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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-06
WASHINGTON,

Mr.. and Mrs. w E. Overlook and
Mrs. j. b. Howard visited at A. f.
Johnstons East Side. last week.
Ellsworth Clark, VINO is working at
Palermo. has been home on visit.
The new winter that came, Tuesday
gave some more sleighing, but the re-
cent heavy rains left the roads in a
very dangerous condition.
The neighbors and friends of Charles
f. Savage gathered at his home, Tues
day evening, March 90, for a double
celebration ard to bring best wishes
it being his 43rd birthday, and to
also congratulate him on his recent
marriage to Mrs Minnie J. Clark. OF
this town, which had been solemnized
the Saturday night previous by Mis-
sionary Willard Il. Overlook. They re-
ceived many useful presents with the
best wishes of all. Ice cream. cake
candy and cigars in abundance were
the treat
Mrs c. NJ. Berry and Atwell F
Nash visited at Montville. last week
The selectmen have completed th'
valuation and are now finishing tbs
brown tail moth nests. If all towns
were as persistent as the officials
of this town have heen for the pas
three years it would be a much easie
matter to subdue this awful pest.
Missionary Willard T.. Overlook i
working in South Gardiner. Oakland
Augusta and Watervile. this week.
Walter Drake of Coopers Mills /
driving the stage from here to Au
gusta for Fl. b. Moore.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-06
pessimistie Mr.. Whipple.

In review of the unrest perVadins
in industrial circles of the country,
Sherman L. Whipple told the mem
bers of the Massachusetts Ice Deal
ers' Association at the American
House. the other night, that condi-
tons are threatening. 1t is his belief
that there is a deep-seated feeling OF
resentment on the part of the labor
ers and Il greater determination to
right what they term their wrongs
than was ever known before He re-
ferrad to the Mcnamara case and the
Lawrence strike to illustrate his
point "Dsrespect for the courts and
the law" remarked Mr.. Whipple. has
found expression in England as it has
never BE- en- voiced before in my men,
CRY. 1t is another aspect Of the prob
lem of distribution. These men say
things have not been divided fairly
They say, and unhappily it is true,
that some fellows have been passing
laws that enabled them to get rieh
They say that these men have bought
courts or influenced them The divi-
sion of the loot, that is all the initi
ative, the referendum, the recall and
syndiealism mean. We believe the
best should legislate and rule not for
themselves. hut for all Strangely
enough those who are now calling for
the protection of the law have been
admittedly law breakers"
We fail TO see how Mr.. Whippie
cen compare the Mcnamara case and
the Lawrence strike. The one was the
detection and punishment of crime
taught by anarchists, and the other a
not unusual type of labor demonstra-
ton. Neither can we agree that labor
is more dissatisfied or insistent than
at any other time in recent years. on
the contrary, it seems to US that ev-
cry big labor outbreak in recent
months brings home more fully to all
concerned that common ground is
possible and near at hand, and that
before another decade, clashes be-
tween capital and labor will be almost
unknown.
Ard this in spite of the fact that
socialistic and anarchistic disciples
are PROSECUTING constantly among the
weak, the depraved and the illiterate.
We believe the reason for this OPP
timistic outlook lies in the fact that
each element is recognizing the rights
of the other. Labor is getting away
from the shorter day higher pay and
soldering on the job plan. Capital is
admitting that labor deserves fair
share of the profits.
When we awaken to the necessity
of suppressing anarchists and other
law hating propagandas we shall
have reached d happy ending of such
affairs as the murder of score of
people at Los Angeles and the idiotic
methods at Lawrence.
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Editor $ 7 able
Modern Classics.

a little volume of classics modernized
is on the editors desk, from the Ken
nebee journal press Its red and gold
cover proclaims it Modern Classics and
other poems by William Smith knowl-
ton" Appropriate Illustrations are by
the pen of C. Marshall Stewart. The
following opening verse The Adven-
lures of Phaethon, from ovid, is typical
of the cleverness of the work:
"Old Phoebus sat in his office one day,
Prepared for his matutinal spin,
Before him his halo and driving gloves
lay
When his Kid of eighteen walked in.
Young Pha had his hat cooked over his
eye,
4 middle seam parted his hair,
with hands In his pockets, this precious
young guy
Gan chatting his venerable pere.-
The volume is dedicated ito the Many
Pupils whom / have taught and loved"
The fitting preface is as follows: This
volume is a collection of stray leaves
hitting around my library like the leaves
IN SibyEs cave. The contents, Ii seems
to me, fairly illustrates the ordinary
emotions OF the human soul, fantastic
ethical, tragical, light shading into dark.
ness. The morals deduced, ii is hoped
VIII be salutary. | am aware the classi;
field has been trodden by worther feet
than mine, but their footsteps nave
grown faint by the remorseless erosion
of time
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81 Want I'm Bofe."

From the editorial columns of the
Kansas City Journal we are glad to
print and endorse this comment upon
divorce suit-for the same causes and
same results affiict humanity in Maine
as in Kansas. From the sobbing heart
of little child comes a mighty SER
mon on divorce. of more appealing
force than any learned discourse from
pen or pulpit.
The 9-year-old daughter of Dr. and
Mrs. Charles F. Clark was confronted
with the tragedy of parental separa-
ton. Her mother and father were to
be divorced and the little girl was ask
ed with which parent she wished to go
and live, Unable to understand the
terrible crisis that had come into her
young life. she tearfully said: Il want
'uni bafe."
What plea could be more eompell-
ing than these childish words? What
master of language could paint the
picture with more forceful simplicity ?
Little Virginia did not know what it
was all about; she did not understand
the mysteries of the law that was
about TO disrupt her home and send
her out into the world herett of half
her natural right. But she chung inn
partially to both father and mother
and her tender Plea, Il want 'um bofe d
ought to have melted and reunited
their estranged hearts.
= Right here is the meat OF the whole
divorce question. The right OF chill.
dren is Of more importance than tht
satisfying Of parents pique or tn'
coddling Of incompatibility. Perhap,
the father and mother of this chilt
considered that they had good reasoni
for the separation. There may HAY,
been irreconcifsble domestic differ.
snces. But what about little Virginia
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Our Manners Once More.
New York Glebe.l

What are the worst features of
American life? According to the Sat
urday Review they are the almost
universal contempt for law and the
lad manners prevalent throughout the
Union" Not only are these the worst
features of our life. They are so bad,
it seems, that they certainly require
explanation Explanation by whom,
we wonder Ought Americans passing
| through London to drop in at the Sat
urday Review office, apologize for their
worst features, and try humbly TO e&-
plain?
In what way are our manners bad?
The Saturday Review tells us, perhaps
| . little vaguely. The notion that equal
| ity. by inducing mutual respect, i'm
proves manners in this country is con-
trary Ito all experience" Most rich
Americans. finding themselves in a
third-class railway carriage, would be
| informing their companions that they
| were undergoing an undesirable and
| unwonted experience. How different,
| in a like predicament, the behavior OF
an English aristocrat. He does not dis
dain those present in the third-ciass
| carriage. On the contrary ne VIII
converse on equal terms with all its
occupants"
This mode of discussion is rather UNI
| fair The rich American ought TO be
compared with the rich Enslishman
| the English aristocrat with the Amer
| lean aristocrat. There happens. it Is
true. to be no such animal as tho
American aristocrat. but if he existed
ne have a modest, quiet. patriotic con-
fdence that bis manners would be the
real thing And is the Saturday Re
view certain. beyond reasonable shad-
| ow Of doubt, that there is no accepted
standard of gentlemanly conduct in tho
universities of this unhappy country
| Not even at Princeton, in the days
when Woodrow Wilson was not?
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Editorial Comment
The Packers Getting Even.

washington PoSt.D
Ii Is estimated that in the nine er
ten years Of litigation with the gov
eminent under the Sherman antitrust
act the packers expended $500, 0e0 They
are likely To get that sum back in in
creased prices for their products before
1912 is many months older. The mo-
rent the announcement of the lcquit-
tai reached the exchanges prices of
beef pork. bacon and other things in
Which the packers deal started upward.
To- day it costs the "a, 600 eco of people
more for their meats than they paid
-four, or fiNe days ago. Probably it viii
cost them still more a week hence. X
will not take long for the trust to get
back the money which it gave its law
yers in the past few years. AS usual
the consumer pays the bill
Said one of the Jurors who acquitted
the packers: THE people had not suf-
fered in the prices which they have
been laying for their meats and we
sid not see our way clear to convict.
Possibly the evidence did not warrant
conviction Probably there was much
truth in the words of one of the jurors
that the governments counsel over
Whelmed them with figures. The mil
lions and the tens of millions which
the GLIB lawyers of the Department OF
Justice hurled at the jurors confused
them They could not digest those vast
numbers. Moreover, the government
lawyers were outclassed by those III
the service of the packers. The trust
attorneys had a simpler task. and they
appear to have done their work better
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Where were her rights and who stood
before the bar of justice TO represent
her? Fortunately our courts are taxi
ling childen into consideration more
and more. Little Eirginia's rights VIII
not be ignored by a worthy and hu-
name Judge. Her woe is as deep and
her sorrows as poignant as those of
either her father or her mother, and
the fact that little Virginia loved
"bofe" of her parents indicates that
neither could be hopeiessly Dad. In
deed this is weighty evidence that the
HON, life of the Clarks was not beyond
redemption. Those who brought this
little one into the world are response
bic for her happiness. They must an
swer to a tribunal higher than any
earthly court. Could not the loving
arms OF little Virginia bring these
two hearts together again? Ii would
be we'll worth test,
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HINCKLEY.

Edwin Marble of Skowhegan was in
town, Thursday.
Allen Parmenter is very i'll with
pneumonia,
Miss Stella Ireland of Canaan call
ed on her sister, Miss Beulah, Wednes-
day.
Mrs Abbie d. Clough made a shori
call on relatives in town. Thursday.
Mrs. Hattie Hall and three children
of Fairfield were guests of Mr.. ano
Mrs. John Curtis several days re-
Gently.
Mrs May Turner of Madison ano
Mrs, Nancy Thurston Of Fairfield Were
visitors in this place, Monday
H. o. Hersey was in town on bust
ness April 2.
c. f. Holway of Madison is tn,
guest of his sister, Mrs. Helen NJ
Smith.
A. X Nelson and George ID. Mel
son of Brewer are moving their goods
into the +. NJ Wells place.
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Coming Events

April Hancock Pomona, Bucksport.
April 10-State Republican Convention,
Bangor.
April 10-l1--I o. G. Z, Bangor.
June 5-o--DlvisIon EnedmpnIent, Sons of
Veterans, at Gardiner.
June 5-6-Maine Division, Sons of Vet
Grams, Bangor.
June 12-Patriarehs Militant. l. o. o.
f, Brunswick.
June 17-Primary elections in Maine.
June 1S-National Republican Conven-
lion, Chicago.
June 26-2S-Maine Pharmaceutical Assn
Convention, st. Andrews, N. b.
July 26-Aug, 2-Fhe Young Peoples
Missionary Conference, Ocean Park.
= Sept 3-5-Maine State Christian En-
deavor Convention, Houlton
Aug. 5-i6-Maine Christian Endeayor
Summer School. Charleston.
October 23-4-5-Maine Teachers Asso-
citation, Portland.
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NEW PORTLAND.

s. s. Jewett of N6rridgewock was
recently in town on business connect
ed with his corn cannery
Mrs. j. \. Hoyt passed Il few days
in Lewiston. last week
The little son of DIR. and Mrs. II
s. Spear is improving
Mr. and Mrs. c. o. Bangs and lit
tie daughter passed sunday in New
Vineyard, guests of Mr. Bangs sis
ter. Mrs. Wendell Hackett.
Mrs Arthur Dagett and baby. Ed
mund. are visiting relatives and
friends at North New Portland, this
week.
Mrs Dacy of Wilton recently visit
ed her daughter, Mrs. Albert Parker.
Otis Hutchins has gone to kingfield.
He will stop with his daughter, Mrs.
Lester Mitchell. while there.
Delbert Churchill of Madison was in
town, Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs William Mcnamara
have returned TO their home in Dix
field.
viii Howe of Kingfield was call
err in this place. last week.
students of ". y. p. and NJ. y. +
High schools are preparing for theii
eraduations which will occur the last
of the month.
John p Butts went to Kingfield
Wednesday. on business.
Edgar Woodland of Portland WAS, tbs
first of the week, in town on business
H. Fl Hoyt went to kinsiield
Thursday, for Frank Dunlay. after .
load of phosphate.
Henry Mckinney was a week
visitor at Mr.. and Mrs. c. \. McKen-
news
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-06

STATE OF MAINE.

Kennebec, SIS. Supreme Judicial Court
In Equity.
William b. SHELTON Bank Examiner VS..
Waterville Trust Company ct ais
Charles F. Johnson of Waterville in
the County of kennebec and the state
of Maine and Harry l. Holmes OF Far,
field in the County of Somerset in said
State. having filed their first account as
Receivers of the Waterville Trust Com
pany. it is hereby ordered that hear
ing upon said account be had before
this Court at the Court House in Ban
COR in the County of Penobscot upon the
twenty-secon day. of April, A. d lsl2
at two O'Clock in the afternoon. and that
notice thereof be given by publishing
this order three times in the Waterylile
Morning Sentinel, newspaper published
and printed at Waterville in said County
of ,Kennebec and three times In the
Daily Kennebec Journal, a newspaper
published and printed at Augusta in
said County. the last publication in each
case to be at least fourteen days before
said hearing.
A. NJ. SPEAR,
Judge Supreme judicial Court.
Attest: ~ c. w. JONES, Clerk,
apr4d3t
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NOTICE TO THE HOLDERS OF
"SPRlNGFIELD NOTES" OF FED
ERAL LIGHT G. TRACTION CON-
PANY.

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN. pursn-
ant TO the terms of the trust agreement
between Federal Light X Traction Com
pany and Guaranty Trust Company of
New York, Trustee, dated March I, l9ll
that four hundred and fortyfour t44D
"Spfingfield Notes" of Federal Light &
Traction Company. issued under and se-
cured by said agreement, were on Feb
ruary 14th 1912, called for redemption
i'm accordance with the requirements of
Article ~ of said agreement, being
Springfield Notes numbered from Il to
400 inclusive.
The above Springfield Notes will be
paid at par and accrued interest to April
25th, 1872, on presentation at the office
of Guaranty Trust Company of New
York, No. % Nassau Street. New, York
City, n. Y. on and after April 18th, i9l2.
Interest will cease on the above Spring
| field Notes on April 18th, 1872.
FEDERAL LIGHT K
TRACTION COMPANY.
| BY JAMES C. COLGATE, President.
| Dated, New York City, n. Y, March
| ' mch3O- apr6
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-06

The prohibitionist Bridgton News
does not take much stock in the DAY.
les custer plan, and calls loudly to
stop that nonsense as to recall
measures There is superabund-
ance of dead-letter devices, now,
says the News which is a refresh
ingly frank admission for a prohibi-
zionist to make. "A superabundanee
of dead letter devices" Yes, dead
letter devices because public opinion
wills that they be dead. Sumptuary
laws cannot be consistently enforced
through any devices against the pub
lie will.-The New Age.
Especially when officials elected to
enforce the law constitute themselves
a board to educate the rabble against
the law. Governor,
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KENNEBEc COUNTY : In Probate

KENNEBEC COUNTY. - In Probate
Court, at Augusta, in vacation March
%, 1912.
Elizabeth NJ Weymouth, Adminstfa-
trix on the estate of Ralph w. Wey-
mouth, late of China. in said County,
deceased, having pettioned for license
to sell the following real estate of said
deceased for the payment of debts, etc,
viz: Certain real estate situated in SAID
China a full description of which IS
court, reference to which is hereby
made.
ORDERED, That notice thereof be
given three weeks successfully prior 70
the second Monday of April next, in the
Daily Kennebec journal a newspaper
printed in Augusta, that all persons, in
terested may attend at Court on FRO,
bate then to be holden at Augusta and
show cause, if any, why the prayer OF
said petition should not be granted
HAROLD f. COOK. Judge.
Attest: r. w. LEIGHTON, Register
mch23, sat, st
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President Names Economies.

President Taft's second message ON
economy and efficiency in the govern
ment service is enlghtcning as to the
possibilities of maintaining well-oiled
government machinery and at the
same time do away with some of the
expensive accumulation that years
have added to the equipment. I'm
doubleday some hardship would be
worked by the suggested changes, but
it is probably true that Uncle Samuel
would be equally well served and APP
proximately 1,o00,0 600 saved annually
as the result of the change.
The Presidents two most striking
proposals are that the local govern
ment offices in the Treasury, Post Of
flee, Justice. Interior and Commerce
and Labor departments be placed in
the classified service and that the
Revenue Gutter Service be consolidate
ed with the Lighthouse Service in the
Department of Commerce and Labor.
said. Congress could effect saving
of at least S10000,000 annually and al
though In this message he gave no
figures for the consolidation of the
two services of the sea, in previous
message on the same subject early
in the year he predicted economies
that would total about $1,000. 600 yearly
The President concluded his mes
sage with an appeal to Congress TO
appropriate the necessary 100000 for
, the Economy Efficiency Commission
for another year, with $4,000 addition
al for the publication of the commits
sion's findings. The chief recon-
mendations for economies may be
summarized for busy readers as fol-
lows:
Placing of pension agents in CLASH
fed service; estimated saving So, BOO
annually
Abolition of Office of receiver of dis
trict land Offices and transfer of du-
ties to register; assisted by bonded
clerk; estimated saving s20e,o0o an
nually.
Transfer of political appointees" in
internal revenue and customs services
to classified service: estimate of saw
ing not given.
Consolidation of lighthouse and life
saving services into Bureau of Light
houses; estimated saving 100000
Transfer of vessels and equipment
of revenue-cutter service from Treas
ury to Commerce and Labor De-
partment and it's abolition as a sep
arate service; estimated in message
on economy, Jan. H. that saving
would be about 81 000,0 900 a year.
Consolidation of auditing offices of
the Government under one auditor;
estimated saving 100000 annually.
Discontinuance of mileage allow
ances for Government travel and
per diem allowance for officers and
employees in place of subsistence"
which includes lodging for those
travelling; no estimate of saving
given.
Improved method of handling cor
respondence; estimate of saving not
given. but predicted that labor can
be reduced 80 per cent
Capitalization of the distribution of
Government documents; estimated
saving s242,0oo a year
Discontinuance of publication of the
official register; estimated saving s45,-
900 annually
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Thanks of a Veteran.

Editor Kennebec journal:
Allow an old Vet To thank YOU for
your article in yesterdays Journal
Is Ii Economy You will have the
thanks of not only the old veterans
but>also hosts of their friends There
are not so many crooked sticks" as
the soldier hating magazines ana
papers try to make the people be-
lieve, neither are all the men dead
who did the fighting.
a. H. HUTCHINSON
Hallowell, Me-. April >.
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Maine Gossip
The Dreamer.


He wandered by the singing sea and
The oleanders grew,
He plucked the lilies of the field and
Up to the skies of blue.
lie loved the beauty of his land,-iike
lamps
The pomcgranates red,
The grapes and figs in clusters rich,
The gold from sun o'erhead
lie passed throughout the multitude,
where stood
The buTScned sons of men,
And in his loving heart he bore their
sins
And knew their untold pain. 49,
This dreamer dreamed as dreamers will
and looked
Across the unborn years.
He chose to be the sacrifice. the Christ
To wipe away all tears
lie cared not where the dream might
or Death it moved him not
His soul had caught the fire of God
and through
Him should Gods will be wrought.
Ills dream led on unto the cross and
there
lie hung against the skies.
Ills gentle mother al his feet, near Him
The thief fer Paradise.
The dreamer passed from earthly sight,
Lilies bloom beside the sea.
The uleanders blush and pale, and waves
Sing ceaseessly--
o still the cross against the skies. and
men
Look np with longing eyes
And know that sacrifice alone leads all
To Gates of Paradise.
Merrill.
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s97,Si2.6i
STATE Ole MAINE.

Kennebec, S. Supreme Judicial Court
In Equity.
On the foregoing petition it is hereby
ordered that hearing be had before
this Court on the twenty-second day OF
April. A. ID. 1912 at two o'clock in the
afternoon at the Court House In Bangor
in the County of Penobscot, and that
notice thereof be given to all parties to
said bill by publishing the same three
times, In the Waterville Morning Sentinel.
a newspaper printed and published at
Waterville in said County of Kenncbec
and State of Maine. and three times In
the Kennebec Journal a newspaper
printed and published at Augusta in the
County of Kennebec and State OF
Maine, the last publication in. each case
to be at least fourteen days before said
hearing; and by mailing an attestsd
copy of said petition and order thereon
to each of said parties at his last known
place of abode at least fourteen days
before said hearing. that they may APP
pear before our said Court and show
cause, if any they have, why said petit
ton should not be granted
A. NJ SPEA r. :,
Judge Supreme Judicial CouHt
A true copy.
Attest. G. w. JONES, Clerk.xss
apr4d3t
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A w farming.

To feel tired after exertion is one
thing: to feel tired before is another.
Don't say the latter is laziness-it
isn't; but it's sign that the system
lacks vitality. is running down, and
needs the tonic effect of Hoods Sar-
saparilla.
It's a warning, too-and sufferers
should begin taking Hoods at once.
Buy a bottle today.
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Editor S Letter Box

The publication OF letter In this
department is not to he taken as an
endorsement of its views by the
Kennebec Journal This column is
maintained for the discussion of
matters of general public interest
when kept within bounds of reason
and not of libelous or abusive
nature.