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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-22

At recent meeting of the Ke-
vance Baseball directors a PROPOSE
ton to purchase Tommy Drohan. sta
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-08-01
Worse Than Old Split Hoof.

A prominent Tammany leader has Of
! fered to bet a suit of clothes to a
| niekef' that Governor SulZer will be
separated from the position he holds
by the first of october. It is also said
that set of charges upon which the
| Governor is to be tried is now reposing
, ia the vaults of Tammsny Hall 1t looks
+, very much as though Mr.. Murphy's
organization intends to force impeach-
ment proceedings against the Governor.
News report.
Perhaps New York was never nearer
to the parting of the ways between
! bossism and public interests. With a
! Tammany protege defying that mighty
political organization while demanding
of the people to stand for laws restrain
| ing such as Murphy and his thugs, de-
cent government has a faint hope of
| throwing off the grip of the underworld.
| That Tammany is closely allied with
| the underworld of graft and spoil and
| crime is perhaps aptly demonstrated
! in the news of d few days. While Muir
rny ard his Tammany forces which are
still out side of Jail are brazenly at
taeking the governor the crooks under
! restraint at Sing Sing went on strike"
| against the new warden named by Gov.
| Sulzer.
| Admitting that Gov. Sulzer is addict
ed to spread eagleism and movie
F.. melodrama, yet the determination OF
ysmmany to dispose of him is to his
( credit. Let us give the devil credit toi
| the good he does, but let US remember
at the same time that the devil took d
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-08-01
Coming Events

Aug. s-vassalboro Grove Meeting.
Aug. to 9-Annual reunion of the 18th
Maine Reg. Association AT camp boiah
Long Island, Portland Harbor .,
Aug. 4-l3-Annual Encampment OF "a
Maine Reg't, Augusta.
Aug. 5-7-The 150th Anniversary OF Ma
chias
Aug. 6-Eaton & Norridgewock N. 8.
Alumni Assn. Norridgewock.
Aug. 7-9-Bath Carnival
Aug. 11-12-Christian Endeavor summer
School, Charleston.
Aug 10-1S-Nerona Campmeeting,
! Aug. 13-Reunion of the 18th Maine
Aug. 1LReunion of the 26th Maine
Regt., Belfast.
Aug. 14-Reunon of the 2ith Maine
Regt,, Augusta.
Aug. 20-Old Home Day at North Liver
more under auspices of y. l.. r. Club.
/; Aug 21-Starret-Spear Reunion, War
Aug. 27-Reunion of the 9th Maine
Infantry, Kennebunkport.
Aug 27-28-Ellsworth 15oth Anniversary
Celebration
Aug. 2S-6th Maine Battery. Bangor.
| Aug 14-Annual Reunion of the Old
Barkerville School at the state Fair
Grounds, Lewiston
Aug. 14-Levant's Centennial Celebra-
| tion.
Aug. 15-24-The Allen campmeeting.
Strong
Aug. 2o-Pierce Family Reunion at
Island Park.
Aug 20-The Tuttle-Johonnett Families
Reunion at the home of H. G. Johonnett,
Palmyra.
Aug. 21-Reunion 9Th Maine Battery.
Aug. 21-Annual Reunion First Maine
| Heavy Artillery Association, Bangor.
Aug. 21-29th Annual Reunion of sd
Regimental Assn, Peaks Island.
Aug 22-31-East Livermore Campmeet-
| ing.
Aug. 27-Annual Reunion 18th Maine
Regt Assn, Waterville.
Sept. 3-Popular vote on two proposed
Amendments to Maine Constitution.
| Sept S-Popular Vote on Two Proposed
| Amendments to Maine Constitution.
| Sept 1O-lI-Reunion 11th Maine. Bangor.
| Sept. 10-1l-ReunIon of Fifteenth Regi-
| mental Association of Lewiston.
Sept I4,16A Maine Women's Christian
Temperance Union Annual. Rumford.
Sept. 10th Annual Encampment G.
A. r. and Allied Organizations, Chatta-
nooga, Tenn.
Sept. 21-Maine Federation of Women's
Clubs, Lewiston.
Oct. 2-EMaine Musical Festival. Ban
. gor.
Oct. e-S-Maine Musical Festival, Port
land.
Oct. 3O-31-Maine Teachers Association.
Bangor.
Nov. 12-47th Annual Session National
Grange Patrons Of Husbandry. Manches-
ter, N. II.
Nov lS-2o-Maine State Pathological.
Dec 22-27-Berwick Poultry Association.
Berwick.
Jan 40 19l4-Bangor Poultry Associa-
ton, Bangor.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-08-01
Easy to Understand.

/ While petty political organs UP here
| in Maine are rejoicing openly because
| of the revelations of Mulhall, a
| sizeable Democrat down in Washing
| ton sizes up the lobbyist somewhat
| frankly as "a liar and blackmailer."
This may be comforting to the friends
of Hon. Charles L. Littlefield, Sena-
+, tor Henry Cabot Lodge. and many
others covered by the blanket con
fession" of the prize story teller OF
| the epoch. The gentleman who so
bluntly charaeterizes Mr.. Mulhall is
none other than the Hon. Oscar w.
Underwood, majority leader of the
means committee which drafted the
Underwood tariff bill.
Mr.. Underwood appeared before the
, Senate lobby committee to deny that
Mulhall had ever talked to him about
legislation before Congress After one
look at the witness he said: Il never
saw him before in my life."
L think" said the mapority leader,
that 1t is in the interest of the pub
lie that a man who has taken liber-
ties with public men, as this man has.
should be contradicted. / regard
man of this kind as blackmailer.
That man has never been in the ways
and means committee room since |
have been chairman. He may have
had conversations with me but when
he says he had an interview, | want
to say that statement is a lie
Chairman Underwood read Mulhall's
letter about the alleged interview in
which MuIhall wrote that Underwood
told him that he could not do other
wise than appoint William b. Wilson,
now secretary of labor. chairman of
the House labor committee. because
there was no other candidate before
the ways and means committee.
THAT whole statement is a lie out
of whole eloth-not word of truth
in it, declared Mr.. Underwood.
There never was a question about
Wilson's selection as head of that
committee, solely because of his eapa-
city and qualifications. 1t is clear to
me this man was down here writing
these things to his people trying to
make out that he was doing great
things. He never had any conference
with me. The statement in his letter
can be disproved by every member of
the Ways and Means Committee.
am sure | never met this man. He
has face l could not forget" There
is nothing here that reflects on me,
continued Mr.. Underwood, but l want
ii set right before tie country"
few more such unqualified and
understandable refutations of Null
halls yarns, by men of such unques-
toned integrity as Mr. Underwood,
ought to go far toward discrediting
self-confessed hireling for crooked po-
litieal work.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-08-01
Another protest against the moderr

Another protest against the modern
wriggling dances is just making itseil
heard. Curiously enough. however. II
does not come from reformers or per-
sons whose sense of deccnCy is offended
by the terpischorean acrobatlcs. In
stead Il emanates from the manutac-
turers of playing cards, for so generally
have The tango and turkey tret sue
cecded card playing that last year
showed a very serious falling off in
the card manufacturing business. AS the
new dances are most popular with the
persons who formerly were card de-
votees the case against such dances
seems to be a clear one. What the
falling off actually amounts to is shown
by the fct that during the last fiscal
year there was a decrease of 1881
packs of cards manufactured or near
ly forty per cent Whether or not
this is to be looked upon as another
crime to be laid at the door of the tam
go and turkey tret depends largely OF
the point of view as to whether the
new dances or the bridge craze are the
less tp be desired.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-08-01
Great Stride in Surgery.

Americans are reading with pleasure
the tributes paid to an American, DR..
Grille of Cleveland, o., at last week S
meeting of the British Medical Assoeia-
ton. Unstinted praise and open admi-
ration were expressed for the great
improvement In surgical methods work.
ed out by this Ohioan. after long series
of patient and painstaking experiments
with animals. In brief the problem to
which he set himself years ago was the
doing away, as far as possible, with
that battling and dreaded thing, 'surgi-
cal shock" He studied deeply the pro-
cesses by which vitality is drained
through unconscious strain upon the
brain and nerve centres, while the pa
tient is undergoing a painless opera
ton, His conclusions and the extra
ordinary results attained in his owf
hospital practice, he recently set forth
in a medical journal. The matter is toe
technical to be described at length, but
it may be said roughly that DIR. Cries
method is, first, to dull the patients
nervous activity before the operation
. so that mental apprehension is remov-
.. ed: then by means of local anaesthet-
les to separate the area containing the
site Of the operation from all connec-
/. ton with the nervous system; and
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-08-01
Editorial Comment
The Real Danger.
CNeW York SUM-


Even the most dull and unsympa-
thetic citizen in the United States has
long been aware that there is GER
tain ugly spirit abroad in the land.
Sometimes il is called class hatred"
more often it goes under the SNUG
name of social unrest" 1t is form
of discomfort that Archbishop O'Con-
nell once called "tumult of the envi-
Ious." Many persons blame labor agi-
tators for this insidious and unhealthy
condition in our body social and polit
ic. But it has been our observation
that the safe and sane majority of
. the audiences who listen to these pro-
fessional fire eaters understand the
animus behind those red painted har-
, angues They see the wheels go
round. They know that these men
| hold their jobs solely by filling the
j role of fire eater. But there are
other audiences, unseen audiences, the
great, vast reading public with hum
! BILE minds, who are led much more
deeply. dangerously. permanently.
Newspaper readers. taken by and
large, trust what they read. other
wise they would not buy. People do
i, not spend their hard earned cash to
sneer at melodrama. They pay fol-
| the illusion and have faith in the he
TO. Just SO it is with the shop girl,
the clerk. the farm hand, the waiter;
!, he buys and reads his paper because
| he believes in it and is led uneon-
eiously to agree with what it says
With all respect we say their paper
is their daily sermon, listened to or
the subway, on the ferry, in the res
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-08-01
MAINE EAIR. DATES.

Aug. 19-2O-21-Waldo County Fair. at
Belfast
Aug. l9-2l-Cornish Agricultural Asso-
citation, Cornish.
Aug. 22-23-East Somerset Agricultural
Society, Hartland.
Aug. 5-2s-Androscoggin County Fair.
Aug. 26-2S-Houiton Agricultural socie-
ty, Houlton.
Aug. 26-29-Eastern Maine State Fair.
Bangor.
Sept. 1-LMaine State Fair. Lewiston.
Sept. 2-3-Orrington Fair, Orrngton.
Sept 2-4-Northern Maine Fair Asso-
Sept 2-4-Hancock County Fair, Blue
hill.
Sept 2-5-Calais Fair Association, Ca
lais.
Sept ls-ls-Androscoggin Valley Fair.
Sept. s-1l-North Penobscot Fair.
Sept s-ll-oxford County Agricultural
Sept s-l2-Centrai Maine County. Wa
terville.
Sept. 13-Embden Fair. Embden.
Sept 15-20-National Encampment Re-
union. Chattanooga, Tenn.
Sept. 16-IS-West Washington Agricul-
|, tural Association. Cherryfield.
Sept. 16-1S-Cumberland County Agricui-
tural and Horticultural Society. Gorham.
Sept. 16-17-lS-Kennebec County. Agri-
, cultural Society Fair at Augusta.
Sept 1S-20-Waldo and Penobscot Agri-
cultural society, MODTOe
Sept. 1S-20-Somerset Central Fair,
Skowhegan.
Sept 23-25-South Kennebec Agriculture
al Society. Windsor.
Sept. 2i-25-Cumberland Farmers Club,
Cumberland.
Sept. 23-2EUnity Park Association.
Unity.
Sept. 23-25-No1th Franklin Fair, Phil
| lips
Sept 22-25-Machias Fair Association,
| Machias.
Sept. 2S-25-North Knox Fair, Union.
Sept. 23-25-Brstol Fair, Bristol
Sept. 25-21-Piscataquis County Fair,
Foxcroft.
Sept. 3o-Richmond Farmers Club.
| Richmond
Sept. SO-Oct. 2-West Penobscot Fair,
| Exeter
! Sept 3O-Oct. 2-New Gloucester and
/ Danville Fair. Upper Gloucester.
| Sept So-Oct 2-West Oxford Fair
| Fryeburg
! Sept sO-Oct 2-Lincoln County Fair
| Damariscotta.
Sept So-Oct. 2-Franklin County Fair
| Pennington.
Oct. 2-3-4-Annual Cattle Show and
| Fair Hartland
| Oct. 7-9-Shapleigh and Acton Agricul.
! turai Society, Acton.
Oct. 14-16-Topsham Fair.
! Nov. 1S-20-Maine State genealogical
Lewiston.
Dec. 22-27-Berwick Poultry Association
Berwick
/, Jan. 49, 1sl4-Bangor Poultry Associa
, ton, Bangor.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-08-01

is unsurpassed anywhere, and there Is
no good reason why we should not have
at the mouth of the Kennebec one of the
most populous summer resorts in the
country.
Mr.. Harold s. Osler, b. S., a gradu-
ate of Muskingum college. and also
of Michigan Agricultural college, has
heen elected assistant professor of
section of the department of the Col
Agrenomy in charge of the Crops
1ege of Agriculture, University of
Maine, and assumes his duties Aug
ust 1. Professor Osler's training and
experience make him exceptionally
well qualified for the position he is
to occupy at the University. He has
a B. S. degree from both Muskingum
and Michigan Agricultural colleges.
AT the former his major work was
done in Biology, and at the latter in
Agriculture where his major work
was in Agronomy, farm crops being
his speciality. His experience con-
sists of practical farm work since
reaching a working age, except while
in school, He has also had sue
cessful teaching experience at Michi-
gan Agricultural College of three
years duration. Professor Osler will
succeed Professor Slate resigned. 1t
would be difficult to secure a man bet
ter prepared to teach farm crops than
Professor Osler. and the college is
indeed fortunate in securing his SER
vices
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-08-01

taurant and in the back part of sal
American people.
Were we then to try to put our
finger on the cause of the widespread.
ugly, envious spirit that is UNDER
mining the safe common sense of our
people we should say it is a, recent
conception of Journalism When. a
New York daily, reaching and, infiu-
encing untold brains wavering on the
borderland of doubt as te the. benefit
OF Republican government: when.
metropolitan newspaper. out of a
clear sky, without rhyme or reason,
hurled yesterday the following senti-
ment in black faced double loaded
type and forced its readers to con-
clude that monarchy is more Just
to them than their republic. then it
is high time To cry: Halt. i+'
Occasionally there are financial
scandals in England, but whitaker
Wrights are thrown into prison there.
whereas, they go into palaces here
and become, instead of conYictN gen
tlemen' of note, fawned upon and Hat
tered and kewtewed to because of
their wealth. ~
Gentlemen of note, Into that single
phrase what name may not be read ?
In its very vagueness lies its poison,
stinging the reader into contempt for
iany man whom he has hitherto res
pected. IF gentlemen of note are
crooks" cries he inwafdly. 'n"why
should / not be crook and live in
a palace?' 81.
Is this the way our republic was
built, or is it the way it is to fall?
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-08-01
Ihe Hot Waather Isst

Makes people better acquainted with
their resources of strength and en-
durance.
Many find that they are not so well
off as they thought and that they are
easily enervated and depressed by the
heat.
What they need is the tonic effect OF
Hoods Sarsaparilla which strengthens
the blood, promotes refreshing sleep,
overcomes that tired feeling, creates
appetite.--Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-08-01

pains to discover the true political
conditions in Maine. they will support
Peters.
The Republican candidate and organ
ization is the only factor that can de-
fact
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-08-01

Colonel Mulhall is still running
along like an eight-day clock.-Ports :
mouth Times.
Hardly, considering the fact that the
average eight day clock needs to be
wound up at least twice week.
Biddeford Journal.
Yes, but didn't Underwood wind him
up?
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-08-01

Miss Geneva ElwelI. of Northport.
Me. who is not yet three years old.
can name all the Presidents of the
United States by looking at their pic
|tures in any order.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-08-01

gETHLEHEM LODGE, NO. IS, =. &
A. NJ. Stated communication. Monday;
August 4. at F. NJ. All sojourning
brethren are cordially invited to attena.
CHESTER S. KINGSLEY, w. M.
PEARL e. EITILER. Secfetary
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-08-01

The Bath Times believes that the
purchase of the Popham Beach Real
Estate and Hotel Co property at Pop
ham by the Real Estate Trust Go.
of Massachusetts doubtless means a
new era of growth and prosperity for
that resort. Says the Times:
The past few seasons have been the
liveliest for many years at the Beach,
and the only reason why the crowds
have not been larger has been that the
accommodations have not been greater
than they are. Each season has seen all
the cottages filled and the Riverside
turning people away With the Rock
ledge open and well managed, the hotel
capacity of the resort will be increased
several times. and the change in owner
ship of the larger part of the vacant cot
tage sites will probably also be the sig
nal for large increase in the number
of cottagers There is no finer beach in
New England than that which runs from
Popham to Small Point, and no resort
can boast of greater accessibility. with
rail and steamer connections through
Bath and direct steamship service to
Boston. The river and ocean scenery
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-08-01

finally, when the surgery is over. still
to keep the involved tissues isolated, as
II were. from the rest of the body.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-08-01
Maine Gossip
The Day Is Done.

| The day is done. aud the darkness
| Falls from the wings of Night
| AS feather is waited downward
| From an eagle in his hight.
/ see the lights of the village
| Clean through the rain and the mist,
| And a feeling of sadness comes Ger me
| That my soul can not resist
| A feeling of sadness and longing,
| That is not akin to pain.
| And resembles sorrow only
AS the mist resembles the rain,
| Come read to me some poem,
Some simple and heartfelt lay.
That shall soothe this restless feeling
And Danish the thoughts of day.
Not from the grand old masters.
Not from the bardS sublime,
Whose distant footsteps echo
Through the corridors of time;
For like strains of martial music
Their mighty thoughts suggest
Lies endless toll and endeayof,
And tonight / long for rest.
Read from some humble poet.
Whose songs guShed from his heart,
AS showers from the clouds of summer,
Or tears from the eyelids start;
Who. through long days of labor,
And nights devoid of ease,
Still heard in his soul the music
OF wonderful melodies
| Such songs have power to quiet
| The restless pulse of care
| And come like the benediction
| That follows after prayer.
| Then read from the treasured volume
The poem of thy choice.
And lend to the rhyme of the poet
The beauty of thy voice.
And the night shall be filled with music
And the cares that infest the day,
Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs,
/ And as silently steal away.
-Longfellow.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-08-01

r. q. cAPEN REeEkAH LODGE NO.
80. l. o. o. f. meets End and 4th Wednes-
day evenings at 500 O'Clock.
~' JENNIE NJ HERRIN, N. g.
SADIE E. METCALF, Rec. See.
|
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-08-01

JEPHrHA ENcAMPMENT, NO. q
Meetings at 8 o'clock every ssesnd esA
touftn Auosu d. W. LOvEJoY, G. p.
c. e. STEWART, Dcrtbes
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-08-01


That Canaan has all the selements
of being happy land is shown in the
many aged people that are there. An
investigation the past week, by an
old resident. shows that it has more
old people than any other town of it's
size in Maine. 1t is said to have the
oldest man in Maine, Ben Priest who
is 101 years old and among those who
fare so and over are Mr.. and Mrs.
John Bingham, 81; Lucinda Farnham
so; Silas Sandborn so; Salem Edwards
so; Thresa BuZZill, the oldest woman
of the town 94 Mary Holt so; Sias
Mason 80; Eliza Williams 81; Rufus
Williams s.: Frank Weymouth so;
Alonzo Tutte so. 1t is reckoned that
there are about % great grandmothers
in the town and that there are fewer
bachelors in the town than any other
town of its size in Maine, and there
are many couples who have been mar
ried so years or more. Within the
last four years there have been a
number of couples that have been
nearly so years old who have then
married.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-08-01
ODD FELLOWS HALL

ASYLUM LODGE NO. 70 REGULAR
meeting Friday evening at . o'clock;
JOHN G.. HOWES, n. a.
u, r. WESTON, ssA
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-08-01

CANTON AUGUSTA, NO. ., p. ~.
Regular meeting every third Tuesday -
. o'cloek. <,.
RAY M. BURNS. Clerk.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-08-01

A Bar Harbor correspondent tells us
that it doesn't look much as if the
festive automobile would sputter and
blow and honk in the peaceful villages
of Northeast Harbor, Seal Harbor,
and Somesville at least this summer,
if the vote which was taken Friday
in that town is an indication. The
proposition for admitting automobiles
ito that town died before it ever had
a chance to breathe, The voters un-
mercifully slaughtered 1t and buried
it, by a vote which registered 292 to
lis.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-08-01

Two Augusta gentlemen. the other
day on an automobile drive frcm this
city to Bar Harbor, when their car was
between Bucksport and Ellsworth, had
the pleasure cf seeing two deer spring
out of the woods by the roadside and
run some distance in the road in front
of the machine. Another Augusta man,
also in his automobile, chased deer in
the road in northern Maine but did not
catch up with him.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-08-01

CAPITAL AERlE, NO. 1860, T. o.
Eagles. meets In F. o. f. hall. N9 Water
ST., frst and third Monday Of sasA
GEO. w. JENKINS, Pre-.
n, T, NAGUIRE. Sea
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-08-01

KNIGHTS OF THE MAccABEES
Kennebec Tent No. 16, meets In Golden
Cross hall on first Monday OF each
month at 745.
EUGENE MERRILL. r. II.
r, r. DUDLEY, r. K.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-08-01

is unsurpassed anywhere, and there is
no good reason why we should not have
at the mouth of the Kennebec one of the
most populous summer resorts in the
.frtr
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-08-01

U. o. G. c., MORRILL, COM.
msetinrs second and fourth Tuesday
evenings at 7.SO o'clock at Golden Cross
Aa''' JOHN T. MOULTON, N. c.
LETTIE L. WING, X. r.
w. e. CLOUGH. F. K. r.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-08-01

IOU1T g Augusta Nest. No. 1855, No.
OWL0 III Water ST. Regular meet
ings first and third Fridays, at 7.30 p. N.
All Owls cordially invited to our Nest
DR. o. H. BRANN. Pres.
g. H. BANGS. Sec.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-08-01
AUGUSTA LODGE DIRECTORY

Orono, Maine, July go, 19lS.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-10-26
NOT ODD' FELLOWS PROPERTY

Little Rock. Oct. 25.-In reply to question from County Clerk W. M. Smith of Carroll county, Attorney general Moose holds that building used in part as an I. o. o. F. hall does not come under the head Of property exelilpt from taxation under the law which provides that buildings belonging to institutions of purely pubic charity shall be exempt from taxation. He says that he does not believe it will be seriously contend ed that the Odd Fellows is an insti- tuition of purely public charity. 'It is fraternal and benevolent order. says he and it's benefits and privi- leges are confined to it's own mem bers and not fo the public generally That being true, he holds that all fraternal properties are subject to taxation.