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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-16
|t,thed to Petition for
Pardon Of Ice King
/ Morse Declares His Sen.
fence Was Outrageous.
,.,,s, HALE Presents His Personal
Petition To President.

|r,.binrtou. Dec. 15.-Charles w.
.me's petition for pardon has been
iii presented to the Department
4 ;-s,ice one section of tie plea
,se convicted New York banker
no in a large express package and
l. signed with the names of thou
AZ Of persons Of prominence.
1 INK Morse has made another pc
san for ner husband and this has
~ nreseuted to President Taft by
k,ator Hale. The President sent it
1 n,ee to Attorney General Wicker
!, who turned it over to the at
(nsy in charge Of pardons.
I'M routine investigation which fol-
rs the application of a Federal
t.oner fer executive clemency will
n begin. Morse's case probably
m r taken up IN its turn and re-
MIS- will pc asked from the district
Smney Who prosecuted him and
Nm the courts where he was con-
E,d Al TIRE evidence in the case
|a be reviewed by Attorney General
fMsIsham who will then make his
Lamentations to President Taft.
HI NAV pe weeks or months before
kss pardon is granted or denied.
|yr Mcrse's personal petition came
he forni of It letter addressed to
President. It Was typewriter and
,srpl about two pages of note paper.
i Mrs. Morse mad" a simple bus
ks.nke plea .ur the release of her
ksaDl. calling the Presidents at
atOn to what she said was an I'M
srse popular interest in his case.
declared that the general senti-
Int Of the many thousands of peO-
who had signed her petition was
k the sentence imposed upon her
STAND was Outrageous" that he had
mention OF Wrorging the National
NIX Of North America, that no de-
ktCr haG lost q dollar. and that at
a he haG only been guilty of a
@ial violation of the national
pix laws.
Her letter is generally conceded to
one Of the most remarkable of its
10 ever receil"d at the department.
ppoxiaately 10000 NAMES are signed
The general petition.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-16
NEW ENGLAND HUNTING
SEASON COSTS 18uVES.
Maine Leads the List with 10 Dead
Half Of the Victims Were Youths
Under the Age Of q Years. Three
Met Death by Drowning.

Oct. ., Albert Rider, 10. at West Scar
boro, almost instantly killed by acct
dental discharge of his own gun.
Oct. a, Charles Carey, II. at Water
vile. killed by the accidental discharge
Of his own gun while at target practice.
Oct 30. Millage Lyons at Webster plan
tation, instantly killed by accidental dis
charge of gun he had just handed his
sister.
Nov. s, Henry Alexander. 60. at Gilead.
Instantly killed by stray bullet of an
other hunter fired three miles away. He
lived at Portland.
Nov. o. Edward Mckay, TO- at Alton
Killed by getting into range of compan-
ion who fired at nearby deer. He lived
in Bangor.
Nov. H. Daniel CroSsman, A., at Will
1in.antic. mistaken for deer and lived but
five hours. His home was at FoXcroft.
Nov. .. Robert Wallace, %. at White
field. drowned by breaking through thin
ice while chasing deer.
Nov. -. Irving Brainard 81, at Bridg-
ton, lived one day after being accident
ally shot by own gun Home was in
Lawrence. Mass.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-16
WANT TO WE'D MISS LIE BLANC.
Proposals, Congratulations and Thea
tricaI Offers Come by tho TubfuI.

Cambridge, Mass, Dec. la tubful
of mail for Hattie lie Blanc, the little
French Canadian girl who was acquitted
by Il jury yesterday of the murder Of
Clarerce L. Glover Of Waltham, was re-
cciyed at the Cambridge jail today.
Hundreds of souvenir postcards, each
bearing a message of congratulation.
were in the mail and an immense pile
of letters. The letters included many
proposals of marriage and several the
atrica managers offered the girl large
salary for stage contract. One Boston
theatrical agent made an offer Of $500
Il week.
Melvin NJ Johnson, the girls chief
counsel. was fairly swamped with let
tcrs ana kilograms of congratulations at
his Offices in Boston today. Hattie re-
mains at Mr.. Jonhnson's home in Cam.
bridge, where she will be duartered' UNI
til her. departure within few days for
her old home in West Arichat. c. B.,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-16
Conditions and General Forecast.

Washington. Dec. IA disturbance
that has moved from the region north
of the Great Lakes to the New Eng
land coast caused west and northwest
gales during Thursday on the middle
Atlantic and New England coast Dur
ing Thursday a cold wave developed
in the wake of this storm and by
Thursday night it had overspread the
interior of New England. TIE wealth
or will be considerably colder Friday
with cold wave in the New England
and middle Atlantic states.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-16
y me CITIZENS AND PROP.
MY OWNERS OF AUGUSTA.

Dl"g a Heating and Sanitary
s,Aeer Of - Years experience
new York city. and being To-
'su Tor the winter in your town.
>udtse of the Government work
We Federal Building. would
Sreuully inform YOU that on
~" Will inspect your Heat
n, mh's for failures of any sort
improve their efficiency, or
Sour plumbing system for de-
y and remedy them
nave the testing device ap-
~eu by Government and other
sN~ aud all work will receive
MAJ, rVrsohal attention, and in
n, oil cases can be done with
|, material changes in piping
Doa a'.ators, ana without disturb
kho,. inconvenience or damage
os .pyal references on all points
"saed if desired. No charge
n original Inspection.
!, ' ~ me a, "a Grove St., Call,
telephone No. 4s2.11 evenings
Tween 7 and 9.
lllsn JOHN T. ARkiSON.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-16

Bangor, Me. Dec. 15.--Open time on
big game in Maine will end at L
o'clock tonight, which marks the close
Of the deer shooting season. tie moose
season having ended two weeks ago.
The season, While successful on tAe
whole. has been peculiar one in
many respects. unusual conditions ana
new factors in the sport having pro
predictions.
1t the beginning Of tho deer hunting
season, Oct |. guides and wardens
freely predicted that the kill Of all
kinds Of game would be largely in eX-
Continued on Page Twclve.)
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-16

Boston, Dec. 15.-George s. Hutchin-
son. who is under arrest i'll New Hav-
en-, was employed for the first six
months of the year by the secretary s
office of the Boston Chamber of Com
mercc, as an outside agent. His home
is in HulbroOk, Mass.
The officials of the Chamber of
Commerce stated today that Mr..
Hutchinson's work was Of a satisfac-
tory nature and that he left the office
voluntarily.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-16
THE WEATHER
FAIR AND COLDER FRIDAY.

Washington, Dec. l5.-Forecast for
New England: Fair Friday. colder,
with cold wave in east and south
portion; Saturday fair with slowly ris-
ing temperature, high northwest winds,
diminishing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-16
FLOOD SITUATION IN ITALY.
Storm Abated and Rivers Falling
Damage to Property.

Rome, Dec. 15-The weather was i'm.
proved today and the flood situation
appeared less serious.
In the district of the River Tiber much
damage has been caused to crops and
there has been Il heavy loss of livestock.
This afternoon the rain practically
ceased and the floods began to subside.
If clear weather continues the danger OF
further damage will have passed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-16
FOR NINE.DAYS SERVICE.
Pension Bill Reported Favoran'y %
House Committee.

washington. Dec. ia blii grant
ing pensions to any persons VINO Se'>ou
nine DAYS or more in the mihta'N 90
n,val service during The civil war -
81 DAYS in the war with Mexico n.y.
orab,v discharged and now D. w.,
,,a.rs of age or more. was repoi tc' II"
,or.blv by the House commute w.
;nv.I;d nensions today. The pension" -
NY ',,.s,.ad from ST. a month to those
g, ,enrs old. to $50 a month 10 'i'or'
~ ,,.s az age or over. Present pen :
- arc entitled to the benefits "'
~, under conditions to prevent
duplication of pensions. ,... .oio,,rn-
Both branches of Congress 49, Ine,
cd out of respect to the 'a.e hepi "
cook of Pennsylvania, the hou''
in session only few minutes
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-16
Boston Forecast.

Boston, Dec. 15.-Forccast: Friday
fair and colder; Saturday fair with
rising temperature; brisk to high west
eriy winds, diminishing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-16

There was an increase OF sl-'y" ooD" =,
oxnorts and decrease of $lo,"V"I :"
imnorts during the month OF NoNeny
mp with the corresponding perion
.o'" ,ast ,ear according to the bureau vi
'.at,.t;.s The value of the imports ~,
So r,nntn aggregated slSo.361, SSs asaiils'
. ~" -"s 20 rar the same month last year,
sifv'0'0 or,s were s2oS. 354.74l compaieu
with s19s,99s,67s for the Co. - ,onntbs
month of 1909. Exports for .he -
ending with November, lsiv. ". ,eo .fnr the
81 .425, 77o.1es as against a'SS0' .'o.s.v ubiIe
corresponding period of last ~ ye eaa ,ss as
the exports aggregated Sl'ooo'S'o'' nsrio1
against sl,555, 72O,ss1 for the sa''e '
Of 1909
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-16
)Mrs JOURNAL CONTENTS
Page One.

Page One.
hLEGRAPIi-Open Time on Bi" Game
Maine at an End Congressional News
wv Names on Petition for Morse's
idCl-One Striker Killed in Chicago
slale Foul PLAY Revealed by Autopsy
BODY of North Whiteiield Man.
Page Two. y
NAL-EIallowell and Gardiner Local
Page Three.
IAl-, Watervillc. Fairfield and oak
Local News.
Page Four.
PORTING to Buy st. Louis
"Iah League Team-Other Sports
Page Five.
VAL-Wnthrop and Pittsfcld Local
Page Six.
EDITORIAL
Page Seven.
AASSlFlED ADvERTISEMENTS-
Page Eight.
II. astlE T. a Candidate for United
Page Nine.
,s Al-State House Ncws-Grange
Page Ten.
VAL-AuSusta Local News.
Page Eleven.
NAL-Augusta Local News.
Page Twelve.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-16

Genoa, Italy, Dec. 15.-Railway trafic
along the Riviera is still interrupted by
the foods. The postal service has been
entrusted TO torpedo boats.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-16

Turin. Italy, Dec 15.--Following a hall
and STOW storm. the weather moderated
today The river Pc Is falling at a rats
OF two inches hourly.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-16

Brunswick, Me, Dec. 15.-It is,generally
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-16
MORE DEMOCRATIC TROUBLE.

Brunswick Is All Wrought Up Over
Deputy Sheriff Contest.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-16
The 7-2O-4

10c cigars are now packed In boxes OF
Twenty-Five each for the holidays.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-21

by the economic and social consequences
of the civil war. The locale is remote
corner OF Virginia. wonderful gray set
ting of devastation. which even the Sec
ond and third generations have lifted but
slightly out of its desolation. The south
ern white man and woman, unframed to
labor and respect for labor, litter in de-
nevation. are here portrayed with intimate
insight and skill. Rooted in ,nese traits
of arrest, the sequence of poverty and ig-
norance and hardship unfolds with the
course OF this strong story. The study of
the negro is realistic, sincere. significant,
though, the writer's best power is ex-
pended upon the condition and destiny Of
the white southerner under the spur of
the new industrialism. This is among the
first Of the stories of the new south.
AN AMERICAN, BABY ABROAD: How
He Played Cupid to a Kentucky
Beauty. BY Mrs. Charles \. Crewd-
son. Illustrated by r. F. Outcault
and Modest Stein. Boston: Little.
Brown & Co. -
An adorable baby weaving the needful
complications, a black-ma mmy nurse, a
radiant girl and an admiring man make
up the persons of this amusing drama
and Africa in a sort of follow-my leader
procession The beautiful girl. quasi
mother only, is following on the trail of
the real mother. hastily summoned to
Egypt to attend her sick husband. The
young man. ignorant Of this condition,
scourges himself in private for trespass
on the tenth commandment but continues
the pursuit. After numberless. laughabl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-21

episodes, of course. the blessed baby I'M
tangeS the intricate Skein and they live
hapy ever after" An hour of good en-
tertainment here.
THE RIGHT STUFF. BY Ian Hay.
Frontispiece by James Montgomery
Flagg. Boston: Houghton Miffiin
Company.
The Scotch lads of literature. those
made by such as Stevenson. Maclaren
and Barrie, are always well worth know
ing. The boy of the present story is no
exception to the class created by these
writer's. In a series Of clean, keen epi-
sodes he moves out of humble youth into
distinguished manhood in the delicious
tang Of the full Scotch flavor. The sober
fun, the pungent humor, the moving In
cident., the tonic air. the general fidelity
to national type place this among the
best Of the less somber Scotch stories.
THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN
MERCHANT MARINE. By John S.
Spears. author OF STORY of the New
England Whalers," etc. illustrated.
New York: The Macmillan Company.
BY clear and orderly method, through
informing fact and interesting incident.
the author here traces the history Of the
American merchant marine from its mod
est beginning through its slow develop
ment, and subsequent depression. to it's
present condition of marked inadeQuacy.
BY the logic of national and international
circumstances, by statistical record and
founded provision, the author supple
ments history with appeal for a recrudes-
cence of this department OF industrial ac-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-21

! self himself an evangelist of the creed of
socialism. Mr.. London naturally crowds
] this special aspect of society to the front
and reads into even incOnsequent matters
| the spirit of his dogma. Personal be-
| liefs and theories aside, however one
gladly accords to this writer his full
measure to power to arrest and delight
/! and refresh his readers.
SAMUEL THE SEEKER. BY Upton
Sinclair. author of The Jungle.
etc. New York: B. ". Dodge Co
Through. the medium of an inexcusa bly,
raw story. all jostling foreground with
none of the regulating effects of distance
and perspective, Mr.. Upton Sinclair offers
material for a socialistic propaganda.
The lightning-change adventures of an
inexperienced country boy, seeking his
livelihood in wicked city. where capital
is unvaryingly, unspeakably, irremediably
bad. and where poverty is as unfailingly
worthy make the ground work of this
economic scheme. The elements of vio-
lent partisanship. uncontrol and unrea son
mar the value of this work to the point
of extinction. and place Mr.. Sinclair
methods among those emotional ones of
the mob variety that constitute, in any
substantial cause. the feeblest instru-
ments of persuasion and conversion.
author of The Man of the Hour"
etc Illustrations by Thomas Fogar-
ty Indianapolis: The Bobbs- Merrill
Company.
A triple value spreads Octave Thanets
new story over a wide field of interest
and appeal. 1t is q big and touching
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-21

story. 1t is a good piece Of literary art
1t is momentous matter of social con-
Germ The south. for many years now a
fertile field of authorship, has produced
much fine fiction. charming and valuable
in reminiscent echoes OF stately, baro-
NAL feudalism. with chivalry and knight
| hood, with devoted service and gracious
protection rolled lingeringly upon the
tongue. This, however, is quite, another
sort of story, 1t moves in the present,
with men of two races. all equally men
now. working out their racial destinies
side by side. Amazingly we'll has the au-
thor gathered within the compass of her
story the Weakened, bewildered. conflicting
elements of this snew order. In the easy
movement of a keenly interesting neigh
borhood story, stepped in the flavor of the
south. are drawn group of persons. nat
ural and lifelike. and at the same time
comprehensive and typelike. Here are
the southern gentleman and gentlewoman,
the northerner in the south and neigh
borhood of negroes covering many grades
and shades, whose nature and feelings
and desires this writer holds in complete
comprehension and friendly sympathy.
Only sOutherner. and wise one at
that. could know we'll these southern
people of both races, and could know
them. too. In relation to one another. I'm
der the more superficial interest Of the
story itself lies summary of facts and
interpretations of documentary value to
institutional organizers and administra-
tors.
THE SCAR: A Novel Of the New South.
BY, Warrington Dawson. Boston:
Small, Maynard & Co.
Here another volume Of the documentary
sort again presents the south, conditioned
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k3R&s Real My LITERATURE 0ra l Arr gE

in Miss Dana's School. Morristown
n J. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Com
pany.
NOTES on NEW ENGLAND BIRDS
and edited by Francis II. Allen. H.
Illustrated from photographs OF birds
in nature. Boston: Houghton Miffiin
Company.
LIFE AND HEALTH. BY James Fred
erick Rogers, NJ D.. assistant in
structor physical diagnosis. Yale
University. author OF The Body at
Its Best" etc. Philadelphia: j. B.
Games. BY Elizabeth Wager-Smith
author of Primer OF Skat" etc
Philadelphia: ]. b. Lippincott Com
pany.
CAMP COOK FRY. BY Horace kephart,
author Of Camping and Woodcraft.'
etc. illustrated. New York: outing
Publishing Company.
THE DETHRONEMENT Of THE: CITY
BOSS: Being . study of the Commits
sion Plan ~ Begun In Galveston,
Developed and Extended In Des
Moines, and Already Taken up by
Many Other Cities, East and West.
Funk & Wagnalls Company.
IN AMBER LANDS. Poems. By Tom
Mc1nnes. American edition. New
York: Broadway Publishing Com
pany.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-21

tiny. it is found that both the motives
and manner employed are distinctly mod
ern. Indeed. care has been taken that
the motives should in measure be SYM
bolical and significant For instance, be-
cause Ohio is one of the largest grape
growing states in the Union, the foliage
and fruit Of the grape have been used in
conventional form as borders for the larg-
er panels. This is mural painting which
is primarily decorative, coordinating ar
chitecture and decoration.
The work has not as yet advanced very
far. Many Of the cartoons are made,
some few have been transferred to can
vas and one or more long stretches have
been painted. Much remains to be done,
but sufficient stands to judge with moder-
ate assurance of the result. The effect Is
charming. dignifed, simple, decorative.
The little pictures are very telling and the
conventional design is graceful, we'll bal
anced and admirably spaced. And it is
true, strange as it may seem, that q good
conventional design is even more rare
than a good pictorial composition. In adj
now designing or planning a general
scheme Of decoration for the new Jersey
City courthouse and painting several
pictures and some portraits. 1t was
through his genre painting that Mr.. Mil
let first won distinction, and there Is no
other painter today who produces pre-
cisely the same kind Of work in this par
ticular field. His subjects are usually
same period as the settlement Of the
American colonies. They are historical
inasmuch as they illustrate phase of
life in specific period, though not repre-
senting historic personages nor events.
One of the pictures which he is now fin
ishing is fair type Ii shows young
girl accused of witchcraft or some such
misdemeanor, taken by her accusers be-
fore court for judgment The judges.
who are presumably self-cOnstituted. are
seated at one end of plainly furnished
room facing the doorway through which
the young prisoner has been brought. The
walls are gray and the costumes chiefly
dark colored, but the picture is by no
means somber. 1t is atmospheric and
pleasant In tone.
Mr. Millet's genre paintings have found
their way into museum and private col
Iections not only in this country but
abroad. He is represented in the Ma
tional Gallery of British Art, London
the National Gallery of New Zealand the
Metropolitan Museum. New York the
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences,
the Detroit Art Museum and the Layton
Gallery. Milwaukee. In England he is
frequently counted among the British
painters and invited to exhibit upon
special occasions. such, for example, as
in the great expositions. when the object
is to set forth representative national
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-21
4 y NEWS AND NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS X x

ty of the Carnegie Institute. Pittsburg;
George B. Post. Arnold Drummer. James
". Pattison, William Woodward and
Miss Florence n. Levy. Over ninety art
societies were represented. Such gath
ering cannot fail to emphasize the broad
ening interest in art and act upon Wash
ington in quickening local interest and
Fastening development along art lines
THE Washington Society of Applied
1 Arts holds its last meeting for the
season at the Public Library today, at
which time Miss Maud Mason of New
York, who has directed the work in de-
sign this winter. gives an illustrated talk
on design. The membership Of this So
ciety has greatly increased. and now in
cludes many of the prominent local art
lists. In the fall an exhibition of the
members work will be held. At the an
nual meeting, which was held May IL,
the following officers were elected for the
ensuing year: William H. Holmes, presi-
dent; Miss Martha E. Griggs. first vice
president: Miss Ruth Darwin. second vice
president: Mrs. Spear. third vice presi-
dent; Miss Clara Saunders. spending
secretary; Miss Ely. recording secretary
and Mrs. Burn, treasurer.
QUITE number of out -of- town artists
x have spent the spring in Washing
ton, and some will linger on until well
into the summer Among these is Mrs.
Vonnoh, who came here several months
ago to model a portrait bust of the Vice
President. and has been detained until
now by other commissions. On the 18th
of this month Mrs. Vonnoh sails for Eu-
rope. to join Mr.. Vonnoh, who has been
travelling all winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. X. Bush Brown are
AVA among the newcomers and are to be
reckoned as permanent additions to the
local art colony. having purchased a home
here. Mrs. Bush-Brown is a painter. and
exhibited, 1t will be remembered. an adj
mirable portrait of her husband in the
Society of Washington Artists recent ex-
hibition. Mr. Bush-Brown is sculptor
of much distinction, the author Of numer-
Gus notable works. He Is a nephew of
Henry Kirke Brown, from whom he re-
ceived his first instruction in modelling.
II was through The Buffalo Hunt" ex-
hibted at the Columbian exposition, that
his ability was first brought to general at
tention. This was followed quite quickly