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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-14
Paradise for Poor Europeans.

The condition of the rubber picker
in South America has vastly improved
during the last five years. Five years
ago he was hahilitated, took his adj
vance and then |spent the money in
alcohol and tried to plant to evade
carrying out his contracts To-day he
is paid half as much again, goes eight
days over the worst trail in the world,
and reports at the hacienda of his
own free will, often taking his wife
along. Immediately he is given an
estrada (allotmenD, sometimes two.
according to his Industrial capacity,
then the store is opened to him, where
he purchases his food supplies. is Civ
en- tools and he can at once start
work. Any kind of rubber picker
can make over dollar (gold) a day,
but a god rubber picker earns as
much as three dollars a day. If they
We're to work every day they would
get rich, but as before stated, they
like TO hunt and have feasts and lie
around good deal.
After receiving all he needs from
the store, if he is there for the rubber
picking season only, he makes a bar
raca that will be composed of palm
leaves, where he can house all his
family while carrying on his work. If
he intends to remain he Immediately
fells timber and makes planta ton of
bananas, yueas and other edibles to
add to his larder and reduce his liv-
ing expenses.
They are q happy, tractable lot of
irresponsible Indians with no cares
for tomorrow. Knowing they are pro-
vided with the means of making mon
ey and living easily. Any of the
higher civilized mechanics or laborers
in crowded cities would envy the lot
of the rubber picker. for in the end
he earns relatively more than the best
paid mechanic because his needs are
less.
At present an American rubber
company is experimenting with Jap
anese, not because the Indians will
not work, but because they are not
not work, but because there are not
work constantly. When the railway
program is completed, which the Gov
eminent has under consideration for
building railways across the interior
of Bolivia, it will be possible to bring
in outside labor. such as Japanese or
Europeans and the rubber fields will
be reached rapidly and easily. and the
economic transportation of the interi-
or products will make it possible to
produce rubber on a larger scale and
at a price that will always pay for
exploitation. which the Ainazonian Ba-
sin will be a paradise for millions of
poor oyerworked Europeans who can
not at present find a home or enough
to eat and sustain themselves or their
families in good health.-West Coast
Leader, Lima, Peru.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-14
Music Amona the Neeritos.

The music and dancing of the Ne
gritos are especially interesting. Many
OF them know how to make and to
play both the bamboo nose flute and
kind of jewsharp made from bam-
boo Some of them use crude stringed
instruments fashioned from single
joints of bamboo, the strings being cut
from the outer layer of wood, to which
their ends remain attached. and being
raised UP by means of bridges. The
distribution of the several kinds of
musical instruments above mentioned
is more or less local. but the bronze
tomtom or "ganza" is in universal use,
although some Negritos play it with a
drumstick, while others beat 1t with
their hands. Many of their dances are
pantomimic. Their singing is often
weird in the extreme. 1t would be idle
TO describe it. Only Photographic rec
ords could do IL partial justice.-Na-
tionai Geographic Magazine
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-14
The Habit of Sleep.

People are very fussy about sleeping
and still more fussy about not sleeping.
A person who can not sleep thinks that
he is the most suffering piece of humani-
ty in existence. Shakespeare punished
most of his murderous characters and
even his ghosts with insomnia. Sleep
was. according TO many of the poets and
sonnet makers. the only cure for the rest
of the world.
It seems "a bit curious that it is only
people wanting TO use sleep as a method
of transportation from themselves who
can not sleep. Children always sleep ex-
cept when they do not want to and ami
mails are never troubled with insomnia.
Cats and dogs go to sleep when they
haven't anything else to do. They are
not trying to forget anything Their
consciences are clear. They do not even
know that they are going to sleep-they
Just go.
The first best cure for insomnia is,
therefore, the habit of being sufficiently
satisfied with yourself when you are
awake so that you need not care whether
you sleep or not The last best cure is
the ability to be so interested in yourself
when you are awake that you will prefer
not to sleep.
John Muir tells in his autobiography
of his difficulty in finding time to read
and work for himself. His father was
strict and John was sent to bed every
night Immediately after prayers. Per-
sistently the boy insisted on snatching
five minutes with his candle, until his
=. ~
could get up early in the morning and
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-14
-A-~Roost. for ,the~Corset.

Prof Felix IfIrschfeId and Adolph
Loewy, two distinguished German scien-
lists, have just made known the results
of their investigations into the effect of
the corset on a woman's health. They
announce that as general principle the
corset has decided use in the struggle
against consumption; that 1t helps, when
intellgently worn, to ward off tubercu-
losis.
The two scientists came TO the oonclu-
sion that consumption that originated in
the lungs was both more frequent and
found more favorable ground in those
lungs which were least used; or, TO be
more explicit, not so much i'm the weaker
lungs as in those whose upper part was
neglected in favor of stomachic respira-
ton. Breathing entirely with the body
below the diaphram was prejudiciai
Having compounded this theory, and hav-
ing found much other evidence to cor
roborate it, they then set about to test
the influence of the corset in this respect
BY means of the apparatus for measuring
lung capacity, and an X-Ray observer
for watching the action of the lungs, they
were able to gather quantity of facts.
From these facts they now conclude
that the use of the corset furthefS the
use of the upper parts of the thorax, and
contends. therefore, against any tendency
that the lungs may have to become deli
cate or susceptible to tuberculosis.
This of course, is not an out-and-out
defense of the corset. The experts are
outspoken concerning other dangers it
presents The hindrance to circulation of
the blood. an indirect help to the progress
of tuberculosis. they very strongly con-
denim. If the corset is to be defended for
its use in keeping down abnormal stom-
achic breathing it is only when it is of
reasonable design, suitably cut. and not
too tightly laced.-New York American.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-14
A Lost River of California.

The deep Kern River Canon, in the
high Sierra country of California, is
interestingly described in report just
issued by the United States Geological
Survey Attitudes in the Kern River
basin range from few hundred feet
at the mouth of the rivers lower
canon to more than $4,000 feet on the
headwaters over a hundred miles dis
tant. More than fifty of the peaks in
the basin exceed 1900 feet in altitude
and many of the lakes which feed the
upper stream are at an altitude OF
4 900 feet or more.
Mount Whitney, the highest noun
tain in the United states, towering
14,5O1 feet above sea level overlooks
the northern part of the Kern River
basin from the east.
Kern River rises in glacial lakelets
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-14
Germany's War School.

Inc most scientific prepare ton now
made for any form of human activ-
ity is probably that made for war by
the German War Academy and Cen
eral Staff. The Academy admits
young officers, on efficiency tests.
and completes their military train
ing. 1t covers not only the subject
of war, in all its branches, but science
and modern languages. Formal stu
dies are supplemented by constant
field exercises in collecting informal
ton, and i'll the solution of practical
problems, and By exercise with war
games
The Staff is recruited from the best
men who pass through the Academy
Its functions are to gather informa-
ton about all countries. to make
Typographical surveys, to test new
arms, rations. and equipments, to
standardize camp and supply meth
DDS, to compile the official military.
history, to plan mobilization, and.
generally, to serve as the inventng,
organizing. and inspecting authority
of the army.
The results of German wars show
whether these agencies are efficient
Vi iot. Iii INT case OIL the auStrldn
war of 1856 in fourteen days from the
declaration of hostilities, Prussia was
in possession of Hanover, Hesse-
Cassel, and Saxony. In nineteen
days the battle of Koniggratz which
decided the war, was fought 1t was
all over in seven weeks. Likewise in
the war of 1s7O-71, although France
confidently expected to invade Ger
many, she found herself in a few DAYS
lighting an invasion. The armies Of
France were promptly separated, and
all the decisive work was over again
in seven weeks
These institutions are the embodi-
ment of two comparatively simple,
but exceedingly fundamental. prinei-
pies of efficiency. The first is voca-
tional training for all persons placed
in important POSITIONS the second is
the compilation of all useful knowl-
edge which can be better gained in
advance, by experts, through study.
than later, by general executives
through action.-Edward D. Jones in
The Engineering Magazine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-14

not understand their language) that
we fancy the plant, like the insect, is
not conscious OF what it Sees, but that
is probably a discovery for the future.
At present we are forced to accept the
theory that they are not conscious.
But that they do see. Professor Hab-
erlandt says he has satisfactorily
proved. He has found the same minute
eye such as belongs to bees and other
insects in sycamore leaves, in the sug
or maple and in the Peruvian acanth-
us. The eye of plants appear different
from the eyes of insects in that they
have no coloring matter, though this is
not yet determined. The professor is
continuing his experiments and he ex-
poets to make further interesting and
surprising announcements. He says
that plats and trees have eyes is I'M
doubtedly a proof that all natural life
is linked in one long chain.-Baltimore
American.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-14
The Eyes of Plants.

After long experimenting and study,
Professor Gottlieb Haberlandt of the
Botanic Institute of Gratz. i'm Syria,
declares that plants, the word taken in
It's widest sense, and including trees,
can see.S
The professor says that he has sue
ceeded through photography and the
use Oh his mfscroscope in reproducing
the images reflected on the visual or
gans Of plants The images included
objects at different distances. and even
persons and houses. Plants may. he
says, be classed with the inferior ami
mails in this respect. His observations
Rave been confirmed by Dr. Nuttan
and DR.. Harold Wagner. .st
We are still SO ignorant OF animal.
plant and insect life because we do
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-14
Superstition's Pail cioaks Many Ami
m ais

Almost every animal expresses good
or evil in some way or another Even
to the much rnaIigned donkey is there
attached superstition. as the cross on
the donkey's back, is still connected in
the rustic mind with our Lords having
ridden upon one into Jerusalem ON
Palm Sunday, and it should have Sc
cured HIM better treatment than that
with which he usually meets.
1t is lucky for you that martins
should build against your house. for
they will never come to one where
there is strife. Soon after setting up
housekeeping for myself" says a writ
er, Il was congratulated on a martin
having built its nest in The porch over
my front door"
II is unlueky to count lambs before a.
certain time; if you do they viii be
sure not to thrive. With this may be
compared the popular notion OF the
character of Dayid's sin in numbering
the people of Israel aud Judah. related
in the last chapter of the Second Book
of Samuel-a narrative which makes
some people Iook with suspicion and
dislike Upon our own tlecennihf census.
It is unlucky 10 kill a ''llarvestnan.'
/. G., one of those long legged spiders
which one sees scrdmblingo about, per
feetly independent of scobwebs; IL you
do kill one there Will be q bad harvest.
IL there are superstitions about ami
mails, it is satisfactory to find them
leaning To the side of humanity; but
the poor hedgehog finds to his cost that
the absurd notion, of his sucking the
teats of cows serves as a pfetext for
the most cruel treatment. ty
1t is currently believed that if you
put horsehairs into spring they will
turn to cells. ~ M uF
Mermaids are supposed to be about
in the ponds and bitches in many.
neighborhoods. Careful, mothers euse
them as bugbears to prevent little
children from going too near the water.
z The saying about magpies is we'll
known--one, sorrow: two, mirth; three,
a wedding; four, DEATH" And it is a
curious thing" said d man from the
rural districts of England. Il have
proved ii, for as | was on my way 70
be married, travelling upon coach top
TO claim my bride the next day. three
magpies-neither more nor less-flew
across the road" E.
Bourne remarks that IF an owl,
which is reckened most abominabls
and unlueky bird, sends forth its hoarse
and dismal voice, it is the omen of the
approach of some terrible thing: that
some dire calamity and, some great
misfortune is near at hand" 1t is thus
mentioned by Chaueer:
This rueful Strich still wayting on the
beere, "a
The WHISTLES sjril that whose heares
doth die.
The Romans appear to have had
most determined Views on owls and
their significance. Julius Obseuuens, in
his Book of Prodfgies." shows that n
little before the death of Commodus
Antonius, the emperor, an owl was oh
served to sit upon the top of his cham
her, both at Rome and at Lanuvlum
Xiphilins, speaking of the prodigies
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-14
The Girl Inside.

uG Vii fnsi1cs
The girl who works down town and
lives in a hall bedroom with squirrny
mirror is sometimes SO very tired when
she gets on the street car in the even
ing that she does not care anything
about the girl in the car window. She
does not care how pretty or sweet or
happy the girl in the window is even
thought she Knows that the girl in the
window is really herself and that she
IS the girl in the window. Sometimes
she is SO tired that she doesn't care if
she is tired or if she does have to work
tomorrow and the next day and every
day after that, just. the same, always
the same. She doesn't even care that
there is nobody else TO care. al
When the girl inside is as tired as
that The girl in the car windowha a
very hard times bit she .iIurries along
through the dark. close tos. the vim
dow and the girl inside, and wIlen at
last the girl inside 1aolSs at her slie be-
gins "a, whisper about thingss that be-
long to both of them and whieh, are
more real than any of the tired things.
The girl in the car window says that
there is more gladness than has ever
been told. She says that you can tell
Wien you hear a bird, sing that al
though he tries his best, he can not
sing all the Joy that is in him. She
says that when he brook rushes and
spiashes through the hills and the fields
II becomes more and more gay and
goes faster and faster until it Is quite
mad with happiness and. still it can
not ,ell how glad il is. She says that
even the sun can not tell il or the stars
or the wind, and that 1t must always
be untold because it is so big that even
II 1t were told we could not understand
it. And vet, the girlsini the car vim
dow says that il SO true that we know
that it is SO, whether We want to be-
lieve it or not a. 'ee
\ Perhaps this does not have anything
to do with the girl inside She Knows
that birds sing and brooks laugh That
is probably ali they have to do. But as
to there being as much gladness any
place as the girl in the car window
saws there is every place-tlle girl in
side turns away from the window. The
people in the car are not so fooiishly
happy as the birds and the other
things that the girl in the window talks
about. They are just people who get
UP in the morning and 80 to work and
go home again in the evening. Still the
girl inside hears the words Of the girl
outside. She hears them over and over
and when She turns back to the win-
dow she smiles. II there is any bitter
ness in that smile 1t is lost in the
darkness. for when tie girl in the WIN
dow smiles it is a wise. happy smile,
and the girl inside knows that ii Is all
true about the Joy that is never told
and she is glad. Indiana polls News.
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read. John prayed not for sleep. but that
he might wake up before his father
called him, no easy thing for a boy who
worked all day in the fields. He did
wake up and when he orept down to the
kitchen it was just o'clock, leaving five
hours for himself, five hours in which he
could do exactly what he wanted to do.
He did not tink of loss of sleep. He had
found five hours and he found five hours
every night after that.
1t is he who gets sleepy that should
complain. The man who can not sleep
can do SO many other things Indanopo-
lis News.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-14
SENATE LEADERS.
51Continued from Page One.)

VA Serator Burleigh, Maine, claims, pub
klic Buildings, fisheries and coast de-
fences: Colt, Rhode Island civil ser
Vice, immigration, patents, post offices
md revision of the laws; Golf, West
Virginia, military affairs, pensions,
claims and conservation; Norris, Ne
braska, agriculture, public lands.
claims; Sterling, North Dakota, civil
service. public lands. pensions and con-
servation: Weeks, Massae husetts, bank
ing and currency, Philippines, public
health and conservation.
Senators Dillingham; and Jones were
added to the appropriations committee.
giving up places on other important
committees. rF''' ..-t
! Senator Lippitt was added to the Dis
4 tr'ict of Columbia committee. of which
Senator sGailnEer has long been chair
man. senator GalliDger retired from the
committees because of his election as Re
publican leader. I 81 ~ a-t ~ fse
Senators Gronna, Townsend and Fall
were added to the Indian affairs commit
tee;s Senator Kenyon to the military at
fairs committee; Senators katron and
jackson 10 the pestofiicei committee. Sen
ator Fail to the public land committee
and Senator Jones to the committee on
territories. Senator Dillingham; retired
from the committee on foreign relations
and Senators Borah and Gallinger from
the committee on civil service. Senator
Burton retired from the committee on
commerce, OF which he has been lead
Z ing member in the debates. He received
assignments to the banking and curren-
cy.-s foreign relations and immgrations
committee besides a number of other
committees.
The important Democratic chairman
ships, which are now believed to have
been settled. include the following: Sch
ator Gore. agriculture and forestry; SEN
ator simmons, finance Senator Bacon,
Foreign relations; Senator Stone Indian
affairs; Senator Newlands. interstate
commerce; Senator Johnston. military
fairs: Senator Culberson judiciary; Sen
ator Bankhead. postofiices and post
roads: Senator Swanson. public build
ings and grounds: Senator overman,
ground; Senator Fletcher, printing; Sem
atof Pomerene. District of Columbia:
Senator owen. banking and currency;
Senator Thornton. fisheries.
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The Fast Mail of 1860,

"hen tiit Haiuy pineoers Oh the
Wilite"ihssd wagons ana pioddlng OK
teams Oh 1913 iiau demonstrated beyond
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ou' II soiueii iiah'' 'iel' iiious'riai cap
'aiis prepafea 10 meet eile uefiaha TOT
d aiiioii oe'"een 'iie East anu ehe est
Inc SLOW soihs OK caravan was ioi-
lu"eo Wy .he S"h'ese s'ase coach'
iheh the miner erieo OUT ior stlii more
rapid news from nome ana the pony
express was o'leieo 10 meet the emer-
geney'
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1ofs d W9aaie' ireiehters' me contract
II the iiltii were transported from 81
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in elenl DAYS II pect.ile d matter OIL
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over 'he tiahiiipai anu ot' joe,
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peeh coihpieeeu en- odfy To- 1903 ms
test man run was iilaoe April o. lsoo.
me pest ensi'eei' 'iie oest eHsiie
ana d speeiaas pfeiaiea man car, were
sel"ctea 10 carry ''ie tissue inissf'es 10
.iie "dii'i's iieei at o.. 9osepi
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ne eiihio ',e up ,i'o 5'ns Wy VI .lio
missouri d. i''''iiipa'' '''e iiioi '' I'M
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staiia MY years
1t was saiu II, 'oiie Napoleoii hiis n.
nave aseo at Aus'eiiisH. Nliasseuis
lake ior me so" 1Aus'iidii paiseiy'
Eng heei anu soiuiei' .,ie uansi vas
equal Inc rams were i'sht anu tiie
puiictuie was iio' always even .piii 10
Always capiicious month IN missou -,
ram suhsiiiiie anu hish winue' WIN
mu' an 1ie eiiiie. ne 'iach Wae ny
ptihds'ed' AS precau.ioiiafy nieaeuie
George ii. DAMS .lie tiaiiii nina 10
saeu oIoels .ha' an sN i' tr's ee'c "
lgpe Spiked secureiy anu no Trim vas
TO De aiioNea On 'he main iiiie "le,ii mi,
an hour OF TIE ias' iiiaii 'iine, T ue,
agahts at macon anu MOI - me
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Volcanic Action and Ice.

A novel explanation of glacial periods
was propounded by Professor w J.
Humphreys of the Weather Bureau at the
Cleveland meeting of the Astronomical
and Astrophysical Society of America.
Several times in recent years it has been
observed that great explosive volcanic
eisuptions 0Srakatoa, Pele, Katmai), by
charging the upper atmosphere, in the
isothermal region, with fine dust, have
markedly diminished the amount of solar
radiation received at the earth's surface
1t Seems evident that the effect or this
process must be to reduce the tempera-
ture of the air near the earth, since the
dust scatters a much greater amount OF
the solar radiation received from without
than of the terrestrial radiation received
from within, owing to the greater aver
age wave length of the latter Thus a
period of excessive volcanic activity if
long continued would produce the Their
NAL conditions of an ice age. The geolo-
gical record furnishes evidence that such
a period actually began shortly before
the last ice age and has continued with
diminishing intensity to the present time.
Scientific American.