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The Monticellonian., 1907-10-31
EDUCATIONAL
 AND COOPERATIVE UNION nF HnFnEnl
THE cAcklE OF THE HEN.
OF AMERICA

As an indication of wealth the cackle of the hen has all other noises beat The noise she makes every year sounds like s900,OO0.OO0 which is some S2O00O,000 more than that of any wealth producer, King Cotton being second
 Defying drouth CT boil weevils the egg crop comes out every year with unceasing regularity and without the aid Of government experts or expert ment farms. The little red or brown or dominecker hen knows her own business and goes about it without any outside advice. The annual poul- try crop is more valuable than wheat or corn or cotton, and surpasses the revenue derived from the mining of any mineral
 Some man who had plenty of time on his hands has figured it all out and says that if all the hens eggs laid in the United States annually were crated. allowing 360 to the crate, they would fill over 43,000,000 crates A train of refrigerator cars to accommo- date this vast quantity would be made up Of 107,S1S cars and would be nine miles in length
 Of course part of the praise Is due 10 the modern incubator which, though a valuable aid as a matching appara- tus, will never be of any use from an egg producing standpoint. At best the Incubator is but an aid to the hen, and If our biddies ever go on strike this co.1try will suffer more than it woul4 from an entire failure of the cotton crop.=Texas Stoekman-Journal.
The Monticellonian., 1907-10-31
Child Burned To Death.

A little child of Lon Masingill who lives near Gather, was burned to death recently. The child caught fire from an open fireplace
The Monticellonian., 1907-10-31

The people are taking hold of the idea of consolidation of a schools slowly, but the idea of better teachers, better houses and larger curriculum that's the thing that they are walk ing up to.
The Monticellonian., 1907-10-31
Their Natural Place.

Don't you believe balloon inyen- tors are visionary people?'
 Well, I must say, that as rule, they are usually up in the air"
The Monticellonian., 1907-10-31
Killed at Logging Camr

John Carter was killed in a logging camp a. Neimeyer by falling tree.
The Monticellonian., 1907-10-31

Now that the winter is about upon us, it is a better time than ever to fight the implement and vehicle trusts by putting away all your tools, imple- ments and vehicles where they will escape the winters ruinous weather.
The Monticellonian., 1907-10-31

The action of the Galveston bankers in asking that cotton be sent there where advances would be made upon 1t, when other points had failed to find money to advance shows that this matter of getting money is. after all. only q matter of intelligent effort. There Is as much money in the coun- try as there has ever been. and it will not long lie idle.
The Monticellonian., 1907-10-31

Farmers own the cotton, and if the do not want it. except to speculate on. are utterly disregarded. it will be only a little while until the owners of the staple get the price they ask for it. It is a common sense proposi- tion that If one man has something somebody needs and wants. that the buyer must come to the seller and buy; and so long as prohibitive price is not asked, the seller may name the price. It will not be long until the stock on hand in the mills will be exhausted, and then the price will have to get on the move.
The Monticellonian., 1907-10-31

You don't have to stop to remem- Der that no man does another an in jury. without suffering some time and somewhere the result of the work of wrong wrought in his own character.
The Monticellonian., 1907-10-31

Labor's reward depends very much upon the practical common sense of the man who is doing the labor That is the reason for the first word in the name of the Farmers Union educational.
The Monticellonian., 1907-10-31

There are two classes of people. These are, those engaged in doing things, and those who are not of any use to the world Fix it up as you may in your mind. the fact still stands out that those who are not doing something are doing somebody. Learn to so handle your business that you be not the one vino is done. for you will not have too good a time. if you get the fullest results of your labor.
The Monticellonian., 1907-10-31

settled in Saskatchewan, western Can ada, for two years.
  900. It could not be expected that June-sown grain would mature and ripen in any country The May sown ripened. and this is the feature that has proved western Canada's superb ority as a grain n-groWing country. It demonstrates that the length of sun shine is so great that the growing and ripening season, although shorter in number of days than in parta farther south in hours is as great or greater. 4 correspondent Of the Toronto Globe, a most careful purveyor of news, writing from Winnepeg. Manitoba, says
 Excellent progress in the process of converting the crop into marketable com modity has been made. The days have been fairly warm considering the sea son of the year and while the amount of sunshine per day is less than in an ordi- nary harvest the grain has matured well. The reports from far and near show that the aggregate yield for the whole grain growing country is likely to be large, and there are those who assert that the quantity will be equal to about 15 per cent. of that secured last season. The quality wifi be the important consdera- ton especially in view of the steadily ris- ing markets Cash wheat iii Winnipeg
The Monticellonian., 1907-10-31

There is no better educational school in the line of progressive de velopment than the county fairs. En- courage them; the business men of the towns where they are held can well afford to offer prizes for the best products of the soil. the pasture and the barnyard This is the very best sort of education: it is teaching by object lesson Let every Union man take hold of his county fair and whoop it up to the limit.
The Monticellonian., 1907-10-31

No man can be very good man who lets his stock stand ont in all sorts of weather without any sort of protection. Such a man ought to be fired out of the Union, or else disci- plined into deeeney by being compeil- ed to be out a night or two in the soaking, icy rains of winter.
The Monticellonian., 1907-10-31

Don't you know that it is a life and death struggle for the spectators to kill the warehouse plan2 Well, of course We are going 10 have a fight with the knife and the knife to the hilt Gird up and let Us clean out the den of thieves who have been standing between us and the mills and demanding their pound of flesh from both of us.
The Monticellonian., 1907-10-31

The farmer-the real thing farmer -is not concerned about the two-cent fare meyement He is not a traveller, and has but little interest in the trav- cling question Now. if you want to tickle him. talk about cutting the freight rates about one-thlrd, and hell come 10 the trough quick.
The Monticellonian., 1907-10-31

We again urge the necessity for the most careful selection of seed corn for the next planting. Exhibits at the recent Dallas, Texas State Fair show. ed almost every variety. size and col or. it seemed, that could be produced. It was evident that some of the ev hihits did not pay to raise. while oth- ness of grain must have produced crops of double and treble the value of some shown
The Monticellonian., 1907-10-31

It is said that the spelling bee is a mighty popular sort of entertainment with many of the Unions To tell the truth. the spelling bee is about as good a form of both entertainment and education at one and the same time as has ever heen hatched out
The Monticellonian., 1907-10-31

Don't wait for the fruit tree man to come around. It is a better plan to go 10 the nursery yourself. and then and there pick out a few more trees than you think you have room for. Then as soon as you can get them plant them in every nook and corner. Remember that the land in the corners costs as much as it does anywhere else, and you ought to get the use of il and not turn it over to noxious weeds and insects. :.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-02-16

brick or stone or cement facing, and
they are reinforced concrete, and make
the best permanent buildings
Hotel facilities Of San Francisco are
now rapidly resuming normal condi-
tlons, as several large hotels are near
ing completion, and several have been
finished and are now open for busi-
ness. Both the st. Francis and the
Fairmon will be open within the next
ninety days, and dozens Of smaller
hotels will come into operation within
the same time. Two new class A thea
ters have been completed and are In
operation, being open and showing
first class attractions to big crowds.
Nine theaters are running and all at
tract large crowds at every perform
ance. CLARENCE e. EDWARDS.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-02-16
FROM OUT HER ASHES
New San Francisco Looming Up
from Disastrous Past.
BUILDINGS STILL SPRING UP
Fifty Millions Represented by Official
Permits Already lssued-Tempor-
ary Work Being Rapidly Sub
stituted by New Structures.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 15.-The
new San Francisco is now beginning
to show above the ruins OF the old.
Nine months work has been done to-
ward clearing away debris, laying
foundations ard starting up the walls
of the big buildings which are now
shooting up al over the city.
What has been done, and what is
now showing, is ample evidence that
the pessimistic assertions Of those
who made superficial observation Of
the growth of the city after the fire,
were based on false premises. More
than $70.000,000 have been expended in
reconstruction work. AMI the work is
going on more rapidly today than at
any time since the people Of San
Francisco were confronted with the
greatest problem that has ever been
placed before any people in the world.
The California Promotion Committee
has made careful canvass of con-
ditions in San Francisco, and feels
that the people of the nation have
good cause to rejoice over the results
which have been achieved since the
disaster which came last April. One
hundred and fifty Glass A buildings
are under construction, or have been
completed since the fire, all these
ranging from five to twenty-five
stories in height. As it is estimated
that it requires from eight months to
two years to complete this class Of
buildings, all of them will be fully
occupied within TWO years from Jan.
!, 1907, and while these are building
hundreds Of others will be erected or
started, and X may be set down that
in three years from the day Of the
fire, the business heart Of San Fran
cisco not only will be rebuilt, but will
be better than it was prior to the
fire.
Apartment houses, hotels, fats and
cottages are being erected all over
the city, to such an extent that within
sixty days there will be ample room
for all who may come. The greatest
difficulty experienced in reconstruct
ing San Francisco has come from the
fact that there was Inadequate house
room for the artisans needed to re-
build the burned city. That condition
has been surmounted and the city con-
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-02-16
Piratina FoIey's Honey and Tar.

Foley & Co., Chicago, originated Ho-
ney and Tar as a throat and lung
remedy, and on account of the great
merit and popularity Of Foley's Honey
and Tar many limitations are offered
for the genuine. These worthless i'm
itations have similar sounding names.
Beware of them. The genuine Foley's
Honey and Tar is In a yellow pack
age. Ask for 1t and refuse any sub
stitute. 1t is the best remedy for
coughs and colds. T. F. Laurin, Owl
Drug store.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-02-16
ADAMS JURY COMPLETE.

WALLACE Ida, Feb. 15.--The jury
for the trial Of steve Adams was com
pleted this afternoon.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-01-23
Personal Notes.

Henry Is. f. MacFarland and Henry
l.. West, two Of the three commission
ers who are at the head of the munich
pal government Of Washington were
both newspaper men when they were
appointed.
A close friend of Senator Lodge is re-
sponsible for the statement that tn,
Massachusetts statesman for years has
received an income from his literary
efforts far in excess of his salary ds
Senator. He has written on more
phases Of American history than any
other man in public life. His latest
work is book of essays.
George r. Peck, the brilliant Chicago
attorney, and the general council of the
st. Paul Road, is one of the few men
in the United States who has refused
to go to the United States Senate. He
was appointed once and would not
take the place. AS an orator and af-
dinner speaker Mr.. Peck is con-
sidered 70 be one of the best in the
country.
Samuel Putnam, of New Salem,
Mass. Il kinsmar of General Israel
Putnam. who directed the Conrinental
troops at Bunker Hill, and of General
Rufus Putnam, chief engineer of Wash
ington's army has just celebrated his
Tooth birtEday. He has voted at nine
teen presidential elections, his first
vote being cast for John Quinc :
Adams in 1928.
Prof. Wallace Clement Sabine. the
new dean of the Lawrence Scientific
School, makes a special study Of sound
waves, and the largest halls and
theaterS built within the last decade II.
New England have been passed upon
by him. Five years ago he wrote
Architectural Acoustics" that to-day
is employed throughout the country by
students of advanced physics Not
| only into acoustics but into electricity
and magnetism and their various in
| fiuences and practical usagcs Dean
| Sabine has delved.
Frederick CORTLAND Penfield, Of New
York, former United States Minister
| to Egypt, writer of books and magazine
| articles. has just been notified by the
French Government of his promotion
to be an officer of the Legion Of Homo
Six years age he won the gold medal
| at the French Academy He has re-
ceived numerous European decorations
the Grand Cross of the Turkish Order
of MedJidieh, Grand Commander OF
the Egyptian Degree of Order OF
Osmanich the Takova Cross of Servia
and the Grand Cross of st. Catherine
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-01-23

one of the few descendants in the direct
line of the famous artist family of the
Holbeins. Besides the Austrian branch,
the members of which are principally
to be found in their country'S service
as army officers and civil servants,
there is still the collateral branch de-
scending from Ambrosius Holbein,
while recent years have brought for
ward the names Of two members of this
celebrated stock following the profes-
sion of the brush and palette-namely,
Albert Holbein, who produced his art
in Schwabish- GmEnd, and the pupil of
the sculptor Begas
Mrs. Francis Fearn will return to the
United States after q visit to Carmen
Sylvia, queen of Roumana, and will
introduce here the queens plan in re-
gard to the Blind. This plan is not to
do away with asylumS, but to make the
life of this class of poor people much
pleasanter than it is. and it will be
right in line with the efforts of Mrs.
Ziegler to establish magazine for the
blind. Mrs. Fearn has had many inter
esting experiences in other countries
during the time her husband was in
and Servia and when he was judge Of
the international court of Egypt. Her
husband land the foundation for the
American school at Athens and they
have both always concerned themselves;
with problems for the retirement of the
people with whom they were associated.
Very few people have such { Ion:
record of Sabbath school teaching as
Miss Amy Rattershy Fa1kirk Born IN
September. 1925. she began TO teach in
September, 1889. in the Mission school
She has kept a list of all the children
who have been in her class and where
they live. Only in the beginning of this
year did her failing health prevent her
from being as usual at her post. She
then desired that her class should meer
at her own home and they still assem-
bic there. Some of them are old women
and mothers Of families, yet they feel
that sitting in her class they are
blessed. The old lady in spite of her
elghty-tWo years, is hale and hearty
but she cannot walk very far now. She
boasts of the fact that the house she
lives in is just as it was when, as a lit
tie girl, she first played in the different
rooms. Not a chair, table or other ar
ticle of furniture has changed places
Many of her scholars are now holding
high positions. One she is very spe-
cially Interested in is member of the
cars household, and has had some
very trying experiences of late Two
are medical missionaries in India: two
are doctors--one in the army and one
in the navy. At Christmas she receives
greetings from those who are still alive
and these tokens of respect come from
all quarters.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-01-23

Secretary Root is a hard man to in
terview and so the Canadian newspaper
men have not secured any definite in
formation from him regarding the
purpose of his present visit to Ottawa.
OF course it is declared on both sides
of the. line that there is not any politi-
cal Significance to the visit. and yet
lots of skeptical people both at Wash
ington and at Ottawa refuse to credit
the announcement that the trip is
wholly of a private and social nature.
There have long been various ques-
lions at issue between this country and
Canada, and although none of them
are very prominently put before the
people at the present time it would be
better for all concerned to have them
quietly and fairly adjusted. and it is
reasonable to suppose that Secretary
Roots business In Ottawa relates to
such an adjustment The fisheries
question, the fishing boundary of the
Great Lakes, and the butchery of seals
in the northern Pacific are some of the
subjects which Secretary Root will
probably talk over in Il friendly way
with those in authority at the
Canadian capital.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-01-23
Americans in Western Canada.

For the past decade or more the
statement has gone the rounds of the
newspapers that Americans in great
numbers were leaving our western
states and settling in the western part
|of Canada. Figures have been given out
to show that this exodus was a saS4ous
thing for our own country and that
the settling of this great multitude o:
Americans in Canada was likely to
|complicate the political future of the
Dominion. Evidently there has been a
lot Of exaggeration along this line. or
else the Canadian immigration
authorities are being very much fooled.
They have just issued report on this
subject in which they treat these
stories of an American invasion of
western Canada as a perennial hum
bug. They make the statement that
from 1897, when the Canadian move
ment began. only 62.717 citizens of the
United States. of both sexes and all
ages, have been officially reported as
entering the Canadian West; and as
many of these departed. it is now
estimated that there are in all Canada
west of Lake Superior no more than
10000 male persons who were
originally American citizens.
These are highly valued in the COM
munities where they are settled. hence
the desire of the land boomers and
others to attract more by exaggerating
the number. AS the same authority
observes. where the eagles flock there
must be good prey" and the argument
has its effect both in the United States
ana In Great Britain. 1t is to be motel
however, that during the whole of last
year $4,000 immigrants entered Cam
AGA. When this number is contraste1
with the 1.10O.7OO foreigners who
sought permanent homes in the Jrnita,
states during the last fiscal year We
can AFFORD to view with complacencv
the rapid development of the Canadian
states to the westward and the sipb,
draln from our own Northwest that il,
result of that growth.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-01-23

Congressman De Almond of Missouri
comes forward with scheme which
would allow the President to retire
federal judges from the bench-thosa
OF the supreme court as well as circuit
and district judges-at his will and
pleasure. This proposition. coming
from a Democratic source. is com
plimentary OF course to President
Roosevelt. but it promptly runs up
against some constitutional obstacles
which it is hardly likely to overcome.
Not only does the constitution provide
that the federal judges shall hold their
during good behavior, but it also
makes the judiciary a coordinate de-
partment of the federal government,
while the Missourian's scheme would
make it subordinate to the admins
trative department.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-01-23

1t is now the fashion to blame every
thing that goes wrong to prosperity.
New York City is complaining that the
snow is not removed from the streets
after this winters storms, the cause
being the scarcity of men for this
work. and the cause for the scarcity OF
men being the prevalence of good times
which keeps them steadily employed
Evidently times are different in New
York City than they We're in the well
remembered days of the last Demo-
cratic administration when the streets
were filled with idle men begging for
bread, or n chance to earn it. and when
soup houses had to be established on
an extensive scale to keep thousands
from starvation.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-01-23
Many Augusta reople are interested

Many Augusta PEOPLE are interested
in this weeks exercises in Cambridge,
Mass, in honor of the 10th anniver-
sary of the passionate of Rev DR.. Alex
anGer Mckenzie over the First Con-
gregational Church of that city. DR..
Mckenzie went to Cambridge from this
city where he had been 1or Il decade
the paste, Of the South Congregational
parish. Among the speakers at th:
services III honor Of the beloved ami
brilliant pastor viii be President Eliot
of Harvard. President Hyde of Bow
doin, General Bancroft. Rev. DR.. Cor
don Of Boston, Mayor Wardwell of
Cambridge and other eminent men. A
host of friends extend greetings AMI
best wishes.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-01-23
One of our Massachusetts, exchanges

One Of our Massachusetts exchanges
seems to begrudge Maine its proposed
celebration of the centennial of Long
fellows birth. This is a little narrow.
to put it mildly, inasmuch as Longfel-
low was born in Maine of Maine par
entage, was educated here and was for
years a professor in the college where
he graduated before he ever lived in
Massachusetts or had gained any rec
ignition there. 1t is difficult to see
what claim to Longfellow Massachu-
sets can have which Is superior to
that of Maine. OF course there will be
no quarrel over the matter for the
glory Of Longfellow is great enough for
all states and all countries, but Maine
wants it distinctly understood. that its
claim ranks above all others. Massa-
chusetts has long had a way of appro-
priating the good things from Maine
and the habit has become chronic.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-01-23

Over in Russia they are having 4
campaign for the election of members
to the Douma, as the new Parliament
is called in that country. and the
methods employed there are somewhat
strenuous, to put it mildly. When the
government does not approve of any
particular candidate prominently put
forward by the common people it finds
some excuse to hang him, and when
the common people feel that some
government favorite is getting too
much of a start in the race they pro-
coed to dynamite him.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-01-23

The soldiers of our regular army are
proverbially poorly paid but they APP
pear to be an exceptionally thrifty class
of Young men. During 1906 the enlist
ed men of the army saved and deposit
cd with the paymaster's department
the sum OF S1,495,228 This is a very
handsome sum and represents about
II per cent. of the total pay Of all the
enlisted men in the army for that year
Certainly the percentage of the saw
ings is much larger than would be
found among single men outside the
army working for small pay.