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Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-24
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To illustrate Point, Write; IS Good
Story Of the Everc .aies Of
Florida.

Fire Commissioner Johnson, apropos
Of the Triangle, Binghamton and other
factory fires, said the other day in
New York:
The new fire laws must be strictly
enforced. and additional laws must be
made, or otherwise to work in a fac
tory will be as dangerous as walking
through Florida swamp.
"A friend Of mine was going through
the Florida everglades with a guide.
The guide, as they followed the mar
row path, tapped each hollow log with
his foot
Why do you do that?' asked my
friend.
"Lookin' out for snakes said the
guide.
What kind of snakes?'
'Moccasins'
Holy snoke!' said my friend
Then he frowned and asked uneasily:
Why do we walk on the logs, or SO
close to them, when they're full of
snakes? Why don't we walk off there,
where the ground is solid?'
Wall said the guide. as he kicked
another stump, 'ye moughtn't sink be-
low yer waist off there-and then
ag in ye mought.'"
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-24

The Democratic papers are be-
ginning to take cognizance of the
growing business depression and
prospective era of hard times by
charging that this condition is
the result of a Republican "plot'
to diScredit President Wilson's s
administration When we take
into consideration that Republi-
cans are going to suffer from this
state of affairs as much as Dem
ocrats, no one but a natural born
fool will swallow the contention
that the Republicans voluntarily
create hard times to bring their
political enemies into disrepute.
Hard times follow too closely up
on the tracks of Democratic rule
to make any mistake as to who
is making the trail.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-24
Old Maine Hunting Gun.

Among his valued possessions Har-
ry Smith Of Skowhegan, Me. has q
gun about $50 years old. and 1t has
proved not only I. safeguard. but It
has helped make history. 1t was
owned by his great-grandfather. Cap
tain Churchill. who assisted Arnold
up the Kennebec on his expedition.
It is known to have shot several men.
Captain Churchill! used 1t at home in
hunting bears, anu it has fifty notches
on it to represent the number Of
bears that 1t has stDt. 1t is OF the
old fiintIock type. and heavy enough
to have killed bear If 1t had dropped
on him.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-24

, Are we at last reaching the
point where we will squeIch gun
! toting: Missouri has had a law
| in effect for the past two years
making the carrying Of conceal
ed weapons d penal offense, but
there has so far been cOnSirable
hesitation On part of our courts
and jurie.s n giving such offend
ers the full force of this statute.
However, We note that recently
"a man rl..au guilty in the Dent
County circuit court to two
charges OF gun toting, thinking
doubtless that this course would
win him tie minimum punish
lnent IN tie way of a light fine,
but the Judge sentenced him to
two years in the penitentiary.
BY treating a few such cases in
each county with the severest
punishment the annual murder
crop in Missouri will be much
shorter. We note also that in
st. Louis police squad is fan
ming" (searching) men on the
streets for weapons. Another
correct step to suppress this vi
ciOus habit, and one that every
sheriff and constable in the rural
districts should at once follow.
The gun toters of any cOmmuni-
ty are usually known. but they
are not prosecuted until they
make their offence fragrant. All
such the officers have right to
search and should do so. When |
man goes about with a pistol
in his pOcke1 he is a criminal
and knows he is criminal. He
is also the potential murderer,
who may at any moment cause
the death of another, with it's
train of multiplied troubles and |
grief. !
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-24
Use 100000 Boxes,

Cigar boxes are negligible guam
tlty TO the average smoker, but how
many ever stopped to think of the
number used each year or where they
come from? Thirty million is the total
supplied % lie manufacturers of the
seductive weed each year The best
boxes come ire III Cuba and are known
as Spanish cedar.
After the var with Spain the supply
of this wood was greatly diminished
and it's price raised. SO that for a
time cigar dealers were obliged to find
substitute for this kind of cedar.
Various woods were tried, but trou-
BILE was found in selling these boxes,
because ccnnoisseurs insisted that &
fine cigar was spoiled by putting it III
any but box made of Spanish cedar
This wood always retains the flavor
of a good cigar. Indeed, some persons
assert that it improves the flavor The
reason given is that it grows in the
same localities.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-24
Daniels First Move,

In Sunday school the teacher was
giving a lesson on Daniel in the lions
den"
Now. what do you think was the
first thing Daniel did when he came
out Of the lions den ." asked she
After a short pause a small girl
piped out: Photographed home to his
wife to say he wall eli right
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-24
Federal Roads Policies.

There has been a steady move
ment for better roads during
the past 20 years, and today
about 81 states have highway
commissions or some other state
highway agency, says a bulletin
on the subject issued by the
Department of Agriculture, The
total annual expenditure of the
states for construction and
maintenance of roads which ten
years ago amounted to but
81, 100000, has grown to S43, 900,
900 in 1912. The federal govern
ment should take the lead in in
vestigational and experimental
work, and there is need for a
central agency which can furn-
ish the best information on all
problems Of road building and
maintenance. Recently congress
made an appropriation of $500,
900 for improving post roads.
contingent on the appropriation
of double the amount of money
by state or local subdivision. If
federal aid is to be further ex-
tended in highway development,
Legislation to that end should in
corporate this cooperative prin-
ciple, The federal government
should deal with the state as the
lowest unit, through an expert
highway commissioner as its
agency. The plan should provide
for maintenance as we'll as con
struction. Preference should
be given to the improvement of
roads over which products from
the farms can be taken to the
nearest railway station. A
scheme of road contraction and
maintenance within a state
should be developed and mutual.
| " agreed upon. Money appro'
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-24
Feminist Movement.

There is something new under
the sun. There is something
new in the Twentieth Century.
History has no record such as is
now being made. Throughout
the progress of civilization. men
and women have not been honest
with each other. Women have
said that men were their superb
ors, their masters: that it was
their happiness to endure servi-
tude for them; that their desire
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-24
Fool Proof Aeroplane
Nearly Perfected.

Orville Wright at a reception
given him by the New York
Aero Club one night last week,
on the tenth anniversary of the
first power flight made by him
and his brother, the late Wilbur
Wright, said he had all but per,
fected a fool proof aeroplane.
He told of stabiIizer. which
will control the machine better
than a human hand
This machine he has been us
ing for four months in his flights
in Dayton,
In the opinion OF Wright, his
attachment will make flying nc
more difficult than driving an
automobile. He declared that
93 per cent of the accidents in
air came from Stalling of the
high-powered engines. He ex
planned that if the aviator kept
his head and did not try to right
his machine Immediately when
it began to stall, there would be
fewer accidents.
But the stabilizcr is designed
to control the machine automat
iceally," he continued. 1T viii
absolutely prevent stalling.'
In the opinion of Wright, the
flight across the Atlantic, fol
which Lord Northcliff offered q
prize of 100000. should not be
attemDted vet.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-24
Breton Creek.

Winter has come, and hog killing
is the order of the day.
Miss Enid Rutledge returned home
from st. Louis Saturday, where she is
new employed, for the holidays.
Mrs Elizabeth Benson and dauph-
ter, Anna, were the guests of Mrs.
Nancy Wigger Sunday.
Mr.. Willie Hayes of Granite City,
H., is visiting his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM. Hayes, Of this locality.
Jesse Essmeyer has gone to Arkan-
sas to visit his uncle, Henry Ess-
meyer.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-24

St. Louis quotations on cattle
range from ST. - to $3.50. but
the consumer continues to pay
from - to 30 cents per pound
Cor steak. Best hogs are $3.50;
GDest pork chops still cost %
cents per pound. The above
quotations on live stock are not
materially higher than the high
est figures that have prevailed
for the past ten years, but the
cost of tue meat in the market
basket has advanced some
thing like 100 per cent in the
iast few years. Who is getting
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-24
Furnace Creek.

The new church house here is max
ing good progress toward completion
Bert McEntire, who has been quite
sick, is improving slowly.
On the evening OF Jan. 2 there will
be an oyster supper at the Furnace
Creek school house, given by the La
dies Mission Society. All are invited
Andrew Campbell, who has been liv-
ing at Hartzeil's mill, has moved to
this eighborhood.
Mr.. ohm Smith has been on the
sick list the past week.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-24

Either the Democratic or the
Republican party must soon de-
clare Itself upon the question OF
national prohibition. Public
sentiment against the continu-
auce of the liquor evil is becom-
ing too strong to be ignored
much longer as a national ques-
ton. however much the politi-
clans want to avoid it. 1t will
be interesting to note which of
the big parties gets to it first.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-24
Blind ANGER Of Animals.

One Of the strongest of the animal
instincts is that of blind anger, tn"
venting Of spite on inanima.e things.
For example, animals caught in traps
will punish the sticks and stones that
lie conveniently near It is the same
impulse that causes the child to smitc
the stool it has fallen over or that
causes the grown person to kick the
door against which he has rammed
his head.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-24
Horses Chivalrous to Marea

Horses also exhibit ch;valry to
quite an extent 1t is very seldom
that horse will attack a mare, but
the mare has no scruples about at
tacktng any horse viciously provided
that she is able. Often vicious male
horses that cannot be made to work
together in harness can be safely
hitched up with q man and will cause
70 trouble.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-24

President Wilson. it is said.
will have a mum Der of army Off
GERS court martialed because
they sang song with damn,
damn. damn" in it. Back in the
civil war days President Lincoln
let the boys" cuss the enemy all
they wanted to, and there is
nothing III the history of those
times to show that Jeff Davis OF
General Lee put check on q sol
dier for using a cuSs word now
and then to relieve his feelings
Tut, tut. Mr.. Wilson.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-24
The Conservation Of Farmers Wives

A new note has been sounded
in the back to the land move
ment. The farlu women are or
ganizlng. Th. international Con
gress OF Farm Women was form
ed by Il little group at Colorado O
Springs, Cole, IN October, 1911.
| When Mrs. iEtf" ' j.. .iarhert
OF Manzanula, Co.. ::.!!.d to or
der its third ann,t;.i cunyt1tiuI
neld at Tulsa, Oki;: his fall, the
delegates present ;. :mbered in
the thousand and {, iliiaries in
Pretoria, South Africa, and
Gh"nt, Belgium. We're heard
from. The object of the rapidly
growing organization is, the
raising of the standard of home
life in our rul;>l communities.
1t is call to freedom to which
the rural housewife is not slow
to respond. 1t seems almost
too good to be true, but she is
being told that the light of mod
ern progress is at last to be To-
cussed on the home where the
farmers family lives, just as it
has long been on the barn where
his stock are quartered. Every
body known that there has been
a great deal of improved machin-
cry installed on the farms in the
past generation, wonderful reap
ers and mowers and harvesters
and everything else that could
be thought of to tighten the la
Dor of man. Now we shall see
something done to tighten the
labor of woman. The kitchen
pump and the kitchen drain are
already being put in a great
many farmhOuses. And there
are on the way, the washing ma
chine and the firelesS cooker and
other fascinating inventions.
There are a great many things
the farm mother is not going to
do without any more, even steam
heat and electric light and sept
ic sewage disposal. The old or
der Of things is ended. The
farmers wife has found support
for her contention that primative
methods are as antiquated for
her housekeeping as for her
mans farming. In union there
is strength An international
Congress of Farm Women is now
back of her demand Tor as many
modern conveniences as her hus-
band has. Mabel Potter Daggett
in Today's for January.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-24
The Caustjc Boarjer.

Well" said the hotel proprietor, Il
must go out to the racctrack this
afternoon AMI sec if can clean up q
little stake"
If l were you." said the caustio
boarder. Il would stay here and see
if / couldn't clean up the little steak
served every meal at this table. It
sure needs it,
Whereupon the proprietor went out
and added 8 for extras to the caustio
hoarder's biz.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-24
Little Public Land Left in Missouri.

There are only 800 acres of govern
ment land in Missouri that remains
subject to homestead Or cash entry
Washington County has none left.
The land is situated in the following
counties: Barry, &c acres: Bollinger,
10 acres; Camden, l20 acres; Dent, 50
acres; Maries, 40 acres; Oregon, 50
acres; Pulaski, 10 acres; Ripley, 45
acres; St. Clair. + acres; Shannon, ~
acres; Wayne, 50 acres; Wright, 50
acres. Madison, 122 acres; st. Fran
co.'s, 69 acres.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-24

The Democrats are hurrying
up the currency bill with the
hone shat it will side track pan
icky times. Speaker Clark says
it will make the country bios
som as a rose Evidently things
are notas rosy now as they might
be in spite of the statements to
that effect from such Democratic
partisan papers as the 1rontOn
Register.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-24

P0stmaSter-General Burleson
recommends the government
ownership of the telegraph and
telephone lines, and yet some Of
our Democratic friends have jol-
lied the Journal for its socialis-
tic tendencies. All progressive
people must be more or less -
really more-socialistic in their
views nOWaday@.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-24

The consumer will get no bene
fir from the new tariff law. The
difference between the duties
imposed under the Payne tariff
law and the present law is going
into the pockets of the manufac
turers who are getting their raw
material cheaper.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-24

One Of the most significant
SIGNS u present industrial de
precision in this country lies in
the fact that enliStmentS in the
army show a heavy increase.
The army is tHe haven of the
WOrkleSS YOU man.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-24

priated by the federal govern
ment should be apportioned on
the basis of such factors as total
population, farm population,
area, taxable valuation, and
miiage
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-24
STRAIED.

One yearling heifer, pale red; mark
ed, underbit in right ear; wore a small
bell when last seen. Notify W. 2.
Johnston, Topozark, Mo-, either by
mail or phone; information will be
paid for.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-24
S1.OO Per Annum.

Over in Illinois the Democrats
have had control of the state gov
ernment not quite year and al
ready the treasury is busted.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-24
STRAIED.

One year-old calf, marked with
swallow-fork in right ear and two
splits in left, also wears button tag
bearing my name and address. Noti-
fy +. B. Aubuchon, Bonne Terre, Mo.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-24
STRAY

Black male hog, four white feet and
blaze face; tip OF tail and tip of left
ear white. Notify W. Anderson, Ca
Diet, Mo.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-24
STRAYS TAKEN UP.

Three holstein heifers, marked
smooth crop and three notches in left
ear. Owner will find them at J. S.
Boyer's, Tiff, Mo.
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-24
These Will Have
Democratic Christmas.

| A news dispatch from For
! Wayne. Indiana, under date o
Dec. 18th, says:
A notice was posted to, day
that beginning Friday, Dec l9
the SHOPS of the Pennsylvania
which employ 1900 men will be
closed tor two weeks. The rea
son given is that the comDan
has no money TO keep the shops
going. The men had been work
ing on a fortE hour week for
some ti,nt. and are iSton) 1lted
to Ee ru' oil OK tie pay ru: just
at ca: -:tln%S time. tl :e.t' luci
factories which have been kept
pretty busy all the year iit,t be-
gun to let men out, all ord rs be
ing supplied and few new ones
coming in.
was to be absorbed by ehe.n. And
this has been true fer d brief
time in almost every woman s
life-then she has reluctantly re-
peated it for hire.
Men have gallantly served to
women the sop of poppy and
honey that women were superior
in theirvirtue, beauty, loveliness.
and in all that is genuinely worth
while.
There were things not fit for
ladies, ears, waiiings and com
plants which men must not hear
men must work and women
must weep,
But not until now have women
and men both known that there
is nothing of human interest
that is not of equal Importance
to women and to men; that men
and women should, must and do
participate in all things together;
that whatever mans life is, he
brings it into his home; it sits at
his table; it goes with him into
the intimate relations of his life;
That to the women whom he is
protecting most from the world
he is giving more of the world in
which he participates than to
anyone else.
And women must know that
none of her retinements, none
of her follies, none of her useless
ness is Or can be kept from the
man who shares her life. They
live together and their children
are the common products of
their so living.
And now for the first time in
the history of civilization we are
approaching time when men
and women can look into each
others eyes, and with absolute
honesty say to each other, we are
equal.
This is the new thing under
the sun.-Harper's
Potosi journal. (Potosi, Mo.) 1894-1929, 1913-12-24
STR \ I..i,.

A sorrel horse, TX Ehands high,
white pot on forehead and behind
each e..r, scar on left shoulder. II co
for ilc,ormation; $500 for return #
horse. Abraham Najim, Potosi, No.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-16
BECAME A CHOPPER.
While Winning Blue Ribbons at Horse
Show Lost His Sweetheart.

Washington, May 15.-Corporal j.
+. Heffc!fnger, crack rider of the 18th
United States cavalry, did not dream
that while he was winning honors
and blue ribbons at the recent mill
tary horse show he was riding out
the affections of his fiancee, Miss
Emma V. Grffen of this city. Post
society at Fort Myer had been look
ing forward to the wedding as Il eul-
mination of a pretty romance begun.
more than two years ago, in San
Francisco.
The fact that the armys crack
horseman had come a eropper in
his riding for the matrimonial hurdle
became known today, when the mar
fiage license that had been issued for
the wedding was returned to the city
hail with the following Inscription in
Miss Griffen's handwriting.
Did not use this as | have a rea
SON
Corporal IIeffclfinger could not be
found at the army post, today. and
relatives of the Young woman denied
all knowledge of the affair. Miss
Griffen was said to have quietly left
the rifE
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-16
BELFAST.

Belfast, Me, May 15.-(SpeciaD.-
One of the most enthusiastic baseball
meeting held in years was that, last
night in the city building, when q
large number of fans got together tt
talk over the feasibility of joining q
league to include Brewer CFhe East
port and Belfast. Belfast is strong foI
it and every endeavor will be made te
raise $1,000 as Il guarantee that the
team can be maintained.
Ralph d. Southworth was chosen
chairman with Orrin j. Dickey score
.tary at the meeting, last night, and
these. gentlemen were made permanent
officials of the association. The other
officials were elected as follows;
Board of directors, Ralph ID. South
worth, Hodgdon c. Buzzell, f. Il.
Giichrist. Amos Colcord. F. e. Spin
ney, S S. L. Shute, George II. Darby.
DR. Q. S. Nickery Darby, Buzzcii,
Dielsey. were made committee meet
representatives from the other towns
in the league u make out schedule.
rules and attend to any busint IS
which might come up.
Belfast was treated to rare lee
ture, last night when under the att
spices of the st. Francis parish. Rev.
Matthew McCabe, brother of Father
MeCabc gave an illustrated lecture of
the Passion Play in the Belfast Opera
house.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-16
FURTHER OUTRAGES.
Militant Suffragettes Burn Untenanted
Residenee--More Bombs Found.

London. May IA Militant Suffra-
gette arson squad during the night,
destroyed II large untenanted residence,
THE Highlands" at Sandsate-on-Sea
near Folkestone Oh the English cnan-
mel. Postcards addressed to the "Disnon-
orable Prime Minister" and to tie Dis
honorable Reginald McI<enna. Home Sec
rotary" We're left lying about on the
premises There was also postcard
bearing the words I'VE hope this is not
a poor widow 5 house"
Suffragette bombs We're found Wednes-
day, in one of the passenger cars of a To-
cal train running between kingston-on-
Thames and London, on the Southwest
ern Railway, making the third outrage of
this kind on the same line within two
months. On the arrival at Waterloo Ter
minus of the Kingston train crowded
with passengers on their way to bust
ness, the conductor noticed in one of the
compartments three parcels which arous-
ed his suspicion. on investigation. two
of them were found to contain tin CAMS
tiers filled with eombustibes and wrapped
i'm Suffrasette placards. No explosion
occurred and the bombs were handed
over to the police.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-16
kennebeC Journal Company

other hand, is, and as Il result the
Cincinnati team is telling a capital
story on Rigler. While loafing on the
players bench the other afternoon
Blackburn opened book and started
to read story of the African rhino-
ceros. Becoming interested, he read
aloud to the other players. THE
rhinoceros is a beast of low intellect
and insatiate appetite. It's hide is
three inches thick and is impervious
to any bullet or shock, however, pow
erful' He got no further in his read
ing, for Risler turned with a frown
and said That will do for you. l
heard every word you said, and will
stand no personalities from the
bench"
Manager McGraw of the New York Ma
tional League team, Thursday, uncondI-
tionally released Joe Evefs. younger
brother of Manager Johnny Evers of the
Chicago Nationals League club Joe Ev-
ers was taken South ON the Giants.
spring training trip on his brothers rec
concentration. He entered the league
game as pinch hitter after returning
to New York.