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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-01

The yearly allowance of the Mikado.
which is at the same tim" that of the
whole imperial family, is now $l,50o.00
IL sides. he has tho yearly incomes Of
$500. 600 from the interest on the SO
000.c00 which was given to him from
the war indemnity received from China
ten years ago: of $250.0o0 from his
private invest ments, which amount to
$5.000,0 600 or more, and of $a00.000 from
the forests. covering an area Of 5,12.-
s13 acres and valued at over $500. 01o 900
at 500 per acre; in all $l.250,00o Thus
his yearly net income amounts Ia
s2.7500h0. There arc in all sixty Nom
hers of the imperial family, inclusive
of eleven married and four widowed
Processes. who arc members of the
family by marriage. not by birth.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-01

in different sections and gave the
Grand Army salute TO the dead.
The procession then reformed and
marched to the Relief Corps mound
where eight small girls placed wrathS
upon the flags on the mound in honor
of the unhnowndead and speaking and
singing exercises were given by the
school children. Next came the Cerc-
mouy of scattering flowers upon the
water in memory of the dead comrades,
who We're lost beneath the waves.
These exercises consisted of the read
ing of the 117th Psalm. the song, Scat
ter Flowers" after which the members
of the navy cast Wrcaths upon the wa
ter. America was next sung and two
vollcys fired by o detail from the Sons
Of Veterans.
In the evening q large audience gath
cred at Memorial hall tn listen to the
closing exercises of the day.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-01
AT PRESOUE ISLE.
Soldiers Graves Decorated and Mem
oria Service for Sailors Held.

Presluc Isle. Me, May 31.-Memo /
rial day was observed By exercises with
a large attendance of people from tn"
farming districts.
In the forenoon a detachment Of
Wade Post, G. A. r.. headed by the
Presque Isle Band, decorated the gray es
in Paramount cemetery. Shortly before
noon the memorial service to the dead
sailors WAS held on Gould's bridge Oh
the Prcsquc Isle stream, conducted by
the Woman's Relief Corps.
The Memorial address ny Rev. g. II.
Walker of Caribou WAS dHlivetcd III
Pcrrya theatre in the afternoon.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-01
KNOX COUNTY,.

The Day Is FittinnIy Observed in Sew
eraI Towns.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-01

Rockland. Me. May 31.-Memorial
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-10
BOXERS ASSUME FULL RESPONS-
IBILITY.

Well. we met the enemy and the
town is theirs. The Boxers and Ut
landsrs won a sweeping victory yes
terday and will soon be in full control
of the city government We shall now
see how much they will improve upon
the able administration of Mayor Gill
bert Hunt during the last four years.
They will have the mayor and the
council and must assume full RESPONSE
bility for the conduct of the city gov
eminent. During the next year there
will be no opportunity for shifting the
blame for the councils sins of omis-
sion or commission upon the mayor
The Statesman in the campaign
closed yesterday supported for office
the men whom it deemed best fitted
for the public service. 1t recognized
the fact that under Mayor Hunt the
city has made greater progress than
ever before in its history and that
nothing was 10 De gained py recurring
him in favor of an untried and in
experienced man at this time. A ma4
jOrity of the voters of the city have
decreed otherwise and the Statesman
accepts defeat as good naturally as it
has many times in the past. 1t has
only the kindliest feelings and best
wishes for the new mayor and it will
lend him support in all his efforts to
make Walla Walla a bigger better and
more beautiful city.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-10
The SDeakinG Voice.

Nothing as quickly and unmistakably
distinguishes a we'll bred man or wt,-
man from those of plebeian birth or
education as the speaking voice and
the carriage. two most essential points
to cultivate and the two which are al
most universally neglected by parents
and masters in this country. 1t is not
SO in England and France, where even
in humble life the voices are not only
naturally more musical than those
found in America. but they are so in
consequence of past training and Gull
tivation. One uses the speaking voice
almost continuously, so why should it
not be trained to be as musical as
possible, since a sweet, low voice is
considered power? So much time and
attention are given to the singing
voice. which is used only upon occa-
sions, which of course is to be encour-
aged and commended but if one can
not cultivate both let the preference al
ways be given to the speaking voice.
that ones enunciation. articulation and
respiration. as well as the proper pitch
of the voice, may be regulated and
governed according to the most ap-
proved methods Then ones convic-
tons VIII be found to carry great
weight.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-10

Government expenses are not different
in principle from family expenses. a
growing family makes growing de-
mands. New items of expense con-
tinually develop. New sources of rev.
enue are infrequent in their appear
ance either in the family or in the
nation. The most that can be expect
ed in the family is constant and pain
full watchfulness over the outgo. This
is about all that can be expected from
congress. That we got this from the
Fifty-ninth congress, Chairman Tawn-
ey's statement is sufficient evidence.
He has made a record for close scru-
tiny of appropriations never before ex-
celled. But one human being cannot
stand against the pressure of S0,000,-
OOO with their real or fancied necessi-
ties.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-10

The Elizabeth school board has ad-
vanced a proposition of logic whlch
may be all right in schools, put WHICH
would work confusion in the world OF
law. Suppose that the courts shoulo
hold that there could not be an as
sault unless the plaintiff could prove
that he struck back; that there couio
be no murder unless the murderer was
Immediately killed by the murdered'
hat a man could not be put off a tram
unless he at one and the same time
out off the man who put him OFF?
The Elizabeth president must, we
fear. be worked out with more care
in the schoolrOom or the cloakroom
before it is applied in the police court.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-10
APPROPRIATIONS AND POLITICS

The usual contradictory statements
are made by the leading men on the
committee on appropriations of the
house. Mr.. Chairman Towney says
that though the government costs lots
of money, it is less per capita than
the government of any other country.
Mr.. Livingston, the leading demo-
cratic member, compares the eXpendi-
lures under Roosevelt in 1906 with
those under Mckinley in 1898. and
draws the conclusion that the repub-
can party is a party Of extravaganza,
extravaganza entered upon deliberate
ly to make burdensome tariff neces-
sary. This he says, is part of the re-
publican party's bargain with the
trusts and combinations to which it is
welded.
There are a few flaws in Mr.. Liv-
ingstons reasoning:
First-There is no evidence Of any
great expenditures being undertaken
which all parties have not substan-
TALLY agreed upon, unless it be the
cost of the army and navy. The DEM
ocrats occasionally kick about those
items. but always agree to them in
the end
Second-If the republicans have en-
tered into bargain with trusts to
keep up the expenditures in order to
keep up the tariff in order that the
said combines may keep up prices
they are pursuing an illogical policy
Huge expenditures will inevitably de-
mand a reduction of the tariff to a
minimum revenue basis and thus de-
feat the very purpose of the alleged
bargain.
The attempt to make political capt.
tai out of the appropriations has been
such failure in the past that one
would suppose it would be abandoned
by sensible statesmen. One party is
as bad as the other. only the demo-
Gratis are q little worse since they let
the expenditures run up while the
revenue runs down.
The expenses of the government run
up because the public demands things.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-10
NAPOLEON AND MAMMALIAN.

The ill-starred expedition of Maxi
milan TO Mexico and the subsequent
tragedy of his execution by Jaurez is
recalled by the near publication Of
Prof. John Bassett Moore's work on
American diplomacy. One of the i'm
portant chapters of Professor Moore's
work is that on the Monroe doctrine.
Professor Moore was satisfied, after
reading the letters of Seward, that
there was or had been in the archives
of the state department letter from
Louis Napoleon in which he explained
the situation which led him to send
French troops into Mexican territory
and in which he disavowed any pur-
pose to establish an empire there.
Mr.. Moore did not find the letter,
though he believed he had traced it to
the hands of President Lincoln. 1t is
now said there is in existence such a
letter, that it was written to an Amer
lean who had befriended Napoleon
when he was in America and who
remained his confidant throughout his
life. When the Mexican expedition
was preached the American told Ma
poleon this country would never toler-
ate it and that thereupon the emperor
INT RI no
to Lincoln in which the objects of the
expedition were set forth, and perma-
nent occupancy of Mexico was disa-
vowed.
This is not the historical atmosphere
of the Macmillan incident. Diplomacy
has heretofore credited Napoleon with
an attempt to make a permanent land
ing on American SOIL In fact, it has
never been denied that he induced the
Austrian prince to accept the nominal
ton as emperor of Mexico merely be-
cause he was not prepared to set up a
French throne there.
Whatever may be in this letter, it
cannot alter the truth that Napoleon
was unfriendly to the north during
the war and that he was on several
occasions ready to join with England
in recognizing the confederacy, but the
English were never QUITE so ready for
trouble as Napoleon.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-10
a HUG NOT A HUG.

When is a hug not a hug? The
school board of Elizabeth, n. j., has
decided that it is not when there is a
lack of reciprocation. One of the fair
schoolma'am of that delightful and
modestly named burg accused the
principal of hugging her in the cloak
room. She went before the board and
testified. describing how the principal
threw his arms around her and, draw
ing her to his scholastic bosom heav-
ing with the combined effects of
Greek and emotion. gave her a hug.
The facts seemed to be established
when the principal testified that he
might have squeezed the lady's hand
in an excess of enthusiasm over the
success Of the work. but he could not
have Rugged her Had not the plain
tiff testified that her hands hung at
her side? If so, there could have been
no hug, since there had been no recip-
rocal movement on her part.
The board deliberated by itself and
found that there had been no hug.
that there could be no hug without
the assistance and active seconding of
the motion by a huggee. There had
been no huggee. therefore no hug.
The one exception to this rule laid
down was a bear hug. A bear might
compass a hug without being aided or
abetted. But the plaintiff had not de-
scribed the principal as a bear. she
had not even called him a brute.
which may be the genus comprehend
ing the bear species. 1t was too late
TO amend the complaint and so the
plaintiff lost her case, her job and her
hug, for whatever opinion she may
have upon the subject herself a court
of competent jurisdiction has found
that she was not Rugged.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-10

The preachers, ;hurch members
and temperance reformers who sup
ported the Boxer candidate for mayor
and chief of police at yesterdays cleo
ton missed a big treat by not attend
ing the impromptu jollification meet
ing at the midnight hour in the Sen
ate saloon. It would have been an edi-
flying sight for these good people to see
the Boxer leaders who solemnly as
sured them before election that the
Boxer candidates stood for morality,
decency and Acknowledgement, aiding
in dispensing drinks from behind the
bar or making speeches from the bar.
1t is probably the first time in the
history of the city that newly elect
ed mayor has made his inaugural adj
dress from a saloon bar while his
health was drunk by cheering, howl
ing and shrieking mob of enthusiastic
supporters. The preachers of the city
desiring a fruitful theme for vivid and
forceful sermons on local conditions
should by all means have witnessed
the wild and drunken orgies enacted
at the Boxer publication meeting last
night.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-10

The Standard Oil lawyers seem to
be organizing a company in each state.
Some corporations seem to feel that If
they skin the people legally it is an
archy to interfere with the game.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-10

The Philadelphia Ledger refers ia
miliarly to Secretary of the Navy
Shaw. Is this because the secretary
has been taking so much water in the
Iowa fight?
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-10

The dOuma has heard with profound
horror of the burning of negroes alive
in America, and desires to put on rec
ord it's sincere sympathy in the cause
of the oppressed. Russia has a par
lament now and can get back at us.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-10

Dr. Muck. from Germany, is the new
conductor of the Boston Symphony Or
chestra. Dr. Muck arrived at the psy-
Geological moment.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-10

The prodigal son, after the banquet,
arose to propose his father sheath. Il
want to correct one error of the
press" he said. Il came home not be-
cause the fare was poor, but the fact
is, neighbors, those pigs had never
been inspected"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-10

The statement that clubwOmen are
trying to uplift man is not alto
gether reassuring. The anarchists are
also trying to uplift royalty.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-10

Paterson, n. j., is considering an or
dinance to compel all citizens to wear
their pockets inside out to prove there
are no anarchists in town.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-10

Two people died in Brooklyn from
drinking cocktails. Hundreds of peo-
pie are worried about their meat, when
everybody knows that it is liquor that
is killing them.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-10

Mr.. Taft would perhaps take it
kindly if Justice Brown could put off
his retirement until after the repub-
lican national convention.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-10

If the United States government can
establish a reputation by putting on
the mittS with CasSatt it may be able
to get on match with Rockefeller
later.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-10

Mr.. Hearst has announced to the
Federation of Labor that it can gain
more through politics than by striking
provided it politics wits Hearst.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-10

A postal card mailed in Philadelphia
20 years ago has just reached it's des-
tination in Camden, N. j. Even postal
cards hesitate to go to jersey
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-10

! Reports from Russia intimate that
Goremykin is weary. 1t takes only a
/ little resigne ton to shake that tired
feeling.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-10

DR.. Watterson of Kentucky was
made so by an LID. from Brown. To
celebrate the event, Louisville put a
lid on.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-10

! Shonts has been given the degree of
LII. D., but the degree congress wants
| to confer on him that of D. Y. T. D.
| Key on application.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-02-05
Thousonds of Missions and Connerts.

Years. with annual premiums of S2l55 Its
surrender value at the expiration of ar
teen years, he asserted. should have been
SSS,SU( but the Equitable society axed il
paid only the smaller amount.
The bank asked permission to sue for
tho difference, but its attorney stated that
the Dank did not charge fraud, miscon-
duct or mlsbchaVior or cIte anythInC de-
NcIoped In recent insurance legislation.
counsel Tor the Equitable declared that
inc sum OF sSS,SOO was merely an estimate
ana that rates OF interest on securities
had shru1k In the fifteen years OF tho
duration OF the policy He said the suit
would involve an examination OF the So
Siety books TO ascertain whether tho
figures were not mere "guesswork" that
this would cost 100000, and that tho
money would have to come out OF the
POCKETS OF the other pollcy-holdcrs." The
courts of New York State. he assertad
have always held that such actions
cannot be brought by nnllcY-hnldcra
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-02-05

| This gives a fairly good Idea OF wha
the converted native thinks tho new
religion is worth to him
Protestant Europe and Canada com
| hined contributed in 1905 just a few
thousand dollars more than the sum
total or our evangelical societies contrl.
buttons. -Four thousand. three hundred
ana sixty of the 1.l57 missionaries sent
cut by all Protestant societies are Amer
leans; 93lS OF the 2O6i1 stations and
out-stations are maintained by Ameri-
third OF the 1925, SIS native communi-
cants are attached to American missions
9nd churches. Great Britain. however
has nearly half OF the 9Ol ll2 under In.
struction In her mission schools and col
loges. and her native laborers constitute
nearly half of the total. e5,2ss.
The FIRST foreign, missionary board to
DC formed In this country was the
forelgn Missions. representing the Con
gresational church. This occurred in
september Of 1Slo, and. therefore. in less
than tive years, 1t Will be incumbent on
the various foreign missionary societies
TO celebrate the centenary OF the works
actual beginning.
The centenary of the meeting that ulti
mately led to the formation OF the
American board occurs this wear II
y;iS,, WaS IN lSO5 that Samuel j. Mills entered
Nliilams college. His mother had conso-
erS'eG era uon,i MN from his infancy to mission
dIS WORK Shortly after he began his
Dollesldto career. he held a missionary
prayer meeting OF students under the
shelter OF a haystack where tho rain
mad mad driven them. This spot has been
SaiIeu efn inc birthplace of American mis-
slonS' since the interest there awak-
ened caused several of the participants
TO organize In the college two years later
MISSION TO the hcathen. The existence
or this organization was kept secret
lest we should be thought rashIy impr1i,
cent and should so inture tho cause we
wish TO promote The same young mon
VINO constituted the society formed tbn
american board In the open after an
other two years This board was the
nrst American evangelical society to send
OUT missionary, the first mission beInc
western India, after many trials in IsIeS
Inc receipts OF the pioneer board dur
ing the first year OF It's existence wero
!ust lorty-eight cents less than an even
was Sle214 and 1t had 575 American mis-.
slonerles In the field. The Methodist
ooard mad the largest income last year
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-02-05

French control on the ground that It
would make France the virtual master
OF horocco's political future, These po-
sltlons are so opposed as to be almost
lrreconcilable. yet tho neutral delegates
are strenuously continuing their pacific
offices toward finding 4 common ground
acceptable to both countries.
some OF the compromise projects are
on the following general lines
Tho first Is to leave the police to the
sultan OF Morocco. thus avoiding Ger
many s objection TO French control and
mat OF France TO International control
This compromise Is distasteful to France
but the neutral delegates are seeking TO
reconcile French opposition 10 1t by point
ing out that the Sultan would have TO
instruct and discipline the police
Another compromise vaguely put for
ward Is 10 give Spain or some other OF
the powers share with France In the
organization of the police This again
meets with the opposition to having
France participate in any control of the
police
Still another compromise. apparently
having the approval Of Germany, is TO
institute an international police for a linn
ited and experimental period and II the
experiment fails France will then be In
A position 10 assume the organization OF
the police.
France, however. shows no disposition
TO accept the plan for an international
police system, even for an experimental
period
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-02-05
The Generals of the Mission ARMY

One of the most important duties Of
missionary boards various secretaries Is
the selection Of new missionaries OF
course. the board appoints all mission
aries. but it makes appointments usually
on the recommendations of the sccrc-
taries, who arrive Mt their decisions
through conferences, Discussing each ap-
plicants case separately. and frequently
not deciding for or against him until a
personal Interview Is had with him
The corresponding secretaries may be
called the generals in direct command or
the nctiYc missionary forces in the field
since they are In constant communica-
tlon with all the missionaries All re-
ports from the field are made TO the sec
rotarics. All instructions to the field are
sent out by them. The reports that the
secretaries make to the board from time
TO time cause missionaries to be trans
ferrcd5 furloughed. recalled; prospecting
parties to be sent out new stations out
stations. various schools and hospitals to
he established. The secretaries are the
men who have their fingers on the pulse
ural that they should be the big men OF
the foreign mission work, and that the
board should be governed largely in its
decisions by their recommendations.
The duties of the secretaries are not
confined To those of purely business
character. To the average missionary, the
man at the home Office with whom he
carries on official correspondence. is the
one person, par excellence, at home to
able personal circumstance. Even matrl-
monlal questions are brought to his at
tention. AS a preacher. conYersnnt with
the work has expressed IT, the secrc-
tary must be able to "rejoice with thcm
that do rejoice, and weep with them that