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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-01

Vienna hairdrcssers have received SO
many orders for wigs for the coinihS
festival in honor of the Empcroor's Jurl,
lee that they are at. a loss to Obtain VIZ
necessary hair. The hairGresser OF tns
Volks Thaater must secure 800 heads o.
hair before next month. hut although ~
has offered fabulous prices the nufnpe,.
with their locks is comparatively small
The popular vote in 1911 aggregated cHer
12.-cG.0'). OF this Roosevelt received -.
400 or 5642 per cent. of the total. this pc
ing the largest percentage of the popular
vote ever received by a presidential can Y,
didate since 1872 when Grant polled a,G
per cent. The popular vote has more tnNp
doubled since IT.
days a wee!s-London Glota.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-01

y. =. Whiting of Boston is passing
a few days with friends here.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-01

Miss Iona Skillings of Corinna IS
al CobbrSsec farm.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-01
EAST WINTHROP.

Mrs. Alice Irving is stopping at Will
son Nason's
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-01
FAIRFIELD.

School Children Take Prominent Part
In Memorial Day Exercises.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-30

1.-THE heavens shall pass away with a great
noise, and the elements shall be dissolved with
fervent heat, and the earth and the works therein
shall be burned up"
But the suggestion of the astronomer was pure
speculation. There are no apparent signs OF any
such approaching catastrophe as DIR. Langley sug'
gests as possible. At any rate, we may settle
down to the conclusion that so far as astronomical
forces are concerned the present order of things
will not be disturbed for three or four million
years,
But an equally gloomy prospect is before the
world in the distant future from another cause
which is in slow operation. The length of the
earth's day is slowly increasing through the re-
tarding influence Of the tides produced by the
moon. To be sure, this effect is so slight that II
has not been directly perceptible since accurate
methods of measuring the time of the earths
revolution on it's axis have been observed. But
that it must be taking place is as sure as that
friction will stop a railroad train when the steam
is turned off.
The tides raised by the moons attraction are
distributed by the continents so as to present
many anomalies, but when considered in them
selves they act the same as a wave three feet high
constantly running in an opposite direction to
the revolution of the earth, and so by friction re-
tarding its motion. Astronomers are agreed that
similar tides produced on the moon have reduced
her revolution on her axis to a period OF 2S days.
Eventually the revolution of the earth will be
reduced so that our day will be several times long
err than now. When that time comes the nights
will be so cold that nothing can stand it, and II
they could the days will be so hot that what was
left by the cold would be destroyed by the heat.
But that time, also, is SO far in the future that the
present generation may put it out of their minds.
This catastrophe will not arrive for many million
years yet. Indeed, before that time arrives the
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-30
SILAGE DISTRIBUTOR

In a silo more than SO feet in depth
1t is not necessary to have a man to
tramp the cut corn. If the surface is
leveled two or three times a day while
filling, the silage will pack sufficiently
to keep. But there is one objection to
doing this. If the cut corr is allowed
to pile up in the form of a cone, the
heavier parts will roll to the outside
of the pile and the grain and leaves
will not be evenly mixed.
Several devices have been invented
for distributing the cut material in
the silo, but few Of them are success
full. One of the most satisfactory dis
tributers where a blower is used con.
sists of two boards, eight or ten inches
wide and about half as long as the
diameter Of the silo, nailed together
at right angles to form a trough. A
12-inch board is nailed over one end
of this trough, the other end being
left open. For use, the trough Is sus-
pended from the roof with the open
side downward and the closed end
toward the center Of the silo. The
| open end rests above the top of the
blower pipe. AS the cut material
leaves the pipe 1t follows along this
trough until it strikes the closed end;
then it is scattered about the silo. II
a little care is exercised in adjusting
this device it will give very good re
| suits.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-30
THE AERATION OF
DRINKING WATER
BY j. w. Lawrence, Professor
Mechanical Engineering,
Colorado.

The aeration of water for drinking
purposes is not new, but Is becoming
more general in various parts Of the
United States.
The aeration of water prevents
stagnation, removes disagreeable odors
arising from the decomposition OF
vegetable matter, and checks the
growth of algae. There is disagree
ment as to how much oxidation of or
ganic matter takes place, but it is well
understood that aeration is of great
benefit to water that is used for drink
ing. The greater the agitation of the
water, and the greater the amount of
air passed through it, the better the
water. Sweet water, as found in ma
ture, is never chemically pure, but con
tains more or less foreign matter
easily determined by the chemist.
Flowing springs and running brooks
of this water are pure enough for all
purposes, and safe enough for use, If
not contaminated by the carelessness
of man. But springs and brooks of
pure water are not available to all. 1t
is often necessary to confine water
that is to be used for drinking pur-
poses in ponds, reservoirs, cisterns,
tanks, ETC.; it then becomes stagnant
and subject to many communicating
changes. This has been known for
ages, and men have sought to better
these conditions where they exist.
Aeration is a means whereby a better
ment is brought about, and there are
many ways in which this aeration is
ACCOMPLISHED. The old familiar chain
pump is an example; the endless chain
with its little bucket passing rapidly
through the water creating quite a
disturbance and doing it's work fairly
we'll. The pumping of air into a els,
tern, the water Of which has become
foul, because of having stood fol-
some time, is another method; an all
pump forces air to the bottom of the
cistern, where it bubbles W
through the water, oxidizing ant
s%weetening 1t. The air-lift pump il
one of the simpler forms Of pumps
that performs this office and does !
quite thoroughly.
The aeration Of water is often per
formed in a small way, but there arr
many towns and cities Of c~onsiderabl,
size that are now giving attention tt
this matter. DeKalb, ILL.,, Point Pleas
ant, w. Va, are two places frequentl,
mentioned. Brockton, Mass, has al
aerating tank SO feet high and 81 fee
in diameter. Air is passed u
through the water at Brockton b
means Of many perforated pipes !
the bottom of the tank.
Another method is to cause the VIZ
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-30

,ornetual sunshine prevails. 1t, therefore, will
not be impossible that the desert of
Sahara and the sandy wastes of Central Asia shall
in the future usurp the place now assumed by
the localities in proximity to the great coal fields
of the world, while the latter become overgrown
With briars and brambles like the mounds OF many
an ancient center of civilization.
Still another possible source from which we
may draw infinite quantities of heat and power
is to be found in the heated center of the earth
AS we descend below the surface of the earth,
the Temperature rises on an average of one degree
in 60 feet. At a depth of two miles, therefore,
the temperature Of boiling water would be reached,
and at a depth of five miles a temperature of
more than 400 degrees. 1t would, therefore, not
seem by any means impossible to bore into the
earth deep enough to make a portion of its heat
available for all ordinary purposes.
The world, however, is concerned with impend-
ing catastrophes nearer at hand. The prosperity
of the present time Is largely due to the rapid
ity with which we are using up the reserved stores
Of nature upon or near the surface OF the earth
Thus geology, while it opens up to mankind the
stores of good that are buried for safekeeping In
the depths of the earth, points, to their limited guam
tity, and calls upon men to use them
and leave as much as possible for future genera
tions. Wastefulness of these limited stores is 6
sin. At the same time it gives the philosophical
student Of history a SOLDERING view of the destiny
of man. Nothing is more certain than that mar
has not been always on the earth, and that he Ii
not always to stay here. The world is like
ranscontinenta railroad train and the human
race like a passenger who gets on at one end ant
has to get off at the other. Out Of mystery mar
came and into mystery he goes. The visible worlt
is a passing show. All that is Interchangeable liei
in the world of the unseen.
Copyright, 1908, by Joseph B. Bowles)
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-30
HEALTH AND o
Both Kept Up on Scientific Food.

Good sturdy health helps one a lot
to make money.
With the loss Of health ones income
is liable to shrink, il not entirely
dwindle away.
When a young lady has to make her
own living, good health is her best
asset.
II am alone in the world" writes
a Chicago girl, dependent on my own
efforts for my living. l am a clerk, and
about two years ago through close ap-
plication to work and a boarding
house diet, l became a nervous in
valid, and got so bad off it was almost
impossible for me to stay in the office
a half day at a time.
"a friend suggested to me the idea
Of trying Grape-Nuts, which I did,
making this food a large part Of at
least two meals a day.
To-day / am free from brain-tire,
dyspepsia, and all the ills of an
overworked and improperly nourished
brain and body. To Grape-Nuts / owe
the recovery of my health, and the
ability to retain my position and in
come There's a Reason"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read THE Road to Well
yille," in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter. A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full Of human
interest.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-30

bakers go to work like honest men
after being driven a whirl by the
head and tail trick. Tie knot in horses
tail and loop halter rope over this as
short as possible. Let him spin until
he gets dizzy, unloop halter and turn
him the other way. / suppose the
point is that anything which will take
the animals attention from his pet
idea constitutes a remedy for the time
being. | worked one baker on a
mower two or three days by tying his
tail to the singletree tight enough to
take part of the strain. After that he
would pull by the tugs without having
his tail tied. They certainly tax our
inventive faculties, these bakers.
1t is easier to say what not to do
with a baker. Don't hammer him,
As soon as you lose your temper and
go to clubbing him you might as
we'll turn him out. The Rural New
Yorker says that balky horses are
sometimes started by clubbing, but
they always balk harder next time;
at any rate the majority or them 40.
think bakers are always the result
o: bungling on the trainers part.
There are natural bakers" I'll ad-
nit, but the tendency a be corrected
by careful handling in breaking. Such
a colt must be gradually worked up
to the pulling point. He must learn
to stretch a tug on a light rig before
he is put on a load of any kind. We
have to study the question from his
standpoint as it were, sympathize with
him, and encourage him instead OF
| trying to force him too fast. You can
get better results in less time by put
ting a collar and tugs and lines on
him; for instance, put a rope in The
tugs and pull back on it while you
drive him around the yard, than you
can by hitching him with a strong
horse and dragging and smuggling him
along the road. When they are dis
%couraged and sulky, it is a hard matter
to make them see any bright side tc
life in the harness.
A HORSE WRANGLER.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-30

I'm all de vars dat 1 knowed a sartin
rich man sunthin' was allus happenin'
to him. While l was gwine OF foot
his bosses run away and broke his
laig. While | was injoyin' my kitchen
stove his steam pipes busted and killed
his cook. While my cabin was too
small game for thunderbolts one cum
along and tore half de roof off his
house. While men de old woman was
grubbin' along by ourselves he had to
have 16 Of his relations in de house.
My dawg wasn't wuth Is cents, but he
libed on. His dawg was with $3.50,
and he "a allus gittin' lost or nizened.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-30

1t would give me as much pleasure
as anything l can think of to be able
to hand you a sure cure for bakers,
but l hardly think | have anything
new to say on this subject. When we
come to the genuine inbred baker we
all have to admit that we are getting
pretty close to the high stump. My
experience is that the baking vice
more than any other requires different
handling for each individual case. /
have never seen one that could not
be started by some means, but when
you speak of cure" I'll go back and
sit down. BY cure | mean such cor
rection of the fault that anybody can
drive the animal. This cannot be done
in all cases because, as a famous
horse trainer has well put it, you
can't cure all the balky drivers"
For a sulker that will throw him.
self and refuse to get up, "hog-tying'
is as good a remedy to apply as we
are likely to find. Tie all four feet to-
gether and then go and weed the
onions or sit down in the shade and
read the news for an hour. Two hours
may be necessary in some cases. You
can very near tell when he has given
up. His eyes will beg when you come
near him, 1t is better, however, not
to go near him for three-quarters of an
hour. He must have time to gather
in the fine points of your argument
He is usually very particular to keer
on his feet after one or two applica
| ticns Of this remedy, and the chances
are he will not balk at all with you
but the next nan that gets him? Who
knows?
The "guy rope works satisfactorily
in some cases. Tie small rope aroun
the animals neck and take half hitcl
on lower jaw. Let a good husky maj
pull steady On this rope. He will star
with a lunge, and in many cases, espe
cially young horses, will give up thu
standing habit. When other ideas fai
rapid whipping across the nose with
light whip will start him. | have seei
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-30
CARE OF THE OLD
STRAWBERRY BEDS
BY Prof. c. p. Close, Delaware.

AS soon as the fruit is gathered 1t is
we'll to NOW the patch and burn 1t
over quickly as 500 as dry enough, so
as to destroy as much Of foul matter,
fungous diseases and insects as pos
sible. Then pillow between the rows,
throwing burrows together, and cut
the rows to about one foot wide. Thin
out the remaining plants, leaving only
the young, vigorous ones, and cultivate
the ground level between the rows.
Another way is to pillow down one
half of the width Of each row, culti-
vate we'll and let new cover
1t from the remaining half. When
enough new plants are established the
old portion of the row should be
plowed down and cultivated and prac-
tically a new plantation will be Sc
cured. Cultivation should be contin-
ued until the end Of the growing sea
son.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-30
Dat millyonaire had no show to eat

dat MILLIONAIRE had no show to eat
onions, make lasses candy or popcorn.
He nebber slid down mill, went rabbit
huntin' nor drank cider out O a jug.
II he cher rot down of an evenin' wild
his shoes off to take comfort his wife
dragged him off to de theater or his
barn took fire. While l saved UP $500
in ten years, and am libin' to-day, he
spent $4,000 a year to run his house
fur de same time and died wishin' he
could have had hoecake and bacon for
breakfast and had de felicity Of wearin'
a patch on each knee and two behinc
him."
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-30
Pigeon Joins RecessIonaI.

A little fellow who sings in the
choir of a Long Island village church
is the happy possessor of tame pi-
geons. One of them follows him to the
pretty vine covered place of worship
and during the sermon COOS and fut-
tiers among the crimson ramblers at
the open window. One recent Sunday
when the occasional began the bird
flew in and circled about the little
fellows head until he reached the
choir room door. 1t then few out and
waited to escort its small owner
home.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-30

ter flowing into a storage reservoir to
came in with considerable force, pro-
jecting the stream into the air, aus
ing it to mix with the air before it
comes to rest in the reservoir. There
is a system at Cambridge, Mass, which
throws the water 40 feet into the air.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-30
RICHES AND TROUBLES.

his necktie works around under his
left ear he loses his posishun in So
ciety.
you and me know dat two-shillin'
suspenders hold up our trowsers as
well as a par costin' six dollars. De
millionaire knows 1t, too, but he's got
to pay out $5.75 extra cause he's in de
swim.
in our minds eye we see de rici,
man seated In a red velvet chair.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-30
But It Was All RIGHT,

The poor but proud duke decided to
play a safe game, so instead of beard
ing the dear girls father in his lair he
wrote as follows: 81 want your daugh-
ter-the flower of your family"
BY return mail came the old mans
reply: Your photography seems to
have a fiat wheel. What you want is
doubtless the flour in connection with
my dough and if my girl wants You !
suppose I'll have to give up"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-30
Advice and Comment on the Subject
hY Philosophlc Uncle Rufus.

my frens," said Uncle Rufus, as he
sat down in a sunny spot on the steps
OF the grocery, make no mistake
about riches. No man eber gifts to be
wuth a millyun dollars dat his trub-
bles don't begin de next day. He's got
to GIT his h'ar cut once a week and
shave once a day. He muse keep his
Rhocs blackcd day and night, and If
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-30
No Running About.

Mrs. Calder (reading an adj
Shopping by mail! How ridiculous!"
Mrs. Ascum-Why so?
Mrs. Gadder-Why, how can one
shop by mail? You car only buy things
by mail.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-30
THE EFFECT OF WEALTH.

Billie-Who is that awfully freckled
girl on the horse?
Tillie-Why, that's Miss Gotrox. She
has several millions in her own name.
Billie-So? My! Aren't her freckles
becoming?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-30

The eyes of a man looking for a
wife rest longer on the girl who can
manufacture a pie than on one whose
long suit is piano humping.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-30

sun will have become so far cooled
off that we shall be Indifferent to
everything else that happens.
Another limit to the future Of the
habitable portion of the earth is
brought to light by the rapid prog
ress of erosion that is going on all
over the land surface of the world.
Wallace estimates that one foot Of
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-30

the earth's surface is, on the average,
washed away by the streams every
5000 years and deposited at the bot.
tom of the ocean. This amounts to
more than 800 feet in a million years.
AS the main elevation of North Amer
lea is 74S feet, and that of Europe 671
feet, it follows that by the operation
of present forces Europe will be
washed into the sea in 1000, 900 years,
and America in 100000 years.
What providence has in store for US
after that, no man knows. If the sunk
en- portion shall rise at the end Of that
period, as it did at the end Of the coal
period, there will be dry land to live
on, but it is doubtful if 1t have such
stores of iron and coal as have blessed
the present race of human beings.
There are two other sources of heat
to which we may look with much con-
fidence and hope. 1t was more than
a dream of Ericsson to invent an en-
CINE which could be run by collect
ing the direct rays of the sun through
immense sun-dials, thus generating
the heat necessary to set in motion
the wheels of industry. But the sue
cessful carrying out Of his plans
would necessitate the transfer of our
great manufacturing centers to the
%rainless regions of the world where
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-30

space it now occupies, 1t is hardly possible for it
after that to continue to furnish as much heat as
1T does now, but 1t must then cool off with great
rapidity.
This reasoning is based on the supposition that
the sun is not yet a solid body, but is so hot that
its mass is still in a gaseous state. But the force
of gravity upon the sun is so great that the gas is
compressed into a much smaller propOrtionate com.
pass than it is on the earth. The force of gravity
on the surface of the sun is 27 times that on the
earth, so that a man weighing $50 pounds on the
earth would weigh nearly two tons on the sun. So
great is this pressure of gravity on the gases of
the sun that are they reduced to onequarter the
density Of the solid nucleus of the earth. But so
long as the nucleus of the sun continues to be
gaseous 1t will continue to grow hotter as it dimin-
ishes in size. So soon, however, as it loses suf-
fcient heat to allow the material to take on the
solid form, a crust will be formed and the radiat-
ing heat will rapidly diminish. Probably, also,
the heat radiated will diminish long before that
time, even though the sun is growing hotter, be-
cause of the diminishing size of the globe.
The only way that the astronomers can see to
avoid this slow paralysis of the sun, and SO of the
whole solar system, is that lately proposed by Prof.
Langley in a sensational article depicting what
would happen If a dark world moving at an incred-
ible speed in space should come so near our sun
that the two would collide. In this case the origt
nal heat of the sun might be restored, but the ca
tastrophe would practically produce such an ex
pansion of its volume and such an increase of its
radiating power that everything on the earth would
be burned up, producing about such phenomena as
are described by the Apostle Peter. Indeed, the re
semblance between the words Of the apostle anc
the theory of the Washington astronomer was al
striking as it was unexpected, so much so that some
readers may not know from which source the fol
lowing quotation Is taken:
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-07-30

lHe present rate, OF, IHueeu, dI any
rate, forever. AS Lord Kelvin has
well said, we know that the sun is
cooling off just as certainly as we
should know that a hot stone which
we encountered in a field was cooling
off, though we had not seen it long
enough to measure the rate of its
cooling. Heat is not a permanent
quality of any known object. The sun
must be losing it's heat. and hence in
time will become a cold and lifeless
object.
If things continue to go on as they
now do, astronomers tell us, the sun
will lose its life-giving heat long before
IL, 600. 900 years have elapsed. Like all
other cooling bodies, the sun must be
diminishing in size. Its diameter must
be contracting. Newcomb estimates
that in less than 5000, 900 years the
suns diameter will contract to one,
half its present length, SC that the
sun will occupy only one-eighth of the