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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-06-12
IN OUR BARGAIN ROOM.

TWENTY square Pianos for a song: only SO.
SO, 80 80 and so Tor q choice Of such
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W cher and other high-grade square pianos.
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-06-12

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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-06-12

THREE unfinished rooms. adjoining bath.
second floor; light housekeeping 722 18th 81
NV. jel2-2t
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-04
Personal Notes.

1t appears from the daily papers that
vote has been taken in Germany on the
twelve greatest Germans now living. DIR.
Robert Koch. Prof Ernst Haeckel. Prof
konrad Rontgen and Prof Ernst Won
Rchring occupy. respectively. the third
Iourfh. fifth and eleventh positions in
James J. H. Gregory. Of Marblehead.
Mass. is Il rival of Andrew Carnegie in
the giving away of libraries He has
been doing this for years. His libraries
are smaller than Carnegie's gifts, and
are given to small communities to min
listers and educators who cannot afford
to purchase them.
DR.. William Bullock Clark. professor
OF geology in the Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity and head of the Maryland State Geo
logical Survey. is being considered as a
likely successor to Charles D. Walcott.
who resigned from the Geological Sur
vey OF the United States a few DAYS ago
to accept the presidency of the Smithson-
ian Institution.
William !. Cook. who is the dean of
the newspaper fraternity in Baltimore
was IS years old on January %. He was
horn in Chambersburg. Pa, and began
his Journalistic work on the Franklin
Repository at the age of II. He found
ed the Chambersburg Times" in 1857,
and for several years was an editorial
writer on the Philadelphia Times" He
continues to be a contributor to the
Baltimore daily press.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-04

William James, professor Of philoso-
ply at Harvard University since 1879.
and known as one of the most eminent
philosophers and psychologists in the
world. has announced his withdrawal
from active teaching in the university.
Prof. James intention to cease service
as an instructor was made at the final
session Of a course in advanced philos-
ophy, the members of which presented
him with a silver loving cup. 1t is IN
derstood that Prof. James will continue
as a member of the Harvard faculty
but will devote his time to writing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-04

One man at least has come out of the
Jamaica business with flying cclors
and that is Rear Admiral Davis who
did the right thing and said the right
thing and has since had the wisdom to
keep in the background and say moth
ing. Since his graduation from An
narolis in 1864 Admiral Davis as All
officer, an author and a representative
credit to the service, a man Of bravery
and brains. His father was a rear ad-
miral before him.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-04
Tho Service Pension Bill.

A most important pension measure
Is the service pension bill which
has recently passed the United States
Senate and is now pending in the
House. The bill as 1t passed the Sem
ate provides thar every veteran of the
Civil War who served three months or
longer and who received an honorable
discharge shall receive upon reaching
the age of 60 years a pension of $l2
q month; on reaching the age of 30
years SIS a month. and on reaching the
age of 75 years $40 a month. The pro-
posed legislation takes no account of
injuries received in the service. PEN
sions are to be provided for all who
followed the flag and helped to save
the life of the Union.
Commissioner Warner gives some in
terestins figures regarding the men who
are now ON the pension rolls. There
are nearly 10000 between the ages Of
g. and 20 who are receiving less than
4lS u IllOHlI. vi tIiiS uuoue
900 get Sc month, $4,000 s. month
and the remainder SO month. Under
the service pension law these mel
would all receive s12 month. the in
crease amounting altogether to about
$6,e30,oco. There are 100000 veterans
of the Civil War receiving pensions of
$12 a month and about 21,000 who re-
ceive $14 n month. 1t is believed that
about 53.0OO Of these veterans are be-
tween 70 and rs years old. Under the
provisions of the bill these men would
receive pensions OF SIS, the increase
amounting altogether to about 81 $780, 900.
The increase to the veterans above the
age OF IS, now receiving pensions rang
ing from SIC to $50 month. would be
approximately 100000 year.
What proportion of the veterans
not now receiving. pensions would APP
ply under the new law it is impossible
to estimate. Commissioner Warner
believes that not more than one-thir'l
q the number would apply, pride and
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-04

Those ready critics of the President
who think they perceive decline in
his popularity, and who are even ready
to accuse him Of a leaning toward
tyranny in his efforts to correct great
corporate abuses, overlook the fact
that he has personified the popular de-
Inand for these reforms and has done
more than any other man or agency
to bring them about. He has stirred
the people to an active realization Of
their rights and powers and has shown
them that a struggle to bring corpora
tions to account need not be made in
vain. The great corporate, organized
wealth of the country has been taught
a lesson by President Roosevelt that
it will never forget. 1t is not the
arrogant tyrant that it once presumed
to be. 1t has been brought to terms.
1t is willing to treat for a cessation
Of hostilities-Washingt Post.
The people know that President
Roosevelt is sound and safe on this
vital matter and that is the secret of
his great and undiminished popularity
with them. Talk of any waning of
his popularity is all nonsense, but no
greater nonsense than talk of his
tyranny" He is the champion of
popular rights and the popular faith
is as great in his honesty as it is in
his energy and courage.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-04

1t is not the fact that its population
so much as it is that the population Of
Germany is increasing very fast. The
results Of the quinquennial census of
been published in outline. and they
show that in the past five years the
population has increased 290.322, or
three quarters Of per cent. With a
population of SO. 1887 .235, it would take
France a full decade more to reach
100000. Meantime Germany adds
3,750,0o0 to her population in five years.
or about 10 additional Germans to
every additional Frenchman.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-04
The z Cent Fare to Stay.

1t was inevitable that the movement
for a cent fare should turn out so sue
cessful. and while. it may for time
be limited to mileage books and to q re-
strcted territory. it is one of those COM
mercial revolutions that will never turn
back. After you have once tried Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters for any ailment
of the stomach liver. kidneys or bowels
We know you will never again turn back
to any other medicine. You won't need
TO- for it will convince you beyond all
doubt that il can cure you. the same as
it has done for thousands of other sick
~ people during the past SO years. Try 1t
and BE- convinced. 1t restores the appe-
tite. strengthens the digestive organs
and this cures dyspepsia. indigestion.
consultation, biliousress. colds. femal,
ills and malaria. We guarantee its puri-
ty.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-04

Senator Rayner. Of Maryland. de-
nounces as something new, strange and
unconstitutional the activity shown by
President Roosevelt in influencing
Congress ito accomplish the legislation
which he desires, or to prevent legisla-
ton" To this the New York Tribune
aptly retorts that Mr.. Rayner ought to
read American history. No President
ever influenced and dominated legisla-
ton SO completely as Thomas Jefferson,
the patron saint Of the strict construc-
tonists and founder of the Democratic
party.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-04

The Western papers tell us that one
of the Colorado courts has just been
having its first experience with a jury
which included a woman in it's MEM
bcrship. No serious consequences re-
suited. beyond the fact that the judge
and attorneys were frequently obliged
to pause and correct the old form of
address. Gentlemen of the jury" by
adding land lady of the jury" The
first case before the jury on which this
woman was a member was divorce
case and the verdict was in favor OF
the husband
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-04
Monday, February 4, 1907.
A Matter Of Dollars and Cents.

y - "dttST OF 0olIdrS ana tents.
1t is somewhat difficult to understand
10 anxiety On the part Of certain in
rests to increase the financial burden
the people Of this State by voting
, move the capital to Portland. A
owe Of this sort would involve an ex-
snditure Of not less than two million
dollars Of the peoples money and
robably three or four times this
mount, for the experience Of other
sates has shown that public buildings
re almost never constructed within
ne amount Of the appropriations made
" them. They have ran unpleasant
tanner Of swallowing up additional
ollars Of the taxpayers money at a
uprising rate. 1t is also somewhat
ifficult to discover the grounds upon
hitch such an expenditure could be
lstified in the face of the pressing
eeds of various other public works
throughout the State.
It is not to be supposed that Maine
reuld be any better governed with the
tate House in Portland. even if thai
tate House cost $1o.000,00o. And il
he investment Of the peoples money in
n Improvement of this sort will not
ring an adequate return. the simplest
ort of business sense shows that to
Undertake it would be an eXtrava-
;ance. There are good roads to be
,uilt, bridges to be constructed, better
ural schools to be provided, the State
iebt to be paid and many other lines
II public work for which all the avail
lble public money might be profitably
employed. Indeed in the end 1t is
simply a question of profit. question
Is to whether the people can afford to
approve Of the expenditure of sum Of
money whose Increased burden in the
shape Of additional taxes will remain
with them for years.
Satisfying the needs Of the State and
carrying out the works Of the State
government may be classed as necessi-
ties to which the money Of the State
should be devoted; but moving the
capital and building new State
House smacks more of luxury which
the people Of the State arc hardly
ready to countenance. -.-
Viewed from any side the removal Of
the capital to Portland seems to be
distinctly to the disadvantage Of east
ern Maine, the most rapidly growing
section of the State and the one most
of having moved from the
sphere of its activities the centre of
the States government.
There are many economic reasons
against such a removal Of the capital
but before them all comes the one
uuestion of dollars and cents. To
sum 1t up simply there is no need OF
the capital since it will not
Increase the efficiency of the govern
ment one jot and the residents of
Maine can easily see the futility Of
spending the States money in works
which are not needed and in counte-
nancinr expenditures which cannot be
afforded.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-04
Aches and Pains.

You know by experience that the
aches and pains Of rheumatism are
not permanently. but only temporarily,
relieved by external remedies.
Then why not use an internal rene
dy-Hood's SarsapariIla, which cor
reefs the acidity Of the blood on which
rheumatism depends and cures the
disease?
This medicine has done more for the
rheumatic than any other medicine in
the Wosed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-04

sufficient personal means restraining
the others. This would increase the
pension budget by about $4,000, 600. The
veterans deserve all they are getting
ard more The generous treatment of
its old soldiers is to the eternal glory
of this republic and is unique in the
history of nations.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-04

Utah is to allow dental students to
practice on the inmates of it's prisonc
a step which will do more to make the
people Of that state lead the right kind
of lives than almost anything which
the Lawmakers could have devised.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-04

What's in a name? Well, the new
state of Oklahoma has a new towr
named Roosevelt and almost the firs'
duty of it's town clerk was to record
the birth Of triplcts.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-04
Maine Gossip
Darkness Dreams of Day.

Don't you mind the sorrow-
Don't you mind the signs
Whilst the worf rolls singin'
To the halleluia skies!
Sometimes it's lonesome on the way,
Eut darkness ever dreams of day.
The weariest winter ever
Is dreamin' dreams of May;
The tempest casts a shadow,
But the shadow doesn't stay.
There never was a life so dim
But found a halIeluia hymn.
Atlanta Constitution.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-04
MAINE EDITORIAL COMMENT.
A Ejasco,
(Rockland Opinion.)

IKOCkIand IpfffIDH.I
The Portland presentation of its claims
for removal of the State capital proved
a fiasco The Portland delegation is tho
laughing stock of tke whole Legislature
since the hearing on the matter. Wednes-
day afternoon. They called on Represen-
tative Montgomery. of Camden. to help
them out but he used the opportunity to
present an argument for the referendum.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-04
The Portland Bluff.
brunswick Record.)

Tic city government of Portland has
made good bluff in voting to appToprl-
ale half a million dollars toward the
building of a new State House, { the site
for the same is selected in Portland.
Fortunately for the taxpayers of that
city there is a large ''if'' in the WAY.
brunswick could not, of course. MAXI
such a ma Gn;fic,nt appropriation toward
a new State House, but we feel justified
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-04

1t will be recalled that Director Con-
ried. who stoutly maintains that
"Salome" is art. is the same gentleman
who found excuses for Carusos mon
key-house shines.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-04

in stating that this town would vote to
provide a site and sufficient grounds for
the Capitol, and the value OF such a do
nation ought to be worth ct least mil
lion dollars-after the Improvements
were made.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-04

Among the 81 couples marrying in
Millinockct during 1906, four of the con-
tracing parties We're natives Of Syria
and four were natives of Italy.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-04
What the Indications Are.


The indications are that the Legislature
will not rush into Portland's open arms.
Augusta seems to have prevailed in the
first round of the fight for the State
capital before the Committee on Public
Buildings
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-04

1t appears that the man who intro
duced Alfalfa into the West from
South America, retaining the great
American desert. was a native Of
Maine. Harrison Parkman, who has
just died in Kansas. Mr.. Parkman
was a native of SkoWhesan and was .3
years of age.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-04

Portland Express: The first building
TO be erected for the Maine Institute
for the Blind Should be christen2d
Ryan Hall"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-04

A mild and cloudy Candlemas dag
gives reason to hope that the back
bone of the winter is broken.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-04

st. Dcinors Library, which was
opened last week at Hawarden, num-
bcrs 81, 900 volumes The new wing, re i.
Gently completed, has accommodation
for seventeen visitors where the book
ishly inclined may retire for season.
as in the old monastery days, but with
out taking any VOWS. Mr.. Gladstone
provided about G4).to0 for this scheme.
his sons and daughters have contrib
uted G10.0GO. and 10000 has been
given by the nation toward this appro-
pirate memorial to one who found his
chief recreation in the study of litera :
turc.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-04

a large amount of sulphur is en- route
to Portland for Maine paper mills The
sulpher used now comes entirely from
New Orleans. while formerly it was
loaded at Girgenti. Sicily. A number of
sailing vessels. the first to engage in
the New Orleans sulphur trade, are
now on the way to Portland with car
goes, as we'll as several steamers. The
five master Henry O. Barrett. now at
Portsmouth, is chartered for the trade
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-04
ally ksnneber Journal
ESTABLISHED 1925

D 0otieo whatever will b taken Of
msigned communications.
- Journal cannot b held responsible
eoe the preservation or return Of r.
oected communications.
Sdress oil communications rotating 10
subscriptions and advertisements to
BURLEIGH 4 FLYNT. Publishers,
Augusta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-04

The travelling public appreciates the
goes into effect.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-04

H. G. Wells is q writer on great
variety of themes, His text book on
biology has been translated into Chi
nese. Mr.. Wells usually writes out the
first copy Of a book with his own hand
and has this copy type written. He
revises this carefully. and after it is
put in type the author gives the work
another careful revision. Mr.. Wells
has delightful home near Folkstone
in England, a rambling old house close
to the sea. but he spends great deal
of time in travelling. Since his extend
ed trip in America. during which he
gathered materials for his recent book.
he has been On a journey to italy.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-04

Prof. Roy l.. Marston Of Skowhegan
has received notice Of his appointment
as one of the lecturers of the New Eng
land Education League. This organ
iZation was formed about ten years
since. with headquarters in Boston. for
the purpose Of increasing the educa-
tional advantages Of the communities
of the New England states and with
the special object of providing lecturers
for towns where otherwise the scr
vices of trained specialists on pres
ent day topics would not be other
wise obtainable. Twenty of the fac
ulty Of Harvard University are on the
list of lecturers to which Mr.. Marston
now receives appointment and other
New England colleges are also repre-
scented by members of their faculty.
Prof. w. r. Mitchell Of Bowdoin college
and w. w. Stetson state superintend-
ent Of schools, are among the few
Maine men in the list. Mr.. Marston
graduated from Bcwdoin in 1899, later
studying forestry at Yale and being on
the Yale faculty three years. He re-
signed his position there to come back
to Maine and care for the numbering
interests Of his fathers estate.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-04

No shore dinners at New Meadows
for the next six weeks.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-04

The Bowdoin Alumni Association of
Boston is to hold its 39th annual dinner
on the evening Of Feb. 27-the one
hundredth anniversary Of Longfellow's
birth-and the exercises of the evening
will be commemorative of the poet.
who was one of the most famous
graduates of the Maine college.
President Hyde will be present
and speak, and among the other
speakers will he Professor Bar
rett Wendell Of Harvard University.
Professor Henry L. Chapman Of Bow
dom College, and Hon. Charles I.
Libby Of Portland. An original poem
will be read by Isaac b. Choate Of the
Glass of 1862. The dinner will be held
at the Hotel Brunswick and will un-
doubtedly be attended by 100 or more
alumni Of the college living in and
around BOStnn.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-04

to the Book News Monthly, received so
many requests for his autograph. He
lit on this plan to supply all who
wanted them, and to do a good deed
at the same time; he sold the auto
graphs for a dollar apiece, and present.
ed the proceeds to the Fresh Air Fun1
Of the New York Tribune. AS a result
the fund has been increased by thOus-
ands of dollars. His ynodesty is sincere.
Once a party Of tourists stopped i'll the
road in front of his house and stood for
4 while.
That's the penalty Of being great
man." said one of the authors guests.
Nonsense" exclaimed kipling;" they
are looking at this fine old Elizabethan
place"
kiplng talks very rapidly. There is
little, if any, of what is commonly
known as the English accent. He
really talks more like an American
than an Englishman. Once he was
talking about men and manners to
some friends. Suddenly. in that quiet
way he has of plunging into things, he
said:
II suppose most people think 1 am
snob. Well. my job is to try not to be
one"
This is Kipling the man: a simple,
modest, high-minded English gentle
man. with the enthusiasm Of boy, yet
the understanding of ages.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-04

The writer known to the novel read
ing public as Ralph Common is known
to mis- practitioners in Winnipeg as
Charles W. Gordon. He is a man of
forty three. tall and slight. keenly in
terested in sport and outdoor life and
sympathetic and earnest in his work.
His church has been completely fitted
up with parlors and recreation rooms,
where those without homes may spend
their evenings in pleasant surround
ings. That he has lost nothing of his
popularity as story writer is demon
strated by the fact that the publication
of his new Rocky Mountain story.
The Doctor" was delayed until No
vember II because advance orders had
increased the first edition from 10000
to 100000.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-04

Philip Vcrrill Mighels, the author of
dummy had 50 varied an experience
in his boyhood that he draws unending-
~ upon his memory for unique situa-
tons and happenings to be used in his
tales. His description of a donkey run
ming Off with the small-boy hero, little
Dummy Weaver. from which arose the
dreadful ard touching experience of the
tiny traveller with the outlaws In the
mountains. is based upon an actual &C
currence in Mr.. Mighels's OWN youthful
career
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-04

J. J. Bell, author of "Wee Mac
GreegOr," Ethel" etc, has a delight
fully humorous Scotch tale in The Red
Book Magazine for February entitled
"Mr. Donald Macdonald" go
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-04

Justus Miles Forman's novel, "Buch-
anan's Wife," will be dramatized, and
Miss Alberta Gal;atin. who has secured
the dramatic rights, will appear in th2
principal role in the play on its first
presentation in April