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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19
Not in Congress.

NY Uncle Jim he has a seat
In Ezry Cribbins' store.
Where all the village fellers meet
As they hev met of yore,
An talk about the nations fate
An fortunes reckless whim.
An listen to orations great,
Mostly by Uncle Jim!
He doesn't hev to pass around
NO offices nor pay
Fur big brass bands to come an sound
His praises. day by day.
His audience is always there
An everv Teller seeks
To occupy a forward chair
When he warns up an speaks
No controversies fret his mind.
He settles everything,
For loyalty like theirs you'll find
Denied to many a king
With honor simple and complete,
Whr should he ask fur more
Than that secure an priceless seat 2
In Ezry Cribbins' store?
Washington Star.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19

The Standard Oil Company has Civ
en- out the information that it expects
to continue business under slightly
different methods if the courts decide
against it. Nobody had the least idea
that the big combine would cease to do
business just because it was shorn of
the opportunity to wiring dishonest
profits from the people. There is hon
est profit enough in the business to
make it attractive even to the most
avaricioIs
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19
Exit the Family Doctor.

Where's the god old family doctor, with
his microscopic bills.
With his bag of plasters, powders and
those evil-tasting pills?
How our troubles used to tighten and
our aches and pains abate.
When his shabby horse and buggy TIED
up at the old front gate.
Now it's Doctor This for measles and
it's Doctor That for mumps.
And it's Doctor What-you-Call-Hin
when, it's just a case of dumps;
If it's only. common collie, just as plain
To a hospital you're hustled for some
surgicality.
Comes the twentieth century doctor in
spotless limousine,
Sealed Theoretically in it-clothed germ
proof to microbes keen.
Or, more truly. this great doctor will not
come at all to YOU.
In an office he's receiving-"Office hours
from one to two
And it's Doctor This for left eye and
it's Doctor That for right.
And it's Doctor What-YouCall-Him If
you're crosswise in your sight.
When you need some fancy glasses just
to Sc more than you ought,
To Berlin you're SHIPPED instanter to
that famous Doctor Whaught
He can amputate bad tempers, he can
make good folks of bad,
He'll immune you from diseases that
you never could have had.
Yes, times come when it's expected, just
to keep you 'middling fair"
You must know the specialistic docs of
all the kinds there are.
Oh, it's Doctor This for s'eetises' and
Doctor That for 'ites."
And it's Doctor What-You Call Him
when you're seeing things o. nights.
Each will treat one error only, will
these modern unionfsts,
Then divide your woes with twenty
other waiting speeialists. n a.s3sst
New York !Times, q
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19

The fight against the corporation
law is so bitter that one is almost
tempted to believe that some Of these
corporation men consider this coun-
try all right so long as it does not
interfere with them. but when 1t
does. = sesomes their duty to make
the country behaved
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19

Pittsburg justice discharged a
man brought before him for whipping
street car conductor who carelessly
smashed dozen eggs the prisoner
was carrying home to his family.
Under the circumstances we consider
mat the conductor was fortunate tC
escape with his life
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19

Somebody would confer a great boon
on the. human race if he would i'm
port that Mad Mullah and turn him
loose in Nicaragua. Venezuela and a
few more of those South American
states. Perhaps that is what the
fellow who said Carnegie was WILLING
to give millions for South Amer;.or
peace. had in mind.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19

Cairo. ILL.,. has come under the spot
light again by threatening to lynch
negro boys accused of stealing.
Hasn't Cairo done enough to smirch
the fair name OF Illinois?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19

Senator JEFF Davis's dislike for the
Standard OIL is shared by most of the
people of this country, but few of
them would. state it. in just the IAN
suage that Senator Davis used.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19

What's this. Harvard alumni Civ
ing $3.50 to the Yale self-help depart
ment! Oh well. probably the football
team plans to have more than $50
worth OF fun with those Yale fellows
next fall, to make up for it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19

Theodore Roosevelt's return to
America promises to be march OF
triumph which will land him in New
York bigger figure than when he
went away.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19

Michigan man wooeti and won a
dashing young widow onlytto find that
she was the mother Of five healthy
and hungry youngsters. He sought
safety in flight. Possibly it was one
of those Texas widows we have been
hearing so much about.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19

Mellen's def of the Massachusetts
law makers is not the kind of talk
that fosters the friendly feeling which
Is 50 necessary for the prosperity of
the railroad and the state.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19
VOICES OF THE PRESS.
Generally Get All in Sight.
Boston Globe.

VbUSIUTI bIUUV.J
They haven't been able to trace that
missing $4,000 bill over in New York,
but the chances are good that by this
time either Mr.. Carnegie or Mr.
Rockefeller has got it,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19

Washington residents have beer
getting counterfeit ten dollar bills
according to the dispatches. That
must be almost as much fun as get
ting the real article
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19

The Senate has passed a bill calcu.
iated to stop hazing at West Point
As we understand it this is the 147stf
time that hazing has been ordered off
the reservation
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19
Will Lick EN- Both.

ATLANTA ConstitutiOn.)
1t is reported Colonel Roosevelt may
stop in Europe on his way home long
enough to settle the row between
Germany and England.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19

The Nebraska convict who is to be
released In order that ne may complete
his experiments with a flying machine.
has certainly made good use Of his
time
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19

Virginia judge has ruled that it
isn't murder to kill a man by blow
with the fist 1t is all the same to the
victim.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19

Suppose those young French engi-
neers who have come to America to
study our telephone system should
find AL lines busy?"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19

We are getting our extra winter in
spite Of the declaration on the part OF
the weathermen that the ground hog
had nothing to do with it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19

Hugh Jennings Of Detroit says that
the Boston American team IS most
likely to win the 1910 pennant. This
~ the season of baseball dope.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19

Now York politicians are having
thrills that are not as pleasant as
those experienced at grand opera or ut
the race track
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19

The college boys who are playing
tricks on the hens cannot find fault II
the hens decline to lay next winter
when eggs are scarce.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19

Last Monday marked the beginning
OF the end of the comic valentine
Thousands were destroyed by the
postOfiice authorities
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19

Chester Stratton. one OF Hancock
enterprising young farmers. left re-
Gently for Boston, with a carload of
rotatoes-f0O bushels. A common box
car was used. side boarded leaving
an air space. A stove was set in the
centre of the car, and 800 bushels
placed in each end.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19
Includes the Whole Party?

(St. Louis Post Dispatch)
Among the sure signs of coming
Democratic victory is the fact that no
less than four men besides Bryan
have been named as candidates of the
party for the Presidency.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19
Boost Maine!

TIE Boston immigrant who refuses
to receive his wife and family from
Russia. should be deported with them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19

ashes or smoke. the householder who
can purchase heat from central sta
ton, at a reasonable price, has by far
the best of it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19

The army will be obliged to watch
the civilians do the flying unless an
appropriation liz forthcoming.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19

Word comes from Manila that the
army Is engaged in playing war. The
real war must be over.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19

In an old history of Bloomfield (now
Skowhegan) which was found few
days ago, the writer tells of moose
being so plentiful in Skowhegan in
1880 that they were killed for hides
and tallow. The history also relates
an incident that happened in Skowhe-
gan in 1900. Daniel Hobart, a poor
man living in now what is Skowhe-
gan, proclaimed that by a witch hazel
divining rod, he had found rich treas
ure. He fooled everyone by digging
holes in various farms up and down
the river. People came urging him to
take their horses, cattle and other val
uables which he did. He turned these
into cash and was very prodigal light
ing his pipe with bank notes. He told
people that his coined gold would ar
rive from the Philadelphia mint on
September LIST and appointed meet
ing at Norridgewock promising to dis
tribute it among his neighbors on that
day. The day came and people assem-
bled but Daniel was not there, SO the
irate multitude hung and beheaded him
in eftigy and imprisoned his son.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19
Not So Easy To Turn It Up Again.

Nashville Tennesseean.)
Turning down half million seems to
be one of the easiest things Woodrow
Wilson does
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19

Ellsworth American: Beech hill
lake is the mecca that draws crowds
from every section of the State. And
no wonder. Such large and handsome
catches OF fish, since the season has
opened for the . winter sport, never
were known. Not only the large SAL
mon are caught every day. but square
tail trout, pickerel and perch abound
here. Nature and Uncle Sam have
produced in this lake one of the best
fishing resorts in Maine. The Sails
bury brothers have been accommodate
ing visitors, both in their own home
and at the new cottage. John Watts
has caught the largest salmon so far.
1t weighed seven pounds.
The following unique letter was pub
lished in the PASSPORT Sentinel. Jan.
10, 1887. 1t concerns the report of an
Indian physician who was called by
the Governor Of the tribe to examine
a case of erysipelas, which by reason
of the swollen condition of the pa
TENTS face, alarmed his neighbors,
who were ignorant of the nature of the
disease:
pleasant Point, Feb. Is, 1886.
Sir, Gentlemen, 1 have made my re-
sponsible examination on Ambrose
Dana 10 a. m. / feel highly gratified
and consider it Perfect uncontageous
influence so that no dangerous disease
every respect.
Signed JOSEPH MITCHELL, NJ. D.
/ will enclose my bill. I am charging
one dollar for examination without
employing any remedies"
Guilford Register: Albert Kronholn,
while out in the woods at the foot of
Monson pond last Friday, came across
the track of an animal, and putting his
dog on the track he soon came upon a
bob-cat which had run under a log.
Having his gun with him, which was
loaded with bird shot, he fired one shot
which wounded him. and the second
shot killed it. On examination he
found a number three steel trap at
tached to one of the forepaws, the
trap had evidently been on it's foot for
being dragged around. 1t was a very
fair specimen of bobcat weighing IA
pounds, being the first one seen in this
section for some years. Mr.. Kron-
holm will get a bounty of two dollars
from the State, and no. doubt good
price for the fur which is prime at
this time of year.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19

The many friends of Fulton j. Red
man, son of F. F. Redman. formerly
of Ellsworth, will b. interested and
pleased to learn that out Of 246 appli-
cants for admission to the Massachu
sets bar he was one of the eigatytwo
candidates who passed the eXamina
lions. Young Redman is q graduate
of Bowdoin, OF, and will graduate from
the Harvard Law School next June.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19

Ross L. Bickford has bought out the
entire interest of the Bickford Bros,
who have carried on a lapidary mining
and gem business in Norway since
1906. r. L. Bickford has been travelling
salesman for the firm for the past year
and will continue for himself in that
capacity. The firm of Bickford Bros.
has met with marked success the past
four years, having built up lucrative
business from a small beginning.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19

The homeless herring industry at
Eastport conducted during the past
five months by Mr.. J. c. Potter for
BeardsIey Sons of New York, closed
operations the latter part of last week.
having done the largest business OF
any season since it's establishment
here. more than five thousand tons of
herring having been handled during
that time.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19

A cow-moose and two calves were
seen by H. n. Cunningham and Will
liam GRAY last week, in the pasture
of A. p Slower, at Bluehill.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19
ESTABLISHED 1s2s

No notice whatever win be taken OF
unsfgned communications.
The Journal cannot be held response
bic for the preservation Or return OF
rejected communications.
Address. all communications relating
ia subscriptions and advertisements
to BURLEIGH & FLINT. Publish
ers, Augusta Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19
Maine Gossip

Feb. IA.
Next month will the lover
Signing like a furnace
Sit him down and write a
Valentine to Bernice.
Houston Post.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19
Call on the Cunninghams.

(kansas City Starr
President Taft expects to visit
Alaska next summer. At least, he
will visit what. if anything, is left Of
Alaska
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19

PASSPORT Sentinel: Mr.. w. r. Du-
pont of Boston was here last week to
propose the project of a street rail-
way between Calais and st. Stephen
and Midtown. Mr.. Dupont presented
his ideas and plans to Mayor Nc
kusick and will return in the spring
to look the ground over more closely.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19
None! Thew Know Bean

cleveland Plain DeaIer.)
Now that Boston is in pursuit of the
beef trust will Chicago retaliate on
beans?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19

Owners of the old American ship
Henry Willard, which went from Port
land, Oregon, to the Bristol Bay sal
mon grounds last season, are trying
to charter her for the transportation
of cargo of lumber from the Column
bia river to San Francisco. On her
arrival in the Pay City it is said she
will be given general overhauiing.
The Willard is tied up at Astoria. The
Willard was built in Bath in 1882 by
Arthur Sewall & Co., and is craft
of 1859 tons.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19

Saturday, February 10, 1910.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-09-09

5000 tons of oulachan, and as the fish average
about eight to the pound S0,OO0O0O of them went
the way of the market and the frying pan.
The fishing grounds of the Cowlitz are p-Gc.
tically the only ones where the oulachan can be
caught in paying quantities. On the Columbia
some few are caught by gill meters. But the
river is deep and for the most part the fish swim
beyond the reach of the widest net Even when
caught they have to be picked one by one cut
of the meshes, putting the gill netter out OF
competition with the Cowlitz man and his greedy.
ong-handled dipper. The grounds extend but
eight or ten miles in the Cowlitz Before kelso
was on the map the best location is said to have
been directly opposite where the Northern Pa
cific depot now stands but the growth of the
town has driven the fish farther up and the best
catches now made two miles above this point
Between the small floating docks of the town
and the fishing grounds boats ply day and night
during the runs, going upstream empty and
turning laden with fish. Over 500 boats are en-
ployed in the industry, about rs of them power
boats.
1t seems strange that the ouachan, so far
superior to the eastern smelt, has never reached
the eastern markets. The fish are packed in
50-pound boxes for shipment and the earlier
catches sell in the wholesale market at from
$3.50 to $500 the box; but in the height of the
season the ordinary fisherman gets only about
$50 for 200 boxes-10,00O pounds On the river
are several men VINO buy at these prices from
other fishermen, maintain boats of their own
and ship direct to retail markets. Portland has
wholesale buyers the ground. and probably
the greater part Of the retail trade is supplied
through them At Keso smelt have been shipped
as far east Wisconsin. The fishermen say
that with cold storage facilities the output could
be greatly increased. Canning in the form OF
sardines has never been tried though in the
opinion of experts the fish so treated would dis.
count the imported sardine The market is usu
ally demoralized early in the five months sea.
son by schoolboys, who go out load up a few
boats with fish and become an easy mark for
buyers. Often, too, Greeks and Italians come up
the river In boats, stay day or two and sell
their fish for whatever they can get and the men
regularly engaged in the trade want to make it
a licensed one, on this account.
The growing output of the oulachan would
seem, on the face of it, to demand Clifford Pin.
chot on the fish commission. But the supply
increases year after year with the demand and
apparently knows no limit. Last years run
broke all records and the Cowlitz smelt fisher
is looking forward in happy confidence to the
coming winter, when the deeps and shadows Of
the streams will again be filled with oulachan
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-09-09
FISHING TIME IN THE PASIG
Swimming in Myrlads Near Surface
They AS Shared and Speared
by Filipinos.

Friday morning Filipinos sharing
cells and other fish in the Pasig near
the old captain of the port building by
the aid of fish snares caught the
largest eel ever seen on the water
front. 1t was fully ten feet in length.
Both banks of the Pasig and all the
ships and lighters moored in the
stream were thronged with hundreds
Of Filipinos with snares and spears
trying to catch the fish that in myri.
ads were swimming near the surface
of the stream.
Natives when asked in regard to
the phenomenon were almost unani-
mously in their statement TO the ef
feet that at this time of the year the
bottom of the river gets hot and that
the fish have to leave the depths of
the stream and flash back and forth
on or near the surface.
Another theory that seemed to have
a great many adherents was to the eff
feet that at this time every year
there was a change in the character
of the water, this change acting on
the fish as a stimulant.
This theory was advanced by an old
pilot who has witnessed the phenome-
non for many PENNSYLVANIA Times.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-09-09

eagles, gulls and hawks, following in the wake
of the living rope of fish and picking up the
dead as they come to the surface. Then the fish
ermen gather by hundreds in their boats along
the fishing grounds and feel along the bottom
with the pole ends of their dip nets. When the
pole strikes the small, wriggling bodies swim
ming along the river bottom in solid phalanx,
it is simply dip and fill, empty the net into the
boat, dip and fill again, until the boat hold
no more. There is not much sport about it. 1t
is just about as exciting clam digging and
requires no more skill. Quantity caught and
quickness in dipping ones boat full to the gun
wales OF Tapping little fish the smelt fisher
mans ideals of sport And during the runs fish
ermen, fish eaters and even the eternally COB
bling seagulls alike become stated. When the
gulls at all hungry the fishermen amuse
themselves by tossing up smet for the gulls to
catch in the air. seagull on the wing will grab
fish by the middle or TAIL toss and reverse it
in air, and gulp it down head first in the wink
of an eye.
Most of the fishing Is done at night. Daylight
seems to scatter the fish, but even in daytime
during the height of the season the fishermen
keep at their work with good results. AS rule,
there are two men to each boat and the craft
are filed in an incredibly short time. One night
last season two Keso men filed power launch
to its capacity of $3.50 pounds in As minutes, or
at the rate of so pounds minute, and catches
of 10000 pounds in day and night were fire.
quent
While the Cowlitz river Is the only constant
spawning ground. the oulachan has been known
to run up the Lewis and the Sandy. At the time
OF the run up the Lewis, IA years ago. there was
only small run of male fish in the CowltZ, and
the fishermen made their seasons catch in the
Lewis. About once in eight years there is a
up the Sandy apparently Independent of the
Cowlitz rum as the number in that river is not
essened. At the time of the last run in the
Sandy party of Portland men went out with dip
nets One man lost his dip net but found
old, rusty, discarded bird cage. He tied 1t to
the end of pole and scored an equal catch with
the others. During the farmers drove
their wagons into the stream dipped them full
of fish and hauled load after load to their or
chards to as fertilizer. Pork sold in the
Portland market some months later had a dis
tinctly fshy flavor and revealed the fact that
some of the thrifty agriculturists had fed smelt
TO their hogs
Last season the Cowlitz river the spawn
ing ground of the greatest run OF smelt ever
known by fishermen who have been In the bust
over twenty years. At the seasons close
the river had yielded over 100000 pounds. or