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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26
GlEANiNGS AND GOSSIP.

Germany now has 100000 men wHp
are fit for military duty ON short notice.
Denmark, Norway, Sweden and It. 'lanl
have given municipal franchise to " ,mcr.
The annual yield of minerals III t,n
British empire is said to be worth $l,efD.-
| 0N00oo
Illinois is considering the adNl>hb lttE
of labelling unmarried men. What's the
use? You can tell them by their smila.
A beautiful triple rainbow has been
seen at Smolensk, Russia, the air at tie
time being filed with very fine AMI
powdcry snow.
Maryland is one of the most advanced
states in the Union in the fight against
tuberculosis, and was the first to adopt
a practical registration law.
A man i'll Salt Lake City claims that no
| has learned how to skate by reading a
book. All he needs now is u bit Of ice
and IA bottle of liniment.
Europeans are beginning to realize tho
hysicnc value Of high buildings. with
elevators. which lift people into the dust
free, sunit. higher regions.
A man in St Paul says that We should
have three presidents at once. Just try
to imagine the past seven years WIN
three Rooscvelts on the job.
Queen Elizabeth of Rumania has start
| ed crusade against corsets and has
issued an address to the women of Europe
asking them to boycott the things.
Secretary Seward made sonnet hing of u
bargain after all as grows more apparent
each year Last year $1S0o0,0 worth of
gold and silver alone were found i'll
Alaska.
Gov. Fort of New Jersey, advocating
the election of Il president for life, is Il
bit late with the suggestion to makes
much of a hit with the man it was cvl-
IDENTIFY his intention to please.
This claim that Hudson did not discover.
the river named for him. but that a pair
of Portuguese sailors got the first peep
at it will probably not nave much effect
on the coming celebration.
SneeZing has an extensive folklore III
many countries. Sometimes the act is
considered ominous of good and some
times of evil. Among the Jews it has
always been regarded, at an appropriate
moment, such as the conclusion of ba1-
gain, as propitious and a belief still En-
gers in many parts of the country that,
the regular habit of sneezng. particularly
after meals, is conducive to longevity ana
precaution against fevers. The old
English custom of saying God bless You
when a person sneezed. so as to avoid
evil consequences. has it's counterpart Ill
many far-distant parts of the globe the
early settlers in Brazil found the sneeZer
saluted with God preserve you while Ill
Fiji it was customary to retort, May you
live" In supersttious Suffolk there is q
sneeZing tariff-once wish twice KISS
thrice a letter and four times disap-
pointment.
The Floyd County Commissioners. it
is reported "have ordered 10 dozen
suits of pajamas for the county's con-
victs." Is there another county III
Georgia or another penal institution IN
the United States that provides us
prisoners with the fashlonapie
"nighties"? Who wouldn't rather %
a pajamaed prisoner in the Floyo
county chain-gang than no nign.
shirt freeman on the plains OF WlnuI
Kansas?-Savannah News.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

The coffee habit" has evidently grown
upon the people of the United States.
Twenty years ago. the quantity of coffee
imported was 423000.000 pounds, and in
1903 $50 100000 pounds the yearly I'M
portation in that interval twice having
exceeded 1000, 900 pounds. The per cap
ita consumption which in 1853 was So
pounds. in 1873 ga. and in 1888. 6.Sl, was
in 1898. 116S pounds, and in 1903. 1904
pounds. In tea the per capita consume
ton has somewhat reduced meantime
that of 1873 having been 1.33 pounds ner
capita; 1883. IA pounds: 1899. 09i of one
pound. and in 1903 107 pounds per capita.
In cocoa the growth in per capita con
sumption has been even more rapid thal
that of coffee. the quantity import 81
having grown from 25,000o0o pounds in
1898 to 100000 pounds in 1903, having
thus considerably more than trebIed il
the short space of 10 years.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26
Advance of Newspapers.
printers Ink.)


MANY orators and many writer's have
spuutcd culogy for the newspapers and
their wonderful growth and hold upon
the public. But the most vivid oratory
cannot make such a strong impression
as the making of a definite comparison
of newspaper growth during the last
Is years In 1898. Just Is years ago.
there were 1885 daily newspapers III
the United States and 14,017 Weeklies,
or total of all kinds Of 20006. Today
there are 2374 daily newspapers in the
United States. and 1929 Wcekl1es or a
total of 21,320 newspapers of every
kind There has been approximately
an increase of 1874 newspapers IN the
last Is years A more conclusive cyl
dence of the growth of newspapers IS
given by the output of news print pa
per during the last year IN the united
States In 1894 the consumption was
400 900 tons. and in 1907 the consump-
ton reached 100000 This growth be-
gan with the general Introduction Of
tie notwithstanding linOtypcs in 1891
and the disseminating of paper Wettlng
before printing Since then every side
of newspaper publishing has advanced
itself almost unrecognizably; editorial
policies, advertising methods. circula-
building, and every thing else. as
we'll as the mechanical side. has chang
ed. The almost universal vogue of the
newspaper has made it the powerful
spokesman of American public opinion
to ali extent which foreigners are
amazed at. but which is a logical part
of the necessary equipment for Il re-
public governed by public opinion.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

Out in san Francisco they are going
to have unique kind of a celebration
next Wednesday, March 81. and one in
whose observance the whole country
will be Interested 1t will be made an
occasion for general rejoicing over the
removal of all traces of bubonic plague
from that city and the conclusion of the
extensive sanitary campaign which it is
now announced has freed the city from
ali danger of that much dreaded ASiatic
scourge. In this connection it is worth
noting that the campaign against the
bubonic plague. with its accompanying
cleaning up and wholesale sanitary
crusade, has not only accomplished the
chief end aimed at. but has also result
ed in reduction by fully 50 per cent.
in the number of cases Of ordinary fe-
yer.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26
The Ideal Woman.
(\cw York WORLDLY


Dr LYMAN Abbott defines in seven
clauses the ideal woman. AS the terms
may be condensed, they call for a
woman who is the slave not Of fash
ion nor the drcssmakcr, who is not
afraid that work will spoil her hands.
who wears shoes in which she can,
walk. thereby getting her color from
excrt Use instead of the r4ugc-boX: who
develops her love of beauty i'll her
home. who is industrious, sympa-
thetic. energetic, enthusiastic, mothcrly
and q true friend.
Tie doctors specifications demand Il
great deal, but nothing which should
be regarded as supernormal. They con-
tain no references to ability in the art
of rhythmic breathing. nor to yearn-
ing Tor the ballot Indeed, the rcquir-
ed qualities are 50 homcly that they
might be the possessions Of q woman
who had never doubled at an afternoon
of bridge. had never considered Wheth-
er or not she ought to smoke in public.
and had never courted the application
Of tho adjective "advanced.'
IT happens that just as DR.. Abbotts
words are before us a free translation
is printed of Berlin papers tribute
to Elena Of Italy:
'Shc is a rcincarnation of Esther in
her surprising beauty and her dcv"-
ton to her people; she is a rcproduc-
ton Of Miriam in her courage. of sara
in her gracious dignity. her moral puri-
ty and her loving Difference to her hus-
band and of Rachel in her affection
for her children. With all these traits
of historic women. she possesses one
quality which is the flower of modern
social progress-a broad and active
huma a desire and will
to help her fcllow-bcings-"
We seem TO find, therefore, that the
doctors ideal is as little ., creature of
station as of the woman's club. She
is the light Of many democratic
American homeland she may be q
queen.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

A regular army officer. Capt. Philip
E. Walker, who was long in Cuba, has
Just been interviewed at his Virginia
home. Says Capt Walker: The i'm
preston seems to be in Havana that
the government will not last six
months. 1t is not believed that the
Cubans are capable OF self-govera
ment, and it is my opinion that the
T-4itod states will have to annex Cuba
.vrutualIy" No doubt most Poop Q
Igf,. with Capt. Walker but it is too
lad to embarrass Cuba at this time by
island republic be given every chance
to make good.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26
The Spirit of Arbor Day.

1.-THE spring comes slowly up this
way." as Co,eridge tells us in Christ
abel" but in those states where it ar
rives earlier than here they are al
ready making plans for Arbor day. In
this connection the New York depart
ment of education, which has been in
yestigating the subject, declares that
while 317,166 trees have been planted
OF the school grounds of the state OF
New York since Arbor day was estab-
lished there in 1889, no fewer than 236.-
2z2 of these trees have died. That is
only one in five survived, and the ex-
PLANTATION of this mortality rate is that
the trees when once planted with song
festivities and appropriate exercises
have been neglected afterward. With
proper care and attention, no doubt
four out of five or an even larger pro
portion would have lived where now
only one in five survives.
Similar statistics have not been col
lected in other states, but it is not like.
~ that conditions are much different
in New York than elsewhere. The les
son of this investigation is that Arbol
day should be made a time for caring
for the trees already planted as wei
as for setting out new trees. Arbol
day is a splendid institution if it is
rightly observed, and in these times
when we hear so much about the de-
struction Of the forests and kindred
subjects, the spirit of Arbor day may
we'll take a new hold upon the Ameri-
can people. The Arbor day idea should
also be given a stimulus by the good
roads movement, for with better high
ways there should be more of an or
ganiZed effort to bring about general
tree planting along the sides of the
highways, that they may be more at
tractive and pleasant for travellers
through the years to come. Except by
the schools and occasionally by some
local Improvement society in a spas
modic outburst of enthusiasm, Arbol
day has been little observed here in
Maine, and often it's observance by the
schools has been more in the way OF
making it festive holiday occasion
than in the true spirit of the day.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

The word comes from Georgia that
contracts have been let for two cotton
mills, one to cost $350,0OO. to be located
at LAGRANGE. and to be completed by
Aug. Is, and the other to cost 100000,
to be located at Manchester. Meri-
wether county, and to be completed by
Oct. 1. The Savannah Morning News
comments, that 'last year the South
consumed in her mills about as much
cotton as was consumed IN the North
ern mills. 1t is only question of a
few years when the Sout1s consump-
ton of cotton will be very much
greater than that OF the North The
Boston Advertiser remarks that there
is something in this for New England
to think about.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

Over in New Brunswick the legisla-
ture does not assemble until about the
time all the legislatures are adjoining
here in TIE states. The New Brunswick
lawmakers met for business this week
more elaborate than that to which we
are accustomed here in Augusta, there
being a brilliant military display and
the discharge of Is guns Il, honor of
the arrival of the governor at the Par
Lament buildings. The newly elected
speaker Of the New Brunswick assem-
blv is an editor, Hon. George J. Clark
OF the St. Croix Courier which Is pub
lished at St Stephen.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

The Journal has no intention of
establishing a matrimonial bureau, but
it will confess for the benefit of the
spinsters among it's readers that
it has received a letter from a
young man in Philadelphia who
is impelled to write us as a result of
reading in the newspapers about the
proposition to tax bachelors in this
State for the benefit of the old maids.
He coyly admits that he has the dis
position and also the means to care for
some woman at present unmarried;
and he is willing, if things can be
suitably arranged with the assistance
of a clergyman, to relieve some I'M
married woman in this State from the
necessity Of depending upon this pro-
posed tax on bachelors as a means OF
subsistence. He modestly requests the
Journal to send him a list Of eligible
and available young women whom we
can guarantee as "congenial. home
loving and not over 80 years of age.
AS the whole matter seems to hinge
upon the bill taxing bachelors, now
before the Maine legislature. we have
filed his request, pending legislative
action upon the measure in question
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

Here in Maine the penalty for Kid
mapping which Is likely to be made
much more severe than at present in
some Of the states, is the same as the
penalty for acknowledgements
ment for not more than 20 years or
flne of not more than $1,000. This has
been the law since 1901. Prior to that
year the maximum term OF imprison-
ment was five years In speaking OF
this penalty Governor Fernald said to
an interviewev this week: Il think the
punishment for kidnapping should not
equal that for murder. as proposed by
some, lest offenders might kill child if
liable to Apprehension with child in
their possession"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

These are the wedding out days IN
the big leagues and the captains ant
managers are going through the an
nual process of thinning out THEN
large squads in preparation for the be
ginning of the regular schedule. Many
of the new recruits. and some Of tho
old veterans for that matter, will be
side tracked into the relative obscurity
and small salaries of the so-called
bush leagues" Consequently, this
is the sorrowful season of the year In
baseball and many high hopes are be-
ing rudely shattered.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

No city has a happier name than
Ispahan- the rendezvous" When Wis
tied by the traveller Chardin in the
early part of the eighteen century, it
contained 173 mosques. forty-eight COL
leges. 1880 caravansaries and 273 public
baths. But the Afghans, the local van
dals, who did not care for bathing, de-
stroyed the aqueducts and slaughtered
the battered. In the matter of great
public squares Ispahan can easily out
rival any European city. The Meydan,
or great squire, is a third OF n ne II,
length and about half that breath. 1t
was once encircled by canal bordered
by fine plane trees, but these have long
since vanished along with the canal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26
The Kidneys and the Skin,

In the spring, the kidneys have much
to do. If they are weak or torpid
they will not do it well, and the skin
will be pimply or blotchy. That is tell
ing the story in few words
Hoods Sarsaparilla strengthens and
stimulates the kidneys, cures and pre-
vents pimples, blotches ana all cutane-
Gus eruptions.
Don't fail to take it.
Buy a bottle today.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

The postal authorities of England
paid a high compliment to the stamp
collectors of the world when they pro-
vided a special canoeing stamp for
use in Manchester on the three days of
the stamp exposition in that city re
Gently. The canceling mark was cir
cular in design and about an inch in
diameter, and around it's borders We're
the words international Stamp Ex-
position, Manchester. 1909" Thus, for
once, were the philatelists officially
recognized
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

A Young school teacher in a New York
suburb has formed IA luncheon club for
the mothers of her pupils to assist them
in putting up suitable luncheons for the
youngsters to eat between school sessions.
She noticed that most of the parents gave
their pupils few cents and let them buy
anything they wished in the stores, with
the result that the children bought I'M
wholesome food.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

Three of four miles from Strong vii
lage, on the road to Freeman. herd of
moose has been living all winter in com
fort until heavy crusts began to form
two weeks ago. since when they have
lived in anything but comfort. except
the gentle cow moose. mother of one of
the calves in the party, which now lies
dead in the snow. probably starved to
death while the balance of the herd has
gone There have been rumors from the
Nutting lumber camp in that vicinity
that there was herd of moose close by
for a week, but for fear some lawless
hunter would shoot this rust-bound
game, the matter was kept as quiet as
possible and yesterday party from
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

1t IL to be sincerely hoped that the
country may be as prosperous under
the new tariff, as it has been under
the present one.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

This is the day for the ""nial of the
rumor that President Eji3t # Harvard
will be appointed ambo dor to Eng
land. Meanwhile, Wlitelaw Reid Is a
mighty good man for the place and IS
likely to hold it down for a while
longer
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

The Louisville Courier Journal de-
clares that the African fever produces
an "inky perspiration." There is pro-
badly no man in the United States who
knows more about inky perspirations
than Editor Watterson.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

There are no doubt many bewilder-
Ing and fearsome things IL the East
African Jungle, but 1t Is 8 fair as
sumption that peeka-boo shirt waists,
sheath gowns and cabriolet hats are
not among them
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

1t is no more fair to hold Italy as a
nation and the italian people generally
responsible for the Black Hand bust
ness than 1t Is to assert that the
American people approve OF lynch law
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

The Atlanta Constitution Is wrong in
asserting that Mr.. Roosevelt proposes
to grow a beard in Africa. He has
denied the assertion. In fact he is
looking cheerfully forward to many
close shaves on the trip
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

Professor Starr is worrying himself
sick over the dangers that will beset
Mr. Roosevelt on his African trip. He
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

The country will wit patiently for
the two Coopers to enter the peniten-
tiary, an event which it is devoutly
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

ESTABLISHED 1925

No notice whatever will be taken Of
unsigned communications
The journal cannot be held response
BILE for the preservation or return Of
rejected communications
Address all communications relating
to subscriptions and advertisements
to BURLE1GH & FLYNT, Publish
ers, Augusta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26
Maine Gossip
The Call.

Love comes laughing up the valleys.
Hand in hand with hoyden Spring,
All the Flower-people nodding,
All the Feathered Folk awning.
Higher. Higher" call the thrushes;
Nv ilier, Freer.' breathe the trees;
And the purple mountains beckon
Upward to their mysteries.
Always farther leagues to wander,
Peak to peak and slope to slope;
Lips to sing and feet to follow,
Eyes to dream and heart to hope.
Tarry? Nay. but who can tarry?
All the world is on the wing;
Love comes laughing up the valleys,
Hand in hand with hoyden Spring.
Reginald Wright Kaufman
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

If Castro is reall thinking of re-
turning to Venezueia he should do a
little extra thinkinr before investing
in a ticket.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

Congress cannot pass the tariff law
any too quickly. The more CELEBRITY it
shows the more popular it will be with
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

AS the summer approaches, one may
to Maine, for the coast of our state
has long seemed to have a particular
attraction for authors. William Dean
HoWcllS has long had his summer
home at kittery not far from Ports
mouth, his house being surrounded NY
a fine old garden in which the all-
thor has often been seen at WORK,
while his library is an old barn set
in the midst Of an apple orchard.
George S. WATSON, also has a bcauti-
full home at Kittery. while a little
further up the coast at York Harbpr,
is the summer home Of Thomas Mel
son Page. This beautiful place is sit
uated on a high point overlooking the
sea, and to York Harbor too, comes
John Fox every summer to be the
guest of Mr.. Page. At Kcnnebunk-
port one sees the beautiful summer
home of Margaret Dcland. and Mcri-
deth Nicholson. the Indian author, also
has q home at Kennebunkport. OF
course there arc many noted writer's
AT the islands in Portland Harbor.
Clara Louis Burnham, who summers
at Bailey's island, and whose splendid
books have appealed to hundreds. is,
of course. we'll known throughout
Maine. While Kate Douglas Wiggin
has not a home on the coast yet she,
too, prefers the Maine atmosphere, and
her home at Hollis is too we'll known
to need especial mention But before
other Maine authors began to realize
the opportunities to be found on our
Maine coast Harriet Beechcr Stove
selected Orr's Island as a spot rich in
material. while our own Whittier in
his Dead Ship Of Harpswell long ago
recognized the romance and poetry to
be CLEANED from our shores.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

rh, after revelations of the Whtla
kidnapping case bid fair to be even
more sensational than the crime itself.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26
Friday, March 26, 19L,.

Everybody hopes he will have a
bully vacation and a corking good tim.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

correspondent about a 14-year- old boy
at Chase's Mills. Harold Kecnc, the
14-year- son of Charles keene of the
west part of Turner. has MIXED four
or five COWS the greater part of the
winter, hauled 81 cords of wood from
the woods to the door with his pair of
2-vCar-old steers. hauled 225 cakes of
ice, the sawdust to cover them and is
now hauling SawduSt to bed the cattle
and horses for next summer from the
mill. His father has been at work in
the woods ell Writer and rs he is or
of the road commissioners of Turner, it
looks as if Harold and the steers might
find work to dc around home this sum
mcr"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

Maine is rot the only state where
claims are Icing made that automobiles
are greatly injuring the roads. In Now
York state the damage done to high
ways by motor cars is being attributed
to the use Of chains or other armor on
tires, and the State highway commits
sion is considering their prohibition.
Automobiles are doubtless doing much
to awaken an interest in good roads
but we don't want them spelling the
good results they bring about.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

The Sons of the Revolution in Oregon
now claim that they don't want the old
Liberty bell taken out there for a visit
anyway.