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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-20
NAMES LARGEST isLAnD.
Cur Isle of the Desert Mountain
Named BY Sieur de Monts.

There is one spot on the coast of
Maine where Champlain got the bet
ter of Sieur de Monts. While the lat
ter was exploring his newly found pos
sessions on the shores of Passama-
quoddy. the other French adventurer
was admiring the beauties and the en-
Vironments of Frenchmans bay. Es-
peeially was his attention directed to
enc great island where the mountains
came down 70 tie sea, and to this dis
eovery he gave The name of L Isle 1eS
Monts Deserts. Translated INTO plain
English this would mean, THE isle OF
the desert mountains. which would
seem to imply that the spot was more
barren and deseIate than it is today.
sav3.a writer ia the Lewiston tiIe.)
Joprnai
II is a long stretch of time from the
present back to the year 1904. and the
great crags and bleak ocean buttes
looked far different to the adventur-
Gus Frenehman than to the modern
Croesus who builds his magnificent
summer home ON their beetling sum
mits Little did Champlain dream
what the future had in store, nor could
he with prophetic ken foresee the
changes that time would bring. 1t
WAS an age of adventure. hardsiips
and pfivation, and there was no eye
for beauty nor conception Of the age
of pleasure which WAS yet to be.
In speaking of Mount Desert we nat
urally ASSOCIATE II with Bar Harber,
without stopping TO think that the lat
ter is but enc community while the
island covers space of 100 square
miles. IL is the largest island on the
ooast of New England and also the
most picturesque. Chief among the
elevations Of the land is Green NOUN
tain, which towers to a height of 1890
feet above the sea which washes its
hase, and around whose sides are
deep gorges and caves whose deep re-
eeSses are never penetrated by the rays
of the sun. Other mountains are
there equally picturesque, and III the
deep forests which cover their sides
may still be found the antlered deer
as IN the days of yore.-Christian Sci
ence Monitor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-20

field d. T. Richardson, Baldwin. VIM.
McGilvery, Searsport; John S. Tenney,
Norridgewock; NJ. r. Ludwig, Thorn
aston; Thomas Warren, Deer Isle;
Crosby Kinds, Benton; Lewis Barker,
Stetson: S. 4. Holbrook, Freeport: e.
NJ. Hamor Eden: Everett w. Stetson,
Damariscotta; Cornelius Stone, jay;
Elias Milliken, Burnham Il. J. Hale,
Foxcroft; O. n. Bradbury, Springfield;
G. w. Woodman, Portland: l.. L.
Wadsworth, Jr.. Pembroke Esreff H.
Banks, Biddeford; Parker p Burleigh,
Linneus. Joseph A. Sanborn, Read
field; r, J. Soutbard Richmond;
George Pierce, Harrison; A. D. Man
son. Bangor.
The members of the House signing
are: Speaker, w. A. p. Dillingham;
Waterville; James II. Williams, Au-
gusta; Josiah Crosby, Dexter, James
+. Miller, Portland: William Bean,
Denmark; John p. Perley. Bridgton:
Isaac Beale9 Hudson; Joseph w. Por-
ter, Burlington: George f. Patten,
Bath; Samuel W. Larrabee, Portland;
Lyndon Oak. Garland: Thomas II.
Garnsey, Bangor; Jesse Gould, I.y-
man; Francis f. Webb. winthrop;
John L. Stevens, Augusta Martin l..
Slower, Bluehill; n. O. Cram. Port
land: John French, Lincolnville Will
liam W. Hobbs, Norway; William j.
Phillips, Weld; Otis Hathaway. VIII
ton: joel Valley. Alma; \. X. Walker,
Hampden; Hiram A. Ellis. Canton;
Rufus p. Tapley, Saeo: Thomas Long.
Nassalboro; Calvin Bickford, Warren:
a. Nj. Jones. Lewiston; d, II. XIII
breth. Liyermore: ID. p. Wasgatt, Mt.
Desert: John Haley. Frankfort; NJ. V.
b. Chase, Sidney: Thomas W. Bow
man, Buckfeld; Charles II. Frost. San
ford; Abel Prescott, Canaan: Il.
Adams Davis, Lubee; Gideon Mayo.
'orono, Lewis brigham. Amherst;
John II. Sayward, Alfred; Charles E.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-20

Whereas. At the second session aG
the SSth Congress of the United States
of America, held at Washington, in the
District of Columbia, on the LIST day of
February aforesaid, it was resolved as
follows, viz:
Resolved, BY the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress as
sembled dwo-thirds of both Houses
concurring) that the following article
be proposed TO the Legislatures of the
several states, as an amendment to the
Constitution of the United States,
which, when ratified by three-fourths
of said Legislatures. shall be valid to
all intents and purposes, as part of
the said constitution. namely:
Art. 10. Section Neither slavery
nor involuntary servitude. except as,
punishment for crime whereof the
party shall have been duly convicted.
shall exist within the United States, or
any places subject to their jurisdic
ton.
power to enforce this article by APP
propriate legislation.
BE il therefore enacted by the SEN
ate and House of Representatives of
the State of Maine in Legislature as
sembed. as follows, viz:
Section THAT the said proposed
amendment be, and the same is hereby
ratified in behalf of the State 'of
Maine
Approved, Feb. Z, 1865.
The engrossed act bears the sigma
ture of Governor Samuel Conv and to
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-20

The Legislature of Maine, Feb. 4.
1859. ratified the 18th amendment to
! the Constitution of the United States,
. abolisliing slavery Six days later,
an order passed the House of Repre-
sentatives and the Senate, instructing
the clerk of the House and the Sec
rotary of the Senate to prepare "a
suitable copy of the proposed amend
nscftt TO the Constitution of the United
States. abolishing slavery and secure
to such copy the signatures of the
members of both branches of the
Legislature, who voted for or against
the same; and that they then have
such copy and signatures suitably
framed for the purpose of preserving
the same in some suitable place in the
State House"
a The amendment was engrossed and
the signatures secured but the me-
mortal containing the signatures was
never framed and hung in the State
House. It's very existence had been
forgotten for many years and 1t was
not until a few days ago that 1t was
discovered. The memorial is in ex-
cellent condition of preservation and
While the signatures are somewhat
yellowed the penmanship is as clear as
copper plate. A suitable frame for the
memorial will be secured by Secy. of
State Davis and the memorial will in
the near future be hung in a promi-
nent position in the office of the de-
Z partment of State, as was originally
intended,
The text of the memorial is as fol-
lows:
Il State OF Maine.
Act to ratify an amendment of the
\ constitution of the United States, pro-
posed sto the Legislatures of the sew
era states by resolution of Congress.
\ approvedaon the LIST day of February
& lin the year. of Our Lord. One Thou
sand Eight Hundred and Sixty Five.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-20
M EN- WAN TED

On Friday June z number employees Of the Boston seyaea
which exists These represented almost entirely the newer yosns
the including
older responsible remained the Company have M
Con-
left the one
but to worthy per-
who qualify.
EnpotMen.
1853 Milk Street, Boston Mass
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-20
VETERAN TREES OF AMERICA.
Many Old Landmarks Used by Sur
veycrs.

There is passing today a race of vet
Grams who have survived many wars.
No Memorial Day services time with a
saddened beauty the slow passing of
these silent historians of our country;
no pensions can prolong indefinitely
their ebbng strength. For the day of
the big tree IS passing With the ex-
eention of, the oak and redwood. most
of our large American trees are short
lived and the forests of the land have
strnesled against many enemies. To-
day the survivors Of the primeyal host
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-20

famous individual trees we shall keep
as long as the strength of their tough
hbres holds them erect against storm,
lightning, aud the crushing weight OF
winter ice But Americas veteran trees
ale Icing slowly mustered out.-Bo5ton
Transcript.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1912-03-12
DOUBLE REPORTS IN FIRING
Curious Effect Produced by Use Of
Maxim SiIencer During Target
Practice. -.-.:..

Taking as his text the double report
noted during the firing on the battle
ship North Carolina during the recent
aerial target practice. Hiram Percy
Maxim writes: "Our experiments
with the Maxim silencer have devel-
oped many other interesting cases.
For example: II rife equipped
with a silencer is fired down a rail-
road track having telegraph poles
along the side there Is distinct
crack heard for each telegraph pole.
If the rifle is fired from an open field
with tree or a clump of bushes at,
say, 200 yards, there is heard a crack
from this clump of trees. If there are
several detached clumps Of trees or
bushes over the open field, there will
be heard crack for each of them.
If, instead of firing parallel with the
ground, the gun is elevated and fired
straight up In the air, we hear no
noise at all, except the fall of the ham,
mer and the puff of the gases >escap-
Ing from the silencer.
AO AS0SOA LII IA4S 10 p1VUdU1y dS
follows: In the ordinary gun the re-
port noise is so loud that it engulfs all
other sounds, and we are conscious of
nothing but report noise itself. It is
not until this report noise is annulled
that we can hear the bullet flight
noise. This latter noise, being made
out in the air beyond the gun, can
come back to the shooter only by re-
Election. +.
If there is one object, we get ono
reflection and one noise II there are
many separate objects, we get many
separate reflections and separate
noises. If there are no rejecting OBJ
jects, such 'as when shooting straight
up into the air, then we get no re-.
fected noise." n,
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1912-03-12
Trolley Rail Tuuboat.

Tests of q new touring system, in
vented by German engineer, Herr
Koss, have recently been made on tho
Dortmund Ems Canal, which give
promise that the invention will be a
success. An elastic rail is laid at the
bottom Of the canal, and the tugboat
carries at it's bottom four rollers which
clasp this rail. These rollers are oper-
ated from the boat which is thus pro-
PEELED. A large economy of power is
claimed for this method. The expert
mental tug is worked by electricity,
the energy being obtained through a
cable from an auxiliary boat equipped
with dynamo. This, however, is on
ly an experiment, and IN ordinary
working trolley wire would be in
stalled alongside the canal. Electri.
cal operation can obviously be re-
placed by crude oil motors. etc., each
barge being fitted with set of rollers
acting on the rail-
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1912-03-12
Modern Mother.in.laW.

Wife, at the Breakfast Table
Henry dear, mother writes that she is
coming down to visit us for week.
Henry enthusiastic ically Bully! It
seems an age since she's been down to
see us and I've just been thinking we
ought to have her come. But can't
she stay more than q week? There
are a lot Of good shows and things
she'd enjoy and besides I want to
play good long series Of chess with
her and week will hardly start US.
Write her we want her for month.
Wife iii try to get her for that
long, Henry, but you know she can
only get away from home once in a
great while for a few days, and she's
got to divide up her time between
three daughters. Arthur and his wife
and Mary and Charlie would be reaNy
angry If she didn't spend as much
time with them as with us.
Henry-Well, do your best. Honest
ly, Mary, your mother is a jolly good
fellow, as I've told you before. and
We can't have too much OF her.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1912-03-12
T0UcHED HUao,s KINB HEART
0rsat Frsnchman Aided Bsooar With
vsrss sf Much More Worth &,
- Than Money.

- - E
= Nsnchman, writing rscsntly upon
The Mendlcants OF Paris, recalls Z
pretty anecdots Of Victor Hugo and q
blind beggar. The beggar was an old
soldier, very feeble and quite sight.
less, who was led every day by his
little granddaughter to certain
street corner, where he waited pa
tiently for such scanty aims as the
hurrying public might drop into q
small box that hung from his neck.
One day q group Of gentlemen halt.
ed near him, chatting, and he heard
the name by which they called the
one who fingered longest. Reaching
forward as he, too, was about to 60.
he caught him by the coat.
What do you want, my good man?
asked the gentleman. Il have already
given you two SOUS"
Eyes. monsieur, and I have thanked
you,'' replied the veteran. 1T IL some
thing else that / want"
what is it?''
''Verses."
''You shall have them" !" said tho gen.
tleman; and he kept his word. The
next day the blind soldier bore on his
breast a placard with stanza to
which was appended the name of Vic.
tor Hugo; and the arms In the box
were quintupled. The lines may be
thus translated:
Like Belisarius and like Homer blind.
Led by a young child on his pathway
dim, r-rs
The hand that aids his need, plying and
kind, Ill. ..
He will not see. but God will see for
.-. him. - :. & ~ y.
Youths Companion.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1912-03-12
The Golden Rule.

Here is the Golden Rule as It has
been Interpreted by various branches
of the human family:
Do as you would be done by.-Per-@
sian.
Do not that to neighbor which
you would take Ill from him.-Grec-
ian.
What you would not wish done to
Yourself DO not do unto others.
Chinese.
One should seek for others the hap
piness one desires for ones self
Buddhist.
He sought for others the good he
desired for himself. Let. him pass
on.-Egyptian.
All things whatsoever We would
that men should do to you, do ye ey-
en- SO to othem.-Christian.
Let none of you treat his brother
in way he himself would dislike to
be d.-Mohammedan
The true rule of life is to guard
and 90 by the things OF others as they
do by their own.-Hindu
The law imprinted on the hearts
of all men is to love the members of
society as emselves.--Roman
To the foregoing we might add:
+ Kick no other mans dawg around
t if you are unwilling that your own
dawg should be kicked.-Missourian
Cast not your hat into ring into
which you are unwilling to permit
another to cast his hat.-Roosevelt.
| Love your neighbor's wife if you
are willing that your neighbor should
love your wife.-New York Smart
Set. zz- 2. f.
Let only him who is willing to be
recalled advocate the recall.-Taft.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1912-03-12

| Hastings, Nebraska, team and he
has been in the big league business
eighteen years. His first games were
on the prairie, so naturally his games
now are on the level. (It's rotten,
but Well let it pass).~ s~ ~, -
He is one of the wealthiest men in
the business, having such a big stock
farm at his home near Winfield,
Kansas, that he has to get down a
plat map of Cowley County to re-
member how much land he has. It's
so large that it takes two automobiles
and-five hired men to run it. F.
He has two daughters and a phono.
graph. His was the first phonograph
ever seen in that part of Kansas, the
natives coming for miles and miles
on Sunday afternoons to look at it,
and then going away believing that
Fred was playing a joke on them.
They wouldn't believe. it could talk
until they locked Fred up in the
kitchen and put the thing out in the
front yard on culvert tile Of trail
Ing arbutus. s
He is farmercist from the word
go and would rather talk about
Durocs in the back lot than about
the best Bougereaus ever hung in the
Metropolitan museum. a@zz z-z--..--...--
The only habit, hobby or whoopla
of the man who for ten years batted
over 800, who won four NJ L. pennants
and one world championship, is chew
ing toothpick. He is rough on
toothpicks, beginning on them in the
morning as soon as he gets one foot
through and keeping it up all day un.
til the Pullman porter begins hunt.
ing for the boys shoes. @z--
When Fred Clarke wants to have
a ripsnorting time he drives friend
out to the hog yard in his auto, hangs
one knee over the steering wheel,
puts in fresh toothpick: and throws
out handful of shelled corn for
his Durocs.
copyright, 1911 by W. g. Chapman.>
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1912-03-12
Pilgrim Trade Has 4 Boom.

Pilgrim Trade Has 4 Boom.
The Mahomatan is not SO behind tho
times as some would make him out.
He has proved himself quick to take
advantage Of the conyeniences Of mod
ern civilization.
Before the Hedjaz Railway was be-
gun the number Of pilgrims to Mecca
was about 10000 q year. In 1904, when
one section Of the road was opened,
this number jumped at once to 200,-
900. In the last year for which there
10 any record it exceeds 280,000.
These faithful followers of the
prophet included 10000 Turks, 10000
from India, 1900 from North Africa
and even 1000 Malays.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1912-03-12
Parcels Post Criticized.

Washington. D. G., March 12.-
! The House postoffice committee has
| ordered printed bill attached as a
rider to the postoffice appropriation
bill which provides for a system of
parcels post. Much has been said
about the benefit such a system
would be to farmers in sending prod
ucts to towns. 1t would appear that
the farmers have been handed a beau
tifully designed "gold-brick.' The
rural route rates do not apply to
products sent from farmers to the
towns. they are only available for
the shipment from a person on one
rural route to person on the same
route or from the starting point of
such route. ...
Representatives OF retail mail-or-
der houses are said to have been
anxious to obtain a delivery system
to people living along rural routes.
Thus they would be able to ship their
goods by: freight or express in guam
tity to an agent in town and all
such agent or solicitor. will have to
do will be to deposit these in a post
office and the packages up to eleven
pounds will go to all farmers along
the rural routes at low rates, an elev-
en-pound package costing them only
rs cents. But if a farmer wishes to
send an eleven-pound package to
town or to farmer on another route
such package would cost him $1.32.
representatives of large retail mail
order houses have been active in
Washington and it seems they have
gotten very much of what they
wanted from the House committee.
The committee also attempts to COM
pei the senators to abandon any con-
victions they may have upon the
subject by attaching the bill as a
rider to an appropriation bill. It
also proposes to. avoid criticism by
shutting of debate with .cloture
rule. Members of the committee
have said they did not aim to alarm
or injure any legitimate business IN.
terest; but they have decided to con-
denim the merchants of the smaller
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1912-03-12
BY HOMER CROY.

If you will look it up in the die
tionary you will find it this way:
Fredclarke: (noun) see Old Glib
raltar And then If you will turn to
the o's you'll read:
Old Gibraltar: (noun) see fred.
clarke.
That's what he is-Old Faithful
You can depend on him 364 days out
Of the year and If he turns up miss
Ing on the three hundred and sixty
NTH you may know some doctor has
q thermometer under his tongue and
his thumb on his pulse.
He was born on a farm in Madison
County, Iowa, thirty-nine years ago,
and did not talk until he was old
enough to harness horse alone, and
never since has he said more than
three sentences and four goldarnits
In succession. Before he utters a
complete sentence outside the ball
park he 6 cts out the screw driver, the
die cutter and the alligator wrench,
goes all over his vocal apparatus,
chokes once, strains for start and
then puts period at the end of the
fifth word. The only time he can
use two sentences in succession with.
out getting rosy behind his ears is
when he describes his thoroughbred
helfers.
One Saturday when he was seven
teen years old, after he had got the
jimson weeds all cut, lime sprinkled
on the cucumber vines and the rock
salt laid out for the cattle in the
back forty, he went to Omaha where
he saw his first professional game
Of baseball. 1t excited him so that
ne didn't sleep for three nights, and
when he went back home and told
the rest of the fellows that the play.
ers all had a full suit apiece they
nearly hurt themselves laughing and
said Fred was trying to put on airs
just because he had been to the city
His first game was played with the
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1912-03-12
American manners.

Frederick Townsend Martin, at 4
dinner In New York, criticized Amer
lean manners Wittily.e
.Kipling, he said, declares truly
that a gentleman has manner, y sile a
would-be gentleman has, manners.
We should remember that. We lay
too much stress on such details as
taking OF our hats when we go up In
the elevator with a scrubwoman.
In fact. in everything, we seem to
search too uneasily for the correct,
the modish, course. "A society editor
told me the other day that he had
Just got letter from q young wom-
an that ran: - 50
s Dear Editor Please state who
should keep up the insta ailments on the
ring when the engagement g broken
edI.ss
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1912-03-12
Expedition Across Greenland.

3
The Swiss Society Of Naturalists is
raising funds to enable DR.. A. de
Quervain to undertake a Journey
across the inland lee Of Greenland.
from Disco bay, on the west coast, to
Angamagsalik, the only inhabited
place on the east coast. The expedi-
ton expects to leave Europe on the
steamer Hans Egede April !, 1917, and.
to start eastward from Disco bay the
middle Of June. It Is expected that
four weeks will be required for the
Journey, but provisions for twice that
lime will be carried. Two members Of
the expedition are to remain on the
west coast of Greenland until the.
spring Of 1913 to carry on psychological
and aerological studiesthe latter in
connection with similar observations
that are to be made at the same time,
pn the east coast Of Greenland, IN Ice
land, and II spitzbergen.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1912-03-12
ADVOCATES HIGHER
SALOON LICENSES.
Continued from first page).

for the, ladies and information bu-
reau,, also employment agency, and
weights and measures department.
These conveniences will not be ex-
pensive to the city but will go a
long way in showing the attitude of
the people of this community toward
each other and likewise toward the
general public
believe that this council will con-
slider the suggestions that have been
set forth in the above with the same
spirit that they have been presented,
and that we are united for having a
good profitable year for Bemidji.
Very Sincerely,
(Signed) F. M. Malzahn, Mayor.
In the discussion which followed
the reading of the message, the
councilmen expressed themselves as
in favor of the public rest room, but
did not believe the employment bu-
reau was advisable as the city was
already deriving revenue Of $4OO
per year from that source. L. F.
Johnson suggested that more police
be added to the city force as at pres
ent all were needed in the down
town district leaving the resident
section unguarded. a.-.. -. -...-
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1912-03-12
Pennsylvania Labor Federation.

Pittsburgh, Ja., March 12.-Dele-
gates from all parts of the state re-
sponded+to the roll call today at the
opening Of the eleventh annual con-
vention of the Pennsylvania State
Federation Of Labor. The gathering
was called to order at 10 o'clock this
morning by the president, E. p:
Greenawalt of Lancaster. The ses-
sions will probably continue through
the remainder of the week. The
large attendance and the Importance
of some Of the matters to be consid-
cred combine to give promise of one
of the most notable meetings ever
held BY the federation. s s
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1912-03-12
TactfuI Request.

Dobbleigh was confirmed borrow
er. and, what was worse, he seldom
returned the borrowed articles. He
had held on to Whibley's umbrella.
for instance, for nearly q year.
And I'm blest II / know how am
ever going to get It back, !" said Whib
ley.
Easy" said Hickenlooper. Call 4
messenger and send Dobbleigh this
aote. =
And he scribbled on the following:
s~Dear Dobbleigh: + you can spare it
I'd like to borrow that umbrella 81
mine for couple. of days. Can you
oblies mo llarpsr'S Weekly