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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24
A Use for Tin Cans.

The unpretentious tin can IS pus
TO good use in several Arizona mlhins
camps and no longer is left on ~
hillsides to be nibblcd by the pel.sNo
goat. Particularly at Bisbee' oi',.on
and Jerome the cans and all o'n..
scrap iron available are .'a.hereu ~
AMI heapcd into long trouGhs ana -"
to watts for the precipitation of wa.e,
that is pumped from the copper ''', .'',,
carrying copper in solution WIN s
phur. The iron is gradually ea,.a
away and replaced by copper. ioii"
what is known as slime when iu III
from 30 to so per cent in the red ' ,as,
The expense of gathering IS alma
nothing. The water from the 'ei :, 10
mines is particularly strong anu ba
told that shovels and picks cat,no' tor
left in some of the camp drafts ~
fear of losing the temper Of the . ,ne
al. which eventually will be emu x
replaced by copper. Ore running running IN
per cent. copper has been founu in
the 500 level of the Shattuck hnln 's,se
Eisbee in a fine sulphide body WIZ. VIZ.
dimensions have not yet peeh
mired.-Los Angeles Times.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24
CLOCKS RUN BY WIRELESS.
Work Spontaneously Within Radius
of 100 Miles.

The Elektrotechnische Zeitchrlft Oh
Berlin devotes an article to an ingenl-
Gus in vention of Prof. Reithofer ana
the Viennese clockmaker Morawetz.
whereby clocks within radius OF loo
or 1925 miles may be worked synchron-
ously by means of wireless electric
IMPULSES fsom a central station,
The station is equipped much as
wireless telegraph transmission sta
ton. The apparatus consists OF a
pendulum swinging sixty times MN
ute and a cogwheel which reVoiVeS
one cog with each swing. When SIX
ty cogs have passed the pendulum AM.
one minute has elapsed the wireless
impulses are set in motion by tio
transmission instruments.
All clocks to be synchronlzed are ~
ted with a receiving apparatus anu
consist only of dial, hands ana
coewheel attachment. with electro-
magnets. which, worked by the I'M
pulses from the transmission stat'on'
move around the hands of all CLOCKS
fitted with the apparatus IN eAaos
svnchrony. An ingenious device pre-
vents foreign electrical Impulses ~
terfering with the working. Washn's'
ton star.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24
Destructive Sand Dunes.

Shifting sand dunes are causing
trouble on the borders of Lake M1chl-
gan. The dunes are formed by the on
shore winds, which sweep the beach
sand beyond the reach Of the waves.
The sand accumulates in low mounds
abous any distractions, such as stones
or bushes; thus started the dune IS
sufficient cause for its own growth.
The wind keeps pling the sand up
from behind, the dune grows, and the
sand on it's crest is blown over to the
leeward side of the mount. so that the
dunes gradually march inland. On the
east side of Lake Michigan the dry
west winds have heaped up numbers
of dunes, ranging in height up to two
hundred feet. In Indiana the dunes
have moved inland across a forested
area, burying and killing trees, leaV-
ing the dead trunks as skeletons be-
hind them in their march onward. a
famous instance Of dune migration Is
that of the Kurische Nehrung. long
sand bar off the coast of Germany
where dune ridge marched over q
church. burying it for thirty years at
the end of which time it was gradually
uncovered by the progress of the dune
philadelphia Ledger.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24
MWanted-A Man."

Never before was the opportunity
of the educated man SO great as TO-DAY.
Never before was there such demand
for the trained man, the man who can
do a thing superbly well. AT the door
of every vocation is sign out,
''Wanted-a Man" No matter how
many millions are out of employment,
the whole world is hunting for a man
who can do things; a trained thinker
who can do whatever he undertakes a
little better than it has ever before
been DONE Everywhere it is the edu-
Gated man, the man whose natural
ability has been enlarged. enhanced
one hundredfold by superior training,
that is wanted.
On all sides we see men with small
minds, but well trained, pushing ahead
of those who have greater capabilities.
but are only half trained. A one
talent man, superbly trained, often
gets the place when a man with many'
unframed or halftrained talents loses
it. Never was ignorance placed as
such a disadvantage as today.
While the opportunities awaiting the
educated man, the college graduate, on
his entrance into practical life were
never before SO great and so numerous
as today, so also the dangers and
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24
Musical Therapeutics.

1t was ConSreve who wrote in the
first line Of his now forgotten drama,
"The Mourning Bride" Emusic hath
charms to soothe the savage beast"
The ancient legend of Orpheus and the
compelling power of his Tyre over the
animals was an earlier recognition of
the almost hypnotic effect of music
upon barbaric untamability.
A paper lately read before the Mu
sic Teachers Association on the sub
ject of Musical Therapeutics" de-
scribed the healing potency of music
in certain mental and nervous mala-
dies battling the best skill of the phys
icians. 1t is very generally recognized
by alienists and neurologists that mu-
sic has a sedative and tranquilizing
effect on such cases.
1t IS the custom at the New York
State Asylum at Willard to- have con-
ccrts given periodically, and perform
ances at the institution are features
of the seasons schedule Of the Cornell
Glee Club. The patients have a brass
band and a choir of their own. The
700 mentally enfeebled patients have
been seen to listen, with all the en-
joyment and appreciative interest of
rational persons, to a severely classl-
cal performance by string quartet.
At various other hospitals and sani-
| taria music is among the recognized
therapeutic agencies, and it is eagerly
looked forward to by the patients. At
the great Pennsylvania Hospital for the
Insane, in West Philadelphia, there is
regularly given a series of concerts
during the winter, and that the music
| is of real and valuable assistance in ef-
| fecting cures is the unanimous testl-
mony of doctors, nurses, and the pa
| tients themselves.
At reform school and penitentiaries
| the brass bands, whose membership
| is composed of inmates of these insti-
buttons, have frequently had much to
do with the regeneration of the char
acters of Respondent and even dcsper-
ate men. The softening influence of
certain of the old-time hymns upon
the prisoners is admitted by chaplans.
who have what Ian Maclaren would
call "the cure of souls" in our county
jails and other penal institutions
There is nothing like an old hymn or
a familiar song to recall the forgotten
past and bring back visions OF those
| loved long since and loSt aWnile.
Men have been moved by these lnflu-
ences who were not amenable to any
other form of persuasion, much less
reason.
| Music will steal insidiously into the
linnermost nature of man or woman
long after the soul has been hermetlc-
ally sealed against every other kindly
| influence. 1t is sometimes true that
sermons and solemn adjurations have
entirely failed where music mas sue
ceeded -Philadelphia Ledger
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24


green TO yellow and bright red. New
spring fioclss Of robins and other birds
will feast on the frozen and softened
fruit In the spring Of 1906 the late
Felker J.. Temple, botanist and
landscape gardner of repute. then liv-
ing III Bucksport, called the writer's
attention to these trees and said he
was preparing paper on the subject,
that he intended to read before a
botanical society and to have published.
He claimed the following facts regard
ing these crabs: "These trees are I'M
doubtedly indigenous to this locality
and think the only wild crab trees in
Maine They have never been reported
or described in any work of the botany
of Maine. They are separate and dis
tinct from any other of the three or
four varieties of wild crab trees grow
ing In the United States. They are
entirely different from the variety
growing on the Pacific coast, but, he
claimed, are identical with the wild
crab of Japan Mr.. Temple died soon
after this conversation and it Is prob
able the paper was never completed.
This brief statement by one who is
not a botonist may start some botan-
list to Investigate.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24
Education VS.. Tuberculosis.

Eleanor Wescott, is a nurse especial
ly trained in the care of persons suffer-
ing from tuberculosis, who is employed
by the health department of the city
of Portland to give her entire time to
he work of caring for the poor, and
instructing others, afflicted with the
dread disease. She recently made her
annual report and in it. aside from the
material Of purely local interest. is
much that can be read with profit in
other Maine cities.
She states that the work, which was
begun two years ago has passed the
experimental stage and proved its
right to municipal appropriation.
She then takes up the part the physi-
clan plays in the general campaign
against tuberculosis, and expresses the
hope that "they understand that the
reporting of cases does not mean the
| advertising of their patients in any
way as the record of tuberculosis cases
is kept apart from all other records
and is absolutely private
1.-The work of the tuberculosis nurse
| is mainly educational" she continues.
| teaching the patient and the family
| the value of pure fresh air, proper
nourishment and cleanliness, also in
structing them in the sanitary dispos-
al of their sputum and so preventing
them from being a source of danger
to their family and the public. These
things which help to bring about the
cure, or perhaps, failing in that in
struct a consumptive patient in the
sanitary care of himself are most i'm
portant for him to realize, both for his
own sake and for the safety of all with
whom he comes in contact"
Every city does not need a nurse who
gives her whole time to this work,
but it is a small and poor town in
deed which cannot afford to profit by
the experience of her richer sister and
learn the lesson that proper living will
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24

That American family will be best
served by its physician which arranges
with him for yearly services, which in
clude periodical visits whether any one
Is ill or not. A doctor so employed is
the family's private health officer He
sees unsanitary conditions and orders
them changed. He drops a word about
the gospel of the open window. He gets
acquainted with the members of the
family. He notices from little Bobby's
squint that he ought to wear glasses,
which Bobby's fond mother might not
nave found out in years. He sees in
time tendencies that might lead to tu-
bercuiosis, or warns an overweight
girl out of school in time to prevent a
nervous breakdown" That's the New
York Worlds view Too many of us
nave physicians the year round now.
Inc problem is, how to pay the grocery
man If he also sees your pocketbook.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24


y box OF matches costs about eight
cents in France and according to a
Paris newspaper thirty-four per cent
of the contents consist of slivers
stumps. and fragments of wood with
out any sulphur or PHOSPHORUS there
on. Twerty-siX per cent are tipped
with sulphur. unaccompauied by phos-
phorus and therefore cannot be lighted
The remaining forty per cent. look just
like real matches yet only sixteen per
cent. will burn. That is under state
ownership. In this country such a con-
dition of affairs would be death blow
to state ownership of anything. for the
agitators would be able to understand
the old principle that a division of re.
sponsibility means Indifference as tc
ultimate results. 1t is simple illus.
tration. hut good one, nevertheless.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24

Dr. Eliot's five foot shelf of books is
those WHO aie most strenuous in their
condemnation, forget that it Is DR.. Eli
OTIS selection, not theirs. There is little
doubt but that DIR. Eliot was asked &c
make the selection because he was
deemed best fitted to do so. If his Sc
lections do not suit everyone. it is not
public calamity. Books are like food
Different people need different kinds.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24

A woman who can demonstrate tn,
"Fermation theorem' may not be able
to make pies, but she has accom-
pIshed something in life. The pro-
position is that the sum of the Nth
powers of two integers can not be
an Nth power for any value of N ex-
cept g" About $50 years ago Pierre
de Fermat. a French mathematician
proposed it and later a German be-
queathed $4,000 to the Academy o
Sciences at Gottingen, to be awarded
to the first person to succeed. The
American woman who has jus
demonstrated the theorem lays CLAIM
to this prize.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24
The Commencement Gift.
agents.

Thinking men of the day are giving
attention to the problem of insurinS
to the future a nation of clear
Drained, vigorous bodied citizens. 1t
| is a many sided problem, not easily
solved, but all agree that a partial
solution is found in the schools and
colleges. He who gives of his COM
petence to schools and colleges In
Commencement week is doing mucn
to bring about the end which the
more far-sighted seek.
Education, from the kindergarten to
our so-called High schools. is largely
under public control, a part Of our
civic organization. In addition. we
are well supplied with academies,
seminaries, normal and other secon-
Diary schools under private and semi
public control. Each and all observe
ing which it is the custom to an
nounce the gifts to the institutions,
from whatever sources they may
come This custom of making public
announcement of the name of the
benefactor serves to attract attention
to the gift and these announcements
made in concert all over the land can
not fail to attract marked attention.
1t is certain that the custom swells
the grand total to some extent Per-
haps this may be considered partial
compensation for elaborate gradual
ton exercises.
Americans are possessed with the
idea that no one should be debarred
from the education necessary to nj
him for the life work he has chosen
The public school does it's part, and,
as rule, when the public school has
done all that it can a student is in a
position to help himself With a little
aid at the proper time, this student
may be able to specialize along some
line that will make him an eminently
valuable member of society. Gifts to
the colleges fulfill the purpose
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24
Great Writer'S Costly Pens

b. An English firm OF coiiec'o I'D Nv
lust sold for sos the last pen use ,ess
Charles Dickens, but this was ac9
than half the sum received yeas Thor
for the pen which the grea, pez =
nsed in writing his Sketches by bes;
One of the most valuable sou used
Mons ., the world is one that was US e
bv Lincoln when he was President s.r :,
is now owned by isaac fseeu from
York, and the stock was cars ..s;ngton
the lens box of George the
Mr.. Reed. also. it is said OWLS ths,
quill Of a golden eagles wlns u,;th
property of Empress Eugene, .,enedl
which. the treaty of Paris was ~
in 1s56.-Chicago Tribune.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24

go a long way toward driving tho
scourge from our land. Literature and
the advice of the family physician
must take the place Of the nurse In the
smaller communities, but where a life
is at stake, they should prove efficient
agents.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24

Maine will always DC immune from
the automobile road race disease, for
her hills preclude the breaking of any
thing but necks and while few brok-
en- necks seemingly add Zest to the pas
time, yet too many might SD reduce the
number of star performers that the
public would lose interest.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24

1t might be remarked in passing that
automobiles are not the only contribu-
tors to the increase in the death rate.
An Ice wagon ran over man in New
York the other day and down in Nash
vile, Tenn banana peel caused
poor unfortunate to slip across into the
Great Unknown.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24

temptations which beset him wer,
never before so great, so numerous
and so inSdious.
There is nothing else, perhaps
which the graduate needs to ba
cautioned against more than the
money madness which has seized the
American people. for nothing else is
more fatal to the development of the
higher, finer instincts and nobler d..
sires.-Success Magazine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24
Both M ad.

'Well, that was one time 1 succeeded
in pleasing nobody
"How's that?'
II wanted to give one girl birthday
present. and got suggestions from an
other girl
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24
Maine Gossip
Preferences.

I'd rather be could be-
If l cannot be an ARE"
For a could be" is may be-"
With chance Of touching par.
I'd rather be a has BEEN"
Than might have BEEN" by far. :.
For might be- is hasn't been,
But a has" was once an ARE"
Also an are is ''is' and "am,"
A has" was all of these,
So I'd rather be has been"
Than hasn't" if you please.
Youths Instructor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24

IT might be remarked that the Rus
slams have hit ship at last, though 1t
was only Il fisherman. When they have
had practice enough, they may hit a
full grown WarShiD.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24

The latest game in Boston is called
'tind the Strawberry" You play it in a
restaurant with a shortcake and the
man who finds strawberry that can
be eaten without taking gas, wins.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24
Headwork.

Use headwork," urged the manager
of the department store.
Yes, sir" said the salesman.
For instance, if a lady buys some
lawn it ought to be easy to sell her some
hose louisville Courier-Journal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24

Wonder il that man who declined to
accept college degree was getting in
line for a Carnegie medal hero or look
ing for free advertising.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24
Summer Board.

I'm an author. you understand. spend
ing my vacation on farm to get local
color. How much will board be?'
Ten per week. replied the farmer.
land two dollars extra if we're expected
to talk dialect."- City Journal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24

This is the season when a girl, a
canoe and friendly moon go long
way toward making life worth living
if you're single and haven't developed
q bald spot on the top of your head.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24

The Atchison Globe remarks that
"the larger the city the smaller the
biscuits" In the State of Maine we
don't estimate our population that way.
1t is poor substitute for census.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24

Debs famous red special is to be
eclipsed by the suffragettes' trip across
country. Debs didn't come very near
getting what he wanted, but the girls
may have better luck.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24
What Woman Are Doing in the World

The United States census reports saw
there are 327 GA women school and music
teachers in the United States. 10000 sales.
women, S6.11S stenographers and tyne
writer's, S5.246 women clerks II OH womn,
artists and art teachers, 1856 female soli.
cltors and agents, tS5i actresses ana cno-
But these aren't the only professions
woman has entered, as the following
Oh
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24

Portsmouth is preparing to catch au-
tonoDilists who go through their CITY
too fast. This hot weather people are
so anxious to get into Maine that they
are willing to run some risk. Many
prefer to pay small fine to spending
another half hour with some of our
neighbours
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24

1t might be interesting to note that
at the close of every dispatch about
the social success of the Wright broth
ers, there is an item saying that they
are going back to work" 1t explains
a lot
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24
A FoibIc.

Father" said little Rolo. what is a
foible?"
"A foble. my son. is something some
body else is interested in and you're not"
washington Star.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24

New York has joined the procession
and now wants to be 1.-The City Beau
tiful." Until lately it has been the
general impression that her principal
ambition was to be the city of 1.-THE
Great White Way"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24
His Views.

Under the old blue laws. it was a
crime to kiss ones wife on Sunday"
"And a felony to look pleasant at
home, eh?" rewarded the Old Codger.
"Some fellows oughter be notified that
them blue laws is no longer enforced."-
Kansas City Journal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24

Long hair and a flowing tie don't
make Bohemian, nor does grumpy
manner and a shoe brush on the upper
lip make busy business man.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24
Professional Scorn.

Knicker-What did the gardener say
when he saw your lawn?
Bocker-He asked if l shaved myself
New York Sun.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24

The Roosevelt party has been heard
FROM. again kerrl,, Is now the 'cn;iIn-
poem lion slayer.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24

Smuggling has become almost as rare
an occupation as snow shoVeling il
June.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24

Careless boys and partly consumed
cigarettes are believed to be response
bile for a fire in BiddefOrd tenement
block Monday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24

Some editor has been complaining
that conversation is a lost art Guess
he never met book agent.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24
A Modest Hope.

do you take this woman for better or
worse?'
II do. jedge, do. But hopes we kin
kinder strike an average"
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LIGHT AND AIRY.
Observation.

OF public servants as of those
In private life it's true
Some startling things thew might disclose
If they told all they knew.
-WaShingtOn Star,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24

A Chicago writer wants to know if
individual weather is to follow as a Sc
quence of individual forecasts.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24

Ideal weather for Commencement
Week
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24

Mr.. Bryan as Senator would max,
the 5Sth variety in that body.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24

When it comes to net receipts, why
not ask the fishermen about it?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24

that the rising generation of educated
Jews should be encouraged in opinions
that must tend to ALLEVIATE them from
other Englishmen"