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

| Itllti : got a soul.
| / couldn't bff no gink what lives cut in
this subbub hole,
Gimme dem cans o. paint an truck. an
| that there winder screen;
| | may be rough all right but gosh,
amt that low-down mean"
| Galveston News.
And the packer shall return to the
Itender care of his sardines,
| Bryan in Maine proves another spoke
| in the Wilson policy wheel-"no pro-
lection, even for our countrymen in
other lands.
Pattangall and his superiors real
lied not only his value to the present
Democratic administration but also
the influence of the Third district elee-
ton on the coming State election
The spectacle of Bryan, secretary of
State lodging his official duties and
letting Americans in Mexico go hang
to help Maine political boss, is sig
nificaRt of the responsibility of the
whole administration.
Ht SpoSipti away ildht n
practice of more serious poetry at the
head of this column-but for some rea-
son, he dares to fit humorous squib
into the happy scheme of things this
morning.
1t is very, very dry at the home OF
the Portland Powerboat association,
The reason for it is that the deputy
sheriffs made call there Saturday
night and on Sunday morning carted
away 752 bottles of beer, seven quarts
of whiskey, IA quarts of cocktail and
seven quarts of gin. Deputies Her
mann, Doughty and Campbell visited
the club house Saturday night and af-
ter making careful search became
convinced that the liquor in the place
WAS kept in the lockers. They did not
want to break the lockers open and as
the janitor did not have the keys they
decided To wait until Sunday morning
for the arrival of the steward who,
they believed, could open them. Dep
uty Hermann was left in the building
to prevent anyone from carrying away
evidence during the small hours of the
night. Shnuuy iilbIUiDS Eouiid tue Otit-
| er deputies on hand but the steward
| did not appear early enough to suit
the officers so they removed the bolts
from the hinges on the locker doors
and took possession of the liquor found
therein. No arrest was made.
Rowland Thomas, author of "F'ati-
ma" is the son OF the Rev. l.. ]. Tho
mas, Congregational Minister. He
was born at Castine in 1879 and gradu-
lated from Harvard (sunma cum
laude) in 1901. Immediately after
wards he went to the Philippines to
teach and there gathered his first ma
terial for story writing. In 1905 he
leaped suddenly into fame by winning
the $4,000 Collier Prize from 10000 COM
petitors, with his short story Pagan"
and later gained further popularity
when his first novel was issued by
Little, Brown, & co. THE Little
Gods as it was entitled. and it had
| for its first chapt-r the prize story
Pagan" Mr. Thomas is wise beyond
his years and instead of exhausting
his energies and his abilities by
la feversh attempt TO maintain his
literary prominence he spends a
great deal of his time on his
farm at Duxbury, Mass. The Dux-
bury people have long since ceased to
point out the tall, Drowned young man
who walks their streets accompanied
| by a remarkably homely bulldog, as
the famous literary visitor within their
borders. They are proud of his talent,
las they used TO be years ago of the
Itriumphs of Fanny Davenport, who
also lived in Duxbury.
Reports have reached this Office of
La set of moving picture takers who
have been successfully working in
New England Their scheme is that
lof going into a town and contracting
with theatre manager of the Board
Iof Trade for the making of series of
local motion pictures. They set up a
dummy camera, without an inch of
film in it, turn it loose on anything
that anyone wants taken, and after
collecting u deposit they disappear to
Iparts unknown. Merchants have paid
for having their stores photographed
and residents pretty homes have paid
for having them filmed with their fam
iiies. only to find out that it is a
lswindle. This sort of thing has dis
ltinctly harmful effect upon the good
name of business, and exhibitors here
latter, when they notice any local film
ing being taken by strangers, should
lspeak to someone in authority and
have the proceeding investigated. This
gang that has been working New Eng
land is said to have an advance man
who arranees for as many dupes in "a
day as possible, and because the
} scheme is so novel they have been hav-
ing an easy time in getting victims.
1t is the old photo enlargement game
r OF years ago in new guise.
Many worked-out coal mines in
Pennsylvania are being filled in with