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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-03-03

At $50. 1915 and 81, Hersey's Shoe
Store are selling mems and women's
Goodyear welt shoes. all sizes. that
cannot be duplicated in buying today
at 81 more per pair. Note these in
window.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-03-03

Get the Royal Tailored look, is the
slogan at ]. B. FarrelTs. The new
spring Royal samples are ready-del.
guaranteed on time. New spring pat
terms mems 81 shirts at I9c.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-31

that contemplated coastwise water freight
lines did not succeed.
The enormous freight congestion Of the
present day has demonstrated the error Of
our stingy national waterway policy, as
Congressman Moore has repeatedly pointed
out. With the railroads under Government
control. 1t does not appear that there Is
any strong influence at work to prevent tha
Accomplishment of such obviously neces.
sary undertakings as the Joining of the
Chesapeake and the Delaware by a canal
capable Of handling large ships. We antici.
pate marked revival of water traffic.
under the encouragement Of the Govern.
ment, along sensible lines. We do not want
TO return to the canal.buildng mania of a
century agp. when Pennsylvania and other
States almost bankrupted themselves, but
we can undertake to make use OF the
arteries of traffic which nature has pro.
vided, su7plementing them with artificial
waterways at strategic points.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-31
AMERICAS GOLD SUPPLY

The annual report of the Bureau OF For.
eign and Domestic Commerce points with
pride and views with hope. It's summary OF
the expanse of our business Is a stJr,.inr
story OF American commercial entern,ise
since the war came In 1914 with an mn,
precedented demand for war and other sln.
piles and with shutting out of our chief
SSopeti.ois from neutral markets. The
bureau Is optimistic as to demands on Ameri-
ca for rehabilitation in Europe. ana also as
10 the part OF the expanded trade In neu
tral countries We shall be able to retain
Ihe future will depend on many things in
Guiding. our own policies. Among other
shining successes the bureau celebrates is n
net gain Of $1.6o0, 100000 in imports of gold
giving this country "one-third of the yi.ihia
supply OF the world" There is some m,es.
United States unquestionably has a Far
larger supply Of gold than any other coun.
try. '''"'
This makes recent speculations about .in-
ternational bimetallism" of special interss,
10 Americans. The theory that gold and
silver may circulate side by side, each as a
basic money, on its intrinsic value ia AZ
variance with all experience Even I'm ths
days when II required trip by stea mshin
to various ports to ascertain the ratio gold
and silver did not circulate side by side
Whichever was the more valuable dissr'
peared from circulation. In these davs ~
cablegrams and wireless telegraphy ana
with organized machinery for collecting
quotations the fluctuations would be greater
But reason alone shows that there can be
actually only one standard of value, no mat.
ter what legislative sleight-of-hapd is used
to preserve . fictitious double standard The
recent rise in silver is misleading. 1t has
not equaled the increase of average com.
modities. In sense, gold has now "depre.
ciated" with reference to all commodities.
The suggestion that we should give silver
an arbitrary value In order to bolster up the
vast quantity Of paper money In Europe Is
absurd Europe did not sacrifice any OF its
advantages In order to bring our paper
money to par after the Civil War. Let
Europe subatifute bonds for It's Inflated cur
Z <Fpneys-~9k tfnYis DAILY 0lobe-p -psmoorst
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-31

that flag he continued: the whole Spanish
feet might come upon us with those colors.
therefore, must and will stop you
But the high light in Captain Coghlan $
speech, and the act which seemed likely TO
get him into serious trouble. was his recita-
tion OF bit of newspaper verse which was
then going the rounds of the press under the
title of "Hoch der Kaiser"
This piece of verse. il now develops, was
written in October. 1897. upon the occasion
OF Emperor Williams speech upon the divine
right of kings and his own special mission
upon earth, by A. NJ. r. Gordon, and printed
in the Montreal Herald. of whose editorial
staff he was then a member. There were
thirteen stanzas in 1t, as first printed, and
we're told they were dashed off in an hour
This is credible e~0u'rh for the quality
isn't high, but the ballad took the popular
fancy Gordon called 1t Kaiser Co.." but
the caption had been changed TO 1Hoch der
Kaiser when Captain Coghlan took it up
and stirred the world with it. Here 1t is:
Der Kaiser Of dis Fatherland
Tsd GSt Oh hf BOIL AZ son HnSs
Myself-und Gott.
~, I,nd Incl %Sin ,;I own empire dond yPs shma
Myself-und Gott.
MH sSdera ss sns s"s psr Ssr TSwf Wch a Rhen
Cnd drink The1lth in Rhenish % wine
Dere's France she swaeeers all aroundt
She's sussespiedt und I'll be poundt
TO much we think she don't amoundt,
Myseif-und Gott.
She viii not dare to fight again
bSt Esss, sns ShS% nd in m Frenas snSw sT Gs"
Are mein--by Gott
Won Bismarck vas q man auf might.
und dousht he vas slesr oud suf sisht.
But. ach he vas nicht good TO fight
Nit Me-und Gott.
We knock him like Elm man aus sdraw,
Meinself-und Gott.
Xe send him oudt in big disgrace.
We eff him insuldt to his face.
Und put capriv in his place.
Meinsef-und Gott.
Xy,s,y Xs very cry, b,Smbtly on him set.
Nreinself-und Gott
Dsfss PER- % grandma dinks she's .nicht small beer.
Midt Beers und such she interfere; '
But Me--und Gott!
She She dn,ss sood frau. some ships she's got.
tnh, so,aiers s sonId midt d, der scarlet goat
Mysef-midt Gott. '
In dimes OF peace. brebare for war;.
! bear de spear und helm of Mars.
una care no! ise gen ts1ussnd e;si, Cars
In fact. humor efry whim,
Nit aspect dark und visage grim,
Myself-midt Gott.
The storm that followed Cogblan,s recito-
ton OF these lines threatened at one time 10
shiver his starry toplights, but II eradua,iv
blew over, and when Prince Henry OF Prus.
sia visited this country a few wears ioter
Captain Coghlan, as commandant or ~.
Brooklyn navy yard, helped in his entertain
ment.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-31
WHEN COGHAN
HOCHED DEL KAISER
The Indiscreet Herand the Song
With Which HStirred
a Worll

A FEW days before Csstmas a naval
"A officer, in such stats1 excitement as
no good sea-fghter shoulder permit HIM
self to display. appeared tthe New York
postofiice and requested thexurn OF letter
which lie had dropped into aneet box only a
few hours before. The lettswas found and
handed back to him, after bhad convinced
the postal authorities that hwas the writer
of it.
Back OF this, Of course. tre is a story;
story proving, as some sag,nce remarked.
that "a clever mans most ssfactory letters
are those he refrained fronVrlting"
This particular missive hateen addressed
to an official of the Navy DEtment by the
excited visitor to the postofM who is HIM
self an officer of considerabAbrominence in
the service. He wields, besidsa caustic pen
upon occasion, and what had been
pleased to say to his inferiors Washington
was bitingly clever. The wrr was rather
proud of ii and kept copy,thich, shortly
after mailing the original, hshowed to a
fellow member of his club inkw York.
His friend said: "Very. Va clever. and
thoroughly deserved, but--member Joe
Coghlan!" Hence the visit tsae postoffice.
The late Rear Admiral jose b. Coghlan
was a gallant sailor, who resda the top of
the naval ladder finally. altAxh his foot
slipped seriously once, and verearly twice.
because Of that unbridled to<s which go
often accompanies Irish blod lie had
reached the rank of commaxr when Re
wrote a fiery letter to an unaaing in the
Navy Department which led tok being re-
duced eleven numbers. He been a captain
In 1895. but 1t required his srdces in the
Spanish-American war to wiWWt the last
memory of his offense and restahim to his
proper standing.
He commanded the Raleigh ina. battle Of
Manila Bay on May I. 1898, andhthe spring
of the following year, when returned
home in the R"'a'"h he was tenksd a flock
of cordial receptions. 1t was atw of these
that his foot nearly slipped aa
THE FAMOUS sPEEn
dinner was given at the usn League
Club, New York, in April. 1s99,shonor of
Coghlan and his fellow officers. II the can
tain made a speech. In the coursett he maid
his compliments to the German Miral. Won
Diederichs. and gave In detail Astory OF
how Admiral Dewey had made thruculent
Teuton behave. An officer had Ia sent bv
Won Diederichs to complain ofh rest,ic-
tions placed upon him by the Amsnn block
ade in Manila Bay. IA
II happened to be nearby" aQcanta,r
Coghlan; II shall never forget II, " want
the people of the United States tohny ,vhat
Admiral Dewey said that day. Mi vour
admiral he said that his shipsmst atom
where i say But we fly the flag id The
officer. Those flags can be boughu half n
dollar a yard anywhere said Il rmjraj
and there wasn't bit of fun ~ face
when he said It. either. ANY osan fiy
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-31
OLD-FASHIONED WINTER

WHEN the younger generation of this
w day graduates into the ranks OF the
old-timer and the whining schoolboy" has
progressed to the final age of the lean and
slippered pantaloon." there will be some
fine reminiscent talk before the glowing
hearth concerning the winter Of 1918,
particularly if, as some scientists forecast,
the winters of the future are TO be OF a
midness undreamed of.
The savants' claim seems to have some
basis of fact even if their intimations have
not been scientifically standardized into
meteorological laws. Young men who have
Just reached the draft age. for instance.
have no such recollection of oldfashioned
winters, which come readily to the memory
of the generation ahead of them-the men
and women who have reached that state OF
pensiveness best described as the gentle
melancholy of early middle age. For the
best part Of two decades sort of recession
Of the seasons has been noticeable. The
red flannels and mittens. the sleigh rides
and ice-skating in November of men young
enough to be fathers of this years crop OF
voters are out OF the experience of their
offspring. Thanksgiving SHOWS have
become a legend in recent years, and even
a white Christmas has been unusual.
Winter has commenced late and dragged
into the spring calendar.
This year of all years. with coal at a
premium and the nation at war, has been
selected by nature for n demonstration OF
old-fashioned winter. The season set in
with early and old.time severity. the
October drop In temperature Cancelled
Indian summer and snow has been on the
ground almost continuously since Novem.
Der. Prospects are that blizzard will
follow blizzard and that the minor storms
will be no Jest.
Well, welcome to oldfashioned winter II
we must have It. The poet Shelley asks,
III winter come can spring be far behind?"
Our poets can at least inspire hopefulness
in our bosoms. even If they put no coal in
our bins or dollars in our pockets. And We
can cherish in our heart of hearts an
extension of Shelleyan optimism and ask.
IF battle come can peace be far behind?"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-31
SENSIBLE CENSORSHIP

TN ANNOUNCING certain revsions in
the censorship rules. Chairman Creel. of
the Committee on Public Information,
points out that "the committee is without
legal authority or moral right to bring any
form of pressure on publications to enforce
observance of these requests.
For their observance the Government
relies implicitly upon the loyalty and judg-
ment Of the individual writer and pub
Usher" II Is quite probable that publicse
tions in general have been even too scru-
pulous in carrying out the committees in
structons both in the spirit and in the
letter. Certain blunders made in securing
clothing for the army. etc, would have
been corrected long ago had the press OF
the country published the facts and had
the public not been compelled to wait for
information until Congress reconvened and
began its investigations. Publicity is the
best corrective known, and failure to use
II is perilous in democracy.
There should be no suppression Of news
unless the publication of 1t is likely to be
of benefit to the enemy. Suppression with
the idea of preventing public dissatisfac
ton or criticism is worse than foolish
Runor always eNaggeretes, ana accurate
news. even IL unpalatable. Is preferable TO
wild talk. Washington. we have some rea-
son to believe, is beginning to understand
this fact, and we may expect hereafter
loosening of the censorship in matters of
no particular concern to the enemy. Secret
diplomacy is no more dangerous than a
blanket of general news suppression, par
ticularly in a democracy. The American
people like to know what is going on, and
they fight the better for 1t.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-31
A WORD TO OFFICEHoLDERs

Better have tender conscience for ~
record OF your house,
And your own share On the work which thsv
have done,
Though your private consciencs aches
with your personal mistakes
And you don't amount TO very much alone
Than to be yourself as spotless as a baby
one year old
Your domestic habits wholly free from blame,
While the company you stand with
Is thing to curse land with
And your public life is undiluted shame
For the deeds men do together are what
saves the world today u
BY our common public work we stand or
fall
And your fraction of the sin
OF the office you are in
Is the sin that's going to damn you, after al
Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-31

A second earthquake appears to have
destroyed whatever survived the first in
Guatemala City. The calamity is stu
pendous one. but the world is so used to
horrors that 1t has lost its appetite for
tragedy.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-31

The Lackawanna has just hauled 200
empty cars over Its lines and turned them
over to the Erie to help solve coal-trans-
portation problems. Uncle Sam is finding
new toys every day in that big Christmas
nfoclking he handed himself.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-31

Thirteen miles Of Turks driven a step
nearer to Constantinople! Jerusalem"
sounds like the right tune to play on the
Golden Horn.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-31
Tom Days Column
SONGS OF WEDLOCK
XXI

SONGS VI WEDLOCk
XXI
ON NEW YEARS EVE
Another year, my dear, is dying,
>, but let IL pass, unwept, unsung;
However swift old Times a-fying
He finds our love forever young.
For changeless are their days and pleas
ant,
And blithely all the seasons run,
In whose true welded hearts the present
And past and future are as one.
Those discords now that shake the
chorus
VI warning nations over sea
snail never still the chant sonorous
Our heaven holds for you and me.
For though in battle, stark but splendid,
p, ms year should take our little lad,
How many fold, when all is ended,
snail God give back what once we had
We two have lived and loved and sor-
And kept our hearth this many year,
And from gray skies or blue have bor-
rowed
Our destined dole of grief and cheer.
How then shall one short twelvemonth
bound us
Or make or mar love like ours?
Well draw our golden youth around US
When age has crumbled earth's tsll
towers.
Not ours, dear love, the blood that
curdles
.. At Times brief pains that try the souk
HIS serried seasons are but hurdles
Retween our entrance and our goal.
So here another year is dying.
- Oh. let it pass unwept, unsung;
However swift old Times a-fiying
He'll find our love forever young.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-31
A thousand dollars is offered by II

A thousand dollars 10 offered by the
International Security League for the best
plan 10 get Americas war aims "over.
under. around or through the German CEN
sorship-' Our best bet Il that the winner
IN ~ a The .over'' class. And tho sooner
RI 11E e osrnAss VA!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-31

The Sahara desert is not ordinarily
a very popular place, but It would have
been worth a mint Of money In Philadel-
phia yesterday.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-31

We do not want to go in for predic-
,ns, but the world is not going to be con.
mt to rely on coal for heat very much
niger. White coal is the answer.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-31
What Do You Know?


quiz
4. What Is y plebiscite?
2. Who " Count Czernin:
3. What Ii meant by sprOde?
4. Where Ii Alsaee-Lorraine?
3. Who IS presidest Of the Pesasyivaais Rail-
:. which american AZ. city :: called ''TAs CITY =
9. HeY many mile. Of railway trsskass l. shs
0. Did the Esdsrsi Geysrn.s:.t ever ssssss. tsts
50. when. By whom and what sgtkessteff
what connection II he mentionsAf
Answers to Saturdays Quiz
I. Brest-Litsysk. scens, Of the nssse-0ssna.
peeee cenference. II about 1sS nile 80
.. ..ynarishsd ssnphsny". written b. ssAst,vt.
s. st. Piegre-Mieueien. Eresp 81 islse6S ~ ~
Newfoundland coast. 10 French 6GlsesejSS,
:. Manehgsts, the ye, y9es,r.hssstsEa last e. CifS.
oldest leAraed scctet. IN the. tnitc1 6SaSSS.
9. Gng: ox-iiks antelope, Z.
.. Henry Hsase.. an EaslIsh ssvles3es. -
= " .fss:::1i. ss','.s SSH'HSslst 8 S.a.s saf ~
: I i:';I 7 - -; Z ~; :;:;.;|s Z q
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-31

II the dealers are to get the extra
fifty cents, why shouldn't the people get
the information?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-31

As a Gar Ferdinand Of Bulgaria
sizes up as a passable imitation Kaiser.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-31

I WROTE my inaugural address without
= consultation with anybody and sent a
copy to Quay alone. He replied saying
that 1t was a statesmanlike document. sug.
gesting no additions and only one omission
upon the ground that the subject was
rather one of detail than proper for such
paper. ! struck this matter from the
address.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-31

According to Philip Scheidemann -.
cent Of the German people want pssas ~ pe
hundred per cent Of all the people ~
nations at war with Germany waR ~ ~
and have wanted It; 80 IL 6chei& y. =.
figure 10 accurate. 1 per cent Of the - =
people. or. roughly. 100000 individu
the world IN state OF war.--New 81 ~
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-31

President Wilson's address on u, wor
aims came just in time to save slans-
downe, who wishes 1t to be underai .hs,
he tried to say what President w ssS
say.-Blrmhgham Age-Herald. NN
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-31
The Oath of Office

The next day, January 20. a cold, raw,
bleak day, with occasional falls OF snow,
the Chief Justice, the Honorable d. New
lin Fell. my old friend. administered to me
the oath of Office, and ] stood with uncov.
cred head, in the presence of an immense
crowd and read my inaugural address.
There was a great parade OF the National
Guard and clubs. at the head OF which rode
Marlin f. Olmsted, a leading lawyer and
q member of Congress, who just missed
being the Speaker He was capable OF
filling, with credit. any public position.
He did not have that quality which Is
called magnetism, but what Is more I'M
nortant he possessed in abundance char
acter and intelligence. Coming to Harris
burg as a clerk in one of the departments,
he died unfortunately only too early. leaving
a beautiful and attractive young wife and
a vast estate. After an experience Of four
wears of contact with them. in my opinion
the strongest men in public work in the
State were Marlin f. Olmsted David T.
Watson. of Pittsburgh; Philander c. Knox.
of Pittsburgh, and William U. Hensel, or
Lancaster, the last named having, among
other qualities, a pronounced taste for lit
erature.
The State of Pennsylvania was great
Commonwealth of more than seven millions
of people twice as many as those presided
over by Queen Elizabeth. William OF
Orange and George Washington. ! ap
preached the duties Of Governor with GER
tain well-defined convictions to be regarded
and certain lines of policy to be pursued.
attained and not stepping stone to some
thing beyond The efforts Of men are
always weakened when they have some
other end in view apart from the object
which they are called. upon to accomplish.
A trustee or director who builds with the
trust funds upon his own lands Il always
I a 1oQCor< 1herpfore, determinsd 70 make
~ hu1ld M nuH unrfx r 6nrcn
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-31
NATIONAL POINT OF VIM

Secretary Daniels thinks the grHk dam
ger to America Is pessimism. Thh hnount.
for his effort to cheer US up on Ii sIou.th
of July with that little fake naval ~ ~ w. w.
Springfield (Ill.) News-Record.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-31

Another scheme for increasing rsnn. !,
supply Of ocean tonnage relates to H. y
struction Of cast-steel ships. Recent r.. '
ments In metallurgy are said to has
the plan practicable. Such ships akS :
built. or cast" In sections, the par1L !.
welded by electrical power. AdJ
claimed for ships Of cast steel are &
and iiGhtness. with economy and
OF production. With vessels of fro
wood and concrete avsilable there
assurance OF meeting the needs VI
oanfII1 rnnx1po rrov ItDoee,
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-10-13
OCALA SOCIAL AFFAIRS
IF You Have Amy News for this De-
partment, Call TwO-One-Five
or Two-Seven
Because of Her

Because of Her
With bare brown legs and faded
gown,
| saw her first. a lovely little girl;
Her slender fingers cIasped within my
own,
With low, sweet laughter, set my
heart awhirl;-
From out her wondrous eyes of dark
est blue,
Shone forth soul all pure and I'M
defiled,
And all things young and beautiful
took on
An added charm, because she was a
child.
Again, l saw her as a maiden grown,
A half-open blossom whose rare
grace fulfilled
The promise of the bud. and yet gave
hints of great glories, when, if
God so willed
The half-grown rose should, open
to fullest flower
II brought my gifts of frankinsence
anu myTEn
To lay them at her feet, and ever
more
I reverenced Womanhood. because
of her.
And now | watch her rocking to and
fro
And grooming low within the dim
ming light.
A glow is on her face-a light me-
thinks,
! That never on the land or sea did
rest,
All Motherhood is sacred now to me
Because it is my baby at her breast
Mabel S. Frier.
Miss Alma Williams is expected
this afternoon from Jacksonville to
spend Sunday with her brother-in-law
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-10-13

METH Haios, the Hungarian sing
er and dancer. who was made famous
by the Spring Maid" and the best
show ever seen in Ocala, Savage's
"Sari," is the leading lady in the
musical comedy, Pom Pom" which
Manager Bennett is trying TO book
for his patrons this winter. Evelyn"
is the biggest hit in this musical
comedy, as was the catchy "Sari" in
that comedy. The chorus of this pop
ular Evelyn" is as follows:
Oh Evelyn, Oh Evelyn!
You'll have to quit your develin!
You tease and tantalize me so,
You've surely got me on the go!
Oh Evelyn, Oh Evelyn!
Just mind what you're about
If. YOU are on the level in
The game you seem to revel IN,
Oh Evelyn, quit your develin'-
/ Just cut it out.
: Mrs. B. J. Potter came from Jack
sonville Thursday night to see her
little granddaughter, Valeta Water
man, who has been very i'll. Many
! friends of this little lady and her
parents are glad to hear she is very
much better today.
Mr.. Hood Dittmar who has been
. the guest of DR.. and Mrs. Walter
Hood for several days, expects to re-
turn to his home in Fort Pierce Sun
day.
GOOD first" is our problem. Let
! everybody do his bit, and it will be
we'll solved.