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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25
Worse Than a Bull Fight.

Americans can no longer point to a
| bull fight of the Spaniard or the games
of ancient Rome as the shining ex-
amples of CORY conflict. In Indiana
last week a series of automobile ROAD
races were held for the purpose OF adj
yertising various automobiles, enter
tanning the public and establishing
records. The death roll bore four
names when the crowds dispersed.
They We're young men who sacrificed
their lives to the god of speed.
The races did nothing but entertain
the public. The advertising of the
automobiles amounts to nothing for no
man with money enough to buy an
automobile is fool enough to believe
that the cars used in the race are any
thing like the machine that he would
buy for pleasure driving. They are
freaks of no value, whatever, except
as racing machines. The manufac-
turers learned little from the expert
ences of the drivers which will be of
value in constructing motor cars for
ordinary purposes. If the races were
held with the idea that they might
create an interest in motor racing as
sport, they were failure. The feel
ing of disgust and horror is upper
most.
The sacrifice of five lives has re-
suited in a revision of the rules gov
erning the construction of tracks
where such contests are held and rules
governing the entrance of men physi-
cally unfit to stand the tremendous
strain. Among other things it is pro-
posed to limit the driving by one man
of car in race to 100 miles and
then examine him before he is per-
mitted to drive longer. This will have
the effect of shortening all the contests
to 100 miles, but beyond it nothing is
accomplished. The only rules which
are of value in the premises are state
statutes forbidding such contests.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25
Odd Items of Interest

Brazil is the coffee-growing country of
the world.
whooping cough kills more children
under five years of age than scarlet fever.
Monsieur PuiseuX. the distinguished
selenographer of the Paris observatory,
has reached the conclusion that the cur
ious rays or bands. extending in straight
lires away from many lunar craters, such
as the celebrated Tycho, We're produced
by the deposition of volcanic ashes car
ried to great distances by the winds that
happened to prevail when the eruption oc-
Cured. He accounts for the relative mar
rowness of these bands, which are never
more than thirty miles broad, although
their length is sometimes many hundred
miles, by supposing that only the central
axis of the deposit has remained, the less
dense borders having been destroyed by
the denuding forces of the air, when the
moon had a considerable atmosphere.
London 80 years ago was practically
without restaurants. Now there are
restaurants that are elaborate and eX-
pensve. and restaurants that are small
and attractive and of moderate prices.
There are places to suit the tastes of
the many foreigners who visit London,
Turks being catered to as well as
Americans.
Philadelphias department of health
has organized an alliance for the care of
babies. Voluntary service will be rem
dered by $50 physicians and cooperating
committees have been organized in every
| ward. Lectures are being given in the
school buildings on Wednesday after
Moons under the auspices of the Phila-
delphia Alliance for the Care of Babies
The campaign Is under the direction of
the department of public health, the
board of education. the Congress of
Mothers and the Home and School
League. - tllAIH
| Sir William Ffolkes has been elected
president of the Kings Lynn Sons of
Reffley. England, a most exclusive social
| society, which has been in existence for
nearly century and half The MEM
bers assemble in their temple in Reffley
woods to transact business and to in
dulge in old English pastimes. Near the
temple is a chalybeate spring, the water
from which enters largely into the con-
lcoction of wonderful punch which is
lserved at the banquet, and of which the
lreceipt has been kept an inviolable secret
10y edcn succeeding president Tor over one
hundred years.
Hazel twigs long have been used as in
struments with which to discover water
under ground The twig has at various
: times been credited with many marvellous
powers. Not only could it discover water
but concealed lodes of metal, especially
, silver, were betrayed by the hazel, which
= according to tradition, was guided by the
pixies who guarded the treasures of the
, earth. In France the divining rod OF
hazel was used in the pursuit of crimi-
nails. while in many of the methods of in.
: vestigating the future the burning OF
2 hazel nuts played a part
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25
Naughty Montreal.

Canada has been in the habit of be-
| ing terribly shocked whenever graft
has been uncovered in 1.-THE States" 1t
was so comfortable to have a neighpor's
dirty linen to point to. The thought
that perhaps it's own raiment was not
entirely free from dirt did not enter
it's head. At the time that New
York was having commissions every ten
minutes because of the revelations OF
the insurance investigation, Canada
was an interested spectator. After the
turmoil on this side of the fence mad
ceased and there was no longer any eX-
citement some curious Scotchman dis
covered that Canada had a few crook
ed insurance companies, and that they
were operating without restriction and
without fear of Investigation. me
good Canadians were shocked beyond
measure, but if there was an lnvestl-
CATION we have heard little of it.
Canada has pointed the finger OF
scorn at New York, Chicago and San
Francisco every time strenuous 1nd1-
vidual has so far forgot himself as to
call the attention of the tax payers to
the fact that somebody was looting the
municipal treasury. Their unholy glee
was equalled only by their entire disa-
bility to discover graft at home.
Horrible as the thought may be the
Toronto Mail and Empire has discov-
cred that there are Canadians so de-
praved that they will partake of rake
offs" and royalties in connection with
the expenditure of public money. Even
the Toronto publication is careful to
discover the graft in Montreal only.
Americans are not the only folks on the
American continent who have dirty
linen to wash. Little attention has
heen paid to the Montreal expose by
people on this side of the line for the
very good reason that we have troubles
of our own. 1t may be that Montreal
will reach the same state of mind.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25
Around the World.

Two boys landed from an ocean liner
brought to a close a trip around the
worl1 which they had begun Al days
before When Jules Verne wrote his
book around the World In Eighty
Days" it was classed with his other
visions and, though widely read, was
ridlculed. Within a few years after
the book appeared someone made the
trip around the world in exactly SO
days. Two years ago the record was
lowered to 60 days and now it has been
set at Al days. With better railroad
and steamship accommodations in the
East it is easy to believe that this
record will be lowered.
This old world of ours isn't half as
large as it used to be and it is growing
smaller every day. Steamships are
racing across on the Atlantic in an eff
fort to clip few hours from the run.
ming time. When this sort of thins
reaches the Pacific, the trip arount
the world will occupy a little less time
When people want to ride from Chicagt
to San Francisco at the speed of tn,
New York Chicago eighteen hour train
the time will again be clipped Their
is no doubt but that a man with ;
Icarefully arranged schedule who mad
close connections at all points woul,
take fall out of the Al day record.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25

members could consult with that COM
mittee to the end that bills presented
he so corrected and redrafted that they
be made to present in an effective state
lust what the sponsor desires, the
whole situation would be greatly i'm
proved Any man with a prospective
law before the Legislature, prefers that
it be so drafted that it stands strictly
on it's merits. Few men have the tech-
nical knowledge of law and English re-
quired to draft such bill. Laws
passed through committee en-
powered, with the consent of the spon-
sor, to correct, sift and redraft,
would he susceptible of easy, inter-
probation.
One of the greatest handicaps put
upon the courts, would be removed.
Courts have no choice but to use the
laws provided. They cannot legslate.
Our Legislative bodies are very prop
erly made up of men versed in all the
branches of human endeavor, including
the practice of law and the wonder is
that the laws they made are not less eff
ficacious. So far as the wishes of the
electorate are clearly laid down, no
Judge has the temerity to overlook
them. So far as the laws are incom-
plete or ambiguous the Interpretation
by the courts is a marvel of human sa-
gacitv and fair mindedness Rare in
deed is the case where there is palpa-
BILE unfairness on the part Of the pre-
siding justice.
Latterly, however, there has de-
veloped a habit of condemning the
courts which is unwarranted. Where
one judge has erred thousand have
sacrificed personal feeling, friendships,
property,-all, on the altar of duty as
they saw it.
The courts of this land, as a whole,
are far above their critics. Faith in
them remains mistaken.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25
Better Laws.

We cannot hope for permanent or
adequate relief from a situation
charged with the most sinister menace
until the making bodies of our re.
spective commonwealth so revise our
statutes AS to make justice rest upon
equity and the naked issue Of guilt OIL
innocence. rather than upon purely
mechanical and utterly irrelevant tech.
Notwithstanding Constitution.
The wonder is that our laws WORK
as well as they do Were it possible Il
enlarge the functions of some com.
mittee of the Legislature so that tn,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25
ONLY Natural.

According to Jeff de- Angels, the
player, the worst hotel anywhere was
one that some years ago stood in the
town of Abilene, Kan.
II had been bunkins at this alleged
hostelry with a fellow actor for two
nights" says De Angels, land our ex-
perience took on all the horror of a
nightmare. In the middle of our last
night, not sleeping well, 1 was dimly
conscious for a long time that some
thing was wrong. Suddenly / realized
that the trouble came from Ieaky gas
jet.
-" Wake up, Bill ] shouted in my
friends ear, as l shook him violently.
1.-THE gas is escaping"
" well, can you blame it" growled
he as he rolled off the corn-shucks.
Harper'S Weekly.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25
Reflections of a Bachelor.

a heap of a mans generosity Is que
to his passion for showing off.
After a man learns how to support
himself he can dc it for his relatives.
Even people who won't tell lie Will
dress up the truth so it's own mother
couldn't recognize it.
When you see woman who wants
to wear a gown till it's in rags it's
a sign somebody told her how young
she looks in it.
A girls idea of something awfully
romantic is to see what she thinks is
a man out in the yard by moonlight
when she IS pretty sure it is a lilac
bush.-New York Press.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25
Pointed Paragraphs.

The chronic talker is usually chron-
ic kicker.
Occasionally a deaf person express
es a sound opinion.
The perfect husband always belongs
to the other woman.
In order TO do a thing once some peo-
pie have to do it twice.
Distance lends enchantment to the
view of dynamite explosion.
1t doesn't take self conceit long to
put bashfulness out of business.
A woman's idea of dry novel is one
she doesn't moisten with her tears.
Don't be surprised if you are turned
down while waiting for something to
turn UP.
1t doesn't take very much champagne
to make man think he is the only
star on the flag
It's all right for man to hold three
or four queens in game of cards
but not in the game of love.
There's plenty of room at the top
| with the possible exception of the at
tic room at seashore boarding house
Chicago News.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25

excepting herself. She entertained him
q little while, and when he rose to go
he stopped down and kissed her.
Here's one,'' he said, ''for the baby.
Here is another for little Jim. And
here is a third for Billie-boy."
The little girl, drawing herself up.
said haughtily-she had been reading
a novel:
Mr.. Taft, you forget YOURSELF
He bent down again.
$50 I did, he laughed. s'Well, here's
one for myself" Herald.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25
An American who has moved to Lon

An American who has moved to Lon
don says more rich Americans are NOV
ing there each year because they de-
sire "to be let alone" The refuge he
has sought is welcome to his society,
America produced his money for him
or fer his ancestors and it was good
enough money too. He managed to
endure us while the fortune was in the
making but as soon as it was made,
the atmosphere became intolerable. He
has done us a service by taking himself
off. If he has the grace to stay away
We'll forgive him.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25
Too Much Machinery.

A little chap was offered a chance to
spend a week in the country, but re-
fused.
Coaxing, pleading, arguing, promis-
ing of untold wonders, alike brought
from him nothing but the stubborn
ultimatum. mo country for mel"
But why not?'' someone asked, fl
nally.
Because" ne responded, "they have
threshin' machines down there, an it's
bad enough here where it's done by
hand."-Tit-BitS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25
Awakening a Piker.

"Would YOU" he said after they hah
been sitting in the dark for a long
time. "be angry with me if were to
kiss your
She was silent for moment. Then,
in tones the meaning OF which was ho'
to he mistaken, she replied:
why do you suppose / turned down
the light an hour and half ago:
And yet he wondered, poor fool no"
other young men who had started lar
in the rear were able to pass him IN
the race of 'life.-Tit-B Bits.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25
Kept Her Word.

"Harold," said the young woman, res
olutely, 81 promised my mother never
would marry any man without asking
him how he stood on the great ques-
ton of woman suffrage. You will have
to tell me how you stand"
I'm opposed to it, Bella" bluntly
answered the young man.
"Well-er-that's all I promised
mamma; 1 didn't bind myself to refuse
any good man just because he-now
Harold, you stop that!"-Chicago Trib.
une
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25
Out of the Mouths of Babes.

Teacher-Johnny, can you tell me
why a donkey eats thistles?''
Johnny-Yes. Ma'am; it's cause he's
donkey.
ooh, mamma" exclaimed little Mar
gle, who had narrowly escaped being
run over by an automobile, 81 feel SC
nervous!'
''What do you mean by nervous,
dear?" queried her mother.
Why explained Margie, cts JUS
like being in hurry all OVER
"Now, Harold said the teacher to
small but unusually bright pupil,
give an illustration of the superiority
of mind over NATTER
After a moments reflection Harold
replied: Il have to mind you. That's
what is the matter."-Chicago News.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25
Little Of Everything.
The Hurrah Days.

The strawberry shortcake days are Ger.
And the pineapple rides on its raids no
more;
The cherries have gone and the peachcake
seems 80
Already a creature of shadowy dreams;
But, oh, for the morrow! Pay up the
drums,
The old huckleberry from Puddingvilie
comes,
Near by tomatoes, and corn on the COP
With every one ready TO get on the Jop'
Baltimore Sun.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25

If the world comes to an end Sept
II, as foretold by that prophet up In
Maine, there will be no more talk of
war between the United States and
Japan. Let us always try to look on
the bright side of things Chicago
Tribune.
We can persuade that prophet to
change the date if Chicago needs a
little more time to set her house in
order.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25

We have received immigrants to the
number of GOO, 342 thus far this year as
against 900, 296 for the similar period in
1908. an increase of 3SO,O46, and as
against S41.0S4 in 1907, a decrease OF
24OE42. Prosperity has returned. None
discovers 1t sooner than the alien la.
bor<.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25

A young widow Of Oakland, Ca.
tried to sell her baby to get money
for a trip to Germany, where her
mother was dying. The incident Is IN
teresting in that it illustrates an ex-
ception to the tendency to sacrifice tne
older for the benefit Of ! the younseS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25

ear to the boys chest and told him to
say something.
.'Phat shill OF say?" asked the boy.
"You may count" was the reply.
The boy began, evan, two, three,
four, foive, six, seven"
When the doctor awakened the boy
was still counting, but in faint voice
-"Tin hundred and sixty-nine. tin
hundred and siventy. "-EXchange.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25

Taft will make good" with the folks
on his Western trip for he has proved
that his heart is not only in the right
place but that it beats with the heart
of the nation he serves.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25

massachusetts is promised another
Var in 1910. The farmers in Worcester
and Middlesex counties doubtless will
plant crops where the soldiers can
easily trample them. Uncle Sam pays
well and besides, it saves harvesting
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25

The Cuban "crisis' has been with us
a score of years and will remain with
us until public schools and newspapers
enlightcn the natives of that beauti-
full island.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25

Men prominent in the shoe and leath.
er industry are disputing as to who
secured the free hide schedule. How
sillye Who procured the adoption OF
the schedule isn't as important as us
ing II fairly and wisely.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25

The Massachusetts judge who SEN
fenced juvenile offenders to stay at
home after 6 p. NJ, hit upon the root
of much evil among children. 1t is
easy to permit children to play in the
street at night, but such carelessness
comes high in the end.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25
Daily kennebsc, Journal
ESTABLISHED 1s2S

No notice whatever will b taken Of
unsigned communications.
The Journal cannot be held RESPONSE
BILE for the preservation or return OF
rejected communications.
Address all communications rsIatins
to subscriptions and advertisements
to BURLEIGH & FLYNT, Publish
ers, Augusta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25

Federal laws relating to the purity
sumner can not be entirely safe until
his state passes-and enforces-sup-
elementary laws
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25

A nugget of silver. five feet six inches
long, two feet five inches wide and 16
inches thick has been found near OF
tawa. Ont. 1t weighs 300 pounds and
it's value is $4,000.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25

'.The school teachers are bidding fond
farewell to the seashore and coming
their school books. None of them have
been caught coming over bank bool,
-A-in Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25
Who Said Tammany?
New York Tribune.l

INeW YORK ITIDuNt.J
Plutocracy and Republicanism have
fought ideal Democracy to a standstill.
Practical Democracy has not yet been
subdued.-The World.
The unsubdued Democrats most In
evidence in this neighborhood are GER
tainly not subject to the suspicion of
pursuing ideals
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25
What is Most Popular Drink.

(P1ttsbufg Gazette Times.)
discussion is raging in the news
papers of certain city over the ques-
ton: What is the best warm weather
drink" To date nobody has suggested
water. Guess the name of the city. II
is in Wisconsin and begins with M.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25

Total abstinence from the use of in
toxicatng liquors is the best asset a
young man can have, aside from hon
esty and a disposition to work.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25
Taft Almost Missed a Kiss.

President Taft is fond of children,
with whom he is favorite. A charm
ing story on this head comes from Gin
cinnati.
Once, when pretty Cincinnati girl
was child of 6 or Z, Mr.. Taft, call
ing at her house, found nobody home
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25
Statesmen on Vacation. !
Duluth News-Tribune.)

Duluth NewS-Tribune.)
Congress is scattering The lucky
members are on their way to Europe.
and the rest on their way home to ex-
plain.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25
VOICES OF THE PRESS.
, Blame Davis Family Tree.

est. Louis Globe Democrat)
If one of the Davis family is descen-
ded from royalty perhaps all are, and
this fact may account for some of the
otherwise unaccountable actions Of
jeff Davis of Arkansas.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25
Bank GUARANTY.

est. Louis Globe-Democrat)
So far as Kansas is concerned the
bank guaranty problem overshadows
every other public question, even to the
extent of dwarfing prohibition.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25
Horse(less) Sense.

Chicago Record Herald)
Everybody ought by this time to he
convinced that it is possible to drive
an automobile mile minute, but a
large majority of the people continue
to be unable to understand why 1t
should be done.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25

President ever since he found out how
to spell his name, solemnly announced
to a. Boston audience that the people
will decide whether or not he will ever
be their chief executive.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25
Faithful Patient.

A young doctor in certain hospital
was in the. habit of staying out even
ings. One morning after a special
frolic he had for patient an Irish boy
who said there was something the mat
ter with his chest. The doctor laid his
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25

Kansas has discovered that town
that consumes % car loads of beer in
four days isn't "dry." A candid OBJ
server would be likely to reach the con-
clusion that if it wasn't dry it had
quite a stable thirst.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25
Work for a Gardener.

A major in a certain regiment has
a great contempt for incapacity of any
kind, and is somewhat impatient. A
sergeant complained to him that he
could get no man to undertake the duty
of barber to tie company.
rs there no gardener in the COM
pany?" asked the major, testify. "See
if you can find one, and send him tc
me-"
Tho mo-, VOC d,,l,, cont b,,t on 20
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-25
DR.. Depew's Optimism.
(Steamship Interview. J

If the consumer pays any more dur
ing the coming year for necessities 1t
will not be the fault of the tariff, but
because the demand is so great because
of the general prosperity that the man.
ufacturers and merchants can charge
more.