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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-07

The newest lingerie is trimmed with
pleated frills of tu!le instead of lace.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-01-24
Sell the Sacred Cod?

The next mayor of Boston is of the
opinion that the Public Garden should
be sold at a large profit, and the city
contented with a cheaper public gar
den somewhere else. This being, as
II is, almost the first of the post-elee-
ton utterances Of the man, who is to
be the chief executive of Boston for
the next four years. is rather striking,
as 1t shows the point of view with
which Mr.. Curley goes into office.
Mr.. Curley might also favor the sale
Of the parking in front of the present
City Hall, also very valuable real es-
tate. Indeed. the Common itself
would bring quite a good sum. The
chief difficulty in the way Of these
propositions is that Mr.. Curiey has no
more power TO dispose of the city's
property than he has to sell the island
Of Cuba. There seems to be, in Bos-
ION, a general feeling that the public
garden is of some use and advantage
70 the people OF this city. Mr.. Curley
may not sympathize with this senti-
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-01-24
Why Diamonds Are Costly.

Take a carat diamond which. as 1t
comes from the South African mines
is worth less than so, add SO worth
of gold and you produce $500 ring.
The difference between the sfS of ma
terial and the price paid by the pur-
chaser in a store, or s1s7, goes to work
manship and profit. but nearly all to
the latter
The Germans have decided to reduce
the output of diamonds in their mines
To 100000 carats in 1914. They pro-
duced nearly q half more than that
this year. and the entire lot was sold
fer about s10,000,0O0. They are doing
with diamonds exactly what has for
years been done with anthracite-put-
ting a limit on the output. Diamonds
lose their charm even for Americans,
who buy three-fourths of all that are
mined, when they get too common.
Hence the thrifty English and Ger
man syndicates take good care that
the market shall not be flooded. A
diamond imitation would create as
much havoc in horseshoe curve" on
opera nights as an imitation of paper
money would do in our banking circles.
Philadelphia Ledger.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-01-24

The liquor press is kicking at GER
tain well defined prospects. Mr.. T. NJ.
Gilmore. in Bonfort's Wine and Spirit
Circular of December 25. in an article
entitled rs the Freedom of the Press
to be Checked" says in part: IF the
Attorney Generals decision is upheld,
it is indeed a far-reaching decision.
The loss of revenue to the newspapers
and the loss of possible trade to liquor
dealers must be regarded as of minor
Importance. The prohibitionists are a
degmatic class. All persons of this
class have intolerance as character
istic, and any act in behalf of what
they believe is right is justified. The
most dangerous feature of the pro-
hibition movement is it's quasi-relig-
ious aspect"
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-01-24
Human Factor in Accidents.

Taking thought may not add cubit
to our stature, but it will add years to
many lives and preserve limbs and
health in thousands of cases. The In
terstate Commerce Commission, in its
annual report, has something to say
about the causes of railroad accidents,
and especially about the human factor
one hears so much about.
Decidedly, the human factor is re-
sponsible for accidents. Seventy-four
per cent of the whole number Of ae-
cidents during the year reviewed were
caused by mistakes, and all of the
mistakes were violations of simple and
reasonable rules. The rules are ..hab-
itually violated" and the traffic men
as habitually pass over the violations
and fail to take corrective steps.
What is the explanation of all this
indifference and carelessness? Why,
the explanation is that employees and
their superiors alike have net taken on
sufficient thought to safety. 1t is too
often assumed that nothing serious
car happen and that rules are made
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-01-24

day. The morning mail brought in a
huge Pile of post cards from relatives
and friends all over the New England
states. Uncle Rice greeted his friends
with a hearty hand, returning the ear
pulling with the vim of a school boy.
Speaking of the changes that have
taken place since he was boy in a
wonderful manner, doing all of the
chores at the barn, still keeps his fa-
nous flock of sheep which he de-
clares has money in en-" Uncle
Rice has four children, eight grand
children and two great grandchildren
Keeps in touch with the latest news by
reading the kennebec Journal without
glasses. AS we left his home we
thought how nice it was to grow old
gracefully.
After a pleasant visit at her moth
er's old home, Mrs. Tena B. Reseir
and son left for Richmond to visit
friends before returning to Baltimore.
Mr.. and Mrs. Percy Mcdonald left
for New York Sunday, where Mr.. Nc
Donald will resume his position in
car factory under the management OF
Neal Jewett of Alma.
NIL anu MIS- l~uAS -AeiSNiA1N' AiSN
moved to Alma, where Mr.. Matthews
has accepted position with the Bath
lumber company.
William Barter of the Heath home
stead is ill.
Henry Palmer who is at home from
his work in Jefferson on account of ILL
ness is improving.
Mrs. Hattie Plummer who has been
at the Matthews homestead since
Christmas has returned to her home
at the Mills.
Owls and bluejays have been very
plentiful the past few days and were
SO tame that one could sit by them in
the yard while they feasted on crumbs.
Henry Palmer and son and A. b.
Mcdonald and son have filed their Ice
houses with very nice clear ice from
Fairview pond.
Master Herbert Mcdonald will pass
the winter with his grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs L. C. Bryant, at North White
field.
Mrs. A. B. McDoQald recently visited
her mother, Mrs, Mary Ripley of Pitts
ton.
Mrs. Ludy Matthews met with "a
serious accident recently by slipping on
the lev doorstep. While no bones are
broken she has an ugly flesh wound on
the hip
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-01-24
The Campaign Keynote.
(Bridgton News.)

The keynote of the coming guberna
orial campaign in Maine is admirably
Ind tersely given in the resolutions ol
he Maine state Grange. We give
hem:
Whereas: One of the cardinal
principles for which the Maine
State Grange has contended is the
rigid enforcement of the Maine
Prohibitory Law and
Whereas: In spite of the sinis-
ter forces which have been mar
shaled in opposition the Governor
of this State has stood four
squares for law enforcement and
good citizenship, therefore be it
Resolved: That we, the men,
bers of the Maine State Grange, in
session assembled at Bangor, en-
phatically commend the work of
Governor William T. Haines and
the various county sheriffs who
have so ably proven that the Pro-
hibitory Law can be enforced.
Resolved That we pledge to the
Governor and his assistants the
whole hearted support of this or
ganization In the great fight in
which he has proven an able lead
er.
Ought to be only two battle lines OF
this proposition. But can that be ar
ranged, in view of the party primar!
enrolment tomfoolery? How?
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-01-24
Sounds r akish.

BY strict attention to the points imme-
mediateiy at isue, Government pulietiHs
manage to comprise much wisdom IN
small space. At the same time they are
not without hints that tend to send the
errant mind wandering far into the
past, In whose bosky dells dwet un-
merit bulletin which urges American
housewives to save their suet Tor soap
making and other useful purposes.
Suet and soapmaking. Also ASH mop
pers! Alas and alack, that venerable in
stitution is no more The modern pros
pectus for rural habitattons and acces-
sories provides no place in the land
scape for that once Indispensable ad-
tunct to farm life and its blessedness.
Dye mind the ash hopper in the back
of the house, just around the pa!ing
10 which the debris from the great fire.
place was poured. with buckle OF wat
er thrown on later, or else left 70 the
sweet rains from heaven; Then the lye
caught in the old iron kettle with the
piece broken out of one siee-.t was oaee
used for making apple butter. After
that, the soap boiling-then the soap.
Fine stuff, that soap-took the dirt out,
all right, and removed the hide, too, IL
you weren't careful.
But the ash hopper has gone, along
with the roller towel, the mackerel KIT,
hog jowls, led apples, and winter t1rnips
The open Fl eplaee, too, has pass d, bef te
which you used to fry on one side, while
icicles formed on the other. Nor is there
any attic room under the shingles Where
the boys slept, with pap's old cavalry
saddle in one corner. and sickly gera-
MUM roosting precariously on the WIN
dow sill Nor do we see the old-time
boots. slicked up with a mixture of NUT
ton tallow and beeswax, which, however,
didn't prevent a need for the services OF
four blacksmiths and a plumber TO get
em off o nights when the bootjaek failed.
And the bootjack itself-say, when YOU
come TO think of It, department bulle-
tin has got more real sentiment and in
sides between it's covers than can be
found in Kiplings Soldiers Three" or
than Rossetti ever dreamed of in his
visions of Blessed Damozels and that sort
of thing. o you modern housewives
Washington Post
The above writer has knocked
around the edges just enough to awak-
en- memories of things of which he ap-
parently never knew. We believe he
got his experience from Maine
Farmers Almanac. We turn him over
to Brother Wormwood of the Biddeford
Journal.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-01-24
Saturday, January "a, 1914.
Conscience doth make towards OF US
II Shakespeare.
Building Limitations.

The first skyscraper in the world, the
Tower Building in lower Broadway, Is
IN be torn down. At the same time
comes the news that amendments have
been proposed for the city charter
which would put a limit on the height
of New York's buildings. Thus IN 20
wears of its history, in which time II
has become historic enough to have a
bronze tablet placed eonspicuousiy on
;ts fron+ the Tower Building has seen
the beginning of what will probaoly
he the second great era in steel con-
struction.
The Tower Building was not the hrst
building in New York to stand l2o rect
high. IT deserves the name of the first
skvscraper for another reason-pecause
- was the first successful steel frame
b,,ilding ever known. 1t revolution
lied the building of cities every
where and it brought in a building
method which is so new that there
are still many things that the great
est engineers do not know ABOUT II.
How long will a steel frame building
stand2 Nobody knows. The Tower
building seems to be as strong as ever
ne properly built steel structure mas
ever given signs Of weakening; no ex-
pert can tell even what kind of weak
ness would be the first to develop.
For all the builders know, the SKY
scrapers of today may stand for 5oo
years, or for 1000. y
The proposed limitations OF height
would fix a building line from loe to
900 feet in height, for buildings facing
the streets, and 800 feet for those on
open parks. Above that height the
walls would have to be set back from
the curb line one foot for ever four
feet of height. In some Maine cites
the troublous limitations are not as
to height, but the opposite. In Lewis
ton. certain representatives Of the mud
hut and grass roof ages insist on
building. one-story wooden buildings,
and throughout the business streets OF
the city the good and the bad, the
high and the low are sandwiehed in
and make photograph of any por-
ton Of street look like an old grass
hopper horse-rake in distress. ana
Augustus justly famous Water street
has one building of which it is not
proud.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-01-24
MT. VERNON.

SOUTH-w. p. Walker, O. L. Dunn ard
F. A. Walker have finished housing their
ice for the coming summer.
Ernest Peril has been obliged to lay
away his old family horse Ned " eWlny
tn an accident from which he developed
paralysis.
Carol and Ernest Hopkins are cutting
the ash purchased by Ernest Morgan q
Son on the Robinson lot.
Mrs. Emma Walker is suffering from a
bad cold.
Miss Ella King Is with her sister, Mrs
c. A. Hutchinson, for a visit
Neighbors and friends here of Jesse
Spauding are glad to hear OF his I'M
proved condition.
The school at punn's Corner opened
Monday, JAM 10, with the teacher who
has proved so popular in past terms.
Miss Viola Riscoe of Monmouth, in
charge.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-01-24
A couRMAN DIS DREAM.
In a Humble Cottage He Found Chef
Who Was Hight of Perfection.

"I'he best meal l ever got" said the
globe trotter, was in the back parlor
of small shop in an old town In
France. IT cost me so cents
ut was in Blois.' he said. Not
much Of a place, but it has a fine cas-
tie with moats and ramparts all COM
plete. and there's q certain little cake
shop down in the heart of the town.
II was there with a friend named
Bodfsh. After doing the castle pretty
carefully. we found our way to the
little cake shop for a bit of lunch. The
proprietress, very pleasant ola wo-
man, indeed, introduced us to her
son, who was modestly hiding pehina
his rnustache in corner.
1--WE had some rather ragged French
conversation with him, and ended by
hiring a room in the house for the
Might've meant to stay just one
night in Blois.
'And-er-dinner? asked Bodfish.
".If the messieurs will permit, /
will do myself the honor Of cooking
them dinner said the cake lady's
son, bowing courteously.
"Thereupon Bodfish and I went
blithely to an attic 51s years old. made
our toilet, and descended to the din
ing room.
Our landlady's son was there, ready
for us. So was soup.
IT have travelled all over the world,
and tasted the best every country has
to offer, but at the first taste OF that
dish all my memories of other soups
huddled together in a dark corner ef
nv mind and froze to death.
II looked at Bodfish. He was speech
less with delight.
More messieurs?'
Between us we raised that soup to
the ground.
"'Entree, messieurs?'
Don't ask me what that entree was.
1t couldn't have been anything COM
moner than nightingales' eyelashes.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-01-24
Bodfish ate 1t with his eyes shut and

Bodfish ate 1t with his eyes shut and
his head bowed reverently.
we stayed in .Blois for % meals;
we knew only two sorts of time, meals
and between meals You may get
some idea of the sort of meals we got
when l tell you that Bodfish summed
up the cooks ability in these words:
At times he seems to lose his Gull
nary skill and descends to mere per-
fectioni'
After the Goth meal Bodfish and
remembered that we belonged some
where, had a number of relatives and
had business awaiting us that we
must really attend to. So we called
the cook, said that we We're leaving
and asked how much we owed.
One dollar and twenty cents for
each day. messicurs. said he. Twenty
for the room, twenty for breakfast.
thirty for lunch and half a dollar for
dinner.
"Bodfsh and I fell heavily against
each other We could hardly believe
our ears. Then we paid the bill and
started for the door.
Wait. said cur host, I, too, travel
away today.
Whittier are you bound?' we asked
!" To st. Petersburg he replied. I
came to see my old mother. / had not
seen her for five years. l must thank
you, messieurs, for giving me this
chance to keep up my art. Had you
not done so l fear that it would have
suffered
3" 'Wh-wh-what are you in ST
Petersburg We inquired. huskily.
Chef he said. bowling. ito His
Imperial Majesty. the Gar New
York Times.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-01-24
FARMING DALE.

Miss Nellie Doucett of Bowman
street is passing her vacation in Bos-
ton and New York.
James Norton lost one of his valu-
able pair of mules last week.
Cards have been received here an
nouncing the birth, Jan. s, of son to
Mr. and Mrs. wallace McCausland of
Portland.
Rev. Mr.. Dow Of Gardiner is giving
series Of lectures at the North
Street schoolhouse, following the sun
day school service which begins at 2
o'clock. The lectures begin at 3
o'clock. Both services were omitted
last Sunday because of bad travelling.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-01-24
MONTVIIIE.

CENTER-Bert Tenney of Morrill, is
i'll with pneumonia at J. V Jackson's.
The reception given by Mr.. and Mrs.
Locksley Fuller at the Grange hall
Friday evening was largely attended.
Mrs. Amanda NJ. Kicker went to
Houlton Thursday to visit her niece,
Mrs. Wesley Ham.
Ralph Foy is i'll with a throat
trouble.
The condition of Charles A. Whitten
is more favorable toward recovery.
Helen Fuller of Liberty was a recent
visitor at F, A. Luce's.
Miss Mary Wentworth was at home
from Pittsfeld over Sunday.
Allen Goodwin is drafting a plan of
the Smith cemetery at North Palermo,
for the Ladies' Improvement Society
Of that vicinity.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-01-24
Editorial Comment.
Anti Bryan Conspiracy"
(Kansas City JournalD


The repellant specter of grieVous
wrong looms large and foreboding be-
fore the eyes of William ]. Bryan.
A surfeit of grape juice seems to nave
distorted his vision and clouded his
mind. While waiting his turn at a
recent Chautauqua entertainment, be-
tween the lusty endeavors OF the SWISS
yodelers and a troop of trained cats
the mighty commoner was stricken by
a dreadful conviction that the big
interests" had entered into an unhoiy
conspiracy to foment discord between
him and the president and drive him
oot of the cabinet. With Mr.. Bryan,
to ina gine is to act. Thrusting a por-
ton of the gate receipts into his pock-
ct, he hied himself back to Washing
ton where he issued turgid defiance OF
the money power" that dared to at
tack him while in the innocent pAr-
suit of his avocation as headliner
He fumed and boiled with wrath. He
charged that attempts were being
made TO poison" President Wilson's
mind against him
Secretary Bryan seems to have ex-
perienced a psychological hunch that
he is not standing as we'll with the
country as formerly. He realizes, ap-
parently, that he has pressed his luck
too far. AS usurper of the Democratic
mind and conscience at Baltimore he
became sponsor for the man he nomi-
mated for the presidency. He had to
account to the country fer the Wilson
administration. To be close enough
to that administration to exercise a
Natchful ehaperonage it was necessary
that he be in the cabinet. Wilson did
not want him, for ii was Wilson who
he'd expressed the ardent desire that
somebody would find a way of knock
ing Bryan into a cooked hat" Since
his elevation TO the premiership Mr..
Bryan has been of little real service
tc the administration. Certainly he
has not won mis- way very far into the
heart of his chief or the confidence of
the administrative forces.
It WOULD not require much of
conspiracy on the part of anybody
TO 6strange Bryan and Wilson. There
is hint from Washington that after
the president has put through his leg
islatlve rogram he will dispense with
the Nebraskan's services. Bryan is
supposed to stand close to leaders in
Congress upon whom the president de-
ponds for help. II would be tactical
mistake, if this is true, for the presi-
dent tc take any hostile action against
his secretary of state until after all
danger of his opposition is passed.
Bryan has not only displayed his feet
of clay as popular idol but has
thrust forward an unusually long pair
of official ears in this instance.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-01-24

When that dam burst in West Virginia,
the other day, the warning was given.
as has long been the custom in such
cases, by man on horseback. When
West Virginia catches up with the rest
of the world, such warnings will be given
by man on a motorcycle.-Boston Adj
Vertiser.
What is the matter with the tele-
phone, or a Boston '.whirlwind tour"
politician2
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-01-24

ment, but nevertheless. he will find it
difficult to change it.-Boston Ad-
yertiser.
OF course If Mr.. Curley lives up TO
'pect some prettye handsome rake offs
for himself and his political team
mates, on every change of the map of
Boston.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-01-24
The Tariff and Textiles.

(Textile Manufacturers Journal)
A year ago basic conditions govern
ing general business were so excep-
eionally strong that many Republicans
of the so-cailed stand pat type,
smarting from the sting of recent de-
feat. were Obliged to admit that 1t
was most unlikely that tariff legisla-
uon would be passed of a sufficiently
~adical nature seriously to restrict
and unsettle business.
So prophetic has proved a state
ment published in these columns just
year ago that itiwill bear reproduc-
ton: III
No one conversant with the unusual
strength of basic business conditions
throughout this land can doubt that
these plus the bountiful harvest of last
tall, could have failed to stimulate one
of the greatest business booIns the
country has ever seen, had it not been
tor the election of a President and
Congress committed to a policy of
radical tariff revision. Unless the
next Congress is sufficiently con-
servative in its treatment of the tariff
to allow this stifled boom to revive,
their action will deserve to be record
ed as the crime of 1918"
The latent boom was not only
stifed; it was throttled. 8
Tariff revisionists admit their re-
sponsibiity, but claim that a larger
and more eff cient industry is to rise
from the ruins. Every manufacturer
is busy striving to repair the damage
done. All are endeavoring to appear
cheerful in the midst Of adversely. If
they are successful theirs will be the
homer, and the action of a low tariff
majority in Congress will still deserve
TO be recorded as "the crime Of 1913"
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-01-24

If a man tells you that the white
slave business cannot be stopped, he
is probably the same man who was
SO coeksure that leprosy could never
be cured-yet it has been cured and
the beneficiary of medical research and
skill and persistence is fine, thank you.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-01-24

Mr. Taft has lost so pounds. and is hav-
ing his So pairs of trousers cut down ae-
Cordingly. The cloth thus saved might
be utilized in stocking up some home
for boys with new overcoats.-Kansas
City Journal.
And after those eighty-pound COW
eringo have been disposed, suppose the
Taft form should revise upward again,
then what?
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-01-24
to be honored in the breach.

The way to make travel safer is to
pay more attention to safety-all along
the line and all through the service.
Eternal vigilance is the price OF the
maximum of safety realiZable. DISC
bedience of rules should be punished
and the habit of taking chances earn
estly couraged.-Chicago Record
Herald
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-01-24
MAYOR Gardner-of RocKLAND!

Tho presentiment which caused the
captain of the steamer Perry without
knowing why, to change the course of
his ship which otherwise would have
passed too far away to have seen the
distressed crew of the Grace A Martin,
is by no means unique in the annals
of the sea, says the Bath Times. In
fact it has occurred so frequently un-
der similar circumstances as to per-
nit Of no doubt of the veracity of the
numbers of seafaring men who have
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-01-24

The calamity howiers cannot stop pros
erity.-Biddeford Record.
And the noisy fellows seem unable To
stop calamity bowling. How ridiculous
they are making hemselves.-Portiand
Argus.
Ya-as-aw- what a vagarious da-ay,
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-01-24
Maine GOSSIP
Of One Who Seemed to Have Failed

Deaths but one more tomorrow. Thou
art gray
With many a death of many a yesterday
o. yearning heart that lacked the attn
letic force
And, stumbling, fell upon the beaten
course,
And looked. and saw with ever glazing
eyes
Some lower soul that seemed to win the
prize!
Lo Death. the just, who comes to all
alike,
Lifes sorry scales of right anew shall
strike.
Forth, through the night. on unknown
shores to win
The peace of God unstirred by sense of
sin.
There love without desire shall, like the
mist
At evening precious to the dropping
flower,
Possess thy soul in ownership, and
kissed
By viewless lips, whose touch shall be
a dover
OF genius and of winged serenity,
Thou shalt abide in realms of poesy.
DIR. S. Wier Mitchell
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-01-24
WHiTEFlELD.

SOUTH-The most enjoyable event
of the season took place at the Heath
homestead Saturday the 18th. when
Uncle Rice" celebrated his seth birth
Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-01-24

Trout in the New York ponds and
are infected with cancer
Cancer" or can't sir. DIR. Kelley?