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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-01-04

have Just been published by the Geo.
logical Survey in Water-Supply Paper
s47, which contains also map OF the
area examined.
The Snake River basin contains
many good storage sites but only
few have been utilized. About 4oV'oW
acre-feet of water can be stored IN
Jackson Lake by q dam which mas
been constructed by the Reclamation
Service. The largest site Is at swan
Valley, on Snake River, where the
water available for storage is approx
mately 100000 acre-feet- lrrigat'oh
has reached a high stage OF develop
ment in the Snake River Valley. We.
approximately 100000 acre-feet OF
water annually runs to waste. Event
ually these flood waters Will be stolsu
and used to irrigate thousands OF acres
of arid land. The streams afford enor-
nous water powers. but only Re"
sites have been developed owing TO inc
lack Of market.
A COPY Of the water-supply paper
may be obtained free on application 10
the Director Of the United states Heo-
logical Survey, Washington, D. {.
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Where KILLING Comes Easy.

Papua has long been known as n
bloody land. 1t is a bloody land still.
But the blood of white men is rarely
let: and the Wanton slaughter of ma
tlves, the one by the other-at least III
those fast widening regions which a"2
within the sphere OF the LAWS fast
diminishing. All this being so, in one
year, nevertheless, when there were
215 prisoners committed for trial, lis
of them were charged with murder,
nine with manslaugnter, and live with
attempted murder. To the civilized
mind the motives to murder, shocking
enough, to be Sure-nor wanting an
aspect of gruesome humor-are upon
occa sion incredible. AS they are mat
tiers Of record, however, disclosed upon
painstaking investigation, they are to
be accepted, not as irresponsible tales
sucn as wander about the Eastern
seas. but as substantial facts, how
ever singular and incomprehenSlple,
they may appear. 1t is matter Oh
court record, for example. that certain
natives of what is called the Coast
range being upon trial for the muir
der Of two carriers, whose throatS
they had cut, admitted the deed with
out the least hesitation, and sought TO
Justify the CHASTITY business upon the
ground that the carriers had appeared
to be cold and hungry '-deJected
fellows, far away from their village
The prisoners had not eaten the car
riers. They had merely-with the most
considerate expedition Cut he
threats of the carriers, who were
strangers, at any rate, and therefore
of no great consequence; and no IN
genuity of crossquestioning could
elicit a motive Interior to the one so
Enormously advanced-that the car
riers, appearing to be cold and
hungry" were, in the opinion Of the
gentlemen who mad incontinently cut
their threats, much better dead. A
similar case of merciful extermina-
ton COZ :erned a young native, en-
ployed 10 shoot game for white
planter, who encountered SICK man
Papuan) on the road, near by river,
and strangled' him to death. Upon
trial he explained that the sick man
had created annoyance, and a con-
siderable embarrassment, as we'll, by
insistently requesting to be carried
across the river to the other side,
whence his way lay forward 10 MS
village.
Quite So said the presiding officer.
why, then, didn't you carry him
across the river?'
HE was too heavy" replied the
native. 1T would have put me to
great deal of trouble"
"Why did you kill him."
What else could do? The man was
SICK
1t was out sof the question to en-
dure the labor of carrying the sick
man across the river. 1t was equally
out of the question to abandon the
pitiable object. Therefore the bewil-
dered fellow had strangled him-the
most obvious way out of a dilemma
which babe fair to distress his feel
ipgs.-Norman Duncan, in Harper's
Magazine for January.
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Coming Events
1915.

1919.
Jan. 5-Superior Court convenes Civil
and criminaD, Portland.
Jan 5-S-Maine Poultry Association
Show, Portland.
Jan 6-Maine State Federation OF
Women's Clubs, mid-winter meeting.
Jan S-Pubic Utilities Commission
hearing on petition of Eastern Railroad
Co.. for approval of location of 4 pro-
posed railroad OF 1913 miles from Hon.
ton to Bangor. at 10; Augusta.
Jan. l2-Annual meetings of many
Maine banks.
Jan 12-Supreme Court convenes, Port
Jan 12-15-Berwick Poultry Association
Berwick.
Jan 22--Maine Forestry Association,
Bangor
Jan. 2s-3o-Belfast Board of Trade fair
Feb. 4-Kora Temple. Mystic Shrine,
Ladies' Night, Lewiston.
Feb. 4-5-Maine Grand Lecturers Con-
ference. Bangor.
Feb. lash Wednesday.
Feb. 2l-First Sunday in Lent.
Feb. 22-Washington's Birthday.
March 1-City election in South Port
land, Sa6o, Rockland, Lewiston, AUBURN
Wate:vllle, Ellsworth, Ha!lowell. East
March S-City election in Eiddeford'
Belfast, Bangor, Brewer and Aug
March City election, Old Town.
March 2S-Palm Sunday.
April Good Friday.
April 4-Easter Sunday.
April 5-City election, Calais.
April limited States District Court
Portland.
April l3-Supreme Court convenes,
POltiand.
April 14-IS-Maine Methodist Confer
cnue, Bishop hamilton of Boston, presid-
ing, WatervilIe.
April 19-Patliot's Day.
May 4-Superior Court convenes civil
and criminaD, Portland.
Mavt 3O-Aitmorial Day.
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Editors Table
Bible Stories and Poems.

Endorsed by Union Bible Selections
Committee, composed of representa-
tives of score Of religious bodies, in
Guiding Evangelicals, Liberals and He
brews, with a friendly letter of God
speed from Cardinal Gibbons.
Published by Illustrated Bible Sc
lections Commission. Cloth, 352
pages, octave, IS Tissot pictures, in
color, maps; 35 cents, postpaid.
Superintendent Edition, 544 pages.
octave, so cents, postpaid.
The special feature of this book is
that it gives the Old Testament stories
that are best adapted for reading to
and by young people, with interpreter
tons only from the et-prophets and
Tissot pictures, true to Oriental lie.
This is due to the fact that the book
is intended partly for public schools,
where law and custom require that
Bible reading shall be without COM
ment." This book will show that
there is scarcely need Of other COM
ment than some apropos passage from
the Psalms or Proverbs or the poet
prophets, that gives the exact moral
of the story. The readings are from
the Old Testament because the Sun
day school lessons used in many
churches are, in 1915, from that part
of the Bible. The book seeks to de-
velop an all-week plan of Bible study
for all the people by bringing. the
Bible work Of Sunday school and pub
lie school and home into step with
each other.
The book is quite as we'll adapted
for home reading by the young people
themselves, to whom it will be an at
tractive introduction to the Bible. The
book is printed in literary form, free
from figures and letters Of the ordi-
nary text.
What does it mean-this big book
of Bible stories and poems. with 10
Tissot pictures, 9 in colors, for 50
cents?
It means that the Union Bible Sc
lections Committee think that the
young folks Of this generation need
the Bible, and that it must be put be-
fore them in the most attractive form,
selecting the parts adapted to youth,
printing them in the best literary
form, illustrating them with the high
est art, and bringing all this to them
and to their teachers and parents ct
nominal price, within reach Of every
school and home, by having the edi-
torial book and plates contributed, and
many Of the books given away 70
leading educators to make it known.
Those who concur in this belief are
invited to cooperate that this volume
may be put in every school and COL
lege and in every English-speaking
home in the world-and in foreign
lands in translations, with the same
great pictures. Address all cores
pondence to the Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts
Chairman, 206 Pennsylvania Ave-, S.
E. Washington, D. c.
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"Big Brother" Of tho World.

DR.. Frank Crane sees in the Euro
pean war a tremendous opportunity for
America. In World outlook magazine
he says:
The European war has a tremendous
message for America.
If we only have sense enough to un~
derstand it, 1t will
ring out the old. ring in the new,
Ring out the narrowing lust OF gold.
Ring out the thousand wars Of old.
Ring in the thousand years Of peace"
The past centuries have stood for
belligerent provincialism. Nations
bristied with bayonets 'and fenced
themselves with tariff walls. Those
whose supremacy advanced them
preyed upon their weaker neighbors.
History up till now has been battle
Of the kites and crows"
The clarion Of destiny now sounds
the forward march Of Federation.
Almighty God is saying: You must
your own prosperity"
The relations Of even America with
other lands have been selfish and sui
cidaL We have exploited Mexico,
caring only to get from her what
money we could and whining for armed
Intervention when the natives grew
FESTIVE.
We have made fortunes selling rum
to Africa.
The newspapers just now are active
in the propaganda Of getting all the
oil 1,,% ha
crippled condition Of Europe.
, Never was there a better time for
the intelligent. human, Christian peo-
pie Of America to endeavOr to turn the
gigantic energies Of this country, not
toward taking advantage of and en-
riching ourselves by the worlds
plight, but toward being the Big
Brother Of the world.
To some degree we have done this.
We returned to China the money
wrung from her at the close Of the
Boxer uprising. We are educating the
Philippines in government. We
lifted Cuba to her feet. We are send
ing colossal sums Of money and stores
Of food to the non combatant victims
Of the existing wars.
But the surest, strongest and most
effective way for America to show her
brother-heart and friendly hand is
through Christian missions.
Every missionary family is "col-
lege settlement" in heathendom.
The more we multiply missionaries.
who go to the ends Of the earth, not
for gain, not for personal ease, not for
political advantage. but to help lift
the curse Of ignorance and supersti-
ton, the more we help bring about the
fundamental conditions of world-wi :
democracy, and hasten the golden age
of The Federation Of the World.
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Kill 2oee Lions in 7 Years.

Two thousand and nlnety-nlne
mountain lions have been killed III
California since 1907. according 10 d
statement by the state fish and game
commission. OF this number, us nave
been killed in the state for the SIN
months ended June 80. The stale pays
q bounty of $40 for each lion killed.
The total cost of killing lions has been
S41.9S0. Humboldt is the banner couii-
ty for this year, and for every year
In the six months ending with june
Alendosino, Trinity and Siskiyou are
next in order named. Los Angeles
county claimed bounty on fifteen hoAS
in seven years.-Sacramento D1spatch
San trancoso Chronicle.
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The Porker.

(Chicago Evening PostD
He is not called a noble peast,
AIthough his line Of old began;
For sixty centuries at least
He's been the faithful friend OF man
There is but very little beauty ,.
OF person, that we should desire Nun.
Nor do we deem that thoughts o! uutS
Or dreams OF higher things inspire MINI
While cute in early infancy,
His charms and graces VANISH qu'eN's ;
In short the facts appear to De ,
r.ba hog was built for business, strictly
Though base his instincts, low ms sta'ioi'
And minus all esthetic features,
The pariah of fine creation,
He's one of mans most uSefui creatures
His cver-ready. sound digestion: -,
All refuse scraps and pals or SEIZE,
Ahsorhs with 10y, ana asks no Guestloh'
All things are grist to piggy S MILL
eft to himself, he'll not complain.
For nature loans him clothes anu
thatch:
Or in the neighbors peanut patch.
ed BY that questing nose OF his,
He suoils the fareSt flowers ana SHRUBS
EXPLORES the gardens choice GASES,
Then piows the lawn in search OF 81 JUS
With that same s4out, SO tough anu
stout, 1890,
He'll lift with ease the hardest loam'
The bottom railing of the pa1inS,
Or the mortgage ON the farmer hoiiie
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-01-04

It is regrettable that the recital Of
marital indifference to ''Platonic' and
less innocent divagations from the
straight and narrow paths of matrimon-
ial fidelity. spiced with details and pic
lures Of an Utterly shallow
chaos, Of diplomatic society calculated
with cynical purviews Of human emo
tons and motives, and made pungent and
supposedly witty by anecdotes and double
entendres which no gentleman would
dream Of introducing in the society Of
ladies whom he respected, should appear
to be the main reliance of some. Of the
authors of the novels OF the present day
From Current Book Review.
Spilled it all in one sentence,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-01-04

From Los Angeles comes a yarn about
more than 1900 people. being served
fixin's of one ostrich. The sponsor for
that story overlooked a golden -oppor-
tunity when he failed to add a reference
to Matthew XIV:N-Manchester Union.
1t is interesting. sometimes. to note the
roundabout ways some people take to
create an impression that they are on
terms Of familiar intimacy with the
Good Book.-Biddeford Journal.
Col. Condor was visiting relatives
who took him to church last Sunday.
we guess. II the lesson had been from
Mark $40: A he would have had the
same opportunity to air his knowledge.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-01-04

Talk Is cheap-the cheapest of all
things. They say that every human be-
Ing is satisfied that he could run a news
paper or a hotel. Mann Republican
Leader in National House,. is not Presi-
dent, and has no responsibility, but he
knows that he would find a way" Mar
velous Mann. But he very carefully
avoids saying what the way is. So do
all the critics of the administration when
pinned down to OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Post
Bidding for hints on how to get out
Of it?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-01-04

who has stock in distuleries. brew
cries, saloon tenements or other ave-
nue. Of the business, Is promoting
tuberculosis. immortality, depravity
and death. His reward is sure to
come when he faces the last judge.
He may excuse himself today but to-
morrow he cannot escape the divine
inspector.
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patois wherein mingled Mexican.

patois wherein mingled Mexican. Ii
dian and many a frontier Eng!ls
But he spoke in more languages tia
did Fremont himself, not only BEN
fluent in English, French, Spanish al
several Indian tongues, all acquire
orally, but also being well conversal
with the sign language of red ma
and of trail
OF this meeting on the Missouri, OF
from St. Louis, came comradeshi
first and a friendship that neys
ceased. In California and in the Mex
can struggle the stanchness Of bot
men and their loyalty TO the flag We
Well tested.
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A Courteous Apology.
lFrom the ArgonautD.

(From the Argonaut.
An interested visitor who was MAX
ing a call in the tenement district. ris-
ing, said:
We'll my good woman, ! must go
now Is there anything l can do for
you?"
mo, thank we, men," replied the
submerged one. I'VE mustn't mind ii
if I don't return the call. will ye? !
haven't any time to go slummin' me-
self"
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smallest dogflsh on the New Hampshire
coast would have chased that Texas cat
fish from Portsmouth to Cape Horn
Manchester Union.
We never attempt to burnish the
lily. When Col. Condor is through
with a fish story it's finished.
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The temperance people took a whirl
at Hurley and the spectacular silk hat
executive of Lynn is recalled. Such
officials as Hurley, Cole Rlease and
Dom Roberts are being rapidly
dumped on the refuse heap where they
belong.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-01-04

If Roland Bumbus doesn't like work.
ing in bowling alley, or being a chauf-
feur, or running bases on a ball team,
what CAN he do?-Around the Town, in
Boston Globe.
Set him to piling up post holes; II
he can't do that he should be canned.
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Literary Lunkheads.

He is a dub. I hope he chokes
His field has a wide range.
This lad who cops out my best jokes
And signs himself Exchange"
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Another gink who stoops to crime
By no one he's respected
Is he who uses our best rhyme,
And signs himself selected"
youngstown Telegram.
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Water-Power Surveys in Snake River
Basin.

Topographic engineers of the United
States Geological Survey have been
making profile surveys in the Snake
River basin. Idaho-surveys inciden-
tai tc their general topographic map
ping-and the results of their work
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Maine Gossip
In the Old Attic.
(By Elizabeth Powers M,

(By Elizabeth Powers Merrll)
A chamber of the Long Ago
Is this brown attic, close and low
Here cobwebs hang like silver lace
Through windows deity set on high
Like easements of day gone by.
o witching place Of Long Ago.
Where pale ghosts ever come and go.
Dressed in the raiment they wore
In vanished days that are no more.
Here rafterS echo merry laugh
AS gentle hands touch gown or scarf.
Here is a chest of Long Ago
Built by hand unskilled and slow
Lift the rude cover,-you may see
Kings treasures brought from Ger the
sea,
May breathe a perfume in the air
Perchance a rose is sleeping there.
Many sweet hours of Long Ago
Hide in this attic brown and low:
Hide in a crib where slept child
On whom mother fondly smiled
Tears fill the eyes, as light falls through
The dusty pane,-on dress of blue
Q treasured days of Long Ago
You come from where deaths cold
winds blow,
Awakened from your dreamless sleep
10 days the heart must ever keep
me days of joy and love and youth,
The days of innocence and truth.
Dim vestibule of Long Ago
Where souls meet with the souls they
know
They call them from the clustered
past
Down aisles that will all time outlast.-
The Aisles of Memory-that keep
The days they loved, the loved they
weep.
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A 50-pound catfish has been captured
at Lockhart, Tex. and Texans are brag-
ging about it. Pooh! Why. ona of the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-01-04

few days ago Curator James Of the
State House Museum was in Pittston
on official business and going into Mr..
Lords store exclaimed, There is the
missing snow goose!" He requested
the loan Of this rare and beautiful
specimen for the State Museum. Mr..
Lord has complied with his request.
Talk about cold baths, how's this?
asks the Bath Times. All the fall off
Houghton Brothers wharf William
McNeal has kept up his daily swims IL
the river, going in every day. Christ
mas day and Saturday with the mer-
curry lost below zero, McNeal un-
dressed and stood on the wharf with
out SO much as SILVER; then in he
plunged and remained enjoying his
icy swim among the ice cakes that ~
would push, occasionally out Of his
way, for ten minutes or so. Then he
climbed out rosy but warm and
dressed again. He seems to be grow
ing fat on this heroic treatment.
Another lad until the mercury began
climbing toward zero Of late has been
taking these cold baths, but he drew
the line at day when the weather
was as arctic as it was last Friday and
Saturday.
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CANTON AUGUSTA, NO. 9, p. N
Regular meeting every third Tussda,
at o'clock.
RAY NJ. BURNS. CLERK
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Clipped from correspondence in an
exchange and if you can figure it out,
you are entitled to lamp. Go to it!
A young man in one of our families
had four lamps hung for him on the
Christmas tree Saturday night. A
brother of his had none and says he
thinks they might have hung him
one hog if no more. There are diff
ferent kinds of liberalities and hog
giShneSS.
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What a mean, contemplate wretch
that Bath sneak thief, who took the
package containing a little coat just
bought by Bath couple for their little
son, having saved the necessary
amount penny by penny. They were in
store shopping and the wife called
the husband to another counter, leav-
ing the bundle on his counter. When
he returned the coat was gone-and
the couple had no more money with
which to purchase another.
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Nine former firemen Of the Portland
department have asked that their pay
for the time since their removal-three
years-shall be made up to them and
a hearing was held Tuesday at Port
land before Justice L. C. Cornish,
asking that a mandamus be issued
to that effect. City Solicitor j. a.
Comedian will be heard next Monday
and the petitioners counsel. F. H.
Haskell will have five days from that
date in which to file his brief.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-01-04

The appropriation for potato inspec-
ton was exhausted in Aroostook
county November first, according 10
the Aroostook Times. For a time
thereafter the expense Of inspection
was borne by the State and still later
it was required that the shippers
themselves bear the expense.
The one great obstacle in the trans
fer from Federal to State authorities
was the collection of the fee agreed
upon as sufficient-two dollars per
carload. The U. S. authorities ad-
vised that it would be illegal for any
person acting in the capacity of d
Federal employee to have any con-
nection with collecting or disbursing
funds other than Federal appropria-
tons. The entire matter was present.
ed to Mr. Martin, president of Houlton
Trust Company, and system OF
collecting ~ means of stamp is
sued by the State Department of Agrl-
culture was adopted; to be circulated
through the banks of the county, each
bank contributing to the extent of
supplying it's customers for their i'm
mediate needs. The HOulton Trust
Company was made disbursing agen-,
and assumed full responsibility for the
November payroll, then amounting to
about $500, to be paid on or before
January LIST. Substantially $1,000. up
to Monday, Dec. 2Sth, had been con-
tributed by other banks in the county,
and the Trust Company is supplying
s2lOO against future sales of books.