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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-16
Sample Instances.
(Portland EXpresS.)

fortland EXpreSS.)
When the Waterville Sentinel bases
its arguments for Democratic ad-
minlstration in Maine upon the sup
position that only Democrats can be
trusted, it gets amusing. The Demo-
cra,s have been in power in Maine
once within the memory of the present
generation. 1t took the full force of
the supreme court to prevent them
from stealing the State. Locally this
party has been in power twice within
the memory of persons now living.
They went out under the Harper cloud
after Ingraham'S administration, the
dishonesty they planned being exposed
by one of their own number just in
season to prevent its success. The
late Clifford administration is now I'M
del indictment in the public mind. at
least. for the careless management OF
public affairs, if nothing more. For
the Sentinel TO get upon a pedestal
and shout for honesty is we'll, for it
to presume that all honesty is confined
to the Democratic party, and that only
through the success of the Democratic
party can honesty be assured. is ily-
ir:g in the face of history. to say the
least.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-16
THE AGE OF FLIGHT.
A Twentieth Century Spectacle in
Everyday Paris.

Visitors to Paris who go out to the
great military manoeuvring ground at
lSSy have u daily foretaste of life in
future centuries unequallcd anywhere
in the world.
High above them in the air sails La
Ptttrie, the superb French airship,
which gets out for business every
morning at eight o'clock, circling and
manocuvrirg over Paris, both with the
wind and against il. returns for lunch
to the great cage at Meudon, and goes
out again in the afternoon, as often as
not IN order that its four or five pas
schgcrs may watch the movements of
the aSiOplaneS beneath them.
While America and England are in
dulging in the old-fa shoined balloon.
the French with their dirigible and
their aeroplaneS are as much in ad-
vance of the rest of the world as Great
Britain is with her turbines.
During the present week, Mr. Henry
Farman. an Enslishlnan. one of the
gifted sons of the well-known cor
respondent of the Standard mow the
London Tribune newspaper, has made
nearly score of successful aeroplane
flights. 1t is a thrilling spectacle t.,
across the ground. urged by very
small propeller, and then rising and
travelling rapidly through the air for
$50 yards or 50.
Not & long flight, it is true. Prob
ably the motor is not powerful enough.
Eut MIR. Farlnan has shown that he
can rise and descend 1T will. and that
his machine flies. To use his own
words. he is in the same position az
were the bicycists of 1867 They We're
learning to balance on wheels; he is
learning to balance in the air Both
the man and the machine are on trial,
but the daily experiments and the pei
sistence of the French manufacturers
of aeroplanes may reward France with
an industry as great as that Of the
automobile
II IS difficult for English people to
understand the interest in flying and
aeronautics in France. The airship has
long ceased 10 attract notice | passed
La Patrie on the road to Versailles the
other day. 1t was travelling steadily
against the wind among the trees at the
TOP Of Picardy Hill. Hardly any of the
pasSers-py took the least notice of it.
The sight was a familiar one to Paris
ians.
Among those who have been watch
ing AIR. Farman's flights this week is
Colonel Cody, and great many rep
reseiitatives of other nations.
English visitors consider that the
Brooklands track might be easily
adapted to aeroplane experiments.
which would draw vast crowds OF
spectators and might eventually enable
England to get footing in the aero.
plane business
Mr.. Farman tells me that the cost
of his aerOplane has been about e1OO.
ungainly when on the ground as soon
as II is in the air it has the appearance
OF swan Scndding across lake
Paris Correspondence of the London
Mail
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-16

Business in Maine.
portland Advertiser.)

In the issue of Dun's Review for
January IL there is some pleasant
reading for Maine people 1t is
learned by the Dun experts that the
volume of business for most lines at
PORTLAND showed an increase during
the year. Gamers of sweet corn in
the state are reported to have had a
pack about 20 per cent. of the average
put of a better quality. This condition
also obtained of the sardine pack,
where. 1t is stated, better prices PR
vailed. Shoe jobbers and the leading
department stores in the State in
creased their sales during practically
the entire year The Maine banks are
declared to have had a prosperous
year. the majority showing an increase
IN deposits as well as in surplus. The
statement of the commercial failures
Tor the year also contains nothing tn lt
is alarming. All told there We're lis
failures in the State during 1907 as
compared with 1913 in 1906. While the
failures of 1907 We're somewhat more
numerous than in the preceding year
IL is TO be remembered that there were
FEWER failures in Maine in 1906 than
IN any year since 1892 and 1906 is the
only year in that period in which there
were a less number of failures than in
1907 The liabilities of the bankrupts
of 1907 We're s1.531,1 about s2OO.0OG
more than in 1906. All in all, the
commercial agency men take sub
stantally the same view of business
conditions in Maine as was revealed
ny the reports made yesterday at the
annual meeting of the Portland Board
of Trade. 1t is evident that. notwitn-
standing the recent depression. Maine
begins the new year under favorable
conditions although. of course. the I'M
seasonable weather will affect some OF
the States industries, notably that OF
numbering.
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PERSONAL NOTES.

s. C. Kanagra Rutnam, revolutionist
and president of the Central College of
COLOMBIA. Ceylon, has arrived in New
York to enlist the aid Of Americans in
throwing off the British yoke in India.
John w. Gates announces that he
will reside permanently hereafter IN
Port Arthur, Texas. He says that a
new line of weekly steamships will
soon be put on between the Texas city
and New York.
President Eliot, of Harvard, viii.
make q tour through the Middle West
next April. and extensive plans are be-
ing made by university presidents amt
Harvard clubs to entertain him in the
various towns.
Rev DR.. William Hayes Ward. the
grand old man of the Congregational
Church, will shortly celebrate his
fiftieth anniversary in the ministry.
For the last thirty seven years he has
been editor of the independent" 4
weekly literary and religious journal.
He is - years old and was educated at
Andover College, Amherst College and
Andover Theological Seminary.
General Schaff has in his possession
number of drawings made by
students at West Point, many OF
whom have since those days attained
considerable prominence in the army.
and some of whom have died. They
were found in an old trunk belonging
to an army officer and We're forwarded
to General Schaff as memorabilia of
old-time West Point days, in recog-
milton of his interesting sketches of
army life.
An interesting spectator on the foo
of the Senate on Thursday last was
Captain Smith, a member of the Eng
lih Parliament from Stratford-o on
Avon. the home Of Shakespeare
Senator Dolliver had the visitor in
charge and introduced him to the
other Senators. The captain seemed
to be particularly interested in the
naval efficiency and personal bill
introduced by Senator Hale, and con-
graduated the Senator at the con-
cluSion of his speech.
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your animals. and hope to see game
| refuge that shall embrace great
Katahdin and the surrounding country
where the hunters foot fall or the
| crack of the rifle shall not be heard -
Commissioner Carleton.
Why not? 1t may be a good sus-
gestion. Such an undertaking might
help to solve the forestry problem by
incidentally making a forest reserve
along with the game reserve. At any
rate. there was good, helpful and suS-
gestive talk at the banquet of the
Casco Bay Fish Culture and Angling
association. Those people who in the
past have rallied at and opposed eX-
penditure fSr the preservation of game
and fish have stood in their own light
1t was the narrow and shOrt-sightei
view. All the money that has been
spent in this way is coming back or
will come back manifold. One does
not have to be a sportsman, he need
not go into the woods with a gun or to
the lakes and streams with a rod, to
be able to appreciate the value of
making good hunting and fishing FOR
others Among the great assets of the
IL
say it's greatest assets, are and must
continue to be its forests and it's
waters. Thirty per cent of the State
is in farms and 20 per cent in wood
land. The arabic land may be in
creased somewhat but probably not
much relatively. A large part Of the
natural wealth is in the woodlands. the
water power, the scenery, the climate,
and the advantages and attractions
which make our coasts, lakes and Wllds
a fayorite resort of summer vacation
ers. hunters and anglers. There are few
crops that are going to pay better
than trees and game and fish, for one
Yields lumber that brings good prices
and the others bring visitors who pay
for their entertainment. The farmer
may object to the law that forbldS
him to shoot at sight and out of sea-
son the deer that leaps into his field,
but he does not object to good prices
for his products and the markets made
by the visitors who annually come into
the State and leave their money here.
The fish and game laws, the fish
hatcherieS and lobster hatcheries. in
short, all that has been done in pur-
suance of liberal and far sighted
policy to stock our inland and coast
waters and preserve and Increase the
valuable species of fish, cruStaceanS
and game animals, has been in the
way of conserving some of the great
natural assets of the State. It has
been for the common good, and it |
should be encouraged.
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GLEANiNGS AND GOSSIP.

A 15-year- old boy was arrested in
Philadelphia the other day for desert
ing his wife
Jim" Hogan. the old Yale football
player. is now delivering lectures on
how to live so that tuberculosis can be
avoided.
In DUTCH Guiana all the money q
man can save is invested in Jewels
which his wife wears. It's about the
same in this country.
a Chicago COachman was arrested
the other day, and the Chicago papers
thought that the fact that he had
only $40" in his pocket worthy of
comment.
Water pipes of terra Gotta were used
in Crete 40 centuries ago. Those
supplying drinking water consisted of
a series of subconical tubes socketed
into each other with collars and "stou
ridges" $" constructed as to give the
water 4 shooting motion. thus pre-
venting accumulation of sediment
1t is generally admitted that you
can't beat the Dutch for lengthy
names. but when it comes to brevitv
New York takes the palm. A grocer
III lower fulton street, brooklyn, signs
himself laconically "Al Re-" That is
as brief a signature as one could find
IN n good days travcl.-New York
Sun.
DIR. Mark Baldwin of the Johns Hon
klns university, Baltimore, explain,
dreams by saying they are caused by
images which have been impressed
upon detached portions Of the brain
and which are brought into action nv
rush of blood to the head or throupb
the absence of the usual amount OF
Nhlood.
Capt. Harrison Gray Otis Colby
United States navy, will reach the age
limit on January % and will retire
When only a captain he was sen, to
Europe to bring the European
squadron home, and flying his senior
officers flag from Dewey's flagsbin
the Olympia. he piloted them success
fully to the Caribbean, where the
whole North Atlantic fleet was en-
gagged in maneuvers.
Place her on the pension list for
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-16
Leaf Mould for Plants.

Why not make mould for Your plants
out of the stray leaves that are blow
ing round your walks and lawns this
month";?
Sink an old cask or 4 box part way
into the ground, first knocking out the
bottom and boring holes in the sides to
give free access Of air Then gather
up every stray leaf that blows and put
it into the cask, taking care not to drop
in any stones by accident 1t is fine
work for the child.
Leaf mould Is not very rich in plant
food. but there is nothing better to I'm
prove the texture Of your garden beds,
and If the texture Is not what it should
be, as well save your money spent on
fertilizers.
What most gardens need the worst g
leaf mould or other well decomposed
vegetable matter.
Why.
Because it loosens the soil so the air
can get at the roots, and it is bad for
harmful bacteria.
But. says some one, Il burn my
leaves on the vegetable garden: isn't
that all right?
Right as far as it goes, but somewhat
extravagant. as you get but fraction
of the fertilizing value The first
heavy rain will carry away most Of our
plant food, or if the ground is frozen
the potash will not sink in.
1t is even worse to dig into the
garden beds a lot of autumn leaves, for
if you get too many they will not decay
until spring, and then woe to the roots
of your tender plants during the pro-
cess of fermentation.
So put your leaves into n heap and
leave them to the mercy Of the wind
and the sun to get them in prime con-
dition to be dug into your beds next
spring.
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A Tribute From the Enemy.
(LiOn'S Adyocate.)

(LlOn Advocated
What q terrible thing it is when the
other fellow does what you have been
doing, and does it so much better than
you do that he brings your PLANS to
naught: Here is the saloon, which has
VIGOROUSLY been in politics for any
number OF years past, debating nOmi-
nations, controlling elections and in
iluencirg legislation, making Il WY
face and crying baby" because tenn
perance people are getting their eyes
open and are putting out their hands
20 touch the springs of political action.
Mr.. +. II. Gilmore, the editor of one Of
the liquor magazines, is reported 10
have paid his respects to the Anti
Saloon League at meeting of New
York wholesale liquor dealers last
week after this fashion:
The Anti-Saloon League is the
strongest, best Offered hest financed
and best legally advised political or
ganiZation in the world. 1t now holds
the balance of power in a number of
states. The League is supported by
millionaires and is banded together not
for the purpose of lettering the people,
at large, but to give political power to
those men who contribute hundreds OF
thousands of dollars annually to its
campaign funds. They secretly direct
and manipulate the organization SO
that they are able often not only TO
seat whom they please in the Guber-
Material chair, but sometimes even to
dictate the selection of United States
senator's
The members and supporters of the
League will oe Interested in the
new financial rating given them Ey Mr..
Gilmore, but they will doubtless be
willing TO overlook his mistake in this
regard i'll consideration of the splen-
did testimony he bears 10 the Organiza-
ton: a testimony all the more valua-
bic because given reluctantly and I'M
der stress of compelling circumstances.
AS to the soft Impeachment" that the
League is political organiZa tion,"
and that it is doing what Mr.. Gilmore
charges. there need be no denial. Let
1t be confessed that temperance men
are in Tolitics, and are using political
measures and methods to secure the
endS which they have set before
them. The cause would be much
further advanced on the road to its
triumph had it gone into politics long
ago. Whether the purpose Of "thc
million%ires' VINO make up the organ
lZatlon is quite so selfish as our critic
seems to imagine, the discerning world
VIII De quite able to judge. The
charge from such a source is somewhat
amusing.
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The Greatest Mastodon.

For the sum of $4,000 j. Pierpont
Morgan has purchased the famous
warren mastodOn skeleton. the most
complete and finest specimen of its kind
in The world, and has presented it to the
American Museum of Natural History
n New, York City. Lillian L. Zeh
writes the story of the finding. purchase
and mounting Of the specimen, in The
Technical World Magazine.
This rich fossil prize is Of eXtraordi-
nary interest. 1t was discovered near
Newburg. ~ Y,though dug up more
than fifty years ago-yet during all this
tine it has remained practically in
seclusion. hidden away from the knowl-
edge and inspection of the general pub
lie; but now, thanks to the donor and
the reconstructive efforts of the dis
tinguished paIeont"logist, Prof. Henry
Osborn, the world at large is able to
study and view it.
The skeleton measures fourteen feet
eleven inches from base of tusk to tail.
and nine feet two inches in height.
The tusks are eight feet seven inches.
The tips still retain the beautiful polish
given them during their long use. One
especially interesting feature is the fact
that the layer beneath the outer shell
of the ivory presents a series of rings
which resemble growth rings and APP
pear to indicate that this animal was
twenty-seren years of age at death.
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life" was the order given by Andrew
Carnegie to the Carnegie relief fund
trustees. The recipient of his bounty
is one Margaret Morrison Carnegie, an
aged woman living in little town IN
Indiana. Mr. Carnegie received a
letter from a woman in the wildS Of
Indiana asking for some consideration.
She made no claims or pretense. save
that her name was the same as that
of Mr. Carnegie'S mother. Mr..
Carnegie ordered the case investigated
from PittSburg. and on finding that
the woman was really a Mrs. Margaret
Morrison Carnegie and that she was in
needy circumstances he ordered that
weekly pension he paid to her during
the rest of her life.
Prof Bordas'S recent attempt to
convert corundum into rubies and
sapphires by means Of radium recalls
the fact that, although there are at the
present time 4 dozen different methods
Of making artificial diamonds, none Of
the stones produced by these methods
can compare with those made of old
French paste, the secret of which is
lost. So perfect We're paste diamonds
that ii was difficult for even a person
with expert knowledge of diamonds to
tell that they We're artificially pro-
duced, whereas most of the modern
artificial diamonds can easily be
detected, and their durability is not 50
great as the old paste diamonds. In
deed, good paste diamonds are now al
most rs valuable as real diamonds.
1t seems strange that even now there
are many restrictions on the use of as
ordinary thing as cable or tele-
graph Wire Yet it is true that no.
body is permitted 10 send TO or
through Portugal anything having To
do with the deeds or thoughts Of
and that code messages of
any kind are forbidden in Tripoii.
Bosnia. Rumelia. Rumania. Herze-
govina, Bulgaria and other Balkan
states. After that it seems unneceS-
sary to mention that Turkey forbids
code messages. but it is a little sur
prising 10 find that you can send
message to most parts of Persia i'll
only one language--that is French
and if you address most places in the
land Of the shah your message will be
translated into the tongue of Caul and
diplomacy when it reaches Teheran.
The fact that Lord Leicester has
been elected member of the jockey
club of England recalls to the Dundee
the extraordinary ex-
clusiveness of the institution, which
numbers the king as member. The
membership is limited to 20. and it is
said the only club that can vie with it
in exclusiveness is the Royal yacht
squadron. 1t was formed to provide 1
select and exclusive circle of sports
men. but in the early days of the clue
heavy gambling. with unseemly brawls
and open accusations Of cheating. took
place within its walls. The present
home of the jockey club at Newmarket
has certain rooms reserved for the
use of his majesty. who has honored
the club with his presence for nearly
half century. In the dining-room on
state occasions the hoof Of the cele-
brated Eclipse may be seen mounted
in gold.
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1t is learned from an authoritative
source" in ST. Petersburg that the Rus
sian government intends to build five
fighting fleets to cost from $500. 0oo.-
GOO to $1,000 900. 600. two to be stationed
III the Pacific. two in the Baltic and
one in the Black Sea. The value Of
this information may be judged from
the fact that one-fifth of the smaller
total named would pay for fleet
about three times as strong as that
which Admiral Evans commands on the
practice cruise.-New York Sun.
But it is to be remembered that only
one dollar in about every 500 spent
would really be used in building and
eqIipping the fleet. The other 500.
according TO ancient Russian custom,
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The word comes from the city of
Mexico that the government there is
likely tn tax the sombrero out of ex-
istence. The legislature of the state
of Jalisco has declared it nuisance
and has decreed that the Mexican who
wears 1t must have license. for which
he must pay. and must wear a num-
h' red tag upon it. Without the Ii
Censr and the tag the wearer is sub
ject to arrest and fine. The object of
the law is to cure the peon's taste for
1he picturesque headgear. which. cord
ed with gold and silver and six feet or
more across the brln,. is so expensive
that the humble Mexican often works a
whole year to earn the price of one.
The legislature of Jalisco is of the
opinion that the peon might easily
spend years wages better than on
one CT these gorgeous hats. The trav-
eler, however. will have his doubts
about this. and will hope that the peon
will stick to his picturesque hat, pay
ing his tax like a man and wearing
his numbered tag like an automobile.
In our own Southwest it is much the
same as in Mexico. A cowboy will
wear slG0 sombrero and a pair OF
silver spurs while the rest of his APP
parel is ragged and Indifferent And
he never fails to ride in a saddle cost
ing several times as much as the pony
upon whose back 1t is strapped.
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MAINE EDITORIAL COMMENT.
Developing Names Resources.

Oath Independently
The annual report of the State as
SCISSORS shows that Names valuation
has shown the greatest gain the past
year of any year in the history of the
State. Maine has just commenced to
awaken to the fact that she has the
greatest opportunities and POSSIBLE
ties for growth of any State in the I'm
ion. All Maine needs is some hard
pushing to make even greater gains
in the next few years Maine should
lead in her industrial life and can if
her resources are ever half developed.
What State can show greater natural
resources for the giving of good re-
turns for invested capital than can
Name? Not one.
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India lays claim to two boys who, if
the report be true, are real prodigies.
Benares native newspaper says:
When the elder was two years of age
he acquired the alphabets of several
languages almost unaded and by his
fifth year got by heart the whole of
the great grammar Of Panini. together
with several English, Sanskrit. Hindu
and Bengali books. BY his sixth year
he was able to write round hand and
solve problems Of arithmetic. Now. in
his seventh year. hes has taken up the
Vow of an ancient Rrahmarcharin. af-
ter being invested with the staff zone.
urn. threads and black antelope skin.
and is studying the Vedas. The other
boy. his younger brother, now about
four years old, is able to read books in
Sanskrit. Rengali and Hind; with ease
and can commit to memory any pas
sage on hearing it once or twice"