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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-08-28

home in Phillips Friday for visit with
her parents.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-08-28

Mr.. and Mrs. Bay E. Estes anu children
of Boston were guests of relatives FRI
day in the city.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-08-28

Mrs. Hillman and daughter Goldie
have gone to Houlton for a visit with
relatives for few weeks.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-08-28

f. r. Drummond left Friday for Rich
mond, where he will attend the camp
meeting.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-08-28

Hon. Horace Purinton returned Friday
afternoon from business trip to Ban
gor
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-08-28

Ray W. Blanchard. formerly of this
city, now of Gardiner. was calling FRI
day on friends here.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-08-28

Judge F. Wade Halliday of Newport
was calling Friday on friends in the city.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-08-28
VIATERvILLE

B. H. Gates Of East Vassalboro was
a business caller Friday in the city.
Judge F. Wade Halliday of Newport
was calling Friday on friends in the city.
Fred B. Whi.ehouse of South China
was Friday a business caller in the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bay E. Estes anu children
of Boston were guests of relatives FRI
day in the city.
Hon. Horace Purinton returned Friday
afternoon from a business trip to Ban
gor
Ray ". Blanchard. formerly of this
city, now of Gardiner. was calling Fri
day on friends here.
Mrs W. A. Shaw and son. who have
been guests Of relatives in Houlton, re-
turned home Friday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Covelle Of North
Fairfield were in the city Friday on
shopping and business trip.
E. r. Drummond left Friday for Rich
mONG, Wnere ne Will dttSllu TIE So1hp
meeting.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar ]. Brown have
returned from visit at Camp hennebec
at Owls Head.
Mrs. J. G. Towne went to her former
home in Phillips Friday for visit with
her parents.
Mrs Hillman and daughter Golde
have gone to Houlton for visit with
relatives for a few weeks.
A clean slate at the Municipal court
Friday, making it an exceptionally
clean week so far.
Mrs. John Fisher of East Vassal-
boro was in the city Friday calling on
friends.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-08-28

Fred B. Whi.ehouse of South China
was Friday a business caller in the city.
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VIEW OF SING SING.

: a e visitor at Sing Sing
n wish to convey an Idea Of
n the impression one gathers
on making a tour through the
prison.
The approach is dreary enough, the
dingy, gray buildings rising on all
sides, relieved only by a patch Of
green in the centre of a little stretch
Of sand. As YOU enter the prison gate
separating you from the outside world
The iron door clangs behind You and
il locked securely by the jailer. The
sensation this gives one makes you
poor convicted ones must feel on being
u off from their fellow men.
To the uninitiated the first view OF
the narrow. cramped cells Nils one
with horror; the old crumbling walls
seem like the interior of a grave,
inside of which instead Of a coffin you
see an iron bunk. This when let down
looks a. II II might leave about six
inches between it and the opposite
wall. Imagine a well built man of
six feet or 30 confined In these close
quarters!
Some OF these walls have been
painted indigo blue or dull green. with
the idea perhaps of cheering up the
inmates. one feels that eve this
paint cannot destroy the germs Turk
ing in these mouldy, orumhling stones
How many men have rotted out thell
existence in these narrow graves!
Now and then you see posted on
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IABITUAL LYING AS A FACTOR TOWARD HEALTH

that the sum of noel impulses accu-
mulating in the brain centres may
serve to produce serious or fatal shock
before the operative procedure is lin
shed. II there is no immediate com
plication of this kind. then the mem
DRY OF the unpleasant experience is
stored in the subconsclousncss, to pro-
duce u~nmistakablc nervousness and
other evil results years later,
II il Is risky and harmful to add
noel impulses to the small risk in
VOWED in the administration of an an
aesthetic it is likewise injurious to add
fear impulses to the shock of slight
injuries in childhood. The surest way
to train III "A ervou child, to make
child grow up a nan IS to
coddle his nervous system by always
telling the whole truth and nothing
but the truth. If You wish to make
the child a strong man you have got
to lie To him %eternally. tell the lie, act
it and live Il.
one hears Of miracles produced by
the doctors famous bread pills, a few
OF these stories undoubtedly are based
upon facts. The most of them are
very commendable lles-the doctors
get into the habit of lying for patients
good and II is hard to stop II even out
OF office hours.
The better liar a doctor Is the more
certain is he to have a large and lucrl-
tive practice. If he were To tell tho
truth as a matter Of habit his patients
would and should desert him. G. r..
Shaw declared hat the family doctor
dare not tell the truth, for fear his pa
tients would call another doctor.
That isn't the reason.
What difference would it make who
does the lying, so long as Il Is lone ar
tistically and with tincsse" The doc
tor dare not tell the truth because he
is under oath to follow out a Hippo
cratic miXim: Do good II YOU can, hut
do no harm. llabitual lying is the
doctors method of doing no harm.
II must never be forgotten that
there are two great classes or species
Of lies: lies intended To benefit the
victim and lies likely to injure the VIC
tim. Certain diagnostic lles-like tell
ing a patient he has a "wcak spot in
one lung, or "A slight catarrhal con-
dition in the right apex" when thr fact
Is the doctor doesn't know for sure
whether II Is tuberculosis or not-suyh
lies are unworthy of a self-respecting
man. Sui when the patient already
knows what IL the matter with hts
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MARY Contrary, what are o tax
ing? l never saw anything like it,"
That has a ring OF sincerity in it.
Mary replies: WHAT? I'm not
getting fat-am II" Are you!
You're so fat you actually waddle.
Mary-it's true-you waddle. Why, l
was going TO pass without speaking
to you. couldn't believe 1t n
Mary Contrary"
Try 1t on Mary and watch her grow.
Get all your friends to help to fatten
her up. The more the fatter.
Parents do not lie to their children
as much as they should. IL there is
one subject who responds beautifully
to suggestion 1t is the little child. the
mere baby.
When the little one has a fall or
injuries himself in play in anyway, it
Ia the wise parents clue to laugh it
| or, to belittle the incident, 10 deny
thai 1t hurts or that there Is any
| hing to fear as a result of the injury.
Unfortunately this is just the opposite
of what Is usually done,
A child has a slight accident OF
| some kind and the parents or others
| make a great to do about It. display
| fear and anxiety about the possible i'll
effects and in fact do everything pos
| sible to impress the poor child's mind
with noel impulses which are bound to
do harm ultimately II not at once.
Teach the child by precept n exam
pie to laugh off every little mishap,
Lie to him as much as necessary to
accomplish this.
You will find II Q mighty good habit,
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Neuilly.

versity unit Of Cleveland. with DR..
George W. Grille. who made a sensa-
ton with his novel application Of
an@sthetic gases.
"1n July comes the unit of the Uni
versity Of Pennsylvania. and in Octo-
Der that of the Rush Medical College
Of the University of Chicago. Each
tries to come better prepared, II pos
sible, than the other These are the
guests.
Five permanent surgical divisions
receive them. DR.. Charles Win
chester Du Bouchet. formerly of
Philadelphia, surgeon in chief of the
hospital. heads one of these services
Then come two French surgeons
Major Mingot and DR.. Heitz Boyer
A remarkable Jaw department is di-
rected by DR.. George s. Hayes, for
merry OF Canandaigua, n. Y, and DR.
Davenport. formerly of Union. y. Y.
and DR.. Scarlet OF Erie, Pa. for the
eyes. There are many dslicate Jaw
and eye cases.
The bandage makes bandages
for all. 1t Is IN. its second million.
"Neverthebe SIS, we wash. sterilizf and
use over again all our aux bandages
and dressings" says Miss Gassette
Even the paper in which our pack
ages are due up serves three times
being cut over when returned to us
Such economy Is needed and We like 10
give smart. fresh things 10 poor
French hospitals"
The bandage room Is not one room
but several great halls.
How did you, an artist. take
charge of such a Department. she
was asked.
II was In Chicago. where | vas to
have painted George w. Reynolds
president OF the Commercial National
Bank she said. When war was
declared ! quit America. commissions
and all. / arrived in Paris in mid
August, glad 20 find mother tran
gully holding the fort In the fiat
That night I wrote DR.. Gros. offering
my services in any capacity. BY re-
turn mail he told me to come to the
Lycee Pasteur. The building was al
most ready, the beds were being car
ried In and a few nurses getting thing.
in order. In the operating room thu
head operating nurse, Miss Doane, Sc
me 10 rolling bandages. I asked II
she needed more help, and as she salt
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Just wait half an hour and see"
All this time the patient lay uncon-
scious. But one may be unconscious
and still capable OF receiving GER
tain ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS i'm
pulses, as DR.. Grille has termed them.
That is, although the consciousness Is
In allegiance, certain OF the brain cen.
tres are still awake and active and
these centres can still feel impulses
from the outside world, particularly
fear impulses. And. whether inten-
tionally or not, the doctor was minis
tering to these subconscious or vital
brain centres. He was e~ndeavoring
to change the environment from that
Of despair to hat Of h~opefulness and
assurance.
AS a matter of fact the patient re-
covered and is alive to-day. She never
knew how near death the fears OF
her family had brought her. nor how
bravely the doctor lied in order to
supply an antidote to the evil effects
Of those fears! OF course, this is only
an incident, possibly a coincidence.
but, nevertheless, the doctor in the case
firmly believes that psychology, mem
tai therapeutics. practical Christian
Science, whatever name you please to
give the treatment, was the straw h "A
saved her, and his opinion is by no
means based on one or two such incl
dents.
II a group Of individuals were to
conspire together In the effort to de-
stroy a certain person they might find
an effective mean in psychology. All
that would be necessary Is that each
OF them at every opportunity should
inquire solicitously and ~anxiously
about the victims health, remarkinR
upon his pale color, the strange look In
his eyes, or any other unpleasant fea-
ture they might agree upon. For a
time he could perhaps stand this form
of assault, but soone or later, Just as
certainly as mind controls matter, he
| would succumb to the depressing In
huence of suggestion and start taking
something for his health.
Mems sana in corpore sano' Is q
principle accepted by every physician
Now, II Is a poor rule that won't work
both ways. If 1t Is possible, through
suggestion, to batter down "A sane
mans defences and make him III, II is
also possible to build up health In the
same Identical manner.
That is to say, II the world in gen.
eral would conspire to Jolly every In
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valid and semi-invalid, TO lie like a
gentleman about his appearance at
every meeting, to remark how fine ne
Is looking, how At ne must feel, how
much better his color II than II used
to be, and so on, a lot Of patent med
icines would have to be shipped back
to the factory.
You may suspect we are verging
on New Thought or Christian Science.
In 80 far az these systems of psycho-
logical therapeutics tend to cheer the
mind and inspire hope and confidence
in the outcome OF an illness they are
to be commended. But while we ad-
vocate habitual lying for the general
veal we do not believe you can make
the average human being believe he
Is not Ill when he has quinsy or a
broken leg. There Is n limit beyond
which even an experienced liar may
not venture.
Here IL a little experiment that
works so famously that II Is worth
mentioning. Haven't you noticed how
the family doctor, when he Ii dispens-
ing the second bottle Of tonic after an
illness, invariably co~ngratulates you
upon your improvement. saying how
much better your pulse feels and how
satisfactory the progress Of the case
is in every respect?
What the doctor hands you along
with the tonic is quite as good medi-
cine as he puts in the tonic. II not bet
ter. The tonic he often varies. ac-
.cord!ng to season and the modes and
fashions in tones; but the psychology
remains always the same.
There are a few million young
women in the world who are forever
striving, IN vain. to put on a few
more pounds weight. There are many
more women OF thirty or beyond who
are striving even harder to put on
ten or twenty pounds. Psychology is
as e~fficacious for the one purpose al
II Is for the other.
IL a young m Is told I've and
over again by all her friends that she
Is certainly getting plump she gets
plump, and no mistake about 1t. II
a stout woman 10 congratulated often
enough on her success In putting of
weight and besought to divulge the
secret to ner less fortunate sisters
she will unquestionably reduce.
OF course, this kind OF therapeutics
must be artistic. It doesn't do &c
say half heartedly, why, l really he.
lieve you're getting stout-positiyely
stout" You have got to touch It uI
here and there to make II seem real
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yes | began looking for women out
side. At that moment the trained
nurses. waiting for wounded to arrive,
actually came into what is now the
principal surgical dressing room and
helped prepare supplies"
Miss Duane had furnished us with
sample packages of dressings which
had been decided on by DIR. Du Bou-
chet. the surgeon-in-chief We made
two sizes OF combines. a dressing pack
age composed Of six sponges, six cotton
balls and n ~applicator. Operating
sponges were lone up in packages of
twenty-four. gauZe rolls and three
sizes OF bandages. These were the
only things we made until we COM
menced to receive patients early in
September, when large gauze COM
presses were asked for and huf
& auze. Since have been added various
dressings for the dental. oculist and
other departments-until to-day "
make fifteen standard packages. all
done up and sterilized in paper, as
you see"
Miss Gassette Is a parsonage in the
American Latin Quarter. The luxu-
rious double studio Nat which h
and her mother have kept at 10
Rue Boissonade since 1896 IL a kind
OF social art centre. Miss Gassette
has a book coming out after the war,
amusinEly ingenious In subject, AN
swers to the Questions Asked Me
About Paris in Sixteen Years" So in
answer 10 the questions Of the doc
tors. Can you make this appliance
or that" she always answered Yes"
and did II.
II have increased my department
until l have ffty-five women and
young girls working in the bandage
room and twenty outside"
one OF the most faithful workers
Is Mrs. Tiffany, unit Of the Duchess
Of Marlborough. She has not missed
"A day since she entered. The same
Is true OF Mrs. Douglas Of St. Louis.
the Countess de B%allincourt (who was
Miss Holbrook). the Vicomtesse de
Breteuil (who was Miss Edith Grant),
Lucy Lee Robbins. the painter; Mrs.
Engelberg Of San Francisco. Mrs.
James A. Bunnel OF Chicago. Mrs.
Edmond Gros, wife of the doctor (she
was a Miss Patton OF Curwensville,
Pa, and Mrs. Harry Ellis, wife Of
the well known Paris photographer,
who halls from Lima, Ohio.
She praised. also. Mrs. Rummel.
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daughter OF Morse. inventor OF the
electric telegraph, the only and origi-
nal S. +. Il. Morse.
she has not missed "A day since
October" said Miss Gassette. Three
other m fairly well along in
years add dignity to the department
and turn out "A deal of work. They
are the mother of DIR. Gros. a San
Francisco woman; Mrs. Norman r.
Gassette. my mother. and Mrs. Emily
Heilig."
This Is no place to speak of the
wards; we'll known American women
have charge OF them; or OF the Amcri-
can trained nurses; wealthy American
women at home pay their salaries,
although many OF them work for
nothing. The bandage room is a
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-01
RECORD GOVERNMENT SALE.
Alaskan TOwnsite Lots, 45O In
Numh~r, Hiring &I33, 900.

SEWARD, Alaska, July Si.-A report
on the sales Of lots in the TOWNSHIP
Of Anchorage, cook Inlet headquarters
for the Alaska Engineering commission;
UP TO July - shows that A5N lots have
been disposed Of At a tota! OF $4,000,
The sales for the first day, including
a night session. otalled s5s,470, which
breaks all department records for one
sale.
commissioners Frederick Mesrs and
W =. Edcs with Andrew thristensen,
head of the Alaska division of the
United States Land Office. recently
visited Matanuska Junction. the point
from which the branch line to the Ma
,anuska coal fields viii leave the main
line Of the railway. They have decided
that no towrsite survey will be made
there this year.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-01
Modern Practitioner S
Duty Is to Combat
the Evil Effects
Wrought by Fears of
the Family

and is receiving the benefit of
proper treatment for the tuberculosis,
then il is fair aud right for the doctor
to lie to him acknowledgements him out
better then ne is, in order to keep up
the courage.
Diagnost!c lies may do much harm.
but the therapeutic lie, the habit Of
living, is "A factor OF health not suit-
realized by many people,
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world in itself.
What has most struck yeu?" Miss
Gassette was asked.
The patience of the wounded she
answered; the gratitude Of the men.
They lose legs and arms. What will
they do? They will get along some
way. No complaining or rcpining.'
So they make vast efforts 10 saw
them.
My eye fell on n lot of wooden
frames with n sliding cradle inside of
each. Her face lit with pride.
THE leg puller," she said.
She explained. The ncN worse
thing TO losing a leg Is to have II
knit wrong The bone should knit
end on end to make a strong sup
port; but the contraction of the flesh
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Medical Science Awak.
ening to the Import
ance of Deceiving the
Patient With Good
Cheer
~ WILLIAM BRADY, NJ. ID.

~ WILLIAM BRADY, N. ID
4 \ elderly woman was i'll with
~ pneumonia under the care OF
her niece, q graduate nurse.
The progress Of the disease
va fairly moderate, as such cases go,
until the end Of the hrst week. Then
one night about ~ o'clock the nurse
hastily summoned all the members OF
The family and sent for the doctor.
On arriving at the house the doctor
found every n in tears. The nurse
met him outside of the sick with
The Information that she feared 1t was
oil over. on feeling the patients pulse
he doctor realized that she was ex-
uemely weak. But he was young, OPP
um!st!c and aggressive. 1t annoyed
hin 10 have the family crowding
round, crying and muttering half
whispered prayers.
de turned to the nurse and Issued
come orders, She'll come around all
nigh" he declared. Get busy, now"
"oh, doctor, she's dying now" the
nurse insisted, She knew It herself
She asked for the family so she could
Do them good-by,"
You hurry up and get that hypo-
GERM ready ordered the doctor.
ma ~ routed the nurse, he next
'ufn'i liz attention to the family
NON, dear people, you must all leave
me room at once. When the time
comes ! Will call YOU back. but for the
p'esen. we need all the air and room
'here Is here
ne shooed them out OF the o re-
Nark.ns once or twice In very firm
,xAes; Certainly not! She'll CONF
'u1d in a little while, ! promise you
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-04-26
times as many as In 1861.
Coincidence.

times as many as In 1861.
Coincidence.
What the Federal navy did in
keeping the Confederacy cut off
from outside supplies was without
question decisive. Had the South
been able to continue to exchange
cotton for war material, the strug-
gle would have been greatly pro-
longed. The Southern ports we're
sealed against blockade runners;
Farragut held the Mississippi;
fast ships destroyed privateers;
Federal agents watched foreign
shipyards SO closely that only
three or four Confederate COM
merce destroyers got loose to
harry Federal shipping-the rec
ord of the Alabama under Cap
tain Semmes shows how import
ant that branch of the Federal
navy's work was.
1t was a remarkable coincidence
that the same day should have
seen the completion of the Con
federate Merrimac. and of the
Federal Monitor--but to naval
men 1t il rather one Of the Incl.
dents of preparedness. These
two vessels marked the end oil
the wooden fighting ship. though
1t is hard to understand now
why thed evelopment OF the iron
clad was delayed SO long, for, n
1915 the United States had
launched the Demologos, an iron
clad that proved itself practica
and seaworthy In trials.
THE next instalIment Of thil
tabloid history Of the American
navy will be told In this papoI
t0lnorrow-)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-04-26
MATANUSKA COAL NOT TO
GO ON SALE UNTIL 1917

WASHINGTON, d. c., April 26.
Notwithstanding work is to be-
gin Immediately on the govern
ment railroad In Alaska, coal from
the Mantanuska field will not go
on the market before the spring
of 1917, and 1t may be year later
before that coal gets to market.
II is the intention of the Alaska
railway commission to deliver the
coal from the Mantanuska field
at Woodrow formerly Ship
Creek, and before this can be
done docks must be provided,
channels must be dredged and
about rs miles Of railroad must
be constructed.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-04-26
Compares with Friedmann

compares WIN FT10Om0nn
In fact, he believes that the
vogue which has attached to this
new method has been due chiefly
to the fact that II IL Of foreign
origin; that the very name Of the
drug, scopolamin, is unusual and
somewhat mysterious: and that
what we all SO ardently hope for
we easily believe.
And he can cite the friedman
case here with rare effect, for In
some aspects the two are alike.
The final result will be, he
thinks, that the present tendency
of pain In childbirth will con-
tinue and that tendency has
been surely and progressively to-
ward greater and greater relief
for the mother. But a. to scope
lamin being the final great dis
covery, he Is a rather firm skeptic.
No Case Hero Az Vet
So far, there has not been :
real twilight Sleep case IN Ta-
coma. There have been uses Of
the twilight sleep" drug, and
some other cases Of narcotics
being used, but not one case 70
which the man advocating one
side OF this question can point a.
proof Of his contention.
Neither, 30 far as IL known, are
there any cases actually contem-
plated as yet. although the SUBJ
ject has aroused an unusual -
though not surprising--amount
of interest.