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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-08

Miss Martha Webster has returned to
her college work at Mt. Holyoke, after
a vacation at her home in this city.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-08
HALLOWEI.L.

Mrs. Chas. Clary went to Portland on
the morning train, Wednesday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-08

Election of officers of Adoniram
Council. R. and S. M, in Masonic hail.
this evening.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-08

Miss Emma Day returned to South
Hadley. Mass, Wednesday. to resume
her course at Mt. Holyoke College.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-08

The Wimodausis Club will meet, Fri
day afternoon. with Mrs. e. J. Bug
bee. Elm street.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-08

Take notice of the amazingly low
prices for clothing which ]. Canter e
Co. quote in their ad.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-08

DR.. Fl. e. Milliken went to Presqu
Isle, yesterday, for a weeks visit.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-08

Mrs. John Kendall left, Wednesday,
for a visit with relatives in Lisbon
Falls.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-08

University of Maine after spending the
holiday vacation at his home in this
CITY
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-08

The installation of officers of Marion
Chapter, o. E. S.. will be held next
Monday evening.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-08
Toniuht's Concert Program.

Funeral March-"The Last Homage"
Theme
Observation-Disclosures Flotow
Songs,
"Nachruf" Beethoven
Am meer" Schubert
Potpourri-''GemS of Offenbach," Moses
Waltzes-"My Darling" Catozzl
Dance des Turks" Daniels
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-08

The Ladies Aid of the Methods
church will meet, Friday afternoon
with Mrs. George Towle. corner o
Spring and Autumn streets.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-08

The ladies of the Universalist church
will entertain at a Lemon Squeeze"
in their vestry, this evening, and the
affair will doubtless be largely attend
ed
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-08
Daily kennebet Journal
GARDINER.
JournaI's Telephone Call, 26-5.

George Gray left. Wednesday, on
business trip to New York and Boston.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-08

Walter Wood has returned to the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-08
Facts for Catarrhal Sufferers.

The mucous membrane lines all
passages and cavities communicating
with the exterior.
Catarrh is an excessive secretion,
accompanied with chronic inflamma-
ton, from the mucous membrane.
Hoods Sarsaparilla acts on the
mucous membrane through the blood,
reduces Inflammation, establishes
healthy action, and radically cures all
cases of catarrh.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-08
SPECIAL SALE

at Prices that will Attract Immediate At
fention and Sell the Goods.
Sale Regular
PRICE price
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-18
A BEAUTIFUL QUARREL.

OA
Many people in ArmourdaIe have re-
fused the household furnishings offered
by the food relief committee, and de-
mand money or nothing. Out of about
% wagon loads of goods sent Tuesday
and Wednesday to flood sufferers, about
one-half refused to accept it, and it
was returned to relief headquarters. The
committee pays no heed to these pro-
tests. but is buying 1000 more sets Of
household goods. There is no doubt of
the feeling of the people in Armourdale.
They are in a state bordering upon ex-
citement. They believe that the COM
mittee is going to force furniture upon
them whether they wish 1t or not. and
the opposition to this is fomented by
people who would be benefited more if
cash were given than If the aid was
given in furniture. Think what a row
there would have been over its distribu-
ton had the Kansas legislature appro-
priated a million doIlarsl
The quarrel has reached a beautiful
stage. An open-air meeting was held in
Armourdale last evening at which a
committee of five was appointed to find
out what was done with the relief fund.
One speaker charged that the commit
tee had had 1000 on hand for four
weeks; an army of clerks was employed
by it at $3.50 a day each, to register
applicants twice. and do lot of other
red tape work, but that not one of the
victims had received a penny. ACCUSE
tons of dishonesty were made against
every one handling money, and the
more plainly the speaker made his
charges of thieving, the louder was the
applause. On the other hand, the peo-
pie charge that the sufferers" have be-
come grafters.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-18

Morris. He was more like a classn1ate
or mine in Yale than anybody of whom
can think at present. / do not believe
that 1t is possible to transfer characters
directly from real life to a book
THE original Aladdin, then. was a
poor boy trying to make his own way
through college?" I inquired.
No cannot say that he was" was
off. and he had liberal allowance. He
was broke most of the time. though
which 1 suppose is practically the same
thing as being poor"
''Irish?" asked.
Yes. he did have a little touch Of
the Celt in him. and when he became
excited the brogue was evident Ordi-
narily 1t was vein beneath the sur
Hannibal st. John is the late Thomas
B. Reed? '' limited,
i wish that he were more like him
sald Mr.: Morris. 1T would have been
1ar better figure in the story if he had
more OF the characteristics -os Mr. Reed.
/ didn't think of that statesman.
though, when I wrote of Hannibal ST.
Jonn: ! met Mr. Reed in Maine, and
count IL one of the most valuable ex-
periences in my life. What a wonder
ful man! He was familiar with every
thing, from the last play in Madrid to
the latest phase of state politics"
you know Maine fairly we'll 7 sbouId
judge from Aladdin O'Brien,' although
the Portland which you describe hardlv
seems like the real Portland"
NO responded Mr. Morris; hardly.
book. You can see that by the refer
ence to the shipbuilding yards"
Judging from Aladdin" / said.
you lost your heart to that southern
girl"
Mr.. Morris evinced enthusiasm.
You like herr" he asked she is
more attractive than the heroine, Mar
garet st. John, isn't she? You know
sometimes 1 am sorry that she is only
an episode, although she helps along the
character of Aladdin"
She does indeed" 1 ventured. "She
doesn't have much to do. with the plot;
yet If you had gone on another chapter
about her, Aladdin OBrien would have
never gone back to Portland with the
intention of proposing again to Margar-
ct ST. john
Sometimes have thought that there
should be more about her." was the re-
Spouse. THE Century company tried 10
persuade me to write so pages or so OF
that southern girl but I couldn't do It,
although I tried to my level best. I'm
glad you like her.
do you ever take suggestions about
what you writer"
that do not. A man cannot tell a story
in his own way If he follows the ideas
of others. l like a story with action and
everlasting go in it. l like strong.
healthy men. big fellows with hearts of
oak and wills of iron. who, when their
times come, double up and die. 1 would
write of real men and their deeds 1 am
not satisfied with what have done, and
suppose I never shall be as long as l
develop and grow"
From which it may be gathered that,
like Aladdin O'Brien, Gouverneur Nor
ris is not quite as tirnid as coot. He
Is more like a young eagle preparing for
longer fights. w.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-18

the American story, nor for that matter
the north European story. And we
Americans cannot understand exactly
how the pope rose to his erninence. And
yet if one reads the story carefully, he
sees that the pope's rise was natural
enough; it was merely a question of
grit, of rustling, of hard work well d.
rected. He waited thirty years in an
out of the way province while his
enemies died, and in all those thirty
years he was preparing for the work Of
his life That thirty years of waiting
was the big thing in the mans life It
tested him; it gave him strength for the
great events that followed. Grant had
similar experience; every man has; if
the corn doesn't grow up it will grow
down; cloudy days are nevertheless
growing days.
Life that is real is continued effort,
never ceasing, never repining. The Lord
mates a gutter. No gutter ever won,
either in republic or a monarchy nor
in the politics of the vatican. Stripped
of its foreign sounding phraseology. and
reduced to simple terms, the story OF
the study and hard work and earnest
effort, and never ceasing well doing that
is found in the life of Leo XIII is mere
ly the story of success as it is found the
world over.
There was nothing more strange and
miraculous in the life of Leo than in the
life of our American heroes: it was
founded on the qualities that make men
strong and useful all over the world
The formula for success is the same in
every language, in every country under
every region. The Italian boy and the
American boy and the Russian boy and
the Chinese boy and the Egyptian boy
all succeed by hard we'll directed work
and by paying attention to business.
The young man who is a porch climber
and hand holding hammock-dweller
all his nights and a picnicker by day,
has good time while he is young, but
a tough time while he is old and he Is
long time dead, and no one cares
about him.
This is a world of serious work-a
cheerful world withal for him who
cares to help his fellows as he passes
along-but still a world where the idler |
and the trifler and the shirker and the |
drone never go further than the grave |
yard. Conduct is nineteenth of life !
and industry is seventeenth of conduct !
The other three-tenths are a clear head |
and a clean heart An Industrious bad |
man can go farther than a lazy good |
man. But good man who works with |
a clear brain, need have nothing to |
feat. That is the lesson of the life of |
the dying pope
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-18
The Russian Bear Won't Bulge.

Philadelphia Inquirer.
After all, what's the use of the foreign
correspondents getting excited over the
gathering of Russian warships in Man
churian waters and the pow-wows of
Russian officials?
The Russian Bear is occupying Man
churia and he will not bulge for any
body.
That is the plain fact in the matter.
OF course. Japan would like to drive
him out, and If the Japs could only get
a hrst-class power behind them they
would take the initiative and issue an
ultimatum in short order
But, pshaw! There isn't a European
power that is going to shoot a gun-not
one.
They know very well what Russia is
up to. and by their silence they practf-
cally acquiesce. The Bear is advancing
steadily and surely. and in the end viii
have Just about all OF China that he
cares for.
That is the long and short of the mat
ter, and only Japan has courage enough
to say so and object.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-18
THE CALL OF THE WILD.
Mr.. Hamilton w. Mabie Re-
views Jack London'S
New Novel.

In his new story, "The Call of the Wild"
life with vigor, insight, and dramatic power
which no other similar tale except bob, Son
of Battle :" approaches in interest and literary
quality. The Scotch story depends largely on
s'The Call of the Wild" centres entirely in
Buck, the great dog who is stolen from a ranch
in Southern California, where he is the soul Of
fidelity, rewarded by the greatest freedom and
affection; taken to the far north, and made
member of team of dogs who carry the mail
into the Yukon region. Gradually his character
changes under the pressure of new and hard
conditions. He becomes leader and master
instincts reviving in him. In the end, after the
most adventurous life described with graphic
power, "The Call of the Wild" becomes more
and more distinct and finally masters him, and
he reverts to the savage state in the northern
wilderness, becomes the mate of wolves. and
lives as his ancestors lived centuries before him.
This change from civilization to savagery is
effected gradually, and is traced, stage by
stage, with dramatic and deepening interest
The story has deep psychologist interest, and
may be read as striking parable but it is,
above all, an absorbing tale of wild life, full
of pictorial power and Astounding in striking
incidents of frontier town, camp, and adventure.
HAMILTON w. MABIK.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-18
Perry Heath and His Friend.

New York World.
This thing of nagging faithful postal
officials is being run into the ground,
For instance, they are criticising Perry
Heath for allowing his friend Smith to
collect $3.50 for car fare when he was
stationed at a camp where there were
no cars.
Well, what of it? Was it Smiths
fault that there were no cars at Camp
Alger? You couldn't expect him to build
a railroad with $3.50. could you? That
money was what he would have spent
If the cars had been there. He waited
for them, but they never came. He stood
there at his lonely post, faithfully
guarding that $22. 50 and ready to do his
duty as soon as other people did theirs.
But he got no reward for it, no medal
not even thanks: and now an migrate
full public is abusing him for his
thoughtfulness. And what cuts Smith
even more bitterly. the critics are not
content with abusing him-they abuse
his great and upright friend Perry
Health
Truly, If republics are upgrateful
some Republicans are unfortunate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-18
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe

LFrom the AtchisOn Globe.l
What has become of the old fashioned
spectacle of a sleeping baby with it's
face covered with flies?
A boys idea of an original person is
one who doesn't say, How fast you
grow!' when he meets him.
An old fashioned person always car
ries a troche in one pocket to offer to
people who cough. if they are friends or
strangers.
They tell of an Atchison merchant
who can go to sleep in his chair, in the
middle of the day, and keep fan going
until he awakens.
They tell of a young man in Atchison
whose mother watches him very close
ly, when young girls are concerned, and
who is about to be gathered in by an
old maid.
In town close to Atchison. a Re
former woman formerly lived. Nothing
was Good Enough to suit her The old
residents say the Reformer, when she
was young, was quite fiirt.
A farmer came to town today look
ing for hand. He found one, but he
was drunk Taking the hand into a
restaurant, the farmer filled him up
with milk. Ever hear of that old-fash-
toned way Of SOLDERING a drunken man?
An Atchison woman who was such
good housekeeDer that all the men
pointed to her with pride, is now talking
art at a boarding house table. Her hus-
band, formerly sleek and contented
looking, is beginning to get the runaway
look in his eyes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-18
THE DYING POPE.

TFrom the Emporia Gazette
Here is a Protestant town; the num-
Der of Catholics in town is not large;
and the number of church goers of
any kind and all creeds is less than
half the population. Yet the most i'm
portant news item in the Gazette for
| two weeks has been the approaching
death of the pope. Protestants are as
deeply interested in the brave old
mans fight with death as are Cathol-
les. In all the world in fact. in the
Protestant world and in the Catholic
world, the news of the good old mans
battle is the first thing people read
Why? Is it because he is a world
power? No, for his power is slipping
away and he will soon be gone. Is it
because he has been great and power
full? Hardly. for it is not the awe of his
power that appeals to those whose re-
ligion has not taught them to feel it.
1t is chiefly because his life has been
good and decent and fair and kind ana
honorable.
Others have risen to power by their
strength, by their force, by their incar-
nate brutality But here is a man who
rules the hearts of all the world,
whether they agree with his creed or
not, whether they accept his pontifical
authority or not-a man who has risen
by his goodness of heart. He has
been patient He has been meek and
he has indeed and in truth inherited
the earth Amid all the quarrels and
incompetency of his doctors. which
would have made any other death bed
sordid, amid even the highly ridiculous
row among the undertakers. which has
been aired in the papers. the little OLD
man with a kind heart and keen eye.
goes out into the great unknown with
a dignity and a fine courage that make
the world lift it's hat as it passes He
has lived a good life. He has been of
the pure in heart" And the prom
Uses shall be kept to him; that is the
faith that sustains him. That is what
makes the end of any life. pope's or
laymans tranquil and blessed with the
peace that passeth understanding. That
is why when the tide of his life is ebb-
ing, the world. Protestant ard heather
and infdel and Jew and Gentle and
Moslem as well as those who keep the
faith. bow it's head in honest respect.
The end of the tide must come in a
few hours al the most and the good man
will cease his mission on this earth. To
most people of the English speaking
race the life of the pope as printed in
today's papers is not understandable
1t is the story of the rise of a man in a
Latin country, and the phraseology and
the terminolgy are not familiar. Amer
leans, who love the pope and believe him
what he surely was. a great factor in
the worlds improvement. cannot realize
his career, as for instance they can
realize and appreciate the career of
Grant or Lincoln or of Carnegie
There is none of the He was born
Of poor but honest parents and after
receiving a common school education
left home and entered the Office of Jones
& Hetherington where for three years
he studied at night and worked by
dav-" in the life of the pope. 1t is not
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-18
AMONG THE BOOKS.
Author Of "AIaddin O'Brien,'
Scion of Distinguished Family.

Among the scions of the old Knicker-
booker growth, is one who has made for
himself name in literature. From time
immemorial, the wealthy youths of New
York have pennsd graceful vers de
societe and such things. and printed
them at their own expense for private
circulation. But here is one who has
found a publisher, and at the age of &c
has written two books of such promise
that the literary critics nod their heads
and say, This Gouverneur Morris will
do He is a new force. for see what
spontaneity and vividness of style has
this Aladdin O'Brien' of hisl He trades
old lamps of literature for new. Let US
listen to him."
There is a familiar sound about the
name Gouverneur Morris, and when the
author of Aladdin O'Brien" invaded
the magic garden of letters the inquiry
was made: rs he related to the original
Morrises? ?"
Gouverneur Morris, Yale 9S, is great
great grandson of a statesman who took
a prominent part in the American Revo-
luton and later collaborated with others
in writing the Constitution of the Uni
ted States.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-18
JAYHAwKER JoTs.

The novelty has worn off and yelling
ton will not have a carnival this year.
The Parkerville school board pays the
principal $50 a month and furnishes a
janitor.
Seneca has a girl band that can't play
for sour apples, but they make it up in
looking sweet.
The Mole ST. Nicholas" of Kansas
seems to have been transferred from
Wichita to Salina.
| indication there will be a heavy berry
crop around Augusta this summer.
Nemaha county has a woman deputy
sheriff who can open court equally as
we'll as she can bake batch" of bis
cults.
Mr. Rule of Sharon is to sue the
Santa F'e for alleged flood damages. It's
the golden rule he desires to apply evil
IDENTIFY.
A factory at Marion had 1900 cigars
stolen the other night. 1t might be well
for the police to Smoke up a trifie
themselves.
Cherokee claims a half dozen widow
ers and sixty-one widows on the town.
site. No explanation is made of the
numerical difference.
OF course it pays to go fishing. A
Rocks county family were on the creek
when the fash of lightning came that
destroyed their residence
Behold how pleasantly it is for breth-
rem to dwell together in unity. The
editor of the Mankato Monitor has sued
the Advocate editor for $1,000 cash.
The clouds around Kinnison were
angry enough appearing the other even
ing to cause half dozen families to
flee to their storm caves for the night
British commission is to visit the
United States this autumn in search of
a model street railway system. If they
overlook Topeka they'll never regret it,
A Topeka man who attended a family
reunion at Edna for day says that
there were thirty-two present and 100
spring chickens were served.
The Lyons small boy who placed one
hand over the muzzle of the pistol be-
fore pulling the trigger thinks he can
go through life with seven fingers.
a Seneca man whose horses ran all
the way home with him from Bailey
vile says the only thing he lost during
the hurried trip was his reputation for
piety-
Inman's boy band has three weeks
engagement at the st. Louis exposition.
But they hasten to announce that it
isn't in connection with the Holy City,
opening.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-18
EDITORIAL COMMENT.
New Theory Of the Prairie Floods.

NOW AAoory OF the 9EalI1o 6lOOOS.
Pittsburg Chronicle.
A correspondent writing from Iowa
to the Chicago Inter Ocean advances
new theory in explanation of the
great floods in the prairie states. ana
one which deserves attention. He saya
that only few years ago all of the
greater portion of the Western country
was vast sodded prairie, that, like a
sponge. took up heavy rains, to then
gently flow away. Far out from the
larger streams the little says on the
nat sod lands with winding sodded
banks and bottom. and filed with tab
grass, then formed the natural drain
age Today almost every acre of sod
Is turned under, marsh land ditched.
every field is cultivated and furrowed
to drain quickly, straight roads with
ranged to carry the water away as
quickly as possible. The result is
flooded small streams. and if heavy
general rains. flooded rivers.
Ih1s reads like a rational explana-
ton. 1t is well known that districts
once covered with forests become sus-
ceptlble to Foods when the woods are
cut away, but that explanation viii
not DO for region always treeless.
like the prairie states The analogy is
there, however. IN forest countries the
mass or decaying leaves provides the
spongy ram receptacle corresponding to
the sodded prairies. In both cases the
removal OF natures sponge results in
hoods 1t is the duty of the prairie.
states TO cultivate trees, just as it is
the duty of regions once covered by
woods to resort to scientific forestry
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-18
ONE MORE UNFoRrUNArE.

One more unfortunate
Under the wheel,
Smashed to a pulp by an
Automobile
Lift 1t UP tenderly,
Move it with care,
Or you'll be getting it
Out of repair.
oh. that sad slip of hers,
What a delay it bringsi
Think of the trouble and
Exc the dismay it brings!
But Tor the heedleSsness
And for the needlessnesS
OF the child's fall
The chauffeur perhaps had made
Runs other chaps have made
No good at all
Why did her father
Or else her mother
Or her big sister
Or her big brother
Not keep her out of sight,
80 that she never might
Have caused all this bother?
Therel We're all set again.
Now, then, come onl
smell never fret again
Three minutes gonei
Never mind chickens now.
Go like the dickens now!
Just let her zip,
Maybe we still may make
Up down the hill we take
On the home trip.
S E. Kiser. in Washington Star.