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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-16
THE BOY AND THE REVOLVER.
By DIR. FRANK CRAM

how to handle the deathdealing instruments OF
his profession.
Don't keep a revolver in your bureau drawer
or under your pillow, to be prepared for burglars
When a burglar gets in, he is ready to KILL and
expert in killing; you haven't chance in the
world against him. Most of those who get killed
by burglars are those who shoot at them. And
many an innocent member of the family has been
killed by the handy revolver under the pillow, by
one who is excited half awake, dreaming or other
wise confused.
One is liable to make mistake at any time,
are all human, and accidents will happen, but the
mistake you make with the revolver is the kind you
make but once, mistake that means death, lit
tie slip of one second that means remorse all the
rest of your life.
Civilization the constantly advancing
conviction of the preciOusness of human life Life
means more and more mankind progresses.
And the instruments of taking life are not to be
played with. There is nothing heroic or fine about
indifference to carelessness with life and death;
it is symptom of savagery, madness or criminal
ity; it characterizes Hottentots, war men and ban
dts.
Copyright, 1916, by Frank Crane.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-16
The Preparedness Parade.

Atlantas preparedness parade will be event
we'll worthy of the city and the State and of the
high cause IL is intended to serve Ample assur-
ance TO this end given by the meeting held
Wednesday at the Chamber of Commerce, meet
ing that represented every field of the community's
interest and throbbed with heart of splendid
patriotism. Under the plans there inaugurated all
Georgia will be invited to join in this tribute
Americanism, and the response doubt will be
cordial and far-reacning. July the Fourth has
been selected. with fine appropriateness the day
OF the parade, so that the celebration of American
independence will be merged with the movement
10 keep that independence unchalenged and secure
The patriotism that counts is the patriotism
which thinks well feels, which looks forward
to future needs as well as backward to past go-
ries. which is willing not only to serve when the
hour of danger comes but to also make ready before
emergencies befall-the patriotism that prepares.
This is the idea and the spirit of the parade which
Atlanta is to hold II is a cause to which every
loyal citizen will give hearty encouragement and
support II will prove allegiance to the ideals
for which the nation stands and stir our hearts
with deeper and more thoughtful devotion to the
land Of our birth.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-16

A revolver is instrument for producing
death. Do not forget that. It's aim and purpose
is to take life. The only you have for
carrying a revolver is that you expect to slaughter
an animal, murder human being execute =
criminal ...--i
Consequently, unless you a butcher,
murderer or an officer of the law, you have
business with
The boy likes to revolver to handle and
shoot it, because the fascination of killing is in
his blood. Killing is the oldest form of sport.
Killing animals the original game of the COM
mons. Killing men has always been the favorite
pastime of kings and mobiles.
The argument for national preparedness is that
every nation should go armed because there
bad nations who are liable to attack their peace
full neighbors, but that argument breaks down
when it is applied to individuals certainly for the
unsafest man in a civilized town is an armed man.
To be ready shoot is to invite getting shot, and
to be ready for trouble is to advertise for trouble
This is true that there is law in every
state prohibiting the carrying of firearms.
If, in the course of his career, he shall be
called on to become a soldier, policeman, or a
hunter, it will take him but few days to learn
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-16
: BY H. ADDINGTON BRUCE.

have always taken pains to develop in them the
virtues of unselfshness and moral control, and to
avoid everything that would give them undue ideas
of their Importance.
What usually happens in the case of gifted
child is that the parents become indscreetly proud
of him.
They like to show him off to admiring visitors
They are continually keeping him on parade. They
never tire of singing his praises.
Or if they do not go to this exereme or error,
they nevertheless behave toward the child as to
fill him with the notion that he is infinitely supe
rior to other children.
This makes him to some degree anti-social He
exerts himself little if at all, to get along with
other children. At the same time he becomes ex-
cessvely self-centered in his ways of thinking.
When he begins to go to school, friction natur-
ally developes in his relations with the boys and
girls he meets there. They resent his conscious or
unconscious attitude of superiority.
he may begin to brood, to display eccen-
trcities of character Then he becomes unmis-
takabIy nervous" Finally, medical advice has to
be sought.
All this might have been averted if only the
parents had avoided their initial mistakes in his
early training.
Mental brilliancy, accordingly, is not thing to
be dreaded in children. 1t is gift for which par
ents should be profoundly grateful
But, also, it is an indication that the child thus
gifted needs to be carefully trained against egotism,
against pride against anti-socia characteristics in
general.
Copyright, 1915, by H. A. Bruce)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-16
At st. Louis, and at Chicago.

The difference between the Democratic conven-
ton which opens today at ST. Louis and the Repub-
lican convention which met last week at Chicago
is the difference between peace and war, between
gertrude and doubt, between a that is rooted
in principle and a game that is blown by chance.
The Democratic nomination has been predestined
by the logic of events The Republican nomina-
tions was the eleventh-hour stroke of needy and
despairing politicians. The Democratic platform
will be a record of things accomplished for the
country's good and a renewal of the faith that has
been so splendidly kept. The Republican platform
was mainly an echo of the Wilson policies, coupled
with a clumsy effort to distort and condemn them
There was a time when American Democ-
racy was so united as Its leadership is trust
worthy and capable. Its policies are clear-cut and
straightforward Its record for the last three years
is filled with substantial achievement. Its pro-
gram for the future is laid out the broad lines
of national safety and progress No wonder its
convention is harmonious.
The Republicans took up their task at Chicago
with divided counsels, without leadership without
policies except the old policies of special privilege,
and without a program except a program of OBJ
struction On the outstanding issue of prepared
ness they merely repeated the principles which
Mr. Wilson long ago proclaimed and which Demo-
cratic Congress is putting into effect. On impor-
tant domestic questions they could utter only the
trite complaints of partisanship. Having no record
except that of standpatism and no issue except
that of offceseekers hungry for return to spoils,
it is no wonder that their convention facional
and perplexed.
The Democratic convention has only to stand
by the principles on which the party is grounded,
and leadership that is tried and true
Ex-President Taft must have realized that this
is no time for ex-president.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-16
The Russian Drive.

The Russian drive is remarkable not only for
its swift development and sustained success but
also for the far-reaching line which it is con-
Quoted. Other offensives particularly in the West,
have been confined to short tangents. The French
and. British have thrust here and there at the en-
emys front, and the Germans have lunged furious
ly against verdun. But the Russians striking
along stretch of approximately two hundred
miles Only a vast army, adequately equipped,
could carry forward such task. If the Allies on
other fronts follow this example, the deadlock soon
will be broken and the beginning of the end will
be near.
The results of the Russian attack thus far are
much more significant than we're the brilliant adj
vances of Won Mackensen year ago. writer in
the Evening Post shows the difference between
conditions then and
I'm the spring of 1915 the Teutons broke
a hole forty miles wide in the Russian line
The two halves were compelled to fall back
again and again, but each portion remained
fairly intact. The Austrian line, on the other
hand has been shattered in many. half a
dozen places. Not two ends, but perhaps
many as half dozen ends now left in the
air. When there talk for months. of encir-
clement of the Russian armies it a ques-
ton of encircling battlefront running into
the hundreds of miles With the Austrians to-
day there are isolated sectors of twenty or
thirty or forty miles which it is naturally
much more easy to encompass with results in
captures that no will now venture to pre-
dict
1t seems indeed, that the Russian drive is pro-
ducing results which are nearly decisive than
anything the Allies have yet achieved. Launched
on a vast scale, at time when the Austrians we're
ingrossed in the Trentino and the Germans at Yer
dun this offensive struck the enemy at his weakest
point and in his most crucial hour. If the Aus
trians whose losses in prisoners alone already
one hundred and twenty thousand to
be REINFORCED, 1t must be with troops diverted
from the campaign against Italy or from the West
in either of which events the Teutonic lines will
be exposed to misfortune if not disaster.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-16
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-16

THE backward child is always problem to his
parents and teachers. The gifted child often
likewise problem.
In fact, it is not too much to say that when
child is unusually bright mentally that he easily
keeps above grade in his school, exceptional is
usually needed in his upbringing.
Parents do not always appreciate this. They
appreciate it seldom that, everybody knows,
there is widespread prejudice against "precocious
children"
They are regarded-in too many cases not with
out reason-as 'conceited," abnormal" queer"
"highty'' etc. Their unpleasing traits are thought
to be an inevitable accompaniment of their pre-
cocity.
AS consequence, precocity itself is held in dis
favor.
In reality whatever shortcomings displayed,
the trouble is as a rule the result of errors of
training.
Precocity and abnormality do not of necessity
go hand in hand
l know a father and mother, New Englanders
who deliberately cultivated preGocity in their four
children The oldest boy became so precocious that
he was able to pass the entrance examination into
Harvard college before he was fourteen-at thir-
teen and half, to be exact.
The other children likewise far outstripped
intellectual ability they have shown, they nor
NAL children in every way. Indeed all who know
them agree that they are exceptionally attractive
children.
This is due chiefly to- the fact that their parents
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-16

Ex-President Taft must have realized that this
is no time for an ex-president.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-16
Pointed Paragraphs

Much of our time has been wasted by people
who insisted telling their imaginary troubles.
The best some people do is think
thoughts.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-16

With Hughes and Fairbanks in the race, there
is no lack of refrigeration.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-06-16

War may put up the price of gasoline and a
few other things, but we can still raise food at
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-01-28
CHILD'S TONGUE
BECOMES COATED
IF CoNSTl!PATED
When cross, feverish and sick
give california Syrup of
Figs"

Children love this fruit laxative"
and nothing else cleanses the tender
stomach. liver and bowels so nicely.
A child simply will not stop pla 5ing
to empty the bowels, and the result is,
they become tightly clogged with
waste. liver gets sluggish. stomach
sours, then your little one becomes
cross, half -sick, feverish, don't eat
sleep or act naturally, breath is bad
system full Of cold. has sore throat
stomach-ache or diarrhoea. Listen
Mother! See II tongue is coated
then give a teaspoonful Of California
Syrup OF Figs" and in z few hours al!
the constipated waste, sour bile and
1ndigested food passes out Of the sys-
tenn, and you have a we'll, playful child
again.
Millions of mothers give California
Syrup Of Figs" because 1t is perfectly
harmless; children love it, and it never
fails to act on the stomach, liver and
be wells.
Ask your druggist for a 50-cent Dot
tie Of "California Syrup Of Figs.
which has full directions for babies
children Of all ages and for grown
ups plainly printed on the bottle. Be-
ware of counterfeits sold here. GET
the genuine, made by California Fis
Syrup Company" Refuse any other
kind with contempt-Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-01-28
To Put On Flesh
And Increase Weight

Most people eat from four to six
pounds Of good solid fat-making food
every day and still do not increase in
weight one ounce. while on the other
hand many Of the plump, chunky
folks eat very lightly and keep gain
ing all the time. It's all bosh to say
that this is the nature of the in
dividual. 1t isn't Natures way at ALL
Most thin people stay thin because
their powers Of assimilation are de-
fective. They absorb just enough of
the food they eat to main life and a
semblance Of health and strength.
Stutting won't help them. A dozen
meals a day won't make them gain a
single stay there" pound. All the
fat producing elements of their food
just stay there in the intestines until
they pass from the body as waste.
What such people need is something
that will prepare these fatty food ele-
mnts so that their blood can absorb
them and deposit them all about the
body-something too. that will multi
ply their red blood corpuscles and in
crease their bloods carrying power.
For such a condition it is we'll to
recommend eating a Sargol tablet
with every meal. Sargol is not, as
some believe a patented drug, but is
simply a careful combination of six Of
the most effective and powerful as
similative and flesh building elements
known to chemistry. 1t is absolutely
harmless. yet has been wonderfully
effective and a single tablet eaten
with each meal often. according to re-
ports Of users, has the effect Of In
creasing the weight Of q thin man or
woman from three to five pounds a
week. Sargol is sold by Bowditch &
Webster and other good druggists
everywhere on a positive guarantee Of
weight increase or money back.-Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-01-28
THE 1916 SCHEDULE
Of Teachers Conventions, Confer
ences and Summer Schools.

The following program has been is
sued from the Office Of the State
superintendent of schools, a schedule
of the teachers conventions, confer
ences and summer schools for the
coming season Of 1916.
Teachers Conventions.
January IA, Friday-Cumberland
county. Portland.
January 20-21, Thursday and Fri
day-Aroostook county. Caribou.
January 20, Friday-Washington
county, Cherryf1eld.
February 4, acknowledgements
county, Auburn.
February II, Friday-kennebec
county, Augusta.
March 10. Friday-York county.
Sanford.
March II, Friday-Sagadahoc coun-
ty, Bath.
April Z. Friday-Hancock county,
Ellsworth.
April IA. Friday-knox county,
Rockland.
April II, Monday-Penobscot coun-
ty, Bangor.
April %, Friday-Franklin county,
Pennington.
May 5, Friday-Western Somerset
county, Norridgewock.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-01-28
Licenses Of Guides.

The commissioners Of inland Ash
cries and game are calling the atten-
ton of guides to the fact that before
they can be licensed they must not
only have furnished report of their
work as a licensed guide for the pre-
ceding season, as required by law. but
they also must furnish the endorse
ment of the municipal officers of the
town in which they reside, or of the
nearest town if a resident Of an unor-
gained place The latter provision
applies to guides who have been pre-
viousIy licensed as well as to those
applying for the first time.
The attorney general has ruled that
a guide Must furnish this endorse
ment of the municipal officers each
year before he can be issued a IL
cense to guide.
The following notice is being sent
out from the department to unli-
censed fur buyers:
I'm accordance with recent rul-
ing of this commission, which is
deemed to be in strict accordance
with the requirements of the law, you
are hereby directed on and after re-
ceipt of this letter to keep record
in the book sent you, of purchases OF
skins of fur-bearing animals made
|outside Of this State as we'll as with
in the State"
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Eorestrx Department.

The Maine senators and representa-
tives in Congress have been requested
by Forest Commissioner Frank Z.
Mace to secure if possible an extern
sion of the appropriation for the car
rying out the provision OF the weeks
law for forest protection and the es-
tablishing Of forest reserves. A near
ing is scheduled for today before the
House agricultural committee at
Washington. Mr. Mace said in writ
ing to the Maine men in Congress:
Maine is vitality interested in this
work and receives approximately
$4,000 per year in cooperative work
for forest protection. would also
submit for your consideration the
benefits of a national park in the
Katahdin region, which would be &C
complished under the provisions OF
the act. therefore respectfully ask
for your consideration and approval
Of this bill. I also trust that you will
be able to attend the hearing as it is
of extreme Importance to the people
of Maine"
Letters have been received from
Washington saying they will heartily
cooperate with Commissioner Mace
in securing the desired appropriation.
Commissioner Mace has prepared a
statment Of the expense Of admins
tering the forestry department. di-
vided according to watersheds, as fol-
lows: Machias, Union. Narragaugus
and st. Croix. s5,9so.05: Penobscot
$2s,4o5.s4; Androscoggin, s3.o57.Ss'
Kennebec, sS,O37sO: St. John, $17,-
050.17; total, $57,53112.
A new form Of Danger Of Fire No
tees will be used the coming season
in the Maine woods, Commissioner
Mace believing that free and open
appeal to the good judgment and bet
ter nature of the people who go into
the woods to use extra care in guard
ing against fires will have far more
effect with them than the old-styleo
cut and dried legal notice and warn
ing. The new notices not only con-
tain the required legal notifications
but suggestions as to the care Of fires
in the woods and the prevention of
dangerous blazes.
A record in the number issued Of eel
permits is being made this month, 81
already having been taken out, IL for
the Kennebec, II for the Androscog-
gin and the others scattered through
out the State.
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New Corporations.

The attorney generals office grant
! ed certificate of approval to the arti-
cles Of incorporation Of the following
corporation:
Ayredale Stock Farm. organized at
Bangor Capital stock 500, 900: all COM
mon; par value 800; nothing paid in.
and clerk, Hazel B. Rich. Bangor. Pur-
poses, to own and operate farm
or farms and dealing in dairy products,
| cattle. etc. Approved Jan. 26.
United Cleaners and Dyers. Incor-
porated, Calais, capitalized at $4,000.
all common. nothing paid in, par
value 500. Officers President, Harry
Elkhard: treasurer. David Elkhard;
clerk, Benjamin Elkhard; directors,
the same and Joseph Elkhard, all Of
Calais. Organized to cleanse, dye
and press clothes.
Brunswick Realty Association
Brunswick, capitalized at $4,000, all
common, Of which nothing is paid in,
par value of shares, $50. Officers:
President, Joseph H. Rousseau; clerk
and treasurer, William H. Crockett:
directors, the same and e. e. Hut
chins. Gilbert NJ. Elliott, Willis E.
Roberts. Clarence l. Hitchcock, Harry
w. Varney, Thomas H. Riley, Jr., all
Of Brunswick. Organized to deal in
real estate, personal property, stocks
and bonds.
| Parker Spool and Bobbin Co.. Lew
iston. capitalized at $4,000. all COM
mon, nothing paid in, par value. 500.
Officers: President, Everett N. Par
ker; treasurer. Harry j. Parker;
clerk, Clarence A. Parker; directors.
the same and Herbert L. Parker, all
Of Lewiston. Organized for the manu-
facture Of bobbins, spools and shut
ties.
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The Minister who Feels
Well on Monday

With many ministers, Monday is an
"off day." Not in the way of doing
nothing, but in the sense of not feel
ing well. After the hard work OF Sat-
urday and Sunday, comes the nervous
and physical reaction of Monday, with
that "all-in" feeling. This is a con-
dition many ministers would be glad
to be freed from. They can avoid il
by giving proper attention to diet, and
taking IL. F." Atwood's Medicine to
keep the bowels in order, the stomach
toned. the liver regulated, and the
head clear. This old home remedy
is so good that many ministers are
glad to recommend it, feeling that
they are passing along kindness in
so doing We will send free sample
to any minister, upon request.
Buy 35c bottle at your nearest store,
or write to-day for FREQ sample.
Il. F." Medici. Co., Portland, Me.
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May 5, Friday-Eastern Somerset

May S, Friday-Eastern Somerset
county, Hartland.
May 11-12. Thursday and Friday
Oxford county, Bethel.
May Is, Monday-Eastern Penob-
scot county, Lincoln.
May 10, Friday-Piscataquis county.
Dover.
May 26. Friday-Lncoln county,
Wiscasset. .+'.- .-
September 7-s, Thursday and Friday
|-Saco valley, Ito be assigned)
September Is, Friday-Waldo coun-
ty, Brooks. -.~,
October 26-27, Thursday and Fri
day-Maine Teachers Association.
Portland.
Conferences. :.s
Conferences for members of Super
intending School Committees and
Superintendents Of Schools:
March 20, Wednesday,. %. ...Saco
March 30. Thursday. -. South Paris
March 81. Friday. ....... Newport
April s, Wednesday,. .Bucksport
April ~. Wednesday,. .Damariscotta
April 10. Thursday. ..... .Rockland
April 49,. Tuesday,. ....... .Machtas
<APAA AAAAoNsysss ssssA 60 tsAAoSOAs
May Is, Monday. ......... Lincoln
May IS, Thursday. ........ dover
September IA, Thursday ...... Belfast
September 81. Thursday. PresQue isle
Conference for superintendent. Of
Schools: ..f+ S.t
I, July 1914, Monday-Friday. .Castine
Conference for Secondary School
Principals:
July 1914, Monday Friday. .Castine
Summer Schools
Summer Schools for Elementary
Teachers-July 17-August I, Ma
chias: July 17-August I. Castine:
July 17-August 1, Gorham: July 81
August 10, Fort Kent.
Summer Term Of State Normal
School-July 17-August rs. Pressure
Isle.
Summer School for Secondary
Teachers-June 26-August 1, UNI
versity Of Maine, Orono.
Summer School for Supervisors Of
Music-July 1923. Castine. 49,
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Fish and Game Commission.

The following prosecutions have
been reported to the department by
w. B. Mcdonald, superintendent of
the North Belgrade hatchery and also
a deputy warden:
For having seine in possession in
waters of a stream in close proximity
to the Belgrade hatchery. in violation
Of law, Chas. E. Proctor, Edw. J. Mar
shall, A. /. Prosser and Arthur Stur-
tevant, all of Waterville, each $40 and
costs. Paid.
Deputy Game Warden E. T. Bessey
Of Thorndike reports the prosecution
Of C. c. Bessey, Jr., Of Albion for buy