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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-19

not frightened and who does not ex-
perience delight on heholding tn beau
ties presented by spring is sincaely to
be pittied. He loses a large partbf the
joy Of living. There come the carly
days Of spring, when the bright sh in
vites everybody out of doors to basx in
the genial warmth and brightness ia
watch the progress of annual mirScIe
that clothes the bare trees in living
green, to see the spring flowers model
ly bloom in their lowly beds, to her
the birds twittering their lively sprint
chatter overhead, and to watch thu
many and various pictures of beauty
that ere presented on every side.
They are 50 many that some of them
may fall Of proper appreciation some
times. There is the beauty of the
fresh ployed field. for instance. Have
you seen such a field, on passing by it
on a drive into the country? And in
passing it, did you see only the bare
earth and let your glance pass over it
and beyond it, as presenting nothing of
beauty in its baroness? If you did you
failed to make the most of the oppor-
tunity you mad, and missed what would
surely have been a great pleasure had
you seen it. The plowman in the field.
blowing mis- furrows, is a picture of
contentment, of independence and OF
hopeful promise. Above him the sun
shines in his golden splendor. Behind
him lies the plowed area, loading the
air with the scent of fresh plowed
earth. presenting a clean surface mark
ed by the burrows which are turned
beside each other in the most regular
parallels. Before him lies the unplowed
section, filled with the stubble of last
years growth. unsightlv and saddening
like a life without promise. And be-
tween them the plowman adding fur
row to furrow smoothly turned. each
furrow Increasing the clean land of
promise and decreasing the stubble
land of promise and decreasing the
stubblc land of spent opportunities and
the rankness of weeds.-Augusta Her
aid,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-19
The Apathetic Steel Worker.

We went round upon the. little iron
balcony, hot under our feet from proX-
unity to the unseen fires, and looked
down into the gaping crater of a colas-
sal iron tank which stood upon the
floor beneath; it had sides two feet
thick, and on the bottom of it's inside
were two men digging away with pick
axes at tine thick calxing in the bottom
and on the encrusted sides. This tank
was 1.-The ladle," and the men were dig
ging away the skull or sediment
from former tapping. After while
they climbed out, and we all waited
again. Then in a matter-of-fact way a
man opened some sort of gate or plug
in the bottom Of the furnace, and
through little trough trickled slug
gishly thin fiery thread of motion
metal, and the thread grew to a band
ana to a stream. and then to small
sized torrent that hlazed high along all
it's length and poured into the ladle,
which seemed to rebel against swallow
ing it, and to try to spit it out in show
ers and storms OF darting, Kaleidoscope
sparks. whose brilliancy blinded us,
and from whose raging heat we backed
step by step. And now the lethargic
men sprang to vigorous life and moved
with swift dizziness and trained pre-
cision. Each caught up filled paper
bag, like d sack of flour. and ran out on
to the iron balcony and close up to the
eruptive ladlc, and hurled i'm his bag,
and rushed back for another, until the
platform was for a few moments like
the shores OF an inferno. The bags held
a con: position to clarity and settle the
rising contents of the ladle-it was the
egg in the coffee. In the fierce light
could see every expression of their
faces, these men. and they were as stOl-
id and embarrassing as though putting
salt on a fried egg. On sudden / saw
the leaden drag of their hours, their
days, weeks, years--the drag of their
lives. To ne the sight of the tapping
of the furnace was one never to forget
to them it was the monotOny that made
them what they were and were always
to remain.-Harper's.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-19
CITY TO PLANT FRUIT TREES.
Jacksonville, Fla, to Have Tropic
Orchards in Gardens.

That Jacksonville will be metamor-
phosed into a city beautiful next win
ter seems assured. The initiative TAX
en- by the board of trade in a move
ment to plant tropical fruit trees in
the gardens and yards of residences In
the city has struck a popular chord
having met with the popular approval
of property owners. Those who have
decided to adopt the plan will en-
deavor to persuade their neighbor to
fall in line.
Growing tropical plants in Jackson
vile seems to many people, no doubt,
absurd. However impracticable II
may appear. the plan will be carried
out to successful realization. Some
years ago large and handsome orange
trees were even thriving in the streets
of the city, and scattered about the
county were numerous bearing groves.
These were greatly admired by the
northern tourists, who, although COM
paratively small in number in those
DAYS, visited the state annually and
spent much of the winter here. Along
came the freeze of 1895 and wiped out
of existence within one night practic-
ally every orange tree then growing
in or near the city. The cold wave
not only wrought havoc here. but en-
tered the very heart of the state, nip
ping and damaging tender vegetation.
Since the freeze no effort to restore
tropical fruit trees here has been made.
it being contended by many that the
tender plants could not Withstand the
occasional cold, and that any effort
nut forth in the direction would prove
useless expense.
Now comes the discovery that of the
trio-foliata stock, which remains dor
mant during the entire winter months
and is of sufficient toughness to with
stand cold of much greater temper
ature than that which is usually blown
Floridaward Onto this hard, tough
stock can be budded orange grapefruit.
tangerine and other citrus fruit If
planted out during the month of March
the tree would blossom the coming
spring and bear fruit the following
MISUNDERSTANDING (Fla.) Times
TTninn
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-19

waterpower available at cost COM
parable with that of steam installa-
ton, a sixth is utilized, twentieth
runs over Government dams unused.
and the remaining 10000, 900 horsepower
remains unharnessed,-enoug to drive
every wheel and spindle. propel every
train and boat, and light every city.
town. and village in the country. Ma
ture stores in lakes and ponds Gnclud-
ing the American portion of the Great
Lakes) volume equivalent. to three
years RAINFALL also, in the first hun
dred feet of soil and earth, a volume
of ground water equal to seven years
rainfall, --enough to form reservoir
some seventeen feet deep over the en-
tire country. These stores are ill
used.-American Review of Reviews.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-19
New Blow at the White Plague.

Since Kich of Germany discovered tho
tubercle bacillus or germ, it is extremely
doubtful whether there has been a sue
cessfu research of greater moment to the
diseased fighting scientist and the public
at large than that just announced in
Philadelphia.
This discovery is the proving in many
cases-not four or six, but so or 6O-the
presence of the tuberculosis germ in the
blood of human being and in estab-
fishing beyond all doubt that human
blood acts as a conveyor of the consump-
ton germ from one organism Of the body
to another.
All of the tests and the final demonstra-
ton of what had been largely a theory
are the work of DR.. Randle c. Rosen-
berger. Psychologist of the Philadelphia
General hospital and also bacteriologist
of the Jefferson Medical College. either of
which positions is a mark of distinction
in Philadelphia.
The problem that has long been puz-
zling scientists in this particular field has
been the mode of transmission of the or
ganism, say. from the lungs to the in
testines from the lungs to other internal
has been considered the possible carrier.
but no one to the present time has been
able to demonstrate the organisms In the
blood by simple methods. 1t has been
taught and believed for years, and espe-
cially during the last few years, that tu-
berculosis was not hereditary but that
the person so affected was first SO low
cred in bodily resistance, from various
causes, that ne was fit subject for the
disease and in this condition acquired 1t
from some outside source, such as the
sputum of another persons, through milk
or food, and even other means of contact
with germ-infected articles or persons.
The finding of the germ in the blood OF
these cases, and many more probably to
be found in the future has Strengthened
out many perplexing problems. 1t is the
missing link" as it were, in the chain
cycle of the disease and the one thing
which will, without doubt, give scientists
a definite basis, or groundwork, upon
which they can base their future efforts
to stamp out disease which, In some
form, attacks about 60 per cent. Of the
population of the United States. 1t will
stimulate many co-workers to further Ell
forts in the hope. since to science nothing
now seems utterly impossible. Of finding
that something which will check. hold
and vanquish the bacillus causing all the
damage-Technical World Magazine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-19
Maine Gossip
My April Lady.

When down the stairs at morning
The sun-rays round her float,
Sweet rivulets of laughter
Are bubbling in her throat;
The gladness of her greeting
Is gold without alloy;
And in the morning sunlight
l think her name is JOY.
When in the evening twilight
The quiet bookroom lies.
We read old songs of sorrow.
While from her hidden eyes
The tears are falling, falling,
That gives her heart relief:
And in the shadowy twilight,
| think her name is Grief.
My little April lady
Of sunshine and of showers
She weaves the old spring magic.
And breaks my heart in flowers.
But when her moods are ended,
She nestleS like a dove:
Then, by the pain and rapture,
l know her name is Love.
Henry Van Dyke.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-19
The Birthplace Of Daniel Boone.

The Birthplace Of Daniel Boone.
The various state legislatures dc
many queer things, but one of the
queerest in the record of the past win,
ter is that action by the North Car
DINA lawmakers providing for me-
| mortal to Daniel Boone whom they
proceed to claim as native son of that
state. Now, as a matter of fact, Dan
lei Boone was born in Pennsylvania
in 1735 and lived there until he was
16 or II years of age. At least, things
which have been written and in all the
encyclopedias and biographical refer
ence books. Nobody seems to know
what gave North Carolina an idea that
it had right to annex him, and the
Pennsylvania papers are saying things
about the nerve of North Carolina
which must make the ears of those
lawmakers tingle. "Pretty soon, -
says the Philadelphia Inquirer, "North
Carolina will discover that George
Washington was born in Raleigh and
that Abraham Lincoln hailed from
Kings Mountain" 1t was bad enough
to have North Carolina try to wrench
from Philadelphia the honor of the
first declaration of our independence
from Great Britain. 1t is much too
much when the Tar Heel State also
braZenly appropriates the glory of
having given Daniel Boone to the
world
Wien Daniel Boone was Is or II
years of age, according to his biograph-
crs, his parents moved to North Car
DINA and so it is true that he was
once In that state. He remained there
but a very short time, however, and
in d year or two moved to South Car
DINA where he married and became
famous hunter and trapper. About
10 years later he pushed westward to
Kentucky, with which state his name
where his work as a pioneer and
pathfinder made him one of the most
notable figures in American history.
North Carolina certainly has very lit
tie claim to Daniel Boone, infinitely
less than Pennsylvania where he was
born and passed his boyhood, or Ken
lucky where the great things of his
life. were accomplished; and for that
matter far less than South Carolina
where he married and lived for a de-
cade. If North Carolina wants to
erect monument in his honor, the
other states have no right to object
unless it is done under false pretenses
and with the idea of claiming for the
state that which does not belong to
it,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-19

gett, on extensive potato raiser of that
town. In one load he hauled to the
Bangor & Northern railroad 26o BUSH
| els and three peckS CT the tuberS. rms
means that the load weighed 1924.
pounds, or only So pounds short OF eight
tons. For this load he was paid S1S7.50
Although the fact has been mentioned
| in the newspapers few people thorough
" realize as yet what q great increase
has been made in potato raising In
Penohscot county the last few years. All
along the route of the Bangor & Nor
thern tic acreage is increasing from
year to year. Such men as Henry Mel
vim of Corinth and A. M. Foss of Ken
duskeag have come down from ArooS-
took, comparatively recently, and gone
into the potato business in this section
planting potatoes themselves and buy
ing inexpensively from farmers whom
they have induced to make potato rails
ing more of a business.
Turf, Farm and Home: This is surely
great year for the up to date Maine
gardner, dairyman and all around
cu1tivator Have you heard of the lat
est quotations on cabbages this spring =?
$50 per ten for the best Cape Elizabeth
grown product. isn't Sc bad. The ordi-
nary price at this season is only third
of that The opening of this month
there was not over ten cars of cabbage
on the Cape. while ten times that
amount would nos be out of place at
ordinary prices. Already, to be sure
the new crop from the south is coming
in quite freely, but it will be several
weeks before the new crop will begin
to equal the old Cape Elizabeth sea-
soned product. .Turnips and potatoes
from New Brunswick that have paid
a duty vi % per cent are features of
our Maine markets nowadays How
times have changed in the last SO or 40
years. We remember to have sat at a
well laden table in a farmers kitchen
where the head of the family proudly
called attention to the fact that every
thing on the table had been produced
on the farm under his own supervision,
except the tea, salt and pepper. And it
was a line layout, too.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-19
ESTABLISHED 1sas
Monday, April 10, 1909.
The Last Lines Of LonqfeIIow.

In speaking of a recent address by
an eminent divine, the Hartford Cou-
rant says: There was a metaphor
in 1t which reminded some hearers that
a poet once--long ago-wrote lines like
these" and then the Courant goes on
to misquote a beautiful poem as fol-
lows:
20 bells Of San Bias, in vain
Ye call back the past again;
1t will not come at your prayer.
Gone are the shades of night,
The world rolls into the light,
1t Is sunrise everywhere"
Now hypercritical spirit in an editor
is not pretty thing, especially when
he is dealing with the work of brother
editor. Moreover, the Hartford Cou1ant
is one of our most valued exchanges a
! fine old paper from which we gain i'm
. formation and inspiration every day.
But in this instance there was such
carelessress in handling the lines of
Longfellow, four lines out of the six
! being more or less maltreated, that we
cannot refrain from giving them as
they appear in the words of the great
Maine poet:
20 Bells of San Bias. in vain
Ye call back the Past again,
. The Past Is deaf to your prayer:
Out Of the shadows of night
The world rolls into light;
1t Is daybreak everywhere"
SO it will be seen that while the Cou-
I rant man had something of the idea, he
. was somewhat off in its expression
and he hardly improved on the original
!. Tfen again he was scarcely justified in
/. saying that the poet wrote these lines
long ago" They were written not so
. very long ago. except from the view
point of youth. They were written in
1SS2-on March Is of that year. to be
exact-and deserve special respect for
the fact. if for no other reason. that
they are the last lines of the last poem
ever written by Longfellow. He died
few weeks later, his soul flooded. we
cannot doubt. with vision of "dav
break everywhere"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-19
Catarrh,

Called an American disease. is cured
by an American medicine. originated
and prepared in the most catarrhal OF
American countries.
That medicine Is Hoods Sarsaparilla.
1t cures radically and permanently
In that it removes the cause, cleansing
the blood Of scrofulous and all other
impurities. It overcomes all the enectS
OF catarrh, too, and builds up the
whole system.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-19
Uncompleted Books,

Like many an author before him
r. Marion Crawford. the busy teller Of
tales. died with his pen in his hand,
ana Ike many another author, he
firmly believed that the work upon
which he was engaged at the time Of
his death was to be the chief effort OF
his literary career This work was
e not another novel, but was a history
OF italy. but now of course it will
never be finished. Writing in the
Chicago Record-Hcrald, Henry Bar
rett Chamberlain touches i'm an inter-
esting fashion upon the numerous in
7 stances in literary history when dead
authors have left behind them nm
completed books, as Crawford has
= done.
Dickens, dying suddenly. was at
= work upon The Mystery of Edwin
/ Drood within a few hours of hi,
Z death. leaving. indeed. a sentence
X partly written. Thackeray had COM
+. pieted only seven chapters of Denis
= Duval' which was appearing serialIy
! In the Cornhill Magazine at the time
y OF his death
9 Hawthorne. always conscienti-
/, ously slow and careful writer, had
projected another romance and cast
1t in several shapes, as "Septimus
: FELTON," DIR. Delivers Secret" and
i The Doliver Romance" but had not
worked out the conception to his own
. satisfaction, though the studies he
. his death
l Sir Walter Scott, worn out by his
= prodigous labors futiely seeking new
Z energy on the last journey during,
= which death found him, was even
then working on a tale. two-thirds of
(which he had written, though it was
destined never to reach the public.
THE Siege of Malta" was to still
further reduce the debt which he had
nearly paid when he started for Italy
for the needed rest taken too late.
Robert Louis Stevenson, stricken by
apoplexy. and mourned by his native
neighbors in Samoa as Is Crawford by
the Italian peasantry, had never Il
forewarning thought that est Ives
would be left unfinished.
Helen Jackson left "Zeph" and
Wilkie Collins Blind Love-
asAmongst the famous poems tina.
We're never carried out to the COM
pletion planned for them by their
creators are Byron's Don Juan.
Gfay's "Agrippina,'' Coleridge's
.''Christabel." Keats Hyperion" and
Sponsors "Faerie Queen"
Buckle, though he toiled twenty
years on his great History of Civili-
Zation," had not written fms when his
call came. Prescott died before he
completed The History of the Reigr
of Philip H." Theodore Winthrop. in
s4.heritor of unfulfilled renown, who was
killed at the battle OF Big Bethel. hat
Just found his avocation when he died
and his books, John Brent" "Ceci
~ Dreeme" and Edwin Brotherton,
though finished before he entered tho
ranks of the Seventh Regiment O
q, New York. were not published unit
after his death.
Among Ben Jonson's papers hi
literary executors found the beautifu
unfinished pastoral, "The Sal
Shepherd"
gin several instances others hav'
tried to tell the people what the ere
of the unfinished story should be. bl
ssstever satisfactorily. Better to leavl
the fragment as it fell from the hand
ss1Vf its maker, even though it's incom
: .pieteness saddens.
10.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-19
A Fresh .PIowed Field.

The inspired writer said that There
is one glory of the sun, another of the
moon and another of the stars" So
there is also a difference in beauty
There are the beauties of art and the
beauties Of nature, each delighting in
their way. And in the presentation 81
the beauties Of nature spring is the
most liberal. Tie man whose eye is
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-19
NEGLECT q Cough

and 1t quickly developes into consumP.
ton. Adamson's Botanic Cough BaIsam
for Coughs, Colds and Consumption neais :
a speady cure even when the. cold or
cough has become obstinate, and nothing
else gives relief. Many Thousands ot
people testify to its merits. Don't !ss
your druggist sell you some other cure
just as good. He hasn't any. InslSt
upon getting Adamson's Botanic COUSIN
Balsam.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-19

This being Patriots day the Jour
nal office will be closed through the
day and evening and no paper will be
issued Tuesday morning.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-19

Patriots Day is the next holiday,
May 30" says the Maine Temperance
Record. Now there would have been
uncharitable remarks if some editors
hao made a break like that!
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-19

Patriots day, If you cannot go fish
ing. it will be patriotic service t.
clean up the yard.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-19

Hon. r. w. Shaw of Houlton proba-
bly, made Il record in court last week
that cannot be equalled in court rec
same time on cases where Mr. Shaw
was employed as attorney. In each of
the cases verdicts We're brought in for
Mr. Shaw'S client.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-19

An advertisement in the Boston
Transcript recently puts up for sale the
oldest Churn in tie United States. 1t
was made in 1742 for the first settler in
Wells. Maine. and is in sound condi-
ton. One wonders how many tons of
butter have issued from this old inlple-
ment of housewifery in the century and
a half of it's existence.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-19

At the gathering of 200 New England
postmasters of the first and second
class at Boston last week Maine men
were prominent. Postmaster Mansfield
of Boston is a Maine man, native of
Hampden. Postmaster Oaks of Bangor
is president of the association, and
among the speakers were l.. T. Garlic
ton. Major Holman F. Day and Editor
Fuller of the Rockland Courier Gazette.
Sanford Tribune:-While the late
Maine Legislature was passing law to
keep automobiles out of Bar Harbor
and off Mt. Desert Island, one of the
most beautiful spots on the Maine
coast, the New Hampshire legislature
passed bill to raise one million dol
lars TO build three great highways into
the very heart of their summer play
grounds, that automobiles might get
there easily. Evidently New Hampshire
would rather have automobiles and the
money that travels with them than to
please a few miliionaires who might
desire to monopolize Breton Woods or
other natural beauty spots.
The record load of potatoes at Ken
duskeag was made by Herbert Mud
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-19

The record load of potatoes at Ken
duskeag was made by Herbert Mud
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1909-04-10
SATURDAY. APRIL 10. 1909.

Every question has It's two sides and
In no case is this more apparent than
in the revision Of the tariff. We have
been lead to believe by the city press
that the advanced duty on women s
gloves and hosiery is the result OF a
combination of manufacturers TO
cruelty the fair sex with heavier char
ges for their wearing apparel and
thousands of women have been protest.
ing to congress TO stop the dlscrimina-
tion. Now comes Mr.. Payne with the
statement that the increase will only
amount to rs cents per pair of gloves
ana that the agitation against the in
crease has been raised by the big de-
partment stores OF the country who
own factories in foreign countries and
who, by the employment of the cheap
labor, can undeisell the manufacturers
in this country