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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-30
SUICIDE is FEARED.
Aleernon Burnham Leaves Hat. Coal
and Note Beside Saco River.

Biddeford, Me-. May 29.-The find
ing of his hat and coat to which was
pinned piece of paper with the words
Good bye" on the bank of the Saco
river at Edgecomb point. near his
home on Ferry Road. today was re-
sponsible for the belief that Algernon
Burnham. aged %. committed suicide
during the night. although no reason
for such an act was known. He was
In Portland yesterday but returned
and was seen early in the evening.
AT that time he appeared unusually
detected. A search for his body was
begun.
In one of the pockets was found
note addressed to a brother, Elroy
Burnham, reading as follows:
Dear Roy: ! am tired of life and
discouraged. (Signed) Algie"
The note was written with lead
pencil in a firm hand. Burnham was
engaged in the business of painting
and paper hanging with his brother.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-30
DEAD SEA WATER.
Its Density Is More Than Double That
of the Red Sea.

The Dead sea contains % per cent
of solid matter and is built for bulk
heavier than the human body.
Many believe that 1t is impossible
to swim in this sea. and even in Je-
rusalem ridiculous fables are told as
to the impossibility of bathing there
and that no animals or vegetation
can exist near its shores.
So far as swimming is concerned.
the excessive buoyancy of the water
simply renders it difficult to make
much Roadway. but swim is % u
feasible and enjoyable. Care should
be taken, however. not to let the
water get into the eyes.
Indeed, did Palestine belong to any
power but Turkey probably the north
ern shore of the Dead sea would be
a popular bathing station. No doubt
the chloride of magnesia which en-
ters so largely into the composition
of the water would be found to have
medical and curative properties
Perhaps a better idea of the dens-
ity of the water of this inland sea may
be realized from the following sta
tistics: In a ton of water from the
Caspian sea there are eleven pounds
of salt; in the Baltic, eighteen pounds
in the Black sea, twenty-s six pounds
in the Atlantic, thirty-one pounds
in the English channel. seventy two
pounds; in the Mediterranean, eighty
five pounds; in the Red sea, ninety
three pounds in the Dead sea, 17S
pounds.-World's Work.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-30
PISC ATAOUIS
FoxcRoFT.

The firm of Bearce e. Clifford of
Lewiston has the contract for build
ing the new concrete bridge across
the Piscataquis. The bridge will be
closed to teams June /.
E. o. Stoddard and family are oe-
cupying the Cakes house on Central
avenue. recently vacated by ]. A.
Wiles
o. l.. Higgins has purchased the
fine residence owned by George Bah
son on Winter street and is occupying
1t.
The Guild of the Congregational
church entertained the Lend a Hand
Friday evening in the chapel. The
following entertainment was listened
to with pleasure: Piano duet, Entire
Acte,' BONN, Miss Ruth. Miss Alice
Ham. vocal solo. MY Curly Headed
Baby" Clutsam. Miss Marjory Hall
plano solo, Theme Barrie" Chamina de.
Miss Ruth Day; vocal solo. THE
GYPSY Trail" Galloway, Everett Ham
readings by Rev. G. A. Merrill: vocal
solo, 'Felice.'' Lienrance, Miss Ethel
movies; piano duet. Symphony Sc
! lection Miss Day, Miss Ham. Re-
lfeshments were served consisting of
not rolls. salad, coffee, ice cream and
angel cake.
Mrs. A. t. Sander and party from
New YORK are occupying their camps
/ at Onawa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley Ham are oc-
cupying the upper part of w. s. Hams
lresidenee on Spring street.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-30
GARDEN UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
Woman in Mining Camp Had Neigh
bors Saving Dishwater.

Several South Side fiat dwellers. a
number of whom have stored away in
the recesses of their minds visions of
farms on which to end their days.
were discussing gardens and chickens
recently when one woman who had
passed several months in Nevada said:
Your theoretical gardens are lovely
but | don't believe there is one of you
who could coax garden the way /
saw enc coaxed in the West In the
little mining camp where I was i'm
INJURED for several months it meant a
twenty five mile trip every time the
water barrels got low. Yet in spite of
that handicap a woman in that camp
succeeded in raising few chickens
and having small patch of garden
men in the place.
She saved all of the waste water
about the place. dishwater was care
fully dumped into barrel and when
ever the garden needed 'irrigating' the
precious fluid was doled out in bucket
fuls. Others who lived near by be-
came interested and soon half a dozen
persons were saving water which 9TH
erwise would have been wasted, with
the result that a garden patch about
ten or twelve feet square soon sprang
into being. There were radishes.
beets. lettuce and other vegetables,
and the way that garden was tended
would have pleased the heart of Sec
rotary of Agriculture Wilson. The
chickens also prospered. as they were
fed the tops of the radishes and other
greens. kansas City Journal.
Germ3uy'S roma rlx hla prornar;t,. -
again revealed by statistics showing
that 100000 foreign workmen are en-
pioyed in the country. There are ap-
proximately eight hundred thousand
agriculturists. The importation of
these foreigners is necessary, owing to
the lack of German labor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-30
HOW TO REST.
Complete Relaxation Is Necessary I,
Refresh Brain and Body.

Make an effort not to make an eff
fort
Learn to dc nothing and think of
nothing.
There are very few people who
know how to rest. and this ignor-
ance. according TO a well-known medi :
cal man, accounts for much of the
modern nerve strain and insanity.
The average man spends his day
working, and when he comes home.
instead of resting. he begins to work
again. and work hard.
He reads, plays cards, gardens.
goes calling. is called upon, dresses
and hurries off to theatre or music
hall-does anything in fact. but rest
his brain and body.
Now all these things may be done
now and then beneficially. but when
they are made habit they are as
fatiguing as his daily work.
The only real rest he gets is when
he is sleeping
In other words, his brain and his
body are hard at it from the time he
rises in the morning until he gets
INTO bed again at night. But the
brain especially wants conscious rest.
When the brain is working 1t Is
producing toxins just as is the case
with the muscles. These toxins, or
poisons, have to be cleared out of the
body by rest, and to change ones
work does not do this. 1t only causes
more toxins to be formed.
The way to get real rest is as fol-
lows
Think about nothing; do not d.
rect your brain; let it wander.
DO not talk about anything that
requires mental effort.
Listen to simple conversation.
Discuss nothing that you feel
strongly about, or which worries you.
Make no plans.
Except when man is asleep there
is constant stream of ideas running
through his mind 1t is quite impos-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-30
THE PRESIDENTS PLANS
For Coming Fall Attracts Attention,
in View of the 1912 Campaign.

Washington. May 29-As having A
probable bearing upon a renominati ton
in 1912 President Tafts plans for
the coming fall are attracting I'm
usual attention The President is
rapidly accepting invitations to speak
in various parts of the country and
the indications are that he will make
q long swing through the West
The White House travel book al
ready shows engagements which will
carry the President into Kansas and
from there to Utah. Although no en-
gagements for stops in Nebraska or
Colorado have yet been made, it is
likely they will be-
On his Western trip the President
undoubtedly will talk about his ad -
ministration and what it has accom-
plished. 1t is said the trip may take
the President as far as the Pacific
coast
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-30

search for perfection il is the love of
elearness and reasona bleness and self
control: it is above all the love of per-
manence and of continuity. II asks of
work of art not that it shall be novel
or effective. but that it shall be fine
and noble. II seeks not merely to ex-
press individuality or emotion but to
express disciplined emotion and in
dividuality restrained by law. II
strives for the essential rather than
the accidental, the eternal rather than
the momentary-loves impersonality
more than personality, and feels more
power in the orderly succession of the
hours and the seasons than in vio-
lence. And it loves To steep itself in
tradition. 1t would have each new
work connect itself in the mind of him
who sees it with all the noble and
lovely works of the past, bringing
them to his memory and making their
beauty and charm "a part of the
beauty and charm of the work before
him.-kenyon Cox in Seribners.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-30
Memorial Service al The
UniyelsaIist Church.
Closing Of Course Of Lectures
|At 81. Agnes Catholic Church.
Leasing Of Land for Rifle Range.
Personals and Locals.

Memorial service was observed in a
union service held at the Universalist
church Sunday forenoon. The mem
bers OF Stephen Davis Post, G. A. r..
Women,s Relief Corps Sons of Veter-
ans. G. S. Haskell Camp. Ladies Aux
iliarX 10 Camp, and the members of
the Boy Scouts attended in a body.
The church, the auditorium of which
was over taxed in seating capacity,
was simply but effectively decorated
with flags. The Scriptures We're read
by Rev. E. *. Jordan of the Free Bap-
list church. prayer offered by Rev. n.
R. Pearson of the Methodist church.
Rev. r. S. Walker, pastor of the Uni
versalist church gave a strong sermon.
taking for the text Psalm "A. first verse
Music was furnished by the vested
choir of the church. assisted by DIR. e.
S. Coffin of the Free Baptist choir.
The course of lectures given at the
st Agnes Catholic church each eve
ming OF the week beginning Sunday.
May Il, closed Sunday. May 2s.. with
two lectures given by the Paulist Fa-
Their. the Rev. Bertrand L. Conway
of New York. who used for his SUBJ
iect in the morning internal Relig-
ion" In the evening subject why |
Am a Catholic" The purpose of the
lectures has been to explain the doc
trines of the Catholic church. During
the week questions have been deposit
ed in the question box at the door of
the church and were answered the fol-
lowing evening.
Mrs. Mary Marston of North Arson
and Mrs. S. L. Carpenter of Century,
Fla, arrived Monday for a visit with
their sister. Mrs. Nelson c. Smith.
Mrs w. S. Spaulding and daughter
Mamie and the Misses Gwendolyn and
Monday
A lot of land owned By l.. l.. Libby
and located southwark about a mile
from the village has been leased by
the State to be used as a rifle range
for the militia company recently or
ganiZed in this town. Work will be
begun at once in getting the ground
ready for use.
Miss Maud Bracket of waterville
arrived in town Monday to spend Me-
mortal day with her mother, Mrs
mary Bracket.
Alta Annis, the little daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Annis of Pal
myra. observed her seventh birthday
Saturday in happy manner by en-
tertaining a number of little friends
at her home all day, those from this
village being conveyed to and from
PALMYRA by Mr.. Annis. The day was
spent with games. Refreshments were
served in the afternoon.
Arthur Thompson of Unity, who has
recovered from a recent surgical OPP
Grafton for appendicitis at a Bangor
hospital, has been the guest for a few
days of his brother. Ernest Thomp-
son, Mrs. Thompson and daughter
Violet joined Mr.. Thompson here for
an over-Sunday visit with Ernest
Thompson and wife.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-30
TROUBLESOME ELECTRICITY,
Some Franks of the Electrical Jester
the Static Current,

The electric current which we use
for lighting our homes and driving
our trolley cars and electric run
abouts has troublesome cousin
named Static. who is always up to
some unexpected trick to tease or
brighten US. 1t is this same mysteri-
Gus fellow who turks in pussy's soft
fur. in the rugs and carpets, and
snaps and crackles with noisy laugh
ter when We stroke the cat or scuf
our feet over the floor This Same
fellow takes special delight in invad-
ing printing offices and bothering
pressmen. 1t is he who holds the thin
sheets of paper fast to the cylinder.
makes them adhere together and send
them flying about the inky rollers or to
the forms" or type pages where they
will do the greatest damage. He only
laughs and crackles with shrill delight
when the pressman swears and the
devil trembles with fear, Static cleo
tricity also likes to bother weavers
and spinners of cloth. He tangles the
threads. adheres to them so they stick
and break and does everything to block
the weaving and spinning machinery.
Not satisfied with these simple
pranks he takes particular delight in
trying to scare us to death during the
summer thunder showers.
1t has been fully explained that
static electricity differs from the kind
we use, in being stationary. The kind
we use travels at the rate of $4,000
miles second and is always in mo-
ton. Static collects on the surfaces
Of things and hides until it can cut
UP some caper or jump off cloud and
frighten us.
Everybody has noticed how friction
generates static electricity, whether on
the back Of petted cat or on a rub
bed glass or gutta- percha rod, or at
the fingers ends of person who has
vigorously shuffled his feet over a dry
carpet. Sparks can often be drawn
from swiftly moving belts on machin-
cry, and in weaving and spinning pro-
cesses the fibers sometimes accumu-
late troublesome electric charges.
There is a method of neutralizing
the static electricity generated in cot
ton and paper mills. printing press
rooms and other places. It consists
of a transformer stepping up an al
ternating current to 10000 or 10000
volts ard an inductor composed Of fine
steel wires encased in hard rubber,
and arranged with its points placed
above the web or object in which
the static electricity is to be neutral
lied. Charges passing from the points
produce the desired effect
In the case of most printing Of
fees and weaving sheds where static
electricity is troublesome only at GER
tain times when the atmosphere is in
the right condition, it is usually pos
sible to arrange simple wire to the
machinery. connecting to the trouble
some parts either directly or by means
of small wire brush, and led to the
nearby water pipes which will eff
fectually ground the charge and scat
ter 1T so it can not affect the paper
or the running threads.-Houston Post.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-30
FLOWER GARDENS FOR POOR.
Woman's Municipal League Has Faith
in Cheering Effect.

The Woman's Municipal League of
New York city recently had its annual
luncheon in the Hotel ST. Denis. At
terward it looked at some pretty pic
lures and some that We're not so
pretty, shown by Mrs. Alice PAUL. sec
rotary of the National Plant, Flower
and Fruit Guild, which last year dis
tributed more than three hundred
punches of flowers to persons whose
paths don't lie in fiowery places.
The pictures yesterday were intend
ed to show what gardens it is possible
to grow in tenement back yards. even
in tenement windows,
One was a garden which for six
summers two boys had in tiny yard
surrounded by ugly buildings. in one of
New York's crowded districts. For
fifteen cents they had bought at a
junk shop two large vases. ito give a
touch of Italian elegance to their gar
den." Mrs. PAUL said. and then they
had spaded and sowed and weeded. and
for six summers their garden was a
spot of beauty in that unbeautful
'neighborhood The boys are grown
up now. But can't but think" she
said. that they are better citizens be-
cause of that garden"
Sandwiched in among the pictures OF
backyard gardens and country scenes
were views of dingy. cluttered tene-
ment rooms. One showed tiny girl
bending over a big washtub.
That's little Mona doing the family
wash because her mother is sick" said
Mrs. PAUL. Isn't that a dreadful
place? But you should have seen
Mona's face light up when l gave her
a bunch of flowers. Those children
do love flowers. The other day, down
in one of those streets. l met a tiny
child with something clasped in her
little hand. c.-..
1--we got five wheats from horse 9
dinner she said He won't miss them.
and I'll plant them In flower pot and
have a garden She had five grains
-oats-and they were to make her
garden. Think what one of the flow
er boxes we are citing. away would
mean to such a child" Ut
Mrs. Edward X. hewitt presided "a,
the luncheon.-N. Y. Tribune.
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can become a menace" says the bull
letin.
",fhe woman who refuses to give her
child red hot poker as toy has
no hesitancy in putting into its arms
the more dangerous because more in
sidious, plaything-the family cat
Under normal conditions the germs
of nearly all the epidemic and local
diseases thrive upon the family cat.
Even where the cat itself is not sub
ject to the disease il easily spreads
the contagion and occasionally does
both Thus in the case of diphtheria
| the cat not only has the disease itself
but also carries it upon the mucous
membranes and in the fur.
Influenza is spread broadcast by
fur and feet, and Hewlett recently has
shown that as distributor OF the
bubonic plague the cat vies in viru-
lence with the omnipresent rat
"Ringworm is spread in the same
| way. and germs find easy lodgment in
the thick hair, from which the stroking
hand quickly conveys them to the hu-
man body. The germs of typhoid and
| tuberculosis are distributed similarly.
as we'll as the more subtle and less
| understood germs of whooping cough,
measles, scarlet fever and smallpox,
This is more readily appreciated
| when we consider how quickly the cat
| is given az plaything to the lone
some child convalescing from some OF
| the contagious diseases.
ut may be suggested that the same
| argument applies to the dog and the
horse. This, we admit. although to a
smaller degree and with extenuating
circumstances. The horse is so val
liable as a domestic aid that its good
qualities outweigh the bad, and be-
sides in both the dog and horse the
possibility of contagion is diminished
greatly by the more frequent soap
| and water baths.
ut will be urged here by the cat
admirer that it is of value to man
since it keeps the rats reduced to liv-
able conditions We do not dispute
| this possibility. but the good rat
catcher is rare. The cat catches far
| more song birds and nestlings than
rats.
Both the cat and rat are unde Mat BILE
menaces to human life, and of two
evils why choose both? The Govern
| ment scientists declare that the cock
roach destroys the bedbug, but no one
hesitates on this account to destroy
| as many cockroaches as possible.
These accusations are all valid
against the family cat. but in much
| greater force against the midnight
prowler which devotes itself unre-
| STRANGELY to the collection of germs,
| the reproduction of it's kind and to
| making the night hideous with its
noises. Chicago Tribune.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-30
FELLOWSHIP.
The Growing Unanimity of True
Brotherhood Among Men Advancing
Dailv


When ministers of the various ortho-
dox denominations can pass peacefully
back and forth over the lines which were
once defended with shot and shell we are
notified in the most convincing way that
the days of UNCONVENTIONAL division and
hatred are numbered. Fifty years ago a
Methodist Armenian was separated from
a Congregational Calvinst by gulf al
most as wide and deep as that which in
the parable yawned between the rich
man and Lazarus 1t has been said
many times that the Indifference of the
man in the street to religious topics is d
sign of spiritual degeneracy: but surely
it is better to be Indifferent to the old
theological systems than to be interested
in them in way that would make a
man hate his brother Much of the re-
ligious zeal and even enthusiasm for mis-
sionaries was inspired by anger and con-
tempt for those who were supposed to be
subjects of divine dispieasure,-Ch
Register.
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CHINA.

LAkESIDE-Mrs. A. C. Bassett
entertained company Saturday and
Sunday from Portland and Dayton.
y. C. Bassett was in Augusta Mon
day on business.
Mrs. Ralph Estes and Mrs. Welcome
Reed were in Waterville and callers
Saturday at G. l.. Clark's.
J. B. Morrill, was in Augusta Sat
urddy.
Frank Tobey of Augusta has been
visiting with A. c. Bassett few
days.
Homar Hartshorn Is employed by
a. F. Hussey at work in the ceme-
terry Mt East Vassalboro.
Raymond Clark and friend were
were at Mrs. Orria Worths Saturday
and Sunday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-30
CHINESE ExAcTiTuDE.
Shortening of Dragons Wings On
Cloth Trade Mark Lost Sale OF
Goods

An English manufacturer of cotton
cloth had enjoyed large trade for
many years with "a rich Chinese i'm
porter at Hongkong. one day he
received letter stating the last ship
ment Was unstable and was. ther6x
fore, refused
The goods We're identical in quality.
size, weight and design to former or
ders. and what the trouble might be
no one could imagine. However, as
the shipment involved thousands of
dollars and the customers future
trade very much more. competent
man was dispatched from England.
This is what he found. To satisfy
the local trade, there had been print
Ted on each piece of cloth a good luck
sign, or what with US corresponds
to a trade mark This sign consisted
of the figure of a dragon. Hbout the
size of silver half dollar.
Continued use had so w6rn the
printing plate as to necessitHt<gs8 the
engraving of new one. TnI1 Res
apparently identical with It's sUtI -
but on actual measurements
to possess wings one eighth of iii {113
longer in the new than the old 8ix y
which was sufficient to queer <35S
goods with the retail buyers who 1f1&z
sisted they were no longer 6e{uS
served with the Simon pure artfc14 il
Evidently the Chinaman ha1
Just as good" idea developed
much higher degree than We
cans.-Popular Mechanics.
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New Postal Savings Stations.

Washington, May 29.-Postmaster
General Hitchcock designated today SO
additional postal savings repositories.
making the number to be in operation
before July more than 300. MIR. Hitch
cock still adheres TO his policy of
designating only second class post Of
fees, in the belief that thereby he is
extending the banking facilities of the
smaller communities. Among the Of
fees designated today which will open
for the receipt of deposits on June q,
are South Manchester, Conn, Saco.
Me. and Salisbury, Milford and Web
ster. Mass.
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THE DEADLY FAMILY CAT.
A Doctors Talk of the Diseases She
May Bring Into the Home.

1T is not difficult to quarantine the
child sick with scarlet fever or diph-
liberia. but the family cat goes where
1t pieases and comes when it likes
This was taken as the text of a SER
mon on animal pets as menace to
health delivered in the Health Depart
ment bulletin yesterday by DIR. Charles
B, Reed inventor of the cat gibbet,"
which is under construction as a
means of discriminating the dangerous
felines of the city.
The principal obstacle to general
and truthful realization of the dangers
connected with the domestic pet is
found to be the sentimentalists who
are unwilling to admit that anything
anlwhieh their affections are centred
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CAPITAL JOTTiNGS.

The constitutionality of the law passed
by the Massachusetts Legislature in
1907 directing that deposits in savings
banks and trust companies. unclaimed
for more than 30 years after the date
of the last deposit, and which claimant
was unknown, be turned over to the
state, was upheld Monday by the su-
preme court of the United States The
Provident Institution for Savings of
Boston attacked the law as unconstitu-
tional. The supreme judicial court of
Massachusetts held 1t was valid