Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-26
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The state Federation OF Women
Clubs of Michigan voted to l III favor
of woman suffrage at its annual meeting
recently held in Battle Greek.
John W. Smith, 6S years old. negro
who was once n slave, and whose life
long ambition has been to learn To read
and write, has started to the school Tor
negro children at Kansas City. kas. He
says he has given his children d Soou
education and now it is his turn
There is q good deal Of confusion IN the
lumber market at the present time as
some kinds have many names, but the
forcsters simplify the matter by dividing
them into two great classes, inc white
oak group and the black oak group
which have very different characteristics.
New Years is not a statutory holiday
in Massachusetts, and Kansas. Legally !t
is only a bank holiday in Maine. LIN
coins birthday is a holiday i'll California,
Colorado, Connecticut. Delaware. Florida,
Illinois, Iowa, Indiana. Kansas, Michi-
gan. Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New
Jersey, New York, North Dakota. Penn
sylvania, South Dakota. Utah, Washing
ton. West Virginia and Wyoming.
1lSul-JclltTIl iNlIit' iloiitN
learns, at Ticn-Tsin, that the only for"
rieu music the Chinese masses have ever
shown any interest in is the skirlill5 Of
the tagpipcs Of tho Cameron Highland
crs, when they We're III garrison there q
couple of years ago He. therefore. ad-
viscS an Ohio piano concern that the
market for their instruments is practi-
cally confined to foreign residents
Some few Instruments have been sold to
wealthy Chinese. but simply rs pieces Of
furniture, there being no teachers of in
strumcftal music for Chinese ladies' and
no demand for them.
Apropos Of Mr.. Wclman's courageous
attempt to fly across the Atlantic. the
most curious method adopted to traverse
the ocean. was probably that OF a Pro-
fessor Miller. who proposed to cross the
ocean on foot. He used q pair of special
walking shoes, which each measured five
feet in length. They rescmbled minia-
turc canoes in design, with q small ORR
flee in the center to admit the foot, and
they were furnished with corrugated
soles. Full of confidence, he started on
his curious journey, but soon realized the
folly Of his idea. He was unable 20
main an upright position, and driftcd
about for some time at the mercy of the
waves, until his friends prevailed upon
him to abandon the idea.-London Globe.
Emperor William of Germany, like his
father and grandfather, is skilled work.
man, and has had all his sons equally
well trained. The Carnots, who have
given so many distinguished men to
France, follow the same practice. Short
ly before his assnation President Car
not told an interviewer that lat the out
break of the revolution my grandfather
fled to Switzerland. and there for n time
was in abject poverty. He had large
sums invested in France, but was unable
to draw on them. On his return he de-
termined that all his sons should learn
a trade, so that they could fend for
themselves in a similar emergency. We
have kept up the tradition, and l myself
am a skilled carpenter and could earn
my five francs CsD or six francs G12o) a
day at a pinch"
/ Which is accurate as the motto of the
prince of Wales-Ich Diem or Eich Dyn?
The one is German and the other Welsh.
The one means II serve,' the other "Be-
hold the man. or BEHOLD your man.
Itch Diem was the motto of John. King
Of Bohemia, whom the Black Prince slew
at Crecy. 'Eich Dyn'' are the words
supposed to have been used by Edward I
when presenting his infant son to the
Welsh Assembly at Carnaroon. Welsh
tradition has adhered naturally to
the Welsh form. The other has been
more popularity accepted. The com.int;
investigation lends peculiar interest to q
revival of an old controversy. Settle