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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11
For the Good Of All.

Medford, Mass. city slightly larger
than Augusta, has started a campaign
for municipal Improvement, which
promises results. A circular issued to
the people of the city sets forth the
principal objects of the movement as
follows:
"A general awakening that we may
realize our fine possibilities, esthetic
and institutional.
"A thorough town cleaning with the
demolition of abandoned buildings and
the cleaning out, and identifying of
unsightly back yards.
| More expressed appreciation of our
public schools
IAN organized institution for boys
and young men. EE@&
IAN appreciation and support of oul
Ichurches as moral asset. a
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11

"A loyal public spirit that VIII pro-
claim Medford as a desirable resldeh-
tial suburb in order TO attract new
and valuable citizens.
"a movement to ally with othei
1915 movements in securing results.
By substituting the name of any CITY
in the sixth paragraph and droppihs
the last would leave very good pro-
gram for any wide-awaks, progressive
city.
Every CITY has within its limits I'M
slightly buildings and dirty back yards;
every city needs an organized lnsti-
tuition for boys and young men, suci'
as Y. M. c. A.; churches should DC
supported and the citizens shouio ho'
hesitate to boost their home city III
the presence of those who live else
where.
ore,anized implicitly work is all right.
No state. city or town can alloro u
ho without if for a moment, but the
o,t,,usi.sr, Of the Individual is worth
more than the publicity bureau. Cen
tral Maine stands in need of a thor
o,rn,,, ORGANIZED campaign of pup
licitv which will make its advantages
Known in every part of the world. 1t
NAV he some years before the people
can be made to see that that is fact.
Meanwhile no individual should let
an onnortunity to boost this section of
Maine go unimproved. When the in
dividual boosters are numerous enough,
ther. is little need of organized effort.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11
suNFLoWER PHILOSOPHY.

The Lord loves a cheerful SlVer' pu'
where does He find them
OF course there are joys IN beng d
father. but do any of them originate IT
being called PA
About everything can now be found
in cold storage except the bores, whose
activity prevents it,
owing to the high cost Of living
daughters should, at least, make sure
that the young man isn't the kind she
will probably have to take home for
father to feed.
Unless you are wiser than most peo-
pie the dollar you waste on a fool hab-
it doesn't bother you as much as the
dime which escapes through a hole in
YOUR pocket-Atchison (kan) Globe.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11

The grass is grown over,
The grass and the heather,
The path in the clover
We two walked together.
The old wall is falling.
All falling and broken
That heard your voice calling,
That heard my words spoken.
The bird nest is shaken
From where it hung swinging,
The birds will neer waken
That charmed US with singing.
The creek is not running
That sang in its going.
Where once we sat summing
No water is flowing.
No soft breeze is stirring
The boughs and the grasses,
No grasshopper's chirring
Makes glad as it passes.
The eyes that We're dreaming
Beneath their long lashes,
Sky-blue. are ungleaming
And gray as wood-aSheS.
Ny feet that came Swinging
To you now move slowly.
Ny hands are more clinging.
~ My head is more lowly.
But. oh, the brave heather,
The paths that we walked in!
The songs sung together,
The murmurS we talked in,
The love that was borning
Shall never die. never,
But live from that morning
Forever and ever
Judd Mortimer Lewis in Houston Pos
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11
Rational Views.

Money is wrung from the people by
the upscrupuIous individuals who trade
on the susceptibility Of the people to
panic and belief in wild rumor OF
trouble to come. The cold, calculating
wreckers discount this trait OF the
people and reap their harvest as reg
ularly and as surely as the season
of panic and distrust follows the period
OF peace, prosperity and commence
As manic is their harvest time, the
more panics the better for them.
Hence the deliberate attempts. TO start
something" at the present time. In
some cases. as for instance in the case
of the misguided college professor, 1t
must be prompted simply by desire
ITO see the wheels go round" In the
case of Beck it is something else, no.
body seems to be able to say what.
H. C. Prick, who knows just as much
about the situation, has just as much
right to talk and whose views are
twice as valuable sizes up the case
from a more optimistic angle. 1t is
worth reading, all of it. Here it is:
ut is hard to understand why,
with all the conditions favorable
to unprecedented prosperity in this
country, there has suddenly ap-
peared a hesitation in activity, par
ticularly upon the part of the rail-
roads and manufacturing estab-
lsnments. which are first to feel
the demands for increased facili-
ties to meet public requirements
and the first to take alarm when
the demand halts. If this cause is.
as it is generally asserted, fear of
unfriendly legislation at Washing
ton and the drastic enforcement OF
the antitrust law against the
business organiza tons of the coun-
try 1 cannot believe that is a SUI
ficient reason to justify the tlm-
idity shown in many quarters.
Congress will not legislate any
form of property out of existence,
and court decisions cannot destroy
the productiveness of the SOIL or OF
any legitimate enterprises.
Even though it may be neces-
sary to change the forms and
methods of doing the business,
there will be just as much business
done as the necessities of the coun-
try require and the people who can
own the properties will do the bust
ness.
Nothing is quite so bad as an
excited imagination sees it and II
the people will cease to heed the
misunderstanding gamblers and
den1agogues who make capital out
of their fears, all will be we'll.
This is the greatest and most
productive land upon the globe and
nothing can kill it's progress ex-
cept the lack of courage of its own
people l am, as [ have always
been. an optimist about the United
States and the longer l live the
stronger my faith becomes in its
supremacy.
I'VE have never stood upon the
threshold of better days than now,
and it will be our own fault If we
allow our activities to be paralyzed
by groundless fears.
I'm my opinion the present great
depression in security values does
not reflect the condition of bust
ness so much as the present hest
tancv in business reflects the effect
of wild Mcclure upon what VIII
happen at Washington and cXaS-
geration of it's possible conse-
quenceS."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11
New England statisticjanS ar

New England statisticians are
little slow in discovering that
Maine is no longer entitled to be
known as the Pine Tree State
says the Omaha Bee. Yes. very
SLOW. In fact. they have not discov-
cred it yet. nor are they likely to do
SO. Maine is entitled to be called
the Pine Tree State, or anything
else, except the finest state in the
Union-Swhich latter title, we mod
estlN submit. belongs to New
HamIShire.--Manch Union.
The Union is surely getting to be
good neighbor. Now If she only had
navy yard of her own.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11

Castro has moved as close to Vcnez-
uela as he dares so as to be ready
when he thinks the time is ripe to
reclaim the presidency. The powers
will hardly countenance any return
from Elba in his case.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11
DANGEROUS Beasts.

The teacher had been telling the
class about the rhinoceros family.
Now. name some things said she,
that are very dangerous to get near
to, and that have horns
Automobiles" replied little Jennie
Jones promptly.--New York World.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11
LIGHT AND AIRY.
A Lost Art.

They say that a mummy just ar
rived in New York is that of the cook
Of Rameses H."
That so? Well, somebody had the
secret of keeping a cook" and the
suburbanite sighed wistfuiy.-Phila
delphia Public Ledger.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11

"Wonder which Of those two lawyers
who were imprisoned in an elevator
cage cleaned the other out" says the
Philadelphia Inquirer. That does not
speak very we'll for the lawyers the
Inquirer Photographer has come in con-
tact with.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11

The Kennebec journal para
grapher is sour on the whole world.
He says: "Oh well, the more snow
we have the longer it will be before
the ugly contour of naked New
Hampshire win be exposed to the
gaze Of brutal world" Now,
every intelligent person knows
that New Hampshire is not naked
mot yeti, and that she has no
ugly contour" and that this
world. far from being brutal. is
just line and dandy. Manchester
Union. 1881
i No. not yet NAKED. but soon. and ey
IDENTIFY unashamed!
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11

The part the wireless played in the
rescue of the crew of the Kentucky
has revived the discussion of the adj
visibility of compelling the owners or
all passenger steamships to install
tirst-class wireless apparatus. A law
should not be necessary in such cases.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11

Several states are throwing boquetS
at themselves because they are we'll
up toward the head of the list in the
number of patents granted last year.
Fortunately the value of inventive
genius is not reckoned by the number
of patents issued
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11
For ChoIIv.

Did Cholly get what he wanted fol-
Christmas
mo, his girl misunderstood him."
How was that?"
He was limiting for cornet and
she sent him a corset."-Houston Post
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11

The New Yorl. woman who failed for
500.0o0 and didn't have cent of as
sets could keep the wolf from the door
by conducting a correspondence school
teaching her method.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11

When one reads the story of the
student strike in Greenwich Academy.
tho feeling becomes acute that corporal
punishment was abolished too soon.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11

a cigarette caused the explosion III
the Palon mine at Las Esperanzas,
Mexico, and So men yielded up their
lives. Rather an expensive smoke!
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11
At Least Not Always.
washington Post

washington POSt)
President Taft doesn't object to call
ing a spade spade but he doesn't
think public official and crook are
quite synonymous
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11
Tickle REGARD,

"A man never knows how many
friends he has until he gets into poll
tics
True" answered Senator Sorghum,
nor how few he has until he gets out
of office Washington Star.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11

Alaska must be progressing rather
rapidly. Somebody wants an asylum
for the insane up there.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11
A White House Call.

4 want to see the president"
Have you an appointment
Not yet, but l have my eye on
something. That's what + want to
see him about" kansas City Journal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11

Surely this is a lean year for Tam
many. Someone is seriously attempt-
ing to push Battery Dan Finn oft
the bench.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11

Cupid has taken fall out of Bos-
tons old idol, John l.. Sullivan, but
the old gladiator doesn't seem to mind
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11
Means He Knows New JERSEY.

(BaItimOre AmerlCan.)
1t is announced that the President
will make flying trip to New Jersey
next month. This doesn't mean, how
ever that he has become an aviator.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11

1t Is possible to fly across the Allan
tic without the use Of balloon. The
modern liners do it once a week.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11

Secretary Meyers reorganization
plan has stirred the dust on a lot OF
desks anyhow.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11

Two dogs killed 40 laying hens in
Pennsylvania last week. Few can af-
ford to keep as expensive dogs.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11
Coming in Bunches.

81
As for Governor Haskell he never
knows what a day may bring forth, ex-
ccpt that it will be trouble.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11

Taft's revised program ought not to
be delayed long.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11

This is the season when the societ.
editors have to scratch gravel in or
DER to earn their money.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11

The cold snap and the snow CAV
Maine the appearance and feeling o
real winter
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11

Maine is going to boom next summer
as she never doomed before and the
wide-awake citizen is planning for it..
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11
w;,Iino To Attend To 1t Himself.

| (Chicago Record-HeraId.)
There is trouble in Ohio over the
matter of finding a good man to sue
coed Senator Dick. Senator Dick can't
seem to understand why there should
be any fuss over it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11
Hardly the Price of an Egg.
washington Post.)


How much would Citizen Wileys airy
reflections on farmers and eggs bring
if sold by weight?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11
Champ Is Subject To FIarebacks.

(PIttSburg GaZette-TlmeS.)
Champ Clark says this is a Demo-
cratic year. He said the same thing
about 1908, but the people had the last
guess.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11

Finding Dr. Cook in Bermuda proved
to be like Cooks finding the north
pole, another fake.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11
At The Fount.

louisville Courier-J ournal)
Matt Henson is still hidden from the
public eye, but he may be reading up
on Bernard Shaw with the purpose of
writing an essay called Greater Than
Peary"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11

New York Telegram)
There's considerable speculation
touching Jeffries, but nobody doubts
that Halley's comet will come back.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11

Whether the boycott sends meat up
or down. the people are learning that
they can live without it and the mar
kct Is substantially reduced
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11
7 Friday February II, 1910.
Boost Maine!

Philadelphia has another elopement
to keep it from enjoying its slumber.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11

Now they say John l.. has returned
to the ring under new management.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11
VOICES OF THE PRESS.
Inst Dotes on DeadIocks.

(Memphis News-Scimitar)
Senator Gordon can probably stand
if as long as the Mississippi Legisla-
turp
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11
ESTABLISHED 1875

No hotice 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 BURLEIGH C FLYNT, Publish
era, Augusta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11
Maine Gossip
The Cost Of Living.

Mary had a little lamb.
And, much to her relief,
Her cheek was only half as Dig
AS if she had had Beef.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11

At Paris Hill workmen are busy re-
pairing the home of Rear Admiral II.
w. Lyon, U. S. n, retired. He will
make Paris Hill his permanent home.
Unlike most sailors. the admiral says
he wants to get as far from the sea
as possible. He is best remembered
for his fearless conduct at the time OF
the hurricane in Samoa, March - and
IS. 1899. when three American and three
German warships were driven ashore
with great loss of life. He was execu-
tive officer of Admiral Kimberley's
flagship at the time.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11

Bangor News: At present f. &.
Clark is Camden's most famous gun
ner and owls are his speciality. While
on a recent visit with friends at Mel
vim Heights he spied a large and
lively looking owl perched in a tree.
Fastening back to the house he armed
himself with a gun and ammunition
enough to kill at least one hundred
rabbits and with a determination to
Kill the bird at any cost. He took aim
and fired once, twice and a third time
and the owl remained in the tree. His
friends say he used all the shells on
the place but Bert thinks there a few
left On making close inspection the
expert gunner found that the wise bird
was stuffed one, placed there by
some friend. The story was too good
to keep and his friends are now en-
joying the cigars.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11

Two hymns. entitled Jesus. Loving
Jesus" ard Endless Praise" COM
posed by the Rev. Alfred Barratt, ras-
tor of the Methodist church. Bucks
port. have both won a prize in the
annual prize hymn competition held
at Leeds, Yorkshire. England, last
month. zF ia
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-11

Rev. j. b. Howard of RaZorville has
sold to Chas. Vannah what is prob
ably the largest pine tree in town 1t
measured around the trunk at the low
er end nearly 10 feet and will meas
ure in length over 80 feet scaling more
than 1900 feet. 1t took four oxen and
two horses to get it out of the woods.
There We're no limbs to the height of
nearly so feet.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-05-07
est. Elmo" in Stage Garb.

Millions have read the story Of "St.
Elmo" for it s some thirty years
old.
Augusta Evans has depicted mar
velous redemption of sin-blackened
soul and Frederick Belasco has used
all his stagecraft in his excellent pro-
duction
"St. Elmo" was the best seller long
before the vogue Of "best sellers
and has created a decided furore in
the realms Of novel readers.
Strange indeed it is that Augusta
u. Evans-or to be more correct Au-
gusta ]. Evans Wilson-never allow
ed a sage version to be made Of the
novel and It was not until the story
had blazed a flaming trail through a
gamut Of copyright laws that we have
at last a stage version Of the book
and recent years have not produced
anything quite SO absorbingly inter-
esting as this intensely human and
sensational work.
In the dramatic form the story ex-
emplifles the redemption of "St. FL
mo Murray" a man Of unusual learn
ing. refinement and intellect, who, in
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-05-07
.SOME SHORT NEWS
NOTES FROM ATHENA
lsnecinl CorresnondeneeO

Athena. May 6.-Mr George Kidder
and wife visited Pendleton on Tues
day last, attending to business affairs,
The conference of preachers which
has been in session at the NJ. E.
church since last Monday ended to-
day and was very successful in every
way.
Mayor Alexander was in Athe-
ma on Wednesday.
Mr.. Ida d. Conrad, a son of Shoe
maker Conrad of this city, is So
journing at Hot Lake for the bene-
fit of his health. He is a great suf-
ferer from rheumatism.
Mrs. Amy Lee, a pioneer lady of
Peudleton, is visiting friends in this
city. She came up on Tuesdays eve
ming train
Mrs. John Bannister made a Pen
dleton trip on Tuesday, calling on
relatives and doing some shopping.
In the Athena locals of Tuesday
East Oregonian. where it reads Henry
Taylor it should have read John Tay-
lor Also in the item mentioning the
result of the bail play on last Sun
OdN between llle ANHtlld MUS eIlu
the Pendleton boys it should have read
Score. . to 6 in favor of Pendleton
Kyle Long and Elmer Storie OF
Pendleton. made Athena a flying auto
visit on Thursday.
J. T. Lieuallen and son, Lawrence
were visitors in this city on Thursday
The elder gent is the mayor of Ad
ans.
Carpenters are busy putting a colo
storage addition TO Athena's mea
market. Good!
Burke & Sen are a new addition
to our city's business firms. Coal
wood and a general drayage business
Greene Estes. having sold his prop
erty below Pendleton is preparing I
| leave Athena for Montana
Don't forget the great school an
athletic meet in this city on the lat
instant.
Also the meet of the clans of Scot
land on the Goth.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-05-07
"Wine. Women and Song

The fame and popularity of Bonita,
the famous beauty, after her New
York triumphs in the sparkling mu-
steal comedy wine, Women and
Song extends even far beyond the
regular theatre-going public into the
large class who are never attracted
TO the ordinary musical comedy. Bon
ita. is recognized all over the world as
the reigning stage beauty, no other
lyric actress has been so universally
admired. Bonita will be seen for the
first time in our city on Tuesday May
10, at the Oregon theatre, in the mu-
sical comedy hit "Wine, Women and
Song" the same hit that played at the
Circle theatre, in New York city for
period Of some 400 nights. The Of
fering is a glorious one embracing as
il does as clever a number Of COM
edians, and pretty girls ever seen on
our local stage. The cast is positively
guaranteed as the same that was in
Bonita's support in New York, and
numbers fifty people, a large chorus.
The ladies who will witness Bonita,
will admire the gowns worn by this
clever prima donna, all Partisan made,
ten in number, the latest one is the
much talked of Chantecler gown, that
was the craze Of Paris, all season, and
comes from the shop of Edel, of Par
lis. Quite a few features are seen in
this the greatest musical show now on
tour, one is the imitation Of the
Christy Girl, by Bonita, another the
funny little sheriff, which is portray
ed by Lew Hern, and still another the
limpersonations Of the following we'll
known stars: Robert Mantell, Davit
Warfield, Geo. NJ. Cohan, Enrico Ca
russo, Chauncey Olcott, Sullivan Con-
sidine. Sam Bernard, Fay Templeton
Maud Adams, Blanche Bates, and
many others. Quite a few sons
numbers are introduced, all Of the
whistlng kind, twenty in number Th'
advance sale opens on Monday, Mal
at 10 a. m. Indications are tina
Bonita in wine, Women and Song,
will play to a capacity house.