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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-01

CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The naval collier Neptune failed to
make good the promise held out on her
Standardization trials and on the 4S-hour
trial run a short 1S knots was the best
she could maintain. The contract calls
for IA knots minimum
The first bale of Louisiana's new
crop of cotton was sold Monday at
New Orleans for II cents pound. The
bale weighed $40 pounds and was pro-
duced at Rayne. La. This cotton ar
rived nine days earlier than the first
bale of last seasons crop
From Concy island to the Pacific coast
on horseback is the trip which is be-
ing undertaken by the Alternately boys,
the two little veterans of the saddle
who last year rode into New York from
Oklahoma. 1t was one minute after
midnight of Tuesday. Aug. l. when
Louis Alternately, IL years old, and his
brother. Temple four years his junior,
started on the trip which will take
them 5000 miles. If they make the ride
in so riding days and abide by certain
conditions they will receive $500. The
boys have agreed that they will not
eat or sleep md II a root during the
ride. 81 yFT W. = FL
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-01

man to right of us, German to left of
us, German from the chambermaid
and German from the wayfarer who
pointed out the path--it was borne in
upon me that those teachers of my
youth who mad SO often and SO earn
estly informed me that a knowledge OF
European languages was a necessary
preliminary to the delights of Europe
an travel spoke either n ignorance or
in guile. With infinite pains and un-
willingness l had applied myself in my
school days to the study of the Ger
man speech. and now, when l came TO
travel with it. found that an hour or
so with dictionary would have suf-
feed for all my needs
The truth is that, as far as the ordi~
nary tourist is concerned. the language
difficulty Is greatly overestimated
Even were the race of interpreters
swept off the face of the earth tomor-
row some fifty words-so they were bur
wisely chosen ard adapted to his
needs-would carry a traveller in COM
fort from one end of country to the
other Fifty words--nouns. most OF
them. with such exceptions as please"
and thank you" and how much -
would procure him practically every
thing he wanted for his daily use
from stamp to a glass of beer.
l am not at all sure that fifty Is not
an excessive allowance; there are SO
many words and phrases that at first
sight seem indispensable and on sec
ond thoughts prove quite superfiuous
A railway ticket for instance: you viii
get one all right If YOU turn up at the
booking office knowing the name OF
your station. Nor is there the slight
est necessity to explain in a foreign
tongue that you are going to start and
would Ike to have your bill. Appear
in the hall with yoGr hat on; you will
not be allowed to leave the place with
out your bill-London Mail.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-01
MYSTERY OF SEA.
How Do Marine Mammals, Whales and
Seals, Obtain Fresh Water?

Marine mammals, warm blooded, air
breathing, giving birth to living young,
the seals and whales. the latter never
leaving the ocean. have no apparent
resource of fresh water. which is abso-
lutely necessary to them. except by alb
sorption, osmosis through their skin
and blubber. This skin, and blubber.
the latter the inner skin. extraordinar-
lily thick. elastic and soft. doubtless
imbibe the fresh water from the salt
ocean. excluding the salt. much helped
by the pressure of the great depths IF
their sounding.
Had they an extra stomach into
which they conveyed sea water oy me
action of a special secretion pre-
cipitating the salt, leaving the water
fresh that would be another way. II is
improbable.
In descending and ascending those
ocean depths they must swim oblique-
ly down, to make 1t easy for them, as
their bodies with the air In the lungs
necessary to life in their soundinss
are lighter than the water The whale
also has considerable arterial blood in
reserve however, by a great develop
ment of his arteries. Thus 1t seems
as If the skin and blubber of the whale
select, as animal membranes do in
their instances. the water fresh from
the ocean brine, by the law of osmosis.
These animals must have this fresh
water in great abundance according to
their size, or the functions of digestion
and of excretion would be as impossi-
BILE as in ourselves. And, again, the
flesh and substance of these swimmers
has no more sadness than that of land
animals.
In a somewhat extensive examination
of encyclopedias and books of natural
history no reference has been found to
this apparent absence of water drink
ing and noningestion of water by these
| sea monsters. The proper absorption
| of pure water by seals is more difficult
| of explanation owing to their thick fur
and the oily exudation upon the surface
| of the skin.
1t seems to have been generally or
usually overlooked by naturalists ana
writer's on animal life. I have seen 1t
on record that sailors cast away In
open boats without water swim a while
sometimes in the sea to lessen their
thirst.-A. w Nelson in New YORK
Sun,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-01
WHiTEWAsH FOR STABLE.
Tested Recipe That Should Be Freely
Used in Barns,

Every year we have repeated re-
quests for formulate for preparing
whitewash. The government formula
has been repeatedly republished in
these columns. BY way of variety.
here is a plan advocated by the I'LL
nois experiment station.
Take a half bushel of unslaked lime
of good quality. slake it with boiling
water (cold viii do) cover durin the
process to keep in steam. and add wa
ter as the process goes on To do this,
the lime should be placed in a tight
barrel and water enough added to
partly cover the lime. Never cover the
lime entirely with water. else the
shaking process will go on too SLOWLY
Soon after the water is added the
Jumps Of lime which are exposed to
both air and water begin to crumble
and soon the whole mass begins to
steam. More water should be added
aud the barrel kept covered. After the
shaking process is over several pals
of water should be added. and the
whole thoroughly stirred. This pix
ture should be strained through fine
sieve before placing in the barrel to
which the pump is attached. if neces
sary. more water may be added to Sc
cure mixture which the nozzle will
deliver well. The contents of the bar
rel or bucket must be kept we'll agitat-
ed. for the lime tends to settle upon
the bottom. The spray must be fine.
and not allowed to play upon one place
until the wash begins to run. When
applied with brushes. a slightly heavier
wash can be used. as il is generally
we'll rubbed down. Light coats fire.
quently applied are better than heavy
ones, as the latter are more apt to
scale off While still wet light coat
seems to have failed in it's object but
when dry. the whole becomes perfectly
white. One bushel of lime will make
thirty gallons of whitewash. Many
formulas for making whitewash are
published, involving the use of salt. oil
grease. glue. rice, etc, together
with the boiling of the material at diff
ferent stages of its preparation. These
are too much involved for the ordinary
man besides taking too much time.
The addition of a small quantity of
salt and oil Is said to increase the life
of the whitewash. If convenient, they
should be added. but boiling is not
essential where light coats are put on
often as indicated above. When once
understood, whitewash can be made
and applied with little trouble. yielding
a large return in the improved condi-
ton of the stable and the welfare Of
the stock-Kansas City Journal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-01
BASEBALL NOTES.

Manager Charles Doom of the Phila-
delphia National Baseball Club prob
ably will return to his home town
Wednesday from st. Louis. 1t is hop
ed that by that time the plaster cast
in which his broken leg was encased
Sunday will be sufficiently dry to allow
him to travel.
Members of the directors of the Ma
tional League will meet Tuesday at
Chicago to hear the appeal filed by
Sherwood Magee. left fielder with the
Philadelphia club who was suspended
for the rest of the season and fined $500
for attacking Umpire Finneran in
Philadelphia on July II. President
Lynch of the National League who
suspended Magee. will attend Presi-
dent Fogel of the Philadelphia club
Monday night said that Magee proba-
bly, would testify that he struck Fin
neran in self-defence. Members of the
Philadelphia team also will testify and
members Of the st. Louis club, which
Philadelphia played on the day of the
assault will appear.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-01
License the Only Issue.

cone thing I want to try to make
you see as it is" said she, with deer
earnestne ss. Some people will tell
you that if ytu should vote TO take
prohibition oct OF Names constitution
on the nth of September YOU would
still be a prohibition state 1t is true
that in that case you would awake on
the morning of the 18th Of September
still having statutory prohibition. but
how long do you think il would be be-
fore. encouraged by the vote that was
taken. YOU would hear the cry that
the people demanded the repeal of the
law 1t would not be more than SO
days before YOU would have an extra
session of the Legislature called to re-
pea. what statutory prohibition there
was and substitute license in its place
| So the question really is whether you
will have license or prohibition"
Mrs. Stevenson had barely finished
this sentence before the shrill toot of
an automobile was heard and the ma
|chine Of the Boston campaigners
swung down Water street and in be-
mind the Millken automobile. Mrs.
Stevenson led in three cheers fer the
automobile before continuing with her
remarks. The automobile of the cam
paigners is attractively decorated and
bears this inscription in white upon a
large blue banner: Vote No. for God,
Home and the State while upon
smaller banners upon the machine the
single word INC" appears conspicu-
ously The auto also carries an Amer
lean flag.
Mrs. Stevenson in conclusion touched
upon the reasons offered by people,
who said that they We're in favor of
license, and pointed out that about all
their reasons related to the things that
license prevented. 1t prevented selling
| to minors, it prevented selling on holt
DAYS, it prevented selling after hours.
There was nothing about the things
that it did, only about the things that
it lid not do, and these things that it
did not do and many more besides
could be accomplished by prohibition.
Laws Violated Under License.
The law is violated under license"
declared Mrs. Stevenson with emphasis.
| There is a law against selling to min
ors. but our workers have seen little
children come to the back doors of
saloons and leave pitchers, and jugs on
the steps, which were filled by the bar
tenders and a few moments later the
| children walked off with them
The speaker paid a strong tribute to
the work of the late Sheriff Pearson
and spoke of temperance speeches that
she had heard him make. Il am not
afraid of the active opposition to pro-
hibition in Maine, but | am afraid of
the stay at home vote. If you can get
it out I believe 1t is sufficient to win,
were her closing words.
Prof Nichols thanked the audience
for the attention. Mr. Reid led the big
lassemblage in the singing of "Ameri-
ca" and the successful rally was at an
| end.
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INTO PORT.
CONTINUED from Page one)

richly through an electric storm of un
usual severity, to be struck by light
ming and to escape with only the loss
of topmast, was the experience OF
the schooner Addie Fuller, which ar
rived here today from New York. The
lightning bolt, however, almost
brought death to stephen Robinson,
mate of the schooner, who was over
come by the lightning while at the
wheel. The shock threw Robinson
through the Fuller's after companion
way. where he remained for two hours
in a stuper. He had recovered con-
sciousness tonight, but was still in
serious condition. He is expected to
recover. The tempest was encounter
ed off Petit Manan early this morn
ing and the electrical display was one
10 awe the sailors, according to Capt.
Lindsay.
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Safe Treatment for Headache.

The rational treatment for headache
is to get at the cause, if possible, and
remove it. Headache is only symp-
tom of trouble somewhere in the sys-
tenn, and dosing with tablets or powders
containing acetanilid or other coal-tar
derivatives which stop the pain tempo
rarily but weaken the heart, is at once
unsafe and unwise. The headache may
come from your eyes, then good ocu-
list can help you at once with proper
eyeglasses; but if it comes with furred
tongue, loss of appetite, nausea, and
constipation, it is usually the result
of disordered digestion, or torpid liver,
and one or two doses of L. F. Atwood S
Medicine will speedily help you by
carrying off impurities and restoring
the clogged digestive organs to their
normal activity. In using this old re-
liable remedy, you take no chances of
weakening the hearts action.
It has a record of sixty years as a
safe headache remedy. The L. F.''
Medicine Co., Portland, Maine. -
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Over 5000 IIleaaI Saloons.

Pref. Nichols went on to deal with
the matter of illegal selling in Massa-
chusetts and said that 5006 search war
rants We're issued by the officers dur
ing the past year to search places
which had been suspected of the Illegal
sale of liquor. In addition to the 2S0o
legalized saloons we have these 5006
places suspected of Illegal selling"
said he. We have more Illegal selling
than you do in Maine in addition to
the licensed traffic
He then took up the argument that
the state profitted by license and that
a certain revenue was derived from the
legal sale of liquor under license. He
said that although Massachusetts dur
ing the past year had received s3,240,-
900 se from licensed saloons 1t was de-
clared by the committee appointed 10
iauuire into the high cost of living that
the cost of the pauperism and crime
directly attributable to the liquor traf-
fic in Massachusetts was at least sl0,-
100000
The liquor traffic is the direct en-
eniy of the tax payer of the land. Is il
common sense 70 license man to sell
liquor and lock man up for buying
1t and then tax the people for taking
care Of him 2" inquired the speaker.
He then went on to the local option ar
xument that under the provisions of tina
kind OF regulation you can never have
dram shop where the people do not wan
one You cannot hurt one town with
out iniuring another" said he. Cam
bridge has voted no license for years
nevertheless in the last year about ~
Cambridge men We're arrested who wer
found drunk in Boston. and altogether O
the arrests in Boston 1900 were of peopl
from outside the city who became intox
Gated in Boston"
"Do not be deceived by this idea
regulating the liquor traffic by any meth
DDS devised by man. OF all saloons hat
I've respectable kind the wcrst, II we ar
going to have the deyiI Iwant him In hi
Igoper garb."
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| Prof. Nichols then stopped for mo
ment to pay his respects to statement
| that he heard made in front of hote
in Belfast to the effect that the Boston
/ carnpaigners were sent here by the Mass
achusetts liquor interests, which he char
acterized as a deliberate falsehood. He
quoted ,Johr Mitchell, the distinguished
abor leader, as saying that the greatest
of all evils that ever fell upon the hui
man race, the greatest foe to men. .wo-
men and children. was the liquor traffic.
A Campaign Chestnut.
The speaker went on to say that he was
opposed to the liquor traffic because IT
was the one particular business that
made a pauper at one end and million
aire at the other. He then went on to
pay his respects to an article which had
appeared in the Portland Argus recently,
which pretended to describe prohibition
conditions in Kansas at the present time.
He said he had written to Kansas about
the article in question which the Argus
had commented upon editorially, and had
learned that it was written q years ago,
the man who wrote it had been dead Is
years and the Kansas paper in which it
for II years. They are taking men from
the graveyard to try to beat us with" he
declared
He concluded with a strong appeal to
Maine to spike the old flag of prohibition
to the mast head through and through
at the election in September and thus
stand by her homes and give encourage
ment to the temperance workers in other
states.
Mrs. Reid followed with touching
and appropriate solo. when Fellow
Sees 4 Fellow Cursed by Liquors
Blight" The song was of Mr.. Reds
own composition and was very eftee-
lively rendered. At this point. as the
stalled machine had arrived, Hon
Charles A. Milliken placed his ma
chine at the disposal of the campaign
ers and ii was run into the center of
the square. 1t was from this automo-
bile that Mrs. Katherine Lent Steven
son. president of the Massachusetts, w
c. 7. u, made her brief but forcefGl
appeal as a clincher to the arguments
which had already been SO well driven
home by Prof. Nichols. She was greet
ed with loud cheers as she arose TO
sneak.
In opening she declared that because
she came from Massachusetts was one
Of the reasons why she was interested
N Names liquor question. There were
no barriers now between states and
particularly in moral ques-
tons, not even the ocean. What affects
one home for veal or woe affects all
homes She said that she was asham-
I'D of the fact that Massachusetts made
il possible for Maine to have an illeg-
al traffic in liquor.
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WITNESS WHITES READING
Had Wide Range, Evidently Quail
tying Him for Legislature.

Washington, July 21.--Charles A
White, after running the gamut, from
street car conductor to member of the
Legislature. confessed to receiving
money to vote for William Lorimer
for tie United States Senate, began to-
day TO re-tell his story before the Sen
ate Lorimer committee. He was the
first witness at the previous LorimeT
investigation. His examination Is ex-
pected to consume three or four days
Explaining that he wished to show
the source from which White. who is
not more than 30 years of age OBJ
tanned his food for thought, Attorney
j. II Marble for the committee asked
the witness what ne was reading al
the tine he was elected to the Legis-
lature. White mentioned these:
Laws on high finance exposure in
ma gazine articles. which White char
acterized as "a pretty good piece OF
work: The Jungle" by Upton st
Clair exposing the stock yards. "splen
did riece of work." four volumes o
Roman history about the Carthagin
ians. the Syrians, and that class o
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-01
Tutt|e-Brown Colony Again
In the Lime Light,
Confess 10 Larceny Of Goods
From Unoccupled House.
Sudden Death OF Mrs. Victor Spill
Ter Of kthens..Motes.

The Tuttle- Brown colony of West
| Athens is again in the lime light. This
time it is for larceny. Ernest Brown
and Peter futile were arrested Sat
| urday and given hearing before
Trial Justice j. r. Holman in Athens
and bound over to await the action of
the grand jury. Being unable to pro-
cure $500 bonds each they were placed
in the county Jail Friday Sheriff
Mooers and Deputy Burrill of Hart
land were driving from Athens to Sol
on when they saw along the road va
rious household articles such as dish
es and clothes. They rode on until
they came to an unoccupied house in
which Elmer Jones of Scion had his
goods stored. They went in and found
that the clothes, dishes and furniture
Were scattered about and evidently
some had been taken. They We're
able to trace tracks back to the Tut
tie Brown settlement and there re-
ceived evidence enough to warrant the
arrest of Tuttle and Brown. The two
respondents. after being placed in Jail
confessed stealing the goods from the
house.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Taylor left
Saturday on their bicycles for Moose
head lake. From there they will take
a canoe. going around the lake. They
will then canoe down the st. John
river. They will arrive home in about
two weeks.
Mrs. Frank King and daughter, Dor
otny. will go Tuesday to Linton. y.
B.. where they will spend month
with Mrs. Kings mother. Mrs. Annie
Demons.
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stuff" Ingersoli's complete works;
Bryan,s "Commcner Taylor's Life
Pictures" Appeal to Reason So
cialist publication; various labor mag
azines and the daily newspapers OF st.
Louis.
The witness said that before he was
elected to the Legislature he heard of
several men who took brides and then
exposed the bribers. He said he told
his supporters during the campaign
that If he was elected he would eX-
pose any corruption at Springfield, but
he denied saying he would take the
bride in so doing.
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WHY THE TEETH DECAY.
Here's One Authority Who Lays II to
Lime Starvation.

The almost universal decay of the
teeth is proof positive that our natien
is suffering lime starvation. 50 per
cent of the school children of Louis
VILE have badly decayed teeth.
Our dentists prescribe tooth washes
and tooth pastes, advocating local
hygiene fill cavities and fit bridges.
and all this time ignore the fact that
the bastic cause is lime starvation.
"Deptists will tell you that the sugar
you take in your mouth acts directiy
upon your teeth Dentists shut their
eyes to the evident fact that decay
starts first in the pulp beneath the IN
tact enamel and honeycombs the IN
terror tooth until the shell-liKe orldee
of enamel breaks beneath the strain
THE enamel gives absolute protec-
ton against the external attacks ~
acids and sugar. have immersed
sound teeth for months in solution Oh
fruit acids and sugar. and have been
unable to detect any erosion OF eithei
the enamel or the pulp.
axUban Won eat sweetmeats the SUI
gar with it's irresistible affinity Tor so
inhIe lime combines with the calciun
NJ the blood and the blood retaliates by
sapping the soluble from the pulp and
substance of the teeth. Druggists
make use of this affinity OF soluble
lime for sugar when preparing the
official syrup Of lime. Lime forms
q solution thirty-five times stronger IN
simple syrup than in the same guam,
t;t, If water. If you want your chill
dren TO have sound, white teeth, see
that their diet is rich in lime and poor
| in sugar. "-Dietetic and Hygienic Ga
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RAMMED BY SWoRDFlSH.
Four Shipwrecked Sailors Dory De-
stroyed and They Drown.


Newport, r. l.. July 3l-That Capt.
John Pettipard and three of the crew of
the Boston fishing schooner Nokomis.
wrecked in fridays storm. were drowned
after the dory in which they had sought
safety had been rammed by a swordfish
was indicated when the dory was picked
up today by the Gloucester sword fisher
man Lafayette. The boat was pierced
through and through by the fish's weap-
on, part of it still remaining in the hole
it had made The rent on the opposite
side was probably the means of filling the
little boat with water.
With the pierced dory of the Nokomis.
which was picked up by the Lafayette
about so miles southeast of No Mans
Land, there was also found two matches
from the Inflated vessel In the dory was
single oar.
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licensed DISPATCHES.

Justice Seabury of the New York su-
preme court Monday accepted the res
ignation of Sidney Harris as receiver
of the United Wireless Telegraph Co.
and the United Wireless Telegraph Co.
of New York and appointed Seldom Ba-
con of New York in his place. Mr.. Ba
con had previously been appointed re-
reiver in bankruptcy by Judge Hale
of the United States district court in
Maine. Mr.. Harris. in resigning, sug-
gested the appointment of Mr.. Bacon in
order that the best interests of the
company and of it's stockholders and
creditors might be subserved by one
receiver