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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-03-27
Present DuIness UnequaI|ed
During Past Seven Years.
Banking Position Strong and No
Sign Of Money Strain.

q New York, March 26.-To find a par
allel for the extreme dullness of the
stock market last week, it is necessary
TO go back seven years, to March of
"A ~. when speculation was reduced to
"a Sninimum, while the market was
awaiting the decision in the Northern
Securities case. In the first week OF
that month. daily operations We're on
a basis of 10000 shares, and in the
following week they increased to about
100000. Never since that time has trad
ing fallen to so low point until this
week when the daily average was in
the neighborhood of 100000 shares
Various facts and figures at hand
confirm the increa sing impression that
the country is now undergoing slow
but certain mercantile liquidation. This
is apparent in all sections, except the
South, where business in many lines
show little diminution. Advices from
the more important industrial centcfs
especially in regard to textiles. dcnot"
the caution shown by large iobbers and
distributors, while the last fortnight
has witnessed a falling off in orders
for finished products in steel and iron.
Further evidence of the movement in
almost all branches of trade is found
in the steady decline in bank clearings
throughout almost the entire country.
There YVES Il momcntary show of an
inlation i'll the securities market on
Monday when il became known that
the supreme court had adjourned for
the two-wccks spring recess without
handing down the decisions in the anti
trust cases.
1t was thought that advantage would
be taken of the brief respite from the
influence of this uncertainty to under
take a speculative movement. The sup
position was dispelled on the follow
ing day, when not the slightest re-
Spouse came from outside circles to
the tentative effort Of the board room
element to inaugurate such move
- ment.
Opinion is quite common in the IL
nancial district that steps intended to
anticipate the supreme courts decis-
ions. in the stock market at least have
been completed. For this reason 9TH
er causes for the lethargY Of Specu-
latirn must be sought.
Some traditional caution develops in
speculation with the approach of April
money settlements. / ne l'tiihlIlS IitISI-
ton remains so strong, however. that
no symptoms of money market strain
is found. 1t is rather the signs Of trade
retrogression that may help t. ac
count for the stock market Sppcul--
ton. Another factor may be found in
The continuation of uncertainty as to
the precise status of affairs in Mex
leo. The resignation of the Mexican
cabinet served IL draw attention more
closely to the crisis in the southern re
public and To emphasize the detrrlnI-
nation t. proceed with caution There
* also much uncertainty over the
scope of The activities of the new Con
oreSs which is soon tn assemble. The
Carn ri" Trust Co. disclosures and dis
cnsSion of Il banking investigation also
Lad to be reckoned with as deterrent
factors rs their relation to financial
activities.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-03-27

,bCdNs crazy about. or shall We move
to cheaper quarters, now that the
showing season is off, and cut down
expenses and be saving up for the
next campaign" For campaigns come
rolling around with the inexorability
of death and taxes, and ne'er Il moth
er's son among 'em is certain of his
job. The ayes seem to have ii as to
the moving scheme.
A large majority of the wives and
offspring of senators and representa-
tives lingering in Washington through
out the summer term of Congress in
conjugal and filial loyalty have been
bnndling up and vacating the big no.
tells they have been occupying all sea-
son and hastiing to humber abodes
for economys sake. Those who have
gone back home for keeps are sub
letting their apartments at bargain
counter rates.
SolOns who are enjoying n happy
respite from connubial surveillance are
fleeing from pompous winter quarters
and catching it" in obscurity. There
are few fixed abiding places among
the great ones OF the nation when
they have shipped their domestic in
cumbrances back to the woods. The
liberated ones are hard to spot. Their
home addresses are coquettish. Lib
erty is sweet. 1t is plaintivc pose
of these celebrated creatures who are
$, parated from their families to be
rinirg in the wastes of Washington
in melancholy solitude. That pleaSes
the "missus" They write of their
loneliness and homesickness. their
longing for the placid joys Of the do
nestle hearth. Then some busyhody
society reporter hashes up for publ
cation tn, cornwall doings of the
moping martyr. and there has to be
some tail explaining to make tales
tally The 'missuS' who searches the
so eial columns. relentlesslv puts him
through the third degree and wants
to know.
Mighty saueamish of that potent
parsonage the society writer, are the
people of the passing show in Wash
ingtCn. The relations between the two
are ticklsh. In a world of push and
political preferment what's printed
about the pushers. whether just or an
Just. counts back home where the APP
prevail of constituents is as the breath
of lie.
"Ahemn" timidly essays very fire.
quently a congressional hostess, whose
husband has scrambled into his job
Chiefly through prohibition votes.
'ahcm," nervously and affectionately
funlblinr the bunch of artificial gar
danias on the nearfur coat of the
newspaper lady guest at the congress
wuman's pretentiouS tea. My dear
Miss Copychaser. if YOU should be
writing up my little affair of this af-
trrnean will Nou kindly omit any men
tion Of tn, punch My husband is So
strong ON temperance, YOU know Ard
please. don't mention either that little
lecture tour he's OFF ON. When" an
ptalirg'y. these little matters arc re-
peatol in the home papers don't YOU
SEE his political opponents make 50
nuc& capital 81 them Louisville
courier journal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-03-27

home mt Peaks island today, aged 81
years. Mrs. Sterling died in the house
where the former Speakers father was
born and which is 125 years old. Mrs.
Sterling was u native of Peaks island.
came to the city frequently, even in
her later years and was one of the
young girls to shake hands with La
fayette when he was in Portland in
lS25. 1t was one of the disappont-
ments of her life that Mr.. Reed was
not nominated for the Presidency.
Il am sure | do not know why he
did not get it," she said in an inter-
view published within a year. He
was good enough man for any posi-
ton
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-03-27
Way to Build a Roao.

Everybody is in favor of good ODDS,
as an abstract proposition, but when
il comes down to the concrete--Tthat Is
to say, To sand and gravel-there are
differences of opinion. Some Ken
tuckians there are who declare them
selves strongly for good roads, but
say they do not know how to go about
getting them.
One way to go about it has been
exemplified recently by the Federated
Woman's Club of Brandenburg. The
members of that live organization felt
the need of n good road from Branden-
burg to Weldon. station on the
Louisville, Henderson & st. LOUIS
Railroad. Brandenburg has no rail-
road, and when the citizens of that
town go travelling they either take IL
Steamboat OF drive over to Weldon to
take the train.
Meade County mud possibly is Il
few degrees worse than the mud any
where else in Kentucky. The mate
citizens of Meade have been hanulins
the road question in the same way
that many other Kentucky countiq
have been handling it. Mud mul
piled by mud produces more mud.
the male citizens of Meade a
seem to know it.
The women woke up to the
ton first, and they determine
pike" the road from Brandenbts
Weldon. They raised more thans
by private subscription and they
tho Fiscal court to do the rest.
court came across with an appr,S
ton of $4,000 as an evidence of
faith. The road will he completf
tine early summer. Next winteIf
be possible to travel from BY
burg to Weldon without brs
hamestring or straining a
A wagon will not be a load
horse team, and walking Y,
an impossibility when "a
comes.--Louisville ,Courier-Jo& sr
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-03-27
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preach to the pier. taking away those
who had been claimed.
y The air went stale with AN oaor az
burnt flesh and for time the pier WAS
cleared. During the brief recess heavy
eyed attendants rcarranged the baskets
of personal effects belonging tn tn, vic
time. There was more than $500 in cash
in the pockets and purses of The dead
one woman had $S0p in her stocking.
Hospital doors We're stormed by hun
dreds during the day and night. \ cutter
whose sister worked a few feet away
from him in the doomed factory inquired
for her every half hour at ST. Vincent :
hospital She died between his visits and
he beeame so violent that the police had
7 10 rektrain him. He and she had planned
XII Welcome their aged parents from Rus
mis- %eek. The parents are on the
way now. \ woman and girl who lay
dying side by side whispered to sympa-
thetic nurses their stories of the disa stcr
talking rapidly as if fearful that dca n
would cheek the recital. The girl died
mnrmaring her grnesome tale; the wo-
man fingered. became delirious and beg
ged the nurses to relieve her.
why am I liere?'' she moaned as she
osok back into troubled sleep WHICH the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-03-27
Surgeons said would be her last

Surgeons said would be her last. "What
have | done?''
The coroner and the grand jurymen be-
gan their investigation today before the
embers died in the burned building. They
touched shoulders with the district at
tornoy's men. building department agents,
Fire Chief Croker, commissioner Waldo
and their helpers. There will be a thor
ough probing and fixing the blame, il
blame there be- and il can be fixed. said
District Attorney Whitman:
IF what chief Croker tells me is
correct then some one is criminallN IL
able and whoever it is whether 1t b"
one or a dozen, shall be prosecuted. |
never saw anything more horrible in
my life"
There are many buildings in this
city H. which even worse conditions
prevail declared Commissioner Wal
90. "On his building there was only
one outside iron balcony fire escape
with treadS Is inches wide and so con-
structed that persons entering on the
fire escapes by windows would have to
close the iron shutters before they
could escape. There We're two enclosed
freproof stairs. only sufficiently wide
for ono person to descend at a time
and with winding steps at the turns.
Entrance to the stairs were blocked
by partitions. From indications gates
and doors appeared to have been lock-
cd at the time of the fire
The building. itself, said CommlS-
sioner Waldo, seemed to comply VITA
the law governing the erection o1 fire
proof structures. Tile owner of the
building. j. j. Aseh Of South NorWalk
CT. arnarentIy had observed the reg
ulations Of the building department.
he said
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-03-27
THE SOLoNS IN WASHINGTON.
Who Are Planning to Save Little
Money.

It's all upheaval and downheaval.
and shuttle the cards. and new deal
generally from domestic point OF
view. congressionally speaking, in
Washington nowadays.
The ways and means committee and
the committee on committees and the
committee on domiciliary dOings gen.
erally-in fact, the ''house" commit
tees by and large-are all up against
tire pregnant proposition, shall we
stay put exactly where we are dur
ing the g:atuftous session that no.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-03-27
BASEBALL GAMES.

At acknowledgements 8; Chicago
Nat, /.
At Dallas--New York, Nat. 6; Dali
las 8.
At san Antono-Eew York. Nat, =;
san Antonio, |.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-03-27
THE READVlllE DATES.
Grand Circuit Races Will Surely Be
Held at That Track.

Readville, Mass, March 26.-All
doubts as to whether the ReadTille
track would accept its Grand Circuit
dates of Aug. 2S-Sept. were removed
today. when +. NJ. Stalker, the secre-
tary. announced the following list of
early closing events: The Blue Hill
us trot, $4,000 tAmateur drivers): the
American Trotting Derby, $500: the
Bunker Hill Pacing Handicap $1,000:
the N"ponset 2.13 pace. $2n1o. Entries
close April II.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-03-27
LYDIA REED STERLING.
Favorite Aunt of Former Speaker
Reed Dead at Peaks Island.

Portland. Me. March 26.--Lydia
Reed Sterling, the favOrite aunt of
Former Speaker Thomas B. Reed and
Port!ands Oldest woman, died at her
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-03-27

szz s--,s-
u. -.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-04-27
Punctured.

Punctured.
He had been Boosting proudly about
the quality of his machine, and pretty
nearly everybody within earshot had
grown excessively weary.
"For speed it's dandy" he con.
cluded, "but it costs like the dickens to
keep it in repair"
come into the smoker trifle late to
hear the beginning of the talk, per
haps you haven't got the best. Now
I've got a machine that's a corker fol
speed, too, and l don't believe I've
spent more than-well, not more than
SO cents in repairs in two years"
"Eighty-five cents!" cried the boast
full one. Nonsense! Why. the mere
idea of speed alone involves a greater
wear and tear. to say nothing Of break
ages, than that Maybe our ideas OF
speed differ" he added condescending
ly. Just how high can you runY'
''Three hundred words a minute,
said the stranger
words ?" demanded the boastful one
scornfully.
"Why, yes" said the stranger. "You
were talking about typewriting ma
chimes, weren't you"
Whereupon the boastful one explod
ed with a loud report and sibilani
hiss.-Harper's Weekly.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-04-27
TALK THAT TALKS.

II you would now be erudite
And stand In with the gang
You must get busy with the dope
And sling the classy slang
It's got US going, and then some.
It's got our talk for fair.
without IL you are TO the bad
And won't get anywhere.
Your girls a little bear or skirt
Or kiddo-oh, you kidd
To be polite you show front.
Your Kelly's now a lid.
Your friends are to the good or straight
Or on the Fritz-among
The dippy In the foolish box
Or In some manner stung.
You once were wont TO walk and run
Or exc perhaps pursue.
You beat II now or chase yourself
Or ramble or skiddoo.
There was a time with your wife's friends
You went and took a drink.
You gargle now or lap highballs
With some booze fighting gink.
Believe me. II is true, get wise.
And cinch 1t all by rote,
For II you don't it's nix for yours
1t sure will get your goat
Powell T. Manning In Puck.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-04-27
For the First Time.

For the first time has the Harem or
pantaloon skirt appeared on our streets
and that this morning. So much has
been said, both for and against, this
particular style of skirt for ladies that
it was with no LITTLE interest that a
number of our citizens saw one of our
most popular young ladies going to the
post office this morning so donned and
the general verdict was-how becom-
ing! We understand that there have
been two of these skirts ordered which
will appear on our streets in the near
future.
Turn,about is but fair play, so now
might not our boys have skirt panta-
looms?
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-04-27
Kicked By A Mad Horse

Samuel Birch, of Bectown Wis, had
most narrow escape from losing his
leg, as no doctor could heal the fright
full sore that developed, but at last
Bucklen's Arnica Salve curee it COM
pletely; Its the greatest healer of
ulcers, burns, boiIs, eczema, scalds,
cuts, corns, cold-sores, bruises and piles
on earth; Try it DC at Connell's Drug
Store.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-04-27
MISTAKE IN FIGU ERS

Was there some mistakes In the
figures? During the recent local
option campaign in lonia county
several business men argued that the
presence of saloons in county or
community was stimulant for trade
and that many people were inclined
to go for their necessities where they
could get a drink If they happened
to want one. At present there is
a strike in Grand Rapids. One OF
the first acts of the city council was
TO order the bars at all the clubs In
the city closed during the strike ana
the aldermen seriously considered
the matter of closing all the saloons
in the city as well.
A time of business depression Is
time when one would expect that
everyone interested in the advance
ment of a community would look for
means of increasing business. Ger
tainly no one would expect the alder
men of a city to act in such manner
as to curtail sales in any real line OF
business. There must of necessity
be falling off of trade when 5000
men quit work and lay idle, thus re-
ducing their buying power by the
difference between the amount OF
their weekly wages and the strike
benefits they are likely to receive,
therefore it would seem like a SEN
sible thing for the aldermen oi
Grand Rapids to do something at this
time that will tend to increase bust
ness, rather than lessen 1t. The
closing of clubs makes so many less
places for the out-of-town buyers to
secure the drinks necessary-accord-
ing to the arguments of the liquor
dealers-to influence their choice OF a
place to buy necessities, therefore
adds embarrassment to a situation
already sufficiently embarrassing. Ii
this argument of the liquor interests
had any foundation in fact, this is
a time for granting additional licen-
SEES and opening up additional thirst
parlors, instead of closing any.
The logic of the aldermen in clos
ing the clubs and allowing the saloons
to remain open, is not apparent to
the average thinker. The club has
been represented as a place where
men with plenty of money could drop
in whenever convenient and enjoy q
few moments rest from their ordinary
efforts and in addition satisfy their
cravings for some exciting beverage
1t is hard to understand how such
men are likely to cause trouble in a
time of popular excitement incident
to labor strike. The saloon, on the
other hand, has always been pointed
out as the "laboring mans club" and
would appear to be the plalce where
laborers out of employment would be
~Hkelyto relieve the irksomeness they
would naturally feel. The saloon
would also seem to be the place
where the laborers brain would be-
come excited and dictate some act OF
violence to his hand The policy Of
closing any place where liquor is solo
in a time like this, while recognized
by all thinking people as goot
thing to do, yet when looked upon il
the light of the arguments SO latel,
advanced by the liquor dealers in thi'
county, looks like big mistake in {
business way. 1t leads back to tn,
inquiry at the beginning, was Their,
some mistake in the figures?
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-04-27
Too Marvellous.

"Dug 'em out Of tn groundY ex.
claimed the old gentleman from w
state. looking at the case of vases from
Herculaneum.
Eyes, sir" answered the attendant.
"What, jist as they beT"
perhaps some little pains have been
taken in cleaning them. but in other
respects they are the same"
"Pshaw" muttered the old man
turning away. "He can say what BIZ
likes, but. by gum. he can't fool me
into believin' ready made vases were
ever dug up out of tn groundp'-Met.
ropolitan Magazine.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-04-27
Quite Definite.

Some people find it difficult to deter
mine just what constitutes mans in
come for the purpose Of taxation, but
justice Of the peace in New Jersey
village was intent upon there being no
mistake in his case.
He made his return to the tax as
SCISSOR In the words: "For the last two
years my income has been little un
der 5000 a year, but in the future ii
will be more precarious, as the man
from whom / borrowed that money
(my father-in-law) is now dead
Brooklyn Life.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-04-27
A WELL THAT ENDED WELL.
Hard Luck, However. by Leaps Pree I'd !.
ed the Discovery


cd the Discovery
"When ] was boy" said the Siog,
teller, IL lived In the rennSv wanna ~,
country and my grandfather owned u
big farm down there Fey hid nevri
found oil within five or s'x miles ~
grandfather's place. bu they wrr.'
gradually elging n ong IN his direction
and we all expected HI. - nrr -
| later someb dy won Il uncover II 4
| err there That would me n "a 10 IN
| for grandfather. and ms was his oni,
heir I naturally took considerable In
| terest In the matter Wen. one day n
rich oil man came along and made m
had struck good well near by. and
everybody had come 10 the conclusion
that grandfather's farm was In the
| middle of the oil belt Our friends nd
vised against the acceptance of the
first offer. which would have been
| twenty times as much as the farm
would have been worth If no oil had
been there. but II was certain that II
oil were discovered on the farm we
could get $4,000 and perhaps 100000
more than the price mentioned by the
first bidder.
Seeing tnat grandfather wouldn't
sell. the man leased couple Of acres
from him and started TO put down a
test well Ii was expected that they
| would have TO drill about n thousand
feet to reach the sand In which the oil
was located, and when they got down
that far not sign Of oil had been
found. so they decided to torpedo the
thing.
1.-THE scheme was to put a lot OF
nitroglycerin into the well and blow
II up. That often made gushers of
what at first seemed to be dry holes
They brought a large quantity of the
explosive stuff to the farm and stored
1t in a little shed. expecting to blow
up the well the next day. Here's where
the hard luck comes in.
sit happened that | had goat, and
this goat got into the shed where the
explosive was stored. Boyike. rushed
In to get the goat out and grandfather
and a crowd of the well drillers saw
me- They were horror stricken. For
a moment nobody could move or even
speak Then grandfather offered his
farm to any one who would rescue me
One of the drillers accepted the offer
and entered the shed, where he sue.
ceeded in getting the goat by the horns
just before he had butted into the car
of nitroglycerin.
HE flung the goat out through the
open door of the shed, and then. catch
ing me In his arms, carried me out in
safety TO grandfather The old gentle
man insisted on deciding the place over
to him then and there. The next day
they attempted to torpedo the wei
and then 1t was discovered that the
can which was supposed to be full OF
nitroglycerin contained nothing bu'
lard, and the goat died Of the shoch
1t had sustained when 1t was thrown
from the shed. Eventually the wei
turned out to be a gusher."-ChicagC
Record Herald.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-04-27
Has Millions OF Friends

How would you like to number your
friends by millions as Bucklen's Ami
ca salve does? Its astounding cures in
the past forty years made them. It's
the best salve in the world for sores,
ulcers, eczema, burns, boils, scalds,
cuts, corns, sore eyes, ssrains, swellings,
bruises, cold sores. Has no equal for
piles. 25c at Connells Drug Store.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-04-27
Hiuher Education.

"Can you give me job as office
boy?"
Il might. How are you on spelling
and arithmetic?'
We didn't pay much attention to
those studies at our school. But I can
model In clay and do worsted work.
Louisville Courier-J ournal.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1911-04-27
Looked SUSPICIOUS.

milk will quench fire caused by an
exploding lamp, water only spreading
the OIL" said the professor.
well, tried to quench fire by put
ting milk on 1t once" said the milk
man, 'but 1t didn't put the fire out"
"Well, next time you try it be sure
you haven't put any water in the
milk."-Yonkers Statesman.