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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-11-14
NOSE CLOGGED FROM
A COLD OR CATARRH
Apply Cream in Nostrils To
Open Up Air Passages.

All. What relief. Your clogged
nostrils open right up. the air pas
sages of your head are clear and you
can breathe freely. No more hawk
ing. snuffiing. mucous discharge.
headache. dryness-no struggling for
breath at night, your cold or catarrh
is gone.
Don't stay stuffed up. Get small
bottle Of Ely's Cream Balm from your
druggist now. Apply little OF this
fragrant, antiseptic cream in your
nostrils. let i. it penetrate through
every air passage Of the head: soothe
and heal the swollen, iniamed mu-
cous membrane, giving you instant
relief. Ely's Cream Balm is just what
every cold ard catarrh sufferer has
been seeking. It's just Splendid
ADV.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-11-14
OUR BOYS
OUR COUNTRY'S SERVICE

Letters from Private Ray o. Dick
inson and Amos P. Dickinson to their
mother, Mrs. S. o. Dickinson at Nor
ridgewock:
Somewhere in France.
Sept. 10th, 1918.
Dear Mother:-Received your very
welcome letter. Glad yo1 are ali we'll.
am well and having a pretty good
time. Glad you got the allotment and
hope it will help you lots, as I am
sure it will. So brother Ray is in
France. Hope l will meet him soon.
Am glad you have a good garden and
plenty Of vegetables. Would like to
be there to help you eat them. Can't
this fall, but may be next, if God Is
willing. We have lots to cat here but
would like some Of your biscuits and
milk again and 1 have ali the money
need and some to spare. l know a
little French but can't talk it very
we'll Hope Papa and Lee are getting
9. good crop Of grain and potatoes.
Write as often as possible and I will
do the same.
With love to all. from your loving
son. AMOS p. DICKINSON.
Battery A, 51st c. A. c., A. e. F. via
New York
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-11-14
How Old Are You
BY Your Hair?

You may be thirty in years, but IL yoa
are baldheaded. gray. or your hair is
dry. brittle. scragsly and ugly-lookias.
people viii surely take you to be many
years older
When your hair becomes faded. dry.
streaked and scrassiy. when it falls oat
badly and new hair cannot grow. the
roots should be Immediately vita:izcd
as1d properly nourished. To do this QUICK
ly. safely and at little expense. there is
nothing 80 effective as Partisan sage
liquid form). which you can get at all
good drug and toilet counters.
It's guaranteed to abolish dandrun-
stop scalp itch and falling hair and pro-
mote new growth or money refunded.
Its In great demand by discriminating
women because IL makes the hair SO soft.
lustfouS. easy to arrange attractivclJ
and appear heavier than 1t really Is.
A massage with Parisiap sage Is q
real delight-easy to use. not sticky CT
greasy, and delicately perfumed--an an
tiseptic liquid free from dangerous Va
Eredients and guaranteed not to color
the hair or scalp. II you want sool
looking hair and plenty of 1t by all
means use Partisan saga little atten-
ton now inSures beautiful hair for
years to coma.-Adv.. nov1l-1S-1
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-11-14

Mrs. Sadie Chambers Of 15t Ban
gor street. Augusta has recently re-
ceived the following from her son.
Sergeant Thomas Cham bers. mem
Der of Company B. 1o3rd Infantry.
In France, Oct. 20, 1913.
Dear Mother:
Just few lines to let you know
that I am we'll and hope this letter
will find you the same. Well, Mo-
Their. the way things looks now l
wouldn't be surprised if We had peace
inside of a couple months. We have
driven the Boche pretty near out or
France and they are still going. The
people in Germany are crying Tor
peace and pretty quick somebody Will
be getting the Kaiser and then 1t Will
he all over so be sure ard cook up
big feed for New Years. | think |
m going to be there to eat it Don't
forget 10 have lots Of pie.
have been sick with the grippe
for a couple weeks and am in the hos
pital now. lam all well now and wait
ing to be shipped back 20 my COM
pany. We are still in the drive and
holding the good name Of old Ne"
England. There are not many OF the
old Second Maine left, but what are
left are still going strong. don't
suppose i will get any mail from you
for a little while until I get back TO
nv company but I will write to you
lust the same. / haven't heard from
Sister for a long time. 1t is about
time to hear from her. How Is
Granny and Aunt Edith and all the
rest Of the folks. Tell them all to
drop a few lines once In a while.
There is a fellow in my ward from
Gardiner and his father works in
Rumford. / used to work with him
In the oxford. This fellow is the first
drafted man from Maine that have
seen over here. Well. mother. there
isn't anything more to write so will
close for this time. Hoping to hear
from you often, from your loving son,
Sgt. THOS. CHAMBERS.
Company 3, 1913 L. S. Inf. A. E. F.
The following letters have been re-
ceiyed by Mr.. and Mrs. Angnes Des-
jardire. So Washington street. Au-
gusta, from their son. Henry G. Du-
pIessis. a member of Company D,
103rd Infantry:
Somewhere in France.
Oct s, 1918.
Dear Parents:-Your letter re-
ceived today and I am very glad to
hear from you and also from Sister
Exlice and Eva still am in the best
Of health and 1 hope you are all the
same / received a letter from Am
melu c. and was very surprised to
know he is in Camp Devens Well.
l hope to see him in France soon.
Exlice said that Father was going to
work in the woods, 1 don't see why
he doesn't stay around home. there
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who had been instantly suspected by
himself and others.
We invite criticism and And much
that is helpful to us and our readers
in the honest opinions of those who
differ with US. Criticism opens up
new channels Of thought to those who
receive it and welcome it; while
frank encouragement stimulates to
greater effort. For that reason per-
sonal letters are always welcome Gf
they are signed) and suggestions for
editorial consideration thankfully re-
ceiyed.
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moral ideals and spirit Of our national
life. They have urged the absolute
necessity that the life ana work 81
the churches be kept al their bes'
The Interdenomination Commits
sion of Maine, therefor. ~ W''''
ing held in Waterville. FRIDAY %HN
1918, appeal TO the churchos ~ hot
ever denomination In un- state .
make practical this recognition e ne
important position which thly ana
their work hold by Strengthening
their influence. not only IN their I'M
mediate communities. but On the
larger sphere of the nation and ah
it's relations. The Commission es'
pecially urge the churches. IN view o
the present scarcity Of ministers. ana
in some places the scarcity - fleL
nevertheless to carry on the ser' .r's
and work OF each and every church
at the highest possible pitch Of efl'
cheney.
Since great national crises IKE
thiShave sometimes been followed uy
periods of moral and spiritual la1ity'
il not degeneracy. the Commission
also urge upon all the churches. ~
the recognized leaders in mouldln.
the moral and spiritual character
the nation. by all possible means 70
preserve the lofty moral STANDARDS
and the purity OF the religious lie OK
emplified in the person Of Jesus
Christ. We Of the churches Of ChriT'
must be fully prepared 10 do our par
In the momentously critical years I'M
before US.
(Signed)
Rev. IRVING b. MOWER. y. D..
Vice President
Rev. ALBERT e. MORRIS.
Prof. CALVIN NJ. CLARK. d. d.
Secreta1'
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fields. but they had not lost heart.
With the roar Of German guns sound
ing at the gates of Paris last Spring.
there came a new hope. Foch. who
had been almost forgotten by many,
was given the supreme command.
The schoolmaster was in the sad
die. He began to act out his class
room theories. How we'll they
worked the world now knows. New
er before had such a campaign been
fought. In four months victory was
wrested from defeat, and the memory
Of the dark day Of Sedan was wiped
out last Saturday at Senlis.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-11-14
THE HIDDEN DRAMA
OF THE SURRENDER
(From the Boston Globe Nov. I'D
II was the early Fall Of 1870.

(From the Boston Globe Nov. I'D
II was the early Fall Of 1870.
Along a road Of Northern France
Sedan, an open carriage passed. Be
fore it rode a guard. helmeted, with
shining arms and gaily pennanted
iarces. Behind it rode officers in
French uniform. Again, farther in
the rear steel helmeted Prussian hus-
sars, Gathering in solid array.
In the carriage, thus guarded, sat
Napoleon Ill. Emperor Of France.
He was going to meet the King OF
Prussia at Chateau Bellevue, to sur
render his sword and his armies.
Great physical suffering was written
upon his face, the deep lines telling Of
a grievous illness which was fast
bringing him to the grave. But the
mental suffering Of the day was
greater.
Followed by the officers Of his staff.
Napoleon III entered the salon of the
chateau, where the Prussian leaders
awaited him. The German officers
arose courteously, as custom dictated,
and stood at attention as the Emper-
or faced them. The King of Prussia
alone remained seated. Arrogantly
he looked up at the man whose hon.
ored guest he had been in Paris not
long before.
Bent with pain, Napoleon III drew
his blade and presented the hilt.
Sire. here is my sword" he said.
Il take it," the churlish Prussian
answered. Then he added: Il give it
back to you"
The officers Of the Emperor's staff
drew deep broaths. and their eyes
flashed fire. II was the tone Of the
speech that stung them.
He clearly meant III take care Of
you, said one Of the Emperors staff.
years afterward. The officer was al
most a boy at the time of the sur
render, fresh from ST. Cyr, the West
Point Of France. Into his impress
s!onabe heart the scene at Chateau
Bellevue burned itself. He never for
got it, nor the words of the Prussian
King.
The King was grandfather Of Will
liam Hohenzollern, former Kaiser Of
Germany.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-11-14
Name GOSSIP
The Rats Name is Ferdinand

ne nat NahS -
laura E. Richards Of the vigilantes.
September, 1Sl&)
Look at the rat the rat, the rat.
Up from the ships hold stealing.
Gray old robber, what seeks he here.
Where the world is rocking and reel
Shrek Of wind and smother of foam.
Waves that tumble and toss and comb.
Why has ne left his dark safe home
Between the scarf and the keeling?
Look at the rat, the rat, the rat,
Over the buiwarks peerng.
Eyes a-gtitter and nose a-twitch,
Frantic with sight and hearing.
The seas are gray and the seas are
wide,
The sharp spray leaps Ger the ships
higher and higher boils the tide,
The foam crests Kissing and rearing.
Look a. the rat, the rat, the rat, =
All in an anguish blinking.
Starting forward and scurrying back,
Clinging. whImpering, shrinking.
Till with a shrek he leaps below,
For tnis alone doth the gray rat know:
The ship, the ship is sinking.
Ay, she too now starts and shrinks
Wild from the wild seas foamins:
Ay, she toe now leaps and sinks
Meath the pillows froIhlug and como
ing:
Cleaning pennor and rustlinS sail,
Reel and whirl in the whiriins gale,
Shudder and down in ruin pale,
Down to the last depth homins.
Down. where the new-dead bones shan
clash
Over them glad together:
Down, where the new-drowned hair
doth float
Calm meath the widest weather.
All the murdered beneath the sea
Flock to gaze where her bones may he
Nod and whisper and laugh It's she,
Gather to greet Eer! gather
Look. the eagles around her Prov,
Whose plumes the sea-wrack scatters
Look! the banners that waved but now,
Strea ming in bloodstained tatters.
So to her dim, dishonored tomb
Far in the ghasty deep sea gloom,
The HOHENZOLLERN goes to ner
doom.
While the tempest Ger her skaters.
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must be all kinds Of work for him I
still am back Of the line and the time
is pretty long now without seeing
anybody. The way you talk it seems
that all the boys are gone. I am go
ing to take out another allotment but
not such big one this time for Bro
Their Joe. / am sending you a piece
Of money which I picked up on the
battlefield.
HENRY.
Somewhere in France,
Oct. IA, 1918.
Dear Parents:-A few lines to let
you know am back into the line and
feeling good. I hope you are the
same. The weather here Is pretty
cold and we are having all kinds Of
rain and that makes it harder for US.
am writing this letter in q little
dugout and believe me, I haven't
much room, this is just big enough
for two.
Well, I'm going to tell you that a
German airplane is flying over and I
heard it. We expect a bomb every
minute. Yesterday saw about three
hundred in the air. That was very
nice for they were all American
planes. Well. how is everything
around home? Is Father still work.
ing in the same place? I saw Bill
N. and also James Butler and they
send best regards, They are in the
best of health. Have you heard from
Brother Joe. / haven't heard from
him yet. took an allotment out to
run the first Of October and let me
know when you receive it.
HENRY G. DCPLESSIS.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-11-14
APPEAL. TO The
MAINE CHURCHES

Leaders in national affairs notably
President Wilson and General PERISH
ing. have recognized repeatedly. in
public and private, in this crucial Pc
Rod Of the worlds history, the prime
value Of the support Of the churches
in all our national enterprises. They
have emphasized this value especially
in regard to the maintenance Of the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-11-14

A Portland school teacher wrote a
sentence upon the blackboard and be-
meath 1t wrote: Define the above, ana
punctuate 1t. Each child In the ..ooyh
was to copy the sentence on paper and
Follow the tecahers instructions. One
little girls paper offered gilt-edge
surprise to the teacher who found that
the pupil had copied the sentence and
then written: The above is Heaven.
1T is punctuated by angels and stars -
Portland Press.
A poet just can't help it. can he
Pats?
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TRAIN ; LEA e ACGI - -
GOING WEST-.2 A
NJ. except ii Q II a 5 .
IMVfHN Portland and Boston
iSA.e!IAi els A NJ, Harrington.
k03IftN&I Rockland. Portland. Bos-
:NfEcSEE ton. Montrea! and Qua
oec. $50 A. NJ, Bruins
wick. Rock!anc, Lewiston. Portland
Boston; 2.53 +. NJ. local. 40 2. NJ. TEA
press) Brunswick. Portland. Boston; ]. 10
+. NJ. Eallo~ell, Gardiner and so. Car
diner; l0.f r. NJ. Lewiston, Bath, Port
land, Boston. Sundays Az and 10 II A
NJ, $40 and lo.i! Z. N. Portland AMI
Boston.
GOING EAST-los A. NJ. Bangor. ST.
John. Halifax. Sunday morning at III
A. III. Qots not connect Ueyohd Bangor.
rs A. NJ, for Waterville, Bangor, Bar
Harbor. Calais ana 8. & A points 80
A NJ local TO Belfast. Hs rmouy. Ban
gor, Skow1egan: 1912 P. NJ, for Ban
COR, Bar Harbor, Calais, EaStport and
Eanceooro, 2J Z. NJ, Watervllle
ana Bangor; ~, P. NJ, Waterville and
Bangor. sundays LA A. NJ. for Wafer
vile and Bangor, $50 A. N. for Wat
ervilie. Skowhegan and Bangor, SO =.
ii. for Bangor.
Trains leave Augusta for Haiiowell,
Gardiner ana south Gardiner at s-I1,
IS A Nj, 2.53. SIS. l0.E r. NJ. HAI!oweL
and Gardiner eniy; 4.06 Z. VI. Gardiner
only Alp A. 81. daily.
Nj L. HARRIS. Leni Pass. Agt-: y. c.
Douglass. GenI Mgr. Portland. Ne
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-11-14

We have been gratified by express
sions from our readers since the pub
lication Of mo Names" letter. One
man came to the Office and asked to
see the writing. He identified it. and
said it was the handwriting Of one
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-11-14

1t might not be a bad notion to
forcefully call to the attention of
wood sellers the provisions Of the law
OF measurements. Buyers who are
paying exorbitant cord prices for six
feet OF wood should protect them
selves from pro6lteers.
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Walking the Heights.


The headline in Wednesday morn
ings Kennebec Journal-"Gerrnany
Begs for Bread"-caused many to be-
gin an analysis Of their own minds
and hearts.
the warning OF Senator Lodge against
Z new pacifst and o-German cam
paign. both in this country and in
Europe. especially in England.
Al Boston. Tuesday evening, Otto
II. Kahn opened his address with the
words: Gods in his heaven. alPs
wei with the world"
We cannot forget the millions Of
tons Of food that Germany has sent
TO the bottom Of the sea, nor can we
forget that only yesterday her war
masters were holding out" against
and devastate. until her last re-
sources were exhausted. We cannot
forget that within the month her re-
treating armies have burned noun
tains OF food and other supplies to
prevent its falling into the hands Of
the conQuerors. or that cities and
villages and crops were wantoniy
destroyed as the Huns retreated, for
no other purpose than to make war
costly TO Germany's enemies.
No sooner has their ''Kamerad" cry
been recognized than they whine that
they are starving. And right there,
it appears to us, begins our job Of
applying good American horse sense.
ard justice tempered by American
bigness and traditions encouraged
love OF all Gods people. First let US
discover by prompt and business-l like
methods. just how badly the German
people as a whole need our assist
ance, and how much of their starva-
ton wall is for effect upon the SYM
pathies OF sympathetic people.
II anybody now speaking for Ger
many is attempting to follow up their
devilish propaganda under the guise
OF begging for mercy. they should be
dealt with as severely as Marshal
Foch measured out the price of re-
lease from the grinding processes of
his war machine.
This is the time for mercy but not
for mawkish sentiment; for justice
but not for unquestioned acceptance
OF every pretense of those who as
enemies INDUCED in every brutality
known to the days of thousand
years before Christ. days when
David cut them (the people Of con-
quered cities) with saws and harrows
OF iron and with axes"
Tho dictates Of humanity will be
promptly applied, but first let US
learn the needs. Let us be warned
by sucn keen. far-seefng men as
Lodge. but let us respond to the new
and exalted spirit that pervades
America and the world. At home
and in the family OF nations we un-
derstand each other better and re-
apect each other more Our faith is
strengthened ard our inspiration
heightened by the Irresistible sweep
OF events progressward. We are
living years in days OF accomplish
ment. Along the heights Of human
achievements and aspiration we are
stepping confidently in the light Of
His promise and the assurance Of In
comparable demonstration. To those
Of broad vision the vista is dazzling
but we must be wary OF descending
into the trenches and shell holes of
social and economic mistakes Of the
past
These are truly wonderful days in
which to live-the most wonderful Of
all, when we are being FASTENED
toward the millennium. Let us open
our eyes and forget not our brothers
OF any race or color.
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Beginning an editorial on Victory and
Peace, the Boston Herald says:
Never did the blood-red sunset Of
Var. after a night of agony, turn SO
sloriousiy to dawn
AZ who should say, speaking of mixed
metaphors: l smell q rat: see it vav-
ing In the air. will nip 1t in the bud
B:ddeford Journal
Eoston was celebrating that day,
Deak. and burning rs tons Of red IRE
during the editors might OF agony"
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Hundreds had the pleasure, after
the parade Monday afternoon at
Bath Of listening to Nine. Emma
Eames de Gogorza as she sung Star
Spangled Banner from a window in
the Red Cross rooms. The band
gave a concert in front Of the Office
of the Times and ended by playing
the national anthem, when Nine.
Games. who had been watching the
crowds below. Immediately joined in
singing and her auditors were thrilled
by the remarkable clarity Of her
tones.
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Another Rhine Whine

The arnistice is signed, the Huns
are no longer obliged to run their
legs of in order to save their heads.
their territory is in no danger Of in
vasion. So far. so good-for them.
Immediately they come out with a.
touching appeal for a mitigation Of
the armistice terms to save them
from starvation. And Solf renews
his note-writing, sending his plea
where he knows he will get the most
sympathy.
How did the militarists Of Germany
treat Belgium and Serbia and Russia
when they were starving? Did they
feed the tender children, the defense
less women. the sick and helpless
aged? Did they even allow them to
feed themselves? It is a matter Of
history that they requisitioned every
thing possible and stole what re-
manned. And now they whine for
food for themselves.
We would be inhuman il we did
not listen to them and save them
from actual famine. but the whole
German nation stands before the
world convicted Of every crime in the
calendar. and while they should get
justice they have no right to expect
mercy-even though we know we
shall grant it. Criminals they are, as
criminals they should be treated, even
to criminal fare-bread and water.
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Now Is the time for pro-German
citizens Of America to come to the
aid Of the people Of Germany who
are begging for bread. We especially
recommend this to NO Name"
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II you haven't been reading the Jour.
been mioGing large part q the currcn,
oews.-Biddeford Journal.
We rod II EVERY days Deaj.