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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-21
HOUSE RECEIVES PETITIONS
For Passage Of Act Retiring Superan'
ruated Civil Service Employees.

washington. June 20.-Speaker can
non today laid before the House peu-
ton signed by 1906 employees in the
eecxutive departments praying for the
passage of a law to retire superan-
nuated civil service employees. The
petition was forwarded by Secretary
of the Treasury MacVeagh who ex-
pressed his warm approval.
Secretary MacVeagh also transmit
ted a petition of the same tenor signed
by $500 employees in the civil service
in Chicago, Philadelphia. New YORK
Boston, Augusta, Me. Knoxville, Tenn.
New Orleans. Pittsburg, st. Paul, Gin
cinnati, Buffalo and st. Louis.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-21
SOMERSET
SMITHFIEuD,

Mrs. Daisy Hutchins is visiting hei
sister. Mrs. Adelbert Decker for few
days.
tune recently to fall from a horse and
break his leg.
Kenneth Higgins, who has been sick
with pneumonia, is better.
Floyd. the Youngest son of w. F..
Marston, was SO unfortunate as to cut
off one of his fingers last week. DR..
Ames dressed the wound and it is do
ing well.
Rev. and Mrs. Herbert Piper of
Rhode Island are in town caring for
MT. Piper's mother, who is in very
poor health.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-21
NAVAL APPROPRIATION BILL,
Conferees Decide to Test Sec. Movers
Re organization Scheme.

Washington. June 20.-Conferees on
the naval appropriation bill complet-
ed their work today and the report was
submitted to the House by Chairman
F'oss of the House naval affairs com
mittce. This bill makes provision for
the construction of two battleships to
cost, exclusive of armor and arma =
meht' not exceeding s6.o00.ooO each. This
itehi' however. was not indisputable In
the TWO Houses, but the Senate adopt
ed amendments to provide for the con-
struction of torpedo boat destroyers.
torpedo boats and other naval vessels
of small type.
II was proposed b. tie Senate to con-
strict fva s"h-narine torno"o boots.
but this number was reduced to four
as provided originally by the House.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-21
PRESIDENT SIGNS BILL
Giving Statehood Rights to New Mexi
co and Arizona.

Washington. June 20.-President
Taft signed the bill granting statehood
rights to New Mexico and Arizona al
LAO o'clock this afternoon.
Two pens were used by the President
in aifixing his signature, one a solid
gold pen being given to Postmaster
General Hitchcock, while the other a
big eagle feather pen. was carried tt
the White House in a big leather case
After signing the bill the President
congratulated the citizens Of the ter
rtories who were present and was
heartily congratulated by them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-21
WILSON ON Ex-PREsIDENT.
Doesn't Imagine Roosevelt viii Go to
Bed ard Stay There.

Washington. June cU.-Secretary OF
Agriculture Wilson. who on Saturday
was one of the administration repre-
sentative at the homecoming of Col
Roosevelt. saw the President a few
minutes today. The secretary said he
had no private conversation with the
former President and had not preached
the subject Of politics in any way.
do you think he will keep out OF
the campaign this fall?" the secretary
was asked.
"You know Roosevelt don't you?
Well, you don't imagine he is going
to ied and stay there"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-21

Consider well the free demonstra.
ton at Amesbury & Wakefelds
Thursday of this week, New perfec.
ton wick, blue flame oil stove. This
will be one of the demonstrations
ladies should not fail to see. Marvel
GUS results in quick cooking in com.
fort
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-21
ST. BANS.

Our grange observed children's night
last Saturday evening. The children fur
nished a very pleasant evenings enter
tainment. After the program they pro-
ceeded to enjov treat furnished by the
grange
Mr.. and Mrs. Osgood Robertson re-
turned from Lewiston Saturday night and
Mrs, Alice Mathews came Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Lucas will go to
Lewiston to attend the college CONNIE nee
ment Their son Fay graduates this
year.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-21
JACK MAN.
Beware Of Ointments for Catarrh
That Contain Mercury.

as mecury will surely destroy the sense
OF smell and completely derange the
whole system when entering it through
the mucous surfaces. Such articles
should never be used except on prescrip-
tons from reputable physicians. as the
damage they will do is ten fold to the
good you can possibly derive from them.
J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.. contains no
mercury. and is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous sur
races of the system. In buying Halls
inc 1t is taken internally and made in
Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co.
Testimonials free.
Sold by Druggists. Price. TIC. per bottle.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipa-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-21

Mrs. A. T. Schuman went to Port.
land Saturday. June Is, to bring Mrs
Atwood home from the Eye and Ear
Infirmary where she took her June /.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-21
GARDINER.

Enjoy this bright, warm weather.
swing your hammock out now fear
lessly. Fred Weber is caught with a
big stock.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-21
NORRIDGEWOCk.

Several from this vicinity attended
the circus in Skowhegan Tuesday.
The village schools closed last week.
The rural schools will close Friday.
Miss Louise Fairfield left Saturday
for two weeks visit with friends in
New Hampshire.
Calvin Pierce is spending a few days
with relatives in Flagstaff.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-21
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

William K. Lincoln. former Bath
boy. now travelling salesman for a
Boston firm, found his wife dead in bed
at his home in Lewiston last Saturday
night on his return from business
trip to Boston. The room was filled
with gas, gas jet being still open
when he entered. The case is cons id :
cred to be plainly one of suicide and
II is thought that the woman had been
uead since last Thursday. Mr.. Lin
com left nome on Thursday morning,
ana people who lived in the same tene-
ment as the Lincoln's occupied did not
see or hear anything of his wife after
that day, The coroner deemed an in
quest unnecessary. Mrs. Lincoln was
aged Al years and was native of
Iopsham. daughter of Samuel Curtis
Nhe had been married to Mr.. Lincoln
for 10 years.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-21

Wniie there is. perhaps. necessity for
practicalizing the curriculum of the
average university, or broadening it,
as manv colleges are rapidly doing, we
Rave seen as many of the graduates
OF the university of hard knocks ga
Their harvest of icicles as the most
pedantic and highly trained individuals
that ever passed from the classroom
to the worlds rough and tumble.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-21

Mrs. Hannah Reed went to Boston
Tuesday.
Miss Stella and Marion Emery started
MONDAY for Moncton, N. s.. for visit
JACKMAN.
MI and Mrs. Edward Craft, Mrs Cal
YIN Campbell and Jonas Holden. went to
ralrheld. Friday to attend the funeral of
Larry Barney.
a delegation Of Masons attended the
meeting in Bingham Saturday evening
F. r. Holden made a business trip to
Skowhegan last week
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-05
The World ef Indin.

DO you know what India is? The coun-
withal so strange. If you could lift Hin
dustani up and lay 1t upon North America,
with one end at Seattle, it would reach as
far east as Montreal and its lower apex
would be wedged into the Panama canal.
From north TO south India is long as
from the middle of Hudson bay to the
Gulf of Mexico and from east 10 west 1t
measures $500 miles.
The land is one of extremes. The Hima-
layas on the north are covered with per-
petual SHOWS, and the icy wastes about
Mount Everest colder than the frozen
chambers of the Buddhist hell The plains
below lie In the tropics, and they are some
times as hot as the burning deserts of
Australia, where Mark Twain says they
feed the hens Ice to keep them from laying
boiled eggs.
India is the wettest land upon earth and
the driest. 1t has provinces, such as Bika-
ner, where it does not rain for thirteen
months in succession and other places
where 1t pours all the time There are To-
calities in the Himalayas where six feet
Of water have been known to fall in the
space Of twelve months.
The country is one of great deserts and
mighty rivers, of soils which have been
cultivated since the dawn of history and
OF wastes which the pillow of man has
never turned. Physically speaking, it is a
world.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-05
Heroines in Pirate Crews.

Women have succeeded in passing them
selves off as man not infreqnetly, but. so
far as is known, there have been but two
women pirates-Anne Bonney and Mary
Read VINO were captured something over
a century ago in the caribbean sea, charged
with having "plratical intentions" 1t was
not known at the the time that they were
not men, and accordingly they were SEN
fenced 10 meet death in the manner gener-
ally melted out to gentlemen of their pro-
fesson, when they confessed their sex and
they were in due course punished less Sc
verely.
The woman Bonney was the daughter OF a
Carolina planter, who had disowned her by
reason OF her marriage with a sailor. Even
at that time Anne had a prediction for
mans attire, inasmuch at the hour of her
elopement she employed it for the purpose
of evading her angry parent. Eventually
she shipped with her husband and shared
In his piratical adventures. Among her
shipmates, who were ignorant OF her sex
and also of her relation TO the captain,
Anne attained reputation for courage.
Now, curious as it may seem. the ship
wherein this female pirate practiced the
arts of the freebooter was one day boarded
by several strangers, among them another
lady pirate of the name Of Mary Read.
1t followed that the woman became
fast friends. though at first each was
ignorant OF the sex Of the other. The dis
covsry that each was woman came about
through the declaration on the part OF
Mary OF q romantic attachment for the
Bonney person
Shortly after the two women met they be-
came widows, and naturally enough cast
their lots together in a buceaneer crew.
Both were admired for the courage they
evinced in their unusual calling, and both
were greatly loved by their seamen. Mary
Read was an expert swordswoman and
fought more than one duel She died in
prison. Anne BOnney was In due time re-
stored 10 her faimly.-Harpers Weekly.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-05
Millions in Jute.

AS we coasted the shores OF the Hooghly
we passed Jungles infested with tigers. The
land is low and malarious and wild beasts
roam il at will. a little further up the
houses begin and palm trees are frequent.
The population grows more and more dense,
and then comes a region OF mighty jute
mills on each side Of the stream tall
smokestaeks vomit black volumes into the
sky and near them are enormous brick
structures where the rough bagging for
all mankind Is made. Calcutta ships vast
and much Of our cotton crop is baled in
cloth made here on the banks of the
Hooghly. \ few years ago we were taking
more than GO per cent of the product and
today the thousands OF Hindoos workinsN
this fiber are dependent upon US for their
wages. There are now two score jute mills
I'm India and the jute annually produced
is worth about $SO,OOO,OOO There are cotton
factories here and there between the 1ute
weaving establishments and mills OF this
kind line the Hooghly all the way 10 Cal
outta.
The stream is filled with shipping. Ocean
steamers heavily loaded are going in and
out with the tide. The trade OF Calcutta
is worth hundreds OF millions and a large
part OF the commerce OF the empire passes
this way. its total foreign trade fNAths
greatest Of any country OF Asia. thl kn-
ports and exports now amounting to n6ors
than Si.9OO,OO0OOO and growing more every
year. FRANK G. CARPENTER.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-05

the plates being svabbed of With N+NFuaA
on the end OF the stick, and wiped by a
Malay as dirty as the Indian, who did
the cooking.
We were several days on the Bay of
Bengal. The water was indigo until we
reached the mouths of the Ganges These
extend for a hundred miles up and down
the coast and they vomit forth so much
silt that it turns the ocean to Cruel.
took a bath when we reached the pilot
brig, about a hundred miles from Cal
cutta, and upon draining the tub my foot
prints were as plain in the mud as those
which frightened Robinson Crusoe on his
desert island.
The silt of the Ganges is as great as that
of the Nile. 1t is said to be five times
as much as that of the Mississippi and
Missouri, amounting to hundreds OF mil
ions of tons every year. 1t builds up great
bars along the shore and makes the work
of plotting the ships dangerous to an ex-
IRENE.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-05
A High-Paid Monopoly.

The pilots Of Calcutta are close cor
poration. There are only fifty-two of them
and they monopolize the Ganges, or, rather.
the Hooghly for it is on the Hocghly
branch of the delta that tho ships go up TO
the city. The trade of the river amounts
to more than 500. 100000 a year. and there
is procession of boats always going up
and coming down. The men receive various
wages. the best getting as high as 800
per month, To belong to this association
one must have first mates certificate
and must have passed through his appren-
ticeshIp. He spends five years at low wages
learning the river, and then graduates in
the full rank Of pilot. The Hooghly cannot
be navigated at night and the ships 80 in
with the tides. AS the latter rise there
is often bore which reaches as much as
seven feet, so that the risks are great
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-05

.
The Palaces and the Black Hole.
He feels the same when he compares his
hovel to the mansions on the Maiden and
the big government buildings of the British
officials. The mansion where Lord Mimic
holds forth is of about the same age as the
White House at Washington. 1t is far
more magnificent and its surroundings have
ten times the style. West OF it is the town
hall, Dorio building which was finished
under the Instructions of this viceroy's
grandfather in 1873. and near that the mag
nificent buildings of the high courts, which
compare in size with those of our govern
ment departments at Washington. Another
fine structure is the postoffice, which faces
the lake in Dalhousie Square. l went
through 1t today. and as L came out /
stopped at the corner and read on a tablet
the following:
The marble tablet below this spot was
placed here by
Lord CurzOn, Vlceroy and governor
general OF India, in 1874.
TO marx the site OF the prison in Old
Fort William, known as the Black Hole,
in which l46 British Inhabitants OF Cal
cutta were confined on the night of
the Goth, June 1866, and from
which only twenty-three
came out alive.
The pavement marks the exact dimen-
slons Of the prison and near it is an ODE
lisk erected by one of the survivors.
The Black Hole is a monument of one of
the most terrible tragedies of the Unrest OF
India $50 years ago. The nabob, or native
ruler, ordered the incarceration OF these
victims and then drank himself off to sleep
The lag British who were thrown in were
largely officials They were driven at the
point Of the sword into a dungeon twenty
feet square. 1t was In the heat OF the
tropical summer, and the airholes were
small. In short time they gasped fol
breath. They cried for mercy and tried &c
break down the door. Then they offered
brides to their jailers, but the only answer
was that the nabob was asleep, and he
would be angry IL awakened. The dying
then fought for places at the windows. and
raved and prayed and swors. while theiI
jailers held lights at the bars and laughed
When the day broke. the nabob, having
slept off his spell. ordered the door to b'
opened. OF the LAG all but twsnty-thres
were dead, and the living were so far gone
that they were barely able to stagger from
the charnel house. Today that tragedy /,
remembered with horror.
And still how closely the sublime tramplei
upon the heels OF the ridiculous! Only las
week a traveller was talking with the vlcero,
about the sights OF Calcutta. when his ex
celleney asked him II he had seen the ia
nous Black Hole Indeed. 1 have" re
piled the visitor. Il am living in il. 1
was room 100 at the Grand hotel"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-05
TIE q8S OFFlcE. "O0TsIDE I1Is WAS THE BGAeK[lQIE

I can sympathize with that visitor, for
live In the same hotel. 1t is said to be
the best in town, but It has numerous
black holes. Just now 1t is crowded, and
it is almost impossible TO get rooms An
American admiral who came here last week
failed to do so, and had to go to cheap
boarding house, where he is now living
/ got in only by cabling in advance from
Burma. There are several big hotels in
Calcutta. They are rambling three-story
buildings, which cover acres, and have all
sorts of Inconvenience. My room, for in
stance, Is locked with a paddock which
snaps with spring. There is only one key
to the paddock, and when 1 left this after
noon the key remained inside the room.
could not get it until 1 reported to the
manager, and the servants then had to
climb up the walls and through the window
to open the door. 1 have an electric bell,
supposedly to call the hotel servants.
have rung 1t again and again, and one day
propped my umbrella against the button
and left 1t there for an hour. I could hear
the bell ringing, but there was no response.
So in self-defense have had to hire a per-
0onal servant of my own to lie on the floor
outside the door at night, and to wait upon
me during the daytime. am paying him
Just 80 cents a day, and he feeds himself.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-05

the New Jersey party noticed that the real
estate boomer had just about as sneezy
cold in the head as one could collide with
in the height of hay fever time.
The climate may be all right" remarked
the easterner, as the boomer was starting
on the third hour, but it doesn't appear to
agree with you"
You bet it does" replied the boomer.
What is the matter with me?"
How about that cold in your head ?"
asked the easterner.
That was my own darn carelessness,"
was the ready rejoinder of the boomer. II
was walking along the road and thought
lessly stopped too quickly under palm tree.
The sudden change from sunshine to shade
was too much for me."-Philadelphia Tele-
graph.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-05

the harbor score of would-be servants
rushed aboard and attached themselves
to the passengers or these two settled
upon me as their prey. and each deter
mined to Guido the other. l supposed them
servants of the Grand hotel, and handed
over my bag AS soon / was settled
each claimed that he had brought my bag
gage, and that this was an implied agree
ment to take him my boy. Both had
sheaves of letters of introduction, and each.
seemed equally good. One was. q straight.
dark-faced Hindoo of thirty, and the other
a turbanned Mohammedan of forty or so.
The Hlndoo's name was Nund Lal, and the
follower of the prophet called himself Wall
Mohammed. 1 took day to decide, dur
ing which time each logged my foot
steps. 1 could not ask for anything, but
both jumped to get it, and when I at
tempted to slip out to inquire about them
] found both on guard, ready to follow me.
If I asked the hours of meals the two
answered in concert and if / wanted hot
water they started on the dead run to
get it. Indeed. / have been much in the
same position as the man, who was adopted
by dog, except that l was adopted by
two dogs, and both stuck to me. 1 have
settled the matter by paying Nund Lal
Sl.O0 and by appointing Wall Mohammed
my valet.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-05

unrest. do not wonder at It. There IL
no place where the difference of condi-
tons Is more pronounced. These Hindoos
are among the poorest peoples on earth.
Among them are millions who always go 10
bed hungry, and in the slums here are 'peo-
pie who count their bites to see whether
they will have enough for the morning. At
the same time Calcutta has it's fashionable
residence quarters, the homes of the Brit
ish, where money flows like the Ganges
and fortunes are spent in one season
/ wish could show you the better parts
of Calcutta. 1t is a city of palaces, with
immense parks and wide open spaces. 1t
covers about as much ground as Chicago
in proportion TO its size, running along the
Hooghly with the great suburb on the op-
posite bank. The city has lakes and lawns,
botanical and geological gardens, and a
public park known as the Maiden which
runs through the fashionable quarter At
the beginning of this is the palace of the
vieeroy, mansion snowy as newly
Stacked lime and several miles beyond it,
at the opposite end, is the big house of the
lieutenant general of Bengal Both are
surrounded by beautiful grounds. and the
latter has banyan tree surpassed only by
that in the geological park of which, per-
maps yOu nave H6dTu
The Maiden is bordered with club houses
and mansions. The most fashionable
homes of Calcutta look out upon 1t and it
forms the social heart of the city. 1t has
race track with a two-mile course In
which now and then polo matches are
played. and also tennis courts and grounds
for cricket and golf. The band always
plays there Of an evening and the people
come forth and drive about in handsome
turnouts. The viceroy and Lady Mimic may
sometimes be seen in their carriages with
tfeir retlnue and with native soldiers as
outriders. There are other officials and
also raJahs with eoachmen and footmen
in livery. There are Europeans, Parsees
and many Eurasians: Every one rides in
his carriage and every carriage has its liv-
cried coachmen and footmen. The coach
man is usually bearded man with turban
and gown; he is always barefooted. The
footman either stands ON the step behind
the carriage or squats down there and
holds on. The latter position is precarious
and l often wonder why the man is not
jolted out in going over a gutter or rut In
there are many automobiles. There are
800 in the city and the most have seen
are touring cars which at home would cost
several thousand dollars apiece and which
go like the wind. DO you wonder that the
hungry Hindoo whose lean shanks have to
fly to get out of the way is mad when he
contrasts his condition with that of the
man I'm fha
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-05
why He wouldn't shoot.

DEPUTATION of three soldiers
once came TO the late DIR. Lueger
to make some kind of request
in their behalf. The burgomaster
of Vienna turned to one of the
soldiers with the following in
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-05

THE teacher of one Of the classes in a
school in the suburbs Of Cleveland had
been training her pupils in anticipation of
a visit from the school commissioner" said
George S. Wells of Pittsburg at the
shoream. AT last he came in and the
classes were called out to show their at
tainments.
'rhe arithmetic class was the first called,
and in order to make good impression
Omaha daily bee., 1910-06-05

the teacher put the first question to johnny
Smiths the star pupil.
Johnny, if coal is selling at Sc ton
and you pay the coal dealer SA, how many
tons of coal will ne bring your
Three was the prompt reply from
Johnny.
1.-The teacher, much embarrassed, said,
Why, Johnny, that isn't right
'Oh, / know it amt, but they do It,
anyhow Washington Post.