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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18
Tho Bean Soup Cure.

The sheriff of Burlington county New
Jersey believes that he has discovered
a sure cure for the hobo habit and hab
itual drunkenness. 1t also has the vr
tue of being an ecOnomizer of the pub
lie funds In comparison with the
practical virtues of this remedy moral
suasion IS dstanced and the Kelley
Cure goes away back and sits down.
remedy is it's universal availability 1t
is nothing more or less than bean soup!
Strange that criminalogists should have
so long overlooked it. but it has often
happened in the life of the race, that
great discoveries have come by acct
dent AS a chaser of tramps bean soup
scars far above wash and work"
Soon after the sheriff of Burlington
county inaugurated this cure his Jail
was free from tramps. The old spirit
of content and bonhomie disappeared
after the advent of bean soup. They
fluttered about during their terms of
Imprisonment like Gagged moths fairly
painting for release. When they were
finally allowed to go they were speedily
lost to sight in the dust they kicked up
as they iled over the hills. When he no
longer had any tramps beneath his
hospitable roof the genial sheriff tried
his bean soup cure upon the habltual
Jrunkards in his keeping The effect
was magical They speedily saw the
error of their ways, repented of their
past misdeeds, looked out upon affairs
with q sannr view and humbly deter
mined that when they once got beyond
the bean soup cure they would lead
better lives The efficacy of the bean
soup cure will appear from the fol-
lowing letter which one Of the sheriff's
patients recently wrote to Police Cap
tain Shumard of Burlington, and which
was in part as follows:
Dear Cap: l am writing to sec II
YOU can't get some of my time taken
off | don't like the bean soup they
serve out over here They don't even
use white beans any more. They make
it out of yellow beans. But it's bean
SOUP lust the same, and nothing but
bean SOUP every day. Damn the beans.
I am a sobered man now, ana can
keep sober five months, for if you get
me out l won't come back to beans
very soon.
cap, if you ever did anything for
me in your life, Go it now
When such reformation as this can
be effected in an habitual drunkard 1t
is evident that the bean soup cure is
the real thing, and that its virtues
should be investigated and tested by
all who are called upon 10 oeal Will
hoboes and boozers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.

There are nearly $4,000 automobiles
registered in London
The boilers of the Mauritania,
placed end to end, would measure SAT
feet III length.
About 5000 trespassers are killed
every year on the railroads, and 5000
more are seriously injured
Upon her head a plated hive of straw,
Which fortified her visage from the sun.
The African lion is not as formid-
able a beast as the popular imagina-
ton paints him. IF, being unarmed,'
writes Mr. Churchill, you meet six Or
seven lions unexpectedly, all you need
to do is to speak to them stcrnly and
they will stink away, while you throw
stones at them to hurry them up. All
the highest authorities recommend
this"
Bulls" are occasionally noticed in
the speeches OF members of the Eng
fish House of Commons. The late Col.
Saunderson once spoke of eastern
Rumela as man enough to take her
stand in a complication that had just
then arisen. An Irish member once
declared that three-quarters of the
reports of outrages in Ireland We're
exaggerated, and half had no founda-
ton on fact.
All-steel street cars are being made for
the United Railway Company of St. Louis.
Steel is to take the place of wood, not be-
cause of the danger Of fire or destruction
in collision. but because the cars can be
made lighter in this way, and will cost
less for upkeep. 1t is estimated that
| from $50 to $50 year can be saved in the
operating cost of each car, owing to its
| lighter weight.
A Baltimore contractor has had a
monument in honor of Adam erected
on the grounds OF his summer home
near Gardenville, Md. The two in
scriptiOns. on panels on opposite sides,
read, taken together: This, the first
shaft in America, is dedicated to
| Adam, the first man." The shaft,
| which is square in shape and made
of concrete, is crowned by a sundial,
! on which appears the quotation, Sic
transit gloria mundi."
After the peace conference a Chicago
school-teacher wrote: I'VE all believe
| in peace, we all honor the men and
women who are devoting so much
time to it's real establishment on
earth, but to take from our school
books the war tales which make them
so interesting and which do so much
to awaken the spirit of patriotism in
our children would be going step too
far. The men who spoke Of the blood
less books should see our boys when
they read aloud or recite about the
achievements of our army or the
armies of other lands. Could stories
of the greatest scientific achievements
move them as they do? Let the war
stories stay, even when peace has
come-the children will be better for
having read Them
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18
Subsidies and Shippings.

1t is pleasing to note that states re-
mote from the seaboard are beginning
to awake to the necessity of building
up an American Merchant Marine that
will enable this country to transport
it's products in it's own bottoms. In a
recent issue the Kansas City Journal
one of the strong papers of the West,
refers to the fact that when eX-Presi-
dent Roosevelt went abroad he was
obliged to go on a ship flying foreign
flag, inasmuch as no American vessel
can be found today which sails to Med
itelr eanan ports. 1t properly says that
this fact is "humiliating' one to the
people of this country. Pursuing the
subject further it says:
In the matter of tonnage the situa-
ton is even more discreditable to Am
ericon patriotism and business judg-
ment. AT the outbreak of the Civil war
America controlled so per cent. of the
trade with foreign countries, under II
system of ship subsidies. Ten years
before that time England had in
creased her subsidies, and Americas
ocean traffic began a decline which be-
came So rapid that ten years after the
war began we carried but 35 per cent,
instead of 50 per cent. as in 1860, and
twenty years after the war began the
tonnage had fallen 1,250,000 tons. To-
day the United States carries but ~
per cent. of the oversee traffic. Fol
lowing England'S lead, Spain adopted
subsidies in 1868, and during the next
twenty years there was a steady pro-
cessiCn of the countries in the assault
on Americas merchant marine. The
policy which was found wise and prof
liable fer Belgium, Holland, Italy, SWe-
den, Norway, Germany, Argentine,
Brazil, Mexico, Australia, Japan, Can
ada. Russia, Chill. Portugal. Hungary
and Trinidad, in the order named, and
which brought the ocean traffic of Am
erica down from so per cent. in 1860 to
II per cent. less than fifty years later,
is not regarded with favor by the short
sighted politicians who have prevented
Congress from adopting SO wise and
profitable system or this country"
1t is certainly refreshing to see so
strong and influential Western paper
as the Kansas City Journal taking this
firm ground upon one of the most
important questions that confronts the
American people, for it represents
section from which has come much of
the two-pcnny opposition to the build
inc IN of an American Merchant Ma
rine 1t also bears out the statement
of the Journal several days ago, that
there is today in a number Of the so
called inland states a rapidly grow
ing sentiment in favor of a liberal and
intelligent policy in dealing with the
nations shipping interests.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18

Events are moving rapidly towards
an agreement between the nations OF
Europe limiting the size of their re-
spective army and navy establish
ments. 1t is understood that the Car
is already moving to secure such an
agreement, and the expense to which
all the countries of the Old World have
been in the last few decades to main
tain such establishments will be d
powerful factor in making his UNDER
taking a success.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18

Professor George B. Foster OF the
University of Chicago, who recently
underwent trial for heresy by ms
ministerial brethren, was charged WIFI
being an atheist and a Unitarian IL IS
need1ess to say that he could not
possibly have been both, but the tac'
that such a charge was preferred
against him gives us pretty lair
,,,ea sure of the intellectual calibre ana
breadth of his detractors. Ihere are
some men in the world engaged in re-
ligious work who will never require
the opening of the golden gates. for
they are small enough TO SNEAK
through the key-hole.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18

A Cincinnati girl who secured the
nardon of a criminal and married him
has lust been fatally shot by him. She
probably labored under the mistaken
,dea that she could reform him. 1t is
pretty good plan to leave criminals
IN the care of the officials in charge OF
tbem and we are pleased to note that
tho mince-pie brigade which once did
duty in this city is no longer in evil
dence at the County Jail.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18
Human Weakness.

II was in the Bertillon room. ~. sro
"You have the svstnm down pretty h"e'
commented the visitor. ,,;ner
Yes" responded the police eNa's nrer
"even to the Identification by h"e
prints" ;,,nres.
sion when the prisoner is unwilling " ~
you have it?'' ,.... hang
.0h Through strategy. We Just h1 the
a Wet Paint sign on the wall ., ann we
prisoner is certain to touch IL WIFE,
are not looking. "-Chicago News
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18

The city of Washington has courte-
ously but firmly Informed the steam
calliope that 1t must inflict it's sweet
music upon some other community;
that never, nevermore, will it be per-
mittcd to perform in the national
CanilHL
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18

Spain is asking cuba to pay it's pro-
portion of the Spanish debt, but. mas
Spain and never felt any responsibility
for the national debt of that country,
there is little likelihood OF her heedin.,
this summons
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18

An eminent specialist in the art OF
facial alornment has asserted that wo-
men to be beautiful must refrain from
talking, and give their countenances
the calm and repose that comes from
deep thinking and few words she as
serts, solemnly and positively, that the
habit of Ioquacity produces wrinkles.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18
Maine Gossip
A Brief Effort.

The poet MARBLES of the strand,
The sandy dune.
There are not many rhymes at hand
For June.
He can't produce wordy lay
Or lengthy rune.
There are not many rhymes To-Day
For June.
And so the poet curbs betimes
His little tune.
Alas, there are not many rhymes
For June.
Kansas City Journal
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18

The suffraEatte idea that has had
such run in England has now been
imported into this country, where its
chances seem far from flattcring.
There is nothing SO disconcorting to
any great movement as a tolerant grin
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18

An Alabama husband promptly shot
and killed a man who asserted that the
shooters wife did not know how to
make good coffee. With the usual
chivalry that prevails in that section
of the country. the jury may be de-
pended upon to promptly acquit HIM
and present him with a cromo.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18

In the resurfacing of Water street
which is one of the improvements thas
must come in the near future, it may
be we'll to consider using, instead OF
paving the concrete surface that mas
worn SO we'll on Rines hill. This
would not only be smooth and durable,
but it would be far less noisy than the
nrcSent granite paving.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18

Mrs. katherine Clemmons Gould as
serts solemnly that she positively can
not worry along on only $4,000 a year
There is a suspicion. however, that cv-
en- this amount is considerably in cX-
cess of the income she received while
with Buffalo Bill
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18

The western railroads have managed
to bear up with cheerful resignation
under the adverse report of the army
engineers on the proposed deep water
way from Chicago to the Gulf.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18

If it were not for the facility with
which divorces can be obtained there,
the general public would be apt to for
get that there was any such place as
Nevada on the map
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18

No one has as yet suggested Judge
George Gray of Delaware as the Demo-
cratic candidate for the presidency in
1872. The Democracy does not have
many men of his calibre, and rarely
makes candidates out of them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18

Fortunately, the winds that blow
round about the United States Senate
are not of the kind that cool the at
InOSnhCre.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18
LIGHT AND AIRY.
The Cvnic and the Graduate

Laugh on. oh. cynics. as you please
Tho time the temper sours.
You'd gladly be a boy like these
Among the lights and flowers
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18
A Widespread Belief.
IAN tcrdam Recon

Amsterdam RecOrder)
James j. Hill voices a widespread
belief when he declares that law en-
forcement is not keeping pace with
law enactment in these United States
another case of supply exceeding de-
mand.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18

There are quite a few Democratic
members of the United States Senate
who would thoroughly enjoy an oppor-
tunity to haze Mr.. Bryan.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18

The hundreds of thousands Of
dollars thrown away by Mrs. Howard
Gould in her extravagant modes of life
would have fed whole army OF
hungry men and women.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18
Not An Eskimo.

Eyes. our table is always up ~ those
boasted the landlady. we nav "a os,ippef
beautiful red candles on II a.
time" -, n,,od the pro-
snective boarder Madam, 90 W i
I am an o?''-Chicago News
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18

The New York editor who complains
that conversation is a lost art" must
at
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18
Not Wholly Independent.

Chicago Tribune)
Suffragettes are going to run rail-
road train across the country. That
is, they will ride in it. Horrid men
will do the running
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18

Uncle Sam always did have re-
freshing way of taking would-be
filbustcrs by the ear.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18

The advance agents of school rides
and Sunday scnool picnics should HE
themselves far, far away from the To-
cation of the poison ivy.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18
Hardly Fair Example,

Pittsburg Gazette-Times),
Dr. David Starr Jordan should re-
member that Count Boni and Prince
Helie are really not fair samples Of
French manhood.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18

The problem of where to get some
thing to spend very properly takes
precedence of the selection of a place
in which to spend it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18
Cheap Advertising.

There is q way much fame to gam
A simple way that's very PLAIN.
INST see that every paper states dates.
You've Cancelled your Chantauqua
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18
Classified.

1.-THE Hon. Thomas Rott behe'e'
man has his price" :. lac been on
'rEh-yah. And he himseiI na' have
the 10-cent counter ever sihee
known him!"-Puck.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18

Some people still persist in interpret
Ing the honk, honk of an automobile as
Il notice to get off the earth.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18
Merely a Coincidence.
(Manchester ITnion,)

1t is, of course, merely a coincidence
that the questions What is q Demo-
crat?" and What is whisky?" arose
simultaneously
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18
Fa;thIess There.

"Do YOU believe everything 70"
band tells your "a weed ~
garden when he comes home irolA'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18
Was Now Or Never,
(Denver Republican,

(DenVer Republ1can).
Probably Booker T. Washington
thought he would preach his sermon
on the success of the negro pugiIist,
Jack Johnson, before Mr.. Stanley
ketchel spoiled the subject.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18
In a Class BY Himself.
(WaShington Post).

If Bryan succeeds in winning that
Nebraska toga he will add another to
the 81 varieties of Democrats in the
Senate.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18

The fourth annual session of the
Maine Dental society will be held in
Portland, June "a, 25 and rs.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18
Not the Same.

Prospectiye Tenant-Does the ia''''
furnish enough steam heat! r,, liberal
Evasive Agent-Oh. hes VEL s;o.n
with hot air.-Baltimore American
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18
Out of the Question,
(New York Tribune).

Mr.. Bryan says that Democrats
ought to strive to be pure" 1t is
hopeless to demand that they shall be
consistent or logical.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18

Senator Clay predicts that Congress
will not adjourn till september. Mos'
people will regard him as an optimist.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18

Most any stray crow that flies over
England these days runs the chance Of
being mistaken for a German airship.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18
An Excellent Suggestion,


(kanSaS City JOurnaI)
Get married." says Senator Depew.
Why, certainly-why not? Strange
that somebody didn't think of this be-
fore.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18
Friday, June 10, 1909.

IT is about time to be talking up that
trolley league
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18
ESTABLISHED 1925

No notice whatever will b taken Of
unsigned communications.
The Journal cannot be held responsi.
BILE for the preservation or return of
rejected communications.
Address all communications relating
to subscriptions and advertisements
to BURLEIGH G. FLYNT, Publish
ers, Augusta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18

Abdul Hamid isn't saying a word
for publication.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18
VOICES OF THE PRESS.
Ready To Retire.
(Chicago News

VN-TTICdED 81
Society is nearly ready to tuck itself
away in its summer cottages and take
on tan.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18

At any rate Mrs. Howard Gould en-
abled d large number of other people
to set part of the family millions.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18

The school census of Portland shows
a gain of 544 pupils over last year.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18

William Dean HoWells has arrived
at Kittery Point and is getting his
cottage ready for the summer. His
family will come later.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18

A pocupine slowly making It's way
the other day in the parkway which
borders the Androscoggin in Rumford
attracted much attention, the sight be-
ing unprecedented on the chief resi-
Dental street of the town. The animal
was killed and his quilts distributed as
souvenirs
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18

Tomorrow is circus day in Biddeford.
The Frank A. Robbins show is bllled
to appear there.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18

Among the Maine people who are ITO
attend the Northern Baptist convention
to be held in Portland, Ore, from June
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Light cele-
hrated their Goth wedding anniversary
last week at their home in Burkettville.
About 25 of their nearest relatives were
present Mr.. Light is 81 years of age
and Mrs. Light is Il. Both are in eX-
ceIlcnt health and in possession of all
their faculties, except that Mrs. Light
is nearly blind. They have lived for
Sc years in the same house.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18

There seems to be a prospect that
Rev. ]. Wilbur Chapman, the noted
evangelist, whose meetings last win
ter in Boston stirred the city as it had
never been moved before by evangelis-
tic meetings, may hold series of
meetings for the whole State of Maine
next season. The plans are not known
Just at present, but it is believed that
there will be two campaigns, one for
the eastern part of the State and one
for the western, with headquarters
first at Portland and then at Bangor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18

Maine teachers, as well as all other
teachers throughout the country, have
been invited by the United States for
ester to cooperate with the forest SER
vice in an effort to obtain more defin-
lite knowledge of the characteristics of
the most important forest trees Of he
United States.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18

One of the largest apple trees in West
Harpswel is in Mrs. Eleanor Merri-
mans field. The tree is seven feet and
six inches in circumference. The tree
is over so years old and was given to
her husband, the late Capt. Charles
Merri1nan, by friend. 1t has borne
fruit nearly every season.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18

Is to July /, are Rev. and Mrs. Joseph
Twomey, Mr.. and Mrs. H. Wallace
Noyes, Mrs. Percival Bonney and Miss
Nellie Balm, all of Portland. The
Northern Baptist convention. which
was formed in Oklahoma, embraces
all the northern states and has a con-
stituency of about 100000.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18

Patrick H. Dunn, citizen of Brewer
and real estate agent of Bangor. is
enthusiastic over the muck deposits
near McGann bog in Orrington as a
place for raising early onions cheaply
and producing large crops to the rod
or the acre. He claims that onion
farming and celery farming are in
their infancy in Maine, and that Nc
Gam bog is an excellent place to be-
gin.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18

Henry Stoll of New York City, oc-
cupying a cottage at Coleman's point.
Lake Maranacook, landed a 1O-pound
salmon Thursday morning after a good
fight This is the third largest salmon
caught in Lake Maranacook this sea-
son. Mr. Stoll has been very success
full with trout and black bass, also.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18

A banana peddler in Maine city was
heard the other day crying his wares
at 10 cents per dozen, or two dozen for
25 cents. That was certainly an orig
inal way OF putting it.