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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-09-06
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TRIsuTE TO THE JUNGLE.

That India still pays its annual trib-
ate Of human life to the jungle is
shown By a statement made in a re-
cent issue Of the London Times. Dur
nS the past three years the number
Of deaths from snake bite or the at
lacks Of Wild animals has steadily in
creased. Rising waters have driven
the serpents out of the lowlands up
Into the villages, and have diminished
the natural food supply of the larger
animals.
In 1910 90 persons we're killed by
elephants. rs by hyenas. 100 by bears.
651 by leopards, 31s by wolves. S5S by
tigers, and SIS by other animals, in
GLIDING wild pigs. No less than az
AIS died from the bite of poisonous
snakes. The grand total OF mortal
ity is 24,S7S.
During the same year. $4,000 cattle
we're also killed by wild beasts and
snakes.
The losses on the part Of inhabit-
ants Of the jungle we're nearly but not
quite as great as those of their hui
man enemies and domesticated ami
mails combined. Ninety-one thousand
one hundred and four snakes and over
10000 wild beasts of various kinds
were killed.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-09-06
NOVELTY IN WALL pApERlso

A Bergenfeld, N. j.. man has Just
completed the decoration Of q room
In his home by covering the walls with
group of pictures taken from every
newspaper in the east and represent
ing an immense variety OF scenes. he
has been newsdeaier since 1899 ana
collected the pictures for many years.
The pictures are carefully trimmed
and arranged In four and In some
cases i've rows. each one exactly meet
Ing the next pictures. Over the pic
lures the decorator applied two coats
Of yarnish. The pictures are arranged
with similar subjects in one row az
nearly as possible. The second row
below the ceiling is given over en-
tirsly to half-tone reproductions o.
well-known places in Europe. Below
that comes a circuit Of Gibson pic
lures. The fourth row is given over
to pictures of the Worlds Fair at Chi
cago in 1898 from a newspaper, Civil
war scenes run entirely around the
room In the third row, and the top
row Is a sort Of friezs made up OF
colored supplements Of amazing va
riety. There are nearly 500 pictures
In all
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-09-06
THE SPEED OF THOUGHT.

How fast do impulses travel along
the nerves? The speed has been duly
measured by the aid Of the elaborate
apparatus with which the physiologi-
cal laboratory Of today Is supplied. In
man the rate has been set down at
about ia feet a second.
This measurement has reference to
the. rate at which messages of the
bodily telegraph system are sent from
nerve centers along motor nerves or
those destined to bring muscles into
play. But a second class of nerves
exists in the body called "sensory."
whose duty it is to convey messages
from the body to nerve centers. The
rate Of impulse in the sensory nerves
Is quicker than in the motor nerves.
Investigators give varying rates. from
about 1888 feet to 675 feet per second.
an average rate being 2S2 feet
Psychologists have made careful
calculations regarding what is called
our reaction time. Here we endeavor
to calculate the interval which elapses
between the impression made on our
organ Of sense and the giving Of the
signal which registers the impression
as received by the brain and translat-
ed into terms of consciousness. Diff
fe-snt results, due. no doubt. to the
varying nervous capacities OF the In
dividuals. have been obtained. In one
series the interval averaged -1OS7 of
a second and in another 1911.
Signaling to the eye by means OF a
light demanded for its reception and
demonstration .1139 of a second. In
the case Of sound the interval was
1880. An electric spark used to slim
ulate the eye gave as reaction time
1877 Of second when the signal was
given by the lower jaw and $40 when
given by the foot
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-09-06
rAE LAsT STRAW.

Few food cranks have carried their
yearning after the simple life to such
an extreme length as did one Roger
Crab, who, in spite OF his strange fare.
saw a fair part of the seventeenth CEN
turt- Up to his twentieth year he was
normal-minded, then he turned vege
tartan. and framed his apology:
Butchers are excluded from juries,
but the receiver is worse than the
thief. so the buyer is worse than the
butcher" From the banning of meat
he turned his attention to butter and
cheese. and thought that he could hive
without them. He went even further.
and banned all things edible. till at
length he achieved the fine art Of feed
ing upon dock leaves. grass and water,
at a gross cost. of about a penny
week.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-09-06
TYPEWRITER VS.. COAL HEAVIER.

The girl who is operating a type
writer doesn't appear to be doing very
heavy physical labor, as compared
with the brawny individual in, the
stokehold Of an Atlantic liner who is
shoveling coal into hungry furnace,
but this is one Of the many instances
in which superficial appearances are
receptive, as a comparison Of the
force expended by the two will show.
The stoker may be credited with
handling one ton of coal per hour. or
eight tons per day, plus the weight Of
his shovel. Adding the shovel to his
1850 pounds Of coal, he expends
about 10000 pounds Of energy. For
each key struck on the typewriter
there is an expenditure Of something
over three ounces Of energy, or, say,
one pound to the average word. A
fair operator will average 1900 words
an hour, or in eight hours. $4,000
words-12.000 pounds Of energy. To
throw over the carriage for each new
line requires on an average three
pounds of force. Twelve thousand
words viii make 1000 lines, so there
are 5000 pounds of energy to be add
ed to the 1900, making Ii. 1000 pounds
Of energy expended-which compares
pretty well with the stoker's 10000,
all things considered. A really fast
operator would push the expenditure
Of energy in to $4,000 pounds OF more.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-09-06
A THIRSTY CITY.

Official statistics just published by
the municipality of Munich. Bavaria.
show that the city still Solds the rec.
ord for the per capita consumption OF
beer. the amount per head Of the pop
uiation last year being 70lz gallons:
the average consumption per head OF
population in England Is only 26 gal
Ions. The Munich breweries produced
last year S1.752.00o gallons Of beer, Of
which 42,50O.0o0 gallons were drunk
in the city, while the rest was ex
ported to other parts Of Germany and
abroad. This home consumption rep
resented an increase oof 100000 gal
Ions as compared with 1910.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-09-06
SOUTH AFRICAN STOCK.

A summary of the returns Of the
live stock in South Africa as ascer-
tanned by the census in May of last
year gives the following results: Cat
tie, 5,796.0o0; horses. us. 900: mules.
%. 1000; asses, $4,000: ostriches. 1866
900: wooded shsep. 21.4s3.OoO; other
sheep, s.S14.0O0; angora goats. $751;
900: other goats. 7.4S7.000. The Cape
Province supplies by far the princi-
pal proportion Of these figures, viz:
2.715.000 cattle, sss. 1893 horses. 72s, GOO
ostriches, 11,051.00o wooded sheep,
$685., 900 other sheep, a.s40,000 ango-
ras. and 4.613.000 other goats.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-09-06

"Harry"-marks that strip of land az
belonging to the man who bought
Harry" at the sale. That drawn at
the next post may be Boat and may
belong to man who has not sold
his right. Following the drawing the
moving takes place. and, when that IL
over the meadows are thrown open
for grazing. and the practitioners who
have had a place in the drawing have
a right to Craze one head Of cattle to
the acre or one horse to two acres.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-09-06
FRANCES Low BIRTH RATE.

Statistics show for last year 34,S67
deaths in France in excess Of births.
The depopulation Of France. states DR..
variot. the eminent children's physi-
clan, is not due to high death rates.
but to low birth rates.
In 1862. when the population of
Paris was 1.721.917. there were 52.312
births. In 1907. with population of
2,72S.7S1, there were only 50,S11.
Germany. whose people numbered
so, 10000 in 1906, had increased to
81, $780, 90 by the year 1910. The Ger
man population is increasing at fast
er rate than that Of Great Britain.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-09-06
is GRAY-HAIRED AT FIVE

Physicians are puzzled over the
case Of the ive-year-old son Of John
De Frabis Of West Berwick. Pa.
whose hair is as gray as might 30
found In a person Of fourscore years.
The parents, who are normal. have
four children. all mutes
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-09-06
a sordid Hushand.
3 ave You on to now7"

Where are you OF to now7"
ITO my Shakespeare club. hubby"
What good has your Shakespeare
club done your
why. have learned all about tn,
plays
BAH" snarled her husband. q
thought surely you'd get chummy with
some woman who owned a big auto
mobile"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-21
RIames Law for Crooked Officials

The National wholesale Liquor Deal
ers' Association sends out another
bundle of literature in which we find
the following:
Mayor Fitzgerald feels very keenly
the loss of the state of Maine by the
Democrats. especially in view of the
fact that he himself campaigned
through the state in the closing days
in the interests of Governor Plaisted,
The mayors excuse for the overthrow
of democratic control is:
THE administration of the liquor
enough to cause a political upheaval.
The state of Maine at the present time
is such a disgrace to the Union that |
would not permit the foreign delegates
TO the International congress of the
chambers of commerce, which is to
convene here the last of this month, to
visit that state, despite its natural
beauties, because Of the total disre-
gard in the leading cities of the liquor
laws that the state legislatures have
placed upon the statute books.
The officials of the state and the
counties of the state have been guilty
of crookedness That is the only ex-
PLANTATION that can be given to the
wholesale trade III liquor in the state
in the face OF the prohibitory clauses
in the state laws"
Ana yet the mayor lent his services
10 re-elect hese crooked" officials,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-21

red to whose only regret now is that
he did not abandon his pen for the
pillow many years ago"
Some day, we believe, wild land
holders and others having large hold
ings of real estate viii perfect coloni-
zation plans that will be satisfactory
to them and of unreasonable benefit
to humanity at large. But the tracts
of land turned over to individual farm
ers under such schemes, will not be
large. Better use of the soil eultivat-
ed is the coming slogan. Don't worse
than waste so many plots and corners.
If they are not utilized they are
growing weeds to handicap crops near
by.
Are you land poor? Or are YOU try
ing to spread your work over too much
territory
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-21

A dispatch from Chicago says the
following has gone out from Democrat
ie headquarters:
Governor Wilson hopes the party lead
erS will bend every effort toward the
Democrats to the United States Senate,
that in case of his election he may
count upon the support of both houses of
Congress.
The dispatch continues: Not once,
but a dozen times. during a trip
through the West, has the suggestion
been heard: If the Democrats We're in
fun possession of the Government for
the next four years there might be real
danger p interruption Of the present
wave Of prosperity but the Senate will
he Republican and that will tie the
hands Of a Democratic President and
House and serve to hold up any tariff
for revenue legislation"
1T is on this theory that Democrats
have in some instances endeaVored to
line up business institutions to support
their national ticket But at the same
time the campaign managers have had
their eye on the United States Senate,
and the closing weeks of the cam
paign win see them directing their lest
efforts toward the election of Demo-
Gratis to fill the seats now held by Re-
publicans in those States where this
outlook best faXors Democratic sue
cess. This Senate situation is seen by
the Democratic nominee and his man
ayers. and while Governor Wilson was
on his recent Western trip he reiterat-
ed to his managers the hope that theS
would not. in their desire to elect tbs
national ticket, lose sight of the ne
cessity of eIecting a Democratic Sen
ate il he was 10 be expected to MAKE
good his pledges with respect to tariff
legislation. IT is generally understood
that Governor Wilson, il elected, @oulf
call Congress in extra session on th'
fifth of next March and urge the i'm
mediate passage of all the House tart
bills that have been vetoed by Presi
dent Taft and such other bills as IN
Democracy think should be passed
There's the rub. Does the countr,
dare trust men pledged to ruinous poll
cies with the full contgol of the ma
tion's affairs II not ready To CIV
them n full swing, what is the adyan
tage Of interfering with present ac
knowIedged prosperous conditions?
The man who gambles with his vot
on Nov. may have something 70
which TO answer.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-21
That Tentative Agreement. /"

Tentative agreement" is good
is a striking classification by a maI
skilled in the use of words and sit
nations. But the dsingenuousness o.
its application at time when the enc
of the tentative" official rope is in
sight is rather amusing.
Our readers may have noticed in
the State House department that the
Governor and Council, on recommen-
dation of Attorney General Pattangall
speaking for the Waterville Sentinel
| Publishing Co, have instructed the
| printing committee to ask for bids for
the States book and pamphlet work.
Mr.. Pattangall stated that the Sentinel
Co. did not wish to continue the print
ing work under the present tentative
agreement"
1t viii be remembered that the Sen
tinel-Davis contract with the State,
which would have expired, July l, 1913,
was declared void by the supreme
court, year ago. after the illegal
contract Of a State official with him
self had existed several months. 1t
will be remembered, also, that the
Governor and Council then made this
tentative agreement" to take the
place of a legal contract which the law
requires. that the States work might
not be interrupted until new bids
could be asked and legal contract
made.
That tentative agreement has Iiv-
ed these many months, and it may be
recalled that under it the Sentinel
Publishing Co. charged and was al
lowed To collect from the State, sew
eraI thousand dollars to which they
were not entitled, even under the
terms of the illegal tentative agree
ment"
Now it is proposed to make a con-
time when the contract it is TO re-
place would have expired 1t may oc-
cur to some that the Sentinel Pub.
Co, and those controlling it, do not
care to do work under a tentative
agreement" after Jan. 1, 1913, with
men who have high regard for their
official oaths in the State offices. 1t
might be suggested that il would GER
tainly LOOK better if the contract
now made to take the place of a
tentative agreement" serving in the
place of a void contract. We're made
to expire at the time the old con-
tract would have expired, namely.
July /, 1913.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-21
Would Make License Law Prohibit.

A booze traffic expert writing for
The National Wholesale Liquor Deal
ers Association, and his logic being
circulated by them, says: Il have
thought of this matter great deal.
and my conclusion is the only way to
deal with the question is by system
of high license, which would practi-
cally prevent the selling of liquor in
towns where there is no police protec-
ton, and would drive it to the larger
towns where it could be somewhat
controlled -"
Significant isn't it? Booze trust law
would PROHIBIT where there is no
police protection Doesn't that il
illuminate the entire rum trust sophis-
try?
And that rum trust tool is a judge
of the e. S. district court!
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-21
What's the other one?
Editorial Comment
The Potato Font of Youth.
est. Louis Post Dispatch.)

Atot' LOUIS IOSl-1ISpd Icn.)
Professor Ellie Metchnikoff of Paris
apotheosized buttermilk as the font of
perpetuated youth and pointed to Bull
garia. DR. j. II. Kellogg, famous origi-
nator of breakfast foods and health
regimens, apotheosizes the potato as
the true enemy of old age and points
to Ireland
A prejudice against starchy foods
mas caused science to disparage the
potato unjustly, according to DR.. KEEL
loSg, who insists that the popular pre-
objection for the vegetable is a trust
worthy index of its merit. The starch
OF the potato has much greater
dietary value than the starch of
cereals or arrowroot, he says, being
more easily digested That the potato
Is not perfect food owing to it's fat
unit deficiency is conceded; neverthe-
less its qualities as an old-age pre-
Ventive are established by reasoning as
follows:
1t contains just below the skin a
greater percentage of certain alkaline
salts than any other vegetable used as
tendencies toward a lowered alkalinity
of the blood caused by meat. Low
cred alkalinity is the chief cause OF
govt, rheumatism, Bright's disease anC
especially that hardening of the arter-
les which is old ages distinctive sign
The proportion of centenarans il
Ireland is more than ten times as great
as that of England says the doctor
There can be no doubt that the FREE
use of potatoes by the Irish is in {
large measure responsible for the re
| markable longevity of this nation"
If you want to keep young, accord
lngly, eat potatoes-always potatoes
cooked with their jackets on. Pend
ing the time when science will give u
in concentrated form the youth-pre
serving active principle of the potato
/ why not combine the Metehnikoff ant
] Kellogg remedies? Why not make
sure thing of It and eat potatoes witt
buttermilk? That some persons d.
not find the prescription worse thai
old age itself is evident. for they hav
been observed to consume the for
midable combination with signs o
relish and satisfaction.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-21
Some Men Answer Themselves.

Editor Kennebec journal:
EXPresident Roosevelt has been shot
IL is evident the would-be assassin, by
the letters found upon his person. de-
liberately prepared for the plea of in
sanity if arrested Who is the invisible
influence behind him? The boss poll
tieian, corrupt monied interests, political
speakers both Republican and Demo
cratic and majority OF the newspapers,
advocating Republican and Democratic
interests,-even in their editorials have
put before the public the plea.-f EX-
President Roosevelt should die the Pro-
gresSive Party would instantly so to
pieces,-hecome at once "A thing OF the
past indirectly advocating, to many, his
assassination.
This man. Theodore Roosevelt, one of
natures noblemen, has been traduced,
vilified, beaten out of the nomination at
Chicago most uniustly, and how while
IN the prime of life is struck down by a
bullet.
Can any man at this time or in the past
claim more bravery, more moral cour-
age, more good judgment, more earnest
ness for the cause of progress and good
soxernment-honest government - than
While the blood was still running from
thS bullet wound in his breast, he said
twill deliver this speech or die and
people of our whole country.
Who are accessory to the fact of this
attempted assassination?
Is this man to lie a martyr like Lin
coin, simply because he advocates and
insists ON justice to the rank and file,
the people,
He never has been elected to a second
term and no man can claim a third
term. In or out of the Presidential chair
the corrupt politicians know they cannot
control him, and the monied interests
cannot buy him. He has throughout
been an honorable man. The people
love him.
He is the best equipped man in our
country for President of these United
States. especially at time like the
present. If by the effects Of the assas-
SINS bullet Theodore Roosevelt is sent
to his long home. in the name of God
and our country, let us. in justice 10 his
memory, vote for the next best man
now advocating the principles Theodore
Roosevelt represented. Hiram Johnson.
G. STANLEY BLAKE.
Kent.s HILL Maine
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Should Reject New Fire Station.

Editor of Kennebec Journal
After making a careful study of the
proposition advanced by Alderman
Ward G.. Holmes in relation to the fire
station, and with due consideration to
the heavy taxpayers of the city, who
are opposed to the proposed location
on Pleasant street, ! believe it is the
duty of the City Council to reject the
new station. If the members of the
City Council wish to favor the city at
this time. they will be doing a last
ing benefit by making the present fire
station safe and convenient for the
apparatus, as we'll as for the comfort
of the fire fighters who are obliged to
use it. Before the year 1920, our fire
department Will be using automobiles
exclusively. and while | dc not wish
to be classed as an excogitate, / am
of the honest opinion that the place
for the central fire station of the flu
ture would be opposite City hall. in
Ward 8, thus saving the city hundreds
of dollars each year, by having the
department in close proximity to the
business section, as well as doing away
with one station.
S. C. c. WARD.
Augusta, Me. Oct. 10. 1912.
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HallowelI Gardiner and SO. Gardiner;
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$40 A. NJ, 3.42 and 1910 p. NJ. Portland.
Boston
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Sunday morning does not connect beyond
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Calais and Bar Harbor; 6.36 A. Nj, local
to Moosehead Lake via Oakland. Bel
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Waterville, Bangor. r. x A. II. r., Ca
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express to Waterviie. thence local to
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100 p. NJ, Waterville. Skowhegan and
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MORRIS MCDONALD, Weep President
< GenI Mgr, Portland, Me