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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-24

Harold Holt went to Camhri,.
yesterday to resume his Studies
Harvard College. at
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AVN CUTS went to North Poo,h.
''.roay on business for the Amerioay
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MIS-. John Burns went to Stonino.
YESTERDAY to visit her daughter NJ
Annie Deane. Mrs
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TAFT ADDRESS,
ES WORKMEN.
Continued from Page One.)

1t is predicted among the well inform
cd men that both Taft and Hughes
will carry New York by good mljori-
ties
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howard Trott Of Richmond M.
visitor In the city yesterday 'S
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d. r. Chase went to Pennington w..
terday on business trip. YES
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MIS-. n. A. Hartman is v;si,,-
friends at Bath and Bootbba, 'ihs
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ristty strong talk in Cusick It.
CONS new ad. and who can LIN
it? can galnsay
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Mn 'iis;, Leslie Newcombe of Chelsea va.
visitor in the city yesterday was
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frdn af,e rerry OF Randolph is HON.
from Bates College for a few DIV, '''ihe
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Elder s. Kimball went IN W.
Tor the day yesterday.
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Mrs. c. G. Brown went to b.
yesterday for a visit. Ut
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Thursday, Seb

Miss Alice Hanley went
yesterday.
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1t might be interesting to inquire
what is the meaning of product con-
sumed in the United States. Does it
refer to a class OF commodities? And
if so how shall the classes be defined d?
Or does it refer to such separate arti-
cles of commerce? and if SO, what
account does this proposal take of the
skill and initiative of manufacturers
who have built up a more or less ex
elusive trade i'm particular articles Of
ten protected by trademarks, all
though in most active competition
with other articles designed for the
same general purpose and seeking the
same market? In desire to correct
the evils of business are we to place
an embargo upon honest men whose
activity present none of the abuses
requiring remedies? And, if not, what
statutory definitions shall found to be
adequate and just if we lay down our
prohibition in terms of volume. Or
ratio of business and not in terms of
right and wrong? II we adopt Mr.
Bryan'S proposal to what period OF
production is the prohibition to apply?
Is the excess for a day or for a month
to be considered? And what system
shall be devised by which suitable in
may be furnished in the ma
ure Of danger signals along the routes
# trade so that the manufacturer may
know when he is about to exceed the
prescribed ration? He may justly De
equired to governor his own conduct.
,ut how shall he be apprised of the
conduct OF others upon which is to
,
Let me repeat that no law defying |
has anything to fear from |
'ou save what it will suffer in the !
general paralysis of business which
ny attempt on your part to reduce to
'ractice what you have advocated
you'd bring. This paralysis would at
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'.He will live with them-their tutor
"A royal Bengal tiger as tutor for little
boys
YES sure. Just kindly observe the dig
nifty. politeness, silence and reserve Of
Ferdinand"
The tiger was playing foot ball with the
boys--his favorite relaxation to this day
"A dog Stops over with silly enthusiasm
banks. yelps. rolls and plays the fool gen
orally, losing his head, as soon as he real
ICES he is having "a good time at any
game" said Durand de Durandel. Boys
brought up with a dog pick up his silly
frankness. impulsiveness, lack of reserve,
incapacity to dissimulate, and weak low
ing devotion to friendship that the world
is waiting to abuse
And this man-eater?" inquired Hachet
Souplet, founder of the Versailles Insti
tute of Animal Psychology. who perhaps
knows as much of tigers as the other.
''It is said that all the world is Platonist
or Aristotelian.' he answered. II say all
the world is dog or cat-which Is putting
il more completely than Heine's anvil
and hammer. | don't want my boys to be
hammers any. more than anvis. Do you
think that because this tiger does not slob-
Der over them he does not love them? Or
that he don't enjoy the game because he
don't fall over himself in foolish joy? 1t
is not that the tiger or the cat is on the
make: he simply knows the value of all
life's allurements: and is so too proud to
take more than his share that he refuses
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to try again. he hit the punching bag
ard ducked.
At breakfast. two days later. the boys
father said: Il hear queer noise in the
night: it irr gular tapping" Two
nights alter that jacques walked his
brother: Listen. Some ones playing a
drum down in the gymnasium They
walked their papa. who took mis- big auto
matte pistol. and all three tiptoed down
to the gym. whence came the noise of a
very devl's tattoo. Turn on the electris
light!' exclaimed Durand de Durandel.
amid the fendish racket. And. then, as
the room was bathed in brightness. the
noise stopped. and Ferdinand blinked at
them from the punching bag!
!: x
He had been practicing alone in the
dark night, his tigers eyes. just like a
cats. being fitted for it: and IL you doubt
the truth of this anecdote. tie a horse
chestnut to a string and hold ii up before
a playful house cat. You will see her
swat it. learn to dodge it. and so like 1t
that she'll play alone with it. suspended
from projection that will give it some
thing of the punching bags free play.
II consider the impression made upon
nv boys by that one trait OF modest per-
severance a justification of the expert
ment" says Durand de Durandel, land I
could cite dozen other moral lessons in
stilled into those kids by the tiger. But
why talk? Look at Them!
The three friends were lying in the sun.
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by the twist Of his wrist unlocked q
vault in the wall. He then toucned an
electric button. swung combination
lock around five times. and threw open "A
safe out Of which he pulled great brick
OF pure gold. He dropped ii on the coun-
ter and asked me to lift 1t. tried to do
SO. but failed. although / might have sue
ceeded had the brick been lying on the
floor instead of at the height of my
waist. 1t was a solid lump of bright
yellow metal shaped like a paving brick
and perhaps two inches thicker He put
ii on che scales. and showed me that it
weighed over seventy pounds. He said
that its value was $1S0OO0. In the sam"
vault I was shown other bricks which
ran up to more than one million dollars.
During my conversation with the as
sayer asked him how the gold was sent
to London. He replied:
1T all goes on the cars from here to
Cape Town and thence by the mail
steamers to Southampton. The shipments
are made every Monday in order that the
trains may reach the Cape for the ship
sailing Wednesday. Each brick IS put
up in separate wooden box. which is
bound around with strap iron and sealed.
The banks do the shipping. and the rail-
ways are responsible for the gold from
here to Cape Town. On certain Mondays
of the month the shipments amount 10
four million dollars, including about
twenty-five of these big golden bricks
FRANK G.. CARPENTER.
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The immense striped beast was grnveiy.
methodicaIiy licking his bright fur.
He's been licking himself n full half
hour" whisp ,red little Georges.
He's At his toilet" answered Jacques.
The hates TO be dirty
why. the tigers simple habit Of lying
IN the hot sunlight il worth the expert
nent. The boys naturally follow hr, and
they lie with him for hours In the sun
hath. See the gravity and meditation
:hey learn from him.
Ferdinand had finished cleaning up H.
sat like sphinx meditating One boy
leaned against his gieaming shoulder On,
boy squatted. upright. IKE graceful an
tique statue. The thr,e sat there. silent.
Thus will they sit an hour" sad Du
rand de Duraadel. THE conpan!ocsh'p
seems good to me. Could they learn dig
nifty and meditation from a dog? He
would curl up and go to sleep! And. above
all. there Is Ferdinaud's strength.
The boys are in daily contact with K.
Thsy adore strength.
Strength seems natural TO them. And
grace. FerdinanG's grace is a wonder
Souplet. the founder Of the Versailles In
stitute Of Animal Psychology. who agrees
that il IS an ideal ne Tor a tiger in captiv-
ity; but he Is not altogether sure abou.
The boys ultimate safety.
Cooked food" answers Durand de Du-
randel. "And Ferdinand is always full
Of IT. He's never tasted saw meat. never
smeiled it. never seen it,
'Yes. but
Listen: can cite you twenty cases. IN
The courts Of native Indian princes. IN
the annals OF the Cd East India COMPANY
OF the French. and In the households %
French officers today in Indo-China, whsr,
a tiger like this has grown up house
hold pet. In no. one case has he ever
turned upon the folks around him"
a*
And it was here that the Maha rajah of
Kapurthala volunteered to back up Du-
ran de Durandel The maharajah a great
gentleman of India and England. has ~
late years spent much Of his time IN
France on frequent visits. With his aid
je-camp. the Capt. Rohini Chaterje. he
passed through Paris on his way 10 til :
historic chateau OF Chaumont on the
Loire. as the guest OF the Princesse Am
edee de Borglie
Hearing of the controversy As to the
boys safety. he volunteered that there
are two tigers. just like Ferdinand. at
his own summer palace.
They have never known a cage" the
maharajah says. They have grown Ia
old age in perfect liberty among the pal
ace population-men, women and children.
OF course, cooked food - never letting
them taste or smell raw-is the great sine
qua non: and the rest is the tigers per
sonal character. This Ferdinand seems tn
be the right kind. So let them go ahead.
But the police commissary of Versailles
is troubled. Twice a week Of late he has
ridden out to see Durand de DuTandel.
BY respect of authority the beast is al
ways found snug in his immense shining
cage.
But hear you let him out" says the
commissary.
Sometimes answers the philosopher.
Kindly put a muzzle on him next
time"
Sure" says the philosopher. He must
have learned that sleek. suave manner
from the tiger.
STERLING HELLO.
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silver is all gotten out Of it. and then.
by measuring and multiplying. one can
tell just how much gold there is TO the
ton. In. this assay office lead Is added
TO the ore. and from each sample comes a
button of lead about as big as the end of
your thumb In this lead Is the gold.
The button is roasted in bone ash. during
which process the lead disappears and the
gold only is seen. the speck of gold is
often not bigger than the point of 4 fine
needle. but the weighing machines are
SO fine that the assayers can easily tell
just how much the stuff runs TO the ton.
The Real Thug.
Before leaving mentioned to the assay
err that had spent a whole day in the
Simmer and Jack. and had been told
again and again Of the millions of dollars
worth of gold it was producing. said that
had seen thousands of tons of ore al
legged to be loaded with gold, but had yet
to observe the first CLINT of yellow or any
sign Of the pure golden thing.
IF you have any doubts as to the
reality of the gold here, said the scien-
fist. IT can dispel them by showing you
some bricks. made here within the last
few weeks which we are about to ship
to London
With that he took me into the back
room of his tin-roofed assay office, and
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Underground in a Rand Gold Mine.

to come They could produce twice as
much today If they had the labor. ana
they could treble that amount and keep
the mines going for years. The gold ree1s'
in which the precious metal lies, nave
been proved for a length of more than
sixty miles and experts say that they can
be worked to a depth or SIX Thousand
feet. If they were worked to four thou,
sand, the amount so far taken out Wonu
he just about per cent of the whole
and at that rate there are from ten 10 nj
teen billions of the precious oulilon lei'
The production has been. increasing ny
leaps and bounds ever since gold was
discovered here. In 1854 the output was
about fifty thousand dollars. and ten
years later it had jumped to thlrty.elght
million dollars per arnum. IL steaoiiy IN
creased to about eighty miinons. "hich
was the annual product at the beginning
of the Boer war. 1t then fell to almost
nothing for a year or so. but IN l1O4 IL
was again eighty millions. In 100 u
reached one hundred millions. in 1905 It
was more than one hundred and twenty
million dollars, and in 1907 the vast sum
of S136. 80 coo. These amounts are IN
conceivable. but they are about what the
mines are producing today. The aggre-
gate dividends last year were $4,000 600.
and the mines which paid them are CAPT
talized at over Sl20,OO0OOo. ] have be-
fore me a newspaper which gives the
products of a dozen of the leading min
ing companies during the past month.
five hundred dollars for every day of that
month, and some have run as high as
fifteen thousand dollars per day for the
thirty days. Talk about gold. Where
will YOU find it elsewhere as here?
The Golden Dough of the Rand.
almost despair of describing these
caves of Aladdin on the highlands of
South Africa. They are not like any
mineral region of North or South America
and doubt if they have their counterpart
on the face of the globe. The country is
ilalf desert and there. are no indications
OF minerals. The gold is found in several
great reefs of rock which run through a
range of low, hills for distance Of about
10 miles. The land is mile or more
above the sea. and these hills run from
loo to 300 feet higher. The reefs begin
at the surface and extend down at a
regular slope for no one knows how deep
into the earth They are great sand
witches of god-bearing rock. streaked here
and there with cOnglomerate or pudding
containing quartz pebbles. The peDbies
may be called the raisins in the pudding.
swallow up to that of u goose. but they
of the pudding or. the cement which holds
these quartz and other rocks together.
Money is often called dough in our slang.
but the dough OF the Transvaal is the
Simon-pure thing and is really sprinkled
with gold.
can describe this better by taking you
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Turn About.

7 BARTON KING. the famous Philadel-
j. phia cricketer. at dinner at the Belle
vue-Stratford described the manners
and customs of the English as he had OBJ
served .rs 1sem aurn,s NUS . ,,,se :, sa,a Mr.
King. lis not of much account. l have
friend, an Oxford man, who tried lodS-
ings, then took a fiat. In lodgings. it
seems, the landlady gouges you fright
fully.
my friend told me how he once re-
buked his Iandlady. She came to him with
his spirit case.
Whisky all gone. sir she said. Shall
l get you another bottle
Ives. l wish you would said he. It's
your turn.
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ing-where you kick. the leg becoming like
an arm-has nevertheless sound ideas on
the use of the hands and side stepping;
whence the punching bag for daily use in
the gymnasium where erdinand's enor-
NOUS steel-barred cage is situated-though
it's door is always open. Crhe cage is
there for mere looks. to placate the police
commssary of Versailles.)
Well the first day. the tiger gave that
punching bag foot ball swat-and sent
it through a window. torn from its at
tachment Wait" said Durand de Du-
randel. and called a blacksmith and a
cobbler in to fix it stronger with some
rivets squares OF cowhide and waved
rope Now swat again. he said to Ferdi-
nand. who UP and swatted 1t real hard
and innocent
Now listen. When that punching bag
came back as quick lightning with
an awful slam on the beasts tender nose.
do you think that he lost his temper and
refused to play? No, he sat gravely
watching little Georges and jacques, learn
to beat d tattoo with it. and. when asked
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to slop over, either in accepting-or Civ
ing"
1T would be tight and selfish world
if all men should learn that sleek cyni-
cism," some one remarked.
MY boys tiger tutor Will not make
them tigers answered the philosopher.
Because they arc running naked all this
summer is no reason they shall not wear
clothes in winter. So. they'll take but a
tendency from Ferdinand--I'm here to
help him out. If they pick up his dignity
and self-restraint. reluctance to butt in,
his holding forces in reserve and not eN-
hibiting his heart upon his sleeve, I'll be
content
How much of this high talk is sincere.
how much playful mystifying of the a
ture takers, the philosopher Durand d.
Durandel really acts as if he hoped 10
bring the golden age back for his boys:
OF course, no mother in or outside OF
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DCRING the Teutol

HCRING the Teutonic's decidedly
Il stormy passage to New York Israel
Zangwil. the playwright and novelist,
said one night in the smoking room:
1T is pleasant to cross the Atlantic. but
this bad weather is mingling a good deal
of discomfort witt, our pleasure. Life is
usually. though. like that-pleasure and
pain-half and half.
1T reminds me of an elderly spinster
who sat near me at the table d hote one
afternoon in Venice. Turning to her
niece / heard her say:
I'm Venice at last! A,h. my dear, half
the dream Of my youth is now fulfilled.
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Versailles will let her kids go near them.
ut is small loss says Durand de Du
randel. Boys spoil each other, even
while they educate each other When
mine get bigger they must learn to fight
their way in some good boarding school;
but just now l prefer the tiger
Foot ball. as pr0fesSed today by Ferdi-
nand grown big. is strenuous enough
Little Georges does halfback: little Jac-
ques is away across the field to tend a
goal that don't exist. When the big tiger
sees the ball come to him he swats it
with a terrific paw. bounds after it. and
the game is who swat it next. Never
does the tiger grab the ball up in lis
teeth and run. If little jacques can get
n kick, he's welcome. Time and again.
the enormous beast, instead o. riskmg to
upset the kicking kid, goes over his head
in a flying leap of twenty yards.
For long, the boys. were smarter at the
punching bag than Ferdinand Their
father teaching them French savate box
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Had Its Advantages.

1EFFERSUN D. TFfOMPSUN, Inc
J chairman Of the Vanderbilt cup COM
mission, was criticisng at a dinner in
New York new motor car of rather du-
bious type.
Even the advantages claimed for thus
car" said Mr.. Thompson. appear dubious
to me. Take that Wanted feature, for i'll
stance, OF excessive lightness."
Mr.. Thompson smiled
"A young lady," he said. ''once showed
me proudly very cheap very light car
that she had just bought.
- .Awfully light. isn't IT. said l..
Yes, said she Isn't il splendid!
Whenever it breaks down we can always
push 1t home
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with me a trip over the reef and solns
down into one of the mines. We might
start at johannesburg and go east ana
west for sixty odd miles and see nothing
at Park station and are soon flying by
the great works with their mountains OF
taiings. We can see the black smoke
stacks cutting the sky at the front and
into the great hills of dazzling white sand
which have been left near the mine after
extracting the gold. On each of those
hills cars are crawling up and down. some
OF them are attached to steel cables.
which bring the refuse for several miles
and automatically dump it on the top
of the hill. crawling on without stop
ping until they are back at the WORKS
ready to be loaded again. The cars look
like enormous ants or bugs. They are
going on the dead run over the white
sand. which shines out under the ray S
of the African sun.
AS we go the train stops every few
moments. and at every stop is a mine
Think of range of sand hills. the ma
terial of which is as fine as that you use
for securing your floors. Let it rise right
out of the green hills and extend on for
forty odd miles, and you have some IDEA
OF these enormous piles of refuse Wnlch
have come from the reef. Remember. as
YOU look at 1t. that every grain OF that
sand was once part of a rock containing
gold. and that hundreds of millions or
dollars worth of gold has come from It,
If you continue your ride you Will ma
fence OF iron smokestacks along the
whole forty miles. and you Will never De
outside the din of the stamps which are
crushing the rocks to get out the gold.
In a Big South African Mine.
1t Is only one Of these mines that we
shall visit today. 1t Is the Simmer and
Jack" within an half hours ride by train
from Johannesburg, covering an enor-
nous territory sprinkled with gold. This
mine has produced more than five mil
lion dollars worth of gold during the
past year. and it yielded about five hum
red thousand dollars worth of gold last
month. 1t is a great gold factory. de-
voted to taking the rock out of the earth
and reducing it to bullion. The ore con-
tains only about seven dollars and hfty
cents worth Of gold to the ton, and the
profit is not more than 81 cents on every
ton handled 1t has the best of mining
machinery and 1t works between fve
and six thousand men day and night.
Sunday and week day. all the year
through 1t has more than four thou
sand Chinese IL thousand black natives
and the hundreds of whites who act as
skilled laborers and as overseers and
managers
A Gold Sandwich.
The Simmer and Jack begins at the sur
t. hon .:,, fn<,l- nc
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Very Awkward.

YOHN Redmond, the Irish leader. was
J talking in New York about Irish lead
ers. OF one man he said quantity:
His efforts to help the old country were
awkward. I'm afraid they did more
harm than good. The poor fellow always
reminded me of that well-meaning but
thoughtless gentleman VINO killed hy
on a friends bald head with ham,
mer."
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NnecdOfe6 COncelflinu
Well-knOWn PEOPLE.

why only half, auntie? the young
girl asked.
II counted on going to Venice. sighed
the spinster on my wedding journey.