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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-23

how to conserve the billions of gallons
Of water that run to waste in the II
watersheds of the state. 1t now makes
a comprehensive report, recommending
that the state build vast storage reser-
voirs at an approximate cost of $780,
600, 600. If the plans are carried out, 1t
is estimated that the state will produce
about 2.0O0,OO0 horse power year for
which it can get 100000.
Massachusetts has two rivers, the
Connecticut and the Merrimac upon
which the great mills of that state de-
pend. In Maine we have three great
river systems, the Ienobscot, Kennebec
ard AndroscOggin, which drive mills
upon which thousands of people de-
pend; while there are four or five lesser
systems, like the Union, Machias. Mou-
sam. Pleasant and others upon the wa
ter supply of which our State largely
depends.
To preserve the waters of our rivers
is work along the line of the neceS-
sary conservation of energy, now that
our wood has given out, to save our
water. the most valuable gift of nature
that we possess. An engineering COM
mission that will plan to make our
floods feed our droughts, besides fur
Eishing vast power, would be most well
come to the owners of mills, to say
land is first drowned and Their baked.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-23
The Lure Of the Game.

The wearied clown, sans rouge and paint
Looked his sad-faced self in the eyes:
He was sick of the smell of the circus
faint
And he said: II can see no prize.
There is, naught ahead-I must change
my lot
But applause swept in. and cheers.
And his eyes were alight with a flame,
youth-hOt,
And he dotted full twenty years.
For IT isn't the money and isn't the
fame
It's the lure, the lure of the game.
From the brokers' hands there fell away
The tape. in heap on the floor;
He said: Il must forswear this today.
Though I've garnered a million more;
| must seek cot in the country side,
Away from the towns Unrest
But the morrow'S bugleS were not denied
And back to the fight he pressed,
For 1t isn't the money and isn't the fame
It's the lure, the lure of the game.
So ask of the prospector. on the height,
The cowboy who rides the plain.
OF the engineer who guides the fight
OF the Notwithstanding. roaring train:
What voice has the god of chance and
change
To WOO them to callings new?
Away with the roses, meath heavens
strange
The thorns of this bed must do:
For 1t isn't the money and isn't the
fame
It's the lure, the lure of the game!
Denver Republican.
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A Maine Man at Olympia.

We have spoken recently in these
columns of the death of the newly
elected governor of the State of Wash
ngton and the resulting promotion of
the lieutenant governor to the place
thus mace vacant. 1t appears that the
man ranking next highest in the Off
cial life of the state is a former Maine
man, Alfred Smith Ruth, a native of
Linneus up in Aroostook county, who
is president of the Washington senate.
A recent copy of the Bellingham,
prominence this son of Maine has
gained in his adopted state. He has
been a member of the senate, represent
ting Thurston county, for the last four
sessions, and his elevation to the high
est office in the gift of his fellow men,
bers comes as a recognition of his abil-
ty and prominence in political affairs.
Mr. Ruth is AZ years of age and is
by business a contractor and civil en-
Slneef. lie llNeu III MS native state un-
til he was p years of age and since then
has been growing up with the great
Northwest. His wife is also native of
Maine and he has q large family.
Something of his popularity in his
home country is indicated by the
fact that ne has each time been re-
elected by the state senate by larger
majority that he received before, and
at his fourth reelection last fall he
went far beyond his earlier figures. In
the state of Washington, it appears, as
well as in certain other states, there
has been more or less discussion in re-
cent years about changing the state
capital. and Senator Ruth has been
one of the champions of Olympia, the
existing capital, and the leader of the
successful fight by which the state
house has been kept there He is spok-
en- of as a man of tireess energy and
fearlessnass. and as a forceful speaker
with the courage of his convictions.
Plainly this son of Aroostook county
has made good in the state of Wash
ington, and as he now holds the second
plainly bear watching
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-23

off by experts, and the prairie Gogs
are scientifically exterminated by
specialists from agricultural colleges.
The average cow-horse is nowadays
apt to be three parts American and
frequently too amiable to pitch; and
il lie does not drag his rider by the
foot, there is no reason why the rider
should shoot him to stop him The
Bar X" man is likely enough from
Harvard. and maybe drinks kumyss
and is plumb gentle. Even that great
natural enemy of the Western cow
puncher, the fretful tin can, is less
abundant than of yore, and is often
times day-wrangled by the cook into
a pile in the backyard. Alas. that
these things should be. Alas: that
glory should so quickly fade. Yet true
it is that in these modern days salaries
are not cut wide enough to cover
chuck and ammunition both. In art,
commerce and polite society today,
East Or West, the sandbag is might
Ter than the gun.-The Outing Mag
aZine
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Talk Of an income Tax.

In connection with the work of re-
vising the tariff, there is a renewal OF
the proposition that an income tax of
some kind be included in the provisions
of that measure, providing such a tax
can be framed which will meet the re-
quirements of constitutionality. Some
Of the Washington correspondents say
that President Taft is in favor of such
tax as one OF the means of producing
national revenue, but in saying this
they are going on guesswork rather
than on any knowledge of his attitude.
The income tax has for many years
been one of the chief revenue measures
Of England. which now gets about
s20O, 200, 900 annually from this source.
Prussia levies on all incomes above
1925 year. beginning at the lowest
with clio of l per cent. and running to
1 per cent on the large incomes. Aus
tr'a and Hungary about the same. Italy
taxes all incomes above $50 year at a
uniform rate of II per cent. In Holland
and New Zealand individuals and COR
porations are taxed, but holders of Sc
curities only through the corporations.
Holland levies only on net income.
Denmark, Switzerland and Australia
levy tax on income. France is now
discussing a new income law, but as is
typical of everything France is doing
under Socialism, proposes a tax which
amounts practically to confiscation
of the property Of the rich.
Massachusetts has what amounts to
an income tax since colonial times, in
comes under $1,000 being free, but the
tax is practically dead letter. The
United States has twice passed income
tax bills, once in 1861, under Secretary
Dallas, to raise revenues FOR the war,
all incomes over $500 year being taxed
per cent. Several changes We're made
and in 1866, $72, $50, 159 was raised in this
way. This law remained in force until
the '7Os In 1894 the Wilson tariff bill
contained a provision for an income
tax Of 2 per cent. on all incomes over
$1,000, which was passed and signed by
President Cleveland, but in May, 1895,
supreme court by vote of five to four.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-23

Massachusetts mas one holiday which
Is the sole property of this common
wealth. It's Patriots day.-Pittsfeld
Mass, Journal.
Olir Massachusetts contemporary
should read its Maine exchanges oc-
casiohallv and thus keep up with the
worlo. This month, for the third time,
Maine has celebrated Patriots day
which. like massachusetts, is substitute
ed for Fast day. We have no Mara
thOn race, to be sure, but otherwise
the celebration has the same fea-
lures that characterize April 10 in
Massachusetts. The schools are closed,
business is suspened. the lawn is clean
ed up. the umpire is mpbbed in the va
cant lots and a few favored mortals
go fishing. Paul Revere. Concord and
Lexington cat no figure in the pro-
gram.
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eLEANINes AND GOSSIP.

1t seems a pity that the elephant
who went on rampage in Iowa should
have waited until the eX-president got
east of Suez.
Some people seem to be getting bit
OF consolation out of the fact that the
price of diamonds has gone down,
even though that of ice is going up.
Washington is trying to pass law
making tipping a misdemeanor within
her boundaries. If this is so the state
will become very popular with tourists.
A Baltimore company has secured
the contract to furnish a new clock
ana bell for the town hall at Kingston,
Ont. and the English and Canadian
firms are not overjoyed.
Seattle. WASH. is new in the way of
things. It's leading paper prints a
two-column story on it's front page
n bout a man who tried to mail letter
in fire-alarm box.
CamboGia-now French protector
ate-is a little bigger than our Penn
syvania. and has about 100000 in
habitants who live contentedly on rice
bananas and fish and hate the very
thought of fighting. Most of the coun-
try is a plain, drained by the Meknig
river, but there are mountains and
wildcrneSses in the north; that's where
the deer, leopards, tigers. elephants.
etc, are found. Cambodia's only cot
ton mill lat KsachkandaD has in use
six gins from New London and four
oil-seed presses from Tompkinsville.
The academy of sciences at Vienna
has decided upon the creation Of phon-
ographic archives, which will be di
vided into three parts, and which will
probably be the most remarkable Ii
brary on record. The first section will
be devoted to examples of European
languages and dialects of the different
PEOPLES spoken at the beginning Of the
goth century. The second will contain
examples of music and song of the
same period. while the third section
will be reserved for the records of con-
Temporary orators.
A move, hut simple device for VEN
tilating cars. factories and houses has
just been devised by H. T. Minnitt. In
a panel Of glass or sheet metal large
number of bosses are stamped, each
boss being perforated by hole about
Il quarter of an inch in diameter. The
panel is mounted in wall or window
and if the bosses project outward the
wind causes a distinct current of air
outward through the holes. but if the
inward. The action is still the same
whether the wind blows directly
against the panel or across it.
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The Sion Read "TempeI."

A misspelled word in the metal cor
nice Of the new Odd Fellows temple.
th-Avenue and Pine Street, which
is nearing completion, caused such a
cOmmotion by means of the telephone
and personal interviews with members
of tire fraternity that the Sound Roof
ing and Cornice Company. No. 2615
First Avenue, was notified to pull
down tho sign at once and arrange
the metal letters according to Web
ster's idea.
odd Fellows Tempel," in large let
tiers, for several days glared down on
passersby, and faced the critical eyes
of hundreds Of students Of the Broad
way High School. many of whom had
seen it, with mental rotations, from
across the street Some of the conf
plainants said the letters in that
wcrd were twice as large as those in
the others. F. G. Drew. member of
the order who has taken a leading
part in attending to the business ar
rangements for the building, said that
almost daily some person who had
se1n the sign either called him up on
the telephone. visited him in person.
or stopped him on the street to file
their protests. AS the complaints null
tipiied. Mr.. Drew found it necessary
for his own protection. he declared.
to frame up a sterectyped reply for ALL
1--WE know the word is misspelled,"
he said. "and are leaving it that way
for advertising purposes
When Intercepted in regard to the
error, Mana ger Gottlieb Weibel. of the
Sound Roofing and Cornice Works,
said that the letters were put in place
by laborer from Europe in the en-
poy of the company, and that he had
ordered it corrected at once Mr.. Wei
bel in turn questioned the workman.
"They don't spell it with l-e' in
Germany, aid they don't spell it that
way in Sweden 1t isn't spelled like that
all over Europe. but in the United
States. where they put everything
backwards. it is spelled So" said Man
aser Weibel. He said he was unable
to satisfy his employee that the rules
of the spelling game varied in differ
ent countries, and directed another
man to make the correction.--Seattle
Post -Intelligencer.
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MAINE EDITORIAL COMMENT.
One Way to Catch Fish.
(Biddeford Journal)


The passenger department of the
Boston and Maine railroad, in its ad-
vertising to call the attention of sports
men to the advantages of fishing in
Maine. is using a cut which is calcula-
ted TO make the thoughtlesS smile and
the iudicious grieve. This cut repre-
sents Two men in a canoe. The one
facing the stern has hooked a fish and
his companion is about to net the
catch. The man with the rod has led
mis- fish up alongside the canoe and de-
pressed lis rod to an angle where. UNI
less the fish is absolutely dead, and
from the spray thrown up it does not
seem to he. the sight of the net will
create furry which will result in loss
of fish or broken tackle, or both. Per-
haps. however, the fish in Maine are
so tired waiting to he caught that not
even ordinary precautions are necessa-
ry in landing them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-23

There will be neither war nor rumors
of war as the result of that seizure of
an American fishing craft by a Cana
patches indicate that the American
schooner was caught red handed while
poaching and fired on when it attempt
ed to escape. Possibly the story was
colored as II came over the wires from
Canadian sources. but if the facts are
as given the seizure was wholly justi-
fed
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First Use Of the Word "kerosene."

The word kerosene" seems to have
been first used in the United States
patent No. 1852, of March q. 1853.
granted to Abraham Gesner of VIII
liamsburg, N. Y, and assigned to the
North American Kerosene Gas Light
Company. In the preamble to his
specification Gesner states that he has
invented and discovered a new and
useful manufacture or composition Of
matter. being new liquid hydrocarbon
which / denominate kerosene. 80
far as we are aware, and so far as the
patent Office examiners are aware
this is the first instance In which the
word Kerosene" was suggested as
trade mark or a name for what was
then generally called rock oil.
Scientific American.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-23

Last week in an attempt to amend
the militia laws so as to cut out few
surplus brigadiers the Rhode Island
legislature wiped out of existence the
entire military and naval forces of the
state. That is all except the governor
who gets his rank of captain general
from the constitution 1t was terrible
mistake of course, and now the law
makers are seeking to remedy it as fast
as they can untangle the red tape. In
the meantime no foe has arisen to take
advantage of Little RhOdy'S defenseless
condition.
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A Manufactured Climate.

The gardeners of Paris get their
products on the market weeks before
the regular season for them.
The secret is simply this: The
French maraichers have manufactured
a climate to suit them. AS one OBJ
server has said: They have moved
the climate of monte Carlo up to the
suburbs of Paris"
Some new prodigy of modern
science. this? Not at all. Only
enormous expense in money and in
time. The gardens, whenever possible,
are placed on land with a slope to the
south, and are well protected by walls
on the north and east, walls built to
reflect light as well as to give prOtec-
tion from the northeast winds.
The grounds is practically covered
with grass, not as in a greenhouse. but
by glass frames in the open three
light" frames of uniform size, twelve
feet by four and a half: and also by
glass bells. These. too, are of a uni
form size. about the shape Of a chapel
bell, little less than seventeen inches
in diameter and from fourteen to fif-
teen inches high The Franch call
them cloches. You may often see over
a thousand frames and over ten thou
sand glass bells in one two-acre plot
in the suburbs of Paris.
"A more recent innovation Is the en-
ployment of hot water pipes run under
the soil, making of the earth a VERT
able steam-heated hotel, with this es-
sential difference, that the hotel keeper
here is desperately eager. not to keep
his guests, but to persuade them to
leave on the earliest possible day. -
Success Magazine.
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Fortifyinq Extinct Volcano.

The United States army is terrifying
the city of Honolulu, Hawaii, and the
extinct crater of the great Diamond
Head volcano is the centre of the op.
erations. This crater lies to the east
of the city, and it's bowl, some twenty
acres in area, is enclosed by abrupt
cliffs from fifty to two hundred feet
in height. Through this rim of cliffs,
on the side farthest from the ocean,
our army engineers are boring two
large tunnels which lead from the
great twelve-inch motar batteries on
the outer slope to the great cavity
within the old volcano. Inside the
mountain will be constructed ammu-
milton magazines which should be ex-
ceptionally secure from chance of ex-
plosion. Erosion has deposited lay
err of about six feet of earth over the
floor of the crater, while a small lake
forms at one side during the greater
part of the year. Probably barracks
for troops will be built in this enclos-
ure. and a garden to furnish an adc-
quate supply of vegetables for the
soldiers might easily be planted in the
fertile soil, says Harper's Weekly
The strength of this novel scheme
of fertilization may be recognized
when We realize that the Diamond
Head stands between the batteries and
the sea, and would render effective
battleship fire in an attack almost i'm
possible. Since the mortars simply
drop their shells upon the object of
attack, the necessity of firing over the
mountain does not interfere IN the
SliobtaSt with thair accuracy Electric
indicators situated at some suitable
point of observation will direct the
aiming of the mortars.
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Hontoad Neiohbors,

Under the floor of the piazza has
lived q family of hoptoads from time
immemorial. They are on excellent
terms with their fellow tenants of the
human race. They make formal calls.
and the hoptoad children are mighty
well trained. They come forth. from
their home through a hole in the lat
ticc work in single file-father, mother.
first born, second born, twins side by
side ard the baby at the tail of the dig
;lified paraGe. The little ones always
stay in the background while Mr.. and
Mrs. Hoptoad are leaving their cards
on their human friends. They are
neighborlv in their solemn. well-bred,
old-fa shioned way, but they do not
care for strangers. They retire with
great tormality-in the same single file,
except for the twins, upon the approach
Of outsiders For such stolid persons
they have an extraordinary interest in
automobiles, which sometimes tempts
them into almost rude curiosity. They
abhor bridge whist parties on the piaz-
Za--New York Press.
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when young Henri Renaud began
training for long distance running he
met only icers and ridicule from his
fellows in the mill, and when lie left
Nashua to compete in last Monday S
great Marathon race at Boston nobody
bothered to give him a send-Off Now
he Is back in Nashua Il winner and he
is welcomed with bands. receptions and
cheering crowds. That is the way of
the world in other things than Mara
thOn races.
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Real Laziness.

George Washington drew long sigh
and said: "Ah wish All had hundred
watermilions.''
Dixie's eyes lighted. Hum! Dat
would suttenly be fine! An ef yo mad a
hundred watermillions, would yo' glib
me ffty?'
mo, All wouldn't
Wouldn't you glib me twenty-five? ~
NC, All wouldn't glib yo' no twenty
five"
Dixie gazed with reproachful eyes at
his clost-fisted friend. Seems to me,
you's powanful stingy. George Wash
ington," he said, and then continued in
heartbroken voice, "Wouln't yo' glib
me one?"
mo, All wouldn't glib yo' one. Look
a-hear, niggah. Are yo' so good-ter-
ruffen' lazy dat yo' can't wish TO yo'
own watermillions?- Youngs Maya
zine
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Modern improvements.

AS we look back over the past. one of
the things that strikes us about the
great men is that they did not have
any OF the modern advantages. Plato,
for example. did not go through Har-
ward. Julius Caesar did not have the
avantage of our ur to-date system of
mag:ng brigadier generals. Think of
what Hannibal could nave done if he
had only the advice of Leonard Wood !!
Machiavelli had no Tammany hall.
Benjamin Franklin had to start his
paper without going through the Cor
nell department of journalism Lincoln
had no Henry James to guide him in
the formation Of a style. And Charles
Darwin in his experiments with nature
had to struggle along as best he could
without Rockefeller institute. What
might they have accomplished had they
only lived today!-Life
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Maine Gossip
Butterflies.

The balmy air of spring has come
With Easter season gone,
The homeiy moths must soon begin
Their dull cocoons to weave and spin
Around the chry sails within
Then hatch their summer spawn.
They rob the crocus of it's gold,
The sun of brilliant rays,
The hyacinths and tulips, too.
Are mixed with blooms of every hue,
They garner in the early dew
Mid Flora's fairy maze.
And thus enrobed, enchanting forms,
In fascinating Whirls
Come from cocoons forbidding. gray
Costumed in myriad cOlors gay
Fair Houris on mankind to prey
Bewitching Summer Girls!
George Weatherill Earl, Jr
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Water and No Water.

When the spring floods come down
upon us mills and factories have to stop
because there is too much water. When
the drought arrives in August the mills
and factories stop because there is too
little. During the first ten months OF
1868 the flood damage to the country
amounted to 100000. 900. Besides that
there was the loss of gigantic volume
of water which. if conserved. might
have been used fer purposes of naviga-
ton, irrigation and power
For two years past the state water
supply commission of New York has
been graphing with the problem of
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-23

The season of canoe fatalities has
arrived. There was Il harvest of seven
deaths from canoe accidents last Sun
day, and il little later we shall be
getting our share of them here in
Maine The canoe is known to be the
most dangerous pleasure craft afloat
and considering the supreme carlesS-
ness OF young people of the canoeing
age it is not at all strange there are SO
many accidents. To stand in a canoe,
to change places. to tip it in order 20
pick water lilies, to go out in Il canoe
when the water is rough-these things
are suicide and manslaughter COM
bined. Knowing how to swim is not a
guarantee of safety, for there is always
danger OF cramps in the cold water and
often there are the weeds or lily pads
that pull the struggling swimmer down
to death. The greatest danger of
canoeing lies not so much in the high
and shifting center of gravity of thu
outfit as in the usual lack OF any such
center on the part of those in the craft.