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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-09
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-09

1t is ''womanlike." We know.
Yet when we pick up n book
We read but page or so.
Then We take a quiet look
At the last page-at the end
And We fear no wild alarms
That the subtle plot may send
If he" has her" in his arms. .
Then We start to read again;
Chuckle ut the hero's woes,
At his struggles all in vain;
Laugh because he never knows
That the damsel young and fair.
Who his vows of love has spurneu'
VIII be meekly waiting there
When the final page is turned.
And the villain-all his fun :,
Would be rendered flat, and spolieu'
All his schemes. so well begun,
Would be very tamely foiled
If he knew the secret, too
Knew the truth his heart to lauHt'
What the heroine would do, 40,
How she'd tell him to 'Avaunt.
Often when the hero seems
Just about to leave the race
Thinks his hopes are idle dreams
And the odds too great TO lace
Or the herOine-when she
Wanders round, full or despair
We turn to the end, and see
How it winds up happy, there.
Fathers rage, or mothers scorn;
Scheming, shrewd adventuress'
Make the hero all forlorn
And it's ticklish. you'll CONFESS
But we inwardly advise: .+,,,
Cheer up, This will soon ne P'''
For the last page makes us WIS.,,
There he mrrmurs: Mine at last.
w. ID. n. in Chicago Tribune.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-09

passenger trains leave Augusta az foL
lows:
THROUGH TRAINS.
GOING WEsT-232 4. n, dam
except Monday. for Portland aaa
Boston. go x Nj, for Lewis s,s
Bennington. Phillips, Rocllland Po-t,
Land, Boston, BridStQn, Montreal AL
Quebec. 1870 A. NJ for Bruins WICK, Le..
iston, Pennington, Phillips. Carrabass.
Rangeley, Rockland. Portland, Bosir
n Conway, Fahyans. J-lncaster. CD
ham, n. H.. Berlin Fails. Gloveton,
Stratford. Island Pond. Coiebrook All
Beeceher Falls SO p. NJ. local to Pot.
land; 3.47 P. NJ, express for BrunsyiSk
Portland and Boston, connecting b,
Bath, Portland, Lewiston. Cornish. Brldg.
ton, No. Conway. and Bartlett 10 r.
N. for So Gardinfr. .l0;:s ?. II (niga
Pullman) every night for Lewiston, BAH
Portland and Boston
GOING EAST-I3.59 A II. might er.
PRESS for SkuwheEan. Eansor, silr Har.
Dor, st. stephen, tCalafsl, St. John. Eai.
fax and AroostOok County ana 10 Wash.
ington Co. r. r.; sunday morning. Going
east does not connect for Skowhegan,
Belfast. Foxcroft, Or beyond Bangor; 81
A NJ, for Waterville. Foxtrnft and Ban
gor: 9.10 a. NJ. for Nat-rvilie. Defast
Skowhegan. Bangp; aru E:i,-:.e sport: LIS
Z. NJ, MaterNilie, IJ5sroTt t;arsDr Old
Town. Ps1tcn; H4,Iltyfs ail ! lriAta via
(Cadafst IIouiton. Woodstock St John
and Halifax and to Lewiston Via OAKLAND
and Winthrop; $50 2. M. express for Va X
terville, Bangor. Bar Hsrhor, Wash Ca
r. K. Old Town -1reenvilIe: 319 P N,
for Watervil1e. Oakland. North Ansuu,
bingham. SlSowhegar, Hc;f5s.. F+oxcroa.
Greenville, Bangor Old Town ana Malta.
wamkeaE; 7.5O p NJ. for Watervilie
SUNDAYS-Going West, 2S2 \ T., tx
Portland. EtSton: los a. Nj: 1C.SS ?. N,
for Brunswick, Bath. Portland and Bos
ton. Going east, 12.59 A. NJ might Ban
gor. 9-l5 A. NJ, for Watervilla, Skowhegan
and Bangor; go P. NJ. Bangor.
The Night Pullman Train leaving Of
l2.9 4. M, Sunday morniaE. going east
does not connect for SkoWhcgan, Belfast
Foxcfoft or east of Bangor
Anc,nnrnInr
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-09

Egyptian fishermen receive SO per thou
sand for cells caught in Lake Mensaleh.
These are salted and packed IN ice and
sent to Hamberg, Via trieste, whcre the
ice supply is renewed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-09
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Some one in the house republican
cloakroom was poking fun at Rep. HoGg
of Colorado for the rough and dreary
character of the district which sent him
to congress. He denied the veracity OF
that Characterization, but added an anec-
dOte.
once in a very cherries section of the
great west. Having pulled up at night
at cheap and unpromising tavern. h"
seated himself ut the supper table The
waiter informed him what the cook had
in the way Of eatables:, Among the
viands enumerated was wild duck.
Twas that ere bird shot on the wing?
inquired the stranger.
Yes. replied the waiter
While trying to fly out of this for
saken country?
THE, obi ging waiter thought that
m!ER We hhye e eonen 1he f's the stranger
symIathize with that birds misfortune,
but admire his good judgment. Serve
me all Of him.
Daniel j. Sully on the day of his adj
mission to the Chicago Board OF Trade
lunchcd at the Chicago Club. During the
luncheon he Illustrated aptIy the value of
the counter charge in argument.
There was Il man." he said, who
should have been home one night for din
ner. but he did not arrive till O'Clock il,
the morning.
He entered the house quietly and he
| assembled the stairs on tiptoe. His watch
full wife, however, heard him, and in a
severe tone she called:
Henry is that you?'
HE replied. with n note OF surprise and
reproach in his voice.
"'Why. m.,my d-dear. who elshe did
you expect"
Little Murel was radiant on her return
from school one day.
I'VE learnt new song this morning.
mummy" she announced.
Mummy expressed her exceeding joy at
the news. and, thinking that probably
Muriel's dainty little fingers would be
kept out of the jampot ii she were en-
ployed. she asked to hear it.
This IS it, mummy. she said. and the
little voice was appraised in song:
II II am n little greenhorn
Among a hall of cheese
ooh. | don't know any more. mummy;
but isn't it 4 funny song?'
Mummy agreed that it was certainly
funny Song-So funny. indeed. that she
considered further investigation neceS-
Sary. But she felt somewhat relieved to
find that Muriel had mistaken the words
of the melody. which was really a highly
moral ditty, commencing:
Il am little cleaner
Among the harvest sheaves."
DR.. Vaughan, for many years head
master at Harrow, once had an amusing
encounter with small boy who carried
off the honors of the occasion, says Short
Stories. The incident greatly pleased the
doctor.
A frightened child named Dodd was
brought before DIR. Vaughan, charged
with some dire scholastic Offense
What is your name" asked the mas
ter. with due severity
"Dodd, sir" answered the trembling
boy.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-09
ACCOMMODATION TRAINS.

Through tickets to California and al
points South and West may be had Of Z
H Walker, ticket agent, Augusta, the
only Office in Augusta selling VIA Oh
routes and checking baggage free Of eI-
penSe.
GEO. L. EVANS. v. p. & Gen. Man
Il. E. B0OTHBY, G. z. & T. A.
Portland, Me.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-09

Senator Beveridge's book, The Rus
sian Advance, has reached the current
Bookman's list of est-Selling Books"
1t is the only serious volume on the
list. the other five books representing
fiction only.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-09

1t is, of course. encouraging that so
much attention should be paid at the
present time to the question of select
ing the right books to read. But while
reading is undoubtedly an important fac
tor in modern life it might not be a
bad thing if some of these enlightened
critics would point out that it is not the
only thing necessary to mental growth.
II is at least worth while inquiring
whether on the whole the people of the
present age do not read too omnivorously
whether in short, there are not occas-
ions when it would be better not to read.
The fact is that while the ma iorty of
Americans read much comparatively few
of them devote any time to reflection.
A glance into any railway car, any dim
ing room. club or home will bear out the
assertion that the average American,
when he has nothing else to employ him.
plun2es into a book. Perhaps it might be
thinking. According to that very acute if
not always wise philosopher Schopen
hauer. reading is thinking with some one
clSeS head instead of ones own Moth
ing is more HARMFUL ne adds than by
continual reading to strength the current
of other peoples thoughts
The people who have spent their lives
in reading and acquired, wisdom out of
hooks resemble those who have acquired
exact informa ton of country from the
description of many travellers These
people can relate n great deal about
many things but at heart they have no
condition of the country. While those
who have spent their lives in thinking are
like the people VINO have been to that
country themselves; they alone really
know what it is they are saying. know the
| subject in its entirety and are quite at
home in it.
THE thinking man can easily be dis
tingushed from the book philosopher by
his marked cdrnestneSS. directneSs ana
originally; the book philosopher. on the
contrary, has everything second hand;
his ideas are like a collection of old rags
obtained anyhow; he is dull and point
less resembling n copy of a copy"
Perhaps it would be just as well if.
instead of devoting so much time to find
ing out what books to read, more atten
ton were given to prescribing certain oc
casions on which not to read. No doubt
Schopenhtuser exaggerated when he said
that lit is n sin to brighten away ones
own original thoughts by taking up a
book" But it is not true that more
thinking and less reading would prove
highly profitable in the case of many
members of this ook-deVouring genera
ion?-Bangor News.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-09

While Frank Daniels, the comedian, was
taking Il stroll about Rochester he came
across an old negro who, as he watched
an iceman slide ice through an opening
in the asphalt, laughed uproarinusly.
yet there is nothing to laugh at com
mented Mr. Daniels to his friends. Still
they tell us the colored folks have keen
sense of the ridiculous. You'll notice that
most OF the successes in the minstrel bust
ness are white men, however. Then,
Hey, nncle"' he shouted. do yon think
it's funny to watch man slide ice down
into the cellar of a saloon?"
The old man Strengthened up scratched
his nose thoughtfully for a moment, and
then replied:
why. boss, I low dat performance do
tickle dis OF mans risibiliters. 1t sutten-
ly does, boss You see. sab, he's a new
iceman, an stead o. slidin' ice down in de
basement. he's jes' slidin' it into de sewer.
Yah, hi, hi.''
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-09

An idea of the popularity of Mr..
Days verses may be gained from the
fact that his first book Up in Maine.
is in it's 18th thousand, while pine
Tree Ballads" has reached the 5th thou
sand mark
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-09

What Mr. F.. Gosse calls an impor
tant declaration of faith from Tenny-
son he thus quotes in "The London
Times" what the poet said, then,
was precisely this: The ounces fancy
it is thought that makes poetry live.
1t isn't: it's the expression, the form:
but we mustn't tell them-so they
wouldn't know what we meant 1
should explain that the ounces We're
people who trace similarities. and think
| that mediocre poet is more to he
praised than a good poet who succeeds
him. if the latter adds nothing to the
substance under treatment.
Like all great men, TennysOn was
not concerned to be consistent, and for
other occasions he had, no doubt, other
| formulas. But that afternoon he was
occupied. l thought. in declaring and
defending the mysteries of the art of
poetry. Accordingly. l ventured to re-
mind him of the ritual of the ancient
Society of the Rosicrucians: Our holy
house. though a hundred thousand men
should have looked upon it, is yet des-
| tined to remain untouched, imperturba-
bic. out Of sight, and unrevealed to the
| whole goddess world forever He
paused to listen, and then beat his
| walking stick. upon the gravel with
fervent approval. Yes. yes he mur
| INJURED, that is the truth about the
highest poetry; it may be popular and
| praised in the magazines. and yet the
secret Of it is 'unrevealed to the whole
goddess world forever" Those who
recall the gracious majesty of Tenny-
sons presence will imagine how ire
sistibie it was to regard himself for a
moment as the archpriest of some such
immortal and mysterious confratern-
ity."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-09

A striking double-page drawing de-
picting the recent Cossack charge
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-09

Maine readers will be Interested 10
learn that Small, Maynard a Co. oi
Boston, announce among their spring
publications kin o ktaadn ny oui
popular writer, Holman r. Day. a.
though called Verse stories, M.
DAVIS new volume is not merely 4 book
of poetry. The half-hundred ne"
poems, grouped in appropriate sec
lions. are woven together into con-
sistent and harmonious unity by Il
thread of prose comment and chat, thus
giving such a picture of the lights and
shadows of homely Yankee life as has
never before been printed. The poetry
includes all of Mr.. Days best recent
work, and the prose possesses a charm
not inferior to that of the verse. The
book is in reality what the New York
Sun called Mr. Days first book. Maine
in the Photograph" and it shows eVi-
dence of marked growth in the power
of its author.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-09

4 short-sighted sportsman was asked
one morning by Il fellow sojourncr in Il
small hotel on the shores of Loeb Carron,
in Scotland, what sport he had had.
Just seen q seal, The said: 'shot at 1t three
ner an hour later, he sat next to 4 man
with a bandage round his head. Acct
dent" he inquired. ''Accident"' was the
indignant response: attempted murder.
you mean. | was having bath about an
hour ago when some lunatic fired at me
three times from the shore and shot part
of my ear off, wonder VINO 1t could
have been" murmurcd the sportsman,
and changed the conversation.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-09

Mr.. Howells, whose new serial, "The
Son of Royal Langbrith." is now APP
pearing in The North American Re
view, has gone abroad, and can only be
reached through the London office of
Harper & Brothers, in Albermarle
street. A member of his family, who
has remained in New York, has been
kept busy forwarding his important
mail or returning the ss-pressing
communications with the following
printed slip: Mr.. HOwells is in Eu
rope, and during his absence it is i'm
practicable to reply to your enclosed
communication" His mail includes
poems from aspiring young girls, long
manuscripts from people under the
mistaken impression that he is an edi-
tor of Harper's Magazine, and who eX-
pect one of the busiest of authors to
devote hours to their critical perusal:
and Of requests for assistance Of all
sorts. When Mr.. HOwells is home, in
addition to his regular work he gets
through this mail in one way or an
other, but nobody knows how.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-09

In the Canadian House Of Commons one
Of the most interesting personalities -
Hon. d. C. Fraser of Nova Scotia. AS q
stump speaker he is eloquent, persuasivt
and ready witted. But once az least -.
c." found his resources to fail him, 1t
was on the eve of a bye-election III On
tario, and ID. CT had been sent for to
assist the Government candidate; IL was
an agony" call. for the candidate was 4
poor platform speaker, and 50 Fraser
went well prepared. His man spoke i if;s:
The substance of his speech was .nis.
Fellow citizens, you know me- m Il
self-made man-you know me.
The rival candidate was non-TeSident
and n stranger to most of the audience
For some reason he was not abie 10 APP
pear in person that evening, but ne WIS
fortunate i'll his substitute nttic
French Canadian lawyer m Teff',
sorry" he began, ma freend could not
coom-Id lax mooch you mar seen hcrin
He vera deterrent from dis man dat mas
joost sit doom. He says he made heem-
self, l believe dat. But ma man-God
made heem And, ma friends. dare IS
joost as moOch deefercnce between de
men as dere is between de makers.
That was all his speech. but that was
enough for the audience, ana too much
Tor ID. c." and his friend.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-09

The best idiot" Mr.. John Kendrick
Bangs has ever put into book appears
in his 1.-THE Inventions of the Idiot"
which the Harpers will publish on April
H. Having written of the Idiot in his
married life, Mr.. Bangs now returns to
his hero's former career of single bles-
sedness in Mrs. Smithers- PedagOg's
I1igh-Class Home for Single Gentle
men. ami tells about his many benevo-
lent but impracticable schemes for ben
citing humanity and making his own
fortune. The Idiots unconscious COM
bination of sense and nonsense is ire
sistibly funny.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-09

against Japanese troops in northern
Korea, in which fifty japanese were
killed. is published in the April 9th is
sue of Harper's Weekly. The drawing
shows the sudden appearance of the
Cossacks in the town occupied by Jap
anese infantry, and the haste of the lat
ter to secure their arms and repel the
invaders. The same number of the
Weekly contains several pages of the
newest photographs received 1.-THE
front, and important articles by NJ.
White, the ex-Minister of Finance of
Russia, on ''Russia's Work in Manchur-
ia" by Carl Frederick Alderman, on
How Ii Hung Chang Foretold the
War" by Sydney Brooks, on 1.-The
Situation in Russia" and by L. Lodiar,
G. F., on AN Engineers Views of the
Trans Siberian Railway"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-09

The fair plaintiff had sued tHe eIueI y
capitalist for breach of promise and her
lawyer was trying to persuade her to
compromise. -
HE OFFERS said the lawyer, 10 siVe
you one-third of the sum you are tryinS
to recover ii YOU will withdraw the SUIT.
Il won't do it," she replied. want
the full amount"
Failing in that" pursued her attorney
he offers to marry you. ,,,
What do l want to marry him Tor
The lawyer shrugged his shoulders; >,
well" he said, think OF the possiplii-
ties OF divorce suit, with lat claiii' ioi
alimOny.'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-09

.'Dodd! Do you spell it with one d. or
with two?"
NO, sir; three" answered the hoy:
The doctor put his head upon the oeshi
covered it with his hands a mohiena, anu
then dismissed the dangerous crihiiIai
with warning.
He said afterwards: II could no more
have punished that boy then couiu nav nav,
flown. Nobody before ever gave lie SUI"
lesson in spelling"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-09

New Workers are not so thrifty as the
Ihladelphians," said customer of Hen
~ Clews during a business chat on the
financial situation.
"Oh, | don't know said Mr.. Clews.
What is your basis of calcuation?'
well, the other day | visited the
Quaker City for the first time, ana was
taking walk down Chestnut street. l
noticed Notwithstanding old gentle
pcared 10 be a digntied citizens who had
plenty of money and a clear conscience.
| said to him.
Can you direct me to Paramount
Park:
~ suppose I could. he replied. after
some hesitation, but l would much rather
sell you n map of the place.
Now, that's what | call thrift, MT
Clews If that Quaker lamb ever came to
Wall street, ] bet he wouldn't leave any
of his fleece there"
The car was crowded with college boys
on their way to a basketball game.
on. of the venerable professors entered
and 4 dozen of the young men at oEce Oh
fered him their seats.
whats the matter with Prof.. All
mnd?" demanded student.
Hes all right Numbered the others.
There was gratifed smile on the pro-
fcsSor'S face as he sat down.
A moment later the brakeman thrust
his head in and bawled out:
Observation-Disclosures
whats the matter with the brake
man. some one asked.
Hes all right" yelled the students,
even louder than before.
Whereat the professors smile became
mechanical and gradually faded away.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-09
RAILROADS e sTEAMBoATs
.azLI!lIl,.II|,1z !. 5|
~ VA : Il /. p r.

IN EFFECT OCT. IL, 1909.
Passenger trains leave Augusta az foL
lows: "
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1904-02-05
Looks Like Work viii Begin.

Everything points the fact that
the government will begin it's work
making Bear Lake big storage
reservoir, early in the coming spring
The surveys are all made and the
proposition has been accepted "a
entirely feasible. The amount
estimated to do the work is SO, ooo.-
600, and the time necessary will be
possibly four or five years.
The Examiner hopes the work
will soon start, as it would mean the
expenditure of several thousands Of
dollars in this valley annually for
many years TO come. EVERYTHING
is ready for the work to begin newt
spring, and we are unable to 500
why 1t should be delayed. In fact
we don't think it will be.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1904-02-05
A Little Expensive.

The sugar factory at Idaho Falls
has closed its run tor the season with
an output Of about 5000, 900 pounds.
AT one cent a pound bounty, the
amount authorized by the last legis-
lature for the first year, the sugar
trust will be entitled to draw from
the. people of this state $50, ooh
bounty. a part Of the output,
however, was made during January.
On that part of it the state is to pay
only a half cent a pound. This
will reduce the amount te be paid
by the state.-Pocatello Advance
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1904-02-05
Stee1ey Called Down.

We notice IN the Pocatello Trib-
une that one DIR. Steely denies the
authenticity Of bis interview IN the
Capital News affirming his candidacy
for governor. The incident interests
ms only SO much as II effects tie re-
liability of the news columns of this
paper-otherwise 1T is of no. partic-
ular moment to us or anyone else
except the Pocatello pill dispenser,
who is burning with desire to sit
in the high place now occupied by
the Caldwell notary public. The
statements made by D.; Steeley
were exactly what were published
in the Capital News, and this paper
can back up its report with corrob-
eratiye affidavits If necessary The
doctor even went so far as to offer
to send his photograph to this paper
for publication, in order TO empha-
size bis open candidacy, and talked
it over freely with leading members
Of the party here whose word o., the
subject could not be questioned. It
seems that Steely has way Of back
ing and filing and playing hide and
seek with tho politicians that sng-
gests the leading characteristics of
the present executive. Under the
circumstances the best public service
he could perform would be to sub
side into the oblivion that is most
becoming to one of his mental
capacity. Idaho has already suffered
sufficiently from webbing, weak
kneed statesmen who never knew
their own minds. Capital News.