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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-04
Personal Notes.

King Edward goes to church regu-
larly. but he invariably gets in late.
cutting out all the service preliminary
to the sermon.
DR.. Albert Frankel, one of the leading
German clinicians, who has been for
twenty-seven years decent in the Uni
versity of Berlin, has resigned.
Thomas Taggart. the new chairman
Of the Democratic National Committee,
has invented voting machine which
has been approved by the Indiana COM
mission.
Secretary Morton will make a cruise
on the despatch boat Dolphin early
the navy yards and stations along the
North Atlantic coast.
General Ebelardo A. Moscoso, one of
the leaders of the Santo Domingo rev.
Olution of 1890, died in New York last
Friday. He was exiled after the fail
ure of the revolution.
Franklin Farrell, son of a well-known
millionaire of Ansonia, Conn.,, of the
same name. after spending two weeks
in Europe, has accepted a place at Sc
a week in his fathers tool factory.
Captain Henry w. Lyon, who has
been chosen to succeed Rear Admiral
5. w. Terry as commander of the Hon
olulu naval station upon Terry's re.
tirement next December. is now on
duty at the New York navy yard.
Rev. Moses c. Henderson. who has
just died at st. Johnsbury, VT, at the
age of SIS. established a record in the
matter of funeral attendance. During
MS sixty-two years in the ministry he
officiated at 1890 funerals and during
his long service he performed nearly
1000 marriages.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-04

The packers and strikers at Chicago
tell such conflicting stories that thu
truth is pretty well obscured. and yet
II seems certain that the drift of things
is in favor of the packing companies.
and that the strikers are losing in the
contest. The union men in this case
Se"m to be suffering through lack of
skilfull leadership. for public sympathy
was undoubtedly with them at the
start and against their employers.
The strikers have lost public support
since they began to indulge in violence.
and the leaders seem to be unable to
prevent many of them from returning
to work. If, as the packing houses say,
they are doing 20 to so per cent of their
normal killing, the strike may be re-
garded as practically over. though it
may not be in fact for some time to
come
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-04
MARKET REPORTS
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET
Features OF the Days Dealings in All
the Leading Stocks.

;. New York. Aug. 3.-Speculative activ-
lty in stocks continued light. TODAY Int
such interest as there was shifted in a
pronounced way to stocks of railroads.
whose traffic is largely made IN of cot
!on. RMS was not surprising in view of
the character of the reports circulated In
me AFTERNOON on the condition of the
COTTON crop. The average condition of Of 6
per cent. has never been exceeded excent
IN the corresponding period in 1894. when
IN per cent. was reported Added to
tnIs was the fact that the 100000 acres
painted. this year, Is much the largest
Oh record. There were some factors which
caused special attention to be given to
STOCKS OF railroads in the southern terri
I TH Fhe annual report of the Southern
railway Co. disclosed the most PROSPER
Gus year in the history of the present
company The Central of Georgia Rail-
way Co, affiliated with the Southern
hallway Co. announced an interest pay
IlIent OF per cent. on the second prefer
ence income bonds, the first ever maid IN
tnat security. besides the full per cent
allowed on the first preference INCOMES,
Inc tone of the general speculation in
stocks continued markedly conservative
southern Pacific's rise was the only in
stance of notable strength in the general
lSt ana was unexplained by news. An
advance In refined sugar and a decline in
copper was equally without effect on sI-
gar and on Amalgamated Copper The
market at closed heavy at some recessions.
= me bond market generally was duh.
lotal sales par value, 100000
United States bonds were unchanged on
call. VI
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-04
Boston Stock Market.
New York Produce Market.

New York. Aug. 3.
FLOUR-Receipts. 1l.193; exports so:
sales. 600: firmly held but continued quiet.
MINI. bakers. 3.S5442O. -
WHEAT-Receipts. 1900; sales, $500 900
futures; spot firm: No. : red, nominal ell
eyator: No red, 102 b afioat; No. /
northern Duluth, 115A o afioat: No
hard Manitoba, nominal b afioat.
CORN-Receipts, 10000; exports. S5S2:
sales, 1900 futures and 10000 spot. spot
easy; No. 2, 57A elevator and SIS o b
anoat; No. yellow, cox; No. 2 white,
CATS-Receipts. 1860; spot dull; mixed
oats. 26 to 81 lbs, 4lQ43; natural white.
3o032 lbs, 4JcI46; clipped white, S6 to ~
lbs, 45M51.
BEEF-Firm
LARD-Easy; western steamed, rs; re-
fined barely steady; contintnt, 40; S. A.,
Z 80; compound. 57s@6ls.
PORK-Quiet.
BUTTER-Steady and unchanged; re-
EGGs~Ffrmer but no change in prices;
receipts 13.0s6.
SUGAR-Raw, firm; refined, firm; No.
5, AS, No. Z, 40; No. s. 465; No. 9, 400; No.
10. Ass; No. II, $50; No T. AS; No. IL. 40;
No "a, i35; confectioners "A, 500; mould
"A" 55O cut loaf, 5S5; crushed. 5s5; pow
dered, SIS; graduated, SIS; cubes, $40.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-04

Somebody has looked up the record
of Henry GdSSawa Davis, and finds
that he WAS a protectiOnist when a
member OF the United States Senate.
This being the fact. and it also being
taken into consideration that his great
wealth has been derived from protected
Interested il. reading his views upon
that plank I'm the Democratic platform
that the tariff is Il robbery.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-04
Baseball for the Girls.

Why is it that baseball is always
ladies and always regarded a highly
improper and immoral pastine for
them to engage in? Within the past
few years the country has become we'll
accustomed to girls who play golf,
tennis and basket ball. to girls who
row and swim and ride and climb
mount aims. Why should it put a ban
upon baseball? In fact, it is hard to
find any objection to the game, and
yet we read that a church in the classic
city of Cambridge, Mass, has been
suddenly filled with horror because a
few Of the girls have organized base
ball nine and have been practicing for
a game to take place with another
girls team from a neighboring city.
The pastor at once declared it unbe-
coming and immoral for them and has
given them croquet set as consola-
ton prize for being deprived of the
pri, ilege of indulging i'm the national
game. Even the conservative Boston
Transcript, which would be the last
paper to approve of anything unady-
ton or vicinity, declares that the
objection to baseball is senseless, and
that the game is eminently suited to
the temperament and physique of the
athletic girl Of today
Unquestionably young ladies admire
baseball and enjoy watching the
games. The girl of today has left
croquet behind, and If she is enga ged
in the sports mentioned earlier in this
article it is difficult to see why base
ball should not be included in the list
OF course with football, it is different
matter. but baseball is not so strenu-
Gus and involves neither violent
exertion nor unmaidenly conduct for
girls who participate in it. To be sure
there is an old tradition that a girl
| cannot throw ball, but we believe she
could learn IL she were given half a
chance to practice. Baseball is the
most popular game in the country. and
we enter a plea for the girls of the land,
if they desire the opportunity. to be al
lowed to participate in it without be-
ing ridiculed or reproached.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-04

As far as can be judged at this dis
lance. the war between Japan and Rus
STA has not developed any military
commander Of supreme greatness. AL
though it has been in progress six
months and many battles have been
fought. it seems to be a contest in
which results depend upon the army as
a whole rather than upon individual
leadership; One japanese general. as
we'll as another, seems to get the bet
ter of his Russian opponents. and
whether it be one Russian commander
or another. he retires before the
japanese. Half of the newspaper read
ers do not know the name of the gen.
eral pesieging Port Arthur. or the Rus
sian general defending that city. On
the Japanese side it seems evident that
the average is high, but it is difficult to
decide who is best 1t is also signifi-
cant that while several Russian gem
erals have been wounded in battle,
with one at least. Keller, killed, only
one Japanese general has been injured
This would indicate that the little Japs
are directing from the rear rather than
leading from the front.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-04
Reflections of a Spinster.

> A man wouldn't feel so sorry for the
girls to whom he doesn't propose If he
realized just what those girls think OF
him.
It's an awful shock for a married
man to find out that girl to whom
he has been paying compliments knew
all the time that he was married.
Very few girls bother much over a
broken heart. They always remember
that if man broke it there are other
men who can repair it.
The meanest kind of man is the
one who tries to kiss a girl when he
knows her mother is SO near she will
hear if the girl protests.
The sensible girl will marry the man
who consents to give her regular al
lowance, not the one who is wild to lay
the world at her feet.-Baltimore
American.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-04
Boston Produce Market.

Boston, AUG. ).
FLOUR-Firm and higher; spring pa
tent, 5.70d6.O0.
CORN-Firm: No. yellow. s.
OATS-Firm and unchanged; No. clip
ped. 81.
MILL FEED-Irregular.
BRAN-Spring. 19.25dl195O.
MINED FEED 25@4
COTTON SEED MEAL-2625.
PORK-Steady.
LARD-Sas.
BEEF-Quiet.
LAMB-Unchanged. 1Od12
VEAT-Steady: sag.
BUTTER-Steady: northern. 1aG19h
CHEESE-Quiet; York state. SdS24
EGGS-Easy; fancy, 27@2S; eastern, %
@25
SUGAR-Advanced to basis Of $50.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-04
|@0lNNQ8 Gossip
Uncomfortable Melancholy.

The pessimist looked on the weather map
And a mOurnful sigh sighed he:
For he was most unhappy chap.
Unhappy as could be.
"In January we're frozen tight"
He sang both sad and slow:
I'm February the slush We fight.
And in March the chill winds blow"
"In April comes the mud and rain.
And in May the rain and mud.
In June the heat bids men complain;
July still fires the blood
"September's humidity depressed:
October threatens chill;
NOvember'S climate all unbleSt
That threat doth soon fulfill.
And in December air severe
Our aches and pains we nurse:
And then VIC start another year
Which probably is worse.
Washington Star.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-04

stored in. the laboratory forward to be
used only for seasickness among the
passengers and had given orders that
the stock be at once destroyed In order
to observe the Sabbath. That is how
the City of Rockland was rechristened
with the most copious libations of wine
ever poured upon steamer in Maine.
When the word went around the ere"
that Neptune had got all the cocktails
and champagne there was many
gloomy countenance aboard.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-04
No Duty Has Been Shirked.

During the coming presidential CAM
paign many articles will be written and
many speeches delivered to show why
the Republican party should be con-
tinued In power, but the gist of the
whole thing is found in one little sem
tence of President Roosevelt's speech
of acceptance, when he said During
the seven years that have just passed
there is no duty, domestic or foreign,
which We have shirked."
There is no misunderstanding the
meaning of those few words ana there
is no disputing their truth. In every
respect the Republican party has full
filled the trust the people imposed upon
it, and that is why it asks vote OF
confidence at the coming national cleo
ton and that is why the country Will
decide to let well enough alone ana
take no chances with Democracy.
During these last seven years. the
Republican party has been confronted
with MANY questions vitality affecting
the welfare of our people. and 1nvolV-
ing the honor and dignity of our coun-
try abroad. The intelligent people OF
this country well appreciate hte 1act
that every such question has been fair
Iy and promptly met ana mas heeh
fairly and promptly solved to the credit
of the nation. Questions relative to
our finance, our industries, the
SUPREMACY of the law. the wedding out
of corruption. and other vital matters
have been met promptly and solved
with homer.
It ia easy enough for Democratic
critics to stand without the breast
works and tell what should have been
done and boast of what they would
have done had they been in authority.
but the record of the Democratic party
makes such criticism worthless and
such boasts futile. 1t is the party Of
negation, of evasion, of hypocrisy and
When it has been in
power, it has brought the country only
hard times, and has been ON the wrong
side of every great question in the last
half century.
The New York Press sums up the
record of the past seven years and en-
larges upon the words Of President
Roosevelt, which were quoted above,
in this vigorous fashion. THE Roose-
Welt Administration has not cried.
Turn the rascals out!' 1t has turned
the rascals out. The Republican party
has created surplus where the Demo-
Gratis had bankruptcy. 1t has reduced
the public debt where the Democrats
cents of value in every dollar of the
peoples money while the Democratic
candidate for President was twice vot-
ing to cut it in half with the Bryan
knife 1t has put into operation a tar
if law under which wages are higher
than ever before, savings banks depos-
its larger and the people more prosper
Gus and happy. 1t has acquired the
Panama Canal 1t has done every
thing that the American people have
asked should be done. In giving their
votes TO the Republican party. Mr..
Roosevelt shows. they simply vote to
have this record of performance upheld
and continued"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-04
MAINE EDITORIAL COMMENT.
Old Home Week.

(Watervil1e MALI
Judging from reports IN the ne"spapeis
Hampshire. Vermont and MASSACHUSETTS
is not languishng to the extent IL APP
pears to be in Maine. Is IT because II
has not been killed by kindness In
these commonwealths or IRE ,He ola ia' roes
more Jealous of their SOIL ana oid roof
trees? II can't be because they are bet
ter states to come back to than MAINE.
Who Will Buy a Gold Brick?
(Biddeford Journa1)
If Hope had marketabie value, ana II
the Maine Democrats could dispose OF
their stock on hand even at a big dis
count for cash, they might thus be en-
abled to raise the funds 10 pay tne IN
evitable September funeral expenses.
How Maine People Live.
Portland Advertiser.)
The Watervlle Sentinel Undertakes 10
say that the people OF Mllne 40 hot n.e
any better today than they did twenty
years ago. The people of Maine them
selves know what to think OF such an
them 10 answer That comforts and even
Injuries unknown to the people of twenty
years ago are common IN the rural MONIES
of Maine Is too patent a fact to De argued.
BY talking for few minutes with the ru
raj free delivery carriers anyone may sat
isfy himself that the people of the Maine
countryside are writing and receiving
more letters, taking more newspapers
and magazines. patronlzinE more mall
order houses and city merchants. buying
pianos where the organ or melodeon had
it's place a score of years ago. and in
countless ways improving their surround
irgs. To A considerable portion of the
countryside Of Maine. moreover. the troll
leys offer opportunities for convenient
travel and steam roads are reaching to
portions of the State that twenty years
ago were inevitably in the back woods
The people of Maine are UNNECESSARILY
better off than they were twenty years
ago with respect to the things that make
for culture. improvement and comfort
for the masses. Our colleges offer better
advantages by nearly If not quite
hundred per cent than they did twenty
years ago; there are many more churches
and schoolhouseS now than then; and
the annual advent of summer guests has
done much to interest people in the great
world outside and the things that are 60
ing on there. OF course. extreme in
stances may always be found to which
these statements do MOI apply. But they
are true in the average.
But after all the real question at issue
is whether the people of Maine believe
that they will be able to live better I'M
der the government the Democratic
party would give the State, than they
have living under Republican rule. Sure
" there is nothing in the past record of
the Democratic party either in State or
ma tion to indicate that such would be the
case.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-04
Clinching a Bargain.

"How much will you charge me by the
week." asked the stylish young man,
stepping over the stile in front of the
rural boarding house.
Twenty dollars" Responded the farm
err
"Yo,S are rather steep. / might get even
by running away with your wife
Gosh, stranger, If you'll promise to do
that I'll only charge you five"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-04

have been made for fitting out his pro-
posed and final trip into the frozen
North. Certainly it would be most
creditable to Maine if our people should
contribute the sum needed, for this
intrepid explorer Is a Maine product
and one in whose achievements we all
feel the greatest pride
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-04
Comparison.

Ernestine-And were you very nervous.
when you walked up to the altar?
Eva-Nefvous? Why dear there has
been only one time when was as nerv-
Gus.
Ernestine-when was that?
Eva-The day I pressed Toms trousers
for the first time.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-04
Stirred Them Up.

"fou will admit that education has been
great thing for this community" said
the stranger.
..I'r admit nothing of the kind replied
the mayor of Bacon Ridge. "One of them
peskv school teachers came around here
and told the children the earth was al
ways moving and ever since the whole
town has been seasick, by heck"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-04
COLLEGE Girl.

Ernie-Papa may be very bright in bust
ness. but l don't think he knows much
about love affairs. He asked if my
George was a good provider-
Eva-And is he. dear?
Ernie-Certainly. Why. he's been pro
vidng me with novels. chocolates and
matinee tickets for the last two years.
Pa didn't seem pleased, though.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-04
LIGHT AND AIRY.
BucoIic Innocence.

Mr. Crawfoot-Im glad to hear that
Zeke is settling down on something at
last. He says he's up in town spending
every dollar on gardens.
Mrs. Crawfoot-Did he say what kind
of gardens. Hi?
Mr.. Crawfoot-Yes he said roof gard
ems That's the only place they have
room for gardens in the city.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-04
Century Spoons.

Grandpa courted grandma on this
sofa" said the pretty girl. shyly.
You don't say!' exclaimed her best
young man.
"And pa courted ma here"
Gracious. 1T must have had lots of
spoons
'As many as our buffet"
"Well, I'll just add another and he did
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-04
New York Cotton Market.

New York Aug 5.
Spot closed quiet. five points lower. Mid
ding uplands, 10.lo: do. gulf. 1910. Sales,
215 bales.
Galveston quiet. 1c,4; Memphis steady.
lO,s; New Orleans quiet, 1Oas: Mobile NOM
inal los; Savannah quiet. 10ss.
Consolidated-Net receipts for five days
66ol. Exports to Great Britain. 1897; to
France. S2; to the continent, 1861; to Jap
an. 1405: to Mexico, 49,
Stock, lOO05S
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-04
Chicago Cattle Market.

Chicago, Aug 3.
CATTLE-Receipts. $500: good to prime
steers, 5.25@6.25.
HOGS-Receipts. 12,OO0; good to choice
heavy, 530u5.50; bulk of sales at 5.3O0r5. TO-
SHEEP-Receipts. 14.O0O; good to choice
Wethers. 3.75Gl415
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Similarity,

when Hasbeen was in politics his
credit was good everywhere Now he
can't get trust at all,
Reminds me of clock"/
In what way"
when he's run down, and broken his
tick stops
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-04
Nothing impossible.

citedly?" Tin
Why he says his baby 4 1ancially
embarras sed. Fan
Get out. How could Home t.a e,,,
ciallv embarra ssed ?.Al, Stolen ''''i''
oh, he swallow ~, Lro,, ),
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-04

The Portland papers are calling upon
the people of Maine to raise the s5O00
which Commander Robert E. Peary
needs and must have before August 10.
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VOICES OF THE PRESS.
A Versatile Muse.

O<ansas City Starr
Roosevelt and Fairbanks" is easy for
the Macon Republicans poet. He says:
Rhyme? Well. we should say yes.
Roosevelt and Fairbanks on platform of
square planks will stir up and scare
cranks, and in a pinch we might work in
something about rare pranks and bare
chanlxS''
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Marse Henry's Prospect Hole.

philadelphia North Amercan)
A hole in the ground, bigger than Mann
moth Cave. has been discovered in Ken
lucky. Probably caused by Colonel
Watterson's mining operations in search
of ha rmOny.
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Even the Least of Sinners.


philadelphia Press)
A conscience-smitten chicken thief in
New York is returning the stolen fowls.
This news is of interest to psychologists
as the first evidence that man who will
steal chickens has a conscience.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-04
NEW YORK STOCK MARKET,

Furnished Daily by the Federal Stock
and Grain Co.; Office, Opera House
Block, Augusta, Maine; TEL, 52-2;
r. D. Crissman, Mar.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-04
New York Money Market.

New York, Aug 3.
Money on call very easy: last loan at 1.
rrime mercantile paper SA@fA per cent.
sterling exchange firm at 4SS10 for de-
mand and 1850 for so day bills
Posted rates 486 and 4SS1aai.S9.
Commercial bills 4.S4A
Bar silver 5SA
Mexican dollars 43A
Government bonds steady,
Railroad bonds firm
United States ref. IS .................. 1oi7s
10 20. coup. ....:.................-... 1045s
,nited states IS, reg. ................. 1O5
United States new As, reg. ........... 131
10. coup. ....;.................... 1914
onlted States old 4s reg. ............. 1861
no. coup. ....:...............-..... 1864
United States IS, reg. .................
= Baltimore & Ohio IS ................... 1875
II, y. q Q. new Is OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. a7k
chicago, Mil. & St p As ............. 1O9H
Denver & Rio Grande IS ............ 1901
f1' Gen. AZ .......................... 8iA
missouri, Kansas & Texas 4s 99k
DO. 2nds ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Is
Northern Pacific Is ,................... 1861
mon Pacific IS OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1854
DO. con. Is 102ls
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The Inevitable.


TEOSCOH fftTd1CJ
The Oldest city in the world has just
been uncovered in Babylonia. and the
oldest inhabitant is still telling what the
wilderness was like when he laid out the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-04

Those Fall River girls who are COM
do better than to stay in Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-04

Hon. w. T. CObb's opening speech in
Knox county was the kind which will
win him votes and public confidence.