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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-14

The potato acreage this year in
Aroostook county is probably trifie
larger than ever before and the crop is
now more forward than ever known
before at the time of year, while the
prospect for a big crop of splendid
stock was never better. Most OF the
producers seem to think that the pros
pect for a fair price is also good.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-14

Bald headed eagles are numerous
down the Kennebec this summer. One
of these birds spends much of his
time in the top of dead pine tree
ON an island in the river near Phipps-
burg Center.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-14

makes his monthly report of State
finances showing the regular decrease
of State debt due to the exceptionally
heavy tax rate and the small amount
of permanent construction.-Lew
Journal
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-14

Portland's parks have been crowded
nights during the present week with
those who wished to relieve to the
greatest possible extent their suffer
ings from the heat. Nearly every
bench in Lincoln park is occupied
nightly and on one of the hottest
evenings it Is estimated that fully
1000 neople were gathered there to en-
iov the sea breezes, some sitting on
the settees, some lying on the grass,
and others strolling about
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-14
Friday, July ID, 1911.

No man is great by imita-
ton; each may rise OF his own
powers till he leaves vultures
and eagles behind.-Rasselas.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-14

Even judges and juries had begun
to sit in court in their shirt sleeves.
Ii the hot wave had lasted longer
there is no knowing what would have
happened to traditions of dress.-N.
Y. Tribune.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-14
VOICES OF THE PRESS.

Auditor Stevens doesn't intend that
anybody shall forget that he has fig
ured out that the State debt was in
creased during the years 1903 and
l910.-Bath Times.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-14

Ten days of hot, dry weather nave
had a distinct effect upon the milk
supply about Portland and at present
the smaller dealers are having al
they can do to meet the demands OF
their customers. No Immediate dam
ger of a milk famine exists, but 1t is
likely that unless present conditions
change the consumers will have to be
satisfied with less than their usual
supply of milk.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-14

Biddeford will hold special cleo
ton, Aug. ii, to elect three members
of board of police commissioners
under the laws passed last winter by
the state Legislature creating new
police board for that city.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-14

CAPITAL AERiE NO. 1860, r. O.
Eagles. meets in F. o. e. Hall. 27S Water
St, first and third Monday of each
month ats O'Clock.
FRED w. HEFF'ERNAN, Pres. >
WALTER G. SMITH, Sec.
tanS,m-wf,u
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-14

No clue has been found as yet to
the identity of the person or persons
who broke into the Bates Street Bap-
list church at Lewiston recently. me
eulprits pried open every door III the
place but so far as can be found took
nothing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-14
AUGUSTA LODGE DIRECTORY
ODD FELLOWS HALL.

ASYLUM LODGE NO. 70, REGULAR
meeting Friday evening at 8 O'Clock
Work in the Initiatory degree Friday
evening. July a.
r. G. HARRINGTON, N. q.
r. III. BROWN, See.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-14

CANTON AUGUSTA, NO. 8 p. m
Regular meeting every third Tuesday NJ
I o'elock
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-14

JEPHTHA ENcAMPMENT, NO. =
Meetings at 3 o'clock every second and
fourth Tuesday
G. w. MERRILL. Scribe.
c. w. POOR, c. F.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-14

r. q. CAPEN, REBEKAH LODGE
No. 81. I. o. o. #. Meets End and 4tb
Wednesday evenings at 7.30 O'Clock.
LENA /. HANSON, N. G.
CLARE II. HARVEY, Rec. Sss.
mch25 rl-wRsf TYR
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-14

The second reunion OF the scholars
and teachers of District No. 10, Sedge-
wick, was held Wedueslay afternoon,
July 5, when about 10 people VINO
had formerly been teachers. pupils OF
descendants of such ones met at the
Town House and passed most en-
iovable day. They came from nearly
all parts of New England.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-14

w. B. GETCHELL, Capt.
l.. G. HUGHES. Clerk.
The Washington herald., 1911-08-13
IN ALEXANDRIA COUNTY.
Railroad improvements VIII De
velOp PrOperty.

From the Alexandria County Monitor.
1t can be stated upon the most relia-
BILE authority that the route OF the
Washington and Old Dominion Railway
has been practically determined upon
The road will commence a short dis
tance below Dominion Heights, run
through the Cruitt estate and the prop
erty of Harrison, Hayes. Douglas, Top
ley. Willett. Ford, Lacey, and Torreyson.
1t is understood that the interests con-
trolling this new venture and the Great
Falls railroad are closely allied, and
there appears to be not the slightest
doubt that the projected new road will
join the Bluemont branch of the South
ern Railway at some point near East
Falls Church. 1t would thus seem that
those in control of the new road will
probably acquire the B!uemont road, and
electrify it.
II these connected rumors are true,
Alexandria County will see some re-
markable changes in the near future.
With a new electric road connecting Falls
Church with Washington, and opening
up a section as yet Untouched by rail-
roads, and with the old Bluemont line
converted into modern railway, big ad-
vances are in store.
The Washington herald., 1911-08-13
Hygiene of the Street.

In most cities outside of Washington
it will no doubt create surprise to hear
that European has nothing but praise
for the cleanliness OF American streets.
A French physician. writing in the
Journal des DcbatS on The Hygiene
of the Street" says that ''in France
the people do not have the respect for
streets and parks that they have in
Germany. England. or even in the
United States" We wonder whether
this doctor is an early riser and has ever
observed the streets of Paris in the
morning after they have been flushed,
and when the wooden pavenents are as
clean as a new pin. He calls attention
to the receptacles m Boston bearing the
inscription, Help us to keep the city
clean Paris also has such receptacles
for debris. but their small size, their
insufficient numbers, their very shape,
and the lack of a suitable inscription
combine to frustrate the purpose, and,
as he says, no one uses them" The
writer adds that the matter is not one
solely of law and city ordinances. "The
cleanliness of Streets he says, "is
not merely an affair of the government
1t is rather that of the individual. Our
instincts resulting from our education
should keep us from lapses that no
regulation can provide against"
This is clear. In the greater cTeanli-
ness of American parks and streets, as
compared with a generation ago, or
even less, there is ample evidence of
progress of popular education, though,
of course, much is due to more thorough
street sweeping and cleaning. Our
prohibition against expectorating on
sidewalks, in street cars, or railway
trains appears to set an example that
well may be followed in Europe. We
should go much further, however, in
the interest of the public health. There
is, for instance, our high death rate
from typhoid, which shows that, despite
we are behind France in
the effectiveness of our sanitary precau-
tions. We have had and continue to
have our typhoid epidemics, but it is
notable that after the disastrous floods
that polluted Paris more than a year
ago, and which aroused great appre-
tensions of much typhoid to follow, the
death rate from that disease has ma
terially decreased.
A great deal has been said and writ
ten of late about the dangers lurking
in the house fly. But the crusade
against that pest has not gone far
enough in this country. Vegetables and
fruit are exposedto plain view, without
The Washington herald., 1911-08-13
Amending the Treaty.

The action of the Senate Committee
on Foreign Affairs in amending the
arbitration treaty by striking out the
third paragraph of article 3 has pre-
served to the Senate an authority which
had been taken away by the original
document AS submitted to the Senate,
the treaty provided that the joint high
commission should have the final word
as to whether a difference between the
nations was subject to arbitration In
asmuch as this should unquestionably
rest with the Senate and not with a
commission composed in part OF
foreigners, the treaty has been
amended
This change in the document removes
much OF the objection which hitherto
attached to it There was something
repugnant in the idea of depriving the
Senate, which is coordinate and CO.
equal with the President in the max
ing of treaties, of voice in the settle
ment of grave disputes. 1t seemed to
be in line with the views expressed by
Ambassador Bryce, that the Senate was
more concerned in obtaining political
advantage out of diplomatic troubles
than in securing their settlement. Every
one knows that this criticism is false
and unjust. and that the Senate will al
ways, in any dispute between ourselves
and foreign nations, safeguard Ameri-
can interests
After all, the main principle involved
in the treaty is that the consideration
OF any question at issue may be post
poned for year upon the simple re-
quest of one OF the parties to the con-
troversy. We still fail to note, how
ever, any satisfactory answer to the
question as to the status of the disputed
matter during the twelve months of de-
lay. 1t is by no means impossible that
disputes will arise in the future. as they
have IN the past. over infractions of the
Monroe doctrine. 1t may be. for in
stance, that France or England will Sc
cure a foothold in South America or
the West Indies under circumstances
which will excite our protest. If this
should be the case, and it is by no means
improbable. there is nothing in the
treaty which provides for the restora-
lion of the status quo until the matter
can be settled by arbitration. 1t would
seem as if this is a matter requiring
some consideration.
The Washington herald., 1911-08-13
THE BILLION DOLLAR HEN.
Poultry and Eggs Surpass in Value
the wheat Crop by 30 Per Cent.

Prom the Philadelphia Press.
Hurrah for the American hen! Let
the white-headed eagle proudly spread
| his wings as the unchallenged bird of
| freedom; let the pompous turkey strut
and gobble with tail outspread as
Thanksgiving approaches: but let the
humble barnyard fowl ascend the throne
as the rightful queen of the feathered
tribes. She II is who has raised the
poultry products of the United States
\ TO an annual value of a billion dollars.
This is perhaps the most astounding item
in the account of our national prosperity
at the present time.
The little brown hen has been going
about her work quietly for the past ten
years with marvellous results. The Sec
| rotary of Agriculture quite astonished the
country in 1900 by asserting that the
annual value of poultry and eggs was
$3.50. $4,000. Five years later 1t was an
nounced that the industrious hen and
her ally, the incubator. had increased the
poultry products of the country to half
billion dollars. This made her an
active competitor for precedence with the
wheat crop.
Three years later the poultry products,
including eggs, reached the value Of
sT00, 900. This ratio of increase has
been kept up until the billion dollar
mark has been reached Poultry and
eggs now surpass in value the wheat
crop by 80 per cent. According to the
latest crop report winter and spring
wheat will yield a total of T02, ss0. 800
bushels, so that even with dollar wheat
the golden cereal is outclassed by poultry
and eggs. Cotton will fall far short of a
billion dollar crop.
Consequently the little brown hen has
no other competitor in the field than
corn, which no doubt she will proceed
to overtake with persistency and speed
just as she has quietly but surely over
taken wheat and cotton and left them
behind in the race. The United States
may boast of corn crop worth in round
figures two billion dollars, but the Ameri-
can hen seems determined to give the
country something else to boast about.
Chanticleer with masculine arrogance will
probably claim to himself all the credit
with a louder. more imperious. clarion
toned cock -doodle-doo,' But nobody
will be deceived.
The Washington herald., 1911-08-13
THE LATE BISHOP MALLALIEU.
In Methodist Episcopal Ministry
for More Than n Half Century.


From the Boston Transcript
With the death of Bishop MalIalieu
there passed a unique figure in the
Methodist Episcopal Church. He had
been engaged in the work of the minis
try for more than half a century. for
about half Of the time as bishop His
was striking personality. There was an
austere dignity in his bearing that was
almost Roman in quality. His patri-
archal appearance lent impressiveness to
his pulpit utterances. On any theme that
stirred him he could deliver himself with
forceful directness and rugged eIoquence.
In theology he was ultra-conservatlve
He believed in the verbal :nspirauCn of
the Scriptures. taking his Bible literally
from cover to cover, Jonah AMI all he
proudly proclaimed himself preacher
of the old-fashiOned gospel. He was al
ways downright, straightforward and
uncompromising, He had no tolerance
for the higher criticism and little under
standing of modern movements for social
betterment. His conception Of religion
was essentially individualistic. The en-
phasis in his work was on saving souls.
rather than on regenerating society. In
his personal relationships he was simple.
democratic. and kindly. II his public ut
terances we're occasionally marked by
extravaganza of statement. this could
easily be fOrgiven him in view of his
manifest sincerity and integrity. Bishop
Mallalieu was a fine type of the Metho-
dist preacher of the old school
The Washington herald., 1911-08-13
Admit the Territories.

There will be general approval if
Congress shall pass an enabling act for
New Mexico and Arizona without the
objectionable provision concerning the
recall of judges which is now part
of the Arizona resolution. President
Taft will undoubtedly veto the measure
which contains this provision. He is
earnestly, sincerely. and conscientiously
opposed to the recall of the judiciary
and he would not be consistent with his
entire record if he did not publicly reg
lister his disapproval.
At the same time. this one provision
ought not to keep the Territories out
OF Statehood They have been seeking
admission TO the sisterhood OF States
for many years. and now. when all
parties have agreed as to the wisdom
OF admission and when all differences
except one have been settled, that soli-
tary issue should be eliminated.
The business interests of the Terri
tcric>, which have been kept upon
tenterhooks OF uncertainty for so long.
demand final decision They have a
right 10 be considered Besides which,
the question of the recall OF the
judiciary is one that Arizona can settle
for itself after it shall have been ad-
mitted as a State
The Washington herald., 1911-08-13

even the protection of netting, and
food is necessarily contaminated by the
vender who handles them. Several
years ago the famous scientist Metschni-
koff advocated the use of metallic tongs
instead of the fingers in the handling
of foodstuffs, but, strange to say, this
was ridiculed at the time in France.
Although that country has failed to
adopt such sanitary precautions, in Ger
many hucksters must show their wares
on the streets under closed glass;, The
purchaser points out the fruit or veg
etable through the glass, and the vendor
gives it to him by means of metal
tongs. In Austria the display of food
stuffs in doors or windows is forbidden
unless closely protected by glass. In
Denmark the regulations are most Sc
we're, especially pertaining to those who
have been attacked by typhoid or diph-
liberia, and who may be carriers of
bacilli All those are prohibited from
taking part in the transportation or sale
of meat, bread. or milk.
In many cities in this country similar
regulations for the benefit of the public
health have already been enacted, but
sanitary precautions still fall far short
of what they ought to be.
The Washington herald., 1911-08-13
River Swallows Old Town.

From the Kansas City Star.
st. Deroin, one Of the oldest settlements
in Nebraska and once an important land
ing for Missouri River boats, is meeting
the fate OF many of the older settlements
along the river. Slowly day by day the
river is gnawing its way into the heart
of the town and in few weeks little of
the original site will be left. Some of
the buildings already have gone into the
river. while it has been necessary to
move others back to keep them from
falling into the water. brick school
house built more than forty years ago Is
now within a few feet of the bank. but
has been blocked up and will be moved
out of danger.
st. Deroin was founded in the early
sos by J. A. Ritter, a "squawman,"
and he was one of the first commits
sioners OF Nemaha County. Ritter ex-
tablished a woodward and for many years
supplied steamers with fuel until coal
began to be used. For years st. Deroin
was the shipping point for large sec
tion OF Southeastern Nebraska, which
had no outlet for it's produce except the
river
The Washington herald., 1911-08-13
Gen. Nathaniel Lyon.
Esi,or The Washington Herald:

Editor The Washington Herald:
In .o-day's Herald is letter from. Mr..
J. @. Oliver. of the Soldiers Home, de-
scribing an interesting incident in the
career OF Capt. (afterward Brig. GEM
Nathaniel Lyon, who was killed fifty
years ago to-day In the battle of Wilson's
Creek. Mr.. Oliver pronounces Lyon
zone of the bravest and most competent
generals the war ever produced. This
of a man who was killed at the very be-
ginning of the war may seem to be a
reckless statement: but I. native Mis-
sourian. intensely interested in the polit-
ical situation In that State preceding the
war and the measures which precipi-
tated It. and member Of the regi-
ment which killed Gen. Lyon. agree with
his estimate. A few days ago; In a con-
versation with Col. James Edwards. who
as aid to Gen. Parsons had two horses
killed under him. the first one few feet
from me. he said: 1--WE changed the his
tory OF the world that day"
1T was a hard-fought hattie and a
very bloody one" l replied, hut how
did We change the history OF the world
there?"
I'VE killed Gen. Lyon. Had we not
done so. Gen. Grant would never have
been heard OF" JOSEPH a. AUDD.
Hssttsvilis. Nd, August "
The Washington herald., 1911-08-13

brought into operation And whereas,
provision will require hereafter to be
made by Parliament in a measure
affecting such substitution for limiting
and defining the powers of the new sec
ond chamber, but it is expedient to
make such provision as in this act ap-
pears for restricting the existing powers
of the House of Lords" &c.
Plainly the Parliament bill is but the
first step in a process which must modi-
fly profoundly the whole character of
British institutions. To have al
lowed the Conservative majority in the
House of Lords to be swamped hope
lessly by the admission of several hum
dred Liberal peers would have been an
act OF political suicide. Those who
have followed the leadership of Lord
Lansdowne are given credit by all fair
minded men for having performed an
act of painful remuneration in a man.
ner equally dignifed and patriotic But
as for Mr. Balfour's feeble attempt at
opposition by offering a vote denying
the Crown the right, under the circum-
stances, to create new peers, let it be
said that had Benjamin Disraeli been
leading the Conservatives he would
long ago have stolen Mr.. Asquith's
thunder, just as he stole Mr. Gladstone's
time and again, and would have raised
himself and his party to power by the
very measure that Asquith proposed.
As matters now stand, the Lords are
helpless, and Ireland will get home rule
and her parliament, and, having eighty
two votes in the Commons, she will be
able to determine which party shall be
and shall remain in power; that is, pro-
vided that the representatives will be
unit and not begin to wrangle within
their own faction.
The Washington herald., 1911-08-13
CUTTING OFF, GRAFT.
House Majority Votes Down s14O,-
600 Expenditure to Employees.

House Majority Votes Down s14O,-
600 Expenditure to Employees.
From the Baltimore Sun
For thirty years Congress, at the close
OF each session, has voted one months
extra pay to its employees Most OF
them have easy jobs" with short hours
If they consider the work too exacting
there are $4,000 American citizens ready
to take their places and sacrifice them.
selves on the altar of their country at
so much per diem. If Congress will only
lift its hand. they will march on Wash
ington like a thousand Coxey armies.
The employees are well paid, and they
certainly do not work overtime enough
to justify an increase of one-txelfth in
their salaries.
The voting of a months extra pay
involves an expenditure of $4,000. and
is merely a gift of so much money to
favorites. If the Congressman them
selves wish to reward their political
proteges by donating this sum out of
their own pockets, there will be no OBJ
lection. But they take the money out
of the United States Treasury. The Sem
ate this year, as usual, voted the hon.
orarium. But when the Appropriations
Committee of the House espied this item
it was promptly amputated. In line
with their policy of economy. the Demo-
Gratis refused to allow this gratuity. Thus
another graft that has flourished for
a generation is cut off, and the bene-
ficiaries fear that no succeeding Con-
gress will dare revive it. These are lean
days for the gentry who fatten of the
public nurse
The Washington herald., 1911-08-13
Clever LeH-handed People
Are Famous in England
Many Artists Who Can Paint Better 1pith Their
Left Hands Than Nth the RIGHT

these two distinguished artists left
handedness would seem to stand for
beauty and distinction
Widely as these artists are known IT
may be doubted whether their names
have carried as far as that of Louis
Vain, and he, too, is a 1eft-handed artist.
To see him sitting at his desk drawing
cats-"as fast as a horse can gallop''-
lively cats, wild cats, jumping cats,
tea-drinking cats. Christmas-party cats,
bogy-man cats-in fact. every kind of
possible and impossible cats-and all with
his deft left hand, is sight to remember.
In spite of the fact that he is left-handed,
he is one of the most prolific as we'll as
one of the most rapid of workers in his
own line in the world.
A famous woman who is left-handed is
Miss Hannah Barlow, who was the very
first woman to work at the famous
pottery in Lambeth. The etched stone
ware OF Miss Barlow is famous all the
world over. and it is quite possible, see
ing that no two pieces are ever identical
that this unique ware will, at some future
date, be as valuable as Spode or old
Wedgwood. Miss Barlow is one of those
people who are not left-handed by choice
She used to etch her delightful rough
ponies and deer and geese and dogs on
vases. jars, and jugs with her right hand
She suddenly and quite unexpIicably lost
the use of it, and her doctor told her she
would never be able to use 1t in her
work again. This would have been
knock-down blow to most people, but it
didn't prove so to Miss Barlow. She
began at once to practice with her left
hand, and to-day the most minute ex-
animation could not discern the work
done formerly by her right hand and
done now by her left Indeed. if any
thing, her later work is better than her
earlier