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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-27
More British Dreadnoughts.

4 short time ago the British si1ipbuild-
nr8 launched two more battleshipS of tn
Drtadnought type but of greater displace-
mont and with many improvements that
We're suggested by trials OF the original.
Tie best suggestion We can make to
"VCrv 1n=n and woman troubled with z
had stomach. u torpid liver or inactive
kidneys is to try Hostetter's stomach
Filters. You have the assurance that
having curing thousands of others during
the past "A wears il car 10 the same for
you But don't delay. as that only makes
n cure 50 much harder. Get one bottle
today and let it prove its merit To Your
own satisfaction. 1t can cure fattulenCs.
heartburn. nausea. blcatinG. dyspepsia.
indigestion. costiVencss. biliousness, colds,
grippe and female ills. We guarantee
tho genuine to be absolutely pure. Re-
fuse all substitutes.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-27
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.

Leonardo da Vinci was passionately
fond Of oranges, and with this fruit
and bread he would at any time make
q meal.
DIR. Washington GLADDEN., of the
First Congregational church, at
Columbus, O., has completed twenty
five years work at that church.
The Methodist Episcopal church
property in this country is now worth
about 1S7,000,00O, on which there is
an indebtedness of $12,127,24S.
The oldest man ever sentenced TO
the Michigan Penitentiary, Thomas
Payne, is dead, age lightweight. He
committed wife murder in 1904
The spider has a tremendous appe-
tite, which defies all human com
petition. A scientist who carefully
noted spiders consumption of food in
twenty-four hours concluded that if the
spider We're built proportionately to the
human scale, he would eat at daybreak
a rhinoceros, by lamb, by young
camelopard. by l sheep and would
finish I'D with a pie of two hundred
birds.
A simple method for resuscitation
from asphyXia is reported by DR.. w.
Prudential of Berlin He introduced
the index finger into the mouth and
moved it to and fro over the epiglOttis.
causing an effort to swallow, which was
Immediately followed by return or
respiration. This proved successful
wien the older methods failed, while it
makes severe traction on the tongue
unnecessary.
The salt deposits of Chile are the
greatest in the world The Salar
Grande mine, in the province of Tara
paca, about sixty miles south and east
of Iquique, covers an area of o0,OOo
acres to the depth of twenty-five feet.
This body of salt is nearly pure, and
contains more than $4,000, 900 tons.
or enough to supply the worlds de-
mands for many decades. There are
several other deposits in the interior
that cover two or three times the area
of the above.
ers often express disappointment and
surprise to find that the vibration eX-
pcrienced Oh ocean-going vessels has
not been entirely eliminated. AS Il
matter of fact, the vibration, so far as
it relates to the engines, has been sup
pressed and the conditions greatly i'm
proved but there is a certain amount
Of vibration resulting from the passage
OF the propellers through the water,
and this will never be overcome as long
a. propellers are used
The suicide rate of New York State
had become, in 1900, 3.5 times what it
was in 1860; by 1904 this multiplier had
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-27
Monday, January 27, 1908.
The Maine Rhodes Scholars.

Tuesday of this week was the day
set for the examination. at the office
Of the Maine state superintendent OF
public instruction, for the Cecil Rhodes
scholarship at Oxford university, but
no candidate appeared. This may be
regarded as significant. The oppor-
tunity afforded by this scholarship for
American young men to pursue course
of study at England's ancient and IA
nous university is an unusual one.
Names young men are. of course, as
fully appreciative of this fact as any
young men could be. The pon-appear-
ance at Augusta on Tuesday OF any
candidate for the privilege and such
distinction as it carries with 1t would
seem to indicate steady growth OF
the belief among Americans that our
own colleges are the peer of any that
England can boast. Manchester, n.
H, Union.
The Significance of the occasion was
hardly as great as our patriotic New
Hampshire contemporary makes out.
The reason why no candidate appeared
at the examination last Tuesday Is
S1iiIDit one anu 10 iot AodhU AiA AA'
reluctance of our Maine boys to become
students at England's ancient Uni
vcrsity. The Rhodes scholar from
this State has been selected in turn
from the four colleges-the first being
Mr.. Porter of BowdOin. then Mr.. Soule
being taken from Colby, while last
year Mr. Jordan of Bates was the lucky
man. II is the turn this year Of the
University OF Maine, but by the cour-
tcsy of the Bates faculty the candi-
dates from Orono took the eXamina-
tons with the Bates men last year.
One of those who qualified at that time
will therefore receive the appointment
this year Maine boys are not lacking in
appreciation Of home institutions Of
learning. but the distinction of being a
Rhodes scholar, with it's accompany
ing opportunity for three years of study
and travel abroad. is not likely to be
refused by many within whose reach it
comes.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-27

the flrm S trade mark,--Le Success eSr
un DeN Or Success is duty" From
a it'll" village in Maine she went {,
3oStJE with no other assets than :.
good education, splendid coura gs. and
vitality, and country girls bound
less enthusiasm. Her first business
venture was in keeping d small book
AID stationery store, but her advent
INTO the publishing business was one Of
those sudden inspirations which some
times prompt one to take al the flood
Inc tide which leads on TO fortune"
she WAS invited one evening To hear
MI. fidSln read the manuscript of
quincy Adams SAWYER InStanti,
recognizing the merits Of the story.
size offered off-hanI to undertake. its
Iupiica,!"n. and thus brought out one
Of me best New England stories eye,
written Books that have unuuestioned
merit, regardless of whether their an,
tnorS have d name or not, combined
win StrIkngly original and aggressive
advertising methods, untlagging energy
ana rare business foresight gre the
foundation stones of this clever Woma,
publishers wonderful success. Owing
TO the immense success OF Quincy,
Adams Sawyer as play. the publish.
ers Just at the present time are dill
gently seeking another rural story witt,
dramatic Possibilities Among The
DOCKS which have been brought out bv
TINS company are Quincy Adams
sawyer, "Blennerhassett," Miss Pet
.lcoats. THE Nentuckian," Maid of
Mohawk. Hope Hathaway" Belle Of
me bluegrass Country MY Lady
Laughter ana number of others.
were accepted and published solely on
.heif own merits. and have brought
Ialne and no small share OF fortune 70
ther authors. Several of these books
nave been dramatized, and are having
successful runs as plays. Their forth
coming spring list comprises Under
the Flag of the Cross Climbing IN
TO Nature Broken Links" "A Ran
dom Shaft" and Sowing the Wind"
all by new authors.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-27

ricen 70 four Indiana's rate, although
| generally lower than any Of the others,
| is increasing more rapidly than any Oh
them. From 1860 to 1900 it had multi
| nlied itself by three and two-thirds. In
four wears more this ratio had risen to
seven and one-third In other words.
during each Of the first four years OF
| the new century, Indiana's suicide rate
| had increased by an amount almost
| eouaI To the entire suicide rate for 1861.
World To-day.
A Norwegian inventor has patented
a suit of clothes which is said to pro-
tect it's wearer against drowning. The
| ga r,1ents are lined with a nonabsorbent
| material made of specially prepared
vegetable fiber which, without being too
heavy will effectively hold up the
| weight OF o man in the water. Twelve
| ounces of the new material will, it IS
| claimed save a person from sinking.
| The invention has been tested with
| favorable results at Christiania. Sue
cessful trial were also made with
rugs made of the same material, cap
able of supporting two persons in the
| water.
Denatured alcohol is commonly used
in Italy for all ordinary purposes
formerly requiring grain alcohol.
There has recently been a heavy short
age in the Italian markets and CORE
snondine advance in price from Az to
5 cents a pound at wholesale, or from
II To 10 or IL cents a quart retail. The
short supply is said by the principal
manufacturers to be due to the lack OF
residue from the last beet-sugar sea-
son and from the last wine crop and to
the extraordinarily high price Of grains.
One cause was the recent general strike
III north Italy. during which the lack
of gas for cooking was made up by the
use Of alcohol
The yate tree, of Western Australia
growing to a height of 100 feet and
diameter of two and One-haf 10
rhrce feet, yields the strongest timber
known. Late tests showed an average
tensile strength of $4,000 pounds to the
square inch, equal to that Of cast iron,
and some specimens resisted II IL tons
to the square inch, equal to the tensile
strength Of wrought iron.
Over enc thousand years ago swift
zerland possessed Il forest system, and
had developed a scientific forestry by
the fifteenth century. AS early as
Louis XIV France awoke to the fact
that her forests and her life We're
draining away together. But it was
too late. Today she is spending s34 an
acre to reforest her watersheds. The
same experience is costing Italy $40 an
acre-Amerlcan Magazine.
The Stadium, in which the Olympic
games will be held al the Franco-British
exhibition, London, is now under con-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-27
The Worlds SAVINGS,

The bureau Of statistics at Washing
ton. which gets together interesting,
though sometimes bewilderiny. figures
on an subjects. gives out table show
ing that 91.273.SS1 thrifty people have
1901 &c, 500 on deposit in the postal
and other savings banks Of the world
The figures are those for 1896. The ac-
counts average $12?29 each. and repre-
sent Sla.5S per capita of the total popu-
lation tS6s. S9I, 900 of the various coun-
tries Some Asiatic countries are not
inclUded-notably China, whose tinan-
cial affairs generally are not yet statis-
tically available. This is how the de-
posits referred to are chiefly made up:
y Y.,. r,.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-27
A MosIem Railroad Enterprise.

They are doing bit of rallroao
building over in Asia Minor in which
| a kind of hustle is being shown mol
| commonly associated with that sec
| ton of the earth. 1t is a line from
| Damascus to the holy cities Oh INC
Moslem world, Mecca, where Mohain-
! med was born, and Medina, Where he
died. The road will extend nearly looO
miles through the Arabian deserts con-
tinuously traversed for centuries by
| multitudes of pilgrims. With such
energy is the work being pushed that
| over s0o miles are now completed. about
200 miles being constructed i'll 1907.
| Medina will be reached this year and
Mecca itself a year or two later.
| r,he construction of this road. trav-
ersine as it does deserts of sand or rock
| and recurring in some sections extern
siye tunnels and innumerablc stone
bridges. is the greatest engineering feat
ever performed in a Mohammedan
country. The fact that under difficult
conditions, not the least of which is the
want of water, which has to be brought
many miles on the backs of camels,
Turkish and Syrian soldiers have sue
ceeded in laying two and three-uuarter
miles of rail in one day represents an
achievement superior to- the best per-
forInauces Of Russian troops on the
Siberian line. According to q Cairo
correspondent who has made personal
examination of the work. the masonry
compares favorably with that on the
Sudan railway, which it may be re-
called was constructed under British
supervision. That there has been no
embezzlement, such as VIGOROUSLY is
practices by officials in the Ottoman
Empire, is evident from the circum-
stance that in many sections the cost of
the road, including the purchase OF
rolling stock, has not exceeded 81, 800 a
mile.
Inc EHoNIeuSe ttldt tHe railway 10
in a sense religious work, undertaken
for the purpose OF facilitating the visit
Of pilgrims to the holy cities. seems to
have deferred even those Mosiems who
are habitually corrupt from seeking
illicit gains. In this particular also the
Hedjaz railway offers sharp contrast
to the Siberian line. The contributions
for the work have come from ali parts
of the Mosiein world and there is no
Abdul Eamid is greatly strengthening
himself. both as a temporal ruler and
as the spiritual head of Islam.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-27

The breaking of the Rhode Island
been taken in vain. gives the present
Senate its full membership of 80. There
arc 81 Republicans and 81 Democrats
John Sharp Williams, the minority
leader in the House, will not take his
seat as the successor of Senator Money
until 1911 They do those things quite
a ways III advance down in old Missis-
SiDp;
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-27

One of the most interesting and an
tnentic collections of Indian storie,,
mat have ever been published comes
from the pen of DR.. Charles a. hast
man. himself full-bloo,lcd Sioux ~.
Eastman's book. entitled "Old INDIAN
Days contains fifteen romantic
sketches of the aboriginal peopIas or
America, their tragedies, loves. wars
and advertisements before the racial
pecnliarities had beer obliterated IN,
reservation life and the white man.s
CIVILIZATION. The story Of Dr.. East
mans career is in itself a romance
Living with his own tribe until he had
attained Young manhood, he was sent
10 dartmouth college. graduated win,
i.oi.orS ana returned to his reservation.
a lew Years later he met and fell N
rove with Miss Elaine GoodaIe
Mdssachusettts poetess They were
married and have since devoted than-
serves TO- DR.. Eastman's peopIe ,na
MS only to read the first story Of "O,d
Ihoian Days" to feel the authors pro-
found sympathy with his cbaracters
ana his deep understanding of his fore
lathers wild. mystic lives on the plains
ana IN the woods of early America.
ne nrst story is an account of a pretty
ioVe affair, filled with primitive. uncon-
.entlonal elements. The volume is at
.ractively illustrated in colors by Dan
Sayre Groesbeck.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-27

An edition of Henry James is an
nouEced in which each volume will
have a preface telling in plain English
what the book is about. This will fill
a long felt want with those readers who
have felt obliged to cut the leaves OF
the James novels, but who cannot fine
the predicate in an average James sen
tence in anything less than half ar
hours search.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-27
Hudson Maxim, a former Kennebe

Hudson Maxim, a former kennebec
man. has invented new explosive
called .motorite" which is said to be
the most destructive agent which the
world has ever known. If motorite
bears out the assertions of its inventor
it will be the deadliest power ever
known in warfare, and should make
powerfully fer the future peace of the
world
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-27

The appearance of Jack London and
his wife in San Francisco safe and
sound will be a great relief to his
friends who had begun to fear that
he had been lost with his 5o-foot boat
in which he started out to tour the
world
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-27

1t is an interesting coincidence that
the group of the half dozen youngest
members of the Senate have names be-
ginning with the same letter-Bryan OF
Florida. Beveridge of Indiana, Bailey
OF Texaso Rurkett of Nebraska. Bran
deser of Connecticut and Borah O.
Idaho, An appropriate letter, too. since
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-27

1t is not difficult to sympathize with
those Columbia debaters who decline
to meet the Cornell team because one
Of it's members is a young woman, a
student in the law department of the
University. 1t is not that the Columbia
boys object to the coed as such, but
they do not wart to be so ungallant as
to argue in public with a lady. More
over, they have Il suspicion that the
judges would be prejudiced in her
favor. since the judges would be
human, and they say we should
have to apologize before even
attempting to answer her argyll
ments" They may not make out a
very strong case but everybody will
understand. their position Just the same.
They are young men. to be sure. but
they recognize the old world truth that
it is NJ use arguing with a woman and
that she Is bound to have the last word
anyway But they have goods in their
own university Why not meet Cornei
at its own game.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-27

Lady Juliet Duff. daughter OF the
fifth earl of Lonsdale. who arrived in
this country on the steamer Adriatic of
the Whate Star Line. is reported to
have shocked the American ladies who
were her travelling companions by nom
chalartly smoking cigarettes i'll the
general lounging room. The coarse
thing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-27
Maine Gossip
The Good Bye Number

l see upon the calendar
The figure ''223
1t hath a very strange and grim
Significance to me.
I think on January l
The days so swiftly fade:
How easily upon that date
Were resolutions made
All. they were very welcome then,
And yet, beyond doubt.
The very wClcOnleSt of friends
May wear his welcome cut.
I look these resolutions Ger
No more with kindly Slct.
I see upon the calendar
The figure '.23.''
Washington Star.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-27

1t will be something of task here
after for promoters" to gold brick the
public with stock in wind and water
enterprises. A most Interesting story
OF operations of this kind right here in
Maine might easily be written from the
abundance of data at hand.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-27

Reports from the ocean liners make it
very evident that it is no time for any
one who is not a good sailor to go
abroad, Notwithstanding the great re-
duction in the rates for passage.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-27

The big steel plants report increased
orders and it looks as if they would
all be doing a good business in the
near future There is increasing evil
financial furry operated temporarily
to retard prosperity, it did not de-
Sfrov it
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-27

MISS Elizabeth Robins. author of
me Convert" is now in this country
ana VIII spend the winter in Florida,
where she will continue her, literary
work. She has Just given new evidence
OF her interest in the wonan's suffrage
cause. which furnishes the theme for
her novel. by issuing pamphlet en-
titled ssWoman's. Secrat
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-27

The Haytien revolution has been sup
pressed and the "insurgent army" dis
persed. It's general was shot and Its
three privates were allowed to return
to their homes.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-27

y leading member of the Boston bar
declares that there are $500 lawyers in
that city who are not earning a living.
Perhaps they are not really earning il.
but they seem to be getting it, for who
ever heard of a lawyer starving to
death?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-27

All of Maine sympathizes with Port
land in the loss of it's City hall. the
greatest fire loss the city has sustained
i'm a generation. The destruction of
such a public building is bad enough
in fact it is much more than local
calamity. but the building can be re-
placed, while the loss OF the city and
county records is something that time
and money cannot restore. The dis
aiding of the fire alarm system is also
most serious matter for the city.
The fire was fought under peculiarly
adverse circumstances and with a
spirit which must make Portland
doubly proud of it's efficient depart
ment. 1t is something to be very
grateful for that there was no loss OF
life involved
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-27

The football doctors are once more
at work upon their annual tinkering
Of the rules. The general public was
very well satisfied with the game as it
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-27

No country that is able in single
wear to sell $500, 100000 more products
than it buys outside needs to worry
Boston Herald.
No but still the calamity chorus will
continue to howl
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-27

The story of the founder and present
mead of the c. NJ. Clark Publishing
house. Miss Caro- II. Clark, a Mains
girl, is an interesting one Into the
world Q. book-publishing, in which no
woman had preceded her, she brought
methods so unique and Revolutionary
that the venture was bound to nrove
either a brilliant success or nhanon,-
nal failure. But failure is a word ~.
.,as no Place IN Miss Clark's vocao-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-27

The United States lead in savings is
unmistakable. with population not
quite twice that of the United King
dom. its savings deposits. though the
deposits are 1861 900 fewer in number,
are $50 per cent. larger. Compared
with France-called the money savings
are $50 per cent larger. Compared
center Of the world--the lead of til"
United States is still greater. Germany
has more than twice as many savings
depositors. but s74s, 900 900 less deposits.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-27

Ouida is dead, but her hair lifting
stories are liable to finger along LOT
some years to come.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-27

Norway High school is not very large,
but it is large enough to have so pupils
absent at one time with the grip, the
mumpS, colds, etc.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-27

The money market is coming right
down among the folks.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-27

1t will be long time before the
Portland Pythians forget the closing
scenes OF their all night carnival last
week
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-27

The trial for manslaughter of Con-
ductor Dunbar ard Engineer Thayer,
who were declared responsible for the
wreck at Benton. in which Brakeman
Belanger lost his life will be followed
with intense interest beyond the Dor
ders of Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-27

Aroostook sent Il whole carload of
bright boys to the y. NJ. c. A. confer
ence in Portland Saturday and Sunday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-27

Sara Dean of San Francisco. whose new
novel "Travers." will he published next
week. is well known il literary and social
circles After watching the last of her
OWN buildings burn III the San Francisco
disaster she turned 10 writing as ref
uec. and naturally reproduced the scenes
she has just witnessed. Some of the char
acttrs- are drawn from real life. but the
plot of the novel is pure invention The
idea Of writing the story came to her
While she was helping to feed some refu-
gees At 4 tiny bungalow beyond the
park. \ man who came out 10 set the
names Of those who fled TO that remote
spot heard of her Intention. He was OF
the buff, kindly pioneer type, with I'M
abated confidence in san Francisco. He
turned to The author and said: Peter
Deans daughter isn't going to write
ANYTHING that will help give poor old
Frisco q black eye, is she?' And she
has not. for 'Travers' is full of hope and
optimism. .-a