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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-19
Coming Events

Sept 19-York Pomona. East Parsons,
field.
Sept BE. Piscataquis Pomona. Bow
Sept. 1s-2o-state Board of Trade. Ban
gor.
Sept PIE. Kannebec. Pomona, Albion.
Sept. 26-Cumberland and oxford Union
Pomona, Bridgton.
Sept. 25-27-Maine State w. C. T. U.
Convention, Auburn.
Sept. 25-27-Maine State w. C, T. U.
Convention Auburn.
Oct 1-S- State Baptist Anniversaries,
Free Street Church, Portland.
Oct. S-10-Ameriean Board of Commits
sioners for Foreign Missions, Portland.
Oct. 9-10-Annual Meeting of Maine
State League of Postmasters of Third
land Fourth-olass Offices at Portland.
Oct H-12-Maine Musical Festival,
OCT. H-1s-Maine Musical Festival.
Oct. l6-ls-state Sunday School Con-
vention at Lewiston and Auburn.
Oct. 2S-4-Centennial of Congregational
Oct 2S-4-5-Maine Teachers Associa.
ton. Portland.
Nov. 12-l4-Maine Pathological Annual
Meeting at Portland.
Maine Fair Dates.
Sept. 17-19-South Kennebec Fair. So.
Sept. 17-1s-waldo and Penobscot Fair.
sept. lpS-Cum Derland county Fair,
Sept. 17-1s-West Washington Fair.
Cherryfield.
Sept. 1S-2O-Pscataquis Agricultural
Society, FoXcroft.
Sept. 20-Embden Fair.
Sept. 24-Richmond Farmers Club,
Richmond
Sept. A-2s-Northern Hancock Fair,
Amherst
Sept. 25-Marriamissie Grange Fair, Or
land.
Sept. A-2s-North Franklin Fair,
Phillips.
Sept. .24-as-Kennebec County Fair.
Readfeld.
Sept. 24-26-west Penobscot Fair. Exc
ter.
Sept. 24-27-North Knox Fair. Union
Sept. 25-26-Cumberland Farmers Club.
West Cumberland.
Sept. 25-26-Somerset County Fair. An
son.
Oct. 1-2-Park Association Fair, Unity.
Oct. 1-3-Franklin County Fair. Farm
ington.
Oct. 1-3-west Oxford Fair, Fryeburg.
| Oct. S-10-Sagadahoc County Fair, Tops
Oct. s-1o-Annual meeting of the Maine
State League of Postmasters of Third
and Fourth, Glass Offices at Portland.
Maine.
Nov. 12-14-state Pathological. Port
land.
Nov. 2O-24-N. E. Corn Exposition.
Dec. 4-6-Bangor Poultry Association,
Bangor.
Dec. 1O-14-Main State Poultry As
ISOLATION. Portland.
Dec. 1S-20-Freeport Poultry Assn,
Freeport.
Dec. sl-Jan. 2-Western Maine Poultry
Show, Norway.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-19
Agricultural Help
Soil Humus.

1t is a notable fact that large per-
centage of American farms do not
really pay for the 1aoor expended upon
them. Also many highly productive
farms are soon run down with care
less handling. The rented farm or
the rented field, as a general rule, soon
becomes SO poor that nobody wishes
to rent it. In all of these cases
the trouble is the lack of humus
in the soil. Humus, which is
deeomposed organic matter. is the very
life of the soil, and when it has
been allowed to waste or has been
worked out, the soil becomes lifeles5
and refuses to yield good crops under
cultivation
Some of the deep, black river bot
toms and prairie lands are richly sup
piled with humus, the black soil being
several feet deep. Such soils are diff
cult to exhaust because the humus
content is so great that many years of
successive cropping would be required
to use UP the store of deeomposed or
garlic matter. Some of the so-called
thinner soils, and much sandy land.
are very deficient in humus, yet these
same lands contain abundance of plant
foods and be made to produce large
crops of a variety of kinds with the
right sort of handling.
Thin. and infertile soils, lacking in
humus, can be made productive and
highly profitable under cultivation by
supplying organic matter in sufficient
Quantities to make the soil retentive
of moisture, and for liberating plant
foods. Thin clay soils and sandy soils
fa 10 cnn6itinrc
will erow good crops But the aver
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-19


fooled about the protective tariff work
tective tariff was relieved at great
many points, this is what would happen
that American industry would take on a
new size and speed. There would be a
bigger market for American labor than
there Is now. There would be greater
variety of enterprise than there Is now,
and the skill of American workmen
would dominate the markets of all the
globe. That is what it would mean.
And the American workingman IS
narrowing his own opportunities by
standing for the thing which is said to
get him higher wages, when the only
thing that ever got his wages raised was
his organized endeavor Because it Is
perfectly practicable to prove by au-
thoritative statistics that in a great
many unprotected industries the labor
ing men are getting bigger wages than
tected industries: which in itself Is proof
enough that protection doesn't create the
wage scale. Ii is the circumstances of
the trade and the endeavors of the work
ingman that make the scale of wages.
Now It would he extremely interest
ing to see what would happen if DR..
Wilson and others who talk so glihly
of the superior ability of the American
workman would once in a while seek
to inform themselves Of the nativity
of the individual they are glorifyinE
Very frequently they would find that
this superior person is one of those
he speaks of so slightingly and whose
superior ability was never able to get,
high wages for him until he came to
the United States and got behind the
protection of the American tariff.
Likewise, if it is true, as DIR. Wilson
says, that organization and not the
tariff is what causes the high wages
in the United States, why cannot he
find and specify at least ore ease
where organization aveiled to send
wages up or to prevent them from go
ing down in the low-tariff period OF
Cleveland's second term?
DR.. Wilson, at that time salaried
man, must have held himself eoldly
aloof from the world and the suffer
ings of hundreds of thousands of idle
and hungry eountrymen, if he did not
know and does not remember, or at
that time did not understand the cause
and effect. We cannot believe that
Dr.. Wilson is so cold FLOODED that he
did not care. Of course his fixed sala
ry would buy more of the necessities
and the luxuries of life under such
conditions, but we would not suggest
that DR.. Wilson would be one to will
ingly fix adversely upon millions for
the sake of the advantage to COM
paratively few thousands like him
self who live upon fixed income re-
CARELESS of the times.
But we would suggest that Mr.. Will
son must have known of the disaster
caused by the Wilson German bill,
second in the suffering it brought, only
to the Civil War. Would he repeat it
to gain political end2
For men of wide knowledge and I'M
derstanding to claim that free trade
would increase our markets and la
bor's opportunities seems incredible,
after the pitiful demonstrations which
SO many of US remember.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-19

won the highest reputation of any
lawyer in Manufactured for his great
legal talent. really dreaded by other
lawyers for his resoureefulness and
ability.
Senator Eugene Hale was constant
ly adding to his reputation as con-
summate master of pure English die
ton all through his career in both
branches of Congress. He was the
quickest member in the Senate t.
recognize fine definitions and graphic
speech. Naturally, whenever any
admirer of the former senator gets
ready to collect book and label it
Gems from Eugene Hale" that book
must be certain to receive great and
early recognition from the American
reading public. For instance, moth
ing finer in the English language can
be found than Senator Hale's brief
and delightful eulogy Of the late
Llewellyn Powers of the old Fourth
Maine District.
1t seems that Eugene Hale is not
the only Hale in Maine who can
sling English" beautifully and ex-
pressively. The remarks of Judge
Clarence Hale of Portland-a brother
of the late senator, which were made
at the centennial dedcatory services
of an Ellsworth church, last week,
were keenly alive and bristling with
poesy and fact. At times the judge
rose above the lawyer in his discus
sion. again the love for Ellsworth
and its sacred traditions entirely ov-
ermastered both the judge and the
lawyer.
His tracing the early settlers n
Ellsworth from happy blending of
Cavalier and Puritan ancestry threw
new light upon Maine and upon the
influence of the Congregational church
in shaping the destinies of New
England and of Maine. In the finest
OF word colorings, the judge followed
the career of the old orthodox doc
trine under Increase Mather down TO
the parting of the ways with the Uni
tartan church. and from the rigid
doctrines of the Pilgrim fathers, to
the wider liberalism of James Free
man Clark Minot j. Savage and Ed
ward Everett Hale.
1t was a masterful discussion con-
corning the growth of theological
ideas in New E,ngland-at once re-
view of faith and a budapest for fu--
ture activities.
Most assuredly the wonderful Hale
gift has not departed from the
name.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-19
DR.. Wilson's Free Trade Views.

DR.. Woodrow Wilson Is the open en-
envy of tariff protection, than which
nothing has contributed more to the
American wage workers high stand
ard of living and to the couDtrys in
dustrial greatness. He is not only a
free trader but a theoretical free trad
er, which is the worst kind of all; for
theoretical free trade opinions are
formed and developed far from the
practical affairs of life, formed amid
the environments of wealth and aris-
tocracy, formed without any practical
knowledge of the real operations of
daily industrial life and actual bust
ness enterprise. formed by leaving the
human being alone and figuring out
abstractly imaginary theories that
utterly collapse when brought in con-
tact With actual facts.
DR.. Wilson is that kind of free trad
er. He is now trying to conceal that
fact as much as he can, lest it should
interfere with his ambition TO be Pres
ident, cost what it may in sacrificed
convictions, but he finds the task q
difficult one; and, in spite of the pres
sure placed upon him to hold his
tongue, the burden of the evangel Of
| free trade rests upon him so heavily
| that sometimes he cannot refrain from
preaching 1t. Thus in New York thu
other day he burst forth with this:
/ "Ah, IL the workingmen of this eountr,
fcould only know how they have beef
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-19
Hearst Opposing Free Trade.

1t is gratifying to note that even so
William r. Hearst cannot approve
the position taken by the Baltimore
convention and DR. Wilson on the
tariff question Mr.. Hearst in all
his widely circulated papers is as
sailing the fallacy and the dishonesty
of it all. and in the London press are
appearing letters over his own
signature OF this spectacle, George
w. Perkins writes appreciatively.
Among the striking points he makes
we find:
How the Democratic party pro-
poses to reconcile its platform dec
laration of the tariff with Mr.. Will
sons speeches on this subject and
yet not disturb business has been inn
possible for the ordinary man to un-
derstand, and Mr.. Hearst makes it
clear that such program is impos-
sible of practical application.
Mr.. Hearst says that he is almost
irritably disposed to contradict. MI.
Wilson's statement to the effect that
our business men engaged in foreign
commerce are ignorant and proyin-
cial Several days ago | called at
tention to the fact that this was
most uncalled for and unjust criticism
of our business men, who have fought
SO nobly to build up our foreign
trade. teiif
1T has not been the ignorance and
proyincialism of our business men.
1t has been the ignorance and pro-
yincialism of our men of public af-
fairs, governmental officials, appoin-
tees to consular positions and the
like, that have kept the brakes on
even a greater development of our
foreign trade. There has been prac-
tically no cooperation between our
governmental machinery and our
business machinery to the end that
our foreign commerce be built up to
the highest possible figure, while any
man who is not INDUCING in theories,
but is talking from practical expert
ence, knows full well that Germany,
and England particularly, have al
ways left no stone unturned to assist
their merchants in the upbuilding of
trade. If man in England or Ger
many wants to start even a peanut
stand anywhere outside his own
country he can have almost any helr
at the disposal of his government up
to battleship,
1t has been in the face of such
tremendous odds as these that our
American merchants have gone out
into the farthest corners of the earth
and sold our wares, proving, as MI
Hearst so accurately says, that they
are the greatest business men in the
world and have made America the
greatest business nation in the
world.
THE trouble with the present
Democratic campaign, as the Amer
can people are seeing it, is that it is
up to date. campaign of criticism
fault finding and generalities-a cam
paign that is evidently afraid to saJ
that its soul is its own. It is no
holding out a seintilla of hope, moth
ing of a constructive nature what
ever Ii the tariff, as the Democrat
say, is the issue let us know specfi
caily what Is going to be done abou
it."
1t seems to US that the demonstra
ton of the National House in tn
last session Of Congress is sufficien
answer as TO what would be don
should Democracy be given flu
swing. II that. reinforcing our mem
DRY Of the Wilson bill. is not suf
ficient IT may be that the country
ripe for another bitter lesson.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-19
Editorial Comment
Republican Success Assured.
Stanford Tribune.)

Latest returns from Mondays
election, with unofficial reports from
all towns and plantations, and more
than one-half of these reports verb
fled by mail returns from town
clerks, give William T. Haines D
plurality of 1923. The election of
Forrest Goodwin as congressman
from the Third District, which was
claimed to be doubtful by the Demo-
Gratis Tuesday morning. is assured
The Republicans will have small
majority in the House and Senate,
giving them control of both branches
and assuring the election OF Edwin e
Burleigh as United States Senator to
succeed Obadiah Gardner.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-19
Permanent muscular strenqth.

There is this to be borne in mind in
these days when so many young men
are giving so much attention to
physical development, in gymnastic
and athletic exercises, that there can
not be permanent muscular strength
where there is not blood strength.
Hoods Sarsaparilla gives blood
strength promotes digestion and as
similation, and builds up the whole
system .--a.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-19
The Old Hale Way.
(Bangor NeWs.l

Hon. ]. Lueius Higgins, now law
yer in successful practice in Mime
sofa. but who was a Maine student,
with leaning toward the law, recalls
real scene which took place in an
Ellsworth, Maine, court room, more
than 40 years ago, when Hon. Arno
Wiswell, the father of the late Chief
Justice Wiswell, and then the adj
mitted leader Of the Hancock county
bar, paid very high compliment to
the legal ability of Eugene Hale of
Ellsworth. by confessing that Hale
was the only lawyer in Maine. whom
he feared to come up against in
court. Even then Eugene Hale had
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-19
Children CRY
FOR FLETcHER'S
G a 8 Q RIA
piarrhoea Quickly Cured.

''T was taken with diarrhoea and Mr.
to try bottle of Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. After
taking one dose of it / was cured 1t
also cured others that / gave 1t to-
writes NJ f.. Gebhart, Oriole. Pa. That
IS not AZ all unusual. An ordinary at
tack of diarrhoea can almost invariably
be cured by one or two doses of this
remedy. For sale by all dealers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-19

Some times it is long way around
to put even flexible conscience in
state to openly advise dishonor and
reputation of principles. But con-
slant conjuring of a fetish is bound
to effect 1t, eventually with that class
of mind
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-19

for his verses of Poe, to Sir Christie
pher North for his Plutarch-this the
more extraordinary because transla-
ton not from the original, but from
Amyots French version.-Arthur Ben
ington, North American Review.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-19

From some of the expressions ac~
credited to Obadiah Gardner at ths
State House, the expediency appoint
ment senator would not come back"
now, If he were urged.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-19

Bowdoinham is only $50, but she
expects to be older and wiser and
even better looking, handsome as she
is today, in 2O12. Read those letters
to the great grandchildren of yet un-
born sons and daughters.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-19

Sometimes even the New York
police catch bad man-but they
most always find some excuse TO lei
him go again.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-19
AUGUSTA LODGE DIRECTORY

CUSHNoc CHAPTER, r. A. NJ.
No. 40. Special conVocation at Masonic
Temple, Thursday evening, Sept 10.
Work in the Royal Arch degree. All so
journing companions are cordially irsytt-
ed to attoud
wTNFRED A. JACKSON, FL. +.
THOS. II. BODICE, Sec.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-19

1t is seldom in these days that ii
man dies in the house in which he was
pied the Huston homestead in Bristol,
the home of Mrs. Albion Huston and
of MIR. and Mrs. George Huston. The
farm is the original clearing of the
first Huston to land in Bristol and has
come down in straight line ever since.
1t Is one of the best hadled farms in
Bristol and is a credit to the town
and to the occupants. Mr.. Huston al
ways has a good string of oxen.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-19
QesnanGencv.
system.

Is often caused by INDIGESTION and con-
stipation, and quickly disappears when
Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tab
lets are taken. For sale by all dealers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-19

An effort is to be made to retain the
auditorium in Portland for fairs and
conventions instead of turning it over
to the State as an armory. The audi
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-19

Governor Plaisted should not be
blamed for everything. Mr.. Pattan-
gall and Mr.. Davis are really more
responsible for the Democratic slump
of Sept. 9th than was the governor be-
cause they were the governors adj
visers.-Lewiston Journal.
'Tis true Obadiah was the same kind
of a drag which, more than two years
ago, Patt predicted he would be. But
why the l.. j. should think Patt and
Cy advised" the governor is more
than we can understand. Didn't the
governor say: Nobody under Gods
canopy rules me-"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-19

Bryan, doing his campaigning by
special train and at his own expense,
is hardly to be distinguished from one
of those Indicators of great wealth
about whom we used to see so much
in print.-Biddeford Journal.
Well, We'll bet a cookie that when
Brother Wormwood can command a
thousand dollars a day for reporting,
he'll indulge in a special train now
and then.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-19

Summer fiirtations are ripe and
falling off.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-19
We Can't Help Saying Ii

Has anybody here seen Patt, since
Sept. 9th?-Lewiston Journal.
Yes indeedl And he doesn't appear
to feel half as badly over it as does
Boston's disgruntled little mayor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-19

The opening of Bangor Theological
Seminary, announced for Wednesday,
Sept. %. is deferred until Wednesday.
Oct. 9. This is due to unavoidable de-
lays in the Introduction of steam into
the Chapel and Maine hall and cleo
tricity into Maine hall All the fune-
tons of the seminary's opening week
Will be deferred to dates. just a fort
night later than those announced, ex-
cept that the opening annual address
by Prof. Lyman with the reception to
new students Immediately following
this, cannot occur on Thursday night,
Oct. 10, because of the music festival
at that time This two-fold function
will be held on a date near the OPEN
ing. to be announced later.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-19

torium was built mainly for the use
of the city and such industrial and
mechanical fairs as are held and II
was merely as a matter of accommo-
dation that the National Guard was
allowed to drill there limited num-
Der of hours each week, according to
q statement made by ex-Mayor James
T. Baxter, through whose activities
while head of the municipal govern
ment the armory and auditorium were
built.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-19

yEPHTHA ENcAMPMEfJT, NO. B
Meetings at 8 o'clock every second and
fourth Tuesday.
w. L. HAYDEN, c. p
c. Z. STEWART, Scribe. +
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-19

Portland Argus: 1t is reported that
the Treasury Department proposes to
abolish the following customs ports
of entry: Kennebunk, where the col
lections were $50 in 1911 at a cost
of $266.50; Saco, no receipts, expenses
1868; York, no receipts, expenses
$50O40
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-19

No notice whatever will be taken Of
unsigned communications.
The Journal cannot be held RESPONSE
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, 1912-09-19
Maine Gossip
The Changing Days.


The days are getting shorter
And the nights are getting long;
The blooms will soon be blasted,
But the world is filled with song;
For indeed there's something better
Than a few windblown perfumes,
So the world will shed no tear drops
Nor grieve for the blasted blooms.
Aye, the night is getting longer,
And much shorter is the day;
We can put the cat out sooner,
And pile up onto the nay;
We can put out the milk bottle
And, in big and comfy heaps
We curl up on the feathers
And indulge in longer sleeps:
So, although the summers fading
And is dwindling into fall.
And the pink rose leaves are dropping
Yet we do not care at all:
oh, the sere and yellow season
Is not sad to us. or sere
As the adj says: There's a reason:"
1t means we can pound our ear.
Ad that's not the only reason
That the world is filed with song
Since the days are getting shorter
And the nights are getting long;
John can sit there in the parlot,
In the shadow of the door,
And can hold Sues hand much longer
Than he ever did before.
Houston Post
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-19

ODD FELLOWS HALL.
ASYLUM LODGE no. 10 REGULAR
meeting Friday evening at s o'clock.
o. L. FARNHAM, N. q.
L. +. WESTON, Sec. @ +
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-19

CANTON AUGUSTA, NO. 8, p. N.
Regular meeting every third Tuesday ~