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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-05
CITY OF AUGUSTA. MAINE
$4,000. 90 Refunding Bends.
s45,o0O.00 High School Building
Bonds.

Sealed proposals will be received by s n,
undersigned until IL A. M. WeohesesaaSy'
Eehruary 10, 1909, for the purchase oI *1o,
ooG 1 per cent refunding bonds. WIN ac-
q ,rhese bonds will be issued in dement,
nations of $1,000, dated February l. !ys.
and mature in twenty-five years. VIZ:
Sealed proposals will also be reeeived
for az. 900 in High School Building oonas:
ut 4 ner cent, issued in denominaIIohs 81
eco and $1,000 dated March |. lW9, sioW
maturing each year until paid oesinni"s
jim Rnth of the above bond issues. will bear
interest coupons payable semi.annuaily
nnd hot h bonds and coupons WILL pc pay
able at the First National Bank OF Bos-
ton. 4,oa xaoht ~ the ritv is
eo7s an0 which will be reduced $l2aVo by
Tho maturing of bonds February ID. 1919
The last valuation Of the city was ST.
Sio;oiV Certified check for $1,000 PAYABLE to
&he Treasurer of the City OF Augusta
,n,,st accompany each bid. .
The right is reserved to reject any ana
all bids ..,,,
he endorsed Proposals for Bonds"
FREDERICK w. PLAISTED,
Mayor Of Augusta, Maine.
jansodtodate
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-05

Passed to Be Engrossed.
Resolve in favor of the Bridgewater
Classical Academy.
An Act to provide for the purchase
of farm on which to conduct
scientific Investigations in orcharding.
On motion by Mr.. Staples of Knox,
this bill was tabled, pending it's pass
age to be engrossed.
Resolve in favor of Holy Innocents
Home for Infants in the City of Port
land.
Resolve in favor of Eastern Maine
General Hospital.
Read and Assigned.
Resolve in favor of L. M. Staples,
Chairman of Committee on Home for
Feeble Minded.
An Act to amend Section l OF
CHAPTER "a of the Public Laws of 1917,
in relation to reports OF hearings III
vacation in law or equity.
An Act to extend the charter OF the
Central Aroostook Electric Company
An Act to extend the charter of the
Washburn Electric Company
An Act to extend the charter of the
Northern Aroostook Electric Company
An Act additional to Chapter la ol
the Revised Statutes. providing Tor the
recovery OF money improperly paid by
the State for the support OF insane
paupers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-05
Boston Produce Market.


APPLES-Steady: Baldwins on'' .o>,o,.
BUTTER-Higher; northern oo&.-'
CHF,ESE-Higher: n. Y. 15Ia.
CORN-Unchanged; No . yel9 9s a..
EGGS-Unchanged; choice 'ooz'' "es'-
IITR-Unchanged; spring patents BIB
@615 a,,roa. whole cat
HAY-Unchanged No. ! 1900.
LAMBS-Unchansed llma,,
LARD-Unchanged: pure lls.
MILL FEED--Firm.
BRAN-26. 75M q. p.
Mixed FEED-27 .5oM29,3o.
OATS-Firm; No. 2 clipped white ut eo ". -
pORK-F'irm: medium backs 9;'rm-l''o
TATOE,S-Firm: white 1GMl.65.
SJ1GAR-Firn; graduated 40
VEALS-Steady; 1lltl3.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-05
Chicago Produce Market.

chicago, rep. 4.
Although bullish sentiment was again
rampant in the wheat pit early in the
session today, the market lost much of
it's snap during the final hour and closed
about. steady with prices a shade lower
to aMlc. higher compared with final quo
tations of the previous session. Corn and
oats closed easy and provisions were
weak.
Car lot receipts: Wheat 10 cars, with
of contract grade: corn 127 cars. with
one of contract grade oats 60 cars
Total receipts of wheat at Chicago.
Minneapolis and Duluth today. were 2SS
cars. compared with 234 cars last week
and $50 cars the corresponding day a
.BUTTER-steady; creameries 22@29;
diaries 21@25.
EGGS-Weak; at market. cases includ-
ed 2703O: firsts 80; prime firsts 81.
CHEESE-Firm; daisites 49,: twins 14!;
young Americas 16; long horns 16
POTATOES-Firm; choice to fancy $50
so: fair to good 75G77.
POULTR Y-steady turkeys IS; chick
VEALS-Steady; 5od6O-lb. weights 7M4;
6OGS5-lb. weights 7lGSa; S5@11o-lb. weights
9d10a. ~ oo,~
'CI;ORN-May sss: July GA: Sept. ssss@!.
OATS-May 81; July 4sa01s; Sept. 39i
MESS PORK-May 1890; July 1877.
ARDrMaY 9e23 July Sszg g1Ssa9'3 u,v aoss
FLOUR-Firm.
RYE-No , &c.
FEED-Or mixed barley eoa@s2,
MALTING-Fair to choice 62t6i. go.
FLAX SEEDING. southwestern log;
No l northwestern 16Oa.
TIMOTHY SEED-3S0@62a
CLOVER-920.
MESS PORk-16SlM11OO.
sHoRT RIBS. sIDEs-s37!@75.
SHORT CLEAR SIDES-S75@9O0.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-05
New York Cotton Market.

spot closed quiet Middlins uplands sso''
do gulf 1905 Sales 300 bales. e a.
Galveston easy. 81; Charleston 6i1 urn .asy y
rs: Memphis steady. %; New orleans easy
q III: Savannah easy, 80. ~,
Net receipts for six days 2lo,4i3 ,-o. -
Exports to Great Britain T -sss TO 70
France 1l.196; to the continent li''0'o' u
Janan 63:s;
Stock 90S.263.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-05

| Total clearances OF Wheat anu IUuI
were equal to 900 bushels. Primary re-
ceipts were 462, 900 bu compared with w
ESTIMATED receipts for tomorrow:
Wheat I cars, corn 1856 cars, oats 5. cars,
hogs 20 Goo head.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-05

Mrs. Maria Ludlam. of Daddy. Le'c Sho
tershire. England. is 100 years old. Sne
1 toi 1nn. hecn A smoker and her FRIENDS
,i1S ioi ,ao,,,ed the anniversary of her birth
i b sending her parcels of tobacco
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-05
New York Money Market.
New York, Feb. 4

New York, Feb. 4
Prime mercantile paper 3aG04 per cent.
Sterling exchange weak at 49,. 1OGI 49,. %
for 60-day bills and 4S7.35 for demand.
Commercial bills 4S4s@485.
Bar silver 50.
Mexican dollars A.
Government bonds steady.
Railroad bonds irregular.
Money on call easy at 2a3 per cent.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-11
DIAMOND MINING IN ARKANSAS
10 BEGIN on A LARGE SCALE

Pike County Arkansas
investigated the field region
a recent Engineering Mining Journal
Fuller
Of
Of
Three
$1O4
oeha miles
diamond made 1872 until 1890
including reported
by Geologis, that 1T scientifically described
soil that difficulty wash
South peidote popularity bue
originating the of the material
radical peridot
writes the
mining
which
in
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-11
THE BLIND SWIM STRAIGHT.
Keep Course with Marvellous Directness
Guided by Sound

Just as some professional singers with
magnificent voices never learn to sing in
perfect tune, so do the trainers of really
fine swimmers often find it impossible
that men with every quality for racing
otherwise can be made or taught to
swim even i'll an approximately straight
line.
Many a splendid swimmer is beaten on
this account, for his inveterate habit of
getting off his course naturally gives him
a roundabout journey. But the remark
able fact remains that blind swimmers
of whom there are in this country
considerable number in connection with
various institutions for persons so af-
fiicted = universally and without excep-
ton swim with marvellous directness; IN
deed, in as perfectly straight line as is
humanity possible, even when the dis
tance covered is very considerable.
So much is this the case that DR..
Campbell, of the College for the Blind
at Upper Norwood, who particularly in
terests himself in the physical education
of the blind and has noticed this curious
fact, recommends that swimmers who
persistently foul each other on any
course should practice experimentally
when hlindfolded.
Blind swimmers can, it appears, on
hearing a noise in any given direction
not only swim absolutely straight to the
point whence the noise proceeds, but
when left to themselves their steering is
inst as accurate.-Tit-Bits.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-11
Telegraphers' Cramp.

An interesting feature of teegraphists'
cramp is that certain letters are nearly
always the stumbling block. The most
frequent are ''C'' and "Y''-that is, the
code signals used for these letters. When
a sender begins to be conscious about
so common a letter as "C'' his case
soon becomes hopeless one. Another
form of cramp attacks the receiver of
the message. 1t takes the form of inabil-
ity to write fast enough to take down
message, quickly transmitted. This is
easily understood when it is remembered
that receiver often has to write contin-
uously to code dictation, so to speak, for
hours at time The strain involved is
enormous, and leads fairly commonly to
what is practically a form of nervous
breakdown.-Dundee Advertiser.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-11
Always Keeps a Bottle in the house.

Always Keeps a Bottle in the House.
about ten days before Christmas
got my hand hurt so badly that had
TO stop work right in the busy time of
the year." says Mr.. Milton Wheeler,
R1O0 Norris ave., Birmingham, Ala. cat
first I thought I would have to have
my hand taken OFF, but someone told me
to get bottle Of Sloan's Liniment and
that would do the work The Liniment
cured my hand and gladly recommend
1t to everyone"
MT. ]. b. Matthews, proprietor of
st. James Hotel, Corning, Ark, says: -
''My finger was greatly infamed from
q fish sting and doctors pronounced it
blood poisoning. / used several appli
cations of Sloan's Liniment and it
cured me all right 1 will always keep
q bottle Of Sloan's Liniment in my
house"
Mr.. ]. P. Evans of Mt. Airy, Ca,
says:-"After being afflicted for three
years with rheumatism 1 used Sloan's
Eminent, and was cured sound and
well, and am glad to say haven't been
troubled with rheumatism since. My
leg was badly swollen from my hip
to my knee One-half bottle took the
pain and swelling out"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-11

The plates occasionally found associ-
ated with the remains Of the prlmeval
form of whale have generally been re-
garded as having belonged to gigantic
turtles, but the German Investigations
show that they were part of the skele-
ton itself. They resemble in their char
acter the impenetrable bony shells Of
the huge glyptodonts that formerly in
habited South America. The suggestion
is made that at the time when they
carried armor whales were amphibious
creatures, living on the coasts and
needing special protection from break
ers and from sharks.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-11
PIGEONS FOLLOWED SHIP.
Stories Of Birds That Found Home
Aboard Vessels.

Capt. Cowdy of the British steamship
Cayo Manzanillo is fancier of pigeons,
and has demonstrated by actual expert
ence that birds Of the homing class will
locate for themselves a temporary as
well as a permanent loft. Capt. Cowdy
said that he had noticed recently in dis
patches from Galveston that a number
of homer pigeons had been picked up
by vessels in the gulf and by people in
the city and said that he is of the opin-
ion that they may be part of his family
of ten which was lost from the Cayo
Manzanillo off Vera Cruz in storm.
These ten pigeons are Belgian birds
and have travelled with Capt. Cowdy for
thousands of miles and have been re-
leased in many different countries, at
times as far as 500 miles in the interior,
and in every case have found their way
back to their ship, evidently having no
trouble picking out their homes among
the numerous other vessels that might
be at anchor.
One of the latest tests that Capt.
Cowdy gave to his birds was at Vera
Cruz, Mexico, when he took his pets
with him a distance of 200 miles into
the interior to the City of Mexico, where
they were released, and they flew direct
to Vera Cruz and to their lott on board
his ship.
An interesting coincidence with the
disappearance of his ten birds on the
night of the storm was that the next
day one of them returned. 1t found the
ship at sea and fell to the deck exhaust
ed. Shortly afterward it recovered and
appeared anxious to leave again. It
was released. but after flying about the
ship for a while rose, in the air and
made frantic appeals, 30 Capt. Cowdy
interprets them, to attract the attention
of the commander and then slowly start
ed away in the direction from which it
had come. Capt Cowdy is positive in
his belief that the birds actions were in
tended to show that it would go after
its companions and steer them to the
ship. The birds disappearance was the
last seen of it. and the captain is of the
opinion that his pets were caught in
the force of the gale and perished else
he is sure that they would have followed
the ship.-Houston Post.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-11
now HE FOUND BIG NUGGET.
Miners Success in a Long Abandone
Placer Mine.


Placer Mine.
Johnny Kearn. who has spent many
years in the placer mines of the old
Highland district, was in Butte yester-
day. Mr.. Kearn achieved considerable
distinction last winter when he discov-
cred the largest nugget ever found in the
Highland district, it netting him $122S
when it was sold in the assay office in
Helena
II will tell you how I found it, he
said to reporter for The Standard. Il
took some ground of my own on the head
of Poodle Dog gulch, where no one had
claim. | went up close to a big slide
and began working where placer miners
twenty years ago.
Il left the cabin pretty early and built
fire on a place where it looked like
there used to be side ditch. You could
trace it although it is grass grown. ]
thawed the ground out and then l began
digging. Pretty soon | got down to the
ground, through the black dirt to the
gravel. [ had not shoveled for more
than ten minutes before | found him.
My shovel struck something hard and l
looked close and saw it was yellow. His
nose was pointed right toward me and
you bet got busy with my shovel and in
a little while had him in my hands. l
saw 1t was a nugget weighing pounds
he weighed of them-anG knocked off
work and came to town. | took him to
Mr.. Johnston of the Clark bank and he
put him in the window, where people
looked at him for six weeks, and then
he was sold to the assay Office.
Where l found the nugget men had
worked forty years ago, and twenty years
ago. The last work was done by some
Cinnamon and they were within 3 or 4
feet of the big nugget when they quit
work. If they had found him they would
have torn up the entire mountain-side
looking for more like him."-Anaconda
Standard
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-11

This first governmental issue OF
stamped envelopes, stamped letter pa
per and adhesive labels or stamps in
England was in 1S4O Three years be-
fore, in 1887, stamped wrappers under
the name Of "go-frees" had been used
experimentally and had been recon-
mended to the chancellor of the ex-
chequer for adoption by the govern
ment. In Dundee, a printer named
James Chalmers printed stamps from
ordinary type, washing their backs with
gum. He showed them to his neigh
bors, but made no public mention OF
them until November, 1887, nine months
after Sir Rowland Hill had drawn the
attention Of the commissioners of the
postoffice to the possibilities of using
such adhesive stamps when people
bought unstamped envelopes to the
postoffice
The postal system derives it's very
name from the posts placed along Ro-
man roads to mark points where court
ers took dispatches. But the modern
postal system with its prepaid postage,
with its system Of levying postal trib-
ute on the basis of weight and not dis
lance, its letter boxes, its delivery Of
parcels and newspapers and money or
ders, dates from Sir Rowland Hill.
The earliest official notice Of postal
service in the American colonies is
found in the records Of the general
court of Massachusetts in 1889. The
house Of Richard Fairbanks in Boston
was under the ruling of the court desig-
mated as the place for all letters
brought from across the seas or to be
sent thither. He was allowed a penny
for every letter which he received or
sent. In Virginia, every planter was
required to provide a messenger to car
ry letters as they arrived at his plan
tation to the next one. He forfeited
hogshead Of tobacco should he fail
to do so. In 1872, the government of
New York established a monthly post
between New York and Boston. In 1892
the Office Of postmaster general for
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-11
How He Made It Up.

Clark Williams. New York's new SUI
perintendent of banks, said the other
day of a bankrupt:
.sIt is no wonder the poor fellow went
under. When it became necessary for
him to borrow. the securities that he
offered were quite worthless. This fact
was pointed out to him, and he produced
other bundles of securities, less valuable
than the first lot"
Mr.. Williams laughed.
HE reminded me-" he said. "of a
waiter whom I heard about the other
day. This waiter was summoned an
grily by a guest.
look here, WAITER the guest grum-
hlcd, these oysters that you have
brought me are bad
- know that, SIR the waiter an
swered. but we have given you three
more than you ordered to make up for
it. Minneapolis Journal.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-11
PRIZE FOOD.

PaYafabIe, Economical, Neurishing.
A Neb. woman has outlined the
prize food in a few words, and that
from personal experience She writes ::
after our long experience with
GrapeNuts, 1 cannot say enough in its
favor. We have used this food almost
continually for seven years.
1--WE sometimes tried other advertised
breakfast foods, but we invariably re-
turned TO Grape Nuts as the most pala-
liable, economical ana nourishipg of
all.
when 1 quit tea and coffee and be-
gan to use Postum and Grape-Nuts,
was a nervous wreck. was so irrita-
BILE l could not sleep nights, had no in
terest in life.
after using Grape-Nuts short time
4 began to improve and all these all
lments have disappeared and now l am
a well woman. My two children have
been almost raised ON Grape-Nuts,
which they eat three times day.
'They are pictures Of health and
have never had the least symptom of
stomach trouble, even through the most
severe siege of whooping cough, they
could retain Grape-Nuts when all else
failed.
''Grape-Nuts food has saved doctor
bills, and has been, therefore, a most
economical food for u.s."
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Greek, Mich. Read 1.-THE Road to Well
VILE" in pkgs. There's a Reason
Ever read the above letter? A
new one appears from time to time.
'if,ev are genuine. true and full of
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-11

| America was created. Benjamin Frank
lin, who had been appointed postmaster
of Philadelphia in 1877, was given the
Office in 1853. He visited all the i'm
portant postoffices. Though his reforms
made the Office bring in a clear rev.
enue, he was removed by the king in
1774, but shortly after was appointed
to the same office by the Continental
Congress- The first postmaster Of the
United States of America was Samuel
Osgood. When he took charge of the
department the country had seventy
five postofices.
The charge for the delivery Of letters
was based on distances covered and
varied from cents for thirty miles to
25 cents for $50 miles. Until 1862 dis
lance was the basis Of cost. In that
year a uniform rate Of postage 1gnor-
ing the distance was fixed at cents.
Oct. 1, 1883, this was reduced to 2
cents. During the early days Of Alas
kan development, every letter delivered
in Nome cost the government 81.
Though the use of adhesive postage
stamps was authorized in 1S47, prepay
ment by stamps was not made compuls-
DRY until 1856. A uniform free deliv-
cry system was not instituted until
1863, though the penny post existed in
a number Of cities in 1862, the carriers
remunerating themselves by the collec-
ton of voluntary fee Of from 1 to 2
cents for each piece of mail delivered.
A convention held in Paris in 1873
made various Improvements in the reg
ulations and provided for postal con-
gress to consider revision Of all pend
ing rules at least every five years The
International Postal Union thus effects
ed works constantly for the simp1ifi.
cation and Identification of postal sys-
TENS. The rate fixed by the first cons
vention, Of 5 cents for each half unit
of weight for ordinary letters still pre-
walls, save that recently special conven,
lions reducing it to 2 cents have beer
arranged between this country anc
England and this country and Germany
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-03-11
CAUSES BAD HABITS.
Children Told They're "Just Like Uncle
Fred" or "Aunt Susy."

Many parents and relatives are never
quite easy in their minds until they can
fasten every trait Of childs character
upon some ancestor. They will worry
around and make inquiries among the
elderly people OF the family until they
locate Harold's sQuint and Mary's habit
Of demanding things she should not have.
The minute they can say, Il know just
where the squint comes from! Don't
you remember how Uncle Fred used to
look like thatp' they feel better. Hav-
ing located the trouble and laid the
blame on some ancestor. they proceed
to tell everyone that comes in that Har-
old lnherits his popularity, says the Phil
adelphia Inquirer.
The natural result of such proceed
ing. is that Harold never dreams of
trying to cure himself Indeed. he
squints the more since Uncle Fred is
popular member of the family and a
great favorite with his nephew. Hear
ing all the faults and failings of himself
and his brothers and sisters laid upon
others. Harold naturally gets the idea
that he cannot help being what he is.
Many a girl who kicks and screams and
holds her breath till she gets what she
wants is only doing it because she is
living up to her reputation. Over and
over she has been told that she FACTS
exactly like Aunt Susy used to-" so she
continues the performance
Often mothers tell of their children's
faults and say: ''That comes from the
other side of the house," right before
the youngsters. OF course, the fathers
resent the implication, and forthwith
proceed to tell of the sins of the mater
nal side. After all, what difference does
it make where the fault comes from, if,
indeed. it is inherited?
If you object to the ancestors of a
young man, don't marry him. And once
you are married, don't waste time trying
to see who is responsible for the sins
Of your children. Set TO work to edu-
cate out the faults, and say as little
about them as possible
Never allow thel boys and girls to
think they are not responsible them
selves for every act and thought, unless
you are looking for future trouble.