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Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-11-27

The construction work or the new
chapel of the Christian Science Society
on Bowman street is progressing rap
idly, and the force of II carpenters
now engaged on the building is fast
getting it into shape. The frame is
already in position and closed in, and
gives one an idea of how the building
is going to look. The chapel Will
be simple in style of architecture, one
story in height, and will have pitch
roof RAINING from east to west. The en-
trance will be on the west side of the
building, with a neat portico over IL.
Tine walls will be of matched boards
and the finish will be of stucco, but III
event of cold weather coming before
the building is ready for the finish, the
wallis will be covered with sheathin5
paper and battened until anofher
epring. While the style of the building
will be plain, it will be finished in way
that will be comfortable and conVen-
lent for the purposes required
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-11-27

thursday. November 27. 1919
Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-11-27
SIDNEY.

WEST-Miss Augusta NJ. Ross of
Union has been the guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. Andrew Keene. Miss Ross who
has been employed at the Insane hos
pital. was called as witness in the
hospital hearing at Augusta, Wednes-
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Dr. Lucius M ToIman, Uncle Sans Chief Taster-W B.
Atwood Official Wine Expert L. c. Mitchell, Red Pep
per Man-Dr Hartmann, the Beer and Whisky Tabu-
Iator-WiIiam B. Harris Official Coffee faster George
F. Mitchell, Tea Expert, and Miss Alberta Read, Noted
Woman Scientist, Tell Of Their Work.

chief business is that Of tasting and
testing the food products OF the nation.
1t is unusually interesting to know how
these people do their work. II cup OF
coffee should be handed to the coffee ex-
pert, his answer to the question, Tel
me what that is?' would not DO merely,
coffee. He would sip il slowly, consider
a second or two, and then tell you
what kind of coffee II was, where II
was grown, and by what process II had
been prepared. 1t is truly wonderful the
exquisite taste developed by these men
and women. No matter what IT may
be that Is put in front of the specialist,
the sense of taste and smell determine
almost without further test the exact
quality and the exact location In the
world where the food is grown. The tea
experts would do exactly the same as
the coffee man, and the pepper man like
wise.
This phase OF government work forms
an important part Of the duties of chem
ical experts in Uncle Sans pure food
factory. The pure food and drugs act,
while not the direct cause OF 1t, is
largely responsible for the increased need
of a highly delicate palate and nasal
organ in the men and women who deter
mine whether or not a food product or
drug comes within the wording or the
law.
While in several instances work Of this
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dozen other Black Hand operators The
verses We're dedicated to Caruso.
In the prison magazine, under the
caption, "A Sermon and Song"
Hawthorne writes as follows of the diff
ference In the effect of the two:
There is a kindly disposition in the
community to help convicts. Persons
inspired with such impulses sacrifice
time and convenience to come before
the subterranean brotherhood and dis
pense moral counsel. kindle hope and
ambition, assure them of the unfalter-
ing tenderness of the Creator, and urge
them to approach the foot of the mercy
seat. The so subterranean brothers sit
silent on their rows of chairs before
the herald OF salvation-silent and OBJ
servant
After the orator has finished his ar
gument, told his illustrative story and
Numbered his appeal. the 800 perhaps
remain silent and unresponsive. The
good man sits down. little chilled and
he did his best, he tried
hard, and yet the result was negative.
The men seem hardened and indiffer-
ent. What can rouse them?
"A woman rises and begins to sing.
And there is a note in her voice that
keeps recurring, a tender, irresistible
music. rising and falling, perhaps ASSOC
ciated with simple, homely words that
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Divorce SUIT NOW FOLLOWS ROMANCE OF MOTT

following a fist fight with Bovine in the
Hotel Martinique, New York.
Young Motifs entire wealth consisted
or 800 when he boarded the Indrsdeo for
his long cruise. The girl who was will
ing to give up conventions, her husband,
beautiful home, and an assured posi-
ton on the stage. added 500 to the sum,
and since they have been in Hongkong
has added TO the family income by sing
ing in the choir of the English church.
Soon after his marriage to Miss Pit
kin. Mott and his bride spent much time
in the Canadian Northwest, where he OBJ
tained material for a number of short
stories. mostly tales OF adventure that
found a ready market.
During the time he spent there he
steadied down and seemed to have grown
tired of trying to sow the biggest crop
Of wild oats on record.
The moment he struck the lights Of
Broadway. however, the lure of the CAV
If z New York appealed to him more
strongly than ever. AS II to make I'D
for lost time, he plunged in even deeper
than before.
His family sent him away for long
trips to Europe and hunting expeditions
in far-away places, but without much of
any appreciable benefit.
Matters. reached a climax in the spring
of 1909. when conditions were SO intol-
cradle that the elder Mott got him
aboard European liner.
He made clean getaway in Europe.
drifted to Alaska, and finally reached
New York.
For the next two years Mott cut a
wide swath In the lobster palaces, until
the time he and Frances Bovine walked
down the gangplank of the Indradeo and
sailed away to new world.
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KING OF THE TANNING ISLANDS.

From the San Francisco Dispatch
Father Emmanuel Rougier, known In
the South Pacific as king of the Planning
Islands" was among the passengers on
the Oceanic Liner Sierra, which arrived
here today from Honolulu.
The islands of Christmas and Tanning
were sold recently by Father Rougier to
a British syndicate for 500, 000
I am still interested in Christmas and
Tanning Islands, which sold to a British
syndicate. They are now being developed
for copra on a large scale" Father Roug-
Ter Is the owner of other coral dots in the
far south seas, which are rich In copra
and phosphates and which he appears to
dispose OF as real estate dealer might a
corner lot.
Father Rougier went to the South Pa
cific Islands as a missionary a quarter
OF century ago. His life's history among
the natives has been one of adventure
and evangelical work among the wild
tribes.
Father Rougier. who is said to be worth
more than si.Ooo.ooo. is known all through
the South Pacific and the antipodes.
where he occasionally pops up after .
quiet sojourn In Europe.
The romance Of the south seas clings TO
him wherever he goes. and although he
makes frequent trips to the outside world
he always returns to the isle dotted wa
tiers of the tropics
1t is said that Father Rougier knows
more about the strange islands that tut
above the bosom OF the Pacific south OF
Honolulu than any other man who has
been in these waters. He knows their
location and has visited the majority OF
them. Father Rougier wears the garb OF
his clerical vocation. whether in the capi-
tails Of Europe or in a copra grove u
some distant islet
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delicate havors Of the various wines
play an important part in their testing.
and the expert who makes a high per-
centage of correct examinations must use
his nose almost equally with his palate.
An UnenJoyable job.
While the work of the government
wine experts might be one which almost
any wine-loving American would like to
relieve them of, there is another expert
whose work is far less enjoyable. He Is
the pepper expert, who recently conclud-
ed series of investigations with red
peppers. Especially In connection with
Hungarian paprika," said he. ARE tests
necessary. The true Hungarian paprika
comes from nowhere but Hungary. The
same pepper from which 1t is made, il
grown elsewhere, but the climatic con-
ditions make 1t entirely different. In
making tests We have to watch out for
the Spanish paprika- This article Is
about half as expensive as the Hungar-
ian and Is also not quite as red as the
other. but by using a small percentage
of oil. the color can be intensified until
II closely resembles the original. at least
to the average buyer.
There are numerous other lines of
work in the government service in which
sense of taste and smell are neces-
sary. B. J. Howard, chief OF the Micro
chemical Laboratory at Washington.
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not a tea is good depends upon its taste,
smell and body. The smell is obtained
from the infused leaves. which test IL
taken Immediately after brewing. In
tasting the method used, is that of
Spraying the palate" a process OF so
taking the tea into the mouth that IL
comes into contact with the nasal or
gans as well. Taste and smell are so
closely allied in this work that only by
this method can the best results be OBJ
tanned. As for the body. that 10 deter
mined by the feel of the tea IN the
mouth, and consists OF much the same
feel as would be noticeable between
cream and SKINNED milk. Color too
plays an important part. This is only
considered, however. after the tea IL
brewed, as the tea in its dry state 10
under no circumstances taken into con-
sideration. After having completed these
tests the liquor is then poured on, ana
the infused leaves examined for their
color.
Testing the Color.
In testing the color an interesting
method is used to discover whether or
not tea has been artificiaIly colored.
Absolutely no coloring matter can be
used in imported tea. For many years
the methods used in determining whether
coloring matter had been used were tedi-
Gus. Miss z. Alberta Read solved the
matter by devising a simple and satisfac-
tory device. which she discovered acci-
dentally. Making some tests one day. she
was endesvoring to find out IL the sam
pies were colored. and to do this she
took some small grains TO study under
the glass. She happened to mash one,
and upon looking at 1t through the glass
discovered 1t had left a decided mark on
the paper. II further developed that tea
treated in this way would invariably
leave a trace of any coloring matter
used. Since then a special apparatus for
examining tea on this basis has been
made, and all the Official tea experts now
use IL.
The reason for such care being taken
in connection with tea. when other arti-
cles are allowed to come in unchallenged.
forms an interesting story. 1t Is possible
TO make tea from the leaves OF the tea
plant, which, however. could not really
pass as tea. The leaves of good tea
comes from near the top OF the plant.
on the other hand. the bottom leaves of
the plant are full Of tannin, and almost
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not 1t has the ingredients claimed on
the label. Samples are frequently sent
him from Washington, of which he
knows absolutely nothing. Making up a
cup OF coffee. such as 10 prepared in
thousands of American kitchens every
morning, he takes one sip. or perhaps
two or three. He is then able to report
to washington ~ What the coffee con-
tains. that Is, I'D Of coffee. the
s1aa .s,s snd sa.0 t seos %ausss
examina tiou Hsnington have shown
that Il. +, the . s,r OF m III made
Coffee tasting Is a good example of
those classes of work in which the sense
Of taste is the most important factor in
making an analysis. chemical exam
nation, for instance, could not show
the difference in the method of prepara-
ton, or the variation in quality. 1t de-
ponds absolutely upon taste. Upon Mr..
Harris work is based the grading of the
coffee which comes into the United
States.
Tasting Ten nm Art.
OF all the work Of tasting. none Is
so interesting as tea tasting. This. I'M
der the Treasury Department. forms
one of the most important lines OF
work carried on In connection with pro-
tecting the public against impure artl-
cles of food. George F. Mitchell, who
has charge of the work at Washington.
is the head of seven substations, in
New York. Boston. Chicago, St Paul,
Tacoma, San Francisco, and Honolulu,
at all of which places the tea is tested
Immediately 1t comes into this country.
Difficult cases are sent on to Washing
ton. where Mr.. Mitchell makes final
decision.
When tea enters the United States
the customs men draw samples from
every different variety, one sample to
every fifty boxes OF a like kind These
samples are then compared with gov-l
eminent standards, these standards
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EXPERTS DETECT FRAUD BY THE TASTING PROCESS

entirely lacking in canine Consequently
any tea brewed from such leaves would
faii below the standard OF tea 1T for con-
sumption.
Another line OF work which requires
o highly sensitized taste is the wine
work Of the government at the Char
lottesville, Va, laboratory. Here have
been made some remarkable tests In
connection with all kinds of wines.
In speaking of testing wine, Lucius N.
Tolman. Uncle Sans chief faster, gave
an interesting example OF the impor-
lance OF taste. He said: "a chemical
analysis would quickly show the Diff
ference between champagne and bran
dy, as can readily be realized. But
when two brandies are to be tasted.
a chemical analysis might show prac-
tically no difference whatever. There
might be no difference In the formula.
yet the brendies, on the contrary.
might be entirely different. The dif-
ference would be due to either the
process by which they were made and
their respective ages. Now, the only
way in which the difference could be
detected would he by means of taste.
Tasting Wines Pleasant.
DIR. Hartmann, who carries on the
wine work at the Washington labora-
tory. gave the writer some interesting
information in connection with his
work. Wines" he said. cannot be
tested at all times. There are times
when the sense of taste Is more deli
cate than others. Immediately after
smoking. for instance. 1t is practically
impossible to make good tests. Then,
too, after having tasted one wine the
taste must be removed from the mouth
before an impartial test can be made
Of another! A weak solution Of soda
serves for this purpose, or I find that
eating a small cracker will also re-
move the taste"
In the work done by J. c. Riley. Uncle
Sans beer man. a sense of taste Is also
required, although not TO the same ex-
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and as the dreary and unprosperous con-
| dition of the race, for many a long year
| back would argue to exist-may be now
and henceforth removed"
This foregoing, written in his moss
! covered ''Old Manse" at Salem, is sup
clairvoyant dread that the sins of his
fathers should be visited upon the
children and the children's children.
However that may be, burdened with
curse or not, the talents of one of
the greatest journalists of his day were
turned out for sixty days largely to
reporting prison baseball games be-
tween the convicts, and in recording
the foundation-laying of a new prison
laundry, the donation of setting of
eggs to the convict farm. Also he wrote
philosophic editorials.
He produced nothing considered so
epochal as Oscar wEde's DE .Profun-
dis" or Ballad of Reading Gaol," but
one or two Of his poems are adjudged
to be OF good literary worth by critics.
Humorous in the open"
Hawthorne started,a column of edi-
torial paragraphs entitled "Pen Points
with a grim pun on the word 'pen."
the widely known abbreviation Of l''pen-
itentiary." These are examples of his
wit in this column"
I'VE are entitled to our rights-and
most of our acquaintances say we are
getting them
Many a. high flyer loses the use of
his wings after a sojourn here"
Thorough research into the origin of
the hookworm will prove that II origi-
mated in some prison."
"One great pleasure In being here: we
hear nothing about the self-uade man F"
BE sure you are right-if not ask the
guard-then go ahead"
I'VE get good discount here, for we
get paid in advance
One Of Hawthorne's most poignant con-
tributions TO Good Words was his
poem. written on the occasion of Caru-
SOS visit to the prison. The tenor sang
In the auditorium at the request of his !
"Lupo the Wolf" and .
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Scion Of Millions, Who Fled
with Actress to Far East,
Named as Correspondent
by Walter Bovine.

Boston, June H-Another chapter is
about TO be written in the history Of
young John Lawrence Mott, Srd, the heir
TO millions, who, leaving his wife be-
hind. and throwing his chances for a
fortune away. fled on a tramp freighter
to the far East in company with beauti-
full Frances Hewitt Bovine
The latest development in the affairs
| OF the Mott, Bovine, and Manning fam
| HES will be staged at Trenton, n. j.,
when Walter Bovine will bring suit for
divorce against his wife. naming Mott as
correspondent.
In the meantime. Mott and the woman
who sang her way to fame and into the
heart of the scion of the famous Mott
family, when she was a member of the
Chocolate Soldier company, are in
I Hongkong.
Service Has Been Made.
Word has reached this country from
Hongkong that a service OF complaint
has been made on Mrs. Bovine. who
will be in a position to marry when the
divorce becomes operative, and Mrs.
Mott, who was Miss Carolyn Pitkin. OF
South Braintree, agrees to release Mott
from his matrimonial bonds
Right here, a stumbling block arises,
Mrs Mott, in spite of the fact that she
has put up with a great deal because OF
the vagaries of Larry" Mott, as he Is
known to his friends, partly for the old
love that has never died and partly for
the sake of her child. has steadily re-
fused to enter any divorce libel against
her husband.
Larry Mott was only nineteen years old
when he met Miss Pitkin, who Is the
daughter of Charles A Pitkin, teacher
at Thayer Academy, in South Braintree.
At that time Mott was a second-year
student at the Lawrence Scientific School
at Harvard. He was taking a course OF
studies that were to fit him to take his
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HAS JULIAN HAWTHORNE FELT HIS PREDICTED CURSE?


After Hearing Caruso Sing the Assembled
We sit in of sodden gray
Up there in the great blank hall
Through the window bars the great blue day
And the golden sunshine CALL
Call us. Christ called Lazarus. dead,
To rise and come forth from his grave
But Christ not to free said,
To give back the life God gave.
Better the dead than the living dead
Whom the world shuts out and the bars shut in,
Man-made scapegoats of all mems sin!
Then. in the hush of the great blank hail.
God wrought wondrous miracle.
For a voice, like a glorious trumpet call,
5 a soul from the deeps Of hell,
And our souls with it wondrous wings,
Rose from their prison of iron and clay,
Forgot the Crime and the shame of things.
We were men again in sunlit day,
Sin and grief and punishment all
Were lost in that human trumpet-call.
Not bars nor Punishment can abate
The strong. swift wings of the deathless soul
Soaring aloft over GRIEF and fate
As the tones of the master of music roll
Through the gloom and doom of the prison pen,
DistiIling the fragrance of towering song
Into hearts that remember Youth again
And innocent loves that knew no wrong.
How, then if such be musics spell,
Shall doubt that Christ still conquers he'll?
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kind forms merely a part of the duties
of these experts, there are some who do
nothing else. William B. Harris, for in
stance. is the governments coffee tes-
ter. and does no other work for Uncle
Sam than taste coffees. His office is in
New York City. the principal port of
entry of all the coffees. Mr.. Harris
takes rank as one of the most capable
experts in this line of work in the
United States. His sense of taste is so
highly cultivated that by merely tasting
a cup of coffee he can tell whether or
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tent rs with wines and coffes- He must
determine whether or not beers are cor
rectIy labeled. and in so doing a chem
icaI analysis is usually necessary.
Unlike the wines, WHISTLES require Q
chemical analysis. Some experts there
are with so delicate a taste that they
can correctly determine the grade of
whisky through that medium, but gen.
orally an analysis is made. On the other
hand. oils like olive and Iinseed oils, are
bought and sold almost entirely upon
their taste. smell, and appearance. AS
matter of fact. taste and smell are
so closely allied that where one is used
the other must necessarily come into
play The aroma of coffee. tea, and the
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, eau
thor of "ScarIet Letter"
Prophesied Sins Of Fathers
Would Be Visited Upon
Children.

Julian Hawthorne, erstwhiIe No. 44S5 in
the Federal prison at Atlanta, on whom.
it would appear. has fallen the Hawthorne
family curse" supposedly feared by his
famous father. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Is
a free man again after having served tw }
months of a years sentence for compile
ity in mining promotion swindles.
II is true he is at liberty only upon
parole, but ii is considered practically GER
tain that he will not have to complete
the remainder of his term.
He now is back in New York, where
he has gone into seclusion, refusing to
see any but his most intimate friends.
This man, who had attained interna-
tional fame as a journalist, author and
tinancier, spent the months of April and
May among a Thousand convicted Of
tenders against the government, offenders
Of every class and station in life. That
ne must have found associations during
that period not altogether distasteful to
him is indicated by the following editorial
in Good Works." the prison monthly, of
which he served as editor:
These men include many persons of
good education, gentle breeding, and
high intelligence; and hundreds Of this
type are now going TO jail for of-
fences which have been in manner
created by the newborn scruples of
lawmakers and the subtle discrimina-
tons of public prosecutors.
"a new order of prisoners has con-
sequently come into existence They
are criminals. not by innate tendencies,
but by accident and stress of cfrcum-
stances; by novel conditions, not as yet
not as yet fully digested into the mora!
sense; and such an inruption TO our jails
IF an unprecedented element could not
81; hrfr oh in he.
handling of prisoners of all kinds"
Editors Chair Awaited Him.
When Hawthorne entered the gates of
the prison, which but a little more than
q year before had opened for the
oarole of another distinguished financier
Charles w. Morse. Good Words was
without a head. The former editor of
the little four-page paper had just been
released.
The authorities seized upon the oppor-
tunity of nominating Hawthorne for the
place, thus associating one of the most
loved names in American literature with
journal for convicts.
The first contribution which Hawthorne
made to the paper was Fable in Cor
rect Language" with apologies to George
AIDE II was a criticism of an inconsis-
tency he had detected at once in the
prison regulations:
"For what purpose inquired the In
lelligent Investigator from Mars, thus
ran the satire, was the high wall
constructed which surrounds the institu-
TOM
Tin order was the reply of the
Terrestrial Interpreter, to render i'm
possible the escape OF the inmates.
And does IT fulfil its object?'
Perfectly
".And why. pursues the Marian