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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-26

Mrs. c. H. Howard entertained her
whist club, Thursday afternoon, at her
home. q Union street The club is
composed of ladies from Augusta
where Mrs Howard formerly lived.
The afternoon was rdelightfully passed,
and the games were full of interest.
Refreshments We're served.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-26

Mrs. John Evans brother. Harold
Bates, who has been visiting at her
home, for some time past has gone
TO Nassalboro, where he has accepted
a position as assistant agent with the
Maine Central.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-26

Mr.. and Mrs. H. S. Webster, Miss
Martha Webster, Mrs. b. W., Partridge
ana Miss Annie Bailey and others
went to Portland, Thursday, to attend
the opera st55'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-26
Advertised Letters.

Women-MeElroy. Mrs. Elma; Nc
lnnis. Mrs. Lucy; Smith. Mrs May
Weeks, Miss Edna. Williams, Mrs.
Clara. ,.gaxi
Men-Brewn, Austin: Gibson, Leon
H.; Hall, john Miller, Robert; Smith.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-26

Good for the Farmer and You Too.
Call at Walter d. Spaulding's In.
surance Agency and learn how you
can insure your farm property on the
installment Plan, it's the best yet.
jan13dtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-26

Harold G. Wood went to Boston,
Wednesday. for few DAYS business
trip, while there he will look up some
of the newer songs for the minstrel
show to lac given by the Halloween
Firemen's Association, Feb. %
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-26

President H. T. Nudge of the Rock
Island system, Wednesday night. at
Chicago denied a rumor that the man
agement of the road was planning to
acquire an interest in the Denver &
Rio Grande and Western Pacific
lines
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-26

The temperature in Halloweli,
Thursday morning, ranged from 26 to
30 degrees below zero and was deeid-
eddy the coolest morning of the winter.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-26
HhLLOWELL,
John B. Hubbard National
Relief Corps InstallS,
Frank Leroy Poo|er EnIists in
United States Army.
Mrs. C. n. Howard Enteriains al
Whist, Thursday Afternoon.

Some of the younger set were out
snowshoeing, Thursday. but they found
travel rather difficult sport. owing TO
the condition of the snow.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-26

f. w Morrell and Miss Edith Nor
rel went to Portland. Thursday, to
attend the annual meeting of the
Maine Press Association.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-26

Mrs Fred Danforth and daughter
Eleanor went, Thursday, to Norridge-
Wock, where Friday evening, Miss
Eleanor will give reading.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-26
LOCAL NOTICE.

Tickets for THE Colonies Maid"
are on sale at Beane's drug store
Jaekson.s drug store and the s. and
Decent store. ian25d5t
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-26

Ray Eastman who has been engag-
ed in forestry work for the State, has
gone to Rhode Island. where he is TO
be engaged III the same work.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-26

Three cars are being loaded with
potatoes at the Maine Central freight
depot a quantity of hay and lum-
Der is also being shipped
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-26
LOCAL NOTICE.

Be Just to Your Family and Self.
Don't wait until fire has burned you
out and with aching heart wish you
had insured. Do ii now The cost of
insurance is small the satisfaction is
great. Walter ID. Spaulding's Agency
assures YOU lowest prices and prompt
settlements. jan26eodtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-26

Walter Grover, recently of Hart
land, who has been the guest of friends
here, the past week, went, Thursday.
to Portland. where he is to locate.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-26

Mrs. John Whitmore left, Friday,
for Bath ON visit to friends in that
city and Brunswick.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-26

Mrs. j. ". Robinson left, Friday, for
Boston on visit to relatives and
friends
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-26

Albert Belanger went to Boston,
Thursday. for few days visit.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-26

A Journal want ad. will serve
you in finding buyer who wants
who NEEDS-that horse and
carriage Cor used furniture, or
machinery, or clothing. or office 2
fixtures). and who, for exactly g
that reason, will pay you a fair
cash price.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-26
GARDINER.

The mercury was down to 20 below
zero, Thursday morning.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-26

Mrs. U. T. Stone, who has ben the
guest of friends in this city and Farm
ingdale. returned, Thursday. To Bos-
ron
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-26

Ihe Ladies Aid of the Methodist
church will meet, Friday afternoon.
with Mrs. f. S. Smith. Vine street
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-26

John Wight, the veteran baggage
master at the Maine Central passen-
ger station, is i'll at his home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-31
THE ST. NICHOLAS OF JAPAN
Reverence for Jizo, the Children's
 Friend and Protector
From the Christian Herald


 Among the Buddhists In Japan 1t h be- lieved that the souls of children go after death to Sui-no-ke-w Cthe stony river bed) and there they remain until they reach maturity under the care of Jizo- bosatsu, who is represented as a priest with a long cane In one hand and ball In the other.
 He is said to stand in the center of the kawara. where he breaches to the chill dren as they pile up stones. one for thej salvation of their father, one for thu mother. the third for brothers, the fourth for sisters and the fifth for their own salvation.
 When night comes on and the wind blows hard a gigantic evil spirit appears and with a huge iron rod knocks down the heaps of stones which the chldren have made, and they are so frightened that they run to Jizo and hide themse1vesl fir the big sleeves of his kimono. which, have a miraculous way of increasing iIf size according to the number of chiidre9 who seek refuge. Then the evil spi11 disc ppears and the children hegM aga,SI the work of heaping up stones.
 Passing through cemeteries in Japan1 one sees tombs that have the image of, Jizo carved upon them. as the pareutsl take that way of gaining the spechl favor of Jizo for their children. and ona2 will see little piles of stones built up " the parents and brothers and sisters okl the children with the hope of helping k& the tedious work of the little ones in t4. 5 kaWara RH/
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-31
STEPHENSON NOT
 SERIOUSLY ILL.

Marinett. Wis. August so.--senator 1taac Stephenson is not seriously i'll and will continue his fishing trip down the Escanaba river 1t was said today. This was the gist of report given out by his relatives. The report came from Wat son-on-the- Escanaba river. The senator Tad an attack of stomach trouble. It was thought best to send for a doctor but he recovered before the doctor reached him.
 Escanaha. Mich, August 30.--Reports received here today from United States Senator Isaac Stephenson's fishing camp in the woods declare the senator is suf- fering from a slight cold and that his condition is not as grave as was at first reported. It was said that when he con tracted the cold, it was thought best to have physicians with him, and the fact that the physicians left hurriedly caused the report that the condition of the senator was serious.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-31
CHINESE WOMEN ID
 STUDY IN AMERICA

Seattle, Wash, August 30,-The first woman students ever sent by the Chinese government to the United States to receive university educations are Miss '. T. Law and Miss F. Y. Iiu who to- da yarrived on the steamer Minnesota
 Travelling with these young ladies are q Chinese young men who will enter universities in the eastern states.
 With few exceptions the students are graduates of the Canton Christian col lege and were selected after competitive examinations. They are being educated at the expens of the ne wrpublic. All ar serom Kwang Tung province.
 Miss Law will enter Mount Holyoke university and Miss Liu will study medl- cine at Ann Arbor, Mich. The young men will be distributed among the uni versailles of Yale. Harvard, John Hop kins, Cornell, Illinois and Princeton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-31
,HDIR BOYS STRIKE
 "xTO SAVE DIRECTOR

Chicago. August so.-Forty-fou memh4fs of the boys choir of St Marks Episcopal church struck tonigh, notA fpr more pay or better working condittapsp but out of respect for Will liam J.rEore, who has been assistant choir dfrector at the church for 2a year& --
 fh0reday night after choir rehearsal fr1ticn arose between the Rev. Will liam White Wilson, rector of the church, and Mr. Core, which resulted in the resignation of MT. Core. As was their custom, the boys, who compose the choir. had waited outside the church doors for Mir. Core and when he told them that he would not act as their director any longer, the boy debated the matter until today and went on q strike. A strike committee of five was appointed to picket the church next Sunday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-31
SECRETARY KNOX
 LEAVES HONOLULU

|. Honolulu, August 30.-Secretary of state Philander C. Knox, who stopped at Honolulu en route to Japan. where he will attend the funeral of Emperor Mutsuhito, was entertained at a re- ception last night by Governor Frear at the latter's home previous to the secretary's departure on the Maryland early today.
 Secretary Knox met former Queen Liliuoklani with whom he chatted pleasantly after cordial interchange of greetings. on his return the seore- tary will call at the Island of Holo before again stopping at Honolulu, where he will spend several days. He will visit Pearl harbor and the various army posts.
 The Japanese consol was among the last to bid Secretary Knox good by when. the Maryland sailed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-31
MOTHER AND SIX z CHILDREN BURNED

Rutherford. N. J., August 30.-Mrs. Emilio Debnro and six of her seven chill oren, ranging from five months to F years in age, met death early today in a fire which destroyed their home. De taro, the husband and father with the seventh child, boy of 13 months, es- capped by jumping from second-story window.
 Debaro and sifamily made their home on, the seccndf floor of frame house. Mrs. Debarofand the six children slept iiss assrear room and the father and one toylin tue front room Debaro and the child tped to effect rescue of the oth+ CTS bQt fire checked their advance With tllei.~night clothes on fire they jumped froW&the windewsill. Five bodies were fCu X in a heap near the center of the Lrh& hs. The woman with the baby in her ms lay near the window Bremen lsltfR spark from a passing locomo- dva~may have started the blaze.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-31
HARVESTER SUIT TO
 BEGIN NEXT MONTH

Chicago. August 3o.--Taklng of testi- mony in the suit of the United States government against the Internationa! Harvester company, filed in St. Paul sey- eral months ago for alleged violation of the Sherman act will be begun in Chl- eago before Special Master Robert s. Taylor Monday, September IS.
 Subpoenas have been issued for the following officers of the corporation to appear as witnesses at the hearing:
 Clarence s. Funk, general manager. E. N. Wood. secretary; William H. Jones, ard John J. Glessner, vice presidents and Alexander Legge. assistant general manager. score of other officers an/ employees will be summoned as witnesses later.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-31
TYPHOID FEVER
 FOLLOWS THE FLOOD

schex. Miss. August 3o.-c L. Guer- rey. f St. Louis. Red Cross representa- tive announced today after confering with C. R. Byrnes. chairman of the IecaI flood relief committee. that nurses would be engaged to attend those i'll in the rac kriver section of Louisiana affected by the recent high water and where ty- phoid fever is prevalent.
 MT. Guerney will investigate conditions in that section personally tomorrow. It is stated that assistance will be needed for several months. Because Of the ray- ages of the army worm, corn and vege table crops. planted after the water re- Will also be sent If it is found conditions warrant.
 Mir. Guerney will travel through the entire lower section of the Mississippi valley swept by the flood.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-31
1911-1913 Third
 Avenue

taught even in the alaphabet. His teacher started him in the old Blue Back speller In his first lesson he went over the A, E, C's with him down tosJ, and marking that told him to go back and learn down to there. A higher grade student got hold of him and conclueed to have some sport and proposed to help him. For the A, B, Cs of the old Blue Back speller he taught him alpha beta gamma delta, after you catcher damer pelter.' This has, like MT. Bowie's pieces, the sound and rythm, but it has the same relations to the real freight facts of Alabama, and with the freight rate contentious of Ala bama.
 Good and Evil
 Fellow citizens, in the white man 8 history the womb of evil has always car ried in it the presenence of good to fol- low, otherwise such conditions as we now face would mean leprosy or a cencerous death Circe in Mythology is the Goddess of entertainment. Throwing her enchanting spells around the indi- viduals she cloud change them into what animal she chose. Many of our trust magnates have been changed into hogs. Many of our courts. many Of our citl- zens even have been changed from high minded patriots into environed conserva- tives fattening on the body polite. TO all such under our national and state flag, we call to go again to the Goddess Circe and pray the dispellng of the en- chantment By her to change you back to high minded citizens, that all together we may fight for the truth, fight that this great America of ours, this Alabama of ours, shall again be under govern ment of the people. Remember that con duet which makes for the good or man kind must not expect immediate bene- factions Rather 1t Is like thread one end of which is in your hand, the other end is in infinty. We must never lose sight of the fact that to have to battle against the evils of I1fe is not a wrong. but a blessing. and that bac- calaureate at a church school is not out of place when 1t tells the truth, dc- nounces evil and sounds the rallying cry to higher citizenship. It was in the little Virginia church that Patrick Henry de- nounced the usurpations and Illegal tax inc of King George of England. The only cry of treason, treason, was rom inc tories. those who were the King s officers and believed that the King could do no wrong.
 'gThe peoples government has been taken away. We have had the visible and invisible government Of the raii- roads Lets solve tn.s great railroad question so That no man can exercise the arbitrary power to make his own rate on the production and consumption or our people. so that no man can select the fury 10 try his own cases, and so that no man can construct out of the franchises of this state a discrimination against the business men and people of the state. v
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-31
Fortune for Former Typist ,icago Telegram to the New York


 A few years ago Bertha Duppler was a stenographer in the postmaster's of- fee. When r. A. Busse succeeded to the postmastership he made her his pri- vate secretary Then she married Jacob Baur, a wealthy business man. Now she is widow and by Baurs will is left a $1.s45 600 estate. She Is mad~ guardian of her little daughter, who will receive half the estate.
 Now she will devote her executive abil- ty special training and shrewd mind to affairs of business
 She became known as the instructor of postmasters. When the new ones came in they found her an exflaustless source of information about the affairs of tho office. When they left the city she was acting postmaster, handling the re.ns of the second largest postoffice in the United States and finding no prob lem too difficult. Then the postoffice was too small to require all of her ac- tivities. She collected rare butterflies in the early morning, and studied law In the evening until she was admitted to the bar. Incidentally she writes verse.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-31
Most Asbestos Comes From Canada

From a Geological Survey Bulletin.
 In 1911 the United States excelled all ether countries of the world in the con version of raw asbestos Into mannfac- tured products. but very small per centage-less than 1 per cent of the as- bestos used--was mined in this country. by far the larger part being imported from Canada. The total production in the United States for 1911. according to the United States geological survey. was valued at s1fa,935: the raw material inn ported from Canada was valued al more than il times that amount Canada S production of asbestos in 1911 was worth nearly S3.0oo,0o0.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-31
ACCIDENT HALTS
 PLANT INSPECTION

Stepbenville. O., August 3o.-An lnspec- ton of the Mingo Junction plant of the Carnegie Steel company by James A, Farrell, president of the United States Steel corporation, and thirty officials of the company. was delayed today until tte body of Joseph Byers. aged 25. could be removed from an 1s-inch roll where the man had been accidentally crushed to death. After removal Of the body; the roll was cleaned and the inspection trip of the steel officials resumed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-31
THE BULL MOOSE
 FIGHT IN AUTOS

New York, August 5o.--From State progressive headauarters today d flying squadron of automobiles equipped with piano. organ, printing press and other Lcvel features started for tour of New York state. One large automobile van decorated with bull moose head and with portraiteturs of Roosevelt and John son led the parade. 1t was followed by two touring cars filled with speakers, singers and distributors of campaign Iit- erature emulating stephen Day, first pi inter from England in 1776 and pub fisher of The Freeman's Oath. Ten men were in the party. They will sleep in a the van. The flying squadron will visit
 |ry county iR. the empire state,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-31
BURKE WILLING TO
 REMAIN IN OFFICE

Philadelphia. Augusta 3o-Wiliam Burke. the reform councilman who sent his resignation to that body when he wrote a confession of his past life as 8 convict, today said that he would with draw the resignation if requested to do go by Mayor Blankenburg. The mayor beyond expressing sympathy for Burke and offering him his assistance has not indicated whether or not he desires Burke to retain his seat in councils.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-31
tlins Estate of Dr. John Payne

final settlement of the estate of 3hn Payne of HiIlman who died in D being heard before Judge J. P.
 of the probate court. The hear As already been on for two days X the accounts and claims asainst state are being checked up. It is stood the settlement involves sev- 'housand dollars.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-31
The Ideal Vacation

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 How are you spending your vacetiI
 'In an ideal way. I'm pleased nj. all the time,'
 That Is rare. What is your metht 'I spend two days in the country. q I'm glad to get back to the city. I Ri two days in the city, then I'm glad t( back to the country. It's scheme"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-31
RANGE DISEASE ] ATTACKS HORSES

-sska. Kans., August so.-Governor A9s tonight telegraphed an appeal to dent Taft to send government ex- F into western Kansas in an effort to ! the spread of mysterious disease { has within the last three weeks +1 5.0O horses. Governor Stubbs has
 Fd every expert of the Kansas yeti
 board to go to the counties affected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-31
SHOOTS WIFE AT HOME
 OF SON WHO IS ILL

Ardmore, Okla. August 5o-When N E. Fields and his wife. who had sep arated, met today at the home of their son. who is critically Ill at Ravia, John sen county, Fields shot and killed the woman and then fired a bullet into his twn brain. Fields was fifty-four years old and his wife fifty-three.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-31
Like the Schoolboy

'Ar. Bowies freight statements remind me of little country boy years ago, going to school for the first time His parents were unlettered and he was un-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-31
Untrue Statements


 Judge Jones in his opinion said that under the law the other roads were al lowed to charge l5 per cent to 45 per cent more than the Louisville and Nashville. This also is untrue. Quoting by memory from Mir. Selheimer: 'On 75 per cen. of the business of the Louisville and Nashville road in Alabama it absolutely makes It's own rates In the state rates on the no articles, 80 per cent of them are alike. On the others in different scales of per | ceptages according to the articles itself and the road the prices vary from 10 to J0 per cent higher than the first class road, and the experience of many states says this is right. The passenger rate was the same on all except the short lines The short lines in Ala bama like the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic. and Cochran road, just as the Louisville and Nashville snort line in Georgia
 charge cents. And when Judge Jones makes a statement that the other roads charge l5 to 45 per cent more, 1t is an error and when MT. Smith and MT. Bowie make the statement that they charge 15 to 45 per cent more, or that the Southern. Frisco and other roads charge $l.25 where the Louisville and Nashville charges $05 as MT. Nesbitt would say, this is not true.
 Mr. Bowie at Montgomery MT. P. Sid Bowie is the distinguished citizen who Mir. Smith took down to Mont gomery with him in his private car dur ing the session of the legislature in 1907, and who made speech on the part Of the Louisville and Nashville railroad, demanding that the legislature adjourn sine die, declaring that t was a danger ous body Mir. Bowie Is an ex-congress- man, elected by the democrats of Ala bama. Suppose he was member Of Con- gross now, and MT. Archbold and Mr Ryan and MT. Belmont, Mir. Morgan, Rockefeller and others would go down to Washington and demand that Congress- adjourn sine die that it was dangerous
 ''In duck hunting you take a lot of decoys. or pieces of wood, fashioned and painted to look like ducks, and you tie them to a live duck, and place all in front of blind behind which the hunter Is hid. The live duck swims around and makes the decoys swim too. Just so is Mir Smith making some of his bene- ficiaries swim around as if they were really alive, and had some independence of knowledge and action.
 Like the Schoolb0y
 f~s<. ~s~.s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-31
Classifications and Comparisons

CIassli1cat10ns and Comparisons
 And while in Atlanta study the clas- sifcation of all the roads in Georgia, and you will see that those freight experts. Wallace and Trammel, did classify them. did place what is called the flat rate which is very low charge on many ar ticles of common production. consump- tion and use,~ law freight rate, and made that rate common to all the roads in Georgia. Then on other articles of not such prime necessity they allowed dif- ferent percentages of increase according to the article itself. and according to the physical condition and earning capacity of the railroads, and applied the same to their branch lines Get the Georgia