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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-06

Not since il first arrived from over
the seas has the mysterious malady
commonly known as 1.-THE grip been 50
prevalent in this country as during
the present winter. In most of the big
cities throughout the North AMI West
the papers declare that the disease is
epidemic and that the physicians and
hospitals are taxed to their utmost.
The disease is not so malignant as
when it first came to this country. but
in its nildeSt form it, is bad enough.
ana anybody who has had even Il touch
of it knows we'll the difference between
the grip ana any ordinary cold. /. seem;
To iefy all ordinary precautions. and
when il tinds Il constitution weak at
any particular point serious complies
tons frequently follow. No doubt a
season OF sharp. cold weather would go
far toword relieving the country from
the unpleasant prevalence Of this
disease.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-06
All Atlantic Records Broken,

Tie Lusitania and Mauretania proved to
be the fastest ships ever constructed when
they broke all previous records by cross
ing tie Atlantic in less than ter days
This wonderful attainment is practical
triumph we can ell appreciate. The most
nractical method for curing ailments Of
the stomach and bowels is to resort tn
Ho$tetter's Stomach; Btters The many
thousands OF persons cured by i. during
the past - years are in a position to fully
appreciate its merit and a similar expert
ence Will be yours if you will start at
once. It cures and prevents poor appe-
tites. sour risinGs. dyspepsia, indigestion
costiveness. biliousness. female ills, gen.
eral debility. cold and malariai fever. We
guarantee it pure. Try it today also n SIX
your druggist for a free COPY al. our 1895
Almanac before the supply Is exhausted
II is very interesting,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-06

Chfna's imperial edict against opium is
great blow to the thousands who were
slaves to the habit and all sorts Of sub
terfuSes are resorted to by people who
think they cen not exist without it. The
law provides that people over sixty years
old are exempt from the new regulations.
arrhs has increased wonderfully. Sturdy
men of forty and fifty have decla red
themselves old and paint, cosmetics and
other artificial! means have been employed
to cheat the eye The governmen was
not slow to discover these frauds. and Sc
we're punishment has been inflicted on
MANY offenders. Although women are az
much addicted to the opium habit as men,
not single case has heen discovered
where woman made herself older in
order TO he allowed to use opium.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-06
The Maine Dairy Business.

The sharp attack on the Maine milk
supply by the Massachusetts health
authorities is something that cannot
go unnoticed and it cannot be an
swered by a mere denial based upon
State pride. The officials who made
the investigation were doubtless fair
minded and unprecedented. and after
visiting towns in Maine, Vermont, New
York, Connecticut and Rhode Island
from which milk is daily shipped to
Boston, they reported that the dairy
conditions Of the four Maine towns
visited were distinctly inferior in all
respects to those Of any other equal
area visited" This naturally raises
a protest from Maine and we sincerely
hope that it can be shown that the
Massachusetts, health officials were
mistaken, or at least that they drew
wrong conclusions from the small
number of dairies visited. 1t seems
incredible that there should be SO wide
a difference between dairy methods
and conditions in Maine and those in
Massachusetts and the other states
mentioned. The charge that comes
from Massachusetts is sweeping one
and it is of vital interest not only to
that state but also to the milk con-
s2rners OF our Maine cities.
We firmly believe that dairy condi-
tons in Maine. like farm conditions
generally here, are much better than
they used to be. There is much
greater attention to cleanliness, the
stock is better cared for and diseased
COWS o. herds are killed by process of
law. Dairying has long been Lead
ing business of our farmers and the
Importance of the business has greatly
increased in recent years. There are
many dairy barns which may be rated
as Eaodels. Perhaps the Massachu-
setts investigators happened to visit a
lie" OF the worst and judged all by
them. No doubt. however. there is
room for Improvement in many Maine
dairies--p probably in the average Maine
d"lry-and if this agitation results in
greater care and cleanliness. it will be
something TO be thankful for. The
co" IS not by nature fitted for the oc-
cupancy of a drawing room and if is
unre nable to expect a barn or
dairy to be as spick and span as the
Kitchen of the tidy Maine housewife
Eut the farmers of Maine cannot afford
TO let those of the neighboring states
get ahead Of them in dairy matters or
anything else
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-06
ESTABLISHED 1925
Monday, January 6, 1903.
"Amateurism" Again.

Again the wise men who are at the
head of the athletic affairs Of some of
the big colleges and univertities are
discussing the matter of summer
baseball" BY this is meant the eligi-
bility to their college mines of the under
graduates who have played baseball
for money during the summer vacation
or before entering college-not of
necessity league baseball, but on local
teams or on those maintained at the
many summer resorts. The rules
against such participation in summer
baseball by under graduates might well
be termed rules for the promotion of
hypocrisy, deceit and snobbishne5s.
They simply encourage the use Of as
during the vacation and teach them
how TO lie most effectually to college
authorities. They discriminate in
favor of the rich student and against
the boy who works his way through
college
The only fair rule for the eligibility
OF students to the various athletic
teams of their institutions is that the
young men shall be bona fide students
of good standing. and in receipt of no
remuneration, direct or indirect, for
their participation in college athletics.
OF course there are also the four-yea.r
rule and the one-year residence rule
which are agreed upon by practically
all institutions. If a college is to bar
n young man from its baseball team
because during the previous summer
he used his baseball ability to earn
money for his college expenses. why
should not the glee club management
turn down the candidate for the club
who has sung for money in a church
choir or in summer opera company?
The glee club gives its entertainment
for money. just as does the baseball
team. yet the ethical and amateur
status Of the glee club man who sings
for money in a church choir is never
questioned
Then there are the college boys who
earn money ny sending news to various
newspapers or by doing newspaper
wOrl, during the long summer vacation.
why should not they be barred from
the staff Of the college weekly or
literary monthly Certainly they are
not amateurs if the same rule is !
enforced which is applied to the
summer bali player. Then there IRE |
the bright undergraduates who earn
money during their course by tutoring |
those who arc delinquent in this or that |
branch. Are they debarred from the |
debating team because they have used
their brains 10 earn money as under
graduates" They cannot be called
"anintcurs'' and yet nobody questions
their right to be on the debating team
which goes into competition with the
representatives of a rival college.
Every Slcc club. the staff Of every
college publication. and every debating
team has men who are just as much
professionals a. the young man who
uses his baseball ability during the
summer to secure money to pay his
board and tuition during the college
year. 1t sounds absurd, but that is
about the size Of it. The Maine
colleges have long since taken the
sensible view OF this matter, and
sooner or later the big universities will
get tired Of the snobbishness and
hypocrisy involved in their present
attitude and will come around to the
same point OF view.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-06
Up to Nevada Now.

(New York Evening Post)
The whole country. we believe. is
with the President when he insists
that it is Ncvada's business TO protect
FIFE and property i'll Goldffcld AS to
immediate policy, Gov. Sparks has
gained point in securing the staying
of United States troops for three
weeks longer. while the President has
forced the Summoning Of the state
legislature in special session. There
is no disposition at Washington to do
police work, however important.
merely because Il state Cover nmcnt is
feeble, Indifferent or timornus.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-06
T 90 Lenient.
fSprinstield Republican,

fSpringfeld Republican,
The Boston automobile dealer who
was fined $1,000 and sentenced to three
months i'll the house of correction last
week for causing the death Of a Cam
bridge man through reckless driving.
got off altogether too easily At the
time of the accident he did not stop,
but speeded all the faster. and was
traced afterward with difficulty. The
police shoot common burglar who
fails to stop with his load nf silver
ware when they order him to, and the
sin of this chauffeur against society
was infinitely greater than that of the
thief. Criminal negligence in such a
case Is morally as wrong as murder.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-06

The New York Post. which has
always had high ideas about the
Filipinos. finds much encoura cement in
the shooting of the governor of Iloiio.
This. according to the Post. is proof
that lloilo is fast approaching the level
of Kentucky and Idaho. The Post is
disappointed. however. in the Philip
pine assembly. 1t has been in session
two months, but las not yet had a
single De ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS affair.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-06
Can't Stay Away.

milwaukee, Evening wisconsin,
The fact that the tide of immmigra-
ton during November was % per cent
stronger in volume than in the same
month of last year is remarkable, in
view of the tremendous outflow of for-
eigners to their old homes during No.
vember. The United States is an ire
sistible magnet for ambitious people of
the old world
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-06
The lYnchincs of 1907.

The lvnchmg record of the United
were done to death by mobs. or practi-
Cally one q week tor 4 year. This is the
smallest number Tor any year since
authentic records have been kept. and
for this the country Win be thankful.
The average yearly number for the past
% years has been 1879 The largest
number was IS in 1892 Yet the num-
her for 1907 is far too large. and the
blot remains. Al OF these sc lynchinss
took plsce IL, the southern states. and
81 Of the victims were negroes. The
''usual cause" proved or alleged ac-
counted for fewer than Il third OF the
number. One was killed for being the
father "f boy who jostled white
woman; another for heing victor over
a White man i'll 4 fight: one for express
ing sympathy With Il mob's victim. ana
Negroe woman and her son We're shot
for the crime OF the husband and
father. whom the mob could ~; find.
Even debt of three dollars was ac-
cepted in one case rs being a sufficient
excuse FOR visiting the extreme penalty
upon the debtor. Alabama led in this
bad eminence with thirteen victims:
Mississippi came next with twelve and
. Louisiana and Georgia followed with
eight and six respectively. Florida and
North Caroline went through the yea:
with clean record. Oklahoma had
hardly been 4 state for a month whcr
her people put to death two mer
without due process of law. The de.
crease in the number of 1897 lynching.
from those of 1905 was about 90 pc,
cent, and etaas hope that the present
year win show at least as great if no
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-06
America Up-to- Date.

louisville Courier-Journal)
The meanest man is the man who
gives his sweetheart a cut-rate Christ
mas present because the rich malefac-
tors and their pursuer have combined
to maui the Stats out of the stock
market Let us be joyful while the yule
log burns, even if we must pawn
something in January
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-06

Hemp is = Philippine natural MONOPOLY
II cal rot he grown Droiita bly, in any
other "At Of the world. Tho United
states is the largest consumer
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-06
The Inlook Keeps Them Busy.
New York WORLDLY

(NeW YORK W0rlU.)
Somebody writes to the Tribune that
the scenery around the new prison site
on the Hudson is too good for convicts.
But since when were prisoners sent up
the river for the outlook?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-06
Nor does it appear to have JEFF Davis
in its membership.
Maine Gossip
CauseandeHect.

Heboltsa sandwichands
ApieceortwoofIie:
neutrality-suspicious.
Whitley oucanbatyoureye
Then later on. there comes to him
A very common question;
He wonders how it was that he
Contracted Indigestion.
Milwaukee Sentinel
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-06
VOICES OF THE PRESS,
Let's Try to Distribute It!

(Atchison Globe)
We often regret that the Christmas
spirit is not distributed through this
year.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-06

| Auburn SenI out $40. AZ cases OF SnOeS
during 1907, the shipments being very
large taking the year as whole, and
| far above the average
| Charles A. Lyons of the ArOOStooll
Pioneer. Houlton, has bought out A.
W. Halls interest in that paper, and
will hereafter run it alone as editor
and proprietor.
| The knights Templar of Rumford
Falls will entertain those of Lewiston
and Bath next st. Johns day, June "a.
the invitation having been extended
and accepted last week.
| Ellsworth is anticipating the stir and
hustle, which the TWO conventions will
make in the city this month. The State
convention of the Junior Order of Amer
! lean Mechanics will be held at Lib
erty hall Friday, Jan. 10. The Odd Fell
lows district convention is to be held
! just a week later.
| Fort Fairfield Review: The oldest
man can't remember when northern
| Maine before had SO warm Il Novem-
Der and December. One or two zeroes
have been reported, but we can't fine
where and when il has been colder than
| five above. This is almost marvellous.
Gus.
Two launchings at Bath ship yards
are to take place this month. The first
will be at the yard OF the New Eng
land Co, on January Is. when The four
masteG schooner Bertha L. Downes,
quilt for the Benedict Manson Co. Of
New Haven. Conn. will be sent over
board. The second will be the four
inasted schooner William l.. Wilson
which will be launched on Tic 18th
from the yard of the G. G.. Decring C.
The insurance agents of Ellsworth
have received the new schedule Of rates
for this city and the decrease in the
cost Of Insurance is very gratifying to
thaI, who have ,abcred hard 20 bring
about this result.
A Higgins Hill man sends word to
the Fort Fairfield Review that one OF
his ncishbors. Il we'll known citizen
(who:n he ramcs). bathed in the CHM
brook December Il. Presumably the in
tcrSst OF the matter consists in the late
ness of the season in which the man
took his brook bath. not particularly
in the fact that he had taken bath at
all
Sterling FcSScnden, son of Judge and
Mrs. Nicholas Fessenicn Of Fort Fair
field. is en- his way home from Shang-
hal. China. where he has been located
for the past half dozen years. Mr.. F'es-
ScEden graduated from Bowdoin in
| 1896 and after practicinS law in New
York for a few years lie went to
Shanghai az the representative Of the
American Trading company. OF late
he has been practicing law in that city
end his present visit to the United
| states IS on Il matter Of business at
| Washington. He will visit Maine be-
| fore he returns.
Herbert Myrick, editor Of the New
! England Homestead. believes chat the
time is now rite for "A great onward
farm values are to gradually increase
until they reach a parity with the West
where land is worth S25 to 500 IN acre
! Or more. He says Of Maine that: Not
one person i'll 1000 in New England, nor
one i'll 10000 outside Of New England
realize that Maine is relatively undo
ve,oped that the Pine Tree Stat is to
the Northeast WHAT Texas is tn the
| Southwest.
MAINE EDITORIAL COMMENT.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-06

Not since the records have been kept
failed to cicse in December.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-06

Bowdoinham reports "a births and 81
deaths for the year that has just end
ed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-06

Somerset county loses one of its best
citizens in the death of Hon. Edward
P. Page.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-06

a greater stride toward respect for law
in the South.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-06

Auburn sent out 976.749 cases of shoes
during 1907, the shipments being very
large taking the year as whole, and
far above the average.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-06

Charles A. Lyons of the AroOStooll
W. Halls interest in that paper, and
Will hereafter run it alone as editor
and Iroprlet tor.
Free press., 1908-01-11
LOCAL NEWS.
s0s0s0sosGs0e0ece0e0e0s9'

.
Hugh Fitzpatrick has joined the U.
S. Army and gone to the PHILIPPINES.
John Thomas, register of the U. S.
Land Office at Colby, was down on
business Tuesday.
John Troth is now hustling new
members for the A. o. U. w. at
Courtland, Kansas.
Jas. Behan came up from Wilson
Monday evening to attend a meeting
of the Masonic lodge.
Frank Schoendaller has completed
his new house west of Hays. He has
put up very nice residence.
The Normal, the Public and the
Parochial schools welcomed the stu
dents back last Monday morning.
Miss Dana Reams who was the guest
of the Misses Freese returned to her
home at Salina Tuesday morning.
Misses Anna and Jennie Bell Gass-
man are the guests of their brother
N. P. Gassman. They arrived last
week.
The boys basket ball teams of the
Normal have received regulation suits.
They have games scheduled with the
St. Johns cadets of Salina the first of
Of next month.
The University students returned to
Lawrence the first of the week to re-
), sumo their school duties. There will
Ibe no more holidays until the regular
summer vacation.
George Zeigler of Hays City, a
nephew of Mrs. T. P. Ham and Mrs.
J. w. Kerns, has been in Oakley this
week visiting with his aunts and
cousins and attending the leap year
ball. Oakley Graphic.
Wilson Echo.-I. NJ. Yost and E. d.
Yost and family of Hays and Mrs. l.
n, Yost and son Lindermann of Kan
sas City spent Christmas with G. A.
Lester and family of this city, partici-
pating IN family reunion.
Miss Nellie Reeder left Sunday morn
ing to resume her studies at Wellesley,
Mass. Not many college students
come half across the United States to
spend Christmas, but Miss Nellie, hav-
ing been in the east attending college,
lad not spent Christmas at home for
three years.
Free press., 1908-01-11
Remarkable Rurular-Proof Safe.

The most remarkable burglar-proof
safe in the world has just been placed
in bank at Newburg Island. At night
the safe is lowered by cables into an
impregnable metallic-lned sub-vanlt Of
masonry and concrete. After reaching
the bottom it is fastened down by
massive steel lugs, operated by a
triple time lock. Until these iugs are
released automatically at desired
time, no human agency eaa. raise the
safe, and TO breaE in through a mass
Of stone and concrete which measures
10 feet by 10 feet by i6 feet with
dynamite would wreck the building
without MAKING the saSa arasl~aaA
Free press., 1908-01-11

E. B. Fritts made a business trip to
Victoria Tuesday.
Jos. Dreiling of the Midland Elevator
Co. spent Sunday at his home in Wal
ker.
The Misses Samuelson of Ellis were
visiting with their sister Mrs. Lou Bell
this week.
The roads have been very rough for
the past month but are now becoming
passable again.
Miss Hannah Kunz who has been
visiting near Victoria the past week
returned Sunday evening.
Miss Grace Hoff who is a student at
the Kansas Wesleyan Business College
returned to Salina Tuesday morning.
Regent Griffith returned Saturday
evening from meeting of the board
of the State Agricultural College at
Manhattan.
Thos. Carrick and Jerry Fellers
shipped a load of hogs to the K. C.
market on Monday. Mr.. Fellers ac-
companied the shipment.
Miss Monroe and Miss Daisy Monroe
spent Sunday in Wakeeney with their
cousin Georgia Moore. Miss Moore
is just recovering from a severe attack
of pleurisy.
Mrs. Rosina Lester and her children
Lucille and Myron. who have been
spending several days with friends and
relatives in Hays returned to their
home in Wilson on Wednesday.
This Office acknowledges the receipt
of Congressional Directory of the
Goth Congress from Congressman w.
A. Reeder. The book is quite interest
ing reading to all those who are inter-
ested in the doings of our national
congress and may be seen by any who
care to call at this office.
Russell Record. Miss Sophia Dickin-
son came down from Hays Tuesday
morning to visit friends. Judge
Ruppenthal is able to again attend to
his duties after his recent seige of i'll
ness. ----- Mrs. A. d. CoIliver of HAYS
came down Monday morning to visit a
couple days with her parents F. s.
Rockefeller and wife while Mr.. Coli
yer was attending the meeting OF
The Corn Breeders Association" al
the Manhattan Agricultural College.
She returned home last evening to be
present at the New Years reception
to be held in Hays in honor of the
Misses Monroe who are visiting there
from Topeka.
Free press., 1908-01-11

NO soul, no Sinew and no iOfnt.
Yet most men by thee are surprised.
You get so quickly to the point
That" mused Watkins Furbish.
isn't half bad for an amateur. There's
a lot OF philosophy i'll those few lines,
too. l suppose almost any man could
be a philosopher if he would only set
himself to it. It's matter of habit.
that's all. Socrates probably could
have been just as inpatient as any of
the rest of us if he hadn't acquired the
habit of being philosophical It's a
great thing. | wonder why l never
thought of 1T before?"
He sat for moment or two think
ing it over and then remembering that
it would be necessary to get ready for
the duties of the day he tossed the
tack from him and slipped a leg into
the other section of his trousers Then
he fished shoe out from under the
bed, and, having Put it on, looked for
its mate. 1t was at the other side of
the room, near the closet door. Still
feeling that it was splendid to be a
philosopher, Mr.. Furbish started
across the carpeted floor. He paused
o1CSI nc HdQ IdhCn d SCSD OF TWO ana
said to himself:
Yesterday 1 would have complained
because this shoe was tight across the
toe. To-day it gives me no concern. 1
am able to bear it with equinimity.
And aside from the physical incon-
venience that comes from permitting
little things to fret us we who are
able to control ourselves are heirs to
a feeling of pride that in itself is up
lifting and inspiring"
Then he took another step forward.
uttered wild yell and sat down with
suddenness that caused his wife.
who was below getting breakfast, to
fear that the house had been struck
by a meteorite
Watkins she cried rushing to him
where he writhed upon the floor,
what in the world is the matter?"
Watkins told her. But his words
were disconnected and unfit for pub
lication. He had stepped on the tack
again-and not with the foot that was
in the shoe.-Chicago Record-Herald