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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-15

Bridgton correspondent of the Port
land Express Advertiser: A ludicrous
situation developed in this village
Thursday afternoon as the result OF
transformation freely clrculateu.
About $50 word was received thae
Pres. Taft and party had LETT frye
burg and would pass through inns
village. Almost simultaneously
limousine sped luxuriously into inc
village, the occupants making matt az
The Tavern for lunch. Inc quiet VI
the streets was Immediately broken.
one by one flags were displayed, men
and women ceased their work ana
stood in doorways impatient 10 %
Lutte their President Finaiiy 'hs
awaited car went on it's journey anu
IT'S occupants, Clarence Barron anu
party of Boston, were hailed WIN
cheers and the salaams OF townspeo-
pie at Pondicherry corner. Mr. Barron
undoubtedly had become accustoiaea
to the Presidential reception In ms
nassing through F'ryeburg and otner
towns where the same mistaken iaeh-
tity had occurred. His bows were no
less profound than those accofoeu
him. Now that it is memory not
few people can chuckle over their eh
thusiasm. 1t was good PRACTISE
however. There is little danger peihs
too gracious toward the summer
stranger
zra;,a kt,,,liard and pool en-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-15

President Taft writes:

date. President Taft writes:
Il have your letter of September
10th, and am very glad of an oppor-
tunity to testify to my belief in the
importance of your campaign of edu-
tuberculosis. You do well to enlist
the active support of the churches
and of all other agencies for the dis
semination of information calculated
to induce everyone to do his or her
part toward the complete eradication
of the dread disease. l hope and be-
lieve that a Tuberculosis Day in the
churches will be productive of great
good"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-15
Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear
There Is only one way to cure DEAFNESS,
and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an inflated condi-
ton of the mucous lining of the Eusta-
chan Tube When this tube is infiamed
you have rumbling sound or imperfect
hearing. and when it is entirely closed.
Deafness Is the result, and unless the in
Illumination can be taken out and this
tube restored to its normal condition.
hearing will be destroyed forever: nine
cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh,
which Is nothing but an infiamed condi-
ton of the mucous surfaces
We Will give One Hundred Dollars for
ny case of Deafness Caused by ca
arrh) that cannot be cured by Hair 8
atarrh Cure, Send for circulars, free.
f. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, 75c
Take Halls Family Pills for constipa-
ton.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-15

pendent or neglected child are poor and
unable to properly care for said child,
but are otherwise proper guardians and
it is for the welfare of such child to re-
main at home, the court may enter an
order finding such facts and fixing the
amount of money necessary to enable
the parent or parents TO properly care
for such child and thereupon it shall be
the duty of the County Board through
its County Agent or otherwise to pay to
such parent or parents, at such times as
said order may designate, the amount
so specified for the care of such depend
ent or neglected child until the further
order of the court.
Consider what this means:
Mothers who find themselves penni-
less through neglect, widowhood or de-
sertion are entitled to state help in
rearing their children. Poverty, in IL
linois, no longer will separate them.
So long as poverty exists we shall
have our dependents-men, women and
children, and each generation must
solve the problem of their care. The
plan of keeping children in their homes
with their parents, where parents are
living and deserving, commends itself
to ALL Keeping such families intact
and the family circle unbroken is one
of the first duties of humanity.
Institutional supervision, however
excellent, must surrender to a mother s
care wherever possible. Such help is
right-not a mere gift nor charitable
dispensation-just as opportunity for
public school education or trial by jury
is right, not gift. 1t is merely
bringing life to a normal standard.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-15

The Lincoln Chronicle tells story
of a young man who was lost for five
days in the Penobscot county woods
in the vicinity of Burlington. during
which time he was without food and
shelter, but who at length found his
way into Burlington. The Chronicle
says that the man had an interesting
story to tell. He was employed, SO ii
seems, for Mr.. Whittier, who has a
numbering operation on a lake about
25 miles from Burlington corner. Mr.,
Whittier takes his supplies across the
lake in boat and the men are also
taken across there, but for some rea-
son or other this young man thought
he would go around, and not being
familiar with that part Of the country,
soon lost his way and was wandering
in the forest from Saturday Oct. 3,
until the next Thursday noon without
having anything to eat. He found ms
way out by following the shore of the
lake and as there are several coves
one may imagine what distance ne
had to travel On being asked his
name he said that he rather there
wouldn't be anything in the papers,
as his friends would tease him about
the affair.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-15

From present indications. Tubercu-
losis Day will be observed by almost
every religious denomination in the
United States and not less than $4,000
sermons on tuberculosis will be
preached on October 9th. or in the
weeks preceding or following that
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-15

The first chair was tiny-a high chair
A baby was tied in the seat;
A fat. hungry child, he erowed and he smiled
While waiting for something to eat
A mother kept watch Ger this diner
For fear he might make the chair fall.
And now we are done with Chair Number One,
The first little chair of them all.
The second chair, thirty years later,
Held boy who was handsome and strong;
In gilded cafe, with roysterers gay,
He let the swift hours slip along
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-15
OF New York.

1t is a great mistake TO fancy
ourselves greater than we are, and
to value ourselves at less than we
are worth.-Goethe.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-15
Pensions for Poor Mothers.

An amendment to the Juvenile Court
act, now in full force and effect in
each and every county Of Illinois. is as
follows:
If the parent or parents of such de-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-15

If the wage earners are not with the
Republican party in this campaign
they will pay dearly for their expert
ment.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-15

TRAINS LEAVE AUGUSTA AS FOL-
LOWS:
E-s======s...s==-1 GOING WEST--205 A. NJ.
&sT'1 5ss''a: S i 4 y:
l&4:I5teE,t,nll Rockland, Portland. Bos-
t1ssae1ss.1sea.l ton Montreal and Que
bee 9.39 A. NJ, Bruins
wick, Lewiston, Pennington, Rockianc.
Portland. Boston; 124S +. NJ, Hallowell,
Gardiner and So. Gardiner; $40 +. M,
local: 4.0o p. NJ, texpress), Brunswick,
Rockland, Portland, Boston; 5.l5 n M,
Hallowell, Gardiner and So. Gardner;
p NJ, Portland: 1910 T. NJ, Lewis
ton. Bath. Portland, Boston. Sundays
s.49 a. NJ, 3.42 and 1910 z. NJ, Portland,
Boston.
GOING EAST-I1f A. NJ. Skowhegan,
Bangor, st. John. Halifax, Aroostoak Co.
Sunday morning does not connect beyond
Bangor; 3.09 A. NJ, (express) Bangor,
Calais and Bar Harbor: 6.36 a. M, local
to Moosehead Lake via Oakland, Bel
fast, Foxcroft and Bangor: 9l7 A. NJ,
local to Belfast and Bangor; l2.l5 +. NJ,
Waterville, Bangor, b. & A. r. r., Ca
lais St John and Halifax. ga l.. NJ,
express to Waterville, thence local to
Bangor, Bar Harbor and Mattawamkeag,
BIG 7. NJ, Wa;eryille and Skowhegan;
90 p. NJ. Watervllle, Skowhegan and
bangor. Sundays Ill A. NJ. 500 A. M.
for Bangor; $50 a. NJ, 2.59 +. NJ, for
Bangor and Skowhegan.
Trains leave Augusta for Halloween,
Gardiner and South Gardiner at 6.5S, 10y
A. NJ, 12ls $40. SIS. 625, 1910 2. NJ.
RI. ID WALDRON. Gen'l Passenger ACT.
MORRIS MCDONALD. vice-President
& Gen1 Mgr. Portland, Me. sys.A 80. i.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-15
ESTABLISHED ra7y

No notice whatever will be taken OF
unsigned communications.
The Journal cannot be held responsi-
BILE for the preservation or return OF
rejected communications.
Address all communications relating
to subscriptions and advertisements
TO BURLEIGH & FYLNT. Publish
ers, Augusta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-15

A waiter kept watch Ger this diner st1
For fear he might make the chair fall
And now we through with Chair Number Two
The merriest chair of them all.
The third chair was back of barroom
In corner all .dingy and dark.
A worn and thin had pleaded for gin,
Because it was cold in the park.
No soul kept watch DER this outcast-
They knew he had met with his fall
He was sleeping you see, in Chair Number Three
The last little chair of them ALL
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-15

Plain Talk, Des Moines, Ia. has this
to say of former citizen of Maine:
At the September meeting of the
board of trustees of the State library,
Arthur j. Small. was reappointed
State Law Librarian for the fifth
time and for period of six years. He
had held the position for nearly
seventeen years. having first been APP
pointed by Governor Drake early in
1896. He was one of the founders of
the American Association of Law LII
brarian and its first president, and he
served as president for three terms.
He has reason to be proud of our
State Law Library, it being one of the
greatest and best law Libraries in the
country. Mr.. Small is a native of
Maine. coming TO Iowa nearly quar-
ter of a century ago; he is also Ii
brarian of the Iowa State Bar As
ISOLATION, and he has compiled the UNI
published proceedings of an early
State Bar Association which existed
during the years 1S741SS1.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-15

N. E. o. p, KENNEBEc LODGE, NO
21. meets in G. A. X. hall the first and
third Tuesday evenings OF each month
at TO O'Clock
MRS. LOREDA w. SMITH. Warden.
EMMA f. HOWE, Rec. Sec.
B. L. NICHOLS. Fin. Sec.
tu-th-sat
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-15
The Three Chairs.
By Hal Coffman

Reprinted from Boston Americana
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-15
Maine Gossip
First Class in Matrimony.

FIRST ClaSS IN Matrtmony.
DR. Eliot advised the Harvard fresh
men to marry early.
Lo Harvard, college of the blessed.
An Early-Marriage Glass possessed;
Its yummy-yum
Curriculum
Was famed in all the lands.
The Course began by making less
The handicap of bashfulness,
For at the start
Youths learned the art
OF holding maidens' hands.
To execute the proper kiss
They trained the facial orfice,
And arm to waist
Was neatly placed
BY precept and by rule.
There was a special branch for those
Who were entitled to propose;
The girls, you'll guess,
Were taught to Eyes"
In Elot's Marriage School.
Less popular among the boys
The class in After Marriage Joys;
They tried to shrk
Its daily work
As not the kind for them.
For each must take an infant hired
tWho to grand opera aspired)
And lug the brat
Around fiat
From 1 to A. NJ.
The teacher had some girls come in
To exercise the female chin
In saying fiat:
81 need hat
How can you stint your wife?
That horrid Mrs. Dunn NJ. Brown
Has bought her seasons thirteenth
And thus they grew
Accustomed to
The joys of married life.
But jealous Yale at once began,
In rivalry to Harvard's plan.
To advertise
For students wise
A counteracting course.
And thereupou, without a blush,
Those Harvard husbands made a rush
For Elis great
Postgraduate
Instruction in divorce
John O'Keefe.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-15
RAILROADS & STEAMBOATS,.
MAINE Cent RAJ R. R.

In Effect Sept 80, 1912.
TRAINS LEAVE AUGUSTA AS FOL-
LOWS.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-15

Captain John A. Stimson of Wool
wich, who recently celebrated his
S0th birthday, is one of the oldtime
sea captains and during the Crimean
war commanded the American ship
White Falcon, which was chartered
by the French government as a trans
port.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-15

Many Maine 'billiard and pool en-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-15

GOING WEST--3.05 A. NJ.
except Monday. Portland
and Boston; 6.3S a. NJ.
Lewiston, Pennington.
Rockland, Portland. Bos-
ton. Montreal and Que
hef O 20 A NJ. Bruns-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-15

Notwithstanding the fact that they
up in Pressure Isle, summer weather
still fingers along the shores of
Sheepscot bay. and only a week ago
Saturday night Miss Ida Belle Rowe
of Five Islands captured FREELY while
she was on her way to make an after
supper call on her grandmother.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-15

Thus far no member of the Phillips
Bachelors club has been obliged to
pay the penalty OF becoming bene-
diet. The latest acquisition to the
club is a motto. 1t is not original
but seems TO fit the club, so it has
been adopted. 1t is Commend the
welded life, but keep thyself a bach
elor." Just as soon as member of
the club falls from grace and get mar
ried he will be obliged, by the rules of
the club, to buy feed for the rest of
the lonesome bunch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25

There is going TO bel" she quietly
replied. yes, you are going to make
many changes in yourself, or there is
going to be serious trouble here"
Did Mr.. Bow5er near Alright or did
his ears deceive him? A look of
astonishment came over his face.
81 know this house is run extrava-
gantly and I'll take my share of the
blame and you mus. take yours. With
in the last year have broken the eyes
out of five needles and lost three 9TH
ers. l have in some manner lost 27
pins and a spool of thread. / have
worn a hole in the toe of a slipper.
have broken a pair of scissors. 1 have
knocked down and broken a plaster
cast of Napoleon, valued at 10 cents,
and broken a pane of glass costing SO.
On n liberal valuation, the total dam
age may be 81"
You are talking to me, are you? ?"
he asked.
mo, sir / am talking to the cat.
benefit by listening. You introduced
the subject of extravaganza"
Il did. and I am going to prove to
sI'n submit my proofs first. if you
please. I've been making a few notes.
and here they are:
Cigars, not less than So per week.
Club dues, $50 a year.
Money loaned TO dead beats, 500
Money invested in fire escapes, bur-
glar alarms and Cther fads, $500 per
year.
Money spent each summer to grow
one sunf1ower in the packard. $50
Money yearly lost at clubs trying to
learn the game of poker, at least 500.
Money paid out to quack doctors
for opinions, 800 per year.
Money paid out for cure-allS when
nothing ais you, at least $50 per
year.
THE record is not complete. MT
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25

And we are not SoinG to have either
COW or a pig. We are not going 20
start either a dairy or chicken ranch.
We are not going to climb mountains
or descend into coal mines. The house
is not to be painted this summer, and
we are not going to rent somebody's
constable on the seashore. I think this
is all for the present-except you can
telephone your lawyer in the morning
and I'll telephone nine. In case a ii-
vorce is granted, I'll make a liberal
allowance to you monthly
Mr.. Bowser struggled to his feet US
she ceased. and wobbled down the hail
and YEARLY climbed the stairs, and an
hour later, when Nrs. Bowser went up,
she found him abed and n:uttering H..
his sleep:
Was twas it Mrs. Bowser or some
one else?"-(Copyright 1912, by As
ISOLATED Literary Press)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25
a ON.TKE .SPVRL:59
rs OF-TAE,MOMENT
NRR by Roy K. Moul+on. -

When the Team Comes Home.
The grandmothers are dying fast,
The auntS and uncles, too;
The epidemic's going to last
The entire summer through.
The bookkeeper gets powerful sick
Most every afternoon,
The office boy is mighty quick
To pipe up the same tune.
The ribbon clerk abruptly jumps
The job at 8 p. m.
He says his kids have got the mumps
And he must go to them.
The easy and kindhearted boss
At first is left in doubt;
And finds that he is ut n loss
To figure the thing out.
He can't see why they all must go
In illness and in pain.
You see, as yet he doesn't know
The team is home again.
To the Cannery With These.
Spring garden seeds from Wash
ington.
Peg top trousers.
The gentlemen who claim that
their wives rifle their trousers pock-
cts in the night.
Chatting dish suppers in your
friends flat.
Spaghetti that has garlic in it.
BarbershOp tenor singers.
Blue derby hats.
Sure cures for falling hair.
The wise old chap that remembers
you when you were a kid and never
fails to speak about it.
Nonelastic suspenders.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25
BoWsER GETS A SHOCK.
Mrs. Bowser Fires a Broadside at
| Him.

Mr.. Bowser hadn't exactly found
fault with the dinner, but his looks
and actions warncd Mrs. BOwser that
there would probeoly be something do
ing before the evening meal was over.
The crisis came half an hour after the
meal had been finished. Mr.. Bowser
had been walking up and down for ten
minutes when he suddenly stopped and
picked up a needle off the rug. He
inspected it for a moment as if it were
a strange find, and then held it out to
Mrs. Bowser with the remark:
rs it any wonder that we are on the
way to the pOOr-hOuSe p?
You mean tl-at you have found
needle on the f1oor?" she replied.
II do, madam
"a needle that cost one-fifth of
cent
mo matter what the cost This
carelessness in small things betrays
the fact that you have no care to save.
Tomorrow the needle would have been
lost, and with il score of other
needles. Mrs. Bowser, there must be
a change here
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25

John Ingiis,'' the name that appears
on the title page of a new Scribnor
novel, George Wendern Gave a Party
is a pen name assumed by a successful
decidedly original-a story of Wildcat
speculation. whose hero, a quixotie
figure perhaps, stands cut as living
honor from a thrcng of selfish business
men and investors; whose heroine, an
American heiress, ambitious from I'M
common and unselfish motives for til
tie, is a charming personality; whose
climax, the party George Wendern
gave, forms one of the oldest and most
striking denouements in recent fiction.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25

Representatives and guardians OF
Kansas cash assemble in Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25

Sad case of the fellow the fourth
floori' Whats that2" He plays the
cornet for his own amusement, but he got
so hard up lately that he had to pawn the
instrument ''Well?'' Now he can't
cause everybody is afraid he'll get the
blamed tooter out of pawn.''-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25

departure "farthest SOUTH a cable
gram of encouragement unsigned. The
two meet later, when he is fighting for
distinction in public life. Their love
story, complicated by the situations
that arise from the mystery surround
New editions of lice Hogan Rice'S
Sandy" and Captain June are print
ing. The forty-fourth edition of that
authors first great success, Mrs
Wigs of the Cabbage Patch" is SELL
ing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25
DINNER STORIES.

viii you allow me to ask you a
question:" interrupted a man in the
audience
Certainly. SIR said the Lecturer
You have given us a lot of figures
about immigration. increase of wealth
the growth of trusts, and all that said
the man. Lets see what you know
about figures yourself. How do you
find the greatest common divisor?''
Slowly and deliberately the orator
took a glass of water.
Then he pointed his finger straight
at the questioner. lightning flashed
from his eyes, and he replied in a voice
that made the gas jets culver:
Advertise for it, you ignoramus!'
The audience cheered and yelled and
stamped. and the wretched man who
asked the question crawled out of the
hall a total wreck
Here's a London yarn with not a
word tamper ed with:
During the run of THE Merchant OF
Venice at the Lyceum a coster who
had witnessed the production was ex-
planning the plot to less fortunate
companion.
Dyer see?" said he IT'S like this
ere. There's a cove what's fell in love,
but e don't like to go courtin' without
bein' logged up bit; so e goes to IA
pal and asks i'm to lend i'm a trifle.
His pal says e amt got no ready but
is willing 20 go bail for i'm.
so they goes to an old broker in the
city an e lends 'em some oof. Then
they says, What int'rest?' and e says,
earn wayi You're all right If yer
don't pay me at all l shan't summons
yer; only, # you don't I'll have a pound
off your chestv e says. like as if 'e's
jokin'. Then they laugh cause they've
got some a-comin' over what's bound
to turn up in time for The market, : $
they thinks.
But it don't turn up. an the old fax
er comes down on 'em, and won't set
tie it without the pond of flesh.
well, this girl what was to marry
the bloke when she ears he's in trou-
BILE, makes it up with the solicitor for
the defense, takes is place, gets her
air cut, an appears in the trial at
the Law Courts, cause she's got some
thing up her sleeve.
Then the judge gives a verdict Of
guilty, an the judge says the prose-
cutor is a outsider.
up jumps the gal an says, Amt
yer goin' to give i'm a CHANGER
"And the old fraud says, No, L ate
'imr'
Then she says, Very we'll; go on
with yer performance. But says She
this yer case don't say nothin' about
the danger of the entertainment. Now
if you draw one drop of blood we shall
come on yer for damages an sell yer
up
We'll, Bill. Wen she says that you
never see an old bloke look so took
down in all your life''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25
Our Pest Contest.
SATURDAY

Our Pest contest.
The pest sells books to whom he can
Upon that cute installment plan.
c. f. w.
The greatest pest in many ways
Talks much about the good old
days" J. T. r.
The prize pest? He's the happy
clerk,
Who always whistles while at work.
E. L. p.
The very rankest pest by far
He grabs the end seat in the car.
II. 7. r.
The meanest pest above the ground;
The shopper who just looks around.
SALESMAN.
To this one 1 take off my lid,
The pest who's got a brand new kid.
H. r. p.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25
According to Uncle Abner.

Am Tilson our gentlemanly and
congenial tonsoriaI artist always has
a mighty consolin' way of tallxin' to
the customers when they get in the
chair.
He always tells about the time
Glenn Hasxins died from sneezin' and
gettin his throat cut while he was
workin' on him.
Playin' the base drum wouldn't be
so very difficult if it wasn't for car
ryin' the drum.
There was never a time in history
when the boys down to the gruc'ry
store didn't think this country was
goin' to the bow-wows at lightnin'
speed.
There's many good Teller" whose
wife doesn't know it.
Sob poetry is all right in it's place,
which is on a tombstone.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-25

Among all the stories OF the disastc
to the Titanic" told by the survivors.
the narrative of Mr.. Lawrence BeesIey
published by the Ac;ociated Press
stands out uniue for vividness, com