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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14
OSTRICH FEATHER INDUSTRY.
Expectation of the Birds From Cape
Colony Prohibited.

Although Great Britain has thus far
porsistently refused to admit the prac-
teal wisdom of the protective policy
and has stubbornly adhered to system
which has resulted in depopulating the
rural regions and IN filling the cities
with poverty people for whom
no employment can be found, the
British colonies have taken a more en-
lightened and open-minGed view of
their own interests and have not been
restrained by the imperial influence or
example from doing what they could to
reserve the domestic field for the &C.
cunation and enjoyment of their own
membership. A rather striking illus
tration OF that spirit has now been
provided by the government of Cape
Colony in the south of Africa. One of
the interests peculiar to that locality
is the production of ostrich feathers
for sale in Europe and the United
States. This is an industry which has
undergone a slow and difficult develop
ment until it has now become extern
sive and extremely profitable.
Nearly fifty years ago it was decided
to go into the business of ostrich
breeding in scientific and systematic
manner. Experimental farms We're
established in Cape Colony as long ago
as 1863, and for considerable time
We're carried on in the face of great
encouragement. Their operation, in
stead of proving remunerative, was at
tended by considerable loss. and for
while it looked as though the enter
prise was bound to be a failure. How
ever it was not abandoned. The os-
trich breeders were wise enough to
profit by their experience. They
learned to avoid mistakes which had
cost them money. They discovered that
if the business was to be put on Il ray
ing basis attention must be given to
the production of q kind Of ostrich
which would grow many more and
much better feathers than the average
bird does in d state of nature. Feather
growing ostriches must be bred, just as
fine cattle are bred for milk or meat.
and for that purpose a careful and
constant discrimination in the matter
Of strains must be exercised.
This was done, and now in Cape
Colony the thoroughbred ostrich with
certified pedigree-for ostrich stud
books are kept just as the records are
kept here of horses, shorthorns or
dogs-is worth it's weight in gold. An
uncultivated animal can be bought for
about $50, but prize specimen may be
worth $1,000 or more. and the payment
of $1,000 for particularly fine pair is
on record.
Recently the French determined to so
into the ostrich raising business on
large scale III the Sudan, and with that
end in view they have sought to sup
ply themselves with fine stock from
Capt Colony. That is where the pro-
tcctive spirit has been aruosed, and the
expectation of ostriches from Cape
Colony to 10 matter where has been
absolutely forbidden. Ostrich feathers
were exported from Cape Colony in 1906
to the value of $7.0S0,595, and the people
there want to keep this business for
themselves. Can you blame them
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14
Making "Good Indians"

The greatest difficulty, and t ,r,rr Tine .hs
essential to overcome. lies in trainthi;r ass
Indian to work and to habits OF t ines
n,'endannce. Great success b. a Wai Rev.
nolds. the agent in the Crow COLUMN, ,nr;ns
who has converted et tr1s Of farmers
called the tribe e' together and much = =
one narrating fairy story: told .ne'r rae.
the down east county fair.thn no s,inpery
pole. The curiosity of the indians sre xs.
aroused "down-east fair wa s,,y aug.
ICED. and then Mai. REYNOLDS cralt' snjrit
gnsted the agricultural feature. q =, s ME
OF emulation in the production ,S,,turAl
Society was organized On the , ,,Sr Isk
of the Industrial life of Senfern a,,t tribes
hundreds Of Indians from dineren ~ mos
assembled. There were thirty .o0n y, III
entries in the contest for far'' rb;ef Piep.
the driving team competition III Nov
tv-Coos was beaten nv q sd ', ha,i nie
the Grows have On agricn'ts sttaac,,..ss,abte,
and poultrv building and sIa.,t;,tior.-
and tho fnir is cherished instha
Harper's Weekly.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14
The Unwelcome Fruit.

A receptive and kindly public hailed
the pitlesS prune without misgivlngs,
in spite of the obvious and inevitable
pulpiness of a stoneless prune pie.
There was no revolt at the advent of the
splneless cactus; for indoor intimacy
with the rubber plant and the weeping
Boston fern had bred a callousness to
outrages on nature. These and other
liberties taken with the fruits and
flowers of the earth have been accepted
without a murmur of protest or COM
plant. But the kind-faced public will
not. unless we have been deceived in
human nature, hail with joy or even
accept with resignation the advent of
the white strawberry announced from
that source of all horticultural vari-
ants, California. The sponsors for the
white strawberry assert that lit will
grow throughout the year and is SUI
perior to the common red strawberry,
which survives but a few months" The
white strawberry might grow through
out a dozen years-nay. an aeon of
years--and still it would not be real
honest strawberry. The redness of the
strawberry is as essential as the bloom
on peach. the russell on the russell
apple. the blush on girls cheek or the
crust on apple pie. A redless strawber-
ry is no more to be desired than a seed
less sunflower, a hairless dog, plum
less pudding or an oatless horse. Who
would paint the lily? Probably the same
sort of person who would unpaint the
strawberry.-Boston Advertiser.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14
THANKSGIVING OF THE WORLD.
Union Of All Men. Each Working
for All, and All for Each.

Sixty years ago there was something
called a world, in which some of ns we're
alive. 1t was a world of four or five
continents Of jarring interests; world
parted by three or four oceans. If 1
wrote to my brother on the other side
of the world I might expect an answer
in six months. If in the region where
he lived the water failed, or the winds
did not blow, the poor people there lay
down and died of famine. The barns OF
Ohio might be bursting, but the starving
people had to die.
But sixty years have changed all that.
All that has been changed because God
has worked with His children, and Ills
children have worked with Him. Men
have been working for all, and all
for each. When botanist in Java made
gutta percha flow from tree, and when
Alexander Agassiz and the rest compelled
the Lake Superior mines to deliver their
copper, some hundreds of thousands of
Gods children between them drew the
copper into wire and sheathed 1t with
gutta percha and laid their cable beneath
the oceans. The children worked with
their Father, and the Father worked with
His children. 1t is not one man who has
done this 1t is not a hundred men. 1t
is the union of the world. 1t Is this
union of the children with the Father,
and of the Father with the children. The
great victories have been the victories
which you and have prayed for every
morning when we have wished that the
Fathers will may be done on earth just
as it is done in heaven.
All for each, and each for all!-Edward
Everett Hale in Woman's Home Compan-
ion
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14
Oriojn of "MeaI Time"

With regard to the difficulty of de-
filming a meal" which has ben c.iCr-
cising the house of commons. a meal
meant repast taken at fixed time.
1t is the Anglo-SaXon meal" mark
sign. measure fixed time. and SD food
partaken of then, and has no connec-
ton with meal of the oatmeal kind.
except by one of those verbal coinci-
dences in which language abounds All
the other senses of "maer' but that Of
a repast have vanished except in the
word ''piccemeal," but German has
still both NAL time Gas In ''einmal,'
once) and 'Inahl," a meal.
OF "mahl." however. tourists should
beware. There is a story of a fatigued
English pedestrian staggering into a
German i'm with dcmandffor "Aben-
dmahl." What he wanted was supped
C'Abendessen'D; what he got was a
clergyman ready to administer the holy
sacrament (Which "Abenrmah1'' in
practice means), under the impression
that he was dying
meal time" has got into the Ger
man language of greeting. 1t was the
old fashion way after supper in the
home to shake hands all around and
say "Gesegnete MahlZeit"-a blessing
On the mcal-tilne. And the German di-
gestion is so vigorous that the students
at the universities part from each
other, not with goodbye or adieu, or
any such sGpraterrestrial allusion, but
hlZeit!"-London Chronicle.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14
SEED OF THE VIOLET.
Flower Blooms Twice in Season
Its Explosive Pod.

The common wild violet affords one
OF the most remarkable illustrations of
the care and apparent forethought OF
nature in preserving a species. AS
everybody knows, the violet grows IN
the shade, in pastures, woods and fields
where the grass is abundant and long.
1t comes up early in the spring and
flowers at a time when the grass is
most abundant and succulent. or
course. it is liable to be cut down by
the scythe, but much more likely is it
to be bitten off by grazing animals.
The violets that come in the spring
either do not seed at all or very spar
ingly, so that if the plant relied on its
spring flowers for seed it would proba-
bly perish off the earth in very few
years.
But in the late fall the plant bears
another crop of blossoms that are new
er seen save by the professional botan-
list. They are very small, utterly insig-
nificant in appearance, and grow either
Just at or below the surface of the
ground. These are the flowers which
produce the seeds for the next season.
The flowers on long stems blooming in
spring are only for show: the hidden
flowers are for use, and the number
of seeds they bear may be Judged from
the ease with which violet bed
spreads:
When the seeds are ripe the pod ex-
plodes, scattering them to a consider
able distance, often to 10 or II feet
from the parent plant, so that in spite
of it's boosted modesty the violet not
only takes care Of itself but becomes a
troublesome aggressor.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14

Tbus far this country is far in the
lead in the contributions for the re-
lief of stricken Italy. The South Amer
ICON countries came next after the
United States: England third, with
o,,e-sixth as much as the United States
contributes The most surprising TEA
lures of the response for ana 10 Italy
are that Japan contributes more than
Germany, Turkey sends more than
Austria. and Australia very much more
than Russia.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14

period of the drOuth to take water from
Lake Cobbosseecontee, thee Carleton
Pond supply proving ample for all the
needs of the city. This beautiful pond
is owned in it's circumference by the
water district and the supply of water
which it affords comes chiefly from the
boiling springs beneath its surface. the
two small brooks which empty into it
being practically dried up during the
recent drouth.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14
Maine Gossip
A Winter Love Soma.

The sad fields yelled in falling snow
They are not sad to me;
Not chill to me the winds that blow,
However chill they be.
The eddying flakes that speed away,
With music they drift down
Though myriad. lacing branches gray,
On dead leaves crisp and brown.
No bloom upon the whining hill.
No leaf upon the tree;
The music is sad music-still, e
1t is not sad to me.
For song, with my hearts muffied might
Keeps measure, blow for blow;
My loves sweet breast is warm and
white.
And softer than the snow.
Robert Burns Wilson
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14

Why so much publicity for the III.
900 people III Cleveland Ohio. who are
irving to live for two weeks as Jesus
would live if He were here! VI
course the movement is a good one
and deserves encouragement and sue
ccss Rut there are hundreds of thou
sands all over this land and in many
other lands who are trying to I'VE
that same way, not merely for two
weeks. but year after year, without
making any fuss over it and without
any booming by press agents.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14
Committee HEARINGS.
APPROPRIATIONS AND FlNAN-
ClAl AFFAIR.".

Hearings on the following will be held
on Wednesday. Jan. 20, at P. M.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 20, AT P. M
No l. Resolve in favor of Young Wo-
mems Home at Lewiston.
No. 2. Resolve in aid OF Temporary
Hon Home for Women and Children IN rof'-
No g. Resolve in favor of the Maine
Eye and Ear Infirmary.
No. 4. Resolve in aid of the Name
School for the Deaf.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. q, P. NJ.
No. 5. Resolve in favor of the Chill
dren's Hospital CPortland.
EDWARD w. HYDE, Secretary.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14

Prof. Frances Spire Potter, whose
paper read before the Buffalo conven-
ton for equal suffrage attracted much
attention, is the mother of four chill
dren. Besides her work as professor Of
English at the University of Mime
sofa. she finds time to do considera BILE
writing. She has just completed her
second novel, has written a successful
play, and is frequently called upon to
lecture on enconomic subjects.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14

A prominent stage beauty declares
that she is going to publish all the love
letters she has received. This direful
threat will doubtless make n number
of cold-footed Johnnies sit up and
take notice.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14

The first four men to be guillotined
for wears in France were bandits of the
worst type but the blood lust OF the
frenzied multitude which 'cheered the
execution and then celebrated it with
drunken orgies was hardly an lnul-
cation of advancing civilization in that
country
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14

president-elect Taft announces that
he will not finally determine the max
ing up of his cabinet until the 4th OF
ncxt March. and we venture the pre-
diction that when he finally announces
1t the American people will agree that
il is a much better one than any or MS
self appointed assistants nave maze up
for him.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14

Many a man and woman has saved
the subscription price of the kennebec
Journal several times over by reading
the advertisements of the great jan
them the opportunities for securing
needed articles at greatly reduced
priceS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14

The schools of Maine will no doubt
act ,,ncn SUPERINTENDENT Smiths sug-
gestion regarding the celebration OF
Lincoln day, February II. There is no
lack of material for the exercises OF
the day and no lack of inspiration IN
the material for the young Americans
who take part.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14

Congressman Burton is now probably
very glad that he did not succeed IN
defeating Tom l.. Johnson for mayor
of cleveland. Oftcntimes mans APP
parent revcrses are really blessings IN
disguise
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14

Speaking of one Of the recent critics
of the American navy, Admiral Bob
Evans says: "Mr. Reuterdahl is the
kind of man who. if there We're an cpl
dcmic of smallpox, would kill all of
those who did not have the smallpox
so that the disease would not spread
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14

Golfers weekly is. authority for the
statement that a number of rich New
Workers ate camel meat for Christmas.
1t is hard accounting for the tastes of
jaded appetites. ..
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14
LEGAL AFFAIRS.

The committee on legal affairs will
meet Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
afternoons at , 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, 1909-01-14

The great Northwest usually produ-
ces the biggest of everything, but that
earthquake shock was too small an
affair for it to brag about at this time
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14

Names third member of the United
States-Senator Perkins of California
who was born in kennebunk-has been
sent back for another term of six years
by the legislature of his adopted state.
The vote was Sc to 80.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14

So healthful has the Panama canal
zone become under the able administra-
ton Of American sanitary engineers
that it is likely in. years to come to
develop into Americas great winter re-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14

Senator Brandcgee of Connecticut Is
reelected although he had narrow
escape in the party caucus. The OPP
p3sition to him seems to have been
based mainly on the fact that he
guessed wrong in the early part OF the
campaign preceding the nomination OF
Taft.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14

Precedent counts for good deal IN
the United States Senate, but 1t Is dlfl-
cult 20 see how that body will be able,
with any regard for the interests OF the
public service TO refuse Mr.. Root a
place on the foreign affairs committee
v,hcn he becomes one of its members
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14

ESTABLISHED 1926

No notice whatever will b taken OF
unsigned communications.
The journal cannot be held rssponsi-
BILE for the preservation or return of
rejected communications.
Address all communications relating
to subscriptions and advertisements
to BURLEIGH & FLYNT, Pub
fishers, Augusta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14

Mrs. Nora Stanton Blatch de r rsay
prandlaughter of Mrs. Elizane'h 49,
Stanton. is said to be eauippins ..sI,I
tory at Newark N. j.. Tor tne Ste ID
facture of electric condensers. ssarlnf
a. graduate of the civil ehsn since
school of Cornell University anu s,acs
her marriage has been study'ns
tricity.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14

A new plot against the car has re-
Gently been discovered. This will call
for additional police guards and
new corps of food tasters.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14

That collapse, Of a Switzerland church
burying hundreds in its ruins gives
another excuse to the man who wants
to sleep late Sunday morning.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14

st. Petersburg is now suffering from
matter for the Russian people to APP
preciate the importance Of sanitary liv-
ing
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14

Even the papers most hostile to the
. President are admitting that Senator
Tillman has been shown to be guilty
of an "indeScretiOn."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14
APPROPRIATIONS AND FiNAN-
ClAL AFFAIRS.

The committee on appropriations and
financial affairs will hold regular meet
ings in the Senate chamber State of of
Maine, Augusta, on Tuesday Wednesday
GEORGE H. EATON, Chairman.
EDWARD ". HYDE, Secretary.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14
INLAND FISHERIES AND GAME

game will meet, until further notice, at
their room, No. 80, State House on
Wednesday of each week at p. NJ.
HARRY NJ. BIGELOW, Secretary.
jan14dtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14
Committee NOTICES.
BANKS AND BANKING.

Meetings of the Committee on Banks
and Banking will be held on Wednesday
of each week at , o'clock P. NJ
III. E. COOLIDGE, Sec.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14

The mo-t he reflects upon 1t the
more Senator T'llman Will be convinced
that he was an earthquake victim
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14

AL, the rivers of Italy were frozen over
during the winter of 1874. 1t was so cold
in Denmark that the wolves could not
stay there in 1903, and they crossed to
JutIand on the ice.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14
Thursday, January "a, 1909.

"Christnaas Bilr' is still making his
rounds.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14

The New Year resolutions are work
ing we'll at Bath where the police
court has not had a case since 1909
came in.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14

For many years there has been talk
in brunswick of changing the form of
government The town, as all towns
is at present governed by a board of
selecemen. The town is large enough
to become a city, in fact it is larger
than a number of Maine cities. Twice
a city charter has been granted by
the Legislature. but the town has never
seen fit to accept. Although the SER
vices of the board of selectmen have
been the best, the members of the
board and the citizens of the town
realize that the duties of the office are
tco great for three men. who can at
the best give only a part of their time
to the work of the town. the remuner-
alton of the board not being sufficient
to warrant man giving up his bust
ness to assume the duties of selectman.
The most popular idea at present, and
one that is growing very rapidly is to
have a separate board of assessors.
whose duty it shall be to have full
charge Of the affixing of values and the
assessing of taxes.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14

Sunday afternoon NJ. L. Leach Of
Casco let his cows out to drink and
after a time on going out into the
field found four large deer, two bucks
ard two doe with them. The deer
seemed to be very tame. Mr.. Leach
tried to drive them into the barn
with his cattle but the deer wouldn't
stand for that.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14

During the legislative recess Cover
nor Fernald installed the officers of his
homo grange at West Poland.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14

Few buildings have had more and
more varied uses in go years of exis-
tence than the Lubec building now oc-
cupied as blacksmith shop by. A. D.
Mclean. 1t was erected by William
Hunter on his Summer street property
about 1850 and used as cobbler's shop
Later it was converted into doctors
office, a schOolhouse. storehouse,
quarters of the famous Crow club, COM
posed of the younger men some 20
years ago, and finally was the nu-
cleus of the public library for several
years, before the latter was removed
into the Merriam building. 1t was
sold to Mr.. Mclean. who removed it to
the rear of his residence as barn and
upon vacating the building on Water
street this winter he removed his ap
planes there and the old roof now
rings to the sound of the blacksmiths
hammer.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14

There arc come very unusual fea
ture: in the case of Miss Tourtillotte
now on trial at Belfast for burning
campground cottages.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-14

Pstten Library of Bath has had one
of the best years in it's history, accord
ing to the reports at the annual meet
ing OF the association It's endowment
has been increased by $4,000 from the
estate of Charles E. Patten. $4,000
from the estate Of Lucinda Bailey and
$500 from the estate of Sarah w. Mari
1t has also received from Mrs. Percy
w. Roberts the fine private library,
$50 volumes, which was left to her by
Mr.. and Mrs. John s. Elliott. Mrs
Elliott was the daughter and Mrs.