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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-09

fhc indcci,on of the Ish tmian canal
commission as to whether the locks
ut Panama should have a width OF 100
feet or 10 feet raises other interesting
questions than those of engineering.
70 ~ outsider it seems as though it
would he the WiscSt and chcapest
Ifiicy 10 make the canal wide enough
NJ the start. The supreme purpose of
Tins great enterprise is to accommo-
date the commerce Of the world and
the navy of this country in particu-
lar. and this means that width
Which would have been sufficient a
Few years ago would not do at all at
IL" Present time. let alone the future.
Nn"n the Panama canal was first un-
dcrtakon by French engineers only
"tl:tl ter of Il century ago a ship of 5000
tons WAS one of the wonders of the
deep. hut now vessels of six times:
this tonnage are rushing across the
ocean and breaking all previous rec
"rdS between America and Europe.
E"th The locks of the canal and its
main course should be constructed
with a margin for the enlargement OF
merchant vessels and the building oi
greater Drcadnauchts than those now
IL existence or in process Of con-
struction.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-09
The FIabby "Grinds."

DR.. Dudley A. Sargent of Harvard
has small sympathy with the college
"grinds" who consume the midnight
electricity and their own reserve vital
ity and scorn to spend time upon
gymnasium work or upon other ath-
letics DIR. Sargent has been for many
years at the head Of the Harvard gym
rasium and is one of the worlds
recognized authorities upon all mat
tiers Of physical development. his
books being in every athletic library
and jlis strength tests and systems of
measurement being in universal use.
DR. Sargent is Maine man, a native
of Belfast, and graduated from Bow
doin in 1875. In a recent article
which has aroused no little discussion
declares that the athletic tendencies in
our colleges today are no more than
healthy and normal young manhood
demands. and he has 10 sympathy with
those who would restrict football and
other branches of sport or do any
thing to bring about the old conditions
of half a century ago when athletics
had practically no place in the life of
the college undergraduate. Here is
his opinion Of the average student of
those earlier days and of his prototype
today in the student who deyotes all
of his time to his books. 1.-THE schOl-
arship man of today may be said tc
represent the student type as it eX-
listed some forty or fifty years ago, and
it is what the average student prob
ably would be at the present time but
for the opportunities he has had for
physical Improvement. The average
student of 1s5O-'60 was characterized
by dropping head, with pale face,
and dull, sunken eyes; fiat chest and
rounded shoulders, with emaciated
limbs, soft, f1abby muscles, and gen.
eral lack of good physical, mental and
moral tone. 1t was this sad condi-
ton Of the student class in the early
sos that led to the revival CT interest
i'm athletics and physical training in
the schools and colleges which the
last half century has experienced"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-09

eleven years after his distinguished
brother. He engaged in the Congrega-
tional ministry and after a time took
up the study of the law and practiceI
the profession in Rockland In 1860 he
was elected Itcpresenta tive of the
district in Congress, and in 1865 he re-
moved to Stamford and was soon an
pointed IL nsitinn in the patent Of
flee at Washington. ResiSning from
that position. after several wears.
he resumed the work Of the inisistry.
Samuel. his son, vas born in
Eockland in 1877. On 1864 he en-
listed in Maine regiment and
rank of captain. After the war he re-
moved to Stamford. graduated at Har-
ward Law school in 1871 and engaged in
the practice of law at Stamford. He
served in both branches of the state
Legislature. in the Senate as lately as
1908, ard 1896 he was speaker of the
House. He was state attorney for a.
number Of years. member Of the Re-
publican national committee sixteen
years and delegate to four Republican
national conventions
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-09
The Japanese Riot at Vancouver.

The detailed reports of that affair
at Vancouver in which a few white
subjects of Edward VII and number
OF japanese We're mixed up in a
bloody row indicate that not only aid
the little Japs come out decidedly the
best in the encounter, but that the
rights of the case were pretty much
on their side. The aSgressors We're a
party Of drunken roWdies returning
home from a New Years dance, and
when they passed through the Japa-
rese quarter of the city they began to
smash windows in promiscuous fashion
and raise Cain generally. They were
animated. so they testified later. more
by alcoholic spirits than by any spirit
Of enmity toward the Japanese, but
the Japanese did not take this into
consideration and of course could
hardly be expected to know it. They
turned out in overwhelming numbers
and with clubs, knives and fists did up
the frolicsome party SO badly that
every member Of the patty had to be
taken to the hospital for rcr airs.
Evidently the Japanese residents of
Vancouver have heard 10 the famous
old English maxim that "a mans
house is his castle" and they do not
intend that this maxim shall be re-
served exclusively for the English
race The affair also demonstrates a
great difference between the Chinese
and the japanese who have come to
America. The Chinese on t.Ne Pacific
| slope have submitted to abuse of all
| kinds ut tn" hands of mohs and in
| GIridualS without using Il knife or iir-
ing Il shot or swinging Il club in re-
turn. Not 80 with thu Japansc. They
may have some qualities like the
| Chinese. but in other respects they ere
radically different, and this is one of
| them. They are ready to defend them
selves and their property when at
tackled. and the Vancouver incident
shows that they know how 10 do il
very successfully. This militant spirit
OF the japanese immigrants makes the
japanese problem upon the Pacific
the Chinese problem used to be. We
seem to be hearing less about it from
California than a few months ago. but
things are apt to happen before it is
given a lasting solution.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-09
ESTABLISHED 1928
Thursday, January 9, 1908.
Tn. Sentinel and Dr.. Crockett.

The Waterville Sentinel gets in
rap at DR.. G. L. Crockett. 1t is evil
dent that it cannot forgive him the rap
he gave 1.-THE kennebec Dynasty" and
"Pat-Tin- Gall" in his famous book.
Really Doctor Crockett deserves
the kindest consideration from the
Sentinel. He was recognized in the
first campaign Of Mr. Davis for the
governorship as one of his ablest
workers on the Democratic State COM
mittee He was recognized as the
first lieutenant of Chairman Jones,
and was chiefly instrumental in secur-
ing for the Maine Democracy in that
campaign the 49,, 900 contribution from
Perry Belmont and Thomas F. Ryan
of New York. In those days the
Sentinel was wont to shower DR..
Crockett with the rich. red roses of its
appreciation. Now all IS changed.
DIR. Crockett, like thousands OF ether
Maine Democrats. has decided that
he can 10 longer march under the
banner CT Mr.. Davis candidacy. He
will no longer lift for him, and root for
him, as in days gone by. Doctor
Crockett is brave man. He must
have foreseen that the organ of Mr..
Davis would at once open upon him
with its most powerful guns, double
shottcd with mud ana mirth-still he
aid not quail, Possibly it is because
the people Of Maine have outgrown the
habit so far as those particular guns
of the footlishts. DR.. Crockett certainly
looks courageous.
The financing of the "Independence
League" seems to worry the Sentinel.
although it, apparently, feels. and with
SooG reason, that Doctor Crockett will
be able to manage this part of the
rev program. It's owner has had
substantial proof of the Rockland
mans abilities in this direction.
AS we read over the Sentinel again
we are impressed with the conviction
that, after all, it isn't DR.. Crockett
vino is afraid. 1t is the Sentinel.
Certainly the outlook for the Dynasty
is not bright. Troubles loom up on
every side. Verify the way OF
Democracy is hard.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-09
PERSONAL NOTES,

George Ade, the dramatist and HUI
morist. has announced his candidacy
for delegate to the. National Republi-
can Convention for the Tenth Indiana
District. He says he will. support
Fairbanks.
Chancellor MacCracken, of New
York University, will go to Europe in
few days. accompanied by his wife
to spend the rest Of the Winter there
While he is away his son, DR. John Fl
MacCracken, the universities syndic
will have charge.
Mr.. "A. knechtel, forester for tine
New York Forest, Fish and Game
Commission, has been appointed in
spector of forest reserves for the
Dominion of Canada. Mr.. Knechtel il
a graduate Of Cornell University, and
while with the United States Govern
ment he superintendent the planting OF
5o0.o0O trees in the Adirondacks.
P. n. Daskaloff, editor of the
"Netcherna Pochta," of Sofia
bulgaria, has arrived in New York tc
study the situation, having heard that
Bulgarian immigrants in this country
are suffering from lack of employ
ment and from other reasons. He will
write series of articles when he re
turns home, and will try to give advice
regarding immigration to this country
through his paper.
Aiois Burgstaller, the tenor, has
finally been forgiven by Frau Cosima
Wagner, and in consequence he will
appear next Summer at Bayreuth as
"Parsifar and "Siegfried." Nine.
Wagner never forgave him for singing
"Parsifal'' at the Metronoljtan
although the tenor protested that Mr..
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-09

This latest and much discussed
decision Of the Supreme Court is not
to be taken as meaning that an
employers liability act is unconstitu-
tional. 1t is not that at all. The
decision was based on that part of the
act which related to the work of rail-
road employees within state, and it
was ruled that such a national law IS
an interference with the powers of the
state and consequently outside the
powers of Congress. The decision
confirmed those of the lower courts
reasonable.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-09

Next year will bring the centennial
anniversary of the birth of great
number of famous people. In the
galaxy of celebrities who were born
in 1909 are Abraham Lincoln. Darwin.
Tennyson. Gladstone. Mendelssohn.
Poe. Oliver Wendell Holmes and
Elizabeth Barrett Browning. No
other year in the worlds history ever
gave humanity list like that contain
ing as it does some of the noblest
names in craftsmanship. literature.
science and music. 1t will be a great
season in 1909 for celebrations and
revivalS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-09

The Kaiser's courtesy in always
raising his hat when he saw a fox was
not inspired. as some cynics suggest.
by the fact that We now import foxes
from Germany to replace the victims
of the secret vulpicide to which keen
game proservers are addicted. Al
though not so prominent in Teutonic
folklore as the hare, the fox is still
looked upon as mystic animal
throughout Sweden and north Ger
many. In many districts Reynard has
long been regarded by the peasants as
so sacred that his name must not be
pronounced. and he is alluded to by
some such euphemistic title as blue
foot or ne who goes to the Forest
Washington Gazette.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-09

Conried had compelled him to appear
in the opera. Last summer they met
for the first time since "ParsifaI' was
sung here.
Bascomb Slemp, the New Congress-
man from the Ninth Virginia District.
who succeeded his father. the late
Representative Campbell Slemp. and
became in his turn the only Republi-
can member from the Old Dominion, il
OF medium height and rather slender.
with a thin face, which is made inter-
esting by large brown eyes that are
unusually expressive. He aspires to
build up in his State what he calls q
Southern Republican party. which
shall follow the traditional Southern
attitude on sectional questions but
strictly Republican upon national
issues. NE
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-09

James Hazen Hyde says he will
never return to America, James it will
be recalled, is the gay boy whose
antics precipitated the insurance in
vestigation in New York. He is now
in Paris where they do things more to
his taste No serious doubt is enter
tanned but what this country will
manage to struggle on without him.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-09

An exchange tells us about an Iowa
woman who has been married IA
times. and has been divorced from the
majority of her husbands. who are still
living. The determination evinced by
her repeated attempts to find Mr..
Right is worthy of a better cause. bpt
her experience does not bear witness
to much discrimination of choice upon
the lady's part.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-09

II the clothes of an ordinary beggar
IN bombay were searched cooked food
sufnclent to satisfy at least five
persons would be found slowed away
III different places. 1t is we'll known
that these beggars are regular vendors
OF food: they eat as much as they can
ana sell the rest. A Bombay street
beggar is a well-to- do individual and
sends home rupees. One of the
fraternity was overheard saying to a
brother professional that be had done
badly that day. having earned" only
TWO rupees and four annas-Mufidi
Razgar.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-09

vile. 1t will be the opening paper and
give the title to Mrs. Dunn's new
volume of essays, soon to be published
by Houghton, Muffin & Company, Bos-
ton: which is to be a companion
volume to her former book of essays:
Cicero in Maine
THE Good Neighbor in the Modern
City by Miss Mary Z. Richmond, is
the first book published with the
authorization of the Sage Foundation
established last spring by Mrs. Russell
Sage. The work is based upon Miss
Richmond's experience in social reform
work and is addressed to the general
public interested in the betterment of
the condition of the poor in our large
cities.
Alfred n Downes, who had been
secretary to the Fire Department of
New York under three commissioners,
and who joined the ranks of writer's
less than a month ago with the publi-
cation of Fire Fighters and Their
Pets" died suddenly at his home on
December II of pneumonia. Mr.. Downes
had been in vigorous health and active
ly cooperating with the Harpers, his
publishers. in the introduction of his
book. 1t had received very favorable
notice from the reviewers and what
mattered great deal more to Mr..
Downes. from the men of his depart
ment.\ The firemen priced the book not
only as record of the service but as
a memorial of gallant events of which
the public will never know half, and
had planned in almost every case to
make it a Christmas token to family
and friends Mr. Downes was a
graduate Of the Yale Law School and a
we'll known newspaper man in New
York. where he came after an APP
premiership on the New Haven Regis
ter. lie served for ten years as politi-
cal reporter on the Times. and later
as political editor of the Daily News.
Another of his public services was as
secretary to the Mayor in the Van
Wyck administration. Mr. Downes
was appointed to the Fire Department
in 1904 by Commissioner Hayes and
reappointcd by both his successors.
Some pertinent words were spoken
by Mr. II. G.. Wells at a recent dinner
Of the Institute of Journalists in Lon
don. He denied that any just distinc-
ton can be made between literature
and journalism. except that the one
claims Immortality and the other does
not. Some books last longer than
nthers.',he said, land some topics last
for centuries and centuries. but l do
not believe that any books last for all
time" To this extent agreement may
he had with Mr.. WcllS-the value of a
book cannot be judged merely accord
ing to the time it continues to be read
The first appeal of every author must
be to his own generation, comments It
writer in the London Daily News, and
that generation has as much right to
judge whether he is worthy or I'M
worthy as any succeeding generation
Il his contemporaries embrace him and
pOsterity denounces him, that. he may
well say, is not because posterity is
wiser but because it lacks Just that
quality to which he appealed in his
contemporaries. If he has profoundly
affected one generation alone then he
has profoundly affected the history of
the race.
A new move! by Roy Norton called
The Vanishing Fleets will be
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-09

"Hlreheard' originated in France. and
was CALLED tie Romance of the Cheva-
lier Racnl:" the Historic figure berg a
certain Clies de Law, Lord of Eaiz. He,
though Il brave and fearless solder was
addicted TO vice and violence; and from
TINS fact wa; charged with the whole
SAFE murder of Young women whose blood
he used for the purpose of dia bolicaI in
carnations From these circumstance the
web Of the story is spun
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-09

Professor George Edward Wood
berry, whose new work, Great Writ
ers,'' ha3 recently been issued by The
Mcclure Company, has just returned
to New York from Ithaca, where he
has been lecturing q month to the
Cornell students on literature. He is
now engaged in delivering series Of
six lectures before the Art Institute
Of brooklyn, where he will also, as
tic end of the series, read poem on
Whittier to commemorate the CEN
tenary of that writer's birth.
Mrs. Mary Adams Bayne. q popular
Short story writer, has recently pub
lished her first novel, "CreStiandS.' The
scene is laid i'll Kentucky just before
the war OF 1872. and the book is replete
with local color and the real, rich dia-
lect of the pioneer Kentuckians. Her
character slSctching is particularly
vivid and natural. Her style Of mar
ratire is original. The story is built
upon three themes rarely combined.
religious intolerance. political intrigue
and troublesome identity. There is
just enough OF love and humor in the
story to keep it sprightly and enter
the two Kansas cities. She is the sis
tor-in-law of officer Smith Cook. the
tal.est man on the Kansas City police
force. She is a popular educator and
has lectured in Kansas City several
times. Her home is in Cynthiana, O.
W. j. Rolfe the Shakespearian schol-
ar. who is now in his eightieth year. is
at work on volume of Shakespearian
proverbs. 1t was in 1867 that Mr
Rolfe edited and brought out his first
Shakespeare book. "Craik's English of
Shakespeare" From 1870 to 1889 he
was working on and publishing his
Complete Edition of Shakespeare. in
forty volumes. His shakespeare the
Boy" and the Life Of Shakespeare
were produced in comparatively recent
years.
Arropos of novels Mr.. Frederic Har-
rison recently remarked that he "ncver
read novels:
Long ago | took Disraelis advice.
he sale: II never read novel If |
want d novel, l write one" 1 was
foolish enough to take that advice. /
wrote Il novel, and the consequence is
nobody has ever read it. Novels are
rot in my line.
Harold Morton Kramer's moved.
tiayl" I.angford. published by Lothrop,
Lee & Shepard Co, is being dramatize-,I
by Joseph T. Mitchell. formerly lessee
of the Empire Theatre. Boston. who
will adapt from it a stirring patriotic
play entitled THE Continental
Captain" One scene will show
washington Crossing the Delaware"
| an event which is important in both
| the book and the play. This feature
will be unusually spectacular. owing to
an ingenious arrangement for propell-
ing boats invented by Mr. Mitchell. and
superior form of artificial ice. also
his Invention. Theatrical managers
are already considering the unique DR.
ject Of presenting this Revolutionary
play in England, believing that it will
succeed there, owing to its Spectacular
excellence. 1t is to have q trial in New
York. Philadelphia. or Boston during
the week of WashingtOn's birthday.
The Atlantic Monthly for December
contains an essay: Virgil in Maine"
by Mrs Martha Baker Dunn of Water
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-09

The desertion of Mr.. Bryan by the
Waterville Sentinel and the Eastern
Argus becomes more and more en-
phatic as the days go by; but Col.
Plaisted and the other original Bryan
men are dumb.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-09

The editor of the Omaha Bee has
been looking over the 1908 almanac
for novelties and finds that among
those scheduled for the year are five
Saturdays in February. two new
moons in April and speech by
Colonel Bryan in July.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-09

Those pictures of Evelyn are the
same type that gave the country a
bianstorm at the time of the first
trial
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-09

Yarlnouth's independent telephone
company has been absorbed by the
New England.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-09

However they differ as to the facts,
the sportsmen agree in the hope that
Maine deer are increasing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-09

A panther or some other mysterious
varmint is filling the nights with terror
over in East Auburn and Turner.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-09

The choruses are getting down TO
business in preparation for the 1908
Festival.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-09

There were 4495 arrests in 1907 in
Portland, but less than half of the ar
rested persons were taken before the
court. according to the city marshars
report.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-09

SprinSiike Of late, but there is yet
time for some winter weather.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-09

Brighton's new fire alarm system
had its first real test this week and
worked in most satisfactory fashion.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-09
Maine Gossip
The Resolutions.

The Resolutions.
One hankered for smoke; then there
Nine resolutions. proper and scdate.
One got an awful thirst: then there were
eight.
Eight resolutions, made to go to heaven,
One kicked about the food: then there
were seven.
Seven resolutions. stopping naughty
tricks.
One swore dreadful oath; then there
were six.
six resolutions. hound to live and thrive.
One stayed out late at night; tner there
were five.
Five resolutions. what a gallant corps;
One signed note of love, then there
were four.
Four resolutions. proper as can be.
One purchased cigarettes; then there
were three.
Three resolutions wondering What to do,
One. played poker; then there were
but two.
TWO resolutions. the week was nearly
gone.
One freely spent his coin; then there
was one.
One resolution. loudly called for beer.
Exit resolutions for another year.
Detroit Free Press
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-09

Regulates the bowels, promotes easy
natural movements. cures constipztioR%
Doan's Regulets. Ask your druggist T.
them. Is cents a box. ISL