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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-29
TO MAKE THE 1916
COUNT OF BIRDS
Biological Survey Calls for Vol
unteers, Especially in the
West, to Count Birds on
Farms and Woodland Tracts.

The third annual bird count of the
United States will be made by the
Bureau Of Biological Survey Of the u
8. Department of Agriculture during
the breeding season in May and June
In making this survey the Bureau will
rely largely on persons interested in
bird life who agree to act as volunteer
enumerators and count the different
kinds Of birds found in a 40 or 80 acre
farm or woodland tract near their
homes. The counts thus made by un-
paid observers during the last two
summers have furnished to the De-
partment valuable data on the charac-
ter, number. and distribution of the
bird population.
This year the ornithologists Of the
Department wish particularly to secure
a large number OF volunteers in the
West to report on the bird life in the
plains. the semi-arid regions. the des-
erts, and the mountains in that part of
the United States. Especial attention
also is to be given to securing data as
to the birds in the fruit districts of
the Pacific coast and in the South At
lantic and Gulf States.
The information collected this year
1t is believed will be Of special value
in enabling the Department to test
the effect Of State and National bird
laws and also in determining what re-
lationship exists between bird life and
the prevalence Of locusts, grasshoppers,
and other insect pests in different To-
calities.
As 1t is impossible to make an actual
count of all the birds in any extended
district, each enumerator Is asked to
report only upon the number Of birds
breeding in selected area Of 40 to 80
acres in country or suburban districts.
From the figures thus obtained. those
In charge Of the work are able to ap-
proximate the total number Of birds
Of each kind in different sections of
the country.
Enumerators who wish to report on
birds on farms are asked to choose an
area which includes farm buildings,
shade trees. orchards, plowed land. pas
ture or meadow or swamp, but not
very much woodland. The enumerator
begins his survey at daylight some
morning and zigxags back and forth in
the selected area, counting the male
birds. Early In the morning during
the last Of May or the first week Of
June everZs.mele bird should be- In full
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-29
bOWDO|NHAM P.0.
MECCA FOR YECCS
AGAIN ENTERED
Craftsmen Early Friday Morn
ing Wreck Post Office, Blow
Safe and Depart with Cash
and Stamps Seventh Break
in Twelve Years

Bowdoinham, Me-, April &-The post
Office at Bowdoinham was entered early
Friday morning by three men. who blew
open the safe, wrecked the Office and
made Off with several hundred dollars in
money and stamps.
Somewhere between and 230 o'clock
this morning T. NJ. Millay. who lives
nearly opposite the postoffice on Main
| street, awakened by noise as Of an ex-
plosion. The noise came from the direc-
| ton Of the postoff1ce. Losing no time in
speculation he was hurrying out Of the
building to give an alarm when he was
held up at the point of revolver by a
man.
IF you don't go back into that build
ing I'll shoot you,'' said the man. Millay
didn't stop to argue the case and hurried
| to cover. Millay tried to arouse the peo-
pie living near by by outcries, but evil
IDENTIFY no one heard them, for no one re-
sponded. Half an hour later he ventur-
ed to leave the building by a back way
and started on the run to notify Post
master Frank X. Jack, who lives half a
mile away from the postoffice. Jack and
Millay and a few other men whom they
aroused hurried back to the postoffice but
the yeggmen had gone.
An investigation showed. that the
safe had been completely wrecked and
the interior of the building was badly
demolished. The wall opposite the
safe, some Is feet away. was a heap
Of wreckage and the windows were all
broken.
The sheathing in the room was
everywhere ripped off by the force Of
the explosion. Not only had the men
secured several hundred dollars in
money. but what stamps they had
failed to take were scattered all over
the floor. The money order slips were
gone and the postal saving coupons
were taken.
Mr.. Millay says that he heard three
distinct explosions. He believes there
were three men concerned In the
break. The night was very dark and
in addition there was a heavy fog
and he could give but little descrip-
ton of the man who held him up. How
the men came to town or how they
left 1t. Is q mystery.
All the nearby towns and cities
have been notified to keep on the
watch.
This post Office has been burglar
lied at least seven times the past
dozen years.
A post Office inspector arrived a few
hours later and began an investiga-
ton.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-29
QUICK RELIEF FROM
CONSTIPATION
Get DR.. Edwards
Olive Tablets

That is the joyful cry Of thousands since
DR.. Edwards produced Olive Tablets. the
substitute for calomel.
DR.. Edwards, a practicing physician Tor
II years and calomers old-tine enemy,
discovered the formula for Olive Tablets
while treating patients for chronic consti-
patton and torpid ivers.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets do not CO
tain calomel, but a healing, soothing vege-
table laxative.
No gripping is the 'keynote" Of these lit.
tie sugar-coated, olive-colored tablets They
cause the bowels and liver to act normally.
They never force them to unnatural action.
If you have clark brown mouth now
and then--a bad breath-a dull. tired reel
ing-sick headache-torpid liver and are
constipated, you'll find quick. sure and only
pleasant results from one or two little Dr.
Edwards Olive Tablets at bedtime
Thousands take one or two every night
just to Keep right. Try them. 10c and Csc
per box. All druggists.
The Olive Tablet Company, Columbus, O.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-29
CHRISTIAN TEACHINGS IN THE
HEATHEN COUNTRIES subject
OF NATIONAL CONGRESS- LAYMEN

said Mr.. Wallace. There are frontiers
and seaports in the Orient where It
binders. Far from home may dealers
show a 1ooseness Of morals, slack
ness in integrity and a disposition to
do the people instead of do for them.
and this cuts painfully into the heart
Of the missionary movement. The ma
tive does not discriminate and the SAM
pies seem to fall below the standards
Of our teachings"
Charles D. Hurley, general secretary
of the COMMITTEES on friendly relations
between foreign students. declared that
America should try to cultivate the re-
gard and esteem Of the 5000 foreign stu
dents in American universities as "a
matter Of good business. good politics
and good religion"
At the afternoon session addresses
were delivered by four young men from
foreign countries, China, Japan, India
and Cuba, students at American uni
yerSitieS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-29

Will the decline of coffee drinking
in Turkey, due to prohibitive prices,
lead to corresponding increase of
govt among the Turks? The French
attribute their general freedom from
equity disorders to their love Of coffee
and In Turkey. 1t is said, diseases of
the kind have hitherto been practi-
cally unknown. Professor johnson in
The Chemistry Of Common Life" re-
cords the case Of a man who had suf-
fered from chalky govt for q quarter of
a century being cured eventually by q
free use Of coffee. Some doctors, 1t
must be added, take an opposite view,
and forbid coffee to equity PATIENTS
London Chronicle.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-29

great deal, which will be a great disad-
vantage But as the conditions exist, the
members of the team are determined to
return the victors and thus hold their
lead in their contests with the neighbor-
ing high schools The summary Of to-
days game is as follows:
U. Of Maine ..................4 0 o 4 2-10
Lawrence ....................2 8 o o o. S
Batteries: Bonney, Kregar and Holden
Totman, Pooler and Lawry. Hits-U. of
NJ 10, l.. H. s. 4. Errors-U. Of NJ. 3, l..
H. 8. 5. Umpire, circuit. Time, 100. At
tendance, $50.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-29
P|TTSf|ELD
Prize Winners at the Freshman
Prize Speaking

At the Freshmen Prize speaking con-
test at Maine Central Institute in Pow
ers' hall Friday evening the prizes were
awarded as follows: First prize for
girls was won by Vivian Moulton Of
this town; and the second by Vivian
Rogers also Of this town. The prizes
for boys were distributed to Daniel
Getchell Of this town, who won the
first, and Samuel Lang OF Palmyra
was awarded the second prize.
The judges were H. r. Coolidge Of
Pittsf1eld and Misses Marjorie Barker
and Vivian Skinner Of Colby college.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-29
u. OF NJ. TEAM
TOO MUCH FOR
LAWRENCE HIGH

Fairfield, Me-, April 29.-(SpeciaD.-
played on the home diamond on Fri
day afternoon between the fast Uni
versity Of Maine End team and the
Lawrence High nine. The weather
conditions and the condition Of the
field was such that the game only
went five innings, the college boys
winning out at this period by a score
of 10 to 5. AS this game was played
on the eve of the Waterville High
game the regular pitching force was
given a rest. Totman doing the pitch
ing for the High school team for four
innings when Pooler was given II
chance to warm up a little.
The game was very slow. it being a
was the crowd quickened by such
scenes as the fielding Of Patterson for
Lawrence and the heavy hitting done
by Hutchins and Wentworth Of the
college team. Totman was not working
in his usual form. he being touched
for 10 hits and nine runs in the four
innings that he pitched. Pooler. who
relieved Totman in the fifth with no
one out and Wentworth on third by
his three-base hit, retired the side in
order, only one run being scored. Bon
ney worked we'll on the mound for the
Maine team. holding the local High
school hitters to four hits.
The Lawrence high baseball team will
go to Waterville on Saturday afternoon
by a special car at 2 o'clock, where they
will fight for honors with Wateryille
high school. The Fairfield team has been
weakened by the loss of their first string
pitcher, Rollins. who is confined to his
bed by illness, and this will make II
necessary to change about the team a
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-29

Harold Archer Tucker died Thursday
In a Lewiston hospital. following a surgi-
cal operation. The remains were taken
to Pennington and the funeral will be
on Saturday. He was aged Is years and
a native of Norway. He graduated in
1909 from Pennington High and entered
Bowdoin. He was at the time Of his
death manager Of a corn-packing plant
at East Waterford. He was to have been
married next July to Miss Ruth Beane
of Norway, a 1915 graduate Of Bates.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-29
Dun's Review

New York. April 2s.-Dun's Review to-
morrow will say:
The best previous records Of production
and distribution. of earnings and wages,
are steadily surpassed. Even after
great expansion legitimate enterprise
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-29
MARRIED
KENNEBE(

KENNEBEC.
Waterville-Aprii "a. George Whittsn
and Sarah 0oldrup.
PISCATAQUIS.
Montague-April ~. Andrew Nadeau
and MafYueeato Biehop; April n NichaAl
l6nrAz0 and Victoria Emmons.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-29

The average weight Of the dreens,o
whale is said to be 100 tons-11. ~.
pounds-equal to that Of 80 eiepn'~
or that Of 400 bears.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-29

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The Alaska daily empire., 1916-11-24
ABOUT NoNPARTIsANsHP IN POLITICS

The personnel of the Third Leg glature. which will meet in March next will be amost equally divided between Democrats and Republicans. according to the returns. Heretofore party lines have been drawn to some extent in all the judicial, legislative Di visions but for the first time in the brief legislative history Of the Tesritcry. general ettcrpt made this fall by the leading political parties to elect Eeir legislative tickets in all of the Divisions, except the Second. This was done because it realized nonpartisansm Territorial politics proved a distinct failure but the failure due to the ton of a few in the Second Legislature who. al though protesting nonpartsanism exhibited partisan ism of type that little short Of virulent. The result that nonpartisansm in Alaska politics oeiyed blow from which it will take time to recover This is to be regretted tor with Legislature truly nOnparsan in spirit and in letter perhaps the best results could be achieved the Territory There is a tendency. in number ot States. toward nonparti sanism in State politics. but. far Alaska is cerned. the growth Of the nonparsaa idea has been checked for time. at least through the iLconsidered actions Of few partisan zealots. who apparently personal feeling and advantage above the broader in terests Of the people Therefore. it is that nonpart sanism in the Territorial Legislature that has been brought into disrepue and bipartisan tickets are likely to be more popular hereafter.
 "Nonpartisans." "lndepeadents' and the opera boutfe Of political parties which has sometimes been started by few individuals "n convention assembed Ike the three famous talors of Tooey Street, will probably be unknown in the Territory
The Alaska daily empire., 1916-11-24
WILSON'S POLITICAL LEADERSHIP
lNew York Nnrldl

In nearly every State Mir Hughes ran behind his ticket and President Wilson ahead of his ticket
 To appreciate the extraordinary political change that has resulted from Mir. Wilson's leadership of the Democratic party it is necessary only to read the returns in the Presidential elections of the last twen ty years
 In 1896 Mir McKnley's popular plurality over Mr. Bryan was 601,S54. Mr. Mckinley having 271 votes in the Electoral College to Mir. Bryan's 176.
 In 1890 Mir Mckinley popular plurality in- creased to Si979O his electoral vote being 292 o 155 for Mir. Bryan
 mendously Mir. Rooseyelts popular plurality g. 545515 and he had 3S6 electoral votes in the Elec. tOrisl College to Judge Parker's 140.
 Tn 1908 the Democratic Party picked up a little but much. AIr Tafts popular plurality over Mir. Bryan 1,269S04 His electoral vote was S21 to Mir. Bryan's 162.
 Thus in four successive Presidential elections the smallest Republican plurality in the popular vote was 60l,S54 and the smallest Republican majority in the Electoral College 90.
 In 1912 the Roosevelt bolt destroyed party lines and although Mr. Wilson elected by an enormous majority in the Electoral College the combined Taft Roosevelt vote 7604563 against a Wilson vote fly of the popular vote was IS11154 slightly more than in 1908.
 In 1916 the Wilson popular vote is 2.16000O beyond he previous Democratic record. It is 900O00 more than the RooseyeltTaft total of 1912 It is more than 100000 in advance of the reunited Republican party There is no more talk of a minority Pres- ient."
 Mir Wilson has put the two parties on an equal. ty again The great Republican majorlties of the last wenty years have been broken, and the country will profit from this restoration of the balance There is 10 better assurance of good government than two parties practically equal in power and each at the mercy of the independent vote.
The Alaska daily empire., 1916-11-24
MIR. HUGaEs ADMITS TT

Charles Evans Hughes. lete Republican candidate for President Of the United States. has at last con- has rendered his congratulations. About one hundred millions of American people had reached that con- ciuson long before MT. Hughes. and they naturally wondered why the customary congratulatory telegram had been so long delayed However. better late than never" and Mir. Hughes has at last performed the graceful act Chairman Wilcox has not yet come cut of the into which he fell on election day. the early returns in the Eastern States having sort ol hypnotised him. But probably he. too will emerge from his present Comaose condition and realize that President of this Republic can really be elected without the aid of New York and the rest Of the "effee East with Illinois and Indiana thrown in for good measure The great West has spoken and is coming into its own. Hereafter it will occupy more important place in the calculations of politicians and newspapers Of all parties. The virlity of the West Is unmistakable its judgment is safe and sane and no longer do New York and the East dominate the politics of this Nation. In this fact there is much hope for the future.
The Alaska daily empire., 1916-11-24
.Do YouR SHOPPING EARLY.

Only Sl days until Christmas. Tempus fugit and it is time to think of the approaching holiday season and the necessity which father of furnish ing the wherewithal for mother to do her shopping early and thus earn the gratitude of the merchants and their sales forces besides the added satisfaction that t brings Co the purchaser being able to make purchases before the rush and hurry that are inevi table when shopping is delayed until almost the last moment. And this reminds that it is well to do your shopping at home. In the stores of local mer chants nowadays may be found nearly everything that is desirable for holiday and holiday gifts; and we venture the assertion that in price and quality most would-be purchasers find what they need In an- other week or the different stores will be well filled with holiday goods. and the intending purchaser will have ample time to inspect goods make selections and then purchases with unruffled temper and with. out exhaustng their strength and patience and those of the sales forces of the merchants.
 Therefore do your shopping early and do 1t well and the little world in which live and move and have being. will be happier and better because Of it..
The Alaska daily empire., 1916-11-24
MUST CHARGE FOR SERVICE
Naldez Prospector


 When you go to your grocer to buy sack or flour you do not expect to ask him to throw in box of matches or a sack of salt do you? When you go to the baker to buy bread you do not ask him to throw in a dozen doughnuts cookies? What you want you buy and you pay for 1t and go away satis- fled with what you have actually paid for and nothing else.
 But all this changes when you go into news paper office You give him ad and then ask him throw in many dollars worth of free advertising as your bill comes to- you place an advertisement in the paper and then expect to receive the paper free for your generosity.
 No branch of the business world is feeling the abnormal rise in prices much the printer and publisher The cost of print paper has gone up by leaps and bounds. until it is not only a question or cost but whether 1t be obtained at all Now. the columns of a paper is the publishers merchan- dse. It costs him in raw material. labor and over head just the same and probably little more than it does the grocer or dealer in other staples. as his help is much highly paid. Every time the publisher gives this white space away he is depict ng his stock of merchandise, and just so much money going of his pocket. He is in the same shape as the grocer or baker who gives away his wares
 It is every publishers aim to make success of his business. No likes to lose money. To make money a must charge more for his wares than he pays for them with reasonable profit for over head expenses and profit.
The Alaska daily empire., 1916-11-24
Luke McLuke Says.

4A4AN AAN@ANAAeN -~N-s Na
 When they have been married for a whole twenty-four hours, She will gaze into His eyes and ask Him if He really and truly loves Her as much as He did when they were first married.
 4 man can make a fortune with common school education. But his son has to have a college edu- cation to know how to spend it.
 A man wouldn't mind his wife losing her temper if she would only lose it permanently
 A man can be cross-eyed, bow legged and have a face like mash ed-up pumpkin pie. But that does not keep his wife from imagining that he leads a Double Life when he is down town.
 One reason why every wife should have good disposition is because her husband is going to impose on it.
 It doesn't matter how it looks If it is stylish woman knows that it is becoming.
 A man will admit that his wife has her faults Put don't try to knock his dog
The Alaska daily empire., 1916-11-24
c. E. LUND IN SEATTLE

C. E. Lund. one of the incorDora. tors Of the Alaska Gold Mining & Development Company which oper- ates. twentyeight miles north of Ju- neau. is an arrival at the Rainier Grand, says the Seattle Post In- telligencer Mir Lund, during twelve years of mining experience in the north, has made collection of sev- eral hundred photographs of points in Southern Alaska and on the coast He expects to return north in the spring
The Alaska daily empire., 1916-11-24

maiorIties Cincinnati was carried by Mir. Hughes but by no more than normal vote In practically every great center of population the Wilson following is much greater than in 1912. whereas Mir. Hughes falls far short of the combined Taft and Roosevelt vote.
 Here and there some Congressman ostentatiously opposed by the German propaganda has been defeated but for various causes we have such results in every election or much greater significance is the disaster which has overaken Representatives Buchanan and Tavenner of Illinois Mr. Buchanan was 80 faithful to the German cause that he received the distinguish ed attention of the Federal Grand Jury in New York for his activity in preventing shipments of munitions and both he and Mir Tayenner voted on the McLe- more resolution to abandon American rights at sea tn favor of the Kaiser's submarines.
 For some time to come, nodoubt we shall hear from the inner circles of transpaned Prussianism strange beasts of the wonderful accomplishments of German discipline in the United States, but they will be only the dubious thankssivngs and apologies of misguided men for the few crumbs which they have picked up under tAe great table of Americanism.
 The hyphen has been put out of business in this country. and by nobody Is that fact more keeny appreciated than by the interests which hoped to prof lie b. 1t. They raised foreign issue only to call into life elements of opposition that more than nul fled all their labors They met couneracton even in German districts Elsewhere. as in the Far West they were overwhelmed They win never try 1t again
The Alaska daily empire., 1916-11-24
ONE HYPHEN OUT OF BUSINESS

The professionally yndictive German vote was un- doubtedy cast for Alr Hughes but it was more than offset rule by antagonistc forces which presump. tuOus aieusm naturally in motion
 For example. Milwaukee and St. Louis. confident. ly counted upon as German preserves gave Mir Wilson
The Alaska daily empire., 1916-11-24

sneak thief recently stole thermometer in United States Commissioner Davids office, at Anchor age. and the Judges temperature immediately began to rise Then an electric light was stolen from the Anchorage postoffice, and the postmaster is in the darl as to the Identity Of the thief
The Alaska daily empire., 1916-11-24
WHY ARE ADS IMPORTANT
 TO WOMEN?

The elemental purpose of advertising is to give yOua information about articles and commodities = about prices as well as about their merits. To read the ads is to gain an education as to values-an education with out which the buyer for the home is sadly handicapped.
The Alaska daily empire., 1916-11-24

At least Mr. Hughes can thank his stars that he has been spared the impossible job of selecting a Cabinet that would satisfy the Republican standpatters and the Progressive Republicans Wall Street and the prairie farmers his rman'Amercan and proaly packers.