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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-10

Hon Scott Wilson of Portland was
a business visitor, Friday, in the city,
on the way from his summer home at
New Sharon. While here, he attended
the gathering under the auspices Of
the Republican county committee and
was very much pleased with the en-
thusiasm displayed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-10

MIR. and Mrs. w. Fl. Fogg of Dor.
chester. Mass. who have been visit
ing relatives in this city for the past
week have gone to North Sidney for
a short visit with friends there.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-10

Lawn party given under the au-
spices of the Susanna Wesley Soeie-
ty, Monday evening, at the home of
Mrs. Il. f. Smith, 50 Grove street. a
fine entertainment will be provided.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-10
WILL OCCUPY OLD PULPIT
Or. Tilden to Preach Sunday Morn
ing and Evening at First Baptist
Church.

Winthrop Street Baptist church Will
undoubtedly be crowded to the doors,
Sunday morning, with those anxious
10 hear Rev Horace w. Tilden, ID. D.,
of Broolslings, So Dakota, who will
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-10

Miss Ethel NJ Wade and Miss Lii
liam Hughes will leave. Saturday, OH
a carriage drive to Vienna, where the
Will pass the weekend with Miss
Hughes parents.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-10
LOCAL. NOTICE.

Last chance to secure effects from
the estate of the late Georgia Staples
Davis. No. As State street, corner Win
throp street. FRED G. STAPLES, Au-
gusta aug5d6t
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-10

The speaker said that Maine voters
should see to it that the banner of
protection was kept dying Either
Taft or Roosevelt was far preferable To
Mr.. Wilson with his free trade theo-
ries. AS final word, Candidate
Goodwin once more predicted an old
time Republican majority in Septem-
Der.
Candidate Goodwin's Dates.
A meeting of the county committee
calico this runtogether at which
speaking dates We're assigned to Cam
didate Goodwin in Kennebec county
as follows:
Waterville-F Friday. Aug. %.
Gardiner-Sa Saturday. Aug. "a.
Winthrop Monday. Aug. %.
Readfield. Fair Grounds Friday,
Aug. 30, afternoon, with Hon. William
#. Haines)
Hallowell- Friday, Aug. 30, evening.
East Saturday, Aug. 81.
kland-Wednesday, Sept. 4.
Augusta-Friday Sept, with Hon.
William T. Haines).
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-10

The Maine Transportation Cos. Il
passenger auto Is ready to cater TO
private parties on any evening OF
this week. Tel. w. b. Williamson, b7o.
tulyfdtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-10

Mrs. Lee Hodgkins and two children
Of Portland are passing a two weeks
vacation with Mr.. and Mrs. j. ID.
Hodgkins, Eastern avenue.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-10
Daily kennebec Journal
LOCAL BRIEFS.

Harold Heath of Readfield Depot
was in the city, Friday, for a brief
visit.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-10

Miss Carol Martin of Freeport is
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. w.
S. Martin, of this city for a short time.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-10

Leroy Starret of Athol, Mass, is the
guest of friends in this city for few
days.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-10
kENNEBEc REPUBLICANS.

CONTINUED from page one.)
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-10

& Mrs Arthur Foster has returned to
her home on Bangor street. after u
trip to Gnilford by automobile
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-10

Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. sturtevant of
Rumfend Falls are visiting their aunt,
Mrs. Henry Fields, Eastern avenue.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-10

| Thomas Smith of Boston is the
| guest of F. w. Diplock of this city
| during the Race Meet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-17
SAYS UNCLE CAV

Considering the attractive quality Of
common courtesy, 1T is strange that so
many of us neglect to be polite, agree
able and accOmm dating.
A friend of mine called his chief
salesman to his office the other night
and handed him a check Tor one
months salary. TN sorry to part
ing away too much money
The salesman was staggered.
MY expense accounts average less
than any other man in your employ,
he retorted when he recovered his
breath. That's the only way in which
I handle any of your money. | be-
lieve I'm in my right senses, but
cannot understand your remark.
That's just your trouble" replied
the manufacturer; you can't under
stand. I spend 100000 year for adj
vertising. That brings me through the
retailers, about $4,000 new consumers
of our product. By your failure to
treat your last caller with the courte-
sy that he has a right to expect, you
lost to me the cooperation of a retail
er whose business means 500 consum-
ers of our goods. That means the re
suits of $1,000 worth of advertising
gone to waste in a single year. You
had better, perhaps, have forged my
name to a check for $4,000. L may get
that man back in two years, or may
never get him back. Yoa actually
threw away in ten minutes one-third OF
your salary for the year Y gu are TOO
extensive to keep
That's a concrete example, the force
of which drives home a universal rule
Nowadays, courtesy is as much OF an
asset to the business man as cash IN
the bank, and a good deal more potent
While the money may draw per cent,
courtesy pays at least a thousand-.t
brings ten for one in the long run.
In a social way, cash and courtesy
are too far apart for comparison Ana
+ba difference is all in favor If courte- |
sy This is a social age, and we thrive
as we please our neighbors.-(Copy-
right, 1912, by the Mcclure Newspa-
per Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-17
EVENING CHAT
BY RVTSI CAMERON.

People who are always suspecting
other people of something or other
are very hard to live with. Everyone
knows that.
But aren't people who are always
thinking other people are suspecting
them of something or other every bit
as unlivable?
Not long ago a happy family in d
boarding house was broken up by the
presence of one of these unhappy crea-
lures. One of the boarders left a silk
waist, which she had washed, out on
the line all night. In the morning it
was gone. Naturally she announced
the fact at the breakfast bile, and in
her indignation dwelt ON the subject
at some length. Whereupon one of the
other women began to think that the
owner suspected her of the theft.
At first she thought it, but very soon
she knew it, and knew it with such
fervor that she actually went to the
hostess, told her the other woman had
accused her of stealing her waist, and
insisted that the hostess should ask
the other woman to apologize. The
final result was a feud which split the
boarding house into hostile camps and
caused the hostess the loss of two per-
fectly good boarders.
Some years ago we had maid
whose chief fault was this tendency.
You may think that was a minor fault
for an otherwise excellent maid,r but
it wasn't. She was always going about
with a CHIP Oh suspicion on n0r SHOul-
der and we all had to walk pussy
footed lest we knock it off. She was
continually suspecting us of suspect
ing her of lying or stealing or some
other pleasing peccadillo, despite the
fact that she had an exceptionally
good character and we knew it, and
she must have known that we knew
it. The very slightest spark would ig-
mite the gunpowder of her sensitive
ness. For instance, if had misplaced
some article and knew that she had
swept the day before, and might have
noticed it, 1 must not ask if she had
seen it OF she would Immediately think
[ suspected her of stealing it. And
believe me, she certainly could make
things unpleasant, when she became
of our suspicious.
One of the queerest things about
these folks is that they are ready to
suspect even their dearest friends of
them. I once mislaid
pair of silk stockings. 1 asked a dear
friend who had been helping me
up the day I lost sight of
them if she could possibly remember
where I put them. And, yes, she ac-
tually thought I suspected her of TAX
ing them.
Do you know, I think such an atti-
tude is an insult. You wouldn't sus-
pect your friend of stealing would
you? Then why impute such base sus-
picions to him?
I wonder if such people think they
are abiding by the rule of "do as you'd
be done by 1t doesn't seem to me |
that they are.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-17

Better go back the first thing in the
morning. I knowed a woman who
failed to win a divorce because she
left the house with the bed all tousIed
up"
After a rest Aunt Roxey went on to
the next farmhouse to tell the news.
Going to get divorce, en- ex-
claimed the woman.
Yes; I'm drove to it,
What driv ye?''
Adam gauI darned my teeth
STARS and gartersi Well, I've felt
for the last four weeks as if some
notice what time it was when he
gaul darned your"
Bout eight O'Clock, 1 guess
Then you may lose your case. A
minute when she's been sworn at.
You ought to have got up and stop
ped the clock"
Aunt Roxey passed on to the next
er, who was also a blacksmith. When
the wife was told that a divorce was
to be applied for, she asked:
Did you offer to kiss Adam when
you. came away?'
''Then you'll git beat. The Fam
lily Almanac says that the wife must
show readiness to make up
He was probably too overcome.
Wait till call Henry in
The farmer blacksmith came in
and heard the news. and, after look
ing wise for a time, he asked Aunt
Roxey:
Did Adam gaul darn your eyes?"
mo; my teeth
'"The false teeth you were to get 2''
yes"
Then you've no case. Under the
law you've got to gaul darn a Twin
object, and false teeth are not alive.
Better give it up
1t was candle light when Aunt
Roxey opened the gate and walked up
the path. Adam sat in the doorway.
She sat down beside him and his arm
stole around her.
81 don't want a divorce she said.
"And gaul darn my bones, I'm
going to work in earnest in the morn
info 1912 by Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-17
.s-o-s,.-sAyE OUR STREETS.

There are so many new reforms
about one a minute, like the boats at
Detroit-that the average citizen
lodges at the mere suggestion of
another But here is one that is practi-
cal. and should sound good to owners
of property on paved streets. writes
H. H. Windsor in the October Popular
Mechanics Magazine. In most Ameri-
can cities the completion of new
pavement seems to be the psyche
logical moment for some gas or cleo
trio company to discover that it needs
new or additional MEANS, and comes
up a long stretch of the new street
TO be sure, the ditch is filled and the
surface replaced in a more or less
careless fashion, but we all know that
that particular portion of the street
is never the same again. Or it may
be the property owner-who usually
lives on the opposite side of the street
who wants connection, and so goes
in another ditch, this time at right
angles. The contractor makes a
bluff at replacing the paving, but for
years to come there remains a ridge
or hollow to mark the spot. For
some reason everybody, including even
the abutting property owner seems to
regard the street surface with utter
indifference. Some pillage it like a
Goth, while others consider the propo-
sition with the hopeless despair of a
polar bear in a cage.
Isn't it about time we learned some
thing from the other side? For years
the highway has been thing sacred
to the people. Even SO long ago as
the building of the first tramway in
London. George Francis Train, an
American was put in Jail for tearing
up the Kings highway" because he
had dug up a block or so beyond his
permit. In many European cities the
problem has been solved, and there
seems no good reason why it cannot
be solved here in the same way. No
individual nor company is allowed to
break the surface of a street or ex-
cavate the street. When either course
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-17
FROM OTHER PENS
MORE LIFEBOATS.

AT least one of the obvious lessons
Of the Titanic disaster has been prac-
tically and effectively taken to heart.
The British board of trade has pro-
mulgated new rules concerning the
lifeboat equipment of passenger
steamships, which are such as ma
terlally to increase the degree of pro-
lection afforded in case of serious ac-
cident. A few days ago there was not
ed statement that it did not seem
practicable to change the rule which
based lifeboat equipment on the ton
mage of the ship rather than on the
numb erof passengers, upon which we
commented unfavorably as illogical. 1t
is gratifying to observe that the board
of trade has found it practicable to
change that rule and to require that
each ship shall carry lifeboats enough
to give room to all her passengers.
That means that the devices for saw
ing life shall be made adequate to the
number of lives to be saved in an
emergency. Commendable in a high
degree also is the requirement that
immediately on leaving port each YES
sells iifeboats shall be fully equipped
with all things necessary for their
navigation and for the welfare of their
inmates. That means that there snail
no more be danger of boat run OF
passengers being sent off from a sink
ing ship only to have it discovered
that there are no oars with which to
row it, no compass with Whlch TO
guide it. no lanterns or rockets TO use
as signals and no food and water for
the passengers. Ordinary prudence
would seem to dictate that all these
supplies shall be kept in the boats in
which they are likely to be needed,
and convenience does not demand oth-
erwise. In fact. such equipments seem
to belong to the boats as much as DO
any parts of their construction ana
to need to be kept constantly In place
in them.-New York Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-17
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record.

A steady drink-a nerve tonic.
The only consolation Failure has is to
sneer at Success.
Most of are willing to forgive the
enemies of other people.
Don't try to strike man for loan
Just because he looks lonesome.
The fellow who can lie with a straight
face is sometimes crooked.
1t keeps some people busy trying to eX-
plain the mistakes of their friends.
The man who isn't popular with him
self can't expect to be popular with 9TH
ers
A man begins to sneer at luck when he
reaches the point where he no longer has
to depend upon it.
Il have nine lives" boosted the cat.
That's nothing" replied the frog. =
can croak every minute
Misery loves company. but that is no
reason why we should spend all our lives
keeping company with her.
THE ups and downs of life will wear
out any man. remarked the Wise Guy.
ALSO any umbrella added the Simple
Mug.
Mrs. Henpeckke-"Well. I guess have
just as much chance of getting to heaven
as you have" Mr.. Henpeckke-''Not if
get there first"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-17
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsoN GLOBE

you can offend some people by not
tickling them. -. ~
ExerI, man breads the time when ne
will feel he is slipping -,
Housecleaning 1--WE are at II IN the 1lON0
office this week. is what war Is.
Unless YOU are making a speech you
are not saying much when you lax Iouu-
Too many whats the use ciuzehS
will get whole town thinking tnat way.
IF we all waited for authority 70 SPEAK
half the people would forget how 70 tsik
If the publishers don't lead you TO ex-
pect too much of a new story II ISM
their fault.
Speaking of Higher Learning, the col
lege book store always carries a large line
of sporting goods.
Link Preston is a pinch hitter; when his
wife fails as a provider he can always
rustic a mess of liver.
Let us say for the farmers that they
don't run to whfskers as much as the
cartoonists seem to imagine.
Probably the Lord hasn't much use for
a cheerful gfver who donates his weeks
wages to a slot machine.
working girl is entitled to aonsider-
able respect. and gets 1t from eensfb;c
people Probably the others don't fnattcr
Some people are already telling what
they would do if they had a inillioa dol
lars-but they wouldn't do anything cf Tue
kind
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-17
KANSAS coGHENT
CHASING THE MoRMoNs.

Orozco rlotous rebels have done q
larry thorough job of depopulating
the Mormon colonies in northern
mexico much as they may have neg
lected some of their other regular
Ghores. Only few of them have
peen Killed, but it has been prettv
cIeary demonstrated to them that
M IS an unhealthy place for
S,1oiIil so the followers of old Joe
their luggage in wagons ana trei-Ired
across the border once more To do
thIs' IL was necessary to leave the
cIops TO waste, and much of their
LOCKS and herds have gone into the
leDeI com Z n1lssary. Surely this was
occasion for righteous indienation on
THIS side of the line for tbasa ,-,are
american citizens, if they do believe
IN having plenty of wives &c tba1- 60
along. There has been much talk of
INVASION and it still continues TO con-
- aIueA aple extent, with a chance that
II may materialize into real action.
This is a patriotic land which doesnst
propose TO see even Mormons run
overly Mexicans. But a history or
the Mormon people might Indicate
tndt tney We're in position to be used
70 inns sort OF treatment. In our land
OF rellglous liberty, they We're moved
on several times by the persuasiI-e in
Iluence of firearms and larger Num-
bers- Chased from Nauvoo. III thev
stopped awhile along the Missouri
river but with hints of an 1tnhea1tI1v
climate they gathered their large col
lection of wives and strung out across
the plains, planting sunflowers and
the bodies of cholera victims as thew
went. In Utah they settled down 10
make the desert blossom as the rose.
ana explode the race suicide theory.
succeeding some in both directions.
There they made a stand against the
Gentiles which included a massacre.
and which still includes a political
machine smooth enough to keen
Smoot in the senate But the Gem
tiles came, and the Mormons needed
more room for their fIocks and wives
and children. Mexico was enough
like Utah to seem homelike, and Diaz
welcomed them, something new to
Mormons who have had to do most
OF their own welcoming. But Dia1
didn't last, and Madero can't stop
Orozco, and it's the trail again for
the Mormons, a trail they have fol-
lowed far without finding that peace
pastoral people crave.-Atchison
Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-17

is necessary. the city makes the OPEN
ing and, after pipes or wires are laid,
restores the paving in the best possible
manner. And the city charges only
actual cost, but collects enough to IN
sure the best possible job that can be
done. In this way the temptation to
hurried, neglectful, Indifferent work is
avoided; the public are insured a
minimum of annoyance while the work
is being done and maximum of ex-
cellence when completed.
What we need in many of our city
is some one big
enough to send out the call for help
and get the right answer; the sos
in this case meaning ''Save Our
Streets
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-17
THE MAINE RETURNS.

The returns from the Maine election
look pretty good to the Taft men MT
Haines, Republican, was elected gov
ernor over Plaisted, Democrat Dy
nearly 5000. or change in the vote vote
of two years ago of about lz,OoV.
Plaisted had the state machinery BACK
of him. and the prestige Of one sue
cessfuI term as governor. This seems
to be a year for Republican voters 20
get together after all. No matter
[yhat the political orators may say ana
no matter what the newspapers .,a{
are in the habit of coloring polit .tst
- DannbItcan party will be given a
cnnpiete victory in November. The
scrap which is recognized as faction
al matter, will only serve to rernln1
Ranublicans of the Importance OF
Keeping the country in safe hands, ana
Republican candidates Will undoupt-
edlv receive majorities in all the states
sidered Republican states'-Ns"S0n
Kansan- Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-17
AYHAWKER JOTS

Tom Thompson. of the Howard
Courant, declares that ''Armageddon'
is also the name of one of the rotten
est hymn tunes in all the church col
lection.
Some men would give a fortune if
they could forget some things, points
out the Grfdley Light. Others would
have won a fortune If they could re-
member some things.
A Kansas wind is usually up in time
to pump water for the stock, says the
Jewell County Republican. That's bet
ter than some of the boys do when
the job is left to them.
Bachelor Bert Walker of the Os-
borne Farmer, wants to know what
has become of the old-fashioned girl
until after she was engaged"
A girl must have dolls and ribbons
and lots of fancy things to play with,
says Mack Gretchen of the SedgwiclS
Paragraph. A boy can have a pref
ty good time with nothing but a toad,
a grasshopper and a few angle-worms.
A deserved hot-shot for the men
from Mrs. Tom Thompson: September
came in warm and dry. Which, how
ever, does not deter punctilious man
from casting aside his comfortable
straw hat in favor of nice new warm
felt one.
A couple of observations by Click
Fockele, of the lie Roy Reporter:
Only a few more weeks now before
the dirty elbows will be covered up.
We also note that a number of
dresses that were somewhat short a
few months ago are shorter than ever
now. Repeated washings we presume.
Mrs. F. D. Moffat writes, in the
Cherryvale Journal: II saw little girl
start for school today. She isn't yet
g., and the day will be one of the mills
stones on her life's journey. Little
restless hands that have been so busy
making mud pies, playing house ana
sewing on doll clothes, will now have
to be primly folded for what will seem
fnterminable periods. The little feet
that have run miles a day in joyous
play will have to be firmly on the floor
under the desk and not even scraped,
to annoy Teacher. The glad little
childish voice that one can hear
laughing and calling two blocks away,
will only be allowed to be used in an
swer to a question or after permission
is granted the little girl to speak. How
big the little voice will sound to the
lonely little girl. who is thinking of
mother and playmates at home and
wishing she were there. Poor little
baby, she seems pretty young to be
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-17


A common gorse-grown, a wind-swept sky,
Short daisied grass meek cattle Craze on.
A kite on the turf, where the path winds
by,
thing of paper with tinsel biazon.
"A wingless dream. a desire,
Prone where mems feet have trod;
A thought. like an unstrung Tyre,
Under the blue of God
The west wind blowing, fragrance of lime
A pond, wind-whitened where tall reeds
taper.
A kite upsoaring from beds of thyme;
A thing of lath and tinsel and paper
"A still-born desire, wfnglesS
Dream taking wings to fly;
A harp that lay dumb and stringless
Restrung into melody.
A kite afloat on the west winds wing,
Upward sunward, the blue enfolds it;
1t hovers in heaven, tied to a string.
thing of paper-a child's hand holds
1t.
-Godward, sunward, a vision
Won for moments span;
A glory, toy, derision,
dream. wind-wafted, of man.
Una Artevelde Taylor, in the Westmin-
ster Gazette.