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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05
Telephones in the Maine Woods.

one Of the most interesting uses to
which the telephone has ever been nut
Is reported from the woods of Northern
Maine, where lumber camps are finding
1t an invaluable aid during the logging
season. Many and varied are the tasks
which the phone has been called upon
to perform since it's use has become so
universal in this country, but this case
is rather unique.
Travellers in the heavily wooded Sec
tons of Maine have lately noticed the
wires strung along with the trunks of
trees for supports. These connect with
the dams on the streams down which
the logs float. Should there be a sud
den jam in the mass of lumber making
it's way down the stream, the telephone
is at once pressed into service, and the
man at the dam is notified to hold up
all the logs until the lumbermen above
have had time to straighten out the
tangle.
In former days this service was per-
formed by relays of shouters. Men
stood on the banks of a river at inter-
walls small enough to allow each to be
heard by his nearest neighbor Some
times the distances from the lumber
| camp to the log jam and from that to
| the nearest dam were very great. 1t
can be easily seen what an enormous
advantage the loggers with telephones
have.
| The most important thing to be con-
sidered in the new system of warning
is the degree of efficiency of the tree
to-tree telephone service So it is that
the lumbermen take great care in install
ling their apparatus and strnging the
wires. The instruments and apparatus
in the Maine woods were leased by the
local companies from the Western
Electric Company. which supplies all tn.
telephones and accessories used by the
4 Bell Telephone system throughout the
fcountry.
An application of the telephone meth
cd of logging was witnessed recent,
on the west branch of the Penobsco
River. The water pursues it's way ovel
rough and uneven course, SO Their,
are many rough spots over which til,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05

There were sss visitors last week at
the Longfellow home in Portland. The
same week last-year was but 627.
showing some symptoms of increase OF
.I I1N.t Tor August. The total attend
rms season has been 1887 This
a.nerence of but 40 from last year
~ tne sales of souvenirs are q little
more than last season.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05
UnaccountabIe Omissions.
(HOuStOn PoSt.)

A member of the Georgia legislature
denounced minister who had attacked
him as "a wilful. malicious, reckless,
malignant and vicious liar" Why did
he omit the adjectives '.,unmitigated,"
"pusillanimous," "pluperfect" and cop
per- riveted?" In these days, the people
desire to know just what kind of liar
a man is.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05

The Southern people are said
to be much gratified over the
fact that a colored regiment has
been ordered to Vermont. We
predict. however. that the good people
Of that state will treat them SO we'll
that there will be no repetition of the
Rrewpyille incident.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05

An honest colored woman passed
away in Tennessee a few days ago at
the advanced age of 1l6 years. She
Frankly admitted that she had never
been the nurse of George Washington,
having been entirely contented to serve
him in the humber capacity of cook on
his Brandywine campaign
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05
Has All the Symptoms.

A Richmond editor suggests that the
Democratic party may be victim OF
the hook worm. Considering it's vora-
cious appetite and it's failure to grow,
it is more likely a victim of the tape
worm
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05

Secretary Wilson is justified in feel
ing. Enthusiastic over this years corn
crobs. The indications are that it will
be Wbumper one.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05

There Is suspicion that most Of the
newspaper pictures of NJ. Bleriot pub
ter his flight across the English chan
nstw were of the stock" variety. Scarce
lNRny two of them suggested the same
refson.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05

There Is at least no suspicion that
DIR. Efot has any financial purposes in
view in announcing his new religion.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05
Protection For the American Girl.
milwaukee, Sentinel

J.
The tariff on lemons will be increas-
ed. This may decrease the number of
impoverished foreign noblemen coming
for American wives
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05

Foreign noblemen with titles for sale
are not to be blamed for feeling sore
over the fact that there was no re-
duction in the tariff on lemons.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05

Ehe young and beautiful" woman
has not figured so frequently in the
newspapers since half-tone portraits
came into vogue.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05

ME Bryan's daughter secured a di-
vorce from her husband because she
preferred home to art"-that is such
art as he possessed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05

Notwithstanding the fact that he
"hoofed it" all the way. Pedestrian
Westons trip across the continent cost
him $2,5 500
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05

It was mean in those women bandits
to hold up the members of the Glidden
party; but your true suffragette is no
Tespectcr of persons
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05
No Accounting For Taste.

VNIIICdSU ITIUUHP.D
You can't imagine Joe Folk slapping
a dining car waiter. but the people of
Missouri know what kind of United
States Senators they want.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05

Il am Texan" said John w. Gates
to a New York Sun reporter.
He might have added that he hasn't
worked much at IL of late.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05

Col. Watterson has not as yet been
converted to prohibition, but, otherwise
the state of Kentucky is pretty gener-
ally dry.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05

1ff has yet to be demonstrated what
q flying machine would be able to ac-
complish in a head on encounter with
q Kansas zephyr
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05
He Is Making It Impossible.

(NtW 1OTK MdlI1
Stay in your own party" says Mr..
Bryan to the Democrats. Whether they
are able to do it or not depends on
whether Mr. Bryan leaves them any
party to stay in.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05

A careful consideration of DIR. Eliot s
five foot shelf should convince even the
most skeptical of men that it would be
entirely safe from burglars.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05

The ,Donlin- Magee deal has gone w
Sn smoke and Manager Murray of the
Philadelphia Nationals goes on his way
repicing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05

Mr. B1eriOt appears to have made an
entirely successful invasion OF Eng
land.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05
VOICES OF THE PRESS.
A Wide Choice in Remedies.

(BoStOn Herald)
AS Maine sells alcoholic drinks only
for medical and mechanical purposes
the state agency's choice assortment
of all brands is no less surprising than
delightful.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05

IT would BIZ wrong to attribute DR..
Eliot's omission of the Bible from his
Ave foot shelf to the fact that he has
started a new religion.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05

+ Brave as he is, King AlphOnsO has
been content to remain just little In
the rear Of the firing line.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05
esrAsL,snep 1sas

No notice whatever. will shs taken Of
unsigned comnnnicatiodsl
The Journal cannot bs held response
BILE for the preservation or return OF
rejected communications.
AA1rsss oil communications relating
to subscriptions and advertisements
to BURLEIGH & FLYNT, Publish
efsy Augusta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05

The effort of the Spanish military
authorities to censor the press reports
doaB hot appear to have been entirely
SUCCESSFUL
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05

ST
1t must be admitted that there isn't
much religion" in many of the crltl-
eisms of DR.. Eliot's latest propaganda
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05

All roads are smooth for the aero
AN nI'e.-
t,lanes-on calm days.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05

Another sign of prosperity! Divorced
women are finding it easier to collect
ahmeny.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05

Still if everyone went visiting in the
summer there wouldn't be anyone left
to visit
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05

charleston News and Courier)
We might be converted if the
Wrights would take Mr. Taft as the
other passenger.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05
Knows Without Looking at 1t.
(Phila dalphia Ino,,irarN

Bryan is soon to sail for Panama. On
arrival he may be expected to announce
that the canal is failure.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05
Poor Company For Him.

birmingham Age Herald)
President Eliot should not seek to
supplant Jim Hill, Chance Day and
Chance Depew as prophet and wise
man.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05

-nIr Eliot always seemed to thrive and
wax rat on criticism. :
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05

Count Zeppelin still leads them all
as a long distance flyer.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05

1t Is to be hoped that Thaw has fl
fafly melted
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05
For Beino a Lucky State.

(Pittsburg Gazette Times)
After Mr.. Bryan leaves, what will
Nebraska be noted for?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05

l.. c. Bateman of Auburn has been
engaged to judge the babies at the
Maine Central fair, which opens in Wa
terville, August 81.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05

Automobiles say that the signposts
on TIE Maine roads are in better con-
dition this year than ever before.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05

Biddeford is after the automobiles
who exceed the speed limit. r.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05
Maine Gossip

Alas!
IT'S now the lonely hubby strives,
While she is gone, the best of wives,
To cheer the sad and empty days
In certain gay and blithesome ways;
While every message sings this tune:
II hope you're coming home quite soon
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The farmers say that rain is badly
needed.
Bath is to have a Tag day for the
benefit of it's new hospital.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05

Thursday, August S, 1909.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05
1aily kennebec journal

Entered at the Augusta Post Office as
mail matter.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-05

Gunners can now go after plover and
snipe. The law went off August 1.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1909-08-21
American Girls and Titles.

The responsibility for the present
humilatinS slave trade In which rich
American girls are sold to the titled
decadents Of England and the conti-
nent is almost wholly the fault Of the
men of this country. This opinion IS
offered only after years of observa-
ton and consideration of our social
conditions and after a pathological
study of American men. Their open
aStOniShment and chagrin at this phe-
nomenon would be vastly amusing
were it not so pathetic. Our men have
a helpless inability to see themselves.
Nor is the responsibility of the mother
lost sight of, for the foreign suitor be-
gins with her, as he does in Europe.
She is the outer citadel which must
first succumb to his studied charm.
This outer citadel is carried with as
tonishing ease, as he quickly discovers,
and for three reasons. The mother Is
easily daZzled; her social foundations
do not go down deep in the class to
which she almost invariably belongs;
her husband has made every dollar of
the lure of those millions without
which there would not be this problem
to solve. Second, the women who see
what a given man really is, who esti-
mate him at all justly, who begin even
to understand mems social standards
either in this country or Europe, are
rare indeed.
The American mother usually is
clearly out Of her depth at the start,
as unfit as n child to counsel her
daughter. She Is not equipped for 1t.
1t Is not her work.
In the third place must be considered
that subtle relationship Of sex which
European men Of any age always have
the art of establishing with woman
of whatever age, their attention, their
quick courtesy toward women. their
habit Of listening absOrbedly when
woman Spcaks-all this is so absolute
ly new to the American mother that
she becomes hypnotized by 1t and can
no longer distinguish truth from fal-
sity or mere national point Of eti-
quettc from a personal thoughtfulncss
and delicate tenderness Of feeling.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1909-08-21
FROsTBURG, Md, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2l, 1909.

five days from the date of the decision com
planned of, and shall bc heard and decided 10y
the Court of Appeals upon the original papers
or Ot hcrwiSc, as the Court of Appeals may 10y
rule prescribe. as soon as may bc practicable"
The General Assembly shall have power T."
provide more fully 10y legislation not lnconSlSt-
Cnt with this section of this Article, Tor the
hearing and determination of all such cases.
SEC >. ind BE- il FURTHER enacted by he an
Horjty atoremid, That the aforegOinE section
hereby proposed as an amendment to the
Constitution of this State shall be at the next
General Election for members of the Gener-
al Assembly to be held i'll this State, submit
ted to the legal and qualified voters thereof
for their adoption or rejection, in pursuance
of the directions contained III Article NV OF
the Constitution of this State and at said
general election the vote on the SAID proposed
amendment shall be by ballot, and upon
each ballot there shall be printed the words
For the Constitutional Amendment and
Against the Constitutional Amendment
as now prescribed by law, and Immediately
after said election due returns shall be made
to the Governor of the vote for and against
said proposed amendment as directed by the
said Article NV of the Constitution.
Approved February %, 1905.
Now, THEREFORE, |, AUSTIN l.. CRornEEs,
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF MARYLANp, III
pursuance of the provisions of Section /, of
Article / of the Constitution of the State of
Maryland, do hereby order and direct that
copy of said Act proposing an amendment to
Section | of Article of the Constitution of
said State, be published in at least two news
papers in each of the counties of the State
and in three newspapers i'll the City of Bal
timore one of shall be published in the Ger
man language, once a week for at least three
months preceding the next General Election,
which election will be held on November ID,
1909, at which election the said proposed
amendment shall be submitted, in the form
and manner prescribed by the General As
sembly to the legal and qualified voters of
the State, for their adoption or rejection.
Given under my hand and the Great Seal
,-, of the State of Maryland.
SEAL Done at the City of Annapolis.
- this LIST day of July, one thousand
nine hundred and nine.
AUSTIN l.. CROrHERS.
By the GOrcrnor:
n WINSTON WILLIAMS,
Secretary of State. July 81
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1909-08-21
Oil For Country Roads.

A most interesting experiment is be-
ing conducted In central Illinois near
Springfield. The state highway COM
mission Is making a test Of oil on
country roads. While oil roads are no
novelty in many parts Of the United
States, they are not known on the
heavy black soil Of central Illinois.
The top soil of the road is being mixed
with an asphalt oil to the depth OF six
inches. In many parts Of the Sucker
State stone roads are out of the Ques-
tion. Without the material near at
hand the great prairie states cannot
expect to have stone pixies, as do some
of the eastern states. Good roads must
be secured by drainage. special care
and possibly by the use Of oil. This
experiment will be watched with
great deal of interest
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1909-08-21
FLORIDA SAWDUST ROADS.
Southern Expert Finds 1t Cheaper and
Best Material to Use.

They are making roads of sawdIst
mixed with earth on n new plan in
Leon county, Fla. Two ridges Of earth
are thrown up with n road machine at
the required width from each other
and the space between Is filled with a
six inch bed Of sawdust. This is fol-
lowed with smaller machine, which
plows up and mixes the earth with the
sawdust This makes n roadbed on
which the tires Of the heaviest loaded
vehicles make no impression. The
contractor, G. II. Averltt, has kept an
accurate account of expenses in con.
nection with this section of sawdust
and earth road and says the cost ag
gregates $297 mile. showing 1t to be
about the cheapest road material in
use.
1t may be suggested that sawdust Is
not n durable material, but the Florida
True Democrat meets this objection
with the statement that one or two
such roads were constructed In a south
Georgia county twenty years ago and
are still In good condition, showing its
dura bility. AS Is we'll known. Leon
county soil Is clayey.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1909-08-21
him. IIcavC

gave way. He was falling like Luci-
fer from great height swiftly, gid
dily. And still as he clasped her In his
arms she kept demanding:
me or her? Prove It,"
Giuseppe turned to the picture. In
his glance was the cynicism of an en-
lightened century over which unbelief
has swept. He considered the tender
pathos of Its eyes with their promises
that could never be brought quite to
fufillment. He marked Its spirituality,
pleading mutely against the flesh, sa-
cred, distant, always distant and un-
reachable. And it was he who had
painted such meaning into those fea-
lures. 1t was he who had cared for
heaven while there was an earth. The
corners OF his mouth twitched. With
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1909-08-21
"Thc pjct,Dc shnu san ii uU."

Looking. she understood the man and
the strange sweet longing of his coun-
tcnancc. When he unveiled n sketch
of herself tears rose with the intcn-
sity of her delight. Unfinished as it
was, it was the gem of the collection.
But the beauty, the eXaltation of it,
were such as she had never possessed.
great, he was good, and-she knew it
now with the suddcnneSs of a reve-
lation-she loved him.
''You We're so like picture at the
window" he apOlogiZed that stud
led you. You forgiven
surely forgive. You-you sha
study me again"
"Oh, If | might and here! At the
window you hung so far above the
line"
II shall be on the line hereafter if
you paint me So" And her voice sank
to a revcrent whisper
The artists face flushed. He was
creature of emotions too natural =.
seek conccalmcnt. Without troubling
to separate the woman from the con-
ception he struggled with an explana-
ton
ooh, signOrina, the years that | have
lOngcd for you! | cannot make words
talk, but the picture shall say it all
how | was weak and wicked and you
mercifully came to be my salvation;
how you looked at me to lift me out of
sin. You will let me love you? | am
bold to say 1t, because | ask nothing
You are so far away that my love can
not offend more than it does the Vir-
gin"
Angelica passed the night with open
eyes examining her happiness. The
letters OF a young attorney in Grand
Rapids had been destroyed, they show
ed so commonplace beside the glory of
this new passion. Giuseppe should
love her, as he willcd and when the
time came that it was not unmaidenly
to yield-in blissful wakcfulness she
rchcarsed the thousand ways that she
might tell him.
The sittings began. The artist work
ed fcvcrishly and said little. Angelica
began to find him more complex than
she had thought
You are like religion. You make
me sad" he said when asked about
his sOmbcrneSs. But the answer dis
pleased Angelica and filled her with
premonitions. Was 1t only black eyed
Floria, then. who could make him
smile?
His interest in her personality was
meager, too, for a lover, When she
spoke of Grand Rapids he had mur-
murcd
"The rapids-back by the sea where
you live?
Angelica remarked that she lived far
inland and in pique added a reference
TO the attorney whose letters had been
sacrificed.
zone worthy you there? Perhaps
Giuseppe is not. He knows it. After
a time you will return. The great
rapids will swallow you again, and
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1909-08-21
maintenance OF HIGHWAYS.
Features of the Patrol System to Keep
Roads In Good Condition.


Roads In Good Condition.
The new state highway commission
has announced that 1t expects to adopt
the patrol system for the maintenance
of the state and county highways here
tofore improved by state aid. This
will involve the maintenance of a
force Of some $50 patrolmen. each with
horse and cart and each assigned to
look after the repair Of ten miles of
road This system involves an eX-
pense of $50 a year per mile of road
to be repaired. 1t has been success
fully followed out in Keeping In con-
dition improved highways in Massa-
chusetts and In certain foreign Coun-
tries, and under the system the roads
are kept in such state of efficiency
that much in the way Of expensive re-
pair work is avoided.
The commission has also voted to
establish Immediately a bureau of re-
search for the purpose of Investigate
Ing the various methods of conStruc-
ton In vogue In neighboring states
and for conducting experiments with
view to ascertaininG the best form
Of construction which will be adapted
to the present conditions. having in
mind especially the great damage
caused by automobile traffic
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1909-08-21
The Riqht Address.

A young New York broker of con-
vivlal habits fell in with an old school
friend who had gone on the road.
whenever you're in town come up
and bunk with me-" urged his friend
as they separated, mo matter what
old time It is. If I'm not there just
go ahead and make yourself at home.
I'll be sure to turn up before day
break"
Soon after this the salesman arrived
in town about midnight and, remem-
bering his friends invitation, sought
out his boarding house. There was
only n dim light flickering in the hall,
but he gave the bell manful pull.
Presently he found himself face to
face with n landlady of grim and ter
riblc aspect.
Does Mr. Smith live here" he fal
tered.
HE docs~ snapped the landlady.
You can bring him right in!-Every-
body's.