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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-20
Postmasters Going to School.

Republican congressman declare
that the Wilson Burleson scheme To
make the postmasters stand an open
competitive examination is nothing
more than a. plan to get rid of a lot Of
Republican office holders. They say
that both President Wilson and Post
master General Burleson should know
that a great number of men acting as
fourth class postmasters who have
held such positions for years with
credit cannot pass the Civil Service
test and that they will be superseded.
The Civil Service Commission does
not deny that many postmasters viii
be superseded by reason of their
failure to. pass the required examina-
ton, but they do declare that politics
will not enter into the selection Of
their successors and that no matter
what the politics Of the person making
the highest mark that person is to get
the place.
We have heard no claim on the part
OF the administration that present
fourth class postmasters are inef-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-20
Maine Gossip
ST. Catherine of Sienna.

written for Strephon, who said that a
woman must lean or she should not have
his chvalry.)
The light young man who was to die
stoned i'm his frolic by the state
Arhast beheld the world go by;
But Catherine crossed his dungeon
gate.
She found his lyric courage dumb,
His stripping beauties strewn in wrecks.
His modish braVeries overcome;
small profit had he of his sex
On any old wife's level he,
Fer once-ror alb But he alone
Mau-must not fear the mystery.
The paHg, the passage, the unknown.
Death He did fear it, in his cell
barking amid the Tuscan sum-
And weeping. at her feet he fell.
The sacred, young, provincial nun.
She prayed. she preached him innocent;
She gave him to the Sacrificed
On her courageous breast he leant,
The breast where beat the heart of
Christ.
He left it for the block, with cries
OF victory on his severed breath
That crimson head she clasped her eyes
Blind with the splendor of his death
And will the men of modern years
stern on the Note-withhold from
Thou prop. thou cross, erect in tears,
Catherine, the homage of his knee
Alice Meynen
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-20
Mystic Valley GRANGE.

Mystic Valley Grange, East DxfieId,
at their last meeting conferred the
First and Second degrees on two can
didates and received one application
for membership. This Grange has ex-
tended q special invitation to the
North JAY Grange To meet with them
this Thursday evening. special pro-
gram is being prepared for their enter
tainment. e. w. Mckeen, lecturer of
the Maine State Grange was present
and gave a very interesting talk on
subjects which Mere very beneficial to
the Grange.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-20

ficient in service, or that they are
obliged TO hire clerical supervision of
money order reports. quarterly re-
turns, or mail route schedules. II
seems not that the Presidents order
is expected to improve the quality of
public service but that the school
master desires to hear their lessons.
If they are caught by technical terms,
that is their misfortune and some fell
low. perhaps less responsible and
conscientious but more alert, gets the
$3.50 job.
That may be as bipartisan as it is
claimed, but il smacks of Demo-
cratic desire to do something, II Ii
isn't quite so bright" 1t is on par
with the State Department spectacle
which at present is the joke of all
nations.
However, it is up to about 21,5oo
fourth class postmasters whose an
nual remuneration is $3.50 or more, to
go to school and brush up on ele-
mentary arithmetic and accounts
penmanship, letter writing and copy
ing addresses. A grammar school boy
could handle them, but the great ma
jority of country postmasters remem-
Der only the practical things of Their
school days, that their every day af-
fairs call for. The postmastership =
only a side issue at best.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-20

Sept 3O-Oct 2--Lincoln County Fair,
Damariscotta
:. Sept. 3o-Oct. 2-Franklin County Fair,
Pennington.
Oct 2-3-+Annual Cattle Show and
Fair. Hartland.
Oct 7-s-Shapleigh and Acton 12rieui-
tural Society, Acton.
S GnL 70 % nol%opsham Fair. ,o,og,c.,
Lewiston.
Dec; 22-27-Berwick Poultry Association
Berwick.
;. Jan: 40. 1s14-Bangor Poultry Associa-
don. BanKor
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-20
A Complaint.

Editor kennebec journal:
wonder If there is any limit to the
number of people the conductors will
take on the electric cars running be
tween Gardiner and Augusta, when i,
happens as it did yesterday, the nth
that there was not standing room and
women, aged ones at that. We're obliged
To rue Tor four miles or more on their
feet, lammed in among a crowd of men,
it is time some one was making com
plant, and the company provide extra
cars or cause the conductors to limit
the number of fares We don't want to
pay for being tortured.
An Observer
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-20
Zueblin After Progressives.

In the up-to- date philosophy OF
Uncle Ike" we find this: Prof.
Charles Zueblin. formerly of Chicago
University, now of Boston, member
and leader of the Progressive party,
writes long letter to the Progress
sive party organ in which he states
that the Progressive party has no IL
cense to live unless it takes a stand
for labor along socialistic lines. He
points out that the Socialist partS
is a class conscious organization, that
seeks to establish social democracy
in which the workers shall have the
full product" of their toll, but, be
says that the Socialist party is bound
to split over the syndicalist program
and so he calls upon the Progressive
party to move on to some of the
ground now occupied by that reyo-
utionary organization.
Zueblin admits that his party has
no logical ground to stand upon I'M
less they become a state socialist or
ganization. that is TO say, they must
become a labor party. standing Tor
labor along socialistic lines, such as
national ownership of public utilities,
and municipal socialism.
There is struggle now impending
between the so-called radical and
conservative elements of the Progress
sive party. If the conservatives win
the only logical thing for them To do
would be to join one or the other OF
the old parties, and on the other hand
if the radicals wins, then they might
as we'll go all the way and join the
Socialist party. Anyhow it's going
to be an interesting contest.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-20
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
son and not of a libelous or abu-
sive nature.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-20
Mariaville Granqe.

Mariaville Grange, p. of H., met Sat
urday evening Sept. IS, with 90 present,
including visitors. The committees
were chosen to conduct the fair to be
held at the hall. Wednesday, Oct 8: if
stormy, the first fair day. At recess
games were played.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-20

The Republican party of Massachu-
sets, which dropped last year, is wilt
ing still 1t is the Party of Yesterday.
The readers of newspapers. particularly
the readers of the reactionary news
papers, would be blind indeed if they did
not see that the group which controls
it, having given in the last session of
the Legislature one of their finest per-
formances of anti-progress, are now
whispering to each other. I'm this fight
between Walsh and Bird We must not
let Bird win at any costH-Boston
Journal
Sounds like some of the rot peddled
out in Maine up to Sept. s. But
wonders in the way of results are
bound to come to light and show
where the deliberate liars may be
found
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-20
Seduwick Cranue,

Sept. II Sedgwick Grange held it's
regular meeting with small attend
ance. The lecturer pro tenn. present.
ed short program. and the question:
Does 1t pay to raise chickens as late
in the fail as September" was discus
Sel
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-20

An editor who started about 20 years
ago with only So cents is now worth
100000 His accumulation of wealth is
owing to his frugaity, good habits
strict attention to business and the fact
that an uncle died and left him 500, 999-
Editor and Publisher.
Gpet
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-20
Let Us Laugh a Bit.
When Bobbie went to see his grand

When Bobbie went to see his grand
mother he was much increased in
whatever went on in the kitchen one
day she said to him: I'm going to
make You nice little pie in saucer,
all for yonI self. Don't YOU think I'm
pretty eood 10 take SO much trouble p
Bobbie pondered. Grandma, - he
said at lensth. mother told me not to
be bother, and if it's goin 10 be any
trouble, you can just as well make my
pie regular size"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-20
Maine papers have generally pub

lished the following item:
DR. W. II. Albright of Bellevue. Ohio.
recently read that Miss Annie T.. Merrill
of Pittston, Me. claims the tallest ge-
ranium in the country, with a specimen
which has attained a height of 81 in
ches. He now comes forward to dispute
the claims of Miss Merrill. He exhibits
one geranium 70 inches in height and al
other that has attained the proud emf
hence of "a inches. Neither is of climb
ing variety.
And Mrs. George Wish of Guilford
saves the glory of her State by show
ing a correspondent a geranium which
has reached the height of 80 inches.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-20
A subscriber furnishes a cheering
note as follows:

"K-A-of this town recently read
an editorial in your paper telling of
some man who had questioned your
truthfulness. Why. said X, my
brother once read in the Kennebec Jour
nal of Il man of the same name who
was i'll and could not recover. My
brother didn't read far enough to dis
cover that the location was different but
took to his bed and was breathing his
last before someone pretended to find
an item in the journal saying that he
was certain OF recovery That after
noon he slowed away four loads of hay
in a hot loft. "
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-20
Coming Events

Sept. 17-1S-19-Maine Women's Christian
Temperance Union Annual, Rumford.
Sept. 2l-Maine Federation OF Women's
Clubs, Lewiston.
Oct. 2-4-Mains Musical Festival, Ban
gor.
Oct. 6-s-Maine Musical Festival. Port
LAND
Oct. 16-li-Annual meeting of the
League of Postmasters of the third and
fourth classes at Augusta, Me.
Oct. 2z-Z4-Maine state sunday School,
Annual, Augusta.
Oct. sO-Sl-Maine Teachers Association.
Bangor.
November 6-7-S-Bangor Fruit Show.
Bangor.
Nov. Fifth Annual Session National
Grange Patrons Of Husbandry. Nanchss-
ter. N. II.
Nov. 1s-N-Maine State Pathological.
Lewiston.
December l5-16-17-1S - Maine State
Grange Bangor
Dec, 22-z1-berwick Poultry Association,
Berwick.
Jan "a. 1sl4-Bangor Poultry Associa
Sept. l5-20-National Encampment Re-
union, Chattanooga, Tenn.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-20
MAINE ea,p nArEs-


Sept. 1S-20-Waldo and Penobscot Agri-
cultural Society, Monroe.
Sept 16-20-Somerset Central Fair,
Skowhegan.
Sept. 2S-26-South Kennebee Agricultur-
al Society, Windsor
Sept 24-25-Somerset Agricultural So
ciety. Arson.
Sept 24-26-Cumberland Farmers Club.
Cumberland.
Sept. n-24-Unity Park Association.
Unity.
Sept. u-sk-North Franklin Fair. Phil
lips.
Sept. i1-1s-Machias Fair Association.
Nach1as.
Sept. 2s-25--North Knox Fair, Union.
Sept. 23-25-Bristol Fair. Bristol.
Sept 2-4-Cochnewagan Agricultural
Fair, Monmouth.
sept. z5-1-Piscataquis County Fair.
TOxcroft.
Sept. So-Richmond Farmsrs' Club,
Richmond.
Sept. 30-Oct. 2-West Penobscot Fair
Exeter.
Sept 30-Oct. 2-Newi Gloucester and
Danville Fair. Upper Gloucester.
Sept. 30-Oct. a-West Oxford Tair
Fryeburs.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-20

To cool the air far underground and
thereby permit the miners TO work long
err shifts the owners of a German coal
mine compress air at the surface of the
ground and pipe it through the workings
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-20
Bryan's Irritating Inconsistency
providence Journal.)

The American people, on the whole,
have had a not unkindly feeling to-
wards Mr.. Bryan. Even those who
opposed his aspirations towards the
Presidency. who doubted his capacity
for the high office to which the Pres
ident appointed him. have cherished
a hope that he might do credit to his
great opportunity. They have tried 10
think that his defects as a public man
We're superficial. that responsibility
would steady him, that he had the
mind and the purpose to do valuable
service for the nation. He has disaD-
pointed them. as he must have dis
appointed many of his admirers, by
the utter lack of any sense of propri-
ETY. he has recently displayed. The
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-20

When Mark Twain, in his early
days, was editor of "a Missouri paper
IA superstitious subscriber wrote 10
him saying that he had found a spider
in his paper and asking him whether
that was sign OF good luck or bad.
The humorist wrote him this answer
and printed it,:
"Old Subscriber: Finding a spider
in your paper was neither good luck
or bad luck for you. The spider was
merely looking over our paper to see
which merchant is not advertising, so
that he can so To that store, spin his
web across the door and lead life 81
undsturbed peace ever afterWard.
Shortly after a new administration
took hold of well-known southern
! railroad great number Of claims
| were preferred against the company
! on account Of horses and cattle being
| killed along the line in Kentucky. To
/ make matters worse it appeared that
every animal killed. however worth
less it may have been before the ae-
cident invariably figured in the
| claims subsequently presented as be-
, inS u me best Dloou IN hentucky.
| one day, in conversation with on.
, of the roads attorneys, the presiden;
! became very much excited in re-
/ ferring to the situation DO you
: KNOW" he exclaimed, bringing down
his fist on the desk, by way of en-
| phasis, Il have reached the conclu-
sion that nothing in Kentucky sc
1 improves live stock as crossing Il
with a locomotive"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-20

Lewis Burns, a Roekland boy who i
spending his minority at the State
School for Boys, South Portland, has
kept the police busy in the western
part of the State during the past week.
On September 6 he escaped from the
school in company with three other
boys. They were reeaptured the fol
lowing day at Brunswick On Wednes-
day night of last week Burns, who
was confined in a small room on the
! third floor of the central building. pried
| off an iron grating from his window
and reached the ground by means OF
Ia rope made from blankets. He made
his way as far as Woolwich before he
was again located by the officers.
Burns had an excellent record at the
school until the last year, when he
became unruly. He was sentenced
from the Rockland police court about
four years ago for petty larceny.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-20
Harmony correspondent

Harmony correspondence contains
the following facetious bit:
The high cost of living was fully DEM
onstrated in this town short time ago,
when several of our sportsmen Went UP
country few miles, trout fishing. The
fines run from SIS up, the highest being
s75
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-20
Plain Words for Mr.. Eryan.

tNeW YORK Trlbune.)
This country onee found it quite i'm
possible To din some very simple arith-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-20

One would hardly think to start in
to dig a mess of clans beneath the
paving stones of Main street in Bid
deford and even with what we know
of the matter we should hesitate TO
advise any one to make the attempt;
despite this, however, the fact remains
that the workmen engaged in digging
the big sewer on Deans hill have found
some very fair CLAIMS embedded in the
clay at depth of II feet, says the
Biddeford Journal. These clans are
small, less than half an inch in length
but are real clans for all that, al
though long since dead and turned to
stone. The specimens which are thrown
out by the workmen are embedded in
the blue clay and look exactly like the
small clans one digs from the sands Of
! is the same and the general build and
appearance identical. Evidently some
| thousands or millions of years ago the
ocean flowed over what is now dry
land in this vicinity and it was then
that these tiny CLAIMS (no large ones
are found were Matched and lived
their short lives. The stratum of clay
in which they are found has much the
consistency of putty and is blue as
MILESTONE" 1t reaches nearly to.the
i. top of the excavation and would be OF
the finest quality for brick making.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-20
Saturday, September 20, 1918.

When a person is down in the
world, an ounce of help is bet
ter than a pound of preaching.
-Bulwer.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-20
Mrs. Hunts Methods"

HalIowell, Sept. Is.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-20

CAPITAL GRANGE, NO. 24s, p. Or
II. Meetings I'd and 4th Saturday even
ings Of each month at G. A. r. hall.
THOMAS M. ENRIGHT, w. II.
MRS. G. E. TOOTHAKER, See.
aug22, tu- th-sat.lyr
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-20

written for Strephon, who said that
woman must lean or she should not nave
his chivalry.)
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-20
AUGUSTA LODGE DIRECTORY
ODD FELLOWS HALL.

ASYLUM LODGE, NO. 70, REGULAR
meeting Friday evening. Friday evening,
oct. 3, work in Third degree. Refresh
ments -
r r WESTON, Sec
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-09-12
To seoreaate "stupIds. /"

Addressing the convention of alien.
lists In session at Chicago, DR.. Henry
Fl. Goddard Of Vineland, N. j., de.
clared that slow and weak minded chill.
dren should be segregated and receive
special education. He asserted that
the average stupid child recruits the
criminal class when he is brought up
among normal children, whose educa-
ton leaves him still ignorant.
Often the stupid child Is the IA.
vored and petted one of the family.
and many parents do not, or will not.
recognize that child of theirs is
mentally deficient" asserted the
speaker. THE child thus becomes
spoiled. and becomes dangerous fac
tor In society.
Twenty-Five per cent. of the Grim.
inal class belong to the mentally back
ward; 80 per cent. of the prostitute
class and TO per cent. of the persons
In reform institutions are mentally de.
hcient-stupid." (
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-09-12
Many Like Smith,

Robert G. McCready, a we'll known
life guard Of Long Branch, recounted
some of his experiences as, brown and
sturdy, he paced the wind-swept
beach.
mo, no." he said, "the average per.
son you rescue doesn't give you a
check for million or offer you a part.
nership in his firm. The average per.
son you rescue is like Smith.
"A Philadelphia watchman saved
Smiths life one winter night when he
fell off the Race street wharf. The
watchman plunged into the icy water
after him and only got him out after
ten minutes terrible work amid the
floating ice. But Smith took the thing
as matter Of course. I'd a. done all
right alone If I'd "a been able to SWIM
he said.
"A month or 30 later the watchmap
asked Smith to help him move a pack.
ing case.
Nit said Smith. I amt NO
horse
II done more for you.' said the
watchman, one nightowhen you were
drowning
YES said Smith, hotly, and you're
no gentleman to cast 1t up to me
now"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-09-12
kIpIIno as an Actor.

A bibliophile took from a morocco
portfolio a yellow but well-preserved
copy Of the "Allahabad Pioneer" He
said:
This paper is valuable because II
describes Rudyard Kipling's first and
only essay at acting. 1t was in 1884
you see the papers date, Jan. II,
1884. And here is what the Allahabad
editor says Of Kipling as the villain in
Plot and Passion a melodrama:
Desmarets (Mr. Rudyard Kipling)
smiled and was villain of the more
pronounced type. To my thinking he
overdid some portions Of the business,
notably certain devilish delight over
the fall Of Nine. de Fontanges In the
third act He showed, however, an
undeniable talent for acting, much
power Of facial expression and an
enormous pair Of top boots. into which
from time to time he almost disap-
peared.'"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1913-09-12
CAT DIDN'T COME BACK
AT LEAST NOT TO DOMIcILE
WHERE 1T BELONGED.
Its Disappearance Something Of Mys-
terry to Mr.. Jones, Though He Is
Roast Of Beef to
the Good.

1t was found necessary to do away
with the family cat because she had
developed germs and the doctor said
1t was dangerous for the children. But
this cat was the children's particular
pet, so 1t was decided simply to have
her disappear, with no funeral or flow
ers or juvenile tears or tombstone In
the back yard. Accordingly the animal
was chloroformed and then Mr.. Jones
did the remains up in neat parcel Of
convenient shape and took them along
when he started for his place of busi-
ness in the city in the morning, intend
Ing to drop the package in the river.
In the train before the river was
reached Mr. Jones saw the package re-
posing In the rack above his head and
determined that was good place to
leave 1t. So when he started to get out
of the car he did not take the pack
age down.
Hey there, Jones! You're leaving
your package" called out friend. So
Jones turned back and got the pack
age.
On the boat he was surrounded by a
number of friends and realized that to
drop the bundle overheard in their
presence would require lot of expla-
nation and doubtless result in more or
less joking at his expense. So he took
the package to his office with him. He
saw the impossibility of disposing of
1t there and determined to get rid of
1t on the boat during the trip back
home.
But there again he was surrounded
by his friends Of the morning trip and
took the package to the train with him.
An attempt to get off the car without
1t resulted just as 1t had in the morn
Ing. Mr.. Jones thus found himself
returning to his home with the bother
some bundle and he knew the children
would meet him on the front porch and
Insist on knowing what 1t was. Accord
ingly he made his way home across
the back lots, deposited the bundle on
the kitchen porch and finally got to
the front of the house without detec-
ton. Fifteen minutes after he had
seated himself on the front porch with
the solution Of his great problem the
cook appeared.
Mrs. JONES'" said she, whats dat
extra roast Of beef out on the back
po'ch?"
Mr.. and Mrs. Jones both went back.
Sure enough the bundle contained
six-pound roast of beef
1t only remains to say this story is
q true one. The thing happened as
here written.
Mr.. Jones is still wondering whether
the man with whom he somewhere ex-
changed bundles had much difficulty In
disposing Of the remains of the dead
cat.