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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-10

fornia, where they will spend the re-
mainder 81 the winter
Mrs. Katherine c. Morrill,, past
grand matron of the Order of the East
ern Star will leave for Canaan, this
morning, where she will conduct the
installation Of the officers of Sunrise
Chapter, this evening. Monday night
Mrs. Morrill, will be the installing
officer at the installationfof officers OF
Seaside Chapter, Camden.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-10

The St. Petersburg police have pro-
hibited the proposed banquet on theaoc-
CASTOR Of the 20ot.1 anniversary of the
establishment of the first Russian
newspaper, owing to the fact that it
became known that it was intended to
present a radical resolution in favor Of
freedom of the press.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-10
Believes 1t Was a Duel.

New Orleans. Jan. 9.-Consu General
James McNany Of Guatemala arrived,
tonight, on his way to Washington re
denies anv expression or acr in corncc-
ton with the Huntef- Fitzgerald tragedy
and believes the killing was q duel be-
tween enemies.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-10

In The municipal court. yesterday
moraing John Brown of Bath, and w.
u. Morrill, We're arraigned on charges
Of intoxication and each given Jail
sentence OF 20 days.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-10

ftey. and MIS-. Norman AlcKinHca arr
being congratulated on the birth, Yes
terday morning, OF another son. His
nar.e is Donald. Mother and son are
getting along nicely.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-10

The strike Of The 200 vampers employed
in the 7. c. Plant shoe factory IN RoN-
bury over cutdown in wages from Sl.19
to % cents u case WAS settled. Friday,
through the instrumentality Of the State
Board OF Arbitration. The terms Of the
settlement have not been made known.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-10


Strong features of the evening were
the drill by the Cony girls, the broad
sword drill and the exhibition on the
parallel bars. These We're variations
between the athletic events and We're
excellent in character. The feature of
the drill by the girls was the formal
tions by the group making initial let
ters TO represent the Chi@Zle WizZle
FAR ASS ocia tion 1908. The broadsWord
drill caught the crowd with its excel
lelce and a repetition Of the drill was
made necessary by prolonged applause.
Some very difficult fears We're perform
ed Oh the parallel bars by Kingsman.
Bther and Weston, which also called
forth applause.
Following the basketball game was
the chizzlc WHILE ball. which was
largely attended The floor director
was c. r. Cook; aids, Charles Kins-
man, Fred Hussey, John Liggett,
Chester Kingsley and Harold HIGH
born.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-10
The Cheapest Flour

is the -four which makes the most
bread. A barrel OF !. Pillsbury's
Best Flour will make more 1oaves
of bread than will barrel o.
ordinary -four.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-10
SMALLPOX SITUATION.
Alarming State of Affairs in Some
Northern Aroostook Places.

Hon. G. \. Milliken returned to his
home in this city, Friday, from trip
to his numbering operations in northern
Aroostook and in conversation with
the Journal said that the smallpox sit
uation in that section is alarming.
Pressure Isle has n and Van Buren, has
lS cases. Mr.. Milliken was after the
inspector, DR.. Nichols, to go to Stock
holm and yaccinate all his men as a
precautionary measure, but the doctor
found so much to do that he could not
go and DR.. Thomas was engaged.
AT Van Buren, all the schools and
stores are closed. All the patients are
isolated in a pest house and every
one known to have been exposed, vac
clnated and quarantined. besides a
general vaccination of the people. The
most rigid restrictions are also being
carried out at Pressure Isle.
Passengers by rail from Van Buren,
must show vaccination certificates or
they are detained at Caribou and sent
back.
Up i'll the lumber camps around
Seven Islands, ON the head waters of
the st. John river, about 100 miles
above Fort Kent, DR.. Nichols found
IS cases.
TO show the value of vaccination, he
state that in one camp having 30 men.
20 We're sick with smallpox and four,
who had skipped to Canada, were sick
there. None of them had been vacci
mated but of the other five, one had
had the disease and four had been vac
cinated and escaped it, though the
la ai.,n nlA
Mr.. Milliken says Dir. Nichols is do
ing splendid work, being on the go
day and night, and is being ably as
sisted by all the physicians in that sec
ton.
There is grave danger of world
wide epidemic of smallpox, according
to DR.. O. C. Probst, secretary of the
Ohio state board of health, in Column
bus, O. DR.. Probst points to the fact
that all over the earth, both in America
and Europe. the disease is spreading
rapidly.
He attributes the prevalence Of the
disease to q disregard of vaccination.
DR.. Probst said:
Not alone in The United States but
in Europe are the physicians battling
with the scourge. Great Britain is
having serious time with it, as are
other European countries. Germany,
where vaccination is general, is in the
best condition of any of them.
The disease is not epidemic, but
pandeInic. 1t is in almost every coun-
try, and the type has been increasing
in malignancy. In the past quarter or
half century vaccination has been ne
elected, and the country is full Of peo-
pie who have never felt the scratch
of vaccine point. AS these precau-
tons have been neglected. so has the
disease increased, until now we are
in danger of a world wide epidemic"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-10

The real herons of homes
ever, a mistaken and useless heroism.
Women every duty except the supreme
that tells guard their health How
tasks arrangement the organs makes
painful and keeps the usmg?
tab takes the place Of happiness and amabi and weakness
and suffering takes the place of health and strength
drag themselves around continue perform
their household duties They have been led to believe that suffering
is necessary because they What lnistake
The OF Lyda Vegetable Compound Danish
and Don't
cocs when this great strengthening healing remedy
always within reach. -'' WY
FREE MEDICAL ADVICE TO WOMEN
anything like
will
letter. surely help
wide treating ills
helped
address
foolish if do her kind invitation
For proof read the symptoms, suffering and cure
The Ely miner., 1903-12-25
To Attempt to Make
Soldiers Of The Chinese
Army OF the Empire TO Be ReoP4ani1ed- What 1t
Now Consists Of-Quainf Body OF Soldiers.

of remodeling it's system of training.
In fact, the soldier in China is held more
in contempt than esteem. The men who
are entrusted with the destinies of the
army must prove their efficiency in the
sacred writings of Confucius rather than
in the science of war. The officers of the
army are drawn from those who sue
cessfully pass the civil examination, the
training for which is useless not only
from the military standpoint, but the
administration of civil duties as well.
Aside from these examinations the only
other test required is intended to prove
efficiency with bows and arrows, relic
of antiquity scarcely to be imagined
outside the wilds of Africa.
Even with such force it might be pos
sible to accomplish something as has been
shown by the success of Gen. Gordon,
were they given any practical training.
One of the prominent features of the
drill of the army consists of teaching the
recruit to assume an attitude and eX-
preston to frighten his opponent. At
the time of the opening of the war with
Japan, and, in fact, at the present time,
much of the armament consists of hal
herds, pixies, bows and arrows and long
The Ely miner., 1903-12-25

under military banner than this of Cor
don, nor seldom a more heroic one
Soldiers of fortune from practically
every nation of Europe and America,
men who were fighting merely for the
adventure and pay the service promised,
yet the\power of one man not only made
heroes of them, but heroes of the Chi
nese coolies as well. 1t was an expert
ment that proved possibilities under
right conditions.
Of capable military leaders China de-
veloped but few during the TAPPING re-
bellion, or since that time. 'Of the few
Gen. Ching, who served with Gordon,
after his desertion from the rebel forces,
was a notable character, and of great
military ability. During the several
petty foreign wars in which China was
engaged down to the time of the out
break of the war with Japan, no char
acter of anything like equal ability was
developed, nor did the more important
conflict with Japan bring to the front a
leader of such worth as to be classed
with him. This lack of military leaders
would seem to place China as non-mil-
liant power of whom the world need
have no fears.
1t takes training to make perfection,
and the training of the Chinese soldier
is the one great essential lacking.
Through all it's defeats administered
since the days of the coming of the white
man, the empire has never felt the need
The Ely miner., 1903-12-25

ing might bring, what ambitions the
eastern giant might eyince, were serious
questions in both Europe and America.
More than half century has passed
since Caleb Cushing negotiated our
first commercial treaty with China, and
our first fears seem no nearer realization
than they were then.
In a general way, the Chinese soldier
is nonenity so far as fighting qualities
are concerned, though there have been
exceptions to this general rule. During
the TAPPING rebellion, the greatest of the
many civil wars China has known, the
English Gen. Gordon proved that the
coolies were not towards when prop
erly led. His "ever victorious" force of
less than 10000 men, put to route rebel
armies ten times its size. Gordon's force
was officered by foreigners, and had a
sprinkling of foreigners in its ranks, and
it was the fearless example set by these
men which made heroes of the coolies.
A stranger force was never mustered
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der the command of the governor of the
different provinces, and there is no CO.
operation between them. This force
numbers less than 100000 men, though
its paper strength is more than 500, 900.
This makes the total army of China num-
Der about 100000 men on the present
peace footing, with paper strength, or
war footing, of close to 100000.
That the Chinese army as it now ex-
lists, with all it's crudeness and super
stitions, is useless, or even worse, was
proven by the war with Japan. That it
is possible to make soldier of no mean
ability of the Chinese coolie was proven
by Gen. Gordon, but China will have to
take long step forward and forget the
superstitutions of centuries before she
can do in large way what Gen. Gordon
did with a small force With militant
Japan as drill master, it is possible
that the army of the empire may be made
into formidable foeman for Russia,
but it cannot be done if war comes
quickly.
China, with it's 4O0,OOO,00O people,
could easily dominate the east, and pre-
vent her own disintegration, if she sue
ceeds in making soldiers of her raw ma
terial, but to do so must be the growth of
generations and not the work of day or
official edict, and the chances are the
modernized army will not come in time
to save the empire.
DANIEL CLEVERTON.
The Ely miner., 1903-12-25

Two things serve to arouse at least a
passing interest in the military capacity
Of China. First is the warlike situation
in the east with Japan and Russia SEEM
ingly drawing nearer each day to con-
f1ict in which China will be vitality inter-
ested, and for which that empire must
furnish the battle ground. Dispatches
from the orient tell of China's depend
ence upon Japan for the ousting of the
bear from Manchuria, and the preser-
vation of the empire. Under such condi-
tions China would naturally become an
ally of Japan in the struggle for eastern
supremacy. These things make our sec
ond reason for evincing an interest in
military China of still greater i'm
portance than it otherwise would be, and
this second reason is the expressed inten-
ton of the Chinese government to re-
organize and modernize it's army.
Even before Caleb Cushing carried
President Tyler's letter to Peking and
negotiated the first treaty with China in
1S43, the possibilities of the mailed fist
had become bug-a-boo to the people of
the western nations. So long as China
slept there was no danger; but China
was awakening, and what the awaken
The Ely miner., 1903-12-25

the city will rise up, up, up until her
streets are on level with the broad
fiat top of the sea wall Future genera
tions will listen with absorbed attention
to the stories of how Galveston used to
be flooded by the encoraching waters of
the gulf, of how in the terrible storm of
1900 the city was nearly swept from its
foundations and washed into the bay
but they will never see Galvestons
streets rushing rivers of water, they
will never know the horrors of the cat.
astrophe of 1900. A new Galveston-a
monument to the triumph of man over
nature and natures elements. This new
Galveston, rising grandly and confident
ly above the ruins which the raging
waters of the gulf left behind them, was
not so much as dreamed of before the
eventful year of 1900. Frequently the
city had previous to that year been un-
| der water, but her people had simply
waited for the waves to roll by, and then.
went on doing more and more business
as the great southwest developed her
! ineXhaustible resources. But when the
15-foot tidal wave swept in upon the
i city the inhabitants awoke to sense of
the danger which confronted them, and
the prophecy made over 70 years ago
! came true.
! Stephen F. Austin, the Virginia pio-
neer, who led the first American colony
into Texas, rode across the coast plain a
| few feet above the level of Galveston.
| nd 70, ip1o Jol
The vessel had been carried there by
some great storm wave of the gulf and
had been left strange and hopeless
wreck upon the prairie. Some day,"
said the founder of Texas, "the elements
which did that will sweep over this
coast again" And they did. There was
no meteorological station in those days
| to record the highest of the water and
/, the velocity of the wind, but the waves
which bore upon their crest the great
schooner far inland and then abandoned
| it to the lonely stretches of the prairie
waste may have been as high and mighty
as those that rolled on Galveston in
1900. If that thriving commercial city
resting so dangerously near to the level
| of the waters or the pay could only have
| realized the full meaning of Austin's
prophecy, perhaps years ago, the build
| ing of the sea wall and the raising of the
grade of the city would have been un-
dertaken If it had been seen what would
have been saved? Six thousand precious
lives, and property valued at $4,000, 600,
enough treasure to cover the cost of the
present improvements five times over.
But it is true always and everywhere
| that individuals and cities and nations
provide adequately against catastrophes
only after a crowning disaster has fall
len. Then treasure boxes are opened and
energies set in motion which bring
about some such Transforming scene
as that which is being enacted at Gal.
| weston.
The Ely miner., 1903-12-25

smooth-bore muskets, while practically
one-half the men in each regiment are
banner bearers and not armed at all. OF
methods of commissariat nothing IS
known, nor is there such thing as hos
pitfalls or medical service. The reasons
for this state of affairs lie, in a great
measure, to the fact that funds appro-
priated for the army have been misap-
piled, and gone to enrich boodling Off
cials.
The Manchu army, which is practical
ly the only imperial army of China,
numbers from $4,000 to 100000 men,
though on paper it boasts of 100000. OF
these about 10000 are stationed in gar
risons in Manchuria, and some 5000 in
Peking. This army is the support of the
Manchu dynasty, and is recruited al
most exclusively from the Manchus and
the Monguls.
The provincial army, called the Green
Flags, consists of 1S corps, one for each
province. These various corps are un-
The Ely miner., 1903-12-25
The Making Of a New
City Of Galveston
How the Wafer Gateway OF the Southwest Is TO Be
Projected From fhe Rave ages or Storm and Tide.

channel in the inner harbor was $500, 900;
for repairing the jetties $750,00O. In
the fall of 1901 board of engineers was
appointed to study the problem and re-
port on the best method for protecting
the city. This board reported in April,
1902, and work was soon after begun on
the sea wall. This wall is built OF con-
crete and is to protect the east and south
sides of the city, with a levee to pro-
tect the city on the west. The work on
the sea wall and levee has progressed
far enough to permit the beginning OF
the work of rising the. grade of the city.
The sea wall is 3k miles long with its
top II feet above mean low water. This
wall is founded on piles and protected
from undermining by sheet piling and
riprap. The sea face of the wall is
curved so that it's upper portion is ver-
ticle and it's rear face is to be filled be-
hind by an embankment, the top OF
which will be paved with brick for a
width of 35 feet and planted with Ber-
muda grass for further distance of GO
feet. The levee portion of the protec-
tive barriers of the city is to be 300 feet
wide with side slopes of one feet in rs
feet, and is intended to be built upon. In
brief, the city will be surrounded on
three sides by structure whose top is
higher than the high water in 1900. The
fourth or unprotected side is that facing
Galveston bay, and here the city is high
er than the highest water ever recorded
previous to 1900. The diagram produced
herewith shows transverse section of
the sea wall and is self-explanatory.
The total cost of the work undertaken
will be $3,505 ,040, of which sum 81 ,294,-
755 was for sea wall. Special machinery
was made for the building of the sea
wall, and by the end of last year the
work was being actively prosecuted. Dur
ing this year this work has been prac-
tically completed. Galveston now lies
behind a massive stone wall, but gradu-
ally as the skill of engineers is exerted,
The Ely miner., 1903-12-25

undaunted. 1t knew it was indispensa-
BILE all the time; and whereas once it
was just the black or the silver sequin,
we now have the saucy thing in every
color of the rainbow and in all sorts of
substances. The robe cannot exist with
out sequin, and the world of women
cannot exist without the robe. The
robe has been woman's best solace for
the dilatory sins of the dressmaker
With a robe and a maid of average
abilities a frock may be called up as
if by the wand of fairy godmother,
and no unsophisticated simplicity of a
hasty pudding recipe would this be, but
something filmy and sparkling and be-
coming. The eternally useful black
frock, for example, is almost always
fashioned from the sequinned robe 1
saw recently an altogether good black
seuuinned robe, in which the embroi-
deries enclosed appliques of black
Chantilly lace, whilst the bodice pieces
were delightfully."- complete and ample
and such frock could be fitted to slip
on over a black foundation or white
foundation, or over forEdation of
The Ely miner., 1903-12-25

which was to be 25 miles long and from
20 to % feet deep. Over eight miles of
the canal had been completed at that
time and the construction was being
pushed. 1t was proposed to establish a
dry dock and naval station at La Porte
which would cost from $4,000, 900 to $10,-
100000.
But Galveston refused to be pushed
off the island, or be run out of business
by little thing like the Gulf of Mexico.
Something of the Chicago spirit possess
ed her. If Hollands 1000 spare miles
of territory, much of it below the sea
level, and which supports 100000 souls,
could be protected by 100 miles of dikes
along the Zuyder Zee, surely Galveston's s
few miles, five to II feet above the level
of the sea, need not be abandoned be-
cause once in it's history the water had
risen to a height of Is feet and the wind,
the fiercest known to annals, had blown
120 miles per hour. The protection of
Holland, the elevation Of large portions
of Chicago, and of nearly the whole OF
Sacramento, Cal, proved that the Gal
weston problem was merely one of engi-
neering detail.
Never for single hour, even during
the darkest period of the awful storm,
has Galveston entertained the thought
that the city would be wholly or in part
abandoned. Eight days after the storm
vessels were loading at the wharfs. The
local papers never missed an issue, al
though for few days their editions were
single sheets, the size of hand bills, run
off on job presses. The banks opened
for business on the third day. Mer-
chants ordered new stocks of goods as
soon as the telegraph lines were opened.
1t had been said that the erebuilding of the
railroad bridge would take two months,
but in IL days trains were running regu-
iarly into the city.
Galveston is the natural water gate
way to the southwest. The city is built
on a narrow strip of sand 80 miles long
and one to three miles wide. 1t has been
well said that the city was born of geo.
graphy and commerce and that she can
not die while there are great west and
ships that go to sea. The economic
general export port of the country still
exist. The years business following
the storm showed substantial increase
over the year preceding. Cotton re-
ceived to August 81, 1901, was $2,177 1888;
that received to August 81, 1900, was
s1,71O,263. The grain exports for 1900
OIL were 14,O10,37S bushels, that for the
year before the storm, $4,000, were 49,
531 ,839 bushels. At least $5,0O0,000 has
been spent in repairs and restoration of
the city since the storm of 1900.
But the all-absorbing problem has
been the protection of the city from fur
Their inundation. In 1902 $1,715, PIT were
spent for permanent protective improve
ments. The appropriation made by con-
xress for deepening and widening the