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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-08

state. lest December. At that line the
prosecutor was attacking The police
"Ssst, M through graft disclosures
madc by Sipp ana other witnesses be-
fore the aldermanie committee that
was investigating the police depart
m6nt.
Fox period Of years Sipp made
monthly payments to the police for
protection For his resort. he had told
the committee. Before Mr.. Whitman
had chance to get Sipp to repeat this
testimony before the grand jury the
hotei man took fight. Upon being re-
turned to the courts jurisdiction it
developed that he had been bribed with
$20oe to leave. Sipp SO state. and the
prosecutors inquiry into his story re-
suited in the joint indictment of the
defendants, then inspectors.
During the course of the trial. the
state introduced evidence tending 10
show that graft payments by Sipp
reached the defendants, who, in turn.
commanded the Harlem district where
sipp's hotel was located. The tribute
was collected for Thomas Walsh, who
vas captain of a Harlem precinct, and
Walsh divided With the inspector above
him, according to Walsh's own confess
sion. The amount Of graft exacted was
III dispute during the trial, hut Mr.
Whitman in summing up, this after
noon, stated it was $4,000 year in
Walsh's precinct alone. Walsh and
Sipp were the states chief witnesses.
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Squirrel Cut His Hair.

Ernest ]. Bloom. a photographer of
Hood River Greg, who has been pass
ing the past two weeks at the ranch of
r. E Scott, secretary of the CONNER
cial Club, returned home with por-
ton of his hair gone.
Mr.. Bloom had been working in the
garden and making a lawn on the
ranch He was taking nap after
lunch last week. when a squirrel that
had been making his nome in the
house this winter. evidently thinking
his long black locks would make an
excellent lining for nest, trimmed off
a portion of the hair while he slept.
1.-THE rodents teeth must have been
sharp" says the photographer, for l
could scarcely feel him at work there
cutting away the hair. l must have
moved in my sleep and in his excite
ment he evidently pulled some of the
hairs out instead of cutting them. This
awete me and l let out a yell that
almost frightened the SOU rrel te
Oregonian.
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CHINA.

Miss Ethel Fish is in Lewiston, this
week.
The Misses Brainerd returned from
Kissemme, Florida, Monday, where
they have spent the winter.
Miss Belle Longley went to Smyrna
Mills, Saturday, to teach this summer.
The many friends wish her much suc-
veis In her undertaking.
M. Eben Bailey has bought a new
Buiek touring car, this spring.
Sunday, May II, will be observed by
the Baptist church as Parents Sunday.
in the morning special sermon will
be prepared by the pastor, Rev. f,
T.. Loneley. The kozwellkit Orchestra
viii furnish music in addition to the
choir. All who have parents in the
Better Land are requested to wear Q
white flower and those who have them
living a colored one. There will bt
special services in the evening as well
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A PIERCE MONUMENT
Probable at Concord, N. H.-Cross
State Road Agitation Is Strong.

Concord, y. H., May 7.-Frankln
Pierce, the only President of the United
States from New Hampshire, seems as
sured at last. of a statue by his native
state. The Senate, Tuesday, passed a
House bill providing for $4,000 appro-
priation for the statue to be erected on
the State House grounds. Gov. Felker
is expected to sign the measure.
The fact that Pierce was a Democrat
and pro-slavery man has aroused such
strong opposition to a statue for him
that appropriation bills for the purpose
have always been killed by the long sue
cession of Republican Legislatures. The
present Legislature is Democratic for the
first time in 40 years.
The House passed n Senate bill which
would place the State Hospital, State
Sanatorium, State Industrial School and
State Institution for the Freeble Minded
under the management of one board of
control At present the institutions are
conducted by separate boards of trus-
tees.
A resolution that the New Hampshire
State Board of Trade favored the pass
ing the legislative bill for the southern
highway from Keene to
Portsmouth over the Governors veto
was passed, Tuesday, alta largely attend
ed meeting of the State Board of Trade
at Milford, N II. DIN c. Chase, presi-
dent. presided over the session and the
speakers included II. o. Hadley of Peter
boro, president of the State Board OF
Agriculture: f. w. Butterfield. superin-
tendent of schools, Dover; 5. Percy
Hooker of Concord. state superintendent
Of highways; and William Savarol, secre-
tary of the Manchester Board Of Trade
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THE ICE CREAM SODA.
Ice cream has been the dominat

Ice cream has been the dominating
influence in the progress of the soda
water industry since the advent OF
pure fruit syrups. The addition of this
frozen palate ticker to soda water not
only improved the richness and
smoothness of the beverage, but at tho
same time it increased its food value
Statistics as to the consumption of ice
cream show an enormous increase
since it was first added to soda water,
and the soda fountain has not only
been the greatest quantity consumer
of ice cream, but its best advertiser.
With the advent of the luscious sundae
came still additional increase in the
consumption of both soda and ice
cream at fountains. Every one knows
Just what constitutes a sundae, and
how tempting the appearance of the
ice cream with the added syrup, fruits
and nuts-a combination pleasing alike
to the eye and palate. The combinations
was christened sundae-so the legend
goes-because q druggist originated
this zone best bet" on a Sunday.
There are many claimants to the hon
or of Il did it first" as there are to
almost all of the combinations repre-
scented by the modern menu or dispen-
ser's guide, but whoever thought of
the sundae first did a good thing. for
which the public as well as the foun-
tain industry owes vote of thanks.
In the spring of 1874 Robert NJ.
Green of Philadelphia, who at that
time was acting as agent for John
Matthews of New York, at the same
no hpU1,n thn fa nj N
smaller types OF fountains of his own
He secured a concession to dispense
soda water at an exposition held under
the auspices of the Franklin Institute
of Philadelphia, and stress of business
compelled him to do something to at
tract the patronage of the public. Al
all events, such was the inspra ton,
to Mr.. Green, which prompt
ed him to put ice cream in soda wa
ter. For the first time he advertised
ice cream in soda water at a soda
fountain, and he unquestiona bly, is en-
titled to the honor: and the credit Of
ice cream Soda" which, as
years have passed, has developed an
enormous demand and given unques-
TONED impetus to the business of soda
water dispensing.
On the other hand the credit for
nommercializing ice cream as an adj
)unct to soda water, even though Mr..
Green was the first to use it. unuues-
tionably belongs to Fred Sanders of
Detroit, prominent confectioner of
the Michigan city. The inspiration to
use ice cream with soda water came to
Mr.. Sanders one night when his plain
Eol
knowledge that it had already been
used as a component of soda water in
the East. Mr.. Sanders used ice cream
and featured it. He did more to pop
ularize ice cream soda" than any 9TH
er fountain owner in this country
Pharmaceutical Era.
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chosen day by the King of England.
the President of the United States
and by their representatives Beyond
the seas" and that ON the day the
cornerstones are laid there be a ces-
sation of work for five minutes
throughout the two countries and
their colonies.
1t was further suggested that a fit
ting way to promote the growth or
mutual respect and good will between
Great Britain and the United States
and their colonies would be through
the endowment in the colleges and
universities of chairs of British
American history, with especial ref
erence to the peaceful progress and
relations of the two countries. This
plan, it was suggested. could be based
upon the principle of inter changing
professors.
Ii was urged that under the same
head should be considered the endow-
ment of travelling scholarships to en-
able Journalists and writer's TO VISIT
English speaking countries
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Practical Joke on Himself.

Because she said she discovered AZ
ter marriage that her husband was
ilIiterate and coarse and a practical
Joker of an unusual kind, Mrs. Ger
truie Einson of East Orange, institt1t-
ed a suit for divorce some months ngo.
Mrs. Einson is the managing editor
of a woman's magazine in New York
and her husband is somewhere in the
West. He has nosknown occupation.
They were married in The New York
city hall three years ago and lived ~
gether for a week when EiTsson de-
parted for Panama. I He came hack a
few months later and lived with his
wife again for several weeks, Since
then sne has not heard from him.
Describing nssincideht Of their mar
ried life. MrsS Einsoh shid her hus-
band hid himseifs in a steamer trunk
and was unconscious after he was res
cued. She said heslaughed heartily at
the so-called joke. ana could not under
stand why tie other members of the
family were unable to see fun in it,
New York Times.
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Mater in Iripoli.

1t is characteristic of desert coun-
tries that generally when the magic OF
fresh water is added these deserts are
made ITO blossom as the rose" The
coast line of Tripolitania, says a con
sular report is dotted with GASES, some
of which extend twelve miles in length
and two miles in depth. Large STREET
ches of barren country separate these
strips of green and the rolling dunes to
the south are commonly designated as
the desert. The date palm fiourishes
whenever the Arab has taken the trou-
bic to dig well and adopt a system OF
irrigation, be it ever SO simple. The
Atlas range of mountains crosses the
Iunisian boundary about one hundred
miles from the Mediterranean and ex-
tends in an easterly direction to the
coast town of HONS, thus bounding on
the south about ten thousand square
miles of land, a large part of which
mas not been cultivated since the Ro-
man occupation. Once in every four
years, on an average, when the annual
rains have been favorable, and espec-
tally if distributed evenly in the win
ter months of November and Decem-
~ anu tiS iuOiltn OF March, a large
crop of barley has been harvested nv
'fhe Arabs, who use the simplest meth
ods of agriculture, scattering the seed
broadcast. then blowing it into the soil
about four inches and depending upon
nature to do the rest.
The Arab has never been at great
pains to attempt irrigation and it was
not until the Italian engineers, after
the military occupation of Tripoli, had
inspected the country that plants were
devised to reclaim the wastes. The
Italian government has already spent
about $4,000 in developing water sup
plies for the army, and no longer is it
necessary to bring drinking water from
Italy. OF the "a wells drilled five to 80
meters by an Italian firm from Bolog-
ma, it has been found in every case
that, after passing through sand and
limestone, hard, impenetrable rock
was reached, which held a good supply
OF drinking water. varying from 2,O0C
to 10000 liters Glib to 10,567 quarts)
capacity an hour. To the south of the
zone explored the land is higher of a
clayey quality and does not permit the
surface water to penetrate to the hard
strata.-Indianapoi News.
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LOVE DECIDED LiFE-SAVER.
Strong Swimmer Lets Friend Die to
Save His. Sweetheart.

Thrown into the ice-eold water of thc
Della ware off Bridge street, Frankford,
when a skiff capsiZed. Henry Bennett,
The only member of a party of four
who was able to swim, had to choose
between saving his sweetheart or ms
best friend. He saved the girl. The
friend sank to his death. despite the
efforts of the swimmer to rescue him
after the young woman was safe.
The party included Bennet, John AS
senheimer, William Brunt and Miss
Ethel Bennett, who is not related to her
rescuer They had set out for the Jer-
sey shore in the morning, after having
danced through the night at party.
The bracing air tempted them to take
row on the river.
Two OF the young men tried to
change seats in the shallow skill 1t
upset, and instantly all four were
struggling in the water. Brunt came up
near the stern and chung to it. Ben
net found himself several feet away,
with his best friend and his sweetheart
by him. Assenheimer was helpless.
Throwing ar arm around the glrls
waist, Bennett told Assenheimer to
cling to his shoulder The weight prov
ed too much for the swimmer. He
made desperate efforts to reach the
boat. but the current carried him away.
No aid was at hand. 1t was then he
realized he must make a choice.
AS Bennet turned to tow the girl to
the boat Assenheimer's hand slipped
off his shoulder. Bennett placed the
girl on the upturned craft. The three
survivors were taken off the skiff by
a fisherman.-New York Times.
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SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

Rev. J. NJ Remick, pastor of the
Free Baptist church of South Portland
Heights for the past four years has
resigned on account of i'll health and
at the present time the church is with
out a pastor. Rev. Mr.. Remick has
purchased farm in Wells where he is
TO reside with his family ef IT,
c. B. Written, Bath tearnster,, In un-
loading a load of ashes which he had col
lected from lot ON York street Tues
day. found the body of dead infant
GIRL The body was considerably decom-
posed and was wrapped in a skirt Mr.
Written did not notice the bundle when
he loaded the team, as it appeared like
bundle of rage The child was fui
form. The body was Immediately turned
over to Coroner Curtis and was taken te
his undertaking rooms on Center street
An examination showed that it nae
breathed. as the lungs fioated. Tnere
was no possible clue in the clothing the
child was wrapped in.
Eiiey Luce of Pennington was arrest.
ed in Brockton, Mass. Tuesday evening
Sheriff W. b. Small went to BrocKton
Wednesday, and will return, thursday
WIFI Luce lltc CiidfSt II lafceIy Oh q
handbag containing $357 from Mrs. Adella
Gould OF Pennington. Friday morning.
Luce was at the home of Mrs. Gould and
Mrs Gould was called 10 the front door.
On her return to the kitchen, Luce and
the handbag were missing. Sheriff Small
was notified, Friday evening, and has
been working quietly on the case since
On Sunday, Sheriff Small learned tina
Luce was taken by team to Livermor,
Falls. Friday night, he telegraphed TIN
authorities and had him apprehended a
Brockton, Tuesday evening.
The following telegram has been re
ceiyed from Governor Coburn by al
Augusta friend: Il have just returned
from the battlefield and there is ever,
indication of success. Maine has NOR,
reason to be proud of her troops thar
everything else put together. (Signed
Az COBURN.' The finane,
committee Of the rebel Senate ha
voted to issue new bonds to tn,
nn6ount OF $500 200 900 bearing 6 pc
cent. interest. to run for period o
20 years and payable in treasury note
or@rdffon. ss The United State
rlts1fDat Rover has taken the place o
t,sss Mystic in guarding Hampton
Roads Portland Advertiser, May 7
1ge1.s
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Concerning the Weight of Eqas.

Ii is claimed that the largest eggs
mat reach the London market come
from Denmark. and they are said to be
more In demand than the eggs of any
other country The French Chamber
OF commerce in London, which has
made report concerning them, found
according to Youths Companion, that
OF the 200 cases of Danish eggs that
arrived in London during the first
week of April, 1912. 1872 cases contained
eggs that weighed nearly three ounces
each, 272 contained eggs that weighed
more man two and half ounces each,
ana III eggs that weighed more than
| Two and quarter ounces
! The lightest Danish eggs weighed as
much as the heaviest French eggs. The
report does not tell what breeds OF
hens laid the eggs.
Some years ago the North Carolina
Experiment Station recorded tho
weight of the eggs that several hens
q OF well-known breeds laid during "a
period of six months. Light Brahma.
produced the largest eggs: they weigh.
ed. on the average, two and a thirt
ounces each
Eggs from Black Langshan an(
i Barred Plymouth Rock hens weighed
two and one-sixth ounces each, ant
eggs of the single comb Brown Leg
horn, late Matched Plymouth Rock
White Wyandctte and Buff Cochin
hens all weighed less than two ounce.
each. Except those of one breed o
Black Minorcas. none of the pul1ets
eggs weighed more than two ounces
Newark Evening News.
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serious and earnest discussion in
musical journals and with reference
to the music education Of the peopis,
until some minds began to look upon
the talking machine as the very
enemy, instead of the coadjutor, IF
the musician. How groundless was
the fear time has made apparent. '..@s
Now, the photograph is getting
chiefly this one-eornered view. AS an
eavesdropper its sensationalsm APP
peals. That it has been used to catch
unwary speech and the record unex-
pectedly presented in court has natu-
rally attracted public attention TO II in
this connection, until there is already
agitated the question of whether or
not law ought to be involved to say
whether, if through the photograph at
tempt was made 10 bring to court the
surreptitious overhearing of the con-
fessionai, the record should be ac-
cepted as evidence. Rumor had it
that such attempt had actually been
made in New Jersey murder case
but the rumor was not authenticated.
The excitement on the score of the
perpetual possibility of such hap
pening seems to be out of all proper
ton to the probabilities of the case.
Dictograph eavesdroppers would be no
more likely to find entrance to the
confessional or to the lawyers private
office than the detective himself, nor
connection with it be established, sur
reptitiously. The little instrument is
almost made to seem, in the discus
sions on this phase of the subject, a
fai ie,f.a To hn n
crime, ready to fly to their help into
the innermost recesses of human con-
fidence.
When the machine is perfected to
complete practicability, as it will be,
if IL is not already, it may be valu-
able adjunct of business in all it's as
poets; in the prosecution of crime as
in the transmission of correspondence,
or for the mere matter of record Its
possibilities as it is presented in it's
latest state of development by it's in
ventor, are certainly broad and en-
couraging. The long sought after
power of reproducing the recorded
voice Is now claimed for it, after sew
en- and half years of experimental
ton in connecting the diaphragm or
the recording machine directly to the
needle of a photographic roll. dur
ing which no results were secured UNI
til the happy thought of an air cush-
ion between, has now apparently Sc
cured the reproduction of the voice
that made the record.
Dictation in an ordinary tone OF
voice is said to be not only possible
with it, but dictation a hundred or
thousand feet away from the ma
chine, through the medium of wire
connection The only limit of the
self recording photograph, the inven-
| tor maintains, is that now recognized
| in the transmission of conversation by
| telephone. AS for the reproduction,
| the photographic roll is said to be
equal to transmitting it directly, nat
ural voice to listening ear, for record
ing, If desired by typewriter or
| typesetting machine, without the in
PREVENTION of dictator or copy maker.
AS yet the whisper seems to be the
4 only speech safe from its powers of
recording. and that the inventor hopes
to be able to catch when more sensi-
tive plates are perfected.-New Bed
ford Evening Standard.
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and from the forces in the field. Dist
anee is annihilated, important move
ments are executed with less delay and
war Is itself shortened.
In addition to these applications,
electricity is now put to many other
important uses in the conduct of war;
Moreover. new applications are con-
stantly being found for its varied capa-
bilities.
A modern mine field for coast or har-
Dor defense is an electric adaptation
akin to electric blasting, in which suit
able fuses are arranged to be fired by
battery current. sent at Will from
some control station by the simple
closing of the circuit
Heavy charges of high explosives
called mines, are SO distributed and
connected by cables to control stations
that it is difficult to imagine a hostile
ship or fleet reversing a well-organized
mine field without destruction or most
serious damage.
Another terrible engine of destrue-
tion for use in the defense of harbors
is the electrically controlled dirigihle
torpedo. Moving and steering itself in
response to electric currents sent
through small wire or cable, II car
res a charge of explosive sufficient to-
destroy in an instant the most formid-
able warship.
Its high speed and its almost COM
plete submergence save it from daIn-
age by the guns of the enemy, even II
its approach is discovered. The dirigi-
BILE torpedo may be regarded as an ex-
plosive mine, moved. directed, and fred
by the agency of electricity.
The effectiveness of some OF the more
recently developed electrical devices
has rot vet been tested In actual war.
fare but it is safe to say that their
use will hasten the day when war WIN
prove to be so destructive and SO ter
rible as to be avoided. If possible, .hx'
all civilized: natipps Harnefs weekly
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Wonderful Energy of Plant Growth.

One of the most remarkable eXhibl-
tions of plant force / ever saw was Ill
a Western city where | observed spe-
eies Of wild sunfower forcing its way
up through the asphalt pavement; the
folded and compressed leaves of the
plant, like a mans fist, had pushed
against the hard but flexible concrete
till ii had bulged UP and then split, and
lei the ,irrepressible plant through. The
force lexerted must have been many
pounds. / think it doubtful If the
strongest man could have pushed Ills
fist through such n resisting medium.
If it was net life which exerted TINS
force, what was it? Life is kind OF
explosion, and the slow continued eN-
plosions of this growing plant rent the
pavement as surely as powder would
have done. 1t is doubtful If any Gull
tivatcd plant could have overcome such
odds. 1t required the force of the nn-
tanned hairy plant of the plains to ac-
coInplish this feat-Atlantic Weekly.
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small but flendishiy powerful, is the

small but fiendishiy powerful is the
police officers description of the bomb.
When the machine was taken to pieces
it was discovered that it was timed to
explode at midnight, but a arrangement
of the clockwork retarded the explosion.
Apparently this accident prevented Sc
rious damage being done TO the cathe-
dral A number of brass screws and nails
were found among the contents.
Miss Mae Seott-Troy, the San IRAN
cisco Suffragette. cabled. today, to An
drew Carnegie: what right have you
to pose as an American citizen. when
you are registered as a voter in the par
ish of Dornoch in the county of Suther-
land. Scotland. You are voter No. II on
the official list received by me, today,
from the sheriff of the county. Why did
King Edward offer you a dukedom?'
Mr. Carnegie is described on the vot-
ing list as Occupation, gentleman. Place
of abode, Skibo Castle"