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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-06

American millionaires are buying up
so many of the choicest art treasures
of Great Britain that there is talk in
London of initiating the policy of the
Italian government which has enacted
n law forbidding the sale Of art
treasures to foreign buyers who intend
to remove them from the country.
the Old World can protect itself from
the temptation of the American dollar.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-06

1t WAS a southern editor, of course,
who suggested that 1t would be much
easier to raise $40 100,0 900 to establish
communications with Venus than to
secure the 3d. 900 required for COM
Inunicating With Mars.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-06
THE NEW HIRED MAN.
Long Island Farm Which Employs
Electricity to Accomplish tho Hard
Work.

Contrary to most opinions the meth
DDS of farming in this country have
been improved and revolutionized un-
til agriculture is little short of an exact
science. Each year sees new and sue
cessful machines invented to take the
place of the old hand drudgery on the
farm. each year farming becomes more
human, with less backache and hard
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-06

EsrAsLlsHEp 1875

No notice whatever will 30 taken Of
unsigned communication.
The Journal cannot b held response.
BILE for the preservation or return Of
rejected communication.
Address all communication relating
to subscriptions and advertisements
to BURLE1GH & FLYNT. Publish
ers, Augusta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-06

The Knoxville. Tenn. Sentinel points
out that one of the interesting de-
velopments of the new prohibition law
in Tennessee is the successful cam
apaign which has resulted in raising a
S200.0 fund in Nashville for the erec-
ton of a new Y. NJ G. a. building.
More than 1000 people contributed to
the fund for this splendid enterprise.
AS the state prohibition law goes into
effect July l next. this new substitute
for the saloon as social centre and
"A club house" is proof that the people
backing the prohibition movement are
truly awake to the need of constructive
effort to provide better facilities for
the social welfare of the young men,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-06

own ga separate estates of 5,7@',0O0
own 634 separate estates of 5,od2.llS
acres, and that 30 viscounts and bar
ons ON $50 separate estates, of 3.!SO,-
900 acres which makes 525 titled hold
nrs of L., 2O1.15S acres. The duke Of
Sutherland is credited with the propri
etorship of $50 900 acres
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-06
Thursday, May 6, 1909.

A bright editor in Kansas suggests
as slogan for the capital of that
state. the words Topeka, Kan
Topeka Will"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-06

back only to 1900 The nearest APP
proach to the 1909 figures are those for
the first four months of 1902 when the
contracts awarded amounted to 40,6So,-
O01 The following table shows the
comparison for the first four months of
the years since the present century
opened:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-06

New houses continue to go up in
MillinocIiet and they are of the same
substantial kind which from the first
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-06

Writes a Bucksport- correspondent:
James Hardy. who comprises one of
the small colony who make their home
on Eagle Island in Penobscot bay. on
Friday morning left the island in his
12-foot roWbOat at $50 o'clock for
Bucksport, arriving there at o'clock in
the afternoon. having rowed his boat all
the way. After spending the night
with friends he left on the morning
train for Bangor, returning on the noon
train. After dinner he entered his boat
and started on his 40-mile row to Ea-
gle Island"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-06

The receipts of the Portland post of
flee for April, 1909, We're $28,010,61, ar
increase over April. 1908, of s3,709.99.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-06

The ice is still firm in the lakes III
white with snow for weeks to come.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-06

They are having fun at the expense
of the magazine artist who represents
fisherman in canoe on small
body of water, catching fish which look
like cod and with the lightest kind of
tackle at that.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-06

Saco votes against manual training
in the schools. 1t will come later in
that city as in all others.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-06

The wreck of the William c. Car
negie will recall to the minds of many
the Old Home week celebration in Bath
in 1900 when the launching Of the
schooner was advertised as the star
attraction and drew hundreds of peo-
pie into the city. IT. will also be re-
membered that it was an exceedingly
hot day and the handsome craft did
something which Bath vessels seldom
do. stuck on the ways.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-06

Nothing better illustrates the growth
of the electric railroads of Maine than
the proposition which the big syndicate
which owns nearly all these lines, has
just made to lease the Bucksport
branch of the Maine Central. Few
persons realize the great part which
the electric roads are doing for the de-
velopmnt of the State.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-06

The State has never seen an auto
parade equal to that of the so machines
which gave the Boston merchants a
seeing Portland ride.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-06

Trees.
In spring. when the green gifts back in the
trees,
And the sun comes out and stays.
And yer boots pulls on with good. tight
squeeze,
And you think of your barefoot days;
When you ort to work and you want to
not.
And YOU and your wife agrees
It's time to spade up the garden lot.
When the green gifts back in the trees
Well. work is the least o my idees
When the green, you know, gifts back
in the trees!
When the green gifts back in the trees
and bees
Is a-buzzin' aroun' again
In that kind of a lazy go-as-you-please
Old gait they bum roun' in
When the groun'S all bald Wnere the nay :
rick stood
And the crick's riz. and the breeze
Coaxes the bloom in the old dogwood.
And the green gifts back in the trees
| like, as l say, in SIGH scenes as these
The time when the green gifts back in the
trees!
When the whole tail-fethers o winter
Is all pulled out and gone!
And the sap it thaws and begins to climb.
And the SWEET it starts out on
A feller's forred. a-gittin' down
At the old spring on his knees
/ kindo like Jest a-loafin round
When the green gifts back in the trees
Jest a-potterin' round as l-durn-
When the green, you know, gifts back in
the trees.
James Whitcomb Riley
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-06

Those Boston visitors might we'll be
pardoned for beginning to feel that
they own Maine
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-06
Maine Gossip
opened:

When the Green GIFTS Back in the
Trees,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-07
NesD Record in Masonic Minutes
 By Grand Secretary Beduchonap

ceiyed from the printer. Copfea ara ,,s,,v ready for distribution. "
 It is said furthermore that thia yer. ora has never been eQunlled hv ma Secretary of any State orRanfea4,nr ] Within thirty days this vast Amount ne matter was compiled, turned over fs, tba printer. set up in type, and proofx rcrA and the book run ofT the press. Mr. Beauchamp, since he has haen Grand Secretary, has been noted for thn | rapldtty with which he prephred ana has published the proceedinas of thM 1 Grand Lodge. but he has never come near the present record. nor has the volume been as large as the one snsx 1 issued.
 The proceedings show a rernarkaDie growth of the order. It ls now seen that there are aI.2a2 Masons within the State of Alabama. It Is a notable eace that in Alabama there are LOST niais. ters of the gospel who are members Of the order.
 In the Grand Lodge which met early in December there were represented 391 subordinate lodges. which had about H. 200 delegates in the Grand Lodge
 During the year which has just cloeed about 1000 new members had degrees conferred upon them by the various subordinate lodges In addition, the roll of members was further increased by the addition of 1900 members by af- Hliation or reinstatement.
 The volume is handsomely illustrated with a fine cut of the Grand Master. Hon. H. S. D. Mallory. with a eiketch of his life. The next meeting of the Grand Lodge of Masons will be held in Montgomery December 2, 1909.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-07

itrses. sioo; second best SIS; shira beet.
 For the srSa.sst iseoms frsm all pro ducts. growu on ten acres fn any ons year. sIec: sscend best. s7E thirn
 The total snsaat of pri1es ys si.sIss nules q Centests. ts
 The rules governing the hwards Of prizes ofsered by the Department of Asricuiture and Industfies. arc as fsl- lows; h
 rrst--Tls character Of the soil must be described. the kind and variety af corn, oats. potstoes, etc. planted. must be named; also state the time when planted. tho mode of cultivation. and the Kind and amount of fertilixers used.
 gscond--AIi who Intend to contest for any one or all of these prizes. must send in their names ana poston1ce Ad- dresses to the Commissioner of Agrt- culture and Industries by May 1. stat ins the prize or prizes. for which they
 Third---Aii contestants for the prizes offered by the Department of Asricuit. urA and industries must set forth all the information in writing and fofwafd the same to the Comfnissioner of Aee riculture and Industries by the follow ing dates:
 fnforrnstion ss to oats, by, August |. 1903.
 Information ss to Corn. Potatoss Hay. etc, by October i. 1908.
 Fourth--The contestor must forward to the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries specimens of these several erops etc, as may De required. Fifth--The Commissioner of Akricuit- ure and industries may make exhibits of these several products at our StAte Fairs, and hold Institutes in the coun- tfes, where these products are made. and win publish al information as to how these crops were worked and grown and the yield of same. in thr bulletin of this department.
 Sixth--These awards will be made by such a committee, as may be ap- pointed by the Commissioner Of Agrt culture and .Industries. and the quality and market value of all produce wils De considered by the committee making the awards.
 Further rules governing these cop tests will be published in our fcrthcom. ing buiistin.
 These rules may be filtered or amend cd when published in bulletin form.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-07

future lumber producer. they will take care to see that In the future their tim Der rights are protected.
 "wtthin a decade. practically every vestige of the remaining virgin forests of Alabama win have been cut away. hence the problem which will confront the people of the State is the care of their second growth timber which in time, if properly treated. will develop into commercial trees. The whole na- ton has awakened to the imperative importance of the conservation Of the country's natural resources. whether they be In mines, waterways. game, nsii or forests: for the erstwhile abundance of these heritages with which nature has so lavishly endowed the American people has caused us to neglect their proper care, forgetting that even na- ture's storehouse some day may become exhausted"
 Dallas is the only other County of the State to avail, itself of this section of the forestry act of the recent Leg isiature.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-07
LETTER OF GUNNELs
URGES ATTENDANCE ON EDUCA.
 TIoNAL CONVENTION.
Cairnaan of City and Town Boards of Educattcn Advised to Arrange Expenses of Representa-
 tives to Chicago.

Hon, H C.. .ounnels Is sending out letters to. the various ehairmen Of the boards of education of the cities and
 towns of the state telling them of the plans of the National Educational As- sociatIon which is to meet in Chicago on February 23-25 and which is Of the highsst ifnportance to the various city school superintendents.
 \ Tn his letter the value of the disv cussions which will be induiked in at the session of the Association are touched upon. the statement being made tKat the discussions are designed especially for city and town supertn- tendents.
 , Attention is also called to the fact that formerly city superintendents have been sent to the meetings of the association at the expense of the Board of Education of the city or town, and it is urged that the custom be not departed from.
 Mir, Gunnels announced yesterday that he had already received several assurances from Boards Of Education that a feprasentktive would be pre- ennke and its is expected that before lfffg time of Fthe mcetipg arrives tnere will bs sonne thirty or forty supeFin- teridents Of city schools who win be In attendance. Subjects to be touched upon at the convention inciudes The Elimination of Waist in School Work. the schoolE in Relation to Character Build in9.1 The Problem of the Delinduent Pupil, Industrial Education. In addi. tior to these topics there will pc eound table of state and county sup erfnfendesat to discuss important duestions relating tn other important phases of school work.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-07
WHY BE BALD
whes Psrisias sage is Guarantees t Step FaIIiag Hair. er Meney naekt

whes Psrisias sage is Guara.tees ts
 step FsiIiag Hsar. or Messy bseks A iuxuriant head of hsir is 0od's birthright to every rnan--to every wo- n, .u fsA1 @. ass ssaa -.ti s. ]. ii your hate is fa,.ipg out. if 1t is turning gray if 1t is full of dandrun' i. 1t is harsh and uneonfrclabie, then 1t is diseased. and prompt action shouid be taken.
 Parisian Sa1e Is a real hnir restorer; it will darken faded hsir; 1t will stop dsr druff in one week by promptly k,l,ing the germs that infest the roots of the hair.
 Parisian Sage Is the most delightful hair dressing in the world; 1t is pleas ing.- invigorsting and refreshing. IL makes the hair soft. beautiful and lux urious. Wherever Parisian Sage is known. it is the ladies favorite hair dressing.
 If. aftet using one bottle. you do not say 1t Is the most delightful hair dressing you ever used, you can have your money back. The price Is only 50 cents bottle at E. c. Fowier's, or by express. charges prepaid. from Gi- roux Mfg. Co, Buffalo. N. Y,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-07
ELI PARKER ! WAS IA FREE MAN Only for Minutes Space, However. |dEvER STROKE OF THE STATE
 Judge Sayre Gave Jurisdiction to Justice Taylor. {
 rAis w.s Assi.st rreseeusio. whe
 ssa crayed Justice Young and <; sa;; Finally Got Hin By t
 NJ LesaI Coup. | A
,dEvER STROKE OF THE STATE

For the space of about one minute, Eli Parker. whose shot brought about the death of T. ]. Swearingen on Jan. 2s. was . free man after weeks i'm. prfsonment, when Justice W. A. Fay. Tor On Wednesday dismissed the case, upon the motion Of Solicitor stern. As soon as the decision upon the mos ton was announced, however Deputy Sheriff Hall served upon Parker . warrant which had been sworn out be. fore Justice E. C., Young. and Parker was again placed in custody. His pre-. liminary hearing before Justice Young will come this morning at 10 o'clock at the Court House. The diss greement between the at- tofneys for the State and defense as to which magistrate should sit on the case, inasmuch as warrants had been sworn out in two lnstanc was set- tied during the morning. when Judge sayre decided that Justice W. A. Taylor had acquired jurisdiction by issuing the hrst warrant The writer of prohibition was denied. however.
 The attorneys for the State had con- tended that Justice Young should sit. while the defense held out for Taylor. But the decision of Judge Sayre favor ing the contention of the defense was onset when the preliminary hearing was called during Wednesday after noon. The State, by authority of So- licitor Stern, introduced a motion to dismiss the case before Justice Tay- Tor.
 immediately upon the introduction of the motion a heated debate follow ed, which lasted, with arguments from both sides, until late in the afternoon. The defense. seeing their advantage about to slip away. argued valiantly with Justice Taylor that the motion be denied. The defense declared that the motion of the prosecution bore the insinuation that Taylor was either biased or incompetent, that the prose- cution felt itself unsafe in his hands"
 The defending ettorneys produced the argument that Justice Taylor should deny the motion On the grounds that his duty lay in hearing the case, and that by dismissing the case he would shirk his duty.
 On the part of the attorneys for the prosecution. 1t was stated that they held no such intention as to insinuatc incompetency or bias. but merely stood upon the rights of the State Solicitor in asking for a dismissal. Arguments grew heated. accusations. denials and plain talking was flung back and forth.
 It was stated by the defense that the wArrant before Justice Young had been sworn at the instigation of the prosecutiof1. ar that such was the cur rent Information. Another denial, and more oratory and citations and dis. putes. But Justice Taylor decided, af~ ter the plethora of speech. that the motion for dismissal should be grant. ed, and grant 1t he did. By the de. cision. Parker was freed, to be arrest, ed within a minute on the warrant is. sued by B. c. Young. before whom he will be tried today.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-07
PRIZES FOR
 BEST GROWTH Department of Agricul- ture Offers. MUST NOTIFY COMMISSIONER Total of st,675 in Premiums Of-
 fered by State. a.l.s esv.rssas cs.ssssasss Are Owes ous--Isem. Arc s-st Acres 's
 Corn. Hsy, rstssess and

..... generalization with Govsrner <-...ss .nd yrith his approval, Conmis- sinner of Akriculture, J. A. Wlkinson' vesssrday announced pfises to be gwen n,s nis department for corn, potatoes f-uck ana such produce. that the farm. CTS of Alabama may be encourassa .o produce such croy,s as will enaote sssi' to live ct home, ~ratfon for some tifne." said Conmis- sioner wilkinson. yesterday afternoon, sand with the approval of Governor Conner to the announcement of sucn prizes as are appended In the nst. ! think the farmers Of Aiabsms WI os
 Tt win be the plan of the depart Jpaent to have the winner of the prize tell the people of his county.the metnoo which he pprsned. If he has been very successful, think he will De sfven the opportunity to give the people or otner counties che penefat of his rxperlence.
 If the farmers of the State can grow crops that will enable them to live at home by reaeon of the experience gain- ed in the winning of these prtzes. think the plan will have accomplished the highest ideal. If they grow more corn, there will of necessity follow bet ter stock and more stock raisink."
 Summary of Prisee.
 The list of prizes follow,
 Best acre of corn. s20o: second best. Si25: third best. 500.
 For farmer boy under 21 wears of age. doing his own work-Rest acre of corn. $125: second best. Sioo: third best. $s0
 Best acre of oats. s100; second best. $50; third best. s2s.
 For best yield of one acre of yam or sweet potatoes-s75; second best, $50 third best, s2S.
 For best yield of one acre of hay of any of the standard and mercantable varieties. $to0: second best. SIS; third best. $25.
 Greatest income from one acre of
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-07
FIRED UNDER DURESS WAS
 WAY TAYLOR LEE PUT IT
His CUpfessisn Inyolves Another tu
 Broadnax KiIlfpg.

Working upon the confession of ray- Tor Lee. the young negro who gives a version of the death of William Broad max, Dock Larkin, q negro, was arrest 'sd Tuesday night by Deputies Horace Hood and Claude Mckee. several miles from Montgomery, and brought to the county jail Wednesday morning charged with being accessory.
 Taylor Lee tells of the part that Lar kin played In the murder of the negro Broadnax: 'Ike McCou calls the old map to the door. It was late at night and Broadnax comes with 1 light In his hand. When he opens the door we see him good. Ike tells me to shoot; raise the gun, and then drop 1t. Ike says that if 1 don't shoot he will Kill me. And all the time Dock stands there begging Ike to let me alone. But Ike keeps on. and 1 shoot.
 T drops the gun and runs. with Dock, Ike gets In his buggy and comes to town so folks can say that he was In town when Bill Broadnax was shot. That's how 1t was, boss. was scared of ike, and I don't gel nothing out Of t."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-07
PAYS GAME WARDEN
ET0wAH COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
 VOTE COMPENsATION.
This and Dallas Are Only Counties tO Avail Themselves of Privilege te Pay far Forestry
 Preservation.

Information has been received from D. A. Hughes, Game Warden for Eto- wah County, that the Court of County Commissioners of that County have avaiied themselves Of the enabling clause of Section @ of the forestry act, by kpptoprlattng t2s0 annually as com pensation for the game warden for his service in enforcing the forestry laws enacted by the last Legislature.
 MT. Wallace, who Is also Secretary of the State Commission of Forestry, is of the opinion that unfess there Is a specially constituted service to vigil iantly prosecute those who violate the forestry laws, as is the case of the in- fractions of the game and fish laws, those who wantonly and maliciously set Are to the woods of Alabama will continue to go unpunished. Millions of dollars worth of property went up in smoke iu Alabama last autumn and eArly winter, during the extremely dry perioa which then prevailed threash-
 Mr Wallace holds that since the for est interests of the State are so close with the tax payers the courts of county commissioners should take ev- cry occasion possible to see to 1t that the timber interests of Alabama are protected On yesterday Mfr. WallAce commented on the forestry situation as follows:
 Tt has been the custom for years past for a certain elass of hunters to set fire to grass. Btubble ana forests wherever they thought game might turk, others have wantoniy fired woods with no purpose in view save to see a confiagration. When the people of this State appreciate the fact that, when- ever the field or forest Is burned the fertilizer which nature has gathered from the air to enrich the soil. goes up in gas and smoke. and that every tree of the age of four years is destroyed. and that all young growing timber Is so scared as to impair its value as
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-07

ael. the deaf mute evangelist. will preach in language signs.
 Rev. Mir. Michael Is evangelist to the deaf for the Home Mission Hoard of the; Southern Baptist Convention, ane is known throughout the South because pf.his unique work. . work of . naturs tn which he has no equal in this sec tion of che world. His headquarters are In Atlanta
 He will preach in the languASe of the mntes, the sign language that the afiicted know as we'll as does the nor- mai person his speech. The public is cordially invited to attend the ser vices tonight, Thursday, at the First Baptist Church.