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Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-06

cemeteries, making "a careful report
to the headquarters office. It, in
turn, advised the next of kin given
by the decedent of the grave loca-
ton and made record of requests
received as to the final burial place
for the body. In some cases photo
graphs of individual graves were
made by the Red Cross and sent to
bereaved families.
When hostilities closed, there
were 2,400 burial places in France,
Belgium, England. Italy, Russia, and
Germany. the majority of which
were simply emergency cemeteries.
At first, it was believed that all of
the American dead would have to
be returned, but later it developed
that many of the bereaved were
content to let their dead remain
where they lay. This sentiment was
largely inspired by Colonel Roose-
yelt's request that the body of his
son. Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt,
should remain where he was buried
by the Germans. where the tree
falls. let it. lie!' Colonel Roosevelt
said.
Thus, about sixty-five per CEN of
our number of American dead were
returned to their families and buried
in private lots or in national Gene
teries in this country. The rest
were assembled and buried in per-
manent cemeteries abroad.
Extreme care and respect for
their task have been conspicuous
throughout the work of the Graves
Registration Bureau and the Fine
Arts Commission. Their efforts have
high and fine and above h
criticism of those acquainted with
the facts.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-06
Power of ISudy
Over the Mind

You've read a lot about the power
Of the mind over the body. Don't
forget the power of the body over
the mind. Chester w. barrow, psy-
chologist at University of Chicago.
after thousands of experiments, de-
cides that emotional thought is af-
fected by bodily attitudes, also by
bodily postures. For instance, a
person with a defiant, suspicious
attitude is nos apt to think defiant
and suspicious thoughts, And pleas
ant thoughts come more readily
when standing erect with chest out
than when lounging in a slouching
fashion.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-06
Asked and AnSwered

Any reader can get the answer to
any question by writing The Perth
Amboy Evening News Information
Bureau. Frederic ]. Haskin, Direc-
tor. Washington. D.. C. This offer
applies strictly to Information. h
bureau will not attempt to a. wer
medicinal and financial troubles. 1t
does not attempt to settle domestic
troubles, nor to undertake exhaus-
tive research on any subject. Write
your question plainly and briefly.
Give full name and address and en-
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postage. All replies are sent direct
to the inquirer.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-06
As 1t Appears
Deserving Tribute
To Former Judge Lyon

8EOo
1t certainly was a we'll deserved
tribute that the friends of former
Judge Adrian Lyon pail to him at
the Y. M. c. A. Tuesday night. Judge
Lyon is the type of citizen that does
credit to any community. His ex-
cellent work for the Y. NJ. c. A. is
only one of the many accomplish
ments he has to his record, hut the
Y. NJ. c. A. is enough 10 bring fame
both to him and to the city In which
he lives. Not only is he the active
head and actual leader of the Y. NJ.
c. A. in this city, which is recog-
nized as one of the most flourishing
in the country, but he has gained
nationwide reputation and now
stands high in international councils
of the association. Every Perth
Amboyan has reason to feel proud
of their fellow citizen.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-06
Pays We'll to
PopulariZe History

H.. G.. Wells has made yer
$4,000 in royalties from his out
line of History" according to gossip
among book publishers. In oth4r
words, he's paid half a million for
having imagination enough to sense
that history, supposedly a dry sub
ject, could be popularized. No living
writer could make as much from a
sale of a work of fiction in book
form alone. Plenty of opportunities.
when they are right under our noses.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-06
asD
ToDAY,s BIBLE THOUGHT

THAT WHICH SATTSFIES:-
Wherefore do we spend money for
that which is not bread? and your
labour for that which satisfieth not?
hearken diligently unto me, and eat
ye that which is good, and let your
soul delight itself in fatness.-
Isaiah 65:2.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-06
No School
On Account of Rain

IN ESNOuIt VI nam
1t was n stormy day yesterday
so there was no school. When we
consider all the holidays and short
time periods so that teachers can at
tend various meetings, and then the
one session every time it rains a little
bit, it is not surprising that the
pupils do not make a better show
ing than they do. There was a holi-
day nearly every week during Octo-
Der, and schools had hardly gotten
started before they were closed on
account Of election work. November
has Armistice Day now along with
the Thanksgiving vacation, and then
the stormy season sets in which
means many more off days. The
wonder is the children learn as much
as they do. While there may be
some eason for excusing the little
tots from going out in the storm
to attend school, there is no earthly
reason why the older scholars should
have a day off because it is raining.
When not in school most of them
spend the day in the MOVIES at
the "Y" or somewhere else which
takes them out. Hundreds of boys
of high school age are working and
they do not find it necessary to lay
off just because it is raining. Why,
then, should the boys Of the same
age be excused merely because they
are going to school instead of work
ing? 1t would appear as If there
was room for a great improvement
along this IRE. Give the children
q chance to learn something.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-06
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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-12-26

An idea of some Of the difficulties
under which, people throughout the
country labor in any attempt to reap
profit from Judgment and opinion in
matters urtlsS4c viii be gained from
the following experience of the late
Creston Clarke, the actor:
While playing in A good-sized city
he was approached. one day on the
street by an eager young man, who
said:
How do you do Mr. Clarke2 /
saw your performance last night. I'm
On the
OH said Mr.. Clarke And how
do you like newspaper work?"
Il think it's fms" replied the youth,
I'm Just starting in at it. I'm only
dramatic critic ROW, but if | do well
they're going to, give me police work. y
-From Everyb@ays Magazine
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-12-26
Sim of the Cross.

In IT'S simple form the cross IS, of
course two lines crossing each other
at, or nearly at, right angles. But it
varies frequently and it may consist
of two lines crossing at angles other
than right angles, or even of three
lines.
Generally, the cross is an unfaVor-
able sign. An exception is made when
the cross is seen on the mount of Jupi-
ter, at the base of the index OF fore
finger. Then it signifies happy mar
rage and success in life On the
mount of Saturn, al the base OF the
second finger, the cross is distinctly
bad. Look out for misfortune. The
same is true of the cross on the mount
of Apollo, which underlieS the third
finger, or finger of Apollo, but this adj
verse influence may be counteracted
and even nullitied if the hne of Apollo.
which runs up into the third finger,
is clear, we'll marked and deep. If
this line is good the cross on Apollo
is shorn of much of its malgn indu-
eSce.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-12-26

There are occasional doubts in the
minds of the elders of the Moore family
as to the quickness of Tommy's wits,
but there has never been any doubt
that a lesson learned by him. however
slowly, is forever after remembered.
Wont YOU shake hands with me,
Tommy" asked one of his sisters ad-
mirers, but Tommy hung back.
Il don't care TO-" he said With tex
rible distinctness.
Don't you like me?" asked the an
wise visitor
mo, | don't!" replied Tommy, and
then there was shocked chorus from
the family
Tommy" said his aunt, reproach-
fully as she withdrew him from the
public gaze, why did you say such a
rude thing to Mr.. JuneS?'
Because. auntie," said her wriggling
charge, ~ got licked last week for
not telling the truth, and | shan't neN er
take any risks again !"-Boston Globe
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-12-26
ORIGIN OF WORD SCHOONER
Gloucester Said to Have Been Birth
place of Vessel Known as
Schooner"

Besides ranking as the country's
greatest fishing village Gloucester de-
serves recognition for the invention
of the word schooner, now used, to
designate a type of sailing craft. This
quaint town, with its long street, its
smell of tar and hemp, where YOU en-
ter restaurant and order delicious
steam of swordfish, is now celebrat-
ing its three hundredth anniversary.
II would be equally fitting to let the
world know by what wfim il was that
its SchoOnerS came to be 50 named.
1t was in Gloucester that the word
originated Previous to 1913 the word
was unknown. Capt. Andrew Robin
SOB built a vessel which he masted
anG rugged in peculiar manner. Dur
Ing the vessels launching as she was
sliding off the stocks a byStander cried
out. How she scOonsi" The cap
tain instantly returned: "A schooner
les il be!' And thus the name came
into our marine vocabulary.
ScoOn was the word used in the dia-
lect of that day to describe skipping
or skimming motion and is of Scandi-
navian origin
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-12-26
ANIMALS PEHSnEJ i. .aA
Saber- Tooth Tigers, Mastodons. Eie.
plants and Camels Caught in
California Asphalt Pit.

Recently | stood looking into the as.
phalt pits at Rancho La Brea, Cal. |
had held in my hand that morning an
eight-inch tooth from this pit, the great
curved fang of Smilodon,' the saber-
tooth tiger.
The terrible weapon might have been
torn from the tigers jaw only yester-
day, so perfecXy had the impregnating
oil preserved it. Thin bladelilie. it's
inner serrate edge pricked the skin
and chung to the finger drawn through
its scimitar curve. 1t was a perfect
tooth.
The beast possessing it had persisted
in his mighty pride. And here with
him in the treacherous tar had persisted
two thousand Of his kind Skeletal
parts of two thousand saber-tooth IL
gers have been taken from this Cali
fornia tar pool at La Brea
AS stood by the pit looked about
me Two small ground squirrels
watched me from behind a eucalyptus
tree; forest of derricks rose over
against lie, pumping oil; stream
OF motor cars whizzed past me on the
paved road but in the pool below me
the oily ooZe bubbled thickly; and be-
low the ooze lay heaped the bitumi-
niZed ends of all the years.
Geology here had scrapped her later
ages. This was Times dump, the rem
dering vat, where into nothingness and
night each lighted, day is melted. each
perfect form of life
What strange and mighty forms
have vanished here: tigers more dread
FIJI than those Of the Amazon or Ben
sal mastodons Of monstrous size, eIe-
plants. camels, tapirs. sloths, horses,
wolves, cave bears and bear dogs big
ger than the Kadiak bear, birds and
reptiles without like or kind among
the Iiying-now forever gone except
that their buried bones are found, and
on those rude and partial frames
rough guesses hung for what were
once unique and breathing forms.-
Harper's Magazine.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-12-26
Dnnnlspnt
Donald Perkins, a student at the
M. c. A. automobile school, Bos-

Donald Perkins, student at the
Y. M. G. A. automobile school, Bos-
ton, spent Christmas with his par
ents. Capt and Mrs. c. M. Perkins.
Sherman Perkins of Brockton,
Mass, spent Christmas with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. c. Perkins.
Roy Bowden of Rumford spent the
past week with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Willard Bowden,
Mrs. Ella Leach of Bluehill is Wis
iting her sister, Mrs. Lizzie Bowden.
Mrs. Bertha Leach, daughter Ar
line and son Paul, are spending two
weeks in Bangor with her daughter,
Mrs NJ. |. Smith.
The students of Clark high school
are enjoying a two-weeks' vacation.
The teachers went to their homes
Saturday.
The pupils of Bay school enjoyed
a Christmas tree Friday afternoon.
Each pupil received three gifts-one
from the teacher, Mrs. Caro- Hen
rickson. one from a former teacher,
Miss Stewart, and one in exchange
with another pupil. The teacher was
not forgotten, receiving some nice
ElIlS lIOil the pa llil9. AiNl Z W 90 'tAA
abundance of candy, popcorn and
peanuts AN enjoyed a pleasant af-
ternoon, and thank their teacher for
the success and pleasure of the occa-
sion.
An enjoyable meeting of Penobscot
chapter, O. e. S, was held Friday
evening, with about forty present.
The degrees were conferred upon two
candidates, after which Christmas
tree and program were enjoyed. Wis
itors were present from Seaside and
S. X. Whiting chapters. 1t is hoped
there will be a large attendance at
the annual meeting, January A.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Hutchins have
sold their horne here to w. II. Hoop
er of Castine, and have gone to Ellis
worth to spend the winter with their
grandson, Ormand Wardwell.
The many friends of Mrs. Adelaide
Leach Will be pleased to know she
, has recovered from her illness, and
is out.
Thomas Perkins has returned from
the e. NJ. G. hospital, where he has
been receiving treatment two weeks.
Mrs. Mae Perkins is home from
New Sweden, where she visited her
daughter, Mrs Leah Pearson
Miss Alice Wardwell of Belfast
1 visited her mother, Mrs Lena Ward
Well, over Christmas.
II. e. Perkins spent Christmas at
home from his work in Sullivan.
Mrs. Hortense Grmdle and son
Pearl went to Swanyille last week
to be in the home of II. G. Smart
during the winter.
Mrs. E. r. Leach has returned
from Castine hospital, where she has
been on a case for the past ten days
Dec. "a. 'Woodlocke.'
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-12-26
Got "NIicrobcs" Back.

Not long ago commerclal traVeler
saved his employers from sustaining
a serious loss by his presence or
mind.
He was travelling for firm of dia-
mond merchants, and his business
took him to town in Yorkshire.
He called at an inn for drink.
When he left he forgot his bag, con-
tanning some thousands of pounds
worth of precious stones.
On discovering his loss he re-
turned, but the keeper declared he
had not seen the bag.
Il would not have lost it fol-
worlds" said the traveller. 81 am q
surgeon, and that bag contained
phials of cholera microbes"
White and trembling, the barkeep
er pointed to the bag, which he hat
secreted behind the counter, and il
was removed at once by the quick
witted traveller.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-12-26
STONINGTON CLEANUP.
Hootch Dealers Take to Cover and
Punch Boards Disappear.

The sheriff of Hancock county re-
Gently commissioned John A. Annis
of this town, deputy sheriff, and no
sooner was he qualified than search
warrants were sworn out in our local
court in number sufficient to give all
suspicious places once over. The
hootch makers and home-brew ped
dlers made for cover, but the very
efficient deputy got the principal of
tenders.
Three were found guilty and SEM
fenced to from two to six months I'M
Jail and from $500 to $500 fine. APP
peals were taken to the April term,
the bonds being set at $500 and
$1,000. One was discharged, and
another has yet to journey to court
when he shall have returned to town.
A number of other places were
searched. but no evidence was found
with which to hold the occupants.
It is the consensus of opinion about
town that the big source of supply
was intercepted when a successful
raid was made on the Judkins prem
ises This undertaking was more or
less sensational The deputy with
the assistance of Thomas Williams,
a local constable, went to the Jud-
kins dwelling and demanded en-
trance. which was had to the kitchen
without trouble Judkins rushed to
the basement and barred the door to
the hootch room against the officers,
and while thy were breaking in, he
threw numerous jugs, bottles and
ofnPr containers. well filled with
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-12-26

Myra Moon and son Monroe spent
a few days recently at their home
here.
Charles McLane of Boston is with
his parents for a few days,
Friends of Mrs f.. Il. Graves were
sorry to learn of her death, which
occurred at Shirley, where she was
spending the winter with her son
Erwin She leaves another son,
Gerard, of this place.
Henry Kellam and son spent last
week with his mother, Mrs. Matilda
Martin,
The GooGfellowship club held its
meeting on Saturday evening as
usual. and spent a pleasant evening.
Refreshments were served, All We're
glad to have Myra Moon and Charles
McLane present.
Dec. "a M.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-12-26
HAVE SIXTH SENSE
Vipers Believed to Possess Un-
known Faculty.
New York Curator Says Exact Nature
of Reptiles Sixth Sense Is In
comprehensive 10 Man.

The intuitive flash commonly known
explained more or less satisfactorily
by Freud and other psychologists as
it applies TO man, but no one ever
psychoanalyzed snake. Hence the
mysterious sixth sense OF the loWly
pit viper is still a poser.
In the opinion of Raymond l.. Dit
mars, curator of reptiles at the Bronx
zoo, the exact nature of the snake
sixth sense is incomprehensible to
man. as he possesses no lestige of the
unknown faculty himself
1t is only in that type of snake dis
tinguished by Slight indentation in
front Of the eyes on each side of the
head, and generally known as pit vi
pers, that the pulling phenomenon is
present. The indentation is the out
ward indication of Il series of two cavi
ties sunk into the snakes skull. Ii
is simple but delicate organ, well
lined with a sensitive membrane and
connected with what passes for g
brain in the reptile 1t is evidently
in active operation, and its condition
shows that it is not a lingering vestiSe
of an outgroWn stage of evolution as
are the small bones which prove THAI
snakes once had legs.
The pit viper, which includes the
rattlesnake, moccasin, copperhead and
"fer-de-iance," has the same rudimen.
tary inner ears as other serpents, and
must use its forked tongue on the
tuning fork principle to hear. BIn that
connection it is no better than the gar
dcSl variety OF snake. But in most
other ways it is infinitely superior. Ii
can almost think.
Inasmuch as the only type of scr
pent which does display signs of men
tai power at all is distinguished b.
the pit it is logical to presume that il
is the seat of the snakes sixth sense,
Snakes certainly are not intelligent,
says Mr.. Diumars, and they are in
capable of reasoning Yet some of the
acts performed by pit yiperS can only
be explained in one of two ways
either they have a mysterious added
sense or they have the capacity FOR
memory and SO can profit by expert.
ence. Scientists who have studied
reptiles are convinced that the formel
theory is the more tenable.
Such snakes seem to sense the pres
ence 81 approach Of an enemy and
even detect the imminenCe Of other
forms of danger 100. they have ii
homipg instinct more remarkable than
the homing pigeon, which at least has
the advantage OF a bird's-eye view
No matter how far atield a rattle
snake may roam in the course OF d
summer it viii invariably return witt
unerring accuracy to its alternating
place when the air becomes chilly.
There is only one species of pit
viper indigenous, to the tropics and
that displays rhe same faculty in re
gard to its regular home as the hi
bernating species of the North. And
its talents as a weather prophet would
put to shame the best efforts of our
learned experts with al their appa-
ratus.-New York Sun-Globe.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-12-26

Mrs Annie Smallidge and Mrs.
Cora Smalldge spent the weekend at
Northeast Harbor,
Mrs Mary Anderson returned
Wednesday from a visit in Bangor.
Miss Velma Gray, who teaches at
Plantation No. IA, is at home for
two weeks.
Reuben Davis of Trenton is build
ing a farmhouse for Hon, A, P. Lor-
ing of Boston on Mr. Loring's farm
at Bartlett's Island, to replace the
one that was burned last year,
w p. Leonard has returned from
a weeks visit in Boston.
Miss Josephine Gray of Bangor is
expected Monday to spend the holi-
days with her parents, w. II. Gray
and wife.
Dec. "a. G.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-12-26

A Baltimore man who was formerly
a resident of a town on ehe Eastern
Shore recently revisited has old home
town after an absence of many years
One day he was talking with an old
friend about various people he for
IUerly knew.
what became of the Hall tamilyg'
40 inquired
"Oh." said the lattec Tom Han did
very well. Got to be an actor out on
the Pacific coast. Bill, the other
brother is something of an artist in
New York, and Lucy, the sister, is do
ing literary work But Henry never
Amounted to much. 1t took all he could
lay his hands on TO support the 9th
ers."-From the Baltimore sun.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-12-26
STATE or MAINE.


Unpaid taxes On land situated in Il |
town of verona, in the County of Han
cock, foc the year 1928.
The following list OF taxes on real
estate of nonresident owners in the
town of Verona, for the year 1928, COM
mitted to me for collection for said
town, ON the 1rst day of July, 1928 re-
mains unpaid and notice is hereby
given that IL said taxes, interest and
charges are not previously paid, so
much of the real estate taxed as is suf-
including Interest and charges, will be
sold at public auction at the school
house, Dsarict No. l, So called in said
Verona, Cthe same being the place
where ghe last preceding an-
nu4l town meeting of said town was
heidi on the first Monday of February.
1924 at nine O'Clock a. m.
Amt. of
tax due
including
Names of Owners. Descrip- int. aad
ton of Real Estate charges
and two lots. $ 500
c. p Gallagher, cottage and lot, 1000
George Hodgkins, cottage and
John Mccain estate, cottage
and lot 14.0O
Alice sanborn estate, cottage -,
and lot, 700
William Fish, hotel, outbuild-
ings wharf and land, about
four and one-half acres,
WIN. l.. WHITE,
Collector of Taxes for the Town Q
Verona for the year 1928.
December "a. 1928.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-12-26

A total of 26,536 miles of Federal
aid roads was completed by June 80,
1928, according to the United States
Department of Agriculture. Some
$500 miles of Federal-aid highways
of different types were constructed
during the fiscal year ending on that
date. The projects under construc-
ton at the close of the year totaled
14,772 miles and were estimated as
SIS per cent. complete.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-12-26

The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Union River Telephone
Co. will be held on Monday, the TWEEN
tX-f7rst day of January, 1924, at tn
Office of the clerk in Aurora, al /
o'clock a. ms, for the purpose of elect
ing a board of directors for the ensu
ing year, and transacting any othe
business which may legally come be
f1sre said meeting.
A. ]. SILSBY, Clerk
Dated December 10, 1923.