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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-13

Mr.. and Mrs. w. r. Ayers, Mr.. and
Mrs. E. H. Tillson and MIR. and Mrs.
Charles Dutton will leave this morning
in Mr.. Ayers motor car for a trip to
Boston in which city and vicinity they
will enjoy a few days of motoring.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-13

Hon. c. A. Milliken left Thursday
noon by automobile for Durham juno
tion and from there took the train for
county on a business trip.
His daughter. Miss Harriet Milliken.
passed Thursday with friends in Lewis
ton
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-13

L. S. Young, tel. 5sS--Butterfish.
halibut, smelts, mackerel, finnan had
dies, etc. Will cut up deer Saturday
morning-send in orders for venison
steak.-Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-13

Charles D. White of Haverhill, Mass.
formerly Of Augusta. is in the city for
few days as the guest of his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. N. w. White Of Jackson
street,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-13

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hammond Of
Mt. Vernon were in the city Thursday
for a portion of the day on matters Of
business.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-13

ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE. The
have been duly appointed Adninistra.
tors on the estate Of Augustus T. Long
fellow. late Of Hallowell in the County Of
Kennebec; deceased. and given bonds as
mands against the estate of said decease 7
are desired to present the same for set
tlement. and all indebted thereto are re-
quested to make payment Immediately.
LIME NJ. GUPTILL, Fitchburg. Mass.
LEON e. LONGFELLOW, Halloweil, Ne,
49, Agent.
september %. 1916. sept29. Fl, 1t
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-13

Mrs. Maurice Gray of Liberty is
visiting in the city as the guest of Mrs.
Guy 0. Vickery on Western avenue.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-13
AUGUSTA LOCALS

The rummage sale will open at 8
o'clock this morning at III Water
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-13

Mrs. D. J. Rice returned Wednesday
to her home in this city after passing
three days in Portland as the guest of
friends.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-13

Officer James G. McKenney of the
Augusta police fierce. who has been liv
ing at 81 Capitol street. moved Thurs
day to the house at 80 Capitol street.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-13
ADJUSTMENTS
OPERA HOUSE.

Today and Saturday, Louise Huff in
"The Reward Of Patience" Beatrice
Fairfax" with Grace Darling and
Harry Fox, Comedy Cartoons, and
Others.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-13

Lucky Social, Friday the thirteenth.
at eight O'Clock at the Winthrop street
Baptist Church. Admission 10 cents
Advt.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-13

The Capital Studio advertises in an
other column to make pictures 10 A. NJ.
10 10 p. M.-Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-13

Just in at York's: An abundant sup
ply of "Erhard" Goodyear welt mems
shoes, $3.50 to $4.--169 Water street.
Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-13
Tally L[kkEBEC JOURNAL
Telephone 13o

cards OF thanks. obituary notices. res-
olutions Of respect, etc. will %
charged at the rate Of ten cents per
line. No charge less thar IS coats
Subscribers who fail to receive the
Journal promptly will confer favor
BY notifying tho ONCE Immediately.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-13
NOTICE..

The End Mslne Regiment 10 expected
home Thursday. All those who have
rooms to let to friends Of the soldiers
while the regiment Is In Augusta will
please notify. Burleigh Martin, Secretary
Of che Augusta Board Of Trade. the NUNS
Der and price Of the rooms. octlldtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-13

Friday, October 70, 1915.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-16

can now take pictures at midnight by
giving slight time exposure. and in
the latter part of June one can make
snapshots between IL and l in the
morning. 1t is no trouble to get ex-
cellent photographs between and IL
pm. and at any time after 2 o'clock in
the morning. The sun now sets at
about IL pm. and it comes up again
two hours later. The twilight is bright
and the sky is red at midnight.
I find that the light has a strange
effect upon me. The sleepiness that
comes about bedtime at home is absent
and / am liable to work or talk until
midnight or later without realizing the
hour When ! wake during the night
l am surprised to see that 1T looks just
like day out of doors. I do not seem to
need as much sleep. The air is invig-
Grating and the light seems life-giv-
ing.
The weather just now is about as
warm as 1t is in the states. The grass
Is green, the trees are in full leaf,
there are flowers everywhere and the
people are going about in cotton cloth
ing. The women go out in the evening
with bare arms and bare necks and the
men play foot ball, base ball and ten
mis- in their shirt sleeves. There are
many barefooted children and all ma
ture is thriving under the hot twenty
hour sun of the arctic.
So much for the summer. Now for
the winter. The old stagers say that
the dreariness of the long night has
been greatly exaggerated. During those
months the most of the earth is snow
clad. and the light of the sky. the stars
and the moon added to the light from
the snow makes it so that you can
work almost all the time. True, it is
necessary to have lights in the
the electric lights are turned off only
in the afternoon. The morning news
paper men who have their sleep in the
daytime do not see the sun oftener
than once in a week. that is on Sum
day.
AS to the winter climate many peo-
Pile here declare that they like the
winters better than the summers, and
that they all-men- women and children
thrive on the cold. Mr.. Burruss, the
pilot of the Selkirk. on which l came
here from White Horse, tells me he
would rather spend a winter on the
Upper Yukon than at his old home in
Missouri. He says that all one needs
is to prepare for the cold. He must
have heavy wooden clothing and felt
shoes or moccasins. When the Their
mometer falls to so, or so degrees below
zero he has to watch out for his face,
and especially his nose. If this is not
covered 1t will freeze within a few
minutes. At 20 degrees below zero the
climate is delightful. The air is still
and dry, and the people take short
walks without overcoats. 1t is only
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as tender as that of the salmon caught
nearer the ocean.
l picked out a fine porterhouse steak
and asked the price. The butcher re-
piled: That cut is So cents a pound.
but 1 can give you slice off the neck
for 35 cents. Beef is now selling for
from 30 to SIS cents, depending on
where the cut comes from. Our beef is
excellent 1t has to be brought in
from the states. and the freight rates
are so high that we cannot afford to
import skinny animals Indeed, the
freight cost is quite as much as the
first cost of the beef"
I asked as to game. The butcher
said: "All game is cheap. We sell
moose and caribou steaks and roasts
at 20 or rs cents a pound AS to bear,
the people won't eat it; it is too tough.
We have plenty of caribou in the win
ter The Indians kill the deer in great
numbers and bring in the hind quar-
ters. They sell them to US or peddle
them about from house to house. The
fore parts of the animals they feed to
their dogs. This country is also full OF
grouse and ptarmisan, and any one can
get game in the winter If he will go out
and hunt for it. Grouse bring rs cents
each by the dozen. Large ducks are
worth s12 dozen and small ones So"
My next call was at drug store,
where I paid a quarter for a bottle of
pop. I complained of the cost. and
the druggist, a pioneer gold miner. told
me something of how he sold drugs in
early days. The mans name is Cribs.
He had drug store in Pittsburgh be-
fore he came to hunt gold in the Klon-
dixie away back in 1898. He did fairly
well mining. but thought there was
more money in drugs and his story
makes me think he was right. Said
Mr.. Cribs:
"At present everything brings practi-
cally double the price of the states.
Nothing is sold for less than % cents.
You cannot buy one quinine pill, but
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use any coin less than a quarter is at
the post office, and there the change is
in stamps. l had my shoes shined this
morning. The bootblack was a negro.
whose high chair was seated on the
board sidewalk next to a barber shop.
He BACKED my shoes; I handed him 81
and waited for change. He went into
the barber shop and came back with
IS cents. l got a shave and a hair
cut and that took the rest of the
money.
Leaving the barber shop. / dropped
into a provision store and asked the
grocer his prices. He had some water
melons of about half the size of those
sold in the states. and sells them at
$3.50 each. His cantaloupes bring Is
cents apiece and his apples a dollar a
dozen. Ranch eggs are worth 81 a
dozen, and eggs from the outside rs
cents. Chickens are quoted at SO apiece
or $36 a dozen.
Bread is now selling at the rate of
two loaves for a quarter, a"d hutter.
made in the country, costs ST pound.
Milk brings $3.50 a gallon and cream
is 50 a quart. These are prices in sum-
mer In the heart of midwinter, when
the hens go on a strike, eggs go to IS
a dozen. In early days they sometimes
sold for SIS dozen, and were cheap at
81 apiece.
Leaving the grocer. went to a loqua-
cious butcher hard by and asked him
the prices of meat. The butcher was
clad in white and his shop was as clean
as a pin. A pink salmon that weighed
ten or twelve pounds lay on his white
marble counter. He was cutting it up
into steaks, which he sells at 25 cents a
pound. He told me the salmon had
been caught near the city and that 1t
had Travelled LOO miles up the Yukon
to get to the market. The flesh is not
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Of lawyers and doctors, and now and
then tribes Of Indians. who come in
from long distances to sell their furs
to the traders.
The town has dropped down to plain
business. The stores have large stocks
of goods: they have most of the trade
of the Yukon and some from eastern
Alaska. Every one seems well to do.
Wages are high and the cheapest labor
is paid as much IS or Sc a day.
The cost of living is above that of the
states. 1 pay % cents for a newspaper,
rs cents for a shine and like amount
for every least thing under the sun.
In fact, the smallest coin used is
quarter, and this has been SO ever since
coins came into the country. For the
first few years after gold was dis
covered everything was paid for in
gold dust or nuggets. and the store
keepers had their gold scales, upon
which they weighed out the cost Of
their sales, Every miner then carried
a gold poke, and took out pinch of
dust to pay for cigar a drink.
Today the only place where you can
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letter received by President Wilson
not long ago. Enclosed, she wrote
find so cents for Cancelled postage
stamps l used when a little girl. !
didn't know any better at the time. but
nevertheless, it is a crime committed
against the United States government
] was convicted of 1t this summer at a
camp meeting in California and prom
ised God / would make 1t right. 1t is
not very much. but in Gods sight. a
sin is a sin, no matter how small
An Oregon minister sent 25 cents at
the request of a lady of excellent
Christian life and beloved by all who
knew her Forty years ago this poor
woman used Scent postage stamp a
second time. 1T had not been Cancelled,
the minister wrote, hence it was clean,
and she put it on letter of her own
Il can see that old woman" Mr..
Cooksey said. "confessing to her pastor
and giving him the money from a little
purse that is almost empty. re-
lfgious revival in a community causes
those who are converted to settle debts
long past due. The conscience fund of
the government gets it's share of the
Spanish war RENTED $40 for the grub
l stole while he was in camp. The
Lord. he said, saved my soul about
fourteen months ago. and He is max
ing me straighten up my back life'
1.-THE inclosed, wrote a man in New
York, when he mailed US $4,000 in cur
rency, belongs to the United States
Treasury. Conscience demands its re-
turn. God knows my name and my SIM
An aged man in North Dakota repaid
SO. All of u.s. he put down with an
unsteady hand, become honest as we
near the great hereafter
From Atlanta. Ca, came, in August,
1915. the sum of SIP. This SO ran
the confession, represents some money.
with interest. which l took from the
government several years ago God
has forgiven my sin, and ! now make
restitution to you. A convert at a re-
vival in Illinois. gave the evangelist
$3S.5S, in settlement of a debt he owed
the government. BY the advice of a
priest in confession wrote another de-
linquent. an employe of Uncle Sam, I
return $40. I took sick leave some
years back and I was not sick. l hope
I am forgiven by Him.
ga citizen as he called himself, in
typewriter letter, sent SLIP from
town in Missouri. in payment for using
some cancelled stamps twenty three
years ago. 1 do not wish to die he
said, without making the same right
beforehand: Still another sinner.
brought before the bar of his own soul
and duly convicted. said he had once
used three old postage stamps. 1t
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when one goes riding that he needs a
fur coat at such times.
Domestic animals get along very we'll
in the winter. The cows and horses are
kept in warmed stables. The horses are
not used when the thermometer is so
degrees below zero. At that tempera-
ture or upward the cold seems to burn
out their lungs. Still, there are horses
that are wintered out in the open
near Dawson. They have been turned
out in the fall to shift for themselves,
and have come out in the spring hog
fat"
In the midst of the winter the snow
obstructs travelling. 1t is then so dry
that the dogs pulling the sleds through
1t have to work as hard as though they
We're going through sand. Along in
March and April the snow is moist and
the roads grow better.
The ideal winter weather is when 1t
is fifteen or twenty-five degrees below
zero. with a few hours of sunlight.
Then the snow is fine and powdery. the
air is dry and the sky is clear The
most depressing time is from the mid
die of December until the end of the
first week in January. Then comes the
severe cold and the sun may not be
seen for several weeks.
It is this midwinter period that the
grewsome poems of the Yukon describe.
There are many such. including those
of Robert W. Service. and especially
his Cremation of Sam MCGEE" You
remember the story. how Sam MCGEE
came from Tennessee and how he left
his warm home in the sunny south to
roam around the north pole, where:
He was always cold. but the land Of gold
Seemed TO hold him like a spell;
Though he'd often say in his homely way
hat he
The poet describes how Sam froIe to
death on the trail above Dawson and
how before he died. he made his part
ner promise to "cremate his last re-
mains" This was done between here
and White Horse, on the marge of Lake
Lebarge. There the frozen corpse was
stuffed into the furnace of the derelict
steamer Alice May and a great fire
built The poet, personating Sam Nc
Gees partner, describes the horrors of
the occasion of How the heavens
scowled and the huskies howled. and
the winds began to blow" And how.
though it was icy cold, the hot sweat
rolled down his cheeks. He tells how.
though he was sick with dread, he
bravely said: I'll just take peep in
side" He then opens the furnace door:
And there sat Sam. looking cool and calm in
the heart Of the furnace roar:
And he smile. You could see mile, and
he said PLEASE close that door.
the cold and storm
Since l left Plumtree, down in Tennessee. it's
the first time I've been warm.
FRANK G. CARPENTER
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Some weeks ago. Mr.. Cooksey opened
a package untidily wrapped in rough
brown paper and smeared with red wax
along its seams and found 100000 in
bills Or large denominations This
amount wrote the person from whom
the money had come in a letter that
was received by the same mail. make
sum aggregating $4,000 which /
have sent 20 the United States, or four
times the amount which ! stole years
ago.
Conscience" the writer went on to
say. "i:ls Plven me no rest until | have
coHsutun1ated the fourfoId return, like
Zacrhcus. the publican. of old. May
every thief understand The awfulness
OF the ssh Of stealing is the sincere
wish Of a penitcut" Then. seemingly
as an afteFthought. this line was added
to the letter: Let no one claim any OF
This amount on any pretext"
Have you tried 10 learn the name of
the person who sent the money!" I
asked Mr.. Cooksey.
NO: that would no: be honorable in
our view. Mr.. Cooksey answered. The
letter was dated in Philadelphia. but
mailed in New York. AS was the pack
age Of currency.
That is all we know and all that
We desire to know. Nor have we at
tempted to verify the statement of
the writer to the sJO.ooO he says he
has returned to the Treasury in the
past. His money and his word have
been accepted. and so far as we are
concerned. the transaction is closed.
Large contributors. as We call them
and small ones are treated alike. The
dollar man and the thirty Thousand
dollar man need never fear that efforts
Will be made to find out their names
Their money goes into the general
fund Of the Treasury and their letters
into an office file upstairs As the let
tiers in almost every instance are with
out signatures and have been probably
mailed at strange post Offices the au-
thors are safe from detection. even IL
the government should engage in the
mean business of locating them and
checking them up.
Il found $1,000 in an envelope the
other day. II came from Jersey City.
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to make good sent a draft to Wash
ington for $3.50. which they added,
includes compound interest at the rate
of per cent
From the vicar. of an Episcopal
church near Lorfion, to whom ! have
referred. came S14.250.15. An English
man when in this country had stolen
that amount from the government He
was converted after going home, con-
fessed to the clergyman, and through
him desired to make full restitution
Only the other day ten British shillings
were received from Australia, and $50
came later from New Brunswick to
cover customs on goods taken into the
United States by one of my friends.
Names. as have stated, are rarely
signed to conscience letters. A Cali
fornian this year. however, broke the
rule. He wanted a receipt for his SIG.
Don't be inquisitive: don't betray a
trust: withhold my Identity he or
dered, but he did not describe the
nature of his crime.
Now and then money comes In
dainty, perfumed envelopes. A lilac
colored envelope from Chevy Chase in
closed 81. For the conscience fund
wrote the sender. Bills to the amount
of $500, from Burlington, Iowa, were
put inside of a sheet of paper on which
was scrawled a name that no man
living could decipher. So comes most
of the money to the fund and there is
no practical reason why it should
come in any other way.
An old man and a gentleman, / am
sure, a resident of Washington, and
poor, sent in IS at time from month
to month. There was dignity in his
penmanship and the small pieces of
paper on which he wrote were neatly
cut and folded. 1 believe he said, at
last, that this absolves my indebted
ness. l could almost hear his sigh
of relief as he sealed his farewell let
ter.
The conscience fund, as bookkeep-
ing device, has been in existence for
los years. In 1911 some repentant per-
son paid S. into the Treasury The
fact, probably, became known through
the newspapers. because other sums.
totaling S245, We're received the same
year.
Then for fifteen years no further
contributions were made. They were
begun again in 1927. with the receipt
at the Treasury of Sc. Every wear
since then. except in 1S4s, conscience
money had been paid by many per-
sons. The banner years. if the term
is permissible, up to 1916, were 1865,
when $4,000 was received: 1873, with a
total of S23,0oO; 1902, with a total of
$4,000, and 1905. with a total of
S21 1000.
During January, 1906. eleven con-
trioutions came in. ranging in
amounts from cents to 5000 That
was the record br eaking month. as
this is the record-breaking year.
Rich and poor, the ignorant and
the educated, as l have shown, belong
TO what might properly be called
Uncle Sans Put-it-back Club They
are great company of good citizens.
l hope all the eligibles in the United
states Will step up. pay what is due
and take their places among the elect
Copyright. 1915. by James B. Morrow
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might have been four he confessed
I send 10 cents he added. in case the
number was Ave
''Old soldiers. too, are found at the
national mourners' bench" Mr.. Cook
sey continued. AN Idaho veteran
bravely signing his name. asked what
drawers and undershirts cost the gov.
eminent during the time of the civil
war. He was told. and sent s3.17. to
pay. he explained, for certain garments
that had come into his possession by
methods which he did not mention.
IAN extra loaf of bread, back in 1858
was eaten by volunteer from Ohio
To satisfy a reproving conscience, he
wrote, I remit 81, which please DROP
into the Treasury. and which, suppose
will cover the cost of the bread, along
with compound interest
During the rebellion ran letter
from Michigan man. a soldier was
paid two months extra pay by mistake,
and he now wishes to return the came
closure was s75. An Indiana veteran.
having stolen a government mule, as
he stated the case, sent $500 in large
bills, and the theft of saddle blanket
by a soldier from Illinois caused him
to add IS to the cash on hand IN the
vaults of the government.
-.
Two unusual letters were received
from a minister in North Carolina
The first one. written a year ago last
April, said: Enclosed is $40. l am re-
funding, as am able to do so, an
original pension. 1 became able to do
good work. l am old but quite well
for my age
Then last January the clergyman
wrote again. Five ten-dollar bilis
were in his letter. Many years ago
OH a
shot wound in nay right shoulder. Inc
pension was finally discontinued. L
sometimes suffered from lameness IN
my neck and pain in my mead. out !
do not certainly know If the wound
caused the trouble. l am, therefore,
restoring the old pension as l can
spare the money. So this is for the
conscience fund
81 can see the aged prea cher" Mr.,
Cooksey said. with much teenng;
doing without things he really needs
for his comfort that he may put back
into the Treasury Of the richest ma
ton on earth the money that he fears
was paid him unfairly.
"A study of the hundreds OF letters
received from persons who want TO
straighten up their back lives as the
private in the Spanish war phrased II,
cannot help but increase ones respect
for human nature. Contributions. as
the country. Occasionally repayments
are made by residents of Great Britain
and its colonies.
Last April a lady in Edinburgh. for
instance, sent British postal order
for $50 to Secretary McAdoo in settle
ment of a debt of honor not of her own
but of a relatives, whose small estate
she had inherited. and who, during his
lifetime, she feared, had evaded pay
ing duty on family gifts he had brought
into this country from Europe.
IAN Englishman while in the United
States back in the year 1891 forged a
check and defrauded the government
Of $500. Friends of this man. four
years ago, living. in Lancastershire,
England, thinking it right, nrst of all,