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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-13

meeting of the Augusta Social &
Athletic Association will be held at
80 this evening and all members are
requested to be present as business Of
Importance will come up for transa.-
ton.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-13
Henry L. Basque.

Henry l.. Busque died at the home
Of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Leon b.
Carey. Jefferson street. Monday morn
ing. aged ) years Funeral services will
be held at St Augustine's Catholic
church at o'clock this morning.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-13

The house at 43 Melville street has
been sold through the E. F.. Newbest
agency to Mrs Caroline A. Allen OF
New York and will be occupied by Hi
ram Stebbins.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-13

Everybody's friend-Dr. Thomas Ec-
lectric Oil. Cures toothache, earache
sore throat. Heals cuts. bruises. scalds
Stops any pain.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-13

Mr. and Mrs William Frederick Cur
rier are receiving the congratulations
OF friends on the birth OF a daughter
which occurred Friday, Oct 8.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-13

| Many ills come from impure blood
| Can't have pure blood with faulty diges-
tor. lazy liver and sluggish bowels. Bur
| dock Blood Bitters Strengthens stomach
| bowels and liver, and purifies the blood
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-13

After a heavy meal, take a couple of
Doan's Regulets. and give your stomach.
liver and bowels the help they will need.
Kegulets bring easy. regular passages of
the bowels
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-13

Itching, torturing skin eruptions. dis
figure, annoy, drive one wild Doan's
Ointment brings quick relief and lasting
cures Fifty cents at any drug store
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-13

Healthy, wholesome, satin skin bestowed
by Satin skin cream and Satin powder. 25c
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-15
TO BEAT BRYAN.

of course it is as simple as the rule
of three that II the anti-Bryan Demo-
Gratis can secure the election of a little
more than a third of the delegates to
the national convention they can pre-
vent the formal nomination of the self
nominated Nebraskan for the presi-
dency on the Democratic ticket. 1t is
equally of course hat this is their
plan. But IL is not clear that the hope
Of securing such a blocking delegation
is well founded. Not because there are
not enough anti-Bryan Democrats. The
woods are full of 'em. There is nc con-
siderable group of Democrats in any
hut a few of the Western or perhaps
Southwestern States, not heartily sick
of the hoodoo of the party. In The
South nobody wants him. Actually,
they all don't want him.
But he appears to have scared them
so that they do not get together to
make Roadway against him. Except
in a few States, most not Democratic,
there is no organized attempt to head
him off. The ants certainly lack CO.
hesion, and they seem to lack courage.
The only way in which this probable
majority of the rank and file of the
Democracy car shake "this old man
of the sea- off the party shoulders is
to get together, rally round some one
sofa, for instance, or Woodrow Wilson
of New Jersey. and make an ~organized
fight from State to State. Otherwise
Bryan has them beaten by the sheer
force of his egotistic win.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-15
A CURB ON THE coMM1rrEE

There were not wanting signs at the
opening of the legislative session at
Trenton yesterday of trouble when the
session gets under way. One of the
first clashes related to the reporting of
bills of committees. The abuse Of
committee power in the past is notori-
GUS. The committee has been the
morgue of many a good bill, as well 9s
of many a bad one; but it has been
remarked that the really vicious bill
has always had the readiest reporting
to the house, showing the connection
between the lobby and the committee.
To curb this committee power has
been h desire of reformers and was
the purpose of an amendment to the
rules offered by Fellowes Morgan in he
House yesterday and referred to the
committee on rules. 1t is not improba-
BILE that the amendment, in some modi-
fed form, will be reported.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-15
CAUSE AND EFFECT CONFUSED.

The Philadelphia Record agrees with
the STAR hat Warden Osborne, OF
the New Jersey state Prison, con-
founded cause and effect when, begging
TO be released from the odium of o
Quoting executions for capital crime
under the new ~electrocution law, he
argued that the number of murders
showed that capital punishment does
not prevent murders and, therefore,
capital punishment ought to be abol-
ished.
1t is just because the old principle
of the Ms.aic law, a life for a life, has
been departed from in all but theory
that murder has less terror for the
murderer than when execution was
sure and reasonably prompt. The
world has beer getting mistakenly ten
d~er-hearted, the laws have become more
lenient, the statutes have provided
ways for slick lawyers to interpose
delays. Nowhere in the world does the
slayer of his fellow man run less risk
of FORGETTING his life for this crime thar
in this country.
1t is because execution for murder
is now the exception. instead of the
rule. that the once-boasted and ter
rorizing Jersey Justice has become
the wcak-kneed leniency of a Court o.
Pardons, that Warden Osborne has 9
lot OF unexecuted murderers under hi.
charge who viii die natural deaths
that he viii have more If he sticks
70 his job, and not because capita
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-15
A VOTING MACHINE REpEAIER.

There are likely to be many petitions
of the act establishing voting machines.
The long and turgid report" gotten
out in the name of Samuel d. Dickin-
son, Secretary of State, as a prospectus
for the voting machine manufacturing
company, seems to have added a new
intensity to the popular feeling against
the machine. In Kearny the independ-
ent voters are up in arms against the
device. Down In South Jersey clergy
men and others have publicly advocated
g march IN Trenton to get the Legis-
lature to abolish the nuisance. From
all parts OF the State come protests.
Governor Stokes makes thoughtful note
of this great unpopularity of the voting
machine, and suggests the adoption Of
a good blanket ballot. One of the first
bills to be introduced In the Legislature
will be a repeater.
There are tricky men in that body
experienced in the arts of killing good
bills as well as in getting bad bills
passed, and they will by hook or crook
kill a repeater of the voting machine
act il they cam. The proceedings of the
Legislature this year will be closely
watched, and the tactics Of %wel1-known
tricksters will be duly noted. The trick
by which the State Riparian Commits
sion was saved last year, and the stupid,
and as it proved. disastrous, trick. by
which the Fish and Game Commission
was shielded. were of a parity with the
devices that were %interposed to pre-
ven the abolition of the voting ma
chine. The men who worked these
tricks last year won't be able to keep
under cover this year.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-15
A GooD FISHING OUTLOOK.

Unless the big fisheries company
that controls the menhaden industry
shall be rehabilitated financially there
will be no menhaden steamer fishing
of any great extent on our coast this
year. The State has received several
thousand dollars q year in licenses
from these steamers and will lose that
revenue, as it a well afford to do, in
view of the great benefit to our coast
fisheries.
The menhaden steamers scoop up
great shoals of the menhaden, which
nature has provided as food for the
larger species of food fish. The men
haden attract the larger fish to the
coast. In taking the menhaden, also,
the steamers take edible fish, which
are thus lost to the coast fishermen.
If the Legislature shall pass a law
compelling the enlargement of the
mesh of pound-nets and forbidding
these nets to be connected, one with
the other, to make a continuous bar
rier along the coast, the fishing this
season for hand-line fishermen on the
coast will be better than it has been
for years, and the fame of good fish
ing will attract thousands of anglers
from other States to patronize sea-
side resorts. Fish will also sell cheaper
in our markets.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-15
BILL IN CONGRESS A STEP
TOWARD ONE-CENT POSTAGE

mails at the cost of four cents, two
cents for the first ounce and one cent
an ounce for each of the additional
two unces.
Under this law a package, sealed and
entitled to the same careful treatment
and handling as is accorded a letter,
would be carried through the mails
cheaper than a letter weighing more
than one ounce. Those desiring to take
advantage of every opportunity to save
a penny could easily make bulky let
tiers up in the form of packages. or
claim that the letters are packages, and
so secure the cheaper rate. The effect
of the law would be to nullify the effect
of the two-cent letter, or frst-elass mail
matter rate.
Senator Penrose appreciates the effect
of the legislation contemplated in the
bill, but is in favor of it's passage. He
looks upon 1t as the initial move to-
ward legislation to secure a one-eeht
an ounce rate on all first-class mail
matter, or penny postage for letters.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-15
CANAL COST NOW
TAKES LEAP TO $780, 600, 600

was decided that negro policemen
should be given authority only over
their WI race. Men of one nationality
were not satisfied to be tried by juries
upon which sat men of other nationals
ties.
Mr.. Blackburn said the number of sa-
looms had been reduced to 80, but de-
clared that the abolition of the saloon
was not contemplated because liquor
could still be obtained at Colon and
Panama. Consequently, sprees would
be more protracter n more disorgan-
izing.
Colonel Goethals told of the many
difficulties of the work in the rainy sea-
son. He declared that the Gatun dam
would not be built in the same manner
as the Wachusett dam. He thought the
Culebra Cut would be finished in four
or five years. The maximum of Install
alton of steam shovels has been reached.
The number of employees luctuates be-
tween 10000 and 10000. Including very
few Americans.
Colonel Goethals said he had no
doubt that the lock system was better
than the sea level plan. I'VE have the
best type OF canal We can get down
there, be added
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-15

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-From the
original estimate of $135, 600, 900 as the
cost of the Panama Canal the figures
have been going steadily upward, until
the latest estimate. mad today by
Colonel Cocktails, chief engineer and
chairman of the Canal Commission, is
that the canal will cost $500, 900, 900.
This includes $40,O 900, 900 paid the
French company and &c., O0, 900 paid to
the Republic of Colombia.
Colonel Cocktails and ex-senator
Blackburn, now Governor of the Canal
Zone, appeared before the interstate
and foreign commerce committee of
the House to give information regard
ing canal affairs. Work was progress
ing better than he had expected, said
the colonel.
Some members of the committee were
anxious TO know why trial by jury was
not put into practise on the 0 Mr..
Blackburn replied that it was impracti-
cable because of the forty-two nation
alities and all the c represented in
the population of the zone. He pointed
out that white men, particularly the
Spanish-Americans, would not permits
arrests or service Of notices by negro
policemen. and hal race condition4
were so strained on this account that I
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-15

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
You will confer a favor by printing in
your information column a sketch of the
career Of Admira H. w. w.
admiral Brownson's naval career has
been an eventful one. AS a midshipman
he headed n daring "cutting-out" party
which defeated a gang of Mexican pirates;
as a he handled the cruiser
Detroit when 1t broke the Brazilian block
ade in 1894; as a captain he commanded
the Yankee during the Spanish War. He
has been tried equally thoroughly in other
lines of duty. He has done scientific work
for the Coast Survey; he was in the hydro
graphic office for four years in important
positions; he was c-ommandant of cadets
at the Naval Academy, and he wa super
~ntenden of that institution from 1902 to
1904, when he made a record for efficient
work; he was sent abroad in 1898 to pur-
chase ships of war for this country, doing
his work so well that he was thanked by
the Navy Department.
willard II. Brownson was born in Lyons
n. Y, in 1s45. He graduated at the laval
Academy in 1865, and was commissioned
along with several other men who have
also distinguished themselves in the serv-
iee-Goodrich, Dickens, Davis, Train, Brad.
ford, Thomas, Mead, Stockton and others
He married Isabel King Roberts In 1872
and has three children-two daughters an6
a son.-Ed.l
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-15

WASHINGTON, Jan. Ex-senator
Penrose yesterday introduced a bill
which in effect is the f%orerunner of
penny postage on all first-class mai
matter. 1t is entitled a bill ''for the
better protection of packages sent
through the mails" 1t provides that
sealed packages may be SEM through
the mails rs flrst-class mail matter on
the payment of two cents for the first
ounce and n cent for each additional
ounce.
The existing law makes a charge of
one cent an ounce for all unsealed pack
ages to travel as fourth-class mai mat
ter. and be subject to all the delays and
and be subject to all the delays and
risks attending the handling of mails
other than the first-class matter. All
flrst-class matter, such as letters, now
pays two cents an ounce. A three-ounce
letter would cost, therefore, six cents.
Under Senator Penrose's bill a three
ounce package, sealed and handled as
first-class matter, could go through the
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-15
IN HUMOROUS
How some Things Arc Done.

How Some Things Arc Done.
An actress lost her diamonds, that cost a
thousand plunks;
Now, wasn't that the cutest thing to do?
She said that they'd been purloined from
the bottom Of some trunks;
Now, wasn't that a dreadful thing to do?
She went to see the editor, his ear TO her
was bent,
He wrote some flaming headlines, and in
the press they went,
And for this advertising he wouldn't take
a cent;
Now, wasn't he an easy thing to do?
A fellow went to Wall Street and took a
lot of dough;
Now, wasn't that a funny thing to do?
He said that he would show 'em just how
to make it grow;
Now, wasn't that the freshest thing to do?
One croker came politely and met him at
the door,
to the floor;
They took his wad, yes, all of it, and then
they yelled for more;
Now, wasn't he a lovely thing to do?
A man went to the races and said it was a
cinch;
Now, wasn't that a real wise thing to do?
He'd often backed the ponies-you couldn't
make him finch,
Now, wasn't that a bully thing to do?
He took n pin and shut his eyes, and then,
in manner gay,
He stabbed a certain horses name-it was
the horse o. k
He pinned the pony down so hard it never
got away;
Now, wasn't he the giddy thing to do?
-Yonkers Statesman.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-15
COAL ROADS BEG FOR TIME.

Having been given more than a year
and a half to prepare themselves for
compliance with the Hepburn rate law
declaring that after May l next no
railroad shall transport any product
except lumber in the production of
which it has an interest, it is rather
Their extension of time from the De-
partment of Justice. There is no
reason why these roads should be
shown any favors. They would get
none from the public they have vic
timized so long on coal prices.
The provision in the Hepburn law that
hits them is mandatory, and the Depart
ment of Justice has no power to grant
a p-ostponement of the time at which
it shall become operative. But there
is said to be a possibility that the de-
partment will agree tacitly not to UNI
dertake immediate prosecutions in
case the roads should be about to con-
summate some arrangements for com
pliance with the law. That measure
of leniency may be excused, but IL
should not be used too literally. The
roads have had plenty of time to get
out of the coal business. Those who
have shown no disposition to do so Ut
to now should be given short shrifI
when the time is up.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-15

To the Editor of the Evening Star:
What is the origin of the custom OF
throwing a shoe at a bride? b. $. Il.
1.-THE custom originated so far back IN
the dim past that It is impossible to tell
1t is by some thought to typify an assault,
and is a lingering trace of the custom
among savage nations Of carrying away
the bride by violence. Others claim 1T has
a likeness to a Jewish custom mentioned
in the Bible, Thus, In Ruth, when the
kinsman of Boaz gave up his claim to the
inheritance of Ruth, and to Ruth also, he
indicated his assent by pluckinS off his
shoe and giving it to Boaz. Also, we e
in Deuteronomy that when the brother OF
a dead man refused to marry his widow
she asserted her independence of him by
'loosing his shoe Whatever the origin,
the custom as now practlsed is silly, and
when 1T ceases to be a custom there will
be reason to rejoice.-Ed.l
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-15

I heard de white folks sayin'-an' dey's
very often right
We 'preciates our blessin's most when dey
has taken flight.
1 used to be complalnin' bout de summer
long ago;
L couldn't hear de robins cause dat locust
pesterd so
A-tellin' bout de warm wave dat had
come aroun' to stay.
1 done forgot lat winter tine was comm,
bleak and gray.
Now, when / looks things over an OBJ
serves what has occurred.
1 wouldn't min de locus, if l jes' could
hear a bird.
Oh, de hummin' in de glover dat KEEP up
de whole day long!
De blossoms traded honey fob de sweet
ness of dat song.
De breezes sweep de meadow wifi a lin
germ caress
Like 1t want to stop its travels an enjoy
de laziness.
An dar 1 was a-scoldin' if a ~szeeter eome
to call.
Std o maxim admiration at de beauty of
it all!
Is had my lesson. When de wind comes
ragin' 'rotn' so free.
l wouldn' min de skeeter il I ies' could
hear a beef
Washington Star.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-15
PEOPLE OF NOTE.

Senator william B.. Allison. the Nestor
of the Senate, is the only living charter
member of the Masonic lodge in Dubuque,
Ia, which will celebrate its fiftieth ami
versary in March. The Senator will attend
the celebration.
A suit at New York develops the fact
that Mrs. Josephine Schmid, widow of a
brewer who died in 1889, leaving interests
worth $2.00O,0OO, has so managed the bush
ness that it is now worth $40, 0,0G0 and
she receives $500, 900 per annum as her COM
pensation.
In order to perpetuate the memory of
her husband, General George A. Custer,
who was a victim of the Indian massacre
at Little Big Horn in 1876, Mrs. Elizabeth
Custer has purchased sixteen lots in
Bronxville. N. Y. on which she will build
a memorial home for aged literary women,
Charles X. Wolf. widely known as the
double of William J. Bryan, is dead at
Dallas, Tex. MIR. VOLTS facial, physical,
and vocal resemblance to Mr.. Bryan was
remarkable, and he was frequently mis-
taken for the Nebraska statesman. On
such occasions he sometimes carried the
mild deception to the point of making
short speeches as IL he were Mr.. Bryan
but always revealing his real identity as
&C. X. Wolf. commercial traveller" ir
concluding his remarks.
John r. Martin, proprietor Of the Cafe
Martin in New York. who offered money
TO his employees who would marry and
who agreed to give premiums for children
has been compelled to pay out in a yea
St, $50. There were tw%enty-six marriages
forty-nine babies and one pair of twins.
There has been for some time a warn
contest among Senator's as to whose Stat'
grows the very best apples in the world
Senator Ankeny, of Washington, started
it by shipping into the capitol a numbe
of boxes of excellent specimens of tina
States abilities in the apple-growing line
Then. in the opinion of many apple con
noisseurs, Senator Bourne, of Oregon, wen
him one better by flooding the Senat
cloakrooms and press gallery with a con
signment of fine red Hood Valley Spltz
bergens, accompanied by a letter challeng
ing the world TO peat them.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-15
FlIes WaIIking on thc CelIing.

To the Editor OF the Evening Star:
What is the explanation of the ability
of flies to walk upside dow on the cell
ing? A H.. M.
IFor a long time it was supposed that
the ability of the fly to walk on the cell
ing was owing to each of his feet being
a miniature air-pump. This, however. was
proved to be fallacious, and then a theory
was propounded that it was by means of
a viscous substance exuded from the hairs
on its feet. something over twenty years
ago this theory was investigated by DR..
Rombouts. who demonstrated that it was
only partly sound; for, though the hairs
with which the foot cushion is covered do
exude an oily liquid, the liquid is not
sticky and does not harden when dry. DR..
Rombouts proved that, the true theory of
the walking of flies on smooth substances
is that they hang on by the help of capil-
larry adherion-the molecular attraction
between solid and liquid bodies. By a
series of nice calculations. such as weigh
ing hairs and measuring their diameters
and sticking the cut end of hair in oil
or water to make ii adhere when touched
to glass, this scientist proved that capil-
larry attraction would uphold a fly were II
four-ninths as heavy again as 1t actually
is. 1t is true that the foot-hairs are very
minute, but as each fly is said to be fur
nished with 5000 to 12,000 of these, theil
ability is not to be wondered at.-Ed.l
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-15
VIEWS OF EDITORS.
rhe Armx.n Horsemanshlp.


Since war is no child's play. but de-
mands the most daring and difficult ex-
ploits of which the human being Is ca
pable, there is no valid reason why the
American army officers should not have
a thorough training in horsemanship. TO
desire expert riding in the army is not
to surrender to the spirit of militarism.
1t is not going over bodily to the stern,
rigorous military discipline and martial
aspirations of the soldier-ridden nations
of Europe. 1t is merely to accept the
army as a body primarily organized TO
carry IN war If by some unfortunate
chance a war should come to pass. Since
we must have an army it should not be a
mockery, but a model. Since horseback
riding Is an essential part of the business
of war, men who follow the business
hould undoubtedly be expert. They
should be equal on horseback to all
emergencies. So give us skilful horse
manship in the army.-Louisville Courier
Journal.