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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-06-29
AMERICAN CONSUL At ODESSA
Confims Report Of Murder and Mutiny
on Bosrd Russian eattleship.

Washington. June 28.-Thomas Hee-
nan. American consul at Odessa, today,
cabled the state department in sub
stance as follows:
The Russian warsh;p kniz Pitonkin
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-06-29

chains and letters
would be visibly
handicapped. No
one would expect
him to succeed.
The man VIII |
runs the race Of
life when his
digestive and nu-
tritive organs are
diseased is equally
handicapped. In
the one case his
strength is over
weighted, in the
other it is under
n ed. Success
demands above
all else q sound
stomach.
Doctor Pierce's
Golden Medical
Discovery cures
diseases of the
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W Observation-Disclosures. j :, 4
lme, 22l, 2.23 2.19a4, 22ll2. 2.2M4.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-06-29
HANDICAPPED.

The man who started to run q race In
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-08-14
Approved Methods With Cranberr'es.


The few berries on the vines in the
fall following setting out are not worth
picking The next year. however. there
will be quite lot. These should be
picked carefully by hand. Disturb the
new runners as little as possible. as
they are lust beginning to take root
and are tender. Berries grown on these
vines should be large, sound, and ripcn
early. &c., a.. .su
The next year there should be about
30 barrels of very handsome fruit per
acre. 1t is well to also pick this crop
by hand. thus giving the vines a good
chance to get thoroughly rooted be-
fore using the scoops to harvest with.
If the vines do not cover the ground
quickly do not hurry them by apply
ing too much fertilizer, A slow growth
is the most to be desired. and if the
vines are short. so much the better.
Berries grown on thick. deep vines do
not ripen well and keep poorly. Should
the vines grow this way. another inch
Of sand put on them will be very bene-
fetal.
When the vines are four years old
they should bear a full crop. AS they
" III NC TOOteI ny tI1dl tIII1e,
the SCOOP should be used. Do not be
afraid of pulling up the runners. They
are of no use at this time, as they are
only so much dead wood. which is bet
ter off of the bog. Berries grow only
on upright vines, and therefore runners
are only nuisance at this stage At
ter the bog has been scooped, it is
good plan to go over it with a common
iron rake to clean up and cut off the
long, loose runners. If this Is done for
few years after each harvesting the
bog will be one solid bed of uprights
and will bear more and better fruit
and be easier to harvest.
The best scoop known and the one
most used is made with hollow, curved
zinc teeth. The scoop was invented
and patented by wellknown cram
berry grower. and holds the remarkable
record of harvesting a barrel of fruit
in five minutes. If the fruit is not ready
to ship when harvested. it should be
put in ventilated boxes that hold about
bushel. The boxes are made of lath
strips 20 inches long nailed a quarter
of an inch apart on solid board end
pieces about 1X14 inches The boxes
when filled should be piled up in tiers
about ) feet high with an air space be-
tween the rows, and they should have
plenty of light and air. Do not put them
in a cellar or any dark place.
When possible, bogs should be flowed
before the ground freezes The water
should be kept on till the frost is out in
the spring. Flow deep enough to pre-
vent the ice forming among the vines
If this cannot be done, do not flow at
all.
In case of fire or fruit worms, flood
the bog at any time except when it is
in bloom. Do not use hellebore. Paris
green or any preparation with lime in
1t on the vines to kill insects. The
remedy in such cases is worse than the
disease. Flooding lis much better and is
harmless to everything except the in
sects. If impossible to flow. use tobacco
water made by boiling or sleeping to-
bacco stems. 1t is put on with a spray
er and is effective.-New England Home
stead.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-08-14
Where are the Maine Work Horses
(Turf, Farm and Home.)

(Iurf, Farm ana hOme.)
One of the most uneXplainablc things
in this life is that the great majority
of people absolutely fail to interest
themselves in affairs oftentimcs that
should attract their most earnest atten-
ton. We We're led to this line of
thought the other day when a promi-
ncnt business man on the street called
at the Office. having catalogue of the
Boston Work Horse Parade, and at
tempted to tell us how much interest
there was. or would be, with a little
encouragement, in exhibiting work
horses at public fairs. Two years ago
the writer was of exactly this opinion.
and had more or less to do with get
ting the Eastern Breeders Association
to offer liberal purses for work horses.
We confidently expected that our eff
forts in this direction would bring a
very large humber of responses. espec
cially as the fair was holden in Bangor.
where there was a very large number
of handsome dray horses, just the class
of animals that naturally would be at
tracted by the premiums offered.
What was our surprise when the en-
tries closed without a single horse be-
ing named. Through the earnest cf-
forts of an energetic man a few good
teams were got together at the last
moment. but that was all. And that
closed the incident as far as business
horses were concerned in Maine, to
our knowledge. Last year the Central
Maine Fair offered liberal premiums
for farm horses, and there should have
been anywhere from fifty to a hundred
entries. but only three pair appeared,
and two pairs of these came more than
20 miles TO get here. Precisely the
same purses are offered this year. and
unless there is Il new awakening from
some new quarter the same thing will
be repeated.
Now. there are. without any doubt
several hundred handsome young work
horses that are kept i'm the prime of
condition, within radius of twenty
five miles of the city, and does any one
suppose for moment that these
horses, or a respectable number of
them. exhibited on the fair grounds
would attract any less attention than
did the draft oxen all through those
long. raw cold days last fall, when
there was hardly time but what a
thousand people, could be counted
watching the exertions of the driver
and his team? Fifty of these horses
exhibited to cart and draw
would draw as many people
to the infield as any exhibition that
could be had. and the premiums Of
fered would well repay the exhibitors
for showing their horses. Why, then.
do we not have q respectable showing
OF sleek. fat young droft horses at our
State Fairs? If any one will tell us
why. and then tell us how they can be
procured they will certainly confer
great favor upon all concerned. Who
will volunteer the information?
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Prof. Francis w. She pardson. one of
the foremost living authorities on
United States history, has taken occa-
sion TO point out that graft, tainted
money ard vulgar commmercialism
fourished in the early days of the re-
public. the tines which people say 50
much about as the good old times
when everybody was honest He
points out, for instance, that the for
tune of Peter Faneuil, who built Bos-
tons famous old hall, was made in the
liquor business. also that one Of the
signers of the Immortal Declaration Of
Independence was indicted for SNUG
Cling, and that before the republic was
a decade old United States senator
was imprisoned for accepting a bride.
But the past has a glamour and it is
fashionable to consider it as better
than the present day, q fashion which
is by no means justified by facts.
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Personal Notes.

King Edward has just bought partcu-
larly fine specimen of the French bulldog.
for which he paid $500.
Rev. S. p. Cadman. d. d.. of Brook
lyn has framed and hanging in his study
the celebrated letter of Abraham Lincoln
to Mrs. Bixby.
Michael katon, who recently died at
Glldden. Wis. has the distinction OF cast
ing his vote for twenty-three Presidents.
MIR. katon was lis years old.
Rev. DR.. A. V. w. Raymond. presi-
dent of Union College, has refused an an
of a church in Buffalo. He receives $500
in his present position.
Secretary of State Elihu Root sailed
yesterday from St. Johns for Labrador
He hopes to meet Governor McGresor,
who sailed few days ago. ana Will
probably cruise along part OF the coast
with him.
Geauga Seminary, noted as the first
school of Importance that President Gar
field attended is not to be- razed, since
the citizens of Chester Township Ohio
have decided it shall not be torn down on
account of its historical connexions.
Rcv. Father Cavanaugh. the new pres
ident of the University of Notre Dame:
although only 35 years of age Is one OF
the most scholarly men IN the roman
Catholic Church. He was Tor a NUMBER
of years at the head OF tne hoy no C ths.
Seminary. 1t was from Notre lame that
he was ordained in 1884.
Mile. De Rosen. daughter Of the Rus
sian Ambassador, when she makes her
debut in society will receive from the
Czarina the badge and title OF 1 tituiar
distinctirn that falls to the share of all
tho ,,nmarried daughters of Russian Am
hassadors abroad after they have come
out
DR.. Adolphe Danziger' formerly United
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-08-14

States Consul at Madrid. has been in
Washington laying before the Depart
concerning the condition of the Jews
abroad. The information was gathered
by DIR. Danziger at the request of the
department for the use of the Bureau of
immigration in dealing with that class
of immigrants.
Horatio +. Brown. a prominent English
writer or Venetian subjects. has had a
singular experience with fires. The
original draft of his first and best-known
work. Life on the LaGoons." persisted in
a blaze; the manuscript of his Study in
the Venetian 1nquisition" was burned in
q mail car two years later A similar
fate overlook both that of his Calendar
of Venetian State Papers" and his
Studies in Archaeology
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MAINE EDITORIAL COMMENT.
The Need Of a Uniform Scale.
Bangor News)

Bangor News)
Every time the lumbermen of Maine
meet In session the question as to con-
tlnuing the Bangor scale is raised and
discussed. Every person admits that
the survey of logs does not give any
information as to the exact contents.
But the contention is that all of the
Interested parties are aware of the over
rum ana no harm us done. But why
continue hction, just because its use
mas peeh sanctioned by many years of
observance! When a log is scaled, why
not nave the records show as near as
possipie the number Of board feet which
may NE sawed from it? Dealers do not
sell mix or molasses by the cord, though
the terms of cubic feet are changed
easily into gallons and pints Now and
again the United States issues book
from the department of forestry. in
which the Bangor rule for measuring
logs Is pointed out as an absurdity. In
TINS manner we down casters are
classed as antiquated and out of date
10 De sure, the censure is by inference,
rather than direct, though it, be
found In nearly all the official reports
The origin of the Bangor scale was due
to the needs of the times. Timbcrs we're
plentiiul and cheap in those days. Saw
mills were scarce, the Over-run was
perhaps a necessity. But the occasion
whlch demanded the Bangor method has
gone Dy. No buyer or seller of timber
Is so ignorant as to fail to comprehend
that logs scaled under the Bangor rule
furnish more boards than the survey
ors guarantee allows.
The matter is taken up here and now
for the reason that at the coming ses-
sion OF Congress a bill will be intro
duced to make the adoption of the met
ric system of measurement compulsory
throughout Vhk United States More
than 80 years ago Congress passed an act
authorizing the substitution of the met
ric system for the old and clumsy meth
Cd in vogue for years But no heed was
paid to the intimation. Scientific men,
who wished to be exact, adopted the
metric methods years ago. In text books
on chemistry and natural history, the
metric form Of measurement is in sener-
al use. But we still sell and buy our
groceries and provisions by the pound
and gallon. We continue to purchase
cloth by the yard, and We hold fast to
the idea that land must be surveyed
by the square foot. the square rod and
the acre. In counting our money We
have adopted the metric system, thus
saving the bOOkkeeperS a great amount
of labor. Why stop here? The method
which has been used with so much sue
in fol &
tain to come sooner or later. The long
er We postpone its adoption, the worse
it will be for u.s.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-08-14
OF INTEREST TO FARMERS.
Practical Hints on the Cultivation of Cranberres-'A
Fertilizer for Raspberries- Using Skim Milk.

in moderate quantities, supplemented by
a fertilizer carrying 4 to per cent. nitro
gen, 10 to II per cent phosphoric acid.
and to per cent. potash, will prove
beneficial. Such fertilizer. IL applied
at the rate of from 800 to 500 pounds
per acre, should so increase the yield
as to make it's use profitable.
Experiments conducted with the red
raspberry indicate that, when 1t is neces-
sary to purchase manure at ordinary
commercial rates, a high-grade CONNER
cial fertilizer is more economical. Where
the grower has home produced barn
yard manure it will undoubtedly be
wiser for him to use it rather than
not to fertilize at all; but il the barn.
yard manure can be profitably employed
on truck or general crops, and 1T Is
possible to purchase high-Grade com
mercial fertilizers for the raspberries.
the results will undoubtedly justify the
substitution of the commercial fertili-
ger for the barnyard manure.
Comparative tests with stable manure
and complete commercial fertilizers have
been conducted at the New Jersey ex-
pertinent station with three sorts of
red raspberries, namely, Cuthbert. MARI
boro and Turner. The results indicate
that the liberal use of stable manure,
20 tons per acre, will produce large
yields of fruit, when the manure is pur
chased and charged against the gross
return Of the patch, the use of a COM
plete fertiEzer-containng nitrogen As
per cent, phosphoric acid (available)
~ per cent, potash 1873 per cent at
the rate of 800 pounds per acre. gives
a greater net profit at less outlay.
The results of the New Jersey tests
may be stated as follows: For each
dollar invested in stable manure the
crop returned 500. and for each dol
lar invested in complete fertilizer, such
as above described, there was a crop
return of s2115. But notwithstanding
this great difference in yield, one would
hardly be justified N throwing away
stable manure and purchasing a high
grade fertilizer There are other crops.
such as asparagus. cabbage, etc, to
which the stable manure may be added
with more profit than to the raspberries.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-08-14
Skim Milk for Calves.

For number of years Prof Otis Of
the Kansas Experiment station con-
Quoted experiments testing the differ
ent methods of feeding calves
In bulletin No. 126 we find given his
method of rearing calves on skim milk,
and their ability to handle increased
quantities.
The stomach of the young calf is
very delicate, and all changes should
be made gradually When about two
weeks old the calf, if a strong. vigor-
Gus one, can be gradually changed to
skim milk. During the first day de-
crease the amount of the whole milk one
pound and add one pound of skim milk
and so on each day until the change
is complete. Previous to this the calf
should have a little grain corn or Kaf-
fir cornmeal or mixture of BOTH. placed
in its mouth Immediately after drinking
its milk. In this it gets a taste of the
grain, and will at first. but what they
do have should he bright and clean
Tame hay from mixed grasses is prob
ably the best for young calves. Bright
prairie grass is close second. Glover
and alfalfa can he gradually added to
the roughaGe ration after the calves
are several weeks old. We have tried
alfalfa alone for young calves and find
that it is too loosening. 1t proves a
splendid feed, however, as the calves
grow older, and should be introduced
as soon as the calves can properly han
die it. Avoid feeding in large quantities
at any one time. but give them what
they will eat up clean at each feed.
c,1t
as older stock. and this should be kept
before them +irpaS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-08-14

The loss by fire of the beautiful st.
Thomas church in New York is most
unfortunate, and yet there are thou :
sands of humble congregations in the
land to which the burning down of
their wooden meeting houses would be
a far heavier blow than is the fire to
the Fifth avenue congregation. 1t is
said that the parish of st. Thomas is
the richest in America with the excep-
ton Of one other New York parish
also Episcopal. Already s5OO00O has
been pledged towards building a new
ST. Thomas. but money cannot restore
the beautiful works of LaFargc and
st. Gaudons. which persisted along with
the church.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-08-14
Augusta, Winthrop,
& Gardiner Railway
Time Table in Erect June I, 1895.

Time Table IN Effect June I, 1906.
Cars leave Augusta for HalIowell and
Gardiner daily every half hour on the
foq " and Far h aa, n9gf f GSy st A
First car Sunday. s A. N.
Cars leave Augusta for Winthrop $50.
6ao. 7;5o. $50: $50. 1850, u0. !20. L5. ESQ.
time same. first car starting at $50.
days: $50. $40. SO. 600 1000 and com.
"sncing at il leaSe every yer u ha,f A srd tl
time:-Cars leave every half hour from
A. M to P. NJ. 9. 10 P. NJ.
Cars leave Gardiner for Augusta daily
from from s.i5 4. M to SIS P. n. SIS E. NJ. for
and Augusta only. The first car Sunday.
Car. leave Winthrop for August. $50.
SS0 I5. SD. $50, $50. SO. $50. Special
car leaves Lakeside go A NJ. Sunday
time same. first car starting at no.
Cars leave Togus for Augusta week
p. M, $50. 1890. Sunday time:-Cars
leave every half hour from $50 A N. to
Cars leave Hallowell for Gardiner .
hour from 5.52 A. NJ; to 1922 P. NJ. First
minutes past and % minutes before every
hour from Cos A. NJ. TO 1898 r. NJ. except
o;0s P. NJ; First ear SUNDAY; SOS A n
from Winthrop and 800 A. NJ. car from
from Gardiner. s.3s from HalloweIl
$50 from Augusta connects at Winthrop
with trains East and West The M0 A.
M. car from Augusta connects at Win
throp with train for Lewiston and Farm
ington. The 1.50 P. NJ. car from Au-
gusta connects at Winthrop with trains
East and West. The $50 P. NJ. car from
Augusta connects ut Winthrop with trsis
for the East
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-08-14

1t is encouraging to note that there is
growing sentiment in the South
against the employment of child labor
in cotton factories. The Georgia Legis-
lature. which seems to have been in
session during the heated summer
months. has just passed an anti-chili
labor bill by a vote Of 1903 to 81. The
opponents Of the bill based their argu-
ments largely upon the assertion that
only by child labor and cheap labor in
general can the southern cotton manu-
facturers compete with those of New
England. but those who voted for the
bill declared that If all New England
favored it and all the cotton mills of
the South opposed it. still they would
vote to protect the little children of
their state. The bill is not a radical
one as it applies only to the employ
Inent OF children under r. 1t is prob
able that other southern states will
follow the example Of Georgia.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-08-14

Mere man has often Joked about the
many uses which rcsourcCful woman
has found for the hairpin. but when the
fuse burned out in a New Jersey trolley
car. the other night, the conductor was
bright enough to think of the indie
spensable tool which women always use
in minor emergencies. He borrowed a
hairpin from a young woman passen-
ger. repaired the damage and the car
proceeded. What would he have done
had all the women on board followed
the dictates of fashion authorities and
discarded the old-fashioned hairpin for
the more fragile she'll pins? What. in
fact. will the women themselves do, if
fashion compels them to part with
the old familiar friend?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-08-14
Fertilizers for Raspberries.

Commercial growers of black raspber-
ricS have given little attention to the
question of fertilizing their plantations
writes Prof. L. c. Corbett of the l.. S.
Dept. Of Agriculture. However, the ex-
tenSivc character of this industry and
the small yields from some plantations
indicate that this proulem demands more
attention than it has yet received While
no careful experiments have been con-
Quoted which will warrant positive
statement in this connection. it is safe
to say that the use of stable manure
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-08-14
Eastern Steamship Co.
KENNEREc DIVISION.

Commencing Monday. June -. 1905.
steamers leave Gardiner at 3.35. Richmond
at 40. Bath at 6. and Popham Beach at
P. NJ. daily. except Sunday, for Boston.
Returning steamers leave Union wharf.
Boston. daily, except Sunday. at P. M.
for all river landings.
Rail and electric lines connect at Gardi-
ner to and from Hallowell and Augusta.
All cargo except livestock. via our
steamers. is insured against fire and ma
rine risk.
ALLEN PARTRIDGE. Agent.
Augusta. Maine.
G. A. COLE. Agent. Hallowell, Maine
q. A. COBR. Agent. Gardiner. Maine.
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Sixteen terms as a member of a leg
islaturn make a remarkable record.
and vet this is the number to the credit
of Speaker Nixon of the New York AS
sembIy. who has just beer renominated
for another. As an evidence oil MS
popularity i'm his own home, also of the
moribund condition of the New York
Democracy. it may be mentioned that
n. was nominated by his Democrat;
opponent of 1898, who is now Re-
publican, and the secordinS speech
was made by his Democratic opponent
in 1900, who is also now a Republican.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-08-14

potato crop is now rs far advanced as
usual at this time of year. owing to the
dry weather. which has Il tendency to
ripen the tubcrs, even though they
may not have their growth. The
urgent demand of the crops for rain
combined with the fact that there are
now so many fires that arc dangerous
or that threaten to be so soon. seem to
make rain about rs much needed i'm
Aroostook as anything else-except
perhaps money.
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Our Summer Citizens,

No doubt the multiplication of camps.
cottages and palaces on the Maine
coast is entirely responsible for what
ever falling off there may have been in
the patronage of the hotels. Certain it
Is that more summer visitors are occupv-
ing their own summer homes in Maine
each succeeding season and spending
the whole summer instead of only a few
expensive weeks as when they were oc-
cupying the hotels.
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Old Home Week lasts All Summer

VoVIIItI SCI 1kVITUf IFT. J
All weeks in the vacation season are
really "Old Home" weeks The sons
and daughters who have wandered from
us desire no specified official time in
which they may visit the scenes of
their childhood: don't wish any brass
band demonstration or speeches or pa
rade. They simply desire to come I'M
heralded, and drink in with the JUNCTION
of youth those dear scenes of their early
days that now fill their heart of hearts