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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-27
Personal Notes.

DR.. John C. Spray. who had a nationa
reputation as an alienist and neurolosist
has just died in Chicago.
John Jacob AStOr, a son OF William
Waldorf Aston. has joined the First
British Life Guards as second lieutenant.
Governor Magoon, of the lsthmian
canal zone who has been in Washing
ton Tor several weeks, expects TO return
to Panama on March II.
Herbert j. Hagerman, n native OF
Milwaukee. just inausurated Governor
of New Mexico, was born in ISL, and
is the youngest Governor in the coun-
try.
DR.. f. w. Scripture. who has been
making researches in phonetics, under a
Smithsonian Institution grant, has Sc
cured & grama phone record of the voice
Of Emperor William of Germany.
Or. Koch. the famous German scient-
ist, is To- take charge Of an cxpedition
to investigate sleeping sickness in Ger
man East Africa. The German Colonial
Department has allotted S}1.000 toward
the expenses of the expedition
E,x-President Cleveland has sold his
farm living a short distance outside of
Princeton He bought the farm soon
after going there 10 live and intended To
make it an Industrial farm for poor boys.
The project proved a failure.
Mrs; simon l<rnse, Of o Chcago. who
a hno.r in Minneapolis. Mimi. for de
pendent women. That city was selected
because it was in that city that Albert
johnson, the relative who left her his
entire fortune, made his money.
The logs which formed the cabin in
which Abraham Lincoln was born have
been taken to New York from the cellar
of the old PCppenhuscn home at COLLEGE
Point, l.. l., ana will be held until later,
when they viii be used to rebuild the
cabin ON its original site ON the old farm
near lfodgensville, Ky.
Prof Wilhelm OSWALD. of the Uni
4
home, after delivering Il course of lee
lures ut Harvard, gave as his impression
of American student life: The personal
interest Of the students, next To their
studies is concentrated alone on sport
which draws their attention altogether
from intellectual or aesthetic pursuits.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-27
Pointed Paraqraphs.

A mans love for riches may keep him
poor.
Many an otherwise good man makes a
bad husband
A mans nickname will be remembered
long after he is dead.
Usually the man who talks like a phil
OSophtr acts like q child.
More men are marrcd by themselves
than are made by their friends.
1t is the respectable appearance of most
sinners that makes them dangerous.
1t matters but little what you think Of
man provided that you do not think
aloud.
Although the dignified man may not
know much. he has to be very careful Of
what little he does know.
+ Oh. no. AlonZo. celery is not raised in .
cellar. but the price is sometimes raised
by the seller.
A burglar is not inclined to be talkativc,
but he is likely to prove great bore
when he finds the safe locked.
Many man who thinks he is marrying
an angel may find that she is equipped
with pair of asbestos wings a few
months later.
Chicago News.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-27
Tuesday, February ~, 1906.
Paying santo Domingo. Debts.

The opponents of the Santo Domingo
treaty are obliged to admit that the
results under the new fiscal arrange
ment are proving most satisfactory.
For 10 months this new system has
been in operation and in that period
more than s2,0O0.00O was collected. or
about twice as much as the total reve-
nnes OF the whole republic under the
old system. Out Of that amount ST.
900. 900 was reserved and put into bank
for the benefit of the foreign creditors
If the republic. while the remainder
sufficed for the current expenditures
of the government, probably on a
more generous scale than before. The
republic has. therefore, at least as
large a revenue as ever for its own
naes, and in ADDITION is paying off its
indebtedness at4h~ rate of sl.2OOooo
year This = process which helps
the island, satisfies its creditors and
involves our OH government in no
danger or UNPLEASANT complication.
Doubtless the showing in the first 10
months is not so good as may be ex-
nected later If the present arrange
ment Is continued. 1t assures the COM
pIete payment of the Dominican debt
within n reasonable time, something
which not otherwise have been accom-
plished.
In discussing this good showing. the
New York Tribune makes vigorous
defense Of the treaty. Says the Trib-
une: 1T seems scarcely credible that
anybody can seriously object to the
continue nee of so benef1cent 4 process.
Nobody is being harmed by it. but. on
the contrary. everybody concerned is
being benefited. The debtor has more
money than ever, and the creditors
are getting their pay. Really. the on
ly opponent of such a work would
seem to be sOmeOne-if such one is
conceivabie-who is animated by a
maIiRn desire to see the inSular re-
public ruined and who would like to
prevent it from paying it's debts just
for the sake of being able to continue
railing ut ii for being debt ridden. We
cannot believe that any such Ubiquitous
counsels Of malice will prevail. The
work that is being done in the Domin-
lean republic Is too good to be
stopped"
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Making War Horses Invisible.

A special military commission is now
sitting in Berlin considering the best
means Of making cavalry as invisible us
possible in warfare. Harmonizing the
mems uniforms with natural conditions
as much as possible is not enough. and
the commission is now discussing the ad-
visibility of dyeing the horses or screen
ing them with light canvas trappingS.
At the war office yesterday ii was said
that several experiments had been made
in his dierction during the war in South
Africa.
one official said: MANY horses were
dyed, hut it was found that the dye soon
washed off all except gray horses Sew
cral vegetable dyes and Condy'S fluid di-
luted We're used. but the experiments
proved of little valre.
Canvas trappinss made the horses per-
spirc and impeded their movements. and
besides. when the sun is behind the cav
airy. the horses legs can be seen through
the canvas.
The best screen for cavalry used in
South Africa was a combination of va
rious heatherlike shrubs picked up on the
veldt. These plants were in many cases
strung upward and downward from the
trappings. and gave the appearance, when
cavalry were moving slowly across the
sky line. of waving vegetation. London
Express.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-27

In the near future the faithful thou
sands who make the pilgrimage to
Mecca will be able to fly across the
desert in n railroad train. The Sui
tan's appeal for funds to push forward
work on the railroad, which was be-
gun some time ago. has been gener-
ming from Damascus down into the
northern sandy desert of Arabia. a
distance Of $50 miles from Damascus
and the earthworks are completed as
far as Medain Saith. $50 miles from
Medina, where the tomb of the prophet
IL venerated by many thousands Of
pilgrims. Beyond Medina the route
will follow the old pilgrim road to
Mecca and the completed line will he
about 1000 miles in length. 1t was
along the old pilgrim routes that en-
Of Arabia until a comparatively recent
day. The ostensible purpose of build
ing this road Is to do away with the
terrible har,lships of the Mecca pill
grimage along 1T least one of the most
thronged Of these highways to the
Holy City. but incidentally the Sultan
will doubtless find it great conven-
fence to he able to place his govern
ment in closer communication with far
southern regions in Arabia. Some OF
his Arabian subjects give him a little
trouble now and then and he has LONG
wished that it was easier to admonist
them.
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Mixed Intelligence,

Frequently typographical errors creep
INTO newspapers, and the result is often
humorous. bringing forth many a laugh.
even en- serious subjects. The Tribune
has had more than its share of these
hlunders of lote. Last week we got
three Items 'all balled up in the rush to
get out the paper. The effect was start
ling, and if the Tribune had been believed
the laws of nature would have had TO be
suddenly reversed. 1t was all caused by
transrosing a couple Of lines of type j.
ID. Curry. one of our most respected cit-
zens has been III for some time with
rhenmatism. The Tribune made the
startling statement that as a result of his
sickness he had given birth To = twelve.
pound boy. AS matter Of fact that boy
belonged over in the home. of Samuel Cox.
In the item relating to the birth OF Mr..
and Mrs. Cox's underground boy the
Tribune said it happened while the whis-
tie blew. Now, Of course. it is pos
sible that whistle was blowing at the
time. but. we doubt it. That line refer
ring to whistle blowing should have been
under the item about Riley carrying the
dynamite
The Tribune sincerely regrets the blum
der.-Tho Bridgeville Tribune.
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The Process of Canonizatjon,

The recent celebration of Washing
toms birthday led the New York Globe
to dig into history for few extracts
showing that in his time Washing ton
was not saint in everybody's eyes.
IE one quarter he was denounced as q
hypOcrite, in another was accused Of
having debauched the country, and
was said by John Adams to have owed
his position in the Revolutionary
army to the wealth of his wife. Pro-
ceeding, the Globe says:
80 general was the anger that the
House Of Representatives voted down
resolution congratulating Washing
ton on his birthday. and even the house
of delegates of beloved Virginia, con-
sidering what response should be made
TO the farewell address. rejected BY q
vote Of "A to So a resolution that as
crited to Washington wisdom in the
cabinet, valur in the field and the pur-
est patriotism in BOTH Speculation
naturally arises as to whether the
diatribes now launched at men un-
fortunate enough to hold conspicuous
Office will seem as silly hundred years
hence as the attacks on WaShingt ton
are silly TO us. Is there still truth in
the saying of the late Thomas y. Reed
that statesman is merely a dead
politician"
The Washington Star takes up the
theme and holds that canonization Is
accomplished in far less time now than
hundred years ago. II refers to the
savage attacks made on Lincoln a
generation ago and on Mckinley half
dozen years ago-and now they have
a place in the heart of every American.
Speaking Of Mckinley the Star points
out that in the campaign Of 1900 he was
denounced without measure by mel.
and newspapers whose praise of him in
the campaign of 1904 was quite with
out stint. His tragic end did not ex.
plain the change. 1t was simply
| politics. In the one campaign the
fight ives on him as his party's lead
err: in the other the opposition used his
memory as n club with which to be-
labor his successor. The Star goes or
to say:
But the change in Roosevelt's case
Is still more startling. The Novem-
Der returns in 1904 We're scarcely dry
on paper when the men who had as
sailed him to the limit of vituperatior
began falling over one another in ar
effort to cultivate favor with him. H,
at once became in the eyes-or at leas
the mouths-of many of them tn,
greatest living American, and SOM
even insisted on adopting him for tn.
party's leader. Why not nominate
him for President in 1905 and sweeI
the country? What better way to pu
an end to the wranglings over Bryan
and Hearst. and all the rest of tn
. radicals and disturbers? And nothins
; is more certain that than the Re
publican candidate for President mex
time will be told by the opposition tina
il he were half as good an American
and half as safe a leader as the ma
! he aspires to succeed. his way to tn
, White House would be an open one,'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-27
A Batch of Tongue Twisters.

Some elocutiOniSt has made Il collec-
ton Of more than two hundred tongue
twisters:
"A glowing CLEAN glowing green"
THE bleak breeze blighted the bright
broom blossoms
Flesh OF freshly dried flying fish
six thick thistle sticks
1.-Two toadS tried to trot to Tedbury.
Give Grimes Jim's great gilt giS
WHIP
strict, strong Stephen Stringer SHARED
slickly six siclsly silky snakes.
she stood at the door of Mrs. Smith
fish sauce shop welcoming him in"
The first three are the gems OF the col
lection. 1t is said to be impossible for
any enc to repeat them rapidly.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-27
Translated.

One day I wrote little song. and liked it
pretty we'll:
THE Lover spurned." | called it. and
thought it sure to sell.
The air WAS quite interchangeable simple
melody
The words were very well conceived Cor.
so it seemed to mel.
The lever pleads with fervor to gain his
lonSed for bliss,
The maid replies in 4 refrain that runs
somewhat like this:
"Thy honey words are fair sir:
Thy vows of faith are stout.
Put men may falsely swear. sir
And still thy truth | doubt.
From all thy practiSed art. sir,
flee while vet | may
Thou shalt not have my heart, sir,
TO break and cast away
But when l offered it for sale the pub
Usher said no;
The lines were too old fashioned, and the
tune would never go.
The theme, he thought, would do. though,
ard promised that il
Would bring my subject up to date he'd
very likely buy.
did it. and he took it, The sales were
And here's the way the chorus went when
altered up to date"
THAT don't get you nothing
Cut thar con talk out.
None o that gOo-goo goes with me.
Take your hat and twenty-threc--
What's that dope about?
You can't jolly me. kid
I'm dead wise to you:
/ heard that line o talk before,
So. Mister Man. Skiddo
Cleveland Leader,
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The OLYMPIC Games AGAIN.

Late in April the great Olympic
games, as revived a decade ago and
broadened so as to be of an interna-
tional character. will be held in
Athens, Greece, and goodly number
| OF the best athletes in this country will
go over to take part in the contests.
When these games were revived in
Greece in 1896 the American athletes
| who were present captured the lions
snare of the prizes and it was the same
later in Paris and at st. Louis. This,
will be the fourth time the games have
been held since their modern revival,
and once more they will be held where
in ancient time the most famous ath-
letic contests Of the world took place.
We have every confidence that the
Yankee athletes will again bring home
most of the laurel wreaths of victory,
for nowhere in the world are their
equals found.
A writer in the New York World
raises the interesting question as to the
probable outcome if our athletes were
going to Greece to meet such men as
first made the Olympic sports famous.
The question is natural and difficult.
involving comparison which must
rest to a degree on guesswork. Every
thing was done differently in the
Olympic days. and athletic events We're
both fewer and simpler. Runners
We're slipped from leashes like hunting
dogs. Wrestling was an elementary
game. the contestants appearing nude.
with oiled bodies. There was no high
jumping and the board jump was ap-
parently like our hop. skip and jump.
In boxing. the prt Of blocking. side
stepping and ducking was understood.
but the contests were brutal in the ex-
treme. Against our fine series of per-
formances in Notwithstanding. shot
putting, hammer-throwing and casting
Of 4uoits, etc, the Greeks had only the
single exercise of discus-thrOwing.
The expert judgment is that in ath-
letics. as in all things else, evolution
must have done its improving work.
Perhaps the Greeks had merely strong
men. as strong as any of whom we
may boast. In developing greater all
around agility and prowess. however.
we have had the advantage of more
highly diversified systems of training.
while to our performers in special lines
have accrued the benefits Of methods
perfected through years of practice.
1t is probable that the results. could
ancient Greeks be matched against
modern Americans. would be to the
early Olympic champions not less
amazing than the spectacle itself of a
mighty delegation coming from beyond
seas to them of old unknown.
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today"
This is the week of Portland's auto
mobile and power boat show, the first
in its history. 1t will take place in the
Portland Auditorium, the largest build
ing lii the city as regards floor space.
1t has been rather surprising that Port
land has not had an automobile show
before, for there has certainly been a
field for one. No local man, however.
has had quite the necessary energy to
start one. 1t was for Boston man.
Fred NJ. Prescott, who is connected
with automobile interests in the Hub,
to take the initiative and he has now
started the show. His efforts have met
with not only quick but enthusiastic
support from the several automobile
agencies III Portland. The Auditorium,
where the show will be held, is admir-
ably suited for the purpose to which it
is to he put. There is a large main
floor, good sized basement and Il large
amount of balcony room. All this
will be utilized for the exhibition.
There will be $50 exhibition spaces and
all OF these have been rented. More
room could very easily have been let
had 1t been available.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-27

Ton times it's weight in gold, shone like
the skies -, ~.
tries e,, IL ~,
To paint such loneliness iaiis at the
dearth
or words-but she was framed for woe
Of mirth,
A puzzle, a perfection and prize!
She turned to me-answeTed the mute ap-
NV own eyes held and by some hidden
law.
ADiyined my wishes. Like Il silver bell
f4er sweet voice echoed through the
mercantile
Establishment. she worked in-"Have
yOu saw
Our new line Of gents fancy vests.
They're SWELL
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Nervousness and Nerve.

The more nervous a man is. the less
nerve he has. That sounds paradoxi-
cal-but it isn't: for nerve is stamina
Hoods Sarsaparilla gives nerve. 1t
tones the whole system. perfects diges-
ton and assimilation. and is there
fore the best medicine 4 nervous per-
son can take.
If you get tired easily. mentally or
physically, take Hood's-it will do you
good.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-27

Bath and Waterville have started a
purifying movement in Maine politics"
says the Biddeford Record. Well, II
there is anything in naypes. those are
the proper places to stRrt it. But is
not Augusta one Of the places. instead
of terville?-Portland Press.
Yes. Augusta is one of the two
places. In Waterville the Democrats
have sidestepped the proposed ar
rangement.
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A LITTLE OF
VERY T HI N G
Not About This Winter.

Please hurry Mistress Srringtime, VII
yoh songs an blossoms sweet. :.
Kase de winter mighty long an we Is
tad o. snow an Sleet;
All wants ter smell de yiolets dat's buried
in de snow,
An ter see de sproutln' green things DAT
All one time usteh know. ;.
Please hurry, Mistress Springtime-don I
YOU know hits mighty bleak" :,
Don't YOU know dey amt no music in de
tree tops when dey squeak?
Is yo' gwine ter stay foheveh? Amt 70
comm roun' no mo-?
Amt 70 gwine ter bring de blossoms
an de smiles we usteh know?
milwaukee, Sentinel.
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First Town Named for Washington.

The first towns to glorify George WASH
instnn were southern towns. First Of
them all was this little spe;k on the map
along the slopes OF the eastern Georgia
There is n world Of interest in how the
name came to be changed from Heard $
Fort to Washington, and how it has fig
ured in history eyer since in more tragic
ways than one. There are twenty-nine
postofices today in the United States
named Washington. and according to the
records in the postmaster generals office
at Washington. the first to he established
WAS at Washington. Beaufort County.
y. c. Long before these pOstOfficeS We're
established. however, long even before
there was n federal government with its
first president. the little crossroads town
in Georgia was named in honor of the
foremost of American patriots. The next
town that took en- the name of the great
American w..s Washington, \. G., wnIci
was founded TWO years later. The third
posto!fce of the name of Washington ac
cordnr to the records OF the postma Ster
generals office, WAS. WaShjnEton. Ky.
and the fourth was Washington. ID. G.
The Georgia Washington was for TWEEN
ty-four hours the capital OF the southern
tonfcderacN. That was on May ;, 1863,
when the last meeting OF the Confederate
cabinet was held in the structure known
rs the ''Old Bank Building" and once
called Heards Inn. There are nearly as
but they are darkies Of the old school.
so to speak. who live in perfect peace and
harmony with the whites, who are them
selves of the aristocracy of the south.
When such representatives of both races
come together there is no trouble about
the So-called race Observation-Disclosures
Post.
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Cauoht in His Own Trap,

when l first came to Kansas and
found that the state had no grand jury
system. 1 thought surely that ! was be-
You'd the limits of civilization said Col.
Fill Hackney the other day. so | i'm
m"diatcly became Il r'fOrmer and started
an agitation for law creating grand
jurits. | was sent u tire legislature or
3 terms and at each session tried to get Il
grand jury law. through but failed
Then | went to the senate for Il couple
of terms and kept M my fight. but failed
Then as Il member Of the third house
for Il couple of terms l threw my infiu-
ence in favor of Il grand jury bill every
time one shaved up. Finally after j,
years Of ccaScltSS toll ! WAS amply re-
wnrded. A grand Jury las was passed.
went home happy. l had helped to do
something to protect the rights of the
people.
In order to see how the thing worked
the people of my own county. where the
agitation had been the fiercest, had Il
grand Jury called and ] was the first man
indicted. | was accused of betting on
elect ions. ''-KanSaS City Journal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-27

castro has been getting up steam
once more and his whistle is again
waking the echoes in the Venezuelan
wilderness. Like the steamer in one
OF Lincoln's famous stories. however.
Castro wastes so much steam on his
whistle that he has none left to run
the engine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-27

President Tucker of Dartmouth
promptly puts an end to the talk that
he Is seeking to he governor of New
Hampshire. He Is In n place now
where he can be OF great service to
his state and to humanity, and a place
whose dignity and responsibility are
not less than those Of a governors
chair,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-02-27
Safety in Distance.

A Georgia darkev. charged with biga-
my, said to the Judge:
Hits true I got mo- than one wife,
sub. but dey's scattered" "A ..
''Scattered?'
Yes. sub; some's in Alabama. some's
in Tennessee, en- only one in Georgia,
whar l live at. De only way ter have
peace. judge, WIZ ter make a scattera-
tom
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Maine Gossip
His Sorrow. or Sonn.

His Sorrow, or Song.
What's the use to reason?
Life is never long;
Every man his season,
His sorrow, or his song!
That's the way it's going
Still-in praise or blame:
You reap what you are sowing.
But you sow on, just the same!
An when the toll is over
Rest beneath the clover.
An the still reward of Sleep!
Frank l.. Stanton,
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NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Inc building committee of Manchester
Grange hereby give notice that they are
ready to receive proposals for the con-
strnction Of hall at Manchester. Plans
and specifications be had on apple,
proposals must be in the hands of the
committee on or before Saturday March
10. 1906.
LEONARD BARBOR, Sec'y
r. i. D. y. Winthrop. f25d5t