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Pocahontas star herald., 1908-10-16
Two Newspapers Suspended

The Jackson County Herald and
Newark Journal have both sus.
pended publication. l. B. Much
more, who leased the Herald from
B. f. Whitaker, discontinued the
paper to run job office. Oscar f.
Craig of the Newark Journal ar
ranged with the Batesville Guard to
complete all subscription accounts
and has accepted position In Mem.
phis.
Pocahontas star herald., 1908-10-16
GeString Wagons

l have just received car load of
the celebrated Gestring wagons. l
have been selling these wagons for
the past several years and they are
giving universal satisfaction. Very
strong, durable and light running.
A. z. Schnabaum.
Pocahontas star herald., 1908-10-16
Teddy'S Danger.

Senator Bob Taylor scored with q
good story, well pointed, during his
speech few nights ago in Chatts-
nooga.
speaking of substitutes" said
the senator, with twinkle in his
eye, 81 think Roosevelt is going to
get hurt like the man who applied
for a pension on the ground that he
had been shot during the Civil war
When the pension agent asked the
veteran what battles he hadbeen in,
he said he hadn't been in any battles.
Then the pension agent wanted to
know where he was shot The old
war horse Immediately confessed
that he was shot in the substitute"
This story aroused the vast audi.
ence to spasms of laughter. The
longer they thought of it the more
they laughed. After they got through
laughing Senator Taylor made his
political point by adding, in his in
imitabIe way, +" think Roosevelt
will get shot in the substitute"
Should YOU want to buy White
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Pocahontas star herald., 1908-10-16

Should YOU want to buy White
lime and lola Portland cement, call
on Spinnenweber &c Peters.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-18

and the words spoken by the operator
at the central station are heard at each
of the outlaying stations simultaneous
ly. The operators are provided with
a harness holding both transmitter and
receiver to their head so that their
hands may be left free to operate type.
writer's to take down messages.
When the switch at the central
station is not thrown into the circuit
the telephones may be used to con-
verse with a single station as usual
without necesitating the use of another
telephone. Similarly it also is possible
to have a message come from any one
station and go to all the others stimuli
taneously without waiting to be re-
peated at the central office.
The system has been perfected by
Philadelphia, after over ten years ex-
perimenting. 1t is said that Vienna
newspaper has somewhat similar ap-
paratus by means of which it sends out
news by telephone to upward of 800
f.cribers-Technica World Maya.
zine
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-18
Royal Engine Drivers.

The Khedive of Egypt has a private
railway from his palace at Ras -el-Til
in Ale Xandria to his country place al
Montazar, and when he goes from one
place to the other he drives the engine
himself. The line is 10 miles long
and he seems to get keen pleasure out
of the excitement of running an engine
at full speed. During his last visit
to France he rode on the cab with the
driver CT the express from Calais to
Amiens and handled the levers him
self
Other royal personages have sought
diversion from cares of state at va
rious times in engine driving. The
king of Spain is very expert and fear
less as a locomotive engineer. Before
his marriage he used to ride on the
footsplate of the royal train with the
driver and take lessons in mana gins
the engine.
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria Is
another royal engine driver. Recent
~ he drove the express from Able
vile to Paris under the superinten.
dence of the engineer.
The marquise Of Downshire vies
with royalty in following this pursuit
He has a private railway at Hillsbor.
ough and an engine which he drives
himself at speed of 40 miles ar
hour.-From the New York Sun.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-18
An Obadiah Story.
Bangor News.)

NbdHSOT NeNS.)
Politically Mr. Gardner is chiefly
conspicuous from having made no
record as a partisan, and hence his
adaptibility at the present time for
filling hole that all of the known
Democrats in Maine have declined to
occupy. So far as can be learned, the
nearest Mr.. Gardner ever came to
allying himself publicly with arr
candidate was four years ago, when he
was extensively quoted as favoring the
candidacy of Hon. Bert NJ. Fernald of
Poland as against the candidacy OF
Hon. William T. Cobb of Rockland.
Whether or not it will be possible to
enlist Mr.. Gardner actively in the
Fernald campaign this year is as yet
uncertain, though every qualified voter
of Maine is entitled to two full guesses
on the subject.
AS we become older our thoughts re-
vert back to the old days in Maine
when poetry was more fashionable
than it is now. and when anything
which Observation-Disclosures poetry or
otherwise-was easy to remember and
often quoted In those primitive days,
which we believe and hope will never
return. there was a third selectman in
Waldo county town whose Christian
name was Obadiah, though the family
name was not Gardner or anything
that sounded like Gardner The rea-
son why the family name is not given
here is that our particular Obadiah is
now dead and he was good man, ana
as he has children and grandchildren
now living, they may not care for a
full biography of their ancestor. And
this Obadiah. since deceased, had been
third selectman for years, doing all
the figuring and getting of the tax
rate and other real hard work for the
entire board, who praised him highly
and paid him poorly for his services
In his extreme old age this Obadiah,
since deceased, took it into his head
that he would like to be first seectman
before he passed away, and proceeded
to write out and circulate ballots for
himself az well as to make public an
nouncement of his desires and inten-
tions. But the Obadiah who is now
dead had not a particle of business in
his make up. He could add. subtract.
multiply and divide with accuracy and
despatch. but when it came to adjust
ing town business. such as beating
down the price of board for town
paupers. and turning the rotting
planks in town bridges upside down to
make them appear nearly new. the
third selectman couldn't tell anything
more about these delicate matters
than a man who had graduated from
Harvard with high honors. Every
citizen knew the exact situation and
everybody understood. except obadiah
since deceased. that the said Obadiah
as first selectman was impossible. No
body, however. was brutally frank
enough to let the third selectman know
of how he was thought of until the
village fool-who was also the village
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-18
Miniature Marvels.

Almost any commonplace object
magnified under a good lens, will re-
veal astonishing and unexpected form,
structure and life. For instances:
Insects of various kinds may be seen
in the cavities of grain of sand.
Mould is a forest of beautiful trees,
with branches, leaves and fruit.
Butterflies are fully feathered
Hairs and tubes filled with plth and
ornainonted on the outside with scales.
The surface of the human body is
covered with scales like a fish. A
single grain of sand would cover 80
of these scales, and yet scale covers
absut 600 pores. Through these mar
row openings the perspiration forces
itself like water through sieve.
Each drop of stagnant water con-
tains a world of creatures swimming
with as much freedom as whales in
the Seattle Circle.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-18
The Matter Of Freight Rates.

The recent discussion over long
Washington Post to give some inter
esting comparisons between the
present rates and those of earlier days.
1t takes the cost of bringing wheat
from the West to the East as an ex-
ample and shows that in 1866 it cost
461 cents to transport a bushel Of
wheat from Chicago to New York by
rail, whereas in 1907 the rate was 11.3
cents In 1873 is cost 10 and a frac-
ton pence to send a bushel of wheat
from New York to Liverpool but in
1907 the rate was 1.75 pence From
this it would appear that transporta-
ton is thing controlled by fixed
business laws. In 1866 there was no
through line between New York and
Chicago, but a bushel of wheat billed
from one of those centers to the other
was in the custody of and was carried
by several different railroads, and
HeHCe llle cHOTIllOuS ldTlIL Oh dDONe 40
cents a bushel. Today wheat may be
sent from the Kansas fields to the
Boston wharves over what is
practically one line.
The Post points out another phase
of the case. There never yet has been
a railroad consolidation that has not
resulted in lower rates on through
freights. 1t is the memorable law of
cheapness operating cheapness, the
emperor of trade. Cheap transporta-
ton makes cheap product; cheap pro-
duct makes large consumption; large
for producer, transporter, and factor.
Even after Dewitt Clinton had
caused the construction of the Erie
Canal. and as late as 1850, the cost of
transporting wheat from the West to
the seaboard was so great as
practically to prohibit the traffic; but
by 1870 wheat in enormous quantities
sought the European markets through
the lakes, the canals, and over the rail-
roads, until today it takes but Is cents
to send a bushel of wheat from the
field of the American farmer to the
mill of the English flour manufacturer
We have in this country the cheapest
capitalized railroads in the world, and
with us railroad freights are the lowest
in the world
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-18
Democratic Enthusiasm.

If the nomination Of Bryan did not
awaken more enthusiasm in other
parts of the country than it did among
Democrats in this section there would
be mighty little ginger in the
campaign this fall.-Bath Independent.
No enthusiasm in Maine over
Bryan? The idea! Why, even the
voluble editor of the Waterville
Sentinel cannot find words to express
his enthusiasm, and the editor of the
Portland Argus wept in his great
emotion when the news came from
Denver. And did you not read that
telegram which Doc" Jones himself
sent from Bangor to the Peerless One
in Nebraska? Even the enthusiasm
aroused among the Maine Democrats
over the nomination of Obadiah, the
minor prophet is not greater than
that which has followed the decision OF
the delegates at Denver that the party
is to have the glorious privilege of
being led to a third defeat by William
Jennings Bryan. ~
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-18
Slanderers and Gossjps,

A Washington preacher thinks that
slanderers and gossips. We isolate
those who spread contagion and i'm
prison those who take our property"
he declared. land kill persons who
commit certain crimes. Then why
should those who kill regulations, steal
character and spread detrimental lies.
go free?' 1t is a most proper and
pertinent inquiry. and modern society
must squirm in very uncomfortable
Often the wrong done by the gossip is
greater than that done by the
murderer the thief or the one who
poisons village we'll
Half of those now in the prisons and
asylums of the land might be set free
with less injury to the public than is
daily accomplished by cowardly and
nasty-minded scandalmongers who
walk our streets or sit in our parlors-
Responsibility, but whose SNUG souls
are rotten with hypocrisy and to whose
mpurity all the world appears impure.
They need only grain of half truth to
enable them to raise at once a crop of
lies which they scatter broadcast with
tireless tongues; or perhaps they
weave their specious and suggestive
tale wholly from the strands of their
unhealthy imaginations. and as they
selves. Perhaps some of them are
without conscious malice as they
whisper the rumor which may blast d
life or wreck a business or disrupt a
home but so is the burglar, the forger
and the ravisher. So is the snake in
the grass, the carrion vulture and the
skunk.
In the old times the gossips were
given the ducking stool. the pillory or
the stocks-punishment which are
classed as "cruel and unusual in Our
day-but it is doubtful if the loath-
some disease from which the chronic
gossip suffers was ever cured except
by DEATH Exile in each others society,
as is done in the case of lepers, would
be the most fitting way to deal with
them. They are usually regarded by
tolerant and easy going humanity as
merely common nuisanceS. but they
are far worse than that: they are
malignant ulcers gnawing at the vitals
of society.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-18
Timber in England.

The British government committee
which has been investigating the
matter of Irish forestry, takes notable
cognizance Of the waste of the
forests in the United States, and as
about a third of the supply entering
Great Britain (nearly s35 900 900 worth
annually comes from the United
States and Canada, there is a logical
and intimate interest in England in the
American treatment of the American
forestry problem.
1t is pointed out by this committee
that the prices of some varieties of
timber in England have risen 80 to 40
per cent. in the last 20 years; also that
the quality of the timber imported
there is inferior to what it was years
ago. the natural and correct inference
from these facts being that the timber
producing countries are using up at
home the best of their own product.
All of which leads the committee to
report in favor of a British national
scheme of forestry. as a profitable in
vestment of the state. Portions Of Ire
land are looked upon as quite suitable
for reforestation. We trust the scheme
will not be found unconstitutional.
Boston Advertiser
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The Democratic Convention.
portland Express.)

No other single fact strikes the OBJ
server of yesterdays Democratic State
Convention with so much force as
does the fact that the most telling
points were purely personal ones.
Principles may have been limited at,
but when they were the delegates
wearied, and showed signs of i'm
patience, but they cheered themselves
hoarse and INDUCED in immoderate
laughter whenever a speaker made a
Slurring personal allusion. One was
reminded of the disposition OF neigh
borhood gossip to belttle the absent
one. and it was impossible not to SYM
pathiZe with speaker who said at
the close of the proceedings, 1T is a
great pity they can't find something
to talk about except their neghbors."
The fault may not be exclusively a
Democratic fault, but it was too much
in evidence yesterday.
The second noticeable thing about
yesterdays convention was the sum-
mary fashion in which the candidate,
Mr.. Gardner. proceeded to dispose OF
the saloon question in the campaign.
He recognizes, as do others who have
hand upon the public pulse, that a
campaign fought with the avowed
purpose of bringing back into the
State the licensed saloon would be
fated from it's inception And so he
deprecates, in SO many words, the
time that has been spent fighting on
the resubmission issue. and told his
credulOus friends that by getting an
amendment to the Constitution pro-
viding for the initiative and referen-
dunn applying alike to the Constitu-
ton and the statutes they might ac-
complish their object. 1t is well that
the people have been given to under
stand first that the Democratic party
has discovered that upon a straight is
sue they may not hope to install the
rum shop as a legaized institution in
Maine
Another interesting fact about the
convention yesterday was the mani
fest GOODNESS toward Bryan. The
platform does not mention him. A
perfunctory endorsement was wired
him, but that was as far as the lead
ers would let the conyention go and
Mr.. John Worth Kern of Indiana was
ignored entirely. Then again in the
high contest of the day, for one of the
positions as candidate for elector it
was no sooner announced that the
aspirant, one Mr. Maddox, was a
Bryan man. than the editor of the
Waterville Sentinel came to his feet
to oppose his selection and the poor
fellow was showed under for his pre-
sumption in supposing that a Bryan
man would be recognized by this con-
vention.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-18
MAINE EDITORIAL COMMENT.
T aft and Sherman May Come to Maine.

Lewiston JournalD
Announcement was made TO the re
publican State committee at New Mead
ows Inn, Wednesday, by Senator Frye
that William IL. Taft. the presidential
candidate, might be induced to come into
Maine on a brief campaign later IN the
season and hope was also expressed that
the candidate for Vice President on the
national ticket might also be induced TO
visit the State before the September
election and speak in at least Portland,
Lewiston, Augusta and Bangor. NO de-
finite plans in this direction were made
however. Mr.. Fernald stated that he eX-
pected to speak all over the State and
hoped to visit about every town and plan
tation in the State during the campaign.
He said that he has had assurances that
the req ublicans will score a sweeping vic
tory this year and he has had the plural
ity placed as high as 10000 Two years
ago it was a little over 5000. Members of
the committee from various sections of
the State predicted a large increase in
the republican vote this year over the
vote of two years ago. The campaign
will lie opened August /, and will be con-
Quoted with vigor and energy.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-18
Forestry in Argentina.

south America is beginning to sho"
the world that she recognizes the 'aiue
of her national resources by taxing UP
the question of forest preservation
The republic of Colombia has ALREADY
outlined a forest policy and now INC
people of the Argentine republic nave
taken I'D the discussion of forestry
and it's application to the management
of the country's rich hardwood tlfhper
areas.
So far the destruction Of Valuapie
frnit trees has received more atten-
ton than that of forest trees. The
following is a quotation from an aru-
Gle which recently appeared IN Id
Nacion and was translated by the
Buenos Ayres Herald.
.'To make beginning Of my discom-
forting recital. I will first mention that
in La Rlcja this senseless war against
nature has laid low large plantations
of magnificent and highly productive
orange trees, the fruit of when IS
vastly superior to the importation
from Paraguay here consumed. HAD
these trees been properly cultivated,
the province would now possess
source of wealth which would have
spared it the shame of going a-begging
from the national budget.
"In Mendoza the olive trees, cult
waited as far back as 200 years ago by
the Jesuits, have completely disap-
peared. There, however, be it said
with satisfaction, are men of the
stamp of Cvit, Seru, and others like
them. who are busted with planta-
lions that promise to make good the
loss. In Juan the telling has been
stupidity prodigal, with the result that
not even half of the plantations re-
main which thirty years ago tenn
perel its torrid climate and beautif1ed
its valleys.
'In Santiago del E,stero, Salta. Cata-
marca. and Jujuy there are signs of
the same barbarc destruction, which,
unless it is arrested, will soon leave
those provinces as bare as a maize
field that has been ravaged by the To-
Gusts.
LAS for Tucuman. the Tucuman OF
poetic legends mentioned by Avel-
laneda, it is today almost unrecog-
nizablt. 1t would no longer be true
to repeat his words where he says:
The Grange and lemon tree which
produce in rich abundance flowers and
fruit, pertaining the ambient air,
feeding the inhabitants and affording
them a house and home, are most
beloved by them as the emblem of the
felicitous union of the useful and the
beautiful No; even the famous and
magnificent orange trees of the city
plaza have disappeared to make way
for more pretentious plants than that.
unit for the climate and inappropriate
for the spot, cut the feeble and sorry
figure of weakened and sapless con-
sumptives."
From the destruction of the fruit Or
chards to that of the forests is but a
step, and the people are already wax
ing up to the fact that they must take
measures to protect their enormous
and valuable forest resources. The
work Of the United States government
along this line is attracting attention
and is being watched with consider
able interest.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-18
Phoning to IS at Once.

Dependent for many years on an
antiquated system by which it was
necessary to call up each station house
separately, thus losing much valuable
time. the Philadelphia Department of
Public Safety, which has charge of the
city's police, recently installed a sys-
tenn of simultaneous telephony by
which a message may be sent from a
single transmitter to thirty-five points
at once.
The wires are so connected that, by
throwing a single. switch. all the
stations are brought into the circuit
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-18

The present Republican administra-
ton has fixed the stock market where
il cannot go any lower without the
bottom dropping out.-Waterville
Sentinel.
1t requires no stretch of the
Imagination to understand the
particular kind of stocks which the
editor of the Sentinel has in mind
But it puts a most terrific strain on
the Imagination to place upon the
government at Washington the blame
for the condition of things in the
Sentinel office.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-18

There is more Catarrh in this section of
the county than all other diseases put
together, and until the last few years
doctors pronounced it a local disease and
prescribed local remedies. and by con-
stantlv failing to cure with local treat
ment pronounced it incurable. Science
has proven catarrh to be n constitutional
disease and therefore reuires constitution
al treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure. man
ufactured by F, J. Cheney & Co. Toledo.
Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on
the market. 1t is taken internally in
doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. 1t
acts directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system They offer one
hundred dollars for any case it fails to
cure. Send for circulars and testimonials.
Address: F. ]. Cheney &; Co. Toledo. o..
Sold by Druggists, 75c
Take Halls Family Pills for constipa-
ton.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-18
Remarkable Feats Performed by the
Hindoo Coolies in the Far East

Mr.. Benson of the London Times, in
his extremely interesting account of the
YounEhusband expedition into Tibet,
gives some remarkable facts about the
carrying power of the men who were
employed to do the heavy work of the
Journey. ....
The character of the mountain coun-
try placed all transportation on the IN
dividual unit Thousands of coolies
We're used. The pay was per pound,
and the average load was eighty to
ninety pounds TO the man. Some.
however. carried double. and even three
times the average, in order to earn ex-
ira compensation.
Mir. Benson tells of one FIindoo coolle
who carried a piece of machinery
weighing 515 pounds ZIP the mountain
slope. making his way from boulder
10 boulder with this almost incredible
load upon his back.
As contrast, Mr.. Benson calls at
tention to the fact that the Engllsh
trade unions will not allow workman
to carry loaG of more than fourteen
pounds. If his tools or the materiai
weigh more than that he mus. nave
a helper.
1t may well be asked if this klnd VI
civilization is going to work favoraoy
to the proper development of the IN
dividual. The man with his plain iooi
and the full exercise of his muscle VIII
be apt to produce sturdier stock thah
the one who is limited by rules thd'
would seem too mild for children. There
is no int of comparing coolle anu
skilled labor. hut there is Il very hlee
question of influence upon the rlsn'
progress of the racc-Bal timore sui