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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-15

Rev. and Mrs. Charles A. Knick-
erbocker and daughter Constance,
who are spending the summer at
Bay Point arrived in Wateryille yes
terday afternoon and will be the
guests Of Mr.. and Mrs J. M. Thayer
OF Boutelle avenue. Mrs. Knicker-
booker and daughter Constance,
plan to spend several days in Wa
terville and Rev. Mr.. Knickerbocker
will go to Auburn today.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-15

The members of the knights of
Columbus held their regular meet
ing last evening. Several important
business matters were brought be-
fore the meeting for discussion.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-15

The anniversary high mass for
George H. Drouin will be held at
Notre Dame church this morning at
Z o'clock. Members OF the Knights
of Columbus, relatives and friends
are invited.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-15

| to two lower. July s.s7. September
Refined sugar with quiet trade was
unchanged at so to $50 for fine gran
ulated.
Refined futures were nominal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-15
I0cAI NOTICE

Meet me at Sunny Bank Com
munity dance Wednesday evening.
July 16 Special invitation is ex-
landed to elderly ladies by Mr.. and
Mrs Trageny on River road. Sidney.
July15d2t
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-15
Governor and Council
Continued from PAGE One)

NOUHk'VUeU 'TVIH dSo N'TSI
DR.. John l.. Davis testified regarding
the respondents poor health.
VIM. E. Daley of Portland
The next case heard was that of Will
liam L. Daley of Portland. who was
committed to Jail Feb. 10 last to serve
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-15

Miss Jennie May Liable, cashier at
the City Opera House is enjoying a
weeks vacation. Miss Trina Ran
court Is taking her place..
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-15

L. w. Savage of Bangor was q
business caller in Waterville yester-
day.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-15

Miss Lillian Ballou Of Stamford.
Conn, who has been visiting friends
en- Nash street for the past few
days has gone to Skowhegan for a
short visit.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-15

-.,.,.. Theatre: Agnes Ayers and
Wsrmont in all-star cast; when
al Loves"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-15

m. marriage intentions of Henry
.,..An and June McNearn both of
y. eity have been filed at the Office
A the city clerk.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-15

", and Mrs. 8. M. Kaplan Of Po-
20 Nj for their home yesterday
.s.sr gpending the week end in Wa
,svviie.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-15

The fire station was a busy place
yesterday with the drivers hard at
work with hammer. nails and saw,
making repairs and improvements.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-15

rrsd J. Heney returned to his
.,ss in North East Harbor yester-
Ssy after spending Sunday in Water
al
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-15

n.,.A H. Fassett and Karekin
-. ashaeian have returned from q
~ a., dsy trip to Portland and Bos-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-15

Mrs. o. A. Taylor of Portland is
visiting friends in the city for a few
days.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-15
Wyandotte Mills
Close for a Week

The Wyandotte Worsted Mills, en-
ploying about 500 hands. closed for a
week.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-15

,....I, r. Jones of Portland was
rw.teryille yesterday on q short
sndrsss trip.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-15

r. g. Allen of Portland IL a bust.
ness visitor in town.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-15

Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph o. Files hav
gene to Portland for q few days.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-15

.x.rss Hurd left for Portland
I aS afternoon, called there by
illness Of his daughter.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-15

Mr.. and Mrs. z. e. Brown OF
Brooks returned to their home after
passing the weekend in the city.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-15

Henry Talberth was q business
caller in Skowhegan yesterday at
ternoon.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-15

Walter II. Littlefield Of Portland
arrived in Waterville yesterday
morning on a business trip.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-15

Merton F. Taylor of Augusta was
a business caller in this city yester-
day.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-15

r. A. Chandler OF Augusta was II
Waterville on business yesterday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-15

Raymond Morse Of Detroit, Mich.
Is in Waterville for a few days OF
business.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-15
ruFATER ATTRACTIONS
..,,rAy AND TUESDAY

- Theatre: All the week. Henry
~. players In "Bess OF the Hills"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-07-15

- onsra House: Richard Barthel-
~ ~. THE Fighting Blade"
Evening star., 1924-05-25
Expert White Hunter Trainer Leads Party Eirand of Ven

While l was making up my mind
which of the straight, tall, robust ma
tives of Kelantan I would take with
me-almost every one of them wanted
to go-I ran head on into love in
trigue. 1t seems that Osman, a smith,
a maker of krises, had lost his head
over young woman who wove
sarongs. She was married to rather
old man, who would not divorce her.
She could not divorce him because her
people had spent the money he had
paid down for her. Before she could
ask for her freedom they would have
to be prepared to pay this back.
I got the story from Tunku. He
was afraid that Osman would stand
some night under his loved ones
house and thrust a spear through one
of the slits in the floor into the body
of her sleeping husband. There would
be nothing but n thin mat between
the sleeper and his enemy.
"Osman," the Tunku said bitterly.
becomes a fool over a woman, and
he makes the best krises in Kelan-
tan" He showed me one. 1t was the
work of an artist. The handle was a
fine piece of ivory, and the wavy blade
had a design in parallel lines eaten
into it by arsenic and lime. TT
tuan," the Tunku announced. The
killing of wild beasts is said to be a
cure for love madness. The love goes
right into the beast and dies with it,"
looked up the girl. There was a
Evening star., 1924-05-25
d of Vengeance Encounter With Bees.

and went on with as little noise as
possible-no laughing, no talking
for two and half hours before we
struck the trail of the lone elephant.
1t was quite fresh. The tracks had
been made within the half hour.
We spread out then, the elephant
the Tunku and ] were on in the CEN
ter, the two others at the ends and
the men between standing so near
one another that their hands might
have. touched If we came on the lone
elephant while we were in this for
nation it would be possible to close
in on him. Moving very slowly, We
reached at last a thicket OF bamboo.
1t was possible / felt, that the ami
NAL had gone through 1T and beyond,
but also possible that he was doing
in the middle of il after hard night
of crop damaging. 1t would not be
difficult to find out. l have known
hunters to creep upon a whole herd
of elephants while they were sleep
ing. The danger in this sort of thing
lies in the spoken word or cry. A
herd which a rife shot will stampede
will charge at the sound of the hu-
man voice.
motioned to two men who had i'm
pressed me as keen-eyed and intelli-
gent. / told them, talking hardly
above my breath, to creep in eau
tiousIy. to see If the elephant was
there, and if he was, to come back
and tell US the exact spot. My last
whispered instruction to them was,
! BE quiet as lizard and let no word
come out of your mouths
Their heads bowed in answer and
their bodies slipped between the bam-
boo poles. 'As they disappeared l
gave the signal to close in.
What happened, as I learned after
ward, was that, as the men crept in
with their spears set, they found the
light confusing. 1t was cut into strips
by the straight poles and it blinded
them. They did not see nor hear the
sleeping elephant until they were
right upon him. Then from one Of
the men, in his terror, there burst the
single word, Look out"
1t was the last word he ever ut
tered The elephant caught him up
with its trunk. His companion jabbed
a spear into the animal and ran to-
ward US yelling, THE elephant is
here"
His cries must have determined d
| the beasts direction, for it burst
through the thicket, still holding the
dead man. Then it dropped the body,
| roared terribly, put one great foot on
| il, tore off an arm with its trunk,
| ;nt ha nj
charged toward our line. The line
| gave way. The tame elephants were
so frightened that they would not
obey their drivers. The beast l rode
was trembling all over.
| 1t was impossible for my driver to
! bring her around, so that / could aim
Evening star., 1924-05-25
Electric Whistle.
FIREMAN in New England,

A FIREMAN in New England, Of
considerable inventive ingenui-
ty, has saved his town money by
reason of several important mechani-
cal devices. His latest addition to
the fire alarm system IS an electric
whistle. This whistle operates some
what on the plan of q telephone re-
ceiver. A diaphragm of considerable
size is caused to vibrate rapidly by
inside the framework. The volume
of sound may be increased or de-
creased either by increasing or de-
creasing the size of the diaphragm,
or by adding to or taking from the
number Of sections which compose
ten inches in diameter and is made
up of eight sections. Each section
contains a diaphragm and is COM
plete whistle in itself, only giving
less volume than the combined eight
secUoAA
are incased in a cylindrical galvanized
iron covering, open at the top, which
will concentrate the sound in great
volume, at the top. A compressed air
whistle of equal capacity would cost
about $2,50O and would occupy "a,
large space for the four storage
tanks required The New England
fireman's invention cost but 500, thus
saving the city the difference.
Evening star., 1924-05-25

phant interested me. I had never
seen a rogue, but I knew what had
probably happened to this animal.
He had no doubt fought with the old
bull, the females would have nothing
to do with him and he had been
forced out of the herd to live alone,
seeing red with rage.
AS soon as the Tunku had gone I
began to get my affairs in shape for n
two month absence. Next day, with
Hsi Chu I, my Chinese boy" I left
, on mean little coast boat with
Tunku Suleiman.
On the afternoon of the fourth day
we reached the kuala of the kelantan
River and were rowed in and out
among islands for twelve miles up
it's course to kota Bharu. Then we
proceeded up the river in the Tunku's
own comfortable boat, which had a
cabin and six rowers, until we reached
village where two elephants were
waiting. One of them would carry
the Tunku and me and the other the
supplies.
On the fifth day from the river we
3,
| largest inland town in the state
1t had a population of close to a
| thousand. Our arrival threw the
place into state of excitement
| was remembered, of course; in fact,
all the men and boys claimed to have
helped in my man eating tiger hunt.
4 number of them really had. The
Tunku sent them all away, for
needed rest and Chu Is muScle-lifting z
massage.
l was ready afterward to talk bad
| elephant The tales about the rogue
| were an example of the fact that in
| the tropics stories have as marvellous
| a growth as vegetation. 1 had to call
| on all my knowledge of the jungle
and of jungle ways to help me dis
| entangle truth and fiction. There
was hardly a person in the kampong
Evening star., 1924-05-25

Rockwell. From these two I got !
much.
Lincoln Chatkoff (Maplewood.
Mass.) is confined in an insane asy-
lum, as result of shock when his
plane crashed in 1917, breaking both
legs and fracturing his skull Will
liam E. Dugan (Rochester), married,
is with the United Fruit Company in
South America. Until recently, he
was manager of the company's Lon
don offices.
Willis Haviland (St PauD, married,
is in business at Atlanta Thomas
Hewitt, jr. (Westchester, n. ", is
the same in Washington. D. c. Dud-
ley Hill (Peekskill, n. Y.) is at home,
a stove manufacturer. Thomas Cas-
sidy (Spencer, Ind.) is in the bond
ing business in Minneapolis. James
Connolly, jr. (Philadelphia), the
Pennsylvania ace" is a broker. with
Drexel & Co. John r. Cotton tChi-
cago) is writing. He came recently
to Paris to get some atmosphere.
The first aeronautical insurance
man in the world was Austen Gre
hore (westfield. n. ". Charles
Dolan (Boston), when heard of three
months ago, was organizing aviation
for the Chinese. Robert Dome
(Santa Barbara) married wealthy
Scotch lady of title, who was a war
nurse, and now he has his hunting
lodge, etc, and goes to Ascot and
London in the season
John A. Drexel (Philadelphia), },
Anthony's son, fits between Paris,
London and New York. and is pill
lar of Biarritz. Another international
W. 1t is Armour money, he is a
nephew. Christopher w. Ford On.
" is the only Lafayette man still
in the United States Army. He is
stationed at Langley Field, is mar
ried and has a budding aviator son.
Edgar Hamilton (Newcastle, Pal
is the only Lafayette man remaining
in the French army. He is now en-
! joying six months leave from the
Foreign Legion. taking a special
course at Harvard,
1t was William K. Vanderbilt who,
from 1916 to 1918, put up the money
to run the Lafayette Escadrille on
the high footing that it has always
maintained.
1t cost Mr.. Vanderbilt. they say,
some $4,000 merely to produce the
great two-volume memorial book,
THE Lafayette Flying Corps" edited
| by James Norman Hall, Charles Nord-
| HON and Edgar Hamilton. Hall and
| Nordhoff, by the way, are both in
| Tahiti, writing.
I None could entirely foresee how
greatly such a body of volunteer
American flyers would aid in draw
ing America to the allies, but, If any
saw far, it was men like Vanderbilt.
Such men today recognize the
prestige of the Escadrille's memorial
| garden. 1t is so little like war
cemetery, so much grandiose Amer
| lean park-on the road which Ben
jamin Franklin. Thomas Jefferson and
Gouveneur Morris travelled between
Paris and Versailles!
| James H. Perkins, president of the
Farmers Loan and Trust Company;
Seymour l.. Cromwell, president of
the New York Stock Exchange; James
B. Mabon, it's former president; Col.
William Barclay Parsons, +. H.
| Coudert, George E. Turnure, Rt Rev.
Bishop Brent, Archdeacon Spur, Gen.
| Patrick, head of the United States air
| service; F. b. Patterson. president
| ,f
| ica; Mrs. William Fellowes Morgan
Evening star., 1924-05-25
Ex.Empress Zita Begs Graves for Royal
Bourbon Ancestors

smuggled away by DR.. Pelletan. who
made the autopsy-and this too was
buried in Gorilla and brought with
the other bodies of royalty to wait
for some one to give them burial in
Vienna.
In these waiting collins lie also
Charles KS son, who had married
his cousin, the Prisoner of the Temple
(they died childless), and the grand
son, known to us as the Count of
Chambord, but who was called by
devout royalists King Henry v of
France. He was the Child of
Miracle" born after the assassination
Of his father, King Charles second
son, in 1920, at the Paris Opera, and
in him all the hopes Of the Bourbons
centered down to our own times. He
lived to see the present French re-
public proclaimed, but he refused
to enter the lists against it. He was
the last Bourbon to have the chance
to become King Of France. Beside
him in Gorilla was buried his only
sister-the grandmother of rescuing
Empress Zita. -
Who now shall give lasting burial
to these royal Bourbons, who repre-
sented when alive the kings of a
thousand years? They lie in the
chapel of the Vienna nuns inconven-
iently and insecure1y. The nuns
themselves have little to live on and
nothing to hope from kings dead or
alive. Empress Zita is not allowed
| to set foot in Austria and she is with
| out the necessary means of life for
| the living princes and princesses,
whom she has brought into the world.
In France some say that the pres
ent royal pretenders, who are Bour-
bon Orleans Of the younger branch,
and rich, ought to do something.
They are twelfth cousin to the dead.
| Others would have the French repub-
lie itself, which has no reason to
fear kings dead or alive, bring back
to the royal mausoleum of ST. Denis,
where their ancestors lie. these ex-
lied bones of French royalty. And
some hope that King Alfonso OF
Spain, the only Bourbon king left
will do what is becoming.
| STERLING HEILIG.
Evening star., 1924-05-25

Tor the cavity at the top Of the rogue
elephants trunk. The frontal cavity
is not protected by the roots of the
tusks, in the case of the Asiatic eIe-
phant, as in that of its African cousin,
SO shot there is fatal. This was
what ! was trying for, but [ could 4
not make ~
We all let fly fran various angles.
The bull ran some .orty wards and
fcll-dead. There wee about thirty
spears in him, Il humber Of large
slugs from the rifles ~ the natives
and half dozen of my explosive
bullets.
As the great body grew stil the
natives crowded round il and every
| man took turn at splitting upon it.
The tauntS, the foul names, the gibes
that were heaped upon that elephant
were almost past belief. / was glad
when they were drowned, at length.
by shouts and wild laughter The
men worked themselves up 70 a frenzy
of joy. Their enemy lay dead One
of their number lay dead also. but the
devil bull had had many victims and
| this would be the last.
Tunku Suleiman looked on calmly
| His mustache never lifted its sad
droop. "Tuan," he said to me. he
cause this elephant has done much
harm to my people and was without
| doubt possessed of a devil. / wish to
| keep his tusks as charm against
! evil spirits, but this ring, tuan. will
! be for you sign of my gratitude
He
! finger and presented it TO me. The
stone weighed about four carats, but
was unfortunately of native cut.
| l declared myself more thar satls
/ fed. In truth, / did not want the
| tusks. If there was one animal about
which I had sentiment, il was the ele-
phant l had found him the most
harmless, the most intelligent, the
most friendly of beasts. The lone
| elephant-the only one of his kind. !
may say, which / ever encountered
! merely put down as lunatic.
| When we returned 70 the kamponC
| the place went crazy with demonstra-
! tions of triumph. All night long the
noise kept up. The thud, thud of the
! tomtoms was never-ending. II was
| impossible for me to sleep. | know
the villagers were making something
very near a god of me, and | felt IN
easy l was afraid | might forget
what it was like to be a plain man
among level-headed people.
| Though on my guard against the
fever of self -conceit. had needed too
little another kind, already mentioned,
which must be fought with mosquito
nets and quinine. But the malaria
that eventually drove me back I"
America has long been cured, ana
the pull of the jungle is again upon
me know that ! shall never be
content away from the wilds.
u'Gpyright. 1921
Evening star., 1924-05-25
by CHARLES MAYER.

- DON after | had disposed of my
Borneo catch in Europe and had
returned to my animal house in
- Singapore, a man of some i'm
portance paid me an unexpected call.
1t was Tunku Suleiman, a petty raja
from the interior of Kelantan.
remembered him as an easy-going
native potentate, wearing wide Chi
nese trousers, and nothing else, and
seated cross-legged on a cushion.
But there in my reception room he
sat gingerly on the edge of a chair,
his attendants squatted behind him.
He was dressed in a spotless white
duck suit, black shoes and white
socks, with little round cap on his
head. He looked miserable. He sa-
laamed, caught my hand, pressed ii
!" his brow and uttered wish that
7 might live for thousand years.
| could see that there was some
thing on his mind. He spoke with
gratitude of the fact that ] had killed
man-eating tiger in his district
some years before, and followed this
up by inviting me to make him a
visit and trap every sort of beast
end, he said, should have his as
sistance and the help of as many men
as l could want.
1 ordered tea water" plenty of
sugar and biscuits, and as we
munched and slipped together I got
at the root of the matter. A rogue
elephant was doing enormous damage
in the district of the Tunku, and he
was afraid that the animal was pos
sesSed of an evil spirit. What he
really said was that his men, being
fools, thought that the beast had a
hantu. His long, dropping mustache,
the hairs of which l could have count
ed seemed to droop all the more as
he told me this news, and l knew he
was every bit as superstitious about
it as any man, woman or child in his
domain.
What has the elephant been up
to?' l asked.
He has killed four men, tuan. He
chased them and stamped on them as
if they were flies. My men have dug
as many pits as l have fingers on my
hands, but he will not go near them.
NV men say it is the evil spirit
within him which warns him.
ITS his keen scent" | said to my
self, that puts him on guard
Have you ever seen him. l asked.
The Tunku had not seen him, 1t
appeared, but had seen much damage
done by him. He eats one mouthful.
tuan, and destroys a whole field. 1t
is not his empty stomach, but his
wicked heart that we fear. He
walked through small village at
night and knocked over half the
houses. If the tuan were not a great
hunter" the Tunku went on artfuliy'
land one who fears no ghost, 1 would
not ask him to kill this devil on four
legs" g
certainly the tale of this devil ele-
Evening star., 1924-05-25

his own firearms and ten of his best
men. The Tunku decided not to go.
His head was bad, he said. But at
the last minute he climbed upon the
animal i was to ride. We used the
same three elephants as before and
took fifty men on foot, armed with
spears. The headmen with their guns
all rode.
We started shortly after sunrise