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Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-02-05
Goxernor Frederick Robie.

Ripe in years and rich in accom-
plishment for his fellow men, former
Governor Frederick Robie has left an
impress of character and genius upon
Maine. Maines interests were his in
terests and any service to his State
was his especial pride. He loved
every mountain and glen, river and
rill. and her people We're his family.
In many cities and towns of Maine
Governor Robie's figure was familiar
to young and old. His long and use
full life was devoted to high ideals, in
business, in politics, in home life. He
was successful in all, a success won
by energy, character and rugged hon
esty.
AS a public official, Governor Robie
reflected his business principles and
worked for the people as he worked
for himself in private life He gave
all that was in a strong and clear,
logical mind to the service at hand.
Governor Robie's home town. Cor
ham, was always ready to honor its
distinguished and big-hearted citizen
and, now that he is gone, young and
old sincerely mourn. They realize the
loss of counselor and friend of all, not
to say benefactor to many.
Governor Robie never lodged duty
and he saw that duty as exact justice
and broad -mindedness dictated. No
man held a higher place in Names
best citizenship than the noble char
acter to which we now reluctantly say
farewell
Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-02-05
THE ALASKAN PROBLEM.
Vast Areas of Undeveloped Land and
No Access To It,

The United States is the owner of
vast area Of practically undeveloped
| Alaskan land with great future pos
sibilities. but at present held in check
because of the lack of means of ac-
cess ana transportation.
If it We're an Individual instead of
cur government, that owned such val
uable property. he would either pro-
vide the transportation himself or
make It possible for some one else to
do so with an arrangement profitable
20 both. I fail TO see wherein the in
terests of the people of the United
States differ materially from those of
IN individual in this respect. The fact
that the United States government
has brought to standstill the effort
Of, private concern to provide the
NEEDED transportation indicates either
that the nation is TO undertake the
work itself or that it is not to be done
1T all.
The reasons favuring government
construction of Alaskan railways are
as follows: % The land belongs to
ihe United States, and the nation has
the greatest interest in rendering 1t
valuable and profitable TO individuals
region is one that can never be dense
ly settled and that for a long time to
come may be expected to be occupied
only in spots, and primarily by a min
ing population. Railroad building can
not, therefore, be undertaken by pri-
vatc capital in anticipation of the rapid
extension of u permanent population.
as has been done in parts of the
United States. (3) Private capital in
vested in railway properties here must
look for quick and abundant profits,
and at present these are in sight only
in returns from mines owned or con-
trclled by the railways, against which
the government now is opposed. The
United states, on the other hand, can
fcok at the problem from an entirely
different point of view, for to it a few
YEARS, or even a generation. is an in
significant period of time. Being the
owner of the land, it could be content
to wait for direct profits from the in
vestment if by it the value of the
land is increased and If the requisite
settlement and development are made
possible Ralph Tarr in North Amer
lean Review.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-02-05
The Business Of Newspaper Making.

Wholesome product, loyalty to the
people as whole, fearless denunci-
aticn of the bad, determination not
to listen to every bugbear that self
constituted advisers have to offer, to-
gether with funds to acquire the best
in news service and brains, are the
trade secrets for making a modern
newspaper successful. To this must
be added safe, sane and cordial CO.
operation between the business office
and the editorial staff. The product
cry day in the week, and continuously
command favor and support among the
progressive. reputable people every
where. Men in the counting rooms
must be of that twentieth century
talent that recognizes all these things.
Editors and reporters must have the
public interests at heart. The tone of
newspapers is distinctly higher, year
by year, and the fittest are the ones
that survive in a crisis. OF course
the silly and vicious newspaper con-
tinues to be represented, but they are
dropping out or are falling into the
hands of better men. one after an
other
on the subject of Mortality Among
Newspapers" the Boston Transcript
publishes the following statistics and
comment:
Though there are in the United
States no fewer than 24,325 newspapers
and periodicals, published in II ,00C
cities and towns it would appear from
current statistics that, in some fields
of newspaper production, numerical
gain has ceased. The 2472 dailies list.
ed in last years American Newspaper
| Directory have decreased this year bS
thirteen. There are fewer weeklies b,
forty, and semiweeklies have beer
Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-02-05
RARE MANTEGNA FOR THE |
LOUVRE.
Paris Has Acquired One OF Its Most
Valuable Paintings.

The Louvre at Paris has lately pur-
chased the most important painting that
| has come to any national collection in
| France since the advent within those
same walls of the famous Botticelli Villa
Lemmi frescoes some years ago. The
newly acquired masterpiece is a "Saiut
Sebastian by Andrea Mantegna, a paint
| ing that was for many years the chief
art possession of Aigueperse, village IN
| the department of Puy-de-Dome. Civic
poverty, however, compelled the author
| tiles to sell the painting to the French
government for some $4,000. SO the
| Louvre had no longer need to expose
| bare nails on its lately devastated wall
| in the Salon Care, Mora Lisas" old
! home
The story of this saint Sebastian" by
Mantegna is not without historic inter-
| est, it being one of the most precious
morceaux of the classical renaissance.
| 1t was brought into France from italy
| upon the occasion of the marriage of
Gilbert de Montpensier and Claire iii
Gonzaga, granddaughter of Lodovico
Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua, Mantegna's
| patron, whose service the great painter
entered Just so years before Columbus
discovered America.
The beautiful Claire carried the saint
Sebastian" with her from Mantua. Even
| in those days. it was considered a mag
niiicent dot. although there were few IN
| the rough France of that period who had
any regard for painting, associating 1t
with the perfume of the south, which
| they still derided. Nevertheless, Gilbert
de Montpensier held brilliant court, and
| he and his lady found many to admire
the art treasure that had been brought
with her dover.
The acquisition of this painting COM
pctes the Louvre's Incompatible series
| of works illustrating Mantegna's develop
mentthe Cavalry Our Lady of Vic
tory and the '"Allegories' from Isa-
bella. d'Este's grotto. 1t is said that
| his play saint Sebastian" which awak-
ened an almost unprecedented interest
at the time of its production in Paris he
made a pilgrimage to all the great con-
tinental museums for the purpose of
studying all the paintings of the saint
by the old masters to be found, finally
seeking out Mantegna's at Aiguepersc.
upon seeing which his enthusiasm was
unbounded. and he declared that it met
more fully than any other work his con-
ception of the martyr-saint. The Louvre
possesses number of other versions of
saint Sebastian" Perugino's among
them. but it is doubtful if any painting;
depicting the youthful martyr surpasses
in beauty or in interest this by Andrea
Mantegna.-W Today
Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-02-05
The State and the Fool.

la the article below, clipped from
Harper's Weekly, we find much food
for thought and pass it along to our
readers
Many still look upon the village
drunkard, the village idiot, the half
witted bound girl, with indulgent tor
erance If the reader wishes to un-
derstand what a menace to society all
these are, let him read X. l.. Dugdales
thin little volume, THE Jukes"
Even medical inspection as at pres
ent constituted in our public schools
is inadequate to detect and remedy
these borderland states. Consider the
case OF Albert. He is a large, strong
boy of seventeen. His physical deVel-
opment is about normal for his age.
He talks fiuently, reads well, and
writes a good, flowing business hand.
In good many business houses 1t
would be rather easy for Albert To
get position ON the ordinary tests
that are applied TO youths. But he
could not keep it, He had been
through the seventh grade in the
Philadelphia public schools, and his
~
promoted to the eighth grade He
uses large words and many of them.
He talks about nouns and phrases
and that sort of thing. But his par
ents noticed that, at the age of seven
teen, Albert did not know enough TO
take care of himself when alone in
the city, and they sent him to the
training school at Vineland where he
came very near passing all the tests
of mentality given him till he came to
that of the Binet form board. This
consists in placing certain formed
pegs in the holes which fit them. A
boy of Aibert's age should have done
it the first time in about fifteen Sec
onds. 1t took him forty-eight seconds,
and he gave himself away badly by
repeatedly trying the oval peg in the
oblong hole, the square in the hole Tor
the cross, and the diamond in the hole
for the triangle. This test shows more
quickly than any other the mental
status of child. and, all things
considered, the training school was
obliged to put down seyenteen-year-
old Albert as of mental status of
nine years.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-02-05
TANTALLON CASTLES
Are Not Wanted Here. They Lose
Their Similarity.

The practice of copying outright in
this country Old World churches and
halls and houses has not been good
For our own architectural develops
ment A certain beautiful house on
Washington avenue. said to be a
COPY cf one of the Champs -Elysees in
Paris, looks all right, the two sites be-
ing quite similar, but even the imme-
date effect is bad when. as is usually
the case. the sites are quite dissimi-
lar. French chateau on Fifth ave-
nue. loses the charm it had on the
Loire. 1t is in rather worse taste than
the most inartistic of it's Enthusiastically
American neighbors. Even in the
country French chateau or English
country house does not look quite
right One very fine French chateau,
though not a mere copy of anything.
fails to be convincing against q back
ground of Appalachian Mountains. 1t
Is plainly French, and the strong land
scape is as strongly American We
are not arguing against the principle
that the rules of true art are the same
everywhere and always. One of those
rules, we take it, is to consider en-
vironment and uses. and both differ
from the differences of the various
races and civilizations and national
ideals, as well as the geographical
differences. The charm of any coun-
try's architecture lies very largely in
it's being characteristic. Fancy Hol-.
land housing her sturdy folk, on her
fat soil, in Swiss chalets or the Ital-
ian villas, Neither do we claim that
we have yet in America a distinct and
Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-02-05

lessened by 4 dozen. To return to the
dailies. there is a curious evenness IN
the respect of the gains or losses be-
tween the sections, though the South
and the middle Atlantic States are the
only localities that show actual in
crease. New England has lost fCur
dailies, New York as many, the states
of the Middle West nine, and the
Western States thirteen-no very Sc
rious disproportion, if one considers
the relative extent and population Of
the areas grouped under the respect
i've heads. Thus we have all, or most
of us, had the experience of assisting
at a newspaper funeral, and some OF
us have looked on at newspaper
wedding when one daily was united To
another. Such consultations as a rule
have a wholesome effect: yet of course
they lessen the whole number of news
papers. and, to persons who are I'M
pressed by numbers and bulk. this
may seem an unfortunate consumma-
ton.
1t is not altogether easy to COM
prehend why the weeklies have lost
ground, but the decline In the whole
number of dalies is readily explained.
Large sums are required, in TINS age
of the world. to set up a daily any
where, and an improbable newspaper
can probably lose more money, ana
lose it quicker, than any other enter
prise on earth. For these reasons we
have doubtless reached the logical
limit of expansion, and the changes OF
the future will take the form of Sas-
pensions and consultations chiefly
We 90 not believe that this fact is
altogether to be regretted. for news
papers that are handicapped by lack
of resources cannot effectively serve
the public and are peculiarly exposed
To the temptation to betraN its inter-
ests for the sake of backing
Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-02-05

gratifying to find even single ar
ticle in which there is reduction. We
are likely to nave considerable sloppy
weather before the green leaves come
again and the announcement by the
United States Rubber Company that
the price Of rubber footwear is to be
lowered about ten per cent is most
welcome. The lower price of the raw
material is given as the reason for
this, and rubber tires as well as over
shoes should feel the benefit of it
Boston Transcript
Wonder if this condition is created
through manufacture of new product
by followers of aeroplane exhibitions.
Aha, At last we have it! The mys-
terry is solved, and we have discovered
the key. r.. II. is not a candidate for
the nominatiou--the nomination is
candidate for T. It.. And it's all so
simple, oree you really get it.-fiar-
pers Weekly.
But it landed solid when you got it
Ell. Colonel?
There is a persistent rumor in some
parts of New England that Governor
Foss of Massachusetts, is Il presiden-
tial possibility. How Il mans gooo
friends do love 10 jolly him.-kansas
City Journal.
You haven't seen the joke, at all.
They're really quite serious about it.
If we can COW the spectators who
are milking the public then we can
soon get the price of butter down
where it belengs.-Express & Adver-
tiser.
acquire the milk of human kindness.
won't that facilitate trust formation?
Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-02-05

characteristic style in architecture.
Probably we never shall have one: it
is more likely we shall have many to
match the diversity of oHr climate and
of eur regional industries and habits
of life and our geographical dversities,
But We shall not hasten the develop
ment of either the one stNle or tire
many styles by mere imitation of for
cign styles. The milliOnaires who
bring us over foreign masterpieces on
canvas or in marble undoubtedly aid
American art. Those who bid their
architects copy foreign masterpieces
in wood and brick and stone render
us no such service. They do us a
disst trvice-Harper' Weekly.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-02-05
Maine to be Redeemed.
6Bridgton =NeWs.)


EX-Gov. Cobb withdraws from the
race for the United States Senator.
with the entry of Burleigh. and will
give the latter cordial support. AS to
the Republican lineup it is likely to
be that way as to the other aspirants.
Integrity, wide acquaintance with men.
and official and legislative experience
which has never borne a black mark
in long term of service, are charac-
teristies that must count at this SUI
preme moment in the states history.
Maine is to be redeemed, brethren
and in 1872 too
Having announced his candidacy be-
fore the primaries this week, all over
Maine and New England as we'll. the
newspapers are speaking kindly words
of Hon. +. G.. Burleigh in connection
with that position.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-02-05
Commission on Industrial Relations.

After such deplorable scenes near
home as have been witnessed in the
Lawrence, Mass, strike. most of us
are ready to consider any reasonable
plan by which industrial conflicts may
be largely If not wholly prevented.
The plan for a federal commission on
industrial relations" was put before
Congress last December and is likely
to be the subject of a special message
by the President. In this connection,
Edward T. Deyine. editor of The Sur
vey, has issued statement of inter-
est and common sense. He writes.
What the social workers and econo-
mists nave proposed is an Authoritative
national inquiry into the means bv which
industrial conflicts may be prevented hv
being made unnecessary; and into the
means by which, when not preyented
they may be settled and settled riebt II
Is not a policy OF peace at any nrice
which Is suggested, desirable as INDUS
trial peace and stability are from the
standpoint of the public comfort and Sc
curity There are-.s ceasieng. B. doubtless
when employers are quite justified i'm moi
yielding TO demands OF their employees
Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-02-05

The piano trusts destruction by fire
of hundreds of square pianos, Ito get
item out of the way of new sales,
deserves retribution in the form of bad
business for seven unluckS. years. At
least the wood might have been given
TO the poor, But, in the hungering
hearts of many a poor boy or girl is
the torture of musical genius seeking
avenue of growth but restrained by the
lack of a few dollars for IAN old square
piano"
Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-02-05
Political Gossip of
The Maine Press.

In a political article. bearing the
imprint Of Editor Harry BigeioW S
fine artistic hand, the Portland Press
has the following of particular inter
est to Augusta readers:
In Augusta. the home of Governor
PIaisted. municipal election occurs on
the first Monday in March. AT thls
time Il representative to the Legisla-
ture to fill the vacancy eceasloned pS
the appointment of Joseph William
son as county attorney is to take
place. The candidates for representa-
tive are likely to be Lewis A. Burlelsh'
for the Republicans, and l.. r. New
bert. for the Democrats. Both are as
streng men as could be nominated, ana
more than would appear upon the sur
face is involved in the election.
Lewis A. Burleigh is the son of Hon
Edwin c. Burleigh, who recently an
ncunced himself as candidate lof
United States senator. Young Eurleisn
was q member of the 18th Legislature.
He entered the House as one Oh It's
most modest and unassuming members.
At the close of the session he was re-
parded as one of its leading anu
strongest members. This position was
accorded him because OF certain quar-
tiles which he possesses TO ueslee
that entitled him to unusual consul
Grafton. He makes no pretense OF DC
if,o al orator, but is what most peopie
vanal term d convincing speaker lie
- logical and speaks with deloefa-
tian and in language Which charms
hacause of the careful analysis he gives
- tho words he uses His familiarity
with parliamentary procedure makes
lie, = formidable antagonist. In the
7ath Legislature he never spoke upon
anv Question until he fully compre-
bonded the entire subject in its iesai
as well as its practical pearlnss' WI
Burleigh has personality. oisilitS' O.
is democratic in his dealings 49,
nan Outside of the pfestlge WIN. II
his family may confer upon MN n0
would win place for h1msei any
where. In a word. he is Wen iiheu,
enacted and enjoys the confidence Oh ms
fellow townsmen to a great degree
His opponent at the special election
is o,,ite likely to be f. e. NeWpert.
Perhaps it might be truthfully sald oi
him that he is the most popular Dem
ocrat i'm Augusta. He is something Oh
a silyer-tongued orator ana mas Sraceu
many occasions by his presence. ne
has been successful since he ehtereo
business in Augusta, having furlhefiy
been a Universalist minister AS
minister he was well liked and enjoyed
more than a local reputation. Alter
retiring from the ministry Mr.. New
bert became involved in politics. He
has been member of the inner circle
surrounding Gov. Plaisted, has serVeu
at least two Democratic admlmstfa-
tions as city clerk, and has been other
wise rewarded by his political asso-
ciates. 1t is understood at Augusta
that Mr.. Newbert does not seek elec-
ton to the Legislature, but because OF
the necessity of pushing forward a
strong man to beat Burleigh he Will
be forced to run. If he does not, Niles
Perkins. now city treasurer of Augusta.
who wants the job, may be made the
candidate"
Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-02-05
Aches and Pains.

You know by experience that tho
aches and pains of rheumatism are not
permanently, but only temporarily. re-
lieved by external remedies.
. Then why not use an internal rem
edy-Hood's Sarsaparilla, which COR
rects the acidity of the blood on which
rheumatism depends and cures the
disease?
This medicine has done more for the
rheumatic than any other medicine ID
the world.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-02-05

The Saturday Bangor Commercial
publishes a long political news letter
from which we clip the following:
The principal event of the week,
politically, was the announcement by
Former Congressman Edwin c. Bur-
leigh that he was a candidate for the
Republican nomination for the United
States Senate to succeed Obadiah Card
ner of Rockland, who is filling out the
unexpired term of the late Sen. Will
liam Frye This announcement has
been cordially received by the Repub-
liean papers throughout the State and
Gov. Burleigh's friends in this vicinity
are, enthusiastically predicting his sue
lcess
Howard Davies. Esq. of Yarmouth.
father of the direct primary law adopt
ed by the people last fall, takes excep-
tions to the criticisms of the party en-
rollment feature made by Hon. Elmer
+! Newbert of Augusta. in a statement
given out, Saturday. In his Interview
he declares strongly for the preserva-
tion of party lines"
Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-02-05

Apropos of the recent State librarian
appointment it is suggested that II
might be we'll in the, near future TO
replace the female figure upon the
dome of the State House with statue
of Nap" Morey in a full brigadier
generals uniform
Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-02-05

s9pjlluB lilO itdlNey-neiu cup,
And none claims his only unfortunate
Is the one which his photo shows up!
The manufacturers are booming
self-srarting automobiles. What the
public really needs. however, is a self
stopper-Biddeford Journal.
Too many of them now Want a
sef-goer when the gasoline gives out.
The correspondence between Gov.
Wilson and Col. George Harvey shows
them vieing with each other in polite
expressions of regard and urbane def
erence. The Governor makes unre-
served apologies for his ''tactlessness, -
and the Colonel accepts them in the
most cordial terms. Evidently the in
cident is closed as between these two,
and the irate Marse Henry alone re-
| mains to nurse his wrath and keep II
warm. Perhaps it may yet dawn OH
the gallant kentuckian that in his fiery
| impetuosity, he has been making a
spectacle of himself TO gods and men,
Portland Argus.
Marse Henry has lost no prestige
| among his people Unlike Samson, he
| rises from the ruins unbruised in the
| accomplishment of his purpose.
italy has barred newspaper writers
| from the front in Tripoli. Italy it ap-
pears, is afraid of publicity.-Manches-
| ter Union.
Hey fellers! Pipe the Holmes arisen
in journalism. Wormwood. who'll make
good Doe Watson for it?
| Perhaps the discovery. that Chi
cago woman lawyer has perfect foot
| according to artistic standards-e
| dainty No. twill do something tc
contradict the old libel, illustrated by
the declaration of a New York lawyer
that his typewriter was Chicago girl
with such big feet that she had to
back up to the door to ring the BELL
| Boston Globe.
| This acceptance without ridicule Of
that No. engenders the suspicion that
Boston feet aren't like the comely little
ones of Augusta.
] In these days of soaring prices it is
Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-02-05
Monday, February 5, 1912.

Tile nearer you come into relation
with a person, the more lscessary
do tact and courtesy escome,-
Holmes.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-02-05
Editorial Comment
Patriotic Utterances.
(National Tribune.) }

V.NdlIOIId1
AS we have often said, the hope of
the comrades is in the country press
and the minor dailies, which are not
controlled by the Interests. An illus
tration of this is the following spirit
ed and pertinent editorial from the
Des Moines Daily Capital. which