Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-12-12

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spective records Of 63 years and 6O
years Of practice where now located
seem like beginners in the business
The Bethel physician is DR.. Robert
Wiley who has passed his 95th BIRTH
day and has practiced an even 20 years
in Bethel. He is still vigorous, reads
| without glasses. can lear a clock TICK
20 feet away. and attends to business
every day, though he only rides out In
pleasant weather. Many of his Ola
families refuse to have any other phy-
| stefan, and he often examines ana pre-
scribes for dozen patients day. "A
country doctors life is a pretty hard
one, but DIR. Wiley shows that man
| with the right stuff in him who takes
care Of himself is good for more years
of usefulness in the world than the
| whole term of years commonly regard
ed as the span of life.
For many years the New York sun
has been the champion of mince PIE,
and the Boston Transcript has sung
the praises of custard pie. Recently
| the Biddeford Journal has repeatedly
expressed its undying fealty to the pie
built around the heart of the golden
pumpkin. And now Editor Eaton or
| the Bangor News, since this is an age
| of specialization, takes his harp ana
chants of apple pie. OF all the pieOlo-
gists to date he takes first prize. He
begins by stating the general PROPOSE
| ton that one of the things in this
changing world that ought to be pre-
served against innovation is apple pie.
and continues: There is nothing that
grows in the way of fruit in the tenn
perate or tropical zones that can inn
prove the taste of just good plain APP
| pies. The sort that ought to be used
for pies are what housewives call tart.
| BellfiOwers. or Rhode Island greetings.
| or Northern Spys. or good pippins are
the best sorts for pastry. Then the
| apples should be sliced not stewed and
mashed and dOctOred before they are
put into the crust. To the really dis
| eliminating palate the pie will be all
the better without the addition of
spices. Cinnamon and allspice and
more especially nutmeg really vitiate
an apple pie Editor Eaton is of the
| opinion that the thick. dark apple pie
| with mushy and adulterated filling"
! at hotels and restaurants is nothing
short of a crime. The retribution which
| follows. unfortunately. is visited on
| the blameiess consumer instead Of on
| the cook where it really belongs. Hav-
| ing limited at the proper filling this
Penobscot expert proceeds to the crust.
| which he says should be as plain as
possible without being tough. 1t is a
very common fault to get the crust for
apple pie too short" better have it
somewhat cohesive than flaky. The
apple pie that New England philosoph-
ers and sages eat at breakfast. dinner,
supper and between meals should be
constructed with the idea of eliminat-
ing all ingredients that are not strictly
elemental. In conclusion this author
ity holds that. properly constructed.
with an ingenious regard for hygiene
and for pleasing taste. an apple pie is
the very apOthOesis of cookery. and no
token Of modern degeneracy is more
mournfully apparent than the great
scarcity of the sort of intelligence and
discrimination necessary to the pro-
duction of apple pie, pure, undefiled
and Invested of all adjuncts and appur-
tenances which vitiate the palate and
impair Digestion
Springfield Republican,: The news
of Tom" Reeds sudden death must
have furnished sad reading to the
many residents of Springfield, espe-
cialy those who are natives of the pine
Tree State. His end calls attention to
a custom, apparently the settled policy
of Maine, which through many years
has maintained for her Il prestige and
influence in the national government
wholly disprOpOrionate to her relative
importance in the union. This custom
is. of retaining in Congress for many
successive terms the same senators
and representatives. They are blessed
with. practically, life tenure of Of
flee. Among men who have been so
favored, Tom Reed was one of the
| foremost. There were the senators
Lot NJ. Morrill,. William Pitt Fessen-
den, Hannibal Hamlin and James G..
Blaine. Fessenden and Morrill, were
| the trusted advisers of Lincoln and
| Grant. and each was appointed secre-
| tary of the treasury, while Hamlin be-
| came vice-president Blaine was
| sentatives. twice secretary of State.
| and a man whose political fortunes and
misfortunes profoundly affected his
country. The present senators. Frye
| and Hale. have been in Office since 1881
Frye has presided over the Senate 50
| much that he has well-nigh absorbed
| the vice presidential office. For many
years Maine sent the same quartet to
| the House. and their names were linked
| together so Familiarity in the minds of
| Maine people that they seemed like a
! perpetual inStitutiOn-Boutelle Ding
ley. Milliken and Reed. Boutelle was
Il sheet anchor to the new navy: Ding
| ley. who had been governor of his state
and editor of one of it's newspapers.
/ succeeded Reed as leader of his party
| on the floor. became chairman of the
| committee of ways and means. and had
| the privilege of seeing his name used to
| christen the most extreme tariff legis-
lation ever enacted under the cOnsti-
tuition. while Reed who lowered among
his associates in debate like a light
house in the storm. reduced to submits
sion hostile opposition and, with be-
| IHt ODD pm Mis-