; and it
is ofrecord that the president of the Unit
ed States once broke an arm over fence
behind the hounds of John Aliens pack.
Of this hunt Foxhall Keene is master
and H. Seaver Page. Stanley Mortimer,
the Okies, the Clarks, the Havemeyers
are interested as riders or observers.
Bourke Cochran, the powerful orator of
Tammany Hall, who more than any 9TH
er one man won it's recent victory, is a
frequent attendant, though past the
years of discreet riding.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-12-11

British noblemen, and that she is
wealthy enough to have afforded the
luxury.
Michael Grace, the young woman's
father, is brother and partner of w. R.
Grace, once mayor of New York, and
leader of the reforming County Democ-
racy, and then and now and always a
great South American merchant. Both
families of Graces have lived for years
on Great Neck, Long Island, on the edge
of the Hampstead colony.
Being big South American mer-
chant is exciting business. One does
get so mixed up with revolutions. In
more than one recent civil war below the
cline" the house of Grace backed" one
side and the house of Charles R. Flint
backed the other, so that the war was
practically a contest between two quiet
low-voiced merchants in New York.
This queer complication is featured" in
various of R. H. Davis stories.
Both Graces have numerous families.
Michael Grace's three beautiful daugh-
tiers were known in London as "the
three Graces," and were favorites in So
ciety. Phipps' father was once a part
ner of Andrew Carnegie. There will be
no lack of means in the new household.
OWEN LANGDON.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-12-11

ing their voices. they are well suited,
too, for the amusement OF a small leis-
ured class who know each other and
who like not to be too far away from
each other. The small size of the Weber
& Fields place aids in giving it snug
and homelike air. The actors can take
the audience into their confidence. And
to pay such people as Lillian Russell,
Fay Templeton, Willie Collier and the
rest, 900 people have to chip in some
thing substantial
On the other hand, Is cents buys
seat in any one of a dozen respectable
houses, and one in the Bowery achieves
the triumph of selling sky gallery places
for ten cents. But to sustain the repu-
tation of the Bowery for variety, an
other house at the very heart of that
famous street prices its best seats at
$3.50.
A dollar and half for theater seat
on the Bowery! New York is city of
contrasts.
Our managers who go to London run
up against local prejudices in an odd
manner. One benefactor of his race who
went over there was struck to pity by
line of people waiting in the rain at
the pit door. "Ill stop that" he said.
Have the pit seats numbered and sold
by ticket" 1t was done, but not for
long. The pitites deserted their haunt
until the old method was restored.
Once when Mansfield was in London
the pit was noisy 1t interfered with the
performance so that finally it was
stopped for investigation. 1t appeared
that the manager, in his innocence of
the sacredness of custom, had invited
some friends to take seats in the pit be-
fore the doors were opened. This in
fraction of the sacred rule, first come,
first served" caused the racket. 1t was
not stilled until the managers friends
went out with crestfallen air. There
after there was quiet
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-12-11

bow to set type in the old days before
the type setting machine came into
vogue, and so drifted naturally into
newspaper work. He came to Wash
lngton in the course of his wander
1ngs and got place as a reporter on
the Evening Star After working there
few months he suddenly took it into
his head to strike west again, and no
body in Washington heard a thing
from him until, 1894, when word
reached here Of the eccentricity of a
person Of the same name who. wishing
to be appointed United States marshal
under the Cleveland administration,
had written his application on a piece
OF birch bark. The novel petition was
granted, but Bede soon gave up the
job because he couldn't stand for the
proposition that a government official
must give up active interest in poll
tics.
Bede was democrat then of pref
ty stiff type. He resigned his place
and put in a lot of hard work for
sound money. In 1896, when the Chi
cago convention was captured by free
silver, he became republican, and he
has been one ever since.
Bede has one distinction for a new
member. He got fine piece of pat
ronage before he had warmed his seat
in the house. He was on deck when
the vacancy came on the civil service
commission through the resignation of
Commissioner Foulke, and he prompt
ly secured the appointment of a con-
stituent of his to the vacancy.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-12-11

Inc wall street
slump is in part to blame; the managers
are inclined to say it is wholly so. But II
the theaters had to rely upon Wall
street they would be melancholy fail
ures. There is always in the Tender
loin a fair proportion of sudden rich"
who display bad taste in spending
money foolishly, but the bulk of theater
audiences are people who work for their
money, and try to make it go IS far as
possible. Some of these steady-going
people have toyed with steel and things
when they were up, but no great proper
ton. The professional bears" are
richer than ever.
The sad truth is that New York's the
alter men have overshot the mark. They
thought that there was no end to the
money that people would pay to be
amused. The building of seven or eight
new theaters of the highest class in q
single year was too much. And there
were many before. Within New York
In all its boroughs and in the near Jer-
sey towns from which it's theater audi
ences are drawn in part, are more than
100 theaters and music halls. These
will hold cityful of 10000 or 100000
people every night. Then there are the
great halls where concerts and other en-
tertainments are given. There is Mad
ison Square garden, where since Dowie
left it in disgust and defeat, a continuous
succession of shows is in progress-dog
show, horse show, military show and the
like.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-12-11
Told of Gladstone.

Gladstone's biography tells of royal
party at Windsor in Queen Victoria IS
reign which, after dining, instantly took
to cards. The sums involved were not
however, enormous. 81 found" writes
Gladstone, for once gambler, 81 had
won two shillings twopence at the end
of which eight pence was paid me by
the prince. l mean to keep the two
penny piece (the sixpence cannot iden-
tify) accordingly. This unique SOU
venir of his gambling prowess one would
scarcely expect to be priced by q serious
statesman.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1903-12-11

corded in he
house, except for a short time under
Speaker Reed. The privilege then was
abused so that the lobby had to be
closed again, but Speaker Cannon be-
lieves he can restore the privilege I'M
der restrictions which will make it
generally acceptable without abuse.
At present members of the house are
in an embarrassing position frequently
through the absence of any retiring
room where they can receive callers.
If one of them receives a card from
somebody whom he wishes greatly t.
see he must go out into the public
corridor, where he is apt to he set
upon by dozens of individuals whom
he has been trying to avoid. There is
no compromise. Either he must give
up the caller he wishes to see or else
take his chances with the crowd.
Speaker Cannon proposes that hereaf-
ter when member wishes to see a
friend he can invite his caller into the
speakers lobby, where both can sit at
their ease, while the undesirables
storm and fret outside.
Only few days ago William Alden
Smith received card from person
who was described to him as half seas
over. He sent out word that he could
not be found. A little while later a
card came from constituent whom he
was anxious to see. He went out to
meet his caller and ran plump into the
arms of his drunken friend, who
promptly flashed a William Alden
Smith campaign button he had been
wearing fourteen years and proceeded
to borrow two dollars on the strength
of it.