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Casco Bay breeze. [volume] (South Harpswell, Me.) 1901-1917, 1906-06-28
Captured Monkey.Faeed Owl.

A monkey-faced owl, the rarest
specimen of bird ever seen in these
parts. few through a glass window
OF the schoolhouse Friday morning and
was captured alive by the janitor.
VINO presented il to the landlord Of
the Temple Hotel. where IL is now on
exhibition before many wondering
gazers.
The owl is Of a beautiful gray color,
but lis face is the characteristic fea-
ture. IN place of the usual rcnnd face
OF the owl. this bird has the features
OF monkey. The wings. too, are Of
unusual leagth.-Redding correspond
ence Sacramento Bee.
Casco Bay breeze. [volume] (South Harpswell, Me.) 1901-1917, 1906-06-28
Resignation.

DO you think that a strike will
make coal more expensive?" asked one
householder.
Il don't know whether a strike will
do 81" answered the other. But some
thing will."-washington Star.
Casco Bay breeze. [volume] (South Harpswell, Me.) 1901-1917, 1906-06-28

whitney. the inventor of the cotton
gan, did not make a cent out of his
idea. NEoc
Casco Bay breeze. [volume] (South Harpswell, Me.) 1901-1917, 1906-06-28

Mark Twain Is fond OF coIIectjnr
odd obituary poetry. and has a scrap
book. which he is extremely proud OF.
containing 5000 specimens.
Casco Bay breeze. [volume] (South Harpswell, Me.) 1901-1917, 1906-06-28

F11sFermanenflyc cured. No fits or nervous
Htts after first days use OF Dr. Kline's Great
nerve Rsstorer s tfialbottie andtreatiseiree
IL. H. II. KLINE Ltd s3l ArchSt Phila Pm
Casco Bay breeze. [volume] (South Harpswell, Me.) 1901-1917, 1906-06-28

hit Wirs!ow'ss Soothing Syrup for Children
ibr-sofiers:fe gums. ! educ. sinfiamma-
Heh, ai!ays ain cures wind collie &c a bottle
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1906-12-14
HANDLING THE ICE CROP.

Keep the points sharp on the ice
tools.
An old crosscut saw makes a good
Ice saw.
Spread good layer OF sawdust over
the bottom of the Ice house.
Felt boots with good rubber arctics
are the best footwear to use on the
Ice.
Wear an apron made OF q grain sack
and put on n dry one us often as 1t
gets wet.
Let the block of ice freeze solid
while It is being put into the house. II
possible.
It's no fun TO handle heavy ice.
therefore plan to gather It before 1t
gets too thick.
Two strong men with short handled
tongs will load ice quicker and better
than any derrick device.
Ice keeps best when the blocks are
ID to 16 inches thick, but blocks six to
eight inches thick will do Y we'll
packed.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1906-12-14
OIL UPON DUSTY RoADWAYs.
Way Of Treating Roads In Liverpool
Proves Satisfactory.

Tho English cast oil on the troubled
roads Dust raising Is n nuisance of
such magnitude that various civic and
official anti.dust experiments have
been made. Quite satisfactory results
have been secured in Liverpool
through the use of oil sprlnklcd upon
macadam roadways. The surface hav.
ing the cleanest and whitest appear.
ance was that coated with creosote
oil mixed with resin, while that GOV.
cred with creosote mixed with tallow
had the least odor. The Texas crude
petroleum gave the most lasting re.
suits. After oiling the wear and tear
OF tho road appears to be less, says
the Chicago Tribune. The surface OF
the road dries more quickly after
rains, and the number OF loose stones
picked up has been reduced The
first sprinklinE kept the surface ir
good order for three weeks, at the end
Of which time it was thought advis.
able to recover the area The effects
If the oil on the surface after second
coating had been applied had not en-.
tirely disappeared after the lapse OF
five weeks Oiling wood pavement
In Liverpool was done in the same
manner and the dust satisfactorily
kept kept down result not previous.
ly obtained even By watering four
times a day.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1906-12-14
OUR COMMON ROADS.
rhey Should Not Be Neglected While
Waiting for Hard Roads.

In the excitement of the good reads
connections there Is danger that farm
.rs will let our common roads 90
without much work being done on
hem and wait for the public improve
nent. Farmers now by neglect OF
he roads and the principles OF ele-
ucntary road making are paying an
enormous tax; the very great cost OF
irawlng loads over poor roads. The
lrst principle Of good road making is.
tcep the water of from the road, and
he second is. get the water of from
he road.
Go over the road as soon as the
snow is of and see how often these
ucs are violated often the water
.uns from the ditch into the road and
hen runs for rods washing the ma
crial out, running all that was done
he previous year and making the road
nearly impossible Yet. says the Farm
and Home. by only a few minutes
work the road might be saved and the
water turned out Every supervisor
" roadmast"r ought 10 go over the
road late in the fall and turn the water
ri On the hills and at foot Of hills,
md elsewhere when necessary. add
open bitches.
At the Ohio state farmers institute,
D " King of Indiana, gave method
IF making and improving roads. Mr..
King lives in northern Indiana, in the
Gumbo' region, whore the earth Is
black and very sticky The result Is
very good road ut small cost lie
uses a split log drag Hitch with chain
on rod so that all surplus dirt will be
carried to center of road The hitch
is one Of the most important features.
Unusually use the fiat side forward, bu,
when smoothing or packing the dirt,
use rounding side forward.
Go over the road as soon as II ,haws
and smooth down AL dirt carried to
the center Repeat the dragging after
Zach rain as soon as the surface Is dry
enough to work II is not necessary
to wait til the ground is all thawcd
out Begin as soon as there Is an inch
thawcd This will give the water a
chance TO run on water running in
the road is one OF the worst things
for the road Following it up after
zach rain will turn the water, distrb-
ute the travel over the road, avoid and
prevent ruts, and keep the road good.
To make the plan most available,
each farmer should have such a drag.
and each one drag from his house to
The next house thus each doing the
work at very small cost A road
worked in this way will keep good all
summer and fall Less than a weeks
rain will hardly affect it, In spring
the road is In good condition much
sooner than other roads not treated.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1906-12-14
clsTERN FOR DRINKING WATER.
Arrangement by Which Filtered Water
Can Be Obtained.

In digging cistern, dig It deep and
arch well under ground, closing in
the arch 10 receive n two.foot tile to
form the neck. which can easily be
closed tight against toads and insects
BY the side OF the big cistern, dig a
little filtering cistern, as shown in
cut. that will hold from ten ito Is bar
rels WaN, c-ch and cement the same
as large cistern, except that in the
center Of the bottom, which should be
slightly basin shape dig and cement
n hole large enough and deep enough
or six gallons.
Have bottom Of bucket perforated
with small holes and fasten n strong
bale to bucket by which to lift 1t out.
Have a strong flanCe turned close to
the top of the bucket to rest tight on
the bottom of filtering cistern round
Plan Of Large and Small cisterns.
top Of hole. You can make It water.
tight by resting flange on packing. II
bucket is not good and strong, place
rest under the bottom, as there will
be heavy pressure when tiltering
cistern is full. From the bottom OF
the hole under bucket connect filter
with cistern with a thrce-inch sewer
tile thoroughly ccmcnted In.
The advantages in this method are
that the liltering material can DO
packed in bucket close enough to per-
nit the water to filter through very
slowly. The filtering cistern being but
onethird the depth of the cistern
proper, any time the water Is below
the tube connecting filter with clstern,
the bucket of flltering material can
be lifted out and material removed.
BY closing the tile leading to cistern,
so that water will not run through,
one can go into the filtering cistern
and wash 1t thoroughly without dis
turbing the water IN cistern. BY fill
ing the bucket with pounded brick,
charcoal and slate packed In clean
washed sand the water will filter
through very slowly. After packing
the bucket and before setting 1t In the
hole, run water through to wash all
sediment out.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1906-12-14

When I first came into this Office
under Inspector Byrnes, began In.
spcctor Mclaughlin you could count
the Italian criminals in New York on
your fingers But now" He pushed
back his chair and looked sQuarcly
NJ me" writes Frederick Boyd Steven
son In The Brooklyn Eagle Now no
one knows how many there are. It Is
the same with all other natIonaIItics--
they have increased so rapidly that
Il is almost impossible to keep track
Of them"
And is thcrc a proportionate In.
crcas" In tn" criminals In other large
cities of the United Statcs?"
Unuucstionably The fact OF the
increase in New Yur, would indicate
that New York is the clearing house
for crime In America II not only IS
the starting uul place, but It Is the
winding up place New York has a
much larger criminal population than
any other city In America, and prob.
ably than any other In the world
The crime problem in New York Is
getting away with ms, and il has ar
rived nt the point whore We must DO
something, and do It promptly"
What is the fms, Step
The FIRST step said the inspector
dccisiycly, is to drive the crooks out
of New York city"
Il give orders every morning to my
detectives when they assemble at the
line up Of criminals at police head.
quarters TO arrest every crook they
see on the street at unsccmly hours.
Tho detectives are carrying out my in.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1906-12-14

structions This morning we had A.
well known thieves in line The morn.
ing after election VIC had more than
100"
"And what happens to those thieves
after their arrest"
That is where the law falls down
We arrest the criminals understand
me. men and women who are known
20 be criminals. whose pictures are in
the rogucs gallery. and who have
served terms In prisons-and the next
morning the magistrates let them 90
The magistrates claim that they can
not hold these criminals unless they
are arrested on some specific charge
that the vagranCy law IS not strong
enough I'm this state. The result is
thai the criminals from such states as
Massachusetts and New Jersey. whore
they have strong vagrancy laws flock
TO New York, where they find a haven
OF refuge under our easy going sys.
tnm of justice. But IN the meantime.
let me tell you, ! am having every
crook arrested on sight The police
will do their duty II the magistrates
set the crooks free that is another
affair. We know when we arrest a
crook that he is safe for that night.
and that he cannot commit a crime
when he Is in cell But am in
hopes of seeing n change In the law,
a bill that We attempted TO get
tfvl. InFAEA V,rt1l 4.
duced in Albany. II that be passed
criminals can be sent to the work.
house when they cannot show that
they are making an honest livelihood,
and by continually arresting them and
sending them up we can force them to
go to work or get out of the city"
Has No Hgh.Flown Theories.
But how about other cities and
other states?" queried.
Then II was that the trait OF the old
thief catcher came to view. He smiled
cynically as he said
Il am interested in driving the
thieves out of New York city. Let
the other cities take similar methods.
II they would all do that the criminals
would have 20 go to work. would
have them earn their llvelihoods as
honest men do or put them all behind
the bars"
Then you do not believe in the in.
determlnate sentence as advocated by
the Prison association"
He shook his head.
Nor probation"
See here" he said suddenly, and
ne set his jaw firmly. Not one habit
ual criminal out OF n hundred ever
reforms. Once a crook, always a
crook, is an old saying that ! have
found to hold perfectly good Some
years ago n well known thief came TO
ne and said he wanted to reform and
earn an honest livelihood, and |
helped him. He secured n place in
the house OF q wealthy woman. Not |
bng after that he stole the woman's |
diamonds When he was brought be. !
tore me he said: ! couldn't help steal |
ing those diamonds. meant TO be |
honest, but when | saw them in the |
drawer | couldn't resist the tempta. |
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1906-12-14

It is not difficult TO trace the causes
Of crime. They may be expressed in
n few general words: paupcrism, en-.
yironmcnt, physical disease. insanity,
with all 1t sociologc relations, polti-
cal corruption, anarchy and false eco
nomic and industrial conditions. As
an elementary course In the synthcgis
Of crimes one needs but to take n
glance almost any morning AT the
faces in the lineup" Of criminals at
New York police headquarters. There
you will see the young criminal lust
starting out on his career of crime,
and there you will see the old and
scared thief and murderer and all.
around lawbrcaker, with intermediate
specimens between the first and the
worst stages. In the faces OF nearly
all the habitual criminals the pur.
suits of the men and the women can
be read like an open book. In the
faces of the younger offenders the
reader is often stopped with a query,
There Is a mixture of good and evil.
General Criminal Types.
New York criminal types may be
taken as general types throughout the
world The extent 10 which this class
prevails in the United States was
shown by the complete census OF 1890,
when there were 2l5,0OO criminals, in.
sane persons and paupers in aims.
houses, in addition to 100000 paupers
at large in the United States. Since
then these numbers have been greatly
augmented. This nation expends
something like 100000 900 a year to
protect the good from the bad In
other words every honest man is com.
PEELED to pay from 50 to IS annually
In order to receive protection from the
criminal classes AMI IL frequently hap
pens that even then he Is not protect
ed. The evolution OF the criminal is
the natural result OF the present sys.
tenn In regard to the care--or rather
the lack of care-of the children of
the poor. The boy OF honest poor per.
sons Is allowed to play In the street
with the boy of the criminal and the
degenerate. With these vicious asso-
the result Is q criminal or a
drunkerd. II boy like this becomes
a man and has children what chance
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1906-12-14

teal citizen asks: What is the rem.
edy for crime? The increase in the
United States, and especially In New
York city, shows the necessity OF
some remedy. Inspector Mclaughlin
admits that the criminals are almost
beyond control in that city, and he
believes that the law is to blame for
this condition of affairs. The laws
are numerous enough for there are in
the United States S24 anti.social acts
classified as crimes, but the case he
wishes to reach is not reached by a
specific law. The inspector wants a
law that will provide that whoever
has been convicted OF a felony, or
whoever has been convicted as pick.
pocket, thief or burglar, having no
visible means OF support, found loiter.
ing about public places or on the
streets and unable to give n satisfac
tory explanation of his presence, may
be imprisoned for not more than six
months.
On the other hand. the socIologist
will ask
How will such a law prevent
crime?"
When the criminal lr born. society
does nothing to prevent aim from con.
tinuing a criminal. In period OF 40
years in the last century statistics
show that the population of this coun-
try increased ITO per cent. while the
proportion OF criminals increased 445
per cent This does not look as II we
had treated the crime problem with
any great degree OF intelligence
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1906-12-14
Diagram Of the Ditch Cleaner.

pendlcular side acts like a landslide.
The other side is beveled something
like ploughshare and is faced with
steel This side, says the Montreal
Herald, is made longer than the other
and II IS this side that shoves the
earth out of the ditch. The hitch is
not at the point like n snow plough,
but about ten inches TO the right of the
point, as shown in the Illustration,
which Is adjustable.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1906-12-14
youno Man Extensive Traveller.

Lord Ronaldshay, though only
thirty years OF age, probably has done
more travelling for his age than any
man living Few people know moro
than he about the Himalayas and Per.
STA. He has also found time to ex'
plore Kashmlr Baluchistan, Ladak.
Thbet and the Persian gulf, to say
nothing of Ceylon.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1906-12-14

ton to take them That is the case
with the majority Of criminals Now
and then you may find an old Grim.
inal who wants TO reform. But those
cases are exceedingly rare"
This feeling is shared by about all
the men who are, engaged in the occu-
patton OF running down criminals and
cndoayorlng TO prevent the perpetra.
ton Of crime Robert Pinkerton once
expressed practically the same views
TO me, and only TIE other day Samuel
j. Barrows, corresponding secretary
Of the Prison Association OF New York
told a story whore ne was made the
victim OF a pretended reformed Grim
inal The man had come to him with
tale OF reform; small loan was
made to him and repaid followed by
confidence resulting in the advance Of
quite a sum Of money for goods to set
him mp In business Since that ad.
vance no word has been heard from
The so.callod reformed criminal The
incident, however did not affect Mr.
Barrows faith. for he silll believes
there Is good In many criminals and
that assistance should be given to
them TO reform. But with the profess
sioual thief catcher II Is a different
matter. They are daily brought in
contact with such a low order Of hui
mauity and daily sec the lowest side
of degraded humanity. 40 that they
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1906-12-14
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A DITCH CLEANER.
Good Thing to Use in Connection With
Road Scraper.

In connection with the road scraper
a ditch cleaner is used to pass the
earth from the side bitches up the
grade far enough for the road scraper
to reach It. The ditch cleaner is
made something after the fashion Of
n snow plough. but the left.hand side
is made shorter and the side is made
vertical so that in practice this per.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1906-12-14

Mittens made from a pair of old
wooden trousers beat leather gloves
or mittens for handling ice. They dry
soft and without shrinking, when wet
Farm and Home.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1906-12-14

TO cut for a gate The fence is foui
and half feet high. The side pieces
to the stairs are seven feet long,
slightly imbedded in the ground. The
steps are put in and hand support
built up one side.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1906-12-14

The Montenegrin minister OF agri.
culture is a practical man. Poultry
breeding is at present engaging his at
tention, and in his Office he has had
a hen sitting to hatch n special brood
Of chickens. There are now nine
chickens chirping round his chair.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1906-12-14

II man has a marble quarry he
asks: What can | do with marble?
He builds. he seeks other builders.
The possession OF a power, like the
possession of an estate, impels to use.
to gain, to service.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1906-12-14
STILE OVER WIRE FENCE.
Saves Clothing and Trouble in Cross.
ing Fields.

A correspondent of Prairie Farmer
sends a sketch of a stile that he uses
over a wire fence which he has tc
cross occasionally, but does not wis
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1906-12-14

Starch, like everything else, is be-
ing constantly improved the patent
Starches put on the market % years
ago are very different and inferior to
those Of the present day. In the lat
est dscovery-Denance Starch-all in-
furious chemicals are omitted, while
the addition OF another ingredient, in-
vented by us, gives to the Starch a
strength and smoothness never ap-
preached by other brands.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1906-12-14
May Throw Lleht on History.

While excitement regarding the Hu
henlohe memoirs is still rife in Eu-
rope, there is subdued talk in British
military circles regarding the forth.
coming appearance of a book which
will contain some OF the late duke OF
Cambrldge's yoluminous correspond.
ence A diary kept by Emperor Fred.
erick OF Germany is In safekeeping in
England and the day may not be far
distant when 1t also will be published.
Correct answers to numerous histor.
ical enigmas may be expected from
such a publication.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1906-12-14

Ventilation and drainage are YER,
necessary to good ice house.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1906-12-14
CRIME IN OUR LARGE CITIES
Process of the Evolution of the Criminal From Boy
hood Traced By Inspector Mclaughlin of New
York-7hat City Clearing House for Crime
-Few Reformations Recorded.

have these children 10 become honest
and useful citizens?
Professor Poellmann, Of the Univcr.
slty of Bonn, Investigated the charac.
ters of the descendants Of woman
who was a confirmed drunkard. He
traced her descendants for six gener'
atiOns through a posterity numbering
S34 persons, and obtained a record OF
7O9 of them, lie found that lO7 were
Of illegitimate birth, lG2 were profes.
sional bcggars, Ga inmates Of aims.
houses, ISL women OF bad rcputo, 7G
convicted Of serious crimes, and seven
convicted Of murder, Another stats.
tician-the Roy. O. McCulloCh-traced
the histories Of 1850 criminals and
paupers who were descended from a
criminal who lived In Kentucky In
1890, and he asCcrtaiued that among
these descendants, nearly all Of whom
were criminals, l2l were women OF
bad reputc. In tracing S3l descend
ants OF two sisters who died in 1925,
the Rev. Or Stocker OF Berlin found
that IS OF them had served 1lG years
in prison, 1914 were women OF bad re.
pute, 1OG were illcgitImate children.
II were dcEeneratc5. AZ bcggars and
81 paupcrs.
Three Tenets Of Crime
Dr. & Frank Lyiston. professor Of
criminal authropolugy Of the Chicago.
Kent College OF Law, says there are
three tcnets Of crime:
Il. The criminal and vice classes
are the product OF certain influences
Of hcrcdity, conEcEital and acquired
disease, and unfayurdbc surroundings
involving perniclous teaching and cx.
ample, physical necessities and other
social maladIcs.
"2 The Influences result in n class
Of persons OF low grade Of develop.
mcnt physically and mentally, with
"A defective understanding Of their
true relations to the social system In
which they live Sach persons have
no true conception of that variable
thing called morality, and, in the case
Of the criminal, no respect whatever
for the rights Of others. save in 80 far
as It may be compelled by fear Of
punishment Some become criminals,
some paupcrs, inebriates or insane.
80. These subjects are character.
lied. upon the average. by certain
anomalies of development that consti
tutc the socallcd 3iigmata. or marks
of degencraCy. In them, vice, crime,
and disease go hand in hand"
DR. LydstOn classliies criminals un.
der the following heads
!. Instructive criminals: Born
criminals the moral imbecile, or so
called moral instane, the stable fac.
tor in criminality
2. Criminals by impulse: The oc.
casional criminal, criminals by pas.
sion, criminals from accidental or in.
tcrcurrent factors Of disease, in.
ebricty, necessity, or social excite.
ment
3, Epilcptic and insane criminals
4. Political criminals.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1906-12-14
What Is the Remedy

Now, the analysis OF crime is all
well enough in its way, but the prac.