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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-07-31
.TOGUS DEFEATS
THE BLEACHERS
FROM LEWISTON

In a fast exciting game Saturday the
Home team trimmed the Lewiston
Bleachery team by score of 6 to 2. Up
to the sixth inning the game was close
Some fine playing done by both
sides, but apparently the jinx had it in
for Togus Two to one was the tally at
the end of the fifth. Then as the Togus
team went to bat something seemed to
break among the hitherto tfght-playing
Bleachery team and Togus came to the
front with three runs. placing Lewiston
far In the rear, place from which she
never recovered.
The team was made up of men who
would have fitted equally vel on the
gridiron or shop, and when compared
with our own lightweight lads the turn
in the tide Of fate's favor seemed to be
altogether out of proportion. Fast ball
was their one aim and at times fortune
favored them, but. when it came to maxi
ing sudden and unexpected double plays
Togus was right there with the goods
Three such were made during the game
with such rapidty and ease that onlooK-
ers were heard to remark: "Togus need
have no fear of her standing as base-
bali team this season after such work as
that" In the seventh Togus discovered
that a couple more runs would help out
her grand total, so in they came with
such apparent ease that Lewiston hao
the final store Of wind knocked clean
out OF her ambition bag. In the eighth
neither side scored and the Home team
held the visitors to their original tally
in the first half of the ninth: The score:
TOGI7S A. A.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-07-31
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

/ Gold light is what the French call
the product of new anti-Zeppeln ma
chine which produces an intense illumi-
nation without any sensible evolution of
heat.
! The Englishman who laughed at
! conscientious objector' until the man
| of peace thrashed him for his pains is
now himself the laughing stock of the
/ village.
/ An electric motor truck that resembles
a huge refrigerator has been built for a
! Porto Rico ice dealer to enable him to
deliver his wares with a minimum of
loss by melting
Partly mechanical and partly electrical
! is a Chicago inventors alarm that fires
| FIVE blank cartridges in succession If
burglar enters tries to wander around
| a building.
A Louisiana inventors automatic fire
alarm calls the nearest fremen. rings
alarms both outside and inside a build
! ing where fire starts and lights a red
light on the outside.
| For detecting leaks in underground wa
ter pipes an instrument has been invent
ed consisting chiefly of a rod to be thrust
in the ground to pick up the sound, and
a telephone receiver with which it can
be heard.
At recent cattle and pig fair in a re-
mote part Of Ireland the merchants dis
played carpet sweepers. kerosene ranges.
fountain pens, tools. pencils. rolled oats
and automobiles. all made in the United
States.
| Fred Jackson. a blacksmith, Of Dow
aEiac, Mich, found a gold ring on the
calk Of horseshoe he removed. It had
been shaped sauarely on the shoe. but
on being placed on the small end of the
| anvil readily assumed its original form
with no evidence that it had decorated
a horses shoe.
| Investigation by the Dutch railroad
officials revealed the fact that the lubri
| cant containers on the trains from
across the border had been emptied of
| oil and grease before leaving GERMANY.
where lubricants are now scarce. or else
were provided with just enough to carry
them into Holland.
A real live opossum was recentlv
caught In the heart Of the downtown d,s.
trict beneath the steps Of the Travis
Park Methodist church in San Antonio
Tex. A bell boy took the possum to the
hotel chef. and the negro waiter. In
dulged In feast al which the piece de
resistance was the 'possum thanked with
yellow yam Eaters.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-07-31
Bird Stories,

A German scientific journal publish.
ed in 1897 story to the effect that a
golden eagle shot in that year at Es.
zeg, Slavonia. was found to have q
ring about its neck engraved on which
were the arms of Slovenian family
and the date 1916
In 1893 the Gentleman's Magazine
told about a hawk. captured when fly.
ing in the vicinity of the Cape of Good
Hope and taken by an Indian ship to
England, which wore gold collar In.
scribed:
This goodie hawk doth belong to
his Most Excellent Majesty James,
King Of England. A. D.. 1910"
If this bird really escaped from Eng
land in the reign Of James 1873 years
elapsed between its escape and its re.
capture. and it had flown distance OF
$500 miles away from its former
owner
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-07-31
STEAMER APPAM
TO Be RESTORED
TO her OWNERS
British Liner Appam Captured
by the German Raider MOewe,
Is Ordered by Federal Court to
Be Given Back to Owners

Norfolk, Va, July 30.-PoSsession OF
the British liner Appam, brought into
Hampton Roads last February by
German prize crew. was awarded Sat
urday to her English owners, the Afrl-
can Steam Navigation Co, by Judge
Weddill of the federal district court.
An appeal will be taken when the OPP
portunity is given next Wednesday and
the final decision in the libel proceed
ings probably will be given by the su-
preme court.
In the meantime the Appam will stay
at Newport News in the custody Of
the United States marshal or will be
turned over to her owners under bond
Her cargo has been sold for $634,o0 and
the money is being held by the court.
What is to become of Lieut.. Berg, the
prize commander, and his crew Of p
men must be determined by the state
department at Washington. They have
been living aboard the Appam, claiming
her as the property of the German gov
eminent, but the general belief here Is
that they now will be interned along
with the men of the German raiders
laid up here.
Judge Waddll's decision. given after
months Of consideration, held that the
Appam lost her status as a prize when
she entered American territorial waters
to remain indefinitely. He rejected the
German contention that the Prussian-
American treaty Of 1899 permitted Ger
man prizes to be laid up in American
waters, and held that prizes could be
brought in only by a war vessel acting
as convoy and then only for the tempo
rary causes recognized by international
law.
An opinion given by Secretary
Lansing to the German ambassador
to the same effect was quoted at length
by the court.
A decision by a German prize court
that the Appam was a lawful prize
was held to be without effect upon
the proceedings of the court Of the
United States. The same German court
recently adjudged prize money, SOME
$4,000 in gold, taken from the APP
pam when she was captured off the
coast of Spain by the raider Moewe.
| The court held that the German gov
eminent lost al; legal claim to the
Appam and her cargo as prizes of war
when Lieut.. Berg and his prize crew
on last February first brought them
into the neutral waters of Hampton
Roads with the intention of laying UP
the vessel indefinitely.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-07-31
Have a CHEEKY Kitchen.

One should bear in mind that the
kitchen is the engine room Of the home,
and the comfort and happiness of the
family depend upon it's running smooth
ly and well. Lack Of system, made
quate equipment. inconvenient arrange
ment Of furniture and utensils and the
total absence Of beauty and cheer are
the things that make drudgery OF
homework. Servants are as susceptr
BILE to surroundings as their mistresses
and the little aids to housework, such
as cheerful aspect and pretty furnish
ings, do much to secure a more loyal
interest and cooperation. A harmonl'
Gus environment in a kitchen will 60
a long way toward making a happy
home. - Harriet Sisson Gillespie IN
Mothers Magazine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-07-31
Ancient Football.

Philip Stubbes wrote in 1888 In his
book on 1.-The Anatomie Of Abuses
For as concerning football l pro-
test unto you it may rather be called
a FRIENDLY kinde of fight than play
Of recreation; a bloody and numbering
practice than a felowly sporte of pas
tyne. For dooth not every one I've in
waight for his Adverserie. seeking to
overthrow him and to pickle him on his
nose, though 1t be on hard stones. so
that by this meanes sometimes their
backs, sometimes their legs, sometimes
their arms, sometimes one part thrust
out Of joynt, sometimes another; some.
times the noses gush out with blood.
sometimes their eyes start Outright
Ing, brawling, contention, quarrel pick
Ing, murther, homicide and great effu-
sion of blood. as experience day!y
teacheth."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-07-31
Didn't Find the Eclipse.
(Oxford Democrat, South Paris)

(Oxford Democrat, South Paris)
In making up its eclipse page for the
1915 issue, the old reliable Maine Farm
ers Almanic made a peculiar mix-up.
In consequence there has been consid-
cradle comment by papers in the state.
some Of which is almost as badly mixed
as the almanac. 1t is doubtful, though,
If many people get fooled in the same
way as did a local man, whom we will
call Serious.
Serious takes a moderate interest in
eclipses which are of such character as
to make good show, and at the begin
ming of the year ne had investigated
the almanac, and found that there was
nothing of peculiar interest in the
years list. Consequently he paid no
particular attention to the matter until
he happened to see a paragraph In
some paper making reference to the
eclipse Of July 18th.
1t so happened that the hour Of not
ing this was twelve o'clock noon of
July 18th, and to learn what the eclipse
was Serious took down the almanac
nearest at hand, which happened to be
the Maine Farmers. and read:
"A partial eclipse Of the MOON, July
Is, visible at Augusta. Moon enters
shadow. 10h. 4om morning. Middle of
eclipse. oh. I'm. evening" Etc.
At once it was evident to Serious
that there was something wrong with
the almanac. He must be credited with
sufficient elementary information to
know that an eclipse Of the sun never
occurs except at the time of new moon.
But it did not occur to him to think
what the phase Of the moon was, or
whether it had any phases. For he had
also had the wit to know that an
eclipse of the moon Is never visible at
midday. Furthermore, he recalled that
at some time during the year there was
an eclipse visible here as a partial
eclipse of the sun.
Therefore he jumped to the 1onclu-
sion that the almanac should have said
sun instead of moon, laying the mis-
take to the printer, as has been done in
cases of trouble from time immemorial.
So he announced to his Office mates.
Did you know that we are right in the
middle of partial eclipse Of the sum-
Picking up a box of photogra phic
negatives two of which We're fairly
dense in the high lights, he made a re-
spectacle substitute for a smoked glass,
and took a look at the sun.
But the smooth round disk showed
never nick
"Humph." said Serious. II guess
this is one Of those eclipses in which
the greatest extent is one-tenth of one
per cent Of the suns diameter-not
enough so you would notice it,"
And it was some time before he dis
covered that the moon for which he
was looking on the face Of the sun was
on the other side of the earth. and that
the eclipse of the moon had been over
for about twelve hours
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-07-31
CAPITOL ISLAND
ASSOCIATIONS
annual MEETINGS

Capitol Island, Me. July 30.-(SpeciaD.-
The Capitol Island Village Corporation
and the Capitol Island Association held
their annual meetings Saturday after
noon at the Casino and transacted bust
ness as follows;
Capitol Island Village Corporation
The meeting was called to order by
Overseer j. A. Proctor Of St. Petersburg.
Fla, and S H, Thompson of Southport
was chosen moderation. with c. B. Day
of Richmond as clerk. Overseers for the
ensuing year We're chosen as follows: s.
H. Thompson, c. B. Day, Theodore IL
mer of Germantown. Pa, H. S. Woods of
Hyde Park. Mass, and A. w. Stewart of
Augusta.
c. b. Day of Richmond was elected
secretary-treaSurer
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-07-31
PRESIDENT WILSON
, INVITED TO SPEAK AT
AUGUSTA LABOR DAY

The Central Labor Union of this
city forwarded Sunday to President
Woodrow Wilson an invitation for him
to be present and speak at their Labor
Day celebration. If the President ac-
cepts. the plan is to have him speak
at P. NJ. In Haymarket square.
Committees have already been ap-
nointed by the Union and are arrang-
ing the details Of the celebration which
will include a parade of the labor or
ganizations of Kennebec county in the
morning, a series of athletic events 1T
Capital park under Iii. auspices OF the
Augusta Y. NJ. c. A. and other fea
lures. A further meeting to perfect the
ARRANGEMENTS viii. be held next FridaS
evening at Hotel North.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-07-31
CHINESE LETTER CARRIERS.
Fsats They Must Perform Would Tire
q Hercules.


a Hercules.
How many of our own postmen
would care to transfer their services to
the Chinese postoffice?
To get into the postal service in Chi
ma is not an easy matter.
In the first place an applicant must
have strength and courage, and IN Or
der to gain these he must be prepared
to undergo a very queer method OF
training. He must wander through
mountains and valleys, forests and
coves. The exact time to be occupied
in a trip Of this sort is fixed by the
law, and a very heavy fine Is imposed
for any unnecessary delay.
The would be postman must repeat
these trips at night. and If he listens
to the bad spirit, thereby failing to ap-
pear at the required time at specified
place he is sure to lose his chance OF
being a postman.
But that is not all, for he Is obliged
to carry enormous weights for many
miles and must return with his burden
within a given time, though his road
usually takes him through districts
thick with bandits.
In training, the postman eats very lit
tle-though he is used to this-and tries
every training exercise. Then comes
his real examination, urder the direc-
ton of the government icials. He Is
taken into Il large room. where, sus-
pended from high beam, are very
heavy sacks filled with rocks. He must
give a swinging motion to oil these
sacks, run to and fro between them.
carefully guarding himself against 4
blow from the heavy weights.-London
Globe.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-07-31
Capitol Island Association

President f. E. Lewis presided at the
association meeting, the principal bust
ness of which was the election of a board
of directors for the ensuing year, sever
al members of the 1915 board having re-
signed. They were President Lewis, Dr.
K. W. Small of Richmond and Mrs. Su-
san Patten of Gardiner. To fill the va
cancies so caused there were chosen S.
H. Thompson, A. W. Stewart of Angus
ia and H. S. Woods of Hyde Park. Mass
Theodore Timer of Germantown. Pa,
was chosen in place of Adelbert Danforth
of Gardiner. whose term had expired.
At subsequent meeting of selectmen
of the corporation and of the directors
of the association s. H. Thompson was
chosen chairman of the former and pres
ident of the latter.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-07-31
NATIONAL HOME

Officer of the day, Capt. Joseph AL
len, Co. D.
Lewis E. Craig was taken up terri
pcrary at Post Saturday, awaiting ad-
mission to the Branch.
Martin Garfield, late Co. B, a4tn
Mass. Inf, was Saturday re-admltteo
as a member Of the Home.
Among the returns from furlougns
was George A. Bidwell, late Co. G, 3lst
Mass. Mr.. Bidwell tol6 Of very pleas
ant visit with relatives in Holyoke'
Mass.
The moving picture program for TINS
evening will be The Puppet Crown
a Famous Players film production, fea-
turing Ina Clair and Carlyle Black
" ELL in Ave parts.
". s. kendrick of Boston, MISS Gill;
man of Boston and John j. Young OF
Providence, guests al the hotel during
the past week, have returned to their
respective homes.
Mr. and Mrs. f. R. Hayes were Sun
day visitors in Windsor at the nome
of their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Elias
w. Cove.
Owing to the ;nc,ement weather
Sunday the usual Sunday concert
crowd was lacking. those attending
however, were we'll rewarded after lis
| tenins to the fine cornet solo rendered
by Paul Drosell.
Among the visitors in camp Sunday
were the Hon. ]. w. Greenleaf of Man
chester, N. H. Mr.. Greenleaf was ac'
c,mpanied by his sen and daughter
Miss Helen.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Lewis. Major
and Mrs. F. L. Appleton and Capt
Williams enjoyed a motor trip to Ia
coma Inn Saturday evening. stopping
over for one of Mgr. Hutton's fine
shore dinners.
Roland Scribner and family wer'
callers in Camp Saturday. Mr.. Scri'
ner has many friends in this locality
r,ade during his term Of office here a:
postmaster.
| Friends of Iceland Covel, one time
clerk in the quartermaster's depart
ment here. will be pleased to lear
that he was united III marriage to Mis-:
Caroline Beatrice Chapman of Fair
field Wednesday afternoon, the goth
at the home of the brides brother il
! Lewiston. After a short trip the young
couple will be at home to friends il
Gardiner, where the groom is EN-
ployed.
The boss farmer, Mr.. Alden, is re
ported to be improving from his in
jury.
! Several large automobile parties
Passed through Camp Sunday. not on
bit daunted apparently by the rathe
discouraging look of the weather.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-07-31
RICHMOND

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Brown and
family of Danvers, Mass, are the
guests of Mr.. Browns mother, Mrs.
Myra Brown.
Mrs. Charles Wheeler and children
Of Foxboro, Mass. are the guests Of
Mrs. Wheeler's parents, Mr.. and Mrs
VIM. P. Carr.
Mrs. Arthur Lancaster and son
Lawrence are passing a few days at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Lam
caster.
Fred White Of Biddeford passed one
day this week with his sister, Mrs. J.
H. Gallagher.
Frank McMaster Of Gardiner, who
was recently operated upon for ap-
pendicitis. was a visitor in town Sat-
urday. His many friends were glad
to see him out again
Mrs. c. B. Webber has returned home
after a three weeks visit at the home
of her daughter in Portland.
Mrs. p. H. Hurley was in Rumford
this week to attend the funeral of her
uncle, Henry Deehan.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Faircloueh
who have been passing their honey-
moon in northern Maine. are the guests
Of Mr.. Fairclough's sister
A. S. Alexander c. A. Alexander
John Sturtevant, A. E. Small and A.
H. Waldron went to Portland Saturday
and Joined in the State shoot held in
that city on the Portland Gun Club
grounds at Falmouth.
The W. H. NJ. S. will meet with Mrs.
B. F. Curtis Thursday afternoon at 2.3o
o'clock.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-07-31
HosnitaI 7, S. D. Warren Co. I

The State Hospital team put up a
good brand of baseball Saturday after
noon when they met and defeated the
s. D. Warren Co. team of Gardiner by
the score Of Z to /. The battery for the
Hospital team was McGouldrick and
Hill; for the Gardiner team, Jordan
and Henderson. McGouldrick is credit
ed with Is strikeouts and Henderson 10
The hospital team had eight hits and
errors; Gardiner four hits and five err
rOrS,
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SACRED TREE Of SPAIN.
And lts Connection With the Ancient
Euskarian Language.

And lts Connection With the Ancient
Euskarian Language.
You all know about the Charter oak,
that tree that figured in the fight for
independence Of the American colonies.
and perhaps you have heard Of other
trees with national significance.
Did you ever hear Of the sacred tree
of Spain and the means by which it IS
perpetuated? It stands close to the
town Of Guernica, in Biscay, and under
its spreading foliage the general jun.
tas are inaugurated. Several centu-
ries ago, when Spain was loosely
tied bundle Of more or less independent
states, the lords Of Biscay took their
oath under one Of the parents Of this
same tree, where a stone bench was
provided for their use, as symbolic OF
the enduring solidity Of their reign.
In some respects the tree shows Deep
er symbolism than is to be found in
the bench Of hewn stone. for both the
family dignity and the Euskarian Ian
guage are handed from father to son.
| In that isolated region a form Of
speech that is utterly different from
both French and Spanish has been
maintained since the beginnings Of Eu-
ropean civilization because each father
made it his business to instill into his
eldest son the idea that it was his
duty to perpetuate his language and
the peculiar institutions Of his race.
The tree Of the Basques is one Of the
hardest Of all the hardy things to be
found around the bay Of Biscay and
the Pyrenees mountains. The one that
is now standing was taken from the
parent tree in 1850 and had been grow
ing for thirty years when its 30o-year-
old progenitor succumbed to age and
hard windstorm. Another shoot was
started from this one forty years ago.
St Louis Globe. Democrat
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HEN MATCHES WooDPEckER.
earndoor Fowl Digs Worms Quite
Naturally for Foster Offspring.

1t is unusual for hen to hatch out
woodpecker, but an instance is re-
ported by Ira Cordrey, a farmer llv-
ing near here.
The hen had been missing for some
time When found she was mothering
eleven baby chicks and one tiny wood :
pecker, which appeared perfectly
happy to let the hen scratch worms for
1t, and the hen is paying just as much
attention to the little woodpecker as it
is to her brood Of chicks.
The woodpecker's appearance is ex-
planned on the supposition that wood
pecker laid the egg in the hens nest
while the hen was off looking for food.
(Md.) Dispatch Phila.
Inquirer.
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aeothoven's Fits Of Raoe,

Beethoven's behavior was often afro.
cious. In giving lessons to young la
dies he would sometimes tear the
music to pieces and scatter it about he
floor or even smash the furniture.
Once when playing in company there
was some interruption. II play DO
longer for such hogs!" he cried and
left the piano. He once called Prince
Lobkowitz an ass because a bassoon
player happened to be absent-Dole's
Famous Composers"
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AMERICAN HYMN WRITERS
John Quincy Adams, Our Sixth D.
dent, Was One of Ther vi


dent, Was One Of Them. '''
There has been no America,
writer to compare with Isaac W..." Yum
Charles Wesley. both of whom ws. "
hundreds Of hymns which have bso. I've
classic, but several Americans haa
written hymns of recognized r.a.' s
some Of which are still sura
churches.
John Quincy Adams, sixth pres,a.
Of the United States and prev,ou.,'
minister to Russia and secretarv :,
state, wrote several hymns which w.'.
sung in Congregational church.'
though he was Unitarian. he w..
metrical version Of the Psalm.
which was published after his death
The Longfellow brothers, Henry "
and Stephen, both wrote some ,oos
hymns. Francis Scott Key, author .,
the "Star Spangled Banner" wrote
thanksgiving hymn beginning, "Befo,.
the Lord we bow" which used to bs
sung at Fourth of July celebratiors
The two Cary sisters. Alice ana
Phoebe, who lived near Cincinnati,
both wrote some fine hymns. Phosbs
wrote the hymn beginning, ION.
sweetly solemn thought"
Other Americans who have wr,tto,
good hymns Were John Plerpop,
Charles Beecher. a brother Of Henri
Ward Beecher, and Mrs. Van Alstyns
(Fanny Crosby, who wrote mora
hymns than any of the others abovs
named.-Philadclp Press.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-07-31

Republican candidates. Carl Mill
ken, Bert NJ. Fernalds, Wallace H.
White and Rupert H. Baxter will be
in Richmond Tuesday evening.
Miss Hazel Cashier and Arthur Ad-
ans passed the day Sunday at OLD
Orchard.
The selectmen have placed Keep
to the Right" sign in Post once
square. This is a much needed device
in the busy street of the village to
guard against accidents.
Mrs. l. W. Comey of Waldoboro is
the guest Of her mother, Mrs. NJ. S.
Cashier.