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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-02-28

William Pittaway who has filled the
teacher at North Yarmouth Academy
for the past two years. has>resigned
to enter the war on the side of the
entente allies. Mr.. Pittaway is an
Englishman by birth and during his
residence in this country has not lost
his attachment for his native land.
When Principal John .. Hall an
nounced his resignation to the school
Thursday he voiced the general regret
of teachers and pupils at having Mr..
Pittaway go. Mr.. Pittaway will enter
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-02-28

The Woodstock Press says: About a
year ago the crew pressing hay here
for Scott Bros. wrote their names on
shingle and enclosed it in a bundle of
pressed hay. Last week Frank Hill
man, one Of the crew. received a let
ter from DR.. Aitken. at B France,
saying that the shingle had been found,
and asking him TO CORRESPOND"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-02-28

the army with his brother as soon as
arrangements can be made. Compe-
tent substitutes will take charge of his
courses at the academy so that it will
be possible for him to be released by
March /.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-02-28
Railroads and Steamboats,
MAINE Central R. R.
In Effect SEPT. 26. 1915,

TRAINS LEAVE AUGUSTA AS Fol
LOWS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-02-28

BATH AND 6ooTHsAY LINE
Leave Bath 2.45 P. NJ. week days only,
for Boothbay Harbor and Intermediate
Landings. Return, leave Boo,hbay Har-
boz 100 A NJ, week days only, for Bath
and Intermediate Landings.
H. A CLAY. Supt., Portland. Maine.
NJ. A. HARADEN, Supt.. Bath, Maine
n
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-02-28
Odd Fellows Hall

ASYLUM LODGE, NC. 70, REGULAR
meeting Friday evenings al -
L. G. HUGHES. y. q;
e F. WESTON, -eu Sec.
GUY c. LONGFELLpW, Ii, s.,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-02-28
EASTERN STEAMSHIP LINES
ALL.THE-WAY- eY.WATER
BOSTON & PORTLAND LINE

Steamships CALVIN AUSTIN and
GOVERNOR DINGLEY. Leave Franklin
Wharf week days 80 P. NJ. for Boston
Return leave Central Wharf. Boston,
week days only at : Z. NJ.
Day trips leave Portland Fridays $40
A. Nj Due Boston 200 2. NJ
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-02-28

One of the largest Holsters taken
from Maine waters in several years
. has just been brought into Portland by
the fishing schooner Lochinvar and is
now alive on board that vessel. The
1 lobster measures 81 inches from the
/ tip of its 'smellers" TO the tip Of the
tail. weighs Is pounds and is IS inches
| in circumference about the largest part
Of the body. Caught in the travis the
lobster was brought to the surface
while the Lochinvar's crew were out
! in their dories 20 miles off Seguin
Light. Olaf Penny was the lucky fish
erman TO land the big lobster and Will
receive a fancy price for his catch,
The claws of the lobster are the size
Of big porterhouse steak and there is
enough meat in the sea fish to provide
d meal for a large family.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-02-28

Day Tips leave Portland Fridays 6.Hl
A. Nj Due Boston 200 P. NJ.
MAINE STEAMSHIP LINE
Between Portland and New York
Steamships NORTH LAND and
HERMAN WINTER
| Reduced Fares-Redueed Stateroom
Prices.
Schedule disturbed-Infornlatio upon re-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-02-28

Now I'm just like other boys" said
12-year-old Charles F. Dean of Old
Orchard, formerly of Boston, who was
out this week wearing a new artificial
foot. He is the son of Ed Dean, for
mer Boston ,elegrapher. Four years
ago the lad, who was living in Boston,
was run over and one foot was so bad
" crushed that amputation was ne
Tcessary. His mother was employed at
the Revere House last August and her
son made frequent visits to the hotel.
Mrs. Matilda c. Faulhaber of New
York. a guest. noticed the boys lame
ness and inquired the cause. Some
time ago the owner Of the hotel re-
ceived a check for SIS from the New
York woman to pay for an artificial
foot for the Dean boy.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-02-28
ENNEBEc LODGE.

kENNEBEc LODGE. NO i4s
Loyal Order OF Moose, mee's n LI6
hall. 81 Water 81, every "e1nes'!
evening at 80.
E. J. HAREIMAN, =. .atc'
O. H. SMALL. Sec.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-02-28

KNIGHTS OF THE MACCAeEEs
kennebec Tent No. 10. meets IN Cold;
Cross hall on first and third Monday 9.
each month at As.
J. H. NEALF.. com.
Z. L. MERRILL. z. X
L. II. DUDLEY, F. K
cod n
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-09
Basketball Classic

'I was up to see the basketball prac- tice of the Birmingham Athletic club re- cently," said William Milliken, an ardent follower of the game 'and believe the club will have a mighty strong five this year. All of last years men are back and in addition we have likely collection of new material.
 Coach Ed Spencer is pushing practice now in order to have the team in the best shape possible for the game on December 19, with the American School of Osteo pathy in the opening contest of the sea- son. The schedule this season, I under stand, is composed of some of the strong est elevents in the south and Birmingham basketball followers are promised some real sport.
 "The annual game with Atlanta will of course be the largest drawing card oi the season. I understand the club is pre- Iaring to accommodate about 500 yeople for this game. I believe this game can be really styled the classic of the season in Birmingham. The members are strong behind the team this year and one of the most successful seasons in the history of the game is expected"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-09
LOST BOOKS or LIVY From the Philadelphia Inquirer.


 A German reports that he has had a chance to examine briefly two of the great stores of literature in and near Con- stantinople, with the result that he thinks many ancient classics can be recovered and especially the Host books of Livy," which he believes he held in his hands. Certainly there will be a slight compensa- tion for the horrors of war if we can get the missing writings of Livy of Tacitus, of Plutarch and 100 other authors of an tiquity whose works have perished so far as recent centuries are concerned.
 With the decline of the western empire Byzantum (now Constantinople) became the center of civilization and held it un- til the oncoming Turk endangered the city. By the beginning of the fifteenth century the doom of Constantinople seemed assured and the flight of scholars westward with their manuscripts began and gave an enormous impulse to the renaissance. Unfortunately the Greek manuscripts which were brought to west ern Europe were few compared with those left behind. They we're enough te
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-09

stir up an interest in the language but so little had scholarship in this direction progressed that the translators of the King James version of the Bible seem not to have understood the difference between the Hellenistic Greek of the lit erature of the first two centuries of this era and the Greek of the classics.
 When the Turks seized Constantinople they put an end in that section to west ern learning. Their theory was that anything not taught in the Koran was false and if it was taught in the Koran other books were unnecessary. Many precious books were destroyed, but it is believed that immense stores of manu- scripts remain buried deep in the vaults of Saint Sophia and elsewhere. Some modern scholars have made investiga- ticns and doubt that such treasures really exist. but the report of the German all ready mentioned gives some hope of re- covering books which would be priceless.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-09
TESTER MOVIE MANAGERS

New York Correspondence Pittsburg Dis
 patch
 Type is the bugbear for the moving pie ture manager. There are great many
 amusing characters who come to the
 rdio in search of work" says Albert
 Kaufman, manager of the Famous Play
 CTS. because they think that some fa-
 cal peculiarity or even some deformity,
 will prove an open sesame to motion pie
 turc stardom One day there appeared
 man with only one ear. My having one
 ear.' he informed me, makes me valuable for any railroad accident scene. You could put a little red paint on the side of my face and it would make 8 very realistic close up Men with almost no hair at all appear for jobs as professors because they think that the height of their foreheads will give them an intel lectual look on the screen. There are
 short men, thin men. tall men. fat men, | and all varieties of men who think that | their respective dimensions were espe- l cially intended to fit them for certain kinds of work before the camera Girls | and women-are just as bad. One | woman with a jaw like prizefighter | wanted to play boarding housekeeper. l Another woman, who was perhaps just | a little broader than she was high, 1 thought that she might look funny on the l screen bending over washtub. Another | long, thin, emaciated creature stalked Into the office to know whether we ever
 did any hospital scenes"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-09
HOTEL LOBBIEs
The Commoner to speak

It will only be a short time before Bir- mitgham will have another opportunity to hear William Jennings Bryan lecture, " said G. Lewis Bailes. "The commoner Is scheduled to speak here next Tuesday night at the Jefferson theatre. He will be here under the auspices of the Lyceum course.
 MT. Bryan was here a little more than a year ago. At that time great crowds of people were turned away. There is no man in America who has had A more stormy and interesting political career than Bryan. Many thought he had passed beyond the pale of political sig niflcance when he resigned from the Will son cabinet at the time he was Secretary of State. His activity in the last na- tional campaign in favor of Wilson did great deal toward carrying the west.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-09
Stops TheorizinE

Assistant Solicitor James Davis stated yesterday that he had stopped theorizing on criminal cases, as theories and what actually happens are at strange va riance the majority of times:
 For one thing" said MT. Davis, "theorizing on motives for crime is one of the most absurd games. You sim ply cannot tell what will actuate man or a woman to commit certain crimes Good character and excellent conduct will stare you in the face until you cannot bring yourself to believe a person guilty-and then confession will bring forth facts and the motive for the crime which may be the most irrelevant thing about the case. And then vice versa you will believe a person guilty and convince others of their guilt, but again when all the facts are brought out the blame is placed elsewhere. In criminal matters the words of Bernard Shaw, You never can tell are most applicable"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-09
ruBERcuLos1s. THE WAR PLAGUE

From the New York World.
 Of blessings" conferred by wars, ty- phus, cholera and enteric levers are fa- miliar Science has conquered them. But from the message of the Due de Richelieu to the Jeanne d Arc Thanks giving service in St. Marks, Sunday. it appears that tuberculosis proves more troublesome.
 The white plague is called " direct warfare"-the strain of the trenches, the stifling air of dugouts, the wet and ex- posture. Outdoor life offers no antidote.
 .Tuberculosis alone,'' says Richelieu was forgotten because it was still con- sidered an individual affliction; it's so- cisl gravity has not been realized. Thou sands of soldiers have been stricken thousands of homes threatened" ir France, where special sanatoria have been opened for it's cure. In Germany than one-fifth of the deaths of war pris. oners, and the civil population is largely deprived of food fats, the case may be al least as bad.
 Dr. Maurice Fishberg of Bellevue hos. pital in the Medical Journal argues the failure of precautions to check the dis ease, since it's germs are everywhere and more than 90 per cent of the race at sometime show infection.
 | The time is hardly favorable for ac. ! ton along that line in Europe. For wal
 plague as for many other present-day
 afflictions the great specific is peace
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-09
THE DEATH OF WELLINGTON

By Lord Tennyson. What know we greater than the soul? On God and Godlike men we build our
 trust. Hush. the Dead March walls in the peo-
 ple's ears; The dark crowd moves and there arc sobs and tears: The black earth yawns: the mortal dis
 appears. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust; He is gone who seemed so great Gone: but nothing can bereave him Of the force he made his own Being here, and we believe him Sor1ething far advanced in state And that he wears truer crown Than any wreath that man can weave
 him. Sneak no more of his renown, Lay your earthly fancies down And in the vast cathedral leave him. God accept him, Christ receive him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-09
LUXE M,LUKE SAYS

This would be fine world if every man who is satisfied with himself was as well satisfied with other men.
 The reason why princess knows that her fellow would make a good provider is because he has curly hair.
 Even if a corn fed girl has to take an out size in stockings she gets a lot of consola ton out of the fact that she can wear the same size in shoes as thin girl.
 A fool man imagines that he is some punl<ns as an observer. But a woman can look at a dress for three seconds and describe it for three hours.
 The perfect girl is the one who thinks that you are the perfect man.
 If the truth were only known, the man who is always bragging what he is going to do tomorrow is the same fellow who lis always sorry that he didn't do it yes- terday.
 Most of us are so afraid that our charity might spoil that we keep it in cold storage all the time. So far we haven't been able to devise way to reach Mars. But if all the women were on Mars and all the men on the earth, we'll bet that we would soon discover way to reach the other planet When a woman goes on trip the cost
 depends on how long she stays But when a man goes on a trip the cost de- bends on how much he's got. | A thin woman can only get so thin /! But it is wonderful how fat fat woman | can get
 l If you wait too long to make sure thai
 you are right you will never go ahead. | It is all right to tell nothing but thu truth as long as you don't care whether you have any friends or not. | What was it that you were worrying SC 1 much over week ago today? And, wha | did it amount to in the end? l There was a time when patience oc cupied a monument. But nowadays pa tience can be found at the switchboard fl
 telephone exchange
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-09
Advance of Democracy I'm Great Britain

WNTITHIN single generation
 WV there has been a wonderful advance of democracy in the United Kingdom. Only within recent years has the labor party come to the front. The laborites not only have strength enough in the House of Commons to be reckoned with, but they are found lin the Kings privy council, and no cabinet is complete without two or three labor members with important portfolios.
 In a monarchy, even where it re- sembles a republic, caste is strong as matter of course. But caste has not prevented men here and there, who were born in obscurity, from rising to fame and social position. A half dozen such Britishers are listed in the
 House of Lords today and scores of them are knighted.
 But David Lloyd George is the first
 commoner without university educa- ton or social influence to attain the premiership. His father was a school
 master and was, therefore, a man of education, but he died early and his son had to scuffle. The boy was brought up by his uncle, who worked
 at the trade of shoemaker. David's schooling was limited. When he be- gan to study law he had little "book
 learning" but he was of religious
 turn and was saturated with the Bible
 His native talent and his ambition tc lbe somebody carried him along, anc
 before he was in his twenty third veal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-09
BOYS DRUG IN THE MARKET

From the Providence Journal.
 It appears from report of a New York charitable organization that per- sons who seek children for adoption show a pronounced preference for girls. Re duced to statistics, the experience of this child placing agency is surprising. While the discrimination does not apply to babies, there is said to be no eager demand on the part of prospective foster parents for boys between the ages of and 10. The result is that the stock of perfectly good little boys continually ac- cumulates, while there is never a large assortment of girls on hand from which to choose.
 Ar explanation, of a sort, is that be- childlcss family that wants a baby, and too small to lookout for himself-which, Of course, does not explain the readiness to take girls between those ages. It ought to be accounted for If it is merely a matter of unreasonable prejudice that should be overcome. It may prove to be only necessary to give wide publicity to this state of affairs to start a rush for the youngsters of the male sex. The re- port notes that, in one institution, the boys are becoming sensitive at being re- peatedly left over when visitors call to make their selections. Who could blame themo
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-09
HIS SIGN WAS DOWN

From the Indianapolis News Your sign has fallen down." said the Rev. w. H. Brightmire the other day in calling to a downtown saloonkeeper at
 Evansville, Ind, whom the minister hap pened to know. "Is that so?" responded the liquor seller. Yes, it's down-fallen in the gutter" the pastor said. "Tll go out and put it up right again
 thanks, Reverend, for telling me-" And when he went out the sa1oonkeeper found drunken man lying across the curb in front of the saloon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-09

is made up of representative citizens of sixteen states-all the states from Maryland to Texas, including Okla homa. It exerts large influence and the annual programmes are always of absorbing interest. It is hoped that the congress will commit itself by unanimous vote to Muscle Shoals as the proper site for the nitrate plant. Such action would not only have a telling effect but would practically settle the matter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-09
POSSIBLE WAR CAPITAL

of municipal bulwaIk which would mark a further advance toward the chief object of the Russian Bears desire-Con- stantinople.
 Like Washington, Odessa was laid out in the midst of a virtual wilderness and swamp. An isolated Turkish fort, Khaii- Bey, stood on the site of the present city at the time Q7S9) when it passed into the possession of Russia, although Greek colonists in the early years of the Chris tan era had taken advantage of the Bay of Odessa. A F French captain. de Ri- bas, was in command of the Russian troops that stormed the fort, and to him. with the aid of VoIand, the czarina en- trusted the work of erecting a city and building a harbor. After de Ribas came Armand, due de Richeiieu, in 1sUS, a refu- gee rom the French revolution, who was made the first captain of the newly formed municipal district, ant. who yas largely instrumental in the early deveIop- ment of the city. Richelieu was sue ceeded as governor by Prince Woronzoff 1 Russian born, but educated in Cambridga
 
 as ambassador to England. It is not sur prising, therefore in view of the enlight ened government accorded the city by these three men of occidental training that Odessa should early have assumed the aspect of western Europe metropo- lis.
 An imperial palaaa'alxs sE l}sl jfy fs,s5 54s x  occupancy of King ssG slil A, court be removed Iai iii sra9a, tss this handsome bui HlEh its fIassia lines. and it's bea i A stss residence of the commander-in-c chief of the Eighth Army corps, for which Odessa IS the headquarters. It was erected by Prince Woronzoff and occupied by him for many years. One of the striking architectural features of the palace is a beautiful pergola of granite columns standing on promontory at one end of | the 150-foot bluff which rises precpitouslv above the harbor and along which is the fashionable promenade of the city. Up to two years ago the railway dis l tance between Odessa and Moscow was 1 more than 1000 miles. but new line. via Bakhmatch, recently completed reduces ! to S14 miles the length of the iron artery connecting the great seaport with the metropolis of central Russia. The steam l ship distance between Odessa and Con- stantinople is 360 miles; between the re- gently captured Roumanian city of Con stantza and the Russian port 1t is TO | miles
 | Five and ten miles respectively to the north and to the southwest of Odessa are three 'limans' or lagoons, famous for their mudbaths. which are said to be | highly beneficial to persons suffering with rheumatism, gout and cutaneous diseases. l The most popular of these lagoons is 20 miles long, about mile broad. and 10 feet deep, and lies 16 feet below the level of the Black sea. The saline slime which l forms the floor of the lagoon is from 3 | to 12 feet thick"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-09
Christmas Trade Active

Christmas trade is opening up early" said Sol Caheen. Already there is a much more general air of Christmas around Birmingham than there was last year. This is, of course, due in meas ure to the fact that business is so much better around Birmingham and that everybody has more money. to spend. Already the holiday trade has been much heavier than for years, and, of course, we expect much bigger increase during the days intervening between now and Christmas. I believe there will be more than twice as much exchanging of Christ mas presents in Birmingham this year than there was last year.