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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-11-29
Educating'a Spider
Successfully Undertaken
By Mrs. MOffatt, Wheaton, Ill.

Wheaton. Ill, Nov. 27.-Educating
spider is task rarely undertaken.
Mrs. Elizabeth Marriott Moffatt of
Wheaton. Ill. enc of the few students
of spiders in the country. however set
herself to it and this is what she
writes of her experience:
BY far the Incst common spider in
this country is the one known as the
blackland brown specified garden
spider. Agelena nmvia." said Mrs.
Moffatt. The species although called
the garden spider is otter found in our
houses where It builds fat sheet web
in some corner. always having a fun
mel at the rear. into which the spider
can escape when disturbed. The body
is from one-half to three-quarters Of
an inch in length. At the back end
two of the spinnerets project, looking
like little pointed tails
"A fully grown specimen was cap
tured and put into a wide mouthed
half-ounce bottle. This was laid on
its side. on the library table. Every
day she was given a small drop Of
water and one or several house flies.
The flies were fed to her by placing
one in bottle similar to that in which
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-11-29
SOLON

Mrs. Elzada McIntire and grand
son went to Portland Wednesday to
pass Thanksgiving with her daugh-
ter. Mrs. Pearle Swain.
Friends of Mrs. Onie McCoilar
Small are pleased to learn of the birth
Of a son to them at their home in
Newport :.
Miss Metcalf is passing this vaca-
ton week with friends in North An
son.
Miss Emma Mahoney and Miss
Flora Head are home from Farm
ipgton for q few days.
Miss Alberta whipple was in Wat
erville Tuesday shopping.
Miss Olive Lander returned Friday
from a few weeks stay in Portland.
J. !. Philbrook and family went to
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-11-29

Catching a wild goose with his bare
hands was the novel experience this
week of Guy Crowley, a patrolman of
the Coast GuarQ station at Popham
Beach, relates the Bath Times. The
northeast storm caused a large flock
of birds to hover about the beach and
as Crowley neared Fox island a bird
made for his electric torch. AS the
big bird few close to Crowley's head
he made q grab but with his mittens
on he was unable to hold the bird.
The goose few off a short distance
then returned and circled and again
passed over his head and again Crow
ley made a grab for him. This time
his hands were bare in preparation
for the contest and he caught the
bird about the neck and held on for
dear life. The goose made a frantic
struggle to get away but Mr.. Crowley
held tight and got the bird back to
the station. Mr. Crowley notified
Game Warden Herbert L. Spinney
and it is probable that he will ex-
change the goose for a couple of
ducks.
The same morning Allen Pinkham.
17-year old son of the assistant light
keeper on Seguin island. was at
tracted by a goose flying about his
head SO low that his wings almost
touched when once he circled about.
Picking up big rock young Pinkham
threw it at the bird and. his aim
proving true, crippled the bird SO that
he fell and goose dinner on the
island was enjoyed that day.
The same-day. over on the beach at
Small Point, one man shot seven Of
the birds and another shot four and
reports have it that not for many
years have there been so many geese
seen along the coast as during the
heavy storm the first Of the week.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-11-29
Americans Warmly Received
BY MOntenegran People

Podoritza, Montenegro, Nov. 5-(By
Associated Press)-No people are re-
ceived in Montenegro with such gen.
eral confidence and such frank well
come as Americans. A United States
passport furnishes an all-suff1cient
entry to any part Of the country. The
people have a touching belief in the
disinterestedness of Americans, in
striking contrast to the aloofness and
suspicion with which they greet 9TH
er foreigners. This is due largely to
the generous attitude of the United
States toward Montenegro during the
war and to the widespread relief
work done by Americans.
The Montenegrins, who are almost
exclusively of the Greek Orthodox
are Serbian fugitives from the
Turks. They ! speak the Serbian
tongue; but instead of deeming them
selves on par with other Serbians.
they believe they are q sort of Serbian
The Montengerius as a rsule are ex-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-11-29

tremely poor and live in thatEiIed
huts. The men generally carry quite
an arsenal of weapons in their girdles,
which they regard as their most
precious possession. Even the priests
carry rifles. The women. though often
beautiful. perform most of the mental
tasks and soon lose their good locks.
Large families are the rule.
The people are melancholy and
fatalistic and believe in vampires.
fairies, witches and ghosts. They be-
lieve that disease is brought by evil
spirits. To keep out these spirits or
''jinni," they always close their win
dows tightly at night.
! With the exception of a few fertile
valleys, Montenegro is mass of jag
ged. gray rocks. with little patches OF
earth that have been patiently gather
ed by the peasants from the road
ways and valleys and carried to shell
teGed hooks. These little plots are
jealously guarded and carefully shell
tered. They produce only a few
handfuls Of grain. yet entire families
depend upon them for sustenance.
The men are brave, proud and hon
est. Patriotism is a passion with
them. They regard personal valor as
the highest virtue. They show their
solidarity with the new Kingdom OF
Croats, Slovenes and Serbs by the
mourning which they still wear in
commemoration of Kossovo, the fatal
battle in which Serbian independence
was stamped out by the Turks for five
centuries.
Both men and women wear GRIM
son cap with a broad border of black
silk. as a token of mourning for their
defeat.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-11-29
Editors Letter Box
A Tribute
1877 Middle Street,
Portland. Maine,


November. 26.1920.
nal, Augusta Maine.
Dear Sir:
The newspapers announced the sad
intelligence that Hon. Frank s.
Adams Of Bowdoin died Monday, in
Boston, where he had gone to attend
a meeting of dairymen.
Mr.. Adams place in the State Of
Maine was unique. Others may sue
coed him in the various activities
with which he was identified. but no
one can replace him. He lived a
great, broad. wholesome life, dedicat-
ed to the public service: lived It for
Maine and all the glory and power
she stands for; lived 1t with all his
mind and heart.
II were going to select a man who
thoroughly embodied tho Maine
spirit. who was representative of
Names loyalty and devotion to high
could never be challenged. and whose
every act was a symbol for the truth.
justice and sincerity which can re-
side Ii: tho human heart. should
base my choice upon the life and
character of Frank S. Adams, and
wherever hearts beat in unison with
those things which are lasting and
abiding, his spirit will have It's infu-
ence. The result of his living makes
us ali realize that in life there are
still hope, Joy, courage. devotion.
friends love. sacrifice. home ond fire.
side. There passes away one Of the
States brightest flowers, true
friend, q faithful, noble man. Sor-
row flovera here.
Respectfully.
HOWARD DAVIES
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-11-29
ROME

In the Dudley school which has Just
closed term of IL weeks an average
attendance was maintained of go, a
good record when it is considered
that for eight weeks of the term only
ten scholars were registered and
eleven the remaining four weeks.
Six Of the pupils. Calvin Crowell.
Goldie Crowell, Floyd Foster. Arthur
Wilde. Gertrude Wilde and Barbara
Wilde, were not absent or tardy for
the term and Laura Mosher missed
but one day. In the AZ weeks which
the present teacher has taught in
this school Floyd Foster has not been
absent or tardy, Calvin Crowell has
missed but days, Arthur and Ger
trude Wilde only days and Goldie
Crowell has missed but days in Al
weeks. The flower and bird lists
which were kept during the spring
were continued during the fail term
so that the flower list numbered, 1870
and the bird list Is. Only one of the
pupils in this school is over ten years
Of age.
Varney and Corrydon Moshe shot a
flne deer. Thursday.
Mrs. Margaret Dudley passed her
SD birthday Wednesday. Her son
Dudley and family and sons, Rye and
Merit Dudley took dinner with her,
also her granddaughter. Mrs. Ellen
Mosher and her husband. Her
daugter. Mrs. Alice Charles, visited
her in the afternoon. Mrs.. Dudley
has been confined to her bed for sew
eral weeks as the result of a fall,
but was able to sit up to the dinner
table a short time Thanksgiving day.
Mrs. William Dudley and family
and Durward Mosher passed Thanks
giving with the formers daughter,
Mrs. Roy Cannon.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Crowell and
daughter Goldie are passing the holi :
day with relatives in Winthrop. !
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-11-29
DRUGS EXCITE YOUR
KIDNEYS, USE SALTS
If Your Back Hurts or Bladder
5others, Drink Lots Of Water

When your kidneys hurt and your
proceed to load your stomach with
a lot of drugs that excite the kidneys
and irritate the entire urinary tract.
Keep your kidneys clean like you
keep your bowels clean, by flushing
them with a mild, harmless salts
which removes the body's urinous
waste and stimulates them to their
normal activity. The function OF the
kidneys is to filter the blood. In "a
hours they strain from it 500 grains
of acid and waste, so we can readily
keeping the kidneys active.
Drink lots of water-you can't
drink too much: also get from any
pharmacist about four ounces of Jad
Salts: take a tablespoonful in q glass
of water before breakfast each morn
ing for few days and your kidneys
will act fine. This famous salts is
made from the acid of grapes and
lemon juice, combined with lithia,
and has been used for generations
to clean and stimulate clogged kid
neys: also to neutralize the acids in
urine so it no longer is a source of
irritation, thus ending bladder weak
ness. e..
Jad Salts Is inexpensive; cannot in
jure; makes a delightful effervescent
lithia-water drink which everyone
should take now and then to keep
their kidneys clean and active. Try
this also keen m the water drinking
and no doubt you will wonder what
became Of your kidney trouble and
backache.-Adv
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-11-29
Editorial Comment
Why Sugar 10 Cheap Now



AS each week shows new low prices
for sugar. new evidence crops out. nil
tending to show the amazing
effrontery Of those who engineered
the sugar shortage" scare a few
months ago. The scare fell far short
Of its intended results. though 1t did
cost the sugar consumers of the
United States at least $4,000, o00, 900 by
adding that amount to their food
bills. 1t fattened, to the extent of at
least $1,000, 900. 900, the gains of the
SPECTATORS who. with great help from
the administration from Washington,
started and fostered the scare, but. its
premature explosion has dissipated
some of those speculative profits. The
bad taste left by the transaction is
going to cost the same speculative
circle further sums in the future. So
it may be considered doubtful If. the
experiment will be profitable, even to
them. in the long run.
So decidedly against the sugar scare
propagandists were the facts, when
they began to put out their feelers.
about sixteen months ago, that they
never could have succeeded to any
great extent. had not the Attorney
Generals Office consented to fix the
price Of Louisiana sugar at II to IS
cents pound, at time when the
going wholesale price of granulated
sugar was under nine cents a pound.
There was no world shortage of
sugar. The supply was larger than
the demand. Yet the SPECTATORS
stood the law Of supply and demand
on its head-for a time-and made
their billions, with the help of the
Administration.
1t took some time and much persis-
tent setting forth of figures as to
sugar supplies available before he
collapse came. Sugar now retails in
Boston as low as 1-s cents a pound,
and apparently the price is going a
little lower. There has been no time
within the past year when the retail
price should have been above IL cents
a pound, on an honest basis and with
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-11-29
Maine Gossip
out Of. Touch

Only a smile. yes, only smile
Eapsc.eS from you; 'a tWouid have a gwen sa
her relief.
For her heart Rched sore the while;
But weary and cheerless she went
Because. as it happened. that very day
You were ''out Of touch" with your
Lord.
Only a word. yes. only word.
That the Spirits small voice whispered.
Speak;
But the worker passed onward I'M
blessed and weak.
Whom you meant to have stirred
To courage, devotion and love anew,
Because when the message came to
You were "out Of touch" with your
Only note. yes. only a note
To friend in distant land;
The Spirit said Write" but then you
Some different work. and you thought
It ma!tered little You did not know
'Twould have saved a soul from sin
You were tout Of touch" with your
Lord.
Only a song. yes only a song
Th hS voice sss sP Tit sss snS e. tonight
But you thought, "'Mid this motley
throng.
l care not to sing Of the city Of gold
And the hearts that your words might
have reached grew cold,
You were "out of touch" with your
Only a day. yes, only a day,
But oh! can you guess. my friend.
Where the influence reaches. and where
it will end
OF hours that you fritted away?
The Masters command is Abide in
Me-;
And fruitless and vain will your SER
vice be
II "out of touch" with your Lord.
80 Selected.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-11-29
Big "Kill" Expected
BY Newfoundland's
Big Sealing Fleet

st. Johns, N. F., Nov. 1o.-(By
Associated Press) Captains Of the
Newfoundland sealing fleet look for
ward to a big kill" among the seal
herds this season under the arrange
ment by which the fleet will be guild
ed by two airships whose duty 1t
will be to act as scouts. search for
the herds of young seals and send
word Of their location by wireless.
Some of the old captains profess
to be trifie dubious of this new
tangled method Of hunting the seals,
but they are all awaiting the expert
ment with anticipation and hope of
greater profits than ever before.
Word has been received here that
the two non-rigid airships, popular
~ known as 'blimps," which are to
be used in this work, have been
shipped from England to make this
first attempt to hunt seals from the
air and by use of the wireless. The
expedition. which altogether includes
4 airships, is under the command of
Frank j. Tippen, consulting airship
engineer and constructor to the New
foundland government, an expert in
the design Of large commercial air
ships. Three of the four ,airships
are Of the sea-scouting type, driven
by single engine, the kind which
did valuable reconnaissance work
over the North and Irish Seas dur
Ing the war. The fourth is larger
and driven by two motors. All these
have been presented to the New
1~x- ~ Dit
ish Air Ministry as the nucleus of
regular government air patrol serv-
ice in Newfoundland. After the ex-
pertinent in seal hunting they will
be used as a matter of routine in
the forest patrol and survey work.
The party includes two airship
pilots. of whom the chief is Cap
tain Williams, who distinguished
himself in THO war as a pilot in air
ships over the Irish Sea. The air.
ship station in Newfoundland will be
established at Botwood on the Elk
ploits River. where the wireless sta
ton will be built to keep in touch
with the airships.
When the vast herds of young
seals come drifting down from the
North on the ice early in the spring,
the "blimps" will fly out over the
North Atlantic, will hunt them out
and send word of their location to
the sealing feet waiting to kill them
for their oil-bearing fat and skins.
Heretofore a big kill has been
the matter of luck as we'll as Of
good judgment. The sealing feet has
relied mainly on the knowledge and
skill of certain shippers who study
charts and currents and estimate
where the herd may be found but
sometimes they have missed their OBJ
ject. Next spring, however, it is
hoped here that the airship patrol,
preceding the fleet and scouting over
the immense area of water, will con-
vert what has hitherto been a gam
BILE into almost a certainty.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-11-29
The Appeal of the Children

The appeal of the child. Hard in.
deed are the hearts it cannot reach.
Today it comes with unusual poig-
nancy from the children bereft and in
the wake OF the world war. starving.
shiverlng children, crying: "Oh. if we
can only have a Hoover for Christ
mas" Hoover" meaning with them
s. good meal. And Hoover is not the
man to desert them; he has called for
$4,000 900 to feed $780, 900 through
the winter. He knows as no other
individual the need and the ways Of
The Literary Digest has opened a
subscription heading the list with a
contribution of $4,000. President
elect Harding has sent his check for
s250o. Ten dollars may save one
child from starvation this winter.
From this appeal we learn that, in
Poland alone 100000 such children
must be cared for. In Latvia and
Esthonia the people are living most
ly on diet made from potato -four.
oat flour and sawdust. In Czecho-
Slovakia. in Hungaria and in other
countries Of central and southeastern
Europe 100000 more are in dire
reed Of food.
The hungry children of those des-
titute countries have been examined
by competent physicians, and only
those whose wasted little bodies are
reduced to the minimum weight and
whose endurance Of hunger has
reached the end which merges into
actual starvation are admitted to the
American kitchens and given one
meal O day. 1t is hard to turn away
thousands Of boys and girls-to hear
Them ask. pieadingly, do I weigh
TOO much?' Am not thin enough"
Cant come any more?" But this
restricting OF food to the extreme
cases is compulsory, because there
isn't enough for all.
These neediest ones cannot reach
the kitchens through the cold winds
and the snow barefooted and in the
pitiful rags which form only a partial
covering Tor their bodies. They must
have clothes. Each outfit consists Of
enc pair Of warm wooden stockings,
one pair Of boots and little over
coat. This one meal day and these
boots, stockings and little coat can
be supplied only il we give them.
Every dollar given will be spent by
the American Relief Administration
of which Herbert Hoover is chair
man. guaranty that it will be wisely.
spent 5
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-11-29
Monday, November q, 1920.
A Big and an Urgent Job

1t is proposed to hold in Washing
ton, Dec. 1, conference of various
organizations engaged in patriotic
and civic work under the joint auspi-
ces of the American Legion and the
National Security League. President
Taft has said he thought the Amer
ieanization movement is wastingsi it.
self in the innumerabie organizations
and that there ought to be some way
of concentrating. The good sense of
this is widely recognized and attempt
is to be made to remedy the defects
of the present scattering of effort.
If any good is to come out Of all
this the time is quickly arriving when
it should be applied. Undoubtedly
there arc millions waiting chance to
get from the war torn countries of
the old world into this. Those best
acquainted with conditions are ap-
palled at the prospect. Neither our
facilities nor our regulations are ade-
quate for dealing with them. Educa-
tional tests, while desirable. do not
signify that the fellow who can read
and write is willing to work or has a
spark Of aspiration to become an
American citizen. On the contrary
most of the mischief makers are pos
sessed of some education.
Cysts of nationalities are not need
ed in America. They are a menace
They are unable to assimilate the
American spirit or be assimilated by
. the country in which they are max
ing their homes and rearing their
children. There is plenty of work to
be done in this country but the i'm
migrant and the work are not
brought together and made acquaint-
ed. This must be done if there is to
be any heed paid to the teachings OF
experience. Not only that but we
tmust see to it that the newcomer IL
made acquainted with what it means
or should mean to be a dweller in this
country; he should be made to ap-
preciate the fact that most people In
this land are fairly honorable and he
should be protected against those
who are not until he acquires ability
to look out for himself.
All this will require not only con.
centrated but herculean effort and
the beginning cannot be made any
too soon.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-11-29
SULPHUR CLEARS
A PIMPLY SKIN
Apply Sulphur 40 Told When Your
Skin Breaks Out e

Any breaking out Of the skin on
face, neck. arms or body is over
come quickest by applying Mentho-
Sulphur. The pimples seem to dry
right up and go away, declares a not
ed skin specialist.
Nothing has ever been found to
take the place Of sulphur as a pim-
pie remover. It is harmless and in
expensive. just ask any druggist fo..
a small jar of Mentho-Suiphur and
use it like cold cream.-Adv.
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Extracting Graft from Ashes

The daily chapters ins that New
York story of rottenness with capital,
labor and politics wailowing in 1t.
notwithstanding it is but a revela-
ton similar in many respects to all
such, include some interesting va
riety to relieve nausea
One method employed is striking
because Of it's simplicity. A building
site was made broom clean" at great
expense; contracting firm then pro-
ceeded to dump nifty thousand cubic
feet of ashes into it; then another
firm got a contract to remove them.
so that the city is said to be paying
$400. 900 to make the site again
broom clean" Really easier than
picking pockets in an asylum for the
blind.
In that same city agitators, profes-
sional or crazy, are haranguing the
voters to turn government up
side down and pull the millennium
from underneath as easily as sleight
of hand pulls the rabbit out Of the
hat. Those voters, hypnotized by the
wageling whiskers and Tapping
tongues, swallow it seemingly, as
readily as raw country boy watch
ing a prestidigitateur for the first
time. 1t never seems to occur to any
Of them that they have the power
already to secure clean government
if they have the intelligence. Ways
and means are provided. If they have
the sense and conscience to make use
Of them: have been obtained through
long years of effort and expense. 1t
never occurs to them to make use Of
their power in a rational way and by
sane methods; but in the matter of
standing civilization on its head they
feel perfectly competent to take a
part.
And one contractor gets a fat fee
fer dumping the ashes and another
gets rich removing them and-New
York pays the bills,
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Nasty
Colds
Get instant relief with
"Papes Cold Com
pound"

Lun stay stuued-up: Uuit uivwins
ana snnfning! A dose Of "Pape's
Cold Compound" taken every two
hours until three doses are taken
usuaily breaks up q. cold and ends all
grippe misery.
The perry nrst dose opens your
caogged-up nostrils and the air pas
sages Of your head: stops nose rum
ming: relieves. the headache, dullness,
feverishness, sneezing. soreness. stiff
ness. a.
Pape's Cold Compound" is the
quickest, surest relief known and
costs only q few cents at drug stores,
It acts without assistance. Tastes
nice. Contains no quinine. Insist on
Pape's:--Adv.