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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-18

conferences were held, and the rooms
ope ming from it, have given way to a
dining room from which one may PASS
into the old dining room, which mas
been moderated in keeping with Inc
rest of the house. Those old rooms
on the ground floor, what memories
they recall of the inside political MS
tory of our State for more than half a
century. Here gathered for consulta-
ton the leaders and lieutenants of the
Republican party, and mere the work
of the legislature was cut out for It.
Up to a few years ago Joe Manle4
might be seen fitting in and out OF
these rooms and about the lobby, alert,
resourceful, a master of the art Of pol
itics. And there We're others of his
day, and before, who are no more seeli
in the flesh but who left their impress
on the politics of the State.
Now, as during the many years of its
exitence, the Augusta House IS the
rolitical center at the State Capitol
The leaders of both parties may, as Of
yore, be found under it's roof, but af-
fairs are differently conducted now
than in the past There is less revelry
and more business. There are moro
business men and fewer politicians in
the legislature, and the old-time boss is;
no longer conspicuous figure. If you
step into the lobby of the Augusta
House when the legislature Is not III
session you will meet people from every
part of the State, and the reunions of
old friends who perhaps have not met
for years are a common occurrence.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-18
The Fight Against Consumption.

Great interest is felt in scientific cir
cles in the announcement by DR.. Ros-
enbergh that the germ of consumption
exists in the blood before it is entrench-
ed in the tissues of the lungs. Such
an announcement coming from so emf
nent authority is certainly full Of hope
fulncss. There has long been convic-
ton that the time would come when
some practical method will be found
for dealing effectively with this dread
disease Nearly 10 years ago DR.. Rob-
psychologists of Germany announced
the discovery of a lymph which it was
felt would prove efficacious in the treat
ment of tuberculosis. The interest in
this announcement was worldwide.
Physicians from every quarter of the
globe journeyed to Germany to attend
the lectures of DR.. Koch, and to secure
some of the lymph for use in theirsown
country The discovery, however, fail
cd u Sldlu Tic lcSlS VI llIiIC, anu Ia q
few years was very generally aban-
doned so far as human beings were
concerned. Gradually the scientific
world turned it's attention from the eff
fort to cure consumption, and devoted
its energies to the great task of pre-
venting it. 1t was discovered that an
outdoor treatment would in a very
large proportion of incipient cases pre-
vent the ravages of the disease, and in
great number of cases result in
cure and it is along these lines that
the work is now being carried on with
such marked and gratifying success
that it is felt that within a few years
this disease, if not wholly stamped out
will at least be greatly restricted in
it's ravases. If the disease has now
been brought within the reach of spe-
cific treatment that will eject a cure
in its earlier stages, a battle of great
moment to the human race will have
been won by the soldiers of science.
One after another, diseases that form
erly afflicted humanity have been
brought under control, notably in the
case of smallpox against whose ravages
vaccination has proven a wonderfully
effective barrier. While every one will
indulge the hope that DR.. Rosenbergh
will succeed in obtaining a lymph that
VIII destroy the bacillus of consump-
ton without endangering human life.
science will necessarily move slowly in
the acceptance of any cure that may
be worked out. 1t will take long and
careful test in actual use, applied in
all climates and under all conditions to
establish it's real worth. If the results
of DIR. Rosenberghs researches should
bring about the discovery of serum
that will meet these rigorous tests, it
will be ore OF the greatest blessings in
the history of the race.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-18
Committee HEARINGS.
JUDICIARY.

The committee on judiciary will give q
public hearing in its room at the State
House in Augusta
THURSDAY. JAN. q. 1909. at 2 O'Clock
No. 81. On an Act relating to the Port
land Society of Art.
No. 49, On a petition requesting the
passage Of an act amending the Private
and Special Laws Of 1903 Incorporating
the Squirrel Island Village Corporation
No; 40. On an Act to amend Section %
lating to the probate Of willis.
No. 81. On an Act relating to municipal
bonds and notes.
TUESDAY. JAN. 2s. 1909, at O'Clock
No. Sc. On an Act to excuse the fling
Of bonds by administrators in certain
cases.
No. 81. On an Act additional to Chapter
IA of the Revised Statutes, providing for
Inc recovery OF money improperly paid
by the State for the support of insane
paupers. 49,. 49, =
No. 81. On an Act to amend Chapter
of the Revised Statutes, relating to the
regulation and conduct of elections.
NO: d. On an Act to amend Section 2
OF chapter IS, relating to judges of pro-
WEDNESDAY, JAN q. 1909 at 2 o'clock
No. 81. On an Act to provide tor the
removal of foreign paupers.
No; 6S. On an Act to amend Section 46
of. Chapter LOG of the Revised Statutes
re at'hs to the appointment of surveyors
in real actions.
10. GA. On an Act relating to the op-
Grafton of motor vehicles on public
THURSDAY. JAN. %. 1909, at 2 o'clock
p. NJ.
No. 50. On an Act relating to the Issue
No. IS. On an Act creating a State
Board of Charities and Corrections.
No 81. On an Order instructing the Jul
dietary Committee to inquire into the
constitutionality and expediency of en-
lands in unincorporated places, to be ap-
piled for the preservation and protection
of forests in such unincorporated places
" J. II. Mo IN }aoiaAE1 Yos ecretary;.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-18
The Courts View of Divorce.
portland Advertiser.)

While divorces are decreed or refus-
ed without the accompaniment Of an
explanatory opinion of the court, the
public is occasionally given chance
to view the divorce situation from the
standpoint of the bench.
Such chance has come to the peo-
pie of Maine through the address re-
Gently delivered by Chief Justice En-
cry Of the Maine Supreme court before
the Twentieth Century club in Bangor.
To many Jealous people who have
been shocked by the appalling increase
in Maine divorces the opinions set
forth by Names chief justice will
come as q surprise. And yet, even the
shocked ones can scarcely read his
reasons without believing that there
NAV be more to the other side of the
question than they have thought-or,
at least, more than they have admit
ted.
Justice Emery brings to the discus
sion of this very uppermost soclal
problem the keen analysis which has
Illuminated so many far-reaching opln-
ions in the Maine Reports. He refuses
to be SO much as started on what he
believes to be the wrong road md in
stead of addressing himself to what SO
many term the divorce evil" he in
sists at the very outset that divorce in
ana of itself is not an evil but the rem
edy for an evil ut may" he says,
bring in it's train other and lesser
evils, but it is of itself a remedy
In his treatment of the subject, the
chief Justice confines himself solely to
the lega, phase of the question, saying
that while the church aims at the ideal
the law considers things as they are.
In his view it is better to cut the bonds
that bind an honest man to an unfaith-
full wife or pure and faithful wife to
a brutal, drunken husband, leaving the
good husband of the, one and the good
wife of the other to begin life anew.
Nor would he place obstacles in the
way of the subsequent marriage of dl-
vorced persons. "However undesira-
BILE this may seem, especially to the
church." he says, 81 think surely that
it is less dangerous than it would be
to have floating among us a large num-
Der of divorced persons who knew that
they could never again marry. Such
a condition, think, would be terrible
social calamity"
In the foregoing we have in Drief
the opinion of Chief Justice Emery
touching the divorce question, but with
it he voiced his opinions on reform.
for while he believes in divorce, ne
does not believe that Names present
method of dealing Herewith is the
best that could be devised He adj
mits that divorces are granted with too
great dispatch, but under the Maine
law which permits a divorce for GER
tain specific causes mone of which he
would amend) the court has no option.
To improve this situation, he would
provide that no divorce be granted till
husband and wife have lived apart for
year; that all libels or the legal no.
tees of libels be published and that
judges be given authority to delay
hearings for a term or two.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-18
Improvement in Farm Conditions.
maine Farlner.)

Brother Mayo of our Waterville con-
temporary makes a heartening showing
for Maine agriculture in a recent edi-
torial summing up the situation as
observed by him in his journeylng up
and down the State. He hands out in
disputable facts to those critics who
sit in the editorial offices of tine daily
papers and assume to know more of
our farming conditions that do those
who are touching elbows with farmers
three hundred days in the gear and see
and learn of actual farming operations
on the spot on hundreds of farms in
every section of the State each year.
The statements made by our conte1n-
pora,y are entirely fair and accurate
and accord perfectly with the steady
improvement of farm conditions as OBJ
served by the editor of the Farmer
during interested and careful examina-
ton and study of Maine farming condi-
tions during the past four years.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-18
THE THREE-NoTcH ROADS.
Origin of System Of Travellers Gu'des
in the Ozarks.

Three-Rotch roads are numerous Ill
the timbercd parts of southern Nissou-
ri and northern Arkansas ANY oho
who has ever Travelled in those sectiohs
of the country will know that a three
notch road goes somewhere II the
traveller follows it he will reach a town.
in time, if the streams are not too hisn
or too swift to be forded. a.
1t seems that among the oflenses vi
George III. King of England. not ineh-
toned in the Declaration OF lndepeheo
was that he required all public roau'
to be marked with his name. In EMS
land and it's colonies public roads nave
been known as the kings highway ~
long that nobody knows when the Gus
tom began. There have always peea
private lanes and rights of way, pu1
an authorized public road was always
the kings highway. When h,ns
George required his name to be pos'e.
at convenient points on the h"s
highway in the colonies the people ',
that time We're not particularly p'o,.
of their duty, and wherever they cou'u
they adopted the policy of cutting 'nie.
notches on trees along the ROAD a"e
emitting the reference to King ueois.'
After the revolutionary war .n no
name was omitted altogether, but '"s -
three notches proved a useful way "
marking the public roads. The WIZ"
la cclonists carried this system 70 ~
ressee. Kentucky and Indiana on
their children brought it to Missouri,
In early days the roads in Mlssou',
were built first by the territory a''
then by the state. ..,.
Before and during the Civil war 'n'
distinction y was preserved and 'ns
notch f04hs were always through roau'
leading from one town or some lHpo a.
lance to another. Two-notcn rV" n.
were less important highways, wins ~
roads not notched were either raiiroasss
or plank roads. A railroad was a ro.s
leading to some camp where men We, "a
splitting rails. while a plank roa" ~
to a sawmill. This was the vernacu..
of the OZarks. In the swamp coun. (.
of southeast Missouri some toll TO-
were built of plank and were kno w
there as plank roads. The threeno -.
system of marking a road so that
traveller would know a public Iro..
private road has survived for
fury and a half.-Kansas City Staf'6
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-18
STATE OF MAINE.

In Senate, Jan. 10, 1909.
ORDERED, the House concurring that
the time for the reception of petition rs
and bills for private and special legisla-
ton be limited to Tuesday, February l6,
1909, and that all such petitions and bills
presented after that date be referred to
the next Legislature, and that the secre-
tary of the Senate cause copies of this
order to be published in all daily papers
in this State until February s, 1909.
In Senate Chamber, January 10, 1903.
Read and passed. Sent down for con-
currence. "
F. G. HARRINGTON,
Secretary.
House of Representatives, January 13,
1909. Read and passed in concurrence.
E. M. THOMPSON.
Clerk.
j A true copy.
Attest: F. G. FARRlNGIoN. ,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-18
An eminent lady speaker recently

An eminent lady speaker recently
quoted the late Speaker Reed as defin-
ing statesman as "a dead politician.
This was not So Mr.. Reed did not say
this, although the lady in question IS
by no means the first one to quote him
as saving So What Mr.. Reed actually
wrote in definition of statesman was
quite different HE said "A statesman
is successful politician-who IL dead.
The extent to which the quotation has
been garbled by various people VINO
have undertaken to use it. shows how
easy it is to perpetuate inaccuracies in
history.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-18

There is curious custom among =,
daughters of the house of HapsD.',s
Of which the Emperor OF Austrie. -.
now the head. Their bridal trains :. =,
stead of finishing an honorable eN .ns
in the ballroom, are bestowed aftel ~
ceremony on the church whose saclss
floor they have swept. At cente s.sor
celebration at Rennweg the aital "a
was covered with a sheen OF saun s." -
silver, mellowed by breath q -
that had once formed part OF the ~ s.sa
ding garment of Marie Antoinetts,. a
Inflated Queen Of France, execu'es
the French revolution. II II
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-18
Tb. fact that a 5000. 900 combine

The fact that a s15.O00,00G combine
has been formed for the furnishing OF
moving picture shows emphasizes the
N :. strong hold which this form OF enter
!, tainment has taken upon the pubic
mind. The craze is now at its height
30 but it remains to be seen whether or
not it will last Certainly if it is to DO
a>e' so it is up to the managers of such
entertainments to make them OF such
~ lag n character as shall command the APP
prevail of the best citizens of the COM
munities where's they exist. Ihey
should especially see to it that nothing
is permitted in their programs that VIII
in any way lower the ideals OF YOUTH
The entertainments should be maze
both clean and educational. Oniess
sssss this is done their decline is likely to De
AZ rapid as their rise.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-18

1t is evident that the good state Of
Kansas took seriously the excellent ad-
vice of William Allen White to raise
more corn and less hell" Today the
state has s160.OOO,OO0 in bank deposits,
or $145 efor every man, woman, ana
child within its limits. With this
splendid prosperity it is no wonder that
the people of Kansas are looking out
upon the New Year in an optimistic
Snirit
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-18
APPROPRIATIONS AND FiNAN.
CiAL AFFAIRS.

Hearings on the following will be hell
on Wednesday, JAN 20. at 2 p. NJ:
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 20, AT p NJ
No. /. Resolve in favor of Young We.
mems Home at Lewiston.
No. 2. Resolve in aid of Temporary
Home for Women and Children in Port.
land.
No. g. Resolve in favor Of the Mama
Eye and Ear Infirmary.
No. 4. Resolve in aid Of the Maine
School for the Deaf.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. q. 2 P. M.
No. 5. Resolve in favor of the Chi.
drens Hospital PortlanO.
EDWARD W. HYDE, Secretary.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-18

Matilda Haska, of Buda- Pesth, has
broken off her engagement because her
fiance, who is nonsmoker, wishes her
also to give up the habit She declares
she can live without husband, but
not without cigarettes
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-18
EDUCATlON.

A hearing will be held January % 1M
at o'clock P. M. at the State House
Augusta. Me-. before the joint commit
tee on education. on request that MOI
NAL school be established at Macnlas
Per order of committee.
OTIS S. TRAFTON, Secretary.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-18
Maine Gossip
Horrible Examples.

Sometimes you meet a lovely maid
Whose beauty has no faint.
And get a sudden shock because ma
You hear her say. Il amt"
Chicagos earnest motto is:
Il will"' and not II won't!'
And yet there are Chicago girls
Who calmly say He don't"'
And so it goes. In Boston, where
There's culture beyond price,
You sometimes hear the quick remark,
Say, he don't cut no ice."
There even is a man from Maine
Who loves to chaff and quiz,
And you would be surprised to know
He often says "rhey Isl"
-Somerville Journal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-18

The night rider habit will, it is safe
to say, be less popular hereafter in the
state of Tennessee. Certainly if it's
old forces ever reassembc, which is
doubtful, they will fild themselves
without the companionship OF some of
their most active and brutal former
leaders
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-18

The Order of Railroad Photographers
is endeavoring to secure some legisla-
ton to prevent the dispatching Of
trains by telephone, denouncing it as
unsafe, unreliable and a menace to the
public.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-18

The Baltimore American solemnly
asserts that "the real test of holiday
fruit cakes is the kind of dreams they
cause" This is undoubtedly so, all
though it is generally supposed that
when it comes to dreams the most
pernicious fruit cake is not in it with
mince pie
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-18

1t is pleasing to note that the United
States Senate will approve an appro-
priation of 100000 for an embassy
building in Paris. This is move in
the right direction. We should have
such embassy buildings in every great
capital of the world 1t has been the
country'S misfortune that it has not
nOSSCSSCl them long ago.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-18

In spite of the hard times the num-
Der of marriages in this country in 1908
exceeded the number in 1907, the num-
Der of ceremonies being nearly a
million. Evidently the feeling still
prevails that the most difficult
obstacles in life may be more quickly
overcome by working in double har-
ness,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-18

Mrs. James Brown Potter thinks she
has a perfect right to use the name OF
her former husband inasmuch as it
was she who made it famous. Pos
sibly, however, her husband would
have been willing to have foregone this
distinction if she had shown a DISPOSE
ton to have remained in and cared for
the beautiful home he provided for her.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-18

Professor Ferrero, the great Italian
historian, goes on ruthlessly SCATTERING
the former records of history. Indeed
he is carrying the matter so far that
the suspicion is rapidly getting abroad
that he knows altogether too many
things that aren't so.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-18
MAINE EDITORIAL COMMENT.
Portland and the Capital.
portland Advertiser.)

Newspapers printed in other Maine
cities are employing their largest head
line type to announce that Portland
has abandoned the movement to re-
move the State capital to this city. Up
here. the matter has so long been
looked upon as dead that the attention
which it is receiving elsewhere is I'M
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-18
APPROPRIATIONS AND FlNAN-
GAL AFFAIRS.

The committee on appropriations and
financial affairs will hold regular meet
ings in the Senate chamber. State of
Maine, Augusta, on Tuesday, Wednesday
GEORGE H. EATON, Chairman.
EDWARD W. HYDE, Secretary.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-18
SEA AND SHORE FISHERIES.

Meetings of the Committee on Sea ard
Shore Fisheries will he held on Tues
day of each week at o'clock P. NJ. in
the Office of the Commissioner of Agri-
culture.
JOHN p. KELLEY Sec,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-18

The extent to which coment is
entering into problems Of modern con-
struction is strikingly shown by the
fact that during the year 1908 no less
than 50,O0O,0OO barrels were used in
this country alone, and the indlca-
tions are that this style of construction
is as yet in it's infancy.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-18

And now certain people are critics.
ing President ROoscvelt's literary style,
but we have not heard of anybody VINO
failed to understand whatever he has
had to say.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-18
NOTICE..

The Committee on Education will not
approve the bills of notices published u u
any papers for advertising, unless saiu
tee or Secretary of the Committee.
OTIS S. TRAFTON Secretary.
Per JAMES G. SCALES, clerk.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-18
LEGAL AFFAIRS.

The committee on legal affairs will give
public hearing in its room at the State
House in Augusta,
No. 81. An Act to amend Chapter 2N of
the Public Laws of 1889. entitled An Act
to establish the Office Of private secreta-
ry to the Governor.
By order OF the committee,
ELISHA w. PIKE, Secretary.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-18
EDUCATION.

The Committee on Education will meet,
until further notice, at the State House,
Room No. A: on Thursday of each week
at o'clock p. M.
BY JAMES G. SCALES, Clerk
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-18

Senator Bailey of Texas must realize
upon reflection that he cannot possibly
restore slavery by Directing to the
publication of Lincoln's Emancipation
Proclamation in the Congressional Re-
cord
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-18
LEGAL AFFAIRS.

The committee on legal affairs will
meet Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
afternoons at 2 o'clock at its room In the
State House.
Per order
BENZ. F. HAMILTON, Chairman.
ELISHA w. PIKE, Secretary.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-18

The railroads of the United States
expended 5000, 900 in 1908 in the pur-
chase of new ties, and it is satisfac-
ton to know that quite a respectable
number Of them came from the good
State of Maine
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-18

Mr. Croker has talked quite freely
since his return to this country, but
has not as yet answered the famous
question. where did you get it,"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-18
FISHERIES AND GAME.

The committee on inland fisheries and
their room, No. 80, State House. on
Wednesday of each week at 2 P. M.
HARRY NJ. BIGELOW, Secretary.
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-18

A $1,000 bequest made three years ago
by a Frenchman as prize for the
first man who should succeed in COM
with another planet, but
never claimed, will be given in 1910 by
the Academy of Sciences to the astron-
omer who shall have made the most
discovery in astronomical
Scionoa