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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-27

Osbern's view of the differences be-
tween Republieanism and ProgressiVes-
He fails to detect any likeness. Let US
jog his memory. The first Progress
siye movement in Maine WAS the Ken
nebee Journals revolt against reel
procity. We fought it from the first
Last year $4,000 Republicans in the
Third district voted against Taft be-
cause of reciprocity. That was the
origin of the break from the old party
They turned to Roosevelt and the new
party as a means of rebuke.
Today, let us assure our Pittsfield
friend, these men are turning to Peters
as the best and most direct means OF
stamping their disapproyal of some
thing worse than reciprocity.
1t is the sign of the times in which
we are living, wholesome indication
of progress and intelligence-men of
sense and honor are bound To rebuke
betrayal of principle, moral or eco
nomic, in these days. As they rebuked
the great blunder Of Taft. SO they are
this year rebuking Pattangallism.
Pure political expediency can no longer
hold men to discredited issues or dis
honorable courses.
The same loyalty to home preserya-
a T. "a I1a
tangall and toward the only man in
the district who can and must defeat
the Pattangalf maehine-Hon. John A
Peters. Call them Republicans, Pro-
gressives or Democrats, the purpose
is the same and the end just!fies the
movement which is expanding daily.
We ask our friend to read our special
correspondence from Skowhegan today.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-27
Save the Birds!

Good! A committee fer the economic
Europe, and the movement 10 save
beautiful and rare birds from extinc-
ton. in the quest of feathers ia deco
rate women's heads. is likely to have
an international existence. This is
well. for America and England cannot
save all the wild birds alone-thougir
we, unaided, may save the white
heranS.
The greatest part of the work of saw
ing the birds has to be done with the
women of various countries. 1t is the
London Spectator" which truly says:
Woman. knowing nothing of the con-
ditions under which tropical pluma ee
is collected, and delighted with the fin
ished work of the millinery houses.
continues to rely upon osprey, paradise
and other plumeS for ornamental pur-
poses. They wear the skins and plumes
of birds as readily as they eat the flesh
of cattle. or of the lobster that has
paid the price of living by being boiled
alive" A great part of the work has
to be done in making women realize
the destruction and cruelty of il all.
1t is not as If women were to be de
prived of beautiful feathers by the sup
preston of the trade in agrettes
Ostrich plumes they will always have,
The beautiful rhea of South America
is, like the ostrich, being domesticated
and marketable plumes are annually
cut from the living bird. Many other
South American birds are tcapable OF
domestication in the same way. But
this is not the case with the aisrettes.
The continued trade in them means the
determination of the species under the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-27
Maine Gossip
The Soma of the Hill Trails.


Quiet runs the valley way
Where the river dreams.
and the winds go soft along,
Weaving into tender song
Happy moods and themes;
Upward where from mountain heart
Breathe the stormy gales,
And the while plumed torrents cry,
P1unging rocky barriers by,
Run the hilly trails
Oh, the high trails, the Hill trails,
The sunny trails of brown,
Seeing first the sun rise
And last its going down.
Ever do they call the heart
With their windingS far,
Iuring feet to follow on
Where peak is friend with start
Quiet runs life's valley way,
Gently for the feet.
But there vision fails the eyes
Looking to the narrow skies
Where mount and cloudland meet.
only on the mountain path,
Vision never fails;
Shmmering plains are far away
And beauty fingers night and day
On the hilly trails ~
OH. the high trails, the hill trails,
Lffe's lofty trails await.
Mounting through the flaming dawn,
The pilgrim heart elate,
Glorious are the visions there,
Far the eye can see
Wonders of the years agone,
Andiof the years 10 be. .HI5f
.e., 49, New York Sun
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-27
Asu
READFIEuD.

DEPOT-MrS. Murray and daughter.
Miss Catherine Murray. Barre, VI, who
have been passing two weeks with Mrs.
Murrays sister, Mrs. J. +. Mccormick,
left, Monday, for Portland, which city
they will visit on their way home
Mrs. Charles Alden, Boston, who has
been the guest of her sister. Mrs. II.
Gordon. returned home. Friday
Miss Frances Aden and Miss Inez
Wright returned from Peaks Island,
Saturday evening.
John Purcell. who has been i'll some
time Is improving slowly.
Mrs Murray and daughter, Miss Cath
crime Murray. accompanied by Mrs. j. F.,
Mccormick. enjoyed a visit, Friday, ar
the Capitol
Invitations, announcing the coming
marriage of Miss Blanche Aleha Gordon
and. Lucius Dwelly Barrows are re-
ceived, the wedding. evening of Septem-
Der s.
Miss Kate Dudley is stopping with Mrs.
NJ. J. Townsend, during. the absence OF
Mrs. VI. 5. Collins #8.{
Albert Brann. Belgrade and sisters,
Mrs. George Shepard of Lynn. Mass,
and Mrs. Flora Lyons of Oakland, Cal,
We're Sunday guests of Mrs. b. D. Brann
MIR. and Mrs. Frank Rackliff North
Wayne were sunday guests OF Mrs John
Purcell.
Charles Bckford, mother, Mrs Rick-
ford. and niece. Miss Alice Sanborn. were
guests. Saturday Of Roland Rowe, New
Gloucester.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-27

The East New Sharon correspondent
F. Jordon, uncle of Harry @. York,
lately met a sehoolmate whom he
hadn't seen for 81 years. They Wen.
to school in Durham together when
they We're children. The schoolmate
was Mrs. Belle Gilman. Near where
Mrs. Gilman lives is the hill called
Old Prescott. Who in the village re-
members of sliding down that hulP
Who remembers running down ola
Dan Witham coming down. that hill
on their sleds? It's all plain to us.
Poor Dan shuffied off this mortal coil
town charge, and no wonder.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-27
CAM 3 RIDGE.

Elijah King. on aged resident, is very
i'll with measles.
Frank Quimby, who has been i'll is
somewhat improved. DR.. Gilman
Clough of Dexter attends him.
Gladys Stearns and Lester Sinclair of
Dexter were recent guests of Mrs. j. Il
Gould.
Old Bailey Of Newport is a guest at
+. p. Rings.
Ina Sawyer has been Ill with measles
Earl Lowell will return. Thursday
to Chester. CT.
Harry Pond and Mrs. Lou Pond OF
Dexter, Sunday, were in town.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-27
The Woman Who Wouldn't Have
Babies

The following from the pen of Her
bert Kaufman, editor of Woman's
World, needs no introduction. no apol-
osy for offering to Kennebec Journal
readers:
There was that about the old woman
which instnctively chilled me. 1t was
plain that she had lived solely within
and for herself. supreme egotist
stern, unrelenting-yes. and bitter.
Ahead of us two women sat rocking.
"Georgette," I heard one say. take
my advice and don't have children. A
woman is fool to burden herself with
a family. 1t cuts her off from all the
fun of life, ties her down, robs her Of
every opportunity for enjoyment. Take
it from me. my dear, the patient. de-
voted mother is never appreciated. She
sacrifices herself to her husband and
the babies. loses her figure and her
complexion. deteriorates physically and
mentally and after awhile the husband
begins to notice the widow across the
way and acquires the Winter Garden
habit.
ITS the people who look out for
themselves that Stt Witdt NIUE app
ress exists on this earth. Look at
your mother. hardly fifty and already a
f'abby, tired, spiritless wreck. I'll bet
the old lady at my table is twenty
years her senior and she's a debutante
by contrast. That's the way TO grow
! old
Pardon me-" Something in the old
woman's voice brought me up with a
start. The stout girl jumped to her
feet and stood red and stammering.
Il didn't know you were there she
explained, az am sorry
The old woman ignored her. MY
| dear" she said. addressing the other, i
am sixty-five years old and am utter
| " alone and lonely--one huge ache OF
| longing-h hungry for something TO love
| end to love me, and / don't know no"
/ or where to hold out my arms. Youi
friend is fool; / know because | have
been one.
"A wife who doesn't want children Il
l abnormal and unfit for matrimony. An!
man who doesn't wish his wife To De
come a mother is degraded. | have
known few unhappy couples to whom
Providence denied the boon of paterni
ty. but their deprivation brought then
closer together-sorr6w IS we'll as hap
piness cements devotion.
= But marriage without the wish 70
babies is sheer animalism-and animal
t ism is not love.
ri BE real woman and fulfill you
destiny II you do not yearn to bea
children to the man who has chosel
' you, reject him. He is plainly tn
/ ,,.ti
come who will awaken in you the big
ness and fineness that God breathed in
to every woman-heart. Nature has de
r signed all sound beings for parenthood
I Upset her plans and she will punisl
| you. You are what i once was-i an
what you can become.
"At your age was beautiful an
= vain. Ny husband adored me. l real
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-27

Caribou correspondence tells us that
numerous reports are Being heard Of
bears being seen much more frequent
ly than usual this, ayeaFs Mr.. ,Wass,
who hasdrecently surveyed the Aroos
took Valley extension to the Quebec
boundary, reports bears as being num-
erous but quite afraid of man. In
Hodgdon bear is reported as having
killed q yearling heifer, and one has
been seen not great ways from Carl
bou village, so it is understood, Yves
lay Armstrong having seen one on his
farm only a mile or so from the vii
lage, one day last week.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-27

You cannot step twice into the
same stream. For as you are
stepping in other and yet other
waters flow on.-Heraclitus.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-27

New Brunswick where free trade pre-
walls
You know that this is a provabie
fact
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-27

Rockland Courier Gazette The re-
cent Jail delivery was one of the topics
discussed by the county commission
ers, Tuesday, with the result that the
clerk, Tyler NJ. Coombs, was instruct
ed to notify the Pauley Jail Building &
Manufacturing CO., of st. Louis of the
affair and request satisfaction. The
st. Louis concern built the Jail in 1892
under written guarantee that the
bars should be saw proof and file
proof Yet they were not proof
against the homemade saw which one
Henry Joseph Peters constructed from
a spring extracted from a dollar clock.
In short it appears to be comic OPP
era Jail just the kind that the friends
and sympathiZers of Harry X. ThaW
would like to have him sent to. me
commissioners also voted to remodel
the law library, installing additional
book cases. The work is to be done
by w. f. Schwartz of Camden and the
ESTIMATED expense is $500.
The following tribute to the memory
of r. f. Paine of Stratton, more famil-
iarly known to his neighbors, friends
and among sportsmen generally as
Seth" Paine, who died this summer
will be read with sad interest by his
hosts Of friends. 1t is written to tht
Maine Woods by Newton Newkirk Of
| Boston, as follows:
"Now that Seth has started on his last
trail. n flood OF "reminiscences comes tc
| me. 1t has been my pleasure to kno"
| Seth for several years and my pleasure
| to know many other men who havs
| known him longer than l. They vii
miss him as l do. I have hunted, fshed
| tramped and camped with Seth He was
! the wild things 1t contained held no Sc
I eyes were always about him and to TIM
man the forest was an open book. Ih'
/, sun and wind and stars were his com
| pass. There were many times he d1d no
Il know whore he was. but he was neYe
lost and always came out. ] know o
no man who knew as much about tn
black bear as Seth Paine and II was
| delight TO listen to his experiences II
!, trapping this wary animal. He took con
4 siderably more than 100 black bear skin
| during his trapping experience and TN
i within comparatively limited portion
OF the Dead River valley. He was
y quick, sure shot ut long distance or OF
the fly and seldom made a miss. On tn
.! trail he was tireless and cheerful Hard
/ ship had no terrors for him. He took tn
life Of the woods az 1t came and mad
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-27

Fertilizers are used in Germany In
growing measure. and already to a far
greater extent than in the United states
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-27

most cruel circumstances-the taking
of the mothers and the leaving of the
Young to starve.-New York Mail
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-04-15
Senator Stokes and
The City Charter Bill.

The position of Senator Stokes the city charter
BILL expressed in his kilograms published in The Jour
nal Sunday morning and yesterday morning, is what
his friends and the entire public expected of him
He was opposed to the charter when it was being
framed and adopted by the people of Pensacola, but af
IFS adoption he issued public statement in which
he said that he would put the charter through the Sen
ate at the earliest opportunity.
His telegrams to The Journal affirm that position
He the charter be passed just it adopt
it. This position is entirely consistent and proper and
it all that any friend of the charter could desire.
Senator Stokess further statement that he will kill
the charter if the corporation interests succeed in
knocking materially changing its public utility
features will be approved by the vast majority of the
people of Pensacola
IF the public utility sections eliminated or
easeulated the charter ought TO be killed The pres
city charter, with all of its mperfections IS lnn-
tey preferable the commission charter with the pub
lie utility sections left out
The whole truth is that the public utility corpora
tons of the entire would like to kill the Pensacola
charter as now unless they able knock
out its public utility sections Phe corporation interests
in Pensacola opposed those sections from the beginning
After the people adopted them the interests be-
gan lay plans defeat either the BILL or those sec
tons of it. in the legislature.
The people understand the situation and all the
MISREPRESENTATION that emanates from Tallahassee
elsewhere cannot change it.
Senator Stokes's position as he has repeatedly out
lined in Journal endorsed by the people OF the
city which he represents.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-04-15
SPEAKING OF SMALLPOX. :
80 ~<%<~ %>%>% 90

The Office has just had report of
young white man at Ocala, who died
of hemorrha gle smallpox. Hemorrhagic
smallpox is different from ordinary
smallpox only in severity, that is to
say, a person may contract hemor-
rhagic smallpox from the common
kind and vice versa. 1t is generally
known that q person has rise of tenn
perature headache, backache, etc, two
or three days before eruption of small
pox. In hemorrhagic smallpox the
eruption never forms, but instead,
hemorrhages occur under the skin,
nothing 1t with black and blue patches
which may completely cover the body.
In this state the patient dies very
promptly; there are no recoveries
from hemorrhagic smallpox. 1t is
sometimes called 'black smallpox,
Just as hemorrhagic measles is
called "black measles Scarlet fever
may also be so malignant as TO be
hemorrhagic, and epidemic cerebro-
spinal meningitis is sometimes called
spotted fever" from the fact that in
a large number of cases Of that disease
these little hemorrhages occur under
the skin The young man in question
had never been vaccinated.- Florida
Health Notes.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-04-15
Direct Election
Of Senators.

The plan Of electing United States
senators by a direct vote of the people
il now an assured fact. 1t is an in
tegral part OF the constitution, the
amendment providing for this having
been ratified by three-fourths of the
states.
The progressive people Of the coun-
try have been lighting necessarily for
this for the past twelve years, senti-
n1ent in favor of the innovation con-
tinuing to grow all the while. How
ever, there is nothing new in the idea.
as it was proposed hundred years
ago.
scandals and deadlocks over senatorial
elections and this will do away for
all time with the Lorimers and the
6uggenheims. Frequently, state legis-
latures have given almost their entire
time and attention to senatorial cleo
tions to the entire neglect of their
other duties. All this viii cease.
The resolution providing for this
amendment was introduced by Senator
Borah. of Idaho, and what he says on
the subject is interesting.
1T viii enable said he. the people
to elect state legislatures on well de-
fined state issues disentangled from
senatorial elections and enable the peo-
pie to elect United States senators on
wei defined national issues, disentan-
gled from matters Of local legislation .
BY the adoption OF this amendment
the whole country took a big step for
ward The time is no doubt soon
coming when the people win elect all
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-04-15
TUESDAY. APRIL is. 1918.
Will Probably Enact
Good Roads Legislation.

The outlook for good roads legis!a-
ton is favorable. 1t is entirely prob
able that the legislature now in ses-
sion will pass measure working to
the establishment OF state system
of roads.
Florida 10 a large state and It is
sparsely settled A great many roads
are required and It will be impossible
to improve all of these at once. The
Dill that win be proposed and backed
by the Florida State Good Roads AS
sociation will provide for the appoint
ment by the governor Of commission
of I'VE men who will secure the SER
vices of D road building expert. This
expert viii be always at the call of
the commissioners of any county and
will assist them in SOLVING their road
problems.
This will in itself be step in the
right direction. The expert, If he is
competent and clear headed, can not
only do great deal towards bringing
order out of chaos in the different
counties, but he can, by keeping the
central idea always in mind, make
good start towards establishing the
much desired state system Of roads.
Too many roads, engineered entirely
~ local people. begin nowhere and
end nowhere They only partially
perform the functions they should.
Each road should be a link in a chain
and should be built with the end in
view of making it a part of great
system. This will cause each piece of
read to be of just as much use To-
cal.y and at the same time be of
material benefit to the whole state.
1t is confidently expected that this
legislature will set the good roads ball
rolling.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-04-15
Ty.-GEN. WEST
Recommended
FEW NEW ACTS.
STATE OFFICIAL SUBMITTED A
RATHER BRIEF BIENNIAL CON-
MUNICATlON FROM HIS DE-
PARTMENT.
BY FRANK l. HuFEAkER

Tallahassee, April 14.-Attorney
General West deserves a medal for
submitting what Is probably the
briefeSt biennial communication coming
from any of the departments. This Is
not the attorney generals regular re-
port, but in pamphlet form he has
given the legislators his suggestions
for legislation instead of including 1t
in the report. The newly adopted
form is recognized as being much
more effective. The attorney general
recomn4 ends that the general statutes
be amended to make it mandate tory
upon the prosecuting attorneys or
clerks to make quarterly reports of
criminal cases TO the attorney general;
notice to the attorney general Of ap
peal in criminal cases; an act en-
powering state attorneys to prosecute
all criminal cases, except capital cases.
on information; the right of the state
to appeal on all cases involving con-
stitutional questions; the individual
liability of agents of corporations for
license tax; a law making 1t felony
to carry firearms; amending the law
ST. that process may be secured on in
srrance companies that have policies
in force while abandoning the business
in the state; an act validating bonds
OF sub school tax districts; an act
LAlc SddS VI SLOChSs JULIUS
and other securities, commonly known
as the blue sky law; an anti trust law;
an act levy1ng a tax on the receipts
of the express, refrigerator and tank
car companies doing business in the
state. The attorney general points
out that the Pullman Car Co. is levied
with tax of $3.50 on the gross re-
ceipts for each 500 worth of business
done, and that the insurance COM
panies pay a tax of z per cent on the
gross amount Of receipts received from
policy-holders in this state, and he
thinks the other companies should be
made to pay a similar tax. In conclu
sion, Attorney General West recon-
mends a revision of the general stat
utes. His office is flooded, he says,
with requests for information concern
ing certain sections of the statutes.
'At present there are about four hun
dred sections on important subjects
that are repealed by subsequent acts"
he says. 'If this legislature should
authorize a revision it could not be
approved until the converting OF the
legislature in 1915. and then it could
scarcely get published until 1916.
believe the revision could be best done
by one person instead Of a commits
SION"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-04-15
Investigating
Commission Men.

The legislature of New York has a
bill pending to put the entire group
of commission men of that state under
the supervision of the commissioner of
agriculture. In this connection the New
York World is investigating the
new methods of commission men in
general and the result is not very
fattering to the commission men.
Florida has perhaps suffered as
much or more from dishonest commits
sion men, as any other state and this
proposed New York law is Of much
interest to the people of this state. OF
course there are plenty of honest COM
mission men, whose methods are clean,
and who treat the farmers and truck
ers fairly. But on the other hand
many of them are dishonest and rob
the shipper on any and all occasions.
The trouble is the small shipper is
II. no position to discriminate. He
does not know that he is going to be
robbed until after the transaction Is
done and then he may never know 1t.
Perhaps in time the middle men may
be eliminated, but until then the law
should require that the commission
linen should be watched and their
transactions regulated.