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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-19
War Time Conditions.

The bust of Colonel Richard Dale
owen which has just been presented to
the state by men who were Confederate"
prisoners at Camp Motion when owen
was commandment there, is reminder
that history is beginning to have its
say on this subject. J. H., Rhodes.
whose great work is hailed by the Eng
lish speaking world as the last word
on cur civil war. discusses the subject
of prisons north and south. The totals
of deaths We're about the same, Each
side at the time charged the other with
barbarities and cruelties. The historian
reaches the conclusion that there was
no deliberate cruelty on either side. but
thai there WAS some arising from the
circumstances of war and more from
the grade of the civilization OF those
wears II was ignorant compared WIN
the. present, and merely for Illustration
IL might he said in all good TAIN
handled its prisoners of war with hafa-
Nv more consideration than the CIVIL
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-19
Students as Harvesters.


The annual cutlery for harvesters
from the Middle West has reached the
students at the University of Pennsyl-
vania who are strongly invited to ieho
the farmers helping hand in garner
ing the bumper crop. inducements
offered are three dollars per day with
rations all found backed by the allur-
ing assurance that college students
are preferred because of their stamina
and energy in this particular kind OF
work. 1t is reported that there Is al
ready a merry clan of undergraas
ready and willing to toss the pitch
fork and talk to "Dobbin" in the
tongue clicking dialect of the Choe-
taws. which is at all events reiiel
from Greek idioms and the Pohs
Asinorum" as well as acceptable 10 ne
rural professors" who in blue Jeans
will supervise the labors or theii
classical help"
Perhaps in no other country coutu
such an alliance be found. II reheets
a condition peculiarly American ans
to be viewed with pride by all those
who consider how forcefuliy this re
public has swept into limbo tht
archaic notions Of lazy gentility ano
brought the dignity Of labor to leve
nowhere else attained. Our native IN
,d1strial hive .sheltera no velvet JACK
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-19
Editorial Comment
Presidential Interviews.
est. Louis Globe-Democrato

EST. Louis Globe Democrat.)
personally delivered inaugural
message To Congress, personal con-
ferences with congressman at the
Capitol. and stated personal inter-
views face to face with the Washing
ten correspondents mark President
Wilson's methods of making known his
purposes. presenting his arguments,
and eXerting his influence. One OF the
correspondents writes that the presl-
dent has decided to be interviewed by
the new spaper men twice a week reg
ufarly and gives some specimens oil INC
manner in which the interN iewed IS
also the interviewer. For instance, the
President is accustomed to speak to
tic assembled correspondents in this
ingenious way: There is one question,
which, if | am properly informed !
would ask me if | were you, ana pro-
ceeds to say that he will consent TO no
compromise on sugar and WOOL III any
correspondent springs an undesired
question the president tells story or
replies by asking a question OF MS
own. 1t is light work for the correspon-
dents. who find themselves to be
presidential receiving instrument, and
relieved of any initiative of their own.
In his preface to THE Fortunes of
Nigel" Scott interviews the author OF
Wayerly through a fictitious character
invented by himself, ana the style OF
the performance would be credit to
any journalistic expert of latter day
BY assembling the Washington CORE
spondents at regular intervals, ana
telling them what to ask. the President
reaches the country in authentic shape
and guards the press from any lnqulsl-
tlveness of its own. Questions are
sometimes awkward. especially when
unexpected But the President can new
er be taken. by surprise when he tens
the correspondents what he would ask II
| he were i'm their place and proceeds To
announce his carefully prepared an
swer. II correspondent Will not per
| nit himself to get his White House IN
formation in this style he fisds IT I'M
possible to question the president per-
| sonaily at any time or place.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-19

law pointed out the danger to man
from tuberculosis in cattle but did not
forbid infected poultry as food. 1t
was only a few years ago that German
specialists discovered that fowl
tuberculosis was harmless to man.
The Mosaic law also enforced the
isolation of patients with contagious
diseases and the burial of the dead
outside all cities. These hints the
Gentle world did not fully accept I'M
ill Il century or two ago.
The wise Iawgiver prescribed not
only fasting at certain periods of the
year, hut the removal of whole fami-
lies in summer out To camps. where for
time they could live close to nature
Many of the laws of Moses were pre-
scriptiens intended for the health OF
both mind and body.-Harper's Week
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-19

eted drones elect beyond the work-a'
day Humble Bee" and we may be
sure that these undergrad holiday
makers will raise a lively hum when
they get out upon the breezy wheat
fields. The athletic American student
is not afraid to raise a blister on his
palms any more than he fears to
tackle the quadrature of the circle. All
over this ample land the college boys
are found summefing just for fun
which means anything from proddinS
the pulp logs along the Maine waters
20 riding the machine that on Western
plains sings like a cricket among the
barley The vim with which these
new recruits will play at work is a
suggestion to those who kill their
holiday by working at play.
But the stresSful situation in which
the Kansas farmers find themselves
incapable of handling the rich harvest
without reckoning partners from afar
is another indication of the amazing
fertility of our soils and the blessings
pressed down and running over
yearly piled upon the harvest cart. BY
the time the autumn wind soughs
across the stumbled field, these stu
dents will be back at the desk with
sun Drowned faces and happiest reeol-
lections of a pleasant adventure down
on the farm, an honorable discharge
and-not the least of beneats--a re-
ward in the pocket. its jingle almost as
sweet to the ear Is the bnttermilk TO
the tongue.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-19
Should BE a Crime"

A law should be passed making II
criminal for any person TO buy up ana
pocket the names signed to a petition
for q referendum.
This has been done in days gone by.
IT is in derogation a popular right III a
referendum be begun upon any pabllc
question il is understood by those who
are Interested to have the question sub
mitted 10 the people that the petitions
will go forward 10 their destination.
If this We're not SO understood persons
desiring the referendum would IN many
cases, themselves circulate petitions ana
For any person to go about securing sig
natures to petition and then turning
the same over TO persons Interested to
stifie referendum is injustice of the
most pronounced sort Any person who
becomes a party thereto, either In the
way of purchase or sale, should be con-
sidered on a par with the man who goes
into the open polls and buys his neigh
boris yote.--Lewiston Journal
How about the party or parties furn-
fishing the funds to hire men TO go out
collecting signatures, finding those who
do not know a referendum from n
Dingley ayperbole. and telling them it
will mean one more chance to sell their
votes; repeating to the Inwary the silly
inference that a combination of promi-
nent men of another party is attempt
ing to rob them; that all the well
known names of men demanding a ref
erendum have been bought or stolen?
How about that-does the Armageddon
law firm think it necessary to pro-
inulgate an nkase2
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-19
Why Boys Leave School.

Some points worth considering may
American Machinist: At least half of
the boys the country over leave school
as soon as the law allows, which is
usually at IA years of age. But only q
small percentage leave through any
real pressure from their parents. That
is, the great majority of parents wor-
ship education per Sc and are willing
to make whatever sacrifice is necessary
to continue their children in school
On the other hand, the majority of
employers who have work to offer
which is fit for these boys, do not want
them until they are at least 16 years
old and many not until they are Is.
The amount of money which boys up
to these ages can earn is certainly not
in any degree an equivalent for the
education which they should obtain in
the two or four-year period. The al
most universal plea on the part of the
children IS that they hate school and
want to work. What does this mean
What part of school life do they hate
and what part of shop life do they
crave?
One of cur correspondents who has
had abundant opportunity to investi.
gate cause of this detection is a lack OF
willingness to think and to take re
sponsibi.ity. That is, it is 4 form d
mental laziness. As he views the sit
uation a boy feels that he can dodg
responsibility for correct arithmetic
English and everything else he j
taught in school by entering a shop
There, at his age, he is only allowed Il
do work which is almost automatic il
its nature, which requires almost M
thought and little attention for its sue
cessfrl completion. He is only givel
work which does require thought AM
attention as he shows Willingness to d
ii; which means that many never ris
al all and the rest comparatively slow
ly.
To boy 10 hours day in the sho
spells morei liberty than five hours in
schooiroom, because in the shop h
only does what he can easily do with
out mental exertion and without wor
ry. In the schoolrJom he is expected
at least, to be constantly on the alef
and strained up to concert pitch.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-19
Coming Events

June l5-19-Kent's Hill Seminary Grad
June lS-I9-Maine G. A. R. Encamp-
ment. Portland.
June 1s-l9-Fifth, Maine Reg't Associa-
June 1S-l9-Annual Encampment Wo-
mans Relief Corps, Portland.
June 19-Thornton Academy Centennial.
Saco.
June 2o-Maine Pathological Assn. Fox
june 2I-25-Colby Commencement
June 22-2a-Bates Commencement.
June 22-26-Bowdoin Commencement
June 25-26-Eighth Maine Regimental
Assn, Peaks Island
June 25-21-Maine Pharmaceutical As
ISOLATION, Peaks Island.
June S-Dedication of Soldiers Monu-
ment, Denmark.
June Estate d. A X. Field Day,
Lakewood near Madison
June 2S-Annual Encampment Spanish
War Veterans. Assn. Tog9s e.,. a.
July 3-Eastern Yacht cub Cruise to
July l4-York Club Entertainment at
july 17-26-Joint Coast Defense Maneu-
yers, Fort Williams, Portland.
Aug 4-lS-Annual Encampment OF "a
Maine Reg,t, Augusta.
Aug. 7-9-Bath Carnival.
Aug ll-22-Christian Endeavor Summer
school, Charleston.
Aug. l4-Levant's Centennial Celebra-
Aug. 15-2EThe Allen campmeeting.
"a. August 1s-2o-2l-waldo County Fair. at
Aug. 19-21-cornish Agricultural Assoc
citation, Cornish.
Aug. 2s-Androscoggin County Fair.
Livermore Falls.
aug. S-2S-Houlton Agricultural socie-
Aug. 26-29-Eastern Maine State Fair.
sept 1-4-Maine state Fair. Lewiston.
Sept. Bloomington Fair Orrington:
Sept 2-4-Northern Maine Fair Asso-
citation, Presque Isle.
Sept. 2-4-Hancock County Faf, piue
Sept 2-5-Calais Fair Association. Ca
Sept 16-lS-Androscoggin Valley Fair,
Sept. s-Popular vote on two proposed
Amendments to Maine Constitution.
'P Sept PIT s-ii-oxford County Agricultural
Sent. s-i2-Centrai Maine County, Wa
Sept. 1O-11-Reunion of Fifteenth Regi-
mental Association at Lewiston, on
Sept. 13-Embden Fair Empoen,
Sept. 14-l6-Maine Women.s Christian
Temperance Union Annual, Rumford:
Sept. l6-lS-West Washington Agrlcui-
tural Association, Cherryfeld.
Sept. 16-1s-Cumberland County Asri-
cultural and Horticultural Society," Cor
ham. c,,,,., 1,oir
sept. 10-lS-heDneDeG 1oohts
Readheld.
Sept. 1S-20-Waldo and Penobseot Agri-
cultural Society. Monroe. r.
Sept. 1920 - Somerset Central fair'
Skowhegan. ., r,,,,,
Sept. 24-25-Cumberland Farmers Club.
Cumberland.
Sept. 23-24-Unity Park Association.
Unity. .,
Sept. 23-25-Machias Fair Association
Machias.
Sept. ELLSWORTH Knox Fair. Union.
Sept 23-25-Bristol Fair, Bristol.
Sept 25-27-Piscataquis County falr,
Foxereft.
Sept 3O-Oct. 2-West Penobseot Fair
Exeter. ,,.
Sept. 30-oct. 2-Franklin County Fair.
oct. 2-4-Maine Musical Festival, Ban
Oct s-s-Maine Musical Festival, Port
oct. 7-9-Shapleigh and Acton Agricui-
tura Society. Acton. ..
oct. 30-3l-Maine Teachers Association.
Bangor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-19

Wealthy and weary of life We're
Eugene Maggi and his wife, said to
have been the wealthiest couple in
Switzerland Last week, in the midst
of this garden spot of Europe. with the
grandeur of snow-capped moantains
and fsowery valleys on every hand, they
assumed the prerogatiyes of the AL
mighty and ended their journey here
below. They were not old; they had
the expectancy of many happy years
10 come. il this world had been good
enough for them. He was Al, she was
IS. Their fortune was estimated at ten
million dollars. The only thing the
world affords that they could not have
was the Joy OF children OF their own.
We sometimes hear of startling
tragedies In families whore parents
become discouraged because they have
more children than wealth. They would
be willing to accept the burden OF
wealth OF some or those who have nc
children. hut not SO with these Zurich
4lillionaires. 1t seems they might have
~aaaals .he- echi~ =. Ylid -Qf their
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-19
MOSAIC LAWS SANITARY.
Peculiar Distinctions OF Permitted ano
Forbidden Foods indicated by
Science.

Z There have been gathered coliec-
ton of facts to prove that the saai-
tary laws of Moses We're not only on u
line with the modern rules of hygiene
but in some cases in advance OF them.
The lew thousands of wears before
Christ, settling in a semitropical eoun-
try was forbidden to eat pork or
shelifsh, and milk was Designated as
a source of contagion. In the iaihiuo
a method of Strengthening animals Wa
prescribed which is acknowledged To-
day in our markets as the most SAM
tary. Ut
Five thousand years before Koch
gave to the world the results OF ms
researches in bacteriology. the MOSAIC
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-19
HENS SWIM AND DIVE.
Fowl Fancier Says They Also Catoh
Trout and Now Lay Fishy Eggs.

Expert research has disclosed the
reason that patients at the Foresters
Sanitarium at Rainbow Lake have had
to complain of a fish flavor in their
eggs.
The institution has it's own poultry
yard, extending to the edge of the lake
whittier the ducks repair for swim
ming and the hens for drink. Recent
ly the keeper of the hens got up extra
early in the morning and was con-
founded when he saw a dozen of his
hens floating on the lake in the midst
Of the flock of ducks. They We're div.
ing, too, and coming up with infant
trout, which they brought to shore to
devour.
The hennery man, who is also a biol
|ogist, says it is a characteristic ac-
quired through long association Will
the ducks. He will segregate the hens
and ducks hereafter, for, although he
has no objection to swimming hens, III
feels that the flavor of the eggs direct.
~ concerns his own reputation-New
York Sun.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-19

from it's State exchanges, and when
IL does it shows its elass-the Pattan-
gall organ. and George Washington
never-slipped-a-fib Singer of the Dam.
Her. Damariscotta Herald for shorD.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-19
Maine Gossip

1.-THE kennebec journal has . col
lection of old poems, many OF which
are frequently requested by subsorib-
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, 1913-06-19

This is the most cireusy summer any
small boy and most of the old boys can
remember.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-19
cation of the present day handles cat

cation of the present day handles cat
tie.
Do we reflect that the surgery of war
time was but little better than butch
cry? None of the modern discoveries
was dreamed of then, and the best
surgical care that the rich north could
give the boys in blue calls out the
eommiseration of surgeons of the pres
ent day. SO in the treatment of pris-
oners in camp. things were done and
were left undone that the simplest
Knowledge of today would reverse.
Henry NJ. Stanley-who az Il seventeen
year-old hey was taken prisoner
at Shiloh and kept at camp Douglass.
Chicago-writing, of course, entirely
independent of Mr.. Rhodes. and telling
his personal experience. speaks OF the
cIuelties that were inflicted on the
prisoners there from the utter thought
lessness and ignorance of the time. We
must remember that men brought from
the gulf states suffered from cold at
Chicago. Indianapolis and other places
as much as men from the north suffer
ed from heat in southern prisons. So
that mere location or climate was a
factor.
Stanley speaks of all this with hui
man touch. For example. he says, at
Camp Douglass was splendid mih-
targ band for parade purposes. Think
he says, how much good a concert two
hours a day would have done Tor the
prisoners and how much ii would
have lessened the number of deaths
from insanity and melancholy He then
rcverts tn the civilization of the age.
saving that today. in a similar war,
conditions that prevailed then would
rot lac ble.-lndianapolis News
Converting city garbage and street
sweepings into coal with more than The
arera ee heaI units is the seheme of +.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-19

Zamboanga will be the first munich
pa iity To own an electric light and
power plant in the Philippines. The
Moro capital has been authorized to
asnta es91 GOO. bond issue for establish
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-19

That a woman has remarkable
money through her own efforts on the
farm with her husband has been shown
by Mrs. Stillman Blaisdell of Cornyilla.
She raises blackberries and carries on
a garden that nets her about $500 a
year. The story of how Mrs. Blaisdell
has been able to carry on her house
work and at the same time bring IN a
good share of the money on the farm
is intensely interesting. Mrs. Blaisdell
had been somewhat in poor health and
had MP until Is years ago done little on
the farm. About this time she had been
raising lot of flowers and had given
many of them away to the people VINO
passed her house. She decided one day
that she might put her energies to
raising something that would bring her
money returns, SO she started in rails
ing currants and smaller berries. She
also set out some blackberres. She
found that The blaekberries were the
best paving and she now devotes her
time to raising blackberries almost en-
tireiy instead of the other berries. She
now has half an acre that she cares
u y
bushels and is able to market them at
retail in Skowhegan for $500 per bushei
and customers even order her berries
long before they are ripe. She set out
her last bed of about quarter of an
acre about ten years ago and claims
now that they are bearing as well as
| they ever did. Before setting them ous
she plowed up the ground and prepar-
| ed it as if she We're to plant corn or
| potatoes, setting the rows far enough
| apart so as to plant the first two years
a crop to harvest each fall, thus giving
her something to pay ner for eultivat-
| ing between in the blackberry patch
i After the. first two years she merely
trims out each year the dead bushes
and undesirable bushes Mr. and Mrs
| Blaisdell have been married 40 years
and have raised a family of nine chill
dren. She already has potatoes in hel
garden ready to blossom and beans II
| bloom.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-19

Converting city garbage and street
sweepngs into coal with more than The
average heat units is the scheme Of f.
A. CLANCY for the solution of the gar
bage question OF San Jose, Cal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-19

Locust has the greatest tensile
strength among ordinary woods. 200
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-19
AUGUSTA LODGE DIRECTORY

TRINITY coMMANDERY, NO.
X n stated conclave at Masonic rem n,
ple. Friday evening, June -. pfim. Cd Nd
soiourning fraters are cordiaiis hiNi'e'
" CHARLES r. GETCHELl4, y. Z.
THOS II. BODICE, Recorder.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-19
"More Blessed to Give


Give. as the morning flows out OF
Give. as the waves when their channel
is riven; =
Give, as the free air ana SUNSHINE are
ASK no return, only utterly give!
Pour out your love like the rush OF II
Wasting lis waters forever and ever
on the burnt sands. that reward not the
giver; - =.
Love as He loves you Who gave You
To live,
Give. though your heart may be wasted
aid on an altar all ashes and dreary;
Though from its pulse faint miserefe
Beats 10 your soul the sad presase OF
Bind it with chords of mistaken devo-
Smile at the song of its restless emotion;
Ills the stern hymn of eternitys ocean
Hear. and in silence your future await.
So the wild wind strews its perfumed ca
The desert evil and thankless, it blesses
presses;
Yet never ii ceases To whisper aud sing.
What If the hard heart gives thofhs Tor
What if on rocks your tired bosom re-
poses?
Sweetest is music with minor-keyed
Fairest the vines that on ruins Will
cling.
Newspaper editors are faring well in
appointments under President Wilson.
Biddeford Record
No use wig wagging, Gus. Mere
walst-meas sure is no passport 10 VIII.
sons regard.
no ahptrnlS the
course of the Biddeford Journal. grants
crisp retort to a Massachusetts papers
Iaudation Of the atmosphere of Frye
burg. as follows:
Daniel Webster did not teach school in
Fryeburg, Me, for nothing; 1t was next
to nothing in dollars IN that year ioiis
ago, but Daniel left an atmosphere there
which means something for Maine.-N or
cester Telegram.
We are not so sure as to Just what
this atmosphere" has meant for Maine.
but we do know that it hasn't been an
unmixed blessing for Fryeburg, where,
in tile past at least, there has too OFTEN
been recognized Il tendency to loaf and
enjoy the soul in the attenuated con-
seriousness that the godlke Daniel once
lived, moved and had his being IN the
cred street -Biddefofd journal.
The Bath Times is one of the most
genuine local boosters recognized in
our exchange list Every day there's
some happy suggestion along the line
of civic Improvement Here's Tuesday )
little help:
The proposed plan of Bath and Bruns-
wick uniting and converting Merrymeet-
ing Park into n golf club seems To meet
with a very popular approval. 1t Is now
suggested to make ii not simply .Solf
club but a regular country club. where
sports of all kinds can be enjoyed, es-
peciaily tennis. canoeing. and motor
boating. Few places i'll this section are
so accessible and by building little
wharf, small boats could reach II with
ease In winter it would be fine for skat
ing and no doubt a good toboggan slide
made. 1t is understood that the Lewis
ton, Augusta and Waterville Railroad
Co. will sell their interest in the Merry
meeting property, at very rea sonable
price If the Casino is too large. some
suggest tearing IL down and making a
one story bungalow on the same founda-
lion. . Il .zRRD4l
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-19

A lie has no legs. and cannot
stand: but it has hings and can fly
far and wide.-Bishop Warburton,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-19

IEpurHA ENcAMPMENT, NO. =.
Meetings at o'clock every second ane
fourth Tuesday. ,ov %
G. e. STEWART. 6eriee.