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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-08-23

Friday was une of tine heavy days
OF the seasun for zutumDfile travel.
through the city and bound both
wayz, north and south. Many Of tine
cHrs WEI efDrn ufher STATES. One
bound south bore the Virginia regis-
Try, and another that OF Colorado,
and burh cnrried parties whg were
making their Way hnmeward after
having been rs TAR ND m Maine as
Bar Harbur and the Moosehead lake
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-08-23
NATIONAL HOME

oaicsr Of the dny, Capt. William
- Pierce.
Simon Lewis has been grained a
furinngh 10 Visit relatives in Eaver-
hil.
TnOmRs Baker. lRte Co. 3, I'm vt
III, has been dropped rrum the ruIls
OF the Eome for being absent with
out leave and demanding his uapers
Charles Crouch of South Thomas
TON. late Co. &, Maine Cnast Guards.
mas been admitted To the Eeme.
The funeral of the late Sflas 3. Lii
Ihr1dEe was held frum tine Home
chapel al 10 A M Friday. Few. c. 4.
Temple officiating.
Wilson z Foster IF ThumaErun has
acrsptsd a position as stsHmfrter m
the rHpHir SHOP
Togns viii c-oss bats with the <as,
augusta twilight nine hare n ?.
n TO-DAY. The Home boys have nut
N surne hard practice during this
week and IRE confident Of winning
ine secnnd game uf the series.
he FUNDS under the TED axspruuri-
Hziun were received Friday and the
d ulF payroll promptly paid.
Religious services III tf,e Huyna
chapel viii he held 1T follows. Mass
ana sermon by Rex FIR. McL4auEnIfn
al $50 and Protestant services by
rev. & H Temple II 1B.::5. Sunday
SCHOOL viii be III 80 P. IL.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23
to
Culture
A Brief Prospectus of the
PerSeph07e Club, Its
Methods and Members
By Harry S. Godfrey

b We COME to see if you wouldn't like
to join our club-the Persephone Club;
Il pronounced er-sif-o-nee. Yet, it's
neW-nuite And there's such q won-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23

horse-drawn cart, farm wagon, lumber
wagon, coal cart or grocery van; again in
a fivver, or the high powered car of the
locally rich and great, and once in a long
and shining limousine
1t is all interesting, all delightful, and 7
really enjoy the walk so much that can
find no envy in my heart when as | prepare
to go to my noon dinner | see two younger
members of my profession walk across the
square to where their cars are awaiting
them, eisurely and elegantly pull on their
away, while I walk up the street with
certain red headed tinsmth with whom I
am very chummy.
There has been in those forty years some
changes in the square. The old iron fence
Bdwill in east Lynne" "Billie Morris's
Minstrels" and "Washburn's Grand Sensa-
ton" has been pulled down and stored in
the basement The old pump that seldom
was in order and which was regularly
blown up every FOURTH has disappeared,
and, mirabile dctu! the Blind Goddess was
temporarily removed for some necessary
repairs to her empire gown, and was taken
on journey lasting several weeks. Even
Blind Goddesses must be up to date.
And there have been marked changes in
customs. Why, forty years ago we were
congratulating ourselves upon our shrewd-
ness in selling our beautiful old mahogany
furniture and buying the then fashionable
but dreadful black walnut sets with
punches of grapes and oak leaves carved
thereon-grapes that raised ridges on ones
spinal column, and oak leaves that gave one
the sensation of sitting down on paddock
And now we wondering whether or
not we can thoroughly disguise our golden
oak sets, that have come in their turn to
displace the black walnut, by coating of
white enamel.
Forty years ago we were hand painting
tambourines and hanging them with parti-
coored ribbons to the hectic wallpaper,
next to the chromos of "Wide Awake" and
EAST Asleep" and scarcely day passed
without some visitor being painfully i'm
paled on pin securing lace tidy to the
upholstered rocker in the parlor,
Forty years ago tobacco chewing WAS the
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but we are astonished and panied at the
realization that so many women were AL
lowed to walk at too tender an age.
1t was Scott who said, in describing
the beautiful but unfortunate Constance De
Beverly:
Her cloak and doublet, loosely tied,
Obscured her charms, but could not hide"
Is it too much to hope that cloaks and
doublets may some day be fashionable once
more?
In the churches hope of salvation was
stimulated and gratifed by that beautiful
hymn, ballad or madrigal, ",The Sweet Bye
and Bye" either in solo, duet, quartet or
chorus 1t has not wholly lost its charm,
especially to man in the alto section.
How we'll | remember it:
The soprano and altos in thirds, Motto
saccharino-"In the swee-eet"
The basses and tenors, raucoso e pom
deroso-"In the sweet"
The sopranos and altos, in thirds, dolcis-
simo-"Bye and by-ee"
The basso and tenor, Ben marcato-"Bye
and bye-eye'
Tutti con laryngitoso-"W shall mee-eet
on that bee yew-t i-fool sho-ore"
The sopranos and altos in thirds, Dolore
al stomaco-"In the sweet"
The BASES and tenors, Dolore al pulmore
TN the sweet"
The sopranos and altos in thirds con
junctiva-"Bye-e and bye-ee"
The basses and tenors, POGO a POGO.
Asno e. Barbercordo-"By and bve-even
Tutti chilli con carne-"We shall mee-eet
n fh ar Cor ~ .Ln
At the close of which selection thor.
would be few dry eyes in the congrega-
ton and each impressonsble woman would
resolve to give up bangs, to reduce the
size of her hustle, to loosen the bands of
her pull-back and to give up other soul
destroying vices
And to man the male members would
register solemn VOW to renounce the
least serious of their sinful habits. such
as tobacco chewing, murder, horse racing
arson, profane swearing, burglary, pedro
and slxty-three, mayhem, rooster fighting,
craps, sippio, blind pool and other simple
msdemeanors of the day.
Forty years ago Pull down YOUR vestn
was regarded as the acme of jocose saluta
ton, having supplanted, and happily so. tina
wipe Oft your chin" of the late '70s
Bands were playing "The Mulican
Guards" vocalists were warbling "Mollv
Daring where's Rosanna Gone" and
orchestras were playing "The Turkish
Patrol which was cavare to the general
public.
Forty years ago | could kick to the ton
OF my office door and to-day could
scarcely climb there with a stepladder.
But the world, am sure, has vastly i'm
proved.
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lunch-time," he corrected with smile.
Funny, how they seem to have got out of
the eating habit most of them. Yes, four
hundred, and a few over, in here now And
how many jobs do you suppose we have on
the slate? Exactly fve And they are
'cookups Oh, don't know what a cook-up'
is? That's job made to order for a soldier
or sailor by some patriotic employer. He
doesn't need the man, of course, but he
squeezes him in. Oh, there are few pa
triots living still. Not many, though.
They're almost extinct. l was on field work
before was sent here; went around inter-
viewing employers and asking them how
many of their old men who were in the
service they would take back They all said
they'd take back every one of them. Yes,
that's what they said"
He waved his hand in the direction of the
double doors through which sea of blue
and khaki was doing it's utmost to break in.
ut looks to me though you needed a
little more help" l commented, noticing a
clerk at near desk who was trying to an
swer twenty questions at once and at the
same time keep the twenty questioners off
his feet.
"a little more is good. We have to close
up here at $3.50 o'clock in order to go over
the records and get out our reports. By
right these places should be open all night
at time like this"
Then, looking out upon the towering Office
buildings around US, l was prompted to ask
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23

if many hundreds of men were not needed
for clerical work
"a few DOZENS" he answered "You see,
when these clerks went to war most of their
jobs were taken by &women. And these
women haves done the same work for less
money, and are willing to go on doing it
for less money. This is q problem which
we are not only up against here in New
York but in every city of this country.
them to factories, when we are lucky
enough to find jobs for them"
l asked him then what he thought Of
Secretary Bakers offer to the soldiers to
allow them to remain in the army until they
found outside employment
cts a pretty thought he commented.
"But if the men remain in the army how
are they to find jobs outside, when they will
be allowed only night liberty? l was talk
ing to soldier the other day about this
offer of Baker's-just a simple fellow from
out West, but he had his ideas, and he had
done his eighteen months in the trenches.
He looked at me for minute, and then with
a twinkle in his eye he sad Ever hear tell
of the warden that offered to let a man
overstay his time in the pen, just for old
times sake?"
Out of the mouths of GUMS etc
Nothing, of course, is to be gained by
panickyism; but everything is to be gained
by frank and fearless facing of facts, &C.
ton now by those in whose hands the power
lies, action before it is too late
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23

national indoor sport, and the cuspdor a
household necessity. In the houses of the
rich they were brilliantly enamelled and
hand painted, with roses, tulips, gentians,
and made brave show with the variegated
afghan, the gaudily carpeted ottoman and
the gilt edged mustache cup on the jap
anese shelf next to the whatnot, with its
store of useless articles.
The passing of tobacco chewing and the
gradual disappearance of these articles, and
the gradual but not complete extinction of
the marble topped tables, the gided Grim
son velvet album and the fringed and tin
selied bookmarker, was accompanied by the
outlawing of the frock coat and the white
string tie.
Forty years ago frock coat was ma
tional institution and the wearing Of one
a mark of greatness Twenty years ago, so
slowly do we see the light, it was merely
a misdemeanor. Now it is a felony, and
justly
In this and in other things have we
greatly improved. Hark back to the boards
We used to wear. Some, who dated from
the Civil War, wore FURNISHES" that
foated gracefully over their shoulders and
through which the wind soughed eerily.
Others practised domestic economy in
boards that rendered the wearing of collar
and necktie, vest or chest protector need
less extravaganza.
Some wore then pointed, some parted in
the middle, some fancied themselves with
the whiskbroom style. In Difference to the
fashion I wore beard for years. am
quite unable at this day to correctly dag
nose it. 1t looked as il field mouse might
jump out of it at any moment.
l have a picture Of myself lurking fur
lively behind that beard, and when I am
low spirited or wish to entertain friends I
produce this picture and the desired result
is quickly accomplished SO it has served
a purpose.
Womens dress is so bewilderingly
changeable that I will not attempt to de-
scribe it as it was in the early $685. but
am quite confident that she who did not
have several blobs Of black velvet on her
hips and shoulders would not have been
regarded as properly dressed. And I am
equally sure that had any woman then APP
peared in evening gown of fashion less
discreet than modest and becoming "V" she
would have been smothered III shawls and
afghans by her scandalized friends and
hustled out Of the reach of the local con-
stabulary.
In those days VIC merely guessed that
women had legs. To-day we are not only
convinced beyond peradvenspre of the fact,
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TO the former it is the stepping stone
the first round on the ladder leading to
the sublime eminence of the solo B-Aat
cornet; to the latter the last link of the
and enables him to bask yet longer in the
sunshine of local popularity.
am beginning to realize as never before
that this is true in professional life, and,
in looking at the different phases of the
life of a professional man in a country
town, | am forced to acknowledge the up
palatable truth that after nearly forty
years of the practice Of law in the same
town, on the same street and without ever
having attained better position than the
second cornet Of my profession I am slow
ly drifting back to the alto section, in
which started and from which painfully
climbed SO many years ago.
True enough, I am holding on with teeth,
claws and eyelds and am blowing my pro-
fessional cornet Justify, but 1 am bit un-
reliable on the attack, and my sustained
tones bit liable to crack or to become
fuzzy, and like part with bars and bars
and bars of rests.
Is it any wonder that l do? Think of
forty years of drafting deeds and Wills and
declarations and bills in equity! And forty
years Of appearing before justices of the
peace, and masters and referees and all
manner Of courts and tribunals for and
against all sorts and conditions of men,
and women, too
And forty years Of walking to And from
the Office, morning, noon and night, max
ing the same crossings, turning the same
Of the street and back on the opposite side.
What jog trot life! What a dusty road
What an interminable stretch of sameness!
Think so? And yet had the coiner of the
phrase "Thcre is nothing new under the
sun" practiscd law in country town for
forty years, he would have revised his
opinion and never have made the remark
And yet the walk of five furlongs each
way is pleasant. Sometimes / walk with a
business man, sometimes with workman
carrying pail a woodchopper with an axe
over his shoulder and short black pipe
in his mouth, sometimes with a chattering
shopgirl.
Frequently am invited to ride--.now in
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Boy"
I'm military band, particularly in the
brass band Of country fame, there is
n one section or division known as the
"alto" section. The players on the alto
horn, from which instrument this section
derives its name, are generally combina-
ton Of the newest and most inexperienced
members and of the oldest and most expe-
rienced ones. 1t is the one place this side of
the penitentiary and the silent tomb where
spring and winter, youth and old age, lion
and lamb meet on an equal footing and lie
down and dwell together in complete amity
if not in perfect harmony.
This section is also known as the
"umpah" or "tunker section" from the
nature Of the part written for it, and occa-
sionaly played as written, mainly after
beats to the bass. Also the "cowhide sec
tion," because the players usually beat
time with their boots.
The bass or tuba players, after duly in
fating themselves for the purpose, like La
Fontaines frog,
"Qui Wit un beuf
Qui lui sembla de belle taille"
vociferatc the tonic syllable "oomp!" with
all the strength Of their lungs, whereupon
the alto players Immediately answer with
the staccato interval "pah" or "pah-pah"
or "pah-pah-pah" as is best suited to
march, waltz or andante con motto.
This preserves the rhythm of tho music
and prevents noble grands. worthy stew
ards, grand keepers Of wampum, high
priests, chief rangers and other insignia
and jewel laden dignitaries from breaking
suspender, bursting off button or con-
tracing locomotor ataxia in cndeavoring to
keep in step when parading in the rear of
country band in full cry.
The part written for the alto section ia
no undue strain on the intellectual facili-
ties Of the players or on their lips. Nor
does 1t call for a technique Of high grade.
but 1t Is important. and IS the easiest part
in the band 1t marks the first step in tho
upward progress Of the tyro and the well
CONS refugs of the aged musician on the
down grade.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23
From Bondage to
Vagabondage
By Frank H. Williams

4 LGERNON OFFICEWORM took sauint
n through the windows which the jani-
tors able assistants had forgotten to wash.
Dimly he could see the 92-story Monster
Building opposite him, and, in the distance.
the 1O8- and S7-story Gigantic and Orful
apartment houses. Disgustedly, Algernon
glanced back into the office of which he
was atomic part Green shaded lights
were as profuse as flies around molasses in
the summer time and each light shone
upon the huddled figure of a companion
atom.
Algernon ran his rather grimy hand
through his thinning yellow locks, adjusted
his pea green necktie, and, gathering the
papers upon his desk into big bundle. he
gave a loud yell and threw them into tho
air Whereupon the other atoms glanced
up in the utmost astonishment and felt in
stinctively for their smelling salts.
Pm through" yelled Algernon in high
pitched, excited voice. I'm through No
more of this here Office life for me. I'm
going to get out and see things and get
into the country every day and look at the
sky and everythingl I've had enough of
this here indoor office lifel I'm through
I'm through"
He slammed down the cover of his desk
with bang and raced for the elevator
not, however, neglecting to stop at the
cashiers window for his pay.
I'm going to get out into the country
every day." he shouted in parting. ppm
not going to be tied to any one spot any
more."
Aigernon, it is interesting to note,
achieved his desires. He is now one of the
most happy and efficient subway guards in
the ethyl
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23
The Pause at
P1uckennin
An Untold Tale of Wash.
ingfon, and the Tailor
Who Patched His Army
By George Quarrie

A f: !: :: :: !: il: :': &:
1776 and again at Princeton on
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1t we may place even the semblance Of con-
tdence in statements officially issued by the
Department of Labor, the conditions them
selves, basically and in general, are identi-
cal everywhere. Taking into due account
the very few localities where workers of
special classes are needed, we may say that
in San Francisco, in Seattle, in Chicago. in
New Orleans and in every labor centre of
the country, as here, the returned service
men are receiving this polite invitation,
Get up, you bum!" May we not, then, in
strict justice, allow one of these "bums" to
have his say? Out of the mouths of "bums,"
as out of the mouths of babes, great truths
may come.
"Where are you from?" I asked as
friendly beginning.
Missouri" he answered cordially, and
with touch of pride in his tone
"Have you home out there?"
"Sure."
"Well, why don't you go back?"
mo jobs out there, for one thing. A
kid O. sixteen got my job, ans doin' the
work for less than I could. An besides,
sent my transportation money home to nv
mother. She needs it all right, with six
youngsters, and my father dyn' after en-
listed"
ooh, you enlisted?"
"Sure."
GLOW old are YOU?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23
BY Judge Henry A. Shute

author of "The Real Diary of Re
Boy"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23
The Day Of Jobless D0uehb0v

be twentyone comm March,"
What kind of work did you do?"
"Farmin' mostly, till l got to be line
man Tor the telephone company"
Cant you find any work of that kind
around here?"
Nav Nothin' a-tall. I'm big, and Pm
pretty good at most anything, so 1 amt
particular bout what do, just so as | do
somethln'-but seems like there amt moth
in now"
Where have you looked for work."
Amt no place 1 haven't BEEN"
employment agencies ?"
sure. Twice regular every day, and
that's been week. An walked round
askin', too, till I got wobbly. You see. NV
money give out the second day after got
my dlscharge-only had q dollar m six
blts-an' since then walkin' comes kinda
hard"
Didn't you manage to save anything out
of your pay?"
couldn't. Not with a home allowance.
an insurance, an Liberty bonds (they went
to pay the old mans funeraD, an French
war orphan, an tryin' to help the 'Y' an the
Red Cross an the Salvation Army an the
w. Z. G. S., an some others besides. all
them what was helpin' me-"
"But what about these government en-
ployment agencies? They ought to be able
to fix you up somehow
ever been in one o. them places?"
Eyes, but not lately"
well, you oughta 60 Don't know what
they was like before US fellows begun to
come back, but now they's like-well, they
make the Stock Exchange look like coun-
try prayer meetin on a stormy night. I
been the round Of 'em all. This mornin' I
saw eight hundred soldiers and sailors lined
up in one of 'em-just waitin' and waitin'-
and KNOWN they wouldn't get nothin' when
1t was over. Them government guys can't
make jobs for US, you know. They's only
kinda go-betweens, an when they's nothin'
to pass onto us-well, we just don't get
nothin'-thats ALL"
'They must be rushed, now that you men
are coming back?"
Rushed? They's worked to death. Saw
one of the woman clerks topple right over
the other day-big, healthy lookin' woman.
too. She went down like wet rag. Played
plum out from sayin' Come round to-
Yes, out of the mouths Of "bums," etc.
The next day 1 began my round of the
government employment Offices. And hard
ly had I set out upon my journey of great
discoveries before the truth which nv
friend had so naively and dispassionately
stated bore down upon me like an oppres
sive weight.
1t was in a downtown office that event.
ually anchored, for there 1 found the largest
number of returned service men and also
most accommodating examiner in charge
He was an Irishman, keen and clean, with
head-wisdom and heart-wisdom, a man Of
rare vision and reasoning powers.
WELL" he said to me, making room for
me with some difficulty at the side of his
desk, and still continuing with his work
"you see-what you see. Four hundred of
them in this morning, and this is an otf-d
This afternoon there'll be another six or
seven hundred in. Most of these fellows,
you know, do their own looking in the morn
ings and come to US after lunch After
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0Sleep, Sot up. he was SOL
der. On his big arm he wore
three overseas service stripes
watched him closely, expecting that he
would strike the guard who had poked him
into semi-consciousness on the bench in the
railway waiting room and then had called
him "bum." Instead he smiled, and when
the guard had stalked off officiously to per-
form like function for twenty or more
other men in the uniform of their country
he turned to me, his nearest neighbor, and
said quite simply.
"He's right. am bum. No money; no
job. Guess that makes a bum, doesn't it?
That's what the courts and the coppers say
anyway"
And then we talked
His case is not one in thousand, It is
a thousand in one. Or. rather, it is many
hundreds Of thousands in one For from
every part Of this wide country we are hav-
ing reports that conditions are everywhere
essentially the same as they are here in
New York, where forty thousand ex-soldiers
and sailors, average men like our friend,
are walking the streets without jobs, with
out money. OF course, the numbers of these
unemployed vary with the localities; but
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23
By Grover Harrison
Il s.rs,a s'sR;'"

<<~ EFT up, you bum"
~ The "bum," though still half
asleep, got up. He was a SOL