The Republican journal., 1909-01-21

New York has the discredit of having
the champion BLACKBOARD in Congress in
the person of Representative Willett,
whose attempt to throw mud at Presi-
dent Roosevelt has resulted in besmear-
ing his own person.
For the bouquets with which certain
esteemed contemporaries greeted The
Journals 8lst birthday we are truly
grateful. The path of journalism is not
often strewn with flowers. Thorns are
more frequently in evidence and the way
is rocky.
The Trull hospital, Biddeford, has been
burned again and as in the former fire
the nurses and physicians distinguished
themselves and the patients were all
safely removed. In Boston the Park
square garage has been burned with 400
autos and loss of nearly million dol
lars.
Bradstreets: Changes in the general
business situation are largely favorable.
Spring orders are being placed in fairly
liberal quantities at the larger eastern
centers, and travelling statesmen are send
ing in conservatively optimistic reports.
The Improvement is of slow, substan-
tial kind rather than of speculative
character.
We notice that the York County Chill
dren's Aid Society has been organized in
Saco and incorporated under the laws OF
Maine. The Boston Globe says it is the
FIRST society in Maine in aid of children,
which is very wide of the truth, as the
ChiIdren's Aid Society Of Maine was or
gained and incorporated in 1898, and
opened the Girls Home in this city in
1895. This similarity of names is likely
TO cause confusion and should have been
avoided in organizing the new society.
The Brunswick Potato Company, an
organization of business men, has issued
a statement showing the COST of raising
potatoes with nothing but capital and
knowledge to work upon. The company
leased ten acres Of land, hired all the
work done and hired all the machines
used. The crop of 1920 bushels, includ-
ING 1I5 bushels of seconds, was raised at
an average cost of % cents per bushel,
and sold for so cents and over, making
profit Of nearly 80 per cent. This result
has naturally turned attention to potato
raising as a profitable industry and many
Brunswick business men and farmers
have declared their intention of going
into the business the coming season.
Cardenio F. King. the Boston promoter
who was found guilty of larceny, has
been sentenced to not less than ten years
in prison, and public opinion appears to
be unanimous that this punishment is
richly merited. The Portland Press says
of King: During the years which he has
got TO spend in prison he will have leisure
10 reflect on the wickedness of cheating
contiding people out of their substance
through false pretences, and on the fu-
tility of trying to get rich quick by
swindling Unfortunately there are
now at large many who have been or
are now engaged in swindling the public
bv fake schemes Of various kinds. Only
recently one Of this type was Boosting of
the large amount of money received from
MS victims, that he had expended in ad-
vert.s;ng for more victims; and he is
still at large.
Mention was made few weeks ago of
the fact that druggists were required to
take out U. S. licenses in order to handle
certain standard preparations and medi-
zines, and it was remarked at the time
that it would be rank injustice to indict
druggists doing legitimate business be-
cause they held such licenses. Yet the
York county grand jury found indict-
ments against three druggists of Saco
and Biddeford. They We're, however, mol
pressed, by request Of the county attor-
ney, who said that he had good reason to
believe that the men indicted were doing
legitimate drug business and had not
violated the prohibitory law since he had
been in office or since they had been in
business. The druggists in question had
planned to carry the matter to the law
court if necessary to learn if they could
be indicted for holding revenue licenses,
taken out by the advice of revenue Of
ticers, because they carried a stock of
proprietary medicines.
s'The play, 1 remember pleased not the mil
lion. twas cavare to the general. Shakes
peare.
This quotation was called to mind by
an acknowledgment in the Bangor Com
mercial of the receipt of a sample of
caviare from the Winnipeg, Canada,
Free Press. The Commercial is evidently
to be placed with ''the million,'' as it
saws that "Caviare is the roe of sturgeon
prepared as table delicacy, too rare to
be known by the generality of people,
and the flavor of which would not be
relished by an uneducated palate" The
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