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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-13
Saturday, June t3, 1914.
A Dead tissue"

Presenting that the originator OF tha'
brilliant term public utilities court,
and other Democratic sources have
read the address of Hon. William T.
Haines AT Dover. we are wondering,
now. what sort of squirm will be re-
stored to, to convince the people that
these pretenders were only joking
when they pretended to have an is
sue. in mileage book bill mlsrepre-
sentation. A reading of both pllls'
the Governors veto message, and
reference to the Governors presenta-
ton of the facts, ought to satisfy any
sensible nerson of the soundness of the
Governors position.
Thus is the pigeon hole veto nat
tened out. and with it the entire posi-
ton of those who by QUESTIONABLE
methods secured a referendum on the
nublic utilities measure for dirty
nolitical purpose. The campaign is
hound to bring out the truth of THESE
matters. The pretense of an issue"
on mileage books was on a par with
the pretense of an excuse for refer
endum on public utilities. The argu-
ments unfolding it are all typified and
ably presented by the WaterViiie
Sentinel of Friday morning-not
noint not q. sensible excuse, not fact
in it's column editorial.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-13
Old Shoes Being Repaired.
lPOrtland E,XnreSS.)

cortland EXpreSS.)
An illustration of the effect of the
Democratic tariff policy has just been
brought to our attention. 1t illus
trates exactly what the tariff as en-
acted by the Democratic party, is do
ing for our people. A man high in
the business world, in making some in
quiries in various lines of trace, dis
covered that retail boot and shoe
dealers in the city in which he lived,
were finding business very dull and
very hard, and as he progressed in
his investiga ton he discovered that
the cobblers were overwhelmed with
BUSINESS In other words the general
lack of prosperity was such that the
people We're all having their old
shoes mended instead of buying new
as they buy in the days of general
prosperity.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-13
Reporting the Big Yacht Races.


There will be a complete revolution
in the manner of reporting the inter-
national yacht races which will be
held next fall for the Americas cup
from what had prevailed previously.
In all the Americas cup races that
have been held up to this time the
course of the contending vessels has
been noted by men standing on the
shore with spy glasses or by tugs sent
out to follow the boats. The reporters
on the tugs sent their stories ashore
by small boats which was of neces-
sity a pretty slow way of transmitting
the information. This time the races
will be reported by tugs equipped with
wireless telegraph apparatus and by
this means every movement of either
of the ships can be flashed over the
world as quickly as if the contest was
taking place on land.
No more striking illustration of the
practicability of this new invention
could be given than this. Perhaps by
the time another, race is held the re-
porters will report progress right into
their own editorial rooms by means of
wireless telephony. We are certainly
coming to that sooner or later.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-13
Free Glasses TO SchooIchiIdrsn.

(Journal of American Medical ASSN
1t often happens that schoolchildren
are in great need of glasses and yet
have not the money to buy them Per-
haps the eyes have been examined in
the early fall, by the teacher, accord
ing to the printed instruction, and
some defect has been found. Maybe
the child cannot see the blackboard.
Maybe the teacher finds that although
the child can see we'll at distance,
he frequently complains of headache
and eyeache, after getting his lessons.
Maybe the eyes are red, or maybe the
child is cross-eyed. At all events the
teacher discovers that something is
wrong, so she sends printed card to
the parent, which notifies him that his
childs eyes are not right, and advises
him to seek competent advice. The
mother or the school nurse, therefore,
takes the child to the oculist who dis
covers that glasses are urgently need
ed, to enable the child properly to re-
ceive offered school instruction. With
out glasses this cannot be done, and
the child is seriously hampered in the
requirement of an education. If the
parents cdfiliut, uilueI tileSS Sllct.ii-
stances, buy the glasses, what is to
be done? This is a serious question
and one which will have to be answer
ed. There should be a fund in the
hands of the school board of every
city to meet this emergency. This fund
may be raised by contributions, If nee
essary, but the best way is to have it
come from the city treasury. The
amount required would not be large.
Suitable arrangements could be made
with some wholesale optical houses, to
furnish these glasses at almost cost.
In Cleveland, where school examina-
lions are performed quite thoroughly,
less than 400 pairs of glasses are given
away to poor children annually. This
probably does not cost Cleveland $400
a year and think of the enormous ben
efits that are produced. Schoolbooks,
lunches, etc., are given away in many
cities, why not then free glasses?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-13
Passing of Boys of Isl.
Bangor Commercially

NGdilSOr COnlIHeEcidD
The recent services of Memorial Day
brought home to all how rapidly the
survivors of the war between the
states are passing and in a couple of
decades there will be few communities
to boast the presence of such surviv-
ors. The other day in Ohio there
was held the annual reunion of the
survivors of the war with Mexico and
there were but six comrades present.
AS the Mexican War ended July 4,
1S4s. it is apparent that all its vet
Grams now living must have attained
their fourscore years, most OF them
many more. According to the last Of
fetal report there are about 1000 sur
viving veterans of this war and about
5000 widows on the pension rolls.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-13
Editorial Comment.
Democratic Tariff Potatoes.
portland prcSSD

IT OF lIdIIu ITtSS'T
According to the Carlton IN. b
Sentinel no less than 650,000 bushels
of New Brunswick potatoes have
found their way into the American
market under the new tariff rate. This
is one of the psychological condi-
tions that have been visited upon the
farmers of Maine by the Wilson tariff.
These $4,000 bushels of potatoes might
have been raised by the Aroostook
growers. If there are that many this
year the chances are that there will
be many more next, until the Maine
growers are driven out of the market
or are content to live under conditions
that obtain in many parts of New
Brunswick
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-13
Light and Airy
The PepIum.

(By Grif Alexander,)
Have you seen the new girlie's new
gown?
'Tis a. wonder, a dream of delight!
A scream and the talk of the town!
A marvel, my dear, and fright!
It has 'em all guessing.-and why?
The viewpoint is varying-some'
The grille once diffident, shy,
Now possesses the pei" -ti-tum
Are you hep to the pep
Don't be DUNN with the -lum!-
Peplum
1t is dagged and scalloped and slit;
1t is gathered and pointed and frlngeo'
A lambrequin fretted is II!
A patch from a mind that's unhingeo.
A hustle that's dipping the dips
A Bertha that's dropped to her knees!
Athene Polias' lips
Grow pale at the ruin she sees.
For she's "hep" to the pep
And a chum to the-lum-
Peplum!
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-13
This Administration a Failure.

Senator Albert B. Cummings, IN an
,n,rorfant article in Independent, says
that the Presidents influence is a
menace. The Boston Transcript, that
conservative old independent newspa-
per. in an editorial that leaves not
uarticle of cuticle on the Democratic
anatomy. declares that the admins
tration is double dealing in many OIL
rections. breaking faith with the peo-
ple. the Democratic party and with
the world. 1t closes with: "Maudiin
mendacity comes as sequel to
.watchful waiting" The Philadelphia
Press says the Wilson tariff bill is
costing the country one million dol
lars a day.
These are only few of many thou
sands of like denunciations of the alb
iect failure of Democracy to make
good in power, that are heard from
reliable sources everywhere. But an
expression from a man well known all
over Maine who has recently been in
Washington, will appeal to our read
ers. We refer to Col. E. c. Plummer OF
Bath. who says that even the Demo-
Gratis now acknowledge that the Re-
publicans will probably control the
next national House of Representa-
tives. In an interview with the Port
land Press he said;
They admit that there has been no
President for so years who is so un-
popular in his own party as is Presi-
dent Wilson. Even those who were
formerly the closest TO him politically
can no longer approach him upon any
matter. He consults no one and takes
advice from no one. 1t is said that even
his own cabinet does not know what
he intends to do next about the Mex
lean situation or anything else. lie
may be following the advice of Mr..
Bryan but ii is said in Washington
that even Bryan does not know the
policy Of the administration and is
not being consulted about anything
which is done. One has only to talk
with Democrats to say nothing of
members Of any other party to become
convinced that Mr.. Wilson has been
piling up trouble for himself and his
party to a greater extent than any
other man in the memory of this gen.
Grafton who has been in the White
House.
Business is dead everywhere. The
Northwest is simply fat. Bumper crops
are promised but they will not relieve
the situation TO any great extent. The
Progressive party. so far as can
learn, can only have the effect in some
states of preventing the election OF
Republican congressman and in some
states as a party it is absolutely dead
From all / hear / expect to see an
overwhelming Republican landslide ir
November In fact, l haven't seen a
man Of any political party who does
not admit that this may be expected.
II is plain to all that the only thing
that can save Democracy from tn,
penalty of it's continued blunders Ii
the size of the faction that few sell
fish leaders under the name Progress
sives'' can keep from following this
natural opposition to Democracy
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-13
Threat of Murder.
New York Telegram.)

(New York Telegram)
But, I want to tell you, gentle
men''-and here Sinclair became quite
solemn and pointed his long index
finger ahead of him-'the Chief of Po-
lice of Seattle was shot to death as
he sat in his home two months later.
Someone poked a rifle barrel through
a window and killed him. One des-
pot had been removed. They new
er found who did that."-Upton Sin
clair to the Board of Village Trustees
of Tarrytown.
Tarrytown's trustees were about to
grant the l. w. w permission to hold
street meetings there when Upton Sim
clairs threat caused all further ne
gotiations to be postponed.
When talk of this kind is permitted
how can it be claimed that free speech
is throttled?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-13

Northern Minnesota is dry from a
peculiar cause. The policy of the federal
government is to close all saloons in the
Indian lands now constituting a greater
portion of the state of Minnesota, north
of the 46th parallel. This order was sus-
tanned by the supreme court as valid
exercise of the guardianship over the
1000 indians still in that section. There
are about 100000 white folks living in
that region who are subject to the de-
cision.-Lewiston Journal
Good Pity there weren't Indians
enough to do that in every state of
the Union.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-13
ALBION.

SOUTH-Maurice Jackson of Angus
ia is visiting friends in this place.
Mrs Emma Trask and Edith Trask
Tuesday afternoon called on Mrs.
Porter Sanborn.
Mrs Lizzie Witham is on the sick
list.
Mrs Addie Besse passed Tuesday
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-13
Bov Nature.

Bishop olmstead was talking about boy
nature.
Boy nature" he said, Shows itself
in numberless ways. 1 once said to
little boy:
".Do YOU know the parallels, my
child?'
Yes, sir he replied.
"'And which of the parallels, said l.
do you like the BEST?
~ like the one he answered after
moments thought, where somebody
Ioafs and Fl hes. Washington Star.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-13

Postmaster General Burleson said at
banquet in Washington:
zone of our postoffice stories concerns
postoffice census taken number OF
years ago:
"A question in this census was: "What
are your marital relations?
1.-THE answers to this question Were
startling One postmaster answered,
Fair to middling' Another answered.
Fine A third. poor fellow, made the
tragic answer The worst.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-13
Whu Haste Mas Desired.

Southern paper tells of clergyman
who received this note telling him TO
perform a marriage ceremony:
This to give you motifs that and
Miss Jemima Arabella Brearly is COM
ing TO your church on Saturday after
noon next to undergo the operation of
matrimony at your hands. Please be
prompt. as the cab is hired by the hour
Chicago Record Herald
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-13
Failed to Score.

.eDid YOU tell her when you proposed
to her that you were unworthy OF her!
That always makes hit with them.
Il was going to, but she told 1t TO
me first" -Philadelphia Bulletin.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-13

strain the personal liberty" element.
Only the heaviest hand of enforcement
can stop the selfish chap who has no
respect for himself or others.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-13
canada's Proper Action
portland Arcus.)

Canada would do we'll to sink pride for
safety and economys sake and divert all
possible ocean traffic to safer channels
the ports of New England can serve her
better than the Ravens of her own high
latitudes.-New London Telegram.
Particularly the New England port of
Portland.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-13
Free Now.

Hewitt-Gruett treats his wife pretty
shabbily.
Jewett-And he used to be her slave.
Hewitt-Evidently the marriage
certificate has an emancipation proc
lamation.-Judge.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-13
Solamn and Safe.

What's this solemn stuff you are
getting up here?''
"A joke book for ambassadors an
swered the party of the second part.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-13

The women of the Literary union in
Lewiston and Auburn are interesting
themselves in the problem OF estab-
fishing a milk station for the babies of
the down town district, run under the
general plan of such institutions. Port
land has one, and other cities in New
England are establishing them. In
Springfield, Mass, there is an associa-
ton which for six years has conduct
ed such a station, this past year hav-
ing more than 200 babies under charge,
and employing two trained nurses and
a helper in the work. The babies are
recommended by some physician, who
prescribes the diet, and his prescrip-
ton is then put up, each day, by the
nurses, and distributed at the home
of the child. The nurse also visits the
home, and aids the mother, by sug-
gestion and other means, to give the
child the best possible care. The
death rate has been reduced to less
than l per cent of the babies under
charge, by the care and faithfulness Of
the nurses.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-13

Squeezing the water out of wringer
trust stock would be appropriate.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-13

Democratic hope lies there, but the
facts can no longer be denied-this ad-
ministration is sad American spec
tacle.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-13

If Tom Upton wants to lift a cup he'd
better hurry over and do it before the
ton Transcript.
Making it unlawful does not re-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-13
AUGUSTA LODGE DIRECTORY

AUGUSTA LODGE, NO. al, r. AND
A. NJ. Special communication Tuesday
evening, June is, 80 o'clock, work in NJ.
NJ. degree. Refreshments. All sojourn-
ing brethren cordially invited to attend.
ALBERT NJ. PINGREE. w. NJ.
WESTON LEWIS. Sec'v
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-13

with her daughter. Mrs. Charles Cof-
fin, at Albion Corner.
Lester Morrison Tuesday finished
planting his potatoes.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-13

CANTON AUGUSTA, NO. 9, p. M.
Regular meeting every third Tuesday
at o'clock.
G. S. PEASLEE. Capt.
RAY NJ. BURNS, Clerk.
-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-13
ODD FELLOWS HALL.

ASYLUM LODGE, NO. 70, REGULAR
meeting Friday evenings at S. Friday
evening, June u, work in Second degree.
w +. CURRIER, y. G..
E. F. WESTON, Sec.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-13

JEPHT;4A ENcAMPMENT, NO. 8.
Meetings at 500 O'Clock every second
and fourth Tuesday.
). r. TOWNSEND. C. P.
C. e. STEWART, Scribe.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-13

CAPITAL GRANGE. NO. 24s, p. OF
II Meetings I'd and 4th Saturday even
Ings of each month at G. a. r. hall
EDWARD RIPLEY, w. NJ.
MRS. G. E. TOOTHAkEK. Sec.
tu-th-sat.t
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-13

The many friends of Mrs. Walter
Canham of Pennington will be glad to
learn that she returned home FRIDAY
from Portland. where she has been III
since the Methodist conference.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-13

Clifford E. Wass of Greenville, Me,
has been elected superintendent of
schools of Freeport and Yarmouth.
For the past seven years he has been
superintendent of schools of Green
VILE. Sangerville. Jackman and Moose
River. He is about 40 years old and
unmarried. At recent meeting OF
the Freeport School Board it was re
organized with DR.. George Bates OF
Yarmouth chairman and Miss b. Belle
Stanwood of F'reeport secretary.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-07-24
STOLE TO GET NEW START
Bank Cashier Experiences Overpower.
Ing Impulse to Get Some Place
and Start Life Anew.

A bank teller in a middle western
state grew weary Of the narrow, Cir
cumscribed life in the town where he
lived; he wanted wider interests, a
new start in a new place, but start
with capital so he could push him.
helf ahead. He took $4,000 of the
banks funds, jumped into his automo
bile and started for Mexico (this was
before the present revolution across
the Rio Grande had reached such seri-
Gus propOrtions) across Kansas, Ok
lahoma and Texas. He expected to
make clean getaway by using a
motor car instead of taking train,
forgetting that an auto can be traced.
The surety company at once put an
inspector on his trail, and the man
was captured in Texas when he was
almost at Laredo, ready to cross the
border.
Of the sum he stole, $4,000 was re-
covered in the actual wrappers in
which he had taken it from the bank
The automobile was recovered and
sold, and the proceeds used to make
up for part Of the money he had spent
This cashier is now serving a long
sentence in prison merely because he
experienced an overpowering impulse
to go some place and start life anew.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-07-24
HOPE FOR THE BALD HEAD
Sewing Hairs on scalps Is Proving
Successful-Fine Gold Wires
Are Used.

A method Of sewing hairs In the
human scalp in cases Of partial or
total badness has been successfully.
used In several instances by Doctor
Szekely, at the hospital of Saint Ste
plane at Budapest, and report ap-
pears in the London Times.
The number of hairs planted" in
the head of patient has been as
many as $4,000. One hundred hairs
are drawn through punctures in the
kcalp at every square centimeter and
as both ends are left free, the num-
Der Is thus 200, or over one thousand
to each square inch Very fine gold
wires are used, one five-hundredth of
an inch in diameter, and fine long
hairs from a womans head are at
tached to the middle of these. The
gold loop or knot acts as an anchor"
and after sterilization is introduced
into the simultaneous tissue, where
1t Is slightly twisted, and holds the
hair permanently in position. It is
stated that 500 hairs can thus be in
troduced into the scalp within three
quarters of an hour.
Doctor Szekely has designed a spe-
cial instrument for introducing and
fixing the gold wires. The latter are
SO light and so fine that the total
amount of gold in the scalp after
planting" $4,000 hairs is only one
gramme. The hair is stated to appear
perfectly natural and a sapcule OF
tissue appears to form around each
gold wire knot The inflammation
resulting from the treatment entirely
disappears in form ten to twelve days,
and in no case SO far has any In
tense inflammation or suppuration re-
suited The hair can be washed,
brushed and treated with oil in the
ordinary way, and one of the earliest
patients so treated, a lady, has re-
tanned her hair intact with the orig
inal luster and fiexibility, for over
seven years.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-07-24
GOOD CHANGE.
Coffee to Postum.

The large army of persons who
have found relief from many chronic
ailments by changing from coffee to
Postum as daily beverage, is grow
ing each day.
1t is only simple question of try
ing it for oneself in order to know
the joy of returning health as realized
by an Ills. young lady. She writes:
Il had been coffee drinker nearly
all my life and it affected my stomach
caused insomnia and I was seldom
without headache. I had heard
about Postum and how beneficial it
was, so concluded to quit coffee and
try 1t.
Il was delighted with the change.
I can now sleep we'll and seldom ever
have headache. My stomach has got
ten strong and can eat without suf-
fering afterwards. l think my whole
system greatly benefited by Postum.
my brother also suffered from
stomach trouble while he drank cof-
fee, but now, since using Postum, he
feels so much better he would not go
back to coffee for anything"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to
Wellville," in pkgs.
Postum comes In two forms:
Regular Postum-must be well
0oiled-15c and 25c packages.
Instant Postum-is a soluble pow
der. A teaspoonful dissolves quickly
in cup of hot water and, with
cream and sugar, makes delicious
beverage lnstantly-30c and soc tins.
The cost per cup of both kinds is
about the same.
There's q Reason" for Postum.
sold by Grocers.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-07-24
Robbed to PLAY Poker.

In one of the southern states a
man whose habits were bad, robbed
an express company Of several thou
sand dollars. Instead of decamping
he remained in the city. He con-
fessed to the theft and said he had
lost the money playing poker. The
surety company sent man to prose
cute the thief. He found the de-
faulter had been receiving good sal
airy from the express company and
that there was no reason for his
taking the money. Further jnvestiga-
ton revealed the fact that the county
attorney had sat in the poker game
and won most of the money; the
other players were friends of the
county attorney. The surety company
dropped the case at once and paid the
express company the amount of the
loss