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Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-08-10
A GREAT HONEY YEAR.
-ots of Sweetness on Long Island for
the Bees to Gather.
(New York SUM-

(New York Sum-
That it has been an unusual and to
the farmer, an Improbable season. no
one will deny. On Long Island espec-
tally all work done in the spring was
virtually money thrown away and
farmers are, even now, busy replanting
and in some cases reploughing for
what should have been early crops.
But the drought has it's compensa,
tions. One of them is found in the
fact that the honey dew is here-an un-
failing sign of prosperous honey year.
Among the hills of Long Island the
maple trees glisten with it and about
Hampstead, the chestnut leaves have
been sticky with it's sweetness. 1t can
be seen when not excessively heavy
glittering upon the surface of leaves
like freshly sprinkled water, but, un-
like water, it is slightly sticky to the
touch and to the tongue it's taste is
delicately sweet.
An old farmer will tell you that it
falls at night like ordinary dew. Sci
ence, however, describes it as a sweet
liquid secreted by certain small ho-
mopterous insects such as plant lice,
hoppers, which congregate on the
leaves and barks of various plants and
trees, notably pines, oaks and beeches,
and suck their juices
This sweet liquid is "often taken up
by the bees as it falls on the surround
ing vegetation" 1t is usually of an
inferior quality, though that from
pine tree aphides is sometimes fairly
good. Most of it granulates very .soon
after having been gathered, sometimes
even before the cells have beeen
sealed
Also known as honeydew is a sweet
exudation which, under peculiar con-
ditions of the atmosphere, drops from
the leaves of certain plants to be ca
gerly taken up by the bees. "This sub
stance is sometimes very abundant
and of excellent quality--apparently
an accidental emulation through the
plant pores, brought about, very like
ly by some sudden change of tempera-
ture," and is merely the saccharne
juices of the plant which, when re-
fined, may become excellent honey.
The bees this year have made an un-
usual growth. The boughs of all trees
bend and sway as if laden with heavy
fruit and lift their crests like a mass
of soft, impenetrable plumes. For this
reason the sweet juices of the trees
may be excessive, doubly sweetened by
those golden days of the long spring
drought-for the longer the drought
the thicker the honeydew. Now each
rain which washes away the honey
dew is the honey bees loss and the
farmers gain.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-08-10
SAW THE WALKING DELEGATE.
One Instance Where {. Strike Occurred
Just in Time to Save ChiId's Life.
(New York SUM-

"Of course it is wrong if builders and
contractors have paid walking dele
gates to declare strikes on rivals work,
or on their own when they were i'll
trouble, and needed a little counter-ir-
finishing on time" said a man from
another city the other day; "but
know of a case where the power of the
walking delegate was invoked in or
dering strike and child's life was
saved.
can acquaintance of mine had a
child desperately ill with spinal men
ing;tis, and it was a question of keep
ing the patient quiet, of keeping
noise at a minimum. AS it happened,
next door to the house where he was
ill Il modern steel structure was going
up, and the housesmiths We're rivet-
ting beams with all the noise that
goes with their work. 1t was summer,
and that made matters worse.
my friend went to the contractor,
who was under penalty and declined
to stop work; he tried to reach the
owner. offering to make good the loss,
but the owner was away. He went to
Tic bOdil VI I1tdllH anu SOI liC ploo
pect of immediate relief.
AT last it was a matter of only
few hours to do this-he happened to
meet a friend, who knew something
of the methods of some walking dele
gates, and at his suggestion, he saw
the delegate of the union whose MEM
bers were making a noise.
1.-The delegate was impressed with
my friends arguments, and when the
time came for the men to resume work
aftar the noon hour, strike was Or
dered. Not a hammer was lifted
against a rivet for three days. At the
end of that time, the men went back
to work as inexplicably as they had
left; but meantime the child had turned
the corner and was getting we'll
II don't know what my friend said
or did, of course; but he said the re-
suit was worth all it cost him.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-08-10

stonington-July 26, George w Gott and
Mrs Addie S. Morey, both of Deer Isle
Par Harbor-July 90, Daniel ID. woods
and Miss Matilda Reburn, both OF Bar
'SSarGantvillc- S. july 80. Michael d; Eaton
and Miss Minnie A. Eaton, both OF Deer
Isle. ,ro.;o,. 90
Sedgewick-July 80, Colby a. Tozier' OF
Patten, and Miss Alice Hopkins rye oi
Sedgwick-
Thomaston-Iuly 2S, Ernest l.. Durost
and Miss Margaret f. Williams.
LINCOLN.
Rremen-July 26. Mr.. Sherman Prior and
Miss Mary E. McClain, both of Bremen.
OXFORD.
South Paris-July 90, Everett f. Reed
of Lewiston and Phylena +. Lord OF
South Paris.
Norway and Emma Alice Briggs, of
Bethel; James Philip McCready of Berlin,
n. IT., and Delvina A. Labin of Norway.
PENOBSCOT.
Bangor-July 30, William A. Mosher and
Miss Sarah E. Maxwell
Medway-July 80, Mark p. PoWers ana
Florence Thompson. both of Midway.
Argyle--July 26, Oscar III. McPheters OF
Olamon and Miss Sadie N Mcleod OF
Argyle.
and Minnie M. Hall, both of Orneville.
SAGADAHOC.
FAITHFULLY 2S, Paul Within Orvis OF
New York, and Miss Ida Helen Tarbox,
of Bath.
SOMERSET.
West Ripley. Aug. 5, Arad E. Linscott
and Miss Grace Farrar.
WASHINGTON.
Machas-July %, Edward McCooL OF
Machias and Caroline Johnson of Mime
apolis, MINI.
Machiasport-July q, William X.
Holmes and Mrs. Edwina Quinn.
MISCELLANEOUS
Cambridge, Mass.-July 49, William M
Beach, of Boston, and Ethel w: Gray OF
Portland.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-08-10

Two unpleasant StOrieS-and shame
full stories-come from Terre Haute, In
diana. The employers of Private Loeb,
national guardsman, have discharged
him for obeying orders and going with
his company to the yearly camp. Their
names are not published yet; they
should be- Loeb's comrade, Jacob
Daily, has lost his job, too, and for
what offense? He obeyed his states
orders, went to Evansville with his
company, and did one soldiers part
in putting down the mob. The fore
man, who told him to get out, volun-
teered an explanatory remark:
"Militiamen are no good, anyhow" he
said The time is coming in this coun-
try, and coming fast, when employers
who discharge patriotic men for doing
their soldierly duty will find them
selves in the ungentle grip OF the law.
Hartford Courant.
The Courant is right. Such an atti-
tude on the part of employers is even
worse than the recent action of the
Schenectady labor union which eX--
pelled a man for belonging to the Ma
tional Guard. The union deserved the
severe condemnation which met its ac-
ton from all parts of the country. Ser
vice in the militia is duty of citizen
| ship which should be encouraged by
all good men and organizations.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-08-10
Personal Notes.

Raymond Robbins, of Chicago, has be-
come head resident of the Northwestern
University settlement.
Major w. H. Hammer, the soldier who
pulled Old Glory from the flagstaff at
Fort Sumpter, has just taken up his resi-
dence i'll Los Angeles, Cal.
Jacob S. johnson. of Fairhaven, Mass,
is the only surviving member of i'eary' $
famous expedition to Japan. which OPEN
ed the ports of that country to foreign
err
Prof Waldo s. Pratt, musical doctor
of Hartford Theological Seminary, has
accepted a commission from n New York
publisher of music to write history of
music.
DR.. w. p, Horton, a dentist. of Cleve-
land, o.. has made a complete collection
of forceps representing the toothpull-
ers' from four hundred years ago up to
the present time
DR.. Carl Peters, who is called the
Cecil Rhodes of Germany, is now in Lon
don, preparing to set forth on another
Journey to East Africa, in the neghbor-
hood of the Zalnbes.
A Baptist clergyman, Rev. Alonzo A.
study of the weather for sixty years, and
has Travelled thousands of miles in his
missionary work.
A monument of light granite which will
be placed on the grave of Rear Admiral
Sampson, at the National Cemetery at
Washington, has just been completed bv
firm in Northtied, VT, and shipped to
Washington.
Students of archaeology from North.
South and Central America, will meet at
Evanston, H., next month. The meet
ings win be at the residence of Voinev
W. Foster, member of the commission
appointed by President Roosevelt.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-08-10

The Boston Herald suggests that if
Uncle Sam could manage to get up
dicker with England and trade her
Hawaii, Porto Rico, Guam and the sew
eral hundred of Philippine islands for a
little strip of land called Manitoba,
which joins us on the north, n good
many of his people would compliment
his long -headedness. This same Man
itoba is the greatest wheat producing
country in the world, and it would
be nice addition to Uncle Sans farm,
but such a trade as the Herald sug
gests is another story. 1t is not at all
improbable that Manitoba will some
time be under our flag, but it is highly
improbable that Hawaii or Porto Rico
or Guam or the Philippines will ever
be under any other flag than that
which now flies over them.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-08-10
MARRIED..
AROOSTOOK.

AROOSTOOK.
Houlton-July 90 Arthur Fl. Whitman of
Portland. and Miss Evangeline NJ Garri-
son. of Houton.
Presque Isle-July 26. Wesley s. Lint. of
Fort Fairfield and Miss Catherine Smith
Of Caribou.
CUMBERLAND.
Portland-July %. Horace Watson and
Martha Faulkner both Of Portland: July
rs, Coburn G. Palmer of FoXcroft, and
Miss George v. Young of Bar Harbor:
Westbrook-Aug ), Harry r. Higgins
and Miss Junie Maud Hasey both of
Westbrook.
FRANKLIN.
Farmingtcn-Aug. 5, Arthur A. Savage
and Miss Edna May Gerry, both OF Farm
ington.
Phillips-Aug l. Ira S. Berry and Miss
Goldie Mae Durrell, both of Madrid
HANCOCK.
Dedham-July 26, Nathan e.. kenney
AMI Mrs. Abbie f. Hughes, both OF Or
land.
Surry-July 25. Charles Sargent, of Els
worth, and Fannie Mank, OF Surry;
Ellsworth-July %, Harry T. Haynes
and Miss Inez b. Smith, both OF Ellis
worth. go
Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-08-10

thought it was made by some children
throwing something over. Mrs.
Coombs, who was one of the party,
looked around and saw her little girl
floating out from the landing stage.
The child was at once rescued. She
did not open her mouth from the time
she fell over until she was s.fely
landed on the stage, and when she first
came up after going down once began
padding with her hands. She said
afterwards that she had often heard
her father say that any one who fell
overheard should not get excited, but
keep the mouth shut and paddle slowly
with the hands.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-08-10
Reflections of a Bachelor.

Grass widows make very poor hay even
hen the sun shines.
The biggest bargain counter of the
world for women is the altar.
Generally the more kinds of foolishness
there are in mans family the more it
is concentrated in himself.
The best way for wife to make her
husband not afraid of some other woman
is to make him afraid of her.
When you ask girl if she has read any
interesting books lately she begins to sus-
pect you are in love with her.
New York Press.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-08-10

General Young's period at the head
of the army will be the shortest as well
as the last. After exactly week as
lieutenant general he will become chief
of staff under the new army reorgan-
15 And then, too, he will remain but a
short time, for the ineXorable years are
after him and Jan. 8, 1904, he will reach
the age limit of ga, toIwhich General
Miles had to surrender, last Saturday.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-08-10
(@0lQNVB Gossip
Old Home Week.

The crowds that fill the worlds highway
And throng the city street
Turn back to quiet paths today
Where town and country meet.
Where town and country meet, they share
Again the rative's wholesome fare.
The voice of home is clearer now
rhan any stranger lure,
And August paths prove sweetly how
The joys of home endure.
For like glad children, once again
we tarry in the old home glen.
The little lanes are calling out
Where we have hurried by,
And old-time faith dispes the doubt
Rcneath the homeland sky.
Here let us put old fears away,
And just be glad, a summers day.
Frank Walcott HUT.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-08-10

The Journal linotypes seemed to have
banks, in Saturdays issue, and played
US two tricks by knocking off the
millions when we attempted to speak of
the amount of deposits. In this column
the present total deposits in Maine's
savings banks were given as $7S1,073
when they should have been $74,7S1, ,073;
and in the total columns the deposits in
the Augusta Savings bank were given
as $431 200 when they should have read
$7,431.000. 1t makes quite difference
when those first figures are dropped off.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-08-10
MON MOUTH.

One of the pleaSanteSt local affairs
enjoyed by party of friends who were
together, last week, after many years
separation, was that of Thursday, when
by invitation OF. c. l.. Andrews, Esq.
and Mrs. Andrews of Augusta, the
party left, in the morning, for Island
Park. They were met by Mr.. and Mrs
Andrews and taken in a steam launch
down the length of Cobbosseecontee.
Returning, the party were served at
Hotel Pines with most delicious shore
dinner, after which the party went to
Augusta via trolley, and later to Togus,
to enjoy a band concert. At 6 o'clock
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrews entertained
their guests with an elaborate course
dinner in their pleasant home. Later
in the evening, the party took cars for
Monmouth, declaring their host and
hostess royal entertainers, and the day
a red letter one. Among these invited
were: Mrs. Hattie Blake Given of New
Mexico; Mrs. May Marston Norris of
Illinois; Mrs. Augusta Owen Smith of
Houlton, Me-: Mrs. Mary Dudley Blake
of Monmouth; Mrs. Ida Gott Cochrane
of Monmouth: Miss Hattie Emma
Clifford and Miss Nellie E. Marston of
Monmouth; Mrs. d. r. Marston and
Rev. G. e. Owen of Waterville, who
was for two or three years principal of
Monmouth Academy while this class
was at school there. 1t is safe to say
no teacher was ever more universally
beloved. Mr.. Andrews was a member
of this class. This was the first re-
union of teacher and pupils in twenty
years, and Old Home Week will not
bring together a happier company. Mrs.
Given will return very soon to New
Mexico and Mrs. Norris to Illinois.
Miss Smith leaves, Saturday, for
Eastern Maine
Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-08-10
Tired Mothers.

It's hard work to take care of chill
dren and to cook, sweep, wash, sew and
mend besides.
1t makes shop of the home-a shop.
too, where sixteen hours make a day
and yet there is much working over
time.
Hoods Sarsaparilla helps tired moth
ers in many ways-it refreshes the
blood, improves the appetite, and as
sures restful sleep.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-08-10
LIGHT AND AIRY.
Love Letters.

Tess-Mav Somers has gone to tho sea-
shore for a week. and before she left she
developed wonderful affection for me.
Jess-HoW was that?
Tess-She made me promise I'd write
to her every day.
Jess-I see her scheme. You write such
a masculine hand she'll be able ITO bluff
all the other girls.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-08-10

An Indiana woman who lost her voice
several years ago was struck by light
ming recently, and the shock restored
her speech. They say she hasn't
stopped talking yet, and the lightning
rod people are making lot of capital
out of the incident because the house
was not fitted with lightning rods.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-08-10
oaiIy kennebee Journal
EsTABLIsHED 1926.

10 notice whatever will be taken OF
unsigned communications.
The JournsI cannot be held responsible
for the preservation or return OF re-
5eeted communications.
Address all communications relating to
subscriptions and advertisements to
BUaLEIGH & FLYNT, Publishers.
Augusta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-08-10
Pleasant.

"Why does that sentimental Miss
Moody waste her time so with that
worthless young drug clerkg'
She considers him an ideal lover. She
says it's so comforting to think, if any
one should interfere with their love how
easy it would be for him to get the best
poison with which to end their suffer
ingS."
Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-08-10

The encampment of the State militia
in connection with the war manouvers
is expected to be a decided improve
ment from a military standpoint over
the training obtained at State en-
campment at Augusta. The battalion
will march from Portland just as if 1t
were going to engage in actual warfare
The militiamen will be in heavy march
ing order and the camp life will be
totally different from that of muster
week. All the time the soldiers are in
camp they will be practically resting
upon their arms, as it were, ready to
respond in an instant to the long roll
which may call them to arms. The
men will report for duty in Portland,
Aug. 21st. They will be equipped for
the first time with folding tents and all
the dishes. cooking utensils, etc. that
would be required did a State OF. actual
warfare exist. o..
Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-08-10
Continuous Performance.

Miss Olcmade has such a disappointed
lcok?"
Eyes, she's disappointed every night of
her life. She still clings to the habit of
looking under the bed to sec if there's IL
man there.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-08-10
Unscat

Toni asked old Goldman for his
daughter last night.
Dick-What luck?
Tom-Wcll. it was what you might call
a run of luck. | got away.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-08-10

Brunswick had grand hobo hunt,
the troublesome varmints who have
been making housewives in that section
nervous of late.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-08-10
STATE NEWS.
KENNEBEc.
CHINA.

Ferdinand Mitchell went to Clinton,
to visit his uncle, Wednesday.
Bert Abbott is hauling potatoes to
Warerville, for F. C. Ward
Mrs. Charles Pinkham will have a
quilting at her home, Thursday. All
are invited.
Miss Lizzie Balentine has been visit
ing at Fred Braggs, on China Neck, for
a few days.
Edward Randall is i'll.
The. young folks had a picnic at Ran
dal!s Point, Monday.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-08-10

A Chicago family in which a servant
has remained for 81 years says that it
has come about because both mistress
and servant have followed the Golden
be tried with profit in other families.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-08-10

The August moon is now full and the
season for souvenir spoons along the
Maine shore is at it's height.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-08-10

Somehow. we landlubbers cannot get
deeply interested in the war game up
to date. go i
Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-08-10

The collegians and summer hotel
young people do not have monopoly OF
the yell business. At the State conven-
ton of the Y. p S. c. E. at Yarmouth,
last week one of the hits was the fol-
lowing yell, or sentiment" as one cor
respondent calls it, which first gained
popularity through the efforts of the
Maine delegation at a national conven-
ton:
Maize, Maine,
She's on the train,
AS firm and true as ever;
First in muscle,
First in brain,
And first in Christian Endeavor."
Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-08-10
EASTERN STEAMSHIP COMPANY
kennebeo Division.

Commencing, Monday June %, 1908,
steamer Della Collins will leave Augusta
at 1.30 p. NJ. Hallowell at 2. daily, except
Sunday, connecting with main line steam
ers, leaving Gardiner at 3.35, Richmond at
4, Bath at and Popham Beach at p. M.
for Boston.
Returning steamers leave Union Wharf,
Boston, daily, except Sunday, at P. M,
for landings on the river, connecting at
Gardiner with steamer for Hallowell ai,..
ALLEN PARTRIDGE. Agt., Augusta, Me.
c. A. COLE, Agt., Hallowell, Me.
6oothbay Division.
In Effect June %, 1903
Leave Bath at $50 A. M. daily, except
Monday, for. Christmas Cove and inter-
Isle of Springs and Spruce Point; con-
Meeting at Mouse Island for Capitol Is
land Ocean Point. Linewin, Mt. Pleasant
permitting) and East Boothbay daily, ex-
cept Sunday and Monday. For Irmaqui6
Beach Ia and Harbor. Sundays only.
c,5 Leave Bath Bat at S.S5 A. M. DALI. except
land, Isle Of Springs. Southport, Mouse
and Squirrel Islands, Boothbay, Heron
Island, Christmas Cove. Pemaquid Beach
and Harbor: connecting at Mouse Island
Tor Capitol Island and Ocean Point
r, Leave Bath at 2.S0 P. NJ. daily, except
Snniday' sa1nin for r, Boothbay and Ocean Point.
calfng e IN ga at all all landings except Capitol Is
Leave Boothbay at 7.15 A. NJ daily, ex-
cept Sunday. for Bath and intermediate
Leave Ocean Point at GLE A. M. for
capitol Island. connecting at Mouse Is
land with steamer tor Bath daily, ex-
cept Sunday.
Leave East Boothbay at u.4o A. M.
dally, except Sunday and Monday, for
South Bristol dide .permittirg). Christmas
CoYH; csIY;na Heron t Island. Booth3ay and Bath.
;Southport; Isle of Springs, Sawyer's Is
land anu Westport Jc.
Leave Pemaquid Iarbor at lis p. M.
dGaily Gy for Bath and Boston via Christmas
Cove, Heron Island, Squirrel and Mouse
Islands, Southport, Five Islands, NC
MAJ tMxahans Riggsville and Westport juno
ton, via Boothbay at $50 p. M, Sundays
only, at 240 P. NJ. Mondays only. Via
CCapitol Island daily. except Monday.
on on tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays
at i'ag Z NJ, via. Mt. Pleasant. Linekin
ana ana Ocean Point, connecting at Capitol
Island asi,. for Bath. On Mondays only, ieavs
nA,urray Hill at 1.50 p. NJ. calling at Mt
Pieasant, LineFin, Ocean Point. Souirrei
Island and Capitol Island, Isle of Springs,
Junction, "SP"s
Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-08-10

The caterpillar pest which was so ba(
in Augusta, early in the SummeriS now
invading Portland.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-08-10

Through tickets to California and all
points South and West may be had of z.
HI Walker ticket agent, Augusta, the
4 only office in Augusta selling via all
routes and checking baggage free Of ex-
pense.
GEO. F. EVANS. F. E. BOOTHBY,
v. Pres & Gen. Mag'r., g. P. & T.. A.
Portland Me-.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-08-10
Popham Branch.

In effect June % to Sept. IL.
Leave Popham Beach daily, except Sum
DAY, at A. M. and P. M
heaWe " Bath daily. except Sunday. at
burg, Hinckleys, Coxs Head and Bay
Point In both directions,
o. o.. =. GREENI.EAF, G. E. A., Bath, Me.
n. Al LEWIS. Agt.. Boothbay Harbor, Me.
a. II; HANSCOM, G. P. e. T. A.
CALVIN AUSTIN, v. p. e Gent NRr.
Fosters Wharf Rostop
Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-08-10

There is a welcome for all who come.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-08-10
YORK.

~, orcbard-Aug. 8, Mrs. Maria Step
henson, aged Ct years. ,o,rs
Bridgewater. MassFyRulyyo !, FyRualyyoTyiille. Vi eranA L.
shsttasf 1,aaIaea "stlVS 4. July o ~ o. Mrs chas
p. Johnson, of Bath.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-08-10

That was pretty hopeless thief who
tried to steal a lot of stuff from the
harness shop when he was released
from State prison.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-08-10

In spite Of crusades and appeals
Old Orchard continues to break the
Sabbath into minute fragments.