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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-08

Two Russian sailors, wishing 70 ae
sert from their ship lying in the iSne,
England. took boat and rowea -,
the open sea. They took with the"
food and clothing and $500 in CASH
The Hood tide set them inshore asaAn
and they tried to land, but the sea We
running too high. For many hours In ,.:,
drifted helplessly about and nHa,y
their tiny craft was pitched upon tn0
beach OF Manhaven near South Snie.us.
Here they took refuge in cave, Wn ~,
they lived four days and nights. uns,.
their food became exhausted.S Hunse'
drove them into the open - sssA
ally they were arrG II s ny -
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-08
The Author of 1.-THE Blue and the
Gray"

A; this season of the year. with Me-
mortal day close at hand when those
deatfless verses, The Blue and the
Gray" ~ill be read and recited in all
sections of the country it is interest
ing to note that the poetical works of
their author nave now for the first
time been collected and published in
book form. The late Judge Francis
Miles Finch, for many years dean of
the law department of Cornell Cniver
sity, Was the author of THE Blue and
the Gray" though in it's early travels
through the newspaper world and in
numerous collections of verse it was
aseribed to various other writer's. The
poem was written IN 1867 after the au-
thor had read newspaper item telling
how the women of Columbus, Miss,
had strewn flowers alike on the graves
of the Confederate and the Northern
soldiers at that place. This sentiment
of brotherhood stirred the soul of the
New York lawyer to write a poem.
which was published in the September.
1861 issue of the Atlantic Monthly.
Difficult as it is for us at this time to
conceive it. the noble feelings expressed
in the poem We're at that time chal-
lenged by many persons who refused to
forgive and forget
One other poem by Judge Finch
which is well known is Nathan Hale
being especially familiar to the school
children of the country. Aside from
this he wrote numerous poems of merit
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-08

In SI"akinE Of the recent death of
Governor LiIlcy of Connecticut. the
Manchester Union tells US that no gov
crnnr of New Hampshire has ever died
in Office This is true net only of the
governors since the adoption of the
constitution of 1884. but of the provin-
cial governors as well. Probably this
record is one without parallel among
the older states of the Union.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-08
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

The only way to end family argu-
ment is never to begin it.
A girl can't see why it's so very
wrong for her to deceive other people
when she does it to herself.
One of the most exasperating things
to man about trying to marry girl
is how he nearly always succeeds.
You never hear woman tell her
husband how much better her father
used to do things, because he actually
did-New York Press.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-08

1t ratncr took away the breath of
Gen. raj Frederick Dent Grant appear
ed before it unexpectedly and argued
that soldiers are the real friends of
penC" ana that adequate army and
navy sire myth is the only assurance of
peace.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-08
Details Not Desired.

An American speeding over the. con-
tinent of Europe in his automobile
asked of his chauffeur: Where are
we?"
In Paris" shouted the man at the
wheel, and the dust flew.
"Oh, never mind the details,
irritably screamed the American
millionaire: Il mean what continent?'
-Argonaut
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-08

Here IS d problem which puzzles the
editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer:
Mrs Abdul IJamid is leaving Con-
stantIno,lc at the rate of So per day.
and will have wholly departed by the
cnd of the month. But who are she
going to live with
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-08

Walter WcIlman has "started' so
many times for the North Pole. only to
return each time to the lecture plat
form before he had gone far, that the
announced, plans is wholly natural.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-08
A Mean Thrust.

How do YOU like my new spring
suit?' inquired the first girl.
1T looks Commonsense and COM
Portable" answered the girl addressed.
Cat" Kissed the party of the first
part under her breath.-Louisville
Courier journal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-08
Daily, kennebet Journal
EsTAsLIsHEp 1s2s

No notice whatever will b taken Of
unsigned communications.
The Journal cannot b held response
BILE for the preservation or return of
rejected communications.
Address all communications relating
to subscriptions and advertisements
to BURLEIGH 4 FLYNT. Publish.
ers, Augusta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-08
A Frivolous Resemblance.

Il have at last discovered why fate
led poor Hamlet such a dogs life
"Why was it,"
Because. you see. Hamlet was really
a Great Dane"-Batimore American.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-08
Saturday. May 8, 1909.

In due time we shall learn how many
Of those lions Were killed in the minds
of the ontcrprising correspondents who
arc lowering on the outskirts of the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-08

The law recognizes no difference :,
tween the oath and the affirmation
that false testimony given under e,.n INV,
condition is counted perjury.-Ne"
York Times. b.,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-08
VIM He Said 1t.

Mrs Sharp-So you told Mr. Jones
you wished you were single once more,
did you?
Sharp with quick wit-Only that l
might have the happiness of marrying
you again. darling.-Boston Transcript.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-08
LIGHT AND AIRY.
Maud Muller Auain.

Maud Muller on a summer day
Raked the meadow sweet with hay,
Then chugged the judge upon the scene
And scented things with gasoline
-puck
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-08

People who speak of the month of
April just closed as 'the coolest ever
have short memories. April this year
1874. Mrs. A. F. Greedy, of Ellsworth,
who has kept a record of temperatures
for many years. taking 1t three times
daily A. NJ. u NJ. and P. Muir
nishes figures Of the 7 A. M. temperature
Tor ApEia< 1874. and April 1909, which
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-08

At the Rangleys they have set for
ward to June | their predictions about
the breaking up of the ice.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-08

In the Maine college league they are
now getting down to business in the
pennant race.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-08

Nobody is more anxious for the
building of that long promised Ma
sonic Temple in Portland than the
hundreds of delegates from all over
Maine who are packed into the pres
ent hall each May.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-08

The West Boothbay Harbor Cor
respondent of the Boothbay Register
tells this: wood Slower while out
fishing heard the cry of a loon, and
every time he heard it saw fish
jump out of the water. At last he
pulled in big fish with a looms head
sticking out from him. Truth is
stranger than felton,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-08

According to an official of the Ban
gur & Aroostook railroad, large
amount of lumber will be shipped from
Aroostook county points to New York
via the great terminals at Stockton
Springs. He says the decline in the
lumber business at Stockton was due
to the poor condition of the New York
market, as Boston lumber is not ship
ped that way.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-08

Youths Companion: Last summer a
typical dOwn-easter furnished a New
York author. who had cottage in a
Maine village, with farm produce
One day when the man called with a
wagonload of vegetables, the author,
wishing to make himself agreeable,
asked how much stock he kept on his
farm. Five cows an BULL" emu
meratcd the farmer, Ind two Jokes
of oxen. a calf. boss, an three shares
of Maine Central"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
How Estimates Work Out.

In October, 1903, Ellison esti-
mated 1O,S77,O0O bales as the
worlds requirements of American
cotton; a year later he figured out
that 1O,273,O0O had been actually
consumed, despite the eXorbitant
prices. Two weeks ago he estimated
the requirements for the coming sea-
son at 12,625,000 bales. This is a
difference. 1t does not mean
that, in order to avert a famine the
American crop of 1909, like the
worlds requirements, must be l.
100000 bales ahead of 1908.
The worlds total supply of cotton
on hand at the end of this October
was greater by 1,395,O00 bales than
at the end of October, 1903; the
supply of American cotton alone was
greater by 1,450,000. If, then, our
crop this season were to be IL ,000,-
900 bales that yield, plus the in
creased visible supply as compared
with 1908, would place us in posi-
ton where the Ellison "require-
ments" could be more easily met
than they were six years ago. A
crop of only 100000 bales, on the
other hand, would place the con-
sumner in a distinctly worse position
than in the "Sully year"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
CHEWS MANS HAND
CaptOr Terrible Wound. Mouth
Couldn't BE Priced Omen.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.-In at
tempting to tie the large alligator,
Queen, owned by Will Carpenter, the
gator grabbed Sam Rainey by the
left hand and it is probable that
Mr.. Rainey will lose the hand.
Mr.. Rainey intended to rope the
gator and take it to the ostrich
farm, there to be placed on exhibit
ton. He went to the rear of the
Carpenter store shortly before noon,
intending to tie the gator and have
it ready for sending it out on the
freight car at IL o'clock. 1t is pre-
sumed that in the hurry his hand
became fastened in the rope, when the
gators mouth was closed on the left
hand. There were spectators, but
none knew what to do to loosen the
jaws of the creature. Some tried to
prize the mouth open with a crow
bar but that was not effective.
viii Carpenter was in the store
when Mr.. Rainey began tying
Queen. Hearing noise he ran to
the back of the store. The gator
had hold of Mr.. Raineys arm and
was whirling him around and around
on the floor. Carpenter caught hold
of an iron bar, and, striking the
gator over the nose, succeeded in
making Queen open her jaws and the
hand was released.
Mr. Rainey was removed to the
sanitarium and the hand received at
tention. Physicians attending be-
lieve the hand will be saved, but the
teeth of the gator fairly chewed the
member into pulp and severely
wrenched the arm in it's endeavor to
get Mr.. Rainey under control.
Queen has been in captivity for a
number of years, and is estimated to
be nearly 70 years old. The gator
is fully eleven feet in length. and
but for timely assistance would prob
ably have killed or manned Mr.. Raj
ney more than is the case.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
MANY AFTER THANKLESSJ JOBS
As Sanitarium Trustees. New Board
to Be Named by Governor
Brown This Month.

1t will be up to the governor to
appoint within the next few days a
new board of trustees for the state
sanitarium
Surprising to state, although the
position is a thankless one and one
of hard work at best, many promi
nent men all over Georgia are anx-
ious to become members of the
board.
The position pays $3.50 year and
railroad fare, but not other expenses,
and the board has to meet at least
half a dozen times a year, in Mil
ledgeville, to look after the business
affairs and management of the insti-
tuition.
Not only that, but every time the
question of appropriations comes be-
fore the Legislature the trustees
catch it from certain members who
think they are spending too much
money; and when any charges are
made against the institution the
members of the board come in for
their burden of the criticism, wheth-
err justified or not.
Despite these facts it is said that
about fifty applications are on file
for the ten places on the board,
among them being the names of
some of Georgia's most prominent
citizens.
Under the law the governor must
retain at least one member of the
old board-he may retain two and
perhaps three of them-and that
leaves him only nine new appoint
ments to make at most.
The terms of the members of the
present board expire early in De-
cember.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
SAYS BIRTH RATE DECREASING.
End of Human Race ForctOId by Cor
nell Professor

If the present decline in the birth
rate should continue for 100 years
there would be no births at that
time, according to Prof. Walter F.
Wilcox, the statistician of Cornell
University, at Ithaca, n. Y.
1T is not the decrease in the birth
rate that is disturbing" said Prof.
Wilcox, but rather the fact that the
rate of decrease is greater among
the classes that would inherit the
most social worth and capacity for
leadership. The figures from Har-
ward college indicate that each 100
graduates produce in the next gem
GRAFTON 70 sons. The native Ameri-
can population, at least in New York
and New England, loses more by
deaths than it gains by births"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
MAN KILLED AND $4,000 TAKEN
The Family Was Asleep and Una
ware of the Tragedy.

A New Orleans dispatch says;
Burglars murdered George Eichorn,
wealthy German, in his home here
this morning and escaped with S.
900.
The remains of the victim were
thrown into we'll. Six members of
his family in the house heard no
struggling.
The events that led up to the bur
glary and murder comprise a baf-
fling mystery. In Mr.. EichOrn S
room there was no sign of a strug-
gle. The only blood traces were
about the we'll in the court yard
Detectives working on the case be-
lieve Mr.. Eichorn must have awak-
ened while the burglars were work.
ing in his room, and fearing recog-
milton, overpowered the aged man,
threw him into the we'll and riddled
his body with bullets.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
SAY PROPHETS MUCKRAKERS
Prof. Kent of Yale Divinity School
Declares They Were Forced to
Use Sensational Methods.

Use Sensational Methods.
LAWRENCE, Kan.-The prophets
Isaiah, Ezekiel and jeremiah were
classed as muckrakers, and many of
the stories of the Old Testament were
termed myths by DR.. Chas Foster
Kent of the Yale Divinity school in
lecture before the students of the
University of Kansas here.
THE prophets of Israel were the
social reformers of their time" he
said.
'They were muckrakers, to use a
present day term. They were SEN
sational in their methods, notably
Isaiah, Ezekiel and jeremiah"
While Prof. Kent believes that
many of the stories in the Old Tesla
ment are myths he sees good in them.
He says the prophets were teaching
simple people and were forced to
use extraordinary means to drive
home the points.
In discussing the story of the
Garden of Eden the speaker said he
believed it to be legend that served
good purpose, being we'll fitted to
the childlike minds of the people to
whom it was first related.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01

Cotton Stalks Harbor
Pest During Winter.


If cotton plants are allowed to
stand in the field until Christmas
forty per cent. of boil weevils live
the winter to attack the next
crop, according to a bulletin issued
by the Louisiana Crop Pest Commits
sion, after exhaustive experiments at
the Mansura station with lower cot
ton lands.
Out of 1921 adult weevils con-
fined in sixteen cages 1850, or 20.6&
per cent, lived through the winter
Destruction of all cotton plants be-
fore October 18th resulted in only
3 per cent. of the weevils surviving
the winter.
Starvation before Information is
more effective in causing death than
frost or freeze.
Average time of Information is
159 days; extreme length without
food, 225 days. When plants are al
lowed to stand until killed by cold
the average weevil has to go with
out food only ninety-four days.
When plants are destroyed before
October 18th the weevil must go six
months without sustenance. 1t was
found that moss-covered trees near
cotton fields increase weevil infec-
ton by providing a harboring place
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
WHAT A PENINIICAN DINNER is.
A Florida Man Is Going to Give
Number of His Friends One.

A Florida man is going to give a
'pemmican party" to a number of
his friends He has sent to Chica-
go for his supply of the stuff. He
got his idea, of course, from the
North Pole. But he need not to have
sent away for ''pemmican He
could have made it in his own wood
shed The chief ingredient of the
stuff is tallow and any other old sort
of grease that may be picked up To
this is added dried meat of any kind
that comes handy, the chief requisite
being that it shall be thoroughly
dry; beef or alligator or dog will do.
These things are mixed together,
pressed into discs or bricks and then
put away to "ripen" in an ice box
for some months. In the frozen
north, where the olfactories are par
TALLY paralyzed and the palate IS
ready to accept anything that can he
chewed and swallowed, old bootlegs
included, "pemmican" is said to be
standard of diet But we doubt if
IT would be very attractive if served
in the dining room of the Royal
Palm.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS

Send lOc., name of paper and this ad for our
beautiful Savings Bank and Chid's Sketch. Book.
Each bank contains Good Luck Penny.
SCOTT & BOVINE. 4O9 Pearl ST., New York
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01

After exposure, and when you feel
a cold coming on take Foley's Honey
and Tar, the great throat and lung
remedy. 1t stops the cough, relieves
the congestion and expels the cold
from your system. Is mildly 1axa-
tive. Refuse substitutes. Dawson
Drug Co, and Peoples Drug Store.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01

Mrs. S. Joyce, Claremont, n. H.,
writes: About a year ago l bought
two bottles of Foley's Kidney Rem
edy 1t cured me of severe case
of kidney trouble of several years
standing. 1t certainly is a grand,
good medicine, and / heartily recon-
mend it." Dawson Drug CO. and
Peoples Drug Store
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
COTTON PRICES EXCEED "SULLY YEAR"

ton, even with an official estimate
subsequently proved to be very
close) for less than ten million bales,
did not reach, up to the end of De-
cember, the 15-cent price scored this
year on the last day of October. 1t
was not, in fact, until the closing
week of January, 1904, that May
cotton" crossed the 15-cent mark for
the first time in the season. 1t got
up to 1875 at the end of January,
and to 173s in the opening week of
February. That was the highest.
Enormous speculative sales the en-
suing week, caused by the shut
down of the mills, broke the price
to 1878, and subsequent devel-
opments proved pretty clearly that
Sullys colleagues in the pool had
taken that opportunity to betray him
and unload" Cotton recovered to
1854 in the second week in March,
but on March 18th the failure of
Sully being suddenly announced the
price fell to 123s cents again. 1t
ruled only a cent or so above that
figure during the balance of the sea-
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
Nave Been Touched Only Once
Since Paper Money Days.
HOW ESTIMATES WORK OUT

The Situation Presents Exceptional
Problem For Spectator and Con-
sumner. wearing of Old Clothes"
Is Factor in All of the Big Cot
ton Corners. Buyer Sets the Pace.
NEW YORK.-On the last day of
October, 1908. cotton for May de-
livery closed in New York at ~
ents. The closing day of October,
1909, May cotton" crossed Is cents.
II had not passed that mark since
March, 1903; even in 1906 and 1907,
~hen cost of living pressed hard in
almost every line of the consumer
purchases, Il p cents was the high
ast figure reached. The spot price
If 15$4 cents reached in the New
York market has been touched in
0nly one year since the paper money
days, and that was 1903
The causes of this remarkable
showing in staple market are suffi-
iently known, and the recent
events have been foreshadowed, not
only by the poor results of the crop
n the Mississippi valley and he Gulf
states, but by the bold and audacious
operations of group of Chicago and
New Orleans spectators, undoubted-
~ supported by more widespread
individual buying for the rise" than
IS often seen in a staple market.
The situation, in its larger aspect,
hears hard on the everyday con-
sumer, who, as rule, has had his
wages and salary kept down by the
financial unsettlement following
1907, who fora year past has seen
his rent, grocery and butcher bills
rising to almost unprecedented fig
ares, and who now is threatened with
similar mounting up of the bill for
clothing.
Wearing of Old Clothes.
1t is also true, however, that the
everyday man has a means of meet
ing an eXorb!tant price of cotton
which he does not possess regard
ing food. He cannot eat Yesterdays
dinner today, but he can wear the
clothes of 1909 through 1910 This
IS the pitfall of a professional cotton
speculation, even with statistics in
its favor.
The cotton mills know by expe-
rience and if they do not know it,
the merchants and department stores
are apt to remind them, that the cost
of clothing can be raised only a GER
tain fairly we'll ascertained distance
before large consignment of goods
becomes unstable. The struggle be-
tween the consumer and the specu-
lator will settle this seasons cotton
prices quite as effectively as the gov
ernment's estimate of actual yield.
to be published the second week in
December.
The present market has led very
naturally to the drawing of analo-
gies with the famous "Suny corner"
in the autumn Of 1903 and the spring
of 1904. Chronologically, the course
of prices in that season differed wide
ly from the present autumn. Got
ton futures" had been up to 1874
cents pound in July, 1903 at the
end Of October the May delivery was
only II cents. 1t got up to II at
the end of November, and the gov
ernment's Unexpectedly low crop es-
innate of 9,962,039 bales on Decem-
Der 3rd sent the price, by the last
week of the year, to IAN cents.
15-Cent Quotation in December.
In other words, the price of cot
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
FIVE CARS OF FLOUR SEIZED.
State Pure Food Inspector Gets in
Some Work.

Pure Food Inspector P. A. Meth
vim has seized five cars of -four al
legged to have been bleached through
the use of nitrogen peroxide in viola
ton of the pure food law of Georgia
and the United States.
Two of these cars are held at Ma
con, one at Thomasville, another is
at Cedartown and the fifth is held at
Brunswick.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
What HapDened.

so Wilkins deserted Miss Barkis
at the altar Did his courage leave
him?"
Leave him! No, it returned"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-12-01
SCOTS Emulsion

is a wonderful food-medi-
cine for all ages of man
kind. 1t will make the
delicate,s ickly babystrong
and well-will give the
pale, anemic girl rosy
cheeks and rich, red blood.
1t will put flesh on the
bones Of the tired, over
worked, thin man, and
will keep the aged man
or woman in condition to
resist colds or pneumonia
in the winter.