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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-23
WOULD YOU have A
BEAUTIFUL COMPLEXION
How to Secure One and Enjoy the
Best of Health In Natures Way

Healthy beauty is the only kind that
charms>Of what avail is the sallow prettiness
Of an invalid Artificial beauty obtained by
the use Of lotions, washes and powders con-
tanning lead, zinc and bismuth is but trayesty
easily seen through. 1t is the plumpness OF
flesh and pure blood that makes people a.
tractive. You cannot have health, good looks,
rosy cheeks and bright, snappy eyes unless
your blood is pure, Itch and red. You cannot
have thSt symmetry Of development, that "a
dance of beauty and that healthy glow 70
your skin which is q guarantee OF pure,
vigorous blood supply unless your stomach
liver and bowels are working together right.
II you are constipated, il you have dyspepsis
indigestion or an occasional attack OF bilious
ness, there is reason enough why you nave
q bad complexion, but that is no excuse lor
your using cosmetics to cover up deiecIs.
Better use Smiths Pineapple and Butternnt
Pills to cleanse the blood Of impurities, regu-
late the bowels and establish q normal condl.
ton of digestion and nutrition. Begin rgnt
and you will have no use for artificial Deaut'
fiers. Under the active influence OF these
wonderful little vegetable pills the blood 10 ih-
vigorated and enriched, the nerves are Strength
ened, the muscles take on new energy. tne
skin becomes rosy and red, showing tho cIrcu,
lation is normal and active as Nature intended
it should be. Try this plan, use Smiths Pine
apple and Butternut Pills each night for TWO
weeks and you will be astonished Of the I'M
provement. Depend upon it that these lil.e
pills will not only correct bad comPieAion'
but they always cure sick headache, con
stipat;on and biliousness in one night F1N@
% cents at all dealers.
All genuine signed W. r. SMITH
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-23
Tho Lewiston Journal VS.. The Printing
Committee.

1T is natural that the Head of the
Family which has indirectly concen-
trlted Il considerable part of the pOllti-
cal power Of the Stale not directly in
it's hands. should feel disturbed over
tho astounding revelations Of The State
printing profits through the perVersion
of the obvious intent Of law whose pOs-
sibilities In this line were not at all UNI
derstOOd prior to the State printing in
gation."-LewiSton Journal.
While the above language is a trifie
ambiguous. 1t probably refers to the
use of standing type. Upon this point
the printing committee says:
AN important matter. to which our
attention was also called, is the reuse
of saved or standing type. and thu
printing ahead OF more work than IS
ordered, in anticipation of other or
ders. and with the risk of loss. il the
anticipation is not realized. The ques-
ton was whether, in such cases. the
printer is entitled 70 make a second
charge for composition without having
actually set up the tyne u second time.
The overwhelming weight of the evil
,itnce vas. and we accordingly find,
tnat unuef Il statute Ut contract COit-
tanning no provision, to the contrary,
printers have a right to any savings
accr,ing from staining type. or from
printing abe adj oe orders: and we fur
ther find that when the present stat
ute was enacted, the right Of the pub
lie printer to such savings was consid-
cred by the Legislature in fixing the
statute rates"
Inasinuch as the committee on print
ing in reaching this decision had the
benefit of 4 large amount of testimony
which appears to have escaped the at
tenticn of our Lewiston contemporary
we are inclined to think the publ,
will be disposed to accept the above
verdict.
No doubt, with his innate love OF
'Iioos. veltian fair play the editor OF
the Lewiston Journal. whe.l he has had
time to read this evidence. will make
all haste to correct the false state.
ments above quoted.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-23
A Long Crawl Through 4 Small Hole

From three column article in which
the Lewiston Journal undertakes
to deny and explain away the specific
statements, made in our editorial lead
err OF March II. we clip the following:
"The chief of these allegations is that
the expert printer stated that the
printing committee had before it only
the experts summoned by the State
printer" and the Kennebec Journal
with great courage melodramatlcaily
pyramids the man who is guilty OF MAX
ing this statement as an absolute ana
deliberate liar" and devotes half IA
column 10 denial of what at most IS
trivial, under the well-understOod CIR
cimnstances.
But let us see, the expert printer was
hardly saying exactly that, although
it might easily be construed that way.
Here is the sentence: Having only
the eyperts summoned by the State
printer before them, Of course, II IS
easy FOR the committee 10 say the
printer had a right by custom ana aiso
by understanding when the law was
enacted, to charge for work as MANY
times as he could
Any one can see that this sentence
carries a contingent idea, and reading
it for the first time, we saw no reason
to assume that the person interviewed
was hot aware that printers were sum-
moned by both sides i'll the hearing.
Evidently what he tried to say, was
that a committee, having before them
only the experts summoned by the
State printer land he probably referred
to the expert from Massachusetts, who
could speak specifically on state print
ing as a public office) might easily be
confused. not understanding the details
of printing, and that they could :.
easily mislead. If there is anything
heinous in this, the expert printer must
stand it,"
1t is interesting to know that the
screed of expert printer" was an
interview" We had supposed it was
a communication" 1t has been very
generally understood that expert prin-
ter IS well known member of
the Lew iston Journal staff. In
case the public is at fault in this
surtnise 1t is entirely within the
power of the publication in ques-
ton to disprove it by publishing his
mare. If the menIacicus article in
question was really an ''interview' our
esteemed contemporary owes it to It's
readers to give them the source of its
inspiration. Why not come out into
1.-THE Open?"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-23

The charge that some OF the awards
and medals won at he st. Louis ex-
position were offered for sale and that
some were actually purchased. seems
to come from reliable source and the
government does not propose to pass
over it in silence. Undoubtedly great
many awards We're made upon their
merit, and in the face of such Il charge
as this those awards lose much Of their
value. Pei sons who %on medals and
awards honestly are entitled to fair
treatment, and in their behalf and in
the interest of exposing and Furnishing
the guilty parties. the investigation
should be prompt and thorough. Thu
whole thing is most unfortunate
affair and will not tend to arouse conf
dence. particularly among foreign eX-
hibitors, in future American EXPOSE
tons.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-23
The 1rockton Horror.

The terrible affair at Brockton.
Mass. in which shoe factory was
wrecked and burned as a result Of an
exploding boiler is the worst land dis
aster that has occurred in New Eng
land since the fall Of the Pembertoh
Mills in Lawrence. January 10, 1860.
On that occasion 115 persons were
killed. while 200 others were more or
less seriously injured. Up to that time
no more frightful accident had hap
pered in the history Of our country and
it sent a thrill of horror round the
world. While fewer lives were lost in
Brockton explosion and fire. this week.
the circumstances were none the less
terrible, and the imagination is stag
aered by the newspaper acc cunts of the
manner in which nearly 100 men and
women met their deaths in that awful
horror In all the history of shoe
manufacturing in New England. an ia
dustry which goes back almost three
centuries dIlu WHICH II Olit VI Tie Iisslll
Industrial supports of this section,
there has been no disaster like this
BrocktOn horror.
The terrible affair comes very close
home to us here in Maine. for Brockto1
is full % Maine people and descendants
of Maine people. and hundreds of them
are employed in the great shoe fac
tories there. Moreover, Il great many
of the people in the shoe factory in this
city come from Brockton and were
personally acquainted with Mondays
victims. The Massachusetts law, rela-
ting 20 the inspection Of boilers seems
to be peculiar one, and the comments
OF the newspapers there indicate that
it will promptly be given a vigorous
overhauling. Nothing can be done
which will undo that terrible tragedy
or give back the lives that were sacrl-
feed in that holoca Ist, but nothing
should be left undOne which will guard
against the danger Of such accidents
in the future. One thing in connection
with the BrOcktOn tragedy stands out
prominently, and that is the account of
the many deeds of herrism and self
sacrifice on the part Of brave men who
freely offered their lives to rescur
Others. Sucn an affair as this renews
4 mans faith in humanity. and tends
to draw all classes and creedS closer to-
gethtr IN common bonds of sympathy
and understanding.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-23

The Lewiston Journal Is well aware
what it did for the people and for the
Republican party in the State of
Maine, last Jume-Lewiston Journal.
SO are the Republican voters of
Maine. 1t furnished the subject mat
ter for the last campaign supplement
sent broadcast over the State by the
Democratic newspapers, and was sue
cessful largely in landing it's own
county of AndrOscoggin in the Demo-
cratic fold.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-23
Testimony Of Herbert II. White.
EXAMINED BY MIR. BAKERY

~
I reside in Brookline. Mass, and am
engaged in the printing business in
Cambridge. Mass.
@. Are you connected with the Uni
versity Press in Cambridge?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. In what capacity?
A. am the treasurer and manager.
Q. And you have practical knowl-
edge. of course, of that business?
a. l have had ten years.
Q. For how many years have you
beer engaged, in one way or another.
in the printing business?
a. I have been there ten years.
@. The ten years covers your expert
ence? \. Entirely.
Q. You have, Of course, a very large
business? You do very large
amount of work of all kinds-dO you
not?
A. We do good deal Of work.
q. Are YOU familiar with usages of
the printing business as an art? A.
think so.
q. Something has been said here
about two things which we might as
well put right together anu dSh dDout
them. The first one is the use OF
saved type, the reuse of it: the second
one is the custom which prevails OF
printing ahead more than it ought to,
for instance, on the chance of having 1t
to use over again. What is the uni
form practice of printers with refer
ence to these things?
A, I think it is a uniform thing for
the printer to use his type at his own
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-23

Does the Lewiston Journal mean in
its editorial of Monday night to charge
the kennebec Journal with having
published legislative notices without
legislative aith6rityo That In the
opinion of men in Augiista we'll quail
fled to judge of such matters. Is the
plain and obvious construction TO he
put upon its language. If the Lewis
ton Journal desires make such a
charge we trust it will do so in Tho
Open,'' clearly. sdefnitely, and fairly.
We promise our esteemed contem-
porary that We will then, with the aid
OF the official records, meet it in the
same manner.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-23

The Lewiston Journal is getting
pleasant and well-merited compliments
to Governor Cobb; but the Republicans
Of Maine have not yet forgotten or
forgiven it's vicious stab at our hon.
ored Chief Executive in its editorial
commenting upon his inaugural ad-
dress-one of the ablest, clearest and
most forceful addresses ever delivered
before a Maine Legislature.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-23
Maine Gossip
A Little BIT of April.

Little bit O. sunshine,
An a little bit O. breeze;
Little bit 'smilin,
An little bit O. sneeze.
Little bit o. singin'
by the robin on the limb:
Little bit of April
Hangin on the storm-cloud's brlH.
Little bit o. murmur
Where the Weakening waters rum
Little bit O. shOwerin'.
An little bit o sun.
Little bit O. April
Like the echo of a tune
That shows the world is marchln
Toward the radiance OF June.
-Washinet ton Star.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-23

Grover Cleveland celebrated his 6Sth
plans for 4 little hunting trip to the
South to pass away the time until the
fishing season arrives. 1t has not been
announced that he and President
Roosevelt are going on L hunting trip
together. though they would doubtless
find many interesting topics OF CONVEX
satiOn if they were in each others COM
pany.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-23
Testimony Given Before
the Printing Committee
BY Leading Members OF Graft
in Massachusetts and Maine.
As it Was Reported in Lewiston Jour.
nal and as it Was Taken by
the Stenographers.

We give below the testimony given
before the Legislative committee on
printing at the hearings OF February
"A, by expert prnte: S Of recognized
standing from Massachusetts and
Maine as published in the Lewiston
Journal and as taken by the official
hearing.
Full Report Of Lewiston Journal.
CAS- published in it's issue of Febru-
AIRY 25, 1909
George ID. Loring OF Portland said
he Mas printer and buok-binder. He
testified as to the cost of producing
printing matter and customs Of the
craft.
Judge Foster asked v itneSS what he
would charge for envelopes, such az h"
had before displayed. per thousand.
Il should rather not say"
why not?''
Il think il unnecessary. l have Il
business to protect and ! do not think
ought to give away my prices
II think | can reason from that"
said Judge Foster. That will do"
Herbert II. White of Brooklina.
Mass, testified in the same line as pre-
ceding witness.
Answ ering Judge Foster he said that
in his opinion the price for State print
ing in Maine was very low. but he was
Judging wholly by conditions in Massa-
cllusetts. being unacquainted with con-
tiitiOnS in Maine.
Charles +. Williams of Portland. job
printer, testified on the same lines as
ether witnesses.
do you furnish envel0pes?' asked
Judge Foster, producing an envelope. @
Yes. sir
What would you get for that en-
velOpe:'
Il should not care to make a price
on it,
Arnold II. Jones of the Courier GaZ
cite. ROckland, testified On the same
line.
Witness replying 60 Judge Foster on
the envelope proposition said that he
was unfamiliar with the quality which
was shown so wouldn't make a price.
Would print envelopes in blue for $3.50
a thousand.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-23

We trusted implicitly to our excellent
Augusta correspondent to whom never
a single word was said other than this
(said at the beginning of the SESSION.
giving both sides OF everything fairly
and fully."-Lewiston Journal.
There is something really pathetic in
the cheerful willingness of our Lewis
ton contemporary, to offer up its
Legislative reporter as burnt sacri-
fee.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-23

EsTAsLisHEp, 1875

No ne&jee whatever will b taken OF
unsigned communications.
The Journal cannot be held rsspe"s'o's
for the preservation or return OF re-
1ected communications
Adde'S al communications relating 20
subscriptions and advertisements to
BURLEIGH 4 FLYNT. Publishers'
Augusta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-23

Magma Charter of Moses: but it is
evident that its treatment of the Pub
lie Printer the past session has been
conducted under the Magma Charter of
Ananias.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-23

The st. Patrick's day orators derived
endless amusement and aroused bound
less enthusiasm py finding in the
names of the Japanese generals a hint
of Hibernian origin. out somehow none
OF them made any attempt to explain
the Pat" In the name OF Kuropatkin.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-23

We accepted the edict of the conven-
ton at Bangor. We lAbored faithfully
for the entire Republican ticket--Lew-
iston Journal.
And in this labor one of your editors
took the stump-for Parker.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-23
Testimony Of Charles z. Williams.

Charles f. Williams, testified as fol.
lows:
unterrogatories by Mr. Bakery
@. Your home is where?
A. Portland
Q. What is your businesso
A. Job printing.
Q. How long have YOU been in that
business?
A. I have beer a member of the firm
of Hayes & Williams since 1876.
Q. That is nearly thirty years?
A. Yes. sir. l have been a member
Of that firm.
@. That has been your firm all the
time?
A. Yes. sir.
Q. That firm does job printing
business?
A. Yes. sir. job printing.
Q. You are familiar with the usages
and the rules of the business in refer
ence to this matter of printing aheado
A. In certain affairs.
Q. What is the rule"
A. We always feel when we take an
order and that order has been filled
that We have a perfect right to do any
thing we please with it. burn it or do
whatever We care to with it,
Q. If you think you will have
chance to use it you keep it. and if you
do not use it, it is your loss, and if you
do. your gain ,--~-s----7 -.>s--'--s
A. Yes, sir.
@. Is the same true about printing
ahead for more than is ordered?
A. Yes. sir l rarely do it. | have
tried it several times and we have even
told customers when they have given
us small order that they had better
double up, and often times they will do
1t. more often they will not. They
won't take the risk themselves.
Q. What is your experience as to
the cost of composition, the setting of
type?
work about sixty cents a thousand In
our office. That is for book work.
Grst-class composition.
Q. Have you any experience about
how many ems a day man would sei'
A. Nothing only ordinary judgment.
Somewhere between five and six thou
sand I should say. We do not consider
there is any money in book work for
us.
Mr.. HeSelton: | would like to ask the
witness whether i'm his Judgment the
prices We're high or low
Q. You are familiar with the forty
two cent for plain composition in this
statute?
Continued on Page Seven.)
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-23

A. Because Mr.. Wyman has ayr..,
TO a contract which the state saw II, ~
make. ana there are certain Regulation.
In regard to his business which do ~.
figure in mine.
q. You are acquainted with ~.
state law about competitive bids onae
in five years?
A. Not very intimately.
=. You know there is such lauo
A. ] have been told that there u.,.
q. That is all you know abopt ,,s
"A. Yes, sir, have been asked IN
f1gure ON that state printing once ~
twice, but never thought it was vor,h
while to do it,
q. That was about the time Of the
competition?
A. That was. I think, about three
years ago.
q. That was about the time he 90,
his last appointment?
A. Yes, sir.
=. Who asked you to figure on #,
A. ! think the foreman of the ioh
composition room, but | could not ho
sure.
Q. Some Of the men in your estah.
lshment?
A. Yes, sir.
q. You did not compete them ala
you? i''
A. Not at all.
q. And YOU don't know whether I'm.
der our existing conditions here tho
price that is charged in Maine is too
nigh or too low, do you?
A. My opinion would be that il VA,
very low, but l am not very familiar
with the conditions in Maine.
Q. That is what mean. You don,+
know what they have to pay for rent9
A. No. sir, l don't.
q. Or anything Of that kind that
makes up the expense account
A. No, sir, l don't know what thew
pay for expenses or for rent in Angus.
ia.
Q. You keep books of account IN
your business?
A. Yes, sir.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-23

In one Maine town they voted i'o' ~
buy new globes for the schools uh'i
the Japs and Russians cease their pres
ont changes of the map of Asia.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-23

They have already destroyed Owe:
so. 900 Brown-tail moth nests IN 1orh'
the town paying five cents a dozen 10
them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-23

The Kittery youth who has conflaed
+, b;s friends that a certain young lady
has refused him just twelve times Will
NOW probably quit making her pro-
nnsaJs if he is at all SuPerstitious.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-23

Speaking CT proposals and sucn
things. the most unique honeymoon of
tn. season was taken by that couple
w no were married at Bingham, last
Saturday morning and started at once
foi Portland where the bride was oper-
a ted upon for appendiI tits.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-23

The sum Of $4,000 is pretty large
one TO be expended in improvements
upon 4 home i'll Maine village, but it
is announced that that is what Col +.
j. Mayo will expend upon the Calvin
Chamberlain estate IN T'oxcrOft village
which he has just purchased. 1t is said
that it will be by all means the finest
residence in that part OF the State.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-23

1t is announced that the Ram Island
Ledge Light will be light al on Monday
April 10. The new lamp is of the third
order. Illuminating tue eEtire horizon
and giving d whit. fash every six
seconds. The light is - feet above the
water and will be visible i41a miles in
clear weather. The log signal will be
Il bell to be struck during thick or
foggy weather single blow every 10
seconds.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-23

"A. l SIloui'l tiilHh tDout three HiicS.
Q. What votes was it he said you
printed?
A. We did not print votes. but a
voting list-the Cambridge voting list,
the list of voters for Cambridge.
Q. Who pays you?
A. The city of Cambridge.
Q. Your establishment there is one
of the best, if not the best in the state?
A. 1t is generally conceded to be so.
Q. Isn't it the best in New England,
outside of Portland or Lewiston?
A. l am not familiar with the estab-
lishmentS in Lewiston.
Q. Your prices are governed some-
what by your expenses. are they not?
A. ] think it is probably. yes. sir.
Q. What do you pay your wOrkmen?
A. What kind of workmen do you
neutrality-suspicious.
@. Those that set up this type that
you get paid for whether it is used or
rot?
A. | think that the lowest price we
ray would be about ten and a half or
eleven dollars a week to some of the
women, and from that we run up to
twenty-one or twenty-five dollars a
week to some of the expert hand COM
positors.
Q. Why are you not governed by the
same rules that Mr.. Wyman is?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-23

Here is the confession of a Wesley
We thought when we
wrote several weeks ago, that surely
we'd have a wedding to report by this
time. but somehow those tclls We heard
kept sounding more AND more indis-
tihct till now we don't hear even Il
faint tinkle. Sorry We got you so
aroused over the matter and Well be
more careful next time to- find out all
about it before we say anything"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-23

The Lewiston Journal announces
that it has entered no serious COM
plant against the recent report of the
Printing Committee This is certainly
surprising. Ii our Lewiston cOntem-
porary has missed any opportunity to
insult and vilify the able members of
that committee the fact has certainly
escaped our attention.