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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-04
Personal Notes.

The dOwager marchiOness of Exeter
has been elected church warden at Mar
ket Dceping, Lincolnshire. =
c. A. Palmer, Of Indianapolis, owns
a rare and curious volume printed
nearly $50 years ago. 1t is a History
of the Church of Scotland"
Ex-senator Henry d. Davis. of West
Virginia, has returned to politics at the
age of 50. He left the United States
Senate twenty years ago.
DIR. Carlos c. Alden, of New York
City, has been appointed dean of the
Buffalo Law School. He is 50 years Old
and has been practising law for fifteen
years.
John d. Rockefeller says that the
source of his money-making aspirations
was brought about through his reading
in his boyhOod the Life Of Amos
Lawrence
Miss PetrOnella Crane, of Canon
City, Col, is about to visit her cousin,
Queen Wilhelmina, of Holland. She
has frequently been invited by her
Gueenly cousin to make her home in the
Holland capital.
Sergeant William II. Carney, the I'M
daunted color bearer at the battle of
Fort Wagner, delivered the Memorial
Day Grafton at the Shaw Monument,
Boston. He was one of the bravest COL
ored soldiers of the Civil War and was
awarded a medal of honor by Congress.
Charles II. Hackley, president of the
Board of Education, of Muskegon,
Mich, has brought the total of his gifts
TO the city up to more than s.. 600 900 by
giving eighty $500 gold bonds to be
added to the 100000 endowment fund
of the Hackley Manual Training School,
which he had already furnished
The Chicago Public Library has been
presented with sixteen volumes repre-
senting a collection of posters, news
papers, cartoons and proclamations
issued by the French Government dur
ing the FrancO-Prussian war and the
days of the Commune. 1t was gathered
by IIlihu Il. Washburne while United
States Minister to France.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-04
A.REpUBLICAN
j STATE
CONVENTION
{ v:u u.,a ;,
THE AUDITORIUM, BANGOR,
. Wed, JUNE 20, 1904.
MIN Be Hold jn
1t 100 O'clock, p. N.

for the purpose Of nominating 4 candidate
for Governor to be supported at the Sep
TENDER Election. and for the transaction
OF such other business as may properly
come before it.
The basis of representation will be as
follows: Each City. Town and Planta ton
will be entitled to one delegate. ana Iof
each 10 votes cast for the Republican can,
didate for Governor in 1882. an additlonal
delegate; and for a fraction OF ~ votes IN
EXCESS of u votes. a further additional
delegate. Vacancies in the Delegation 81
any City, Town or Plantation can only DE
filed by residents of the County in which
the vacancies exist.
The State Committee will be In session
in the reception room of the Han at IN
O'Clock +. M. on the day of the Conven-
tinn, for the purpose OF receiving the
credentials of delegates. Delegates, IN
order to he eligible to participate in the
Convention, must be elected subsequent to
the date OF the call for this Convention.
All electors Of Maine. without regard TO
mast political affiliations. who believe in
the principles Of the Republican Party,
ana endorse its pDlicieS-.ar cordially in
vited to unite under this call in electing
Delegates to this Convention.
her order. Republican State Committee,
+. NJ. SIMPSON. Chairman.
BYRON BOYD, Secretary.
Bangor, April 18th. 1904.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-04

family of DIR. Sturtevant since lie was
IL puppy. He knows the SturteVaht
telephone call, and only when ne hears
that particular call does he MANIFEST
the least interest i'm the instrument.
When the ring sounds which Calls The
house. the little dog starts at once Tor
the room in which the telephone Is
located. He also serves as an alarm
signal when the door bell rings ana
the members of the family are in dis
tant parts of the house. Theh ne
PUSHES about the house in so frantic Il
manner that the commotion is nearu,
and the cause understood.
On June 1G, II and 1s occurs the field
day ard excursion to Fryeburg OF the
Society of Colonial Wars in the Com
n0nwcalth of Massachusetts. The
purpose of the field days is to dedicate
n memorial stone and tablet to mark
the battlefield of Pequawket or Love-
wells Fight. The battlefield is be-
tween two brooks on the north shore
OF LOvcWell's Pond, distant about Il
mile from the village. The pond is
nearly three miles long and one mile
Ill Nltltu me dttIt'ttI'ii -
will take place on Friday, June II. 1t
is expected that between 80 and 90
members of the society will be present
on that day as well as a goodly repre-
Gentation from the Maine Historical
Society, including its president. Hon.
James Z. Baxter. While the head
quarters of the visitors will be at the
oxford hotel, it is understood that
hospitality will be freely extended by
the residents of the village, who
naturally feel 4 days interest in the
success of the occasion. The bronze
tablet will be &c by "a inches, and Will
contain the following inscription:
TO MARK THE MEMORY OF
LovewelIs Fight on the Sth Day OF
May. 1925, Between a company of
Massachusetts Rangers of "a men
and so warriors Of the Pequawket
Tribe led by Paugus in n contest
lasting from early morning until
after sunset The Indians were
repulsed and their Chief Killed.
TO THE MEMORY OF
Can't. John Lovewell Of PUNISHABLE,
Lieut.. Jonathan Robbins of Dunstable,
Ensign Jonathan Harwood Of Dun
stable,
Robert Usher of Dunstable,
il cob Fullam Of Weston,
Jacob Farrar of Concord,
Josiah Davis of Concord,
Thomas Woods of GrotOn,
Daniel Woods of Groton,
John Jefts of Groton,
Ichabod Johnson of WOburn,
Jonathan Kittredge of Billerica.
These - found and buried by Col.
Tying on the Field of Battle.
Lieut.. Josiah Farwell of Dunstable,
Jonathan Frye. Chaplain of Andover,
Elias Barron Of Groton.
Wounded and died by the way.
Nine others were wounded.
The survivors led by Ensign Seth
Wyman begun the homeward march
after midnight.
Erected by the Society of Colonial
Wars
In the Commonwealth of Massachu-
sets
18th June, 1904.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-04

Just half n century ago the famous
Kansas and Nebraska bill was signed
providing territorial government for
the region out of which the states of
Kansas and Nebraska were later
erected. That bill was an epoch-mak-
ing event. The controversy that pre-
coded it divided the Wing party in the
North and resulted in the establish
ment of the great Republican party. 1t
was that bill more than any other
measure which inaugurated the con-
flict between slavery and freedom
which ended in the; greatest war of
modern times and established more
firmly and securely the foundations of
the Union. The passage Of the bill was
followed by an attempt to force slavery
uporf Saiiyas territory ana long and
intrepid fight against it'by the friends
of freedom. The pe1shs who emigrated
to Nebraska seemed animated more by
a desire to attend strictly to business
than to fight over slavery, but In
Kansas it was different, and that
territory became at once the field OF
fierce bloody conflicts, so that foryears
its name was synonymous with all that
was lawless and anarchial.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-04

all these years for scores of brave
American sailors, made side-show
attraction for the morbid and the Curl
Gus. Better far that the shattered
hulk of the noble battleship repose
forever beneath the waters of Havana
harbor. As it is now, TIE wreck,
remains an unsightly menace to navi-
cation, and it is difficult to conceive
why this government or that of Cuba
has allowed it to remain undisturbed
Cor half Il dozen years. 1t would be
better to raze the wreck than to raise
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-04

Another of the worlds most cherished
traditions is shattered by the latest
figures regarding the consumption of
beer. 1t appears that the people of the
United States put away more beer per
capita than do those in Germany, which
is popularly supposed to be a country
where men, women and children spend
a large Part of their time in flushing
their stomachs with the ambrosial fluid
from high steins.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-04
In the report of the Marine Hospital

In the report of the Marine Hospital
Service of Vera Cruz on yellow fever,
the announcement is made that the
parasite causing yellow fever has ut
last been discovered. The work done
in Cuba by the late Major Reed and his
colleagues convicted the mosquito Of
the spread of yellow fever, and dis
proved the ancient theory regarding
the danger of the so-called formities
clothes, bedding, etc. with which yell
low fever patients have been in con-
tact. 1t was shown that contact with.
these was quite incapable of causing
an attack of yellow fever, but that ste
gofyia fasciata, a species of mosquito.
was almost certainly the sole agent in
spreading the disease. The actual
cause of yellow fever, the germ itself.
was not known. According to the Vera
Cruz commission, the microbe is a form
OF prOtozoan, similar to the malaria
parasite, and not an ordinary bacte-
rum. 1t goes through cycle Of
changes analogous to those of the ma
laria germ, and its presence in the
mosquito mOdifies the latter's life in a
way to favor its spread of the disease.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-04

1t is interesting to note that the real
"potato king" of the country is not an
Aroostook man, but n negro living in
Brown, and he is a graduate of the
Booker Washington school at Tuskegee.
lie began life as poor as the poorest
citizen ever born in the black belt, but
is now worth over 100000 Last year
his farm produced nearly 100000
bushels of potatoes and from the
boasts made about them In the
Kansas papers one would suppose that
they are as good as the potatoes we
raise up here in Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-04
Loo Cabin PhiIosophv.

What's the use cryin' over spilled milk
Twould have got sour anyhow, and ten
TO one, it was half water.
If we spent less time in growlin at
the world. and more in trying to make
it better. we'd pull through like a rail
road train on smooth rails.
Half the trouble in this world is in
thinkin' that it's comm When it does
come it's never so great but we can
bear 1t. with the hope of shouting hal
leluia by and by.
There's no use in looking on life rs a
dream. The fellow that spends it dream
ing has to dodge the bailiffs. and never
has enough cash for the gas bill
Atlanta Constitution
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-04
The Bible and China.

Rev. E. +. Newbert, for many years
pastor of the Unitarian church Of this
CITY. now located in Indianapolis, re-
Gently made some comments upon the
presentation of a Bible to Prince Pu
Lun, which have attracted consider
able attention. Prince Pu Lun is a
nephew of the Chinese emperor, who
has tecn visiting the St. Louis fair and
the principal American cities, and dur
ing his stop in Indianapolis was pre-
sented with a Bible. In commenting
upon this presentation Mr.. Newbert is
quoted as saying:
The prince does not need the Bible.
I doubt if he has any use for it. He
has sacred books of his own. But
along with this Bible let the prince
have n copy of the American consti
tuition; let him have our best educa-
tional works; let him know the crucial
chapters of our history, and let him
carry from our shores the ideal of
democracy. What China needs is not
the Bible, not the Christian belief, not
the New England Sabbath. China
needs to rekindle the fires of her
national life from the live coal of the
vital Western civilization. China
needs railroads. She needs the tele-
graph and the telephone. She needs
commercial awakening and an in
dustrial and an educational revolution.
She needs to exalt womanhood and to
know the perfect liberty of every man,
woman and child"
Mr.. Newbert's views does not seem
to met the approval of some of the
editors under whose eyes they have
come. One newspaper thinks it very
strange that a clergyman should ex-
press an opinion of this kind, and an
other intimates that if Mr.. Newbert
should read the Good Book little
more thoroughly himself he would dis
cover that it is the very impulse OF the
progress which he wants China to
make without its help. Another paper
the indianapolis News, touches upon
the matter as follows:
IF the prince does not need the Bible
because he has sacred writings of his
own, why does he need the American
constitution? Has he not govern
ment of his own? We may salute
China's religion with infinite respect
and yet hold that the religion of Jesus
Christ is so far it's superior as not to
be mentioned in the same breath.
China needs the Christian religion
quite rs much as cultured Greece
needed it when st. Paul preached it to
the Ahtenians. Our commercial sys-
tenn and political institutions and sys-
TENS of transportation are no more
superior to those of China than our
system of religion is superior to hers.
AS for education. China has been edu-
eating for centuries-waS at it hum
dreds and thousands of years before
this country was discovered. 1t is
quite as impertinent to suggest that
she adopt our educational methods as
it is to suggest that she adopt our
religion. The educated Chinese are
open minded and cultured. but the
masses are hopclessly ignorant. China
has no hospitals, no medical science.
slight respect-as Mr.. Newbert admits
for women. and slight regard for the
helpless and suffering. We repeat that
| to us it seems that China needs our
| Bible and our religion. 1t is the
| religion of China if she is ever to pro-
greSS in the right way
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-04
a REPUBLICAN,
COUNTY
CONVENTION
Will Be HELD in
CITY HALL, AUGUSTA,
FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1904.
Will Be Held in
at 1890 A. M.

For the purpose OF nominating three
candidates for senators. one candidate
for sheriff, one candidate for clerk Of
courts, one candidate 1or Judge Of pro-
bate. one candidate for register Of pro-
bate. one candidate for county attorney,
one candidate for county treasurer. one
celdate for county commissioner, all to
Be voted for at the September election;
and tyansacting any business that may
properly come before 1t.
The basis of representation will be as
follows: Each city. town and plantation
will be entitled to one delegate; for each
thirty-eight votes cast for the Republi-
can candidate for Governor in 1902 an ad-
ditional delegate, and for a fraction Of
twenty votes in excess Of thirty-eight
votes, a further additional delegate.
Delegations will be made up as follows:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-04

Vacancies in any delegation can only
be filled by such delegation.
Delegates in order to participate In the
convention. must be elected subsequent
to the date of the call for this convention.
The County Committee will be in ses-
sion in the anteroom Of the hall at 10
o'clock on the morning Of the convention,
for the purpose Of receiving the creden-
tails Of the delegates.
Per order of the Republican County
Committee.
WILLARD N. DUNN, Chairman.
e. G. STEVENS, Sec.
May I'd, 1904
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-04
Reflections of a Bachelor,

A woman has clothes enough when she
has more than anybody else in her set
woman thinks her husband is distin-
glished looking when she can't find any
thing else about him to brag Of
Adam never had to give over his morn
ing paper to his wife to see if there were
any bargain sale advertisements; yet he
thought he had troubles.
A girl sometimes has hard work to
make man think she isn't Interested in
him when she is; it is no work at all to
make him think she is when she isn't
New York Press
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-04

Once more company has been
organized to raise the wreck of the
battleship Maine in Havana harbor
Many propositions have been made to
this end. but have come to nothing. 1t
is said that this latest company is to
pay the Cuban government $1,000 for
the privilege Of having the wreck of
the battleship brought to this country
for exhibition purposes. We hope this
will never be done. 1t would seem little
short Of sacrilege to have the tangled
mass of iron, which has been the tomb
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-04

According to a recent report OF the
Geological Survey, the total anthracite
production for 1903 was 66.35L713 tons.
The average price of $3.50 brought the
value up to $152,O36.44S. The number
of men employed to mine the output
which amounted to 100000 more tons
than in 1902. was 15O,263.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-04

Mrs. John A. Logan. who has sue
ceeded Miss Clara Barton in the
presidency of the Red Cross, was edu
Gated in Kentucky.
In condemning intemperance, Mrs.
Logan said recently:
alcohol so vitiates the mind that the
degradation it imposes on it's victims
hardly seems like degradation to them.
The woes of these men are changed to
blessings in their besotted brains.
For instance" said Mrs. Logan,
smiling. there used to live in
Kentucky an old man called Fawcett
Jones. Fawcett drank to excess, and he1
used to declare that whisky was meat
and drink to him. But one hot summer
night he drank much that he fell
into a puddle on the way home, and In
this puddle he lay snoring until dawn.
"a clergyman who had risen carry
found him with his head i'm the muu
and his legs and body in the water, ana
the good man woke him up.
Aha he said, so whisky Is meat
and drink to you, is it, Fawcett%
"Fawcett rose to his feet and began
to wiring out his clothes.
1T certainly is. he said, and wash
ing and lodging, too, SIR
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-04

Wharton Barker has written an
article in one of the magazines. He
will be remembered as the gentleman
whose name nobody could get straight
when he ran for the presidency n few
wears ago.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-04

The Kaiser has become an ardent
violinist, and practices diligently and
eXcrIciatins at every opportunity.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-04

The newly formed Newsboys union
in Portland has 100 bright lads as
members.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-04

This is the great month of the year
for the hotel men in Bangor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-04

Farm land in England ranges II
price from $50 to 1920 an acre.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-04

We'll. Of all the impudence I ever
heard of the clerk exclaimed, and he
took poor, innocent Joe by the back OF
the neck and ran him out into the
street."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-04

1t is claimed that Dash, the little
black and tan terrier owned by Dry.
S. Sturtevant of Dixfield. is about the
brightest little dog in Oxford county.
He is 1! years old, and has been in the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-04

One young lady in the Brewer High
graduating class has not one mark
against her for absence, hardness.
dismissal or department during the
four years course.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-04

Not so lively contests in the county
conventions as in 1902.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-04

Colby KS. Bates at Lewiston is
Names great baseball game, today.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-04

The Bangor Festival is once more an
unqualified success.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-04

The Commercial says that the Ban
gor G. A. r. men are talking of giving
up the usual Memorial day parade in
the future.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-04

Eiddeford Journal: In this year of
of the Maine newspapers persist in
referring to trout as "speckled
beauties" This striving for better
things is certainly a hopeful sign of
the times.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-04

Harry NJ. Treat of the Maine Gen.
trail is the youngest train dispatcher in
the country. He is only % years of
age and he has been holding this most
responsible position for two years at
the offices of the Maine Central in
Portland. Mr. Treat was born in
I.ivermore Falls and graduated from
the high school Of that place when
only 10. The next year he entered the
office Of the Maine Central in that
town as telegraph operator and re-
manned there until promoted to the
Portland offices.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-04

Some Machias people who wanted to
economize on hose when the appropri-
atoms were being made at the last
annual town meeting are now glad
that their advice was not taken. 1t
was the $500 worth of new hose which
saved the village from general con-
Migration, this week.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-04

One of the delegates elected in Shap-
leigh York county writes us that there
is no occasion to class his town in the
doubtful list as every man at the
caucus was in favor of c. H. Prescott
for governor This is as we under
stood it, and newspapers which run
lists of delegates elected, showed in
justice to Col. Prescott place Shapleigh
to his credit.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-08
4 SHOCK TO FRANCE.
Public Feeling Strong against
Japan and England.

esn.c.al - The Nex-To-k Tribune by French cableD
ccopyrirht: 1900: BY Tho Tribune Associstion)
Paris, Feb. 7-oficial news Of the rupture Of
diplomatic relations between Russia and Japan
came this afternoon as Unexpectedly bolt
was holiday making in the sunshine OF this
springlIke Sunday.
There now prevail. a strong irritation against
Japan for resor,ing TO what is regarded here as
an unnecessary. arbitrary act in recalling her
minister from st. Petersburg before the reoep-
ton in Toxic Of the Russian reply TO the last
japanese note The trend of public feeling is
now distinctly hostile 20 Japan.
The English press. and The London Times
IN particular. IS accused in bitter language OF
casting oil the flames by giving undue
couragement TO Japan. and consequently a
latent ant-British anlmosity is noted here.
which. unhappil-. may greatly impair the cord
ial understanding between Frarce and Eng
land. which reached such a satisfactory point
only few weeks ago. French diplomatists still
boldly cling TO the faint hope OF war being
averted by friendly foreign Intervention.
Meanwhile. all eyes are turned upon Eng
land. because the general feeling in France Is
that should England feel compelled, in accord
snce with her treaty with Japan. to lend aid
France would. in that event. be likewise bound
70 side with Russia. Such is the opinion not
only OF the public. but OF influential statesmen
and former Ministers OF Foreign Affairs, such
as NM. Ribot and F1ourens. It is expected that
other deputies intend TO put tomorrow 20 NJ
Delcasse. in the Chamber CT Deputies. VIII draw
from the Minister OF Foreign Affairs. who has
had long private conferences this evening both
with the Russian Ambassador and the japanese
Minister. a reassuring statement on this point
c. l. b.