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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-01
LEWiSToN'S SALOONS.
Scores of Men and Women Worse
Than Wasting Best Hours of the
Day.

An evil resulting from the open sa-
looms in Lewiston as discussed by an
Auburn man, is seldom referred to by
the prohibition workers, although in
the opinion of many is greater than
the physical and moral effects upon
which the orators harp continually. 1t
is the economic side of the question
1.-THE other day l had occasion to
look for a man who WAS running n
bar room on one of Lewistons prin-
cipal streets" says this gentleman.
Not knowing where to find him. | be-
gan at the head of the street and call
.er at every dive along the street until
| found him | did not keep count OF
the number of places visited and there
were so many of them in going less
than four blocks that | could not re-
call the number. but did observe
and e4aint the people. of them, and
for the time of day the number was
shoekingly large.
..In one | counted IA: in another 81.
three of whom were women, who We're
standing at the bar crowded in with
the men. drinking their beer each with
a foot resting on the railing and an
elbow on the bar
'I.onnging about the saloons were
many men intoxicated or nearly So
Few boys We're seen, presumably be-
cause they were working, as ! have
seen many Of them drinking ut the
bars in the evening.
IN all the saloons which / visited
on one side OF the street. were proba-
hly 100 men. able bodied and capable
of earning good wages.
1.-THE point that struck me was the
loss of time to these men, To say Moth
~
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-01
Cheating Death.

tiSOStOn lfdNetcf.i
Vital statistics show that. in spite OF
the strain Of modern life. the average
life-term is increa sing. Medical men
are pretty we'll agreed that this is due
chiefly to the fact that we take better
care of ourselves than oEr foretatherS
did.
There seem to be two important fac
tors i'm this physical Improvement. We
live under better hygieEie conditions
and we take less medicine.
Old-fashioned homes may have been
romantic. and even comfortable, put
they were less healthful than modern
homes occupied by families of the same
social station. Furnaces, hot water,
ventilation, sanitary plumbing anu
garbage disposal work wonders IN
keeping strong people Welt, ana III
ena bling sick persons to recover. APP
piled knowledge of disease germs helps
to keep illness at bay, patient eau
be as we'll cared for nowadays IN an
ordinary home by an Intelligent woman
as formerly in a hospital by "A corps OF
physicians.
Naferia medica is not worshipped
as of old. The modern physician gives
give none ut all. merely promoting the
natural opera tons OF mind ana pouy.
Nearly all schools agree that the less
dope taken into system the pettei'
and drugs. once valued, are listie more
than necessary evil. Physlciahs' ~
administering a remedy for q defiilte
aiIment, fear that the cure Tor one
trouble may entail others. Ihe sell :
curative power of the body, supporter
by cheerful mentality. is emphasized
more and more.
Comfortable living quarters, nourish-
ing food, sensible clothing, exercise
sunshine, fresh air. pleasant human
associations interesting work, optimism
and the viii to live, these are the su
perlative remedies against disease ana
death.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-01

give their readers unbiased and I'M
colored news in all the departments
OF daily happenings, not excluding the
political, and most of them succeed
The minority is made all the more
conspicuous by the palpable bias with
which its own views are presented
but still more discreditahly by the in
territorial distortion of news No
newspaper can deal more 5dishonora-
bly, with its readers than to color the
news To suit individual wishes. and
for the honor of the American press
as class and institution il may be
said that the number Of these offend
crs is small though it is much larger
than the self-righteous quartette men
tened and includes some if not all OF
them
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-01
Panama Canal Construction.

The executive committee of the Per-
manent International Association of
Navigation Congresses is sending out
matter of more than passing interest
concerning great projects with which
tho world is identified OF the inter
est which the t. S. government has in
is given as indication, the arrange
ments that are being made to afford
the visiting engineers an opportunity
to study the methods of construction
that have been employed in the Pana-
ma Canal. Before the Congress con-
venes, on May 23rd, there Will be set
up for the inspection of the delegates,
expensive working models of the canal.
The first of these, which shows the
Gatun Lock, is already in Philadelphia
while the second is on the way from
tile Canal Zone. This second model
shows section of the Jock wall with
inter gate machinery. inter forcing
machine and valve and fender chain
machinery.
This model, the scale of which 1-2 in
to l # was constructed on the 18th
mus of Panama. in the shops of the
lsthmian Canal Commission and is, in
all essential features, a replica in
miniature of a section embracing the
intermediate gates of a summit level
lock of the canal. All the moving
parts are operated by constant speed
electric motors.
The lock walls are constructed of
cement mortar and certain sections
are removal to permit of IA visual ex-
animation of the valves and machin-
cry.
The mitering gates are of the
straight horizontally framed type, con-
sisting of horizontal Orders spaced
from s. to ) It. apart, vertical
system of frames and intercostals. and
double sheathing. The lower half of
the leaf forms an air chamber, subdi-
Vided by three vertical partitions. The
pressure of the leaves against each
other and against the hollow duoins is
transmitted by slightly curved metal
lie bearing plates of hard steel, which
after accurate adjustment are backed
up by babbitt metal. The position of
the main girders. frames and intereos-
ta's, as well as the arrangement of
riVets. doubling plates. etc. are indi-
Gated in the model gates, and two
panels Of the sheathing are omitted at
the top of one of the leaves To per-
nit the interior construction TO be in
Spected
The main protection against boats
damaging the gates Of the summit
locks Of the canal is a huge chain
which, when protecting the gates is
stretched across the lock just above
Inc water line and is lowered TO the
bottom Tor boats to pass over
For ordinary operation the chair is
raised or lowered by pumping water
INTO the larger or smaller cylinder. re-
spectively.
If moving ship should strike the
lender chain, the latter viii produce q
hydraulic pressure which automatical-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-01
Cowardliness of Self Doubt.

No truer words We're ever spoken
than the following from Herbert Kauf-
mans last weeks batch Of syndicated
philosophy:
Caution ceases to be n virtue
when il becomes a shackle. Con-
seFvatism eventually breeds
towards. When you lose your
nerve you're lost
IL is as true for the farmer as for
the. philosopher; for the engineer as
fer the editor. Some Of the best men
in The business have been wiped off
the map Of progress by associates who
are. always prating: BE careful"
A locomotive engineer loses his nerve
and fetires from the service with one
quarter only Of his usefulness served
because Of the whining of some asso-
ciate or officer higher M who always
secs 80 disasters in trip. to one good
result.
Some Of the brightest and best
newspaper men have had useful ca
reers ruined By an aroused "conserya-
tisrn. When a newspaper mani tells
you fhat lie has learned To be s.conser
yatiye." it means that no live news
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-01
Editorial Comment
Fines and Dividends.
lKansas CitN Timesl

tNanSdS lily llNeSt
You remember of course, that %
million dollar fine Judge Landis as
ssssed against the Standard oil COM
pany OF Indiana.
Rut dost remember q forgetful citi-
zen. why Judge Grosscup set the fine
aside ON a tcchnicalityH
Il VAS because the corporation was
capitalized for only one million dollars.
anG il was absurd and wrong and il
legal In fine it SO big sum that the
parent trust of New Jersey would have
Ia pay ft-the innocent parent trust
not being party 20 the prosecution.
And now that same little ono million
dollar standard oil company of lndi-
ana has Just recently declared Il divi-
dand.
Guess what the dividend was
Tventy-nine million dollars
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-01

J paper publisher would give him his
/. salt for his services. 1t means that
| he viii fritter away his time in weigh
| ing and critieising his own product;
come to him as the result of educa
ton. common sense and environment.
When man begins to doubt his own
honest impressions, and prefers To be
executed for having done nothing at
all. to being hung for a possible mis-
take. he should be Oslerized at once,
whether he be So 40 or %.
Only nerve Willingness TO be judged
by results of ones own efrorts) and
grit, gets "a man anywhere or makes
him worth fig to the world Caution
is all right. if one doesn't get To feed
ing his bump of caution al the ex-
pense of sense and common honesty.
No one. however great. can be quite
sure, and the longer he weighs and
balances and criticises from various
angles the farther he gets from first
God-given Inspirations A natural
critic is splendid adjunct to a fami-
ly or firm, but when critic merely
criticizes for the sake of changing
something he acts as constant dash
of cold water on the inspirations OF
those around him; he smethers ma
tural progress and deadens brilliance.
If, as Kaufman says, speed main
tains balance" no man who is con-
stantly quibbling with himself or
friends over mere detail which is of
no possible consequence when it has
gone the rounds and returns from the
supreme court as settled. can get real
balance.
Dent fuddy-duddy around all day
looking for better word or express
sion when the one first to mind is
hundred o-one- shot the best. Go
ahead and do something, even if i'll
isn't quite so bright 1t is better to
make a few honest mistakes than to
have never made anything.
If one has the courage to be willing
to pay the penalty of his own poor
judgments he will eventually find his
own measurement. The best marks
man is bound to miss some bull seyes
or stop shooting When he becomes
afraid to shoot for fear some one will
make better score, he has become
conservative"
And no man can become an EXPERT
wing shot without blazing away
many times, to form the habit of
throwing up his gun" when the game
rises. Only rersistency wins efficien-
cy.
Meanwhile. don't fritter away your
braincels and Gods time by hemming
and having and hagglng, hut go
ahead and do something with mind
fully made up to stand the consequent
ces of your own mistakes. That is
nerve" and honesty. and sportsman
ship.
Again Kaufman says: A running
wheel rights itself If "a wheel is al
ways trying TO discover the most
graceful wobble it will never get far
ahead or make a clean, straight track
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-01
Indecent.

\ young assistant district attorney,
while conducting Il case wherein one
woman had called another unmention-
able names, put the plaintiff on the
stand. and directed her TO tell Just
what the accused had said
But | Just can't she gasped in
surprise; why it's not fit for any de-
cent person to hear
well, then" he replied. cheerfully,
Just step up and whisper it to His
Honor. The Hampton Magazine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-01
Monday, April I. 1912.

TO stimulate undergraduate interest
in debating plans are being made at
Harvard for triangular debate be-
tween the seniors. juniors and sophie
mores 1t is gratifying fact that
while our Maine colleges cannot eX-
pect to rival the great universities,
like Harvard, in athletics, they can
usually drub them good and plenty in
debate.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-01
Loss of Appetite.

A person that has lost appetite has
lost something besides--vitality vigor.
tone.
The way to recover appetite and all
that goes with ii is 10 take Hoods
Sarsaparilla-that strengthens the
stomach, perfects digestion and makes
eating a pleasure
Thousands take it for spring loss of
appetite and everybody says there's
nothing else so good as Hoods.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-01
Voices Of the Press.

1t occurs to the nennebec Journal
that the law can be enforced in Wa
tefville-' when the officials are all
away 1t might be good scheme to
discharge the officials and give Mr..
Pringle a blanket commission. 1t
would certainly save the city money,
and ii would go far to retrieve the
citys good name-Portland Press.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-01

IT sometimes seems as if the limits
of the law were continually being ex-
tended to meet our growing business
rcquircments.-Puck
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-01

Katie, / can't find any of the
breakfast food" 20 hevings. mem,
must of took it for the sawdust To put
ON the ice on the pavement. mem. -
Baltimore American.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-01

Lady Cooks proposed law to give
every woman one-half of her hus-
bands pay is the greatest blow struck
fer the economic freedom of mere man
since Tom jefferson dashed off the
Declaration of Independence.-Was
ington Post.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-01

a significant fact overlooked by the
Maine Democratic fihaneiers. says the
Lewiston Journal. is as follows: When
Fernald entered into office. Jan. l.
1909 the amount of State tax due the
State and available for the expenses
of that year were LOGS, 5gS.2S When
Gov. Fernald retired from office he left
to Plaisted a balance due on State tax
easily To be collected and available for
Plaisted Of $1,771.649.6S or an increase
of revenue amounting TO $133. 05l 40.
And this is what the Democracy calls
leaving the State with credit entirely
exhausted by Republican wastefulness
and extravaganza" Add to that the
1850, 900 of work actually done by the
Fernald administration and in relief OF
the Plaisted administration in State
Insane hospitals, twhere patients had
ben sleeping on cots in the corridors)
the $350,000 State capitol erected with
economy and good taste, the farms
purchased and the public institutions
erected and you have an adequate an
swer to this clap trap. There never
was more honest and judiciously
beneficial administration than that OF
1903, 10.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-01
Maj Gossip

In q Commonwealth avenue. Boston,
apartment lives."Jennie Allen" (Grace
Donworth) VINO. once upon time.
existed down in Maehias where there
wasn't much of anything but fishy
smells with canning of the eatahles
and pulyerizing of the non eatables
for fertilizers. Now, when this Ma
chias girl wanted anything she usually
reached out after ii. so the inimitable
Jennie Allen was created. Her letters.
from the first, have left a brilliant
trail. The friend To whom the first
letters were written showed them To
a friend. who showed them II Mark
Twain. He borrowed them and car
ried them with him Ell his lecture
tours reading them for cncores and
never suspecting that they We're not
written by the eramped fingers of one
of those thin ami gaunt, whole souled
ana deephearted. Jennie Aliens OF sea-
port Maine. When he learned that
they were bogus gust an escapade of
the wlloWy CRIB he insisted that they
be published. And one bright morning
Grace Donworth woke up to find her
self famous. And she likes the feel of ii.
For the sort of fame that Jennie Al
len brought spells gowns of voile with
swishy Innings and big black hats
with willowy plumes and a fiat on Com
monwealth avenue with an ebony boy
to serve afternoon tea from glistening
silver trays. And il means member
ship in uItra-ultra clubs and the re-
ceiviHg eft exclusive little invitations
to exclusive little funeheons II meet
exclusive great big persons. And it
means that when Edith Mendall-Tay
Tor Spear comes back from England
she brings with her 4 personal greet
ing to Grace DonWorth from K. {.
Lehman of the staff of Punch, who
asserts that the Jennie Allen Letters
are the best recent expression Of
American humor that he has seen.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-01

There has been organized at Ban
gor a corporation for charitable and
benevolent purposes, the object being
to create and maintain at that city an
orphans home for Eastern Maine
similar to the Saint Elizabeth Orphan
Asylum of Portland. The name of
the corporation is the Eastern Maine
Orphans Home.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-01
ODD FELLOWS HALL.

ASYLUM LODGE NO. 70. REGULAR
meeting Friday evening at 7,3o o'clock.
iefidtS April 5. Work in Second degree
Q. T.. FARNHAM. N. c.
Il. +. WESTON, Sec.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-01

III the spring of 1911 as part of a
rotation experiment the Maine Agri-
cultural Experiment Station planted Il
two acre plot With sweet corn at High
moor Farm. Owing Ia the great mum
bers ot wire worms present, many Of
the seeds We're so badly eaten that
they failed to terminate and many of
the plants showed such feeble growth
that only partial stand was obtained.
This circumstance gave lis an excel
lent opportunity to experiment under
Maine conditions with various meth
DDS which have been recommended for
the determination of wire worms in
the past as welF as to try out newer
methods The upper part Of the field
was divided into ~ plots. each feet
wide by 294 feet long. the lower part
into % plots feet wide by lou feet
long ON the 25th of July. the few
stunted plants still remaining on the
upper part of the field were hoed down
and the plots without previous Plew-
ing were planted with one row of un-
treated grains as a check portion and
rows coated with tar and paris green
or arsenate OF lead. other plots We're
planted with Canada field peas and
handfuls of tobacco dust slaked lime
or standard inseetide placed in each
hill. The results Of these experiments
showed that in all cases neither the
insecticides nor the repellants We're
in warding off wire worms
attack In the cases where the poi
sons We're sufficiently repellant. the
insects waited until roots and sprouts
and then ~destroyed them.
These results We're also confirmed bs
experiments. Expert
ments along these and Other lines for
wire worms are planned
fnr 1ql2
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-01

The effort of the Aliens and Their
gunner To make terms with the State
of Virginia ON condition of surreu-
dering adds touch of grim comedy tt
an Incident unparalleled in the history
of administering law in any land
Philadelphia Press.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-01
JePHTHA ENcAMpmENr NO. 3.

Meetings at $50 o'clock every second and
fourth Tuesday.
w. l.. HAYDEN. C. p.
c. L. STEWART Scribe
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-01

The Bath Times strikes a respond
ing chord when it remarks, "A
Granger at the Pomona meeting yes
terday set out to prove that the farm,
not the man, made success. and when
he finished he had only succeeded in
proving the contrary. The result was
of course inevitable"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-01
BETHIEHEM LODGE NO az 3 &

\. NJ. Stated communication, Monday
evening, April J. Work in T. c. degree
GEORGE a. COOMBS, w. NJ
CHAS. u. MHITE. Sec.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-01
ROSE OF SHARON CHAPTER. NO.

Is, o. T. S. Stated meetings the first
Wednesday evening OF each month at
80. All members sojourning in the city
are invited to attend
ELIZABETH T, MERRILL, w. NJ.
ELIZABETH A. THOMPSON, Sec
m-w-f,tf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-01
AUGUSTA LODGE DIRECTORY

AUGUSTA LODGE, NO. 141, r. G. A.
NJ. stated communication Tuesday eve
ming, April ,. All sojourning companions
are cordially invited to be present
ALBERT T.. FOLSOM. w, NJ.
w. a. JACKSON. Sec
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-01

Women are not throwing their hats
into the ring, but they are throwing
their money into nats--without wait
ing for n call from seven little gov
errors. kansas City Journal
j. Pierpont Morgan has been eX
changing compliments with Lima Ca
Valieri. OF course he is rich enough
10 take such risks as that.-Houston
Post.
No suffragette has yet grown so cX-
cited rs to announce that she Will
throw her Easter bonnet into the ring.
Washington Star.
1t seems that there will probably be
no congressional investigation Of the
baseball trust, which viii doubtless be
"a great disappointment 20 the fans
whose clubs end in the second divis-
n.~-Indianapolis News.
Projectors of dance halls do not
view with favor the proposition to
have dances in the public school
buildings.-Portland Express.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-01
CANTON AUGUSTA. NO. 9. .. M

KeEuIar meetlng every third Tuesday a
8 O'Clock.
w b. GETCHELL, Cant.
l.. c. HUGHES Clerk
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-01

CAPITAL AEkiE NO. 1860, E. O.
Eagles, meets In f. o. j.. Hail. 27g Water
st, first and third Monday OF each
month at s o'clock.
o. II. Anderson. Pres
GEO. w. JENKINS. Sec.
IN n3n m-w-ft ~
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-12-06
NEW EVENING FABRICS
FASHIONS LAST WORDS AS TO
cLINGING MATERIALS.
Apparel Must Be Light, Beaded Nets
Being the Heaviest of All Wear
That Has the Approval Of
the Designers.

Qualities of rich material. softly
draped and wound around the figure,
compose the new evening gowns,
which are exquisitely lovely-and the
despair of the amateur dressmaker.
Almost any woman with q knack for
sewing could cut and hang one Of the
short-waisted Directoire gowns which
have been in vogue during the past
two seasons, and it was not a difficult
matter to add a soft. dragging little
train-round or pointed. But the new
costume. combining satin. brocade.
fur, metallic net or chiffon, and much
lace, is another thing entirely, and
skillful hands are required to con-
coct from all these contrasting stuffs
a gown that shall combine exquisite
simplicity of line and the perfect
grace that hides. yet reveals the fig
ure beneath.
Fortunately, the new evening fab
RIGS are exceedingly soft and clinging,
and even a gown of velvet brocade
draped over a petticoat of satin, does
not weigh more than a half dozen
pounds, while the lace and satin dane
ing gowns may be measured in weight
by ounces. The beaded nets are the
heaviest of all the new evening fabrics