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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-14

are showing and setting. Surely fol
style. elegance and beauty. you need not
seek the Fashionable stor"; in Boston.
Try tie machine en- Hamhur.; steak
at Merrill Bros, lie to 1Sc H. Also, their
ov'a make honest aau....a Toe III.
Headquarters for shelled nuts Big bGx
Shelled walnats opened today only, SIC
III. SIRE to try thcr,. Immense
grarc fruit. $40 doz. navc!s etc New
lot potato chips sweet potatoes fresh
beef tongues. turkeys, chickens and the
markets supply green stuff.
r.. lock is prolific in fine bargains to-
day. II of 1It count navals 25c. Nice ma
tive pork shoulders. Sc H., fresh spinach
zoe PIX, great trade in extra size olives.
In fancy fresh bakery goods: whipped
cream cakes. 36c doZ.. whipped cream
rolls. Sc each. MorlnGs ana apple Jacks.
PC each, large cream pies. pc, eciails. 3Oc
better see this line. All the green stuff,
turkeys and chickens.
You should get pair of those $3.50
trousers at Townsend & Ingraham's
today.
At G.. d. Haskell's, celery 1Sc bunch,
spinach soc. PIX, NJ. grapes. lbs 25c.
rhubarb = lbs. 25c, S. potatoes &C. per
h.. halibut lbs. 25c.. Smelts loo. tinnan
haddie Zoe. per ID. Also oysters 50 and
45c. per at, CLAIMS 25c. qt Try can
of our 1915 coffee. none better.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-14

Step into Russell & Weston COS. AMI see
the lovely plaid merceriz.1l taffetas they
are selling at only 1"c :: yard great Bar
gain while they last. Been selling at &C.
IL You admire the elegant and beautiful
though Won may possibly not feel able
to Possess just step up on the second
floor and see the evening; dresses they
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-14
Augusta Lodge Directory

bethlehem LODGE, NO. IS, r. E.
a. N. Special communication at Masonic
Temple Monday evening, March H. at : 30
O'Clock. Work in +. c: degree. All
solourring brethren cordially invited
WILLIS Z. SWIFT. w. NJ.
CHAS. D. WHITE. Sec.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-14

You should get pair of those $3.50
trousers at Townsend & Ingraham's
today
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-14

L. s. YOung's grocery & fish market
obtain a small lot Robbins tender sauer
kraut, lbs 25c, salt pork, Sc 10. Ketch-
up. &c bottle, cranberry string beans,
Sc can. Pure maple syrup, 4Oc quart
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-14

Every adult person may call today. AT
Bowd!tch & Websters. and receive free
in a little tin box sample antisaptic
hand cleaner, "cleanZum.' Tho scribe
took q sample and tested it. If you get
printers ink on your hands, work in a
machine shop. or at plumbing. be sure
and t,y this. A good PC tooth powder
only l,,c today.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-14
ODD FELLOWS HALL.

ASYLUM LODGE, NO. 70, REGULAR
meeting Friday evenings at 80 o'clock.
c. a. FREEMAN, n. G.
F.. F. WESTON, Sec.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-16
JHE VAR ON THE RAT.

America has boen slower than other
nations to appreciate the rat as a men
ace to health and property and to
work systematically for its destruction,
but the medical experts have recently
given so much attention to the
rat as a purveyor of deadly germs
that the health authorities In a num-
her of the larger cities are organ
izing a general crusade for the rodents
determination. San Francisco made a
fight of this kind, when it became es-
tablished that the rat was the real
dissemination of the bubonic plague,
and now New Orleans is going after
the rat with as much vigor and en-
thusiasm as 1t went after the mosquito
when 1t learned that that pest was the
messenger of the yellow fevep germs.
All Of the experts agree that It is
difficult to fool a rat, which has a
positive genius for evading traps, wire
cages and pitfalls arranged for his
undoing. In New Orleans the health
authorities are trying to starve the
rats TO death. This calls for q policy
of %scrupulous cleanliness by house
holders and every effort is being made
to leave the rodents without ~provender
until they are on the verge of starva-
ton and then serve them with liberal
portions Of oatmeal mixed with a
virus deadly to a rat colony. This is
expected to cause a deadly. devastating
disease in the rat colony which is not
communicable to man, The results OF
the experiments will be carefully noted
and II they are successful they may
prove OF great benefit in other cities.
England has started a crusade
against rats by offering prizes to the
clubs that kill the largest number of
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-16
WHITTIER ARE WE DRIFTINGi

At the last meeting of the Omaha
Water board the members who hap
pened to be present adopted a resolu-
ton drawn by one of their high priced
attorneys directing himself to prepare
another resolution ordering a reduc-
ton OF water rates to the schedule
formerly promulgated to go into effect
September 4 next, when the existing
hydrant rental contract with the water
company expires.
When the Water board undertook to
reduce water rates before it did so
in advance of the appraisement in the
compulsory purchase proceedings and
for the undisguised purpose of reduc-
ing the revenue of the water company
so as to pull down the price of the
plant as a going concern. The schedule
of water rates then declared to be fair
and reasonable was based upon a mere
guess that the plant of the water COM
pany was worth o to exceed $500
600, and was entitled to earn returns
upon only that amount. When the APP
praisement came in later fixing the
value at $6,243,0O0 it wal plain that
the Water board lawyers had been
working on altogether COM
putations and that If the property were
to cost the taxpayers over $4,000 900
they would not be so eager to purchase
it. The report of the appraisers pro-
duced considerable legal sparring for
position on the part of the Water
board, the outcome of which was an
oficial and written opinion by the
same high priced attorney advising the
adoption of a resolution formally re-
scinding the election to purchase and
ordering plans prepared for the con-
struction of an entirely new and indie
pendent water works for the city, with
notice to the water company hat its
right to continue to occupy the streets
and to serve patrons with water within
the corporate limits OF Omaha would
cease absolutely September 4, 1908. 1t
is moi necessary TO set out in full this
resolution, which is heavily Durdened
with legal verbiage, nor the lengthy
opinion OF the Water board lawyer,
beyond this paragraph, which is di-
reetly in point:
am informed by responsible engineers
that an equally efficient system Of water
works for the city, which can be much
more economically maintained than the
present plant of the Omaha Water COM
pany, can be constructed for very much
less than 100000 and unless the Omaha
Water company is willing TO take a reason
able price for its works / think il 10 the
duty Of this board 10 secure definite plans
and estimates and submit to the electors
Of this city the proposition 10 erect a water
plant for and on behalf Of the city, 70
this end submit to you herewith a resolu-
ton for the rescission of the election to
purchase and also a resolution directing
the securing Of plans and estimates for
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-16
TUE HEAT ON THE STREET.

AtD
Prof. Willis L.. Moore. chief of the
weather bureau, is about to introduce
an innovation that will be ~joyously
welcomed by that large number Of
persons who have for years contended
that the official weather bureau Their
mometer. located in the top floor of
some tall building, really had no right
to try to tell what the state of the
weather was down on the blistering
sidewalk. Prof. Moore that
the weather bureau will erect orna-
mental kiosks containing thermome-
ters, barometers and other meteor
illogical instruments at principal points
on the street level in the larger cities
of the country.
It is explained that this action is
taken for the benefit of those who
complain hat the official record, taken
from thermometers in high places. Is
considerably lower than that on the
street and therefore calculated to de-
ceive the sufferer who wants to know
that 1t is just as hot as he thinks 1t
is. The street thermometers will have
big figures and will be kept in per-
feet repair so that their accuracy can
not be questioned, as is that Of the
average meek and lowly Thermometer
of commerce.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-16
THE sIMPLE LIFE.
WASHINGTON Star.

Washington Star.
He couldn't afford to have most of the ,,r
mat people go after. When business was
He simply went home; and the owl
That he surely missed many a headache
that way.
He had no big house to be kent in rons,r
ana no automobile to cause doubt and
He figured than when he had run one and
He couldn't afford it,.
He couldn't afford to 60 travelling far.
ne Lelt not the terrors of steamship and
He couldn't afford to be ''sporty" and find
Ihat along with his cash he had lost peace
He sometimes would yearn for a thorough
That would startle his friends with its
grace and its speed, "
But ne said, when they told him the
charges to board Il,
He couldn't afford It.
SO he lived In a peaceful, industrious etyle
with time for a song and with mood FOR a
smile,
And noted how many mid struggles for
wealth vi
As in fortune they gained became bank
With modest abundance existence seemed
superfluous treasure meant dlscord and
care, M"
Since he couldn't expend it with comfort
nor hoard II.
He couldn't afford it.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-16

or rub up against. death is lying in
ambush at every turn of the road.
The latest Illumination of this kind
comes from a Philadelphia doctor who
declares that the buttercup, celebrated
in prose and song as one of the most
beautiful exemplars Of the pure and
simple life, is a certain cause Of
measles, chickenpox and other febrile
diseases and is the sole cause of can
Ger. He proves it. too, by defying any
one to point t a case of cancer that
was not produced by contact with but
tercups or by eating meat infected with
the buttercup virus. The argument ap-
pears to be unanswerable, inasmuch
as the medical sharps Of all the ages
have failed to agree as to the cause
of cancer. The Philadelphia doctors
argument is just as convincing as that
OF Mark Twain. who discovered the
burial place Of Adam and defied any
one to prove that he was buried any
where else.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-16
THE PAY OF COLLEGE pRoFEsso RS.

THE PAY OF COLLEGE PROFESSO RS.
The college professor does not APP
pear to have suffered from the gen.
eral industrial and financial depression
that has been bothering the rest of the
country for more than half a year.
Statistics Just collected by the Car
negie Institute for the Advancement
of Teaching show the average pay of
the full professor in American colleges
to be about $4,000 a year, while fif-
teen years ago the average was $1,47O.
The facts fail to harmonic with the
general impression and the complaint
generally made by teachers themselves
that college professors are sadly I'M
derpaid.
1t is not contended here that the
college professor is sufficiently paid
for the invaluable service he renders,
but the statistics are cited merely to
chow that the teacher is not so neg
lected In a financial way as he would
have us believe. The salary Of the
college professor cannot compare with
that paid in the money-making trades
and professions, and it is not natural
that it should. No man with the am
bition to become a teacher would de-
l~iberately choose the profession of
teaching for the purpose of getting
fession for commercial or financial adj
vantage. The college professor and
the teacher in general is willing, as a
rule, to sacrifice financial profit for
the sake of devotion to an ideal. Work
done well and lovingly brings greater
reward than can be measured in dol
lars and cents and the professors
work belongs in that class.
The professor, too, has many com
~pensations that do not come to
the man who works for more pay. He
has a vacation period of from three to
four months each year, during which
he is free to pursue any special line
of study or investigation-for the
true educator is always a student
and he has high social positions and
his labors are never arduous. Under
the Carnegie plan most Of the pro-
fessors are assured of a retiring allow
ance All of these advantages consid-
cred, the professors lot is far from
unpleasant. 1t is gratifying to know
that the pay of the college professor
has been gradually increased, indicat-
ing that the world is coming into a
better appreciation of the services of
those who give their lives and labor
for an ideal and who feel that in good
work we'll done lies truer happiness
than in the making of money.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-16
THE A

Some of the officials of Oklahoma
have fixed ideas Of the rights of the
federal government and the operation
Of federal law when they come in con
flict with enactments provided for
under the fearfully and wonderfully
made constitution of Oklahoma. The
experience of the national banks of the
state furnish an illustration in point.
When the bank deposit guaranty
law was passed by the Oklahoma leg
islature, some of the national banks
Of the state, uncertain as to their
rights in the matter, paid their as
sessments under protest, in order to
protect their legal rights, and began
operating under the provisions Of the
law, which made the payment of such,
assessments compulsory on state banks
and voluntary with national banks.
When the federal authorities ruled that
the national banks must withdraw
from the deposit guarantee agreement
or forfeit their charters as national
banks, the banks withdrew and asked
for a return of the assessments paid
into the guarantee fund. The attorney
general and state treasurer Of Okla
homa both held that the banks were
entitled to the return of this assess
ment, but Governor Haskell vetoed
the plan and told the bankers to go
into the courts and u for their
money II they wanted it. The situa-
ton simply illustrates the extent to
which Haskell and his kind have car
ried their wild-eyed plans for the ad-
ministration OF state affairs, regard
less of the rights Of citizens or the
federal laws. The result will be only
to put the bankers to court expenses
to secure what they should have had
without question.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-16
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

Germsny's marks Of esteem for Yep
pelin amount to 100000.
Aviator Farnam is not different from the
plain people. He couldn't fly high because
the ghost didn't walk.
The American monetary commission. now
abroad. manages to get along on $1,000 a
day. Financial tips come high, but we
need them in our business.
When the Chicago school census takers
stopped short OF 100000 population, for
want OF material. the directory man got
busy and figured out 100000.
Jupiter Pluvius could acquire a large
bunch OF public esteem II he would work
his sprinkler system Systematically and not
o%verturn the tank.
The alienists and lawyers whose bills
have been TANNED into a bankruptcy court
by Harry Thaw are in a mood to revise
their opinions OF his sanity.
The demand of the young Turks for the
abolition OF the harem. II success, will
open a fine market for the disposal of the
discredited Merry Widow hat.
People who think a sixty-mile squirt OF
an auto is useless evidently forget how
clearly 1t shows that the fool killer is not
next TO the possibilities Of his job.
The Russian car kindly showed Abdul
Hamid how to handle a new constitution,
but ducked when asked to lend a hand in
dispensing the harem. Nicholas is not
overburdened with hair. p
John /. Mallalleu, a Nebraska booster Of
other days, is now manager of the Idaho
Spring, (Col) Siftings News. a lively
weekly carrying the republican national
banner at the masthead.
Bald heads posses advantages other than
as a skating rink for flies. Thugs at
tempted to sand bag a hairless citizen Of
New York, but the deadly implement
glanced off the shining dome, without hsv-
ing any other effect except to tip off evil
company.
Chioago's fondness for pink whispers and
vocal melody was shown in a whoopinR
vote for j. Ham Lewis. The city's ad-
miration for minated art was unequal to
the country's regard for the Ramesis
democracy, Adlai Stevenson beat Lewis
TO the finish.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-16

the construction Of an independent water
plant.
You will bear in mind that this does
not contemplate the maintenance OF a dual
system Of water works. but c~ontemplates
the erection OF a plant by the city and the
removal OF the pipes by the present COM
pany.
Under the decision OF Judge sanborn IN
the water rate case Il Is held that the
terms OF the ordinance giving the right
OF the water company to occupy the streets
OF the city and to charge rates therein
named is limited by the period Of the
hydrant rental contract, and will expire
On September 4, 1908. At the time, there
fore, the board will have. the right to order
the water company to remove its mains
from the streets of the city and l think the
board should be in condition to construct
a plant Of It's own, unless the water COM
pany Is willing 10 sell its works for some
reasonable figure. The position OF the
Omaha Water company has been so ex-
travagant and unreasonable that there
seems little likelihood Of It's making any
reasonable adjustment Of the matter.
The recent action of the Water
board hut forces the question,
Whittier are we drifting? If the water
company has no right whatever to
occupy the streets and do business In
Omaha after September 4 next how lie
the Water board going to enforce its
proposed reduced schedule of water
rates? II the proposed reductions were
predicated upon a valuation of $780,
900 how will the Water board main
tain that they are reasonable and COM
~pensatory for a water works of1cially
valued at s8243 900? If the city
should eventually have to buy the
water works for $6,243, 900 or for any
sum approximating it how could 1t
meet running expenses and fixed
charges on a schedule of charges to
private computed on a
valuation of $3,500,0O0? II the city
now sets up the reasonableness of the
proposed schedule Of rates for the
water company how can it later deny
the unreasonableness for itself, no
matter how much it nay have to pay
for the water works property? Are the
taxpayers ready at this stage Of the
game, while the purchase is still pend
ing in the courts, to assume an obliga-
ton that may mean footing a deficit
of 100000 a year?
Our high priced water works lawyers
thrive on litigation, and If they can
keep the law suits going perpetually
they will have a limitless draft on the
public treasury. If they can keep on
starting new suits before the old ones
are settled they can take trips to Eu-
rope at public expense every year. But
the taxpayers who foot the bills would
do we'll to ponder a little over the ques-
tions here suggested.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-16
STATE PRIDE.

Some Of our democratic friends are
feigning real perturbation because Ne
bfaska republicans do not concede the
force Of their argument that state
pride should insure the electoral vote
of Nebraska to Mr.. Bryan. The state
pride plea, dressed up in a little fuss
and feathers, is put out by the local
democratic organ in this fashion;
Just so long as Nebraska is conscious
OF her own strength and intelligence and
righteousness, proud OF her own advance
ment, trustful Of her own future, confident
of ner own ability to dare and do, Just
that long will state pride be very much
alive in Nebraska
or course state pride is very much
alive in Nebraska, just as is state pride
in each Of the other ~forty-five states
that make up the union, but there is no
more reason why state pride should
obliterate political partisanship or lead
people to vote against their W judg-
ment and their own principles in Ne
braska than in any other state.
The trouble with the state pride ar
gument is that the people who urge it
at home always deny 1t abroad. II
state pride would entitle Mr.. Bryan to
u~ndisputed possession Of the electoral
vote Of Nebraska, then the same state
pride should give Mr.. Taft the cleo
toral vote of Ohio without a contest,
and line the electoral vote of New York
in the republican column as a compli-
ment to Vice Presidential Candidate
Sherman. The same state pride, II 1t
is to be effective here, should cast
Georgia's vote for Tom Watson, ire
spective Of its former affiliation with
the solid South" and it should give
at least half Of Indiana to Mr.. Debs, in
spite Of Mr.. Kern.
But nothing of the kind is likely to
occur, because the Bryanites are no
more ready to concede Georgia to Tom
Watson than the republicans are to
coneede Indiana to Debs. State pride,
furthermore, would be subjected to an
even severer test If the candidates Of
the two leading parties happened to
live in the same state and should each
claim an indefeasible right to an equal
division Of the electoral vote.
Pride in ones state is a great thing,
but pride in ones nation should be
greater. 1t is the duty of every good
citizen to help give the nation the
president who is best qualified to dis
charge the manifold duties of the Of
flee, and who is at the same time in
harmony with the political principles
best calculated to give us sound and
efficient government.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-16
srnMoNs noILrp powN.

He has no force with men who had no
faith in them.
It's easy to get tangled up in truths
castoft clothes.
GENERALIZATION through service for
social redemption.
Your use OF leisure throws a lisht on the
whole OF your life.
People who are true blue never suffer
much from the blues.
There's one unfailing cure for the bluesi
brighten some other life.
Whether life shall be a desert depends on
the springs in your heart.
Proving the crookedness OF other lives
will not s~traighten your own.
When a man brags of his square desling
look our for his sharp edges.
The most singular thing about a man OF
genius is his estimate Of himself.
This world Is always godtorsaken to
those who have forsaken the good.
Dreams OF golden streets win not pass
in place Of deeds OF the golden rule.
Religion IL moral t~rigonometry worked
out on a base lire touching two words.
You will find nothing Of the divine II you
refuse TO obey the voice of everyday duty.
The more a liar gains in self-oonfidence
the greater his losses in public confidence.
No man can ever be great who Is not
willing that many should think little of
him.
He who runs away from all sorrow Is
ultimately drowned In the slough Of des-
pond.
Folks who sit up nights worrying over
their crowns are asleep in the day when
crowns are ea~rned.-Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-16

the pests. Clubs are being formed
all over England. Impetus to the war
fare has been given by the assertion OF
physicians that rats convey leprosy,
the most dread disease in the world.
1t is asserted also that the damage
to crops each year in the United King
dom from ravages by rats exceeds the
enormous total of $780, 900, 900. The
Department of Agriculture places the
annual loss to the United States from
this source at $4,000, 900. Whether
counted as destroyers of crops or con-
veyors of disease, the rat Is equally
dangerous to social welfare and the
wal for its determination is only in
keeping with the progress that is be-
ing made toward the betterment of
living conditions.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-16
ATFICKNo THE BUrTERcUP.

When the medical n scientific
sharps get busy apparently nothing is
safe. In the last few years a patient
and long suffering public has been
waTned against the use, for diet or
ornament. of nearly everything that
grows. We ave been told that the
microbe that turks in the blossom OF
the golden rod is the storm center of
hay fever, while scarlet fever takes up
its first lodgings in the home where
the lawn is filled with dandelions.
Tuberoses produce tuberculosis and
the strawberry vine is a breeder Of
humps. II We are TO believe the doc
tors and food disseetors who have set
themselves up as oracles in matters Of
purity in all that we eat, drink, wear