Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-01-05

best class Of farming citizens from our
| own soil. However these emigrants to
Canadian soil find out that they nave
| tn work like dogs for four months in
| the year and hibernate for eight. in or
de,. to Get from the soil what is re-
| uuired 70 make homes and money. All
we need TO do is to get these people to
look at our lands down here in Louisi-
ana and Texas.
| in last months Leaves of Healing.
! Dowic publishes a portrait of himself
| in his new high -Driestly and apost0l-
| ic robes. contradicts the report that
| wealthy Miss Hofer of Switzerland is
engaged to his son Gladstone. and tells
| how he took ris wife TO Florida i'm his
private car Not one newspaper was
| willing to let us pass through the land
| quietly" he says. Numbers of re-
! pOrterS had to be literally elected from
| the rear platform of the car at all
| hours of the day and night, for which
| they took their revenge. as AT tincin-
\ natl ny shameful lies in the Times
! Star etc. ard at Atlanta. Georgia.
| where The ear arrived after midnight.
and whch AL aboard had retired, and
| not one of our party WAS seen by re-
porterS. 1t would seem as if nothing
| was sacred to these wretched creatures.
| Although they knew that our dear wife
was being taken by us to the South for
her health. they Squabbled and peered
around the ear. both by day and night,
all the way 10 Florida, and again all the
way back
An English correspondent informs
/ IDnx
=. Gladstone mas been appointed by the
Duke of ~Devonshirc rector of Harrow
by in Lincolnshire. Also that the re-
cent rumorS about his conversion 1"
Roman Catholicism We're untrue.
In Il letter 10 the Churchman Bishop
&. II. Trent says: a report is cur
| rent aud evidently widespread, as /
| have heard Of il i'll three different
cities. that Il large sum of money has
| been given me for my work in the
| Philippine Islands. | wish to deny the
| report, inasmUch as it is an incorrect
| one :tnd is apt to deter people from
| making contributions. which are sorely
| needed. | am myStitied us to how it
| should haze arisen. as there il not the
| least foundation for such Il report.
From all sources | have receivd less
| than $4,000 since coming to America.
and. unless unexpected aid comes, shall
return 10 my field unable to carry out
| my plans.
The late Marshal O. Roberts's grand
daughter, Evelyn Van Wart. has been
| received into the Roman Catholic
| church. and 4 London correspondent of
| the World has written about the occur
| renee. Miss Van Wart has never
been known as Il specially religious
woman. he says. and it was sone-
| thing of !. surprise to her host Of
| friends when they learned she had
been for several months studying th.
| teachings and doctrines of the Roman
| church. Her entertainments at DittOn
Park and at No. - Curzon street have
| been among the most splendid in Lon
don! and have been thr0nSed not only
by Americans but by the best classes OF
English society. For Miss Van Wart
has lived here many years and has al
most as many English as American
frienis. She has $4,000 IL year for
life. and when her grandmother now
Mrs. Ralph Vivian. dies will be. one of
tie heirs TO the 5000. 900 left by Mar
| shall q. Roberts on his death in 1850"
!
mend Dr. Lyman Abbott's recent dis
| course 10 the Harvard students. .It is
IL mistake, says that paper, for any
man with DR.. Abbott's influence TO
make what seems to be a revolutionary
statement without sufficiently explain
ing ii at the time. to preclude the need
| OF later modifying statements. More-
over. the iltinaton at the outset that
1 it,. ,lNI.
leaS' IN" suggestion of posing as Il
martyr. or i sensationalist. neither OF
which roles is. We think, naturally con-
| genial to DIR. Abbott. Lastly, in our
| Judgment. an audience made up of ear
| nest. unreasonable college students
offers Il preacher today an opportunity |
for pressing home the vital truth of |
personal religion which he ought not |
To put one side in the interest of ex-
| pl"liing his own theology or philoso- |
| Thy
here is most remarkable con- !
| 'fast. writes Consul Horace W. Met |
can from NEWCASTLE Tyne. he !
tween the condition of the pie-iron |
trade now and its condition a wear ago |
IN November last Year there was n |
very heavy shipment of pig iron from |
| the Tees. and the stocks i'm the warrant |
stores were falling Yet the market |
was described as showing Il ',lead-itlle |
business. and the prices of Cleveland |
IRON tended downward. In every par |
tlcular these conditions are now re- |
Vrrsed The shipments from the Tees |
are much smaller than they were: the
Stocks in the warrant stores have In.
creased and are increasing; but the
lfice mas in the last few weeks risen
lh''l It is about that Of il year ago ana
instead OF an idle business. the latest
report shows strong market with a
cIt f,,tt;