Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-16
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The range of the elk extends over
large portion of the North American
continent. There. however, it Is
known as the moose, since the name
of elk is reserved for the wapiti, the
latter being an entirely incorrect but
firmly founded local nomenclature.
Decidedly the most interesting man
ner of hunting moose followed in
North America is calling" Calling is
Ian accomplishment which counts
many processing performers. but very
flew adopts. In Alaska and Western
Canada hunters initiate the grunu of
the bull which he sends through the
forest as a challenge to his rivals in
love and war: but it is rather in the
| United States, in Lower Canada, in
New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario.
that calling really becomes an art: for
| i'm these latter places the hunter
usually initiates not the short, harsh
grunt of the bull, but the three long
drawn modulated calls by which the
tcow -mOOse makes known here where
abouts.-Hesketh- Prtchard in the
March Wide World Magazine.
| THE Birth of the Telephone" by
| Herbert y. CassOn, in the March
| Worlds Work is the first article in a
| series which will review tho telephone
| as il is today, forecast the telephone
| OF the future, and sum up the progress
| of the independent companies.
| Mr.. CassOn tells TYPICAL INCIDENT in
| the life of the inventor, Alexander
| Graham Bell:
often in the middle of the night
! Bel would wake me up" said Thomas
Sanders, the father of George. his
black eyes would be blazing with eX-
! citcment. Leaving me to go down TO
| she cellar. ne would rush wildly TO the
barn and begin to send me signals
| along his experimental wires. If | no.
tjced any improvement in his machine.
he would be delighted. He would leap
and whirl around in one Of his war
dances and then go contentedly to
hc6. But if the experiment was fail
ure. he would go back 10 his work
herch and try some different plan"
A great many people firmly believe
that the sun rises in the morning and
sets in the evening. Indeed, so fixed
are they in this opinion, that it is
practically impossible to convince
Them otherwise.
The mere fact that they entertain
| such a belief would be of no conse-
oNence in itself, were it not generally
TRUE that these people, as rule, are
worthy people, and in other respects
Ian right. 1t is extremely difficult to
Understand how people otherwise so
INTELLIGENT should entertain such
l fhnnOht
lconvince them otherwise.
To assert, for example, that the sun
rises in the East, would be to imply
THAT there is an East. The term
I"East," however, is purely relative.
Ut differs with the individual. and is
not fixed quantity. 1t has no OBJ
jective value, and proceeds from an
ILLUSION of the mind.
The same thing is true of the word
rises" The sun can no more rise
than it can set. A hen sets, but the
tsun never does* A little thought will
lenable the simplest mind to see this
anthony.
| We could easily go on and demon
istrate that there is no sun at all
We are, however, lenient. We are
broad and charitable in our views.
We do not believe, on general princi-
pies, in making even the simplest and
lcrudeSt minds too uncomfortable.
They are happier for having some il
Illusions left.
| *Nothing, in an argument, is more
effective than ridicule. That is why il
is introduced at this point.-Thomas
IL. Mason in March Lippincott's.
There is and has been during the past
winter. within forty miles to the west of
Dawson COR much nearer than ever Carl
bou have been killed for the Dawson
markell the near edge of a herd of Carl
bou that has been estimated by several
parties arriving in town from their prop
critics at he head of White river to con-
Itairr more than one million head. And
lmost extraordinary to relate. with all our
accredited sbloodthirstiness, there isn't
even one white hunter disturbing them
Only a few local Indians have brought in
Just enough Caribou to supply the cpl
cures With the first snow, last fall. this
vast herd crossed the White river, from
the south, and is now extended over q
range of high bald mountains ten thous-
and square miles in area, to the north OF
that stream."-From Are Alaska and
Yukon Shot Out?" by Jack Lee In March
| Recreation.