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

NORTH PALERMO,

Services were held at the BAPTIST
Church Sunday ut p. NJ, and at the
Methodist church in the evening con-
quoted by Mr.. Miller. the State evan
gelIst, who will hold meetings Wednes-
Gay ana Friday evenings at Cars Cor
Yer.
Mrs. Giitden, who has been at Her
bert Eachclder's the past year and has
been seriously ill for some time, is bet
ter.
Mrs Emma Lcavitt of Brockton has
been the guest of Mrs. l.. A. Bowlcs
the PAST week.
quite a large number Of the men,
bers of the c. G. club met at Mrs. VIM.
OsGo"ls Monday evening, Feb. %.
Sallic Simpson passed Il few days
with friends in Fairfield and Water
vile the past week.
John Black assisted by Charles
Black has been saving a number of
wood piles with his gasoline engine.
Mr.. Pratt and Mrs. Shorcy of China
have been in this vicinity packing ap-
pies.
Rufus Rowe, Charles Arnold Frank
WorthinS and others have sold their
apples to VIM. Colby of China.
Mr.. Miller is passing a few days at
Tie home of G. f. Carr.
PALERMO CENTER.
Mrs. Viola Latlip, who has been very
sick the past week, remains about the
same.
Chas. Knox, who has been employed
at the State Farm. Bridgcwater, Mass,
has returned home.
Pearl Miller of Rockport is holding
meetings AT Palermo Center and North
Palermo.
Deputy Sheriff S. f. Bowler was in
Waterville and Belfast on business last
week.
The annual town meeting of Palermo
will take place March H.
Mrs. Temperance Turner was called
to Watervile Friday by the death Of
her son-in- law, Evander Gilpatrick.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-03-08
KENNEBEC.
BRANCH MILLS.

After 4 vacation If two weeks, Pa
l'imo High school opened Fer. 81. c.
Il. Erskinc is the principal.
Miss Annie Dodge of G. c. T., Water
VILE passed Saturday and Sunday at
the Shuman House.
Mrs. Alice Farnoutor entertained the
l.. r. II. club March 3.
Fred Lindsey passed Sunday at III. r.
Whitmans.
Miss Florence Black is boarding ac
the Shuman House ana attending Pa
lcrmo High school.
Edison Worthing.
Hattie Seckins is confined to the
house with chickenpox.
WEEKS MILLS.
Dirigo Lodge, No. 1O4. Free and Ac-
copied Masons. was inspected Monday
evening by J. c. Minot of Augusta. dis
trict deputy grand master. l.. A. Bur-
leigh. senior warden of Augusta Lodge.
md Steohen a. Plummcr and Clarence
S. Waite. both of Augusta lodge also
drove over and 20 members of Central
Lodge of China were also present as the
guests of the Dirigo brethren. There
was a total attendance Of about II and
there was work in the Master Mason
degree upon two candidates. Refresh
ments followed the work ana also
speeches by the visotors, so that il was
a late hour when the gathering dis
persed after most enjoyable evening.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-03-08
JACkMAN,

The remains of tho late Mrs. Alice
Crawford Of Moose River, who died at
Grecnville where she went for medi-
cal aid. were buried from tho Congrc-
Sational church Monday afternoon. The
ihternent was in the cemetery at Jack
man. Rev. FowleS oficiated. She had
been in failing health for several
months. although all was done for her
ny loving hands. n husband. father
and mother, several brothers and sis
tiers survive
The snow fell Saturday night and
Sunday about II inches, the heaviest
storm for the winter.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-03-08
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Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08
OUR GOODS THERE AND HERE

One of our correspondents, writing to
us upon this subject, is kind enough to
furnish a table of prices prevailing in
Buenos Ayres. The Advance plow,
which sells in this country for SIS, is
sold in Buenos Ayres for 80. Thus our
farmers pay twice as much for the Adj
vance plow as the South American
farmer pays. American farmers are
tariff taxed to protect the American
manufacturer from foreign competition,
and yet it is the foreigner who gets the
benefit. You are made to pay SIS for
your improved plow, in order that the
South American farmers may have the
same plow at 50.
Can you figure out any advantage to
yourself in such an arrangements The
hay tedder which costs you $45, is sold
in Buenos Ayres for $780, The mower
costs you S65; it costs the South Ameri-
can farmer $40. You and 1 pay $25 for
a horse rake: if we were foreigners we
would pay only $17.
The feed cutter No. g. for which we
pay $780, gets to the poor downtrodden
foreigneE-at $50.
The Ann Arbor cutter demands $40
of u.s. it is satisfied with $2S in Buenos
Ayres
The cultivator which is priced to you
at $40 is sold to the South American
for $22.-Tom Watson's Magazine.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08
CACTUS SPINE AS PHoNoeRAPH
NEEDLE

Here's a new use for cactus Save
the spines, they're worth money-that
is, they will save you money, and it is
all the same
City Treasurer Claude Woolman has
discovered that a certain kind of cac-
tus makes the finest needle for a pho
nograph. In order that the spine may
be used to the best advantage and not
scratch the disc, one that is medium
soft must be selected The old ones
are hard and brittle and will damage
the plate more or less and will not pro-
duce the sweet, even tone of the softer.
All that Is necessary to obtain the
needles is to cut them from the bush
where they grow. This can easily be
accomplished with an ordinary pocket
knife.
Then there are the advantages of the
cactus needle over the steel manufac-
tured. The cactus needle is pliable and
can he pointed at any time by using
sharp knife. 1t Is necessary in using
the steel needle to obtain a new one
each time disc is put on the machine /;
not so with the cactus needle. In the
first place, 1t has been demonstrated
that the cactus needle is softer than the
cactus spine can be used for two or
three different selections before it is
necessary to change it, and then all
that is necessary is to whittle it down
to point and use ii again. The longer
the spine is the longer it will last
simply keep 1t pointed all the time
The sound produced by the cactus
needle is far sweeter and clearer than
that of the steel article Another pecu-
liar feature of the cactus needle is that
it will run over cracked disc without
the least disturbance and the twang
produced by the steel needle passing
over the crack is entirely eliminated by
the cactus spine.
1t is absolutely necessary that Just
the right kind of needle be selected
not too hard, not too soft-one that is
pliable but will not bend too much, also
one that can be pointed by a sharp
pocket knife
Several owners of monographs are
now using the cactus needles and re-
port that they are perfectly satisfac-
tory. The steel needles cost about %
cents per hundred-the cactus needles
cost only the labor of gathering.-San
Diego Union.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08
THE PRESIDENTIAL PADDOCK

A political prophet might safely pre-
dict an unusually lively presidential
campaign i'm 1908. The straws of par
tisan odds and ends, as now seen bob
bng i'm the breeze, 'presage a gale at a
later period. BY odds and ends is
meant. in this sense, the various minor
parties that butt into the presidential
contest. having about the same relation
to the two great parties that the side
shows have TO the three-ring circus.
As a sign of the times it is worth
noting that a party which cut con-
siderable swath in the campaign Of
1892 is in course Of resurrection. after
supposed demise Of several years
That was the Populist party. as oriei-
nally known, but afterward il trimmed
its whiskers and became the Peoples
party. 1t certainly did cut a consider
able swath in 1892 when it polled
popular vote OF t,Olt OPS; but i'm 1896 it
dwindled to insignifcance and dropped
out of sight.
But the Peoples party has been
Nf'hi ~ N'ls tiN iNI'l NNAl li'lli NilCE'hI "
which state has become "A sort Of po-
litical storm center. 1t seemed to- bring
the campaign Of 1908 startlingly close TO
read, i'm a Herald dispatch from ST.
Louis printed last Saturday. that 1.-THE
rational convention of the Peoples
party concluded its labors today and
adjourned sine die" Nearly two years
will pass before the great parties get
to the point of holding their national
conventions. The Peoples party did
not nominate presidential ticket, but
it passed a yard of resolutions indicat-
ing that it was going into active train
ing for the presidential race.
But there are other signs Of lively
times i'm the "feld," as race men allude
to minor entries There were eight
regularly entered presidential candi-
dates i'm 1900 and six in 1904. 1t is praC-
tically certain that the number in line
in 1905 will reach high-water mark, if
it does not break the record.
In addition to the Democratic and
Republican tickets we may count on
tdpbtol Sil't' a Id MY AT w lIhlVi VI
the Populist or Peoples party, prob
ably showing adoption of the prevail
ing fashion to eschew hair on the face
and germ nests pendant therefrom.
Then, the "od reliable" Prohibition !
party, that comes up smilingly in every
campaign and goes down
to defeat with the/grace of a cavalier,
will be ready for the call of time. The
Socialists, who have been gaining
ground rapidly in the last two or three
will be eager to see how
much higher they can set their mark |
in the effort to win. The Union Labor |
party, the Municipal Ownership party, |
the Hearst ragamuffins, and perahps |
three or four others of the kind usual |
ly punched as scattering" in election |
returns, will add picturesqueness to the |
race in 1905
There will be only two contestants
worthy of special notice, however, in |
the coming event. One of them is al |
most sure to be William J. Bryan, bear |
ing the colors of the Democratic party |
and the other will be a present un-
known with the Republican colors. And
the race is likely to be the most in
teresting and exciting one ever, seen on
the presidential course.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08
SOCIETY LEAVES FOR NEW YORK

While New York is rated as one of
the best summer resorts In the United
States, it does not seem to appeal to
local society, that is now scattered in
the various Fashionable watering places
or in Europe. There will be from now
on nothing of interest in the city for
several months. The horse show,
which opens November 10, will divide
interest with the opera as the season
at the New Manhattan begins the same
evening. That at the Metropolitan
"Opens the following week. 1t is thus far
a problem as to what extent society
will patronize the newer of the two
operas. 1t seems unfortunate that the
performances of the regular subscrip-
tion in both houses will fall on the
same evenings. However, good music
is more fashionable than ever, and
there may be as brilliant a showing of
society at the new opera house as at
the long established home of the song
birds
1t is too early to foretell the season
of balls and dances. There will be a
lot of debutantes, and the fashionable
subscription dances, such as the junior
cotillons and the subscription dinner
dances, are all arranged.-New York
Herald
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08
SAFE ANYHOW

The story is told in Boston of dis
cussion among the judges as to the
choice of a stenographer Most of them
preferred a woman, but one objected.
"Now. why don't yon want one?"
asked Judge s. You ,o1 know know tney ARE are
men,"
"That may be all So" replied Judge
r "but you know that in our cases
we often have to be here very late.
There are always watchmen and other
guards in the corridors. Do you think
il would be prudent to have a woman
staying with any of the judges as late
as might be necessary for a stenogra-
pher?"
"Why, what are you afraid Off"
Couldn't you holler?" questioned Judge
D.-Lppincott's.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08
HEARST AND HIS YELLOMS

William r. Hearst gets himself in
ciated Press as though his mouthings
about the Democratic presidential
nomination were important The fact
that he is for or against William Jen-
nings Bryan doesn't interest any
Democrat Nobody cares whether he
is or not.
Not being a Democrat himself, why
should Hearsts political attitude con-
Germ any one but his own little coterie
of yellow papers and his own specially
created ragamufin party? He hasn't the
first conception or the faintest idea of
Democratic principles This fact was
abundantly demonstrated when in New
York city he accepted the ragamufftn
nomination for mayor and poured out
millions of his money in a vain effort
to defeat the Democratic nominee.
Hearst is for Hearst, at all times
and under all circumstances.
When the Democratic party sits
upon his theories of anarchy and con-
fusion, he kicks the Democratic party.
When he thinks Democracy has a
chance to win he sneaks back under
the coat tails of some great Democrat
and tries to make his ragamuffin fol-
lowers believe he has been there all
the time.
He now talks about Joe Folk as a
probable nominee for president, when
he knows that Missouri has over
whelmingly declared for Bryan and
under no conditions would her stall
wart Democracy carry Folk banner.
He pours out the vials of his puny
wrath upon Senator Bailey of Texas
because the senator dared to tell th5
country how Hearst's yellow papers
point with pride to Hearsts yellow
ma gazines and vice versa; because he
exposed the rotten idiocy of the whola
system of Hearst publications and sci
! Hearst before the country in his tru,
colors. Hearst is not entitled to bC
mentioned in the same Democratic day
or year with Senator Bailey.
California Democrats regret the an
nouncement by William r. Hearst tha
he favors the nomination of William
| Jennings Bryan. 1t thrusts a small
| icicle down the back of the Bryan
boom that will require renewed sun
shine to thaw 1t out again. But !
will thaw out all right and there vii
be no Hearstsm in it, OF that tn,
! country will rest assured.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08
AS THE PHILADELPHIA TOLD

"The easiest money / ever made"
said a shipping man the other day,
"was handed to me in New York not
long ago. 1 was visiting there and had
a little time to myself, so l bought a
paper and went down to the river front.
| saw an advertisement in the paper
saying that a tug was to be auctioned
off that day, so l went to the place and
stood around examining the tug. After
a while a man who had been watching
me came over and began asking ques-
tions. | told him l was interested in
boats and was from Philadelphia. Then
he asked: What are you doing down
here? L came down to this auction
SALE | said. Well said the man, If
you want to keep on the right side of
the boys you'll do something for me.
took the money and departed. / had
not the slightest intention of bidding"
Philadelphia Record
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08
TACT LACK ED

Miss Clara Clemens, Mark Twain's
brilliant daughter, was talking at At
lantic City about entertaining.
"Tact," she said, 'is essential to good
entertaining. With the most hospitable
spirit in the world. one may, without
tact, only render ones guests uncom-
Portable. Tact averts blunders.
Il once dined at a house where the
hostess had no tact. Opposite me sat
modest, quiet gentleman. This gen
tleman suddenly turned as red as a
lobster, and fell into a horrible fit of
confusion on hearing his hostess say
to her husband:
How inattentive you are, Joe. You
must look after Mr.. Blank better. He S
helping himself to everything"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08
NEW YORK'S sPASM OF VIRTUE

Lie, as many term it, in the COun-
try's metropolis is again in the lime
light. The cafe crowds deep pool of
moral degeneracy has been stirred by
the Thaw-White episode, and the city.
although knowing fun we'll all the
time the rotten conditions and winking
at them, is aroused to a frenzy of in
dignatiOn over crimes which it has
rather been inclined to boast of as
merely flavor to it's Tenderloin.
Peculiar as it may seem, that is the
real attitude of the New Yorker toward
the cesspool of immortality which is
such a stencil in the very heart of his
city. 1t is the first thing to which he
win take a stranger: it constitutes
the sights" for which he imagines a
''provinciaI' comes to the metropolis
And at once he plans as deep a plunge
into this pestilential atmosphere as his
visitor can stomach.
New York, in a word, is proud of its
wickedness, and nothing delights it
more than to be referred to as worse
than Paris" The fast gait is looked
upon as phase of metropolitan activ-
ity desirable to have; ass an asset of the
town, with a distinct value, making the
city attractive to denizens of commu-
mites laying claims to decency.
1t has been the fashion of late-es-
pecially since the earthquake there
to refer to the moral lapses of San
Francisco and to talk a about a "visita-
ton of God" therefor. San Francisco
was wicked, it is true. yet compared
to New York it was the essence of in
nocerce. In San Francisco mere i'm
morality was incident to freedom of
enjoyment; vulgar dehauchery for its
own sake was taboo. San Francisco's
moral lapses We're the result of CAV
living, not the reverse. as i'm New York.
There was a certain refinement of it all
that made it fascinating. but at the
same time to an extent drew the sting
from it. In New York the evil is not
even veneered; it is plainly, openly
vicious. brutal, bestial, vile.
For a time perhaps, New York will
have a spasm Of virtue-but only for
a while. Soon the same old crowd will
be i'm full sway and the same old efforts
to make New York live" town will
be in evidence, New York cannot be
decent; the tremendous egotsm of its
heterogeneous populace won't stand
for It" They think all who live outside
Gotham are campers-out, and they
would rather be a lamp post on Broad
way than mayor of any other town.
Beside such a city San Francisco was a
JOY forever and a city undefled.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08
HIS wIFE's QUIET REPRoAcE

Admiral Capps, in an address to a
temperance society. told how drink
had once caused the downfall of a
brave soldier.
In the course of the sad story he
said:
Sometimes after a debauch, the man
would be repentant, humble. He would
promise his wife to do better; but, alas,
the years taught her the barrenness of
all such promises.
zone night, when he was getting to
be an old mana prematurely old
man, thin limbed, stoop shouldered,
with red trimmed eyes-he said to his
wife sadly:
you're a clever woman, Jenny; a
courageous, active, good woman. You
should have married better man than
l am, dear
"She looked at him, and thinking of
what he once had been, she answered
in quiet voice:
"I did, James kansas City Jour
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08

The Fresno Republican states that
the independent moyement-the divorce
of politics from municipal affairs-is in
Fresno mo longer a theory or an argu-
ment. but an accomplished and irrev-
ocable fact" The mayor is Re-
publican, the city attorney and chief Of
the fire department are Democrats and
nobody knows or cares whether the
chief of police is a Democrat or a Re
publican. National party lines" saws
the Republican, "are not merely
broken-they are forgotten in Fresno
municipal politics, The same result viii
doubtless follow in Los Angeles" The
sincere wish Of the Republican should
become a fact. Wherever the non-par-
tisan movement in municipal affairs
has been inaugurated IL has proved
conspicuous Improvement over the par
tisan idea OF city government
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08
A TYPICAL AMERICAN GIRL

j. G. Phelps Stokes, the noted So
ciologist, praised in an address the
democratic and unsnobbish spirit of the
typical American girl.
"A typical American girl" he said,
"dined one night in London at Princes.
During the concert that followed the
dinner the girl noticed a tall, handsome
man, and said:
" Who is that gentleman over there?'
Her host, an Englishman, frowned
and replied:
Gentleman? Geentleman, indeed
Why, that is a lOrd-Lord Seymour of
Somerset
The American girl smiled and said
calmly:
But I suppose some of them are
gentlemen sometimes.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08
At Evening

Hot tho the day may be,
Cruel the sun;
Yet comes the cooling night.
When day is done.
Zen as the shadows fall,
Soft as a pail.
Comes the sweet, fragrant wind,
Over US all.
So, tho the strife of days,
Hard be, and long.
With evening comes the calm
OF twilght's song.
Bear, then, the days demands,
All grumbling cease;
Know, at the ending comes
His perfect peace.
w. H. C.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08

The postofice department is perhaps
as liberal to Los Angeles as its means
will allow, but it's poor satisfaction to
the part of the city not covered by
the carrier system to learn that no ex-
tensions are possible, because Guam
must have free delivery of its mail.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08

Postmaster Flint, who has lust re-
turned from the east, promises thou
sands of Shriners for the meeting in
Los Angeles next year. or course.
The hundreds who came This wear
went home delighted with their out
ing in the finest climate i'm the world.
and they are each a walking advertise
ment for Los Angeles Even ex-Poten-
tate Collins has warmed his feet and
will come early and stay late.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08

The building record of Los Angeles
for the first week in July is a splendid
one, with 139 permits, Of which seventy
seven were for homes valued at a total
of 1892 ,o46, close to the quarter million
mark. This city is going forward with
tremendous strides, and each week sees
larger and more substantial and per-
manent progress.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08

With the adoption of it's new depot
plans the Southern Pacific Railroad
company is now prepared to begin at
once its beautiful old mission station
that will replace the present Noahs
ark. The company and the people Of
Los Angeles are to be congratulated
on the proposed wonderful improve
ment in the railway architecture Of this
citY.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08

An increase of nearly sci ,0OO, 900 in
the assessment figures for Los Angeles
county over 1905 shows that the prophe-
cies of great growth all fell short of
the actuality.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08

June was a duh month in building in
Los Angeles, yet it ranked sixth among
American cities, those ahead of it being
New York, Chicago, Brooklyn, Phlla-
delphia and st, Louis-eyery one twice
our size. We're trotting in pretty fast
ccmpany-it seems.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08

Still, standards of cleanliness are so
low in Chicago generally that it is
little wonder her business men found
the packing houses immaculate.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08

The postoffice authorities might also
expedite the postoffice work here by
insisting on owl cars so clerks could
work all night when necessary.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08

Chicago business men have "vindi-
cated' the Chicago packers, but that
doesn't make refuse taste any more
like timed chicken.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08

How many of the Saturday half
holiday crowds had to walk home on
their return from the beaches, after
midnight, because there are no owl
cars?
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08

The rush for the local independent
ticket bandwagon is only second to
that for places on the Bryan musical
chariot.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08

The kindness of Willie Hearst in
supporting % Bryan is only equaled
by the stab in the back which the
Hearst support carries with it.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08

It's all right for an Ohio judge to
issue a subpoena for John D., but
when he comes to serving it-that's
different.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08

Those $4,000 refugee Russians, in
settling near Ersenada. are sufficiently
near the United States to skip over here
if need be.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08

When Mr.. S. A. D. Puter was found
guilty up in Oregon, he doubtless real
lied why he bears his first three ini-
tials,
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08

Hearst's assertion that he would not
be a candidate for president was en-
tirely superfuous. Everyone knew
fbat
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08

The fact that the Evening Way
Freight listed four eminent American
men as delegates To a foreign myth
ers' congress" is not at all surprising
10 anyone at all familiar with the
paper.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08
Population of Los Angeles 23S.4I9

Warm? Yes, but remember Fresno,
1O6; Red Bluff, 1O4; Portland, 1O2, and
forget it,"