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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-05-22
Auto Accessories

FORMER pRICES-Now quoted on
Micheln tires and famous ring
shaped tubes. Gulf supreme oil and
srcascs, spark plugs, tire chains. and
other auto accessories at wholesale
prices to users. Agents wanted.
Frank e Mace. 81 Winthrop ST., Au-
guSfa Tel. hSi-M
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-05-22

S. c. WHITE LEGHORN-Babyc hicls
Pen headed by Ferris 23O-264 strain.
matches June 18th and June goth.
Price SIS per hundred. Peter THAI
mum, Maplehurst Farm, Winthrop.
Maine. Tel. l02-21.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-05-22
Poultry and SUPPLE.

ANCONA AND BARRED R0CKE-
Hatching eggs. $1.25 setting. Viii
snip parcel post. r. McCourtney. 81
Arsenal St. Augusfa
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-05-22

X. J.. 7RED-Day-od chicks. Heavy
aging. healthy strain. Can book or
hundred. Quality right Write or
phonc Peter "A .Thaanum, Jr.. Maple
hurst Poultry Farm, Winthrop. Tel
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-05-22

Everything for everybody. father.
mother. and the children can use the
articles advertised In the merchandise
claSsifcationS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-05-22
EMPLOYMENT
Help Wanted-Male

AUTOMOBILE REPAIRMAN-An eX-
pericnced one. Coburn Garage, Show
regan, Maine.
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Wanted-Live Stock

Wanted-Iive Stock so
Der & HeWett's,
ee,HoRSE-tor keep. Mr.. Edgar
Stoves. r ]. Box 81, Augusta.
LIVE observation-disclosures cash price
pald. Randolph Live Poultry Co, 2S6
Water ST.. Gardiner. Tel. BOW.
SHlP-Ynur live poultry. eggs. dairy
butter. to Wiseman Farms. Bath, Me
ifighest prices paid: quick returns
guaranteed. Ref. Bath Trust Co.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-05-22

JUNE CHlCKS--Pencome Barred Rock.
I6c each in lots of 25. SO and 100 or
wore. Safe delivery guaranteed.
big demand for Pencome chicks II
Is not too late to start some Pcncome
Ghlcks. They grow fast and begin
laying at A. months or less Order
dlfcct from this advertisement enclos-
livery. PENCOME POULTRY PA NJ,
East Corinth, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-05-22

BAKER-Or man with bakery expert
ence. Harris. Baking Co., North ST.,
\Eatoryilla
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-05-22

To THE hOMESEEKEk
We are showing this spring some Of
the finest modern homes that NE
have had for long time. Most any
location you wish. Also nearby
farms. Some good and all stocked.
We also have some choice building
lots. II you are interested givs"us
a call. Auto at your service.
The Rice Agency
Tel. 1061-Vv, Augusta.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-05-22
Help-Male or Female

MAN--And wife at once: general work
and cooking: 800 per month. Also do
mcstic nurse. SEQ. Reference first let
ter. Country garden. hens. Address
Helen Rraincrd. matron Home for
Aged. Wrcntram. Mass. r. +. ID.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-16
A NATIONAL CALAMITY

A statement issued by Edward F.
Bartlett, Jr., president of the New York
cotton Exchange, concerning the ravages
OF the boil weevil, contains very little
information that is new to well-informcd
people. Yet it may have greater eff
tect than any that has been produced by
others who have verbally initiated
against the greatest enemy of the cotton
grower, for the simple reason that it ex-
presses old facts in comprehensive and
dramatic form.
Farmers do not have to be told that
the boil weevil often devours an entire
field of cotton, leaving the planter not
only with no return on his investment of
time. money and labor, but with debts
which he must struggle to pay as best
he can. But when it is announced that
20 to % per cent of the total crop of
the United States has been destroyed
largely by this pest, and that if its raw
ages are not stopped the supremacy OF
this country as cotton-producing ma
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-16

ton is likely to be lost, then different
face is put upon the matter.
In short, Mr.. Bartlett presents the
problem as a national one, whereas here
tofore it has been only half-heartedly
recognized as such. Isolated attempts to
eradicate the weevil have been made
since time immcmorial. and lattcrlv the
federal government has devoted some
money and energy to the project. But
it is true. as Mr.. Bartlett says, that the
governments appropriations for this pur-
pose. when they are compared with the
total economic loss caused by the wcevil,
seem infinitesimal.
If there were any doubt as to the
propriety of governmental activity in this
field. then the federal authorities have al
ready offended by spending any money
at all to combat crop pests. And If the
government is going to offend in this
respect in anv degree. it could find ex-
tenuation onlv in the obtaining of def
mite results. But that appropriations for
such purpose are neither forbidden nor
unauthorized by the countrv's organic
law lIluSt NC pam " tHoSt WHO IcCoSiiLc
as 4 public calamity the destruction of
wealth by ANYTHING which is beyond the
contro! of private enterprise.
There are some farmers who persist
in the notion that the boil weevil is a
blessing rather than a curse. But let
one of them suffer an entire loss of his
crop, instead of receiving high price
for a small Weld, and he is likely to be-
come sudden convert to the idea that
nothing which destroys is boon.
The federal government has spent mil
lions of dollars on enterprises from
which the farmers; have received no
benefit. Now. when all incumbents of
political positions profess to be greatly
over the farmers welfare
when it is or ought to be obvious that
the wholesale destruction of any inds-
pcnsable commodity affects adversely the |
economic interests of all classes: and
when one of the principal factors in the
productive supremacy of the United
States is threatened, would it be asking
too much of the government to call upon
it for an earnest. thoroughgoing cam
paign against the boil wecvil?
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-16

division and that there are hatreds that
ruin back into the centuries. In earlier
ages the strongest nation survived; it
looted its neighbors and battered them
into subsection. European history is
a record of wholesale arson, and muir
der. and devastation--on people covet-
ing the property of another, and then
falling under the power of some strong
er group. Thus the natural process of
attritior and decay las been aggravated
Europe, politically. has never had a
wholly constructive philosophy; there
fore, economically it has fallen. into de
cay. The world war merely epitomizcd
the destructive tendencies that have
marked. European life since time imme-
mortal.
Gazing at the forest primeval, at the
swift rivers and the expansive lakes.
getting a fleeing glimpse of the great
natural resources of the North hmeri-
can continent, and comparing what he
saw here with the constrained conditions
under which so many Europeans exist or
die, David I.loyd-Gcorge, statesman, STU
dent of peoples and of men, might well
have received an inspiration that would
give him better understanding of the
contrast between the history and the
present tendencies OF the Old World and
the New.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-16
A VICTIM OF. SUPERSTITION

Although this is the age OF free educa-
ton. an age of scientific knowledge,
when The average boy OF twelve k.it.ws
more about the world than did the
ancient philosophers-dcspite all the
knowledge man has gained since the time
Of the Black Art-superstition still pre-
walls in these United States. Not only
among those of small opportunities does
it exercise a powerful influence; it abides
also with some who, for sheer sophistiea-
ton in the ways of the world, could make
Socrates or an Aristotle seem tyro.
A few DAYS ago. press dispatches from
Pittsburg, Pa, told a tragic story of a
young woman who had gone in quest of
mystic love charm Her lifeless body
had been found beneath a porte cochere.
Under her head and in ono of her hands
were four playing cards-the ace. deuce
and trey of diamonds and the four OF
spades. She had taken to the scene OF
her death an envelope containing several
hundred dollars; when she was found,
the money was gone.
This is but an aggravated case of
superstition. The victim must have
been person of at least fair intelligence
in ordinary matters: she was a trained
nurse, and to become trained nurse
requires practical intelligence. But evil
IDENTIFY she had faith in the mystic pow
err of the man. negro, to whom she
appealed for aid. lie was to furnish her
with "love charm" According to his
alleged confession to the police, he killed
her to get possession of the money she
refused to pay him for his supernatural
services.
Perhaps the least .discreditabe explana,
ton of this woman's superstition-least
discreditable to her intelligence, Mt least
is that she was desperately in love. She
may have been in love with specific
man. or with love itself. Sometimes
The great passion" incapacitates for the
prosaic affairs of life person of whose
mind it takes possession.
But lot always can such an "alibi' bC
admitted. There are thousands of aD
parently normal-minded persons whC
seek occasionally. if not regularly, thu
advice of '"mystics" concerning affair:
in which the binding passion has NJ
part. Torture tellcrs. crystal gazers
palmists, clairvoyants and other professec
masters of the occult still strive, ant
are patronized by people who woult
never be suspected of forsaking reason
and common sense to put their trust il
tricksters.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-16
A MOTHER-IN.LAW DAY.

We are not anxious to add to the
"days" and "weeks" that are being
officially designated for observance or
celebration in these times. But we
realize that if there must be such
things and we presume there must
be-there is no logical answer to deny
the request of the Elmhurst. l.. L.,
woman who writes urging that day
be set aside for mOthers-in-law. She
believes that Mothers Day is a won
derful idea and that Fathers Day is
another step in the right direction.
What is needed is Mother-in-Law
Day to make. we presume another
step in the right direction. In time,
quite likely, Grandfather's Day,
Grandmother's Day, Uncle's Day,
Aunt's Day, Brothers Day. Sisters
Day. Stcp-Father's Day, Step-Moth-
er's Day and several others that could
be thought Of, would be placed on the
calendar.
The main reason against having
such day is that there is we feel
certain, none left. Perhaps father
would give up his.-Hartford Cour-
ant.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-16
A DAYS NEWS.

A man who for 80 years did not
know he had sister, met her here
the other day in a way to assure the
writer's of fiction that life offers
events every bit as improbable as does
the imagination. The same day, over
in San Francisco. young truck
driver discovered his brakes would not
work He was headed down a steep
hill and into the weaving stream of
traffic. 1t would have been easy for
that driver to jump and let the truck.
the pedestrians and automobiles take
care of themselves. He chung to the
wheel did his best to see it caused
no harm. At the end of that drive
no one was hurt.
So it goes. the run of the days
news, the stories of the street and
home that have nothing to do with
wars and international politics. A
woman sues for divorce because her
husband plays chess. $500 men fight
an oil fire near Richmond. two air
men stay in the air 81 hours and
break eight records while doing it.
Why is it persons persist in saving
the news contains nothing but blood
shed and scandal Oakland Tribune.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-16
Pungent Paragraphs

There would be few divorces, how
ever, if chivalry would begin where
charity does.-Birmingham News.
Now is the time when all shrewd
husbands begin to brag on the coats
their wives bought last winter.-Bal-
timore Sun.
Noting the scarcity of marriages in
August the Emporia, Kan, Gazette
says Cupid "has brought only n
hearts together this month";" Puzzle
Find the missing heart.-Toledo
Blade.
Every day, it seems, since the wom-
en- were enfranchised, they grow hard
err to get along with. Now Michigan
woman demands divorce on the mere
allegation that her husband keeps
live frogs in the bathtub.-Kansas
City Star.
A show girl only 16 years old, has
She's got a better start than most,
ord, she has only herself to blame
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
We don't believe a spirited girl
chutS htI tytS Nutn hiSStu On tuC
nape of the neck. though she might
wink one of 'em i'll quiet appreciation
of the drollncss of science.-Columbu
Ohio State Journal.
If left to n vote lot of Oklahom-
ans probably would favor giving that
country back to the Indians.-Litt,e
Rock (Ark.) Democrat.
According to some predictions. if
affairs go on at their present rate
there will not be enough of Germany
left to hide. Bergdoll. = Washington
Star.
"A gentleman never uses profanity
before lady," says a writer upon Ell
quette. At any rate many gentlemen
will admit that beating some of the
flappers to it would be difficult
Louisville Times.
Beauty parlors must sterilize their
instruments. Next. mabye, the love-
ly manicurist in the barber shop must
wear rubber gloves while treating the
ham-handed patron. Then will the
winter of masculine discomfort be
without hone of glorious summer
Louisville Times.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-16
WHISKEY GLASSES IN DEMAND

10 the evidence OF increased liquor
consumption in American homes since
the advent of prohibition member
of the Flint Glass Workers Union made
significant addition at the Portland
convention of the American Federation
of Labor when he reported that the
business of whiskey-glass manufacturers
had picked up considerably. After listen
ing to the glass workers statement, a
member of the Chicago Milk Wagon
Drivers Union said that he could I'm
derstand why milk bottles were hard to
obtain: The glass manufacturers were
catering to the greater demand, which
was for wlliskey glasses.
1t would be easy to misinterpret the
report of the glass worker, saying that
the increased production of whiskey
glasses signified greater total constmp-
ton of liquor since the enactment OF
the Volstead law. Misrepresentation is
a weapon of the fanatics: intimately
they will hurt themselves with it. There
is much evidence to indicate that pro
hibition," far from prohibiting, has re-
suited IN greater total consumption of
liquor. The fact that more whisky glass
es are being made does not, however.
necessarily prove anything concerning
the total consumption of liquor. 1t would
not necessarily mean even that the Amer
lean people are drinking more whisky
now than they did in pre-"prohibition''
DAYS.
What the report does signify, logically,
is that the consumption of whisky in
American homes has greatly increased
since the time when both whisky and
mllder alcoholic beverages were lawfully
available to the public. Whereas dozens
or even hundreds of men could be served
with the same set of glasses then, q vast
ly larger number of glasses is now re-
CURED to go round. In pre-"prohibi-
ton" days drinking party in home
was rarity; nowadays it seems to be
a common thing. A greater demand for
whiskey glasses is logical result of this
change.
But though the glass workers report
does not necessarily, of itself. prove that
either more liquor in general or more
whisky in particular is being consumed
in the United States since the coming
of national prohibition it describes a
condition from which either or both of
those effects might easily, and perhaps
inevitably would, be developed, if it has
not already come about When whisky.
rather than lighter alcoholic drinks, is
consumed in the home, alcoholism is en-
couraged. This is true particularly when
the whisky has a tremendous "kick."
The quoted word euphennistically de-
scribes the effect of the bootleg stuff
which the American people are drinking.
Is it any wonder that the younger gen
Grafton is growing UP to regard strong
drink in about the same light as that in
which boys and girls of decade or so
ago looked upon wine and beer?
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-16
REVELATION TO LLOYD-GEORGE

"Whv there should be slums in Europe
while there is so much wealth here, l
don't know"
Thus unused David L1oyd-George,
statesman, student Of peoples and of the
things that differentiate them, as he
passed through the picturesque country
that stretches away to the north OF Lake
Superior. Doubtless it was difficult for
him to realize that the scenes spread out
before him were actual; that it was not
all dream vision which would fade and
vanish without leaving a definite picture
in his mind.
This panorama Of the northern wilds
might we'll have been pointed out to the
distinguished visitor as symbolical OF
America, for in a broad way what he
saw on his trip from Niagara Falls to
Winnipeg represents the New World in
contrast with the Old. The virgin soil,
the great forest untouched by despoilers,
the waterfalls that have never been har-
messed to do mans bidding, and the
vegetation affording an earnest of Ma
lures bounty, the countless miles of tin
peopled territory, all formed picture
that had not been dreamed of in the
little Welshman's philosophy.
No wonder his mind flew back to
scenes Of poverty in the part of the
world with which he was familiar: Over
crowded cities, with their poverty and
squalor; small patches of earth where
painstaking toll, extreme frugality and
incessant thrift scratch out bare liv-
highland that has been over-cultivated
for countless generations.
WHY should there be so much pow
erty there when there is so much wealth
here?
Perhaps the statesman, the student
of peoples and Of men, was thinking Of
the determinations of Fate. 1t is far
easier to explain the contrast as an ac-
tuality than to justify it. Yet the lat
ter task is not prohibitively difficult if
it be accepted that the laws of Nature
are just, and if, in addition, the tendency
of man to become slave to his imme-
date environments is given due consid-
Grafton.
There are in Europe millions of peo-
pie who could supply sufficient labor
power to convert the wilds of Canada
into comparative paradise. But by and
large, they have become so Injured to the
ways of the Old World that they would
be at complete loss to make living
if they were suddenly transported to
the region which was a revelation to
Mr.. Lloyd-George. Yet it was in just
such region that the founders of this
republic started life anew when they
fled from the unwholesome institutions
of Europe.
How many Europeans of the present
day, if they should be brought face to
face with the opportunities and the hard
ships of life in virgin land, would set
to work with the will ard the spirit that
animated the American pioneers? To
begin with, how MANY of them would
have the courage to forsake their pres
cnt hon es, abandon their worn-out Gus
toms, and begin a new life under radi-
cally different conditions, even with the
promise of ultimate ease and comfort
and happiness for making the change?
Most men are creatures of habit
Habit binds Europeans not only to their
physical environments, but also to their
peculiar political and governmental phil
osophy. Between this political or ethnic
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-16
Chapter XIV.

Chapter XIV.
Hobo Bill sat in what he called the
"parlor" of his suite in the sanitar
ium, an old man in a worn, velvet
dressing-gown.
At twenty minutes after three
Bristow and Anita Copley came in
together.
An ill-suppressed hysteria showed
under Anita's efforts at composure.
Higgins peered at them through
his heavy-lensed spectacles.
you're late," he crOaked coldly.
To his valet he gave a curt order
"Get out"
Sorry" Bristow said, "but had
to wait for that potterer. Morton.
He very seldom leaves the place
but today of all days he chose to de-
part on some errand of his own, and
staid over two hours. The time
passed excitingly, though. Anita, :"
contemptuOusly. saw fit to become
temperamental.
"Humph the old man grunted
unsouthly.. "You damn fools don't
understand that this is no time for
child's play. We're in a bad fix,
tell you. A damn had fix"
II don't see it," Bristow said cool
ly. "We've got the girl. and KEEL
sey's very happily drowned"
"And our hundred thousand in
Liberty bonds along with him." num-
bled the old man wryly.
"We'll get that back" Bristow
spoke with consistent confidence.
1.-The moment the body's recovered.
I'll hear of it and be on the spot.
Don't think that any life guard or
clam digger can get away with that
envelope. If l can't manage to lay
hands on it myself. I'll see that it's
turned over to the Coroner. I've al
ready informed him, that Kelsey
robbed my safe when he made the
attack on me-"
CONTINUED i'm Our Next Issue.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-16

Daily only average. .ZII4l
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We hereby swear that the foregoing statement Of
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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-16
Where to Go
Vaudeville.
Majestic: Big Time Vaudeville.

Vaudeville.
Majestic: Big Time Vaudeville.
Motion Pictures.
Palace: Rupert of Hentzau."
Empire: Harold Lloyd in why
Worry"
Princess "Mothers-in-Law."
Rialto Viola Dana in "Crinoline
and Romance"
Stock.
Royal: Edna Park and Players In
"Why Men Leave Home"
Musical Comedy.
Grand: Bob casey" Greer in "a
School Girl"
Luncheon Clubs.
"wednesday o..
Lions Club at the Gunter.
Salesmanship Club at the Gunter.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-16

slant, enthralled by the two faces so
like and yet so different, with all
the terrible difference in Hopes
favor.
And then before the younger
woman could realize her purpose,
she whirled. There was one singing
blow on the cheek that sent Hope
staggering. Others, a rain of them,
followed.
"Now. you crazy loon!" in a gasp
ing, threadlike snarl. keep still, Or
I'll give you worse. Keep still, / tell
you," as Hope crouched and whim-
percd. iii see about this I'll see
about this" She rushed from the
room.
Hope caressed her bruised cheek,
and smiled.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-16
A Puzzle a Day

Two men held a continued cores
pondence for two years. At the end
OF that period they found that one
had sent six more letters than the
other, and if the amount, they had
spent on postage was deducted from
$L2O the result would be just one
eighth of the amount they spent.
How many letters did each send.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-16

Two people died in Baltimore the
other day from eating poisonous mush-
rooms they had gathered. Picking mush-
rooms is almost as dangerous an under
taking as picking bootlegger.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-16

Bandits held up the jail in little
Oklahoma town the other day and freed
Ed Lockhart, notorious bank robber.
Oklahoma is certainly getting publicity
these days.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-16

1t is declared that seventy per cent
Of the motorists are careful drivers. How
ever it keeps them busy lodging the
other thirty per cent.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-16
Mr,,RrRs OF THE ASSOCIATED PRES.

The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled 10 the
use for publication OF all news dispatches credited TO
II not credited 10 this and also that
local news published herein. All rights OF republican
tion special dispatches herein are also reserved