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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03

The Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse hit
a 70-foot whale on one of her recent
trips, and was obliged to back up in
order to free herself from the dying
Ieviathan. Jonah has been avenged.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03
Temporary Quietness.
Takinq No Chances.

Prehistoric Beliefs this the place
where a girl fell into the water last
week and man jumped in and saved
her, and then took her to his cave and
married her?
Prehistoric Man (nervously)-I be-
leve it is, but l can't swim stroke
Illustrated Bits.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03

The press dispatches relating to the
must remind the older folks in the
South of the days before the War: all
but the prices
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03

A Washington man has invented a
crow and let's lazy folks sleep until the
pangs of hunger drive them from the
coyerletS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03

The rail birds see no reason for get
ting excited because DR.. Cook got to
the pole. They tell you that any old
moss with driver that knows the
game can do that
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03

Walter Wellman, mindful of the fate
of Andree, may well feel that he who
flies and comes away, may live to fly
another day.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03

~ South Dakota gaurdsmen and Chey-
enne Indians are to re-enact the Custer
massacre. What a bonanza for the
motion picture men!
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03

1t must be admitted that Mr.. Well
mans attempts to reach the North
Pole, have not as yet harmed any one.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03

The Moors, are reported to be tor
turing Spanish prisoners. They should
be cautious. The Spaniards can do
quite an artistic job in that direction
themselves
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03

We are so glad to learn that John
Vance Cheney is not going to make hair
OIL AS an advertising scheme the de-
nial is simply great.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03
Chanqed Her Couture.

Does Gladys look any different
since she and her husband separated.
yes; she wears her hair la d.
VOrcee"
Heavens! How's that?"
Parted. "-Pathfinder.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03

All New England is a Boston suburb
until the pennant race is over
The census director invites sugges-
tons from the farmers. Mr.. Durand
may not realize it, but he is. making
himself solid with a powerful class of
men.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03

,,.., New Hampshire glories in the fact
that she has no state Fair. She doesn't
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03

Pennsylvania's lone bandit is "safe-
ly away" Boston's gentleman burg
lar is safely away" Gets monoto-
nous, doesn't it?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03

Japanese bankers and business men
to the number of 46 are in the coun-
try living down the Jap-American war
scare.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03

A banker convict in the Pennsylvania
penitentiary is short $4,000 in the ac-
counts of the institution. He has the
habit
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03

n Anyway the Sunday automoblling
2 habit has made more business Tor the
hotels and the surgeons.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03

haaThe Flusser adds materially to the
@festige of Names big shipyard, the
gath Iron Works.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03

The cautious man is content to wait
until his friend learns how to run his
new auto.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03

Venezuela's promises are good, as
far as they go, but Uncle Sam would
prefer the cash.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03

Runford, in the biggest town meet
ing in its history, voted Saturday to
erect a $4,000 steel bridge across the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03

sss9f husband is not obliged to wash
seffN dishes how can women find time
to yCtn:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03
His Province.

"The young bride may be the one
to select the dress goods, but it takes
a husband to pick out a boarding
house,
"Why?"
Hes lived in few."-Kansas City
Journal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03

Fl. N. Milliken of Parsonfield, who has
estimates that he will have $50 barrels
from his baldwin trees. an unusually
fine yield.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03

Mrs. r. L. Jones Of Rockland has
house hydrangea Is feet in circum-
ference which at the present time has
40 punches of blossoms.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03

ESTABLISHED 1s2s

No notice whatever will be taken OF
unsigned communications.
The Journal cannot be held rsspons'.
BILE for the preservation or return OF
rejected communications.
Address all communications relating
to subscriptions and advertisements
to BURLEIGH & FLYNT, Publish
sfs, Augusta, Maine. J..
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03

Labor Day marks the dividing line
between baseball and football.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03

n Automobile racing is vastly more
than war.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03

Frank Cain of Lewiston, who will
have charge of the oxen pulling con-
tests at the Maine State fair this year,
making the 22nd consecutive year.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03

A large buck deer with antlerS
spreading six feet attacked Ludy Mat
thcws near Head Tide in Alma this
week and Mr.. Matthews had quite a
strenuous time before he escaped.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03

1t is reported that New Auburn resi-
dents desire to be set off from Auburn
and to be made a distinct municipality.
Territorially it is large enough and ma
ture furnished dividing line in the
Little Androscoggin River.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03

Lewiston is putting the 1inishir
touches on the State Fair plans.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03

a. Bigger better buster fairs are the
sfDle this year. Go see for yourself.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03

/ The mortality in the duck family is
at an alarming rate.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03

:. Boom Maine. We have as much to
Ehout about as any state in the Union.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03

u The frost gave the corn packers quite
"a Jolt.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03
Little Of Everything.
His Rule Of Conduct.

81 suppose you are one Of these men
who can drink or let it alone?"
Yes, judge; when I has de price l
drinks and when / amt let's 1t alone."-
Houston Post.
Temporary Quietness.
Tom-"Say did you ever kiss girl in
la quiet spot?"
Jack-"Yes, but the spot was only quiet
while I was kissing it."-Boston Tran
1script.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03
Maine Gossip
A Tip.

You can't judge a mans kicking strength
By sizing up his base,
The only thing to judge it by
Is the hole In his face.
Houston Post.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03

The big game hunters will begin to
arrive before many weeks have elapsed
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03

On whether or not, we'll drillers who
have already penetrated to a depth of
225 feet, strike water depends the
port. Ira Cobe, who has had a fine
place at Northport campground sew
eral years, but if water is found on the
new site, he will expend 100000.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03

All the Maine Colleges have good
football teams, on paper.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03

William Foxton. the Portland rigger,
who disappeared about a month ago
and was supposed to have been drown
ed. has returned. He reports that at
the time he was thought to have been
drowned the boat in which he was
cruising in the bay was run down and
sunk by a large motor boat, the occu-
pants of which would not return with
him to the city, but carried him to an
eastern port, where he has since been
working at his trade.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-03

A young hawk, who gained entrance
to the small motor room in a Bath
ployees by its cries of fright. Until
the cause of the disturbance was
liberated it made the mill noisier than
ii is under ordinary circumstances
Amasa Ellers, who was near the mo-
tor room has had some exciting ex-
periences in his day but the hawk cap
ped them all.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-22
TUESDAY, JUNE 2z, 1900
INFERIOR RACES AND POPULAR
 GOVERN NMENT.

Professor Balch, an Alabamian, who has been teaching school in the Phil ippines for the past eight years has returned and he declares that the peo- ple of the islands can not be educated in twenty years to self government. No sensible man doubts the truth of this observation. A great many will doubt that the islanders win be able to establish popular government by themselves in twenty years or in any other period of time.
 Social and governmental theories have a way of going to pieces when put into actual practice. A partisan and tyrannical majority in Congress took a race of negroes, but a few months out of slavery. put the ballot in their hands and established them as masters where they had served as slaves. The theory was that negro voter was as good as white voter and that the only difference between the white man and the negro was that the white man had bollot and the negro did not have 1t. It was wrong so disastrous in effects that it was a crime Men who assisted in it frankly say that the theory on which they acted was wrong inside and out top and bottom.
 We'll intentioned philanthropists sent
 t. NA tinued to send them there year after year until a considerable colony was there A republic was established and the negroes were given complete charge. The government was farce from start to finish. The country is little better than savage and even now an American commission is in Liberia to see if something can not be done to keep 1t from going to pieces.A
 For a hundred years negroes have been in charge of the government of Hayti Today 1t is the darkest spot on the map. It has no commerce. no credit. no future and no aspirations Within hearing of the capitol the tom toms beat nightly at the unspeakable voodoo rites.
 Porto Rico was given something like an automatic government under Amer ican supervision. It frankly has been a failure.
 Cuba tried self government and failed. The United States stepped in and restored order. stopped patriots from killing each other and gave the government another start, History is repeating itself and government of hcisls are now speculatlng as to how long 1t will be before the American flag will fly over Havana.
 It takes men to make a state7-men and character.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-22
Shorthand not Modern.

WaSnlngtOn HOSI.
 Shorthand is so closely associated with the hurry and rush of modern business that it is startling to think of 1t having been in use. among the seems to be no doubt that the orations of Cicero were committed to paper with as much skill and rapidity as the mo- dern stenographer can boast.
 Just how old the abbreviated writ ing Is, which the ancient Creeks call- ed tachygraphy, it Is impossible to say xenophon Is believed to have used 1t in taking notes of the lectures of Soc rates, which would take 1t back to the Fifth century befor Christ. This is disputed by some authorities, but there seems to be no doubt about the use in in the First century.
 The development of shorthand was especially due to Marcus Tullius Tiro Born in Latium in 103 B. C., Tiro, who was slave, was brought up with Cice- TO, who was some years his junior, Freed he became Cicero's secretary, and in this capacity aided him greatly. In the famous trial of Cataline (6s B. C5) the stenographic rapidity of Tlro was at its height.
 In the First century before Christ, a discourse of Cato UticeAsis, according to Plutarch, was taken down by short
 Early in the Third century A. D. is found the term semiograph (stenogra- phic character.) used by the Greek or ator Flavius Philostratus.
 Origen of Alexandrla GA. D. lS5-254) noted his sermons down in shorthand and Socrates. the eccleslastic historian of the Fourth century said that parts of the sermons of St. John Chrysostom were preserved by the same process.
 The shorthand that they used was a form of writing in which each word was represented by special sign. The letters of the alphabet. with modi- fcations, connected so as to admit the greatest rapidity. formed the element ts of these characters.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-22
sHoppY CLOTHING.

Occasionally we get something in- teresting on the tarin question from an unexpected souIce One of the lat est samples comes from Mir. Silber- berg. who is spoken of as "a Repub- lican and protectionist clothing msnu- we may reasonably suppose that he talks by the card MT. Silberberg says that 1t Is not merely in the high price of clothing that the workman suffers. but in the wretched quality of the stun that is palmed off on him. "As a manufacturer of clothing for a period of almost fifty years. l can truthfully state that I have never handled cloth of so inferior quality for the price as do now. The masses. consisting of laborers, mechanics and farpers. the
 cal user of ready made clothing, are receiving practically no value for their money. The qualities and colorings are so poor that in many instances the colorings fade and cookie, and in the manufacture of garments give posi- tivefy no satisfaction to the wearer."
 How Is that for taking right out in meeting, as 1t were? This" as The Boston Traveller looks at it, 'fs the point in a nutshell. While the tariff on wool. cunningly devised by a few men to make them rich, has been in finn for gt resulted in increasing appreciably the production of wool in this country, so that wool must be imported from abroad. The tariff, therefore. forces the workman to pay price for shoddy which should buy him good wooden clothes. Neither the cool insolence of Aldrich nor the sophistries of Lodge will make the dose palatable so that President Taft can with honor sign the bill which is being prepared for him."
 Whether the fault or the blame for the shoddy clothing the workingmen are thus obliged to wear lies altogether with the tarin is a question. We sus- pect that much of 1t is due to the dis honesty of manufacturers, who palm off shoddy clothing on the purchasers be- cause the latter are unable to help themselves. But perhaps the tariff is primarily to blame at last, because it encourages and protects the dishonest manufacturers and enables them to rob the working classes of the country What the President can or will do re- mains to be seen. for he is likely to be placed in ticklisR position. He'll be abused by some of his party if he signs the tariff bill that is likely to be presented to him, and he'll be cursed by others if he refuses to approve it. Under such conditions we suspect he would be glad of an opportunity to take to the tall timber and dodge all of them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-22
AMERICAN SEED TRADE
By Frederic J. Ha.kin.

titles from Europe, though the Gov ernment gets much from California: cantaloupe, watermelon aud cucumber from Nebraska. cabbage from Long Island. One locality in Long Island produces annually 25o carloads of cabbage seed. In California is one field of 300 acres of sweet peas raised solely for seed, which is shipped to all parts of the country. The cost of the seed used In the United States every year is estimated about as follows: Vegetable and flower seeds, $20,000. 900: grass seed. S2o2,0 900; wheat, s70.- 900 900: corn, $20.000,000; cotton. $25.- 100000; potatoes. $26,00O,O00; rice. $10,O00.000; barley, si2.000, 900; rye, 900. N eral of the European Governments take strict precautions against the sale of adulterated seed and seed inspection is practieed for the purpose of protecting the farmer against the purchaser of mfsbranded seed or seed which con- tains noxfous weeds. The Department of Agriculture quietly obtains samples from seedsmen in every part of the country. and publishes once or twice every year the results of these investi- gations, printing the names and ad-
 
 has been adulterated. Canada has system very similar to that in use by the United States.
 School children are being taught veg etable and flower growing by means of school gardens, an idea which origin ated in the George Putnam Grammar School in Boston in 1891. and which has spread to the principal cities of the country. The children are first taught the principles of plant growth. and given small plots which they are required to plant and cultivate. Ocu- lar illustrations of the principles of the textbook makers progress rapid. The most pleasing feature of this movement is the establishment of school gardens among the slums of the great cities, where youngsters, who otherwise seldom or never would see green things growing, are taught of flowers and vegetables and given small plots of ground wherein to dig in the soil and watch the plants as they de- velop.
 Seedsmen annually destroy tons of seed rather than keep it until the fol- lowing season. They know that seed two years old does not. as rule, pos- sess the high germinating power of fresh seed and this despite the myths regarding the germination of wheat taken from the Pyramids. where 1t had been for 5000 years. The Australian Government has found by experiments that seed fifty years old had lost it's germinating power almost entirely.
 The importance of seed of the best quality was fully appreciated over century ago. In 1743, England ap- propriated money for the development of agriculture in the American colonies by the distribution of pure seed of known productivity. George Washing ton and Thomas Jefferson imported seeds of many varieties, which they planted at Mt. Vernon and Monticello, and distributed among their neighbors. They realized probably, that the study of plant life may be as absorbtnS to the student and as beneficial to man. kind as study of the science Of gov ernment and investigations in the relam of economic thought.
 (Copyright. 1909, by Frederic ].
 Haskin.)
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-22
APPEAL TO KING EDWARD.
Toronto Grand Jury Ask Monarch
 Cut Ont RaefnR


 Toronto Dispatch to New York World track gambling and the disgrace which rich-quick efforts, the grand jury in presentment todays asked that repre- sentations be made to King Edwad andto Governor Grey, asking that they withhold their presence and patronage from all such instiptions as permit public betting.
 Calling attention to the mania f 2 gambling. the grand jury says:
 we have noticed that the states of the American Union which lie next to the Province of Ontario have adopted radical and stringent laws for the pre- vention of racetrack gambling in every form. We seriously hope that a. wakened public will compel such legis- lation as will make Is impossible for any racetrack or other sporting in- situations to continue in existence if betting be at all permitted in con nection herewith.
 Why 1t is any more wrong to. place a bet in a cigar store than on a race track the most careful moralist might find hard to answer. We certainly can not determine the difference. Yet the fact remains that the poor man who cannot afford to lose time from his employment or to pay the $1.50 .ad- mission fee is denied the privilege which is freely granted to the general public on the racetrack.
 "IS it because fashionable society is the offender of the times? Or Is it be- cause the wealthy represented in these institutions has errors for the law makers?."
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-22
Travel Sings of Better Times.

New York World.
 To those who look for certain signs of industrial and financial betterment the years travel and summer resort prospects offer an encouraging held or study.
 Hotel keepers of Southern New Eng land1 are confident of a season yield ing $5,500,0O0 in receipts. For the routes running West, railway mana gers report tourists bookings already twice as heavy as in former years. The Seattle exposition is of course respon- slble for some part of the rush over the Rockies. Yet the railroad men have reason to regard this as an incident only There Is a vast awakening ef interest in Colorado. the Canadian Rockies are increasing their draft of travellers who like to combine sport with scenic delights.
 Naturally, such facts as these will encourage the aspirations or the see- America first" advocates. Among these people 1t is figured out that If 200,0a Americans should decide not to go to Europe, after all, the Old World would fail of about $155, 100000 or tourists money, minus part of the ocean trans portation charges. If In addition to giving Europe the cold shoulder this States--but that is another story, and the steamship companies are not in despair over the traffic for 1909
 To return to the better times" phase of the matter. The World yesterday printed 1.501 separate advertisements of summer resorts. the largest number ever printed by this or any other list had 54e separate advertiseme nts. and the third had 409. The Worlds figures tell their own tale of prosperous expectation
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-22
The DipIodOcus.

New GOrK sun.
 The sovereigns of America, regard ing with stupefaction the prizes which the Thane of Skibo is bestowing upon the sovereigns of Europe. are a ser ried Interrogation point. We lay at their feet such poor information as Is here required of us:
 To the Editor of The Sun:
 As no one else seems to have the moral courage. I'll bite. What is Il "Diplodocus?' c. F. S.
 Sea Gate, June g.
 The Dipiodocus. or Doublebar. was a sauropod dinosaur by profession. Save in the slight eccentricity, if ec- centTiey 1t be, of wearing the ,aa raml d, of tally" and of having "a weak denti ton" probably as the, result of biting to have been in the same precinct with the rest of It's tribe. What. then. was a common, ordinary dinosaur Sometimes 1t was as big as all out of doors. Sometimes 1t was no bigger than a chicken or MT. Carnegie. Some times 1t weighed twenty-five tons. just half Of the Pittsburg Tolstofs fighting weight when he is full Of moral indignation over rebates or the