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New-York tribune., 1913-11-30

"AMMANY is dead, Long live Tam
Il Everybody was bravely proclaim
ing the Tigers demise the morning after
election as ne read his paper on the
way to the Office. Men breathed easier
and had a new topic of conversation
There was no doubt Of it.
Look at the returns" they exclaimed
Practically the whole Board of Estimate
and Apportionment will be fusion. 1t
V1Ald have been nice TO have made a
clean sweep. but you can't win every
thing Ii was only in The Bronx and
Queens and Richmond that the enemy got
any comfort But those borouehs don't
control things
Those who read The Tribune the follow
ing Sunday found an article headed:
Tiger Gloating over Fat Bronx County
Jobs -Stilwell-Tammany F'rame-Up Means
s672.47o a Year in Pstronage-Ofiices Are
aded-Extravagance in Salaried
Places VIII Give Wigwam Sustenance at
Heavy Cost TO Taxpayers" They read
that the offices I'm which Tammany would
be able to reap this revenue were those
of County Judge. Surrogate, District At
torney Sheriff, County Clerk and Regis
ter. Perhaps they were less inclined after
reading this to shout "Tammany is dead!'
but were willing 10 admit that there was
something to the legend about the nine
lives of the Tammany tiger. despite the
fact that the animal lost the $3.50, $50 in the
county offices of New York County and
the major part Of the New York City
patronage.
THE DISAPPEARING SUPERVISOR.
in The Tribune Of Saturday. November
S. there was an article which bore this
caption: III. c. Merritt Vanishes -Glynn
Sends Examiners-Tuckaftoe Supervisor,
Who Was Bronx Valley Commissioner
Leaves No Trace-Experts Now on Books
Missing Official Prominent Westches-
ter Democrat, Is Replaced by Man Elect
ed TO Succeed Him" Under this heading
there was an account of the disappear
ance of a man widely known in West
chester County Immediately following a
statement by his opponent on the county
ticket for Supervisor that he had exam
ined the accounts Of the incumbent of the
office and had found that he had been
New-York tribune., 1913-11-30
The Work Of This Oriental Literary Genius
Now Thus Signalized to the Occidental
World, Has Aroused Joy and Admi-
ration in the Minds Of Many
Eminent Men.

from the world OF mystical pantheism
where Tagore dwells to surrender fully TO
his influence or to feel that he can ever
be 10 me what some rhapsodical critic
has called him, a spiritual revelation.
Davids Psalms satisfy me much more
completely. But ! have read enough 10
feel the presence of genius, TO realize once
more how impossible IT is for man to 1--we
without religion. and 10 be deeply stirred
by this exotic mystical aspiration. What
particularly interests me in the work OF
Mr. Tagore is the original combination of
intense rapture OF mysticism with intense
love Of this world he has oil the fervor
Of Thomas a Kempis. with all the delight
in life OF, say, Stevenson. His soul goes
out to God as the hart panteth after the
water brooks: but he expresses his adora-
ton through a passionate love OF all
forms Of beauty In Gods world.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-30
IN A CENTRAL COUNTY,

Up in one of the counties in the 'e"
trail tier of New York there is to"""
in which three-fourths of the taxes
paid by non-residents. II contains
proximately 175 voters. The picA'nn -,
from a fund Of between $4,000 ana s-"VV,,
IL handled right" would be worm
1t cost to buy an election as super''''.
At s. apiece enough voters could be pu,
chased for 500 to win the election ha"s.
down, no allowance being made for law,
able votes that might be cast wi'h''
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READFIELD.

Sedgerly & Tibhets are very busy at
their saw mill in the wooden mill which
they have fitted up 10 saw barrel stock
fer their business il the fall
D. L. Dunn has lost sever fine sheep
from disease of the throat. during the
past few weeks.
f. Hackett has fine pair of horses
he is using now.
Mrs. VIM. Record is on the sick list.
Mrs. Stating will entertain the
Methodist circle. Wednesday.
Mr.. Samuel was called. last week,
to Massachusetts by the death of his
nephew
The club men of this village have
fitted up 4 room for meeting over MIR.
MalIett's store
j. NJ. Williams gave an excellent talk
before the chapel Sunday forenoon.
Lawrence Halves passed the Sabbath
with his mother here. returning, Mon
day. to his place Of business in Wa
teryile-
George Carson writes from Cali
furnia that he is very much pleased
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with the country and VIII remain there
some time.
DEPOT-Ralph Bracket of Poland
Springs came. Friday, for a day with
Mrs. Bracket and little daughter
Loan, who are stopping awhile with
Mrs, Brackets mother Mrs. Willis
Bickford.
Charles Biekford began work on the
railroad section. Monday morning.
Ten carloads of lumber We're shipped
by M. S Collins from the station, last
week. for w. T. Reynolds, Winslow
l.. NJ. Jones has purchased a waltz
able horse of Mr. Knickerbocker.
jefferson Dudley and daughter.
Janette visited Edward Dudley IN
Manchester. Sunday.
The Isaac Mace house at East Read
field has been recently sold by, NJ. S.
Collins
b. u. Brann will supply the place of
Mr.. Briggs of Monmouth in the signal
service under the supervision of A. H.
Jones.
Mr. Royal is now one of the conva-
escents improving daily.
Mrs. N. d. Gordon and Miss Marga-
rite Gordon We're in Augusta, Satur-
0ay, on business.
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ney Bosunn, five years old, TUESDAY,
al Fitehburg, Mass, hung suspended
with her clothes ablaze until the
weight of the little body severed the
fused wires and she dropped 10 fee
to the ground. She was unconscious
and probably fatally burned when
picked up. Tuney and a youngar
brother had been Doing stunts, when
Tuney spied the two wires just above
the transformer house of Park Ihd
Mill b. Crawling under the fence, Ia
girl climbed to the top of the house.
From there she seized the wires and
swung off. The wires short ertuited
through her body. fused and in flash
the child was in flames.
John Dillon. aged 81, noted many
years ago in Chicago as comedian
and known among actors us tho hess
laugh gettcr" in the profession dicl,
Monday night, at the home OF his
daughter, in Chicago. The cause o.
death was pneumonia. lie returned
from the stage about Is years ago. In
ante fire days Dillon was a member
| of the Woods Museum CO. at "hica-
go. with Mrs. Thomas Barry and
Frank +. Aiken.
So-ealed voluntary associations of
capital which have been organized in
Massachusetts as holding companies
for smaller public and public service
corporations were placed under State
control. Tuesday through the signing
of a Legislative act by Coy. Foss.
Voluntary organizations have hereto
fore been exempt from taxation from
I filing returns to state authorities, and
| have not been amendable to orders b.
| state commissions. All such organiZa-
tons will now he under the dirccf
supervision of the railroad or gas an1
electric light commissions.
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CURRENCY REFORM.
Continued from Page One.)

lation privilege. AS the bond-securcd
currency would be retired a substitute
currency based on commercial paper of
a qualified class would automatically
take its place
Those Democratic leaders working on
currency reform declare the contemplate
ed changes will be neither radical nor
abrupt, but will merely perfect the pres
ent machinery and facilities of the coun-
try's banking system. The plan that will
be finally evolved, they assert, will be
substantially different from the so-caled
Aldrich plan.
There is talk of establishing branch
banks abroad To obtain for American
bankers a share of the foreign trade and
commercial transactions. With respect
to the subject of guaranteeing bank de-
posits. however, the currency advocates
are practically unanimous that this
should be kept separate from any cur
rency bill and that if attempted at all it
should be taken up after the monetary
reform is in actual operation, when bank
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TROY.

CENTER-M. V. b. Mitchell has
sold his farm in Rutland to Allie
Jackson of Detroit
j. |. Goodale who is attending court
at Belfast passed the weekend with
his family.
Frank Seavey of Bre cliton, Mass. is
in town, called here by the illness oe
his mother.
f. A. Myrick was in Belfast. Saunr-
day, and will go again, Wednesday. to
attend court.
Seven Star Grange held its regular
meeting Saturday evening. notwith-
standing the hard roads.
George Cook met with a painful ac-
eident last week in the new barn
which he is building. A falling oarrei
struck his head, cutting it so severely
that IA stitches were required to be
taken.
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- - ~
BURN BOATHOUSE.
Militant Suffraeette Arson Squad De
stroy Much Property.

London. April 22.-tn arson squad
OF Militant Suffragcttas, succeeded.
last night, in burning down the Hands
worth park b1athouse in Biminc-
ham suburb. Four pleasure boats and
. large quantity of equipment werJ
destroyed.
With the opening of thu boating sea-
son attempts IL destroy skiiTs saue
shells are expected and along most ol
the rivers and lakes close watch is
kept by special patrols. night and day
for Suffrag etteS bent on destruction.
You had better stick to the needle
ard drop the revolver was the police
ma gistrate's advice to Annie Bell, the
Suffragette sentinel arrested outsid
9, during the imprisonment OF Mrs.
Pankhurst
Miss Bell. who had been found in
possession of a reV0lVer with which,
she said If any maa had interfered
with me I would have shot him. was
sentenced today. tn three weeks i'm
prisonment She refused to be bound
over 10 keep the peace for year and
told the magistrate Your advice IS
not e any use at all"
. Another Arson squad made an un-
successful attempt to sci fire to the
historic parish church. at ulsteri in
Thanet,} which is one Of the oldest III
the United Kingdom and contains
many historic relics ...s
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Six Black Foxes
Caught in Hancock.

Bangor, Me. April 22.-Six black
foxes, worth anywhere from $4,000 10
$4,000 in all. and possibly more, were
captured by Calvin Graves Of Han
Arthur, near McFarland's hill, town
Of Hancock, az about O'clock, Sunday
afternoon. The capture is one If III
richest ever made in the State 9f
Maine and certainly breaks the record
for any made in the Pine Tree State
in recent years.
Black foxes are worth from 1920
To $4,000 apiece, according to a STATE
ment made by Bangor fur dealer.
Tuesday afternoon. The foxes wild
probably be marketed III Prince Ed
wards Island. where the black fox
industry is conferred in this part Of the
world
Calvin Graves and his sons ran into
the nest near McFarland's hill entire
ly by accident and surprised the moth
or and her five progeny, three >.
whom were females and two males,
and We're successful in bagging the
whole of them. News of the discoV-
cry was soon flashed all over tie small
community and created Il great .sensa=
ton, as we'll. it might.
The fur of the mother fox was III
fairly good condition and, of course,
the others are in excellent shape. The
young foxes are. il is estimated. about
two months old and are the size of a
half grown eat. They are now safely
Gagged at the Graves home in Hancock.
and they are jealousy guarded. for it
is not often that Maine hunter bags
several thousand dollars in one day.
The amount that Mr.. Graves will
get Tor the animals will depend upon
the. demand for them at present. If the
right person can be found, that is, a
wealthy man who really wants a black
fox skin, the amount may be as high
as $4,000 for one.
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CUMBERLAND

Freeport-April Il, Miss Mary Morse.
aged 81 years.
Portland-April IS, Andrew E. Mack,
aged 10 years; April 20, Catherine Fell;
April ~, Marshall w. Smith. aged AZ
years: April Is, John H. Ross, aged s.
years; April Il, Thelma Elizabeth Mac
kinnon, aged months; April Is, Mar
garet MeMain o. Neil; April q, Frederick
o. Tuner aged 63 years. April 3, Alfred
w. Chambers, aged l Years. 7 months. "A
days; April .. Chester A. DenniSon, aged
aged 9 years April 49, Albert Toothaker
Of Brunswick, aged II years.
South Portland-April 49, Osmond w.
Knight, aged 75 years.
Nalmouth-April u. Esther A. Raynes.
aged 66 years, q days; April 20. Mary #.
Mason, aged IS years. mnnths
kt,NNEBF.C.
aterville-Apr ~, Mrs. John Glrard,
KNOX.
Roekland-Mrs. Lizzie L. Blaekington,
PENoRsCoT.
Bangor-April II, Patrick j. O'Halloran.
aged a years April 49, Mrs. Chauncey
\. Goehrane: April 20. Mrs. Olive Went
worth CLARK aged rs years. 6 months;
April IS. Mary, pugan; April IS, Frank
South Brewer-Aprtl II, Mrs. Mary f.
Adams, aged 81 wears months, Il days
Brewer-April Is, u. Carl Sinclair. aged
Is years, months. IS DAYS. April 90. ia
cob y. Holyoke. aged ~ years, days.
Old Town-Apfil 10, Fred r. How. aged
AZ years.
Howland-April 1, Alice NJ. Fogg, aged
GO wears, months.
SAGADAHOC.
Bath-Apfil ~, Helen Hasey, aged
years
SOMERSET.
Skowhesan-Apr l 70. Mrs Bertha Muir
phv Watson. aged 35 years
f'ttsfield--Aprl il. George Jackson
Dodge. aged 76 years.
ASHlNGTON.
Machias-Apil Il. Mrs. lnez NJ. Hooper,
aged q years. 10 months, Is days.
Eastport-April ~, Dr Edward NJ.
Small. aged 66 years.
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WINTHROP.
1nnl6eodtillnav,


Mrs. Geo. Fletcher of Waterville is
the guest Of her mother Mrs. Sarah
BuZzell.
Miss Lueie Carr was Sabbath guest
OF friends in town.
The congregational Ladies' Circle
met at the vestry Tuesday afternoon.
and enjoyed "a Picnic supper at 9
O'Clock.
Mrs. Evelyn Simpson was success
fully operated on for appendicitis. this
week, at the Portland hospital.
The Literary club met. Monday eve
ming with Mrs. Carleton. The pro-
grcm Roll call, items about Algeria
and Tunis; review, conducted by Mrs.
Carleton: paper, Algeria of Today"
Mrs. Strout; paper, NTunis," Mrs.
Pcnniman; reading, What the French
Are Doing in North Africa" Miss
Moody.
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fered With itching and burning mostly at
night. andI could not sleep. l could not do
my work for the pain my hands would be In
when they were in water. and could not
stand next to the heat.
Il had tried all sorts of ointment and got
no help until tried Cuticura Soap and Cuti-
cura ointmenrss one cake of Cuticura
Soap and one box OF Cuticura Ointment
which curedsme SO l have had no trouble
since" (SigneO Mrs. Joseph Touchette.
Jr., Dec. 27, 1911.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment do so much
for pimpleS, blackheads, red rough skins.
itching. scaly scalps. oIandruf. dry. thin and
falling hair, chapped hands and shapeless
nails that it is almos6 criminal not to use
them. Sold throughout the world. Lib
eral sample of each mailed free. with 32-p.
Skin Book. Address postcard "Cuticura.
Dept. T. Boston,.
SSfender-faced men should use Cuticura
Soap Shaving Stick 25c. Sample free.
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MARRIED..
CrNlRERLANn

Portland--Aprl 10. Fred Filon of Port
land and Miss Isabelle White of Orono
April 10, Charles j. II. I'artelow and
Miss Annie +. Papineau.
OXFORD.
Fryeburg-April II. John j. F'aas of
West Springfield. Mass, and Miss Ethel
Grace Paul of Benton.
PFNOBSGOT.
Bangor-April %. clyde c. Brown and
Miss Stella +. Miller
East Bangor-Aprii Il. James r, SUM-
van Of Portland and Miss Dorothy *.
Adams Of Bangor
Newport-April 10 Charles Il. ADAMS
and Miss Cora Il, Stacy.
Bradford -Aprii -. Almon A. Ritchie
and Miss Florence r.. Oseood.
WASHINGTON,
Milltown--April iG, Miss Grace n,
Eagau of Midtown and George r. i.of-
tbs of Bangor.
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Douglas Tells EX=
perienCe with Mob.

Douglas. AriZ., April 2e.-J. 5. Doug
las of the Cananea- Consolidated Cop
per Co, who WAS ordered by n mob,
Yesterday. 10 leave Cananea. arrived
here. late last night. and related his
experience Trouble had been brew
ing fol a week, he said, owing to the
company shutting down more than
half its Works because Of lack Of fuel
Many of the 1000 men thrown out OF
employment had beer given odd jobs
and supplies, but that did not appease
the majority.
Early yesterday, he continued, a
crowd of $500 persons surrounding his
ctiice and sent IA delegation of four &C
companied by Colonel AlVerado of the
State troops. and Project Durazo, to
him, With four demands.
They declared 1 must Immediately
appoint a successor as general mama
ger Of the company he said, that |
must leave Cananea at once, as under
Article 33 of the Mexican Constitution
] had been adjudsed by the people a
pernicious character, that Governor
Pasquiera would arrive, Tuesday. with
the demand that the mines be reopen
ed ana all idle men put to work and
that ii the company did not immedi-
ately operate the mines they would
see that another company would.
Douglas said Col Alverado had only
200 soldiers there and was unable to
control the situation. He advised me to
leave as did officials of the company,
SO / closed up my business as we'll as
| could and left fcw hours later. |
don't know what the company will do. .
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TEN DAYS AnMiSTICE
Greeks and Servians Make Agreement
Pending Neaoti atoms.


Gonstantinople. April 22.-The Greeks
and The Servians, today, concluded an
agreement with Turkey by the terms
of which hostilities are 10 be suspend
ed for 10 days.
The Gretian and Turkish govern
ments also have agreed to begin the
repatriation of Turkish prisoners of
war The first batcn OF 5000 has been
sent 70 the Turkish seaport of Mcrsina
in ASH Minor The agreement stipu-
lates that the men must not take part
in further military operations and that
the Greek transports must not be mo-
Tested by Turkish warships
Vessels have been placed at the dis
posal of the Turkish government by
Greece for the conveyance Of 1903 Mus
strlmans, who desire to emigrate from
Salonilli to Scalanova in Asia.
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FRANKLIN.
WILTON.

f. f. limerick, Jr.. OF To&ten. ANA
hr. King OF Bethel, were H. Wilton
Tuesday, on business.
Miss Marion Buttcrfeld of Maldcr
Mass. visited several days. recently.
with Mr.. and Mrs. jesse Fletcher.
Mrs. M. j. Trefethen was called Ia
Lynn, Mass, Tuesday, BY the death Of
her aunt, Mrs. John Smith, sister Of
the late loses T. Jones.
Nj. T.. Allen painted the Domestic
Science room at Wilton ACADEMY L. sf
week and the tables are being covered
With zine. this week by j. Z. Hescock.
Mrs. Charles Purington, who was.
recently, operated on ut the G NJ. G..
hospital in Lewiston, is rapidly gain
inc
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DETROIT.

Mrs. Louise Prince Freeman returned n
her home in Marlboro. Mass, after visit
higher mother and brother Mrs. Myra
Prince and Harold Prince.
Willis Rich, a former Detroit boy with
Mrs. Rich and their little daughter have
been visiting friends here.
Charles Harris of Harvard law school
and Monson Brown of Tufts Dental
school. spent the Easter recess at their
homes In Detroit.
L. y. Crocker, who is i'll with pneumo-
mia. remains in critical condition.
c. +. Me6'ully is confined TO his home
with an attack of grip.
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ers themselves might determine whether
they wished to establish an insurance
fund possibly out of the earnings of the
regional reserve institutions.
Senator owen will present a resolution
authorizing the hearings and at another
meeting, May =, the committee will de-
eide what experts shall be summoned ia
testify.
General currency remedies are to be
barred in the new series of hearings.
The Senate experts intend to pursue 4
few definite lines of inquiry bearing di-
reetly on the movement of money, the
sectional demands for currency and gold,
factors connected with initiation Of the
currency and contraction of wealth.
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ATTACKS ACCOUNTANTS.
President Melen of N. ", N. n. G. r.
Issues Statement.

Boston, April 22.-President Mellen
of the New York, New Haven & Hart
ford Railroad, in statement given
out at the offices of the company, this
afternoon, attacks the attitude If the
accountants of the Interstate Com
merce Commission, who he says, new
err made the slightest inquiry of him
during their five months examination
of the New Haven Cos. books. lie
Indignantly repells, the statement say.
insinuations that He profited per
sonally eight or nine years ago by
transactions with the New Haven
Road.
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IN PITIARLE STATE.
$1,000 Turkish Fueitives Reported at
fiera on Adriatic.

Vienna. April 22.-Some 5000 Turk
ish soldiers with w HON are David
Pasha and all mis- generals, the rem
nants of the Nardar army and refugees
from the fortress of Janina, are re-
ported to have arrived at Fiera on the
Adliatic. north of the port of ANlona
The fueitives are said to he in Il
ritable state. Most of the troops lre
Ill and suffering from semistardtion
They are completely demoralized.
The Whole of southern Albania has
been cleared of means of subsistence
by the various armies which have
marched through the territory and
famine reigns among the remaining
iuEaIilantS eNerNN here.
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John Farmer Wood, known through
ont New England as the organizer and
general manager of institute fairs,
and Il former manager of a Boston
newspaper died in SHOWS Falls sun
day, at his home. Mr.. Wood was born
at Concord, Mass. oct. 2, 1898, the
youngest child of James and Rizpah
GARNER Wood and a lineai descend
ant OF William Wood, who came from
England in 1888 to settle in that town.
At the Concord High school Henry D.
Thoreau was one of his teachers.
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arms were all covered up
to my elbows with a thick
crust. and it would split
open like a cut where the
skin of my hands creased.
i had q few blotches on
my face which were very
disfiguring. for when 1
went out in the cold air
they would be dark red
and would burn L slif.
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DIED.

ANDROSCOGGIN
I.ewiston--April ~ Mrs Ann T. Eeat
aged ~ years; April l9, Miss Ruth T.
Knight. aged 81 years.
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BOW DOiNHAM.

The first shad of the season was
caught. April %, on the Kennebec riv-
az by james Nj. Pratt at Bowdoinham.
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CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Gripping two high tension wires thai
carried 1000 volts of electricity, Tu-
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CRUST COVERED
HANDS AND ARMS
Up to Elbows. BIotches on Face.
Very Disfguring. |tched and
Burned. Could Not Sleep. One
Cake Cuticura Soap and One Box
Cuticlna Ointment Cured. :

Montgomery Center. vt. =" 1.-THE trouble
began with my hands. 1t looked like chaps,
but il kepGgetting worse until my hands and
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HOW NJ. Y, NJ. n. & n.
SECURED THE B. & M.

Continued from Page One)