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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18

The New York burglar who has dis
covered that there is no money in his
trade has taken by far the most i'm
portant step toward reform. The trou-
BILE has been in the widespread idea
that the stealing yielded easy money.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18

1t is far cry from d well appointed
workingmens club to police station,
but Portlands guardians of the peace
have brought about the change in the
handsome brick building on CONNER
cial street.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18

King Alphorso of Spain would like to
will probably POSTPONE action in that
direction until he has settled his little
difficulties with Morocco
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18
Mr.. Taft and judicial Reform.
philadelphia Press. }

philadelphia Press)
If President Taft takes up and sue
ceeds in lettering the country's adj
ministratiOn of the law he will place
himself another step higher.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18

Thu eviction of the strikers from the
tenements of the Pressed Steel Car
Company at Schoenville will be a
strenuous undertaking and will, in all
probability be attended by loss of life.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18
Chiggers Got the Rest!
(HOuSton PoSt.)

(HOuStOn POStD
A Chicago judge rules that a husband
can cuss his wife and swear at her
without running the risk of arrest
But he can't do it in Texas without
running the risk of losing rs per cent
of his capillary adornment.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18

The ladies' have discovered a half
dozen women in the country who are
fit tn be president. There are men at
every country cross roads who are
ready and willing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18

1t is predicted that the year of 1909
will see heavier offering of freights
than ever before in the history OF
American railroading. That is the re-
suit of bumper crops and the ability
to sell them at "A profit.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18
Three-Ton Hippos.

CLOS Angeles Express.)
1t is no boys play to be taXidermist-
in. chief to Roosevelt. Three-ton hip
pos must take a deal of stutfing. Pos
sbly the explanations that the Aid
rich bill revises downward might be
utilized
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18

Baltimore has stricken out the law
forbiding kissing in the public parks
The methods some towns take of at
tracing young men are unSpeakable.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18

cotton mills. The actual investment
of millions in new cotton mills in New
England is rather a blunt answer to the
cry that the cotton business is going
South.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18
Plenty Long.

A Stafford teacher asked her pupils
for some long sentences. One boy
wrote: Imprisonment for life."-kan-
saS CITY Journal
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18

IF the youth who made such gal
liant fight for his life had used little
judgment in choosing his place for en-
and Niagara would be lacking one vic
finn
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18

When Taft works, he works with all
his might and when he plays, he plays
lust as strenuousIy. The day of the
frOck coated statesman has passed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18
Little Of Everything.
The Ingredients.

You take a man
Out of JOB
And make a villain
Fit to rob
A train, or to
Stick knife in
A fellow man
With tickled grin,
Or kidnap some
Lonely old maid,
Old enough to
Be unafraid
Then take IL few
More idle bOs,
Dress and make cowboys
Out of those,
Pick out one of
Heroic mold,
Make him hero
Swift and bold,
Select maid,
A prairie trail,
A horse to steal,
A frontier Jail,
Stir them about
A time or so,
And there's a moving
Picture show.
Judd Mortimer Lewis in Houston Post.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18

The prosperity that is coming under
the tariff law is one of the facts that
the Free Trader is finding it exceeding
Nv hard to wink out of sight.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18

Judge Mills discovered that Thaw be-
lieved everything his wife told him.
What more is needed to prove that
ThaW needs a guardian?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18

That was mean man indeed VINO
persisted in changing the A-I-P eX-
position to the Y-A-P exposition. He
don't deserve to live in the East.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18
VOICES OF THE PRESS.
Who Will Be Safe.
Baltimore Americana

(IdIlIIIIUTG
If exaggerated ego is a sign of in
sanity then there are good many
men loose who ought to be locked up.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18
Listening for the Drop.

washington Starr
1t may be found necessary to manage
downward revision with such abruptness
that several senators will hear some
thing drop.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18

The charge of the Polish sharpshoot-
ers on a crowd of picncers simply
emphasizes the need of regulating the
carrying of weapons by irresponsible
pnrticg
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18

A New York newspaper is running
a competition for answers to the queS-
ton: Why leave New York in sum-
mer? That's easy. To get a peek at
Gods country. That's why so macy
New Workers come to Maine dprsngsltn..
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18
Daily kennebet Journal
ESTABLISHED 1925

No notice whatever will BE- taken OF
unsigned communications.
The Journal cannot be held RESPONSE
BILE for the preservation or return OF
rejected communications.
Address all communications relating
to subscriptions and advertisements
to BURLEIGH & FLYNT, Publish
ers, Augusta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18

The forest fires will be extinguished
within a few hours if the weather
man does not fail us.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18
The Chief Standpatter.

Detroit Free Press.)
Mr.. Taft seems to be a pretty good
himself.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18

The recent picnic of the business men
of Machias at Bucks Harbor was
unanimously voted one of the most
successful and enjoyable events of the
season.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18

Secret service agents have discovered
that there is a deep laid plot to remove
Pres. Daz of Mexico. The perpetra-
tors have been a long time on the job.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18

IF it were only possible to legislate
soaking rain into existence, what a
platform it would make for aspiring
nOliticianS2
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18
Flying Becomes a Habit.
(New York Tribune.)

INtW OK Irlbune.1
Aviation records are being broken
weekly. What was only an awkard
experiment is rapidly becoming a facile
habit.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18

Whskey is certainly going up when
they find a blind tiger in an Atlanta
observation-disclosures Constitution
1t is going away up if this Prohibl-
tiOn wave keeps on.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18
In Baltimore.
UetrOit Journal.)

OetrOit Journal)
Baltimore announces that the ban on
kissing in the city parks has been
lifted. The suffragette movement
should go big in Baltimore"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18

How ones environment creeps in
to his writing. That Houston Post
man continues to talk about the swell
tering cities of the North!
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18
The Presidents Summer Home.

Chicago Record Herald)
Beverly, Mass, naturally feels that it
might have been right smart summer
capital if congress hadn't interfered.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18

Feeding the hungry horde is by no
means the smallest item in capturing
Boston.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18

Anything which advertises Maine is
worth while.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18

The aeropIanists continue to fall with
painful regularity.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18

There is nothing quite like Japan
csc utimatum to take the gloss off
from Chinas peacock feather.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18

While saying forests. lands and mines
And Surgling water courses.
Our tempers let us, too, preserve
With other great resources.
Chicago News
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18

Even the "war game" grows little
wearisome during the heated term to
those who are not actively engaged IN
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18
Joy Ridinu,

philadelphia Record)
1t would be interesting to know why
the chauffeur is SO much more deter
mined on suicide when he has party
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18

The census emunerators will find
that Brunswick and Richmond are the
banner residential towns for the COM
mercial travellers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18

George Hayward, aged 81, who has just
died at Needham Market, London, lived
nearly all his life in the same house. He
never had days holiday and never saw
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18

1t would be interesting to know how
many summer visitors came to Maine
this year for the express purpose OF
taking the river trip from Bath to
Augusta.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18

The invention of the seismograph for
the study of earthquakes has led to the
discovery Of the surprising sensitiveness
of the crust of the globe to forces that
might have been thought too insignificant
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18
Not What He Expected.

A doctor in Yorkshire village lately
gave up his house and was succeeded
in it by a veterinary surgeon. Before
he had been many weeks in his new
house the "vet' was awakened in the
early hours of rather bleak spring
morning. Opening the window, he
heard voice call out in the darkness:
Can you come with me at once, mis-
ter? She's very bad
The surgeon dressed and found trap
waiting to take him to a farm two or
three miles from the village. On the
way he asked a few questions about
the case he was to attend.
I'm afraid there's very little hope
for her, said the farmer. ''Sne's
been ailing now, You see for 10 years,
and she's getting pretty old, as we'll
Annoyed at being called out at such
ali hour to see an obviously not very
valuable animal, the veterinary sur
geon exclaimed: "Why on earth don't
you shoot her?'
"What?" exclaimed the farmer.
"Shoot nv mother!
Then the vet understood that it
was the previous tenant who was
Wanted.-London Tit Bits.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18

Bath has lost her middies but she
still can offer a launching and I'M
bounded hospitality.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18

Portland is eXulting in her ability t
tie up six six masters at one dock.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18

P. S.-You will excuse my mention
ing your preserves, won't you?"-Flor-
ida Times Union.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18

Wednesday, August 10, 1909.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18
WHY One Drunken Man Died.

Head Keeper Snyder, of the Central
Park Zoo, was smiling over news
paper account of d monkey that had
died of love.
" It's good story" said the Head
Keeper. This reporter has an original
turn of mind. He's like the Western
judy. a Westerner, you know. once
hanged himself to the bedpost by his
suspenders, and the verdict of the cor
oner's jury ran:
Deceased came to his death by
coming home full and mstaking him
self for his pants. New York Times
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18

a carriage drive through the beau
tiful rural sections of Maine in late
August or during the beautiful month
of September is an ideal way of spend
ing a vacation.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18

Saco is still hoping for that new
Catholic church..
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18

John F. Terrell at Parkers Head Is
having unusual success with his
wireless telegraph plant. He often
picks up messages sent from the larS-
err stations along the coast
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18

BiddefOrd had a taste of enforce
ment Saturday evening when the
hotels and drug stores were visited
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-18

The people of Maine cannot afford
to be niggardly in their fight against
| the brown tail moth. There is alto
gether too much at stake.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-27

chance" through the sudden illness of
Mile. Rioton, whom she was under
studying in the role of Louise
In ten minutes she won the hearts of
the Parisians and for 100 nights there
after she was Louise. She followed that
with a London success that established
her standing permanently.
She returned to America in 1907 with
a debut in Massenet's ''Thais." and she
was welcomed gloriously. Although she
was born in Scotland, she was claimed
for America. Her parents brought her
to this country when she was years
old, and, after living in Brooklyn and
Chicopee, Mass, brought her to Chi
cago, where they lived in Hyde Park
Quarrel Reveals Romance
Soon after Mrs. Mayer took her un-
der her wing her parents moved to Phil
adelphia, where they still live. That
the magazine biographers, and no more
would have, been known had not the
singer become enraged at the demand
OF the Mayors that $4,000 advanced for
her education be returned to them for
use in more satisfactory charity" AS
she was said to be receiving as high as
81. 900 a night, she was able to write out
a check for that amount, and then a
request for the interest was advanced
and paid.
That brought out the story of the
break that came several years before.
Members of the Mayer family, which
has several members devoted to travel,
had heard in Paris first hand informa-
ton about their protege's life there. 1t
IS said they disapproved.- She had been
befriended by Sybil Sanderson, a favor
tie of Massenet, and after that singers
death the Chicagoan had starred in sew
eraJ of that comDOSer'S productions.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-27
BACK TO THE STATES.
1t Is Proposed to Return the Treasury
Surplus Annually.

Washington March 27.--In order to
provide better postal roads in the states
and territories, Representative Adam
son (Ga.) has introduced a bill author
izing the secretary of the treasury to
make an accounting of funds in the
treasury at the end of each fiscal year
and after deducting the amounts re-
quired by law to be kept in the treas
ury he is required to declare the re-
mainder a surplus, which is to be dis
tributed per capita among the states and
territories and the District of Columbia,
according to the last general census.
All people of cities of more than 30,-
900 population are excluded from the
count. The bill provides that the sur
plus shall not exceed % million dollars
annually. Any state using the funds
for other rhan the improvement of post
roads will not be allowed to participate
ir further distribution of the funds un-
til the secretary of the treasury has
been satisfied that the amount wrongly
used has been replaced by appropria-
tons by the state Illegally using the
money.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-27
LET TAFT BUILD IT..
Provision of a Panama Canal Bill
offered in the Senate.

Washington, March Ex-senator Craw-
ford of South Dakota, successor to Sen
ator Kittredge, who was chairman of
the committee on interocaanic canals,
has signalized his entrance into the SEN
ate by introducing a bill which would
abolish the Panama canal commission
and place in the hands of the presi-
dent all authority over the canal zone
The bill authorizes the president to
proceed with the excavation of the ca
nal to completion and to appoint a di-
rector and chief engineer. He is Civ
en- authority to fix their compensation
but congress is permitted to change the
amount if it so desires. .4
The president is also given authority
to remove any of the zone officials at his
L,1easure- 1t is specified that '.All or
ders and regulations with respect to the
government of the canal zone hereafter
enacted by the president or pursuant to
his directions or authority are ratified
and confirmed without prejudice to the
power to revoke or amend the same
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-27
STOCKS RISE in PRICE.
Demand Due to Professional Covering
OF Shorts.

New York, March 27-Stocks have
risen in price during the week with
resulting effect on the tone of specula-
tive confidence, tempered by the know
ledge that professional covering of
shorts was making the principal de-
mand. The scanty supplies offered to
meet this demand had a confirmatory
effect on confidence. Reports from the
steel trade showed continued depres
sion in all departments with expect
alton OF further cuts in prices and
wage reductions to come. There was
some betterment in demand for copper
but it was not maintained. The out
go of gold was without serious effect
on money rates and the easing of for
eign exchange rates indicated a check
to the gold export movement.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-27
SAVED "a FAMILIES.
Elevator Boy Got Them All Out of
Burning Building.

New York. March 27.-Through the
aIertness of an elevator boy, the "A
families in the fashionable Robert
apartments. in West One Hundredth
and Seventh street. escaped early to-
day. when fire which had started on
the fourth floor, filled the apartment
house with smoke. The tenants were
asleep when the fire was discovered.
Mrs. Leopolde Herzfelder, who lives
on the fourth floor with her husband
and infant daughter, was awakened by
the smoke and found the kitchen IN
flames. She ran to the window and
raised an alarm.
The elevator boy, William Wander
port went to the switchboard on the
first floor, rang the telephones in all
the apartments, telling the occupants
to hurry to the halls and come down
bv the elevator Then he ran the ele-
yator up and down until everyone on
the sixth floor was taken down sally.
Many of the tenants reached the street
scantily attired and most of them
sought shelter in nearby apartment
houses. The fire was confined to the
fourth floor.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-27
ANOTHER JOKER FOUND.
Imported ToSs Animals VIII Cost as
Much as living Species.

Chicago, March 27.-Another "joker''
has been discovered in the Payne tariff
bill Experts in the foreign buying de-
partment of a local store say that toy
ANIMALS, retailing at present for few
cents, are to become as expensive to
import into this country as the living
animals which they represent in minia-
ture, If the bill becomes law. A toy
horse. for instance worth 81, will, under
ure. be taxed $50. just the same rate as
viii be collected for a thoroughbred
racer or costly horse show hackney.
The experts also find that many kinds
OF clothes and ornaments for dolls will
be taxed at the same rate as clothes and
ornaments for the American woman
The cause of the peculiar situation
found to exist under the pending law
with reference to toys is contained in
paragraph 427 which reads as follows
Dolls. doll heads and toys, So per
cent ad valorenl; provided that toys
made in imitation or miniature Of or
bearing the same name as articles that
are provided for in the dutiable list of
this section by individual or class des-
ignation, shall ~nv the same rate of
duty as such articles. but in no case
shall any toys pay less than the rate
of duty imposed upon miscellaneous
manufactures of the material of which
such toys are wholly or N chief value
composed"
The Joker is mainly tucked away in
that part of the paragraph relating to
toys made in Imitation or miniature
of articles mentioned elsewhere in the
1eans simply what it says, and that
toys which are miniatures of things
elsewhere specified must pay the tax of
those articles.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-27
Big IMMIGRATION.
Over Ten Thousand Aliens Arrived in
New York

New York. March 27.-More than
ten thousand aliens arrived in New
York Friday. Most of them by night
fall had passed the federal authorities
and were on their way to the great
northwest where many will make their
future homes. Others remained to
become lost in Manhattan, Brooklyn
and the Bronx. Two hundred were
retained by the immigration authori-
ties for examination. while $50 in all
spent the night at Ellis Island.
Classified by ships, 1873 immigrants
were brought in on the steamer San
nio, from Genoa yesterday; 1925 on
the Liguria from Naples; 1.150 on the
Adriatic from Southampton; 775 on
the Argentina; from Trieste; 2,056 on
the Carpathia from Trieste; 1900 on
the Cedric from Genoa and more than
1900 on the Lusitania from Liverpool.
Yesterdays figures indicate that all
records on immigration to New York
will be broken this year The Italians
are predominating as usual, with the
Hungarians a close second and
Scandinavians in third place.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-27
CARE FOR BABIES.
Campaign Will Be Carried on in Con-
gested District.

Chicago. March 27.-Steps for a COM
prehensive campaign to insure the
proper care of babies in the congested
districts of Chicago during the coming
summer have been taken py the
United Charities.
The action followed statements that
seventy per cent of the babies in the
poorer districts, particularly among the
foreign element, graduate from their
natural diet to one of beer, coffee,
sanerkraut and bologna sausage, and
that. with proper precaution. the lives
of thousands of such. who die of sum-
mer complaint, might be saved: "A
corps of five hundred Visitors VIII oe
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-27
HARVARD DINNER.
VIII Be Attended by Taft and Many
Other Noted Persons.

Washington. March 27-President
Taft and many other prominent men
in public life will attend a dinner to be
given Tuesday evening by the Wash
ington Harvard club. The occasion
will be notable because of the pres
ence of Charles w. Eliot, president of
Harvard university, and his appear
ancce will be somewhat in the nature
of a farewell by the Harvard alumni in
this city, in view of DR.. EIiot's resig-
nation next May
Others who will attend are Dr. Har-
Vey w. Wiley, Senator Root, DR..
Charles w. Needham, DR.. Charles D.
Walcott, R. S. Woodward. Jerome D.
Greene, Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale
and Charles Francis Adams.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-27
TO LIMIT new TRIALS.
BY Doing Away With Technicalities
Object of Nelson Bill.

washington, March Ex-senator Mel
sen has introduced a bill which IS IN
tended to do away with tecnnlcalIlle
in the granting of new trials by federal
courts.
The measure provides for the amend
ment of section 1011 Of the revised stat
utes by prohibit courts from gram gram
ine a new trial or setting aside a Judg-
uent in any case unless in the opinion
of the court, given after an examination
of the entire record. lit shall aff1rma-
lively appear that the error complain
Ell of has resulted in a miscarriage of
Justice