Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-29

mayor Of Aldeburgh, England, gave a
dinner recently to forty councillors and
other guests. She was the only woman
present, and she wore a black dress
with widows cap and diamonds
Replying to the toast, "Aldeburgh'r
Prosperity" she said that during her
year of office she would try her best
to prove a good, motherly housekeeper
to the town. She declared that nothing
could be done by talking, but great
deal by the councillors agreeing to take
action and work together for the good
of the town. She hoped to better thu
roads and to make the town more at
tractive to visitors.
The Bishop of Durham, England, la
ments the fact that very formidable
degree of English Christian life in the
neglect and isolation of the Lords day
has set in, and blames ''the pernicious
custom of the weekend" THE very
day." he says, when the charities of
home should be in their strength, when
the family should meet with special
devotion for home worship, and SHOULD
also meet, family amidst other
families, in the church which IS tha
center of the surrounding religious Ifs
life in which the family should have
a responsible parts now too often tbs
day for separation, Incidence, irrespon
sible self-indulgence.'
To Columbia University belongs the
credit of offering the first course de-
signed to give students practice
knowledge Of the conduct of politica
affairs. That institution has asked th'
bureau of municipal research in New
York to give the members of the clasf
the benefit of the experience 1t has
derived from the study of the affairs y
that city, and the invitation has beer
accepted The growing demand Tor TN
adoption of the scientific methods OF
city government lends support TO tnt
view that college men will be IN de-
mand in this department of the pubic
service, hence the propriety and use
fulness of a university course estan-
lisned on the lines indicated by the IN
novation at Columbia.
Observations in India indicate thai
lust as agricultural land, after manN
repetitions of the same crops, becomes
exhausted for that particular specie;
so in forest lands, after long periods
the may len '''''n
changes in the soil, and new Varietio'
may take their place. Forests OF blu'
pine in that country have been CD
served to fail, the deodar tree tending
| to take the place of pine. In announcer
| case forests of pine and oak nave peel
found, each invading and tending I
| take up the ground occupied by th'
other Elsewhere in India spruce am
silver fir have been found adVanclns
| into n failing oak forest, and mulberry
lextending upon land formerly occupla'
dominantly by "shisham" trees.
At one time there were two members
Of the British House of Commons
named Montague Matthew and Mat
thew Montague; the former a tall
handsome man. and the latter Hitl'
man. During a session of Parliamen
the Speaker, having addressed the lat
ter as the former, Montague Matthew
observed that it was strange NJ
should make such a mistake. as Their
was as great a difference between then
as between a horse chestnut ana
chestnut horse.
A new code of honor has just peel
issued in Vienna fer use in Austria. II
which the writer, Lieut.. Gustav Rls
tow, advocates courts OF arbltratlol
| COR the settlement of disputes but main
tains also that it would be wrong t.
abolish the duel, which among gen
tlemen in some instances is unaVolda
BILE" The new code does not allow
principal or lis second to determine
whether the adversary is worthy-tha
| is. socially Or otherwise eligible to TIL
honor OF an encounter-hut leaves tn
question to Il board Of arbitration
which, when it has decided that point
shall also endeavor to bring about
bloodless settlement of the dispute.
| Baltimore has begun to believe that
being willing to pay handsomely for it