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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10
The American Hen.

The average citizen does not pay the
American hen the respect that is her
due. In most farmers poultry yard
she is regarded somewhat contemptu-
cusly as mere incident of a general
business. There are instances where a
farmers wife or one of the farmers
children takes hold of that branch and
puts the head of the household to
shame, by making it the most profita-
bile feature of the whole establishment
but with most people in our country
the principal interest in the hen indus
try lies in the fact that tender chichen
meat is a rare luxury on their tables,
and that the price of eggs is now high
and getting higher.
1t was not so long ago, that there
in papers about the threatened ruin
Of the best sugar industry. yet our
whole sugar production, beet and other
wise, amounts to only one fourteenth
OF the value of the eggs and poultry
produced in this country each year.
Even the wool industry is only one
third as important A writer in New
York paper, who has been looking into
the census returns, and who evidently
appreciates the hen, figures out that
the poultry and eggs produced and
eaten in the United States, last year,
were worth more than all the gold and
silver mined in the world during the
same time.
the egg record of this country was
!, 30 100000 dozen. There are thirty
dozen to Il crate, and four hundred
crates to Il car, so a train of cars suffi-
Gent to accommodate the transporta-
ton of all these crates would reach
from Chicago to Washington, dis
lance of S6S miles, and then there
would remain several cars of eggs to
spare. In 1900 Iowa produced 99,O0O,-
900 dozen and Ohio 91,OOO,OOO, having
a value of over $10,000,000 for each
State. OF course the incubator has
considerable to do with poultry pro-
duction, but incubators do not lay eggs
In single year the value of the eggs
and poultry of the country has been
as high as $2S0,OOO.00O. And this
doesn't take into account the eggs that
were in the nests which were stolen
under the barn and in the tall grass of
the garden.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10

be enabled to enter without eXamina-
lions of any kind. This is explained as
follows The New England College
Entrance Certificate Board has been
recently formed, consisting of the fol-
lowing colleges: Dartmouth, University
of Maine, Bowdoin, Brown, Amherst,
Williams, Tufts, Smith, Mt. Holyoke,
Wellesley and possibly a few other
New England colleges. This board
will shortly hold a meeting, to which
Prof. George T. Files has been elected
as the Bowdoin delegate. At this
meeting the board will draw up a list of
requirements for the fitting schools to
meet. Those fitting schools which
meet the requirements will be enabled
to send students to any of the colleges
in the board without examinations;
but if any OF these approved fitting
schools send students who are not
properly fitted for college work such a
school will be dropped from the list of
approved schols until such time as it
can be shown by the rank of the men
that the school sends that it is again
fitted to be approved. For this purpose
a record will be kept of the work of all
his freshman year. This will cause the
approved schools to be careful about
the class of students that they send
and will cause the efficiency of all the
fitting schools to be Increased as all will
be anxious TO be among the approved
schools. One of the requirements of
the board is that no college connected
with it may admit a student on the
certificate of any school that is not on
the list of approved schools as pub
lished on the dGst M January each
year. Ear geafs the other Maine col
leges, and practically all the colleges
except Harvard and Yale, have adj
mitted students on certificates from
any preparatory school of good stand
ing, but conservative Bowdoin, deter
mined to keep the standard high, has
chung to the examination system. It's
system has kept it's classes much
smaller than they would otherwise
have been, for many boys whom the
other New England colleges would
promptly admit to regular standing
have been unable to pass its examina
lions and many others have been need
lessly frightened by them and gone
elsewhere on certificate rather than
work two days on examinations with
the possibility of failure. The innova-
ton does not mean that Bowdoin will
now let the bars down and lower the
standard for the greatest care will be
used in the selection of schools and the
work of those admitted on certificate
will be watched very carefully.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10
Boston Stock Market.
New York Produce Market.

New York, Oct 9.
FLOUR-Receipts, 1888; exports %, l55.2
sales, 1920. Quiet but steadily held.
RYE-Steady; No. , western, CO.,, nomi-
nal b af.oat.
BARLEY-Dull.
WHEAT-Receipts, 24,95O; sales. 2,15o0OO
futures spot easy; No. > red. 81 elevator;
No. , red, S9Ia b afloat; No. northern
Duluth, 901a b afloat; No. l hard Man
itoba; 81 T b atio ,at -... >, .,o
sales. 5000 futures. 1000 spot; spo;
steady; No. ., 5i1a elevator and 1914 { b
afioat; No. , yellow, !5; No. > white, 53i4.
OATS Receipts, $1,000; exports, 20,t09;
spot steady; No. red, Az; No. 8, l01s;
No. white, AZ track white, i2Ip46, stan
dard white, 4zA; No. white. 421@.
LARD-Weaker; western steamed, 7.25.
PORK-Easy.
LARD-Firm.
BUTTER-Firm; extra creamery, u:
state dairy. 15M19
GS-lrregular; state and Penna. fan
cy mixed, 2502G.
POTATOES-S Long Island, 1.S7di
2.15.
SUGAR-Raw, firm; refined, steady.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10
The Postal Frauds.

Only encouragement faces the DEM
ocratic leaders who hope to make party
capital for next years campaign out OF
the investigation of the frauds in the
postal department. In the first place,
1t is not necessary to emphasize before
the people the evils of graft and politl-
cal corruption; and in the next place,
the country we'll knows that these evils
have no more vigorous and determined
enemy living than President Roosevelt
himself, for he and his subordlnates
have used every means within their
reach to go to the bottom of the wrong
doing and to bring the offenders to
their just punishment.
But in addition to this fact which is
to them the most embarrassing, there
is also great embarrassment in the fact
that some of the most prominent of the
indicted officials are themselves Demo-
Gratis. The only Congressman who has
been indicted, or whose name has been
extensively IH'oi'Cu III tHC hi"CollSu-
ton, is Mr.. briggs, who was a Demo-
cratic Congressman from Brooklyn.
And Mr.. Machcn who was indicted for
corrupt practices in the rural free de-
livery department, received his ap-
pointment from President Cleveland.
He was then a Democratic worker in
Ohio and is relative of Mrs. Cleve-
land.
With the report of the indictments
returned this week, the conclusion of
the investigation of the postal scandal,
is reached and it now remains for the
courts to do their work. The investi-
cation has been full and fair, and about
80 persons have been indicted, a num-
Der of whom are outside the postal
service. Every scandal unearthed is to
be followed by prosecution, for both
President Roosevelt and Postmaster
General Payne are determined to wipe
out the stain which the discovery of
corruption has made on the name of
this great department. AS we said
above, the investigation and prosccu-
ton have nothing partisan in them, and
all good citizens will rejoice that
with no fear or favor shown.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10
What the People Want.

The Farm and Home. an excellent
agricultural paper having circulation
in every section of the country. has
been making a canvass Of its subscribe
ers during the summer to get their
views on various matters of national
Importance. Almost $4,000 replies were
received to the cards it sent out. and
the tabulated result as published in this
weeks paper gives an unbiased eX-
preston of public opinion, manly
from farmers and working people. to
singular degree Representative of the
whole country. Such vote is sure to
command wide attention and to inilu-
encc thought.
The question Should Congress give
money for good roads," received 35.461
votes in the Affirmative and 1890 mega
tive votes. The proposition for the es-
Establishment of parcels post 10 carry
merchandise at low rate, received
practically the same number of votes.
{ WnllC 1903 WERE Cdol d6dliiol IL A'tss
/ the usefulness Of a postal currency fcl
sending through the mails appeals to
] the rural population. which is often far
from the market in which it buys. is
indicated by the fact that 1866 votes
were cast in favor of such a currency.
There were 3171 who voted against it.
but their motive is hard to discover.
I There were 27,19S votes cast in favor OF
revising the protective tariff. as occa-
sion demands it, though the vote does
not indicate whether they favor a re-
vision which will give farmers more
protection or one that will give the
! manufacturer less. There were 1878
votes cast against any meddling what
ever with the present tariff.
The trust question was considered,
and it is interesting to find that 22,S54
of those who sent in answers, rccog-
nized that there are good trusts as well
as pad trusts and favored the laws
{ which will regulate such organizations
and keep them with safe bounds.
while Il, 100 voted for the absolute sup
preston of all trusts. A straw. if
straws were needed, which shows the
remarkable unarimity with which the
people favor the nomination of Presi-
dent Roosevelt as the Republican
candidate in 1894, is found in the fact
A that 33,106 votes were cast for him
with less than 1000 scattering. or the
scattering votes, 1888 were for Senator
Hanna, who ranks second. Another
straw equally significant which shows
the Democratic decentralization at this
time. is found in the expression of
preference for the Democratic candi-
date. Cleveland leads with 12,533
votes; while Bryan comes next, a poor
second, with 1921. Parker gets 1862;
Johnson. 4245; Hill, 2133; German.
$780, and Hearst 1445, while $500 votes
tare scattered among a hundred other
possible candidates.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10

When Rudyard Kipling lived in what
he called, "the great American pie belt
,the neighbors sometimes abused him,
thut it has remained for a Missouri
editor, reviewing his latest book of
}verse, to speak as follows: "kipling Is
the chief Of poetic slang mongers. and
&eliBs boss pen pusher of all those who
ldeai in literary hogwash, ridiculous
lrot. and the fascination of verbal
Sound
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10
Ny0gQ0yB GOSSIP
The Frost from Far Awav,

o. the year is growing old, and the sun
shine growing cold
And the shadows gather sooner every
day;
Every tree is touched with fire, each day
mounting high and higher,
And the night brings up the frost from
far away.
There are days of sunny calm when the
winds bring only balm,
And the fair blue sky above us bears no
cloud;
But the night creeps down the hill, and
the soft, sweet air grows chill,
AND with rage the prowling north wind
shriekS aloud.
Long ago each winged rover sang, Fare
well, the summers over,
Spread his wings and to the southwark
took his way;
Not scarlet 1nother-breast hovers DER
the empty nest,
All uncovered where the leaves have
fallen away.
.
o, the year is growing old, and the sun
shine growing cold.
Ard the winter coming nearer every
day;
But within, the hearth is warm, there is
shelter from the storm,
And we know the spring awaits us, far
away.
New York Sun
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10
flections of a Bachelor.

Friendship is partnership of interests.
A woman can stand 1t as long as she
can say all is lost save complexion
What people think about a woman
doesn't worry her; it is what they say.
After the devil invented curiosity he
never had to do any more work over the
problem of catching women.
A woman would wear even common
sense clothes if they were the fashion.
a woman is so queer that she can get
lonesome in house because there are no
mice in it.
A woman's logic is so cut on the biaS
that when she is all tired out from shop
ping she goes to a dance to rest herself.
If a woman was informed that the
world was coming to an end tomorrow she
would prepare for it by making d cake
today.
New York Press.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10

We note that the Bowdoin students
are organizing brass brand. 1t is
possible they are taking this way to
get revenge on those local Bashi-
EaZouks who took refuge behind wo-
men and children on the sidewalks and
lpelted the parade the other night. with
stale eggs and fragments of crushed
rock. And, by the way, in all the
newspaper accounts of that most dis
scrcditable affair we have seen no
mention of policeman or constable.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10

RRAN-Spring. 1925M1o.s8
MIXED E'EED-3o.2,0o2z,J0
COTTON SEED MEAI~-Steady.
PORK-Unchanged
LARD AND BEEF Unchanged. :
LAMB Steady.
VEAL~-Steady. :
BGI"TER-Fi:In: northern 22o527H.
CHEESi;-Firm; new, 1fazMi2
EGGS Unchanged fancy, 301t3!. east
ern, ..
POTATOES Steady; Eebrons. SOS.
SUliAR-Unehanged $50.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10

And now they are suggesting that If
Sir Thomas Upton cannot be English
Ambassador to this country, the APP
rointment might properly fall to Lord
Denbigh, the commander of the Lon
don Honourables who are so valiantly
storming the punch bowls of our
American cities.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10
New York Cotton Market.

Now YORK, Oct. ?.
Cotton spot closed quiet. MiddI.ng up
lands, 900; d.. gulf 9.s5. Sales. III bales.
Cotton futures closed steady. October,
oil: November. 9lJ: December 9.2l: jan
uary, 3lS: February. 313; March, 81:
April. 9.25; May, 926; june 3.2S; July, 90.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10

one hundred and two hundred yards
the sitting and standing positions are
prescribed Wherever the sitting
position is prescribed the kneeling may
be substituted, but for the majority Of
persons the sitting is by far the better
position of the two.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10

Standing, kneeling, sitting and lying
down are the four positions prescribed
Tor hiring by the army regulations.
me lying position alone is prescribed
Tor the eight hundred and one thou
sand-yara, ranges while at all other
ranges up to two hundred yards the ly-
ing and sitting positions are used. At
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10

Sam Parks will not accept that offer
of $4,000 for a series of lectures. He
has a pressing engagement at Sing Sing
In the immediate future, and besides If
he were to be free, he knows how to
make money in the walking delegate
business faster and more easily than by
.lecturing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10

The large and brilliant audience
which filled City hall, last evening, to
welcome Suzanne Adams, was credit
toxour city, and was worthy the attrac-
ton offered. With such a beginning.
the course cannot fail to be the un-
qualified success that it deserves to be.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10

In spite of all the political confusion
in New York the issue is really very
simple one. Do the people of that
city want Richard Croker to come
back and rule them?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10

Tom Johnson may play golf with
Myron Herrick, his Republican oppon-
ent for the governorship of Ohio,
between campaign engagements, as the
photograph reproduced in the picture
papers show, but the people who do the
voting will never insist on golf practice
as a prerequisite to office-Omaha Bee.
Probably not, though it looked as
though they might, few years ago,
when the golf epidemic first broke
loose. But now that game is on the
decline and people who never even
learned the golf dialect are being
recognized in good society the
politicians are realizing that another
great national danger has been averted.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10

What is the matter with Sadie Mac,
the Maine born and bred three-yesr-
old that goes down into Kentucky and
wins the great Futurity with a purse
of $4,000, and is then sold for $4,000?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10
1auy kennebee Journal
nsTABLIsHED 1928.

- 0o45ee Whatever win b. taken OF
undgnsd communications.
for the preservation or return Of re-
3ooted communications.
Aadrees oil communications relating to
subscriptions and Advertiseme nts to
1URLEIGH 4 FLINT. Pukl.sherf,
Augusta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10

There is an abundant supply of coal
in all the Maine cities, this fall, and ii
is hard to realize that it is only Il year
ago that everybody was shivering at
the prospect of fuel famine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10

Porto Rico is to have a university.
Some of the plans are we'll along, but
no football schedule has yet been arr
ranged.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10

Thirteen is not an unlucky number
when it represents the number of new
clubs joined TO the III already COM
prisng the Maine Federation.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10
Boston Produce Market.

Boston, Oct 9.
SO.
CORN-FYrm; No. . yellow, 5sA.
OATS-Higher; No. 2 clipped. 4Jg45R
MILL FEED-Quiet and steady.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10

Professor Langley isn't discouraged
by the sinking of his airship beneath
the muddy waters of the Potomac and
will try again. This reminds one of
the famous definition of a second mar
riage-.the triumph of hope over eN-
perience.'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10

In spite of the prophecies of tn
croakers. the game shipments ar
right up to the record.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10

Beginning next year radical change
will be made at BowGoin College in re-
gard 10 the admission of students. IF
has always been the rule at Bowdoin
that in order to be admitted to the col
lege an applicant must pass an ex-
animation, but beginning next wear
the graduates from certain schools will
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10
;:cW Yc.1 STOCK MA?kE-

Furnished Daily by the Federal Stock
and Grain Co, Office, Opera House
Block. Augusta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10

The Bangor News is unable to re-
cover from the shock of the announce
ment that the Maine building at ST.
Louis will be log cabin.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10
Chicago Produce Market.

chicago, OCt. y.
Dominated by the action of outside mar
kets with that of Minneapolis as leader
the wheat maSltet was extremely erratic,
today. After making big gains. early.
weakness was manifested, December clos
ing loss of &c. December corn and oats
were each off X, while provisions kept ur
their losing gait. the January products
closing from 21s to 15c. lower.
The leading futures closed as follows:
WHEAT-Dec., 1875; May, 78A.
CORN-Oct., 447s; Dec, 4oA: May. Az.
OATS-Oct., 567s; Dec, 367s937; May, 37R
MESS PoRK-oct., 100; Jan, 1l.s5;
May, 1205.
6.57h.
SHORT RIBS-Oct, $50; Jan. 6.S2ils.
Cash quotations were as follows:
FLOUR-Strong; No. 3, 7S9S2; No. red,
7s1AaiS0
CORN-No 2, 4511s6l46; No. 2 yellow Il.
OATS-No. ., 81; No. white, 3I1a13S q.
RYE--No. 3 SO.
BARLEY-42u45.
MALTING-46GD5S
FLAxSEED-No. /, 95; No. north
western, 1.02
TIMOTHY SEED-2.s0.
MESS PORk-11. 00dp11 1sia-
LARD-6.T1a.
SHORT RIBS, SIDEs-S. 22555S.50.
SHOULDERS-Dry sailed, 6..UM675.
SHORT CLEAR SIDES-S.J098.15
CLOVER-11 3l6I11 20
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10

Speaking of the Maine building al
ST. Louis, what is the matter with the
st. Louis postoffice? 1t is built OF
Maine granite.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10

The Maine Teachers Association
meets this year for the first time in
October instead of during the winter
vaction season, as has been its GUS
tom in years past The meeting wiz
be held in Augusta 1t will be held
during term time and as teachers will
be excused for the meeting. it is ex-
pected that there will be much
larger attendance than has ever been
recorded. Two especially interesting
features of the program will be ad-
dresses by William j. Long and
Henry T. Bailey. Mr.. Long has be-
come familiar to thousands of readers
through his nature studies, his stories
of animal life closely approaching in
interest, if not surprising, those of
Ernest ThompsonSeton What Mr..
Long writes or says attracts the more
attention now from the controversy
that has been raging between him
and the renowned John Burroughs.
from which, in the estimation of i'm
partial critics, Mr.. Long energies a
decided victor. Mr.. Bailey has for
years been recognized as one of the
most entertaining lecturers in New
England and he is sure to hare a
crowded house.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10

Gardiner is one of the few places that
has never adopted the one session plan
in it's High school. 1t has chung to the
old two session system to which Bath
and Water.ille have now returned
after having had one session for sew
eral years.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10

The Machias Union puts in I. plea for
two things which the town is in need
of. The first is a sewerage system and
the second is IA park where fairs. horse
trots and ball games may be held.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10

T. d. Crissman. Mgr.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10

Maine hospital authorities are inter-
ested in the announcement that Mr..
daughter Lolita was permanently cured
of congenital dislocation of the hips by
the great German surgeon, Dr..
Lorenzo. is to establish a chair Of
surgery after the LorenZ school in at
least one hospital in the leading city Of
every state and territory in the United
States and several in Canada.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10

usual share of the hOnOrs, this fall
The first person down Machias way to
bring down a deer, this season, was
Mrs. Frank Allen who shot one at 5 4.
NJ. of the day the law was off. At
Srrague's Mills in Aroostook county
the best record for picking potatoes is
reported by Il young woman and her
two daughters, who picked in ore day
two hundred barrels besides doing the
house work.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10

Riddeford Journal: At time when
50 many men are being mistaken for
wild denizens of the forest, and While
the careless sportsnen escape punish
ment SO readily, why would it not be
Il good idea for the "habituaL" who
lines up before His Honor with more or
less regularity, to sink the old excuse
and give proceedings touch of va
ricty by pleading that he was acct
dentally shot?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-10

A couple married at Mars Hill. this
week. had more than it's share of
trouble. First the minister was an
hour late and then the floor timbcrs
gave way and precipitated the as
semblcd company into the cellar.
Finally when the knot had been tied
the horse ran away when it was tax
ing the couple to the train. However,
they survived all the catastrophes. and
after waiting five hours for another
train they made their escape.