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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-25
Editorial Comment
Cartoons on Prohibition.

NJ CuuhdN 4 1851
TIE cartoons which are being run day
after day In the anti-prohibition news
papers of Maine are not the work of
Maine artists. Undoubtedly the ideas are
suggested by Maine men but the details
are worked out by men who have no love
for Maine and no particular reverence for
her people or her institutions. the men
who are paying for these cartoons are
affiliated with the liquor business and it
is only natural that the artist should en-
deavor to please his employers. There
have been many of these cartoons which
were in good taste and which We're
pointed and doubtless effective. All have
been well drawn and executed but there
have been several which it is surprising
to think any Maine paper would publish.
One such represented Maine as young
woman in ragged and dirty attire
slovenly in appearance and altogether
wretched and woe-begone, looking with
envious eyes upon the loudly dressed
young women impersonating other New
England states where il was said high
license had been adopted Think of
Maine editor or publisher who would
print such representation of his own
State as this. Can he have any love for
Maine, any respect for her people or any
regard for glorious history? Is Maine
wretehed, sIovenly. iil-attired and envious
of the ill-gotten attire of other New Eng
land states?
Possibly this cartoon appealed to the
Maine editors who printed it as extreme
ly witty and pertinent. In their zeal to
aid the cause of the saloon which pays
the bills these men overlooked the fact
that there is no state in the Union, which
occupies a higher place because of the
character. education and nobility of its
people.
Maine ill-attired? No State in the
Union can boast of a garb half so beauti-
full or half so rich as is that of Maine.
Maine in rags?
In no State in the Union are the peo-
pie so we'll to do. so prosperous and free
from care and poverty as are those of
Maine.
Maine slovenly?
Nowhere can more beautiful. we'll kept,
attractive homes be found. nowhere more
noble men or more beautiful and cult
waited women than are to be seen here in
Maine.
Maine envious of her sister states?
No matter how much other states may
boast of their great cities. their great in
dustries, their appearance of prosperity
and of wealth. and OF their rich garb
Maine knows that beneath the surface
are the novels of the degraded and the
miserable. the homes of wretchedness
and dispair of the ignorant and the
criminal Few of these things are to be
found in Maine. Her people envy no
people on earth however much others
may boast of their grand appearance.
Let them fight the prohibitory law by
argument. by deduction from false sta
tistics. by the observations of her people.
by analyzing theofies-yes. by the dis
tortion of truth and by lies and inuendoes
but the Maine editor. in his zeal TO serve
well those saloon interests which foot the
bills should hesitate before he depicts
Maine as anything else than the most
beautiful. the most honorable. the most
nvied of all the states in the Union.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-25
Har; Kari and Felo de Sc at Water
Vile.
(Lewiston Journal.)

Intelligent men, acting honestly
discuss public questions upon Wh'ch
they differ. courteously and without
abusing each other. Men of shallow
intellect or insincere men always
abuse their opponents. II these gen
eral statements are doubted follow the
literature of prohibition as at pres
ent illustrated by editorials in certain
Maine newspapers. The campaign
on the part of our fanatical neighbors
is one of abuse. pure and simple, ar
gument has no part in it, experience
has no part in it. sense has no part IN
it. It is just good, straight billings
gate and on that line there is no ques-
ton but that the Kennebec Journal,
the Lewiston Journal, the Portland
Press and their imitators, have long
way the best of it-Waterville Senti-
mel.
We agree heartily with the opening
declaration of the Sentinel.
But does not the editor lay himself
open to charge similar to that when
ne makes against his neighbors? Is
there no "billingsgate" in the aboye2
We recall nothing in the Lewiston
Journal touching the Lieense-Press
which characterizes them as of shall
low intellect fanatical unintelligent
or dishonest Our Waterville neigh
Dor does all this toward the pro-
hibition press and then some. He
differs" not even courteously as he
advises us that all intelligent men dc
differ, If they differ at all. He insists
that argument has no part i'm cur
work; reason has no part in it. even
experience has no part in at-all ar
gument so far advanced by all of us
who are so fanatical as to stand foI
prohibition is against the open saloon
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-25
Baths and Sunstroke.


Anything about baths ought to be
of interest in these tropical days. even
to the folks who don't much affect
them in ordinary times. And when
to this nom pathological interest is
added their use in the treatment of
sunstroke, or as the doctors call 1t,
thermic fever. the bald-headed men
at least should become really greedy
for the news contained in DIR. Simon
Baruch's article in the current Is
sue of the Medical Record.
DR. Barueh is q well-known expert
and specialist in the therapeutic use
of water. The point of his article Is
that the ice bath and ordinary tub
bath prescribed in most of the stan
dard text books as the proper treat
ment for sunstroke is, II not the worst
possible treatment. at least very faf
from the best. And he holsters up MS
thesis with clinical records calculated
to make the laymen sit up and take
notice-as our highbrows say
He believes in the so-called needle
spray bath from the faucet" contin-
ued only until the temperature faiis
TO about 102 or 101 degrees Fahren-
heit The records of the ordinary
bath treatment from the Homeopathic
Hospital in Brooklyn show mortal
ity of Al per cent. and of Bellevue
with ice baths. 80 per cent. The
Flower and st. Vincent Hospital rec
ords with needle baths present NOR
tal,ty records of and lis per cent
respectively These figures are GER
teinly striking, and the doctors pup
,ication of them is peculiarly timely
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-25
The village of Springvale has had to
stop street sprinklng for lack of
sufficient water supply

The lobster was not always the arts
tocrae of the breakfast table and the
most costly of delicacies. A man who
used to live in Maine but now resides
in Ohio has this Renaissance in the
Cleveland Leader: "One day in Cleve-
land | took a friend out to luncheon
and suddenly the old appetite for lob
ster came back to both of us, as we
were both born on the Maine coast.
We had two full portions and the bill
was s. And yet as a boy | have seen
my father standing on the wharf bar
gaining with a fisherman for his lob
ster catch of the cay, and often for 50
have seen the lobster fisherman turn
over to my father the entire catch and
the whole boatload, $50 or 300 big black
Holsters, perhaps, would be dumped
on the landing and taken back on our
old farm as feed for the pigs" The
Gossiper whose memory does not run
back nearly as far as that of the
Cleveland man, can recall when his
father, who was g Casco bay lobster
fisherman, sold Holsters at the price Of
five cents each, or six for quarter
And they we're good sized count lob
sters, all of them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-25
Drifting.
My soul today

My soul today
Is far away.
Sailing the Vesuvian Bay;
MY winged boat.
A bird afioat.
Swings round the purple peaks remote
Round purple peaks
II sails. and seeks
Blue inlets and their crystal creeks,
Where high rocks throw
Through deeps below.
A duplicated golden glow.
Far. vague and dim.
The mountains swim.
While on Vesuvius misty brim.
With outstretched hands,
The gray smoke stands
O'erlooking the volcanic lands.
n1llNWSElUDYWms Q,0H@yuNWU
Here Ischia smiles
Ger liquid miles.
And yonder bluest of the isles,
Calm Capri waits.
Her sapphire gates
Besuildng to her bright estates.
heed not. IL
My ripping skin
Float swift or slow from cliff to cliff,
With dreamful eyes
My spirit lies
Under the walls of Paradise
Under the walls
Where swells and falls
The Bays deep breast intervals.
At peace lie,
Blown softly by
cloud upon this liquid SKY
The day. so mild,
Is Heavens own child,
With Earth and Ocean reconciied:
The airs l feel
Around me steal
Are murmuring to the murmuring keel
Over the rail
My hand I trail
Within the shadow OF the sail,
A Joy intense
The cooling sense
Glides down my drowsy incidence
With dreamful eyes
My spirit lies
Where Summer sings and never dies
O'erveiled with vines
She CLOVIS and shines
Among her future oil and vines.
Her children, hid
The cliffs amid,
Are gambling with the gampoing Kid'
Or down the walls,
With tipsy calls,
Laugh on the rocks like waterfalls.
The fishers child,
With tresses wild,
Under the smooth, bright sand beguiled,
With glowing lips,
Sings as she skips.
Or gazes at the far-on ships
Yon deep bark goes
Where traffic blows,
From lands of sun to lands or SHOWS;
This happier one
Its course is run
From lands of snow to lands of sun.
o, happy ship
To rise and dip.
with the blue crystal at your lip!
o, happy crew,
MY heart with you
Sails, and sails and sings anew!
No more, no more
The worldly shore
Upbraids me with its loud uproar;
With dreamful eyes
My spirit lies
Under the walls of Paradise.
Thomas Buchanan Read, In New Bed
ford Evening Standard
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-25

Even the simplest of childhood's
pleasures may. sometimes. bring death
In its wake. A little Cambridge
Mass, boy, few days ago, in running
out in front of his home to catch a
butterfly, toddled under the wheels of
a heavy van, which was passing, and
received injuries which resulted in his
in a few hours. +ea
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-25

lis brushed aside and characterized as
.biilingsgate."
The Lewiston Journal regrets that
the editor of the Sentinel thus I'M
consciously affords so fine an example
of what he condemns in others. His
fine art of felo de Sc will have no
"imitators."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-25

1t is not thought likely that Cover
nor Plaisted made any votes for him
self at the last three places at which
he spoke. They were Malaga island,
the Home for the Feeble Minded at
Pownal and the State Prison at
Thomaston.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-25
Maine Goss sip
oday.

So here hath been dawning
Another blue Day;
Think, will thou let it
Slip useless away?
Out of Eternity
This new Day is born
Into Eternity
At night will return.
Behold il aforetime
No eye ever did:
So soon it forever
From all eyes is hid.
Here hath been dawning
Another blue Day:
Think, wilt thou let 1t
Slip useless away?
Thomas Carlyle.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-25

Never leave home on a Journey without
a bottle of Chamberlains Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy. 1T is almost
certain to be needed and cannot be OBJ
tained when on board the clrs or steam
ships. For sale everywhere. sgsiea
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-25

The 2sth annual session of Temple
Heights Spiritualist Campmeeting
opens Aug IL and closes Aug 20. The
speakers this year include Rev. +. A.
Wiggin of Brookline, Mass, Wellman
c. Whitney of Springfield Mass, and
Mrs H. c. Berry of Boston. Mass.
Mary Knight Andrews of RoGkport
has been secured as soloist for the oe-
casion. .{F
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-25

JEpHTHA ENcAMPMENT, NO. n
Meetings at 8 o'clock every second anz
fourth Tuesday.
6. W. MERRILL, Scribe.
C.. w. POOR C. p
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-25
Tuesday, July IS, 1911.

Tell me what is sorrow? 1t Is d gloomy
cage.
And what is JOY? 1t is a little bird,
Whose song therein is heard
r II. Stoddard
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-25
AUGUSTA LODGE DIRECTORY
ODD FELLOWS HALL,

ASYLUM LODGE NO. 70. REGULAR
meeting Friday evening at 9 O'Clock.
r. @. HARRINGTON, N. q,
r. III. BROWN, See.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-25

CANTON AUGUSTA, no. . p. N.
Resn's~ meeting every third Tuesday u
. o'clock.
W. p. GTTCHWJr1. Cant,
L. G. HUGHES. Clerk.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-25

One of the busy places on the lower
Kennebec is the feldspar quarry in
Georgetown. and 1t is good news to
the residents of that town to know
that another quarry is to be opened
on the Calvin Tarr property.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-25

1t now looks as if the Union barber
shops in Bangor would be charging 10
cents a shave instead of TO- within the
next few weeks says one of the lead
ing BARRIERS in Bangor. This proposed
change is said to be caused by high
cost of rents. materials and. in fact
nearly everything which the barber
uses.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-25

The annual reunion of the 32d Maine
Association will be held at the Peak S
day August 1. The change in the
place of having the reunion is made
necessary as Comrade L. r. Carleton,
whose invitation the association ae-
eepted to go to Winthrop, has been
Obliged to withdraw it. as the hotel in
that place has been burned and it was
impossible to provide accommodations.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-25

do not need bars to promote their sue
cess. and SAYS that this fact is eve
denced by the extra ordinary profita-
bleness of the Poland Spring House
and the Samoset of Rockland. No Ii
quor was ever sold at either of these
most successful of Names hotels
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1911-04-21
STARKVILLE

STARKV1LLE
No II leaves daily ...... ... 200 a. N,
No 43 leaves daily ,........l0:05 II. m.
No IS leaves daily ..... .... 3:40p. m
STARKVlLLE TO ARTESIA
No II arrives ArteSia. ..., $40 a. IN
No 43 arrives Artesia ~ 10:4) a. N.
No 45 arrives ArteSia ...... 4:15 p. m
TIME OF TRAINS AT ARTESIA
NORTHBOUND
No , leaves daily. 1902 Il. N
No leaves daily -. .... 1880 p. III.
No 6 leaves daily 1855 i. ~
SOUTdBOUND
No leaves daIIy d.. ... 1928 n, II
No3 leaves daily .... :33 Il. N
No'5 leaves daily. 80. 1884 p. II.
r. v. TAYLOR, tNO. IL. ZEAL,
Wires and c1'l?T--., C2r'l Passage" Agent
MOBILE, AI4a ST. LOUIS, Nc
East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1911-04-21
ILLINOIS CENTRAL
WESTB OUND

WESTBOUND #
Leave,
No 203 Passenger ........... 80 II. n
No POI Local Freight... ....S:55 Il. III
No 235 Passenger. ..... .....3:2G .. II.
EASTBOUND
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-12-28
NEVER COUNTED THE GIRLS
Princes Answer to Question Typical
Of Life in the Countries
Of the Orient.

The big punkah Topped and tagged
between the columns, as we sat and
talked. Mem-Sahib, who was born in
the Caucasus amid Georgian and Cir
cassian dignitaries, and so had hap,
py way with Oriental princes, took us
all aback by suddenly asking the good
gray prince how many brothers he
had. His highness looked at her with
queer little smile, half tolerant
half amused, and began, with great
show of seriousness, to count them on
his fingers, first of the right hand
then of the left; after going once OF
twice round, he halted, started again
then stopped and said:
Il am afraid l must ask my secre
tary!"
The secretary replied, with dignity
Your highness had hundred and
nineteen brothers,"
Mem-Sahib, not whit abashed, ther
asked this good Oriental noblemaI
concerning his sisters.
He smiled very charmingly, saying
Il am afraid do not know; VIZ
never counted theml"-Charles John
ston in the Atlantic Monthly.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-12-28

The service was, of course very pompous
with the high altar a simmer of gold, and bright
vested priests going to and fro in clouds of in
cense. 1t deeply impressed the peasants who
were massed about US. They stood the two hours
or more in rapt wonder.
After mass everybody hocked back to the
Plaza del Carmen for the "fag-waving." On
that memorable morning in 1892 when Boabdil
handed the palace keys to the Catholic sover-
eigns, Mendoza, grand cardinal of Spain, climbed
the watch-tower of the Alhambra and waved over
the fallen city a flag made by Isabella herself.
and which is still shown in the cathedral sacrsty.
1t was boisterous moment when the alcalde
appeared. The band had launched into the ma.
tiona anthem, but cheer after cheer well nigh
drowned 1t. He waited moment for the en-
thusasm to subside, then shouted Mendozas cry,
Granada, Granada, won by the soveregns illus
trious, Ferdinand Of Aragon, and Isabella Of
Castile" At this the flag was raised and vigor.
Ously swept to and fro half dozen times. Then
the ceremony was over and thousand warm
blooded Spaniards howled viva Granada! Viva
Espana! Viva!"
There is another thing peculiar to the day OF
the T0ma. We could never have fully understood
.tt.tfad 1t not been for our young cicerone Let
me assure the unwary that one is still as likely
in these parts to have foisted upon him Mateo
as In the days Of Washington Irving. This tat
terdemalion had attached himself to us the
ment we left our posada He had helped nego-
so as not to be late for the flag ceremony. Like
Mateo he was big-eyed and large-mouthed. a
mouth which spread in grins as broad as his two
ears would allow. 1t made him grin roguishly to
think that we could not understand all that bell
ringing 1t was the spasmodic ringing from the
watch tower which overlooks the city from the
extremity of the AIaambra ridge. We had read
that its bell was tolled every morning toward
daybreak to regulate the irrigation gates on
the Vega, but this capricious behavior was quite
beyond us. Chicito told the whole tradition Of
the bell. You see, senores it's para cascarse-
to get husbands From long ago 1t was said
that the girls who rang the bell on the day of the
Toma and prayed to the Holy Virgin for hus.
band would surely get one before the next Toma
came"
After the siesta. the whole population made a
leisurely pilgrimage up to the AIhambra On
through the gate Of Pomegranates they saun.
tered. then up through the Aiameda-the little
valley which Wellington planted with elms. Even
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-12-28
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only foreigners in the place, looked credulously
at the bood-stained marble In the Room OF the
Abencerrajes and paced again and again, point
ing and calculating, in the Hall of Justice, where
arch hangs below arch dripping with many stalac-
tites as though inviting to some fairy grotto. In
spite of being curousy watched, they explored
the subterranean baths of the Sultan, and found
their way into the cloistered garden of Linda
raja, over which hung the bedroom of Washing
ton Irving
But somehow on that day Of the Toma the
Hall Of Ambassadors, opening out on the Court
of Myrtles, kindled ones fancy most In the
midst of this court lies marble-lipped pool bor
dered with low myrtle hedges. At each end ar
cades needed into figree. leap from delicate
pillars and under water in subdued gurglings
Towards the Darro rises the great square Tower
of Comares which mirrors its tawny bulk in the
green tinted water
1t is the Tower of Comares as everyone knows.
which holds the Hall of the Ambassadors. One
leaves the arcades and crosses the ruined Cham
Der Of the Boat to find himself under a great
dusky dome set over with starry facets of larch-
wood. Below, mosaics of azulejos weave brill
liant wainscoting in glazed blacks and green's
Above, sallow tinted walls are wrought into
wilderness of arabesque. At first their patterns
are delicate as vine tendrils then loosen in fig
ure toward the upper edges.
How inevitably its halls summon memories Of
first and last acts of that ilstarred life. The
tyrant Abdul Hassam had made The Morning
Star" the choice of his harem. Her son was
chosen for the throne, that young Boabdil
seemed doomed to lose his life as we'll as his
sceptre. It was from yonder deep embayed win.
dow that the royal mother lowered her prince to
a waiting horseman who bore him away to the
hills of GaudiX
few stormy years and the scene again shifts
to the Hall of Ambassadors. The watchmen on
the Tower de Ia Vela have reported truce
bearer hurrying hther from the plain. 1t s the
demand of Ferdinand and Isabella. The Chris
tian is at the gates of the Alhambra. See B2ab-
dill take his throne for the last time by yonder
damasked wall Low-hanging lamps shed soft
ened radiance through the gloom and make the
FURNISHED weapons CLEAN in their racks Swarthy
councillors with knitted brows stand about the
troubled monarch. Moorish knights finger the
hilts of their scimitars in perplexity Without
the green-tinted pool of the Myrtles lies placid
and mirrors the turbaned figures that lnger 60
side 1t. Morning sunlight glints its waters rcD
and then shadow fits across the arcaded wall
and the curtain falls upon the drama of the Moo.
in Spain.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-12-28

in its leafness this romantic glen drew a charm
Of its own from arcaded trunks clung with
Ivy, with their feet lost in riot of early vioets,
and their slender branches covering the road in
a lacework Of shadow. The way ascended along
a hedge of FURNISHED laurel, where streams
rushed and scurred down the pebbly beds. After
a while we had made the sharp turn and 10! the
great Portal Of Justice yawned before us, and on
its arch were the tabled hand and key of the
magi In spite of the careless come and go of
holiday-makers, the present seems to fall back
when that portal closes over US, like spirit
exercised. We begin to feel the witchery of the
Alhambra-the prance of cavalcades, the fash Of
scimitars, the swarthy-visaged Moors the ro-
nance of captive princess. the teasing mystery
Of hidden treasure
But we we're only to come out upon the Place
of the Cisterns to find band concert In prog
ress.
This place of the Csterns is the broad court
lying between the two groups of the Alhambra-
the fortress of AlcaZaba on the point of the ridge
and the palace proper whose halls cluster about
the Tower Of Comares. From here we could see
how the city lay about the ridge in a ragged
crescent, and half dozen miles away could
barely discern that smoldering village Of Santa
Fe. the quarters of the Catholic conquerors dur
ing the siege of Granada. Spanish gentleman
pointed It out to us. But had the senores seen
the Ahambra by moonlight? mo" "Ah. only
the saints could describe the pictured"
we were nappy enough 10 see II Dy dayHRnt.
and afterwards followed the crowds back across
the Place of the Cisterns and lost ourselves in
the labyrinth Of the Alhambra. That afternoon
the courts were all reanimate with dancing wa.
ters and the soft rustic of streams. People
trooped everywhere, whole families of them. The
cider folks seemed to saunter about in a matter
offact way. and make the rounds as perfume
torily as though they were promenadng the
Paseo de Colon. Sometimes they stopped in the
Court Of Lions, or fingered maybe. over the
views from the Mrador de la Reina 1t was all
grand, very grand. Those Ingleses (Englishmen)
owned nothing to compare with it. Granada
folks seemed perfectly conscious Of their supe-
riority. No wonder they. to whom even the AL
hambra was a matter OF every day should show
themselves amused, sometimes laugh outright.
at the two short-caped Ingeses who always man.
aged to obstruct the current, who haunted the
Hall of Ambassadors whole hour. and who
stayed an intentionally long time in the Court
OF Lions. These queer senores. who seemed the