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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24
STAPLE STRICKEN.
Bake Shops, Upon Which Rich and
Poor Depend Are Closed.

Begging bread in vain of their
liveried army of servitors, thousands
of the pampered inmates of New
York's gilded hotels are today suffer-
ing strike rule such as has not shat
tered polite service here in many a
year. Bake shops. upon which rich
and poor alike depend for the staff of
life, are closed and cold on the upper
East side since the bakers walked out,
and for the lack OF their simple wares
the whole metropolis is astronomical
ly stagnant. Wheat CANDLES. that
left the poor starving for want of
their loaves. have often before laid
hold of the tenement quarters OF
town: but seldom have the more for
tune folk behind brownstone been
called upon to feel the exigencies of y
squeeze in bread. While cake clogs
the market, plain bread and butter is
now commanding high premium all
about town.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24
Saved An Industry.

The people of Maine have no con-
ception of the danger which threat
ened the papermaking industry in
this State during the recent strike.
Actual hostilities were confined to
Livermore Falls but the dissatisfac-
ton was widespread. If settlement
had not been reached the mills would
have been closed for an indefinite
period within a short time. Such ac-
ton was inevitable as a result of
the long drawn out and constantly
recurring controversies.
The entire credit for settling the
strike belongs to Maine. All the
other bodies had given the matter up
or were busy Investigating" Com
missioner Lyons brought about a
meeting of labor leader and the
president of the paper company and
suggested that they exchange inform
alton. That settled the strike. The
citizens of all the towns in which
the mills are situated are rejoicing.
Maine. New Hampshire and New
York should rejoice with them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Mrs. Cornelius Zabriskie is chairman
of the committee which proposes to
build a woman's club house in Brook
Ign at cost of 100000. At mass
meeting held the other day in the
chapel of Parker institute. stock sub
scriptions to the amount of $4,000
were received. The largest single
contribution was that of the Brooklyn
women's club. which guaranteed
$500. The building will not be start
ed until the committee has the full
500, 900.
In France there are. we learn. nearly
a million of men servants of one
description and another. or. to be pre-
else. the number is 93S,404. without
any representative in Parliament to
protect their interests. The gentle
mems gentlemen wished to place
themselves. says Paris contempor
airy. on an equality with. the miners
and advocates, who are fully repre-
sented in the Chamber of Deputies.
They tried to improve their position
and ran candidate in the eighth
reimbursement, one M. J. B. Medard,
who followed the occupation which
Humphrey Clinker' discharged with
such success. This part of Paris is
said to contain the largest percentage
of domestics Of both sexes. but they
were not sufficient to return their
candidate. NJ. Medard has taken his
defeat philosophically. He says that he
had only slight hope Of success, and
that has fallen like the latest rain
London Globe.
The talk Of a lover should be taken
one way and the talk Of q husband an
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24
The Pulse Of Change.

The old order changeth, yielding place to
Especially with us
The eager crowds that 'Parsifal' once
"Salome'' now discuss.
Dearic usurps the place of Nancy
Brown"
Change upon change we see.
The clarion cry. Go way back and sit
down."
Is lost in Twenty three"
So from the first eternal order ran.
From Pigs in Clover to the Age of Ann
Another guides more true,
True as the gyroscope my heart to
thine,
Such Is his figure new
And lovesick SWANS of plant creations
speak,
That Burbank did devise
Soft as cactus is thy mantling cheek"
The modern lover sighs
Tram indeed is gone with all his rose,
who knows?
From shops where once rhymed valen-
tines we bought
The picture post card stares.
Little toy dogs. with rust and pathos
fraught,
Give way to Teddy bears.
And so we see how rolls this mundane
ball.
why for purpose quest?
How doubt that this will soon become OF
Possible worlds the best,
When very children broaden slowly down
From little Fauntleroy to Buster brown?
~ - p. L. A. In Harpers WeelkayI
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24
The Man of Chaer,

don't know how he is on the creeds,
never heard him say.
But he's got smile that fits his face,
And he wears it every day
If things go wrong, he doesn't COMPLAIN
Just tries to see the joke
He's always finding little WAYS
OF helping other folk
He sees the good in every one.
Their faults he never mentions
He has a lot of confidence
In peoples good intentions.
You soon forget what ails you
When you happen round this man;
He can cure a case of hypo-
Quicker than the doctor can.
No matter if the sky is gray.
You get his point of view,
And the clouds begin to scatter
And the sun comes breaking through.
You'll know him if you meet him,
And you'll find it worth your while
To cultivate the friendship of
The man behind the smile. q
Progress Magazine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24
SUNFLOWER PHILOSOPHY.

Another big joke is the lodge grip
1t can safely be said that one al
manac is as poor as another
A woman was talking about d play
she lately attended. She was greatly
pleased with, it, but was determined to
find fault, as some people do. Well"
she said, Il liked it, but it was mighty
improbable"
We were never intended for an idle
life; we feel SO tough as a result of
loafiing on Sunday that we are reason
ably certain it was never intended we
should be gent, or a man of leisure.
The girl who picks out the style of
automobile she wants and makes out a
long list of other good things, doesn't
succeed in landing a husband as well
as the style of girl who talks of love
in cottage, and says she will do her
own washing at first.
When there are number of apricot
trees in the orchard that signifies that
the woman is the boss No man who
knows enough to dig a hole in the
ground will plant an apricot tree All
that an apricot tree ever does is to
arouse hopes in the spring, which are
blasted two weeks later. An apricot
tree is womans tree, since women
can always hope and hope and hope
without single statistic to back
decentralization (Kan) Globe
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24
The Commerce Court,

At the present time it seems more
than likely that President Taft is to
have his way about the commerce
court. The Senate has refused to
eliminate that provision from the
Interstate Commerce bill and the
House has also passed the bill with
out disturbing that feature. mas
much as the plan was promulgated
by President Taft, 1t is not likely to
be vetoed.
The commerce court is II new
with the duty of hearing appeals from
the decision of the Interstate Com
merce Commission. The activities
of the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion call for decisions on various
questions affecting our transporta-
ton problem. and oftentimes parties
have appealed from it's decisions to
the federal courts. This has clogged
those courts with cases involving d
technical knowledge of subjects con
corning which the average man knows
comparatively little. Under the cir
cumstances the federal judge is prone
to lay aside the case until he has an
opportunity to consider it at his leis-
ure. Serious and exasperating de-
lays naturally follow and general dis
satisfaction with the whole structure
has been felt
President Taft's experience on the
bench made him thoroughly familiar
with the situation from a standpoint
of a Judge. He felt that the situation
demanded the establishment of
court which should pass upon rail-
road cases only. 1t is his opinion
that the members will soon acquire
an intimate knowledge of the tech
nical problems submitted, so that
verdicts will be readily had and JUS
tice will be done all the parties.
1t is matter of common knowl-
edge that no man in the Senate OF in
the House was sufficiently interested
to have given a great deal of time or
thought to the proposition and if
President Taft had not made it a per-
sonal matter it is doubtful if this
reform would have been enacted in
to law. AS it is there seems little
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24
REFLECTIONS OF BACHELOR.

The things a man is proud about him.
self his family aren't.
The only game that seems to have no
rules at all is lying.
Good resolutions would improve with
age if they ever lasted that long.
What makes woman wild about get
ting stout is it always happens in the
spot she'd never pick out for it.
There is nothing that will make a girl
want to get married to most any man
more than to want to prove she could
when somebody said she couldn't-New
York Press.
Scandal can grow fat on what virtue
will starve to death on.
The more children Destiny gives a
man the less money it gives him to
support them.
The thing that is practically dead
sure to make u woman believe gossip Is
not to be able to find out where it star
ted.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24

! Increased traffic returns on the
railroads lend interest to recent
prediction of Mr.. James ]. Hill that
there will be great congestion when
the crops are moved next autumn,
due not to the lack of rolling stock,
but to inadequate terminal facilities.
Railway mileage was said to have
Increased 20 per cent between 1881
and 1907. while passengers and
freight carried had increased 126 and
14s per cent. respectively. He esti-
mated that the railroads would short
Nv. need for such extensions nearly
$40, 600, 600, 900. The reports of the In
terstate Commerce Commission do not
entirely verify this prediction, as
they show extensions of second
tracks during the same period
amounting to IS per cent. and OF
terminal tracks, etc., II per cent.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24

doubt at tile present time that the
Commerce court will soon become a
reality. 1t is not often that Con-
gress undertakes to legislate upon the
seems justified and bids fair to be
a great Improvement over the old sys-
tenn.
President Taft in discussing his
administration with an interviewer
from McClure's magazine said con-
corning the Commerce court: 1T
establishes a special court for the
expedition of appeals from the de-
cisions of the Interstate Commerce
COMMISSIONER favorite methoo
which railroads seeking to avoid reg
ulation have used to delay and nm
der the work of the commission ever
since the enactment of the Interstate
Commerce Act. This court, Kept Tree
for this special work and trained py
experience in railroad cases, can put
through it's business promptly and
efficiently. AL present, appeals from
the commissions decisions are brought
before the Federal judges all over the
country. They involve difficult and
highly technical questions which do
not often come before these judges
and the natural tendency of the
Judges is to lay them aside for long
and careful consideration-as l know
eral bench. All this means delay,
which the new court would avert"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24

General Jackson had won the battle
of New Orleans.
Just as likely as not" he reflected.
lit will turn out that I've committed a
monumental blunder. | ought to have
let Pakenham have his way, and take
the whole Mississippi river. 1t would
have been cheaper. Now, this coun-
try will have to improve the blamed
old stream itself.''
Years afterward, however, he chang
ed his mind and decided that it was
best for the victors to do the spelling"
Chicago Tribune.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24
FRANK j. HAM.
Secretary.
THE ROBINS LAMENT.
The Cherry Tree Wears a D,sconso'as'
Look and The Robin Too.

The cherry tree wears a disconsoiats
look. robin visited 1t yesterday gaIeaa
few, away. We fear this is a bad sign.
Perhaps it saw Jack Frest's footprints
on the blossoms and went off with sor
row In its heart. It had COUNTIES. on tnat
tree. II had been there before. Last
year it left US just three cherry pies out
well. 1t Is all right. God was raising
those cherries for the robins, and II Mr.
FROST came and killed them all. 1t is only
because stores of good things are pro-
.vfded elsewhere. God takes care OF the
robins all right. But what about the
cherry pie? oh, there will be cherries
enough for that, waited hither on .
South Wind, filed with the fragrant atr
0f the strobiessa Frost isn'tfevsry
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24
Mr.. Foss and the Tariff.

The Honorable Eugene y. Foss, the
recent Democratic acquisition from
Massac husetts, on Saturday last, MINI
bly, stepped into an aching void. This
should have caused no surprise among
those acquainted with Mr.. Foss, but,
as yet, it does not appear whether
the Democrats in Congress. hitherto
led by the Honorable Champ Clark,
fully recognize their Moses.
The occasion of Mr.. Foss' outburst
was the discussion whether Congress
should appropriate sufficient money to
enable the Tariff Commission to per-
form the duties for which it was Gre
ated. We learn from Mr.. Foss him.
self, that he has long been DESTROYS of
tariff commission, but now that we
have one and wish to set it to work
collecting information about the tariff,
he hesitates and withholds his ap-
prevail. His subsequent remarks in
dictate why this change of mind. In
deed it is surprising that he ever
should have thought otherwise. He
now is of the opinion that the pas
sage OF a perfect tariff law in the
spring after a few more Democrats
get seats with him in the House of
Representatives, will prove d very
li.b fIr Inn, hn
Democratic party.
OF course Mr.. Foss remembers how
a few years ago the Democratic party
passed ii tariff law No one hears
from him any words of approval of
that law. The inference therefore is
irresistible, the reason why the
Democratic party may now frame
perfect tariff law is because of Mr..
FOss, himself. Under such opportune
arrangement the lion and the lamb
should dwell together in amity, and
the lamb preserve it's identity. The
rugged North and the sunny South,
the aggressive West and the con-
servative East; the farmer and the
manufacturer, the consumer and the
producer. all should cry in unison:
''Never mind how the tariff may af-
feet me Leave it to Foss."
Mr.. F'oss' conclusions are very rest
full. The tariff is a simple matter, not
complex as had generally been
thought. No need of commission to
collect information about schedules.
prices here and abroad, and all that
sort of stuff. All the sweat and tur-
MOL of framing tariff law unneces-
sary. No need to consider the Sen
ate provided a Democratic House
shall include Mr.. Foss. Never mind
the well-known fact that no tariff law
was ever passed which did not excite
elimination and recrimination and de-
feated the Democratic party the last
time it attempted the task. Never
the spring when the trailing arbutus
is coyly emerging from under the edge
of snow bank and shall pass and go
into effect and everybody be happy. all
before the sweet perfume of the afore-
said arbutus shall have disappeared
from the land.
Under the spell of such rainbow of
promise it is astounding to read that
one rash Congressman rose and asked
Mr.. Foss why he had not come to the
rescue of the committee at the time it
was perspring over the Payne bill.
How incongruous such remark Did
not Mr. Foss know that committees
ask questions, and desire explicit de-
tails and facts? Did he not know
that explicit details and facts, clinging
to the skirts of Fancy, are more bur-
denSome than milestone hanged
about the neck Of q lark?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24

The charge that the hospitals for
merly operated by the big steel mills
were slaughter houses where MANNED
employees were put out of their mis-
cry In order to save the company ex-
pense. should be investigated at once.
be inflicted upon the guilty Ii 1t
Is not proven. the man bringing the
charge should be held responsible.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24
The Third District
Republican Convention
Will Be Held in
CITY HALL, AUGUSTA,
Tuesday, June %. 1910,
Ara o'clock p NJ
At a o'clock, p. M.

for the purpose of nominating a candl-
date for Congress to be voted for at the
State Election. Monday. September IL.
1910
The basis Of representation will be as
follows: Each city town and plantation
will be entitled to one delegate, and for
each seventy-five votes cast for the Re-
publican candidate, for governor In 1908
an additional delegate. and for a fraction
OF forty votes in excess of seventy-hve
votes an additional delegate.
The District Committee will be in ses-
sion in the reception room of the hall at
three o'clock on the afternoon of the
convention for the purpose of receiving
the credentials of delegates. Delegates
in order to be eligible to participate in
the convention, must be elected subse-
quent to the date of the call for this
convention.
Per Order 3rd District Republican Com
mittee. -
W. ii, WILDES, Sec.
SearspOrt, Me. May 9. 1910
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24
At the Funeral,

"He has been not only a minister,
but an editor"
you don't say Then his chances of
getting to heaven are even"
Not, his chances of getting to heav
en- are not quite so good. He was an
editor only a short time-not enough
to make it an even thing."-Life.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24

That Knox peace court which has
been kicking around the state de-
up and sent to Lake Mohonk where
1t Is answering every purpose. In
spite of the fact that 1t a little shop
worn
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24
Memoranda. JVQV

Professor-It was by the inscription
on this colossal obelisk that we sue
ceeded in positively Identifying the
mummy of Rameses 1.
Uncle Henry-I suppose all that
Chinese rgmarOle on there was his
memoranda of the size of his socks, his
watch number whom to notify in case
of death, and such truck Puck.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24

The settlement of the paper strike
saved one of the greatest industries
III this State. The closing Of the
mills for an indefinite period was
more oi II probability than the in
tereyted parties care to think about
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24

the new queen Will have her own way
in many things or know the reason
why. In that regard she is not es-
sentially different from most woln-
en-,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24

1t is surprising to see New York
hesitate to accept those parks
The usual procedure Is to take all
that is given and as much more as
can he purloined without going to
1ail.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24

Tile Jeffries johnson press agents
are distributing lot of unnecessary
Fourth of July noise through May
and June.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24
MoraI-Go Up on an AeropIane.

Paulhan gets as much pay for less
than a day spent in the air as the
President OF the United States used to
get for a whole year, sometimes spent
in the air too,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24
Not All levity,

DO drumuers really get business by
telling funny stories.
. Depends altogether upon the eos
TONER" replied the travelling sales
man. Sometimes | tell funny stories
and sometimes | abuse the trusts. -
Pittsburg Post.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24

Walking to Frisco is very popular
Just now, especially among the folks
who never have the price of ride.
Weston isn't responsible for all this
cross country pedestrianism either.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24

The Chicago millionaire who dis
tributed his fortune among his chill
dren before his death. set an exam
pie which will be frowned upon by
all lawyers who need the money.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24
Must Have Kept Mighty Quiet

(MemphiS Commercial Appeal)
Just think. The Kaiser did not get
into the Ananias Club.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24
New Kinds Of Teeth.

And now. Jimmy Norton" asked Il
Bronx school teacher the other day.
how many kinds of teeth are there"
Two, ma'am.' replied Jimmy:
"quinines and cuspidores. New York
Press.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24

The busiest body of men on this
planet today are the astronomers who
are cndeavoring to explain why they
fell down on the comet.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24

The Maine Bureau of Industrial
and Labor Statistics. through it's &C.
tivities in the paper mill strike. more
than justified its existence.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24

What the astronomers don't know
about the comet filled a lot of space
in the Sunday editions.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24

The prospect that Augusta is to
indeed. The city has room for many
such industries and would welcome
them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24
He Had Mono.

Mrs .Recentmarrie--I want half a
dozen red lemons.
The Fruiterer-Red lemons?
Mrs. Recentmarrie-Yes, sir. want
to surprise my husband by making
him some red lemonade.-Chicago
News.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24
Or the Lucky Woman?
philadelphia Inquirer.)

VFTIIIdUPIpTId ITUUITPT.J
Senator Burton takes no interest in
his wife's clothes because he hasn't
any wife. never had and insists that he
never will have. The stingy man!
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24

Doctor Cook may have been some
what of faker. but he didn't have
much on these comet experts.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24

The average man would refuse to
credit the coming of the Angel Gabri-
el after this comet fiascO.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24
Not Necessary.

in this world?" asked the small boy.
Not at all. not at all, my boy. Your
mother frequently goes shopping with
out a penny. Detroit Free Press.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24
LIGHT AND AIRY.
In the Nursery.

Mother-why did you hit your
brother on the nose?
JOHNNY was evolving IL plan for
universal peace.-New York Sun.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24

II Is inevitable that the veterans of
the Civil War pass away. but the
spirit which counted for so much in
their lives. should never die.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24
Not All Waste Product.
Chicago Tribune.)

Chicago Tribune.)
Missouri made nearly 100000 more
corncob pipes in 1909 than in the year
1908. Champ Clark and the army
mule are not the only products of Mis-
souri, that have made the state ia
nous.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24
VOICES OF THE PRESS.
Has Done Others, However.
(WaIl Street JOurnal.)

Talking about oil paintings. Mr..
Rockefeller has never been done IN
oil vet
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24

So many people wanted to parade
it was necessary to abandon the
project. New York wasn't big
enough
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24
Pride.

She seems to be awfully stuck up
Yes. Her husband once tried to
kill man on her account"
Record Herald.