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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04
The New School Board.

The results of the ward meetings for
the election Of members Of the school
board under the new law will. we think,
give general satisfaction to our citi-
zcns. The meetings were commend
ably free from everything that savorcd
Of partisan politics, and there was a
general ana gratifying disposition to
ignore all considerations of this char
actcr which augurs wei for the future
of the schools in Augusta The mem
bcrs of the new board are all we'll
known citizens in whose Judgment and
integrity the people of Augusta have
full faith. We believe that they will
come to their new duties unbiased and
unplcdgcd. They are men who will
feel the fun weight Of the responsibility
that will rest upon them, and. will de-
sire in the discharge Of their duties, to
act for the highest interests of the
cause of education in our city. The
most serious task that will dcvolve
upon them will he the election Of a
superintendent, and We believe that
they will secure for the place a big,
roadguaged. practical educator under
whom our schools will be maintained
upon the highest standard Of efficiency.
our city certainly needs such a man
in this very important position. and
can well afford to pay the price neccs-
Sary to secure him.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04
he Retort.

ola Erich. who taught the village school.
Welded a maid of nomeSpun Edbit;
lie vas as stubborn as 4 mule,
And Size rs playful rs a rabbit.
Poor 1>ntc had scarce become a wife.
Before her husband sought to make her
Tie pink OF country polished life
And priIn and formal as a Quaker.
One lay tho tutor went abroad.
And simple Katy sadly missed him,
Wher he returned, behind her lord
She sl.yly stole. and fcndly kissed him.
The husbands anger rose, ana red
And white lis face alternate grew:
Less freedom, ma'am." Kate sighed.
and said,
40 dear. | didn't know twas you""
George Pope Morris.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04

The Lewiston sun IS willing to
destroy Names great lumber, wood
pulp and paper business in order that
our forests may thereby be saved. and
our water ways improved 1t does not
Inahc clear, however, just what use
the waterways would he when the
&73 lumber, pulp and paper mills
that now use them We're shut down
under its proposed free trade regime;
neither does it state what dispo-
sition it would make of tn" more than
25.0oD men who are NOW employed
by them. Possibly it would organize
them into n CoXcy's army, and lead
them on to Washington with an impcr-
ative demand for better times.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04
Buying At Home and Abroad.

Would YOU like it if your home mcr-
chant got law enacted that YOU
should pay twelve to fifteen per cent
as q penalty for buying out Of town?
Wouldn't you call it a punishment
Lewiston Sun.
Not at all if The same law enabled
us Ia get from - to 100 per cent more
wages than we formerly got, and gave
us from - tn 80 per cent more money
needless to point out, however. that the
Suns attempt To give purely local
application to national tariff law is
the purest kind of fallacy. There never
was tariff law which forced us to buy
Of our local merchants. Under the
Dingley law we enjoy absolute free
trade with A. states of the Union-an
empire If empires blessed with every
possible diversity of industry. Under
protection we keep our money at home
for the employment of American labor
in tho development Of American re-
sources, instead OF Senulng IL ABROAD
for the employment OF foreign labor in
the development Of foreign resources.
BY keeping it at home it insures and
builds UP home prosperity. When we
send it abroad 1t builds up foreign
prosperity. 1t j. never 4 good plan for
us to send our money abroad to pay for
agricultural or manufactured articles
home
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04
SAVINGS of Childhood.

F,x-Gov. John d. Long, in speaking of
RELIGIOUS beliefs. said: The census taker
called last year at tie residence in Wor-
ce#ter of the late Congressman Rockwell
Hoar. Mr.. Hears daughter Marjorie, age
Ii years, answered the bell. When the
question regarding religious belief was
asked Miss Mar2nric said: Papa is a
Alice, my sister, is only three and is too
Young to decide. and l, well, | am waver-
ing Boston Herald
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04
Senator Hale
portland Express.

(POftIand EXprcSS.)
An idea Of the hold which Senator
Hale has upon the affections of the
people of Maine whom he has SO long
and ably served, was to be gained by
the CONSERVATION 50 evident when
word came that he was seriously i'll
at Baltimore. The later news that he
is gaining, and will doubtless recover
from the effects of the operation which
he has suffered lessened the tension
Of public anxiety much. AS public
servant the senator is entitled to the
esteem in which he has been and still
is held. Maine looks hopefully for 8ooi
news from his bedside daily.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04

tc take her driving of Sunday after
noon. Tie appointed day care but at
the livery stable all the horses were
taken ou- save one old. shaky, exceeding
ly bony horse.
Mr Nye nIred the na.r and drove to his
friends residence. The lady let him wal:
nearly an nour before sn6 was ready. and
then on viewing the disreputable outfit
iiatlv refused to accompany Mr.. Nye
why" she exclaimed. sneerinely, that
horse may die OF age any moment"
MADAM" Mr.. Nye replied. when
arrived that horse was prancins young
steed '-EIarpers Weekly.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04

The governors of New Jersey, Penn
sylvania and New York, who for years
have borne the distinction Of being the
highest paid chief executives Of any of
the states must now doff their hats to
the governor Of Illinois. by n recent
act Of the legislature Of that state. its
governor hereafter will draw a yearly
salary of ST., 900 the highest amount
received by any state head. For some
years the governors Of New Jersey,
Pennsylvania ana New York have re-
ccivcd $4,000 a year; Massachusetts,
pays $1,000; Connecticut $4,000. Yer
mont pays the smallest gubcrnatorial
salary. giving its governor only $1,000.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04
LITTLE OF EVERYTHING.
Forever and a Day."

I little know or care
If thc blackbird or the bough
Is filling all The air
With Ids soft creScendo now:
For she is gone away.
Ana when size went She took
Tie splinStime in her look.
The pcachbl0w on her check.
I'll" laughter from the brook,
The blue from on tho May
And what she calls q week,
Is forever ana a day,
It's little that l mine
How the blossoms. pink or white,
At every touch of wind
Fan a-trrmbiing with delight;
For in the leafy lare,
Beneath the garden bOuGhS.
And through the silent house
One thing alone ! seek.
Until She come again
The May ie not the May,
And what she calls a week
Is forever and a day,
Thomas Bailey AldriC
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04

The Waterville Sentinel compares the
latest model Of ladies' spring hats to
~ cross between a coal he'd turned
wrong side up, and a flower bed just
emerging from an early frost" one Of
the most fetching Of the new spring
st, les very much resembles an inverted
milk SKINNER
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04
A Compelling Outfit.
INDIANAPOLIS NeWs.)

IIIUIdTIiI OILS NeWS.D
in HoiSc they have arrested a Social
list who was carrying an automatic
pistol long dirk, pair of brass
k!ucks. some skeleton keys and pair
Of rubber shoes. If such things
wouldn't give a man social DISPOSE
tinn, what wuuldp
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04
And From Either Side of it.
Washington Starr

tNaSnlnStOn starr
Mr.. Bryan manages to retain his Gus
tomary poiSe in spite of the fact that
Mr.. WatterSons candidate is liable at
any moment to jump from behind a
bush or g barrel.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04
"The Rest is LAUGHTER"

beware. en'nlov the fleeing liOurS!'
The Dial warns the idle Flowers
The Flowers nod in sweet denial,
And rose-lc; yes hide The solemn Dial.
-TIarper's Magazine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04
Tuesday, June q, 1907.

The advertising which all this con-
troversy gives his nature books should
be no small balm for the laccratcd
aensibilitics Of Or Long.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04
The Pace Gets Swifter.

albany Argus.)
IL requires moro energy for man to
succeed today than it required twenty
years ago, more talent, more capital of
brains ana faculty; the competition is
llecner. the race is swifter, the life is
faster. Hence the list OF sacrifices to
the Moloch of overwork
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04
MAINE EDITORIAL COMMENT.
Obstructing Navigation.
mi1dafor1 JOurnall

Things are coming to pretty pass
in Portland when rum teams cannot
traverse Congress street without be-
ing run into by Il trolley car.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04
The Doctors Aim.

Some frivolous person las remarked
that illness WAS like a struggle between
two people, aI,d that the doctor resembled
the third man, who interviewed TO scpa-
rate them with Il club. Sometimes he hit
the disease on the head, and sometimes
the -paticnt.-IIospital.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04
Acres with appropriate exercises
AnollSt

1t appears from an article in the
Portland Sunday Times that hardly
the Portland fet. Two ships still hail
from that customs district. and seven
or eight banks and barkentines. Bath,
however still has a considerable fleet
of sailing ships afioat. The current is
sue of the Bath Anvil gives the where
abouts of 10 of these when last re-
ported. Most of them are in the Paci-
fic or bound thither.
Bowdoinham cats are noted for their
sasacity. but it remains for the intelli-
gent feline owned by Mrs. Samuel
Donnell of that town to fairly cap the
climax. "Our cat has taken strange
place to rear her last kittens" Mrs.
DOnnell says. Her children were
born in hens nest, and ever since she
has persisted in keeping them there.
The queer part of it is the philosophi-
cal way in which the hen seems to take
the matter. When she wants to lay
an egg, she pecks at the kittens, who
are too small to resent it, and if the
mother is near, she pushes them gently
from the nest. Just as soon as the hen
has laid her egg, the cat grabs the
kittens and puts them in the nest
again, and it is no unusual thing for
cat. kittens, eggs and hen to be alto
gether in one glorious miXup."
Boothbay Harbor is to join Loyalty
with Bath in celebrating the tercen-
tennial of American shipbuilding. For
the collection of maritime exhibits
Roothbay Harbor proposes to furnish
reproduction of New England
fishing craft of the earliest days of the
industry.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04

In giving the increase in the number
Of sheep in this country under the
Dingl"y law in Mondays Journal we
quoted a statement from the chief of
the |. s. Bureau of Statistics and in
alv,rtently credited it to the year 1895.
This was incorrect. The figures quoted
were for the year 1905.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04
No Chance for Stead.

washington Post)
If Boston persists in erecting that
proposed monument to Silence" we
are reasonably certain that it will bear
no resemblance whatever to Editor W.
II. Stead.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04
Gossip.

some men" said Uncle Eben. 'blames
women (nh Iossipin' an den turns AROUND
an listens to all de neighborhood news
DER wives kin git together. "-Washing
ton Star.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04
Dai!y kennebee Journal
ESTABLISHED 1925

No notice whatever will be taken Of
unsigned communications.
The Journal cannot be held responsible
for the preservation or return Of re-
tected communications.
Address all communications relating to
subscriptions and advertisements to
BURLEIGH & FLYNT. Publishers,
Augusta. Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04

Can't look well, eat we'll or feel well
with impure blood feeding your body
Keen the blood pure with Burdock Blood
Bittcrs. Eat simply, take exercise, keep
clean and you will have long life.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04

Hives, eczema. itch or salt rheum sets
you crazy. Can't bear the touch Of your
clotlinE. poan's Ointment cures the
most obstinate cases. Why suffer. All
druggists sell it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04
Really in Doubt.

GEansaS City JOurnal)
At The present moment the only
really doubtful state is oklahoma
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04

Don't use harsh physics. The reaction
weakens the bowels. leads to chronic con-
operate easily, tone the stomach, cure
constipation.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04

INV child was burned terribly about
the face, neck and chest. L applied DR.
Thomas Eclectric Oil. The pain ceased
and the child sank into restful sleep-
Mrs. Nancy NJ. Hanson, Hamburg. n. "
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04
Maine Gossip
a Maine Monster.

The mcanest man on earth, 1 guess,
l. one that lives in Maine.
And what his name is L confess.
Would give us such a pain
To mention here that I'll withhold
Tie same from public view,
And merely will his deed unfold
70 show his shame to you.
His WIFE & soul Of kind intent,
Sat up for him at night,
Not uritp so much from sentiment
As from her Sense of right.
lie urged upon her not to lose
Her beauty sleep. but she
Would smile and ask linn to excuse
\ Wifes anxiety
The other night the shameless wretch,
Regardless Of his spouse,
Went out, as she suppose, to catch
Ills usual evening SOuSe.
Put. no he softly slipped around
And through the back door crept
[ % stairs, in silence most profouni,
10 where he always slept.
She waited down below for him;
She waited long All. me,
Her eyes with troubled tears We're dim,
Till finally at ),
Size left her post and went upstairs
Alone To wait and Weep.
And found him careless of her cares,
Curlrd up in bed asleep.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04
Republican Prosperity.
(BangOr NeWS.)

Bangor News.)
still marhing up wages. Is this a
sign Of that coming reaction in bust
ness?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04

South Paris leads off in engaging its
1908 Memorial Day orator. 1t IS Rev.
j. ii. Little, a local clergyman.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04

A popular subscription is being
raised for 4 public playground for
Lewiston children.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04
VOICES OF THE PRESS.
Will Change His Color.
Washington POst.l


If he doesn't get his name into print
pretty soon, that dark horse of Col.
Watteisons will begin to feel blue
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04
The Test,

Only when one has children Of HIS owr
TO bring mp does he realize how badly
brought up he himself is -Fliegende Blat-
ter.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04

In Tasmania no person under thirteen
years Of age Is allowed to smoke IT, A
pubic place Nearly everybody smokes
in Japan, the girls begin when they arr,
ten years of age, and the boys a year
earlicr.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04

There is no 'but for" or with the
execution Of in the weather bureaus
announcement that the mean tempera-
ture of the last two months has been
the lowest ever. Also the meanest.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04

The Journal is in receipt Of subscrip.
tions to the Maine building at The
jamestown Exposition from the fol.
lowing nnrsnnS.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04

Until yesterday a Bangor baseball
team had not visited Portland since
1901.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04
The Lonu Wait,

Bill Nye when a young man once made
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04

In 40 Maine towns and cities the SAL
aries of the postmasters are to be in
creased on account of the increasing
business of the Office, and in four they
are to be decreased. What is the
matter with Danforth. PASSPORT, Saco
and Rumford Falls?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04

Only a month to the Glorious Fourth.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-04

business of the Office, and in four they
are to be decreased. What is the
matter with Danforth, PASSPORT, Saco
and RumfOrd Falls?
Not to be outdone by Saco which has
a puzzling mystery in the donor of the
soldiers monument, Biddeford has a
mystery equally exciting in the disap-
pearance Of the city's new steam drill.
In the matter of Memorial Day ad-
dresses probably q record has been es-
tablisned by Rev C. G. Mosher of Au-
gusta who has spoken for seven years
in succession in the town of Dedham.
1t speaks volumes for the versatility
and rcSuurcefuness of this eloquent
young pastor that he can write a new
Grafton yearly on the same theme. Or
prrhaps-aS is not at all unlikely-his
first Grafton in Dedham was 50 good
that the people there insist upon its
repetition each year.
The Maine relatives of Norman
Smith. who was murdered in Alaska
| last fail. have gone West to settle up
the estate which is valued at 100000
Mr.. Smith left Old Town II years ago
To conduct a hotel in Alaska.
The chimney of the old GOldthwaite
house in Bddeford, erected 1876 -syears
ago, has just been torn down. 1t con-
tanned 10000 bricks, enough for four
such chimneys as are built in modern
houses. This chimney was laid up in
blue clay instead of mortar and the
clay had long ago burned away to
| dust ana the chimney. had settled down
and for years held itself in place mere
| ly by its weight.
The students Of Pennington Acad-
envy which, after an existnce under
that name for 80 years, gave way to
the State Normal school will have
| their second reunion in August. At
their first meeting of this kind held
five years ago. they appointed a COM
mittCe to erect historic tablets in
Pennington, and the first person chos-
en- to be thus honored was Rev. Jacob
Abbott who was at his home, Few
Acres. in Harrington. wrote many Of
his well-known books: there, moreover
lie spent his last DAYS in leisurely re-
tiremert. until little beyond the
three score years and ten. The Jacob
Abbott memorial tablet. which is Of
bronze. mounted on oak, and suitably
INSCRIBED will be. erected at Few
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1907-01-03
No Discount For Badness.

A customer in a downtown bar
Der shop got into heated argu-
ment with the boss barber over the
price of hair cut.
"See here" he said, '1'm bald
headed. There certainly can't be
nearly so much work in trimming
this little fringe of hair on the
back of my head as in cutting a
whole mop of hair. Consequently
it doesn't seem fair to charge so
much"
"That is the contention of half
the baldheaded men,in town." sigh
ed the barber YEARLY. "They don't
take into consideration that man
who has but little hair is much
more careful of it than one who
has a good deal. Therefore bar
Der has to take extra pains with
him. 1t goes pretty hard with the
man with the shears, I can tell you,
if he happens to clip off an extra
hair. In view of the caution re-
quired he certainly earns the full
price of a hair cut" New York
Press.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1907-01-03
Failed to Please.

His eyes make no attempt to con-
ceal his admiration of the beautiful
young thing as she enters the par
lor.
Indeed, he does not want them to.
''You are positively queenly," he
declares enthusiastically.
An offended expression comes to
her face.
"Queenly?" she asks disdainfully.
eyes; you are a veritable queen
in appearance"
Haughtily she bids him leave.
''But why" he inquiries, amazed.
"Oh, nothing. I'm queen in ap-
pearance, am 1? Well, happened
to look over lot of magazine pic
lures of different queens and prin-
cesses today, and if you think 1 look
like them it's time for you and me
to be strangers. Life.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1907-01-03
Lead Workers.

1t is said that lead working dis
figures the human body more than
any other kind of work. In this
industry it is inevitable that sooner
or later the workers must succumb
to lead poisoning, and there would
appear to be no part of the body
that the poisonous fumes and float
ing particles which permeate the
atmosphere of the workshops do
not affect. The complexion takes
.on a ghastly, corpselike pallor, the
gums turn blue, the teeth decay
rapidly and fall out, and the eye
lids are hideously inAamed. A
scratch or an abrasion of the skin
becomes an unbeatable sore. Later
on, when nerves and muscles be-
come affected by the poison in the
blood, the eyeballs are drawn into
oblique positions and take on a dim
and bleared appearance. The joints,
especially the knee and the wrist,
become semiparalyzed, and the
whole form is gradually bent and
contorted.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1907-01-03
STUDIED THE ENEMY.
Admiral Sampson's Plans For the Bonn.
bardment Of Havana.

Admiral Sampson had deter
mined to begin the Spanish-Amer.
lean war by the bombardment OF
Havana, and on April 4, 1898, Ev-
ans, then captain, wrote a letter to
the then editor Of Harper's Weekly
containing this paragraph:
"I shall have the honor of lead
ing in the Iowa, and when we open
at about 800 yards, with Indiana
close astern, if those poor chaps
from the Maine don't giggle in their
coffins it will be wonder"
This was the pregnant part of
the letter. Sampson was forbidden
from Washington to attack Havana,
much to his disappointment and
wrath. To one sitting at a dis
tance, not knowing Evans, not
knowing of the proposed lombard
ment only as a rumor, the letter
might have seemed a bit of bluster.
But after a few months chance
put the log book Of the New York,
the flagship, in the way of the re-
cipient of the letter and there he
read Simpsons order for the bom-
bardment of Havana, giving the Or
der of the ships and designating the
distance at which the firing should
begin, precisely as Evans had stated
them in the letter.
But why 60 in to within 300
yards Of the new forts, which were
much more heavily armed than the
ships of SIMPSONS fleet? Months
after reading the log book the re-
cipient of the letter attended din
ner given in honor of Admiral
Sampson.
The admiral made there one OF
the few speeches of his life, and in
it he told the reason-a reason
characteristic of his keen judgment
and of his boldness-for selecting
800 yards. He had found out that
a short time before the Spaniards
had momentarily awakened from
their usual torpor and had prac-
ticed from the new works, firing at
floating targets. They had floated
these targets past their guns at
5000 yards.
Sampson at once concluded that
they supposed that he would attack
at that distance and quickly deter
mined to 90 in at 800 yards, for, he
explained, the Spaniards, having
once fixed their sights for a target
5000 yards away, would not be able
to change them, but would fire over
his ships until he had dismounted
their heavy pieces with his rapid
fire guns. So the chain was COM
pleted, for we had the facts and the
reason for them.-Harper's Week
ly.