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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-04-22
Enasaement Announced.

Mr.. and Mrs. v. Gentle. of Bel
laire. o. announce tho ouraEemcnL-os
their daughter Miss Bessie. to VIZ. %
Caldron. prominent young business
man OF Saron. ia Tho wedding fs
to take place On May.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-04-22

Miss Elizabeth Daily entertained
Monday afternoon az her home. The
affair was in the nature OF an Easter
party. Juvenile games and music
were enjoyed and dainty refreshments
were served.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-04-22
White Rose Club.

Tho White Rose club entertained
with a dance Thursday evening At
Central Garden club rooms. Music
was furnished by Alfred Hoose.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-04-22

Music pupils o. ST. Joscrh'c academy
are arranging for th, musical to DE
given sowc time iu the near future
200 the school haU
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-04-22
Supper and psnee.

Tuesday evening the Burt hive No.
IS Ladies OF Macca5ees. VIII give a
upper and dance a. the Carroll club.
supper viii he served from . until g
o'clock.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-04-22

Dainty luncheon was served AT the
Y. w. {. A. Monday. The menu in
cluded all seasonable dainties and
decorations were appropriate TO
Easter.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-04-22
Church Reception.

A reception was held in Trinity LII
theran church Monday evening IN
honor OF new members OF the congrs-
cation. y musical program was rem
dered and refreshments were served
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-04-22

Prof Walter ID Brown and Mrs
Fred Frazier. % this city. viii sing ~
The high school commencement AZ
-ardis o.. or MAY o.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-04-22
Eightsenth Anniversary.

Mr. and Mrs. WIN. Stohhs celebrated
their eighteenth wedding anniversary
at their home ON The Island Monday
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-04-22

Meyers hall. Island. Elaborate ar
rangements are being made and the
anair Will be a very enjoyable one.
The following young ladies are IN
charge: Miss Edna Kidd, Olive Rip
peto. Elvera Young, Helen Digby, Xie
Mitchell. Elinor Sweeney. Mrs. chester
blackburn and Mrs. Harvey Reppetto.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-04-22
Bridoe PARTY.

The Fort Henry Chapter. Daughters
NJ the Revolution. VIII give q bridge
party saturday afternoon in the Fort
Henry club.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-04-22
Passion pIaX.

The German Columbia club will put
on the Passion play IN photo pictures
IN the new auditorium this afternoon
and evening.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-04-22

lghtful evening Is being anticipated.
All gymnasium pupils are requested
10 report for practice OF basket ball
Friday evening.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-04-22
suaner and pane.-

Tuesday evening the fmr' Hive. $50.
aN. I-"iin. n' fho Ntrlheos. gave o.
supper 1ni anu.o in Carroll laII
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-04-22
Five Hundred Party.

Miss Violet Adams VIII entertain
With a ave hundred party Friday even.
ing.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-04-22
Organ Recital.


An organ recital will be given by
DR.. Louis A. Brookes at 81. Matthews
church Sunday. The program fol-
lows:
1. Chanson Triste. .Tschaikowsky
Peter lltitsch TschailSowsky. ona
or the most noted Russian connpos-
erS or the cay, was born April Is
1870. at WoridnEk. In the govern
ment or Wiatila NJ. Tschaikowsly
makes frequent use or the rhythm
and tunes OF Russian Peoples songs
and dances. occasionally also OF GER
tain quaint harmonic sequences
REGULAR TO Russfan church music
Hts compositions, more or less. hear
the impress OF the Slavonic tempera-
ment-fiery eNaltation on a basis OF
languid melancholy
:. Observation-Disclosures and Flu
gate on Hymn L.. Melcombe
3. Triumphal March. .Lemmens
Nicolas Jacques Lemons. was
born January 5. 1893, at Zoerie-
farwys: Waterloo. Belgium. where
his father was organist At II
years OF age he was put under Van
der Brock, orEanist ~ Dieste. At
the end OF 81. lie returned 10 the
Conservatoirc at brussels There ne
became the pupil OF Fetis. In lsls
he when az the government expense
20 Bresiau and remained there n year
studying the organ under A. Hesso.
no sent him back at tho end %
that time. with "a testimonial 20 tho
effect that he played Bach as well
as he himself I'D" y. J. lsemmens
died January so. 1881.
y. B.-The next recital will be on
Sunday Nav I4th 1911
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-04-22
VIII slnu.

Mrs Elsie Kiucheloo will sin, a-
the Shadysid" high school commence
ment on May 70.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-04-22

Hilton. Bessie Dorsey. Mary Il. Geb-
hart. Mrs. Kincheloe. Hazel Seamon.
Pianist-Miss Lulu Adolph.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-04-22

Tho Virginia club danced al the
Armory han. Benwood, Thursday
evening.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-04-22

Island sewing Club Dance.
Friday evening tho Island Sowing
Club WIZ entertain with dance in
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-15
Law Enough; Enforce It.

| Editors Kennebec Journal:
| As one travels into different sec
tions of the State and observes for
himself the differing conditions under
enforcement and nom enforcement
sheriffs, one does not feel the trouble
to be with us here in Maine that we
lack for law enough. constitutional or
statutory, to keep our cities and towns
fairly clean from the liquor traffic.
We lack rather clean. honest men in
our sheriffs, county attorneys, mayors
of cities and selectmen of our towns
and those who will hold up their hands
in decent. orderly government. A
man high up in the work of the Maine
Civic League, in telling a body of
clean citizens of a Central Maine town
recently the way they should go to
work to effectually fight the forces
which are bent on repeating the con-
stitutional amendment at the polls
next September, made it very clear to
those men that we need not more law
or different laws but more men or diff
ferent men than we have been wont
To entrust with the more important
civil stations. His size-up of the
situation corresponds with that of ouI
efficient sheriff in Somerset county;
with that of a past Maine governor
whom we intimately know: with hun
dreds, yes, thousands of good men and
women in Maine who observe and
think and act for themselves in look
ing this great liquor question here in
Maine square in the face.
This is no year in which to go all
over the right and wrong of the SELL
ing or the drinking of liquor. No cloud
obscures our visions on that point
Neither should We give ear to those
who come among us to shout the way
people do in other states of the Union
in. attempts to keep the rum traffic
where it belongs. away from our
homes, our schools, our citadels of
popular government ITSELF Thinking
men and women know something of
the power of mind over matter. 1t is
to be a straight lineup this fall be-
tween the liquor hosts and those who
fell it would be great step backward
flor Maine to go back on the teachings
pr her history and repudiate her laws
Which none but those who hate re-
sraint in reality dislike.
The master minds of the country
laght for 30 years before the Civil
Wr against the extension of human
slaery. Their experiences were paral-
ieiBomewhat with the experiences
may Maine people have had since the
oiVl war in lighting the eyr threat
ehln growth of the liquor power 1t is
Sfat question We are to have put up
TO usto solve in September, great
leSSol i'm the Fundamental nrinoiplac
oil p9ular government. The issue is
not ~ away. Party discipline, party
preefnt and all the glittering,
thoua not essential. array of faulty
hsare1s should not avail to cloud the
real Shall Maine be honest? ?"
II. F. TOTMAN.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-15
"Loan Shark" Practices.

The Massachusetts committee on
banks and banking for three hours,
Thursday, heard the experiences of
many witnesses with loan sharks. :"
Stories of dealings with small money
lenders all were of the same tenor
of so per cent. interest and exorbitant
charges. The committee will con-
tinue the hearing next Tuesday.
One mans story was as follows:
He had borrowed of a loan company,
about six months before, $3.50, giving
his note for $155. Within six months
he had paid in interest and for record
ing papers between 1913 and $95. He
went TO the loan office and asked to
take up the note, rendering $l55. The
company refused to give up the note
unless he paid $3.50. although admit
ting that he had paid .one months in
terest the day before. The note called
for 8 per cent. per month. 1t was
called in each month and the maker of
the note had to pay for making out
new papers. After visiting police
headquarters the man paid $l5S.75 and
received the note. The district at
torney said he could do nothing, and
that seems to be the situation in
many thousands of other such cases
throughout the country. Officials can
do nothing and there is yet no law
under which these sharks can be eff
fectively handled. But the making
public of their methods will probably
soon put an end to the whole dis
reputable business. Public indigna-
ton has manner of wiping out some
things that cannot be gotten at by the
law
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-15
Why We Don't Go to Church.

AiodI IbtCpIu.p
Behind the interesting consideration
| of revivals and revivalism there is 4
far deeper question, one that is funda-
mental TO the whole fabric of Ameri-
can civilization. ~
Admittedly church going and church
support are not keeping pace with the
increase in our own population. II is
not meeting and solving the ethical
problems of our own life. 1t is not
reaching, even remotely, the masses OF
our own population. 1t is making lit
tie if any impression for good upon
the great foreign multtudes of our
great cities.
Many reasons are given for this.
Their discussion here would be entire
~ germane. but they are so numerous
as TO forbid consideration. Among
these reasons, to merely mention few
of the most often given. are:
The decline of the popular belief in
the fundamental statements of doc
trinal Christianity.
The demolition of the Bible as an in
spired Book by the alleged assertions
of modern scholarship.
The improbability, or at least the
NhpiofdDilty, VI TIE IutufG tlIe, at the
hands of the most advanced science.
The unfortunate. to use the mildest
word possible. the unfortunate fact Of
the divisions and the denominations
into which our religious world is scat
tered
The character of the preaching in
many pulpits as not appealing to
thoughtful minds.
The fact that owing to the poor ma
terial support accorded to it, the pull
pit is rot attracting strong men TO the
ministry but rather the reverse
The fact that the services and the
puoiic worship are dry and unappre-
clative-often crude and inartistic-
and that attendance upon them is a
burden rather than a pleasure
That life has become so strenuous,
and its constant duties so onerous.
that one needs every possible spare
hour for relaxation and repose
The fact that the punitive side of
theology has been entirely abandoned
and that men are no longer afraid
not to be religious.
The fact, most often urged as eX-
planatory, that the constant supply of
reading matter-books, magazines. and
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-15
SOME PoSTScRIPTS.

wlrttw refrigerator that a Wash
lngton. d c., man has patented fits
mo the PACE of, the lower sash. blu;
can be ptercd out OF the way if it
obstructs, tie light.
For tesrrs the resistance to the air
oil any ilNlrf machine plane a railroad
oVoO leet ION, carrying a specially de-
signed electrH car, has been built near
Paris.
Inc heart o an average adult makes
ABOUT one tpee thousandth of a volt
Oh eiectrlcltyls every beat and an in
strument hasheen invented sensitiva
enough 10 meaure ii.
Ehgiisn physeians are invests eating
tne uiscoVery g an alleged cure for
tuberculosis oymeans of the ammo
mated gases gehrated in the produc-
tloh oil maggotfor fish bait.
Superimposings four planes each
shsHtly IN aoVaha of the one below
IT. hehtucKy Fiator has built a
quadruplane withyhich he has made
many short, thong suecessfnl FIGHTS
elhiah mas VENTED shoes cons
tanning PAD IN sth a position that
tiie thrust IN walkig is taken up by
the base of the tod nreventine tho
ties iaming and defining Themselves
New Yorker las notente6 n
sprinkling device 10 rable a man To
wet down the asheshs n. CLEANS !.
iieatei' aNertlhS the dsger of fire and
permitting the ashes / he sifted inn
mediately
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-15

Bishop James A. McFaul of the
Roman Catholic diocese of Trenton,
N. j., declares that Journalism must
return to the Ten Commandments. He
advocates a getting together of news
paper men for the purpose of forming
a code of ethics similar to those
adopted by physicians and lawyers
and binding themselves to adhere to
them upon their honor as journalists.
Judging from recent Incidents that
have come to light in regard to the
doings of some physicians and lawyers
in certain parts of the country we
feel like saying that without any such
coming together as the reverend faith
er suggests the newspaper men are a
great deal nearer to a practical code
of ethics than those he would have
them emulate
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-15
How They Hate the lawl


The system needs to be viewed in
all its aspects and relationship effect
on the consumption of liquor and the
number of secret drinking places
which prohibition always multiplies:
the substitution of hard stuff for
malt liquors; the tendency to adulter-
alton and poisonous compounds; the
relation to pauperism, insanity. crime
and divorce; the relative efficacy in
keeping liquors away from the home;
the results upon courts, police admin
istration and civic virtue generally of
law unenforced or nullified, and which
the majority. though voting for it,
don't want really enforced-all these
and more understanding considera-
tons must be kept in view in coming
to judgment on prohibition. The
prohibitionist method of dealing with
these considerations is to shout mo
license" Very simple. but hardly con-
vincing to the inquiring mind.-Port-
land Argus.
How they fear and hate the law!
How they attack it by misrepresenta-
ton! How persistently they revert to
that WORKOUT declaration-"pro
ton is a failure" OF course secret"
drinking places multiply under pro-
hibition, because under the Demo-rum
plan there is no need of secrecy. No
doubt there are more secret" muir
ders and secret safe blowings, and
secret assaults on women than
there would be We're there no laws
against such crimes; but do YOU sup
pose an honest man can be found who
will say that the licensing any num-
Der of drinking places would do away
with the dives and pocket peddlers?
or course ''hard stuff is more con-
venient for pocket peddling and local
commission business, because not so
bulky, but with increased sales of the
product of the Brewers Trust this
traffic would not decrease. On the
contrary, thousands of temperate"
men have educated taste for hard
stuff" by drinking sthis HARMLESS"
stuff called beer and ale-malt liquors
Even the rum press calls attention
to the pauperism, insanity, crime and
divorce in the wake of the Liquor
Trust ship, but goes on teaching the
shallow minded, and those of strong
appetites how to most directly and
easily accomplish "pauperism, insan-
ity, crime and divorce" There's
character for you,
How long would the liquor evil
last, were all the talent which under
stands the evil and yet goes on teach
ing ''pauperism, insanity, crime and
divorce" turned the other way and
set firmly for the sanetity of the home
and moral uplift? But the rum sub
sidized press will go on proclaiming
| prohibition a failure and that the peo-
| PIE do not want the law enforced.
That shows their associations-where
| they go the law is nullified and there
| the sentiment is against the law
| But when this matter is presented
TO the whole people of the State this
fall. the real voice of Maine will ring
forth true against the substitution of
saloons for schoolhouses and churches
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-15
ftft ~ IT, 80 ? r. t2t'AH p II
Editorial Com Comment rle,t
Thomas Wentworth Hieeinson.
New Bedford Standard.t


Almost fifty years ago, there were
persons who could find no other de-
scription for Thomas Wentworth Hig-
ginson than the renegade 'ristocrat
n his pack O. nggers." That was
when he was made colonel of the First
Regiment of South Carolina Volun-
teers, the first slave regiment mus
tered into the Union service. In the
coming and going of the years since
then, the sneer has been forgotten. or
revived only to prove how inevitably
mean judgment is at the end over
whelmed with shame. After all, the
scorn implied in the epithet designated
the essential quality of Colonel Hig-
ginson's title to the grateful honor of
his countrymen. Conspicuously talent
ed as man Of letters, alluring as a
speaker. fascinating in his noble per-
sonality, what he must stand for first
in the mind of the thoughtful Ameri-
can is that he typified the genius of
zeal for human freedom. When he led
a company through the streets of Bos-
ton TO free the fugitive Anthony
Burns, when he helped fight the cause
of the Free Sellers on the plains OF
Kansas, when he befriended john
Brown. when he consented to lead a
regiment of Negro soldiers, he stood
mp in obstinate opposition to the care
full and conservative opinion of his
time Men talk of the sacrifices they
are making today when they range
themselves on the side of what they
believe to be social reforms They do
find bitterness of antagonism, to be
sure. Nobody will contradict that
Rut the experiences which they en-
counter are the merest zephyrs COM
pared with the intensity of hatred and
the malignancy of ostracism met by
the ardent young scion of the Cam
bridge aristocracy who in the early
SOS placed himself on the side of the
slave with such emphatic demonstra-
tions of his faith as those recalled
above. 1t was not fashionable and
Icommendable then, as it is now, To
be an upsetter of conservative thought
and young Higginson had moral faith
an1 moral courage to go to the front
in the unpopular cause which he
espoused. Other phases of his long
and useful life command admiration
but it is his moral courage and faith
and his zeal for a cause that could
then be counted none other than hope
less which must make him an i'm
mortal inspiration to his countrymen
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-15

Five thousand dollars has been CIV
en- to Massachusetts Institute of Tech
neiogy for purposes of research. 1t is
to be expended In such scientific inves
tigatien as shall bear directly on bust
ness matters, Il is contributed by III
F Keith Company of Boston, for the
purpose OF an exact determination OF
the important problems that have to
do with the decomposition and general
wholesomeness of eggs, and for an in
vestigation of the bacterial and chemi-
cal contents of the products under va
rying conditions. This gift and its
provisions indicate clearly that some
research not only contributes to the
sum total of human knowledge but has
a direct bearing upon the practical
things of everyday life.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-15
The Wood at Night.

Shadows of sound.
So light they drift upon the ground;
Within the hedge,
Whispering wings at the nests edge:
Among the trees,
The last faint indecision OF the breeze
A dry leaf falling.
Somewhere a voice calling,
A twig all brittle
Breaking little.
A stream running across
An uplifting of the moss,
A petal curling,
A frond unfurling, ssai hHas
Creeping life in the ground
Singing with a sweet sound;
on o. bough a white spark; y9HfE&
A star-peering into the dark.
Pail Mall Gazette
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-15
True Courage Is a Winner,

With the farmers of Maine we dis
agree with President Taft on the pres
ent form of trade agreement with
Canada, miscalled reciprocity" but
We cannot help admiring the courage
of the President. in his outspoken dis
regard of political future and in the
UNFOLDING of his ideal before the dele
cation of farmers who came to criti-
CHE and appeal. yet remained to ad-
mire in spite of their conviction that
they are being made the victims of
Iill-advised legislation.
1t is a characteristic of the Ameri-
can people TO admire courage and out
spoken support of ones honest opin-
ion. The popular disagreement with
President Taft on reciprocity will be
largely overcome by public approval
of the honest, straightforward stand
which he has taken and to which he
holds steadfastly.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-15

The Washington correspondent of
the New York Times has apparently
discovered a stone wall of most re-
markable qualities, the like of which
in mixed metaphors has never been
heard OF before or since. He writes:
Like a stone wall the Democrats
either whooped the amendments down
or swept them like dead flies off the
clerks desk"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-15

According TO the report just made
to the international convention of the
brotherhood of railroad trainmen by
the president of the brotherhood, the
wages of the trainmen in the United
States and Canada have been in
creased $37.OO0.OOo in a year. This is
the first statement to be made of the
great wage increasing movement of
1910. and it covers every section of the
country II was the feature of the
day at the Harrisburg convention, on
Friday. and calls attention, once more
to the millions added yearly TO the in
comes Of various trades and callings
forced upon the country, in the high
cost OF living. by greedy combinations
|of trade and middiemen, and largely
blamed upon the farmer. who suffers
With the others in the increased cost
Of those things which he does not
produce. yet has no hand In the soar
Ing prices which are charged the con-
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-15

Sixteen hundred pupils of the Prov
idence, r. l., grammar schools united,
Friday, in celebrating Arbor Day. The
central feature of their exercises was
the dedication of tree TO the memory
OF julia Ward Howe. with the singing
Of the Battle Hymn of the Republic
why is this not good custom to es-
tablish, TO dedicate living, growing
monuments, to famous persons? On
Sunday We wore 4 white flower In
memory of, in honor of, or as an en-
blem Of cur constant PRAYERS for the
mother who is gone. the mother who
is here. and the mothers to come.
Why would it not be well, on our Ar
Dor Day mext Friday to dedicate a
few trees 10 the 40 horse power mott: =
er love" which Julia Ward Howe
made famous in the last weeks of her
life?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-15

A spell of unreasonable weather in
New York has caused smiling and
zoo that has set the keepers to nus
Ting with pounds of quinine and yards
of red flannel. After the steam neat
was turned off there came a frosty
night or two and almost every bird,
beast and reptile got colds which are
defying the doctors of the menagerie.
Only the polar bears, who take daily
sweats on cake of ice. are immune
from the attacks Of the cold germ.