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The Prescott daily news., 1912-01-16
ONE GOOD LUCK TOKEN FAILS
Mir. Johnson's Experience Causes Him to Lose All Faith in Their
 Potency.

Good luck tokens do not always bring the results expected of them. Walter Johnson of Smithport, Pa., is half inclined to believe that they never do.
 a.r Johnson was told that if he s'1 2 a rabbits foot and carried it ccnatautlY good luck would surely o'7"'d him. He stole one, but n--e haven't worked out right at al. The day after obtaining the to- ken he was kicked in the chest by mule. The second day he was se- verc.Y beaten in a fist fight with a neigh5or. The third day he fell down three flights of stairs, and the fourth day he was robbed of SIT. The end of the first week found him confined to the house with an attack of humps.
 It may be that MT. Johnson made a mistake in obtaining his good luck token. To be effective the rabbits foot must be the left hind foot of a rabbit taken in a country grave- yard at midnight in the dark of the moon.
The Prescott daily news., 1912-01-16
FEBRUARY 3. 1912

sell the following described lands in Nevada County, Arkansas, to-wit:
 An undivided one-haIf interest in and to the Southwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter; the West Half of the West Half of the South east Quarter of the Northeast Quarter; the Southeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter; the East Half of the Southwest Quarter; the East Half of the Northwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter; the East Half of the West Half of the northwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter; the East Half of the Southwest Quarter of the Southwest Guar ter the East Half of the West Half of the Southwest Quarter of the Southwest Guar ter and the Vest Half of the Southeast 14 all in Section Twenty-siX (26), Township Twelve U2) South F tnge Twenty-two (22) West, con taining 8 !. 1crcs, more or less. at public oOt- cry to the l-heSt bidder, on a credit of three mOnths, i' frunt of the Baok of Prescott in Prescott Nevada County, Arkansas (the Bank of resCott being the building in which the Clerk office is now kept, pending the erection of the new cOurt-hOuSe there being no courthouse in Nevada County) The pur- chaser will be required to give bond with ap- proved security for the purchase price and in- terhSt.
 Witness my hand as Commissioner of said court on this. the Sd day of Januaty. l912,
 F. F. MURRAH, Commissioner,
The Prescott daily news., 1912-01-16
FOLEY KIDNEY PILLS

Bways give satisfaction because they always dc the work. J. T. Shelnut, laremen, Ga, says: I have used Foley Kidney Pills with great satisfaction and found more relief from their use than from ny other kidney medicine, and Ive tried almost all kinds 1 can cheer fully recommend them to all sufferers for kidney and bladder trouble. " Foley Kidney Pills will cure any case of kidney or bladder trouble not be- yond the reach of medicine No med icine can do more. Sold by Hesteriy Drug Store.
The Prescott daily news., 1912-01-16
LIKE SPARTAN BOYS OF OLD
North Canadian Youths Are Taught Endurance Through Exposure
 to the Cold.

Whipping and exposure without clothes as training in endurance of cold for the North Canadian native boys has curious points of resem- blance to the training of then boys of ancient Sparta. They also were inured to cold by being made to go barefoot and to wear the same clothes summer and winter; and they also underwent whipping. Only cold seems to have had nothing to do with the latter. The scourgings of Spartan boys before the altar of Artemis Orthia are supposed to have been relic of human sacrifice Gin some cases boys actually died un- der the lash). But they were un- doubtedly utilized as training in, and test of, hardihood-the boys competing to see who could endure most without a sound.
 And how such Spartan training of boys among the natives of northern Canada would have appealed to one of the Camerons of Lochiel. Sir Francis Galton records that, when bivouacking with his son in the snow Cameron noticed that the lad had rolled snowball to make a pillow. He thereupon rose and kicked it away, saying sternly, No efemi- macy, boyp'
The Prescott daily news., 1912-01-16
A PESSiMIST.

Charles E. Courtney, the fanou. coach of the Cornell crew, never de- spaired of CorneIl's prospects, ana the day before the great race Mir. Courtney gave reporter new def milton of pessimism.
 "A pessimist," he said, ''ls man who is afraid to have sunny dispo- sition for fear of giving his girl freckles."
The Prescott daily news., 1912-01-16
OLD COPY OF eACoN's ESSAYS.

Bacon's Essays, a copy of which realized f1,950 at the Huh sale, have a special title to fame. This work was the first of any importance to be translated from English into French. The translation proved g great success. In his preface to the third edition, Bqudouin, the trans lator, complains that cat least four editions of this work would have been sold by now if the booksellers had not hampered its sale by their unwillingness to place it before the public" Still, the fact that three 'ditions were called for within five }cars shows that the essays were heartily appreciated by French read
 T.. The first French version Of 5 lakespeare appeared in 1776-ovcr l5o years after the translation of Bacon.-London Chronicle.
The Prescott daily news., 1912-01-16
NOTICE

Notice is hereby given chat by virtue of a decretal order rendered by the Nevada Coun- ty Chancery Court, at it's December term. A. D. 1911. in a certain case therein pending, wherein w. A. Forbes and others were plain tiffs and TOmme Milburn and others were de- fendants that the undersigned. as special ~ fro fltta, ,Nro f1a
The Prescott daily news., 1912-01-16
GREAT IF IMITATION.

"Gygler tells his wife some tre- mendous yarns"
 "Ah, well; you can't blame him. She believes ever ing he tells her"
The Prescott daily news., 1912-01-16

Ephraim Jackson-I heard dc pahson say dis mornin' dat de debil was dead.
 Pete Johnson-Wal, dat sermon he preached las Sunday was enough to kill anybody.
The Prescott daily news., 1912-01-16
A LEGAL CURE.

"That blind man won his suit for the recovery of his building lot"
 "Ah? Then he got his site back, too."
The Prescott daily news., 1912-01-16
oh9ADOXlCAL TEMPERArURE.

"Phere is one thing which is oddly contradictory about an engine"
 "What is that?"
 "When it gets coaled. then it be- comes hot"
The Prescott daily news., 1912-01-16
AN INQUIRY.

"Pop, when the rain comes down in sheets"
 "Yes, son?" "Does it cover the bed of the street?"
The Prescott daily news., 1912-01-16
TIE CAUSE.

"What gives Jack Pointer tha, dogged expression ?" "I think it is his pug nose."
 AN INQUIRY.
The Prescott daily news., 1912-01-16

For Sale-We have several second hand buggies and sur1io and one two and one. fourth road wagon that we will sell cheap for cash or trade for hay or cattle
 W. J. White X Son
The Prescott daily news., 1912-01-16

Rev. pr. Thirdly-Ananias was the greatest liar ever known.
 MT. Thompson (proprietor of get-rich-quick fake) e)-Say, he wasn't one, two, six with my ad writer.
The Prescott daily news., 1912-01-16
SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS

SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS
 TELEPHONE co.
 RATES. Business. ....... Per Phone x2so Business Extesslon.. Per Phcns ,s Residence. .. .-..eer Phone i.5O Residence Extension Per Phone .O Telephones are time savers Let II, supply your necessities.
 A. H. SMITH. Manager
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-23
The Dress Rebellion.

The movement to break away from
French fashions and iginate Ameri-
can styles in swe44enis dress is gaining
headway. Anyone who has seen the
pannier skirt at its highest pitch. or
the "hobble'' in any one of its extreme
manifestations. will not need to be
told why a. change iso desirable. The
sheath gown, resolted a great many
women and the Mobile has created a
real feminine rebellion because of its
una.tractiye lines. So, at least, the
leaders of the new movement say. And
the striking thing about the new move
ment is that it is not, like earlier at
tempts at dress reform, being fostered
by faddists.
The movement started innocently
enough when newspaper offered prizes
for the best original designs of hats,
evening gowns, afternoon gowns and
the like, never dreaming that it was
starting a rebellion perhaps revolu-
ton, against the sadly obvious tyran-
ny of Partisan designers. 1t develop
ed at once, however, that there was a
great body of resentment on the part
of American women against the diff
ferent ways they had to boM-to the
mandates of Paris tosbe fashionable.
Just how far the movement Will spread
is of course still unknown. Within q
few weeks, however, the new styles
viii be ready and then there win be a
chance to see if they most resemble
wings or the costume of Mother Eve :.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-23
The Rum Trust System.

Further use OF that S3,000,000 booze
trust fund for providing ''paid-fo edi-
torials," is now seen in the opposition
to the Kenyon Bill. LOT ato<
While the best of magazines and
newspapers are cutting off all, liduor'
advertising, others derive. rich income
from advertising booze and selling their
editorial columns to the traffic. At the
present time the chief service of this
class of newspaper and magazines is the
discovery of lawyers who declare the
Kenyon bill proposition unconstitution-
al. Of course the editors of paid news
paper counting-rooms agree with that
doctrine and then their editorial ut
terances are promptly spread over the
country by the rum trust. A batch OF
this stuff reached the Kennebec Jour
nal office Saturday morning.
No longer ago than last Tuesday a
Washington paper published an edi-
torial that would delight the hearts of
the booze makers and sellers. That ed
itorial was reprinted on slips and came
to Augusta. Friday night, from Gin
cinnati. Pretty prompt work, wasn't
it, Must have been watching for it
with steam all up and convinced of the
necessity of haste. 1eay G -
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-23

expense of s1S447S, or clear profit
of s246,52.
"Gary's conspicuous success with
industrial training is an interesting
indication of the spread of the modern
movement for vocational education,
which insists that in addition TO
teaching the recognized branches the
school must give instruction in those
subjects that are of most immediate
value to the community which sup
ports it. In Gary the dominant in
terest is trade education; in rural
districts it is largely agriculture; in
the cities it may be stenography, type
writing, and other commercial branch
es. In any case, it is coming to be
felt more and more that an education
al system is incomplete that fails to
provide vocational training for its
citizens"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-23
HOLIDAY FIRE BULLETIN.
Especial Warning Sent out by Fire
Protective Association.

In view of the approach of the
Christmas season the National fire
protection association has issued "A
Holiday Fire Bulletin" that deserves
general notice. Among the warnings
given are the following for stores,
churches and bazars:
Holiday fires in these while filed
with people are usually holocausts.
Light, inflammable decorations make
fires easy to start and easy to spread.
defect may do it.
Watch gas Jets, Decorations may be
carried against them by air currents.
Watch smokers, Do not permit them
tc light cigars inside buildings.
Do not make the slightest change in
electricah< wiring without consulting
electrical inspector
Here is a little advice and warning
fer the insured, in relation to holiday
fire risks:
Before attempting any hasty or ill
advised decoration which may cause
fire, examine your insurance contracts
and see IL Tie policies contain anything
like this:
This entire policy, unless otherwise
provided by agreement Endorsed here
on or added hereto, shall be void, etc,
If the hazard be increased by any
means within the control or knowl-
edge of the insured.
Referring to the dangers from Christ
mas candles and the like in house
decorations, the Holiday Fire Bulle
tin gives the following list of "don'ts
that householders will Go we'll to re-
member and act upon in Christmas
Week:
Do not decorate your Christmas tree
with paper, cotton. or any other in
flammabie decorations only, and Sc!
the tree securely so that the children
in reaching for things cannot tip 1
over.
Do not use cotton to represent snow
II you must have snow use asbestos
fiber.
Do nota.permit children to light or
relisht the candles while parents are
not present They frequently set fire
to their clothing instead. The tree
itself will burn when needles have be-
come dry.
Do not leave matches within reach
of children At holiday time. Candies
are meant to be lighted and if the
children can get matches they will ex-
pertinent with them. They initiate their
elders.
A house Of merriment is better than
a house OF mourning.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-23

H accepted an invitation to return
by automobile. The car broke down,
two miles from home, and the party
walked, II meeting fearful wife
IS minutes after her kilograms had
been sent. Then the answers began to
arrive. Each one read, in effect: Yes,
H staying with me to close up i'm
portant business"
A new device enables a man to talk
IS miles without a wire. When this
thing is perfected candidates will no
longer have to swing around the cir
Gle. They will merely sit at home and
have the whole country at their mer-
cy.-New York Tribune.
Gee, What if Gardiner had had the
thing at State Grange meeting, the
other day.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-23
PISCATAQUIS
FOxCROFT.

The Chapman concert, which was
given here, Tuesday evening, was GER
tainly a great treat. To Chev. Salvatore
Giordano, tenor, Miss Otis, soprano,
Miss Winchell. celist, surely too much
praise cannot be given, and the COM
munity should feel grateful to Mr..
Chapman for securing such artists.
che death of Hinchliffe Taylor oc-
CURED, Saturday, at the home of his
son, Joe He was IS years of age. -Four
children, Joe, Mary Clark, Walter and
Oscar, survive.
The first entertainment in. the course
to be given here was held Monday
evening, in Central hall. DIR. Gabriel
Magaire gave his lecture on AN Irish
mai In Africa 1t was surely very in
structive and interesting.
HRS. |. 3. Merrill visited, Thursday,
her daughter. Mrs. Ralph Merrill. IS
Mrs. Estes Nichols of Hebron has
been visiting her mother Mrs. caro-
Flint.
Miss Mary Taylor. principal of the
Dover schools left. Saturday, for her
home i'll Mexico.
+. o. Stoddard will act as travelling
salesman for Hughes & Son Piano Co.
Good skating has been INDUCED in
by many
Christmas supper and tree for the
children will be held in the Congrega-
tonal chapel, next Tuesday evening.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-23
Education That Pays It's own Way.

industrial work in the schools OF
Gary, Indiana. made money instead OF
costing money during the past year,
says DIR. P. P Claxton, United States
Commissioners of Education. When
the school authorities in Gary came to
sum up the results of the work in the
trade courses, they found that the
three departments of printing, cabinet
work and painting had to their credit
a profit of s875.4S. This is a real
value, too; the pupils made articles
that were needed in the school; il
they had not made them in the school
shops the authorities would have had
to purchase them in the open market
at total price of seven or eight thou
sand dollars"
The commissioner then gives the
figures for each of the trade classes in
the Gary schools, as reported by G. E.
Willing, in charge of the industrial
instruction. In the printing depart
was s1s72.92. The salary expense was
s14s34s and supplies cost 1914, leay-
ing net balance in favor of the shop
OF s175.43. There were 80 in the
printing class. so instead of figuring
the per capita cost of the industrial
training of these pupils, it was posi-
a
each pupil to the wealth of the COM
munity.
In the cabinet department" says
DR. Claxton, the product was valued
at $36eS.s5, and the expense was
s3155.37. leaving balance of s453.4s
IN favor of the carpenters. Similarly
the painting department Of the school
showed business OF s1591.25 and an
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-23
LOST IN THE SKY.
From Manuscript Found After Death
of Harriet Quimby, the Aviator.


Nobody likes to be lost. There is IA
wretchedness about it most pathetic.
Our hearts go out to the lost child.
we join in the search for the missing.
whether we be strangers or neighbors.
The instinct To go to the rescue is al
ways the same.
1t is new experience to be lost IL
the sky, but it is as real and trying as
to be lost in the midst of earth's viii
derness or en- the infinite expanse of
the waters Of the sea. speak with
knowledge. Twice | have been lost
in the sky while driving monoplane.
The sense of loneliness and helpless
ness one feels while driving thous-
and feet above the earth in a swiftly
moving monOplane, with nothing but
the everlasting sky above and the no.
rtzon around and with no sign of rec
ognition from the distant earth below
is overwhelming and indsscribable
One can do nothing but look and hope.
One must drive on. amid the roar of
the motor blade making its thousand
revolutions minute.
The aviator who is lost feels no
helping hand reached out to him. sHe
looks for none There is nothing TO
do except TO keep an eye keeniy on the
watch for some friendly spire some
sign of we'll remembered meadow or
spread of water. indicating the location
of the aviation field to which d safe de-
scent can be made. But it is never
hopeless, for the aviator knows that
if darkness supervenes, it will in all
probability, disclose the beacon fires
of watchers on the field. If one has
not flown too far away, he can easily
recognize, from his commanding place
of vantage, the blazing pile where the
watchers wait.
Why should anyone be lost in the
air? 1t is the easiest thing in the
world. The landmarks you see, as
you walk or ride on the surface of the
earth are not recognized as such by
the flyer. On the earth you see these
straight ahead, or at the side within
the horizontal range of the eye. From
a balloon or an aeroplane you see
them from the standpoint of the per-
pendicular. You see the roof. not the
sides of a house: the pinnacles that
pierce the sky, not the majestic towers
that command the vision from a side
view.
Recall your own experience anu
your exclamation of surprise after you
have gone to the top of the Wash
ington monument at the national cap
ital, the arc d"Triomphe in Paris. the
top of Bunker hill at Boston, or a sky
scraper in any city. You find yourself
puzzled as to the points of the COM
pass. The most familiar buildings,
streets and avenues are almost indis-
tinguishable except as you study the
vista spread before you.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-23
Maine Gossip
The Christmas Shopper.

tBy f. r. Plummer, Portland
we are getting pretty busy
- 10 ouI mouse nowadays.
we have figured Things all over,
ana nave schemed all sorts of ways,
But the more we scheme and figure
And the more we fuss and fret
All the larger grow our troubles,
And the further off we get
We have listed our relations,
Ana some friends, though but few
we nave made list of presents, -r
And have checked them both all through
Then We've counted up our money
ana the darn things won't agree,
for there's much too little money
And too big a list you see.
We can't cut from our relations,
And don't want to skip friend.
We have tried to cut expenses
On the things we'd like to send.
But the more we chew ii over
Ana the harder that we plan
Makes a tougher proposition
Than it was when we began.
He who named it MIGHTY DOLLAR
Knew his book from \ to H.
And if you should hear it doubted
You just send them up to me,
for I've got the thingS;to prove 1t;
Got the facts and figures too
That will show them what
"A measley little dollar has to do.
We have got to get out somehow.
Though the job looks pretty big
We can't seem to see much daylight
So it's DIG, POOR SUCKER. DIG
There are no two ways about it;
What We have has got to go,
Though we're rather long on presents
And we're good and short on dough.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-23

Fort Fairfield Review: A petition is
in circulation in Fort Fairfield. as in
other parts of northern Maine, to al
low the Restigouche & Western Rail-
way Company to construct a bridge
across the st. John river between
Van Buren,, Maine, and st. Leonards,
N B. The company has already re-
ceived the necessary charter from the
Dominion government. Thomas Nal
colin, the well-known railroad builder,
is deeply interested in this road. 1t
seems that this matter had been tried
several times before, but somehow
opposition developed, perhaps by the
B. & A., which prevented its consum-
nation The B. &s A. will not now
oppose the building of this bridge. SO
it is said The bridge will enable
the roads on the other side of the line
to be great feeders for the B. &, A. A
million shingles day made at Camp
bellton might come over into the
American market, largely over this
bridge also some from smaller mills
along the line of the new road All
the freights from the West coming by
the Grand Trunk would use the bridge
and would furnish freight for the B.
q A. for points south. There would
also be some freight to go from the
United States to Canada over the
bridge. AS the bridge will simply
make for freer and better communica-
ton, costing the State of Maine or the
county of Aroostook not a cent, it is
hard indeed to see how anybody will
oppose it. In fact there is no one
opposing it that we are aware of, all
seeming more than willing that it
should be constructed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-23
Monday, December %. 1912.
Milk Trust Gets Busy.

Planning to extort an extra cent on
every one of the 100000 quarts of milk
consumed in Greater New York each
day, the milk trust is now declared to
be ready to raise the price of its neces-
sary product to a full ten cents a
quart. Profits of $4,000 a day are to
be reapcd by these dairy barons, who
feed on farmers and consumers alike,
il is declared by city experts. Up
here in Maine where we buy direct
from the farmers, prices are being ac-
tuelly reduced because of lower prices
OF feed
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-23
Editorial Comment
THE Folks" Will Settle 1t.
(Bridgton NeWs1

To the infinite honor of Maine, be
II said, Frank Lambert Dingley stands
practically alone in his crusade against
the primary nominee for United States
senator. AS the Rockland Courier
Gazette quantity puts it: 1T is doubt
full il there be a Roosevelt man in
Maine with SO low sense of honor
and decency as to advise going count
er to the declaration registered by
THE Folks in June, last"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-23

People whose blood is pure are not
nearly so likely to take hard colds as
are others.
Physiology goes into the reason.
Hoods Sarsaparilla makes the blood
pure, causing healthy action of the
mucous membrane and giving strength
and tone to all the organs and func-
tons.
This great medicine RECEIVERS the
system after a cold. as no other does.