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The Adair County news., 1914-01-14
PLANS FLEET OF DIRIGIBLES.
! German Inventor Would Carry 300
Passengers Across the Atlantic.

German Inventor Would Carry 800
Passengers Across the Atlantic.
Vienna.-The German airship invent
or, A. Boerner, is here trying to
raise capital to finance a line of trans
atlantic dirigibles, each capable of car
rying 800 passengers and of crossing
the Atlantic in fifty hours.
French experts state that the new
airship certainly is the most practical
BILE yet designed for long voyages.
The inventor says it will bring Vienna
within sixty hours of New York. The
ships are to be as luxurious as the I'm
perator, with a length of 800 feet and
a width Of eighty. There are to be 800
cabins. dining and smoking rooms, a
promenade deck, kitchens and electric
lights. Built in a semi-rigid car run
ming the entire length of the ship will
be thirty-four motors of 100 to 200
horsepower each, so arranged thar no
ballast will be carried.
Engine breakdown or explosion will
be theoretically impossible. Three sep
arate gas bags in single envelope will
lift the ship. The ship will be able TO
make a nonstop fight OF 1000 miles at
an average of siXty-eight miles hourly
landing without external aid.
It can descend on the water, along
the top Of which it can travel thirty
five miles hourly with no danger of a
wreck
Boerner is trying to raise sufficient
money to build six ships. requiring So -
100000.
The Adair County news., 1914-01-14

sin. 1t is a LIQUID laxative-tonic. mild
and never gripes, is effective on robust
people and can be given with safety to
an infant. Children like it because of
tnese gentle qualities and because It is
pleasant to the taste.
1t is the best all-arOund remedy YOU
can have in the house for any disorder
OF the stomach, liver and bowels, and
many people like r. II. Morgan, Price,
Tenn, and Mrs. II. c. Davidson Wart-
race. Tenn, say they would as soon be
without the necessities as without Dr.
CaldwelIs Syrup Pepsin.
Anyone wishing to make a trial Of this
remedy before buying it in the regular
way Of druggist at fifty cents or one
dollar a large bottle (family size) can
nave a sample bottle sent to the home
Tree of charge by simply addressing; Dc
w. b. Caldwell, 405 Washington St
Monticello, Ill. Your name and address
on d postal card will do.
The Adair County news., 1914-01-14
WATCH HANGS IN TREE A YEAR
Owner Then Finds 1t After Many Per.
sons Have Passed.

Georgetown, Del.-LOst a year ago
a gold watch owned by Wilfred White
a Georgetown merchant, was found
by the owner after it had hung In
sight of many persons for a year with
out being discovered.
After White had been cunning last
year with a number Of friends he
found he had lost his watch and fob
He retraced his steps through the
whole days trip, besides advertising
unsuccessfully.
Recently White and the same party
took a similar trip through the same
section. The lost watch was found
hanging on a twig. 1t was in good
shape and as soon as it was wound
began to keep good time.
The Adair County news., 1914-01-14
HOW MANY TOES ON TURKEY?
The Question is a Puzzler In Smith
County, Kan.

The Question is a Puzzler In Smith
County, Kan.
Smith Center, Kan.-The number of
toes possessed by q normal turkey re-
mains a matter Of conjecture in the
district court Of Smith county.
Two men were before the court
charged with stealing seven big COB
blers and hens from 4 neighbor The
plaintiff Identified his fowls by holes
he had thoughtfuIIy made in the web
between the toes with a harness
punch.
How many toes has a turkey, any
way" asked counsel for the defense.
The plaintiff had never counted
them.
One witness guessed four, another
guessed three, and a poultry dealer of
twenty years experience admitted be
did not know.
The Adair County news., 1914-01-14
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THE ADAJR COUNTY NEWS.
The Adair County news., 1914-01-14

cient acumen to inherit his mon
ey. Tosci left the fortune to
charity.
The Adair County news., 1914-01-14
Chronic constipation Cured.

Five years ago l had the worst
case of chronic constipation l ever
knew of, and Chamberlain's Tablets
cured me, "writesS S. f. Fish, Brook
Ign, Mich. For sale by Paul Drug Co
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Kentucky Gets a Lesson.
philadelphia Press)


ua,,+rc,,y now follows Missouri IN
s,snandjag the drastic laws which haa
dr;ven the fire insurance companies
ont of the State. The Legislature IN
tie IGNORANCE and appetite for corpoI-
otion- hating had over-reached itsen'
and by imposing conditions when
made II impossible for the insurance
oonona ries to do business in the state
hit its own people the hardest blow.
AS in Missouri the companies WIN
drew from Kentucky, and as III MIS-
sour; not only property-ewners 1ouiio
themselves without protection but the
credit of business men was impalreo
because they could not get Insurance.
~ tbeir stocks. Such conditions are
serious in any community, and IN no.h
Missouri and Kentucky the State ON
Gals arbitrarily assumed to suspend
the operation of these Acts OF the Leg
stature, which was doubtless ths
quickest way to get results, thoust'
there are not many States where such
q thing would be possible. The insur-
anoe companies as well are taking
certain amount of risk until action can
be had from the Legislature.
That authority should be assumed by
executive officers to suspend an Act OF
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the Legislature forcibiy indicates the
urgency OF the matter, And it was
urgent, for wherever business is done
at all insurance protection is as much
needed as capital and advertising,
These Missouri and Kentucky expert
ences ought to be an effective lesson
to those unreasoning and uniformed
legislators whose chief delight it is to
knock a corporation Ground just be-
cause it is a corporation until il is no
longer possible for it to do business
under such treatment.
1t is not regulation; it deprives the
public of protection instead of provid
ing it; it is destructive, and chiefly
serves to expose the ignorance and
prejudice of the lawmakers. 1t only
needs the experience which Missouri
and Kentucky have had to show how
disastrous legislation conceived in that
spirit can be.
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"Hot Stuff" Popular Nowadays.


C'Affairs at Washington, Joe Mitchell
Chapple, in National Magazine for
June)
Impetus has been given by the pres
ent tariff to foreign labeled condiments.
Thoughts of DIR. Wiley as sedate res
ident of Washington by no means re-
call DR.. Wiley in his official terrors as
an investigator of fake food prepara-
tiens. Despite his epieurean sermons
however American globe tretters do
occasionally bring back something new
from foreign lands to titillate satiated
palates, the result Of wealth and the
progress of civilization as the school
essay reads Foreign foods and condi-
ments are nowadays a regular feature
of flrst-elass restaurants. A hindu
chef in native costume will serve you
dishes originated to please Asiatie ra-
jahs-ehutneys from score of faeto-
ries in Bombay, chilies from South
America, and a score of torrid sauces
from Europe that keep the palates ON
the aui vive and the doctors busy.
Tobasco sauce still chases down the
no longer nature-navored oysters-with
horse radish, pepper sauce and cay
enne never overlooked.
With new tariff restrictions. an in
flux of sauces and condiments that
mother never knew about inNGdes
the republic. The hot" varieties re-
mind the novice of the man who de-
scribing a very warming beverage,
declared, 4 swallered a hull torch
light procession"
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Davies After D, Cromnett.
Portland Me. June 2

Portland Me, June %.
Editor Kennebee Journal;
was not aware Of the departure
from our State of the brilliant Mr.. D..
crommett Clark. until | observed his
letter of the 18th instant, from Somer-
Ville Mass, published in your paper,
edition of June END. / find him still
shedding the illuminating light of his
eagle intellect upon the Direct Primary
and Popular Government. both of
which subjects are not unworthy of
even his marvellous and majestic gem
JUS. This sage from SomerviIle con-
graduates himself on the wisdom of
his prediction that the Direct Primary
method of nominations would result
in the selection of only such candi-
dates as reside in the large cities, and
he asserts that the Democratic eandl-
date for Governor was nominated at
Mondays Primary election, not be-
cause he had the best. Statewide sup
port, but because his home vote in
the States metropolis gave him a
start, which other candidates were I'M
able to overcome, therefore, the sys-
TEN of Direct Primary nominations is
failure. To put it mildly, it may be
said of Mr.. Clark's statements as
George Eliot says of Rosamond Vim
cey, that her statements are nc direct
clue to the facts
The Statewide vote for Mr.. Curtis
in all of the Counties, exclusive of the
City of Portland is 1885. The State
wide vote for Mr.. Newbert, the candi-
date receiving the highest number of
votes, with the exception of Mr.. Cur
tbs, exclusive of the City of Augusta is
1888; Mr.. Curtis carrying nine of the
sixteen counties against three other
candidates, therefore, according to the
matcaless logic of the author of the
letter to which am replying, Mr.. Cur
tbs received his nomination solely as
the result of the Primary in his home
city. This reasoning is absolutely or
iginal; 1t has not a feature of imita-
ton about it; it gives to the rising
generation an entirely new conception
of the capabilities of the human mind.
The author of your letter says that
the Primary is not Popular Govern
ment. The Supreme Court of the Unit
ed States in the Oregon case says that
it is Popular Government, bur what
of that, the equipment of the Supreme
Court of the United States is nothing.
1t is a matter of deep regret to me
that Mr.. Clark's affairs so shaped
themselves that he left the State of
Maine. and some necessary means
should be devised to rescue his views
on the Direct Primary and Popular
Government from oblivion, so that
come day when our great fabric of
government erumbles into ruin, his
imperishahie utteranees shall endure
and survive and re-echo through the
Corridors of time, victorious. trium-
plant.
Respectfully,
HOWARD DAVIES
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Are You Getting Your Moneys Worth?


A circular issued by the Bureau OF
Municipal Research, New York, says:
Unintelligent marketing is one OF
the chief causes of short weights and
measures. The desire to buy at the
lowest price and the disposition to OBJ
ject to any increase in retail prices tc
correspond to increases in wholesale
prices, puts a temptation in the way
of the retailer who naturally wishes
to keep his trade and at profit. Hence
the necessity for preventing the ma
nipulation of sealed apparatus.
Weights and measures enter
into most business transactions,
and in the absence of effective
inspection service, a premium is
put upon dishonesty.
Watch the butchers hand; il
may weigh more than the meat.
More emphasis should be placed
upon sporadic inspections and less
upon routine visits.
More time should be allowed for de-
tectiye work.
Saturday night is "the harvest time
for dishonest merchants" it is also
the time when the sealer can most eff
feetively protect the public.
Weighing and measuring devices
should be tested and approved by the
sealer before licenses are issued to
vendors
Tradesmen should be required to
place their scales so that purchasers
may see whether they are getting full
weight.
Cheating by short weights and
measures has long been recog
nized as a criminal offense at the
common law; but to protect the
interest of the purchaser, posi-
tive legislation and vigorous en-
forcement is necessary.
Parasite-One who lives at apoth-
er's expense; literally eating beside or
at the table of another.
This aptly describes the dealer who
through earelessness or dishonesty
gives shore weight or measure.
Parasites have no place in the we'll
household why should they
be allowed to prey from the outside?
The answer is either ignorance"
"carelessness," or misplaced conf
denee"-all elements which enter into
the cost of living.
Don't trust too much to a gummed
label or a lump of lead on wire; but
watch the dealer and the sealer and
give them your support if they de-
serve it; if not, start something"
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Editorial Comment.
Crimes and Punishments,
GReston American.)

tb0St0H AiuSriNnH.J
The public has not yet stopped talking
with indignation of the ease OF Mrs.
Florence Bresnaham, the young Derches-
ter woman who with two children was
earted In a patrol wagon to a police
station, herded with criminals, and taken
to Court and fined for the atrocious Of
fence of being found with flower In
her hand while in one of our PUBIC
marks. She was humiliated, her family
disgraced by that modern public pillory,
the patrol wagon. because someone sus-
pectsd her of having broken shruphery
stem among the billions of stems In our
parks
An automobile speed maniac drives
down the public highway teeming with
humanity. reckless of the danger to life
and limb from his deliberate violation
of the law. Is he arrested and paraded
through the streets in a patrol wagon
and herded among criminals and publicly
fined and given criminal record, when
will be stain upon him through life?
Not for a moment. He Is politely nou-s
fled by the police that he is accused of
violating the law, and that the judge on
a certain day will hear what he has 10
say about it, He goes to Court II ne
pleases or he sends his lawyer If he pre-
fers. He usually sends his lawyer lie
is too busy and he does not like to stand
in the dock with other criminals.
His lawyer enters what lawyers call
the plea of mole, which means In plain
English that the speed maniac does not
wish to argue the matter and does not
want a criminal record. The judge i'm
poses trifling fine, which the lawyer
pays. and no criminal record is made
AGAINST the man. who has deliberately
taken chances with human life. He has
not been Inconvenience. He has not
been disgraeed.
This is the difference between the ad-
ministration of the law concerning men
who ieopardize our lives and concerning
a woman who obeyed the instinct wisely
implanted by nature in the best or us TO
love pretty things.
This woman denies that she disebeyed
the regulations of the park, but whether
she did or did not, she did nothing De
serving such public disgrace and hufail-
iation. and the Court which fined her
and the officers who pilloried her IN
patrol wagon lacked something IN human
nature, the want of which units them
for their duties.
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definite stand on the Prohibition guess
ton; and / herewith challenge you TO
put your sincerity to the test by fore
ing the present sheriff of Washington
county TO do his duty in Eastport. II
is perfectly possible to enforce the law
here as |. as deputy sheriff, closed 1t
up and kept ii closed during my term
in 1904.
| am sending this as an open letter
so that both your sincerity, ana the
truth of the Republican partys plat
form may be judged by the taxpayers
of this state.
Yours very truly
fSiened1 JOHN L. PARKER.
Eastport, Me-, June IS, 1914.
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The Rubber Stamp.

Candidate Walter C. Emerson SAYS
that if he represented this district in
congress he wouldn't be a rubber
stamp" But even rubber stamp has
some things to recommend 1t. 1t makes
a pretty good impression as rule, has
a stiff back, serves It's purpose well, says
little but means much and stands for
something solid and substantiai.-Po
land Press.
A rubber stamp is what its owners
use. and it does not go and say some
fool thing it thinks is smart for its
owners to be ashamed of.
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"You Have Been Selected"
Boston Journal.)

Are you puffed up with pride, this
morning, Mr.. Average Man, because
you received yesterday, or early today
a notification that you had been Sc
leeted as one of forty-fiye in Massa-
ehusetts fyour number being AND 10
huy stock in a corporation now being
Organized for the purpose of making
its stockholders wealthy beyond the
dreams of aVarice?
You don't know the promoters, OF
course: you may not have heafd Oh
them before, but they have heard OF
YOU as prominent citizen whose
membership in any corporation woulo
dignity il and whose dollars would de-
light the promoters, Their litera-
tnre is excellent. They may have
forwarded a de luxe booklet, with the
request that, if you cannot sunscfine'
Won will return the book, ana they
are anxious, for your own SAKE ina.
ven will decide promptly in order that
others, waiting for opportunities 10
subscribe. but unable now to DO SO
beeause of the restriction as to num-
hers. NAV have your chance II you are
So short sighted as to relinqulsh II.
Don't brag. Mr.. Average Man. me
game is not particularly new, put IL IS
becoming popular You are probapiy
one Of "a 200 who will be urged to JOIN
a select few. and if you don't bite now,
yo,, will receive successive notlees oi
opportunities still open TO pufeHasv
Series B, or Series c, as the case mo
be. Merely bear in mind mat ar
though the fishing is poor IN .he
Charles River basin, those VINO hsii
for investment suckers hereapou.s
snare no effort to make their pait
tractiye and are too often successful
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Respectfully,
HOWARD DAVIES
]. 1. Parker to Gov. Haines.

Hon. William T, Haines, Governor Of
Maine, Augusta, Me.
Sir
AS a citizen and taxpayer of this
Commonwealth, | desipe to call your
attention as its Governor, to the
fragrant breaches of our Prohibitory
law existing in this city of Eastport
Five saloons are and have been run
ming wide open, almost uninterrupted
lyr since the last election of Sheriff
Stillman Il. Woodman of Calais; and
the notification Of the law at Eastport
has become proverbial in the eastern
counties of this State.
Sheriff Woodman is cognizant of the
conditions if he has but partially dis
charged the duty of his office.
| understand that you have taken
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CUSTOMARY,
lRnston Reeord1

tGpSlbit ikc1piuJ
A group of Boston physicians gath
cred together for Harvard commence
ment week festivities were swapping
stories.
AN unfortunate man, said one,
was seized suddenly on the street
with cramps He was hurried, despite
mis- protests, TO a hospital The ply
sicians there looked him over, poked
HIM and said;
1--we may as we'll remove your APP
pendix.'
"Is it necessary? asked the trem-
bling victim. =
It's not necessary said one physi-
clan, but il is customary,
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1t does seem too bad to make Sir
Thomas race for that cup. If we might
only Wilsonize this sport as we have
several other American institutions we
should present him with the old mug
and indemnify him for any expense to
which he may have been put because of
our unfriendly attitude in the matter
Biddeford Journal.
We should apologize to Sir Tommie
censure the selfish Americans who
have persisted in building better
yachts than he to retain it. We should
assure him that inasmuch as all ma
tions are to be used alike in the sport,
that America has no right to compete
for fear she should win.
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Give Business a Chance.
portland Express,)

portland Express,)
The mails groan with letters ursins
congressman to adjourn and give Tue
Nation a rest. Those great oaronie-
tors of business, travelling salesmeh'
are almost unanimous in their re-
norts that sentiment everywhere Is M
favor of giving business a chance 70
do business. President Wilson'S iaea
of good government is to dose Int
people with legislation. The people aS ;
idea of good government, on the otner
hand, is the variety that ENABLES, les
them to earn a living. Here, then, we We
bava two ideas utterly at variance. IL
the democratic majority in the sen
ata can read the handwriting on the
wau It will refuse to join with lts
misguided leader in a program WHICH
ia so obviously disastrous.
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Despite prognostications of failure and
the shifts and turns of negotiations. the
last word in mediation has not yet been
said. Until the A. B. C. mediators give
up the task and quit, there is some
ground for hope that they may solve the
intricate Mexican problem after ALL
Portland Argus.
In other words, succeed in helping
President Wilson seat the worst cut
throat in Mexico in the presidents
chair?
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Editors Letter Box.

The publication of a letter in this
department is not to be taken al
an endorsement of its view by the
Kennebee Journal This column
lie maintained fer the discussion OF
matters of general public interest
when kept within bounds of reas
son and not of libelous or abu-
siVe nature.