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Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-02-24
a VOICE Faoa pEau.
Peru. Me-. Nov. 10. 1895.

The Buxton Rheumatic Cure Co.
Gentlemen: In regard to your Rheu-
matte Cure. will say that have been
afflicted with rheumatism for several
years and have had two rheumatic
fevers. About one year ago + became
convinced tnat / should have 70 take
my bed II did not set relief and -
I had your cure for sale and n It had
done many remarkable cures In my Vi
cinlty I thought would try it. After
taking one bottle the pain all left me.
/ shall be pleased to answer amy oues-
:ions in regard to above Statement.
Yours truly,
GREENLIEF HoDsDoN.
feh1Q wrxla fritf
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-02-24
Americans b b Prsssa.sd u tAs Qssea.

London. Feb. 23.-The Queen arrived
in London from Windsor today. Nrs.
Bayard, wife Of the United States am
hassador. will present to Her Majesty.
at the drawing room which will bo
held a. Buckingham palace. t0mor-
row. Mrs. Marshall Fox Of Maine. and
her daughter and Miss Maynard But
Ter OF Boston.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-02-24
NOT VERY GRATIFYING.
Co ,necticut Senate Aeiuses to Invite W.
Bryan 10 Visit Capitol.

Hartford, Ct, Feb. 23.-The House,
Tuesday, SIS to 81. passed resolution
inviting w. j. Bryan to visit the Capt.
tol during his stay in Connecticut,
February 25 and q. In the Senate the
resolution was rejected by an en-
tphatic yea and nay vote.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-02-24
Fire Near pslaadl Springs.

Lewiston, Feb. GA set of unoccu-
pied farm buildings at the Record place
near Poland Spring Hotel. was burned,
tonight. Value, 5000; loss. total;
cause, unknown.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-02-24

Canea. Feb. 23.-The foreign constls
have persuaded the Moslem and Chris-
tian combatants in the Selinos district
to agree to a weeks arlnistice.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-02-24
Greeks lasst Essego.s cssss.

Paris. Feb. saA leajllnG, paper az
serts that the Powers have called upon
Greece to evacuate Crete within u
hours. and that Greece has, consented
to do SO. provided that ssIse. autonasny
Of the island be stAtanteed.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-02-24

Hoods Pills with Hoods Sarsapafilla,
and they have done me much good. I
will not be without them. have taken 13
bottles of Hoods Sarsaparilla, and through
the blessing of God, it has cured me.
worked as hard as ever the past sum-
mer, and I am thankful to say am
well. Hoods Pills when taken with
Hoods Sarsaparills help very much" I"
MRS. M. M. MEssENoER, Freehold, Penn.
This and many other cures prove that
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-02-24
Mason ( Merrill,
Bankers,
9t1;xchange St., Portland. Me-,
Offc2. For Sale:

Mousam Water Co. (of Kennebunk,
Me.,) 1st Mortgage S's.
Rockland, Th0mast0n and Camden st.
Ry. 1st Mortgage is.
Edison Electric Illuminating Co. (of
Baltimore, Md.,) 1st Mortgage G's.
Ellicott Square Go. (of Buffalo, n. Y.,)
LIST and 2L Mortgage Bonds.
Rockland Water Go. 1st Mortgage SIS.
Knox Gas and Electric Co. (of Rock.
land, Mc.,) LIST Mortgage Gs.
Bangor and .Ar00stO0k II. X. lst Mort.
gage IS.
Rumford Falls Lig hi and Water Co.
1stMOrtgage G's.
Consolidated Electric Light Co. (of
Portland,) LIST Mortgage S'ss
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-02-24
FAIR AND COLDER.

Washington. Feb. 23-Forecast for
Wednesday: For New England. gem
orally fair; colder in south portion:
ncrthwesterly winds.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-02-24
TABLED.

An act relating to the Coburn Steam
boat Company came up for its first read
droscoggin. was laid on the table.
Resolve in favor of George NJ. CoOmbs
came UP for Its second reading and on
CONTINUED on page 2.)
Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-02-24
AUGUSTA MAINE. WEDNESDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY "a 1897
MAINE LEGISLATURE.
slxlY.elsars sEsslos.
SENATE.

Tuesday. Feb %. 1897.
The Senate met according to adjourn
ment and was called to order by the
President.
Prayer by Rev. Mr.. struthers of Gar
diner.
Journal of Friday read and approved.
Papers from the House disposed of in
concurrence.
House report of the committee on shore
fisheries, granting leave to withdraw on
petitions Of Charles +. Patten and 3S
others of Bath and of W. NJ Spear and
others or Gardner, praying that no smelts
be taken in the Kennebec river and its
tributaries. except with hook and line.
came from the House read and accepted
and pending acceptance in concurrence
was laid on the table on motion by Mr..
Clason of kennebec.
An act to create lien on spool timber
and bars came from the House on its first
reading and on motion by MIR. Engel Of
Penobscot was laid on the table.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-05-15
A HABIT.
How to Stop Children from Sucking
Fingers and Thumbs.

How to Stop Children from Sucking
Fingers and Thumbs.
The habit of sucking the thumb
among children is one probably of very
ancient origin. 1t may have descend
cd from our simian ancestors, although
no observations bearing upon this point
sc far seem to have been made. An
other explanation of the habit may be
hat the pressure of the thumb in the
child's mouth causes some relief dur
ing the period of dentition, and thus
helps to allay the irritation present in
the gums. But whatever the canse
may be, the habit is undeniably a bad
one, and when persistently and extern
sively practiced calls for correction.
Many devices, of course, have from
time to time been introduced with this
end in view. Some have proved sue
cessful; on the other hand, OCCASION
ally all have ended in failure. A med
ical man relates in the Boston Medical
and Surgical Journal how a difficulty
of this nature was successfully IT.
mounted in the following way: For
two years every available plan for stop
ping the habit had been tried on a little
girl of five years of age, but without
any satisfactory result. Accordingly
the practitioner proceeded to immob-
ilize the elbows of the child at a very
obtuse angle. A s~ilicate of potash BAN
dage vas applied to each arm, reaching
nearly from the shoulder to the wrist.
After these had hardened they were
split at the sides and removed. They
were then covered and lined with fam
lei. These two long tubular band
ages could then, like gauntlets, be
pulled on and off as the parents wished.
This method proved perfectly success
full. In two weeks time the child was
cured Of the habit.-N. Y. Journal.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-05-15
WHERE MopJEsKA RESTS.

mountain, which rises behind it in ter
is an old-fashioncd, s~tone-curbed well,
from which an ''iron-bound bucket"
draws deliciously cold water. Ham
mocks and easy chairs invite you to
linger and listen to the murmur of the
stream, the plash of the fountain, the
song of the birds, the drone of the bee;
while you drink in deep breaths of ex-
hilarating air, and gaze your fill upon
the mountain peaks, the deep blue sky
and the fern-draped terraces.
Beyond the house the scene becomes
o wild and rugged; the mountains
crouch closer together, leaving only
cor for the road and the stream to
wind about and in and out" until the
road disappears and nature is left in
u~rdisturbed sublimity. Count Bozenta,
with the aid of Ralph Modjeska's en-
cheering skill, has conducted water
from these mountain solitudes for do
mystic purposes and for ~iFrigating his
orchards. In the improvements that
have been made there has been an effort
to supplement the natural beauties, but
to leave nature as u~ndisturbed as posi-
BILE, and the result is'most pleasing.
The house is quaint and attractive
in its appearance, charming in its ar
rangement and interesting throughout.
But the room about which the rest of
the house seems to cluster is a large
one which serves as studio, library and
music room combined. The walls are
lined with bookcases, containing valu-
able libraries in Polish, French and
English. A fireplace of medieval de-
sign. built of hewn stone, with a high
narrow shelf, is ornamental; the cool
evenings and mornings are made more
comfortable by it's open fire. Couches
in cozy corners, an organ, and a concert
grand piano, combine with pictures
and art treasures picked up in all lands
to make this room most quaint and at
tractive. The light comes through a
stained-glass window high up in the
north gable. / recall a summers even
ing when the fading light of the sun
set afterglow fell softly through the
stained-glass of the window, and the
shadows crept from their hiding places
and reached out their arms to chase the
day away; when the sweet strains OF
Ave Maria filed the quaint room with
melody, and the mind with a tangle
of weird f%ancies. that made it all seem
a picture from an old-time story book
Land of Sunshine.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-05-15
HELP FoR THE DEAF.

A Machine Which Enables Them to
Distinguish Melodies.
1t is acknowledged that all, even the
deaf and dumb, have a vestige of audi
tive power. Sound, which is a tenn
porary phenomenon, had first to be
registered to be studied. This has been
accomplished by the photograph. In
order to amplify these registered
sounds that they may be perceptible to
the very deaf, M. Dussaud, the Swiss
philanthropist, professor of applied
physics at the University of Geneva, and
deputy to the confederation, has in
vented the microphonograph. which
may be called the first sound micro
scope, or first pair of glasses for deaf
ears. This machine consists practic-
ally of a photograph. on whose mem
brane has been adapted a new kind Of
microphone. When the receiver is APP
piled to the ear, by gradually increasing
the strength of the current so great an
intensity of the words or airs can be OBJ
tanned that the ear can no longer per-
ceive them without violent suffering.
N. Dussaud, by regulating the current,
succeeds in getting persons of different
degrees of deafness to follow, after a
little experience and practice. different
melodies, in which they beat the meas
IRE and which they distinguish one
from another. Perception of sound
will render the use of speech easier
to them.@Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-05-15
SCIENCE
N-s1l-l5aowa spisntl-s Dl-euasea II

AoWn 8ciemtAat Its
Medfco-LegnI status.
a paper was recently read before the
Ieetlon Of neurology Of the American
Medical association by DR.. R. Osgood
Mason, the medical scientist whose in
vestigntions in psychicaI phenomena
ave attracted wide attention, on the
origin and -medico-legal aspect of the
dual personality.
He believes that not only physical pc
~culiarities and tendencies to certain dis
easea. but mental characteristics, may
be transmitted TO descendants, often
passing over one or more generations to
appear Enthusiastically in a later one.
Suppose, for instance, that five gener-
atoms back there had appeared a man
Of thoroughly bad characteristics mar
ried to q right-minded, moral, even re-
ligious woman" He further supposes
that this mans life was in every way
profane and vicious; that "the genera
tons which immediately succeeded
came under influences. which, aided by
inherited characteristics from the
mother, led to lives of morality, up
rightness, or even conspicuous piety."
In the fifth generation appeared a ma
almost the counterpart of his evil an
cestor. where did this evil tendency
exist during the four intervening gem
e~rations?" DR.. Mason states thatin the
fourth generation was a mild and re-
ligiously inclined woman of delicate
health. Some sudden shock, syncope or
loss of consciousness occurs, and on re-
covery an entirely new personality is
found. The patient commences to
curse, to Witty everything good, and to
uphold sentiments and practices of the
most criminal character. The newly
arrived personality has a chain of MEM
cries and individual history quite for
eign to the primary self, but consistent
with the remote ancestor, whom we
have considered In an hour her own
consciousness has returned and her re-
cent condition is perhaps called tempo
rary insanity, or, in more primitive
times, was termed possession of the
evil spirit" In like manner a pleasant
atavism may appear after generations
of e~vil-doers. The doctor cites many
cases of alternating personality, which
makes the Jekyll and Hyde story seem
quite probable and explains many cases
Of erratic actions in staid citizens. as
well as pseudo-memory and many of our
strange impulses, which ~theosophists
claim prove r~eincarnation to be a real
ity. Mr.. Mason claims that it is but the
transmission Of qualits snd ideas
which may for years ren dormant,
and that ones ordinary anshould not
be punished for q crime the motive OF
which may be traced to a remote ances-
tor. He thinks the question of interest
not only to the scientists but the whole
world.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-05-15
Air I'm d ) TunneI.

A curious state Of things was OBJ
served in the tunnel OF the underground
railway Of Budapest on account of lack
Of ventilation. Fer a stretch of more
chan two miles there is only a single
v~entilator, which is entirely insufficient,
and the trains running through the
tunnel compress the air within like that
in the gun barrel of a zalinski dyna-
mite gun. It is stated that on several
occasions the ears were raised bodily
from the tracks by the pressure of air
and gas, and the passengers were all
most suffocated. Steps have been taken
to Increase the number of air shafts.
SO that there will be at least ten of these
in each mile. and very large exhaust
fans will DO away with the danger of in
sufficient ventilation, which now
renders the employment at the same
time of the two tracks in the tunnel abb
solutely dangerous.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-05-15

There is in the treasury department
at Washington a cat that understands
English perfectly. His name is Tom.
and when addressed he will quickly re-
spond, even waking out of a sound
sleep to go toward the speaker. Some
times, to confuse him, the clerks will
sing out some word or words in which
the syllable Tom is emphasized, and to
that he pays no attention. But let any,
one call: .'Tom. it's dinner timeI" and
forthwith he walks across the room,
reaches up with his paws toa tin pail,
claws it down and comes bringing it
in his mouth. Toni is passionateIy fond
of music. At the cry of ''Hand organ!"
he climbs to a high window seat. but at
the words "Here's a dog!" he sinks un-
der a desk.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-05-15
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
THE RIDE 70 D%REAmTowN.


Listen, my darling. Low and clear
The sound Of the sleepIsnd bell ! hear.
It Is calling calErg. from FAR away
Through the twilight failing stit and gray,
Fairy music Its sweet voice seems.
A. it bids you away to the land Of dreams.
There's q good ateed waiting. my dear. to
bear
My little one where the dream-efves are.
Mount It, my darling. p ride away
Through the starry twilight stnl and gray;
It VIII carry you safely Ger Hill and lea,
This uusty charger Of mammals kneel
Mount and away, with i goodnight kiss.
Was ever 80 gentle q steed as fhis7
It ambles softly where roads are rough;
A touch Of you unepuxred footss enough
To set it galloping fast and free.
Was ever q steed like a mothers knee3
We are halfway over tia roads mydear.
The stars are out n the way is clear
And g~alloping, galloping. On we 80.
Til the drowsy plains we have crossed.
and IoI
the CLEAN Of the Dreamtown lights we see.
What steed SO swift as q mothers knee2
The gates swing open and we ride through.
What a host OF children ahead Of youi
Big ones and little ones, dark and fair
They have come to Dreamtowu from every
where!
I wonder. darling-ind out for
II they all rode ever on mother knee.
-Eben q. Rexford. in Youth's anion.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-05-15

singer has a perfectly true voice you
your pinnetta by. Use new, straight
pins, and pound them in until they
sound exactly like the singing, just as
a violin is tuned with a piano. The
deeper the pins are driven the higher
the sound. If a very high note is de-
sired, small black pins are best and for
bass notes large needles are best, but
common pins can be used for all. A very
little difference in the depth of the
driving makes a great difference in the
sound. Suppose you want to play 1.-TWO
Little Girls in Blue" You sing the first
word, "an," and drive the first pin in
until it keys exactly with it, then the
second word "old" and tune with the
second pin, and so on to the end, plac-
ing the pins about a quarter of an inch
apart or closer.
Holding the box firmly in your left
hand, or better, placing it on a table,
you take a long pin in your right hand
and u the point along the middle of
the pins in the box as they stand up
right. You should run the pin in your
hand according to the time the piece is
written in.
The pinnetta can be made in perfect
tune, played in perfect time and has a
clear, sweet sound like water running
over stones. If you possess any musical
taleEtyou can make the accompaniment
of chords on another box and have q
very pretty duet.
Anyone can make and play a pin
netta-Chicago Record.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-05-15
A CAT.
1t Picks the Strings of "a Banjo and
Plays the Piano.

It Picks the Strings of a Banjo and
Plays the Piano..
Randolph B!anel, of Mount Vernon,
was seated in his library one evening
several weeks ago when he heard a GU
rious sound in the parlor below. The
rest of the family had gone to bed.
The sound was rather musical, being a
humming in various notes, broken by
little twangs. Mr.. Blanel went down
etairs softly and peered into the parlor.
There in the moonlight which shone
on the piano top he saw the house cat
a big black tom, called Steal.
Steal was sitting on his launches be-
eide the banjo which Mr.. Blanel's boy
Rob usually plays. Steal had learned
that by touching the strings with his
paws he could make them sound. 1t
was remembered afterward that the
cat always came into the room when
Rob played, but that was supposed to
have been because the boy made a great
pet of him.
Blanel watched the cat, and says he
saw Steal pick the strings, first touch
ing the fourth, then the third, the Sec
ond and the first. Blanel tip-toed his
way back upstairs and listened to the
cats playing for over an hour, when
it ceased. Soon afterward Steal came
running upstairs, lay down before the
CRATE fire, and went to sleep.
Since that night the cat has gone reg.
ularly t. the banjo every night at about
IL or 1880 o'clock and picked away
at the strings, manifesting his delight
by purring loudly. The cat has been
seen also picking at a guitars strings.
the instrument having been left in the
banjo's place purposely. The cat does
what many other cats do, running
up and down the keys of the piano.
Rob Blanel says, however, that Steal
has a more delicate piano touch than
other cats.-N. Y. Sun.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-05-15
COY n

How to Make a Pretty window seat
for the Invalid to Rest In.
Artistic hangings for windows may
be made by placing a piece Of fretwork
across the upper pane of the window
and from it hang a deep rufie Of dotted
Madras or lace of any pretty design.
A comfortable window diYan may Be
easily made by mailing a wooden seat Of
good width along the window sill. This
should be upholstered in a color which
will harmonic with the other draperies
in the room. The front of the seat
should be made of brown leather deco
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-05-15
GRAY HAIR
Young Women Now Seem to Admire
the Silver Threads.

Young WOmcn Now Seem to Admire
the Silver Threads.
"Silver threads among the gold'' is
the latest fad among young women who
wish to appearintellectua and thought
full. Wig-makers will deny it, but the
fact remains that there is an alarming
prevalence of girls with gray hair On
their temples. From time immemoriaI
it has been the habit of the fair sex to
weed the gray hairs carefully from
their heads. One swallow cannot make
a spring, but it is a well-known fact
that ten gray hairs will make a yeay's
difference in a woman's age. This is
why in former times they pulled them
out so carefully.
Times have changed, however, and il
is the fashion Just now to appear very
metaphysical and very philosophical,
and with just a dash of the ''ologies"
thrown in. 1t certainly gives a young
woman an air of something above the
average giggling and gum chewing
matinee girl.
II you want to simulate the 0
or thing, just go to the wigmaker's and
give him just q small wisp of your hair.
with instructions to match it in ashale
of gray in a small toupee affair, to be
worn after the fashion of false bangs
Then train the gray hairs carefully
through your own locks, and there you
are.
Take a walk down Fifth avenue and
see the streams of gray-headed girls
coming from church, and still not one
of them, unless convicted by indubit-
able evidence, will confess to over 49,
n. Y. Herald.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-05-15
About premature burial.

Col. E. p. vollum and Mr.. Tebb have
written a book on the subject Of prema-
ture burial and declare they have not
exaggerated the case. They say it
would be impossible to record all the
cases collected In a volume of 400 pages.
Dr.. Franz Hartman is said to have col
leeted 700 cases, and DR.. L Guern, whose
work entitled Danger des Inhuma-
lions" has passed through several edi-
sloDs. has collected e,a1s cases.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-05-15
WOMAN AND HOME
M%opJEsKA.s HONE.

A Quaint and beautiful Place. Not
Far from Los Angeles.
Connoisseurs in art and lovers of
nature, some years ago she and her
husband came by chance upon a wild
and beautiful spot in the mountains OF
the coast range, about so miles south
east of Los Angeles, which took such
hold upon their fancy hat they were
never satisfied until they had estab-
lished their resting headquarters there.
And, indeed, one could scarcely imag-
inc a more ideal retreat than this.
Far away from the hurry and hustle,
up in a canyon where are purling
streams, and nodding ferns, and spread
ing live-oaks, nestled within a cres-
lent of the mountains, is the unpreten-
tious white frame villa-"Arden" they
have called this mountain home, in
honor of S~hakespeare's Forest of Ar
den." Here Modjeska m each sum
mer to spend as much time as her busy
life will permit. The drive from the
fertile Santa Ana valley leads through
the Santiago canyon, one of the most
beautiful spots in southern California,
and is charming beyond description.
So gradual is the ascent, that one passes
from an elevation Of 500 feet above the
sea level to 1850 feet, scarcely realizing
that one has been climbing. The road
winds through groves of immense live
oak, sycamore trees, whose branches
are festooned with wild grapevine,
woodbine and other creepers, and
crosses again and again a beautiful
mountain stream. Here and there
stand out great lunches of the tall
white California peoples, and in their
season the stately yuccas, crowned
with their great white panicles, the
feathery elder, the white clematis and
large beds of cactus, brilliant with their
beautiful yellow and crimson blossoms
and ripe "tunas." The crested road
unners scamper ahead of the horses;
the doves call across the canyon, and
focks of startled quail whirr from
coverts by the roadside.
AT last we find ourselves at the en-
trance to the Modjeska canyon, which
widens into a magnificent natural park.
BY buying up different claims from
cid mountaineers, they nave now about
1000 acres of land. The tiIlable part
has been set to orchards of oranges,
walnuts, olives and deciduous fruits,
and a considerable vineyard. The
mountain sides afford abundant graz.
ing for the focks and herds.
Two miles or more from the entrance,
after a sharp turn in the road, and
once more crossing the stream, we have
Dur first glimpse of the house and
grounds. The broad lawns, beneath
the spreading live-oaks, make a de,
iightfully cool and restful picture. The
house is nestled within a crescent of the
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-05-15
FIGUR NO. 3.

the science which treats of these things
80 she fills it up with the first thing at
hand. In this case it is the water,
which is forced up into the space by
the pressure of the outside air.
The remaining illustrations show a
trick that is also of a scientific nature.
The fish shown at Fig. 2 is to be
cnt from cardboard or very heavy pa
per. Perhaps m with lend you a
dish which you can fill with water to
make a pond for your fish to swim in.
Lay the fish down upon the water so