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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13
L,ittIe Soldiers.

IN your blood are tho millions
q corpuscles that defend you
agaInst disease. ~
TO make and keep these little soldiers
healthy and strong, is simply to make
and keep the blood of the right quality
and quantity.
This is just what Hoods Sarsaparilla
does lit helps the little soldiers in your
blood to fight disease for you.
It cures seroft1la, eczema, eruptions,
catarrh, rheumatism, anemia, nervous
ness. dyspepsia, general debility, and
builds up the whole system.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13

Mrs. Charles T. Cook of Concord, N.
H, who had been visiting her father,
Frank r. Partridge, in this city, re-
turned home Saturday morning She
was accompanied by her sister, Miss
Ruth Partridge.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13

Mrs. Helen P. Young and daughter,
Mrs. Charles Moore of New York, left
on the steamer Islander Sunday morn
ing for, Ocean Point, where they. will
visit Mr. ard Mrs. Joseph F. Young.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13

The gasoline launch owned by Dr.
NJ. s. Goodrich of Waterville, which
had for the past two seasons been kept
on the Kennebec river, was taken from
the water yesterday and hauled to the
urriver city.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13

Mr.. and Mrs. Harry w. Reid are re-
ceiving the congratulations of friends
on the advent of fine daughter to
their family circle. The young lady
WAS born at their home in Halloween
Saturday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13

D. Lincoln Of Wayne VS.. Jerome Ridley
ct al, also of Wayne. and involved the
settlement OF an account. This action
by agreement Of counsel was entered,
neither party. An hour was occupied
In the consideration Of divorce matters
and court adjourned for the afternoon
at $50, to meet again Monday at 10
A. M.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13

Mr.. and Mrs. w. K. Morrison, who
had been making a short stop in the
city while on an automobile tour of
the State, left Saturday morning for
Poland Springs. Mr.. and Mrs. Nor
rison left Chicago in their car July l.
and since that time had on their ar
rival in Augusta travelled 5000 miles
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13

Ia sHon. E. T. Kicker of Poland Springs
and Arthur Staples, city editor of the
Lewiston Journal, were at the Angus
ia House Sunday afternoon with an
automobile party or their way home
from the Samosct at Rockland Break
water.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13

Mr.. and Mrs. J. II. Eldridge of Mon
son were in the city Saturday on their
way home from an extended ~automo-
bile trip during which they visited the
principal cities of New England and
points of interest in the Southern
States.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13

Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Crowley and Mrs
j. w. Winstanley of Fall River are in
the city for few days visit and while
mere are making their headquarters
at the Cony House.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13

DR.. o. c. S. Davies and family, who
had been occupying their cottage at the
Isle of Springs during the summer, re-
turned home on the Islander last even
ing
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13

Mr.. and Mrs. l.. S. Rackliff of Wa
terville were the guests of Mr.. and
Mis-. E. M. Mower OF this city Sun
day on their way home from Ocean
Point. x 1nsHT
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13

Hon. and Mrs. Arthur 1. Brown left
Saturday afternoon for Thomaston on
a short visit to their son, who holds
a position as clerk in the warrants
Office at the State prison.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13

Mr.. ard Mrs. JaDez S. Tyler, accom-
panied by their guests, Mr.. and Mrs.
Chesley of Mt. Vernon, passed Sunday
in Waterville.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13

The Susanna Wesley Society will
celebrate the close of it's contest be-
tween Company M and Company A
this evening in the parlors of the
Church, at 100 o'clock.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13

Miss Nellie Moore of Sewall street
is passing a few days in Wiscasset the
guest of Ier sister, Mrs. H. Price
Weber.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13
LOCAL NOTICE.

h. Dr. H. E. Field has returned from
Capitol Island and will be at home to
his patients. at 121k Swan, street, on
Monday, Sept. 18th.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13

Mrs. w. H. Roberts of Somerville
Mass, was the guest Sunday Of Mr.
and Mrs. P. S. Dorsey at Hotel North
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13

Fred Marco, who had been passing
a short time in Boston and vicinity
has returned to his home in this city
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13

Mrs. Leola Ellis and Miss Bess Saw
telle are spending a few days in Bos-
ton.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13
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Advertising notices, news form will be
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Journal promptly will confer q favor
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13

E. A. Hussey and family were pas
sengers on the steamer Islander last
evening, returning from Ocean Point
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13

Miss Blanche Shorey is spending her
vacation at her home in, Pressure Isle,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13
LOCAL MATTERS.

Miss Harriet Sherman spent Sun
day with her parents in Albion.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13
ONE MORE: SEPT 18th.
Canadian Excursion
THROUGH THE
WHITE MOUNTAINS
T.. TO- 81
MONTREAL, QUEBEC =
and STE. ANNE De BEAUPRE
AND RETURN
MAINE CENTRAL RAILRt

via MAINE CENIKAL KAILKUAD.
From. all principal points in Maine,
west OF Bangor, inclusive. At the usual
low rates of Fare. From Bangor 5000;
from Waterville $500, from Augusta $500.
from Lewiston $3.50. from Portland $3.50
to Montreal or Quebec and return. Cor
respondingly low fares from all other
points.
Fares to Montreal and return via Que
bee or vica versa $50 higher. To Ste
Anne and return SOC. higher.
Tickets sold Sept 18th from stations
east OF Waterville and from Rockland
and Pennington branches. Tuesday, Sept
14th. from other points. Tickets good for
90 days. Old Home Week occurs in Mon
treal Sept. 13th-1Sth. -.,. -. .
F. E. BoOTHBY, GenI Passenger Agent.
sept9d4t
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13

Mrs. James Dain OF Portland was in
the city Saturday on a brief visit.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13

Monday, September 10, 1909.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13
Anty Drudge Gives the Conductor
Pointers.

FC101etS.
Co7sduoor" pardon am for dropping thenickeli
I'll get it for you right away. Those gloves make
my hands so clumsy, but if I didn't wear them M
hands would be as dirty as my linen. What with
handling money, and the pushing and showing nv
things get SO dirty, my wife doesnt like to wash em.
Anty Drudge Well, that's sad state Of affairs Gu
her to try Fels-Naptha and she shall complain no
:. more about washing your clothes. No backaches
Il from Fels-Naptha, or hard work either. Your wife
can do days washing before if she uses it
v ----- ------
When Fels-Naptha soap is used The
hanging out is the hardest part Of the wash
ing
No boiling, either winter Of SUMNER
No fire to keep red hot; no firing and
tedious ub-a-dub on the washboard.
Fcls-Naptha itself does the hardest part
Of the washday Notwithstanding the dirt:
All the human aid necessary is few
rubs, quick rinsing and the clothes are
ready for wringing.
Out they go on the line, sweeter and
whittier than if whole day were spent
trying to grind out the dirt on washboard.
For further information read the inside
Of the red and green wrapper.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-05

she would give correct answers to ques-
lions asked by persons who would take
her hand Thus would she reveal the
hiding place of lost property. and, tbs
said. impart other mediumistic informa
tion
This uncanny child was Helena Petrov-
ma Hahn, daughter of Gen. Alexis Hahn,
noble German settled in southern Rus
STA. When she was seven, her mother S
death sent her to live with her grand
father, the governor of Saratow, and here
her governess discovered that she was
possessed of the devil. She went into
frances, soaring the old governor into
gooseflesh. Then at the age of seventeen
equity old Russian of seventy, from whom
she separated after a brief period of do
nestle unhappiness. Next she attempted
to penetrate the forbidden boundaries OF
Tibet. but was turned back by the fam
atical natives After wandering in India
and elsewhere in the orient. she now re-
turned to Russia. where at the gloomy
and grewsome chateau of one of the
princes she frightened the nocturnal
guests with weird demonstrations of ia
ble-tippings. spirit rappings. thought read
ings and levitations.
Returning again to the orient. she visited
Egypt and Syria. and finally America,
where she was exploited as a spirit me-
dunn under the alleged control OF John
King a dead pirate, and much as Gag
liostrO had founded his Egyptian free
masonry for the regeneration of man
kind, SO Nine. Blavatsky, in 1915, estab-
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him to Greenville, Conn. This was about
1872 but soon afterward he was turned
out of doors because of disturbing raps
Which appeared in his aunt's home. Then
such men as William Cullen Bryant,
Justice Edmonds of the United States
Supreme Court and Prof. Wells of Harvard
took the young man up and vouched for
him. At the home of Ward Cheney. near
Home is said to have been first levi
tated" into the air by some unknown
force He grew to be tall and red
haired. with frcckled face, slate-sray,
red-rimmed eyes, sharp teeth. a snub nose
and cold. bony fingers. His body was
some one had hung a coat. Indeed, he
was rather uncanny to look upon. In
1850 when twenty-five, he went to Eng
land. where he began giving seances.
such as Paladino's, where there We're
mysterious rappings, table fittings ghost
ly appearances and feats OF levtation.
At Bulwer-Lytton's home. knebworth,
where he was Il guest for days at
time. Home is said to have caused chairs
and tables to float in midair. Here also
guests solemnly declared that they saw
the master of the mediums rise and
float about a room, sometimes sailing
TRANQUILITY out of one window, then around
the mousse ana III again through an
other. The Earl of Dunraven also
took him up and declared that he had
sometimes seen him elongate and shorten
his body at will or cause a closed piano
TO play by simply placing his fingers upon
the lid. At Florence in 1855 he is said
to have caused d grand piano and a
noblewoman who was playing it to
float in the air while the playing con-
tinued. Polish count next took Home
to Naples, whence he went to Rome there
joining the Catholic Church, after being
abjured by the pope to abandon spirit
seances forever" BY 1858. ne had estab-
lished social position so high as to
marry Russian countess, a god-daush
ter of the car, and their brilliant we'd
ding brought Alexander Dumas all of the
way from Paris. But after his young
wife's death. four years later, Home re-
turned to Rome. where reports of re-
turn of his spirit manifestations reached
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with the cardinal in the celebrated scandal
of the queens diamond necklace, they
locked him up in the Bastlle, where he ut
tered the prophecy:
1.-The Bastille shall be destroyed and the
people shall dance on its site.
And this prophecy was fulfilled COM
pletely. within three years, But by TINS
time Cagliostro had been acquitted and
was drifting about Europe. Having
reached Rome. however, he was con-
demned by the pope as dangerous foe 10
religion and sentenced to life imprison1
ment in dungeon, where he died in 1873.
His past was then laid bare and 1t was
learned that his real name had been
Giuseppe Balsamo, that he had been the
son of poor Sicilian peasant, that he
had been expelled from school and then
placed in a monastery. where. While
working in the monks apothecary shop,
he had learned the secrets of chemistry.
1t was also learned that he had had to
leave Sicily to escape punishment for
fraud. and that his beautiful bride,
Lorenza Feliciane, had been really girl
OF twenty.
But although proved swindler and a
quack, no one ever satisfactorily eX-
planned to the people of his time the Sc
cret of his psychic feats. such as guess
ing the successful lottery numbers and
announcing the death of the queens
mother. They were the foundation of his
reputation as the greatest man of mystery
Of modern times.
MY fate?" asked Napoleon Ill
Like mne--discrowned and death in
exile" replied the shade of Napoleon I.
whereupon the empress swooned and the
emperor himself fell back in his chair,
as if about to faint.
The scene was the Tuilleries, where the
French court now lionized its third man
of mystery. upon whose broad shoulders
had fallen the mantle of st. German and
Cagiostro. This man was Daniel Dun
Slas Home, born near Edinburgh in 1888
Earl of Home.
Second sight was an alleged ancestral
gift to this child, and many weird
phenomena are alleged to have been con-
nected with his childhood. When he was
about nine an aunt adopted him and took
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Munsterburg and such pestidieitators as
Eeller-this "Eusapia. the despair of sci
ence.' is but the latest exhibit in a con-
siderable catalogue of enigmatical per-
sonages who from time to time have
blazed forth with meteoric suddenness to
awe and my stify goody portion of the
thinking world.
The list extends as far back beyond the
birth of Christ as we come after that
event. or to that parsonage of the I'M
pronounceable name, Tchatcha-em-ankh.
who. according TO papyrus in the Brit
ish Museum, held his seances before King
Khufu of Egypt. in which performances
he hypnotized lions and. so 1t is set forth.
restored decapitated men to life by bind
ing on their fallen heads.
Into the glare of the court of Louis XIV
and of Pompadour, In 174S fell suddenly,
as IL from the skies. a fascinating stran-
ger in middle life but wonderfully we'll
preserved, very handsome and very bril-
liant, calling himself the Count of st.
German. Such was his magnetism and
power to dominate men and women that
he was required neither to prove his title
not to account for his source of revenue.
Having gained the confidence of the no
bles and royal personageS of the court,
he let it be known that he had been born
in the third century before Christ, and
that he had prolonged his years for two
mllennums through his discovery of the
elixir of life. He chatted of personal
experiences with Nero and Dante. and
what led many to believe his claims was
his accurate knowledge of all history,
ancient and medieval. as well as modern,
also his ability to converse huently III
every language whatever in which he was
addressed.
To prove the potency of his elixir he IS
said to have given a draught of it TO
woman of forty-five. who became inn
mediately transformed into young maid
of sixteen. He was rumored to possess
the secret of manufacturing not only
gold, but precious gems, and thus those
who yielded to his charm accounted Tor
his ready supply of money and the blaze
of diamonds that always adorned his per-
SON. 1t was as impossible to locate any
estate or other legitimate source OF his
revenue as il was to prove INN a gam
bier. swindler or spy. Mime. de Pompa-
dour endeavored often to catch him
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the papal authorities. who preferred
charges of sorcery against him, as i'm the
case of Cagliostro, and compelled him to
return to England, where his seances
were continued.
He now handled fire with ease, it was
said. and kneeling before a. hearth he
would take out A large. glowing coal,
break off a large piece and hold 1t in his
hand while discoursing to his audiences
on his power over solids. Then he
would place the coal upon folded news
paper and burn a hole through it.
But public confidence in Home some
what abated when one Jane Lyons sued
him for s165, 00o-which he claimed to
have obtained from her for cemmunica-
tons from her departed husband-and
later when a bottle of phosphorus was
found at one Of his seances. Neverthe-
less, some of his phenomena were in
dorsed by that celebrated chemist, Prof.
tnow Sir) William Crookes, whom Home
started upon. the high road to spiritual
ism. Crookes submitted the medium to
severe labor atory tests, such as the fas-
tening in secure cage or an accordion,
which Home. from distance, caused TO
play. The great chemist also arranged
at one end of his laboratory sort of
letter scale, with a recording point which
marked down the pressure exerted. Home
stood at the other end of the laboratory
and. by exerting what Crookes admitted
to be only his psychic force" caused
the platform of the scale to bear down
and record considerable pressure.
This man of mystery married another
Russian noblewoman in 1871. after which
he fell into slow consumption. which
caused his death In 1886. What was the
mystery of his psychic force" and was
it bona fide, as Croakes still maintains,
or was it the result of ingenious fraud
ulent phenomena not yet detected by
men Of science?
A cloud of incense smoke rising from
the Syrian desert, on a night in 1870. as
sumed the shape of an old man with
long. white beard. Il am Hero, one
of the priests of a great temple erected
to tie gods that stood upon this spot"
quoth the grim specter This monu-
ment was the altar. Behod!"
.'ThereupOn'-so the story goes-"a
phantasma goric vision Of a gigantic tenn
pie appeared, supported by ponderous col
llmns and a great city was seen covering
the distant plain, but all soon faded
into thin air.
Two caravans had met I'm the desert.
One had contained the alleged performer
of this miracle. the first modern woman
to gain worldwide fame in the role of
the Great Unknown. Like Home. the Mas
ter of the Mediums, this sphinx boasted of
childhood replete with abnormal occur
rences She was born in southern Rus
STA, and the pled-np collins of victims
of the awful cholera epidemic of 1881,
and while they were baptizing her in the
Greek Church she snatched a lighted
taper and set fire to the flowing robes
of the priest. Then, early in her child
hood it was discovered that while asleep
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lished the famous Philosophical Society.
She now declared herself 10 he dis
ciple of a mysterious brotherhood or
malatnas. whom she had met in Tibet
and who had the power Of causing appari-
lions of themselves to ppear where their
bodies we're not Visitors to her sane
tum were amazed to receive mysterious
letters dropped before them as from the
ceiling. and bearing alleged communica-
tons from the Tibetan mahatm
1t was said 10 be a common occurrence
for a visitor TO ask her a question and
the same day have the postman hand him
a letter under foreign postmark bear
ing direct reply to that question. Final
~, in 1884. Solovyoff. Russian journal
list and litterateur. published her CON
fession.". which he alleged she made to
him after he had caught her i'm trickery
and confronted her at private seance.
This man declared that she not only con-
fessed that her phenomena were fraudu-
lent, but was prevailed upon to show TO
him the apparatus with which she pro-
duced them But her disciples have always
denounced Solovyoff not only as a liar
but as Il coward. inasmuch as he did not
publish the confession" during the
priestess' lifetime.
cremated and her ashes were divided into
three equal parts. buried respectively in
London New York and Adyar, India.
A masked man entered modest cot
tage on the outskirts of Boston one day
shortly after the death of Blavatsky. lie
entered room where an unconscious
woman sat with her head buried in
pillow. her hand clutching a pencil, rest
ing upon a pad of paper. The hand
commenced to write messages to the
masked man--messages alleged to be from
terious visitor returned again and again.
being announced as Mr.. Smith" Vt
length he became convinced that in
formation written to him by the I'M
conscious Woman'S hand was such that
no living person but himself could pos
sibly know. and much to the establishment
of the scientific world he announced his
belief in the power of the living to COM
muncate with the dead. This man was
and ethics in Columbia University, New
York. and the mysterious woman who
had converted him was a modest and
retiring New England housewife. Mrs.
Leonore Piper The announcement at
once elevated her to the vacant pedestal
Of the Sphinx. Unlike her predecessors.
she assumed the role unwillingly. and
never gave public Seances. never produced
her phenomena before other than scientific
London. where she submitted to a long
course of examination before the Society
for Psychical Research.
And now Eusapia Paladino steps into
the center of the stage, wearing, what
woman has filched from mantle mantle
of the great Heiraphant.
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.
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WHO Have Mysti1ed the
" Brains and Rulers OF
the World = M ysterio Gus
Count of St. German. Who
Convinced Courtiers of Louis
XIV That He Knew Nero and
Dante - Some Think Him
Still Alive-Similar Hold on
the Aristocrats of Europe by
Cagliostro in the Eighteenth
Century and D. D. Home in
the Nineteenth = How the
Role Has Now Fallen to
Women - Mystery of Nine.
Blavatsky and Mrs. Piper
Enter Now Eusapia Paladino.
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l > y y y @
DINO. the Italian
pea SAINT who now
has New York by
the ears. who con-
yerted I.ombroso,
the student of Grim
inalS and impoS-
tiers, and who is
now to be judged
at our bar of SCI
ence, before such
skeptics as Hugo
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mapping and when once IN TINS spirit
She asked him to describe Francis l, who
had lived two centuries before. he re-
piled: "A good fellow. but too impulsiVe. |
could have given linn wise advice. but
Ii.. would not listen To me. Poinpadouf
believed ST German to he really over a
century old FOR an old lady, Nine. dc
Cersy. whose husband had been ambaS-
sador to Venice. lad told her that she re-
nemhrrcd this same man of mystery al
the Venetian court more than halt
century before, when he had appeared
inst as hc did now in Paris. And just
a lie appeared to have drifted from court
To court before this appearance in Paris
50 did lie continue to do afterward In
tie latter part of the eighteenth century
I've became the favorite companion OF
the Landerave Charles OF Hesse.