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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-14
"Asleep at the Switch p

/ One of the Governors champions de
ciares that Democratic newspapers haN'
been making inSinuatioilS concerning HlS
failure To sign the 50i-mile mileage bill
We are not aware that any t'emocfaut
newspaper has made any lhsinuatiots
about the matter. But CURIOSITY nsS nos,
when he tucked this measure In pigeoi
| hole forgot II or whether he let II rs
| there for the purpose OF detearrhhs ii, IN
was important, 1t had been the suo!eo'
| of much controversy. Now IL is an
/ nounced that after 1t had been passed .
second time the Governor tucked III III u
| pigeon hole, and 1t slumbered there iot
two months before IL became gehefanA
known that IL was not among the laws
which had been duly approved. 1t Is not
an insinuation for a Democratic news
paper to ask whether the Governor for-
got the bill or whether he knew u MAS
asleep in that pigeon hole. iil o,her
words, was the Governor himself asleep
at the switch or did he deliberately SIDE
track the bill? IL the Governor sees AT TO
answer the question the columns OF tne
Sentinel are open to hiih.-Nate
Sentinel
Asleep at the switch" is good. COM
ing from II self-eonfessed newspaper,
and used I'm connection with TIE status
of the mileage bill of the last Legisla-
ture. Our amusing exchange of the
Pattaugall persuasion is busy. as usual,
attempting to fool some one. Just now
II would carry the understanding that
Governor Haines has been very seere-
tive regarding his position on the mile
age bill. and that the general public
had been duped.
Exactly contrary to this pretense and
the furry thar certain Democratic pa
pers. in their ignorance or perversion,
are making, the entire matter was CIV
en- the public by the Kennebec Journal
on April Is, and the article was quite
generally referred tc by the press in
Maine and other states. At that time
we discussed the status of the bill at
length, quoting the law. constitutional
provisions of this and other states, and
reporting cases and court comments
in several states.
And that is not all. At banquet i'm
mediately following the Adjournment
of the Legislature, Governor Halnes.
we believe publicly gave the status OF
the mileage bill.
So il would seem not to have been the
Governor who was asleep ut the
SWITCH" but the Sentinel and its any
thing to look like discredit- for the
administration associates.
Governor Haines veto message gave
his reasons for opposition to the 500
mile book law He has made no secret
OF his opposition. The Pattangafl
crowd may have just awakened to the
facts but any attempt to make cam
paign timber out of it is iaushable to
those who have been awake all the
while.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-14
Coming Events

June 15-1S-Hebron Academy Com.
mencement.
n. Jans l ls.ls-Kent's Hill Seminary Grad.
june lS-l9-Maine G. A. r. Encamp.
ment, Portland
June ls-is-Annual Encampment wo-
mans Relief Corps, Portland.
June 19-Thornton Academy Centennial
Saco.
June 2o-Maine Pathological Assn. Fox
June 21-25-Coiby Commencement.
June 22-25-Bates Commencement.
June 22-8-Bowdoin Commencement.
June 25-2f-Matne Pharmaceutical AS
ISOLATION, Peaks Island
June B-Dedication of Soldiers Monu-
ment, Denmark.
July 3-Eastern Yacht Club Cruise to
July 1i-York Club Entertainment at
july 17-S-Joint Coast Defense Mancu-
vers. Fort Williams, Portland.
Aug. 4-13-Annual Encampment OF I'd
Maine Reg't;, Augusta.
Aug. 7-9-Bath Carnival
Aug 1l-22-Christian Endeavor Summer
school, Charleston.
Aug. 1i-Levant's Centennial Celebra-
Aug l5-24-The Allen campmecting,
August 19-2o-21-waldo County Fair. at
Aug. l9-2l-Cornish Agricultural Asso-
citation Cornish.
Aug. 5-2S-Androscoggiu County Fair,
Iivermore Falls.
Aug ss-2s-uoulton Agricultural socie-
Aug. 26-29-Eastern Maine State Fair.
Bangor. ~ r..i..o
sent 2-S-Orrington Fair. Orrington.
Sept. 2-i-Northern Name Far Asso-
citation, Pressure Isle.
sept. 2-i-fIaneock County Fair. Blue
M; sept. 2-5-calais Fair Association, Ca
Sent. s-Popular vote on two proposed
Amendments to Maine Constitution.
sept. gil = North Penobseot FAR
tSenf e-fi-Oxford County Agricultural
Society. South Paris
sent. 9-l2-Central Maine County, Wa
terville. .. r;f,oo,,h po.;-
mental Association at Lewiston.
Sent. i9-Embden Fair. Embden:
Sent. 1i-l6-Maine Womens Christian
sent i6-ls-West Washington Agricul-
turaI Association. Cherryfield.
sent 16-1S-Cumberland County Agri-
cultural and horticultural Society, Cor
ham. az vra,, po,ohscot Agri.
cultural Society, Monroe.
sent 2i-95-Cumberland Farmers Club,
Cumberland. .,a.,
M sent. 2s-25-North Knox Fair, Union:
Sent, S0-Oet. West Penobscot Fair,
Sept Sept ao-Oct 2-Frankln County Fair,
fa acf ngssi"Maine Musical Festival. Ban
sooct 6-S-Maine Musical Festival, Port
land 49,, Ao.on A,r,ou,-
tural Society. Acton. ...
oct. N-Si-Maine Teachers Association,
Bangor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-14

the cungregatio has dwindled from
hundreds down TO one. and where.
when 4 vestry meeting was called To
elect q peoples warden, only the vi
cars wife attended. and she Was APP
pointed to the vacant Office
In defending his teachings that
ghosts do appear in the ancient vicar
age, which was built about POO years
ago, the Rev. Mr.. Tweedale says:
THE only difference between my SER
mons and those of hundreds of clergy
is that / do not preach only on the
hearsay of 1000 years ago, but prove
the ancient gospel by quoting instances
of physical phenomena that have &C
CURED in my own home. this house.
ron one occasion. for example. an
aunt of mine, who died five years ago.
appeared to us all one Christmas even
ing. She was dressed in It long, white
flowing robe resembling lace. She came
right through the wall and walked
/, right through the Christmas tree.
"WhenI got up to grab her she ran
away through the door.
u called to my wife and two others
who were coming up the passage TO
stop her, and / hurriedly followed.
The two tried To stop her IN the pas
sage. but she passed right through
them.
LAS my wife grabbed at her we all
heard tbut could not see) n ghost dog
loudly barking on the stairs, as though
protecting his spiritual mistress.
I'VE have all seen it many times
walking with my aunt. Even my ut
tie girl. Dorothy who was about .
wears old at the time. saw the dog run
round a room and under bed.
MY other children and Tour lhde
nendent passersby told me atferwafa
that they had seen ghost dog run
ming about my front garden III pfoao
daylight. I'll
ARTICLES move about in broad
,amplight, ornaments dance about on
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-14
June Crop Outlook.

with bumper wheat crop so far
along toward maturity and other field
crops coming along with bright prom
Use of similar high yields, the third
great harvest in yearly succession
looks to be assured. IT is not just like
counting chickens before they are
Matched. because one cannot see the
good or bad qualities Of an egg SO far
ahead Of Matching. 1t is safe to say
that prospects are better than at this
time last year. when a comparatively
bad start eventuated in a record
breaker.
The government estimates for June
form the basis for these optimistic pre-
dictions. the fuIfillment OF which will
beepeak at least another year of pros
perity for the producer and a lowering
of the cost of living for the consumer,
together with an unbroken season of
high railroad earnings and fiattering
dividend showings. The world de-
mand for our surplus bushels is taking
our farm products abroad in unpre-
cedented volume, with no indication
that conditions which give rise to the
movement will undergo any unfavora-
BILE change this year.
Europe's extraordinary requirements
owing to military operations having
drawn a host of producers into the
consuming class. ii is inevitable that
the heavier drain on the agricultural
countries, will operate against glut
that otherwise might be experienced.
1t is the official opinion. however, that
tile lower trend of prices that has been
in progress in recent months, viii
reach ia new A&yei fer the movement
whicIls began last winter. the larger
yield again compehsating the farmer
Tor concessions to the consumer.
A government bulletin lets us SCI
that the staple articles are 81 per cent
cheaper than iast year, 81 per cent
unders19ll, and 81 per cent. less thar
in 1910. A three-year period Of album
dant harvests is of such rare occur
renee that economy experts are har'
put to find parallel upon which t.
base estimates as regards the probabi
percentage OF decline between the sec
ond and third years OF the series. Yves
OF the AilegheIies and south of tn
Potomac and the Ohio. no hint is hear
Of . check to development and goo
times. The increasing acreage piante
to the principal crops, grains and tex
tiles, has driven the crackers fror
their last stronghold the theory tina
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-14
Troublesome Facts of Life.

In these days when the flower OF hu-
man existence is unfolding rapidly,
petal by petal of wisdom and under
standing of Gods laws, We are at just
the beginning of perfecting the genera :
lions far ahead. We are just at the
commencement of acceptance OF the
divine law that the sins of parents
shall be visited upon their children
and their children's children down
through several generations. The al
coholic and the degenerate are peopi-
ing the earth with feeble minded, Ill
formed and depraved. Yet we allow
them to go on in their thirsts. their APP
petites and their passions, because Oh
|our own silly acceptance of that time
honored idiocy. personal liberty
which. being plainly interpreted. means
license to make of ones self pubic
menace.
| The fourth international congress on
school hygiene to be held at Buffalo
L Tie last NCck III Au6uSss iiNNA NoN1 -
An exchange refers to Eugene Brieux's
great sociological drama to be present
led there as initiating new epoch in
EciviIization. 1t is suggestively entitled
Damaged Goods
I The story of the play centcrs IN the
disaster which befalls a young man
who marrics in defiance of his physici-
lan's warning. that he is unfit to be-
come the father of a family. The con-
| sequences are overwhelmingly tragic.
| His child is born to life of suffering
4 and shame; the young wifes Illusion Of
a noble love is irretrievably destroyed,
1.-THE grandmother, crying out in bitter
ness of her grief. would offer up her
Esoul as a sacrifice for the tainted off
spring but all is useless. From this
| climax of tragic woe the author builds
his message of hope for future gen.
era ton which shall not be handicappe,
by a conspiracy of silence concerning
the Fundamental facts of life.
Speaking through the physician D
the play, the author pleads not onl,
for health certificate with every mar
rage license, but he urges cleare
understanding of the mysteries of ma
ture for the rising generation. the gen
Grafton which is to be armed will
knowledge to combat the evils which
attiict the world today.
One of the special sessions to be he'll
at Buffalo will be devoted to the sub
ject Of sex hygiene. Among the speak
ers promised for this session are: DR.
Charles w. Eliot. president emeritus o
:. Harvard University; Professor Thoma
Nj. Ballet, dean of the School Ct Ped
agogy, New York University: Presiden
William 7. Foster, of Reed College
Portland oregon, and the Honorable
Philander +. Claxton. United State
!, Commissioner of Education.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-14
Our Magazine Section.

With this issue the Kennebec Journn
offers it's readers a magazine sector
which it is confident will meet witt
favor. 1t is Maine Rural Life and
we intend that II shall live up to its
name. 1t will be published twice a
month for 4 time and, later. if oul
readers desire. will become a weekly
addition to the regular news daily.
This 70 pages extra reading matter
iszoffered at no additional cost to our
subscribers. 1t comprises much more
than the value ! the average weekly
paper, particularly the agricultural
magazines published outside of Maine
and so largely circulating here. be-
cause it is loaded with the wisdom of
experts on the topics which are cover
ed, and Of vital interest to Maine farm
ers5 and Others
One of the chief aims of this maya
zine section is to spread the gospel OF
Pine Tree advantages and to teach the
methods of obtaining the most and
best ont of life in Names rural sec
ttons. We believe these topics are of
more than passing interest to large
proportion Of our city readers, as well.
1t IS intended in this compact form to
present our readers with much valua-
hle information that many Will be glad
to- preserve for reference.
Without previous introduction we are
sending this little stranger to Kenne-
be- Journal friends. confident that 1t
viii make place for itself. It's editor,
Edward H. Kelley. is a Maine news
paper man Of long experience. lie
has held positions Of responsibility,
requiring ability, tact and integri-
ty, for 4 score OF years. He has
made a study of the Maine field and he
knows the people of Maine. For years
he has been managing editor of one OF
the. largest newspapers in Maine. and
his wide acquaintance with public men,
is distinct advantage in securing
the class of matter desired for the
Maine Rural Life section of the Ken
nebec Journal
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-14
The Main Truck; or Leap for Life

The Main Truck; or Leap for Life
old Ironsidcs at anchor lay
In the harbor of Mahon'
A dead calm rested on the bay
Tile waves to sleep had gone
When little Hal. the captains son.
A lad both brave and good
In sport, up shroud and rigging ran
And Oh the main truck s'oou'
A shudaer shot through every Ncin'-
! All eyes were turned on hiSht
There Stood the boy. with dizzy braill'
s Between the sea and SKY;
No hold had he above. below
q Alone he stood in arr
yro that far height none dared to GO
No aid could reach him there
sWe gazed. but not man could speak,
With horror all aghast-
In groups, with paliid brow anu cheeh'
We watched the quiNcrins mast,
The atmosphere grew thick ana not
And of lurid hue
AS riveted unto the spot
Stood officers and crew.
The father came on deck:-he gasped'
20 God; thy will be donet
Then suddenly a rifle grasped.
And aimed it at his son.
Jump far out, boy. into the wave
Jump, or | fire, he said.
THAT only chance your HE can saee'
Jump. jump. boy" He obeyed.
He suuk-he rose-he Iived--he moved
And for the snip struck out
on board we hailed the lad beloved
With many n manly shout
His father drew, in silent JOY,
Those wet arms round his meek.
And folded to his heart his boy
Then tainted on the deck.
George Pope Morris.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-14

the piano and tables, and on one &C.
casion my children We're playing i'll
the Sitting room when all the chairs
were knocked over one by one. Great,
heavy armchairs, some Of them.
But on one occasion only did ths
spirits do any real damage. We found
a valuable set of bedroom ornaments
broken. The spirits had forgotten to re-
move them from the dressing table be-
fore. they moved it about. f
so / asked the spirits If they would
please not break any more goods, and
ever since then they have not done SO.
"They frequently throw things at my
wife, evidently to attract her attention..
| was in the room alone with her On
cne occasion, and, looking up,- saw "A
large bunch of keys coming swiftly
toward my wife. II hit her ON the
back of the head and bounced off On
to the floor. 4
The spirits are not always an an
noyance. On one occasion, while sitting
before the fire with some relations. u
level case suddenly dropped between
u.s.
The door and window were shut SO
that we could not tell whence it came.
1t was covered with mould and moss
and very decayed. Opening it we found
a bracelet and few other articles of
ieweIrv. which we recognized as some
my mother had lost twenty years be-
| fore
Investigators from the Phyehical Re-
search Society have visited the vicar
age and after careful investigation
| have convinced themselves that all
these phenomena have really taken
place.-New York American.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-14

Astronomical gardening comes in
for strong censure from House and
Garden. Floral suns and moons. it says,
are out of place on lawns. and so is
the outgrown rowboat doing service
before the house as a container of scar
let geraniums." "Shun the isolated bed
as though 1t were plague-infested," it
urges. and use the opportunities offer
ed by the graceful possibilities of bor-
ders and edgings.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-14
Maine Gossip

1.-The kennebec Journal has col
lection Of old poems, many OF which
are frequently requested by subserib-
ers. These will be published from
day to day at the head of this column.
Ed
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-14

II Congress is TO shut itself off from
information by Furnishing the sources.
things have come to a fine pass For
what some congressman who are given
committee places, don't know about
general affairs would fill a Carnegie IL
hrs ~
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-14

.r,ere is a weird appeal in the story ..
the amazing. ghostiy v's,ta,ions a.
haunted yicarage of Weston All oaa,..a
near otley. Yorkshire, where p et the
Of the spiritualistic teaching "a .'e
,,icar the Rev. Charles l.. i"eeu'''e'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-14

Some good suggestion for making
usa of eorncobs is desired. The corn
crop of the United States i'll 1872 was
3. 16e, 900, 600 bushels. with an average OF
fourteen pounds of eobs to each bushel.
or more than twenty-five million tons
of cpbS Ii
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-14

The first common schools tapilsheu
by legislation In America were In Mas
sachusetts in 1645. but the first town
school was opened at Hartford, Conn.,,
prior to 1912. 90
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-14

the country has reached the maximum
point of production agriculturally ana
must face the hardships of decline.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-14

The Americans spent s6oooeo,ooo last
year for music. This does not count
what the people of Boston pay for hay
ing musical chief executive.-Boston
Advertiser.
Sweet Adcline7 is free, gratis, for
nothing?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-14

In the fall of 1911 the Boston Cham
Der of Commerce presented to the peo-
ple of New England an Industrial and
Eduea tional Exposition, consisting OF
many of its manufactures and pro-
ducts. The exhibition was very sue
cessful, having representative exhibits,
a large attendance, and a definite ad-
vertising value to New England which
has been shown by the great impulse
given this section of the country by
later developments. The possibilities
thus opened have led several of the
Cham of Commerce of the New
England cities to the belief that the
time is ripe to again bring to the
front the great question of New Eng
land supremacy, but this time on a
much greater scale. With this end IN
view. the management has secured the
endorsement and approval OF the
Chamber of Commerce, Boards oil
Trade. and Business Mems Associa-
tons of all New England, and with
their cooperation will unite in one
great comprehensive Exposition to be
held in Mechanics Building, Boston,
from October 4th to November LIST, in-
lcllsive, 1913. Maine will be very
prominent exhibitor with her asrlcui-
ltural superiority. manufacturing
strength, aud educational advance
ment.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-14

The New York Post has discovered
us as follows:
For those who disdain the Gillette
|luxuries of the average summer hotei,
with its modern comforts and facliitles
for recreation of every cultured SORT
who crave instead the charms OF the
backwoods, with meals cooked over an
open fire and the odor of balsam LOT a
sleeping tonic, for such as THESE the
Maine woods are the ideal place ioi
the summer vacation. 1t may DE, as
some men have said. that there are
MOSQUITOES in the Maine WOODS, aiso
ticks and pestiferous insects OF divers
kinds and bites; but then there art
those who would carp at the scenery %
paradise. One may dismiss them Win
the sniff of disdain their pusiilaniHllty
merits. The fact remains that sports
mon and women in their thousahos
Hind pleasure and forgetfulness in an
nual pilgrimages to the trout and sal
mon streams and the game-flled forest
stretches of the northeast State. 1t Is
| for people who hunger for the zest. OF
/ the primitive that Maine has most I.
offer. You can go elsewhere and fint
1 The same creature coHiAoi 70 90 a.. -
lpensed along the coast in scores OF re-
sorts in other states. But howher'
lthis side of the Rockies, perhaps, car
you find such a happy hunting rount
for the man or woman whose 1uvehii'
iinsticts now and then gain the asceh
ldency. The backWoods of the Stat
afford one of the pleasantest possibii
tiles for isolation obtainable on TIM
continent. They are virgin wilderness
untrammelled by the steel rails OF tn
railroad, accessible only by portag'
and carry and canoe-trail; yet they ar
within reasonable distance of the chic
centres of population in the East, am
a man who sinks himself in thei
midst does not bar himself absolutel.
from more or less necessary intercours
with his kind"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-14

BY looking over today's real
estate ads. you will be able to
forecast some of the assured real
estate sales Of the very near tu-
turo. ~,.a...s..x..A .LAaAa -.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-14
GHOST IN A V'CARAee'

Haunted House in Yorksn'ue w." n..;ao.
spirituaiist of Pastor VINO ''s''o'
In II. $
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-14

And now kingsbury Piper, that Pat
|tangallian Bowel declares that GER
tain interests are buying up his ref
erendum petitions on the public utili-
ties law. Help, and again help But
perhaps if Kingsbury would tell us
what he's paying his collectors and
give us some hint to the standard
buying up price we could suggest a
solution. BY the way. couldn't you DE
a bit more explicit. Kingsbury, regard
ing the certain interests
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-14

AS a speciaI meeting of the Portland
school committee. Wednesday, in the
office of the superintendent of schools,
teachers for the ensuing year were
elected, and the rules of the board
We're amended SC that the fall term
of the schools will open one week later
than usual, and next spring will close
one week later in June than they do
this wear. DR.. Cammett for the COM
mittee on rules reported in favor Of
changing the school year so that the
term will close one week later in June
and resume one week later in Septem-
Der, thus giving the scholars the ad-
vantage of an additional week in the
fall when the weather is usually of the
best.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-14

The Bangor News sets forth the
eitv's stressful circumstances as tol-
lows.
s According to present indications
Bangor will be without street sprink-
ling for week or more as j. FRANK
Green, who had the contract for the
past year, withdrew his outht
Wednesday night and the city author
tiles have made no arrangements for
the care of the streets. until next Tues
day night. when the question OF
awarding the contract for the ensuing
year will be threshed out