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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-14
Coming Events

July 1S-1s--National Association of
American Dairy Food and Drug Officials,
Portland.
July 13-17-Annual Convention Of Assn
of American Dairy Food and Drug Off
Gals, Portland.
coast by Naval Militia OF Maine, Massa-
chusetts, Rhode Island. Connecticut and
New York.
Aug. 2-Old Home Week at Weeks
Mills. New Sharon.
Aug. s-12-Annual Encampment. I'd In
fantry, NJ. N G., Augusta.
Aug. 3-23-National Universaiist Sum-
mer meetings, Ferry Beach Park. Ferry
Beach.
Endeavof Summer School, Pittsfield.
August Midsummer school at Pitts
Aug. 12-Topsham.s l5oth Anniversary
Aug. 14-Hiram Centennial.
Aug. H-24-East Llvermore Campmeet-
august ls-ls-summer school at Pitts
August II to 2s-Maipe Naval Militia
have annual trainingVcruise on Battle
ship Tennessee.
Aug. l9-Pierce Family Reunion. Island
August 2o-21-22-state Christian En-
deavor Assembly at Pittsfeid
August 24-Celebration 50th anniversary
NAL School, Pennington.
Aug. 25-Re-union of 18th Maine Regi-
mental Association at Clinton.
August % to 2S-Eastern Maine State
sept.NMafne Free Baptist Association.
annual meeting (place and date to be fix
Sept. / to 4-calais Fair Association.
annual fair and horse races, Calais.
Sept 1-4-Central Maine Fair. Water
Vile.
Sept to 1o-Maine State Fair. Lew
iston.
Sept 14-17-Great Council of United
9faeT Hail at med
Sept 14-Maine election for four rep
resentatives to Congress, Governor. state
auditor and county officials. and referen-
dun on Public Utilities Act passed at
last session of Legislature.
Sept. 15--United States District Court
convenes. Portland.
Sept. 15-1s-South Kennebec fair at
Sept. 16-l7-somerset Agricultural fair
at Arson.
annual meeting. Bangor.
Oct. 2o-Grand Lodge, Of Reoekahs. an
nuai meeting, Portland.
Oct. 21-Grand Lodge 7. @. 0. F.. an
nual meeting, Portland.
Oct. 21-Maine Caatral. Somerset and
Washington County Railroad Companies
annual meetings. Portland.
OCt. -J-G--1hdiIlc 1OuiiSil. l.. ~. IT, tii-
nual meeting place to be dxed.l
Oct. 22-Grant Encampmert. Patriarchs
Militant annual meeting, Portland.
Oct 27-2S-29-Maine State Sunday
School, annual convention. Bangor.
Oct 29-2o-Maine Teachers Associa-
ton at Portland.
Oct 29-3O--Maine Teachers Assoc On,
annual meeting, Portland.
Nov Moose hunting season opens in
Maine closing Dec. /.
Nov Maine Pathological Society,
n 10
fixed)
Nov. 12-ls-14-15-State-wide Community
Efficiency Conference (place OF meeting
not fixed.)
Dec Moose hunting season In Maine
closes.
Dec. 7-Portland City election.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-14
The EXPOSITION Lords Day.

One of the greatest and most import
ant IF the great assemblies to be held
at the Panama-Pacific exposition at
San Francisco next year will be the
International Lords day, sometime In
July. President Wilson has accepted
the Honorary Council Craftsmanship,
the executive officers include some of
the best known workers in the world
and such interest is already being
shown that the conference bids fair
tic be the greatest of the kind ever held.
The program will cover the broad ques-
ton In all its worldwide aspects.
There will be first of all a worlds
survey. country by country, of the
conditions of the problem in every
land. In addition, the Congress will
deal Cd with the religious and moral
aspects of the Sunday problem, ca
with the industrial and economic, go
with the hygienic and social, 4) with
the legal and governmental There
will also be an attempt to formulate
a program for a concerted advance and
for the direction of the immediate ac-
uvities of those who are interested in
promoting the due observance of the
Lords Day.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-14
Editorial Comment.
Afraid of a Probe.

I
The administration naturally does
not desire a probe into the conduct of
the secret negotiations with the Con-
stitutionalist junta, recently exposed.
That is the English of the news re-
port that the House Foreign Affairs
Committee has voted an unfavorable
report on the Kahn resolution, in ac-
cord with the State Departments
recommendation that it is unwise to
agitate the Mexican question in Con-
gress at this time" The question in
hand is not the Mexican question. it
might be pointed out, but perfectly
legitimate American interrogatory in
regard to the official conduct of GER
tain functionaries of the American
government.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-14
Another Cup of Coffee?

(Pittsburg, Pa, Gazette Times.)
As if the hot season and their en-
forced patriotism" were not enough,
certain Democrats in Congress who
are not completely hypnotized by the
administration have begun back
fire. They are wanting to know what
President Wilson is going to do about
that plank in the Baltimore platform
which says:
We favor a single presidential term,
and to that end urge the adoption OF
an amendment to the constitution
making the President of the United
States ineligible for reelection, and
we pledge the candidate OF this con-
vention to this principle.
A Washington dispatch says almost
undoubtedly the Senate and House
leaders believe Mr.. Wilson will not
run again." but it also states that
MIR. Wilson has said no specific WORD
to any one to the effect that he would
prefer to step out when his first term
has expired" The President has been
insistent upon carrying out NUMBER
of platform pledges, and by excluding
from his recommendations or support
certain other subjects not embraced IN
the platform he has created the i'm
preston that, save as to canal tolls
exemption, he intends to go through
with the sacred Baltimore charter.
Also he has dwelt repeatedly upon
Democratic principles from time to
time. Hence it becomes proper
question to ask how about the obli-
cation of 1.-The candidate of this con-
yention to this principle" of one term.
Speaker Clark wants light, and Chair
man Underwood would like to find oet,
and there is suspicion that hope still
springs in the breast Of Secretary
Bryan.
If it is true that there is serious
effort to smoke out the President on
this issue, what is the significance of
.the turning point which he referred
to in his Warburg and Jones state
ment and of his suddenly hospitable
. attitude toward business, big and lit
tle?" The quality Of sincerity which
Mr. Wilson's friends claim is so pro-
nounced in him is not inconsistent
with political astuteness In the pres
ence of conditions which threaten
both his prestige and any ambitions
he may be cherishing for a second
term. Meanwhile it is not deniable
that IL he were to announce deter
nina ton to retire March 4, 1914, the
whole situation in Washington would
be transformed and the tremendous
power he has welded be weakened.
Then would come "a collapse of the
administration" indeed. There are two
sides to the one-term proposition.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-14
"Active" Politics.

The good that men do lives after
them. Some men are so good that they
continue to serve after new genera
tions have forgotten the name of the
wonder worker, but seldom it is that
mems names go on serving the public
when they have gone hence. However.
down in the solid South, where they
are not obliged to consider politica:
opposition. party leaders can make
the name of a man serve when his per-
sen is not there to win praise or crlti-
cism. It has just been discovered by
a relative that W. j. Moseley, who died
ten years ago, was elected a member
of the Bib county Democratic execu-
tive committee in the recent county
primary in Georgia. Two thousand
voters cast ballots for the dead man
without knowing that he had been
QUE Of the political game for decade.
A relative called attention to the lit
tie divergence which will perhaps be
corrected by inserting the name of a
more active partisan. 1t is not known
whether Moseley has been serving
Democracy all along.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-14
Conviets Fear Liquor Traffic.

Perhaps the most sensational devel-
opment in the unfolding of public de-
termination to wipe out the liquor evil,
is the petition drafted by the prison.
ers of a Pennsylvania penitentiary,
which says. in substance, abolish the
rum traffic and decrease crime" This
resolution. reported several days ago
in the news dispatches, carries the
earnest feeling of 1900 men and wo-
men. the majority of whom say that
Intoxicating drink caused their down.
fall. 1t is one OF the weightiest indict-
ments against the organized LIQUOR
traffic that has ever been produced
ard 1t was voluntary on the part Of
these people suffering the penalties of
laws for every conceivable crime. Its
meaning is expressed in the words OF a
single convict;
Il am serving long sentence for
involved in a saloon fight. One man
was killed. Ny dear wife was forced
to suffer a worse fate. She has strug-
gied along with the little ones while
have been locked up. Her heart is
broken, but, good woman that she is,
she keeps mp the struggle for exist
ence. Rum caused my downfall. Why
should the sociologists and so-called
learned men who are interested in
Eercacgy 90 Outside prison for facts
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-14
Savina His Energy.

yes" said the man just back from
the West, relates the Pathfinder. when
went to Montana l did what nearly
every other tenderfoot does-bought one
of those broad brimmed felt hats like
the ones stage cowboys wear, and put 1t
on at the first opportunity.
Mine wasn't the only one in town,
but I felt conspicuous just the same.
Somehow or other hadn't acquired the
knack of wearing it. One windy day
and, believe me. it can blow some In
B, without half trying-I walked
down the main street Of the town hold
ing onto my hat with one hand and my
coat with the other. AS / turned cor
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-14

A Paterson, N. J.. tiller of the soil,
who in 1911 paid s1275 for three bush
els of telephone peas seed and who
after all the care and labor of trying
to raise a crop of his favorite Nege-
table found nothing but a poor crop
of very poor horse" corn did not set
the figures any too high when he sued
for $4,000 damages from the firm which
sold him the seed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-14

The blind mans description of the
sensation experienced by him on TAX
ing an aeroplane ride the other day at
the Hammondsport, n. Y, field was
unique and probably strictly true so
far as he was concerned. He said: TT
felt like feather bed" and continued,
Il wish I could go up again. / could
tell when we were rising up into the
air by our humping along the water;
then we went up and up and when we
sensation. Even if I didn't go up to
see, I feel we'll repaid for the effort
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-14

The editor OF the Northwestern
Christian Advocate says that recently
while sitting beside a police judge
whose court was in session, he asked
that each one appearing on the charge
OF drunkenness, or assault due to
drunkenness. should be questioned as
to what he had been drinking. Out of
Is cases Is said they had been drinking
beer. Three old topers had been US
ing whiskey. About half of the beer
cases involved assault and battery or
destruction of property.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-14

The French Chamber has so far
buried its eruption Of temper over the
alleged interference with their affairs
by the American customs secret Of
ficers whose duties call them to that
country, as to appropriate the sum OF
s4e0, 900 for a French exhibit at the
San Francisco Exhibition. And our
customs officers will probably not be
Withdrawn from France.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-14

Firemen have many fires of strange
origin but the men Of Atlantic City
claim to have had the strangest cause
OF all when they fought for half an
hour a fire in the street set by water
wagon. The gasoline tank of a motor
driven street sprinkler leaked, the oil
running down over and being ignited
by lantern suspended behind and An
ally setting fire to the bitulithic pave
meEt. Can you beat that?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-14

Mrs. G. H. Walker has an intelligent
hen which is six years old and answers
to the call of Judy, relates the Farm
ington Chronicle. The last Of March
she Matched out thirteen chickens, but
in a short time they were taken from
her. She did not like the idea, so in a
few days went to laying again and
soon began to think she must make
another trial of having chicks. She sat
on fifteen eggs and Matched out nine
chickens; these as the first were taken
from her and that broke her heart.
One day last week Mrs. Walker called
her from the hennery and asked her
If she would like some chicks and at
once showed her the yard which con-
taiped about 100 chicks of all ages.
She at once mothered the whole Of
them and it is quite sight to see her
with sometimes thirty or forty chicks
all around her and see her working for
them all and she seems very happy
Nights she is put with the other hens
and in the morning she comes out and
goes to each coop and calls her brood
together.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-14

doing a private banking business with
out any legal authority. 1t has long
been known that a first-class store
had to have almost everything in
stock
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-14
BIease May Secede.
(Springfield Republican

(Springheld Republican.)
II Gov. Blease Of South Carolina may
be expected to secede from the Union
almost any minute. He has gone so
far as to refuse permission to the
Georgia militia to cross. corner Of
way to a Georgia militia encamp-
ment The military occupation Of
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-14
"Now | Rise Me-"

Recently when riding with a gentle
never went to bed at night without ad-
ding to his prayers the prayer familiar
to most of us in childhood: Now I
lay me down to sleep" The thought
came to me. Why not have a morning
prayer? They are certainly Christian
helps. when coming with the hearts
accord. A few mornings afterward
these lines came to my mind
Now wake me from my sleep,
Help me, Lord. thy will to keep,
Make me noble. good and strong,
And protect me from all wrong"
The Christian Herald.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-14

The charge that New York man
makes that he was persuaded into de-
posting the sum of $4,000 with the
Claim Co., last January brings out the
startling fact that the company was
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-14

What good children she has,"
Yes, indeed. She never has to neglect
her card club to look after them. De
troit Free Press.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-14

time appropriated one thousand million
dollars, including the bounties to new
troops. to be paid from the special
war tax. The Alabama had destroyed
upwards of 50 American vessels, en-
oracing some of our finest ships. hav-
ing cargoes valued In the aggregate
at tens of millions of dollars. That
chivalrous son of the South, Capt.
Semmes stole the thermometers of
nearly every captain he captured, for
he turned over to the custody of a
confident in Cherbourg. before he set
out to fight the Kearsarge, sixty
chronometers.
Many rabbits and. black snakes were
victims of the Sea road fire in Kenne-
bunk last week, Thursday afternoon.
They were unable to travel faster than
the flames. Some young rabbits were
found In the road trembling with
fright and in an apparently exhausted
condition. A number of black snakes
were seen headed for the river and
were from "a to 80 inches long.
II is claimed that Francis Xavier
Duriere of Rumford, who left Lewiston
July on the excursion TO Canada under
the auspices of the Dominican Fathers,
was miraSulously cured at the Church at
Ste. Anne de Beaupre in the presence of
hundreds of pilgrims. says the Lewiston
Sum Duriere has been Ill with tubercu-
losis OF the left hip for several years
and has been obliged to walk with two
clutches. On Tuesday. July 7. he at
tended services at the Church of Ste.
Anne and in the presence of hundreds of
people, many of whom were we'll ac-
quainted with him and knew about his
sickness, he rose from his seat and
walked down the aisle, leaving his
clutches behind him. Il is claimed that
he is now well man. He will soon re-
turn to Rumford where he is we'll known.
Fifty years ago Cincinnati was sur
rounded by about so cannon. properly
placed IN the defence Notifications
of about 40 acres The Charlestown, S.
c.. Mercury stated that % Yankee pris-
oners had taken the oath of allegiance
to the rebels and had been released.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-14

South Carolina even to that extent, by
the forces of foreign power was not
to be tolerated.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-14

ner the wind seemed to stop blowing. and
let go of the hat, when sudden gust
came, took II off my head and sent 1t
rolling like a frightened hoop down the
street.
Il started to give chase. when another
hatless Inan-he was sure enough
Westerner, too--took me by the arm and
said:
Don't chase It, pardner; there'n be
another one along in a minute.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-14

Creditor-You couldn't so around in
your fine automobile II you had paid
your debts. Debtor-That's so! I'm
glad you look at 1t In the same light that
1 do.-Boston Transcript.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-14

widower Dick, the lonesome old
bald headed eagle, still lives and is
daily in the early morning trips of
Virginia seen from the boat, perched
upon the top of the lone dead pine on
Ram Island watching the sun and gen.
eral scenery, even as he was accus-
toned to be seen a generation ago
down the lower Kennebec. The leg
end then was that Dick had been hap
PLY married to a mate and that some
summer visitor with more powder and
shot than brains had murdered the fe-
male bird. Thereafter Dick remained
faithful to the memory of Mrs. Dick
and never even had a Irritation with
any other eagle of the geptler sex. He
hoed his own row, went his own flights
and always was to be seen roosting
alone.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-14

Why is 1t that the divers bricks
And bullets that meander
From fights and riots always hit
The innocent bystander?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-14

Cholly-1've decided when I marry sis
ter l will take you to live with US.
Johnny-Gee. Pop says you couldn't
support a flea, SO 1 don't know where I
come in.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-14

The town of Buxton is to have free
public library. BY the will of Andrew
l., Berry late of Buxton, which was ap-
proved at the session of probate court
held at Alfred, Tuesday, he gives a lot
of land in Buxton for a location, and
he makes the request that it be called
the Berry Library" and under certain
limitations he bequeaths the sum OF
$4,000 for the Berry library building,
$1,000 for books for the library and
$4,000 If so much is left of the estate,
for the care of the building.
Mr.. Berrys estate is estimated at
$4,000 of which $500 is real estate and
s11 800 personal
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-14
ODD FELLOWS HALL.

ASYLUM LODGE, NO. 70, REGULAR
meeting Friday evenings at s.
w. f. CURRIER, N. G.
z. F. WESTON, Sec.
49,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-14

The Pompous judge glared sternly over
his spectacles at the tattered prisoner
who had been dragged before the bar OF
justice on a charge of vagrancy.
Have you ever earned dollar In
your life?" he asked In fine scorn.
Yes, your honor" was the response.
II voted for you at the last election"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-14

First Waiter-Them's the same couple
has bin in here most every day lately,
amt they, Bill?
Second waiter-Its the same girl.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-14

Michael Cook of Back Bay. n. B.,
brought in to L. D. Clark & Sons fac
tory. Andrew Clark manager and owner,
at Passport founder that was found
among a load of herring. The popularity
of the fish does not lie in the fact that
1t was a founder but in the fact that
both sides in coloring were the same. 1t
was so much of a freak that DR.. F. C.
Wibber and DR.. II. W. Houghton of the
department of agriculture secured the
same, put 1t in alcohol solution and sent
1t into the u s. Bureau of Fisheries.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-14
Maine Gossip

Bar Harbor correspondence in the
Bangor News: The local militia COM
pany paid visit to the summer home
of John C. Livingston of New York
Sunday night. to serenade him. Mr..
Livingston recently presented the
company a set of new uniforms,
thing much appreciated by the mliitla-
men The company marched TO MS
summer home, about two miles from
the village, and they were entertained
there at the cottage.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-14

Some of the summer guests at Pop
ham are burrowing in the sand dunes
near the Riverside for Indian relics.
This recalls that ALT the Genial, for
mer Proprietor Perkins of the oldume
Eureka, once found an Indian stone
pipe in the sand, for which he was
offered and refused s25. In after years
Mr.. Perkins presented the pipe TO the
late Governor Hill. The Bath Times
man once was kicking the sand as he
was walking in the rear of the River
side and not far from the back door
of the hotel when he kicked out of the
sand good specimen of an Indian
stone hammer. This was used as
paper. weight in the Times office and
was lost during the big fire which de-
stroyed the Sagadahoc. There are still
many relics left in Popham sands. On
the Sabine peninsula, by the way, was
the Indian manufacture of arrow
heads and household implements car
ried on to large extent so the local
legends say.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-14

CAPITAL GRANGE, NO. 24s, p. OF
H Meetings I'd and 4th Saturday even
ings of each month at G. A. r. hall.
EDWARD RIPLEY. W. NJ.
MRS G. (. TOOTHAKEK. Sec.
tu-th-sat.u
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-14

1t was roughly estimated SO years
ago that Congress had I'D to that
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-14

N. E. OF, ksNNEBEc LODGE, NO.
Isl, meets in q. A. r. hall the first and
third Tuesday evenings of each month,
at 100 o'clock.
LILLIAN E. NORMAN. Warden.
EMMA F. HOWE, Rec. Sec.
B. L. NICHOLS. Fin. Sec.
tu-th-sat
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-14

Patience-I understand Mr.. styles
has given his wife a string of pearls.
Patrice-well. he was determined TO
have some sort OF string on her.-Yon-
kers Statesman.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-14

GEN. PHIL SHERIDAN CIRCLE.
No. s. Ladies OF the G. a. r.: Regular
meeting in C. A. r. Hall every Tuesday
at go p. NM.
MRS EMMA A. GANNET. Pres.
MRS ADA NJ. HALVES, Sec.
3anSeod1yr'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-14
AUGUSTA LODGE DIRECTORY

TRINITY CoMMANDERY, NO. 7,
X. T. Stated conclave at Masonic Tenn
pie, Friday evening, July nth. All So
journing fraters are cordially invited to
attend.
WILLIS e. SWIFT. E. c.
MELVIN w. WISWELL, Rec.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-07-14
JEPHTdA ENcAMPMENT. NO. 8.

Meetings at 500 o'clock every second
and fourth Tuesday.
C. E. STEWART. Scribe.
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