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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24
"eood Roads" Shows.

This is the season of automobile
shows when every man who is sus-
pected of having enough money to
buv an automobile is urged by agents
and nv personal letters to investigate
the advantages and superior points
| of the various makes" Every
large city has it's show, and it
is usually made very interest
| ing exhibition to all who visit
| it whether likely to purchase or not.
In many instances the motor boat or
gasoline driven launch shares floor
space with the gasoline driven vehicle.
The agents of the various manufac-
turtles are accomplished statesmen and
as a result thousands of men are led
to purchase machines for business and
for pleasure.
That is the principal reason why
these shows are held but the automo-
bile shows are accomplishing some
thing else which is not only of great
good to the automobile business but is
of material benefit to thousands who
cannot afford such a luxury. We re-
fer to the impetus given to the good
roads movement through these ex-
hibitions. The farmer needed good
roads more than any other class, but
he was slow to realize it, and slower
still to commit himself to an extensive
expenditure to create them. The
coming of the automobile, however,
interested a class which has been ac-
customed to having the comforts of
life without counting the cost SO care
fully. That has been the history of
road work in nearly every state.
There is another chapter concern
ing which we do not hear so much.
In cases where the automobiles,
through their shows and legislative
campaigns, have thoroughly aroused
the farmers to the advantages to be
derived from modern highways it is
difficult to prevent legislative bodies
from committing the states to eX-
penditures for good roads which
would cripple every other project for
improvement. In other words, when
the farmers and mechanics and mer-
chants of the cities and towns once
realize the great advantages of first
class highways they almost invariably
want to build them all at one time
and in some cases the automobiles
have been compelled to oppose elabo-
rate good roads projects in order to
prevent serious embarrassment to the
This condition of affairs
has recently appeared in one of the
New England states. 1t was neces-
sary for the business men and heavy
taxpayers, who had been fighting for
good roads for years, to join hands to
prevent their hard won converts from
upon a good roads policy
which would seriously involve the
finances of the state for many years.
Maine is peculiarly fortunate in its
good roads policy, in that nothing of
the kind is likely to occur here on ac-
count of the safeguards provided. but
it is interesting nevertheless to notice
the enthusiasm of the people once
they have been convinced that good
roads are simply a business PROPOSE
ton and not luxury provided and
maintained solely for the benefit of
the more privileged. Automobile shows
have done much to educate the people
along this line.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24

q Two walters disagreed as to the pro-
nunc!ation of "pumpernickel" and now
one is In the hospital and the other in
jail We never knew that walters
would get excited over anything less
~tnan q dollar.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24
Would Be a Barkis.

philadelphia Inquirer)
The Duke of Manchester says Par
lament should drop 800 pers Won
der waht his Dukelets would do if a
call for volunteers We're made
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24

The Brockton Enterprise says that
Quincy. Mass, has solved the problem
of getting gold from sea water by
deepening the little arm of the sea
called Fore River and establishing
thereon a shipyard. That sounds well,
but there's a lot more to it. Consider
able gold has been put into the sea by
exactly the same methods.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24

Those who are fond of telling US how
much better they do things in England
than we do them here. should listen
while the Englishmen complain that in
America when an election is over. an
other Is not necessary for at least a
veor
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24

The sailor who gave the Massachu-
sets life savers such strenuous ses-
sion isn't even model DR.. Cook. He
didn't know enough to start a fake
that yielded real money.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24

Massachusetts is debating the uues-
ton of the value of the humble. skunk.
1t is proposed to put a man in Jail for
year if he kills one. Think of that
IN a state where the children lecture
on the fourth dimension.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24
They Can't Prove 1t.

(Chicago Record Herald)
Prof. Lowell can logically reply that
the people who don't believe Mars is
inhabited have never succeeded in
furnishing convincing proof that it
isn't. - E
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24

- We are told that in Germany the
cal drivers sing while waiting for
fares. In America they sing after they
get their fares.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24
Will Be a Hot One.

Chicago NeWS)
Now that Herbert Gladstone has
been made a Lord, if the shade of the
elder Gladstone has any further COM
municatiOn to make to Mr.. Stead one
can easily guess what will be the bur-
den of the message.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24

William Jennings Bryan has man.
aged to get a line in the papers by
discussing government in India. AS
usual his subject and remarks are
only distantly related.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24

Slush is a rather cold proposition to
suring on us just at this time but We
presume the weather man feels little
soggy and does not intend to weep
alone.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24

A New Jersey legislator is to present
q bill making it crime to flirt. At
lantc City will be depOpulated If that
law is ever enforced. Summer resorts
don't thrive on that sort of thing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24

Pittsburg millionaires are being
forced to divide their riches with some
of the poor-through the medium of
thieves, burglars, porch climbers and
hold-up men. 1t is limited socialism
by short cut
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24

About this time of year the crust is
certain to tempt the unwary. The
court plaster will cover you if you
don't watch out.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24

Word comes from the Philippines
maneuvers are real battles Can it be
that the effect is the same on the ma
tiveS?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24
VOICES OF THE PRESS.
Ouoht To Help Some.

(St Louis Post DispatchO
Mr.. Carnegie says he doesn't want
to go to heaven yet. Thus we learn
that $2S5 100000 is an excellent and
satisfying substitute.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24

James G. McReynolds. federal pros
ecutor took five hours to tell the
court what he thought of the hard coal
trust Thousands have the will to do
as much. but lack the information.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24

A fierce gale has swept over the Brit
ish Isles within a day or two, but the
weather men hesitate to place the
blame on the orators in Parliament
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24

In spite Of the frantic efforts OF the
rat" makers to deny that 1t is possi-
BILE, two st. Louis women are de-
clared by physicians to have we'll ad-
vanced cases Of leprosy.. contracted
from that piece of headgear.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24

Typhoid Mary" has been released by
the New York health authorities on
promise that she won't cook any more
She and Early. the alleged leper could
swap some interesting information con-
tCerning health boards.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24

Roosevelt is said to have taken on
deep coat Of tan during his African
trip. 1t will be strange If some of those
who have been denouncing him so free
~ don't get tanned as soon as he gets
back
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24

The citizens of this country, with
out regard to party or station. unite
in wishing a speedy and complete re-
covery for Senator Tillman.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24

The census man is coming and
Maine must be nice to him. She
needs him in her business.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24

The London specialists who have
discovered" that potatoes are not
healthful food never ate any of the
famous Aroostook or Central Maine
brand
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24

Whether she can afford it or not the
American woman is wearing more SILK.
In 1909 she used slG5. 5000 worth.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24

There is just one way for the Ameri-
can hen to avoid European competition
that is by producing eggs.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24

1t is easy to predict who will have
the bulk of the Russell fortune when
lhe fight is over.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24
Daily Kennebec Journal.
EsTAsLishep 1sas

No notice whatever will be taken OF
unsigned communications.
The Journal cannot be held response
bio 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, 1910-02-24

We have all been captivated by the
magic of the great modern detective
stories. from Sherlock Holmes to Ar
sene Lurin, but we hardly realize the
respectable antiquity of this taste of
ours. The first detective story in mod
ern Europe was written by no less a
person than Noltaire, who put it forth
as a translation from the Chaldean,
through the Arabic. Voltaire called his
tale Zadig and it was tolerably fair
imitation of the Arabian Nights in at
mosphere and incident and in that mis-
chievous joy which runs through the
stories of the East. His hero, Zadig,
is, like Sherlock Holmes, an adept in
deciphering the faintest clews written
in the dust.
Voltaire introduces us to Zadig
among the hanging gardens of Baby
lon. As that discerning parsonage is
taking MS pleasure among the trees,
news is brought to him that the Queen
of Babylon's pet dog is lost. "Ah yes!'
says Zadig- Holmes, '1et us see! Was
it not spaniel. and had it not par
ticularly long ears? And was it not
slightly lame in the right fore pave"
Zadig was promptly arrested on the
charge of stealing the dog which he so
perfectly described, though he averred
he had never seen it.
eff you did not steal the dog, and, in
fact, as you aver. never even saw it,
how did you manage to describe it so
accurately" asked the King of Baby
lon.
"Ah. perfectly easy" answers Sher-
lock Zadig. CAS- I was walking in the
palace garden. I noticed certain traces
in the dust. l observed that they were
the tracks of a small animal, and that
that small animal was dog. ! furth-
or observed that one track was much
less heavily marked than the other
three. Observation showed that this
was the front foot. on the right side.
So 7 knew that the dog was lame on
the right fore paw. Further, I no.
ticed that there We're light streaky
markings at each side of the foot
tracks, and my observation proved to
me that they We're made by long, PEN
dulouS ears. Hence | deduced that the
dog must be a long eared dOg--in fact,
a spaniel!"-CharleS Johnston, in Har-
per's Weekly.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24

Is. DR.. Cook getting ready to submit
his proofs" to Chill?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24
Thursday, February ~, 1910.
Boost Maine!

Bryan will talk that Harmon boom
to death in a week. That's his forte.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24

A Spaniard says that he Is getthe
ready to cross the Atlantic in a pa.'oo'.
Evidently every country has its waiter
Wellman.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24


of the Lewiston, Brunswick & Bath
Street Railway, but now general
manager of the Spokane Street Kali
way system, Washington, arrived IN
Lewiston yesterday for brlet pusl-
ness trip. Mr.. Farr has made good
in his new position, and is considered
one of the most successful managers
of street railways in the west.
Portland is better protected against
foreign foe than it has ever been,
for Fort Lyons. on Cow island, has
just received its first supply OF am
munition. Seventy boxes nave ar
rived at Portland to be taken to the
island on the government steamer.
Each box contains four ROUNDS Tor the
Is pound guns so that the fort Will be
able to repel with ease the attack of
any torpedo boat tlotilla
Bath Times: Yesterday afternoon at
Peoples church there was special
vesper service at which four new me-
mortal windows were unveiled, three
for Pascal P. Bucknam, one of the
first deacons of the church, and one
for Mrs. Frances A. Savage who died
last September. The Bucknam win
dows We're unveiled by Master Pascal
Flint, grandson of Mr.. Buchanan, and
the Savage window by Miss Lulu Mae
Rowe granddaughter of Mrs. Savage.
Mr.. O'Brien was assisted by the Rev.
George Graham of Topsham and
Deacons Hill and F'urbush. The choir
gave a special program of music.
r. G. Saylor, who has been promoted
to the office of general superintendent
Of the eastern division of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, was for
several years an operator in the Port
land office. From there he went to
Philadelphia, where he worked his way
up step by step until he held impor-
tant offices. Following his work in
Philadelphia he held important offices
in New York for the Western Union.
Afterward he had charge of work in
Chicago, Atlanta and San Francisco.
Mr.. Saylor married a Portland girl and
spends great deal of his time during
the summer season at Higgins Beach.
JEANNE E. Soule Gray of Gouds-
boro has in her possession a set of
sales books used by her grandfather.
who kept general store in Goulds-
boro, from about 1880 up to the time
OF his death, in 1882. The following
extracts from the entries beginning
Feb. 2, 1888. will show to the people
who complain of high prices and wish
for the good old times, that some of
the prices II years ago We're fully as
high as now. Here are some of the
entries:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24

H. A. Packard of Norway has an old
punch or brandy bowl which he bought
cents. Experts declare it to be worth
at least 500 as a specimen of 18th CEN
fury art work. The dish is about nine
inches long and four inches high. 1t is;
of white ware and of irregular shape.
Dishes of this sort were used in the
olden days-of Maine rum and molas-
ses-to place an egg in then
stir smartly. and the brandy was
poured into the dish. This made COM
mon drink of Is or 100 years ago known
as ''toddy."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24

One Portland lumber company has
five vessels chartered to bring a total
of four million feet of southern Dine
and cypress to that city within the
next few weeks.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24
Maine Gossip
GETTING Withered.

Hope springs eternal here below
AS you can bet.
Some damseIs have the mlstletoe
Suspended yet. ,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24

The Brunswick jewel thief could
hardly have hit upon a home so filled
with valuable trinkets around which
were retained so much of history and
family traditions. Capt. and Mrs. Skui-
held have the sympathy of their many
friends in their loss.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24

Tar bucket night isn't as strenuous
an occasion now as it was ten years
ago, say Portlanders For many years
the evening of Feb. 20 was the occasion
for burning barrels, boxes and other
refuse in the streets and the footing Of
horns and Gathering of police rattles
until the whole city was filled with the
uproar and the sky was bright. A few
years ago a stony-hearted police chief
stopped the blowing of horns and the
year that the city hall burned, the
practice of building fires in the streets
became unpopular. This year there
was practically no demonstration.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24

There is this paradox in woman's
attitude toward civilization from the
beginning that her nature has al
ways unconsciously and inevitably
promoted departure from every posi-
ton gained in the course of progress,
and which apparently she most per-
sistently sought to uphold and main
tain. Only from the estate of
primitive naturalism she would not,
either really or apparently. have
sought q departure; and what depar-
lures her nature has since promoted
have been by way of return to that
estate in some new and more exalted
form-so that she is as conservative
in what new things she unconsciously
seeks as in what old things she con-
sciously maintains. In creative evolu-
ton hers is the real motion as well as
the apparent stability.-H. NJ. Alden,
in Harpers Magazine for March.
Let fancy endow Adam with the
day of his creation, to piling up silver
dollars at the rate of a dollar a min
ute Permit him to work necessarily
clSlll llouTS ii udS t1lt WEN loiie boNh
the ages. He will lack $663Q00,000 of
having enough money to pay for all
the live cattle in the United States in
the year 1910.
Such is the magnitude of the beef
industry. The annual report of the
Department of Agriculture. issued a
few days ago. indicates that there are
96,65S,000 cattle in the country. At
the estimated increase in population
over the census OF 1900 this provides
a COW or a bullock for every human
inhabitant, adult or minor.
1t is but natural that the citizen
should manifest interest in ascertain
ing what becomes of this beef 1t is
his right to be informed that the
source of his beef-steak is rapidly di-
minishng, that the number of cattle
recreases on a ratio with the increase
in population, that the great cattle
ranges, which the late Frederic Rem
ington loved to picture. are on the
verge of consignment to memory, and
that there are mighty elements be-
sides the beef trust which enter into
this thing we call the cost of living.
From Our Beef Supply as a Great
Business" by Walter G. Howey, in the
American Review Of Reviews for
March.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24

More facts about "Barbarous Mex
leo" appear in the March American
Magazine. They are contributed ny
Young German who about ten years
ago, when out of work and in neeo'
sold himself into slavery unwillingiy'
being tricked by fair promises untli II
was too late. The story is deeply M
tcresting, particularly his description
of the things of which he was actuaiV
an eye witness. Regarding the pun
ishment of fellow slave who attefhpt-
ed escape he says:
about two miles from OaXaca, an"
in plain sight of it, we were halted.
man had escaped. 1t was but ten Hni-
utes till he was recaptured and brousn'
before the comisario. his hands tea of-/
hind him. Without a word our Gun
tractor smashed the man with ms no.
full in the mouth. making him spit pio'''
and broken teeth, greatly to the amuse-
ment of the three Mexican senori'as'
The recaptured man was loaded VII"
a heavy pack, his hands tied 10 'no
stjrrups of the comisario, and we re-
summed our march. When we remein-
Der that heavy pack may welgii w
to $50 pounds, that the mans ha''"s
were tied and that the way was over
the toughest kind of ground. we hhNo
small idea of that mans torture.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24

Biddford Journal.-In quiet way at
his old home on Main street, Saco,
Benjamin F. Hamilton, one of the best
known anil best beloved citizens of the
city, observed the completion of his
ninetyfirst year on Sunday. The OBJ
servation was of a family nature and
Mr.. Hamilton was visited by relatives
from Boston as we'll as from Saco and
Biddcford. He has not attempted for
several years to have anything in the
nature of public celebration. Mr..
Hamilton was born in WATERFORD in
this county February, 20, 1919. and was
for many years in business in Saco as
a dry goods merchant. One of the most
noteworthy acts of his career was the
employment of ladies as clerks, being
the first merchant in the country, so
far as known, to do this. The move
met with pronounced opposition but
Mr.. Hamilton carried it through and
never relinquished the practice which
later became general. He is held in
the highest esteem by everybody with
whom he is acquainted and it is the
wish of all that he may live to the CEN
fury ma k and as much longer as he
wishes the enjoyment of good health
and spi. its. He is in good health and
is daily seen on the streets of the two
cities.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24

Charles Frederick Holder and a par
ty of friends made motor trip recent
ly through the giant cactus of the va
qui river. and Mr.. Holder describes his
experiences in an article in the March
Century. In this region one rides for
miles and miles over perfect roads
through a forest of cactus. camping
anywhere at night and always finding
natural supplies of water and food to
supplement the car stores.
A French traveller on the Isthmus
observed that the chief industry of the
Panamanian is love-making. 1t is his
only industry in the sense that it is the
only vocation which he pursues in
dustriously. He never works on the
canal. He is addicted to no form of
agriculture or manufacturing. How
he manages to keep alive is mytery
which is not wholly solved by the re-
Election that it is never cold in Pana-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-24

This is the day of woman. She has
the center of the stage. She is evolv-
ing into something more Independent.
more individual. Coincident with this
evolution is the increase in divorce
divorce terminating one in every
twelve marriages in the United States,
most of the decress being granted to
wives. What has led to this rebellion,
and how much do DIRECTORS to divorce
think a woman should suffer before
she does rebel? AT what cost of self
respect should she force her marriage
to success ?-Everybody's Magazine.
The March inStalment of Madame
Modjeskas memoirs now appearing in
The Century will deal mainly with
memories of the interesting men and
women who We're her close friends dur
ing the early years of her success in
America Anderson, Clara Nor
ris, Jefferson, and the poets Longfel-
low. Whitman, and Eugene Field OF
I.ongfellOW Madame Madjeska writes:
THE presence of this true, great poet,
this man endowed with the finest quail
tiles a man can possess, was spiri-
tual feast for me-