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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-19
FROM THE OLD MANS GRAY
NATTER

Manchester IN H. Union.)
The most charming people in the
world do not keep the best for COM
pany." They give the family circle
the best. and those who are near and
dear. The crowd Eiust take the leaV-
ings.
Ever notice how some people give
advice? They preface it with If
were you" And half the time they
never could be you and perhaps
wouldn't do so well under the eircnm-
stances.
II men tried to understand women
as they study the wiles of book
agent, there would be- more content
ment in the world
A man ought to be exiled who wants
To know If q hat is new. when She
asks him how he likes her new faii
bonnet
How lovely is the woman who comes
back at the male crouch with sweet
words and beautiful expressions. II
is no wonder that the old artists We're
fond of peopling their pictures with
females as angels. They knew.
II isn't necessary To know pongee
a stunning gown on a pretty girl. In
fact. il isn't the gown that counts,
anyway, but what's in it.
often a few silly words from no
bod will undermine the love of a
somebody Some people can't bear 10
see ANYBODY think well OF somebody
else They have to say things.
| When woman really wants to be
lcircumspect, she can be like rolling off
q log. 1t only takes q few times to
| say No" and then the frivolous peo-
nile about her will tumble that she Is
husv. and has other fish to fry II she
doesn't want to be strict with herself
che can make more trouble in this
world in three days than any other
living species.
No man can stand disloyalty from a
woman very long. 1t is the one thing
49, 4, nnpardonable with him. no
matter if half the men one meets are
disloyal and no good.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-19
Corn Clubs
Springfield Republican,

ttPpl liSiitih
Nothing has done more to put vitality
into the farming life of the South than
the corn clubs among the BOYS and
the clubs of girls devoted to the can
ming of tomatoes and general attention
to the household side of farm life
These organizations have lifted rural
life and work out of a dull routine into
the interest that aims at direct and i'm
portant results. When the boys are able
to beat their fathers by employing more
scientific methods, they are inspired to
activity and filled with interest, before
which discouragements fade and new
possibilities fill the horizon. All this
seems very simple and natural after the
impulse has been given and spread of its
own momentum. The recent Virginia
state fair at Richmond illustrated the
new order of things. We are told that
"oVershadowing everything else in the
program" of the chief day of the fair
was the parade of the boys country corn
clubs. 800 strong, who We're taken in att
tomobies from Capitol square TO the
fairgrounds. Gov. Mann leading in the
first automobile. A local newspaper thus
describes them
Sturdy. stalwart youths the boys We're
real representatives of the element
which many statesman has called the
backbone of every country. Not for
them has sounded the elamoring calls of
the city siren. Born and reared on the
farm they stick to the farm still The
corn products are the results of their
own skill and labor, and they We're the
best in the agricultural building
The given "a
great and enthusiastic welcome and the
governor of the Old Dominion told them
he was glad to see them and gladder
still to see what they could do. you
are farmers, the sons of farmers. and on
you more than upon politicians or states
men rests the welfare of the country.
| 1t was the time-honored sort of talk,
but to the boys it must have seemed very
real and inspiring, because they had been
| able 10 raise the best corn that the state
| has produced
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-19
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
New York Pres,

Keeping out of jail can make some
men think they are honest
What would be the use of bad tenn
per to man if he didn't have family
to vent it on?
a girl never gets tired of dancing SO
that she can always get tired of help
ing her mother
The higher the opinion YOU have of
yourself the better it would be for YOU
If some of IL We're deserved.
The only thing that seems to cost
more than following somebody else's
advice is following your own judg-
ment.
Success is always open to conviction
on any subject; failure never.
A girl just seems to go into trance
over a piano player If ne wears his
hair long enough.
The more you nave to pay fer a
thing tn buy 1t the less YOU could get
for ii If you were selling IT,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-19
SOME PoSTScRIPTs.
tHouston Post.)


Both Austria and Hungary plan to
make the production and sale of arti-f
fetal sweetenins substances state
Banana oil. applied to any smooth
metal surface with soft brush after
polishing, will prevent the formations
of rust.
An English submarine boat which
was badly damaged in collision is
being used as a target for shell fra
by naval gunners. a .ss,
Alabama's production of 1G.0gLa1a
short tons of coal last year was ssthe
greatest in the history of the industry
in that state.
A balloon which, when debated .c'aff
be packed in its basket and carried ah
mans back, has been invented Ia
French aeronaut. 50
a light galvanized wire basket. to he
suspended from the shoulders by
straps, has been invented to ala NJ
lanndress in her work.,
Extensive iron orc deposits have
been discovered in northern Bavaria.
he ore lying within few feet OF the
surface of the ground.
One of the NEST famous medieval
castles in England will be takee down
and rebuilt on Lone Island by IT'S
wealthy American purchaser
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-19
IN HONOLULU.
News of Interest Clipped from the
Honolulu Bulletin.


With an eruption of enthusiasm
mat would have done credit To XII
iauea itself, the project for founding
q permanent observatory at the crat-
er, and for establishing a local asso-
citation for volcanic research, was
launched Oct. 5. Twenty three men
prominent in business and scientific
circles gathered at luncheon given
at the University Club, at which the
Importance to Hawaii of the exploita-
ton of its VOLCANOES was thoroughly
gone into by several speakers. As
the result of the meeting, a commit
tee of five will be appointed to draught
plans for non-incorporated associa :
ton, destined to raise locally a portion
of the money needed to maintain per-
manent observers At the volcano, and
to make Hawaii the most important
spot on the map for voleanologists.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-19
Cid Prophecy Revised to Date.

Schenectady Standard Union)
While the politicians have been dis
cussing the advisabilty of revising the
tariff the poets or versifers or dosgerel-
ties or whatever You may he minded 10
call them have been busy on revision
of the Mother Shipton prophecy
The 1871 revision runs along in this
fashion:
Carriages without horses shall go,
And accidents fill the world with woe.
Around the earth thoughts shall fly
In the tWlnklng of an eye.
me world upside down shall be,
And gold be found at the root Of a tree
Through hills men shall ride
And no horse be at their side
Under water men shall walk
Shall ride, shall sleep, shall talk.
In air men shall be seem
In white in black. in green
Iron in the water shall float
AS easily as wooden boat
Gold shall be found and shown
In a land that is not known
Fire and water shall wonders do.
England. at last. shall admit a Jew
The World to an End shall come.
In Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-one.
The prophecy was heretofore made to
fix the date for the end of the world in
1891. Before that it was 1881 and again
previous to that 1871, showing that the
prediction hobs up with periodic regu-
larty
Now that this good old world is to be
permitted To Jog along in its accustomed
way for 10 years more we should feel
duly grateful To have ended IT this
year would have robbed us of all the
fun of presidential election next year
We should feel thankful to the prophecy
revisionists for extending our lease and
thus enabling us to enjoy four more
years of the blessings of a Taft admin
istration.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-19

Siu1s of the Season.

Summer is over; vacation season is
ended; crows are making up parties
for southwark flight; woodchucks are
seeking their holes. and trust busting
editors are again in evidence" The
old familiar "chicker' comes from the
stone wall behind the barn and, in
nerfect attune. is the lumber and
other trusts" swan song.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-19
COLLEGE Of Hawai-; Buildino

With a bid of sos. 700. twenty-five
dollars lower than the next bidder
only, the LordYoung Engineering
Company gets the contract for build
ing the new College of Hawaii build
ing. The bids We're opened Sept. 80
and taken under advisement by the
board of regents of the college. To-
day Judge II. e. Cooper. chairman of
the board, announced the decision.
Work will start at once and will be
finished within eight months
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-19
Always Attacking the Law.

The National Wholesale Liquor
Dealers Association is sending out
printed slips bearing the wonderful
revelations of Arthur H. Gleason on
Kitchen Bars. the Secret of Confu-
sion in Maine" This pretended eX-
pose of conditions in Maine was pub
nshed by Golfers, probably at adver-
Using rates paid by the, liquor trust.
and depravity might have been repeat
ed from the lower quarter of any city
under any set of laws or lack of laws,
but are related as of Portland, Maine,
and charged to the prohibitory law.
The tenor of this article is to con-
vince the reader who does not pause
To consider its sophstry, that, when
the lid is on and the more pretentious
saloons are closed, the poorer classes
cause, forsooth. rum must be had and
they have to sell it. Here is the open
ing paragraph
For a lifetime the cities OF Maine have
been suffering from the secret sale OF
liquor The people who have paid the
penalty for constitutional prohibition are
the families OF the decent honest poor /
have made a study OF the city of Port
land and Tie effects on that city of multi
fed prohibition What Is true of portland
isstrue in varying degrees OF nine other
cities of Maine.
If this brilliant student of under.
ground Hfe who has made a study
of the city of Portland" had made :
study of any license city for the bene
fit Of humanity instead of the run
trust. We wonder what he would hav'
found He speaks of the disastrous
effects Of prohibition on the families
an assertion that certain sections arr
laden with the wreckage of prohibi
ton
In spite of moral. religious, economic
proof OF the value of the prohibitorS
law over any other system of dealing
with the liquor evil. writer's can bs
hired TO prepare such drivel and serve
IL up at odd times away from its com
parisons and refutations, for genera
effect on the reading public. If we did
not know that less than one-twelftf
as much Intoxicating beverage is con.
samed. per capita. in Maine as in tn,
United States as whole, we Nigh
listen 10 some Of these touching pre-
sensations OF the disastrous effects o
prohihitien%r~stori OF women VIII
have peddied rum and have gon
wrong. and whose children have fol
iowed IN evil WAYS.
From reading this man Gleason
articl. one seems 10 be expected I
suppose thai no such conditions ar
possible under a license open run
shop plan. and that poverty and i'm
morality do not prevail in 'the~s.rur
belts Of cities where the rum trus
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-19
Mr.. Taft's Steady Course.
fSan Francisco CalL)

Common sense tells you that a man
cannot he lin with" and "out with"
the trusts at the same time. Ii La
F,)lletteism attacks the President for
his lack of earnestness i'm prosecuting
the trusts at the same hour and on the
some day the trusts and the rcation-
aries are denouncing him for the
persecution of big business there
must be something remarkable in his
course to justify such charges. some
one lies, or some one Observation-Disclosures.
The unobservant have declared II 70 be
the result Of a wobbN policy. The UNI
obserVant is an inspired donkey. The
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-19

We have. in cold type, a perfectly
good. kindly and well meant editorial
on the death of Owen Wister when
we do not care to publish at this Tune
We would gladly contribute our mod
est endeavor TO Mr.. Wfster's scrap
book if he will put himself in toach
with this office our wasted time and
grief are entered in the profit and loss
account.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-19
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Editorial Comment
Harvard Scholarship.
tBiddeford Jot,rnaIA


The Harvard Club of Maine of
which Hon. Nathan Clifford of Port
land is president and James c. Ham
len is secretary has offered schol-
arship 10 the Maine boy who makes
the best preparation in a Maine pre-
paratoiy school afsS enters Harvard
university. The scholarship is to be
Tor $3.50 and the same is to be pro-
Vided for the next five years by the
members of the Harvard Club of
Maine for the benefit of Maine boys.
The candidate must show by his
record of examinations, his decorum
during his course in the school and
his general worthiness that he is
qualified for the scholarship. In the
event there is not a freshman candi-
date for the sch )larship the same
will be open 70 the application from
a SophOm0re
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-19
Give EN- Timel

Editors are serving up reVisions OF
Mother Symptoms prophecy. making
the date when
THE world to an end shall come
In nineteen hundred and twenty
one
Better make ii 1871. and give Gov
ernor Plaisted and Council opportunity
for a prompt report on the 1911 ref
erendum vote.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-19
Cow alescence.

convalescence is sometimes merely
apparent, not real and especially is
this true after such diseases as pneu-
monia. typhoid fever and the grip. To
make it real and rapid. there is no
other tonic so highly to be recommend
ed as Hoods Sarsa parilla.
This great medicine cleanses and
renews the blood, strengthens all the
organs and functions, aud restores
health.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-19
Fruit Psckino Criticism.

Hawaii shippers Of pineapples and
bananas must revolutionize their
methods of packing the fruits, or Cali
fornia will put an embargo on them
as rigid as that declared on papayas
and alligator pears. In other words,
bananas and pineapples will be shut
out of California and the fresh pine
apple industry will be given the hard
est blow it has ever received.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-19

In the schools of Austria the chill
5ra,, orc taught to carry several sheets
Of writing paper in their pockets az an
times Then. when a child is thirsty
10 COZ rou one of the sheets into
cone and make perfectly sefVieeap'e
eup. which may be placed, after beihs
used in the nearest waste paper poN.
How IN roll the cones deftly is taught
the children
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-19

Tilted by Miss Clifford, Henry Hop
kins of New Bedford, Mass, has sued
for s2e1s spent for gifts. II doesn't
take an Anna Eva Fay to see chilly
rocen+ion in the future for Henry's
overtures TO New Bedford girls.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-19
The Grass in the Pavement.

God. cried the grass in the pavement.
Am | not worthy OF living.
Who am green ii the w3terless places
And subsist in the clefts of the stone.
Where the feet of the horses tFample
And wheels go passing and passing.
BY strong desire OF living
/ live, but am barren and lone
Give me the fields of my birthright
The shade of the quiet cool places.
There may | live 10 Thine honor.
Abundant. rejoicing, ful grown
Child . came the Voice in the stiffness.
Know | not we'll thou art worthy.
Thou who deClareSt my glory
Where dearth ami destruction are rife
Therefore have 1 set thee in lonely
And parehed and desolate places
Are the weakest and least of the legions
Placed in the van m the strife
Know / not Well thou art worthy?
i have chosen thee over all others,
Thou who art potent. uuyieldins.
And strong in the funeSS OF life
New York sun.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-19
Thursday, October 10, 1911.

Nofhing in the whole world is
worth the loss of thy peace; even
the faults which thou hast COM
mitted should only humble. but not
disouiet, thee. God is full of JOY
and happiness.-G. It Tersteegen.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-19

Reported great disappointment in
Mavor Gaynors address to the New
York schooIboys He didn't mention
the worlds series.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-19

Smoking yields only to eating ana
drinking as universal habit. over
two thousand six hundred ihiliiio'i
pounds of tobacco were grown III si?os.
This would mean forty cigars FOR every
man, woman and child in the world. =
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-19

Vassar College girls paraded their
grounds in celebration of Woman SUI
frage in California.
Nut fudges rah7rah!
Bon hons. rah-rah!
We're going to vote rah-rah! ran
rah,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-19

\ clam recently exhumed from
Freeport mud is put forth as the rec
ord winner in point of size known to
the residents of that town said clam
Deasures four and five eighths inches
in length and nine inches in clrcnm-i
ference.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-19

Here Is a woman who speaks from per-
sonal knowledge and long experience, viz.
Mrs. i. H. Brogan, Of WILSON, IA. Who
says, II know from experience thar
Chamberlain Cough Remedy - far sH-
perier 90 any other Fer Group there ~
nothing that exceis IT," For sale b. all
dealers
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-19
NJ ain e G. o S S ip

of
onda of
Kenna bee rairo
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-19

\ Kennebec farmer. whose 1911 crop
OF corn contains a surprising number
Of red ears, says he isn't having any
trouble in finding willing huskers.
capt Andrew Curtis. who died last
week at the Sailors Snug Harbor
Staten Island, y. Y, and vas buried
at Bowdoinham. was one of three cut
Of four brothers who chose to follow
Tie sea, and had experienced many OF
the hardships which accompany the
seaman's lot. He was once ship
wrecked in the Irish channel. where
fer As hours he drifted upon a rat.
without food or water. before being
rescued. He Was once chased by
wolves, once narrowly escaped drown
ing off Seguin. and during his ser
vice IN the civil War. had many thrill
ing encounters both by sea and by
land.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-19

No notice whatever will be taken Of
unsigned communications.
HE Journal cannot be held RESPONSE
BILE for the preservation or return Of
rejected communications.
Address all communications relating
to subscriptions and advertisements
to BURLEIGH & FLYNT. Publish
ers, Augusta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-19
Coming Events

Oct. 20-Convention of York County odd
Fellows. SpringVale.
Oct. 23-2s-New England Fruit Show,
Boston.
Oct. 25-Annual meeting Supreme Com
mandery, knights of Temperance. Port
land.
Oct 25-26-27-Annual Convention Maine
Teachers Association, Augusta
Oct 26-Nov. 4-National Dairy Show.
Columbus, Ohio.
Oct 27-29-Stevens Mills Grange Fair.
Nov. 1-3-Maine State Conference of
Charities and corrections, Augusta
Nov. 3-l2-New YORK Land and Irriga-
ton Show.
Nov. 6-1i-Maine Corn and Fruit Show,
Portland
Nov. l4-l5-i6-Annual Convention Maine
State Ponological Association. Augusta.
Dec. 12-l5-Maine Poultry and Pet Stock,
Portland
Dec 14-15-Maine Livestock breeders
A nrapa
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-19

Since the death of Postmaster Wood
bury Marson. of Boothbay Harbor,
three candidates for appointment as
his successor have come into the
field: His widow. who has been as
sistant postmaster during Mr. Mar
sons is years of service; Hon. Luther
Maddocks and Hon. Watson NJ. Simp-
son. Mrs. Marson has asked to be
appointed to complete her husband 5
unexpired term. which would have
ended in March, 1911 Mr.. Maddocks
is at present chairman of the board
Of selectmen, a position he has held
two terms. Mr. Simpson was at one
time postmaster at West Harbor.
Autumn bondres are now in vogue.
burning up leaves and other stray
material. and both the fires and young
folk who copy their elders in this re-
spect. should have careful supervision
until the work is completed.
The schooner Florence NJ. Perley
from Baltimore bound for Bath, was
caught in the gale of last week and
lest her foretopmast and flying Jih
boom. Capt. Jameson OF the schooner
reported this loss. Sunday, to Capt
Meader of the tug Mary Arnold, as the
tive vessels passed each other outside
Plvlnenth Harbof. Capt. jameson sad
T that he was not in need of assistance.
bat would be late in reaching port
aud therefore wished to be reported.
\ pet dog is suspected Of being re
| speaeible for fire which broke out,
Saturday evening. in a Lewiston
| home The canine was left alone in
the house With a burning kerosene
lamp. and whether he upset the lamp
or it exploded without the dogs as
sistauce is a matter Of conjecture, with
the burden of evidence against the pet.
The parties who left the lamp and dog
in such dangerous iuxtaposition are
OF course generated, and probably
will not do it again. The fire WAS
confined mostly TO the kitchen, and
was soon extingushed by the appliea
tien cf both chemicals and water
The Bath Times SAYS: 1T sounded
like the Fourth of July in West Bath
Saturday, 50 numerous We're the gun
ners." and "Out on Rocky Hill. Sat
urIay. there was the popping OF guns
the barking of dogs and the shouts OF
boys. over q score 81 them being in
the vicinity
The schooner cakes Ames, badly
! damaged and with eoors set for q
r4eerne cutter. capt Lewis. hailed q
fisherman of Chatham. Mass. Satttr-
da. aHd rcparted the boss af q nam
sail blown awav in Thursdays gale
ard the ship leaking badly The
schoGHer's Jibhoom and two iibs were
also gone. This schooner was lader
with lumber and bound from kenne-
bee ia New ork.
Complaints from timbcriand owner
that beaver are doing damage have
caused the fish md game commission
eis % declart an open time On beaver
~ eertain townships in Franklin and
sanerset counties, from Oct. ~, 1911
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-19
Maine Fair Dates.

Oct H-19-West Bath Grunge Fair 60
Oct 2l-Gheslerxille Grange Fair.
Nov. 6-f1-Maine Corn and Fruit Show,
Portland N
Dec. 12-13-14~15-Maine Poultry and Pet
Stock Association, Portland. 2 =
Dec. 1921 -2S-29-Freeport Poultry Assoc
citation. Freeport. asss.t - [
Jan. Pa. 19l2-Western Maine Poultry
Assn, South Paris. 5 i
Pomona Dates. sse sf4f
Oct. 19-No. Franklin, Weld
Oct 2i-E. Kennebec Pomona, Winslow, {