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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-10

upon buying a wedding present they
looked around the dustless little shop.
heard the banjo clocks in chorus on the
wall. stared with blank , amaze ., INTO .ne
and at length priced a fine mantel clock
in faultless mahogany frame that wouid
have delighted even the critical German
cabinet-maker.
The quiet proprietor named his price,
$50 or $40, and the customers looked over
the clock with care. asked rev ques-
lions and offered SO less than the prlce
named. There was just the faintest
dawn of a smile in the clockmaker's eyes
as he repeated in low, polite tones the
price originally asked. The pair looked
at one another. gave the clockmaker a
turned unperturbed to his work.
You might as well try to buy postage
stamps of Uncle Sam at discount az
clocks as him at less than his named
price. He would as soon do bad piece
of work as higgle over prices. Inc Ia
borer is worthy of his hire,
OF course if you must have cheap
clock. hepl sell it to you, but with an ar
that makes you feel as if both you and
he had, sacrificed self-respect. He even
takes the works out of the cheapest sinaii
clocks and,.puts them into tastelui nttle
CASES CASES for the SAKE low Sy pree Wien
buy it you know just what you are get
ting. but somehow when you think OF the
plying smile with. WHICH he iookea t INA.
pretty little mechanical liar in the race
You ever after feel that there is sort OF
moral obliquity in it's eTrors.,
Nothing tries the clockmaker SO nlnch
as to be asked to repair those hideous
and umtruthful clocks that some persons
give as wedding presents. 1t may have
vented the aphorism about the futility of
looking e1shu az gift clock in the face if you
wish to know the time of day. One of
these days he will infallibly throw some
such clock at the head of the astonlshed
oWner.-New York Sum-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-10

ate features, as Of accidents, or ruins.
or scenes Of a great variety Of sorts. In
such pictures where the presence OF
the camera was known you Will al
ways find some persons facing or turn
ing towards the photographer, with an
evident desire to imagine that the gra-
LITIGATION Of seeing themselves there
may give them pleasure.
Look at pictures taken of semi-sav-
age or semi-civilized people In remot-
est countries, where perhaps they had
never seen a mirror or heard of cam
era, but you may be sure that human
vanity exists as it does with us, and
you may see somebody trying to get
into the picture or smiling to look well
in it.
seriously, this pleases me as no
other one minor thing that know OF
does. 1t brings the whole world closer
together, for it shows that however
far apart in laird and tongue and Gus
toms the races Of the wide world may
be, yet in some at least of mans un-
DERIVING human traits we are kim
New York Sun.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-10

The government weather bureau is
used to receiving raps, but it is getting
much more severe dose than usual
over it's failure to warn Washington
of the Inauguration blizzard. A former
head of the bureau Mr.. Dunn declares
that it ought to have been easy to fore
tell that storm, when it was known for
two days before that a big storm was
moving across the country from the
Northwest. On March 2 it's center was
over Manitoba and the Dakotas and
moving southeast in path 500 miles
wide; on March 3 it was coming down
across Ohio. greatly increasing in
force and with rain and snow falling in
Tennessee and North Carolina Elk
forecaster Dunn, in view of these
conditions. declares that his successor,
Prof Moore. must have expected the
storm to jump obligingly over WASH
ington and go out to sea, since in no
other way could that city possibly
escape it, Others suggest that the
weather bureau did not have the heart
to disappoint Washington by forecast
ing anything which would tend to keep
the big crowd away from that city.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-10
mime remained Yeyette. Barras new,

phine remained Yeyette. Barras new,
called 1er otherwise.
The pope was SO unfamiliar with her
name that when he sent his benedictioa
the letter borne by his legate was ad.
dressed to "Our Sister in Jesus Christ
Victoria Bonaparte." a
In 1914, on the departure for Elba
the Debats designated Josephine W.
der the paraphrase 'the mother Il
Prince Eugene"
At Ruell her tomb bears this simph
inscriptions: "a Josephine. Eugene e
Hortense, 1926" The restoration "a
not permit her recognition as empreS
The grandson of Yeyette, Naposa'
III, gave to the church at Ruell nunnef.
GUS marks of his benevolence. In tie
choir may yet be seen carved ma.
hogany chair, the back of which scr.
nalnented with two medallions, ae
superimposed upon the other w.
rounded by Napoleonic eagles. On one
of the medals are shown in relief the
interlaced initials 81. N" Uouis Ma
poleon). On the other one may read
the figures 1880. 0oO" This is the num-
be-, Of votes that the 'Prince-Pfesi
dent" received at the plebiscite Of De.
cember 90, 1851.
The good cure Of Ruell does not fall
in the duty he owes to Marianne
(France) in making use Of this COM
Portable chair, the last souvenir OF tn
tyraEt.-Le Cri de Paris.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-10
A Victory for the Army.

One of the delayed Inauguration sto-
ries now finding it's way into print
deals with a victory of the army over
the navy, or at least victory for the
West Point cadets over those of An
napolis Perhaps the victory did not
cause quite such unbounded enthusi-
asm at West Point nor quite so much
gloom and depression at Annapolis as
that achieved by the embryo soldiers
on the gridiron last fall under the
leadership of a Maine boy, but it was,
nevertheless, an incident which West
Point will long remember and which it
will not allow Annapolis to forget.
It came about this way: The blizzard
had thrown scores of telegraph poles
across the railroad tracks leading into
Washington and the railroad officials
had abandoned all hope of taking into
that city the two trains bearing the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-10

West Point cadets who were sched-
uled to appear in the parade. The
company were trying hard to clear the
line but the workers were few and the
obstacles great. Then 1t was that
at the suggestion of the commandant,
it was decided that the cadets and
their officers should go ahead and clear
the track for themselves. The result
was that at o'clock Thursday morn
ing the cadets special got the right of
way over everything going to Wash
ington from Baltimore, and started on
the tedious journey.
The enthusiasm with which the ca
diets entered into the spirit of the work,
and the surprise of old railroad men
at the scientific way in which the
youngsters tackled the job, are de-
scribed at some length in the press re-
port, and the triumphant arrival in
Washington is duly set forth. But
it is not of their successful battle with
the elements that West Point cadets
are proudest. The fact over which they
are most exu!tant is that the naval
cadets from Annapolis were stalled 20
miles from Washington, and did not
take part III the inaugural parade, as
the West Pointers did.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-10
Settina Fires for Profit.

1t tic year l9O1. ana III each VI HS
twenty predecessors, we paid to men
and women in this country approx
mately fourteen million dollars as a
bonus for destroying their own prof.
crtv and for erdangering-sOmetim
destroying, also-ours. This is the
conservative estimate of the highest
authorities in the insurance world.
Thus in two decades over quarter Oh
a billion dollars has gone Tor crlmiha.
work, i'll one particular field, wen ahC
skillfully done. For above all, we ID
sist upon dizziness in this game-thls
game Of building burning. The bungl-
ar receives no mercy. We refuse 10
pay his tax. In this respect our codc
is severely Spartan. For artlstlc
thievery, boys in ancient Sparta were
rewarded. For crude work. resulting
in discovery, there was the singing
lash. The insurance companies hand
somely compensate our clever incen-
diaries. The careless or the unskilled
must flee the country or stand trial.
For this condition of affairs the in
surancc companies are partly at fault,
In the sharp competition for business.
agents neglect to look up the past rec
ora or present llllduCldl otoIuo u sAiN
applicant For example, in London,
one man. by his own confession, com
mtted arson six times in twelve
month, and in every instance collected
his fire tax. ard from the same COM
pany Surely the frequency of fires in
his case should have called for investi-
cation from the Office paying the in
.iemnity In times Of panic and tinan-
cial stringency insurance agents should
be especially careful. 1t may be sta
ted as an economic law that ''as fail
ures increase SO do fires. and as they
decrease, the lire record follows the
same course"
But the public. ever the non-incen'
diary portion, can not hold Itself
| blameless- Neighbors encourage &
family that has sustained fire loss u
make eXorbitant claims. And Otter
| little or no effort is made. even by pro
| fessedly honest people to save the con
tents of their burning store or home
| The Insurance companies are corpora
tions, and it is generally considered
| legitimate to plumber corporations
Technical World Magazine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-10

The biggest experiment In sewage
farming ever made in America may be
undertaken in Suffolk county, N. Y. A
tract of 100000 acres on the sandy
wastes of Long Island, Which is now
productive of nothing more valuable
than scrub oak and rabbits, is said to
have been purchased or is about to be
bought for this purpose. 1t is asserted
that the purpose is to utilize this terri
tory for a series of farms for the
treatment of sewage from Greater
New York by the irritation process, by
which stretches of sandy soil near cit
les in Europe have been turned into
fertile fields. The plan suggested is
that of piping the sewage OF the me-
tropolitan district and possibly New
Jersey in two main lines, running
probably from Wallabout and Coney
Island districts.
British sanitary authorities IN dis
cussions of the treatment of the sew
age on land estimate the maximum
rate of treatment as 10000 gallons. Or
the sewage of a population of 1000,
and the minimum at 5000 gallons, ac-
cording to the porosity OF the soil. On
the basis 100000 acres would provide
for the needs of a far greater popula-
ton than the metropolitan district can
ever have though the fertilizing prop
critics of the sewage would of course be
spread over much larger area than
that required for the mere process of
publication. Such a project would be
likely to meet strong opposition in
Brooklyn, which has been planning to
extend its water supply throughout the
district which apparently has been
selected for so different purpose.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-10
Lord Mayors Turtle Soup.

No lora mayors banquet would o.
complete without turtle soup, but apsl'
from that the 9th of November oa pau.
quot at the Guildhall is not of the ral'
gastronomic character popularity imas.
ined. This is explained by the ~,
that for company of several huna'es
guests it is impossible to PROVIDE
rapid succession of hot dishes III :.
building not adapted for cooking. =. e,
the lord mayors table. where the CIV.
guests sit, all the varied dishes :. I.
served piping hot, but the other su.. y
are not usually SO well proVisio.s.
with warm fare, though there is a'Ns.s
an abundance of cold viands. the p .s.
tiful hot turtle soup which all pal'a =.
of it made in the vaults beneath -
Guildhall, and staple hot dishes ~
orally served all around are IN. 4.
turkey and game. A feature o.
banquet is cold baron of beef cafseu 4
the .hanqueting hall.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-10

The agitation for a change in the
date of Inauguration has led to some
>carefu. reading of the constitution by
those interested in the change, and one
hopeful editor figures it out that there
is no need of amending the constitution
since there is nothing in that docu-
ment which fixes March as the date
upon which the presidential term shall
begin While this is true, it is also
true that the constitution fixes four
years as the length of the presidential
term. and of course it is impossible to
change the date without lengthenins
or shortening the term. This is why
the slow and pcnderous machinery of
constitutional amendment must be set
in motion to change the inauguration
date to April 80, change which every
body seems to agree is desirable.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-10

AS nothing has been heagd for over
year from DIR. Cook who started on an
expedition in search of the North pole
about two years ago, it is naturally
feared that misfortune has overtaken
him and his friends are urging relief
expedition. Their efforts arc handi-
capped by the fact that DR.. Cook, in
his haste to get into the frozen North
ahead of the Peary expedition, made
very INADEQUATE preparations for his
trip and in this way invited disaster
and even death. If he has failed or has
fallen victim to the rigors of the po-
lar region. of course his fate is to be
deplored, but the contrast with Pearys
prudence and thoroughness of prepare
ton cannot fail to dull somewhat the
public sympathy.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-10

The Ohio counties which border upon
the Ohio river are all dry. while a
similar state of affairs exists in the
West Virginia counties on the other
side of the river. But it appears that
the Ohio river which flows between the
states is wet territory In more senses
than. one. A United States judge has
Just ruled that it is not illegal to sci!
linuor on q boat in the Ohio river, pro-
vidinG the boat is at least so feet from
the low water line. Naturally, this de-
cision causes JOY in certain quarters in
Ohio-an West Virginia and consterna-
ton in certain other quarters. and the
overcoming Of this new obstacle in the
prohibition crusade will be watched
with general interest
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-10
LONGEVITY Among Jews.

Superficial scrutiny of the VITA ,o ss
tics yields the Jew prominena. seryss
in the sanitary world. II Longevity. ,sh III
as an index Of hygienic living; cW,,,r,sjsa
average length of life for all Tii jl
people placed at Sc years, II mo ION ,,ss NJ
the Jew may hope to reach 70
months. ~. cct
Neufville dSS5). inquiring into tn ma 4
parative duration of life ana e. caI Frapt.
death of Jews and Christians u. "a IN
fort, learned that one-fourth OF ~ y cot
ish population was living hey ono ss;shben
while only one-fourth Of their. "a "I s,ssrs J
was living beyond the age OF p NJ 4
months. Abbott claims that ths X x 10
Jews) are much less frequently ssHidepk
jects of tuberculosis and acute vSil&:
diseases than any other race OF sup'
Why should this seeming 1isS
riority exist? According to hiS ;,S.lh u
the causes are simply summed SUNNI 1ew
term 'soberness Of life The !1~ iii
less than his even Christian, asi!le5
as a rule, better food; he marI ~ Ut -
he rears the children he has Diunof 90
the world with greater pelsSSrtfsti1 &:
he tends the aged more thoussatsS6 t..
takes better care of himseA; ,sseh ~
might have been added that tm ns,@
ligious customs hygenic tenos "a ~
came an observation-disclosures
gienic Gazette. "a
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-10

Railroad batting in which several
states have been INDUCING for several
years. gets a setback in the decision
of the federal court which declares
that the Missouri legislation compeil-
ing a two-cent mileage rate in that
state is not constitutional. The court
took the very sensible ground that
legislature has no right to
regulate the income of a rail-
road below the point where it pays the
running expenses of the road.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-10

That is very sane and sensible Kind
of philanthropy in which Mrs. William
X. Vanderbilt is INDUCING when she
provides 81, 600, 900 for practical work in
carrying on the work against tubercu-
losis The same kind of philanthropy
is shown by Mrs. Russell Sage in pro-
viding large tract Of land IN BROOK
lyn for the erection of model tenement
houses. Humane philanthropy of this
kind cannot fail to win general praise
&.
and appreciation.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-10

Some time age Aurora. Missouri,
claiming TO be the geographical center
Of tie country, presented an argu-
ment that il should be made the ma
tional capital Somehow its appeal
met with small response. but now Au-
rora comes into prominence again by
explaining to the world that if its
earlier agitation had been successful
the inauguration of Taft would have
been held under sunny skies and III
a balmy atmosphere. Under the cir
cumstances, Aurora naturally has lit
tic sympathy with the chilled and be-
draggled participants in the Washing
ton exercises.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-10
AN ARTIST IN TIME.
An Old German Clockmaker Whose
Heart Is in His Calling.

Only few minutes walk from the
heart of the Tenderloin lives and works
the German clockmaker. He is an artist
in his attitude toward his trade and he
looks like poet fed upon centuries of
German rOmanticiSm
Like his old friend. the retired German
cabinetmaker, he has an expensive habit
Of refusing to do bad work. After ALL
perhaps it is a mistake to call him a
clockmaker. He is rather an artist in
time. 1t is not a particular mechanism
ciples of time measurement. In his
humble and reverent way he is a disciple
of those celestial time measures, the sun,
| neon and punctual stars
They have their trfiing alterations,
like the delicate watches which he joys
to regulate To the fraction of a second.
He knows no other rivals and is free
| from professional jealousy. for what ter
reStrial mind could be jealous of the stars
| in their courses?
| Even a poet and artist in time must
| have meat and an occasional glass OF
| beer. SO this one condescends to make
and mend for common mOrtals. Strang-
| ers seldom understand him.
| If you come in with cheap watch in
hopelessly bad order he is like as not to
hand it back with the comment that he
original cost.
r. you tell him. though, that it happens
| to be one of those cheap watches that are
close timekeepers he is at once interested
|
pen to be really poor but he will take
that six-dollar watch and overhaul it with
| the consciousness that he gives to a $3.50
| repeater, for who knows but this cheap
and accurate timekeeper may throw some
hight upon that ever-perplexing problem
of time measurement?
If the watch Is really what you think it
he will hand it back to you at the end of
| SO many days regulated down to its final
fraction of a second, and as he gives it
| the final tender caress you'll see far
away look in his mind and still young
brown eyes that reveals the ideal Of the
inner man.
Those coarse-thumbed folk who are al
| ways measuring things by material stand
ards never know what to make of this
OF the most elusive and ethereal Of hu-
man ideas. Two youngish men from out
i of town came in one day apparently bent
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-10

At the same meeting of the Wesleyan
trustees where student petition for
the adjustment of co-education was
favorably acted upon. there was re-
ceived a petition from the boys that
they be allowed the use of the
gymnasium for dances. Presumably
these proposed dances will not be stag
affairs and SO the Wesleyan boys make
It evident that, like boys in general.
their objections to girls are conhneo
to the appearance Of the latter IN the
class room and on the lists OF prize
winners. Some Of the Wesleyan trus-
tees held that 1t Is better for boys ana
girls to study together and waltz
separately than to waltz together and
study separately, but they were voted
down as old-fashioned. -s-s-L...--s.-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-10
VOICES OF THE PRESS.
Hardworkins and Useful.
(Springfield Republican,

The closing weeks of the session gave
Senator Hale so much work to do that
he was in great need of rest when he
left Washington to remain until the
converting of the extra session on the
18th. He will rest in Maine. preferring
her frost and ice to the more balmy
climate of the South. During the in
teryal the senator will decide upon the
committee which is to take in hand
the reorganization Of the Senate COM
mittees. Mr.. Hale is a ehardworking
senator-and mighty useful one.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-10

Various Westinghouse are protest
ing against the nude figures which it is
proposed to place around the base of
the Barry statue in that city. The dis
gusted Washington Post suggests that
directoire gowns and Merry Widow
hats upon the figures in question would
no doubt appeal more directly to the
ideas of art entertained by these critics
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-10
Josephine's Many Names.

Josephine, empress of the French,
was Yeyette to her intimate friends;
but her name in reality was Marie
Josephe Rose. Napoleon after the mar
riage exacted that she should be known
as Josephine. He had mania for re-
baptising the women Of his encourage.
He made his sister Marianne an Elise.
Of Annonciade a Caroline, Of Paulette
a Pauline.
Among her numerous friends Jose-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-10
Wednesday, March 10, 1909.

Occasionally the Oklahoma lawmak-
ers show signs of sanity, though events
in that state since it was admitted
have given most people the impression
that such. occasions are the exception
rather than the rule. The attempt to
pass a resolution condemning Roose-
Welt and his administration was voted
down two to one the other day.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-10

The new President of Cuba has cele-
brated his accession to Office by a
general Jail delivery in Havana, by
which many prisoners, not only of
political but of other and more danger
Gus classes, have been set free.
Naturally there is much uneasiness in
Havana over this action by President
Gomez.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-10
Maine Gossip
Love and Death.

Alas. that men must see
Love. before Death!
Else they content might be
With their short breath! :
Aye. glad when the pale sun
Showed restless Day was done,
And endless Rest begun!
Glad. when with strong. cool hand
Death claSped their own,
And with a strange command
flushed every moan;
Glad to have finished pain
And labor wrought in vain.
Blurred by Sins deepening stain.
But Loves insistent voice
Bids Self to flee;-
olive that 1 may rejoice:
Live on for mel"
So, for Loves cruel mind.
Men fear this Rest to find.
Nor know great Death is kind.
Margaret Deland.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-10

Miss Italia Garibaldi. grantoSSess
of General C;aribaldi. has Juss M
pointed to take charge OF them r;s r.
Girls Home School In Rome az
stands in the street named oS.I q
Garibaldi and almost IN the s'''
statue.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-10
DaiIy kenneber Journal
ESTABLISHED 1926

No notice Whatever will b taken OF
unsigned communications.
The journal cannot be held responsi.
BILE for the preservation or return OF
rejected communications.
Address oil communications relating
to subscriptions and advertisements
to BURLEIGH & FLYNT, Publish
ers. Augusta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-10

Mr.. and Mrs Samuel ". Durham Of
West Paris, who celebrated the S0th
anniversary of their marriage last
week, have six children living. Is
grandchildren and seven great grand
children