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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-04
Editorial Comment
Wireless In Italy.

tthlCago Record Hefdld.f
The first example of Il broad nation
al employment of wireless comes.
properly enough, from the native land
of Marconi. The Italian government
has moved for an appropriation of Aa!f
million lire. or $1,000 fal construct
ing a network of wireless stations over
tile whole country.
Such expenditures, in Europe, are
likely to be influenced largely b.
military considerations. One chief
object of the new plan is to place all
parts of the frontier and coast in COM
munication with the capital and to
keep in touch with the national navy
throughout the Mediterranean ami
Adratic. The gates of italy, in the
phrase of De Amicis, are to be guard
ed. and they include both the noun
tain passes and the seaports.
Yet the various stations are to
serve not only as a means of public
protection but of public convenience.
The limited extent of the country
makes both aims practicable The
but partially developed telegraph sys-
TEN Of the country will thus be con-
venientIv supplemented.
Necessity is the mother not only OF
inventions but of their application.
The geographical situation and politi
cal requirements of Italy prompt an
employment of wireless far beyond av-
erage needs. The development of n
comprehensive system throughout an
entire country will doubtless furnish
instruction and suggestion for other
quarters of the world
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-04

way to the making of a safe horse.
The same method is employed in train
ing horses for the artillery service.
The trainers come from every state
and are a fine looking lot of young
men. Among them are former cow
boys, cavalrymen and young farmers.
The first six months they get $50 Il
month with rations. lodging and medi-
cal treatment. and then their pay is
raised TO $40 month One man usual
ly is assigned to 10 horses. He works
about eight hours day and has most
of each saturday and every sunday
for leisure. All day long the parade
and training ground is filled with men
and horses in motion.
These husky young men develop big.
keen appetites in the clear Oklahoma
atmosphere. and when the gong SOUNDS
for meals there is a rush for the Ia
bles. Soup, meats, vegetables, steWed
fruit. good bread and coffee are pro-
vided in abundance. and it's Pass me
the beef, pard," and "Cooky. old boy.
hustle the Coffee from the time the
hungry trainers clatter into their
chairs until they push back from the
table with their hunger satisfied.
Many of the horses come from the
ranges of Montana and Wyoming. as
we'll as from the central Mississippi
valley states. No horse must be less
than three years old. Is hands high
and weigh less than $50 pounds. There
has been much discussion in the West
as to whether or not it would be pos
sible by cross breeding to produce a
horse with the wonderful endurance
of the native mustang of the South
west, with vicious qualities eliminated,
his size increased and his gait inn
improved.
A number of years ago Capt. Harde-
man took the record fof 90 years of
all the horses that had been in a Ger
tain troop of cavalry and compiled
statistics as to the length of service.
He found that horses produced by FAR
mers in the Missouri valley and states
further east had given about twice as
MISC
much service as the western range
horses. The latter are more or less
vicious, and Capt. Hardeman Was un-
able to determine how much their rec
ord had been handicapped by the
wedding out of vicious horses.-Fort
Reno. (Okla.) Letter in y. Y. sun.
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ing the first fleet of American battle
ships go through.

ing the first fleet of American battle.
ships go through.
Why, | remember clear back in the
eighties. talking to Senator Randall
Lee Gibson of louisiana, who declared
himself in favor of an appropriation OF
$50. 00o, 900 for the navy. That twould
correspond to about $500, 10000 these
days.
." Senator ! said. 1 am surprised to
hear YOU advocate this, since you are a
Democrat and the Democrats are said
to be against building UP navy.
- Nothing is further from the truth
the senator said. The real Democratic
party is not a party of retrogression.'
Now" continued Admiral Dewey.
these are the kind of Democrats We
will have in the Sixty second Con-
gross. | feel sure they will not advo-
cate retrogresson in the navy.
THE value of the canal to the navy
Is so evident that it hardly needs COM
ment. 1t sometimes is said that it
doubles the fleet by making it acces-
sible to the Atlantic and the Pacific.
don't quite look at it that way, for
believe we ultimately should have a
| battleship fleet in both oceans. with the
canal making 1t possible speedily to re-
| inforce one or the other. From 40 to
| 30 battleships is the ultimate standard
| OF the American navy. | believe. not
| because we expect trouble, but because
| of the idea brought out by Represen
| tative keifer of Ohio. in 1907. which I
| endorse:
I'm time of peace prepare to main
| tain it
when persons ask me. as they
| sometimes do. if ! am in favor of uni
| versal peace. I reply that am, most
| heartily. and that | believe no stone
should be left unturned to be prepared
| to maintain it.
| TO say just how much the opening
Of the canal increases our naval
| strength would be difficult, but the
added protection it gives to the eoun-
try doubtless is very great. since in
helping the navy it helps the forces on
| land as well."-New York Herald.
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Coming Events

Jan. 3-4-5-Western Maine Poultry Al.
ISOLATION, So. Paris.
Jan. 10th Legislature convenes in On.
larged State House. Augusta.
Jan. 6-Somerset Cow Testing Assn,
Grange hall, Cambridge.
Jan. 10-Superior Court opens, Augusta.
Jan. 11-Annual meeting of Maine Opu-
clans, Portland.
Jan. IA, Knox Pomona Grange. Union.
Jan. T-Legislature enters upon dis
charge of duty of election of L. S. SEN
ator.
Jan. 1s-l9-iSth Annual Meeting Maine
Press Association, Aug usta.
Jan. 27-Kennebec County Christian
Endeavor Union, Gardiner.
Feb. 6-11-Commercial Travellers Food
Fair Bangor.
Feb. 17-1S-19-Maine state Y. M. c. A.
and College Y. NJ. c. A, Lewiston.
Feb 21-22-Western Maine Pythian Jul
bilee. Lewiston.
March 3-Cony Hlgh-Portland High de-
bate, Augusta.
April 19-26-East Maine Methodist Con-
ference. Oldtown. Bishop Cranston pre-
siding.
April 1s-2s-Maine Methodist Confer
ence. Biddeford. Bishop Nicely presiding
Oct. 25-26-27-Annual Convention Maine
Teachers Association. Augusta
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CANAL BOOM TO NAVY.
Admiral Dewey Expects Congress u
Continue Battleship Program.

George Dewey, the Admiral OF the
navy. himself a Democrat. explained III
the course of an interview for the
Herald recently that he anticipates no
change in the program for the building
of two battleships year under
Democratic House of Representa-
tiyes. He holds that battle
ship fleet in each ocean still will be
necessary after the opening OF the
Panama Canal, and that from 40 to %
battleships is the ultimate standard OF
the American navy
lone cannot help becoming enthused
over the splendid. work done on the
Panama Canal as it gradually Is near
ing completion" said the Admiral. i
was especially gratified to see the
statement that the canal will be open
ed in 1914, one year ahead of scheduled
time.
aside from other advantages. the
one great and immediate benefit of the
Panama Canal will be it's materia
strengthening of our navy. 1t will
open to our ships the barred door
separating the Atlantic from the
Pacific, and hope myself te9be pres
ent at the magnificent spectacle of see
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Getting" the LEGISLATORS.

The governor of Missouri advocates
showing" the legislators. He does
not approve of governors messages.
He says they are read hastily before
the houses and printed but the average
member does not read them. He
urges the substitution of a series of
lectures by the heads of the various
state departments. illustrated with
moving pictures, to be given in the
House of Representatives on selected
evenings during the session. He feels
work done by each department and it's
needs would interest the members and
produce results.
Now here is a valuable hint for the
new Maine Legislature--show the law
makers. Few of them will paste Gov.
Plaisteds inaugural in their hats
None of them will commit it to MEM
ory. In II cases out of ten each
will hear only the one or two points
in which he is especially interested.
The quality of inaugurals has no place
in their effectiveness it is the indiffer-
ence of the legislators.
But how to attract their attention
and interest; Gov. Hadley has solved
the problem-throw it on screen
| Picture the Imperial kennebec" with
it's distinguished group of royal
J candidates for all the Democratic
plums, and awaken State wide inter
est! Throw a glowing nimbus on the
screen and cunningly insert, one after
another the new Governor the Hale
| favored, would-be Senator, the self
made Attorney General. the Hallowel
diplomat and the man at the bellows
OF the Piper organ.
Another series could be arranged
setting forth the beauties of Demo
cratic promissory economy" and thu
way Republican "extravagance" hal
| built up State institutions and in
This and repeal of the prohibitory Law
being the only schedule laid out b.
the party ought to arouse sufficient en-
thusiasm to keep the legislators out o
mischief in the evenings. Give zen
! dissertations on the attractiveneSS o
open bars and a glorious triumph owe
the W. c. r. L. together with othe
| temperance organizations and in
dividuals. 1t would not be a dry
topic.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-04
SOME CURIOUS CHURCHES.
Marvellous Cathedral Of Moscow
ChapeIs on Russian Trains.

One of tire most extra and fantastic
Christian places Of worship in the
world is the cathedral of Moscow.
strange not only in outline and CON
ception. but even stranger in its his
tory.
No one knows the architects name.
but the story goes that the ear or
dered his eyes to be put out directly
the church w5s completed so that he
should never be able to surpass his
work.
The idea of the building. says a
writer in the strand. was inspired by
the wickedest and maddest monaeh
who ever sat on throne-Ivan the
Terrible ear of Museovy.
The church Is known as Nasili Bla-
jenni or Blessed Rasil and is named
after a half-witted vagrant monk who
for some strange reason was almost
the only person in the empire that the
car feared.
Although every one else trembled
before Ivan, Nasili Blajenni would
fout him, cal, him "Ivaska.' or bad
little Ivan" and most daring thing of
all. would try to protect the victims of
lll' CEdl - III i'N anu sti''A'''' ''''@+
Of the same caliber named Ivan the
Idiot are buried in two memorial cha
pels beneath the cathedral.
The architecture is in every respect
eXtravagant and harharic and the col
oring is garish in the extreme. 1t has
nine chapeis rooted by nine CupolaS.
each different and each stranger than
the other One resembles pineapple,
another a melon. a third is said to ape
a hedgehog in it's appearance. ana the
rest are more or less grotesque. Some
are gilt, others are painted in brilliant
hues.
Indeed the only description is that 1t
is a nightmare of a church. the hitting
legacy of a ruler who grilled his coun-
selors in frying pans and clothed his
subjects in bearskins in order that
trained dogs might worry and tear
| them to pieces.
Another freakish place of worship Is
the church of tue Holy Trinity at Bau-
ra. in upper Austria. 1t is built in the
| form of triangle and stands on Ut
| tie hill approached by "a winding as
| cent If you examine it you Will flno
! that everything possible has been d"ne
| to glor!fy and CONNIE morate the Three
| in One.
IT has three fronts, three towers
| three doors and three windows. In
| side there are three affairs, three organs
and three sacristies The walls are
decorated with three different kinds o.
marble, and the church cost $3.50,
| forms to build.
| Among other luXuries on the trains
of the Trans Siberian railway arf
chapels which are attached to tho
principal EXPIRE sses. Priest travel witt
these moving churches. The chapel'
are quite elaborate paneied with beau
| tifnl woods, lavishly decorated ant
gilded. They are intended not alone
for the use of passengers, hut at an ap
pointed hour on Sundays the trail
halts a; a wayside station and thu
| peasants living in. the neighborhod
| flock to the service.-New York Sun.
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than the measure which passed thu
House just before the holidays. Ii
! Difference to the policy of economy o
| the President, and yielding to his in.
sistence. the estimates of the loca
engineers were cut down considerably
before they were approved by the chic
of engineers and the board.
There is not, nor is there likely tC
be, lint of the pork barrel about
this years rivers and harbors bill
The aggregate sum of the appropria
tions provided in the pending Senate
amendments is s2,S19,26S. which. with
the appropriation coming from the
rivers and harbors committee and the
House, makes a bill appropriating APP
|proXimately $26,000,0OO OF course
other amendments may be offered in
the Senate, but it is not likely that the
bill Will go much above those figures.
Much disappointment in the ap-
apparent Eeasreness of the river and
liarbor appropriation for this year in
the pending bill and much misappre-
hension might be removed if the pub
lie We're made to understand that Their,
is in the aggregate very considerable
sum of money appropriated en- projects
Yet unexpended. and that on some pro-
jects the balance available covers
nearly the entire sum appropriated for
them in last years river and harbor
bill. As General Bixby, chief of engi :
neers has repeatedly observed, il, takes
time to get plans and equipment ready
upon all projects, and it was only last
June that the last river and harbor
bill was Passed and became a law in
mid summer much of the failure to
make use of money appropriated is
thereby clearly enough explained
The delay In the passage of the bill,
coming, as it dill, late in the session
of Congress, explains also the season
why the engineer officers assigned to
such duty were late getting a start on
their tasks. Moreover, II should be
borne in mind that there is a scarcity
of engineer officers available for river
and harbor duty. as the chief of en-
gineers emphatieally pointed out in
his annual report.
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Big Brothers of Brooklyn.

(BroOklNn standard CnloD)
Brooklyn now has Big Brothers
Association, an organization that viii!
look after youths between the ages
of 16 and %, who have strayed from
the straight paths. over in Man
haitian there is d similar association,
which has been credited with much
valuable work in retaining young
men. What can be done across the
river is possible here, and the new
organization is determined to make a
record that justifies it's existence.
Brooklyn welcomes this new body
among it's innumerable church and
other organizations that extend the
helping hand. There is plenty of room
here for its activities. One feature of
the new organization, which dis
tinguishes it from the Manhattan So
ciety, is that religion will play no part
in the worH. The members are out to
help all Young men who have slipped,
regardless of creed.
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After investigating penal institutions
that he will present a bill to the next
legislature providing for the parole
system both by judges and the board
of pardons. The bill provides. In the
event a young person be found guilty
of the first offence that the judge may
parole the accused, and after term
of good behavior. suspend sentence
entirely. This is in line with methods
beiue adopted in a number of states
to make institutions reformatory
rather than punitive.
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WILTON.

Mrs. Adella Farnum is quite low and
is failing.
Miss Gcnevieve Conner. of Winthrop.
Mass, spent her Christmas vacation
at home.
Mrs. Harrison Ladd is spending q
few days with Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. l..
Bunker.
Miss Marian Butterfeld of Maiden.
Mass. Is visiting friends here for y
few weeks.
Mrs. A. J. r. Hoyt has returned
horne, after speniing IL few months in
New Portland and Madison.
Mrs. Charles NJ. Connors has SO far
recovered from her fall that she is
able to be up around the house.
Miss Susie f. Harrington of Nashua.
n. f.. is at home for two weeks with
her mother, Mrs. Orrah Harrington.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-04

Or Monday President Taft received
official Washington at the White
House, and the humblest citizen also
was made welcome. Every civilized
nation was represented and the line
headed by the Austrian ambassador.
The presence of three members of the
Roosevelt family in the Blue Room
attra cted unusual attention. Mrs
Nicholas Longworth came early with
her husband, and brought with her
Miss Ethel and Kermit Roosevelt, ana
all remained until the last of the citi-
zens had been received. Another FAM
lily group that attracted much atteh-
ton was composed of the President
three brothers, Charles p. Taft of Gin
cinnati, Henri w. Taft Of New York
and Horace d. Taft of WATERFOWL,
Conn. The White House was made
attractive as usual with wealth OF
floral decorations.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-04

An increase in wages has been
granted conductors and trainmen on
railroads north, south and west OF
Chicago. thus safely adjusting dill
ficult situation. The advance Is ten
per cent. and Canadian workers get
the benefit of the settlement although
they had not asked raise in wages
1t means an added expense to the
railroads of s5,OOo,oo0. The time to
settle a strike is before it begins thus
saving cost and bitterness and pub
lie inconvenience. The time to make
concessions is before feeling has been
engendered.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-04

1t is estimated that the cabbage
crop of Southwest Texas-Which has
grown to be the greatest cabbage pro-
ducing area of the country--will ex-
ced that of last year by 300 or 500
carloads. Those in position to know
estimate the crop of the Rio Grande
section alone at 200 carloads more than
last year Cabbage farmers say that
the crop this year will show net
earning of from 800 to SITS per acre,
While certain localities have given a
net profit of more than the maximum
sum named, a safe estimate is 500 per
acre clear of all expense in cultivatine
and marketing. AT that rate the
Lone Star state flower must soon be
changed.
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The Year in international Affairs.


The record of the year just closed il
interesting in many phases, if not re-
imarkable. In some ways it has beer
full of thrills. Wars have been con-
fined to scares. and revolutions have
not alarmed civilization although q
monarchy has been overthrown-the
gal. That "a dying nation" should,
with little bloodshed and savagery
abolish monarchical government and
establish a republic under high
! philosophical" auspices, and that the
army and navy should cooperate with
mere professors and authors and law
yers in accomplishing the transforms :
ton, is certainly astonishing. Failure
and reaction are still predicted, but at
this distance the value of the predic-
tons can hardly be estimated with
any confidence.
The second series of surprises the
year brought in international affairs
came from the Far East. The advance
of reform in China has been so steady
and so rapid that the West frankly ac-
knowledges its inability to account
for the phenomena. Even if the
throne does not grant all the demands
of the senate and the provincial as
sembles, the demands themselves and
the tone in which they are made are
highly significant.
England has been very much in evil
dence. A pacific revolution is in
of the year entail momentous conse-
quences. Even Roseberry has said
that the house of lords has ceased to
exist as a hereditary, privileged body.
The abolition of the peers veto will
mean several strides forward for
democracy and social reform.
France has successfully grappled
with strikes amounting to insurrec-
tions. has shown great stability and is
making important experiments in anti
strike and other social legislation. Ger
many is offering a liberal constitution
to the territory of Alsace and Lor-
raine and otherwise yielding to the
spirit of the age. Radical and social
list victories are making an impression
on the imperial government. Spain is
liberalizing herself and averting strife
and trouble
In Italy, in Austria. in Russia the
year has been notable for orderly and
modest reforms. Turkey has disap-
pointed the friends of freedom and
progress, and there are writer's who
see no improvement at all in the new
regime But the parliament and the
freedom of the press and speech are at
least guarantees against gross abuses,
and Turkey, like Russia. may need
much more time for reconstruction
than we We're led to suppose in the
fiji st flush of enthusiasm.
Peace has been preserved, arbftra-
ton has been given a splendid stimu-
lus, limitation of ornaments has en-
tered the sphere of practical politics.
international relations have been
friendlier than during the previous
year. and there have been fewer
scares and alarms.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-04

One of the results of the bumper
crops of the north is felt in the IN
creased number of tourists in the
south to enjoy the winter sunshine
and generous climate. Reserva
lions at hotels made by people in the
north break all records OF the past. 10
reciprocate southerners should come
north to enjoy the sleighng. skating
ice boating and ozone.
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Aches and Pains.

You know by experience that aches
and pains of rheumatism are not per-
manently, but only temporarily. re-
lieved by external remedieA
Then why not use an internal REM
edy-Hood's 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. $50 81 .-.
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Wednesday, January 4, 1911.

4 So what signifies wishing JOY
and hoping for better times!
We may make the estimates
better if we bestir ourselves.
I -E'ranklin.
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If we can transmute ''ragtime IDEAS
into golden thoughts by the alchemy
of kindness "ragtime" music VIII
take care of itself.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-04

Impressive as is the new worlds rec
ord for continuous fight, 49, miles, ii
loses something of it's value by hav-
ing Leen made over an aviation course
instead of straigntway. with all the
uncertainties and difficulties Of such a
trip. Still, it presages such an
achtoHesnent sooner or later.--Pitts-
~ Snatch.
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VOICES OF THE PRESS

Perhaps the college yell will he SUD-
pressed but it viii hardly be as long
as young men have spirits to blow off
and lungs to blow them off within
Y. Press.
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How doth the little busy beec in
quires the old rhyme. 1t is possible
TO satisfy this inquiry, for according
to the United States department OF
agriculture, the little busy bee is good
for s2ooOo,o9o worth of honey year
n. Y. Evening Times.
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President Taft now seems to be eN-
pected to play the part OF d hd'ioh"i
Fairy God Mother.