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New-York tribune., 1914-11-28

New Orleans, Nov. 27.-Cotton fut.
ure trading was greater in volume than
on any previous day since the market
ropened, and prices rose and fell over
q comparatively wide range. Houses
with foreign connections did q fairly
good business for German account
The close was steady at net gain Of
? to 6 points. except on new style Jan
uary, which closed unchanged. At one
time prices were 10 n points over
Wednesdays close. Futures:
New-York tribune., 1914-11-28
TELEGRAPH AND TELEpHONF.
RAHROAD EQUIPMENT RONDs.

Am Tel O. Tc' collateral fs. 1922. SIS
lo convertible 4i-s. l.d3.........,. aiii 9o'
New-York tribune., 1914-11-28

-,- rao Con O. conv Cs u1a 1ua. ln.s -i--
400 ao lehts...... $50 -n
.-ells cents per shane fE2 dividend
New-York tribune., 1914-11-28
TOBACCO STOCKS.

,o.o,ations furnished by L. l.. winkeman &
Co. A Broad ST.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-21
Huge Engines of War.
(Tid Bits.)


The extraordinary advance made in
the science of warfare in recent years
is in no way better illustrated than
in the matter of siege guns such as
were used by the Germans to subaue
the Liege fortresses. The medieval
cannon was clumsy made of iron bars
hooped together with iron rings and
projecting stones; this ineffective en-
CINE was discarded in favor of bronze
"bombards'' and cast-iron corronades
Today, however, the siege gun is q
cumbrous mass of steel or wrought
iron, weighing anything from 40 tons
to $50 tons. The largest are capable
of firing "a shell weighing practically
one ton, and with sufficient force to
penetrate wrought iron at distance
of 1000 yards to depth Of nearly two
feet. While some are sighted for
range of five miles, and at that dis
lance may be relied upon to strike
an object 10 feet high, in actual battle
fire would rarely be opened at a
greater range than about two miles,
owing to atmospheric and other diff
culties. Even under the most favor
able conditions the bringing up of
siege guns and the placing of them
in position is a herculean task OF
transport and engineering.
The enormous engines of war have
to be hauled up steep mountains and
placed ON a solid bed of concrete. The
labor such a step requires is about
equal to that of erecting large ma
chinery plant. When in position the
gun is hidden by earthworks thrown
up around it and screened by brush
wood. Adapted for high-angle fire, its
heavy shells can be thrown over any
outworks and directly upon the place
intended to be attacked.
All these preparations involve i'm
mense trouble and often much loss of
life from the enemys fire. but once
siege gun is in position even the
strongest fortified place is bound to
suffer severely.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-21
In Russia.

In recent number of London EV-
eryman, Charles Sarolea gives infor-
nation ON THE Geographical Foun-
dations of Russian Politics. He de-
scribes Russia as a huge agricultural
community, an eastern Europe of
wheat and wood distinct from the
western Europe of iron and stone, and
says that the peasantry the tillers of
the soil, constitute so to SIS per cent.
of the total population. Curiously
enough, 1t may be noted that in the
Russian language the same word,
"krestian," means peasant and
Christian" and thus nationality and
religion are synonymous terms The
Russian village is different from all
others in Europe. There is no ruling
class. The land owner. IL he is rich,
will spend his income in the Russian
capital or in European health or
pleasure resorts. If he is poor and
compelled to remain on his estate, he
will vegetate in the most lamentable
intellectual isolation The clergy are
ignorant and poor, and have little
moral influence over the peasants,
who, riveted to the soil, are nearly all
iiliterate. The turmoil OF life reaches
them only as q distant murmur. They
are not entirely dead to political life.
They possess an active local govern
ment, which is represented by the
mir" or village community, and the
"zemstvo," or county council, which
is the most original and interesting
of Russian institutions. But the mir
and the "zemstvo" are, above all,
economic and administrative, and their
functions do not extend beyond the
border Of the village and do not free
the peasant from his intellectual iso-
1ation. But it is quite likely that the
war will serve to enlighten the march
ing millions that Russia has sent into
the field and radical changes in Rus
sian thought and life may follow their
return.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-21

once more draw in it's frontiers and re-
treat before the force of fact.
We shall be hard put to it in the
future to feel the same interest In this
isle and in its ingenious and pictur-
esque inhabitant that once we felt 1t
is no longer place of mystery bathed
in the sun of romance. 1t Is now two
seconds from the coast of Chile. Not
even the glamor with which the gifted
pen of Defoe invested it can stand be-
fore a hard and relentless fact like
that. Juvenile readers in the future
will pause to inquire, as did their
fathers and their fathers fathers,
where the island lies. But the answer
they receive will not be the answer
once received "A wireless station
near Chile" will come the dampening
response. Can Robinson Crusoe sur
vive that? And can the readers inter-
est withstand the crushing rejoinder?
We fear for them both, and once more
we are Inclined to the conclusion that
the only romance that progress toler-
ates is the romance of its own forward
sweep.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-21
Not a Fable.
Life.)

There was once q man who thought
that the business in which he was en-
ployed could not get along without him.
He would sometimes say:
Eyes, work hard and probably con-
tribute something to the profits; still ]
guess If you had to you could get along
without me, all right"
And again:
"A good many men think they are In
dispensable. They get the idea that the
wheels would stop II they weren't around
That's wrong idea. I know a great deal
better than that"
One day the head of the firm sent fol-
this young man and said:
You have given me an idea. 1 have
heard you say so often that the business
could get along without you. and it has
had such psychological effect upon me
that I am willing to take you at youi
word and save your wages. Here is you,
envelope. Good-by.''
Morals-of which there are two. and
you may take your choice
The first one is: Modesty is pretty like
ly to be its own reward.
The second: 1t doesn't always pay t.
advertise.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-21
OFFICERS WILL WEAR DISGUISE.
New Idea in Uniforms Will Save Thorn
from Being Made Target for
Sharpshooters,

How are we to keep our officers
from being picked OFF,
This has been--and is--one Of the
gravest problems which confronts the
armies OF all belligerents In Europe's
mighty conflict Losses among the men
who lead are far greater in proportion
than among the men who follow. The
terrific mortality among the French
and English officers has been particu-
larly noticeable. And the Germans, as
well, have been paying fearful tribute
to the sharpshooter's unerring rife.
Ono instance: The British expedi.
tionary forces took their places on the
firing line on August %. In seven
weeks General John French had been
bereft of the services of just 1.146 Of
his officers--a sixth of all his leaders.
Only a military man can appreciate
what a frightful loss it is to an army
to have full sixth Of it's officers wiped
out in SO short a period.
Today it is quite as grave problem
for Lord Kitchener to provide educated
men to fill these frightful gaps as 1t il
to recruit men for the ranks. England
is fully alive to the responsibility in
volved In this awful toll of carnage
anu QCClii <1S oil COZ iAOSS "a nv" NAAAoo
are, the officers still left in action have
been ordered to make themselves, in
battle, as inconspicuous as possible.
Look precisely like your nen!" is
the substance of the order.
Great has been the change among
the Britishers accordingly. They are
not the target for the German sharp
shooters that they were a few brief
weeks ago. Their lesson has been
learned, they have found out that IN
each German section are two men pro-
vided with feldglasses, whose sole duty
it is to pick out officers by their
accoutrements and tip off the sharp
shooters as to whom to aim at. IT Is
the officers business to fool the ene-
my's men with the glasses.
Twenty different things, ordinarily
distinguish a British officer from his
men. Aside from the smarter cut OF
his uniform, he is betrayed by his
sword. by his open Jacket with the low
collar and the necktie; by his absence
Of mack and his Sam Browne" belt
His fieldglasses are also shining
mark. But now every effort is made to
hide all these.
At the beginning of the war French
officers were even better targets than
the British for the German sharp
shooters The greater length of their
red trousers. due to tire absence of the
long leggins; white gloves and half
dozen different accoutrements. to-
gether with the inevitable gold lace. a
Gsai1ic Joy, so markedly betrayed the
officers to the watchful enemy that they
were picked off in droyeS Every unit
among the Germans had it's men with
the fieldglasses spying out the luckless
leaders for their doom. r
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-21
WIRELESS ON cRusoE's ISLE
Tho March Of Progress Robs Us Of
Another Home Of Romance.
Fundamentals NeWs.l


Another cherished landmark Of the
romance OF literature has shed its
glamor before the onward march of
progress. For years the island Of Rob-
inson Crusoe's exile has arisen before
our mental vision as a place far re-
moved from the traffic Of ocean lanes.
a place of mystery. tropical paradise
that knows the presence of no human
being, aloof, solitary, silent. Here
once the hero Of Defoes tale was cast
upon the sands, sole survivor Of the
ship that lay battered and broken
upon the Jagged rocks beyond the
spume of the surf. And here he dwelt,
with no companion save goat, dog and
parrot until Friday made his advent,
and, at last, the two were borne away
by a passing brig driven far from her
course by adverse winds.
Now there comes from Chile by cable
the disturbing news that Juan Fernan-
dez, this island of Crusoe's, immortal
lied by Defoe, variously pictured by
every reader Of the castaway's advent
ures and held sacred to the stirring
tales OF the seas, is linked to all the
world by the invisible tendrils Of the
wireless. 1t Is not precisely clear why
a wireless STATEN should be erected
here, where once the lonely Crusoe
sighed for rescue. but the record so has
II and the message OF the wireless
speaks for. Itself. Imagination must
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-21
Doduinq the Censor.

The first copy Of LIE Cri de Paris, a
French weekly, to arrive since one
bearing the date August 2 has
reached this city after an interval OF
three months. Here and there are
blank spaces in its columns wnieh
have been cut out by the press censor
LIE Cri however, introducing little
story. locates small city which the
censor has not permitted the paper 70
name, in this way: $50 we VIII say,
dear readers, that my first is metal
which one transforms into steel; my
second is a piece that was played a.
the Odeon with success by M. Jouoe
and his horse; my third Is MADE OF
two Of those fruits which have a haru
and woody shell covered with green
skin. NV whole is the city in ques-
ton" The city thus ingeniously indi :
Gated to the confusion of the censor Is
probably Fere- Champe- Noise.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-21
Sporting NezOs OF the Da
AUGUSTA WILL SEE FAST
BASKETBALL DURING THE WINTEF

of followers. Augusta has been rep
resented for nearly every season
and the aggregation HIS been mad
UP of fast, clean lot of players Las
winter, under the able management
of Jerry Carey, a good team was pu
upon the floor and it was a team tina
made a very creditable showing. Thi
season practically the same lineul
will be seen and when one glances
some of the teams on the schedule
will be realized that the local fiv
has got TO trave'
Saturday the team that will repre-
sent the Capital city, known as II
Senators, held it's first practice
City hall. Earl F. Grenier was tn
unanimous choice for captain. CREME
has played basketball on local quin
tets for the past four or five sea
sons. That he is fast, no one will dis
pute. Although he has played Dot
forward and guard positions. his reg
ular position is at guard, where
will be seen this year.
For the other guard position Smile
seems to be the logical man, althoug
there are others who will try out.
In Macdonald and Stilphen tn
management consider that 1t has tn
fastest working pair of forwards /
the state. 1t makes little differenc
to either of these lads where the
cage the leather from, all shots loo
alike to them. They both play goo
passing game and are strong on tn
defensive.
Daicey, formerly. of the Wasai'
five, will hold down the pivot positio
this year. This man needs no intro
duction. He is considered as fast
they make them. Pomerleau and Met
calf will also be conteEders for cen
ter. Both are fast.
1t is planned to open the seaso
Wednesday. Dec. 80, in City hall tn
team to make its appearance here
be announced very soon.
Games have already been arrange
with Springvale. Rumford, Newpor
Colonial Club of Bath, and the was
sits of Auburn. 1t forms a sti
schedule. All games will be played
CITY hall, the schedule including on
game a week, on Wednesday eve
ming.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-21
JOHNSON SIGNS UP
WITH THE WASHINGTON :.
CLUB FOR THREE YEARS

Kansas City, Dec. 204--Clark Grff-
fifth, manager of the Washington AM
erican League Baseball Club, an
nounced Saturday that he had sign
ed Walter johnson rs pitcher for the
Washington Americans, with a three
year contract and that Johnson would
play with Washington next season.
The manager and pitcher reached an
agreement in an all-day conference.
johnson issued the following signed
statement:
After conference with Manager
Griffith and legal authorities, 1 am
convinced the option in my last years
contract with the Washington ball
club was binding, and l am going to
return to Washington ball club and
fulfill my agreement, and at the terms
offered me by that club. -
WALTER JOHNSON"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-21

been made that American women Will
not patronize home dressmakers De-
cause they lack that individuality IN
style that the French designers have.
The American designers say, in re-
buttal, that they have not been
patronized and consequently have NOT
been able to demonstrate just Wnat
they can do. Now the society readers
say that they are going to make an
effort TO keep our fashion seekers N
America. y This statment should De
half the battle for the designers. 60
ing to Paris is disease, and the nome
designers should have the cure.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-21
American Made Fashions.

And now the Made in America
slogan is being applied to dressmak-
ing. An American fashion fete was
held in New York under the patronage
of society leaders. Judging from the
photos Of the costumes exhibited there
it is safe to predict that if the Ameri-
can woman only thought so. she can
get as good clothes in America as
France ever dared to make. While
the illustrations bear all the marks o.
what we are accustomed to regard as
.style," they lack that rather dis
tinctively Partisan. bizarre touch
which some women seem to crave. but
which the modest woman ,refrains
from patronizing. The American cos
tunes indicate return to sanity in
dress without in the 'least-from the
masculine Observation-Disclosures from
it's attractiveness. The complaint has
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-21
PLAYER Piano in War.

Among the war stories showing the
peculiar humor Of Tommy Atkins, Is
one Of a band Of soldiers who derend-
ed a cafe at the battle Of Mons. AS
often as the Germans tried to take this
place they were repulsed. though bag
holes were gaping in the walls. It
happened" says T. p. O'Connor's
Journal, that in the cafe was an
automatic piano. When the defend
ers, first saw the enemy coming one
soldier said to another, Put penny
in the SLOT Jack, and give them some
music to dance to- So every time
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-21
RESOLUTIONS OF THE BASEBALL
PLAYERS FRATERNITY MADE
PUBLIC BY DAVID |. FULTz

III-A player drafted. purchased or rei
called by a club in a higher classified
4. ton shall report to the said club either
before the close of the season. of the
releasing club or Immediately hereaftI
er. and shall be put upon salary.
IVA club releasing player eitheI
outright or optionally shall serve upon
him a written notice, containing in adj
ditjon to the date mentioned In section
4 of the fraternity agreement state
ment of the minimum amount OF salary
he is to receive from the purchasing
club which shall be q reasonable salary
for that classification.
VA club releasing a player either
outright or optionaliy shall furnish him
with his travelling expenses to the point
at which he is to Join the purchasing
club. The words travelling expenses
shall, for the purposes of this agree
ment. mean railroad fare. Pullman fare
and price of meals when either or both
OF the last two items are necessary.
VIA transferred player shall be al
lowed 4S hours in which to leave to join
the purchasing team. unless a different
period is agreed upon in writing be-
tween the parties
yII-Minor league players shall receive
their travelling expenses from tneir
home to the training camps incurred In
reporting for spring practice.
vIII-When waivers are asked upon
player the fraternity Is to be notified.
IX-That the commission and board
furnish the management in the various
organizations over which they have Jur-
isdiction respectively with forms of re-
lease, making provision for the severai
items of information required by the
agreement.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-21

New York, Dec 2o.-President David
l.. Fultz of the Baseball Players Fra
ternity made public today the resolu-
tions, which the fraternity recently re-
quested organized baseball TO insert in
its agreement with the players assoeia-
ton These provisions, nine in number,
were adopted at the annual meeting OF
the board of directors of the b. +. +.
held on Oct. 13 and submitted to the
National Commission in this city ON
Dec. II.
No formal action on these provisions
was taken at the time they were pre-
scented to Chairman Garry Hermann
of the commission, but there was con-
siderable discussion regarding the re-
quests and the accompanying brief in
support of the fraternity's resolutions.
President Fultz points out in the brief
that the provisions are intended In part
to bring about a better understanding
and agreement between the major and
minor leagues and the players. The pro-
visions as presented by the fraternity
to the National Commission and Ma
tional Board are as follows:
IA club which releases a player I'M
der an optional agreement shall, during
the life of the option. pay the difference
in salary between that previously paid
by said ciun and that paid by the pur-
chasing club. M
IA club which releases player
outright shall pay the difference in sal
airy, If any, between that previously paid
by said club and that paid by the pur-
chasing club for a period of five or IL
days, according to the length of notice
of unconditional release to which the
player Is entitled.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-21
Plague Caused by Flag.
Chicago Journal

In the year 1909 the Russian city OF
ODESSA was visited by bubonic plague.
This ragged for five months and killed 5000
people. Its origin was traced to an Aus
TRAN flag which was hoisted over the
grave of an Austrian seaman who had
died at sea and had been buried in the
cemetery. After the funeral the flag was
carried In turn by two seamen who after
ward entered various public places, lay
ing the flag down as they stopped to
drink. Shortly afterward both these men
fell Ill and died, and people were taken
i'll In all the houses they had entered.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-21
READFIELD DEFEATS
E. WINTHROP AT HOCKEY

Readield, Me-, Dec. 20-(SpeciaD.-
The Readfield hockey team defeated
East Winthrop to 2 here Saturday on
Carleton park. The game was fast and
devoid of roughness. The lineups follow
Readfield-E. Read, j. Luce. e. Luce,
r. Luce, Gay, Dudley, e. Dudley. Hutch
ms.
Winthrop-E. Hewitt. jackson, L.
Hewitt, Boothby. Baker, Frazee. Gay.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-21

A new Tennessee law makes pro-
vision for fire escapes on workshops
and factories two stories and moro in
height.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-21
WALTER JOHNSON
Continued from Page one)

On the contrary. if it is their opin-
ion that your action was not honor
able and you do not quickly repudi-
ate the new contract which you sign
ed yesterday, you will forever carry
on your shoulders burden of dis
honor.
IF you come to Chicago, as l re-
quest will then know it was the I'M
fairly employed influence of older men
which over persuaded you"
Mr.. Gilmore said he now had John
sons 1914 contract with Washington
calling for $4,000 of which $500 was
salary and $500 an option. Johnson
complied with the terms of the option
in first offering his services to the
Senators, Gilmore said.
When the st. Louis Federals with
drew their offer of $4,000 to John
son. he continued, and announced
they were through with him, Wash
ington Immediately withdrew an Of
fer they were reputed to have made
of $4,000. This released Johnson on
the option. He telegraphed me he was
unable to make terms with Washing
ton and it was a month before we
finally agreed on terms"
Gilmore declared that unless john
son came TO Chicago in response to
his telegram he would Immediately
bring court action to prevent the
pitching stars serving the Washing
ton Club.
Gilmore left here tonight, but de-
clared he did not intend to visit John
son at Coffeyville.
Clark Griffith, manager of the WASH
ington American League club, arrived
here tonight on his way east from Kan
sas. Walter Johnsons new contract
does not call for more than s12.50o year
and carries no bonus. Griffith declared
The only cash advanced to the ball play
err will be to enable him to return the
$4,000 advance made by the Federals, he
said. The Washington manager said
that Johnson had been so sorry that he
signed with the Federals that he had
lost 10 pounds in weight Grifith and
the two lawyers with whom he met
johnson convinced the pail players that
the option clause of the Washington
contract was valid, he said. SIS
Ban johnson. president of the Ameri-
can League, who returned from French
Lick, Ind, said that the league schedule
had been completed. The season will
open April "A.
The negotiations for the sale of the
New York American League club have
not progressed as far as expected, John
son said. They win be renewed here to-
morrow when Col. Jacob Rupert and
Capt. Huston will arrive here The deal
now hinges on the obtaining Of man
ager satisfactory to Rupert and Hus-
ton. Ruppert's first, choice, Johnson
said, he had been unable to obtain.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-21

there was an attack after that the
piano played the accompaniment They
fought as though it was new and qe-
lightful kind of game they had dis
covered"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-21

To Cure a Cold in One Day
Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUIN!NE
Tablets. Druggists refund money II 1t
fails to cure. f. w. GROVES signature
is on each box. 2oc.-Adv. m.tl
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-21

In certain cities OF Russia street
whistling by civilians is penal Of
Tense. the privilege being reserved for
the police.