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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-13

Arthur B. Moody of Portland spent
Mrs. George Moody.
Mrs. Everett Houdlette and son
Harold returned Saturday to their
home in Dresden, after a weeks visit
with Mrs. A. E. Reed.
Miss Grace Knight has closed her
school at Kings Mills for weeks va
cation.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. B. Pray of Gardiner
were week end visitors at Mrs. Pray's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. F. M. Little.
Miss Ina Moody. who is working in
Gardiner, passed Sunday with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. r. c. Moody.
Mrs. Lizzie Cheney, lady So years
of age, went with her daughter, Mrs.
F. M. Little, to the entertainment held
at the Whitefield Plains chapel Friday
evening and enjoyed the evening as
much as any of the young people.
Mrs. Lucinda Butterfield and Miss
Helen Hewey of Phillips are visiting
Mrs. Butterfields sister Mrs. w. s.
Cleaves.
Alden Reed, Charles Mcdonald and
Harold Pushard returned Saturday
from a hunting trip in Greenyille.
Alden Reed had two fine deer and
Mcdonald and Pushard had one each.
Misses Josephine Kealey. Mary Cary
and Ida Dow, teachers in districts No.
2, 8 and 4, passed the week at
their homes.
Helen Preble of Randolph passed
the weekend with Miss Nellie Moody.
Mrs. Maggie Booker and Mrs. Wal
ter Mansir of Pittston were visitors
Friday at Mrs. Matte Stewards.
John A. Hanly has sold his farm to
parties in New Brunswick and they
will at once take possession.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-13
Change Of Corporation.

The following certificate of corpora
toin change has recently been filed at
the office of the secretary of State:
Capital stock of Mower Campbell
HOLSTER Manufacturing Company of
Kittery increased by 100000, the
same to be divided into 500 shares of
the par value of $25 each and to be
issued as preferred stock.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-13

Waterville from the top of Sherwin
hill TO a point below the junction OF
Geld Street and Water Street were
made necessary on account of rebuild
ing the street. In several places on
this change the grade of the tracks
was lowered IL inches or more to
conform to the grade of the street.
THE track in Fairfield, on Main
Street, from the junction of Lawrence
Avenue to the Maine Central Rail-
road crossing was moved from the
east side of the street to the center"
Old Letter Presented to Library.
A valuable old letter has been pre-
scented to the State library by Mrs.
Abbie H. Cushman of Buckf1eld, who
in a note to State Librarian Henry c.
Prince stated 1t could best be pre-
served in the library. The letter was
written Dec. 10, 1892, by Reuel Wash
burn of North Livermore, an uncle Of
former governor Israel Washburn to
Mrs. Cushman's grandfather. Cornelius
Holland, who was a practicing physi-
clan in Canton and who before his
death in 1870 held places in the
Maine House of Representatives the
State Senate and Congress.
The letter is of much interest as II
refers to the famous proclamation of
President Andrew Jacksons regarding
the threatened cessation of the State
of South Carolina. The letter reads
as follows:
North Livermore,
Dec. 10, 1882.
DR. Sir:
this day reed under your envelope
the Presidents Proclamation. / have
cad it through hastily but with great
interest Without stopping to in
quire what others may think of 1t.
cheerfully respond to your request.
1t is an able, patriotic, eloquent ap-
peal not only to the Carolinians but
to the nation and / hope it will not
be in vain. 1t speaks a language
that cannot be misunderstood. If the
President follows out the principles
advanced in his proclamation he will
| hope and trust receive the undivided
support of all the states certainly of
| New England. / might add more but
| thing it unnecessary. 1t is a general
| time of health.
Respectfully your ob't Svt
REUEL WASHBURN.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-13
Another Hunters Arm Shattered.

Arthur, son of Frank Holmes of
Grand Lake Stream, while hunting
Nov accidentally shot himself in
the right arm with charge of buck
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-13

shot. He was carrying the gun on
his shoulder and slipped and fell, ris-
charging the gun. He was taken to
the hospital, where everything is be-
ing done to save the arm. but the ~
suit is in doubt.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-13
Cut Down the
High Cost of
Cleansing

The best washing compound is
one part borax anu three parts
soap.
Twenty-Five cents worth of this
will go farther than fifty cents
worth of bar soap and twice as
far as a twenty-five cent package
of washing pow der.
1t works easier and gets out
more dirt 100. Anu with no injury
to fabrics, paint, etc.
1t costs less and you get twice
the results.
Prove it yourself. Order today
a twenty-five cent package OF 40
Mule Team Borax Soap Chips"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-13

The large increase IN membership OF
the 1912 meeting over the 1911 meeting
may be in part explained by the fact that
President Taft was present at the 1912
meeting.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-13
Teachers Meeting Attendance.

The record of registration at the recent
convention of the Maine Teachers Asso-
citation eclipsed all previous attendance
figures. The membership by counties has
been determined and is announced by the
secretary of the association as follows:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-13

The figures showing the increase in
membership of the Association are inter-
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1914-03-27
THE WILD AND WOOLLY WEST.
National Cowboy Rangers Organized to
Perpetuate Spirit Of Bygone Days.

National Cowboy Rangers Organized to
Perpetuate Spirit Of Bysone Days.
The true characteristics of the wild
and woolly west are to be perpetual
ed, according to the articles of incor-
poration filed at Cheyenne, Wyo., for
the blishment of the Supreme
Ranch Of the World, National Order of
Cowboy Rangers. with supreme head
quarters at Cheyenne. 1t is nonprof-
it making fraternal order, calculated to
give to the real cowboys of the range
and associate members whom they may
elect all of the elements Of freedom
and liberty best known to the man of
the saddle and lariat
Ex-President Roosevelt. James G.
Dahlman. the cowboy mayor of
Omaha; Lieutenant Governor ingalls,
of Kansas and other well known men
will be offered places in the supreme
ranch. Ranches will be established
in each state throughout the Union as
well as In every country where the
raising of live stock is an important
industry.
The Rangers will be a purely fra
ternal society, having some ritualistic
work and secrets which are not to be
put into print The initiation will be
held in much the same way as the
tenderfoot was made a part of the
ranch.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1914-03-27
WOMAN TAKES JOB
AS TOWN MARSHAL
Offer, Made In Spirit Of Lev
ity, Accepted by Writer.

Chesaning. Mich.-Blanche D. In
gals. editor and part owner Of the
Chesaning Monitor, a weekly news
paper. has been appointed marshal to
fill the vacancy caused by the dismiss
al of the man officer some weeks ago.
She has formally accepted the ap-
pointment and says she will begin the
work of improving the morals of the
town at once.
The old marshal was dismissed be-
cause the village officials had no
money to pay for his services, and he
was no sooner off the job than things
that upset the peace and dignity Of
this staid little town began to happen.
Miss ingalls, also began to write and
in her paper said uncompfimentary
things about the way things were
being run. The whole place was "gO-
Ing to the bad because there was no
one to maintain order" she often
limited
But the officials remained firm until
now and kept the marshal job open
until special meeting Of the council
was called and the president named a
man for the place. The other men,
bers declined to confirm the appoint
ment and Miss Ingalls, name was sug-
gested The vote for her was unani-
nous, partly. she says, because they
thought l wanted to run the town."
At the outset Marshal Ingalls, faces
a knotty problem. as there is no Jail
''f1t to house a human"
And" she says, II am never going
to lock anybody up in that place they
call Jail | don't know what I'm 60
ing to do, but I'm going to do some
thing. Things will begin to pop here
pretty quick and l am going to be
right in the center of the pepper"
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1914-03-27
MICE HABITS HIS DEFENSE.
Doctor Relies on Natural History to
Defeat Claims of His Valet.

Doctor Relies on Natural History to
Defeat Claims Of His Valet.
Dr. E. Doyen Of Paris is being sued
by q former valet named PignOl for
$21O, representing, SO Pignol says. adj
vances made to the doctor for travel
ing expenses and amounts disbursed
for the upkeep of 500 white mice, 100
white rats, 80 guinea pigs and 100 rab-
bits.
The doctor asserts that PignOl has
greatly exaggerated the number Of an
imals in his charge.
DR.. Doyen's argument throws an In
teresting light on the habits of white
mice. 1t appears that white mice can
only be kept in patches Of four. II a
fifth is introduced the intruder is de-
voured instantly.
Moreover the mother mouse is of SO
nervous a temperament that IL the cage
is touched or even looked at during
the first days of her maternity she
promptly eats the little ones
DR.. Doyen argues that because OF
the peculiar habits of white mice it
would be quite impossible for Pignol to
keep 500 of them in the small space at
his disposal.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1914-03-27
COMMODORE BARRY STATUE.
Parade Of Soldiers and Sailors Part of
Elaborate Program In Washington.

Parade Of Soldiers and Sailors Part of
Elaborate Program In Washington.
Representatives Of the Irish Ameri.
can organizations interested In the
statue to be erected in Franklin park,
Washington. to Commodore John Bar.
ry, May 16. have decided to follow the
unwilling, which is to take place in
the afternoon. with a banquet in the
evening and to precede it the day be-
fore with pilgrimage to Mount Yer
non.
Some of the nations foremost ora.
tors will be asked to speak at the
banquet. Wreaths will be laid on the
tomb of Washington at Mount Vernon
because of Barry's association with the
first president.
The war department will be asked
to designate Major General Barry to
comma I'D parade Of United States
soldiers, sailors and marines on duty
in and near Washington just before the
unwilling.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1914-03-27
Surgeon Who Transp|anted
Glands Expects Cures.
DUE TO CARREL DISCOVERY
Rockefeller Institute Expert Found
That Secreting Organ of the Human
Body Retains Its Vitality; and Chi
cago Doctors Experiments Are
Based on That Fact.

The surgical world is awaiting the
result of remarkable operations per-
formed in Chicago on persons suffer
ing from dementia precox and in which
cases glands from dead persons were
transplanted to the patients.
These operations took place at the
Dunning State Hospital For the In
sane and were performed by DR.. G.
Frank Lydston, who has been work
ing on the idea of gland implantation
for fourteen years, and the discovery
of DR.. Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller
institute in New. York that some
glands live after death showed him
the way. The greater part OF recent
medical and surgical research, the sur
geon said, has been directed to studies
Of the various glands of the body the
functions of which heretofore have not
been understood or have been under
stood only slightly.
Tissues Retain Vitality.
Particularly the thyroid gland and
the spleen have been under the micro
scope of research. DR.. Carrel has
found the tissues in them retain their
vitality long after what is known as
death.
DR.. Lydston was assisted in the last
two operate by DR.. George Leinin-
ger, superintendent of the Dunning
hospital. The patients are girl sew
enteen years old, who has been suffer
ing for two years. and woman, TWEEN
ty-six years. who has been insane for
five years.
The Dunnlng operations followed an
announcement by DR.. Lydston that he
had performed similar operation on
himself and also on a woman fifty-six
years old.
I'VE are going to wait for results
now" said DR.. Leininger, "and If we
see that the operations have been a
success we shall go right ahead and
cure more insane patients"
Glands Taken From Dead Girl.
In the operation on the seventeen
year-old girl DR.. Lydston implanted a
gland which.was a twin-to one he i'm
planted in a woman ffty-nine years
old nearly a week before. This gland
had been kept in cold storage" since
that time. Both the glands he used
and the one implanted in the woman
six days before were removed seven
days earlier from the body of an eight
een-year-old girl who had been killed
by fracture of the skull.
Dr. Lydston believes that the glands
which he has implanted have the func-
ton Of supplying certain secretions to
the brain and nerve cells.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1914-03-27
STORY OF THE
R0kEBY VENUS
Painting Suffragette SIashed
Has Interesting History
COVETED BY AMERICANS.

Fear That England Would Lose Velas-
Guez MASTERPIECES Led to Public Sub
scription to Keep It-Acquired by
National Gallery Seven Years Ago.
Genuineness Once Disputed.
Inc slashing of the Rokeby Venus
oy an English suffragette centers
world interest upon this wonderful
painting
The Rokeby Venus took it's name
from Rokeby hall. in Yorkshire, where
IL hung for many years before it was
Drought to London. The painting
shows Venus half reclining before a
mirror. AT the time the painting was
brought to the national gallery in Lon
don. about seven years ago, several
Americans tried to buy it. The ma
donal gallery had to pay what was
then considered an enormous sum to
retain the painting in England.
In 1906 the picture was sold under
an order of the court of chancery for
$4,000 to Messrs. Agnew & Sons, and
an outcry was started that America was
after the Velasquez A sum of $685.
oOO was raised by public subscription
and the painting was obtained for the
national gallery When, in April. 1910,
q doubt as to its genuineness was set
on foot by critic in the Morning Post
Lord Balcarres. who had charge of the
fund, announced that he had a stand
Ing offer from an art collector to buy
the picture for $275,OOO. 1t was said
at the time the offer came from an
American. The genuineness Of the
masterpiece was soon afterward es-
tablished to the satisfaction of all art
critics.
The painting is one of the very few
works of Velasquez which depict the
nude human figure. The Spanish in
QUESTION prescribed fine of 1900 due
ats, accommodation and a years ex-
lie for any one who painted an 'im-
modest picture" In the later years Of
his life Velasquez painted two pictures
Of the woman depicted in this painting.
One Of them was called Venus and
Adonis" and the other Psyche and Gu
pid." Both were listed among the pic
lures In the Alcazar at Madrid in 1866,
1856 and 100 and then disappeared.
Charles B. Curtis in his book I've
lasquez and Murillo" suggests that
both paintings were in the palace at
Madrid when it was burned in 1874,
that Venus and Adonis" was destroy
ed and that Psyche and Cupid" sur
vived and was the painting which
eventually fell into the hands of Rob-
ert Merritt of Rokeby Park. in York
shire, and came to be known as the
Rokeby Venus" There is a black
spot near the head of Cupid which has
been attributed to scorching in the fire.
Mr.. Merritt bought the. picture for
$500 on the recommendation of Sir
Joshua Reynolds
Miss May Richardson. the suffra-
gette who mutilated the valuable can
vas. was arrested on July last for
dropping petition in the lap of King
George while he was driving through
Bristol. She served three months for
that. The moment she was released
she went to Hampton and was arrest
ed there with Miss Rachel Pearce,
charged with setting fire to the former
home Of Chancellor Tristram. Miss
Richardson was sentenced to Jail for
four months. but would take no food
and was set free when physicians said
she had appendicitis.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1914-03-27
BLOOD FROZEN 10000 YEARS.
Taxidernists Discover Liquid In AMI
ma! Found In Ice Block

Taxidernists Discover Liquid In AMI
NAL Found In Ice Block.
Paris.-The taxidermists at the Nat
ural History museum are now prepar
ing the body of a mammoth which
lived 10000 years ago and was recent
iy found frozen In Siberian ice block.
The animal was so large that 1t had
to be quartered before being brought
to the Paris museum.
The experts discovered in vein a
few drops of brownish substance which
proved on analysis to be blood which
had remained liquid through 400 cen
turtles.
The carcass. was In excellent condi-
ton, the hide being intact and the
flesh showing no signs of decomposi-
ton
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1914-03-27
RABBIT SKINS BY MAIL.
Sent by Parcel Post From WASHINGTON
State to Paris

SAdkS 10 TdTISs
Tacoma. Wash.-From Chewelah, in
stevens county. this state. $4,000 rab-
bit skins have just been sent by parcel
post to Paris for manufacture into fur
hats.
The shipments were made by men
who rounded up many rabbits and paid
ranchers for thousands more Ranch
ers hope that market will be found
for millions of jack rabbits, now re-
garded as pests throughout eastern
Washington and Oregon.
Each package of pelts for Paris re-
quired blank customs invoice on a
linen tag specially provided by the
pOstoffice
Surrounding counties and adjacent
states are deluging Chewelah with let
tiers of inquiry regarding the rabbit
market. The department of agricul-
ture is seeking Information to assist in
extending the market.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1914-03-27
TWENTY DOGS TO EACH BABY.
Legislator Shocked by Conditions In
Boston's Back Bay.

Boston.-That the Back Bay has
twenty dogs to every infant full
score of kennels t. each perambulator,
was the assertion made by Represent
alive John L. Donovan. the Mayor Of
Chinatown in opposing the bill au-
thorizing cities and towns to provide
dogs and cats.
"Out in the Back Bay" he said,
there are more cats and dogs than
there are children and | am not sur
prised If the Back Bay has become
alarmed over its unfortunates l say
let the Back Bay take care of it's cats
and dogs. l hope the bill will be
killed"
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1914-03-27
Proposes s15,ooo,ooo Air Fleet.

Washington. a $15.OOO.O 900 aeroplane
feet was proposed in bill by Repre-
sentative LIE gle of Florida. He
painted picture of cities being de-
stroyed by bombs and compared the
foreign air fleets with that Of the
United States. which. he said. was
composed of twelve obsolete man kill
ing aeroplanes"
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1914-03-27
TURNS HEN INTO ROOSTER.

That the sexes are not so def
nitely separated as has been as
sumed has been demonstrated by
Professor Pesard of Paris. who,
by means of grating. succeeded
in changing the characteristics
of a rooster and hen. The
rooster, which is now living q
normal existence. has lost his
brilliant plumage. spurs ana
comb, while the hen has develop
ed all those features.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1914-03-27
LONDON HAS ESCALATORS.

Thirty Thousand Hide on NEW 10y"
the First Day.
London.-London has been given an
other new toy to play with Escalators
at Charing Cross Embankment station
connecting the district and the Water
loo railways were opened. and it is
estimated in the first three hours 49,
600 persons had made trips on them.
When the eScalators ceased revolv-
ing in the early hours the total cargo
for the day probably reached 10000
passengers
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1914-07-22
Advice to the Middle-Aged.

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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1914-07-22
DAVIS.
ISLESFoRD.
July 20.

Mrs. Betsey Young left last week for La
moline for visit with relatives.
Mrs. w. e. Hadlock, who has been very
i'll of bronchitis, is gaining slowly.
Miss Bessie Spofford, who was employed
in Massachusetts, was called home by the
death OF her father.
Harper Sibley and family, of Rochester,
N. Y, who have rented the futile cottage
for the season, arrived July Is.
Friends and relatives OF Mrs. Gilman
Stanley, Of Cranberry Isles, regret her ill.,
ness at the Bar Harbor hospital.
Tyler Stanley, who has been in poor
health the past few years, went to the Bar
Harbor hospital last week for treatment
He has the sympathy of the entire COM
munity.
The annual fair Of the Islesford Thimbls
club will be held at the Neighborhooo
house Wednesday, July %, at 10 a. m
Proceeds will be equally divided between
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1914-07-22
The Last Speaker of Cornish.

In the little village of st. Paul, near
Penzance, there is monument erected
to the memory of Doll. or Dolly. Pent-
reath, who attained the age of 1o2 and
was the last woman who spoke the
Cornish tongue This is the inscrip-
ton: Here lleth inferred Dorothy
Pentreath. who died In TIT. said to
have been the last person who con-
versed In the ancient Cornish, the Pc
culiar language of this country from
the earliest times till 1t expired In the
eighteenth century in this parish of
St Paul. This stone is erected by the
prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte. In I'M
ion with the Rev. John. Garnett, vicar
of St Paul, June, 1860. Honor thy
father and thy mother that thy days
may be long upon the eind which the
Lord thy God giveth thee exodus xx.
12)."-London News.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1914-07-22
Tho World a Lookino Glaze.

Anatole France. in one Of those de-
lightful monologues of his which, when
he receives his friends and all who
care to visit him at the villa Said, go
by the name of conversation" though
nobody ever talks but NJ. France, told
US one day about his mother.
"She used to sacrifice my father to
me little" he said. 81 always came
first She taught me all day long. and
her lessons have been my guide ever
since. / remember one day she show
ed me some little faces over a door
way. You see they are laughing she
said. A few days afterward. when we
passed them again. she told me to look.
They are not laughing today she said.
They cannot know you've been naugh-
ty, You think. and yet you can see
they're not pleased with you. 1t will
always be like this. Whenever you
do wrong everything will look re-
proachful. The leaves, the sun, the
moon. win look unhappy when you
have misbehaved- The world is a
looking glass, my boy John N. Ra-
phael In London Globe.