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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-26
Rothschild's Waterloo Coup.

In commemoration of the centenary
of the death of Maier Amschel Roths-
child, the founder of the fortunes of
the great financial house that still
bears his name, Herr Ignaz Balla has
written book entitled 1.-THE Roths-
childs." which gives a graphic account
of Nathan Rothschilds famous coup at
Waterloo. The story is not new, but
perhaps never yet been given in such
detail. Rlw EBtGf
Nathan Rothschild, the London rep
resentatve of 1.-The five Frankforters, I"
rendered the cause of the allies inval-
liable services during the hundred
DAYS, and had amassed huge profits
for the Frankfort firm. But Napole-
on's dramatic return from Elba con-
fronted him with the prospect of los
SEES no less enormous, and there We're
rumors that even the Rothschilds.
Whose credit even then was looked
upon as firmly established, would not
be able to weather the storm if the
war were to go against them.
SO far as Nathan was concerned, it
I, is a fact that he stood to lose every
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LANDED A BIG FISH.
Then He Hooked Bigger Game and
Had an Exciting Time.

A singular fish story is told in the
East indian papers. A fisherman
started for the river, accompanied by
u shikari, carrying a rifle for use in
case of an encounter with big game.
The fisherman in a short time landed
a large fish and then moved up stream
to another pool. On his way he pass
ed a ravine and caught sight of an
enormous tiger
In a panic the fisherman concealed
hipself behind pile of rocks and was
fiattering himself that he had escaped
observation when the fish fell from his
hands in full view of the tiger.
The fish was floundering in the road.
and the tiger instantly pounced on it
and carried it of. But the hook still
held, and as soon as the tiger felt the
resistance of the line he gave his head
an impatient shake. which resulted in
the happening of his upper lip.
AT this critical moment the enraSed
animal saw the ereuehing fisherman.
who was totally unnerved by his dan
gerous position, and actually began to
play the tiger as he would a fish
s The tiger stopped for moment in
apparent amazement at such autiaeity,
and in that instant the shikari came
on the scene with his rifle and sent a
bullet through the brute's brain.-St.
Louis Globe Democrat.
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Ducks Spoil 100000 Worth of Oil.

Oil producers and refiners in Tampico
fields will lose more than 100000 be-
cause millions of wild ducks have mi
grated to Mexico since the advent of
the cold weather and hundreds Of thou
sands of them have alighted in the
great lakes of oil and persisted there.
The unnumbcred flocks of dead water
fowl have ruined the crude OIL which.
because of the decomposed animal
matter, can not be refined. About three
years ago, when the oil wells spouted
millions of barrels of oil in this dis
trict so fast the owners of the wells
had to build bikes to confine it, great
lakes scores of acres in extent Were
formed.
Many of these lakes remain I'M
touched. The ducks have mistaken
the vast oil lakes for water and have
alighted in them. The crude gunmy
oil glued the feathers of the birds so
that they were unable to arise again
and in a short time they died. 1t has
Leen found impossible to get the dead
ducks from the lakes of oil except near
the edges.-Tampico, Mexico, Telegram
&c the Chicago Examiner
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Must Hotels Sell Liquor?

How would you answer the question,
Must Hotels Sell Liquor?" Probably
according to your personal information,
or your desire to convince others. OF
course it will be understood as apply
ing to a hotel in a large city where
license is likely to exist, and where the
social custom reckons some sort of
booze into almost everything, even to
church sociables. Below we give an
answer by hotel authority and pub
lished in the Sunday School Times. The
article is by Albert T. Bell Secretary
CT the Leeds Company, owning and
operating Hotel Chalfonte. Atlantic
City; chairman of the convention COM
mittee of the Atlantic City Hotel Mems
Association; formerly vice president
for New Jersey, of the Hotel Mems
Mutual Benefit Association of the Unit
ed States and Canada, and president of
the Atlantic City Hotel Mems Associ-
alton. In substance he says:
The opinion is general that, While it
is possible so to conduct resort hotel,
one could not make ''first-cl city
hotel profitable on a temperance basis
The writer believes that a "first-class"
Temperance hotel, if it is really first
class will be an even greater success
in a large city like New York, Chica-.
Il 4, Dol .,
Washington, than. at resort. TO be
first-class, the hotel must have abso
lutely as good location as any other,
and one of the most convenient in the
town. 1t must be strictly fireproof. and
architecturally and practically suited
to the business. 1t must be we'll run
by a competent staff of employees. The
beds must be good the house must be
kept perfectly clean, and above all the
when conducted on the lines of a pro-
gressive policy by an intelligent man
agement, will certainly succeed regard
less of the absence of liquor. There is
no danger that ii will attract those
who wish to be noisy or intoxicated.
Those addicted to various forms of vice
or immortality will not even apply to
such house The absence of these
classes saves expense in oversight and
other items, and attracts the desirable
family trade and the solid business
people Those who become the guests
of such a house will be regular patrons,
and return time after time without
the necessity for large expense in adj
vertising and solicitation.
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was the strictest of all European
countries in granting patents, ] resolv-
ed to prove my faith in my discovery
by making my first application to that
country. Although the Berlin authori-
ties kept me waiting till the spring of
1910 il enabled me to introduce sew
eral important improvements. Italy
issued a patent without the slightest
trouble. and England, | found, was
much the easiest country to treat with.
My system offers two obvious adj
vantages over all other wireless sys-
TENS in use First of all. the CORE
spondence' can not be intercepted. 1t
was this fea ture that reused the keen
interest of the italian ministry of war.
Il carried out the first formal exper-
inents before a committee of experts
in January, 1911. l have just been
sending whole designs by wireless TO
Milan, just 10 miles away
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had only ia per cent. of normal
viable puppies, while the normal pair,
that is the pair that was strictly alb
stinent" had 90.2 per cent. of normal
Viable young.
Another investigation of strictly nom
alcoholic parentage compared with all
coholic that stopped short of complete
intoxica ton was reported this last
October in the Archives for Internal
Medicine by DR.. Charles r. Stoekard of
Cornell Medical College Under condi-
tons precisely similar except for the
alcohol, animals that had received it
produced from AZ matings only : liv-
ing young, of which were .'runts, ;"
while the normal control animals pro-
duced from only matings, Il large,
vigorous young.
The misinterpretation of the facts by
the author of the American article
Of course vitiates the conclusion which
he has based upon his statements.
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The Infant Samson.

A baby who is probably the cham
pion weight-lifter of the world lives at
Knights Park, Kingston on Thames.
Leslie Heather is the conference.-the
old Samson and his two favorite play
things are his mothers flat-irons,
weighing four pounds and six pounds,
and wooden. horse.
HE just loves to try his strength
with my flat irons" said Mrs. Heath
er. He started this weight-liftlng a
month ago His uncle was lying on
the sofa when Leslie came struggling
along with two fiatirons in his hands
and placed them on the sofa.
Last March he took a special prize
at a Kingston baby show. He has SIX
brothers and sisters, all older than he
is hut they dare not tease HIM, pc
cause he is quite able to attack them.
Daily Mirror.
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SHINY Coins for Christmas.

At this time of the year many OF
the banks of the country call on the
United states Treasury at Wash1ns-
ton for new coins of all denominations
gold. silver. nickel and eepper-to
supply the demands of their customers
for bright, new coins for the Christmas
holidays. This demand always exceeds
the normal demand for new coins, and
the Treasury has heretofore not always
been in a position to meet fully each
request. The recent satisfactory re-
suits from the washing of currency
has given the Treasury Department
an idea for meeting the demand for
shiny Christmas money. Twenty-Five
thousand dollars in halves, quarters,
dimes, nickels and pennies is to be
washed and polished by the Mint Bu-
reau OF the Treasury Department, SO
that all who wish can have their shiny
Christmas money. Most of the old coins
which are 20 be renovated will be sent
to the Philadelphia Mint from the
United states Treasury vaults, whence
they will be supplied to the banks call
ing for them.
Just what folks do with all this new
coin at Christmas-time is a mystery to
the Treasury officials. OF course much
of it is used as presents and some oil
the smaller coins, bright new and
shiny, are used for Christmas-tree dec
orations, but the major share of it,. it
is surmised is just spent.-Harper's
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beware of the Doqi

over in Jersey they have an inter-
esting device for keeping off tramps
and burglars. watchdog, too
ferocious and too valuable to be al
lowed to run loose. is tied to rope
about four feet long, and this rope is
tied to a ring that runs loosely over
a long wire about four feet from the
ground. The wire stretches from
the back porch to a pole at the emo
of the yard, and as the ring slips
easily over it the dog has the full run
of the yard without being able to
bite visitors and innocent passers-by
The wire is practically invisible by
night, and many a proWler has gone
on his way a sadder but wiser man.
after assuming from the looks of
things in the front of the house that
there wasn't any dog.-New York
Mail
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YOUNG INVENTORS SUCCESS.
Patents Granted to italian for His
"WireIess monograph"

The Milan correspondent of the Lon
don Daily Chronicle sends some inter-
esting details of the life of Francesca
de Bernocchi, the young italian scien-
fist who has invented the wireless
monograph" which will transmit mes
sages, sketches, autographs, shorthand,
and other signs.
He was born of humble trades peo-
pie twenty-five years ago, ard he still
presents a very boyish appearance.
His life has been passed at his native
city of Turin. AS a child he showed a
prediction for classical studies. but
later he developed an extraordinary
taste for physical science, and devoted
all his spare time to experimental
studies in electricity. He rugged up all
sorts of curious apparatus for the
wireless transmission of sounds, signs,
and drawing in his parents back gar
den.
"My first big success, he said, "was
attained about Christmas time in 1907.
In the early part of that year had
been testing some of Prof. Rights ex-
periments with Hertzian waves, when
suddenly the whole idea which / have
labored to perfect in the wireless ICON
ograph burst upon me. I saw how it
was possible to exploit these waves for
the exact wireless transmission of au-
tographs, designs, and sketches, and
with secrecy hitherto unattained
Then followed months of feverish
activity, after which / was rewarded
with happier and still happier results.
never held any communication on
the subject either with Prof. Right or
with. Marconi, but kept my secret TO
myself. On learning that Germany
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Are You a "Yesbut?"

/ Are you u yeSDut.
A "yesbut' is the very latest term
for a fairly common type of man, and
has just been invented by the head of q
large thriving city firm.
''yesbut' is man who is growing
little old, who is losing his initiative
and resource, who is Immediately full
of objections and doubts when any new
scheme is proposed.
1t means that a sort of creeping pa
ralysis of "staleness" is coming over the
brain and that the confident courage OF
youth is passing away.
A ''yesbut" is a. man who, when a
scheme is. propounded, says, Yes but
- and out come torrent of explain
atoms why the scheme cannot be car
ried out.
A tour of city firms found that Lon
don is indeed full of "yesbuts men
who stand in the way of their own prog
ress by their tinidity and over-objec-
tons
at is a very apt term for the type of
man do not like in my employ" the
manager of a prominent city business
said.
"How can you tell 'yesbut? 1t is
SNscoNethoAAA ~
an employee. and to every idea that is
proposed he says, Yes, but and then
come a long string of needless objec-
tons.
"He is very unwilling to entertain
anything new which may be the means
of doubling ones business or simplify
ing existing methods.
'He is instinetively against progress.
'yesbut's' proper place is chambers
shop in sleepy cathedral town, where
change and hustle are regarded as akin
to anarchy.
"'Yesbuts' do not stay here long, Or
they are kept at the bottom rung of the
ladder. 1t is the young man who has
insight and initiative who makes rapid
strides here"
Mr. II. Gordon Selfridge. also gave his
opinion. 1--WE have very few 'yesbuts'
here" he said. "They are nearly all
'yes-i- Wills'-men who go right ahead
and do not stop to doubt and question.
personally, I give the closest consid-
Grafton to every scheme that is sub
mitted to me, no matter how wild it
may appear.
''There are times. of course, when 1T
when, for example. after a little arga-
ment and consideration, it is seen that
the scheme is impossible.
But to get into the habit of doubling
the practicability of every new idea is
very bad thing, and retards progress
A good word for the ''yesbut was
given by a successful young business
man.
"I unite see the danger of becoming
ever-cautious and doubtful of new
schemes" he said.
"At other times, however, the 'yeseut
has his uses. He acts as a check to the
wildly fantastic schemes which may be
suggested to him.
"In every large, progressive firm one
or two conscientious, plain spoken yes
butts are necessity. But a glut OF
'yesbuts' means business stagnation and
a gradual decline of profits. London
Mirror --.,4a fT-sfH
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Who Wants to Be a Russian?

A Waterville friend of the Kenne-
bee Journal sends us an interesting
newspaper clipping, with the perth
nent query of his own: Who wants
to be a Russian?"
Frankly we don't know We are
convinced that no one of our ac-
quaintance wants to share any part
of the oppression for which Russia is
notorious We believe it is true that
no man or woman with a spark of
Americanism in blood or soul would
have the slightest sympathy with the
oligarchy which aims at retrogression
rather than progress; that fears and
opposes any form of popular eduea-
ton or uplift; that holds a vast en-
pire in the rear of the worlds civil
lied procession toward intelligence
and spiritual betterment
When we think of the thousand
and one agencies in America that are
unrestrained in their work for human
advancement up toward the light,
and then of the government opposi-
ton in Russia to moral and spiritual
Improvement, our natural tendency is
to judge harshly and we wonder what
the price will be to those responsible.
The clipping, above referred to, fol-
lows:
1T will come as a surprise to most
people to learn that the greatest
publican of ancient or modern times
is none other than the devoutly or
thodox Car of Russia.
/ Vodka, the national drink of the
| Russian people, has been Crown
monopoly continuously since the 18th
century. Today the Crown owns So
600 kabaks, or public houses. and 1000
distilleries.
Public houses are open by imperial
command in that country. Every
hamlet, no matter how small, must
have at least one. When a new town
| is started it is said the first two
structures to rise are the orthodox
church and the eosey pub" In or
der that the latter may enjoy some
semblance of nobility and otherwise
| be distinguishable from the ordinary
run of pure plebeianism, picture OF
the Gar is appropriately hung over
the bar, as if to extend a royal wei
come to all who enter.
Some time ago a movement was
launched in several communes t.
close half the public houses and de-
vote the money thus saved to schools
for the children. The idea seemed t.
be eminently proper, seeing the PEG
pie themselves were threatened will
destruction by the million-hande
scourge of ignorance and vodka.
Word came down like a crack 0
= thunder from the lofty heights OF -
: Petersburg that interference with
Crown monopoly would not be toler
J ated single moment. And befor
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The Microscope.

The story of the discovery of the
telescope, how it was bound UP with
that wonderful emancipation of the
human spirit from the thraldom of
medieval ignorance and the hatred of
scientific light. has been told US by
many learned men; but I venture to
think that the discovery of the
microscope, which has never yet had
its historian or poet, was one fraught
with many more beneficent results
for humanity. BY it's scrutiny the in
visible but actual scources of most OF
the scourges of mankind have been
discovered; and it would seem that 1t
is in it's power and not in that of
fleets or armies that we must look for
the physical salvation of the sons of
men, Man may redeem himself from
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Lightning Uncovers Lead Mine.

mine on the farm of William Thacker
in Baxter County. Arkansas, The bolt
struck q hickory tree, ran into the
ground and then divided into six
branches. digging bitches about three
feet deep and IS inches wide.
The longest ditch is $50 feet in length
and the others vary from 20 to 40 feet.
Al the end of the longest ditch Is u
hole two feet in diameter ana two feet
deep, from which a considerable guam
tity of lead ore was thrown out. one
piece weighing four pounds.--hans2s
City Journal
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the reverberations had died away in
the distance soldiers of the Car
swooped down upon the scene, closed
the schools, reopened the pubs, ;
fined the presumptuous communes
and served notice on all and sundry
that further offences might mean an
indefinite sojourn in Siberia.
Prominent physicians from all over
the empire met at Moscow some
months ago to discuss measures by
which the intolerable ravages of this
monstrous, winged vampire of in
temperance might be stayed They
met in the name of both science and
humanity but the soldiers and po-
lice of the little famous Gar har-
assed them until the congress was
broken up in disorder
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Learning to SWIM.

One hot summer day father told us
that we ought TO learn to swim. This
was one of the most interesting sug-
gestionS he had ever offered, but
precious little time was allowed for
trips to the lake, and he seldom tried
to show us how Go to the frogs"
he said, "and they Will give you all
the lessons you need. Watch their
arms and legs and see how smoothly
they kick themselves along and dive
and come up. When you want to
dive, keep your arms by your side or
over your head. and kick, and when
you want to come up let your legs
drag and paddle with your hands"
I We found a little basin among the
PUSHES at the south end of the lake.
about waist-deep and a rod or two
wide, shaped like sun fishs nest
Here we kicked and splashed for many
lesson, faithfully trying 10 initiate
frogs, but the smooth, comfortable;
sliding gait of our amphibious teach
ers seemed hopelessly hard to learn.
When we tried to kick frog fashion.
down went our heads, as if weighted
with lead, the moment our feet left
the ground. One day it occurred to
me to hold my breath as long as /
could and let my head sink as far as
it liked without paying any attention
to it, and try to swim under the water
instead of on the surface. This
method was great success for at
the very first trial | managed to cross
the basin without touching bottom,
and soon learned the use of my limbs.
Then, OF course. swimming with my
head above water soon became SO
easy that it seemed perfectly natural
--JOhn Muir In the 4 tia nfir
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Customs slip in and almost before
We are aware of them they are there
the wearing of the wedding ring by
men, for instance. Twenty years ago
this was almost unknown in England,
but now it is quite an ordinary thing.
1t has it's advantage for men as for
women; it is a sign, as ii We're, of own
ership, of not being on the market.
There are unengaged women who wear
engagement rings to protect them
selves from masculine attention; at
least they allow it to be given out
that this is the reason. Perhaps the
mere male may be permitted to sniff
here never knew an unmarried man
to wear wedding ring, but even that
may come in these militant times On
the whole one Welcomes the wedding
ring for men; it makes for the equaIi-
ty of the sexes.-London Chronicle
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death. not by sweeping the heavens
with the space-annihilating telescope,
but by peering into the dust of the
earth with the space-creating micro
scope.-Science.
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Maine Gossip
THE INDWELLlNG CHRIST.
[By Elizabeth Merrill.l

Faded the blossom and the leaf,
And cold the dull-brown breast of earth
Birds singing where magnolias bloom
Waiting the northern springtimes birth
But in my heart the springtime lies,
For Christ is there-IIe never dies.
Chill are the days with nights of frost
Dumb flows the river meath its chain
OF ice clamped to the river bank,
Till springs hands loosen 1t again,
But springtime ever in me lies,
Since Christ is there-Ie never diesi
Wild are the winds that roam unclaimed
Whistling round window, through the tree,
Telling of lands of biting cold
over the rosy northern sea-
But what care | where wild wind flies
Christ lives in me-He never dies.
Faded are all my earthly flowers
Dead are my tender trees of youth,
ley the hands that press my breast,
Gray are the ashes of life,s truth:
Yet in my heart are springtime skies,
For Christ is there-He never dies!
Die flowers, die trees. die all that 1ives'
Pass splendor of the earth away
Blow, dust of me to distant worlds
My soul Shall greet a fairer day,
Springtime on hills of paradise,
Christ in my heart--He never dies.
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A Kingfield correspondent of the
Franklin journal says that an epidem-
ic of hog cholera has infested King
field. Thirty hogs have died thus far
and it is feared the end of the scourge
is not yet reached. The following have
lost swine. W. D. Page, eight; Arthur
Scribner six: Herbert T. Wood. eight;
Charles Doibier, six; George French,
two. The State Board of Health has
been notified and through the State
veterinary the matter has been turn
ed over to the town Board of Health
with instructions in regard to hand
ling the infected pens and burying
the dead animals. 1t is hoped the dis
ease will soon be effeetually stamped
out.