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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-02-04
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anguished death. I could summon mp some conception of the little troop of cavalry under Cromwell, the nucleus of the future Ironsides.
 But used to find 1t far easier to brood on the consequences of that civil war, then begun, consequences political and re- ligious, of everlasting significance in the evolution of the Anglo-SaXo people Wonder, for instance, I had passed the stately manor and parks which William the Conqueror took from the Saxon Earl of Mellent and bestowed on Henry de Newburgh, Earl of Warwick and which now belongs to Lord Willoughby ce Broke. The Lord Willoughby of Crom- wells time was in the army of the parlia- ment, as fervent a partisan as any. one of the popular errors of today is that the parliamentarians were all louts and clod- hoppers, the royalists all gentlemen. There is a vain notion in many minds that the side of the people in any controversy is sure to be vulgar, and that a real ar's- tocrat can never be a convert to radical ism. But here was an excellent illustra- ton of the precise opposite. The English people would almost certainly have lost their liberties to the Stuarts had not the educated and landholding class proved largely the prophet of democracy. The struggle in parliament was a struggle of fine intellect and culture against intellect no finer though aristoeratic, which is to say, courtly. When Hampden fell at Chalgrove Field, as true gentleman and patriot received his death wound as ever put lance in rest or dashed across the lists in the old days of chivalry. And Cromwell was Hampden's cousin. The cause of the parliament was not a whit more vulgar than the cause of the King; and 1t was thousands of times i1ore moral
 Puritanism now and then gets fierce
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MICROSCOPE-NO 2-By Dr. w. E. Evans

mucilage that one foothold will sustain the whole body when the fly so desires.
 If you will examine the footprint of a fly through the magnifying glass you will find tiny dots of mucilage corresponding with the hairs on the mucilage pads. This gum hardens very quickly, and if fly should happen to be in ill health and weak, too weak to drag himself along, he will die at the point where he made his last stand. You have often noticed, even in winter, dead flies sticking on the walls or on window panes. For some req son they could not lift their feet and loosen the mueilage, and so died, held by the feet. So fine are the hairs about the pad of gum that 1900 are found on each foot. Each of these hairs is a hollow tube through which, as well as through the nipple. the mucilage is forced out How amazing Is all this. Yet, I shall rot hope hereby to excite your admiration and love for the fly. He is a dangerous crea- ture, a conveyor of disease and death and an unSpeakable annoyance.
 referred the microscopicaly fine hairs on the hy's foot, but they are large when compared with the scales that cover the human body. Scales, do you say? Yes, sir, scales. You may not like the thought, my young friend, but she. whom YOU think is more like an angel than fish. has scales; and so have you. Ask a der matologist what he has seen under the microscope when applied to the human body. He will answer, Scales. sir,
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all have many. How often in cases of ill., ness do we leave postage stamps exposed; for there are those at a distance eager to know how the sick one is progressing and without thinking of danger, we dash off a letter, having licked the stamp, and soon there is another case of illness in the home.
 While l am writing this I have at my right hand one of MaeterlinckS most charming books. It is. ''The Life of the Bee" If the reader has not read it let him get it at once. It is not technical book but is written in popular style and is full of fascinating information. It is not within the scope of Maeterinck to give the physiology of the bee as he may be studied under the microscope, hut others have given us such facts as awaken our profoundest wonder.
 Maeterinck says, on page 4S We can not tell in what magical formidable fash ion things may be reflected in the 6000 or 7OOO facets of their lateral eyes and the triple cycopean eye on their brow" What does he mean? Your microscope will tell you
 head a large. rounded compound eye, and on the forehead three eyes united by a single lens. The compound eyes are very complex in their structure. Externally they are divided into a great number of heXagonal lenses. Of these lenses the queen bee has 5000 on each side; the work
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"HE bacteriologist has almost iniln-
 ite resources for making us uncom-
 ! fortable. He has examined every thing under his microscope, and in all ms experiments he has found germs. If we handle money we should wash our hands immediately afterwards; if we hold on to e strap in a street car, having given our seat to a lady, we are clutching billions of microbes, some of which we transfer to our eyes, to our lips or to our ears de- posting them where they may infect us with wretched diseases.
 My magnifying glass is not strong enough for me to detect these disease makers but I have looked through the microscope of bacterioogist who was hunting 'culture'' of a new disease that had sprung up in the community. Fln- ally he found them. He said, Now look" I looked, and there they were.
 While the bacteriologist may not give us comfortable seusations, he gives us what is better, information. He now tells us never to lick a postage stamp, especially if there is typhoid fever or scarlet fever in the house. Floating germs. clnging to dust, find ready lodg- 1nent on the gum of the stamp, and are licked off when we moisten the stamp with our lips. The microscope shows that there are five times as many dread full organisms on postage stamps that are exposed to the air, as on others, though
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fly "the devils needle,' because it was once believed that this insect had the power to sew up the ears of bad peo- ple." He is one of the most harmless of creatures.
 I have spent much time with ants. Sol- omon says, "Go to the ant thou slug gard" I have gone to the ant, and have learned some wonderful things which I may relate hereafter in another paper. Just now I mention the ant for two req sons. First to say I have found a ape- cles of ant in the south, and in Alabama. whose acquaintance I had never made be- fore. This creature is very small. brown and is quick to emit a burning acid on the hand. His habitat is out doors. never quick as those of the water bug, and his resentfulness at interference as speedy as that of the wasp. l have known many sorts of ants, but this one is new to me. The second reason l had for referring 10 ants was that I might mention flies with some sort of logical order.
 There is an ant in the Philippines whose life is spent in destroying the larvae of the fly. so that there are few flies, com paratively in that country. He bites the larvae until all signs of life are extinct should there be any signs of resistance shown by squirming, whole company of ants will bounce down upon the larvae until all motion is over: then the larvae is dragged to the ants home mad put away for future food. The British He'd
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they had determined that the church must be Protestant at all costs, and they defined Protestanism as the authority Of spiritual, i.e. othodox. persons over the moral and even political destinies of the nation. It was this desire of the English PuritanS to establish a presby- terial authority over the national con- science which provoked from John Milton, that relentless independent, the fierce eX- plosion "Presbyter is priest writ large"
 The third division of the Puritans was far more strongly distinguished They were the separatists, and they were far more numerous than they seemed and still more influential than their numbers would
 indicate To these men the root of the political trouble was the attempt to make the national religion a government re- sponsibility. If men would get rid Of Charles an Laud and Strafford as enemies of the peoples liberty it was necessary to close the gate whereby they passed from the function of the legislator and execu- tive to the function of pastor and teacher in spiritual affairs. The Separatists had discovered that union between church and state, with all its alluring features and attractive promises, works out to the weakening of the spiritual authority and to the corrupting of government till it be- comes sectaran tyranny. They found, too, that the evidence of human eXpe- rience along these lines was precisely what the Scriptures might have led them to expect; and so they wrought out into a code of church organization the majes- tic principle already long ago enunciated: '"One is your Master, even Christ, and all ye are brethren"
 This worked in the post reformation era, when Cromwell and Robinson and Bun van expressed the aspirations of the hu- man soul, to the indefinite multiplication
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of religious and political theorists. The Presbyterians, who were numerous in parliament, but weak in the army, took fright at excessive independence of thought, Out it is to Cromwell's sturdy radicalism that we owe the refusal of the common wealth to use repressive measures and the first declaration by an English government of the principles of Tolera- tlon, with a very capital T.
 It is a very odd thing, though written so largely in the history of New England, that the descendants of Cromwellian in- dependency created a state church in Mas sachusetts. It proves how the independ- ents were, in fact. over-awed and out numbered and rendered illogical by the waves of Puritan immigration which fol- lowed the Mayfower enterprise. Strictly speaking, Massachusetts Puritanism was founded by the third English group, that of Separatists, but that Pilgrim colony at Plymouth was speedily surrounded by men who fled from the growing tension in English political affairs, men of the Epscopalian type and others of the Pres byterian type. The point of contact be- tween these groups was their common Puritan theology, their common conviction that the will of God ought to be done on earth. Because some of them, even the majority, had always added to this belief the conviction that the church was a spe- cies of political organization, vested with authority to define the will of God and to insist on obedience, persecution inevitably arose, many innocent persons suffered, and the confusion that still persists sprang up on American soil.
 Genuine independency no doubt opens the door to infinite variety. It is the apotheosis of individual freedom and of the local brotherhood. It works some what against ironclad systems and de- bends upon spiritual and voluntary bonds
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scales" They are dermic-scales, some what like those of d fish, but, 0, so small. Their existence need not arm you. A single grain of fine sand will cover 100 of them.
 You must have noticed that now and then certain medical men, through the newspapers, say, the American people bathe too frequently; that the great 'an- washed" stand well in the the eyes of mortuary statistics as the others; that when ancient Rome built it's wonderful Thermae it's warlil1e vigor soon departed, and so forth and so on. There may. in- deed be something in this indictment. r or one may see that if the scales. na- lures cover of the pores, be constantly washed away the elemental bodily strength may ooze away too rapidly Yet, l suppose. we shall all go on with the sponge, the f1esh-brush and towels as heretofore. But let me observe. though it be foreign to my topic. that I do not think bathing a very edifying subject of conversation. I have noticed men and women, when talking to persons of the opposite sex. induging in this subject. Sorry I missed you, but when you jailed I was in my bath" said young lady to d man caller. O, mercy! What would our grandmothers have thought had they heard this? Of course, you bathe, but II be an old fogy, however, remembering best the politer side of conversation as taught and practiced in the old school.
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spesial studdy of the Fire Department. it al the details, carefully scrutinizing the best iire-engines, fire hose, fire-eXtngulsh- CTS flre-fghters and fire-water. All of the engines, hose, extinguishers and fp- perattus in Birmingham bears his name, exsept the fire-water, and they keep that in the fammily-Harry granted that boon to Paul.
 ] During all the time that Harry was sl- derman there weer many things sed and charges maid against sum of his asso- eiates on the, varius and sundry boards be served on but. newer was there a thing hinted ssainst Harry He is so goodnatured and so much in love with the world that if he had to sting enny boddy he would sting himself
 Sum times a man wins trends and springs into the lime lite of polytic<s, be- cause he is rich, or because he is a fine speaker. or because he is an abul states man, or because he is handsum, or be- cause he stands in with the gang, and in fact there air varus and sundry reesuns. all moor or less permanint, mostly .ess, why sum men get polytcal preffermint. but Harry Jones has the secret of the only reel permanint hold on the affexions of the evver changibul and effemeral public mind, and that is, he always wares a smile of welcum and is reddy with q harty hand-shake and is as optomisticil as black coon on dark nite in the im- mediate nayborhood of overstocked hen roost.
 Harry is not a handsum man--far frum 1t, but he shines in enny cumpany he gets in like a new gold dollar in a sack of in dian heds Let the Birmingham baseball | teem have chanse for the pnnint .ind go on road trip and lose II games 70 e
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jolt among American writers and the lack of historical perspective implied thereby is amazing enough. I hear men scoffing at the Puritans. but themselves the spir- itual sons of the Puritan, and actually doing what nothing short of the old Puri- tan conscience could have inspired. In- deed it is a sort of blasphemy for any American to rail at the Puritans. For the constitution of the United States had it's origin in the Puritan world of ideas. As John F'iske somewhere says, the compact signed by the Pilgrim Fathers in the cab in of the Mayfiower was the actual origin of our Declaration of Independence. It was the independence of Hampden, Pym. Cromwell. which made for the indepen- dence of the colonies, and which has gone far to make the later colonial de- velopment of Great Britain a shining model of intelligent statesmanship. Sev- enteenth century Puritanism, indeed, has the glory of introducing to mankind the dignity of individual manhood Till then a man had been so much a subject of gov ernment that his own soul had been quite obscured. It is ungra teful, to say the least, for Americans to look without reverence and gratitude at the men and the movement that brought American des- tiny to light. Now and then an extremist, whose doctrine of states rights is of ab- solute and rigid type, is heard decryinS those heroes without whose heroism there would have been no states rights recog- nized by autocrat or empire. And this reminder of Edgehil battle, october 1642, leads one gently to insist that there is no man living today In all this land but owes quite incalculable debt to the Puritans, to the Pilgrims. to the inde- pendency of Cromwell and his great as- sociates, to the flat fen country on the eastern edge of England. of which the county of Buckinghamshire is the ag-
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CT has 5000, while the drone has 12,000 Be- heath each lens there are cones, nerve- rods and numerous avenues to the brain. Each of these lenses reflects the image thrown upon It. Why the drone should have the power to see so many more ob- jects at once than the worker does not ap- pear It may be in order that he may more readily see how to get on without working. It is so in the lives of men, sometimes. We do not understand how certain men manage to live. They nave no money, no profession, and yet they dress well, and sometimes entertain at the club as elaborately as anybody else. We cannot see how it is done; they can and do. If we were to ask them how it is done. I suppose they would say, Its a gift"
 More remarkable than the eyes of the bee for number, are those of the dragon fly. To the unaided vision he appears to have but two eyes; but the microscope will show you that each of these appar- ently single eyes is an eye-cluster num- berng about 15,000 facets, or little eyes, each acting independently of the others The dragon fly. therefore, is much ,nis- understood People think that he will sting, bite and infuse poison. He is the deadly enemy of mosquitoes, true; put is harmless to man. He has no sting, HOT has he anywhere in his anatomy single provision for a poisonpouch. Children are taught by servants to call the dragon
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ical Journal gave a most interesting &C., count of this ant I said that compara- lively there are few flies in the Philip pines because of the good offices of the ant We ought to import this ant if he will only confine himself to fly killing. For the fly is a most effective conveyor of disease germs. But what of the fly, as the entomoogist sees him under the mi scroscope?
 Here in our warm country our flies go bare-footed and bare-legged. They need no shoes or stockings. But in cold coun- tries it is quite different. They wear long stockings to protect themselves against the weather. These stockings, covering feet as well as legs. are wrought of soft silken hair which nature has made to grow with great profusion. Where they flourish one of our bare-legged creatures could not live; his feet would soon be- come frost bitten.
 If you place one of our common flies under the microscope you will be amazed at his hideousness, and you will be struck with wonder at the formation of his feet. The ny's foot has two tiny pads with little hooks above them. The pad is covered with fine. short hairs and has a nipple in the center. Behind the nipple there is a bag filled with trans parent mucilage. This mucilage eXudes from the nipple by reason of the pressure of the foot in walking; so that at every step the fly glues himself to the surface whereon he walks. So tenacious is the
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- JJNNINC; east from Stratford-on- T Avon and then turning more to the ! A south, is the Banbury road. It goes through Welesbourne Hastings ana Kineton and crosses the Edgehill district into Oxfordshire. At that same Edgehlll on the slope towards Kineton, more than 4o0 sturdy English yeomen laid down their lives in as inconcusive a battle as ever reddened the grass. Two hundred and sixty-nine years have gone, thls week. since Essex, advancing from the lower land, initiated the great modern revolt of the people against privilege' King Charles the First was in command on the upper hillside, with his own army and with those dashing cavaliers under Prince Rupert, eager to charge inc "Roundheads." When they did charge and broke the left wing of the parliament tarians and chased it across to Kineton they did sorry service to the King, for meanwhile the right wing of the par liament forces crumpled up the royalsts line in repeated charges and drove it. barely missing the loss of its standard back against the hill.
 Once year, in my youthful days, l used to make a. pilgrimage to OXfordshire and regularly sat down beyond Kineton and meditated on the scene where the ridge of hills struggle downward to the northwest. I often tried to fill that land scape once more with the grinding hoarse, clashing mass of angry men, fam ing with the lust of battle, all the dead Her because the fight was all English. I failed to realize what 17th century bat tery was like, or the sound of it's cannon The standardization of the armor was hard to imagine. The contrast between the two types of soldier, royalst and "roundhead," was more easily pictured, and so was the old old gory business of
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rather than upon oaths and forms to hold the n2tion or the church together. On the other hand, independency like Crom- wells carries in it's heart so fine char ity, so fine a courtesy, towards those whose judgment differs that the gain in real fellowship far outranks the loss of visible bonds and machine-made organ- zation.
 In the 17th century there were, and still in the 20th there are those who expect to find unity not in rules or creeds, but in spirit and will Taking the modern age broadly, this is becoming the common conviction. We are not all Puritans, eer- tainly we are not all Independents, but we are all conscious of sort of fellow ship, a common citizenship. vast intan- gibe brotherhood and unity which inter- faces the varying forms of political and ecclesiastical and social life. The area of friction has passed from theology to in- dustry, and even there the passions aroused are calm in comparison with tho fierce hatreds gendered by the political and religious debates of Cromwells day. For Cromwell's wise toleration has be- come the heritage of all the sons of tho Puritans and of many who do not count themselves either heirs or sons.
 Prince Rupert, at Edgehill, was a very dashing young man, a picturesque per sonalty But the rather heavy-faced commander of a certain troop of horse in the parliamentary army was the incar- nation of ideas beside which Rupert proves mere irisdescent bubble. Crosn- wells independency is spiritual and polit- ical dynamite. still rending rocks which the Long Parliament perhaps thought im- mutable and foredoomed to rend yet other rocks both Occidental and Oriental Just now that dynamite appears to be ex- ploding in China, imported by wandering children of that semi-celestial land
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had not yet heard that he was nomin- ated and the letter of notification found it's way to the dead letter office, where it was disposed of in the annual sale. With such history that letter would fetch a fabulous price at auction in 1911.
 Though no southern man has been elected President in more than three score years, the south dominated our politics until the election of Lincoln. And in this connection it may be sug gested that there is profit for any young American fond of public af fairs in a study of William L. Yancey's contrast of the northern and southern ideas as they related to government, to men, and to things.
 But it is very likely that the sun will again schine on the southern side of the hedge in 1912. All the south cannot show a more pronounced southern man than Woodrow Wilson, and at this read ing in the democratic camp it Is Will son against the field, and like as not it is Eclipse first and the rest nowhere. Democrats used to love to speculate that if John G. Carlisle had been born, had been reared, and had lived a mile north of the Ohio river, instead of a