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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-23
GLEANiNGs AND GOSSIP.

If Chicago girls nose is worth S2"O.
what would one of her feet be worth?
St. Louis papers will please answer
Chicago Tribune.
The first Chinese school of forestry
has Just been opened at Mukden. The
Chinese empire paid no attention in the
past to the destruction of its forests.
Daniel r. Pope of Danvers is one of
the politicians of the old school. He is
81 wears old. and lie has served on the
Danvers beard of selectmer for 80 years.
The linen industry is the greatest
manufacturing industry Ireland pos
sessas. there is invested in it something
like SIS coo and it gives employment
to I0,0t1 people.
1t is sail in Galloway county. No. that
ham from Mexico can lac distinguished
from one living in Jefferson City by the
breath. the WHISKY sold in the two places
being entirely different.
Leap year is a stern reality to c. W.
Terry, president of the State and Trust
bank in EdWardSVille Ill. Six bona f.de
proposals of marriage have been made to
him by as many girls.
This is the first year since 1851, it is
SAID, that no commercial ice mas been
harvested for shipment from the kerne-
bee river, in Maine. 1t is announced that
none VIII he harvested this year, for the
reason that plenty is being cut on the
Hudson and further south
A pair of carving shears has been de-
vised especially for those who find the
talent of carving hard to ACQUIRE. The
upper blade is a carving knife. and the
denied lower blade forms a clip. The
snears are easy to handle and permit one
TO attack any part of the fowl.-March
Popular Mechanics.
Asbestos sheets are now being nut un-
der some of the berths in railroad trains
to keep the heat of the radiators away
from slurbo:.ng passengers. The Con-
solidated could follow suit on its early
morning train to New York with good
effect. You either freeze or roast to
death in the sleeping car.
A cosmopolitan citizen says that the
foreign artists, philanthropsts. editors,
SCIENTISTS and socio!ogists who go to New
York city to study America are likely to
be led into al, sorts of errors if they CON
fine their studies and observations 10 the
metropolis, for New York city is less tvn-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-23

The storm is still raging around the
head of Hon. j. Ham Lewis of Chica-
go, that pink and picturesque exemplar
of legal ethics, who declared not long
ago in law school lecture that women
have no idea of the sanctity of an oath.
That there should be no mistake as
regards his sentiments on this subject.
the Hon. ]. Ham repeated in a long til
rade that "she will go through fire and
wafer and will testify to- things as she
thinks her friends Wants her to see
Them and that she has mo conception
of the moral obligation entailed in tell
ing the TRUTH
The storm broke at once. If anybody
Of eminence agrees with Mr.. Lewis
they have been keeping very quiet
about it. Those who hold very differ
ent opinions are being heard from on
all sides. AS one experienced jurist
expressed it, the only thing that makes
most men tell the truth in court is the
fear of punishment for perjury, and
when you have to scare a man into
telling the truth. such an example of
vcracity loses much of it's virtue. The
same authority says it is harder to
scare a woman into anything if her
mind is set the other way, but he adds.
as an emollient, that her mind is gen.
orally set the right way.
One of the countrys best known
women lawyers gave an unconscious
point in favor of her sex's truthfulness
when she declared that all witnesses.
men and women are to some extent
swayed by sentiments in favor of the
person in whose interests they are tes-
trying Allowance must be made for
the temperamental differences.' and
positive virtues of love. loyalty and
self-sacrifice, but even then the scale
another phase in the general argu-
ment is interesting. and this, too, is
sugg asted by woman. "This matter
of evading the truth is even far older
than the remark made by an eminent
historic parsonage that he had said in
his haste that all men are liars. 1t is
quite possible and defendable,' con-
tinued the woman advocate, that in
what we may call the little things
of life women evade the truth more
often than men do, because they are
brought into contact with those little
| things. chiefly domestic, more often
than men are. Shall we tell the dis
eased that they are afflicted incurably?
| Shall we say to the dying that there
is no hope for them? Shall we give
an absolutely blunt direct answer to
pryirg inquiries that should never
have had utterance and which may
most probably be repeated as gossip
with such coloring as repetition and
imagination may inspire?''
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-23
THE THIRD DISTRICT
Republican Convention
WILL BE HELD IN
CITY HALL, WATERvILLE,
Wednesday, April 20, 1908
AT II O'CLOCK A. NJ.

for the purpose of nominating a can
didate for Congress to be voted for at
the State election Monday, September II.
1905. -t
To select two district delegates and
two alternateS to attend the National
Republican Convention to be held at
Chicago, Illinois. June 10. 1905 and transact
any other business that may properly
come before it. T.
The basis of representation will be rs
fellows Each City. Town and Plantation
will be entitled to one delegate, and for
each seventy-five votes cast for the Re-
publican candidate for Governor in 1906
an additional delegate. and for fraction
of forty votes in excess of seventy five
votes. an additional delegate.
Vacancies in the delegation Of any City
Town or Plantation can only be filled by
resident of the county in which the
vacancy EXISTS.
The district Committee will be in ses-
sion in the reception room of the hall at
nine o'clock, on the morning of the con-
venlion. for the purpose OF receiving the
credentials of delegates. Delegates in
order to be eligible to participate in the
convention, must be elected subsequent
to the date of the call for this con-
vention.
Per order District Committee,
JOSHUA w. BLACK
w. II. WILDES
FRED G. IIINSMAN
w. H. DAVIS
d&wtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-23
PERSONAL NOTES.

cavalry VARY. has been detailed as professor
of military science ana tactics at Cornell
University, Ithaca, n. ", to take effect
October H. 1908.
Henry Enute Nelson. son of United
States Senator Knute Nelson. of Mime
sofa. died in Colorado Springs. Col, last
week Of consumption. after long III
ness. He was 81 years Old.
Edwin A. Anderson has resigned as di-
rector of the State library in Albany N
Y, TO accept the position of assistant
librarian of the New York PUBLIC
Library. to take effect probaoi =. on m NAY a
rector of the Carnegie library At PlttS-
burg.
Prof. l.. s. Rowe. of the University of
Pennsylvania has been elected chairman
of the committee named by Secretary
Root to represent the United states in
the Pan-American movement to carry out
/ the suggestions OF the Rio conference
tween governments of the American con-
tinent.
Russell Riley. artist and litterateur. who
died in St. Louis last week after forty
years as a recluSe. was Assistant Secre-
tary OF the Confederate Navy during the
| Civil War. He was at one time an asso-
ciate OF General Robert f. Lee. who is
said to have given him ore of his swords
ed with several paintings showing mark
| ed skill.
Major General A. W. GTeelv. y. S. A.
will retire on March -. and President
Roosevelt and Secretary Taft are con.
sidering his successor. Brisadier General
Charles F. Hall, now in charge of the
General Staff College, at Fort Leaven-
worth. who retires April 20. may be pro-
NOTED because of his Civil War service
| Other possible selections are Brig adler
| General Frederick Funston. William H
| Carter. Tasker H. Bliss and Thomas II
| Parry. the senior officers of their grade
l n.y. Hon Of hoe
\ will give the President an opportunity
| to name Il brigader general
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-23

, rents of Magellan for sixteen days, and
one ship was lost and three turned
back. But Drake with an S0-ton ship
turned into the Pacific and up the
South American coast over the same
route that has been covered by Admir-
al Evans 1t was a marauding eXpedl-
ton, and vast spoils We're captured.
But the main fact of interest is that
he turned the prov of his small craft
westward and arrived at Javan port
on the 10th of March, 1880, and reached
the English port of Plymouth on the
2sth of September of the same year.
having thus sailed with a part of ms
fleet entirely around the world.
For nerve and hazardous daring the
round the world cruise of the great
is not to be compared with the earlier
achievement of the Golden Hind. But
what an impressive illustration of the
progress that has been made since the
era of Drake in the arts of shipbuild-
ing and in the science of navigation is
afforded by a comparison between the
fleet under Drake that set out on the
world round voyage and that under the
American commander bound on the
same mission. The S0-ton Golden
Hind could easily be loaded aboard any
one Of the battleships now at Magda-
lena Bay and carried as part of the
cargo. After Drake left the English
port in 1877 little was known of his adj
venturous enterprise until he sailed
back into an English port in 1880 and
gave an account of himself. Now our
great fleet is in almost constant COM
munication with home.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-23
A REPUBLICAN
STATE CONVENTION
will be held in the
ARMoRY, PORTLAND,
THURSDAY, APRIL 80, 1908
af IN osclaeL . A.
at 1870 o'clock p. M.

for the purpose Of selecting six candi-
oates for electors of President and Vice
president to the United States, and four
delegates at large and four alternates to
attend the National Republican Conven-
ton to he held in the City of Chicago, in
the State of Illinois, on Tuesday the 18th
DAY OF June, 1905, and the transacting OF
any other business that may properly
come before it.
The basis of representation will be as
follows: Each city, town and plantation
every rs votes cast for the Republican
candidate for Governor in 1895 an ad1l-
tional delegate, and for each fraction of
40 votes in excess of Is votes an-adIi-
tional delegate. Vacancies in the dele
cation of any city, town or plantation
can only be filled by residents of the
County in which the vacancies exist. -
The State Committee will be in session
1n the anteroom of the Armory at uaO
O. CLOCK r; M. on the day Of the Conven-
ton Tor the purpose Of receiving the ere.
dentials of delegates A delegate in or
ger 10 pc eligible to participate in the
convention must be elected subseo,ient
10 the date of this call, and delegates
CANNOT be elected under this call to the
State convention to be hereafter called
LOT the purpose of nominating q candf-
date for Governor. ~
An electors of Maine, without regard to
PAST political affiliations, who believe in
e ens principles of the Republican party
a az. endorse its policies, are cordially in
vlIed to unite under this call in eIectine
nelegates to this Convention.
rer order. Republican State Committee
SETH M. CARTER. Chairman.
BYRON BOYD, Secretary -u = -
Lewiston. Feb. II. 1e0o. ar
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-23
Maine Gossip
The Wistful DAYS.

What is there wanting in the spring?
The air is soft yesteryear;
The happy-nested green is here,
And half the world is on the wing.
The morning beclons, and like balm
Are westward waters blue and calm.
Yet something's wanting in the spring.
What is it wanting in the spring?
q. April. lover to up all
Wat is so pregnant in thy thr:ill
When children's merry voices ring?
What hauntS in the cooling dove
Mere subtle than the speech of love.
What nameless lack or loss Of spring?
Let youth do daily with the spring,
Call her the dead. the fair, the young;
And all her graces ever sung.
Let him, once more rehearsing sing,
They know, who keep a broken trySt
Till something from the spring To MISE,
We have not truly known the spring.
Robert Underwood Johnson.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-23
Sailing Around the World.

decentralization of the globe has
long since ceased to be anything unu-
suul 1T anything to dazzle the imagi-
nation. but even in this era of great
things the spectacle of 16 powerful
battl"ships. moving over course Of
80. COO miles and maintaining their Of
fensive and defensive equipments in
readiness for actual battle, is some
thing to make the world sit up and
take notice. No modern fleet has ever
undertaken any such practice cruise
as this, and it means that the powers
of the Old World will henceforth hold
America in increased respect. The
cruise Of the American fleet brings to
mind the first attempt of a battleship
fleet to sail around the earth. 1t was
three and third centuries ago, in
1872. to be exact. that the bold English
buccaneer, Francis Drake-known to
fame variously as Admiral or Sir
Francis Drake-landed at Panama.
burned the town of Porto Bello, seized
great spoils and before sailing away
journeyed across the isthmus and took
! look at the Pacific. His soul was
thereuron seized with a longing to
!, sail that great sea, and five years later
with five small ships. the greatest OF
which was 100 tons burden. he set out
again for the Spanish Main. He
coursed down the southern slope OF
South America and sailed through the
Strait of Magellan-that is. he got
through with just one ship. the Pelican
afterwards called the Golden Hind.
,'vHe battled with the winds and cur
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-23
Why We Do These Thinos.

Many customs are so common tha. W.
nave nave lost sight Of their origin Times and
IalltS nave changed. Relics OF oIden
80 have been handed on and carriedh
oo"n from generation to generation t.
CuIA pl IsrIIt uav -
Shakin% hands is ar example, and be-
gan in this way: When a1versaries were
ila hlhS truce with one Gnother each
weapon hand to ensure himself against
treachery. The truce concluded, they be-
came friends. and SO the custom grew as
"a sanitation between friends; even now
adays enemies do not shake hands iii,
peace "A truce-is made
,rerhaps the modern woman discovered
ny, u,tt. origin OF the curtsey, and that is
why IL has dropped out Of use AT one
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-23
For a Real Yachting Trophy.

There is much earnest talk among
prominent yacht owners of providing a
new trophy to represent the supremacy of
American yachting and holding it up to
invite the challenge of the yachting
world but on more liberal terms and con-
ditions than the arrangement now eX-
listing. Tie medicine that represents
supremacy in the American home today
is the celebrated Hostetters Stomach
BitterS. Through its ability to effect
cures it has progressed So rapidly that
now no one ever questions or doubts its
intrinsic value. 1t will restore the APP
petite, aid digestion. keep the bowels
open ard thus curing and preventing sick
headache, bloating. heartburn, vomiting.
dyspepsia. Indigestion. billiousness. colds.
grippe. spring fever. general debility or
malaria Try n bottle today and see for
yourself what 4 wonderful medicine it is.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-23

Chalemange Tower. American Ambas-
sador to Germany. has completed ar
OF brooklyn. to sing before Emperor ,i.-
liam at Wilhemshohe. during the visit
of the society to Europe this summer
The society will also give Il concert in the
presence of the Grand Duke Of SAKE
Weimar in the fimous Wartburg the
scene of the singing contest in Wagner's
"Tannl3uSer
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-23

s. W. Ramsey. of Girard, O.. is the in
vCnt0r Of a process for making use of fue
dist from n blast furnace in the manu-
factIre Of fuel which is said t. be very
promising. He is experimenting at the
present time with n mas of about 800
tons Of fine dust which has been allowed
to become hard by exposure to the
elements. and although his tests are by
no means comple ted. he is making use of
fiue dust bripietteS as fuel in the very
furnaces from which the dus. came.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-23
Dailv kennebee Journal
ESTABLISHED 1925

M notice whatever will be taken OF
unsigned communications. 81.
The Journal cannot be held Responsible
for the preservation or return OF re-
. tected communications.
Address all communications relating to
subscriptions and advertisements 20
BITRLEIGH & FLYNT. Publishers.
Augusta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-23

Commander Thomas Snowden will as
sumo command of the presidential yacht
Mayhower before Mrs. Roosevelt and her
party ar" taken aboard for their pro-
jrcted trip. The Nayfiower is now at
New Orleans in command of Lieutenant
Corlrnand,r NocelSCsanG, where she will
remain until the change in commanders
is made. She will 30 to Vickshurg to
pick up the Roosevelt party.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-23

William Ashmead Courtney. of Column
bia. 5. c., died last week at his home.
Mr.. Courtney was one of the best known
residents of the city. He was
IS years old. He was Mayor of Charles
ton in 1879. doing much towards redeem
ing the city from misrule. During tho
time of the greet earthquake at Charles
ton. in 1886. he had charge Of the funds
collected for the relief of the sufferers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-23

Most of the Maine schools which
have basketball teams have now won
the championship and will turn their
attention to baseball.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-23

April 6 is the date set for the OPEN
ing of steamer communication between
Boston and Bangor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-23

Old Town is the only Maine city TO
hold its election today.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-23

During the week of April 9Th Rich
ard Golden and his company will head
the bill at keiths in Boston with his
Maine playlet entitled "A Case of Di-
vorce,' adapted for stage purposes
from Holman Days story. 1t will be
interesting to the friends of both these
products of Maine" to know that the
sketch has scored one of the great
successes of vaudeville. The Indian
apolis Sun states that it is generally
pronounced the best sketch seen in
indianapolis this season. The sketch
is wholly unlike the usual vaudeville
playlet. Richard Golden's character
iZation of an eccentric village lawyer
is a perfect bit of acting and it is
doubtful if the comedian has ever
done anything better during his long
career on the American stage. though
he has been identified with many big
successes" The Philadelphia North
American says: There is but one
verdict 1t was the best 'rube' sketch
ever seen in vaudeville. 1t kept the
audience laughing immOderately a
great deal of the time. but closed with
the entire audience in tears" The
Public Ledger of the same city states
that "A Case of Divorce deserves to
rank as one Of the most successful Of
its class that has been seen in Phila-
delphia for long time" During Mr.
Days recent visit to New York he and
Mr.. Golden concluded arrangements
by which the Maine author is to
elaborate the character of the village
lawyer into four act play, the "nub"
of which will deal with n certain ex-
citing phase Of Maine politics. and
after his experience with the shorter
sketch Mr.. Golden is confident that his
collaboration with Mr.. Day Is going to
produce a winner
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-23

The Bangor Commercials CORE
spondent at Seal Cove sends the fol-
lowing: A number of citizens of Seal
Cove, among them the postmistress.
Miss Powers, witnessed the killing of
a deer by pack of dogs, Thursday,
March II. The dogs, who appear to
be trained to the business, started the
deer somewhere on the mountain. it
is supposed and after a hot chase run
it into the open water or mill stream,
at the lower part of the pond, just be-
low the postoffice A young man, Irv-
ing Ashley, who happened to be
passing in team ran to the rescue
and succeeded in beating off two of the
dogs, who We're tearing the deer, when
a third dog arrived, and in spite of Mr..
Ashleys efforts made a finish to the
animal, which was dead when drawn
from the water. 1t is reported that a
bullet hole was found in the animals
flank. which would indicate that hunt
ers accompanied the dogs, but after
their quarry ran on to the pond in
sight of the village were afraid to pur-
sue and claim the game All hope this
violation of the game laws will be
punished, as most everyone thinks it
would be no difficult matter to find
the dogs. The warden is making
efforts to locate the dogs and they are
said to belong in another town.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-23

No priest living in Maine has such
a long record of service as was to the
credit of the late Father Sweron who
died, last week after half century of
work in northern Aroostook.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-23

Philip Verrill Mighels is entering
the field of playwriting. He has al
ready made a successful dramatiza-
ton of ''Bruvver jim" which was
produced at Washington. D. G., last
June; and is now engaged upon other
plays that are quite Independent OF
hi; books. In the mean time he con-
tinues to write stories for young peo-
pie, the latest of which, appearing on
a recent Harper list, is boys book.
"Sunnyside Tad" Mr.. MiShels wrote
his first play while residing in London
several years ago.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-23

"A Life Of Alice Freeman Palmer
by George Herbert Palmer, is to be
published with portraits. Mrs. Palmer
was the president of Wellesley Col
lege before her marriage, the dean OF
the womans department of Chicago
University in the early days of its eX-
istence when problems were numerous
and difficult, and she was one of the
leading educators of the country.