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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26
Pointed Paragraphs.

Airing your troubles will not mitigate
them.
A baseball team can't win with a
pitcher full of beer.
One touch of the sandbag man is
enough to make any one sore.
There's one sure thing, and that is that
you can't be sure of anything.
When a stingy man is in love he Is apt
to loosen up-but not for long.
A wise man never calls another fool
no matter what he may think.
Fortune smiles on some men one day
and gives them the laugh the next.
OF course, the preachers aim wasn't
accurate when his sermon hit you
successful politician, like the interest
on mortgage, keeps everlastingly at it.
When the parlor gas is turned low, it,
safe bet the right young man is in it,
1t takes whole legislature to change a
mans name, but one minister can change
a woman's.
One thing a woman can't understand is
why man won't wait for bargain sale
when he wants anything.
When a man takes his wife to the
theater he thinks it's up to him to go out
between the acts and telephone home to
see if the house is still there
-Chicapo News
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26
An AeropIane Railway.

Now comes the 'aeroplane safety
suspension electric railway" Of course
it's in the air and in the future. Paul
II. Pages, the inventor, says it is a
thing of the very near future. He has
applied for patents and gives assur-
ance that a large working model of the
suspended railroad will be seen in a
short time. He says it will simply
make the whole world "Sit up and take
notice.
1t isn't a monorail invention. AS de-
scribed by Mr. Pages it is a "high
speed. long-distance, airrestingless,
gravityless, curve or straight line
frctionless. vibrationless. noiseless.
wheel truck and trolley pole deral-less,
switch dangerless, grade crossingless,
power wasteless, electric aerial rail-
way"
In other words, after Is years study
Mr. Pages has worked out a plan to
reverse the accepted order of things in
modern railroading and have the track
overhead instead of beneath the cars.
He proposes to have two tracks on a
superstructure and will use aeroplanes
attached to the top of the cars, tOgeth-
er with aerial propelIers to neutralize
the gravity.
Instead of having the entire train
drawn by the driving wheels of the To-
connective, he will have a motor for each
truck and with the use of the aero
planes, and the propellers the train will
go swinging and gliding along at the
rate of $50 miles an hour if necessary,
with no friction. no jolting and jarring
and no danger from open switches and
other things that beset the pathway of
trains that run on the ground.
He says the superstructure for this
aerial road can be built for less than
the cost of an ordinary roadbed and
that the trains can be operated much
more economically with an enormous
saving in the wear and tear of steel
rails. which cost millions of dollars in
the United States every year. The
cars would not be operated at great
altitude, but suspended few feet from
the earth. or at such height as sur
face conditions might demand
The train would stop over instead of
alongside station platforms so that
passengers could step into the cars
very comfortably. He expects to adapt
his invention to amusement purposes
by building large cars to be swung
around through the air. giving the gen.
eral effect of aepoplane travel-New
York Herald.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

A rGuse amid life's breathless rush.
A spell it's passionate moods to hush,
A time for rest, Il time for prayer,
For trusting to the Fathers care,
For dropping something of the load
That cumberS us upon the road
For finding peace and sweet content
Here is an open door, in Lent
Erstwhile we grow in solitude,
Ger which the hallowed angels brood
AS plants that hear the call of Spring,
And come to richer blossoming.
Because in shadow and in gloom
They waited ere their hour of bloom.
We bend our ear to hear the word
Sent to our hearts by Christ, the Lord:
We let the busy world drift by.
Our thoughts climb upward to the sky
And in its purer element
Our spirits find the grace Of Lent.
When once again the world we meet.
We'd trample sin beneath our feet
For self alone we would not live:
As Christ hath given us. we would give.
The humble and the cOntrite heart
We'd carry from this place apart:
And thus would find the message mean
To help us in this gracious Lent.
Margaret l.. Sangster in Every wher
Magazine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26
kissino the Book.

kissing the book"-an act for which
Sir Gorell Barnes is very willing to see
witnesses substitute the Scottish fashion
of swearing-is a rather late development
of the mere touching of the Gospels with
the fingers. which dates from the sixth
century. 1t is likely that the kiss was
originally intended not to increase the
solemnity of the oath, but to signify
reverence and affection toward the book.
The kiss appears to have come into fash
ion toward the end of the sixteenth CEN
fury, and would seem, from what George
Fox says of 1t, to have been a Protestant
innovation. According to him. the unre-
formed method was simply to hold the
Gospels with three fingers above the
book. typifying the Trinity, and two fin
gers below. typfying the twofold destruc-
ton, of body and soul, that an oath taker
invoked upon himself if he swore falsely.
-IxondOn Chronicle.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

to me. Come in, little girl come in
went in and said Who'll was, and he
said: Come and sit down here, child
Suppose you write a little story
and bring it to me?' l went home and
wrote one of forty or fifty chapters
When 1 took it to him found that he
only required one of half a column. He
told me to go back and write another
story. l spent three months on this,
and put my whole heart and soul into
1t, and it was so good that he agreed
to publish it and paid me $40 for it. At
that time I was only IA years old.
Now. understand, I'm not going to
take your next story, Miss Libbey,' he
told me. oh, why not. Mr.. Bonner, if
1 make it good enough? I pleaded. |
was much wrought up and dreadfuly
cast down. The disappointment was
terrible. Because it will do you good to
to go round among the publishers a
bit he answered. Don't you ever
take a second book from any author?'
1 asked. Very seldom he answered.
That's how 1 began to write~ My first
great success came with the publica-
ton OF Miss Middleton's Lover, and
since then 1 have been writing con-
stantly." Looking at her it seemed
difficult to believe that this delightfully."-
youthful lady in the capacious chair
of blue stamped leather was the au-
thor of Don't Tell Mamma" "Zeta,
the Oil Kings Sweetheart and about
eight andseventy other productions.
Another husband and wife who are
writers of books are Mr.. and Mrs Gale
Young Rice. Mrs. Rice is known the
world over as the creator of Mrs.
Wigs, the philosopher of the Cabbage
Patch. and now she has created a
companion in philosophy to this lady
in the person of Mr.. Opp" Mr.. Rice
is a poet. He has written poetic drama
and he is the author of many sonnets
and lyrics. His poetry is fanciful and
graceful, and it proves that he has the
true poetic feeling. A new volume of
his poems, called "Nirvana Days." will
be published during the week by
Doubleday Page & Co as part of their
Mcclure inheritance. The volume,
which is daintily gotten up, is dedca-
ted to James Lane Allen, a fellow Ken
tuckian, by the way, with friendship
and faithful esteem" I particularly
like the poem from which the book
takes it's title. There is a go and a
picturesquencss about it that is attrac-
tive. Mr. Rice is, like most young po-
cts, ambitious to write a poetic drama
that will be acted upon the stage.
nope that he may succeed in doing so,
for it is a laudable ambition. If he will
take my advice in the matter he
viii! make the star" part prominent
AMI pack the drama with love passages
and situations that arise from the
storm and stress of loving. Throw in
no end of action and stage pictures,
but by no means give the "star" the
opportunity of his life; otherwise he
will have no excuse for producing
form of drama sc repugnant to the
ideals of the average manager.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

you are. 1t is not necessary to ask that
there be any increase of the one. or any
diminution of the other, but only that
each shall pre-empt its own territory, and
stay there. Milk is good. and water is
good but don't set The milk pail under
the pump Pleasure softens pain. but
pain embtters pleasure: and who would
not rather have his happiness concentrate
into one memorable day. that shall CLEAN
and glow through lifetime, than have it
spread out over a dozen comfortable.
commonplace, humdrum forenoons and
afternoons, each one as like the other as
two peas in a pod?-Gail Hamilton
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26
Her Idea of Taft.

Mr.. Taft drove from Augusta one
afternoon to see a planter" said Hiram
S. Bell of Augusta at the National yes
terday, being in a storytelling mood.
1.-THE planters cook, q very Old, woman
takes no interest in public affairs. and
she did not recognize the poitly guest.
What did you think of that gentle
MANI the planter asked after Mr.. Taft
had driven off.
Well. sir old Martha replied. I can't
say as I saw nothin' pertickler bout him
He looked to me like the kind of man
as would be pretty regular to his meals "
w Washington Herald.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26
A Correction.

A tired traveller in a small hotel was
awakened in the morning by heavy
pounding on his door and the voice CT
the old man night clerk saying: Five
O'Clock. Better get up, or you'll miss
your train"
The traveller didn't intend to catch a
morning train and hadn't given any in
structions that he should be called at
the unearthly hour of o'clock, so he
paid no attention to the old mans early
morning greeting and was asleep again
almost Immediately.
In about Is minutes he, was again
awakened by the pounding on his door
and heard the voice of the old man say
ing alphabetically: Don't get up. I
raped on the wrong door. "-Lippincott's
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26
He Wanted More.

prominent western sheep raiser ran
short of hands and hired a green man.
who boosted that he could tend sheep
with any of them. He received a big
drove to herd and returned at the end of
the month
"Do you want me to herd Sheep" he
asked of his employer.
the latter. wv by, what did I hire YOU
fore"
Well said the herder calmly, 'ff you
want me to keep on herdin' EN- you'll
have to get me another drove, cause
them / had is all gone!"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26
Little Of Everything.
The Old Love Song.

Play it slowly, sing it lowly,
Old familiar tune!
Once it ran in dance and dimple,
Like a brook in June;
Now it sobs along the measures
With a sound of tears:
Dear old voices echo through it,
Vanished with the years.
Play it slowly-it is holy
AS an evening hymn;
Morning gladness hushed to sadness
Fills it to the brim.
Memories home within the music,
Stealing through the bars.
Thoughts within its quiet spaces
Rise and set like stars.
Ripple. ripple. goes the love-song
Till in slowing time,
Early sweetness grown completeness
Floods its every rhyme:
Who together learn the music
Life and death unfold.
Know that love is not beginning
Until love is old.
Singing, singing through the roses
Went our lovers twain
Was there ever such a rose time,
Could there be again?
Now they tell us Five and twenty
JuneS We've seen them blow:
Every June'S completer, sWeeter-
Well we lovers know"
William Charming Gannett
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

against 435 in 1900 seagoing steam
ships, of an aggregate of'147,27O gross
register tonnage, built in German ship
yards; at tho close of the year 81 ocean
steamships were in course of construc-
ton, representing 1892 tonnage Ship
building and the shipping trade have
not been prosperous in the last year.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26
This Mixed-Up World.

If things would not run into each other
SO. it would be a thousand times easier,
and million times pleasanter to get on
in the world. Let the sheepiness be set
on one side, and the goatiness on the
other, and Immediately you know where
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

Concrete itself is very old. The con-
crete stairs of Colchester and Roches-
ter castles still show the marks of the
incasing boards; the dome of Agrippas
Pantheon, which is 142 feet in diameter
is of concrete, and fragments of con-
crete buildings are found in Mexico
and Peru.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

ne repeated it to her few weeks after
ms disastrous wedding. do Won know,
Nellie he said, what marriage ;so
Ihen I'll tell you. Marriage is stand.
ing at ones desk nicely settled to wor1s
when great big bonnet pushes in at
the door and asks you to go to WALL
with it, VAIN
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26


S.nnced by the Yale Publishing AS
.s;ou In will contain selections
The undergraduate magazines of
~ .ast ten years and several of the
..apsitv prize poems.
,c.s Marjorie Bowen, the author of
v;ner of Milan," is, it appears,
~, masorerading under that name
biI in reality Miss Gabrielle Mar
we're Campbell. She is a stu
If art as well as a writer. and is
.,eularly given to the painting of
ssers.
4, Kipling is at the little Swiss viii
VI Engelberg, above Lucerne, with
= Kilping and his daughter. He is
10 Interested in winter sports and
s.agans ard he skees and curls daily.
~ curling that he is mostly devo-
= and he is rapidly becoming one of
,ocal teams most deadly shots.
- Kjolirg presented the cups and
/ anhies recently won at the skee, to-
i. sosn and bob races.
,.vinc Bachelor. F. Hopkinson Smith
:, Iohn kendrirk Bangs are associa-
: On the lecture platform this year.
=. noteworthy fact that the public
=, prefer to hear a man read
-, his own writings rather than from
..,s If some more famous master
.ors Is a touch of intimacy that ap-
5.ols TO the interest of the audience.
In Bell, the author of Wee Mac
l -.oor" the little book which has
Y.nsed so much laughter among it's
..aors lives a few miles out of Glas-
Nv and rarely visits London. A
Nrorter of a million copies of Wee
Ig,cgreegor' have been sold. Mr..
,'us new book, "Whither Thou
.oest" presents a picture Of Scottish
as
There promises to be abundant adj
snture and excitement equal to that
"The Wire Tappers" in Arthur
,,neer's new romance that B. w.
,dge & Co., are publishing. It's title
"The Gunrunner." and his plot
.r,res around the southwark trip of
fuit steamer, and it involves the
&,pancies and operations of wireless
biography
eTre Wild Geese" the story by STAN
~ J. Weyman which he says is the
ast he will write, is novel of adVen-
rre the scenes OF which are laid in
rland in the latter half of the eigh-
spntb century. The Wild Geese are
mast smugglcrs and the two chief per
images ale a beautiful Irish girl and
| he descendant of an ancient Irish fam
l Nv gentleman adventurer who re-
urns from Sweden to look after the
! interests of his ward, the Irish girl,
isho is flied with the most ardent de-
3,Otiou for the cause of the country.
Miss Ellen Churchyard of Woodbridge
Ivho died recently at a great age, was
Edward FitZGerald's friend. On an Oc-
sson when Tennyson visited him FitZ-
herald allowed her to sit behind the
Aereen and listen to the symposium. 1t
3Tas she who repeated FitZGerald' s
1nmmary Of the matrimonial state as
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

A Life of the Honorable Mrs Nor
.o'l Is 10 pc published both here and
~ England by Mrs. Alice Perkins. Mrs
norton, the author of Kathleen Mo
sourneen, was q granddaughter Of
Siieridan and with her sisters Lady
oelil anc the Duchess of Somerset
mace up the three graces' of Georgian
society. Several features of her carear
particular her unhappy marriage her
J"ufhlEsm and her friendship with
,1olu falnerston, has so close a resem-
planco to the fortunes of Diana of the
C'oss"ays' that she is generally be-
iieVeo to be the original of Meredith's
POI = AT. This has been denied in one
eoition OF the novel, but most peonle
FAMILIAR with the subject believe that
MI: Meredith had Mrs. Norton in mind
"flile writing his story, though he did
hot delperately undertake to present
an actual history Of her life.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

Miss Ellen Churchyard of Woodbridge
|vho died recently at a great age, was
Edward FitzGerald's friend. On an oc-
|asion when Tennyson visited him FltZ-
herald allowed her to sit behind the
|ereen and listen to the symposium. 1t
|gas she who repeated FitZGeralds
summary Of the matrimonial state as
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

The spring list of the c. NJ. Clark
furnishing Company includes the fol-
lowing unusually interesting and
varied list of new books: The Tragedy
OF the Deserted Isle" by Warren
wood; "Old Ninety Mines Cave" bv
Elizabeth II. Gray; A Knight in
homespun,' by John Charles Spoth;
Inc Tobacco Tiller," by S. B.
Hackley; Alice Brenton," by Marie
Josephine Gale; The Law of the
Range by Wayne Groves Barrow.,.
The Door Where the Wrong Law" bv
Mary E. Greene; THE Voyage of the
Wenonah.' by Augustine Langford:
The Heart of Silence" by Walter
tramp; In the Twilight Zone" by
Roger Carey Craven; Real Letters of
Real Girl" by Betty; Mrs. De Brie
Says by Florence w. Saunders;
Uncle SIM by Fred Perrine Lake ;
The Thousand Leggers,' by Catherine
w. Moss; Tract Number 1877" by
Margaret H. Haffey; Where Men
Have Walked" by H. Henry Rhodes
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

The first of their spring books will
be published by Houghton MifIlin
Company on March 20, as follows:
The Story of Thyrza,' by Miss Alice
Brown: My Crawford" a phase Of the
quiet life, by Arthur Gilman: The
Faith Healer" new play by William
Vaughn Moody; state Insurance" by
Frank w. Lewis: In American Fields
and Forests collection of essays by
Thoreau, Burroughs, Muir, and other
leading American writer's on nature;
Studies in Christianity" by Professor
Borden Parker Bovine: shakespeare
and His Critics." by Professor Charles
+. johnson, and Goldsmith's THE
Good Natured Man" and She Stops
to Conquer" Representative English
and Scottish Ballads" ShakspeareS
King Lear" and Thoreau's "katahdin
and Chesuncook," in the Riverside
Literature Series.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

.,ner volume of Yale Verse" is
'unced by the Yale Publishing As
,.s;on In will contain selections
The undergraduate magazines of
~ ast ten years and several of the
.I..citv prize poems.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

Miss Marjorie Bowen: the author of
- v;ner of Milan" is, it appears,
~ ~ masqrerading under that name
~. in reality Miss Gabrielle Mar
we're Campbell. She is a stu
('f art as well as a writer, and is
i ~,ouarly given to the painting of
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

I-non one side of President street.
rrooklyn. not far from the romantic
nurlieus of Prospect Park circle, there
stands a pale brown house. Outwardly
i, anpears not different from the other
bouscs that line this thoroughfare; and
vet if is different. for it conta1ns-ex-
cent from till $50 daily, upon fine af-
Jean Libbey. TEL me
how YOU began to write?" said the IN
teryiewer who sought her for the pur-
nose If telling the readers of Harpers
Weekly all about this famous modern
re,mancer. "You ask me the old story.
Miss Libby began. "a story OLD TO me-
and vet. suppose new to others wen,
T first began to be an authoress at the
age Of IA while I was still at schooi
NV teacher said to me, Laura. think
vou'd make an authoress.' and she sent
one of nv essays to Robert Bonner. OF
the New York Ledger He wouldn't
believe it came from one of her pupils.
Now Laura, I'm going to send him
another she said. I'm not going to
ask YOU to write about flowers or trees;
tell him you thoughts on writing l
wrote this essay and Mr.. Bonner sent
for me. When I got to his office I felt
like running away. But he called out
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-18

Vulcan Signs.
See those coal signs everywhere. Her
mitage, of course, city.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-18

own. and called 1t Augustus. But 1t had
only 30 days, and 1t was not to be en-
dured that Augustus should be. inferior to
Julius So the emperor took one day from
February leaving it but %, and gave It
to Augustus. This disturbed Caesars or
DERBY arrangement, and three months OF
81 days, viz: July, August and Septem-
Der. came together. The extra day of
the latter was, therefore, given to DC
tober, and a day taken from November
was given to December.
The calendar, like so many other of our
institutions, has been a thing of slow
growth, and herein. perhaps, lies the Sc
cret of its stability. This is illustrated by
the fate of the brand new calendar of the
French republic. At the time of the rev.
olution an attempt was made to get rid of
the Roman names of the months and 9TH
er associations. A new calendar was ar
ranged by a committee, of which the NOV
ing spirit seems to have been Philippe
Fabre d Byzantine dramatist and revolu-
ZIONIST. The old months were cut up so
that from eight to II days of one were
united with from % to 10 of the following
to make IL months of 80 days each. They
received the following poetical and de-
scriptive names; Vendemafre. vintage;
Brumaire, foggy; Frimaire, sleeting; Nj
vose snowy; Pluviose, rainy; Ventose,
windy; Germinal, budding; Floreal, flow
cry; Prairial, pasture; Messidor, harvest;
Thermidor, hot and Fructidor, fruit. The
first month began with the autumn equi-
nox and included eight days of Septem-
Der and % of October. Five extra days
were added under the title of Sans-culot-
tidse every ordinary year, and six In leap
year. The Roman names of the days
were likewise abolished In favor OF the
more prosaic Primidi, Duodi, Tredi, etc.
This calendar remained in use for 10
years, and then Janvier, Fevrier, Lundi,
Mardi and Co. came back, and have re-
NAMED
The French hogan the new republican
year with the autumn equinox, and the
oldest Roman year probably began with
that of spring. March was its first month,
as 1t was in our own until 1862. In that
year England tardily accepted the re-
formed calendar of Pope Gregory XIII,
and January / became the legal New
Years day. For some time previously,
however, it had been observed as the pop