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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-30
GEN. PORTER, FORMER
AMBASSADOR TO
FRANCE DIES IN N. Y.

New York, May 29-Funeral SER
,, vices for General Horace Porter,
distinguished diplomat and Civil War
veteran who died early today in his
S5th year, will be held Thursday at
the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
church. 1t is planned also to hold a
military funeral which will be defer
red at least two weeks, or until the
arrival in this country of the gem
erals eldest daughter, Mrs. Elsie
Porter Mende, who is now in Switz-
; erland.
General Porters death had been
momentarily expected for several
days. He lapsed into unconscious
ness, last Thursday. Members of his
family, Including his sister, Mrs.
James Wheelr, his brother in law,
Henry McIiarg and his niece, DR.. Jo-
sephine Hindrup were at the bedside
when the end came.
General Porter possessed rare gifts
as an orator and after dinner speak
er. His wit and brilliancy and fell
city of his public speeches ranked
him among the foremost speakers of
the country.
His mechanical tastes and power of
invention were marked. He invented
the ticket box in use on all elevated
railroads and most of the ferries in
this country.
An interior mechanism mutilates
the tickets as they are dropped into
| it making their reuse impossible.
During his long military, business
and diplomatic career, he found time
to devote himself to. considerable
literary work. He was author Of
West Point Life" (1s6o; Campaign
ing with Grant," and he also contri-
buted to numerous magazines and
newspapers. He spoke French and
Spanish fluently and was we'll versed
| in the literature of those countries.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-30
RIOTS THROUGHOUT
NORWAY FOLLOW CUT
WAGES MARINE men

London, May 29.-@Serious riots oc-
Cured last night in Christiania and
throughout Norway during tho day,
according to the correspondent of the
london Times. The mob tried to force
the entrance of public meeting
house, which was barricaded Through
the timely arrival of police reinforce
ments, the mob was dispersed, but not
before a serious engagement was
fought in which bludgeons, stones and
other missiles were employed.
Several policemen were wounded
and numerous rioters including the
ringleaders, were arrested.
All the newspapers have suspended
except the Socialist organs and they
announce that the situation every
where is in conformity with their
views.
The rioting at Christiania is the
outcome of strike inaugurated two
weeks ago by the steamship engineers
and sailors in protest against a cut in
their wages. Later they were Joined
by thousands Of union laborers and
the army and navy were modified for
the maintenance of order, it having
been declared that the Bolsheviki were
urging general strike for revolution
airy purposes.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-30
Japanese Troops
Restoring Order
at VladiyOStOk

Toxic, May 29.-(By The ASSo-
GATED Press. )-Conditions at Vladi-
yostook which was seized Thursday
by troops formerly under the COM
nland of the late General kapell, an
anti Bolshevik force. are still unset
tied. according to advices from Amer
lean sources received here. There was
a half hours fighting between the
opposing factions yesterday morning,
but at noon the Japanese disarmed
the 5elligerants and quartered them in
the police barracks. The casualties
Up to yesterday were given as twenty.
According to Japanese newspapers
some members of the former govern
ment have taken refuge on an Amer
lean cruiser. The leader, NJ. Antan-
off. however, and the representative
il. Vladivostok of the Chita govern
ment fled to the Japanese headquar-
ters. A part of the city is still under
control of armed troops of the Far
Eastern republic. M. Merkudoff the
head of the new government, announc-
ed that he would demand that the
japanese disarm these troops. in &C
cordance with the Russo-Japanese
agreement and that if the Japanese
did not comply the new government
would resort to fighting.
A Japanese army proclamation an
nounced that the Imprisonment of po-
htical offenders would not be permit
ted.
1t is reported that General Semen
of, the Cossack anti-Bolshevik leader,
who has not been in the field for some
time past, intends proceeding to Vladi-
Nostok from Port Arthur to direct the
new movement.
The Vladivostok rising is character
ICED by the Jill Shimpo as purely re-
dictionary movement, resulting from
the expected Japanese evacuation of
Siberia, and it doubts the pernianency
OF the new regime.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-30
LIEUT.. STANLEY WAS
EX-BRITISH AIRMAN

Washington, May 29-Lieutenant
Stanley NJ. Ames of Boston had serv-
ed in aviation for number of years.
He enlisted in the British army at
the outbreak of the war and later
was transferred to the American
forces in France. He was testing and
engineering officer at Boiling Field
and was regarded as an authority in
aero engineering and testing. He
was married about three weeks ago.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-30
BUILDER OF PLANE
MAKES STATEMENT

Garden City, N. Y. May 29.-Glenn
H. Curtiss in behalf of the Curtiss
Acceptance and Motor Corporation of
Garden City, which manufactured the
Eagle airplane wrecked last night at
Indian Head Maryland, with the loss
of seven lives, tonight issued the fol-
lowing statement.
According to the reports we have
received, the Eagle was caught in a
terrific electrical storm. There is no
other plausible explanation of the ac-
cident than that the aeroplane was
either struck by lightning or wrecked
iii the gale. The Eagle, in civilian
and official use, has had a record of
one hundred per cent. safety. We have
investigators at work and expect to
obtain a more definite report tomor-
row."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-30
FRENCH TO HONOR
HERO DEAD TODAY

Paris, May 29-Tomorrow through
out France the French government
and American organizations will hold
ceremonies and place flowers on the
graves of the American dead. The
principal ceremony will be in Sures-
mes cemetery, short distance out
side Paris. where Ambassador Wal
lace and Marshal Petain will deliver
orations.
No public program has been ar
ranged for the RsDagne cemetery,
owing to the fact that the bodies of
the American soldier dead are being
disinterred there for removal to the
United States.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-30
Today in Memory of Those i'm the Great BeyOn
The Togus Veterans Point of View
May 80. 1921
The Mandate from Ger YOnder

Live Great Union of God-fearing States!
Oh Live! Union of True Brothers Hands,
Live! Despite the Dire Threatening Fates
Live in Friendships all Embracing Bands;
Blest Union of Faithful, Iron Hearts;
Live in Benign Loves Heavenly Arts.
Thus, Voices from Battaions of Graves
From Camp Ger Yonder-thril the Heart;
Crying:-Heed the Prayer Of Your Braves:
Save Oh Save! Dear Libertys Chart.
Hear Our Cry! America is Honor;
America is Hope for the Sore Opprest;
America is Chartys Gracious Donor;
America is by God Ever Best;
Loving Comrades-Save! Oh Save.
Our America-from Dishonors Grave
Our Answer! this Haowed May Day:
Veterans of All -Civil-Spanish;
The Time Honored Blue-the revered Grey;
Hearts joined onorng Memories we Cherish
March! All march One Determined Way;
Bearing our Flag-Freedom's Flaming Signal;
To That: all Nations high Honors Pay
Our Emblem-of Liberty Eternal
Still we Answer! While Life's Fading Spark
Burns within Weakening Frames:
Liberty-Dear Americas Birthmark
Shall Embrace All within its Brightest Flames;
Thus Veterans ALL-Renew their Vows
To Americas Highest Hottest Cause.
Burrt. 1. Home Togus Me-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-30
Father Kills Daughter
Then Takes Own Life

Williamstown. Mass, May 20
Charles Godfrey, As. shot and killed
his daughter Mabel. IS. at their home
at two o'clock this afternoon. God
frey Immediately turned the gun up
on himself, infiicting a wound in the
head, from which he died at a North
Adams hospital an hour and half
later. No reason for the shootings
could be determined. The girl was
to be graduated from Williamstown
High school in June.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-30
Open Shop Plan
Fall River Builders

Fall River. Mass, May 29-The
Fall River master builders associa-
, ton has announced that beginning
next Thursday it's members will re-
sumo operations under open shop
conditions, employing union or nom
union carpenters at rate of 80 cents
an hour
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-30
General Forecast

A disturbance of moderate inten-
sity had it's center Sunday night off
Cape Hatteras and it is apparently
moving eastward. 1t has been at
tended by scattered local rains with
in the last "a hours in the Middle
Atlantic states, the upper Ohio valley
and South New England.
In New England and New York
the weather will be unsettled with
possible local showers Monday and
fair on Tuesday with Moderate tenn
perature. Elsewhere east Of the Mis-
sissippi River the weather will be
generally fair Monday and Tuesday.
No important temperature changes
are indicated for the east half of the
country during the next 48 hours
Winds: North of Sandy Hook -
Will be fresh east to north winds;
overcast. thick, showery weather
Monday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-30
Strangled to Death
Playing with Pet Lamb

Kingfield, Me-, May 2s-Burchard
Hall, son of Levi Hall, met death by
strangulation Saturday when a rope
which tetherd pet lamb with which
the child was playing, became wound
around his neck.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-30
List of Dead

The dead are: Lieut.. Col. Archie
Miller, v. S. A. M. H., Washington,
D. c.
Maurice Connolly of Dubuque,
Iowa, former member of the House of
Representatives.
A. G. Batchelder of Washington, D.
G., chairman of the moard Of the A.
A. A., American Automobile Assoeia-
ton.
Stanley M. Ames, of Boston, pilot
of the wrecked plane.
Lieut.. Cleveland w. MeDermott.
Langley Field, Virginia.
Lieut.. John M. PennewilI, Langley
Field, Va.
Sergeant Mechanic Richard Blum
enkranz, Washington, o. C.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-30
THE WEATHER
CLOUDY

Northern New England: Cloudy
Monday: Tuesday fair; moderate
temperature. ~
Southern New England: Unsettled
Monday, probably showers in the
morning; Tuesday fair; moderate
temperature.
Eastern New York: Unsettled
Monday; Tuesday fair; moderate
temperature
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-30
Big Army Machine Runs Into Electrical
Storm in Mary|and--- Service
Men, Two Civilians Bodies Badly
Muti|ated-- Accident Worst in
History Of U. S. Aviation

Washington, May 29(By the Associated Press)-Seven
five of the army and two civilians killed in the
wreck of army Curtis Eagle Ambulance apane In
dian Head Maryland forty miles southeast of Washington,
last evening in terrific wind and electrical storm
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-30
Boston Forecast

Forecast for Boston and vicinity:
Monday showers, followed by clear
+ ing; Tuesday fair; seasonable tenn
peratures; moderate northeast to
north winds.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-30
TUESDAY: Fair

Genuine bargains In household furA
riturs are advertised every day 10
The Journal. Read the classified ads
and save money.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-09-27
DOC SHUFFiELO PASSES
Friend of East Side Buns Has Gone
West

The Bowcrv mOurns the passing OF
Doc Shuffcld. writes o. o. Mclntyre,
New York newspaper man. He was
scholarly gentleman, who dragged
down by drink, cast his lot with the
fotsam and jetsam spewed up by chi
natown and the East Side.
His "offce" was in The Alligator
where for five cents in the old days
one might buy a shot OF third-raI
liquor and occupy the flop room" III
the rear at night.
His patients were those sojdcn
wrecks who heard strange whispers
at night as the result of drink ana
the victims of the "blaCk smoke OF
the Chinese opium joints. He minis
tered, too. to the white wives "i
Chinese who bore half-caste children,
for he once occupied n chair of OBJ
stetrics in London hospital.
Near The Alligator was Callahan'S
Mission. John Callahan was drunk
ard and thief who had gone straight
ana utNOltu IlS lIlN 'iAS'''r' '''
souls in that wayward quarter. His
mission was once McGuirk's Suicide
Hall. so named because soiled doves
so often quaffed their last drink there
and LETT in changing amhulances, their
mouths burned with acid.
Doc Sufrield would never go into
the mission himself TO join the coffee
cup mourncrS-who came to mourn
and get free cOffoe-but h often stag
gcred to the entrance with some blear-
eyed sinner and bowed him in. Doc
never lost his gentlcmanly Gcmeanor'
At night at The Alligator, surround
ed by bcfuddled denizcns and in an
alconoiic haze him%clf, he would talk
of learned topics in the English OF his
classics. He had known Whistler ana
many Other notables, including Oscar
Wilde. Once n drink-craZed dock
walloper slit the throat of Pete, the
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-09-27
sINFULNEsS OF BOARDING
Idle Money Means Both Folly and
Danger.

It is common enough to find bank
ers and writer's in financial papers
advising farmers to patronize the
banks. ard tie advice is doubtless,
none tic lcssI valuable because of the
bankers financial interest which is.
involved But no self-interest at
taches to a sermon against boarding
which is preached by farmers paper,
Wallaces' Farmer OcS Moincs). This
editorial on The Sin of HCarding" is
prompted by tie writer's conviction
that there are in many communities
men WHO are SHINING against them
selves and their fellows by keeping
from 5000 to $4,000 around the house;
"thcv are laboring under the impress
sion that things are going to get worse
and worse until the. final crash comes
and that then they will be ut a pecu-
liar advantage because they have
stock of hard cash On hand" The
point is that
Cash kept around the house is dead
money. Cash deposited in the bank is
live money. 4 dollar of cash deposited
in the bank serves as a source of from
S5 to SO of credit. The man who
keeps $1,000 around the house is, in
effect. preventing five to ten other men
from borrowing $1,000 each from the
bank. We suspect that there is at
least $4,000, 900 in the state of Iowa
being kept out Of circulation by timid
hoardcrs. This $5,OOO,OOO if it were
put in the bank would serve rs n
source of from S25,OOO,OO0 to $4,000
900 of credit, and would go a long
way toward relieving the present crit
ical situation.
Never keep more than $50 in cash
around the house. and if you can get
along with as little as $40, by nil
means do so. If you have large guam
titles Of money on hand there is al
ways danger of losing it by robbery
and fire. But the biggest reason why
all surplus money should find it's way
into the bank as promptly as possible
is that the banks are credit factories,
and the raw material of the credit
which they manufacture is hard cash.
Remember that the bank makes out
of every dollar of cash which you de-
posit, from s. to SO worth of credit.
We are satisfied that if only one-halt
of the money which at present is be-
ing boarded in the United States were
deposited with the banks that credit
could be increased to such an extent
that nriceS would rise by from to
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-09-27
s Page Three, 4 .,

blow is delivered with the tall, which
stuns the victim. after that the teeth
and jaws come interplay. "a a.,"
While there is only one other living
species of Alligator besides our own
Crocodiles abound all over the .shot
parts o1sthe. globe, in both the Old and
New Worlds. The other species OF
Alligator ALLIGATOR .sinensis), is, found
in China. g %. rat, 80 - a'tS
Little Known of, Breeding Habits.
There has been little published about
the breeding habits Of the AMERICAN
Crocodile. Whether 1t deposits I, It's
eggs in SAND or not, as, does the Egyp-
tian Crocodile is, therefore, a matter
Of conjecture. The information may
shortly be forthcoming. -, ,.
The presence Of the Crocodile In
Florida was discovered only In 1870, by
my good friend, DIR. William IT, Horna-
day, who took two fine, specimens In
Arch creek, at the head Of Biscayne
bay. The bull was fourteen feet, two
inches long. This. was one of the many
brilliant contributions to science.t OF
this, distinguished American zoologist
One of the oldest writings known TO
man, the Book OF Job. fdeseribes 'the
Crocodile. AS the z Crocodile ,.is a not
found in Palestine :, and Is found In
Egypt, this description is given as, one
evidence that. Moses wrote the, Book OF
Job, as he was, quite familiar. with the
fauna of Egypt. Says the book
Job Mentions, Crocodile.
Canst thou draw out leviathan with
a hook? or his tongue with cord
which thou lettest down ?AHis scales
are his pride, shut up together as. with
a close seal One IL so near Mother
that no air can come between them.
They are Joined one to another, they
stick together, that they can nottbe
sundered.-Lay thine hand upon him,
remember the battle, do no nore."N
The metes and bounds of the Croeo-
diles habitat have been fixed. HIS
frame denies wider range to- the
north. How easily and deftly nature
settles such questions Is a marvel ana
a mystery as WELL, ..-- ~
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-09-27
STATISTICS ON AGES
Census Bureau Makes Announcements
of Interest In South Carolina.

According to the census of 1920 4O.S
ucr cent. or about twO-fifths, Of the
people in the state Of South Carolina
are either infants or children under
fifteen wears of age: 109 per cent are
Young people fifteen TO nineteen years
old: 1873 per cent. about one-thIrd' are
men and women in the prlm" of lie,
being from twenty to forty-four years
old. while 14.i per cent, being horl!-
FIVE wears OF, age and over, are well
along in middle life if they have not
reached old age, according to an an
nounccmont by the bureau of the GER
eus, United States Department OF
Commerce.
The urban population as compared
with the rural shows some rathei'
striking differences in age, the per-
.centage twenty TO forty-four years of
age being 43.2 for the urban popula-
ton us compared with 31.S for the
rural. while the percentage under nj
teen years of age is 800 in the urban
population against fo.I III LIE lul" a.
THESE differences may indicate larger
families of children in the country
than in the city. but probably indicate
also the fact that country children as
they grow up have tendency TO fock
to the cities thereby increasing inc
active adult population of the cities
IF tie expense of the rural districts.
over two-ffths Of the population,
4G.3 per cent. are old enough to VOTE
being twgnty-onc or over, and in this
class the men and women are prac-
cally equal in number The males OF
military or fighting age. eighteen TO
forty-four, constitute 36.5 per cent. OF
the male population and 1872 per cent
of the total population.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-09-27
WIZARD WITH A PEN
Enolishman of Elizabsth's Time Did
Work Never Equaled.

England at one time possessed q
penman capable of rivaling Nessi Eff
fendi Markarem, an Arab now on
visit TO Cairo with specimens of his
art, including grain Of rice on which
he has written 100 words from the
Koran. Peter Bales, as We learn from
Hollinshed's Chronicle, put in the COM
pass of silver penny more things
than fill several ordinary pages, and
presented Queen Elizabeth with the
manuscript set in gold ring and COW
cred with a crystal, together with a
magnifying glass SO powerful that the
queen could easily decipher the manu-
script which she held on her thumb
nail and commended the same to the
lords of the council and the ambassa-
dors.
Bales subsequently issued a chal-
lenge ito the Englishmen and
strangers" to write, for a pen Of gold
of 90 pounds, value, in all kinds OF
hands. best, straightest and fastest
and most kinds of ways, "a full, a
mean, a small, with line and without
line: in a slow set hand, a mean facile
hand. and a fast running hand" and
further to write "truest and speediest,
most secretary and clearlike, from a
mans mouth, reading, or pronouncing
either English or Latin
Another writing master, David john
son, accepts the challenge, and the
contest opened on Michaelmas day,
1896 before five judges and hundred
spectators. Bales was adjudged the
winner in all three sections, though
the competition in writing sundry
kinds of fair hands proved a near
thing for him. He gained points for
the beauty and most authentic pro-
portion" Of his Roman hand but
Johnson scored more marks in court
tand and in bastard secretary" hand.
Bales, being then on his mettle, pres
ented his Master Piece" composed OF
secretary and Roman hand four ways
varied" and offered to forego all his
previous advantages If Johnson could
better it. This proved impossible, so
Bales carried off the gold pen and had
it painted and set up for his sign
Manchester Guardian
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-09-27
STUDIES IN
NATURAL HISTORY
BY JAMES HENRY RICE, Jr.
THE AMERICAN CROCODILE

A true Crocodile inhabits the rivers
and lagoons of southern Florida, its
northern limit being Lake Worth. This
species is abundant in the waters of
Venezuela, Columbia and Ecuador.
Florida waters were probably peopled
by Crocodiles swimming across the
Gulf from South America. These
reptiles are fond Of salt water and have
been found some distance from land in
the waters of the Gulf.
The extreme length of this specimen
is fourteen feet. The head shows a
marked difference in form from that Of
the Alligator The snout is sharp and
triangular, ending in small rounded
protuberance on its top.
Like Alligators, however, the Croco-
dile has five toes on the front feet and
four on the hind ones. There Is no
bony nasal septum, as in Alligators.
The northern limit Of the Crocodile
is fixed by temperature. When sub
jected to a, temperature below 40
degrees, Fahrenheit, the Crocodile be-
comes helpless, sinks to the bottom
and browns. The Alligator fills his
lungs with air, closes a valve and sinks
quietly, being capable Of a long hiber-
nation with no distressing conse-
ouappau
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-09-27
Tuesday, September 27, 1921.

bathing suit evil is to have frosty
morning and skim of ice over the
pond.
Gilmcr Lynn Nisbet. who thinks he
knows as much about bathing suits
as the Enquirer man knows about
them says that a good way TO eradI-
cate the bathing suit evil is TO put the
women in II pond all to themselves
and To put the men by themselves IN
Il pond over the hills and far away
from the one the women are SWIM
ming in-ATonroe (N. Co. Enquirer
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-09-27
and Doc Stopped the flow

bartender and Doc Stopped the flow
of blood and saved mis- life.
So ever after that when Summers
would gather around Doc Shulfield
and attempt to make sport of him,
Pete would leap over the counter with
hung starter in hand. Doc was pic
turcsuue figure with his high hat, soil
ed white vest and iron gray side
whiskers. He was never known to
ask a fee on the BOwery-all he want
cd was drink to blot out the past and
he managed to get all he wanted Of
that
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-09-27
Difference in Disposition

In disposition there is a marked diff
ference, which one would do well to
consider, for neglect of it might easily
cost him his life. The Crocodile is
treacherous, savage in disposition and
enormously agile, being able to throw
himself far forward and strike with
almost incredible swiftness. The first