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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-07-04

The ladies Of the Eunice Farnsworth
Chapter, D. A. R., will meet Thursday
afternoon instead OF Wednesday in the
parlors of the Public Library to sew
for the French wounded.
Mrs. Walter Fentiman and little
daughter of Bingham have come to the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Rollins
or Middle street. owing to the Nlness
Of Mrs Rollins, who is confined to her
room. Mr.. Fentiman has accepted a
position on the new post office build
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Soule left Tues
day to visit Mr. Soule's aunt IN Au-
burn.
Woman's Association Quarterly
The quarterly meeting of the Skow-
hogan Womans Association was held
Monday evening at the SkoWheyan
Rest rooms with Miss Hannah r. Page.
the president, presiding. The value OF
maintaining these rooms for the out
of-toWn women is proved by the sta :
tistics presented by Miss Iva Holway,
matron, which indicated that the total
number of women who have visited
the rooms during the past l3 weeks
numbered 1916, while the average mum
Der using the rooms weekly are SO,
with about 175 Merchants Day. Other
wise the largest number visiting the
rooms any one day has been 81 and
the smallest number three. While
many Of the ladies who make use OF
the rest rooms come from Madison,
bingham and other up-river towns, the
Waterville, Clinton. Mercer and Hinck
ley women are also finding them very
convenient.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-07-04

Walter Goodwin Of Oakland was In
this place Sunday
Raymond Snow of Fairfield passed
part OF the day Sunday with his par
ents In this place.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-07-04
Funeral Of HermeneeiIe Laney

The funeral services in memory of
Hermenegile Laney were held Tuesday
forenoon from St. Mary's Catholic
church with a large attendance of rel
atives and friends. Requiem mass for
the repose of his soul was sung by
FIR. j. L. A. Renaude. assisted by Fir.
Ernest Renaude. as deacon, FIR. Jo-
seph Normand of Waterville as sub
deacon and ST. Mary's choir. The bu-
rial occurred in the cemetery of Our
Lady of Lourdes on North avenue.
Adelord Laney. son of the deceased,
who has been located in Boston for
some time, was at home when the
death of his father occurred.
County Commissioners William Os-
borne of Fairfield. Granville Perkins
of Madison and E. T. Goodrich of
Skowhegan were holding court in their
room at the Court House Tuesday.
Considerable routine business was
transacted and County Treasurer John
H. Lancaster submitted his monthly
report. This report condensed show
ed that on May 81 there was on hand
the sum of s15.393.96 and to this was
added the amount of S24S.27. which in
creased the sum to s16.27S.9S. Among
the various sums paid out was the
salary of the county officers. totalling
$S75.o1: ss4.4o for repairs on county
The Carlisle independent., 1917-02-01

in discontented groups and discussed their situation is being thrown so suddenly out of work The pay master handed Bill a check. It was for Spike. Bill yelled his name. A man hard by pointed to Rhinelander' 5 camp. There's Spike" said the mar. lover there at Rhinelander's."
 Bills sharp eyes followed the ges- ture. Spike at that moment was just leaving Rhinelander, Helen and Storm. Bill, a knave of more than ordinary discernment and one who hated Spike for his share in the fight at Las Vegas, saw in the incident his chance to get even. He put the check aside and a moment later when Spike appeared at the pay car, Bill was ready. Descending the car steps, Bill called to Spike as the latter came forward. Bill advanced to meet him. What do you mean, Spike" demanded Bill in loud and aggressive tones, pitched so that everybody might hear, by running over to Rhinelanders camp all the time? What are you up to now, Spike?"
 Spike was in the worst possible mood to be badgered by anybody. With bot expletiye he bade Bill mind his own business, and offered | gratuitously to break his head.
 Bill turned to the men with a shout: This is the duck" he cried, that helped Rhinelander steal our right ot way, boys. He's the guy that's thrown us all out of work. What do you know about that?"
 Spike, in most opprobrious Ian guage, fatly gave Bill the lie. The men, most of whom were spelling for { row. closed in to hear and devour the heated argument that the two enc mics engaged in. Accusations and de nials fell thick and fast; abuse fol | lowed assertions; hard words and g deep-seated enmity raised the tempers of both men, and Bill, without further warning, swung and sent Spike with a terrific left-hander to the ground.
 Spike was no sooner down than up, He came back at Bill goaded to fury by the unprovoked attack, Men crowd sd up. Their cries and shouts had al. ready attracted the attention of Storm and Helen who stood with Rhineland, CT still discussing Spike. Storm was the first to perceive what was going or in Seagrue's camp.
 They're after Spike" he exclaimed. Look Down he goes-that bull necked Bill hit him. He's up again. The whole bunch are jumping him.
The Carlisle independent., 1917-02-01
AUTHOR OF WHISPERING SMITH" THE MOUNTAIN DIVIDE" STRATEGY OF
 GREAT RAILROADS" ETC.
SYNOPSIS.

Little Helen Holmes, daughter of Gen eral Holmes, railroad man, is rescued from imminent danger on a scenic rail road by George Storm, a newsboy. Grown to young womanhood Helen saves Storm. now a fireman, her father, and his friends Amos Rhinelander, financier and Robert Seagrue, promoter, from a threatened col lision. Safebreakers employed by Seagrue steal General Holmes survey plans of the cut off line for the Tidewater, fatally wound the general and escape. Her fa- thers estate badly involved by his death, Helen goes to work on the Tidewater. Helen recovers the survey plans from Sea- grue, and though they are taken from her, finds an accidentally made proof of the survey bluesrint. Storm is employed by Rhinelander. Spike befriended by Helen. in his turn saves her and the right-of-way contracts when Seagrue kid maps her. Helen and Storm win for Rhnelander a race against Seagrue for right of way
The Carlisle independent., 1917-02-01

In Seagrues camp, Spike, an hour later. was seated in front of tent cleaning a lamp when Seagrue re turned still in company with the at, torney. Their sounding out of the city fathers had been unsuccessful and Seagrue handed his foreman a notice to post on the bulletin board:
 Work will be suspended on
 the Coast and Colorado cutoff
 until Las Vegas grants a right
 of way to allow this company to
 reach the Superstition mines.
 Spike, sauntering over. read the no- tice. Seagrue's eye fell on him at that moment and a recollection of what he termed Spikes treachery came to his mind. He spoke to the convict rough ly. q suppose you know that in help ing Rhinelander get those contracts you caused this trouble, Spikep
 Spike glanced at him with an angry shake of the head "RhinelandeI didn't need me to get the contracts Helen Holmes is the one that beat you, Seagrue
 The remark did not help to soothe Seagrue's irritation. He kept aftel Spike all the harder "If you cross me again." he said, threateningly, "Fi hand you over to some high voltage my fricnd'
 The wrangle was going from bad tt | worse when Bill came in with Sea grues coat. The latter, putting it on | took his hat directed Lug to post tht | bulletin, beckoned to the attorney anC accompanied by him and Bill, started for the station to catch the main lint local then due. When the train pulled in Seagrue and the attorney boarded it. Bill started back for camp. Spike, left alone, went into his tent | He sat some moments thinking. TheI | he rose and from a corner got out tht suit of clothes, carefully put away that Helen had bought for him in La. Vegas. The least he could do. he felt was to take this over to Rhineland CTS camp and return it to her witl such lame explanation as he could in vent to cover the occasion.
 He found Helen alone. She regard ed him strangely as he approached Spike would rather have faced sher if than to face her on such an CT rand. He shuffled toward her i'll a ease and her silence did not help tt allay his embarrassment.
 T know you bought the clothes fol me-" he muttered, because I helped you get the contracts. I hated to turr back the way did to Seagrue's camp
The Carlisle independent., 1917-02-01

They'll kill that fellow, We'll" he unused. as the clamor grew and Spike, fighting desperately to keep from be- ing surrounded, went down again. T suppose he's no great loss" But" cried Helen, we cant see a man murdered before our eyes. I won't stand it. I'll go help him my self if nobody else will.''
 Undismayed by the undertaking, Helen, followed by Rhinelander trying to stop her, hurried toward Seagrue's camp. Storm, with more forethought. hastily got together such of his men as were within hearing, and yelling in his turn to Helen to wait, started after her and Rhinelander. Fast as the men ran, none could overtake her fly ing feet. She dashed into the thick of the fight ahead of everybody and ants.
 They stopped an instant from sheer amazement at seeing a lovely girl, seemingly fallen from the sky, in the middle of hot scrimmage.
 Rhinelander rushed to her side. Hands off he cried. putting Spike behind him Shame! Twenty to one, Where's your manhood?"
 Without pausing to consider this ir- relevant question. the mob started in to hammer Spike and Rhinelander both. It was then that George Storm S preparedness was vindicated. He fought his way into the ring, followed by a dozen huskies, who beat back Seagrue's men till Storm was enabled to pull Spike away-his men holding the line back of him.
 But this diversion was good only for moment. and Storm-not unused to riots and fighting-knew better than lis companions the necessity of further instant dispositions.
 Helen had kept close to her friends. We've got to get him out of here quick, exclaimed Storm to her. They'll tear him limb from limb if they get him again. Helen." he cried. Back the outfit cars down the cutoff for us, will you, as quick as the Lord will let you? We'll hustle him inside one"
 Helen ran. Rhinelander and Storm. picking up Spike, now almost uncon- scious, dragged him, fast as they could, from the scene, their men GOV ering their retreat and giving ground only as they were forced to by sheer xrrnf frh% Nf ,-h% -%,,t bornly step by step in this way, Storm
The Carlisle independent., 1917-02-01

chine on the right Of way and on the track itself in her determined effort. When she caught sight of the rum away, TO one was to be seen upon 1t, but she knew Rhinelander and storm were inside and as she began to over- haul the chase, she sounded her horn insistently. The two men, leaving Spike, who in the face of the common danger had pulled himself partly to- gether, looked out of the side door. To their amazement they saw at their heels Helen pumping violently along in Seagrue's machine. She signaled them excitedly. She tried to shout to them but could not make word heard above the deafening noises. Rhinelander and Storm did make out, however, that she wanted them to go to the top of the car and the two men climbed the side ladder again.
 Helen, still close behind, scribbled note. folded it hurriedly, took of shoe, stuck the note inside and with
The Carlisle independent., 1917-02-01
NINTH INSTALLMENT
A CLOSE CALL

Despite Seagrue's persistent opposi. tion, Rhinelander secured the right of way to enable him to complete the Superstition cutoff, and unable to stop the Tidewater construction work, Seagrue resolved to try other methods to defeat his rival.
 Helen Holmes was enjoying the front had brought. And after the ex- citement had died down attending the destruction of Cassidy's house, she found herself amused and interested in Cassidy himself, who was busy next morning trying to restore much wreck of his shack. Helen watched his dazed efforts until sympathy over came her, and excusing herself, she walked over to where Cassidy was struggling to get fire going.
 Seagrue, who had been watching the scene from distance, saw Helen join the old fellow, and deemed 1t his opportunity to make tentative ad- vances toward the collective enemy. Sauntering over, accordingly, he joined Helen at a moment in which she sent Cassidy for water and was herself watching the fire starting in the stove.
 Helen looked up in astonishment when she heard Seagrues greeting. Indeed, she resented his intrusion so strongly that she refused all commun- ication with him and for a time he spoke into deaf ears.
 You ought not to be too hard on me, Helen,' he urged at length. Any man will fight for his life against ruin. That's all I've done. Everything l have in the world is tied up in this Superstition cutoff. But more than once I said to myself would willing ly sacrifice it all to regain your friend ship"
 He spoke slowly and looked so beat en and worried as he fingered in the penumbra of Helen's gaze that she be-
The Carlisle independent., 1917-02-01

| hate to bring these back to you. But the way I'm fixed I cant double cross Seagrue."
 Helen saw he was greatly humiliat- ed. And she was mystified little by his words. Spike" she said, kindly, the clothes are nothing. But what have I done to you that you should treat me in the way you did?"
 Spike shuffled on his feet and swung his head uneasily. Not thing in the world" was all he could say
 Why have you acted in this way?" she demanded. T bought you ticket to the city-you promised to go-why didn't you?"
 He labored in continued confusion to explain. He tried to tell her Sea grue had done many things for him; he told her he owed Seagrue lot of money and he had no hope of eyer paying him back except by work, and that he didn't feel he ought to break away now.
 Storm and Rhinelander came up at that moment. They greeted Spike. He avoided their eyes as much as pos sible and returned their greeting in a shame-faced way. Helen answered the surprise that overspread the faces of Storm and Rhinelander. Its no won der he's ashamed to speak to you," she said severely. You would hardly be- lieve it, I know; but the fact is he has turned over to Seagrue again" The two men looked at Spike with undisguised contempt. Their attitude made him desperate. "Oh, 1 know what you think of me-" he said with a reckless swing of his head. T can't help it. can't explain. It would take me from now till the middle of next week, if tried--and then you'd think less of me than you do now. Never be kind to me again. It's hopeless for me-but I can't help it"
 The three watched him shuffle away. Rhinelanier shook his head There's mystery somewhere in it. I can't make it out. Some day we'll know"
 Well, in any case. certainly don't want these clothes,' declared Helen. looking at the bundle Spike had left in her hands. They're no use in the world to me-" A laborer was passing Here, you" she said to the man. take this suit. If it fits you" she added, before the man could recover from his surprise, its yours" At Seagrue's camp, Bill and the pay master were handing checks out to the men. The latter stood about the car
The Carlisle independent., 1917-02-01

Il Hate to Bring These Back, but |
 Can't DoubIe-Cross Seaerue!" gan to denounce him indignantly for his villainous conduct.
 He took her stinging reproaches without resentment. T admit" he said, my temper carries me too far, sometimes"
 "Sometimes!" echoed Helen. "A hundred and fifty!"
 When I do get angry" confessed Seagrue, "I lose my head. I stop at nothing. When it's all ever, nobody is sorrier for it than 1 am. I have acted shamefully. I know that And what hurts the most is that it should have cost me your friendship and my uncle's."
 While the talk thus begun the two was going on in this fashion, Storm, who had been experimenting with some new jacks. noticed what Helen was doing; and that the man standing near her was none other than Sea grue. Scarcely able to believe his eyes, the young constructionist called to Rhinelander to look. The latter discngaged himself from his new caa-
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1917-08-17
THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD

Chinese Jews-Jews who observe all
the Jewish religious rites and all
their dietary laws who have the
almond eyes, the flat noses, and the
yellow skin of Mongolians.
The study of modern history in
dicates more. clearly what we may
expect in the United States. We
must constantly keep in mind that
intermarriage Of Jews and Chris
tians, until recent years, was illegal,
precisely as it still is in Russia and
Austria There are unmistakable evil
dences, it is true, that intermingling
had been going on all through the
Middle Ages; but these unions,
where they were not illicit, followed
baptism. Many thousand Spanish
Jews accepted baptism in 1892 in
preference to expulsion.
In Scandinavia 65 Per Cent. of Jews
Marry Christians.
In Europe the intermarriage of
Jews and Christians is going on at
a rate that few can explain. DR..
Maurice Fishberg, one Of our lead
ing American authorities on the
Jews, has recently published the
figures figures that are fairly as
founding. In Germany as whole,
according to the figures presented
by DR.. Fishberg, nearly 20 per cent.
of Jewish marriages today are with
Christians. But it is only when we
take the statistics of the great cities,
such as Hamburg and Berlin, that
the complete extent Of this amalga-
nation can be understood. Thus in
Berlin, from 1875 to 1879, SO per
cent. of all Jewish marriages were
with Christians. But in 1905 this
proportion had increased to A per
cent In Hamburg, again, this pro-
portion had increased to 90 per cent;
that is, in this latter city more Jews
we're marrying Christians than were
marrying Jews. In Scandinavia DR..
Fishberg's figures show that the
proportion is even higher; there it
reaches o5 per cent.
This tendency to assimilation, we
must keep in mind, is the product of
less than a single generation. At
ter being emancipated, in the mat
ter of matrimony, for only forty
years, the Jews of Hamburg and
Berlin are marrying more frequent
ly outside their race than within it.
Certainly this record lends some
weight to the idea that the Jews are
not really an exclusive people, but
have been made so by the restrictive
laws of their environment. Sup
pose, in Berlin and Hamburg, the
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that they could never be identified.
What are the signs that a similar
tendency has made itself felt in the
United States? Here the laws pro-
hibiting such mixed marriages have
never prevailed. And here a large
amount of intermarrying has I'm
doubtedly been going on. At the
beginning of the nineteenth century
there were about 1000 Jews in the
United States. In the main, these
were the Sephardic or Spanish and
Portuguese Jews, usually regarded
: as the aristocracy of the race. Bas-
ing our calculations on the normal
rate of increase, there should be at
least $4,000 descendants of these
early settlers. The fact that there
are only fraction Of such descend
ants means that these old-time Jew
ish families have allied themselves,
in large degree, with the native
stock
The many marriages of conspicu-
Gus Jews with conspicuous Ameri-
cans fairly indicate this same tend
ency. Thus August Belmont, a Jew
from Germany-his real name was
August Schoenberg married
daughter of that Commodore Mat
thew c. Perry who opened Japan to
the western world. Abraham Jacob,
the distinguished authority on chill
dren's diseases, married Mary Put
nam; Walter Damrosch married the
daughter of James G. Blaine; and
Ossip Gabrilowitsch, the musician,
married Mark Twain's daughter.
These mixed marriages in high
places emphasize another point, and
that is that Jews more frequently
than Jewesses marry outside their
faith The reason, of course, is that,
under present conditions, the Jew
usually raises his social status by
Christian marriage, and that, every
where in the world, the man more
commonly marries above his social
station than the woman
But the last thing that American
Jews wish to be are people set
racially apart. They give every in
dication that they desire to become
part and parcel Of the American
commonalty. In New York they
have long since burst the bounds of
the "ghetto" and are mingling with
the rest of the populace.
Social Ostracism Gradually Dis
appearing.
Probably the ruling ambition of
most of the younger generation in
New York's East Side is to leave
it. They are rapidly shaking off
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make its racial contribution to the
future American composite?
Reduced to its final terms, this
means, to what extent will the
American Jew mingle with the rest
of our population that is, to inter
marry?
Why the Jews are a Peculiar
People,"
At first this idea strikes most peo-
pie as absurd. They have been edu-
Gated to the conception of the Jews
as a peculiar people-as a race in
evitably set apart to maintain its
integrity through the centuries. The
medieval ghetto, the peculiar garb,
the exclusive tribal customs and
dietary practices, and the rabbinical
laws these are the conceptions
that naturally come to mind when
we attempt to estimate the future
of this people, That our two mil
lion American Jews may disappear,
in the course Of two or three CEN
turtles, through intermarriage, seems
at first notion almost too extrava-
giant to be entertained. Yet, in the
opinion of many Jews themselves,
the theory is not necessarily -ridicu-
1ous
One of the greatest Christian
writer's on the Jews, M. Leroy-Beau-
lieu, takes the stand that the Jews
are not peculiar people at all, and
that it is merely circumstances that
have made them so. If we had tax
en- a few hundred thousand English
men, two thousand years ago, set
them apart to live in restricted dis
tricts, forced them to wear a dis
tinctive garb, forbidden them to en-
gage in agriculture, limited their ac-
tivities to particular trades, and pro-
hibited them from marrying Chris
tians under penalty of death, the
English would today be peculiar"
and unassimilable people.
In saying this I do not ignore the
fact that Jewish exclusiveness is in
herent in the Jewish religion. The
ghetto, for instance, was not orig
inally devised by Christians, but was
the preference of the Jews them
selves, whose dietary laws and 9TH
er customs made it necessary for
them to live apart from their Chris
tan neighbors. But externals like
these, in an era of enlightenment,
easily disappear; and the fact re-
mains that, side by side with all this
tendency to exclusiveness, the Jew
has always shown great adaptability
to his environment Practically all
ethnologists agree that throughout
Evening journal., 1917-03-12
LET Us HAVE CHANGES IN VIII.
MINGTON EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

From the Wilmington Labor Herald.
The General Service Board through
the valuable aid of the Joint Citizens
Committee on Education has carefully
considered all aspects of the situa-
tion regarding Wilmington educa-
tional system and the proposed
changes advocated by Senator Hick-
man.
Various organizations have endors-
ed these changes, prominent among
them being the Chamber of Commerce
and the Central Labor Union.
Speaking for labor. it is the unani-
nous belief of the toilers as repre-
sented by the Central Labor Union
that Wilmington's educational system
should be improved and improvements
are really a necessity. The Central
Labor Union and it's AFFILIATED organi-
cations have indorsed the proposed
changes and heartily favor their
enactment because of the merits of
the issue.
The state Legislature will enact the
amendments If the majority of the
people show conclusively that they
are for what is right for Wilmington
There has been no organized opposi-
tion and no doubt there will be none
for the changes are so feasible and Sc