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The evening world., 1912-03-09

W0Stsd bis Wreogh In Wild PUSHES. After fourteen rounds Of thMI Will
u crowd wss hooung the blsck-haired local favoite and calling him
~Udttsr." NcConnsll stopped his headlong flight just long enough to stik
- NAlm blow. The rushing Franey fell like . log The referee tolled Of
- seceaA. Mcconnell stood over Jim. and a. he rose knocked him DON,
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most brutal. I think, that I over saw
either in . ring or outside. Poor
Franey held Mcconnell cheap. al.
though the Olympic Clubs Idol had
done some great fighting In his home
town. He held him cheap. and didn't
train Nraney. red-haired Irishman.
contemptuous with an Irishman's
contempt for other lighting men.
oven those Of Irish blood like Nc.
Connell. spent his training season
trying TO drink all the red liquor at
the r%oadhouse where he was sup
posed to be working. A. . result he
came Into the ring soft aud fat and
apparently . little fuddled.
Mcconnell. . beautiful boxer and
. dangerous hitter. but a. cautious .
man ~ eve aspired to . champion.
ship. boxed cleverly on the defense
and backed away. while Franey
The evening world., 1912-03-09

Jess and Eddie MoAishou have decided to ,r
The evening world., 1912-03-09

Ihum's White Elephant Bowling Aflevs
aAd Billiard PaSior. 81st %. . BreoAWcs.
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our heads as they do, and-there she
is. Yes, there is a misshapen golf ball
hanging in the sky in the direction of
Baden Baden.
Almost before we have had time to
think of the exact smile, she is near
enough to be a huge cigar. Now a
cloud darkens her, and she is a gigan-
tic slug. Another minute and there she
is over our heads, a huge, white, OBJ
long ship, her four metal propellers
glittering beautifully in the sun, a lit
tie bulge below her middle showing
the passengers cabin, and two others.
cne toward each end, the boats which
carry her crew. es9
Rehind her, like bplane with YER
teal side pieces. is fixed her huge
steering gear. and above it floats the
PrussIan flag. loud but gentle hum
reaches us from her engine. She floats
Oft round Frankfort a bit for the pas
senger's sake. Sometimes she appears
to be almost vertical Then she turns
and is over our heads again Then
dipping her nose and following it with
her tail. she zigzags gently down. A
whistle blows, tue army runs forward,
ropes are thrown from the ship and
seized by the soldiers. and in another
moment she is gently gliding along
Just above the earth's surface. She is
enormous. and white, and smooth
moving. and gentle.
Everything connected with her
seems to happen just as it should. and
as she is led gently toward the shed
and fastened to the little trolleys on
the lines that run her in, and as the
l.. I,., - 4
that hang from her for the purpose,
lest she should wish to rise and bump
the roof. we are astounded at the
ease with which the cumbrous struc-
ture of canvas and metal and ma
chinery is Unanswered. They handle
her jes' like as if she were a baby"
says an admirtng American near us.
A passenger--yge see only one-steps
down from the cabin Oh ladder plac-
ed for him. The ship herself does not
touch the floor; she rests only on two
little humps of aluminium that pro-
ject down from beneath the two boats
on her under surface.
The passenger looks happy, but very
pale. our American friends explain
this The fare is $50 marks. But We
envy that passenger. He tells us that,
whether the ship was vertical or turn
ing or dipping or soaring, he felt moth
tag of ii. All the time one swift
smooth sensation OF moving, Sky and
clouds and birds your companions,
and beneath YOU a wide panorama OF
fields and mountains and forests and
towns. When | have got $50 marks to
spare I shall ride in an airship.
There are now Il in Germany. eount~
ing the military ships, and two leave
Frankfort with passengers every
week An aerepane is more thrilling
TO watch, but to realize the extent to
which the conquest of air has reached
recommend you to watch the swift,
the smooth, the majestic. the noiseiess
landing of an enormous airship.-Lon-
don Express.
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the Universalist church also a membe
of the Joseph Lincoln Post, G.. A. r.
OF Sidney Grange.
The floral offerings were numerou.
and beautiful. The bearers were Chas
Phibrick. Arthur Hammond anc
Charles and George Graves. The inter
ment took place in the North Sidney
cemetery.
Among the out of town relatives and
friends who attended the funeral 81
the late /. n. Waite were Mr. ant
Mrs. s. Ferdinand Waite. son Demont
and sister, Helen, from Roslindale
Mass; Mrs. Helen Chase. Mr. and Mrs
George w. Merrill and Edwin Sher-
man of Augusta, Mrs. Olive Bragg and
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Stevens of Oak
land, Mr.. and Mrs. Austin Bragg oil
Waterville. Mr.. and Mrs. Will Foga
of Dorchester. Mass; and Mrs. Nina
Sherman Of New York.
Mir. and Mrs. viii Fogg of Dor
chester, Mass, are passing week
with the latters sister, Mrs Mary w
Moore.
B. f. Hussey and sister, Clara, ac-
companied by Miss Elva sherman OF
New Bedford, Mass, left, Thursday
for a carriage drive to Owls Head
where they will pass week in Rain
bow Cottage
Miss Nan Scouller of North East
Pa, arrived Saturday tor a visit at
the home of her cousin. Miss Minnie
c. Moore.
Arthur Day from Massachusetts is
a visitor at A. 7. Clark's.
Guy H. Lyon left Sunday for car
riage drive to Pittsfield, where he will
visit relatives. He WAS accompanied
by Miss Ruth 2Runnelss of that city
who has been passing the summer in
town.
Hiss Ruby Dority is visiting friends
in North Arson.
Ed Green of Keene, \. H., who has
been in the employ OF S. A. Clark for
several months. left, Saturday for
Canada West
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SIDNEY.

NORTH.-The funeral services of
the late Silas Newton Waite, an aged
and highly respected citizen of this
town who passed to the higher life
Thursday morning, Aug. 9Th. occurred
at P. NJ. Saturday, at his late resi-
denee on the Middle road. Rev L. W.
Coons of the Winthrop street Univer-
salist church, Augusta. ofiieiated.
The deceased was born in Sidney.
Feb. 1896. and was the son of the late
Silas and Abigail (Moorel Waite. being
the third of family of five children.
two of whom survive They are Mrs
Olive Bragg OF Oakland, and Mrs.
Helen Chase of Augusta. Beside the
sisters three children. Charles T., of
this town. S. Ferdinand of Roslindale,
Mass. and Miss Helen A. Waite, who
has tenderly cared for him during his
declining years till June last. when
sickness befell her. survive.
The deceased had teen in feeble
health for several years, but the end
was not expected till within a few
days of his demise.
Mr.. Waite was man Of excellent
character, and held the love, conf
dence and respect of all who knew
him. He was a veteran of the Civil
War. and had held public Office in
town, serving as town clerk for many
years. He was a staunch member of
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the purpose of manufacture and sale
of pianos organs and all kinds of mu-
steal instruments. with $4,000 capital
stock, of which nothing is paid in. Of
ficers; President. Albert F. Jones OF
Portland: treasurer, T. L. Croteau oil
Portland. Certificate filed, Aug. r.
1912.
Mackinaw Co, organized at Port
land for the purpose of building and
operating steamships and other yes
sells. with $4,000 capital stock, of
which nothing is paid in. Officers;
President, Albert F. Jones of Port
land: treasurer, T. L. Croteau of Port
lard. Certificate filed, Aug u, 1892.
The Portland Knitting Co. organ
lied at Portland flor the purpose of
manufacture and sale of cotton, wool
and other yarns and threads, with $40
600 capital stock, of which nothing is
paid in. Officers: President. Samuel
Seiger Of Portland: treasurer. .Benja-
min Ross of Portland. Certificate filed,
Aug. Is. 1912.
Grace Dollar Steamship Co. organ
lied at Portland for the purpose of
building and operating steamships
and other vessels, with 500, 900 capital
stock. of which nothing is paid in. Of
ficers: President, Albert f. Jones of
Portland; treasurer, T. L. Croteau of
Portland. Certificate filed, Aug IL,
1912.
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lieved that st. Brendan did go away
on very long journey of many years
and that he did sail to the westward.
And 1t Is worthy of belief that the
Fortunate Islands which he visited
were the southern coasts of North
America, that is, Georgia and Flor
ida. And it is also believed that he
found white men living there in peace
with the natives, whom we call In
dams, and whom the Norsemen called
Skrellings, and those white men Were
Irishmen. who had made their way
to America before st. Brendan."
Continuing. Mr.. Holmes argued that
the reports of navigators to which
Columbus alluded, when questioned
before starting on his first voyage.
We're reports related by Gudrid at
Rome when she returned from New
England, the reports of Bishop
Erick to the Vatican, and the descrip-
tom of Vinland in a Latin book writ
ten by Adam of Bremen and pub
lished in the year 1912. From the
life of Christopher Columbus, writ
ten by his son, Ferdinand, ii is
known positively that while the de-
SiBh w dlltHipllHS the discovery in
the West was maturing I'm his mind,
Columbus made a voyage to the
North and visited Iceland. When
Columbus was in Iceland only 100
years had elapsed since the last
Morse expedition to Vinland.
He discussed in some detail the
voyages of Erick the Red, whom the
speaker characterized as the first
European who ever doomed real es-
tate on the Western Continent and
doomed it so successfully that col
ony fiourished there for several hun
dred years" The missionary Jour-
neys of Left. the son of Erick the
Red, We're also considered and many
details supporting the claim that the
irish We're in America long before
the Norsemen
The forenoon period at the library
school was given over to instruction
by Mrs. johnson in regard to refer
ence books in literature and cata-
loguing. Mrs. Johnson Will lecture at
$50 P. NJ, Wednesday, upon the sub
ject, Selection of Fiction
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ETNA.

Sanford Brown and Mrs. Abbit
Richardson We're united in marriage
Wednesday afternoon at the home OF
Rev. George NJ. Jones. who, performed
tho rites.
Mrs. Maud Thompson, who has been
home for several weeks with whooping
cough, has returned to her work in
the register of Deeds office.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Friend and his
sister. Mrs. Clement of Massachusetts
passed the weekend at their cottage
at Friends Retreat
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Donaldson ar re-
ceiving congratulations on the birth
of a baby boy which arrived Aug. l.
John Friend is visiting friends in
Brooksville and SargentYille.
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Work of Labor Dept.

State Labor Commissioner John F.
Connolly returned. Tuesday. from q
trip to Washington county. where he
has been inspecting the canning es-
adjustments for the purpose of ascer-
tanning If child labor laws were being
violated. He finds the season thus far
very dull and but little work in the
canning industry under way.
Deputy Labor Commissioner Hem
ry NJ. Donnelly is in York and Cum
herland counties, inspecting the small
er manufacturing plants. with especial
reference to the enforcement of the
laws relating to the employment of
women and children. He will probably
return the last of the week.
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New Corporations.

The following corporations have fill
ed certificates Of organization. under
the general law. at the department of
State:
Empire Mfg. Co., organized at South
Berwick for the purpose of carrying
on a general manufacturing business.
with $4,000 capital stock, of which
$4,000 is paid in. Officers: President
and treasurer, Harry B. Aver of Bid
deford. Certificate filed, Aug. 10, 1912
Richards Limited. organized at Kit
terry for the purpose of dealing IN
mines lumber, pulp and water rights
with $4,000 capital stock, of which
nothing is paid in. Officers: President,
Horace Mitchell of Kittery: treasurer
c. q. Smothers of Kittery. Certificate
filed, Aug. 10, 1912.
Maff Co., organized at Portland fol
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Brunswick Road Work.

Assistant Highway Commissioner l..
D. Barrows was in Brunswick, Tues
day, on preliminary work in connee-
ton with bituminous macadam con-
struction. which is to be taken up. this
summer, in that town. 1t was decided
recently to use the bituminous in-
stead of plain macadam construction
in that town and the work. which is
to be a continuation of last years
work on the road from Brunswick TO
Freeport, will be begun at once.
State Highway Commissioner Par
ker L. Harrison was in Kennebunk,
Tuesday, in connection wit htrunk line
work
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BENEVOLENT Corporations.

The following organizations nave
filed certificates of Incorporation a.
the department of State, under the
provisions of Chapter 81 of the Re
vised Statutes:
North Paris Cemetery Association
organized at West Paris to own, con-
troll and improve the North Paris
cemetery. officers: President ana
treasurer, Wilmington w. Durham
West Paris; clerk. Addison j. Abbott
North Paris; directors. Fred A. Dun :
ham, Arthur A. Durham, North Par
is; Wellington w. Durham, Wes'
Paris.
East Hodgdon Union church, organ
lied at Hodgdon. for religious ano
benevolent purposes. Officers: Presi'
dent, Herbert A. Crane; secretary
Susie NJ Varney; treasurer, Phoeot
r. Grant: trustees, John w. Z. Grant
William Moore. Edward Henderson.
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EARLY DIscovERERsp
Subject of Lecture Before Summer
School by Librarian Holmes.

The feature of the session. Tuesday.
OF the State library summer school
was the lecture upon Early Dis
coverers of America by State Ii
brarian Herbert f. Holmes He said
in part:
1T is such well established fact
of history. today, that 1t sounds trite
and commonplace to say that Amer
lea was known to the Norsemen in
the year 1000. But it may not. per-
haps, be so we'll known that the east
ern shores of America from New
roundland TO Florida We're well
known to and much travelled and
voyaged by the Ieelanders and the
Irish for many years. one almost
might say for centuries before the
year 1000.
The Norsemen by whom we mean
the Scandinavians anc the people of
Iceland and Greenland, made many
voyages and journeys to America be-
fore and after the year 1000. Settle
ments and colonies were established
on the shore of what is now New
England. One colony, at least, re-
:, manned in New England for a year
or more. One white woman, Gudrid.
wife of Thorfin Karlsefni. lived here
with her husband in 1007-0S and their
child Snorra was born here in the
year 1908. Catholic priests came here
from Iceland and the Catholic See of
Greenland extended its jurisdiction
over the new countries to the west
called by the Icelanders Vinland 1t
is also known that in the year 1121
Catholic bishop by the name OF
Eric Upse came to what is now New
England
1.-THE credit for the original discov-
cry of America by Europeans must
of certainty belong to the Irish.
The first record we have is the story
of st. Brendan. the great Irishman
who lived in the sixth century after
Christ, dying in the year ST.. This
story cannot be accepted unreservedly
as history 1t is the legend of st
Brendan and for generations was
handed down by word of mouth. II
was first written in Latin and called
DE Fortunatis insults and trans
lated into French about 1920 Popu-
lar tradition always identified the
Fortunate Islands of St. Brendan with
America. According to the legend
ST Brendan descended to the lower
world. where he witnessed the tor
ments of the devil and the damned
and subsequently he came to the
Fortunate Islands and then to Para
disc. AT the end of nine years he
returned to Ireland and gave an ac-
count of his journeys. Now il is be.
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Requires Hooks, Trolleys and Ballast
Bags to Keep on Ground.

If you are in Frankfort, a thing which
may happen to anybody. go and see ar
airship arrive. You may have to get uI
at 6 in the morning, but it is worth 1t
You will drive out of the town in a few
minutes, even il you have to take q
horse-taxi, as 1 did 1t was sorry
looking horse, but when the driver knew
that his destination was the airshr
ground he got wonderful speed out OF
the animal. All good Germans are air.
ship mad just now.
Frankfort is one of those happy towns
that has no suburb and in about 10 min
utes you are among the wheat fields, the
peoples, tram line and sharp to the
right the huge Enclosed field. Sixpence
lets you through the gate, and q quarter
of a mile on you see vast oval shed
1t is partly brick, but mostly glass and
iron, miniature Crystal Palace with
an oval roof. and two huge doors at each
end reaching from the ground to the
roof.
AS we watch. 16 men working levers
in couples cause the doors at one end
slowly TO open. The airship is due in 4
couple of hours and they take no risks
in such matters in the Fatherland. Al
ready a small army of men in uniform
scatters itself about the ground, and as
we are smoking one of them promptly
informs us that there is no smoking
allowed. We are half a mile off the
gasometer and hundred yards from the
shed.
mot out here?" we ask in our best
German. "Other days, yes" he says
hut today MOI ship comes" 1t is
well to be on the safe side; the ship has
already started from Baden-Baden.
We solace ourselves with eggs and
coffee and the excellent but In England
politically despised. black bread and but
ter. This we get at one of set of
small tables ranged along one side of
the shed. Outside there is little
kitchen, and our breakfast is beauti-
fully cooked, Along the whole length
of the floor of the shed run two pairs
of rails some 80 yards apart. The
building is nearly 500 feet long. The
rails take the little trolleys on which
ropes from the ship are fixed. by
means of which men can pull it
along in the shed. Iron steps lead up
one side of the shed to its glass and
metal roof, below which runs a plat
form.
A uniformed man walks along to the
end and gets outside. He carries a
trumpet, which he will blow as soon
as he sights the ship. A bell rings and
the army comes in to breakfast. So We
stroll out into the sun, and, carefully
hiding ourselves in wood a mile off.
smoke in surreptitious safety. Then,
as we walk back across the field, the
trumpet brays. and half a hundred
loyal and early-risen German men and
women trot in the appropriate direc-
ton. We trot after them. throw back
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Meeting Society of Civil Engineers.

District Engineer Cyrus C. Babb
and Assistant Engineer Frank E.
Pressey of the State Water Storage
Commission will go to Portland,
Wednesday, 10 attend the summer
meeting of the Maine Society of Civil
Engineers, which is to be held in that
city, Wednesday and Thursday, at the
Congress Square Hotel. A feature CT
the meeting will be the visit to Fort
Williams. at Cape Elizabeth, and the
inspection of the big buns there The
society will remain at the military
post to attend the parade -
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Insurance Company Admitted.

The State insurance department.
Tuesday, admitted to do a fire insur-
ance business in this State the IN
diana Lumbermen's Mutual Insurance
Co. of Indianapolis, Ind. This COM
pany was Incorporated. in 1897, and
commenced business the same year.
The officers are: President. {. e
Foster: secretary, F. B. Fowler the
company has admitted assets of $295,-
96415. with total liabilities of SlS9,-
6255S, according to report made, Dec.
81, 1911.
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Setting Plates for Tape.

Plates were being set. Monday, in
the concrete floor of the basepient of
the State House, for the 100-foot tape,
which is a part of the standard set of
weights and measures recently obtain
ed for the State. The work was done
under the direction of Comr. of Agri-
culture John p. Buckley, who is also
State sealer of weights and measures.
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DIABETES.
Treatment That Costs Nothing II IL
Fails to Benefit.

Diabetes has long been considered an
tncurable disease and the only hope held
out to patients has been to prolong their
years by abstemious living. A newly
discovered plant In Mexico called Dia-
betol herb has been found to be speci-
fic in the treatment of diabetes, quickly
reducing the specific gravity and sugar,
restoring the weight and building up the
eystem.
The treatment is very inexpensive:
e1.C0 worth of the herb win last two
weeks and will remove the worst symp-
toms In the most aggravated cases. Call
at our store and see the proofs and get
q free booklet of diet lists, showing the
proper foods for diabetes. Bowditch,
Webster q Co. VS.
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AN AIRSHIP AT REST.

Dec. 31-Jan 2-Western Maine Poultry
Show, Norway.
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I telephone and Telegraph
Taxes Committed.
IrishFirst Discovers Of Ameri-
ca, Says Librarian Holmes.
Brunswick Road Work..Mew Insur.
ance Company Admitted.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Regular Meeting of Governor and
Council, Monday, Aug. 10. at 1870 p. M.

The State Board of Assessors,
tuesday, committed to Hon. James r.
Singleton of Bangor, treasurer of
State. the tax upon the telegraph and
telephone companies OF the State. A
tax of S6494.34 is imposed upon the
three telegraph companies of the
State and a tax of $S4.0Sl.sS upon the
80 telegraph companies doing bust
ness In the State, as follows
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-09-13
GET A SACRED EGYPTIAN LOTUS LEAF FOR YOUR HAT AND TRIM IT WITH THE
FRAGRANT FLOWER

hat such as this was not employed
by the fascinating Cleopatra to make
herself irresistible in the eyes OF hep
steady Marc Antony.
Going still further back in the inter-
esting pages of history. did not Eva
wear a homegrown lid" like Anness
to reduce the cost of living in thu
Garden of Eden days?
There are not more than half a.
dozen places in the United States
where the sacred Egyptian lotus
(nelubium speciosum) grows. No one
has ever been able to explain. salts
factorily. how this gorgeous flower OF
the Nile, with it's millinery attach-s
ment, came to be transplanted to two
baby lakes in far-off Michigan. But
thousands of them are there in all
their creamy beauty.
These big, fragrant flowers with
their wide-spreading leaves, which
gracefully sway and ripple with every.
undulation of the lakes bosom, stand
several feet out of the water, each on
a long stem. In general appearance
they are much like a water lily, al
though several times larger.
In color they are lemon yellow and
emit a heavy, intoxicating, oriental
fragrance of infinite sweetness that,
il breathed long enough, the ancients
believed, would transport one to para
disc. s
The blossoms range from ten to-
twelve inches across when fully open.
The leaves are from eighteen to thirty
inches. They are cupsllaped on the
stem and give the appearance of q
sunburst.