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The Penn's Grove record., 1905-05-19

1t is not by regretting what is ir-
reparable that true work is to be done,
bat by making the best of what we
are. 1t is not by complaining that
we have not the right tools. but by
using well the tools we have. What
we are, and where we are. is Gods
providential arrangement-God's do
ing, though it may be mans misdo-
ing.-F. w. Robertson.
The Penn's Grove record., 1905-05-19
h Beautiful Life.

Some years ago a Japanese came to
DR.. Leighton Parks. in Boston. saying:
Sir. can you tell me where to find the
beautiful life?' DR.. Parks learned
that he had lived in a boarding house
in San Francisco with a man whose
life had been so unselfsh and sunny
and helpful that this Japanese had
named it ''the beautiful life" and felt
q yearning to possess it.
The Penn's Grove record., 1905-05-19
Spir,tual Life.

Hush thy complaints. Sweetness and
kindness are good when they bear thee
home to God. Cruelty and wrong arc
good when they force thee to the bosom
of God. EVIL is evil unto him who
doeth evil, but evil is good to thee if
II unites thee with God the Beautiful.
-Mozoomdar.
The Penn's Grove record., 1905-05-19

lHOugnC he QlQnJ IKE MOt0r-carS!
He doesn't. But I dov'-Punch
'"They say there's no chance for the
rich in the next world" That's prob
ably the reason they're getting most
eeyrything rew-Detroit Free Press,
The violet came out too soon
The big, wide world to view,
And any one who looks can see
Its little nose is blue.
Fred--"When you see two girls hug
ging each other, don't you wish you
were a grip Frank-"Yes, 1 think
I'd like to be one of 'em, I don't care
which,"
Mabel-"You don't know George,
papa. He's generous to a fault" Mr..
Nurox-"T'm glad to hear it. Perhaps
he'll be generous to some of yours
Judge.
Mary's Company-"By George. 1 be-
lieve my clothes are OH fire." Mary
''Then you'll have to go out at once.
Mistress doesn't allow any smoking In
the house"
Greene-'By the way, are not Char
ley Brown and May Gray keeping COM
pany?" White-"Oh, dear, no; they've
been married for more'n q year."-Bos-
ton Transcript.
"Bessie-"Carrie is mighty proud of
her iance. Re says he has been a
great traveller" Delia-"Yes. Did
she say whether he had been a drum
- ~ ocI, i,,n4 n 4,o ~
There was a young fellow named Tate,
Who was invited to dine at sos.
Now, l will not relate
What this young man named Tate
And his tete-a-tete ate at sos.
~Carrie-"T've got a dandy idea for a
girls secret society" Belle-"A secret
society! Do you think it would be
practical?" Carrie Surely. We
wouldn't keep secrets; we'd swap
them Puck.
Mrs. Borden-"But, then, l suppose
housekeeping is not without its IN
noyances." Mrs. Hirem Ofen-"It's
never without them. You either have
servant girls or you haven't."-Phila.
delphia Press.
'Was your Waterman well recon.
mended?" "Oh, not directly. / used
to see him in church, and as he stayed
awake all through the sermon 1 con.
cluded he was just the man l wanted"
-Pick-Me-Up.
CDR. Thirdleigh said he thought a
man shouldvot as heprayed." "Well?"
"Well. l s'pose it's all right. Only ]
heard him say onc that he always
prayed four or five times a day.
Cleveland Leader.
Mabel Ito mother, who has just read
announcement of forthcoming local
dog show)-"Oh, mother, do let's send
Scamp" Mother-"No, dear. I'm
afraid he's not good enough" Mabel
"Why-what's he done now? "-Punch
would you take a chicken, realizing
that it didn't belong to your "No!
answered Mr.. Erastus Pinkley. "But
when you sees a chicken roos'in' right
in reach you's mighty liable to stop
realizin' an take things fob granted"
Washington Star.
Don't be so lazy. There's plenty
of room at the top and you're clever
enough to get there" But" replied
the lazy genius, 'think how clever it is
of me to find a place at the bottom
where there isn't so much ROOM
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Penn's Grove record., 1905-05-19

AN IDLE WISH.

Oh, give me back the good old days;
want the simple life,
The care-free times before we knew
Bacteria were life.
We never boiled the crystal stream
The oaken bucket drew,
And if our mud pies reeked with germs
At least we never knew.
But now we boil, and bake, and steam,
And disinfect and burn;
We wash and spray and shake and stir
And fume and scrape and chur1.
We think it will p%rolong our days.
No nook or Granny shirk,
And just as every microbe fees,
We die of overwork.
-McLandburgh Wilson, in Puck.
The Penn's Grove record., 1905-05-19
Biggest American Fortunes.

group of Wall streeters being to-
er recently the question as to how
II money was represented in the
tunes of Americas twenty leading
m~illionaires brought out the following
estimates:
The Penn's Grove record., 1905-05-19

The total wealth Of the twenty men
is by this estimate over $2,00o.0O0,00O,
or over two per cent. OF The total
wealth OF the nation.
The Penn's Grove record., 1905-05-19

The Rio Tlnto copper mine in Spain
is the Oldest producing mine In the
world.
The Penn's Grove record., 1905-05-19
FTSlYE%
S&@E9EH4M

ooh, yes, l gave my husband a mo-
tor-car on his birthday" "But ]
thought he didn't like motor-cars?"
He doesn't. But I doy'-Punch
"They say there's no chance for the
rich in the next world That's prob
ably the reason they're getting most
eeyrything re!"-Detroit Free Press,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-08

to shipment. The stones permitted to
get to the public may represent tenth
of the actual product, or a thousandth
part of the possible; the facts are
hidden. That the untrammeled opera
ton of the mines would result in maxi
ing diamonds common and reduce them
to low station on the list of the pre-
cious is widely suspected. There is
not the slightest prospect of any such
commercial blunder.
The reason for the latest advance
was that the South African authorities
applied a law which caused the De
Beers people to pay a tax. The latter
did not take favorably to the idea, but
having exhausted every method OF eva
sion, soothed their ruffled minds oy
arranging for their patrons first to pay
the tax to them. They have the Ola
monds. and diamonds are worth Cup 10
some limit yet unreached) anything
they choose to say they are WORTH
vbv still another advance is proposed
has not been explained. except that 1t
would be easy.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-08
Time Spent at a Mirror,

German statisticians with no great
burden of serious work on their Shout
ders have been calculating what part of
woman's life is spent in looking at
herself in a mirror. She begins as a
rule at six years. From six to ten
she has daily average of seven
minutes. From ten to fifteen she de-
votes Il quarter of an hour to her
glass. At twenty she certainly spends
thirty minutes daily admiring herself,
and when past twenty a whole hour.
The statisticians are tactful enough
not to say when q woman begins to
take less interest in her personal ap-
pearance. but women more than sixty
years old do not. they say, spend more
than ten minutes daily at their mir
rors. All this time reckoned up-it is
a simple sum in NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
1000 hours, or about ten months, at
the mirror. They then proceed to COM
pare the time which a mana German
man-devotes to this occupation, and
come to the conclusion that his aver
age is seven months.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-08
Forms of Leaves.

1t was inevitable that a theory should
be thought out to account for the varied
forms and outlines of leaves. That which
has found favor with many is as follows:
The simple" large. uncut forms are
said to be those which grow at a height.
and lie nearest to the sun. The elabor-
ately "cut" leaves and leaflets (such as
those of ferns) are declared to belong in
the main to plants of lower growth.
which only enjoy the broken sunlight that
struggles through the simpler foliage of
the higher plants. This is ingenious: but
it hardly corresponds with fact, as the
reader may discover by noting the leaves
growing in any English thickct. Take for
example, the foliage hanging, over the
thickly overgrown bed of Il brook. Above
will be the leaves quite smaN Of tn"
whitehorn and of the maple. the latter
being the larger. Below these very pos
sibly will be seen growing the large
leaved wild guelder rose. the laurel and
the bramble. and below these again the
dock leaf, the broad butter burr and the
arIlm.
In English woods and thickets it would
be difficult to lay down any rule which
occupied by plants with leaves of differ
ent sizes. But the theory mentioned
above does fit to some extent the facts in
the position of grasses in a bayfield,
There the smaller leaved pieces certainly
do grow at the bottom, where the tiny
meadow weddings. and hop clovers. and
ladies' fingers, and other minor and
sweet scented plants. of which the best
hay is made. hide their minute and finely
''cut" leaves among the bases of the taller
grasses.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-08
The Price of Diamonds.

Most of us are more concerned with
the increasing price of eggs than we
are with the fact that another advance
in the price of diamonds has been an
nounced. and yet there is something
very alluring about diamonds even
when we have to content ourselves
with gazing upon those worn by others
or displayed in the jewelers. window.
"A writer in the Philadelphia Ledger
gives some interesting facts about the
worlds production of diamonds and
the reasons for the recent increase in
price. This latest advance of per
cent in their price is the third of
similar magnitude during the present
year. and Il fourth is expected. Two
more at the same percentage would
make the total advance in eight years
700 per cent. A stone that at the
beginning of that period cost the
dealer SIT costs him SAT today.
Diamond merchants find their best
customers in the United States, which
imported these luxuries during 1908 to
the amount of s26.194.019. to say moth
ing of the unknown number smuggled.
This aggregate was practically equal
to the announced income of the De
Beers Company. The large purchasers
or diamonds are SO equipped finan-
ciaily as to be able to possess them
selves of the gems at any figure. and
while they might grumble at exactions,
they would not refrain from purchas-
ing. The tiara stage of social evolu-
''"n cannot be checked by mere
matter of cost
Probably there is no other materia,
N"o"h 10 trade concerning which the
valuation is so arbitrary The dia-
mona mines of South Africa weld
ABOUT sS,sper cent. of the whole output
''ao'e foF- ornament. The glory OF
'he ancient mines of Brazil. India and
forneo has departed. Brazil still sim
pies a few fine diamonds. but chiefly
'nose OF black variety. adapted te
mechanical purposes. Manv otbe,
countries report occasional finds. bu
ho'hins that has appreciable effec
upon the De Beers monopoly.
concerning the real capacity of IN
south African mines little is known
Inc working is done in secret. and thi
seSsseS5 attends the whole process u
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-08

Sir William Watson has been APP
pointed chairman of the Cunard
Steamship Company. in place of the
late Lord Inverclyde.
Alderman Charles Kaltenhause. of
Pittsburg. is probably the worlds
heaviest justice of the peace. He tips
the scales at SOS pounds.
The Bishop of London. DIR. Ingram,
has taken up President RooSevelt'S cue
and has denounced race suicide as a
sin due to the love of ease.
Viscountess Maitland, England's
foremost woman miniature painter
with her husband. has arrived in New
York. They will make an extended
visit in America.
]. II. Seger. agent of the Cheyenne
Indians at Colony. has adopted a plan
of having the young Indians of the
settlement earn their livelihood by do
ing farm work in that section.
In the long list of explorers to speak
this winter before the Royal Geogra-
phical Society of London. Mrs. Fanny
Bullick Workman of Worcester Mass.
is the only Woman lecturer. She will
read a semitic paper on Himalayan
glaciers.
Augusta de Wit is the leading wom-
an writer of Holland. She has seen
much of life and the world and is as
much at home in Java's jungles and
mountain districts as in the Scotch
Highlands. in the lagoons of Venice
as in her native Dutch polders.
President Z. NJ. Gallaudet. the deaf
and dumb educator, has returned to
Washington after trip to Europe
attending the centennial anniversary
of Moriz Hill. one of the best educa-
tors of the deaf and dumb in Germany,
where he made an address.
Philip Black. an aged Western pio-
neer, who for 40 years has lived
among Oklahoma Indians. was mar
ried at Ell Reno to Miss Euplaha Com
er. of Watonga. his fourteenth wife.
Several of Blacks former wives were
Observation-Disclosures Wisconsin.
William Kingsley. who was born in
Ireland in 1888 and fought with Nelson
at Trafalgar, is now living at the age
of 122 near Bloomfield. Mo. He fought
in the Crimean War, assisted in the
taking of Sebastopol and in this coun-
try fought in the Mexican and Civil
Wars. ''-...
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-08

dance hall and here the Hrandfathers
and grandmothers Of the old people OF
the present day enjoyed their society
dances and receptions. During the
last few years the house Inns been re-
modelled and is now quite modern. 1t
| is built upon solid ledge and all of its
timbers are of great size, which ac-
counts for the excellent preservation Of
the house. About go years ago 1t was
purchased by the late Charles Gushing,
a former resident and wealthy ship
builder of this town, whose family still
occupies the residence. When Free
port celebrated the centennial Of its
incorporation in 1889 this old building
was one of the principal attractions,
for in addition to it's historic interest,
it was the most deliberately decorated
building In town. In the front north
east room Of the historic house the
commissioners met in 1920 and drew up
the uapers which set Maine off from
the great commonwealth of Massachu-
sets. as a state by itself. The COM
missioners included men from both
Maine and Massachusetts and was
made up as follows: Timothy Bigelow
of Groton, Mass, and Levi Lincoln of
worcester, Mass, were appointed by
that state. while the district of Maine
appointed Benjamin Porter of Tops
ham and James Bridge of Augusta
These four chose Silas Holman of Boil
ton, Mass, and Lathrap Lewis of Cor
ham. Me-, to complete the board.
Negotiations were begun by the three
commissioners from Maine joined by
Daniel Rose of the Senate and Nicholas
Emery of the House. They proceeded
to Boston where they were met by the
Massachusetts commissioners and af-
ter long session during which the
board sat in several different towns and
cities. it finally met at the Jameson
Tavern and there signed the final
papers, 1t was agreed that Maine
should give Massachusetts for her part
OF the public lands in this State $3.50 900,
of which $4,000 was in Indian claims,
which this State assumed, and the re-
manning s150,OOO to be paid in 10 years
with interest at per cent. The meet
ings of the commissioners began in
February, 1920. and continued for sew
eral weeks, the final act being signed
and approved March IS, 1920.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-08

Ex-Governor Goodell, of New Hamp-
shire. in a recent interview declared
that the working of the high license
law in his state is not at all in the in
tereSts of good order and sobriety. Ad-
hitting that there's an appearance of
betterment in Portsmouth. where the
prohihitOry law was VIGOROUSLY disre-
Sarded and where some of the smaller
saloon-kcepers have been driven out of
business by their inability to pay for
licenses, he insists that the working of
the new system in the other cities and
towns has been deplorable. The ar
rests for drunkenness have increased
have doubled, he thinks That isn't so
in Manchester. to be sure. but the Man.
chester chief of police told him last
july that the conditions In that city
We're much worse than before" The
ex-governor fears. though, that the big
revenue yielded by the licenses will
dazzle the New Hampshire peoples
eyes.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-08
The Pope's Old Watch.

Pope Plus X is never ashamed of his
humble start in life. Once. it is re-
lated, in the presence of cardinal he
drew from his pocket a cheap-looking
watch. the guard of which consisted
merely of an old shoestring.
The cardinal at once produced his
own magnificent gold timepiece and
begged His Holiness to accept it and
give him the inferior one in exchange
But the Pope refused. explaining that
the poor old watch was a present from
his mother, who had to stint herself to
pay for it.. AS to the shoestring. when
the watch had been paid for there was
10 money left for the chain. so one of
his sisters gave him the string.
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Charles Stain Again.

portland PreSS)
1t is very possible that the officers OF
the law have got their grip on the
gang that has been blowing safes and
robbing banks and post0ffices up In
Maine and it Is to be hoped that they
have: but there is one thing about it,
and that is that not SO much as the
meanest yellow cur that ever ran on
four legs should be condemned on the
unsupported testimony of Charles
Stain. This worthless person had
dropped out of sight and been for
gotten years ago, and now he suddenly
bobs up again in connection with the
Shawmut postoffice break and the
burglary of the Phillips National bank.
1t seems that he has been living in
Starks and Mercer, Somerset county,
and that on the strength of revelations
made by him a Starks man has been
arrested on charge Of being concerned
with others in the Shawmut and
Phillips breaks. This is the same
Stain whose confession" caused the
conviction of his father David L. Stain,
and Oliver Cromwell for the robbery
of the Dexter Savings bank and the
murder of it's treasurer, Barron, more
than twenty-five years ago, and their
sentence to State prison for life. They
would probably have been hanged if
capital punishment had been in force.
The younger man claimed that he
drove the team in which the trip to
Dexter was made, and that his motive
was revenge on his father and Crom-
we'll for injuries they had done him.
However, the men had been in prison
some years when new evidence was
discovered proving their innocence.
Bearing in mind this horrible mis-
carriage of justice. for which Stain
was responsible and for which he went
UNPUBLISHED, people will be slow to be-
lieve anything he says unless corro-
borated in the strongest manner. He
claims that Taylor, the man arrested,
came to him and proposed the bur-
glaries. and that he pretended to fall
in with the proposition through fear of
Taylor. who had threatened to kill him
otherwise. but that he feigned illness
and did not go on the expedition and
gave the thing away to the officers as
soon as possible. Maybe he is telling
the truth this time, although 1t is con-
trary to his habit, but it is reported
that the officers are not depending on
his story and are confident that they
have sufficient evidence to corroborate
it. in that case, we'll and good; but
Stains story by itself is not worth a
straw.
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The United States now Fourth.

1t is interesting to learn that through
the battle in the Sea of Japan the United
States has been raised to the fourth place
among naval powers, while Russia has
esting to every sick man and woman to
learn that through Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters they can be restored to robust
fence of hundreds of others and there IS
no reason why it should not benefit you,
also. Commence taking It today and
you'll be surprised at the wonderful
amount of good it will do you. For those
who are weak, nervous, sleepless or suffer
from sick headache. poor appetite. vomit-
ing. indigestion, dyspepsia, costiveness,
bilousness. female troubles or malarial
fever the Bitters is especially recommend
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RWedngsdsy, November 8. 1905
Not so Bad as All That.

It's a poor week nowadays that
doesn't see at least one murder in
Maine. If the weather and signs are
about right, there are two. Let us no
longer talk about southern outrages"
or of barbarism in heather lands.
Ten murders in the past few months,
i'm u population of only about one
sevanth that IL Greater New York
city alone, is indeed an appalling
record. 1t may be just as well that
Maine is such a good State ito move
from as, has SO many times been
jceringly said, and that it does not
boast Of any great number of immi-
grants, even under more nearly normal
conditions than have lately prevailed;
for the reading of the numerous kill
ings of the past summer and fall
would Re pretty likely To keep reople
from coming here, even if they wished
to come ever so badly. They would
say to themselves: Cant get me into
Maine! I'm not prepared to die yeti!
And all this lawlesSness and bloodshed
In the good old Puritan State of Maine.
Decent. sober people. who do not SO
much enjoy the popular pastime OF
numbering somebody every morning
before breakfast, are calling upon the
law to do something to vindicate IT.
self and save what OF us yet remain
Fort FL irfield Review.
The facts of the case hardly warrant
the state of mind into which the Re-
view has worked itself. Exaggera-
ton ami hysteria do not help matters,
but on the contrary they make them
worse. In spite of the unusual num-
Der of murders which have occurred in
Maine in the past few months. it is
still a pretty good place to live in and
life and property are as safe here as
in amy part of the world. in fact, far
safer than in most parts of it. We
doubt if any state in the Union has
fewer murders in proportion to popu
lation than Maine has. even this year.
and of course it is absurd to talk about
people being kept out Of Maine by the
murders here. One or two of this
years murders. being of d very mys-
caused unusual comment and have de-
fled the efforts of the officers to bring
the guilty ones to justice. In the ether
cases the law has promptly had it's
way and punishment has followed the
crime.
No amount of law and no severity of
punishment will prevent murders. Not
until the millennium gets along and all
evil passions are driven from the hui
man heart will man cease to raise his
hand against his brother man. 1t is
very sad and regretable that a dozen
persons out of the 10000 in Maine
should show homicidal tendencies. this
year, but it might be far worse. The
decent. sober people" who mike up
the population of Maine will do all in
their power to give the editor of the
Review the protection which he Graves.