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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-17
Keep Exits Clear.

There's note of warning and a
word of sensible advice in Philadel-
phia Press editorial under the caption
Keeping Exits Clear in the Picture
Houses 1t says:
Director Porter, who disputed the
wisdom of the old custom that kept a
fireman stationed on the stage of each
large theater for the protection of the
public, has come to the rather incon-
sistent conclusion that moving picture
houses ought to be supervised by po-
licemen. Someone told him that over
flow crowds at many of the moving
picture theaters blockade the exits,
thus making it impossible for the thea
ter to be swiftly cleared in the event
of a panic or an alarm of fire. With
out hesitation he decided to make the
police of each district responsible for
keeping the exits clear in the theaters
on their beats.
The Directors decision is a proper
one. The law provides that each pic
ture house shall maintain a certain
number Of exits. Exits are of no use
whatever unless they are kept cleaI
for use in an emergency. A manager
who crowds his theater so full as &c
make its exits useless is undoubtedly
violating the law. And since it is tht
polceman,s duty to see that the law
is obeyed, the task of keeping an eye
IN the picture houses is rightly left tt
him.
If the Director has so clear per.
ception of a policeman's duties, VIII,
was he not able to think as clearly
concerning the functions of fireman
He sees that it is a policeman's worl
TO prevent the violation of law al
much as to arrest the violator: but HI
seemed totally blind to the view tina
it is as much fireman's duty to pre-
vert fire as to extinguish it. The i'm
portance of emergency exits is clear t.
him, but not the value of fire proven
ton.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-17
Cart Before the Horse.

Massachusetts, If the truth were
Known, is being legislated to death; hef
cities are overloaded with the puruen %
a hundred fads and faneles. f1dIu.y "a a
State board exists that is not laden with
work IL has no money to perform Up
lift demands more and more IN t nls
direction-but the mere passage OF Jaw
does, not guarantee peft 19r IL e.1,eadv
over-supplied with laws ana needs Ie"eI
rather than more. 1t hasn tline "
catch up with what is already lald Out
in the way of work, when a fresh besis.
lature comes along and piles on 10Y
more! Probably the very best thing t hat
could happen to us would be teI-yeaar
period almost barren OF new lesislatiulil,
where the sole activity should be the
elimination, rather than the mulLlplica-
ton of statutes.-LoweH Courief-cltizeh'
Without contradiction it can be safely
asserted that most states and the ma
ton are ''legislated TO death" But of
all the sparkling examples of cart
before-the-horse "uplift" the Bay State
is utmost in the scintillating line. In
practically all-the-year-round session
the great and general court of Mas
sachusetts cuts loose daily on methods
of undoing the evil which the idiot,
lunatic and misunderstanding plants
which it maintains turn out. Mas
sachusetts is in the business (for reve-
nue. only of manufacturing drunkards,
wife-beaters, children-starvers, insane.
vicious thugs, maudlin mendicants,
and pitiable physical wrecks. 1t
L. nf tho we'll
paid time of its law makers legislat-
ing remedies and appropriations to
rescue, reform and care for the product
of its own business.
And the Massachusetts press, which
shares in the revenue of exploiting
mems souls and women's bodies, boasts
OF the commonwealth sagacity in
providing personal liberty" licensed
crime government. Its ministers tell
other states of the wisdom-and con-
venience-of rum trust regulation"
Its lawmakers and officials pity other
states for their lack of scientific part
nership with the devil.
Presumably Massachusetts will go on
naming commissions of "uplift" faster
than their idiotic pretense can be car
ried into effect, until the national gov
eminent is driven out of the rum bust
ness and takes hand in suppressing
the mills that turn out physical and
moral wrecks for revenue"
What price Massachusetts is pay
ing for her liquor revenue"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-17

The wickedness of, New York, or the
virtue of the District Attorney, accore-
ing to the way you look at 1t, is indi-
Gated by the report of District Attor-
ney whitmans office for the last year.
There were 5,102 indictments during
the year, and of these prisoners 1854
pleaded guilty. In other words the
people who confessed to their own
guilt before the law in New York
County alone (Which is only part OF
the city, numbered more than all the
teachers in the high schools, the eve
ming schools and the city college put
together; more than all the clergymen
in the city, and more than the total
population of New York in the aftieth
year of it's growth. OF all the prison
ers brought to trial only 1863 were ac-
quilted by united juries and 1926 by
juries that disagreed. There were sos
convictions after trial, or nearly twice
the number of acquittals. This means
there were more indictments, fewer
acquittals and--except for one year
more outright convictions than at any
time for several years past. Either
New York is growing wickeder, or 1t
is finding out more about it's own sins
than it ever knew.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-17

1T is an old tradition that to sleep
in the moon's rays was a dangerous
proceeding, and there is such thing
as 'moonblink,' temporary blindness
said to be due to sleeping in the NOON
light of tropical climates, while some
observers have reported a deyitalizing
action of the moons radiatians on,
vegetable life," says the. Lancet, of
London. There is even quoted
death. the cause of which was official
~ stated to be exposure to moonlight.
Apparently the food most seriously
affected by the moons radiations is
fish, and seemingly trustworthy state
ments have been made as to the i'll
effects produced in persons who had
partaken of FISH which had been free
ly exposed to moonlight. E. r. Bryant.
B. A., b. Sc. writing in recent num-
Der of the Chemical News from Port
Elizabeth, South Africa. suggests that
a possible explanation of these phe-
nomena, assuming them to be true,
might lie in the we'll known fact that
the light of the moon, being reflected
light, is more or less polariaed, and
possibly polarized light may exert a
peculiar chemical action"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-17
Will Perkins Furnish Money?
(Waterville Sentinel.)

(Waterville Sentinel.)
Maine Progressives have heard It'd
ings calculated to wonderfully brace
up their failing courage. Chairman
Irving E. Vernon of the State COM
mittee announces that a meeting Will
be held in Portland on the fifth day OF
next month and the occasion Will De
graced by the presence of Mr.. George
Walbridge Perkins.
Mr.. Perkins is the gentleman who
once was a member of the house OF
Morgan and whose achievement In
transferring the contribution of great
life insurance company to a campaign
fund has not been forgotten. 1t was
a neat and workmanlike accomplish
ment which would have escaped atten-
ton had it not been that the State OF
New York suddenly undertook to IN
vestigate the insurance business ano
employed one Charles e. Hughes to DC
the investigating. Mr. Perkins is alst
known as the father of the harvester
combine.
But these things are not of CHIEF IN
terest to Maine Progressives. In the
last campaign Mr.. Perkins was known
as the angel of the party. 1t was NJ
who held the dough bag when the war
riors gathered at Armageddon to bat
tie for the Lord And it will be the
recollection of the dough bag that VII
make Maine Progressives nightly re
joice when they learn that Mr.. George
Walbridge Perkins is headed this wa,
in the depths Of a Maine winter
Mr.. Perkins doesn't get cold feet there
will certainly be a Progressive ticket
in the field next summer.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-17
LET US LAUGH A BIT.
Between Sea sons.

Baseball over. football, too,
And Yuletide with II fzZ,
Just now man has naught to do
Except attend to biz.
No more we cheer the football teams,
Beseeeh them not to yield.
No more exhaust ourselves with screams
Upon the baseball field.
1t isn't bad at all, my boy,
This peace and quietude.
In January We enjoy
A pleasant interlude
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-17
Editorial Comment.
An Empty City Jail.
(Farmington Chronicle

IF dTIIIIIISIUH OIIIUIIIOIo'I
The Portland Express announcing
that the city Jail is empty and no
session of the Municipal court because
of no business is good evidence of
Sheriff Grahams work. 1t is in
marked contrast with the condition in
Knox county, whose sheriff. it has been
alleged. got quarantined against a
summons from the Legislature to re-
spond to an indictment for inefficiency
or worse. because he had been with
some one who had been associating
with some one else who had smallpox.
The county commissioners Of Knox
county report an increase in expense of
taking care of criminals and a general
increase IN county debt.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-17

No notice whatever will be taken OF
unsigned communications.
The Journal cannot be held RESPONSE
HE for the preservation or return OF
re.scted communications.
Address all communications relaeihs
TO subscriptions and advertisements
TO Kennebec Journal Co, PUBLISH
ers, Augusta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-17
A Popular Idol.

The men of our neighborhood, are 60
ing to tender her a public reception"
For why?''
'She wears a perpendicular plume. in
stead of one of these horizontal affairs
that fill nostrils with fuzZ and sweep off
eyeglasses"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-17
Maine Gossip
Two Boys and Cigarette.

Two bright little fellows, named Harry
and VIII,
Were Just the same age and the same
One day in their travels it CHANGED that
they met
A queer little creature, surnamed Gig
arctic.
This queer little creature made friends
with the boys,
And told them a story of masculine joys
He held for their sharing Il tell you, :
quoth he. f..z
THE way to be manly and big is
Will listened and yielded. but Harry held
Z think your assertions are open to
He said land besides. I'm afraid I'd be
AFRAID" echoed VIII. "oh, you cow
ardly stick,
Well, I'm not afraid, look here's" AS
He blew out a halo of cigarette smoke.
Five years from that meeting. I saw
them again.
The time had arrived when both should
But. strangely enough, although Harry
boy stood
AS tall and as strong as tree in the
Poor viii seemed a dwarf; sunken eye,
hollow cheek.
Stoop shoulders proclaimed him I'M
manly and weak.
With thumb and forefnger he nstlessly
rolled
A cigarette, smoothing each wrinkle and
And the smoke that he pulled from his
lips, / declare.
Took the form of demon and grinned
from the air.
And ii said. See the wreck OF InaH
hof I
OF the boastful young fellow who wasn't
afraid
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
The denomination that founded
Bates college has interesting history
Fifty years ago, although large pro-
portion of the adherents did not con-
slider advanced education desirable
they maintained an academy in Par
sonsfield. that for all these years has
been doing good work, planting seed
that has taken root. They established
newspaper, The Morning Star. that
was a continuous influence; and as
the denomination advanced the paper
was removed to Boston. 1t was con-
Quoted in later years by Bates men
All was not harmonious in York
county There was an element thai
denounced education and sustained
slavery This element was led by a
minister named Bullock, and his ad-
herents were known as "Bullockites.
throughout that region.
Charles Clarke advertises his return
| to the journalistic circles of Sagada
hoe with the following in the Bath
| Times:
"a Bath lady recently received from 6
relative at present visiting Paris a pic
ture postcard on which is q celored ltho
graphic reproduction of the celebrated
painting of Mona Lisa by Vinci in the
Louvre. The card was sent the day at
ter the arrival back of the stolen artistic
gem. You know its history: how artist.
have been haunted and gone mad ovel
| the alluring, mysterious smile upon the
young lady's face. Say, here in Bath OF
/ any afternoon during shopping hours, ont
can see on walk from the postoffice Il
the Park dozen handsome girls, each
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-17
Everybody Happy,

Mother gave father ton of coal. We
find it useful. bless my soul. Father
gave mother a couple of rugs; mother
and father. you know, are Spugs.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-17
Saturday, January II, 1914.

Any coward can fight a battle
when he's sure at winning; but
give me the man who has pluck
to fight when he's sure OF losing
George Eliot.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-17
Different Methods.

'Wombat brags that he saved a lot by
spending no money on Christmas pres
ents.''
Yes he blew his for a reserved table
in a lobster palace on New Years eve"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-17
Jared tho Dear Boy,

GLADYS said something to me the other
night that smacked of innuendo," re-
marked Ferdy to Algy,
What was it, dear boy?'
advised me not to stand under the
mistletoe. Said one Of the berries might
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-17
Notes of Current
Political Gossip,

In October 44.091,170 pounds OF for
eign wool was in the bonded ware
houses of this country, waiting to en-
ter our market when the tariff went
into effect 1t is all here now and
lot more besides. Did you pay any
less for your last suit of clothes?
Only the other day 100000 bushels OF
corn from Buenos Ayres. South
America, was laid down in Galveston,
Texas, at a price just IA cents cheaper
than 1t can be grown in this country.
The price to the big grain handlers has
been depressed a little, but 1t hasn't
dropped to the consumer.
Under a Democratic administration
the American soldier will cover his
back with WOODEN cloth, the wool for
which was grown in a foreign land and
the labor of weaving also performed in
a foreign land. The newest American
battleship will be fitted in part with
English machinery. Evidently the
American working man isn't popular
with party now in power.
The Republican State committee has
taken the preliminary steps necessary
to an offer of conference with the
State committee of the Progressive
party. In several other states, includ-
ing Maryland and Indiana, all differ
ences have been settled. Maine will
be next.
ao xxrhfn haen
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-17
At the Zoo.

why does the monkey wear his tail
draped around his neck"
The initiative little rascal saw a wo-
man with fur boa
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-17

Carefully complied figures from au
thentic sources show that the reduction
In the selling value of Names live
stock, exclusive of horses, since the
Democratic tariff bill went into effect.
has shrunk s4,171,114. The same ratio
of loss will doubtless apply to mos.
other products of the farm. In Au-
gust cattle were selling for eight
cents, in December, for six. The loss
was % per cent. The tariff the
Democrats removed was 81 per cent.
The Maine farmers cattle have shrunk
in value just about the amount of the
tariff.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-17

with more alluring smile. Mona Lisa
Is fright. as compared with big ma.
lority or the young ladies, and some Oh
the older ladies of Bath. Maine"
We are ready to admit that for
climate Maine cannot be surpassed
on this earth. AS a summer resort
we're absolutely in a class by our
selves, and the satisfied guests re-
turning year after year are ample
proof. But as a winter resort we do
not secure our deserved popularity.
What time in the year is better or
more healthful than now with the
crisp inVigorating air, the long slopes
covered with snow for toboganning or
skiing, and the sweeping stretches for
snowshoeing? Never were the frs
more fragrant nor the pines whisper
ing with sweeter music. We know
the Gloucester Times man was just
home from Maine when he wrote the
following:
Whom we really come to think of it,
every one Of these winters has been a
pleasant winter, and just about long
enough, Here We are now in the sec,
ond week of January. Ten weeks VIII
carry us through all the possible severe
weather we may have. The beauty. of
these 10 weeks is that they will be differ
ent from what has gone before. We are
actually sorry for the people who have
calm equable climate all the year
through. Variety in reasonable meas
ure makes life worth living. New Eng
land is the great summer resort of the
Nation. For good-b looded men and wo-
men it should also be favorite. winter
resort. Nowhere in the world is there an
all the year round climate that touches
this. We New EngIanders should be
mighty proud of our climate and should
not fail to advertise IL at every chance
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-17

In Yuletide each cook shows her class
And with the others vies
But when the Yuletide goes, alas.
We must economiZe.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-17
Alters Matters.

still smoking? My wife is always af-
ter me to quit smoking"
my wife views it differently. / got all
my Christmas presents with tobacco cou-
pons.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-17

the leading fishing port Of the Ameri-
can nation for many generations In
not only losing its business, but also
its population. The Democratic tariff
has driven the fishing vessels to Cana
dian registry, the fishermen to Cana
dian homes and the business of
Gloucester to the wall.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-17

According to the London Chronicle the
cinematograph is producing cinomatic
eye, a special disease generated by the
effort to follow the flicker and the un-
natural speed of~the pictured actors.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-17

fall and fracture my sAull. call that
unkind; eh, what?'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-17

to GO on berating the law. and publish
ing their brazen sophistries day AFTER
day.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-17
AUGUSTA LODGE DIRECTORY
ODD FELLOWS HALL

ASYLUM LODGE, NO 20, REGULAR
meeting at 1880 Friday evening, Jan. 10.
of officers-elect. Refresh
JOHN c. HOwES, N. G.
e. F. WESTON. Sec.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-17

CANTON AUGUSTA, NO. 9, p. NJ.
Regular meeting every third Tuesday
at O'Clock.
RAY M. BURNS. Clerk
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-17

Gloucester, Mass. which has been
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-17

JEPHTHA ENcAMPMENT, NO. 9.
Meetings at 1880 o'clock every second
and fourth Tuesday. Tuesday, Jan. ~,
installation of ofticers-elect Refresh-
d. w. LOvEJoY. G. P.
C. e. STEWART. Scribe.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-17

with a more alluring smile Mona Lisa
is fright. as compared with big ma.
llority of the young ladies', and some OF
the older ladies' of Bath, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-17

GEN. PHIL SHERIDAN CIRCLE,
No. 5. Ladies' of the G. A. r.: Regular
meeting in c. A. r. Hall every Tuesday
at go p. NM.
MRS. EMMA A. GANNET, Pres.
janseod1yrs
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-17

Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac c. Baker of Pine
Point observed their 50th wedding an
niversary there a few days ago. Mr..
Baker is a successful farmer, and the
couple has a large circle of friends.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1914-08-28
NOTICE OF CONTEST

Department of the interior, United
States land office, Blackfoot, Idaho,
August 81, 1914.
To Wilson Ellis, of Shelley, Idaho,
R. F. D. number two, contestee:
You are hereby notified that Fred
Bennett, who gives Shelley, Idaho,
r. F. d. number two, as his post
office address, did on August l, 1914,
file in, this office his duly corrobo-
rated application to contest and Sc
cure the capcellation of your home
stead entry number :....., serial
number OSLO, made March -, 1910,
for S. E. a N. E. "A, lot 10, section
four, and w. S. w. n, township
three south, range 3S east Boise
merid Ian, and as grounds for his
contest he alleges that said Ellis
never did establish residence upon
said tract or place any improvements
thereon; that since date of entry and
for more than six months prior here
to said Ellis has wholly abandoned
said entry; that since date OF entry
no bart of said tract has been cuti-
waited or improved by said entryman.
You are, therefor, further notified
that the said allegations will be taken
as confessed, and your said entry will
be cancelled without further right to
be heard, either before this office or
ON appeal, if you fail to file in this
office within twenty days after the
fourth publication of this notice, as
shown below, your answer, under
oath, specifically responding to these
allegations of contest, together with
due proof that you have served a
copy of your answer on the said con-
testant either in person or by regis
tered mail.
You should state in your answer
the name of the post office to which
you desire future notices to be sent
to you.
CHAS. e. HARRIS,
receiver.
Date of first publication August %,
1914.
Date of second publication Septem-
Der 4, 1914.
Dnte of third publication Septem-
Der II, 1914,
Date of fourth publication Septem-
Der IS, 1914.