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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09
Editorial Comment
The Conservative Reaction.
Springfield Republican, Ind

The result of the elections, in the
broadcast sense, was triumph Tor
conservatism over radicahsm-the
first one of any importance since Pres
ident Mckinley was reelected in l900.
1t had been in the air for year or
more Finally, the conditions became
ideal for a reaction. In addition to the
undoubted business depression, due to
a variety of causes, the great world
war cast its dark and chilling shad-
ow upon all the forces that make for
unsettlement and change. In times
like these, reform withers. The popu-
lar instinct is to .sit tight" conserve
what is and make the best of what is
established and tested by time. The
world today has no desire for inno-
Walton and experimentation, because
large part of it is in flames and the
remaining part is thinking of its fire
extinguishers.
1t was clear months ago that if re-
action came, the new progressive
party would suffer severely For
the Progressive party, to de-
gree, was the eliminating politi-
cal expression of the radical
movement which, had been forcing rec
ognition of its claims by all parties for
dozen years. Radicalism was the
supreme force Under President Roose-
Welt, and it destroyed the Taft admin
issration the moment Mr.. Taft's deyo-
ton to the progressive cause fell I'M
Ger suspicion. The long-tim opposi-
ton was suddenly swept back into the
power under radical auspices, and the
Wilson administration has, in reality,
been desperately engaged in clinching,
as best it could. so much of the radical
program as was possible before the
onrushing tide of reaction should be-
come irresistible
That has been the secret of the
Presidents fierce driving of the demo-
cratic Congress during the first half of
his administration. The opportunity
that full legislative and executive
power offered to get things done was
too precious to be lost. The progress
sive party was not entirely in ac-
cord with the administrators pro-
gram, but that party had helped pow
erfully to place the present admins
| tration in office and it's fortunes were
inextricably bound up with those of
| the Democratic radicals in control OF
| the government. Any conservative re-
action, under which this administra-
| ton might reel, was sure to fall upon
| the Progressive party with terrific eff
| feet because nothing stronger than the
bond of personal admiration for a
great popular leader had drawn a large
proportion of it's members into the
Progressive ranks. His personal mag
netism was utterly insufficient to hold
them to the principles he had pro-
claimed when those principles and the
spirit enveloping them began to come
| into popular disfavor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9. 1914

the determination Of the 500. 100000 in
corporation to prove its usefulness by
starting at once to the relief of the
suffering Belgians.
The brave little nation, now desig-
mated German province" is abso-
lutely starving.
A steamship has just sailed bearing
s250,0Oo worth of food stuffs, but this is
only drop in the bucket. Seven hum
dred thousand persons are in urgent
need and 1t will take 81 900 month
for six months to put them on their
feet Now that the Rockefeller Found
alton has taken part in the work of
relief, there should be no trouble in
getting all the help necessary, but the
cooperation of the Belgian Relief
Committee and kindred organizations
is still needed.
Everything done here must be done
with strict regard to our neutrality
Belgium is a German province. Ger
many feeds her soldiers first There
may be complications, but supplies
must be poured in.
A report from Christiania says the
managers of the Nobel Institute have
decided to give this years peace prize,
which amounts to $4,000, to the Meth
erlands government to be applied to-
ward the support of Belgian refugees
in Holland No better disposition, ii
will be generally agreed. could be made.
If the Rockefeller Foundation did
nothing else but save a brave nation
from starving, it surely had not been
created in vain.
And while on this topic where is
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie with his hoard?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09

1t was twenty-five years ago
today that the free delivery of
letters was extended to all towns
in the United States having 5000
population or over. This COM
pleted the extension of free de-
livery of letters paying 10 cents
postage which began on that date.
The free delivery of letters was,
however, begun in the larger
cities in 1863 during the Civil
War. 1t was then made neces-
sary by the fact that the people
in the cities crowded the post
offices to hear from the front. In
large cities like New York, Phila-
delphia and Boston the increased
mail of war almost swamped the
Post Office Department and made
free delivery an absolute neces-
sity. But in 1854 there were
only 6S5 letter carriers in all the
cities of the United States. In
1889 when free delivery was ex-
tended to smaller towns citizens
in towns of $4,000 population had
to send to the post office for
their mail. The most urgent let
ter could not be delivered by
post single moment ahead of the
most important and a vast ma
jority of the thirds of the
population of the country living in
the rural districts had to travel
on an average of from FIVE to ten
miles for mail and in many of
these districts mail was delivered
at the post office only once a
week
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09
Thu South. and ,Roostik.

"A Maine paper contains an editori-
al urging the South to diversity It's
crops and raise corn and peas and
beans rather than all cotton. OF course
this is timely for just now the south
is unable to sell it's cotton crop for
what 1t cost to raise it, although the
situation is being rapidly relieved"
The above is from a Maine paper
which goes on to explain that Aroos-
took county stands in the same posi-
ton and refuses to raise some things
that our exchange names.
Aside from few little erroneous
Impressions concerning Aroostook
coun.ys refusal to raise corn when
she can't (because the seasons are not
long enough, or apples because the
soil is so deep and light that the trees
go TO roots instead Of fruit) or that
Aroostook can raise any better pota-;
toes than Piscataquis, Somerset or
Kennebec, or any more barrels to the
acre. the editorial referred to has this
significant little error in it's attempted
analogy: The South is stung by the
war and hollers for help. Aroostook
has been driven, in times past, al
most to the poorhouse by lack OF re-
turns for its crop, and it has not asked
an appropriation of Congress to save
its normal profits. And Aroostook Is
not blessed with the possibilities for
Investigation of crops as the South
is at that
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09
DAILY KENNEBEC JOURNAL.
Then and Now

Today in almost evry town and
city the mail is delivered at Of
flee, shop or residence from once
to ten times daily except Sunday
by an army of 10000 letter car
riers and another army of nearly
$4,000 rural carriers serve coun-
try communities from Florida to
Canada and from Maine to Cali
fornia. An army of more than
$4,000 men are employed by more
than $4,000 post offices to serve
the American people and with the
exception Of its hamlets and
small villages where every resi-
dent is convenient TO the post
office everybody receives his mail
by free delivery. In 1897 the
rural free delivery was estab-
lished with A routes. For year
or, two 1t was~purely an expert
ment for the expenses were far in
excess of the receipts and even
today rural free delivery does not
pay the Post Office Department
but it has become such an abso-
lutte necessity to the farmer that
he has compelled the government
to make 1t permanent and the
whole country is we'll satisfied to
be taxed for the deficit. For
rural free delivery has not only
increased the attractiveness of
rural life but it has greatly aug
mented the business of the coun-
try with the city and contributed
to the general prosperity.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09

OF Life

The right medicine at the right time,
is as much a necessity as food, SHELTER
or clothes. Perhaps more so.
In its go years of relieving stomach
troubles, remedying constipation and
biliousness, and restoring strength and
appetite. 81. F." Atwood's Medicine
has become practically necessity of
New England life.
Mrs. Whitcomb's letter simply con-
firms what thousands of other folks
already know:
Hampden Highlands, Me.
Have used your Il. F." Atwood's
Medicine for more than 20 years. w :
consider it nearly as necessary as our
food"
(Signed Mrs. c, H. whitcomt.
Get This Necessity Of Healthy Life
Today.
Big Bottle-s5 Cents-Your Dealer.
FREE Sample by Mail.
81. F." MEDICINE CO.. Portland. Me.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09
A Sign of the Times.

Whether the war or just plain virtue
has cut down the new excise list Of
liquor emporiums some 300 in Greater
New York. is a question over which
everybody has puzzled since it was re-
ported that $4,000 worth Of licenses
less than last year is to go to the ex-
else department. On Manhattan
Island alone over 100 saloons have
been abandoned. these surprising sta
tistics show. With 6213 establish
ments still conducted 1T is not fearat
that patrons need die of thirst be-
tween stations. However. it is a sigr
OF the times that has reached eyer
Gotham.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09
On. of Our Ex-Presidents.

Former President Taft is thorough
w reoonciled" to the outcome of Tues
DAVIS balloting. In discussing the cleo
ton returns he said: Il am glad to
hear the good news of Republican
victory. 1 hope that 1t will tend TO
assist business and restore confidence.
Incidentally, the Progressive party ana
it's leader seem to be relegated to IN
nocuous desuetude. l am Thoroughly
reconciled to this result
The ex-President didn't say IT, out
il is a safe wager that he was thihh-
ing. Now who was frazzled?"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09
"The Combine Against Teddy"

ported is defeated says a critic. Every
man whom Lincoln supported in 1856 was
defeated. Ought progressives to have
abandoned Lincoln in 1860 because ms CUT
went down to defeat in 1856 and in 1887
The success of progressive principles Is
more important than the success OF any
man. Roosevelt abdieated in 1908 and
Taft fooled US. In 1916 If there be pro
gressive candidate who can win, Roose-
Welt will support him. But To- who is the
man? Pinchot. Prouty, Murdoch and
Robin have been defeated by the Torres
of the old parties who beat sncn as ere
mont and Lincoln way back. Must the
progressives tie to Penrose ?-Lewiston
Journal.
No: there's Sulzer and Perkins AMI
the holder.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09
Germany and England.
Hartford Courantl

II the German claim that Germany
was forced into war by the other ma
tions is correct. then the British pre-
mier must have been wrong in his
statement made in a recent speech at
Cardiff. 1.-Two years ago." Mr.. Asquith
said, Germany was not satisfied with
a declaration that Great Britain would
never make or join in any unprovok-
ed attack en- her, and that Great Brit
ain was not and never would be a
party to any treaty, understanding or
combination of which aggression on
Germany was an object" On the con-
trary, declared Mr.. Asquith. the Brit
ish government was asked to pledge
itself to absolute neutrality in case of
Germany being engaged in war, and
this was at a time when Germany was
making enormous increases in both Of
fensive and aggressive resources on
land and sea, which England regard
ed as preparation, when opportunity
offered, for overpowering and domi-
mating Europe. ITO such a demand"
he added, 'but one answer was pos
sible, and that was the answer we
gave
In reply to the premier's clear state
ment, those who are violently pro-
German and nti-English will exclaim,
"Perfidious Albion!" To those who
take an opposite view and who SYM
pathize with the cause of the Allies,
the statement will furnish proof that
Germany was the chief provocation of
the war and the aggressor. 1t is
there that the matter will stand for
the present, and the war. with its in
excusable slaughter and misery and
suffering, will continue until some
nation is SO nearly exhausted as
to plead for peace. That time does
| not seem, just now, to be as near as
the friends Of peace might wish.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09
Hancock Pomona.

Following is the program for the
meeting of Hancock Pomona Grange
with Narramissic Grange, Orland, Sat
urday. Nov. IA: Opening exercises, ad-
dress of welcome, A. B. Hutchins; re-
Spouse, ]. w. Bowden; business, topic:
why Do Young People Leave the
FARM" A. B. Hutchins. E. e. Gross;
recess; call to order; music; confer
ring Fifth degree; topic: Finding the
Cost of Farm Products" Lewis Blood
Homer Lowell; program host Grange:
closing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09
Mans Electric Plant.
NORWAY Advertiser)

NORWAY Advertiser)
His brain Is the Central Office.
His nerves are the Electric Wires,
His veins and arteries are the Cir
culating Pipes.
His lungs are the Steam Chest.
His mouth is the door to the Fire
Box
And his food is the Fuel.
His stomach is the Fire Box.
His heart is the fly wheel to the En-
CINE.
His liver is the Regulator,
His kidneys are Condensers
His rectum is the Ash Hole.
His uretha is the Exhaust Pipe
His bowels are the Ash Pit.
His blood is the Electric Current.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09
STOPS HEADACHE,
PAIN, NEURALGIA
Don't Suffer! Get a Dime
Package of DR.. James
Headache Powders

You can clear your head and relieve
a dull splitting or violent throbbing
headache in a moment with DR..
James Headache Powder This old
time headache relief acts almost magi-
cally. Send some one to the drug store
now for dime package and few mo-
ments after you take powder you will
wonder what became of the headache.
neuralgia and pain. Stop suffering
it's needless. Be sure you get what
you ask for.-Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09

The largest cheese on record, weigh
ing nearly tons. has just been COM
nleted at West Martinsburs, Lewis
county. The cheese has been made for
exhibition at the Panama-Facihc EA-
nosition in San Francisco next year,
and its manufacture required loo,ooo
,,ounds of milk. 1t measures feet I
inches in height and over IS feet in
circumference. Now who will deny
that old moon made -green-ch
classic?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09

It will have to be admitted that some
pumpkin pie is punk.-Bostoh ouhoas
AS that Maine apostle OF. Temperance,
Neal Dow, claimed that there was nc y
such thing as good" whiskey, that II
was all bad. SO 1t may be SAID that 'hei -
Some are not SO superlatively. excellent as
others. but anything that is honestly re. en-
titled to the name cannot be punk the
Globe man probably ran up against :
concoction erected on foundation OF
sauash and garnished with such other IN
gradients as the pie factory which tufn PEE
il out happened to have ON hano at tii'
time.-Biddeford Journal
Including ripe cucumbers ana the
ra.na;ns of the red flannel hash.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09
Q. the Brute!

who was that man at the side door
awhile ago." asked the husband of an
Indiana would-be poetess the other day.
why, it was man who said he had
come to change my meter. l told him
he had made a mistake in the number of
the house. for the men had not finished
wiring our house yet"
Husband, after thoughtful pause:
Maybe he'd been reading some of your
poetry. indianapolis News.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09
The Best She Could Do,

.Ah'' he sighed. IF you only gave me
the least hope, T.
Gracious interrupted the hard
hearted belle. i've been giving you the
least / ever gave to any man."-Phila-
delphia Public Ledger.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09

IT isn't the man who drinks liquor who
hehts prohibition it is the man who sells
LIQUOR Nine out of ten men VINO urink
would be glad to see the stun showed OH
the earth.GPortland Express.
It's the root Of all evil that keeps
cussedness on top. Note the proof d
it in the prohibition amendment vote
of Ohio and California. Human souls
are of small account, but saloons. dis
tilleries and vineyards are real money.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09

house one evening. When the soup was
brought Tommy did not touch his, and
the hostess, looking over, said:
why. Tommy. dear, what's the mat
ter? Aren't you hungry tonight?"
Yes" replied Tommy, I'm quite hun
CRY; but I'm not thirsty" -Pittsburg
acknowledgement.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09

Moscow man climbing a fence was shot
For q deer. 1t would not seem so strange
If it had happened in the woods but we
never knew deer to climb fences although
we have seen them jump tnem.-For.iahu
Express.
And Fred Groves used to tell OF
Lewiston man who sent such volley
after a deer that he cut wire renee
down and let the deer through un-
harmed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09

hour They came across the square,
said the Bath boy, by the hundred,
but in the entire half hour l failed
to see good looking girl Down here
in Maine, in that time | could have
counted 100 passing on the street In
NEST any town."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09
Johnnie Knew.

Johnnie Ito new visitor)-So you are my
grandma. are you?
Grandmother-Yes. Johnnie, m your
grandma on your fathers side.
Johnnie-Well, you're on the wrong
side. youll find that out,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09

Where is that barber who used to have
the end chair" asked the customer.
I'VE had to let him CO." replied the
boss. He had too much talent
"Whaddy we mean, talent?' asked
the customer.
He got so he illustrated his stories
with cuts when he was shaving people"
explained the boss.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09

What a shock it will be to the outside
harharians to hear that an election CLERK
r,Sbo has seryed In a Boston precinct for
the past eight years can neither read nor
write.-Boston Globe.
Lot more of 'em ought to De tina
vav--dead. or dumb and blind.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09
Particularly Applicable.

Dancing Master 6Explaining New Fig
ure)-Now, for every step forward you
take two backward
Diogenes GLOWING out Lantern)-By
CAD, I've found him at last.-Dartmouth
Jack o. Lantern.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09
a DIAGNOSIS.

A doughty doctor dug his digits
Into a maiden's side;
He diagnosed her case as fights"
She coughed up Five. then died.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09

Bath boy-a loyal son of Maine
in Boston the other day, while eating
his breakfast in a restaurant opposite
the North Station. watched the crowds
issuing from the station for half an
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09

There are others besides the Bull
Moose bosses to be sorry over the
election of Whitman-the gunner, for
instance.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09

We hate to see the Boston Globe d.
vide Przemysl, at the end OF nne'
between the "e'' and the m"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09
Not Entirely Destitute.

AS against Przemysl and Irkutsk and
Crwgzvdt we have Cuttyhunk, Mana
yunk, Kokomo. Schenectady. and. not to
forget, Skaneateles. Canajoharie. Wax
ahachie, Kankakee and Ishpeming. Phil
adelphia Public Ledger.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09

Some boss bull moose seems to have
got its tail in a crack.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09

Speaking of the battle Of Przemys',
what about Nov. 3?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09
Jared Him.

"wimmen amt got no sense Of the
proprieties.''
How now?''
you know that bulldog I got my
wife,"
Yes"
''She wants to name II Fiji"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09

Bull Mooseism slumped clear out in
Rhode Island.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09

Here seems to be, some pretty relia-
BILE evidence published in the Nor
way Advertiser as to the much dis
puted drumming of partridges: in
several of the popular sporting maya
zines at different times have read ar
ticles by some of my brother hunt
ers and campers, on the Drumming Of
the partridge These articles were
written with the idea of dernonstrat-
ing or showing the way the partridge
drums l remember one article
written by woman. Mrs. L.. She
said the partridge made that drum
ming sound by striking his wings
very rapidly against the sides of the
log on which he was sitting. And an
other writer, man from Wyoming. l
believe, said the drumming was made
by the partridge beating his wings
against his sides very rapidly. l have
had the opportunity for the past two
weeks to watch two old drummers
very closely several times a day.
am Fire Warden and am in the land
of a great number of cartridges. One
old drummer comes right behind my
camp almost every day and is very
tame / was within 10 feet of him one
day, lying down behind a spruce log,
when he commenced to drum. The
drumming goes something like this:
Thrump- Thrump- Thrump Th-r-r-r-
Thrump. The first few beats
are slow and then faster and faster
for six or seven seconds and then he
stops. He makes that drumming by
beating his wings up against his
breast. He does not strike the log at
all with his wings. He seems to lean
back as he drums and after the drum
ming he sits very quiet almost mo-
| tionless for perhaps fifteen minutes.
| Seems to be listening and then he
will drum again.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09

Some hats in the ring got sadly
trampled.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09
Noble Charity.

(New York Telegram)
Profound respect for the Rockefeller
Foundation has been inculcated by
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09

Shall we ever hear the echo Of -
can beat, can't?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09

The report comes from Caribou that
shortage of barrels is causing large
amounts to be stored in bulk and even
dumped. The price of starch potatoes
varies at the various factories from 80
and 35 to 40 cents per barrel.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09

The country asks for another cup
of prosperity coffee.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09

a ton of pea coal in the cellar is
most valuable addition. A sma.l
shovelfull spread over the fire in the
cook stove will keep it going nicely
when the stove is not in use, and Will
quickly catch when the stove is
opened. On ironing days, when a
steady fire is needed, little pea coal
answers the purpose. 1t costs less
than other coal and one ton lasts
a long time. 1t should be used to
spread over the furnace on warm
days cup of water sprinkled over
a bucket of coal viii prevent the
teo rapid consumption of the feui and
does not lessen the amount of heat
given out
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-09

He Wasn't Thirsty.
Tommy went out to dine at friends