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Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-08-08
RESENT INSULTS.
Farmers Tar and Feather Actors at
WylandvilIe, Penn.

Washington, Penn. Aug 7-Anger-
ed because vaudeville actors at a show
given in the Brownlee schoolhouse at
Wylandville. eight miles east of here.
last night. persisted in insulting wo-
farmers tarred and feathered six of
the actors and ducked them in a near
by creek later driving them from the
country village.
The vaudeville troupe was billed for
two nights. Every rural swain i'm the
neighborhood attended. accompanied
by his best girl" and the schoolhouse
was crowded. An attempt to produce
a laugh by one of the actors early in
the evening through the medium of a
joke drew protest from one OF the
young farmers. The protest went un-
needed and the alleged indecent repair
tee amopg the actors was continued.
A majority of the men led their sweet
hearts from the building. a few Of the
ring leaders remaining in the room to
keep the actors from escaping.
Later every young fellow in the
neighborhood reappeared and the band.
armed with buckets of tar and a guam
tity of feathers, seized the six offending
actors and administered to each a
heavy coat of both. The two women
actresses were not spared.
Following the tarring all six were
dumped into a creek and then told to
hasten out OF the village. They walked
eight miles to Washington after mid
night, but were told to keep moving
No arrests have been made and the
county authorities say they will take
no action unless informations are
made
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-08-08

stable was placed under arrest He was
Immediately baied out but in the interim
he says. all evidence of the gambling
which he alleges was taking place when
he raided the club. except that which
he carried in his pockets. was spirited
away.
The Narragansett Club is one of the
most exclusive organizations in the East
and number among it's members. it is
said, some of the most prominent socie-
ty people who annually gather at the
pier. Constable Corse described the
rooms as the most magnifcently fur
nished apartments that he has ever visit
ed. When he first entered. he says, there
We're three costly roulette wheels. faro
bank and a game of hazard, all of the
latest and most approved type and with
the most expensive of fittings
The next move in the case is being anx-
iously awaited.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-08-08
A. BL.EEkER BANKS,
Prominent Albany, N. ", Man Dies at
Bar Harbor Cottage.

Bar Harbor, Me, Aug. IA. Bleeker
Banks of Albany. n. Y. is dead at his
summer home here He was 72 years
Il long time The remains will be TAX
en- to Albany.
Mr.. Banks was formerly mayor of
Albany and was prominent both social
y and politically in that city.
Mrs. Banks and n daughter. Mrs
William Lawrence Green were at the
bedside. when death came. Funeral
services will be held here Tuesday,
after which the body will be placed in
a receiving vault until such time as
arrangements for removal to Albany
are completed.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-08-08
The Week,s Forecast.

Washington. Aug. 7.-Indications
that there will be no abnormally high
temperatures throughout the country
during the coming week are found by
the weather bureau in the distribution
of pressure over the continent and ad-
iacent oceans A disturbance that now
covers the Mississippi valley will move
eastward and cause unsettled weather
in the Atlantic states Tuesday and
possibly Wednesday. followed by gem
orally fair weather for the remainder
OF the week in these regions.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-08-08
SANK TO DEATH,
Loren J. Jones Drowned
Sunday in Litchtie|d.
Almost Rescued, but Friends
Strength Became Exhausted.
Obliged 10 Release. Hold and Sees
Jones Sink 10 Death.

Litchteld. Me. Aug. 7.-(SpeciaD.-
The first drowning accident in Shorey
pond. one of the Tacoma Lakes. Litch-
field. for several years occurred shortly
Loran j. Jones, aged %. son of Mr. and
Mrs. Jesse Jones, lost his life while in
Bathing off the shore of, his fathers
land. The young man was in
bathing with Raymond st. George,
aged IS, and neither of them could
swim. Jones was walking out back
ward about 25 feet from shore in what
was supposed to have been shallow
water. st. George was nearer the
shore.
Suddenly Jones. according to the 9TH
er young fellows story, apparently
stepped off into deep water and sank
He shouted for help and the lad went
ito the shore and got out the naphtha
boat and went to his rescue When he
reached Jones the latter was quite
weak from his struggles to keep above
water. Jones was quite tall and good
sized and although the younger lad
got hold of lin he was unable to get
him into the boat and Jones was so
weak that he was unable to help him
self. ST George shouted for help but
the boats on the pond We're too for
away and the wind was in the wrong
direction to carry his voice.
Finally st. Georges strength gave
out and he was compelled to let go and
Jones sank. The young man hurried
to the shore and went at once to the
Continued on Page Ten.)
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-08-08
1ouAys JOURNAL CONTENTS
Page One.

Page One.
TELEGRAPH-Constab Takes Names
of Society People He Claims Were cam,
bling at Narragansett PlerLFinahcaial d
Review-Knights Templar BEGIN TO Ar
rive at Chicago-Complete Quiet at san
Sebastian; Soldiers Disarm and Feed the
Peasants
Page Two.
LoCAL-Oakland, Pittsfield. Winthrop
and Gardiner Local News.
Page Three.
LOCAL-Waterville. Fairfield and Gar
diner Local News.
Page Four.
SPORTING-Saturda and Sunday
Baseball results-Langford after Johnson
for Match--Other Sporting News.
Page Five.
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS
Page Six.
EDITORIAL
Page Seven.
LOCAL-State House News.
Page Eight.
LOCAL-Edwards Defeat Hallowell IL
to 10-Local Brefs-County News.
Page Nine.
LOCAL-State Auditor Hatch Refuses
claim of Coroner Martin of PiscataQuls
County Amusements - Local Briefs -
Page Ten.
TELEGRAPH
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-08-08
BECOMING NORMAL,
Grand Trunk Employees Gradually Be.
ing Taken Back.

Portland. Me, Aug. 7.-Edward F.
Gibson of the Order of Railway Con-
ductors. VINO represented the Grand
Trunk strikers in Portland returned
from Montreal today. accompanied by
Thomas Todd of Hamilton. Ont. gen
eral joint chairman of the Order of
Railway Conductors east of Detroit
who comes to explain the terms of set
ttement to the men here where there
has been much bitterness that fw were
getting their positions back More
men are being taken back each day
and the situation is becoming normal
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-08-08

Stanley r. Oldham has been elected
instructor in the English department
at Bates College and Samuel F. Harms
as assistant to DR.. a. n. Leonard in
the German department and Latin de-
nartment. Mr. Oldham was graduated
from Lebanon Valley College of Penn
svlyania and took years graduate
work at Harvard. He is now at the
head of a camp of $50 boys at Blilerlca'
Mass. Mr.. Harms was graduated from
the University of Minnesota. he mas
been principal of High school IN
that state and received the degree OF
"A. M. from Harvard.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-08-08
Conditions and General Forecast.

Washington. Aug. Normal or
nearly normal pressure prevails
throughout the country the absence of
marked variation resulting in the stag
nant conditions and consequent unset
tied weather to be expected east of the
Rocky mountains from this type OF
pressure distribution Temperatures
We're not unseasonably high in any To-
cality. There will be showers Monday
in the middle Atlantic states. contin-
uing Tuesday in the middle Atlantic
states and extending into New Eng
land. Temperatures will change but
little
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-08-08
A SIGNAL VICTORY.
Prevention Of Demonstration Is 81
Construed By Government.

Madrid. Aug. Premier Canaleias
announces his intention to expose be-
fore Parliament the conspiracy against
the government in the North of Spain
The general impression here is that
the government has won signal vic
tory in preventing demonstration at
San Sebastian. which was sure to
have caused bloodshed.
The Liberal and Republican news
pa pers urge the premier to follow up
his advantage vigorously. The Uni
verso, Catholic organ, declares that
the course of the government betrays
iea:.
Continued on Page Ten)
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-08-08
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

A special communication Of the
Grand Lodge of Maine. F. and A. M.
will be held at Mckinley at 2 P. M.
Thursday. Aug. Is. for the purpose oi
constituting Mckinley Lodge. 2l2. Ine
ceremony viii, be performed by the
grand master. and he will be pleased
to have the aid of the grand ofncers.
Those intending to he present VIII
kindly notify him, addressing him at
Belfast.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-08-08
MAY PROVE MURDER,
Portland Man Stabs Another Who Re
fleets on Formers Wife's Name.

Portland, Me, Aug. 7.-Resently re-
marks rejecting on his wife. Santo
Fer~antO seized mararoni fork and
plunged it to the hilt in the back of
Merscglio Nallerdino Ferranto fled.
but was captured and confessed to the
police. Vallendino is at the hospital in
IA critical condition.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-08-08

The Eastport Republican cacus has
nominated Everard e. Newcomb for
representative. He received 270 votes.
and Alderman Joseph P. Mitchell re-
ceived 183 Col. Newcomb has been
prominent in politics for number OF
years and has served as Eastports
representative at the State capital. For
80 years he was doing Maine military
duty, rising from private to colonel OF
the I'd Reg, which commission he re-
signed last June. ~
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-08-08
Eliot Celebrating
Tooth Anniversary.

Eliot. Me. Aug. Elliot is celebrat-
ing her Tooth anniversary with appro-
pirate exercises which began today
with religious services in all the
churches. Tomorrow will be Old Home
day. Tuesday Greenacre day and
Wednesday addresses will be given, by
Gov. Fernald. Former Governor John
F. Hill of Augusta and James p. Bax-
ter of Portland Thursday there will
be parade. Friday picnic at Leniel
camp and on Saturday athletics and
baseball will bring the program up to
the closing event. an historical tab
leau. Handsome decorations have been
hung on residences and buildings and
large gatherings are expected. Ii
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-08-08
THE WEATHER
CLOUDY-RAIN COMING.

Washington, Aug. Forecast for
New England: Partly cloudy Monday;
Tuesday showers; light north to east
winds, becoming variable.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-08-08
Boston Forecast.

Boston, Aug. Forecast: Monday
partly cloudy; Tuesday unsettled, pos
sibly local showers, light winds, gen
orally easterly, becoming variable
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-08-08
Groups Of Catholics Shout death to
Spain," but No General Demonstra-
tion Occurs --S0|diers Disarm
And Feed the Peasants.

charged that they have distributes
arms among the people.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-08-08
GOA

!Iactory's output now upwards Of Half.
1illion weekly. Largest selling brand Of
cigars IN the world. Factory. Man
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-12
AH OLD. ESTABLISHED
FIRr1"

it. Besides, the tune of it is so spright-
ly that perhaps the melody and not the
words wins the applause"
Might inquire said I, imperti-
nently, whether you have acted on the
assumption that masculine fickleness
is correctly represented in that song
of the island filled with the fair?''
Well" she said, laughingly, when
I was christened my name was Vesta
Victoria Lawrence. I haven't had oc-
casion to change it yet"
When she was 4 years old she made
her debut in some theater in England,
she doesn't know just where it was.
Before she had grown out of her pima
fore days she had won % medals for
her dancing. She has never known any
life disassociated from the stage; she
loves her work and is happiest when
she is at it, and she'd be relinquishing
a wonderful talent for making money
and an agreeable gift for spreading
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-12
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For it's all night in the summer time

Two song writer's. George Everard
and Fred Murray she said. who have
done great many of my story songs,
called ON me in London one cold, dreary
morning. In the entrance way there
stood statue of Adam and Evey variety.
which seemed to shiver when opened
the door for the gentlemen to enter.
Mr. Everard made some pleasantly
about it, and / replied, oh, it's all
right in the summer time, but in the
winter Somehow the way I said
the line took on the rhythm of a song,
and straight away the two went at it.,
and before they left the manuscript of
the song as sing it was in my hands.
You see, the accent on the words as 1
spoke them is retained when l sing
them. That's the way good song
should be written. 1t should retain
the regular and normal emphasis that
would, if spoken, be given to the words.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-12

from the usual spring complaint. But
she has made the Orpheum the center
of the city's amusement life in spite of
the exodus to the country and the
magnet names of other stars twink
ling higher up on the walls of legiti-
mate theatricals in this city.
So that's what makes the Orpheum
look like the front of the old Grand
opera house with Grau or a Conried
supplying the show.
1t is Vesta Victoria.
And. by the way, did you ever think
what wonderful name that is? 1
made up my mind that she or some
other ingenious person had made it up
for stage use. found out, indeed, that
her father and her mother selected the
ALTERATION and that good curate in
England fastened it on her with drops
of baptismal water.
But by rights this part of my story
belongs later in the interview. and
shouldn't be here at all
Z F you are curious to know something
about this remarkable little English
woman you and l will be in sympa-
thetic impatience over this long pre-
amble, for ii was in that mood of rest
less curiosity that 1 waited at the St
Francis hotel for Vesta victoria's au-
tomobile to mend its way and move
l didn't know, of course, at the time
that the machine had broken down.
She told me about it later. She was
tardy for the appointment; L should
say nearly half an hour late, in fact
But when pretty woman tells you
that her automobile defied her chauf-
feur to move it for full 80 minutes. you
naturally feel grateful for her implied
apology and you trust that your sus-
picions are correct that nothing in the
world happened to the machine, after
all, for surely no condescension could
be greater than that a charming woman
should put her hopes for future happi-
ness in jeopardy while she departs
from the verities long enough to per-
suade you that nothing but busted
tire could have kept her from the meet
ing place.
A lady who knows told me afterward
that the automobile coat which covered
vesta Victoria's gown as she stood
chatting in the lobby for a moment cost
not less than thousand dollars L
presume it did. have never bought
one. The last chinchilla overcoat had
cost SIS; but 1 dare say it wasn't real.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-12

4 PROFESSIONALLY it is such sing
ers as Vesta Victoria that keep
popular music popular" The in
crease in interest that the public mani
tests in vaudeville performances is
responsible for the vogue of the popu-
lar ditty. Similarly it keeps it in
alignment with the trend of public
affairs-expressiv of the immediate
life of the present; for song is like
play in that its appeal is not so
much private as a public one. 1t is
addressed to the composite Intelligence
and taste of an audience. 1t can not
teach as successfully as it can inter
pret. Charles X. Harris called atten-
ton once to the fact that his most
successful songs were those composed
after some successful play had swept
across the country, coloring the taste
and tendencies of the people which it
reflected. 1t is in this fact that the
songs which become popular, giving
rise to others of the same character,
are an interesting study and why the
chief prophecies of popular songs,
vesta, is most interesting person to
meet.
q fnd," said she, that the songs
which are successful in England and
failures here, or vice versa. are those
which reflect manners and customs not
intimately common to the two coun-
tries
Everybody, either in London or San
Francisco, understands this song" And
she hummed from THE Widow:
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There's another thing that's true
about a good song. 1t must be on a
subject which Is a familiar one to the
listener. Domestic songs are thus the
rage in England. where there is more
domestic life and less hotel existence
than there is in the United States.
That song about the handy legged girl
who walls because Now she has to call
him father is from life. While
was in London the whole story was
printed in the newspapers about
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the path of a stranger led him
by the doors of the orpheum this
week he would have reason to be-
lieve, as he took to the street to
get out Of the crowd. that grand
opera was being served inside. If he
had just arrived in town he might very
naturally conclude that Tetrazzini was
billed to sing "Ah, fors' e lui," or that
Caruso was about to round into sill
very phrases the measures of Celeste
Aida" For ever since last Sunday aft
ernoon a week ago an unbroken line
has tied the box Office employees to
their work Tickets for afternoon and
night performances have not been
printed In quantities TO meet the de-
-nland for the very unhappy reason
that there are not enough seats in the
Orpheum. big as it is, to accommodate
the importunate at the theater doors.
But it isn't a grand opera season at
All. You could tell that much even be-
fore the curtain goes up or before
Rosner emerges from the depths to be-
gin the show with a characteristic rap
OF his baton on the Hungarian organ.
In the first place, there isn't as much
talking in the audience as that which
makes an of key diapason for operate
melodies. and besides the folk who
come do not put on their I-wish-I-
didn't-have-t wear-'em clothes. The
crowd is more cosmopolitan. mixed,
happy and, 1 fear, more appreciative.
The classes are mingled and caste lines
are obliterated as only death or a good
vaudeville show can mingle or oblit-
crate. Clara, the chamber maid, chews
gum softly in a seat as far front as
the one in which sits the lady who
scoIded her in the morning; the judge
fubs elbows with the waiter and all of
soeiety's many types are represented,
except there are no critics there. No
rooy criticises Vesta. Victoria success
fully, for it is she whom this introduce
tion has been pleased TO present to you.
Tt is Vesta Victoria who has assembled
crowds twice daily and who keeps the
lire at the ticket window drawn taut
sll day long by eager individuals who
want TO get in and hear her sing.
The woods and the river. the ocean
fnd the mountains have been proving
r. their summer claims of late and the
orpheum has not been crowded as GUS
tomsry. The spendersY are resting in
the country. For two weeks before
Vesta came the orpheum suffered some
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-12

from the tones Of that voice than any
singer in grand opera outside of the
ranks Of the higher uDs-the tenors and
the sopranos of international fame
II do not like it, said vesta Victoria.
when critics say i have no voice. It
sounds as, though they intimate6 that
1 got money under false pretenses. Be
sides, I'd look funny warbling grand
opera runs around Poor John
wouldn't II"
Some suggest said I. tentatively.
that you drive precise orchestra lead
ers to the brink OF a fortieth stein by
the liberties you take with the Tempe
With the what? said She
with the tempo" said l.
oh. said she. Well you must re-
member that the great musicians prove
it by breaking all the known laws.
It's better to be successful than
scholastic"
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w tQOWS
phenomena.

widows seem to be interesting
phenomena
feN CCORDING to the theory we've
a been working out" l suggested,
s"your first songs reception-the
one about the Isle of the Fair-would
seem to indicate that England and
America are inhabited by race of
men who are really Turks at heart"
Il should hate to think that" she
laughed. "of course the verses sug-
gest universal masculine willing
ness to desert present environments
for the country inhabited solely by
the gentler sex; but, after all, you see
put that song on to open my pro-
gram, which is sign do not think
it's my best. and neither. of course. is
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-12

about realism in music and about the
proper fitting of the music to the words
and the words to the action which
might be assimilated with advantage
by some writer's and interpreters OF
pretentious claims.
For instance, she was telling me how
she happened to get that famous
been singing to screaming thousands
this week Notice the way the refrain
goes:
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I Poor john for what candidate for a
bridal gown has not been scrutinized
by her future mother in law?'
II EEsTA VICTORIA is prettier of the
| " stage than on. and none of the pic
lures I have seen of her does her
justice. Perhaps it is the color in her
cheeks or the sleam in her fair hair
or the smile which surely. if general in
England. accounts for that snug little
island being called "merrfe England"
Whatever it is. there is certain un-
photographicable charm in vesta Vic
toria's countenance which invites and
bears closer scrutiny than can be in
dulged over the distance that sepa-
rates the singer on the stage from tha
listener in the theater.
A hearty camaraderie is easy for he's
TO assume; not a vulgar "hail fellow
well met" sort of friendliness. but
womanly, reserved yet frank demeanor
robbed of ceremOniousness by great
good humor. She is by no means un-
aware OF the success she has achieved
in her profession and she does not un-
dervalue nor underrate it. 1 suspect
that her appraisement of her own tall
ents is pretty accurate. but she is nor
boastfuI. ostentatious. and she does not
talk about art, threaten to play Lady
Macbeth or sing Salome.
BY this time we have been ushered
to her apartments in the hotel. and we
have met her companion and secretary.
a woman who has been with her. she
says. for many years. imagined that
they were old. old friends. and would
say SO if the word "old' didn't sound
like an oath in the face of vesta Vic
toria's blooming English cheeks.
L wanted to ask her about her sing
ing
MY mother was a singer" she said.
but I have never studied voice"
What is your ranger" I asked.
~Oh.'' said she. most of my songs
are in different keys"
Il mean how high and how low do
you sing?"
| Then she hummed a very low note
You see." said she. my range is most
ly downward Then she touched her
highest note.
Between the tones indicated herewith
are to be found the notes that vesta
Victoria negotiates. the public in
dorses and the orpheum cashes.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-12

What makes the song funny is the
fact that the audience is on as you
Americans say, to the fact that the
girl was fooling herself and that her
grotesque little person. of which she
was apparently quite satisfied. was not
likely to lure any man not blind Of
both eyes into a matrimonial web. The
same is true of Waiting at the Church.
which. if you wanted to. you could find
a bit of sadness in; and, most of all.
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the cheerful gospel of good humor and
smiles if she changed her name.
So. with relation to the realms of
matrimony and the place of domes-
ticity beside the fire, it is not at all
probable that vesta Victoria will be
caught singing:
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Come along and lake me there

nUT if vesta victoria's vocal train
Fling was neglected in her youth she
does as Wullner does and devotes
her attention to the text of her songs,
which. in her intimate way, she studies,
analyzes and absorbs. She has ideas
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-12

young woman whose mother stole her
sweetheart. Some journalistic wit used
the expression and put it in the mouth
of the Tilted unfortunate, Now I have
to call him father You see that line
almost sings itself:
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The notes she cashes

incidentally I may tell you conf
dentiaIly that Vesta Victoria resents
almost as much as Doctor Wullner
does any intimatfon that her voice
bition OF that reasonable vanity is par
donable since she makes more money