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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-03-03
CONY HIGH NOTES

special ears will be run to water
N.lie tonight in order that all VINO
wish may attend the games when
'auv will play with the Waterviiie
1lrh aggrcgations. Last year 1t
vas necessary TO run two cars ana
81 may lee necessary to do that this
!or.
The following students will make
Tie trip as members OF the basket
bnn squads: Boys--Capt. II. Knowles
v. Tarrlngton, c. Poor, c. Winslow. b.
lloyd. y. Hewett. Z. Stafford. and >.
s.ddings, manager. Girls-Capt. u.
Gldd,ngs. NJ. simpson. J. Sturtevant'
j. Mason. G. Hopkins. l. Kendall. l..
Hayden H. Batchelder and Manager
i bunker.
Today will he celebrated as Tenn
rcrance day at the school with APP
rropriate exercises In the various
English classes.
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Golden Harvest Cranoe

Golden Harvest Grange of Carmel
held its regular meeting, Feb. Goth,
with quite a good attendance. After
the routine business had been attend
ed to, the Worthy Master declared a
recess and the committee chosen for
the town meeting dinner. which will
be given to the Grange. March 8.
solicited food. After meeting was
called to order, as Lecturer was abb
sent, a voluntary program was pre-
scented, to which quite a number
responded.
Another contest has been started.
the sisters filling the chairs three
nights and the brothers three nights.
alternately. Judges were chosen and
tho losing side will be obliged To
furnish supper and, entertainment
Monday evening. Feb. q was the
first night and was also mems night,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-03-03
Cox to Take Vacation

Washington. March e--James NJ.
Cox of Ohio, Democratic presidential
candidate in 192oSleft late today for
a vacation trip to Aiken, S. c.. after
q two days visit in the capital dur
ing which he saw number of Demo-
cratic leaders and conferred with his
former colleagues in Congress.
Mr.. Cox today called at the resi-
dence of former President Wilson
and left his card but did not see Mr..
Wilson personally.
In his talks with several Demo-
cratic congressional leaders, Mr.. Cox
was said to have discussed the COM
ing fall elections.
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Labor Federation
Resolutions Favor
Ford Offer Muscle Shoals

Resolutions that Muscle Shoals
should be developed by Americans
with American capital In the interests
Of the American people we're THANH
mously adopted by the executive
board of the Maine Federation of La
Dor at meeting held here Thursday
The resolutions are a. follows:
Whereas. The great question before
the American People today and the
Congress- Of the United States is the
proper utllization for the benefit Of
all the people Of the great natural
resources that have heretofore re-
NAMED dormant 1t Muscle Shoals
and
Whereas. Henry s'erd, tho mechani-
cal wizard Of the ass has made q
proposal to the Government tina,
msets With almost unamieus APPROX.
|ai by the people Of che entire Nation
land apparently by largo number OF
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-03-03
MERCER

Mrs. Powers and daughter Ruth
are the guests of friends in Scion.
Mrs. Fred Williamson is staying
with her daughter, Mrs. Herbert
Holmes for a few weeks.
The Minstrel Show will be repeat
ed March as owing I" the storm
some could not get to the village.
The hall was packed to the doors and
the show was excellent. every actor
a proof Of the fine training given the
young people by Mr.. F1crette.
Clara Smith, who has been quite
i'll. is very much better but not yet
able to be out.
Alton Smith has started his saw
mill but 10 not able to run full time
on account Of the lack of water.
Calvin Garland who has been quite
sick for some weeks 10 able to walk
out when IL 10 pleasant.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-03-03
AUGUSTA AUGMENTATION.
ASSO'N. OUTLINES LOCAL
WORK TO Be UNDERTAKEN 8

AS it's first piece ct definite work 10
be undertaken for the community, the
Augusta Americanization association
at its meeting Thursday afternoon,
voted to cooperate with the drahd
Army of the Republic and its allied
bodies in the observance OF the 'Ootn
anniversary of the birth of 'aenerai
Ulysses S. Grant. The part 70 DC
played by this association is two--
fold: az membership on community
committees; and (2) assistance in
getting out the crowd for the occa-
sion, With this cooperation OF some
80 of Augustus leading organizations
City hall ought to be packed to the
doors on the 9th of April IN honor
of the fast disappearing Grand Army
of the Republic and it's illustdous
leader, whom they so dearly love ana
than whom there Is no greater mill
tary hero in the annals of history.
The meeting yesterday resolved
itself into q discussion Of the place
that an Americanization association
could fill in this community snd the
debate was spirited from start to nm
ish. Secretary George @. Clarke OF
the Augusta Chamber Of Commerce
led the discussion by reading letter
which appeared recently in the COL
umns of the Kennebec Journal in
which the citizens of Augusta were
accused in no mistakable terms OF
being unpatriotic and unresponsive to
speakers Of national repute. in fact of
being disrespectfu. to the colors and
ont of harmony with the purposes and
ideals of America. IF this indice-
ment is true" said Secretary Clarke.
ut behooves us to correct the evil and
our problem of Americanization must
BEGIN with our own people. If it is
untrue, the community, through its
patriotic organisation should be Or
ganixed to reply to such accusations"
The discussion that followed de-
veloped several facts Of importance.
Miss Jean e. Todd, executive secre-
tary OF the Augusta Chapter OF the
American Red Cross. stated that 1t is
true that our Augusta people use the
playing OF the Star 6pangled Banner
ut the rehearsals of the Augusta
Symphony orchestra as an opportun-
ity to set on their wraps and to leave
the hall. Just last Sunday they did
this very thing and it is not right.
Another member of the association
asked for the distinction between the
ordinary use Of the flag and the use
as the colors" and Emery Beane,
representative Of the American Leg
ion. explained that whenever the
flags were carried on parade it was
the patriotic duty of every American
to stand at attention with head
barred In respect to the flag and all
that 1t symbolizes.
Striking at the very vitals Of our
national life IL the feeling that the
country has not treated the ex-ser-
vice man Justly. The boys feel that
the. contrast between the man in the
service at q dollar = day and the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-03-03
Andrese Pomona

The monthly meeting Of the Andro-
scoggin Pomona Grange was held
Wednesday with the Danville juno
ton Grange. Miss Mabel Wood OF
Lewiston had charge Of the meeting.
On account of the important adj
dresses there was no degree work.
The morning session was opened at
II o'clock with an address by Miss
Edith M. Soule. Of the State Board
Of Hygiene, on Child Welfare"
After a recess for dinner, DR.. g. NJ.
Twitchell Of Auburn save an address
and thers were readings by Mrs.
Leon. Berry Of Lake View Grange.
vocal solos by Lester McKenney and
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-03-03
Denies Is Man Wanted
For Embezzlement $4,000

Miami. Fla. Mar. ii. D. Myers,
aged IS. a resident Of Miami for the
last five years and an ensign in the
navy during the world war. denied
today that he was Milton d. Joseph.
wanted in Salt Lake City, Utah. for
the alleged embezzlement Of $4,000
from 4 bank there eight years ago.
Myers wax, arrested last night on
a, warrant from Salt Lake City. A
director Of the bank on visit here.
saw Myers on the street few days
ago. said he recognized him as the
bank clerk who had absconded. and
swore out a warrant for his arrest.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-03-03
Statement of Governor
Baxter on Temperance Day

The Legislature OF 1891 passed a
law that the first Friday In March
should he observed In the pubic
fcnools OF the State as Temperance
pay and that school officials ana
teachers should arrange appropriate
exercises w order toimpress upon
tho scholars the virtues OF temper
ance.
bring the law TO the attention OF
those whose duty II Is to enforce II,
ana urge them to comply with its re-
Quirements. Maine through . long
period Of years has stood loyalty for
the cause Of temperance and has had
the satisfaction OF having the rest OF
the country follow her lead. The
school children OF today should be
taught that laws are to DO respected
and that no distinction should be
made In their observance.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-03-03
Augusta Woman
To Celebrate Soon
First Ride on Train

\ Miss Susan c. Penney, clerk at the
Pierce Book store, is yet to have her
first ride in a steam railroad train.
She has seen pictures CT such trains
in tho magazines. but has never been
on one. She was In Boston once, but
the trip was made in an automobile.
Miss Penney is something Of pedes-
trian. During her four years at the
Cony High school she walked eight
miles u day, to and from her home
at North Augusta. This exercise
kept her in most vigorous health.
But some day she is going to cele-
brate ana ride on a "choo- choo"
train.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-03-03
~" eowlsrs Defeat c. NJ. p. Co.

The Y. NJ. c. A. bowling team
sWamped the Central Maine Power
60 quintet, taking all four points In
tn, match rolled Wednesday evening
1T the ~" alleys. The match was
featured by three strings rolled by
captain Perkins Of the ~" team az
follows: 10. 1Oi and 122--totai. T'6.
lie rolled the high single and the
ilgh total. This victory puts the
~" team at the head of the league.
the score for the game:
Y. " e. $50 $50 467-1391
Z, ". l.. Co. 400 422 SO7-l22o
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Gets Is Years for
Attacks on Three Women

Poughkeepsie. n. T.. Mar. Char
les Lasher, q. who pleaded guilty to
having attempted to attack three
women, one Of them an assistant pros
lessor at vassar college. was sentences
ed today by Supreme court Justice
Morschauser to an aggregate Of Is
years in Sing Sing prison.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-03-03

city Of Lemberg is now planning TO
erect a monument in honor Of Amer
lea. 1t will commemorate the relief
work done in Poland by the Hoover
mission. the American Red Cross
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-03-03
AUGUSTA LOCALS

g. T.. Bilodeau returned Thursday
cning from several days visit
DO Boston.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-03-03

Charles Jones OF Windsor and c.
". Moore of Nassalboro were bust
ness visitors Thursday In this city.
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That dinner party will not be a sue
cess unless the "tD-on" II rtght. TO
guarantee the desserts delight use
Bakers Certified Eiavoring Extracts.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-03-03

Ernest Cobb of Stevens Mills Grange
and instrumental music by the Dan
Vile junction Grange. Miss Wood
gave d report of the recent State
Lecturers Conference at Augusta.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-03-03

Friends Of Mrs. Gerald Beane OF
Maple street. will regret to learn that
she is i'll with the grip.
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Lemberg to Erect Monument
For Honor American, Relief

Lemberg Poland. Mar. 2--Fol-
lowing the example Of Warsaw, the
The New York herald., 1922-06-18

DsvERTING to Sir Arthur
lO Conan Doyle, back in the days
long before he achieved to knight
hood he wrote a book made up of
medical stories and experiences
called Round the Red Lamp" the
red lamp being the usual sign of
the general practitioner in England.
In the course of one of the
chapters of Round the Red Lamp
a character discussed medicine in
popular fiction, what people in
novels died of and what diseases
were introduced. Typhoid" he
said, "is fairly frequent, but scarlet
fever is unknown. Heart disease
is common. but then heart disease,
as we know it, is usually the Sc
quel of some foregoing disease,
OF which we never hear anything
in the romance. Then there is the
mysterious malady known as brain
fever, which always attacks the
heroine after crisis, but which is
unknown under that name in the
text books. People when they are
over excited in novels fall down in
fit. In fairly large experience
l have never known any one to do
so in real life. The small COM
plants simply don't exist. Nobody
ever gets shingles or quinsy or
mumps in novel. All the dis
eases, too, belong to the upper part
OF the body. The novelist never
strikes below the belt"
The New York herald., 1922-06-18

he eighth commandment in matters
of copyright, where the law failed
to protect. Yet in his "Good
Stories" he seems to have trans
ferred bodily "The Knightsbridge
Mystery" from a little volume en-
titled Traditions of London" pub
lished in 1859. in which it appeared
as "The Murder at the Swan Inn"
As some enc has summed up the
case "the most important changes
made by Mr.. Reade are in the names
of the characters and, notably, in
that of the author Of the story"
Again Reade used Erasmus's COLO
guy between Bertulph and William
in the inn scene of "The Cloister
and the Hearth"
THIS department has already ex-
L pressed its appreciation of the
high talent Of Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle as a literary workman. Only
a workman Of the first class could
have made Rodney Stone the
best novel OF the prize ring ever
written" and one Of the best novels
CT Corinthian England ever written
out of such poor material as "Tom
and jerry" the various lives OF
Brummell, and the yapid, slangy
literature Of pugilistica. Only a
workman Of the first class could
have taken such a poor story as
"Frankenstein" and twisted a part
of the germ idea into such a good
story as LOT 249." One of Doyle's
earlier tales was "The Firm Of
Girdlestone." Compare it in out
line with Sheridan LIE Fanus
"Uncie Silas." In each story the
plot turns on the attempted murder
Of a ward by her guardian for the
sake of her money; in each case the
guardian tries TO obviate the pain
full necessity of killing her by
marrying her instead to his son; in
each case the said guardian is
half religious fanatic, half hypo-
critic: in each case the manner OF
rlot for murder entails confinement
of the heroine in dreary old house
belonging to the guardian. Finally
there is more than suggestion OF
resemblance between the two books
in the matter of some of the minor
characters and certain situations.
THEN there is the germ idea of
L which Conan Doyle made use
in 1.-The New Catacomb," of which
Edgar Allan Poe made use in 1.-THE
Cask of Amontillado," and of which
Honore de Balzac made use in La
Grande Breteche." The three stories
are widely different; each reflects
sharply the talent or genius of its
author, yet the foundation upon
which each is builded is emphati-
cally the same. A man revenges
himself upon his enemy by entomb-
ing him. Doyle's story is included
in the volume "The Green Flag"
published some twenty years ago.
OF the other two it is hard to say
offhand which appeared the earlier,
both probably dating from the dec
ade 1S40-1S50. A point of possible
significance is that Poe knew ather
more French than Balzac knew
English.
TN La Grande Bretche," wife
i at her husbands unexpected re-
turn hides her lover in a dark re-
cess in the wall. Noticing her state
of excitement, the husband charges
her with having some one concealed
and makes her swear to her denial
on the crucifix. Then slowly and
laboriously he begins the task of
walling up the recess, meeting all
her entreaties with stern: you
swore upon the cross that there was
no one there" In Poe's story the
element of sex is lacking. A man
tcmpts his enemy into. an unex-
The New York herald., 1922-06-18

the two start out to explore it with
the aid of a lantern and several
miles of silk thread. The German,
holding the thread in his own hand,
conducts the Englishman to a hol-
lew chamber in a remote part and
then, explaining his motive, leaves
him there, finding his own way
back by means Of the thread.
THERE is one form Of literary
i plagiarism to which even the
most hypercritical could not take
exception-thati is the plagiarism OF
cne's own. To that is owed some
of the best literature. We wish
that there were more Of it. We
wish, for instance, that Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle would rewrite "The
Lost Special" and 'The Brazilian
Cat" from Round the Fire Stories,"
introducing Mr.. Sherlock Holmes
as the medium of the solution of
each mystery. Thackeray is con-
spicuous example of one who was
always plagiarizing from himself.
At every turn in his later work may
he found a familiar echo of the
Thackeray of the Paris correspond
ence days, of Frase,'s and of Punch.
The social philosophy of "The Book
of Snobs" runs through every chap
ter of Vanity Fair" and "The New
comes" The schoolboy fight be
tween Cuff and Dobbin in the for
mer book is almost word for word
one of Thackeray's early and fugi-
tive sketches. The same thing is to
be found here and there in the work
OF Victor Hugo and Alphonse
Daudet.
pUT to see the art of plagiarizing
Il ones own and improving it at
its best, turn to Guy de Maupassant.
Maupassant wrote a short story
called "The Coward" Then he in
corporated the psychology of it into
"Bel-Ami." After his. death there
was published a volume of short
stories entitled lie Pere Milon."
1t contained countless suggestions
OF episodes and characters Of BEL
Ami" "Notre Ceur," "Une Vie" and
Fort Comme la Mort" In lie
Pere Milon" there was no less than
four sketches which were later EN-.
bodied in "Une Vie" The story
AN Evening Spring" is made an
episode of the courting of Jeanne,
the heroine Of the novel. In an
other tale magistrate and a nun
sit up with the dead body of their
mother. and find in a chest of draw
ers bundle of love letters which
the adored dead one had received
from her lover. That, too, is re-
peated in "Une Vie" Again the
"Saut du Berger of lie Pere
Mifon" conforms in many respects
to the chapter in the novel in which
the Comte de Fourville kills his
wife and her lover when they are
shut up in shepherds hut. There
Is, however, one difference; in the
novel the criminal catastrophe is
an episode introduced purely for
the purpose of solving the intrigue
of Julien and the Comtesse de Four
vile; whereas in the short story
the entire action moves about GER
tain character, that of the ascetic
priest, fanatical and violent, whose
introduction in the novel is merely
an episode.
|DSvERTING to Sir Arthur
i ~ Conan nOv1o ha olx in tho dovc
The New York herald., 1922-06-18
CHRONICLE AND
COMMENT
By ARTHUR BARTLETT MAURICE.

EzZzHZZHZHZZzZ
m HE immortals are always with
L US. No particular arniver-
sary or chance discovery is needed
to justify discussion of the great
men and women of letters of the
past who have endured the test of
the years. But the event that links
yesterday and to-day lends discus
sion an additional effect For ex-
ample, Thomas Hardy enters upon
his eighty-third year, or a news
item informs us of the death of the
woman who is said to have been the
model from whom he drew Tess of
the Durbervilles. Certain letters
written by Byron or certain letters
written to Edgar Allan Poe are
printed for the first time. Some
one disinters an early and almost
certainly worthless novel by Ho-
more de Balzac. A hitherto un-
) known sketch by Thackeray de-
-picting the Brookfield circle is
brought to the light. For a mo-
ment the men and women who have
long been dust, or the creation Of
the fancy of long ago, become the
live and important literary topics.
n GREAT deal has been printed
"A in the American newspapers
about the suit brought by the heirs
Of Auguste Maquet against the heirs
of Alexandra Dumas that was re-
Gently settled in the Paris courts.
But many aspects<of the famous
collaboration and of the stories it
involved have been overlooked.
The contention Of the MaQuet heirs
was largely based upon "The Count
of Monte Cristo," that most gor-
geous of romapces designed merely
to entertain. That Maquet contrib
uted to the success of that book by
his suggestion that the Marseilles
chapters were the chapters Of
prime importance and should be
introduced at the beginning of the
tale is now generally accepted. But
no one seems to have alluded to
the source from which Dumas ac-
tually drew the story, or to have
pointed out that there were real
originals Of the Able Faria and
Edmond Dantes.
IN HE real Able Faria died in
L 1919, almost four years be-
fore Dumas arrived in Paris. He
was born in 1855 in Portugal and
baptized Jose Custodio de Faria.
Entering holy orders, he became in
time an Able and continued his
studies in Rome. In 1888 he
reached Paris, clad in ecclesiastical
garb, yellow Of skin, dry of visage.
tall and finely formed Extremely
liberal in his religious views he
became interested in the practices
Of Mesmer. AS mesmerist himself
he was not wholly a success. One
night at a dinner he attempted his
powers and failed ANONYMOUSLY.
Chateaubriand, who was present,
ridiculed him and his pretensions,
and declared that magnetism was
only a species of magic and sor-
Gerry. Faria, nevertheless, contin-
ued his experiments of hyprotism
in Paris until 1911. About the time
of the beginning of the story Faria
was living in the south Of France,
but there is nothing to show that
he was ever prisoner in the Cha
teau diff. At the age of 81 he die;i
of apoplexy. and is supposed to be
buried in the Cemetery of Mont
martre
ID UT the foundation upon which
II was builded the whole vast
edifice of plot of THE Count of
Monte Cristo" as well as the source
from which Dumas drew the char
acter of Edmond Dantes, was Peu-
chefs La Police Devoilee," kind
of memoirs of the French secret
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