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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-25

present to the people of the United
States the British side of this ques-
ton, and hope to escape humiliation?
The people have read the treaty.
They see that the United States, as
owner, makes rules which other ma
tons must obey if they would use the
canal. The people cut straight through
the legal quibbling and grasp the hard
fact that the United States has not
bartered away its right TO regulate its
own domestic shipping. The United
States has not made a treaty that de-
prives it of the right to send its own
vessels of commerce or of war
through its own canal free of charge.
The people who paid for the canal
intended to benefit themselves by pro-
noting commerce. The entire cost OF
the canal, as Senator Walsh says, is
a subsidy to commerce.
The only monopoly in the coastwise
shipping of the United States is the
railroad monopoly. Break that, and
commerce is free. Congress smashed
that monopoly fiat when it excluded
railroad-owned ships from the canal.
So long as that provision remains in
the law, the public knows that the cry
of shipping monopoly" is false If in
dependent shipowners should combine,
there is a remedy for such an attempt
at monopoly. The same screws that
are now causing the railroads to
squirm can be applied to any shipping
monopoly.
There is no monopoly of shipping in
New York harbor. The public gets the
benefit of competition and low water
rates Why should the consumer be
taxed by tolls at Panama, in a canal
which he alone paid for? Freight
should pass through the canal from
one coast of this country to the other
at the lowest possible rate. Give the
public low rates and the Sherman act,
and it will not worry about any at
tempt at monopoly.
The most grievous wound that any
Democratic senator could infiict upon
his party and his administration would
be to vote for repeal. Even if he
should escape personally, he would be
sending his party to perdition. AT this
juncture it is up to the friends of the
administration to save it from COM
hitting a blunder that is equivalent
to suicide.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-25
Then and--NOW

Today the telegraph is one OF
the most important strands hold
ing modern civilization together.
1t is estimated that something
like half billion news dis
patches, business communications
and social messages are trans
mitted every year over the six
million miles of telegraph wire
connecting practically all of the
important settlements in the
world. Nearly 100000 miles of
submarine telegraph also have
been laid One invention after
another led to the reading of
messages wholly by sound, to the
sending of as many as dozen
messages simultaneously over one
circuit and in a crude form the
sending of pictures over the wire
by internationally flashing beams
of light. In its most advanced
form the telegraph has eliminated
wires altogether and from hun
dreds of stations ashore and from
the masts of almost every large
ocean going vessel the exchange
of messages through the air has
lately become almost as com
monplace as ordinary wire COM
munication.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-25
Fighting Disease Germs

There is a popular idea that most
sickness is caused by germ of the
disease finding entrance to our bodies
through the food we eat, the water
or milk we drink or the air we
breathe. This is true as far as it
goes but it is also true that disease
germs are entering our bodies every
day without causing disease.
The reason for this is that there
are forces within the body that are
constantly fighting these disease
germs and it is only when this de-
fence is weakened that the germs get
the upper hand and we become ill.
One of the most powerful of these
forces that work for health is rich,
red blood. Good, healthy blood in
creases the resistance of the body to
ening. 1t is easier to keep up this
resistance by taking DR.. Williams
Pink Pills. eating proper food, avoid
ing articles of food that do not agree
with us and getting plenty of fresh
air day and night. than it is to cure
disease after II gets a foothold. Keep
up the resistance of your body to dis
ease by these tonic pills, which you
can get at any drug store, and you
will avoid much sickness.
Two booklets, Building Up the
Blood" and What to Eat and How
to Eat will be sent free by the DR..
Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady,
n. Y.-Ady.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-25
Hampshire will do well to keep him at
his post.
Democratic Booming of Shipping.
portland Argus, May 22.)

portland Argus. May 20
Masters of some of the big coal
laden sailing schooners which have
been lying in Boston and Portland
harbors for many weeks report it as
almost impossible to obtain charters
for their vessels, the situation at the
Virginia coal ports being reported as
dull beyond precedent. The six
master Alice NJ. Lawrence, which ar
rived here from Newport News on
March %, has been anchored in the
lower harbor since she discharged
cargo, but is understood to have
been engaged within a few days and
will leave for a southern port as soon
as the weather changes. Her sister
schooner. the Addie NJ. Lawrence.
which arrived here month later
than the other, is still in the lower
harbor unchartered. Several of the
vessel owners, realizing the uncer-
tainty of the market, have chartered
their vessels for a year and probably
in doing so have acted wisely. the
Jane Palmer and Cora +. Cressy
having been engaged to run for a
year between Portland and Newport
News. while the six-master Edward
B. Winslow has a charter for 10
months to carry coal between Boston
and Norfolk Capt. Henry w. Butler
and wife, who have been making a
short visit to their former home in
Phippsburg, have Joined the vessel at
RoSton
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-25
Moral Education.

In moral education don't moraltze.
This is the advice of Prof F. G. Gould,
An English educator of note, who has
been touring the United States as
demonstration for the Moral Education
League of London. Prof. Gould's
carefully worked out program for
moral instruction in the elementary
grades impresses Bureau of Education
officials al Washington as one of the
host valuable of the present efforts TO
make education tell in fine character.
Story telling forms the basis for
most of the instruction in Prof. Gould's
plan. Once a week, or oftener, 1t is
assumed, the teacher or principal gives
a systematic lesson on the conduct Of
life. The various virtues are taught,
not as distractions but by concrete
examples and by interesting stories.
The teacher is not TO say: This
ought to be done" she is rather to say:
This thing has been done" Hearing
constantly about right actions, the
pupils learn to appreciate right con-
duct The spirit behind the instruc-
ton is the spirit Of service; but this
and other technical moral terms are to
be rarely, if ever, mentioned. 1T is
possible" Prof Gould points out, Ito
give many lessons on civic duty and
scarcely ever use the word patriotism,
and yet the temper of conservation to
ones duty and country may permeate
the teaching and inspire the pupils"
Prof. Gould disclaims anything
novel or faddish about mis- work 1t
is by no means new. he says. 4 have
over and over again affirmed that my
teaching was, in the strict sense of
the term, antiquated; that is to say, it
consists of the employment of the
concrete and dramatic manner which
is illustrated by ancient poets as well
as modern, by the narratives and
parallels of the Bible or the Talmud,
by ballad singers and story tellers of
the middle ages, and by allegorists
such as Comenius and John Bunyan.
What perhaps l may claim is that
I have reminded educators of simple,
fundamental principles, which, in the
somewhat unnatural rush of over
crowded school programs, we are all
apt to forget; and along with that eff
fort to get back to more direct action
in moral teaching, l have it may be,
combined a certain enthusiasm and
freshness; at least l hope So"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-25
Editorial Comment
Keep Him at His Post
portland Expressly

Senator Jacob H. Gallinger of New
Hampshire has long given distinguish
ed service to his state and his coun-
try. He announces himself again as
candidate for the great office which
he has so long held and honored. II
is to be hoped that the people of New
Hampshire will call him again to his
public station for he is not purely a
representative of that state. He is
too broad man to be bounded by
state lines. Republicans of Maine,
when two Democrats sat in the Sen
ate from this State, were forced to
turn to Senator Gallinger for such
service as they might need In the
United States Senate and the sena-
tor never failed, cheerfully and gladly
to respond to their requests. For
some months he was in a way, the
senator from Maine. For many years
he has been strong, competent, ag-
gressive Republican legislator. New
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-25

It was Just seventy years ago
today that the telegraph was
formally introduced. Samuel F.
B. Morse, the inventor who had
worked for IL years on electro
magnetic communication, and his
associate, Alfred Vail. had strung
the first line between Washington
and Baltimore. On the morning
of May "a, 1874, Annie G. Ellis
worth. daughter Of the then Com
missioner of Patents, burst into
the United States Supreme Court
chambers in Washington where
Morse and several distinguished
men were gathered around his
telegraph instrument, and brought
the news that Congress had ap-
propriated $4,000 for official tests
of the invention, after dis
heartening series of refusals.
Morse reached for the sending
key and licked off the historic
message, What hath God
wrought" Vail, in station at
Baltimore, surrounded by anoth-
err group of distinguished men
read the message upon a paper
tape. Two days later the tele-
graph gave out its first public
news by announcing that Polk had
been nominated for the presi-
dency in the Baltimore conven-
ton.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-25
Monday, May Is, 1914,
Samples of Democratic sophistry.

On the strength of Its own deciar-
alton that the country and the Onlteu
states Senate are tired of the Pana-
ma canal tolls debate, and that there
is no chance whatever of defeating
repeal, the New York Evening Post
urges that debate be ended. That Is
the same sort of logic to which the
liouor interests resorted few years
ago. when they demanded that an
end be put to this everlasting rum
question" They were anxious to nave
If end with them in the saddle ana
the people carrying the burden.
The same is true today in the tolls
contest-the supporters of the railway
monopoly are trying to defeat free
tolls on the ground of economy by
pointing to the "coastwise shipping
trust" Sort of pointing out a skunk
and declaring, hes de chap what
stole de onions; phew, smell i'm
brefp'
without doubt it is good play for
the tools of railway monopoly to end
the debate before further expression
of the country is received in Con-
gress. but it is hard to believe that
Americans are so tired Of their own
interests as to give them away for
the sake of getting rid of the ques-
fior
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-25
Resentment of Americans.

One by one the states are warming
the Democratic party that if it re-
peals the canal tolls exemption law
its days are numbered. New Jersey,
the Presidents own state, was one of
. the first to display its Americanism
and TO demand that the British pre-
tense in behalf of the railroad mo-
nopoly, and the Wisonian pretense
that there is a coastwise shipping mo-
nopoly, be measured by the future of
Democracy. The people of all parties
in every state are alive to the sig
nificant play into British hands. The
tariff demonstration was enough: the
giving of Great Britain hand in the
control of our canal is too much.
American spirit resents the inference
and the insult.
The Washington Post, independent
In politics. says:
No clubbing, no mendacity as 10
shipping monopoly" no wolf-cry of
subsidy" has had any effect with
The people of this country They can
not be fooled. The issue is too plain
and clear. Ii is merely a question
whether the Panama Canal shall be
owned, defended, and controlled by
the United States. primarily for its
own benefit and protection, or wheth-
sr Great Britain, after pretending tc
Yield the rights assumed under the
Clayton Bulwer treaty, shall now
share in the management of the
canal. a
/ What administration can expect C
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-25

Gen" Coxey promised to march in
To Washington with an army of $780,
goo unemployed men and apparently
did all he could to gain recruits en-
route. but he didn't have a corporal s
guard when he did arrive. The Zion s
Advocate touches on the matter as
follows: Thus do the rude fingers
of fact ruthlessly rend the rapturous
romancings of Industrious magma
tion''
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-25

The government was recently asked
in the Dominion parliament why con-
tracts were given last year for Am
erican coal for the Intercolonial Rail
road, a government institution. The
answer was given that American coal
could be bought cheaper and delivered
quicker than from the Canadian
mines. From that, it would be ex-
pected that American coal was or
dered this year, as usual.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-25
SMITHFlElD.

G. A. Groves is building barn on
his farm on Mt. Tom.
C. L. Stevens has a mare that re-
Gently dropped a pair of mule colts.
Mrs. Gustie Wentworth is having a
cellar dug under her house.
Mrs. j. C. Pierce is still confined to
her bed a great part of the time.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-25

Mrs E. E. Kendall of Chicago has
been appointed to have charge of the
tree planting along the Lincoln high
way, a gigantic undertaking in itself.
Beside this, trees will be planted be-
side many of the roads connecting with
the Lincoln highway and the entire eff
feet will be very beautiful.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-25

The work that the American Bible
Society is doing is in part shown by
the number of its publications as re-
ported to the annual meeting recently
held in New York City. The total
number of volumes issued for the past
year was 5,251,176, an increase over
1918 of 1,201,566 volumes and making
the total issues for the 50 years of the
societys existence 103.519,s91 Bibles.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-25
Maine GOSSIP
My Dairy Farm.

laura Sheldon, in TRUTH
l want a farm where milkweeds grow
And honeysuckles strive;
Where buttercups their yellow show
And bouncing egg plants thrive.
With such a farm l will not care
How wicked Trusts contrive.
On my four products | can fare
And keep myself aliVei
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-25

A Kingfield family has been enjoying
a weeks visit from Mr.. Skunk, who
made himself at home in the cellar and
actually seemed hurt, when, after being
tolled out of doors by light one
night, found the door shut in his face.
He wandered around on the porch for
some time, before deciding that he was
persona non grata.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-25

Harmony, in the Rockland opinion.
She had two bottles. One was full
of water and the other was full of
turpentine. She also had box of
very nice tomato plants. One day she
discovered that they needed more
moisture; so she sprinkled them with
the contents of one of the bottles.
The result was fatal and she now
uses the box for a setting hen, and
we have got to get some more tur-
pentine to do a little painting.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-25

Sunday, June 81 is the date selected
for the observance of Fathers day.
as suggested in 1909 by Mrs. John
Bruce Dodd of Spokane, Wash, and
it is to be hoped that the observance
will be generator it is about time
for the fact to be recognized that
Father is still a member of the family
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-25

OF course, the President never told
Senator Ransdell he'd go to the mat"
with him; that sort of language has been
outlawed by the statute of administra-
tions.-Was hington Post
Mebbe he said bat"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-25

An optinist is a Democratic politician
who thinks that six weeks of back-break-
ing labor in the Western wheat fields will
compensate the Eastern mechanic for the
job he lost when the factory was closed
down.-Boston Transcript.
Or that turning a $500, 100000 canal
over to Great Britain will compensate
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-25

For the benefit of those who would
like to refer to past years records of
the ice leaving the Rangeleys, says
the Maine Woods, I'VE will publish
the following dates which were taken
from a back number of Maine Woods
1880, May s; 1881, May 10; 1882, May
81; 1888, May Ia; 1884, May II; 1885,
May Is; 1886, May 5; 1897. May 90;
1888, May %; 1889. April 20; 1890, May
9; 1891, May IA; 1892. May 81 1898, May
81; 1894, May @; 1895, May 7: 1896. May
8; 1897, May II; 1898, May 6; 1899, May
I; 1900, May 10: 1901. May 4; 1902, April
2s; 1903. April %; 1904, May /; 1905,
May ?; 1906. May 10; 1907, May 10;
1908, May 10; 1909. May IA; 1910, April
10; 1911, May II; 1912, May 8; 1913,
May 4,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-25

Meanwhile the colonel does not deny
that he's the man who put the T. r. in
trouble. "-Pittsburgh GazetteTimes.
Or the BILE in the Moosers?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-25

sion will be held in the Board of
Trade rooms on Exchange street. Dur
ing the afternoon sight seeing trolley
trips will be taken and later the party
will have a shore dinner and a trip
about Casco bay.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-25


Trade rooms on Exchange street. Dur
ing the afternoon sight seeing trolley
trips will be taken and later the party
will have a shore dinner and a trip
about Casco bay.
The United States boarding officers
at Portland are hoping to secure a
new and powerful tug. costing be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000, for their
use. The power launch which has
been in use for g number of years,
has been sold and the officers are now
using the quarantine service steamer
Petrol
Rev. P. H. Boivin, formerly of Port
land and the son of Peter Boivin of
IS Sheridan street who was ordained
at the Cathedral of the Immaculate
Conception in 1903. and who has herd
a pastorate at Sanford has been trans
ferred to Yarmeuthville, to take
charge of parish there. FIR. Boivin
will also take charge of the missions
on the Grand Trunk as far as Nor
way and South Paris.
People at Lake Pennesseewasse
near Norway the other day had a view
of an unusual oeeuranee, water
spout. 1t was about 10 feet in diameter
and the spray from it was sent into
the air above the tree tops. Their
attention was attracted to it by a
sound like strong wind blowing.
Portland has for months been hear
ing that big coal distributing plant
was to be established there and the
latest rumor says that the Lehigh
Coal & Navigation Co. has acquired
from the Brown heirs a long lease of
their property on the westerly side of
Browns wharf, where the coal pockets
will be located. They will consist
of three great towers taking up about
600 feet of frontage.
Our wife has new recipe for
checking the growth of tomato plants
(to keep them in touch with the back
ward weather., which she is giving free.
says Jim Eye, Jr.,' of Moose Pond,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-25

Billy Morrison, a Holden farmer,
has devised a new way of driving his
COWS to pasture and then having
them returned some hours later at
evening milking time. The Morrison
children when they start for school
in the morning, not only take their
MONDAY lunches along, but they also
drive the cattle to pasture. After
school when the frogs are peeping in
the swamps, and when the June-bugs,
which tangle up your hair, come
humping against the window screens
having driven the Morrison cows to
pasture in the morning, it is no more
than practical reciprocity for the
youngsters to drive them back at
milking time the following evening.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-25
AUGUSTA LODGE DIRECTORY
INOC CHAPTER,

r. A. NJ. Special convocation at Masonic
Temple Thursday, May 2S. at $50 p. Nj.
Royal Arch. Refreshments. Sojourning
companions are cordially invited to at
tend.
FARNSWORTH G. MARSHALL, H. p.
CHARLES r. CHASE. Sec
AUGUSTA LODGE, NO. 141, F. AND
A. NJ. Special communication Tuesday
evening, May 26. at 7.30. Work in NJ. NJ.
degree. Wednesday evening. May q,
work in same degree a 80. Refresh
ments. All sojOurning brethren cordially
invited to attend.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-25
Rowe's Corner Grange.

Rowe's Corner Grange will entertaiW
Excelsior Grange, at the all day meet
ing. George Boomer of Togus will be
the principal speaker
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-25
ODD FELLOWS HALL.

JEPHTHA ENCAMPMENT, NO. 3. &.
Meetings at 500 o'clock every second
and fourth Tuesday.
]. r. TOWNSEND C. p.
C. E. STEWART, Scribe.
DIFF
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-25

Prof Sanford C. Dinsmore. son of
Mr.. and Mrs. David e. Dinsmore of
Dover and a graduate of the Univer-
sity of Maine, and who, for several
years has been at the head of the
Nevada State Experiment station with
headquarters at Reno, is now in the
South where he is visiting pulp mills.
Prof. Dinsmore has been employed to
devise some means for handling the
waste from the pulp mills in Reno
which is now polluting the only stream
of water in that city. He has several
ideas for solving the problem and is
casting about for other ideas in the
South. He has recently visited the
large pulp mills at Covington, Va.
Prof Dinsmore went to Covington
from Memphis, where he attended the
big meeting of the Shriners as rep
resentative of Kerak Temple of Reno
of which he is an officer
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-25

The following exchange between the
Journal and the Bath Times took
place May 81, 1874: A lady of this city
named Moore having changed her con-
dition by marriage. her name is now
Much More.-Augusta Journal. And
very likely Many More will follow.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-25

CANTON AUGUSTA, NO. 9, p. M.
Regular meeting every third Tuesday
at s o'clock.
G. s. PEASLEE. Capt.
RAY NJ. BURNS. Clerk.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-25

The New England Association of
Commercial Executors has accepted an
invitation to meet in Portland, June
o. This organization Is composed of
the secretaries Of Boards of Trade and
Chambers of Commerce throughout
the New England states and it is ex-
pected that the party will number
about 80. While In Portland the visi-
tors will be entertained by the Port
land Board of Trade and during the
forenoon of June n. business ses-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-25

David Clymer Ward, well-known
western author and editor-i in chief of
the Publishers Editorial Service, Chi
cago, who has been in Bangor since
last fall for the purpose of gathering
local material for a new book on the
psychology of the soul, entitled THE
Touch of a Master" has finished his
work there and left Thursday for the
West. The forthcoming volume
which will contain much of interest
to the residents of Bangor and east
ern Maine, will be published at an
early date.