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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-17
LATEST SPORTING NEWS.
Not a Ripple
Thus Far Among
League Magnates.

Chicago, Feb 1G-The opening of the
sessions of the annual meetings Of the
National and the American Baseball
Leagues developed no excitement today,
Notwithstanding the rumOrs that nave
been circulated about possibly wordy
wars.
At the session of the National League
the schedule was adopted without change
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-17

Rome, Feb. 1G-Ambassador and
Mrs. GriscOm were received IN audi
ence by Queen Helena today and pre-
scented to Her Majesty the sum Of
$3.50 900 from the American Red Cross
Society for the foundation Of an or
phanagc to care for 100 children who
lost their parents in the Calabrian
earthquake. The Queen was most de-
lighted With this gift and said she
could not find words to express her
gratitude for this American gen.
erOSity
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-17
porando Beats Three me

Louisville, Feb. 16.-Dorahu.s .AI
the Italian runner, MONDAY ,.a.ll
feated a relay team OF four ~ ~
ners in a 15-mile race. his Il
1912 over a track OF u ZAP
mile.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-17
CLARENCE HAMILTON is
ROLLER SKATING CHAN

Pittsburg, Feb. l6.-Clarence Hamu,.l
of Boston won the thre"-mile champO,
ship race in the national professio,,
roller skating contests tonight. Til
$50 %
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-17
TILE HORSE TRAFFIC.

Boston. Feb. 16.-The supply of fresh
horses brought into Boston during the
past week was OF average amount. and
the receipts We're mostly of good sevice-
able horses for commercial purposes.
Heavy drafters sold readily at high values
and the lighter weight wagon horses sold
to q rather more active demand than II
week ago but with no advance in prices
Values on all classes of horses held well
and the sale stables We're fairly well
cleaned out. Trade is naturally a little
slack at this season. but judging by the
between-season sales of the past few
weeks the spring opening should be good
There has been all through the winter a
constant demand for ordinary second
hand horses. which sell low. and are
profitable bargains to trucksters, etc.
Quotations are unchanged: First class
fresh drafters. 1850 to 1900 lbs, sold at
s3256i $3.50; lighter weight drafters at $250d
$325; milk team. eNplessers, delivery and
general purpose horses at S15OMs25o; sec
ond- hand commercials at 500 and upward
according to condition. First-class driv-
ers at $30ou$1G0; medium to good drivers
and light business horses at $l35Ms2G0: or
OlnaIN StcOnu-Ilafu IOfSeS 1T S10 ana up
ward.
At the city sale stables-Whceler, Me-
Elveen & Co. held very good sales on Il
heavy supply of horses during last week
The demand was not quite up to that of y
week ago. but values held firm. Three
express loads of fresh horses and $50 head
Of seasoned and secondhand horses were
offered
WEIGH Hall & Co. sold to a steady
trade a even values l freight and l ex-
press load of green horses and about So
acclimated horses.
Myer Abrams & Co. report brisk sales
to an active demand with values firm. on
5 freight and l express and 80 acclimated
horses.
Isburgh & Co. had entered so head of
medium to good horses suitable for light
business and driving purposes. The horses
sold readily at fair values
Moses Colman & Son. of Cambridge
sold a number of good drivers and light
commercial horses at unchanged values
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-17
AN ACCIDENT.
(Continued from Page One.)

him. Both father and son disputed the
States contention that Mrs. Strout heid
her husband in her arms when he dled.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-17

Budapest. Feb 1G-An earthquake
shock lasting for 10 seconds was felt
today in the districts % Kceslrmst.
Macy Korcs. Czeglcd and Felcgyhaza.
The inhabitants fled in terror to tn"
country The walls of number o;
houses were cracked, but othrrWiS"
there was no damage.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-17
WATERFOWL AND BRIGHTON
LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

Reported Specially for the Kennebe
Journal
81 Live Stock Yards, Feb. 1G, 1863.
MAINE AT BRIGHTON.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-17

Lisbon, Feb ia slight earthquake"
shock was experienced today in the
vicinity Of Penafiel. No damage was
done
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-17
IN THE HOUSE.
Bill Passed Requiring Ocean Going
Vessels to Have the Wireless.

Washington. Feb. 16.-Being still the
Legislative day of yesterday. the House
of Representatives today for the most
part devoted itself to the consideration
OF bills under suspension of the rules.
a number were passed. among them
being these requiring the equipment Of
oceans going vessels with wireless APP
paratus and providing for the re-or-
ganiZation and enlistment nf the Naval
Academy Band.
The Indian appropriation bill. carry
ing an appropriation of $l1 ,a1l 600, was
passed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-17
BASEBALL NOTES.

catcher Ed Spencer has signed with
the Red SoX
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-17

Washington, Feb. l6.-The Burke
bill requiring all ocean going Stea IN
ships carrying 80 or more passengers
to be equipped with wireless telegraph
apparatus was passed by the House of
representatives today The bill pre-
scribes penalty of not to exceed
three thousand dollars or imprison-
ment for not to exceed one year OF
both. or violation OF its provisions
one year is allowed for the installa-
ton of such equipment.
A step toward procuring recognition
of the rights of American Jews TO
travel through Russia was taken mp
today when the House committee on
foreign affairs. agreed To urge the
House to pass a joint resolution on the
subject. The resolution requests the
President to renew negotiations with
Russia to procure by treaty ar other
wise. uniform treatment that all
American citizens shall have equal
freedom to travel and sojourn without
regard to race creed or religious faith
France and Great Britain will be
invited to participate in the tercenten-
airy celebration of the discovery OF
Lake Champlain if the Foster resolu-
ton Tuesday reported out of the House
committee on foreign affairs. is finally
agreed to,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-17

This week: Cattle 1852. sheep $685. calves
1868, hoge 1926.
Last week: Cattle 4093, sheep SIP. calves
1894. hogs 25,6S5.
MAINE STOCK AT MARKET.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-08-13

To these names may be added that of
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, sur
vivor of the generation of Abolition
leaders and commander of a colored
regiment during the Civil War.
In declining an invitation to attend
conference on the status of the
negro, he deplored all such agitation.
which makes the problem. of the South
only more difficult. The day may vet
come when the North will 70 rmally ac-
knowledge that the South's stubborn
refusal, since the Civil War, to yield
an inch of its stand in the matter of
the relations of the races was an
epochal contribution to the white race
in America, which, under the outrage
GUS difficulties which the North pressed
down upon the South, could not have
been done differently. Probably it
would be impossible to prophesy day
more unhappy for this continent than
the one on which the Southern white
should abate one iota of his race-pride.
Golfers weekly.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-08-13
THE SOUTH.

The south is gaining powerful friends.
And perhaps not so much friends, whose
motive is avowed sympathy, as merely
clear-eyed observers who are just and
have courage. BY the multiplication of
these will her way be made smooth.
Mr.. William Archer completed last win
ter long journey of observation
through the Southern States. From
his conclusions. printed in the July
Mcclure we detach two sentences:
The South is in the main
actuated by just and far-reaching, if
not far-seeing, instinct. / believe that
the problem, far from being unreal, is
so real and so dishearteningly difficult
that nothing but an almost superhuman
wisdom, energy, and courage will ever
effectually deal with it.
We wish that these convictions were
in the heart of every New Englander
who hastily calls meeting to pass res
olutions on the negro problem, and
every Northern editor who has formula
long conventionalized. In which he
writes, periodically, a scolding for the
South. In the Outlook" the other
day, Lyman Abbott spoke of his SYM
pathy with the intense feelings of the
Southern white, his ''strong confirma-
ton" of the enlightened views of Pres
ident Eliot and Ambassador Bryce
about the South's ultimate problem.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-08-13
FIGHT WITH A WHALE.

Captain Kennard, of the schooner Eva
Alice, which arrived at Hampton Roads
last Sunday from Middlesex county,
had an encounter with a whale in the
lower Chesapeake Bay Saturday morn.
ing. According to the skipper, he
sighted the whale about 8 o'clock, anG
at first thought it was a submarine
torpedo boat lying at anchor. Wher
he got alongside he found his mistake,
for the whale spurted water across the
schooner's deck. The skipper put his
vessel about just as the whale made q
swipe at the craft with his tail.
Several incoming vessels have re.
ported aischool:of whales off the Capes
and this one probably was with the
school. Only few months ago mon
ster whale grounded at Buckroe anc
was killed.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-08-13
FAIR IRvINGTON.

Fair Irvington, fair Irvington,
What picture to behold!
Set in frame of emerald green
And bathed in sunset gold;
Crowned with shady, lofty trees,
With flowers blooming sweet,
And pleasing to thy vanity
A mirror at thy feet
A stranger to thy lovely shore
l wandered there one day.
Finding delights and joys such
AS caused me long to stay;
Such dancing and such flirting,
Oh. merry, happy time!
The fishing and the boating,
Thy pleasures are divine.
OF all thy charms none can compare
With the beauty and the grace
OF the daughters of fair Irvington,
AS seen in every face.
She whose charms of face and form
Have caused sad hearts to bleed,
A gem of rarest beauty she,
A Ruby" is indeed.
Farewell. farewell, fair Irvington,
I'll long to see thy shore,
To meet again the friends l met
And share those pleasures o'er.
To her my compliments send
And then my task is done
The stateliest, queenliest woman.
The Duchess" of Irvington.
r. Selden Ellysoh, Summer 1909
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-08-13
ODD FACTS ABOUT FISHES.
Some Live in Boiling Water, Yet
Freezing Won't Kill Others.

There are many odd facts about fishes.
In Siam, in the small streams at the
foot of the hills of Penang, there
aoounds small fish which the natives
call piakat, or the fighting fish. This
hsh is to the Siamese what gamecocks
are TO the Malays, and bulls to the
Spaniards. AS a result of years of
breeding the natives have developed a
special race which they use in fighting.
The fishes are kept in glasses of water.
and fed by their owners, among other
things, with the larvae of mosquitoes.
and other aquatic insects. The Siamese
are as infatuated with the combats of
these fishes as the Malays are with
their cock fights, and stake on the is
sue considerable sums, and sometimes
their own persons and families. The
right to exhibit fish-fghts is a royal
monopoly, and is framed, thus bringing
considerable revenue to the King
each year.
Occasionally fish are found in strange
places. In Guatemala curious species
of fish are found in the boiling lake of
Amatilian, where it passes its days lit
orally in continual hot water. So hot is
the water of this lake, it is said, that to
trust ones hand into it would scald the
fingers. Broussonnet found by expert
ment that several species of fresh water
fish lived for many days in water so hot
the human hand could not be held in it for
single minute, Saussure found living
eels in the hot springs of AK, in Savoy,
the temperature of which averages 113
degrees Fahrenheit. In Queensland fish
have been found to abound in a highly
mineralized stream that issues from an
artesian bore at a temperature of 1l2
degrees.
Yet freezing won't kill them. After
being frozen solid in the ice and later
thawed out, they are apparently none
the worse for their experience,
One of the fishes found in the Alas
kan streams tributary to Behring Sea
is the blackfish. The natives catch
enormous quantities of these through
the ice, and after they have lain on
the ice long enough to be frozen solid
store them in large baskets. Turner
the discoverer of the fish, says it's vi
tality is extraordinary, and after re-
naming frozen in the baskets for
weeks it is as lively as ever when
thawed out. Sir John Franklin, the.
Arctic explorer reports the case of a
carp that had been frozen stiff for Sc
hours and was apparently lifeless,
gaiiy moving about after being thawed.
To serve as barometer is strange
use for fish. Yet the loach, which is
very susceptible to atmospheric
changes, has been kept alive in aquaria
as living barometer for the supposi-
tion that certain movements Indicate
particular changes that are about to
occur in the weather. In Russia the
dead body of Cuttus gobio, the miller's
thumb, is used as a weathercock. Hung
by single thread, it will point to the
direction whence the wind blows.
While of course, fishes must sleep.
it has fallen to the lot of few observ-
ers to witness what is an unmistakable
case of sleeping on their part. 1t has
been observed, however in an aquarium
that members of the family Labridae,
the wrasses, will seek a sleeping place
at night and lie down to rest on one
side.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-08-13
WONDERS OF THE SEA.
Some Interesting Facts About Waves
Temperature and Evaporation.


The sea occupies three fifths of the
surface of the earth. At the depth of
8, 500 feet waves are not felt. The tenn
perature is the same, varying only a
trifle from the ice of the pole to the sun
of the equator. A mile down the water
has pressure of over a ton to the
square inch. If box six feet deep
was filed with seawater, and allowed
to evaporate under the sun, there
would be two inches of salt left on the
bottom. Taking the average depth of
the ocean to be three miles. there would
be layer of pure salt $50 feet thick
on the bed of the Atlantic.
The water is colder at the bottom than
at the surface. In the many bays on
the coast of Norway the water freezes
at the bottom before it does above.
Waves are very deceptive, to look at
them in storm, one would think the
water travelled. The water stays in the
same place, but the motion goes on.
sometimes in storms these waves are
10 feet high, and apparently roll at a
rate of so miles an hour. The distance
from valley to valley is generally Is
times the height; hence a wave five feet
high will extend over 75 feet of water.
Evaporation is wonderful power in
drawing the water from the-sea. Every
year layer of the entire sea Ii feet
thick is taken up into the clouds.
The winds bear their burden into the
land, and the water comes down in rain
upon the fields, to flow back at last
through the rivers.
The depth of the sea presents an in
teresting problem. If the Atlantic was
lowered 6.551 feet, the distance from
shore to shore would be half as great,
or ], 500 miles. If lowered little more
than three miles, say 1859 feet, there
would be road of dry land from New
foundland to Ireland. This is the plane
on which the great Atlantic cables are
laid.
The Mediterranean is comparatively
shallow. The drying up of 660 feet
would leave three different seas, and
Africa would be joined with Italy.
The British Channel is more like a
pond which accounts for it's choppy
waves.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-08-13
EMPTYING VIRGINIA.

Come back ye Southron yoemen;
come ye back to old Virginia. Such is
the siren song sung by the local press.
The good State of Virginia has grown
worried about herself because her young
men are seeking fresh fields and Mid
die Western pastures. The census re-
ports of 1900 have been examined for
native white population. These show
that the interchange with other States
left Virginia in 1900 with a net loss of
237. OFT persons This is a net loss
equivalent to twenty per cent of her
population at that time. In proportion
to population, this migratory tendency
cost Virginia more heavily than any
State or Territory in the Union, ex-
cept Maine.
The Richmond ''Times-Dispatch"
speaks of ''an uncompensated loss of
nearly a quarter of a million of her
own native-born. and "another old
Eastern State, Massachusetts, with a
clean gain of nearly 100, 900. Virginia is
losing population out of all proportion
to her gains, out of all proportion to
her actual population. out of all pro-
portion to the experience of other
States"
'Is there really no chance for an am
bilious young man in the South?" asks
the Columbia State" 'Is the South
really blind to talent? The South ought
to have sense enough to keep its young
men. Golfers Weekly
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-08-13
NOW SHE KNOWS HE'S NO FLIRT.
cleveland Leader. }

William Hawshaw, president of the
Hawshaw, Fuller & Goodwin Co., was
riding homeward comfortably seated
and reading his paper. Being a trifie
near sighted, he was applying himself
even more closely TO his paper than
other homing passengers. Thus intent
on the days news he was startled when
a woman came up beside him and touch
ed him lightly on the shoulder, at the
same time casting longing eye on his
seat.
Hawshaw is polite man and he got
up "A woman with that much nerve
is entitled to a seat" he muttered to
himself. ''the idea of woman delib-
erately nudging man out of his seat!"
Other women standing nearby laughed
unreservedly. Hawshaw hid his en-
barrassment behind his paper, for he
felt that his good nature had been i'm
posed upon and that the laugh was on
him.
By and by there was a vacant seat
next to the one he had given up to the
woman. and he sat down once more.
The woman turned and looked at him
amusedly. He could feel her gaze,
even though he made a bluff at being
intensely interested in his paper. Pret-
ty raw, it seemed to him. for a woman
deliberately to take the seat of a total
stranger and then sit there and laugh a,
him because he was such mark.
Then the woman spoke 10 him.
"Aren't you going to talk to mel" she
asked.
Hawshaw could stand her familiarity
no longer.
well, of all the" He stopped
right there when he looked around and
recognized her. 1t was his wife.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-08-13

natural scenery. For example, an OBJ
server on the vantage-ground of the
Rotunda terrace might have looked down
upon fish and oysters from Northumber-
land. hams and peanuts from South
ampton, and jugs of litha water from
Mecklenburg. Bedford reminded the
assembly of her Peaks of Otter, Nelson
celebrated her Crabtree Falls, and
Giles gave information concerning her
Mountain Lake.
A group from Maryland. consisting
of Lord Baltimore. Charles Carroll, of
Carrollton. Francis Scott Key, and
others. paused before the receiving
party long enough for the author of
the ''Star Spangled Banner" to recite
the words, while the other members of
the company sang the stirring hymn.
West Virginia had in its company the
heet-footed Elizabeth Zane and the
dark silent figure of Stonewall Jackson.
South Carolina came forth in the per
sons of Francis Marion and his men,
and many fair DANES in simple white
and blue colonial dress, with palmetto
hats draped in long waving moss. In
the matter of general "attractiveness"
the South Carolina delegation was per-
haps called upon to divide honors only
with the ghosts of Arlington and the
two stiff-kneed but fun-loving Dutch
men, of New Jersey. South Carolina
also had the distinction of presenting
the largest delegation of the all differ
ent States and counties, Rockingham
county, Virginia, holding second place
In numerical rank.
Among the numerous educational i'm
stitutions represented in the pageant
were the College Of William and Mary,
Washington and Lee, University of
Virginia and the Randolph sys-
tenn of colleges.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-08-13
MORE FISH NOW
THAN EVER BEFORE.
Norfolk Inspector Says VirginIa
Waters Are Overstocked with
Fipny Tribe.
Norfolk VirginIan -PiIot.)

Norfolk virsinian -PiIot.)
Among those who share the astonish-
ment at the unprecedented quantity of
fish being daily caught from Virginia
waters, especially at Ocean View, is
II. X. Swami, fish and oyster inspector
for Districts Nos. 81, % and 25.
What in other years would have
seemed fish stories of the first order.
piscstorial tales without a shadow of
plausibility, are told by people commonly
accredited the virtue of telling things
straight, and are now accepted as some
of the commonplaces of the season.
Talking on the fish subject yesterday
Mr.. Swami said:
There are more fish in Virginia wa
ters this year than were ever known
before. While making my inspection
during the months of June and July
found a similar condition in all the
waters of the State. Fishermen We're
catching such large quantities that
consumers could secure them at nomi-
nal prices
I'm many cases nice spot were selling
as low as one cent each. Hook and
line fishermen at many points are aver
aging now about 100 spot an hour.
Zone of theigreatest curiosities ever
saw was at Ocean View. A fisherman,
throwing his line overheard, had fish
on each hook as soon as it was in the
water and when he drew the line in it
was followed to the surface by the
school.
People have even found sport in
catching them in dip-net. / saw a
man catch three spot at one dip of the
net.
II have also found more oysters than
for many years. l am glad to say /
have discovered no violations of the
oyster laws since the closing of the sea-
son. The Fisheries Commission has re-
ceived from citizens engaged in the
fish and oyster business many express
sions of thanks and congratulations for
the protection they have received"
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1909-08-13
VIRGINIA.

Virginia, dear Virginia,
OF all the States. the queen,
And mother, too, of Presidents,
Whose like was never seen;
We love thee, thee we honor,
We glory in thy fame,
Our hearts are filled with rapture
On breathing thy dear name.
We love the, dear Virginia,
For the trials thou didst bear,
For all the joys and sorrows
In which thou hadst thy share,
In those sad days of suffering,
When thou didst meet the foe
Who'd wrest from thee thy honor.
Thy ancient pride lay low.
God bless thee, dear Virginia,
And hold His sheltering hand
O'er all thy sons and daughters,
Bravest, Fairest, of the land;
May thy old glorious banner,
In naughty pride and mien,
Fer fiout it's dauntless motto
Ger thee, of States the queen.
William M. Pegram.