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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-07-20

Boston Stock Market.
BOSTON RAILROADS.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. A "A
Perth Amboy evening news., 1916-12-22
SCHWAB'S BIG PLANT
FOR AID OF NATION

New York, Dec. 22.-Charles NJ.
rectors of the Bethlehem Steel COM
pany, in speech at the Lotos club
announced that the great ordnance
plant at Bethlehem of which he was
the head was now so per cent greater
than the famous Krupp works at Es-
sen, Germany.
At the present time. Mr.. Schwab
added, the Bethlehem plant had a ca
pacity of about 100000 rounds of
heavy ammunition month.
Mr.. Schwab also told of the plans of
the company for the addition of de-
sixteen inch guns of the type which
the navy department has decided will
constitute the main batteries Of the
new battleships of the superdread
naught type which the United States
Is to build
II think | may be pardoned when l
say" said Mr.. Sehwab, that l believe
Bethlehem is now one of the great as
sets of the United States, and l may
add that the plant will be, in the event
that the time ever comes, at the dis
posal Of the United States government
to be used as the government shall see
fit, and the United States government
shall name the price at which it shall
buy the material produced in that
plant"
Mr. Sehwab spoke at dinner in his
honor attended by more than 800 mem
bers and guests of the Lotos club. At
the table with Mr.. Schwab were Pres
ident Frank r. Lawrence of the club.
President Eugene G. Grace OF the Beth
lehem company, Samuel insult. Mayor
Mitchell, U. n. Bethel, Samuel Inter
myer, President James A. Farrell OF
the United States Steel corporation,
Archibald Johnstone, vice president of
the Bethlehem company; Melville f.
Stone, Arthur Brisbane, ]. Hartley
Manners, Supreme Court Justice Luke
D. Stapleton, DR.. Henry S. Pritchett, J.
C. Schmidlapp and J. E. Dodson.
In addition to Mr.. Schwab the speak
ers were Mr.. Lawrence, Mayor Nit
chel, Mr.. Ora e, DR.. Pritchett, MFR.
Manners and Mr.. Stone. ALI of the
speakers paid tribute TO -dr. Schwab
as genius In matters of steel and
iron, Mr.. Lawrence going SO far as tc
term him sort of '-Tubal Cain" of
the twentieth century.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1916-12-22
SHEET METAL WORKERS
ELECT NEW OFFICERS

The election of officers of the Sseet
Metal Workers Local No. 1913 was
held last night. Following the meet
ing banquet was held at Kroegers
restaurant.
The officers elected follow: Presi-
dent, John Reilly; vice president
John Rawley; recording secretary
Harry Wasserman; financial secre-
tary, Thomas Schantz; treasurer,
Robert Cotton; conductor, Jacob
Peterson; warden, John Mccormick;
business agent, Arthur Schroeder.
The members adjourned to the
banquet Immediately after the meet
ing. The guests were A. ]. Quinn,
Joseph Crowell, Charles Dorian, John
Correll and Thomas Olsen.
Speeches were made by President
John Reilly, Robert Cotton, Joseph
Crowell, Charles Dorian and others.
Selections were rendered by John
Mccormick, Harry Wasserman and
others.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1916-12-22
PERSONALS.

PERSONALS.
w. A. Allen, of Balt<~ore, Will
spend the holiday with his family In
this city
Miss Helena Wright, of Kearny
avenue, Is spending the holidays at
her home at Pottsdam.
Misses Ruth and Bernice Weaver,
of Mount st. Mary, are spending the
holidays with their parents on Rec
tor street.
Miss Blanche H y'nbeck, of Market
street, is spending her vacation with
relatives in Meadville, Pa.
Frank C. Henry, of Cornell Univer-
sity, is spending his school vacation
with his parents in this city.
Miss Bertha Brown, of Rector
street, is visiting in Boston.
Miss Emma Murdoch, of Brighton
avenue, will spend Christmas at Bay
side, l.. 1.
Or. and Mrs. w. A Littell and fam
ily, who have been moving here the
past week, arrived in this city last
evening from their summer home in
Spring Lake, and are now settled in
their new home in Rector street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Lehman, OF
Second street, entertained relatives
from Keasbey last night.
Harry Applegate. of South FIRST
street is now able to be around again
after being laid up on account of Ill
ness.
Mrs. Hans Larson. of Madison ave
nue., was in Railway yesterday visit
ing her parents.
A daughter was born to Mr.. ana
Mrs. Walter Peterson of Laurie street
Monday.
David J. Lucas, son of Excise Com
missioner Thomas Lucas, of wash
fngton street, is recovering at the city
hospital, where he went for treatment
a few days ago.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1916-12-22
LODGE CIRCLES

The second nomination of officers
of Valhalfa Lodge, No. 275
Odd Fellows, took place last night
The final nomination and election will
be held next Thursday night.
Mohawk Council, Degree of Po-
cahontas, is scheduled to meet to-
night.
There will be a meeting of Perth
Amboy Nest, Order of Owls, tonight
Lawrence Lodge. No. 60, Odd
Fellows, will nominate officers to-
night.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1916-12-22
SOCIAL
SIMPSON WOMEN MEET

Regular routine business was
transacted at the meeting of the
Ladies' Auxiliary of the Simpson M.
II. church held yesterday afternoon
In the lecture room of the church.
Owing to the nearness of the holidays
the attendance was not large.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1916-12-22
"DRYS" SCORE IN SENATE.
Get Prohibition Amendment For Ma
tion Reported.

ton Reported.
Washington, Dec. 22.-"Dry" forces
made an advance toward getting a vote
in the senate at this session on the
Sheppard resolution proposing to sub
NIT constitutional amendment for na-
tion wide prohibition to the states. BY
vote of 13 TO the Judiciary commit
tee decided to recommend the resolu-
tion to the senate.
Only Senators Culberson of Texas,
Reed of Missouri and Brandegee of
Connecticut, voted against the resolu-
ton. The proposed amendment would
prohibit 'thc sale, manufacture or
transportation of Intoxicating liquor
within, the importation thereof into,
and the expectation thereof from the
United States and all territories sub
ject to the jurisdiction thereof for av-
erage purposes"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1916-12-22
His Main Prop.

There was a man in our town, sup
ported by his wife; but one day she
turned him dowil-hls only prop in life.
And when he saw his wife had fed, he
started on the run-he had no time to
lose, he said-so he copped another
one
Perth Amboy evening news., 1916-12-22

HEAR THE HARMONOLA, the perfect
talking machine. Plays all records.
Open evenings. Harmonola Shop, 147
Fayette St
Perth Amboy evening news., 1916-12-22

SAVE MONEY; compare prices and
quality; hear the Harmonola; open
evenings. Harmonola Shop, 147 Fay
cite st.
RnnMS 10 IET
Perth Amboy evening news., 1916-12-22

The undersigned wish to thank rela-
ttves. friends Rev. Ole Nielsen and un-
dertaker Garretson for sympathy ana
flowers during our recent bereavement.
Mrs Alfred christensen and Family,
East Milestone, N j.
7726-1222-1t
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-02-18
PROVED HERSELF A HEROINE
How Modern Maiden Realized the
Ambition of Her Life, at Great
SeIf-Sacrifice.

"Mother!" cried the beautiful girl
as she burst into her mothers state
room on the transatlantic liner Won
bat, mother, I'm heroine! l saved
5000 lives!"
How SOP" queried the languid lady
lazily. so how?"
ooh, mother, to think of the times
have read Sir Walter Scott and Rob
ert w. Chambers and the other mas
tiers of romance and wished myself
in the place Of their heroines! 1t
has been the dream of my life. And
at last it has come true! l am a
heroinei"
But how, Vasmaline?" put her petu-
liant parent.
"Oh, mother, the second mate-you
know, the handsome officer with the
eyebrows-the second mate was talk
ing to me on the lee hatchway or
somewhere, and all of sudden he de-
manded a kiss. Of course | indignant
ly refused. And then, o mother, he
swore if [ didn't kiss him he would
sink the ship with all of the 5000 pas
sengers aboard. Oh, mother, | am
a heroine!"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-02-18

seeing, as was proved eventually, that
victory for the colonies could be won
only by the long-term organized and
disciplined continentals, composing "a
small but good army"
SquabbIe Over Officers.
Congress in the winter of 1775, rec
ognizing the necessity of raising troops
to take the place of those whose terms
expired, resolved to provide twenty
six regiments, with power to Wash
ington to select the officers, which re-
suited in many perplexities for him
and his general officers, for, as Wash
IngtOn wrote, Connecticut wanted no
Massachusetts man in her corps. Mas
sachusetts could see no necessity for
having Rhode Island man in hers
and New Hampshire says it is very
hard that her experienced officers
should be discarded because her own
regiments cannot provide for them"
November II he wrote: Many of
the officers expected promotion, others
stood aloOf to see what advantage they
could make for themselves. The diff
Guilty with the soldiers was greater,
IL possible, than with the officers.
They refused to enlist unless they
knew their colonel, lieutenant colonel,
major and captain"
Put Washington in Dilemma.
Up to November 10 only 966 men
had enlisted. By November % they
had reached $500, and they all wanted
furlough. Washington wrote: Our
situation is truly alarming, and Of this
General Howe is well appraised, it be-
ing the common topic of conversation
when the people left Boston last Fri
day" In private letter of the same
time he wrote Such dearth OF pub
lie spirit, such stock jobbing and fer
tility in all the low arts to obtain ad-
vantages in this great change of mill
tary arrangement, pray Gods mercy
/ may never see again. What will be
the end Of these maneuvers is beyond
my scan. / tremble at the prospect
We have been until this time enlist
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-02-18
En the effort to eradicate
HEADACHE AND NEURALGIA

Hoyt's Headache and Neuralgia Cologne
now heads the list as successful remedy
for the relief of headache, nervousness, In
@omnia, car sickness, etc.
The dangerous tablet has had its day.
Hoyt's Headache and Neuralgia Cologne
is harmless, refreshing, fragrant prepa-
ration, marvellous in its action, reliev-
ing nervousness, sleeplessness, exhaustion
and all head and nerve ailments by ex-
ternal use and inhaling. 1t is not nerve
food, but nerve soother. BY giving the
nerves a rest they furnish their own food
and tone, and all nerve pains disappear.
For children's colds and catarrh it is
just the remedy, harmless and efficient and
so pleasant to use. For men a pleasant
remedy to relieve and clear the head ''the
morning after the night before" This is
not an expensive preparations at so cents a
bottle, because it brings the relief. It has
many imitators at less price, but if they
do not bring the desired results they are
not cheap at any price.
Get Hoyt's and you will be satisfied.
For sale at all drug stores.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-02-18
Martha Washington.

Washington himself was a man OF
large property, and the wedding was
one of the most brilliant that had ever
been seen in a church in Virginia.
Bride and bridegroom were attired in
all the magnificence which the fash
ions of that period made possible.
When she was married to Washing
ton, Mrs. GUSTS had two children sur
viving Of the four of which she had
been the mother. TO these two chill
dren, Washington, who had none of
his own, was a devoted father. Later
in life these children died and Wash
ington adopted two of Mrs. Washing
tons grandchildren.
Mrs. Washington's faith in the wis
dom and firmness Of her husband 8
patriotic course preceding and during
the Revolution never failed.
She had discovered the greatness Of
her husband long before the people
that were so signally to honor him
had found it out in all it's splendid pro-
portions.
During the war Washington visited
Mount Vernon only twice, but Mrs.
Washington was with him in New
York and Philadelphia and Joined him
in camp whenever it was possible.
In the years following their mar
riage and previous to the Revolution
the Washingtons lived in Virginia
after the style of the English aristoc-
racy, but throughout the war Mrs.
Washington was wont to sset an ex.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-02-18
Etiquette Above Hunger.

A wanderer in the wilderness and
without food, the hapless city sports
man was found at last in an advanced
stage of exhaustion. His rescuers
propped him up against tree trunk
and offered him a cup of steaming
broth. Feebly he waved them away.
Come, old man, take a little" said
they, again offering the cup.
A spasm, as of distress, passed over
the city mans face.
''You-you are serving on the wrong
side," he corrected in a whisper.
For he had been brought UP in a
home where only the very best table
manners prevailed, and he had often
corrected new waitress for the same
fault.-Puck.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-02-18
FROM GIRLHOOD TO OLD
AGE WOMEN ARE HELPED

At the first symptoms of any de-
rangement OF the feminine organism
at any period of life the one safe, really
helpful remedy is DR.. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription for every conceivable all
ment and disease of a womanly nature.
It is woman's temperance medicine
and it's ingredients are published on
wrapper
DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is
a true friend to women in times of
trial and at times of pain when the
organs are not performing their func-
lions. For headache, backache, hot
flashes, catarrhal conditions, bearing
down sensations, mental depression,
dizziness, fainting spells, women
should never fail to take this tried and
true womens medicine.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-02-18

ing about thirty five hundred men.
After the last of this month our
lines will be SO weakened that the
minutemen and militia must be called
in for our defense, and these, being
under no kind of government, will de-
stroy the little subordination 1 have
been laboring to establish and run me
into one evil while l am endeavoring
to avoid another. But the less must
be chosen"
After five years of experience in
command of the armies, Washington
thus expressed himself in a letter to
the president of the congress, dated
August 20, 1880:
Had we formed a permanent army
in the beginning, which, by the con-
had been capable of discipline, we
never should have had to retreat with
handful of men across the Delaware
in 1776, trembling for the fate of Amer
lea, which nothing but the infatuation
Of the enemy could have saved; we
should not have remained all the sue
ceeding winter at their mercy, with
sometimes scarcely a sufficient body
of men to mount the ordinary guard.
We should not have been at Valley
Forge, destitute of everything, in a
situation neither to resist nor to re-
tire. We should not have seen the
country ravaged, our towns burned,
the inhabitants plundered, abused,
murdered, with impunity.
Army Expenses Doubled.
'The arrangement Of our finances is
essentially to be ascribed to it, The
expenses of the war and the emissions
Of paper money have been greatly
multiplied by it. We have great part
Of the time had two sets of men to
feed and to pay-the discharged men
going home and the levies coming in.
"Our discipline has been much hurt,
If not ruined, by such constant
changes. There is every reason to
believe that the war has been pro-
tracted on this account"
A little later Washington wrote re-
garding that defeat of General Gates
at Camden: Regular troops alone are
equal to the exigencies Of modern war
fare, as we'll for defense as offense,
and wherever substitute is attempt
ed it must prove illusory and ruinous.
"In my ideas Of the true system of
war, the object ought to be to have a
good army rather than large one"
During the entire war the lack of
money entailed greatest suffering upon
the army, but the men of the continent
tai army, with the exception Of one
or two regiments, were true to the
end through hunger cold, sickness,
poverty at home, nakedness and de-
feat For this fidelity there were three
patriotism, training and
George Washington.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-02-18
A GOOD CHANGE.
A Change of Food Works Wonders

Wrong food and drink cause lot of
trouble in this world. To change is
first aid when a person is i'll, particu-
larly from stomach and nervous trou-
bles. AS an illustration: A lady in
Mo. was brought around to health
articles Of food that did not agree with
her.
She says:
For number of years I suffered
with stomach and bowel trouble which
kept getting worse until / was i'll
most of the time. About four years
ago I left off coffee and began using
Postum. My stomach and bowels
improved right along, but was so re-
duced in flesh and SO nervous that the
least thing would overcome me.
Then I changed my food and began
using Grape-Nuts in addition to
Postum. / lived on these two princi-
pally for about four months. Day by
day 1 gained in flesh and strength un-
til the nervous trouble had disap-
peared I feel that ! owe my health
to Postum and Grape-Nuts.
Husband was troubled, for a long
time, with occasional cramps, and
slept badly. Finally I prevailed upon
him to leave off coffee and take
Postum. After he tried Postum for
few days Be found that he could
sleep and that his cramps disappeared.
He never went back to coffee" Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek,
Mich.
Postum comes in two forms:
Postum Cereal-the original form
must be we'll boiled. 15c and 25c
packages.
Instant Postum-a soluble powder
dissolves quickly in cup of hot wa
ter, and, with cream and sugar, makes
a delicious beverage instantly. soc
and SOC tins.
Both kinds are equally delicious and
cost about the same per cup.
There's a Reason" for Postum.
sold by Grocers.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-02-18

to me at times. Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills re-
stored me to health and want to thank
you for the good they have done me.
have had quite a bit of trouble and
worry but it does not affect my youth
full looks. My friends say why do you
look so young and well?' owe it all
to the Lydia E. Pinkham remedies"
Mrs. RoBT. SToPIEL, Moore Avenue,
Washington Park, Illinois.
We wish every woman who suffers
from female troubles, nervousness,
backache or the blues could see the let
tiers written by women made we'll by Ly-
dia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
If you have any symptom about which
you would like to know write to the
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn,
Mass, for helpful advice given free OF
charge.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-02-18
First Presidential Mansion, New York

ample of economy to the women of
the revolution" in her attire and mode
Of living.
After independence had been won,
she bore herself with great personal
dignity as beftted her station as the
wife of the first citizen.
Washington was approaching his
sixty eighth year when he died. Mrs.
Washington accepted the separation
calmly, only observing that she would
soon join him. She survived him two
years and half
That she could have at all times q
view Of his grave on the lawn, she
moved to an attic room that over
looked the spot, which she occupied
until her own death. For the easier
coming and going of a favorite cat a
hole was cut near the bottom of the
door of this apartment.
Before she died Mrs. Washington
destroyed her entire correspondence
with General Washington, "for she
would not permit that the confidence
they had shared together should be
made public"
The marriage of George Washington
and Martha Custis was an example Of
the ideal love match, and was followed
by forty years Of genuine happiness.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1916-02-18
c0UNTRY'S Debt
TO WASHINGTON
Probably the Only Man Who
Could Have Won Liberty
for the People.
Difficulties Which He Had to Encoun-
ter Were Almost Insurmourtabie
Lack of Proper Training
Hampered ContinentaIs in
All Their Battles.

GORGE WASHINGTON, the
& commander of the American
N armies, knew better than any
one else the offensive and de-
fensive value of the forces under him;
and he has left vivid written record
of the relative value of unframed
short-term men and of disciplined
iuug-term body made of individuals Of
the same class. He plainly expressed
his opinion, fully confirmed by military
men since his time, of the army need
ed by this country when, soon after
the disaster at Camden, he wrote to
congress-: What we need is a good
army, not a large one"
Probably no war was ever carried
on where the one side was represent
ed in the field by SO great proportion
Of unorganized troops, not under a
commander, before or since, has ever
succeeded with so rapidly shifting a
body OF badly equipped men.
Bunker Hill Analysed
army of unframed American minute
men and militia, under the command,
however, OF veteran officers like Pres
colt, Stark, Putnam and Knowlton of
the higher rank, and among the lower
officers a sprinkling of men expert
enced in the French and English wars,
from behind intrenchments hastily
erected, but Of value against low-pow-
or armament, successfully resisted
two attacks of well-organized and
disciplined British veterans, with a
loss to the latter Of 1,054 killed and
wounded. But these same troops, by
virtue not Of superior individual cOur-
age, but of their combined valor and
discipline, were rallied by their we'll
trained officers, made a third charge,
and, although outnumbered, succeeded
in driving the Americans, at the point
Of the bayonet, from their trenches,
their supply of powder being exhaust
ed and their muskets not having bay
Onets.
The American force was Justly
proud of it's resistance and of the
heavy punishment it had inflicted, but
the result was, in spite of it's good
fight, a defeat to it's arms-perhaps
only through failure in the quarter
masters department. The British,
however, carried the hill on account
of the better discipline of their line,
the better control Of their officers, and
because their supply of ammunition
was not exhausted. And they there
by prevented the success of the CO.
lonial military plan.
Continental Weakness.
This story in various ways was
many times repeated in the war of
the revolution, always with the same
result In spite of the brilliant gen.
eralship of Washington, Greene,
Schuyler, Lee and others, the Ameri-
cans did not win single victory over
the British regular troops when the
latter were not outnumbered.
A brief examination of the powers
of the Continental Congress will show
what were the chief causes of this
weakness in our armies that led SO
near to the collapse of our national
defense and caused the intense anxiety
and distress to Washington and the
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band of patriots about him in the army
ard in congress.
The congress- presented as able and
devoted men as were ever gathered in
single body, but they were not
trained in the systematic methods Of
great deliberative bodies; and above
all represented one of the very weak
est forms Of governmental power-a
mere confederacy or league of several
states or colonies and without real
governmental functions.
Although it assumed both executive
and legislative powers, it had no au-
thority to raise revenue and could only
emit bills of credit, their redemption
being pledged by the twelve United
Colonies" It Is not singular that the
states refused to surrender to this
loosely connected congress the control
of the militia, with officers of state
selection, gathered by sacrifice, for the
protection of it's own state, not fore
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inspection Lamps for Shells.

A British electrical manufacturer
has designed an electric lamp for ia
cilitating the inspection of the int
rior walls Of shells in munition works.
The equipment may be described as
tubular lamp protected by a wire
guard a long metal rod, a wooden
handle in which is a pushbutton
switch, and connecting cord and
plug. The equipment is held by the
handle while the lamp, supported on
the long brass tube, is lowered into
the shell to be inspected.