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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-22

port, etc. world without end. Every
body knows him from Maine to Cali
fornia. AT ~ he is living in the town
of his birth, Castine, writing as hard as
ever. At present he is doing some
magazine work and preparing an I'M
portant book for the Appletons. Inc
newspaper world knew him long ago as
"Castine." Washington correspondent
of the Sacramento Union. Baseball
appealed to him as hay does to a hum
CRY OK. Two of his most entertaining
books are 1.-The Fairport Nine" and
Our Baseball Club" He was an eX-
pert pitcher, and glorified Cummings
when the latter introduced the curved
ball. The house he lives in in Castine
is called The Ark. Entirely appro-
priate-Noah.s Ark.
Press and Printer. in discussing the
attitude of distinguished men toward
cartoons, says that Thomas B. Reed
has made a hobby Of newspaper cut
tings, and his gathering of cartoons
dealing with himself and the measures
and men in which he has been inter-
ested is truly important and instruc-
tive. 1t is one of his delights to show
his cartoons to his intimates, and he
is particularly fond of one which he has
hanging conspicuously in his library, it
was the first ever printed in which his
face and figure were portrayed. 1t
appeared in Harper's Weekly some
time in the 70s when he was d young
man. Of it he says: when that car
toon appeared / felt that / had ar
rived, not at the summit of political
success, of course, but that I had at
last reached the top of foothill."
Mrs Reed by the way, does not share
her husbands enthusiasm for his car
toons. and has often asked him to put
out of sight the one that is hanging in
the dining room.
The happiest boy in Knox county,
next to DR.. Crockett when he heard the
returns. was 12-years-old Fred Rowell
of South Thomaston, when he received
an autograph letter from Mr.. Bryan in
reply to one he had written after hear
ing the Rockland speech of the dis
tinguished Nebraskan.
A Rockland youth of about Is years
of age, who evidently was not anxious
that his mother should know that he
had reached the age where could smoke
a cigar without getting sea sick lit a
cigar and was contentedly putting at it
as he stroiled down Union street the
other afternoon. When the cigar was
about half smoked the boy suddenly
discovered his ma and his two sisters
approaching, having Unexpectedly APP
peared from cross street. The
young hopeful jabbed the glowing
two-for into his coat pocket and put
ting on Sunday-schoo smile of innO-
cence drew near to the trio. A cloud
of smoke waited itself from his coat
pocket and surrounded his head with a
halo. Of course, he didn't see it but
his mother and sisters did and the do
nestle fire brigade at once got to work
on the heir of the family. The glow
ing cigar stump fell out Of his pocket
through a hole it mad burned and il
was all over with Willie. The after
noon shopping expedition was aban-
doned for a heart to heart talk with
Willie at home.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-22

Bowdoin and Colby open their doors,
this week, for the work of another
year.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-22

All Kennebec roads will lead for the
next few days to the good Old fair
grounds at Readfield.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-22

Fall has officially arrived at last; but
where was the summer?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-22
Or. En1n1ons'

Monthly Regulator, mas u pos.
hundreds of anxious women. la'.aJicai ri.
cnce til 1t will so quickly aod saiely mu
work. Longest and most obstinsscc sncccss
tiles from any causerelieved atonc;G. Danger.
guaranteed at any stage. ro R relieved
hundreds OF cases where others have fs,,esi
The most difficult cases successisry .,sed ir
by mail, and encal results guaraWv1sc,trre treat
every instance. 70 risk whatsoever. ~ my W,itc
hundreds O fla dies whom we never So; euiisl
for valuable particulars and free connad1NRe ne.
advice. All truth fuliv sns \. fe under
every possible condition and pos hssItS
leaves no after III effect upon sne u monet
BY mail, securely sealed. .o $500 Al 81
etters should be rsgistcreo. Ac y -
J.W. EMMONS CO., 17e111
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-22

The cold days will soon be here. but
wi. the coal days ever return?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-22

Several good men are mentioned as
the successor of the late Senator-elect
Harris of Androscoggin, but the
special election will not be called until
after the Legislature meets.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-22

Twelve per cent only of the Britis,,
army are feet 10 inches or over In
height
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-22

What good boys they must be at
West Kennebunk to allow Edwin l.
Littleield of that place to raise 3000
luscious muskmelons.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-22

With close connections a trip from
Bath to Biddeford can be made by
electrics in four hours and thirty
minutes. This time was made by n
Bath lady, last week.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-22

Possibly the oldest living baseball
enthusiast in the United States is
Moan Brooks, merchant, farmer. edi-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-22

If texts are needed for temperance
sermons. there is a good one in the loss
of the Maine schooner, Dora Mathews,
last week.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-22
The Musical World.

The September Musical World Is an
attractive number with its many line
half-tone portraits of leading singers ana
musicians. Among the more important
contributions are: collaboration in
Onera. ;, "Sinsers in Paris" Australia S
Singers" and Herbert Spencer Opposes
Mozart" The sheet music which adds SO
much to the value and interest OF THIS
magazine includes the following selec-
lions this month: 'Souriante ct Legere,
for the piano.: "'Fulfilment." Ga song
with words in both German and English)
Water Lilies" for the piano. and IAN
Irish Love Song
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-22

the successor of the late Senator-elect
Harris of Androscoggin, but the
special election will not be called until
after the Legislature meets.
What good boys they must be at
West Kennebunk to allow Edwin /.
Littleiield of that place to raise 5000
luscious muskmelons.
With close connections a trip from
Bath to Biddeford can be made by
electrics in four hours and thirty
minutes. This time was made by a
| Bath lady, last week.
Mrs. MyTa Sawyer Hamlin of Ban
gor. is about to bring out q new story,
GATHERINGS Proxy" and the volume
will be illustrated by talented Ban
gor girl, Miss Florence Z. Plaisted
1t is now a Jay Bridge correspondent
who tells of a nice old lady of that
place who insists on putting on her
spectacles before she uses the tele-
phone.
The champion plum tree of the season
is owned by George Burd of Camden.
/ 1t is not strange that it attracted
much attention before the plums were
gathered. 1t is not a. large tree, but it
held nine bushels of plums. Every
branch had to be braced up and it GER
tainly was marvellous sight. The
branches were literally packed with ele-
CANT plums.
Portland's new Grand Trunk station
, is coming all right, and probably COM
ing very soon, but nobody seems to
know anything definite about it. The
old station will be demolished at once
/ and all employees are moving out
! If texts are needed for temperance
! sermons. there is a good one in the loss
of the Maine schooner, Dora Mathews,
(; last week.
| Possibly the oldest living baseball
enthusiast in the United States is
Moan Brooks, merchant. farmer, edi-
tor, correspondent, naval officer of a
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-22

To Hon. Andrew p. Wiswell Chief JUS
tice Of the Supreme Judicial Court of
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-22
Everybody's Maoazint

The first of a series of remarkable arti-
cies entitled The Woman that Tolls,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-22
SEPTEMBER MAGAZINES.
The American Boy

| In the September number u LIZ
American Boy is the opening iiis'al
| ment of the life of Napoleon boiiapa. y
written for young readers by the cur.
of the magazine. 1t promises 10 u ~" :. :
| feature of exceptional interest. III
number also presents many strnnis
stories among them being noted' Wy
Only Bear" Charles u. Wells N.Y.
Race" w. Herbert Dunton; Gun
Necked Peter" Alice M. Frazer ;
"Abe's Luck" Bissell Brice; "A Young
| Hero of the Frontier" Capt. 'aeh
Crawford; and "A Tale of the oou.n
west" e. f. Bowles. The uepa'
ments, this month. are filed Win 60
sonable matter which will be appie
ciated by the many readers OF tiils GU
tertaining monthly.
The Atlantic Monthly
for September spreads before it's read
ers a delightful feast made up oi iio'',
BILE articles, entertaining nctioh' az
charming poetry. Chief among 'ne
features of interest may De o!fens
noted the following: or the 1.ain,nS
of Black Men," w. f. Bursharct ~
Bots; The White Feather, lholrds
Bailey Aldrich; Memories OF NUS
pital Matron." Emily V. Mason; Cong
into the Woods Eben Greenoush
Scott: "A National Standard III hisne'
Education" Herbert w. Hor"llI'
Democracy and Society," Vlda ~.
Scudder; Autumn Thoughts, EuWdfu
Thomas; 1.-The Kansas OF loua!'
Charles Moreau Chadwick; "Ihe Nc"
Navy" Talcott Williams; "What fup.
lie Libraries are Doing for Children.
Hitler C. Wellman; william Black,
Edward Fuller: and "a Bit of unpub-
lished Correspondence between hehi!
Thoreau and Isaac Hecker. Inc sel-
eral literary departments give thcir
regular amount of pleasant readihS.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-22

PISCATAQUIS, IS.
Dover. Me, Dec. 10th. 1902.
TO The Honorable Andrew p. Wiswell,
Chief Justice of the Supreme judicial
Court of Maine.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-26
THE PASSING OF THE PIONEER.

The typical pioneer has gone with
the buffalo and the prairies. There are
no longer any settlers in the old sense
Of the word. Immigrants there are in
plenty, but the real pioneer, the cap
tain of a prairie schooner with cross
dog under the hind axle and an innum-
cradle frowzy headed family behind its
canvas flaps is gone irrevocably. The
pioneer was poor. His possessions con-
sisted of a team, a few tools for farm
ing and a pluck that took mo note OF
difficulties to be surmounted and hard
ships to be endured. Swinging along
over the miles that lay between the
new country and the older one he had
left, he walked by the side of his team,
stopping at nightfall by a spring or
brook, to build his campfire on the
smouldering ashes left by his contem-
porary one day in advance. He settled
four miles from the nearest neighbor.
built his house of logs or sods and with
cheerfulness and confidence began his
fight against nature, self reliant and
satisfied.
There is more emigration now than
then, but the character of the settler
has changed with the times. Instead of
in the covered wagon the family rides
to their new home on the cushioned
seats of luxuriously furnished railway
coaches. A freight train whirls the
horses and live stock across a state in
twenty four hours, where the pioneer
travelled for month. There is no
question of demonstrating or sod houses.
The purchase money has been paid to
the land company for the farm. A re-
railway station is but few miles dis
tant. The church and school house he
knew back east" are convenient. In
fact, he moves from the east to an east
ern settlement transplanted. He makes
a change Of scene, but not of environ
ment.
Thus the pioneer as class has been
"blotted from the things that be-" A
few "all weak and withered of their
force" remain as old men to tell their
marveling grandchildren the story OF
the conquest of wilderness. The
world has flashed by them in parlor
coach and left them sitting by the fad
ing campfires of memory Tho gone
they are still part of the empire they
created and the traditions of their
bravery that poverty could not appal,
of their hopefulness and confidence
that wilderness could not daunt will
remain the great lesson of American
history.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-26
SOME LAZY EDITORS.

The exchange editor on a modern
daily paper has a nexcellent opportu-
nifty to survey the work done in the
weekly publishing field, and it is al
ways an object of wonder with him
that so many good fields for the pub
fishing of a bright weekly newspape,
are sadly neglected. There is no other
business in which lazy man shows
himself so conspicuously as in news
paper editing. Iowa, it is true, has
many excellent county seat papers,
more by the census per thousand of
population than any other state in the
union, but the exchange editor can also
tell you Of hundreds of these newspa-
pers that are far from what they
ought to be.
AS suggested above, laziness is the
secret of most all the fault There is
hardly a town of 1900 or more people
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-26
INFORMATION ABOUT IRRIGATION.

AS the subject Of reclaiming the arid
lands of the west continues to be dis
cussed much information comes to
light. Recently a noted citizen of the
semi-arid country bordering along the
Missouri explaine. how The vast areas
of deserts when heated by the sun pro-
duced the destructive hot winds that
sweep over the Missouri river country
like heat from blast furnace wither-
ing in few hours the luxuriant crops
that this country of itself is able to
produce. He pointed out that the peo-
pie of these semi arid and humid re-
gions as far east as the Great Lakes are
vitality interested in any legislation that
will reclaim the resorts. From another
quarter come the photographers and
scientific men of the government agri-
cultural department with the informa-
ton that over grazing Of the western
ranges has killed out many plants and
grasses that once thrived to conserve
moisture and that for these reasons the
arid region is each year growing dryer.
It is recommended by these men that
all government lands be leased to the
cattle men whose self interests will
Their compel them to protect their
ranges. Even at the small rental of
two cents per acre it is estimated that
the grazing lands of the public domain
would yield an annual revenue of S.
0o0, 900, which If devoted to irrigation
works would accomplish wonders. A
plan will yet be divised whereby the
engineers of the government service
will build the reservoirs and bitches to
reclaim millions of acres of desert land
and the cost of it all come from the sale
of the land itself and the rentals of
grazing lands now yielding nothing to
the government. When towns shall be
built UP in these communities new
ma rkcts for eastern goods will have
been opened, a new source of food sup
plies discovered and the entire nation
will. prosper as it has from the phe
nomenal growth of the middle west.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-26

A carload of Greeks have arrived at
Iowa City to work on the c.. r. !. &
r. double track.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-26

An eastern paper says: Many good
men grow poor dreaming of millions in
thousand dollar towns and planning
Queen Anne cottages for Mary Ann
reighborhoods.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-26
PUBLIC BUILDINGS BILL.

In the omnibus appropriation bill in
troduced in the house Of representa-
tives at Washinton today providing for
NEARLY s16,OO0,o0O worth of new govern
ment buildings in the United States
Iowa gets about 100000 for buildings
and sites distributed over nine Of its
eleven congressional districts. The in
quality in the size Of appropriations
is apparent to those acquainted with all
the conditions in Iowa but should cause
no controversy as so many towns failed
to get anything at all that those who
were fortunate should not look their
gift horse in the mouth.
The Importance of the Speakers po-
sition when it comes to swapping ia
vors is demonstrated in the size of the
Waterloo appropriation granting $780,
900 for it when such towns as Ottumwa
and Marshalltown received less. Con-
gresham Connor's "pull'' as member
of the committee on public buildings
and grounds was also disclosed in the
size of 100000 appropriation for so
small a place as Boone but the result
shows that those congressman who got
anything at all did SO at the cost of
great effort. 1t is unfortunate that this
matter of public building should be SO
largely a question of pull" but it must
ever be so. "LogrolIing' in politics
will ever be the main travelled thor
oughfare to accomplishment and when
SO insignificant a place as Biloxie,
Miss, receives an appropriation of
$4,000 for a federal building it means
hat the congressman for that district
has literally solu his vote and probably
silenced his Judgment $4,000 worth on
the pet bills and grabs of other con-
gressmen. The. bill may yet receive
amendment in the senate where in
equalities can be adjusted.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-26

in Iowa that does not offer a field for
two good weekly or semi weekly news
papers; if it has more it has too many,
and If less entirely too few, yet many
and many a county is starving for Il
local newspaper that will print the To-
cal news. A good local weekly editor
has plenty of hard work before him il
he does all that his field will stand.
The news is there If he will find it and
put it into his paper. Local affairs and
gossip are what his subscribers want
when they buy his paper, and his sue
cess is bound to be measured in the
exact ratio of his local news service to
that of his competitors.
The advent of free rural delivery and
the growth of Iowa dailies with their
cheap weekly and semi weekly editions
is apt to discourage the county seat
publisher but unnecessarily So There
will always be q demand for the home
paper if it is a home paper. If the local
editor gives the local news and has
opinions to express upon any and all
subjects occupying public attention the
people of that community will buy his
paper. No class of editors are so close
~ in touch with the average public
mind as is the weekly publisher. For
this reason every daily newspaper of
Importance maintains an exchange ed
itor whose duty it is to give wider cir
culation to the best writings of these
editors who are close to public opinion.
The wall of the exchange editor is that
so few of these men have any opinions.
The local editor busies himself in poll
tics, has soft snap In the local post
office or maintains real estate office,
while the newspaper runs itself, that
his paper contains little else but patent
insides and sheriffs notice. Weekly
publishers should wake up, not all of
them but many of them. The field is
always fertile and rewards await the
man of enterprise, the man who can
print the local news and discuss the
affairs in which people are interested.
In other words, the editor who can
work and make his paper readable.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-26
JUDGE CLANCY
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Important Decision.

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that historic town, decided recently
that as against blood and liver trouble,
DIR. David Kenedy's Farvorite Remedy
was worthy Of the highest praise. He
says:
II have used DR.. David Kennedys
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for liver trouble and blood disorder. 1t
built me right up and improved great
~ in health"
Geo. II. Tiff of SIS River street, Troy.
N. Y, suffered from liver trouble and
3 his blood was all out of order and after
using Favorite Remedy, has this to
say:
..For any one suffering from that run
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It matters not how sick you are, how
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All druggists sell DR.. David's kenne-
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-26
THE FARmeR AS A BooKkEEpER.

City business men, who are able to
ascertain at glance the state Of their
business affairs pro or contra, who
know each month the amount Of profit
or loss their thirty days labor has
brought them, often express astonish-
ment at the fact that very few farmers
keep books in anything like the sense
that bookkeeping is understood by the
business man. The average agricul
turist is plunger. He does not keep
accounts against his farm, crediting 1t
with every dollar of production and
charging all outlay against it. He has
no written inventory of his machinery
and tools. He keeps no account of the
grain fed to his horses and has but a
general knowledge of the gross
amounts fed to his hogs and cattle.
Asked how many pounds of corn he fed
to produce a pound Of fat, few could
answer, except in a vague and misty
way. The eggs are an Incidental, re-
ceiving no credit except that they aid
in paying the grocery bill. The orchard
is not credited with its fruit and
charged with ground rent and labor.
The horses are not given credit for
what they have earned nor made re-
sponsible for the cost of their mainte-
nance. Plainly the farmer, generally
speaking, finds it impossible to make a
balance sheet. He must guess at his
profits or his loss by means of the gross
amount of cash on hand at the end Of
the year.
This sort of bookkeeping will scarce
ly do on land worth s75 an acre. The
farmer must know exactly what crop
paid best, how much 1t cost and the
amount 1T sold for. He must be able to
tell how much corn is needed to put SO
much fat on hogs or cattle. He must
conduct his operations after the rules
of business. The time has gone by in
Iowa when farming may be successful
ly carried on by the rule of thumb
method. On the high priced land the
Iowa farmer must keep books and
study his business In scientific way
or give way to others who do.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-26

The Boone News considers "1t not a
little peculiar that General Clarkson of
Iowa should be appointed to strictly
New York position. Now Gen. Dodge
of Iowa ought to have something" and
asks, why should Iowa be credited
with these appointments"