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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-27
Well. What of Il?

Miss A. S. Mayhem. director of the
wonens gymnasium at the University
of wisconsin has put herself in the
real mean thing class by the held
declaration that 81 per cent. of the
freshmen goods of that institution
are knock kneed, while t3 per cent.
of them are fiat-footed.
Miss Mayhem makes no attempt to
give physiological reasons for the or
dinarily concealed defect Gf it be de-
fecD nor do the fair goods show
disposition to prove not guilty by pro-
cess of elimination; but the director
claims that the average weight of the
girls is 123 pounds, and that the aver
age height is 5 feet IL inches.
1t is declared in the report that of
So girls treated for curvature of the
spine, II were cured. and l. showed
marked improvement
And now. unless someone hobs up
TO give good and sufficient reason for
the advantage or disadvantage of be-
ing knoek-kneed or legged. we
wonder what the world has gained by
the revelation.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-27
Alaska Rivals San Diego.

After all we have heard about 400
degrees below froze-to-death. in Al
aska. this L. S. Navy Photographic
office dope about a shift in the Jap
anese current and straw hats in the
Arctic Is hard to believe. But that is
the talk Washington is sending out
and of course. being official, we are
expected to swallow il, hook, hob and
sinker Here is the substance of an
Associated Press dispatch from the
American seat of government:
Governor Clark of Alaska reports
TO the Navy photographic Office that
stray hats and linen busters are be-
ing now worn in Alaska during the
mil.lest winter on record. because the
Japan Current has unaccountably
switched toward the territory. This
remarkable condition, it is said may
make Alaska a winter resort.
"Our Investigations indicate the Al
askan climate is completely changed
possibly forever" said Captain Harry
S. Knapp, chief photographer. I'VE
now think the warm water Of the Jap
anese Current has been diverted to
Alaska, causing the unprecedented
warm weather. We think it possible
that the change will be permanent. A
thorough investigation is being made.
Reports are being received from ex-
perts in Alaska and from ocean navi-
gators
Perhaps that is the japanese in
vasion" which Congressman Hobson
feared
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-27
Coming Events

Feb. 27-E. Kennebec Pomona, River,
side.
Feb. 2S-Sagadahoc Pomona, Bowdoin
side.
March Especial Election of State Sem
ators in Androscoggin and WALDO Coun-
ties.
March 5-7-National Civic Federation
Washington, ID. G.
March 5-Waldo Pomona, Thorndlke.
March &c. Somerset Pomona, Ripley.
March 6-Androscoggin Pomona, Dan
vile Junction
March 7-Somerset County Veterans
and Ladies' Auxiliary. Skowhegan ,
March 9-Cumberland Pomona, Garoi-
March 1l-speciais Election of state Sem
ators in York County.
March 13-14-State Council, d. A. h.
Lewiston. a.
March 14-Excesior Pomona, Chester
Vile.
March Estate Board Of Trade, Au-
gusta.
March l5-Meeting Of Governor and
Council
March 2O-special Session of Maine
March 27-Maine Methodist Conference
at Lewiston
April 3-East Maine Methodist Cone
ference, Rockland
April 10.-State Republican Convention
Bangor. 60 :.
June 5-6-Divison Encampment, Sons oil
Veterans at Gardiner.
June 5-e-Mane Division. Sons OF Vet
Grams, Bangor.
June 1S-National Republican Conven-
| June 26-2S-Maine Pharmaceutical ASS
Convention, st. Andrews, N. B.
! July ae-Aug 2--The Young Peoples
Missionary Conference, Ocean Park.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-27
UNIFORM RANK, KNIGHTS OF
Pythias. King Company No. T. Regular
meeting first Thursday of each month,
Rec, w. FRANK HERRICk.
Capt. LEONARD Y. CLARK.
oet5 tn-th sat, If
KULlkORO.
Why It's Called the Kansas City of
Africa.

Recent riots in France provoked by
the incessant increase in the cost of
food, an evil by no means peculiar To
France. have supplied the French
colonial journals with still another
opportunity to sing the praises of the
French colonial empire and partiea-
larly of that portion which is included
in the colony Of West Africa.
For at least decade those French
travellers who have made the journey
to Timbukto on the Niger River
steamers have commented upon the
rapid growth of the herds 81 cattle
which line the banks and ill the river
islands in the period of low water
when the fertile bottom lands supply
an inexhaustible supply of food. The
end of the native wars, the establish
ment of French peace in the terri
tories Samory once raVaged and the
Toucouleurs plundered have heen fol-
lowed by an unexpected native pros
perity.
Despite this great increase in the
number of cattle, ana the census to-
tails now reach into the hundreds of
thousands, export to Europe remains
an impossibiity. Between the Niger
two days railroad journey to the
Senegal and then the long voyage on
small river boats to ST. Louis. then
another railroad journey. Cattle
shipped nv this route reach the sea
unfit for further shipment, and few
experiments demonstrated the fut;lity
of using this long route.
Fortunately for the eolonials new
- ;lala t,o
railroad which, starting from the port
of Dakar. is pushing back to connect
with the Niger railroad at Hayes will
be completed in 1915. Then it will be
possible to ship cattle from the bank
of the Niger To the ocean steamers
at Dakar without transshipment on
the way. With the completion of this
railroad. the colonial writer's assert.
France can draw its beef from this
African Argentine, and prices will fall.
With the completion of the railroad
there is to be constructed at Kull-
koro. where the Niger becomes navi-
gable vast slaughtering and icing
plant Kulikoro. say the French jour
nalists, is to become the Kansas City
Of Africa with stock Yards. ice plants.
and all the accessories of the trade.
anu III THIS punt liz bceis hSS'iil'iJ'
on the hoof from all the Niger terri
, tory, is to be killed prepared and
sent by refrigerator cars over the 900
miles of rail to the coast at Dakar
where steamers specially adapted for
+, the purpose will take it for Marseilles
Bordeaux, Nantes, Havre and Bout
Iogne.
| Not France alone, but Europe, is
to get it's beef from the Niger. if the
colonial journals are accurate in their
estimates of the possibilities of the
country which lies about the African
Kansas City. The ambitious prophecy
! perhaps shows the exaggerafion Eat-
ural to all colonial dreams. but the
! possibilities. even If they fall short of
| the forecast are Of interest to a world
| which, with the French consumer, ~
anxiously seeking for new resources
to conquer tho ever growing cost OF
| living.--N. Y. Sun.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-27

Editorial Comment.
Congratulations.
(Bridgton News.J

More Burleigh In 1t" the Kenne-
bee Journal plant at Augusta as per
the following:
The personnel of the firm of Bur-
leigh IL Flynt. publishers of the Ken
nebec Journal, has been augmented by
the admission of Lewis A. Burleigh as
partner, lie having purchased a
quarter interest in the business. The
incoming partner is son of Edwin c..
Burleigh, senior member OF the firm,
its third member being Charles +.
Flynt.
The Ex-Governor is surely to be con-
graduated upon having another son
to so worthily occupy the place left
vacant by son Clarence and to take
the iaboring oar. We are glad to note
too, that young Burleigh, slated for
the legislature, has the grace to with
draw, thus removing all suspicion of
ifnpropriety on account of the firm $
connection with the State printing
contract
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ticle in March American Magazine =?
Mr.. Leavitt has been studying prison
life in the United states for years and
| his report of findings is thrilling, 10
say the least. He describes methods
| of punishment of conNicts in Ameri-
can prisons in a way To stir the blood
of veriie manhood In one of the pen
itentiaries of Michigan he found that
until very recently prisoners We're
cruelty padded Mr.. Leavitt obtained
his facts from an official report to the
state Legislature by Committee
which conducted long Investigation.
Following is a brief extract from the
article;
Now the paddle is not It lash. Ii
is merely a piece OF heavy sole leather
shaped like tennis racket and fast
ened, with copper rivets, to a wooden
handle. 1t weighs about two pounds
The auxiliary apparatus consists Of Il
ladder. barrel, chains handouts and
ropes. The ladder is about nine feet
long and has a set of brackets IN
which the barrel is held FIRMLY, length
wise. The barrel is sman. perhaps
the size of a half beer barrel. The
prisoner, stripped, is laid upon the
barrel. his feet roped to rungs at ono
end of the ladder and his hands bound |
with steel cuffs which are chained TO
the other end of the ladder. Two men
then unite their strength II stretch |
these ropes and chains taut in or
der to prevent the prisoners body |
frem moving or giving at any point
thereby weakening the force OF the
blows. The prisoners head is covered
by a sheet. SO that he may not see
his tormentors. Another sheet IS
placed upon his back. 50 that the pro-
vision of the humane law against
on the bare body shall
not be infringed. The warden is called
IN to superintend: and the blows are
laid on. Some men can stand as many
as sixty or seventy blows. ii Was re-
ported: others collapse at the fifth or
sixth; most of them faint at the tenth
IL twelfth blow and mercifnlly remain
''rrhe piece OF sole leather is perfor-
tied by many small holes, perhaps an
nch or two apart. These serve a
1ouble purpose. they suck up the air
which would otherwise cushion the
'oree of the blow somewhat. and they
suck up the victims flesh as the leatii-
,r comes in contact With it. Then,
SAYS tie report, when the paddle is
pulled off very slowly and carefully.
.ach nerforation, as it releases the
iesh which has adhered to it, sends
is own message of pain to the man
m the rack, thus intensifying the
agony a hundred fold!
"A delicate touch is added by Gov
ring the victims body with a sheet
soaked in salt water. The sting of
he salt water. as it penetrates the
acerated flesh, adds an exquisite touch
ii pain.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-27
That London Miracle"

The remarkable case of young
woman in London. England, who, af-
ter having been confirmed invalid
through consumption, blind for years
and suffering from impaired hearing
is said to have been restored suddenly
TO health through the visit of an angel
is probably merely a good example of
what is known as autosnggestion.
Certainly the young woman, who
was said to be close to death, has had
a miraculous recovery, but the most
plausible explanation is that given by
the doctors, who say that she had n
hallucination in which she heard the
words. "Thy suffering is over
In these scientific days the inter
vention of Providence is never given
as an explanation of apparent mir
aeles, until all other possibilities have
been exhausted. These are the days
when seeing is believing but scien-
tific demonstration is more satisfying.
No doubt should be entertained that
mind has powerful influence over the
body. 1t may be that the young WON
an in London was not as i'll as she
thought, and imbued with a sudden
idea that Providence had come to her
aid, reassembled her energies and
threw off her supposed physical all
ments. Certain 1t is that suggestion
In a good thing even as to the way one
should vote. 1t sets one TO thinking.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-27
Furnishing Prisoners.

How many of us. in these days of
thinking and growing mercy, days
when we are growing away from ami
malisn faster than at any other period
OF time, find it easy TO believe that
such conditions OF barbarism exist as
those described in Julian Leayitts ar
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-27
The Way We Waste Animals.

With the increasing demands for
warm clothing, caused by the modern
methods of transport. the natural
sources from which they can be met
is having tax put upon them. which
without conservation cannot possibly
keep pace with them. Just as the bur
falo and the fur seals are going. so
the valuable fur bearing beaver, otter.
fox. sable, bear and musk OK must all
go. and become exterminated. as has
the great aux. unless conservation re-
places exploitation. The great aux
and the Labrador curlew. like the
Labrador duck, have already become
extinct, and the whales and seals are
showing that they need scientific pro-
lection. The cod, the lobster and the
salmon in the sea and rivers very
plainly show the imperative need of
attention from the proper sources. 1t
is not necessary to argue now as 10
what may be gained by National ex-
penditure on animal as we'll as on
plant culture.
l write a good deal of this. Mr.. Edi-
tor. because you have, through the
Transcript. recognized this larger
view. and while those with no pro-
phetie spirit have often recommended
the deportation of the people from so
vast section of North America. just
because they are poor and ignorant
and outeast. YOU have always reeog-
nized that to lay waste the wilderness
is not Gods way, and therefore not
the right way. To take a far seeing
view to me would be To look into the
future and see the boundless extent OF
the Labrador peninsula teeming with
its millions of reindeer; with an ex-
port trade OF meats and skins and
glue and other products which must
result from its scientific cultivation;
to see it's large Purchasing farms
where Just these invaluable adorn-
ments and projections which the fur
also supplies can be found. But L
believe that in this case alone even
tually. if the mineral products of our
Laurentian rocks are not to yield Sc
crets as precious as those which the
same formations have elsewhere given
to mankind the Wilderness now light
ly stigmatized as the Land of CAIN
can yet he made to blossom as a rose
for benefit of posterity.
TO come down from the abstract TO
the concrete-in the fox farms which
have grown up with such amazing
rapidity and on a paying basis in
Prince Edward Island and even in
northern Maine. Labrador. with it's
natural advantages and better adap-
tation for rich dark colors, and its still
available natural fur resources. should
even now be the scene of companies
developing that which must be an in
creasingly remunerative enterprise.
feel sure that capital could be expend-
ed with great advantage on half a
dozen such farms. at sufficient dis
lance apart. to enable the stock to be
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-27

This is the season of the year when
mothers feel very much concerned over
the frequent colds contracted by their
children, and have abundant reason for
1t as every cold weakens the lungs, low
ers the vitality and paves the way for
the more serious diseases that so otter
follow. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy IS
famous for its cures, and Is pleasant
and safe to take For sale by all uealers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-27
tBy Dr, WiIfred GrenfellJ

| would like very much to call the
Iattention of Your readers To the new
developments OF the reindeer expert
ment in Alaska, which will be a great
'eneourag cement to all those who have
been So generously interested in the
similar experiment in Labrador.
When Secretary Seward completed
the purchase of Alaska, no one sup
posed that he WAS buying an addi-
tional area for food supply for the
Tinted States. 1t was fortunate
thing that with that half blind recog-
milton of a duty To the native people.
the Government subsidized the rein
deer experiment. so nohly begun by
DIR. Sheldon Jackson. There has just
arrived in Chicago the first consign-
ment of some 1000 carcasses Of rein
deer Tor the meat market. II is call
cuiated now. that at the present rate
of increase, in ten years there will be
100000 reindeer in Alaska, and that
the country can carry 100000 The
meat tastes delicious. as we we'll
know, having flavor somewhat be-
tween that Of beef and lamb.
1t is Just possible that Labrador
may yet haze plants adapted to it,
through the work of men like Fair
child in Washington, or Burbank in
California. or some others. But while
il seems 10 me that Labrador can he
made to furnish ample nutritious
vegetables To carry her OWN popula
ton. that as the enormous Banks off
her coast now supply a far richer
harvest of fish than the same area
would ever return i'm plants. so the
land was apparently designed for the
maintenance OF the cervidae, or deer
class, at a cheaper rate than the rap
idly decreasing available areas farther
south can raise1 boyidae. or the OK
.1nS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-27

| When the last straw vote has been
| taken and the straWs nave nee"
| thrown away .-
| the result on Election Day; ,,
Chicago Kecord-Hefala.
| Aggressive Manager
I"Here YOU! Get out on the coaching
| lines and teach some o. them young
sters the business
Star What An spoil me
voice for the vaudeville stage !
guess uix!-Puck.
NERVoUS.-"You should take an
ice cold plunge every morning" said
the physician.
But, doctor, | have insomnia.
The ice-cold plunge viii help TO
,cure it,"
No il won't. I'll lie awake all night
dreading t.'-Washington star.
The Old Jokes.
Young George, he took a hack one day
\ fine tree.
Who drove the hack? Alas. alack,
Is that old witticsm back
1T seemed 10 he.
Young. George silver dollar threw
\ mile or more
\ dollar would so farther then,
y Joke which all the fanny men
Have used before.
Did You ever think OF what You
would do II YOU were rich94
"0ften"
Figure how YOU would make some
friend manager of your vast estates?''
Yes, indeed"
And then find out that the migrate
fal wretch had been going around de-
seribing YOU as mere dreamer ."
Six young men," commented the
florist. have ordered violets for that
girl today
Must be great competition among
Them
Evidently. And that sort of COM
petltlon is certainly the life Of trade"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-27

form of government. and within those
limits the states are empowered to
perform antics which are as ridicu-
lous as harmful
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-27

Here is message of hope and good
cheer from Mrs. g. J. Martin, Boone
dren. Mrs Martin was cured of stomach
trouble and constipation by Chamber
lain's Tablets after five years of suffer-
ing, and now recommends these tablets
to the public. Sold by all dealers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-27
Maine Gossip

stn kiss good night, All, do not let it
That loving custom that the loved hearts
Where little children in dear homes of
Clasp the dear threats that lean 20
them above
And kiss good night to mother through
the years
still Kiss good night. in laughter or in
tears,
sometimes think that when chfdhearts
begin
To feel mid throbbing of the toll ana
They've grown too old to kiss good
night twill be
Sad for the world, the old simplicity
OF sweet, clean living and bring in their
The roar and rumble of weaker race,
sun kiss good night to her whose heart
is Yours
Though an the childhood left within you
Its streams of duty to the piping times
And tires of nursing and of fairy rhymes.
And grows impatient with the habits
In that sweet innocence of chiIdhood's
moTn'
Yes, kiss and hug, and don't let mother
You are not earnest, innocent and real!
Still kiss good night! 1t means so much
Ia You
To her 10 all, to life itself lived true
To plain and simple ideals such as men |
Come back TO gladly in gray days again!
stu kiss good night! And kissing feel
how deep |
The quiet heart may sink in nightly |
sleep.
How clean the soul grows for the com
ing day.
With all mean hatreds, envy, cast away, !
And that high love that families know, |
which binds
From infant years their souls, their !
hearts, their minds,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-27

In the monkey family the orang-outang
and the hylobates are right-handed,
while the gorllas and the Nchimpanzes
are left-handed
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-27

Soothes itching skin Heals cuts or
burns without Il scar. Cures piles, eeze-
ma salt rheum, any itching. Doan. :
Ointment. Your druggist sells IT.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-27

Feel languid, weak, rundown? Head
ache? stomach "off" Just plain
case of lazy liver. Burdock Blood Bit
terss tones liver and stomach promotes
digestion, purfes the blood.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-27
Let Us Laugh a Bit.

When the last straw vote has heen
taken and the straWs nave pe""
thrown away
We shah still -De in doubt concerning
the result on Election Day;
Chicago Record Herald.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-27

Il suffered habitually from constiea-
ton. Doans Reguiets relieved aud
strengthened the bowels so that they
have been regular ever since. "A. j..
Davis. grocer. Sulphnr Springs. Tex.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-27

There is no better medicine made for
colds than Chamberlains Cough Remedy.
1t acts on natures plan. relieves the
lungs. opens the secretions, aids eMpec-
toration and restores the system to a
healthy condition. For sale. by all
uealerS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-27

4 special town meeting was held in
Sanford. Saturday, on the question of
division of the town. Springvale de-
string TO be set off from Sanford Yot-
ing was carried on al each Of the two
voting precincts of the town with the
following results: Sanford. Yes, 1879;
no, 1871 Springyale, yes, 296; no. 10.
Total in favor of division. 435s against,
lql
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-27

Cheapest accident insurance DR..
Thomas Eclectic Oil. Stops the pain
and heals the wound. All druggists sell
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-27

QUEEN TEMPLE, NO. 70, PYTHiAN
Sisters meets in X of r. hall the second
and fourth Tuesday evenings of each
month, at 80 o'clock
CAROLYN S. BENNETT. NJ E. c.
EVA M. LADD, NJ. of K. and c.
IVA II. KICKER, NJ. of +.
tu-th-satf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-27

Portland will try to appear salts
field with that 100000 granted in the
rivers and harbors bin just completed
by the House committee.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-27

Another big shoe factory-to employ
800 more hands-is proposed for Au-
burn. This will be an addition to the
plant of one of the most progressive
concerns in New England, and will
increase the output 125 per cent, Civ
ing a capacity Of 5000 pairs daily
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-11-05
BUBONIC PLAGUE ,r,,

Ilaguayra, Venezuela, Nov. "A oaae of genuine bubonic plague mas been discovered here. Strict sahl.afy measures are being enforced