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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-19
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Boston GIobe1.


If the reciprocity agreement with
Canada should pass the Senate and be
accepted by the dominion
If the Democratic revision of the
tariff on wool should win
Ii We had free trade
If the arbitration treaty with Great
Britain should go into effect
If the Standard Oil monopoly should
actually be dissolved
If the government should take over
the business of the Steel Trust
If we had a parcels post
If We had one-cent postage
If Arizona should be admitted to the
union
If every state had the initiative,
referendum and recall
If United States senator's should be
chosen by the people
If we had direct nominations for all
public officials
If Senator Lorimer should resign
If the most radical of all the Presi-
Dental candidates should be elected
next year
If any one or all of those dreams
should come true would the cost of
living be reduced and would a single
dollar be added to the wages of the
workingman? Perhaps.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-19
Good READING.

Gardner Reporter Journal)
Good reading affords the very best
means of spending ones time" says
the French ambassador to this coun-
try. There is quite a difference in
what people consider good reading.
The best kind is that which increases
ones knowledge, and leads him to
think and observe. But a good many
read more for amusement rather than
information, and the kind of literature
that gives both is a good kind. Even
for amusement alone there are various
grades, and a mere novel. if well
written is not entirely waste of
time, and there are others that &C
compiish nothing more than a way of
passing time. Even such reading is
better than many other ways of pass
ing Idle time and those who like to
read Will in most cases be better off
than those who do not. There are
many publications which give reading
that Is interesting and amusing and
at the same time instructive, which
can be mad for small price, and there
is no need to be without something
good TO read in these days, If one
wants Ii.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-19
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
IN. Y. Pressl


Begging letters make a man feei
worse than being robbed.
Every once in so often the straight
and narrow path seems to pitch over
a precipice.t a4.,
If a man has anything that is n
marvel he is not satisfied unless you
think ii is a miracle.
A girl is so naturally sincere she
can be wildly excited over a mans
hobby that bores her to death
When a man tells with pride how
he resigned from a good job it's a
sign he was put or kicked out.
No girls pretty ankles could ever be
weak enough to need high boots.
To be asked to dinner by a Million
aire most people would pay for it.
As a sign of mans superior inteli-
gence woman can pack more things
in a trunk than he can in house.
When girl has beau it is a sign
she can make him believe he is the
real one and everybody else that he's
one of a collection.
The first time either of a married
couple has to go away they suffer
over the parting; afterward the more
over the coming back.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-19
Can Make earrooms Scarce.

Gardner Reporter Journal.)
The announcement that the liquor
laws of this State are to be enforced
sounds all right, as they ought to be,
whoever is in charge of the enforce
ment, but the State will not be likely
to be as dry as the covered bridge we
have heard so much about either. 1t
wouldn't be good policy for the ad-
ministration that wants prohibition
overthrow to make strict enforce
ment. allowing it could do it. If a
bluff is made at il, and the liquor
shops keep on doing business. it will
be argued that there is no use in try
ing to enforce prohibitory laws and
they may as we'll DE rejected and
something else substituted. If the
sheriffs and county attorneys and
judges will do their best to enforce
the prohibitory laws they can make
the barrooms scarce In the State. even
if there are pocket peddlers selling
liquor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-19

charming daughters to the theatre, or
other entertainments even when the
girls very discreetly intimate that they
might be induced to accompany their
guests were an opportunity afforded
so to honor the young gentlemen.
These young men enjoy the repasts to
such an extent that they apparently
devote all their evenings to epicurean
researches Having once been the
rounds of the houses TO which they are
invited they begin all over again
without having selected a charming
and accomplished cook!
Perhaps the Spokane girls are all so
delightfully."- attractive and accom-
plished that the young men cannot
easily make a choice. 1t would appear
however, that unless the Spokane
youths quickly wake up to their obli-
cations and limitations, and perceive
their evanescing opportunities, they
viii each hereafter dine out of town
evenings. or at a restaurant or board
ing place.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-19
The Anti Entertainers.

Spokane girls are starting what is
called IAN Notwithstanding club" but
which is really don't mention it, an
economy club" In disguise They
complain that they have wasted time
and money in entertaining men who
come in droves to sample their cook
ing. The heads of the houses pay for
uhhmited quantities of Illumination OF
'heirr daughters beauty, domestic at.
tributes, housewifely executive ability
anu exquisite attire. The men, how.
ever, do not invite their bostas.es
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-19
The Little Gentleman.

There was q little gentleman
Who wasn't much at all,
Just plain and simple like the rest
OF us who creep and crawl
The only thing about him was
That as he passed along
He always tried to cheer the world
ssWith laughter and witnessing
There was sas little gentleman
sANh6 wasn't great or wise sss II
Except as simple things are great,
Like meadows and the skies
But oh, Il king might envy him
The pleasure that he knew
In bringing unto others dust
The sweetest of his dew.
A very little gentleman,
A humble little man,
With toll and trouble lika the rest
Who form the human plan
But wonderful it was, indeed,
In one so weak. the power
He had to help anothers seed
Become the beauteouS flower. :,
'otul .SuBu 'mlq OMIT lsnr
uBmaUHaS anllI uMouH "a, noH
Who seemed to bear around with him
A kind of life and chime.
But oh, what conquefor ever tfod
The path of life that could
Look up like him in trust to God
And try to do some good
Baltimore Sun
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-19
Editorial Comment
Wreck of the Maine.
Oath Times.)

Oath Times.)
Pumping out the huge cofferdam
which has been built around the wreck
of the Maine is to begin tomorrow ac-
cording To latest accounts from Ha-
Nana, and If ali goes we'll the wreck
will soon now lie exposed to the pub
lie gaze after the lapse of more than
thirteen years. Then will be settled Il
nally and definitely the method of the
old warship's destruction. We appre-
herd nothing else than the confirma-
tion of the conclusions of the naval
board which examined the Maine i'm
mediately after the tragedy of Feb. Is,
1898.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-19
Diminished Vitality.

Some people talk very fiippantly
about diminished vitality.
They don't stop to think that vital
ity is the principle of life-that 1t is
that little understood something on
which every function of their bodies
depends. ,.si - .e4.tt-ees
diminished yitalityeis early indicat-
ed by loss of appetite, strength and
endurance, and Hoods Sarsaparilla is
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-19
Good Roads.
tNew York Tribune.)

pennsylvania is going to spend $780,
U00,000 to establish or improve seven
thousand miles of highways. The
system is TO extend into every county
and reach every important center of
population. Ten millions have al
ready been spent in aiding the coun-
ties to improve their roads, The in
vestment will bring a good return, for
a state with good roads possesses an
enormous advantage over a state
without them. Good roads attract
travel, facilitate industry and raise the
value of the farm lands, which they
put within easier reach of the market.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-19

The masked yeggmen who held up
Clemence II. Colbert the Sace fish
peddler a few nights ago and robbed
him of $2S In cash broke into the
ransacked the building. The officers
are of the belief that the thieves wait
ed for the fisherman in the school
house. A pair of glasses belonging to
the teacher. Miss Thea ID. bennett,
We're stolen. These were found Thurs
day in q deserted lumber camp.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-19
SOME PosTscRiPTs.

cubic mile of average rock weighs
Il, 800 600 tons
In London 10000 persons are living
more than six to a room.
There are known to be at least 1000
varieties of fiesh-eating plants
In the last forty-five years the pop
ulation of Spain has Increased only
5000, 900.
A fountain marking brush, somewhat
resembling a huge fountain pen, mas
been M hxy
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-19

There isn't any movement for license
in Maine and cannot be until the pro-
hibitory law has been repealed. 1t is
not license but constitution that is I'M
der fire. However, the front page par
ade OF the names of these men, their
professions and businesses being men,
TONED in every instance, is cheap ad-
vertising for them.-Biddeford Record.
Gee! 1t must feel good to be so in
nocenti
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-19
"Savina" Insbriates.

OF course the city of New York
could not THINK of doing away with
the cause, but 1t is undertaking at this
time to deal with a problem which is
giving the board of estimate many a
dark half hour. A special committee
has just reported 10 that body, recon-
mending the establishment of coll
ony institution where proper remedial
treatment can be given TO drunkards.
A New York exchange. speaking in
favor of the recommendation, says.
cost is met, will not save money, but.
what is more important, it will save
men,"
Thus we see a state. the greatest
state in the Union, engaged in making
drunkards for the revenue there is in
it, at the same time it is spending this
revenue in institutions to save men,"
after it has destroyed them.
In the city of New York, last year.
2s,461 persons were arrested for pub
lie intoxieation, and of these 1860
were committed TO the workhouse,
either directly or in default of pay
ment of fine. The average daily ex-
pense of maintaining a prisoner at
Rlackwelrs Island is given as IS
cents, thus one may easily figure how
tremendous is the cost of the COM
munity of looking after its drunkards,
TO say nothing of the expense of the
police force and the courts. Outside
of these, which of course are neces-
sary for other crimes. individual cases
addicted to the disease of drunken
ness" which has been inoculated and
bred into the lives of the victims by
the state. itself in the rum business,
have cost the city from $4,000 to $4,000.
Our exchange complains that the
present method OF dealing with
drunkenness is at once expensive and
fruitless; that there is neither pro-
lection to society, nor help to the in
ebriate; that the in-and out of
prison method leads nowhere. and on
the whole aggravates the evil by
brutalizing men that might possibly
save been saved and restored to USE
fulness"
Now we would ask the candid read
ers of the Kennebec Journal II this
is not an intelligent manner of doing
business. First, the state licenses
the evil and allows the liquor trust
and its forces to come In and capture
the mans money, his brain and his
usefulness fall the while he is an ex-
pense to the state. which is receiving
rum trust dollars for its share of the
ousiness) and then it goes about
Saving the man. from his evil ways.
and restroing him to his usefulness
and earning capacity-so that he may
earn more dollars TO spend for liquor
and swell the Golfers of the rum
trust?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-19
a Westerner.


My fathers sleep DER the sunrise plains
And each one sleeps alone,
Their trails may dim the grass ana
For l chose to make my own.
l lay proud claim TO the blood ana
But / lean on no dead kin;
Ny name is mine for the praise or scorn,
And the world began when | was born,
And the world Is mine 10 win!
They built high towns on their old log
Where the great slow rivers cleaned.
But with new. live rock from the savage
hills
I'll build as they only dreamed.
The fire scarce dies where the trail-camp
lies
Till the rails CLINT down the pass;
The desert springs into fruit and wheat
And l lay the stones of solid street
over yesterdays nntrod grass.
waste no thought on my neighbours
Or the way he makes his prayer;
] grant him white mans room on earth
If his game is only square
While he plays it straight IN eth hf@
If he cheats / drop him fiat
All rank but this is worn-out Az&z2z FL
For all clean men are as good a. IT
And king Is only that, IL
dream dreams of nsEssli
That viii spoon me out my food
A stout heart sings in the fray with
fate
And the shock and sweat are good.
From noon to noon all the earthly boon
That ask my God to spare
Is a little daily bread in store,
With the room to fight the strong Tor
more,
And the weak shall get their share.
The sunrise plains are a tender haze,
And the sunset seas gray,
But | stand here where the bright skies
blaze
Over me and the big Today.
What use to me is the vague may De.
OR the mournful might have been
For the sun wheels swift from morn TO
And the world began when ] was born,
And the world is mine to win.
Charles Badger Clark. Jr, in Pacinc
Monthly.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-19

Our New York contemporary goes
on TO say that In 1910 the legislature
passed an act amending the charter
so as to permit the city of New York
to appoint a board of inebriety whose
duty it shall be to establish and main
tain the proper kind of an institu-
ton, but nothing has been done by the
city in the way of availing itself of
this authority. The committee be-
lieves that the time has arrived to act,
and asks for an appropriation large
enough to permit the purchase of sew
eral hundred acres, preferably at
some distance from the city, where
land is cheap. And the editor adds.
This project cannot be commended
too highly to the favorable considera-
ton of the board of estimate"
Now we wonder if, after having es-
tablished this farm, "at some dis
lance from the city," possibly to get
thC fittiiiis DCy llit
which the state offers in the city,
some enterprising branch of the
liquor trust will not be allowed to es-
tablish saloon near this home, as
they do about the soldiers homes
where liquor is prohibited. Perhaps
somebody. like this editor will jump
up in holy horror and declare that
such condition would be an outrage,
to put temptation in the way of these
men whom the state is trying to
save" But has II ever occurred to
this editor and to others that it might
be as well to put temptations out of
the way of the children and young
manhood as we'll as of these lost in
ebriates who have squandered their
earnings, ruined their families and
cost the state thousands of dollars
more than it has ever got out of the
rum trust license business?
Down at Portland they are In need
of an institution, for the salvation OF
| the inebriates which Democratic poll
ticians are making in attempt to
prove that there are better ways OF
| handling the liquor business"
| When will the people of Maine make
the Rum Trust and its allies under
stand that no liquor business is to
be tolerated?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-19
Monday, June 10, 1911.

Freeseorn in old Rome bribed
d fnoh6 and~kept 1t passive. BY
free books and what goes with
them in modern America we
mean TO erase the mob from
existence. There lies the eardi-
nal difference between a civil
lization which perished and
civilization that will endure
Iarnpd
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-19

Our New York exchange has dis
covered something else that Is of in
ferest TO us. II has deduced the
wonderful knowledge that the funda-
mental mistake is the failure to recog-
nize that inebriety is a disease. and
goes on to say that the law always
assumes 1t TO be moral offence and
biindiy Furnishes; that the law is in
great need of being brought into har-
mohy with science and modern
knowledge.
What wonderful thing it is for the
great brain of a great editor of a
great New York newspaper to dis
cover that inebriety is disease! We
wonder when this same editor will
discover that the state and the CITY
AUTHORITIES and the gerat newspapers
which work for rum trust dollars are
propagating the disease. We wonder
If this newspaper will ever discover
that every day the laws of New York
which II would harmonic with
science and modern knowledge" is in
the business of breeding the disease
Of drunkenness into the brain cells
and body tissues of thousands of chill,
dren which are born within the juris.
diction OF that law.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-19
Editor S Letter Box

The publication OF letter In
this department liz not to be taken
as an endorsement of its views by
the Kennebec Journal This col
umn is maintained for the discus
sion of matters of general public
interest when kept within bounds
OF reason and not OF q libelous
or abusive nature.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-19

Nearly 8O0.OOO.OO0 acres of coal lands
are still owned by the government In
the West. This seems like lot Of
producing land. and SO 1T Is, but.
when we consider the gigantic use of
coal we can readily believe that our
country will need al these acres be-
fore 1t gets through with the fight for
power and against the cold.-Fort
Fairfield Rayiaw ~ IA
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-19

ting himself in condition over
which he would have no control.
The man who gets drunk, knows
that he is going to do so. He knows
when he takes his first glass that he
is putting himself in the way of be-
coming a fiend inearnate. He real
be. or however much he may take ad-
vantage of the whining cry that he
was drunk, and say that he did not
know or could not help doing so, that
when he took his first glass of liquor,
and when he took his second, and
until he reached such stage that he
had no understanding of his own ac-
tons or of his surroundings. THAT
HE WAS PUTTING HIMSELF IN
THE WAY OF BECOMING A MUIR
DERER OR A THIEF OR OF COM
MITTING SOME DASTARDLY
CRIME OF WHICH HE WOULD
HAVE NOT THE SLIGHTEST
SYMPATHY OR PART WERE HE
IN HIS RIGHT MIND.
We believe that the man who gets
drunk should be punished. And we
believe when the law gets done with
its extenuating circumstances because
a man is drunk that many crimes
fn cd no Of
drunkenness will be done away with.
When the law not only Furnishes the
man who sells the stuff, but Furnishes
the men who drink 1T, according to
their crimes and their offences to the
rest of humanity, they will have done
away with a large part of the. So
called disease.
A great many men are ready to step
behind the refuge of drunkenness for
their crimes and misdemeanors, and
great many men also are ever ready
10 tell you of their uncomfortable
appetite" And yet, If those same
men knew, when they started in to |
load themselves with liquor and make |
themselves irresponsible, that they |
were to receive severe horsewhip- |
ping while tied up to a post In the |
public square, they would be nicely |
able to control their appetite and show |
less symptoms of the disease" of |
which they complain.
Drunkenness, in the first place, is |
dastardly cowardliness No really |
brave man was ever a drunkard and |
abused his family The man who |
pities himself and says he has an |
uncomfortable appetite" and that he
his offences against morals |
and public decency while under the |
influence of liquor, is bastard at |
heart Too much of this pitying BUSH |
ness goes on from day to day, and is |
used and made much of by such in |
situations as are piling up millions |
Of dollars at the expense of the |
public. We mean, the National Liquor /
Dealers Association, the Wholesale |
Brewers Association, and their allied |
branches of home destroying infiu-
ances.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-19

Upon the advice of Secretary OF
state Seward We paid $7,500000 for
Alaska. Recently a railroad was COM
pieted In Alaska at cost of 10000
600 for its 1877 miles-nearly three times
the price we paid for what was
laughed at as wilderness of icebergs.
Alaska is developing apidly.-Ports-
mouth Chronicle.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-19

who made two blades of wheat grow
where only one grew before. But ne
is having TO share his honors as
conservationist nowadays with the
scientist who can demonstrate that the
average man eats just about two times
as much as is good for HMM. Y
Tribune
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-19

What flower Is more appreciated
than the Epigoea Repens or Mayfiow-
er? Being one of the earliest OF the
spring flowers all people receive it with
much JOY and gladness. 1t Is one of
the harhingers of spring and we yearn
for 1t and love 1t after the cold win-
ter..-Old Town Enterprise.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-19

This same great editor declares that
the law always assumes 1t to be a
moral offence and blindly Furnishes"
We would ask the editor If it would
make any great difference to him
whether he were killed by a cold
biooded assassin or by a drunken
idiot. In the end, it is all the same
to him. We wonder If he would see
any striking difference in his feelings
toward the man who fnsuited his
daughter or abused his child. whether
that man were OF the order Of fiends
like Jesse Pomeroy or were mar
who had deliberately set about put
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-19

Any steps taken in the direction of
identifying the city deserves to be
encouraged. The planting of native
shrubbery and vines on bare slopes
and river banks is a commendable
plan of the park board. for il viii
soften some ugly spots about the city.
Spokesman Review.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-19

Fatal accidents at the earliest avia-
ton meets demonstrate that the bird
men have not occupied their time
through the winter with the inven-
ton of safety appliances that work
Honolulu Bulletin.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-19

The vacuum cleaning method, so
pronounced a favorite with many
housewives, is to have whack at the
payements of New York city, an ap-
preparation of $500 for the expert
ment having been made. Machines
will be rented to the city at the rate
OF As cents for every 1000 square
yards cleaned The result will be
awaited with considerable interest,"
Bangor Commercial.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-19
VOICES OF THE PRESS,

Divorce is now admitted to be con-
tagious. endemic. epidemic, infec-
tious and. worst of all, costly.-B Bridge
port Telegram.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-19

Between a question of baseball and
business there is mighty quick de-
cision.-Atlanta Constitution.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-19

Why continually harp on world
peace? It's here. Must be when
correspondent. signing himself Clio
vanni, writes that he heard German
Saengerbund grouped reverently be-
fore statue of Mozart singing odd
Black Joe." and singing ii well, at that.
Why seek further New York Tele-
gram.