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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-01-24
PROGRESS of Rural Delivery.

The latest figures gwen out at Wash
instOn give US 4 new conception of the
growth and Importance Of the rural
free delivery system. The idea was
first put in operation in 1887 and at the
end CT that year there we're only "a
routes, costing $4,000 Now, two coun-
ties in New England have each more
than that numbcr-kennehec, in Maine,
with - routes. and Fairfield. in Con-
nccticut. with 81. These are the only
two counties in New England having
complete county systems. In the whole
country on June 80. 1904 there were
q .5,6 routes, each with it's special car
rier an increase Of 3ii1 established dur
ing the previous year. OF this total
100 we're in NV England, an increase
of 37i since the beginning Of the last
fiscal year.
In the whole country the percentage
OF annual increase has been. consecu
lively. about 80 100. 20 $50 $50, 95 and
90. The total number Of pIeccs-lctters
postalsi. papers. circulars and packages
distributed by carriers during the
year was aO6. t2412l. and the number
collected 133,Ds3,35l. The total esti-
mated value IF postage on delivered
matter was :6.E,5.915..9, ana the value
Of stamps Cancelled Oh mail collected
was $2,G0l SIPS. The pay Of carriers
during the year was 81, lc2. 1225.2 The
present net expenditure for the rural
free delivery service is heavy. most of
the 100000 deficiency being due to it.
AS the rural sections largely sustained
the country before Their. was much
urban population. ho'' ever. the latter
is now ready AMI willing to sustain this
new service until it las 4 chance to be-
come scIfsustanin;. Rural free de-
livery ScrNi"e is established upon
petition of the people, properly in
dorstrl. The p;:rpose is TO carry the
mail daily to people who would other
postoflcc to receive il. 1. is required
that the roa ls travcrscd shall be in
good condition. that there shall be no
nnhridgcd streams not forGabIe at all
ordinary seasons. and that each route
Of y miles or more as a rule shall serve
at least 100 families. Routes Of les,
lengths are esta 5lisEe.i whe re they can
not b" made of standard l,Egth and a
prOportionate rambler Of families are
required.
Until within a few weeks New Eng
land has been inined to New York IN
what was known as the eastern divi-
sion. with headquarters in New York
city and in charge of Il rural free de-
livery division Superintendent Til.
service in the six New England states
was growing 80 rapidly, however. tina.
the fourth assistant postmaster gen.
crIl. Mr.. j. J.. .;ristox. who had charge
Of this service, decided to separate the
two sections. and establish a distinc-
lively New Erglan! division with
tn" amount of the work inv Olved in the
of the service in this
division may b" gathered from the fol-
lowing statement. showing the number
OF routes in operation in each state at
the close OF The fiscal year on June 80
cases pending on petition for new
routes on the latter Gate:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-01-24
chamber!ain's Cough Remedy Abso
Iuteiy Harmless.

Every mother SHOULD know that
CbaInborlaiM'S Cough E"inrdy is per
r2ctiy safe for children to take. 1t con
tains nothing harmful and for coughs
colds ami Group is unsurpassed For
sale by Jno. Coughlin. Augusta; G. H.
Reane. Gardiner.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-01-24
Opposite.

Mr. Grildles." said the girl with the
class PIN did YOU ever enjoy hearing
Il college song"
NO. indeed" assured the young
man i'll the .'coZy corner.
Then if YOU never heard one we
girls will sing You one.
Il did not say ! never heard ono; ]
said | never enjoyed one
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-01-24

There is always something TO feel
cheerful about ii you take the trouble
to look for it. 1t is announced that the
California orange crop is eight times as
large as the california prune crop
kansaS City Journal.
But this very fact makes the un-
happy lot of the prude-fe1 denizens OF
the boarding lolses all the harder to
bear.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-01-24

Established, 1926.

No notice whatever vii! be taken Of
unsigned communications.
The Journal cannot be held responsible
for the preservation or return Of re-
jected communications.
Address all communications relating to
subscriptions and advertisements to
BURLEIGH & FLYNT, Publishers,
Augusta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-01-24
Ye!lowish Tinqe.

Look here draWled the cross
roads kicker 'yeour paper is getting a
little yellow of late"
Wal. by CASH" replied the rural
editor. What can yeou expect when
I'm not getting anything for subscrip-
tiNnS bul pumpkinS.."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-01-24

Hon. Thomas II. Cater of Montana
who Will be he successor of Senator
Paris Gibson. a M.iMe-bcrn man. did
not enjoy the priviitc" of Icing born III
this state but his beautiful home III
WASHINGTON IS cons :ructed of Maine
granite.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-01-24
Woman's Way.

Ida-I hate him. When he passes |
slam the door.
May-Indeed.
Ida-Ycs. and when we meet | stamp
my feet.
May-You don't say? When are YOU
going to be married?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-01-24

Like that Democratic eleCtOr down in
ole Nirginy." Mr.. Bryan evidently finds
something in President Roosevelt to
admire and commend and boldly calls
at the White House to tell him so. The
country thinks much more of Mr.. Bry-
an ard the Virginia Clector for their
sense and franknesS III this matter.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-01-24

WHY in the Horld dos Uncle sam
erar think ne wants canada when
Maine can do such low tenpcfatur"
stunts as il has INDUCED il for the pas,
few weeks?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-01-24

Marconi, of wireless fame, Is about
70 wed a Euro, ,pan princess. 1t will be
recalled that he failed in his attempts
10 capture an American girl
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-01-24
Christmas Greeting.

E.va-Dear. YOU should be careful
not to off nd that young man.
f.rni--Offend him" Why. | merely
said: Il wish YOU many returns"
Eva Yes. but he is sensitive on re-
turns. He is a poet.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-01-24
Suspicioned.

Ia Montt-"But how did the customs
officers come to suspect that YOU had
struggled goods ON Your person?
La Muyne-Why. was foolish
enough to tell my friends that /
weighed fifty pounds more than when
| started for Europe"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-01-24
Maine Gossip
! Ask Not the Way.

7 ASK M; the WAY
In the dark or tn" day.
If Love at nv calling shall heed me;
Though thOrnS may he mine.
Still he bright stars will shine,
And Love 10 the lilies shall lead me;
The SorrowS-thn signs.
Aud the rain o the eyes
shall dim fh. fair future. OH. never,
The black storms will cease.
And my heart shall find peace
With Love and the lilies forever,
Frank l.. Stanton.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-01-24

Yes. they 10 somr things better iE
Paris. The autOrnObilistS there have
just adopted a perfumed gasoline.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-01-24

Railroad people generally manage to
keep pretty we'll in touch with their
public and the fact that they are all
very confident at this time that there
will be great outing season next sum-
MGR is encouraging In the midst of
the cold weather. for il is bound to he
cold even at he best. it is encouraging
to be told that there may be a good
time coming. col. =. Il. Boothby Of
the Maine Central seldom makes a mis-
take regarding the outing season He
has up to this time for many years
correctly predicted months in advance
the coming season from: business
point of view. and he is confident that
If there is good weather. there will be
perfect rush II Maine. that the hotels
ana boarding houses will be crowded
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-01-24

The I'D Legislature begins its fourth
weeks work. this afternoon.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-01-24

The battleship Maine viii be at Port
land, this week. and the lonG-dclayed
~ escntation Of that Tanner will be
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-01-24

Musica! Maine is happy over the
promise that Emma Elmes. the world.
famed daughter Of Bath. will be the
star at next October's Ft stival.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-01-24

Mrs. f. +. Page. Of Milinocket. evil
Identity likes III" name Of Page. Her
maiden name was Page. and when she
married the man of her chOic" was
named Page. Her daughter, married
Geo. Page. That family will make a
bound volume Jefor" long.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23
New England Fog Affects Sailors
Eyes.

From the Boston Transcript
MANY of the officers OF steamships run
ming in this port are afflicted with a new
disease, which for want of a better name
some of them call the fog eye" 1t is an
Inflammation caused by peering into the fog
and while painful it soon passes away.
Never In the memory of the oldest skip
pers running to this port has the fog hung
so persistently over the waters along the
coast as It has this summer. One captain
said that they were compelled to chew fog
every trip his vessel has made to Boston
during the last six weeks, and he comes to
Boston usually about once week.
Captain Higgins and the officers of the
United States Fruit Conpany's passenger
and mail steamer Admiral Sampson, which
arrived at Long Wharf this morning after
good run from Jamaican ports, were
among those whose eyes were affected by
the fog Running through fog and trying to
distinguish objects when 1t is almost i'm
possible to see a vessels length away is a
heavy strain on the eyes land the fog COM
bined with the heat produces smarting
sensation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23

recently by an individual at North Penn
broke n. Y This man advertised:
MONEY! A. NJ. 500 BILL SENT TO ANY
address for % cents; Will give $500 to any one
who detect it.
The Easy Mark" who parts with his
quarter in the expectation of receiving a
counterfeit sa-bill receives, as matter OF
fact. eight slips of paper each containing l,s
the same recipe for making a carboic acld
salve. Accompanying these printed Sips
is another reading:
Kind Friend-The name of the 500 bill
comes from eight 25-cent-receipts, which l
inclose-total bill of receipts, S2.OO
The Automobile Swindle.
AS a rule the swindlers who operate
through the mails are satisfied with a
small profit from each dupe. some con-
tenting themselves with as little as ~
cents and the more ambitious ones with
dollar or two. Once In while, however,
a high-roller appears among them who
raises the limit to $40 or even w. On
June l a fraud order was issued against
an individual at Greycourt, New YORK, VINO
was running a $40 game Like the ring
game people he uses circular letters. Here
is one of them:
Dear Sir-I am about TO put OH the
market a new breakfas. food and want
good name for 1t. ! am told that the great
Uneeda was a laymans idea, and in the
hope OF unearthing another such oHer
to a few the following: Suggest good
name for the food. one with advertising
possibilities. If | decide TO use your Idea
/ will give you as payment a Winton au-
tomobile, your only expense to be the
freight to your home. Answer at once as
l shall use the first good name received
To all who answered this letter suggest
ing a name the following communication
was sent:
Dear Sir-I have decided to use your
idea of U-Auto-Eat Cor whatever the name
suggested happens to be-. 1t fits all 'ad
plans Tire auto is yours. l Will ship IL
to you receipt of the freight $4,000.
Excuse brevity, but am rushed to death
Needless to say those who sent the $50
to pay the freighr-~are still waiting for
the automobile.
Tho mail order fakir is always on the
outlook for some new scheme. knowing
this one of the tribe, who evidently takes
no stock in the saying that there is honor
among thieves, prepared IAN advertisement
that would appeal to his brother SCALA
wags and is said to have reaped a rich
harvest of dimes before the Post ONCE
Department put him out of business. This
Individual hailed from Long Branch. n. j.,
and used the following bait
AGENTS wANTED-ovER QUART OF DIMES
received from one small advertisement In Sunday
paper. Only 40 cents. capital required WIZ
send copy Of ad for ten cents coin.
To those who sent him 10 cents the Jersey
genius mailed a copy of the very adver-
tisement that had produced the response!
a promoter of fake mail order schemes
against whom a fraud order was recently
issued says, in one of his circulars, that
1.-The American people want something for
nothing" That is the theory that nearly
all these sharpers work upon. The man
who is, himself, honest and who has
learned that every good thing commands a
wiles. but all men are not wise and some
men--as Mr. ARENAS Ward reminds us in
his advertisements of Hand Sapolio--are
not even good.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23
IF YOU HAVE THE BLUES
Lose Your Hat in Car and Become an
Object of Sympathy.

From the New York Sun
w hat is the affinity between a man and
his hat? Or between your hat and other
menu asked a man in a subway car who
had no hat at all. Tonight 1 was coming
In from Coney Island. Soon after the ex-
press train pulled out it met another train
You know what happens when two
rapidly moving bodies rush by one another
l was sitting by an open window and the
thing that happened to my hat was quicker
than thought. The last 1 saw of it ii was
whirling and bobbing.
The car was comfortably filled Some
or the people laughed at my predicament
The man at my elbow on the right ex-
tended his sympathy. He even offered
seeing that l was partially bald to let me
wear his hat il / thought l was in any
danger
"A woman at my right said something to
her companion and he got up. He came
over to me to suggest that / put hand
kerchief over my head. 1 thanked him.
was paying he asked:
Lose your hat?'
81 said l did.
I've got cap he continued If you
want it I'll get it,
81 declined with thanks.
"All the way in l was the observed OF
others. When l left the car at the bridge
l heard a man say to a woman:
of the window at Coney. l wonder If he
has far to go bareheaded.
II rushed down to take the subway ex-
press. The hot air felt good for fact,
for l am not in the habit of going long dis
tances bareheaded While waiting for the
express l overheard a woman say to a
man:
Look at that man; he has no hat
"And the man replied, I'll bet he lost his
hat
There was a touch of genuine sympathy
in the way he said it.
That man who got out at the Grand Cen
trail station kept looking at me. / knew
what was on his mind and waited. Just
before he left he asked me if he hadn't
seen me at Coney. 1 said had been there
~ think he added, we occupied the
same seat in the car in shooting the
chutes.'
Possibly I replied. I did shoot the
chutes.'
you also shot your hat he said, and
then 1t was time for him to get out
He had my hat on his mind. You have
heard the old story about there always be-
ing a man around to pick up your hat when
IL blows off? He was not around tonight,
but everybo / have seen has looked at
me as If he was sorry.
when YOU become pessimistic, stick your
head out of a window and lose your hat
1t will make you think better of the human
race"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23

be brought quickly to the boil and then
poured directly on the leaves. The teapot
should never be placed on the fire at all
and the tea should be allowed to draw un-
der a tea coy just five minutes, neither
more nor less.
A good many English people refill the pot
with boiling water, but it is said that this
is not considered advisable, it gets all
the deleterious portion of the leaves and
none of the desirable portion. The best
way Is to pour off the tea after it has been
on the leaves five minutes and throw the
old leaves away. If the tea is allowed to
stand on the leaves IL becomes dark and
strong and is not fit to put in the human
stomach 1t is said that tea should never
be as dark as good brandy when it is
poured out of the pot, though some hard
ened tea drinkers prefer il that way.
The Chinese have little different method
of making their tea, catering to each guest
separately. though it amounts to about the
same as properly making it in a teapot.
They place the tea for each person in a
deep bowl with an inverted saucer over 1t.
Boiling water is poured in each bowl and
after 1t has stood few minutes the tea is
poured out from the bowl into small cups
and drunk scalding hot without either
sugar or milk.
A Chinaman Is scandalized If asked for
milk or sugar to put in tea, though courtesy
always impels him to furnish it.
The English, on the other hand, almost
invariably use milk and nearly always
sugar. They claim that there is almost as
much in pouring a good cup of tea as
there is in making 1t. Tea with milk added
should be just the color of good coffee with
milk. But it is seldom ever seen that color
in this country.
The Russians seldom use milk In tea,
but usually sugar and always a slice of
lemon. Their tea is much the color and
strength of the English tea when both are
properly made One popularity of the Rus
slams drinking is, however, that they al
ways serve tea in glasses for men and in
cups for women. The much-t alkedof cam
ovar is nothing but a brass, copper or
nickel furnace burning charcoal, which
keeps the water hot for some hours If
necessary. But water is not at it's best for
teamakng if constantly boiled in this
way. So far as the teamaking is con-
cerned the samovar has nothing to do with
it and is merely a convenience where hot
water is wanted for cup after cup. For the
Russians will drink 1t almost continuously
from morning till night
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23

and Ceylon progressed that whereas thirty
years ago China grew 30 per cent of the
worlds tea crop, she now grows only
per cent, and the tea crop in that time has
increased from S6,OOO,OO0 pounds to some
thing like 255,0OO,O00.
1t has been found that the colored chill
dren of the south take well to tea picking,
which is now the most important branch
of manual labor connected with its manu-
facture Their wages are higher, it is true,
than those of the oriental, but they pick
more in a day. The picking at Pinehurst,
for instance. is confined to the finer leaves,
which makes the work slower Even at
this a single picker gathers as much as
fifty pounds of green leaves in a day, while
the oriental seldom gets above twenty or
thirty pounds. If the picking were done
on the coarser leaves the American picker
might gather as high 100 pounds day.
Much of the work of sorting boxing and
preparing for shipment is now done by ma
chinery in the American garden, and this
Is decidedly cleaner and more wholesome
than the majority of oriental hand labor.
1t serves to reduce the cost of production,
besides making better tea.
The Department of Agriculture hopes in
the near future to materially extend the
area of tea culture in the United States,
and possibly in few years America may
getting them cheaper than 1t is now doing.
There is one point on which the expert
enced tea drinker insists, and that is that
ordinarily it Is almost impossible to get
a properly made cup of tea in America.
1t is said that if Americans knew more
about good tea and how to make 1t
there would be more tea and less coffee
used. There are different tastes in tea.
Americans almost always use the green
variety, but 1t is declared that for one who
wants a stimulating cup the black tea Is the
thing That is the sort that is used almost
entirely both in England and Russia. the
two tea-drinking countries of the world.
The proper way to make tea, according
to an authority on the subject, Is first to
scald the pot That gets the pot hot and
leaves the heat of the boiling water intact
to steep the tea instead of wasting 1t on
heating the teapot. If the tea is good, half
a teaspoonful is enough for each large cup,
and If there are several cups to be made a
generous tea-maker throws in an extra
spoonful "for the pot" The water should
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23
WHERE BRITISH SOLDIERS MET.
In All Their Military Finery Among
New Hampshire Hills.

From the Boston Herald.
There is probably not TO be found in all
New England a more unique monument
than this which occupies a commanding po-
sition on the main highway between Dur
ham and Hollis, y. II. 1t is unique, not
only in that 1t stands in a lonely position
at some distance from human habitation,
but also in what IT commentaries.
The attention of the tourist is attracted
first at the sight of a monument In so sin
gular a position. He instinctively pauses to
learn what great event or victory 1t cele-
brates and is amazed 10 read the following
inscription:
After the surrender of Burgoyne. at
Saratoga, In III. certain British officers.
prisoners of war quartereG in this vicinity.
but released upon parole. were permitted to
eajoy, in all their military finery trysting
place at this spot
It has long been the custom to comment
crate great events and victories by monu-
ments. but seldom indeed has such cir
cumstance as this been so commemorated
Those were strenuous days In which Bur-
gOyne met Gates and defeat, and descen-
dant of the sturdy boys of 76' will tell
you, and only events OF more than ordinary
interest and excitement were noticed.
Just who these officers were who were
quartered here or what occurrences war
ranted the erection of this monument. is
not known. The region is replete with In
teresting traditions of those exciting days,
that have come down through generations
of story tellers. Whether these traditions
be founded on fact or not, one thing is GER
tain, those in whose charge these prisoners
OF war were placed were true Americans
hOnoring the foe even in his defeat.
Every kindness seems to have been shown
them. every possible courtesy granted them.
Notwithstanding the repugnance with
Highlander
red coat of the British officer, they were
permitted TO wear IL and TO enjoy trysting
place under the branches of this old tree.
whose branches have sheltered generations
OF sturdy sons and daughters of this land
Of freedom.
The monument is a plain, well-polished
granite slab. and stands on a little eminence
commanding a view of the main highway.
II occupies such position that the passe--
by cannot fail to get full view OF this in
teresting and historical spot.