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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03
A Noble Achievement.

Under the title THE Door through
the Barrier" the Rev. John S. Allen
contributes to the issue of Harper's
Weekly for october S0th a stirring ac-
count of the work of the Lincoln Me-
mortal University among the noun
tain children of Cumberland Gap and
the surrounding country. THE two
hundred dollars that is an average
minimum elsewhere would have fright
ened the region beyond expression, so
desperate was the poverty of the peo-
pie Through genuine sympathy with
them it was arranged that they might
with either cash or produce
and then work their way through by
labor of various sorts on the lands OF
the school. The first taught We're paid
to return into the remote mountain
gulches and teach the younger" Thou
sands of poor students are clamoring
for admission, but even the facilities
for housing them are lacking. Yet.
says the author, II believe more men
and women of power will issue from
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03
WHAT A HAT BAND MEANS.
Nothing in the City-in a College
Town Your Fraternity or Sport.

The striped hatband for straw hats
is more III evidence this year than it
was last, so much SO that men folks
report that you can't get plain black
hatband Of the adjustable sort If you
want it. In college towns the hatband
has a meaning that is all its own. 1t
may show what is the wearers par
ticular form of athletic sport or what
is his society. Green letter or other
wise. In the city it doesn't mean so
much. for the odd colors worn by some
of the college men may happen 10 take
non collegians fancy With the result
that he wears something that ordlna-
,iIy would indicate his fraternity or his
athletic team.
In some ways the hathand in college
towns has added complication 10
wearing apparel. The average person
couldn't tell from the shape or color OF
the varsity letter worn by the athleie
what team he was on, and now ne can
not tell about the hatband either. Az
Harvard for instance, the perpendlc-
Mar stripes on the band may mean
track. crew, football or baseball, ac-
cording to whether they are crimson
and white, crimson and black, or ue-
pending on the way they are arranged
The national fraternities have nat.
bands done in their colors, some u
which make rather gaudy decorations
They look rather better on banners
than on hatbands, hut in a college
town almost anything goes.-New YORK
Sun
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03
indicated.

The commission of gentlemen to
whom was committed the task of re-
modelling and enlarging the State
House has brought it's work to the point
where the bids have been received and
considered and an award made. The
commission is entitled to credit for the
expeditions and business-like manner in
which the work has been conducted
thus far.
The 74th Legislature appropria-
ted the sum of $35O,O00 for 1.-The en-
largement of the State House, or the
erection of suitable State Office build
| ing adjacent thereto" Immediately
there were predictions that the work
roughly outlined in seeking the appro-
priation, could not be performed for
that sum. Chairman Hichborn declared
that the work could be done for s35O,OOO
and in the advertisements for bids it
was expressly stipulated that they
must be inside that limit. When the
sketches of the proposed exterior were
given to the public through the press,
the men who had declared that the job
was too big for the appropriation,
wagged their heads and pointed to the
drawings to confirm their pessmistic
talk.
The bids render their stand untenable
and the awarding of the contract elm
ches the whole matter. or the four
blanket BIDS all were we'll with
in the appropriation. To insure that
there be no division of responsibility,
the contract was awarded to the George
A. Fuller Co. of Boston, who made
bid of $500, 900 covering the entire work.
AS the successful bidders are respon-
sible contractors of large activities, ca
pab]e of prosecuting the work without
delay, it is but fair to consider that the
commission stands vindicated, If indeed
vindication is needed before the people.
Maine has long needed larger quart
erS in which TO transact tne otdle .
business and is now in a fair way TO
get them. Those who have stood in
the way of progress along these lines,
either through mistaken idea OF
economy or through a desire to make
political! capital of any expenditure OF
public funds, have again seen proof of
the fallacy of their reasoning. Wheth-
er they are willing to accept this proof
or not can have little affect on the
business at hand. but credit is due the
men who have done their best to
show them that business on business
principles is not extravaganza, that the
state of Maine can buy as much with
a dollar as can any Individual in it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03
New Novel bY Mrs. HnnL;

A promising new novel ca,,aa 49,
Image of Eve" which the Harna ihs
bringing out this month, is bv M. az
ct sutton br'scoe' in private life NJ sI,'
Hopkins, the wife Of Professor HE, my
OF Amherst College. Although !. MY
Highlander by residence. by bjrth W.
Hopkins is Baltimorean. whose ny
ries have been familiar tn ,nono aus
readers since she first began tn ,a.a
as very young girl some twapt, ""e
ago. THE Image of Ever her 's s
novel, was called by one reader q, ~
manuscript kind of reversed on.n
Dialogues, possibly because az ~
three-cornered presence in if a, H
charming matron, a friendly bach,
and a sensible husband.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03

The shocking lack of respect for the
court revealed in the Virginia case of
Yellow Poplar Lumber Company YER
sus $. F. Chapman was justly re-
buked by Chief Justice Fuller when he
threw the case out of court. Such
language as: THE opinion of the
court of appeals is so grotesque in it's
conclusions of the law and order with
so little care and study as to be al
most unintellgible. even grammatic-
ally, not to say legally" may relieve
the overweight feelings of an attor-
ney but it is not calculated to win
cases in court or elevate the standing
of the bar in the eyes of people not
yersed in the law.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03
The Most Astonishing Thing in
America.

The lower end of New York is the
most astonishing thing in America,
perhaps in the world. Not what you
saw yesterday, but todays New York.
That tiny building if you please, is the
one you were taken to see when you
first visited the town, fifteen years
ago, 1t was there that wonderful
elevator shot you up fabulous twelve
stories. Once-do you remember?-you
could tell the times for miles around
by tne clock on the Produce En-
changes tall tower; now it sits in a
kind of pit or cup! A new city has
been set upon a hill, as are the gray
stone eagles nests of Europe, the tight
ing cities of the Old World Bat here
We buila the hill itself: the turrets
stand not upon a mountain, but on u
beehl re.
AS the day closes in the downtown
district, shadows and colors come, ro-
nance grows holder. Come across the
Brooklyn Bridge some evening, facing
the sunset. The mountainside glltters
with The light from ten thousand WIN
dows. And black against the western
red is silhouetted a strange, romantic
skyline. There are iii it hints Of the
Orient and OF the Occident-of the
cities OF the moon. if YOU like. 1t is as
nothing before it has ever been, pic
lures jue, fantastic.
Some December evening when dark
ness comes early, before the workers
have gone homee, take the ferry from
the Jersey shore to Barclay street, Be-
You'd the river, with it's bright darling
boats, a huge curtain hangs across
the night. Can you remember
tawdry Oriental fabric, tmckly set
with tiny oval pieces looking
glass. which fascinated you as
child? Here it is maganified AMI
transmitted From the darkness of mid
strear? the great buildings lose tneir
outline all blend into one plane, each
giving its shining windows to pick out
the one .creat pattern. High toward
the zenith runs this magic velvet of
purple and blue black. embrnidere:.
with gems that pulse with their own
inner radiance. One distinguishable
building only flats N the pink mist of
those hidden lights which always IL
lur1inate it, TIE great tower proudly
holding its little coronet arove the
spangied romantic fabric.
1t is hard not to call such visions
beauty VINO is to judge? Old gentle
men in England may write scathingly
TO the Spectator about the Singer
horn" But if beauty and usefulness
are still to so hand in lan1, must not
the code be revised 20 include the for
ty-story building? Had it been posi-
BILE. would not the Greeks have scraped
rhe sky above the Acropolis? And
might not medieval piety have built
tiny chapel on the peak of some huge
building. or set a great statue OF the
Virgin to crown some tower, SO that
sailors down the bay might see her end
know that they were safe at home and
in her care Harrison Rhodes, in Har-
per's Magazine for November.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03
CHINESE LAWS.
Diplomat Tells of Stringent Laws OF
His Country Regarding Children

In lemon colored silk Chinese UP
lomat talked about Chinese laws.
some of our laws, you Know ai'
very stimulating" he said. For eA-
ample, Chi owed money to mohe'
lender. Chi would not pay, ana NV
money lender hanged himself on On,
doorpost. Chi was condemned to DEAN.
You see, he was really responsible i'
the money lenders death.
"A son able to support his parents :
imprisoned for life if he won't 40 ~
A son unable to support them IS I'M
prisoned for three years, as we hoiu
and quite rightly-that there must w
something wrong with a young Man
who cent support his parents. ).
"Our police are excellent, thanks "
the stimulus of our law. When c'nn.
is committed a sleuth is put upon Wv
case and given, say, thirty Gays ~
land the criminal. II the sieuth ia".
he himself pays the penalty OF NV
crime, less two degrees. That, TOO, =
a just and stimulating law, for II ~
police can neither prevent nor pun..a
crime then they should be themse's'e
punished for their rank incapacHS'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03
Football.

The death of Cadet Eugene A. Byrne
as result of injuries received in
football game at West Point Satur-
day has revived much of the adverse
criticism of football which has laid
dormant since the rules were changed
several years ago. Cadet Byrne
is one of five young men who
have met death this season under
similar circumstances. His death
focused the attention of the nation
upon football because of the promi-
nence of the institution to which he
was attached West Point officials
promptly cancelled the games for the
rest of this season and several smaller
institutions have taken similar action.
One institution in Pennsylvania has
cancelled all athletic sports.
The death of Byrne is most regretta-
BILE and certainly none regret it more
than do ,levotees of football, and yet,
they see no reason why a legitimate
sport should suffer. OF course if the
liability of accident is very great foot
ball as 4 sport has no place in college
athletics, but it has been clearly DEM
onstrated that accidents rarely occur
to men in good health who are properly
trained and who know the game they
are playing. 1t is perhaps fitting that
West Point should cancel all the games
on her schedule for the rest Of the sea-
son OF 1909 out of respect to the men,
DRY of man who was one of her best
players, but it seems a little far fetch
ed to advocate the adjustment of foot
ball forever in that institution or in
any other. There is a safe and sane
course in this as in all other things.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03
Beqqed Leave to Differ.

1T may be set down as an axiom
SAID the professor of moral philosophy,
that no permanent success can be
putt upon a false foundation"
Pardon me, professor" objected the
young woman with eyeglasses. but
think it can"
"Wlll you be kind enough to give an
instance?"
yes. Sir; many successful novel
Is bullt upon the fallacy that the
course of true love never did run
smooth. chicago Tribune.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03
A crowninu Absurdity.

1.-The browning abSurdity OF the age
tax themselves $500,000,000 or more to
build the Panama Canal for the bene-
fit of the worlds commerce and yet not
have an American merchant vessel to
pass through it when it is open says
the Kansas City Journal in closing an
editorial on the value of ship subsidies.
1t would be no more absurd than for
America to have the third largest
navy in the world and no possible
means OF coalng it away from home
ports and absolutely nothing in the
shape of maritime vessels to protect.
The time has come when the rest of
the country realizes the Importance of
providing itself with merchant vessels.
We are singularly fortunate in having
navy with which to protect
merchant marine; in having control
ing interest in the Panama Canal; in
long sea coast frequently indented by
excellent harbors and in having every
facility for transferring products from
the interior to the sea coast Having
once landed the product of the farm
and the factory at the seaboard we
yield control of it to a foreign power,
at least it must leave the protection Of
the stars and Stripes and be carried in
foreign vessel to it's destination.
There it must compete with products
produced by the same nation which
controls the ocean carrier in which
your goods go to market. Naturally
it is for the interest of the foreigner to
as it is possible for him to do so and
still retain the business. He is not a
disnterested party by any means.
We have every auxiliary facility by
means of which a merchant marine
may prosper and yet we have no
merchant marine. This is the re-
verse of what is generally the case.
Most nations build up their merchant
marine and then provide the auxiliary
advantages. In America we have the
unique spectacle of a nation providing
for a merchant marine and having no
marine to help. The reason is that we
as a nation have given our attention
to producing rather than to market
| ing So long as the rest of the world
took our goods without any great eXer-
| ton on our part we We're content.
Other nations have lately discovered
that they can compete with us with
pro oft to themselves and therefore it is
up to America to give more attention
in marketing, if we are to retain our
position. The most difficult problem is
not selling the goods, but procuring
prompt delivery in good condition We
can never attain this until we have our
own ships manned by American crews
1t might indeed be one Of the crown
| ing absurdities of the age We're we to
invest s5OO,00O,000 in a canal for the
rest of the world to use, but the out
look is brighter today than it ever has
been before that we will not be guilty
of perpetrating it for there is every
reason to believe that at the next ses-
sion of Congress something in the way
of ship subsidy bill will be passed
|
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03
More alton.

Mrs. hugwater-Josiah, what is a
"swastika?"
Mr. ter-(momentarily at a
loss DO you mean to say you don't
know what SWaStika is? a
swastika is-Why, blame it, Swastika
is the name of the Eskimo that helped
Cook discover the North pole!-
Chicago Tribune.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03

The American farmers who have es-
Northwest are sending out wheat that
looks surprisingly like that they used
to raise at home.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03

Senator Stone has slapped a waiter
jury. II has been suggested that he be
given an opportunity to chastse one
Jack Johnson.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03
In the Excitement.

$50 you confess that the rate ut
which you travelled was the means OF
placing several persons in serious
danger?"
Yes" answered Mr.. Chuggins "The
policeman who was chasing us very
nearly ran into three baby carriages"
Washington Star.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03

All road builders are now engaged III
trying 70 devise road which will
stand motor traffic. Many new meth
DDS have been tried, with varying de-
grces of success, but none of them
seems to be perfectly satisfactory. II
broken stone is to form the wearing
surface. then some means must be
found to hold the binding particles so
firmly that they cannot be sucked ont;
and sufficient strength must he given
to the mass to enable it to Withstand
the sliding action of the wheels at
bends and turns. Several kinds of tar
macadam answer fairly well, but they
are expensive.
1t seems to me that the most prom
Using kind of road for heavy automobile
traffic is what is called DuraX III Eng
land. II is pavement of three-lnch
irregular cubes of hard stone, laic In
small scgments of circles. These Stones
can be cut by machinery, and are COM
paratively inexpensive; they are iala
without grout, but there seems TO Dc
no reason for it's On,niSsiOE except tic
cost. Great quantities of this KIND OF
pavement have been laid in Germany.
-Frcm Ernest Flagg's Road Building
and Maintenance" in the November
Century.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03

Nothing more thoroughly silly has
been recorded this year than the ac-
ton Of a Pennsylvania college in abol-
ishing all forms of athletics because
a student was killed playing football
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03

Thirty years ago an Ohio workman
received $40 too much in change while
making a purchase. Now he has re-
turned it. with interest. 1t is hard TO
run away from your conscience.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03

Mrs. Elizabeth BuZZard of Paris. X
y. began life as a Bird, soon became a
Martin. later Joined the Crow fanny,
but soon changed to Robin, and now
is safe in the BuZZard roost. to which
she brought one little Martin, two lit
tie Crows and one little Robin. A lit
tie Ruzzard has lately joined the fam
lily and all are happy.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03

Broughton Brandenburg has been
hailed into New York court for non
support. The man who was acquitted
of the charge of forging the Cleve-
land letter is certainly living the siren
uOuS life
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03

The Montclair, n. j., board of edu-
cation rules the frying pan out of the
cooking school equipment on the
ground that frying pans cause dyspep-
STA. Is it possible that we are to have
a race of mothers who do not know
how to concoct the chicken crOquette
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03
Avoiding controxersx.

Your husband never attends anv of
your bridge parties?"
certainly not" answered Mrs.
Flimgilt. There is no use of de-
liberately adding to opportunities for
criticism" -Washington Star.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03

The really funny part of the whole
transaction is that the public has been
frankly told that Jeff and Johnson
won't fight until they have picked up a
lot of soft money
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03

A Pennsylvania girl recently threw
her jaw out of joint laughing at a joke.
Perhaps she had been reading some of
Tammany'S prOteStatiOnS of innocence.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03
LIGHT AND AIRY.
His Theory,

DO you believe that truth lies at
the bottom of well?" queried the
originator Of silly questions.
"Yes-at the bottom of an inkwell,"
replied the innocent bystander, "and
the pens of a great many writer's are
too short to disturb it."-Chicago
News.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03

GOmners assertion that Former
Pre- SiGent Eliot Of Harvard has Moth
ing to do hut talk reminds us of that
old saw about the pot calling the ket-
tie black
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03

Breathitt county, in the only" Ken
lucky, elected officials yesterday with
the usual trimmings,-squirrel rifles
and the militia.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03
About Eve,

senger goes back to Adam and Eve
for this one:
IF Eve was twenty three feet tall,
no wonder our prehistoric dad was
tardy about taking her to dress
maker"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03

1t is possible that if the United
States sent commission to South
America, similar to that sent here from
Japan, we might enlarge our activities
on that continent.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03

Portland, Ore, is getting q lot of free
advertising out of a story to the effect
that furniture in a certain house in
that city has been turned topsy turvy
by an unknown force. 1t might have
been the installment collector.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03

lenged a Republican to a debate. The
Republicans only hope is to hire a
photograph and connect it with a fair
ly powerful waterfall. AT that the
photograph is likely to give out first.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03
Wrong to Worry.

Everybody says the baby is the
image of his father" said the proud
young mother
"Oh. WE'LL rejoined her former girl
friend. las long as the little fellow is
healthy you shouldn't let that worry
ou."-Chicago News.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03

Editor Leeds of the Richmond, Ind,
Palladium is credited with buying an
airship at Indianapolis That is one
way to eScaDe the HOOsier authors.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03
Maine Gossip
Too Long!

He seemed a cool. phlegmatic man,
Built on calm and sluggish plan,
Until those closing games began.
Then through his veins the hot blood tore,
His voice become a constant roar;
He ripped and raved from score to score.
At last his fever had to wane;
He lapsed to sluggish ways AGAIN
He couldn't stand so long strain!
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03
A Frank Admission.

Won't you get out of ideas event.
ually?" inquired the solicitous friend
Il have been out of ideas for many
years" replied the candid press agent.
Kansas City Journal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03
Not LOOKING For Moss.

Remember, young man." said the
stern parent to his rowing son. that
a rolling stone gathers no moss"
well, dad rejoined the youth, do
you want me to break into the moss
back class ?"-Chicago News
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03

Lincoln Memorial in the next IN, w..
thah IRON any other university Z
country Funds are ufgently, ~
Tor TINS great work OF educatins' a y J
mountaineers. the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03

One reason why more college girls do
not marry is because they find they
can earn more than the man they could
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03

With both ends of the table reading
politics, breakfast will not be a very
social rcpast in the suffragette days
that are coming.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03

The scientists are satisfied that
Peary reached the pole. So is every
body else except those who bought the
Cook story.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03

Wilbur Wright may not find it easy
to explain to Alice Roosevelt Long
worth that Mrs. Van Deman was en-
titled to the first flight