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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-08
.E4xI CONGRESS.
Continued from Page one.)

senatorial associates on the confer
ence committee today that the outlook
for agreement was somewhat brighter.
He said also that while the full con-
ference committee might be called to-
gether any day. a week might elapse
before meeting would be desired by
the subcommittee.
Mr.. Underwood said tonight that he
belize cd the free list bill would be
sent to the President.
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me camp routine during the week
WI ioiiow very closely the program
Already outlined iii the General orders
issued by Col. Hume. From to S.45
A. NJ Tuesday will come company
close order drill. followed from 3 to
AS a, NJ. by battalion close ordergtlfili.
and from 10 to il A. NJ. by regimenfal
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-08
Are YOU Helping In The Campaign For Names Welfare?
Active, Aggressive Work
Will Defeat License Plans

If Maine turns against the standard of prohibition it will he
because generation has UP which knows little if any,
thing, of license system 1t will be because thousands Of
Maine voters saloon; witnessed the WORKINGS
of local option and know nothing hand evils ta
flourish under such a system
Doubtless hundreds of readers know of instances where the
kennebec Journal can carry to good purpose its messages for
prohibition Maine and with this that this very small
price is made.
This popular subscription will enable friends of the of
prohibition in Maine send the Kennebec Journal broadcast
the State.
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SELECT ROLLER RINK

For Fair week Manager Murree will
open the rink to the public, every fore
noon of this week from 10 o'clock until r.
Your visit will not be complete without
Augusta. Tuesday and Wednesday eve
nings, Bright star, the champion Indian
tion of artistic skating. Thursday night
will be Military night. two-mile. race
for the championship of the National
Guard of Maine. Mr.. Vigue. former
champion of the State of Maine; Mr..
Phillip Baker, ex-champion; Mr.. Romeo.
who is also considered very fast, are
coming This will no doubt be a very
fast race. Race will be open to military
boys only Friday night, Bright Star. the
champion Indian skater, will race five of
the fastest men in Augusta for one mile
Bright Star skating the full mile while
the five men can relieve each other as
often as they like.
Sessions; Forenoon, afternoon and eve
ming New skates, new floor, good music.
10c.--A SSiOH--i0c.
GEORGE THERRIEN, r. MURREE,
Supt. Mar.
aug8-9-l0-1l
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Col. Frank NJ. Hume. the command
ing officer of the I'd Regiment is anX-
ious that during the first three days
eyeryman in the. regiment shall have
an opportunity to have practice in
guard duty. This establishment of a
heavy guard is not for keeping the
men in. but for practice purposes in
guard mounting and after that the
guard will be reduced to a minimum,
The LIST and Sd Battalions will be CIV
en- their chance at guard duty after
the second guard goes off at noon
Tuesday.
The regimental headquarters were
established Saturday by Col. Hume
and are located to the east of the
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The KennebeC Journal Will
Continue Vigorous Campaign

Firm in the belief that the retaining of the probtorv
amendment in Names is for the moral and econ
oic welfare of the State will be the steadast and pur
pose of the Kennbec Journal present the facts of this
great question influence every within its reach
go the polls September cast his ballot to KEEP
LICENSE OUT OF MAINE
The Journal will present daily the strongest arguments and
the personal testimony of the leading thinkers and workers
The service will contain reports of temperance meetings
and every will be freely used in the
work.
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of Vassalboro, while the supernumer-
ay officers of the guard were LIST Lieut.
Charles E. Hartford of Pittstieid and
I'd Lieut. Percy M. Gleason of Pitts
field
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CITIZEN SOLDIERS IN
CAMP ON THE HILL

Continued from Page onc.)
The Washington bee., 1911-08-05
ADAMS PEAK.
A Shrine Visited by Thousands and
Sacred TO Three Conflicting
Religious Sscts.

Throughout Asia "holy places" are
tree, but in Ceylon is a mountain which
enjoys the unique distinction of being
a very holy place to the devOtees OF
three absolutely distinct and conflict
Ing religious Sects. This is Adams
Peak, or Samantha.
According to the Mohammedan be-
lief, Adam, after the fall, was taken
by an angel to the top of Samantha,
and a panorama Of all the ills that
through sin should aff1ict mankind was
spread out before him. His foot left
an impression on the solid rock, and
his tears formed the lake from which
pilgrims still drink. The Buddhists
contend that it was not Adam, but
Buddha himself that made the foot
print in the rock, that being the last
spot where he touched the earth be-
fore ascending to heaven, while the
Brahmins have still another legend.
AL however, Brahmins. Mohamme-
dams and Chinese, agree that Samantha
is a very holy place, and to perform a
pilgrimage to the spot is to the Budd-
hist what a visit to Mecca is to a Mo
hammedan. In mixed crowds the wor-
shippers come, each plying the igno-
rance Of the other, who is so far from
the "true way"
1t requires no little faith and some
Imagination to trace in the depression
in the rock the likeness Of a human
footprint. 1t is 5A feet long by 215
feet wide, on the top of a huge bowl
der. The natives, however, insist that
it is the footprint Of Adam.-Emmett
Campbell Hall in Cincinnati CONNER
cial Tribune.
The Washington bee., 1911-08-05
THE BIG DlPPER.
1t Is the Hour Hand of the Woodman's
Celestial Clock.

1t Is the Hour Hand of the Woodman's
Celestial Clock.
The pole star is really the most i'm
pOrtant Of the stars il our sky. It
marks the north at all times. 1t alone
is fixed in the heavens. All the other
stars seem to swing around it once in
twenty-four hours.
But the pole star of PoIaris is not q
very bright one, and it would be hard
to identify but for the help of the so
called pointers in the big Dipper," or
"Great Bear" The outer rim Of the
dipper points nearly to Polaris at a
distance equal to three times the space
that separates the two stars Of the
dipper'S outer side. Various Indians
called the pole star the Home Star"
and the ''Star That Never Moves" and
the dtpper they call the Broken Back" !"
The "Great Bear" is also to be remem-
bered as the pointers for another rea-
son. 1t is the hour hand Of the wood
mans clock. 1t goes once around the
north star in about twenty-fOur hours,
the reverse way Of the hands Of a
watch-that is, it goes the same way
as the sun-and for the same reason
that it is the earth that is going and
leaving them behind.-COUntry Life
In America.
The Washington bee., 1911-08-05
ODDLY EXPRESSED.

Queer Ways In Which Ideas Are
Sometimes Put Into Words.
Curious ways of expressing ideas In
English may be expected from foreign
ers, as, for instance, when the French
man, who made a call In the country
and was about to be introduced to the
family, said: "Ah, re ladies! Zen I
would before, if you please, wish to
purify mine 'ands and to sweep mine
hair"
A Scotch publican was complaining
of his servant maid. He said that
she could never be found when want
ed. She'll gang Oot o. the house."
he said, twenty times for once she'll
come in"
A cOuntryman went to a menagerie
to examine the wild beasts. Several
gentlemen expressed the opinion that
the Orang Outang was a lower order OF
the human species. Hodge did not
like this idea and, striding up to the
gentleman, expressed his contempt for
it in these words: "Pooh He's no
more Of the human species than 1 be-"
Mamma, is that a spoiled child?'
asked a little boy on seeing a negro
baby for the first time.
A shop exhibits a card warning ev-
erybOdy against INSCRIPTIONS persons
''whO infringe our title to deceive the
public" The shOpman does not quite
say what he means any more than
the proprietor of an eating house near
the dock, on the door Of which may be
read the following announcement con-
veying fearful intelligence to the gal
liant tars who frequent this port:
Sailors vitals cooked here. ."-PhiIa-
delphia North American.
The Washington bee., 1911-08-05
Definition OF TruA Human

The sense of humor is the Saving
sense" principally because it saves US
from ourselves. The person who can
not laugh at himself now and then is
to be pitied. Moreover, the person
who cannot take good naturedly the
occasional bantering Of others is in
the same class of disagreeables. A
well directed shaft of raiIlery will
often find the vulnerable point in our
armOr of self complacency and show
US where our self satisfaction is all
wrong. True humOr, however, must
spring as much from the heart as from
the head. It's essence must be truth
and friendliness, not contempt. There
never was a good joke yet that told
lie or besmirched reputation. Humor
which carries with it a sting to wound
the sensitiveness or delicacy Of one
who does not deserve to suffer is not
true humOr.-San Francisco Chronicle.
The Washington bee., 1911-08-05
THE COTTON GIN.
Whitney Got the Idea From the Work
of an Old Negro.

Whitney Got the Idea From the Work
of an Old Negro.
Eli Whitney, the inventor Of the cot
ton gin, got the germ Of his great idea
from seeing through the interstices of
a hut an old negro work a hand saw
among the freshly picked cotton stored
within.
The teeth of the saw tore the lint
from the seed easily and quickly, and
young Whitney (he was barely thir-
teen at the time) realized at once that
a machine working a number of SINH
lar saws simultaneously would revOlu-
tionize the cotton growing industry.
He said nothing to anybody, but set
to work building models and expert
menting. His difficulties were enor-
nous, for he not only had to make his
own wheels, cOgs. etc, but he had also
first to forge his own tools and even
TO manufacture the paint wherewith
to color his many plans and drawings.
But he succeeded in the end, and,
though the outbreak of war and other
hindrances prevented the invention
from being actually placed upon the
market until many years afterward,
the first complete cotton gin ever con
structed was built from those very
models and plans and with scarcely q
single alteration.
The Washington bee., 1911-08-05
Elephant Threnodies.

The natives of certain portions Of
south central Africa, says the Duchess
Of Aosta in Harper's Weekly, look on
the death Of an elephant as an event.
They attach an almost religious aspect
to it. "As soon as the animal stalked
is stretched out on the ground the
hunters climb upon the huge, still
warm body and there perform a dance,
gesticulating and shaking their guns,
accompanied by a sort Of Htany, in
which they extol the animal and his
qualities, his strength, his size, his
cunning; then they praise the skill of
the hunter, his prompt eye, his accu-
rate shot. And this song is just muir
INJURED, as if they were afraid that if
they raised their voices they would
attract the curse of the spirit which
has just left the animal and is still
floating round him"
The Washington bee., 1911-08-05
a Blow ArresfeH.

An Organist who on the eve Of a fes-
tival was taken suddenly i'll secured
a deputy to take his place. The depu,
ty, on the authority of st. James
Budget, was a gentleman who played
a very full organ, playing full chords
where his principal played only single
notes, and consequently using a much
larger quantity Of wind.
When about three parts through with
the "HalIelujah Chorus the wind sud,
denly gave out. Going round to the
back Of the organ to ascertain the rea-
son, the deputy found the blower in
the act of putting on his coat prepara-
tory to going home.
''What do you mean by such behav-
ior?" the deputy angrily eXpOstulated.
Look here, sir" the blower returned
with warmth, ''if you think l don't
know 'ow many puffS it takes to blow
the 'AlIelujah Chorus you make a
big mistaken
The Washington bee., 1911-08-05
PICKING HUSBANDS.
A Woman's Cynical View of the Ger
man Marriage Market, Where
Men Wait to Be Purchased.

The men in Germany do not marry.
They are married. They are more or
less passive articles of sale, which
stand in rows in the matrimonial shop
window with their price labeled In
large letters in their buttonhole, wait
ing patiently for a purchaser, They
are perfectly willing, even eager, vic
tins. They want to be bought, but
their position does not allow them to
grasp the initiative, and they are
thankful when at last some one comes
along and declares herself capable and
willing to pay the price.
The girl and her mother, with their
purse in hand, pass the articles in re-
view and choose out the one which
best suits their means and fancy.
81 shall marry an officer" one girl
told me some time ago with the easy
confidence of a person about to order,
a new dress, and, 10 and behold, be-
fore the year was out she was walkngI
proudly on the arm of a dragon heu-
tenant! l even knew of three women
who swOre TO each other that they
would marry only geniuses, and here
also they had their will. One married.
a great painter, one a poet and another
a famous dipl0matist. That they were
all three peculiarly unhappy is not
witness against the system, but a
proof that geLiuses may occasionally
be very uncomfortable partners. In
this case the purchasers were rich and
popular and could therefore make their
choice. Others of lesser means would
have had to content themselves with
an officer, cavalry or infantry, accord
ing to the "dOt," or lawyer, or a doc.
tor, or a merchant, and so on down
the scale.-AGiss Wylie's MY German
Year"
The Washington bee., 1911-08-05
One Consolation.

During the time he acted as United
States consul in Glasgow Bret Harte
occasionally INDUCED in a days sport
with the gun. and it was during one of
his shooting excursions that the hu-
mOrist met with an accident which
might have disfgured him for the re-
mainder of his life. his face being
badly cut through the recOn Of an
overloaded gun. Fortunately the doe
tors skill prevented him from being
permanently marked.
Writing about the occurrence to his
friend, T. Edgar PembertOn, who
quotes the letter in his Tribute to
Bret Harte," the novelist concludes his
letter by telling of an amusing effort
which was made to console him on ac-
count of the accident.
''When the surgeon was stitching me
together" he wrote, the son of the
house, a boy of twelve, came timidly
to the door of my room.
3" Tell Mr.. Bret EaTte it's all right,
he said. He killed the hare"
The Washington bee., 1911-08-05
FUN IN THE HOME.
Bring 70 IL Bright Pictures and Pleas.
ant Thoughts and Bar Out
Business Worries.

Whatever your lot in life, keep Joy
with you, says Orison SWEET Marden
in Success Magazine. It is a great
healer. Sorrow, worry, jealousy, envy,
bad temper, create friction and grind
away the delicate human machinery
so that the brain loses its cunning.
Half the misery in the world would
be avoided if the people would make
a business Of having plenty of fun at
home instead Of running everywhere
else in search of it.
Now For Rest and Fun" mo
Business Troubles Allowed Here"
These are good home building notices.
When you have had a perplexing
day, when things have gone wrong
with you and you go home at night
exhausted. discouraged, blue, instead
OF making your home miserable by
going over your troubles and trials
just bury them. Instead Of dragging
them home and making yourself and
your family unhappy with them and
spelling the whole evening, just lock
everything that is disagreeable in your
Office.
Just resolve that your home shall be
a place for bright pictures and pleas
ant memories, kindly feelings toward
everybody and "a corking good time
generally. If you do this you will be
surprised to see how your vocation or
business wrinkles will be ironed out
in the morning and how the crooked
things will be Strengthened.
The Washington bee., 1911-08-05
Helped the Thief.

ga simple, honest Scotch farmer had
taken a sack of meal to dispose Of in
Aberdeen castle market" says Mrs
Mayo in her "RecOllectiOns of Fifty
Years" at was in the days when
people were hanged for any petty
theft, and an execution was in prog
ress, the culprit being a sheep stealer
The worthy countryman stood aghast
when a stranger hustled up with the
question:
What's ado?
ga hanging said the other, awed
for stealing a sheep
1" "'Eh, what won't folks risk for
gearp cried the stranger. viii ye
just give me a hand up with this
sack?
''The farmer promptly complied. Ii
was only afterward that he discov-
cred he had helped thief to make of
with the sack of meal he had brought
to SELF"
The Washington bee., 1911-08-05
The Sprinqbok.

A popularity of that most beautiful
Of South African antelOpes the spring
box is that it always leaps over human
tracks 1t is at once exceedingly shy
and marveIously active, and the rea-
son for this strange antic is its in
tense suspicion of any possible enc
mics, among whom it has come to rec
Ognize man as the most dangerous. 1t
is not only with human tracks that the
spTingbOk goes through this perform
ance, for it does the same with the
tracks Of lions or even when it gets
wind Of a lion. The leap is exceeding
" graceful, and the animal covers from
twelve to fifteen feet at each bound.
1t drops on all four feet at once and
Immediately rises again, making a clear
spring without any run. Its usual gait
when not pursued is a light springy
trot. The springbOk usually travels
with its nose to the ground, as if con-
stantly on the lookout for the scent Of
enemies.
The Washington bee., 1911-08-05
A Mole's Nest.

Among common animals few have
been less studied in their life history
than the mole. Mr.. Lionel f. Adams
says that under the fortress" which
the mole constructs above the surface
of the ground will always be found a
series of tunnels running out beneath
the adjacent field. A curious feature
almost invariably found is a perpen-
dicular run penetrating about a foot
below the bottom of the nest and then
turning upward TO meet another run.
A mole is never found in his nest, al
though it may yet be warm from his
body when opened. Guided by smell
and hearing, a mole frequently locates
the nest of a partridge or pheasant
above his run and, penetrating it from
below, eats the eggs. The adult mole
is practically blind, but there are en-
bryonic indications that the power Of
sight in the race has deteriorated.
The Washington bee., 1911-08-05
Force of an Oil Well.

Oil has been elected from the Baku
wells with such force and accompanied
with so much sand that steel blocks
twelve inches thick placed over the
mouth of the we'll to defect the flow
were perforated in a few hours and
had to be replaced The casing with
which the wells were lined was often
torn to shreds and eventually cOllaps-
ed. and hundreds of thousands Of tons
of sand which accumulated in the vi
cinity necessitated the sS-vices Of large
bodies of workmen.-LOndOn Mail.
The Washington bee., 1911-08-05
Artificial Flowers.

1t was in Italy that a demand for
artificial flowers first arose. This was
due primarily to a caprice of fashion
which demanded that during festivals
blossoms in and out of their seasons
should be worn and also to the fact
that their color and freshness were
stable. Later on. in the middle ages,
the artificial so far superseded the
natural that both men and women
decked their heads with imitation
flowers Of cambric, paper, glass and
metal.
The Washington bee., 1911-08-05

methods employed in helping the Ne
gro people of the United States, with
a view of deciding to what extent
Tuskegee and Hampton methods may
be applied to conditions in these coun-
tries, as we'll as to conditions in Af-
rica.
1t is hoped that numbers of people
representing the different govern
ments interested in Africa and the
West Indies, as we'll as representa-
tives from the United States and the
countries OF South America, will de-
eide to attend this conference. Es-
pecially is it urged that missionary
and other workers in these various
countries be present and take an act
i've part in the deliberations of the
conference.
1t is desirable, in any case, to have
any suggestions as to what might be
done to make the work of the con-
ference more helpful to all concerned.
The names of persons who would like
to be present, with whom you are ac-
quainted, will be appreciated, and
through you they are invited to be
present and take part in the delibera-
tons of the conference.
Those who come to Tuskegee prop
erly accredited will be welcomed and
entertained as guests of the institu-
ton, and will be under no expense
during their stay here,
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON.
Principal, Tuskegee Normal and In
dustrial Institute, Tuskegee Insti-
tute, Alabama
The Washington bee., 1911-08-05
How Parchment Came to Be Used

When the literary jealousy of the
Egyptians caused them to stop the sup
ply Of papyrus, the king Of PergamOs,
a city in Asia Minor, introduced the
use of sheepskin in a form called,
from the place of its invention, perga-
mona, whence our word parchment is
believed to be derived. VelIum, a finer
article, made from calfskin, was also
used. Many of the books done on vel
Ium in the middle ages were tran
scribed by monks, and often it took
years to complete single copy.
The Washington bee., 1911-08-05
NOISE OF THUNDER.
Professor Trowbridss Declares That it
Is Due to Heating of Gases Along
the Line of Electric Discharge.

To Professor Trowbridge we owe an
experiment to explain the noise OF
thunder. 1t has usually been thought
that the noise is caused by the clos
ing up Of the vacuum created by the
passage Of lightning, the air rushing
In from all sides with q clap, but the
intensity of the noise is rather dis
prOportionate, and it is now supposed
that the thunder is due to the intense
heating of the gases, especially the
gas Of water vapor along the line OF
the electric discharge, and the cOnse-
quent conversion of suspended mOis-
ture into steam at enormous pressure.
In this way the crackle with which
a peal of thunder sometimes begins
might be regarded as the sound OF
steam explosions on a small scale,
caused by inductiye discharges before
the main flash. The rumble would be
the overlapping steam explosions, and
the final clap, which sOundest lOudest,
would be the steam explosion nearest
TO the auditor. In the case of rum
bling thunder the lightning is passing
from cloud to cloud. When the fash
passes from the earth to the clouds
the clap is loudest at the beginning.
Professor Trowbridge gave sub
stance to these suppOsitions by caus-
ing electric flashes to pass from point
to point through terminals clothed in
soaked cotton wool, and he succeeded
in magnifytng the crack Of the elec-
trio spark to a terrifying extent.-LOn-
don Graphic.