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Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-12-15
Story of Old France.

Guegber's Story of Old France. Ey
H. ~ Guerber. Cloth, II mo, S1i
pages . with illustrations. Price 6o
cents American Book Co., New York,
Cincinnati and Chicago.
This is q new historical reader for
the upper Grammar grades. which may
also be used as a text book in history.
1t lays particular stress upon the In
tcresting and picturesque episodes in
French history from the earliest times
to the death of Louis NV. The book
is supplied with suitable maps and
illustrations and is written in a vivid
and attractive style. which is sure
to hold the pupils attention.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-12-15
Of tho Washington county road q
Princeton to q Northern point.

The question of system Of wafer
works is being agitated by the cHi-
zens of Lincoln. The town is admir-
ably situated for use OF the gravity
system. which would do away with
the expense of pumping. Several wa
ter works promoters have been in tho
town looking over the situation.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-12-15

The .quickey a cold is. gotten rid Of the
less the danger from pneumonia and
other serious diseases. Mrs. B. W. L.
Hall, OF Waverly, Va, says,plw firmly
believe Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to
be absolutely the best preparation on the
market for colds. have recommended
It to my friends and they all agree with
me. For sale everywhere.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-12-15
Facts for Catarrhal Sufferers.

The mucous membrane lines all pass
ages and cavities communicating Wlsh
tie exterior.
Catarrh. is an excessive secretiois
accompanied with chronic infiamI'u-
ton, from the mucous membrane.
Hoods Sarsaparilla acts ON the mu-
cous membrane through the blood. ~.
duces inflammation. establishes healthy
action, and radically cures all CASE
Of catarrt.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-12-15

Only s2 million &pcople.in the United
States: Now if II X Iooseselts injunc-
ton had been nhcyel-.52
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-12-15

Chief Justice White sounds first
rate. ,..
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-12-15

Every family has need OF q good. ~
liza Bile gliniment. For spralns, brulsssS,
pains there is none better than Cnamber-
latu's. Sold everywhere
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-12-15
Maine Gossip
To a seacoast Pine.


Not like the upland tree
Which you a brother call,
Do you loom, proud and tall,
In wild nobility.
Nor in rich verdant tints
Do your bronZed branches vide
The winds, that bring the tide
Stray mountain-stolen hints
Sand-sprinkled. sprawling low.
Your gnarled trunk breasts the air,
And bids the seaSull share
With it the briny glow.
OF iordship naught you keep.
But as a pilot are,
Who knows each crag and bar
Where death-wlite breakers leap.
Blow. blow,( O northeast blast.
What cares the seacoast pine.
Your shouts to him are wine,
When all your wrath Is past.
William Struthcrs in Boston Transcript
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-12-15

Who said dark horse in 1912?
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-12-15

D. H. Kenniston of Phillips recent
~ trapped big Canada lynx, which
gave him. thrilling experience. Ken
niston was out rabbit hunting one day
when he heard an unearthly yell and
screech and before he had time to
turn around an old female lynx land
cd on the snow SO near to him that he
had TO step back to take aim. This
he did as quick as q flash and before
, the old cat had time to more than
snarl and show her teeth her career
Was ended.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-12-15

The Portland Power Boat Associa-
ton is soon to have q new clubhouse
1t will bc erected upon the site lately
secured by the association on Holyoke
wharf and when completed will be
equalled by very few clubhouscs on
the New England coast. The house
will be TIVE stories in height and fine
" arranged for the~purposeS intended.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-12-15


other day when Bath woman found
inside of n turkey imported from out
of the State, which her husband had
purchased, note which read as fol-
lows: "If the finder of this note will
send me a quart of Whiskey / will
send him collection Of handsome
stones picked up along the shores OF
Lake Champlain. My address is -
- and this is a very dry country"
The North Monmouth correspondent
of tie Journal writes: Elder James II.
Raymond has a pair of two-year-old
Hereford steers that take the cake.
They girt six feet, six inches and
weigh 2400 pounds. They are matched
to hair and are well under the tut
ton Of the Elder. Mr.. Raymond raises
nice stock. big pigs and can preach
good sermon. Alton Berry, son of
. l.. G. Berry and Glendon Moody, son
of c. +. Moody, each have q pair OF
2-year-old Durham steers that are
, dandies, close after Elder Raymond'S.
The old story of line of railroad
running from Princeton through to
Mattawamkeag has been revived Of
late, says the Bangor Commercial, by
the announcement from Topsfield that
lands have been purchased there which
1t is declared by some of the former
owners is right Of way for a rail-
road. One party who claims to have
received $4,000 for section Of road,
says that the Maine Central is going
to build from Princeton to Danforth
and thence to Aroostook county; but
20 borderites it looks as if the Cana
, dian Pacific Railroad would be found
behind any proposed l:se from the end
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-07
Y. NJ. c. A. WORKERS TO CONFER.
Meetings Will Begin in Topeka OF
Thursday.

The annual employed officers confer
ence of the y. M G. "A. in, Kansas
will commence at the Central Associa-
ton building tomorrow afternoon at 3
o'clock. There will proba bly, be so per-
sons in attendance. The program for
the two days sessions follows:
THURSDAY AFTERNOON.
3:00-Introductory service.
3:30-"Wellsprings of Power DR.. S.
S. Estey.
4:O0-Bible study problems discussed
by L. V. Starky, Hutchinson; John H.
Dadisman, Thos. E. Prout, DR.. Frank
K. Sanders.
5:00-"Third Annual SWIM
THURSDAY EVENING.
7:00-Devotionals, Charles R. Parsons,
Kansas City, Mo.
7:15-Report of commission on Study
of Office Methods and Accounts"
9:00-Adojurnment.
FRIDAY MORNING.
(Railroad Y NJ. c. Al
9:00-Devotional, D. w. Moore, New
ton. STA
9:15-''How Shall Kansas Meet Her
Responsibility to the Young Men of
Other Lands % Clifford Pierce.s
2 11:O0-Open Parliament, E. C. Brow
nell, presiding.
FRIDAY AFTERNOON.
(Washburn sCollege.)
2:O0-Devotionals. Chas. w. White
hair.
Business session.
Picnic supper closing with inspira-
tional address by DR.. F. L. Hayes.
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Community Comment.

DEAR OLD COLLEGE DA Y Sill
"The most vivid impression of my next
few weeks. of life at B. U. is that in
tense sleepiness alternated with spells
of insomnia. In addition, of course,
had suffered all the throes of home
sickness of boy away from home for
the first time.
THE loss of sleep-and sleeplessness
began to tell on me. My greatest
wish was to be let alone. 1 did not
want any one to talk to me or notice
me. 1 unconsciously began to avoid
people all 1 could. was so worn out
most of the time that hated the eff
fort of even speaking unnecessarily.
At the same time / realized that the
best part of college training was in
meeting and associating with different
people-but fell into the habit IF
stunning fellow students. except where
I had to be with them at the boarding
place and rooming house.
RELIGIOUS READER.
'At the latter place was a big,
shock-headed fellow from western
Kansas. He was very religious and a
great Bible student In a monotonous
scriptures an hour or so every evening.
His roommate did not object, nor did
any one else in the house openly. While
1, myself ought to have admired his
religious habits, at the same time,
when 1 was trying to study. the tones
of his rather harsh voice, which could
be heard for a block, were anything
but conducive to concentration of mind,
and secretly it exasperated me- 1 re-
member he always pronounced inter
prefers Interpretations and made
other mispronunciations.
ION account of this disturbance in
the early part of the evening. often
would not get down to actual study
until about 10 p. m. This would mean.
if my roommate was out for the night
with a friend so that the light would
not disturb him, that I would not go to
bed until a. M or after. Often, just
before retiring I would walk around
the house to cool my head which some
times felt as if covered with warm
ashes.
The Mystery of the Universe.
And in these lonely walks 1 would
look up at the sky filled with its
myriads of stars. AS 1 would think of
the thousands of solar systems in the
universe. each with its worlds ard
their probable forms of existence, per-
haps similar to our own-each world
filled it's Inhabitants with ambitions
just as keen as my own, the thought
of it all would appall me. My own little
life and ambition would seem insuffer-
ably small, inconsequential and useless
Then would come the most horrible
sense of dependency which could be
lost only in sleep.
"Curfously enough, so great was my
desire TOT rest, Lndl III my steep 1fWOuiu
dream of having nothing to do bur
sleep, and of lying down in sunny
warm place on a hillside where 1 would
dream that / fell asleep. Then the
jangIe of the alarm clock would arouse
me to another long day of study,
classes, work and study.
81 am not complaining. I did not at
that time. l knew what I was under
taking before starting in. My great
regret was that I could not do my
work at the office and college better
At the former place 1 found that I
could not set nearly as much type nor
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nearly as accurately as had at home.
1t worried me greatly,-but the fore
man never kicked. At school my les
sons were often ill prepared. And 1
would doze in class time so that
would sometimes not hear my name
called.
However, the instructors were all
very lenient. They gave me plenty IF
time to make up my back work. One
of the professors, DR.. Parmenter, then
vice president of the college, was espe-
cially kind. He was also a great joker
Heart on 'Right'' Side.
zone day in the physiology class the
heart was being discussed as to its
position in the body. Pointing to one
of the boys he said: Now, this young.
mans heart is on the right side
Several smiled but I took it all dead
in earnest for 1 never thought that a
college professor would joke while on
duty. 1 thought 1t so wonderful that
a persons heart should be on the right
side, but finally 1 thought I must have
heard DR.. Parmenter wrong. l could
not rest until I settled the matter.
Just before class closed, according to
his usual custom, he said:
Does any one wish to ask questions
about the lesSon%
IT mustered up courage, and blurted
out: Professor Parmenter, is Mr..
Smiths heart really on the right side?'
THE class was convulsed. The stud
ents laughed until they screamed and
the teacher laughed until the tears
nearly came, but finally he managed
to shake his head and say that he was
only Joking. I soon afterwards learned
that the young man referred to was
supposed to be sweet on a girl by the
name of Wright"-Biu Black. ITO be
continued
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EVENING CHAT
BY RUTH CAMERON.

"a baby's grandmother is often its
worst enemy
So a splendid trained nurse who
makes her speciality the bringing back
to health of sickly babies. told me the
other day.
1t was pretty harsh Indictment
of that class of parsonage whose very
and wisdom and sort of mellowed
and intensified motherliness. so nat
urally 1 demanded an explanation.
She gave it.
They are the worst enemies of our
modern methods. Not all of them. of
course, but some. Because their ba-
bies grew up in spite of what mistakes
daughters make the same mistakes.
There is no doubt about it that
modern methods have reduced infant
mortality immensely, and though of
course it's true that plenty of babies
grew up into healthy children with
the old careless methods, a baby
brought up in the modern way has
twice the chance to grow up that they
did.
But the grandmothers don't see 1t
that way. They say all their babies
grew up. or if one or two died. they
would have died anyway, no matter
what precautions were taken, and they
tell their daughters that all this ster-
ilizing and boiling and the rest of the
things that we are trying to teach them
is al nonsense.
Most of them talk behind our
backs but once in awhile one of them
speaks right up to me so 1 know about
what they say.
Here's a few samples:
!" This feeding a baby every three
hours to the minute is all tommyrot.
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TO Dr. Lindsay, who with Dean McVey
is raising. among the men of the medi-
cal faculty the larger share of the
money necessary to the new organiza-
ton When the medical school of
Washburn opens on the 14th of Sep
TENDER, the courses offered will be
equal to those of any medical school
OF the southwest. The medical faculty
has worked out new plan for the con-
duct of clinics. In small groups the
students will study the development of
cases in the various hospitals, under
the supervision of the doctor in charge
These cases will be studied by the stud
ents throughout their entire develop
ment, in way which has never before
been attempted and which would be
quite impossible were 1t not for the
five hospitals of Topeka. In hospital
facilities the opportunities of the Wash
burn medical school are absolutely
unique. Thus, from the very aggrava-
ted situation which had developed with
in the past few months, this reorganj-
cation makes the outlook for the Wash
burn medical school better than at any
previous period"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-07
ADVANCE IN MEDICAL SCHOOL.
Washburn College Reorganizes Medical
Department and Meets National.

The washburn Medical school has
been reorganized. The scathing critic
ism upon most of the medical schools
of the United States contained in the
last report of the Carnegie foundation
has been an absorbing topic In medlcal
circles While this criticism comes from
a source in measure nonprofesSlonai,
it has carried much weight. A profess
sor connected with Washburn has made
the following statement:
1.-The Kansas Medical college as de-
partment of Washburn came in for
criticism which was severe and in many
respects not warranted. In fact, In i'm
portant details the Topeka school was
misrepresented and injustice done by
what seemed to be unfair discrimina-
tons against 1t. The fact is the couege
has been remarkably successful in max
ing doctors who have adorned their
profession. Almost simultaneously with
the offensive report, every MEMBER OF
the graduating class of the Washburn
Medical school passed the examination
of the state board, which can be said
of no other school with considerable
numb ers before the board. 1t is said
that one of the best psychologists in
the United States graduated from the
Kansas Medical college. Many of her
graduates have distinguished them
selves in various fields of medicine.
wishing to promote the higher
ideals at which the Carnegie report
aimed rather than to defend the col
lege. as they might have done, the
medical faculty and the college author
tiles suffered the rebuke in silence and
reorganized so as to meet every new
condition The new organization of the
Washburn Medical school makes Wash
burn a leader in meeting this new med
zeal situation and in raising the stand
ards of medical education. Today the
medical school is as much a department
of the college as the school of liberal
arts. and is as fully under the control
of the trustees of the college. Two new
laboratories have been equipped in Rice
hall at large expense, one for the teach
ing of bacteriology and one for physiol-
ogy, and competent instructors have
been employed, who will devote full
time to these respective departments
The new professors are Doctor Otto
Kiene in physiology and probably Doc
tor Edith M Twiss in bacteriology.
With the addition of these instructors
the work of the first two medical years
which is largely laboratory work will
be thoroughly equipped under six full
time instructors
Much credit is due in this reorgani-
zation to the initiative of DR.. j. c.
McClintock, who pays the entire sal
airy of the instructor in physiology and
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Why. when Jennie was a baby I fed
her whenever she cried and she doesn't
look very peaked now. does she?
This boiling the nipples and bot
boiled a thing and / brought up five
cnlldren and only lost one by cholera
infantum and you incident tell me any
child gets cholera infantum from not
having its nipples boiled
waking a child I'D to feed him
is the silliest thing 1 ever heard OF.
He has been under nourished and
needs the nourishment? Nonsense. l
had eight children and I always let
them sleep as long. as they would
That's the sort of thing they are
continually saying, and as some or
them have more influence than we do.
important instructions are neutralized-
why, 1 even know of one BABY
that / am sure would be alive today
If he had had the proper care, but
the grandmother pooh-hooh her out
of doing what the doctor and nurse
told her.
mo. grandmothers may be well
enough for older children, but good
many of them are the babies worst
In the philadelphia schools a lee
ture on the care of babies was given
to the little mothers of the tenements
this spring. The next day they were
ture and one child of eleven brought
in this startling Indictment of grand
mother:
IT never understood why my little
brother Mickey turned over one day
after he was several months with US,
and gave little grunt and died. Now
believe it was because my grand
mother used to feed him the same
things as she ate. Sometimes she
would squeeze orange juice in his
mouth and other times she'd give him
bit of cabbage to strengthen him. l
think some germs got into these and
made Mickey twist up in knots and
die
OF course that sort of grandmother
doesn't exist among my readers, but
I have no doubt that the other kind
does, and 1 think, all things considered
that her sin of pooh-hoohing the
nurses instructions is quite as bad as
the tenement grandmother's orange
and cabbage habit.
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Larimer, left Tuesday for Portland,

Larimer, left Tuesday for Portland,
Oregon.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mills and their
family will return this week from Las
Vegas, N M.
Mrs. G. s. Maxwell of Dallas, Tex,
is the guest of Mrs. A. T. Lucas.
Miss Isabel Mills will leave the lat
ter part of the week for oxford, Ohio,
where she will attend college this
winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. B. Rohrer expect
to leave Saturday for a short trip to
Wichita and Lawrence.
Mr.. c. Gordon of Kansas City, was
the guest of Mr.. r. Campbell Tuesday
Mrs. Edward Riddle and Miss Anna
Pratt of Burlingame. returned home
Tuesday after short visit to friends
in Topeka.
Miss Mamie Lundquist is spending
few days in Lawrence.
Mr.. S. M. Davidson left for Pough-
keepsie. N. Y, today. He will join
Mrs. Davidson. and they will return
together in a few weeks.
Captain and Mrs. Jens Bugge are
the parents of a daughter, born Sat
urday. Mrs. Bugge was formerly
Miss Gala Cuttell. As~TH szs
Mrs. G. M. Wilson has returned
from months visit in New England.
Mrs. B. F. FlenniSen returned to-
day from Colorado Springs. where she
spent the summer.
Mr.. Howell Jones has gone to his
ranch in Chase county for a short
trip.
Mrs. H. c. Bowman and her son,
who have been in Topeka with Mr..
Bowman for few weeks, returned to
Newton, Tuesday
DIR. and Mrs. S. S. Estey have re-
turned from a trip east.
Miss Nannon Herren left today for
Kansas City to spend the rest of the
week. -.7--
Mr.. S. T. Howe has returned from a
business trip to Milwaukee.
Mrs. Adrian Green and her son
have returned from Marshall, Mo-,
where they spent two weeks.
Mrs. Daisy Booth will go to Kansas
spend a few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. M. Couchman went
to Atchison today to attend the flu
neral of Mr.. A ]. Harwi.
Miss Daisy June Trout returned to-
day from a trip to Wisconsin and
Michigan
Miss Lucille McNaughton and Miss
Maude zoellner. of Tonganoxie, are
guests of Miss Louise Fairchild.
Miss Kathleen Foley will go to Kan
sas City Thursday to spend a few
days.
The Helping Hand society of the
First Congregational church will meet
Friday at 2:30 p. m. with Mrs. H. L.
Alkire, 434 Monroe street.
The Ladies' Aid society of Unity
church will meet Thursday afternoon
at the church at o'clock
Mr. Paul Shreve left today for a
trip to Kansas City and Chicago.
The Young Ladies' Philathea Bible
class of the Second United Presby-
terrain church gave a farewell party
Tuesday night at the home of Miss
Jennie McCIenahan. 1901 Buchanan
street for Miss Della Pinkerton, who
left today for Los Angeles, Calf,
where she will make her home Those
who attended were: Miss Pfnkerton
Mrs. L. w. Williamson, Misses Ethel
Irwin. Lauretta Munford, Edith Cook
inhams Lena Davis, Mary Munford,
Mabel Sewell, Minnie Duff, Florence
Smiley, Pearl Pinkerton, Bess Wilson,
Meta Allison Jennie McClenahan
Bertha Allison, Grace Pinkerton, Meta
White, Edith White. Emma Joblin,
Winnie Schaefer, Gladys Smith. Eliz-
abeth McClenahan, Nina Gordon, Sa-
die White, Jennie Stewart, Claribel
Williamson, Nina Chalmers.
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is of tucked green taffeta and above
this appears a yoke of the same en-
broidered in a lighter shade of green.
A broad band confines the skirt at
the feet. Out of this band at front
and back is cut a square piece and
this space is crossed by two broad
bands of the soutache trimmed
panama.
Mrs. W. T. Davis gave an informal
luncheon today at her home, 1907 Tyler
street.
Miss Helen Casey entertained Tues
day evening at cards for Miss Irene
Carter of Marshall, Mo-, and Miss Ger
trude Fitzgerald, who will leave in a
few days to enter the Loretta academy
in Kansas City. Her guests, who were
members of her graduating class at the
School of the Assumption. were: Miss
Fitzgerald, Miss Frances Walsh, Miss
Edna Maher Miss Mary Gushing, Miss
Katherine Conklin Miss Mary Houser,
Miss Gertrude Kelly. Miss Minnie Sci
Ter, Miss Mary Lannan, Miss Margaret
Troutman, Miss Carter, Mr.. Carl Ly-
man. Mr.. James Mooney, Mr.. Clint
Weber, Mr.. Charles Cushing, Mr..
Bert Nolan. Mr.. Will Sorts, Mr.. Leon
ard Obyrn, Mr.. Leo Berry, Mr.. Lase
Bressette, Mr. Fred Haymaker, Mr.
Will Connors and Mr.. Hickey.
MIS- EnZaDeJn cunt, MIS-. haLn-
crime Moser. DR.. F. A. Rooster and
Miss Minna Rooster will go to Alta
Vista the latter part of this week to
attend the wedding of Miss Nettie
Hartner and Mr.. William Fink, which
will take place at the brides home
is a niece of Mrs. Yount, Mrs. Moser
and DIR. Rooster. She has been the
society reporter of the Alta Vista
newspaper for number of years, and
is an unusually attractive girl. She has
good many relatives and friends in
Topeka and will come for a visit to
them soon after her marriage.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. P. Scott announce
the engagement of their daughter,
wedding to take place about the mid
die of October at the home of the
brides parents.
The June 1910 class of the high
school will have a reunion Friday at
of 421 Woodlawn avenue, Potwin
Place.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. j. Van SAINT of sos
Taylor street announces the engage
ment of their daughter Mabel Frank
lin. to Mr.. Clyde F. Spurrier of To-
peka. formerly of Baltimore. The
wedding will take place some time this
winter.
y
Miss Lillian Espelin and Mr. Gar
nett Hooper will be married tonight at
the home of the brides parents. After
short wedding trip, Mr. and Mrs.
Hooper will return to Topeka, where
they will make their home
y
Notes and Personal Mention
Madame Lunde Souther. who spent
the summer abroad has returned to
Topeka to resume her work as head of
the vocal music department of Wash
| purn college. She will make her home
this winter with Miss Helen Hoge-
| boom.
| Miss Leavitt. who teaches English at
Washburn, has returned from a vaca-
ton trip in the north.
| Miss Olive Price is visiting relatives
and friends in Beattie this week.
Miss Dean, the librarian at Wash
burn college, has returned from Bat
tie Creek, Mich, where she spent the
| summer.
| Mrs c. M. Cleveland of Toledo. O.,
! who has been visiting Mrs. ]. B.