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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-27

IN HALLOWELL-AF FLAT IN THE
Perry building. A pleasant and comfort
able rent with modern conveniences. APP
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-27

FARMERS SOW LONG WHITE TAR
ton seed oat. grown by G. e. Cutler. Bar
ker Ridge Farm; an early variety, very
productive. ripens evenly. Does not lodge
on heavily manured. ground. Requires
but bushels seed per acre. Our yield
486 bushels from acres. Send order now.
This seed is cheaper than any other oat
Price 81 for 81 lbs. Address Manager G.
E. Bradley, Island Falls. Me.
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-27

OFFICES IN THE AUGUSTA TRUST
cos. MODERN OFFICE BUILDING.
PASSENGER EvATOR, FIRE
PROOF VAULT, STEAM HEAT, HOT
AND COLD WATER. APPLY TO F.
e. SMITH, TREAS.
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-27
FOR SALE. MlScELL AME0US.

SEED PoTAToES-GREEN NOUN
tain variety. so cents per bushcl. Adj
dress F. P. TraftOn. r. IA. Gardiner, Me.
Telephone call 204-2l. aprl7I3t
OR WILL TRADE AT A BARGAIN
covered grocery cart used but little
just out of the paint shop. good as new
cost new $11O. Maurice w. Royal, Box
1873 Gardiner. Me. Apr25d3t"
MAINE SPORTING CAMPS IN
famous Tatahdin Iron Works hunting
and fishing region Widely advertised and
well patronized. After IL years. present
proprietor. G. I. Brown. must sell on ac-
count of i'll health. Low price to immedi-
ate purchaser. Address w. ]. Brown.
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-27

BEAUTIFUL 2 ROOM HOUSE, SIX
minutes walk from Postoff1ce, elegant
mace. gas. All modern improvements.
Grandest scenery view in Augusta
Must be seen to be appreciated. In
quire of Percy w. Means or F. w. Kins-
mans Augusta. apr31tf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-12
HYDROPHOBIA.

From the Chicago Record Herald.
 When ten persons who had been bitten by mad dog in Kenosha. Wis, arrived at the Pasteur institute in this city last Tuesday it looked like warning of what might occur any day, here or anywhere in this state. It was also timely reminder and corroboration of the warning sent out less than a month ago in bulletin of the bureau of animal industry in Washington containing an exhaustive treatise on this disease.
 According to this bulletin, hydrophobia is not only real disease and an alarming scourge, but is rapidly increasing in this country It causes a very considerable financial loss, but this is overshadowed by the fact that thousands of people suffer on account of it every year, and that from 10 to so per cent of those who are not scientifically treated die of it, the actual number of deaths being from 100 to 300 a year.
 The bulletin is equally positive that the Pasteur treatment is a triumphant suc- cess. Pasteur's treatment dates from 1885, and the first Pasteur institute was opened in Paris in 1886. This was followed by one in New York and another in Chicago, which were established in 1890. Since that year similar institutes have been opened in other cities in this country. And at all of them the treatment has been phenom- enally successful. The Chicago institute up to October 1907, had treated 301O per- sons, and only g per cent of them died of the disease.
 Hydrophobia may be easily eradicated in any community. All that Is necessary is to muzzle all the dogs for a few years. Universal muzzling stamps the disease out without fail. That Is the reason that there has not been a case of hydrophobia in Great Britain since 1899, nor in Holland since 1879, nor in Berlin since 1883.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-12

property of Charles F. Murphy, who will not be emb srra5sed by convictions. He will carry no such handicap to Denver. He will exact for the transfer of his property the best price obtainable.
 The significance of failure to instruct is exaggerated. It will not bear the in depreciation placed upon it by the Times. It does not mean that Mr. Bryan will be 134 votes short of the number necessary to a nomination on the first ballot. It means neither more nor less than that freedom of action has been reserved to certain state delegations, which is far from sgnifying that they ere necessarily hostile to the Nebraslzan.
 Notl.ins is more probable than that there will be but Cne ballot. Even those who ere anxious to bring about Bryan overthrow concece that he has substan- tial majoriey-that he can be beaten, if at all. only by the operation of the two thirds rule. They quote nothing but re- mote possibilities in support of their op- timism. Analysis of their own figures shows that they are marshaled in fools 8 paradise. Meanwhile, MT. Bryan talks like a man who has the nomination in his pocket. He is not far wrong.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-12

difference is basic and deeply import ant.
 Again, Roosevelt believes in revision at some" time by the republicans. Bryan wants a quick revision on rev enue lines. One wants revision on pro- lection lines and the other on consti- tutional revenue lines. Here again is a deep difference, reaching to the pock- cts of consumers, and deciding whether the few shall be authorized to exploit hereafter the many.
 Roosevelt has forgotten, too, all about the publicity of campaign funds. He is oblivious to the control of elec- tions by money-to the purchase of votes after the manner of 1900 and 1904. He has forgotten his bargain with Hartman by which $260,000 was raised three days before election in New York in 1904. Bryan stands for publicity of campaign funds-for hon. est elections-for an abolition of hugo Wall-street slush funds. This differ- ence also cuts deep, so deep that the integrity of elections and the fate of the republic hangs upon it. It is the old question in concrete form-who shall control the country, the plain people or the plutocrats?
 No, indeed, Bryan and Roosevelt are not two political Dromios. They are as wide apart as the poles, and the Sun should get a new pair of spectacles when next it attempts to see the situa- tion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-12
sREvITIEs FROM ABROAD.

From the Wall Street Journal
 There is q haacienda, or ranch, In the Mexican state of Durango comprising lo,- oO0,O00 acres.
 The Bank of England employs about 1000 people.
 The actual cost of the suez canal was S12O, 75O,000.
 In Ireland e15, ,5O0,0O0 is invested in the manufacture of linen, the country's great est industry. Employment is given to 70,00O persons.
 Outside of Buenos Apres there are five cities in Argentina with a population or 50 OOO or over, viz: Tucuman, 5O,0OO; Bahia, Biana, 6O,OO0; Cordoba, 65,O00; La Plata, S0,OO0; Rosario 135,000.
 At a recent exposition in Japan the Ca nadian millers were on hand baking bread and giving it away to the crowds as an education in the use of flour. Some one asked where were the hustling Yankees. The reply was that the demand for Amer ican flour was so great that there was no need of giving any of it away in exploit ation.
 The recent Wall street panic was more disastrous in it's results in Japan than at home, owing to the falling off in demands in raw silk for the New Jersey factories. The warehouses of Yokahoma are choked with bales of silk that long ago should have been on their way to America. Cap ital to the extent of $35, 100000 is tied up in this way
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-12
Early Resumption At EnSley

The Tennessee company branch of the United States Steel corporation proposes to resume work in this dis trict on June 15, with a view to the operation of its steel plant continu- ously in the remainder of the year. When the depressed condition of the iron and steel industries are taken into consideration this determination is especially gratifying. It is tantamount to saying that iron and steel can be profitably made in this district when it cannot be made elsewhere with a mar gin on the right side of the ledger.
 When the works are started up on June 15 our crops of cotton and corn will have been well started, and from that time the entire district should be- gin to look at things of all sorts in hopeful spirit. The starting of the steel mills at Ensley is plain proof that the Steel corporation is convinced the railroads will need rails and that all the products of this district will be marketed. It points to good crops, to activity in the railroads and to free employment in this entire district Every individual can back up the Ten nessee company by having faith in general business and by doing all that lies in his power to keep labor em- ployed and business a-humming.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-12
Cotton Entnre Contracts

The newspapers in all parts of the country continue to discuss the report of Commissioner Herbert Knox Smith on the methods of the cotton ex- changes, and not one of them thus far received by The Age-Herald attempts to defend the New York cotton ex- changes plan of fixed differences be- tween spot cotton and grades tender able for delivery on contracts.
 It goes without saying that the price of contracts should be based from day to day on the value of actual cotton, and as New York has ceased to be spot cotton market it cannot well do this. Roundly speaking, no cotton is sent to New York except some unde- sirable and unspinnable grades which go there to be delivered on contracts under its plan of fixed differences. This state of things induces the Wall Street Journal to suggest:
 In view of difficulties which the appli- cation of different standards has devel- oped, would not this be a fortunate occa- sion to adopt some national standard by which the whole American cotton crop might be handled, so that all exchanges and all other interests might be able to rely upon a common standard in the ap- plication of which there could be no req sonable possibility of individual or inst- tut;onal advantages?
 This is all very well if national standard is left to be devised by the men who handle the actual cotton of the country. In other words, New York as a controlling cotton market must be eliminated, and the sooner and the more thoroughly this is done the better for all cotton producers. The entire machine as it at present is con- ducted in New York serves to depress the price, first, of contracts, and through them the price of spots. The sooner the supremacy of New York in the cotton trade is broken down the better it will be for every farmer ill the cotton belt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-12
From the Boston Globe.


 @ HE work of irrigation of land goes (0 on industriously in many western
 states, in accordance with the Cary act, which was passed by Congress A dozen years ago. The plan of irrigating the vast tracts of arid land and selling it to actual settlers has succeeded admir- ably. Of course in some sections there have been frauds committed, but the gov ernment is looking sharply after all H. legal transactions, so that eventually the wrongdoers will receive merited punish ment
 So we'll has this irrigation work pro- gressed that Congress has authorized the Secretary of the Interior to grant an ad- ditional million acres of land to the state of wyoming, and Idaho having practical ly contracted for all of it's first 100000 acres, is now asking for an additional grant of 100000 acres.
 Patents for these lands are not issued by the federal government until they have been entirely paid for and one-eishth of the area is actually under cultivation.
 The department has supplied recent data on this subject to correspondent of the Chicago Record Herald, from which it appears the number of acres applied for by states and the number patented is as follows:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-12
DESERTS RECLAIMED

A report or the supervising engineer states that it is impossible to estimate the far-reaching effects of these develop ments on the state whole. In most instances a vast amount of capital has already been invested, and enough sue cess has been attained to warrant the investment of a great deal more. The colonization of land must be followed by other investments and various enterprises. Railways have been extended; new lines have been built; an area has already been opened up for settlement under these projects almost sufficient to double the population of the arid portion of the state.
 '"The works, after their completion will be owned and managed by the settlers. There is no disposition on the part of the construction companies to retain pos session for any length of time. All of these projects will undoubtedly pass through the usual troubles, but the people themselves will be directly responsible. and success will ultimately result with out doubt"
 It is claimed by the federal officials that, as a rule, the operations of the Carey act have been conducted without fraud. It is doubtless true that in the main this irrigation system has been well organized and operated, and it is des- tined to prove of tremendous value to the states which are using 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-12
All the perfumes of Arabia will not
 sweeten this little hand.-Macbeth
Planning to End the Session

The republicans are anxious to end the session, and yet they dare not face the people on the stump unless they first pass a currency bill of some sort No matter how crude or inefficient it may prove to be, it must at any rate be something that the republican stumpers can say will stave off or at least quickly cure scares like that of last October The bill devised by the Vreeland committee is offered for that purpose, and if it can be put through both Houses in the next two weeks, there will perhaps be no obstacles to an adjournment about June 1. For the appropriation bills are we'll advanced, and the entire 14 could be gotten through in the next ten days or two weeks
 Possibly the ways and means com mittee will be authorized by the House to consider the tariff during the recess, but this means nothing the one way or the other. It is a mere party trick for campaign purposes. It will enable the republican stumpers to say they are actually revising the tariff from day to day when in fact they will be doing nothing at all.
 There is one thing the republicans cannot be induced to touch with 40- foot pole, namely, campaign public ity bill. No bill is to be passed, and another huge slush fund will be ar ranged for as soon as nomination is made at Chicago-a fund large enough to buy votes that promise to turn the scale in states like New York and Hi nois. This is modern republicanism.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-12
WRECK OF THE PETER kickMERs

From the New York World.
 The weeks battle of the ship Peter Rickmers with wind and wave off the Long Island coast, followed by the strand ing and breaking up of the craft and the escape of the benumbed and half frozen crew after every resource of the life-guard to save them during Thurs days storm had been exhausted, makes as moving tale of sea peril as has been told.
 What incident of shipwreck is missing from the story? The gale snapped the masts off one by one The waves swept away the deck-house and poured through the opened seams of the steel hull in volume too strong for the pumps. Every effort put forth by the life-saving corps to lend aid was in vain. A line was shot over the ship. The brooches buoy was rigged and abandoned. Every detail that the sea novelist has set down was there And it has been a long time since a finer exhibition of sea pluck has been recorded, either of the reckless sailor man who sticks to the ship while there is a plank afioat to stand on, or the men on the shore whose duty calls for quiet courage of an even higher kind
 It is the chronicle of sea danger, when all is told, which thrills deerest. They are the true captains courageous whom nothing could daunt' who face the onset of the storm and lead forlorn hopes rom sinking fishing schooners or dismasted souare-riggers. From the Newfoundland bands, on by "Norman's Woe and cape Cod down the Atlantic past Long Island and Hatteras to the Florida keys' the record of their war with the elements is preserved. and a stirring story 1t is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-12
HARRY ORCHARD.

From Harper's Weekly.
 Harry Orchard, upon whom Judge Wood of Boise, Idaho. pronounced the death sentence on March IS, with a recom- mendation for pardon, is still in the pen- itentiary at Boise. This institution is sit- uated just outside the city limits and has a record of probably the lowest death rate of any place of the kind in the world For instance, there was only one death during the two years that ended December 31, 1906. The daily number of prisoners averages 22o. The parole system is in force and is regarded as practi- cally a success in the penitentiary
 Orchard has visitors from time to time, but it is difficult to see him. A prom- nent young actress who was playing aa ''one-night stand in Boise sent her card to him. and was informed that he was 'busy with his stenographer." He was ut that time engaged in writing his life, which nas since been published, with a preface by a local clergyman of good standing. The wife of the warden of the penitentiary told one of Orchards callers that they were all much attached to the murderer, as he was 'the loveliest gentleman" To which the caller replied
 in good faith that he had observed that men of Mir. Orchards stamp always had good dispositions" which Is either hu- morous or psychological, just as the reader fanceS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-12
Roosevelt and Bryan

The Baltimore Sun, apparently a democratic paper, affects to see no material difference in the respective platforms of Williams Jennings Bryan and Theodore Roosevelt But a paper has to be blind indeed that puts the two men on a common platform so far as three important national questions are concerned.
 Roosevelt has no respect whatever for the reserved rights of the states, although the tenth amendment of the federal constitution says "the powers not delegated to the United States by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people," Roose- velt endeavors to minimize the tenth amendment in every possible manner. He desires centralization of power in the general government. Bryan, on the other hand, stands by the reserved rights of the statesa demanding that the federal powers be eonfned to those 4xsressed in the conhtitution. This
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-12
The Late W. J. Murphy.

''The death of w. J. Murphy, vice pres ident of the railroad companies of the Queen and Crescent route, is sincerely lamented in Birmingham" said one who had known the deceased for many years.
 MT. Murphy's home was in Cincin- nati but until his health began to fail a few years ago he made frequent trips over his lines. He was not only an ar dent admirer of Birmingham and an en- thusastic prophet of Birmingham's fu- ture, but he always seemed to take espe- cial delight in his visits to this city.
 MT. Murphy was an able railroad man. He was a master of every detail of the transportation department. Like most of the modern transportation officials, he had been a train dispatcher. Aside from his equipment for his work, he was a gentle man of high honor and a strong sense of fairness. He was, moreover sunny tenn pered and full of the spirit of comrade- ship. He will be greatly missed.
 "Peace to his ashes"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-12
President Roosevelt As Commander-in-Chie

Never has the Big Stick been swung more defiantly than was the case last week when the President asserted his supremacy as commanderin-chief in all matters relating to the control of the army and navy. In letters written to Senators he asserts the right he exercised when he discharged the ne- gro soldiers who shot up the little town of Brownsville in Texas, and also the right to send Colonel Stewart Unto ex- ile until another President is inau- gurated.
 The Stewart case is a mystery. The people who theoretically control this country are not permitted to know why Colonel Stewart is treated as an exile. He was first sent to an abandoned post in the depths of Arizona, many miles from a railroad. But the President re- tented, and Stewards place of exile was changed to an abandoned fort in St. Augustine, Fla. Then the Presi- dent again hardened his heart and Colonel Stewart was sent back to the Arizona fort that he had occupied. The Rooseveltian order is that he is to stay in exile in Arizona until he can be re- tired for age about four years hence.
 If the Rooseveltian policy is to stand without being questioned in Congress or on the stump it is difficult to see wherein our system of government diff fers from that of Russia so far as the army and navy are concerned. Pun ishment by exile in the depths of a cactus solitude has not heretofore been considered wholly American, but Pres ident Roosevelt is in a fair way to make it so if Congress takes no action in the Stewart case.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-12
FAST MOTION AND sLEEPINESS.

trOm the New OTh w OIlu.
 An unsuspected risk of railway travel is revealed in the official report of the train wreck at Shrewsbury, England, which as cribes the accident to the fact that the engineer was asleep. The theory of a me- chanical defect in the engine or that the driver was suddenly taken ill is set aside as untenable, and it Is assumed that as the result of the long hours of duty with out rest he had been overcome by drowsi- ness.
 The report has aroused the indignation of engine drivers in England. But ac- cording to the testimony of a mechanical engineer drowsiness is a factor to be reckoned with in all employees who watch machinery in motion. He himself he con- fesses, has dozed while riding in a loco- motive and required to be awakened to prevent his falling off. His experience Is interesting in connection with the recom- mendation of fast automobile riding as a remedy for insomnia The Car, in re- cent issue, dwelt on the well-known prop erty of quick motion to induce sleep.
 An American locomotive engineer asleep at the throttle is hardly conceivable. Yet it is conceivable that the engineer of a fast night express suffering from loss of sleep might succumb to drowsiness in a long run The possibility is an argument for extreme care in the selection of engi- neers to take trains out on overtime after they have already finished their regular runs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-12
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Popular Prouramme.

'The music festival in connection with the Innes band, which takes place this week, should prove a grand success from a box office point of view, as we'll as a delightful affair artistieally," said mem- Der of the local chorus.
 Having heard 1nnes' band, I agree with musicians when they say it far sur passes any other wind band in existence. The excellence of 1nnes programmes and the popular character of all the orches- tral numbers will certainly appeal to the mass of music lovers, while the scale of prices-S1 being the charge for the best seats-will make the festival easy on the pocketbook.
 q happen to be one of those musical enthusiasts who enjoy an evening of ora torio or a programme made up of sym phony music; but many persons of taste for artistic composition become weary Of an entire evening of classical art For these lovers of music, Innes programmes will be most welcome. Only few strict ly classical pieces are found on his pro- grammes. and yet everything played and sung will be artistieally pleasing. Every one of the five concerts of the festival should draw a capacity house.