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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-10-07
The eristIss on Our Backs,

OF course circumstances might
frame up so that one would feel COM
PEELED to offer $50 bill in payment of
a single car fare, but not a hundredth
part as often as the "20' is flashed on
the electric car conductor. A friend
saw such an instance, Wednesday,
and saw the conductor calmly count
out 10 one-dollar certificates and -
nickels. He let the offender OF easy"
: He might. in a specially aggravating
case. have dug up a bran sack full OF
silver.
But how many Of US take note Of the
number and variety of disagreeable
incidents that are crowded into the
lives Of the men who are in the employ
Of public service companies? And
these men are amazingly patient,
courteous and forgiving. They are
under rigid rules. and breaking Of
rules means loss Of a job More than
that they are selected from many ap-
plicants and trials because of their
self-control. good habits and manners.
Most Of ,is would not do for car con.
ductors; few OF us would have the
nerve and care for motormen or engi-
neers.
And most OF us expect az much for
the nickel we pay on an electric car a.
we would II we had hired q taxi.
Electric car riding is q most favor.
able place for the study Of human ns-
ture. Bristles show everywhere. We
have, Ill Of AZ. seen an individual en-
ter car. plump down in tho middle Of
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a double seat and deposit baggage or
bundles in another. Conductors sim
ply have to fail to see some OF the
selfish, discourteous, and unkind per
formanees Of their passengers or they
would be all the time Strengthening out
difficulties and receiving the curses OF
those whose personal liberties abuse
decent people.
The other day on Lewiston car.
the writer saw man. evidently
drummer. enter, deposit two large
cases and a grip in an empty seat and
then pass several seats farther on and
take possession Of another double seat.
The car filled until several ladies were
standing, but the drummer was oh.
livious to all and continued to occupy
four seats for the nickel he had paid.
Lynching would have been too gener-
Gus to him, but no one cared to create
a scene. When q man finally demand
ed that the baggage be removed. the
offender had nothing to say. kept his
double seat. and the conductor carried
the baggage to the rear platform.
Scenes Of that description are Of
daily, hourly, occurrence on every rail-
way in the country. And We wonder
that employees Of electrics and steam
cars sometimes lose their tempers.
One OF the most frequent and pro-
voking incidents in the lives of motor
men. is caused by persons who stand
at white posts without giving the
smallest sign that they wish the car to
stop, and when it goes by, rave at the
car men for not stopping for them.
OF course these people know that cars
do not stop at every post unless
sisnaled. but it is apparently too much
work to lift a hand.
Another pest Is the person who gets
on the car in Waterville and tells the
conductor. on entering, that he or she
wants to get of at Blank street in
Lewiston-and expects the conductor
to remember and see to 1t that his or
her importance is not carried one
street past the destination.
II you have not been studying hui
mainly as brought out on the electric
cars. it is time you began. if you ride.
II you have taken notice. we are sure
that you have increased respect for the
men who, day after day, deal with the
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Editors Letter Box
A Correction
Editor Kennebec Journal:

Editor Kennebec Journal:
BY mislaying a sheet OF the copy Oh
the article, How Tariff Effects Maine
Industries" published on the sixth page
of the Journal of Oct. 5. the sense oi
the article was very much marred. by
inserting the missing sheet the third
paragraph will read as follows THIS
does not include the men employed III
cutting and hauling the wood to the
mills or trains, nor those required 10
run the traino as in other necessary
WORK. The whole industry required an
expenditure of about $20,000.Oo0 IN our
State in one year. The product OF our
pulp mills is nearly 20 per cent OF the
entire output of all the manufacturing
indulories in the State. By placing
pulp on the free list and reducing the
tariff on its manufactured products,
serious blow was dealt to this import
ant Maine industry. Foreign manufac-
turers, taking advantage of the great
market thus opened up to them i'm
ported into the country in the fiscal
year ending June 80. 1915 an enormous
amount Of paper and pulp to the value
of S45.70O, 900, an amount equal to more
than one ond one third the entire pro-
duct of all the pulp mills in this State.
Is it any wonder that the Skowhegan
mill has to shut down and others have
TO curtail their production?
C. E. SMITH
Tborpdilo
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Thorndike.
Editorial Comment
Strong Support for the Law.
Bangor Commercially


Included in the list of the signers
that have Joined with the American
Game Protective association in the
brief to be filed in defense of the
federal migratory bird protective law
are state conservation commissions,
state agricultural experiment stations.
national agricultural organizations.
national live stock breeders associa :
tons, forestry organizations and many
sportsmen's organizations, showing
that the interest in maintaining the
law, now attacked on the ground of
constitutionality, is widespread ana
real.
The brief holds that the federal gov
eminent has a right to assume control
Of birds which by nature migrate from
state to state because
/. The interests Of the people re-
Quire such a law.
2. 1t is impossible for the several
states to enforce their joint rights.
3. Migratory birds are of great as
sistance in destroying the insect foes
of crops and forests.
4. Congress has the power to pro-
tect the agency which preserves the
property of the United States from
damage and destruction.
5. Migratory birds are the property
of the nation.
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Light ana Airy
Revolutionary Policy.

fNew York Globe)
Women are disappointing creatures.
One can't depend on them at all.
And yet they're necessary features
OF this terrestrial, bouncing ball,
They lack in clarity Of logic.
And they are disobedient, too;
Despite our labors pedagogic,
They do just what they choose to do.
For ages we have tried to show them
That politics is but for Us,
And high affairs-they should not know
them;
Such subjects we would not discuss.
They want the ballot; when they've won
it
They'll raise our own resoundng shout.
(What shall we do when they have
done it?)
Were going to turn the rascals out!''
We knew that they could not be trusted
Freely to roam life's larger walk,
They'll vote-and therefore we're dis
gusted-
Precisely as they think and talk.
The art of politics invading,
They'll work it's ruin without ruth,
Intentions openly parading,
And telling all the shameless truth.
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In the Washington Posts Views of
World Travellers Met in Capital Hotes
Lobbies." we find the words Of Con-
gresham Ralph Cameron. former
representative from Arizona. This
vigorous Southwesterner's political
logic is worth considering. He said:
1T is on the tariff that the Republic
can PARTY will have to make the fight
In 1915. And on the tariff, the Re-
publican party in the national con-
ventf0n will nominate the man who
best represents Republican principles
az they apply to the tariff. We Of the
West are vitality interested in the
tariff. because we have seen our in
dustries injured by competition with
foreign nations. Notwithstanding the
European war. II the war had not
come. We would have been swampsd
and would have known not which way
to lay our head. The war has saved
temporarily some Of our industries.
when II comes to selecting q candi-
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cate Tor the Presidency next year the
Republican party has got to consider
every phase OF political conditions. ana
when ALI the candidates have been
analysed, believe, the choice viii fall
upon Senator Weeks Of Massachu-
setts. Senator Weeks has been In the
West He has met our people. and
can say with truth that he made the
biggest impression of any Of the men
who are aspirants for the Presi-
dency. In all of the States Of the
Northwest Senator Weeks is strong
He will get the delegations from Ari-
IONA, New Mexico, Oklahoma and
other States Of the Southwest. in my
opinion, without effort The Massa-
chusetts senator is sound on the tariff,
and the Western States are not going
to eSidetracked by any issue in which
they are not interested when it comes
to selecting a candidate for the Presi-
dency"
From other sections OF the West.
Southwest and Pacific states we hear
OF growing interest in the New Eng
land candidate. And most of US will
agree with Mr.. Cameron that nothing
will be allowed to sidetrack the tariff
issue.
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various specimens and keep out Of
State Prison Or the mad house.
Our idea Of making the thing unani-
nous would be the adoption of few
simple rules that seem to be fixed in
the minds Of some travellers:
II the seats are well filled when you
enter the car. insist on standing in the
rear doorway 30 that none can pass
farther down the aisle and none can
get out without your grudging permis-
sion.
| II you wish to hail a car, stand a
! rod from the track with your back to
it and pretend to be studying the
| weather or the foliage.
II you are passing in or out of the
smoker" be sure to slam the door
| wide and leave it thus.
| II you have a hundred pounds of
baggage, be sure to have it occupy
two or three seats for which others
have paid and report to the company
latter roundly abusing him) if the
| conductor requests you to leave your
| trunk on the rear platform .--
When you wish to leave the car
| don't attract the conductors attention
| until you have passed your street, and
| then give him what Sherman said war
| was He is so human that he enjoys
it,
If you have bum nickel, work it off
| on the conductor if you can, or give
him a quarter and demand change for
fifty cents.
II you have to stand in a car. pick
out some feeble old lady and sit on her
shoulder; she will appreciate it.
II you have bad cold, hay fever
the heaves. consumption, or any little
thing like that, lean we'll forward and
cough and sneeze with uncovered
mouth and nose into the necks or
faces Of those seated in front of YOU.
After time you can thus get a car
all to yourself.
II you are holding child encourage
it to rip the stunning out Of the MILL
merry in 'front.' or to mix candy with all
the hair in reach. 1t makes folks love
children so.
Don't pay your fare If you can
sneak out OF it.
And don't forget that the conductor
Is your natural enemy: that he de-
serves all the kicks and cusses you can
invent, and that he would not know
the meaning of courtesy.
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The World War a Year Ago
Today-0et. 7,

Allies continued to press north
Of Arras and Roye. German cav
airy checked near Lille.
Germans began bombardment
OF Antwerp; Also stormed and
carried Belgian fortified petitions
beyond the Nethe. Belgian forces
and government abandoned the
tempOrao capital and moved to
Ostend. On the channel coast.
Series Of combats called the bat
tie Of the vistula between Rus
sian and Austfo- German forces
began south Of Ivangorod, in cen
trail Poland. Austrians checked
the Russfan advance in the Car
patAiah6.
Japan nsti1sd the United States
that ~ eccupattsn Of 0efllan
isjaD1sfp the Geath Pacific would
b temporary.
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STATE or MAINE

q. 81
Miriam Durham Stinson. Lib't, VS..
Harry N. Stinson.
Upon the annexed Writ and Libel. it is
ordered BY me. the undersigned. Justice
of said Court, that notice thereof be
given to the Libelee by publishing an at
tested copy Of the same, or an abstract
thereof. together with this order thereon.
three weeks successfully in the Daily Ken
nebec Journal, newspaper printed in
Augusta in said County of Kennebec. the
last publication to be thirty days at least
before the next term Of said Court. to be
holden at Waterville within and for said
County of kennebec, on the second Tues
day Of November next, that he may then
and there appear in said Court and an
swer thereto il he see fit.
Attest: FRED EMERY BEANE.
Justice Superior Court.
COPY OF LIBEL.
The Libelant alleges that she was mar
ried to the said libelee at Waterville in
the State Of Maine on the fifteenth day
Of June 1910: the said lbelant and libe-
lee cohabited in this State after their
2; said On marriage: that the iibelant resided
accrued as hereinafter set forth. and had
resided here in good faith ore year prior
to the date hereof; that the ibelant has
cations. but that the. said libeiee has
been unmindful Of the same: that on the
21st day Of December 1914 he utterly de-
serted the libelant without reasonable
cause and has continued said desertion
to the filing Of this libel; that being Of
sufficient ability he has grossly. wanton-
ly and cruelty neglected and refused to
provide suitable maintenance for your
libeiant; that he has been guilty Of cruel
and abusive treatment and extreme
cruelty towards her.
That no children have been born to
them during their said marriage.
Wherefore, She prays that a divorce
from the bonds of matrimony between
herself and said libeiee may be decreed.
and that she may resume her maiden
name Of Miriam Durham.
And the libelant further alleges that
she has used reasonable diligence to as
certain the present residence OF said libe-
lee. but II unable to do 80, and does not
know where IL il.
MIRIAM DUNHAM STINSON.
Lbelant.
State Of California. Los Angeles, %.
September 18th. 1sl5.-The said Lebelant
made oath that the above allegation as
to the residence OF the Libeiee Is true
(SeaD Before me,
NJ JENNIE CuT0HAW.
Notary Public
MY commission expires March %. 1911.
libel.
Attest: C. W. JONES. clerk
seDt3. thurs.3t
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Game Warden Veo F. Small had an
experience among the abandoned farms
back Of New Vineyard mountain which
might easily have had a serieas end
ing says the Pennington Chronicle.
Most of the land formerly cultivated
has grown up to white birches and the
former nature of the farms is quite
completely hidden. Warden Small was
patroiing this section on the lookout
for poechers and was carrying shot
gun in case he ran across flock OF
cartridges. The gun was his salvation.
AS he walked along over the leaf-coy-
cred ground. the covering Of an old
well suddenly gave way beneath his
feet and he started for the bottom OF
the hole. The gun caught across the
gap in the covering, the Warden was
fortunate in retaining his grasp on i
and succeeded by its aid in climbing
out Of his precarious position and
gaining the solid ground. He was a
long distance from an inhabited house
in a section little travelled and the
Warden does not like to think Of what
might have been the outcome of the
mishap had he gone to the bottom Of
the old well.
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II the Atlantic feet were to be sent
to the Pacific in a hurry, and one Of
those little two-months- for removal
Slides took place in the Panama canal,
We should think that little s40o. 0O0. 900
stab at preparedness had been
failure, shouldn't We?
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Limousine With Heavy Tread.

Limousine With Heavy Tread.
He was wandering aimlessly around in
a department store when the floor walker
approached him.
Looking for something" he asked.
"Yes. my WIFE," replied the man.
Describe her.
We'll, she's a sort of limousine with
heavy tread and usually runs on low
Ohio Motorist.
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They Always Are.

THey NIWdyS VTE.
an men are alike. They're 'deceitful
and selfish
How do you know
a married friend of mine told me sc
and warned me against all Of them
But you're going to marry Fred"
"Of course / am. He's different DE
troit Free Press.
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AUGUSTA LODGE DIRECTORY
ISHNOC CHAPTER,

COSHNOO VTINP T6H1 NO. IA
r. A. 81. Annual convocation at M.
sonic Temple Thursday. Oct. !, at Ia >.
NJ. Reports of secretary and treasur,
Election Of officers. Sojourning CON.
panions are cordially invited to attend
GEO. EVERETT JONES, II.
CHARLES r. CHASE, Sec.
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After Congressman McGillicuddy
succeeds in making Lewiston a seaport,
will he then ask the government to
fortify the harbor?
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On Wednesday the Boston Posts
leading editorial read:

On Wednesday the Boston Posts
leading editorial read:
The cowarAy flight Of some AUTOMOBILE
lists after killing one motorcyclist and In
juring another on road in Sandwich
the other night adds another to tho AL
ready overriding list of these wretched
episodes. The criminals are. at this writ
ing, still at large.
We have now a record hereabout Of
four or five such cases within a month or
two. Not one Of the scoundrels who
have struck down human life and then
fed has been caught. Are our State and
local police doing their work with gen.
uine energy and intelligence? They prob
ably think SO, but results do not justify
their opinion.
These dastardly crimes should hold
over the heads Of the guilty all their
days. II they are never caught they
should always remain in terror of cap
ture-for a human being of that sort
is in terror Of nothing so much as his
just desserts. Ninety-nine times out
of one hundred. though. if one OF these
murderers were caught he would plead
drunkenness and lack Of memory.
One Of the prize monkeys of the auto
driving collection is the chap who pre-
tends to be steering a car while he is
gawking al something else. Several
serious accidents of the sort have been
reported in Maine Of late. The man
strict attention TO the high power en-
CINE ne is driving in the public high
way. not confined 10 rails. is too i'm
portant for this earth. Wings should
be selected for him before he selects
them for others.
How long would responsible rail-
way company stand for a cowardly.
drunken. or gawking engineer. motor
man, brakeman or conductor? And
the engines Of power in the care of
railway employees are confined to their
own tracks from which the public is
warned. They do not dash at express
speed into the congested traffic of
public thoroughfares They are held
to rigid rules Of speed.
II you are killed by a responsible
business concern. although you are to
blame. you stand good show Of con-
vincing jury that you are entitled to
damage. II you are run down and
mangled by a drunkard or blooming
idiot who is temporarily debauching
the powers of an automobile engine.
whom can you hold responsible?
II the public has any rights. it is
high time we were busy in establish
ing them. and in suppression Of a
great, growing and extra hazardous
element that gains possession Of en-
gines which should be entrusted only
to skilled. temperate and reliable men
Of experience. such as are employed
by railway companies.
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A Far Cry

A Far Cry.
Ella-Miss Antique says she wishes she
could step to the phone and call up her
happy college days.
Behalf she did she'd have to employ
the long distance 'phone-F1orida Times
Union.
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Ruinous to Golf.

Ruinous to Golf.
Lady-The captain seems of his game.
Caddie-Yes. Idly. He was very good
"a. but he's spoilt hisself digging trenches.
This wars a terrible thing.-London
Punch.
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James Whitc0f71b RleyS
cd Birthday Today
LITTLE ORPHANT ALLIE.
(By James Whitcomb Riley
(1S53)
Little Orphan. Allies come to o
An brush the crumbs
An chickens on an dust the heart an sweep
make IRE bread
. oshs children. things is DONE
set mostest fun
A hsrnin' witch tales at Allie tells about,
An the gobbie-uns at gifts
Hyou
Onct they vas q little boy wouldn't lis prayrs-
An he wentt 10 night upstairs
nanny daddy heerd him bawl
wasn't there all:
cubby-hoie an
An seeked up chimbly
an roundabout
gobble-unsll git
Out
An a girl
An make fun Of ever one an all her blood an kim
onct they company" ole folks was there
EN- m. an said
An kicked an an hide
Things standin' her side
An
Don
An when the blaze is blue.
An lamp wick sputters an the wind goes woo-oo
An
An nshnin all squenched
teachers fond and DEAR
An an dry orphants
An needy clusters all about
Err gobble-uns1
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Pete, from Gardiner Frienos'
coma Inn, 1915" is the inscription On
Z handsome gcld-headed cane presente0
to the genial host Of Tacoma inn- fete
Huntocn, Monday night on the occasion
OF a special visit at the inn or = par
ty Of S. Gardiner people. who hsd been
during the season guests At his summer
hotel. The BANQUET was one Of Pete's
finest After that ceremony. 'uose ~
II. Spear in behalf Of the company
presented the cane and Mr. Hun'oon
feelingly responded. Judge Atkihs sho
Hon. o. B. Clason also spoke ana inc
evening was passed with music anu
dancing.
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Maine Gossip


On, pray have you seen my lost treasure?
1t slipped from my life long ago,
On land and on sea have ! sought if,
Hunting high and low.
nave travelled the wide world over,
Seeking my treasure rare,
Calling by day and dreaming by night,
Searching everywhere
And what say YOU was my treasure,
Ruby, diamond or pearl?
All. fairer than any Jewel,
The innocent heart of a girl.
They tell me my level proved worthless,
Not worthy heart break and pain,
But | know some day will find it,
Pure. glowing, and claim it again.
On. pray have you seen my lost treasure,
More precious than ruby or pearl,
The innocent heart of maiden,
The beautiful soul of girl?
-Rosamond Reed
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Werse Than Pisgus.
The leading editorial in the Boston
lost, Tuesday. read:


The leading editorial in the Boston
Post, Tuesday, read:
In the Hrsckage Of an automobile that
was smashed TO pieces at Ae!fose the
other day - the result Of high-spoeo
collision were found broken beer and
whiskey bottles in profusion- Tho tale
of liquid damnafion on the road was thus
silently but eioquently related.
The combination OF alcohoi ana the
steering wheel Of q motor car, big or
little, ID almost certain to spell disaster.
One local Judge has rightly declared
that a single drink UNITS a man for
really safe driving.
Courts and the Highway Commission
should unite in keeping the drinking mo-
They are showing signs Of trying to do
50.
Secretary Of State Bunker Of Mama
is promptly revoking the licenses OF
those who fill their automobiles with
gasolene and themselves with booze.
He Is to be commended for it. Strength
to his determination. We wish he
could discover and had the right to
revoke the licenses Of the plain, simple
blamed phools who own or drive power
vehicles.
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Few men in this State and even in the
country have had the opportunity OF
celebrating their 7ad birthday IS oio e
S. McAuley Of saltwater. who had oas
to step out Of his home and wniie Al
most in sight Of the University CT
Maine buildings. shoot q fine buck deer
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saw II through marine giassee
Hon. H. L Shepherd. Encs + ins
ham Of Rockport and G. H Iaaoo' y.
Camden.