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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-18

portance to the plant to have It's little
warriors always on guard. and to this
end it supplies them so completely with
attractive food and drink that the ants
have no desire to leave the plant. ON
each leaf stock. a little way from the
base, there is good-sized gland that Sc
cretes abundantly a sweet liquid In which
the ants delight. One or more ants are
always to be seen near the gland either
sucking the nectar or waiting for more
to appear But the ants cannot of
course, subsst entirely upon sweets. The
plant also provides solid, nutritious food
in the shape of pear-formed bodies. which
are produced at the extremities of certain
leaflets in such a position that TO get at
them the ants must travel over a consid-
cradle portion of the leaf. The food bod
les ripen few at a time and thus keep
the ants going over the leaf pretty much
all The while. When these food bouIes
lare ready 10 pick they are Of a rich gold
en- color and filled with material like the
meat of nut. Upon finding one in this
condition an ant bites through its slender
point of attachment and bears it in tri-
umph TO the nest.-N. Y Press
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MOSQUITOES.
Only bitches VIII Keep Away the
Mosquito and Use Oil.

The season Of the year to turn one
attention to the use of oil in stagnant
pools of water and the necessity OF
destroying growing weeds is at hand.
From the recent rains stagnant
pools of water have begun to form
and weeds, are springing up rapidly
in all sections of the city. making it
necessary to adopt measures of a
drastic nature to do away with these
breeding places before mosquitoes be-
gin to multiply by the millions.
BY Spreading crude oil m ditches
and around the edges OF pools of wa
ter breeding places of the mosquitoes
are done away with. thereby reducing
the number of these pests and making
il an easy matter to keep them out
of the house with screens.
Fortunately. disease germs them
selves do not fly They reach the I'M
side of the home and then the chill
dren through larger insects and those
insects are mosquitoes and flies,
Mosquitoes. like the common house
A.. are acknowledged by ply sicians
to be responsible for the spreading OF
typhoid fever and many other kinds
of diseases. Until comparatively re
cent years the mosquito, Ike the
house fly, though considered an irri-
tating discomfort was Thought 10 be
otherwise harmless. Even now, though
the mosquito is recognized to be a
dangerous disease carrier, few fam
lilies in these attitudes practically rec
ognize it as such. While it may be
impossible to exterminate the mos
ouitoes. yet this danger and trouble
may be greatly lessened by the prop
err use of screen doors and window
screens.
In this day of inexpensive screens
and wire cloth there is no excuse foi
an householder of even moderate
means being without screens, whicf
| add so much 10 the comfort, health
and security of tue home, The un
screened house is dangerous thing
and screens on windows and outside
doors are an excellent investment
| from several points of view - Houston
| Post
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FOR PROHIBITION.
Temperance Address To Be Feature of
Grange Field Meetings.

state Master c. S. Stetson of the
Grange has arranged for series of
field meetings commencing August 9Th
and will have corps of able speakers
for the work. one of the most prom
lnent features will be an address on
the necessity of keeping prohibition in
the constitution one address will be
given on the subject at each meeting.
Hon. Andrew Elliott of Gault. Ontario.
viii be one of the speakers on this SUBJ
Ject. Following is a full list of the
places and date of meetings.
Aroostook County, at Eaton, Aug Q.
Iat Houlton; Aug. 10: Penobscot. Oro-
no, Aug. Il; Washington. Columbia
rails, Aug II; Hancock. Bluehill. Aug.
IA; Piscataqnis, East Dover. Aug. Is;
Somerset, Lakewood Aug. 16: Frank
I'm, Phillips, Aug. Is; Cumberland.
odd Fellows Park, Aug. 10: oxford.
South Paris, Aug. %; York. ossipee
Lake. Aug. 23; Sagadahoc. Topsham
fair grounds. Aug. "a. Lincoln
Aug. rs; oxford, West Baldwin. Aug,
rs; Knox. Hope. Aug. 20: Waldo. Cen
tennial Park, Aug. 30: Kennebec. To-
gus. Aug. 81.
The speakers will be Hon. Andrew
Elliott, Gault. ont: b. Walker Me-
Keen. State lecturer Parcels Post:
Hon. Howard Davies. Yarmouth. on
Direct Primary Law; C. M. GaIlnn
ISkowhegan, Kingsbnry Piper d. r
SNOW and W. NJ. Trip. will also tank
oil the direct primaries. State Master
Stetson will talk on the suhi.c, ~
good roads.
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STENCilED APPLES.

Tho landscape gardener Is not the only
individual privileged persistcntly to improve
upon nature the fruit grower also exercises
his ingenuity in many ways. Any one who
wants supply of apples bearing his fam
fly crest may send an illustration of it te
certain growers at Montreuil. In France. and
he will receive in due course the decorative
frlit. e-+4+s
The desired end is, attained by growing
the apples in paper bags, which arr
slipped on when the. fruit is about he size
of a walnut. Being thus sheltered from the
sun, the apples do not color as they swell
and when fully grown sim remain green OF
yellow. As soon as they reach their maxi
mum size the bags that cover them are
replaced by others on the side of which
the desired crest coat of- arms has beer
cut out like a stencil The sun can now
penetrate to that part of the apple exposed
and redden lit thoroughly, so that when the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-18

All the same, there are times and
seasons when some of the missions
and settlement houses, in front of
which most of these league fountains
are stationed, wish mildly that they
u ere away. The ubiquitous street b5y
has discovered in these Same fountains
ia beautiful source ofe amusement.
First, he steals some paper bags from
the corner grocery. Then he fills these
with water at the fountain. Then
"Bim, Splash" and the unsuspecting
missionary or settlement worker inside
gets a shower from one of the bags,
which, with its top closed in tight
little twist, to keep the water from
splitting till it strikes its mark, Is
deftly hurled at his or her head
through the open window. The Flor
ence Crittenton Mission has suffered
most from this, but the superintend-
ent has never asked to have the foun-
tain taken away. The league officers
can her "a long suffering angel"
II costs no small sum. by the way
to keep these fountains running. Sew
enty-five dollars is the cost of main
tanning one fountain for season. 1t
&c much more expensive TO erect a
bubble" fountain than TO install the
other sort, and the league isn't as
sure as it once was. either, that these
are the most sanitary sort. They would
be If most children and some Thought
less elders did moi invariably wipe off
the place where the water comes out
with their grimy hands. But as OBJ
seryation shows that they GENERALLY do
this, the league has its doubts about
bubble fountains Exchange.
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wife woke me and said it was all over.
so we went out.
Reaching the car | handed her in.
and then | reached into my well re
membered pocket for the switch key.
1t was not there But / had plenty
of pockets, and | went through them
with increasing speed and emergence
Of the eye balis-you know how it is
when you're sure something that isn't
in your pocket really is there.
Ny wife was patient and advised
me not TO get excited never get
excited Just stay excited.
| went back into the theatre and
with the aid of an usher searched all
around the vicinity of the place we
had sat. Nothing doing. They turned
out the lights in the middle of the
search, anyway. If there is anything
superlatiyely uneanny II is the inside
Of a theatre after the crowd has gone.
The baldhead landmarks and the
other things YOU have seen every time
yoil woke up are not there 1t rs like
trying to find the site of a house by
a street number after the town has
burned down.
| went out again and reported. Then
] ran wildly to a garage and asked for
help They told me TO take off the
switch, turn the--but | didn't under
stand word after that. so | can't re-
member. / remember only the air
not the words at all. futile boy was
sent with me. Midnight had come and
the streets were nearly deserted My
wife sat like Patience on a monument,
smiling at grief. But there are smiles
and smiles.
I'm going TO carry the switch key
after this said my wife.
We went home in street car after
embalming the car in lavender leaves
and eamphor balls.
Next morning / went to the garage
and bought a quart of switch keys, and
now if you can go through my pockets
without finding one in each YOU are
lot brighter than | am.
/ would much rather have switch
KEY without an automobile than an
automobile without switch key. The
latter is so much more easily taken
home If you lose the car than the car
is to take home If you lose the switch
KEY.
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coNFEpERATEs in CONGRESS
outnumber the Men Who Wore the
Blue.

Fifty wears after the first guns Of the
Civil war sounded the Congress OF the
United States is comparatively in control
OF the eonfederates. II the battle roll OF
the House and Senate were called today ii
would show more confederate veterans In
each branch OF Congress than survivors OF
the armies of the blue.
They are veterans of many battles and
survivors of many trying situations. In
the Senate there are six of these eonfeder-
ate warriors three OF them, Senator Bacon
of Georgia and Senators Johnston and
Bankhead of Alabama were captains in the
southern ranks the others, Senator Mar
TN of Virginia Thofntdn OF louisiana and
Tnlmsn of South CAROLINA fought either as
priyates in the regular array or as members
of cadet corps that were enrolled for active
service
in the House of Representatives there are
eight ecHfederates. including Brig Gen.
George w Gordon OF Tennessee Mai.
Charles Nj Stedman of North Carolina,
Capt. John Lamb of Virginia and William
Richardson OF Alabama. The other eonfed-
crates include Representative Talbot of
Aiafylend. Rueker OF Colorado, Taylor OF
Alabama and Estopinal of Louisiana.
The oplv confederate general in Congress
is Representative George Washington Cor
dor of Tennessee. AT the recent confeder-
ate reunion at Little Rock, Ark. Gen. Cor
don was a prominent figure. His history Is
a striking one He was captured three times,
dangerously wounded once, and slightly
wounded several times was in every impor
tant battle participated in by the Tennessee
troops, and was finally taken prisoner and
removed TO Fort Warren, Mass, where he
was held until three months after the war
was concluded.
Two men in the House of Representatives
Capt John Lamb of Virginia and Mai.
Charles NJ. Stedman of North Carolina
were with the 1900 nfederates who fought
the battle of Bethel, the first battle of the
war. and were stin fighting with the army
of northern Virginia when Lee laid down
his arms OF Apponattox April 9, 1865. The
records show that only II men enjoyed this
distinction.
Senator Martin of Virginia. like Senator
Johnson, went into the ermy as a boy
member of military school brigade. Sen
ator Martin was II years old and student
at the Virginia military institute when he
was enrolled with the students OF that
school as a private in the confederate army.
lie served throughout the last year of the
war until Lee laid down his arms in April,
1S65.-Washneto Dispatch to New York
Herald
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EVER USEFUL KEROSENE.
Interesting and Helpful Ways of APP
plying the Fluid.

AS great many accidents occur
through the use Of Kerosene it should
be used with great care. Great care
should be used in looking after lamps.
The lamps should be filled every
morning, but not too full, as heat ex-
pands the oil. Never let lamp burn
down more than half way, because if
ii burns down too far an explosion is
liable to occur.
Kerosene is very good for other
things besides fuel. 1t is an excellent
remedy for burns.
In cleaning shellacked floors use a
sup of Kerosene to a pail of luke
warm water. Hot water spoils the
varnfsh. Wipe with a mop or soft
cloth.
Clean zinc with hot soapy water
and wipe with a cloth dampened in
kerosene.
Wipe hatirons with cloth damp
ened in kerosene TO keep them from
sticking.
Kerosene is fine for taking finger
marks from furniture and paint. II
kerosene is spilled on a carpet. put
wheat flour over it and let it stand
a few days and then brush it off.
For removing rust. there is nothing
equal to kerosene.
On wash day, put one-quarter OF
cake of soap in the wash boiler ana
then stir in one-half a cup of kero-
sene: put in the white clothes. which
are not much soiled and boil fifteen
minutes, then rinse. The kerosene
dissolyes the dirt and whitens the
clothes without injury to the clothes.
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Most Common Skin Disease

A great medical authority says that
eczema is the most important, most
annoying and most common OF all SKIN
troubles; that one third of all skin dis
eases are eczema in some form, ana
that proper treatment will always re-
lieve and cure it. Sometimes II Is
called salt rheum. moist letter ana
various other names. The best known
treatment is to first stop the itchihg'
and then proceed to heal up the sores.
That is exactly what Cadum' the new
remedy does, and it acts so quickly
that relief is felt as soon as 1t is ap-
piled. Try a 10-cent box, and II your
trouble is eczema Cadum viii help
you Immediately. 1t is also good for
redness. pimples, blotehes. rash, sealy
skin, rougmess, ehaflngs, acne, sores.
ulcers, eruptions, hives, letter, itch,
herpes psoriasis. rineworm. etc
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SEASONED" PIPES AND NEW.
Medical Authority Points Out Dancers
of the Old Sweet Kind.

The wife depicted we think. some
years ago by "Punch') who thought
TO delight her husband by throwing
away all his dirty old tobacco pipes
and replacing them by a clean new
one was, il is highly probable. doing
him after all good turn. saws The
Lancet Most smokers of the pipe
admit that pipe is not agreeable to
smoke until il has been well Sea
soaed by several Smokes" anu hence
the We'll burned, dark colored, oil
laden pipe is, as a rule, highly cher
ished accessory TO the tobacco habit.
II would appear to be clearly demon
strated, however in an interesting
article by DR. J. d. Reckitt contrib
uted to our columns, that the sea
soaed pipe may be poisonousiv sat
urated with oils. be these nicotine.
pyrfdin, or other toxic substances
which the chemist has detected from
time to time in the condensed prod
ucte Of tobacco smoke. Dir. Reckitt
was puzzled for some time about the
cause Of the breathlessness of a pa
tent the symptom having been SUI
fered for some considerable time. The
condition was aggravated on going up
stairs or ON hurried walking. The
patient could not draw complete or
comfortable breath, and in spite of a
rOhust and healthy appearance the
dysrnoea persisted and caused some
anxiety At length an old friend"
was suspected as the cause OF the trou-
bic liz the shape of very dark col
ored briar which he had smoked on
~ ta1 tuhiIa no
baccn he affected was described as Il
powerful brand. The suspicion seemed
well founded, fer on discarding the
in the condition OF the patient
set in He expressed himself much
better. there was little or no breath
iessness even when going upstairs,
and he himself was convinced that
the trouble had been caused by smolt-
ing n foul pipe Finally, within a
few months of abandoning the foul
pipe he reported himself as practically
cutie we'll and enjoying life. freed as
he was from the distressing dyspnoea
from which he had suffered for so
many years. Though he felt bound
to give up his pipe. he consoled his
tobacco hunger with n dozen Turkish
cigarettes daily, which did not APP
pear to do him any harm. The case
is Of Interest, inasmuch as the sea
soned pipe is preferred by most
smokers because ii gives a cool. I'M
irritating. good Favored smoke. ana
yet in spite of these qualities the prob
ability IS that such smoke is stored
with larger amount of toxic sub
stance 1t is we'll known. Of course,
that tobacco juice expressed or distil-
led by heat developed in the usual
method of smoking is very poisonous.
There Is the example Of a drunken
student who was given a dram to
drink into which his fellows had
poured the juice from their pipes
The result was fatal Then. again,
children have been poisoned after W
ing an old tobacco pipe for blowing
soap bubbles In. all cases one of the
prominent SYMPTOMS is difficult
hrea thing N Y Tribune.
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SMALL BUT MIGHTY.
A Very important Thing to the Motor
ist Is His Little Switch Key.

strickland Gillian in Chicago Newso
When automobiles were invented or
otherwise unfortunately discovered
Providence so ordained that the whole
mass of iron. steel brass. rubber,
leather. copper, wood and fabric
should be at the mercy of dinkey
little thing about as big as a vermi-
form appendix.
That is the switch key.
The man with a whole automobile
that would look perfectly good to the
naked or draped eye at a hundred
yards is as sounding brass or a tink=
ling evmhal if he have no switch key.
do not know just what it is, or
why. though / have used one for three
years. The entire viscera OF an auto
mobile of anv make, particularly that
of my own, is to me as darkest AFRICA
before Stanley or Livingstone went
into il. But |, know that a switch
key is necessary. ! even know where
you stick the switch key To do the
| most good. But beyond that | know
nothing.
| One night | went to the opera.
| went in my car. Did | take my Wife?
! Foolish question: Why should man
go to the opera and take a car If not
as chauffeur for his wife? There are
so many other things one can do with
| a car besides go TO OPERAS with them
4 extracted the switch key Nom Its
aperture and put it into my top coaf
pocket / was restless and so | stirred
a good deal in my sleep during the
| first eight or nine acts, and | remem-
! Der picking up my top coat four OF
| five times from the floor. Then my
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A WONDERFUL PLANT.
a Thorn Tree of Nicaragua Defies the
Depredations of Ants.

one of<the most annoying difficulties
encountered by those who cnltiva 10
plants In the tropics arises from the den
relations of leaf cutting ants. These IT.
lie creatures march in armies, thousands
strong, and on coming to a. plant that
suits them they ascend ii and spread 10
every leaf. Each ant then ships off with
his sharp Jaws a piece of leaf bigger than
himself, and swinging it over his head.
joins procession of his fellows similarly
laden and hound for the nest New ones
appear to take their places and In a
short time not leaf remains. There is
one species of plant that employs a
, "body-guard" to protect itself against
these Invaders
This is species of acacia, known as
the Bulls horn thorn tree native to
Nicaragua. This name is given it by rea-
son of pair of hornlike thorns situated
at the base of each compound leaf All
but the youngest thorns are found to be
followed and inhabited by colonies OF
ants These are smaller than the leaf
cutters but better fighters. and fiercely
resist any entertainments on their do
mains. They are capable of inficting a
severe sting. so that even the higher ami
mails give them a wide berth.
AS fast as the thorns become large
enough for occupancy the ants bore into
one of pair and proceed to hollow il
OUT by eating the sweetish pulp within
ieaVlng the hardened wall They bore
through the partition that separates the
'horhs at the base, and so continue the
cavity into the other thorn. In this way
one entrance is made to answer for boil
rooms OF their house. Once established
IN their new quarters they raise their
young and make il their home.
1t may be seen that it is OF great inn
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sankrupt's Petition for, Discharge.

In the matter OF
George Boynton In Bankruptcy
To the Hon. Clarence, Hale, Judge of the
District Court Of the United safes Tor
the District of Maine.
George Boynton of Augusta In the
County OF Kennebec, and state of Maine,
in, said District. respectfully represents,
that on the 10th day of July, 1910. he was
duly adjudged bankrupt under the Acts
lof Congress relating. TO bankruptcy; that
he has duly surrendered all ms properly
complied with all tins reqpFsments OF
Said Acts and of the, orders, OF Court
touching, his bankruptcy.
Wherefore he pfas sIhatthe may Do
decreed by the Cdnlrts ~ avas3 full dis
charge from ali debts provabre against
| his eState--uuder said bankruptcy acts,
except such debts as are excepted by law
1r pate sHt this fitf aay II July. A D lsn
svt se,r. e....s yGEQRSstE BoY !, TON,
Order of Notice, Ihsrspn.
On the 18th day Of J,lty. A.sD. 1871, on
reading the foregoing petition. 1T is
Ordered by the Court. That a hearing
! August, A. d. 1911, before said Court al
| Portland, In said District at ten o'clock
| in the .forenoon arid that nofiee thereoi
be published in Daily kenrlebec Joufnai;;
| a newspaper printed in said District ana
! that ali known creditors, and ether pei,
/ sons in interest, may appear az me saiu
/ time ana place, ana SNOW 20 Sgid nati
1 they have, why the prayer Oh saiu ppt'T
/ TONER should not be granted -.
/ And II is further Ordered by the coar,;
| That the Clerk shall send by mail 70 All
anS this nrder addressed TO them at their
! places of residence as stated. 49,
Witness the Honorable Clarence lar se. h are;
! 1900 ~ Portland. in aid District, son
iths he lfth day Of Islys a, 2, =, 1sil eauv
! IA ,true copy Of petition ana order
Attest: JAMES E. HEwEYs Clerk
49, =
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