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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-13

also sometimes the portrait or scene of
which enc has been thinking.
This alleged scientific discovery has
greatly puzzled French scientists, some
of whom say that Major Darget attrib-
utes 10 the agency Of vital fluid or
N-Rdy What is in reality accomplish
ed by the chemical properties of the
ink of the first covering Of the plate
and also by the perspiration of the
body.
They 60 not explain, however. how it
is that thought-s subjects also come To-
he reflected on the plate, and conse-
quenlly the N-Ray theory has obtain
ed serious support in France.
The supposed discovery has also
aroused much interest in Vienna and
Berlin, where Major Darget has been
asked To attend gatherings of scientists
and give demonstrations.
In an interview Major Darget, who is
a retired cavalry officer says
AS long ago as 1882 my studies in
animal magnetism and Spiriualism
convinced me that the vital fluid was
luminous and might affect photograph
io plates iust as ordinary light does.
Let mo describe one remarkable ex-
pertinent. / wrapped a plate in pa
per on which was printed a portrait of
Victor Hugo. ! then inclosed it in two
other coverings, which l sealed with
wax. During a Spiritualistic seance a
woman placed the packet on her body
and kept il there for two hours. When
he developed the plate l found thereon
4 photograph of Sarah, the bather, in
a hammock, of whom Victor Hugo
sang.
vital fluid is as "capricious as cleo
tricity and cannot be other than ami
nailed electricity. which can be in
telligently manipulated with the help
OF underlined forces.
''But the simple contact of plates, in
tie manner described, with my skin,
have obtained charming sketches of
TWO lovers of Venice, Alfred de Musset
and George Sand.
One day. after magnetizing a dry
plate, |, found. after the development,
= sketch resembling MephistopheIes. Al
the time of the Martinique disaster /
called upon enc of the victims TO reveal
himself at Spiritualistic meeting |
had placed Il covered phetogra p1aic
late on the table. When | unwrapped
he packet l found the plate covered
nth layers of gold which had come
rom the volcano. I showed 1t to six of
he principal photographers at Tours,
shere l was in garrison and all gave
tffidavits saying that they had never
seen such a plate before
The interviewer was apparently
keptical, so Major Darget handed HIM
| number of mysterious photogra phs
That of Mephistopheles was remark
lbly distinct; that of Sarah, the bath
'r. was also fairly plain. Major Darget
says that any one can test the theory.
for himself. The time to keep the plato
on the stomach or forehead depends on
The strength of ones vital fluid, he
says.-Paris Cor. New York Times.
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Among these was "UIncle joe Cannon,
former Speaker of the House, who
said good bye to the President before
departing for his home in DanVillet
Ill. With his cigar conspiGuously dis
played in manner familiar to official
Washington. the former Speaker stood
on the steps of the executive offices
talking to the correspondents who had
asked him the purpose of his visit
II came to say good bye to the Presi-
dent and wish him well,'' he said. He's
my President as we'll as anybody else's,
you know"
The President saw a number of visit
ors in the East room, among them So
Hcitor General Bullitt and Samuel Inter
myer. counsel for the money trust IN
vestigating committee, but the visits
were social in character. For a short
time during the afternoon the President
worked on his correspondence, but he
soon was out of doors enjoying the
spring weather The President spied
some magnolias in blossom. observed the
growing verdure of the White House
grounds and swung into a brisk walk
along Potomac drive. Only secret SER
vice man accompanied him, and he at
tracted practically no attention as he
strolled through the pathways.
The President returned to the White
House at s o'clock, where, with Mrs.
Wilson and their daughters, he met the
diplomatic corps and their wives at tea.
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GLADSTONE AND THE FENIANs.
Seriously Objected to Being Guarded
by the Police.

The attitude Of the militant suffra :
gettes toward cabinet ministers Is
causing Scotland Yard, which is re-
sponsibIe for the safety of legislators,
no small amount of worry and anxiety.
1t is nothing, however. compared with
that which prevailed at the Yard in
1881, during the Fenian scare and
anarchist riots. Sir Edgar Vincen.
was then chief of police, and in his
biography, which has just been pub
lished. we get some idea of the trying
time experienced by the police of that
period.
1t is related that after Michael Da-
Wits arrest it became necessary to re-
double the vigilance shown in guarding
ministers, especially Mr.. Gladstone.
"Notoriously he hated this surveillance
and" Vincent declares, bore him a
personal grudge for his unwelcome at
tentions."
On the day Davitt was captured a
cipher telegram was received at Scot
land Yard announcing that an attempt
would be made that evening on Mr..
Gladstones life. Sir Edgar went to
the G. O. NJ with the message
Well" said Gladstone, calmly, with
out turning Il hair. what do you want
me to do -
DO not walk between the house and
Downing street was the reply. Give
us moro help in your protection, more
information as to your movements"
lie promised acquiescence, but in a.
few days was as difficult as ever. and
constantly eluded his guardian. He
would step out of the garden gate
while the unfortunate officer was wait
ing in the front hall.
Gladstone" says Vincent, was one
of the very few threatened men whom
he had found insensible to personal
fear Mr.. Balfour was another. Fors-
ter only asked that he should not be
told Of threatening letters. Another
member of the cabinet twhose name II
would be unfair to give) always car
ried in his breast pocket loaded re-
volver and on the approach of any sus-
picious person. put his hand on it. He
was visibly unnerved by the strain, and
suffered from acute insomnia. Tit
Bits
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Work of Buffalo in Balkan War.

The pictures and reports of the war
the Balkans have brought into promi-
fence quadruped which, though well
;fown as a domestic animal in the East.
is very unfamiliar to western eyes-the
3uffalo. If mentioned at all this beast
generally thought of as a savage brute.
nut in the war area we find him. SAYS
the London Standard, doing duty as a
transport animal, equally with the famil.
ar OK, from which he is easily distin-
rushed in the illustrations by his low
'et' down-curving horns and muzzle car
led almost straight forward.
People who have to travel by buffalo
art are to be pitied, for the buffalo is
he slowest of all beasts of draught. 1t
$ his great strength that gives him the
advantage over the OK. The load that a
single yoke of buffaloes will pull is some
hing astonishing, and in India they are
llways given the kind of load which is
assigned to dray horses here, ordinary
lorse work-except passenger traffic-be-
ng there performed by the bumped oxen
known over here as zebus.
India, indeed. is the native home of the
buffalo, and it still exists there as a wild
animal Very wild indeed it is, too, and
IN old bull is very apt to attack unpro-
voked, contrary to the usual custom of
almost all wild animals. Even its tame
descendants retain plenty of spirit When
IN herd they do not fear the tiger. and
recognized method of getting stripes"
% bolt when he has taken cover is to
drive in a herd of buffaIoes TO rout HIM
out, which they will do to certainty il
they get on his scent.
Even tame buffaloes can make them
selves very unpleasant to people they
do not know and they are not at all sare
Tor European to approach in India, but
and here the more attractive side of
their character comes out-they display
toward their owners a faithfulness one
usually associates rather with dogs than
with cattle
The true Indian buffalo is really to a
great extent an aquatic animal, and when
of duty likes nothing so much as to lie
up to its ears in water, but, like the
duck it can IL necessary resign itself to
existence without a bath That an ami
NAL so nearly naked of skin as it Is
should thrive in so cold climate as is
that of eastern Europe is a remarkable
fact of acclimation.
Its presence in Italy is less surprising
but even there its Introduction seems tc
be merely of medieval date. Scientih-
| cally the tame buffalo is of interest al
having like the ass, varied so little from
the wild type. Pied buffaloes are as rars
as pied donkeys, though white and fawr
colored varieties occur as well as neutra
| black. Like the ass also. the buffalo is
despised animal, yet in local utility boti
beasts may surpass their more aristo
| cratic relatives, the horse and OK, Will
in intelligence and force of character the!
are certainly far superior.
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Mystery Still Surrounds the
Death of Rear Admiral Eaton.

From him the matter went to Medi-
cal Examiner Gilman Osgood.
Df. Osgood, today, said; II can only
say that / performed an autopsy, Sat
urday, and made a report to the dis
trict attorney as is required in all such
cases"
District Attorney Albert +. Barker
was even more reticent. He said: Il
can say nothing whatever regarding
this case at present"
The widow was distressed over re-
ports that her husband might have
died Of poisoning. 4 cannot account
for whatever mystery surrounds TIL"
death of Admiral Eaton" she said.
we believe that death was due to
natural causes"
The admirul's life was s1ddened,
some years ago, by the death OF his
foster child, Joseph Giles Eaton, Jr..
who had been adopted as an infant.
Mrs. Eaton feared that the child had
been poisoned, but the admiral never
accepted this theory and a chemical
analysis IF the stonach's contents
proved that he was right.
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Substitute for Rubber From Sea Fish.

A report coming from Amsterdam
tells of q factory established at Ymul-
den, at the mouth of the North Sea
canal in Holland, to produce suhsu-
tute for rubber. 1t is said that the
company operating the factory has
succeeded in producing substance
having the qualities OF rubber and
some special advantages over the gen.
uine. While the process is a secret, the
principal ingredient is said TO be fresh
sea fish, which are brought to YmuI-
den in vast quantities by the Dutch
fishing fleets.
According to reports, Is to is per
cent of natural rubber is added TO the
fish and the result is a substance as
flexible and elastic as rubber, but much
cheap r-about as 1.25 to in price
compared with real rubber. The low
price of this produce will be caused
partly by the by products which are
possible, for it is said that much albu-
men will be made from the fish and
that half of the factory is arranged
for the manufacture Of fertilizer Chi
cago Tribune.
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New Rifle Sight Invented.

Military authorities and big game
hunters are much interested in a new
rifle sighting system that is designed
to eliminate the necessity for esti-
mating distances and adjusting sights
m long range shooting.
OF the negative angle system, as the
invention is called, Sir George Green
hill. noted English bailistical ex-
pert, said in recent lecture: THE
new system proves that since the orr
gin of firearms our method of sighting
in active service rifle firing has been
wrong. The invention is likely to
bring about a revolution in the art of
shooting"
In brief, the system utilizes the well
known fact that the apparent size Of
an object decreases as the distance
Increases The user of the negative
angle sight is instructed to sight at a
point the height of the object under
it. If the arm We're the army rifle and
the target n man, the point of aiming
would be about five feet six inches be-
low the mans feet. With the regula-
ton ammunition as furnished for the
army rifle, the negative angle system
will insure hits on the man target at
all ranges from 100 to IS yards,
which is an increase of about 800
yards over the range of the present
battle sight.
At first it would appear that some
trouble might be met in sighting
However, no difficulty whatver is
found in aiming at a point five feet
| six inches below a mans feet, partic-
| ularly as the man is conveniently or
| the spot to afford gauge, very muct
| like foot rule photographed with an.
| other object to indicate comparative
heights.
| The new system is the invention o.
| III. Ommundsen, an Englishman, whit
won the kings prize at a recent Eng
| fish national shoot and who has beef
! high up in the same contest on sever
| al other occasions.
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BULL WITH STONE TOOLS.

A house, or habitation, built by hui
man beings ages and ages ago with
stone utensils, stone knives and axes,
was found last summer in the vicinity
of Point Barrow, Alaska. according To
a. L. Maxwell. government teacher.
Mr. Maxwell and three white men
from Point Barrow, while prospecting
along the beach of Boring sea in July,
discovered high cliff of gravel, the
strata of which it was decided had
been piled in that lofty way by ice-
bergs.
At a point where the action of the
waves had washed away gravel the
framework of a primitive house was
partly uncovered The remarkable
dwelling was well preserved in the
gravel. The roof was made of the ribs
Of an immense whale or some man,
moth beast long extinct. The ribs,
from twenty to thirty feet long, were
set to a center column of rocks after
the fashion of an umbrella. over these
the framework had evidently been
stretched. The gravel was washes in
so gradually that many of the ribs had
scarcely moved
Convinced of the primitive nature of
the dwelling because of the fact that
there arc no such bones seen anywhere
in the northern tundra, the men began
digging to see what lay on the floor,
and were successful in unearthing a
stone Ratchet weighing twenty-seven
pounds, a stone knife, or skinning
knife. fashioned like the modern draw
knife of the woodworker, and boda-
ka. or boat bailer, rock shaped. like
a trough.
The utensils and tools were carried
back to Point Barrow.
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VAST STORE OF GOLD.
Many Troops and Locks Guard tn
War Chests of Germany.


Even the modern burglar with hi.
oxyacetylene gas would find some diff
ficulty in getting at the Franeo-Ger
man war indemnity stored up in tn
julius Tower of Spandau.
Besides the e6,O00. 900 of the indemni
~ paid by France, there is also vas
qua nifty of specie which would come il
particularly useful if put into circula
ton during the present shortage
gold in the commercial world. But higf
military considerations make it imper
alive that the gold should lie there un
touched.
Of course, every precaution has beer
taken to guard this mass of treasure
says the London Standard. 1t is KEEP
in the citadel of the tower and on tive
stories of the citadel. AS many as 1,2O
large wooden chests are employed T.
contain this great mass of gold. Eacl
chest holds $4,000 in gold. so that alto
gether they are piled up one upon an
other thirty deep.
The inviola bility of the treasur'
chambers is secured in the followin
way: The rooms of the citadel are pro
vided with three doors apiece, and eacl
of them has several locks. The keys
these locks are kept by different high
officials of the war Office, so that Ne
one by himself can enter the chambers
The doors are of steel. with an GAL
core. and each door weighs 1900 pounds
This gives some idea of their strength
The gold is not simply piled up in
heaps, but is stocked in bags. Eacn
chest holds ten of these bags. The
chests themselves are so arranged that
a burglary seems impossible. Every
crew in the wood is sealed up. SO that
q breakage would appear out OF the
question 1t would, moreover. be I'M
mediately noticed. The weight of each
bag is known, as we'll as the weight
of each chest, down to gram.
An examination of the monstrous
piles of gold pieces by counting then
can naturally be only very seldom car
ried out. Nevertheless, the guardians
OF the treasure make every year sundrs
examinations, in the course of whicl
an assay of the metal is taken On sucl
occasions the chests are looked over u
make sure that the seals are absolute
~ untampered with the weight OF
row is taken, and some chests are ever
opened.
From these the sacks of gold are TAX
en-, and the pieces of gold are counted
Frequently the members of parliamen
: take part The precautions taken ar
, very thorough, and it seems inconceiV
! able that the most trifling theft coul'
be perpetrated. 1t only remains TO adj
that up to the present not the slightes
. deficiency in the whole stock has DC
Cured New York sun.
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MOUNTAIN MEADOW MASSACRE
w. T. Baker of Leslie, Ark, Youngest
of II Surviving Children.

w. T. Baker, SO years old, living al
Leslie six miles south of Marshall
Ark, is the youngest of the IL sur.
viving children of the Mountain
Meadow massacre, which occurred in
Utah, Septemer, 1867, when l20 men
women and children from Arkansas
were waylaid and brutally murdered
oy Mormons and Indians. His faith
er, mother, oldest sister several aunts
and uncles We're killed. and two of his
sisters escaped,
Mr.. Baker was born at Harrison
II. Eovegl&-. 10, 1856. being the
g q, ". 8aker. He was 9
'anth. otl WAch the massacre oc-
rref and when rescued in 1859 was
a2.=s ) yes4s old.
His two sisters who escaped are
lis. Sarah GLADDEN., now of Checotah,
Okla. and Mrs. Betty Terry of Har-
ison, Ark. At the time of the mas
acre they We're about 8 and years
Id respectively.
The story of the massacre fur
fishes one of the bloodiest chapters
American history. One hundred
md thirty seven Arkansas emil
rants from Carroll county. of which
Boone was then a part, were en- route
California in search of permanent
ZONES.
They were commanded by Captain
Alexander Fancher, and had a long
wagon train, 900 head of cattle
many mules and horses and consid-
cradle money. When they reached
fountain Meadow, Utah Territory,
hey We're waylaid and massacred by
dormons and Indians, in September
$50. Only Il children, ten girls and
even boys, between the ages of nine
months and nine years, escaped This
migrating party was said to form the
Healthiest train in horses, mules, cat
lie, wagons, carriages, property and
noney that ever attempted to cross
he plains in that year
Captain J. II. Carlton of the United
tates army was sent two years later
bury the bones of the dead and to
arm what he could about the
rhine. He proceeded from Los AM
eles, Cal, and made a careful ex-
mination. He interviewed Nor
IONS and Indians who lived near
he Mormons claimed the indians
ere responsible for the massacre,
ut the Indians said they were led by
20 Mormons, and the order to ex-
trminate the wagon train came from
alt Lake City.
captain Carlton found the bodies of
lildren murdered in their mothers
ms, and human hair hanging to.
he bushes where the crime occurred.
erected a monument over the
odles of the murdered people on
he north side of which was inscribed,
vengeance is mine, saith the Lord:
Will repay" On the reverse side
as inscribed; Here I20 men, women
nd children We're murdered in cold
God in September 1851 They were
from Arkansas
Mr.. Baker stated that while he
tved at Harrison, Ark, Captain
mes Lynch of Calhoun county
stayed over night with him and TOLD
m now he had helped to rescue the
hildren from the Mormons. Captain
lynch wore old, ragged clothes into
lie settlement where ii was thought
he children We're located. 1t seems
hat he pretended to be travelling and
lat some of his wagons needed re-
airing. He got permission to camp
/ desirable location until his
agons could be repaired Here the
act location of the children was
lund and the Mormons were ordered
} produce them or suffer what Nigh.
ollow.
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81. r." MEDICINE
Used by Three Generations.

In thousands of families all through
the cities and towns of the State.
Though the science of medicine in aid
ing nature to bring about cures is
sometimes said to be an experiment,
Il. FL Atwoods Medicine as a re-
lief for constipation, Indigestion, in
active liver and other similar troubles,
is so sure and the results so beneficial
that it has become standard remedy
for restoring health throughout New
England.
Read what NJ. J. Lothrop says
Il think your l.. r. Atwoods Medi-
cine the best for Dyspepsia of any
thing | ever used. My mother took i
40 years ago; my father uses it all tn
time and would not think of gettinl
along without il. ! use it in my fam
ily.r NJ. j. Lothrop, Notch, Me.
Large bottle 35 cents at all stores.
L. r." MEDICINE CO, Portland
Maine.
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PHOTOGRAPHS YOUR THOUGHTS.
Place Sensitized Plate on Stomach
and Vital Fluid Does the Rest.

The possibility of thought photogra-
ply through the agency of the Vital
Ray is again affirmed by Major Darges
BY wrapping an ordinary sensitized
plate first in printed newspaper or a
hand written document, then in an
opaque envelope, so that the actinlc
rays cannot penetrate TO the plate. and
next placing it on the stomach or fore
head. Major Darget reasserts, as has
already been stated in these dispatch
es. that the plate after an hour or 50
win, on development reproduce NOT
only the printed or written matter
which was on the first covering, but
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-13

Roumania's royal crown is perhaps
the grmmiest in the world. 1t was
made by command Of King Charles
from the steel of a Turkish gun cap
tured at Plevna. on May 10, 1881, after
this and the simple golden crown, with
out jewels or ornaments, made for the
queen had been consecrated, King
Charles took his own crown INTO his
hancs with the words: Il assume with
pride this crown, wrought from a can
non sprinlled with the blood of our
heroes and consecrated by the church
accept il as q symbol of the indepen-
oenel and power Of Iounania.'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-13

a machine has recently obtained a
patent from the United States patent
office covering a method of determin-
ing the direction of a sound wave or
of locating a source of sound. and in
doing this the waves emanating from
such source are divided and the divid-
ed parts are compared by bringing
first one part and then another
through common conductor. There
is an apparatus including two diamet-
rically opposite receivers, the direc-
ton of the source of the sound waves
being determined by stopping one of
the said receivers, thus Indicating into
which of the receivers the particular
sound wave was received.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-13
Marquard Signs
For 1913 Season

San Francisco, March 12.-"Rube.
Marouard, the New York National
League pitcher. who won two of the
three games taken from Boston in the
worlds series of 1912, today. signed
contract, pledging his early return TO
the team, now i'm training quarters at
Marlin, Texas.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-13

The United States is the worlds
largest producer of motion picture
films and good share of its product
is exported-more than sixty million
feet in 1912. Three-fourths of the
films exported went to Great Britain,