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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-18
Westover of WanaIah.

BY George Cary Eggleston. Illustrated
by Emil Polak Ottendorn. II mo. Dec
GRATED cover. S1..0
This is one of the best efforts of a great
master of Southern romance 1t deals
with social and political conditions as
they existed in antebelum Virginia. and
shows the honor of d man under irwin.
conditions. with the hero, who may
rightly class himself as a gentleman in
the best and highest sense of the word
triumphantly indicated and reha bilitat-
ed. An important part is played by
judy Peters, singular female politi-
cal boss in the mountain districts, who
has appeared in previous book, and is
one of the most unique characters ever
created in American fiction or course
there is a love story. and a very charm
ing one, with heroine as well qualified
to maintain the honor of a family true
to the best traditions as is the eXcep-
tonally well presented hero. Mr.. Esgles-
tons audience is secure: it is only nee
essary to say that here is some of his
best work. Published by Lothrop. Lee
& Shepard, Boston.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-18
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Some men would rather go broke
than STAY at home
People who have money to burn
should get it insured.
OF course YOU earn 800 a week. But
how much do you get?
BY attempting to do some people 4
favor you merely annoy them.
There is always a quiet demand for
wet goods in dry town.
It's impossible for a man to behave
right if he doesn't think right.
A wise widow is discreetly silent
when she sets her cap for No. 2.
The porous shirt waist is about to
resign in favor of the porous plaster.
1t takes an occasional humiliation to
keep a mans head down to the normal
size of his hat.
Clothes may not make the man. but
a turkey doesn't cut much of a figure
unless it is Welt dressed.
Did you ever notice how anxious the
average man is to attend church when
the minister is away on his vacation
And the man on the rock pile soon
realizes that converting big ones into
little ones isn't what it is cracked up
to be.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-18
Bigger Feet for Women.
(\ew Bedford STANDARD

The movement of the Baroness MOhn
men fashionable ought to prove popu-
lar-if women must wait for fashion t.
put seal upon nature to make it ac-
ceptable. Possibly the baroness seeks
only To- legaliZe in fashions decree a
possession of her own. but anyway she
has secured the backing. so a foreign
item says, of some aristocratic ladies'
of Munich, with the one object of .'cul-
tivatins big feet" Probably that is a
polite way of saying letting out bic
feet to their full size. That all women
do not 40 this. a doubt is justified al
this season of slight. high heeled, slip
rer-like ShOeS--but really, after all
there is little foolishness NOWADAYS
about small feet, or feet that look
small. with so many sensible girls and
women taking long walks and ou,-of-
door exercise.
The Baroness MOhn. whoever she
may be, is not ready to agree that all
women dress sensibly, for it was her
observation of the efforts of women to
climb mountains in lace dresses and
French shoes that brought into exis-
tence the big feet siciety, that has al
ready enrolled several hundred mem
bers, pledged to broad sOles and sturdy
heels for themselves and the doctrine
of sensible shoes for their children.
The fact of the matter is, the shoe
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-18
Guerber's Story of Old France.

BY II. A. Guerber Cloth. l. mo-. ga
pages: with illustrations. Price, 65 cents.
american Book Company. New York.
Cincinnati. and Chicago.
a new historical reader for the upper
grammar grades. which may also he used
as textbook in history. 1t gives the
story of France from the earliest times
down to the death of Louis XIV, laying
special stress upon the many interesting
and picturesque episodes in which the
period abounds, as they are presented in
literature and art. The book is supplied
With suitable maps, and with many il
Illustrations. largely from photographs of
famous paintings. statues. and buildings.
regarding which useful data are given.
The style is vivid and attractive and the
work is sure to hold the pupils attention
and to give him Il good knowledge of
French history
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-18
Coming Events.

Oct. 19-Maine Woman Suffrage Asso-
citation Convention, Portland.
Oct. 27-28-Maine Teachers Association
Bangor.
Oct. 2s-2s-Fourth Annual Meeting q
Maine State Conference Of Charities and
Correction. Portland.
Nov 4-Central Maine Sunday School
Institute, Augusta.
Nov. S-10-Annual Exhibition Of Mains
neurological Society. Auburn.
citation, Watervlle.
Dec. 6-1-S-Bangor Poultry and Pet
Stock Association, Bangor
Dec. 6-1-S-Annual Meeting State Dairy
mems Association. Augusta
Dec. 9-10-Annual Meeting State Seed
Association, Augusta.
Dec. 14-15-16-l1-Maine State Poultry
and Pet Stock Association. Portland.
Dec 20-24-State Grange, Augusta
Dec. 21-2S-29-30-Freeport Poultry Asso'
citation, Freeport.
Jan. 3-4-5-Western Maine Poultry As.
ISOLATION, So. Paris
Jan. n-Annual Meeting of Maine 0p
ticians, Portland.
Feb. 2l-22-Western Maine PythiaI
Jubilee, Lewiston.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-18
Census Frauds.

If tile United states Census Bureau
expects any reliance to be placed If
Its reports and any value to be placed
upon future censuses. it is necessary
that the perpetrators of such Glaring
frauds as brought to light in Tacoma
Wash. and one or two other cities. be
severely punished. 1t is shown there
that the figures were padded to the
extent OF over $4,000. The population
in 1900 was less than 10000. and after
n remuneration is now found to have
around $4,000. other cities are un-
der suspicion, and before the series of
Investigations are ended it may be ne
of the recent census takers.
Several cities have brought them
Selves under investigation by the loud
demands of newspapers and boards of
trade for big count. They demand
ed large numbers and a big percentage
of growth. regardless of cost or condi-
tons, and such persons are RESPONSE
BILE for turning a valuable work of the
government into "a farce. The only
ones the government can get at. under
the law. are those who allow them
selves to be counted two or three
times. But the "agitators higher up
should be made an example that will
protect future enrolment from such
imitation as now seems to make the
census wholly unreliable.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-18
100000 "Don'ts" for Hunters.

100000 "Don'ts" for Hunters.
With the open season for moose now
on it is presumed that the maximum
number of hunters for the season Is IN
the woods of Maine. From every sec
ton of the state come reports OF
abundance of big game. Good sport IS
promised Many hunters prefer to go
as late as the middle of November
when the necessity of getting the Kill
out as soon as made, is not so urgent
as in these delightful October days.
But it is quite probable that, with the
coming and going, quite as many are
now in the big woods as will be there
at any time this year-and, thus far'
tho accidents are few. IT'S true the
foliage is still dense and man can
not be seen far enough to be mistaken
for a moose, or a dik-dik, or a lun-
krnsluice, or a sidehill lounger. and
| the light is not so deceitful now as it
will be in November, but let us nope
that gunners will remember their
woods manners when conditions are
more propitious. 1t is not polite 10
shoot even buck shot into another
hunters anatomy. and it is the height
of discourtesy to pepper another man
trousers plumb full of 1870 bullets,
however much they may look IKE
game Without considering the slight
statutory drawback it is yet dis
concerning thing to have coming up III
memory that one has snutted out IA
human candle when it might have been
avoided ny little care-a second look
at the object that caught the eye or a
Willingness TO take the chances oi
losing a shot at deer rather than
fire at an unknown object.
How many gunnerS have seen
hcrnlock knot sit up and perk its head
and otherwise behave just exactly IKE
a partridge? And in the same way a
man in a bright red sweater, sitting on
stump and sending up volumes OF
rank tobacco smoke is declared to look
so much like a bull moose with big
set of antlers that it is almost impos-
sible to forego the inclination to pump
him full of sinkers. Then. too, one
never misses when shooting at a man
that looks like a moose. Indeed, a
hunter who would shoot down twenty
rods OF wire fence and thus allow a
cornered deer to get away from MN,
would plump bullet into an innocent
fellow hunter at a snap shot.
1t isn't very expensive to allow
deer or a moose to escape. OF course
one is little sorry that he feared 1t
might he a man. but not half as sorry
as he would be should a shrek of hu-
man anguish follow his i'll considered
shot.
There are something like 100000
don'ts that ought to be mastered be-
fore a man. woman or child should be
permitted to take a gun and go into
the woods. About $4,000 of these are
of general nature such as pertaining to
the pulling a gun through hedge or
from a. boat by the muzzle, but at
least 10000 of them are variations OF
don't shoot until you know what you
are shooting at"
1t makes no difference to the Victim
on the way to the Happy Hunting
Grounds whether he was plugged by
an assassin. or the idiot who blaZed
away at the first thing that moved in
the territory where he expected to find
game. 3:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-18
DAMS School HymnaI.

By Hollis Damn. Professor of Music ir
cornell university. Cloth, large vol. 1871
pages Price, 20 cents American Book
Company. New York, Cincinnati and
Chicago.
This song book for high schools. nor
NAL schools, and colleges includes only
texts and music which are suitable and
worthy. The hymns and chants are such
as will attract and hald the attention and
interest of young people, here pre-
sented The volume contains also the
best of the patriotic and national sings.
and many of the familiar folk and plan
tation songs.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-18


The demand of the times is for more
light in tie dark places. not only in
the murky corners of the cities where
footpads linger. but in civic affairs as
well. Turn on the lights. 1t is better
than investigation or force of arms. A
food of light is better than a revolver
II used against burglars. Deeds of evil
are done in darkness just as much to-
day as they were in the days of the
New Testament, and the way to mini
mize them is to throw light into the
dark places. \ well-lighted city is
avoided by thugs and thieves. and one
whisk of the switch and flash OF
electric current will do more to discOn-
. cert the boldest housebreaker than
half a dozen men with revolvers and
ove-pokerS.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-18

hope for him or for his hapleSs as
sociates Wellman is not only risk
ing his own life but the lives Of five
other men without ever having ac-
complished anything in a practical
way more than to tell what he is go
ing to do. AS an advertiser, he is a
great success. AS an aerOnaut, the
next few hours will probably tell the
story
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-18

makers Of Europe haven't got on to the
trick Of the American shoeist Of MAX
ing roonly shoe that still has grace
and beauty. The European shoe SIS
either clumsy or silly-and az between
the two, no wonder ii needs club to
make the former fashionable
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-18

The governor Of California has con-
ceiVed a Pacific Coast congress, in
which all the commercial and civic
bodies are expected to take part. Del
egates. governors and congressman are
to be invited. The object is to cement
IAN alliance of Western states so that
their votes in Congress on Western
questions shall be cast as an unit"
and to force the government to main
tain battleship fleet in the Pacific
ocean. j., AQ
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-18
Convalescence.

Convalescence is sometimes merely
apparent. not real. and especially IS
this true after such diseases as pneli-
monia, typhoid fever and the grip
10 make it real and rapid. there Is
no other tonic so highly to be recon-
mended as Hoods Sarsaparilla.
This great medicine cleanses and re-
news the blood, strengthens all the or
gans and functions, and Restores
health. Take Hoods.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-18

The Washington Post says. Boiling
ones food causes Indigestion. while
political Indigestion causes boiling"
What about Bryan, who has had an
attack of both?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-18

An occasional football casualty is
being reported, in spite of the fact
that the season is hardly underway.
and under rules that are said to have
debrutaliZed the game.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-18

Now that the railroads and high cost
Of living have grappled at last. the
press their delight in good, hearty
cheering and an occasional Sic him.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-18

Sixty-fOur fish were recently sent
from the New York aquarium to the
aquarium at Gehlberg, in hermetical-
ly-sealed jars of water charged with
oxygen. SiXty-three of these fish ar
rived alive and cheerful, and the Ger
man curator says he is now going to
send to New York specimen of ev-
cry species he has. In this. We see
commercial possibility that fish may
manner, and isolated inland towns
may as we'll dine on the product of
Old Ocean as we who live near the
roast
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-18

Crops were never better. the country
over. Than this year and the farmers
never had so good market for their
products.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-18

You are not experimenting on yourself
when You take Chamb,,rlains Cough
Remedy for cold as that preparation
has Won its great reputation and extern
sive sale by its remarkable cures of
colds. and can always be d4,1ended uno>.
1t is equally valuable for adults and chill
dren ana may be given to yorng children
with implicit confidence as it G ontains no
harmful drug. Sold everywhere.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-18

The demand for Crippen trial tickets
in England shows that the American
style of murder cases has been adopted
over there.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-18
Maine Gossip
Hiuh Hearted.

Because | built my nest so high
Must | despair
If a fierce wind. with bitter cry,
Passes the lower branches by,
And mine makes bare?
Because ! hung it in my pride.
So near the skies,
Higher than other nests abide,
Must | lament if Var and wide
1t scattered lies?
I shall build and build my best.
Till safety won,
| hang aloft by new-made nest,
High as of old, and see it rest,
As near the sun.
Dollia Radio
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-18

Strange that 50 many people look at
the campaign Of 1910 and see nothing
but 1872.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-18
Tuesday, october IL, 1910.

Wages We're never higher and there
never were so few idle men.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-18

Harvard grins grimly at the report
that Yale is weak, this year
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-18

The best plaster. piece of fianns,,
dampened with Chamberlain's Linimenss
superior to plaster and costs only one
tenth as much. For sale everywhere
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-18

The whirlwind campaign signal is
said 10 be flying at Oyster Bay.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-18

f. l.. Foster of Fort Fairfield is
authority for a potato picking story.
which some Of the sceptical i'm his vi
cinity are inclined to doubt. Mr..
Foster states, according to the editor
OF the Fort Fairfield Review. that an
Indian recently. in day of nine
hours. where the potatoes yielded only
s" barrels to the acre. picked up pa
barrels of potatoes and took out time
besides for several long smokes. He
adds that the weather for the day was
not very favorable for potato picking
and that the Indian himself was not
very well. having rheumatism. chap
ped hands. dyspepsia and other in
frmteS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-18

The old steamer Frank Jones is
once more to change her place of
abode. The Jones was sold last week
in New York at public auction and
the craft that was once the prlde OF
the Maine coast on the run between
Portland. Mt. Desert and MachiaS,
will probably end its days in South
ern waters The Frank Jones, which
left Portland about eight years ago
was sold with the steamer Saratoga
in New York by Joseph p. Day and
the two We're bid in by Richard b.
FencresS a banker of Norfolk. Va
for $4,000. The boats We're the
property of the New York & Albany
Transportation co. and have been re-
sponsble for a long period of ltiga
ton i'm which the company was in
VOlNpd
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-18
--Dollie Radford.


Another potato record has been-re-
ported from Sidney. A Journal cor
RESPONDENT writing from that town
saws that on oct. Is five men dug ana
picked up by hand on the farm ~ l.
w Longley. in 10 hours. 81" puShelS
of POTATOES. A. f. Perkins and r.
W. Longley dug 200 bushels of tins
amount and j. c. Griffin picked up
a33 bushels and bagged them. the
amount of land dug over 10 get the
above mentioned yield was tive-slXth
of an acre.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-18

G. W. Shaw of Montsweag will. I'M
less appearances are deceitful, have
some of the best yellow eye beans
raised in that section for a long time,
SAYS the Bath Independent. The
beans are well podded and will be
thrashed out very shortly. Mr.. Shaw
estimates that there will be some
thing like - bushels in the lot. which
at 81 per bushel the present market
price, will net him good amount for
his labor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-18

The log cut for the coming season
along the st. John and on Aroostook
county waters will, it is said, be fully
% per cent. smaller than last season
One reason for this is the fact that
the spruce market is off at the present
time and this does not lend great
deal of encouragement to the opera
tors to take a chance on their cut.
Another reason that is particularly
applicable to the AroOstook county
cut, where Il large percentage of the
lumber goes down the st. John to be
manufactured at st. John is said to be
the repeal of the Pike law. which went
into effect in August. Under the
provisions of the Pike law, American
lumber cut in Maine and sent down
the St John to New Brunswick to be
manufactured was admitted into the
United States free of duty The
provisions Of the new tariff fix a duty
of $1.21 Il thousand on the manufac-
tured lumber that formerly came free
from New Brunswick
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-18

4 cub bear was found a few days
ago on telegraph pole near \. ID.
Parsons blacksmith shop at Milford
by Homer Leavitt, an engineer ON the
Bangor * ArooStook Railroad. The
cub. after he had been viewed a suf-
ficient length Of time by the crowd.
was lassooed by Mr. I.eavitt. assisted
by Howard Mayhem. and is now IN
what must be "durance vile" to young
Rrrjn The night before the mother
bear was heard out in the edge Of the
wood. evidently hunting for her
wandering boy"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-18

party Of New York automobiles
bound from Ellsworth To Bangor had
an interesting race with two deer a
few days ago near Manns Hill in Ded-
ham. The automobile followed along
within a yard or two of the deer for
nearly a mile and a half. 1t was not
until one Of them was actually bump
ed by the front of the machine that
they finally left the road and made off
into the woods. Neither animal was
injured
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-18

Lubec will be 100 years old during
the coming summer, having been set
off from Passport June p. 1911. 1t is
ton will be held to commemorate the
Tooth birthday of the largest town ir
Washington county. The population
of Iubec in 1900 was 3005
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-18

public receiving tomb is to be pre-
sentfd the town of Searsport by Mrs
band. The structure is to be of Nor
ridgewock granite, The tomb will
be provided with double copper COW
cred doors with bronze fittings and
every part will be of the most sub
stantial nature. A number of very
lcng stones are used in the roof. 1t
is expected that the Nickerson Me-
mortal tomb will be completed and
ready for use this winter.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-18

Hancock county man. born in
Sedgwick. Edwin ID. Sbley. well
known as 4 Boston lawyer, but better
known as the author of "Stillman
Colt. Farmer and Fisherman" is fast
becoming known as an original dialect
reader. He hasn't been to Maine in
this role yet. but when he does come
it is safe to say that he will find MANY
people eager to hear him
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-06
On the Verge Of Winter.
From the Springfield Republican.

iom Inc SpiIHSHeiu htpuDllCan.
These brief experimental SHOWS and
sleets break the way for the wild winter
which We know must come, and delight
to have when the full measure of the pre-
Jude shall have sung its stropes, and we
wait for the stern strife of storms and
the sweep of northern breezes. 1t is
strange that such mingling and quarrel
of the seasons should be, as We witness
the changes of the skies and the Whit
fling of the winds, and know not what
day may bring forth, but looking for
the brunt of winter, still find it delay,
and relegate our associations into those
of autumn-since autumn is but re-
cension of summer passing into a keen
progression of winter. There is no de-
finitive boundary between these seasons,
or between any seasons in our latitude
Only the hills know surely when one
season cOnquers the other. The hills
have scornful excellence over the val
leys; they are the reservoirs of the
waters and the repositories of strength,
even as David Of Israel sang in his day
and cline, so far different from ours.
1t is not in the valleys that the true
power of the world-life lies-'tis on the
heights, where freedom was born, and
where, when the world wearies, man
seeks freedoms air again.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-06
Bad Inauguration Weather.
. New York Tribune.

Letter TO the New York Tribune
The inauguration of President of this
great republic is an event important
enough to provide a time more season.
able and suitable than is the month of
March. OF course, an Inauguration in
March may not be blighted as that of
1909 by severe blizzard: and it is
possible that an Inauguration occurring
ON, say, the last Thursday in April would
be somewhat affected by unpleasant
weather. But at it's worst such an in
clement day as that of March 4. 1909.
would not be possible; while at its best
later Inauguration would take place
amid conditions most encouraging to our
elected President and most comfortable
to his assembled fellow citizens. Our
first national Inauguration occurred on
April 30, 1850, and a return to an ap-
proximati ton of April 80 would be most
seasonable and sensible