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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-12
JAPANESE LOAN.
Toxic Cabinet Meeting Votes to Order
One.

Toxic. May 11.-At cabinet meeting,
yesterday. 1t was decided to float anothc,
oan of $0,'m00w ut 81. rcdeemable in five
wears with interest at five rcr cent pay
ncnt to be in 10 instalmerts commencing
II June next. An imperial ordinance pro
sIdlnE Tor the loan will be issued about
May 20
Should the loan be over-subscribed Al
'qual distribution will he made amona
ne applicants. instead of giving prefer
nee to small subscribers as was deemed
II the case of the last loan.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-12
An Unofficial Report.

Chcfoo. May 11.-5 Il. Man unoffi
ciaI Japanese dispatch has been re-
ceived here to the effect that the Rus
slams have destroyed the fleet in Port
Arthur.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-12
HOPING FOR VICTORIES.
Past Defeats Do Not Seem to Phase
Russians.

st. Petersburg, May 11.-3,05 \. NJ
The most important officials news from
the front is that telling Of the COM
nlete re-establishment of railroad and
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-12
THEY HAVE, THEY HAVEN'T.
Conflicting Reports as to What the
Japs Are Doing.

st. Petersburg, May 1.-THE general
staff has received the following dis
patch from Gen. Karkevtch bearing
tQday's date:
According to reports from the region
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-12

Inc bamboo has been known to grow
TWO feet in twenty-four hours,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-12

All the cork used in the world in a
year weighs little over one thousand
tons.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-12

The great bulk of chalk is composed
of eight different species of tiny shells.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-12

London. May 1.-the prospectus of the
Japanese loan of $5.O0a.oo0 was issued. this;
afternoon. The issue price is ?3h
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-02
Hi. Di.tinruisbed FRIEND.

Cornelius Vanderbilt said to me,
and Andrew Carnegie, George Gould
and John d. Rockefeller, Jr., backed
him up"
The speaker, a man robust and
brown, had a loud, hale voice, and
from every table in the little cafe in
quisitive eyes were turned on him, for
the names he had used were names
to conjure with, says the Chicago
Chronicle.
Take William Waldorf Aston, for
instance" he said a little later. ''He
wouldn't wear a French shoe"
For an hour this man remained in
the cafe and during that hour the oc-
oupants of the other tables heard from
him detached sentences like:
'Berhardt told me she liked Gorgon-
zola. though ="
1.-The Duke of Newcastle and I play
ed bridge"
'Henry Irving and Miss Pauline As
tor gave me that in memory"
Il told Kipling he couldn't write
like
"Calve and I were looking at the
sunset, when the Duchess of Marlbor-
ough joined us"
'Pierpont Morgan asked John S. Sar-
gent to sketch me and give the sketch
to"
Prince Henry sat on my right and
Lord Charles Beresford-"
Finally the man withdrew. After he
had gone a reporter asked the head
waiter who on earth he was.
why" the head waiter answered,
that is Capt. Dash of the liner Blank,
that broke the record last month. You
were amazed, 1 suppose, at the multi
tude of distinguished friends he has.
Well, you needn't be amazed. He has
all those friends and more also. You'll
find, as you grow older, that the cap
tains of the biggest and most popular
transatlantic liners know well all, or
nearly all, the famous people of the
world. There is no one who has such
a magnificent list of friends as one of
these captains"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-02
Fads in Tipping.

Got any buttermilk?' asked a man
the other day of a bartender in first
class saloon, according to the Chicago
Inter Ocean.
No. We hardly ever have call for
it now, and we don't keep it"
Il thought there was d big demand
in saloons for buttermilk."
There used to be. There was a
time, not long ago, when buttermilk
was a fad as tipple but now if we
buy any of it it is allowed to spoil on
our hands. You are the first one who
has called for buttermilk in four
months. We used to have big cans of
it on the counter all the time, and we
sold enough of it every day to float a
cup winner, l was going to say. A
company made a. business of supplying
buttermilk to saloons, and did an enor-
nous trade. 1t may be doing some
but not here"
What was the cause of the death
of the fad?'
ut is just like any other fad or fash
ion or whim or whatever you might call
it. 1t is the same as the change in
the styles of shoes. One year they
wear black shoes and the next year
they wear brown ones. Drinks come
and go. Something or somebody will
start a new tangled cocktail or other
mixed drink with a funny or fancy
name and it will have a violent run
all over the country for a while. Then.
suddenly, without apparent cause, it
wiz fade away. Something else will
bon up, and have it's fling, and the end
is not vet. ="
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-02
ISL ANN,s CONVERSION.

Some months ago Consul General
Goodnow at Pekin informed the gov
eminent at Washington that, at an
audience, the Dowager Empress of Chi
ma had addressed the American diplo-
mats in a few words of English. That
she should have used the language of
the foreign devils WAS regarded as
extraordinary. Nobody had the slight
est idea that she understood word of
English, and there was much aston
ishment when she began to use that
tongue. But how and why she &C
quired a knowledge of English re-
manned a profound secret until a few
days ago, when the information leaked
out through an unofficial communica-
ton from Pekin received at Wash
ington.
1t seems that to the influence of Mrs.
Conger, wife of the American minister
at Pekin, is due not only the limo
walton on the part of the Dowager En-
press in the employment of the Eng
fish language, but the conversion of
her imperial majesty to a peculiarly
American religion. Mrs. Conger is an
ardent Christian Scientist. She has
the cult of Mrs Eddy at her tongues
end and can converse with respect to
it for hours at time without stopping
for refreshment. Her position at the
Chinese court has afforded her oppor-
tunities for conferences with the Dow
ager Empress, and she has made the
most of these occasions to impress her
majesty with the beauties of the new,
"all in ALL" theology. 1t is alleged that
while the Dowager has not made pub
lie proclamation of her adherence to
Eddyism, for political reasons, and
while her subjects believe she is still
a confirmed Confucian, as matter OF
fact she is a scientist and that she
took UP the study of the English Ian
guage in order that she might get
closer in touch with the venerable
mother" in Massachusetts who found
ed the faith And the story from Pc
kin received in Washington says that,
in consequence of all this, Mrs. Con-
ger is now a bigger and more infiuen-
tial parsonage in the Chinese capital
than her husband or any of the other
diplomats.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-02
WHAT IS THE MILKY wAYs
From the London Mail.

A novel theory as to the Milky Way
has been evolved by S. l.. Adams, an
amateur astronomer of Sydney, N. S.
w. This luminous phenomenon, it ap-
pears, is really a shadow.
THE Milky Way" says Mr.. Adams,
us constantly being seen at many
different angles and in many parts OF
the sky, but it always preserves the
same luminous front arising from
the telescope stars in its back
ground.
Now, as this background is con-
stantly changing, and the luminous eff
feet is only seen wherever the fore
ground happens to be the Milky Way
it is evident that it is not the tele-
scopic stars themselves which produce
the effect, but something projected on
the foreground of the sky. That some
thing is the earth's shadow.
The supposed nebulae." continues
Mr. Adams, ARE all shadows, and this
explains their contempt for the laws
of gravitation and their refusal to con-
form to the glObular shape assumed by
celestial objects generally. They are
spots of shadow representing noun
tains or mountain ranges on the
earth"
Mr.. Adams anticipates that his dis
coVery will be received with smiles of
incredulity, but he expresses his belief
that his view will one day be accepted
as correct. He is to read paper on
the subject before the local branch of
the British Astronomical Association.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-02

Back to school tomorrow! Vacation
There has been a good, long period of
rest and recreation, during which most
of the teachers devoted themselves
TO improving their minds while the
pupils spent the time in improving
their bodies by means of open-air
exercise either at home, at some of
the resorts or in the country. Doubt
less many of the children imagine
they are sorry the vacation is over,
and that they would like to go on
playing for months and months to
come. But really when they come to
think the matter over, they will find
that they are inwardly glad it is time
for the school work to begin. There
isn't a child but has a dozen school
friends and chums from whom he or
she has been separated for three
months. viii not the reunion with
these friends be delightful? And then
the pleasure of achieving something
in the school room; of learning new
things; Of keen competition in the
class-do these things not appeal TO
the children? OF course they do. The
humorist's idea that the boy who is
called into the school room after va
cation feels. practically. as If he had
been condemned TO penal servitude for
a long period. is almost wholly fcti-
tious. The average, healthy boy does
not feel that way about IL at all. He
realizes. as does the girl also that
schools were established for the bene-
that it is the part of common sense.
looking TO future happiness, to make
the most OF them.
The reopening Of the schools is not
a subject for fiippancy or thoughtless
comment. 1t is the picking-up OF "A
very serious part of life's work and
character building. A heavy load or
responsibility rests upon the shoulders
of the teachers in the public schools.
They are, in a large measure TO mould
the characters OF the men and women
Of the future. But IL should not be
lost sight OF that parents share In this
responsibility in even a greater degree
than the teachers. Thoughtless or
careless parents can nullify in short
while all Of the best and most pains
taking efforts that the conscientious
teacher can devote to a child. The
! childs home training is the real basis
OF It's character-building. II should be
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-02

the pride and pleasure of parents,
therefore, to give as much aid as may
be possible to the teachers in their eff
forts to train the young minds in the
ways of knowledge and usefulness.
1t is risking nothing to say that Sa-
vannahs school system will compare
favorably, If not better, with that of
any other city in the country. All of
the officials of the schools are thor
oughly competent and devoted to their
profession. They are hard and unsef-
ish workers. but their patience and
tact are sometimes sorely tried. Dur
ing the ensuing school term, with
hearty cooperation on the part of par
ents and pupils-and the teachers de-
serve no less-the public schools ought
to enjoy a season of prosperity the
most gratifying in the history Of the
system.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-02
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BRIGHT BITS.

Nothing wounds a feeling mind
more than praise unjustly bestowed
on another.-Punch.
And 1 suppose you're a very good
little boy?'' That's w'ot! Why, 1
only got out o the reform-school yes
tiddy"-Judge.
-.Bilkins is going to help Roosevelt
materially" Il thought he was go
ing to take the stump for Parker.
He is "-Cleveland Plain-Dealer.
THE doctors have ordered Bilkins
to be quiet and under no circum-
stances to use his BRAIN But how
does he pass his time?" Is 1 be-
lieve he is writing a novel."-Life.
-Minnie-"I must be losing my good
looks" Harry-"Why? Minnie
sold only twelve tickets for the charity
rattle against twenty-one last year.
Chicago Daily News.
when a PERSONS wool-gathering'
that means he's lazy, doesn't it, pap
mot necessarily, my son! He may
be gathering the wool off the lambs
in Wall street. Philadelphia Ledger.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-02
Lining it Over.
rrroro The Uouston Pat

From the Houston Post.
IF I had this life to live over" you
say,
Then you shake your head wisely
and slow.
What is it? Would you change the
old yesterday?
Would you shun the old paths that
you know?
Do you know sweeter blooms than
the sweet clover blooms?
Do you know greater ways than you
trod?
Do you know other ways amid sweeter
perfumes?
Know ways that seem closer to God?
Could you find other ways, other play
mates and chums
Whose laugh would ring clearer than
those
Whose memory back through the
years softly comes
Each night when your eyes gently
close
Ere you drift off to slumber? Are
songs ever sung
like the sweet songs tits yours to
have known.
When the bark OF your childhood on
sleep-billows swung,
To the tunes in the dear mother
tone?
You may think In the ecstasy born of
a drink.
In the glamor a woman may throw
That the laughter of men, and the
musical clink
OF wine cups are better to know
Than the drinks from the spring
meath the shadowing beech,
Than the shy and sweet looks of a
maid,
Than the pleasures you knew on the
shimmering reach
BY the stream where In boyhood
you played.
But there's never a pleasure where
wassail rings loud,
Where the smoke of Havanas up
curl,
In the rush of forgetfulness born Of
a crowd.
In the swish and the sweep and the
swirl
OF silks, in the dance where maturity
sports,
Half as sweet as the joys you re-
greet,
And the proof OF the claim-st the
banquets. in courts.
No pleasure can make you forget.
u. ~. Lewis.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-02
LIKE cLEoPATRA's ASP.

Desmond B. O'Brien in London Iruth'
In book of exciting jungle stores by
Mr.. Mervyn Smith, a sportsman VINO
has spent a life among the creaIuIe "a. -
he escribes-"Sport and Adventure III
the Indian JUNGLE came upon an IN
teresting Identification of Cleopatra
asp with the smallest and most Veno-
nous of all snakes. the bingraJ. II l.
a tiny snake six inches long, ike a uIy
twig, and lives upon insects, ant-hoils'
etc:
The natives say that if this snake
bites one in the foot, death is lnstah-
taneous: but if it bites one in the chest,
a gentle drowsy sensation of sleep
overcomes one, and one dies with a
pleasant look OH the face. RaJpoo'
women, when they wish to commit SUI
eide, apply one of these snakes TO the
bosom and make il bite them there
when they enjoy the most pleasuraDie
sensations and die quietly There i
no cure; whether it bites in the loot
or chest, death comes all the same
only the one quicker than the other.
Can there be any connection between
this story and that of Cleopatra and
the viper?
You remember the Clowns descrip-
ton of the pretty worm of Nilus that
kills and pains not?" "A woman died
of the biting of it no longer than yes
terday, and made a very good report
of it," While Cleopatra also makes a
very good report of it:
Dost thou not see my baby at my
breast
That sucks the nurse asleep
AS sweet as balm. as soft as air, as
gentle?
Mr.. Mervyn Smith has certainly
identified Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli
the wolf-boy, of whom he gives pain
ful Photograph taken ten years after
the creatures capture According tc
the natives, these wolf-children are not
at all uncommon:
The natives declare that when a She
wolf has lost her whelps she expert
ences a soreness at the teats from the
accumulation of milk. and she Their
generally steals a child. The sucking
of the child relieves the wolf, and the
infant is thenceforth regarded as {
member of the family, and shares the
wolves den and food.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-02
A Pertinent Inquiry.

The late Senator Vest was noted for
his dry humor, says the New York
Times.
On one occasion he was making a
speech in the Senate and was inter
rupted by two other senators. After
all three had been talking eXcitedly
TO the chair for two or three minutes
Senator Vest stopped, look of amaze
ment stole over his countenance. and
he suddenly blurted out:
MIR. President! Mr. President!
make a personal appeal to the chair
for the opportunity to make parlia-
mentary inquiry"
THE gentleman will please make his
inquiry" replied the chair.
Il believe l was addressing the Sen
ate and had the floor replied the
senator. But it seems l no longer
have the floor, and as l can't seem
to learn any other way. 1 rise to make
a parliamentary inquiry as to just how
I lost it -
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-02
THE NEW COUNTY AMENDMENTS.

At no time have we had any doubt
of the adoption of the amendments to
the constitution which provide for
new counties The people of the Sec
tions of the state which are interested
in new counties seem to think there is
danger they will be defeated. Their ap-
prehensions are groundless. The peo-
pie of the parts of the state not seek
ing new counties have no objection to
the amendments, and those of the parts
desiring new counties will give them a
hearty support.
And there are good reasons why the
amendments should be adopted. In
this section of Georgia there are coun-
ties that are so large that the ends of
Justice are sometimes defeated because
of the cost of criminal trials. In some
counties witnesses and jurors are com
PEELED to travel twenty-five or thirty
miles. And then there is the burden
which the excessively large counties
impose upon taxpayers and others liv-
ing on or near their borders who have
occasion to visit the county seat
There is the thriving city of Triton,
for instance, that is lwenty-six miles
from the Court House of its county
and Millen must be pretty nearly as
far from the Court House of its coun-
ty. We mention these two cities be-
cause they have a great deal of bust
ness at their respective county sites,
and it is conspicuously unjust to them
that their people should be put to so
much expense in time and money to
transact the legal business they have
to do.
The creation of the proposed new
counties will increase taxable values to
such an extent that the increase in the
states incomes will be fully as great.
IL not greater, than the additional eX-
pense the new counties will impose on
the state, but even if this were not the
case the new counties ought to be Gre
ated because they are a necessity as
well as a convenience of the people.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-02
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Philadelphia Record Dem.)
says: 1T is mentioned that Andrew
Carnegie intends TO erect a magnificent
Palace of Peace-doubtless out of the
profits of the manufacture of armor-
plate for ships of war"
The Charleston Post says: while
Bishop Potter was earnestly and elo-
quently denouncing divorce TO the gem
eral council of the diocese of New York,
the other day. his nephew Mr.. James
Brown Potter, who was divorced a few
years ago, was taking TO himself an
other wife at Richmond, while the orig
inal Mrs. Potter is adjoining the stage"
The Columbia CS. CD State says:
"Rev. L. T.. Campbell of Anderson
county celebrated his Goth birthday last
Monday by going out into his field and
picking 125 pounds of cotton by din
ner time. This should serve as an In
centive to those thirty-siX negro cot
ton pickers, recently mentioned in these
columns, who in a 12-day contest I'm
Louisiana with thirty-six Mexicans
picked an average of but Sc pounds a
day each"
The Galveston News (Dem) says:
Commissioner wright's cooked sta
tistics. prepared at public expense for
party use, shown by both Dun and
Bradstreet TO be incorrect. known by
the wage earners themselves to be
baseless. have certainly been knocked
into "pl" during the last month. Aside
from the Fall River situation. the re-
duction OF wages from 10 to 20 per
cent. by the Pullman Company and by
farm implement manufa cturers, and
other reductions, bring the increase in
the cost Of living above the increase in
wages even according 10 Mr.. Wright's
own figures"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-02
Personal.

For the sixth consecutive term Cy-
rus A. Sulloway, known as the tall
pine of the Merrimac," has been unan-
imously renominated by the Republi-
cans of New Hampshire for the First
Congressional District.
There 31S, 979, 564, 900 ways of playing
the first four moves on each side of
cheesboard, yet Harry N. Pillsburg
has played against as many as twenty
two different boards at one and the
same time without seeing a single
board and has won large majority of
the games.
DIR. Woods. who is the medical man
of Birr, near Parsonstow. Ireland
(where Lord Rosse has his famous tel
escope), is 80 years old, but is still in
active practice visiting his patients
on d bicycle. Lately the authorities
wanted to retire him on a full pension,
but the doctor protested and had his
way.
Efforts are being made in Paris to
have some important street in the
heart of the city named after lola. 1t
is also purposed to celebrate the Sec
ond anniversary of his death on Oct.
l with a meeting at the Place de la
Republique and grand procession
which many associations of working
men and others have been invited to
join.
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, who sat
in the House of Commons for more
than forty years, will disappear from
that assembly at the dissolution, and
it is generally expected that he will be
offered a peerage. His son, NJ. II.
Hicks Beach, is to be the Tory candi-
date for the TewlSesbury division of
Worcestershire at the general election,
in the place of Sir John Darlington,
Hvbn ratiraS
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-02
THOUGHT BIG BILL A COUPON.
From the New York Times.


Yonkers, Sept. 28-Mrs Abbey S.
Ullman of 10 Ludlow street, from
whom two 81, 900 bills were stolen a
few days ago, found one of them sewn
into the sleeves of a wrapper belong
ing to Julia Stavzenski, her maid.
Yesterday Miss Ullman found the
other. Julia had given it to her be-
trothed, julius Rolaskovaski, and
julius, not believing that one small
piece of paper could represent so much
real money, had come to the conclu-
sion that it was a new brand of Gig
arctic coupon.
When the first bill was found the
maid was placed under arrest. She
steadfastly refused to tell what had
become of the second. 1t was known
that she was to marry Rolaskovaski,
and there was no difficulty in finding
the young man at 6S Croton Terrace.
Julia gave me some kind of a oou-
pom the other day." he readily admit
ted, and I showed it to my brother.
We had never seen anything like II
before, and l put it away with a lot OF
other coupons 1 had got at a cigar
store. I'll go and get it,
The bill was found just as Julius
said it would be. He was held as q
witness
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-02
INITIALS AS NAMES.
From the Norfolk Landmark.


According to the Columbia State,
the name of the Democratic nominee
for Governor of New York should be
written ID Cady Herrick," with no
period after the D. This is because
the D stands for nothing; was put
there by the father of Judge Herrick
merely to round out" the name
There have been a number of cases of
this kind-many of them kept secret
by the owners of the names; but the
most remarkable instance we know of
is that of Prof w J MCGEE. the noted
ethnologist who was formerly con-
nected with the Smithsonian Institu-
ton in Washington. Prof. MCGEE is
known simply by his surname and the
letters w J. If you wish to call him
by his given, or Christian name, you
must call him w ]. The reason of
this, We understand. Is that the pro-
lessor was named Washington Jeffer-
son MCGEE, and was so disguised with
the name when he grew up that he
discarded the historical portion and
substituted the two capital letters,
which he writes without a period after
either. How is that?