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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-18

SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

Inauguration exercises took place
Monday night in City han at Brewer
wien Mayor Charles II. Small. re-
elected, delivered his inaugural after
he and the board OF aldermen had tax
Ell the oath of office.
Frank Rowe the S-year-old son OF
Christopher Rowe Of Auburn. was kill
eCi At Gray Monday by a falling log
The boy was riding on load Of logs
when the driver got off TO lead the
horses over a bad place in the road
manner the lead broke apart, log
striking him on the neck.
That there was no evidence of foul
play III the death of William Dexter
was the report Of DR.. Daniel Mccain
and DIR. G.. B. Caulfield, after an au-
topsy Sunday night. Dexter, a woods
man about 35 years old and with no es-
tablished home. was found dead in the
basement Of the St James hotel 4,
Bangor. Saturday afternoon.
George Forsythe, deaf mute of st
Abs MS. was found late Sunday on St
Adams mountain by searchers who had
been hunting since Saturday. The mar
had suffered intensely from Geld and
both legs We're badly frozen. He was
removed To his home and both legs
were amputated Monday. Small hopes
are entertained for the mans recov-
cry. Forsythc is understood to have
wandered from home some time Satur-
day and became lost in the woods.
The trustees of the Bangor Public
library said Monday that the proposed
new 100000 building would again be
delayed pending the announced inten-
ton OF the owners of the proposed site
to appeal TO the United States supreme
court on the decision awarding $45. 900
for the proposed site after condemna-
ton proceedings. f. c. Ryder, counsel
for the heirs of the Hayford estate.
owners Of the property, said that such
an appeal was contemplated following
the adverse decision recently received
from the Maine law court
Old Town Republicans found them
selves in a curious tangle SATURDAY..
when after having nominated ex-May-
or Edgar 3. Weeks for the mayoralty
they learned that he was far IN in the
'''''' 80 u itiicci IIi, operation ana
could not possibly reach Old Town to
sign the nomination papers within the
legal time to go on the official ballot
me city committee had until midnight
saturday to adjust matters and short
~ before midnight decided to nomin-
ate Edward w. Conant to fill the va
cancy, with the understanding that
MT. Weeks will be the party candidate
by use Of stickers at the time of the
election on March 90.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-18

The first attempts to pave streets
with wood three-quarters Of a century
ago. were failures. and for years after
that no satisfactory progress was
made. The blocks were round which
left large unequal spaces between
them. Their edges broke down and
wore off. the wood rotted. and The
pavement was soon uneven and rough
and therefore difficult to clean and ir-
sanitary. At the present time. through
the selection of suitable woods, cutting
the blocks into rectangular shape $,
that their edges may lie close together
and treating them chemically To in.
crease their durability. wood pave
ment is better in many respects thar
any other in common use.-Governmen,
Forest Service.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-18

charged from said service because OF
wounds received in battle, if otherwise
qualified. shall be entitled to retire
ment without reference to the length
of his service in said volunteer army.
sec 2 That each applicant whose
name shall be entered upon said list
shall be entered as of the highest rank
held by him while serving in said vol
untepr army. and when so entered on
said list he shall be paid. out of any
money IN The treasury not otherwise
appropria ted, threeforthS pay, accord
ing to his actual rank, which pay snail
be the same as that now or hereafter
received by retired officers of like rank
in the regular army. and shah be paid
in like manner. such pay to begin on
The date Of filing his said application
with the secretary Of war and to con-
tinue during his natural life: Provided.
That the retired pay of any ofticer sha!l
not exceed the full pay of 4 captain OF
cavalry in the regular army: Provided
further. That the provisions and limi-
tati rs of this Act shall apply to VOL
untcer officers of the navy and marines
who shall have served as officers or as
enlisted men not less than two years
in the active service of the navy he
tween the dates mentioned in the first
section of this Act; and that amy such
officer " no shall have served in said
volunteer army, navy. or marine corps
a tern, or terms in the whole less than
two years, but not less than nine
months, shall be entitled to the pro-
visions and limitations of this Act and
shall be authorized to receive, each ac-
cOrding to his term Of service, an
amount bearing such proportion to the
retired pay granted herein to the same
rank for the service of two years as
his term of service did to said term of
two years.
sec J. That each person who shall
receive pay Under this Act shall there
by relinquish all his right and claim
to pension from the United States after
the date Of iiiing said application. and
any payment Of such pension made to
him covering Il period subsequent TO
the fling Of his said application shall
be deducted from the amount due hlin
on the nrst payment or payments I'M
der this Act The pay allowed by this
Act shall not be subject or liable to
any attachment. levy. lien. or detention
under any process whatever. ard per
sons whose names are placed upon said
list shall not constitute any part OF
the United States army
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-18

Wissen fear ALE had n symposium
to discuss the value of salt in digestion.
One of the physicians wrote that, while
salt in moderation is good for the stom-
ach. and often absolutely necessary. it
ought TO be taken apart from the meals
in much the sanie way as medicine
He bases his judgment on the way art
fetal digestion proceeds in the presence
Of marine salt.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-18
Humors

Come to the surface in the spring as ir.
no other season. It's pity they don't
run themselves all off that way; but in
spite Of pimples and other eruptions.
they mostly remain in the system.
That's bad.
Hoods Sarsaparilla removes them
and cures all the painful and disfigur-
ing troubles they cause. Nothing else
cleansas the system and clears the
complexion like Hoods.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-18

state Supt Smith Of the public
schools II Maine made the following
statement regarding the necessity for
increased care in Schooinouse con-
StruCtion:
The State requires all children be-
tween the ages of I and 10 to attend
school. 1t obliGes parents to send their
children 10 school 1t is certainly most
reasonable that the state likewise pro-
vide BY law that school buildings be
equipped with all reasonable means I"
safeguard both the lives and the health
Of school children. There can be no
doubt that there are many Schooi
buildings in Maine that do not meet
reasonable requirement in respect TO
heating. ventilation, sanitation. hight
ing and proper safeguards against fre
7 haIieye there should be n law fixing
certain standards in the matter of
school house construction and that any
Town or city that fails TO meet such
standards should suffer the penalty of
loss of State aid to it's schools.
shall ask the attention of the Leg
islature TO this matter ana am or the
oninion that such a law providing also
proper system of school house m
snaction would merit and receive the
snpport of that body and of the peo-
pie
N,tice has been filed at the Office OIL
,,a secretary of state which certitieS
,ha. at the annual meeting OF the
s,o.,,holders of the Yellow Mountain
Mines Co. held at Portland March 20
| Il was resolved that for the more con-
yenient transaction Of the business o
,he cornoration the capital stock O
the corporation be reduced from 81 ,@e'
0oo consisting of 10000 shares of tn
mar yame OF s. each. TO s2o0."oo, con
sisting OF 900. 900 shares Of the par va'h
of 81 each.
New-York tribune., 1908-03-15
ANDOVER PASSES.

After a long struggle against adversely
caused by changing conditions of American life
and thought famous old Andover Theological
Seminary has finally succumbed to fate
which everybody save her older graduates
will doubtless consider an exceedingly happy
one Next September the seven instruct
ors twelve students and fifty-six thousand
library books will he caught up in the great
academic world of Cambridge, where the ira
ditions and identity of the Old AndoVer will
swiftly disappear, in spite OF the endurance of
the present faculty and organization. There is
something tragic in the passing OF school
which once played such an important part in
the history of American theology. But if one
looks forward instead Of backward tragedy is
displaced by hope. In moving to great cen
ire of intellectual work and population the
seminary is furnishing striking illustration of
some profoundly significant tendencies IN Amer
lean religious life.
Andover Seminary passes because. in its
present location it cannot attract students.
With an endowment of SS.J0.0D0 in productive
funds and with fine buildings and equipment
the school has been able to secure only two or
three students for each class. If the annual
income of $4,000 has been entirely spent from
wear TO year, then each student at Andover has
cost the institution between $1,000 and $o0D
annually. And even if large part of the in
come has been boarded, the small attendance
makes Andover very poor investment for the
Congresa tiona Church. Why cannot students
be lured thither even by tempting scholarships?
Among many contributOry causes three stand
out prominently and explain not only Andover's s
change of base but also the general scarcity Of
candidates for the Protestant ministry.
First. but least important, is the rising genera
tons dissatisfaction with traditional theology.
This hndrance has been largely overcome by
the increasing liberality of seminaries; to the
great credit of leading theological faculties be
1t said that to-day they not only welcome but
actually receive students Of almost every be-
lief which might be called Christian by any
courtesy of language And yet the highways
have to be secured every summer for students
and enticing scholarships held out. Plainly, the
trouble lies deeper than theological differences;
Ii roots in the practical American tempera
nlent. College students eager TO better mankind
gists lecturing on sweatshOps and leading
stunning parties" Secular charities to-day
are employing hundreds Of noble minded work
ers who, with od-fashioned education, would
have chosen the Church means Of realizing
their altruism. Prospective theoogues who
have resisted this influence are at least pref
udiced in favor of metropolitan seminaries, all
of which offer linitless opportunities for prac
teal work among the poor, the suffering and
the criminal. Hence, while all semnaries tel
New-York tribune., 1908-03-15

found verdict against the principals so far
tried in spite of the pleas of the former Auditor
and Treasurer that they acted not in bad faith
but only ignoranty.
The jury's theory will be generally accepted
as sound II seems incredible that an Auditor
and Treasurer should have passed innocently
and unconcernedly bills for SS0O0OtO or S9ooo,-
600 on Il blind authorization clause ard never
have taken the precaution TO report such eX-
pendtures TO the Legislature or TO inquire
whether they were intended to be continued in
definitely Can officials elected 10 stand guard
over the Treasury be excused from exercising n
reasonable vigilance: Could intelligent ana
honest officers cooperate innocently III mus
emptyinS the state treasury: The Harrisburg
Jurors were hardb enough 10 hold that
they could not. and that such gross negligence
necessarily involved criininality. The public,
which wants officials everywhere held 10 the
strictest standards of honor and duty. vii! he
cbeerei hv the verdict. We agree with The
Philadelphia Press" that ii is "one Of the moSt
wholesome and hopeful verdicts" ever given iii
PENNSYLVANIA.
New-York tribune., 1908-03-15
HE4ITH AT PANAMA

Panama renorts for 1907 not a single case OF
bubopic plague nor of yellow fever ut Is now
twentv-two months since the last case of yell
low fever on the isthmus). only one death from
smallpox. 20 per cent reduction from uhe pre-
ceding year in malaria corresponding ue-
cline in dysentery, pneumonia ana tne o'nfi
serious diseases of that country. and con
seouent decrease in the death rate from that
of 1906 of more than 81 per cent. 1hls re
port concerns only the canal zone ana the Clues
of A'anama and Colon, bat that has always pe@h
the unheathiest part of the Whole country.
Humboldt century ago intimated after care
ful studv thai the isthmus must always be
ravaged by yellow fever and malaria since
the former was caused by the decaying molusks
and marine plants on the beach at low tde
and the latter by foul emanations from over
rank vegetation. Froude only quarter ol
century ago recloned that nowhere else IN All
the world was there concentrated in a slhSlc
spot 50 mulch foul disease. such a Mucous
"dungheap of neral and physical aDohlna-
''ticn.' Humboldt WAS wrong ana froude WAS
right. Iut time has reformed the cohu'tiohS
which Froude saw as thoroughly as it has cor
rected the errors which Humboldt cherished.
In both cases the work has been done or
chiefly done. by Americans True. IL was
Manson who discovered that tilarlasiS was con
ycypd from man 10 man by the tueX. and II
was Ross who demonstrated that what was
then i'll named malaria was similarly conveyed
by the Auopheles: but it remained for heed.
of the American army. Ia rob yellow 1eNer o.
its terrors by showing that it was transmit
ted only by the Stegomyia Moreover 1t was
under the American administration OF NoN-
ernor MagoOn and Colonel Gorgas that the
knowledge and resources of modern science
were applied to the hygienc redemption OF the
fsthmus The result of their lahors is as
worthy = memorial of American achievement as
hn cannI itself will be
New-York tribune., 1908-03-15
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.

TFrom The Tribune Bureau-l
Washington, March 1.-THE French Ambassador
and Nine Jusserand were hosts at spring break
fast to-day. to which they invited the Argentine
Minister and Sonora de Portela. the Peruvian Min
lister and Sefora de Pardo, the Chilian Minister
and Sonora de cruz. the charge d'affaires from
Mexico and Sehora Godoy, Mr. do Arlaral. Bra
lillian counsellor: NJ. and Nine. Lauzanne. OF
Paris Mr.. MilIet. Major FOurnier French mill
tary attache and Viscount de Chan1brun. French
secretary.
Nine, Nabuco wife of the Brazilian Ambassador.
had her guest Of honor at a breakfast at the
embassy to-day Nine. Mehined. wife OF the Turk
ish Minister. AS all occasions when Nine
Mehmed is entertained. women servants attended
the party and only women guests were present
The japanese Ambassador returned to Wash
ington to-day from New York.
The British second secretary and Mrs. George
Young among the diplomats entertaining
dinner parties tonight
New-York tribune., 1908-03-15
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
TF,or,, The Tribune R1rreatI

The Tribune Bureau-I
Washington, March 1f-Mr- and Mrs LarZ An
7erson have temporarily closed their house in Mas
sachusetts avenue and gone South to spend the
spring. according to their usual custom They sent
their houseboat. the Roxana, down before them,
of friends.
Mr.. and Mrs Herbert WadswoTth have issued
invitations for Mi-Careme ball on March -.
Mrs. James Pinchot and her brother and sister
n-law. Mr.. and Mrs William Phelps Emo have
gone to New York. preparatory to sailing for CUBA
for a months visit. They will return to thei'
homes here before opening their summer houses
Among the hosts entertaining dinner parties to-
night Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Keep, Mr. and
Mrs. a. Garrison McClintock and Mr.. and Mrs
Robert Hollister Chapman.
Mr.. and Mrs. William j. Boardman have given
the use of their ballroom for benefit dialect re-
cital by Mrs. Waldo Richards. Mrs. James f
Garfield, Nine Iusserand. Mrs William Sheffield
Cowies. Mrs. Robert Bacon, Mrs. Newbcrry and
Mrs. Hobson are among the patronesses.
New-York tribune., 1908-03-15
NEW YORK SOCIETY.

Despite the presence of the penitential season.
the round of gayeties continues unabated, and So
cety's only important concession to Lent Is the
absence of formal dances from its calendar and the
Organization of the entertainments that follow one
another in rapid succession in such a fashion as
to contribute to the funds of worthy charity.
Theatricas musicals. bridge tournaments tabieaux
and mere afternoon teas for the ben
eft of this that phanthropic institution are
popular just now, and inasmuch as the needy and
the suffering are reaping considerable benefit from
this method of the observance of the forty days
intervening between Ash Wednesday and Easter
there s no ground criticism complaint
Thus yesterday morning there large gath
ering of the fashionable world at the WaldOrt-AS-
tora for the concert in behalf of the New York
Diet Kitchen Association. under the patronage of
Mrs. Ernesto G. Fabbri. Mrs Edwin D. Morgan
Mrs. Ralph Pulitzer. Mrs William X. Vanderbilt
and Mrs. Arthur Murray Dodge. NJ. Gilbert, who
was have sung, kept away by a severe cold
and his place taken by Nj SammaTcO of the
Manhattan Opera, who supported by Miss
Katherine Goodson and Miss May Nuke
Mrs Charles b Alexander has given the use OF
her house in West 5Sth for the annual fair
of the Children of Loving Service on Friday April
10 The tables and booths will be charge of
yong girls and boys
Mrs William Douglas Sloane. Mrs. Stuyvesan Mt
Fish. Mrs. NJ. Orrne Wilson. Mrs. Charles II. Mar
shall and Mrs. Charles b. Alexander among
those most actively Interested in the success of
the entertainment which the Cercle Dramatque
Francais is giving Tuesday afternoon at the
Criterion Theatre for the benefit of the Country
Home for Convalescent Children at Sea Cliff. Long
Island. "Jalouse," By Bsson and Leclercq figures
on the programme.
On the evening of the day The Simple
Life will be given at the Carnegie Lyceum for
the benefit of the Warren Goddard House Of the
Friendly Aid Society. the play being repeated on
March 10 at the Plaza in behalf of the Riverhead
New-York tribune., 1908-03-15
NACEDONTAN REFORMS.

Sir Edward Grey has the logic Of the situa-
tion on his side in Macedonia in double sense.
Russia and Italy want TO know Great Britain S
attitude toward their Danube Adriatic railroad
project and also toward Austria Hungary S
plans for a railroad through Novi Bazaar. He
replies that Great Britain has no objection TO
the building of the roads and has no thought Of
championing one or opposing another, but that
she will give active support to anybody or TO
any scheme of any kind until the prime object
Of her solicitude and Of the powers professed
interest in that part Of the world Is attained
namely the effective reform of the Macedonian
administration.
In that he is exactly right from two points Of
view. Great Britain has no railroad projects OF
her own In Macedonia, and there is no reason
why she should take the side of either of the
rival schemes, while there is practical reason
for her to regard with favor all plans for the
opening up of the country TO travel and trade
But the purpose of the concert of the powers in
intervening in Turkish affairs not to build
railroads but to secure decent government for
oppressed provinces, and the British Foreign
Minister 10 quite right and sets to the othes
New-York tribune., 1908-03-15
THE HARRISBURG "FURNISHERS."

The conviction Of four of the men concerned in
the fraudulent furnishing" Of the new Pennsyl-
rania Capitol greatly strengthens the belief that
adequate Justice will be neted out to each AMI
every one of the many participants in that gigan-
tic scheme of pluader. The four persons found
guilty are John II. Sanderson- the contractor; !;
william z. Snyder. former Auditor General; W.
l. Mathues. former State Treasurer, and James
NJ Shlmaker former Superintendent Of Public
buildings and Grounds. The jury held that the
evidence presented sustained the prosecutors 5
charge that conspiracy existed TO defraud :lle
state and that the three officials indicted were
prvy 10 that conspiracy. 1t is hard indeed 10
draw anv other conclusion than that they We're
at the least wilfulIy blind TO the manipulations
by which enormous overcharges were saddled
the Pennsylvania treasury.
The Tribune said over year ago, when the
details of the furnishing" scheme were made
public that It seemed TO have been delibera tey
and craftily planned by q group of prospective
benefciaries. The authorization under which the
new CAPITOL, constructed at cost of 100000
was TO be furnished" was artfully concealed in
q blind clause in an appropriation bill No sum
was named, and most OF the legislators who voted
for the act never suspected that they had put IL
tn the power OF a state board, Of which the Gov
ernor was chairman, TO draw out Of the treasury
fer Furnishings" any amount actually therein
and not otherwise appropriated. The board drew
OFT about Ss,J000o0 or 100000 and, as Gov
ernor Pennypacker explained afterward con-
sidered- that il had shown high degree of mod
Grafton in not taking the few millions more Of
available cash. But outside the little clique OF
-fnrnishers' no one knew that the money had
been used, and had Democratic State Treas
urer not been elected accidentally in 1905 il is
probable that the expenditures would still be
concealed greatly min;Inized by expert book
keeping. The whole enterprise was conducted
etealthIy and with perfect concert among those
who expended and received the money, that
the presumption Of a common understanding
cannot well be avoided. The jury, therefore,
New-York tribune., 1908-03-15

powers a valuable example Of consistency ana
constancy in declining to be diverted from the
trail by any tant of red herripgs
Almost equally commendable is the scheme OF
reform which Sir Edward propOses-namely,
that Macedonia shall have permanent Chris
tian governor under the protection or the pow
ers. We note that some of his political oppo-
pents in England object 10 the plan as lmprac-
ticable The analogy of Crete will not DO they
say because Crete is island remote from
Turkey and easily commanded by the neets OF
TIE powers. True put then there Is mucn
older example than Crete which does seem anal
ogous That is the mutessarifat OF Ihe Len
anon 1t was once the most turbulent ana op
pressed province of the empire lt IS occupieu
by variety of dscordant races ana crt|ds
N,ronites Dr,,ses Greeks and others. But
permanent Christian governor under the protec-
tion of the powers was placed over it. ana SINCE
then it has had peace and 1lstice i"ei,S
five years ago it was proposed to "Sarawak 'le
Sou1on" It would seem TO he an ausplclouS
undertaking to "Lebanonize Macedonia.
New-York tribune., 1908-03-15
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT.
[Bv TeIegranh 2, Tha rrtt,.rs

tBy Telegraph 70 The Tribune
Newport r. l.. March ia luncheon was gwen
at Oakland Farm this afternoon by Mrs Alfred c.
Vanderbilt in honor of Miss Pauline French a7t
samuel Wagstah. who 10 be married here on
May ;.
Nakehurst. according TO reports heard IN New
port to-day Is TO be occupied by the owner. James
J Van Allen. this summer Work OF f.norovf-E
the property for occupancy has already been
started.
Hamilton +. Tompkins arrived in Newport rom
New York this evening
registered at the Muenchinger King Cottage 20
night are Mrs Thomas H. Howard and family
Mrs Seth Barton French. Mrs. J. Lo-i1rle- Wor-
den' Miss Marjorie Weeks. Mrs Bessie Fry. Dr.
and Mrs William Poor and Howard Cutting ~
New YORK; Mrs George s Rice and family. Mss
Z. Lee Mrs George r. Fearing, jr-. Mrs. H Pratt
Mclean and family. Miss Pears and Mrs Il. VI
Down. of PenIIyn. Penn