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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-02

Inability to see by day is matched by
the commoner night-blindness which
most of us have known in friend or
-o'84ivN This defect which includes
an inability to see even by artificial
light, is congenital with some people
and never overcome 1t is often hered-
itarv. 1t may also be caused. however.
by long exposure to overnight light.
coupled with fatigue. strange story
is told concerning a ships crew two
centuries ago, which was overcome by
night blindness so extreme that their
captain was Obliged to force fight
with Spanish privateer during the
dav Knowing that by night his men
would he helpless. In order to obviate
this difficulty for future occasions he
ordered each sailor to keep one eye
bound during the daytime. discovering
to his qualification, that this eye. hav-
ing rest ed was then free Of the Seseci
The sailors were very amusing in tneir
efforts to retain the bandage well over
the eye that must no read- for night
dirty. and so a method of modifying
this trouble was discovered -Froins<
Freaks Of fyesight,ss in thee MARCH
SUard. sse1bos 10 To-. .ss,r r = =
s9agcn sss1tTnE .sTSM seEAtlA a
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-02

Back to the farm" has been
heard by many hard working me-
ch:.ric this winter and he is going
tn heed the summons.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-02
Different Now.

"Why did they call her Henry Pen
ny. grandpa"
"rhcrc must have been 4 reason.
lad. but it is lost in the mists Of an
tiouity. No one today would suspect
that the hen was ever connected with
that humble coin. kansas City Jour-
nal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-02
A Peevish Patient.

"You are unreasonable" declared the
physician,
WHY so. doe"
"You stuff yourself with forty kinds
of rich grub and then kick because
Won have to take two kinds ri medl-
cine. KANSAS City Journal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-02
Guessed It.

What do You suppose is the great
est cause of divorce?
Marrying Lillian Russell. -ll"us-
ton Post.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-02

The cstentation common to the rich
Chinese is even observable in their
funeral obsequies. Even if by chance
q man should desire an unpretentious
burial. the thought of such a thing
would be abhorrent to his heirs. who
would consider it a distinct slight both
to themselves and to the family gods.
in consequence. rich mans funeral
is made just as gorgeous and costly as
his means will allow. The number OF
pall-bearcrs varies according to the
status of the diseased. Thirty-two.
or even Smore. are frequently seen
Spirit chairs for the use of the dead
Croesus in the future life are borne in
the procession, together with venerat-
ed objects intended for the Precipitation
of the gods. while idols Of hideous APP
pearance and uncouth shape are also
carried.-From the March Wide World
Magazine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-02
And a Few Hours on Philadelphia.

We might lraw in our missionaries
from Madagascar and Tibet and con-
centrate few minutes of prayer on
Cairo. ILL.,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-02

This spring we have an excellent OPP
portunity to observe the result of reck-
less lumber cutting in the districts
stricken by flood.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-02

Philadelpha's nightmare may make
it so uncomfortable that the town Will
wake up.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-02

More ships and younger men in the
United States navy means a better
navy and more efficient administra-
ton.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-02

Col. Roosevelt can find work 10 do in
New York, If the political outlook at
present gives any idea of the true con-
ditions
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-02

Making cities beautiful is an ex-
pensive business. The country dis
tricts don't need any landscape gard
nerS.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-02

Maryland is in greater danger OF
accepting woman's suffrage than ever
before.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-02

The March town meeting is with US
again and good roads articles are on
more warrants than ever before.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-02

No city can afford to take a step
backward when all the nelghporihg
cities and towns are advancing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-02

What's the use of putting an Indian
at New YorkS front door? Has she
gJne into the cigar business
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-02

Railroads report good business. The
wheels of industry are turning.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-02
Refined Procrastination.

81 must say that man annoys me by
his extreme delicacy about going right
to the vitalS of a matter.
He unuuestionably uses great deal
of red tape
"He doesn't even use red tape. He
uses pink ribbon" -Washington Star.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-02

Republicans should attend the
caucuses tomorrow. night.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-02

why do the current magazines
print so much poetry?'
II can tell you
I'm listening"
ITS Il scheme to force people to
read the advertisements. kansas
City Journal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-02

A young girl who came from a coun-
try town said that nothing had 50 hurt
her with a sense of Impoverished lives
as her first encounter with the chill
dren of the slums. 1t was a little scene
familiar enough to any one who passes
often through the tenement districts.
She had just purchased a five-cent
bunch of flabby sweet peas because in
a half-hearted way they reminded her
of the flowers growing sweet and
strong toward the light under her mo-
TIERS window. She had hardly left
the florists stall and turned into a
crowded side street when she found
herself the centre of a small mob of
children pushing and jostling one an
other, the holder of them pulling at her
skirts.
"Gimmee flower, lady: say. lady,
gimmee flower. please" came the
chorus from the urchins, most of whom
looked as though they needed soap and
water and bread and clothes far more
than poSles. She had distributed all
but two or three flowers that she had
stuck in the lace of her waist and was
about to pull them out, when 2 boys
voice IN the outskirts of the srowd:
law, git out; can't We the lady
wants some fer herself?" The love of
beauty, being unselfish, was the soil in
which the flower of chivalry sprouted
for the first time in his murky little
soul
settlement workers, librarians, and
teachers in the slums see constant evil
dence of this craving for beauty which
is at once the tragedy and the hope OF
the Sums, since the unsatisfied longing
must be the dynamic force to break the
crust of filth and ignorance. They hnd
on the whole, in the children bent
toward the finer things. the simpler
lines and more delicate tfnts. Whetner
1t is due to quickness Of intuition ana q
desire to please the lady," or wnetneA
it springs from something inherently.
right in the instincts of these undevel-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-02
VOICES OF THE PRESS,
Doing 1t For His HeaIth-Maybe.

AS we understand it, loquacious Mr.
CLAWS isn't being paid for the infor-
nation he is giving the Investigating
committee, either.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-02

In the course of a sketch of Oliver
HEREFORD in the March American Mag
azine, Frank M. White records the fol-
lowing witticism OF Mr. Herford's.
which won for HIM the laurel wreath of
the Players Club of New York as the
best wit:
"Herford first sprang into fame as a
wit so long ago as when Mrs. James
Brown Potter, whose husband was a
near relative of the late Bishop Potter,
created a sensation by rclinquisliing
home and family to go upon the stage.
While the sensation was at IT'S helgnt
the bishop, who felt that disgrace had
been brought upon the Potter name by
the lady's choice of a career, CHANGED
at a dinner at the Players Club in New
York to challenge any one present to
make q joke about him that was not a
pun based on the verb to potter Her
ford's response, Actresses will happen
in the best regulated families won MN
the laurel wreath of the club, and 1t
has not yet gone out of his possession.
The successful launching of the cot
ton industry in the Imperial Valley is
the latest and most important venture
in that part of our country which has
developed 50 many big and profitable
propositions" southern California.
With a known yield of more than
bale to an acre and indication of a
steady average production of one ana
one-half bales to an acre, this reclaim
ed desert valley at once takes rank as
cotton area to be reckoned with.
That the ranchers whereabouts have
faith in the new crop MS evidenced by
the 1000 acres now planted in cottoll
and iudicious estimate of between Il, !
600 and $4,000 acres to be planted IN
1910. The ginning of the first bale took
place in october, 1909, and was made
the occasion Of an enthusiastic demon
stration by the residents of Ell Centre
A few weeks later, November 9Th, 1905
the first carload of Imperial cotton, for
ty-threc bales, was shipped to the Cal
fornia Cotton Mills in East Oaklard,
and the return of more than $2,5oO0o
from this first carload gave tremendous
impetus to those engaged in the rev
industry. Thirty more carloads Flil
follow it during the season.
Practically the entire area of the VAL
ley is suitable for the production of
this staple and the region has varPus
advantages over the south, which nay
mean the differences to the prodtcer
between success and failure. The
dreaded boil weevil is unknown in pm
perial, and it is stated on good authri-
ty that there is no danger of invahcn
from the pest as it cannot live in The
climate. Drouth need not be feared as
the water supply can be regulated;
there are no destructive rainstorms to
| injure the crop and no frost to hinier
the picking.-From Cotton in Calif,r-
MA" in the March Technical Wodd
Magazine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-02
Wednesday. March 2, 1910.
Maiine!
Boost
clip Augusta TO progress.

As a walker Weston Is a winner.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-02
EsrAeLlsHEp 1875

No notice whatever will be taken OF
unsigned communications.
The Journal cannot be held RESPONSE
bic for the preservation or return OF
rejected communications.
Address all communications relating
to subscriptions and advertisements
to BURLEIGH 4 FLYNT, Publish
ers. Augusta. Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-02

Members Of the Bar Harbor Congre-
gational church recently rendered
supper to j. A. Rodick, who has served
as member of the choir so consecutive
years and has missed but few services.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-02
His Opinion.

Probably, but | can not finish pay
ng for my new autO."-Houston Post.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-02
BOOKS AND Authors,

oped mites d humanity. 1t would be
hard to say.{ Yet it makes a founda-
ton to WORK on.-Hanna Astrup Lar
sen, in Harfr's Weekly.
IF / nd anyway there should bes
but one hid of manners. and that
good" say Virginia Terhune Van de;
Water in DC Woman's Home Compan-
ion for Garch. II would have each
child dried TO be as scrupulously po-.
lite to til members of his family as to
the gues within his fathers gates, as
courteoI TO the employee in the kitch-
en- or Chamber as to his mothers call
ers. Iffrom birth he knew no aIterna-
tive OF behavior. he would practice
none.
'Tf I'VE are honest, we must admit
that n it'll, many educated and refined
perxlls there is. all unknown to them.
selv4 "a difference in the courtesy dis
plaNd to home people and that direct
ed tward strangers. The man who
doe not consider it worth while to rise
wffn his wife or mother comes into
th} room will spring to his feet when
TIN guest of wife or mother enters. The.
la who mods to his sister. whom he
nfets alone on tiieystreet. will take off
hf hat when that sisteHfs accompanied
y her pretty chufd ...-
"As for knocking NJ the door of the
foom of any membeEef the family
who thinks of doing ftgasBut let us re-
call at the same time tSat. we do not
rush into our guests rooms without q
preliminary knock and q gentle, oh.
so gentle, May come in?s; Rersonally,
/ believe that this disreg1 of per-
soral privacy in our faraff one of
the worst of our set of nal bad
manners. l64ke
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-02

Professor G. L>ISfttredge of Harvard
has been maze an Honorary Foreign
Fellow of the Royal Society of -Litera-
turs~4Among Professor Kittredge's
.E5est known works are the textbooks on
Composition, Rhetoric and Grammar.
published by CHM and Company. -
The seriousness with which teachers
ana educators are devoting themselves
to the problem of maintaining Better
health conditions in schools is demon
strated by the eagerness with which
they are attacking the most helpful lit
erature on the subject. Aliens Civics
and Health (Ginn and Company, an
extremely practical work pertaining to
the health needs of schools, towns and
cities. is becoming familiar to thous-
tands of teachers all over the United
States. 1t has already been officially
adopted in the teachers reading circles
! of fourteen states; Aowa. Arkansas.
| Wyoming. Maryland, South Carolina.
| oklahoma. Kentucky. Illinois. Indiana,
New Mexico. North Dakota, South Da-
| kota, Washington and Arizona.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-02

Fatigue partakeS of the nature of a
disease. being itself due to d toxin. Just
as in all other cases where such a toy-
in is produced. there is created. side R
side with it, in the human body affect
ed. the antidate. a spontaneous pro-
duct of nature from materials that she
has always in her laboratory. The an
tidote. if plentiful enough, will counter
act the poison and restore the sick
body to health. If more than plentiful
enough it more than counteracts the
poison it fights and becames a tonic. a
sustaining substance that raises the
efficiency of the body above that which
we are accustomed to consider normal.
The exnerimcnter deduced this from
the fact that in repeating a given
physical exercise, after an interval of
rest, the body shows greater capacity
than in initial effort, indicating that
there has been an overproduction. for
the moment, of the andidote to fatigue
caused by the first exercise of the mus
cles, and that it has become Stirnu-
liant.
DR.. Weichardt first recovered the
supposed roisons of fatigue from the
muscles of animals exhausted by wear
mess. \ difficult technical process was
not necessary to this end, but accom-
plished its purpose. after considerable
experiment. Obtaining finally a highly
active substance in crystal form. he
found that he could produce a genuine
fatigue in creatures inoculated with it.
Even death was brought about in some
cases by means of such incubation. BY
i.,io hn, hf
treated with the fatigue toxin into the
blood of other animals he found that
the latter acquired a surprising facul-
ty of resisting fatigue, and. even when
doses of the fatigue toxin. which would
have been fatal to the unprotected ami
NAL, We're administered to those so
treated with serum, they showed little
or no injury as result-From Shall
We Never Grow Tired?" in the March
Technical World Magazine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-02

Necessary. n
'"The operation will cost you three
hundred dollars
tAnd it is necessary?" N
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-02

"A mother right out Of H. hf8h-
ioned story-bnok is Henrietf Ef6sntsn
in private life Mrs. M&s1ff4ey3nIspa
bell; a golden-haired, sWeekf&ced we-.
man who is as good a hoz1 Sper and
a home-maker as she Is m actfess.''
says Woman's Home COMPANION for
March. when she is in Net York
Mrs. Campbell hurries right home from
the theater that she may be sup early
in the morning to be with that boy OF
hers. she spends as many hours as
possible with him when the exigencies
of her profession make it possible:
can old nurse plays an important
part in the Campbell household. She
it is who has charge of the little boy
when the mother is away. The boy
his right bringing-up and his edHcatton
the the things nearest the setfess'
heart
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-02

Bridgton Academy girls. when the
piano in the dormitory was endan-
gered by fire which was in rooms di-
rectly over the music room, put their
strength upon the instrument and
safely removed it beyond possible
damage.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-02

Miss Carolyn Young of Vinalhaven,
who has one of the handsomest of
South American parrots, was surpris
ed the other evening to find that
Laureta had laid a beautiful white
egg. The parrot was purchased some
six years ago by her brother Lyford,
while on sea voyage to Venezuela.
She is an extra talker and is highly
priced by all the family.
The Fort Fairfield Review says that
r. NJ. Knight on Feb. 8, found in his
pasture. alive. we'll and in good flesh,
three sheep that had been placed there
by another man last fall, and then
forgotten by everybody. They were
taken to the barn, but there seemed
to be no need of this step, as they
were getting along happily where they
were. Sheep-raising should be a pay
ing business in Aroostook, where the
sheep can be pastured all the year
round.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-02

Cant l live unless it is per-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-02

A lumber camp on the road for the
Moulton lot, Parsonsfield, with all its
machinery, teams, houses, etc, passed
through Newfield this week. There
were three houses, with housekeeping
going on. everything in apple pie order
even to a clean roller towel hung on
the wall. A jolly set of men were
along. talking and laughing as they
went-a novel sight, and to one who
had never seen the like, better than
the circus.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-02

Bridgton News: Wonderful, if not
really indiscreet. our venerable citizen.
F. r. Staples, who attained his four
score anniversary last December, rid
ing through the village streets upon
load of hay which he had pitched into
the rack and which later he took care
Of when being unloaded. The anti
child labor reformers take no cog
nizance of such little episodes as
these
Morris tribune., 1910-11-11
School of Agriculture Lecture
Course.

The second number of the School of
Agriculture lecture course will be
given next Wednesday evening
November 18th at the School. Mrs.
Marion Fisk is a cartoonist and crayon
lecturer. Her subject will be came
ricans in the Making.' The follow
ing commentator speaks for itself:
"Mrs. Fisk is one of the most tai
ented an delightfully."- original women
I have ever met. I have heard her in
many of her chalk talks. Mrs. Fisk
has not only wonderful power in her
drawing, but while her fingers fly
swiftly and accurately over the board,
she keeps the audience engrossed by
her wit. her originality and her word
painting. Whether serious or comic,
she always sends her message home
and one. is better for having heard
her, I take great pleasure in com
mending her." Miss Susie M. Guild,
Dean of Women. Carroll College.
Waukesha, Wis. Her subject
"Americans in the Making is a
pithy. instructive, entertaining lee
ture, full of humor, illustrated by
means of cartoons and artistic sketches,
on the making of Americans from the
time of our New England forefathers
to the present day. The lecture
will begin at 8:15. A course ticket
for the remaining numbers can be OBJ
tanned at the door for rs cents.
Single admission 25 cents.
Morris tribune., 1910-11-11

Mrs. Laura Ann Walker. widow of
J. L. Walker. died at her home in
the township of Morris on Monday,
Nov. 7th, of apoplexy. She was
nearly "a years of age and was one
of the pioneer settlers of this county
coming here in an early DAY from
New York, where she was born.
She was the mother of nine child
ren. five of whom are living, Charles
being resident of this city. and
Robert of the town of Morris. She
was held in high regard by the ma..
friends who have known her ing
her long residence here. 7 fun
eral was held yesterday from the late
home. Rev. Hammond preaching the
funeral Sermon
Morris tribune., 1910-11-11

Mrs. Bert Young, who with her
husband and family recently left
here. was taken sick with pneumonia
at Palisades, COL, last Friday and
died on Monday. Her father and
mother, Mr.. and Mrs. Thos. Clark
left for Palisades Wednesday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Young came to this
county about two years ago and lived
in the town of Morris. and sold out
and went to Palisades in search of a
new home. The kindest sympathy is
extended to the sorrowing husband
and parents and the four small
children. who are left motherless by
her untimely death.
Morris tribune., 1910-11-11

Mrs. A. H. Taisey, of Donnelly.
died at her home there on Monday,
Nov. 7th. She had been sick about
four years and her death was not
unexpected. Mrs. Taisey, whose
maiden name was Harriet P. Conway.
was born at Ogdensburg, N. Y, on
April 29th. 1884. In 1854 she came
to Lake City. Mimi. and was married
to Col. Taisey on March 1. 1855.
To them were born four children.
three of whom are living. Mrs.
Taisey was highly esteemed among
her circle of friends and beloved by
her family. and the kindest sympathy
is expended to the sorrowing relatives.
The funeral will be held at fDonnelly
today.
Morris tribune., 1910-11-11

The last legislature passed two laws
on muskrats. Chapter 317. approx
ed April 21st. defines the closed sea-
son as May LIST to Nov. 1st. and
CHAPTER ALP, approved April %
makes the closed season April 18th
to Nov. 18th. 1t is the opinion of
County Attorney Beise that the latter
law, being the one approved last. is
the one in force.
Morris tribune., 1910-11-11

Benson Times: Prof. W. T.
Sobev, the piano tuner of Morris. who
has made frequent visits to Benson
the last few years, died at a hospital
in Breckenridge last Tuseday from
severe hernia or rupture, the trouble
with which he has been afflicted for
some years, being made worse by a
recent straining to which he was sub
jected while climbing thru a string
of cars at White Rock, S. D. He
was an excellent man in every way
and will be missed here as we'll as in
Morris. ,.se,,.. ,,-.-..... IL. ....
Morris tribune., 1910-11-11
Sheep-Raising Profitable.

Sheep-manure is worth, according
to results obtained at the Minnesota
University Farm, about SO ton A
fattening sheep will make about a ton
a year. Add this increment of value
to the sleeps production of wool and
mutton, and the protitableness of
sheep-raising is easily demonstrated.
Morris tribune., 1910-11-11

Our New Gold Flour makes the
lightest and sweetest loaf of bread of
any -four sold today in Stevens county.
Our price and flour is both satisfact-
ory. If your dealer does not keep it
send to the mill and we will see that
you get it. If you have not been US
ing New Gold send us word to that
effect and we will send you sample
sack to try free of cost. After once
using it you will not use any other
kind. Morris City Mills.
Morris tribune., 1910-11-11

How about a nice set of furs for a
Christmas present? Wells Bros.
Hanson Co. are showing some nobby
sets that will please, and at prices
that are right.