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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-23
BEARS AS HONEY HUNTERS.
In Their Search They Destroy Apiaries
of Taxes Farmers.

The beckeepers of the Wharton SEC
ton in Texas frequently suffer losses
from the depredations of bears. Nar.
Gus kinds of devices are used to pro-
tnct the apiaries from the invasion Of
these animals. The trap gun is ore Of
the most effective guardians OF the bee
hives The fact, however, that more or
less danger is incurred TO innocent M.
man beings who might accldentauy
throw the spring of trap gun causes
many of the apiarists to prefer to keep
an armed guard over their beehives.
The Caney bottoms, situated short
distance from Wharton, are the natTH-
al habitat of many black bears. The
animals seem to have Keen scent III
honey, and they make nightly iner.
siuns into the adjacent territory NJ
search of feast of their favorle
sweets One beal can play havoc with
an apiary in short order. He knocks3
the stands over one by one with bis
pondcrouS paws and quickly obtains an
opening into the honey compartmens
The average bear has Il large capaeiT1
for honey, and one of the animals hass
been known to clean up a score of bel
stands in single night.
Henry Carter, who has a large aplaT1
II; the Boiling neighburhoOd. had an ex'l
citing experience with TWO honey-lov'l
ing bears recently. He has pack Of
bear dogs which have been used prln'|
cipally to guard against the attacks Of
bruin The kennel of these dogs 81
close to the hives, and no bear cara3
to venture close to the spot. neigh
Dor borrowed the pack to trail doWal
some bears that had been giving NM
trouble and failed TO return the dogs
at night. Mr. Carter was awakened
about midnight by Il noise which came
from his orchard, where his bee colo..l
MES were located. He. quickly divlneal
that a bear raid was on. He grabbed
a rifle and hurried out of the house
toward the apiary.
He took a sudden backward jump
when a big black bear rose upon hsI
hind feet from behind a beehive ana
started toward him. Mr. Carter ilraI
at the animal at close range. the ou'l
let wounded bruin and stopped MS PRIV
gress temporarily. At this moment An
Carter noticed another bear runmas
off from another part of the apiary' n,
took q shot at it. but must have mls'ea1i
as no sign of blood was found altei,
ward. The first bear which lie Inv
wounded soon regained its feet ana ~
so close to Mr.. Garter as to stfihe. ~
him viciously with one of its paws MI.
Carter bounded behind an adJaeeml
tree, where he got in two more sl'0s,
from his rifle before the bear couI
reach him. These bullets put an CIV
to bruin. The bears had completely w
stroyed his apiary before he arriVto y
the scere.-Mcinphs CommerciaiiAp
peal
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-23
The Commission Plan for Cities.

The increasing popularity of the plan
indicated by the fact that no fewer
than 10 Illinois cities. including four
of the largest six cities in that stat :,
outside of Chicago. have appealed TO
the legislature to pass an act making
possible the commission plan of
government. The success of this ar
rangement in various cities. notably
Galveston and Des Moines which led
the way. has given a great impetus to
this movement in all parts of the land.
Yet it is only half dozen years since
the commission idea was tried in any
wav to attract attention. OF course
Washington. the national capital, has
long been governed by commission. but
that is another matter since the COM
missioners of that city are appointed
by the federal authorities and are re-
sponsible to Congress.
The great virtue of the commission
plan is that II does away Wlln II graf
amount of municipal machinery which
is now in operation. In place of the
MAYOR and two boards there is COM
mission of four or five men elected
directly by the people. these men being
ex-officio the heads of the various CITY
departments Another important
point in the commission plan is that IT
does away with the present ward sys-
tenn of electing aldermen and council
men, since the commissioners are al
ways elected by the city at large. The
commission plan is being talked up IN
some of our Maine cities, especially
Portland, where it is being given very
serious consideration and where it has
some earnest and influential sup
porters Thus far the commission
plan has worked well in the cities
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-23

anything. Mr.. Campbells feels that IN
this event they do rot deserve very
much sympathy. There is likewise Il
provision in the bill that unmarried
men who have offered their hearts and
hands on at least three separate oc-
casions, but have failed to come up TO
the plans and specifications and have
consequently been rejected, are not
called upon to pay. 1t would not pc
right, it is thought, to tax man tor
being a bachelor who has been doing
his level best to get married and can
not Widowers are also exempt, be-
cause it is not their fault that they
are wifeless. The bill aims to get
after those misguided creatures VINO
remain single out of pure cussedpess,
and it comes pretty near doing it. One
we'll known bachelor who lives on the
banks of Opeechee stream says he VIII
never pay the tax if the bill is passed,
nor will he ever marry an old maid
who wears a Merry Widow hat. There
have been more bachelors and maiden
ladies reared on the banks of Opeechee
stream than in any other place of its
size in Maine
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-23
MAINE EDITORIAL COMMENT.
Brilliant Maine Attorneys.
Bangor Commercially

We find in the latest number Of
School-the able and brilliant educa-
tional journal published each week IN
New York, and edited by Mr. Charles
Eugene Hanlin, son of Hon. Charles
Hamlin of this city-an account OF the
great case tried before Mr.. Justice
Whitenouse at Augusta, the verdict be-
ing SIG, 1882; one OF the most prom
inent cases ever tried in Maine.
The Maine counsel was Arson Morrill,
Goddard, d granddaughter of the late
Senator Lot NJ. Morrill,. of Augusta.
Gilbert H. Crawford of New York was
counsel for the plaintiff. Mr.. Crawford
spent week in Augusta during this
trial and his estimate of the legal ability
and character of Maine jurists stands
especially high, after his acquaintance
with them. School says: Mr.. Craw-
ford thinks that he has never met a
better type of lawyers in any part of
the country. 1t may be added that his
opponent, Herbert NJ. Heath, of whom
Mr.. Crawford speaks in high terms. ls
regarded in Maine as one Of the rising
and most promising men OF the fu.ur
there He has been much spoken OF
for United States senator from Maine
and as Il most worthy successor o. its
list Of brilliant statesmen"
Additional facts OF interest to our
members OF The legal fraternity brought
out by /. report Of the above trial are
contained in an interesting letter from
Mr.. Hamlin to the editor of the Com
merical. lie writes that Mr.. Crawford
is one Of TIC solid lawyers in New York
.,s,, in mo
Maine lawyers whom he met in Angus
Ia impressed him as being up to the
New York standard.
Mr. Hamlln says Mr.. Crawford's eX-
pcrionce in Maine reminded him OF
that of Charles w. Brooks, the famous
lawyer of that city who defended jim
my Hope. the bank robber, who was
tried on the charge of killing Cashier
Barron of Dexter. Mr.. Brooks after
wards, became acquainted with Mr..
Hamln, who writes us: when he
learned that | came from Bangor how
he did IRE up! Then you knew Judge
Peters, John Earney, Frank Wilson.
Charles Woodland, Fred AppletOn-what
q brilliant lot they are? Why, if they
lived in New York they would be on
top
Mr. Brooks admiration for Judge
Peters was immense. He said that he
had never met a more judicious lawyer
or more judicious judge. He talked for
hours about the Bangor lawyers and
said that re had never encountered!
their equal outside Of New York.
told Mr. Brooks that we had more a.
coming; and as Augusta is a suburb of
Bangor-during the Legislative period
he seems to be right in the case of Mr..
Health
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OXFORD.

Fryeburg, March H. Louville II. Eni-
erson and Miss Nellie f. Hartman,
both Of Chatham, N. H.
Wilton, March 10, Roy NJ. Brown
and Miss Eta Harris.
East Dixfeld, March 8. George S.
Lowell, of West Pennington and Miss
Hattie l.. Smith of Wilton.
Oxford. March 4, Clarence keene OF
oxford and Miss Ethel lkeene of Po-
land.
Andover, March 6, Charles Moore CT
Rumford Point and Miss Agnes Brown
OF Hanover.
South Paris, March s, Omar 3. MGR
row of Auburn and Hattie L. Haskell
of South Paris.
Rumford, March 9, Geo. L. Phillips
and Bella Murdoch.
Mexico, March /, Samuel Nicholas OF
Ridlonvile and Louise Johnson of New
Glasgow, ~ s.. Frank l.. Bean and
Mildrith F. Proctor.
PENOBSCOT.
Exeter, March Ia, Lewis A. Boswell
of Stetson and Mrs. Jessie Kent OF Ex-
ctef.
West Enfield. March II. Joseph A.
Spencer of Enfield and Mrs. Mary A.
Losue of Island Falls.
Glenburn, March 10, Earl G. Strout
and Miss Edith Gertrude Fitz.
Bangor. March IA. Fred NJ. Totman
ard Amy LII Young, both of Bangor;
March o David A. Withee and Mrs.
Addie Young.
Rowland. March :. Geo. w. Butter
field and Mrs Julia &. Curtis.
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BORN.
FRANKLIN.

Pennington Feb. II. to the wife or
l.. Davis, daughter
West Pennington, March II, to the
wife of Frank A. Gardner, daughter
HANCOCK.
Ellsworth, March Is, to the wife Of
Arthur NJ. Jones, a son.
Franklin, March 9, to the wife of
Ernest l.. Bragdon, a son; March ), 20
the wife Of Albert Mclaughlin, a SON
Brooksville, March ., to the wife of
David r. Black, q son.
Bluehil. March 5, to the wife of
Luther W. Bridges, a son: March 4, 10
the wife of Ferdinand NJ. VeaZie, Jr, a
daughter: March II, to the wife of
Milton T. WardweH, a daughter.
Brookln, March s, to the wife OF
Harvey L. Wells. a son.
Stonington, March 6, to the wife of
Jason G. Gross. a daughter
Swans Island, March 1, to the wife
of Maynard F. Joyce. son.
Amherst, March 5, to the wife of a.
c. Mcdonald, a son.
KENNEBEC.
Augusta. March Q. to the wife of ].
NJ. Fowler. a son; March 10, to the
wife of Wesley Cooley. daughter:
March i. to the wife of Peter Hamel.
a son; March 6, to the wife of Jean
Poulin, a daughter: March 9, to the
wife Of Joseph Pare. a daughter.
March 10. to the wife of David Nadeau,
a daughter.
Hallowell, March II. to the wife of
Frank S Wingate. a son.
Gardiner, March Il, to the wife Of
Fred L. Babb. a son.
KNOX
Rockland, March II. to the wife of
Ernest Redmun. a son; March s, to the
wife of Fred l.. Knight. q son.
Union. March ., to the wife of Le-
land Lermond, a son.
Warren, March 3, to the wife of
Scott Ames, a son.
OXFORD.
South Paris, March 4. to the wife of
Frank w. Nottage, son.
Byron. March Z, to the wife of David
Ladd q daughter.
Hanover. March 8, to the wife Of
John l.. Dyer 4 son.
Buckfield, March s, to the wife OF
Dr. H. M. Head. a daughter.
West Sumner, March 1, to the wife
of Mr. Barrie, a daughter
Norway, March 6, to the wife OF
Daniel +. Dellea, a daughter.
SOMERSET.
Arson. March ,, to the wife of
Napoleon Gilbert, son.
Harmony. March I, to the wife of
Harry Starhird, son.
WASHINGTON.
Calais. March IL, to the wife of Jake
Sibolsky, twin sons; March II. to the
wife of James Theodore Ricketts,,
daughter; March II, to the wife of
Geo. Brownrigg, daughter.
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of Chinese letters.
Then there are the Transparent fish
bred abroad. They seem to be scas'
less, although they are not One of tn.
oldest looking of these tiny creatures
is known as the Moor" because a.
its hlue-black velvet color. There X
also the japanese hood. this almost
hiding the fact OF the fish. The trans.
parent fringed telescope has fins AZ
filmy as the most delicate silken wah
The highest type of development of all
the species, however, is known as the
"Cclestiar' transparent telescope
These are bred only by the Urientals
The American breeders do not vet
know how they are obtained. Their
eyes, instead of being on the side of the
head are directly on top of it. It Isl
believed that this most curious of AM
the freaks are bred in jars and their
only light is through narrow slit cut
in the top. This necesstates their con.
tiruously looking upward for light and
food, and in time the eyes grow in,
that position. Other species are the
tiger, because of its stripes: the
Agard's wonders, a cross between the
scaleless comet and the Scaeless tele-
scOpe-Philadelph North American
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-23
Queen Mary's Prison House.

Hardwick, which for sometime h.'
the Duke and Duchess of De'oiis''a
will make their principal country.
dence. is perhaps the most beautn~ !.
all the Cavcndish palaces ana u :,
way is quite as stately q pala.9 i.
Chatsworth. 1t is often associateo s
Mary Queen of Scots, whose W'S
house it is supposed to be, pu' a.
matter of fact this unfortunate qua
never set foot in this Hardwich IN ~,
1t was the old Hardwick Han he s.aa
where the Scots queen was conn" i
under the charge of the Far s,,h|
Shrewsbury. Building Besss ,.dx
husband. and the rooms at Harur Ia
bearing her name were never occup ooa
Indeed. poor Mary Stuarts tras" .nss
at Fortheringay had come before lard .a
rooms We're finished. "Bess Oh ,rar.
wick" was furiously jealous Vi n.
and the suite of rooms when sn ,,.rs
tended should be occupied by MI
We're furnished with peepho'es nm
windows to enable her to spy " nj
the royal occupant at all tii''e ss,ore.
they were never required. the pe 10
ings of the unfortunate queen ~ frora
be seen at Hardwick were moNea .,hlch
old Hardwick Hall. the RUNS u
are close by.-Court Journal
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-23
The Proposed Inheritance Tax.

The provision in the Payne tariff
bill, for federal Inheritance tax has
already aroused general discussion
through the country. and during the
next few weeks no feature of this rev.
enue measure will be more generally
talked about. The opposition to it Is
violent in many quarters and on the
other hand the scheme has many firm
friends who stoutly defend it, OF
course it is argued in some quarters
that the inheritance tax is in itself
wholly wrong and an outrage upon the
rights of property, but the chief argu-
ment against a national inheritance
fewer than 3S of the states now have
Inheritance taxes of their own, and the
national inheritance tax will in some
measure be double taxation in these
various states. The state inheritance
taxes are of various kinds, most of
them progressive in nature, at least
to the extent that exemptions of small
inher.tances are provided for.
1t will hardly be disputed that the
federal government has a right to i'm
pose inheritance taxes even though
that field of taxation is already occu-
pied by so many of the states. \ small
Inheritance tax was levied by the fed
eral government between 1897 and 1902.
Again from 1862 to 1870, lasting there
fore till five years after the close of the
civil war. we had such tax. Again
it existed from 1895 to 1902. The 1898
tax law was very complex and in some
respects much more radical than the
tax now proposed. Within the imme-
date family the rate on lesacies
ranged from "a per cent to "a per cent,
to more distant relatives it went as
high as 10 per cent, and in the case
OF strangers or very distant relatives
the limit was Is per cent.
The present proposal placing the rate.
at straight ) per cent on sums Inherit
ed by collateral relatives or by strang-
ers, and ranging from l To per cent
for direct inheritances, the last figure
only on legacics of more than half q
million dollars, cannot be regarded as
at all radical, either as compared with
the taxes a few of the states now levy
or with similar taxes in foreign gov
ernmcntS
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long ago and resigned his Job at the
end of week. He said that his VIE
didn't like to stay home alone at night.
At one of the open-air tuberculosis
hospitals in London the faces OF the
patients are never protected from
storms This winter six inches OF snow
gathered on the beds during one night.
Sheffield is supposed to make the
finest steel in the world, yet in spite
of all her wonderful machinery she
cannot make a sword blade as good as
those which the old Saracens used to
manufacture.
. A man at Los Angeles, Cal, is try
ing to get divorce because he CLAIMS
she will not let him play the piano, ana
makes the baby sleep IN the day time
SO it will howl all night and keep him
awake.
The forests authorities in some parts
of India say that the worst things they
have to contend with are the wild eie-
plants. These brutes destroy many
trees and seem to do it in spirit Of
WantonneSs.
The various local transportation COM
panies in New York city carry over
!, SOC, OO0, 900 people in the course of a
year, which is larger number OF pas
sengers than the steam roads in the
country carry.
King Edward got nice little bunch
of gems trcm the Cullinan diamtnd
The two chief stones weigh 30 and '09
carats, respectively; then there are
others OF 80. g., is, II. 9, 6, and carats
There are also So small brlliants.
The American talking machine is q
popular affair in China and the best
bands ard singers are engaged there to
make The Chinese records. 1t is said
that record which is popular in the
north of the empire is never popular in
the south.
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GLEANlNGS AND GOSSIP.

Prussia spends about $20000,000 q
year for coal for the state railroads.
A plan has been perfected to widen
the channel through the Lachine rapids
in the St Lawrence and to span them
with q bridge.
a lot was sold in New York the other
day for Sis & square inch. This would
make all acre worth something around
$4,000, 900.
4 whiskey expert. known for years as
dead. Most whiskey experts are known
as men with noses of other color.
RaiSuli has been made the governor
of a province. Probably he has discov
cred that more money can be made by
a politician than by Il mere brigand.
Chicago has discovered that her air
800 feet above the street level contains
705S pounds Of dirt to the acre, or three
times as much as the air above Lon
don.
There have been 45G new members
added to tie rose family within the
past three years, but no florist has yet
been able To grow a blue or a black
rose.
\ physician in New York recon-
mcnds that children be taught in the
open air, as this would be a great step
toward the ultimate stamping out of
tuberculosis
The Japanese now carrying on an eX-
tersive industry in making real pearls
They put some little thing in a i've oys
ter and at the end of four years take
it out a perfect pearl.
10 y VIII I,,, !,
the next time his army goes to war the
drlimmcrS have got to fight. probably
wants few soldiers who are able to
beat something
Things appear to be picking up in
Oklahoma. The Tonawa News last
week said that a iackrabbit had been
seen in the town and that the fishing
was improving in the creek.
1T is said that not one out of every
10000 buildings now standing will lie
standing in 800 years. We do not
know how to put stones and brick to-
Guther as the ancients did.
There seems to be some question as
to whether or not the truckmen who
cartcd the Rooseveltian messages from
the White House to the capitol has
been given proper pension.
Lewiston. Me, will be big city be-
fore long if the French Canadians con-
tinue to go there. Two families settled
there last week and there were IA peo-
pie in one ard 26 in the other.
AS 4 wealth producer the milk and
dairy products of this country are
much greater than the wheat crop and
twice as great as the corn crop.
Mexico has sent a commission of 40
men and 10 women to study education
al conditions in varied places in the
world in an effort to improve the
schools of the southern republic.
motorman was appointed police
man in small Pennsylvania city not
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-23
MARRIED..
AROOSTOOK.

Chapman. March Il, Clinton D. Buck
and Mrs. Florence McGlinchey.
Maplcton. March II. David Tingley
ard Miss Alveda Briggs.
Houlton, March l.. Leigh Graham of
Houlton and Miss Joyce Springer of
WytopitlOCk.
CUMBERLAND
Portland, March II, NJ. Charles Ed
win Fields ana Marion Elizabeth Mel
cher. Clarence Adams Leighton and
Grace Simmons: Henry c. Hopkins of
Maiden. Mass, and Mary e. Norton Of
Portsmouth, y. H.: Albert Knudsen
and Annie Louise Christensen;
Charles Augustus Brazier and Laura
Anna Webb, both of South Portland.
FRANKLIN.
Phillips, March l, Bradford Lambert
Beal and Miss Blanche Lydia Landers.
Chcstcrville, March 10, Lester a.
Wheeler of Monmouth and Miss Maisic
G.. Hutchins Of Chestervilie.
HANCOCK.
Surry, March 3, Miss Katie l. Can
dage, of Surry to Walter f. Chase OF
Limestone.
Mckinley, March 6. Miss Sylvia Albee
of Mckinley to George Arcy OF Ston-
ingtOn.
BucKsport. March 6, Miss Nellie Gle
mcnt of PenobScot to James w. Saun-
ders of Orland.
Ellsworth, March 10. Miss Margaret
f. Grant Of Bucksport to William r.
F'ifield of Ellsworth; March 6, Miss
Beatrice NJ. Dolliver to George F.
Dodge both of Trenton.
KENNEBEC.
Augusta, March Is, Henry Clifton
Kimball Of Fairfield and Annie Mae
Sawyer of Hinckley; March IA, David
LeClair and Victoria Medina; March Is
Willard T.. Milliken and Miss Matte
Bailey; March 9, f. B. Welsh and Mar
ion c. EstabrOoks.
KNOX.
Roclland, March z. Fred p HodgdOr
and Miss Nancy F.. Burgess. -
North Haven, March /, Alfred Toll
man and Miss Louise E. Haynes.
LINCOLN.
Whitefield-March IS, by Rev. r. s
Graham, Frank J. Ripley Of Whitefield
to Miss Bertha l. Merrill of Augusta.
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Names War Upon the Liquor Traf-
fic." Il; the title of newly publlshed
pamphlet of 90 pages from the pen OF
Colonel Henry A. Wing of Lewiston
ono of Names best-known newspaper
men. The work is made up of 4 series
of articles published during the past
wear in the Portland Evening Express,
and represents n vast amount OF MS
tor;cal research which Colonel Wing
has been doing for 4 long time. All
matters of temperance and prohibition
legislation from the earliest days OF
tn, state down to the last Legislature
are traced in detail and made avail
able for immediate reference. 1t Is
the first work of it's kind which has
becn prenared and has involved vast
amount of original and painstaking re-
search. Colonel Wing has performed
this task with characteristic thorough
ness and fairness and deserves the
thanks of the people of Maine for TINS
valuable addition to the history OF our
State. -.,..---.-- = --. ,-----
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President Taft's splendid tribute to
the late Grover Cleveland ut the re-
cent meeting in New York will make
him solid in the hearts of the old line
Democrats who stood loyal to Grover
Cleveland while he was living and who
are now II guard of honor around his
grave Probably never before in our
political history has any occupant OF
the White House spoken so frankly
and apprcciativtly of Il predecessor
belonging to another party.
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The great honors paid by Yale men
to President Taft as the first Presi-
a reminder that Yale had narrow
escape from furnishing the President
IL 1.,6. Tilden was Il Yale man, al
though i'll health compelled him to
leave the institution before he rcct ived
his degree. In his case it seems to
and no, one Of those sudden decisions
I" leave college which are So common
after the mid-ycar examinations.
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The Springfield Republican points
in the reports of aviators when they
descend from their\ first tentativ"
fights. The other day the halky Eng
lish army aeroplane at last consented
tu leave the ground. and Mr.. Cody,
W ho operated it. is quoted as saying:
Had I liked, | could have continued
the flight for an hour. so lheH "a'
say. but with remarkable consentan-
city thcr all like to come down IN
about Il fraction of a minute or less.
Those who learned bicycling IN the
OH days of the high wheel will recog-
ni.e that satisfied feeling.