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The new era., 1910-06-16
MARKING CHANGES OF TlME
Oldtimer Recalls Occasion Wien
Hearty Breakfast Had Reason
for Being Appreciated.

l am aware that. according to the
latest edition of the revised statutes.
eating pie at breakfast ia now peni-
tentiary offense punishable by hard
labor on the farm for period not ex-
ceeding IS years; but 1t once shared
with early rising the reputation OF a
virtuous act. There are people to-
day who are well thought Of In the
communicative even dress for din
ner," bless your heart'-who have,
none the less. eaten pie for breakfast
and who have tipped back on their
chairs hind-legs when the broom was
passed, and sat thus with such smile
upon their faces as spoke Of peace
with all the world, themselves in
cluded.
But nowadays merely to talk of SO
much fried stuff, pork and eggs and
potatoes and pancakes and SO much
sweet stun. molasses. fruit preserves.
coffee cup puddle of sugar; pie. and
all that, sends US who hear 1t to the
kitchen cupboard where the cooking
soda is, first aid to the indigestive.
To eat such a meal seems hardly less
barbarous than wearing feathers in
scalp lock. But remember that we
didn't work all day yesterday from be-
fore daylight till after dark. We
didn't tumble into bed and fall sound
asleep ere ever our heads had
touched the pillow, 80 anxious was the
night-shift Of the body's repair gang
to get on the job Of tearing out old
tissue and putting in new. We didn't
waken in the morning to find hurry
order for more raw material hanging
on the hook, and we didn't put an
edge like broken bottle on that
hurry call by stirring around at 81
kinds of temper-snarling chores. We
haven't before us whole long morn
ing with mall and glut, splitting
rails, or breaking up new ground with
a balky team-a morning 30 long that
1t becomes young eternity about
10:30 o'clock, when the front OF the
body below the waist begins again to
chafe and grind on the backbone in
spite of all the fats and sweets that
can be put in between at breakfast
to act as fender.-From Degeneration
of the Breakfast Table," by Eugene
Wood, in Everybody's Magazine.
The new era., 1910-06-16
1hree.poIlar Gold Pieces.

Beginning with the year 1854, and
ending with the year 1889, there were
639,792 of three-dollar gold coins sent
out from the United States mints, a
total value Of $1,619,376. A few were
made in the early years at the mints
at Dahlonega and New Orleans and
quite number at the San Francisco
mint up to 1860, but the bulk of these
coins were turned out by the mint at
Philadelphia. They were never coined
In sufficient numbers, these figures
show, to become really familiar to the
people outside of banks, and it is hard
ly strange that the existence of the
coin should be now largely forgotten.
-Housekeeper Magazine.
The new era., 1910-06-16
Accepting Misfortune.

There are many ways of accepting
mfsfortune-as many, indeed, as there
are generous feelings or thoughts to
be found on the earth; and every one
Of those thoughts. every one of those
feelings, has magic wand that trans
forms, on the threshold, the features
and vestments of sorrow. Job would
have said, THE Lord gave, and the
Lord hath taken away; blessed be the
name of the Lord" and Marcus Aurc'
lius, perhaps. IF 1t be no lnnger al
lowed me to love those ! loved high
above all, it is doubtless that ! may
learn to love those whom love not
yet. et."-Maeterlinck.
The new era., 1910-06-16
BEHIND THE TIMES
GENTLE CRITICISM OF THE MOD
ERN ENGLISH MOTHER.
Misguided. She Begins Early to Crush
All Individuality In Her Oaugh-
ter@American Girls Are Su-
perIor In Charm.

"The odd thing is that for all
they're SO dead anxious to marry their
girls, English mothers don't bit know
how to do it. They're right back in
the middle ages in their ideas. They
think girl should be good. and quiet,
and not too smart, and not too talka-
tive. and not different from any other
girl. Above everything on earth. she
is not to be conspicuous.
From what English girls have con-.
f1ded to my sympathetic ear, should
Judge that conspicuousness is looked
upon over here as one of the seven
deadly sins. What is there that man
wants In wife?
"Ask him and he'll reel you off q
catalogue of solid virtues. But watch
him, and you'll see him attracted
either by beauty (and the English girl
could be the most beautiful in the
world If she only knew how to dress
and do her hair); propinquity-which
is the cause of half the marriages In
England, especially the unhappy ones
(for Englishmen and girls seldom have
the chance to walk out with each
oehCAB GO ioNCi Siaoo eiiio oiiu 1AidSA1
cans In every class do, so that they're
only too likely to marry the first per-
son they really get few tete-a-tetes
With; or else-what the English
mother ignores-individualit that
something in woman which sep
arates her from the crowd.
English women generally have their
individuality quenched by parents who
want their offspring to be lay figures
draped to copy mamma. At the best.
they seldom develop marked person
ality till they are nearly thirty and
have lost the bloom of their youth and
the cream of what to the American
girls are the happiest years of her life.
"One of the most pathetic sights in
the world to me is an English ball
room full of young girls. all much of a
muchness in white. and all shy.
gauche, self-conscious. unfledged-hob-
bledehoys still. instead of having ell
tered into their kingdom of charm
ing womanhood.
"They have nothing to distinguish
them from one another. Why. their
very partners can't tell them apart,
and have to make careful mental notes
of gold bangle good teeth or stick
up thing In hair!' '"-Dora D'Espaigne
Chapman, In the New York American.
The new era., 1910-06-16
ElsilY Solved.

New York poet. at the Authors
club in Seventh avenue. told Conan
Doyle story.
"Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" he sail.
sat at dinner. on his last visit here.
beside lady who askel leave to con
suit him about some thefts.
my detective powers, he replied
are Mt your service, madam
Well said the lady, frequent ana
mysterious thefts have been occurring
at my house for a long lime Thus
there disarreared last week a motor
horn, broom, box of golf balls. a
left riding boot. dictionary. and a
Aalf-Gozen tin pie-plates.
"'Aha,' said the creator of Sherlock
Holmes. the case. madam, is quite
clear. You keep a goat
The new era., 1910-06-16
Heroism.

What hero one can be without
moving a fngerl The world IL not
field worthy Of ne, nor can we be sat
isfied with the plains Of Troy. a glori'
Gus strife seems gaging within US. yet
so noiselessly that we but Just chtch
the sound Of the clarion ringing of VIC
tory. borne to us on the breeze' Ihere
are in each the seeds Of an heroic
ardor. which need only 70 be stirred
In with the soil where they lie. by an
inspired voice or pen. 10 bs'r frpit OF
\ divine navor.---ThOreau
The new era., 1910-06-16
Rare Coin Found by c,rs.,,r

While excavating recently garden.
or of Mobile. Ala. unearthed In the
western part of that city bronze
onin Ii later cane into the posses.
zion Of c. A Dodge, n local inventor
who lad the coin photographed and
f.nt to the Smithsonian Institution,
H shington 4 4. Bcote. of the di.
Jon of history of tho institution.
az ihat the hnd Is most valuable
re., ~ tact' so rare that there Ia no
t'iu en of the coin In the National
sim According to Mr.. Bolote
: @ Il IS op Roman mntagc. struc,,
uT''s ne roign of Emperor J.. septi
7as srHeres. who ruled from 1917 to
Ill a. D.
The new era., 1910-06-16
His Reason,

And what do You like best to eat.
.Johnny?''
Fried onions
That's funny"
We'll, don't much like em, but
hey always make me SO sick th't
iafter git excused from school tn
next day"
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-02-12
MONTANA NEWS.

Traffic over the Great Northern has
been at a standstill on the east end of
the Kalispell division on account of
heavy snowslides at Paola, Skyland and
Highgate. The biggest slide, at High.
gate, was 800 feet long and Is feet
deep. 1t buried four men employed
by Grant Smith & Co., contractors.
The jury in the federal court at
Helena recently returned a verdict of
not guilty in the cases of o. c. Dallas,
former chief clerk, and J. D. Mcleod,
former chief craftsman, in the United
States surveyor generals office, who
were indicted on the charge of con
spiracy with intent to defraud the
United States.
Hunting up a justice of the peace
at nearly midnight to locate his 49,
year-old brother, who had disappeared,
F. Lykins found him in the .Kalispell
jail serving a $25 fine for having
bought tobacco for small boys, paid
his fine and took him out Archie, the
younger, who had been let go tempo
rarily, after being convicted, slipped
away from his brother and went to the
city hall to serve the fine.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-02-12
WARNING ISSUED BY ]. J. HILL.
Great Northern Magnate Sees IL
Conditions a Menace to West
ern Property.

New York.-James J. Hill, the rail
road magnate, who is in this city after
a tour through the west and northwest,
sees a menace to western prosperity in
the tendency to invest beyond the cap
ital available. Mr.. Hill says that if
there comes panic people can not
look TO the government to help because
it viii be a serious condition brought
down on the people by their own acts.
Generally speaking, however, the rail
road builder sees nothing but prosper
itv in 1870
Mr.. Hill said. = Western banks are
loaned up very closely, but still there
is plenty of money. The only menace
see IS a tendency 10 invest beyond
the available capacity. If that hap
pens the investors can not look to the
government for aid. p
Speaking 81 bis railroad Mr.. Hill
concluded fsEhe Great Northern Is IN
me condition. It Is running trans
continental mail trains on faster
schedules that were ever done be-
fore
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-02-12
CARRIED TO TREE BY EAGLE.
Strange Tragedy in Louisiana-Men
Killed Birds


Gibson, La.-His little body bruised
and torn by the talons of two giant
eagles, who kidnapped him from his
crib and carried him to the top of a
giant oak tree, two months old Rene
Thebedaux lies dead today in the The
bedaux home near Gibson.
The baby's mother had left the cradle
near the open door while she went about
her work.
With beating of wings, an enormous
eagle almost Immediately swooped at
the cradle and seized the child in its
claws and tapped to a tree ia the yard,
where another eagle was perched.
The woman s agonized cries brought
two farm hands to the house. One
attempted to climb the tree, where the
baby lay among the topmost branches,
suspended by its clothing. He was
driven back by one Of the birds, which
attacked him savagely. A shotgun was
brought from the house. but the men
were afraid to fire, because the birds
lowered about the baby's body. For
more than two hours the child lay ex-
posed to the bitter wind. while the
men hurried 70 the nearest neighb0r 3
house for a rifle. When they returned
the eagles were killed, after several
shots wer fired. The child was dead
from the cold and the wounds the birds
talons had inflicted before it could be
taken from the branches.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-02-12
ITEMS FROM IDAHO, MONTANA
And washington.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country-Numerous Acct
dents and Personal Events Take
Place-Business Outlook Is Good.


A petition has gone to Washington
asking another rural mail route from
Spangle to be known as r. f. d. No. 3.
A rousing meeting of the Farmers
union was held at Garfield, when -
new members joined, making a total
of % new members this month. State
Organizer Reed made an address.
Fears that fall-sown grain through
out the Inland Empire had been in
Jured during the recent cold weather are
allayed among farmers, who declare
that the warm winds of the past week
have thoroughly thawed out the ground.
Grain shows an excellent growth.
The Inland Empire excursion, as the
party of Spokane and Walla Walla ex-
-cursionists is officially called, arrived at
Los Angeles over the Southern Pacific
Coast line. A committee from the
chamber of commerce met them in
Santa Barbara
According to W. n. Irish, president
of the Yakima County Horticultural
union, officials Of the North Coast in
formed him when in Spokane last week
that the Strahorn line viii be prepared
to handle a part of this year s fruit
crop of the Yakima valley.
The hard rains of the last week have
brought branches of the Palouse river
up and they are filed with floating ice.
The ice has damned in several places
and men are employed TO dynamite it
from under the railroad bridge at the
lower end of Colfax
Paul Montgomery, aged 60, dropped
dead of heart failure at the w. p.
Reser ranch near Walla Walla. Mont
gomery was a convict on parole who
was sent here from Seattle last No
vember for obtaining money under
false pretenses.
Frank Stossell was robbed Of 500, a
watch and drafts for $1,000 In a Yakima
rooming house recently. Stossell was
on his way home from Oregon Thieves
entered the room while be was sleeping.
taking his trousers and all. The vic
tim was forced to borrow clothes and
money to resume Bis journey home
ward.
Spokane was included IN the zone
81 an earthquake recently, according TO
the record Of the seismograph at Con
zaea college Four distinct shocks were
recorded IA six minutes The general
direction 81 the movement Of the
earth 3 crust Was north and south, the
markings made by the instrument 81
these directions being much more pro-
u0nueed than were those east and west.
Georee Pestot aud his wife, who
witch their children were found naked
and dancing on the roof ~ their home
Az Lynaeu. near Bellingham. recently,
waiting for che Lord rs come in a
Aefy cloud and bear them 90 heaven.
oue of the children diving from ~.
posufe during the dance, were adinased
lnsaae and committed AZ tie asylum
hofh arc violent rae woman being in
3 straight jacket maaaeled hands aud
feei aad fied down n : fof when fis.
ilea bf fAe luuaey eqmuias.on - fhe
epaniY lai The fAfee ehIlaIen ~ fhf
couple hatf Ieealaed fAer reason ana
49, IA the charge ~ az hssoe'aiea
eAartes
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-02-12
MEAT TRUST AT CHICAGO is
Being PROBED.
Meat Packers Will Face Federal Grand
Jury at Chicago-Many Witnesses on
Hand-Attorney for Government Will
Try to Break Up the Huge Com
bination.

Chicago.-With leading attorneys for
Chicago meat packers in the city, the
federal grand jury is making prepare
lions in the initial movement of the
governments second big fight to break
the alleged combination of packers to
maintain high meat prices.
United States District Attorney Sims
will open criminal proceedings against
the packers with a presentation of a
large amount Of data gathered by him
self and assistants. That the govern
ment intends to wage vigorous and
hard fought campaign is believed to be
shown by the fact that civil proceed
ings are for the time made secondary to
criminal. Sims has a score of witnesses
here and has been working quietly for
several months. These are expected to
go before the grand jury, and upon
their testimony Sims expects to secure
indictments against leading packers.
VIII Boycott Meat Trust.
Poughl1eepsie, n. members of the
Glass Blowers union have voted to alb
stain from using meat after February
j until the price has been considerably
decreased.
Morgantown, ". Na.-Two thousand
employees of four glass factories and of
the American Sheet and Tin Plate COM
pany have signed a pledge to abstain
from eating meat for 90 days.
Minneapolis. II The first organized
stand in Minneapolis against the high
price of meat was taken Sunday when
more than 500 men employed in the Chi
cage, Milwaukee & St. Paul shops
joined the boycott.
Clergy Roast Meat Trust.
Baltimore. II Discussing the high
price of meat the Rev. Francis H.
Scott, OF the Catholic Union Christian
church, il a sermon Sunday said: "To
Jail with the 0ppressors Of the poor.
There is no civilized country that has
its vitality Slapped TO such a degree as
has the United States by the trusts.
The Rev. Or. Henry d. Wharton Of
Brantlin Baptist church, referring 70
the meat boycott, said: If such
great movement does not alarm the
trusts and wake up congress then
something else will happen. 1t is the
ht7l mutlefiug OF iAe distant thunder
Secretary Wilson Talks.
f" Undoubtedly Il the farms were
raising more meat the price would be
reduced, said Secretary Wilson 81 the
department 81 agriculture, IA comment
ing upon the widespread boycott
against meat products. 'JAere arc not
enough people 81 tie farms raising
food, ana too many people are going
~ fAe toHns NJ he fed.
Aree quarters ~ million PEG
pie, said Secretary Wilson, are
cQming 10 the United States annually
ffom abroad. They 10 NOT ~ ~ NJ
farms where they might help 4aise food
~ tAe naton. tafmers can pot got
heip The foreigners ~ ~ no cities
ana they base q be fed. 1he cities
produce notbiag to cat although they
~ produce something NJ drink
iinfe toH any plan fof Inducing
people to 81 81 the fafms WAafe fAey
ma} Aeip ~ laise food tAe secretary
nas ash0a
''1im hlN says fhey nill 40 there
nAen iAef go hungry faid the see
Rotary. efie shatinK Alf leaQ N reply
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-02-12

perhaps the oldest pioneer of the west.
Leaving his home in England in 1S49
he Joined the gold rush to California,
where he prospered in the hotel bust
ness. Later he lost his rapidly accumu-
lated wealth and was obliged to seek
new field
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-02-12

Are you all right, little boys' and he
answered cheerfully, yes, l I'm feeling
fine; but my mother is down there In
the water
az saw one man make his way from
the colonist car to the bridge, appar-
emily unhurt. He endeavored to walk
little farther on, but fell from the
bridge and was drowned
Woman Shows Fortitude.
Another survivor who has reached
here said: "The most terrible thing l
saw was a young Norwegian woman
about 25 years of age. When we ex-
tricated her from the burning half of
the second class car she had three
wounds across her forehead. Her right
leg was horribly injured above the
ankle, laying the flesh bare to the bone.
In that condition she walked up the
track away from the burning car and
sat at the side of the track for five
hours awaiting the coming of the
physicians. So great was the wound
in her leg that the physician IS needle
would not reach across it and / had to
hold the parts together while the
doctor sewed it up. She did not vince
or move a muscle.
EEThe worst thing was the helpless
ness of those of us who were saved.
The river was frozen Is inches deep
and the heavy cars cut clean through
the ice, not breaking it for more than
a foot on each side
Conductor Reynolds places the total
dead at so. "Only one man escaped in
the frst-class car, - said Reynolds. " He
was the man who hung to the top Of
the car for three hours
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-02-12

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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-02-12
PLUNGES INTO RIVER
PASSENGER TRAIN ON c. P. R.
DERAILED ON BRIDGE.
Rescued Passengers Tell of Agony of
Victims in Wreck on Canadian Pa
cific Railroad-Divers Work With
Disadvantage of Ice and Cold-5O
Are Dead-30 Injured.

Sudbury, Ont, Jan. 23.-With three
/ big drayloads of rough boxes waiting
to receive the bodies of about two
score victims the scene of yesterday IS
Canadian Pacific wreck at Spanish
river presented an almost hopeless field
for labor for the hundred or more men
sent to clear away the debris and re-
cover the victims bodies. A storm
ragged all day.
Two of the wrecked cars drifted
under the bridge and were completely
submerged The dining car remained
partly on the river bank and partly sub
merged.
Little remained of the second-class
coach which was split in two when it
struck the bridge girder and took fire.
Ice has closed over the frst-class
coach and the colonist ear and it is
impossible to determine their exact
location.
More than so injured were taken to
the general hospital and the hotels of
Sudbury.
The engine, combination mail and
baggage car and express car had
passed safely over the bridge when the
forward trucks of the second-class
coach jumped the track. The car
struck an immense steel girder with
such terrific force as TO snap the beam
in two and split the car as with a
cleaver. The rear of the seeond-elass
coach swerved to one side, pulling the
eolonist ear, hrst-class coach and
diner off the bridge into the river and
tipping over the Pullman beside the
track. Fire added to the horror Of
the accident.
Fed survivors are Ia condition to
give accurate details of the accident.
Survivors Of the catastrophe who
have reached here express the belief
that at least - persons lost their
lives. Owing 70 the circumstance sur
rounding the wreck Il VIII be several
days before the full extent 81 the dis
aster VIII be known
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-07
Real Estate Transfers.

The following real estate transfers
were recorded at the office of the register
of deeds during the past week:
Observation-Disclosures f. Tueil to W. Il, ~
Hutchins, both Of Augusta, land' VI. '"
A Rlackman to Daisy l.. Diplock, pom o.
Augusta, land, 81; Daisy l.. Dlpiock 10
Wallace Diplock, both of Augusta lana
Belgrade-Ellen NJ. Lyford to A. NJ
Snaultling both of Belgrade, ~land. u.
Gardiner. d. Berry and Ohye Ser
both of Gardiner to II. Guy Hatha"dS "a
Randolph. land. 81. - n.or
I,itchfield-A. W. Niles to H. n. Porter
both of Litchfield. land. 81.
Oakland-LiZzie A. Burnham TO A. u
Kicker, both of Oakland, land - Lucy
II Dearborn of Oakland to ;. NJ Kay
mond of Pittsfield. land, ST.:
Rome-Alice Wesley to Il. ID. Mosher
both of Rome. land 81. :,
Sidnev-A NJ. Guild of Augusta TO VI
w smith OF Linnfield Center. land 81;
Northumberland F.. Perciyal to WOE
NJ Glazier both of Waterville, land; 81
Asa Thibodeau to George Roderidue. botf
of Waterville, land. 81
Windsor-E. W. Halloween TO A T. fia'
pen. both of Windsor, land u. Win
Winthrop-Charles w. Barton OF WIN
throp to the w. D. Hutchins Company o.
Augusta, land 81; f. W. wall OF Med
forS Mass. to Simon Cohen of Boston
land ii: Lvtice NJ Jewett of Winthrop
ia lanes p. and Mary f. Morse OF WIN
thrnn land. 81.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-07
= MANCHESTER.

The Ladies' Aid of the Manchester
Union church will meet at the church
at > O'Clock Wednesday afternoon All
members are earnestly requested ~
he present at this meeting.
rance Burnham, who has been
worrying at the Worcester. Mass. In
sane hospital for the past few months
is home for short vacation.
Fred McCurdy visited in Augusta
Saturday.
Prof. Walter A. Meader and family
have closed their summer home on the
east side of Cobbossee and returned
to Comic, n. H.
Miss Grace A. Kendall arrived from
Rathel Saturday and will teach th'
Iongfellow school at the Forks.
I. Warren Hawkes. arrived nome
Monday afternoon. Mr.. Hawkes. mas
been attending the Friends Quarterly
Meeting at North Fairfield.