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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-03
COMING Back to Maine,

Well, wife, | think well shut up house
And make q trip to Maine
I'd like to see her hills once more
And breathe her air again.
We're getting far advanced in life,
1t won't be very long
Before We'll nestle side by side
With yOnder silent throng.
So wife, we'd better see once more
The fields we used to roam,
And gaze again upon the scenes
Around the old. old home.
I'd like to wander up the lane
Where clustered roses fair,
I've often thought if other hands
Have kept them blooming there
I'd like to look upon the spot
Where once the old church stood.
When | went there in homespun suit.
And You III shawl and hood.
In fancy. wife. | see the kline
Come lowing home at night.
just as they did long time ago
In days departing light.
The flock from off the wooded hills.
AS when in days of old
Is coming down the winding way,
Unto the ShetcTing fold
| never thought 50 much dear wife,
About the State so dear,
Until | read of odd Home Week
That happened there last year.
Twas when the mothers call went fortl
Come back you absent ones"
A chord was struck that thrilled tn,
hearts
OF loving loyal sons:
OF daughters, too, whose filial love
Is Just as warm today
AS when they left the parent State
And wandered far away.
The miner left his pick and pan
BY mountain stream and gorge.
The mmherman forsook his saw,
The smith his blazing forge:
f1 off Tlc
And distant Idaho.
From Florida. the Land Of Flower"
And from New Mexico.
From California's sunny slopes.
And from her faithful Wales
From where Alaska's golden fields.
Are swept by Arctic gales:
They hurried from the teen nE West
The land IF wheat and corn.
Where Plenty pourS her coudiy store
From out her lavish horn
They met in grove ana banquet han
To sing the old time laws
Ard glorify the mother State
With warm and generous praise;
They told how Maine i'm peace and war
Has FURNISHED proud her shield
With honOred deeds her sons hav,
wrought
In lifes expensive field
When bondage'S curse was on the land
And men were bought and sold,
When women at the auction block
Were bartered off for gold:
How lOveioy raised his clarion voice
To free the fcttered slave
And how the SANITY son of Maine
Went to a martyrs grave.
How Maine troops fought at Gettysburg
On that mOmcntouS day
When ChamberlainS men at Round Tops
crest
Beat back the line of gray;
How Rprry fell a (h1nrpllprNilla
And DOuty at Aldee
How Rurnham led the boys in blue
Up frOwnng St. Marie.
They told of Dineley. FRYE and Reed,
OF Hale. Boutelle and Blaine,
Proud leaders. in the nations march
Up to grander plane.
So wife. I think we'd better see
The fields we used to roam.
And look again upon the scenes
Around the old. old home.
Yes. husband. well go home again.
NV heart too turns that wav.
You get the cash that's in the bank,
I'll pack onr trunk TODAY;
Tomorrow we will close the house
And leave bv early train
The wild. the cvcloned woody West
For steady-goinp Maine.
AMBROSE s. WILEY.
Cherryfield. Maine
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-03
Saving the City Children.

The problem of infant mortality is
one of the most pressing and difficult
that they have to deal with in the great
cities, especially during the hot months.
They have been dealing with it very
successfully in the great city of New
York, though there have been many OBJ
stacles to overcome. In 1891 the mortal
ity among New York infants under
year was 243 in 1000, which meant that
nearly one-fourth Of all the children
born were doomed to die before they
were 1 year old. Last year the rate
was lowered to 1873 in 1000. After giving
credit to the health officials for
considerable part of this gratifying
change, the Brooklyn Eagle goes on
to say that 1.-THE improved condition
of the public health which is in
stanced in this lowering of the death
record, is result of various causes,
primarily of improved understanding
in respect of sanitation. but likewise
OF the enforcement vi laws III tHC
regulation of tenements: of the open
ing of new parks, recreation piers
and Fairgrounds, which are in truth
the lungs of city; of improved
wages. which allow a better style of
living; Of the more Industrious clean
ing of streets: Of the work Of trained
nurses and medical inspectors in
schools and among the tenements; of
the Improvement in the milk supply;
and particularly of the work of the
newspapers and societies that send
thousands of children into the coun
try to draw the only breaths of IN
tainted air they have breathed in all
their lives
The milk problem still remains to
be solved, and the Eagle goes on to
say that at is the hope in this city
that a really adequate protection Of
the milk supply may at some time
be secured that will not only prevent
the import into New York of
watered and sophisticated product.
but it's preservation by formalin, and
it's dilution after it has reached the
small groceries. 1t is impure milk
that causes thousands Of illnesses and
hundreds of deaths in this metropolis,
and the willingness to sell such milk
is a self-indictment of certain COM
mercial spirit. But it Is slngnncah'
that in spite of the increase in popu-
lation the death rate is falling 10
what may he called the norman
among populations, that have more
light. air and wholesome food. in the
country. Great is science, great IS
government, and greater is charity
that they can produce these results.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-03

years. 1t was hard times and economy
ana retrenchment were necessary all
along the line. There has not indeed
been a remarkable growth I'm popula-
tlon. but to say that business condi-
tons and taxable wealth are nearly
the same as they were ten years ago Is
10 fly in the face Of the facts. Maine
mas never been more prosperous than
now. Mr.. Davis should know. He
has prospered here. Times have
changed since he was boy in York
county. The valuation of the State
as by the returns Of the local assessors
for 1895 vas s276,0OO, 900; and for 1904
it was 1923 600, 0O0-an increase Of S47,-
100000. Is that NEARLY the same?"
or course State expenses have in
creased. 1t was some years ago that
Jackson died. Do they think that
things should stand still and that there
should have been no progress since
Old Hickory's death? Expenses have
increased because wants have in
creased and because the means to
crafty them have increased. No
doubt Mr.. Davis personal and family
expenses are larger than they used TO
be. hut the tax rate has not in
creased. That is the true criterion.
We are making the same contribution
from eacn dollar of our property 70
maintain the State government that
we made in 1885
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-03
Fire .. a Temperance AGENCY.


Frequent reference has been made to
the improved conditions, as regards
crime and disorder, in San Francisco as
a result Of the no-saloon edict of the
NAL conditions are being resumed, the
saloons are being allowed to open again
but the number is restricted and the Ii
cense fee is much higher. They have
been doing business again for a month
and the correspondents report that the
owners are greatly disappointed in the
amount of business they are doing. San
Francisco was a bibulous town before
the fire, but its people seem to have lost
their thirst. The San Francisco
Chronicle notes the poor business done
by these saloons, and thus comments
pared with those customary before
April Is, cannot be accounted for ex-
cept on the theory that a great many
people who have been habitual drinkers
of liquor have been cured of the habit
by an enforced abstinence of 70 days"
The Philadelphia Press suggests that
the fact that San Franciscans have
less money to spend on liquor and less
disposition towards conviviality than
they had before the days of their
calamity may account for the present
avoidance of the saloons. But the
Chronicle which is on the spot, at
tributes it to a change of habit. Men
drink because they are accustomed to
drink. 1t claims that "the vast major
ity of those who drink in saloons do
50 merely because, in the poverty of
their intellects, they know no other
way of manifesting good fellowship to-
had to abandon that custom in San
Francisco while saloons were closed
and they find the change so satisfac-
tory that they are in no haste to resume
the old practice. 1t will be great pity
if they ever resume it.
The destruction Of San Francisco car
ries with it many lessons, some of
which have not yet been fully learned.
The suppression Of all saloons for more
than eleven weeks after the fire appar-
emily. with the entire approval of most
of the people, shows in what estimation
they are held, even by those who nor
mally favor them. The influence of
great calamity and eleven weeks alb
stinence on the habits of a free living
people has also great significance. San
Francisco will be rebuilt on an i'm
proved plan. If the rebuilt city contains
less saloons and a people much less
given to the saloon habit than the old
| one, there will something of value be-
sides the insurance money to make good
the city's great fire loss. The great
city which got along so much better
without a single saloon for 10 days
ought to have abolished them forever.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-03
MAINE EDITORIAL COMMENT.
The Month of August.
Bangor News.)

NDdilSOT -NcWS.I
The generation that is resting in
cool and noiseless graves used to dread
August more than any other month.
To those good old souls, the month was
filled with troubles. The work must
go on undated, though the days We're
hot and the nights devoid of rest. To
every parentS-and in those days
nearly every adult was a parent-vis-
ions of rash children doubled up and
in danger of dying from eating green
apples We're an ever present horror.
The dear old souls had no camp
meetings to attend, no ice cream to
eat, no long rides on open cars to
bring GOODNESS and sleep, and no re-
spite from the everlasting grind and
perpetual Swelter. Now the children
and grandchildren of those who per-
| ished from fevers and exhaustion in
August, go forth to the seaside and
the mountains clad in limitation of
Solomon in all his glory. They sip
cooling drinks and listen to the MUIR
murings of the soothing forest. They
battle in the pillows of the Atlantic.
They Toll in swings and hammOcks.
They wander along shady roads by
moonlight and ride forth under can
opted carriage roofs by day. They
scOot across the landscape in armor-
plated automobiles. They get tanned
healthy from living out of doors. They
come into September in buoyant and
bounding health, and are ready to
| take up the labors and duties of life
with joy.
August is no longer dreaded in
Maine. If one connot afford to hire
cottage by the lakeside or board at
sea shore hotel. he may still spend a
week at campmeeting. Or if fate de-
MES him this blessing, he is still able
to pass a few days camping on the
plains picking blueberries he can
still sit among the pole beans and
rustling corn in the garden, and as the
night stars rise from the east, he can
dream of wonderful things while the
crickets. sing their love chansons and
the moths fit in and out of the purple
dusk. He does not have to blow upon
his fingers to keep them from freezing
He has no occasion to telephone the
plumber to thaw out the frozen water
pipes. The mornings and evenings of
August are delightful. One can afford
to endure some torture in order to en-
joy such blessings.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-03
Democracy's Free Rum Campaign.
portland Express


we wonder some how the ia
theirs and mothers who sat under the
shade of the historic trees in Alfred
yesterday enjoyed the defence of liquor
drinking and the support of the saloon
INDUCED by the speakers at the DEM
ocratic mass meeting there yesterday
afternoon. 1t isa new thing for men
to stand up in public places and APP
prove of the drink habit. The most
outspoken of the friends of license in
Maine heretofore have been careful to
disguise their friendship for the liquor
traffic by declaring that their purpose
is to forward the real interests of tenn
pcrance, but Yesterdays speakers threw
off more and more the disguise, and
followed the advice of Candidate Con-
molly in coming out squarely for what
they want. What do the voters of
Maine say to the proposition that it is
wrong to teach children that they
should not touch intoxicating liquors?
But this kind of progress is illustrative
of the methods of the saloon, which is
making its greatest effort to be rein
stat in Maine First. it comes under
the cloak of public utility, either as a
revenue getter or as the real friend of
sobriety and good order. and as it gets
hearing it becomes holder, advances
its theories in more pronounced man
ner, and. as the people are able to
bear it, progresses to the position that
liquor drinking is not harmful at all.
The friends of temperance and good or
der should be awake to the fact that
this insidiOus foe of good citizenship is
using its arts more and more candidly
upon the voters of Maine. If we know
the people of Maine half as well as we
think we do the whole brood Of the
missionaries for the liquor traffic will
be given a setback when these people
come to exercise their right of the bal
lot
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-03
Personal Notes.

Secretary Bonaparte, who has been at
IenoX, Mass, for two weeks, has re-
sumed his duties at the Navy Depart
ment
Charles Hercules Read. the keeper OF
antiquities of the British Museum and
successor to the late Sir WolIaston
Franks has sailed from Queenstown for
America.
Visc0unt Aoki. the new japanese Am
bassador at Washington, is the owner of
a very fine Specimen OF the Maltese eat
named Peter, which when ne is at home
is the Viscoun't almost constant com
panion.
Prof. Zinno. who has made an exhaus-
tive examination of the ashes cast out
OF VfsuViuS III the recent outbreak says
that he found them free from ingredi-
ents injurious to plant life, while contain
ing others that will promote the growth
OF grapeVlneS, grass and vegetables.
j. NJ. Boutwell,, at present assistant
geoloSist, VIII take charge on January
next of the collection Of statistics on
lead, zinc and quicksilver for the United
States Geological Survey, and during the
present field season will make an extern
sive tour of the chief points of produc-
tons of these ores.
George Hughes the only son of Thomas
Hughes. famous as the author of Tom
Brown of Oxford" is the owner of a
large ranch IN Kansas, where he does a
large cattle raising business He is said
to greatly resemble his father in FEATURES,
nut lot N STATUE, DtlilB comparatively
small, whereas his father was very
large man.
Brigadicr General James Allen, chief Of
the signal Corps OF the army, will sail
for Europe August To investigate the
signal service i'm various foreign armies
preparatory to attending the international
conference on wireless biography at Der
lin October 3. Charlemagne Tower
American ambassador to Germany will
represent the State Department at that
conference; Rear Admiral II. n. Nancy
United States navy, retired, will repre-
sent the navy: General Allen will be- the
army representative and John |. Water
bury, of New York, will represent the De
partmcnt of Commerce and Labor
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-03

The Democrats say that Maine has
not proSpered under prohibition.
Nonsense! The story of Maine is
che of constant and steady growth and
progress. The State was never so
prosperous as 1t is today. Our people
never We're so busy. never had so
never had SO much money i'm the banks.
Do the Democrats expect the people of
Maine 10 believe that greater pros
perity would come with open saloons?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-03

''Shall Maine be honest ?" shout the
Democrats. and Governor Cobb has
promptly retorted that they can raise
no slogan more satisfactory to the
Republicans. If the State of Maine is
to be honest it will put no faith in
Democratic promises and take no
chances OF Democratic rule. Said
Governor Cobb in his Belfast speech:
"Now, when the Democrats were last
I'm power. the last act which they did
was to try and steal the State of
Maine. You remember it, gentlemen.
1t was their last official act" Yes.
the voters of Maine remember it, and
that is why they laugh at Democratic
talk of "honesty." The record of Re-
publican administration in this State,
on the contrary, has been one of abso-
lutte honesty. The Democrats are
challenged to point to any Republican
office-holder who has taken money be-
longing to the State. The Republican
party is proud of it's record in State
affairs and stands squarely on every
plank in its platform.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-03
Where the cIereymen Stand.
(Waterville Mail.)

One Of the most striking features
Of this campaign is the prominence
given by the Democratic press to the
opinions of very few clergymen in
Maine who see fit to condemn the
prohibitory law. These reverend
gentlemen, a half-doZen at the most,
have been honored by the Democratic
party by being nominated for differ
ent political offices. it should be kept
in mind, as that fact may have an
important bearing upon their Views
upon public questions under discus
sion at this particular time. The
opinion OF these clergymen's pre-
scented bv The half and whole column
well displayed reading matter are
served UP as reform arguments.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-03

They advance the idea that return
10 Il system of legaliZing the liquor
traffic would be long step towards
an ideal condition of affairs and the
Democracy of Maine at once rise and
nr,no,nce them blessed" These
other clergvmen of the State. number
inc, thousands Of very intellectual
gentlemen active in their respective
communities for the wei1are OF old
and young, are unanimous III their
approval of the prohibitory law and
their demands for the best degree of
enforcement possible. and to this
army of clergymen, the press Of the
Democracy, with much venom, hiss
fanatics"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-03

More and more the Democratic cam
paign in this State is becoming an ar
gument for free rum and the open sa-
loon. Some of the leaders try to
mask this and throw dust in the eyes of
the people, but down at the York
Democratic convention this week they
threw off the mask and talked right
out in meeting. They are likely to do
advances or run the risk of meeting
the fatal disfavor Of their master, the
rum trust.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-03

From the number of our best resi-
dences now closed up. few would sus-
pect that this was Old Home Week in
Decentralization Transcript.
Wen. you see. the reason that SO
many of them are closed is that it Is
also the Old Home season down here in
Maine where most of the best people in
Massachusetts hail from.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-03

If the Car, as is reported, has really
called on Ambassador Meyer for ad-
vice he will doubtless have some sound
Yankee common sense applied to the
very ticklish problem which confronts
him. Whether he will follow the good
advice which he will get is another
thing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-03
Fifty Against Two.

It Is not reasonable to expect two
weeks Of outing to overcome the effects
of fifty weeks of confinement
Take a bottle Of Hoods Sarsaparilla
along with you. Three doses. daily, Of
this great tonic will do more than any,
thing else to refresh your blood, over
come your tired feeling. improve your
appetite. and make your sleep easv
and restful.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-03

Not all the fool sportsmen come to
the Maine woods. From Kentucky
comes the story of a man who shot his
best friend by mistake for a gray squir-
rel this week.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-03

cities showing d very low rate are:
Dallas. Texas, S.33; Seattle, Wash, SIG;
st. Joseph, Mo-, GA; ST. Paul. Mimi.
9.22; Portland, Ore. $50; Rockford, ILL.,.
and Omaha. Neb., 1910. There are no
others with rate below II per thou
sand. The highest rate in the list of
cities is that of Savannah. Ga. 29.39.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-03

That is noteworthy distinction
which the latest health figures give the
city of Minneapolis. OF all American
cities it has the lowest death rate only
$40 per thousand of population. Other
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-03

The question of Harry Thaw's sanity
remains to be settled but most of the
reporters who are handling the case are
just as insane as ever
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-03

Those Democrats who looked for Re-
publican division and strife out in Iowa
find only huge chunk Of disappoint-
ment coming their way.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-03

The voluntary return of PatterSon's
absconding mayor to take his medicine
in the courts is a whole volume of SER
mons on the subject of honesty.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-03

II that poet who goes into ecstacy
over "the appealing eyes Of the sum-
mer girl will look a little closer he will
observe that she has a peeling
nose.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-03

In this campaign, as of old, the
Democracy is viewing with alarm"
For obvious reasons it does not point
with pride"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-03

Anyway Winston Churchilrs ex-
periences over in New Hampshire
good selling book
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-03

For Representatives to Legislature.
FRED G KINSMAN Of Augusta.
BENEDICT F. MAHER Of Augusta.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-03

Returning, leave Skowhcgan SO P. N.
tStops on Signal.
GEO. F. EVANS. Vice-Pres. & Gen'l Mgr.
r: ROOIHBY, Genl Pass. a Tiki. A.
july27-2S- aug3 A. IT'S
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-03

Hon. s. w. Matthews. State COM
missioner of industrial and labor sta
tistics. writes to correct an error that
is going the rounds of the State press
in regard to the nativity of Mr.. A. B.
Stickney, president of the Chicago and
Great Western railway. In this state
ment, Mr.. Stickney is spoken of as a
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-03
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