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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-09
Boston Produce Market.

Sic
CCRN-Lowcr; No yellow S4tflk.
CATS-Easer; No. clipped white 81
1iAY-I over; choice 20.C0.
MILL. t'EED-Unchanged
St.tING BRAN. 0Nlp27 so.
MINED FEED .50d 1856.
IGRk-Quiet, medium 7.l5M1S.s0
LAPn-Quict: l0h.
l5F.EF-tigher: whole cattle 1IHMl2.
LAMBS--F'irm: spring 15Il7
YEA LIS Firm: 10Mf2
Higher; northern 27fl1a.
CHEtSF-Steady York state 15dDR.
EGGS Steady: choice 10G12; western 1
M19
: POTATOES Higher; Maine white $50
JOG.
SUGAR -Steatk on basis Of $50 fol
graduated.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-09

A recent issue of an Austrian journal
gives an account of an automatic
money assorter that will assert metal
placing each denomination in 4
separate basket The various coins are
thrown Unfortunately into a funnel
at the top of the machine, and from the
funnel they slide downward, alightins,
on a spiral track This track has n
protecting edge or raised border con-
tanning Sits corresponding to the
various sizes of the coins. AS the
coins of various denominations glide
downward on to the track, through
some peculiar mechanism of the
machine they pass through the Sits
corresponding to their various sizes.
entering their respective baskets at the
bottom of the machine
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-09

1t was stated at an inquest on a
Dean Forest Eng.) collier, who had
become entangled in the machinery,
that on the previous night he woke up
his wife and told her he had dreamed
that while working with the machine
an accident occurred and he had fallen
into it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-09
Notice of First Meeting Of Creditors.

In the District Court of the United
States for the District of Maine.
In the matter of
Bankrupt. ]
To the creditors of Harry Asa Nelson Of
Sidney, in the County Of Kennebec, and
Notice Is hereby given that on the 18th
day Of May. A. D. 1908, the said Harry
Asa Nelson was duly adjudicated bank
rupt; and that the first meeting of his
Referee 1870 Water Street. in Augusta,
Maine: and District aforesaid on the 18th
day of June, A. d. 1908. at ten o'clock in
the forenoon. at which time the said cred
itors may attend, prove their claims, APP
point trustee. examine the bankrupt,
and transact such other business as may
properly come before said meeting
FREMONT JIG. LITTLE,
Referee in Bankruptcy.
Augusta, Me-, June I, 1908. June9dlts
.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-09

What is reported to be the largest
apple tree in the United States Is at
Southington, Con. 1t yields fifty bu-
shells.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-09
DEXTER.
Delightful Musical Recital BY J. X
SpringalI's PupiIs-PersonaIs.

Dexter, Me-. June S.-(SpeciaD.-The an
nual recital of the pupils of Joseph X.
Splingall was held in Town hall this
evening. The program:
Fairies Birthday, Evans
Mildred Gatchell.
A'@e '|o veth Stone. 's
''s" s'''''S' Vincent Dyer. Ae'n"""S
The Mill at Sans Souci Nicke
Ruth Towle.
Gypsy Maiden. Parker
Carrie Trefethren.
FMchsia, Garlic
Willard Moores
Star of the Sea, Kennedy
Angelica Bryant
Jolly Flaymates, Engliman
Gertrude Jackson.
In the Cloister Lange
Geneva Atwater.
(al The Mission of the Rose. Cowan
90 A Resolve. Fontenneuls
Alfred Couture.
Starlight Keverie, Goerdler
Harry Rideout.
Polka de Concert Bassett
Angie Cloutier.
Happy Shepherds Dream. Suddi
Bernicc Patterson.
Minnie Cloutier
(a) Star of Hope, Batistc
(b) Scherzo. Schubert
Ca Goodhy. Tosti
(D) WITHIN the Roses Bloom, NeVln
Florence Carter.
Chromatic Rondo. Barnekov
Marion Wood.
(a) My King. Synes
CD My Vision. Hardclot
Henry Poulin.
Tax Collector Charles C. Hatch is shar-
ing the Office Of the selectmen in the
library and his office hours are from s
A. NJ. to p. M. The discount of % cent :
on poll taxes will not be allowed afte'
June 10.
Work in the Master Mason degree upon
two candidates by Penobscot Lodge Mon
day evening.
The regular bi-monthly meeting of tn
Sunshine Club will be held Tuesday al
ternoOn with Mrs T. X. Edes.
Mrs. P. +. Riley, who spent the winter
In Lawrence. Mass. has returned to DcN
ter for the summer. She will make he
home with Mrs. Thomas Chandler on
Free street.
Miss Gertrude Dearth left Monday for
Boston, where she will remain two weeks.
Her position in the postoftice will be fill
ed during her absence by Miss Clar,.
Brewster
Or Charles Newton of Dover passe
Sunday with his sister, Mrs. Ralph Free
man of this place.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-09
Chicago Produce Market.
Chicago, June s.


A bearish government crop report caus-
ed sharp break today in wheat prices
on the local exchange. the July delivery
elosl1 dewn Oats io @ere OF !I@ @wsr
visions We're 21b lower to 2h higher.
The leading futures closed as follows:
,WHEAT-July Ssasma; Sept. S4h Dec.
CoKN--,Inly 66A; Sept. 65ss@1z; Dec.
5's; May i SS15: ala .aas. nj, nou, .,x
MESS POKK-July 1855; Sept. 1927.
LARD-July S55; Sept. s.7Z1h
SHORT RIRS-Juy 7.471A; Sept. 10.
Cash quotations closed as follows:
FLOTR-Quict and steady.
WHEAT--No. spring o5M14.
CORNING. , 69dtiz: No , yellow 72d1i2.
CATS-No. white 5lM55A
FLAX SEEDING. l northwestern 1852.
SHORT RIBS. .SIDES-76I750.
MESS F'ORK-lS 706,1o.15.
I.ARD-S.47.h.
SHORT CLEAR SIDES 75OG775
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-09
SUMMER COTTAGE
TO ET9

This is the time Of year when people
are making plans for the summer A
little adj in the Journal Want Columns
will be read by hundreds who have
their vacations in mind and from
hom you will get many applications.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-09
New York Cotton Market.

New YORK cotton MaFK6t.
New York, June S.
Spot closed quiet. Middling upand
/! 40; do gulf 1l.65 Sales 1900 bales.
Galveston steady. Tx; Charleston qniet
ia: Memphis steady. 1l5y: New Orleans
11l": Savannah quiet, 11&.
Net receipts for three days PISA.
Exports to Great Britain 1000; t.
France 14iA; to the continent $3.50.
Stock 342 $50
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-09
New York Money Market.

New York. June s.
Prime mercantile paper 3l&dI4 per cent.
Sterling exchange easy at 4S6. 956p4S7 for
demand and at 49,. 30@4S5. As for 6O-day
bills.
Commercial bills 1856
Bar silver 52K.
Mexican dollars AZ.
Government bonds firm.
Railroad bonds steady.
Money on call steady at 1lIM1a per
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-09

Organ acknowledgements in c.
Myles Taylor
Mrs Herbert F. Drinkwater.
Ministcr-"The Lord Is in His holy tenn
ple let all the earth keep silence before
Him.
Gloria.
Choir.
Chant-Lord's Prayer
Choir.
Psalm 1903,
Minister and People.
Anthem-O. That Men Would Praise the
Lord, Greene
Choir.
Scripture Romans II.
Soprano solo-Selected.
Miss Helen Bird.
Prayer.
Anthcm-.'Thy Way, Not Mine, o Lord,
Brigge
Choir.
Soprano solo-Selected
Miss Marian Wells.
Baccalaureate Sermon-Sources of Power,
Rev Ashley A. Smith.
Hymn.
Postlude- Professional March, Birch
Mrs. Herbert F. Drinkwater.
Benedction,
Pastor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-09

HI,TTEis-Easy;. creameries 1923; dali
ries l7Nt21
EGCiS-Stcady: at market. cases includ-
ed 1imi% firsts "A; prim" firsts i4dt1a.
CIiEESE-t.aSy: 9a40i12.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-09

The funeral of Sarah Littel, wife of
the late Henry p. Gentner, took place
Monday afternoon at the home Of her
son Leonard L. Gentner. Rev. David L..
Wilson of the North Congregational
church, of which she was member,
officiating. Mrs. Gentner died Friday
night, after an illness Of a few weeks,
at the age of 81 years and 10 months.
She was the daughter Of Robert and
Sarah (Stevens Littel Of Corinth and
was married to Henry P. Gentner OF
Waldo, who died some Is years ago
During her married life she lived in
Waldo and reared large family. OF
which five daughters and two sons
survive, together with IA grahdchil-
dren. Her daughters are Mrs. Eta
Small Of Hodgdon; Mrs. Eva Blanch.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-08-02
Bruno,s Execution and Morals.

To THE Enron or THE SuN-Str: In bis letter
published July 30 Tenth New Jersey" does not
return 70 the charge that Giordano Bruno. burned
at the stake In Rome on February 10. Loco, by order
Of the lnquisition, forged the account OF his own
death. An eyewitness Of the burning named
Gaspsr Schopp Tor Scioppfus published In 1918 q
book entitled "Ecclexiasttcus." IN which he referred
70 the tragedy. A tract containins his description
Of Il was answered by Catholic writers and placed
on the Indsr. In lCo7 Kepler wrote 70 q CORE
spondent Of tho burning Of Bruno. giving a. his
Authority ]. n. Wacker, who In 1900 was living At
Nome as Imperial Ambassador. Other unimpesch-
able documents are named In the work by John
N. Robertson. which your correspondent appears
TO have read. and In which he nnds Bruno's alleged
70 be indecent comedy mentioned. n Is hoped
that he carefully perused "Candelaio" before writ
ing his sweeping denunciaton.
Tenth New Jersey" garbles Robertson. His
attack on the morals OF Bruno IL unprovoked. since
BY nobody 10 thaa philosopher cited 10 US as q
great moral teacher and guide" Neither. by the
way, are all Of the ecciesfastics Of his day so cited.
II 10 not the moral life and character but the writ
mrs Of Bruno. with his persecution. his heroic mar
tyrdon and me deep dsmnation Of his taking Oh.
that have won him fame among Freethinkers and
q monument on the spot whore he was burned.
The blot would not be removed from the record OF
the Church II It were to be shown that he was not
burned. On February Q. 1900. he was sentenced %
an obstinate hereto and relaxed TO the secular
arm TO be put 10 death without the shedding Of
blood and that meant the stake. Tho Church
went 10 the limit Of its jurisdiction in sending him
there. GEORGE e. MACDONALD.
NEW YORK. July 81.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-08-02

Of the host Of Germans now domiciled
in France-there are said to be 100000
of them in the Department of the Seine
alone-constitutes himself an agent OF
the Fatherland's industries. The Ger
mans demand goods made in Germany Of
the retailers; they extol German goods
to their tradesmen and their friends.
They make the handling Of German
products a condition OF their custom
and they distribute samples under the
guise of social amenity.
Besides these amateur boomers there
is a flying squadron Of expert travelling
statesmen always searching for new
openings throughout France. They
work by system. Hitting on a new
region, they investigate It's needs and
determine what goods will find sale
among its people and what prices the
people can afford TO pay, The informa-
ton goes to Germany with a detailed
plan Of campaign, and the manufacturer
starts figuring to meet the conditions.
He will cut cost Of production II he can;
he will cut his profits II he must; he will
not fail to make every effort to establish
his brand in the new field.
Some effort has been made In France
to meet German aggression by retalia-
ton and a Germano-French trade COM
mittee has been established in Paris to
concert ways to boom French interests
in Germany. No sooner was this done,
however, than similar committees were
formed in Berlin and Frankfort to look
after Germany's hopes in France. Az
trade returns to normal conditions In
Europe great results are expected on
both sides Of the border.
1t Is obvious that these profitable re-
%lations, so highly esteemed on both sides,
will not be easily or lightly compromised
by either party.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-08-02

passing to the more serious question ofthe
political drift In the State. In b Roose-
welt radical States of the middle West 1t
is impossible to settle anything. Dust "a
soon as one set OF moral reformers has
been carefully ticketed and filed away for
future reference up Jumps the lid Of tho
box and every man Jack OF them an
nounoes:
But I'm against Taft IL he is a reaction
ary.'
Then. 40 the newsboy says. sits all off,
Your Hoosier Is different. He Ia neither
ethereal nor spiritual; his politics SAVIOR
neither Of the Salvation Army nor OF the
camp meeting. Given organization and cash,
he can be placed dehnitively- at least up
to the point where better organization
and more cash appear on the opposite side
Cash and organization. not moral issues nor
my policies are the things that count In
Indiana. 1t is also familiar that you call
for q transfer over Forty-seoond street and
wait to hear the conductor abuse you be-
cause you failed to ask for II when you paid
your fare.
Having thus outlined the stage setting
and indicated the fact hat there Ii to be
presented not a problem play but merely
0 good old fashioned melodrama. IL may
be left TO a second letter to discuss the
reasons why Indiana is a doubtful State
That IL Is doubtful no one In politics will
deny -exoept for publication. But 1t b
doubtful not upon national issues nor upon
national morals but upon dear. delightful,
district politics, upon issues unknown In
Illinois and undressing in Ohio.
One comment. the mere obiter dictunt,
OF O man In the street Is perhaps worth
appending. Said be-:
sIn Indiana, sir. We figure that II q man
wasn't q skunk before he won't into politics
he's bound to turn out one afterward."
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-08-02

Italian mainland the kingdom Of Naples.
That Is to say, up to and for some time
after the discovery Of the New World
Aragon played q much more conspicu-
u part in European politics than did
CASTLE, and the Spanish part of the lbe-
rian Peninsula may be said to have
looked eastward rather than westwarf
Throughout the sixteenth century Bqf-
celona was a great commercial and naval
power In the Mediterranean, We'd With
Venice and Genoa for the traffic of the
Levant, and deserved much of the credit
for the victory over the Turks in the
sea fight ofLepanto.
For 400 years the Baroelonese, like their
fellow subjects the m~ountaineers Of
Aragon, have striven to preserve their
local and traditional liberties. They re-
belled repeatedly against the centraliz-
ing and %autocratio system Of government
established by PHILIP III. and his Sue
oessors at Madrid. More than once it
seemed probable that Catalonia would
become either entirely independent or
a province Of France. To this day the
Galatians are sturdy advocates Of State
or provincial rights and are vehe-
mently opposed to an intensely unified
monarchy. There is indeed nc doubt
that for racial, historical and economic
reasons a federative government like
that Of the German Empire would be
well adapted to Spain.
Madrid, Of course, has no claim to
metropolitan distinction except that by
the fiat Of sovereigns it sprang into ex-
istenoe on a bleak and barren plain and
that for four centuries 1t has continued
I'd be the seat of government. 1t has
never been self-supporting and would
quickly dwindle to nothing IL it were left
to its own resources. It Is the victim Of
one of the most unpleasant climates in
the world. The character of its popu-
lation has suffered d%eplorably from the
fact that for a dozen generations the city
has lived as a parasite upon the rest Of
Spain. The typical Madrileho Would
rather starve than work, and starvation
may be his portion should the projected
transfer Of the capital to Barcelona be
carried ont.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-08-02
The End Of the Roman Holidays.

We print to-day the last Of the series
of papers wherein Mr.. HowELLs has
shared with the readers of THE SUN the
charm and the delights and the varie-
gated impressions of a return to the land
of the Venetian Life and the Italian
Journeys.
There shall be in this place no setting
off Of date against date; no appraisement
of earlier or later method; still less, any
sentimental reflection suggested by an
obvious interval Of years. Let those,
however, who are curious in the matter
Of the endurance OF special gifts Of pre-
eminent quality turn back to the press
reviews which hailed and welcomed
young HowE1Is as a fine observer and
an artist and humorist Of unique dis
tinotion, and note how precisely the adjec-
tives then employed fit the aftermath.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-08-02
The Mexican Border Troubles.

There would be little or no American
dissent from proposals for a law effeo-
lively preventing the use Of American
soil by insurgents and marauders as q
base Of operations against a neighboring
country. The United States may be an
asylum for the poor and the oppressed,
but it should not be a place Of refuge
and a headquarters for mere disturbers
Of the peace.
The adoption Of such q law Is less
simple than it may seem at first glance.
D~isaffeoted Mexican poems and BUSH
whackers should not be permitted to
engage in raids in their wi country and
to slip across the Rio Grande into Texas
with Immunity from arrest and punish
ment. The question, however, IL az
fected by special considerations. Tho
arrest and surrender to Spain at the time
Of the Cuban revolution OF the Cuban
junta and the revolutionists who made
some of our Southern cities the centres
Of their activity would have excited q
roar Of protest from Maine to California.
After the failure Of his second revolu-
tionary expedition to Cuba in ls4s MAR
cIso LOPEZ returned to the United States,
was arrested in Savannah and released
In response to a popular demand Sem
timent is a factor in such matters.
The situation now existing along the
Mexican border Is entirely different.
Doubtless the Americans who admire
PoRF1RIo DIAz and applaud his admin
~istration outnumber the entire popula-
tioP Of Mexico. The dlsturbers ana
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-08-02
Cutting the Surface Tension.

A notable service to science, and more
especially to the science Of enjoyment,
is done In the Popular Science Monthly
by DR.. LINUS w. KLINE. He ponders
the Mature, Origin and Function Of
Humor." Whatever Of. physiological,
psychological or common ordinary mys-
terry has surrounded 1t is now made clearer
than the Serbonian bog or the slime Of
Nile. DR.. KLINE doesn't write for the
learned. His language Is rs lucid as
the catacombs. Some Stimuli are
humorous; some are "non-humorous.'
To the latter class belong the macro-
soopic things Of the world, including
her laws, order, harmony and rhythm;
those things which are inimical to life
and freedom; those things largely Of the
social order that have become habit
uated,' and 30 on.
Without studying in detail this exclu-
sion Of the microscopic we content our
selves with the necessary If unwelcome
inference that the gentleman who was
quite capable of speaking unexpectedly
Of the equator was no humorist. The
equator is microscopic. Neither "a his
inventor, SYDNEY SMITH, il w may
refer with safety to his somewhat well
known remark about taking of his flesh
and sitting in his bones. OF microscopic
things plainly, for though clothes may
be inimical to freedom, yet have they
become regular and often necessary.
But everybody can hunt at his leisure
for non-humorors stimuli, and II he has
allowed himself to be stimulated by any
of them he should repent and reform.
We take not a hard and sharp but an
easy stimulus:
The common and quiet forms Of humor usually
occur In . consciousness that has been running
at It's usual strength and depth, sufaeiently organ.
lied to command the situation. assume a definite
form and take on q certain strength OF surface
tension. The term surface tension dmp,y ex-
tends the water metaphors Of psychology in q loGt-
cal direction. use II 10 indicate the impervious
condition Of consciousness formed In any atten-
tive state. the strength OF the surface tension being
In direct proportion TO the intensity OF attention
The function Of the humor stimulus eonsists in
cutting the surface tenson In taking the hide Oh
consciousness as It were, and IN breaking up In
part only Its organization. which Is at once followed
by the humor fceling-the ne1t link in the con-
scious chain. The principal elements In the hu-
NOR process consist Of the perception Of the ssimu-
ius; the sense Of freedom; It's recognition. These
elements are each sufused by . plessurab,e to1e
and produce by their total s~ynthesis the unique
humor tone. The uniqueness OF the tone 10 the
cruz OF the matter
This goes to the root Of the matter.
Doubtless this surface tension can be
gagged; at any rate, the tone can be
caught; and the tone is the cruz. For
the mental tension, DR.. KLINE hastens to
explain, is a condition precedent, 90 to
speak, Of the humor process, the essen
tial condition theretoS' but mot a diff
ferentium, for 1t prededes any and all
emotional states" There must have
been an almost cataclysmal mental ten
sion before DR.. KLINE mastered thus
the stimuli and differentiated the differ
entium.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-08-02
A N.r.,t,e Crank On Exercise.

TO rHn Enron OF II uN-Sh Apropos Of
Minister WI and his walking, will some positive
crank tell q negative one what earthly use Ia any
form Of eyercisef To develop muscier what's
the use Of II In this day and gencrationt Naturally
we don't consider those who do muscular work
their work. not exercise. will develop what mus.
Giles they need. To stimulate circulation, But
why make your heart beat fas;er7 To help burn
up food, Don't eat 90 much and you won't need
aid In lie combustion. To throw of waste productsi
But exercise only makes undue waste products
which the overworked excretory organs must
throw OF.
10 me the stupidest. X.
SPnnoYULD, Mass, July 81.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-08-02
Will Spain Have q New Capital?

1t is interesting to learn by kilograms
from Spain that Spanish newspapers are
earnestly discussing the expediency of
transferring the national capital from
Madrid to Barcelona. According to the
census of 1900 the two cities are of almost
EXACTLY the same size, Madrid her pos
.sessing 53s,ss5 and Barcelona $4,000 in
,habitants. In respect of natural ad-
vantages, however, and Of manufacture
ing and commercial activities Barcelona
Ii incomparably superior to the artificial
capital reared on the arid uplands Of
CASTLE. The removal Of the court and
the Government to the chief town Of
Catalonia would be a conclusive proof
OF their adoption Of the modern spirit
and would be accepted as a logical recog-
milton of the fact that the chief inter-
asts OF Spain now lie not in the Atlantic
but in'the Mediterranean.
After the recovery of Saragossa from
! the Moors and the fusion Of the Carlo
vingian countship Of Barcelona with the
Kingdom Of Afagon there was reserved
for the monarchy thus formed a great
role in the Europe Of the Middle Ages.
For centuries it's kings were lords Of the
coast strip Of France running from the
-rsrenees to the mouth OF the Rhone,
and of the P%rovencal language spoken
in that region the Catalan tongue was
- but a dialect. Gradually the sovereigns
Of Aragon, whose favorite place Of resi-
dence was Barcelona, wrested from the
Moors the kingdom Of Valencia on the
mainland and the insular realm of Ma
jorca, which comprised all the Baleario
Isles. After the sicilian vespers "a. d.
1882, when the Angevins were expelled
from Sicily, that great island also be-
came a part Of the Aragonese d~ominions,
: to- which was eventually added on the