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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-27
The Sea Of Peace.

I stand above a white-rimmed sea;
Its deeps are mine, it's mirrored height;
Mine its low plant of mystery;
All mine its glee song of delight.
Mine it's strong soul its body mine;
/ lave me in its kind embrace;
In dreams upon its buoyant brine
1t gives me back a cherished face.
Mayhap it helps me to understand
The language of intinity,
The secret of the shifting sand.
The testimony OF the sea.
/ am above all circumstance,
| am beyond all power to hurt;
No more | shrink from sorrows lance.
So with all strength ! am begirt.
I've tasted every bitter sup:
Earths bulwarks all are proven frai:
Yet sWeetened now is lfe's low cup
All hallowed: 'Tis my Holy Grail.
Above it's wrecks 90 ships and men
The placid ocean shows no scars;
Above my deeps where storms have been
Nv tranquil soul reflects the stars.
Ruth McEnery Stuart.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-27
GIRL JOCKEYS NEXT?
English Horseman Predicts That They
Will Come in Time.

The racing Calendar contains the
name of only one woman as a jockey,
Mrs. Thornton. who in August OF 1904
rode her husand's horse Vinagrillo at
York before a tremendous crowd writes
a correspondent of the English Gentle
woman. She appeared in leopard col
ored silk racing jacket with blue sleeves
and blue cap. 1t is said that e9o009
changed hands over the race. Mrs,
Thornton was beaten.
ION the continent a couple OF years ago
a girl took out a license as jockey, but
as yet in England none of the sex femi-
nine has done so 1t only requires some
trainer to appreciate one or two girls
and put them up for the profession TO
be open to them. And why not?
'Nine-tenths of the boys who go into
racing stables know nothing about horses
or riding Eight-tenths of them never
learn to use their HANDS properly. six
tenths of them never become horsemen
and end their days as stable lads riding
exercise work.
Girls have far better heads than boys.
they think more and are more observant.
They would be able to give a trainer a
few more helpful accounts of how a
horse has gone in a trial or a race and
they would ride lighter weight. Cen
orally speaking, they would be gifted
with 50 much better hands that strength
| would not be so much required, for
strong jockeys are often only necessary
because boys with bad hands have been
riding in private the horse they are TO
steer in a race in public.
1T may not be in our time, but | am
| confident girl jockeys will come and that
they would be of far more use to trainers
than many of the apprentices they put
| up. who have as much as ever they can
do to stick on let alone get the most
| out of horse. Womans position on the
| turf is by no means stationary. great as
| have been the strides it has taken in re-
cent years.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-27
Lessons in Science
WIRELESS TELEPHONY.
Earl, MaxLl.


The first attempt to telephone with
| out wires utilized tn principles OF
electromagnetic induction or of con
| duCtion b. leakage currents in earth
| or water, between transmitter and re-
| ceiver. Parallel coils of wire. each Of
| many turns. and enclosing a. large an
area as possible were used A battery
and nieroplaac N the trarsnitter CIR
eut and Il sensitive telephone receiver
in the receiver circuit were the ueces-
Sarv Instruments Since the electro
magnetic effects diminish with the in
verse cube OF the distance, voice
transmissions over short spaces only is
feasible by this first method. In the
conduotipn method metal plates We're
buried in the earth a long distance
apart and connected by an overhead
w;re strung on poles. In the center of
this ,tire connected II battery and mi
crophone transmitter. At the distant
receiving station 4 second Wire Was
strung parallel to the first, its ends
also connected To plates in H. earth
or water. In telephone receiver in
serted in this Wire could be heard
faint reproductions CT words spoken in
the tranSniitter. due To the stray ~
leakage currents passing through the
earth between the buried plates. Rut
the distance OF transmission here can
he but little greater than the length OF
one OF the two parallel wires.
In 1898 pr Alex Graii2m Bell dem
0nstrated voice transmission ovcr
beam of light from an arc lamp, placed
at the focus Of a parabolic reflector.
\ few years ago Simon aud Ruhmcr i'll
Germany greatly improved on Bells
apparatus \ mi"rophOne Circuit! was
associated with the line supplying the
are light. 50 that when the microphone
was spoken into. slight variations in
the light of the arc resulted. The re-
ceiving apparatus consisted Of Sensi-
tive selenium cell also mounted at
the focus of rarabolir mirror into
which the are light was directed. The
electrical resistance OF the cell is az
fected by the intensity Of the light
falling thereon and roughly proper
tionally thereto. and a telephone re-
ceiver in series with this cell and
dry battery therefore family repro
duces the sound Of the voices at the
transmitter.
Distances of five miles have beer
covered by this light method but its
many obvious Disadvantages render it
impraCtiCable
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-27
Paddlino Life Preservers.

\ new Hfe-saving apparatus, called
the sleigh buoy" which weighs only
fifteen pounds and can be easily ear
ried on the run into deep water, then
padded to the person in danger, is
being used at many bathing resorts
1t is claimed by its use persons in
danger of drowning can be rescued
before a boat could be even launched
and without risk to the rescuer, as q
swirmer. trying to save a drowning
person. is often a victim to the strug-
giles of the one he would save. In a
case of man overheard" from a YES
sci, the sleigh buoy manned by one
who could prope! il. might double the
chances of rescue as against an or
binary life preserver thrown over
board.-Popular Mechanics.
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Demand for Extension Courses.

To meet the demands of many spe-
cial students. particularly public
school teachers. Boston University has
added several courses to the currcu-
lum of its saturday College" These
courses are given late afternoons and
Saturdays. and later can be counted
toward degree. They have no direct
connection with the work which leads
10 an associate in arts diploma, al
though the TWO do go hand in hand,
and although both represent type
of important extension activity. These
courses are designed especially for
those teachers who wish TO overcome
the handicap imposed by the lack OF
a college degree. Such teachers may
after taking these special courses and
hlents and doing a certain amount of
resident college work. be granted an
A. b, and, in exceptional eases AN
a. NJ.
Thus we see, in the development of
these SO-called extension courses. the
inspiration and the impetus of some
thing better than the average college
course. 1t will help to develop those
who desire to be developed. and who
are aware of the lines along which
they desire development. 1t gives an
open field FOR the survival of the fit
test. Too many al those who are
forced 10 undergo the drill of col
lege course because of the ambition of
parents or guardians. obtain their
A. BIS. as matter of course rather
tran as matter of expediency. They
are driven into it and whjpped along
They have no further interest in THEN
college training other than its socia
and athletic headings ana the element
of entertainment which they may de-
rye from their association.
But II the thousands and hundreds
OF thousands throughout the tountr,
OF thOSe IN whose minds and hearts
there burns a living desire TO know
and 10 understand and to partake o
the benefits of education, the extension
courses open up possibilities beyont
estimation. With such increasing de
mands as are already manifested i,
these courses wherever they are begin
ming TO be understood. We are led T.
believe that they are bound in time L
reach even the most remote section
OF the country and to clear the wa
Tor something in the line of education
ard development OF brain and Of in
teliect almcst beyond cur present con
eeption.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-27
SUNFlOWER PHILOSOPHY.

If YOU want your wish to come true,
YOU nave to help it along.
Every woman imaginos that she IS
an ideal sick-room visitor
When IA business man has had a
good many partners. it is bad sign.
In their efforts to get ricl. some
men never get beyond a house and
lot.
Every time YOU look at n l2-years-
old boy. he needs new pair Of shoes.
Why don't some of the married wom-
on look as pretty as the widows :
What's 10 hinder"
\ married woman always hates II
see her husband on friendly terms
with a man who is a notorious flirt.
Show us a man willing to begin at
the bottom. and we will show YOU a
man who will some day get t. the top.
YOU may have no Soul for Music,
bat the tact that YOU aren't interested
in country town band doesn't prove
it.
Unless you intend to become 4
teacher. some people say YOU cannot
afford 10 go all the way through col
lcge.
When YOU get through with Your
work, for heavens sake go oil and
rest: don't bother the man who is still
busy.
Always remember that if q man
knows where he can make a dollar,
h. will not tell YOU about il he will
go after it himself.
A boy seems TO learn just So much
in skating, and then stop; boys do
nothing on tie ice now that boys did
not do 60 Years ago.
You can pick up boys school
book. and find instantly where he is
studying. Every page he has passed
over is fun of marks and dirt--Atchi-
son tkaSA Globe.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-27
SCIENCE NOTES.
Wonderful Icebero,

one of the biggest icebergs seen for
years near ocean liners is told about
by the skipper Of the Orava. He saw
it in the south Atlantic. passing Falk
land islands. The night was cloudy
There was cutting wind and the
temperature of the sea Was down to 30
degrees when the great iceberg came
irto view-a huge mass five hundred
feet high. partly covered with mist a
long shelving shore of =ce. with the
sea breaking upon it as upon a wide,
dcSolate beach. When the moon APP
peared the sight was never to be fer
gotten. We sazed upon what seemed
Ia he Il floating city of ice as large rs
Boston. with its towers. its temples. its
taperng mountains shooting up in
fantastic architecture shimmering in
the moonlight like polished silver 1t
is the lot of few to see such sight =
y Y Press
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-27
Coming Events

! Jan. 2T-Kennebec County Christian
| Endeavor Union, Gardiner.
| Feb. Injecting Maine Federation OF
] Women's Clubs, Augusta.
FeD. 18th Annual Meeting and ban
| quet Maine Hotel Proprietors' Assocla-
ton. Augusta.
| Feb. 3-Franklin County Teachers As
| Feb 6-11-Commercial Travellers Food
Fair. Bangor.
Feb. S-Kenlebec Pomona meets with
| Cobbosseecontee Grange. West Gardiner.
Feb. S-Adiourned Meeting Maine Bar
Association. Augusta.
Feb. 14-Governor'S Reception and ball,
Augusta.
and College Y. NJ. c. A, Lewiston.
Feb. 20-25-Aviation Meeting, Boston.
Feb. 2l-22-Western Maine Pythian Jul
bilee. Lewiston.
Feb. 22-Annual Meeting Maine Society
of the Sons of the American Revolution,
Riverton
March 3.-Cony High Portland High de-
bate, Augusta.
March i8-i5-Annual Meeting State of
Maine Chapter, d. A. r., Portland.
March 2o-25-Lewiston and Auburn Mer
chants Association Carnival
April l9-Annual Convention Maine
State Branch, No. IS. L. y. A. p. o. c.,
Bangor.
April 19-o6-East Maine Methodist Con-
ference Oldtown. Bishop Cranston pre-
siding.
April 19-2G-Maine Methodist Confer
ence. Biddeford Bishop Nicely presiding.
June a-l3-4ith Department Encamp-
ment, Maine q. a. K. Meetings state
Sons of Veterans state W. II. c, Ma
tinnal w. r. c. and Ladies of the q. ~
r.. Augusta,
June 2o-21-Thirteenth Triennial Con-
vention International Sunday School AS
socittion. San Francisco.
June 2S-ao-FortX-fourth annual meeting
Maine pharmaceutical Association.
kineo.
Oct, 23-sG-21-Annual Convention Maine
TeaChers' Association. Augusta
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-27

supplying them with coats and trousers,
billiard balls. golf sticks, wines. cigars,
club banquets and restaurant meals.
They consume their share Of the plumber
they bring home from business. Then
WHY, argue the educators, shouldn't boys
be taught how to expend wisely the
money they are taught how to earn?
In the INSTRUMENTATION Elementary
school. in Boston. there is a model fiat
of four rooms. and not only the girls, but
the boys of the graduating grade give
a certain number of hours each week to
the welfare of that house. 1t really does
seem as if the women of the future were
not going to he able to escape domestic
husbands. but maybe with all this train
ing they will be so efficiently domestic
that the woman who says proudly, My
husband never NEEDLES in the affairs of
the house." will change her ideals.-New
York Tribune. stN1
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-27
tiA.i
BALLOON AIRSHiPS.
Sport Of the Winds, but Safe With Sea
Room, Says Wellman.

"Men who thought there was dam
ger chat the America might be torn
to pieces by a storm had not reelected
we'll upon the physical conditions sur
rounding a ship of the air. 4 steam
ship or sailing vessel is buffeted by
tho wind and wave, but ii is partly
immersed in an ocean of Iiuid Which
offers great resistance and subjects il
to violent shocks.
IAN airship is completely immersed
in medium which offers so little re-
siStance that shocks are impossible
1t is not an easy fact to grasp, but Is
still a fact. that the only resistance
an airship offers to tie wind, the only
strain or pressure upon her parts, rs
that which she herself creates with
her engine and propellers.
ITO understand this principle ina
CINE the America in the air far out
over the ocean. 1t is calm: no engine
is running: the crew, perchance. is
asleep. Up springs a gale, fast gath
ering force till it reaches a velocity or
fifty miles per hour. Nothing what
ever in the molten, the vibration, the
pitching or rolling of the ship alarms
and awakens the crew. The America
being a free balloon. because no ell
CINE is turning, simply becomes part
OF the wind, so to speak, moves with
the wind offers no resistance to it,
flows along as peacefully as if it still
were dead calm. A member OF the
| crew a,vakens rubs his eyes. goes TO
his post. bat if it be night and he
| cannot see the ocean he has no ldea
whether the ship is standing still or
| moving fifty miles per hour. If ne
| strikes a match to light his pipe the
fame curls straight upward. precisely
a. if he were in closed roman eX-
| pe~ierce which many of us have had
| in ordinary spherical ballooning.
| "Suppose now the crew be reused.
An engine is started. a pair of propel-
| lers set in motion. Then. and then
| ONLY does the ship offer resistance TO
the winu. and the measure of her re-
sistance is the energy exerted by the
propellers-just that. no more, no less.
Nor does it make any, difference wheth-
or the velocity of the wind be ten or
a hundred miles per hour nor vet any
difference whether the ship be headed
into the wind or with 1.-THE result is
the Same. Obviously, as long as the
shin had sea room-could keep herself
I'D in the air--no storm that ever blew
could hurt her. But it makes ire
mendous difference as to the course
and destination of the ship from what
quarter the winds come and with what
1 force they blow."-Walter Wellman IN
Hampton's Magazine. a
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-27
The Year Ahead.

Within the year that lies ahead
There may be wealth or fame for you;
Old hopes that you have thought were
dead
May bud and blossom forth anew.
Where many ways diverge you stand.
One leads to honor. one to fame;
A hundred. wide and smoothly planned.
Go winding to defeat and shame.
The year that lies ahead NAY bring
Successes that YOU long have sought.
Or leave you sadly wondering
Why all your efforts come to naught.
But this is sure, no matter where
The road on which you fare may lead
To fail will be your own affair,
The world will gain if you succeed.
s. r. Kiser. in Chicago Record Herald
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-27

1t any Journal readers have eoca
Well-settled idea of the location of Ha
des, they might confer a favor on tht
REV Ied Copp, pastor of Bethany
chapel IN Washington, ID. c.. who has
boosted the sphere of eternal torment
from the bottom of creation all the
way up to the sun. The Rev. DIR. Ra-
ker of the Theosophical society. de-
clares that hell is in the moon. This
last discovery is more or less surpris-
ing, and altogether new, but Or. Ra.
ker let it out to his parishioners. las,
week, and told them that after a thor.
ouSh and painstaking investigation h.
had become firmly convinced that the
address Of transgressors after COINS
hence would be in care of the man il
the rio"n. Another surprising state
rnent Of DIR Baker was that there art
many little dogs in the mon, and tina
they have been snnt hence to tormnn
viFisectors. Thus lar We have no.
been informed that the worthy docto,
has disposed of the cats. but we pre-
sumo he has laid all plans Tor getting
fresh supply of milk occasionally
from the COW that jumps over the
moon.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-27
Gods Serving Angels.

'Tis written that the serving angels
stand
Beside Gods throne. ten nyriads on each
hand,
Waiting. with wings outstretched and
watchful eyes,
To do their Masters heavenly embassies.
Quicker than thought His high COM
mands they read,
Swifter than light to execute them speed.
Bearing the word of power from star to
star
Some hither and some thither, near and
far.
And unto these naught is too high or
low,
Too mean or mighty if He wills it so;
Neither is any creature, great or small,
Beyond His pity. which embraceth all,
Because His eye beholdeth all which are,
Sees without search, and cometh without
care;
Nor any ocean rolls SO vast that He
Forgets one wave of all that restless sea
Edwin Arnold.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-27
A NEW BRAND OF HUSBANDS.
Modern Education May Change tn.
Ideal of Mate for New Woman.

is modern education going to rob wo-
men of what they have always consid-
cred the ideal husband?
The sort of mate every woman has
heretofore longed for, if she didn't pos
sess him, has been the sort of man who
comes straight home on salary day and
gives his wife what he has drawn, less
few dollars for car fare ana cigars. and
never troubles himself about household
matters SO long as she gives him what
he wants to eat. The old style of edu-
cation made such husbands. But what
about the tendency of these new courses
in right living and home economies ana
so forth to include boys as well as girls
With the schools turning out boys deeply
instructed in the Importance OF domestlc
expenditures and household hygiene.
won't the coming crop of husbands wan'
To have their fingers in the household
pieo
However. according to its advocates
the new education is going to improve
both men and women to that extent tha'
when husbands get busy on the spindle
side of things wives will find their ac'
tivitv a stav and a comfort. The home
economies movement is not. William
Hard points out in September's Every
body's, concerned specially with the op'
erations of sewing and cooking. 1t has
wider scope.
.'Sewing and cooking are productive
processes But it is not produc-
ton, it is consumption. which the home
economics movement is at heart de-
voted to-
And men consume-they're not at al
behind women in that capacity. they
don't require silks, plumes and lingerie
but they keep a good many people bus!
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-27

Lebanon, Ohio. has club which ~
known as the Gum Grove Rat-tail
Club. The members are pledged to the
destruction of rats, mice. hawks. owls,
English sparrows and other pests.
Last Thursday evening. the members
enJo"cd sumptuous oyster supper
in celebration OF the years victories,
and the good work goes on from
there. The club is divided and each
half attempts to score the most points
IN the coming year. a rats tail is a
point; an owls head is 100 points. II
Company a scores more points thar
company u, the latter will be obliged
| I" furnish the blowout next year
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-27
Friday. January q. 1911.

\ very great part of the dis
putes in the world come from
our having Il very keen feeling
81 our own troubles, ana It very
dull feeling of our neighborS;
for if the case were reversed,
and our noighbor's condition be-
came ours. ten to one our judE-
ment would be reversed Ike
vise.-Gecrge Macdonald.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-27

Wrestling with a will containing a be-
quest for the benefit of a eat during its
natural life and making different dispo-
sitions should the cat die young, Mas
sachusetts court is battling with the pro-
blems:-GD Natural life of cat. CO How
old is it when young? Things like these
make learned jurists wish that woman
suffrage had prevailed to the extent OF
providing for hen court to adjudicate
such matters.-N. y. Evening Telegram.
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Congressman McGillicuddy

Congressman McGillcuddy at a
harmony" dinner in Baltimore dis
cussed the responsibility of victory
and declared himself to be voice OF
one crying in the wilderness. Dan:
n voice all right, but if he's referring
to oxford county Uncle, John p"
amt CRYING bit.
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VOICES OF THE PRESS.

This year be realized the dream of the
poet. in the invocation to Peace
Peace on the whirring marts!
Peace where the scholar thinks. the
hunter roamS.
Peace;-God of Peace'-Peaee. peace i'll
all our homes,
And Peace in all our hearts
Atlanta Constitution.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-27

Funny isn't it? that some of the
Laws constructed by Republican gov
ernments in the past, when carefully
compared. really look better than the
long toutcd drafts for substitutes by
Democratic politicians And the new
leaders admit it
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-27

Office of the Biddeford city clerk stat
ing that he wished to file his inten-
tons The genial clerk presented to
the man a marriage intention blank
and was somewhat surprised to hear
the man say: Not so bad as that and
not that you would notice it have
any such intentions. All / wish is to
continue my claim as a resident of
Biddeford and / wish to file intentions
so that / can continue to vote here"
City Clerk Locke acknowledges that
| the joke is on him.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-27

An Indiana Young man took his own
life because he could not understand
Poe's poetry Now we wonder what
he would have done if he had attemp-
ted the emanations OF the poet laure-
ate of England
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-27

His face was wreathed in smiles,
says the Washington account OF
se7ator Lodges appearance when the
credentials of his reelection were
read in the Senate. II was sort on
orange, Phosphate for the senator.
Springfield Republican.
And a lemon phiz for the governor
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-27

Wonder if Patt doesn't occasionally
take out Attorney General Upper 5
resignation and musingly fondle it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-27

one might think, from reading the
news of grass fire in Great Barring
tom Mass. that the Bay State had
gone south for the winter.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-27

Resubmission! Who said result
mission? Surely ii could not have
been a Democratic statesman