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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-10

b0x150 FEET on CONNECTICUT AVE. NEAR
Chevy Chase Circle. in the District; city i'm.
provements. Address Box PA. Star ONCE
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-28
We Need Freiuhters.

Col Edward c. Plunmer of Bath,
merchant marine who has studied the
question so long that he is recognized
everywhere as an expert, in his speech
before the State Board of Trade at
Rockland laid emphasis on one feature
of the shipping problem whoch few
have understood heretofore. He advo-
Gated American freight steamships
rather than mail and passenger steam
ships. Few realize how important the
distinction is, how much it means to
us.
'To create and maintain mil
lioi tons of American shipping"
said Col. Plummer, lis to create
and maintain an American indus
try far greater and more imp0r-
tant than most of those which our
Congress has SO recently declared
entitled to national protection. The
modern ship calls upon nearly ev-
cry trade for contribution in it's
construction and operation. 1t
means new and increased employ
ment for an army of men. Such a
fleet as the commerce of this coun-
try calls for alone can enable us to
maintain our present position in
the worlds markets and secure for
our people the outlets which we
must have for our rapidly increas-
ing manufactures if the present
standard of American wages--so
largely dependent on Wholesale
production, is to be maintained
"Freighters, not mail ships,
though mail ships serve purpose,
are what this nation requires What
freighters mean was shown by the
Atlantic Transport line, and by the
rapidity with which those ships
We're gathered into foreign COM
bination. And it is for this reason
that the first blow struck at any
measure designed to restore Ameri
can shipping. is struck at the
freighter. In view of the fulfillment
of certain predictions made when
1 last addressed this board, I will
now state that there is already be-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-28
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

You can't get fat on a chatting dish
diet.
He who drifts with the tide is apt to
go broke on the rocks.
OF course a guilty man never gets
fair tral-frOm his viewpoint.
Love makes a woman believe a lot
of things that she knows are not true.
A man boasts of his past, and a wo-
man is proud if she hasn't any at all.
Don't be afraid to take day off
occasionally. 1t is necessary for good
work.
Many coming man fails to arrive
because he got cold feet shortly after
starting.
And woman might have had her
rights long ago had she understood
tho manly art of grating.
When a man is sick he expects the
rest Of the family to drop everything
and listen to his grOans.
Somehow a girl doesn't imagine she
is happy unless her love for some man
is strong enough to make her miser-
able.-Chicago News.
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Society Women May Be Indicted.

Kansas City Star: Certain New York
society women are shivering in their san
dals over a mysterious tip that they may
be indicted for smuggling when the federal
grand jury meets this fall. The prospect
of being summoned from their homes to
stand a public trial for a real crime, with
the prospect of a heavy fine or imprison-
ment-which would take them at once
out of the social Neutrality-suspicious., that's
the way counsel for one of them puts 1t.
He intimated the women got the tip from
the federal building, but would not di-
vulge what official gave it out.
1t is known that the customs inspectors
have mande many surprising discoveries
in overhauling the luggage of society
women. There have been, it is said,
number of seizures without publicity.
A woman steward, in one of the liners
is reported to have told the inspectors
many of their best clues to rich New
York women smugglers. 1t was in this
way an inspector learned a certain wo-
man had put on three s95 silk vests and
aso three pairs of 500 silk tights, each &c
inches long, before coming ashore.
TT was warm day for her." remarked
one of the inspectors after it was all over.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-28
reli 1hem About It!

Publicity bureaus come ana CO. some
doing the work for which they We're
created, others failing utterly The
town of Concord n. c., has taken up
an interesting phase of the work by
presenting in little leahet contain
ing not over 500 words the advantages
of the town, the industries at present
located there and of the town needs in
the shape of new industries. This little
pamphlet suggests that something OF
the sort could be used advantageously
by presenting to the world the Won
derful opportunities to be had in the
Kennebec Valley.
Concord n. c., needs broom fac
tory, soap factory, other furniture
factories, hat factory, shoe factory,
buggy factory, cigar factory, harness
factory, canning factory, match fac
tory, box factory lace and string fac
tory, mattress and spring bed factory
chair factory, cheese factory, cream
cry, other brick plants, more cotton
mills, wooden mills, truckers, fruit
growers and small industries"
This list is very good one indeed
for us. We need exactly the same in
dustries named. We can offer
that which many other cities in the
country cannot offer Snlpndi6 bydrO-
electric development with possibility
of even greater extension along that
line. We offer tide water transporta-
ton as far as Augusta through seven
months of the year; splendid railroad
and street railway facilities; an ideal
climate and thousand other things
which other districts cannot afford
Why not tell them about it?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-28
Vandalism in China.

The DETACHMENT of the beautiful tombs
of the emperors of the Ming dynasty at
Marking has long been the subject of re-
gretful comment among visitors to that
ancient and at one time important city.
1t will, therefore, be learned with feelings
of satisfaction that Viceroy Tuan Fang
has taken determined steps to prevent the
continuance of this vandalism.
BY his Excellency's orders notice in
Chinese, English. French, Italian, Rus
sian and German is about to be published
stating that owing to past acts of wanda
lism and DETACHMENT of the imperial tab
let's monuments and ancient relics in the
vicinity of the Ming tombs palings have
been erected for their preservation by the
Viceroy's orders, and visitors are here
by ouested to abstain from entering the
palings or from doing anything detrimen-
tai to the tombs and monuments.
The precaution has not come day too
soon. and it merely remains to efface the
traces of past dissertation and to restore
wherever possible what has been thrown
down as for example the carved balus-
trade of the bridge that untes the an
terror courts of the tomb.-North China
News
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Paqeants.

The celebration at New York
on the Hudson marks Won
derful development in pageantry.
The question arises as to the
value of the pageant as opposed
to the celebrations of cur fathers. Pro-
grams of the Hudson Fulton program
show that on the first day there was a
great naval parade and illuminations;
that on the Sabbath there We're reli-
gious observations: that on Monday
there were dedicatory anG musical eX
ercises, receptions and the like. Today
occurs the first historical pageant
Through it the public will be taught
the history of the Hudson River Val
ley and of the peoples who have inhab-
tied it from the time of it's discovery
the dress and customs of the past
are we of the present given a clearer
conception of those who went before US.
Our history has been cullel from
books, some accurate. some otherwise
Each of us has had his own idea of
what the people looked like in those
old days. AS few are able to study the
matter with any great degree of care
the number who understand what con-
ditions Of living were in the 18th CEN
tury are very few indeed.
The pageant has come to the rescue
The customs and stage settings are as
true to history as it is possible 70 make
them after many months of diiligent
or five million people who see these
out-of-door plays will have a better
idea of Hendrick Hudson and his crew
than they ever had before, and it Is
we'll that they should, for we have not
obtained what we are pleased to term
our present greatness without strug-
giles and sacrifices. 1t is meet that we
should realize what the people of these
days were obliged to undergo in order
to develop the new world. Where
books have failed to teach. the pageant
has succeeded. We believe that in the
future there will be more OF them. 1t
may be that our independence Day
celebration will be given over to pa
rades dealing with the life and times
of sevcrty-siX rather than in process
sion Of ambulanceS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-28
Protection for the Lion.

A strange petition has been received at
the French Colonial Office from the colo
nsts of French Uganda. 1t prays for the
protection of the lion from the gun of the
hunter on the ground that the king of
beasts is alone able to rid them of their
enemies, the herbivorous animals, the
deer, the elephant and the rhinoceros.
1t seems that hunters were vigorously re-
stricted as to the number of these beasts
which they could kill, although the Ii
cense cost from $50 to SEQ Consequent
ly they have increased and multiplied to
such an extent that the colonists are now
calling upon the home authorities to pro-
tect the exterminating lion. Only La
Fontaine could do Justice to this stua-
tion.-London Globe.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-28
Little Of Everything.
New, German Compass.

A new compass has been adopted by the
German government for its warsbips. a
nine-pound wheel mounted in holder of
quicksilver is made to rotate at the rate
of q 900 revolutions "a minute by an cleo
trio motor. After running for two hours
the wheel Is set in the direction of the
mathematical meridian. which direction 1t
maintains. The advantage of the new
compass is that it is entirely unaffected
by neighboring iron or steel, or by vibra-
tons and rolling Of the vessel. COM
pass card attached indicates direction in
the usual way.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-28

Professor George E. Vincent, of the
University Of Chicago. who is planning
flying trip through England in an
automobile. with the expectation of
making the circuit of the island in
eight days, has been dean of the fac
ulties of art, literature and sciences in
the university since 1907. He was born
IN Rockford, H., in 1854, and after be-
ing graduated from Yale in 1885, trav-
eled IN Europe and the orient, then be-
coming literary editor CT the Chautau-
qua Press. He has since been con-
nected with Chautauqua work. At the
opening of the University of Chicago
in 1892, he became fellow in sociology.
and he since has been assistant in
structor assistant professor and pro-
fessor of sociology.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-28
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

The fountain head OF feminine lies is
birthdays.
Men trust one another; women watch
one another.
A girl is awful smart never to know
what man means when she makes
him mean il.
There is rothing upon which man
can place SO high a value as making a
fool of himself over i political row.
a girl would have to be an angel not
to do any of the things her mother
warns her against, and if she didn't do
most of them her neither would be
afraid she was very sick. New York
Press
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-28

fore Congress bill introduced by
chairman Greene Of the Merchant
Marine Committee which is funda-
mentally correct. II you watch that
measure you viii see that there will
arise a veritable host of men who
will proclaim an undying love for
the American merchant marine
and then they will suggest. and
very likely induce Congress to be-
lieve, that it is best at this time to
eliminate the freighters and per-
NIT us the expensive privilege Of
running elaborate passenger ships.
For these men know the kind Of
American shipping which is our ma
tional need-and they don't propose
for us to get it,"
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To Take a Picture of Your Voice.

To take a picture of your voice tie
sheet of thin, strong paper over the wide
end of trumpet. Hold it with the sheet
of paper upward, take thin pinch of
white sand and place it in the center of
the paper. Hold the trumpet vertically
above your face, and sing note into the
lower end. Do not blow but sing the
note. Lower the trumpet carefully and
look at the sand, and you will find that
the vibrations of your voice have scat
tered the pinch of sand into a beautiful
sand picture.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-28
Machine Registers Letters.

A machine for registering letters has
been submitted to the French academy Of
sciences. The stamped letter is thrown
into special box and nickel 25-cent
piece is inserted in slot in the box. At
the turn of a little handle a receipt comes
up. magnet in the machine will draw
aside any coin not genuine nickel. When
all works properly the nickel coin gets to
the bottom of its compartment, while the
letter, stamped with an ''R," remains in
the box ready to be forwarded
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-28
Tough on Sandy.

Lady" began Sandy Pixies, as he
stopped at the wayside cottage. two
weeks ago 1 passed here and you told me
to emulate the busy ant
Yes, my poor man. responded the
housewife, land did your
Il did mum, to me sorrow. When
passed a picnic in de grove 1 watched de
busy ant tackling de ice cream and cakes.
and when l tried it de men licked me. de
boys stoned me, and de dogs chased me-
No more initiating de busy ant fer me,
MIN. Chicago News.
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Trust Fund for Spinsters.

Miss Easton of Durham, England, has
given 100000 to establish trust fund to
provide 20 annuities for respectable desti-
tute spinsters in the counties of Durham
and Northumberland. This is the first
time on record that philanthropists have
recognized the needs of such women, who
often through no fault of their own are
left in their declining years to battle with
poverty, sickness and unemployment.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-28

The New England baseball enthusi-
asts cannot help feeling that the
hustling Boston Red SoX would have
stood a very good chance for the pen
nant if the services of Cy Young had
been retained. The grand old veteran
is still pitching winning ball while
Czech and Ryan, for whom he was
traded, have both been relegated to the
minors
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-28
A Family Gift,

Little DOt-Ch, mamma, | want lit
tie cart and a little donkey for my
birthday, and papa says he couldn't
give me or anybody a donkey for a
present.
Mamma with cruel emphasis)-Oh,
yes he could. He gave me a present
of donkey when he married me-
Baltimore American.
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Not Much Difference.

Don't you wish you were boy
again."
No" answered Senator Sorghum;
Il can't say that / find conditions
much changed since my youthful days.
/ used t. be told that children should
be seen ana not heard. ! now find that
a politician should keep in the spotlight
and yet try to avoid being interview
.l"-WaShinotOn Star.
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Another Chance for Mark.

a WrIter III magazine,
With graceful pen and gravest mien,
Doth show by arguments most clear
That Mark Twain is no longer here
And worse than this, with steady face
He claims Fra Hubbard takes his place.
Here is another ripened chance
For Mark to take a backward glance
And bring to life the dear old joke
That long ago he glibly spoke.
The rumor of my DEATH he'll state,
1.-THE author doth exaggerated
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-28

The various Freshman classes are
athletic material they contain The in
tellectnal qualities will appear later ii
the course
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-28

Officials in SaXony nave made sue
cessful experiments with a new mate
rial called 'antidust." liquid residue
of magnesium obtained in the manu-
facture of potash. 1t overcomes dust
on roadways.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-28

1t used to be said of the Dutch
farmers of Pennsylvania that it was
easy to see on what their hearts were
placed-their barns were better than
their houses and their cattle xaceived
more care than their wives and chill
dren. 1t must have been similar
condition of affairs in New England
county that prompted the climax of a
soldiers speech. A Yankee militia
captain. whose company was about TO
march against an invading enemy,
thus depicted the awful consequences
of the foes success: Gentlemen, thew
will lay your towns in ashes, murder
your wives and children and pull down
your fences"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-28
As He Saw 1t.

Mrs. Jipes hadn't wanted to go out
in the new automobile, anyhow, and
she was telling her husband so in sew
eral kinds of ways.
I'D rather have waited until l had
something fit to ride in," she said, but
YOU Just won d have me come. 1t isn't
bit of fun for me, and I'd like to
There. You narrowly missed running
into the curb What do you think
you're doing!'
I'm taking a jawy ride" savagely
answered Mr.. Jipes,-Chicago Tribune.
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In Widows Needs.

Eyes, brethren,' said the clergyman
who was preaching the funeral sermon,
our deceased brother was cut down In
a single night-torn from the arms of
his loving wife, who is thus left Wild
ow at the age of % years.
"Twentv-siX, if you please" sobbed
the widow in the front pew, as she
emerged for an instant from her hand
kcrchief.-London Telegraph.
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Sometimes the Case.

That boys father paid more for the
boys education than it was WORTH
"Probably the education was worth
all that he paid for it, but perhaps he
paid more for the education than the
boy is worth '--Houston Post.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-28

If you have never enjoyed vaca-
ton in the Maine woods during the
month of october, try it this year and
be convinced that Maine is the best
place on earth.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-28

President Taft is making a decided
hit wherever he goes, and can but be
gratif1ed at the cordiality with which
ne is greeted all along his route and
the overwhelming evidences of popular
approval of his administration,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-28

The way in which Judge Gaynor has
played into the hands of Tammany
Hall to his own destruction is the poll
teal iok. of the year.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-28

The indications are that the year
1910 will be a record one in the con-
struction and sale of automobiles. AL
ready the manufacturers are beginning
to complain of the difficulty they are
in securing raw material
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-28

There is grand rush just now on
the part of many interests to get hold
or the money the Western farmer is
getting for his big crops. The auto
m obile agent is well in the van.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-28

The Houston Post feels called upon
to remind Mr. Bryan that Grand Old
Texas was writing Democratic plat
forms before Nebraska was admitted
to The Union"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-28
His Unhappy Plight.

Efforts to tempt David B. Hill into
politics are unavailing. He cannot
persuade himself to be Republican
and it may be difficult to persuade Mr.
Bryan to give him Democratic Gre
dentials.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-28

According to Eliczer Edwards's
words, Facts and Phrases" the word
bronchitis came into general use
only about the year 1856. Edwards
says Leech, in the title of cartoon
about that time. spoke of it as the
latest new fashionable disease We
tind the word, however, in Beach's
american Practice" Ga popular work.,
published in 1912.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-28

Those good people who predicted the
end of the world Friday are now har-
boring the awful suspicion that, pos
sibly. it may be wagging along after
all those who now inhabit it have
passed away.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-28

Up to date Ty Cobb appears to be
leading The American League in bat
ting and base running. He also ap-
pears to be long ways ahead in his
Spiking record.
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Differences of Opinion.

DO YOU and your wife ever have
any differences Of opinion?" asked the
impairment acquaintance.
only once in while, answered Mr..
Meekton, when Henrietta changes
her mind about something and neglects
to notify me- Washington Star.
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Where He Gets a Real Vindication.

IAIIdnCd JOUTndI.D
Senator Bailey disagrees with Will
liam Jennings Bryan. The Senator
will find himself with considerable
COMPANY
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Proof Positive.

Sir" announced d doctors new SER
want, there are two dumb men in the
waiting room who wish to consult you
at once
What! Both dumb? Are you sure ~
"Well, sir, they said so."-Phil. In
quirer.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-28

The honors being paid the Attic ex-
plorers must make William Jennings
Bryan, the distinguished explorer of
the Salt River region greer with envy
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-28
Ii Is Their SpecialtY.

New Orleans Times Democrat.)
There has been much talk of the up
lift in this country of late, but the
Chicago meat packers seem to have put
the theory into practice without any
talk.
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One Escaped,

Mr.. Peck-I see by the paper that an
eminent scientist has asserted that
our prisons are gradually being filled
with Blondes.
Mrs. Peck-Have they caught that
iieht-haired thing in the next block
who firts with every married man she
sees life.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-28

Some English suftragettes have Just
would certainly seem as if being suf-
fragette We're work enough for any
woman
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-28

People who wonder why Maine was
not included in the Taft itinerary
must remember that he has been in
our back dooryard all summer.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-28

Eleven persons are killed or injured
on tie railways Of India every twenty
four hours. The number killed and in
jured last year was double that OF the
year 1904.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-28

There seems to he a general impress
sion in fOotball circles that Harvard
has an exceptionally strong eleven this
year.
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No Monkey Dinners With His.

(HOuStOn POSt)
The terms of Mr.. Harriman's will
are plain enough to show that none of
his estate is going to be wasted in
monkey dinners at Newport.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-28

Philadelphia proposes to provide her
school children with three cent lunches
1t would be intere sting to know just
what she intends to put in the soup.