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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04

"There is no country in the world
more inviting to the naturalists than
Rorneo," writes Consul Baker from
Sandakan. Here are found the flying
squirrels, flying foxes, flying lizards,
flying frogs and the natives report fly
ing snakes. Among the most noted
birds is the little swift Collocalia midi
flea. Their nests are eaten by the
Chinese and are regarded as great
luxury. These birds build their nests
in limestone caves of a glutinous saliva
which they produce from their glands;
no sticks or any other foreign sub
stances are used. The collection of
these nests is an important industry
with the natives, though they pay a tax
on all they take 70 market The value
of those exported from British North
Borneo in 1907 was $35,924. They are
served at the great feasts of the Chin
ese, especially at weddings.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

A man never knows where to begin
a letter and woman where to end IT.
The astonishing thing about the way
a girl makes love to a man is how ne
thinks he is doing it.
A great help to a woman in finding
her bank balance is to wait for the
notice that her account is overdrawn.
II takes about as much money to so
through a lawsuit as married life. but
the results are no more disappointing
A man blames all his misfortune on
his wife unless one of them afterwards
turns out to be a blessing, Wnen he
planes her for ever having doubted it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04
Canada and Newfoundland.

The fishermen of Newfoundland are
firmly opposed to being annexed to
Canada although that is their manifest
destiny and would doubtless be for
their best interests. 1t seems strange
that being under the same flag tn"
people of this island should feel any
spirit of political antagonism to the
Dominion. Newfoundland depends FOR
fishing interests. Aside from this pre-
dominating industry and some cope.
and iron mining. together witls9h little
numbering and shipbuilding. it has no
large material interests. 1t finds its
markets chiefly in the United States
and Canada and from them purchases
the great bulk of it's clothing, shoes,
flour, in fact practically everything that
its army of fishermen consumes. Under
seem as if these people would appre-
ciate the value of having such con-
nection with the Dominion of Canada
as would enable them to secure these
articles free of export duties. And yet
so proud is the spirit of independence
in the breasts of the hardy Newfound-
land fishermen that they prefer to
maintain their present political status
in spite of the manifest advantages that
would accrue to them from annexation
to Canada. The poverty OF this island
is so great that for the benefit of hel
own shipping Canada has been forced
to establish and maintain lighthouses
along the Newfoundland coast. The
time must inevitably come if both
Canada and Newfoundland continue
under the British flag. when the politi-
cal differences that separate them vii
be swept aside and the island of New.
foundland become a province of the
Dominion.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04

Wisconsin has voted down woman
There is evidently a just appreciation
IN that state of the fact that the two
would not exist very long together
With the ballot in the hands of the
women of Wisconsin, Milwaukee might
become less famous, but there would
be a very marked and general i'm
provement in the moral tone of the
state.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04
DAILY KENNEBEC JOURNAL. TUESDAY MAY 4. 1909

is appointed to Ill it as tfesmost fit to
be the executive military officer OF the
State under the Governor, and the
selection meets with general approval.
All along he has been particularly ac-
tive in whatever concerned the Guard,
his reports have been commended as
models, and his genial disposition and
executive ability have made him a
favorite with officers and men. His
newspaper associates are no less
pleased than others at the deserved
promotion
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04
The Middle Ages is period Of abo,

The Middle Ages is period Of about
a thousands years. between the close Of
what is technically considered ancient
history and the first definite move
ments i'll Europe Of the distinctively
modern spirit of freedom and enter
prise. It's beginning is synchronous
with that Of the Dark Ages and It Is
variousiy reckored as extending to the
fall of Constantinople t1i53). the inven-
ton of printing, the Renaissance. or
the discovery of America in the fif-
teenth century. or to the Reformation,
in the early part of the sixteenth.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04

While the weather of Maine may be
variable and at times uncomfortable.
it rarely goes to the extent of involving
the loss of property and life. After all
there is no better place in the Union
in which to live than the good old Pin =
Tree State
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04

When the hot summer sun begins to
get in it's work, even the slow-going
members of the United States Senate
will probably pass the tariff bill and
thereby avoid the necessity of spend
ing the summer months in the torrid
atmosphere of Washington.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04

Recently enrolled among the fresh
men at the University of Pennsylvan-
ia is Il Spanish nobleman, the Marquis
Carlos de Potestad, a youth Of eight
cen. who speaks English like native
of England, having attended school in
that country for several years. and
has already received his A. B. degree
there. His family is one of the noblest
of Spain. and his father occupies a
high government position.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04

is the enmity exhibited by certain in
dividuals. For instance, there is Joe
Bailey's opposition to the Payne AID
rich tariff bill and Castro's hatred If
the United States
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04
Won't Always Avail.
(HoustOn POST

IHOuSlUH FOSIJ.
"Just to lie there in the sun all day."
begins poem by Lew Smith. But Mr..
Smith probably knows that man can
not always choose his surroundings
when lying Furthermore. how would
lying in the sun help him out when he
came to reply to the midnight query.
"Mr. Smith, where have you been?'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04

eX- president Roosevelt on his African
trip the situation affords exceptional
opportunities to the writer's of gifted
maginaton on the yellow press which
they have not been slow i'm improving
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04

1t has been suggested that Theodore
Holland princess. 1t would certainly
have the merit of being one with dis
tinguishcd antecedentS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04
What the Han Laid On.

The story of the Down East hen
that will lay only when perched on the
end of a pole. recalls the little girls
composition, wherein she said: THE
hen lays one egg a day on an average.
l do not know what an average is, but
that is what papa says the hen lays
on
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04
PLENTY of Time.

"Give me little time" said the young
the country"
Three months later he had his chance.
| He was hawking alarm clocks from
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04

The reactionary program has lost
most of it's popularity in Turkey since
the Young Turks have hanged $50 of
the leaders in it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04

There is growing suspicion that
many of the so-called young Turks
are really old Turks with desire for
a new deal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04

Out in the state of Washington a
man has sued for divorce on the
ground that his wife smokes pipe in
bed Still, it might be worse. She
might smoke cigarettes.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04
Not a Consumer.

MADAM, I will not consume your time
with the tale of my misfortune
mo. and you'll not consume any OF
my provisions either."-Houston Post
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04

Miss Hetty Green is said to give
walters very valuable advice in lieu
Of the demoralizing tip. We can al
most hear their coat-tails snap as they
hustle around to wait upon her.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04

The public will be generally gratified
by the settlement Of the differences be-
tween the coal miners and the opera
tors Under the circumstances, it is
hard to see just what excuse can be
offered by the magnates for any further
advance in the price of anthracite coal,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04
e manufacturers

Turkish cigarette manufacturers
want Kentucky to grow Turkish tobac-
co, imports of which have grown from
$4,000 to 100000 in only twelve years.
To give some idea of the extent of the
incandescent lamp industry in this
country it is noted that during the year
1907 the General Electric Company dis
posed of 100000 lamps.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04
PASSING of the old Maid.

ATLANTA ConstitutiOn)
There are no more old maids now
adays Instead, they are women who
chose to pursue careers
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04

Notwithstanding the fact that he is
now IA prisoner" Abdul continues to
enjoy the freedom of his grounds and
eats his three square meals Il day in
the cheerful consciousness that he is no
longer regarded important enough to
noiSOn
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04
Bryan and the Senate.
Heayenworth Times.)

Mr. Bryan denies that he has already
entered the senatorial race in
Nebraska. When he gets into this race
he will know it, and so will everybody
else There is no bushel- measure big
enough to hide the Bryan light.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04

Peanut oil has now been discovered
to be the real, genuine elixir of life.
The cx-Sultan should not delay in or
dtring in a supply.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04
Lonesome.

(St. Louis Globe Democracy
It may be true that Champ Clark IS
still an uncompromising free trader
but if such is the case he is having
lonesome time in the party.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04
Self Preservation.

your wife. you say, buys all your CT.
CARS for your
Eyes, indeed"
Does she get god ones?"
Eyes, when she. gets bad ones I smoke
them in the house"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04
Prevention.
Chicago Tribune.)

Chicago Tribune.)
1t isn't any of our business, but might
not those disastrous gorges in the
Niagara river be abated just little by
dredging out that sandbar near the
mouth of the river?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04

If the senate does not hurry up and
pass that tariff bill Senator LaFollette
may be obliged to cancel all his Chau-
tauaua lectures.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04

The farmers are hoping for little of
them to work on their land.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04
The Usual Method.

"And have you heard the latest?"
mo. What is it?'
"Why. in Ireland they can't hang a
man with q wooden leg
Never. What do they do. them"
why, they just hang him with a rope"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04
Looks Like Bryan.
(BrOoklyn Eagle.)

The genius of the democratic party
for discovering unpopular issues is
again demonstrated in the resolve o.
the democratic senators to support an
income tax.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04

A Tariff Commission would have
little to commend it if it involved per-
petual tinkering with the law.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04

i In the debate whether the Franco
British exhibition shall be open on Sun
days, as public opinion in France de-
sires, or not, a canon of Canterbury
has been quoting figures to show that
the Philadelphia and st. Louis Fairs,
which closed on Sundays, made much
more money than those at Chicago and
Buffalo, which violated the Sabbath.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04

Five million dollars win be spent to
develop water-power 165 miles from
Bate, Mont. The electric power will
be used in the mines near Butte.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04
VOICES OF THE PRESS.
Methods Much the Same.

(St. Louis Post -Dispatch.)
If the feudaI barons of the middle
ages who robbed for living were
around today they would be forming
trusts and cornering wheat.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04
Popularizing Himself.

(Pittsburg Gazette Times)
The discovery that President Taft is
fond of peanuts will further endear him
to the populace.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04

A New Jersey minister is reported
to have married a runaway couple for
IA cents This is presumably all they
had
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04
And Shell Out.
dayton Herald.)

The Niagara will soon thaw out
Then the people there can resume
their delightful occupation of making
the visitors thaw out.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04

Unreasonable weather has operat ted
to rctard Industrial progress this
spring Nevertheless, most people are
too busy to read the Hams trial.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04
Patten the Patriot.

birmingham News)
Patten says he was not in the game
simply for the money. Maybe he had
figured on how we'll "Patten the Pa
triOt" would sound.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04
Willing to Try.

Big Man with a grouch): Will you be
so kind as to get off my feet?
Little Man with bundle): I'll try. sir:
is it much Of a walk?-Cieveland Leader.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04
LIGHT AND AIRY.

Mary had a little cat,
1t yowled enough to deaf her.
She gave it to some German friends,
And now it's haassenpfeffer.
-Lippincotts
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04

After all, these May snoWstorms
would be a good deal harder to bear IL
we had a ball team in the field.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04
The Chief Criminal.

charleston News and Courier)
No convict in stripes is SO wicked as
the mosquito behind the bar.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04
Tuesday, May 4, 1909.

Castro at the tomb of Napoleon sug-
gests a large contrast.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04

In future Chinese government dis-
patches will be forwarded by post IN.
stead of by curicr, and it is eXpecteu
that $4,000 a year will thus be saved.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04

The Portland Press shows that the
experience Of the Forest City in rail-
road investments during the past forty
years has pot been a profitable one. It
says: 1.-The amount paid out by the
city. in stock purchases, bond issues,
and interest on the bonds, and includ-
ing also the discount on account of the
retunding operation in 1907. totalled
over four and ore-half million dollars,
to be exact, $t,625. 44S.50; that the city
has received out of it, in interest and
dividends. some over Il million dollars.
that is. 81 ,073.ll9.0S. making the gross
loss $685., 029. ~; and that in partial
offset the city has sold 1900 shares of
its stock for S1,467,02 and holds o.
a6l Ito shares. which if sold at $50 a
share would net 81 ,103.075, or altogether
S11Si,5l202. making the net loss to the
city s.. 367 ,4S1 40. over two millions and
a half gone beyond recall, and more if
the stock brings less. 1t is a lesson
bought very dearly
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04
Maine Gossip
Spring Song.
Spring Song.
Dust and busting everywhere,
And everywhere a sneeZe,
And in the yard a frenZied man
A-beating on his knees.

Yesterdays blue skies We're some
thing of novelty; but they went far
to make life worth living.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04

The courses in the State Summer
schools bid fair to be Of unusual inter-
est and value the coming season.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04
ESTABLISHED 1875

No notice whatever will be taken Of
unsigned communications.
The Journal cannot b held response.
BILE for the preservation or return Of
rejected communications.
Address all communication relating
to subscriptions and advertisements
to BURLEIGH & FLYNT, Publish
ers, Augusta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04

The graduating essay is now coming
in for d considerable amount of anX-
ious thought The wise senior will
take some subject he can tell his
hearers something about, and leave alb
stractions to the philosophers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04

Recorder Wheldon of the Portland
Municipal court believed that some
better way should be found for punish
ing men charged with intoxication than
by sending them to Jail. He believes
that Il good farm should be purchased
where such offenders could be put to
hard work under suitable state super
vision. The idea has much to COM
mend it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04

With nearly million calls day the
New England Telephone & Telegraph
Company is very tpresent and strik-
ing example OF the extent to which this
convenient mode of communication has
entered into and became q part of our
modern life The wonder now is how
we ever managed to do without it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04

The report comes from Boston that
the New England coast is being slowly
but surely being worn away by the as
saults of old ocean. Still it is safe to
assume that there will be enough of it
left to serve the purposes of the pres
ent day and generation There are
matters enough near at hand TO worry
about.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-04

The six men who were marooned for
As hours in the Casino at the end of the
Old Orchard pier had a decidedly I'M
comfortable experience. They will
probably make sure of fair weather be-
fore they undertake to work there
again.
Arizona republican., 1909-05-13
NOTES OF NEWS

A. B. TOmlinson went through his alfalfa field again yesterday and cut handful of the crop that measures in length, six feet and one inch That's going some for alfalfa.
 Word has been received here from Wm. F. Stelzriede, stating that his wife is much improved. They are stopping for a time at Agua Caliente
 A. Zohn, section foreman at Han sen, has been transferred to Tucson, and he left yesterday.
 Mrs. Josephine Fernwalt has gone to Los Angeles where she has ac- cepted a position with Hamburgers.
 Carl Buck came up from Maricopa yesterday and spent the day here.
 A. T. Mehle of Chicago, representing the Selt Shoe company, spent yes terday here.
 c. H. Boakes was fined $1O yester- day by Justice Carr for being drunk and disorderly.
 Vernon Evans of the Consolidated Telephone company was a business visitor here yesterday afternoon.
 R. A. Windes will be absent from his office Saturday. He will spend the day in Glendale attending the Territorial Sunday School convention.
 The Pythian Sisters will meet to- night, and all members are requested to be present.
Arizona republican., 1909-05-13

Do you believe that, placing your com petitor and yourself side by side, he advertising in a noticeable size of space, day in and day out, and you, spasmodically using two or three inch es, that you, or he, will get the results; that you, or he, will have the largest place in the buying heart of the pub lie? You know what has been the case with others, and are you an ex- ception or not? Do you know that the average buyer sizes you up by your advertising, and is generally as wise to the laws of advertising as the wide awake merchant; that often times the grocery merchant has need of clothes, and sometimes looks over the paper to see what is being offered, and generally analyses you and your business by what he actually knows about adver- Using?
 Can you afford to spend 1 per cent a month on advertising? And what would your advertising bill be at the end of the month? Have you ever lost money in advertising, as you look back oyer your business life? Are you suffering from the outcome of wasting money in advertising today? When was your business at its best-when you advertised the year around, through the dull summer months, or during the periods when you did not advertise?
Arizona republican., 1909-05-13
THE TENNIS CUP
Once Again the Class of 1910 Comes
 out the Winner.

The tennis cup, once again, goes to the class of 1910-the Juniors With the winning of the Student cup, the curtain is drawn on tennis for this year, says "The Student" The outcome of the series was evil dent at the beginning, for the Juniors have by far the strongest players. The interest usually manifested was lacking this year in the series, be- cause of various uncomfortable causes.
 The development of new material was not as abundant as was expected "a fact to be regretted, for the purpose in giving the cup is to stim- ulate interest and to cause a jealous effort on the part of every individual, toward that end. As there were the same stars from each class, the same ones played the most prominent part. However it is hoped by the donors of the cup-the managers of the "Student"-that next years events will be more fruitful and that every student will attempt to take part in this invigorating pastime.
Arizona republican., 1909-05-13
CONTINUOUS ADVERTISING.

The world was not made in a single day The Colorado river did not cut it's banks in a week, a month, or a year. Neither does a habit or desire to purchase an advertised article. A name of a firm is not branded into the minds of the buying public in an in stant. or in two or three instants. Look at it square. Do you always sur render to the first catch of an adver- tisement? Even when it is made at tractive and interesting? Doesn't it us- ually take a rap after a rap. and then another, before you respond?
 To make your name a household word and to trade at your store a second nature, is the task that you have set for yourself-you consider it the foundation of your business sue cess.
 And how are you going about it? Do you advertise today, and "may be af-. ter while, if business keeps up and the others advertise" or do you keep rapping away. day in and day out. in a microscopic range of space, when business is good, bad. or indif- ferent? Do you think of advertising iNo dAA dSooNtf Oi elll S<NHChoS elo Oiic fOl the most valuable appointments in your business-or as an obligation to the papers and the public-as the shop window that goes into the thousands of homes every day, or as another one of the crazy ideas of the age? Do you believe in duplication-in the duplica- ton of your message every day-that duplication has a cumulative effect?