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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-05

could all have lived as comfortable
lives in the places where they We're
born as their mothers did. What made
: them all leave was the notion Of an
easier life, or at any rate of a differ
ent life. They wished to meet peo-
= pie, to be in the throng, to go where
! the crowd is. What their mothers did
! was very well, but they were going to
do better
! Now this state of mind Is fairly
fertile seed place for going further
/ and faring good deal worse. If it is
a settled state of mind in the case of
this or that girl, the chances are that
she will use the same reasoning for n
more serious change than that of NOV
ing from one part of the country to
another part. The frivolity. the daz-
zle, the momentary luxury of it all.
makes her disregard the unending
shame and final misery into which she
piunges. With that sort of an am
bition working upon an inexperienced
nature the worst may be possible, no
matter what the weekly pay is for
| honest work.
! But the mass of the girls who work
IN cities are not country bred. They
nave not adventured forth into an I'M
known world; they are city bred and
city WISE A very large majority of
them work to help the family, and
their life, outside of their work, is
passed under the shelter of the family.
If they have aptitude and skill and
fidelity they necessarily advance in,
their line of work and the rate of pay.
DS III 10 70,
the pay that they get in the years of
beginning and training as it would be
to argue that the old fashioned ap-
prentice had ground of complaint be-
cause he was not paid the wages of q
master Workman. These city girls do
not step out of the straight path be-
cause the luxury and show of the city
nave gone to their heads and weak
ened their reason: they have been
used to the city all their lives. 1t is
the ordinary accidents of human ma
turc that trip them, and not any
pressure of necessity. The great ma
Jority of girls so trained, and going
into outside work in order to help the
family out, do not trip. They know
how to keep themselves in the decent |
way. and they stick to it. They are
never paid So little under these CON
ditions as to place their character n |
jeopardy, and ii is false or grossly |
exaggerated assumption that a few |
dollars week more or less. during |
those early years when they are learn |
ing their business, would guard them |
more securely than they are now |
by their good sense and ex-
perience as to the value of doing right |
Courant.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-05

DESIRE OF AN EASIER LIFE
Motive That Leads Girls from STE
Country Pursuits to Glare and Ct
ter of Cities.

This investigation of the wagespf
shop girls in Chicago is being CO..
Quoted on the theory that moth g
more than money is needed in orer
To keep girls straight. This ovt-
looks the social fact that money CT
ates the need of more money. If u
a week is needed in order to pury
the life of the shop girls of Cmcao
this year, SIS a week will be needd
next year, and SO on as the Year, I'll
round. There is no doubt about tbs.
When you measure virtue in terms Il
money you are on an unstable fu+-
dation.
All the probabilities are that tie
dangers to which shop girls, and tn
er women who have to earn their Wn
living, are exposed under modernsn-
Gitions. are grossly exaggerated. he
mass of them know very well htW to
take care of themselves. and do tAde
care Of themselves. Those VIII sp
astray do not do SO out of needbut
out of love of finery or pure lazess.
We read in New York county Iper
that the scarcity of young wom{ in
that neighborhood both for series
in the village and on the farm, fls
very great. The local explanatory as
that most of these young peoplehd
gone away to the city-this citNDr
that. There was no need about is
general migration. These girls We
not driven away by hardships. Ty
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-05
ABOUT ORIENTAL RUGS.

One of the usual complaints, es-
pecially of the young housekeeper af-
ter purchasing handsome rug is that
the rug does not have the color and
gloss that it showed in the shops be-
fore it was bought. And the rug
sellers to whom such complaints are
made seldom hear Of them again after
directing that the rug be turned with
its nap toward the windows or other
light. This is the way, if possible,
that the rugs arc shown. One house
keeper was heard to say that there
was something uncanny about her
new oriental rug. Sometimes it was
lustrous and rich looking. while at
other times it was dull and dead as
possible. She was almost inclined to
attribute some occult meaning to it
when a friend to whom she showed it
stopped and turned it around. The
mystery vanished
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-05

iish, however, they were first used ii,
1870, and two centuries later had
come to be looked upon as a ,eeit;.
mate naval weapon, their attack; be-
ing regarded and dreaded in much
the same way as are those of the tor
pedo craft and submarines of the
present time.
The explosion vessels, or infer
nals, invented by the Italian en-
gineer Gianibelli, We're the most for
midable. The resigner procured two
vessels of about eighty tons each and
laid along their bottom IA foundation
of brickwork. Upon this he erected
a marble chamber with fire-loft WALL,
containing 5000 tons of gunpowJer.
while on tt tep of this chamber was
4 sin Dot .yel If gravestones placed
20 SeW. Q. marble roof rose over
ttese, md Don it was piled a oliaa-
~ L rom not, chain shot, mill
IL mes, blocks of stone, iron shod
o~ams and anything heavy which
would cause the explosion to take a
lateral effect. The effect of this
floating volcano was appalling, for
the masses of stone and shot, disinte-
grated and flung skyward by the ex-
plosion. fell and destroyed all vessels,
buildings or men in the vicinity
Three years later the Spanish ar
mazda before Calais was attacked by
fireships prepared by the English.
Eight vessels were selected, and so
great was the haste that not even
their guns or stores were removed.
They were ignited and launched, and,
with the wind and the tide in their
favor. advanced straight for the GEN.
ter of the anchored armada Ship
fouled ship amid spars, and, though
the Spaniards finally succeeded in
getting to sea, the fireship attack
completely disorganized and demon
allied them, and helped greatly to
make the eventual battle of Gravell-
ness the success it was
The most recent and at the same
time one of the most interesting fire
was that carried out against the
French fleet in Basque Roads in 1893
by Lord Cochrane. His explosion
vessel, intended to destroy the boom
behind which lay the French fleet,
was truly awful contrivanee. Coeh"
rane pileted the vessel and lit the tram
at the last moment, and on the eNi-
dence of a French captain. whose ship
was close by, it did its work WE'LL for
the air was filed with shells, Sren-
AIDES and blazing debris. while the ex-
plosion tore a huge rent in the boom.
London Globe.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-05

| ing on the problem, too. The RUSSIAN
investigators have secured the eoun-
! try, revisited tribes of people that are
| fast diving out They have rtimmaSed
among old ruins, dilapidated mounds
and graves. and disused churches
which have vf-umbled from the centu-
ries of decay. For if our people here
| did first make their way into Europe
it must have been west to California,
then from the Columbia River up to
Northern Alaska. and then across INTO
Asia and down into Siberia,
Many questions have to be asked ana
satisfactorily answered before such
theory can rest ON substantial OASIS
one of the principal queries is how
long the American tribes had oeen on
the Pacific Coast before they declded
to migrate, and what relation they
bore to each other. They must nave
been here 100000 years at the least
and been more or less closely allied as
to race and color. And it must nave
been a strong reason when drove
them to such far-away lands. Inc
wander thirst must nave been deeply
rooted in them or perhaps they hopeu
to find a golden land of perpetual
youth and strength.
A study Of the bones of the differ
ent nations has been another way or
establishing proofs of the theory. The
bones of the skull are considered I'M
portant in such a proceeding. linen
an intimate knowledge of the Ian
guare in its earliest stages is neces-
sary. and perhaps the most valuable
of all
One scientist says:
II believe that hundreds Of thous-
ands of years ago America was liv-
ing, vital, powerful continent, and
that she sent her peoples out into the
old world and nodded and directed its
culture more than any one dreams.
1t is Il tri1e hard to imagine. how
ever. try as one will. that any rela- |
exists between such apparent
1y unlike races as the Japanese and |
the Indian, Our traditional belief to |
The contrary is embedded too strongly |
and our Imagination too widely misled |
by differences in dress and looks and |
history
At any rate, il is a. mighty interest
ing question. and already seems to |
have received the strong support OF |
some of the worlds greatest autheri- |
Tribune.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-05
Training In. Trades.

DIR. Herman Schneider, dean of the
College of Engineering, University of
Cincinnati. in report to the New
York committee on school inquiry,
condemns the compulsory evening
schools. There is a law in New York
that compels all boys between fourteen
and sixteen years. of age to attend eve
ming school if they have not completed
their elementary school education. DR..
Schneider found many pupils either
asleep or 50 tagged they could not
study. He says he thinks the trade
schools are inefficient and then out
lines his new cooperative system
This is based on an agreement be-
tween group of manufacturers and
a school system whereby the manu-
faeturers agree to institute and carry
IN thorough and comprehensive APP
prentice course in their particular
trades, and in which the school agrees
TO give both general and specialized in
struetien to the apprentice. In most
cases the amount of school instruction
is equal to the amount of school work.
The apprentices are usually divided into
two sections which alternate with each
other by weeks, SO that when one Sec
ton is at the shop the other is at
school. They are paid for their work
in the shop on the regular apprentice
ship scale of their particular trade.
DR.. Schneider says that cooperative
plans such as these have been worked
successfully at Fitchburg. Mass, Sol
way, N. ", and Lewis institute, Chi
cago.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-05
HUNTING MOOSE,
A Nova Scotia Story That Carries an
Appropriate Moral.

parsimonious sportsman, shooting
over some wild lands in Nova Scotia,
being DESTROYS to bring down a moose,
started out to engage a guide and
moose caller. The usual pay of a
Nova Scotia guide is 81 a day; but
the sportsman in question was too
mean to pay the regular rates, and
finding skilful guide, one Louis the
Indian, temporarily out of job, after
much wrangling managed to jam him
down to 81 day, and the two started
out into the woods. All the conditions
We're favorable to finding a moose,
but, although each day before sunrise
Louis the Indian took his birchbark
cone, and placing it to his lips. whined
and grunted in initiation of a moose,
there was no answering call, no an
TERED giant of the forest Stalked into
view After 20 days of this sort of eff
fort without result, the sportsman
grew both impatient and suspicious,
and calling the guide to his tent, he
began to upbraid him.
Louis" he said, Il don't understand
this kind of business. Here we are in
the best moose country in Novia
Scotia. You are considered one of the
best callers in the province. Every
day you go out and call and call, yet
no moose comes. What does it mean
The willy Indian took his pipe out OF
his mouth for moment nd smiled a
smile of infinite cunning. Me don't
know what matter" he said. Maybe
moose no like dollar call"
The very next day, our sportsman
having raised the ante to two dollars,
a moose "came to the call'-the right
call this time. Louis was a sly Indian.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-05
Did America People the World.

Is our civilization after all the oldest
and did we send our early inhabitants
over to Asia, and then on to people
Europe.
Centuries back, it is claimed by
some prominent authorities the Indian
and the japanese were related. II
that is so is IL proved that America
was the mother country of Europe and
Asia and that from her went forth in
Vulnerable people, flooding the entire
earth?
The fact that when you dress an In
dian up in Japanese clothing he looks
startingly like japanese. and that
when you dress an Oriental in the red
mans garb he resembles him to an
amazing degree, seems TO be one of
the methods of proving that centuries
ago both races came from the same
tribe.
At any rate that seems to be the
general opinion gathered from very
recent scientific investigation and
agreed to by several world prominent
scientists of natural history both from
this country and from the Imperial
Academy of Sciences N ST. Petersburg,
Russia.
But how did our American man
make his way into the other conti-
nent? is the natural question. And
surely il must have taken an incon-
ceivably long time. So il did. Ac-
cording 10 some of the most modern
authorities, man is some hundred
thousand years old here and our Am
.erican culture has passed through a
vast period and undergone infinite
changes. We have all heard of the
Lansing man" skeleton found in
Lansing Mich. which proved beyond
doubt they say. the extreme remote
ness of early man.
It was hard however, to incline the
Investigators to the opinion that W.
were the first or that it was from tht
tribes which came into existence her,
that Asia was peopled and that ther
the culture which slowly developed il
broad land was transplanted into ASH
and then on to the civilization of won
derful old Europe
There is marked resemblance be
tween The Koryak Indians of Nortl
Asia and the Eskimos OF North Ameri
ca Many of their habits are tn
same. and their queer traditions o
marriage and of burial. and their stan
dards OF public and private honor
Their folklore also, all the storie
which the mothers tell the children a
their, knees. have strange thread o
ffkrness running through them. Meth
- il their religion entirely dissmiiai
the underlying idea is the same. an
fheir legends of creation and the here
after silow that in centuries gone the
,,,ipht eaeiIy have come from the sam
source. !.
0xer in siberia they have been work
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-05
Built With Frozen Whisky.

We were jogging along the Brazos
bottoms in Middle Texas. The train
slowed down and crawled over tres
tie that SPAWNED deep ravine.
II remember that trestle well, re-
marked a gray-haired man in the
smoker. In fact, l worked on the
wrecking crew that rebuilt 1t after a
washout many years ago. We dld the
work on frozen whisky.
The men in the smoking eompart-
ment of the Pullman became interest
ed. The gray-haired man lit fresh
cigar while the rest waited in silence.
1T was a freight wreck. continued
the man. There were two or three
cars of whisky that We're piled up al
the bottom of the arroyo. A few barrels
we're smashed. and the sand soaked up
their contents before we arrived Inc
remainder of the shipment was I'M
damaged. We rolled the barrels to one
side. The weather was bitter cold
something very unusual for that part
Of Texas. Repairing the trestle was
long iob. because timber had to De
brought from a considerable distance.
TIE second day l noticed that, de-
spite the bitter weather, some of the
wreckers were going about crunehlng
ice. | asked one of them about II,
and ne nodded in the direction OF the
piece where The whiskey barrels We're
strewn over the ground. l went over
1T the first opportunity and found that
the cold had caused some of the bar-
rels to freeze and burst. The men had
ripped off the slaves and had chopped
out some of the contents with their
axes.
Il tried piece of the ice and found IL
good. Some one said there was lot OF
fever in the Brazos bottoms, and tried
some more. SO did every one else. 1t
heartened us up wonderfully, and from
thet time until the job was completed
we worked like Trojans.
"One fellow with brilliant nina
built fire and thawed out the whisky.
We couldn't use any except from the
burst barrels, but that would have been
wasted if we hadn't. In fact, that
trestla was built on frozen whisky.
But say" exclaimed one of the lis
teners. you can't freeze WHISKY.
There's too much alcohol in it.
Not in the kind they used to ship
down here IN those days" answered the
graz haired man. That was IN class
by itself Railroad Mans Magazine
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-05

''1hc international map of the world
on a scale of one To 100000, viii, when
completed eight or 10 years hence, COW
er total area of about 159 feet by 20
fets. or the surface of globe 40 feet
in diameter II will consist of about
15Go sheets, each representing sec
ton Of four degrees in latitude and six
in longitude. The first sheet of the
United States portion has Just been
published by the geological survey in
Washington. IT is known in the gener-
al scheme as sheet North x 49," but
viii be more popularity known as the
Boston sheet and embraces Rhode
Island and portions of New York, Con
necticut, Massachusetts, New Hamp-
shire. Maine and Noca Scotia. 1t is
printed in six colors. Ocean depths and
terrestrial altitude are shown by con-
| tour lines and graduated tints. 1t rep
resents the beginning of a more accu-
rate map of the United States than any
that now exists.-Scientific American.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-05

In Alberta, Canada, there Is village
of houses which have been constructed
without nails. As matter of fact, little
oc no hardware of any character has
entered into their construction. These
houses have been built by Ruthenian
immigrants and their architecture is
quite novel. Their first attempts at
house building are usually of the KIND
they had been accustomed TO over IN
Europe, and their buildings are of the
typical Ruthenian style--loe, pitch
rooted, matched and wide in the caves.
In many cases these buildings are put
up without a dollars worth of hard-
ware. Even the door. an affair of slen-
der twigs woven and laced together,
swings on home made hinges and is
letched with a wooden hasp. The fioor
is of hewn logs, unnailed The roof,
as the favorite Russian roof always is,
is wonderful fabric Of poles and
crosspoles, through and over which has
been woven wheat straw, ten inches
thick, packed tight and solid, and laid
with such care that it Will shed the
weather for twenty years.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-05
FIRESHlPS IN SEA FIGHTS,
Blazing Craft Caused Much Destruc
ton in Naval Battles.

Nothing in the thrilling narratives
OF many old sea fights appeals more
strongly to the modern Imagination
than the doings of the freships.
The idea Of using incendiary ves-
sells for the destruction of a hostile
fleet was of great antiquity. They
are said to have been employed at
the Siege of Tyre in 1893 b. c., and
again by the Rhodians about CEN
fury and half later. BY the Eng
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-05
CYCLAMEN AS CENTREPlECE.

The ever-present fern dish as a
centerpiece for the dinner table has
become almost as much a part of the
service as the knives and forks or as
cereal for breakfast in the American
household, and when one ventures To
hint that change would be quite
cheering to the thoughts as well as the
eye, every one saws But there's no
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-05

Jay walking is recognized form
of walking, at any rate in the south.
where a person who was addicted to it.
met his death, and the coroner's re-
port used this phrase to describe what
the man was doing. 1t appears that
the Jay walker is walker who cuts
across corners and goes across the
street anywhere and at. any angle, in
stead of making use of the crossing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-05

People who hone their own razors
will be interested in the statement in
one of the magazines that what is
known as "cuttlefish paper makes an
ideal material for the rapid honing of
razors, surgical instruments, etc. This
paper is made for use by dentists for
polishing gold filings. and is coated
with an abrasive substance Of remark
ably fine grain.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-05

A.
other plant that can be depended
upon." There is. though. and a very
hardy one. This is the Towering
cyelamen, either White or the deep
rose color, which will put forth new
shoots and new blossoms continually
from November to April, and it IS
such a graceful, pretty plant, which
instead of growing less attractive at
ter a few blossoms have bloomed and
fallen. becomes spushier and more i'm
teresting each day.
The Original coet Is small, dot
lar or so buying very good speei<
men, and il planted in a wide, Low
flower pot and set in n pretty basket,
one has charming plant, suitable
Tor any one or all of ones informal
nome meals.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Japanese take tn nwying picture
seriously. The. tRv tbeme is the
allegorical play 80 Z bresents the
warrior fightinl = righteousness.
Next in popular 6lhes the pathetic
picture of the father who has lost his
fortune. but who will educate his fav-
orlte son at any sacrifice. The educa-
tional film is also popular, and there
is applause for good scenery. The
love story is never represented in the
Japanese moving picture. China also
is great lover of the cinematograph
and willingly accepts a wide range of
subjects, drawing the line at nothing
except indecency. The favorite pic
lures in Turkey are those of American
cowboys and Indians as we'll as detee-
tive dramas.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-05

Electrical apparatus which accurately
determines the range and tone of human
voices has been invented by a German
woman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-19

lily of Pau there has died while ] was
villa on the Tarbes road and at the age
of eighty-two years. Mrs. Charles Ed
ward Johnston, sister of Mr.. Eustis.
who was formerly American ambassador
to France. Her daughter married in
France, and her grandchildren have grown
up in Pau.
There remains, as aged, the grand old
Nine. de Saulles of New Orleans in the
real salon whose daughter. Nine.
Ginot, Americans meet the more purely
French. AS Mrs. Hill. before she became
a widow and remarked, she was one OF
the most beautiful women of New York.
A sister married de Rivoire, noble of
Savoy, and third is Nine. Batchecherech
of an ancient Basque family.
Such marrying. Take the Kanes. He,
railroad president in New York, married
a widow, Mrs. King, who brought to
Pau with her daughter, Miss King who
grew up and married Mr. Post She had
four daughters, all wonderfully pretty.
One married Harry Hutton, one of the
most prominent men in Pau today. The
second espoused an Englishman, the third
Swiss, and the fourth a Spaniard
Which brings us to the Huttons Mai.
Hutton, deceased, was the son of a New
York banker He volunteered on the
French side in the war of 1870, won the
Legion of Honor and covered himself