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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-31
laborina Man Pays Il.

An exchange SAYS: THE Democrats
in Congress are having great difficulty
IN adjusting the income tax without
lowering the amount to a figure that
may offend large masses of the people
politically potential. This is scarcely
news. as it is but result OF a we'll
established law of political economy"
\ great deal of difficulty would be
avoided, many false hopes would not
be created, If ii were only remembered
that tie whole accumulated wealth of
the WORLD is not sufficient to keep its
population alive for a single year. IL
mankind should stop work, in less than
a year universal starvation would fol-
low. thus il is demonstrated that the
real wealth of nations consists in the
persisting energy of their peoples. Stop
that by unwise taxation, uncertainty,
or anything else. and what you can
take or confiscate is not a drop in tire
bucket.
The Ph75 dolphin Press says OF IL
In figures this fund that must be accu-
mulated by laborious saving seems
large, but il is but Il tribe in eompari-
son to the great powers of production
with which the Almighty has entrusted
His creatures. We are not discussing
the merits of an income tax but again
simply calling the attention OF ou'
readers to how inadequate q fund ac-
cumulated by saving must always Dc
lor the support of even moderately
administered government, and TO ASH
them to keep il constantly in mind that
the great burden of taxation, no mat
ter what is done, must fall, and VII
always fall, upon the already overladei
hack of the laboring man.
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Sinuinq in Schools.

At recent meeting of the boau of
education this resolution was ofered
by Arthur S. Somers: THAT the each
ing OF music during the first siMyears
be confined to singing work exclusive
~"
The adoption of this resolution
would mean the abolition of all rllsi-
cal instruction in the first six years
of the public schools, rote singing TAX
ing its place. Any one who Knows
what were the conditions in our
schools when the latter methpd was in
use will realize the terrible mistake of
returning To it. In 1897 the board of
education, recognizing the nee ssity of
bringing order into the then prevailing
chaos existing in the work in music,
placed the department in charge Of a
musician who. with assistants in every
school district. instructed the grade
teachers how to give the simple ele-
mentary lessons in music Wherever
the principals and teachers cooperate
Loyalty with the music teachels, the
results were remarkable. schools
which had been shouting noisy, COM
mon place songs now learned TO sing
with lovely quality of tone and with
musical expression, and they sson en-
loved singing songs of real merit in
place of the trash which had brmerly
been used These results WIRE OBJ
tanned without demanding mpre time
than formerly of the pupils. bnly one
hour a week. divided into ten to thirty
minute periods, according to the grace.
Care was taken not to make the IN
struction technical, but the children
were taught by easy stages 10 sing
! simple melodies from notes. And now
| it is proposed to undo all TINS .Sood
work. this step ahead III CIVILIZATION,
! and 10 go back to the methods q the
| village school BY this retroGresioh
| New York, the metropolis, would pIace
| itself below the smallest town lnNeW
| England or in the western states No
| where YOU Will and you Will flns the
| children of the public schools siislhg
| part songs from notes. The bestedu-
Gators in the country consider thephN
| steal and mental development reuit-
| inp from the study Of mush IN
| schools. /. e., IF sight singing, Is ullA
| equal if not superior, 10 that "t any
| other subject II trains the eye the
| oar and the organs of speech: deViops
| The lungs and stimulates the bran. II
| develops concentration, attention, one
| dience and rapid action of the nina
/ a,d ~ is therefore q most val able
| nreparation and aid in the stpd OF
any and all other subjeets.-l.eutr &c
! New York sun.
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KISSES BY TEL6GRAPH.
s;deliqhts on the Difficulties Nus-
sian Postal order Caused.

The "Russkoe SloSo9 gives SOM m
teresting sidelights OF me eoHhplca-
lions and general diheNities "hftl .
new Russian postoffic order mas Gus
ed for private indiviNals VINO use NY
telegraph as mear oil communists
ing their thoughts sio desires as fdpT
II. &C ,,ossible. The telegraph ems
,S1a,,ee wore reeeny ordered to taxa
special care in resNlng private mes mes
sages that eontaiea any "oras
phrases that miSt pe vi 2ihpisoou
meaaing and mint Dc susi'ected
- tI,s Mace of code Such messag Il
,yern ia ho refped( and in eases q |
ADMIT when anthhG suspicious we |
found after reeotiPh Tue olteaains Ut
.hious parts WI 10 Do omitted tfol
the MESSAGE |
I tn conseal,cc Of the literal way h |
which the giciaIs fulfilled these j.
s.rlictions unyan agricultural dcalq
| fell into dsair as messages came 4
him rnn,a}ng nothing but figures tn
/ onestion chow many ducks and hos
| n, sheen nd cattle he was to send TEL
| marlet ing made none tie easiersbS
1 the pp1IfSSfttt vi g. litAolf 81
arimaIsNo doubt ME telegraph clerks
had he-dEthat the transportation of
men I'll Arms and ammunition inb
d;fra,.t kinds of livestock was one OF
the eidest beginnings of a code that,
had zen used on occasion by war eors
residents at the front. I
Anore amusing case, however, Nasl
.Ao.,sod in a poetoHipe by n CORE i
sndent of the "Russkoe Siovo. Ha
ss a young woman, evidently Of hishI
gree. in angry alteration with the
|aploye at the counter. The faet'"as
kly 100 evident that the two We're Tat
contradicting each other and II VAS
$50 plain that all The signs of the
ross that were made to attest the
ruth of her assertions were of no aWll
aainst tho skepticism of theo Official,
The correspondent was then let iuo
IL secret Of the dispute. There lay IN
~
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The Press Agent of Life.

Writing books must be wearisome
business especially those books that
are about things that belong to ordina-
rv human life as it is lived. Books
that aresjust made UP of imagination
and of artificial ideas are probably
easy. but making the books that people
want t4read today, the books that tell
of pee5E like ourselves, everything
from Ihe way they maile omelets to
the why's. of their conFious and sub
consq4ls activities..p hrHt be very tire
some yh not very fdfhcult
OFF, people w5rt when they please
i or hen they haveSto, but the wrlter
of5&,oks must work when work itself
lpt} Us, which. il. usually all the time.
lHJas so busy ginning about and gathz
i@iig up the &craps of other peoples
lives IN his waste paper basket sort of
! brain, ands piecing them together
again for the very people they belong
ed to in the first place, that it is a
wonder the writer of books gets a
chance 10 enjoy bit of life of his
own. ne must make copy of himself
and OF everybody else, and of every
thing he sees or hears or knows.
In one novel in which the author
makes fun of everything from the
metaphysics to Photographic Ihe hero
is an author. and he is madez4un of.
too. though with as muchsRtIks con-
tempt. Before this poor, lf6lfaghero be-
came an author he was a sbookkeeper,
and could say as many bright things
as he could think of, and had a very
good time. After he became an au
THOR he had to save all the best things
for copy, and was a bore TO himself
and everybody else The writer of
lApoIls can never have a quiet chuckle
10 himself or can never feel properly
sorry for ANYBODY. He is always too
busy dressing up the emotions fog pub
lie appearance to stop and ENJOY the
feel of them OF course, Shakespeare
said that all the world was a stage.
II may be something. more than a
stage to some of us, but no doubt IT
looked like stage to him.
The hardest part of it is that the
writer of books can not help himself.
If he does not make books when they
want to be made. they start to make
Themselves in his head and produce a
sorry mess. The books must be made,
and to make them right he must let
no material escape. He must pick IN
every scrap of interest, no matter now
dull it looks, and must polish it and
put ii in a book and give it away or
sell it if he can.
1T is very nice for the rest of us We
AN live without thinking too much
about it. and can learn the things that
we are too busy to observe by reading
we want to. Life is no such
"a ssiye affair to the writer of books.
Il is a very active affair. indeed, ana
demands constant publicity. 1t must
he a wearisome business. being press
gent for life.-Indianapol News.
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The Psychology of Whiskers.

Former Senator PETER of Kansas
win devote chapter of his rem!nls-
eepses to the whiskers of populism ana
their significance in that historical
movement.
That the significance of them was
profably greater is easier suspected
at this time than it could have been
when populism was rampant Inc
world had not then seriously thought
Of the psychology of whiskers. 1t was
vet to discover that, like pants theE
have eXerted tremendous influence
upon human history. There have peen
certain grave social and poltlcai
movements which are considered III the
light of new thought to have been en-
tirely due to whiskers. Mormonisih
was one of them. Dowieism was an
other. Wars have been fought WIN
cannon and ball that could have been
aerted with scissors. j..
Populism and the great beaFd u
which it was the ingroWth are III
siparable in the popular NINA. "es
.stablish the psychology OF "HlSNei9
IS clearly as the smooth face ana s"-
eialism or the face spat ana tile vice
pre- siLency. There is this to be sald lor
the "Pener," IS the whiskers oil popu-
Ism are known as type-lt was new
er violent pattern like the face thlcN-
et. OF deceitful whisker like tAe dou-
bie tirdtail. Whatever its faults
lad honor and dignity and was nour-
isbed while it grew by certain high
and nutritious ideals. The only thing
that vas never quite clear about it as
a whlskcr was why. II the venerable
K ansan will tell exactly how he felt
with il on. he will render q great SER
vice ST T.oais Post Dispatch.
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What the People Want.

Editor kCnnebec journal:
The letter from the sheriff of Penob-
scot county in this mornings issue 81
your paper stirs me to the very depths
of ny heart. He appears to have Il
few paltry dollars stuck up before hl5
eyes and can neither see nor feel any =
thing else. He appears to think thaI
ne has enriched his county wonderfully
by The fines of $4559, which has been
collected. Deluded official, trying ID
delude the people! He Goes not tell us
how much it cost his county to prose-
cute the rum criminals that he has
and has not, collected from. he does
not tell US the number of heart acne
that his system of low license ma
wrought. He does not tell us the MUIR
Der of children that have gone to nd
hungry III his county during this TIM
because the money that should nae
been spent for bread, lad been Wtse
than wasted for rum He does lot
tell us how much it has cost to arist'
convict, commit, and board tn lo-
DRINKS sent to Jail in less than lree
months. He does not tell us how lucil
the different municipalities have pdid
out during this time to support llios
that are destitute because of run, lie
does not tell US the economic viae d
the bor lost to the world firm TIE
ruin that rum has wrought upf THESE
102 unfortdnates. He attributS Sred
honor to his administration, bcause .
less DRINKS were committed tajall dur
ing IS days Of 1913 compare win VI
DAYS of 1872. Such a statcmet helthe'
proves that less rum was tunk, less
misery was experienced. nr greater
efficiency was exercised on ae part oil
the officials. It does prov however
that / lisgraceful conuiticS u ahalls
exists in Penobscot county
The sheriff of every coufS can MAKE
Il similar boast. But will lew PARRY
dollars in the county tresurS at BEL
fast restore the DanfOrtl To those Or
Ehan children. or restor,Mrs. Lowe To
Ter former strength?
VIII all the rum fines0leeted IN the
whole year in kennebeooui4sN pay th4
cost OF The county in Prosecuting ire
murderer of Edward Hardy VINO
paws for the doctors, ulses, ana sup
port of Mrs. Hardy? What will be the
total money COST VI IL IN ~ ~
act2
And vet, when 20 hundred dollars
are collected in fine and turned into
the county treasure some one VIII
proclaim with Il lare Of trumpets:
How rich the cotdy is getting from
the rumsellers." \, Earthly accountant
car compute the image wrought by
even one rumsellefn only one day.
The people werethoroughly Disguised
with the mannerthat the Republicans
had treated thi monstrous evil, 50
they turned then out. Conditions UNI |
der tile Demoertic rule were SO much /
worse than evei before that the people |
turned about a.ain, giving tie Repub |
lfcans a workhg majority. No earthly !
power can compute the damage
wrought durhg those two years Of i
rum-rule.
The opportunity Of a lifetime is be-
fore the Republican party o. Maine. |
Unless tile officials iii power aequit |
| themselves ike men for the good %
the people, this opportunity will pass
never 10 raarn. The pencil is IN the
hand of ewry voter and he will use It,
Augusta. Ne. March 20. 1913.
E. j. HATCH
Co5:3 Az. nmdk ;a2f.c pibnTAthe
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tain French and his crew OF s$l
aboard of the leaky Newhuryport slbi
BETSY another prize, and left therh t
their own devices. The Betsy filEl,
reached Plymouth in Il sinking cob
ton. and the Polly was recaptured D!
an American priVateer.
She was rebuilt in 1864. thus staftns
arain in life equally with the Mr.
and Margaret. Since that timeI M
has been owned successfully inI II
Desert, Rockland, Portland, BeHst
and Rockland For many years. n
Polly was sailed out of Belfast by PIP
tain George +: Ryan, one of the oIes
and best known of Maine coas9is
shippers. Her last owner was Catai
Walter V. Spencer, of Rockland, pa
piled in the lumber trade bette
Bangor and other Maine ports bat
he sold her this year.-Sailors' Mga
zine
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CAMPS for the Cause

When springt!me comes New York
state will be dotted with little white
tents futtcring with purple. green AMI
white Tags. The passerby who pauses
to decipher the legend Votes for Wo-
men 1876 over the entrance will re-
ceiyc button and an armtul of lit
eraturc at least: perhaps a whole
speech on suffrage. If the suffragists
have anything TO say about it he will
also sign "a pledge to vote, Yes" on
the amendment which New York. 81 ff--
frasists expect To have submitted to
the electors in November, 1915. -.-.
The camps are the latest manifesto
ton in the outdoor suffrage movement
Which began with Gen. Resale Jones
and her fresh air crusaders. Maine
sGfr1assls should camp on the trail
vi Democratic pledge brealiers.
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prohibition places as "hellish stuff.
The charge is true: it is-but it is
shipped direct from the wholesale
booze houses in Boston and elsewhere
and it costs no more to send good
booze by express than it does to send
"hellish stuff" We believe that Gus
knows no difference; in fact, we are
convinced, after shedding the most of
our thatch and watching events
meanwhile, that it is ALL 'hellish
stuff"
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Monday, March 81, 1918.

The Rockland Opinions editorial on
Governor Haines and the enforcement
of law, came at an inopportune mo-
ment-coincidently with the Cover
nor's call for Impeachment proceed
inss against delinquent sheriffs.
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the counter IN apparently harmless
note from u young woman to her
husband. i nished with the rather
conveniently ding '10,000 X which
plainly ncarnothing more than what
the foar or u year old.boy comNonly
sends to III snps heretofore h& has
berned to " r. u
But the of IL possibly no great en-
thusiast for ell CHILDISH lyricism, held
the messagep and asked what was
meant. L.
KISSES lid the young woman.
wonderins ftheE he were ignorant
or disheliev4
"Bu. WhG 10 you mean by kisses o.
replic,, the ffieial who Was by no
means satisa with the answer
"Th- lissaa wife. Of course." said
the woman
"But howfe we to be sure ?'F asked
tie man. "Isnay mean bombs. or even
forbidden lbs. We cannot accept ci-
pier messaes and we must be quite
certain tha rhe senders of kilograms
really measlIterally what they say.
And as Ii official was not at all sure
of tie HtasN accuracy of the 10000
X that pa of the message was ulti-
mately sl 1fessed.
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Editor S Letter Box

The publication of a letter In this
department is not TO be taken as an
endorsement of its views by the
Kennebec Journal This column is
maintained for the discussion OF
matters of general public interest
when kept within bounds of reason
and not of a libelous or abusive
nature.
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HARD JCk OF URiANkHAI.
Forest Dwslers Who Have Survived
the March of Civilization.

The Uri1khai are a poor semlno-
nadic tribe Who have been driven into
the recss&k OF one of the most dii,'-
cult add hnote regions OF ASIA "
stronger aEancing hordes OF fartafs
and Sifsissi Russians.
They sd Ia dwell in better lands
on the Siberian side, but now they are
ali within tie Chinese Empire IN 'hs
peculiar zasantain-locked basin arouii"
the s,urtszI6f Abe Yenisei.
Long. r. ago there was a race "
nes,s,,A ~ 1nhabited the banks oil tiie
*ef 4, Biberia. who titled the son
and &orked metals. They made stone
imple me lis until they learned how
f,ake bronze ones, and later they at
fatned IN tbe knowledge of IRON
Tbev covered The fana with gigantic
grave mounds, the burial places OF
,beir sssespey drew. tJlctures on the
ra,,Ks aiI wrote fieir strange picture
Is:s,s,,a E. hereby giving us clew to
t3sir {cntity and helping us to know
s5netlng about Them
uorss of men from the South, how
ayar owe them out of this good land.
a,,a t.ys relocated TO the far North,
9 ha,a hey seEkxist They live there
81 ! ,eaktlahf ef tunda.g within the
Arctic are called sam
av.s.,ss n lIliflvx 1ieoplc who have re-
turnea MSnet q the status Of the
Bnt 4 ipsr tion sof tho, tribe remained
for : tbie1x gradually retreated
farthet &tn mac cessibie forests to
no solnfh n1Itf East. where we now
ind III ffn&nf in the remote cor
,ers ii {z4psr Yenisei Basin.
Ths.ss fhe6a ,riankhai. the forest
lwelhr Ia some call them, the
Wild 4 - fss Here they survive
he xs3 K 4. iyiliza ton that passes
acreS IN ~ the north and south;
berS4 III heir reindeer, living on
tt,s& &S ff1 e2fb ar meat and clothing
the gin sheir skins.
fAt&de food firch- bark aud rein
de<r araj the sole neeessitics
Tbek "A ssi sfhe simpls life
wid world Magazine. r
6a'G6f ihd delights ofss the man
who's Fhvbby is the Collecting OF
mint Is is that, sooner or later, most
of tbFcolectors. get tired of their
treas kes and auction them off. so
maj kaer aconectors. get a chance to
own hem The newest opportunity
~ Is sdat VII be tEe sale of Emer-
son seaIiufh's. colIectfon. which in
cludes corots famous "orpheus and
E.uryrce' ami four other Corots'
MiIe azzelir examples of Troyon'
eighua& bictslresf by George lnness
and Other Potable eanvases.
Fif 560torcs cles have been ordered
by n {}restry department of PenhsSl-
syani@ IN Abe use Of rangers on tf'e
.resel} III the state.
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ROSE OF SHARON CHAPTER, NO.

Is, o. Il. s. Stated meetings the first
Wednesday evening OF each month at
80. All members sojourning In the city
are invited to attend.
FRANCESE NJ IfAZLEWOOD, w. NJ.
ELIZABETH A. THOMPSON. Sec.
aug2S, m-w-f,tf
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The st. Louis water system Is saiu
to have netted in eight years a loss u
S1,O22,6lS to the taxpayers by reason
of too low rate for SERVICES isa'es
may be raised.
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AUGUSTA LODGE DIRECTORY
bethlehem LODGE, NO. IS. r. g

\. NJ. Special communication, Monday.
March 81. at L. NJ. with work in NJ.
Nj. degree. Supper at $50, followed by
Past Masters night. Work in NJ. NJ de-
gree. All soiournng brethren are cor
daily invited to attend.
CHESTER 5. KINGSLEY, w NJ.
PEARL Z. FULLER, Secretary.
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II Ia ALL "HeIlish Stuff"

A booze trust inspired" writer Of
the Biddcford Records says, among
other rot: t&s
",rhe writer of the Kcnnebec Journal
editorial asks dramatically who sold
the poison that inspired the Hardy
and Davenport tragedies. Outlaws
sold it, outlaws who the product
"a "a of the bad and hypocritiea law which
@4A he defends, persons who would not he
1EssA permitted for a to sell their
heIlish stuff in violation of the pure
food every other law in any OF
the other New England states where
u sane policy prevails in regard to
the sale of intoxicating liquors"
g. ~ Our amusing friend takes himself
so seriously that he forgets that the
only thing he S asking for is the plac-
# gan long pase ing of his refered-t outlaw oppi
Mo IRE femme, of responsibility. and as Tres
80 active rextraint are decent men who
"a happ deal in the necessities and luxures Of
humanity, instead of poison
Every one will recognize our Bidde-
ford friend as a recent convert 20 the
rum cause, because he starts
Z right in at the beginning ofs National
4 sbeIa4ae Liquor DealssA a association
i.id and apparently expects his
"A otbelieve those old lies as
.24 - IN u do. People Of these days
sflssN ia 3sSsata.3 af,le dishonesty Of the posi-
- Konsl Oh publication which per
80 - fines all law and supports
~ sfic for the crimes and hor-
AMN - HkSH grow out OIL. n
I've never been able to see{ba
&c in the moral statusf n,l4s
~. ..sio earns his nvelihoe than
asaey. in retailing marble bar
1872 m to humanity oyZ one who
~ds license state s91 bootleg in the
paper. q "a booze frornlo On cities,
N4 kstAAF ras q END may be COM
XVI p111 aadefofIe between ..hellish
sS33a$Sss ~ Walton of prohbitory L
8aRhtSt0% To. openly 10 stagger |
ze<efore Inf NJ = kshildren in Boston,
SpeaI eFs Isssisl 20. efer TO think
mint A 70 the 80. = the booze
pf The adopuo = ~ NiaoSi g
kxerners for Il @4d md. BSsue, I,
euitoH, sheriff 8. 49, - liah't !
krIand. 10 amt - Z f-1sf.gs.
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AUGUSTA LODGE. NO. 141, 3. G. a

NJ Stated communication, Tuesday
evening, April lst. Al soipufning, breth-
rem are cordially invited to attend. "a
z WM +. IEAN1TTS ~. M
W. a. JACKSON, Sec.
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a completely equipped laundry car
has heen installed on Russian rail-
sile travel
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York Transcript: Mrs Michael Nc
kenna is rejoicing over the recovery
of her wedding ring, lost about nine
years ago. Frank Donnell while
launching a boat Sunday, noticed
something shiny in the marsh mud,
and picking it out found that he had
a ring. Upon inquiry it proved to be
The lost wedding ring, for which Mrs.
McKenna and the family had made "a
long search. Just how the ring hap
pened to be in the mud is mystery.
1t is apparently none the worse for its
long submersion.
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Norway Advertiser; Mrs. Julian
Brown has in her possension quilt
which was made by her mother, the
late Mrs. Clarissa Glines Knapp, the
material of which came down from
Revolutionary times. The quilt Is
made in red and black and is prettjly
quilted in a variety of designs, in the
form of flowers squares, diamonds, etc,
The red material of the quilt Iwas made
from Mrs. Browns great -grandfather's
scarlet coat, which he wore when an
officer in the Revolutionary War. II Il.