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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-18

A well-known Rangeley guide writes
to the Maine Woods that in his opin-
ion the ice will not leave the Range
ley lakes before May Is. though he
mentions that week or 10 days of
real warm weather at this time of
year causes wonderful change in
the ice condition.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-18
Maine Gossip

Fifty years ago this week, do you
remember, the LIST Maine Battery vet
Grams left for Boston, on its way to
Annapolis to report to Gen. BurnsideF
And the 300 men of the Sth Maine who
left to join the Army of the Potomac?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-18
AUGUSTA LODGE DIRECTORY

AUGUSTA LODGE, NO. 141, r. AND
A. M. SRcial communication at Masonic
Temple Monday evening, April 20. at $50.
Work in the r. C. degree. All sojourning
brethren are cordially invited to attend.
ALBERT M. PINGREE, w. NJ.
WESTON LEWIS Sec.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-18

w. r. CURRIER. N. G.
Z. +. WESTON, Sec.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-18

A letter from across the continent.
from Seattle, Wash, tells Mrs. II. w.
Shaw of Mars Hill, a daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Irvine, of the
death of an uncle, John Irvine, and
a legacy OF $4,000.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-18

A citizen this noon found in his
ward, when he went home to dinner,
a flock of IL or Is birds, the size or
robins let black. He did not know
what they we're. They were probably
blackbirds. In ConnecticG and MASS
achusetts they are very common IN
the springtime in the towns. In Maine
they are seldom seen within city nm
its.-Bath Times, April 16.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05

hours in prayer, and Saint Clara as she kept
lonely vigil in her little convent.
We have had an experience at Assist which
no one ever had before, and which always will
linger in memory. The mecca which brings peo-
pie here is the splendid Franciscan monastery,
built between 1880 and 1850, and decorated with
the finest frescoes of Giotto and Cimabue, but
very few find the little church of San Damiano
One must go down. a road through the hoary
olive groves so steep that only bullocks can draw
the cart and the last part of it must be made on
foot. Legend says that the tiny church was built
in 800, but in 1908 ST. Francis collected the
money, restored it and gave it to ST. Clara who
was so closely associated with him in his pious
work. Here she established a convent for her
order of the Poor Clares and lived and died, and
lovely statue of her stands at the entrance. For
centuries past it has been occupied by the San
Franciscan Brotherhood and is a very sacred
spot to Catholics. Some years ago, when it was
confscated by the State, it was purchased by
Lord Ripon, of England, who arragned that they
should never be disturbed. Up few steps and
behind the altar is the chapel of St. Clara not
more than twelve feet square, with the ancient
prie dieu, the rough seats against the wall where
the nuns sat, her chalice, the little bell with
which she called them to prayers and lighted
only by small windows high up.
1t was here the incident occurred. A young
priest was showing us around, possibly thirty
FIVE years old, handsome in the dark Italian type,
a face not spiritual but good, sincere, little
merry and with passion smoldering in the eyes.
After the others had passed out of St. Clara's
chapel, our musician, Miss Grace Cleveland Por-
ter, an American girl, said: Il long to sing the
Ave Maria in this place" Sing it" l answered,
and she did, as exquisitely as it ever was rem
dered. The young priest was half way up the
stairs leading to the convent, but he stopped sud-
denly, came slowly down the steps and stood
there with expression that one could never
forget, passionate, protesting, ecstatic. When it
was finished he said: That is the first time
Gounods Ave Maria was ever sung in this
church." and he seemed in reverie until we
returned again to the chapel. Then he opened
a door, saying: This was Santa Clara's garden"
and we stepped out on a small terrace not as
large as the chapel, planted with flowers and
vines and surrounded by stone balustrade over
which one looked down sheer descent of a hun
dred feet Turning to Miss Porter he said
Will you sing the Ave Maria again." While
she did so, he gazed across the wide valley and
then at her, and as | watched him the rough
brown cassock and the knotted rope seemed to
fade away and could see only the young virile
man, fitted for love and marriage and father
hood. All the way home my heart was filled
with resentment keener even than ever before
against a system which dooms to celibacy thou
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05
Rome Of Today Does Not Sit on Its Seven
Hills and Rule the World, but Is Get
ting Down and Hustlins and IN the
Meantime Learning How to Rule
Itself. "a

only in its memories. The Rome of TODAY does
not sit upon her seven hills and from her throne
of beauty rule the world. She climbs down and
hustles, and although she does not rule the
world, her people are learning the more impor-
tant art of how to rule themselves We visited
the Senate short time ago, and as we looked
down upon that conventional body, many of
them wearing comfortable sack coats and loung-
ing easily in their chairs, we recalled with a
smile our days of college Latin and its descrip-
ton of the Roman senate! At present it is ap-
pointed for life by the King and in the not far
distant past its authority would have been abso-
lutte, but now it is largely in the nature of
rubber stamp. Its principal function is to ratify
the action of the House of Deputies, which is
elected by universal male suffrage, and while
it possesses the power, of veto, this very wisely
is never used.
1t is, however, a mark of distinction to be
appointed to the senate, and some of Italys
most eminent men are on its rolls. We were ac-
companied by Countess Zampini Salazar, who
IS much admired by prominent men on account
of her political writings; and we were escorted
through the fine, old Palace Madama of the six
teenth century, which now belongs to the gov
ernment, by Baron Raffaele Garafalo, president
of the highest Court OF Justice in Rome After
the session had adjourned we were introduced to
a number of the senator's among them Giovanni
Cordolini, a veteran patriot and historian;
Oreste Tommasino, formerly superintendent OF
public instruction and high authority on edu-
cation; Rafaelo di Cesare, whose works on &C.
clesiastical policy and the relations between the
Vatican and the Quirinal have been translated
into English; Angelo Annaratone, former pre-
feet of Rome; Giulio Monteverde, the renowned
sculptor, some of whose most noted marbles are
in a rotunda of the senate which bears his name
Among the other distinguished senators whom
we met personally was Prince Prospero Colonna
di Sonnino, representative OF one of the oldest
families in Italy. He was the predecessor OF the
famous Socialist, Mayor Nathan, and probably
will be chosen again by the city council, as the
municipal election, which has just taken place, re-
suited in victory for the Constitutionalists
Prince Colonna is regarded as progressive con-
servatve. and Rome, as well as all Italy, is sadly
in need of that kind OF government at the pres
ent time.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05
SUFFRAGE CAUSE
SHOWS WEAKNESS
Presidents Third Refusal to
Aid Gives Another Chance
for Reflection.
HOW SITUATION STANDS
Anti Leader Discusses Different Re-
suits from Wilson's and Clarks
Views.
Nv Mrs. HORACE BROCK,

President PENNSYLVANIA Association Opposed to
Woman Suffrage.
President Wilson's third refusal to aid
the suffragists last Tuesday will give the
advocates of votes for women" another
chance to reflect that their excellent ma
neuvers for publicity have only gone to
reveal the political weakness and general
unpopularity of their cause"
The usual pleas were made, and ''ac-
ton demanded" on the BristOwMondell
amendment to enfranchise women regard
less OF States rights. And for the third
time the President courteously declines,
both as Chief Executive of the nation"
and as Leader of a party" to indorse
woman suffrage.
Evidently President Wilson's deep
knowledge of both history and politics
coarinces him not only that the majority
Of American men and women are opposed
to votes for women after sixty-five
years of constant agitation, but that po-
liticaIly considered, the "womans party"
has power neither to help nor hurt the
statesmen whom it csjoles or threatens.
Their second Defeat.
This is the second time within a week
the suffragists have been denied support
by party leaders for a national amend
ment, without which they realize the
cause" is practically lost. For recent
State campaigns have demonstrated that
it will never again be possible to slip
through" a woman suffrage amendment
in a great commonwealth while legisla-
tors or voters are indifferent.
The recent declaration of Speaker
Champ Clark TO a delegation of suffra-.
gists sheds another ray of light on the
present political aspect of their cause"
The Speaker asserted that he believed
women should vote, but that they should
get their franchise from the States, and
good-naturedly assured them they might
be able to accomplish this in five years,
and that personally he would vote for II
in Missouri.
Whether Speaker Clarks observations
must be taken as sign that he Is
building his hopes for 1916 on expected
help from the suffragists. or is merely
side-stepping advocacy Of the national
amendment by telling the ballot enthusi-
asts there is hope for them in State
action, remains to be seen. But the suf-
fragists, themselves, at least, are not
TO be convinced that ''votes for women"
can be won by referring it to the voters
in the separate State. In fact, both the
National Woman Suffrage Association
and the Congressional Union were form
ed with the express object of getting a
national amendment. And since May.
1869, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton and
Susan B. Anthony organized the former
association for the special object of
securing an amendment to the Federal
Constitution" delegates from that as
sociation have appeared before commit
tees Of every Congress" Qda Husted
Harper, in the National Constitution
will enfranchise women) to urge ma
tionzl enfrznchisement as their only hope.
In fact, the State campaigns that have
been made were begun because the
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05
HOp to Make a Real
Wrinkle Remover

In these DAYS of cleverly advertised
'beautifiers" Of 81 varieties and more II
is hard for a woman to believe she can
make a simple home remedy for those
hateful marks OF age. worry. and Illness.
which will do her more good and cost
her much less than the average made
preparations. There's nothing in the
world so effective for removing or pro-
venting wrinkles. ceow's-feet, and Creasea
as a solution made by dissOlving an
half pint Of witch hazel. Every druggist
has the ingredients
Sc this harmless mixture daily as a
refreshing lotion. bathing the face in II
two or three minutes at a time The
quick and satisfactory results will sur
prise YOU. Even the first application
produces wonderful Improvement The
wrinkles are less in evidence and the face
has a firm, solid comfortable feeling.
ADV
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05
IDA Hustled HARPER SEES NEW ERA IN ITALY

that would be invisible by torch or candle, but
the incongruity of il jars. And so at Assist,
when we descend into the crypt of Santa Chi
ara with becoming soemnity to gaze upon the
tomb of Saint Clare, who died early in the thir-
teenth century, the little nun touches button
and it is flooded with electric light 1t is the
same in the old monastery where good Catholics
go to kneel at the tomb of ST. Francis, who died
in 1926, electric buttons everywhere. We viewed
by electric light the sarcophagus of San Rufino
against fifth century wall On the affairs the
candles still twinkle, but one can foresee the
day when they, too will be extinguished by the
electric spark.
Every lover of antiquity looks forward to
visiting Perugia and Assist, the old, old Etrus-
can towns enveloped in the semi-obscurity of
thousands of years. He imagines and half hopes
that he will climb their steep hills on donkey
and sleep in a monastic cell, but the romantic
dream is shattered when the fast express train
with loud shrek stops just long enough for him
to scramble out, and he is bundled into big
hotel motor bus which clatters over the historic
ground without a speed limit and races with
several other omnibuses. The comfortable ho-
tells are modern in every respect-steam heat,
electric Il hts and bells, bath rooms with hot
and cold water; lifts" in the largest of them.
Shades of Augustus Caesar-yes, literally, for
at Perugia the big hotels actually shadow the
immense Arch of Augustus, more than 1000
years old. For long stay one should remain
here in this little city of over 10000 inhabitants,
several thousand feet above the sea level, with
superb views and good sanitary conditions 1t
may be said of both towns, by the way, that
even in their narrowest streets and closest quar-
tiers they are cleaner than any in the United
States.
Assist for Pure Charm.
When one goes, however, for charm and
association he should stop at Assist, only two
hours away by delightful carriage drive over
the hills We came to the Hotel Windsor, new
last year, attracted by the magnet of an Eng
lish landlady. Only an American woman trav-
cling abroad can appreciate the Joy of being
received into an English-speaking BOSOM And
here, after the sun had set and the moon had
rsen all our romantic visions came to pass
Now as Our visit ends we feel that never shall
we forget those evenings on Our balcony over
hanging the high terraces with the moonlight
flooding the valley and the beautiful old mon
aStery among the cypress trees. A charming
singer who was with us sang for hours to the
accompaniment of her guitar, and whenever she
would pause the nightingales in the trees below
would fill the air with their plaintive melody.
All night they sang, while from down in the
valley came answering notes softened by the dis
tance, and imagination pictured St. Francis lis
tening to this same sweet music as he spent the
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05
SUFFRAGE Forced
ON CLUBWOMEN
Mrs. JIM. Stoddard Sees Aims
of Federation Doomed
by Endorsement.
ACTION ROUNDLY SCORED
Anti Leader Declares Sufragists Are
Going Back to Aboriginal Days
Without Knowing 1t.

For twenty years, practically from its
organization, the General Federation of
women's Clubs of the United States has
adhered strictly to a provision in its
constitution against the introduction of
politics into its discussions. Philanthro-
phy, education. welfare. and social up
lift work are the very rocks upon which
this organization was built. and only by \
complete and unqualified unification of
purpose felt hy every member. can the
aims and endcavors Of this magnificent
assembly Of women he brought to their
highest development to produce lasting
results.
Every woman who became an essential
part Of that organization as a just and
loyal member pledged herself first and
above all to that end. and any woman
who allows a subject or motive foreign
or detrimental to that unihcation of pur-
pose to enter its ranks is untrue to her
pledge and guilty of a breach of faith
Of the worst kind. II cannot be denied
that every surfragist who fought for the
entrance Of political equality for women
in the Federation of Clubs at its
biennial convention held in Chicago, the
week OF the 18th of June, placed the oh
ject OF that convention secondary in her
endeavors and held in the most trivial
consideration the essentials Of its govern
mental power registered in its constitu-
ton and bylaws.
sanFaE- Fnreed On Women.
Not only were the laws of the fedora
ton ignored, but the question of sur
frage was literally forced upon the con-
vention and no work or progress was
made or could be made until the dis
turbing element was satisfied. The red
Grafton has plainly demonstrated for
twenty years its complete and adequate
ability to carry on its divine and splen-
did purpose without the aid or sffiliation
of votes for women. and that division
in its ranks has been brought about po-
tentiaIly II not actually, which would in
either case impair its good work, simply
shows that women will disregard any
thing and everything to have their own
way. From the fact that the federation
did formally indorse political suffrage
for women does not mean that l,u1O.W0
women have gone on record as approving
votes for women On June IS formal
protest against this official Endorsement
was spread upon the records of the fed
Grafton, which declared that the action
on suffrage would impair the educational
usefulness and the influence of the fed
Grafton in many places. and that a great
injustice was done by the wide assertion
that a million women comprising that
body favored political equality. The pro-
test was presented by Mrs. J. c. Terrill,
OF Texas.
The question of suffrage was not put
TO. a counted vote or ballot, but merely
divided by the ayes and noes, and it is
quite possible to believe a suffragist mi
nority might easily overshout an anti
majority when IT Games to a question of
noise.
That Mrs. Pennybacker had never
openly expressed herself on the question
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05

sands of men and women strong in human inn
pulses intended by nature for the Joys of COM
panionship and the duties of familiar life.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05

sands OF men ana women StrOng IN human iff-
pulses, intended by nature for the joys of COM
panionship and the duties of familiar life.
Another Unique Incident.
Another incident of the visit to Assist is so
unique as to be worth describing. There are at
tached to the San Franciscan Monastery some of
the most beautiful cloisters in existence, filed
with old trees and surrounded by upper and
lower porches, and into these cloisters our mu-
sician was determined to take her guitar at sun
set and sing. Even the most worldly-rninded
of us were shocked at this idea, but we decided
to 60 and stay with her until she was thrown
into dungeon or boiled in oil. We slipped
through the semi-darkness of the great church
and out into the closters, where she sat down on
a fragment of stone of the twelfth century and
to our horror began singing plantation melodies !!
Nothing dreadful happened, however, and pres
emily out of the cleaning came a very good
looking young priest with delicate, ascetic fea-
lures, who listened with apparent enjoyment, but
a flushed face. Finally we spoke to him of Our
visit to San Damiano and he asked Miss Porter
to go to the upper porch and sing the Ave
Maria" She did so, standing between two an
cient pillars and singing it entirely through, her
voice ringing through the arches and unques-
tionably penetrating to the remotest corners Of
the monastery. When she finished he said: in
IUU wears THIS IS Ule nrSt ll1lle WOlIdH VOICE
has ever been heard within these walls y
1t was fitting that an American woman
should break the record, but what did the va
rious fathers and brothers and the rest of them
think when they heard it-that is what we would
very much like to know. The young priest
walked back through the church with us and
we told him that besides the singer one of us
was a lecturer, one writer, and one an editor.
Looking at us for moment he said: And how
do you feel about the sufrage?' I'VE think
women ought to vote we answered. why
shouldn't they he remarked Il quite agree
with YOU" And this in a monastery OF the thir-
teenth century, And as historian | am bound
to transcribe that later in the evening the young
priest went slowly down the road past our hotel;
perhaps he hoped to hear some more music. This
series of letters is primarily to consider the
woman question, and here it is.
The Eternal Question.
II seems rather odd that New Workers should
come to Italy to see ruins when they have so
many at home and excavating is their regular
business A wonderful transformation is TAX
ing place in Rome and those who were there,
evenly so recently as ten years ago, can see re-
markable changes 4 large city has grown up
outside the walls ard big modern buildings oc-
cupy some OF the most historic sites. The CO.
lossal remains of glorious past no longer seem
so tingly part OF silent, sleeping city eternal
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05

that original enslavement, which she
calls today emancipation,
We do not have TO step into the
aboriginal past to find the status and
the sphere OF woman. and nations may
rise and fail, centuries may come and go.
but the immortal and Interchangeable
duties and functions of woman are writ
large upon the indestructable tablets OF
human consciousness.
MRS. JOSEPH N. sTODDARD.
Member Of the Executive Board OF the
District OF Columbia Association Op-
posed to Woman's Suffrage.
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05
Delegates Take Tours to Ancient Ruins,
Where Even the Imprints Of Pro-
gressive Twentieth Century Ideas
Now Are Emphasized Some Unique
Experiences.
By IDA Hustled HARPER.
NO. VIII.

Assist, Italy, July 4-More than by anything
else is one impressed nowadays in Italy by the
contrast between the very old and the very new.
1t is more striking here. than elsewhere because
the remnants of one of the worlds oldest civil
izationS are here, while many of the Italian
cities are keeping vigorously in the stride of
modern progress They have quite as much
pride in Marconi as in the remains of the Roman
Emperors.' In fact they would be very indif
ferent to the latter if these were not now an
inexhausible source of revenue. For many CEN
turies their ancestors demolished the grandeSt
architectural monuments the world had ever seen
to use the fragments in inferior buildings, and
it was not until pilgrims from the four corners
of the earth came to worship what was left that
the wholesale destruction ended. 1t is heart
breaking to look at these ruins of a magnihcence
that never will be reproduced, and yet it is not
impossible to understand the utilitarian spirit
which would protest against tons of good build
ing material being wasted in useless arches and
unused forums One with religious zeal may be
able even to comprehend the fervor with which
the pillars of beautiful pagan temple would be
transferred for Sanctihcation to a far less beau
tiful church. Thanks are due to the much
abused tourist that every scrap of antiquity is
now preserved and the earths interior is being
searched for more.
The Old and the New.
1t is here at Assist and the neighboring Per-
ugia that we have been especially struck by the
iuxtaposition of the old and the new. In these
ancient Umbrian towns was a considerable de-
gree of civilization centuries before the birth of
Christ and their possession was fought for
throughout countless centuries. Between the
two lie the Etruscan Tombs, of comparatively
recent excavation, with the figures on their ex-
quisitely carved receptacles for the ashes almost
as perfect as when made in the third century be-
fore Christ, while within may be seen the i'm
perishable ashes themselves. Suspended from
the ceiling of the different rooms are tiny Etrus-
can lamps of bronze, where faint taper was
once kept burning but now the tombs are light
ed by electricity! With bulb at the end of a
long pole the attendant shows many fine details
The Washington herald., 1914-07-05

A Russian is not OF age until he Is
twenty-six years old. Until that time at
least four-hfths Of the earnings must go
to his parents.
The Alaska citizen., 1914-06-22

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