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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-27

The publishing season will not be in
full swing for several weeks To come.
but it is now far enough advanced for
probable character. Fiction, us al
ways. is conspicuous in the bundles Of
new books. From the volumes in hand,
ard from other accessible data, we
gather that the number of American
workers in this field is increasing, but
that, happily, they are concerning
themselves more often, on the whole,
with the life around them than with
past epochs. The historical novel
seems to be losing its vogue Stories
OF the Revolution and of the Civil War
are giving place to stories of business
life. Of society. and of politics. Bust
ness and politics especially are appeal
iCg to our writer's. Whether this i'm
plies a reaction after Wilat has teen a
r;otOus carnival of historical romance.
or an inevitable reflection of recent
conditions in the life OF Che people, il is
! idle Conference.-The fact remains. Mis-
cellaneouS litera ture is perhaps less
Voluminously represented among the
earlier publications of the season, but
it Is not by any means 1eeiected.a In
teresting works on art, travel. history
and literary topics have already been
received. and many more are prom
ised. In general, we may say, the sea-
son makes a most suspicious start.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-27

Japarese authors receive so little
'I,a.y For work in their own country
'thatYal native writer says-athere is no
hopesfor any remarkable Japanese
work to be produced. A Japanese man
OF letters. in order TO live i'm bare COM
fort has To produce at least four or
five long rolumes-a year. and it is sell
dom he receives as much as two hun
dred dollars for a voluminous novel
In order TO live decently he must earn
at least 500 a year. 1t will be seen
from these figures that he can scarcely
he eXnected to do any fine work at
that rate of production. The only
professional Japanese author in
ArGefica at present is Onoto Watanna,
whose latest story. The WOoing of
Wistaria,' the love story of lady of
quality. has just been published by
Harper q Bros.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-27

The nsneral of the late Mrs x 4. IN
Beri5ef-t will be held at ~ w,
-sfreet Il 81 P. NJ, today. Res,' ~,
Dunnaak win ofiiciate ana W. Il
s,ent via Be At BIT: Pleasant Ill..,s = 7
Bennett tg survived by hef hu.s Il.
ana bv an adopted da'izhtel.. -, II
Ressie BeR.natt. she was nefp sn In
lnond % wars and eight none s. III
ana ras lived in this city n sssM
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-27

F. ". Allen Z 90. the new crocksl
house who are iocated in the ssoF q
merly occupied by the New 4ef .
nounces their opening for next Wedni
day, Gs.Nill be see BY their large adj
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-27

heroines: so is Robert Louis Steven
sons; SO is Keplings. What man has
done man can do; ut least he can at
tempt il, if only 10 crafty his own am
bition ana the public taste for some
thing original.-John Habberton in
Brandur Ma gazine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-27

"A n7amper of Belgrade Grange u
formed asJournal reporter yesterdal
shat AZ the next regular meeting,of u
grunge. thee first and second tegres
would be conferred upon class Of J
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-27
Sleeplessness,

You can't sleep in the calmest and
stillest night. if your stomach is weak
circulation poor, and digestion bad.
Hoods Sarsaparilla strengthens the
stomach, improves the circulation. per-
tects digestion, and brings about that
condition in which sleep is regular and
refreshing.
1t does not do this in a day, but it
does it-has done it in thousands. of
cases.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-27

The infant son Of Mr. and Mrs Iia1
wood Chapman died at their hons a
Greenleaf street, Friday morning.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-27

There viii be a dance at North Al
gusta Grange hail next "Wednesday es
ming. October /.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-27

n q. Parker 90. carry in stock a faI
line of Dents imported gloves, fcthoa
ladies and gents.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-27

lis folly to suffer from that meas pasp
pIaene Of the night, itching plies pgs
ointment cures. quickly and Pef'''' IN
AZ amy -arilg stoesy5o cents.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-27

Takes the NFvn out heals 'ac .t %,-
cures the RaihH Df. 9o'"@e
oil. the household remedy. AZ
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-27

Dr. Campbell has left the arsensl ii
IL now living at 81 State 81. ~
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-27

Che or nataF4.s rernes:islt & i
the weakest coafs~iiuti' sls 5itc
cure SUMNER eopplaiitS kSsgtr
old, Or. oslss1 i: 4 j E ffst
nefrpI W. a ELiII.A -
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-27

Football at the Driving parl6t !
n. today, Cony High vs.. BrgHsEi
High. ~
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-27

When dociPFs fan ny Du nerss,at,
Filters. Curas dyspePs'a'
invigorates the whole system.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-27
Daily ksnnsbsc Jeurr|

0a rrao,, o. nj -lhanks, obituary nor,
resoiutioHs of respect etc.. M, MA
charged ~ the rate Of ten cen =,
n n,le NO. no charges less than se ~'s 4
All advertising announcement, :,
tertainments, whose object = = y
4alsi q /. money 7 = viii Be ehars ! Y, /
Advertising notices, n9 ,Nsi5 f Il 9,aFs,
exeInded from oiif foeSSf c5Sifl''r ts,anl \
cupXlng Space in our 49, Ms oeI
columns and win be run S'5 sSslsnl
g n5..as Pfaa 90 On one one Of fhs lo,.I
Subscribers Who fail 70 rAc.,,s
Journal promptly viii confer q
by notifying the Office imra. I .d50'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-27

The third of Zola's -Four Evangelism
novels will appear this season in an
English translation by Ernest A.
Eizetelly. with the title of Truth" 1t
is from the French of la Verite."
John Lane will publish it in this coun-
try.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-27

Now. while all sorts ana conditions
of men are prompted to write fiction
and are casting about for material
which can be worked into stories. is a
fitting, time to suggest that love should
not be the novelist's sole literary mo-
tive. 1t may be true that publishers
icht shy of stories without heroines,
but it is equally true that if tale is
good of its Kind the reading public will
not ignore it merely because one of its
prominent characters is not Il young
woman. Who remembers the shadowy
girls III David Harum and E,ben Holden
the most successful books. CONNER
clatly. of the recent season of phe-
nomenal sales Of fiction? AS to Kim.
kipling's latest ana greatest and most
read book. the only woman essential to
the story is an old Hindu virago. To
say that the three books named are not
novels. in the strict sense of the term.
is 10 beg the question, for if a work Of
fiction is readable its readers ask not
how it shall be Observation-Disclosures as
novel, romance, story or mere sketch.
All the world loves 7 lover and takes
kindly to lovers darlings: all the world
likes sweetmeats. but it; wearies of
them as steady diet. Love is the mo-
tive Of almost all printed fiction: if a
novelist takes in hand any other hui
man PASSION or sentiment he finds it
almost impossible of treatment unless
on some pretext he coaxes into its
pages a young woman who. no Matte
how charming, proceeds promptly TO
handicap the author and spoil what
might have been great story. Such
subsersiency reminds one Of the school
sef french art in which no Landscape
Painting was accepta BILE unless 1T kon-
tanned brown tree, whichohad to be
CONSIDERED both in composition sand
color-scheme-more decorous treatment
than is accorded the young woman by
promising novelists who literally drag
her by the heels into stories that would
be better without her presence.
Perish the thought that fiction as n
whole can or shall abjure the heroine.
Love stories will he written as long as
the world stands. and good peopIa
clever people. all classes of people wilI
read them and ask for more. But there
are great possibilities in fiction in
which the young woman is as distinct
~ out of place as she would be i'm n
barber shop. Perhaps il was with
these in mind that some living move
lists have intimated that they dared
not Write as well as they could---bv
which iheS@Ipeant only that theyt could
not secure publisher. But Nathaniel
dawthorne fame is independent of
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-27

The assessed value of real estate in
Board OF Equalza ton is s.. l6o 35,S 40
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-27

In owen Seaman'S Borrowed
Plumes,' which Henry Holt & Co. have
in press, most of the burlesques are in
prose. In the first the author carries
out the idea of having the Elizabeth OF
the Letters visit the Eliza beth of the
German Garden" Their experiences
are given in the letters of the i'm
menscly bored couple. The parodies
that follow cover Mr.. Dooley," Hail
Gaines Eternal City" Harlands
Cardinals Snuff Box" Ellen Thornley,
croft Fowler's Double Thread John
Oliver Hobbess Robert Orange" Mrs.
Wards Robert Elsmere," and works
by Hewlett. Henry james, Sir John
Lubbock, Maeterlinck, Mrs. Meynell
. nd others.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-27

Clara Louise Burnham, whose Chris
tan Science novel, The Right
Princess, has just been issued by
HUughton. Mifflin & Co. i; daughter
Il the late George F. Roor. one Of the
most popular of American song
writer's. Mrs. Burnham WAS born in
Newton. but when she was nine years
old the family removed to Chicago,
which has since been her home. The
decision of the reviewers to whom she
submitted her first stories was UNI
favorable but that did not deter her
from trying again. y poem sent to
Wide Awake was her first accepted
work, and mo Gentleman was her
first novel.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-27

Was. rs This all you Come to,see i
rs h
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-27

Literature. Art and Music. the new
magazine, has the finest writers and
the best stories. Every month it gives
either sheet of new music. worth
fifty cents. or an art study in color,
worth seventy-five cents, each separ-
ate from the magazine. 1t can be
bought from the newsdealers, or send
ten cents for sample copy to publisher,
Literature. Art and Music, III East
23rd street. New York City. The sub
scription price is one dollar Il year.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-27

Unto that 1lowery Cup / bent Auncs nan
Again she showed no seeming to xsbhnr.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-27
LOCAL MATTERS.
journal Telephone Call, 1854
Three Kisses.

Some clamor much for Kisses. some
Few, IVY
Others deep sup. their Thfrsting IA rama
And humble into Maunderings. bs
In Kissing scofn the How Much i6r /,
Who. Bs W
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-27

Williams Allen Butler, author of the
famous poem Nothing to Wear" died
in New York the other day at the age
of seventy-seven. People who remem-
Der well the poem through which Miss
Flora MeFlimsey 'trundles her
skirts" have perhaps forgotten who
wrote IL. The poem first appeared in
Harper's Weekly in 1857. His collected
poems, Nothing to Wear and Other
eoems." were published by Harper &
brothers. and in addition to these he
wrote biography of Martin VAN
f'uren. during whose presidential adj
hinistratiop his father was Z. S At
torney-General. But Mr.. Buffers au-
thorship was only an incident in a long
and busy career as a lawyer. Moth
~~~Asss-ia -Nsar.ss'sone of the most interest-
ing poems in our language, made him
famous sn spite of himself.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-27

The following bits of wit and wisdom
from the new books have been compiled
by the Era
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-27

Silk selling is always feature at
the seasons start. We've bought to
make the selling most satisfactory to
yop in every way.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-01-02
Believed to Be a SwindIer.

KoKoMo, Ind, Dec. 31.-J. B.
Thomas, arrested at Philadelphia
for land swindles, has been iden-
titled as the man who, under va
rious aliases, swindled Indiana
people out of $4,000 five years
ago. Through a photograph of
Thomas and wife, furnished by a
Kokomo attorney, he has been
positively identified He sold
bogus mortgages to brokers in
Kokomo, Lafayette, Logansport,
Lebanon, Charlottesville, South
Bend, Winchester and Ridge
vile.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-01-02
STAND TOGETHER
Poet. Laureate's Verses Dedicated to the
American People.

NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-The forth
coming number of the Indepen-
dent will print poem by Alfred
Austin, poet laureate of England,
entitled Together" and dedica-
ted "with warmest sympathy to
the American people," Follow
ing are the closing verses, which
speak best the sentiment of the
poem:
Should envi0uS aliens plan and plot
'Gainst one and now the other
They swift would learn how strong
the knot
Binds brother unto brother;
How quickly they would change
their tack
And show the recreant feather,
Should Star and Stripe and Union
Jack
But float mast-high together.
Now let us give one hearty grip
AS by true men is given,
And VOW fraternal fellowship
That never shall be riven:
And with our peaceful flags un-
furled,
Be fair or foul the weather,
Should need arise, face all the world
And stand or fall together.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-01-02

FIT. WAYNE, Ind, Dec. 81
Edward R. Benedict has sued
the Pennsylvania railroad com
pany for $1,000 damages for
blacklisting him and preventing
him from securing employment
with other roads. He was a
brakeman on the Pennsylvania
and was discharged in 1899, and
later secured employment sue
cessively with the B. & 0. and
the Santa Fe, but IN both instan
ces was discharged. he alleges,
because of the Pennsylvania
blacklist, which, he says, made
false charges against his record.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-01-02
DEATH STOPS WEDDING.
lDle Killed at a Crossing While
on the WAY to BE Married.

1Ew CASTLE, Ind, Dec. 81
the way to their wedding,
4 P. Edwards, aged fifty six
srs, a well-known contractor
Muncie, and Mrs. Nancy
der, a widow who lived at
'ay, ten miles north of this
we're run down and killed
= Pennsylvania train at a
-ous grade crossing where
persons had previously been
j. The son and daughter of
Reeder were in a buggy in
sof the buggy in which their
and Edwards rode and
safely across the track
4 the train struck Edwards
sy. The bodies of the vic
! we're badly mangled, the
| ;ins of the woman beng car
on the pilot of the engine
arter of a mile before the
was stopped. Edwards
= family of six children.
seder was a wealthy
and had practiced law.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-01-02
INTRIGUEs
American Business Men Hamper
Diplomacy in Berlin.
Theu are Accused Of Using Secret In
fIuenCeS TO Rc0Ch German Govern
menf and NuIIify thc Work of Our
State Department.

BERLIN, Dec. 30-American
diplomacy in Berlin, so far as it
relates to commercial contrOver-
sizes. is hampered by the inter
ference of the private interests
concerned. The force of the
representations of the state de-
partment has been continually
impaired by American business
men, acting Independently of di-
plomatic channels. This is the
rather startling purport of a
communication made today by a
person closely related to the for
eign Office, from whom something
was sought more candid than the
foreign offices carefully framed
statements usually are. Natur-
lily, this person can only speak
plainly for publication abroad.
When speaking anonymously he
buries the essential under the
less important statements. He
said:
Il suggest these memoranda
for explaining German govern
mental views on three or four
things that are the subjects of
correspondence with our foreign
Office. There is the meat ques-
ton, always with us, and likely
to be again troublesome in the
spring, if our new inspection
regulations become imperative.
Underlying the meat dispute
is, of course, tho protective tar
IF idea, II which your statesmen
nave educated US. But beyond
that, how can you blame US if We
exclude canned meats after the
embalmed beef testimony?
"Public opinion here has most
unpleasant recolections of that
testimony, and is row 1rritated
by the boastful utterances of rep
resentatives of the great meat
firms, whose attitude IS, that
whether the meat is good or bad,
Germany must buy 1t, as they
cannot raise enough for their
Nn use. These firms, l may
8y, are striving to reach the
1erman government by infiuenc-
outside of your state depart
aent."
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-01-02
BAsELEss WAR TALK
Germany's UItimatum to Venezuela Inspires
Prediction Of German-American Hos
tilities Which Will Not Be Realized.

BERLIN, Dec. 31-It is believ-
ed to be certain here that an ult-
imatum will be issued within
three days, and that, an attack
on Venezuela will follow direct
ly after. In addition to the Vim
eta, the Fake, two training ships
and the cruiser Greier have been
ordered to Guayra.
In the meanwhile the German
charge d'affaires has not left
Caracas, and diplomatic re-
lations have not yet been broken
off. The pourparlers continue.
An agreement has been reach
cd between Germany and the
United States in regard to the
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-01-02

charged atoms or groups of
atoms, and, second, that the eff
cheney of. the contractions de-
pends on the number of charges
on the different atoms. The val
ue of foodstuffs, then, and the
motions of the heart are not, af-
ter all, due to the production of
heat, but to chemical energy in
electrically charged molecules. :"
Professor A. p Mathews, who
read a paper following DR.. Loeb's
declared that this new theory
was s'like a new heaven and a
new earth to the science of phys
iology." He said that science
had now discovered what effects
certain substances would have
on healthy muscular activity,
effects which for no- generations
could learn only by experience
Professor Mathews declared
that he had treated the nerves
in the same manner Professor
Loeb had employed on muscles,
and had reached the same re-
suits. AS the result of his ex.
periments, Professor Mathews
announced a third law to be add
ed to the two formulated by DIR.
Loeb, to the effect that the neg
ative charged atoms are those
which always stimulate Muscular
and nerve contractions, while the
positive charged are those which
hinder contractions.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-01-02
RICH WITH PROMISE
The Achievements of 1901 To Be Sur.
passed In the New Year.

The first year of the twentieth GEN.
tury has been the most remarkable
year in the history of the country in
many ways, but notably it has broken
all records in commerce and industry.
The farm is the basis of all American
prosperity and farm products of all
kinds have brought uniformly good
prices. In manufacturing lines the
rule has been N'olk-fof all at high
wages and expanding markets for the
output. Merchants generally have
enjoyed year of unprecedented sales
with fair prices and good collections.
Plymouth has partaken of a full
share of the abounding prosperity and
the outlook for the new year is most
encouraging. During the year just
closed the demand for common labor
has been far in excess of the supply.
With work on the city streets through
out the season, improvements on each
of the three railways, an unusual
amount of private building operations
and heavy demand for farm help, no
man able to work has of necessity been
without an ample income.
No former year in Plymouth has ex-
ceeded 1901 in the volume of business
transacted by its banks, railways, ex-
press companies, post Office, and tele-
graph and telephone lines. In no
other year have the local merchants
sold such quantities of goods and col
lected SO many old debts. The real
estate transfers and the cancellation
of mortgages have been unprecedent-
ed. Bank deposits, investments in
town and country property, the pur-
chases of house furnishings and books,
life insurance policies taken out, and
other places where money is put in
good times, show uncommon earnings
and good present condition.
During the coming season the street
and railroad improvements will con-
tinue and the promise for much build
ing is better than it was year ago.
1t seems almost certain that at
least two considerable factories will
be added to those we now have. The
Novelty works, Basket factory, Clizbe
company, G. L. Morris, and the
smaller concerns are running full time
with enlarged facilities and have or
ders ahead indicating another good
year and hardly anything is wanting
to ensure healthy growth of local
business. There is no s'bcom" in
Plymouth, nor is any wanted, but the
mountaineering holiday sales of re-
cord breaking business year form a
hint of what we may expect in the
year now opening.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-01-02
German course of action in Ven

O0fmdQ course OF dCIlOQ IN Non-
ezuela.
Commenting on the London
Times statement from Washing
ton that persons of considerable
importance in official circles
there profess to believe that war
between the United States and
Germany is inevitable. the ST.
James Gazette, though it does
not believe that such a disaster
will be allowed to occur over a
dispute in regard to the debts of
Venezuela to Germany, says that
If it does, there can be no doubt
that English sympathies will be
with America. At the same
time the St. James Gazette ex-
presses the hope that the United
States will not allow such states
as Venezuela to gain the impress
sion that they can reckon on the
protection of Monroeism if they
choose to repudiate their obliga-
tions to Europe.
The Tageblatt prints double
loaded cable dispatch from Wash.
ington, setting forth that the
principal military and naval au-
thorities there consider that war
between the United States and
Germany, sooner or later, is in
evltable.
The United States ambassador,
Anurew D. White. informed the
German newspaper men who
called at the embassy today that
the reports of the possibility of
war between the United States
and Germany were the sthinnest
kind of sensational nonsense.
Not one of the authorities re-
ferred to in the Tageblatt's dis
patch, he added, would, under
any circumstances, disclose such
an opinion-least Of all when the
relations between the two coun.
tries are so good as at present.
Moreover" said Mr.. White,
President Roosevelt. the COM
mander- -in-chlef of both the army
and navy, it is well known, en-
tertains not only official but per-
sonal predictions for Germany,
which have been known not only
officially to the German govern.
ment, but which have long been
known among his friends. He
studied in Germany, reads and
loves German literature, and has
a most sincere personal respect
for the German emperor. Any
utterances of the kind alleged,
by an officer of either service,
would be sternly rebuked by
President Roosevelt.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-01-02

From the Gazette, Toowoomba, Aus ralia.
l find Cham berlain's Cough Remedy
is an excellent medicine, have been
suffering from severe cough for the
last two months. and 1t has effected 4
cure. have great pleasure in recon-
mending it--w. @. wocKNER. This is
the opinion OF one Of our oldest and most
respected residents, and has been volun-
tarily given in good faith that others may
try the remedy and be benefited as wels
M. Wockner. this sremedy sold by j !. w,