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The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-12-30
Trials BY Bread and Cheese.

There were many c1o ways In
ancient times OF detecting criminals.
Our ancestors had not lived long
enough to lose their faith in the
cravings OF conscience, and Divine
interference in earthly justice was
superstitiously regarded as daily
occurrence.
No queerer example Of this could
be found than the ancient mode of
trying prisoners by bread and
cheese. The unfortunate offender
was. led, with a halter round his
neck, to the parish church, and
there, in the presence of all the
people, the priest put pieces Of
cheese and rye bread In a patten on
the altar. These he blessed and
then the supposed criminal had to
eat them dry before the congre-
ton.
II he managed to swallow them
easily he was acquitted; but II he
choked he was condemned. Natur-
ally enough, scores OF innocent folk
were thus done to death
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-12-30
A Presidents BABY Clothes.

IN the corner yf tho National Mu-
scum attached t. Independence Hall,
and under neat glass case there Is
little suit Of silk baby clothing that
attracts much attention, especially
from the women visitors.
1t includes a tiny cap, dress, waist
band and handkerchiefs, made. ac-
cording to the card attached, for
ths sixth President of the United
States by the wife of the second, !"
Mrs. John Adams. AS her eldest son
John Quincy Adams, was born in
1867, and the tiny suit was evident
ly worn only few times In his ear
Hest infancy, 1t is now more than
LAC years old.
AS evidence of maternal love and
care the many delicate cross stitches
in colored silk are preserved with
marvellous delcacy. They are sure
to attract admiring remarks when q
group of matrons or stylishly dressed
younger women bend over the the
case.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-12-30
THE PHOTOGRAPHIC EYE
Superstition That Retina Holds Last
Seen Image.

seen lnit8Ss
The grossest superstitions die just
as hard as those which have some
finer points to smooth over their grip
upon the human mind. In an Hli-
nois town the authorities propose to
take picture of a murdered young
woman's eye In the belief that the
portrait of the murderer will be found
on the retina. The age of this SUI
perstition is uncertain, but 1t has
lived a long time. Belief in it is not
so widespread, as it once was, how
ever, but that men of supposed intel
ligence intend to act upon 1t is not
wreath upon their intellectual pro-
gress.
The picture upon the retina Of q
dead persons eye superstition may
have come from the fact that pictures
may be made employing the eye for
q lens, but this Is scarcely probable.
To men who still believe that the pic
ture of the last object seen by the
human eye before its owner expires,
the mystery of chemistry and photo
graphy is as deep to-day as before its
working formulae were made known
by the early investigators. 1t is
nothing to such men as those Illinois
police authorities that the eye is sim
ply lens itself which only trans
NIT light. They would never dream
OF trying to get a picture on any 9th
er lens, one made, of glass, for in
stance, for they know that the pic
ture is not made upon the lens. But
bowling their knees to superstition,
they publicly declare they expect to
find a picture Of this young woman's
murderer, visible upon the retina Of
ner eyes.
1t is when reading OF such feats
as this that one is most inclined to
admit that the need of technical ed
ucation is indeed great.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-12-30
variety In Country Fishing.

am sorry for the man or woman
who finds difHuclty In killing time
in the country, says fisherman. A
week is nothing and we can accom-
plish nothing Of Importance.
The most important event is the
occasional capture of an unusually
large trout. There are big ones
here. he sure Of that. have re-
liable information of one which has
its habitat not far away which is
said to be full two feet long. If So
it will weigh full five pounds.
Thin OF that. my boyi Drop
that everlasting business and come
and catch (him or her). Even II
you kill nothing. you Will be happy,
and you will be sure to catch clubs.
A. least, always do. and must say
that it is somewhat disappointing to
find that one has big leather
mouth instead OF large golden
trout.
Yet the so-caIled club is some
thing Of a game nsh. He rises at
the fly and can put up good fight.
The largest / ever killed was eigh-
teen inches long; but l have heard
of them up to twenty-five inches.
and weighing three pounds. When
/ cannot take trout / will eaten
clubs
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-12-30

two Thousand Feet Deep-A
nrowned-Out VOLCANO.

Two Thousand Feet Deep-A
Drowned-Out Volcano.
enc new Crater lake National
Park. In Oregon. already bids to riv-
Rl as resort for tourists the famous
Yosemite valley. People are begin
ming to visit In great numbers, at
tracted by the unique and spectacular
scenic feature which 1t offers. and
the approach TO 1t. hitherto some
what difficult. is being made much
easier BY q railroad now in process OF
construction.
Crater lake gets its name from the
fact that It occupies the crater Of an
extinct volcano. Five miles in DAM
eter and nearly circular In shape, It
as the deepest body of fresh water In
America. Soundings have fixed its
depth at 1000 feet. Only one lake
in the world. that Of Balkal, is deep
er-by about 400 feet. In other re-
spects, however, It is altogether
unique. Encircled az It is by almost
vertical cliffs which are reflected in
the deep and brilliant blue of the
water, 1t presents to the eye specta-
Gle unsurpassed.
AS great natural and scenic feat
ure OF this country, Crater lake
ranks with Niagara Falls and the
Grand Canyon OF the Colorado. 1t
IN unique. and In its way unrivaled.
There ARE Ia the United States hum
dreds OF extinct volcano craters, but
shss Is our only great one.
Think o. isl This mighty hole in
she summit OF the Cascade range is
nearly six miles IN diameter and over
awo-khirds OF q mile In depth. Once
upon time 1t was filled with boiling
lava; today Il contains beautiful
lake Of fresh water, which is encir-
cled by q ring Of precipitous cliffs
from 500 20 $500 feet high, with
out break or outlet.
The extraordinary depth Of the
lake naturally led to widespread
popular beiief 10 the effect that 1t
had no bottom. b Is familiar kind
Of delusion. Any small body Of wa
ter wherever found, whose bottom
IS beyond reach ~ the longest fishing
lines. is sure to gain the repute Of
being bottomless. Within two miles
OF New Haven, Conn. Is cleft In
the hills that "a occupied by a large
pond called Lake Saltonstall.
Though considerably less than 200
feet In depth. 1t is declared by peo-
pie who live in the neighborhood, to
have no bottom. No wonder. then,
that Crater lake. with an actual
depth OF 2.0OO feet. should be mag
lined to possess no floor whatever.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-12-30
Don't Fold Your Arms

BY folding your arms you pull the
shoulders forward, fiatten the chest
and impair deep breathing. Folding
the arms across the chest SO fiattens
it down that It requires a constant
effort to keep the chest in what
should be its naturai position AS soon
a. you forget yourself down drops
the chest.
We cannot see ourselves as others
see US. If we could, many of us
would be ashamed of our shapes.
The position you hold your body in
most of the time soon becomes its
natural position. Continuously fold
ing your arms across the chest de-
velops a hat chest and a rounded
back.
Here are four other hints which
should be made habits. Keep the
back Of the neck close to the back Of
the collar at all possible times. Al
ways carry the chest farther to the
front than any other part of the an
terror body Draw the abdomen in
and up a hundred times a day. Take
a dozen dep slow breaths G dozen
times day.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-12-30
Maintain Invention Departments.

Every great manufacturing con-
Germ maintains under one name or
another, en- invention department.
Every invention made is assigned to
the company I'm consideration Of
salary ana one dollar The Gener-
al Electric Company at Schenectady,
N. r., for example. employs about
eight hundred men who devote much
OF their time to developing new
Ideas. 1t spends $2,5OO,00O0 a year
in the development of work. The
Westinghouse Companies do the
same thing. The National Cash
Register Company, the HOG Printing
Press Company, the United Shoe Ma
chinery Company, the Bell Telephone
Company, and many others have
each corps OF men, who have dis
played the inventive faculty, at work
on salary. The General Electric
Company offers a typical example OF
the use OF the inventions department
In an establishment employing co.
900 men, around S2,50O,O60 Is
spent each year in developing patent
able Inventions Last year 1,412
ideas were carried to the manage.
ment by 300 men as patenlab.e ia
ventions. or these 1877 were found
to be either impracticable or not
new. The remaining 615 were pat
ented by the company.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-12-30
LAW OF THE WAREHOUSE.
Great and Growing Factor in Price
OF Commodities.

one result Of the tall Of staple
prices, such section, wool and 9th
or perishables which require
storage. Is TO increase the volume Of
warehousing business. High prices
and rising prices lower the stocks
and reduce the demand for warehouse
Ing space.
AS soon, however, as prices begin
TO yield the warehonsing problem
becomes more acute as 1t approaches
the point at which the producers of
staples or the manufacturers Of sta
PIE goods feel that the market value
at which thoy may dispose of their
stocks is below what they should
properly have unoer existing condi-
tions of production.
The result is, as the demand for
warehouse room increases and
larger quantity of goods is conserved
in hore OF improvement. this be-
comes one of the very influences to
depress. prices still further. For the
buyer, knowing Of the existence Of
there stocks, Is just so much, easier
to convince that lower prices are
necessary
1T is a well-known law OF the
wafehousing business that when the
sellers estimate of the market is too
much above the buyers to effect
sales. the burden of the market falls
upon the warehouse. Yet the finan-
ciaI weight rests rather on the bank
er from whom advances on ware
housing certificates as collateral are
treqeuntly made. sometimes with al
together too little knowledge of the
actual value of things on which the
loans are granted
In accordance with this general
principle warehousing is now likely
to figure considerably in the wool
and the cotton trade. TIE territor
ial wool growers have already ar
ranged to warehouse large stocks at
minneapolis and st. Paul No doubt
st. Louis, another storage centre,
Will participate in this tendency
until the wool industry reaches a
more decisive status. Furthermore,
the cotton swarehousing movement is
likely to grow in influence on prices,
especially if they fall materially be-
low that at which cotton is now held.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-12-30
A Chinese Forestry School.

The almost world wide movement
to protect and estab lish forests has
reached China and the first Chinese
school OF forestry will shortly be
opened in Moukden, according to a
recent report by Consul General
James w. Ragsdale, at flemish.
The Chinese Empire is sometimes
pointed out as the worst example
among modern nations Of forest de-
struction. The floods which are
periodically poured down from the
denuded mountains are destroying
beyond comparishon with those of
any other country, and the want Of
forests is assigned the chief cause.
Wood Is scarcer in China than in all
most any other inhabited region of
the world, although the country is
well adapted to the growing Of trees.
In the establishing of forestry
school the Chinese Government gives
evidence that it realizes the need of
beginning Its reformation in sci
entitic manner.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-12-30
out o. the Ginger Jar.

II doesn't pay to bully-rag bull.
a thin purse makes person feel
nat.
Common sense always brings fancy
prices.
OF what trade are all Of our Presi-
dents7 Cablnetmakers.
There are some folks too cowardly
to HEX postage stamp,
The jelly gets in trenble without
being the least bit scared.
He who pursues two rabbits will
succeed In catching neither.
Men who spend all they make often
don't make all they spend
The horse Is the most contrary crea-
ture alive. He says neigh to every
thing.
Adam had q right 30 shink his wife
the prettiest woman in the whole
world.
The foolish man can ask twice as
many questions as the wise one can
answer.
II am down in the mouth" said the
pancake, as Johnny took big bite.
There are some folks 50 liberal that
every time they speak they give them
selves away.
Another fact to take note of-a
horse may pull with all his might but
never with his name.
The last thing q woman does before
leaving house IL to gaze into mir
ror to reflect.
Odd as It may SEEM, three tongues
are required in hitching span Of
horses to d wagon.
Johnny looking at the specks on the
potatoes asked: Mamma, are those
Many man has paid 9 lawyer IS
and $40 for poorer advice than his
wife would Willingly have given him
zw nothing
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-12-30

No One Dares Lay sacrilegious Fin.
ger Upon Their Persons.


ger Upon Their Persons.
Ever since the beginning Of the
now constant troubles In India
good deal has been heard about the
mullahs.
A mullah, or as it is more properly
written, mollah, is title given in
India and throughout the East gen.
orally to a religious leader Of any de-
scription.
Thus the Sultan of Turkey is a
mollah, because he is the supreme
head Of the Moshem world. The hos
hostile Somali leader who caused us
SO much anxiety between 1901 and
1905, and whose name occasionally
crops up even now in the daily pa
pers was also a mollah. And there
are hundreds of others.
To the most of the more conspicu-
Gus among them we prefix the adj
jective mad This, however, must
not be taken to mean that they are
insane. the word being used rather
in its Oriental insignificance Of in
inspired"
The, influence welded by the mol
abs who are now stirring up
the border tribes Of Afghanistan is
enormous. Clad in their sacred.
robes, bearing aloft the green stand
ard of Islam. they go UP and down
the valleys shriliing the Mohamnle-
dan war cry, and woe be to him who
fefuses to heed.
The presence of the mollah is sac
red. True, the Amir the other day was
reported to have ordered that any
Of them caught preaching the jehad
(holy war; should have their tongues
torn out. But If he really issued
such an edict which is extremely
doubtful was merely meant for
European ears. Not even the mighty
Habibullah himself would care to lay
a sacrilegtous finger on one of these
sanity personages. II he we're to
venture such an unheard Of thing
vengeance would surely overtake
him. For 1t Is the cardinal principal
of the UIima-as the mollahs are col
lectiyeIy termed that an injury pur-
posely caused to one of their number
can only be atoned for by the death
of the individual intiicting 1t.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-12-30

Paris underground railways now
open for traffic have length Of 80
miles, out of a total authorized Of
So miles, work being in progress on
all lines which are not yet In opera
ton. The Metropolitan scheme in-
cludes two sets OF rails parallel to
the Seine. and serving the traffic OF
the central portions Of the city, a
circular line surrounding the CITY,,
and situated between the central
quarters and the fortihcations, occg-
plying somewhat the position Of the
outer boulevards; and, lastly, two
transverse lines at right angles Of
the course OF the river. The por-
tons OF this system now in operation
carry an average OF $4,000 passen-
gers daily. The other concession.
called the North and south Railway,
crosses Paris transversely from north
to south, and has total length OF
about seven miles,
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-12-30
Pheasant outdoor Furnishings.


To furnish a veranda to the best
advantage for living purposes turni-
ture should be utilized tEat can With
stand the weather and hard usage.
Several large easy chairs, a settee
furnished with crash or denim COW
cred cushions, and hammocAs are Aes-
sentiaI. Bamboo screens. or awnings
Will add materially to the comfort of
the yeranda equipment; swinging
couch is a luxurious addition that
will be greatly appreciated. Such a
couch may be home made, only
length and depth and q wealth Of
pillows being necessary for comfort.
1t may be sup )lied with a home made
full length PAD or q number Of pill
lows, 1t is fancy of the moment
to have summer porch pillows filed
with pine or balsam needles, hops
or clover. Husks from green corn
are saved, and with some lemon YER
bena, geranium. layendar or other
leaves to give fragrance, make partic~
ularly nice pillow filings. Lacking
better filing finely torn paper with
any sweet scented leaves INTERIM
gIed make acceptable filing for
porch pillows.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-12-30
SPURIOUS COIN Is A LURE
Psychology Of Counterfeiting Is a
Puzzle to Federal Authorities.


Puzzle to Federal Authorities.
Like the ny which lights on paper
carefully smeared with molasses for
his benent, the man who lets his
thoughts dwell upon queer money
ia caught hard and fast. unless he
gets the idea out Of his head as soon
as It enters. That is the psycholo-
gy OF counterfeiting, as explained by
Captain Thomas J. Porter, Of the
United States Secret Service.
AS further illustration Of the
theory. Captain Porter reverted to
the case Of the Rev. James R. Kaye.
the Oak Park minister. convicted OF
making bad coin.
men who counterfeit want to get
rich quickly" explained Captain Por-
ter. 1T is funny. though, how the
game attracts man who Is other
wise honest. The man who is at
tracted at first by the prospect OF
making money easily in this way
argues that he is doing no wrong.
He simply says to himself that he
will make q few thousand dollars OF
spurious money and then shove it
out in safe way. He argues with
himself that the money will be &C
cepted by everyone, and that 1t really
is the same as the money stamped as
legal tender by the government, and
HE begins to read about counter
citing, and the more he reads the
easier the thing seems. Ten to one
he has taste for mechanics and any
man With simple knowledge OF
metals, II he has the proper dies, can
turn out pretty fair representation
of a dollar or other silver coin.
Most OF the old time counterfeit
ers have gone out of business or are
serving terms in penitenttaries, and
many OF the spurious coins made at
the present time are manufactured
by men who are respected in the
communities in which they live
'Counterfeiting bank notes ia
more dtfhcult than making spurious
coins, but after man has been
successful with silver pieces he
takes up the other, and, with stHcy
and perseverance,, can turn out few
bills. However, these makers OF
bad money never last long. They
are run to earth sooner or later.
then comes their realization OF tbs
crime they have seen involved in.
The government is = re4entless enc
my, and the punishment for maxi
ing spurious money is severe, but
the wrongdoers never recall this I'M
I'll they are fairly caught.
II can do better than that fellow
did, and those dub detectives could
never have caught me in the trap
they laid for him." is the way the
amateur counterfeiter muses.. He
figures it all out to his own satisfac-
ton. but he fails to give the men in
Uncle Sans service credit for any
brains or originality of thought. He
thinks that they work the same way
on every case, and that all he has to
do is to observe the pitfalls that the
other men fell into and be careful
not to walk into them himself
This point settled, the deluded
victim OF the get rich quick craze has
only few more steps to take The
first thing that he does, generally, is
to manufacture some home made dies
OF plaster of Paris. They are crude
mouIds of silver pieces, and so our
deluded friend experiments little
by pouring pure lead into these casts,
and to his surprise and delight he
turns out few pieces Of metal which
bear resemblance to money"
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-12-30
Money In Tam o. shanters.

The increased popularity Of the
knitted tam O. shanter hats with the
fair sex this season has brought about
an extensive demand that Is taxing
the productive capacity Of English
manufacturers to the full.
Dyers, too, are benefiting by the
taste for vivid colors in this piduant
headgear. The revived popularity has
led nottingham hosiery makers to put
Ia extra machinery for It's production.
Heretofore they have given II little at
tention, though s. Is said to be a very
profitable product
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-12-30


The Iapidary was about to cut the
tail off a tadpole-shaped yellow dia-
mond.
THE chances are, he said, that
this fellow Will turn white from ter
ror when / split him. II he does,
his value will so up 200 per cent. =
The lapidary set his steel knife in
position he prepared to strike on
the knife's back the momentous
blow
Wish me luck, ne said.
And the hammer fell, the ampu-
tated tail dropped down into the box
underneath, and 10, the yellow dia-
mond that had been split, was now
quite white
The yellow faint, the cutter ex-
plained, was only in the tail. Yet
the faint was reelected all through
the stone, and this made 1t seem Of
a uniform yellow throughout Now
the faint is gone and our yellow dia-
mond is a pure white one
The miracle happens fairly Of
ten.
r. fs u,iefalxa ~ hang vour amhi-
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-12-30

The term Black FrIday" is applied
to Friday, September "a 1853. when
a group CT spectators in New York
advanced the price Of gold suddenly
to 1623k, causing panic.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-12-30

The best workers among the cot
ton spinners OF Manchester, England,
receive from SIS TO So q week
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-12-30

An Unorthodox View.
French heels and Merry WIDOW
hak never made an actxesa.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1926-12-30

II is a mistake to hang your ambi-
fion SO high that YOU cannot reach II.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-04

the gentlemen will be invited. The
full number must play each day,
but substitutes may be supplied by
any who are unable to attend any
time.
Clinton Brooks Of Wilton is pass
ing week with his sister, Mrs. Roy
Farmer Of Mosher Hill district.
Prof. w. G. Mallett, principal of
the Pennington State Normal school,
has 5ust returned from a trip to the
eastern part of the state.
Miss Zilda J. Brown, who was OPP
Grated on for appendicitis some time
ago, was able to return to her work
as teacher In the village schools this
week.
+. rev. A. A. Rouner is attending
the Congregational conference in
Bangor this week.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-04

in cake of cold, glitterinR Ice. She
wondered why she had ever surround
er herself with plain walla
In boxing through the pages Of
one Of the big interior decorating
magazines she saw illustrations Of
several lovely new kitchens IN some Of
the large homes then being built, and,
delightful surprise, she discovered
that they were decorated IN color !;
such charming color, and 50 quantity
usedl In one, the walls were COW
cred with gay little chintz wall
paper, bright red. green, and black,
flowers on q warm cream ground;
with red and cream calico curtains
bound with black, and black and
cream linoleum On the floor. This was
charming, but a little too strong N
color for her taste, 50 she chose an
other 10 follow rs her guide.
The paper this time was softer n
cceor, tiny yellow and rose flowers On
. COO. greea ground. with . nstie
black m the design of the border,
that ran around the top of the walls.
Here checked bingham was used 10
make the curtains and lamp shades.
for the new kitchens shade their white
light fixtures too, and the bingham,
she chose, was rose and green check.
She painted the furniture with green
enamel and used two coats Of Riue
sise and two Of white proof
varnish on the walls to make them
waterproof and washable.
Today, this woman lives IA her
:harming restful kitchen most of To
line. Because It Is % attractive she
.njoys fussing around it. freshenfng
t up and reveling in its dainty cool
less, even when the strong afternoon
'un is streaming through the pink
md green curtains