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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-30
MT, VERNON.

WEET.-The Sunday morning serv-
ice was conducted by Arson Williams,
followed by the Sunday school. No
evening services were held.
Orlando Smith, an aged citizen of
this place, passed away Monday morn
ing. He is survived by a son and
daughter. Mr.. Smith had been in
poor health for many years.
Grant Butler and E. HI. Foss were
in Livermore Falls Tuesday on bust
ness.
Leon Childs was at the home of
Charles King of Fayette Tuesday. Mr..
King is now assisting Mr.. Childs in
cutting ice.
There will be no services at the Free
Baptist church Sunday, Feb. 1, on ac-
count of the evangelistic meetings at
Mt. Vernon village.
Miss Jane Forbes of Gardiner and
Mrs. Charles Fossett entertained at
the latter's home Tuesday afternoon
ten of the children from st. Andrews
Sunday school,
Ludy l. Powers was calling on
friends in South Gardiner Monday.
Mr.. Chauncey Hunt finished har-
vesting his ice Tuesday. He has a
good amount and good quality.
Mrs. George Hartman and two
children of Randolph were guests
Tuesday of Mrs Roger Lapham-
Willie Sparrow was the guest over
Sunday of his sister, Mrs. John Trook.
Mrs. John Whitmore and Mrs. Earl
Fossett solved correctly a puzzle for
which prizes were offered and each
received a check towards the purchase
of piano Neither desiring piano,
they returned the check and each re-
ceiNed a fine opal pin.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-30

Colonel John n. Merrill, on whom the
shah of Persia has conferred the decora-
ton of the Order of the Lion. the high
est ranking order given by the Persian
government, is an American, native OF
Maine. He went to Persia several years
ago and finally became a commander or
the gendarmes. Recently he left hat
arm of the service. having signed con-
tract for three years, and is given an in
dependent command of infantry and cav
airy, the object being to make southern
Persia uninhabitable for the outlaws who
now infest it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-30
The "Ricer" Sneak,

A modern legislative invention of
more potential cussedness than the
one-tine posters of the Ku Klux Khan,
is the rider. To stick on rider to an
important measure, when time is
precious and consequences far-reach-
ing, to defeat the will of the people
and the purpose of an honest execu-
tive. is little better than porch climb
ing. Such a rider is a sneak, and the
offspring of dishonest purpose; it is
accomplishing an unworthy end by
false pretence.
Every rider from this day on, in
Legislature or Congress, should be
open to suspicion and its instigators
to public contempt. When a great ap-
preparation bill is loaded down with
the pet selfishness of individuals whose
constituency is uniformed or apath-
etic. the executive is confronted by the
necessity of vetoing the necessary
provisions or of submitting to the out
rage and insult of the legislative
branch.
The recent rider taking assistant
postmasters out of the civil service
list and handling their offices for
spoils, is pure and simple dirty poll
tics" It il nothing more or less. A
score or more of other riders were
attached to the same measure and
all Of them were equally foreign to
it. It should have been vetoed prompt
ly on general principles-Grover Cleve-
land would have vetoed it with bang.
These deccitful tactics often succeed
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-30

and will continue until suppressed by
public indignation, for politicians will
continue to get into Congress and I'M
scrupulous men will go on exercising
their natural bent After the execu-
tive submits to the sneak rather than
to destroy worthy measure, and to
incur all the cost, inconvenience ana
disappointments thus entailed, but he
ought to make clean sweep with the
veto of every measure bearing a rider,
until that reprehensible practice is ef-
faced. Let legislation stand on its own
merits or not stand. This gold brick
swindle in legislation is played cut.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-30
The SmileIess Man.

You know the sort of man who sell
dom smiles. and then as If the feeble
grin were painful. He is frost with
his fellows, but they stand some show
of lodging the unpleasantness by
keeping away from him. But this
serious minded simp may have fooled
some woman into marrying him and
bearing children.
He may be a perfectly proper per-
son, but so is corpse. in some ways,
although it wouldn't be nice thing
to have sitting around the living room
as a regular evening attraction.
man who takes his crouch home with
him might better take it down to the
booze bazar and try to drown it.
Atchison Globe.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-30
Pleasantly Slow.

There have been older smokers than
Granny" Scott, the Chertsey hawker,
who enjoyed pipe in her one hun
dred and fourth year. Jane Garbutt,
who died at Darlington in 1856 at the
age of 10, smoked a pipe almost to
her dying day. When asked some
time before her death how long she
had been a smoker, the old lady re-
piled: Very nigh a hundred years.
Even this record was beaten by an
American negro, Abraham Elmer, who
died ten years ago in his one hundred
and nineteeneth year, and claimed to
have smoked for century. If tobacco
be q poison, as it's enemies declare, 1T
is a pleasantly slow one.-London
Mail
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-30
yankees" Losing the Soil.

The Yankee" Is being ousted from
the farms of Massachusetts by settlers
of foreign blood, according to the state
board of agricultures report, issued
Tuesday. THE one thing that may
still save the day for native Americans
is the use of more and better machinery
and of more scientific methods" says
the report.
we have seen the Polish people take
possession of the Connecticut valley
within the past few years and in GER
tain of our hill towns Jews and Canad-
ians are taking up the land and max
ing a living where our older citizens
failed. The Portuguese are rapidly ac-
curing land in Bristol and Barnstabie
counties; and in the not distant future
we may expect to see large settlements
of still other natfonalities IN our
state. Press Dispatch.
If the country wide warning con-
tanned in the above is not sufficient to
stir Maine land holders to the needs of
the hour, then it is useless for agr1-
cultural departments, schools and ex-
perts to suggest. Will the Yankee"
holders of farms continue, because of
notions on social equality, and the
dignity of certain kinds of city jobs,
to allow their lands to be acquired by
foreigners? The tendency in that di-
rection is indisputable and rapid.
1t is apparent that the Yankee farm
er in former generation got his no.
lions too high and they are long
time coming down to a common sense
basis. The immigrant is ready to
withstand hardship and unceasing toll
to acquire the land which the old stock
release so easily. Our children and our
children's children will see the folly
of it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-30

man can put his money than endow-
ing original research laboratories. The
men who work in them work for pit
tance--enough only to keep alive. Few
of them reach fame.
Serums and antitoxins are going to
take the place of the knife and the
saw. The research laboratory will be
the physical salvation of the race
Milwaukee Journal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-30

Why are they sending all the big
and useless radishes they can find to
Sec. Bryan? If they had come over
the Chautauqua footlights the purpose
would have been obvious. Why not
send him something useful, like a
chicken or a cabbage-something that
would lengthen a short salary?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-30

The official geologist of the isthmian
canal commission, having examined a
number of placer claims in the region of
the Gatun river and tributaries lying
within and without the canal zone, has
reported that In no instance was gold
found in paying quantities, and that this
territory has no value for mining pur-
poses. Many samples were washed and
the results varied from color only up to
p cents to the cubic yard.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-30
CORNViLLE.

EAST-Clyde Robinson of Stetson came
to this place Monday bringing his sister
Gala to stop with her grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs S. Blaisdell for the remainder
of the winter, returning Tuesday.
At this writing John Amerzeen is quite
sick with a grip cold.
Horatio Longfellow of Athens was in
this place Monday
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-30
BELGRADE.

Miss Marion Thompson. who is i'll with
tonsilitis at the home of her grandmoth-
er. Mrs. Geo. Stoddard, is reported to
be on the mend. 1t is expected she will
soon resume her studies at Belgrade
High school.
Supt. Mertie B. Weston Of Augusta is
in town visiting schools.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-30
Maine Gossip
The Universal Prayer.

Father of all! in every age.
In every cline adored
By saint, by savage and by sage
Jehovah, Jove or Lord!
Thou great First Cause. least understood
Who all my sense confined
To know but this. that Thou art Soou'
And that myself am blind;
Yet gave me in this dark estate,
To see the good from i'll;
And binding nature fast in rate
Left free the human will;
What conscience dictates to be done,
Or warns me not to do.
This, teach me more than hell 10 shuH'
That, more than heaven pursue
What blessings Thy free bounty gives
Let me not cast away;
For God is paid when man receives
To enjoy is to obey.
Yet not to earth's contracted span
Thy goodness let me bound.
Or think The Lord alone of man,
When thousand worlds are round.
Let not this weak, unknowing hand
Presume Thy bolts to throw,
And deal damnation round the lana
On each / Judge Thy foe.
If am right, Thy grace inpart
Still in the right to stay;
If I am wrong, o teach my heart
To find that better way!
Save me alike from foolish pride
And impious discomfort
At aught Thy wisdom has denied,
Or aught Thy goodness lent.
Teach me to feel another's woe,
To hide the fault l see;
That mercy / to others show.
That mercy show to me.
Mean though I am, not wholly So
Since quickened by Thy breath,
O lead me wheresoe'er l go.
Through this days life or death!
This day be bread and peace my lot'
All else beneath the sun
Thou knows II best bestowed or not
And let Thy will be done
To Thee, whose temple is all space,
Whose altar, earth, sea, skies,
One chorus let all Being raise,
All Natures incense rise.
Alexander Pope.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-30

Nelson Dingley of West Pennington,
Me-. has unique sled, made to be
pushed. instead of drawn. which came
originally from Finland. 1t is made with
steel runners six feet long. turned up in
front and extending in back so that
whoever is pushing can step on them and
coast on down grades.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-30
ESTABLISHED 1926.

No notice whatever will be taken Oh
unsigned communications.
The Journal cannot be held RESPONSE
HE for the preservation or return u
rejected communications.
Address all communications reia'iae
to subscriptions and advertisements 'sls
to Kennebec Journal Co.. fuN'
ers, Augusta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-30

'eUncle" Eben Leighton of Mount Yer
non, had another birthday Tuesday, this
time his 9Th. He is still active in mind
and body.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-30

Vocational guidance has been intro
duced into the school system of Connec-
ticut by a recent law.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-30
ODD FELLOWS HALL

ASYLUM LODGE, NO 70, REGULAR
meeting at 7.So Friday evening, Jan. 10.
Friday evening, Jan. 80. work in Initia-
tory degree by team of past grands.
w. +. CURRIER. N. G..
Z. +. WESTON. Sec
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-30

CANTON AUGUSTA, NO. 9, p. M.
Regular meeting every third Tuesday
at s o'clock. Installation of officers-elect,
Tuesday, Feb. II. Refreshments.
G. S. PEASLEE, Capt.
RAY M. BURNS. Clerk.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-30
BETHLEHEM LODGE, NO. IS, F. 4

A. M. Stated communication, Monday,
February 2. All sojourning brethren are
cordially invited to attend.
ORIN B. FROST, w. M.
PEARL E. FULLER Sec.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-30
JEPHTHA ENcAMPMENT, NO. Q.

Meetings at 7.30 o'clock every second
and fourth Tuesday. Tuesday, Jan. q,
installation of officers-elect. Refresh
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-30

ROSE OF SHARON CHAPTER, NO.
10, O. E. s. Stated meeting Wednesday
evening. Feb. 4. at 7.5o AT Masonic Tenn
pie. Initiation. All members sojourning
in the city are invited TO attend.
ETHEL NJ. BABBITT, w: NJ:
ELIZABETH A. THOMPSON. See.
ia oqdfn
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-30
r. q. cApEN REeEKAH LODGE EMO.

X. b. CNPEN REbEKNH CUOGE NO.
81, I. o. o. F. meets End and 4th
Wednesday evenings at $50 O'clock
EDITH H. CURR1ER, n. g.
SADIE E. METCALF, Rec. Sec.
mch26m-W-f Tyr
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-01-30

U. o. G. c., MORRILL, CON-
mandery. No. 32s, U. o. G. C. Regular
meetings second and fourth Tuesday
evenings at $50 o'clock at Golden Cross
d. SAUNDERS PATTERSON. N. C.
LETTIE l.. WING, X. r.
w. E. CLOUGH, f. K. r.
m-w-f.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-08-21

be the opportunity for American man
ufacturcrs of Womcn's wear to throw
eff the shackles Of custom that have
bound them TO Paris FOR so many
years ana to make the creations of
their own minds take the place of cop
les of the ideas of designers overseas.
Whether the persons concerned will
be able to stand alone is problcmati-
cal. The designers and the manufac-
turers think that they cam and that
they can break Partisan domination
once and for all if the war is of any
duration. But some of the big retail
ers sCom at this suggestion and say
that the coming Fall season will see
the greatest collection of styles" 1t
has been the good fortune Of American
women to look upon. They agree that
the American designers are adept at
toning down French and other Euro
pean creations TO fit American tastes,
but they maintain that when the prob
lem Of originality faces these design
ers they will so all to pieces The re-
suit at best, these retailers say can
he nothing more than "A curious mix
ture of what has been considered good
style for several seasons.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-08-21
FRIDAY, AUGUST p, 1914.
HELPING TIE UNEMPLOYED.

The county authorities are showing
every disposition 10 do all in
their power to aid the unemployed,
thrown out Of work by the reduction
Of mine forces due To the European
wars demoralizing influence on the
copper market. The road bonding
proposition is i'm line with these ef-
forts, but the season is getting late
for road work and this matter may
have TO be dropped until spring. In
the meantime a county employment
bureau, with County Clerk Kaiser in
charge, has been established. which
will assist men in securing temporary
employment in other districts The
county will assist these men in reach
ing points where they may obtain
work. With the return of normal
times the expectation is that there will
be return TO the copper country Of
many of the men who were forced TO
leave it. The employment bureau no
doubt will be able 70 do much towards
relieving distress.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-08-21
Portugal Princess Stranded.

Among the persons stranded in New
York by the war is the Princess Drag
anca dAVellar, whose stage name was
Ruth Maycliffc when she appeared in
Girls" and other comedies i'm this city
several years ago The Princess was
born on Texas cattle ranch, and
after appearing in several plays in
this city, she went abroad about two
years ago and was not heard of again
on Broadway until she returned to
America last May, when she surpris-
ed former acquaintances by telling
them that she was "a Princess. She
was introduced to Prince dAvellar of
Portugal, in Madrid, she said and it
was case of love at first sight. Since
May she had been visiting her mother
and grandfather, G. A. Roberts, in
Oklahoma. For several weeks she has
been in New York waiting for ship
to take her back to Lisbon.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-08-21

Nassau streets for new quarters for
the New York sun. For more than
year it has been known that The news
paper was preparing to quit it's old
home, but not until recently was it
learned that the building on the next
corner south was TO be It's new loca-
ton. Ii was thought than The sun
would follow the example of The
Times i'm moving uptown, but evidently
the owners Of the paper have decided
To stick close 10 Park Row 10 r.. VA
The building now occupied by The
sun is more than 100 years old, having
been erected in 1871, as the home OF
Tammany Hall. IL has had long and
interesting political history. In 1867
the building was sold to the late
Charles A. Dana and others and re-
modelled for The New York Suns
newspaper offices, and has been occu-
pied by the paper ever since. Several
years ago plans were prepared for
erecting a tall building on the site, but
they never materialized.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-08-21

surplus doubtless the United states
Will be glad To be larger purchaser
other products. however may not be
30 easily disposed Of For instance, of
the exports of salt cattle hides, over
$4,000 tons went TO Germanyi l4,OOO
tons To the United Kingdom; ll,0OO
tons to the United States; 1000 tons
to Belgium, etc. or flint cattle hides,
nearly 1000 tons went To the United
states; 1900 tons to Germany; 1850
tons to italy; over 1900 tons to Bel
GUM, etc. or unwashed wool over
10000 tons went to Germany $4,000
tons to France; 1880 tons to the
United Kingdom: 10000 tons to Bel
gium; and $500 tons to the United
States. Quebracho loss and quebracho
extract tfor tanning purposes) were
exported to the amount of about $1O,-
100000. The question for the consum-
err of such products as these in the
United States will be how much of
them can this country buy? The great
er the imports into the United States
from Argentina, the greater will he
the amount Of exports to that country.
Both sides of the question must be
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-08-21
GOTHAM'S ELITE
AIDS RED CROSS
Society Women Begin Campaign
to Raise Big Fund

New York, Aug. 9i-The leaders of
New York's fashionable circles at
Newport are organizing money
raising campaign in support of the In
ternational Red Cross socicty's war
work. The prime movers in the affair
are Mrs. August Belmont, Mrs. Stuy-
vesant Fish and Mrs. William *. Van
derbelt. Jr. A sort of fair, or fete, is
being planned to take place at The
Breakers the sumptuous abode of
Mrs William X. Vanderbilt. 1t will
continue for two afternoons and even
ings of tennis week. when the New
port season is at its height. A small
charge will be made for entrance tick
cts. and various shows will attract
both the attention and the shckels of
the great of the earth, as we'll as of
those who follow in their wake.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-08-21
War Hurts r. e. Traffic.

Railroad traffic men admit here that
their business is being seriously af-
fected by the European war. \ fall
Ing off in traffic they said, was bound
to follow the embargo placed on grain
and other export freight, which runs
unusually heavy at this time of the
year. The complete tie-up OF imports
has also had tendency to reduce
freight received from manufacturers
dependent upon Europe for raw mater
ials. Officials Of the leading trunk
lines, however, are of the opinion that
the setback in railway earnings will be
only temporary and that the improve
mcnt, when ii comes, will be pcrma-
nent and of great value to our indus
tries.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-08-21

few. Being that means much that /.
OF vital Importance at so unusual d
time as this. Among other overwhelm-
ingly important things it means is that
every citizen of this first and most
favored nation should give his first and
most carefully considered thought t.
and for America.
This, indeed, is a time for such con-
centrati0n OF thought of America"
its manifold blessings and opportuni-
ties; its institutions and its unequaled
constitution; a time for such love for
and devotion To country-such a
boundless and substantial patriotism
as was never before manifested.
In giving such thought to America
the mind viii be so well occupied that
we shall not say and write those things
which may lead To demonstrations in
vioaltion of our neutrality; shall not
say write and do those things which
will give the warning powers excuse
for charging America with offensive
President Wilson's patriotic appeal
was timely. II should be needed by
every citizen.
Let that be the slogan
My thought is for America"
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-08-21
SIZE OF THE EUROPEAN
WAR UNITS.

The American is so thoroughly civ
ilian in his training and in his outlook
that the sudden development of the
European war finds him badly pre-
pared to comprehend even the meagre
scraps of news that come over the
censored cables, says the Pontiac Press
Gazette. What little idea of military
affairs we folks on this side have is
gained largely from our experiences or
knowledge Of our own little army or
our rather casual militia, and that
largely as it was i'm the time Of the
War OF the Rebellion rather than as
IT is today our idea Of a regiment Of
soldiers varies from an assemblagc Of
loo men, which we have vague no
ton IS about the strength OF full
American regiment today. down To the
tattered little bodies Of three or four
or five hundred which maintained regi-
mental ORGANIZATIONS so often during
the Civil war.
One does not instantly realize, when
the dispatchs speak Of German
battalion, that they mean a body of
troops as big as some Of our brigades
were In the sixties and numbering a
thousand men; that a regiment i'm
Germany contains three battalions or
half as many men as the serviceable
soldiers Of Washington's army at VAL
ley Forge. There are two regiments
in a German brigade and two brigades
in a division.
The German army corps, so often
to as the unit in large opera
tions. consists Of two infantry divi-
sions, two regiments of field artil-
ery. three squadrons of cavalry, a
company OF pioneers. a bridge train,
leld bakeries. telegraph troops. field