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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-02
Rural 7 telephone
S ervice

A Plan by which residents of rural districts
may be connected with the Rural Exchanges
Of the New England Telephone and Telegraph
Company.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-02

Col. w. p, SHELTON of Lewiston hank
examiner for the state, was Ill t''e
city for a few hours.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-02

Mice Addia Weeks. one of the clerks
:, tbo office Of the State insurance
commissioner. who had been making =
short visit i'm Newton. Mass, returned
home Monday afternoon
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-02

The Board of Railroad Commits
sioncrs is now looking over some of tn"
trolley lines of the State on its annual
tour of inspection, and yesterday me
members Of the board went over tn"
Lewiston division of the L"WlSt"h
Augusta & Waterville street Railway
leaving Lewiston in the morning.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-02

The Ladies' Circle of the Winthrop
street Baptist church will meet at $50
o'clock this afternoon with Miss Mayo,
Court street. e..l As = Ali 1sz
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-02

Inquire Of the Manager Of the nearest central office
Of the New England Company's SYSTEM or write for
pamphlet "Rural Telephone Service to New England
Telephone and Telegraph Company, Advertising Dept,
Room GA, No. 1O1 Milk Street, Boston
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-08

future good" as the Spartan mothers
were stern.
Eyes. such things are hard she said
quietly, but I've. seen a lot OF sorrow IL
my life and reckon III live TO SEA a little
more before they shovel tho clodr Of
earth over my rough box lid"
The clan mother then told OF her own
early life. of the long journey over the
mountains from Lee county, Va, where
she was a little girl and all the country
south of the Ohio river was being ter
rorized by robber bands and land pirates
that infested that thinly settled country
in those days, robbing and numbering the
pioneers and burning their homes. She
told how the emgrants camped at night
not knowing what moment the Big
Harpe and his crew might surprise them;
she told of the terror with which stu
caught her mothers skirts as he pilgrims
passed through the black ravines and be-
fore the mouths of yawning caves. out of
either of which might spring John a.
Murrell and his cutthroats or the foul
fiend Mason. How reasonable the childs
terror was may be learned by any one
who is at all familiar with the history of
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The Churchman's Food.

From Arms and the Man.
Yes. an army does travel upon its belly.
but how incomplete a comprehension OF
the truth of this statement on the part OF
many of the officers of the National
Guard. When an organization goes into
camp depending upon caterer or tempo
rari,y employed cooks for its subsistence
no argument is needed TO convince the OBJ
server that the officers charged with the
responsibility of putting such force into
the field have ignored either temporarily
or permanently. through willful neglect
or ignorance the necessity for training
commissary officers and cooks.
So far as the relative importance of
cooks is concerned, we hold that IL only
one trained enlisted man was to be had
in each company that one trained enlisted
man had better be q cook than anything
else 1t doesn't make much difference
how strong men are. how brave they be,
how eager and anxious to serve serious
stomach ache or distracting diarrhea
may render them wholly unavailable
as an enemys bullets
The instruction of officers of the COM
missary department is very important.
but the training of cooks Is a matter OF
such tremendous Importance TO the Ma
tional Guard that too much emphasis can
not be placed upon it. We hear in some'
cases complaint of the field ration of the
regular army. The field ration is wholly
adequate and sufficient. even for men who
have been living on the best the market
affords. when it IS prepared by competent
and capable cooks Let us have more at
tention paid to the training Of our cooks.
Under the provisions of the proposed
amendment to the existing federal law.
now befor Congress. an enlisted man OF
the National Guard may attend the army
cooking school. Would IL not be well for
every state to send one more such men
to that school, making pay and allowances
of a sufficient amount to Justify the men
in going, and then upon their return to
use them as instructors to other enlisted
cooks.
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The Better Question.

Edward Haganan Hall. the secretary OF
the American Science and Historic Pres
eryation Society, was discussing in New
York his project toward the transport OF
Poe's cottage to Pee Park.
Mr.. Hail. an historian OF great ability.
has a happy knack Of pointing his re-
marks with appropriate anecdotes.
And discussing Poe. he said
Fame comes at last. comes very, very
late 10 this great poet. this master of the
short story. And during the long years
Poe was forgotten his wrath must have
felt like the ancient sage of whom Plau-
tus-was it Plautus?-tells.
During this sage's life statues We're
erected to many philosophers and rheto-
ricians less noted and less learned than
himself. a traveller, passing through the
kingdom. asked him why this was. The
sage replied:
~ prefer to have it asked why ] have
no statue, rather than why had one.
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Often True.

The late Edmund Clarence Stedman,
the banker poet" said magazine edi-
tor. was really better critic than poet.
He had a high opinion OF the critics
functions. Attacks on the value of criti--
cism always angered him.
"He used to tell about a typical attack
Of this kind. He heard Ii at supper
after the theater Ii came from an I'M
successful actor.
MIR. Stedman was replying to the toast
Our American Critics He began with
the query. uttered in a ringing voice:
What is a critic?'
"The unsuccessful actor I'm the ensuing
pause answered from the bottom of the
table:
"A man who doesn't know a good
thing when he sees it,
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desperadoism in this section of the south
during the first thirty-ave years of the
last century.
The parents of little Eveline Britton set
tied in Breathitt county. not far from the
present site of Jackson, and when a mere
child she married a man named Seweli.
Sewell died some years later leaving two
sons and three daughters. Then the
widow married John Hargis of Pan Bowl
Farm. The Hargises were the richest
people in the county: they were also the
most fashionable; the first windows with
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notice the CLINT Of the marble headstones
in the buria, lot to the side OF the house
and behind the old garden. inside the
gate lilac bushes grow in clumps on q :ther
side. and sktrting the fiagstone walk ieao.
ing to the door are the withered stalks OF
last summers bleeding hearts and holly
hooks AT the door soot-grlmed woman.
pulling away at a clay pipe. answers my
knock. ard when / inquire fo- Mrs. Hargls
she. too. looks incredulOus.
NO; Mrs Hargs.. she don't live here.
but Grannie Hargis does. if it be her yer
after.'i she proffered with the utmost hos
pitality in her tone. and then babe me
enter. The room we stepped into was
kitchen. parlor dining room in one. A
great fire burned in the wide chimney, q
bright rag carpet covered the floor, equally
bright chromos hung on the wall between
somber family poreraits In cheap crayon.
and the furniture was all that could be
desired in the way of bright varnish and
MUCH gingerbread work.
r. Il
The woman. - ancient servitor of the
family. led me through this room and int
another. the bedchamber of the clan
mother, who sat with folded hands look
ing meditatively into the fire. Clad like
her daughter-in-law in somber black. she
had substituted for sunbonnet knit
ted black worsted shawl, from the folds
of which her sharply aquiline features
showed in bold relief. Her tall, gaunt
frame-tall even>as she sat huddled up in
her easy chair-her high cheek bones, her
deeply socketed. close-set black eyes, and
her massive. almost masculine jaw be-
spoke the Spartan mother, the mother OF
warriors and of clansmen.
They also bespoke an almost unUtterable
pride. a pride which in spite of her eighty
five years, in spite Of her rural simplicity
in spite of her very evident hospitality,
amounted to a sort of arrogance. Hers Is
the sort of pride which would scorn to al
low either friend enemy TO see her
grief Sternly virtuous. a faithful wife
and burden bearing helpmeet. a mother
capable of the most sublime heroism for
her children-all this one would know to
look at the figure sitting before the fire.
1t was written in the serenity of Yer dark,
swarthy much wrnkled brow 1t was
most of all was it written I'm her fine old
hands. though i'll cared for-long, thin old
hands that one never saw on any other
but a CALIFORNIAN; hands full of the ves- |
tiges of a once mastery energy much |
gnarled and knotted now from too much |
work in youth and too much rheumatism |
In old age.
But soft and gentle mother? Not she |
who bore James Hargis and his brothers. |
One feels to look at this remarkable wom- |
an that she must have been stern always
toward her children even when they were
babes on her breast-stern. that is. ac-
cording to her religion, "for their own
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grown rank with. periwinkle-of all. that
is. save the new-made one. This was liter
ally banked with dollhouse flowers great
wreaths and nillows and anchors sent by
political factions. wholesale houses in
Louisville and Cincinnati. from the Junior
Order. of American Mechanics and the
Masonic order. of which the man in The
grave beneath was a thrty-secoad degree
member. Every man sic eping there haG
died with his boots on. it becomes
Hargis to die and as ii has become their
inherited habit to die. Across the stubble
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cornfeld soft sprnglike breeze was
waited up from the river and started
ripple over all the little American flags
which the Junior Mechanics" had stuck
In the soft clay. On the same breeze
there also came very family the echo OF :
the brass band at the rink
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real glass in them in this part of Ken
lucky were those in the log house in the
Pan Bowl. TO the union with Hargis
five sons were born--Ilex, the eldest, and
then James, John, Ebert and Ben.
*
My husband opened store in 1S47
said the old lady, her eyes once more
staring into the fire. He prospered. for
he was an honest man, and then the war
broke out, and because he stood by the
south he was ruined for everybody else
hereabouts. owning no slaves as we did.
was for the north. We had some pretty
hard times for a good many years after
the war until the boys began to grow up:
then we thought all our troubles was
over but they want. as it turned out.
Jim and Alex they took hold of the store,
and they made it pay: 1 reckon you've
seen. that ere store?' and here the
mother of the great merchant princes
turned her dark eyes inquiringly upon me.
nodded. and Grannie Hargis straight
ened herself up in her chair with quiet
but unmistakabe pride. THAT was the
way with my BOYS: they alwaEs could do
anything. and anything they did was sure
to turn out well. And they was all good
bows, too. all GOd-fearin and Obed:ent to
their father and always good to their
mother
l spoke of the fate that had overtaken
os many Of her man folks. and the clan
mother replied with sublinlely dissembied
serenity: Yes. they was all carried off
sudden. NV husband. he dropped dead
in the statehouse down in Frankfort: he
got to be a senator before he died-the
Hargises was always great for politics.
Then they killed my oldest boy by my
first husband. He was crossia. field in
the moonlight and somebody shot him
from the shadder. Then they killed Jerry
South, my daughters husband. Then
they killed my boy John Hargis; Jerry
CerawsN did that. They never knowed
exactly who killed the others. but Jerry
ca-dwell. 1t was him killed John. Then
they killed my boy Ben: Tom Coo zerill
did that: Ben was my baby. And then
there was this trouble between Jim and
his son Beech. and now I've only got two
cons lsft-I reckon maybe the Cockerlls
and tho cnrdwe!ls'll git them. too. If they
hain't pretty peart.''
Out into the "buryin' ground" l wan
dored a little while aftsrward. Marble
and granite monuments marked the nu-
mSroGs graves cf thu H=-S:sss, now
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body in in any circumstances. 1t was 10
get. if possible. resembling of this order
that few minutes later found me ringing
the rusty Goorbell of the widow of the
richest man in BREATH county. for
that matter in southeastern Kentucky.
and the political boss of his ownvast con-
gressional district. In front of the house,
which stands st the bottom of Il steep.
muddy cmbankment back of the store.
pigs were roofing and COWS wandering as
they were roofing and wandering all over
the town y few moments and the door
was opened by a tall gaunt woman dress
I'd in deep black cal leo and wearing a
black calico sunbonnet. The face was the
same. long, thin. mirthlesS countenance
that | had seen on the women in Judge
Taulbee's store. From among that clus-
ter of lugubrious women one could not
have singled her out as having suffered
any more woe or come through any more
recent sorrow than any of them. So l
was quite unprepared. when l asked to
see Mrs. Hargis. TO have her answer
quietly and very simply that she was
the widow of the murdered feud leader.
Bidding me come in and visit awhile
I followed her woeful figure into whaa i
later discovered to be the drawing room
a soft coal fire was burning upon the
hearth, upon which crock OF cream
had been carried in from the kitchen to
neat preparatory to churning. The
walls. hung with dark. ugly paper were
still further disfgured with CHASTITY
crayon portraits of the Harglses AMI
the same cheap chromos | had found in
the hotel parlor down the street The
windows, guiltless of curtains, boosted
the extraordinary elegance Of inside
shutters, the upper sections of which
thrown open. allowed the sickIy and
now fast fading winter sunlight to fall
in and display as the most conspicuous
piece of furniture in the big room a
Orately dressed in a lace counterpart
with lace pillow shams to match.
Mrs. Hargis dropped her spare frame
into a little low rocking chair. and
folding her thin hands across her black
apron, looked at me inquiringly. In her
manner, even in the midst of all the
horrible tragedy she has faced and Is
now facing, there was all of the ira
ditional hospitality of the souiherner.
whether of the mountains or the low
lands In all rural simplicity she asked
me first thing If ! wouldn't lay off my
things They say when Judge iiargis
was carried home dead she carried on
like a mad woman. but now she spoke
of the tragedy with the, resignation
of which she seems the very personifi-
cation.
"A body sort of gets used to Things.
and I've been through so much. And 1t
was mt as sudden IL might have been,
either. for I've always expected 10 see
him brought home dead any hour or
any minute. but it never came into my
head that it would be Beech that would
DO it
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move. One day. melted by Hargis, Red
wine made an adverse ruling which so
incensed the majority of the delegates
that, drawing revolvers and making
great tumult, they started TO stampede
the platform Redwine started to run,
but Hargis caught him and knocked him
into his seat.
But they'll kill me. Jim. if stay" he
is quoted as saying. Yes. and I'll kill
you if you don't stay" the boss of bloody
Breathitt is quoted replying.
Anyway. Redwine stayed. and. needless
TO say. Hargis had his way and the OBJ
jectionable ruling stood. wlly-nilly. Goe-
bel was nominated and Hargis became
more powerful than ever. He had himself
chosen q member of the democratic state
central committee and his influence now
stretched throughout the state an inhu-
ence which on innumerable occasions was
man Redwine who now leaned upon his
front gate as any ordinary villager might
at the end of the days work.
AS ] approached he leveled a pair of
steely. coldly suspicious gray eyes upon
me, his jaws shut with click. and when
he saw that | was about to stop and
speak lie laid his hand ostentatiously
upon the gate latch and held it fast. In
response to the introduction of myself
Judge Redwine lost no time in expressing
his unqualified opinion of newspapers
generally. and of newspaper reporters
particularly. without regard to either age
or sex CurlouSly enough, though
ountaineer born and bred, there seemed
to course through his veins another strain
Of blood from that of the typical. Ken
iuckian of these regions. Here was no
soft. drawing speech. but words bitten
off like pieces of steel. in sharp. clear
enunciation. Here was no hint of gentle
dalliance with and Difference to- weaker
woman such as Judge Taulbee had shown
and such as James Hargis was famous
for. Judge Hargis might. and indeed did.
Iii to No ma q
but his manners to the women folk even
of his hereditary enemies were those of a
cavalier Not so with the famous Judge
Redwine up here in these Businesses.
who seemed to have learned all the up-to-
date philosophy of George Bernard Shaw.
and to have learned it so consummately
that l went away without so much as
asking a question.
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And now my long walk to visit Grannie
Hargis at Pan Bowl Farm with de-
scription of which i began this story. Is
almost completed. Following the line OF
the little narrow-gauge railroad which
the Hargises several years ago built
through their land to carry the timber
from their logging camp down to the VAL
ley. ] lAve come at last within sight of
the old homestead where for generations
the Hargises have been born. 1t is a
honey. sweet-looking old place set upon
little knoll in a great corn field. Out of
the big stone chimney on either end the
blue smoke Is rising, and as l walk up
the rise of ground LEADING TO the gate
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At this juncture the door opened and
young woman burst in. 1t was the
daughter. the only daughter of the
house or Hargis, and her mother intro
duced her as Mrs. Hogg, the bride of a
month. There could be no more curious
antithesis than that between the mother
and her daughter, the one rural and un
sophisticated in her apron and sunbon-
net. and yet possessed of an inalienable
dignity. the other crude in her fashion,
able Louisville mourning, her Cair hair
curled and arranged in Il fearfuily and
wonderfully made pompadour, her jaws
working rythmically over d wad of
chewing gum. With her peach blossom
skin and her delicate aquiline features,
she would have been a beauty Ill d sun
bonnet and apron like her mothers, but
il was. she and her entire person.
ality were distinctly 'out of drawing.
The same thing is true of the noun
taineer generally. You cannot make
civilized people out of them in Il single
generation. James Hargis was worth
more than $500 900 when he died, a vast
fortune for that part of Kentucky. His
children had every advantage Which the
money and more or less limited intelli-
gence OF their father could give to
them. and Yet after all they nave both
forefathers for generations had been.
Beech Hargis was bound 10 be i feudist,
and worse than a feudist. Since Il little
hoy he has drunk his "moonShine'-
whisky and packed his gun, just as his
father before him had done. and with
out making a drunkard of him. either.
Only there was this difference between
James Hargis and his son-tne former
did not come under the cOrrupting and
enervating influence of too much spend
ing money. James Hargis had To work
for his living. while his son has never
earned penny in his life.
When ] asked permission 10 see her son
in jai! troubled look crept into the deep
set black eyes OF the mother. 1t was the
struggle in a simple. straightforward ma
ture. between courtesy 10 the guest within
her gates and the dictates of policy and
expediency. II don't have no objection
myself. only / promised Judge Redwine I
wouldn't let nobody in.
On nv way back to the hotel / saw
Judge Redwine leaning upon the gate in
front of his residence" which happened
to be almost opposite that hostelry. He.
it will be remembered. was the chairman
Of the famous Music Hall convention held
in Louisville in 1893 which Nominated
Goebel for governor of Kentucky. 1t was
James Hargis who took him down there
with a solid tenth congressional district
at his back. and to Hargis more than to
any other man Goebel owed his nomina-
ton. When a man was wanted for chair
man Jim HaTgis furnished the man whom
he had created and whom he controlled,
and that man was Judge Redwine. Dur
ing that stormy convention the boss OF
the tenth congressional district sat be
hind Redwinc and dictated his every.
The Jasper news., 1908-12-10

THE next mistress Of the White
House will go shopping just as ladies
of less exalted position, in the city
stores. The Washington store-keep-
ers are elated. In the next three
months Washington women will order
enough gowns to last two years. 1t Is
always so in the winter preceding the
Inauguration OF new president.
That Mrs. Taft is so friendly to
Washington means many thousands of
dollars to them. Not many years has
president been elected who practi-
cally considered Washington his home.
In the matter of clothes Mrs. Taft
is a woman of the plain type. While
well and usually handsomely gowned
her clothes are never the first thing
which attracts the attention of the
stranger. Her taste runs to the plain
The Jasper news., 1908-12-10
Tons of Campaign Print Sent by Frank

The printed sheets would completely
cover As square acres of ground. and
II each page could be laid end to end
bicycle track 947 miles long could
be obtained.
The number of words contained in
this years run Of speeches have been
roughly estimated at 230,00O,000,0 900.
With the newspaper calculation of four
readers to each copy, this would re-
quire the assimilation of nearly 1,000..
00O. 1000, 900 words.
The printing of speeches In the gov
ernment printing Office for members
of the senate and house Of representa-.
tives has been reduced to an exact
science through years of experience.
The printing is paid for by the mem
ber of congress drawing the requisi.
tion, but the mailing Is done by frank.
at public expense.
The Jasper news., 1908-12-10
New Mistress Will Do Her Own Shopping

cloth and rich silks. She is en-
phatically not the tailor-made silk
lined woman. Her favorite colors for
the street are brown and gray and for
evening wear pink, almost invariably.
She has never appeared in an i'm,
ported gown. She has had number
of evening gowns made of the fascinat'
ing, filmy Philippine fabrics, which she
brought back to the states with her
after her long residence in Manila
And yet she brought only what she
might have actual need Of in the near
fture. According to her thrifty nature.
she purchases only what she can see
use for. Mrs. Taft has never been
wealthy. Her. money is. always spent
judiciously.
Mrs. Taft patronizes always the con
servative establishments. Good val.
ue for the money Is what she looks
for first in shopping. She rarely goes
into the cheap stores, except for unim.
portant articles, which careful women
know how to buy During her resi-
dence in Washington she has done her
purchasing mainly in the shops along
+ street.