Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-09


especially. and also across from the
north to the south temperate. vast
peaceful migrations are taking place,
determined to no small degree by CHI
matte considerations. From Europe
and Asia to the United States alone.
a million people a year are now mi
grating. These aliens have Shown
marked tendencies to settle where eli
mate. soil and occupations are most
like those OF their old homes, although
the fact that most OF them land at
one port on the eastern seaboard. the
concentration of industries III certain
sections. and other artificial controls.
have operated very effectively to
counteract and interfere with this
tendency. Scandinavians, for example,
have gone largely into the northwest;
and in the future, unless steps are at
once taken to prevent it, the southern
parts Of the United States will doubt
less nave a population predominantly
of Latin blood.--Professor r. Dec.
Ward in The Popular Science Monthly
Charles j. BOnaparte. late attorney =
general of the United States, has writ
ten in the March Century" of the
Experiences of a Cabinet Officer I'm
der Roosevelt" He closes his article
with this apprehension of Roosevelt,
man and President:
Many years ago a well-known man
in my native city said with great con-
tempt Of one of his neighbours: oh.
he is miserable creature. He
hasn't $4,000 in the world" The
sentiment underlying this remark has
become in certain circles odously
familiar. If man has million, he il;
there held entitled to treatment as a
human being; if he has ten, he is
named with reverence; if a hundred,
he is approached with nine prostra-
tons. Against this sorid abasement
the manliness and conscience Of the
American people have revolted. and
Theodore Roosevelt gave voice to
their protest. His countrymen will
remember him as a President who
was not afraid to do right"
Everywhere in Japan the gala sea :
son of the year is when the cherry
blooms. writes Eliza Ruhamah Scid-
more in her story of 1.-THE Cherry
ipVoSViiI' ". Japan. Ill liiC Wal Cll
Century" Everything leads up to,
waits upon, and dates from the time
of the cherry blossom far more than
from the time of the chrysanthemums,
and in that month the whole empire
is wreathed in rose color from Kiusiu
to the farthcst north.
Every one goes to sec the cherry
blossoms as matter of course. No
one foregoes a sight of the charming
sakura' of his neighborhood. and the
very poorest will trudge to some ia
nous place 10 see some historic tree
when they cannot pay the low rates
at which all railroads run the many
special cherry blossom excursion
trains.
prince Ito took as much pride in
the avenue of cherry trees and the
perfect specimens Of rare trees bloom
ing among the evergreens of his Oiso
villa, down on the brocade coast,
as in the realization of his greatest
dreams of empire. Admiral Togo has
planted cherry trees to commemorate
his visits here and there. as has Gen.
Nogi. and both have written poems to
knighthOod's flower"
One thing is definitely shown by the
tests that have been made for color
blindness in various races: no race
however primitive, has been discovered
in which red-green blindness was the
universal or general condition.: and
this is a fact Of some interest in con-
nection with the physiology of color
vision. for it seems probable that red
green blindness, since it is not by any
means diseased condition, represents
reversion to more primitive state
of the color sense. If this is so. no
race Of men remains in the primitive
stages of the evolution of the color
sense; the development of color
sense substantially to the condition in
which we have it, was probably a pre-
human ~achievement.-Profe r. S.
Woodwork in Science.
Mankind so far has been ruled by
things and by words. not by thought.
for till the last few moments of history,
humanity has not been in possession of
the conditions of secure and effectiv.
thinking. Without ignoring in the
least the consolation that has come to
men from their literary education. 1
would even go so far as to say that
only the gradual replacing of liter
airy by a scientific education can as
sure to nan the progressive ameliora-
ton of his lot Unless we master
things. 've shall continue to be mas
tered by them: the magic that words
cast upon things may indeed disguise
our subiection or render us less dis
satisfied with it, but after all science.
not words. casts the only compelling
spell upon things.-Professor John
Dewey in Science -
Some bright day at the end of April
the dormant queen wasp aNakcs and
crawls sleepily out into the sunlight
Her first thought is her toilet. Her
wings. body. antennae and her face arc
brisk1y brushed by means of her briSt-
ly legs; and then, having removed all
dust and dirt from her limbs she
takes to her wings. She has not trav-
elled far. perhaps, before she alights
and carefully investigates an old tree