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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-26
A New Economic Project.

The project of Boston millionaire
is interesting if not practicable. but
he is going ahead with it as if it
were both. He has actually inaugur-
ated and has under legal character,
it is said, plan for the ultimate
ownership and full administrative
machinery This Boston man has
made a study of economies for Il
score of wears. and he believes that
his conclusions mark the birth of so
cial and industrial science and offer
the only rational solution of the COM
petitive war for existence between
individuals and corporations. He
thinks his scheme will end all labor
troubles. establish perpetual world
peace. and effectively unite the worlds
people for practical corporation
This Boston mans plan includes
the abolition of any recognized di-
visions of its peoples into national
tiles. or division of ownership of the
worlds industrial machinery. His
idea is of equal shares in the owner
ship. and he would dispace all gov
ernments and absorb control, and
eventually direct commercial life all
over the world. Perhaps more
comprehensive economic plan of in
ternational scope has never been Sc
rously advanced. and certainly no
such gigantic undertaking has ever
been actually launched as chartered
organization. Its effect must of
necessity prove revolutionary. The
law of supply and demand will then
be rewritten, industrial competitions
will necessarily cease because of a
single corporate ownership. labor
would have a single employer. and
would be powerless in the grasp of
such colossal combination. Politics
would be eliminated, and ownership
would be universal with the people.
This subject is a fascinating one
to dwell upon. but the farther we get
into it the farther we get from the
ground. Let US talk about aviation,
it is easier.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-26
Teaching the Dumb to Speak.

The New York Medical Journal has
an interesting article on making the
dumb speak. The following exercises
are typical of those used in~fthe best
schools for deaf Breathing
through the nose and mouth are first
taught A teacher breathes through
the nose on slate or glass and shows
the two moist spots. The child learns
to initiate this. The mouth breathing
produces one spot The low position of
the tongue is necessary for proper
speech. 1t is taught by showing the
position in mirror, and by breath
exercise. This latter rests upon the
fact that the child cannot produce d
good sized spot on the slate unless he
keeps his tongue down. Tongue GYM
nastics are next used to timber up and
train the muscles which have never re-
ceived the proper development. The
tongue is protruded, retracted, moved
to each side. turned up, etc. Tongue
training preparatory to various conso-
nant sounds is introduced Vibration
of the vocal chords is taught by feeling.
The pupil puts his hand on the teach
er's chest and also on his own He
thus learns to make tone. He learns
to raise and lower the voice and by
careful drill is able to make fairly
good tone.
The physiological alphabet consists
of set of diagrams giving the typical
position of the tongue and lips for the
chief sounds of the language. Combi-
nations of consonants and vowels are
now read at sight. Through these COM
binations words and sentences are de-
ve!opcd. Lip reading or words and
sentences is taught by having the pa
tient watch the teachers lips while
she distinctly enunciates some word
Thus he learns to pick up objects off
a table, to point out parts of the body
to obey commands, etc.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-26
Coming Events.

Sept. 27-2S-Winslow Grange Fair.
Sept 2S-29-30-State w. c. L. u. ConVen-
ton, Portland.
Sept SO-Meeting of Governor and
Council.
Oct 1-Hancock Pomona Grange. Pc
nobscot.
Oct I, Fifteenth annual convention
Maine State Spiritualist Association. Bel
fast.
Oct 4, 5, 6,-Annual meeting of Maine
State League of the National League OF
Postmasters of the United States. Au-
gusta.
Oct 4-5-6-Maine Baptist Missionary
Convention, Augusta.
Oct. 6-7-S-Maine Music Festival, Ban
gor.
Oct. 11-Somerset Pomona Grange, Nor
ridSewock
oct. 1o-11-12 = Maine Music Festival,
Portland.
Oct. l-12-Kenebec Valley Grange Fair,
Madison.
Oct. 12-Kennebec Pomona Grange,
Manchester.
Oct 12-13-Semi-Annual Session Grand
Lodge. l. o. G. r, Biddeford.
Oct. H-17-State Sunday School Conven.
ton, Portland.
Oct 19-Maine Woman Suffrage Asso-
citation Convention, Portland.
Oct. 27-2S-Maine Teachers Association,
Bangor.
Oct 26-2s-Fourth Annual Meeting OF
Maine State Conference Of Charities and
Correction. Portland.
Nov. S-10-Annual Exhibition Of Mains
Pathological Society. Auburn.
Nov. 15-16-Maine State Breeders Asso-
citation, Watervlle.
Dec. 20-24-Stats Grange Augusta
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-26
eLEANINcs AND GOSSIP.

The largest coal contract ever let IN
the East was put through by enc OF
the big steel companies recently IL
runs for 20 years, and amounts to $bo,-
100000
Canada's total railway mileage is In
excess of 10000, or mile Of track for
every 300 inhabitants and 6-loths OF
mile to every 100 square miles OF ter
ritory.
An indianapolis woman has been
fined $40 for hitting her mother-In-law
in the face with piece of fly paper.
They have such subtle sense OF hu-
NOR in the West.
Maine is now supplying the ice !"
move the Georgia peach crop Nor'tS.
it is the same crop which failed few
months ago. This refers either to the
ice or the peaches.
A Georgia man claims that he killed
10 snakes in one day last week. But
in spite of the fact that Georgia is dry
he neglected to say whether or not the
snakes were real.
A Brooklyn girl went out to buy
plate of ice cream the other day and
came home with a husband. All OF
NjlCIl goes " siloN tlieit sooi'iS
can't resist a bargain
One of the Southern papers says
that the American people ate 100000
600 worth of peanuts last year. The
question is to find the gate receipts OF
the circuses and ball games.
Burbank appears to have rival in
Hugo Lilianthal, the landscape gar
dener of Berkeley, Cal. who says that
he is going to graft 2000 varieties or
roses on to one bush and that he ex-
poets that each variety of blossom VIII
show
Chicago is very proud of the fact
that yacht has sailed from there 10
Mackinaw in 80 hours, cutting i've
hours off the record. Most people
don't know much about Mackinaw. but
the majority can comprehend Joyful
speed made in leaving Chicago.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-26
A La M ode.

They say the rat that maids delight in
Will be taboo in autumn fashion:
And puffs that matrons look a sight in
Will be disbarred by race Caucasian.
So when you meet Pauline. whose hair
you
wrote sonnets to-'twas so amazing
Let not her altered headgear scare you,
Though now she's nothing worth the
praising.
Or when you pass those once admired
ones,
Whose tresses raised you to elation;
(How could you know they were &C
quired ones)
Pause at your lack of observation.
Remember Omar's words on faction,
"A hair divides the false and truthful
And when you find your real attraction.
Though she be sweet and coy and
youthful,
Tell her that woman's crowning glory
Is ev'ry glossy lock she's heir to,
And see if she'll complete the story
BY saying, Count 'em if you care to-"
New York American.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-26
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Better walk-out than kick-out.
A wise man has no time to argue
with d prize fighter.
It's quite a down for woman
Halter who falls in love.
One kind of press notice is the at
tention a girl gives to a hug.
With the politician might makes
money and money makes it right.
It's better to mend your ways before
you go broke.
In billiards and matrimony there
are lots of kisses and many scratch
es.
1t takes d smart man to dodge all
the foolishness there is to keep out of.
Some women are naturally weak.
That's why they are unable to hold
their tongues
It's easier to worry about what we
haven't than it is to be content with
what we have.
ASK a truthful man for his opinion
and the chances are that he will hand
you something you don't want.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-26
What the Sun Does.


l used to think that he was fair.
And handsome as a man can be,
l liked his wealth of curly hair
His manly form was good to see,
"An eye like Mars" as Hamlet said,
ITO threaten and command. he SAID
And there was that about his head
To make the heart of maiden glad.
But now | turn upon my heel
And all his fond attentions shun;
His nose has started in to peel
His neck is blistered by the sun.
But yesterday [ would have sworn,
No lily farer was than she:
The dew-kisSed rose at early morn
More beautiful could never be;
And there was none with pen and brush
Could catch her charms and hold for ay'
The perfect lustre of her blush.
The smiles that fairly breathed of May
But O what change is this | see?
The maid, once fairer than the rose.
Smears cold cream on her cheeks, by gee
And has a red and shining nose.
Detroit Free Press.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-26
READY ANSWERS.
They Constitute First Aid to the En-
barrassed.

When tall man with the eye of fur
ret and the step of slcuth, who has
been on your trail for several days. finds
you in, and has you cornered in your own
library, and remarks. Il am a bill col
lector, Mr. Binks.''
Answer-"Are YOU, indeed? How very
interesting. SO am l. L fancy L have the
largest collection of unpaid bills in this
community, and take special pleas
ure in showing them to those who may
be interested. Now, as a connoisseur In
bills, you will appreciate this charming
little bit from my grocer. See with what
grace he has etched that little allusion
to three pecks of potatoes there on the
third line. And that enGrossed please
remit"-and have you ever seen that
mystic, not to say cryptic, intimation
more beautifully suggested? etc, until
your visitor fees.
When your landlord, suddenly entering
your room, for which the rent Is two
months overdue, finds you busily engaged
in screwing your trunk to the floor and
stands gazing at you in speechless won
der.
Answer.-'I am very much afraid, Mr..
SwallerboX, that the constant moving or
my trunk up and down the floor by your
very vigilant sweep in her daily and re-
lentless search for dust has seriously
annoyed my good neishbors the Blith-
erses in the apartment below, and j am
therefore fastening it to the floor bit
more securely, so that the maid may be
unable to move it. / know from past
experience that there is nothing so try
ing to the nerves of tired man or wo-
man as the impression sometimes gained.
even in first-class names like this one OF
yours, that the apartment above has
been turned into a scenic railway with
trunks instead of cars to accommodate
passengers
When you have secured the afternoon
off to attend the funeral of, your grand
mother and find yourself seated next 10
your employer on, the grand stand at th'
ball game, who greets you with ques-
tioning glare.
Answer.-"She, too, was fond of tins
game, Mr.. Slobbers Why, would you pc
lieve it, when her will was read thi'
morning, among other requests to me- me-
her favorite grandchild, was rain che's
admitting me to today's game, coup'e'
me with a dying request that as a menu.
rial of her | should forget my griei ",-
come here to cheer the Giants Whiie s"o
was carried to that bourne whence no
traveller e'er returns? Repugnant as any
pleasure of any kind is to me at III
time, so great is my affection for No,
that am here, stepped in woe, but reas.
to do my little for her sake to spur ~.
champion on to-play ball!'-Harp0'
Weekly.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-26
The Land of the Just Forget.


Where the mill wheel sings
And the diamond clings
In drops on the paddle blade,
Where the minnows CLEAN
In the silver stream
Meath the elm trees notified shade
I am moored today
In a fairy bay
In the Land of Just Forget!
And the haunting cares
OF the thorny stairs
That lead to the heights are gone.
Like child l stand
In the promised land
At the break of a golden dawn!
I am safe from woe
And it's undertOW
In the Land of Just Forget!
l am starting new
With a Dryad crew
Through the forest cool and deep.
Where the grapevine clingS
AT the heart of things
And the world of half asleep
To the realms of joy,
AS a barefoot boy
In the Land of Just Forget!
All, the perfect bliss
OF a cruise like this.
With the sad world left behind!
A drift today
In the boyish way
On d journey of the mind.
Ah a magic key
Is the sesame
To the Land of Just Forget!
-Pvrpn Will M g
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-26

so long as men carry deadly weapons
about them. prepared to commit muir
der in a fit of rage or sudden insanity.
In forty-five years nine men have
been elected Presidents of the United
States. Three of these have been
assassinated, every one shot to his
death with a pistol. No half-civil-
lied country has record to match
that.
within a much shorter period the
most casual recollection recalls the
assassinations of Mayor Harrison in
Chicago, Governor Goebel in Ken
lucky. Senator Carmack in Tennessee,
and the attempted assassinations OF
Francis j. Heney in San Francisco
and Mayor Gaynor of New York.
These suggestions are all good,
especially the one relating to the
record of sale Several of the states
already have laws which they pretend
to enforce, but which in most cases
are nnocuous, intended to protect
the public against such crimes as are
common from the carrying of con-
cealed weapons. SSome cities make
feeble attempts to suppress the carry
ing of arms, but every day the news
columns carry great numbers of
records of such crimes. To trace the
source from which these weapons
came would be impossible.
How useless it would be to attempt
to record the sale of arms in
one state if neighboring state
had no such law or did not enforce
the ones upon the statute books!
Such laws as suggested in the arti-
Gle referred to, to be in anyway eff
fective, must be national in character
and more rigidly enforced than any
state has thus far been able to make
effective its laws prohibiting the sale
Of intoxicating liquors.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-26

Science prints in a recent number
the thoughtful and stimulating Crit
ciym of the Engineering Schools" given
before the Stevens Engineering Society
oy professor Dugald c. Jackson of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"A criticism which chiefly bears upon
the fact that engineers display too
little public spirit and are not so con-
spicuously associated as are other
public men with political movements
tending toward the general welfare
Have the engineering school curr-
cula in this country been adequate in
this PARTICULAR" asks Professor Jack
son. land have they brought to their
students the breadth of human vision
and the altruistic motives required for
these activities" He hcsitates to an
swer in the affirmative and. the stu
alton standing as it does. inquiries
what truly humanistic studies can be
rightfully excluded from the list use
iui as pIepdi dtioil IoE SISiIlStIlilS pro-
fessional life. Our solicitude" he says,
need only be exercised to see that
sufficient of the mathematical and
physical sciences, the historical and
economic studies. and the languages
make constituent parts of the curricu-
lum. and that the spirit and order in
which these are studied are right. 1t
Is probably in the latter that we are
erring. The sciences. historical and
economic studies, and languages are
we'll represented in the curricula of
many of our engineering schools, but
there is a failure to impress on the
mind of the student that the economic
subjects are intimately related with the
work of his profession. Perhaps here
lies the explanation of the apparent
failure of engineers to play their
reasonable share in civic affairs. II
that is the explanation. our methods
o. teaching ought to be promptly re-
formed"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-26

A move to defeat Governor Harmon
of Ohio for reelection has been started
at Columbus by representatives of fifty
labor organizations of the State be-
cause the governor turned down Ia
Dor committee which asked him to ex-
ert his influence for settlement OF
publicly for arbitration. 1t seems that
even the circumspect and judicial
Judge Harmon cannot always steer the
course that is approved by everybody.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-26

Colonel Roosevelt came back from
the Old World and said at Osawato-
mie; IF the railroads refuse to sub
init to government regulation the only
alternative Is governments ownership
of the railroads. Colonel Bryan once
came back from the Old World and
said in New York: IF the railroads
persist in trying to own the govern
ment, | am in favor of the govern
ment owning the railroads. We all
know the effect of Bryans speech and
what happened to him in consequence.
Kansas City Journal.
Yes, and we all can see what isn't
happening to r. r. and what is hap
pening to some others.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-26
A Good Suggestion.

In forceful editorial, suggesting
a national law restricting the sale OF
deadly weapons capable of being con-
cealed on the person and compelling a
record to be made of every such sale
Hamilton's Magazine says:
The pistol is distinctly an Amer
lean institution. and pistol carrying
an American vice which calls for i'm
mediate eradication. We can never
consider ourselves highly civilized
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-26
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,

Women are awfully nice to each 9TH
er when they are not friendly.
man can make lot of money by
not being a candidate for public Of
flee.
A woman gets very suspicious of
her husband if he is always content to
kiss her in the same place.
The way a woman acts when she
goes to get on a bicycle you would
think she was climbing over a barbed
Wire fence.
1t makes woman feel terribly BASH
full to forget to be confused when a
man catches her sewing some of her
queer clothes.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-26
New Works Hot Fight.

According to Lincoln the veteran
ton Transcript-than whom there is,
perhaps no writer on political sub
jects today of keener perceptibilities
or more skilful disentangler of politi-
cal mares nests-Wall Street has for
gotten party lines. He declares that
an abundance of money is ready to
defeat the candidate to be named at
the Saratoga convention. These finan-
cial interests have seen the "Old
Guard" downed by Roosevelt who, at
the eve of the convention, is in abSo-
lutte control and as yet has named no
candidate for nomination. But, ac
cordiLg to these interests in Wall
Street, Roosevelt's object must be de-
feated at any cost. He must receive
d lesson. They are aghast at the ease
with which this man whom they hate
so cordially has bowled over the boss
es whom they thought to own and con-
troll.
of the inevitable progress of right
the showing of the Interests" and the
trusts" and the political schemers.
that in the end they are doomed to
submit to law however much they may
struggle against it. Theodore Roose-
welt NAV be the agent to bring it
about or he may not, but the agent will
come and political cussedness will re-
ceive a mortal blow When IT. +.
shall have accomplished the mission
for which he was calculated in the
great scheme of things, they may DE
able to down him, but no political
ring" or combination of interests
will ever be able to overthrow public
recognition of its own power which he
has aroused, whether he be right or
wrong.
Men go about frantically proclaiming
the faults and the errors of the former
President and they tell how he Is
loathed by men of influence
And yet his grasp upon the masses
and the masses rule-was manifest
in his recent pulse-taking tour of the
West. And that he can uproot the
rock bound, money-weighted political
Llama of New York State is shown in
the revelations of the passing week.
Right or wrong Theodore Roosevelt
has created political panic in the En-
pire State in weeks active cam
paging If he is wrong why do they
fear to leave the nomination of candi-
dates to the delegates themselves? If
he is right why are they fighting so
frantically? They are opposing his
control OF the convention machinery
with all the force finances and finesse
known to the political game, without
knowing who is to be the nominee.
The influence is compelllng-they
are wrong and they are fighting to
protect their money wringing machin-
cry from diSmantling
1t is Il decisive struggle between
those who would perpetuate boss
rule" and those who would popularize
party government; between those who
would manipulate politics to advance
huSinpSS interests and those who
would divorce business and politics.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-26

The days of the Red Light cru
SADIE, and the cleaning up of Mulberry
Bend by Theodore Roosevelt are re-
called by the movement toward moral
housekeeping in New York at the
present time. The city seems foun-
dering in tidal wave of vice and
crime that will require superhuman
energies on the part of the crusaders.
While the authorities of the admins
tration are fighting to WELD the axe
In riot of raiding, bands of deter
mined citizens are organizing them
selves to cleanse their neighbour
hoods of the criminal classes For
months the streets have been infested
by crooks and thugs until robbery and
murderous assaults have become of
nightly occurrence Evil resorts have
been operated openly, and common de-
cency defied in the streets where the
white lights burn. Gambling is said
to be nourishing on every hand, in
spite of certain spectacular raids up
on these palaces of vice. 1t is time
that Gotham arose in revolt against
the shameful state y T. ."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-26

pack on his back, walking once week
to Biddeford Pool, nine miles away.
He has now developed from carrying a
pack into the owner of 40 tenements
in Biddeford, Saco and Old orchard.
He is also the owner of the Hotel La
fayette, one of the largest hotels III
Old orchard, which is run by his
brother. He lives with his wife and
two daughters in handsome home on
Birch street BiddefOrd.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-26
Maine Gossip
Eulfillment.

No, no, the ling blossom is no sign
Of loveliness destroyed and sorrow
mute;
The blossom sheds it's loveliness divine;
Its mission is to prophesy the fruit.
Nor is the day of love forever dead.
When young enchantment and romance
are gone;
The veil is drawn, but all the future dread
Is lightened by the finger of the dawn
Love moves with life along a darker way,
They cast shadow and they call 1t
death;
But rich is the fulfillment of their day.
The purer passion and the tirmer faith.
George Meredith.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-26
It is easy finding reasons
why other people should be
patient. George Eliot.

No one accuses Prof. WetZeI or
short weight, but it seems to US the
weigher ought to have stepped off the
scales to make the figures exact.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-26

The cabins of incoming ocean liners,
these days, are crowded with the ad-
vance guard of the grand opera army.
Already orchestra players and squads
of chorus girls are taking up the grind
of practice for performances in which
star. But this year competition has
been smothered between rival prima
ther with their salaries, but there are
no indications of slaCkening in the
princely prices of seats for the public.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-26

The Kansas City Journal says: "An
OSawatomie man broke a finger the
other night, taking off his socks" Bet
ter soak 'em next time.