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Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21
PUcKERLEss PERsIMMoNs.
So Well Relished That Tib.tsrs Con-
slider Il a Gift From Goda .an

The puckerless persimmon is the
latest discovery for the table of the
American epicure. says the New YORK
American. Brought from Tibet py
Prof. Meyer, the new fruit has been
sent by the agricultural department 10
California, where it has exhibited re-
markable growth. It will form q VA.
liable acquisition to our long array
of good things to eat. Called .kak.
or it's native heath, 1t is so wen req
ished that the Tibetans consider IL
gift from the gods.
This is only one of the finds un
earthed by the department in its COST
,ly search of the nations. Others ~
clude cabbage as big as a wasntuo'
Chinese .radishes as large as caui'a
flowers and edible broom corn.
President, Taft will be especiaiy ~,
terested I'm the new persimmon' az ~
is partial TO persimmon beer, WIZ rSss
|as everyone Knows. can be fnade aI'e'
the persimmons have been frost-D''s"'
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21
WHERE DIRT GATHERS. WASTE RULES" GREAT saw
ING RESULTS FROM THE USE OF 4, s .
SAPOLIO

1t beats sitting around a club. An
hour. a day, a week spent in pursuit
of fish, feathers or fur, never forget
ting TO visit nature all the while, will
prove an inestimable blessing to the
nerve tagged man or woman. Let
me impress upon you that the act OF
killing is only incidental. Never take
advantage of game. Always give il,
at least, an even chance. and stop be-
fore you have had enough. Remem-s
Der that there are other days and 9TH
ers coming after you to enjoy the
same pleasures. Obey the game laws.
but if you have the proper conception
of this form of sport and you are
true sportsman at heart, the last ad-
monition is superfiuous, as the laws
allow a reasonable length of time for
its indulgence. and a liberal limit to
the daily and seasons bag.-National
Monthly
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21
OUT IN THE OPEN.
A Tired Brain is Renovated and Re-.
freshed by Hours Spent With Nature.

Boys and men owe it to themselves
to go to the fields and woods and there
to get as close to nature as possible.
Nature is the great mother, and the
boy who plays in her yards is filed
with good clean thoughts, and you can
generally rely on him. He breathes
in the exhilarating air of freedom and
drinks from the streams that are un-
polluted by civilization and takes
home with him supply of health and
spirits that money can not purchase in
city.
This not only applies to the boy, but
to the man. A tired brain is reno
waited and refreshed by a few hours in
the open, and the man who communes
with nature and becomes intimate
with her has a friend who will never
lead him astray. Take to the woods
and fields whenever the opportunity
presents itself, and if you have boys
and girls take them with you. Teach
them to shoot and to become familiar
with firearms, boats, water and woods.
birds and animals, and give them a
chance to learn and love nature. If
you can not take them, let them go
with some one in whom you have con-
fidence. You will be surprised how
quickly they will become proficient in
woodcraft and how soon they will feel
the charm of outdoor life. The open
plants the seeds of independence and
teaches the young to take care Of
themselves. Encourage them in this
direction and then try it yourselves
just as often as you can.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21
SUNFLOWER PHILOSOPHY.

We are all so anxious to get mail;
but when we get it. il usually brings
trouble.
In some families you are always
placed in the position of having to
take Sides
He has never been 10 miles away
from home" neighbors often say OF
each other, but he thinks he knows
everything"
A mother can have the most terrible
voice when She says to her baby when
il is acting naughty: What did
mother tell YOU
The women are carrying pocketbooks
this spring almost as large as Vallses.
It's a bad idea; q woman always looks
funny carry a valise.
"A woman once became mad at me.
SAID a man today, land although L
was certain / had done nothing 10 OIL
fcnd her. she acted as though she
knew of a murder 7 had committed,
and that she could have me hansed
if she chose to tell.
Don't demand that you must agree
with everything you read. some peo-
pie will not take a newspaper unless
it's opinions agree with their own.
That's foolish. See what the other
side has to say Somewhere between
your exaggerated opinions, ana the
exaggerated opinions OF the Oppose
ton. may be found the trnth.-Atcht-
son (kan) Globe.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21
Tell Them About Maine.

Illinois is suffering more from the
migration OF people who have taken
the back to- the-soil movement literal
ly than any other state and unfortu-
nately, fully one-half of those who left
Chicago and the other centers of pop
ulatiOn in Illinois for the rural dis
trictS, chose to leave this country and
seek their fortunes in the Canadian
Nof fthWest 1t is estimated that the
II, coo residents of that state who
joined the great trek in to the North
took So, 100000 with them.
Estimates for the entire country,
compiled from governmental and pri-
vatc sources, show that 250,000 persons
took part in the migration. OF these
nearly half, or 100000 settled in Can
parts of this country, on public and
private irrigation tracts, the South
and West. March. the end of the farm
settlement year, also marks the crest
of the movement for the succeeding
year, and the next twelve months
promise to show more activity than
the past year The amount of indi-
viduaI capital involved in this tre-
meEdous migratory movement for the
year was $350,OOO00O. William Pear
son of Winnipeg, who colonized the
Last Mountain Valley, estimates the
average amount per person brought
into Western Canada by immigrants
from the United States as $1,000, or a
total of $4,000 900 for the year. The
10000 who settled on farms in the
United states had an average of $1,000
Brcughton, the Canadian Government
agent in Chicago. has estimated that
ing the year to take up public lands.
Most of the American settlers do not
take up free homesteads, but rather
purchase and settle upon privately
owned lands along the Canadian
Northern and other railroads, pur-
| chasing from Pearson and other own
ers cf great empires who are able TO
sell on easy terms hundreds of thou
sands Of acres. The trend of the farm
| movement in. the United States, ac-
cording 10 c. l.. Blanchard of the
United States Reclamation Service
| seems to be toward irrigated lands
many of the farmers in the older
States selling their property to new
formers and investigating in irrigated
land farther west On the other hand
this ''irrigation movement" has rather
| tended to help than to retard the mi.
grafton to the rain land" of western
Carada. The influx of American set
tiers into the Last Mountain Valley
| in saskatchewan" says Mr.. Pearson
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21
steadily increasing" That


sis steadily increasing" That dis
tric, has seen a transformation: a
great region which few years ago
was virgin prairie now is served py
seven railways, and the grain eieva-
tors are monster ones.
If these thousands who are seeking
more free and better life on the
farms realize the tremendous adVan-
tages which can be offered them IN
New England, tide of immigration
would set in which would people Maine
from the ocean TO the Canadian hne.
1t would seem to be good business
TO inaugurate some system OF adver-
Using which would enable us TO take
advantage of this pronounced move
ment back to the soil"
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21
MAKING POETS TO ORDER.
University of Missouri Hold Out In
ducements to Youths to Mount
Pegasus.

The establishment of a school for
poets at the University of Missouri
may or may not be due to a desire to
challenge Irdiana's literary suprem-
acy. The significant thing is that a
college, in an age when the demand
for q practical education echoes
over every campus, should hold out
inducements to ambitious youth to
mount Pegasus when their inclina :
ton is to try aeroplanes.
To others may be left the task of
discussing the moral responsibility of
an educational institution which de-
liberately encourages poetical career
at a time when the cost of living was
never so high, and when it requires
something more than a sonnet to pay
grocer's bill.
The mechanics of verse may be
taught in classrooms and the student
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21
HaIloweIl Boosting.

The addresses delivered dt Iie an
nual banquet of the Hallowell board of
trade show plainly that the residents
of our sister city are thoroughly allVe
to their opportunities-that they are
| nmbued with the spirit of hustle and
hard work which makes for civic
progress and prosperity. DR.. Milliken
explained that New England has
marked time since the Civil War be-
cause she has contributed so largely
Of the brain and muscle and capital of
its most enterprising men and women
toward the development of the West;
that while she has grown slowly she
has not kept pace with the newer
country to which she gave so much.
within the last decade, however, that
the tide of emigration has been ceas
ing, that the West no longer offers
better opportunities than can be had
right at home and that New Eng
landers today are looking at home for
a chance to invest their energy and
capital and that we are certainly en-
tering upon a decade that will make
the beginning of a grand industrial
upbuilding of all New England states"
DR.. Milliken called attention to the
remarka BILE resources and advantages
NToi,
speaks of our crops. inexhaustable and
unsurpassed granite quarries. our un
paralleled transportation facilities and
the vast amount of power which has
so recently become available for in
dustries in this locality He urges
the need of more farm help. saying,
turn some OF those Immigrants who
will make good farmers into Maine
and it would help the farmer run and
work his farm for a greater profit"
His whole address was thoroughly
charged with the optimism which is
so potent a force in waking the peo-
pie to the full realization of their op-
pOrtunties
In closing he said:
Every new industry that comes in
to one of these cities or towns helps
all the other contiguous cities and
towns and indirectly helps everyone.
If we work along these lines of CO.
operation, we shall certainly succeed
and every dollar invested in staple
Maine securities will double itself in
the next ten years, besides paying in
terest all the time. Invest your money
in Maine securities and encourage 9th
ers to do the same.
Boost and boast of the virtues of
Maine and it won't be long before
things Will be coming our way. They
are now. only we should be more alive
to the fact"
Let us all imbibe some of this spirit.
New England needs it, Maine can pro-
fit by it. it is vital to the future
growth of the Kennebec valley. Ad-
dresses accomplish little unless the
people take them literally and apply
the thoughts they contain intelligently.
st. Louis man became a high
Wayman for excitement. He got it.
The policemen who shot him full of
holes thought he was in earnest.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21

trained to the knack of turning out
alcaics and heXameters. But the re-
suit is usually the sacrifice of sub
stance to form.
A university poet produced by such
forcing processes would be interesting
as an intellectual curiosity: but what
chance would he have against some
Bobby Burns from an Edna farm
house"--Exchangc
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

Temptation gets in its work by your
thinking it isn't.
A woman can no more doubt her love
letters than her Bible
A prize fight is more honorable than
business competition because it has fair
rules.
A man takes exercise mostly to bore
other people telling them about how he
does it.
A rake will put away wine in the cellar
for his grandchildren. but farmer won't
set out fruit trees for his in the orchard.
New York Press
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21

carnegie can now appreciate the
feelings of the cub reporter refused
admittance to the presence of the per-
son he has been assigned to see. An
drew was promptly and unceremoni
ously refused chance to see Mrs.
Russell Sage by n servant,
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21

Names young desperate who has
expressed n determination to become
a professional. needs regular diet ol
fence Stats administered with force
and precision where they will do the
most good.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21

Congress has postponed the enact
ment of further laws for the restric-
tion of immigration until next session.
in order that it may act intelligently.
not because no further restriction is
needed
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21

The number of claimants to the
Russell fortune grows as the news of
the lawyers easy picking reaches the
remote portions of the earth.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21

Auto drivers in the large cities are
finding that while pedestrians are
easily killed, their relatives are un-
kind enough to stay on the sidewalk
until the damages are paid.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21

The building of an ocean going
steamship as a memorial to Robert
Emr,et is an intensely practical meth
oil Of paying tribute to the great Irish
patriot. which might be followed with
profit in this country. Surposeg We
puid few merchant vessels as moIln.
pents to some of our heroes,
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21

Portland had a $4,000 fire because a
boy hunted for Il domino in pile of
excelsior with Il lighted match. The
domino came very close tn ranking
with Mrs. O'Leary's COW.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21

The American Sugar Refining COM
rany has issued II statement purport
ing To show that it lost 81 1.395,S50 last
year The public may as well prepare
TO make il up this year.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21

Bob" Ingersolls widow knows
Something about the laws delay. She
has Just received money due her ten
Wears.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21
ESTABLISHED 1s2s

No notice whatever will be TAKEN oi
unsigned communications.
The Journal cannot be held responsi.
bic for the preservation or return OF
rejected communications.
Address all communications relatlng
10 subscriptions and advertisements
to EURLEIGH 4 FLYNT. PUBLISH
eYs, Augusta. Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21

An Ohio widow has welded the man
who first met her when he brought
nome her first husbands body New
ertheless that is no reason why bache-
Tors should hesitate in such emer-
gencies.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21

Taft's conference with Earle Gray
md Minister Fielding was a happy
thought Taft grows bigger. in the
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21

If the Standard Oil Company is dis
solved in 1910, that year will be al
most as famous in history as 1909.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21
Great ScottI Who Is He?

tBoStOn GlObe.)
Judge Alton B. Parker has gone
abroad for two months vacation. so
that Europe will have a chance to
compare an ex-President and ex-can-
didate for President
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21

DR.. Arthur II. Cutler of New York
has Deen appointed member of The
committee Of citizens 10 receive eX-
from Africa. Mrs. Cutler is native
of North Jay, Me.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21
VOICES OF THE PRESS.
With a Legal Permit.
(DenVer TimeS.)

ODenVer TimeS.)
Charity, which once began at home
Will now begin at the Rockefeller
foundation.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21

A Westbrook man, John ]. knowlton,
is one of the pupils who learned Mary
Had Little Lamb" from the lips OF
the author. Mary Rugg, when she was
teaching school in her home in Ports
mouth, y. H.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21

Wen bet the Manchester Union
man Is kicking hts head off because he's
simply got Ia loosen mp for that new
Easter hat.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21

Taking a iler in steel will be. posSi-
BILE without going into the stock mar
let. as soon rs that new steel air ship
, is completed
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21
Doc Has a Long Start.
louisville Courier-JournaI)

tLOulSVlIIe COurier-J OurnaI.)
But Commander Peary will have to
grow ever so much more unpopular
before there will be a revival of in
terest in the literary works of DR.
Cook
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21
Prefers Tamino Tioers.

tSt. Louis Globe Democrat)
With the example of the sage of Es-
opus before him, Judge Gaynor is in
clined TO shy at the talk of a Presi-
dental nomination
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21

If meat is high in Lent, what will 1t
be when the normal meat consump-
lion H. in force again?
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21

The Standard Oil lawyers had some
nnkind things TO say OF trust busters.
They are used to it.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21
Where He Differs From Chauncey
Oepew.

Chicago Tribune.)
Mr.. Patten has not lost his ability to
take a hint. He didn't linger long in
England after the Manchester Incl
dent
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21
Maine Gossip
Ambition.

| used 10 think when l was young
I'd like to start at the lowest rung;
But now I'm old, and wise and sadder.
| wish 10 h--there was no ladder.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21

reformed House of Lords would
be as uninteresting as the average
lord is unnecessary.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21

The political plot isn't nearly as hot
eS some of the more eXcitaDie cor
respondents wish it was.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21

Well soon be getting pictures OF
those Roosevelt whiskers.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21

This is the season when fur coat
colds and hen fever are abroad IN the
land 1.GH
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21

Hoboken has ordered the United
States mail cars off the trolley lines.
Somebody is looking for trouble.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21

The near fishermen are polishing UP
fhe same old lies.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21

Mayor Gaynor is carefully. nursing
that presidential bee.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21

The Maine will be raised if the
wishes OF the people are needed.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21

Khartum is hard to spell but il
Roosevelt can stand it, We ought TO.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21

Congress is having a gay old time
while the President is away.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21

Street car hogs are not the only
kind that are not worth $ll hundred
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21
Monday, March q, 1910.
y Boost Maine! (

Chicago felt just like Beverly for
whole day.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21

f. F. Ranks of Litchfield Plains,
proposes to utilize the water privilege
on his place that has been idle for
years. He has recently rebuilt a por-
ton of the old dam and put in a
foundation for shingle mill, which
is now being built.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21

The town Of Charleston will celebrate
its centennial in 1911.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21

Hasty Consumption prevented and all
forms of cold so disagreeable and an
moving. can be quickly cured by using
Adamson's Botfnic Cough Ralsam.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21

Lewiston Journal: Lewiston and
Auburn probably have increased in
prosperity and in business in the past
decade more. than any other cities in
Maine. 1t is believed that Auburn
will have close to 10000 population
at the close of the present year. Lew
iston's population has increased this
year, upwards of a. thousand by new
enterprises, and the end is not yet.
When we get 80 per cent. increase in
our average waterpOWer. as we shall
within about year. new enterprises
will multiply in Lewiston and Auburn.
located not necessarily by canals but
on convenient and inexpensive build
ing sites. The high prices asked for
mill sites under the old plan will no
longer be possible under electrifica-
tion.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21

The prize skunk story Of the sea-
son comes from T. W. Burgess of
RumfOrd Center. who deals in furs
to some extent. Mr.. Burgess recent
ly bought from owen p. Smith of
Mexico. 10 skunk skins, which We're
all taken from three holes. The haul
was made about the middle of Feb
ruary at DiXfield, and ten skunks were
pulled out of one hole. while the nine
came from two other holes. Mr..
Smith was an eye witness TO the TAX
ing of the animals, and the sale of
the furs brought him $40. Several of
the skins We're all black, making them
more valuable, these black ones
bringing from $3.50 TO $4
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21

returned from LakevieW, n. c. which
in North Carolina. Lakeview is Il Win
ter resort whose control has passed
into the hands of W. f. YOuland of
Biddeford. where his large business
is well known. Mr.. Youland is doing
wonders with the place, installing
water works and improved sewerage
ana heautifying and developing the
place. The feature of the place is
clear, cold water lake fed by springs.
There are hunting. fishing. boating.
f. G.. Gray, who runs a large summer
resort in Maine, runs Lakeview's no.
tel and furnishes it many patrons.
Portland Argus: Pedestrians on
Congress street in the vicinity of the
Public Library about 4.30 yesterday
were treated to the unusual sight of a
well dressed lady, a resident living on
Gray street caring for an intoxicated
individual who was in an almost help
less condition until friends came to
his assistance and carted him off in
carriage. The man was wobbling
along the sidewalk humping into
other pedestrians until the lady ap
peared on the scene. She quickly
took hold OF the man and held him
steady against pole for some little
time. The man seemed not pleased
with the attentions and assistance of
the lady, but he had evidently met
master and had to submit After a
time he was piled into a carriage and
taken home and then the lady realized
| for the first time that a considerable
crowd of spectators had gathered to
watch her laudable deed Of good,
practical charity
A collection of 5000 shells and -,OG
| minerals has been presented by the
heirs Of Dr. Edwin Maybury of the
| Glass of 1S49 of the Medical School of
| Maine to Bowdoin College and ar
rangements We're made Thursday by
DR.. Marshall P. Cram of the faculty
| to have the collection shipped immede-
ately TO BOwdOin and the SearIes
| Science Building. The donor of this
splendid gift was born in 1927 at
Windham. He received his early edu-
| cation in the schools of his native
| town and studied medicine with DR..
William Marrett before entering the
Bowdoin Medical School. After grad
| uating he practiced for four years at
Oxford only TO settle later at Edgar
town, Mass, where he was leading
| physician of that town for twenty
years. He resided for some time later
to Weston, Mass, and in 1885 he re-
| moved to East Weymouth and con-
! tlnued active practice there until his
death on July IS, 1895 at the age of
! IS. He had been a member of the
Massachusetts Medical Society, was
much interested in the natural sci
ences and paid much attention to
astronomy and botany on which he
delivered several lectures. He gather
ed a large collection Of minerals which
! have now been given to Bowdoin and
which he took much pleasure in ex-
bibitins to his friends The collection
4 will he very valuable addition to
the Mineralogy Department of Bow
doin College.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21

F. W. f. Goss of Masardis is near
w. if not the oldest, town officer in
service in Maine. having served his
native town in the capacity of town
clerk since 1866, when as young man
OF y years he was chosen TO fill the
Office in the little old schoolhouse.
For A years the town has been called
together annually TO elect officers for
the following year and Mr. Goss has
received the vote for town clerk which
he has faithfully filled these many
wears Mr.. Goss has retired from
business recently and will in the fu-
ture reside with his sister. Mrs. Orrln
Stevens. Portage.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-03-21

ST. Louis man became a high
wayman for excitement He got it.
The policemen who shot him fun of
holes thought he was in earnest.