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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-16
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

A badly told story is poor fela,iof,
He is a poor mechanic who can't
make an excuse.
MANY a man who is willing TO De a
CRATER lacks the chance.
The ships most successfully naNlSat-
ca by " omen are cOurtShips.
Love makes the world sc round--and
sometimes keeps it square.
It's difficult For a man to collect HIM
self when his wits are scattered
A man is never his own worst enemy
as long as he can keep his temper
spending ones vacation offers a
grand opportunity for spending ones
money.
A pool man has to spend money to
prove that he has it; rich man
doesn't
TIE mar who never boasts of what
he is going to 10 has fewer excuses to
make.
There's one thing to be said in favor
of summer We have warmer friends
then than we have in winter.
Some men pay their bills with resig-
nation. some others pay them with
money, and a great many never pay
them at all.
There are two kinds of unhappy
people in the world-those who are sad
because they are net known, and those
who are miserable because they are
Chicago News.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-16
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

A man swims with the tide and be-
lieves he's carrying it along with him.
A girl would know enough to fool
men if there weren't any in the world
for her to fool.
One big trouble is d mighty good
thing to take your mind off worrying
so much about the others.
One thing a woman never brags
about her husband is the kind of
clothes he would wear if she would
let him.
The strongest inspiration for a man
to fall in love is to be lonely.
The man with the biggest voice gets
the choicest tid-bits at the banquet
table of fame.
The time people think they know all
about managing children is before they
are married.
You can make most any man thor
oughly bad if you only nag him enough
about it.
A woman's recipe for keeping young
is a capacity for lying about it.
The more you can like man. the
more you wouldn't if you really knew
him.
The little that man wants here below
he wants over and over again every
few minutes with some new kind of
fancy dressing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-16
A Cabinet CONGRESS.

President Taft and his official fam
lily are expected to begin series OF
cabinet meetings September 21st, at
which they will sit as committee OF
The whole on the most important ques-
tons which confront the nation. The
series will last several days, and at
it each member will make a report OF
his achievements during the summer
Just passed. President Taft. it is un-
derstood, will discuss with the cabinet
mis- forthcoming message to Congress.
This convention at the White House
should be of unusual interest, draw
ing as it does to it's deliberations men,
bers from all parts of the country and
from beyond it's confines. Secretary
of state Knox. who spent much of his
vacation during the summer at Maine
resorts, will take up with ether MEM
bers of the cabinet the international
relations of the United States, partic-
ularly with reference to Nicaragua.
Secretary Of War Dickinson, who is
lust returning from visit to the ORR
ant, is expected to hand out wisdom
touching the affairs of the Philippines,
as well as other Pacific Island pos
sessions. Attorney General Wicker
sham and Secretary Nagel of the De-
partment of Commerce and labor, will
report their conclusions with respect
to Alaska. especially as to the efficacy
of tie land laws for this great northern
territory. Secretary of the Treasury
MacVeagh and Postmaster General
Hitchcock will report on the prospects
for the successful operation of the
postal savings bank. Secretary Balm
ger will report on conservation events
and, it is expected. may refer to his
controversy with Clifford Pinchot.
In the light of political events, it Is
feared that many of the administration
plans for the SiXty-second Congress
may have to be revised, but it is hoped
that much of the good work scheduled
by the President may be carried
through.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-16
Pointers for Apple Men.

Maine apple raisers might accept d
hint from some of their hustling COM
petitors of the Northwest who can
raise the fruit of appearance but not
of flavor In the state of Washington
apples of color, quality and condition.
ranging from 3E. to Az tiers, or from
SS to Us in the box, packed in alter
nate or diagonal style, score the high
est in competitions as we'll as in the
markets.
Professor H. E. Van Dieman. chief
Judge at the second national apple
show, offers important suggestions to
apple growers as well as to packers
and handlers. He says quality, color,
condition. and pack are the leading
characteristics and are given 20
points each, whereas size and uni
formity have only 10 points each.
Quality is a matter of first considera-
ton. for the eating of an apple is the
crucial and final test, and there
Maine easily stands to the forefront
because of the worldwide reputation
for flavor of the fruit from our rocky
hillsides. And while Professor Van
Dieman does not mention the fact. it
is undoubtedly true that good size is
an important factor with the house
wife. when the baking day arrives
and the pairing machine is brought
forth.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-16

Der of the Llandudno life saving crew.
Her husband is reported to nave had
hankering after aviation, and made
himself a pair of wings, with which to
aid himself in climbing the cliff. He
got some assistance from them. it is
believed. but they also got him into
serious accident.
Detroit is lamentnG the closing of
its fine arts academy, although it is to
have an art museum. The academy
was a private school. and. like other
private schools. was dependent upon
its patronage for its prosperity. The
work done by the pupils was credit
able and several of them have given
good accounts of themselves. But
there were not enough of them to make
the school financial success. and the
more serious students in Detroit pre-
ferred to go to the larger and weather.
schools in neighboring cities because
these schools had a wider scope. At
the same time the academy filed dis
tinct want in Offering elementary
training in drawing and painting to
many who could not attend the schools
in Cleveland or Buffalo.
The Los Angeles Times has recently
hotel at Placervillc, Cal, which shows
the prices of food when the forty min
ers were thronging the state. The
diner was required to pay in advance.
in gold scales. at the end of the bar
The prices compare very favoraby
with the prices of fashionable restaur-
ants of the present time, and show that
there We're brave landlords before
A
with DIES sert." the charge was 49, For
dinners la carte the following was
the schedule: Beef, Mexican prime cut
$3.50; beef. upong, $3.50: beef, plain
81: beef with one potato, fair SIZE
$1.25; beef, tame. from the states
81 so: also two potatoes, medium size.
SO cents: two potatoes. pealed, -
cents: hash. low grade, rs cents; H.
carat. 81; rice pudding. plain. IS cents
rice pudding and brandy peaches, 81.
Thackeray's literary work did not
help him much when he sought to en-
ter the House of Commons. kew.
Frederick Meyrick. in his Memories o'
Oxford tells of dinner given when
he stood as a liberal for that city.
remarked to him that his must be
special experience, as he was know"
by fame to most Of those whose Vot~S
he- canvassed. Now he said, laylhs
down his knife and fork and hoidins
up a finger, there was only one man
among all that | went to see VINO Id"
heard my name before, and he was
circulating librarian. Such is morla
fame" That was in 1857. ~ year.
after the publication of vanity fair'
London Chronicle.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-16
A Hint to Wise and Wealthy.

A recent decision of the Washington
commissioners to provide a means of
teaching the young people Of the city
to swim is of laudable intent. but how
vividly it recalls our boyhood days
and the old swimming hole. If such
movement is carried out. it is to be
hoped that the advantages will be &C
corded the girls as well as the boys.
III this present year. girls have proven
their superiority in the art and the
science of competing with the fishes.
They have repeatedly broken long dis
lance records and smashed the time
limits of their male competitors
There is no good reason why such a
very desirable and necessary means
of self preservation should be given
to some of our children and denied to
others.
The establishment of swimming
pools, with capable attendants or in
structors. should be considered by
every city of size that precludes the
availability of our memory treasured
swimming hole. Such pools can do
much to decrease the number OF Ia
mentable deaths which have marked
the summer Sundays of New England
this year. 1t is true that death often
comes to the best of swimmers. but II
is equally true that many more might
be drowned but for the knowledge OF
how to take care of themselves in the
water.
Washington's proposed plan is a
marked example of the demand OF the
times and the way conditions are
changing. Many who are far from
being old remember the destinations
of the hallowed swimming holes
where they learned their first strokes.
but no doubt they have long since
forgotten the details of just how they
did learn Probably some of the
"fellers" held thels,chtns above water.
while they kicked and splashed and
sputtered. and thus gained their first
notion of how to remain at the top of
the aqua 1t is easy to remember,
however, that sometimes the telltale
wet hair brought the much dreaded
spanking.
But as we remarked above. condi-
tions are changed as regards methods
and places as well as in the minds OF
parents A swimming pool. under
safe supervision of competent men. is
a good investment for any city. 1t is
also a good subject for some of our
wealthy and public spirited citizens
to consider, as an act we'll Wlthln
their means and might be dedicated
to the memories of the old swimming
hole and mothers judicious hand.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-16
China Buying Less Of Us.

The growing commercial interde-
pendence of Oriental countries az
against their former dependence upon
the Occident is again illustrated by the
latest figures of the foreign COM
merce of China. which have just
reached the bureau of statistics of the
Department of Commerce and Labor.
This official statement shows large in
creases in China's imports from
Oriental countries and from Russia
(the single great European nation
whose territory borders on China)
while in most cases her imports from
Occidental countries show decline.
For example. China's imports from
India show an increase in 1909 of SO
per cent in value over those of 1908.
Her imports from French Indo-China
show an increase of more than 100 per
cent: from Japan, an increase of IA
per cent: Siam. an increase of 90 per
cent: Corea. an increase of SO per
cent: from the Dutch East Indies and
HOngkong. each slight increase, and
from Russia. as whole, an increase
|of 7S per cent. On the other hand, the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-16

imports from Great Britain, China's
chief source of supply, show decline
of 6 per cent; those from France,
Italy and Austria Hungary also a
slight decline, and those from the
United States decline of Il per cent.
The figures in question show larger
fall in the imports from the United
States than from any other of the i'm
portant countries of the world.
1t is probably not because China has
forgotten the friendliness of Uncle
Sam or the part he played in the set
Element of the indemnity after the
yellow war, but because China is
learning the Yankee trick of trading
with anybody at hand who has bar
gain to offer.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-16
Editorial Comment.
Maine in Party HiStory
(Boston Transcript. }


Maine has been SO long in the Re-
publican column. unshaken in its al
| legiance on national issties even by
the Greenback craze and by the
Democratic landslide of 1890, that it
is difficult for this generation to real
| iZe that it once had such. strong
| leanings towards the Democracy as to
| be reckoned among the assets of that
party The last Democratic Presi-
dent for whom it's electoral vote was
cast was Franklin Pierce in 1852. In
it's conversion to Republicanisun it eX-
hibited one of it's political character
| istics, for when Maine has changed It's
political faith it has gone completely
| over to the new doctrine it has adopt
ed 1t was q Fremont State in 1856
and cast its lot with the National
Republicans. When the war opened,
Hannibal Hamlin having resigned
from the Senate on his election to the
vice presidency, it's senators were
| William Pitt Fessenden and Lot M.
Morrill,. For more than half cen-
| tury, considering Hannibal Hamlin's
| reputation of his old time Democ-
| racy, Maine has been represented
continuously by Republicans in the
Senate. Its last straight-out Demo-
| crat in the House was LoreZno ID. NJ.
Sweat of Portland, elected in 1867,
| who served but one term.
Maine did yield to the Greenbach
| craze of the late 70s so far rs to
choose two fusion" governors ana
| two fusion" congressman. The lat
ter were r. H. Murch of Rockand,
and George w. Ladd of Bangor. Murch
classified himself as "Greenback-
Labor Reform, and Ladd as Green
back Democrat, but neither was chos-
en- on the party lines which hao
previously divided the State. Each
served two terms in the Thirty eighth
and Thirty ninth Congress. but from
March, 1883, when they retired TO
| private life, up to the present day, the
Maine delegation in the House has
| presented an unbroken Republican
| front.
Names last Democratic governor
was General Harris M. Plaisted, faith
er of the victor in the present con-
test. In September, 1880. he gave rae
Republicans of the nation sharp
Jolt by defeating Governor Davis by
a very small plurality. Perhaps IL
would be more accurate to describe
| General Plaisted as an anti-RepupnI
can than Democratic governor
since it was the fusion wave that car
ried him into the State House at Au-
gusta. General Plaisteds ante
cedents made his fusion" affiliations
surprising to the Maine Republicans.
| Up to the appearance of the Green
| back doctrine as a political force ne
| had been one of the most popular
J Republicans. AS a gallant offlcer'
| conspicuous for courage and abiilty,
as an ex-congressman who had peen
| honored by his old party. he possessed
attractions which not few veterans
and independent Republicans could
not resist His election. to whatever
cause it was due, made Republicans, IN
September, 1880. very nervous as 10
Garficlds prospects. but Maine hao
not altogether forgotten it's allegiance
| to the odd cause in its Wanderlhss
after strange gods. In November.
| two months after Plaisted's election IL
gave Garfield d plurality OF nearly
1000
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-16
Coming Events.

Sept. 14-15-Reg. Reunion 18th Maine Al
Bangor and E. Corinth (2nd Day.)
Sept. 14-16-State Federation of Wo-
mems Clubs. Skowhegan.
Sept. 20.-A. o. H. State convention at
Bangor.
Sept. 2-2s-Androscoggin County Sun.
day School Convention, Lewiston.
Sept. 22-23-Maine State Board of Trade
at Skowhegan.
Sent. 27-2s-Northern Hancock Agricul-
tural Society holds it's Fair
Sept. 30-Meeting of governor and
Council
Oct 4, 5, 6,-Annual meeting Of Maine
State League Of the National League of
Postmasters of the United States. Au-
gusta.
Oct. 14-17-State Sunday School Convsn.
ton, Portland.
Oct 26-2S-Fourth Annual Meeting OF
Maine State Conference of Charities and
Correction. Portland.
Nov S-10-Annual Exhibition of Mains
Pathological Society. Auburn.
Dec. 20-A-Stats Grange Augusta
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-16
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

= A seal on a watch-fob may be wortn
two on an iceberg.
A fool can always find another 1901 "
admire him.
Some men are self-made ana soi"0
others are wife-made. :.
And many a mans race prejudice Is
due to his having bet on the Wrohs
horse.
It's always a case Of the survival OIL
the fittest. Are you it:
The sweetest slumber is the kind III
terrupted by the alarm clock.
If rich enough you can afford 10 Wv
the Things you don't want to do.
Once in great while we meet ma"
who actually practices what ne preaci-
eS-
Look man in the eye when so"
have anything to say to him-hkewi''
m,le.
The discovery that he has inVesteo -
salt mine lis apt to make a man pep-
perry.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-16

All conditions are most fiatteringly
suspicious for the convention of the
National Republican League to be
held at Carnegie Hall. New York city.
September 80 and October LIST. Top
ping the list of distinguished speak
ers will be President Taft, who is ex-
; pected to deliver an utterance or
special Importance. 1t is believed he
will sound stirring call which Will
rally Republican hosts to battle
everywhere.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-16
PopuIating Siberia.

Consul General Snodgrass of Mos
COW, says Russian emigration during
1909 reached the highest figures in the
history of the country, the great ma
jority leaving for Siberia, where it is
believed 100000 settle annually. The
emigration of peasants from Central
Russia has assumed enormous pro-
portions since the Russo-Japan-
ese war and the opening of that
immense territory by the trans Siber-
ian railway. Thousands of the poor
from the Ural mountains section travel
by foot with their few belongings.
Up to 1906, it is estimated that only
$4,000 persons settled in the new coun-
try, but since then there has been a
marked exodus from all parts of Eu-
ropean Russia, and during the favor
able season the railroads are unable
to transport all applicants for tickets
to Siberia. Special rates are granted
by the state railways to selected emf
grants and their families, while a con-
siderable number of peasants in an en-
deavor to better their lot travel at
the ordinary rate. In certain pre-
scribed districts, the state allots Az
acres to each adult immigrant. Whole
districts in European Russia have
been thus denuded of their population.
On account of the Russian govern
ments firm attitude toward the He
brews and the restrictions that limit
their residence to certain 'pales' there
is an united sentiment among the lat
ter to seek other places of habitation.
The United States offering the most
favorable conditions for settlement. it
is expected that the exodus of Jews
will increase from year to year. and
Uncle Sam welcomes his Hebrew foS-
er-chiliren for their intelligence, So
briefly and good citizenship.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-16

3 A Chicago University professor has
discovered strong resemblance be-
tween poetry and mathematics. On
our desk. at the present moment. is a
sizable and highly respectable look
ing volume from the pen of the dis
tinguished and mathematical son of
Maine. Hudson Maxim. entitled The
Science of Poetry" We wonder if
either of these gentlemen has ever no.
ticed the striking similarity between
mucilage and marble monuments.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-16

Few people know that one American
woman Mrs Margaret w. Young is
president of the United States pro tenn
many times in a year. She holds d
unique position in the government en-
ploy which requires her to affix the
signature of the president to important
papers Oand patents) that frequently
represent great money value. She is
authorized by Congress to do this and
has done it now for three years. She
signed Theodore Roosevelt to oven
&C. 900 land patents. placing under that
name. her own thus. per Margaret w
Young" She has signed an even lar
ger number with the name WIN. Fl
Taft Her handwriting is distinctly
feminine.-The Christian Herald.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-16

There is talk of stringing barbed
wire fence one thousand miles long
between the United States and
Mexico. This may stop the crossing
of the line by the animal herds. but
lit. will not stop the making OF the
faces by belligerent Texans and the
ecordially- hated Greasers, and it
brings a grin of disdain to the daring
faces of Glenn A. Curtiss. Graham
White and Hamilton.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-16

! Two candidates for the legislature in
Chicago rushed into burning tene-
ment and saved two women. The wo-
men are now campaigning for their
rescuers. and refusing to take no for
an answer when they solicit the prom
tse of votes. No. there's no romance
predicted in the news story but that
fire may send two candidates to cleo
ton in blaze of glory.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-16

., Perhaps the oldest suit ever entered
is that of young woman in st. Paul
who is suing another woman's estate
for 5000 for TRANSMISSION of blood sup
life. She demands real blood money -
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-16

Growing thoroughbred apple-trees
to be registered the same as live
stock. with pedigrces. Is an ation
in the Northwest, but the ubiquitous
kid has no more respect for apple
pedisrees, when he goes on fruit
stealing. Expeditions, than ne has for
the old-fashioned real thing, that is.
just apples.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-16

Philip Larrabee, who lives on the
Webster road in Lewiston, says that
we are to have an open winter this
year. He says that is shown by the
ears of the yellow corn, which he raises
on his little farm there. The ears on
his half acre devoted to corn are we'll
filled, away to the tip, and have Very
few husks. these being thin and scarce
ly covering the kernels. The scarcity
of the husks he claims is a sure sign
of an open winter with not much
snow.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-16

A man in the far West has written
the Census Bureau to get him wife.
He probably thinks some of the agents
ought to be able to pick him winner.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-16

The fact that the receipts az fifty of
the largest postal Offices in the coun-
try were over eight million dollars.
shows what nation of letter ritcrs
we must be.-Baltimore American.
d, beg pardon, You meant post card
writer's, didn't you? -""' -''@H'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-16

do not fear to tread the path
that those l love have long since trod;
do not fear to pass the gates
and stand before the living God.
In this worlds fight I've done my part;
II God be God He knows it well;
He will not turn His back on ME
and send me down to blacklist hell \
Because / have not prayed aloud
and shouted in the market place.
IT'S what we do, not what we say,
that makes us worthy of His grace.
-Putnam's Magazine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-16

A Western paper remarks that Il
Western railroad has taken Doctor
Eliot's fivc-foot library out of its cars
and substituted something to read
Buffalo Bills and Diamond Dicks?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-16

Barney Oldfeld calls admring wat
sna shing a record. just to show the
bird men that they are not the whole
thing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-16

King Menelik of Abyssinia. is again
reported dying, but the deathbeds OF
the Negus come as frequently and last
as long as did the birthdays III the late
t{7i r. -. afI't '.
Prince Won Bismark. Ic
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-16

chorus girls. and yet all over the
/" country there arc thousands of girls
: with longings to get into the chorus.
!, there.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-16

IF former President Roosevelt did get
down and help the ladies upon his plat
form during a shower it should not be
taken as an endorsement of woma n
suffrage