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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-04
Editor S Letter Box
Those Who Fought Together.

Editor kennebec journal
Enclosed you @ill find 81, for copies
ot your campaign souvenir edition Of
the Kennebec journal was glad
when l read the proposition TO make
such Il collection of the best campaign
material, because We nave not saved
our own papers but have sent them
broadcast. where we hoped it might
be OF service in helping 10 win votes
on Sept. II. That time is past and we
are victorious. Now the question ars-
cs, To whom does the honor belong ."
The W. c. T. L. has done a good
work; the Good Templars. the Civic
League; the No License League; the
Oranges: and the Churches where they
have taken an active part, (hut the
result of the voting shows how much
better showing the towns have made
where the churches have taken an
active part in Temperance Education
during the months and years before
The question of resubmiSsion came to
the 'front.' The greatest factor of all
is our noble State papers, the Ken
nebCC Journal being one Of the grand
est of these, and We cannot overlook
the fact that We have had some help
from our friends the enemy" But ii
seems TO me that not one of our speak
ers could have been omitted and not
one of the private individuals who have
given time and money to help could
have been spared from this campaign.
We nave learned, more than ever be-
fore what it means to work all to-
gether, in perfect harmony. doing
what We could individually and give
God the Glory
There is great work before us in the
coming months in this battle for edu-
cation. And now that we have seen
wherein the evil lies. let us go forward
to remedy this evil
MRS j. L. ATKINSON,
Brunswick, Me. oct .
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-04

OF cid time leaders in their fellow
man
IN The days Of "grafters we have
come largely to believe that every
public official from Washington dowr
must have been CRATER.
our law making bodies are distrust
I'd the moment the vote is cast blythe
people electing them.
Yet If We distrust those whom We
elect to legislatures. WHY not 'hoSe
whom We elect to L. :. senat''
If we must publicly ratiiy the
laws rnaac by those whom We select
10 make them, how shall we voueh for
tnc incompetents who vote and whom
We would never select to make our
laws?
Are We to set our averag. legal and
judicial attributes above the talent OF
those whom we have educated and
chosen as best fitted?
The encouraged bent Of personal
liberty" leads rapidly to anarchy.
When public laws and courts of
justice are made on popular impulse
the most illiterate and deepest-dyed
enters the ranks of lawmakers.
Of those who criticize laws that We're
effective in other generations who
among them could write the L. S.
/ Constitution? How many OF them eve:
read that wonderful document How
many OF them ever read the Deca-
logue? How many of them could give
the toughest outline Of our political
system and its provisions
And these are the people, led by
Idemagogues and unbalanced newspa-
pers which cater to rabble, who clamot
for change of law, personal liberty, y
and popular control"
Better read Cardinal Gibbons once
more.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-04
College Bred Negroes.

tBangor Commercially
The social study department of At
lanta university has been gathering
some statistics about the college bred
negro and from these it is found that
more than half of the 4o0 college
graduates heard from have turned to
teaching for their life work. OF each
hundred "a have followed teaching. 20
have entered the ministry. seven have
entered upon the practice of medicine
and 3.S per cent. have become lawyers.
The south retains the educated negro
for. although it has often been argued
that other sections hold out better
promise to them. S6 per cent. of the
college graduates born in the south.
have remained there while more than
Il third of those born in the north have
removed To the south.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-04
HORSES.
(N. Y. Telegram


In the ninth century horses Wer,
shod only in time of frost.
American trotting horses have nc
superiors in their peculiar gait.
Horses in the East are trained t.
stop in full career at the mere voice
of the rider.
Greeks and Romans had some COW
erirg to protect their horses hoofs
from injury.
Arabian horses are educated in the
tents of the Bedouins, among the
children. with tender familiarity
which trains them in habits of gen
tleness and affection. They are ac-
customed only to walk and to gallop
In feudal times the most used ami
NAL among Western horsemen was the
great war horse. which was preferred
on account of its size and ability &c
carry the heavily armed knights and
overwhelm adversaries by its weight
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Radcliffe Experiments.
tBiddeford Journal.)

tBlddetOrd Journal
We may expect a notable addition
to the worlds stock of knowledge as
the result of the experiment now be-
is tried at Radcliffe, where the stu
dents are required to keep tabs on
what they eat and make regular re-
ports. The scheme has been intro
duced as a feature of that physical
education which Is now considered so
important in the training of the flu
turc wives and mothers in the United
States. Under it's operation We may
expect to get Il line not only upon
the part which fudge plays in the up
bringing of our girls but with regard
to the value of the dill pickle and the
chocolate sundae as compared with
corned beef and cabbage as nerve
and muscle builder
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-04


PEELED to dissemble its purpose to ac-
quire Tripoli. 1t was forced to bide
it's time, and that time it thinks has
come. In the interval the Italians
lfave sought to expand their CONNER
cial and indeed their general prestige
in Trjpolf, but the results have been by
no means commensurate with the eX-
ertion involved, Tripoli is poor
worn-out country sparsely populated
and having little trade. The aggre-
gate value of it's imports and exports
annually is under si.000,o00. The
trade is ostrich feathers. OF these 1t
furnishes the world with $4,000 worth.
and there are few larger single items
in its commercial accounts. The for
eign population is small, seven thou
sand at the most, the majority Italians
and Maltese. In a word. Tripoli Is
the same as any other outlying viiayet
| of the Ottoman empire, browsing in
starnation. Constantineple does not
care to make its rule strenuous, for IT
, energlzed the Tripolitan adninistra-
tion might sta up the Arabs, whose
Independence would easily become
militant. There are usually about
fen thousand Turkish troops stationed
in the yilayet for moral effect but
their officers are content if the Arabs
of tba binterland keep quiet and tacit
truce has long prevailed between the
no,nad tribes and the military authori-
ties.
The moral issues involved are much
confused. Discussion is colored by
antipathy to Turkish rule and SYM
pathy with Italys irritation at Turk
ish methods. Italy, however, is not in
Tripoli for humanitarian purposes.
Italy wants Tripoh for its strategic
value, TO safeguard italian interests In
the MEDITERRANEAN and-weH, because
she wants it.
The result of "a hour fultimatum
followed by hostilities may be far
reaching in its effect upon the world
The surest way to prevent the spread
Of warlike spirit is not TO start the
war. Diplomacy is ofttin4es long
drawn our tiresime, idiotic, but il ~
LESS dangerous 10 life and limb. n
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-04
Handicraft for Handy Boys.

Intended as was its companion vol
ume, The Boy Craftsman" for boys
who want the latest ideas for making
things. practical plans for earning
money, up-to-date suggestions for
games and sports. and novelties for
home and school entertainments. The
plans have, as Il basis, economy and
provision for the use Of the things at
hand. or which can be bought cheap
ly. Nearly 600 illustrations and work
ing drawings Published by Lothrop
Lee & Shepard Co, Boston; price,
POSTPAID S225
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-04

CON lSldtuies YOU eaii'o'
COD human government, nor in
hi lature itself. II q few Of our
led hres have been found guilty, OF
bribery, 1t is most unjust to 1nNoiNe
ailthe others III their condemnation. l
have sufficient confidence in the moral
integrity of our legislatures to be con-
WINGED that the great majority of them
have never bent the knee TO Malnmon.
@To give to the masses the right OF
annulling the acts of tho legislature,
is to substitute mob law for estab-
lished law
ITO recall 4 judge because his deei-
sions do not meet with popular APP
prevail, is~an insult to the dignity, the
Independence, and the self-respect OF
our judiciary. ! Far less menaeing to
the commonwealth is an occasional
corrupt or incompetent judge, than
one who would be the habitual slave
of a caprieious multitude, who has al
ways his ear to the ground trying 10
fnd out the verdict Of the people
The Constitution of the United
States is the palladium of our liber-
ties and our landmark in the march
of progress. That instrument has been
fralnedasby the anxious cares and en-
lightenad zeal of the fathers of the re-
public. It's wisdom has been tested
and successfully proved after a trial
sa0f q cerltury ana a quarter. 1t has
sweathered the storms of the century
which is passed, and it should be
trusted for the centuries to come.
What has been good enough for our
fathers ought 10 be good enough Tor
us. Every change, either in the po-
litical or religious world. is not re-
formation.
Better to bear the Ills We know,
than fly to those we know not of. Do
not disturb the political landmarks OF
the Republic"
The words of Cardinal Gibbons are
worthy earnest study and thought. Ii
seems 10 us that dangerous tendency
Of the times is toward bending law 10
popular caprice rather than of hold
ing ourselves up to the law.
There seems too great fear OF being
characterized as "standpatter
An apparent popular intolerance Of
things as they were. is seen
Ine ways of our fathers are not
good enough for the advanced tastes
OF insurgents of all parties and
grades of society iil
Jrpgreasives" are like 10 tuan up
their MOSS NJ the wisdom Of other
ages a
Toe many u pr sneer al tbs faitl,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-04
IRREGULARITIES IN FACTS.

Leonardo da Viuci who painted
Mona Lisa made water mills and
river locks in 1855.
worship of ancestors was the real
practical religion of ESypt's primitive
period in 400 Il. q.
English people in l4e2 were the
points OF thcir shoes 50 long that they
encumbered themselves IN walking and
were forced to tie the beaks to their
knees. This fashion was prohibited
in 1867 and punished by I. fine OF TWEEN
ty slillings and cursing blythe clergy.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-04
Brunswick, Me. oct. ,.

orally supported by that party. What
the President has urged is an indie
pendent, nom partisan board, estab-
lished by law. appointed by the Presi-
dent and confirmed by the Senate,
which shall make scientific and i'm
partial investigation and be on tap. SO
to speak. for the information of Con-
gresS. 1t is the other way progressive
governments prepare for their tariff
legislation, and it is the way we must
do if We are ever to get out of the old,
bad ways of tariff making.
Champ clark's sneers are cheap. He
objects that the men on the board are
not tariff experts. No more is lie an
expert, but they do not profess to be
They are scientific scholars pursuing
a statistical inquiry. They are not
the Presidents clerks and hirelngs"
any more than Of Congress. They are
serving by Il law of Congress and are
paid by Congress. Asss Mr.. Gard
ners constitutional ot5Ation, that is
fanciful. The board simply collects in
formation. and Congress is at liberty
to take or leave il. The board does
not advance arguments or opinions.
Its province is facts and facts alone.
1t has nothing to do with originating
revenue measures. Were Mr.. Card
ner's objection pushed to its logical
extent il would prevent even tariff
hearings, for fear that statements ad-
vanced at the hearings would influence
Congress improperly.
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Editorial Comment
The Austin Flood.


Judging from the published reports
the tragedy in Pennsylvania might
nave been averted The dispatches
state that the dam had been weak
for more than year" They go on to
say that there had been demand for
its removal and that it had been part
ly rebuilt. Naturally, there will be a
thorough investigation and the blame
VIII be placed where it belongs Yet
this viii not bring back to life the un-
fortunates whose homes We're IN the
path of the devastating flood. The eat
astrophe should certainly accomplish
one good. 1t ought to bring about an
immediate examination of the eondi-
tions of other dams. which. should
they give way. would carry death and
destruction to communities. Austin
and Costello have taught lesson that
should not be forgotten.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-04
Editor S T able


This girl, created by Pansy, grew up
as ignorant of lie. God and conscience
as can be conceived. living ten years
Of her young life on IN Isolated .uouu
tain top. AT l6 years of age, with I'M
usual possibilities i'll physical beauty
and mental power, she joins the civ
lliZed paradc-and remains for years
as completely lost to important con
Eentionalities as though still in her
mountain home. \ really interesting
novel Illustrated by Elizabeth With
ington. Published BY Lothrop. Lee x
shepard Co. Boston; prce $3.50.
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WALDO.
BRANCH MILLS.

Miss Mary Crane. who has been at
home visiting her brother, Alex Crane,
ro turned Friday to her home,
Mrs Edison Worthing and friend.
Mrs Rathhorne, who have been here
visiting Mrs. Workings mother and
sister, returned home Saturday
Mrs. j. r. Dinsmore entertained the
Ladies' Sewing Society wednesday Of
last week.
Mrs. Florence Jones is. at home car
ing for Mrs :, b. Jones, Who is quite
i'll With grip.
M. ana Mrs Clarence .chickering u
Massachusetts, are visiting at Alex
Cranes.
Ms. Helen Gardiner has returned To
Augusta, where she intends passing
the winter.
sir. ami Mrs W. j Thompson Of
China were callers Sunday al j. Y. d.
Dinsmore's.
Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Besse OF Knox
were in the place sunday calling on
Miss Annie Dodge.
r. f. Young was visiting last week
at s G. Par:nenter's.
Harvey Doc, who is attending school
in Waterville. was At home Saturday
and Sunday of last week
Mics Hazel Tnwlc, who has been Yis-
ting Mrs. Clifton Dove q. few days.
has returned 10 Freedom. where she
is attending school.
John Pillsbury Of Relfast was bus
mess caller Thursday in the place.
Winfield Small has been visiting at
John Smalrs the past week.
The Baked Reau supper Saturday
I Yt.....x -.
the benefit Of the church was literally
patroni7ed bv the people in the village,
$50 being taken.
Mrs. Edward Bean will return
Tuesday 10 her home in MaSsachu-
sets. after passing the summer with
Mr.. Beans father. 4. S. Bean Her sis
ter, Miss Scolicld who has been visit
ing here. viii accompany her
FREEDOM.
Miss Helen Knowltou entertained
her young friends ON the afternoon OF
her 9Th birthday. sept 30
The Ladies' circle viii meet Thurs
day afternoon, Oct ). with Miss lille
F1ye in her store. %7a
Mr.. DoliG from Thorndike has
moved into Frank cunnnBham's rent
PALERMO.
Mr.. and Mrs. Augustus Bcnnnr Of
Portland are visiting at d. W. Ben
ners
Mrs. Henry Coombs is visiting
friends at Liberty.
Mrs. s. B. Jones is suffering from
an attack of grip
Mrs. Mary Bowler is visiting her
daughter in Montville.
Justus Turner who is working in
Freedom, passed Sunday with his par
ents Mr. and Mrs. Dexter Turner.
Myson Turner, who has been look
ing after his farm gathering fruit, etc,
for several days, has returned 70 Vas
salboro.
Mrs. w S. Jones Of Maine Insane
hospital force, who has been passing
several days with Mrs. S. b. Jones.
returned to Augusta Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs, Augustus Benner. al
so Emma Benner passed Sunday at
East Palermo. @.Is,t
Jarvis Wood, NJ D., of Bangor CALI
ed AT W. w Turner's Sunday
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Too Much Aimless Flying.
tBoston Advertiser)


Thomas Edison, from Berlin. sounds
4; note of warning and advice which is
timely He was speaking al lying
machines. There are plenty Of peo-
pie" he said, who can fly, but too few
scientists are interesting themselves
in the subject. Thus, there is only
an ailnless flying around in the air.
If the world is To have a really safe
flying machine we must begin all over
again on scientific lines"
Fixing has become a thrilling sport.
at the expense of scientific mechanical
development. The record of 1oi
fatalities. proves the fact. The
Wright brothers managed to develop
a machine that would fly, and they did
1t without. serious lnishap TO them
selves. They did far more for the
science of flying than have most OF
the men who have made sensational
flights-and some of whom have lost
their lives. The contest as To VINO
can fly the farthest the highest or the
.sWiftest. is not making progress to-
wards "A practicable machine. The line
Of development has been in aviators'
rather imam Ill dNltlioil' Wv iAeh' y -
.yeloped a corps of highly skilled men,
who have been able to do marvellous
things with the machines which are
built. What is needed is better ny
ing machine, that the average man oil
mechanical skill can navigate with
s,ssonable assurance of safety. 1t is
Fyopn4jime, as Mr. Edison says, to get
IL IA. sxst principles, and bend at
~, tr1os the aeroplanes. to the
% :, I'm thfogress may be made.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IN 1;lall,t

An ounce of prevention is also worth
a pound of regret.
Return postage is great drawback
to Il literary career A
Most men are ambitious to % uioss
they haze been done b.
a man never thinks his wife's new
bonnet looks like~Se cents.
Things don't always go Ike eiocs
work for tliose who live on tics
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-04
VOICES OF THE PRESS.

The interests defeated Fernald,
quoth the Lewiston Journal. Come,
nov. Journal, tell the public candidly
just what YOU mean by that. Who
are The Interests" and how ever did
they do t?-Bridgton News.
In order IL have q. progressive Re-
publican uprising in Massachusetts. it
viii be necessary to have home lead
ership of the right kind The men who
could lead won't. The men who would
ean't.-Boston journal.
\ simple NAY out of the difficulty
that so frequently eonfronts our mil
lionaires would be 10 hire "A domestic
chaplain by the year.-N. Y. Post.
Result of the election in Maine in
1911 bids fair 10 remain AS muci! L
mystery as what happened to her
namesake in 1S9s.-N. Y. Telegram.
Write the virtues of your brothers
on the tablets of your memory,
Write-their faults on the sands of the
sea shore when, the tide is out
knights of Pethias News
II an interview at Rockland with q
representative of the Portland Press.
Senator Obadiah Gardner said: The
professional prohihitonists are as
destitute of common honesty as any
class of people / have ever met
When Master of the State Grange Mr..
Gardner might have been classed rs
a professional prohbitionist. Bel
fast Republican Journal.
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We Want to Know.

Can The Ginnts beat the AthIetics?
Who invented the ''hobble" gown
Does Gaby still love Manuel?
Is Steel going up or down?
Did Wickersham really say il?
Why is suffragettc?
Who stole the Mona Lisa?"
Did Maine 60 div" or "Wet?'
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er's Tariff Views.

an kl.tland Daily Press.)
slhs. that there are several
~ (which the farmer senator
does tpee with the Grange. Pro-
lhlbitiof k3onc of them of course. AS
u bred iNthe bone dyed in the WOOL
| Democrat ne cannot Of course abide
| "sumptuary legislation He is for
personal liberty" 10 the limit and the
licensing OF the grog shop. Another
point Of disagreement is in relation to
"A tariff commission. II am opposed,
Mr. Gardner says, Ito the appointment
of permanent tariff commits
sion. believe it is in direct
lantagonism to the constitutional
provision regarding the method oil
Originating revenue measures ANA
ne adds that he does not expect TO
find the report of the present commits
sion of much value In revising tariff.
Evidently Mr.. Gardner shares the
views of. mis- party leaders as F6leed
particularly by Champ Clark Since
the veto of the tariff bills of the extra
session and the advice Of the ffesi-
dont to wait for the report of the conf
mission in December so that Congress
viii have the facts before it and be
able to work intelligently, the Demo-
Gratis have soured on the board.
Champ Clark is particularly severe III
rldicule and denunciation. There IS
not a tariff expert on the board, ne
saws Have they got to wait upon a
report from the Presidents clerks ana
hIrelings, he asks, and have its .. ~
before they can pass bill? ms
means that they have no use for the
facts except such as they set them
selves. and that they prefer TO go
about revision in the old log-roliihe
way. not schedule by schedule but the
whole thing in a Jump
! In the first place. this is not per
manent' commission. It's existence
aenends on the will OF Congress, whlch
may at any time starve it out b. re-
fusing an appropriation. But as
matter of fact the bill for pefiha- :
nent, tariff commission, which passed
hothl houses in the last Congress anu
..,ras Aereatetl by ae1ilihester in the iast
aays III the session, receiVeo very
many 1pemoerstie VOTES and was gen
,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-04
Wednesday, October q. 1911.

If in this life you do not win The prize;
Let not anetheT's winning cioad '
skies. ,. not
Not what is won, but what must hol
be lost -. ,,.islo,,,
There all the worth. and all the WISDOM
'''S James Lane Allen.
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AUGUSTA LODGE DIRECTORY

cusHnCc CHAPTER, 2. A. ~.
No, IS. stated and auu ! cofn pcntiun at
Masonic Ielnpl" ThursdaN evening. Oct.
> Reports of Treas and sec, and cl..c
lion of officers Al snioHruitg C"npan-
ions are cordially invited to attend.
WILLIS =. SWIFT n 4
T1oS II. BODICE. SEQ
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You and Your Boy.

tEdsaE y 5ueSt.l
Whom is your, EEe going to for advice
Tough Tonlfa ~ Jones at the end of the
Rough Billy Green or untaught Jimmy
Who is is now gaiaine his innocent feet
Who takes him walking and swimming
today
You, or the stranger Just over the way
Whom is your boy leaning on for a
friend? -
Whom does he toy all his wee troubles
To?
Say. ono now .ns with w'ssa does your little
Most Of his. time with a stranger or
Whose sSd hagd go is lssspe him where he
Answer now, Busy Man, tell if you know
Who is the pal that he opens his heart
You, or some stranger you never have
seen?
Whom does your boy all his secrets im-
part to?
Maybe to someone whose mind is I'M
clean
r. ii isn't to you he comes, he's in dan
y Pl'tyou know of thu worth of tie
-. walk "? No., ,to ,o,, that 10 ,onrs.
eks~s his pest'ay with him, show him
49, gn -sn him, take him
ne M - 't' To- ~
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-04

ROSE OF SHARON CHAPTER, NO.
10, O. L. S stated meetings the first
Wednesday evening OF each month at 40
An members soiuurninS in the city arc
invited to attend.
HELEN NJ. IlENVINS, w. NJ.
ELIZABETH a. THOMPSON, Soc.
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