Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-02-21
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The first bi-election necessitated by thS
recent changes in the cabinet in London
resulted in the defeat Thursday of C. r.
G.. Masterman In the Southwest division
of Bethnal Green by a narrow margil
of "a votes The Unionist candidate
Major Sirm Wilson received. ESQ votes u
1904 polled by Masteron C. f. G. MASTER
man was appointed chancellor of m
Duehy of Lancaster to succeed c. n
Hobhouse, who becomes postmaster gen
eral.
Hydro-aeropianes are motorboats ouo|
iect TO government regulations and an
spection. the department OF commerce q
Washington held Thursday The depart
ment directed that the flying boats OF
commercial line between Tampa and 50
Petersburg. Fla, must be equipped witt
life BELTS fire extinguisher. a whisti|
and other accessories, including runnind
lights.
All red and black flags and all banner
and signs with inscriptions offensive q
organized government will be forbiddei
in public parades and assemblages If
bill introduced in the Assembly at Al
bany, ~ Y, Thursday is passed. The rs
of the national flag on such occasions
would be made obligatory.
Robert Andrew Hamilton. aged 81. Wit
says he is a civil engineer, employed BY
the Canadian Pacific Railway was ar
rested in Washington Thursday by post
Office inspectors on charge of having
used the mails with intent to derraud
They charged him with connection Will
a project which mailed circulars Il
mayors of 100 cities soliciting contribu
tons to a $4,000 fund to buy home fo
Colonel George f. Goethals.
An infiammable dart for use by aefo
planes was tested at Buc. France, Thurs
day in the presence of military air ex
perts, with satisfactory results. The oar
carries a small reservoir containing gaso
lene which explodes on contact. Its pur
pose is to set fire to dirigible balloons o.
buildings. Three of the darts wer'
dropped Thursday from an aeroplane "a
an altitude of 900 feet and found thei
mark.
Long Sault Rapids, normally formi1s
one of the toughest stretches of the st
Lawrence river, are wholly frozen smooth
from bank to bank. At almost any pofn
persons can cross on the ice where ordi
narily the current is so swift that boa
cannot traverse it. At spots along tn
high banks ice cakes are piled more thar
80 feet above the mean level of the water
Caleb Powers, Republican congressman
from Kentucky, told the City Club o
Boston Thursday that the only way IL
prevent another Democratic administra
ton was ito have the Republicans nomi
nate Roosevelt for the Presidency" m
predicted that the Democrats would b,
victorious in the next congressional cleo
tions, but that the Republicans wo1id
make some gains.
The brown-tail moth in Connection
will ultimately infest the state in spite
of all efforts to prevent it, is the. opinion
of State Entomoogist w. E. Britton /o
New Haven who Thursday made report
upon this subject. He also expressed be-
lief that Connecticut may need law soor
like that of Massachusetts, and New
Hampshire obliging property owners tc
fight the pest. Eventually the warfare
aided by insect parasites may be ex.
pected to check the moths ravages
Strength and Endurance
Are factors of the greatest success.
No person can do full justice to HIM
self without them.
In no season Of the year are they
more easily exhausted than in the
spring.
We need not discuss the reason fol-
this here. It's enough to say there Is
one, and that Hoods Sarsaparilla gives
strength and endurance. as thousands
annually testify.-Adv. Y