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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-03
School of Journalism.
Boston Globe.)


The fact that 100 students are al
ready enrolled IN the School OF Jouris,
alism, founded by Joseph Palitzer,and
that the work has formally begun az
4 part of the curriculum OF Coiui'i .,'
University, is a happy augury OF III.
future of this undertaking. 1t is saio
that poets, journalists and hotei Keep
ers are born and not made, but II re-
mains to be seen whether the influence
of this newly established institution
will modify the saying.
The enrolment includes not ohiy
young, men Of ambition whose knowi-
edge of practical Journalism IS siigh''
sbut likewise embraces a goocly mum
her OF men who already are in the
harness and who desire to improve
their equipment and at least grasp the
ethics of the work they have chosen.
It may always be true That men VINO
have risen from the Yanks with moths
ing but practical experience to COM
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-03
"Good Ed. Wigsin.y
Bangor News.) [

Some years ago the above words
We're written to the Bangor DAILY
News by General a. b. Farnham oil
Bangor, in appreciation of few kind
liz words which this paper had print
ed when Mr.. Wiggin retired from ac-
tive employment by the Educational
Department of Maine. When Mr.
Wiggin expressed his pleasure To
F! know what General Farnham had SAL
about him, the writer of this violated
all the rules of courtesy, and regard
less of consequences and dire penal
ties, mailed the warm letter, Whlch
General Farnham had sent to the
News-mailed it far north to the Wig
gin home in Aroostook county
And now good Ed Wiggin' has
gone. Quit the ranks of labor, been
mustered out from the ranks of the
Grand Army Of the Republic, and rests
| i'm peace by the side of his brave wife.
His season of bearing arms for the ma
lion he loved and served Faithfully, his
DAYS of writing poetry and devising
laws for a deeper and wider education
| for all Maine. his warm hand grip an'
\ his ALWAYS cheerful outlook upon life
all these are forever past. To those
| who were slightly acquainted with
| him. he may have had his faults. Pos
sibly it was an idle whim, which
/ might be exaggerated into fault, for
| good Ed Wiggin' and good sam
| Matthews" to journey from their new
/ homes in Augusta to their old homes
| in Aroostook every election day Tor
! the sole sake of voting the straight
Republican ticket. 1t was certainly
an old fashioned way-this custom OF
adhering to a belief and to practice !.
unwaveringly for year after year IL
spoke for the ingrained character OF
/ both men. 1t certified to the stun
| Maine pioneers We're made OF. The
new -fashioned eTaX of Yptipgedaalla n pq
/ often..- consists, in waiting for some
leading candidate for office to forWN,aardl.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-03
The "River of Gold" and Its Source.

At liquor dealers convention last according The Youths
Instructor speaker referring the from the liquor
traffic. said:
The river of gold flowing into the Treasury of the United States
points to its place the finances of this country and nsf its fuh
ton and existence
This river OF gold totals annually $225oooooo but the govern
expends several times that providing for the criminals
orphans ncrabes insane and pauPe produced by the traffic
From cold business therefore, existence of the liquor
traffic justified And besides, taking
from that which destroys the souls bodies of its subjects
has much better right sell its citizens physical
slavery than license traffic that destroys its patrons body
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-03

mend them will be important and per-
haps leading figures I'm the world OF
journalism; but there must also be a
worthy place for the man who sub
mits himself to the thorough training
that this school will offer.
The founder of the school was as
capable a journalist as the present
times have seen. and the fact tfat 4
man of such foresight believed an inn
portant function would be discharged
by the school is sound reason why
the most skeptical should give the in
stitution fair chance to make good.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-03

carfare both ways and current eX-
penses. before thinking about going
home to vote. &
1t was not so with Ed. Wiggin or
Sam. Matthews.
AS General Farnham wrote the SOL
der so lately deceased was Good Ed.
Wigginn from childhood to the end OF
his busy days.
Nor should this happy interchange
of mutual bouquets Sop here. for
when ED. Niggin" in his Aroostoox
home, received the clandestinely sent
letter from General Farnham, he ini-
mediately wrote back: h s5tt
i 'Itswass Asstul IKE Gps9dfrAm h hay
rhe was always saNingp5 Kind things,
about his associates" IT,, IS ra9t =
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-03

l
| Association for the control of the evil
was one based on the American Pure
| Food and Drugs act, which provides
that the amount and kind of drugs
used in a patent preparation must be
specified on the label.
And now new movement in Amer
lea, with the same object in view, is
underway. From thousands of pulpits
in all parts of the United States, fake
cures for consumption will be exposed
and denounced on tuberculosis Day,
Oct. 9th. This is part of the program
for the movement announced by the
National Association for the Study
and Prevention of tuberculosis.
Literature giving information on
fraudulent and alleged cures for
consumption will be sent to clergymen
all over the country, and an organized
crusade against the traffic in these
drugs and devices will be instituted.
The literature will be sent to minis
ters either directly from the National
Association office in New York or
through the many state and local an
ti-tubercuosis associations scattered
throughout the country. 1t is estimat-
ed that over 100000 clergymen will be
reached in this way.
Eyro,,, actioI yaanp1e o, 10 in N
, office of The National Association, it
is estimated that the volume of busi-
, ness done annually by the various
concerns who sell fake remedies for
tuberculosis amounts TO well over S15,-
, 1000 The number of these rene
, dies now being used as so-called
cures" is over 500.
Three classes of cures are distin-
guished by the National Association.
In the first class are included hun
dreds of devices and drugs which can
be bought for any sum ranging from
| ten cents to five dollars at drug
store. The second class of cures in
| etudes the institutes" professors,
or companies of doctors who for a
consideration guarantee to cure con-
sumption by some secret method of
which they are the sole proprietors.
There are nearly one hundred fifty of
these institute frauds in the United
States, cheating the people out of mil
lions of dollars annually.
In the third class of cures" are
placed q number of home made rem
edies, which either through Ignorance
or superstition have been advanced
as treatments for tuberculosis. Some
of these are onions, lemons, rattle
snake poison. coal dust, lime dust,
pigs blood, dog oil, milk "strippings."
and even alcohol.
None of these remedies will cure
consumption, declares The National
Association. No drug, gas or other
material has yet been discovered.
which, when eaten. inhaled or injected
into the system, will kill the germs of
tuberculosis without doing serious in
jury to the body. The only cure for
tuberculosis recognized by The Ma
tional Association consists of the COM
bination of fresh air, good food, and
rest taken under the direction of a
competent physician.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-03
We Can't Help Saying II
Women.


You may talk about women,
Their style and all that
But the smaller the woman
The bigger the hat.
-Yonkers Statesman.
You may talk about women,
The bold or sedate.
But the taller the woman
The shorter her mate.
Chicago Record Herald.
You may talk about women
Their airs and their graces,
But the simmer the woman
The tighter she laces.
Springfield Union.
You may talk about women,
Enhancing and sweet,
But the smaller her shoes are
The bigger her feet.
Houston Post.
You may talk about women,
The quiet or gay,
But the better her figure
The more the display.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-03
Churches to Fight Fake Cures.

Last July in London, startling hg-
ures regarding the sale ana use Oh
secret proprietary medicines and ap-
plianees were given in the testimony
of Alfred Cox, secretary of the Brit
ish Medical Association, before the
select committee of the House of Com
mons which was inquiring into the pa
tent medicine traffic. Cox stated that
the graVest examples of the injury
being done in that country by extern
siveIy advertised medicines and APP
planes were found among people
suffering from consumption, cancer
and rupture. He testified that in nu-
merous cases of these maladies worth
less remedies were tried in the early
stages of the disease. and when even
tually medical man or surgeon was
called in he was too late TO be of any
service. Frauds on the public, the
witness testified, We're prepetrated in
connection with proprietary medicines
and appliances by the use of grossly
exaggerated statements concerning
their alleged curative properties and
false statements as to the drugs used.
Some of the apparatus and articles
advertised We're frauds pure and SIM
pie. II was estimated that in the year
1908 no less than $12. SOC, 600 a sum suf-
ficient TO maintain forty thousand
hospital beds, was spent in Great
| Britain on patent medicines.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-03

which this great personal newspaper
advertiser finds himself. On another
page of this issue will be found a
summary of the charges made in the
Golfers article
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-03

Love the dollar," exclaims the
Democratic candidate for Vice Presi-
dent at Lowell. OF course, we all do,
but we don't go about offering that
sort of advice.-Boston Transcript.
Especially if We're candidates deny
ing any connection with "trustified in
terests"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-03

Deer can now be legally shot in
Maine 1t is to be hoped that deer
hunters shoot deer and not each
other.-Portland Express. ID
We trust that the foregoing intense
sentiment can't help but make the
carIess one see the error of his ways.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-03

famlileS from surrounding districts, to
pick the luscious blueperry.
DIR. ]. d. Ames of Norridgewock had
a most unusual experience with big
musk rat Monday afternoon, While
returning from Madison in his auto
mobile. He was approaching
swampy place where a little brook
crosses the highway, when he noticed
small object at one side of the road,
in state of tremendous comnotion.
Driving alongside, he quickly saw that
1t was a muskrat engaged in deadly
combat with a mink. The rat was
getting very much the worst of the
argument, being badly cut up around
the head and bleeding profusely. The
doctor stopped his car and got out, and
then the animals separated. The
mink dove into the brush and the rat
under the car. With the aid of a
stick he then sought to drive the RAJ
from under the car, but the rodent re-
sponded by climbing up into the pan
under the engine and tranmisSion.
The doctor then lifted the bonnet and
played hide and seek with the bewild-
cred animal several minutes more,
finally persuading him to return to
his natural habitat.
William H. Kennedy fish dealer on
Custom House wharf, Portland, ana
one of the best known business men
of that city, has gone out of business,
this week, and will now take rest.
OF all the men in this line of work,
Mr.. Kennedy is the veteran of the
waterfront. For 40 years he has been
engaged in the industry. During the
first 10 of those, he worked for others
and for quarter of a century he has
been in business for himself. Now
he has sold out his business to Dana
Hamilton of Custom House wharf and
the veteran dealer will take life easy
SO far as possible. THE first day I
have loafed for 40 years, he told his
friends, ava Tuesday, and they con-
graduated him on his enterprise for
four decades.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-03
Or at all banquets and dinners.

Agricultural is the popular course
among the freshmen at the u. of Nj.
this year, says the Old Town Enter
prise Back to the soil has met q
ready response. Maine is now reap
ing the harvest of forty years sowing.
The tramp of the gentleman farmer is
now heard all over the land. The
dreams of our teachers of agriculture
thirty and forty years ago are now be-
ing realized. Let the good work go
on."-Lewiston Journal.
Fine. But. since you have gone
thus far, why not say the tripping"
of the gentleman farmer?
October, Observation-Disclosures Globe.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-03

Governor Wilson declares that the
American people are not going to be
fed on words any longer. But that's
what Mr.. Wilson is now feeding 'em
with. morning, noon and night, just
that and nothing else.-Biddefofd
Journal.
And we're afraid someone is going
10 get mighty thin Selling upon that
diet as alienation Of the high cost OF
living.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-03

A French specialist recommend
crawling on all fours after meals al
an aid to digestion. 1t may do fo
private practice. but will hardly he
come popular il public 'promenades.-
indianapolis News.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-03
ESTABLISHED 1895

No notice whatever will be taken of
unsigned communications.
The journal cannot be held RESPONSE
BILE for the preservation or return OF
rejected communications.
Address all communications relating
to subscriptions and advertisements
to BURLEIGH & tFYLNT. Publish
ers, Augusta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-03

From the stirring editorials ON pro-
hibition in the Kennebec Journal VIC
are almost inclined to suggest tns
editor as successor 10 rev WI
Pringle.--Portland Press.
Pray do not strain your mighty m
tellect thinking up such possibilities
Mr. Pringle had his field OF work, We
have ours, and we hope you VIII M, INV q
yours.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-03

West Washington county has an In
dustry which bids fair to rival the
potato raising of Aroostook and the
corn raising of Kennebec. Situated
north, northeast and northwest of
CIerryfield are $4,000 acres of barren
land that is land deprived OF timber,
and not laid out for farms, and here
for years back in ever increasing
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-03

It's use Is n1ucI perverted.
Washington Evening Star.
Prof II. r. Mooney. manager and
director of Camp Cobbossee summer
school for boys. has taken up agricul-
tural pursuits and. from Tuesdays
evidence at Litchfield Fair, seems des-
tined to add this success to his other
activities. In the premium awards
there, MIR. Mooney secured a first for
Barred Plymouth Rock pullets, and a
first and a second for swine exhibited.
Mrs. Mooney, it should be remarked,
ran him a close second. with a first
for pickles in the preserves depart
ment. MIR. Mooney. in discussing the
developments of the summer, told of
the visit of Mr.. Alan r. Williams of
New York, an expert on the snake
species. who was Mr.. Moneys guest
with a large assortment of his pets in
August. Mr., Mooney stated in a
matter of fact way that he now cap
lures every snake possible, slips It
into his pocket g and takes 1t home.
In response to the Journal mans
shrug, Cobbossee's new scharmer
laughed: That's the way l used to
feel about it, but since Mr.. Williams
demonstrations | have conquered such
diversions as have my boys tMf'
Mooney always speaks of his summer
classes as his boys) and we sno~
handle them as we would any house
hold pets We all became quite able
in the snake charming line this sum
mer and posed for many photographs
with the 'mesmerized' reptiles coiled
about our necks and bodies The
reporter nervously watched Mr.. Moon
ey's pockets as he talked and, though
il may have been his imagination-or
the wind-he could see them twitcn
and roll as though already occupied to
their capacity.
Wild geese are reported to be,hyins
south, and the fact that the fiocks
seen have been reported as unusually
Iarge ones leads some OF the so-called
weatherwise folk to venture the be-
lief that Heold weather Is close az
hand. According to Captain {, =
Lewis of the coasting schooner MARY
e. Smith who came into Portland TINS
week. hundreds of geese We're slghtea
on his return from Portsmouth 70
Portland II saw several big fiocks OF
GEESE said Captain Lewis, and they
were all extremely big fioeks. Ihefe
must have been hundreds of birds &c
the westward on their way south.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-03
Maine Gossip
To Be Handled With Care.

Oh, speak the truth-perhaps you'll Sc
A light for all the nation;
But do not speak until you get
A proper invitation,
For he who volunteers to talk,
Whatever his position,
Is pretty sure his way to walk
Surrounded by suspicion.
Oh, speak the truth, and speak it out
Whenever it's demanded
But do not throw it round about
spendthrift open-handed.
Be careful of the time and place
In which it is asserted.
When reckless motives guide its pace
Its use is much perverted
Washington Evening Star.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-03
AUGUSTA LODGE DIRECTORY
AUGUSTA LODGE. NO. a.. E. q !

NJ. Stated communication Tuesday eve
ming, Oct. l. All sojourning companions
are cordially invited TO be present.
ALBERT Il. FOLSOM. w. Al.
w a JACKSON. Sec
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-03
OF New York

Life is an arrow-therefore you must
know
What mark to aim at. how TO use the
bow.
Then draw lit toethe head and let ii go.
zaaf f,at4ssss Nan Dyke. :
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-03

numbers have come men and their
families from surrounding districts, to
pick the luscious blueperry
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-03

A fiatterng force of reporters was
present at Litehfield fair. The Ken
nebec Journal man was kept busy by
requests for space in recognition OF
some feature. One solicitor, In ms
plea, declared: You ought to print II
for us. This evenings papers are
only half correct with their stories OF
what did happen made up from whas
the officials told them might happen
We receive the papers of the night be
fore at the same time we receive the
Kennbc Journal with IA hours later
news. The next night they COPY
your story of that morning. The 9th
err morning papers don't reach mere.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-03

October, Decentralization Globe.
Now, bear, deer and bull moose.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-03

Reports from Merrymeeting bay IN
divate that the ducks are very plenty,
and that the sportsmen are having
great luck The Bath Times, Oct. 1,
said. In three hours cunning on the
Bay Yesterday afternoon Robert I.
Silsby and AL. Ridley, king of the
hay. in Ridley's float shot nine grey
ducks. three teal and one bluebill. Bob
shot Two greys at one shot. They were
home by sunset. Warden Willis yes
terday visited swan sland and wit
messed pretty sight. Crack Shot
parton Of Portland was shooting ducks
over live decoys and secured IL yes
terday. He and a friend with their
wives are enjoying an outing at the
Penn Cobb cottage on the sland.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-08-23
German Musicians Poorly Paid.

The Germans like music, but they
do not want to pay for it. What they
gladly pay for is food and drink, with
free music on the side. When high
class musician plays at variety show
or in night cafe, he is looked down
on; yet these are the only places where
an orchestral player can earn decent
living. Some startling figures have
been printed in Der TURNER which
shows that it is practically impossible
for a German orchestral musician to
marry and bring up family. For a.
family of four the minimum expenses,
apart from food, are $3.50 year. The
income of an orchestral player is $3.50
a year; which leaves less than 25 cents
day for food. Americans pay mu-
sicians ten times as much as the Ger
mans do; but we, to be sure, are mere
barbarians in the eyes of the Germans.
Boston Transcript.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-08-23
NINETEEN DIE IN MINE
Explosion Occurs in Large Col
Iiery in Alabama.

At Abernant, Ala, nineteen known
negro miners were killed by IN eX-
plosion in the Abernant Coal COM
pany's large mine. Forty-siy white
men and eighteen negroes got safely
out of the workings after the blast.
Seventeen bodies have been recover
ed
The explosion occurred in entry No.
Is, 1900 feet from the surface. The
majority of the workmen were en-
gagged at a lower level, which prevent
ed greater loss of life.
1t was difficult to get assistance
after the explosion, as recent storms
have torn down all telegraph and tele-
phone wires. Horsemen rushed to
nearby mining camps summoning aid.
One horseman got into communication
with Birmingham, twenty-five miles
away, to get State NINE Inspector c..
H. Nesbitt, who arrived here late in
the afternoon.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-08-23
WOMAN ELECTROCUTED
Negress Dies in the Electric
Chair in Virginia.

At Richmond, Va, Friday, Virginia
Christian, a negress and the first wo-
man to be put to death in the electric
chair in Virginia, was executed early
in the day. Governor Mann refused
to yield to numerous entreaties for
clemency.
Virginia Christian was convicted of
a deliberate and atrociously cruel muir
der. She slew and robbed her en-
ployer, Mrs. Ida Virginia Belote, at
Hampton, March Is, 1912.
The National Association of Colored
Women, in session a few days ago at
Hampton, Va. petitioned the governor
for ilemency.
Hundreds of letters and petitions
asking Communication had been received
by Governor Mann in the last few
weeks. All, the governor said. were
sentimental and none contained facts
relative to the crime He refused to
commute the sentence
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-08-23
Sydney Smith on Music.

There is story, which we have not
been able to verify, of Sydney Smiths
once saying that he never had seen "a
more degrading spectacle than that of
500 people fiddling away about the chill
dren of Israel" AS against this unsub-
stantiated anecdote it is only right to
quote the saying recorded in his Life"
volume 1, page 442), ''if / were to be-
gin life again, would devote much
time to music. All musical people
seem to be happy; it is the most en-
crossing pursuit, almost the only in
nocent and UNPUBLISHED passion" This
is noble tribute, though the general
ization is perhaps too sweeping when
one thinks of the loneliness of Beetho-
ven, the early and tragic ends of Mo-
Fart and Schubert, of Schumann and
Hugo Wolf. London Spectator.