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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-10
Railroads AMI Steamboats,
MAINE CENTRAL R. R.
TRAINS LEAVE AUGUSTA:
In Effect June Is, 1917.

TRAINS LEAVE AUGUSTA:
TE|yT51 zsTs;l GOING WEST-3.I0 A. NJ,
E S Cod 5S TIA $as5 Rss's e
C@SA A. NJ, Brunswick, Bath,
Lewiston. PORTLAND, Boston; $3.50 T. M.
HaIlowel, Gardner and So. Gardiner; 800
z. NJ local; 4.05 2. NJ, (eXpress) BrunS-
wick, Rockland, Portland. Boston; 5,lo +.
M. Hallowell Gardiner and So. Gardiner;
6.2S =. Nj, local to Portland, connects
there for New York and Washington,
10 40 p. NJ, Lewiston, Bath. Portland,
boston Sundays 800 and 1872 A; NJ e.lz
New York; and 1910 7. NJ. Portland anu
Boston. 1880, c.
John, Halifax, Aroostoo< Co.. Sunday
morning at ia A. NJ, does not connect
beyond Bangor: 327 4. NJ, for Watervl,ie'
Bangor, Bar Harbor, Calais; $50 A NJ
local to Moosehead Lake (via Oakiand)'
Belfast, Foxcroft ard Bangor; $50 A. M,
local to Belfast, Bangor and SkoWhegani
70 10 noon Waterville, Bangor Is. q A. n;
n, Bar Harbor, Calais, st. John ana
Halifax; 245 ?. NJ, express to Watervlile'
thence local to Bangor and MattaWam-
keag; 20 P. NJ, Waterville, SkoWhesan
and Bangor. Sundays 3ZI A NJ. AS 90
Waterville, Bangor and Bar tarpcr; 80
A. NJ. 2.53 P. M, for Water'iAie' oho"ne
gan and Bangor ,u
Trains .eave Augusta for HaidoWed IL
Gardiner and South Gardiner at 62o s5s
A. NJ, 1855, 3.o7, SIS. 6.2s, 1o,4. ?. n Hal
lowell and Gardiner only 405 P. NJ. Gar
diner lily 800 A. NJ. daily.
NJ. l.. HARRIS, Cenl Passenger Agt.
d. C. Dou glass. Gen'l Mgr. Port and Me-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-10
Light and Airy
His Supreme Gift


He bought her a peck of potatoes,
A necklace Of dried lima beans.
A cheese and a can of tomatoes
Fie was Of unlimited means!
And gossip had gaping related
He bought her some meat and some
eggs!
At nothing his love hesitated,
For gold he mad picked in kegs!
But her heart. it was stony, and GOODNESS
Pervaded her figure sublime,
She scorned all his boons as b1ameful-
ness,
Her tone was as acid as lime;
And he wore himself down to a FRAGILE
A-trying to plan some surprise
Some gift whose effulgence would dazzle
And light UP her cold steely eyes.
But at last was his patience rewarded,
Tho he took most dangerous chance,
For the safe at the place where he board
ed
He looted to win one sweet glance;
He was breathless-his heart was a-nut-
ter
AS he opened the casket Of gold
Which enclosed his rare gift-'twas some
butter!
Her heart? Ne'er again was It cold.
washington Herald.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-10

Commenting on the remark of the
Boston Herald, to the effect that coal
dealers are on firm ground when they
protest that the difference between
what they pay for coal and what they
get from the consumer is not all mar
gin and profit" the Kennebec Journal
asks:
How far does that 24o pounds on every
ton which the consumer does not get and
the dealer does. go toward covering
overhead expenses?
Well, with coal retailing at $3.50 a
ton. the dealer is getting AZ cents for
every ten pounds. At that rate the 240
pounds difference between the long ton
which he buys and the short ton he
sells represents a MOTTO be sneeZed-
at profit of s1.14. That should cover
part of the 'overhead.' if the bust
ness is being conducted under modern
efficiency methods.-Biddeford Jour-
nal
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-10
COMING EVENTS
Sept. S-l5-British recruiting week ir

Sept. -s-l5-British recruiting week In
Portland.
Sept lo-special election of constitu-
tional amendments relating to woman
suffrage, removal of sheriffs, voting dis
trict division. military law and apportion-
ment of representatives.
Sept Ill. of NJ. farm demonstration,
Limerick.
Sept. 11-Supreme Court, Franklin coun-
ty. civil and criminal term, Pennington
sept ll-Supreme court Knox county.
civil and criminal terms, Rockland.
Sept. 11-Annual meetings OF Portland q,
Rumford Falls Railway, Rumford Falls
& Rangeley Lakes Railroad Co, and
Portland & Rumford Falls Railroad at
Portland.
Sept. n-12-Maine Association Of County
land.
Sept. Wentworth family reunion,
Lincolnville.
Sept. Ex-Governor and Council meeting
for pardon hearings, Augusta.
Sept. 12-U. o. G. c. field day. Peaks
Island.
Sept. 12-U. of NJ. farm demonstration
Cornish.
Sept: 12-13-Maine State Board of Trade
annual convention. Houlton
Berwick.
Sept. H-Public Utilities Commission
nearing on petition Of approval of loca-
ton of branch railroad track in Pnr+isnd
at H. County Court House. Portland,
Sept. lR-Washington County teachers,
convention, Eastport.
Sept. H-U. of NJ. farm demonstration.
Eliot. "'io'i'
Sept. 15-U. Of NJ. farm demonstrate,
Newfield 'ion'
Sept. 17-1s-Maine woman.s suero1.
ASSOCIATION annual convention, Augusta.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-10
Editors Letter Box
The East and West

Editor Kennebec journal:
There have been two very general
misapprehensions in the course of the
woman's suffrage campaign, both of
which have, perhaps naturally. been
shared by your cartoonist. One, con-
corning the balance of power" be
tween East and West, is that the cleo
toral vote is based on the number of
voters. 1t is based on population, not
voters. The other is, that vice and
liquor interests are afraid of women
with the ballot. Before the expert
ment was tried, they may have been.
They are no longer, the very general
condition in western states being, sa-
looms open and vice Haunting, showing
woman's suffrage powerless to sub
stantiate it's claims for reform and
better government. Here let me call
attention to the fact that while the
secretary of state of Colorado COM
mends. in a letter to Mrs. Livingston,
the conditions in that state. the en-
tire Colorado Legislature, when asked
to commend the Susan r. Anthony
amendment, voted as body against
it, not willing to force upon the 9TH
er states of the country what they
themselves had endured for 20 years.
Vote No!
ANTI SUFFRAGIST.
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Editorial Comment
Wars Casualties
(BiddefOrd Journal

The valedictory written on the faces, II
if not the lips, of those who are seeing
their troops off that they will probably
never come back" if not merely unneces-
sarily depressing, it is demonstrably
false. The chances are at least 10 to !
that they will come back.-Syracuse Post
Standard.
Along this line, lions Herald says
there is something exceedingly timely
and reassuring in the statement just
issued by Roger Babson, the noted sta
tistician, who declares that IA out of
every Is men who go to the war will re-
turn home. Taking the figures of the
French army covering the first three
years of the war as the basis of his cal
culations, Mr.. Babson proves that con-
scription for military service is by no
means equivalent to a death warrant. De-
A1rng that less than one man in 30 is
killed in war under modern conditions,
Mr.. Babson says:
This seems fully enough, but the moth
er at home should remember that IL men
out of every thousand, at the army age,
die each year during peace time; that is,
one man out of So dies each year in civil
life. Figuring deaths from disease and
wounds, under conditions such as our
boys are likely to encounter any young
man is only about three times as likely to
meet death in the army as at home. In
fact, man in the heavy artillery is in
no more danger of death than Is an en-
ploye OF a railroad.
Touching upon the idea that the soldier
at the front Is exposing his life every
Babson says that such is far from the
case, and continues:
"A mans turn to charge cones once or
twice month. Then. of course, he is in
grave danger But at other times, he is
In no more danger of death than he is
when walking about the streets of New
York City.
Commenting on Mr. Babson's statement
and figures, the Herald points out that
sanitary conditions In modern war are
such that disease Is taking no greater toll
than in peace times; that only one man
in five hundred loses limb, danger no
greater than in hazardous occupations
at home, and concludes
While it is impossible to throw any
favorable light whatever upon war. which
is always hideous and terrible these de-
auctions by a reliable specialist. based
upon accurate figures of three years Of
war, cannot but be reassuring to the anx-
ious ones at home who will have loved
ones at the front.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-10

The Washington correspondent OF
Josephus Daniels paper. the Releish,
y C.. News and Observer, says that
Ambitious North Carolina young men
and women Go not realize that this is
the greatest opportunity they ever had
to get good positions under the civil
service. There is great demand for
stenographers, typewriters and others
who can work in the government de-
partments. . Many young women
who are now earning but $50 or $40 can
get $50 to SIS per month" He also
says that practically all those who
passed the examinations, except .he
most recent, have been offered en-
ployment at salaries Of from $500 to
1920. All this information, which
comes from man in position to
know. will be of interest to people in
states other than North Carolina.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-10
Monday, September 10, 1917


Congress is today considering a propo-
eition 20 tax incomes 81 per cent and eX-
cess profits - per cent.
The danger in this. SO Suddenly i'm
posed. II so IL be is that'lt may discour-
age business. and render IL helpless to
accomplish what is desired of it.-Lewis-
ton Journal
Tn qualification so suddenly i'm
posed" should be considered and, for
the present, save wealth from its share
Of wars burdens. But CONSUMPTION
has given the people of this country a
lesson that never will be forgotten.
For the people have been aroused to
inquire: What manner of government
is this that takes the bodies of bread
winners Gin Thousands of cases to the
mental misery and physical suffering
Of the family letD. does with them as
1t will az its own arbitrary price, and
yet cannot touch the profits coined
from the bodies Of those men because
of property's rights'?"
The PEOPLE" the great and over
whelming masses who are learning to
THINK and to ANALYZE. are say
Ing: "if business sulks because a man
OF capital cannot earn with it the
shaU say to him every unit of dollars
that can earn as much as soldier
must take a soldiers place. as the rest
Of US are doing-dollars shall be con-
scripted as mems bodies are con-
.cripted. and dollars shall do their
thsre in the trenches.
Who shall fix the fair profits" on
the soldiers earnings for the country?
Where does the soldiers war pro-
fits" come in?
The soldier cannot sulk in his tent
and refuse 10 produce for the country
because his returns do not grant him
the Injuries of peace times
The soldiers encouragement" be-
cause war profits" for himself and
family are not as large as his greed
tas pictured. is not recognized by the
government. or the rest of us who
mako the government.
How long. then shall we permit
business to draw down its face and
proclaim that 1t is discouraged" and
will work no more?
We shall live to thank God for con-
Scription. for it is bound to be the
nations greatest eye-opener in a CEN
Jury.
When business refuses to work its
money we shall some day (not sud
5enly) impose" continuous tax draft
Upon those suking dollars until their
owner goes to work for wages with the
lest OF us.
There are no excess profits" for the
,wo million men whom we propose TO
arbitrarily handle in our war service,
lor arc there excess profits" for the
Zen millions OF people represented in
he immediate families OF those men.
Shall those millions stop production
eor the other millions of us because
,hey are "discouraged"?
We say. Thank God for conscrip-
.ion!"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-10
Steamer islander

Leaves Augusta everyday at 1O5 A n.
HaiIower Con signaD, 7.13; Gardiner, 7o;
South Gardiner ION signaD. $50; Cedar
Grove, sos; Richmond. $40; Bath 9'io'
Arrives Boothbay Harbor about ll.5o'
Return, leaves Boothbay Harhor every
day at 100 P NJ. Bath BIS stops at
Richmond, Cedar Grove and South Gardi-
ner on signal Gardiner; Halloween on
signal Arrives at Augusta ABOUT
O. clock P Walter NJ. Sa- born. Angus
ia: Fran. s. Wingate, HalloweH; w. L.
Tozier, Gardiner; Agents.
nnaNl6dtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-10

Come again brother. We admit we are
fooled BY your camouhage. We get your
political slant all right, but you'll have
to explain what the business affairs of
the Sentinel /and its attitude on woman
suffrage have to do with the relation of
Senator Fernald to the Gamers before we
get the drift of your main argument
Waterville Sentinel.
Speaking for the owners, does the
and free Interpretation of the connec-
ton between the Sentinel's childish at
tacks on Senator Fernald and the "po-
litical slant" of that newspaper?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-10
The Golden Rod Shines on the Hill

The Golden Rod Shines on the Hills
elizabeth Powers MerrilL)
You are going across the sea, my boy,
The soul Of me cries goodbye!
Your country has called and her bugles
blow
challenge to live or die
There Is but One battle to fight, my boy,
That battle Is for the Right,
Wherever you are--in whatever land,
o be not afraid to fight.
The golden rod shines on the hills, my
boy,
Shines on the earth's dying breast.
The birds are flying away to the South.
Leaving the treetop and nest.
The shadows draw earlier to the East.
And the nights foretell the frost
The life of the spring must die in the
To death. life must pay the cost
In the old home there Is sorrow, my boy,
The time of parting has come
In the spot where you laid your curly
Lo-blare of trumpet and drum!
Just yesterday you we're little boy.
Now you are grown to man, :
! reckon the years that have come to
Such a Few-of life's long span.
The scenes you have loved and the
friends you know
Are bidding their long FAREWELL
The trees and the river, and hills and sky,
Are trying their love to tell.
Each spot and nook Of the homestead. my
boy.
In your heart Is stored away;
And whether you Stay-or whether Re-
turn
Yours they are, to keep for aye!
The golden rod shines on the hills, my
boy,
The days Of the fall will come
The harvests are ripening fast, my boy,
Hark-there's the throb of a drum
0 the Mothers of earth hate War, my
boy,
And yet-theres wrong to right,
You can die but Once! like a soldier live.
Yea. more. like a soldier fight!
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-10
China q Factor in Peace Terms

SH''a dCtOT III TcaCe eT61S
Many people passed up with a smile
she announcement that China had de-
elared war upon Germany. On the
surface, IL is an insignificant incident
with no material bearing upon the
prosecution or termination Of the war.
China will confiscate a few million
dollars Of German property but Will
probably not otherwise take any part
n the conflict Yet her entrance INTO
The war may have utmost significance.
japan has been trying to exert a
larger influence in Chineses affairs,
and has coveted Chinese trade. terri
tory and concessions. She has wanted
free hand in China and wants the
approval of the United States 10 such
A policy. So long as Japan was an
ally Of the United States. and China
was neutral, there was some basis for
Japaneses hope that this could be ac-
complished and that when the making
Of peace should be undertaken, Jap
ans desires would be respected with
little regard for the interests of China
Under such circumstances, il might be
dificult for the United States to op-
pose the demands OF Japan. But with
China participant in the war and the
occupant Of a chair at the table where
,he peace terms will be agreed Upon,
che situation will be different.
So far as the prosecution of the war
Is concerned. IL is not likely that
Germany will feel the weight OF
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-10
Had Experienee

A1lecturer was touring the country
giving travel talks to school children
on the interests and industries of their
country. Now, children" said he,
pleasantly, in leading up to his subject
Il wonder how many Of you have ever
seen a cane brake?" Silence.
What, no one? All, there's a little
fellow. way back there. My boy, have
you seen canebrake2'
ell, | didn't 'zactly see it. But 1 was
right under one once't when it did"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-10
Ballots for Both
Pine Tree State
A Test Of Democracy


The equal suffrage issue is before the
voters of Maine today and the women Oh
Maine are asking the voters to cast their
votes solely upon the merits OF the ques-
ton itself, not confusing it with other
issues and not permitting false state
ments by persons who for various rea-
sons would retard the coming of suffrage
to Maine, to bias or control their opinion
The vote Is a test Of democracy. III
you believe in democracy you believe IN
woman suffrage, argue the suffragists.
There can be no doubt that the women
Of Maine are entitled to participation in
the government under which they Hva
and to which they contribute their time
and taxes. Equal suffrage Is the next
step In democracy. If so. they will take
this progressive step and roll up ma
jority for equal suffrage today.
Every voter, as he goes to the polls
should remember that the men in the
equal suffrage states have the majority
vote and could undo suffrage at any time
Woman suffrage has never been repealed
and surely some state would have had
the good sense to abandon 1t If it had not
worked out successfully.
Here are some facts for the voter to re-
member:
Maine women do want the ballot-a big
ma jority have said so.
That the women of Maine should have
something more than the advisory capac-
ity in municipal governments.
That Maine women are just as intelli-
gent and are just as good citizens as the
~ he bot
full suffrage.
Under the present laws of Maine women
cannot pay poll tax.
That suffrage will NOT increase taxes
That the rights of full citizenship will
NOT injure the home. but rather give it
more power to protect itself. That it is
the women Of Maine who are asking for
the ballot-the women who have done
their share in the upbuilding of the State
Equal suffrage workers of this city
take exception to the statement made
by Attorney Leroy L.. Hight in his
letter published in the Kennebec
Journal of Saturday as to the num-
Der of women in the city favoring suf-
frage.
They emphatically state that the
declaration that in ward Z only 107
women are in favor of suffrage is not
SO. Mrs. S. HI. Boardman, who made
a canvass of that ward. sent in 172
names of those in favor and con-
siderable number more were secured
after that, including between 40 and
so from Mrs. G. A. Ellingwood.
It is suggested that possibly the
figures given by Mr.. Hight may be
based upon the telephone canvass
made in the interests of anti suffrage
propaganda in which people who We're
unwilling to discuss the question over
the telephone with inquirers who re-
fused to give their names and said
that they were indifferent were placed
upon the lists of the anti suffrage
workers. AS matter of fact con-
siderable number of these afterwards
placed their names upon suffrage pc
titions.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-10
North Jaw Cranoe

The North Jay Grange held It's reg
ular meeting In Grange hail. Saturday
evening, Sept. I, with the following
program: Paper, How to guard against
disease. May Crafts: reading. Miss
Marion Reyes; music, reading. Loreda
Adams. A good number were out.
There will be meeting next Satur-
day evening. The grange decided not
to have any field day this year for
various reasons.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-10
Diseoncertina

DO you dictate your speeches to q
stenographer
No. replied Senator Sorghum
When l talk I am so accustomed to
demonstrations Of approval that the
absence Of applause disconcerts me-
Washington Star.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-10

Sept. n-1s-oxford County fair, South
Paris. S'u'h
Sept ll-li-Central Maine fair, Water.
Oct. 2-I.itchfield fair. ---
oct. 3-4-kennebec County Agriculture,
Society Fair. Readheld.
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Naturally

school recently. a visitor spoke on the
moral development OF children. There
is a boy here" he said. and a girl
there. What, will they become when
they grow up?" In a loud whisper
one Of the scholars, turning to his
teacher. supplied an answer.-"Sweet-
hearts,"
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Bankruptcy Proceedings

Miss Florence E. LAYERS. a milliner
of Portland, has filed petition as a
voluntary bankrupt, with the clerk of
the L. S. district court. Her debts,
listed at s1726. consist principally of
notes. Her assets listed at $1,000 con-
sfst of an insurance policy. Attorney
J. E. Fasan renresents the petitioner.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-10
Maine Gossip
William Dewitt Hyde

Charles Pool Cleaves in Congrega-
tionalist.
Some men have so illumned the name Of
That we are 10th to part with it. Or
dained,
Not crowned; for people, not for thrones;
by life.
Not heritage; of God, not men. Through
Long years-no single hour-of mastering
Selfhood in service, state in self, they
gained
kingship. They signalized the word
Their strife
Begins where others end-within. They
know,
First. the dominion of the soul: then
fling
Aside dull dukedoms where thew might
have reigned
And to a purpose consecrate a life
Vigorous and daring. till their kingdoms
In men, their standards Frightening the
, Themselves called, Higher He was
one of these.
The Richmond Bee gets to the inside
! of the story of the finding of a human
skeleton in the old Southland shipyard
at Richmond in the following concise
statement:
While playing in the sand at the old
Southland shipyard. where workmen
were engaged preparing to install the
electric light plant for the E. S. Gross
by Navigation Co., who are soon to
build ships there. Master Earl Dow
discovered the remains of a human
skeleton
More than four score years ago, it
is said that the body of Nathaniel Nc
! Lellan, who was drowned while walk
ING on the ice in the winter time from
Bowdoinham. was buried there, and
no doubt later. the bodies of other
residents who died in that vicinity
were buried on that point of land. for
older residents have informed the Bee
when the late T. j. Southland went
there to build ships in the early fifties,
several bodies were removed to an
| other place Of burial. No doubt the
above was one that was overlooked at
that time.
! Prof Carl NJ. Anderson Of Passa-
dumkeag, who has something Of q rep
utation as a 'prognosticator, and who
has scored some hits in predicting fu-
ture events. says that it will be very
mild winter and that the summer Of
1918 will be hot and dry. He says that
the war will end with a great artillery
battle in 1918, which will last a week
and the sun will be obscured.
The great world war will end in
about six months. according to the
prophecy Of Uncle Add" Bracket of
New Harbor. who bases his claims and
beliefs on passages in the Bible. The
Scripture" declares Mr.. Bracket.
says that the world shall be at war
and that the struggle shall continue