Daily Kennebec Journal (Augusta, Me.)
March 18, 1902

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VOL. XXXIII. AUGUSTA. MAINE. TUESDAY MORNING. MARCH 18.1902. NO. OH. Beautiful 5pring Flowers, I I1YACINTI15, Tl'L!l»S, DAFFODILS, NARCIfSUS. _ We have quantities of these either in cut flowers or potted. You ought to have a few. Nothing more cheering to send to a sick l’rlend. H. R. Mitchell Son, Watervitle, lie. declO.eodlstpp.tf YOU’VE LOST A FRIEND when your stomach goes hack on you. .And,, like any other friend, it will go hack on youifyou abuse it. That means indigestion. The best way to regain its friendship is to treat it to some of the True “L. F.” Atwood’s Bitters. 7-20-4 me. Clears are all warranted imixnled filler and wrapper. Strictly handmade. All Jabbers and Retailers.

BORALMA AND LORD DERBY Will Decide Their $20,000 .Trotting Match at Charter Oak. Hartford, Cl.. March 17.—The up a nn e ment was made, today, Dial lint* in tting match between Tftqimaa wont's Horalma and R. K. Small.efr'.'»3pi>rd 1 ri>> lor SJi.tWa side Wilfhe decided at Char ter Oak park Mr. SYnatttWk and Mr. Lawson have accented fhemlTer of U p«r cent, n tide by Mr. UVteh&ind matter tn be attended to tfiow is tie se* lection of tile date Andy’Welch. man ager if the track, will miStt the owners ol the horses In a few days and arrange definitely for the event.

SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES. -~JW' Fire. Saturday night, did dbTfttt JlkOd damage in Miss Iirlseoll's millinery store at Bar Harbor. Insurance, Sl.'ss*. Bankruptcy petitions were tiled. Mon day. bv Wm B. Stone. l,ewiston; Geo. A. Fletcher. China; Mullen M. Hathaway. Bryants Bond; Frank S. Maxey. Gard ner. Wm. B. Hodgkins, clerk for the Jas. A Bailey Co., was caught in the elevator. Monday, and one of his legs was erushed so that it will probably require amputa tion. He was taken to the Maine Gener al Hospital. The Portland police. Monday, arrest'd Morris Stelnshnerher "f Hartford. Ct.. on a charge of passing bogus cheeks, l-as' December hi' bought $17 worth of scrap Iron of Mills A- Gilmore of Portland, and. It is charged, gave them a worthless cheek on the Merchants* Bank of Pert land. He was known to be in the oily and the firm notilied the poll's* stall oi. He Is 47 years old. II" is wanted in Hart ford on a similar charge. Patents hate been granted to Char s W. Hunter of Gardiner. Me for a ill opener; to Floyd I,. Fox and J. \t x of Lovell. Me., for a device for ch aring horses front vehicles; and to Kugeiie G. G.iillar of Jonesport. Me., for a rinhh r attachment. The Ktinskool Metal Co. of Portland. Me., have been granted a trail mark for white iw Babbitt metal, and the Milliken. Tomlinson Co. or Portland, r trademark for "Cartland s Orange For mosa Tea.” A ah-foot channel of riled, swift-flowing water has hrok* n the ice path across til-' river from Bangor to Brower. Across this same fin feet persons w ilked xv.ien on their wax to work in Bangor from Brewer. earl> Monday morning. Tit" character of the ice Itelds all along the river Is changing with remarkable si.I and unless some decided change in the atmosphere tends to check it. the riv. will he open within another hours. Bangor Commercial, March 17. The Old Town Democrats met in cau cus in the banquet room of City hall, Saturday evening, and nominated by acclamation Dr. Arthur J. Bradbury as their candidate for mayor. When you want a cigar that contains all the essentials of a really enjoyable smoke, ask your dealer for the ever popular C. C. A. This represents the maxi mum value for a ten cent cigar. Now that you have tried all others, we call your atten tion to the “VINE ROCK” A single trad will prove its claim to be the best 5c. cigar made. mu* ,r 1 Ciganaakers Cooperative Association BOSTON, MASS. k GENEROUS OFFER. Mayor Hyde of Bath Tenders His Entire Salary Toward tue Building of a Much necdcd New Schoolhouse. Mayors of Several Maine Cities Takes Their Scats. Hath, Me., March IT.—(Special).—At the annual meeting'of the school board, this evening. Mayor Edward W. Hyde presided. Horatio A. Duncan was re elected vice chairman, and George 1*. Devenport, treasurer. Mr. llydc advo cated the idea of starting a fund f >r the building of a new schoolhouse, on account ef the congested condition at present, and offered his own salary as mayor toward this end. MAYOR McGULLICUDDY Severely Arraigns Lewiston’s Police Force of the Past Year. Lewiston, Me., March 17.—The Hon. D. J. MeGiliicucMy, mayor-elect of Lewi t m. was inaugurated, this forenoon, at City hall in the presence e.trs only about 200, the cost of running the school dt partment had increased over Slu.OOO-i, year. He promised that the new city gfafciriunent, while it has a Demo cratic ri|a.i"nt>. will conduct the business of tile cSjf o:. no!»-partisan basis. After tn»* inaugural the board of alder men ejected Flavien L. lieure tx presi dent. and Percy 1*. Ham was elected president of the common council. BANGOR AND BREWER Ifistall Their New Mayors and City Governments into Office.

Bangor. Me., March 17.—Hon. William Engel vfras inaugurated mayor of Bangor, and Leon F. Higgins mayor of Brewer, this forenoon. The city government of both cities is Republican. Both mayors referred to the making of the bridge be tween the two cities free in their inaugur fal addresses. Mayor Gooch of Biddeford. Biddelord, Me., March 17.—The inaug uration of the new c ity council took place, ^1his forenoon. Mayor Joseph Gooch, in his inaugural address, first dealt with the financial condition of the city. The* I total bonds outstanding arc' $29).00; note.-* $30,0fi0. Of the bonds $215,000 are bearing Interest at I per cent., $25,000 at 3'>fe per cent., and the remainder at 3 per cent, of the notes, $21,000 bear interest at 3 and the remainder at 4 per cent. I The debt last year was reduced $37.1M. Bonds to the amount of $10,000 will fall clue in Oc tober. He recommended an ap j propriation tor the payment of these bonds. MRS. MARY J. COLLINS Dies at Her Home in Chelsea After a Protracted Illness. Chelsea. Me., March 17.— (Special).— Mrs. Mary J. Collins, wife of the late \V. H. Collins, dicil at her home, Mon day morning at about 3 o'clock, after a protracted illness with kidney trouble. Mrs. Collins had resided in this town nearly all of her life and was greatly loved and respected by a large circle of friends. In the days of good health she was ever ready to answer the call of the si. k and those in trouble and will long be remembered try the many who have received loving administrations from her hands. She was about S3 years of age. Three sons A. K. Collins of Gardiner, and E; H. and A. F. P. Col lins of this town, and one daughter. Miss Marin, who has always resided at hqme survive her. Kurneral arrange ments w ill he announced later. FOR CLERK’S CRIME. Major J. G. Butler Defendant in a Pe culiar Case. Portland, Me., March 17.—Major John G. Butler, recently connected with the arsenal at Augusta, was the defendant in a h iring before Judge Putnam in the United Scutes court, today. In 1SH8 while he was serving as dis bursing officer in the arsenal at Rock Island. Illinois, a clerk in his office was found to he a defaulter. The young man hud charge of the pay roll and had been drawing small sums of money against fictitious names. His pecula tions amounted to tr.i't and covered a period of five years. The clerk was sentenced to prison in punishment and civil action is brought against Major Butler to recover the amount stolen. He was defended by Richard Webb of Portland. Judge Put nam has reserved his decision. WANTS TO DIE. Mrs. Ridlon of Sweden. Recently Horri bly Burned, Attempts Suicide. Bridgton. Me.. March 17.—Mrs. Ed ward Ridlon of Sweden, who some two months ago was so horribly burned by falling into the fire while in one of the fainting fits to which she is subpect. attempted suicide by hanging herself to the bedpost, says the Portland Argus. Her husband discovered her act in time to prevent fatal results. Mrs. Ridlon was getting along hopefully from her fearful burns, but had and still has no desire to live. Tne popular medicine of old for J spring was "Sarsaparilla” to purify the Wood and as a tonic. Chas. K. Partridge in Opera House block, I makes one as good as any of the best advertised for 60 cents a bottle and his IT. s. Gold Bitters from Oalisaya, Dock and Sarsaparilla are good too, at 75 cents for a pint bottle. TRUNKS AND Traveling Bags One of Our Specialties. SOLE LEATHER SUIT GASES LEATHER LINED. S5. WE BUY IN LARGE LOTS FOR OUR TWO STORES AND ARE ABLE TO GIVE EXCEPTIONAL VALUES AS WE SELL FOR CASH NO CREDIT. H. C. Barker Co. Opp. Hotel North AUCUSTA, ME. 218 Water St. GARDINER. FAIR AND COLDER. Washington, March 17.—Forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday: New Kng land, fair and colder, Tuesday; Wednesday, fair; fresh northwest to north winds. Boston Forecast. Boston. March 17.—Local forecast for Boston and vicinity; Tuesday, general ly cloudy; colder; brisk northerly winds; Wednesday, fair. Conditions and General Forecast. Washington, March 17.—The storm center has passed to the northeastward beyond the field of observation and high pressure is general, tonight, east of the Rocky mountains, except in Montana and along the Atlantic coast. The weather has cleared except in the Atlantic states. The weather will be generally fair for the next two days over all districts east of the Rock mountains. It will be much colder, Tuesday, in the Atlantic states. On the Atlantic coast the winds will be fresh northwest to north. THE WRECKED TIBER. No Trace of Crew—Vessel in Compara tively Good Condition. Halifax. N. S., March 17.—Capt. J. P. Angrove of Halifax, visited the scene of the wrecked steamer Tiber, today. He says that with a water glass it could be seen that the bridge remains intact, while the boilers and cylinders appear uninjured. Both the masts are gone close to the deck. So far there is no trace of any of the crew. A further search will be made, tomorrow, if the sea permits. There is no news in Halifax about the steamer Huronian. A dispatch was re ceived here, Monday, from St. John, N. 15., stating that a steamer thought to he the Huronian was entering that port. The steamer, however, turned out to be the Virginia. L. H. Moulton of Lisbon Falls. Lisbon Falls, Me., March 17.—The death of Leandcr H. 'Moulton of Lisbon Falls, occurred at his home on School street, Sunday night. He has been in ill health lor some time, his (death resulting from pernicious ancemia. Mr. Moulton was about 30 years of age. He was a native of Durham, graduating from Bates Col lege about '77. He was for a time a prin cipal of Lee Academy, but the past lo years hail been principal of the Lisbon Falls High school. The Suez Canal Re-opened. Port Saiil, Egypt, March 17.—The i anal has been re-opened. The British petroleum steamer Nerite from Mar seilles, Feb. 24. which -was reported, yesterday, to be on lire In the canal, is still burning. Edward Not Going Abroad. London, March 17.—It was officially announced, today, that King Edward will not go abroad this year, lie will cruise in British waters on board the royal yacht Victoria and Albert. A BUSY WORKER. Coffee Touches Up Different Spots. Frequently coffee sets up rheuma tism when it is not busy with some other part of the body. A St. Joe, Mo., man. P. V. Wise, says; “About two years ago my knees began to stiffen and my feet and legs swell, so that l was scarcely able to walk, and then only with the greatest difficulty, for I was in constant pain. T consulted I>r. Barnes, one of the most prominent physicians here, and he diagnosed the case and inquired. ‘Do you drink coffee?’ ‘xes.' You must quit using it at once.' ne replied. I did so and commenced drinking Postuin in its place. ••The swelling in my feet and ankles and the rheumatic pains subsided quickly, and during the past 18 months I have enjoyed most excellent health, i am}, although I have passed the 68th mile post I have never enjoyed life better. "Good health brings heaven to us here. 1 know of many cases where wonderful cures of stomach and heart trouble have been made by simply throwing away coffee and using Post urn.” GALLANT MEN DIE In Performance of Duty, In Trying to Save Others. Sever. Chatham Life Savers Drowned I With Five of Wrecked Barge. Surfman Ellis Alone Survives to Tell the Terrible Tale. Chatham, Mass., March 17.—Seven hi ave life savers, practically the entire crew of the Monomoy station on the soull. end of Cape Cod, met death, to day, at their post of duty and with them into the treacherous sea which iapsized the life boat went live men from the stranded barge Wadena, whom they vainly tried to bring in safety to the shore. One man, Lemuel Kliis, through he roic work of C’apt. Elmer Mayo of an other stranded barge, the John O. Fitzpatrick, was rescued from the bot tom of the upturned boat just as he was about to follow his companions to their watery grave. aiiwiuk tnose lost was win. H. muck of Cleveland, Ohio, who was on the barge representing his company, the Bnutell Towing and Transportation Co. of that city, while Captain Marshall N. Eldredge, one of the oldest life savers on the coast, went down with his men. All the life savers came from Chat ham and Harwich, and all arc survived by families or widows. The names of those who were lost are as follows: Life savers—Marshall N. Kldredge, keeper, South Catham. Edgar Small, Harwich. Elijah Kendrick, Harwich. Osborn Chase, Harwich. Arthur Robers, North Harwich. Isaac Thomas Foye, South Chatham. Volentine Nickerson, Harwich. From the barge: Win. H. Mack, Cleveland, Ohio. Captain Christian Olsen, Boston. Robert Molanux, Boston, steward of tug Peter Smith. Walter Azeved, Cottage City. Manuel Enos, Cottage City. Captain Eldridge was a widower but a son and daughter survive him. Surf man Small is survived by a widow and two children. Surfman Kendrick was married, with no children. Surfman Chase is survived by a widow' and two children. Surfman Rogers was mar ried but had no children. Surfman Foye is survived by a widow but no ihildren, and Surfman Nickerson by a widow and three children. ll is believed Mr. Mack was married. Capt. Olsen's home was in Norway. Azeved and Enos are known to have been married. The scene of the accident was in the well-known tide rips off Monomoy point, which make down from Chatham into Nantucket sound. Last Thursday the barges Wadena and John C. Fitz patrick on the way up to Boston with cargoes of coal, stranded on t'ne Shovel field shoal, about three-quarters of a mile off Monomoy Point. Since then every effort has been made to float the stranded barges. Last night, the tug Peter Smith, which has been lying beside the barges, ran alongside the Wadena and told those on board that a storm was com ing on. All the wreckers were taken on board the tug with the exception of the five men who met their fate, today. Mr. Mack, who had come on from Cleveland, refused to leave, and order ed the captain of the Smith to anchor near by. About 8 o'clock, the weather growing very thick, the captain of the tug de cided to run into Hyannis, a distance of about 15 miles, leaving the barges still stranded: Upon his arrival in Hy annis, the captain of the tug tried in vain to notify the Monomoy life savers of the fact that there were five men left on board the Wadena, which being further out on the shoal, was in a more dangerous place than the Fitzpatrick. This forenoon. Capt. Eldridge, who had been watching the barges very elosely, thought he sighted signals of distress on the Wadena. At that time the captain was about a mite below the station, near the point. He at once sent word to the station for the crew and the surf boat, and about 10 o’clock the men came down the beach. At that lime the wind was blowing nearly a gale from the southeast, so prepara tions were made to launch the boat on the inside of the point where the water was smooth. if was a comparatively easy pull un til they rounded the point. There they met the full force of the wind and the sen and it took the crew nearly an hour to reach the barge. By that time the tide had turned to the eastward and a fierce cross sea had been kicked up. (’apt. Cldredge steered the life boat un der the lee of the Wadena and the five men dropped into the boat. With the wind astern Capt. Eldredgo was constant ly looking for smooth water behind the point. When about half way he thought he discovered one and the boat was sheered off for it. As she did so a tre mendous sea caught her under the stern and she went over, throwing all the men into the water. All the life savers clung to the boat and managed to pull the Wadena men along with them. An attempt was made to right the boat but the life savers only managed to get her partially cleared of water. They had some hope, however! of final ly reaching land until another wave cap sized hey again and left them all strug gling in the water. Mr. Mack was the first to succumb, and one by one they dropped away until there were only four left, and these by the utmost exertions managed to clamber upon the bottom of the overturned boat. The four men drifted down in the di rection of the Fitzpatrick, where Capt. Mayo of that boat, caught sight of them. With great daring he dropped a dory overboard and, jumping into it, started (Continued on page 3.) I 57TH CONGRESS. The Senate Passes Ship Sub sidy Bill, 42 to 31. Several Amendments Adopted and Numerous Others Rejected. The House Takes Up the River and Harbor Bill. Washington, March 17.—After pro longed debate, the Senate, today, passed the ship subsidy bill, the final vote on the measure being 42 to 31. Senators Allison and Dolliver of Iowa, Spooner and Quarles of Wisconsin, and Proctor and Dillingham of Ver mont, Republicans, voted against final passage of the bill, and McLaurin of South Carolina, voted for it. Some amendments to the bill were adopted, but they were all agreeable to those in charge of the measure, the friends of the bill voting down all other amend ments. ith tne exception of amendments offered by Allison and accepted by Frye, limiting the time of the opera tin.1 of contracts made under the pro visions of the bill to July t, 1920, and providing that the amount of the ex penditure under the mail subsidy para graph shall not at any time exceed *8, 000.000 annually, none of the amend ments agreed to materially affected the bill as it was reported from the iom nu ree committee. The voting upon amendments began at 3 o’clock, and such a flood of them was offered that a final vote on the bill, as amended, was not reached until just before 6 o’clock. The title of the bill passed by the Senate is "To Provide for Ocean Mail Service Between the United States and Foreign Ports, and the Common De fense: to Promote Commerce, and to Encourage the Deep Sea Fisheries.” Title 1 of the measure as passed, deals with ocean mail steamships and their subsidies. The postal subsidy act of 1S!U is so amended asto direct the postmaster general to enter into con tracts for not less than five, nor more than 15 years with American citizens for the carrying of mails on American steamships, to such foreign ports as will best promote the postal, commer cial and maritime interests of the United States, the mail service on such lines to be equitably distributed among tin- Atlantic, Mexican, Gulf and Pacific ports and the contracts to be made with the lowest responsible bidder. The vessels employed in the mail ser vice shall be American built and owned and officered by American citizens. During the first two years, one-fourth of the crew must Ire American citizens, during the nest three years one-third must te American citizens, and during the remaining life of the (contract at least one-half must be American citi zens. The ships must be screw steamships of iron and steel, and divided into the following classes according to speed: First class, 20 knots or over: second class, 19 knots; third class, 18 knots; fourth class, 17 knots; fifth class, 10 knots; sixth class, 15 knots; seventh class, 14 knots. All steamships of the first four classes, shall be constructed with par ticular reference to prompt- conversion into auxiliary naval cruisers and shall be of the highest rating known to mari time commerce. The rate of compensation for ocean mail service, to be paid per gross reg istered ton for each 100 nautical miles sailed from the port of clearance in the United States to the port of entry in the United States, according to the route required by the post office de partment, shall not exceed the follow ing; Steamships of the first class, 2 7-10 cents: second class, 2 5-10 cents; third class, 2 3-10 cents; fourth class, 2 1-10 cents; fifth class, 1 9-10 cents: sixth class, 1 7-10 cents; seventh class, 1 5-0 cents. The rates of compensation to any vessel carrying mails to a foreign port in North America shall not exceed 70 per cent, of the maximum rates estab lished. Mail steamships are required to car ry as apprentices one American born boy for cacti 1000 tons gross register. He shall be educated in Seamanship and engineering and rank as u petty officer. title z or the olll provides for the general subsidy to be paid. It directs tlie secretary of the treasury to pay to the owners of any vessel in the United States, duly registered and engaged in the foreign trade of the United States a compensation amounting to 1 cent per gross registered ton for each 100 nautical miles sailed, not exceeding 16 entries in any one year; and on each entry, not exceeding 16 in any one year, for m period of five years from the date of registration of a vessel of 1000 gross tons, which shall he completed after the passage of this bill one-fourth of 1 cent per gross ton for each 100 nauti cal miles sailed, in addition to the above mentioned compensation. The bill specifies certan vessels, which shall not receive compensation under its provisions, among them being vessels engaged in the coastwise trade exclu sively. Kach subsidized vessel is required to carry as a member of its company one American boy for each 1000 gross tons, who shall be taught seamanship and engineering. The owners of the vessel must agree before receiving compensa tion that the ship in emergency may be used by the United States for the na tional defence or for any public pur pose at a fair valuation for this service. Title 3 of the bill directs the secre tary of the treasury to pay to the own er of a documented vessel, engaged in deep sea fishery for at least three months In any one year, $2 per gross ion per nnndm. provided that at least >ne-third of the crew shall be citizens (Continued on page 2.) OUTSIDE MILLS Will Demand Same Rates as at Fall River. Executive Council of Texile Workers Will Meet Nrxt Week To Consider Complaints and Demands from Many Citic3. Fall River, Mass., March 17.—A meet ing of the executive council C the United Textile Workers of America has been called by Secretary Hibbard for next week In this t ity and many im portant matters will come up for con sideration. One of the principal ones under discussion will be the request of the operatives at Augusta, Oa., for permission to strike for an increase of 10 per cent, in wages. Other matters to be adjusted are the troubles in the silk mills at Reynolds ville, I’a., and among the carpet weav ers at Tliomp3onville, Conn. James Tansey, the president of this body, was asked if he thought that the demands for an advance in wages would become general in this section of the country and he replied that he thought they would. The operatives in Lowell and New Ledford have already asked for an increase of Id"per cent, and the Lawrence operatives are about to do so. He also says that the operatives in those cities would have the support of the national body if after the investi gation the officials deemed the request a reasonable one. He said that it had been his experi ence In labor matters that outside op eratives. operators and manufacturers alike generally followed the lead of Fall River. He did not think that there would be much trouble in securing an advance asked for. In regard to the cut grievances which the Fall River mills will now settle, Janies Whitehead, secretary of the Weavers Union, was asked if the mat ter of a standard cut would be taken up at once and he laughingly replied that he did not know, as he understood that the Manufacturers Association was upon the point of dissolution. If that was the case there would b< no use trying to do businesswith the mem bers of an association. He supposed that each would have to be dealt with separately and in this case he thought theie'would be but little trouble. The weavers have a petition now be fore the Legislature for a standard cut of 2 per cent. The law now allows a relay of fi per cent., and the action of the Seaconnet mills in granting a 1 per cent, relay is claimed by the weavers to show that the manufacturers have not been giving the exact state of af fairs in their testimony before the com mittee on labor. In regard to the dissolution of the Manufacturers Association, President Borden said that it had not dissolved, but in his opinion its usefulness had gone for a long time. Several manu facturers said, this afternoon, that they would sign no more agreements and would not again attempt to treat with the operatives through an association. The Bourne miils, a Rhode Island corporation hose operatives have been receiving ii per cent, more than the other, operatives since last October, to day. gave an advance of 5 per cent., bringing the standard in that mill up to the others in Fall River M. IX Borden’s brokers were in the market, late this afternoon, bidding 3% for regular goods for delivery as late as August. Manufacturers have eon eludeil not to sell freely, but the bids are being carefully considered and the prospects for large sales at the new price are generally considered as being good. Fall River Mills Are Running. Fall River, Mass., March 17.—All the textile corporations in the city, having granted the 10 per cent, advance in wages, to take effect, today, every mill started up In full this morning. September Races at Hartford. Hartford, Conn., March 17.—The stage events in the Orand Circuit races here in September are: First, Futurity, tio.ltoo; Sept. 1. Labor day; trotting. 2.11 class. $10,000; 2.19 class, $3000; 2.30. $3000; pacing. 2.09 class. $3000; 2.15 class, $3000; 2.30 class $3000. Entries will close, April 1. Three Cent. Fares for Cleveland. Cleveland, Ohio, March 17.—The 3-eent street car fare ordinance was passed finally by the city council, to night. The Pope, Monday, received In audience at Rome the archbishop of Quebec, the Most Kev. I,. N. ISegln. Springtime It’s Enjoyment Depends Upon Your Condition of Health. Paine’s Celery Compound I Will Remove Your Burden of Dis ease and Suffering and Make Life Worth Living. In springtime thousands resort/ to some remedy to purify the blood and to arouse its circulation with the view of 1 banishing' diseases common at this season. Those whoso intelligence directs then* to make use of Paine’s Celery Com I pound, know just what to expect in results when the great medicine is used. They are aware of the fact that their relatives, friends, and neighbors i have used Paine's Celery Compound in the past, and that it has, in every case, proved the ideal invigorator for the run down, weak, and suffering; It i has cleansed the blood and caused the life stream to course with vigor and health to every part of the body; it has braced the nerves; it has banished the agonies of rheumatism, neuralgia, I and dyspepsia, and has triumphed over deadly kidney disease and liver j troubles. In the past. Paine's Celery Compound as a spring medicine has saved thou sands of precious lives; today, its j work is greater, more widespread, and more commanding than ever before, because people know it better and use it more freely. Headaches, sldeaches. backaches, heart troubles, sleepless ness, cold chills, night sweats, and fevers are quickly banished when Paine's Celery Compound is faithfully used. No other spring medicine keeps the contidence of so many earnest men and women. Paine's Celery Compound has compelled the admiration of the medical world, and will hold its high position as the surest, best, and most effective health giver. One or two bot tles used at this time will work won ders for all who are weak, run down, nervous, and out-of-sorts. Diamond Paints for all decorative i work. Equal to 50c. Gold Paint. AGAINST WILCOX. Nellie Cropsey’s Sister Ollie Gives Damaging Evidence. Says Wilcox Was Last Person Seen With the Dead Girl. Lawyer Patrick Trying to Prove Alibi for Day of Rice's Murder. Elizabeth City. N. C., March 17.—Miss Ollie Cropsey, a sister of the dead Kiri, testitied, today, in the Wilcox trial. She said that Wilcox had been very atton live to Nellie since June of DON. After they quarrelled, in September, Nellie would hardly speak to him. The niRht. Nellie disappeared, witness said, Wil cox called and sat In the parlor till 11 o'clock, when he asked Nellie to speak with him in the hall. She was never again seen alive by any member of the family. Wilcox, according to the witness, said he had left her crying on the porch. Miss Carrie Cropsey corroborated Miss dlie’s testimony and then Leon ard Owens testified to meeting the de fendant and passing a few words witli him. Witness went straight to his room and as he began to pull off his clothes the clock struck 12. Chief of Police Dawson swore that h*4 went to the Wilcox hohio at 3.15 in the morning. Wilcox declared he had left the girl on the porch crying. PATRICK’S DEFENCE Whereabouts on Day of Rice’s Death Now Being Located.^ New York, March 17.—In the trial of Albert T. Patrick, accused of the mur der of Win. M. Rice. Alice Potts, daughter of John R. Potts, a lawyer friend of Patrick, testified that she was at Patrick’s boarding house on the af ternoon Rice died. She met Mrs. 131 liott and Miss Mabd Elliott of Chicago, there. They ail talked with Patrick, who did not leave the house between .1 and 6.30 o'clock that afternoon. Charles P. Jones testified that Patrick met him on the street at 5 o'clock that day and gave him the chloroform with which Rice was killed. Miss Mabel Elliott then testified that she saw Patrick at breakfast at 8.30 A. M., at dinner at 1.30 P. M. and at sup (Continued on page 1.) SMOKE WAITT BOND’S TOTEM THE BEST SCENT LONDRES CIGAR WE HAVE EVER SOLD. FOR A MILD, SWEET CICAR, TRY Blackstone Juniors SMALL BUT COOD. BOTH UNION MADE WHITT BOND, Mnfrs., No. 53 Blackstone Street, BOSTON.

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WELL, WHAT NEXT! Brunswick Police Officer Ar rests a Bowdoin Student On Alleged Violation of One of the Town’s Sacred By-laws. Judge Takes Sensible View and Remits Fine and Costs. v r Brunswick, Me., March 17. The Brunswick municipal court room was crowded to the doors, this morning, the majority of those present being Bow doin College students who had come to attend the trial of one of their number who >vas arrested, last evening, charg ed with obstructing the sidewalk by standing in a crowd. Sunday evening at>out 5.30, the fresh men of the various fraternities at Bow doin began to gather in front of the Town building, prepared to stand in line all night waiting Tor the sale of seats for the annual indoor meet which comes off next Friday evening, the Sale being scheduled to open at 8 o’clock this morning. The first of the evening there was some singing anrl more or less jollying on the part of the boys. Nothing that they said or did was however, especi ally obnoxious, but it caused a little disturbance, it being Sunday evening and many were passing by on heir way to church. The boys were asked to stop singing which they did. Later in the evening Chief of Police David E. Coombs order ed the students to retui n to the camp us, claiming that they had no right to stand in line on account of Article 2, Section 3 of the town by-laws, which provides that it is unlawful for three or more persons to stand together on a sidewalk, in the street or in the door ways or entrance of any public build ings in the town. Most of the boys immediately began to move, with the intention of walking back and forth until the trouble had blown over and then to return to the, line. Several students had only lately arrived, some of the number being on their way to church. Special Officer Robertson approached, these boys, who had stopped to see the fun, and ordered them to move on. One of the number stopped to ask him why they should be required to move when there were a number of town boys stand ing on the sidewalk and nothing was said to them. After being asked a second time the student again asked why he should be required to move on. There upon Chief of Police Coombs came up and arrested him. Hon. Frederic II. Wilson and Russell W. Eaton, two prominent men in town, wore appealed to by the students and they secured his release, promising to b, responsible for ids appearance in court, this morning. Tile boys agreed to go back to the campus and not to come down again until 7 o’clock this morning. At the trial the student pleaded guilty, hut explained the case, saying that he was not one of the crowd who was stand ing In line and so did not see why he should be classed with them and required to move, when he was simply standing there, while on his way to church, to scj what was going to happen. The judge looked at it from that point, and after saying that the Bowdoin stu dents caused the Brunswick police less trouble than the students of almost any other college in the country, and that while the boy was in reality guilty, yet he did not intentionally break one of the bylaws of the town, fined him $1 and costs and then remitted both the fine and the costs. The decision of the judge was received with applause by the students present. SERIOUS WASHOUTS On the Canadian Pacific—Boston Train Stalled Near Clarendon. St. John, N. B., March 17. -The heavy rain of today* has caused bad washouts on the Canadian Pacific Railway line fie-ween VV’ellsford and Hoyt station in this province. There are two breaks of 40 feet each and another of 30. one be ino- four feet deep. East of Clarendon station for 900 feet the track is under water. The Boston train which left here, this afternoon, is stalled near Clarendon with a washout on either slide. She has 58 passengers. James Oberno, superintendent of the Atlantic division of the line, is at Hoyt and telegraphs that if the rain stops he hopes to have the line repaired by morning. It is still raining. Crews have been sent out from Fairville and McAdam. cither end of the affected part. The report from the government me teorological here at 8 o'clock tonight, was that an inch of rain hail fallen since 11 o'clock this morning, the heav iest downpour this year NEW RUSSIAN LOAN A Total of 393,000,000 Marks Wanted at One, Please. Berlin. March 17.—The particulars of the new Russian loan were published here, today. The loan amounts to 393. 000,000 marks, of which 300.000,000 marks is issued now at f per cent. The loan covers Russia's portion of the Chinese indemnity. It is offered for subscrip tion in Germany, Holland and Russia. SPAIN'S NEW CABINET. Sagasta for Premier and Weyler for Minister of War. Madrid, March 17.—The composition of the new cabinet is practically set tled. Senor Sagasta is to be the pre mier; Gen. Weyler. minister of war; Senor Moret, minister of the interior: the Puke of Almodovar, minister of foreign affairs and Senor Canalejas minister of public works. Rcchelle Dock Strike Over. La Rochelle, France, March 17.—The strike of dock laborers here is ended. The employers have accepted the de mands of their employe/}. The plant of the Peklrt/ Slate and Man ufacturing; Co. at PardRould, Ark., was destroyed by lire. Sunday. Tlic loss Is estimated at tioo.ooo. 57th CONGRESS. (Continued from page 1.) of the United States and he is directed to pay also to a citizen of the United States serving as a member of such crew, $1 per month for the time he is neeessurily employed. Title 4 provides that no vessel shall be given compensation under two or more titles of this act at the same time; that a subsidized vessel shall not be sold to a subject of a foreign power and that the President of the United States shall cause proper regulations to be framed for the execution of this act. Pending discussion of the spbsidy bill the following bills were passed: For the acknowledgement of deeds and other instruments in the Philippine is lands and Porto Rico, affecting lands situated in the District of Columbia or any territory of the United States: to prevent trespassers or intruders from entering the Mount Rainier national park, state of Washington; appropriat ing $6000 for the purchase of the Fran cis B. Heilman manuscript of the his torical register. United States army from 1789 to 1901. As the last public bill on the calen dar was passed Hale remarked that in ail his experience he had never before known the last public bill on the calen dar to be reached and disposed of. "It is an indication that the Senate is doing business” he said. l no snip subsidy bin tnen was taken up and Gallinger, N. H., spoke in favor of it. He said he was not troubled about the constitutionality of the pro posed law or the charge that the sub sidy is a gift to private interests. “If it shall prove to be a gift,” said he, “it will be no worse than other legislation that hits had the support of some sena tors who seem to be greatly distressed over the pending measure.” He then referred to the large annual appropria tions paid railroads for fast mail and the river and harbor appropriations. Batterson, Col.; discussed briefly his proposed amendment to prevent the employment of Chinese seamen on sub sidize^ vessels. He said the amend ment had the approval of the Ameri can Federation of Labor and the Inter national Seamen's Union. American labor had been driven from employ ment on ships on the Pacific coast by Chinese labor. Money, Miss., said the United States had lost nothing as it simply paid a reasonable rate for services rendered. Vest spoke in favor of his free ships amendment. Frye declared that 10 years ago Eng land carried 63 per cent., of the ocean trade of the world, while now England only carried 53 per cent, of that trade. Great Britain, he said, was losing the world's carrying trade. Hanna insisted it was a loss to the American people to pay $150,000,000, oi $200,000,000 for the carrying of our for eign commerce for under Just laws per haps 50 per cent, of that amount woulc remain in the hands of Americans. Tht American merchant marine had gone down and down, until it cut a sorrj figure among the nations of the world Clay, G., declared that 1 cent pei gross ton was all that was necessary tc equalize the difference between the cost of construction and operation of Ameri can ships and the construction and operation of foreign ships yet the pres ent bill would provide for a subsidy ol nearly three cents per gross ton. Wellington, Md., favored the pend ing measure because he believed it would go far toward building up the American merchant marine. He paid a high tribute to Frye for his advocacy of the rehabilitation of the American merchant marine. Perkins. Cal., said the four ships of the American Line last year carried to ports in England $20,000,000 in value of farm products. McLaurln, Miss., made a few remarks against the bill, and Scott, W. Va., spoke in favor of it. Frye closed the debate. He was nei ther physically nor mentally able to make a speech, he said. "In trying to avoid the Charybdis of smallpox," he said, "I ran into the Scylla of vaccina tion. and which is the more painful I am unabie to determine.” By way of explanation of certain features t)f the bill he stated that the ordinary freight ship which is to re ceive the subsidy is divested of all the excessive requirements of the postal subsidy ship. Referring to the proposition to pre vent Chinese sailors on ships, he said, it would destroy th^i lines on the Pa cific. He was opposed to the propo sition because our sailors are unable long to stand the excessive heat of the engine and fire rooms. He warned senators favoring the bill to look out for amendments to the present bill offered by members of the opposition. With much deliberation and addressing himself to the Repub lican side of the chamber, Frye called on them to “beware of the Greeks when they are bringing gifts.” Facing the Demdcratic side, he declared that in the last 25 years, the Democrats had suggested no remedy, except Mr. Vest, who wanted free ships, "a remedy Which I am very glad to say very few intelligent Americans believe in." Teller interrupted to ask if Frye would tell what he thought of the amendments offered by Republican senators. I,est I will not have time, I will at tend to that now." answered Frye, amid much laughter. lie then entered upon a detailed anlysls of the amendments that had been offered, some of which he said he had no objection to, while others he hoped would be withdrawn. Frye said he would accept the amend ments offered by Allison limiting toe time of the operation of the measure, be cause he believed they were In the inter est of the bill. At S o'clock, when Frye had concluded. Vest (Mo.) offered his amendment pro viding that the provisions of the anti trust law to apply to the shipping indus try with a view to prevent a conspiracy in restraint of trade. The amendment was rejected, id to 4*—a party vote, with the exception of Mcl,aurin (S. C.), who \oted with the Republicans. Another amendment offered by Vest providing that any vessel purchased in a foreign country by citizens of the Tint ed States shall be admitted to American registry, but the vessel shall receive no subsidy under this act or be admitted to the I'nlted States coastwise trade, was rejected by the same vote. Vest then offered his "free ships” amendment, providing that American cit izens may purchase vessels whore they can be purchased most cheaply and have them registered as American ships. It also was rejected. 23 to 4S. Teller (Col.) ofTered an amendment ad mitting to American registry foreign built I vessels of not loss than 7000 tons and rapable of a speed of 12 knots, that now clear from American ports and of which 1») per cent, is owned,by American citi zens—such ships to receive no snbsidy u'nder this act. The amendment was de feated. 24 to 47. Allison then offered several amend I ments. Those limiting the operation of Miss Elizabeth Hesselman,’* Treasurer of the Neenah, Wis., Schiller Club, Tells How Lydia E. Pinkham s Vegetable Com pound Stopped Her Monthly Suffering and Improved Her General Health. Dear Mrs. Pinkham I was always a healthy girl until •bout a year ago when I caught a severe cold coining home from a party. For months after that I was very irregular and suffered severe pains for a day or two. I lost flesh and strength, and be came alarmed.» My mother procured a bottle of Lydia E. Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound for me, and I began to take it faithfully. I soon found that my general health improved, and within a couple of months I became regular to a day, and sufferedjio further pain, and several of my friends have been helped through its use since.” Elizabeth Hesselman, 129 First St.f Neenah, Wis. +"*4 $5000 FORFEIT IF THE ABOVE LETTER IS NOT GENUINE. When women are troubled with irregular, suppressed or painful men struation, weakness, leucorrhcea, displacement or ulceration of the womb, that hearing-down feeling, inflammation of the ovaries, backache, bloat ing (or flatulence), general debility, indigestion, and nervous prostration, or are beset with such symptoms as dizziness, faintness, lassitude, ex citability, irritability, nervousness, sleeplessness, melancholy, all-gone and want-to-be-left-alone feelings, blues, and hopelessness, they should remember there is one tried and true remedy. Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound at once removes such troubles., Refuse to buy any other medicine, for you need the best. Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women to write her for advicCb She has guided thousands to health. 4 Address Lynn, Mass. contracts made under the bill to July 1, 1920, and providing that the postmaster general shall make no contracts after Ju ly 1, 1910, were agreed to without division. The amendment by Allison limiting the expenditure under the bill to $5,000,000 a year until July 1, 1907, and after that date to $s,000.000 a year, also was agreed to. Another amendment by Allison provid ing that all vessels entering into a con ract under this act shall be of a class VI was agreed to without division. Allison offered another amendment pro dding that a vessel entitled to full com x nsation under the mail subsidy feature >f the pending bill shall clear from a nited' States port with at least 50 per cnt. of her commercial cargo capacity lied. It was rejected, 23 to 27. An amendment by Allison providing hat steamers which during their trials lave not obtained a minimum speed of ■ight knots half loaded cannot partici >ate in the proposed subsidy, was adopt 'd. Pottus (Ala.) offered an amendment iroviding that the total expenditure tin ier the bill should not exceed $9,090,00(1 in ny one year. It was agreed to, !l to 22. Culberson (Texas) offered an amend nent which was rejected. Spooner (Wis.) offered an amendment eserving to Congress the right to amend ir repeal the act, not. however, impair- j :ng any contract made under the bill. The amendment was agreed to. 1 Hanna offered an amendment providing (hat no foreign built ship should receive any part of the proposed subsidy under this act. It was agreed to, as was an other amendment by Hanna providing that nothing in the pending bill should I be construed to prevent an American cit- i izen or citizens from contracting for or holding any interest in foreign ships cn- gaged in the ocean-carrying trade. Hanna also offered an amendment pro- idlng that no foreign-built ship in any line acquired by United States citizens ihall be admitted hereafter to American registry. The amendment was agreed to, 13 to 29. The bill was then reported to the Sen ate. Aldrich (R. I.) demanded a separate vote on the amendment 'of Pettus limit ing the total expenditure in any one year to $9.fM(o,e a substantial promotion hut which has tot yet been definitely selected. For Good Road Fund. Washington, March 17.—Representative Jtey of Virginia, introduced a hill ap •roprlating $100,fiuo,0t# as a "good road fund” to improve the highways of the country. MAINE PENSIONS. Washington, March 17.—The follow ing are the pension changes in Maine esulting from the issue March 1: Increase, restoration, reissue, etc., Ienry Gresser, dead, Veazie, $12; •Samuel Grant, Houlton, $72; Augustus Pratt, South Paris, $12. MAINE POSTAL CHANGES. Washington, March 17.—The Presi lent sent to the Senate, today, the fol owing nomination to be postmaster: Isaac A. Macurda, Wiscasset. Capital Notes. Senor Jose Vincente Concha, the newly ippointcd minister from Colombia, pre ented his credentials to President Roose velt, Monday. Lord Pauncefote, the British ambassa lor, has returned to Washington from a isit to George Vanderbilt at Hilttnore, 7. C. On his return he finds his health ar from the best. The Bath, Me.. Board of Trade. Mon lay night, passed a resolution urging 'ongressman I.ittletield to do all in his >ower to aid liberal reciprocal measures letween the United States and Cuba. Senator Penrose, chairman of the eom nittee on immigration, Monday, submit ted a report on the Chinese exclusion bill which he reported a few days ago. The ommittee recommended Ihe passage of he bill. A telegram has been received by Secre tary Hay from Powell Clayton. United Rates ambassauor to Mexico, declaring that the charges preferred against him onneeting his name with the ownership f Mexican mining stock was false. The commissioner of Internal revenue i.is decided that the blending of fortified wcet wine with a simply fermented wine or with unfermented grape juice, results .n the production of a compound liquor, ind every person making such compound for sale involves himself in liability as a rectifyer. The navy department has received a ablegram from Capt. Reisinger of the U. S. S. Philadelphia, announcing his de parture from Guayaquil. Ecuador, for Panama, her present station. The Unit id States cruiser Albany and the gunboat Nashville arrived at Vilefranehe, France. Monday. They will remain for two weeks. Senator Hoar, from the eommimttee on judiciary, Monday, reported the HIII lim iting the meaning of the word "conspira cy,” with an important amendment in the nature of an exception. The amendment was agreed to by a party vote in a. meet ing of the committee, early in the day. Members of the committee generally say that the practical effect of the amend ment will be to leave the present law un changed. Senator Morgan. Monday, introduced a resolution directing the secretary of the interior to send to the Senate a state ment of the legal and traffic relations between the government of the United States and the railroads that connect with the waters of the Pacific, and also directing the secretary of war to furnish similar information with respect to the Philippines and as to the charters and owners of such railroads. The resolution went over on objection by Senator Hale. SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES. The ice jam below Ayer's falls which had given the people and mills of Basin Mills much trouble some two weeks ago, moved, Monday morning, and the river is now free of ice to a point about half a mile above the Veazie dam. So there is no more trouble of backwater, at Orono. It is understood that a new crew of lasters has been found and will begin work at once for the Cnlon Shoe Man ufacturing Co. of Ellsworth. The com pany cut wages for lasting, last week, and the crew of lfi refused to work for the pay named. It was thought that the factory would be shut down for a time in consequence. The two-master Beuben Eastman which has been fast in the ice all win ter riff the old Bole Fogg wharf at Bangor, was moved, Monday, to a berth bel >w the wharf in the jog above the Maine Central upper stages. Ice that is clinging near the shore has been hauled away and she has been made fast with chains out of harm's way. Pittsfield is now classed among the “dry" towns in Somerset county. Dep uty Sheriff Haskell called upon all those whom he thought might possess any t ‘ndeneies to sell liquor or had been known to in the past, and In formed them, Monday, that no more liquor would be allowed sold In the community. The deputy met with a cordial reception and a strict compli ance was promised. Albert C. Dyer died at his home at Newport. Monday morning, after an ill ness of two weeks. His condition had been regarded as critical for several days, but the majority of the citizens heard of his death with some surprise. Mr. Dyer was a member of the Masonic organizations In town, the Odd Fellows, and Knights-of Pythias. A widow and two brothers, Henry and Charles Dyer of Etna, survive him. rANIC i IALSAM IT HURTS TO BR.EATHE! Yet; and it will hurt more if 70a do not get quick relief. Such Colds always grow worse when neglected or when doctored with unreliable cough cures. ADAMSON’S BALSAM for COUOHS. COLDS and CONSUMPTION is hacked by SO years’ reputa tion and is endorsed by many thousands as the best cough remedy. It not only checks the cold in its early stages bat Cures those of long standing. Don’t let your druggist sell yon some other cure "just go'id,'* He hasn’t any. Bo sure you get Adamson’s Balsam, mads by F. W. Kinsman A Co New York and Augusta. Ha Ail hrst-ciasa druggists sell it. J PLAIN QUESTIONS Asked the Government Con cerning the Boer War. Salisbury Defends Martial Law— Brodrick vs. Campbell-Bannerman. Great Scarcity of Horses for Use in South Africa. London, March 17.—The premier, Lord Salisbury, was called on to defend the government in the House of Lords by a motion of Earl Spencer, Liberal, formerly lord lieutenant of Ireland, de mandinK detailed information regard ing martial law, courtsmartial and ex ecutions in Cape Colony. Lord Coleridge, Liberal, who fol lowed, declared that martial law was imposed over a vast area of South Africa where not a shot had been tired and where there is no resistance to government authority. Lord Salisbury said martial law was a mere fashion of speech. What evtnyone admitted was that it was necesi^ry to defeat the de signs of the King's enemies in South Africa. This, the government was de termined to do, and lie added naively, there was plenty of armed resistance in Cape Colony to fully justify the ap plication of martial law. In the House of Commons, this after noon, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, the Liberal leader, noted the appoint ment of a select committee to investi gate the whole commercial history of the South African war, saying Biat in so doing he was only fulfilling a moral duty and echoing a sentiment deeply felt throughout the country. The war secretary, Mr. Brod rick, re plied that the government did not fear an investigation. It was true that Jn operations of the magnitude of those in South Africa there must have been mistakes and shortcomings and the war office would demand, as its right, an investigation at the proper time. But British operations in all parts of the world would be paralyzed if an in quiry was forced now. Had the war office been in the condition in which Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman left it, the war could not have been carried on for two yionths, owing to the shortage of guns, ammunition and all the sup plies requisite for a campaign. THEY NEED HORSES. England Unable to Supply Number Needed by Kitchener. London, March IS.—The Daily Mail says there are still such heavy demands for horses in South Africa that there is no real reserve at the Cape. The war office is becoming alarmed at the heavy cost of providing horses, and has again enjoined Lord Kitchener to greater care in the expenditure of horseflesh, as the market price is rapidly rising. A GENERAL UPRISING Said to Be Planned by the Fenians in Ireland. London, March IS.—The Vatican has received confidential news, says the Home correspondent of the Daily Chronical of a serious situation in Ire land. The Fenians have for some moths been engaged in an active pro paganda with a view to organizing for a general rising. It is believed the Vatican will in struct the Irish clergy to hold aloof from revolutionary agitation. NOTHING BUT SURRENDER. Methuen Fought Bravely but Odds Against Him Were too Great. London, March IS.— Describing the disaster to Gen. Methuen, the Pretoria correspondent of the Standard repeats the details already given in Lord Kitchener's dispatches, and adds that Gen. Methuen identified the Boor ad vance when it was three miles distant. The correspondent praises the gal lantry of the Boers, who. he says, charged heedless of the hot fire poured into their lines, and contrasts the cool steadiness of the British infantry sup porting the guns, whom not even the Boer charge almost up to the muzzles of their rilles could shake, with the blind panic which unnerved and stam peded the mounted rear guard. After placing theconvoys in the kraal in charge of Major Paris, continues the correspondent, Gen. Methuen galloped back to the guns on the right. He en eouraged his men by voice and gesture and became a conspicuous target for the Boer marksmen,. who concentrated their Are on him as he rode from point to point. When Commandant Colliers un masked a couple of 15-pounders and began shelling the kraal, that position became hopeless and it would have been, under the circumstances, nothing short of madness to look for any favor able issue. The only means of prevent ing unavailing loss of life, was sur render. The cutters of the great glove houses at Brussels and in France earn even higher wages than the cutters of the most fash ionable tailors of London and New York So difficult is the art of cutting gloves that most of the principal cutters are known to the trade hy name and by fame, and the peculiar knives *hlch they use In the business are no highly prized that they are handed down from generation to generation as heirlooms. TO CURB A COLD IT OTB DAT Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets All druggists refund the money If It falls to cure. F. W. Grove's signature Is on I e*cfc boa. Sc. tuAthtf AGAINST WILCOX (Continued from page l.) per at 6.15 P. M. on the Sunday of Rice's death. Patrick was still in the house when the witness went to church in the evening'. Mrs. Margaret J. Elliott corroborated the evidence given by her daughter. Benj. W. Lewis, superintendent of the St. Paul building, where Patrick had an office in 18!)!!, was called to con tradict the testimony of Dr. Whittle sey, who said he met Patrick at Pat rick's office in the St. Paul building in March 1900. Mr. Lewis estified that Patrick's lease expired in May, 1899, and that he had no office in the St. Paul building since thjit date. Morris Meyer, testified that, June 30, 1900, he was in Rice's room and wit nessed a will made by Rice. He signed the will ;>fter he had seen Rice sign it. Rice signVil on each of the four pages of the will and asked Meyer to do the same. The witness said he also saw David L. Short sign on each of the four pages. This will is the one known as the 1900 will, which gave Rice’s residu ary estate to Patrick. i EVACUATION DAY Observed at South Boston—Admiral Schley One of the Guests. Boston, March 17 Both state an the board of aldermen. President Dolan of the council, Hon. Win. S. McNary and Hon. E. B. Callender, with a number'd! other state and city offi cials. Hear Adminff Schley was the last -peaker. In closing he said: “The event whieh you arc- Celebrating, today, was momentous-in the life, the glory and the permanence of this great republic of ours. The influence of the evacuation of Boston gave life and shed hope throughout the colonies, then struggling for freedom/' WORK OF ANARCHISTS. Dastardly Attempt to Murder Minister at Elizabeth, N. J. Elizabeth, N. J March 17.—An attempt was made to kill the Rev. Mr. Houst, pastor of the German Lutheran church, last night. The police believe that the would-be assassins were Italian Anar chists. After the shooting of President McKin ley. Mr. Houst preached a sermon in which he denounced the Anarchists and declared they should be driven from the country. On Nov. 7X last, his son. Viv ian. mysteriously disappeared and the minister subsequently received threaten ing letters in which it was said lhat the boy was in hell and that the father, also, would be sent there. Some weeks ago his littit- daughter was in<*t f*n the street by ;i youns man who tried to entire her into a hous«\ hut she began to cry. attracting the attention of passers-by and the man took fright and hurried away. Last night, Mr. Houst heard steps on the porch of his home and he went out to investigate. As he did so he was struck violently on the back of the bead with some kind of a blunt instrument. He Tell to the floor and while he was pros trate one of his assailants kneeled on his cheat, threw a cloth over his face ant shoved It Into his mouth as a gag. with one hand, while with the other ho drove a knife into his chest, inflicting a deep flesh wound under his seventh rib. The wounded man was found by ills wife and a physician was called. He found that the knife would was a slight one. but that the blow on the head hail caused serious Injury. There Is no clue to the assailants. DRIVEN OUT BY FIRE, Twenty-four Familiea Homeles#*—Man Saves Three Women. Chicago, March 17.-Twonty-four fami lies occupying the St. Catherine flats at Kith street and Grand Boulevard were driven from the building by tire, early to day. A tierce wind was blowing and the llremen had to work vigorously to confine the flames to St. Catherines. The ten ants had barely time to escape and shiv ered In their night clothes till neighbors were aroused and gave them shelter. Nearly all household goods and personal ffects were lost. Total loss. $60,00*1. William Scanlon, a policeman, fell from a third-story window and broke one of his legs. George Patton, one of the tenants, proved himself a hero. Three women were jienncd In on the third floor. Pat ton hail reached them before the tire I blocked the stairway. He made a rope of bed sheets and let the women down I tile elevator shaft by means of it. He then fastened and attempted to slide down after them. The makeshift rope gave way. however, and he sustained a broken ankle. Firemen rescued him. reports from Puget Sound show that the supply of red cedar suitable for shingles Is becoming smaller every year 1 and that manufacturers will soon have to go to Alaska for cedar logs. New appli ances have so greatly Increased the out put of mills that last year five billion shingles wore cut In Washington and Or egon. Good cedar togs command $9 a thousand feet, and the supply Is shoyt at this price. 1 fbla aigratura it on awry boi ot Ve pen* r» 1 Laxative flrr*mo-Quinioc IMMI| Um* auu i. (sH Ml MM «MF

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Monday evening, j The members, their wives and members; of the Degree of Honor gathered atj the hall at about 7.30 o’clock, when all! sat down to a very line spread of baked beans, cold meats, cakes, of all kinds and many other good things. While the supper was being enjoyed, l.and difT's orchestra of seven pieces gave some very line selections. The supper] tlnlshod and some of the tallies el- i red away, I*. M. 'V. Eugene t'hc.se intro-: du.e.l W. .1 Lander)* as toastmaster.] He made some very appropriate re-, marks and then some selections were, rendered on the ssonophone. These: were followed by Hon. A. M. Spear.! chairman of the finance committee of, the Grand lsnige. Mrs. Daniel MeGil-j lieudy of Randolph, gave a vocal sc-; lection, and Judge A. G. Andrews, grand recorder, then spoke. Mrs. Me-] Glllicudy again Bang anil Hilliard Palmer gave a recitation. A cliaiac-i ter song by Mrs. Hattie Cole and I Katherine Duffy was very finely ren-' dered. Remarks were then called for for by other members of the Grand] Lodge, who were present, and also members of the lodge of this city. I he entire occasion was a most enjoyable one and the anniversary was well cele brated. Last evening at a little after 7 o'clock, a number of the friends of the officers who were elected to positions in the city, yesterday morning, thought it would be a good idea to let them know that they were pleased. They gathered togoth-rand with old saws, horns, beds and most every other kind of artiele that would make a noise, paraded nlMiut the city and called on the new of ficers. They were well received and were thanked for the appeclation they showed. The Ladies Aid of the ITniversalist church will hold a sale of aprons, hem --made candies, ice cream an i cake and useful articles at the vestry. Wednesday afternoon and evening. In the ev leg. r.n entertainment will be given. ______________ Catarrh, Called an American disease, is cured by an American medicine, originated and prepared in the most catarrhal of American countries. That medicine is Hood s Sarsaparilla. It cures radically and permanently. In that it removes the cause, cleansing the blood of scrofulous and all other impurities. It overcomes all the effects of catarrh, too, and builds up the whole system. PRINCE HENRY bearing the Fatherland from Trip to the States. iVas Completely Tired Out, Yet Had a Splendid Time. The Kaiser Plans to Give Brother a Warm Welcome Home. Plymouth, Eng., March 17.—The Ilam burg-American Line steamer Deutsch I i.1, from New York, March 11, hav ing on hoard Prince Henry of Prussia end his suite, passed the Seilly Islands ai 8.30 this morning, and arrived here i t 12.:0 1’. M. At 1.15 the steamer pro i ceded for Cherbourg and Hamburg. Cherbourg, March 17.—The Hamburg American I.ine steamier Deutschland, liaving on board I’rince Henry of Prus sia and his suite, arrived here at 6.35 P. AI., from Plymouth, England. Tie arrangements made by Emperor W illiam for the reception of Prince Henry when the latter arrives at Cux haven were communicated to Prince II, m v after the Deutschland left Ply mouth. He expressed himself as great ly pleased therewith. Prince Henry says he was so tired when he finally boarded the Deutsch land at New York that he slept almost continuously lor IS hours, except for the time he appeared for his meals, or to take short walks on the bridge, ell says lie never worked so hard in his lit, as when lie was in ttie United States, that in- never changed his uni form r-o many times a day or faced a succession of situations requiring such alertness and a certain initiative on his own part. While conversing with members of his suite Prince Henry lias mentioned nothing more frequently than that no singi unpleasant incident occurred in tlic V nltcd States. Ideas, scenes and Impressions were crowded upon him too rapidly for proper appreciation at the moment, perhaps, but as Prince Henry himself said: "We have accumulated material to think about for months to came.” EMPEROR WILLIAM Will Receive Prince Henry at Cux haven on a Warship. Berlin, March 17.—Emperor William I■ I Sunday with the Empress at the Kiel s eh less. This morning Ills M ijesty hoarded th" battleship Kaiser Wilhelm II and will traverse the eanal to Cuxhaven where he wjll await the arrival of the Inutsehland having on board Admiral Prince Henry of Prussia. Admiral Von Thomsen and other high naval and mili t try officers will participate In the ret op tion of the prince. The fourth marine ar tillery and marine hand have been order ed in In pr. sent. The cruiser Hela will tike Prince Henry ashore after the 1 teutsehland anchors before Cuxhaven. When Emperor William. Prince Henry ami the hitter's suite will board tin Kai ser Wilhelm 11. which will immediately rail for Kiel. AMERICAN POLO GAMES. At Salem—Salem. 4; Isiwell, 3. At Lawrence— Lawn nee, 7; Clinton, 3. The Week’s Schedule. Tuesday. March 18—Portland at Lewis ton. Worcester at Salem, I.uwrence at Lowell. Wednesday. March lit—Salem at Wor cester. Lewiston at Portland, Lowell at Clinton. Thursday. March '-"—Worcester at Low ell. Lawrence at Salem. Friday. March 31—Lowell at Portland, Clinton at Worcester. Saturday, March ??—Lowell at Lewis ton. Salem at Lawrence, Portland at Clinton. Ynnger won from I.cnny in the sixth round at Chicago, Monday night. ALL WORKING. Only 75 Strikers Are Now Idle at Boston. Stopl Work Because Two of Them Lost Their Old Places. Speedy Settlement of Greatest Strike in East for Years. Boston, March 17.—The great strike nf last week, involving 20,000 union men, was completely wiped out, today, wheji practically every man went back to n*s work under conditions but slight ly changed from those existing when the trouble began. Tonight, the only incident in the labor situation is the strike of 75 longshoremen at the Clyde Line wharves. This is not actually an offshoot of the big strike, but an in dependent strike brought about by two disgruntled workmen. This morning, practically all the longshoremen ap plied for and got work, thus solving the freight problem on the water front. At the freight sheds of the railroads the number of men left without im mediate employment was less than 500, Out during the forenoon it was believed that most of the men were used in one ivay or another, somewhere, in the ef fort to move freight expediously. About noon 75 men on the Clyde Line struck because two men taken back did not get their old places, although given work. The board of arbitration does not consider this a part of the general strike, but is endeavoring to settle it. Tonight, the board issued a review of I he day with the expectancy that it has dosed up the biggest labor trouble in Ihe East for many years. The bulletin follows: “The strike situation contines to im prove. There have be«‘n numerous con ■rences with both employers and em ployes which have resulted in many misunderstandings being cleared up ind a number of men have returned to work. “The difficulty of the longshormcn ■mployed by the Clyde Steamship Co. was adjusted at an early hour, this morning, by the reinstatement of all their former employes who returned to work at noon. After working two liours the melt expressed dissatisfac tion, claiming that two of their num ber had not been given their old po sitions, and struck work until the mat ter could be adjusted. A further con ference in the early evening was with put result, but the matter will be re sumed in the morning in the hope of an early settlement. “Controversies are of course likely to happen at any time, and perhaps now more frequently than would be the case if friendly relations had not been rup tured. The above controversy is some thing new, and, though following the recent sympathetic strike, it has no necessary connection with it, and is not tn example that should be 'followed. “The statement previously made con cerning the coal teamsters difficulty was accurate, notwithstanding contra diction. “The efforts of the prominent busi ness men, labor representatives and the state board have for their object the reinstatement of the largest possi ble number of men who participated in the strike. Continued patience is still necessary in order that their object may be successfully accomplished. (Signed) Warren A. Reed, Chairman, State Board of Arbitration and Concili ation.” Baseball Notes. Ed Pelahanty leaves Philadelphia af ter a connection lasting since 1888. fleorge Davis has been with New York since ’93. “Nick" Wise will return to Haverhill, lie did some tall hitting last season, and if he can maintain the streak this year will prove a rare man for the club. The Wisconsin State League has adopted a salary limit of $50 a month and expenses for pitchers and $35 a month and expenses for players In other positions. Jack Kiifoyl of Cleveland, was intro duced at the Detroit American League banquet as follows: “A man actually indispensable to the American League, the brightest and cleanest man in base ball." There is a baseball nine in Sioux city made up entirely of one family. BUy Bruggenian, the father, is the um pire when the boys get out to play ball. This summer the nine will challenge other teams for games. The players are: John, age 27; Henry, age 24; Frank, age 22; Tony, age M; William, age 17; Leo, age 15; Fred, age 9; and Herman, age 7. Mr. Lanigan reports that the strike rule bel ling on foul balls led to 41S7 players lxmg called out on strikes in 19U0 there were but 2663 who struck out, an increase of 1534. This shows how hard the rule was on batsmen. More over, lie said that there were 736 more runs anil 528 more base hits made in 1900 than in 1901, owing to the restric tion caused by the foul strike rule in 1901. "I have 20 men on my list,” said Manager McPhee, “but 1 don't think that they will all report for duty/ This light has made them shy and I know that some of our old men even have tried to get away, but have been unable to locate themselves because they are under contract to us and the American League is not touching contract jump ers. I won’t know what I really have until I see my players out on the held in uniforms.” Said Frank Bancroft, business man ager of the Cincinnatis, to Ben Mulford the other day: "Did you know I was responsible for Harry Stovey’s break ing into the game as a first baseman? I I was carrying him with the Clam I Eaters as a substitute pitcher and pay ing him about $60 a month. One day John Piggott was taken ill, and I con eluded to take a chance with Stovey at 1 first. He tvaa surprised when I asked him to try it, but he made good, and, I in addition, cracked out about tjiree hits, one of them a tripple and another a two-bagger.” I The Txmdon Sportsman announces that i the Jockey Club has refused "Tod” Sloane's application for a license to ride on English tracks, this season, except for training and trials. THE EASTER SHOWING. THIS STORE IS IN COMPLETE READINESS FOR EASTER SELLING. THE BLOOM OF SPRING IS EVERYWHERE IN EVIDENCE. THE DIFFERENT LINES OF MERCHANDISE ARE DISPLAYED TO THE BEST ADVANTAGE—QUALITIES ARE RELIABLE—STYLES ARE CORRbCT, PRICES MOST REASONABLE. TAKE IT ALL IN ALL IT IS THE BEST SPRING SHOWING EVER ATTEMPTED QY THIS STORE AND WE FEEL THAT OUR PUBLIC WILL FULLY APPRECIATE OUR EFFORTS TO PLEASE AND SATISFY THEM IN THC!R EASTER OUTFITTING. INew Tailor Made Suit a New Stylish Dress Skirts INew Nobby Jackets INew Rich Silk Waists INew Wash Waists INew Walking Skirts INew Wrappers INew Petticoats INew Dress Trimmings INew Dress Goods INew Wash Goods INew Waist Cloths INew Muslin Underwear New Corsets INew Kid Gloves New Neckwear INew Ribbons INew Silks INew Embroideries New Allovers New Ginghams INew Silk Muslins INew Dress Linens INew Dimities 0 N. B. 2000 YARDS PRIDE OF THE FIELD COTTON 36 in BLEACHED FINISHED SOFT FOR THE NEEDLE WORTH 8c ONLY 6c PER YARD. McCALL BAZAR PATTERNS, 10c AND 15c—NONE HIGHER. Mr. J. A. Goldstein will be at Buzzell Weston's, Thursday, with new pring styles In suits, etc. BUSSELL, WESTON, 190 192 Water St„ Augusta, Maine. GALLANT MEN DIE (Continued from page 1.) after the exhausted men. Before he reached the boat three of them had fall en off into the sea and had been carried away. Lot Ellis managed to hold on and caught the rope which Capt. Mayo threw to him. He was dragged aboard and then Capt. Mayo pulled around the point Into the smooth water and landed thi only survivor of the Id who started from the barge. Ellis was too exhausted to give an^ac count of his experiences for two or three hours, and, tonight, although recovering physically from the terrible ordeal, his mind is still considerably perplexed. Two men still remain on board the Fitz patrick, but the storm, tonight, has sub sided and they are in but little danger. Both barges may yet be saved. The Monomoy station, tonight, was without a erew, but Capt. Sparrow, the superintendent of the district, has al ready taken steps to put in a new crew. Cleveland, Ohio, March 17.—Wm. H. Mack, owner of the barge Wadena, was a resident of this city. He was the son of a long time Lake captain, now dead. Capt. Mack was interested in an Eastern vessel company, which recently purchased boats for coastwise service. His mother is prostrated over the news about her son. THE BREECHES BUOY Saves Crew of Barkentine Persia Ashore on Long Island. Fire Island, L. I., March 17.—The barkentine which ran ashore at 9 o’clock last night, two and a half miles west of Point look, Long island, was the British barkentine Persia, Capt. Malcolm, from Buenos Ayres, Jan. 1, for New York, with a cargo of hides. Her crew of 10 men were landed in the breeches buoy by the Long Beach life saving station. The Persia registered 573 tons net, hails from Hantsport, N. S., where she is owned by C. W. Churchill, and her agents in this city are W. It. Green Co The life savers have returned from the Persia and say they believe she will become a wreck. She has six feet of water in her hold and her deck is sprung. A strong southerly wind drove the Persia ashore after she had lost her anchor when attempting to anchor off Long Beach about 9 o’clock, last night, the vessel having got to close in shore to work off to sea again. SOMEWHAT MYSTERIOUS. Police Inclined to Doubt Alleged Slo cum Attempted Robbery. Fall River. Mass.. March 17.—-Consider able mystery surrounds the alleged at tempt at robbery at the home of M. B. Slocum. Sunday evening. According to the girl's story, his daughter Corrine was bound, gagged and chloroformed by two men who were endeavoring to secure Mr. Slocum’s traveling case which contained a large amount of valuable jewelry. Th police have been investigating, today, and by reason of certain facts which they decline to disclose, are loth to credit th1' girl's story. Corrine was subjected to tainting spcels and was found alone In the house in a faint liy her brother. ALL HOPE ABANDONED. British Admiralty Has Posted Sloop Condor as Lost. London. March 17.—The admiralty, to night, officially announced that all hopi of finding the British sloop Condor li id been given un and ordered that tier hooks In- closed and that the money due her officers and crew to March 17 should le paid. The British warship Condor left Victo ria, B. C., Dee. 2. for Honolulu. She has not been in-aril from since her departure. She was of 11X1) tons and carried a com plement of 131) men. TRINITY STUDENTS Have Fierce Fight Over Freshman Flag on Campus Flagpole. Hartford. Ct., March 17.—Trinity fres.h men, tonight, put their class flag on the campus flagpole. The sophomores tried to tear it down at chapel hoar and a fierce light ensued in which Charles Hen ry CUrry of Pittsburg, and Henry Blair Roberts of this city, wore somewhat se riously injured, though they have recov ered, tonight, and several others were badly bruised. By order of the faculty the freshmen took down the llag. to night. DECISION REVERSED. The Power* Will Restore Chinese Gov ernment at Tien Tsin. Pekin. March 17.—A conference of the ministers of the powers, today, decided on the principle of restoring the Chinese government at Tien Tsin, thus reversing the decision of the military commanders. No time for the transfer has yet been fixed. DR. WEBB WITHDRAWS. Will Not Now Seek to Be Governor of Vermont. St. Albans, Vt, March 17 —The Messen ger, this afternoon, announces that l)r. W. Seward Webb has withdrawn as a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor. STRICT INSTRUCTIONS Given by Gen. Chaffee to Prevent Mili tary and Civil Friction. Washington, March 17.—Rumors of cases of conflicts of authority between the civil and military authorities in the Philippines And substantial confirma tion in an order recently issued by Gen. Chaffee, the division commander at Manila, to the commanding officer of the fitli Separate Brigade operating in Iloilo. The order Is as follows: “There appears to be some misunder standing as to the extent and under what circumstances the military may act of its own motion In provinces where civil government has been put into operation by the Philippine com mission. The division commander de sires to avoid friction with the civil authorities and you are informed that the civil government entertains a strong suspicion that the army In many instances wilfully and for ulte rior motives, unnecessarily interferes with the civil officials in their pre scribed duties, making’ arrests when they should not do so, usually on sus picion rather than .for lust cause; if not for cause, then unwarranted arrest because of the fact that civil author ity. not military, should act. "You are advised also that the vice civil governor has been informed by the constabulary and others that the presence of the army is no longer nec essary or advisable at a very large ma jority of the stations now occupied by it in what are known as pacified prov inces. The division commander desires that a strict interpretation be put upon paragraphs of general orders which embrace the idea of non-interference by the military in civil affairs. "The military will be upheld in at tacking all armed bodies which officers believe ard intended to disturb the or derly and peaceful authority of the United States in the islands. It will be well, however, to determine in advance whether it is United States authority aimed at or whether a mere local dis orderly band is out for robbing, the suppression of which the civil authori ties may prefer to deal with single handed, unaided by the army of the United States. "You are advised also that many complaints are received by the civil governor to the effect that soldiers are disorderly In the communities where ftationed, that they are harsh and ill treat the inhabitants. No excuse can be accepted for complaints of this sort, if true, from any station of our troops in the pacified provinces. It is the duty of every officer to maintain good discipline of his troops and to redress at once every disorderly act committed by soldiers on the inhabitants. Mili tary necessity is one thing—lawlessness is another and quite a different mat ter.” SNOW IN COLORADO. Full Force of the Great Blizzard Is Now Being Felt. Denver, Colo., March 17.—The snow and wind storm that has been raging for the past four days along the moun tain railroads Is beginning to make it self fell. Snow plows and flanges have been keeping the lines open and extra gangs of men have been fighting the drifts clear of the tracks. Now small slides are being reported, while the drifts are growing to great depth. On Tennessee Pass nearly four feet of snow has fallen, and the snow on the ground at Marshall Pass has reached the depth of 78 inches. Coloiado f: Southern trains are held at Alpine because entrance to the Al pine tunnel Is blocked and the South Park branch is tied up. The Rio tlrandc and Colorado Midland roads are still open but are liable to become blocked at any moment. A PLOT DISCOVERED Fcr the Destruction of Two Austro Hungarian Warships. Vienna. March 17.—A sensation has been caused here, by the discovery of a plot to destroy the Austro-Hungarian warships Habsburg and Arpad, which are stationed at Pola. A large quant ity of dynamite was recently stolen at Trieste and the government has been informed by an anonymous letter that the Habsburg and Arpad were imperill ed. These vessels have since been rigidly guarded. Fir* Insurance Advanced. Cleveland, Ohio, March 17.—Fire in surance rates on all manufacturing and mercantile risks were advanced 25 per cent., Monday, throughout the country east of the Rocky mountains by the underwriters. New York city is the only point in the territory named not affected by the new schedule. Altoona Miners Deadlock Unbroken. Altoona, Pa.,, March 17.—Unable to come to any agreenjfnt after a dead lock on the scale for four days the miners and operators agreed, tonight, to let matters rest temporarily and, March 25, they will try it again. FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES, Charges Against Chicago’s Postmaster Allege Gross Abuses. Washington. March 17.— Charges have been tiled with the civil service commis sion against Postmaster K. E. Coyne of Chicago, alleging that he has made nu merous changes in the Chicago post office for political reasons. The complaint is made by T. W. Wittier, formerly superin tendent of a station of the Chicago post office, who specifies that he was reduced from that position, paying K-IWO per an num, to mailing clerk at 11100, and that on refusing to accept the change he was dismissed. He says that action was due to his being a Democrat. Sir. Wittier alleges that Postmaster Coyne reduced nine other men in the ser vice on political grounds, seven of them being Democrats and the men appointed to succeed them being Republicans. The complaint also charges that tills action was taken in the interest of the candidacy of Senator Mason for re-elec tion. Postmaster Coyne in reply alleges the action taken against Wittier was due to lack of harmony at the station of which he was superintendent, and that he was personally repugnant to the other em ployes and was dismissed on account oi insubordination and disobedience. The commission will investigate. FREIGHT TRAIN DITCHED. One Man Killed, Three Badly Hurt— Three Boys May Be in Ruins. Murphysboro, 111., March 17.—A Mobile Ohio freight train was ditched at Ora ville, near here, last night, and Sam Forsythe of Tupelo, Miss., was killed. His three companions, James Dyson, William Mauly and Alexander Smith, were dangerously injured. The men had climbed into a box car at Percy. Three boys boarded the train at Ava and were put off by_Jhe conductor. They have not been heard from since the wreck and it is feared they got on the train after being ordered oft and will be found under the cars. A defective draw head caused the train to break In two. The two sections crashed together and 12 cars of merchan dise left the track. JEFFRIES SAYS CLOSE. Must Accept Los Angeles Club’s Offer by Today Noon. San Francisco, March 17.—Jeffries’ man ager, Iiilly Delaney, received, today, a dispatch from the manager of the Cen tury A. C. at Dos Angeles stating that unless the club's offer for the Jcffries Fitzsimmons tight shall be accepted by noon, tomorrow, the bid will be with drawn. Jeffries, upon learning this, telegraphed Delaney, instructing the latter by all means to accept the Dos Angeles offec^ and hasten the word of agreement to Me-" Cartliy. Delaney declined to say what he would do. WORST FOR 10 YEARS. Storm in South Dakota Hard on Sheep and Cattle. Huron, S. D.. March 17.—Saturday and Sunday's snow and wind storm was the worst in this section in 10 years. Tele graph and telephone communication was interrupted, and all trains were delayed trotn 2 to 8 hours. Right hundred sheep and 100 head of cattle are estimated to have perished in Beadle county. CONDENSED DISPATCHES. Frank Rrne knocked out Supples in the sixth round at Fort Erie, N. Y., Monday night. The Fnlted State.: minister at Yokoha ma. Alfred E. Buck, has advised the Americans to pay the house tax under protest. The government has officially announced that it will submit the <|ues tlon to arbitration but that in the mean time It Is determined to collect the tax. The big plant of the Toledo Metal Wheel Co., employing nearly sno men. which stands along the Isike Shore Hall way at Toledo. Ohio, collapsed just its a passenger train passed the building. It fell across the track and barely missed the rear coach. Had the collapse oc curred two seconds earlier every occu pant of the coach would have been killed. It is supposed that the continual passing of trains had such effect as to cause the walls to weaken until they col lapsed. f Havana Is much better off than New York and many other American cities, and better than London and a large num ber of foreign capitals, with respect to small|»ox. Cuba's foremost community has not had a single case of this disease for many weeks anti it Is also fie1 from yellow fever. A London paper quotes the following its "a beautiful bull,'' from the Manchester (Juardian: ‘‘The Boers will merely go on lighting till their last man is killed or captured, when they will sit down, in the spirit of Mr. Schalkburger's letter, to cherish hopes and form plans for the res toration of their liberties." South Africa lias ostrich farms contain ing over CflO.OOO birds. La Grippe Quickly Cured. "In the winter of 1898 and 1899 I was taken down with a severe attack of what Is called La Grippe." says F. L. Hewett, a prominent druggist of Win field. 111. "The only medicine I used was two bottles of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It broke up the cold and stopped the coughing like magic, and T have never since been troubled Vlth Grippe.” Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy can always be depended upon to break up a severe cold and ward oft any threatened attack of pneumonia. It is pleasant to take, too, which makes it the most desirable and one of the most popular preparations in use for these ailments. For sale by John Coughlin. 177 Water St.; J. C. Houle ban, Gardiner. ...-ta. GREAT LAKE STEAMERS To Be Equipped With the Wireless Telegraph/ Outfits. Chicago, March 17.—A wireless t'»le grapn system, giving connection be tween shins in mid lake and the main land, may scon be an appliance on lake-going steamers. The managers of one of the companies are considering the litting of all boats, pass, nger and freight, with sending and receiving stations of the Marconi pattern. With this in view, they will make tests of the systeth within a few weeks. If the tests arc satisfactory the boats probably will be equipped with tele graph stations before the summer nav igation season is well under xwiy. HE WAS TRAPPED. Blackmailer Resists Arrest When Caught and is Killed. Beatrice, Neb., Alarch 17.—Willard Smith, 20 years old, who sought to blackmail a merchant of the town of Tillle, was shot and killed, late last night, by one of a party of four men sent to entrapthim. He wrote an anony mous letter demanding money which he went to secure, and, resisting cap ture, was killed. The Southern Oolf Association was organized at Chattanooga, Tenn., Sat urday, with these officers: President. A. W. Gaines, Chattanooga; vice presi dent, J. J. McCloskey, Asheville, N. C.; secretary, H. I). Ferguson, Birming ham, Ala.; treasurer, L.. T. Smith An niston, Ala. DROPPING IN THE THROAT. Nasal Catarrh in all its Stages a Menace to General Health. Blood Wine Heals the Diseased Membranes—a Modern Treat* ment Endorsed by all Phy sicians. _ When catarrh of the head pel s to a place where the discharge runs down the nasal passages and drops into the throat it has reached the danger (toint. If you wait until it goes that far don’t let it go any further—for the next place it attacks is the bronchial tubes and the lungs. Catanh undoubtedly causes more consumption than any thing else, and like consumption it must be treated through the-blood. Local applications at best can only serve to work out the dis charges. They don’t get at the root of the trouble, and sometimes, quite often, in fact, they irritate the inflamed outer surfaces and aggravate the disease. •‘Blood Wine” passes into the blood and purifies it. The poisonous matters, which keeps the membranes of the head and respir atory organs, are filtered, passed out of the system and the diseased parts heal ed, to stay healed. It will stop the^drop ping in t^s throat and all discharges, sweeten the breath, relieve the Irritation of the nasal passages, throat and wind pipe. It overcomes the burning, smart ing sensation in the eyes. It removes the obstructions in the head, and makes breathing easy and enables you to stop ■pitting and scraping. M. CUBTIS. One of the many people who has been thoroughly cured of catarrh, and owes it to “Blood Wine,” is Mr. M. Curtis, a prominent manufacturer and contractor of Boston, who lives on Waters Avenue, Everett, Mass., and he says: “I have been completely cored of ca tarrh. This is an awfnl climate for it; most everyone is affected by it more or less, and I had it for years. It grew on me and was plainly ruining my health, making mo thin, nervous, sleepton and with no appetite. I tried “Blood Wine because its theory of beating catarrh seemed feasible. One bottleimproved me, and four more bottles cured me. I still keep it in the house and wouldn't do without it.” “Blood Wine” costa fifty cents abottie, but yon can stipple it tree of charge at I Bowdltch, Webster Company, drug V.. ——um

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sc in the garden blew. When the dew in the dawn .ay bright; And over the grass came her lovers to woo. And taithful troth to plight. But the rose bade the wind go sigh, go sigh; She floated the vows of the butterfly; And the cricket—he skipped without say ing good-bye To the little white rose in the garden. But, alaek! the wee rose—when the gloaming grew, She quaked in the twilight gray. When a moth flew out of a lime to sue And won her without delay. That bold night-inoth that flew front the lime. He won the wee rose without reason or rhyme Because—sly fellow!—he knew just tile time To woo a white rose in the garden. —Samuel Minturn Pack. Monday’s rain should bring out the mayflowers. Baseball, even the scrub variety, on March 15, establishes a record in this section. Contractors are talking about $60, 000 worth of new tenements that may be built in Math by Nathaniel T. Palmer the coming season. When Mr. Palmer takes hold of anything he takes hold of it in a big way. A Topsham correspondent writes that Miss Mary Gleason made a patchwork cjutlt thi* winter that has 768 squares, and in tacking it took 3072 tacks. Think of sleeping under a quilt with 3072 tacks in it I In the Piscataquis region, 5,000,000 of lumber are at the landings ready for driving as soon as the conditions will permit. Conditions in the woods are generally considered to be favorable and in' the extreme northerly part of the State the roads are firm, present ing an excellent surface for the heavy sleds to go over. Augusta’s record, this year, of 1000 votes cast, and only one candidate for mayor in the field, shines out with re doubled brilliancy in comparison with the showing at Belfast. There also only one candidate was in the field and with 1132 names on the voting list only 134 ballots were cast. Litchfield is another town which al ways opens its annual town meeting with prayer. It has been done every year since the good old town was in corporated in 1795,. and never may the practice cease. George S. Itowell of the Portland Ad vertiser passed his 56th birthday anni versary, last week—who would have said ho was over 40?— and the employes of the office reminded him of the occa sion by presenting him with 56 T. D. pipes. No one who knows Mr. Howell will doubt that the thoughtful gift was fully appreciated. Editor Wormwood of the Biddeford Journal gives the Boston Transcript a severe calldown for speaking of the "narrow-contracted sidewalks" of the Hub, and says that after such an ex ample it will not do to balk at a widow woman or hesitate in the presence of funeral obsequies. Now the word comes from Paris, the gay French capital, we mean, not the beautiful and almost equally famous Oxford town, that the famous Baker tramp chair is to be used there for the benefit of the wandering Willies. Thus the Oakland-built chair which Maine has rejected gets recognition beyond the seas. The following information lately c-eited off the pencil of a small but erudite Auburn maiden who, wanting a familiar and fruitful subject for her composition, chose "Lewiston” and wrote thus: "Lewiston is the most principal suburb of Auburn. It is beau tifully situated at the End of the Bridge and is bounded on the north by green corner. The principal street in Lewiston is Lisbon street which runs south and emties into crowley's Junction. Lewiston is bigger thap perryville but not so smart.” 1 Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt did Maine last week on a horse buying tour though his identity was not suspected at the time, the man with him doing most of the business. He left behind a big pile of money and took away about 35 of the best horses in central Maine, taking nearly 20 in Lewiston and Auburn, six in Clinton, four in Fairfield, four in Oakland, and others 1 —1 elsewhere. Seven were bought of Isaiah Pnmptlly. In every ease the price asked was paid without any quibbling. The Portland Insurance men are re solved that wooden ash barrels must J or up go the rates. Recently the insurance inspector reported that he had dir. ovored that from 20 to 30 firms on the busiest streets in this city were using wooden ash' barrels, in some eases when their attention was called to the danger thry replied that it was oil right, for they emptied their ashes o.n'y after being thoroughly wet down. This would be all right, the Insurance men say, if it could be assured that the ashes would be wet down, as the own ers direct, but oftentimes the ashes are handled by hoys, whose only aim Is to get rid of the ashes as quickly as possible.- The insurance men say that there merchants could just as well pro^ cuie iron receptacles for the ashes and llias make sure that no fire would result. It is thought that several fires which have occurred recently started from wooden ash bairels. LIGHT AND AIRY. Cause and Effect. “Goodness!" exclaimed the bay to the river, at the height of the Spring floods, "how big your mouth lias grown!” “Yes.'' replied the river, “that's be cause my head's so swollen." A Misnomer. “I.aok at that sign: -Turkish Baths.' Isn't that ridiculous?" “Why so?" I "Well, did you -ver see a Turk who looked as if he'd ever taken one?" The Origin of Clothes. Tess—I detest apples, don't you? Jess—O. no. Every time I put on a nice new gown I'm thankful that there wai an apple for Eve to cat. To Season It. Subbubs—Did you hear Baeklotz brag ging about that big radish he rais 'd? Uwnmow-Yes. but that s a thing that shou’d be taken with a grain of salt. An Imitation. "Our new town," said the Jersey real estate boomer, “Is destined to be mere fashionable than Orange. It's laid out in the same way." “So?” remarked the Gothamite. “I suppose you'll call it ‘Mock Orange.' Fate. “What's the matter with the Corres pondence Editor?" inquired the City Ed itor. “He looks mad.” “Whyv" replied the Snake Editor, “you see several days ago he told an anony mous correspondent how to learn to play the cornet, and now he's discovered that the fellow lives next door to him.” Personal Note*. Ft. Edouard Andre, the noted landscape architect of Paris, is In Washington studying the parks of that city. Prince Henry purchased a chainless bi cycle in N>w York on Monday, which he took home with him on the Deutschland. David B. Hill has, as the only adorn ment on the walls in his law offices at Albany, pictures of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Colonel Jere Baxter, president of the Tennessee Central Railroad, is trying to carry out the plan of a reproduction of the Tennessee State Capitol in sawed block coal at the St. Louis Fair. Mrs. Alice Meyncli, the famous English poet and essayist, who was declared by Coventry Patmore, before his death, to be the greatest woman poet since Sap pho, is being entertained in Chicago. Mrs. Bailey Slade, who died in New port, R. I., on Monday, was a lineal de scendant of Mary Chilton, the lirst wom an to set her foot on Plymouth Rock on the landing of the Pilgrims from the Mayflower. Cornelius Van Ness, the octogenarian millionaire of Port Jarvis. N. Y., has just had gratified his desire of many years to be baptized in the River Jordan, for the purpose of which he made a special trip to the Orient. Dr. Fenger, the eminent surgeon of Chicago, who died last Friday, was known the world over as an authority on pathological surgery. He is said to have performed between 7na Brann is very 111, and suffers a great deal. Bertie Moody was quite 111 last week and L>r. Cobb was la attendance. Miss Fannie Ring was quite 111 last week. At the junior contest of the high school scholars, Miss Uertha Lewis one of our Funningdale scholars received the lirst prize. ■Mrs. F. Moody was on the sick list last week, also Mis. Foru and daughiyr Fern, o| Gtwnt street. Fannie Huntington of East Fittston is the guest of Mrs. Chas. Wight. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Jewett were in town over Sunday. SOUTH LITCHFIELD. The members of Litchfield Oranga celebrated the 27th anniversary of its organization on Saturday. March 15, by an all day meeting. The forenoon was spent in a social manner. A line dinner was served by the slateis at noon. At the close of the dinner hour the meeting was called to order l»y Worthy Master Cram, and after music by Adams' or chestra the meeting was in charge of Worthy Lecturer Airs. E. I’. True. Fast Master Samuel Smith made appropriate and interesting remarks. He was fol lowed by Chas. A. Metcalf, E. D. Nut ting and others. Susan U. True read a graceful poem. Miss Mary O. Palmer and Miss Clarlbel lliggins gave readings which were much enjoyed. Miss Adcsta Blanchard gave several selections on the organ. Fine instrumental music was fur n.ciien If\ -mains olcnestta. Liu-niield Grunge has recently purchased the build ing formerly occupied by Wm. J. Smith as a grocery store, and litted it up lur a hall, and now for the first time in its history, it has a home of its own. CROSS HILL. Weston Lewis of Augusta, was in the place. Saturday, calling on his mother. Mrs. Emeline Lewis. VV. E. Pope of East Vassalboru, was on the Hill. Wednesday, and purchased a pair of beef oxen of Jacob Stevens. In looking over the town clerk's report It seems there have been 28 deaths, 32 births and 2'i marriages in Vassalboro the past year. The school board report the cost of transportation of scholars as $831.49, cost ol fuel and janitors' services $364.10, and wages ol teachers $2162. The assessors report 576 horses, 645 cows, 1060 sheep. 229 swine and only 10 oxen. They found 55 bicycles, 58 carriages, ana 111 musical instruments. They report the whole amount of personal property as sessed in 1901 to be $162,253. The real es tate they valued $780,640. There were 59i polls and 123 dogs. The rate of taxation was $17.40 on $1000. VASSALBORO. Miss Helen Prescott made a, few days' visit to Waterville. last week. Mrs. Arthur Jackson visited her home in Thorndike, last week. Mrs. Eva Hall of Waterville, Is taking care of her sister, Mrs. Mary Whitney, who has been quite sick but is now said to be improving. Mr. Arthur Jackson visited his home in Winthrop, last week. The Rebekah Lodge of this village ini tiated six new members, last Tuesday evening. After the work a line turkey supper was served in the dining halt. Mr. Leon Parsons of Thorndike, is vis iting his sister, Mrs. Arthur Jackson of this viliage. Mrs. R. W. Pitts Is confined to the house by sickness. Mrs. John Day is reported as being In very poor health. SOUTH VASSALBORO. Mrs. D. C. Rice who has been spending the winter with her brother, J. P. Twitchell, left for Lewiston last Tuesday. The many friends of Fonnie Pierce are pained to hear of his illness with ty phoid fever at the Augusta city hospital. Miss Ethel Carpenter of Cony High school is having a forced vacation oy illness. Mr. and Mrs. Linwood Sabin spent Sat urday in Augusta. Mr. Verrill and family who recently moved to this place from Mechanic Falls, have decided to move to Winslow. RIVERSIDE. J. A. Mooers of Skowhegan. was a busi ness caller here last Thursday. Miss Clara RobfHns of Portland, was here last week visitng her mother. Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Hawes, Mrs. Dolloff and Miss Margaret Waterhouse attended the play "Lever's Lane” at Augusta lust Thursday evening. Miss Delia Gardner was at home, Sun day. She is cashier at Whitman Adams dry goods store, Augusta. R. H. Ballard of South Gardner, was home, last Sunday. Dr. R. H. Pulsifer of Vassalboro, made a professional visit here last Tuesday. NORTH WAYNE. Williston Jennings has gone away for a few weeks of much needed rest. Miss Kittle Huff is spending a few weeks in Gardiner with her aunt, Mrs. Eva Hinkiey. Will Penny has moved his family to Oakland. Mr. Holman Gould of Auburn, spent Friday with ids niece, Mrs. H. G. Maxim. Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Goold who spent the winter with their daughter, Mrs. Levi Wright, have returned to their home in Wayne. Mrs. Sarah Tibbetts is spending a few days with friends in Winthrop. LITCHFIELD PLAINS. Mr. Roberts’ bees that were wintered in their summer stands took flights on De cember 26. January 23, February 28 and March 1 and 2. Mr. Roberts is of thi opinion that this is an unusual occur rence. Bertram E. Packard, principal of Litch field Academy, who read a sermon to an appreciative audience at the Plains cnurch, Sunday. Is expected to officiate next Sunday. Dea. A. L. Small was not able to return home from the hospital at Lewiston, Saturday, as expected. Miss Flora E. Rogers is home from Gardiner for a time. WALDO. NORTH PALERMO. Frank Marden has none to Old Town, Bangor and Veazie to spend a few weeks visiting relatives. Maria Belden has been visiting friends in Augusta the past three weeks. Edna Soule has just returned from a visit to friends in Belfast. Cora Goodwin and Grace Bradstreet visited at Fred Spratt's. last week. S. G. Norton of Belfast, was In town, last week, calling on friends. Alonzo Merritleld went to Freedom, last Saturday, after a load of sawdust for storing lee. He bought a sap pan for making maple syrup. The mumps have broken out among the scholars of the free High school. Fred Young has a cow which broke her ankle, last week, standing in the barn. The trade in rare butterflies Is Increas ing in London, and ingenious deception is practised regarding them. Ordinary butterflies are caught and killed; then girls are employed to smear the gauzy wings with thin mucilage and sprinkle tine metallic powder of various colors on the wings. In this way, the collector can be supplied with the most beautiful spec imens almost while he waits. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. Lincoln County. The following arc the rca! estate trans fers in l.in oln county for the week del ing March 13: BOOTH bay-Fred M. Poor to Irving Poor, land, >1. BREMEN—Mary Ann Lawler to Geo A- Iailler, land, fl; Frank H. Bailor to Geo. A. Labor, land. $1. BRISTOL—Ravmi.nd K. Thompson to Rhoda Ii). Gey or. ianon the warm rains that started growing, last w»k. failed to scare grain speculators as much as had been feared. When bears saw there w is no marked strength on this influence they started in late to hammer the bulls and succeeded not only in overcoming tilt early gains but forced a weak close. May wheat at the end of the session had losr May corn and May oats Provisions started strong but closed 2%tf 5 to 7%-9.304i9.;i2.. SHORT RIBS. SIDES-S.235i8.10. SHOULDERS—Dty salted SHORT CLEAR 8IDES-S.&i«iH.7Ci. CLOVER—Contract grades, s.75. Receipts. Shipments. Flour 20,0 0 21.0,0 Wheat Ttt.tasl 12.000 Corn TO.iiiJ M o o Oats 114,000 98,000 Rye 2.000 Barley 25.000 BETTER—Firmer: dreameries, dairy, 184(23. CHEESE—Firm. 11^12*4. EGGS-Steady; fresh. 15. 3,000 lst(2S; Bolton Mark it. Boston. March 17. FLOUR—Spring patent. 44i4.30. CORN—Steamer yellow, 71. OATS-Two clip white, 557*. PORK—Backs, 19.25©20. BEEF—Steers, 9t4. LARD—Tierce, 10%. BETTER—Northern creamery, 2X. CHEESE—New northern twins, 12'd'i. EGGS—Eastern. 17(ul8. POTATOES— Hebrons. 90©93. SUGAR—Granulated. 4%. MIXED FEED—'224123. BRA—Spring. 19.50; winter. 21.754722. COTTONSEED MEAL—27.50tr2S. New York Cotton Market. I New York. March 17. Cotton futures closed barely steady. March. 8.95; April. S.97; May, 8.87; Julie, 8.S9; July, 8.90; August, 8.70; September, 8.31; October, 5.11; November, 8.01; Deccm Spot cotton closed quiet. Middling Up lands, 9*/(,; do. Gulf, 9%. Sales, 5345 bales. NEW YORK STOCK MARKET. Furnished Daily by the Federal Stook and Grain Co.; office, Vickery Block, Augusta,-Maine, Tel. 52-2. F. D. Crlssman, Mgr. a M Amalgamated Copper 115.2 American C. F. Co..'2 American Ice 2u American Smelt.48.4 American Sugar .128.6 Anaconda 31 Atchison 78.3 do. pfd. 97 Baltimore Ohio ......196.3 B. R. T. 66.3 Chesapeake A- Ohio 48.2 Chicago Gt. West.24.4 C. C. C.1W.4 Erie 30-8 do. 1st pfd..88.2 Louisville Nashville .104.P

o 61.4 31.4 17. i 46.2 126.2 30 75.6 118.8 103.3 65 45.3 24 100.4 36.2 68 10-1.2 Manhattan .133.2 131.4 Metropolitan St. Ry.168.4 Mexican Central 3*62 Alexiean National 20.2 Missouri Pacific .101.3 N. Y. Central .163 Nk. West.57.1 Ontario West. 161 30.2 20 100.4 162.4 36.6 e m o 5 62.2 31.6 ls.7 46.2 128.6 30.1 76 96.6 105.7 (21.3 46.2 21.3 100.4 36.1 632.4 Pacilic Mail 48.9T47.6 Penn. R. R.131.3 nNCS People's Gas .101.4 Reading 53.4 Reading. 1st pfd.81.2 Reading 2nds 67.0 Rock Island .173 Southern Pacilic 65.4 Southern Railway 33 Southern Ry., pfd.97 St. Paul .165 T. C. 1.69 Texas Pacific 4>'.4 1'nion Pacific 99.5 99.1 1’. S. Leather 11.7 11.5 1'. S. Leather, pfd.— V. S. Steel .42.7 F. S. Steel, pfd.95.6 Wabash, pfd.43.C Western I'nion .91.3 American Locomotive -31.7 100.4 5115 80.4 6 f.l 171 64.7 32.5 96.7 164 68.5 40 1.0.7 10(1.4 55.1 SO. 7 .67. i 172 63 2 96.7 164.1 68.7 40 99.3 1L7 42.3 2 43 966 31.6 42:5 95.3 43.3 91.3 2L1 Financial. STOCKS J. F. Roesch Co. STOCK BROKERS, 23 EXCHANGE ST.. BOSTON, MASS. STOCKS, BONDS, COTTON CRAIN PROVISIONS Bought and Sold for cash or margin. Branch office Opera House Block, Au gusta. Me.. W. H. O'Brien, Algr., will open Wednesday. March 19. Private wires to New York and Boston Exchanges. Correspondence solicited. marll.dSmo F. B. Purinton, President, Fairfield, Me. Dana P. Foster. Attorney, Waterrille, Ms. H. E. Elston. Director. Norristown. Pa. A. E. Pratt, Vice-President, Boston, Mass. Handsome Dividends Will fop paid foy the MEXICAN MINES GO., S Owned and controlled by Maim, ajid Maine Capital, prominent, professional and business men. Half Million Dollars Already Invested Property (25.157 acres) situated in Guanavccel, Durango, Mexico. 19 Actual Operating Mines, 15 Stamp Mill and Machinery, Cost $70,000. Rich in Cold and Silver. Assays as high as *1350 In Silver, and *340 In Gold, to the Ton. Over *150,000. Ore already taken out. Full paid, non assessable, titles perfect, no debt. A very limited amount of Shares at Twenty Cents Each. (par value *1) Is offered. Details on appli cation. 6. F- HATHEWAY, S#oj„ 153 Milk SL, Bos.on. marll,d2mo Fisk Robinson BANKERS Government Bonds and other Investment Securities Members New York Stock Eichaage. 36 NASSAU STREET 40 STATE STREET NEW YORK BOSTON

I com IK SESSION Personally Conducted Tour Washington 0. C., Mar. 28 ROYAL BLUE LINE COVERS ALL EXPENSES (ex ^cepl suppers on Kail River i ine>. Five da vs In National Capitol; visit to Philadelphia and New York. Slip ever privileges. Other dates April 11 and May Also tours to Old Point Comfort, Richmond and Gettys burg. For illustrated itinerary and Guido to Washington appiy to JOS. P. TAG GART. N. E. I*. A.. 1111 Washington St.. Ii >ston. marlo.18,22,2a BUSINE38 CARDS. WILLIAMSON BURLEIGH, COUNSELORS-AT-LAW. Offices over Granite National Bank, Water Street, Augusta, Maine.' JOSEPH WILLIAMSON, Jr„ Notary Public. LEWIS A. BURLEIGH. City Clerk. Collections a specialty. PARKER P. BURLEIGH, ATTORNEY COUNSELOR-AT-LAW. Office Corner Maine and Water Streets, HOULTON, MAINE. Special attention given to collections throughout all parts of Northern Maine. HENRY F. HILL, CIVIL AND HYDRAULIC ENGINEER. Titcomb Building, opposite Hotel North. Steam and Electric Railroads, Sewerage. Water Supply. Topographical Surveys, Ac. febl.dly G. H. BRICKETT, M. D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office. No. 176 Water St., Cor Bridge BL Ofllie Hours: 10 to 12 A. M.; 1.30 to 4 P. M.; i to S P. M. Residence 77 State Street. Telephone connection with house and office. marll.dtf H. E. GRIBBIN, M. D., Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat. Office, 277 Water St. Telephone, 233-11. Residence 5 Weston St. Telephone, 2S6-2. Office Honrs: 9 to 12 A. M.; 2 to 4 and 7 to 8 P. U. oct26.d6moa* J. E. TUELL, M. D., OFFICE, 222 Water St., over Bowdltch Webster's Drug Store. OFFICE HOURS: 11 to 12, and from 1.30 to 3 and 7 to 8 P. U. Sunday from U to 12 A. M. Residence: Corner Grove and State Sts. denVw^y, E. i. ROBERTS, D. 0. L Telephone call, 202-4. OFFICE.'1**' Dr. Robttb 242 W ATER STREET, has all latest specialties. w. jo; PH OFFICE, flours. 10 to i 8 P. M. Residence, ai. d„ ND SURGEON, irlnton Block. I.; 1.30 to 3, and 7 ty, 9 to 10 A. M. pel Street 'TELEPHONE CONNECTION. DR. L. t. DCILLIVER, l^NTIST. Specialist In Crown and Bridge Work. 13 Water St, Augusta, Me. TELEPHONE. 37-6. Office Hours: 8 to 12 A. M.; 1 to 5.30 P. M. OLIVER W. TURNER, M. D„ EYE. EAR, NOSE AND THROAT. VICKERY BUILDING. WATER ST.. Opposite Hotel North. Hours: 8 A. M. to 8 P. M.. by appoint ment dec31,d6rno C. L. BLAKELY, M. D. V., VETERINARIAN. (Graduate of Harvard Veterinary College) OFFICE: RESIDENCE: Sttlkey's Stable. 48 Chapel St Telephone, 19-4. Telephone, 259-lt _)uly7,dtf JOHN E. KELLER, Piano Tuning and Repairing. Representing Residence Cressey, Jones Allen, 11 Melville St Music House. Augusta, Maine, dec28,d3mo* Ml XENSUKaqSD SCREW 'Why arc glasses so much worn nowa days?-' Is a question fre(|ucntly asked of the optician. Simply because people of today have learned that a headache, pahi through the eyes, itching of lids, or watering of eyes are all symptoms of eye strair^md that It can be permanently 'rhe cured by The use of accurately fitted lenses. Nine-tenths of the headache in the world is undoubtedly caused by sonic error In refraction of eyes. Dr. J’rlzzelle tests eyes without “drops,'' ami without charge. C. H. FRIZZELLE. Expert Eye Refractlonlst, jam-a Water St., Opp. Hotel North. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat. This preparation contains all of tbe digestants and digests all kinds of food. It gives Instant relief and never fails to cure. It allows yon to eat all tne food yon want. The most sensitive stomachs can take it. By its use many thousands of dyspeptics have been cured after everythin else failed. It prevents formation of gason tbe atom* ach, relieving all distress after eating, dieting unnecessary. Pleasant to take. Koaa’thate SSBtSiSSa PERCY W. 4.

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'•’'•w mi When passing our store stop and look in our windows. See the new SPRING WOOLENS such as only we carry. Note the variety of styles, the character in the designs, the fine finish of the fabrics. Come into the store and see innumer able other styles. Just think of it. Suits made to your measure at $16, $13 and $20. Suits that will fit right, wear right, and have the style. Chas. H. Nason, Merchant Tailor, 257 Water Street, Augusta, Me. ALL $3.50 $4.00

SHOES FOR MEN $2.98 M at# -J V Until further Notice these goods will be sold at the above price fcr CASH as 1 must have more room for a large lot of Spring goods, just purchased. HASKELL BROS AUGUSTA, MAINE. Where are You setting your prescriptions 4 prepared ami where ar-' you buying your mod! i> clnes? An impertinent question at the same time a very pertinent one—to you. I prepare preset ip tions in a careful and skil ful manner from the best material. I soil patent medicines at cut prices— ami have a full line of all goods to be hud at drug stores. Frank R. Partridge, TEMPLE PHARMACY, Taiaphona 46-3. Augusta, Maine. FREDERIC A. DtlNSTER, (Organist and Choirmaster, St. Mark's Episcopal Church. Augusta), gives Instruction in VOICE CULTURE (Italian Method), PIANO, ORGAN AND H AR MONV. Address, 72 State Street Augusta. feMtb,dtt STATE HOUSE. Ohio Hunter in Favor of Li cense Fee in Maine, Nothing New Regarding Smallpox Epidemic in This State. Univarsity cf Maine May Get More Help frar.i Corgress. I The question (IT imposing n tax upon hunters of big game is still being dis- I cussed, especially among out-of-the State hunters who come here regularly each fall. A letter has recently been received by Chairman Carleton from N. j 11 V* right of Selma, Ohio, in which the wiiter takes strong grounds in favor of a license for non-resident hunters, but he also desires a license for resident j hunters. “A3 a frequenter of the North woods,” says Mr. Wright, “I have this to say of the game and its hunting. In j places the game certainly has a hard time, when the lumbermen kill all win ter and residents kill all summer. If you wish to know what the residents are doing, send a pelt buyer through the country ar.d see how many spotted pelts he'll bring out; and notice the hair rubbed off the hips and rump of oia pelts by the bucks in breeding time. “And yet there is a great hue and cry about the Ohio and Indiana hunt ers shipping so many carcasses of deer from around Moosehead lake. The res idents of your State ship by the same route. “In my visits to that country I And the game decreasing with the passing years. And I fully realize it is only a matter of a few years when it will be a gamelcss country. Therefore, if I had my say I would not fail to have a non residents' fee of 525 and a residents’ fee of 115: and with the proceeds I'd hire some good game wardens, (which, by the way, 1 am glad to say may be found in abundance nearby), who will see that the laws are lived up to with out fear or favor of anyone. “Sixtv per cent, of the game shipped r>ut over the C. P. R. is killed by the retired wood choppers who pose as guides, at the rate, no doubt, of $10 a head. "And yet most of these human leeches, whose pockets are on a par with their stomachs and both are un til l&bl^trtstyle themselves 'sportsmen.' These are lots of misnomers, even in the 'woods. :jl afn personally acquainted with F-c^ne iof nearly every party ficm Ohio who hunt in Maine, and I w ill say that JO per cent, never kill anything, except time; and yet the same men go year after year, and will, fee or no fee. The trip, .recreation and fishing are worth even that." The railroad commissioners' office at the Capitol has been thoroughly reno vated by Supt. Stevens, and the clerks mqved back to their old quarters, yes terday. Th» walls have been painted olive green in color and the effect is soft and pleasing to the eye. The hard pine fioor has been scraped and pol ished and rugs have taken the place of the old carpet which formerly cov ered the floor. Hon. S. W. Matthews has just re ceived a letter from R. W. Scott, agent of the Grand Trunk Railway in Port land. commending the article, in the re cent report of the labor and industrial statistics, giving a description of Port land's terminal facilities. Mr. Scott enclosed coipies of letters of the same tenor which he received from F. H. McGuigan, manager, at Montreal, and from Charles M. Hays, second vice president and general manager of the road. The latter desired to obtain two copies of the report, one for his own office in Montreal and the other to be sent to the London office of the com pany. The railroad tax, spoken of in these columns, yesterday, may possibly be assessed by the State assessors, today. There will be a large increase over last year's amount. Senator Frank C. Whitehouse of Topsham. was calling upon State House officials, yesterday, who greeted him with pleasure. “There is really nothing new in re gard to epidemic or other lines," said Dr. Young of the State Hoard c-A Health, yesterday. "In this State there have been lately 10 places where small pox prevailed. In six of these places only one case appeared; in one town I hers were two 'cases, and in the other three places the number was somewhat larger. 1 do not think, there is now any likelihood of an epidemic, as mat ters .ire very quiet in places where th disease has been. “Fuae of the Western states are having a heavy run of the disease. One report I have here shows that there art H14 i uses of smallpox in 161 places in that State at the present time. In out own State the deaths have not been many on account of the disease, and J do not look for any further spread.” The plan of Gen. Grosvenor of Ohio, to pay to the agricultural colleges of the several states an additional appro priation of $10,000 for instruction in road-making, mines and mining, irri gation. geology, forestry and agricul tural engineering, has not a little iu tercet for the University of Maine. That institution would clearly come [under the provisions of the bill, which has just been reported favorably to the National House by the committee on mines and mining. It is proposed to make the additional appropriation $10. 000 the drst year and increase it by $1000 every year for 10 years till it amounts to $20,000. This would be quite an item in the income of the Orono in stitution. The old treaty of 1M2 between Great Hritain and the United States recog nized but seven crimes for which the criminal could be surrendered. These I were: Murder, assault with intent to commit murder, piracy, arson, robbery, i forgery and the utterance of forged paper. The convention of 1SS9 went very much further, adding 10 general head ings. several of which were divided into numerous specifications to make I

We guarantee fa Vinol will in- crease weight and renew strength—no more need of disagreeable Cod-Liver Oil —Vinol, its successor, cre ates flesh quicker, and is deliciously palatable. Mr. W. I. Morrison Gains Flesh by Taking Vinol. 1 “I was down sick with Pneumonia of the Lungs, very weak, was persuaded to try Vinol. Have taken one bottle and a half, gained 25 pounds and feel quite well.”— Mr. W. I. Morrison, Shelby, Ohio. How Vinol Cured Rheumatism and Made Flesh. Mr. John C. Shumack, Clerk of the United States Express Co., 117 W. Jackson Streep says: “For several months I was unable to sleep. I was nervous and irritable and all run down in flesh. At times I suffered severely from Rheumatism. I concluded to try Vinol and I am glad I did, for I improved from the start, and after using three bottles my appetite returned and what I ate did me good. I sleep well and have gained and am still gaining in flesh. I have not had a single attack of Rheumatism since I began taking Vinol.” People used to think it was necessary to take Cod-Liver Oil to rebuild weight and strength. It is easy for us to prove that such a treatment is not sow necessary. Fat taken into the system does not create fat. We know that Vinol will create flesh quicker than any preparation containing grease. With many such testimonials as the above coming before us, it is not strange that we endorse Vinol as strongly as we do. We unhesitatingly agree to return to any one who has taken Vinol and is not satisfied that it has accomplished all that we claim for it, every cent that they have paid us for it. BOWDITCH, WEBSTER CO. DRUGGISTS. them more binding anil far-reaching. The convention went into effect, April 4, 1S90, and by its provisions extradi tion is now provided for the following offences: Manslaughter, when voluntary: counterfeiting or altering money, ut tering or bringing intocirculation coun terieit or altered money; embezzlement, larceny, receiving any money, valuable security or other property, knowing the same to have been embezzled, stolen 01 fraudulently obtained; fraud by a bailee, banker, agent, factor, trustee or director or member or officer of any company, made criminal by the laws of both companies; perjury or suborna tion of perjury; rape, abduction, child stealing, kidnapping, burglary, house breaking or shop-breaking: piracy by the law of nations; revolt or conspiracy* to revolt by two or more persons on board a ship in the high seas against the authority of the master, wrongfully sinking or destroying a vessel at sea or attempting to do so, assaults on board a ship on the high seas with in tent to do grievous bodily harm: crimes and offences against the laws of both countries for the suppression of slavery and slave-trading. The following companies have filed articles of incorporation at the office of the secretary of State: The Kquitable Investment i'o„ organ ized at Portland, for the purpose of carrying on a general brokerage busi ness, \vith $-50,000 capital stock, of which nothing is paid in. The officers arc: President, Benjamin F. Kenerson of Boston, Mass treasurer, William B. Monroe. Jr„ of Winthrop, Mass. Certi ficate approved, March 15, 1002. Howard. Bftfggs Reay Co., organ ized at Auburn, for the purpose of manufacturing boots and shoes, with $30,000 capital stock, of which $300 is paid in. 'flic officers are: President, George R. Howard of Auburn: treas urer, Frank H. Briggs of Auburn. Cer tificate approved, March 15. 1902. List cf Unclaimed Letters. The following letters are unclaimed at the Augusta nostoffice: Women: Crosby, Miss Nellie A.; Dav enport, Miss Irene; Klwell. Mrs. .las., Flanders, Miss Alice; Lehman. Mrs. Amanda: Lynns, Mrs. Frank J.; Mereier. Melle Merense; .Moore, Mrs. Jennie; Hr. sail. Mrs. W. M.; Woodward, Mrs. Es telle. Men; Consumer Carriage Co.; Kmer son, B. l-\. Esq.; Felters. J. F.; (Irovenor, W. E.; Johnson. Fred; Markinzie, 1>. H.: Pocket. John; Rankin. Jus. W., Esq.: Rapheal Almanac; Sample Supply Co Simpson, ih rbert M.: Shaw, James E.; Thompson. James Tl. Card of Thanks.. We desire to extend our thanks to the many friends and neighbors who assisted us in our bereavement. Also fot the many floral offerings. Mr. W. G. Ricker, Mr. and'Mrs. R. A. Shorey. Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Shorey. marls,dlt* The big piles of sleepers ami rails scattered along Western a\vnue, placed there* by the Electric Railroad Co., looks as if business was meant. Ground will not be broken, however, much be fore May 1. There is too much frost in the ground for earlier operations. Paint Your Buggy for 75c. to tt.00 with Devoe's Gloss Carriage Paint. It weighs 3 to 8 ozs. more to the pint tiian others, wears longer, and gives a gloss equal to new work. Sold by J. H. Cogan Co. tuetf IN NEW HANDS New City Government of Au gusta Inaugurated, Yesterday, Mayor Lendall Titcomb Delivers Able and Interesting Address. City Officials Elected and Appointed— Many Orders Introduced. Finis” has been written at the close of another volume in the municipal his tory of Augusta. The chapter of a new volume has been enacted by the incoming administration. After serv ing with credit to themselves and profit to the city the old city government was ushered out of existence and delivered the trust which has reposed in its hands into those of its successor, yes terday. Agreeable to adjournment the city council met at H.SO A. M. to per form its closing duties. These were very few and were largely of a routine nature. Time was lateen, nonever, 10 say some very pleasing things about His Honor, Mayor Titeomb and other officials. As the aldermen were about to adjourn Alderman Hichborn arose and addressed the chair. “It is not without feelings of regret, and, I nignt say grief, that the city otiicials say ‘Good-bye' to their official duties. It has been a remarkably harmonious year and this is largely due to the fact that business has been presided over by one of the most faithful and efficient officials that ever occupied the mayor’s chair." He then moved that as a mark of appreciation the gavel which the mayor has so creditably wielded be ie sonted to him. This was seconded l>;. President Keene of the board, and the vote was unanimiously passed. In reply Mayor Titeomb said: "I thank you very much for'the gavel and 1 wish 1 deserved the kind words of the aldermen. No one is more certain than i that the success of the past year is due largely to the v.ork of th" mem bers of the board of aldermen and of the common council. 1 am glad to. know that 1 had some tinctl share in it but the greater part of the credit is due to them." As the common council opened for business t’ounciiman Hail arose and .Tiered the following resolution: Resolved: That the thanks of the members of the common (.111licit of 1 :o) 1 2 are hereby extended to our president, Mr. Samuel t Manley, f ir ule im partial and efficient manner in which lie has presided over the deliberations of this board. And that we, one and all, extend to him our best wishes for his future prosperity. And it is or dered that the clerk be and is hereby instructed to spread the foregoing resolutions upon tlie records, and that a copy of the same be presented to Mr. Manley. The resolution was seconded by Al derman Farrington and went through unanimously. Mr Hall also present ed Mr. Manley with the gavel used during the year. The c laim for damages made by Fred E. Garland which wats tabled in the council at the* last meeting was taken front the table on motion of Council man Sheldon. The committee which has had this matter under considera tion reported against damages and this report was adopted by the board of aldermen at the last session pre vious. After being taken from the ta ble in the council that body voted to concur with the higher branch. The committee on enrolled onli dances, consisting of Alderman Keene and Councilman Farrington and Shel don reported the ordinance to estab lish the salary of the board of health at t50 each per year back to the city government fir a second reading. When it was brought tip for considera tion iii the council it was freely dis cussed and Councilman droves raised the point of its legality and moved that it be referred to the city solicitor. This was opposed by several members. The motion was carried by a vote or five to two. Messrs. droves. Nason. Chadwick and Hall in the affirmative and Farrington and Sheldon in the negative. The aldermen concurred in this action. .An order receiving the various reports of city officials and referring them to th< city auditor was passed in botli branches and at 10.20 the gavel in the hands of the mayor fell innouncing that the last meeting of the city gov ernment for 1901-2 was at an end. In Joint Convention. At the close of the session of the old city government the members elect of troth branches assembled in the 'ouncil room in joint convention. All the al dermen and all the councilmen except Kinsman. Scribner and Savage wen present and were sworn in by City Clerk Burleigh. The aldermen and councilmen then repaired to their respective rooms to perfect the organization. Charles S. Hichborn was unanimously elected president of the board of aldermen and E. C. Farrington, president of the com mon council, with Fred W. Lee, clerk of the same body. These officials were then sworn in by the city clerk after which the two bodies again went into joint convention., A committee consisting of Council man Hall and Alderman Manley was appointed to wait upon the mayor and inform him that the city government had organized and was neady to re- i ceive his annual address. The mayor1 was escorted to the room l)y the com-j mittee. They were also actomponied by Rev. Charles W. Doherty who offer- j ed prayer. Mayor Titcomb gave his annual ad dress reviewing the work of the past year and making a forecast of future operations. The address was able and interesting and was as follows: Gentlemen of the City Council: Our fellow citizens have intrusted to you the care and management of their municipal affairs for the coming year. Most of you have had experience in the control of city affairs as members of former city governments and I feel that your experien re and acquaintance with city administration is such that any lengthy statement of the city’s condition is unneeesstary. and any ex tended views of my o*wn as to your duties and obligations would be out of place. You are chosen not as the result of a heated political contest, Jrut in a man ner which must be gratifying to you. Your fellow citizens have given to you the power to assess upon them taxes for ail city expenses, and, they have intrusted to you the expenditure of all the money so collected. I only voice the sentiment of our people when I say I am sure you feel the weight of this responsibility and I know that no words of mine could increase your de sire to meet fully the high hopes of your administration. During the past year the city has paid of its permanent indebtedness the sum of sixteen thousand and five hundred dollars. By reason of this payment the amouut hereafter or this year to be paid as interest on the bond ed debt of the city will be less by be tween nine hundred and one thousand dollars. I believe that this payment was not only sound as a matter of finance, but I feel sure that it met the approbation of our people as a long step towards wiping out indebtedness which bore a high rate of interest and which was a mortgage upon our annual tax assessment. Of our bonded indebtedness there will become due the coming year eight thousand dollars. The policy hereto fore adopted I believe should be con tinued an<l this eight thousand dollars of bonds be paid at maturity, again re ducing the annual amount hereafter to be raised by taxation and paid as interest. There will have to be raised the cur rent year certain fixed sums for the payment of which the credit of the city is pledged as follows: Interest on ihe bonded debt, $12,210.00 Interest on the Sanford legacy. 90.00 Interest on Lithgow Library Trust Funds. 1,230.00 Interest on St. Mark's Home Trust Funds, 600.90 Making a total to be paid as in terest of $14.150019 There will also have to be paid the current vear State Tax. 21.699.47 County Tax. 7.323.46 Adding these sums to the Inter est account we have to be raised by taxation the large sum of $13,174.33 Those who thoughtlessly criticize the yearly city expenditures and rate of taxation should remember how large a share of the city's revepues goes into these Items for which there is no apparent benefit for the time be ing to show. In connection with the matter of trust funds I wish to call your atten tion to the ordinance In legat’d to trust funds for i he care of lots In cemeteries. Section S. of Chapter XIY. of the lie vised Ordinances provides that: Any person owning or interested in a lot in a public burying ground in the city of Augusta, may deposit in the city treasury a sum not exceeding five 1 hundred dollars for the purpose of j providing for the preservation and i care of said lot Interest at the rate of five per cent, per annum i shall be allowed by the city upon such deposit, etc. I The credit of the city of Augusta Is j so high that it could borrow money at j a rate nit much above three per cent. I per annum. When this ordinance was passed, the rate of interest was much higher than now. and then it may have been reasonable for the city to pay that rate. But now conditions have changed, and there seems to be no good reason why the city, in addition to serving gratuitously as a trustee, and 'guaranteeing the safety of the iun<i, snouio also ne inxeu i add to a<l to the income of private funds. While the city can borrow money at practically three per cent., and in coming years possibly less, I believe the rate which the city should pay as interest on trust funds of which it as sumes the care ought not to exceed three per cent, per annum. Any great er rate than this would be an enforced contribution front our people to private beneficiaries. I believe that no funds should be hereafter accepted by the city as a trustee under any agree ment to pay a higher rate c*f interest than three per cent, per annum. No matter how deserving, how charitable the purpose may be. it is not our privi lege to bestow other people's money in charity. That privilege belongs to the people themselves and each person has tha right to be his own sole judge in such cases. I recommend that this ordinance be changed. I feel also that embarrassment may be saved to the members of the city government in the future if it be changed so as to cover all trust funds that may here after be tendered to the city, no mat- i ter what the beneficiary. You will have before you the detailed reports of all the departments of the city. It is unnecessary for me to go over the different departments in de tail. In the matter of permanent 1m- I provementg on the highways I believe that a system should be adopted under which the improvements should be made first at the congested centres of our city where there is the greatest use of them. If this should commend itself 1 to you. it would seem to call for ex- ample for continuing the paving at i the upper end of Water street, and i then perhaps macadamizing the north end of State street before making im provements of that character on streets more distant from the city's centre here the travel is less. For the management of the fire de partment I have nothing but com mendation. The high character of its personnel is a matter of •'common knowledge. The promptness of Its response to fire alarms and the small amount of fire loses taking into ac count the large territory the depart ment has to cover, speak eloquently of the department's efflciemV. In the management of that public charity, the poor department, there are uianv constantly recurring problems. While all agree that the deserving poor should never be allowed to suffer there are often cases of attempted im position on the city. The system of scientific charity has, made great progress within a few years and tends to make the administration of poor departments better for the individual, and more economical for the city in many ways. one ot me principles or scieminc charity calls for securing a history of the abilities and character of every ap plicant for aid from the city. A record is kept giving as much of the history of the probable pauper as possible, his family, his former occupation, the earning ability of the different mem bers of his family, whether there are persons legally liable for his support, and all facts bearing on his ability to support himself. A record is also kept under this system of every item of as sistance furnished. It is apparent that the city must be a gainer in a pe cuniary sense under this system, but also the individual can often be aided to get work. I’nder this system repay ment is exacted in the form of work as far as possible, and the individual pncouraged to get work. If you pay a man to beg he will beg. If you pay him to work he will work. The over seer of the poor approves of the plan and I hope to see it adopted as a step, foiward in the manner of earing for ihe poor and needy wards of the city. Our schools have continued to be a source of pride to all our citizens. Our school system is sometimes criticised as being complicated, but results prove that though it may be complicated it is eminently successful. It is not the 1-===== system but the character of the men upon whom falls the responsibility of the sAool management. The Village District. the Williams District, the t'onv High school as well as the suburban schools have been fortunate in having directors whose interest and care left little to be desired. If the various boards were consolidated un der one head it would still be necessary to assign the care of different sections to committees corresponding to the present different boards, and possibly the advantage of rivalry may offset some of the disadvantages of complica tion. In conclusion I would say that con sidering the fact that the amount of maturing indebtedness is so much less than last year, the saving in interest a substantial one and the probability "f nof very unusual expenses, there seems to be every teason why the rate of taxation should be reduced. A re duced rate of taxation, not a niggard ly, but a wise economy with ex penditurrs limited to the city's income, our fellow citizens certainly have a right to expect from us. I invoke your watchful care that their confident ex pectations may be realized. At the close of this address city of ficers for the ehsulng year were unani mously elected, the list being as noml noted in the Republican caucus, Sat urday. The following assistant asses sors were also elected: S. T. Cannon, Ward 1: R. J. Upton, Ward 2; P. E. Chase, Ward 3; W. H. Getchell, Ward 4: James Woodward, Ward 6. i The convenion then dissolved. New Officials Meet. The new officials then met for the transaction‘of business. An order was introduced by Alderman Fletcher au thorising the mayor and the committee on printing to cause 1000 copies of the city report to be printed and ordering also that the volume contain no reports of the Village and Williams school dis tricts except such as are furnished by those districts free of charge. The usual order asking that the com mittees of the various departments make a careful estimate of the amounts necessary to be appropriated for their departments and report to the finance committee was passed. It was ordered that the recommenda tions contained in the address of the mayor be referred to the committees representing the various departments to which they had reference. The usual order asking that the corn treasurer with the approval of the mayor to negotiate temporary loans from time to time on behalf of the city, in anticipation of taxes, to the amount of not exceeding $50,000. was passed. It was ordered that Miss Fannie An thony be permitted to erect a hitching post opposite her lot on Elm street for the beter protecion of the sidewalk. The committee on highways and sewers was instructed to inquire into the advisability of constructing a sew er on Western avenue from State street and report. The joint rules of the last city coun cil were made the rules of the present council until otherwise ordered. It was ordered that the assistant as sessors perform such services and in such parts of the city as the board of assessors direct. It was ordered that the regular meet ings of the city council be held on the second Thursday of each month at 7.30 P. M. It was ordered that the balances ap pearing to the credit of the various de partments at the close of the fiscal year be appropriated to the several depart ments in which they appear. The city clerk was instructed to pre pare and have printed the usual num ber of city registers, containing the usual information, as soon as all city officials have been elected or appointed ind prior to April 15. An order introduced by Alderman Manley and which passed both branches instructed the city marshal to :ake necessary action to strictly confine the police officers to the duties of their positions and to see that they engage, in no other business. It was ordered that an additional po lite officer be added to the regular fort e and that the assignment of beats he so arranged as to provide for a con tinuous patrol duty on the east side of the river dtjidng the day and night. An order fling the regular monthly meeting of the bortrd of aldermen on the second Thursday of each month and adopting the rules of the last board was passed. An order introduced by Alderman Dudley authorizing the street commis sioner on the East Side to put crushed rock on Bangor street from Wedge hill to Whitney block was referred to the committee on highways and sewers. Another order introduced hy Alderman Messer providing that t’hapel street from Western avenue to the corner of Grove street be covered with crushed rot k at an expense not to exceed $200 was also referred to the same com mittee: as was one providing for- a similar improvement with grading on drove street from the corner of State ind Western avenjie to the corner of 'hapel street and at the same cost. Two orders and a petitibn introduced In the board of aldermen red Hired a onference committee before theV reached a final disposal for the day. (Continued on page 6.). Fire! Smoke! Water! A CLOSING OUT SALE OF ALL MY STOCK OF Household Furniture. CARPETS, RUGS, etc., that was damaged by either fire, smoke or water at the late fire. Sale Commences, Wednesday, riarch 19. COriE, IF YOU WANT TO BUY THE GREATEST BARGAINS OF YOUR LIFE. A. A. SOULE, AUGUSTA.

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IN NEW HAND8. (Continued from page 6.) The first was an order authorizing the highway committee to properly macadamize Stone street and Hospital street from Cushing's corner to the south end of the arsenal fence, and to rebuild and concrete the sidewalk on Stone street wherever necessary, the work to be done as early as possible. The second provided for the construc tion of an 8-inch sewer on Stone street from a point near the head of Cedar street to the residence of Dr. Crooker, thence west across the premises of N. Noyes to a connection with the Brooks street sewer, a distance of about 900 feet. The third was a petition signed by seven residents of Bangor street representing that there is difficulty with the sewer on that street which causes the water to back up, filling the cellars and rendering them very un sanitary. The petitioners asked the city government to relieve them of the nuisance. Ail these were referred to the committee on highways and sewers in the board of aldermen but when they were taken up in the council they were objected to. Some of the mem bers thought that the orders should be referred to the committee with instruc tions to investigate and report at a later date, not giving them power to act. The council, therefore, non-con curred. Upon their return to the board of aldermen that board insisted upon the orders and called for a con ference committee. The committee was made up of Aldermen Fletcher, Manley, Randall and Counciimen Chadwick, Sheldon and Dutton. It was agreed to recommend the passage of the petition and the order relating to the sewer on Stone street but that the other bo re ferred to he committee without power to act. The recommendations of the committee were adopted. An order was introduced by Aider man Hlchborn instructing the finance committee to make no appropriation for discounts in preparing the esti mates for the ensuing year. The order was tabled. The matter or locating uie poies oi the Dirigo Telephone Co. on Court street which was referred to the pres ent city government by Its predecessor was called up in the board of aldermen and referred to a special committee consisting of Fletcher. Hichborn and Randall with instructions to report its soon as convenient. The committees for the ensuing year were made up as follows, the members from the board of aldermen being ap pointed bv the mayor and those from the council by President Farrington: Finance—Aldermen Randall and Hichborn, Counclltnen Farrington, Kinsman and Chadwick. Accounts—Aldermen Hichborn and Fletcher, Oouncilmen Hall, Scribner a nd Tiieberge. Highways and sewers—Aldermen Hichborn, Dudley and Manley. Coun cilmen Chadwick, Dutton and Nichols. City buildings—Aldermen Nason and Cloutier, Councilman Foster, Dennis and Cormier. Poor department—Aldermen Randall and Nason, Counclltnen Hall, Clark and Merrill of Ward 8. Fire department—Aldermen Manley and Messer, Councilman Scribner, Fos ter and Savage. Schools—Aldermen Fletcher and Manley, Councilmen Sheldon, Hall and Theberge. Printing—Aldermen Fletcher and Dudley, Councilmen Foster, Cormier and Merrill of Ward 8. Police—Aldermen Messer and Ran dall, Councilmen Kinsman, Chadwick and Merrill of Ward 7. Street lights—Aldermen Dudley and Messer, Councilmen Sheldon, Dutton and Merrill of Ward 7. fturylng grounds—Aldermen Hich born and Cloutier, Councilmen Scrib ner, Kinsman and Savage. Hells and Clocks—Aldermen Cloutier and Nason, Councilmen Merrill of Ward S, Dennis and Nichols. Fondled ordinances—Aldermen Ran dall and Fletcher, Councilmen Kins man, Sheldon and Clark. The standing committee of the board of aldermen on State pensions ap pointed by the mayor Is composed of Aldermen Dudley and Nason. A communication was received from the city marshal saying that he had appointed the following policemen for the year: Deputy marshal, Kervin R. Hanks; regular patrolmen, George E. Fletcher, Charles A. Miron, Edwin L. White. William A. Ward, Linwood G. Dutton and F. \V. Chadwick (under or der increasing the force); special police officers', Frank W. Chadwick, Charles H. Haskell, Henry T. Morse, Charles W. Ricker, William H. Judkins, Henry c. Thing, Frank H. Fisher, Daniel S. McDavid. William H. Rack 1 iff, Frank Jollier, Janies A. Jones, Edward Rise: special police officers nt public places, E. II. Weston, State House, James S. MeKenney, court house, Elbridge Red der. post office, William S. Kittredge, Opera house, Frederick H. Brann, Ed wards mill, Isaac Clark. City building, H. M. Bennett, Augusta Lumber Co., Stephen A. Thurston, Lithgow library, H. E. Cram, pulp mill, James Smith. Lawrence-NYwhall mill, William R. Ayer. North Augusta Grange hall, W. F. Spear and Elbridge Lehr. Electric railroad, Horace B. Cony and G. Frank Winter, Insane hospital, Charles E. tlrover a id T,. S. Ynunp, bank watch im n. The nominations were confirmed. The following nominations were made liy the mayor and confirmed by the board of aldermen: Park commissioner, fnnn April 1, 1 POL*, Richard E. Good bin: member of committee on High school, illiam H. Williams; member of committee on High school, Frederick •W. Plaisted; superintendent of burials, Charles Tibbetts: trustees of the I.itngow library. John F. Hill, Samuel C. Manley, Melvin S. Holway, Samuel W. Lane, succeeding Moses It. Leigh ton. Selden Connor, succeeding Charles K. Nash, who lias been appointed a trustee representing the Lithgow es tate; member of board of health from April 12. 1902, George C. Sheldon; health oilieer, A. H. Sturtevant, M.I). An order was passed providing that thi regular meetings of the city coun cil for 1 902-3 be held at 7.30 o'clock on the second Thursday evening of each month. An order was passed directing the city engineer to ascertain the location of Grove street from Capitol to the Maguire lot and fix stakes to Indicate the same. The following orders were referred to the committee on highways and sew ers; providing for covqrtag Bond street .With crushed rock and j also Cor side

If your system is run down or you are overworked take JOHANN HOFF’S EXTRACT. It will build you up immediately. Tntltt upon Johann Hoff'a Extract and take none of the cheap substitutes offered as just as good.” They have nothing but their cheapness to recommend them. EISNER A MF.NDELSON CO. Sole Agents, New York. walks on each side of the street; that the plank sidewalk on Kendall street be removed and a concrete sidewalk be laid: for the paving of Water street from the North End Clothing Store to the stone bridge on Bond brook; that the sidewalk' on Washington street op posite the Catholic church be concreted as far as Franklin street; that stone crossings be laid from Washington street to Jefferson street, from Wash ington street to Cumberland street and from Washington street to Franklin street; that Capitol street be repaired and that the sidewalk be reconstructed in accordance with the recommenda tion of the last city council, the same to be concreted and covered with crushed rock after being properly graded: for a gravel siaewam on uuu street; for the reconstruction of Sewall street from its southern terminus to Western avenue; for the reconstruction of Grove street from Capitol street to the terminus of the Grove street sewer: for the reconstruction of Capitol street from State street to Grove street: for repairs on Columbia street from Union street to the residence of Fred Law rence: for the widening of the plank sidewalk on Powhattan street; for re pairing the sidewalk on Eastern ave nue; and providing for the macadamiz ing of Arsenal street from Fast Chest nut street to Cony street. An order ordering that fire alarm box No. 43 be moved to the corner of East Chestnut and Stone streets and that a new box be located at the corner of Arsenal and East Chestnut streets went to the committee on fire depart ment. An order providing for an all-night arc lamp at the corner of Laurel and State streets went to the committee on street lights. An order directing the committee on highways to make certain investiga tions in regard to proposed changes and improvements was tabled in the board of aldermen. The bond of Kervin R. Hanks as constable was received and approved. TAXATION METHODS. State Assessors to Enquire Into Those of Other States. Abstract from Report of Minnesota's Tax Commission. The State assessors were directed by the last Legislature to inquire Into the methods of taxation in other states and make report on the same to the next Legislature. In accordance therewith they are accumulating a large number of documents which may be of great assistance to the tax-reformers in the next great and general court. One report which has been carefully perused by Maine students lately is the report of the tax commission appointed by the Minnesota Legislature for the purpose of framing a tax code. This report was made to a special session of the Minnesota Legislature which has just adjourned. In view of the issue between the Grand Trunk Railway Co. and the State of Maine, a portion of the Minnesota commission's report is of special interest. The report says: "The commission believes that with the advancement of ideas upon the general subject of taxation a more sci entific and, therefore, a more just method of taxing corporate property will tie evolved. Not only are the sev eral states frequently wide apart in methods of taxation of such property, but confusion prevails also in the laws of each state upon the subject. Not only so. but the methods in vogue in this country are wide apart from those in force in the most advanced Euro pean stqtes relating to like classes of property, And system of taxation pre scribed for transportation or transmis sion companies which depends in part upon interstate earnings or upon valu ations of property situated without the state contributing to such earnings, is at best unsatisfactory, and will con tinue so until those earnings and valu ations are ascertained and apportioned to the several states by federal author ity. It is impracticable for a state to ascertain such facts by investigations conducted by its own agents. It, there fore. depends largely and often wholly upon the reports of the respective com panies whose property is to be taxed. Without impugning the accuracy of sm li reports, it is obvious that no state should be wholly, or to a large extent, dependent upon them. A single in stance suffices for purposes of illustra tion. An express company, engaged in a great variety of business, many fea tures of which are quite distinct from that of expressing commodities, whose EXCHANCE THE DEED To the farm that you don't want for the cash which you do through EDWIN A. STROUT, I.ong Distance Telephone No. 134-4. PURINTON BUILDING, AUGUSTA. marH.Utf operations are extended over a great part of this country and into foreign rountries, presents so complicated a subject that any state which under takes a thorough investigation for pur poses of taxation would incur an ex pense greatly in excess of any reason able tax which It might justly impose. The same difficulties, although less marked, would be confronted in similar investigation of other interstate com panies. A federal body, like a depart ment of commerce, authorized to fully investigate all quasi-public companies engaged in interstate business, and pre pared to do so by suitable agencies, would be able by annual investigation to furnish all the states without ex pense to them reliable and sufficient data for taxation purposes. It is a subject of such pressing importance that the Legislature of this state and other states should memorialize Con gress to adopt at the earliest practical moment the necessary legislation, either of the character above suggested or otherwise.” WATERVILLK. There will be a sociable at the Bap tist church on Water street, next Mon day evening. There is a hot bowling-match now in progress at the Teconnet Club, eight teams being engaged. The O. E. S. Whist Club which was to have met at the home of Miss Ger trude Matthews, has been indefinitely postponed. The winter term at Colby will close, today. Some of the baseball men are planning to stay at the "Bricks” and continue practice through the vacation. The next social of the Methodist So ciety will be held at the church ves tries on Pleasant street, tomorrow evening. Interesting program and re freshments. The Sons of Veterans will celebrate their anniversary, Wednesday evening, in Thayer hall. A pleasing program has been prepared and a very pleasant evening is being anticipated. An exhibition of gymnasium work in cluding a game of basketball will be given by the girls of Coburn, tomor row afternoon, in the Coburn gymna sium. All ladies are invited. Ail cadets who have enlisted for the centennial are requested to meet at the city government rooms, this evening. It is expected that there will be addresses by prominent citizens and an election of officers. George A. and C. A. Warren have been awarded the contract for sorting the logs in the Hollingsworth Whitdey boom, the coming season. These gentlemen have done this work for several years past and have been handling a larger number of logs each year and they expect to beat all records, this year. Several young men got lots of sport and a bunch of small boys got lots of marbles, yesterday afternoon, by a sort of catch-as-cateh-ean plan. The mar ides were thrown out into the muddy street and the boys gobbled them up like hungry turkeys after corn. The mud and water were ignored so long as the marbles lasted and about every boy in the bunch was richer by a pocket full before the sport ended.

There was one of the heaviest rain falls, Sunday night, that has been experi enced in this section for some •time. There was a small shower early in the evening but the downpour began a little before midnight. It continued with more or less force through the day, Monday, but the amount of water was not near as large as it was in the night. There were many small washouts on the roads around the city. It is expected'that the crews now at work in the woods may be obliged to break camp any day. The hauling has been pretty bad for some time past and is liable to break up almost any time. All the operators are keeping the teams go ing just as long as possible in order to get all their logs to the landings but it is going to be a pretty close rub in some camps. If the rain that fell here, Sunday night, was as heavy in the northern part of the State it may put an end to the work for this year. The Narrow Guage is Coming. Considerable wood sawing is being done by the managers of the little nar row guage that has reached Winslow it: its trip to Farmington and up througli the Itangelcys, and steady progress is be ing made. Frank B. Ilubbard, formerly train master on the Maine Central, lias been secured as general freight agent and this assures the best kind of service for the patrons. Mr. Hubbard is a thorough going railroad man and understands the freight business from start to finish. Un der his management a fine freight service is expected on the little road. Arrangements for building the little bridge across the Kennebec are being per fected a.4 rapidly as possible. The tim ber for the crib work and other tempora ry structures is being sawed and will be on the ground as soon as needed. Mr. At wood, the prime mover in the enterprise, left, yesterday, for Boston to meet an agent of the American Bridge Co. and it is expected that satisfactory terms for a bridge can be made. It certainly looks as if the work on the bridge would com mence as soon as the conditions are fa vorable and that the little road will push its way on through Watervillc during the coming summer. “The Private Secretary,” Tonight. “The Private Secretary" will be pre sented by the Colby Dramatic Club in City hall, this evening, for the benefit of the Watervllle Baseball Club. The piece has been presented several times and the boys have been putting in some hard work at rehearsals so that they are ex pected to do even better, tonight, than they did the first time in City hall. The tickets have been selling well and there will be a large crowd. There are a great many in the city who have never seen the piece and a good many more who will want to see it a second time. Here’s a chance to help local baseball in the city and make a winning team possible. OA0TORIA. B«an the Tlw Kind Von Haw Always Bought SUIT OPENING. All ladies are cordially invited to attend our Suit Opening, Thursday, March 20th, when we shall display a larger and better line of Ladies’ and Misses’ Garments than ever before, and in connection with our own assortment Mr. P. B. ROLFE representing Strawbridge Clothier of Philadelphia, will be here with his entire line of Suits, Jackets and Silk and Wool Long Gar ments, and will be prepared to take special orders. (N. B. Mr. Rolfe will also have about 70 suits to deliver.) Whitman Adams Co., Augusta, Maine. In memory of the late Miss Kate Greenaway it is proposed to endow a cot in one of the children’s hospitals in London. How to Cure the Grip. Remain quietly at home and take Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy as di rected and a quick recovery is sure to follow. That remedy counteracts any tendency of the grip to result in pneu monia, which is really the only serious danger. Among the tens of thousands who have used it for the grip, not one case has ever been reported that did not recover. For sale by John Coughlin, 177 Water St.; J. C. Houlehan, Gardi ner. Special Advertisements. LOST. A DOG: A LARGE GOOD NATURED Irish setter. Left in my care. Redish color. Was a little lame in one hind foot and wore a collar marked A. F. Stubbs. A suitable reward will be paid. Dr. K. J. Roberts. march!8dtf WANTED. AN EXPERIENCED TABLE GIRL AT once at the Hartford House, Augusta. __marchlsdlf WE PAY $22 A WEEK AND Ex penses to men with rigs to introduce Poultry Compound. International Mfg. Co., Parsons, Kan. marls,dlt* TWO FIRST-CLASS MACHINISTS ■it once; no Inferior workmen need apply. Write or call on Frank I. Clark. Journal Block, Augusta, Me. marl8,dtf A MIDOLE-AGEO WOMAN FOR housekeeper In a small family; must Is food plain cook. Apply to I*. San born, Ben Venue Greenhouses. marlx.dtf MEN TO LEARN BARBER TRADE. New system. Only eight weeks repaired. Wages Saturdays. Diplomas awarded. Position guaranteed when through. Write for free catalogue. Moler's Barber School, New York City. marlS.dlw* ACTIVE MAN TO REPRESENT RE spnnsible manufacturing company in•res ident and nearby counties. Salary $;s per week and expenses, payable weekly absolutely no canvassing. Permanent position; splendid opportunity f >r ad vancement. References repaired. Ad dress Manufacturer, 72-J Chestn it St., I’hllada., Ft, marlS.dlw FOR SALE. WHITE WYANDOTTE EGGS FOR hatching. S. S. Williams, Augusta, Me. marls,dlmo PLYMOUTH ROCK EGGS FOR hatching. S. S. Williams, Augusta, Me. _ marlS.dlmo TO LET. NEWLY PAPERED AND PAINTED house 32 Cro9by St. Hot and cold water, bath, grandest scenery view in Augusta; fruit trees and garden; five minutes* walk from post office. Enquire of E. S. Fogg, Summer St., or F. G. Kinsman. mchlSdif NOTICE. The committee oft State pensions will meet at the aldermen’s rooms at the City bulldlng at 2 o’cIock every Wednesday afternoon. GEORGE F. DUDLEY, WILLIAM II. NASON. marchlsdTufw Committee. Announcement. We invite all okl customers to continue with us and also cordially invite new customers to try our method of doing business, both as regards finality of goods, prices, and the accuracy of our accounts. We Quaruntce Sntisfaction. TURNER MARR, (FORMERLY HEWITT MARR). To Our Customers: Wf take pleasure in announcing that while we arc thankful for past favors wo shall endeavor in every way to merit your confidence and your trade in the future. Our GROCERY, MEAT, CONFECT IONEKY and FANCY BAKERY I>E PARTMKNTS will each receive our careful attention and all goods deliv ered from either department yyill be guaranteed to give perfect satisfac tion. Locke Hewitt Co., _ (Successors to Webber A Locke) 50 CO CARTS 50 Just in From the Factor HANDSOME and CHEAP Give the babies an outing. They need'the sun and air; Wheel them out in a go eart, Every day that it's fair; How they will laugh and chatter. Grow fat, healthy and strong; Come now anil buy a go cart, Easy to push along. The place for you to get one Is at the “Hustler's” store; The styles are so much better Than any shpwn before. But that which will surprise you Is—how I sell so low— This is to. me a secret That you can never know. R. W. SOULE, THE HUSTLER, Aafuata, Maine. J BEDDING PLANTS. SHRUBBERY FOR THE GARDEN AND CEMETERY. Send in Your Orders for Out door Shrubbery Now. G. P. Sanborn Prop. BEN VENUE GREENHOUSES. rn;irlS,(Itr,nl SMITH’S BUCHU LITHIA KIDNEY PILLS. SICK KIDNEYS, The Bladder, Khen mat ism and the Blood all these diseases yield at once and are quickly and fully cured. ISO Pills only 25 cents. A CURE at the PEOPLES PRICE. All dealers, by mall or at office. I will mall mv hook FREE to any atfdress. W.F.8MITH, Its 8mm St, Best St. KIDNEY DISEASE CURED. Roxbury, July 18,1900. W. F. Smith, Ksq. Dear Sir—Since you first advertised vour Burhu l.ltlila Kidney Fills I have used them and have found them to have done me more good than anything else 1 have used be fore. Yours truly. (8igned) JOHN H. ROWE, 34 Guild Row, Roxbury. P. 8.—While writing this a friend of mine Is here and be la suffer ing from the same trouble and I have rec ommended your pills to him. and will con tinue to do so to all sufferers. Daily hcnnebcc 3ourn.il Cards of (hooka, oMtury notlsea. no olutlons of respect, ete., will be ehorse# at the rate of ten eenta per lino. Hf chargee Icaa thau seventy-five eaoto. All advertising ooaoooaeoaaia ef ontertalnmente, wheae objeat Me raising of money, will be charged at rate of tlftees cents a line. Advertising notices, news fora, wtn be excluded from our local eoluaaas, es> cept such as refer te advertisers aeen pyiug space In our advertising eolia*^ ami will be run under a separate hea4 on one of the local pages. Subscriber* who fsll to receive the JOURNAL promptly will confer a faveg by notifying the office Immediate!*. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS, TODAY. Postutn. 1 A. A. Soule, laist—A (log. It. \V. Soule. >1. G. It.irker. To let—House. G. C. A. Cigar. Wanted—Cook. Turner Marr. C. K. Partridge. F. It. Partridge. Bussell A- Weston. Pyramid Pile Cure. Wanted—Table girl. Lojike Hewitt Co. C. H. Frizzelle, D. O. Whitman Adams Co. Bowditch, Webster Sc Co. Ben Venue Greenhouses. New York Bargain Store. Stuart's Catarrh Tablets. Paine's Celery Compound. Notice of committee meetings. I it ji I Sr

I M .3 LOCAL MATTERS. Journal Telephone Call, 1M-4 The Happy Land of Harveat. The seed'll soon be dreamin' of the har vest fur away, The tender shoots be heavy with the dewdrops of the May, Out of sorrow comes a singin', out of darkness briRhtest day,— We're going to the happy land of har vest! The toll will teach us lessons, an' faith will keep us strong. The light shine on our pathway all the weary way along. An' we'll raise our happy voices in a halleluia song,— We're goin' to the happy land of har vest! —Frank L. Stanton. Dr. Oliver \V. Turner has resigned from the staff of the Augusta City Hospital. The engagement of Dr. J. E. Tuell of Augusta, and Nellie S. Gray of Machias, is announced. Next Friday evening, the Unitarian ladies will give a supper and entertain ment ih the church parlors. Seth Williams Relief Corps will meet with Mrs. S. W. Lane at 2.30 Thursday afternoon, instead of Wednesday. The brook trout season is near at hand and a large number are planning on making a catch as soon as possible. Fresh IloweTs at Ben Venue green houses. Orders may be given by tele phone or at BaWditeh, Webster and Co.’s. The Young Woman's League of the Congregational Society vyill give a Gipsy supper, next Monday night. Something unique. The private ear of General Manager George F. Evans of the Maine Central Railroad, passed through here, yester day, attached to the 9.15 train. It is urged that the members who were present at the W. C. T U. meeting, last Tuesday, try very hard to be present, today at 3.30 P. M. Also as many other as can jmssibly attend. The Universalist Dulles' Aid will meet with Mrs. G. A. Robertson, corner Winthrop and Sewall streets, Tuesday afternoon, at 2.30 o'clock. Please bring needle and thimble as there is work to be done. A full attendance is desired. There will be a special convocation of Cushnoc R. A. Chapter on Wednes day evening of this week for work in the P. M. and M. E. Al. degrees. As there are to be a large number of can didates, the meeting is called at 7.30 sharp. There is lots, of go in a go cart with an uneasy youngster riding and a vig orous mother pushing at the helm. R. W. Soule has received an enormous sto< it of these popular vehicles that will please parents, no matter what their taste may he or how fat or lean their pocket books. The new styles are very practical and attractive. Wednesday, March 19. Is the day A. A. Soule announces his great clearance sale of lire, smoke and water goods to commence. This is a big stock of fur niture, carpets, etc,, 10 be closed out at whatever prices they will bring. Some goods are damaged considerably, some a trifle by smoke or water only, but the whole must go so be on hand, as Mr. Soule says in his ad. “for the greatest bargains of your life." The third grand anniversary sale at The People’s store starts, today, and will continue this week only. It will nay everybody In Augugfd KM* ITf&nfs ty to attend this great sals U RoalU ties and prices are an object as iiuck ley A-. Goodrich are offering values in this sale that ought to crowd the or dinary business of a month Into this week. Head their new ud In today's issue, then supply your future needs while the opportunity lasts. bung Kuro nulckly cures coughs rnd colds. Local Notices. The Toadies Aid of the Universalist Society will bold their whtet party and dance at Odd Fellows hall, Wednesday evening. March in. marlgdlt Miss Sarah Stanley, chiropodist and manicure (formerly with Mrs. Dr. Sherman), will be at Mrs. Downe-s’, 12a State street, March 17, for one week. inarltdl w All orders for Silver Spring water by mall, or given to the drivers of the teams will be promptly attended tOi H- VV. Norciors, Prop. marl8,41wk*

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AUGUSTA LODGE DIRECTORY. TRINITY COMMAND EKY, NO. 7. K. T. Annual conclave at 7.30 1*. M.. Friday, March 21. All Sir Knights sojourning in the city are cordially In vited to attend. w. S. CHOATE. E. C. J. E. BLANCHARD, Rcc. CUSH.NOC H. A. CHAPTER No. 43. Special Convocation in Mason ic Temple on Wednesday evening. March 19th at 7.30 o'clock. Work in the 1*. M. and M. E. M. Do _ grccs. All sojourning Companions are cordially Invited. HO HAND E. OOOCH, H. P. HENRY A. HEATH. Sec y. ODD FELLOWS HALL,WATER ST. ASYLUM LODGE, No. 70, ev ery Frldav evening, at 7.30 o’clock. First degree, Fri day evening. March 21. W. B. GHTCHELL, N. O. E. F. WESTON. Sec. JEritTIIA ENCAMPMENT, No. 3, meetings at 8 o’clock every second and fourth Tues days. U. 3. PEASI.EE, Scribe. Q. W. MERRILL. C. P. f CANTON AUGUSTA. No. I. every third Tuesday at s p. M. Making af a Chevalier, March 18. A. M. DRUMMOND, Clerk. GEORGE F. ANDREWS, Capt CALANTHE LODGE, No. 52. K. of P. Regular convention at 7.30 every Wednesday eve ning. Wednesday, March 19, work in lirst rank. HENKY S. HASKELL. C. C. AARON B. RIPLEY, K. of R. and S Tnon.tues.wea f UNIFORM RANK. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS, KING COM PANY, NO. i. Regular meet ing. firs' Thursday of each month. Special drill. March apiatn, c. L. STUKTEVANT. Recorder, II. S. HASKELL. HIGHLAND LODGE, NO. 25, A. O. U. W. Meets every Tues day evening at 7.30 o’clock, in g A. o. II. W. Hall. GEORGE SHELDON, M. W. LEWIS SKI.RING, Financier. F. V. MAXWELL. Recorder. I Ml'IiKIAL LODGE, D. of U. No. 2, A. O. U. W. Meetings In Union hall the tirst and third Friday evenings o£ each month, at 7.20 o'clock. IDA WELLMAN. C. of II. ,SAI>IK METCALF. Itecorder. EMMA M ROBERTS. Finan. Nr ti n Kenneoec Lodge. No. t-Vl.I 251. Meets In Golden Cross Hall, second and fourth 1 Thursday evenlngsof each montti at 7.3». J. MAURICE ARNOLD, Warden. EMMA F. IlOWE, Rec. S«c. It. F. WHITEHOUSE, Fin. Sec. tu.th.sat fi. A. It.—The regular meetings of Seth Williams Dost. No. 13. tirst and third Thursdays of each month. J. W. BANGS. Commander. WM. McDAVID, Adjutant. LEWIS SEI.BING. Quartermaster. HENRY G. STAPLES CAMP, No. 52. Division of Maine. S. of V., meets the tirst and third Mondays in each •uunth at ON, Ca|>t. MARCUS T. MERRILL, Sergt. felsleodtf AlitJI ST A CAMP, AO 7400. Modi i n Woodmen of America. Regular meeting every Thursday evening at Woodmen hall. F. H. LEIGHTON, V. C. W. P. BERRY. Clerk. 11. W. HASKELL. Banker. KNIGHTS OF THE MAC 7 .HIKES. Kennebec Tent No. 15. meets in A. O. U. W. Hall on second and fourth Fridays of each month, at 7.45. S C. C. WARD. Com. EUGENE MERRILL. R. K. IVI1XIS K. SWI FT. F. K. [Something wrong Kfnnv «ih»i»lrr:i wf:onrctro»iM»*d wit l iJmaiMiuii, MM;r 8H*tn:i. h, I uripniv; atmvr l».r navil, i-onv i. -sons iiinl similar kvui|» toms i i worms.an-many (me h In at**I for otlirr niHra-^.v ’I In on** r*‘iiMMly flint will i*-li* 1*0 Hi mis Triii*'* IMm U oriu KlUlr. It is 11•*• r*ni. ••'Ivin thn wnrM for v. miiir. It i9 Ifil lift a I- nn I nvilorAiivo «*i vif.il rnwrv Km 6ny« j*im tli« ala.i-lAr I Ik.uk* 1 *4*1 n m oily for !»il*lren. Also, lately l.nrmlr.yt. i»» i-kifiif n niifir'l 't1"" >r«)i. Noli| l»y nil ilrm* puls, rj.r. N**nrl for Imofcle*. UR. J. F. TRUE CO., Aujurn, Me. TRUES PIN WORM ELIXIR WILL CURE IT The Cleansing and Healing Cure tor CATARRH CATARRH is tLY'S CKtAM BALM #ifan Kasy and pv.tsam t«» u*« Contains n«» injurious drug. It quickly ab sorbed. Hires Rr. L. A. Sayre sai l to a lady of the haut ton (a patient): ‘As you ladies win use them, l recommend mw 'x. bouraua s uream tl o least harmful of all the skin preparation*.’1 For sale hy all Druggists and Fancy Goods Dealer! In the IT. S„ Canadas, and Lnrope. FERO. T. HOPKINS, Prop’r, J7 Great Jonei St, N. t, |sa«UH.ta.tkKNV>__ Daily Kennebec journ* LOCAL MATTERS. Bicycles are becoming common sights about town. Canton Augusta, No. 3, will make a chevalier, at 8 o'clock this evening. The lawn tennis courts are drying up and will soon be in condition to use. Rubber balls with elastic strings at tached ar* in the possession of the youngsters. The rain of yesterday has caused the river to rise perceptibly, but no freshet is apprehended. Col. L. H. Kendall of the 1st Regi ment, was a visitor at the drill of Co. F, last evening. And now the fishermen are waiting for news that the ice has broken up at Sebago and Cobbosseecontee. Capital Grange will discuss, “What Is the Outlook for the Farmers?” at its next meeting. Saturday evening. Green ribbons, artificial and natural shamrocks were worn by many, yes terday, in reverence to St. Patrick. Constable William Seavey of Vassal boro. came down on the Pullman, last evening to bring a drunk to the county jail. The time is drawing near when the city assessors will begin the work of taking the inventory of the city's prop erty. Bethlehem Lodge, No. 33, K. and A.. M„ had a special communication at Masonic Temple, last evening. Woik was had in E. A. degree. Judge Andrews went to Gardiner, last night, to attend the reception in honor of Judge Spear extended by Dirigo Lodge, A. O. lT. W. The next regular meeting of the mu nicipal officers will be held Thursday evening. March L’7. There is a large amount of business in store for them. A indy came into a Water street store, yesterday, and asked if they kept “chapffelier bags." The answer was in the afllrmative and she was sold a ilmfelaine bag.

Easter gloves for ladies’ wear are in the market. The white with Pat is point back will be worn much for street wear, also the mannish pearl white with black stitching. Yesterday was the regular day for civil eases in the municipal court and Judge Andrews was a very busy man with this kind of business. No crimi nal business came up. Tiie committee on State pensions will meet at the aldermen’s rooms at the City building at 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon and each Wednesday there after until further notice. Cushnoc Royal Arch Chapter No. 43, will have a special convocation at Ma sonic Temple, in this city, at 7.30 o'clock Wednesday evening. Work will be hail in P. M. and M. E. M. degrees. The residents on Arsenal street Yvill be pleased to learn that the city coun cil has voted to macadamize the street from Eastern avenue to Cony street. This is pretty nearly the whole of it. A call on Merrill Bros', revealed the fact of their being so well satisfied and established in their present business that no inducement would be a temp tation to a change. Therefore no syn dicate need apply. A curious thing has happened to a portion of the new concrete walk in front of the Bradbury estate on Green street. For a distance of 1:7 to 18 feet it is raised at least eight inches, caused doubtless by thu frost underneath. The grocery business of Hewett A Turner will hereafter be conducted by Turner A- Marr. Mr. A. B. Marr is from Hartford. Conn., where he has made his home for the past few years, though formerly he was from Palermo. Me. The customers of the new firm will find Mr. Marr a very pleasant gentleman to meet and no doubt the new firm will merit and receive their full share of patronage. Miss Fannie K. Abbott, who is the soliciting agent for the Maine Chil drens Home Society, in tilts city, will leave Augusta, today, for a tour in the western part of the State in the inter ests of the institution. There art- now 30 children in the home and more are coming. Miss Abbott has been three years engaged in the work of securing aid for homeless children and her ef forts have been very successful. Webber Sc Locke’s successors have organised under the name of Locke Hewitt Co. The new company needs no introduction to the public as both Mr. Locke and Mr. Hewitt have been serving the public many years in the grocery business and have very many friends who will no doubt show their friendship by patronizing the now com pany, who are fully prepared to ren der a prompt and satisfactory service to all, both old and new customers. The dead body of an infant was found by some children, yesterday, on the dump off North Street place. Coroner Bean was telephoned to, and on his arrival an examination was made. It was determined that the child was evi dently stillborn, and an inquest was deemed unnecessary. The body was not much decomposed, as it had appar ently been frozen for some time. Where it came from and who placed it where it was found is a mystery that at pres ent cannot be explained. It might have been brought from a distance un der cover of darkness and thrown upon the dump. CITY SOLICITOR Annual Report Submitted at Closing Meeting of Year. Work of the Law Department has Been Extensive. Number of Cases Handled By Solicitor Thompson During Year. City Solicitor E. M. Thompson submit ted an interesting report of the work of his department at the last meeting of the old city government. It was referred to the city auditor, and was as full nvs: To the Honorable Mayor and City Coun cil of the City of Augusta. Gentlemen: In compliance with the provisions of Section 4 of Chapter IT of the Revised Ordinances, I have the honor herewith to submit the following report of the law department for the municipal year ending March first, 190:1. The cases pending against the city at the beginning of ttie year wi re as follows: City of Gardiner vs. City of Augusta. Superior Court, Kennebec County. Josiah A. Norton vs. City of Augusto. Supreme Judicial Court, Kennebec Coun ty. Tile ease of the City of Gardiner vs. the City of Augusta was an action to recover for pauper supplies furnished to I.ov’i na Morang, the widow of one Andrew Mu tang. The question at issue was the pau per settlement of the said Andrew Mo rang from whom his widow derived her settlement. The supplies were furnished in lMC. The amount sued for was $14u.:,.*>. The action was entered at the April term of the Superior Court of Kennebec Coun ty in 1S9i. 'I tie ease was assigned fur trial ..t lh the family of one Wil liam Coffin. The amount sued for was $IS7.88. The action was returnable at the November term of the Superior Court of Kennebec County. The .-eiec tmen uf the defendant town were at lirst disposed to contest this rase but on the day that the writ was returnable the case was set tled by said town on payment of the full amount sued tor with costs amounting in all to $191.5*. This ease necessitated much careful and painstaking work on the pait of the overseer of the poor and myself. [Owing to the mental peculiarities of Mr. Coffin wo wen forced to trace his settle ment lack to Wise asset through outside I sources. On account of the age and in flrmitii* f f Mr. and Mrs. Coffin it is highly gratifying to the department of fpoor that we have been able to establish ofCW?‘casTtnt °f thls ln llle ‘oWrt biTnepxtpn«lv1f l£e ,aw department has pal year ton h,lrlns ,he pa8t munlcl" /.SI™.* 2?e bpen called upon to try r'vIHVt ^n .uV.V'l. cPes In the Supreme *Jlrt ,'rL'r"kh the city was the defend ;*‘*5,- 'e_fr?ucd one ease before the MWth,?llai^PdKt\?ve brought two actions wui.S ebo ,a|f. These actions, to getlu r w mi freiiuent consultations wltii the heads of departments and the various duties incumbent upon the office, VPi .Pla prices quoted ought to crowd the V irv business of a month Into a we. 4, BUCKLEY GOODRICH, 198 200 Water St., Augusta, Maine. and many side trips in the West are offered at comparatively small addi tional expense. The tickets including everything on the outward trip, sleep er. meals, etc., and railroad fare only returning are $125 from Boston. Anoth er ticket on same conditions only allow ing holder to return by way of San Francisco, Portland and the Canadian Pacific, is offered for 1136. If any club member, other than a delegate or alternate, wishes to attend the convention she will he supplied with a ticket of admission to all the meetings by sending a stamped and addressed envelope to the correspond ing secretary of the Maine Federation. Mrs. Mary C. Neal, 63 Green street, Augusta. AMUSEMENTS. “Toll Gate Inn.” A small house greeted "Toll Gate Inr.," le.st evening, at the Opera house, much smaller than the play deserved a no smaller than it would have if it came here again. As the half-breed Indian, William Beach is one of the strongest actors seen here this winter, and his delineation of the unusual and difficult role was masterly. At times the French in him seemed to predomi nate and then lie would be all Indian. Though lii.s part was no more promi nent than several others, his personal ity overshadowed all else in the play ful it made all the difference whether or not he was on the stage. Some of bis support was very good I and none was poor. Miss Shirley and Miss Campbell with their beauty and j vivacity did much to brighten up the piece and relieve it of the strain of war I and plots. The atmosphere of the Rev [oiutlonary time was well conveyed by tin- costumes and stage settings, and the spirit of the Green Mountain boys animated even the deaf old village tinker and the old doctor with his love affairs. “A Cap of Fortune” at Park Theatre. Manager Crabtree of the Park theatre, Huston, has arranged with Manager Edward K. Kite to produce It. A. Barnet’s latest Boston Cadet Corps success entitled "A Cap of For tune" or the “Show Girl,” opening the latter part of this week. This charm ing musical comedy was produced at the Tremont theatre as the Cadet's annual novelty, and the gross receipts of auction sale of seats and boxes aVnounted to nearly $40,000. It is con ceded by all who witnessed that per formance to be the best work Mr. Bar net has yet given the public. Manager Rice is securing a company of over 75 artists and will give the piece a very elaborate production. Beautiful scenic eff-cts, large chorus, and the usual completeness of detail which marks all his pieces. Among the artists already engaged arc Miss Paola Edwards, for merly of the Augustin Daly Company, (who made such a success in “The Runaway Girl,") and Mr. Charles Guj'or whose extraordinary clever per formance of the Lone Fisherman in Mr. Rice’s production of ‘‘Evangeline’’ this season are among the leading features. The sale of seats opened at the Park theatre, Monday, March 17th, at A. M., and the orders by mail and telephone already received indicate a very prosperous season. Human Hearts.” >fanager Nankeville of the “Human Hearts" Company, billed at the Oprea house, tomorrow night, announces a virtually new production of the play. He has procured special new scenery to adequately stage it and a company'of competnont players. He has omitted nothing in the details. A rare perform ance is therefore assured. After fine continuous seasons throughout the country the play has lost none of its magnetism. Like “The Old Home stead," “Shore Acres," and kindred dramas, it appeals forcibly to the hu man heart. The villainy, pathos and sensational in' idents are happily blend ed with spirited high comedy. PERSONAL MENTION. Mrs. Harriett A. Lee returned home, yesterday, after a week's visit in Port lan i. Henry N. Whitman of the Whitman Adams Co., is in Boston and New York on a business trip. Rev. G. A. Mathews of Auburndale, Mass., was a guest of Major C. J. House, yesterday. He left for his home I on the Pullman, last evening. A tug boat will come up the river.' today, after the two schooners, the LaVrrance Haines and the Lugano, which have wintered here. The Law- j renre Haines will go to Bath to be put on the marine railway and later will be loaded with lumber for New York at i the mill of Lawrence Bros., South Gar diner. The Lugano will go to South Gardiner and be loaded w ith lumber for New York by the South Gardiner Lum- I her Co. A Card. We, the iimderslgned, do hereby agree to refund the money on a 50 ce*it bottle of Greene's Warranted Syrup of Tar Jf It j falls to cure your cough or cold. We I also guarantee a U5-cont bottle to prove satisfactory or money refunded. Bowditeh a Webster. Kinsman Pharmacy. P. X. C'oiirtemanche. C. K. Partridge, Arthur Tetrault, Temple Pharmacy, John Coughlin, Augusta. Jackson Bros.. Chas. Ward Co., J. C. Houlehan, C. H. Beane. octl8,d&wlmo Gardiner. The spring meeting of the Maine State Pomologlcal Society will be held in Ruckfield. March 28. Charles S. Pope of Manchester, will begin the discussion on the culture of small fruits on the farm, and other speakers will address the society. A Horrible Outbreak "Of large sores on jny little daugh ter's head developed Into a case of scald head,” writes (1 D. Isbill of Mor ganton, Tonn., but Bucklen's Arnica Salve completely cured her. It’s a guaranteed cure for .Eczema, Tetter, Salt Rheum, Pimples. Sores, Ulcers and Piles. Only 25 cunts at Bowdltch Webseter’s. OASTOHXA, B«an thr The Kind You Haw Always Bought feb25,eod3mt) A special Importation Just received we offer some special trades In SPONGES A Large Glass Sponge, Low Priced for smooth work. Rock Island (Yellow) a foam sponge for general use. Natural Rock Island Carriage Sponge for all hard use. Bleached Bleached Nassau, Mediterranean Bath, Sheeps Wool Bath, Mandruka Toilet BOWDITCH, WEBSTER CO., CITY DRUG STORE. Velvet, Bath,

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BIGGER BARGAINS Than Ever. ONLY A VERY FEW DAYS LEFT v Before we pack away our Heavy Overcoats, ULSTERS, SUITS. i Wc will make prices for the next seven days that1 ,will surprise you. COME AT ONCE. DON’T DELAY. SUITS. Men’s Woo! Black Cheviot, single breasted sack, latest style, a good durable suit, and well worth $8. (.Meal ing price, $3.75 Fine all wool. Fanc y Cassimere, dark ground with olive checks anti stripes, single and double breasted, a good $10.00. Early in the season we had 12 patterns to select from; we only have 3 left. Our clean sweep price, $4.69 Fine all wool cassimere, blue ground, with white pin stripes, round sack suit, sold everywhere at $12.00. Clean sweep price, $5.35 Fine all wool, fancy worsteds, includ ing Black Clays and Blue Serge Suits, silk and satin lined, can't be had else where less than $10. While they last, j 36.90 Fine all wool and fancy worsteds, dark gray with a white pin stripes, in- eluding line undressed worsteds, equal to the best custom work. Clean sweep price. $7.25, $8.15, $9.40 Well worth $13, $1S and $20. Men’s and Boys’ Winter Overcoats and Ulsters. We will cut and slush prices beyond recognition. It will well pay you (fully f>n per cent.) to buy an Overcoat or Ulster, even if you have to carry It over till next winter. Men’s overcoats and Ulsters, well made. Blue, Black and Brown, also Oxford Fricrro, plain and plaid linings: the prices are cut from $6.30, $7.50 and $8.50 to S3.65 Kegular $10 and $12 Overcoats and Ulsters, Oxford and fancy colored frieze, absolutely all wool, well made and good linings. Clean sweep price, $4.75 ISO Kegular $12.50. $13.50, $15.00. $10.50, $18.00 and $20.00 Overcoats and Ulsters n broken lots to clean up at prices anging, $5.75, $4.45, $7.25, $8.35 and $9 SUCH SMALL PRICES As we have quoted on our goods will [Uickly divorce them from our count ers. MEN’S PANTS. A good $2.00 heavy paryt at 95c. $2.50 itnd $3.00 pants down to $1.39, line worsteds and cassimeres strictly ail wool pants sold every where at $3.50, $4.00, $4.50 and $5.00 down to $1.75, $1.98 and $2.45. Boys’ Clothing Dept. $2.00 Hoys’ Two Piece Suits 95c $3.00 Hoys' Two Piece Suits $1.45 $3.50 Boys’ Two and Three Piece Suits $1.98 $4.50 Boys' Two and Three Piece Suits §2.35 $5.00 Hoys' Two and Three Piece Suits $2.49 $0.50 Boys’ Two and Three Piece Suits $2.98 Boys’ Overcoats, Ulsters and Reefers the same rate of discount. 1 Broken lot of Youths’ Overcoats size 14 to lit and 4 to 9 Children's Ul sters. sold at $5 to $10.00, the styles are a little gone by but they are good ser viceable coats* for common wear occa sion. Clean Sweep Price 98c Men's 25c Black Wool Hose at 12%c 25c Camel's Hair Hose 9c $1.00 Wool Sweaters 45c 50c. 75c. $4.00 Knee Pants at 35c 49c Best 50c fleece lined shirts and drawers down to 29c 75 and $1.00 grades underwear down to 45c 50e Suspenders at 19c 25c Suspenders at ^2\/2c 50c Neckwear at 19c 50c Overalls and frocks at 39c Odd Vests worth $1.00, $1.50 and $2.00 in one lot at 49c 10c White handkerchiefs for only 2c 15c Ripen Collars at 6c 1200 Men’s and Boys' 4-ply Linen Collars, broken lines and sizes; clean, perfect goods, shapes correct. HATS AND CAPS. Men's wool Hats, staple shapes, sold elsewhere at 50c, our price for this sale 25c Men’s Hats in extra fine saxony in black and new shades of gray, sold elsewhere at $1.50 our price 49c $2.00, $2.50 and $3.00 latest style hats, including all of our Der by's, down to 99c 50c, 75c and $1.00 Winter Caps at 25c 10c White Handkerchiefs at 2c 59c Children's Blouse Waists at 15c and hundreds of other useful bargains you can buy at your own figures. Mighty values at mite prices are what we offer you, at the American Clothing Co., 293 WATER STREET, Formerly the Old Postoffice, I. fl. LEVIN, Prop., Gardiner, Me. nia r!5,18,8p Must Be Sold RECARDLESS OF COST. 03 Don'i fail to take advantage of the real sale at the New York Bargain tore. Everything in our establish ment must be gold regardless of cost or value. Our stock still consists of an elegant assortment of Jewelry, Watches, Men’s Furnish ings, Pocket Books, Agate Ware, Toys, Dolls, Toilet Soaps, Pictures, ami thousands of other valuable arti cles too numerous to mention. Space rloes nm permit to Rive full account of our bargains, but will just mention a very few. Jf you value your hard-earned money come to this great money saving event at once. Even if you need nothing at present it will n examining the auditor’s report you will see that our net debt is $93,856.50. In making up this report we have included in available resources those items which we intend and wish to put into cash at soon as possible, and have included the Williams fund in the liabilities, as that is in the treasurer's hands, being set apart lor the common and public library, and can be used for r.<* other purpose. Owing to the death of Mr. Page we are unabh at the present time to fix the amount ol interest and of rebates that are included in the uncollected taxes. These items would change the available resources so that the net debt would be more than is given in this report. We have paid the note for $3mmi and the balance of out standing bills on March 1. 1901, of about $1500, while this year, as near as I can learn, tne balance of outstanding bills is less than $100. For the needs of the various depart ments I would refer you to the reports ol the heads of those departments. There are a few’ items, however, that 1 wish es pecially to call to your attention. First, the light at the high school: The win dow’s there are small and insufficient, greatly injuring the eyes of the pupib w’ho attend the school. 1 would recom mend that this.be remedied this year, a 1 think it necfes&ary that it should be done. Second, the drawbridge: This has been examined and it will be necessary to take some action to replace it during th< year. Third, the sidewalks of the city, as many ol you know*, are in bad condition and need a liberal appropriation to make them what they should be. I would ic commend that so far as possible, the sidewalks that we build in the future should be permanent. Plank sidewalks, in the long run. are the most expensive made, and w’here possible, we should use other material. Fourth, our city build ing: We are now paying $145 per year for office rent outside of the building, and the books and paoers are in various places, many of them exposed to loss anil danger from fire. The rear of this build ing could be arranged to make conven ient rooms for tife aldermen and common Cornell. These rooms could be lixed with a movable partition so that w’hen de sired they could be made into one room. The rooms now* occupied by the board of aldermen and common council could be taken for the city clerk and assessors and overseers of*tho poor, with a desk for the tax collector. Then with a good vatu: our city matters could be made safe and convenient. This. I think, would be ad vantageous and economical for the city. Fifth, sewers: During the past year a sewer has been constructed from the White lot to the sewer on Water street, near the rear of the lots on Church street and the public library, doing away with the great nuisance near the Univer salist church. There are. however, othe. places that need attention, and 1 would recommend a small appropriation tor sewers. In many cities one half of the cost of sewers is assessed upon the abut ting owners, and it would be well for us to adopt the same principle. The contract with the Kennebec light Heat Company expires during the com ing year, and a new contract should be made, or other means provided for light ing the city. This is a matter which should have early and careful attention. I would also recommend that the sub ject of the water supply for the city be carefully investigated and that such ac tion be taken as will be for the best in terest of the city in regard to the same. Bonds to the amount of $10,000 become due on April 13. of the present year. This will require early action on your part, that they may be renewed or paid. n seems in am trial seme uuangtis should be made regarding some of our city officers. The city solicitor is now paid a small salary with an additional variable and uncertain amount. I believe that he should have a fixed salary which should be in full for all services of every kind, except tor money actually paid out for expenses, and in my judgment after talking with some of our attorneys ana others, $100 would be a fair salary for this purpose. In regard to the tax collector, we should insist and make it part of th ordinances that all taxes must be settled in a year from the January following the date they are committed to the collector. 1 would suggest that the salary he fixed at $600 or $fiTiO, $4oo of this to he paid in quarterly payments of $100 each, and the balance to be paid when the collecto’* settles with the city. I believe also mat our manner of choosing city officers should be changed in some respects. The streets, sewers, etc., should lie under He* control of a commission of three men. one being chosen each year by the city council. This ins been tried in other cities, and so far as I Know has given good satisfaction. In my judgment the mayor should have more authority and more responsibility. I think that tile city marshal and through him the police, should be under tile eontrol of tile may or. To do this, the city marshal should be appointed by the mayor and con tinued by the aldermen or city council and all policemen should be so appointed, doing away/with the present constables, over whom the city marshal has no au thority. There are other officers whom it might be well to have appointed in a similar manner. This being my last term, 1 feel free to make these recom mendations. These changes may require legislative action, and cannot he made for the ensuing year. From what I have learned in the past year. 1 think it im portant that our assessors should meet monthly for the transaction of business. This may be fixed by an ordinance, or possibly an order of the city council. X also think our financial system could be greatly Improved, i'nder the present ar rangement. in each department one man contracts the bills, approves them and pays tnern. This seems to me to open a wide door for anyone who is disposed to be dishonest. 1 believe that all bills should be contracted by the heads of the After Dinner To assist digestion, relieve distress after eating or drinking too heartily, to prevent constipation, take Hood’s Pills Sold everywhere. 25 cents. Bald? Then you starved your hair. What did you do that for? When you saw that your hair was falling out, why didn’t you use Ayer’s Hair Vigor? It feeds the hair, gives it vigor, stops it from falling, makes it grow, and always restores color. 1 was almost bald before I began using Ayer’s Hair Vigor. In a short time my hair all came in again, and now it is thick and heavy.” Mrs. L. Copeland, Altoona, Pa. ~i si. All dmuisu. J. C. AYER CO., Lowtll, departments, properly audited, and paid by the city treasurer. This perhaps would make necessary some increase in salaries but 1 think the advantage would much more than offset the cost thereof. As others as well as myself seem to have misunderstood this matter. I would call vour attention to a paragraph in chapter 166 of the Public Paws of 1895, which reads as follows, viz: “Any city officers elected or appointed by the city council, or appointed by the mayor and aldermen, shall discharge their respective duties under the direction of the mayor and aldermen.” So. as 1 now understand it. the various committees have no au thority over any officer, any -authority over any matter except it be given them by the city ordinances or by vote of th-j city council. The duty now devolving upon you is the election of the city diucers for the ensu ing year. In this, 1 trust we shall all have in mind the welfare of the city ana vote for those who, we believe, will best serve its interests. Remember, however, that while you may believe that one man will best perform ihe duties of some po sition, your associates may just as hon estly believe that some other man will do it better, and they are as much en titled to their opinion as you are to yours. After the officers are elected, whether the man we want is elected or not, let us give our hearty support to those who are elected, and in ail way.A work together for the best interests of the city. i have heard that it ha3 been reported that I am in favor of certain persons for certain plates, 'this is without authority. I have not tried, cither directly or indi rectly, tp influence the vote of any mem ber of the city council, but have carefully retrained from so doing, or taking part m contest. In case of a' tie vote, wnieii I trust will not occur. 1 shall vote as 1 believe, best for the city, and wish you to do the same. Then came the election of the officers .o preside over the departments- of the ity and such a shaking up has not oc .-uted before for many years, there be ,ng very few of the former officers to be seen in their old positions. Some of the contests were very close and none knew how they were coming out until after the election. The following is the list of officers elected: City Clerk, Charles O. Wadsworth. Third assessor, John Peacock. Overseers of poor. George N. John son, J. E. Cunningham and John W. Peacock. City marshal, Frank Andrews. City physician, W. O. Cobb. City treasurer, Henry Farrington. Tax collector, A. K. Jewett. Street commissioner, C. E. Picker ing. City solicitor, G. A. Hildreth. Chief engineer, J. L. Kendall. First assistant engineer, C. S. Cohb. Second assistant engineer, Charles G. Neal. Directors of High school, J. S. Maxcy, C. H. Gray and Miss G. E. Htath. School committee, three years, Henry Richards. Ward engineers, Ward 1, F. D. Law rence; Ward 2, Robert Cosgrove; Ward 3, M. A. Harraden; Ward 4, Jasper Robinson; Ward 5, J. R. Dill; and Ward 6. Dan S. Weeks. Harbor masters: F. E. Potter, Wal lace Tarbox, Charles E. Wakefield and W. D. Harrington. Surveyors of lumber, C. C. Lawrence, O. G. Andrews. George Gray, E. W. At wood. F. T. Bradstrect, C. H. Gray, J. W. P. Johnson, S. R. Morrill. F. W. Willey, C. F. Johnson, J. S. Towle, N. T. Goodwin. Calvin Hilton. S. S. Davis, H. B. Lawrence, Wellington Blair and Ralph Lawrence. Measurers of wood and bark, M. Chamberlain, J. W. Robinson, Harry J. Holden, Dan S. Weeks, C. F. Johnson, A. W. McCausland. J. W. P. Johnson, W. F. Henderson. F. E. McCausland, H. J. Stone. J. W. Jones, G. A. Morrell, Daniel Longfellow, J. F. Jewett, Wal lace Tarbox,* G. L. Towle. Fence viewers, J. W. Peacock, Henry Merrill. Measurers of stone, Martin Chamber lain. A. E. Andrews, John Milton, M. W. F. Pray and Dan S. Weeks. Measurer of logs. K. W. Willey, H. Ti. Lawrence, C. A. Annis, F. E. Gray, George Gray and Charles Gray. Inspector of leather, Augustus Hop kins. Care of city clock. G. E. McKenney. Weigher of beef. Amasa S. Ring. Weigher and gauger, H. J. Stone. City bill posters, Kenj. Johnson, R. W. Hill. J. S. Hill, Frank E. Reed and W. F. Thayer. Auditor. F. A. Danforth. Superintendents of burying grounds, Martin Peacock, Libby Hill: John Mil ton, Highland avenue: Van R. IJeedle, South Gardiner. City crier, Frank E. Reed. City bell ringer. E. E. Whitten. Sealer of weights and measurers, G. E. McKenney. Pound keeper, L. H. Merrill. The election of truant officers, night watchmen and the appointing of spec ial police, the election of a member of the Board of Health for three years and a few minor officers were left until the regular meeting in April. The follow ing were named for the joint standing committee on finance: Aldermen Weeks and Turner, and Councilmen El dridge, Douglass and Haley. Joint standing committee on ac counts and claims. Aldermen Larrabee and Weymouth and Councilmen Han ley. Wing and Thurlow. Both boards then adjourned until the regular meeting in April, though the joint standing committees will being their duties at once. At the meeting of Gardiner I^odge, Knights of Pythias, last evening,-the matter of securing another hall for its quarters was brought up but no action was taken, the matter being left for another week for discussion by the members, and, Monday evening, prob ably one of the largest attended and most interesting meetings of the lodge will be held. Every member sees the need of larger quarters and they will probably be secured If it is possible. A MONSTER FAIR Will Be Given, May 6, 7 and 8, at the Coliseum To Raise Funds for an Addition to the Shoe Factory. That the ■Gardiner Board of Trade still lives and has the interest of th<*l city at heart, was easily shown, l...w evening, when a meeting of the direc tors was called at the secretary’s of fice. About ail the directors were pres ent, and while there was very little transacted to give to the public, the meeting was an interesting one and leads to much important business. The necessity of the building of an addition to the shoe factory to retain the Com monwealth Shoe and Leather Co., was the chief topic for discussion It was decided to hold during the first week of May, on the Gth, 7th, and Sth, a monster fair at the Coliseum. There will be a meeting, this evening, of the loaders of the move for the ap pointing of tlio- committees and they will go to work? on the idea at once and it is a well-known fact that when the Board of Trade starts out to do a tiling, it is done and in a way that is a credit to the city and board. This will be no exception. Several matters of minor importance were also brought up, including the sc-j curing of some industries for the city and a few resolutions \Vere brought for-’ ward and w ill be carried out when the time arrives. The funeral services of the late J seph White were held at his home at Bandolph, at 2 o’clock yesterday after noon, liev. Mr. Bussell of the Randolph Methodist church, officiating. There were a lavg~ number of Moral offerings, very beautiful. The remains were placed in the receiving tjtnb of Maple Grove cemetery. For additional Gardiner ads. and lo cals see page 3. HALLO WELL. Miss Bertha McCIeneli left, Monday, on a business trip to Boston. Q. L. C. will meet, this evening, with Miss Lusanna Clary, Central street. H. P. Reynolds returned. Monday, from a visit with his sister in Water ville.

Mrs. F. S. Imbinbo, who has recently been <iuite sick is much improved, and able to be alwiut the house. Luke Leighton, who was called here by the serious sickness of his mother, returned to his home in Exeter, N. H., Monday. Mrs. E. B. Hunter of Clinton, was the guest of her sister, Mrs. M. S. Can ham. over the Sabbath, at the Metho dist parsonage. The Indies’ Sewing Circle of the ITniversalist Society will meet with Mrs. Harry Getehell, Tuesday after noon March 18. Mrs. O. P. Weston of Boston, is the guest of her sister, »Mrs. Maeomber, Second street, arriving on the morn ing train, Monday. Several bad washouts were caused by the rain, Sunday night, one especi ally bad one being at Loudon hill. It was speedily repaired. Invitations have been given out by members of the Pythian Sisterhood for their dance which will be held in Red Men's hall, Friday night. Miss Mattie Douglass was a passen ger on the forenoon train, Monday, for Lewiston. She will make her brother, Aden Douglass, a lengthy visit. Miss Gertrude Le Barrow, who has been in Lewiston, for the past three weeks, visiting her sister, returned to her home in this city, Monday. Miss Edith Henderson returned to her studies at Lewiston, Monday, hav ing p.-fcsed Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Henderson, Page street. A number of ministers met at the Hallowell house, last evening, and en joyed a banquet, after a business meet ing. Several papers were road and dis cussed. Mrs. II. B. Alexander, who lias been in this city acting as private nurse, went to Waltham, Mass., Monday, where she will visit her son, Hollis Alexander. The Woman's Auxilary of St. Mat thew parish will meet with Mrs. A. Campbell, Second street, this afternoon, at the usual time. All are cordially in vited to be present. The Noreross Bros., owners of large quarries in different states, have been discussing the purchase of the Archie quarries in this city. It is rumored that they have purchased them, and in tend to put a crew on, next summer. Services at the Universallst church were largely attended. Sunday. Rev. W. F. Small of Gardiner, was the even ing speaker. His subject was: "God Is Hove." It was a fine discourse and lis tened to with much pleasure and profit. Shoe cutters in the Johnson shoe fac tory are off for a day or two. They al so lost three days last week. This Is the first time for several years that the cutters have been Idle In March. They will probably get a rush of work by the middle of the week, enough to keep them busy for months. The firm of Meader Dinsmore of j this city has dissolved partnership and will soon close Its meat store. Mr. Dinsmore will form a new company i with William Kilgore, and under' the name of Dinsmore Kilgore will start a grocery store in the building just south of D. C. Skillins. A Midnight Visitor. Sunday night one of the citizens liv ihg in the upper part of the city was awakened from a sound sleep by a door squeaking and feeling a draft blowing on him, rose to find where It came Lightbody’s Headache Powders Wonderful Cure. For sale by Druggists. from. As he passed Into the living room below he saw a man standing in the middle of the floor. Without waiting to ask or answer any questions, the stranger turned and fled, leaving the door open behind him. Being a kind hearted man he did not care to capture the burglar as he had no wish to pun ish him, and as nothing of value was taken, he is ready to let the matter drop, provided that this man does not make any more night calls. NOTICE. We have taken the agency for Ding ley, the florist, and are now prepared to furnish cut flowers and floral de signs at short notice. H. G. TURNER. mar!2dlw NATIONAL HOME. General Brown of Portland. Is making a business visit to tlic Home. The tunerai of the late Francis Cur ran, whose death occurred at the hospi tal. Sunday evening, will be held at the. chapel at a o'clock, this afternoon. Fr. Neliigar. officiating. Jlr. Curran served for two years on the L'. S. S. Ino. He was admitted to the Home, Oct. 5. 1S99, Irom South Boston. His age was »j years. The following letters have been adver tised at the post office: Bensch. Charles; Chamberlin, Airs.; Dascomh, C. W.; Gain er, Thomas; Jenness, Ed.; Kennlston, Chas. H.; Lynch. Thomas W.; McLaugh lin. Charles; McGovern, John; Nichols. Cyan Patterson. John: Bond. Chas. H.; Sheehan, John; Walton, Peter M.; York. Mrs. “Toll Gate Inn,” Tonight. A romance of olden times. “Toll Gate Inn," is the attraction at the Opera house, this evening. The Kennebec Central will run a special train for the performance, leaving Randolph at 6.20. The music whieli will be rendered between the acts by the Home orchestra follows; Grand March—“Washington Medley.” arr. Thieine Selection from “Foxy Qulller." de Koveu “American Patrol," Meacham i mie Pii tille of the North and South,” Tobani •Ju.idrilk-^Long Live the Army,” I jr y Missud SOUTH GARDINER. -c O ,r dowp from Law re, BroaSPshingle mills in New Hr. «vi .•k,*T5unday, for a few days’ visit. i- if. -i. Tlie fo. '1 9f tlie late Mrs. Thomas Jackins held, at 2.30 o'clock Sun day afteri at the home of Mrs. Uittal. a The meetings-, the Advent Quar terly Conference of Kennebec Valley closed, Sunday evening. The interest was such, however, that meetings will be continued through this week. Miss May Beedle has opened a Ladies Exchange in connection with dress making rooms in the Reading Room building. The exchange will be much appreciated during the coming days of house cleaning and summer months. Fred Willey and his mother, Mrs. John Willey, and Mrs. F. M. Lawrence and Perlie X.awrenee have returned from their six weeks’ trip in the South. While away. Perlie secured some very fine views of various places which they visited and brought hack numerous curios, among which was a baby alli gator, also several chameleons. KKOWHEGAN W. B. Steward Is In Boston on business. Rev. H. W. Kimball went to Portland, Monday, for a short trip. Ralph W. Ames of Boston, passed Sun day witii his parents in town. Mrs. Bdith S. Shepherd left. Monday, lor New York, where site will remain for a few days. M. T. Pooler of Wellesley, Mass., for merly of this town Is spending a few day^ here on business. At the regular meeting of Woodbine Lodge, 1). of 11., Monday evening, degrees were conferred, followed by a. short en tertainment tind refreshments. Owing to the heavy rain of the past two days the snow has practically disappear ed from this vicinity. The ice has left the river as far up as Madison, and the wa ter is rising rapidly. The students of the High school pre sented W. L. Bonney, their former prin cipal, with a handsomely engraved gold pen. Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Bonney are moving their goods to Waterviile, whero they are soon to make their residence. A short session is looked for at tho March term of court for Somerset coun ty, which will convent, tomorrow. Owing to the unusually large number of trials at the Becentoer term, there is little of Importance to come up this term, either on the civil or criminal doeltpt. Hon. A. R- Savage will preside. The two cities of Manchester In Eng land and Boston In the United States are almost exactly equal in population, while Birmingham and Baltimore are also very nearly alike. PERUNA CURES CATARRH OP STOMACH.50WELS.IUDNEYS AND FEMALE ORGANS.

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FOREIGN CHAT The: Married Life of Edward VII. and His Queen. They Have Been Happy Together fcr 39 Years. A Scottish Romance.—The Darbarini Collection in Rome. King Edward and Queen Alexandra celebrated the thirty-ninth anniversary of their wedding, last week, and when one reads of the phenomenal activity of body and mind displayed by the British Sovereign, and when one gazes upon the still wonderfully young and comely face of his consort, so aston ishingly free from the lines of age and care, it is difficult in the extreme to realize that tney have been married for clone upon forty years, and that, while Edward VII. is in his sixty-first year, Alexandra is already past 58. The an niversary was celebrated with all the more satisfaction by reason of the fact that the union, in spite of all that has been said and written to the contrary, has been a happy one, far more so than most royal matrlmonal alliances. Had the match turned out badly no one would have been surprised. For King Edward had been brought up with the most extraordinary strictness, and had been kept in leading strings, subjected to the most intolerable control and supervision of elderly mentors, and denied any independence or youthful liberty until when as a 22-year-old lad he married,Princess of Denmark. Hav ing had no opportunity of sowing his wild oats prior to his marriage, no one would have been astonished if he had sown them afterwards. But there is nothing to show that he ever did this —that is to say, in the worst meaning of the phrase. True, there have been all sorts of stories current about his Infatuation for this and for that lady, and unfriendly gossip, in conjunction with the caricatures of foreign anglo phobes, have contributed to endow him with a reputation of profligacy which is by no means based on fact. Queen Alexandra, in spite of her quiet and gentle manner, has repeated ly shown, especially of late, that she is a woman of far more strength of char acter, of spirit and of cleverness than has been generally believed. She is also exceedingly religious and high principled—just the very last woman In the world, therefore, to forgive serious misconduct on the part of hpr husband, or to tolerate such behavior as that which has been attributed to him. Tet not only have this royal couple lived together as httj^and ai.. wife without any break or seriou.i quarrel lor nearly forty years, but the Queen, although very" exclusive, -as made a point of lnvltrngp flown to Sandringham and of showing in many other equally significant \v. n>-r good Will to the very women wi horn the name of her husband hfts from time to time been associated by calumny, as if to demonsttate to the world at large that King Kdward's flirtations, and temporary engouementft for this of for that fair one, were regarded by his family as of the most harmless and in nocent character, and as a matter for pleasantry, rather than for criti cism. Mrs. George Kcppel, for instance, who has been so frequently portrayed on both rides of the Atlantic as the King's favorite, is constantly asked by Queen Alexandra to Sandringham. Lady Warwick, another dame to whom the King is asserted to have been de voted, may have annoyed at one mo ment the Queen by her Pauline Met ternich-like absence of conventionality and originality of speech and manner, but it is Lord Warwick's brother whom the Queen chose to be her private sec retary, and ahe has surrounded both her children and herself with mem bers of the Warwick family, which does not look as if she saw anything wrong in her husband's friendship foi the beautiful Countess. The* Mordaunt divorce case has often been cited against King Edward. But It must not be forgotten that he was cleared by a lury of his fellow-country men of the charges brought against him by a crazy woman, who for years afterwards was In a lunatic asylum, and which would never have com manded any attention had it not been for that rule of English court etiquette which prescribes that when a royal visit is being paid the doors should be closed to all other callers. Moreover, Rady Mordaunt's sisters, particularly the Dowager Countess of Dudley, haw remained warm friends of Queen Alexandra ever since this divorce trial, while no one has been kinder to the child whose birth brought about the Mordaunt case, than King Edward's consort. Young Violet Mordaunt was often asked with her aunt, Rady Dud ley, to stay at Sandringham, and re ceived beautiful presents from the King, the Queen and their daughters when she married the present Marquis of Bath a few years ago. If I mention these things it is to show io what extent King Edward has been subjected to (fross calumny In connection with his home life. For. to put the matter quite plainly, not even his most malignant slanderers would dream of charging him with forcing the society of questionable favorites upon his wife and daughters in his home, or would be willing to assert that Queen Alexandra and her daugh ters knowingly tolerate the presence under their roof of women whose rela tions with their husband and father were of a doubtful character. And yet It is precisely the ladies who figure most frequently on the visiting list at Sandringham who are charged by gossip at home and in print abroad with playing the role of Madame de Pompadour at the court of Great Britain. The therefore, merely demonstrates the Stiorance of its au thors. There are-no Madame de Pompa dours at the court of St. James at present, and there have never been any in the little court at Marlborough House' and at Sandringham in the past. Both King and Queen have lived ever since their marriage in the full glare of the fleiccst and most relentless kind of publicity. Yet there has never been any rupture in all these two score years between this royal couple, whose home life at Sandringham is held up by all who have had the privilege of staying there as guests as a model of English home life in the most charm ing and wholesome sense of the word, while the very strong bonds of affec tion that unite King Edward to his wife and to his children are a secret to no one who has enjoyed the opportun ity of observing their attitude towards one another. No sovereign, with the exception of the chivalrous Emperor Frederick, has ever lavished so many honors upon his consort as King Edward, and the constant desire which he has shown since his accession to place his wife on the same level of rank as himself, and to give her an equal share of the sovereign honors, is without precedent in the history of Great Britain, and 1 can only’ be explained by his affection and devotion for his gracious consort. It would be invidious to compare the married life of King Edward and Queen Alexandra to that of other European sovereigns now living. In deed, the present Czar and Czarina, the German Emperor and Empress and the King and Queen of Italy present a similar picture of domestic happiness I and matrimonial understanding. But i one need only recall the married life of Napoleon III. and Empress Eugenie, of old Emperor William and his consort. Empress Augusta, of Czar Alexander It. and Empress Marie, of the King and Queen of Saxony, the late King and Queen of Wurtemburg. the late King of the Netherlands and his first wife, of the King and Queen of Itoumania and of King Leopald and Queen Henriette of Belgium in order to shmv that a home life, such as that of King Edward and Queen Alexandra, with 3!> years of unbroken and un clouded married life behind them, is the exception, rather than the rule, among the reigning houses of Europe. The romance in connection with the runaway inarri.'.ge in Scotland of Richard Cecil, son of Lady Francis Cecil, and younger brother of the heir to the Marquisate of Exeter, has served to bring to light the fact that there is only one way by means of which parents in England can prevent a son or daughter under age from mak ing ah undesirable marriage. It is to settle a small sum of money in trust for his or her benefit, and then to make him or her a ward of the Court of Chancer. The court will not accept the waidship of minors unless there is property at stake, but once having ac cepted the wardship, it exercises a stern control over its wards, who, if they marry without the consent of the j court., render themselves thereby guilty I of contempt of court. The latter can be punished at the discretion of the court by imprisonment lasting days, weeks, months, or even years, as the Judge may see fit. In fact, it depends entirely upon his discretion in the mat ter. The court, if it has any notion that or.e of its wards is about to marry without its consent, is at liberty to take any’ steps to prevent the union from taking place, even to the extent of arresting and imprisoning the par ties concerned and those who are aid ing and abetting them in the enter prise. It is solely by making their chil dren wards of chancery that parents can prevent their children under age from making undesirable marriages. There is no other way, and Lady Fran cis Cecil's belief that, by forbidding the banns of her sonfs marriage she could, ipso facto, render the latter null and void if subsequently celebrated, turns out to be a fallacy. In France people g> to the other ex treme an 1 grown-up nen and women, even 40 and 50 years age, if they happen to still have elf her of their par ents living, are nnq died to obtain their pel mission to marry. In the event of the parent dt dining to con sent, the son or d aural er desiring to wed may make three legal demands through the cou-ts upon the parent for the necessary pel mission. These de mands must be made at the interval of six months. The parent is thus given the opportunity of explaining to the courts whether there is any good ground for the refusal of the consent. If the court holds that the ground is sound. It absolutely forbids the match, which, if contracted after that, is ipso facto of no legal value. If, however, the parent makes no response to what is known as the “sommation re spectueuse” (respectful demand), then, after the third demand has remained unanswered, the court itself grants the consent to the match. But unless all these formalities have been gone through with, marriages contracted by a French citizen, either in France or abroad, are not valid in the eyes of the French law without the written sanction of the parents of the bride groom, and of those of the bride as well, if she happens to be French. Much the same condition of affairs prevails in all other European coun fr'es where the French Code Napoleon forms the fundamental basis of the na tional jurisprudence. In the case of the families of the reigning houses of Europe, of the Mediatized houses and even of the great houses of the conti nental nobility marriages, no matter how contracted or solemnized, are not legal unless the consent of the head of the family is obtained. This rule only applies to England in so far as the reigning family is concerned. In the Kingdom of Scotland there is no such thing as a court of chancery, and neither parents, guardians or courts have the legal power to prevent mar riages between males over 14 and fe males over 12, that age being regarded in law as involving ‘‘capacity of con sent.” Had the officials of the English Court of Chancery succeeded in catching young Richard Cecil on English soil before he reached Scotland they would doubtless have arrested him and been fully justified in English law In keeping him in jail un til he either gave an undertaking to re linquish Miss Bain or else until he at taint'd his majority and thus became ex empt from the guardianship of the court. But once in Scotland he was safe, the English Court of Chancery having no ju risdiction there; and. while the court could have imprisoned him for contempt on his return to England after his mar riage. it probably deemed It politic not to enforce any such meaures, especially in view of the popularitv with which the romantic features of the entire affair had surrounded the marriage. Moreover, the Court of Chancery had no power to dis solve the match._ The dispatches announce that the Ital ian authorities are proceeding against Prince Barberini of Rome for having vio lated the laws by selling one of the most famous art treasures of the Barberini collection without having previously ob tained the consent of the Italian govern ment or offered It for sale to the latter, as required by statute, the discovery hav ing been made through the publication of the name and description, as well as the origin of the superb ivory carving in question in the newly Issued catalogue of the Paris Iajuvre. The fact that this in fraction of the law should be ascribed to Prince Barberini will lead to some confu sion. as most people are aware that the last descendant in the male line of the illustrious and historic house of Ber berini died some 10 or 15 years ago, leav ing an only daughter, who married the young Marquis Saechetti. The latter was at the time a subaltern officer of the Noble Guard of the Pope. But on win ning the hand of Princess Marie Bar berini he was authorized by the late King Humbert to assume the name of Bar berini and the title of Prince Palestrina, while the Pope conferred upon him the ti tles of Duke of Castel V'eechio, the hered itary priorship of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, the office of lieutenant general of the papal forces and the grand mastership of the papal household. More over, the young Marquis, whose family belonged to the Florentine nobility, re ceived with his bride an inheritance of $15.000,000 and the celebrated Barberini palace, at Rome. The stones used for the construction of the palace were taken from the Colli seum, which was partially destroyed in order to obtain the material with which to build it, while the magnificent bronze ornaments with which the edifice is adorned were taken from the Pantheon. This was done by Pope I’rban VIII., a prince of the house of Barberini. and led to the famous epigram, “Quod non fee erunt Barbari, feeerunt Barberini.'’ The Barberini palace is one of the landmarks of Rome, and the Prince and his wife are so rich that it is difficult to understand why thev should have ever thought of selling any of their art treasures. The Prince is a particular favorite of the pres ent Pontiff. BUSINESS WOMEN Some of Their Most Common Errors. So many young women, and some old ones, of my acquaintance are be coming cashiers, stenographers, book keepers, agents, saleswomen, etc., that a word inspired by my own ex perience and observation may not be amiss. It matters not whether a woman be a confidential clerk, the head of a de partment or a typewriter girl, the same general rules apply to any wo man holding a business position; if she will be honest with herself she will find in disobedience of these rules the cause of her requested “resignation” when it finally comes. If she loses her place she may ask heiself these questions: Have I been loyal to the office; have I valued my employer’s time; have I obliterated personality from my work. Her loyalty to the office should com pel her to refrain from talking about the business transacted there. A trifling word to some companion in a street car or elsewhere overheard by just the right party may be the germ of business discord and failure. It may never be traced to her, but she should always remember that the least of office employes may work great wrong through heedlessness. She is quite likely to hear or know something of her employer's family or home affairs, of his financial stringen cies. or of his lucky deals, but none of these should tempt her to gossip, for she really knows very little about them after all. It is an oft-noted fact that the employe is least able of any one to judge of his or her employer’s success or standing in business. Few business men stop to explain why they are moving everything to raise a cer tain sum: and the fact that bills are being sent out as if in dire distress for money or that a thousand dollars is borrowed, is no indication of non success; it may be just the reverse and the woman in the office who al low* herself to gossip about these things is dangerous to the welface of the business. Don’t talk of office affairs at home except in the most general way for what you would not make a matter of public comment some other mem ber of the family may speak of thoughtlessly. The next important thing for an of fice girl to remember Is tHe value of the time for which she receives wages. For instance you agree to be in the office 48 or 54 hours a week. It is to be generally understood that those hours should conform to the rules of the office, whether the open ing hour be 8, 8.30. or 9 A. M. The best work is that done with regularity and any departure from this rule should be reserved for the emergency of ill health or the accident of an un usual event. This is a point wherein more women fail to give satisfaction than perhaps all other things togeth er. Possibly this is due to inherited habits owing to the elasticity of do mestic work in which nothing but the preparation of three meals ever forces a woman to have a special hour for any particular task “as long as Satur day night brings up the week's work” as housekeeper's day. Women's time formerly had no commercial value and they are still prone to undervalue it. Remember, however, that when you go into an office you leave domestic environment, and the rules of busi ness. not of the indulgent home, apply to your work. A prominent, ennui unee sniu uiui out of his extensive experience he was ready to believe. that “the average newspaper woman in the average news paper office tried to see how few hours she could work and escape being dis charged.” It is difficult to believe that this statement applies peculiarly to wo men in that special kind of work, for many of these, notably the better paid, have work to which much thought must be given in season and out, and it may chance that half the night was spent in study or planning. But of the more mechanical workers, those who sit at a desk or typewriter, it is some times true. Is It deceit or a love of mischief that tempts the office girl to come a little later morning after morn ing. growing bolder as she appears to escape reproof? Does the same mo tive allure her to chat longer over her luncheon, or take a little shopping trip during the noon hour? Why is she so exultant in being able to drop into her chair three minutes before her employ er returns, and in looking as innocent as if she had not taken an extra half or three-quarters of an hour? It is not uncommon to hear a woman say. “Well. I’m supposed to be at the office now. but I'll get there before Mr. does, and he'll think It's all right.” Just there is a mistake. If you wore John or Tom, Mr. would say, “Here, young man, get into this office mornings sharp on time or another fellow will be in your shoes,** But you are—you, ladylike in man ner, perhaps pretty, and you have an assumed innocence, so he hesitates to speak long after he has satisfied him self that at least six hours of your time for which he pays each week is wasted. Would be better all round if this trace of gallantry was entirely lacking in Mf.--’s makeup, and he had spoken Iris mind as soon as he had made it up that you were shirking. In stead, he allows evidence to accumulate and then he finds some sugar-coated excuse, and you are studying the fe male help ads." once more. Hereafter pin in your bonnet, where you will see it every morning, the resolve to give your employer every minute of the time for which he pays you, and if oc casionally the wheels of the business world run more smoothly, add an ex tra hour’s work to lubricating them by finishing that batch of letters, hunting up references, filing papers or attending to other little matters that accumulate so easily and bring unspoken criticism upon your work. It is well to remember that while in the office you are a part of the business machine. After being sure that you are neatly and quietly dressed you need give yourself no more thought. It will pay better to- geek appreciation because you know sontething, than admiration because you are pretty. Don't expect your employer to say ‘good morning" and "good night,” or comment at length on the weather and walking; if you in sist on doing so he will vote you a bother. Don’t entertain your friends of family during office hours, and it is a better way to make no appointments at all at a place of business. Don’t gossip about your fellow-workers; never mind if the girl on your right disregards the rules of the office, or the girl on your left is not doing her work well, rest assured that the man at the head of affairs will find it out in time, if he hasn't already. He de spises the woman who talks “from one to another” in an office. Be loyal not only to the office while in its employ but keep its secrets af ter leaving it. A man may be ever so greatly interested in gossip about his rivals in business, but he will re member the truth of the old proverb concerning the dog who brings a bone. But in general, women, in spite of their little failings, are of great value in a business office. Some of the most flagrant faults of men are not found in their, list of failings. The "old hens" of office life are not usual ly found among the women; they are willing to be subordinates and they rarely bore ;their employer with great schemes j of how he should run his business.—Alice E. Whitaker in New England Farmer. THINGS IN MEXICO And a Very Attractive Place For the Tebriet It le. In old days men spoke of “making the adventure of Spain,” without which a young* gentlfflnan of family could hardly consider his education complete. Nowadays, thanks to steam, all “ad venturing,” a« far ap railways extend, is merely a matter of money and in clination. Mexico, or “New Spain,” was, 20 years ago, as difficult of access from the United States, as Spain from Eng land in ancient days. There was the sea gate at Vera Cru^. where ships made perilous anchorage in an unpro tected roadstead^ and then came the journey in diligence to this capital and perils from brigands who were the real masters of the road. This before the Mexican railroad was built. To enter Mexico from the north was an enterprise for the hardiest of trav elers the roads were bad, “mala gente” on many of them, and long days of dust, and heat, and thirst before any considerable town could be reached. A Scotch friend has recently written us that he made the journey from Texas to this capital 20 years ago on horse back, and enjoyed it; but he had jour neyed much in the Argentine before the railways, and of late, in Morocco, wholly innocent of the modern method of locomotion. Nowadays ail is changed; travel is made comfortable and often luxurious; women in small parties, travel here, “making the adventure of Mexico” with ease and perfect safety. Tourists are numerous and of all kinds, some (per haps the most) seeing nothing but the new material development, opportuni ties for investments, prospects of gain; others there be who look at Mexico in its intensely interesting aspect of a country unique in linguistic and eth nological blends, for here the Moor has left traces of his language and customs, these mingled with the customs and languages of the Aztecs and other In dian races, while the genius of the tenacious Spaniard presides over the complex civilization of the country. In architecture the man or woman of education sees the marked influence of Arabian taste and usage for here the Moorish house, .with patio, or court, is common, the barred windows, the porch with its huge doors, through which one sees towers and fountains, all most Andnlusan and derived by the south ern Spaniards from the Moors, -who, in turn, got it all from the Saracens, and they from the Persians. Thus Mexico, architecturally, is very oriental; great American artists and architects have come here and admired the severe lines of stately ancient buildings, where beauty is achieved without petty ornamentation. The Moor has left his Arabic words all over the Mexican “casa.” The “zaguan” or porch, the “azotea." or roof, these are Arabic words. The “albanil,” or mason, who builds the walls and lays the roof, is called by another Moorish name. The list might be greatly extended. The tourist, failing for his “taza" of coffee, uses, unconsciously, the Arabic “tast,” or cup; he admires the display in the “joyeira,” or jeweler’s, and what is "joya,” a jewel, but the Arabic “jua har"? “Almacenes,” or warehouses; “azucar" or sugar, “algodon,” In which one sees clearly the origin of “cotton”— all words of the Arabic vocabulary. The high-peaked national saddle is the Moorish saddle modified, and the technical vocabulary of every trade in Mexico is filled with Moorish terms. A few came from the Indian languages, and Artec and Arabian meet in the new world. The Spanish language has the Latin manliness and dignity with a strong blending of the color of the Arabic. Spanish differs thus from Italian, also descended from the Latin, in a certain oriental majesty and vivid For the Little Ones Oarmful In the use of Gough Medicines for Ohiidron,s Goughs and Go ids Many analyses of cheap cough mixtures W and cough and throat lozenges have clearly proven that a large proportion of f them contain opiates. f The temporary relief which these cheap jnedicines often give in coughs and colds, especially with the little children, is because the opiate, by destroying the nerve sensation, the irritation in the throat, which causes the cough, is temporarily removed, but the real cause of the cold is not in any way removed by the opiate and will promptly return. The best thing to use to remove the cat arrhal secretion which causes the cold, the hoarseness and irritating cough, is a new preparation composed of antiseptics like Eu calyptol, Red Gum of Eucalyptus tree, Blood Root, etc., under name of Stuart’s Catarrh Tablets, which contain no opiate, cocaine or poisonous drug of any sort. A mother living in Charleston, Mass., the happy possessor of four children, writes: “Every fall and winter I have laid in a stock of cough medicines, croup mixtures, and throat remedies for my little children, for somehow or [other they never seemed to be free from colds, croup or sore throat. “This fall I made a change in the usual program. I had myself been cured of an ob stinate catarrh, from which I had suffered for years, by Stuart’s Catarrh Tablets, and as they were pleasant to take I determined to try them with my children. Our family phy sician told me he knew them to be perfectly safe and nothing better could be taken. So I gave them to the children and have con tinued to do so ever since, whenever there is the least sign of croup or sore throat, and I no longer dread the approach of cold weather as I'once did. “Stuart’s Catarrh Tablets not only cured me of chronic nasal and throat catarrh, but thcj- have saved me many an anxious night with my little ones.” ',J Mr. A. R. Fernbank of Columbus, Ohio, V says: ‘‘I suffered so many winters from Pj Catarrh that I took it as a matter of course, and that nothing would cure it except a change of climate, which my business affairs would not permit me to take. ‘‘My nostrils were almost always clogged up, and I had to breathe through the mouth, causing an inflamed, irritated throat. The thought of eating breakfast often nauseated me and the catarrh gradually getting into my stomach, took away my appetite and digestion. “My druggist advised me to try a 50 cent box of Stuart’s Catarrh Tablets, because he said he had so many customers who had been cured of catarrh by the use of these tablets, and he felt he could honestly recommend them. I took his advice and used several boxes with results that surprised and de lighted me. “I always keep a box of Stuart’s Catarrh Tablets in the house and the whole family use them freely on the first appearance of a cough or cold in the head. “With our children we think there is noth ing so safe and reliable as Stuart’s Catarrh Tablets to ward off croup and colds, and with older people I have known of cases where the hearing had been seriously impaired by chronic catarrh cured entirely by this new remedy.” People who have used sprays, inhalers, salves, and washes for catarrh and have found how useless they are, will be agreeably sur prised at the results following the use of a I pleasant internal remedy in tablet form. Druggists everywhere admit that Stuart's' Tablets, which they sell at-50 cents per pack age, is the safest, most effective and popular of all catarrh remedies. nesr. It is a language for solemn dis course, for ardent love-making, for military command, and for every pur pose of the highest literary art. It is a widespread tongue spoken in the Philippines, in little islands of the Pacific, among the Spanish Jews living long exiled in Constantinople, in North African ports, and over a vast extent j of the new world. It is not decaying, it is full of life, its literature showing a surprising vigor. The intelligent tourist will note these and many more facts; he will see here triumphs of architecture dating from colonial days, a strange minglement of custom—Aztec, Spanish and Moorish —with recent additions from the great and restless nation at the north. He will see the new wine of modernity be ing poured into the old Spanish bottles, with the inevitable result. Every where the old, the very old, and the very new. Mexico Is In transition: it will lose many things delightful to the artist and the antiquarian, to all peo ple of taste and refinement; it will gain many useful things. But it will be long years before the interior cities lose their distinctive charm. As in Italy, the old architecture constitutes a powerful attraction; the spell of the middle ages is still to be felt here; the romance of the ages of faith and beauty lingers in many a nook and corner of this sunny land, where civilization was planted first in the North American continent, where learning had its first home and men of scholarship pursued their peaceful ways when the forests of the distant North were the haunts of savage In dians.. Chemistry of Tears. Tears have their functional duties to accomplish, like every other fluid of the body, and the lachrymal gland Is nc'. placed behind the eye simply to All space or to give expression to emotion, says an exchange. The cnemical properties of tears consist of phosphate of lime and soda, making them very salty, but never bitter. Their action on the eye is very beneficial, and here consists their prc scribed duty of the body, washing thoi oughly that sensitive organ, which al lows no foreign fluid to do the same work. Nothing cleanses the eye like a goo.1 salty shower bath, and medical art has followed nature's law in this respect, ad vocating the invigorating solution for any distressed condition of the optics. Tears do not weaken the sight, but Improve It. They act as a tonic on the muscular vis ion. keeping the eye soft and limpid, and it will be noticed that women In whoec eyes sympathetic tears gather quickly have brighter, tenderer orbs than others. When the pupils are hard and cold the world attributes it to one s disposition, which is a mere figure of speech. Imply ing the lack of balmy tears that are to the cornea what salve Is to the skin or nourishment to the blood. The reason some women weep more easily than others, and still more readily than the sterner sex, has not its difret ence In the strength of the tear gland, but in the possession of a more delicaie nerve system. The nerve fibers about the glands vibrate more easily, causing a downpour from the watery sac. Men are not nearly so sensitive to emotion; thti> sympathetic nature—the term is used lr. a medical sense— is less developed, and the eye Is therefore protected from shocks. Consequently, a man should thank the formation of his nerve nature when he contemptuously scorns tears as a woman's, practice. Between man and monkey there is this essential differenc-' of tears. An ape cannot weep, not so much because Its emotional powers are undeveloped as the fact that the lachry mal gland was omitted in his optical makeup. An jsements. m»«KAg.y. AUGUSTA OPERA HOUSE.'"'Taa^Bg WEDNESDAY EVE., MARCH 19. Wm. E. NANKEVtLLE’S-PRODUCTION CF “A Dramatic Event ^HHEARTS of the Greatest Importance. Presented with every atten tion to detail. Magnificent Scenery. Splendid Company vuuiu Sale opens Monday at 10 A. M. Prle es, eOc. and T5c. rOB SALE BY FOR SALE BY SHERBURNE DAILEY, Clothiers, Furnishers and Shoe Dealers, AUGUSTA, MAINE. mar4,dtf "HE THAT WORKS EASILY WORKS SUC CESSFULLY.” TIS VERY EASY TO CLEAN HOUSE WITH SAPOUO I

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