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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-26
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Paying attention to girl. young
nan is apt TO result III your having IL
lot Of other things 10 pay
The world soon loses interest in u
man who spends half his time III maxi
ing promises and the other half i'll
explaining why he didn't keep them.
The early Christmas shopper avoids
the crowd
Most people Who are short Of brains
are long OF tongue.
Divorce is an epitapl frequently
carved upon iovc's tombstone.
Solitude is u place where many u
man encounters an enemy.
1t isn't what your enemies say
about you that hurts; it's what your
frinndS SnN.-ChiCaGo News.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-26
Yesterday.

Nv soul is fain to drink of joy:
Thy cup is fun of tears.
An take it from me, nor destroy
The dream of future years.
Thy face is fair, but grief Is there
And grief but wastes and sears.
We two have been conpanioned long;
Now straightway let us part.
Another and a dearer song,
BY some mysterious art.
Draws young. sweet breath While tn.
lips of death
Yet whisper to my heart.
An 10y it is timid thing.
And easily tits slain:
a tender firstling of the spring,
1t shrinks at touch Of pain:
Then haste away, dread Yesterday.
Nor hither come again.!
So quickly? But who goes with thee,
UnrecogniZed before?
Are hope, alas! and memory
Thus joined forever more? ..-.--
Then must thou stay. o Yesterday.
Lest Joy, too, quit my door.
Florence Earle Coates, in Harper
Magazine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-26
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

Teachers can cultivate brains; they
can't create tlIcin.- - .......-
The first time u man wins i bet.
the devil writes him down In his
books to lose fifty.
4 EiI! who will wear big, fat rub
bers, however bad the weather, doesn't
want to get married.
a wise child learns to like to be
spanked so as to get lot Of spelling
to make UP fol it right after.
It's Just human nature for an old
bald head to want young girls with Il
mass Of curls to pretend they can tot
crate Hmm. y Press
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-26

r'hc precision with which those
Mexican rebel; bob up again in contra
diction Of the official claims that they
have been cxtcrnlinatcd must be very
annoying 10 tic authors Of the proc
la,nations. 1t must be hard for them
to- explain to President DiaZ how d
detachment Of Government troops
could possibly b. ambushcd and cap
turcd, By nou-cXiStcnt rebels
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-26

a feature Of every college catalogue
IS q, section devoted to the probable
expenses devolyipg on students during
their courses. The cost of such
items as room rent, board, tuition ana
books is carefully set down, and pros
peetiyc undergraduates may draw
its latest publication has recognized
the increase in the cost OF living end
has added sum to its estimates for
beard.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-26

Washington and jefferson have just
solved a problem in college ethics.
BECAUSE thu trustees felt that the Wild
ow- and children of the donor of $40
600 needed the money, they rejected
the gift although they could have
found a use for it without doubt. II
is to be hoped that the children, when
they attain college preparation, will
rc1iiembcr the institution which gives
them money enough to pay their way
through school.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-26
Reflections of a Bachelor,

(NcW 1Ork PrcSSD
We buy pleasure, and it isn't; We
build happiness, and it Is.
Nobody could be a cynic if the world
was peoplcd only by children.
Being in politics seems like hanging
on to a life raft in stormy midocean.
Love Is what woman wants before
marriage and much harder afterward.
You can tell when a woman's COM
pleXion is touched up a bit by how
conscious she acts that it is natural.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-26
,m into the Aroostook potato ser

immigration Inspector Charles w.
Pierce, who has been for several years
connected with the Boston immiGra-
ton office has been transferred to the
Portland office and has taken up his
duties in the State metropolis. In
spector Pierce is Portland boy, hav-
ing been in the lighthouse department
for several years before going into the
service.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-26

At last there is evidence that the
East is awakening to Western meth
ods of advertising their wares. One
example is found in the visit Of Presi-
dent Nichols of Dartmouth, and Bur
tonuof Smith, who are spending the
Christmas recess in spreading the fame
OF their colleges throughout the mid
die West. Both are to make addresses
in several important cities, generally
before alumni associations.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-26

New York. after investigating her
dangers Of being blown sky high by
combustion in the Sub-Stratum of
pipes, wires, vaults. etc, has settled
down helplessly to the philosophy that
some measure of explosive menace
must be accepted.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-26
Postal SAVINGS Banks.

The news dispatches announce that
the new postal savings banks will be
open for business on Jan. 3, and de-
posts will be received on the morning
Of that day and the postmaster general
believes the scheme will be i'll full
operation long before the department
prepares its annual report in the latter
part Of 1911. lie is confident that the
new departure will be successful, but
with business prccaution the beginning
is Oh a small scale, only one bank Ill
each state empowered to do business,
and in all cases small towns have been
selected. Thus Rumtord was chosen
for the experimental office in Maine.
Although the system has been tried
ana proved in popular favor i'll Eng
land, Germany and France, as well as
some of the smaller nations, it is al
experimental stage i'll the United
States. The Republican platform
urged it's adoption i'll 1905, and since
that time it has formed IL part Of the
bankers in the country were against it.
AS the interest which will be paid by
the postal banks will be smaller than
that given BY the savings banks and
other financial Institutions which pay
any interest ut all, the new scheme
will hardly be brought into active
competition with the old, therefore the
opposition Of the existing banks was
weak.
The thrift" argument has had a
good deal Of force i'll bringing about the
adoption of postal savings banks.
Newly arrived aliens are inclined to DC
Gistrustfui Of ordinary banks and pre-
fer something with u governmental
guaranty behind it, They had some
thing OF this sort for their savings in
the old world, and prefer it in the new.
To this class of people, the innovation
on the part Of the United States will
strongly appeal. Many Americans
likewise are to certain extent dis
trustful of savings banks and would
select Uncle Sans assurance Of the
safety Of their savings at u less rate of
interest. Postal officials believe that
these postal banks win Graw out the
contents of stocking legs and secret
hiding places and thus ado to the fluid
capital of The country, in turn giving Il
lNcM stimulus 10 traGr.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-26

Tons of bclatcd Christmas mail are
still being sorted by the ovcgworkcd
mail men Of Uncle sam, at New
York and other large distributing cen
tiers. Eleventh hour posting on the
part of the senCers and general rush
conditions in the postal service are as
signed as the cause for this holiday
hoId-ovcr. Mcbbc you've present on
the way.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-26
Aches and Pains.

You know by experience that aches
and pains of rheumatism are not per-
manently, but only temporarily, re-
lieved by external remedies.
Then why not use an internal rem
Sarsaparilla, which cor
reefs the acidity of the blood on which
rheumatism depends and cures the
disease:
This medicine has done more for the
rheumatic than any other medicine in
the world,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-26

Willie Father HnickerEocker has be-
come accustomed to underground rail-
ways, underground shops and under
ground methods of doing business,
the first underground street is just
being planned by the city engineers.
Ii will oe excayatcd at the upper part
of Manhattan, and will pierce u kill
1870 feet high. 1t viii lead to u sub
way station which is soon to be con-
structed and will be about q fifth Of
a mile III length, It's cost is estimated
at about $500, 900, or at the rate Of $4,-
100000 mile. 1t is planned Tor the
use of pedestrians only, and viii in -
manner resemble the choice Of ou ant
crawling under a haystack rather
than to climb over it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-26

# the War Department is nervous
regarding an invasion, why not inobi-
lie the big game hunters? Their eff
ficicncy is proven annually, this year S
casualties reaching the magnitude Of
quite q respectable war.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-26

King Peter of Scryia recently eXer-
Ciseu what he evidently believed to be
the Divine right of kings by siapping
the face of eX-Crown Prince George
who had refused to obey his fathers
command to leave Belgrade and the
delightful occupation of stirring up
trouble among the young army officers
for his august parent. George at once
returned the gift as not at all to his
liking, and the boxing contest contin-
ued until an aiG-de-camp-in-wa
separatcd them. \ colored man whose
wife sat in the same pew at church
last Sunday with q woman whom he
claims is an ene:ly proceeded up the
aisle at the close Of the service and
struck his wife several times in the
face. He explains this lapse from the
re,aose that marks the caste of We're
devvere by saving Nah blood boiled
up les lax soda an All couldn't hold
mahself." He did not state why his
wife suffered instead of his woman
enemy. If one touch of nature does
not make the whole world kin. pretty
near the same "touclf' seems as liable
to break out ii one part Of the world
ua n another sz, ---.-.----l--.-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-26
MONDAY. DECEMBER rs. 1910.
The duty Of man is not a

- The duty Of man is not a
wilderness of turnpike gates,
through which he is TO pass By
tickets from one to the other.
it is plain and simple and con-
sjsts but Of two points-his
duty to God, which every man
must feel. and, with respect to
his neishbor, to do as he would
be done by.--Tholnas Paine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-26

The Portuguese Government has re-
Ceived recommendation from a spc-
Ciai naval commission that three 49,
oeVSton battleships and twenty one
cruisers, torpedo boat dcstroycrs and
submarines be purchased. This is an
ambitious program for Il provisional
government which has not yet received
the sanction of any constituent body
III its own country. American con-
structors are to be given the privilege
OF building the new. vessels. In the
debt-laden condition of Portugal, the
burden or which must be assumed UNI
der the international law by the re-
public, foreign constructors are like
ly to insist on strong and substantial
guarantees before they begin build
ing DrcadnouShts for the Portuguese.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-26
Maine Gossip
Our Own.

If I had known jn the morning.
How wearily all the day
The words unkind
Would trouble my mind
/ said when you went away,
| had been more careful, darling,
Nor given you needless pain;
But We veX "our own
With look and tone,
We might never take back again
For though in the quiet evening
You may give me the kiss OF peace,
Yet it might be
That never for me
The pain of the heart should cease.
How many 80 forth in the morning
That never come home at night.
And hearts have broken
For harsh words spoken,
That sorrow can ne'er set right
We have careful thoughts for ths
stranger,
And smiles for the sometime guest,
But oft for "our own
The bitter tone,
Though We love Our own the pest
All. lips with the curve impatient!
Al, brow with that look Uf Sc"rh:
IT we're Il cruel fate,
Were. the night too lat"
70 undo the work of morn:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-26

About % coal dealers from Northern
and Eastern Maine attended the open
ing Of the new coal pocket Of the
Lchish Coal Il Navigation Co. at
Northern Maine Junction a few days
ago. The dealers, after inspecting the
workings and equipment of the plant,
which is considered to be one OF the
most complete and modern of its kind.
went to Bangor and were rendered an
informal banquet at the Penobscot
Exchange and made the guests of the
company for the night. The new
pocket sets just back of the Bangor &
Aroostouk pocket. 1t is $50 feet long,
20 feet wide and about 70 feet to the
roof. 1t has q monitor-top roof and
contains five large bins for the storage
Of different sizes Of coal and ono from
which the coal is screened ana loaded
into cars. II has a capacity Of over
5000 tons Of coal and can handle 1000
tons a day.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-26

The Norway Advertiser tells the fol-
lowing remarkable hen story, which is
very entertaining but for the truth of
which thu Gossiper will not yuuch. One
Year ago last July, Oscar Bennett put u
large quantity of hay OH u Scaffold i'll
the barn and not needing it, the hay
remained there until the present time.
a few days ago he heard a scratching
apparently on the Scaffold floor under
the hay, some ~ feet from either end
OF the NOV. He ut first paid no atton-
ton, but as the scratching continued
several days he decided to find out
what was there. Taking a saw and
locating the place where the scratching
appeared to be, he sawed o board from
the floor and much to his surprise and
amazemcnt out fell Il hen, The hen
was fed and cared for ana IS now lay
ing. What puzzles MI. Bennett is
where the hen came from and he fails
to get any light on the subject.
The electric lights refused to shed
light when turned on Monday night
and the town OF York was in dark
ness. The stores felt the lack Of light
the worst, it being Christmas week.
The failure Of the lights resulted in a
wholesale search for all sorts of light
producing utensils from cigar lighters
to the old gas lamps, which We're used
last winter. Candles were pressed
into service in some places. while in
others lamps which had been out of
0lniSSiD for mont his rntil111 and
some sort OF a chimney fitted to them
and used. The lights We're turaed on
sometime Tuesday morning and as a
result stores and private residences
were brilliantly lights from top to bot
tom.
Experiments which have been made
this fall by the Armour Packing Co. of
Chicago indicate that before long the
type of heater cars used to transport
Aroostook potatoes to market will
change. The Chicago company had
built some ears which in summer are
to be used as refrigerator cars and so
being equipped with heaters they can
be used in cold weather. The con-
| struction of the car is according to the
very latest ideas. The heaters burn
ldenatured alcohol and the results OBJ
tanned are of the best. The amount of
blaze necessary to heat the car is very
much less than is required in the old
| style kerosene heaters. Three of these
cars were loaded in Aroostook, county
| during the coolest weather known this
winter and shipped to Boston, the con-
tents reaching market in the finest
condition. The company is having
thousands of these cars built and ar
arrangements are being made to put
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-26

The collision of u snow ploW and a
freight train at West Baldwin few
DAYS ago dcrailed the snow ploW'
throwing it over into the ca1nrGrotho
and badly mixing several ears OF me
train. Traffic was held mp for scVerai
hours Int no one was injured in the
. accident. The collision was o1 the
side swipe" kind and no great damage
resulted. a heavy snow storm ~ me
time made it impossible tor the cnSl..
necr to see the train until he was close
upon il.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-26

A well known insurance man, WHO
carries "A large number oI policies on
the Aroostook potato houses, says That
the fire loss on this class Of property
could be greatly reduced if the owners
would use more care in the Construc-
ton. BY SO doing they could reduce
the cost Of premiums sufficiently TO
make it an object. one Of the greatest
menaccS to these houses is the manner
OF heating. Usually the furnaces are
located In Easements, which are poor
ly constructed and used as "catch ais.
The stoves or furnaces are old and the
chance Of fire starting is great. Prop
crly arranged easements with good
heating apparatus would reduce the
chance of fire starting. Fire walls be-
tween the connecting houses would
also decrease the chance Of tire spread
ing after it started.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-26

The potato farmers in the vicinity OF
Dexter are not at all well pleased with
the way the market has been selling
since September. Potatoes sold last
week at Dexter at 50 cents per bushel
delivered at the cars. The highest price
paid there thus far has been So cents.
Many are holding back their crops,
hoping the first of the new year will
see a rise. \ few farmers have visited
the Providence and Lowell markets
and have sold carload lots at 40 cents.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-09-17

elegantly. intellectually. and charac-
teristically. II is like no other great
city Ia the world. II is the coyetous
guardian. the Jealous steward Of
everything In life that is exquisite up
lifting and progressive--even its Vices
and It's decadence possess an inten-
sity and fullncss OF expression to be
found nowhere else on the island
Like all great creatures and creations
that Owe their greatness to living on
others. this great. beautiful, monstrous
city charming TO its feet all that is
lovely. stimulating, enviable and hor-
rihie I'm life, like Il miser keeps to it.
self everything II gets. In its many
museums are some of tho finest paint
ings. the noblest statuary and the most
inspiring art treasures Of the world:
but they always stay there and To see
them the people who live In the Sa-
lens, Lynns, and I.owells OF the island
have 10 come UP to the city at great
expense ana personal Inconvenience
Down in the old part of this great
city Is a rather famous opera house,
who're everything Ia given that Is SUI
perb In opera, most thrilling in vocal
beauty, and where the harmony of the
arts OF music and drama are set forth
with exquisite justice and can alone be
seen. Artists from all parts of the
world sing, act ana dance at this very
old opera house, but they do SO only
there. They never 90 down to the
Lynns or Lowells or Salems Of the is
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-09-17

the huskings, and by night for anna
teur plays or stock companies. or,
rarest OF all 90 be used by stroIing
players And these theators had man
ayers who were very proud OF their
houses. proud towards the rustic
patrons but meek towards the produc-
ers In the big city.
OF the plays in the big city the peo-
pie of the Lyuns and the Lowells only
knew by hearsay or through the news
papers that came down from the big
city after long intervals Hence II was
with delighted feeling of i1stlcs
shaking hands with lords. that the
managers OF the Lynns and Lowells
heard one day that the play producers
OF the big city were going tu send their
plays and actors TO the little towns
after their seasons in the big city. The
toWnspeople were ever 80 happy at the
thought of finally seeing an these
great plays and great actors appearing
before them in just the fashion the
big city had seen them.
and as a matter of fact the produc-
cis In the big city did send the Lynns
and tue I.owcls the plays that the big
city had pronounced ln every way
worth seeing But better still. they sent
along with them exactly the actors and
scenery that had helped make these
PLAYS succeed In the big city. That
went ON for years. Regularly. season
after season, the big city disgorgcd IT.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-09-17

big city only answered that the Lynus
and the LOwells were by that time
bad" theater towns. and besides. there
was now no longer any need OF send
ing the companies and plays from tho
big city down 70 the Lynns and the
Lowells, for meantime another very
amazing thing had taken place
II was not that the publics of the
Lynns ana the Lowells had all passed
away or that theater- going had gone
out OF fashion I'm the little cities: on the
contrary. the visits of the famous or
CARNATIONS and splendidlv acted plays
from the big city intensified the habit
OF theater-going In the little cities.
What did happen was that one day the
little managers Of the little thcaters in
the Lynns and the f,owells happened
TO he down near the railroad station,
And there they saw "a curious sight,
not once but often. They saw an the
theater-guing public of the Lynus and
the isowells passing right by the local
thcaters and eolng up 10y trim 10 the
big city 60 see the plays and the play
ers for whom they had formed an at
tachment and cultivated a taste when
these organizations visited their cities
and their own little thc8tcr managers
had not vet grown independent So
that was tho end OF the hymns and tho
Lowells. or the little cities as places
worth sending real theatrical compa-
niles to. Now IL is the regular thing for
the play producers In the big city 90
keep their productions the year round
In the theaters where they are pro-
duced. occasionally leasing them where
they can to the speculative road man
agcr. who Is very rare. but otherwise
never sending the big city companies
on tour any more Co the Lynns and the
Lowells. because tho people OF the
hymns and the Lowclls have learned
the way to the big city's theatcrs.
Now. AZ you have guessed. the coun-
Try that I have said Is an island. d.
England And the big city. the head
that thinks for all England is London
Plays are produced in London. played
In LONDON agd run ti,Ipugh their ca
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-09-17
Where There is No
Theatrical Syndicate
.Bv Charles Frohman for The Saturday NewS

the cpital of the island In point OF
size interest ana situation. this great
city on the banks of n toy river g. tho
head that thinks for the entire nation.
Whatever 1t says all the rest Of the
island echoes: whatever IL does "a
fitting and right because 1t does 1t;
whatever 1t sees in music or in the
drama or the other arts, the rest Of
the island cannot be easy unttl 1t sees.
The king and sometimes many kings
live I'm this great city; and besides
these kings OF the purple. the kings
of the mind with golden pens instead
or golden sCcptres OF golden brushes,
or golden mallcts and chlseB, also
live In the city IL * the mart OF the
world and In It side by side, are the
homes OF the aristocracy Of blood and
position and the arlstocracy of brains.
Life, with all its departments develop
ed to their highest pitch of efficiency,
flows through its streets calmly,