Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-08-04
''Humbugs" APPLY Pictured
by Rev. Smith Baker.
Wednesday Evenings Concert
in Dunn Auditorium.
Good will Nine Defeats Visitors, Is to q
The Tennis Tournament.

Assembly HlncS, 1fllckltN- NJ, -Aut.
3.-(Speci.tD One of the most pleas
| ing features of the Encampment was
the concert given, Wednesday evening.
in Dunn Auditorium. which was well
filled with an uppreciative audience.
The program was as follows:
Medley, Male outrtettc
Natter. McDougal Eules. ChubDuck
Song, ON Wings of Song Mendelssohn
Miss Elsie Walton. Skowhogan.
Whistlng Solo, MY Love for Thee"
Original
Thatcher Howard Guild. Providence. Il. l.
Song, Where the -Four Lctvtd CloverS
Grow,
Miss Barbara Weaver. Hincklcy.
Solo. Piano and COrnet, Lullaby.
Thatcher Howard Guild.
Song, Sing me to Sleep Love.
Miss Christine Daggctt. Waterville.
Miss Brale Walton Skowhegan.
Song Miss Elsie Walton
The medley by Messrs. Nutt"r Me
Dougal, Eulcs and Chubbuck brought
forth storm of applause. VIM Guild :
rendition OF his original ''Lullaby' on
cornet and piano was delightful aud most
thoroughly appreciated by the audience.
All the numbers We're finely taken and
| heartily cncored
| The third game of baseball Wednesday,,
| between the Good Wills and Visitors
teams was an easy victory for the Good
Wills from the start. The score is rs fol
lows:
Coed VIII .......a , 3 4 q 0 ! NIB
Two base hits. Bean .. Nutter struck ont
| by Mcdonald, !; by Briggs 9. by skinner
II. First bas,. on balls. off Mcdonald g. Oft
Briggs. Hit by pitched ball. by Mcdonald
=. Stolen bases. Bean Jennings, Chris
holm. Mcdonald. HOxie. Roberts. Umpire
| Watson.
After the game n most enjoyable lawn
fetc was held in the tennis court.
| At tho tennis court the singles are now
worked down 10 the Semi-hnals with
Drew to play Guild, and Porter 70 play
Drew beat Dunn. 90 81: Cole beat VIII
kins. c.. $40 Ga; Guild beat Stubey. g..
o.. Briggs beat Rucknam, 81, 81; Hurd
beat Sampson. 81 81: Porter beat crosby,
6-1. g. In the first round Drew beat
Cole. 81, 20. 90: Guild beat Briggs. 60,
6-1; Porter heat lIurd, 81, G-' Reed beat
McGinnis 6-3, o.
Thursday brought perfect weather and
the morning train brought the largest
number Of visitors of any day yet. Early
morning prayers were led by Alexander
Godon of Orange, y. j.
The address of the forenoon was deliv-
cred by Rev. Smith Baker, u. H., Of Port
land. Dr.. Bakers subject was HUM
bugs, and was given in his usual witty
and brilliant manner. TO attempt TO CIV"
lenCc, personal magnetism and power ol
the speaker would be futile. but We civ Z
below brief outline of som" of the
points taken up: "A humbug IS something
that doesn't amount to anything. There
are all Kinds OF humbugs First there
is the social humbuS. MIN with 4 sal
airy Of say $l0IU who has horses ana car
rageS ard footmen and lives III style:
His n'iGhhor has Il saL!r. of ShN ana
tries to initiate him. Other men on sal
aries Of 5000, $500, $l,c, Try to initiate
! 1.lv. Ig nIttsI
and 50 thcr,. are many little humbugs
| trying to initiate this bis; bug. Tie big
gcst hunIblIg in the world is the MAN who
appears to be what he is not. This drives
the hope OF joy and SltdncSs ont oi
. thousands of homes. Boys always i've
. within your means.
second the society humhug. The fash
ion plate young lady who careS Tor moth
ing else. The society woman VINO greet
: her callers with cxtravaSnnt expressions
of regard but cares nothing FOR them
, Merchants who show most polite attcn
ton Ia customers and then go home &c
be- cross TO wife. A man WHO will twit
his wife OF not being 50 good Il COOK a.
his mother isn't tit to have wife.
You say these are little things. -, IN
: beauty OF Gods creation is in the little
things. Little things max" up the beauty
: land the value of life"
| Dr. Baker gave an instance IN the NJ
Of Gov. buckingham OF Connecticut. IL,
luStra,ing the kindly courtesy OF tiIai
man If wealth and culture to even III,
1Doorcyt human being. and then said: ~
gentleman treats on" woman as polite ~
) as another A man who sights pcopl'
+ because they are poor is a humbug.
, sometimes marriagc is a humbug. II
is this when :. marrlcS for the sake nl
J being supported by Ills wife or when :;
woman marricS for wealth or position
Then there's the financial humbug WIN
offers YOU s. for 81: Look out for thai
Kind of II humbug.
L 'Tramps are humbugS. In ~ cases out
5 of ~ let them gO-pdSS them by. ThcI
. there is the political humbug who woul,
bride YOU to vote for him. IL" is moi
mud" of the fibre that George Washing
: ton and Thomas Jefferson were made of
Abra ham Lincoln WAS real all the w;lI
through; Nelson Dinglcy WAS real; Thorn
. as t. Reed was real; ChaS. A. Littlcfrld
is a real man. The cleaner a boys rec
/ ord. the greater hold III has upon 4 com.
munity. Boys. it's :t~fullY dangerous L
have anything III your life YOU are not
3 willing should be brought to the light
: pr Baker spoke of the medical QuaCk
Idoctor and patent medicine humbug. with
their plausible promises to cure every
thing as most radical humbugs
I In closing he spoke of the religious
q lhumbug and said: ''Were as certain oil
= the consciousness of God as of our own
A religion that doesn't make Il man bet
e ter is not worth having. \ man or Il
boy who will risk eternity without being
4 lat peace with God is a religious fool and
a religion that does not have for its foun-
dation faith in God ANA in Jesus Christ