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Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31
Dreams Brinq Him Fortune.

From abject poverty to f.lfluence and
the possibility of abundant wealth
this has been the change wrought in
the foAunes OF Frank Klausnitzer be-
cause of his faith in dreams.
A week ago Klausnitzer was without
a cent.
Today his income is roughly estima-
ted to be So4 a day, and when he de-
velops tie oil and gas wells he found
by reason of his dream he will increase
his income. For the oil and gas are
there, experts say, in limitless guanti-
ties rm
klausnitZer lives in a shack near the
Shields farm in Butler County. Ho
came from Bohemia seven years ago
bringing his wife and three children
He worked at odd jobs in New YorI
and Buffalo, and finally drifted to But
Ter County. He managed to eke out q
scant living until the night of the
dream.
Having firm faith in his vision
Klausnitzer came to Pittsburg to in
terest capital. He was laughed at. but
finally a man with money and faitl
was found. He advanced the money
for the drilling operations and he has
been rewarded.
Saturday an oil weyy was struck. II
is flowing "a barrels day Yesterday
a gas well was struck. Today another
was encountered and these were found
just where KlausnitZer was told in his
dream they would be. The gas wells
from latest reports, are producing 100,-
0(0 clIioic feet y fay
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31

The promise is made that 1908 will
bring an extensive overland wireless
telegraph service throughout the east
EN- part OF the United States. The
United Wireless Telegraph Company
announces that it will establish sta
lions in go cities east of TIE MISSISSIPPI
pi and six Maine cities, Biddeford Port
land. Lewiston. Bath. Augusta and
Bangor. are upon the list which the
company sends out to the rress. The
new company proposes to compete with
existing telegraph and telephone COM
panies in the harding of commercial
business and the distribution of news
matter. 1t will alsG pay special atter-
tiun to business between boats and
shore stations. as. yet the whole thing
is pretty much I'm the air. Hguratively
as well as literary, but many will await
with interest the 1909 developments in
this line.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31

For a long time the Boston Herald
has been waging a campaign for ben-
NAL elections and legislative sessions in
Massachusetts. For a time it was
alone among Massachusetts papers in
this matter. but now it has won several
converts. The Salem News and the
Haverhill Gazette are the two latest
papers to join it in this campaign The
Haverhill Gazette puts it this way:
When a great commonwealth like In
diana. which has population as large
as that of Massachusetts. can enact all
the legislation that is needed in ses-
sion of 90 days every other year. it
seems as though there was no necessity
tor our legislature to be in session si;,
months every year" Massachusetts is
one of the very few states which clines
10 the annual election habit, but proba-
ply It viii cling to it for some time to
come slncs i isea state Of very con-
servative habits.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31
BRETON TWo-SToRY BEDS.
Many in Peasants HU.s Richly
Carved and Ornamcntrd.

The Breton peasant has some CHARM
ing qualities, courtesy, good lrumor,
detachment from the prosaic size of
life, buL the virtue of cleanliness is not
for him.
i The cottages are frequently very dir
| ty and the approach to them is some
times over pile of refuse. There is
nothing Of luxury in cottage interior.
| but you may generally count on two
| things to heautify even the poorest.
| One is the white Golf of its mistress (al-
ways spotless. however dirty anything
{ lse may be-, and the other is the brass
, trimmings of the armoire usually pol
| shed to q degree of brightness that is
| positively dazzling. Some OF these ar
| moires are really beautiful with elab-
| orately carved panels. and in many
cases are heirloonis that have been i'll
| the family for generations. Then there
are the heds-one of them, Of which
| the mistress is very proud will be mod
ern, with very coarse Nottingham lace
curtains draped over it.
You give it u few complimentary
words in order to satisfy its owner,
but what you really want to see is the
"iit-clos" III the far corner, and if it is
q ''lit-cloS dcuX etaSes" you are more
than content Some of these 'lit-clos"
are things of crate beauty, like the
lrmoireS, and the carvings on the Slid
ing panels are enough to make Il colicc-
tor green with envy. But imagine how
stutfy they must be to sleep in-aud in
winter the panels are shut, One day l
was expressing my admiration of a cor-
tain 'lit-cloS" When madam pulled the
figure of her husband sleepily rubbing
his eyes and wanting to know what
was the matter. She calmly explained
to him that | wanted to see the Inside
Of the bed and then explained to me
that her good man had been out fish
ing since dawn and was very tired. L
begged him to close the panels and go
to sleep again. which he Immediately
did, hut not before ] noticed that he
was fully dressed. ] am told that the
Breton peasant always disappears into
the ''lit-clos" fully dressed and always
ton.
While her husband slept madam en-
larged on the advantage of a ''lit-clos'
i'll bringing up a family. She told me
1hat she haG had six children and that
when they We're little she used to put
three in the top etase and three i'll the
bottom. then close the panels and leave
them with an easy mind-New Orleans
Times Democrat.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31
Fresh Grapes All Winter.

The grapes were very fresh and
sweet "These must be hot-house
grapes" said the guests.
But the host pointed from the
window toward his gray garden. where
sheathed in ice leafiess vine shivercd
in the blast. The grapes came from
that vine.' he said, two months ago
But how have you kept them SO
fresh?"
I'll tell you the secret When l
want to keep my grapes I cut each
bunch with long stem, with quite 8
inches of stem. Then | take lot of
wide-mouthed bottles and fill them
with water. Then I hang the grape
punches in the cellar. their long stems
each in bottle, taking care that the
grapes themselves are in contcat with
nothing that would~rot them and that
the stems are buried deep in the water
They keep so for five or six months l
can so keep hundred punches all
winter without losing a bunch."-New
York Press.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31
The Cost of Tuberculosis.

Congressman j. Stoat FasSett. in
"Charities and The Commons"
There are S6,OO00OO people in the
United States. and it is estimated that
200. 900 of them die Of tuberculosis
every year 1t is estimated that
II 2-10 per cent of all who die die from
tuberculosis. If that is true, then of
the S6.000.000 OF people now living in
the United States 9,632, 900 are DOOMED
to die of tuberculosis. Professor Irv-
ing Fishes states that the money cost
of tuberculosis. including capitalized
$S. 900 for each death; so that the hani
of this destroyer has already laid its
paralyZing grasp upon $1,100. 100000
worth of human productive energy a
year and of this cost tWo-fifths. or
S440, 10000 falls on others than the
consumptive And when this tremend-
Gus loss. this enormous paralysis of
energy is extended to what may
happen unless conditions change, be-
fore the last living inhabitant of the
United States passes to his long home
it is represented by figures that are
stupendous and inconceivable. Measur-
ed. then, by the bare standard of money
alone, this dread disease. unless
checked. has already laid out for
destruction an amount of energy to be
measured feebly and crudely by the
sum of $77.056. .O00,0 600"
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31

The rumor that President Butler of
Of Harvard has spread CONSERVATION
among the athletes of the Cambridge
friend of athletics and is especially
hostile to football, SO much so that in
tcrcollegiatc games have been ahol-
lshcd at Columbia. However, the Har-
ward men are probably doing lot Of
needless worr: ing for there is a very
limited likciil,ooG that Prs sident Butler
will be made President Eliots success
SOr.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31
Personal Property.
lPortltAnd Press.l


The finding and adding to the tax
lists of thirty millions of hitherto
concealed personal property In Mas
,sachusetts under a new law has at
tracted wide attention and reopcncd
| the discussion as to the justice of evil
dencves Of debt or ownership. 1t seems
| that the history Of the law is this:
The Legislature last winter provided
| that the State tax commissioner
should furnish the assessors of cities
and towns with any knowledge tha
came into his possession as to per
sonal property hold by their inhabiI
tants, particularly information OBJ
tanned in connect&bn with the inherit
ance tax laws. The probate courts
furnish the commissioner with a copy
of every Will and an inventory of ev
cry estate that is settled. In this way
the commissioner learns much as to
the ownership of stocks and bonds
money at interest and other forms ol
intangible personal property. II.
passes the information on to the as
SCISSORS, and they assess the tax a.
cordingly. In this way chiefly thirty
millions of property has been placed
on the tax list the past year. which
hitherto had escaped taxation.
Still the old question of the justice
of double taxation remains. The Mas
sachusetts laws. like the Maine laws.
tax property where it stands and the
evidences of ownership of the same
property where they are held. with
certain exceptions. 1t is going to take
a good while to find all this hidden
property in Massachusetts by waiting
nn the process of the probate courts.
The assessed value or real estate in
that state is about $1,000 900, 900 and it
is assumed that the personal property
is equal to the real in value But
less than $1.oO0OOo.0O0 has found
its way upon the tax lists. That
leaves s2,000000.0oo untaxed. and $780,
600, 900 is but one and a half per cent
of the amount.
The Maine tax commission has dis
Cussed some phases of this question
in its last report and made reconnnen-
dations. THE application of the gen
eral property tax" says the conmis-
sion. Ito the form of property vari-
ously known as intangible personal
ty. rights and credits moneys. and
at all times presented an almost un-
SolVahle problem. On theoretical
grounds the very proposition that such
property should be taxed at all has
been vigorously disputed, and III praC-
tiCe satisfactory method of levying
the tax has yet to be found Our
statutes exempt State. county and
municipal bonds from taxation, for
good reasons. The stock Of Maine
railroads and other corporations taxed
On gross receipts is also exempt from
local taxation. but all bonds issued by
such corporations are subject to local
taxation at the local rates. The COM
mission does not see the consistency
Of this, since The stocks and bonds
Of a corporation are merely evidences
OF ownership i'll it's property and
should be treated alike for taxation
So with mortgages. ITO tax the
mOrtgagor for the full value OF the
real estate and then to tax the mort
gagee fer his interest in the same
property is double taxation" And
double taxation is unjust 1t is hard
to sec how anything else can be made
out of that
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31
IRON TO DIVIDE ROOMS.
Adjustable Compartments Planned for
New Storage Building.

, Adjustable partitions of corrugated
sheet iron are to be installed in the
400 or more storage compartments that
will be included in the new building for
the United States Storage Company. at
418-420 Tenth street northwest Plans
for the structure have been prepared by
B. Stanley Simmons. and the contract
has been awarded to the Baltimore
Ferro-Concrete Construction Company.
The new storage warehouse will be
an eight story structure. and no wood
will be used in its construction. The
front will be of mottled brick with
brwnstone trimmings and all the in
terror will be of reinforced concrete.
The first floor will contain a large
saleSroOm Suita Bile for auction purposes
and number of office rooms. The
floors will be laid in mosaic and
terrazo. The second floor will contain
several large rooms, to be used for the
storage of pianos. Specially con-
structed moth proof rooms will also
be located on this floor
The other floors will be divided into
storage compartments, and according
to the present plan there will be IS of
these on each floor. Adjustable parti-
tions will make it possible to enlarge
the compartments to accommodate any
quantity of furniture or packing boxes.
The buildings will have frontage on
Tenth street of So feet and depth of
about 100 feet Old buildings now oc-
cupy the site. and these will be torn
down within the next few days. The
estimated cost of the new building is
$120,000.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31

AS result of the appeals and arsu-
mcntS made in Massachusetts,, the
American Express Company has at
last agreed to put in operation lower
scale of rates the first of January. |.
is not so low as that which prevailed
before the recent increase in rates. but
as one paper expresses 1t, when the
rate has been Is cents and is then in
creased to 25 and next lowered to 20
the public feels as though it has Sc
cured lower rate.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31
MAINE EDITORIAL COMMENT.
The Christmas Spirit.
tZion's .Advocate.)

How soon the Christmas candles
burn out, the Christmas greens wither,
the Christmas wishes die away in 81
lence! The first two must be transi-
tory, but why should the last be-
Here is d beautiful thought by DR..
Henry van Dyke: Il am thinking OF
you today because it is Christmas,
and I wish you happiness. And to-
morrow, because it will be the day
after Christmas, shall still wish you
happiness; and so on clear through
the year" Why not? What a"world
this would be If everybody tried to
carry the Christmas spirit through the
twelve months of the year!
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31

The presidential habit seems to run
in the Taft family. The latest to be-
come "Mr. President" is Horace D.
Taft, a brother Of President-eiect Taft,
the principal of private school in
Watertown. Conn, who has been elect
cd president of the Head Masters AS
sOciatiOn, an organization of prominent
New England educators.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31
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Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31

The latest White House debutante
according toeall reports, is a lively,
wholesome girl of the best American
type, Here's happiness to her.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31

Finland. Which has long and justly
complained of the cruel oppression of
Russia, is now rivalling Russia in
bloody persecution of the Jews.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31

Thus far the Houston Post has been
loudly over the fact that Champion
Johnson is citizen of Grand Old
Texas.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31

Earthquakes. tidal waves. cities
razed and burning. provinces devastat-
ed, hundred Thousand lives blotted
out in one awful calaclysm and bitter
grief and loss in a million homes
what a tragic ending of the year.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31

The success of the Red Cross Christ
mas stamp, it is said. will result in it's
being made permanent feature of
the holiday season.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31

Tie shy bachelor is holding his
breath If he gets through today
safely he will be relatively out of dan
ger until 1872.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31

The discovery of ruined cities in
Arizona seems to indicate that the
Democratic party was also in control
there during the earlier era.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31

The relief work of the Red Cross is
Enthusiastically prompt in case OF
its part, and more than its part.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31

1t will be remarkable if no American
tourists lost their lives in the earth
quake horror
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31

There is lot of interesting reading
in those annual reports of the various
State departments now being issued.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31

Exhaustive tests have proved the
new torpedo nets OF the navy able to
withstand the attacks of torpedos fired
at the highest speed vet reached.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31

Now that he IS iiTcofporated car,
Mark Twain any loEger claim to pos
SesS soul"
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31
Thursday. December 81, 1908.

The gnoii resolution factories are
now ru.i'eI with orders for paving
material ##
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31

Though the industry is sun ~
fancy the mines of India give s'np'o'
ment to 200 persons.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31

Lucky the man who is not worrieI
rows mail.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31

Great skating now. and happily th
very few.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31

Inc Red Cross Christmas stamp has
been on sale in Al Maine towns and
cities
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31

Just dust those 1905 resolutions and
they will be as good as new for 1903.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31

Representative I,a:ins of Yarmouth
very cheerfully makes it unanimous
for Representative Weeks of Fairfield
as Speaker of the next House.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31

Belfast Journal: A recent visitor to
The Journal office remarked that the
farmers of Waldo county We're never
so prosperous as they are today, and
he instanced the fat checks coming to
many of them every month from the
creameries. and the fact that eggs were
bringing DO cents a dozen on the farms.
And this does not tell the whole story
The potato crop has been something of
a bonanza, and those who have fancy
or No. 1 apples can. get fancy prices
for them. In future more attention will
be given to orchards. and those having
extensive woodlots must soon realize.
if they have not already done so, that
they are well worth looking after and
caring for. Such owners should study
up forestry, or get forester to look
over their timber lands and advise
them as to the best methods. There is
wealth, present or future, in a well
Jared for wood lot.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31

Lincoln Colcord, the former Searsport
boy. has very intere sting story oi
the sea-. Carrying Sail in the Janu-
ary number of the American Magazine
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31

These arc anxious days for the thou
sands OF Italians in Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31

W. Herbert Dunton of New York
formerly of Augusta, has two excellent
full page Illustrations in the January
issue of Everybody's Magazine, in con-
nection with the story 1.-THE Branded
Mans Gift"
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31

The Somerset Reporter says: THE
first hay shipped out of Skowhegan this
season left lere this week. three car
loaIs in all. The light yield of last
summer was really not sufficient to
winter the stock usually kept in this
section and there has been none Mt all
offered for shipment until the present
week. 1t is probable that fewer car
loads of hay will go to Boston market
from Somerset county this winter than
for many years. Potato shipments
which were almost discontinued for Il
time. have been resumed in a moderate
degree this week. There vet remains
to be marketed about one-third of the
crop in this region but the market is
firm and producers seem inclined to
hold them for an advance in price
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31

The possible development of tide
power at Winnegance' is attracting
the attention of at least two corpora
tions and there may yet come from
Thea interest which has been dcvel-
oped something of great value to Bath.
Not only is there plenty OF power
there, which exr Us say can be
harneSsed at a reasonable expense but
in addition there is the matter Of
transportation to be taken into con-
sideratiOn.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31

Saco is just now having an attack
Of the shoe factory fever, and is talk
ing the thing over with representatives
of Massachusetts, concerns which are
open to inducements to mcve to
Maine. q.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31

Some people worry about travelling
note that of the $50 fatal accidents in
Maine this year not one has been to d
passenger upon lai]roa1 train.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31

On the heels of the necessity for Il
new City hall comes the demand for a
new High school building in Portland.
The present building is overcrowded
and the school is growing at the rate of
100 per year
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31

President Hyde Of BoWdoin College
announces that the college has recent
ly received securities Of the par value
of $500, 900, and an actual value of con-
siderable more. from donor who
wishes for the present TO remain un-
known. A very substantial and well
come holiday gift which causes much
rejoicing among all friends of the col
lege.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31

Last leap year opportunity for thre
long years.
The Columbus journal., 1908-05-13

This woman says that sick
women should not fail to try
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound as she did.
Mrs. A. Gregory, of 1855 Lawrence
St, Denver, Col, writes to Mrs.
Pinkham:
II was practically IN invalid for sir
years, ON account Of female troubles.
/ underwent an operation by the
doctors advice, but in few months /
was worse than before. A friend adj
vised Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound and it restored me to perfect
health, such as have not enjoyed in
many years. Any woman suffering as
! did with backache, bearing.d
pains, and periodic pains, should not fail
to use Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound"
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN,
For thirty years Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, Inflammation, ulcera.
ton, fibroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear:
ing down feeling, t1atulency, indiges-
ton, dizziness OrnervOus prOstration.
Why don't you try it?
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
The Columbus journal., 1908-05-13
DESERVED TO WIN HIS CASE.
Really Able Argument Put Forward
by Accused Sailor.

A very good story has recently been
told in the fleet of an incident which
happened when Admiral Evans was in
command of the Indiana. An Old-time
bluejacket was at the mast before
Capt. Evans, charged with getting
food out of a mess chest outside Of
meal hours. This getting o; food for
night watches is common and strong
desire on the part of most men aboard
ship.
Capt. Evans asked the man what he
had to say; and the man, sizing up
the delicate situation. said:
Captain. didn't take no food outer
that chest. Why, captain, there
weren't no food in that chest,
looked in that chest. and. captain. l
met a cockroach coming out of that
chest with tears in his eyes."-Ear-
per's Weekly.
The Columbus journal., 1908-05-13
|NEEWSN0IES||
FOR the
BUSY MAN /
Most Important Happen
ings of the World
Told in Brief.
IN CONGRESS-.

The house agreed to the conference
report on the army appropriation bill,
which now goes to the president. OF
the 100000 provided for increased
pay enlisted men will receive approx
imately s5,OOO.0O0.
Five Republican congressman were
named to prepare financial bill
which recognizes commercial paper
through clearing house associations as
a safe and logical asset for emergency
currency
The house voted against the re-
establishment of the canteen In ma
tional soldiers homes.
The senate passed the Gallinger bill
to regulate the employment Of child
labor in the District of Columbia.
The house committee on banking
and currency tabled the new Vreeland
financial bill.
The house OVERRIDE the committee
on appropriations, adding $250,OOO to
the sum called for in the civil appro-
priation bill.
The senate passed the house resolu-
ton appropriating $250.0OO to relieve
the recent cyclone sufferers in Ala
bama, Georgia, Mississippi and Louiss-
ana.