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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-19
Wireless.

The seas are deep and the seas are wide,
and or ever the days of creatures were,
by sun and moon was pulled the tide and
all the Earth was ocean-stir
Then came land and then came beast and
then came Man, and five feet high
Blinked his eyes on the churning yeast of
sea that melted in the sky
Laughing the five-foot creature stood
against the leagues on leagues of the
deep,
Laughing, he knotted raft of wood and
padded his craft through hollow and
Steep 80"
But the seas are deep and the seas are
wide, and they swallowed him down.
and host thereafter,
TIL nations came like vast ebb tide and
went down cured of insolent laughter.
Nation by nation the daring came, with
ribs of oak and with ribs Of steel.
With wing of sail or heart of flame. but
the great sea sucked them keel by keel
Till some escaped and some flew free and
deep;
Yet still the salt and dreadful sea was
like mastodon asleep.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-19

or very short, or a cripple After sew
eral days it was arranged for me to
go to certain house. | went, and for
Sc veral hours sat at window, when,
finally. l saw three young ladies pass
by. Then l was satisfied. l saw my
prospective wife but not clearly. l
could not tell whether she was blind Or
dark or light / didn't know her. I'm
not unhappy in my marriage. although
I never saw my wife before that day
in the window
How much the admission of matricu-
lated women students in the Prussian
universities means for the higher edu-
cation of women appears from the
most recent statistics The number
matriculated is already 663, besides
900 who attend courses without matrlc-
ulating. In these two classes of stu
dents are 100 foreigners, the Americans
leading with 43, and the Russians fol-
lowing with 35. England sends but
seven and France quite naturally
none at all. In the universities of all
Germany there are 1917 women, 499 of
them entering the philosophical fac
ulty. Germany seems likely still to
suffer from an educational prOleta
ridt'' Cor the number of students in the
universities has increased by 200 since
last year. Much the largest is the Uni
vcrsity of Berlin. with S641 students,
but Munich has 6303, Leipsic 441S and
Bonn 1898 From such massive figures
the returns dwindle to 1876 for Griefs-
wald and 6S5 for Rostock.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-19

The Cedar Rapids Gazette asks the
following timely and pertinent ques-
tons:
What a pitiful, mean thing the fell
low is who comes into newspaper Of
flee and asks that his name and his
acts he suppressed 'for the sake OF the
family" Why in thunder didn't he
think Of father and mother and sister
before he started out to make a con
3ummate ass of himself? Why didn't
he think about breaking his mother 5
heart before he filled his carcass with
rot-gut whiskcy and cheap beer? II
most of the fools had very much re-
gard for mother. and the family name
we'll they wouldn't have been the
kind Of fools that YOU qualify by the
use of 4 profane eNpletive. To ask to
have fool act suppressed for moth
er's sake. would seemingly. make 4
fellow feel 50 small that he could lose
himself in Il pinhole.'
The best and surest way for young
man to keep his name out of the po-
lice court records is to lead the decent
kind of life that will keep him out of
the court.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-19

Again New York is agitated over the
probability that woman will be cleo
trocutcd in that state. The condemned
woman is Mrs. Mary Farmer. and
while there is nothing to be said in
mitigation of the brutal murder she
committed. the fact of her sex is being
used as an urgent appeal to Governor
Hughes to commute her sentence to
life imprisonment. Once since electric
ity has been adopted as a means OF
CARRYING out the death sentence. a
woman has been electrocuted in New
York in spite of general and insistent
appeals for executive clemency. There
was a similar instance in Vermont
where a woman was hanged not long
ago. although the state was turned up
side down in an attempt to induce the
governor to prevent her execution.
Great pressure is being brought to bear
nm Governor Hughes in this instance
aud the case will be followed with
much interest throughout the country.
The execution is scheduled for March
unless he interferes. There is no doubt
of the woman's guilt and apparently
no dispute as to her sanity: 4A
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-19
MAINE EDITORIAL COMMENT.
The Two Pixies.
belfast JOurnal.)


Have we forgotten the keen and in
cSive journalist, and uncOmpromiSing
patriot, Frederick A. Pike of Calais,
who sat in that Congress of 1661?-Gov.
Fernaid's Lincoln Day address.
The Governor has COMPOUNDED the
two Pixies, and the error Is one that
should be corrected. Frederick A
Pike was never Il journalist. He was {,
lawyer and a politician and served
four terms in Congress, 1861 to 81. His
BROTHER, James Shepherd Pike, was the
journalist. He was engaged first in
business, but began writing for the
Boundary Gazette, q Wing paper. the
first rumbor. of which was issued in
Calais. April II, 1885. Later his letters
to the Boston Courier attracted the
attention of Horace Greeley and led
to his connection with the New York
Tribune and be became one of its
stockholders. He was considered the
ablest political writer of his day and
his letters from Washington to the
Tribune attracted wide attention. He
was appointed by President Lincoln
minister to the Hague. His last work
for the Tribune was a series of letters
from South Carolina during recon
stluction in that State. which later
We're published in book form under the
title Of The PROSTATE State"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-19
Little Of Everything.
A Candid Reminder.

Go along, OF Winter; we done had dat
Christmas glee;
Yves ready fob de robin to come Singin'
in de tree:
Yves grateful fob de holidays dat you's
a-passin' round,
But we'd like to see de will flower come
a-springin' fun de ground.
Ev'y time a sunny day come peekin' fun
de sky
Yves lonesome fob a visit fun de yaller
butterfly.
Who prowls aroun' de blossoms kind o
hopin' he kin see
Some sweetness dat was overlooked by
OF Mis- Honey Bee.
Oar isn't any question dat you does de
beS' YOU know,
Wifi yoh pictures on de window and yoh
trees all draped wifi snow,
To keep us interested while de clouds
hang round about.
But go along, OF Winter; you done wore
yoh welcome out.
-Washinpton Star
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-19

York theatre managers are to give VI
the production of so-called immoral
plays They appear to be Just waking
up to the fact that the great American
public has no use for them. Stage
productions should be pure in tone anG
should aim to be instructive as well as
entertaining. The plays that fulh
these requirements are the ones that
today are meeting with the greatest
measure of success.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-19

cmde to rest from his public labors he
can file a record of labor amply justi-
flying his decision
Mr.. Frye entered the higher pupiic
life almost thirty-eight years ago, nav
| ing made his first appearance as
national law maker March 4, 1871,
when he took his seat in the House Oh
the Forty Second Congress. his Ten
wears service in the House was broken
by his appointment to the Senate
March IS, lSS1,to fill the vacancy oe-
casioned by the resignation OIL MI
Blaine tc become Harrison's Secretary
Eof State. Senator Hale, who had been
! chosen to succeed Hannibal Hamlln,
took his seat III the Senate March D.
1851, thus becoming by fortnight
| "the senior senator from Maine" That
| seniority has been preserved for al
| most twenty years, for in that Tune
| Maine has had no other senator's than
Eugene Hale and William P. Frye. 1t
| is the way of the Pine Tree State to
keen GOOD men of proved value at
| their rosts in Congress so Tong as they
desire TO serve, and when 1t has TWO
GOOD men in the Senate its purpose Is
intensified Senator's Hale and Frye
have been complementary to one an
other. Each eAcells as legislator,
and each possesses special quallflca-
tons which united give to the Maine
DELEGATION in the Senate prominence
and prestige which some OF the great
States are unable to attain. 1t is not
going too far to rate the combination
| OF Hale and Frye as equal 10 a dozen
Platts and DepcWS united.
While MIR. Frye's activities In the
Senate have ranged widely over the
| field of legislation, he has been spe-
cialist OF our foreign relations he IS
| row second in order in the member
| shin of the Senate committee dealing
with that subject, the aged, not to say
antiuuated, Cullom being it's chairman.
Next in order comes Senator Lodge.
| Mr.. Fryes ideas of what our foreign
policy should be have at times come i'll
for criticism. Thomas Il. Reed is quo
ted as having said that if President
Mckinley had appointed Senator Hale
instead of Senator Frye, Il member of
the Peace Commission of 1889 to
settle terms with Spain the history Of
the world might have been different.
Senator Hale, it will be remembered,
|
| opposite to that of his colleague,
though he has since acquiesced in the
recognition of accomplished facts.
| Senator Frye, to his credit be it said,
exert.d himself successfully to curb
the spirit he found abroad In the lard
on his return from Paris to call to ac-
count foreign nations which during our
war with Spain had taken the liberty
of sympathizing with the latter. HI
would have nothing to DO with q
movement intended to uncover the
causes of Germany's ambiguous con-
duct, and the policy of letting bygones
be bygones triumphed. While Hale ard
Frye cannot be ranked with those
great protagonists for freedom, Sum-
ncr and Wilson, yet the association Of
the latter is called to mind by the long
continued contemporaneous service Of
the two Maine senators.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-19

An Indiana minister who has attend
ed many funerals himself, no doubt
has learned lessons from experience
and proposes to take no chances with
the things that may be said when the
time comes for his own funeral to be
held. Accordingly, he has delivered an
appropriate address and prayer into a
talking machine and the records thus
preserved will be used when his fun
erdl is held. There is no reason why
a man should not deliver his own fun
eral eulogy if he wants to, thanks to
modern inventions of the monograph
and graphophone variety, and it IS
possible that the example of this In
diana clergyman may set new fash
ion
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-19

But now comes the triumph Of all the
ages the subject seas belong to Man
They break his ship when the tempest
RACES, they bind his keel with the an.
cient ban:
But out through the big and binding
weather and the thick black fog that
chokes and smothers
Man sends his cry through the infinite
ether and calls to him his coursing
brother.
Lo, at his call the mighty steamers turn
them about with a word of love,
And deeds in the brains of ancient dream.
ers come real in flesh and live and
move;
The brotherhood gathers on gliding foam
and with sandal-seas are their frail feet
shod:
Man is making of Earth a home man is
making of Man a god.
10. we have taken the Earth's rough
tions;
Lo. We tiny sky-lost creatures are shad.
owed by our own ationS:
Earth, that was but rough seas and
sands, becomes being with soul and
heart;
Man is the Power of God with hands to
build of Chaos AN ordered Art!
Earth and the teeming fullness thereof
is Mans; and in five feet of clay
There is light of Dream and fire of Love
enough to burn the skies away;
With every Labor the Soul enlarges its
depths are vaster than the sea;
We have not touched its starry marges
nor guessed how godlike we may be
Vast Eternities are before us with dreams
and laborS no soul may shirk:
Pure with the Glory divine that bore us
we shall loosen God in US. set Him to
work:
Unborn glories and grandeurs wait the
releasing touch of a new creator:
The immense creation of God is great
but the human spirit Shall make it
greater.
James Oppenheim, in Philadelphia Pub
lie Ledger
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-19

1t seems that there is still one throne
in Europe which is not occupied by q
descendant of Queen Victoria. and tho
matter is to be attended to at once
Tine boy King of Portugal is to marry
a British princess. a niece of King Ed
ward. following the example set by
his neishbor. the boy King of Spain
To be sure, young King Emanuel OF
Portugal is in love with girl in his
own country, the daughter of a lady in
waiting at his mothers court. but the
alliance with the British princess has
been arranged for him. and he and his
Portugal sweetheart will have to make
the most of the situation. That is
one of the penalties of being in the
king business.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-19

Even if the new canal across the
original estimate of cost to the extent
that some of it's critics predict will be
cult to convince the American people
after it is completed that it was not
wei worth the expenditure. One
thing is certain no one who has taken
pains to investigate the working con-
ditions on the isthmus has as yet
charged that the money used thus far
has not been wisely and economically
expended
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-19
Helpful Johnny.

Johnny loved his papa, there was no
doubt about that. and one morning, after
he had listened to a long disquisition from
the author of his being. addressed to his
elders. on the general uselessness of the
vermiform appendix, ending up with the
broad statement that he hoped he'd see
the day when every appendix in creation
was cut out. the little boy resolved upon
an agreeable surprise for his daddy. He
worked in secret for several days, and
then sprang it,
See what l have done for you, daddy!'
he said, leading the wondering father into
the library and showing him a neat pile
of many pages which he had accumulated.
I've cut the appendix out of every book
in this library"
1t was then that words failed. and
Johnny's fathers vocabulary made a
general assignment for the benefit of its
creditors.-Judge.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-19
California Patriotism.

The lawmakers of California have
seen the better way and have followed
it. In reversing their earlier action
which was indicative of their hostility
to the Japanese and which it was
feared would bring about trouble be-
tween this country and Japan, they
have done a wise and patriotic thing
and deserve praise from the country at
large. No doubt the California legisia-
ture believed that it had full power to
take the proposed step, but in defer
ence to the earnest appeal of President
Roosevelt it has shown regard for
federal authority such as many states
under similar circumstances would
have failed to manifest
Many papers in the East have been
of California and OF the California
legislature in this matter. If the
President had interfered with the de-
alterations of some legislators as he
has with those of California, there
would have been no end of howl
raised. Even some of the papers in
the South which are especially quick to
resent interference from Washington
in southern affairs and which are con-
stantly declaring that the South ought
to be left alone in working out it's own
race problem, have been ungenerous in
their criticism of California and have
praised President Roosevelt for his
interference.
No doubt, the Calfornians believe
they have a real grievance against the
Japanese. Their side of the story has
been little told in the papers and is
little understood in this section of the
country In yielding to the wishes of
the administration they have followed
course which is self sacrificing and
patriotic to a high degree. No doubt
they had a right to adopt the proposed
school bill or any other japanese
measure which they cared to adopt and
then if the courts had decided that the
law was in conflict with q treaty it
would promptly have been set aside.
OF course the President was right on
the general proposition, whatever one
may think of presidents interference
in the action of an individual legisa-
ture But nevertheless had the spirit
Of the Californians been less patriotic
or its lawmakers composed of less
level headed and conservative men the
proposed bills would have been passed
with rush and a whoop, regardless of
the Presidents wishes and suggestions.
Therefore, instead of Sneers at Cali
fornia, or unkind criticism of its atti-
tude toward those whom it considers
undesirable citizens, let us give it
credit for its self-restraint at this time.
It's legislature has acted as very few
legislatures would have done under
like circumstances, and it's credita5lc
performance deserves praise and
prominence.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-19

represented, maligned drummer. There
is often good evidence that he is not as
black as he is painted. The latest in
stance to gain prominence comes IN
the announcement that western com
mercial traveller has just been left a
legacy of $4,000 by a millionaire
whose Maynard daughter the former
was instrumental in saving from evil
her home
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-19
Extemporaneous.

A young lawyer was invited to deliver
an GRAFTON on the occasion of the dedica-
ton of a new bridge He did not prepare
himself, but had an idea he could speak
at moments notice. He arose on the
platform and commenced as follows:
Five and forty years ago this bridge
built by your enterprise was part and
parcel of the bowling Wilderness" He
zens. only five and forty years ago L
repeat, this bridge was part and parcel
of the bowling Wilderness" Again he
paused. and there We're cries of Go on.
go on" He was plainly ratified; how
ever. he went on.
Il feel it hardly necessary to repeat
that this bridge five and forty years ago
was part and parcel of the bowling will
derness. and j will conclude by saving
that | wish it was a part and parcel of a
bowling wilderness now
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-19
NEW VERSION OF BIBLE.
Being Made Under the Auspices Of
American Jews.

new translation of the Scriptures
is being prepared under the joint aus
pices of the Jewish Publication Society
of America and the Central Conference
Of American Rabbits. In response to
many inquiries they have issued a
statement of the methods they propose
to follow
According to the statement the new
translation aims at conserving the
form which the Ccriptures has as
sumed in the English tongue through
the two great historical versions-the
Authorized of 1911 and the Revised of
1SS4-but in a more particular manner
and above all it purposes to adhere
faithfully to the form in which the
synagogue has handed down the
original text
From the point of view of it's fidelity
to the English versions it does not lay
claim TO being new translation, but
merely revision of it's predecessors
1t is an interesting fact in the history
Of Bible TRANSACTIONS that once a
translation had been put forth there
was little attempt at creating in that
particular tongue an absolutely novel
translation; the old translation was
always subjected to revision.
Thus Aquila and Symmachus and
Theologion revised the older Greek
translation OF the Seventy, the Vulgate
represents recasting of the old Latin
translation antedating Jerome and our
own uthorized version was a revision
of Tyndale's version and of others. All
TRANSACTIONS seem to share in the
sacredness of the original: they be-
come sacred through the religious as
sociations.
In the case of the older English ver-
sion it is well known how it has be-
come an English classic, part ana
parcel of the great English literature
It's phraseology has entered the very
English language and cannot be
severed therefrom with impunity.
Hence 1t is that the new translation
will not attempt to discard familiar
phrases unless in the judgment of the
editors they fail to do justice to the
Hebrew original. Even in such cases
the familiar renderings will be re-
corded in the margin.
Nor will there by any attempt a.
undermining the diction. BiDllcd'
English has ring and force which
up-to-date language cannot equal Iho
quaintness of the English Bible IS
charm that must not be sacrif1ced "
an exaggerated desire for intelligiblhty.
The errors of translation must at an
hazards be corrected; absolutely uhin-
telligible or misleading words must po
discarded, but care must be taken ~
preserve the beauty of the Dlphca'
English, for the English Bible as
classic is dear to all English speakins
men, Jews or Christians foFA
Sun.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-19

"Miss'' Ellington leaves the stage ir
order to satisfy her longing to darr
socks. Her stockings must be In bad
shape of she cant find time to do this
necessary work at prcsert.-Phiiadel-
phia Inquirer.
We do not understand that It was
her own socks that she had IN mind
when she made the statement alluded
to above. 1t was rather the socks OF
a good, patient, obelient, home-lovine
husband, in no way connected with the
theatrical profession.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-19

The Baltimore American SageIy re-
marks that Congress will do we'll tC
leave the question of child culture t.,
the parents, where it belongs. Ger
tainly If those who are the natural
guardians and protectors of children
and who love them best, are not to be
trusted to rear them and care for
them. society is decidedly In bad
Way
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-19

They are building a third railroad
line in Canada to extend from one
ocean to the other. Certainly there Is
room up there for all the transconti-
mental railroads they want to build,
and the government seems to be very
cheerful in shouldering the financial
burden involved
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-19
A Warnino.

To feel tired after exertion is one
thing; to feel tired before is another.
Don't say the latter is laziness-iu
isn't; but it's a sign that the system
lacks vitality. is running down, and
needs the tonic effect of Hoods Sarsa-
parjlla.
It's warning, too-and sufferers
should begin taking Hoods at once
Buy bottle today.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-19
Eisherman's Joke.

A hearty laugh had gone almost around
over the story Of the fisherman, who, to
locate the place on the lake where he
had good luck cut a nick in the side of
his boat. almost around" for the
Englishman sat solemn and silent. About
five minutes later. however he awoke
with a roar of laughter, and when asked
the trouble, replied:
We'll, wouldn't it be a corking good joke
if that fisherman got a different boat the
next time he went out"'-Cleveland
Leader