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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-15
Little Of Everything.
Plant.
Fiatnts
|, backward, o Time, in

Backward, turn backward, o Time, in
thy fight.
Give us an autoless day and night
Give US yellow" sans headlines to scan
A rustleless skirt and a hustleless man,
A babe teddy -bearless, a microbeless kiss,
A fistc fight faheless, a straight-fiontless
miss,
A siggleless schoolgirl, and-better than
that
A summor-clad college man wearing
hat.
l know, Father Time, that I'm asking too
much,
But turn to a day ere a dinner was lunch
Swing back to an age peroNideless Tor
An con ere rats made their rendezvous
there
An old-fashioned breakfast without
Shredded Hay,
A season when farmers went whineless a
day,
A burg moving pictureless-ah, what a
treat!
A. gumless-girl town, and a troleyless
street;
I'm asking too much, but l pray, Daddy
Time,
For DAYS when a song had both substance
and rhyme!
September Bohemian Magazine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-15
Second Story Bill, the Pious Burglar.

"Hush"' whispered Second Story Bill
in low cultural tone. as a sound from
the directors room fell upon his ears
Drop them tools, Jake I hear some
one movin' around in the bank
Jake Immediately dropped the kit to
the floor with loud clang
who's there?" came a startled voice
from the other room.
My heavens, this is awful" moaned
SccondStcry Bill, dashing tear from
his eve. He asks me who I am, and
| promised muh mother I would never
lie! All, WELL" he added, with heart
rending sigh, "a promise is a promise
and ! will keep NINE
Then he called aloud:
Il am Second-Sto Bill, the Pious
Burglar" he said "Who are you?"
There was cry of Joy from the other
room, and in the open doorway the figure
of a man appeared. a smile upon his face,
and his hand outstretcheed in welcome.
II am the president of this institution. >
he explained. Il was afraid you were the
receiver, but. thank heaven, you are only
n plain burglar. We may be able to ar
range settlement that will leave some
thing for the depositOrs."
And hand in hand they went at the safe
together.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-15

ance companies furnish no assistance,
not being financially interested. 1t has
been stated as a conservative estimate
that the average annual losses from
this source are as high as s25,0O0,0OO.
Accepting that as approximately cor
rect, the record this year will be very
much above the average. If the United
States Forest Service is correct in say
ing that all the timber destroyed if
converted into cash would build a
good-siZed navy of first-class battle
ships, then s10O,0O0,00O would hardly be
to high a figure at which to put our
losses. And the end is not yet. For
the last week the skies have been
clear from the Atlantic too the Pacific,
with few exceptions, mostly in the
South, and nothing but heavy rains
can check permanently the progress of
the hungry flames. .s,
Is there no way of protecting our
selves against this annually recurring
diminish? There appears to be some
significance in the official statement
that the loss in the national forests
this year will not exceed the compare
lively trifling sum of $4,000. Yet
these forests cover areas aggregating
over 100000 square miles. This COM
parative exemption may be entirely
fortui+ous, but it is more likely due to
the greater vigilance and more highly
organized system of protection with
which the Government guards its
properties. States and communities
must adopt similar methods if they
would save themselves from. repeated
disasters of this kind in the future.
Maine has done much in this line and
must keep at the work
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-15
FIFTY DEGREES BELOW.
On the Trial Between Chilcoot Pass
and St. Michael.

| He travels faster who travels alone
| = but not after the frost has dropped
| below zero fifty degrees or moie-Y ukon
| Code.
Day has broken cold and gray, en-
ceeGinslY cold and gray, when the man
| turned aside from the main Yukon trail
and climbed the high ealth-hank, where
a dim and little-traVeled trail led east
ward through the fat spruce cumberland.
1t was a steep bank, ana he paused for
q breath at the top. eXcusing the act to
himself Dv looking DIT his watch. Ii was
nine o'clock There was no sun or hint
the sky. 1t was Il clear day, and yet there
seemed an intangible pail over the face
of things, subtle gloom that made the
day dark, and that was due to the absence
| of sun. This fact did not worry the man.
He WAS used to the lack of sun. 1t had
been days since he had seen the sun, and
he knew that a few more days must pass
before that cheerful orb, due south. would
just peep above the skyline and dip i'm
mcGiatel% from view.
The man flung look back along the
way he had come. The Yukon lay a mile
wide and hidden under three feet of ice
On top IF this ice We're as many feet of
SHOW. II was all pure white. rolling in
gentle. snow covered urdul;.tons where
the ice jams of the frceZe-up had formed
North and South, as far as the eye could
see, it was unbroken white, save for a
dark hail'-line that curved and twisted
from around the spruce-covered islari to
away into the north, where it disappear
% behind another spluc" covered island
This dark hair-line was the trail-thc
main tlail-that led south five hundred
miles to the Chilcoot Pass. Dyea and
salt water: ana that led north seventy
miles to Dawson. ana still on to the
north q Thousand miles 10 Nuiate ana
finally to St Michael on Boring Sea a
thousand miles and Il half thousand
more
Fut all this-the mysterious. far-reach-
from the sky. the tremendous cold and
the stranecncss and wrirdress of it all
made no impression on the man. 1t was
not bcca11SA he was long used to it. He
was newcomer in the land. a cheiha-
quo. and this WIS his first winter. The
trouble with him was that he was without
ltGa2lEatl m. tie was quick and alert
in the things of life but only in the
things. ana not in the significance. Fifty
degrees beloW zero meant eighty odd de-
sre"s Of frost Such fact impressed him
rs being cold and uncomfortable, and
that was all. 1t did not lead hin, to
mediate upon his frailty as a creature
or temperature, and upon mans frailtv
in general able only to live within GER
tam narrow limits of temperature: and
from there on it did not lead him to the
roGjectural field of Immortality and mans
place IN the universe. Fifty degrees be-
low zero stood for n lite of frost that
hul' and that must he guarded against
by the use of mittenS, ear-hapS warm
norcaslns and thick socks Fifty de-
SierS below zero was to him !ust pre-
clSelv fifty degl eeS below zero That
there should be anything more 10 it than
thaf was thought that never entered
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-15
Japanese School Systems.

schools nave been built and equipped
ny the Japanese with the same com
plhatlon of seEsc and enthusiasm ,hat
mas actiattl the Americans in Porto
Hlc" and the Philippines There are
today lt3 common schools for Chinese
bows and girls. half the teachers being
Chinese and half Japanese, and fifteen
similar schools for half-civilized mour j.
tam tribes. Ttwenty-four also are
opened for japanese boys and girls
whose education alone as vet is com
puisory. Chinese children are admitted
10 thes" schools if clean and free from
disease. There are also one high school
FOR girls only. one high school for hoss
only one normal school for teachers.
one medica' school. two agricultural
schools. and one police school.
Thls looks like work, not cxn,o;t,-
ton!
We need only remember our efforts
at education in our dependencies to an
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-15
English Holidays.

a diversion which hardly exists in
America, but which Still holds it's own In
England. IS the walking or bicycle tour
England Is not Il country given la sudden
claHeS in the matter of Sports. There are
seasons, Of course, III which some game
Ike Iln21pUnS or diatolo car ries
everything before it for the moment and
is then as suddenly dropped. But on the
Whole, sport that has once become
popular in England remains SO. Bicycling
is a case III point My American fiiends
are "Stnunded to hear that more cycles
are being sold in England than ever.
They are not perhaps as fashionable as
they once We're, and the DAYS men
cycling in Battersea Park competed With
riding in Rotten Row have long gone by
But AS the vehicle of the masses the cycle
Still predpminates, and the whole coun-
tlN Is network of cycling clubs whose
lntilhcfS ofganlZp successive tours Of d
fortnight or three weeks throughout the
summer months The English again have
always been great pedestrians, and many
thousands OF them devote their vacation
~ franpln2 the Welsh hills or the lake
district or Devonshire OF some Other of
me almost countless regions that in Eng
l;nd offer one q combination of faui;less
roads. beautiful ScenelE'. ana historic
associations. Touring by caravan is not
common. and those who once take 10 il
declare that it knocks all other iorms of
holiday-making on the head And be-
sides a'i taiS there are the JOYS of motor
ing tor those who can afford them wbiIa
even a tcnth-fate resort boasts its golf
INKS, It's tennlS-cOurtS, and its cricket
S Weekly
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-15
The Midnight Oil.

Poets like to sing songs of the sunrise.
but very few of them ever care to witness
that daily miracle. He hates the morning.
and consequently makes a practice of
sleeping through it. Indeed. Just in order
to avoid the morning, he has been known
to sit up nearly all night, the better to
assure a doZe until noon.
One day at about eleven A. M, candid
friend called on Carman and had to wake
him ont of a sound Slumber.
Look mere. Bliss" he demonstrated.
what are you doing in bed at this hour?"
II was mp late last night" yawned the
poet, painfully struggling back to con-
scinusness
''Well," commented the candid friend,
you're simply bound to shorten your
days by the sort of life you're leading
Carman stretched most unpoeticaly.
mo doubt" he said; but if I'm short
ening my days, Pm at at least lengthen-
ing my nights. "-September Lippincott's
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-15
A QUAINT SWISS CUSTOM.
Picturesque Ceremonies Accompany.
ing the passing of Winter"

The land of the Switzers is rich in
deed in folklore. Who has not heard
Of the ringing deeds of William Tell?
And so thoroughly do these hardy
mountain folk enter into the spirit of
these Old stories and quaint customs
that the traveller finds monuments
erected to the memory of this tradi-
tlonal hero. while even in such up-to-
date cities as Zurich. that so i'm
presses the American tourists on ac-
count of its imposing buildings and
busy stir. the entire population aban-
don their Industry in order to take part
in symbolic festival.
The passing winter" or, to use the
picturesque native expression, "sechse-
lauten'-6 O'Clock ringing feast-the
beginning of which is announced by
the cathedral Ginning the hour Of G.
The real celebrations begin at 5
O'Clock. when the national and can
tonal Tags are hoiSted ON the staff Of
the cathedral. A pretty sight is that
of the procession of more than 1000
children in appropriate costumes. es-
corung the triumphal car bearing the
goddess of spring attended by her
maidens. while behind her is drawn,
amid dancing clowns, the captive
Boegg. representing winter. being a
huge figure made of wood and covered
with cotton wool. stuffed with crack
ers and gunpowder.
Winding through the streets on
either side of the River I.immat the
procession makes it's way to the lakes.
Here the Roegg is raised on high poles
and a bonfire built up around it, Dur
ing the afternoon the city guilds
parade in quaint costumes and many
merry jokes are played until ut the
first stroke of the torch is applied to
our friend Boegg, and winters reign is
a thing of the past. The flames leap
up and are reflected in the lake. while
from surrounding boats fireworks add
to the livelincss of the scene The
guildhouses, of which Zurich has many
handsome examples, are thrown open
to visitors and the evening is devoted
entirely TO pleasure and entertainment
- Springfield Republican.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-15
Maine Gossip
It's Not Worth While.

It's not Worth while-the fretting
The signing and the woe;
Best spend your time forgetting
Your troubles as they co.
Best lock ahead for laughter,
And take no time fo. tears
The sunny days hereafter
Will make the golden years.
It's not worth while-the grieving
About the chances lost;
What gain are you receiving
Tie While you count the cost?
Forget them. o forget them.
Look on ahead and smile,
The blue days. though you've met them
Are none OF them worth while.
It's not worth while-the whining
When things are going wrong,
The mourning and repining-
Mix sunshine with your song!
Come. shake the shade of sadness
And lose the dreams of gloom
Your heart beats time for gladness,
So give it lots of room!
Chicago Post.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-15
The Old and the New in France.

Pierre has a grandson-a Pierre also
who is just home from his military
service. 1t is my business just at
present to place that young man with
a gardener of Paris-and l daresay il
is in his horoscope. They were
threshing in the old barn the day we
talked it over. The threshing
machine that goes round the neighbour
hood was coming Pierre's way later;
but this was a lot of grain that he
was threshing out by hand. About
fifteen sheaves had been opened and
spread, a golden carpet. on the barn
floor. With heavy rhythmic fails
they beat upon 1.-THE old man and
the young: the past and the future.
Bareheaded, their brown arms bare.
they advanced and retreated, heaved
the big fails and brought them down
pong. pong. like the beat of a giant
clock. Young Pierre relaxed first; he
was soft from the life of the regiment.
but the old farmer. lean and hardy.
knowing not his years, gave no sign
Of WEAKNESS.
you're out of stroke-faster
faster" he growled.
"a fellow might rest a little" and
tHe Young Illdn, greatness, uTopi'eu
his fail this is no work for a human
being"
81 know" said old Pierre, pausing,
its not work for you. Ell? You want
TO gain much and do little If you can
do it-all right; but I doubt it. The
way of youth. The way of youth.
You'll never be the man your father
was-God rest his soul And look Il:
me-nearly seventy. How many years
have I swung the fail? And though
I've lost some of my strength | can
more than hold my own with you
Well when / and the men like me are
gone there will be none to swing the
fail"
Possible" says young Pierre; he
has thrown himself on the floor and
smokes a cigarette. but the grain
will be thrashed all the same
The past and the future.
Even in age old Bourbonnais. the
steam animated thing, is displacing
the man who worked with his hands
who worked for himself and walked
his own lands. The threshing machine
belongs to a company; it's employees
are brigaded in organized labor: little
by little the farms are falling into the
hands of anonymous syndicates of
capital: and the peasant farmer is
doomed. He cannot sell his grain in
competition with the grain that comes
from Russia and the United States and
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-15
The Latest in Air Machines.

While the news columns have been
pretty well filled with politics for the
past few weeks, it has not escaped the
attention Of patriotic Americans that
those scientific marvels, the Wright
brothers, are performing the most re-
markable feats Of aerial navigation, or
aviation as they call it, that the scien-
tilic world has ever seen. Their work
is with the flying machine known as
the heavier than-air kind, and while
foreigners have been long working at
American inventors to give ii the best
solution. in demonstrating that their
machine can remain in the air over an
hour at Il time, a much longer period
than any similar air craft has ever
kept above the earth, and in directing
its course at viii in this direction or
that. sailing in a circle. cutting the fig
ure eight in the air regardless of the
direction of the sharp wind which was
bioN inB, iht NilSHl lid'iHht i""
shown itself far more practical and
promising than any of its predecessors
II contemporaries.
The officers Of the army and navy
who witnessed the fights of the Wright
irachine at Fort Myer are enthusiast tic
in Their predictions for the future of
this form Of air navigation. Some be-
lievn that the world is entering All era
in which flying machines may become
as common as automobiles. II the
navigation of the air approaches any
thing like the prediction of the wright
cntirc modern scheme of warfare will
he revoiutlonizCd. 1t is Impossible to
conceive of the wonderful transfrrma-
ton of military and naval establish
ments through the use of such ma
chimes as these invented by the
Wrights. Not only could a man in
such machine secure invaluable in
formation of an encmy'S position, but
in time. perhaps, he would be able to
cary powerful explosives which would
utterly destroy ships and forts.
That the hving machine is now some
thing more than mere toy is certain
and doubtless the work of perfcCting
tie device will progress rapidly. 1t Is
impossible to foresee what wonderful
efforts of the inventors but perhaps it
will not be, many decades before the
airship will take its place beside the
railroad car and the automobile rs a
public carrier.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-15
How Blind Children are Trained.

In the New York State School for
the Bind at Batavia some of the hest
work for the blind is being accom-
pisned. 1t is. in fact, becoming n
standard school. and is showing re-
markable results as to what can n.
done in the way of bodily improve
ment from carefully studied physical
training. 1t is making self-reliance n
most valued possession of children who
would otherwise go through life from
bling with fear and outstretched hands
TO ward off peril The physical culture
work az Batavia is divided into eight
classes: kindergarten, primary hcvs
and primary girls, intermediate bows
ana intermediate girls. Junior bows.
senior boys and senior girls. Children
10 the Kindergarten are trained nv
marching and simple exercises with
musical dumbbells. They graduate In
rings and wand exercises in the pri-
mary classes and attain 70 barbells in
me Junior year. In the senior classes
h'VS ar" exercised with dumbball and
chest weights and by running and
lhliitary marches. The senior girls
use dulnbtells, barbeIls and Indian
Gums, ana are also trained in marches
work Is given outside of the Regular
hours to those whose interests or needs
are GREATER Craftsman.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-15

the Argentine prairies. And what
shall he do with these fine-bred white
cattle in a world where the wild beet
comes frozen from over sea?
He was right, Pierre; in little
while there will be none to swing the
fail in the land of the bourbons; and
the old farm life-With it's old super
sttions and cd ways, with its hard,
wholesome days and the quiet even
ings in the smokeStained kitchen-Will
be thing of the past, He was right,
Pierre; with him and the men like
him, the ancestral habits and customs
will pass away; it is the end of an
epoch
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-15
The Cricket's Warning.

Outside my window there's n thicket
Where hawthorn branches intertwine,
And there; all night, a fretful cricket,
BY accident or by design,
Pr""lalmS that summers on the Wane.
insists that autumn winds ere long
VIII blow across the hills again
AND leave the world bereft of song.
l wake at midnight from my dreaming
And restlessly toss to and fro
what time the cricket keeps on scream
ing:
1.-THE autumn winds ere long will blow
The peaceful, reStful summer DAYS
with summers joys will soon be past
The sumac soon will be ablaze,
The nights are growing longer fast"
Out on you ard your sad complaining,
Oh, foolish little pessimist
l know the summer time is waning,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-15
Disappointed.

At dinner Of legal association held
in Washington not long ago one of the
speakers told of farmers son in Illinois
who conceived desire to shine as a legal
light. Accordingly he went up to SPRING
fel1, where he accepted employment at a
small sum from a fairly well known at
torney.
AT the end of three days study he re-
turned to the farm
''Nell, Bill. how'd We like the law?''
asked his father
1T amt what it's cracked up to be-
responded Fin gloomily I'm sorry l
learned it"
-September Iippincotl'S
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-15

pre- ciatc the spirit of real helb(ulncss
that has characterized this Jd;mn.s.
labor in FOrinosa.
The Chinese still maintain over lNo
small private schools, where cid ideas
!ioW Icing abandoned on the mainland
are still taught. no doubt partly out Of
stubborn opposition to Japan.
IT is The plan to supplant gradually
these schools of ancient fOayl-n airb
modern ones, Lut, as usual, the Japan
Csc Will nat move in a compulsory way
| said to Japanese Christian preach
er: How about religious free dom in
r'omtssi?' He replied: 'Entirely free;
perhaps to free, for l believe just a IT.
tie persecution, or at least opposition.
would STIR us up. '-American Review
of Reviews.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-15
The Forest Fires.

Undoubtedly this is proving the
the country that has been known for
Il long time, perhaps the most disaS-
trous ever known. 1t has been a year
of almost unprecedented dryness, TAX
ing the country as a whole. and IN the
great forests here in Maine and in
those of the West extensive forest
fires have waged with tierceness
never known before. The forest fires
now in progress in northern Maine do
nat seem to be SO numerous or eX-
tensiye as those which swept south
ern sections of the State earlier in the
season. hut they are bad enough and
If the dry spell continues they are GER
tain to get much worse.
In the great Northwest. in Michigan,
Minnesota and adjoining states, con-
Maine. and thousands have been rem
dered homeless. whole forests des-
troyed. and millions of dollars worth
of timber has gone up in smoke. This
smoke, by the way, has resulted in a
oeculiar atmospheric condition of late
which has given us coppery sun by
dav and a red moon by night. While the
smell of the smoke is noticed through
out New England and the West.
There are no reliable statistics by
which we can measure the losses by
forest fires in single year. They
ore very difficult to obtain, especially,
as in fire losses Of this kind the nsur-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-15
The Republican Victory.

The news of another splendid Re-
publican victory in Maine went flash
ing over the land last night. The re-
turns came in slowly after the hard
battle. but at midnight it was certain
that Mr. Fernald had been chosen
Governor by n margin of between 5000
and 10000. all four congressman elect
ed by increased pluralities over those
of two years ago, and Legislature
chosen strongly Republican in both
branches. 1t was grand days work
and the Republican party may well be
proud of it's victory. Old Kennebec is
redeemed and has special cause for
rejoicing Maine is true to it's tradi-
tons. 1t is loyal to the party of
Roosevelt and Taft. 1t has no use for
Organism in any guise. 1t is satisfied
with Republican rule. and we'll it may
be. The defamcrs OF Maine have been
answered From kittery to Fort Kent
there is reason for rejoicing today.