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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-01
VOICES OF THE PRESS.
Citifying the Country.

Chicago Tribune)
The red veined trolley car map Vi
rural southern New England makes
striking picture. A telephone map
would show even greater colhpieAi'y
of lines, and d rural free delivery map
would present still more minute anu
widely ramifying system. Inc COM
mon highways. the railroads. the tele-
graph. and the local postofflce nave
thus been enormously supplanted WITH
in the last decade by these three new
agencies of communication.
They are working swift social
changes in the southern New England
countryside. The rural trolley car is
likely to carry parcels as we'll as pas
senSers. 1t takes the farmer TO town
or the tOwnsman to the farmer. 1t
also exchanges their products. AT
brings town and country together in
trade, amusements, intelligence, and
social standards.
The telephone saves a journey IN
one case while it promotes it in anoth-
er. 1t stimulates trade here anu
Quickens adjustments generally. ii
enables a sudden want to be supplied
suddenly. BY it the farm dweller "can
get quickest to the city without leav-
ing his own house." Its latest record
indeed is that of a doctor who, using
proxy at the other end of the line.
performed a surgical operation by tele-
phone upon a person severely hurt
in the Maine woods several hundred
miles away. The farmers apprecia-
ton OF the telephone is also Indicated
by the extent to which they are build
ing local mutual systems for them
selves. The telephone is effeectually
dispelling the traditional isolation of
the farm.
The rural free delivery is the latest
Of these new agencies of intercourse
and exchange for rural districts, and
il is destined 10 be expanded materiai-
ly in scope and usefulness. Post
master General CortelyOu's proposal
for consolidating third and fourth class
matter in the interest of more parcel
carrying is a significant pointer toward
a wider use of the postal system.
The urbanizing of the New England
farm is interestingly discussed in an
article Of the current New England
Magazine, and many secondary results
therefrom are noted. One of the more
important of these is undoubtedly the
assimilation in intellectual and pOliti-
cal ideas which is thus being brought
about between city man and country
man. Not only is interdependence in
trade increased, but IAN antagonism is
disappearing that is almost as old as
human SOciety-the opposition be-
tween urban and rustic" These
changes in New England typify similar
changes which are taking place widely
in this and other countries. Country
and city are becoming one. not only in
economic relations but in point of
view and. sympathy. From the stand
point of that social progress which de-
mandS common understanding and
good feeling the rapid urbanizing of
the countryside is of peculiar political
and social il !pOrtance.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-01

President Hall of Clark University is
Just back from Utah, where he made
a study of the Mormon situation, and
his trip made him much more tolerant
of conditions there and much more
optimistic as regards them than are
many of our people who have never
been in Salt Lake City. He declares
that polygamy is rapidly ling out.
and that the younger generation al
most never practices 1t. As regards
the agitation for the expulsion of
Senator Smoot. President Clark de-
ciares that the senator is himself an
exemplary man and a monogamist.
and that he has never been charged by
his enemies with being otherwise. He
represents in the Senate those who
created the great state of Utah, and it
would be no more just to expel him
for his religious belief than to expel
Senator Rayner of Maryland because
he Is Jew.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-01

The new king of Denmark is to be
known as Frederick VIII. For even a
longer period he waited for the throne
than did the present king of England.
rs King Frederick is now 63 years of
age. He ought to be sufficiently set
tied and steady in his ways by this
time. 1t is said that he commands the
full measure of affection and confidence
Of his people as did his father before
him. 1t is interesting to note that his
heir apparent is Prince Christian, and
the latter in turn has an heir apparent
in the person Of Prince Frederick, SC
that a direct succession is provided for
two generations beyond the present
1t will not escape attention that the
historic alienation of royal names is
preserved, and promises to be pre-.
served for many n year to come. Be-
ginning with Christian III in 1913. Chris
tians and Fredericks have followed
one another in uninterrupted alterna-
ton. Christian IN succeeded Frederick
VII. and is succeeded by Frederick
VIII. who in the order of nature will
be succeeded by Christian Y, and he in
turn by Frederick IN. ~
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-01

Massachusetts has a new holiday this
year, as last years Legislature passed
law directing that the government shall
annually issue a proclamation setting
apart February II as Lincoln Day.
and recommending that it be observed
by the people with appropriate exer-
clses i'm the public schools and else
where. Thus it will fall on Governor
Guild to inaugurate this departure. Al
thcuch the legislature established Lin
coin Day it did not make it legal
holiday, feeling that the Bay State has
quite enough of them already.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-01
Money Cost of the War.

There were many estimates as 10
the money cost of the war between
Japan and Russia and now we are
getting the official figures. According
to the report of the Japanese finance
department the cost of the recent war
to Japan was s5s5,0oo.OOo. Of which
s4s5. OOO, 900 was spent on the army and
500. OOO. 900 on the navy. AS the war.
until the troops began to be with
drawn, lasted about twenty months.
or about 600 days, it appears that Jap
an paid out at the rate of $1,0OO,OOO
day. While hostilities were in pro-
gress the Toxic estimate, as given to
the public, was that the cost was only
$500 900 a day. That it was double
this suggests the reasons why the
prudent mikado and his wise advisers
were more anxious to have peace than
to force the payment of an indemnity.
The report of the Russian finance
department on Russias war expendi-
ture lacks the definiteness Of the
japanese report. No complete state
ment has yet been made. and probably
none will ever be made. In the budget
of Minister Shipof for 1906. however.
there is an estimate which We find
published in the New York Globe. He
says that during 1904 the total assign
ments for expenditures entailed by the
war amounted to 677,SO0.0OO rOubles.
and for 1906 about 1000. 10000 roubles
or 1871, 900, 900 rOubles or 1898, 500, 900
for the two years. But" says NJ. Ship
off, cit must be borne in mind that dis
bursements We're made by military
treasures at the seat of war, for ex-
penditure not included in any military
grant. and that the amount of such
disbursements cannot as yet be deter
communication" 1t is not unlikely
that the total expenditure of Russia,
including the moneys yet to be spent.
will approximate billion dollars. not
including the value of the railroad.
ships and other things she lost.
AS Japan conducted war more eco
nomically than any western power
could. and as Russia practically paid
her soldiers nothing and gave them
the minimum of supplies, these figures
suggest what modern war costs the
power INDUCING the luxury of par
ticipatiOn therein. The writer in the
Globe estimates that if the conflict
powers. that the expenditure on each
side would be at the rate of $4,000. 900
to 100000 per day
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-01
To Repopulate Virginia.

The New York Mail finds an interest
ing historical parallel in the attempt
of the Virginian commissioner of agri-
culture to bring 10000 of the poor of
London to repopulate the half-deserted
plantations and farms Of the Old Do
mnion. The commissioner has been
in communication on the subject with
the Lord Mayor of London, who is
quite willing TO negotiate for the plac-
ing of London Outcasts on Virginia
lands. This movement takes us back
in history 800 years. Up to the year
1876. after the first settlement of Nir-
ginia, the immigration to that colony,
as we'll as to the other Southern colo
MES. consisted in part of convicts, and
up to much later period it was made
up largely of indentured servants, or
bound people. most of whom were
picked up in London
1t has often been alleged that the
poor whites of the South-among
them the Georgia crackers, and the
mOonshining mountaineers-are the
lineal descendants of these early con-
Wet and ."redemptorist' immigrants.
There has never been any documentary
proof of this. On the contrary, there
population became thoroughly mixed.
Robert A. Brock, once secretary of the
Virginia Historical Society, says in Il
well-studied article in the Narrative
and Critical History Of America:
"Aii dangerous and debasing effects Of
their Uhe convictsO presence were eff
fectively guarded against by rigorous
enactments. The vile among them
met the fate of the vicious, while the
simply unfortunate who were indus
trious tErove and became good citi-
Zens. The under stratum of
society. formed by the survival of the
fittest of the 'indentured servant and
| the convict classes. as they improved
in worldly circumstances rose to the
surface and took their places socially
and politically among the more favored
l class
The London Stun population of the
| present day is poor and degenerate
material. but evidently the Virginians
hope to repeat in its case, II they in
deed import a representation of it, the
| transforming process of an earlier day.
| We certainly hope they will succeed.
| Anyway such material is better than a
great part of the rubbish which CONT
mental Europe dumps yearly into our
northern cities. The introduction of
such material in Virginia ended more
than 200 years ago with the wave of
negro slave importation. Curiously
! enough, the present movement has for
its object the replacing of negro labor
on Virginia farms with white help.
which was found too costly in colonial
times.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-01
A LITTLE or
EVERY T HI N G
III. Music of Creation.

7 teton to the music of the song Creation
soon be sendin signals to the sky;
An the angels they will envy US our
bright, metallic wings
The day that we are fixin' for to ny!
Hi, vi!
The day that we are fixin' for to ny!
There's the hummin' of its comm all the
rocky world around =.
We're keepin all the golden stars IN
view
We've all got mighty tired just a-coverin'
the ground,
An were goin' to sail the sky in navy
blue!
Hi, vi!
We're goin' to sail the sky in navy
blue!
We're sortcr gittin' dizzy at the rapid
pace We CO.
Risin' so surprisin' near an far!
An when we're gittin' tired payin' taxes
here below,
Wen rise an rent a dwellin' in star
Iii, vi!
Well rise an rent dwellin' in 4 star!
Atlanta Constitution.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-01
A Dramatic Contrast.
(New York Mail.)

Yesterday a man was borne to the
tomb, through the streets of this city,
who represented in his person the re-
people of the North and South. AS
unseltish. genial and country-loving a
man as ever lived. Gen. Joseph
Wheeler was n complete anticipation
of the American of the future, by
whom lines of sectional division, and
all remembrance of old contentious,
will be forgotten
Sixty thousand people stood in the
street and barred their heads az the
cortege of this veteran, who always
thought of his countrymen before he
thought of himself. went past They
were all im5ued with the sentiment of
love and of sectionless patriotism in
the JOY of which Joseph Wheeler spent
his last years.
In another part of the city, spec-
tacles of quite another and contrasting
sort were presented. A man who has
book and play which must profit in
patronage by the stirring up of race
and sectional animOsities, by the fan
ming of old fires of war and hatred into
life, was promoting controversy that
melted Northerner and Southerner.
ana white and black to criticism and
abuse of one another. There was his
sing ana shouting. and much hot re-
crlmlnation: Southerners raised the
rebel yell in a Northern church, and
tn" police had to be called in.
Meantime a gang of "Clansman" in
cited hoodlums We're standing around
the subway entrance at Sixty-sixth
street and rotten-egging all the colored
people who entered it. Old men and
thsir wives, mothers with their chill
dren. were subjected TO this base in
dignity. Whether or not the outrage
was directly melted by this mischiev-
Gus plav it might well have been.
Which spirit do we want to have
pear sway in this city and country
the spirit of Joe Wheeler or that of the
ku-Elux-Klan"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-01

The Christian Advocate in making
its yearly report of the religious bodies
of the United States shows that the
net gain for 1906 was most encourage
irg. There were 5l9.l55 new commnnl-
cants. 1876 new ministers and 1886
new houses of worship. Thus, while
our country is making such stupend-
GUS strides along material lines. it is
also making a progress in religious
matters which is gratifyingly commen-
Al.F3te,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-01

The use of dynamite bombs which
cause us 80 much horror when used in
Russia Is becoming altogether too COM
mon in this country A few weeks ago
an ex-governor of Idaho was assassi-
mated i'm this terrible fashion. and this
week tenement house in Worcester.
Mass. has been wrecked with one OF
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-01
Maine Gossip
Variable.

If the weather doesn't suit you,
Wait little while.
If the sun becomes depressing
With its ar0ent smile,
There's q blizzard way out yonder
That is overdue.
There will be brand-new climate
In an hour or two.
If you weary of the sleigh bells
Jinsling in the street,
Ii your feelings wax indignant
At the snow and sleet;
Just be patient. In u jiffy
Skies grow bright and blue,
Maybe you will have a sunstroke
In an hour Or two.
Washington Star.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-01
That Boy Got On.

The late Peter Lorillard Ronalds liked
perseverance in his servants. When he
told them to do n thing he expected them
to do it, no matter how difficult it might
be- If he sent q stableman out to buy
4 certain kind Of whip he expected the
man not to return till the whip was Sc
cured. though he have to visit a hundred
shops to get it.
There is a story about the way Mr..
Ronalds came to hire young groom.
He was in drug store one day when
a shabby little boy entered. The boy
advanced boldly to the clerk. took Il
small camcls hair brush from his pocket,
ard said:
Smell this, an gimme 10 cents worth
I've forgotten the name"
The clerk smiled. smelled and took
down the iodine bottle. and Mr.. Ronalds
engaged the ingenious and resOurceful
boy ON the spot.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-01
Muzzied Women.

Women of the better class in Muscat all
wear muZZles. which barely allow them
to open the mouth. or see with the eye, or
sneeZe. II there happens to be a Cleo
patra in Muscat, she will never fascinate
any Antony by the beauty Of her well
shaped nose. for it is kept in a specially
made, ugly ease. i'm which it is impossible
to tell its shape But with all its faults
this is a far better system than that OF
cutting off the nose, as men i'll the
Kangra District, in India, are wont to do
when any of their spOuses have proved
too fascinating.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-01

them, though by miracle 10 lives
we're lost. The Worcester affair was
the result of feud among the Polish
residents and it is to be hoped the
guilty parties will be given the severe
punishment they deserve.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-01
This Is What They Say.

Those who take Hoods Sarsaparilla
for scrofula. eczema eruptiOns. catarrh,
rheumatism or dyspepsia, say it cures
promptly snd permanently. even after
all other preparations fail. You may
take t'ss medicine with the utmost
confidence that it will do you good.
What it has done for others you have
every reason to believe 1t will do for
you.
Constipation IL cured by Hoods
Pills, 2Se.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-01

The interest in the election OF the
:. .,~lo,,.
members of Parliament throughout
Great Britain is shown by the fact
that the total vote is by far the largest
ever cast there. Up to date, 5,23l'23'
votes have been cast and in number
OF districts elections have not as yet
been held. Corresponding figures for
the election in 1890 were 3,0S9,3S9.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-01
A FACT PROVEN,
should Csnvince Even the Most Sl.n.
tfclI of Its sVrufh

II there is the slightest doubt IN .he
minds OF any that Dandrun germs do NOT
exist, their belief is compelled bv tbs
lact that n rabbit innoculated with the
germs became bald in six weeks time
1t must be apparent to any person
.ne.eiole tnat me only prevention Of
badness is the destruction Of tba ,arr,
which act is successfully ACCOMPLISHED
IN one hundred per cent. OF cases nv
the application Of Newbro's Hernicide
Dandruff Is caused by the some germ
which causes badness and can be pre-
vented with the same remedy-Ncwhros
Herpicide
Accept no substitute. "noetrov che
cause you remove the effect"
Sold by leading druggists SON, ,oc g.
stamps for sample to The IIerpicide Co.
"atroit. Mich. ~
eowditeh, Webster Co., Special Aot,.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-01

The reading public cannot help re-
GREETING that King Alfonso and
Princess Ena selected place. by the
name OF Biarritz to do their counting
in. There is something altogether too
suggestive of a buzZ-saw in the, name
OF the town.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-01
A Friendly Act.

isn't Maud's hat 4 perfect fright?'
exclaimed the blonde girl.
Awful, The worst 1 ever saw said
the girl with the chocolates.
wonder where she bought it?" queried
the first.
AT Blinker & Dicks. / helped her pick
it out answered she of the chocolates,
triunphantly.-Jit Bits.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-01
Thursday, February I, 1906.

Who in Maine is benefited by the
Dingley tariff?-Lewiston Sun.
According to the census Of 1900 there
were 694. 466 people in Maine benefited
by tn. Dingley tariff. At the present
time the number is probably about
125. 900
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-01
Schools of Japan.

The number of public schools in Japan
is ut present 2113S, in which 5,O8i, 600 chill
Ninety three and twenty-three hun
dredths per cent of all children of school
age go to these schools. In 1878 % per
public schools, in 1883 81 per cent. and In
1893 50 per cent. A rapid increase in at
tendance is noted after the Chinese war.
The percentage of attendance of boys
compared with that OF girls was 10 to Il
in 1873: the difference now is only per
cent The attendance at the various COM
mercial and industrial schools was as fol-
lows. In 1901, $1,000; in 1902, $1,000. e.,
only 1000 less than the number in the in
termediate schools. The university for
women held its commencement exercises
recently. Sc graduates receiving the So
called academy diploma and 1S2 the uni
ycrSity diploma
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-01

of Biddcford is without an outstanding
note and the city has $1,000 drawing
$4,000 is the nucleus Of the fund with
which the city is to build a new fire
station. probably the coming year. and
1000 is set aside to pay two city bonds
of $500 each which became due in May.
1904. the owners of which are not
known. The bonded debt Of the city is
Ss51. 900.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-01

Another Maine man has made n for
tune by finding ambergris. AS the re-
ported find was at Old Orchard the
story should have been saved until the
opening of the summer season.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-01

The open winter is having the effect
of giving tho spring baseball fever an
exceptionally early start.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-01

BiddC ford has a Black Hand myS-
terry, n local candy maker being the
recipient Of the threatening letters.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-01

Tomorrow, Candlemas day, holds the
winter.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-01

An elephant has SO delicate . CONGO If
smell that when in a wild state it can
scent an enemy at distance of 1,OO1
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-01

They are having automobile races
from Greenville to Kineo On the ice.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-01

A very unusual thing in connection
with the history of BOsworth Post, No.
2, G. A. r., Portland. is that five
mourning ribbons have been on the
charter during the past so days. 1t is
the custom of the post on the death of
n member to place on the charter
white silk ribbon with the name of the
deceased on it. The 18th of December.
Woodbridge G.. Osborne died and the
charter was draped in his memory, then
followed in quick succession Gen.
Francis Fessenden. Frank c. Johnston.
Major w. p. Jordan and John II. Fogg,
Esq. The ribbon for Mr.. Osborne
comes off at the meeting next Friday
and in its place will be substituted one
for Past Commander Charles F. Dam,
who died this week.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-01

A tragedy which only a newspaper
man can appreciate lies in this little
and given a prominent place on the
last page of the BiddefOrd Journal:
lowing TO an accident in placing the
forms on the press this afternoon, this
whole page. which is usually devoted
to local news, was pied and it is
necessary to print this page of mis-
cellany."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-01
ESTABLISHED 1926

Nc notice whatever will b taken Of
unsigned communications.
The Journal cannot b held responsible
for the preservation or return of re-
jected communications.
Address oil communications relating to
subscriptions and advertisements to
BURLEIGH & FLYNT, Publishers,
Augusta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-01
The Lovers in the LimeIiuht,

VNeW York PrPSS.J
All the world loves n lover" and all
The world Seems to be trimming over
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-01

For Sc years Joe Place has prompted
at dances in York county. He is known
by every dancer i'm the county. Joe was
born in Biddeford. about Sc years ago.
When a young man he went to work in
the SacO & Pcttee machine shops, and
he has been employed at his trade as
machinist all these years. He is as
good Il workman as he is prompter.
He does the prompting as sort of di-
version. He works in the shop all day,
and at night goes home, changes his
clothes and proceeds to some dance
hall, whcr" he will call off dances till
2 A. NJ. He has done this for nearly two
score years. He has prompted at dane
es 13 consecutive nights and worked in
the shop every day. He says he has
prompted at 1000 dances' large and
small, during his career His voice is
50 powerful that it carries n quarter of
n mile.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-01
The first month of 1906 has gone.

A few inches of snow would be a
great boon 10 business.