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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-03-18

general and the articles Of incorpora
ton approved by that official
Knight Lumber Co., organized
March 16 at Lewiston. Capital $4,000,
all common; par value 500; nothing
paid in. Pres. E. II. Knight Of South
Berwick; clerk and treasurer, Guy F.
Knight Of South Berwick; directors,
the above and Wallace H. White. Jr..
of Lewiston. Purposes, to buy, build,
lease and operate mills for manufac-
turing lumber, etc. Approved March
II.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-03-18

Trainloads of delicious, sweet, juicy tender, seed.
less naval oranges have been coming into the
market from California----ten million oranges
daily...-to supply the Orange-Day demand, and
these oranges are the finest seedless navels that
the great Golden Gate State can grow.
The fool-killer., 1916-10-01
HAVE SOME DOG.

New York.-Mrs. Elmer Black ar
rived on the Mauretania Friday with
a new plan to reduce the high cost
of Wing. "Now when I was in
Munich I saw 100 dogs sold for food
in one d to poor pepole,' exclaim-
ed Mrs Black enthusiastically. "Of
course the dogs had been inspected
before the sale, and they were per-
fectly fit to eat-News Item.
Well, for the love Of Mike
and all his kin folks, including
his mother-in-law's half-sister
Bow-wow! Yap-yap! Devil s
borth and dog-hair Now don t it
make your CUTS growl to think of
that foxy female coming over
here to teach us poor devils how
to eat dog? Wow! Why don t
you bark? I wonder how turnip
greens and dog would go to-
gether, washed down with goat
milk or branch water?
The fool-killer., 1916-10-01
The 'Advice' an Editor Gets.

Say, you folks who are not
editors, you don't have any idea
how often you miss a good chance.
to learn something. An editor, of
course, is supposed to know it alA
to start with, but if there is any
thing he don't happen to know
some wise buddy can purity qnick
tell him.
It's right plum amusing to- me-:
sometimes to sit down and think
over the different kinds Of advice
I get from here, yander and every
where. If I tried to follow it alb
I'd get the toe-nails of nay rea-
son tangled in the whiskers Of my
judgment, turn a double somer-.
sault into the crazy house and not
get out no paper at all.
The fool-killer., 1916-10-01

L
and pianos, your b ,tton holes
and baby-buggies, your cook
stoves and wash-tubs, and keep
your fingers out Of politics. The
men know their business, and
they are running things exactly
to suit me. You women would be
certain to spoil everything if you
got a whack at it. You are too
sentimental-too easy to get ex-
cited. You wouldn't have the
nerve to carry on these big
bloody wars, and the stopping Of
war would nearly ruin me.
And I have noticed that most
women have such fool ideas about
morals and decency. I wouldn't
be afraid to bet a years supply
Of birthstone that if a candidate
for Congress in your district had
betrayed half a dozen poor girls,
robbed the bank, and run away
with the preachers wife you
would be fools enough to vote
against him just for a little thing
like that. Now men are not so
cranky as all that. They don t
care how mean a candidate Isl
he belongs to their party they
vote for him and ask no questions.
IN afraid if you women were al
lowed to vote you would ask too
many embarrassing questions
about the candidates.
[ believe all good honest, re-
spectacle citizens, such as drunk
ards, liars and horse-thieves,
should be allowed to vote; but
such ignorant and dangerous
characters as the wives and
mothers Of men-they should be
kept away from the ballot box at
| all hazards.
Well, dear Women, I'll have to
stop for this time. Maybe I'll
write you again some day. But
want you to be mighty careful
with this letter and not let it get
into the hands of the Fool-killer
man. I wrote a letter to the Un-
employed Of the Earth last spring
and | am told that it was printed
in that confounded Fool-Killer.
I hate that paper, because it is
doing more to injure my business
than a whole stack Of preachers
capped off with Billy Sunday.
Sulphurically yours,
SATAN DEVIL.
The fool-killer., 1916-10-01

of a decent sober man for about
five minutes.
Now, listen, you old booze-bar-
rels, you! IF you are just hell
bent on being a hog anyhow, why
in the name of sense don t you get;
down on your all-fours and pray
God to give you forked hoofs so'
you can be hog right?
The fool-killer., 1916-10-01
MISTER TRAIN CALLER.

Say, honey, was you ever III
the waiting room Of big city
depot? And did you notice the
feller that comes, in every few
minutes and makes a pretense Of
calling the trains?'' TIL. is, he
is supposed to be telling the
crowd what train is getting ready
to start, so they can grab their
bundles and crawl on.
But you might listen all day
and you never could guess what
the old fool was trying to do. The
average person would be apt to,
think he was Mexican greaser
choked Oh dog-liver and trying
to cuss the railroad in the
Chinese language.
There he stands with his BAY
window stuck out like bump
On a tree, and bellers like a bull
calf lost from its NANNY, and If
you had to be hung or under
stand a single word Of that bel
lering, wouldn t give much for
your neck.
could tie a bullfrog to stick
and poke him in at the window,
and he could *'call trains'' a
blamed sight better than some
fellers I've heard try it.
1t seems that the only qualifi-
cation the railroads require in a
train caller" is that he must
have a vol ce like dragging a raw
hide over a tin roof, and if he
should happen to speak a word
so that anybody could understand
1t, he would lose his JOB.
Ii you don't think I'm telling
the truth, you just take notice
the next time you go to a city =.
And If you find train caller in
America that you can understand
one word out of fifty, please send
me his name and a lock Of his hair.
The fool-killer., 1916-10-01
THE DEVILS LETTER.
Hades, Oct. 10, 1916.

apple. Take another one. These
are better than the ones I persuad-
ed your Mother Eve to eat six
thousand years ago. When | pull
ed off that little stunt I thought /
was getting firm grip OH the fair
sex, but somehow the later devel-
opments have been little bit dis
appointing. True, it was through
the agency of woman that [ first
got the ropes on the human race,
but since that time / have seemed
to be more successful with the
men.
I am glad to say that many in
dividual women have served me
faithfully (and when a woman IS
a devil she is a devil all over), but
taken collectively their in4 uence
has been against me rather than
for me.
Have another apple. Oh, I see
you are surprised at my good
manners and generosity. Why,
bless your hearts, it's part Of my
business to be nice to the ladies.
[ have always been able to act
like a perfect gentleman whenev-
er the occasion required. Remem-
Der your Mother Eve. Do you
suppose an ignorant and awk-
ward buffoon could have peddled
apples in Eden and opened the
market for fig-leaves? Not
muchly.
Take another apple. They
won't hurt you. That's the same
lie that [ told to Eve, and she be-
lieved it, all right. But maybe
you think you are smarter than
your Grandma was. That s what s
the matter with you modern wo-
men-you are getting too smart.
Why, I have even heard it report
ed that some Of you are actually
wanting to vote. Great iron
spoons and club-footed night
mares! Think Of it! A woman
wanting to vote! The very
thought of it gives me the ner-
vous jim-jams.
Being a devil ain t no play job,
and [ have learned to stand a
good deal, but this Woman Suf-
frage movement is a little too
much for me. It simply must
have it's tail cut off right behind
it's ears.
What do you women know
about voting? And what do you
want to vote for, anyhow? What
sort of conditions do you want
Amt you got plenty of saloons
and soup-houses, paupers and
prostitutes, bond-holders and beg.
gars? What's the matter with
your supply Of theologians and
thieves, churches and chain
gangs, politicians and poverty
schools and scallawags, money
and misery? Ain t you pretty
well fixed for kings ane
kaisers, slaves and soldiers, war:
and widows? Amt you go'
plenty of rascals in high office ane
honest men in Jail?
Then what in the dickens ar
you-all kicking about? For m,
part, [ am perfectly satisfied will
the way the men have been run
ming the governments Of tn
earth, and I wouldn t have then
changed for anything. I will b
much obliged to you ladies if yo1
The fool-killer., 1916-10-01

Pray for peace, but vote for the
parties that uphold war. You II
be certain to accomplish wonders
at that sort Of a game.
The fool-killer., 1916-10-01
A SERMON ON BOOZE.

artist, and all you fellows who
whoop it up for Old Mr.. Booze.
Double up your hind leg and sit
down on it and listen to your
Uncle preach a few toots. Boys,
I can preach against likker and do
it with a clear conscience, because
[ practice what | preach. [ am 81
years old and getting older every
day, and l can truthfully say that
not one drop Of your internal red
eye has ever had the privilege OF
gurgling down my dumplin-path.
I don't have any idea how the
nasty stuff tastes, and if it's tastes
half as bad as it makes some Of
you fellows act, I certainly have
no desire to taste it. Some Of you
say it tastes good. Well, if it
tasted ten thousand times better
than honey and sugar and pound
cake and candy and kisses, Ell be
dad-swatted if I'd make an in
fernal nasty wallerin' wild beast
Of myself for the sake Of any dog
gon taste. If the opening chap
ters Of a jag are so sweet and soul
satisfying in the matter Of taste,
how about that taste that comes
waddlin' along toward the shank
end Of the high lonesome I have
seen 'em come staggering home
the morning after with breath
that would run a hungry dog off
Of a gut wagon and a mouth that
must have tasted like a buzzard-
roost in hot weather. And yet
just as soon as they get over the
effect Of one bender they go right
back and tank up again-willing
to repeat the whole beastly per-
formance over and over and over
just for the sake Of a taste. Don I
that jar your grand-mammy s
pickles? But, oh, some red-snout-
ed guzzler jumps up and says he
don't like the taste Of the stuff
but he likes the effect-it makes
him feel good. Well, buddy, il
must make you feel thundera
ton sight better than it makes
you look. For the sake Of dee
ency, if I were in your place, I'd
be willing to whack off a few
joints Of my good feelings an6
tack it onto my looks. Thai
would sorter even things up ane
make you more respectable.
Why, hang-take it, fellers, if
should ever be guilty Of pouring
my Caucasian hide full Of rot-gu
likker and cutting such shines a.
| I've seen some Of your gang GU
I'd be ashamed to look sheep
, killing dog in the face any more
[ honestly would. But the booze
: artist he feel ashamed? No
on your auburn whiskers, Jeem
Henry. If he ever had any sens
of shame it has been consumed il
the liquid fire that filters dow
) his goozle. He can wallow in tn
gutter for whole week, an,
then spruce up on Sunday and g
to church and be the biggest due
in the puddle. He can drive alon
the road with his honey-gal an
, show her his full length photo
= graph in the mud and never blush
[ have actually heard fellow
brag about being drunk, and the
seemed to think it was somethin
e to be proud of. Lord have mere
I or, III nin ,onon ro;connhlo ,,.4o.c
The fool-killer., 1916-10-01

Comrades, I am one Of the
workers, and proud of it. I am a
poor man, and my income from
The Fool-Killer is my only chance
OF getting rich. And that's about
like a ducks chance of becoming
a steamboat. So don't be afraid
OF sending in the subs. You can't
spoil ME.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-15

EUcrD Saturday aud here and there
through the tCeeE the EVENING LgpqERs
movie ian dboiH the personalities behind
TIE nrphborhood theatres ard the Aims
programs Of the coming tpeek see the Pho
topidp Chart IN MONDAYS EVENING LEpuER.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-15

One Of the funniest bits Of work in the
comedy Excuse Me-" which will be at
the Grand on Thursday, Is when the min
lister reverses his collar and performs a
marriage after having been mistaken for
a drummer.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-15
Movies AS a Help to the
Stage Actor
BY ROBERT WARWICK
BY ROBERT

I believe that acting for the movies
under good director Is a good thing
for n player one Is apt to practice a
redundancy of gesture on the stage and
the movies correct that There Is not
the voice to fall back on when one is
acting for the screen Gesture and facial
expression must indicate every emotion /:
facial expression alone without a move
ment of the rest of the body. and the
ability to do this is an asset on the stage.
Then acting before the camera gives
the player poise. The space is so much
more restricted than on the stage that
in scenes particularly indoor scenes,
where there are several persons there
must he a minimum of action or the
entire scene would be spoiled. In the
same scene on the stage with it's larger
area, the characters might move about
without spelling it. Thus the camera
gives poise.
There Ia no reason why an actor
should neglect his voice just because he
doesn't happen to be using It on the
stage. All the time | have been in the
movies l have kept up the care of my
voice Every day | read aloud When
[ read the paper in the morning, for in
stance, | read aloud giving as careful at
tention to each word as II 1 were ap-
pearing before an audience. In this way
the voice may be kept in shape.
OF course, If he should fall under
poor director, and there are plenty OF
them, untold injury might be done his
art. That is the principal trouble with
pctures-the scarcity of good directors
and of good scenarios. Fortunately
had good directors and 1 think that
am n better actor than l was before
went in for the movie thing.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-15

AMERICA N--"The House Next Door"
The Arvina Players. with Virginia Hen.
ninES aud George Arvine. in this mod
ern play.
CONTINUING PLAYS.
BROAD--"Thc Wooing OF Eve" with
Laurette Taylor and Phillip Mervale.
A comedy by j. Hartley Manners, Of an
American girl VINO starts to .untangle
n household miN-up of an English rela.
tive, Mr.. Manners wrote Peg o. My
Heart
LYRIC--"AIcme Mt Last" with Roy At.
well, Harry COuor, Lefty NorEc and
John Charles Thomas. An operetta,
with tho book ada ted by Smith and
Herbert; music by Franz Lahar, An
ambitious NirrUcse Importation of the
'"Merry Widow" school
QARRICK-.'It Paya to Advertise" with
Louise Drew. Giant Mitchell and Ben
Nopnson. \ novel farce with much fun
in H.
PROTOPLdYS.
ETANLEY--AIonday. tuesday and We'd
mes lay. Molly Make Believe" with
Malg r~"i'a Glars TGuraday. Friday and
1lturday. "rEe Hsd widow with John
Barrymore
BIA--Monday Tuesday and We'd
nesda" - ArtaEuan' with Orr!n John
son, thursday. Friday and saturday
1.-The Stepping stone with Frank
Keenum and Mary ii"!aad
SlLACE-M,uGay. Tuesday and wednes
day, "Audrty," with paUliGa Frederick.
Thursday. Friday and Saturday, 'rhe
Heart of Paula with Lenorc uirich.
EICTORIA-Monday and Tuesday,
WAITS" with Jane Grey and William
Desmond Wednesday and Thursday
''rhe Habit of Happiness" with Doug
las Fairbanks. Friday and Saturday,
1.-THE Million-Dollar Bride" with
Hamilton Revelle. Added attraction all
week. Charles Chaplin IN his burlesque
on Carmen"
VAUDEVILLE.
TH'S-Mary Shaw in THE DiclSey
Bird" Amelia Stone and Armand Ka-
lisz in Ma 'mzelle Caprice; Belle Ba-
lSer, vocalist: Husey and Boyle. come
dians; Tameo Kajiyama, Howard's Ami
nal Spectacle, Corbette, Shepard and
Donovan, vocalsts; Newbold and Crib
bin, Rice, Elmer and Tom, gymnasts.
kNsAND-Grubers Trained Animals. Inez
McCauley and company in THE Girl
From Childs -; rhurber and Madison,
Ryan and Riggs, in Disturbing the
Peace; Harry lie Clair Misses Rofers
and Wood.
&LOBE-"The Maid and the Mummy"
NNat Nazano and company, gymnasts;
Willie Zimmerman. Elwood and Snow,
the Four Harmonsts Ripley and COM
pany,. Winkel and Dean, Baby Ann,
Hartley and Pecan.
GRoSS REYS-First half of week. Klut-
ings Trained Animals. Bessie lie
Count Claude Vaux and company.
Holden and Graham, Pratt and Pratt,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-15

in the motion picture of today that as
sures its permanency. There was time,
a few years so, when the man who pro-
vided for his family by working 8 or 10
hours n day, at a not eXorbtant wage,
found the problem of paying for clean
amusement a difficult one to solve. Today
the ample supply Of picture theatres, with
admissions ranging from cents up, an
swers the amusement question very salts
factorily. After a hard days work the
head of the family is enabled to take his
wife and children to a comfortable the
atre, where. for small amount. they
enjoy well-constructed dramas uproarious
comedies and current news pictures ampli-
fled by good music
II is the news picture that has developed
into one of the most valuable educational
mediums of modern times. A very few
years ago we depended entirely upon news.
paper accounts of the happenings in for
eign countries, frequently garbled, and
sometimes purposely distorted and Illus
trated at best, with reproductions of still
photographs. Today we see the actual
happening portrayed upon the screen al
most as distinctly as the event itself
We see the European armies marching
to the front. battleships being launched
generals and rulers in interesting mo-
mentS, and thousand and one other hap
penings that bring foreign lands to our
very doors. That is one angle OF the
educational value of motion pictures.
Another, and perhaps more vitality i'm
pOrtant department or screen education
is that used by private institutions. In
schools and churches the motion picture
machine has become s5 permanent and
necessary as the library, not replacing IL,
but acting as a valuable auxiliary. In
commercial and manufacturing lines the
use of motion pictures in conjunction with
the efficiency movement that has done so
much 10 further the welfare of modern
business has been of inestmable value
The new processes of manufactures: a new
method of salesmanship. and kindred de
tails, may be shown to a multitude OF men
and women by the use of few hundred
feet OF film, educating them along some
particular line which formerly would have
required a volume of exhaustive eXplana.
tions and many weary hours of study.
The most successful shops, factories and
wholesale and retail stores OF today find
that this method of bringing the latest
and best methods 10 the attention of their
employees are of mutual benefit to EN-
ployer and employe alike.
In many ways the moving picture re-
places the library IN families where books
might be a luxury. In some instances II
would be impossible for the poor man to
possess many books. Today the family
visits the motion picture theatre where.
for a few cents, they see the greatest
works of fiction produced upon the screen
by the best actors, with appropriate
scenery-and 1t is real scenery. not the
water-colored canvas OF the old speaking
stage,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-15

The Broadway will show Gold ana
the Woman" on Tuesday. Mary MuriiIo.
who wrote the scenario. makes crazy quilts
as diversion She declares that sewing
is the most restful form of diversion for
the woman who works with her brain,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-15

OF the many productions which win be
at the Garden next week alexander
Dumas oDenise" on Wednesday and Be-
hind the Firing Lines OF the European
War" are noteworthy.
Marguerite Clark's contract with the
Famous Players Paramount expires May
is, and this little star has already sieni-
fed her willingness to renew II for an
other year. "Out Of the Drifts" in which
she appears, will be at the Bluebird on
Saturday.
One Of the funniest bits Of work in the
comedy Excuse Me-" which will be at
the Grand on Thursday, Is when the min
lister reverses his collar and performs a
marriage after having been mistaken for
a drummer.
The Masterpiece Film Attractions an
nounce the opening Of their office in this
city at 1925 Vine street Associated in
this enterprise is Sol Lesser, the young
film magnate who purchased the United
States right for THE Neer Do Well.' and
Leon D. Meter. connected with him IN
most of his other enterprises.
william Farnum, who has thousands
Of admirers, was the boy cornetist of
BucRport, Me. Unquestionably cornet
playing can be ranked as one of the
vices; a quite common one, In fact. He
is in THE Bondman"' at the Jefferson on
Tuesday.
Prominent In the support of Fannie
Ward, the Lasky star, who will be seen at
the Germantown on Friday and SATURDAY.
In For the Defense" are such well-known
artists as Jack Dean. Horace q. Carpenter.
Camille Astor, James NeilI Gertrude
Kellar and others. For the Defense" n
Paramount picture, was written especially
for Miss Ward by Hector Turnbull ana
staged under the direction Of Frank
Reicher.
Willard Louis, who wields n 4A-calfbrs
revolver as Big Bill In the William Fox
production, Fighting Blood" is an EXPERT
rifle and revolver shot. Eureka patrons
will see this cannon on Friday.
The Broadway will show Gold ana
the Woman on Tuesday Mary MuriIIo.
who wrote the scenario makes crazy quilts
as diversion. She declares that sewing
is the most restful form of diversion for
the woman who works with her brain.
Charlotte Walkers next Paramount pro.
duction for the Lasky Company will be
under the direction Of Frank Reicher in
The Woman and the Law" from the
pen of Hector Turnbull. 'The Trail OF
the Lonesome Pine" her last play will be
at the Park on TuesdaxsN
Jack barrymore %ill mot admit that
there/is any trutHin tE rumor that he
speD weeks prgeticiDk dueiing with
sw1rd before thqftaEJfg of the sword-play
scenes inLNearftssf King" coming to the
YairmoYf on Thursday But those who
RcsJ>ehe comedian the scenes are
lhcfihdd to doubt th9ftruth of the state
/~ .sssssS''
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-04-15
Musical Glasses

SUNDAY, APRIL 10
Concert by pupils of Settlement Music
School.
MONDAY, APRIL ~
Concert by the Philadelphia Orchestra with
Mlscha Eiman, violinlst soloist at the
Academy of Music for the new pension fund
of the orchestra.
TUESDAY. APRIL rs
Hahn Quartet in recital at witherspoon Hall.
TUESDAY. APRIL 2J
Joint piano recital by Osslp GabriowItsch
and Harold Bauer at the Academy OF Music.
Choral Union will sing THE Cross of Fire"
cantata. at the Metropolitan Opera House.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20
a line van Barent2in In recital at wItherspoon
Hall.
FRIDAY, APRIL as
John Mccormack In recital at the Metro.
poltan Opera House.
The Treble Clef concert at wltherspoon Hail.
The Philadelphia operate Society will pre-
sent Robin Hood on May II and II, at the
Metropolitan Opera House.