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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-07-07
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
Solon Bridge Masonry.

The Scion Bridge Commission will re-
ceive proposals at the Carratunk House.
Scion, Me, until =. M. July %, 1910. for
furnishing all material and building the
masonry Sub-structure for a highway
bridge over the kennebec River between
the towns of Scion and Embden
There will be approximately 600 cubic
yards of masonry.
Each proposal must be accompanied by
certified check for $500 payable to G.
d. Perkins, Chairman Scion Bridge
Building Committee, as guarantee that
the bidder. if awarded the contract, will
furnish the required bond and execute
the contract within ten days of the time
of the award.
A bond for the sum of $1,000 will be re-
quired for the faithful performance Of
the work.
Specifications and general plan may be
had on application to f. f. Greenwood,
Skowhegan. Me.
The right is reserved to reject any or
all bids. juuelssod10t
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FOR SALE-REAL ESTATE

Handsome furnished cottage on Lake
CobboSSeecontee. near car line. good
water frontage, large lot. fireplace, We
randa float and row boat. This cottage
has been built but few years and is a
bargain.
80 ACRE FARM
8 miles from Augusta. good buildings.
handsome location on main highway
thrifty orchard wood and timber. fine
pasturage good for 81 tons of hay. If
sold al once. buyer Gets hay crop. full
equipment new tools. IL acres in crops of
grain. potatoes and corn. pair working
horses, = cows Crops in fine condition.
$500 value above the real estate. Price
made to sell at once, It's Your chance
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-07-07

KENNEBEC COUNTY. - In Probate
Court, held at Augusta, IN vacation
June u. 1910.
Frank l.. Tibbetts. Executor or the iast
will and Testament of Illathera Barker
late of Somerville. Mass. deceased, hay.
ing presented his first and final account
as Executor of said will for allowance:
ORDERED. That notice thereo1 pe
the second Monday of July next, in the
Daily Kennebec Journal. a newspaper
printed in Augusta, that all persons IN.
terested may attend at PROBATE court
cause, if any. why the same should not
10 HAROLD E. COOK. Judge.
iune23, thurs st
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-07-07

THIRD FLOOR OVER LUNT &
Brann's store. Water St.. Augusta In
anre of Thomas J Lynch. Agent
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LOT, HOUSE WITH NINE ROOMS,
fine location, fruit all kinds, eight min
utes from State House; great bargain
for particulars enquire at Capitol st.
ily 6d2Ws
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B00TnBAY and the ISLANDS
STEAMER ISLANDER,
CAPT, ROBERT f, WEsTMAN.

CAPT. ROBERT F. WESTMAN.
Leaves Augusta every day. at 76 4.
M; Hallowell on signal. 713 A. M; Gar
nal 7.5O A. M; Cedar Grove. sos A. NJ:
Richmond. 8.35 A. M: Bath, City Landing
Wharf. 9.35 A. NJ; connecting at Both
M Msn D. I'M D. Eiec1rlc H. H. h TOT Nsw
and Lewiston. Arrives at Boothbay Har-
Dor about 11.30 A. M.
RETURNING, leaves Boothbay Harbor
every day at 100 p M. Bath 315: Rich
mond, at AIS.
H. E. BOWDITCH. Augusta, Tel. 22-2
HORACE G. TURNER, Hallowell.
w. L. TOZIER. Gardiner. Tel. lH-k
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LOST
kENNEBEC COUNTY. - In Probate
Court held AuglSta in XaCatlOIl

KENNEBEC COUNTY. - In Probate
Court, held at Augusta. in vacation
June q. 1910.
Frank G. harrington, Administrator O.
D. n. c. t. a. on the estate of Larkln H.
Trask late of Chelsea in said County, de-
ceased. having presented his first ana
final account of administration of said
estate for allowance:
ORDERED, That notice thereof be
given three weeks successfully. prior 10
the second Monday of July next. in the
Daily Kennebec journal, a newspaper
printed in Augusta, that all persons IN
terested may attend at Probate Court
then to be held at Augusta, and snow
cause. If any, why the same should not
be allowed
HAROLD E. COOK. Judge.
Attest: r. w. LEIGHTON, Register.
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banks of the Kennebec, between Show
hogan and Norridgewock. Large, roomy
comfortably furnished cottage. Land
enough for another cottage or garage.
May be seen after July 7. For particulars
address H. G. Durham, al Milk St, Bos-
ton, Mass. jy4d1W*
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FOR SALE-REAL ESTATE

OCEAN POINT, FOR SALE WOOD
blne cottage, corner lot on the ridge.
completely furnished extension porch IS
r. square. Biggest WOodbine in Maine
Five double bedrooms, or single. splendid
fireplace, artistic decorations. running
water; 30 shares Association stock, paid
up, non-taXable, every share a vote
Bargain. h. w. Presbrey, care j r Nc
.Dougall. Ocean Point. Maine. jly7dlmo*
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NOTICE.

Whereas, my wife Emma f. Andrews
left my bed and board, June 18th, without
just cause or proVocation. | hereby for
bid any one harboring or trusting her on
my account after this date. as / shall
pay no bills of her contraction.
GEORGE Andrews.
Belgrade, Maine. June 18th. 1910.
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FURNISHED RooMY COTTAGE AT

LAKE cossossEEcoNTEE-coT.
tage on shore Of lake at East Winthrop.
Address Elizabeth p. WEIGH, Box 100,
Pepperell. Mass. or Fred'k w. Plaisted.
AU0als1A. No apr16dtf
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01

From the Washington Post.
ANY American who has visited Panami
and has seen the work being done on III
Panama canal must feel proud that be Is
an American said Frank D. La lame
of Philadelphia, president of the National
Board of Trade, at the New Willard. MIR.
La lame spent a month in the canal
zone and made close inspection OF me
work on the big ditch.
1T makes a man patriotic to see what
our countrymen are doing down there,
continued Mr.. La lame. ITO survey the
magnitude of the work, which unques-
tionably is the greatest engineering prof.
Get ever undertaken. makes one realize
how insignificant are other supposedly
great engineering feats. We have read
that the first canal was built 1900 b. e.
but that canal was dug in sand. The sue
ceeding big canals built by different ma
tons in different periods pale beside the
Panama canal 1t is no ordinary under
taking Our workmen have had to tear
away a mountain. Think of it, They gre
taking out $40 trainloads of dirt every
day, and each train has from q to %
cars. They can load a whole train in
from 80 to 80 minutes. There are 101
steam shovels at work in Culebra cut.
1.-THE dirt taken out is all used; not
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01

From Judge.
1t seems as though every Teller that
kin initiate pump on violin has got
to get into vaudeville or bust.
I see Count Szchenyt is goin' to erect a
sC,0o0,oo0 chateau in Hungary. This will
not be the house that Jack built. No,
indeed! 1t will be the house that Van
der-bit.
Hogs are still goin' to the Chicago
hug two Chicago women at once the
other day.
There is said to have been a shoplifter
workin in our village. Jed Frank says
she may be an almighty strong woman,
all right but he'll bet a secondhand
wringer and a peck of vegetable oysters
agin a scythe snath and a drink fof
stone fence that she can't lift his
blacksmith shop.
T.. R. needn't have gone way to Africa
to hunt the cheetah. There seems to
have been plenty of cheetahs In Albany
and Pittsburg, If graft reports are cor
rect.
I never yet see a successful business
man that didn't begin his career by
pickin' up a pin.
There may be some self-made men
who amt proud of the job. but they
amt visible to the naked eye.
Walter Wellman didn't get to the
North Pole, but he got a pretty good
imitation of it when he met Bwana
Tumbo in Africa and asked his opinion
of the political situation In America.
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thrown away. 1t is used to build the
railroad, to built the Gatun dam, which
creates the lake and to make the break
water at Panama. The Gatun dam will
make body of water IS feet deep, with
lal.1- .ns.t NH lit a boat from the
Atlantic Ocean to the level of the new
lake, which holds the water of the
Chagres river. The dam is 40 miles long
and from two to five miles wide. When
completed, steamers will be able to 90
through this stretch of water under full
steam when they get out of the locks.
The lake will contain 165 square miles.
Colonel Goethals is the leading spirit
In this big undertaking. He is on the job
every morning by daylight. and visits
every part of the ditch in his automobile
every day. The canal zone is as clean a
place as 1 ever visited. l did not see a
fly or a mosquito during my entire stay
there.
There is no doubt in my mind that the
canal will be open on January l. 1915,
and Washington can have its celebration
then | think Washington the proper
place to hold a worlds fair because 1t is
the capital of the nation, and If held
here there can be no prejudice on the part
of other cities. Yes, the Panama EXPOSE
ton ought to be in Washington"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01

great many people prefer to slide
along the line OF least resistance, to get
along just as easily as they can, to pay
ing the price In preparation for some
thing better, says Orison SWEET Marden.
in Success Magazine" They are not
willing to prepare themselves for a
wider, larger place. They know that
their education is deficient. that they
lack special training; and they know
that they could manage, somehow, to
repair their deficiencies, but they lack
the energy to do so. They prefer, to
slide along in an easy-going way, with
the least trouble possible to themselves.
How many wrecks, how many incon-
plete and wretched lives we see every
where because people did not think 1t
worth while to prepare for much of a
career, They thought they would get
Just a little education to help them
along; just enough for practical use.
They did not think 1t worth while to dig
down deep and lay broad foundations.
They did not see life as a whole.
The reason why the lives Of so many
is because they put so little into them.
they make such meagre preparation in
education. in culture, in training. IN
thinking. Their harvest is small be-
cause they SOW so little and such inferior
seed.
If the youth expects a rich, golden
harvest, he must prepare the soil, he
must do some good sowing in the seed
time
You cannot take out of your life what
you have not put into It. any more than
you can draw out OF the bank what you
have not deposited
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signment for Washington is out of the

slgnment Tor washington IS out OF the
way
Each senator receives at least a dozen
cakes. If he has a family of children with
sweet teeth each member of the family
is remembered. Accompanying each box
of the sugar is the senator's card and
quotation from John Godfrey, Vermont's
poet. which says:
Men, women, maple sugar and horses;
The first are strong,
The last as fleet
The second and third uncommonly sweet,
And all exceedingly hard TO beat
Soon the New Englanders senator's,
representatives, pages, clerks, officehold-
ers of various kinds, men, women and
children, will gather to eat maple sugar
together just as they used to eat it at
the maple sugar parties at home. Before
each person will be placed a cake of ice
and pitcher of hot maple syrup and the
syrup will be strung out and allowed to
cool before being eaten.
Then there will be old-fashioned soda
biscuits and home made cheese from the
hills of Vermont. This is the time of
year when the Vermonters in Washing
ton make a. real noise and have no diff
fculty in having accepted all their invi-
tatons to maple sugar parties.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01
A Test for Any Samson

From Everybody's Magazine.
There is a theatrical manager in New
York who. in his early days, piloted a
small circus through the villages of the
middle west.
AT that time he says. Il was featur-
ing an Italian as 'Biancialli the Strong
Man from Rome One day, travelling
from Kansas City to Omaha in a day
coach. the strong man and myself were
seated Just ahead of tall man with side
whiskers. Whether or not the man
overheard our conversation l am unable
to say; but after time he leaned over
and tapped my companion on the should
er, saying, Excuse me. sir, but are you
not Biancialli the Strong MANI
"Biancalli admitted the soft impeach-
ment.
lis 1t true that you can lift two and a
half tons in harness?
Yes
You can hold two men at arms
length?
II can
And put up five hundred pounds with
one arm?
Yes
% Then concluded the man with the
side whiskers, would you kindly raise this
car window for me?'
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01

From the Washington Times.
1t has arrived hundreds of pounds of
it, Senators are now content to sit at
their desks munching it quietly, and Sen
ator Carol 8. Page of Vermont Is being
voted the most thoughtful man in Wash
ington The sit" is the annual cargo of
maple sugar
Senator Page has a standing order with
the farmers of Vermont that he is to
have the first consignment of sugar, and
his order is so large that shipments to
the markets are delayed until the con-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01
TO Women
Who Dread
Motherhood!
fnfcmafion How They May Give Birth
| to Happy, Healthy Children Alb
soluteIy Without Pain
QAnt Free.

No women need any longer dread the
n.ins of childbirth. or remain childless.
a. ). H. Dye has devoted his life to
relieving the sorrows Of women. He has
nroved that all pain at childbirth may
(. entirely banfshed, and he will gladly
tell YOU how It may be done absolutely
fres Of charge. Send your name and ad-
dress to DR.. J. n. Dye. Us Lewis block
Punalo. N. Y, and he will send you.
r.os4raid his wonderful book which tells
how to give birth to happy, healthy chill
dren. absolutely without pain; also how
10 cure sterility. Do not delay but write
AadAR-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01
Vote for w. T. Kennedy for
state auditor-Jefferson Coun-
tvs candidate.
FOR SALE

S9OOO.0O-Northside corner,
fronting 200 feet on 10th ave-
nue. and extending back $50
feet. Belt trackage. Suitable for
warehouses or manufacturing
plant. About SIS per foot I'M
der market. price. Jemison R.
E. & ms. Co., 1924 Sd avenue.
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scale. You couldn't find bull in Wall

No definite excuse offered for the
violent slump, but everybody seemed to
feel that prices were scheduled to go off
sharply, and off they went. 1t looked
very much like the climax. and expert
enced traders figured that the time was
at hand for investment buying to set in
on large enough scale to make a foun-
dation for permanent recovery.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01

The great banking interests can make
this adjustment easy or hard, as they
like. 1t will not be absolutely necessary
to await a decided increase In merchan-
disc and commodity exports or a de-
crease In imports to bring about a con-
dition of ease. If it suits the great
banking interests to put balm on the
situation they can do it in As hours by
selling finance bills abroad. or arrang-
ing to borrow any amount in London or
on the continent, sticking up American
stocks and bonds as collateral. Both of
these eXpedients have been resorted to
many times in the past and doubtless
will be many more times In the future
So, it win be observed, the fate of the
money and stock markets is in the
hands of the great money combine of
this city.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01

element, although there has been going
on under the surface loan contraction of
Importance. 1t is quite likely that the
calling of loans has been more response
Bile than is generally appreciated for the
pressure on the stock market that has
been witnessed at times Something had
Withdrawals
Gold TO the amount of So, 900, 600 cannot
be taken out of New York stocks of
metal in four weeks without forcing a
REIMBURSEMENT of the local banking stu
alton. Furthermore unless something
more be done soon to settle the growing
International trade balance, more gold
will have to be shipped.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01

On Thursday the break in stocks be-
came rout. There was a veritable del
uge of stocks coming from every direc-
ton. The pools and cliques and other
special interests withdrew support and
let the market take its course. There
was liquidation on a very extensive
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01
STEEL COMMON
SWAPS MARKET
Stocks Take an Unexpected
Tumble at Days Close
THREE LARGE FACTORS
The Weather. the Crops and the Money
Market All just Now Engage the
Attention of Wall Street
Operators
THREE LARGE FACTORS
by W. G. NICHOLAS

New York April SO.-(special.) THE
stock market was curiously swayed after
the Steel corporation directors had for
mally placed Steel common in the per-
manent per cent dividend class. with
an alluring flexible pledge of extras, If
earnings justified. At the start off the
street was disposed to regard the action
as significant of a willingness on the
part of the ruling interests to be friend
ly and lift the weight of their crouch
and dsapproval from the market. That
was what the majority of active traders
had been looking for and waiting for,
and they FASTENED to ''get aboard" as
the saying is. For two-thirds of We'd
nesday's session the market was very
active at sharply advanced prices. Then
it was discovered that the eagerly buying
public was getting stocks wholesale and
retail and very apparently from inside
sources.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01

simultaneously Pittsburg, Youngstown,
Gary, Cleveland and other centers of
the iron and steel industry deluged the
wires with lugubrious reports of the con-
ditions of the trade Mills were shut
ting down, orders had ceased coming in
pig iron overproduction had become
grievously burdensome and the outlook
was most gloomy The street began to
argue that it might not have been so
clever after all for the corporation man
agement to boost dividends in the face
of such a dreadful condition of affairs.
The market hestated. then tottered, and
presently plunged. The black horse cav
airy under a savage charge. Union Pa
chc. Reading and the Coppers. next to
Steel. proved most vulnerable and broke
2 full points or more. 1t was an inglo-
rious finish to a session that had started
in so brilliantly.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01

AS for the money situation it may be
stated that the financial market has
taken the sensational gold Withdrawals
with surprisingly slight evidence of ex-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01

This money combine is not a mere fig
ure of speech. 1t is terribly tangible
reality.
1t was put into organized form when
Mr.. Hartman undertook and carried
through the most stupendous bull cam
paign ever seen in the history of stock
speculation, a campaign that could not
have succeeded if he and his associates
had not been in command of the aggre-
gated resources of the principal banks,
trust and insurance companies of the
metropolis. Mr.. Hartman is dead and
his power transferred to Mr.. Morgan.
In some respects the latter lacks Mr..
Harriman's aggressive market leader
ship, but he has associates who are am
bilious to shine as speculative and con-
structive Napoleons, and who are very
busy men.
The money combine is stronger and
more closely knit now than ever be-
fore. 1t has become a huge, dominating
machine, with absolute control over the
destinies of the stock market. and
dangerously powerful over the business
affairs of the nation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01

But enough about Steel. There are
other things of interest in the market,
although possibly not so dramatically
environed There are the weather. the
crops and the money market, for instnce,
three mighty important factors. All three
are figuring largely in the making of
prices. The way the market broke the
first of the week on what proved to be
exaggerated reports of crop damage due
to low temperature and storms in the
west and south shows how sensitive
prices are to that influence.
Bumper crops are admittedly vitality
necessary to resumption of business
prosperity as advertised, and anything
to threaten crop impairment naturally
strikes a chill to the marrow of specu-
lative fever. That was what happened
as a result of the cold and storms that
descended upon such a large grain and
cotton area.
Happily, latest reports give strong
hopes that in no considerable sections is
the damage irreparable. a conviction tina t
is now very generally held-a conviction,
by the way, which is the strongest un-
deriving feature of the market and bus
mess situation, and one which will out
last distrust and uneasiness engendered
by cross manipulation on the exchanges.
Nothing has been watched this week
with closer interest than the course of
grain and cotton prices-especially the
distant futures.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01

The bond houses and their statesmen
continue to complain about dullness in
that division of the securities market.
Their selling machinery has been work
ing overtime for weeks, and there is
good information to the effect that dis
tribution of supplies has been on the
whole satisfactory.
III confirma ton of these reports it is
noted that preparations are well adj
vanced for bringing out at least $780,,
100000 more bonds within the next GO
days, besides many millions In short
time notes. This would not be the case
if there were the glut of unsold bonds
on hand claimed Most of the impending
flood of new stuff will be in the form of
convertibles.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01

Copper stocks have ruled heavy most
of the time lately despite the heroic
efforts of the pools, which are moving
heaven and earth to keep the public in
terested in the bull side until that grand
combine is put through and the distribu-
ton of the absurdly inflated stock dis
tribution is completed
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-01

With heart surcharged with suspicion
the street conceived the notion that it
had been gold bricked and made the vic
tim of a thimbe rigger scheme to give
insiders a chance to unload. The Steel
corporation management came in for de-
nunciation loud and deep-possibly wholly
undeserved. None the less traders re-
called occasions in the past when in
siders in the big industrial had played
it low down on the public. thereby de-
monstrating superior ability in both the
operating and the stock market depart
ments of the business. Seemingly they
have the trap set to catch them accom-
ing and a-going
Just the same the players like to gam
BILE in Steel shares. 1t is the indisputed
market leader, having taken the ranking
position away from both Union Pacific
and Reading. There has not been more
fragrant manipulation in a speciality since
Mr.. Hartman departed the scene, and
neither Union nor Southern Pacific Gas
ever in more perfect control than Steel
at the present moment The singular
| thing about ii is that the corporation s
standing does not appear to suffer in the
! slightest degree by reason of the fact
thai daring and tremendous plungers are
very very active and influential in the
management On the contrary, it is es-
pecially marked as about the purest and
| something above reproach and too re-
| spectacle for criticism.