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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

AUGUSTA CAMP NO. 7400 N. W. OF
N Regular meeting LIST and ii Monday
g. CARTRIDGE, Consul.
". P. BERRY. Clerk.
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

u,eusTA LODGE, NO. as, A. 3. S.
~..ta In Golden Cross hall the fourth
Sonday Of each month.
1''''' FRED B. WORTHfNG. Pres.
JOHANNA +. MURRAY, Sec.
g. A. THURSTON. Collector.
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1RN' 10, conclave at Masonic Temple
81 Spec.Mu.a rch &C. at 7.3O p. NJ. Annual
fidsy. !, Nv ut. En-. Sir Arno w. King.
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fsmpleer frat fraters are cordially invited to
>ttterd. 1oHN CLAIR MINOT, E. c.
3. BLANCHARD, Rec.
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W.. meetings the first Wednesday
Ss.c ~ each month at 7.30. All MEM
ssseS;omrning in the city are invited to
tsnGap r TURNER. w. NJ.
ELIZABETH A. THOMPSON. sec.
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AUGUSTA LODGE, 3. r. o. e., no.
n Meetings the second and fourth We'd
sssiayS Of each month at 8 O'Clock
GEORGE W. MERRILL, +. r.
r. l. HEATH, Sec.
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their daughter, Miss Annie,

artincd, their daughter, Miss Annie,
having diphtheria.
Addie. the Oldest daughter of Mr..
ard Mrs. Paul Griffin was united In
marriage to j. M. Yielding of Blrm-
ngham, Ala, Tuesday. The ceremony
was performed by Rev n. r. Pearson,
the family and a few intimate friends
being present. The couple departed on
the 244 p. NJ train amid the usual
shower of rice ard confetti, and after
a wedding trip will make their home
in birmingham, Ala.
The remains of the late Mrs. Rufus
Feyln, who had been making her hon
with ner daughter in the West. ar
rived here Wednesday. Interment III
Rural cemetery.
WHlTEFlELD.
Mrs. Georgia Burnham OF Farming
dale has been passing few days with
friends and relatives in this place.
Miss Margaret King who has been
visiting her sister in ~ H., returned
home last week.
Lou Partridge, former resident OF
this rlace, has been visiting friends
here the past week.
GUY Carleton is at home for an in
definite time.
Reuben McKindscy. who has been
seriously i'll. is rapidly recovering.
Miss Emma Hathorne is visiting her
mother Mrs. Reuben Mckindslcy.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-26

uuleoRM RANK, KNIGHTS OF
I'M s'.hi,a King Company. No. 4. Regular
n I.stinr 6rst Thursday of each month.
CAPTAIN, JAS. A. WOODWARD.
Recorder, HARRY n. HERSEY.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-23

leagues below her in the moral scale.
In Lewis Rand" Miss Johnson has
depicted a Virginian Of a century ago
of great native and acquired ability,
the fatal flaw in whose character was
a consuming ambition. In Diana
Mallory Mrs. Humphrey Ward has
treated one of the loveliest women in
English latter-day fiction, drawn ir-
resistibly to a man of noble birth but
of ignOble and pusillanimOus spirit
In both stories we are led on to see
how the outpouring of affection on the
part of a pure and unselfish woman,
coupled with the inevitable workings
of conscience, may at last lift up and
to some extent redeem the character
Of the man on whom that love IS Law
ished. So I rise from the reading
of these stories with a new reverence
for womanhoOd and a new grasp Of
the great truth that suffering is the
one force that sweetens a human life
and save it from baseness and decay.
A totally different kind Of story is
William J. DawsOn's Soldier of the
Future" and yet his dream of what a
Christian minister might accomplish
if he were only brave enough to pro-
claim the teachings of his Master un-
hinchingly and apply them to all so
cial and industrial relations, may well
induce serious heart-searchings both
on the part of men VINO stand IN pull
pits today and Of those who sit in
pews. DR.. Dawson Is an extremist
The church may never go as far as he
would like to see 1t, but it is already
moving in that direction.
And yet a little book one-tenth the
size of "A Soldier of Fortune" con-
tains the spiritual dynamite on which
we must rely to produce in time all
desirable social changes. In "A Mans
Faith" DR.. Wilfred T. Grenfen, who
for nearly twenty years has done a
heroic work as medical missionary on
and off the coasts Of Labrador tells
just what he believes and why. and he
tells it so simply so nnOdestly and yet
with such directness and force that
the book justifes its title A virile
robust faith it is that took him from
charming English home and all the
| professional opportunities that were
/ opening to an Oxford graduate to the
wilds of Labrador. 1t is a faith strip
| ped of all theological accretions and
| ecclesia stical adornment, but it is al
/ intensely personal faith in God and
| Christ. one that makes little of pro-
| fession and much of practice. one tha-
/ is shy of pious talk but very much il
| evidence when there is a hard surgica
] Job to be done or a bit of every day
/ kindness to be extended.
/ It IS easy to pass from such a bool
| to the profitable use of President w
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-23
CIRCULATION
BOOTS REPLY.

The Hon. Elihu Root does not take
kindly to inquisitive factions who de-
rnand that a senator should clearly
define his position for the benefit Of
the people.
The Rural New Yorker, having chal-
lenged him upon agricultural interests,
he, in the course Of his reply, said:
IT do not want to go into a kind Of
civil service examination regarding my
fitness for the senate. It would be
hard to put limit on that sort of
process If It were once begun, and if
carried very far It would result in
what I think would be the wrong way
to select a senator. 1t seems TO me
that the way to do that is to select a
man who is so well known to the peo-
ole of the state that they can have
confidence in his good sense to find
out what their interests are and his
loyalty to promote them. When men
get to answering questions put to them
for the purpose Of determining wheth-
sr the people shall favor them for Of
nee, the temptation IS very strong to
make the sort Of answers that the
people are supposed to want, and
do not think it is at all certain that
the best and most honest men would
come out at the top of such an ex-
animation"
Elihu Root failed to meet the ex-
pectation of these inquirers, of course.
but he was elected and win stand
higher in the estimation Of all other
glasses. Subserviency does not fit men
u large capabilities. Their integrity
and scholarship and public record
ought to be enough to satisfy the peo-
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-23
EVIDENCE OF RACE SUICIDE.

No one attempts to deny that the
day of large families has gone by,
and it is a fact that families with
Eeven children are not as common
Row as were families with twelve and
fifteen two generations ago.
A writer for the Atlantic Monthly
upon this theme, calls attention o
the fact that in the days of Frank
lin the average was six children in
the American family.
This writer for the Atlantic, noting
the steady decrease here, says that
taking 1900 as indicative there are N
America only about three-fourths as
many children in proportion to hus-
bands and wives as there were forty
years ago. This statement is added:
Were the old rate Of the middle of
the century sustained there would be
1900 more births yearly in the state
of Massachusetts, than now occur. In
the course Of a century the proper
ton Of our entire population consist
ing OF children under the age Of ten,
has fallen from one-third to one
quarter. This, for the whole United
States, IS equivalent TO the loss of
about 100000 children"
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-23
: SUNDAY MORNING TALK
FIVE GOOD BOOKS.

Since the first of last September
hundreds Of books have come from
the presses. What becomes of them
all? Will anybody be reading any of
them a hundred years hence? What
proportion can be classified as real
literature? Such questions as these
are for the critic and the professor to
answer, but a parson may venture to
select a few from the great abundance
and tell how they have refreshed and
strengthened his spirit. And when he
speaks of good books please do not
expect a catalogue of "goody goody'
volumes, but good" in the sense. of
virile, pulsing with life, charged with
ozone and tonic.
I begin where nearly every man be-
gins who reads books today in the
realm of fiction, and I selected two of
the great outstanding novels of the
year, one by an American woman and
the other by an English woman, both
of whom, in my judgment, lIave lew
peers and no superiors in point Of
ability to write powerful stories of alb
sorbing interest. Both Of these works
are alike in being essentially painful
and in having as their chief motif the
portrayal of the influence of woman's
passionate love and devotion poured
forth without stint upon a man
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-23

Whats your opinion of this heredi-
typ" asked the bill clerk suddenly of
the cashier. lis there anything to 1t
or Is it a fake? / see there's quite
bunch Of the high-brows fall for it,"
Il am of the opinion that there is
much to sustain the theory, my young
friend" said the cashier. There is
little doubt. that, the good and evil
qualities of the human race are trans
mitted from generation to- generation.
1t is true that environment has its ell
feet also. / have noticed a marked
ameHoration Of certain regrettable
tendencies of yours since you have
been in daily association with me, for
instance, but we are largely what our
grandfather, my grandfather and my
father were all men of remarkable
beauty physically and their mental
powers were far above the average. OF
myself l say nothing. Modesty was
also a marked characteristic of my
father, my grandfather and my great
grandfather"
Il know they say it skips a genera
tion every once in a while" said the
bill clerk THAT may account for 1t. y
why this sudden interest in sub
ject entirely unconnected with the Of
flee routine, johnny" asked the cash
Ter. Are you beginning to notice any
of your own little idiosyncrasies?
don't want to pry into your family
history, but you understand. of course
that our proclivities are not necessari-
ly afforded the same opportunities for
development in successive descents. II
you have an ancestor who suffered the
extreme penalty Of the law for sheer
stealing it doesn't follow that you will
be hanged for a like offense. You may
have a penchant for petit larceny and
yet circumstances may render petit
larceny unnecessary IN your case
Cheer up, my dear boy"
IT'S hard to be cheerful when you
get to shooting off your mouth" SAID
the bill clerk. I'm not worrying about
myself. though. What 1 was wonder
ing was whether a fellow took after
the male or the female side Of Inc
house"
1T depends on whether a fellow is &
girl or a boy" said the cashier. 'I1
he's a boy he'll have whiskers just like
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-23
TRYING TO CAPTURE A NATION
AL PARK.

San Francisco comes into play too
often as a disturber of the public
peace.
For nearly fifteen years the author
tiles there have been attempting to
get possession of the Hetchy -Hetchy
valley in the Yosemite national Dark
with it's lake for city water supply.
The valley is about three and half
miles long and of width varying from
one quarter to three quarters of a
mile. Next to the Yosemite valley, of
which It is an almost perfect dupli-
cation, it is, perhaps, the most beauti-
full tract of land in the peoples pos
session.
There are fourteen other sources
from which San Francisco can OBJ
tain a water supply. Secretary Gar
field does not contend that this is the
best and most available supply for
the city," as he had it in the first
copy of his decision. In revising it,
he struck out the words "the best and
most" inserting in pen writing other
words to make it read "a desirable
and available supply"
In order that tie grant made by
secretary CARRIED may not De reNo-
cable at the pleasure of any future
secretary of the interior, a bill has
been introduced inc congress by
which the city hopes to secure the
possession of this valley forever.
Since this would shut out all camp
ers and tourists from this magnificent
national reserve, a protest has been
raised against this disposition being
made of such a valuable piece of prop
erty.
Why should the government convey
without cost to San Francisco public
property with water rights valued at
SIC. 100000?
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-23
The Circulation OF
The Bulletin.

The Bulletin has the largest cir
culation of any paper in Eastern
Connecticut, and from three to four
times larger than that Of any IN
Norwich. It is delivered to over
5000 of the 4.o5s houses in Nor
wich, and read b. ninety three per
cent. Of the people. In Windham
it Is delivered to over 900 houses
in Putnam and Danielson to over
LOO, ard in all Of these places i
Is considered the local daily.
Eastern Connecticut has forty
nine towns. one hundred and sixty
five post office districts and forty
one rural free delivery routes.
The Bulletin is sold in every
town and on all Of the r. F. D,
routes in Eastern Connecticut.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-23
THE BULLETINS DAILY STORY
ON HEREDITY.

his father if he gets to be a man and
doesn't use a razor. If she's girl the
probability is strong that by the time
she's 20 she'll be taking a certain IN
terest in dress and dry goods adver-
tisements in the papers"
"Hum-m,7 said the bill clerk,
thoughtfully. "Well, L don't know what
to think
Bend the energies of your massive
intellect to the invoice file,' suggested
the cashier That's something you
can manage without any great strain.
When in doubt try to do something to
earn your salary
do you think we change as we grow
older?" persisted the bill clerk.
"Pd hate to discourage you by say
ing that l didn't" replied the cashier,
why, yes. Johnny, we certainly
change. You'll have considerably more
sense ten years from now, in all prob
ability. Wisdom increases with girth
and follies fall from us with the hair
sweeten and our hearts soften. Age is
great improver, my SON."
Il don't know" said the bill clerk,
obviously i've never seen a man
that l thought was improved by age.
They get crankier and gabbier, that S
all. AS for girls-wOmen-
"Tn tell you about that" said the
cashier. L expect Silt II turn Jul ~ DS
great deal like her mother. She'll
have the same double chin and a sim
liar false front and artificial teeth.
She'll babble about uninteresting
things in the same way. without the
least doubt. You take the old man
aside some evening when you're up
there and ask him if the young woman
doesn't remind him a great deal of her
mother when she was a girl I'll bet
he'll say that she does. He won't
realize that he's knocking when he
says so, either That's the only COM
fort 1 can hold out to you, Johnny
You can't get around heredity and you
| can't keep Arabella in a cool place
| sealed up in a glass jar. She's bound
| to change; but it will come so grad
ually that you'll never notice it, so &C
/ right ahead"
/ you're about the biggest chump
| ever saw" said the bill clerk, disgust
! edly.-Chicago News.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-23
Ancient oratory Recipe.

A politician. at the end Of a speech,
was congratulated upon its oratOry.
What is your recipe for good ora
tory?" a reporter asked.
I am afraid oratOry comes natural
was the reply There is. though, one
recipe for it. old Job Walmby's, but it
is hardly satisfactory.
"sTha wants to be a public speyker,
dos tina, lad?" Job, in his Yorkshire
dialect, would say; an that thenks
AVN the chep to put tina up to a
wrinkle abou It? Tha's right. amin.
Now. bark thai When tina rises to
meek thy speych. hit TABLE and open
thy mowth. If now comes, TAX a sup
O. water an hit TABLE again. Then
open thy mowth wider tran afoor.
Then. II nowt comes, TAX thysen off.
an leave public speyl1in' to such as
me- Tit Bits
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-23
TWO WAYS OF BEING CORRUPT

The tilt between president Roose-
welt and Senator TilIman has led Col
lier's Weekly to disclose its investi-
cations of the South Carolina state
dispensary, a great moral institution
for which Tillman stood as sponsor,
and through which Tillman was bene-
flied politically and the whisky firms
and their allies in five years robbed
the state Of three millions. Golfers
Weekly says:
There is no evidence that Tillman
profited in money by this wholesale
corruption: his profit was political.
The dispensary graft held all the small
and corrupt politicians true as steel
There is evidence. however, beyond
mere probability, to indicate that Till
man knew what was going on. Long
before the original commission began
its work on the great moral institu-
ton, Tillman appointed an acquaint-
ance named Font to the state constab-
ulary, which existed to protect and
police the dispensary. As Font rose
in the service lie learned the inside
workings Of the dispensary system,
and he wrote Tillman a letter charg-
ing most Of the corrupt practises
which have since been proved. Till
man handed that letter over to his
nephew, James H. Tillman, the man
who shot n. G. Gonzales, and James
Tillman pigeonholed it. After the COM
mission of 1905 had proved how rotten
the dispensary was, and at a time
when no politician was so hardy as to
defend it, James Tillman, with some
parade of virtue, turned over that let
ter to the commission. There are two
ways Of being corrupt in politics. One
is to take the money yourself; the
other is to shut your eyes and let the
boys have their Bit"
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-23
THE RESULT OF THE EARTH
QUAKE.

The great earthquake in Italy has
30 unsettled affairs in a large region
Of country that the suffering people
must find new homes and means of
subsistence elsewhere; and it is es-
timated that from 10000 to 100000
will seek homes in this country dur
ing the present year.
It is not strange that they turn to
the country from which their coun-
trymeh have sent millions to the old
country every year for many years
and which has been estimated to have
reached about $60,000,0O0 in a single
year of late. The country which could
respond so quickly with millions to
alleviate distress must indeed be an
inviting land.
70 view Of these statements, It is
rnought possible that a million and a
half Of aliens may seek homes and
employment in America during 1909,
which, CONSIDERING the prospects, is
the greatest menace unskilled labor
has been called upon to face for many
years.
The recovery from the panic has
been steady, but slow. and the build
ing Of railroads and construction in
general is at low ebb, so that labor
does not seem to be as abundant
as the influx Of such an additional
population would require.
There is a great demand in the
country for faithful and efficient
workers IN the agricultural districts,
and many thousands Of them could
find employment in the agricultural
states.
Since the country always has been
able TO take care OF its immigrants
It is not likely that 1909 will mark
an exception to its ability to care for
all.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-23
DEALING WITH THE INEsRlATEs


Some one has said that the round
er is the finished product of the sa-
loom; and with more than 100000
saloons in this country making drunk
ards every day in the year, the refor-
nation of this unfortunate class has
become a great and abiding prob
lem.
DR.. Henry Graham Furday, who is
at the head of New York mission
settlement, declares that it is a more
difficult task to reform a chronic
drunkard than it is to cure a tuber-
culosis patient in an advanced stage
of the disease. To transform con-
slmptive into a person of fairly ro-
Dust health strikes DR.. Furday as a
, simpler achievement than to reclaim
a rounder
Most of the states are moving for
the establishment Of immense and
I expensive reformatories to try to stem
the tide of ruin which flows from the
licensed saloons, although 1t is APP
parent that the Jail is a failure in
this respect; and those who have been
in the hospital wsrk aver that method
is no worker of miracles.
Now it is believed that the farm
colony for confirmed inebriates is the
best and most promising recourse for
success in treating these cases. The
plan is to commit confirmed inebri-
ates to the farm for an indefinite pc
ROD and to work them steadily in the
open air.
The best work possible is believed
to be in taking care Of the boys. 1t is
alleged that the person who has not
created the drink habit before he is
% is not likely to. To protect minors
and to keep them from cultivating a
thirst for liquor is the surest way of
! decreasing the number of inebriates,
who, a New York justice declares,
are "a greater social menace than
I
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-23

DR.. Zaharin, who has just died in
Moscow and left a fortune Of over
81 .OOO. 600, was one of the most famous
as he was also the most eccentric of
physicians in Russia. Even when he
was summoned to attend Car Alexan-
der III. in his last illness DR.. Zaharin
REQUIRED the same preparation for his
visit to the palace as to any one Of his
patients homes. That is to say, all
dogs had to be kept out of the way, all
clocks stopped and every door thrown
wide open. Following a process of
gradual undressing. he left his furs in
the hall. his overcoat in the next room,
his gaIoshes in the third and, continu-
ing. arrived at the bedside in ordinary
indoor costume.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-23

d. Hyde's abba, Father" series OF
brief meditations OF prayers strong,
sane. deep going, taking into oonsid-
GRAFTON a wide variety of human need
and desire. One who reads a page or
two from this little book before going
into the temptations and struggles Of
the day will be equipped to fight the
good fight.
Five Interesting boOks-only a frac-
ton of the good and helpful volumes
that have lately been issued, but in
such hooks as these and many more
mat might be linkeo with them, are
helm and quickening for all who will
read. 1.,eon-
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-23
As to the Port Of Charleston.

Charleston IS exnlting over a prom
Use by Mr.. Taft to cast the lead line
himself, when the cruiser North Caro-
lima bears him out of the harbOr on
the start for Panama, (which means"
saws the News and Courier. that here
after there win be no question, GER
tainly in official circles, as to the ad-
vantages of the port Of Charleston"
Is there then. some question about it?
Waterbury American
Norwich bulletin., 1909-01-23

Sir James Crichton- Browne, the
famous English physician, is not in fav-
or of teaching children to use their left
hands equally with their right. Some
time ago, in the course Of a lecture, ne
made come strong remarks against am
| bidexterity.