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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-14

A delightful AT Home" was given
Friday evening at the home of Mrs.
Lendall Titcomb. sc Stone street. to
the members OF the South Congrega-
tional parish. About 100 members of
the parish were present and the eve
ming was passed socially and with vo-
cal and instrumental music. including
the singing of college songs. Dainty
refreshments were served. The prin-
cipal object of the event was to give
those who had recently become affili-
ated with the parish an opportunity
TO meet a large number of those con-
nected with 1t socially.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-14

liam Dostie on the Oakland road, and
he received terrible injuries. bat after
being attended by physicians at the
Libbey hospital. was reported late in
the afternoon as resting as comfort
ably as possible. The arm was torn
off about midway between the shoul-
der and elbow and presented & ter
ri5le sight. say those near the scene
OF the accident. Simpson is about 80
years of age, belongs IN WinsloW and
is well-known in both this city and
Winslow, as he was connected not
very long ago with the Ticonic Min
raj Spring Co.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-14

y Sunday evening reading with
Graphophone and praise service will
be held Of the riverside church next
Sunday night al o'clock. Henry Fos-
sett will be in charge of the graphic
phone. y hearty Invitation Is given to
I'll to attend.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-14

Railroad Commissioner Frank Keller
of Rockland arrived In the city Friday
night. on his return from Bangor. where
he has been In connection with the hear
ing given by the commissioners at Ban.
gor upon the petition of the Bangor Rail.
way & Electric Co.. for crossing the
saltwater river in the town of Orono
upon a bridge Independent of that main
tained by the town.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-14

Capt. Freeman of the Giants stated
Friday night tia, ne would be unable
accept the challenge of the Arlington
football team to a game Saturday as
he did not hear Of the challenge until
short time ago and several members
of the team were unable TO play. He
saws that his team is willing TO play
the Arlingtons at a later date.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-14

Mrs. Alexander Duncan entertained
the Jolly Club Friday afternoon at
her home on the Townsend road.
Whist was played. after which re-
freshments We're served and ali voted
1t delightful time
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-14

Charles s. Tobey of this city and
Asa Libby OF Ilallowell will start
Saturday fer California. They will go
to San Francisco and later 20 Los
Angeles and il they find conditions
to their liking may decide 10 locate
in that state
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-14

MIR. and Mrs. G.. l.. Armstrong and
family viii leave. Monday, for a visit
OF two months 10 Mr.. Armstrong; old
home AZ Riehland Center Wis. They
VIII he absent about two months. Mr..
and Mrs. John Davis OF Monmouth
Will accompany them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-14

Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Duclos, who
have been passing their honeymoon
at Manchester, y. H., and at the home
|os Rodolphe Dostie Washington
street, this city, have returned 10 their
home in st. Bernard, P. @.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-14

DeForest II Perkins, superintendent
of the Portland public schools, was in
the city Friday evening in conference
with Supt. f. c. Marshall of this city
and Harold a. Allan Of the State edu-
cational department in regard to the
coming meeting Of the State Teachers
Association, which IS to be held Oct.
25-27 In this city.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-14

Nathaniel $. Taylor OF Boston was
registered at Hotel North Friday night.
Mr. Taylor is special writer on the
staff Of the Boston Globe, and during
the exciting Legislative winter of 1889
was one Of the stenographic repostors OF
the proceedings n
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-14

Miss Ethel NJ. Russell of scwali
street has returned from Boston.
where she went 10 attend the golden
wedding of Mr.. and Mrs. George w.
Wheeler of Cambridge.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-14

Hose was called to % Cony street
at P. NJ, Friday. by still alarm
for chimney fire in the house owned
by the Leacali Titcomb estate and
occupied by Charles Newell. The fire
WAS a chimney blaze and was extin-
guished by the aid of two chemicals.
without any damage being done.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-14
49,

T c. Bodge, w. f. Swift and y. y.
Soaie left on the morning Pullman
for r few days hunting in the woods
of Northern Maine. Their destination
is Lunksoos mountain. where the deer
are known to be harmless and par
tridges can be killed with a stick.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-14

Ono of the leading events of the com
ing week will be the concert and ball
Gy III" Augusta Cadet Band at City
hall Wednesday evening, Oct. IS. See
advertisement
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-14

Mr.. and Mrs. ]. NJ. Penney of Bel
grade are receiving the congratula-
lions of friends on the birth, Oct Z,
of fine boy Before marriage Mrs.
Penney was Miss Mary Banks of this
CITY
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-14

John McDonahue OF Everett, the IS
year-old boy. who sought shelter
Thursday night at the police station,
after running away from his Massa-
ehusetts home with the avowed pur-
pose OF helping harvest portion OF
the Aroostook potato crop. will return
to his home by boat Saturday. City
Marshal Fletcher, late Friday, sue
ceeded in getting in touch by telegram
with the boys mother and she wired
that money would be forthcoming In
time for the runaway to take the boat
Saturday for Boston.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-14

Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Griffin's home
on the Winthrop road was the scene
Friday evening OF a Jolly gathering at
an old-fashioned husking. About 100
friends gathered and they hustled
about 300 bushels OF corn out of sight
in jiffy. They also did justice to
an old time supper. which included
baked beans, ''punkin" pie and all tho
''fiXins. Games OF the good old kind
followed and young and old took their
joint and several oaths that 1t was a
grand good time
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-14

Representative Frank Thompson Of
skowhegan was in the city Friday and
called upon friends at the State House
during the day.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-14

George Gay of Grove street recent
~ reconstructed his stable into n
earage tor his own use
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-14
AUGUSTA LOCALS.

Rev. George S. Robinson of Old Town
was visitor Friday in the city.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-14

There are some devotions which enable
the enthusiast to treasure up all the little
things that the object Of ones devotlons
bestows A very trihing souvenir then
means whole lot.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-14
VAUDEVILLE.
Herbert Simpson Suffers Terrible Ac-
cident on Friday.
ARM TORN OFF.

Herbert Simpsons left arm was
~ In the beater OF a tmeshing
machine about which he was working
Friday forenoon at the farm of Will
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-14

department. l have my own
make sausage, own rendered
lard and compound, own cur
ing of ham and bacon, own
cooked meats, also plenty
home raised pork. good heavy
beef, and everything YOU ex-
pect to find in a first class
market.
Is what l try to keep my meat
Evening journal., 1911-06-24
ABOnT Am on suRIECT.

II HE SUSSEX REPUBLICAN again declares
a that it the hand of the Republican or
ganization which prevented the Governor from
signing the woman bill" over which there was
so much contention. This subject has been
threshed out considerably, and there is no reason
for returning to it except that the Sussex Re-
publicans claim should not be permitted TO 20 un-
challenged in justice to the Governor
The most pressure brought on the Governor to
have him refuse to sign the bill was that Of some
OF our manufacturers and members of the Board
OF Trade. This clearly manifested by the ad-
dresses made at the meeting of the Board of Trade
when the question was up for discussion by that
body. The men there who spoke on the matter,
approving the course of Governor Pennewill, we're
men who take little no active interest in poll
tics, and there party division over the ques-
ton In addition the most violent opponent of the
bill was the Democratic newspaper which COM
mended the Governor for refusing to sign the
measure.
The Republican may be able to score points
against the Governor on other matters, but it
should at least treat him with fairness and not
try to make il appear that the Governor refused
to sign the measure simply at the command Of
the organization The bill was passed by the Leg
islature, but those who would have been seriously
affected by it delayed making their protests until
Il had been passed and the Governor was forced
to bear the brunt of the criticism
Had those in opposition been alert, they could
probably have defeated the bill before the Leg
islature. 1t was finally by hearkening to them
and by investigating personally the alleged con-
ditions here that the Governor decided not to ar
prove the bill.
The Governor, however, yielded 10 the reprssen-
thtons of the opponents Of the measure, and we
think It unfair to him TO say that il was the or
ssnizaton which brought about the hold-up of the
bill because when the measure was before him
there was no politics in il and in fact at no time
il political question.
Evening journal., 1911-06-24
SATURDAY. JUNE "a. 1911
EMPLOYERS LIABILITY.

TT is probable that the commission appointed TO
i consider the question Of an Employers Liability
measure will formulate some sort of bill which
will have a chance of being passed by the next
session of the Legislature.
The subject was first brought to the attention
of the last Legislature, but as it was practically
new topic in this state disagreements arose
which could not be adjusted with the result that
a commission was formed The commission met
the other day and elected Mr.. Hilles as president
and Mr.. Jennings secretary. Mr.. Hes is man.
ufacturer Of large experience and Mr.. Jennings
is familiar with the labor view of the matter.
During the last session Of the Legislature it was
surprising that more interest was not manifested
by the working people Of the city in an employ
ers liability act. We doubt whether Mr. Gormley
who had charge OF the hnal bill heard from them
as he should have done.
The question which the commission will have
TO solve is just how far the bill should 60, and
what industries il will include 1t seems that the
New York law covers only those engaged in dan
gerous occupations and in peril while working.
One of the bills under discussion during the last
session of the Legislature referred only TO trans
portation companies, but such measure, If we
are to have any at all, should have wider scope
The entire question is a complicated and mixed
one Certainly there should be some sort Of pro-
vision for the proper protection of workmen who
may be killed or injured through no fault Of their
own. We do not believe that most of our manu-
facturers and employers would object TO a rea-
sonabe law. Manufacturers in many places have
worked out schemes for assisting the injured in
their employ and doubtless such plans are in force
in some Of our Wilmington industries
The plan that some writers on these questions
has suggested is for fund TO which contribu-
ton are made by the employers, the employees
and the state. Owing 10 the fact that Delaware is
a small state, with limited resources, the feature
of having the state contribute to the fund would
doubtless meet with strong opposition.
Evening journal., 1911-06-24
DIRECT NOMINATIONS.
VATHILE the New York Legislature under
w domination of Tammany is trifling with

VATHILE the New York Legislature under the
w domination of Tammany is trihng with the
question of direct nominations of candidates the
Massachusetts Legislature has solved the problem,
for both parties in the New England State, have
accepted a mandatory statewide primary system
applying to all state officers.
Two years ago legislative committee of New
York visited Boston to investigate the direct pri-
mary plan and although they found that some
leaders did not think direct primaries cure
all-and no one claims that they are-they did
learn from many politicians that they we're an
improvement over the convention plan.
The New York Legislators tried TO use luke
warm evidence they gathered in Massachusetts to
defeat the measure in New York, but the best an
swer is that Massachusetts has extended the sys-
tenn
There will always be difference of opinion as
10 the merits of the two systems. Some fear the
standard of oiceholders is actually lowered by di-
rect primaries, but this is certainly not true in
this county Time alone will tell. If the direct
primaries do not bring satisfactory results the
old convention plan can be resumed. But it is
significant that communities in which direct pri-
mares have been tried are not disposed to return
10 the convention method
Evening journal., 1911-06-24
PLASTIC PARENTS
BY The REV. r. L. JACKSON

The sine qua non Of a successful
parental career is a facile Elasticity.
Modern fathers and mothers who
cannot be moulded by their children
have missed their calling and What =
more calamitous, have robbed ch. IA
hood of its choicest function. john -,
and Mary know how father al
mother should be fashioned and deefii
1t their duty to apply their knowledge
with unremitting diligence. It is
gratifying to observe the goodly num-
ber of parents that respond to the
deft and diligent touches of their
children and in due time develop into
perfect paragons of pliancy. That
way lies efficient parenthood.
OF course one could imagine a
reversal of the above roles. Father
and mother could do the moulding
and Johnny and Mary could be the
plastic stuff, but such an imagining
would be vain. What need have they
Of any moulding? Their characters
are already shaped; their conduct is
already fixed. They know how to re-
act on every situation. They know
how late to stay out o'night. They
know what company to keep; they
know how to spend their time and
money. They have not been running
the streets night after night to no
purpose They have not been going
with mature knowing youth in vain.
In all this they have acquired an in
telligence and self-confidence which
stand them in good stead when il
comes to the serious business OF
moulding their parents.
In an age when ones experiences
must be Immediately rushed into a
book before they get cold and stale
we may confidently expect a book
from some boy or girl aspiring to the
emoluments of authorship bearing
the following taking title How 70
bring up ones parents" It is un-
necessary to add that those modern
educators who believe that the wav
to do a thing today is to do it ex-
actly the reverse Of the way ii was
done yesterday will make It the stand
ard textbook on parental training for
a few weeks at least, that is until
something more modern appears.
Let parents appreciate the training
they are receiving at the hands of
their children and strive to so profit
by it as to prove an honor and credit
to them in the after years.
Evening journal., 1911-06-24
Editorial Opinion
Changing the CONSTITUTION.

Changing the Constitution.
Kansas City Star.
OF the fifteen amendments that have
been added to the constitution since
Il was adopted 1913 years ago. ten
we're proclaimed IN the first two years
Of the life Of the new government.
The eleventh was declared in force
in 1898 and the twelfth in 1904 No
further notifications we're made in
the original instrument until after the
Civil War, which brought the last
three. amendments. The last of those
was adopted forty-one years ago.
Since that time, while many pro-
posals for the change of the constitu-
ton have been made. none has been
incorporated into the organic law.
Two years ago, however, the income
tax amendment was submitted, and
it is expected that the proposal for
the popular election of senators will
shortly come before the states II
both these should be adopted-as
seems likely-the tradition of the inn
possibility Of modifying the consti-
ton will have been shattered
Such a result would be exceeding
ly wholesome. Written constitutions
are bound. to become outgrown in
parts. Il would be a serious condi-
ton If the Nation should be forced
TO believe that it was bound by a
constitution which could not be alter
ed except by smashing IL.
Evening journal., 1911-06-24
Stories of the Day
HEADS VS.. THUMBS.

A Chinese prince in this country
visited Police Headquarters in New
York and was much interested in the
thumb mark records preserved there
as a method of identification for Grim
inals.
I'VE have used thumb marks for sew
eral thousand years as seals on mer-
camille and other papers" the, China
man told the man in charge of the
thumb-mark bureau, but we do not
use them in any other way"
How do you identify your crimi-
nals?' asked the thumb mark man.
"Oh, we have a very simple method
Of identifcation-we- cut off their
heads. Saturday Evening Post
Evening journal., 1911-06-24
:: With the ParagrapherS ::


II the ny were sensitive thing il would drown it.
self in a public drinking cup-Toedo Blade.
These are also the days when the housekeeper gives
three ardent cheers for the freless cooker-Kansas
City Star
Pretty vacation will come, and then we're 60
ing out beyond the last house the tip end OF
Cape Cod and make faces at it-Boston Transcript
boy graduated from PENNSYLVANIA high school
without having missed half day. and shall
horrors of child slavery be unrebuked ?-Detroit
Journal
which death would you PREFER? demand a lot of
newspapers that subscribe to Sunday-thriller syn
dicate Well, let have ours through a strawl-
Washington Post
The boy or girl who has won diploma
thcate for study and application lessons deserves
All the notice at the graduation the newspapers
give II is fine achievement to have gone through
the schools or the colleges-chester Times
Charged with maltreating his wife, Atlanta man
has been sentenced 70 kiss her least every day
Here's where she get even with the aid Of the
onions Texas is sending out the country.-Des
Moines Trbnue.
Evening journal., 1911-06-24
BY
=" H 0 L L A N D .

Tenny5on and Browning TO American
readers even before their true worth
was recognized in England" Mr..
Fields edited the Atlantic Monthly
for eight years, beginning in 1862. and
the last ten years Of his life he spent
in authorship and lecturing.
In the course of conversation had
with this distinguished publisher on
the day Of his return from Europe in
lo19-his last trip across the Atlantic
II asked him if it were true, as /
had heard, that he had rescued the
manuscript of Hawthorne's Scarlet
Letter" from what seemed to be a per-
manent burial place.
Yes" he said, "and / have alluded
TO that incident in one of my lectures.
| had been to see Hawthorne at Salem :
he was then an officer in the custom
house there, and although he had done
nothing in literary way to make him
famous, / was in hopes that he might
have by him a manuscript or that
might persuade him to write some
thing which would be available for
publication. He told me that he had
4
leave he opened a drawer and took
from it some manuscript, saying TO me
that he was doubtful whether il was
worth publishing or not He also said
that he had been occupied with it in
his leisure moments while serving as
surveyor of the port of Salem.
Il tucked the manuscript in my
pocket and took IL away with me. II
ur1 he vi Cf h. r1~4
Letter All the world knows the rest
of the story. l have always felt proud
that / should have been the discover
er of that immortal classic"
But" said /, II have heard, MIR.
Fields, that you were so doubtful about
getting your money back from the
actually ordered the work to be stop
ped and the types distributed"
There was just enough color of
truth in that report to account for its
circulation, and yet it was very wide
OF the mark said Mr. Fields. "In those
days (lS50) we often printed directly
from type, not taking the trouble to
stereotype book. After few thous-
and copies of The Scarlet Letter had
been printed we we're so doubtful
dDOul tue WOTk DeCOlluS popular, al
though we were sure that It would
have a good sale among cultivated peo-
pie, that we did order the printer TO
distribute the types. But, 10, the in
slant the book appeared we knew that
IL was to be a popular success; any
publisher can tell by the feel of the
market whether book is a dead fail
ure or not So we ordered the print
ers to reset the copy as rapidly as pos
sible and printing OF additional copies
was begun in the course of a few days.
You can judge how accurate our fore
cast was when ] tell you that the
book sold nearly six thousand copies
in a little over three weeks. And the
fortune and the fame of Nathaniel
Hawthorne were by that publication
secured"
Copyright, 1911. by Z j. Edwards. All
rights reserved.)
On Monday Mr.. Edwards viii tell Of
"Ihe Five Million Dollars That Boss
Tweed 0ffered in Vain.'
Evening journal., 1911-06-24
:: Personal and Pertinent ::

Mrs. Roswell r. Hoes, wife Of a chaplain in the
United States Navy, stationed in the Norfolk Navy
Yard, says the orfok Landmark, has novel relic
in an umbrella presented by the City of Boston 10
Lafayette In 1924 II Is probably one of the and
most expensive models OF that period It is built on
fat substantial, genuine whalebone ribs, something
impossible TO obtain now The points are Of fine ivory
now yellow the danod and the handle is ivory
quantity carved and nlaid with gold and silver On
the handle is the head of Lafayette decately chased
and about the silver rim at the extreme end of the
handle is inscribed. ITO Our Nations Guest"
:-.-.-:
Miss Henrietta not sylph by any means; but
she prided herself upon the neatness of her we'll
rounded figure. and when she appeared the hotel
veranda ono summer day with cluster OF white
daisies pinned against the crisp freshness OF her green
linen frook gallant old Col Floyd moved to make
her pretty speech
What charming posesi" he remarked, with
Chesterheldan bow. They suit you exactly You
look like a Virginia hillside"
He was mystifed at the frgidty with which Miss
Henrietta received his bit Of homage.-Youths Com
panion.
Evening journal., 1911-06-24
w NE WIS
OF YES TIE RDAY
4 STORY OF ~THE SCARLET LETTFR.v

One of the great American publish
ers of yesterday was James T. Fields
(1S17-SD of Boston. AS one account of
his life has it, His charming per-
sonal qualities, his sympathy, his lib
erality TO all with whom he dealt, and
his unquestioned literary Judgment
drew to him most of the best known
American authors of the time, and he
became the publisher of Longfellow,
Hawthorne, Emerson, Holmes, Whit
tier, and Lowell, besides introducing