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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-03-19
STATE NEWS.
kEnNEBEc.
NORTH AUGUSTA.

The Methodist class meeting which is
usually held at the parsonage, met
with MI and Mrs. w. II. Judkins
"Wednesday evening. Quite large
NUMBER were present and the meeting
much enjoyed by all.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. E. Taylor invited the
families of Rev. w. A. Meservey, c. ".
HalloWeu and n. r. Grover to their
pleasant home last Tuesday evening.
The evening quickly passed in social
converse, music and many pretty Sc
lectlons played by Mi. Taylor on his
sraphophone. Refreshments were
served.
G. F. Wade G. Son, house painters,
have recently built a large carriage re-
pository with several hundred feet Of
floor space and it is reported that they
will 40 carriage painting and repair
ing in connection with their other bus
mess of which they have several con-
tracts ahead.
READFlELD DEPOT.
Miss Marguerite Gordon. accompanied
by her sister. Mrs. Clifton Harrington
is in Portland where the former is be-
Among the visitors at f. a. Leeman's
this week were Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Smith of Carthage and Mrs. George
Day of Vienna. Mr.. Smith is the neph-
CIV of Mr.. Leeinan and was en- route
for the capital.
Six large crates of doves were
shipped from the station Wednesday
destined for poultry farm near Bos-
ton. where the proprietor deals largely
in squads.
Miss Dorothy Alden is visiting
friends in Lewiston.
Among those who attended the fire
sales in Augusta Thursday were Mrs.
NJ. S. Collins and Mrs. E. A. Leeman.
Mrs. L. M. Jones and Miss Anna
Stinchfield. who have both been seri-
ously i'll, are improving. vi
Mr.. Parsons. station agent, has re-
turned from Pennington.
Rev. Mead Kelsey OF Winthrop Gen.
ter was calling on the sick last week.
NORTH MANCHESTER.
Mrs. Job Springer. who has been
visiting her sister. Mrs. Geo. A. Lilly
for q few days. has returned to her
home in Augusta.
Mrs. J. Albert knowles has returned
after a visit with friends in Pittsf1eld
and Winslow.
Roland Knowles is building log
cabin for :he accommodation of lum-
bermen employed By him.
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NnAAan

To THE EDIroR or THE SUN-Sr. Reading Mr..
wheelock's article on wooden Railways" in this
mornings SUN prompts me TO add what little Of
ancient history I possess on the subject.
In 1850 7 lived in Q small village In the northern
part Of this State. where there was an abundant
water power and on which vas a pretty large
sawmIl for those days. where large quantities
OF pine longs wero sawed into boards OF va Tlous
dimensions and thickness. IL had been the custom
for several years to carry the boards away from the
mill by arm. shoulder and back some consIde n bic
distance and stack them Up on the banks Of the
river below the dam to dry and season. This was
Q laboTious Job, until II occurred to the boss 10 con-
strict q wooden railway. and which was done by
grading the ground. laying cross ties (sImlar to
thOse nOw In use on railwAyO placing asxs s~cantIing
len thwise over the cross ties. and over the top OF
the scantllng . wooden strip 2xs, which served as
the track. A wooden platform car about sxIe feet
was constructed and placed on the track. For
many years afte rward that system OF aklnE Ium-
bar away from the mill was used.
I cannot remember by just what means the car
was kept from running on the track. but the e4-
pertinent Was successful and was considered 20 be a
wonderful achievement AZ that time. The rail-
way had . considerable down grade. and the main
labor Of Transporting the lumber was in holding
the car bach. which was done by hand by the men
andling the lumber When the car was unloAded
Il was very easy work 20 push II back up TO the mil
for another load, ". q. L.
NEW YORK, September L
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Coach STAGo OF the University Of Chi
cago says the big problem OF football under
the new rules will be the defence. He
thinks that "a shifting defence, which is
always the best. will have to be used All
the experts agree that there must DO new
strategy to fit the revised rules. Mr.. SrA0a
believes that the forward pass will be freely
used. To COPE with such . play there must
be quick eyed and feet footed men on the
other side. Big wasted, broad shouldered,
deep chested fellows, strong a. dray horses
and rigid a. stone walls, will not have the
call for places on the football team this
season, Inc those who are chosen must
have plenty OF nervous force. The greatest
demand will be for light heaVyWeights and
middleweights, men who can start like
sprinters at the signal. Broken fields will
hardly be the exception this year, and there
should be few touchdowns made by brute
strength As q spectacle football will be
greatly improved, and after all il is the
spectators who keep the game going. -Four
players can enjoy tennis In solitude. but
twenty-five youngsters would soon tire Of
football without a crowd 10 cheer them on.
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FyOHs ne london TbRes.
A Shelley is called the poets poet. so TurgenieH
may be called the ~noVelists' novelist. His most
appreciatlve critics have been his fellow crafts
~men-Zola, George Moore and Henry James.
His public. outside Russia. 10 probably con
nned to them and TO curious students Of tho
Slsv point OF view. Iadeed. II could hardly he
otherwise, seeing that II needs some knowledge ~
the mtftsr TO perceive that his work 10 good. and
some interest In the subject 10 appreciate stories
which. while they reveal the eGt DANE Of a race.
arc little dependent upon incident. and remote
from the experience. whether external or psychO-
logical. OF the Anglo Saxon or Latin reader. on
other readers the merit OF tho workmanship 10
wasted: and II 10 quite possible TO recognise that
merit and yet TO be bored. IL might be argued.
In fact. that boredom was q part OF the impression
which the author intended 70 produce. and that.
In certain passages at all events. he has delibe rately
sacrificed nveliness to accuracy.
The safest Of all sweeping geneHaliEatlons shout
Russia 10 that Russians talk too much. TurFenien
felt that weakness Of the national character and
set himself to portray Il. He portrayed II with
absolute and con vtncing success: but II was OF the
nature OF the case that he could not do so without
tedIOusness. Take. for instance. those opening
chapters Of Virgin Soil" In which the assembled
revOlutionists converse about their cause. a.
one reads one invOluntaTiIy excIaims: Fancy
these gasbaGs brIn ElnG about q revolution" That.
no doubt, 10 exactly what TurgenIen meant his
readers 20 eXclaim. He was not satisfied 10 tell
US that the revolutlonists we're gasbaRs: he pre-
feTTed to exhibit them as such. u was beyona
question the more artistic and the morr perslsslvs
way. The eheet sought 10 obtAined. We rise from
the perusal feeling that We have breGt hed an atnos-
phere sIrcbaTged With gaa. But In the meantime
We have been more bored than entertained.
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Mr.. BrxAn,s Miafortune.

II is a great pity that the Hon. WILLIAM
JENNINGS BRYAN, better known as the
Peerless One, or the Nebraska Swan,
came into this world absolutely destitute
OF a sense OF humor. In many respects
he possesses attributes Of human great
ness. His is a magnificent physique.
He is handsome in a stern Roman way.
Few men have been endowed with such
vitality and strength. His throat is the
throat Of a trumpet, and equally that OF
a mellifuous flute. When he thunders
the battle cry, all hillsides for twenty
miles around succumb to unreasonable
tremors. When he lends his all COM
polling organ to sentiment and pathoe,
you can dance to it as to the voluptuous
and dreamy waltz. He fairly reeks
with clarion calls. Lutes and rebecs
without number are concealed upon his
person.
Some evil and malignant witch, how
ever, presided over his debut. and to
this day he makes himself ridiculous
without s~uspecting it.
Imagine, il you please, the spectacle
OF the Hon. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN,
with both eyes dishevelled and a remark
able head OF hair in fine frenzy rolling
imagine him, we say, denouncing trusts,
corporations and assorted octopuses,
screaming imprecations upon all who
would deny or even curtail the liberty Of
man, and in the next breath acclaiming
as the perfect fruit Of a heaven born
inspiration the eight hour labor law
Speaking to an intelligent public it
would, Of course, be insulting to call
attention to the abject slavery contem-
plated by that law. When it to
pass that an American citizen cannot
work when, where and on what terms he
pleases to accept, tho regime Of freedom
has given way to a dispensation OF tyr
my, all the more abhorrent because
Of it's ignorance and brutality. And Mr..
BRYAN, hurting anathemas at corpora
tons which are responsible, and a DO
sued and punished through legitimate
judicial processes for their crimes, can
not see that in advocating the eight hour
law he is upholding a dispensatiOn under
which the poor man, the industrious
man, the humble toier for his daily
bread, is oppressed az sorely as were
the victims OF the sumptuary regula-
tions of two centuries ago!
Mr.. BRYAN reminds one Of those gen.
tlemen who emerge from a burning
ediace endued only in a plug hat and a
nightshirt, firmly believing that q frown
and a majestic stalk will make them look
dignifed.
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A Shell Game.

Mr.. BRYAN's protestation that he is
more radical than eve does not really
describe his state Of mind; il would have
bee /, nearer the truth for him to say that.
he is more radical than HEARST.
What, then, will be Mr.. BRYAN's con-
sternation when he reads his rivals
Labor Day speech and learns that W. r.
H. 10 sailing away on the conservative
tack with a balloon jib set?
The carefully considered speech
emitted by Mr.. BRYAN's fellow radical
in the presence Of the Common People"
was not intended for them, but for tn
a Of the conservative voter who anne
to SCOT, and who, it was the guess OF the
Hearst literary bureau, Vould rem lin to
pray.
Mr.. HEARsT's averment that his pro-
gramme was not socialism, or radical
ism, or extreme of any kind, but Amer
icanism; his declaration that he did not
believe in private ownership Of public
property, nor in public ownership of
private property" his proposal of tar.f
revision with due regard to the sta
bility of business interests and the per-
petuation Of the prosperity on which We
all depend, and similar sentiments that
might have been uttered by any man in
public life, of whatever party he might
belong to-all were projected On the
screen for the contemplation Of voters
who regard Mr.. HEARST with aversion
and must be deluded and ! ypnOtized il
"the present shameful condition Of our
political life in this State, to use MIR.
JERoME's words, is to transfer its odious
and perniciOus influences to the Gov
ernors seat at Albany.
A conservative HEARST is Of oourse
unthiRkable, and professions Of caution
and deiiberation from such a source r
the mask of a radicalism more dangerous
than the simple outspoken crudities Of
Mr.. BRYAN. He is engaged in an honest
game, such as it is; he ia more ignorant
than SHINING. The game operated by his
rival Is a shell game, and nothing else.
Besides, when for years m has bel
lowed like a hippopotamus, the sudden
transition TO the cooling Of the sucking
dove induces incredulity, or derision, or
both.
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h New Game.

Two gratifying and satisfactory games
Of the new baseball were played on
Labor Day at the American League
grounds. Several times the police were
called on to preserve order. One player
was 90 enthusiastic in his efforts that
twice a patrolman was needed to quiet
him. In n Of the games the umpire
was so impressed by the skill exhibited
by the visiting nine that he declared the
game forfeited to the home club with a
score Of nine to nothing.
The players of the American League
cannot have credit for introducing the
reform that promises to change entirely
the character Of baseball. That imper-
ishable glory belongs to the Giants. The
Highlanders have been quick to adopt
the revised tactics, however, and for
this they are entitled % all credit. No
foolish conservatism, no hesitancy TO
adopt the new, no lingering affection
for the old, has served TO keep them from
the path OF progress.
The new game may drive out the old
from the major leagues. Then on their
circuits the pastime called ~mugRsy" or
-macgraw' will be played. When this
Is accomplished another organization
may take up the abandoned game, for
there are still a few old fashioned persons
who enjoy a baseball contest and have
no desire to witness mob scenes on the
green diamond.
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THE EPISCOPAL FATE.
Reasons why IL 10 Not Satisfactory TO
Some ChurChmen.

~ AhhuH thhtCt
To TEE EDIroR OF TIE 6uN-Siv: I was
an Episcopalian and became converted to
Catholicity because / saw ct eat faith in the
Catholic Church. / soon learned that that
faith was based on the belief that the Roman
Catholic Church 10 the true Church and the
gates Of hell shall not Or evail against her"
The general run Of Episcopalians have
little or no faith in their Church because OF
its Inconsistency this was the hrst thing
that set, me thinking. Different doctrines
dieintesratinR the Episcopal Church.
ON Of the many inconsist enctes 10 the doc
trine Of the Real Presence. II you 20 to
some Of the Episcopal churches you win and
thing which ia expressly Forbidden IN their
Articles Of Religion found In their authorized
Il seems TO me and to many Of my Episcopal
thing and still be an EplscopaliaH.. Heber
Newton and others deny the virgin birth and
still hold their standing as Episc opalianS.
Crapsey and his many followers deny the
While SSiSSi clerical an n IaS friends stiIi hold
their membership in the Episcopal Church.
Cardinal Newman, sometime an Anglican,
said that he saw no standing ground between
Cath9licity and unbelisf TO be logical II
needed. Protestants first acknowledGed the
Pope. then the Bible. nov nothing. There
fore you will and that the logical are travel
ling fast either 70 Rome or to sEnosticism.
Her Professionalism teaches aerorticism.
This Ia a logical age and hinkers are stir
ring the people, Christ Is to be followed EN-
tirely or not at all, The words Of CARDINAL
and he a aeSoT o. Sp LEAD sf Kindly RrGS,H nix Rr9D Would
GSem TO be prophet no lees than saint.
NEW YORK, September 4. CoNvERTo.
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lsrencO would be temporary and limited
to tho single purpose Of reeStAblIshing
tranquility. With the restoration Of
peace and order u Government would
again, a. II did four years ago, invite the
CubaRs to declare, at Q general elsc-
ton TO be held under our supervision,
their preference for President. members
OF the Congress End other elective Offices.
That il what We should do because We
are morally bound TO do it.
IL is probable that substantially the
same result which would be Attainable
by the overt interpretation Of our Govern
ment in Cuban affairs could be reached
by the suggested commission, the deci-
sion rendered by which would in all like
lihood be determined by the vote Of the
American umpire. Here again. a. in the
struggle between employers and miners
in the anthracite coal region OF Penn
sylv mia, Mr.. RoOsEvELT's appointee
would assume and discharge the role of
peacemaker. In the one case a. In the
other, both parties TO the controversy
would have solicited or accepted the
appointment Of an umpire by our
Federal Chief Magistrate. There Is q
grave difference, however, between the
two examples Of intervention, because
there wa grave doubt concerning Mr..
RoOsEvKIr's constitutional right to in
terfere in Pennsylvania, unrequested by
the Legislature or Executive Of that
State, whereas, under the Plat Amend
ment to the Cuban Constitution, and
under the Treaty Of Paris, It Ia undoubt-
eddy his right and his duty to interpose
in Cuba when in his judgment the dis
order prevalent in the island threatens
the lives and property OF foreigners.
According to n telegram, General MA
RIO MENoCAL, who is now In Santiago,
and who is reported TO be the rebel candi-
date for the Presidency, expressed lately
a willingness TO treat on the part OF the
Palma Government with the insurgents,
il he were authorized to make to them
a definite offer, which il unnamed, but
which doubtless would have embodied,
tho compromise above outlined. As
President PALMA, on the other hand, has
since declared that he will Offer the in
surgents nothing but amnesty, We may
assume that the projected Menocal medi-
alton has been abandoned, and that the
war will 60 on for a considerable time
nj all avankm
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UnrefOrmed ReTOrmers.

That famous Judge Of RABELAIs's,
who had the reputation OF a Solomon
till he incautiously gave his reasons for
a Judgment, has had many a successor
on the English and American bench, az
lawyers al tell, Judges whose decisions
are generally right, but whose reasons
are as generally wrong. The French
have a saying chat is truer than most,
Qui s's1cSse, s'accuSe, and the proverbs
OF all nations testify to the value OF
~ret.cence.
In explaining his spelling edict TO the
Public Printer President ROOSEVELT
r~eiterates his views Of the functions OF
Government which should instead OF
tagging behind popular sentiment, ad-
vance abreast Of it; in this case abreast
Of the views OF most practical educators
and most profound scholars. Il is right,
too, that the head Of the Government
should be a little in the van Of the edu-
Gators themselves. For Q little exami-
nation wouldfha shown him that though
they hold views and sign agreementA 70
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THE ". y, ". N. & III. SYSTEM
Incident Indicating why the Public Loves
One Corporation.

To THE EDITOR OF The SUN-Siy: You are
doubtless aware Of the great affection Of the
travelling public for the New York. New
Haven and Hartford Railroad Company and
its subOrdinstes without exactly understand
ing IL.
Perhaps I can shed q little light on II. I
took a train for New York at ESQ A. NJ. yes
terday at New Haven. With a ticket reading
-Branford and New York Soon after leav-
ing New Haven the conductor came along,
punched my ticket and stuck II in the plush
upholstery OF the seat in front OF me. He
made two further rounds. on the last Of which
he took my ticket from the place where he
had left 1t. After We had passed Stamford
he made another round and stopped before
me and demanded my ticket. I told him he
had my ticket. I had seen him take II and ]
described the ticket. and seeing that he had
a bunch Of tickets in his hand I suggested
that lie should look them over and he would
undoubte eddy find mine.
He refused insolently 70 do that and said
We have q regular system on this road, =
and again demanded my ticket or the fare.
I refused to pay the fare. OF course. and he
then said. Il will go to the baggage car and
II l don't and your ticket you will pay your
fare or get or"
A he did not come back ! presume he found
my ticket. But why could he not look over his
tickets in my presence when I asked him to
do 40? VIAroR.
NEW YORK, September 4.
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west passage was found 10 have no
practical value. When CoLUMBUs's dis
covery flung the great American continent
across the western path 70 the Indies
II was natural enough for adventures
TO seek q sea road around or through Il.
The Iathmus has not been pierced yet.
SEBASTIAN CABOT tried both the north
and the south ends and in Hudson Bay
and the Rio de La Plata came tantaliz-
ingiy neal the entrances. M~AGBLLAN's
Victoria nj England OF from the south
ern gate and the Eizabethan neVigators
could only try calamity TO force the
northern passage. They left their names
on the map. FROBIsHER, DAVIS, BAFFIN,
HUDSON and the rest, but merely DEM
Onstrated its ~impractibility "a 4 trade
route. The hope died hard and It was
left to JAMES Cook in the eighteenth
century TO give il a death blow by prov
ing that Puget Sound did not extend to
Hudson Bay.
Then, after . long interval. came the
scientific explorers, PARRY, the ROssEs,
BELCHBR and the rest, and the tragedy
Of Sir JOHN FRANKLIN, with the efforts
to find him. None were able to break
their way through the icy barrier, and
tho search turned from the northwest
passage to the effort to reach the pole.
Now that Captain AMUNDsEN has at last
accomplished the task that 90 many gal
liant men have failed in it is a curious
commentary on the mutability Of scien-
tito aims that he will feel prouder Of,
and will receive much greater credit for,
fixing the true position OF the north mag
netio pole, the chief object Of his expo
dition and q matter Of practical scientific
importance, than the brillianteand ro-
mantle fret sailing through the American
Arctic seas, so long the chief ambition Of
every Arctic explorer.
There is appetite fitness that AMUNDsEN,
q Dane. commanding q purely Danish ex-
petition, should have succeeded, following
the track Of his forefathers to Iceland, to
ERIct the Reds Greenland, and sailing west
into the ocean Of ice. He has done it in a
vessel notmuch larger than theysailed in,
no larger than those that took COLUMBUS
across the ocean and MAGELLAN's men
around the world. The Viking race has
not run out, az NoRDENsKJoLD the Swede,
HANSEN the Norwegian, and now AMUND-
SEN the Dane, have shown.
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Thoughts from Boston.

To THE Enron or TEE SUN-ST: II lie
my modest opinion that within the next two
years or thereabouts We are to witness q
solution OF that maddenlng problem Of the
ages which has driven saints to ain and savants
to strong drink-as TO what would happen in
the event OF q head on collision between an
irresistible force and an immovable body.
When your Great Commoner or perhaps
great commonest idol and inspiration, bill
the faint Killer" has finished the swivel
jolnted. bawl bearing double shun1e and
buck and wing sketch upon which he has
entered for q continuous performance OF
twenty-six months. the effect Of the impact
above mentioned will be shown to be that
the Irresistible Force has had his swan song
jolted out OF his system.
For the further culture OF Mr.. Rryan's
politlco-eOonomlc whiakers. better that he
In its vicinity. II. 4. s..
BOSTOS. SNntAmbAP A