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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-19

burden to anybody. l was humble.
You get that way when you've been
knocked fiat on your back.
| had never tried to sell anything in
MY life. but ! took out a suitcase full
Of this firms soap and began to peddle
u little around our neighborhoed. |
wasn't strong enough to do much walk
ing and l didn't have much heart fer
the business, but / made a try.
Then l made the discovery that
mas changed my whole life
discovered that / had the fac
ulty for selling goods. The soap
| was peddline was combination Of
fer of six assorted brands. including a
washing powder, for quarter. | knew
so little of soap prices that the outfit
looked like a bargain to me. After
wards l discovered that it WAS nothing
of the sort. but firmly believing that it
Was, I went out and made housewives
believe with me.
The funny part about It vas that l
did like it. | enjoyed it. This naturally
increased my efficiency as pedier-
salesman.
That summer my wife and / did
something desperate. We took cur va
cation on the road. We went from one
small town to anuther-seliing soap
and premiums. We came back in the
fail and | was feeling better than
ever had done before. We had had a
jolly summer and | had astonished the
firm with my success as a salesman
Then they made me the proposition
that has led 10 prosperity for me- They
offered To establish branch store
they have them all over the country
in Wisconsin town where | had been
particularly fortunate in placing their
goods, and to put me in charge.
| jumped at the offer. | threw my
self into the business with the zest of
a boy entering a new game. 1t was
tun for me. / enjoyed it. l was in the
right kind of work at last. And | made
good. as any man can do IL he gets into
the right business.
There are always plenty of ups and
downs in this life. Next time you are
down don't let the blue devils get YOU.
Keep plugging away. Your hard luck
may be the means of changing your
career rs favorably as my breakdown
did -Spokesman's Review.
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THE WRONG KIND OF WORK.
If Forethought and Prediction
Choose Your Lifework Success Will
Follow


In the first place 1 got into the wrong
line of work, and it nearly killed me
before | discovered my error. / began
working at 16 An uncle who was in
the real estate business had a large
circle of acduaintances among
the architects of the city.
Il can get you a job as office boy in
one Of those Offices" he said. 'sThen
you can study nights. and after while
you'll become an architectural drafts
man. That's a fine line for young
man to start in"
He was right. too; it is a fine line for
a young man To start in, If he is the
right man. ! wasn't the right man.
| began work as Office boy in the
Office of a prosperous architect with the
biggest sort of ambitions in my mind.
TO become an architectural craftsman
looked like the top to me then: and it
was toward that goal / set my aim. At
the end of year | had grown too
large to be an Office boy aud was pro-
Noted to act as clerk half of the day
IN the Office and to spend the rest of
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-19
BLOND AND BRUNEI
Virtues and FaiIings of Each Have
Been Differently Understood.


TO the question which probably will
never be settled. or--to Use a favorite
expression in the Talmud will not be
settled before 'the latter day" the day
OF Judgment, belongs that as to wheth-
er the blends or the brunets command
the Preference; for individual tastes
differ on this point. Place a man be-.
tween a beautiful blond and. a beautf-
ful brunei, and he will find himself in
the same predicament as Buridan's
famous ass, between two bundles of
hay, not Knowing which to choose. In
deed, from whatever viewpoint we
study the question we find 1t impossi-
Bile TO decide in favor of one type. as
against the other. and if pressed for a
solution we could only-even as the
little girl who, when asked which of
her parents she liked the better. de-
elared she liked both better-answer
with the paradox that both the blonde
and the brunei command the prefer
enee.
That this is the only conclusion To
be arrived at will be best seen from
the following few statements Of au-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-19

the day with the firms architectural
craftsman.
My ambition kept driving me along.
! studied at night and practieed every
spare moment that L had. In two
Years was assistant to one of the old
or men This older craftsman warned
ME occasionally against the white heat
application to the work that L was
was guilty Of
l didn't pay much attention to what
he said 1t is a pretty hard thing to
slow down young man who has got
started in a line of work ne is inter-
estee in.
At the end of four years I saw the
first Of my ambitions realized; l had
become d full-fedged craftsman Then
/ got married. The salary was plenty
Mig enough to keep two. and 1 saw
nothing but increase in promotion in
the future.
All the time that l was practically
killing myself at that work which
shouldl never have been in, ] was en-
tifcly ignorant of any unusual strain.
lasted II years in all from the time
| started in as office boy. BY that
time | was a fair, but not a brilliant
craftsman and / had entirely wrapped
myself up in ms work. ! knew nothing
else, and had no thought of ever VEN
turing into another line of work.
We hadn't saved much money during
these years. for my position in the Of
fee vas a life job, if l could do the
work, and the thought never entered
my mind that / ever should fail /
couldn't imagine such a condition. And
then the crash came.
was getting up one morning when
all of a sudden the world turned black
TO me and / felt myself falling.
That was the way the lights went out
fer me for a while. When | was safely
back in the land of the living the doc
tor told me several things.
You are the oldest man for 2S years
old that I've ever SEEM" said he. do
You know that you're developing arte-
| rio sclerosis" Your optic nerves are
| Worn 10 a Irazzle. Your heart pumps
| like man of 60, Your stomach ai-
gests about half of the food you put
into it. You've simply come to the
point where you've got to STOP
"Stop WHAT" | asked.
Work" said he i've been inquir-
ing about you. You are about as much
fitted for the kind of work you've been
doing as d horse is fitted for flying.
You've got big. bony body that
| Graves activity and for the last u years
your growing years, too you've been
sitting still on high stool most of the
time. You've been worrying all this
| time, besides You are fine example
of physical and nervous degeneration
through wrong living"
But what will do, doetor?" / asked
Get out in the air and use your
body. your heart. your lungs-some-
thing besides your eyes and mind or
-''
or what?'
Leave a young widow behind YOU"
said he.
After all my fine hopes here l was
apparently doomed to be a failure
My %ife had a brother who was stock
clerk of a big premium soap house
by Georgei@ he said To me, "the
only thing | can think of for vou might
he 70 take one of our bargain outfits
. and sell soap from house to house"
My Wife laughed at the idea. didn't.
! | was willing 20 do anything decent te
make living. All ] hoped for was the
chance TO save myself from becoming a
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-19
WORDS FROM HOME.
Statements That May Be Investi gated
Testimony of Augusta Citizens.

When an Augusta citizen comes to
the front. telling his friends and
neiShbors of his experience, you can
rely on his sincerity. The statements
of people residing in far away places
do not command your confidence.
Home endorsement is the kind that
backs Doan's Kidney Pills. Such tes-
timony is convincing. Investigation
proves it7true. Below is statement
of an Augusta. resident. No stronger
proof Of merit can be had.
c. J. House, 10 Melville ST, Au-
gusta, Me-. says: 1.-THE public state
ment given by me several years ago
about Doans, kidney Pills was COR
rect in every particular and am glad
to confirm it,. l have given Doan's
Kidney Pills a thorough test on a
number of occasions and they have
been SO effective that am glad to tell
about them. i got Doans Kidney
Pills at Willis r. MPartridge's Drug
Store. hope my statement will help
other sufferers from kidney COM
plant"
For sale by all dealers. Price 50
cents. y Foster Milburn Co, Buffalo,
New York. sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-D oan's-a and
sssissSIsff - sias . aelfste
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"slupo" Beats Bloody Razor and All

Fuss no more with bloody knives and
razorS-with Shiny salves and sticky
sticking plasters, Bother no more with
bulky straps, cotton wads, cloth dough-
nuts and similar nusances! No more
need adding insult to Injury.
Foot-torture days are Overt Praise be
to Bingo! Great, wonderful, Corn-con-
quering Bingoi Worst eorns quickly
yield to its whitening touch. Intiamma-
ton and pain stop "as If by magicr' No
harm TO normal flesh Corn or callous
just fades away-you peel it off, cast 1t
from your sight-foot trouble then Is
merely memory
Make no mistake. If pestered with
corns. buuions. cailouses, warts-sever-
ally or eoiiectively-it's BINGO you
want. There isn't anything lust as
good
At druggists. 25c. or direct upon re-
ceipt of price, by Dennison pharmaca1
CO., III No. Dearborn St, Chicago, H.
Sold In this city by. BowditcI: Webster
n Coz G. H. Beane, 12s Wattse At, Gar
diner. Ne.
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KENNEBEC.
SIDNEY.


Mr. and Mrs. Abbott Morrison and
family Of WatcrvilIe passed Sunday
with his brother. Frank Morrison.
Bertraln Melvin of Waterville is
working for w. b. Manter.
John Tilton who has been visiting
= his son IN Portland for several weeks,
returned home, Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIII Rae of Boston.
Mass, are passing a few DAYS with
his parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin
Rae.
Mrs Jennie Grey is visiting friends
in Braintree, Mass.
Mrs. q. w. Manter has gone TO Bow
doinham to visit her daughter
Merton Sawtelle and Leon Hewitt
of East Winthrop passed Sunday with
the formers sister, Mrs. III. A. Cas-
sidy.
George A. Tilton and Miss Lydia
James were united in marriage.
Thursday, June 10. by Rev. William
Pettigrew of Oakland
BELGRADE.
Miss Effie Bickford of Riverdale- on
Hudson. \. Y, is passing a two weeks
vacation at her old home here.
Still raining, cold and wet. Many
crops destroyed by the frost. Much
ground has been replanted
b. +. Fairbanks of East Mt Vernon
was calling ON friends in town, Fri
day.
The Ladies' Aid will meet with Mrs.
Alma childs. Wednesday. June ~ Ii
stormy, the first fair day.
Rev Mr.. Kearney of North Au5
gusta win hold services at the Old
South church, Sunday. June %. at 3
o'clock.
READFiELD.
A two-seated wagon. containing
Daniel Lawton, Miss Cora Mills, Han
nah Clayton and Miss Lawton, stu
dent at the Maine Wesleyan semin-
ary.. met with a serious accident
about p. NJ, near the post office at
Kent's Hill The horse took fright
at aHghutoiiobile. ovettTning the wa
gon. throwing the occupants out. Mr..
Lawtqn;s les ives IfoSen and, Miss
Mlls3M1s scratched about the face
DERGT--Miss Leila Davis. North
Aubbrp was the Saturday and Sunday
guestHof Mrs. E. A. Leeman
Charles Bickford. New GLOUCESTER,
came. ifiday, TO pass vacation atasiie
homie Of his parents.
Mrs D. w. Kensiil, Portland Game,
Friday, to visit her sister. Mrs. j. e.
Denton. -
notwithstanding tiie@rainy Sunday,
large Congregation assembled at the
Smith aren1orial ci3ufch FOR the OBJ
servancc Of tlrAdfen's Day. A fine
program was presented. the ehildren's
parts wen taken, and the music. con-
sistipg Of a select choir. and songs by
the .children.s especially fine. Miss
Iyetta Royal presided at the organ.
The church decorations were beautiful,
with a4profusion OF flowers and ever
green's The pastor. Mr.. Beiyea. gave
an appropriate andJ interesting adj
dress. The pastor is 1912 graduate
from Maine Wesleyan school. Kent's
Hill. preparatory to higher grade for
ministerial work in the Methodist
Episcopal, church. Many of the Sun
day school children had the pleasure
of "a ride in NJ. S. Collins new Ford
car as lie made several trips to and
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-19
KENNEBEC JOURNAL

This Is purely an educational campaign To anpre-
clate this great book need be church Ineui-
Der or q religious man or woman Tt should be
available Tor Es ERYONE and often referred To and
read here and there the most interesting OF ali
books--the book which has governed the develop
neit OF the worlds civilization. No matter how
many Bibles you own, you need this one as its
pictures vivify the Bible MISUNDERSTANDING IL q
= present, living interest.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-19

to every reader Of this paper who presents six edu-
cauonal certificates such printed daily on am
otter page. together with the stated ainoInf. that
covers the necessary EXPENSE items Including cierx
hire cost Of packing, checking. factory
etc, etc.
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: Childrens day was observed at the
Christian sunday school. June 10.
Mrs. Fred Bakers mother and sister
from Belfast visited her over Sunday.
Rev. Ralph Kimball of Oakland Wis
tied his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. F.
Kimball a few days, last week
Mrs. Georgia Libbey and Mrs. Elmira
Strout of Gardiner are visiting rela-
lives In town.
Mrs. Lillian Drake has gone to Ev-
erett. Mass, for two weeks. Her son,
Aubrey. viii Join her there as soon as
Hebron Academy closes.
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JOURNAL WANT ADS.
BRING SURE RESULTS.
TRY ONE AN5 sEE.
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WINDSOR.

Saturday, June Is, was observed as
Children's day by Windsor Grange, about
50 school children being in attendance
also several too young to be classed as
scholars. In the forenoon the larger
boys enjoyed baseball playing and other
games. The grange was called to order
at l015 A. NJ, and the Third and Fourth
degrees conferred upon three candidates.
At the noon hour the children were
served at the first table, and the way
the Strawberries and other food disap-
peared caused some of the older ones To
fear that the supply would run short be-
fore their turn came, but generous
amount had been furnished and about
165 people We're satisfied. In the after
noon the exercises were in care of the
superintendent, Mrs. Frank Hall. The
program consisted of music recitations
and dialogues, by pupils from all the
schools in town. very large and
attractive display of drawings, maps.
essays and other school papers was
shown upon the walls; much credit is
due Mrs. Hall and the teachers for the
success of the occasion.
NORTH-The Ladies' Union will
meet with Mrs. Matte Pierce, Wednes-
day. June 10 1t is DESTROYS to finish
some work at this meeting which has
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-24
UNCLE SAM AS STUMP FULLER.
Idaho Harware Man Says Govern
ment Should Hep to Clear Lands.

Spokane, Wash.-H. L. Thomason
of Standpoint, Idaho, delegate at the
yearly meeting of the Pacific North
west Hardware and Implement Deal
ers' association, interested many Wis
itors from various parts of the Pa
cific slope and intermountain country
in plan to have the federal govern
ment assist in clearing logged-off
lands in the west. He said: "The
cost of clearing cut-over timber land
is high, and on that account it is diff
ficult to induce settlers and prospec-
tive home builders to go into the dis
tricts. The government makes large
appropriation TO rthe opening of riv-
ers and the reclamation of lands, as
it should. and We who live in the tim
ber districts thing it also should give
similar aid in the, clearing of valuable
lands now studded with ~stumps, but
adapted to the highest form of agri-
culture. II would benefit the entire
country and provide low priced lands
for thousands now crowded in cities"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-24
LOVE IN EP|GSAMS
BY FATHER VAUGHAN.
Famous London Priest Urges Society
People OF New York 10 BE More
Faithful In Obedience to Conscience

New York.-Father Vaughan of
London spoke in the Church of st.
Francis avier to an audience so great
that people stood in the aisles of the
big building. The automobiles of
many society people were parked out
side. His subject was Love" He
urged a more faithful obedience to
conscience, which so often urges that
We put away the book which is not
good for our spiritual welfare; that
whispers to women, do not dress so
decollete-it is not good for the men
who are around you, and remon-
strates with us against the careless
use of cameras With which so many
people take moving pictures of their
own creation" that are not uplifting.
His sermon was full of epigrams,
some of which follow:
Strongest Thing i'm Life.
Love is the greatest, the grandest
the sweetest and strongest thing in
life"
Man without love is not a man.
Woman without love is already
dead
Love is so important that if you
die without it you go to hell With
it you go to heaven
"A man may bring his bride to the
altar and show her his multi-millions
giving her worldly power, but if she
is true wife and cannot command
the recesses of his heart, it all goes
for nothing"
What "a wonderful thing! Why
did God send you, my Catholic
brethren. to this queer place called
Life, with all its terrible anxieties
and troubles? To grow a little love
fire at which He might warm this
earth"
"All love is borrowed from God.
There is no such thing as love that
has not descended"
children know that God Is Love.
I asked a 5-year-old, How do you
love God?' She opened her arms wide
So, she said
"He left His throne and died upon
the cross-His arms stretched out
like the little child's. He says, Look
at these arms. Does any one love
you more? Greater love hath no
man."
"If you have fallen away-like a
child fallen in the dust, who runs
back for mother to kiss away the
tears-you will find God is just like
that mother"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-24
LOVETT FOR BIG CANAL;
SAYS ROADS WILL GAIN
Head of Hartman System FOreSees
Great Boom i'm Traffic on Pana-
mas COmDIefiOn


Galveston. Tex.-Robert S. Lovett,
head of the Hartman system, who
is touring the lines in Texas, severely
criticises the enormous appropriations
made by the government for inland
waterways as waste of funds. He
says it is absurd to talk about the
government appropriating 100000
for these projects, which he asserts
are dead for all time. Railroads are
far better than these inland water
ways and canals" Lovett said, "and
in the long run are far the cheapest
method of transportation"
Speaking of the Panama canal,
President Lovett denied most emphat-
ically that any of the railroad sys-
TENS with which he was connected
had spent one dollar in opposing the
canal He said this would apply al
so to the big interests backing the
railroads he represents.
Though appreciating the canal will
create competition for the railroads" {"
he said. lit will benefit the railroads
and I'll tell you why.
ITO a certainty the canal will bene-
fit California, where we have more
: track than in any other state. The
canal will unquestionalbly benefit
Texas and the whole Southwest
'If it benefits all this section it is
bound to benefit the railroads and
we have not and will not do any
thing to hinder it's early completion
and operation"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-24
LOST $500, 900 IN A DAY.
Heavy Gambling by Second Husband
of King IeOp0d's Morganatic Wife.

OF King LeOp0d'S Morganatic Wife.
Paris.-To such an extent has gamb-
ling spread in Paris and the French
provincial resorts frequented by AM
ericans that the Chamber of Deputies
has decided to take up the matter and
divert some of the millions thus
squandered into the national treas
ury.
At a single club, scarcely a step
from the Place de rOpera, it is stat
ed, during the year just ended no less
than $100,000,000 was risked on the
turn of the cards at baccarat, and
the city where nearly as much is
staked annually.
Baccarat is responsible for the di-
vcrce which is now pending between
Baroness Vaughan, the morganatic
wife of the late King of the Belgians.
and her second husband, 1t is said
that when her friends told the Bar
oness that her husband was fond of
baccarat she replied.
Let him play a million. 1t won't
natter
At the end of a very brief period,
however. she was forced to put a stop
to it, as her husbands losses at the
card table are said to have reached
100000 in a single day, and to have
threatened to swallow up the fortune
left her by King Leopold, the actual
amount of which has never been re-
vealed
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-24
ETHEL BARRYMORE Is
EXPECTING NEW HEIR
Actress. Who Is Mrs. Russell Girls
void Colt in Private Life. Is said
to BE Preparing for Interesting


TO BE Preparing for Interesting
Event.
New York.-Her intimate friends
whisper that Mrs. Russell Griswold
Colt Miss Ethel Barrymore) will
make her husband very proud and
happy again.
The Colts first born, boy, came
to bless them in December, 1909, and
mother and father have been abso-
lutely devoted to him. Mrs. Colt has
been with the little chap as constant
iy as her duties to the stage have
permitted.
Miss Barrymore and Mr.. Colt We're
married early in March, 1909, at Hyde
Park, near Boston. He is the son of
Colonel Samuel Pomeroy Colt, pres
ident of the United States Rubber
company, who was delighted with the
match.
When Mrs Colt was playing in
Los Angeles last July there were ru-
mors that she would seek a divorce.
She returned here and cary in Au-
gust Mr.. Colt and she went to live
at their home at Mamaroneck, n. Y.
Both denied most positively. and as
it proved, most truly, that any mis-
understanding existed between the m.
Miss Barrymore is now playing in
"a Slice of Life" and cousin Kate
at The Empire theater here.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-24
SPONGE SEwED IN WOUND.
Woman Patients Resultant Suit May
Reach Illinois Supreme Court.

Springfield, Ill.-The Alleged action
of a surgeon in sewing up a sponge
in a woman upon whom he had per-
formed a surgical operation is the
basis of a suit which may reach the
Illinois supreme court.
A petition for a writ of sertiorari to
bring the case from the appellate
court of this district was filed in the
supreme court in the case of Carrie
A. Smith VS. DR.. Ernest Mammen of
Mclean county.
Mrs. Smith alleged that through
malpractice on the part of DR.. Mann
mne, a physicians sponge was sewed
up in her while she lay unconscious
on the operating table.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-24

their search for a third person. An
examination indicated that the girl
was attacked by her stepfather and
one theory is that third person shot
the stepfather and accidentally killed
the girl at the same time.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-02-24
KANSAS MYSTERY IN DOUBLE
KILLING Is PARTLY SOLVED
Examination of Body of Clara Belle
SticlIney Shows That Step-Father
Attacked Her

Topeka, Kan.-That John ]. Rick
els shot Clara Belle Stickney. aged
IA, his stepdaughter, to death and
then turned the weapon on himself
Is the theory of officers working on
the dual tragedy on Rickels farm.
but they admit this theory does not
satisfy all the elements in the mys-
terry.
An examination of the mans bat
tered head revealed the presence of
shot and powder burns. His cap
was found thirty feet away from
where he fell and between it and his
body were bits of hair and blood
spots, as if carried there by the explo-
sion of the gun. Only one recently
fired shell could be found, however.
The officers have not given up