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Local«, perlin Entertainment for All—A
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1 month
All Reeolut
Lodge Notice«ntor ef tills magazine has
Cards of Thv urged his readers to do all
Notices. Lc towards making the home
minimum rat<ful as possible for all the
lines.
want to tell you bo* you
—’“
r and brighten your home in
(Fhr (Ptl wonderful way.
vhat Thomas A. Edison the
Fr.d m-atest Inventor “the wizard
'»■ Century” has s I:
”—’
at to see a phonograph in
Doingnerlcan home.”
have never hail a genuine
Nearly eyJ’*1 *n y°ur home you can-
1__ . in«- what a wonderful pleas-
vetches in t,
tQ jy(U
living monuipipj^ caB j hear qq n phono
dent work some may ask.
for the advafou can hear almost anything,
industry in te
«dlson gold
,
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records and you can have
very few far,ce of
before Dr. ie you get some vaudeville
work began,reproducing to absolute per-
cepted theor‘e Kr,’at‘‘st comic artists. Then
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'ini' bund music, Sousa’s
not suited ti spitzes, by Strauss, soul
Farmers haively music; then grand opera
farms year a deceit as well ns the finest
tiveness ot tP8 • also comic songs, ragtime,
haunted. Thom*c recitations, piano, organ.
fanjo anil «>•
Instrumental
01 bare Sum, |j|ni]H oy W|<-re<l music, duets,
one crop eves, full choruses.
out permanedison records are perfect—
of the soil F natural—and unlike the in-
t n
• »»di higher priced records of
mer fallow.,,,.
neyer bc
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sary for thenootli, round sapphire point
It was D/'^dison Reproducer does not
theagitatio,lu,‘,:l" , >t d-8’8 ''«t wear il
ie record with which It conies
general ado.f Consei|uently, Ellison Col
of cYops in Records last for years. Till
plan thegripre that merits the ost car
is included?110“ ot 0,0 prospective pur
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Contralto Solo—M»jt$ Corrifiê
8439 Intermezzo
from
“Cavalleria
cana —Edison Orchestra.
8394 Violets, Transcription1—Piano
Solo —
Albert Benzlcr«,
8066 The Shade of The Palms—Baritone
Solo—Frank C. Stanley.
7458 Thetf You’ll Remember Me—Violin—
Cbas. D’Almaine.
404 Anvil Chorus, “11 Trovatore“—Edison
Milieu? Band.
A Sunday Concert«
8854 Ring The Bells of Heaven—Chimes
o Hallelujah Chorus from “Messiah” —
J
ison Concert Band.
8427 Lord’s Prayer and Gloria Patri—Men
delssohn Mured Quartette.
8265 Talmage on Miracles.
8503 Praise Ye, from “ Ittila”—Metropolitan
Mixed Trio.
8308 In flam at us,
from
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OLD MAINE NOW YOUNG-
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{Continued from Preceedtnt Page,}
in mind in almost every instanco, re
lying upon the "back-haul" for their
profit.
The farmers as well as the paper
mill workers and others in moderate
circumstances are intelligent, thrifty
people; many of them ov'ning and
occupying their homes which are mod
els of their kind. At Rumford Falls,
above referred to, almost an ideal con
dition exists, according to a writer
I
Mater” —
Bohumir Kryl.
8352 Ix>3t Chord—Edison Male Quartette.
7625 Lead, Kindly Light—Edison Male Quar
tette.
Church Organ—Edison Concert
8104 Old
Band.
ana.
8839 Rock of Ages—Campbell arx! Harrison.
7^90 Holy City—Violin Solo—Charles D’Al-
New Gott Rale.
Deunis O’Flannigan was walking
along a road beside a golf links when
lie was suddenly struck between the
shoulders by a golf ball. The force
of the blow almost knocked him down.
When he recovered he obsereved a
golfer running toward him.
“Are you hurt?” asked the player.
“Why didn’t you get out of the way?”
“An’ why should I get out of the
way?" asked Dennis. “I didn’t know
there were any bloody assassins round
here.”
“But I called ‘fore,’” said the
player, “and when I say ‘fore.’ that is
a sign for you to get out of the way.”
“Oh, it is, is it?” said Dennis. “Well,
thin, whin I say ’foive,’ it is a sign
that you are going to get bit on the
tL;
Foive.’ ”
uose. ‘ .................
mair.e.
19031 The Glory Song—Anthony and Har-
rison.
8422 Refuge—Mendelssohn Mixed Quartette.
Or if you like dancing you can ar
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hall; for the Edison phonograph is
loud enough.
Furthermore with the Edison phono
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and children. These records you can
keep for years and years, having the
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if yon have never heard one entertain,
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you.
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better, how to oil ft, liow to make
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We also exchange
genuine Edison phonographs for old
talking machines.
people of means and built the great
paper mills of Rumford Falls.
The Falls at this point are ten feet
higher than those of Niagara and, as
has been said, develop a magnificent
amount of power. Mr. Chisholm cer
tainly made no miscalculation when
he selected this place as a spot es
pecially adapted for the purposes of
paper-making.
The city contains splendid hotels,
“7 want
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in every American home”
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brawls. I
his wife,
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lome dealii
occupations^
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the value t*.
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We may bthough coating only one fourth
antine
>'H much; for it gives you
„ . g variety, It always plays per-
sucn a alU(j llllv|„Hiv cnn pin>v H.
aource, is i iln Edison phonograph in your
In its | hou can arrange a concert at
city of 8,e will, J’,st 8,1,11 “ l,|ograinme
,1
. gs $1 and $2 a seat in the operu
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Ate none, W|ng are hour * apochnen pro-
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A Good Hunt
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Truly it fares etran«,
"little man," fnr
’
rieB of Uncle Sam’s ow» p
strangely, indeed, that h, ?
little man years before th?
mother's “little man"
into her “big boy."
Just as soon as the
west coast of GreenlawfE..*“
been weaned, in his fourth^*1
father had placed in hi/hiear.
bird darts and harpoon^
“Play with them long n,,,
the provident father eauuoj*
“Life Is hard in the land J
snows, and it will
¡¡L“16
time before thou wilt be <5 ‘
do thy full share in figbUn/1*
sustenance of the family.“
“
For the next five }eart tt.
with a cunning bred in him
no one knows how maiy EPL
crept noiselessly upon small blS.*
bringing them down with st«»?
he tired of plying his da/g.
in this direction grew so won
that his little hands soon 1^
throw unerringly his diminufitot'
poon at birds swimming in ¿7.*
or into the black bodies of ™
towed by his father, coming L*4
his kaiak from the huutlnf L? ’
the sea.
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AFRICAN PYGMIES.
LONDON INSPECTS SIX
INDIVIDUALS FROM THE CON
GO COUNTRY.
!
Mr. Edison Says:
& ICY GRUju^
The Little Eskimo Man.
The boy is now eleven years old.»,
two years he has spent a large tL, ,
his time playing kaiak-man in btomf
er’s kaiak. Now his father h.«.
proudly watched his son gradualljah
a good working knowledge of the to»
SMALL has decided to have a kaiak built 1»
the boy.
•
hauling a big fellow to the mill
In the Review of Reviews. Beautiful
winding streets have been laid out
and attractive cottages with splendid
lawns and shade trees erected for the
paper-mill employees. These cottages
are rented for an amount that little
more than pays taxes, interest and a
charge for maintenance, and should the
amount paid more than meet these re
quirements the surplus is returned to
the tenant at the end of the year. Un-
edawayin|y you |inve |1Puni «tnlklng
urgirig the »” and liav«- not cared much
which will ih but remetnbor that then
One by
reproduce onlj
wav at thin,d
the "WOOtlieSB, Olli
wav 01 thin
eX|ireSH|0|| f„r whidj y,,,
er upon thesic are reproduced only by th.
Valley loo Edition Phonograph and th
clover that
MouldfNl Ilecord«. Them
food for da distinguish Hie Edison Phono*
. ...
om all 1U imitation«,
The Phonograph is Mr. Edison's pet and hobby. Though he has
fertility of
invented hundreds of other wonderful patents he has retained his inter
combe ah
est only in the Phonograph Company, of which he owns practically
not, be wil
every share of stock. Mr. Edison knows of the wonderful pleasure
the farmers
his instrument has provided and is providing in thousands of budlGS«
Kreutest b
ed tireless I
until he ma
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banks and public buildings. Many of
the persons employed in the city re
side in the “suburbs’’ which are reach
ed by means of bridges.
Were it not for the fact that Rum
ford Falls is an up-to-date busy, bust
ling place with all the life and activ
ity of a western boom-town, one
could almost imagine himself in Ven
ice.
From your hotel window you
may look down upon the river and
‘•anal with great quantities of logs
floating down to be devoured by the
sills and later to be sent out in the
form of newspapers.
The city contains about 7000 inhab
itants and almost all available space
is taken, but beyond doubt new sec
—- 1
tlons will be constantly opened ane*
streets be connected by bridges.
der this arrangement every man has
a personal interest in keeping the
tax rate of the town down to the low
est possible figure and also In taking
the best care of his premises.
But one man is responsible for this
beautiful city which is situated upon
an island in the Androscoggin River,
and he owns almost the entire busi
ness section of the town. Less than
twenty years ago Hugh J. Chisholm
saw the immense possibilities of
Maine, and although without money
at that time, ho managed to interest
Men Average Four Feet Six. and
Women About Four Feet in Height—
Without Religion, Go Naked and
have Peculiar Customs.
So the father takes his son to o>
shore and they walk along it for.
distance of several miles, gatieriu
drift wood, the boy meanwhile being ii
structed in the art of selecting m
proper kind of material for the fru,
of a kaiak.
That afternoon, with the liui,
lending a helping hand now and th»
the big man puts together the ribs of
the boat. Bright and early the folio»
ing morning the boy’s mother and ha
friends, all chattering gaily, stretch
over the ribs a fino seal skin, mult
pliable by much diligent chewing os
the mother’s part. As they stretch it
they sew It in place, so that when ths
last stitch is taken the skin is taut
everywhere; the kaiak perfect in even
detail.
’
Jome»
ropean
cturers.
e great
c und»
(connoU
'n co tere
c qqs
he ba#
inions i
nd is
■tern
B tre»
'trued,
)unt 1
he Get
c Ch
olonel
irn thr
tized
me it
dams
C'ogni
spiane
It *
ground
ientio
aide,
entert
diitloç
1 had
provo
Colon
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London town is very much interest
ed in six small human beings who
have recently arrived from Africa.
Colonel Harrison, an officer in the
British Army, has brought with him
from the Ituri forests of the Belgium
Congos a half dozen pygmies.
Colonel Harrison went last year
into the Ituri forest, also known as
Stanley forest, hoping to capture one
or more okapis. This part of bls ex
pedition was a failure. On the other
hand, he succeeded in living four
months amid the pygmies and per
The father is mightily pleased, ud
suaded four men and two women of he shows it by passing around hot cof
the tribe to accompany him to
fee to all those who have worked on tin
Europe.
kaiak. While this is being drunk, the
The long journey has been accomp child struts Into their midst a verit
lished by the six dwarfs in the face able bundle of skins. He hag on a
of a thousand difficulties.
Colonel diminutive wholejacket, with a hood
Harrison and his proteges were de over his head, the sleeves have mittens,
tained at Khartoum and later at Cairo his boots reach to his hips over skin
for several weeks, certain English trousers. The only part of his body
philanthropic societies having earnest exposed is his eyes and roundabout
ly opposed their expatriation, The ex-
By this time the father has placed
plorer was obliged to prove to the In their respective positions on the
British Government that the dwarfs kaiak lance, harpoon bladder, coiled
were with him voluntarily.
harpoon line, kaiak knife, bladder-dart,
The six pygmies were of course duly bird-dart, throwing-sticking harpoon,
measured by the English anthropolo The boy lays hold of the kaiak, and
gists on their arrival in London. Their with a lusty shout hauls it to the
mean height was 4 feet 6 Inches for water’s edge.
He thrusts his legs in
men and 4 feet 1 inch for women.
the round hole in the middle, meant
The Congo Pygmies are very strong for the purpose. He finds, as should
and also brave without being gener be the case, that the opening is just
ally aggressive, although Colonel Har the circumference of his thighs, in
rison reports that last winter, during a jiffy he fastens the bottom of his
his stay in the forest of Ituri, a party wholejacket to the kaiak ring around
of pygmies attacked a Belgian cara the rim of the hole and raised slightly
van, killing seventeen carriers and above it. He makes a quick movement
plundering the goods. They are no with his two-bladed paddle, and is off
mads, having neither fields nor houses, for his initial voyage in his very ow#
and live only on game and wild fruits. kaiak.
Their household utensils are limited
Vai e of His Training.
to a few earthen saucepans, in which
Rough Is the sea. Still the "little
they cook game without taking the ,
trouble to skin it. They eat the skin man” battles successfully with the
a3 well as the meat, even breaking the , | waves for the better pari of five min
utes, riding them like a duck. Then
bones with their teeth.
he unexpectedly finds himself in, the
Are Sons ot Nature.
trough of the sea—and the next in
They walk about completely un stant the kaiak is bottom side up and
clothed. Only among the tribes that the boy is hanging head downward in
live on the confines of the forest and the water.
have relations with the negroes of
But the little man has not played
greater stature, do the women wear a about his father’s kaiak in vain. As
girdle of leaves.
he feels the boat capsizing he seizes
Both the men and women shave the one end of his paddle In his right band
head partially; some cut straight paths and with the left he grasps the shaft
across their wooly hair; others dress as near the middle as his short arms
it with birds’ feathers or squirrel will let him. As he holds his breath
tails.
for dear life, he places the paddle
They have absolutely no feligious In along the kaiak’s side, with the pad
stincts and believe in neither God nor dle’s free end pointing toward the bow.
devil. They generally practice polyg Pushing this end sharply out to the
amy. As with the Chinese, the birth side and bending his body well for
of a girl is regarded as a calamity. ward toward the Inverted deck, he
Strangely enough, the young mothers makes a strong, circular sweep of the
sometimes steal the new-born children paddle—and presto: hero he is again
of the neighboring tribes of normal right side up and with not a drop of
stature, leaving their own babes in water in his kaiak or beneath bls skin
clothing. For this dry condition he has
exchange.
to thank the chap who long ago c«'
Last of a Great Race.
ceived the idea of fastening the bottom
“The Pygmies do not live to a of the wholejacket to a kaiak ring,
great age,” said Col. Harrison. “ ___
Life and to his mother for lovingly making
is hard in the somber Congo forests; his sea-going garments waterproof.
nature is a pitiless task-master to this
Twice more, before he points his
remnant of the race that once peopled craft, built somewhat like a scull, net
the greater part of Africa. The rain a whit broader, and even more diffi
that falls in torrents for eight months cult to keep afloat in the rough water,
transforms the ground into a marsh. toward the watchers on the shore, he
It may be added that the pygmies goes under, but rights himself each
are remarkably Intelligent, that they time in a moment He lands expertly,
appear to have the gift of language to unfastens his wholejacket, lifts hi®'
an incredible degree, that they excel self proudly out of his boat, and, shak
in the art of extracting iron from the ing himself like a puppy, runs gaily
ore, of forging it, and of making arrow toward his father and mother.
heads of it without other tools than
“In a short while,” says the father
round stones.
proudly, "thou wilt be able to right
thyself with nothing except thy tongue
—thy hands, thy lance, anything, n
Electricity to be Cheaper.
thou ahouldest lose thy paddle.”
The boy's eyes brighten wonderfully
I An invention of the greatest im-
portance, which will effect a revolution
in the industrial world, baa been made at the words of great praise. Two days
later they are even brighter, as •>«
by a Roman electrician, Adolph Tome,
paddles away with his father to the
who has succeeded In solving the prob hunting grounds of the seal far out
lem of storing electrical energy.
His invention will make It possible on the dark sea.
Life has now begun In earnest tor
to transmit an electric current with a
loss of a little less than 2 per cent, him. He is a little man from no* on-
no matter how great the distance.
It will be possible, for instance, to
Cogent Reasoning.^
supply heat, light and power for all
Teacher—“Now a moroloeme fe •
purposes to the city of Parts with
electricity generated by the wnterfalls recitation In which one person take«
of Rwlterland at a price that will drive part; a dialogue la one where two
all the present electric companies out persons take part. Can anyone gH®
of business.
another example!”
Bright boy—“I've got ot* A cat
An American syndicate Is mid to
have offered the Inventor $1.000.000 alogue is where a cat goes In fo,r,.*
for the American patent, but the offer night serenade, with Other Okta wta**
has not been accepted.
you’re uiia’ ie sleep.
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