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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-19

without changing the oil in the en-
There is engine lubricant using as
much castor oil as is practical Tor
motors.
A one-sleeve, Knight-type motor is
already developed by one of the Big
gest engine builders in the country.
Your car can be shipped across
the country by rail-conveniently..
Your car can be lacked up with
out effort on your part.
Stretching The Trade-ln
With crude rubber skyrocketing
from II cents a. pound on January l
of this year to 81 cents at this writ
ing, with demand exceeding supply,
with balloon tires consuming more
rubber than former types, and with
America making little headway IN
the matter Of producing its own rub
Der, it is logical to expect con-
siderable concentration upon the
retaining of discarded rubber, in
Guiding tires and tubes. While the
rubber Association of America does
not view retaining as anything APP
proximating a solution to the prob
lem, nevertheless there is bound to
be lively demand for old tires, and
to a point where motorists will not
only have a car to trade in but old
tires as well.
The tendency probably will be for
motorists to endeavor to obtain
maximum use out of their tires,
knowing they will be able to get a
fair price for the old rubber tires
and tubes even though they have
worn them threadbare. Who knows
but what the situation will encour-
age some true economy in tire use?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-19

with the wrong kind Of fabrication
in the wrong place as it is to damage
the car with no fabrication at all.
Evening star., 1925-06-28

Bonini, an old friend. It was there
that circumstances arose which com =
pletely changed Lucrezia Borj1a'
life.
Mime. Bonini, hearing her sing, was
astonished.
You have a career before you,
she said.
mo, have no intention of singing
in public" her guest replied.
with this beautiful voice?" ex-
claimed the madame-'you don't wish
to sing?"
She insisted on taking the girl to
Melchor Vidal, the great Spanish
teacher of voice, who lived In Milan.
After he had heard her he echoed
Nine. Bonini's surprise.
'It would be foolish not to try for
an appearance in OPERA" he told her.
The idea, thus argued, appealed to
Lucrezia Borjia immensely. She
thirsted to "see the world" After
all, to be an opera singer would be
to see the world.
She was sure her family would not
like 1t. Still, her father loved her,
and his disposition was to crafty
her wishes.
She decided to ask him if she
might not stay three or four months
and study with Vidal.
IF I have an opportunity to sing
in opera I can change my name,
she said.
Her father hesitated, but finally
consented. And thus her career was
determined. A few months later she
went to Rome, obtained an engage
Evening star., 1925-06-28
Lucreza Boris Voice Discovered by Family Friend

T ment, sang the role of Michaela in
Carmen" and made a tremendous
hit. Her beauty, added to her voice,
made her irresistible.
She appeared under the name of
"Lucretia Bori," to which she has
held ever since.
An amusing circumstance attended
her debut. 1t occurred about the
time of the coronation of a new
Pope. Many Spaniards were making
| the pilgrimage to Rome customary
on such occasions. They attended
the opera in large numbers. Among
them was a group from Valencia,
who occupied four rows of seats In
| the orchestra.
Most of them knew Lucrezia
| Borjia well, but "Lucretia Borf' was
| a stranger to them. They seemed
to recognize in the girl on the stage
an old acquaintance, but when they
examined their programs they grew
doubtful. They looked at each other,
completely mystified.
| They went home no better in
| formed. But Bori, recognizing them
from the moment of her appearance,
was much amused and perhaps sang
all the better because of the circum-
stance.
She was on her way to fame and
fortune in her own right. Also, she
was to see the world. After her
European appearances came an in
vitation to sing in America. Now
she is fixture here.
| Copyright. 1925J
Evening star., 1925-06-28

Well our heads was thick. too, on
account l realized when two blocks
from home, that / had left the cat
locked in the ice chest and we had
to go back. Mrs. Joe Bush was real
sweet about the delay. and she says
oh never mind anybody is apt to do
a little thing like that. And so when
we got started again and she found
out she had forgot her share of the
lunch, why 1 was just as polite. al
though the tail of my temper COM
menced tapping impatiently when
that Joe Bush of the Hawthorne Club
and my Geo. both actually had the
nerve to confess they needed gas, and
we was obliged to stop once more.
Well, by this time. all the other
parties who had had the bright, orig
inal idea of making "a early start got
through going back for the things
they had forgotten and so the mob
all started at the same time as per
usual
Well. we had agreed the night
before where we would avoid the
main highways after the first few
miles and dingle ourselves down in
some bosky dell and eat, far from
the maddening throng. But in actual
fact we couldn't bosk worth a cent,
on account we wasn't any of us sure
just where to turn off the main road,
Evening star., 1925-06-28
Crossing in Four Days.

WHAT is the likelihood of trans
atlantic passengers being able
TO cross the ocean in four days? To do
this they would have to travel in q
ship capable of maintaining an av-
craze speed of so knots. The highest
average speed of any existing ships
for the whole passage is credited to
the Mauretania, which soon after her
recent overhauling made the crossing
at an average speed of 26.25 knots. 1t
is probable that the maximum speed Of
this vessel for a single days run is
a bout II knots, for she has actually
averaged that on one or two occa Sions.
Variable conditions Of the wind, sea
and ocean currents, however, render
it unlikely that she will ever make the
whole crossing at 27 knots. AT the
speed of p knots she must have de-
veloped at least SO, 900 horsepower and
to drive the ship at 80 knots in smooth
water and under favorable conditions
would neceSSitate raising her horse
power to 10000.
1t is questionable II this could be
done with steam turbines. Her present
motive power is of the early type.
with large direct-connected turbines
turning at the low speed of $50 revolu-
tions per minute; moreover, she is
equipped with Scotch boilers. If she
were re-boilered and re-engined, she
would carry water-tube boilers and
smaller high-speed turbines with a
single or double mechanical reduction
gear. Thus equipped. she would un-
| doubtedly be faster, but she would be
incapable Of making the required 80
knots for a four-day trip.
| If ever a 30-knot ship is placed on
the transatlantic passage. she will un-
| doubtedly be furnished with improved
| Diesel engines of the two-cycle double
| acting type. which has been showing
such excellent results in the later
motor ships; but in the present state
| of the art. we doubt if there is any
| Diesel engine builder who would be
prepared to guarantee an output of
| 100000 horsepower on four shifts. It
is true that ship designed for this
| speed would be given a finer form
| even than that of the Mauretania
and in such a vessel, of the displace-
! ment of the Mauretania 100, 900 horse
| power might prove TO be sufficient
In that case two engines placed tan
| dem on each of the four shafts would
! call for IL 500 horsepower per engine.
| or, say, about 1000 horsepower per
| cylinder. However, the development
Of the Diesel engine Is going ahead
by leaps and bounds, and its low con
j sumption of four-tenths of pound
| per horsepower-hour relieves the
problem Of the obstacle of high cost
! of operation, which renders a steam
! driven ship of this speed impossible
| from the shipowner's standpoint.
Evening star., 1925-06-28
WHATS MORE, HE'LL EAT IT."

derbrush, with his spectacles shining
like gig lamps. What is he doing?
He is after caribou that isn't there.
He is stalking" it. With his stOm-
ach.
OF course, away down in his heart
he knows that the caribou isn't there
and never was; but that man read my
pamphlet. He can't help It; he's got
to stalk something. Mark him as he
crawls along; see him crawl through
a thimbleberry bush very quietly SO
that the caribou won't hear the noise
of the prickles going into HIM, then
through bees nest, gently and slow
ly, so that the caribous will not take
fright when the bees are singing him.
Sheer woodcrafti
Yes, mark him. Mark him any
way you like. Go up behind him and
paint blue cross upon him as he
| crawls. He'll never notice. He
thinks he's a hunting dog. Yet this
| is the man who laughs at his little
son of 10 for creeping round under
the dining room table with a mat
over his shoulders and pretending to
| be a bear.
! Now see these other men in camp.
Some one has told them-I think I
| first started the idea in my pamphlet
that the thing is to sleep on a pile
of hemlock branches. l think l told
them to listen to the wind sowing
(you know the word I mean, sowing
and grooming in the giant pines. Sc
! there they are upside-down, doubled
up on a couch of green spikes that
would have killed st. Sebastian. They
stare up at the sky with blood-shot
restless eyes, waiting for the Groom
ing to begin. And there isn't a SOW
in sight.
Here is another man, ragged and
with a siX-day growth of beard
Evening star., 1925-06-28
"Only the People Who Can Spell Evolution
Ever Have Any Belief in It, Says Higgins

what they don't like. The advice in
the Good Book to drink wine is given
the air. but the advice to do a lotta
other things is given three cheers"
"All very interesting.' says ], but
what makes this Tennessee trial so
gosh-f1red important? If the folks in
that State don't care to hear no scien-
tific ideas that's their business, amt
it,"
mo. it isn't" snaps Finnegan. Its
everybody's business when a ma jority
of voters tries to tell a minority how
to think. It's all right for majority
TO flXe the taX-rate and the police law;
and the rest, but when a majority tries
to frame a minority's religious beliefs
or its theories of life it's going beyond
the bounds. You think it right for
a mob to tell the ones that have the
apparatus for thinking that they got
to think exactly as the nitwits?"
We'll" says T. "if the smart babies
don't like it they can move. Bryan's S
got a lotta real estate in Florida to
peddle at a profit"
"Of course. they can do that" ad-
mits High Dome" "and I guess thou
sands of folks will send their children
out of the State if the courts uphold
that cuckoo law, but isn't it gonna be
grand in this country when lads
got to get out of it if he wants to read
about a theory that amt in the
Bible?"
Sounds tough" I agree, "but what
gets me in the whole discussion is
this: What's happened to the Bible
after all these years that you gotta
pass laws to make people believe in
it?"
ASK Bryan" suggests Finnegan.
He'll talk to you about it for an
hour and won't say thing"
Evening star., 1925-06-28

opening the lunch, Hot Bozo! 1 wish
you could of seen what that Bush
woman had brought.
When I looked at the six bananas,
the cold, storemade ham and the
rapidly aging olives she had in the
shoe box. well, I wasn't surprised she
had pretty near forgot to bring 1t. l
wondered she had the nerve to go
back for it.
But we had a real polite meal any
ways, saying oh no my dear, you take
1t, I've had plenty, and other picnic
etiquette such as trying to remem-
ber was it correct to pick insects out
of the food with the little finger
crooked or lowered. Some day l am
going to shoot the guy who invented
eating out of doors.
Well, after we had passed a few
remarks on amt it terrible the way
people throw lunch papers and old.
vacant bottles around, why we threw
away our papers and bottles when
we thought each other wasn't motto
| ing, and got back into the cars to
give ourselves all the thrill of racing
| back home like a coupla real live
snails in company with all the other
merry motorists.
On the way back nothing didn't
| happen much. We'd go a little ways
! and then stop. So would the felle
Evening star., 1925-06-28
officer, Lucrezia was permitted

an officer, Lucrezia was permitted
to sing.
I'll Bacio" (The Kiss) was her
number. Her tiny voice scarcely
reached to the walls of the hall, but
she was received with huge enthuSl-
asm Then, as now, she was as
lovely as a flower, and her appear
ance filled her audience with emo
ton.
Nevertheless, she could not be per-
suaded to sing again outside her own
and her friends homes. She feared
audiences, and although she was i'm
mensely fond of singing. she alb
jured them.
But she studied as seriously as If
she intended to be a professional.
| Taken to the theater, her musical
ear captured all she heard and she
returned home to reproduce 1t. The
cultivation of her voice became a
| passion, and luckily her position en-
abled her to crafty 1t.
| AS she approached the debutante
age her father, in keeping with the
custom, asked her what she wished
| for present.
| "a necklace, perhaps or other
| jewelry?" he suggested
But his daughter had other ideas
| Il want to see the world she said
| "All my life has been spent in and
near Valencia, and l would like to
take a trip as my gift"
| He was surprised, but nos unfa
vorably. And so, soon after, he took
her on a journey to Italy.
| In Milan they called on Mmee Gina
Evening star., 1925-06-28
Call Of the Wild Pamphlet
They When the
AreO

frying a piece of bacon on stick
over little fire. Now what does he
think he is? The chef of the Bilt-
more? Yes, he does, and what's
more he thinks that that miserable
bit of bacon. cut with a tobacco knife
from a chunk of meat that lay six
days in the rain, is fit to eat. What's
more. he'll eat it. So will the rest.
They're all goofy together.
There's another man, the Lord
help him. who thinks he has the
"knack" of being a carpenter. He is
hammering up shelves to a tree. Till
the shelves tumble down he thinks
he is a wizard. Yet this is the same
man who swore at his wife for ask
| ing him to put a shelf in the back
| kitchen. How the blazes,' he asked,
| could he nail the thing up? Did she
think he was plumber
| After all, never mind.
Provided they are happy up there,
let them stay.
! Personally, I wouldn't mind if they
didn't come back and lie about it.
| They get back to the city dead tagged
| for want of sleep, sogged with boot
| leg liquor, bitten brown by the bush
| flies. trampled on by the moose and
chased through the brush by bears
| and skunks-and they have the nerve
| to say that they like it.
Sometimes / think they do.
! Men are only animals, anyway.
| They like to get out into the woods
and growl around at night and feel
something bite them.
| Only why haven't they the imagina
ton to be able to do the same thing
| with less fuss? Why not take their
coats and collars off in the office and
| crawl round on the floor and growl al
one another there? 1t would be just
as good.
| Copyright. 1925.I
Evening star., 1925-06-28

went after him he could have put all
his followers in a telephone booth and
had room for eight-handed crap
game"
You're right for a change" says
High Dome" but that amt the
worst of it. Bryans spreading the
idea around that the majority of the
people is got the right to say what
shall be taught in the schools"
whats so wrong about that?" /
wants to know, without thinking.
Everything in the world" comes
back F'innegan. indignant. Don't you
know that this country was started by
a lotta binbos from England that OBJ
jected to having the majority tell 'em
Evening star., 1925-06-28

~ V1Slt III Italy SANG IL SOitS "
Il please an old friend of her
1 L family.
The listener. gripped by the
beauty of an unexpectedly great voice,
declared it belonged to the world.
And so Lucrezia Borjia, who had
never expected to sing in public, be-
came Lucrezia Bori. the grand opera
star, whose notes in time came to
delight millions on both sides of the
Atlantic.
The story of this prima donna,
who recently made history by being
the first of the Metropolitan Opera
principals to sing over radio, differs
from that of a large number of great
musical figures. Belonging to well
known family in Valencia, a seaport
city of Spain, she was reared In COM
Portable seclusion. A career Of any
sort was far from the thoughts OF
either OF her parents or herself
There was no necessity for it.
When she was a mere tot of she
had sung in public, but from that
time until she made her debut in
opera this did not happen again.
1t was in 1900, two years after
the Spanish American War. A ben
eft had been arranged for the or
phans of Spanish soldiers who had
lost their lives in the war. The
children of officers in the Spanish
army had been asked to share in
the program, and. as her father was
Evening star., 1925-06-28

Nor is Lake OwataWetnes merely
an anglers paradise. Vast forests
of primeval pine slope to the very
shores of the lake. to which descend
great droves of bears-broWn. green,
and ear-colored-while as the shades
of evening fall, the air is loud with
the lowing of moose, caribou, ante
lope, musk oXes, muskrats. and other
graminivorous mammalia Of the for
est. These enormous quadrumana
generally move off about 1890 pm,
from which hour until 11:45 pm. the
whole shore is reserved for bison and
buffalo.
after midnight hunters who so
desire il can be chased through the
woods, for any distance and at any
speed they select. by jaguars, pan
theirs, cougars, tigers and jackals,
whose ferocity is reputed 10 be such
that they will tear the breeches on
a man with their teeth. Hunters,
attention. Do not miss such attrac-
tions as these,
T HAVE seen men-quite reputable,
well-shaved-men reading that
pamphlet of mine in the rotunda OF
hotels, with their eyes blazing with
excitement, / think that 1t is the
jaguar attraction that hits them hard
est, because l notice them rub them
selves sympathetically with their
hands while they read.
OF course, you can imagine the eff
feet of this sort of literature on the
brains of men fresh from their of
fees, and dressed out as pirates.
Just watch them when they get into
| the bush,
Notice that well-to-do broker crawl
| ing about on his stomach in the un
Evening star., 1925-06-28
Turkish Eire Eifhtinf.

In Constantinople Turkish f1remen
respond to an alarm Of fire with
a small hand pump attached to gar
den hose. The city's fire loss is so
heavy that the city virtually is rebuilt
every fifty years. And, strangely
enough, the most popular attraction
in the municipal museum is a mod
ern fire truck in bright red with
brass trimmings, presented to the city
before the World War by the German
Kaiser. The Turks were puzzled what
to do with it until some on suggested
putting it in the museum.
Evening star., 1925-06-28

and if we had been we couldn't of, on
account the line of cars ahead of us
never give us room enough to turn
off
BY noontime we was almost four
miles out of the city and hungry from
the nice fresh gasoline we had been
breathing out there in the country.
And by one-thirty we was still in the
deep forest of advt. signs and had to
abandon the exact plan we had made
about where would we eat.
Instead of eating in the shade of
the Old Oaken Bucket beside the
Babbling Brook. we had to compro.
mise on the shade Of the old oaken
bucket shop. or that was what the
noise inside the building sounded like
And the place of the babbling brook
was ably taken by bunch Of babbling
females. Funny, amt it, the way
some women will talk right at you
and the same time pretend not to see
you? Well, that was them.
A NYWAYS, L can't say that JUNO,
= and that awful child of the Joe
| Bushes picked up any daisies, bu,
| they was sweet and generous to each
other. They give each other a black
eye and exchanged the mea sles anC
whooping cough, and when it come tc
Evening star., 1925-06-28


I read in the papers and we
amt been getting none lately
on acct. of the lady news deal
er at Great Neck having pc
culiar idea that you ought to pay
for them once in vile. SO this Wk.
will half TO try and satisfy you with
a few of my personal experiences in
regards to matters that concerns only
myself and what l lovingly refer to as
my Long Island public and I realize
it may not maybe be interesting to
you SO don't stay away from church
or lodge to read this article.
Well in the first place 1t seems they
was another benefit show the other
day for the Authors league of America
which I am one of them through a
slight misunderstanding but any way
this show was to be put on at a place
called jackson Heights which you
can't avoid passing it when you drive
in to n. Y. city from where we live
and the boys in charge put up big post
ers all over Longs Island saying who
was going to be in the show and my
name was amongst same and between
you and I dear reader l hadn't never
been consulted and don't never ap-
pear in shows except a little pan
tomime once in a vile during the few
minutes it take me every Sd. day to
shave.
So I didn't pay no tension only to
wonder what and the he'll and at
noon time on the day the show was
coming off the phone rung and her
who I always think of as the madam
answered the phone and it was
George Creel on the other end Of the
wire and my madam talked to him
civilly on acct. of he being Blanche
Batess husband and he exclaimed
that he was in charge Of the show
and wanted to know if l would be
sure and show up. So the madam
said why my husband amt never
been informed that he was to take
part in no show and Mr.. Creel said
we realize that and the reason we are
calling him up so Late is because we
figured that if we took him by sur
prise he might consent to take part.
Well 1t was a well though out scream
and the only trouble with it was that
by that time ! was over in Philadel-
phia spearing hazel nuts so ! guest
the show must of been flop, at least
Evening star., 1925-06-28
BY STEPHAN LEACOCK.

" HIS is the season when certain
villages begin to distribute lit
tie pamphlets and booklets
1 among the business offices and
round the hotels. In them are
pictures of pine woods and silver
lakes, of men lighting campfires be
side river, or lifting 10-pound fish
out of a boiling cataract. Any bust
ness man who gets one look at this Is
lost.
1t was once my fate, or my task, to
write one of these pamphlets. 1t was
only after the thing was done and my
pamphlet had gone abroad into hotel
rotundas and club cars that | realized
| the terrible consequences that were
| sure to result. My booklet was writ
ten as a description of place called
| Dog Lake at the end of a branch line
| of railway.
The place had failed as a settlement,
and the railroad had decided to turn
| it into a hunting resort. l did the
turning. ! think l did it rather well
| rechristening the lake and stocking
| the place with suitable varieties OF
| game. The pamphlet ran like this:
THE limpid waters of Lake Owata
| wetness uhe name, according to the
old Indian legends of the place, signi
| ties the mirror of the Almighty
abound with every known variety of
| fish Near to its surface, so close
| that the angler may reach out his
hand and stroke them, schools of pike
pick erel. mackerel, doSgerel and
| chickerel jostle one another in the
water.
"They rise instantaneously to the
bait and swim gracefully ashore, hold
ing it In their mouths. In the middle
| depth of the waters of the lake the
sardine, the lobster, the kippered her
ring. the anchovy, and other timed
varieties of fish disport themselves
with evident qualification, while ever
lower in the pellucid depths the dog
fish, the hogtish, the logfsh and the
bogfish whirl about in never-endins
circles.