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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-09

dollars, he did not contract. The day
of reckoning was sure to come some
time and IL had heen put Off long
enough Had Mayor Pillsbury lodged
these legitimate obligations of the
city, he might have achieved short
lived reputation as debt reducer
but his successor, be he Democrat or
Republican, would have had them on
his hands and mis- problems would
have been no less difficult than those
of Mayor Pillsbury."
AT Opportunity Farm the boys are
busy finding out how to live, these are
the first words of the first formal report
issued in connection for this interesting
work for boys, carried on at New Glou-
cester under the SUPPLEMENTARY OF f.
Forrest Pease.
In the course of his report supt. Pease
says:
I'VE commenced operations with a few
small boys and a wheebarrow on lana
where pine, birch and BURBERRY pushes
reigned supreme. We found the SOD
tough and potatoes scarce, but the wheel
barrow worked overtime and the boys
multiplied and waxed happy. Naturalls
our friends became more interested anu
new friends brought enthusiasm SO tildt
progress was assured. The season just
past was the time of our second eHort 10
farm The possession of a good morse.
cultivator and farm wagon made II pos,
sible for a dozen boys to put SEED ana
phosphate on 10 acres. Weather condl-
lions caused a deficit in our farming ac-
count this fall. However. the land is now
ready for serious business, and GOOD pro
FITS are likely to result next season
Not all are destined to become farmers
Some may choose a profession or ousi-
ness in preference to trade. out eacn
bow will be studied carefully and every
effort made to guide him to the place ne
was made to fill. Opportunity Farm Is
located in the town of New GloucesteI,
Maine, about one mile south OF ,r rie
Lower Corner on the road to Gray; ne
distance to the Maine Central raliroaa
station is two miles while the GTanu
Trunk Station is a half mile 1urther
away on the same road. The fortlaliu,
GRAY and Lewiston electric road passes
within a half mile of the house. we ar
20 miles from Portland, II from Le Ne,
TON and seven from Poland Springs; thus
I'VE are easy to reach by train or au'oilio
bile and will soon have the aooea eo1,,
venience of a trolley line. me elepa. ttn
is nearly 500 feet above sea leVei. anu .e,s
outlook is truly remarkable. ConslueIe9d
from aesthetic, hygienic, social anu
standpoints, our location seeihs
IDEAL"
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ion of the Navy Department, are those
in operation at Washington and New
port. They teach the science of gun
merry, for upon the great rifles OF the
dreadnoughts depends the execution
that makes for naval supremacy.
But the course in one of these
schools of gunnery consists of more
than the mere training and firing of
huge rifles. The class in Washington
meets in February and August and
the course continues for six months.
The instruction is equally apportfoned
between the theoretical and the prac-
tical-between the classroom and the
naval gun factory.
The students are taught how to as
semble guns, the mechanism of their
breeches and carriages and the manu-
facture of ammunition. Instruction is
given in the use of the various firing
devices, the range finders, etc.
The larger vessels carry 30 electri-
clans each. They are divided into four
classes-chief first class, second and
third class. The chief electrician
draws s66 and ST. a month; first class,
$50: second class, s44: third class, $33.
But the chief electrician may rise to
the warrant rank of gunner at sal
airy of from $500 to s2400 a year.
Machinists are divided into three
classes. The chief machinists mate
draws ST. a month, and first-class
machinist's mate $6050. Machinist is
a warrant rank at $500 to $4,000 year.
and the chief machinist's mate is in
line for promotion to that station.
Something of the final benefits to be
obtained from a virtual life spent in
any of these respective trades of the
naval service are shown by the declar-
alton of the Navy Department that IL
a man enlists when he is IS years old
and remains in 30 years he ought to
have in the naval bank, provided he
saves but half his pay, s27, 1856. This is
contingent on his promotion along or
binary lines occasioned by attentive
ness and hard work. At the end of
those 80 years he may retire on three
fourths pay for the balance of his
existence.-New York Press.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-09
Dangerous Foods.

The many fatal cases of ptomaine
poisoning during the summer make
doubly interesting a report just is
sued by the local government board
dealing with the subject of danger in
food.
Food poisoning by meat is nearly al
ways due to pork. beef or veal. but
hardly ever to mutton or lamb; whilst
most cases of meat ptomaine poison :
ing have been traced to made up,
dishes, such as beef-steak. rabbit ano
pigeon pies. pork pies. sausages, etc
Shellfsh, such as oysters, Holsters
and crabs, are responsible for. large
measure of ptomaine poisoning also.
as are various timed foods.
Few people are tempted to eat po-
tatoes raw, yet those who have done
so have been made to suffer for theii
rashness. for raw potatoes contain q
poisonous alkaloid called solanen. This
alkaloid disappears with cooking
Bits.
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The Jail inspectors Report.

Elsewhere in the Journal this is
sue we are publishing the report OF
Names Jail inspectors. 1t is not only
interesting. it is highly instructive.
We recommend it to our readers for
careful reading and deliberative con-
sideration. 1t proves beyond the pos
sibility of doubt, the arguments we
have made for years in favor Of law
enforcement. 1t proves beyond ques-
ton that the state of Maine has saved
more than a quarter million dollars in
the past year, above all cost of en-
forcing the law. In the single county
of Kennebec an extremely conserva-
tive estimate places the saving at
100000 In Androscoggin county the
Jail birds have been reduced from an
average of 11S for the year 1912 to an
average of % for the year 1913.
You will be better satisfied to read
slowly and analytically the report of
the jail inspectors. If you wish fur
Their explanation or information, write
to the inspectors. 1t might be worth
your while to store your mind with
this information for discussion in the
Grange, for reference in church, for
reply to the personal liberty advo-
cate on the street corner or in the
country store.
Just remember that the reduction in
jail commitments in the whole State
has been reduced Sc per cent in a
single year. And that, too, with the
inexcusable, indecent and contemplate
service of such administration as has
been reported in Knox and Franklin
counties, where the cussedness of the
booze traffic has actually increased.
1t will be remembered that it was
the sheriff of Knox county who es-
capped Legislative investigation through
reprehensible fake small pox scare.
Governor Haines characterized the
trick in no uncertain terms. to the
Legislature at the time. Now the
wisdom of his position and demand is
proven beyond question.
Don't neglect to read this report.
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alton of rays, which shoot up to the
zenith in flash of blush white light.
AS the aurora grows more intense the
rays increase in number and swiftness
until the whole arc is shooting up i'm
mense flashes of blue, green, rose and
purple lights, reaching far over the
heavens. passing the zenith and ter
minating in a point which has been
observed and measured to be in the
prolongation of the dipping needle to
the southeast of the zenith.
Ordinary atmospheric electricity is
produced by the fact that every
charged moiecule of moisture which
leaves the earth's surface carries a
minute charge of electricity on its sur
face, since a static charge cannot rest
in the interior of anything. If half a
dozen such molecules combine together
to form tiny raindrop this drop will
have the charges of all six of them on
its surface, but the surface will not be
six times as great.-New York Press.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-09
GHOST OF MATTHEW vASSAR.
Founder Of Famous College Said to
Haunt Old New York Farmhouse.

The ghost of Matthew Vassar,
founder of Vassar College, is said TO
be haunting an old farmhouse. once
owned by him, on the New Hacken-
sack road between Red Oak Mills and
New Hackensack.
Within the last four months three
families have moved from the place in
terror, The present owner, who
SCOTS at the report, has nevertheless
placed for sale" signs on the old
house, as he cannot rent it.
Henry /. Stonebridge, a Schenectady
man, who turned farmer for his health,
moved from the house last Saturday
morning. The spectacle of the ghost
standing at the foot of their bed was
too much for Stonebridge and his wife.
The apparition, they assert. exactly
resembled the best existing portraits of
Matthew Vassar
The Stonebridge family had occu-
pied the house but one month For
some time uneanny noises had been
disturbing their sleep. 1t sounded at
times as though some person were
walking up and down the front stairs.
At midnight peculiar noises would
come from the cellar. The sounds re-
sembled groans and dreadful moan
ing.
Friday night about A. M, as near
as Mr.. Stonebridge was able to- tell he
and his wife were awakened by feel
ing as though cold fingers had been
passed across their threats. They
opened their eyes almost simultan-
eously and saw a ghostly figure. which
stood erect with finger pointed straight
at them.
Without sound the specter moved
away from the bed and vanished
through the open window. OAe ex-
perience of this sort was enough for
Mr.. Stonebridge. who at once began
packing p his goods.
John C. Rogers. farmland, occu-
pied the old house four months ago,
and was the first man to move there
from because of the ghost. He says
that it permitted not an hours steady
sleep after midnight. His oldest
daughter walked one night and saw the
ghost of Vassar pacing back and forth
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-09
Some Unusual Pets.

l have some unusual pets in my
room just at present-siX big land
snails, which 1 bought at a city mar
ket and which came from France.
Perhaps you would not call them pets,
as they are not at all affectionate; but
in any case, they are much less trouble
to care for than most pets. which is
an advantage to a busy person.
When 1 first got the snails. they
were still alternating, for they had
been kept in a cool place since fall;
each snail was lying torpid in his
shell, we'll shut in by thick, close
fitting membrane, which closes up the
round aperture of the she'll like the
head of a drum. This outside pro-
lection is hard and looks as though
made of the same material as the
shell itself. Inside of 1t there is always
one and sometimes more, thinner
transparent screens, SO that the snail
is we'll protected from the cold.
Gradually, as they become warmed
by the heat CT the room, one after
another pushed off the alright drum
head, broke through the thin inner
one, and came out to view the sur
roundings. They accepted lettuce
leaves and ate them greedily. tearing
out large holes where they sucked the
leaves into their big, soft mouths.
Their long rough, fleshy bodies are
not pretty sights, but their tentacles
are wonderful and delicate. There are
four of these, which the snail can
shoot out, like a telescope, and con-
tract again with lightning-liIe rapid
itv. The two smaller ones, seem to be
simply feelers. but on the tips OF the
two longer opes are black specks
which are considered eyes. 1t is In
teresting to see the eyes shoot up IN
side the tentacle, carried on black,
hair-like threads which run down the
center of each tentacle.
They can go long time "ithou.
food by shutting themselves up III
their shells. and on cold and CLOUDY
DAYS they always retire IN this way
Sometimes, for days at a time, they
bury themselves in the earth, or
fasten themselves to the under sloe
of the box.
There are various stories told about
the wonderful vitality of land snails
One is that a snail brought from
Egypt to London was kept fastened TO
a tablet in the British museum for
four years. and at the end Of that time
was revived by placing in tepid water.
The traces of mucus on the paper
showed that he had been out at least
once and tried to escape, but had then
gone into a state of torpidity again.
If you want some snails and cannot
get the big edible ones, search under
logs and stones, in cellars, or out
house. in the country, and find some
Of the small American variety OF gar
den snails, whose habits are much
the same as those / have been de-
scribing..Mabel r. Goodlander IN the
Churchman
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-09
Schools to Aid Railway.

Mindful of the distressing fact that
% 900 children have been killed or Pc
riousIy injured in the last ten years.
while playing upon the tracks OF the
railroads of the United States, the
Union Pacific is seeking to reduce the
number of fatalities In the secllon IL
serves. Accordingly, it has arranged
with the public school authorizes Oh
Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, wyoming
and other states served by lts iihes
to teach children the danger OF play
ing or walking on the tracks, OF a rali-
road. The campaign will be COSTLY out
according to the claim department OF
the system, the expense OF hgntlns
lawsuits and settling claims Will DC
proportionately cut down.
In Nebraska alone the assistance OF
three thousand school teachers mas
heen enlisted One method is to alhx
TO a wall in every schoolroom a large
card. containing pictures illustrating
seven "Don'ts" of safety. By order OF
the superintendent Of public instruc-
ton teachers will call the attention
of the pupils to these pictures iai
times each month.
With the assistance OF the scnooi
authorities, the railroad will, eecn
month, send out a Safety Bulletin
to the teachers, who will read 1t to
the children. In order. to interest the
children even more the railroad has
offered prizes Of 500 in each county
for the best short essays written by
school children on the safety subject.
To each county Will be allotted three
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laughs at his own and others mis-
fortunes.
How sharp is the contrast with the
picture of gatherings where intoxi-
cants are supplied or tolerated! I'm
agine groups of young men Of an equal
number usually found at Augusta al
legs, engaging in any sort Of contest,
if a saloon were next door. Well first
there would be less spent for bowling,
because men who now go there would
not ningle with such mem and more
would be spent for drink. Coarseness.
brutality and disgusting incidents
would abound. Quarrels would be I'M
ceasing, fighting frequent, and riotous
scenes not unknown. Respectable men
would stay away and irresponsibles
and undesirables would increase.
Let us not only cling to the whole
some conditions but encourage them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-09
prizes, aggregating 500. Likewise. tn,

prizes. aggregating 800. Likewise, the
railroad will conduct a contest for the
benefit of the teachers themselves.
For the best essay on how to keep
the children away from railroad tracks
there will be a trip through Yellow
stone park with all expenses paid.
One prize of this kind is offered to
every county in Nebraska where the
Upion Pacific operates, and similar
prizes will be offered in other states.
New York Times.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-09

In the Supreme Court of Cumberland
county, Maine, one day this week, man
charged with the unlawful possession of
intoxicating liquors was convicted in just
40 minutes. The Maine courts are getting
expert in handling cases of this kind
Boston Globe
had demonstrations of liberating per-
sistent and brazen violators of the law
at the rate of about 40 a minute.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-09
Maine GOSSIP
The Hill of Stars,

Here stood of old the Aztec multitude
In the warm darkness of the summer
night,
Watching the silent courses of the stars
That this hour rounded out the cycles
end
And as the whitening dawn thrilled
through the East
a mighty shout went up to the dim sky;
And all the multitude hurled down the
hill,
Down the long hill to shatter into dust
The carven statues of their ancient gods,
Then looked they up into the paiing sky
And with one voice cried out unto the
stars.
And now I stand here on the sacred hill
And see the broken idols at my feet,
And turning from them to the slow white
dawn
know not unto whom to life my voice
save unto you, 0 Stars. that fade from
Even as / call upon your dea thless names
-Scribner's Magazine.
Portland Times; That Maine woman
who offers to send by parcel post
cooked dinner of chicken, plum pud-
sauce, mince pie, pumpkin pie and
vegetables, enough for four people for
1921, including postage, should be
kept busy the year around. And those
Maine women are such famous cooks
Writes Canton correspondent: 1t is
an interesting pastime to watch the
chickadees at the home of Mrs. Frank
Richardson of Canton. A branch of an
apple tree extends to the dining room
window and Mrs. Richardson, who is
dear lover of birds and all kinds of
pets, ties food on the branch, so the
many birds who always flock around
her home may be amply provided for
during the long, cold winter months.
The twig is nearly always occupied
by one or more chickadees, who have
become so tame that their benefac-
tress can lift the window and put
her hand on them. 1t is a source of
never-ending pleasure to watch the
little feathered songsters. In the sum-
mer months birds build their nests
! around Mrs. Richardson's piazza and
hatch their young without being in
the least disturbed.
Mayor Pillsbury's side in Saco's A.
nancial controversy is Of interest and
met with universal approval and on
all sides in Biddeford and Saco are
| heard words of commentator. The
Biddeford Journal says: His state
ment shows what he is properly re-
| sponsible for in the matter of debt
increase and also what has been thrust
upon him. AS for what he is respon-
sible for, he shows an economical ex-
penditure of every dollar that was
spent and accounts for it. AS for the
amounts that came to him as legacies
from the past, he makes clear and
honest statement, that these bills were
| legitimate, found to be so before being
paid and, being legitimate, 1t was
proper that they should be paid. Many
! OF them. to the extent Of thousands OF
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-09

Dinner is served to the girls who come
to the evening classes in the Washington
Irving High school, New York City. In!
stead of going to public restaurants, the
girls come directly from work to the
school. and spend the intervening time In
the gym or reading rooms
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-09

over the floor without making a
sound. The young woman screamed
and brought her father to the BEDROOM,
but by that time the wrath had van
ished The same thing happened on
the following night. The family then
moved in haste.-New York Sun.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-09

No notice whatever will be taken Oh
unsigned communications.
The Journal cannot be held response
bla for the preservation or return Oh
retscted communications.
Address all communications retains
to subscriptions and advertisements
to Kennebec Journal Co, publish
ers, Augusta, Maine.
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ODD FELLOWS HALL.

ASYLUM LODGE, NO. 70, REGULAR
meeting Friday evenings at I. 80. FRIDAY
evening, Feb Is, work in Initiatory de-
w. f. CURRIER. n. G..
4. f. WESTON. Sec.
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Monday, February 9, 1914.

o for a man to rise in me
That the man that l am
-Tennyson.
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JEPHTHA ENcAMPMENT, NO. 8.
Meetings at 100 o'clock every second
and fourth Tuesday.
c. e. STEWART, Scribe.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-09

CANTON AUGUSTA, NO. 9, p. M.
Regular meeting every third Tuesday,
at 8 O'Clock. Installation OF officers-elect,
Tuesday, Feb. II. Refreshments.
G. :. PEASLEE, Capt.
RAY NJ BURNS, Clerk. =
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r. 3. cAPEN REsekAH LODGE NO

So, l. o. o. f. meets End and 4th Wednes-
day evenings at 80 o'clock
EDITH II. CURRIER, n. G.
SADIE +. METCALF, Rec. Sec.
meh26 m-w-f1yf
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AUGUSTA LODGE DIRECTORY

Gus HNoC CHAPTER, NO. 43,
r. a. NJ. Special convocation at Ma
Work in M. NJ. M. degree. Sojournng
companions are cordially invited to at
tend.
FARNSWORTH G. MARSHALL, II. T.
CHARLES r. CHASE. Sec.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-09

BETHLEHEM LODGE, NO. IS, r. e.
A. NJ. Special communication, Monday,
Feb. 9th. at O'Clock. Work in NJ. NJ.
degree. Refreshments. All sojourntng>
brethren are cordially invited to attend
ORIN b. FROST, w. NJ.
PEARL K. FULLER, Sec.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-04-03

on our last day, that the murder of
Herman Rosenthal was committed
by Bridge Weber, Harry Yallon, and
by strange man, who we had never
seen before.
I'VE saw all these men fire at
Rosenthal. We don't know which
shot killed him, but as he law dead
on Broadway, we realized that we
had been framed up brought there
by Jack Rose, SO that he would have
somebody to lay the murder on.
"But that Italian boy, Dago Frank,
wasn't near there.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-04-03

LEiLIE LOuIV hOSVIIUVIS'
"Since we boys came to the death
house, 10 months ago, IA men have
passed through the little green door
to death. ....-..-.
I'VE have prayed with them all
night! ...,.,..
I'VE have sung hymns with them
as they went to die!
when dawn came and they were
taken from their cells, we called out
Goodbye to them!
Some were brave as we hope to
be if we 60 through that green door.
Some were not brave, but don't ask
US to tell YOU about that.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-04-03
"Dago" Frank cirofici.

death house" at Sing Sing had to
go to work before they were Is, years
old. "Gyp the Blood worked as an
errand boy when he. was 10;
Whitley Lewis was apprenticed to a
bookbinder and later to a tinsmith;
'Dago Frank" worked in a depart
ment store. .
'Leftie Louie" was flung into the
street when he was only six He was
a sickly child and the doctor ordered
fresh air. The street was the only
place fresh air was to be had free.
Louie's parents were poor, and the
street was the best they could do for
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-04-03

Were here, under sentence Of
death. We're gunner. We're every
thing that society regards as harden
ed and depraved, but we haven't got
the nerve to talk about that"
"Gyp the Blood's" voice had be-
come inaudible, his loose mouth
seemed as unhinged as his spirit. 1t
continued to move, but no audible
words, came from it.
"GUNMEN'' ARE PRODUCTS OF
CHILD LABOR
Three of the gunner" in the
The Port Gibson reveille., 1914-06-04
prof. Hughes IiOnOrsd.

Prof. H. P. Hughes, former
Claiborneite. but for the past few
years principal of the Mccomb
high school, has been elected vice
president of The Agricultural and
Mechanical College at Starkville.
The only mistake made by the
trustees was in not placing Prof.
Hughes at the head of the institu-
tion. He is an educator of marked
ability, aud, being in no sense a
politician, for once the A. and Nj.
would be out of politics.
However, the Reveille predicts
that it is only question of time
before Prof. Hughes will be at the
head of the college.