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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14
MAINE EDITORIAL COMMENT.
Rewards for Good Character.
(Farmington Chronicle

(FdfHllllStOU SHiOiSiC'/
A summer resident OF Bar HarDor,
Mrs. Edward Coles of Philadelphia,
has offered AN award of 500 in cash to
that graduate member of the Bar Har-
Dor High school on graduation us, In
tho opinion of his schoolmates, the
most honorable and upright, the clean
est living, the most successful and con-
siderate toward others. without regard
TO scholarship or athletics" This sug-
sests the annual prize offered by DR..
Edward Abbott of Cambridge. Mass,
to that member of the Abbott school
here who makes during the year, in
the opinion of the head master, the
most progress toward the ideal of the
Christian gentleman. This is good
ideal to see held up when the athlete,
the successful "team" man or the vale
dictorian comes in for the most of the
notice or praise. "Character is higher
than intellect" said Emerson, and We
are all fond of reaffirming it and of
asserting, 100, that Christian ideals
are superior to strength, cunning, or
smartness; but the baseball player
who wins, even by trickery, the basket
ball player who can conceal foul
from the umpire. the drudge or the
cheat who gets high rank. may come
in for applause and be even made
hero. But the fellow who declares an
"out," an out" whether the umpire
calls it on him or not, who does hon.
est, Independent work whether the
marks go high or low, who works with
homer and self-respect always. in
school and out, is not always esti-
mated 1T the value these prizes sug-
geSt.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14

The Washington correspondent Of the
Baltimore American says: There is no
politics in the Aldrich bill. Some
Democrats will vote for it; some Re-
publicans will vote against it. 1t will
probably be amended in some details.
Mr.. Aldrich is perfectly content to
have his bill improved. AS amended
it will be adopted in the Senate after
proper debate. There is no disposition
necessarily. Q
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14
Charge Of the Spelling Squad.

| Half a leag. half n leag.
Half 4 leag onward,
| Glllopt the spelling board.
| With It's three hundred;
knOckt out one e. from eg,
Lin is the word for leg.
Hear Brander Mathews beg:
'.Lern the three hundred"
FOrw ard the spelling board.
Teach 'em to spell it 'sord:''
SlasEing words lin from lin,
How we have blundered:
Wen never yield the gust.
What tho scoffers rOst,
Spred them from cost to cost,
All the three hundred.
Dcttors to right of them.
Columns to lett Of them.
Bedstetls to slumter them
Changed in the making;
FonoSrafs SQueking loud.
Bravely they spelt and rOwed-
What tho their heads were now
Wofully akingi
Gone were the extra "p's."
Dunn the silent BIS"
Difthongs were routed:
Cra1ed by fOnetic schemes, :.
Quifc singers rote rerms
Such words as solen,
Cantor and Colcm,
Fhrang and thum and lam,
Pamaet and diafram.
Tho the world douted.
Bravely they bilt and well,
Teaching US how to spell
Camp Lin and bCrO;
Even that dred diseZe.
Tisis. they spell with cZe.
Horror such words as these,
-Detroit Free Press
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14
The Dead Boss of ereathitt.

1 They are wondering IN hentuChs
what the effect will be of the death Oh
Judge Hargis at the hands of his rum
crazed son. Judge Hargis has beer
for years the most notorious of the
Kentucky feudists and as the boss OF
Breathitt county the story of his IN
fanny has been known from sea to sea
The terrible thing about the end OF
Judge Hargis was that ne was SHOT
down by his own son after quarrel
I over money matters, a son OF only II
years who has been reared on blood
and who has always heard the family
| name associated with feuds and as
sassinations. 1t was another illustra-
ton Of the old saying that Truth is
stranger than fiction" for no novelist
or dramatist could have brought such
a character as Judge Hargis to such
an end as he met without being &C
cused of exaggeration.
The death of the boss of Breathitt
ayenges Cochrell, Marcum, Cox and
other victims whom he and his hired
ruff7ans have shot from ambush and
in the open squares Of the mountain
villages. BY methods almost unbe-
lievable even in Kentucky, Hargis has
escaped punishment for his many
crimes, although several times brought
TO trial for his life. He owned the
county and it seemed to be agreed that
he had a right to kill his political and
personal enemies if he wished to do SO.
The nearest he ever came to meeting
justice in the courts was when jury
brought in a verdict Of $1,000 for
Mrs. Marcum when she sued him FOR
killing her husband. There is one
comforting thing about the tragedy.
No Cochrell, or Marcum or. Cox will
be called upon to yield life to
satisfy the code Of feuds, since the
slain man was the victim of his own
son. 1t is probably too much to hope
long been the Democratic boss of his
part Of Kentucky will stop the flow Of
blood in Breathitt county. Doubtless
the curse of his life will linger for
years, since he trained many of his
followers in his ways.
1t seems hard to find anything good
to say about such man and yet those
writer's who have featured him in
magazine stories managed to find a
few bright spots in the dark mass.
He was not wholly an unnatural
monster; he seems to have loved his
immediate family, he had his COM
panionable, jovial moods, he was even
religious in a way; once he said
queerly enough, when you consider
everything, but with apparent SINGER
ity-that the Baptist Church was even
dearer to him than the Democratic
party. With his brothers he built Up
the biggest business in his part Of the
mOuntalnS' tne county SetiI > SH'"
place was the IIargis store" There
he lorded it for years-Breathitts
richest man, it's most powerful politi-
clan, it's representative on the Demo-
cratic state central committee. But
now his career is ended and his many
victims avenged The bloody stain Of
the feud system, however, remains on
Kentucky, and nobody knows when it
will be wiped away.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14
Red Hair and Eves;ohx

DO you know any red-headed girls
VINO don't wear glasses?" asked a
chestnut street stroller Yesterday
Ihlnk it over. know at least seven
teen brick-top beauties, and every one
mas something wrong with her eyes
1hey see either too little or too much.
! don't know whether the reflection
from their bright-hued locks hurts
their vision or if they simply think
that glasses and red hair are a good
comnination. This afternoon 1 stood at
at 18TH and Chestnut streets and coun-
tec 1orty-one of these strawberry
blondes, and every one wore either
specs or Intellectual looking nose
glasses. Some had blue goggles.
DINERS wore black-rimmed glasses
with smart-looking string attached
Most Of them had determined. busi-
ness-iike expressions. and not one
showed q suspicion Of flirting. IN or
ono once there are three headed girls
ana all Of them wear specs. + astaa
2pC. reQ:RRaded tYneyrrito,,xs.-...ss-.,, !. y
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14
BOILING Il Down.

There is a rule in most newspaper
offices that matter shall be boiled
down." and that the short method 0f
expression shall be used when possible.
This boiling down process is Gone by
the editors, Of course, but here is q case
where compositor got in his work.
and it went through without detection.
An enterprising press agent for one OF
the theatres wrote an advertisement
in verse for certain play, two lines of
the effusion being:
from half past eight to half past ten,
You laugh and laugh and laugh again. -
Now, the composition. thinking. doubt
less, that this was q case for condensa-
ton. made it appear in the paper thus
"From S.3n to 1920.
You laugh and laugh and laugh again. -
You may be sure that one man, at
least, Gidn't laugh when he saw the
lines. and that was the press agent -
Chicago Daily News
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14

The Rev. William F. Campbell OF
RoxbuTy, Mass, in opposing capital
punishment before a committee of the
state legislature, declared that 1.-The
death penalty is the bulwark of soci-
ety." ana expressed his willingness in
case CT necessity. to be the eXecutioner.
Mr. Campbell is certainly emphatic
enough. but we doubt if most people
Will regard the scaffold or the electric
chair as the bulwark of society,"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14
Hustlinu the Panama Canal,

News comes from Panama that WORK on
the canal is progressing more rapidly than
was calculated in the Official estimates,
and that the engineers in charge are max
ing good in fine style. A medicine TO
make good in cases Of stomach. liver and
bowel disorders must be absolutely pure
and possess intrinsic merit. HOstetter's
Stomach Bitters possesses these require
ments and, IN addition. has beer thor
ouShly tested for "a years. Then. surely
1t must be the remedy you are looking for
to restore your appetite. aid digestion and
regulate the bowels. Get a bottle today
and test its value for your own satisfac-
ton. Il cures heartburn. belching. head
ache. DYSPEPSIA. indigestion. Insomnia,
male Ills. general weakness and nialarfa
fsyer and aGue. The genuine has our
:. sEanake- Stand over the neck Of bottle
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14
Willie Hoppe, the billiard champion

Willie Hoppe, the billiard champion.
was talking about the conspicuous
retrenchments that the money panic
has caused many millions to make. 1T
is conspicuous. this economy we see on
all sides now said Hoppe. 1T is like
the economy in the family OF Jim
bartholomew, the pool player.
Bartholomew's two boys turned up at
school one, morning dressed exactly
alike in suits Of very bright green
cloth. 1t was a startling costume, and
at first the neighbors were puzzled.
All was clear to them, though, when
they learned that Mr.. Bartholomew the
week before had slit the cloth in pool
game at Hennessey's."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14
interesting product shipI

An interesting product shipped
recently from a well-known New Eng
land plant was a three ply leather belt
141 feet long and seventy-twO inches
wide. In making this belt there was
used the backbone centers of 2S5 steer
hides; in other words it required more
than twelve car loads Of steers. twenty
steers to a car, to furnish enough hides.
The weight of the belt is 2,S27 pounds.
and it was shipped to a California
lumber company. which will probably
have the largest belt on the Pacific
coast
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14
" @ass
4 Short Stories for
An Idle Moment
The Word.

Today whatever may annoy,
The word for me is Joy, just simple Joy
The joy OF life:
The JOY of children and wife;
The 10Y of bright blue skies;
The joy OF rain; the glad surprise
Of twinkling stars thit shine at night:
The joy OF winged things upon theil
flight:
The joy of MONDAY, and the tired
True joyousness Of eventide;
The 10Y Of labor. and the mirth;
The 10Y of air. and sea. and earth
The countless joys that ever flow from
Him
Whose vast beneficence doth dim
The lustrous light of day,
And lavish gifts divine upon our way.
What'er there BE- of Sorrow
I'll put of! ill Tomorrow.
And when Tomorrow comes, why then
Twill be Today and JOY again.
John Kendrick Bangs. in the January
Atlantic.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14
Test of Truth,

A Scotchman went to London for a
holiday. Walking along one Of the
streets he noticed bald headed chem
list standing at his shop door and in
quired if he had any hair restorer.
Yes, SIR said the chemist. "Step
inside please. There's an article I can
highly recommend. I have testimon-
ials from great men who have used it.
1t makes the hair grow in twenty-four
hours
"Aweel." said the Scot, rye can gle
the top o. yer held a bit rub wit, and
I'll look back the morn and see if ye're
telling the TRUTH
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14
Maine Gossip
The Good Looser.

o, VINO cannot fare forth brightly
When he wins and has wealth to spend?
But to play LIES game out rightly
Takes u man at the losers end;
Though the world seems Il mOckeTy hol-
low.
When old Hard Luck collects his dues,
There's one set rule you should follow;
Keep q stiff upper lip when you lose.
In war, in love. or in gaming
The answer is just the same;
What use is the crying or blaming
Tomorrow shall! all reclaim,
The defeats OF today should nerve you
Shall not time and experience serve you?
Keep Il stin upper lip when you lose.
Denver Republican.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14
An Aquatic Rabbit.

William Zimmerman. Postal Tele.
graph messenger of Dubois, recently
demonstrated that rabbit can swim
when it must. Zimmerman caught a
rabbit on the island north of the
Boulevard and brought it to the Penn
sylvania freight depot. Brer Rabbit
made an especially lusty kick and
escaped from Bilfs enfolding arms.
neelng among the freight cars with
Bill and several other youths in chase
Headed off on all sides. the little crea-
ture dived between the wheels of n
moving locomotive and with a flirt of
his short tail jumped into Sandy Greet.
which he swan like duck, and ouick,
~ disappeared toward his home in the
rushea.-Philadelphia Record
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14
STRENGTH and Endurance

Are factors of the greatest success.
No person can do full justice to him.
self without them.
In no season of the year are they
more easily exhausted than in the
spring.
We need not discuss the reason for
this here. It's enough to say there is
one, and that Hoods SarsaparfIla
gives strength and endurance, as
thousands annually testify
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14

AT the time when Sir Gilbert Parker
went into Parliament it was prophe-
sled that he would neglect literature.
and that his Imagination might be
affected by the material surroundings
Of political life. The actual difference
seems to have been only that he has
produced fewer works and fewer
stories, and has become convinced that
slower production is better for his
work
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14

senior poultry course this year at the
State College will be the care of a pen
of fowls by each member Of that class.
The Student is allowed, almost without
restriction. not only to choose the
breed he prefers, but to select his birds.
The pen may be run for eggs, broilers
or fancy. The student has entire
charge of the flock; the college pays
the expenses: and next spring the profit
or loss will be decentralization
couranr, st..D
-. U EHeEuIu ,sHEs1 lstsshS
z The negro population of;sNew York
city Y animated at $4,000. one-tepth Of
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14

The two Thaw juries. following a
distinguished precedent here in Maine,
have organized an association and pro-
pose to have an annual dinner on the
anniversary of the trial. Quite likely
they expect to have Harry and Evelyn
with them at their reunion year
hence
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14

generally opposed to the desire of
Indian Commissioner Leupp to abolish
the Carlisle School. The general be-
lief appears to prevail that this school
is doing very practical and very
commendable work in fitting Indian
children for the duties of American
citizenship
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14

No enterprising Democrat has risen
to suggest the political resurrection of
David z. Hill, and yet he would be an
undoubted improvement as a candidate
Davis
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14

what she wore glasses for. Because
got corns,' she said sarcastically;
what do you suppose" She finally
confessed that her eyes were too small
and weakened, and the glasses give
her orbs a more brilliant appearance
PHILADELPHIA Record
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14

Many monarchs are using English
in intercourse with one another. The
Car CT Russia. for example. speaks
English better than German, and the
German Emperor speaks English bet
ter than French. So it is natural that
the two sovereigns should, as they do.
correspond in English.-Boston Globe.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14

Miss Maud Ashford Of Washington
announces that she has broken her en-
gagement with Gassaway Davis be-
cause she had no desire to eStfange
him, at his age from his family. Most
young women who marry octegen-
arians are not so considerable.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14

Mr.. Bryan takes no part in the dis
cussion Of Vice-presidential candidates
He makes it very clear that he is not
at all particular as to who shall be his
running mate.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14

The arrangements for q Memorial
day boat race between the Cornell and
Columbia crews have fallen through.
Probably the Columbia boys feared
that the Ithacans would repeat the
trick of the played team and put a
young woman on their crew.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14

The old solid south may be depended
upon to give Bryan it's electoral. but
in other parts Of the country his pros
poets are anything but hopeful.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14

The announcement of the opening up
OF about all the mills in New England
to full production. as published in the
Boston Herald of Wednesday. is pretty
substantial evidence of the bright out
look for prosperous spring trade.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14

The general Impression has gone
abroad that the Democratic attempt to
play politics with Secretary Cortelyou
was a dismal failure.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14

And still no Democratic leader has
suggested the denomination of Alton
j. Parker.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14

secretary Taft has certainly done a
most polished job in downing his Ohio
enemies
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14

Some OF the alleged bombs that are
/ being thrown at the President appear
TO be boomcrangs.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14
ESTABLISHED 1925

No notice whatever will BE- taken Of
unsigned communications.
The journal cannot be held Responsible
for the preservation or return OF re-
iected communications.
Address all communications relating to
subscriptions and advertisements to
BURLEIGH & FLYNT. Publishers,
Augusta Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14

In most International divorces the
titled lobster appears 70 be able - re
tain considerable part OF his wife's
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14
Friday, February IA, 1908.

And even Mr.. Bryan comes in for
scensure from Chancellor Day.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14

No matter what kind of a message
St. Valentine sends, it is just as well
to be cheerful over it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14

The resignation of President White
of Colby is much to be regretted. He
has been capable and popular execu-
OF the college have done much Tor the
institution.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14

Shilohs golden harp. with the pros
pect of being held for customs duty
of $3.50, is giving discordaEt notes
from the very first
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14

As an illustration of the unsectarian
outcome of the religious teachings at
Good VIII Farm it is noted by the
Good vii! Record that the last reports
received of Good Will boys uniting
with churches are as follows: One with
a Congregational Church in Spring.
field, Mass: two with a Dutch Re-
formed Church in New York City; one
with Baptist Church in Rochester,
New York; and one with q Presbyter-
ian Church in SteubenVille, Ohio.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14

Gloves were first seen in England
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-14

il* They carrysioniy Joy handhloss !
profit to those who use
them-Journal Want Ads, 81
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-23

charged for 100 to 800 gallons Of water used
with meter measurement and 80 cents for
500 to 1000 gallons. The new rate for
water with meter measurement Is Is cents
flat for any quantity under 1900 gallons.
Officials Of the Omaha Water company
maintain that the rates adopted by the
Water board. II binding. will not go into
effect until January 1. 1909. and that there
fore all who pay now must pay under the
the old rate, even though the money paid
is for water to be used after the first Of
the year. BY paying before January 1. the
consumer gets a rebate of 5 per cent from
his bill and when he Is shown this together
with the fact that the company will refund
any excessive amount provided the courts
hold that the board is in the right he gen.
orally pays.
The hearing on the restraining order was
set for Tuesday morning, but as neither of
the parties was ready no date has been
set for it. In the meanwhile the restrain
ing order will continue in force and effect
until the application for In injunction can
be heard and determined.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-23

big independent line from Chicago and the
middle west to the gulf. Hartman tried
to absorb the line and then was precipitated
the long war between Hartman and Fish
which eliminated in Fish being ousted
from control and Hartman securing this
double-track outlet to the gulf.
The Illinois Central still continues to be
operated as a separate system in spite OF
the Hartman control and. although it con-
meets at Omaha with the Union Pacific, no
change has been made in the traffic ar
rangements which have existed for years
between the Union Pacific and the other
Omaha-Chicago lines.
Whether the Colorado & Southern will
be operated as a separate line or whether
It will be united with the Burlington under
one management remains to be seen. 1t
has been the history of the Hill regime
that when the Burlington secures a line 1t
is Immediately made part of that great
system which is one of the best advertised
in the country.