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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-27
The Electric Mailing Machine.

new electrical device seals. stamps
and counts letters before despositing
them in the mailing basket and it does
tho work better and quicker than the
best Office boy ever did. The new
electrical device will attend TO $50 let
tCrS q minute,
The machine will readily perform its
various operations on $50 letters per
minute. and may be speeded up to turn
out considerably more when required
The letters in punches are held
AGAINST an automatic feed which per
nits only or" envelope at time to
pass its flap over a metal disk which
rcvol"es in water. AS the envelope ad-
vanccs the stamps are fed forward, cut
off, moistenCd and rolled upon the pass
ing letter. After the encyclopedia is
e. ostencd. and the stamp simultane-
ously attached. the letter passes be-
tween a series of rolls under pressure.
and then energies and is automatically
stacked. y counter records each
starln IS it passes upon the envelope.
ana thus furnishes check upon the
amount spent for postage. Moreover,
the stamps can rot be removed from
the machine except by the clerk to
whom the key is entrusted
The source of power being furnished
by All electric motor. no labor is in
volved in the operation of the machine,
except the feeding of the letters in
lunches. The motor is attached by a
flexible lamp cord to an ordinary cleo
tric-lighting socket, and to start the
machine it is only necessary to turn
the switch. A is horsepower motor
will do the work, so that the charge
for current is Observation-Disclosures
News.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-27
Millions in Half Burned Stumps

! The pine barrens are to be turned into
| gold through the magic touch of the
chemists hand and the land that has
been so forbidding will be rendered fit for
cultivation
i A few years ago the suggestion that
these billions of charred pine stumps pos
sessed the slightest value would have
been derided. One dollar an acre has
been considered a prohibitive price for
the lands thus encountered, and the man
possessed of sufficient hardihood to settle
amid the barrens was regarded with
mingled pity and suspicion as to his men,
tai soundness. Many of these settlers
made good. it is true, but the prospect
was terrifying to thousands of others who
would have fiocked into the country had
it not been for the time and labor in
volved in digging out the old stumps and
destroying them.
All this will shortly be changed With
the rapod depletion of the Norway pine
forests, and the. consequent falling off in
the source of supply of by-products, in
Ventive genius began to assert itself. The
pine stumps. rich in resinous properties
and turpentine had long been regarded
with interest by chemists, who believed
that they could be converted into a source
blem confronting them. which appears to
have received practical solution And
in the working out of this problem won
ders have been performed that make
Aladdn's lamp appear COMMONPLACE by
comparison.
Destructive distillation is the process
employed in securing turpentine and by
products from these pine stumps that
We're once regarded as a curse. but are
now hailed as new source of wealth
The shredded and broken wood is piled on
cars capable of holding about two cords
each and run into huge retorts The in
tense neat encountered here drives out
the pitch and tar as well as the moisture.
leaving in place of the two cirds of
wood some thirty bushels OF excellent
The fluids are subjected to chemical
from the tar. The former is then carried
through pipes to a copper worm not UNI
like those employed in distilling liquor,
where 1t is condensed and flows into
tanks. BY siphon process the water is
removed from the thrpentine. and the lat
ter is ready. to be refined.-TechnicaI
World Magazine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-27
3RITAlN'S DEPARTING TREAS
URES.
he Rivalry of Berlin and America
for Her Old Masters.

It l.: commonly supposed that our
treasures are all drawn away by the
irresistible attraction of American mil
!ionarics, with whose riches our public
museums and galleries cannot COM
pete. But this is not the case. The
Berlin Museum is as dangerous COM
petitor as any millionaire or body of
mlliondres. THE Times of Novem-
Der %, 1905, contained an account of
the r Rim collections as they had just
lcen arranged in the new Kaiser Erie
lrich Museum, and the writer of that
account remarked that. as far as pic
t,,rcs were concerned the Berlin gal
cry curing the last twenty-five years
had Leen enriched mainly from Eng
fish collections. Between 1882 and 1898
that gallery bought four Durers out OF
England, while the National Gallery
vas still without q single example of
Durer. Among the Durers that went
o Berlon was the Madonna of the
iiskin,' purchased without any stir in
1872 from the late Marquis of Lothian.
other pictures that have gone from
i1"gland to Berlin are the splendid por-
trait of a woman by NclasqueZ from
the Dudley colleCiion: two Van Dykes
from the Peel collection: beautiful
\ermecr. together with six other
Dutch pictures. from the Clinton Hope
collection; the Last Judgment" of Fra
Argelico. agair fIon the Dudley COL
lection, and a york the like of which
we can never now hope to obtain for
tho National Gallery: the portrait of a
young man by Gior@ione; tie Mar
tyrdom of st. Agatha" by Tiepolo, a
fner work than any Tiepolo in the Ma
fional Gallery: two Jan Van Eycks:
:he Alteration of the Shepherds" by
Schongauer, perhaps the finest work in
existence by this rare master. the por-
trait of a man by Holbein (bOught for
less than G4.000 from the Mllias col
lectiom; four splendid works by Ru-
hens. including the "Bacchanar' and
the "Androm"da," from Blcnhcin, and,
last and worst of ALL no fewer than
eight Rembrandts, among which are
the preacher Ansloo Consoiing a
Widow from the Ashburnham coilec-
ton, perhaps the most important work
by Rembrandt that ever was III Eng
land; the Joseph and Potinhar's Wife"
a finer subject picture than any by
Rembrandt in the National Gallery;
the Vision OF Daniel" and the
preaching of John the Baptist Some
few of all these pictures were given
to the Berlin gallery, and of that we
have no right to complain; but by far
the greater number. including all the
most important, We're bought. seldom
for large prices. and often without any
effort being made to keep them in the
country, without any stir arising over
their departure.
These facts prove that we lose some
of our greatest treasures not because
we cannot afford to keep, them, but be-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-27

Monday, September n, 1909.
The Italian Prohi.rn

$3.50 gVUtSns
One Of the interesting problema 81.
await solution In many parts OF the
country, and especially hereabouts. il
the adjustment of the Italian to tba
habits and requirements of our civiH~
Zatior. We like the Italian as "a
borer, like him fairly wen even az .
citizen: but as a sojourner ne hav
points that are not satisfactory. He
comes, for the most part, from south.
err Italy, and his training there seems
to have qualified him very imperfectlv
to appreciate our institutions. He be-
leyes &c excess in self-dcfence and in
personal reprisals, and is distrustful
of law and legal methods. When he is
good he is very liable to be victimjzed
| by the bad men of his race, and when
| he is bad he is bad in an underhand
violent, grand-opera way that is a
| scandal to our citizens. In various
villages about New York where large
numbers of Italians are employed. es-
| pecially out on the line of the new
! aqueduct, we hear Of much perpIexit,,
J and consultation of citizens about the
, pre- Servation of the peace. In an ordi-
nary American village there is about
one policeman, whose duty it is to shoe
off ttamps, and occasionally to con-
duct some more than usually intoxi-
Gated person to the lookup But
where gangs Of Italians arc employed
things happen that are quite beyond
the village policeman's reckoning
Folks are held up on the road and
their money taken from them. Mis-
understandings about wages or en-
rloyment are very liable to happen
| largely because the laborers do not
understand the language Of the coun-
try or else do not believe what is told
them. When a foreman has a dis
agreement with gang of fifty Italians
and each Italian produces a long knife
and prepares to use it in argument
the place for the tcwn policeman is Of
course in his cellar.
In the course of time our Italian
friends who stay here will be assimi-
lated and Americanized. and learn to
do right as we do right, and wrong as
we 90 wrong. Schooling in our public
schools will make an enormous differ
ence to those who get it. But mean
while, and especially in communities
where large bands of Italians come
and so according to the call of the
labor market. better local provision
will have to be made for taking care
of them. No American village, GER
tainly no suburban community here
| aboutS. is going to accept for long,
and endure, the thought that persons
using it's highways are liable to be
stopped and robbed by Sicilian ban
Iditti.-Harper's Weekly.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-27
An Ancient Mine.

At Falun, Sweden, are the head
quarters of a mining company with u
history so remote that the date of it's
Hrl@ln~cannot be definitely fixed. An
original purchase deed dated in the
fear 12S9 has to do with a sale OF stock
of the present company, and charter
'iven Nv I<ink Magnus of Sweden and
Norway is dated February "a, 1911. Al
hat time the rights granted Ly King
NagnuS' predecessors were referred to
s very cid. The original bu5ireHS Was
he manufacture OF copper. and the
nine at Falum, "Stora Koprarbcrget'
the great copper mountainl. has been
Continuously worked for nearly 700
Years. In this time it has yielded
ilOut 100000 tons Of copper. 15.5 tons
# silver, and IL tons OF gold. the whole
representing a value of 1000. 900. 600
kroner, or about G55, yn-Londun
Globe.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-27
New Subway Has Mary Features.

The new subway under Washington
street in Boston has many interesting fea-
lures one of which is in the fact that it
is the most costly line of railroad thor
oughfare in the world. says the March
Popular Mechanics in an illustrated arti-
Gle Its total length is only 5,G7G feet. a
couple OF hundred feet over mile yet its
total cost was 100000, which is approx
mately 1.762 per running foot or this
amount $7,5W0oo was for engineering and
construction and in payment of property
damages.
The bore is almost straight. avoiding
dlsagreeable turns. and it's deepest part
is As feet below the street level. Above it
at this point is the Ames Building which
IS 2oO feet high. The tunnel also runs un-
der the historic "Old South Church" It's
construction is the fourth step in the So
tuition of the transportation problem in
Greater Boston, and its use is confined t.
elevated trains alone, the trains running
up to the elevated structure at both ends
of the tunnel.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-27
As great distance as they could move

as great a distance as they could move
it.
Two local bail teams rejoicing In
the names of Hotfoots and Lucifers
battled for supremacy for two hours
just over the stone wall from the
stretch of road, which served dis a
pulling field. The game was loosely
played, but it was barrel of fun for
the six innings that it went. The Hot
foots, who we're The heavier hitters and
faster runners won by score OF Ii
to 10. The sixth inning was the lucky
inning for the Lucifers, that team
making four of its 10 runs in that
inning. Knowles occupied the pitchers
box for the Hotfoots and Ellis and
Clark for The LucifeiS.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-27
Appliances for Ocean Safety.

Last year thousand ships or NOR
were lost; the year before the sea toa
nearly the same toll. To the tourfA
his assurance of safety lies In the faa
that 1t is the sailing vessel. with B
dependence on the tickle wind. tlM
largely makes up this tremendous los
Freighting steamers. voyaging on "
FAMILIAR coasts, nearly complete
disaster roll. But to the great Liner
with their family routes, their wsI.
known lanes Of travel theid GUARDED
and well-lighted harbors, and all then
appliances for safety. the manifos
dangers of the ocean are only the r
mote possibilities that give touch
adventure to their passage from Tan
to land. The probabilities of disaS1
are trifiing.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-27
CONCERNING Currants,

The best currant in the world for the
table is the White Grape, and it is also
one of the most prolific while the shape
of the hush is nearly perfect. | do not
know whore this variety originated. h.
have it in bearing this forty years. A
seeding named White Perfection is
said to Re even better. but that is not
yet proved. White Grape is fine for
Jelly, but its acid is so delicate and its
flavor so high as to make it pre-emi-
nent1y the currInt for the table. TIE
points we have to look after in plant
ing currants are: % Form and growth
of the bush; (2) size Of the berry and
quantity borne by each bush t31 flavor
Of the berry. In 1907 and 1908 made
carefully compared data on these
points. White Grape will yield on
mature bush from four to six quarts.
White Dutch will yield from, tI1rse =
four quarts: Red Dutch the same or
better Fay will average four quarts,
and sometimes touch five: while vcf-
saillcs, a currant very similar to Fay.
will do about The same. London Mar
ket, handsome in the bush. will rarely
yield over four quarts Victoria and
Prince Albert will not do as WELL Ny
own Seeding, Red Giant, went as high
as six AMI seven. Rarely White Grape
reached the figure of Red Giant. These
two stand at the front in prolific bear
ing, with fruit of about the same Size
and very nearly equal quality. In form
Of bush and growth they are once more
close rivals. l place them emphatica-
Iy at the head of all currants that L
have tested. Red Giant. however, is .
stouter bush standing from five to
seven feet high, and having very
perfect spread of it's limbs.-The Out
ing Magazine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-27

=
shifting sand dunes are causing trouble
on the borders of Lake Michigan The
dunes are formed by the onshore winds.
which sweep the beach sand beyond the
reach of the waves. The sand accumu-
lates In low mounds about any obstruc-
tons. such as stones or bushes: thus
started the dune is sufficient cause for
It's own growth. The wind keeps piling
the sand up from behind the dune grows
and the sand on it's crest is blown over
to the leeward side of the mound. so that
the dunes gradually march inland ON
the east side of Lake Michigan the dry
west winds have heaDed up numbers of
dunes: ranging in height up to 200 feet
In Indiana the dunes have moved inland
across forested area. burying and kill
ing trees. leaving the dead trunks as skel-
letons behind them in their march onward
A famous instance of dune migration is
that of the kuriSche Nchrung a long
sandbar off the coast of Germany, where
a dune ridge marched over church
burylng it for thirty years. at the end of
which time it was gradually uncovered
by the progress of the dune.-Philadelphia
edger.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-27
Eskimo Graves of Stones.

To the Eskimo mind, everything ami
mate or inanimate possesses a soul Thus
in their graves we found they invariably
placed every cherished possession. that
their spirits might serve the departed
spirit in the same capacities in the life to
come. There is little room for burial he
meath the scanty earth in Labrador, even
If the frost would permi it, - ~, or NJ,
consists OF upright stones, with long. fiat
ones laid across These not orly s re al
keep the wolves from the body. hut wide
chinks also afford the spirits free passage
in and out.-Century
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-27

Misses Elizabeth A. Quimby and
C""a s. Morrison. Wellesley o9. recently
left Belfast for San Tuan. Porto Rico,
where they will be assigned positions
to teach in the public schools.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-27

Thirteen people were recently by
tiled at Russell lake. Linneus, by y
ders Bell and Bubar.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1909-04-02
Veterans Meet

The John M. Stone Camp Con-
federate veterans met at the
| court house Saturday with good
attendance present. The day
was fine and after the confine
| ment of the past several months
the veterans accepted the oppor-
tunity afforded them of meeting
together once more.
The purpose of the meeting
was to elect officers for the next
year, appoint delegates and alter
mates to the reunion in Memphis
and the collection of annual dues.
The following were elected as
officers of the camp:-W. A. Do
zier, reelected commander; JIM.
billiard, LIST. Lieut., Willis Austin
End. Lieut.. William Bristow, 3rd
Lieut.; w. F. Sparks was APP
pointed adjutant by the COM
mander, J. M. Hoyle Surgeon
and J. 7. Cunningham, chaplain.
The following veterans were
elected as delegates to represent
the camp at the Memphis re-
union beginning June 9th; ]. M.
billiard, R. E. Leslie, and ]. D.
Huffman, T. L. Russell. Henry
Kyle, and A. G. Jackson, alter
mates. The following resolution
was introduced by Comrade
Richard Wharton:
Resolved. That each member
is hereby requested to prepare a
biographical sketch of himself
and and a statement of his ca
reer as a Confederate soldier;
giving the date of his enlistment
his company, company command
er; regiment and its commander.
Also the engagements and bat
ties he was in; whether he was
wounded, or not, and in what
battle if wounded and date of
battle. whether captured or not,
the time he served the Confedra-
cy, when discharged or paroled,
the day and place of his enroll
ment and hand same to the adj
jutant.
The following were appointed
a committee to confer with Mr..
Mclean to secure a special car
and the cost of same for this
camp for the trip to the reunion;
J. M. Hoyle, w. F. Sparks, G. w.
ward. The camp then adjourned
to meet the 4th Saturday in May.
WA. DoZIER, Com.
W. +. SPARKS, Adjt.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1909-04-02
Many improvements Mark Be-
ginnin z OF New Year.

If present indications and
plans are carried out, the year
1909 promises to be record
breaker in the way of improv e.
ments in our little city. Al
though the weather was not as
advantageous quite a number of
new residences were constructed
during the months of January
and February. First among
these was the pretty home erec-
ted by Leake and Goodlett on
North Broadway, which is now
occupied by Mr. William Vincent
and family.
On the same street Mr.. George
Mcclure removed an old building
from one of his lots and built
a neat and pretty residence into
which Mr.. Tom Woods and fami
ly moved as soon as it was COM
pleted.
Mrs. George Baldwin has un-
der construction a pretty cottage
south of her residence on Madl-
son Street. Mr.. G. E. AzWell
has just completed a very pretty
and commodious home at the cor
ner of Jefferson and Green
streets which has all modern
conveniences to make it comfort
able and desirable as a home.
Lloyd Moore has just COM
pleted and moved into a p -etty
and commodious home on South
Madison street. The plan is
model and the workmanship and
style of architecture is in keeping
with the spirit of improvement
now prevailing.
Mrs. Annie Holditch has I'M
der course of construction a very
handsome and commodious home
on the site of her old residence
which will be completed and
ready for occupancy before many
more weeks.
Mr.. J. H. Strain has under
construction a very handsome
cottage on the lot just west of
Mr.. z. T. Harper and the work
on it will be pressed as rapidly
as possible.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1909-04-02

The Mississippi Travellers AS
ISOLATION held their annual con.
vention at West Point Saturday.
The membership is more than
800 in the State. The Assocla
ton is for the purpose of improv.
ing the conditions of the travel.
ling man from the point of hotel,
railroad and livery Accommodations
Without the drummer, the hotel
and livery business would be I'M
profitable and considering the
prices paid by them, they are en-
titled to first class Accommodations.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1909-04-02
Establish A Pardoning Board

Gov. Noel comes out strongly
in favor of the legislature crea-
ting a pardoning board to re-
lieve the governor of the great
responsibility and embarrass-
ment incident to his authority to
grant pardons. No power with
which the governor of the state
is clothed affords greater latitude
of abuse than the pardoning
power and in most cases the
governor is not to blame for the
too fire quent use of it. He only
acts after he has been beseiged
by the friends of the convict and
his own friends who bring to
bear every possible influence to
secure the desired pardon.
Where there has been manifestly
an error in the conviction, a pc
tition for pardon does not cause
embarrassment to the governor,
but in most cases the pardon
comes from influences which the
governor cannot hold out against.
Though his judgment may be
against granting it, yet he is
human, kindhearted and sympa-
thetic, and yields to the impor.
tunities of others.
With a pardoning board the
governor would be at a much
better advantage in dealing with
pardons, acting only after the
case had been reviewed and thor
oughly investigated by disinter-
ested parties. His contention is
right and the legislature could
make no mistake by the estab-
lishment of a board of pardons.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1909-04-02
The Cheapness Of Human Life.

Governor Noel gave out an in
terview to which he made a state
ment that out Of 548 prisoners
sent to the penitentiary in 1908,
1853 were for homicides.
This is a remarkable statement
and places the good name of the
State in an unenviable light. The
tendency to kill seems to grow
and there should be change by
some means to prevent unnecces-
sary homicide.
The cause that brings about
more killings than anything else
is the drinking of mean whiskey
with the habit Of carrying a pis-
toll is very dangerous practice.
"A man under the influence OF
mean liquor with a gun in his
pocket will commit the most
fiendish Of deeds without know
ing it or without intentionally
committing them, but the result
and the guilt are the same.
Our laws could not be made
too stringent against the carry
ing of concealed weapons and
the punishment should be- Of
such charactnr as to deter men
from the practice.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1909-04-02

Secretary Yerger of the prison
board has prepared a detailed
statement of the profits and los
ses of the various prison camps
and farms of the state in which
he shows a net profit of Sis, 800,
rs for the year 1908.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1909-04-02

James ]. Hill. the railroad
magnate, says that he is a free
trader and in favor of no tariff
atall. Such financiers as Mr..
Hill are usually protectionists
and republicans, but Mr.. Hill
talked very much Ikea southern
democrat.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1909-04-02
RATES OF ADVER Using

DISPLAY advertisements at rate of
ST. per running oh per month OF
four weeks. Liberia discounts made on
yearly contracts. :.
Notice of meetings Of strictly chart
table organizations will be inserted one
time free; all other notices must be paid
for.
The Tupelo journal. (Tupelo, Miss.) 1876-1924, 1909-04-02

The Greek Indians. led by
Crazy Snake. have been on the
war path in Oklahoma. The
Greeks have never accepted the
terms made by the Federal gov
eminent in the allotment OF
their lands and resist the change.