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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-25
REACHES FOND OF STAMPS
Myriads Of Small Insects Invade tn,
~, City Postoffice.

Washington. Sept. 24.-Rewying all
kinds of powders to exterminate them.
myriads of water bugs have invaded
the quarters of the city postoffice and
are causing postal officials all kinds of
trouble. They have inflicted much
damage to books, paper, and especial
ly postage stamps.
Resembling the ordinary roach, the
insects. although only half the size
exhibit strong appetite for the gun
which Uncle Sam puts on the backs OF
stamps and on the flaps of envelopes
So great are the ravages of this in
sect that stamps left uncovered over
night are devoid of their adhesiveness
the following morning.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-25
SEATTLE SPORTS EAGER
FOR MARATHON RAC1A

Seattle. Wash, Sept. 24.-SeatN
sports who have been clamoring y
peek at the real long-distance run
ners. are to have their chance. \ fek
local men have organized club
the promotion of big Marathon
one OF the tracks here ST. Yves O.
Johnnie Hayes have already signta9
their willingness to run and Longboe|
is ready to enter, according to repof
from his Canadian home Ms
An amateur Marathon was trtdA
Gently, but owing to- the poor cop4
ton OF the track ana the pn6fef ~!
dition of the athletes it was fizzle.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-25
"MAJ." MUTT, MIDGET, DEAD.
Barnum's Little Man Lived to Be 60,
Prospecting in Business.

Boston. Sept. 24.-Rodnia Mutt, last
male survivor of the late P. T. Bar
NUNS famous midget troupe, and who
as a member of that dwarf combina-
ton. became known all over this coun-
try and in England, died at his home
in Dorchester today, at the age of 50
years.
Since retiring nineteen years ago
Maj" Mutt. as he was known. had
conducted successful real estate
business. He was brother of Com
modore" Mutt. with whom he Travelled
under the ausniccs OF Barnum, AMI
who died in 1881. N4sf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-25
REVEALS HIDDEN GOLD.
Recluse, Near Death, Tells Grandson
Who Finds $1,000.

Huntington, w. Va, Sept. 24.-Mil-
ton Mullens. aged So living alone, neal
Logan, in enfeebled health and realiz-
ing that death was but a few days off,
confided to his grandson that he had d
pot of gold buried in his rear yard
and some greenbacks hidden in his
barn.
The grandson at points designated
found $4,000.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-25

navy stepped ashore to pay an official
visit to General Leonard Wood. FL
Admiral Won Rooster was accompa-
MED by Lieut.. Frederick H. Potet of
the United States battleship Connec-
ticut. as the United States escort of
honor and by his own flag Lieutenant.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-25
AUGUSTA LOCALS.

p For the past few nights saturnalia
of drunkenness seems to prevail on
South State street, and there are some
indications that gang of hoboes are,
making their night quarters in the
Driving park. AaA
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-25
NATIONAL HOME.
Saturday and Sunday Concert.

March-"Our Starry Banner PAMELA
Overture-"R akocZy.' Keller Bella
Trombone solo-Seected.
John J. Mcmahon.
Selection from Romeo and Juliet"
Gounod
WaltZes-"Land of My Dreams" Herman
Medley-"Good Old Tunes Southwell
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-25

, Few New Workers. are aware that
the. business thoroughfare known as
Duane street was named after James
Duane, who was the first mayor Of
New York after the revolution.-New
York Herald.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-25
COURT AT DOVER.
No Bill in Jones Assault Case-Twelve
Liquor Indictments.

Dover, Me, Sept. PA no BILL by
day by the supreme court grand jury
in the case of Griff Jones, who was
charged with assauting with intent -
kill April 25 last of Ethel Steans OF
Monson. Twelve liquor indictments
were also reported by the jury.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-25
LOU DILLON AND NICK
WIN RACES AT BRiDGTON

Bridgton. Me-, Sept. 4-Lou Dillon I'd
and Nick won the races here Thursday.
the former in straight heats. the latter in
a made race. dropping two heats to Mar
garet. The summary:
. ~ CLASS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-25

go CLASS.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-04
Continental Stock Foods.

Data regarding the character of the
ingredients in continental stock foods,
the results obtained in feeding tests
with such materials. and formulas for
making such foods at home are sum
married. in a Wisconsin bulletin. The
authors conclusions follow:
Stock foods are Of no benefit 10
healthy animals when fed according to
manufacturers directions either as 10
increasing the digcstibility of the feed
eaten or rendering it more effective for
production of meat. milk, wool. etc.
They are of no benefit as a cure-all
tor diseases of the various classes of
i've stock neither do they possess any
particular merit in case of specific dis
eases, or for animals out of condition,
off feed. etc, since only small proper
ton of ingredients having medicinal
value is found therein, the bulk OF the
foods consisting of filler which pos
sesses no medicinal properties what
ever.
Exorbitant prices are charged for
these foods. as is natural considering
the extensive advertising the manufac-
turers are doing, and the liberal COM
missions which they pay agents and
dealers The large sales of stock foods
are doubtless mainly TO be attributed
TO these facts.
BY adOptingNa liberal system of feed
ing farm animals and furnishing a va
riety of feeds. good results may be OBJ
tanned without resorting to stock foods
of any kind. If farmer believes it is
necessary to feed stock foods at times.
he can purchase the ingredients at IA
drug store and make his own stock
foods at fraction of the cost charged
for them by the manufacturers. He
will then have the additional satisfac-
ton of knowing just what he is feed
ing, and of feeding concentrated
food" instead of one largely diluted
with nonmedicinal ingredients.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-04
EePiinE iInDN.

Professor Dietrich Of the Illinois EX-
pertinent Station devotes his whole
time to the study and teaching of
swine husbandry, and he says the
average market hog should weigh 800
pounds at : months of age. For the
pig to g months old protein is the
most important feed. Without pro-
TEN it cannot build up the lean meat
or grow 10 any size.
Protein is found in skimmilk, clover
and alfalfa. Corn is nine-tenths car
bohydrates. Oats have little more
protein than corn, but not sufficient for
the pig. Rye contains a little more
protein than does corn. Barley is
one OF the best feeds on the farI&; it
contains more protein than does rye.
In clover and alfalfa there is a large
bulk for the required nutriments and
pigs cannot get enough for ma ximum
growth. Even if you have corn and
clover it iC still necessary for the
-cowpeas, soy beans or Canada field
peas. There is nothing better grown
ON the farm TO balance up the ration.
Rape is a bulky feed for fattening.
and it is necessary TO use heterogeneous
feed with it. If you feed clover hay
in racks the pigs will not eat as much
OF it as If it were chopped up as fine
ly as possible. scalded with steam and
mixed with slop. You can buy mid
dlings (low-grade -FOUR ID has pro-
TEN, but not enough. Tankage meat
and blood meal are very much richer
than shorts. Perhaps the most concen-
trated heterogeneous food we have Is
tankage. 1t was found by test that GO
per cent tankage contained about 10
per cent of digestib& protein There
is danger in feeding too much protein :;
it is worse than feeding too little.
Dnring the last two months of the
feeding period carbohydrates or .fatten-
ing feeds are of greater Importance.
We must use feeds that are digestible
like corn, wheat, -four or middings,
but bran is practically indigestibe for
the pig. Oil cake contains as much
protein as middiDgs and ranks with
meal, blood meal or oil meal the last
is perhaps better because 1t contains
much ether extract.
1t is much better TO mix the feeds
than TO feed corn at one time. and
something else at another time 9th
erwise the pigs are liable to get too
much of the protein feed, lose their
appetite for corn and become stunted
for their lives.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-04
Alfalfa.

Alfalfa is not the name of particu-
lar brand of political new thought in
| the Prairie States. as certain benighted
Fasteners have supposed. Nor is it
| the name of an Indian tribe. The
| word comes from the same language
whence we get algebra, alchemy, alco-
hol and n host of other substantives
1t is good Arabic, and means the best
| fodder. The Spaniards introduced the
name and the thing into the Western
| Hemisphere. and some of il is sup
posed 10 have come up TO us from Old
Mexico long while ago. In 1854 its
successful cultivation began i'm the
West, when seed was brought to San
Francisco from Chill.
The East ought To know more about
alfalfa than it does, for it has been
wrestling with the problem of growing
it for more than two centuries But
the colonists called 1t 'lucern," name
they. got from England. and by any
name they called it it refused to grow
i'm paying quantity. Before their time
the world had long known alfalfa 1t
seems TO have originated in the south
west of Central Asia. When the Per-
sian, Xerxes, led his big army into
| Greece In 400 Il. c., he brought the
| alfalfa along to provide, in the thor
oughgoing Oriental cOmmissary fash
ion, the forage for his horses. Alfalfa
got into Italy in the first century of
our era. and as the monograph by J.
VI. Westgate, published 10y the Depart
ment Of Agriculture. states: Such
early Roman writers as Virgil and
Pliny give what may still be regarded
as excellent instructions regarding the
handling of alfalfa fields"
Which brings us to the plant itself
Says this same document: 1T may
briefly be described as being deep
rooted, long-lived, herbaceous forage
plant, belonging to tie botanical fam
lily leguminosae. or pod-bearing
plants" 1t resembles clover. and its
chief popularity Is a tap root often ex-
tending ID feet or more into the soil.
This is why 1t flOurishes in the semi
II III itEiob' VI Ai4' WIS., II ''AAN0 itn
root down where moisture may be
found That Is one reason il does not
flourish in the more humid East. with
its sOurer soils. Only in the limestone
belt Of Central New York are there, in
all the East. single counties where as
many as a thousand acres are devoted
To alfalfa.
The seed that Xerxes brought along
with him as IN afterthousht when he
crossed the BOsphorus has had a more
lasting effect on the deStinies Of man
Kind than the invasion which the
Greeks rolled back at Thermopylae,
salamis and Platea.-New York Mail.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-04

"A few friends" relates James Moir
in the Draughts World, were chatting
with Wyllie, the checker champion, in
a club after one of his days of exhi-
bition play in Glasgow. when Z, youth.
slightly under the influence of John
BarleycOrn. threatened TO monopolize
the conversation. blowing his own horn
and giving out in no uncertain Ian
guage that he considered himself the
equal of Wyllie The old man took
no notice of him for a time, but, occu
pying the usual five minutes in consid
ering the move, quietly asked the youth
to remove his hat (not more than a
six and half SiZe). then substituted
his own-which was a large one and
went well down over the young brag
CARTS nose-and. casting his eye
around the company. said scornfully.
That's his measured The company
enjoyed the retort So much that the
youth was glad to make hurried
pvit +"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-04
The Way the Thin, Seamless Tubes
Are Bent without Injury.


Are Bent without Injury.
Saxhorns, so called after a famous
Belgian family named Sax, who in
vented and introduced these instru-
ments about the middle OF the last
century, are the mainstay of all modern
brass bands They are manufactured
in many different sizes, from high So
prano TO the huge coItrabass or bonn
bardon, and the raost important of the
lot is the eurhonium. which supplanted
the now obsolete 'serpents" and ophi-
cleides. The tallest saxhorn ever made
stands eight feet high and contains
more than forty feet of tubing.
The advantage of seamless or solid
drawn" tubes for such Instruments as
trombCnes and horns is considerable,
since, no matter how good the joint
may be, sooner or later the action of
the breath will wear away the solder.
To bend these thin brass tubes with
out splitting or denting the metal was
ut one time very difficult, but, thanks
20 Il most ingenious artifce. the opera
4 is now both safe and simple. The
,ufe is first washed out with a chemical
substance, such as is used by plumbers
TO prevent solder from adhering where
it is not wanted. and it is then COM
pietely filled with molten lead poured
III from a ladle. Thus supported from
within, the brass is easily ard safely
bent to the required shape, the lead
pearson's.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-04

The disputes which old Square
Bemis was called upon to settle were
many and various. He asked no fee
"All L require is that you'll abide by
what / say. or you needn't ever come
to me again." he told his Bushby eli
ents.
you've helped me out good many
times. square," said Ephraim Gregg,
on one occasion. land | took TO We TO
do It now. Bill Hendersons colt
broke loose and got into my garden
Yesterday. and between what he's tore
I'M and what he's ct, | should say
'twould take about four dollars to
cover. Can you get it out of Bill,
think"
Square" Bemis shook his head
"Ej1'e been here before yjr-" he
said. eiavely, "and I've been With him
IN look over the colt I've advised
him not to prosecute unless you tried
TO. The damages his colt has sustain
ed from your blackberry-vines would
come to considerably more than four
dollars. Ephraim. But if you insist
OH"
I'm not insisting" broke in
Ephraim. ION the whole, square,
some O. them squash-vines might not
jest LET the whole thing CO.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-04
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49, - i ~O5W CeEyS

OF draft animals in the sugar district
get this food either alone or mixed
with oats and corn. The animals seem
to like it and are thrifty and in good
condition. Sugar mules, as they are
called, bring from 20 to % per cent
more than mules kept on cotton
plantations and fed cotton seed or cot
ton-seed meal. As molasses is a waste
product in the manufacture of sugar,
it is a very cheap feed and a valuable
one. Mixed with corn and oats in
equal proportions and pressed into a
solid mass. the cakes become quite
hard. After they are thoroughly dried
out they are ground into n fine pow
der and this powder is used as feed.
Horses and mules fed on mOlasses not
only keep fat and sleek. but are capa-
BILE of hauling extraordinary heavy
loads.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-04
HE OBLIGED A LADY.
Little Billy Saw to 1t Tknt Polly
IIrad 10.

Little Billy Saw TO 1t Tint Polly
Had Cracker.
Parrot stories are many, but new
ones are rarer. Here is one which may
be accurately dated July /, 1908.
Little Billy had been sent to spend
the Fourth with an aunt at her new
country cottage, where she kept several
pets among them parrot-a bird ho
had never yet seen.
lie arrived late on the third. and
was at once sent to bed. The neNs
morning. very early, lie woke and stola
downstairs to explore. taking his fire
crackers with him. Not long after there
was a terrible c0mmotion. and his aunt
ran down in her wrapper to invcsti-
gate.
Mingled sounds Of sobs. sauawks and
screeches, following the explosion
which had reused her. led her to 4
screened porch. where she found Billy,
weeping and shaking his fingers, while
the parrot tapped and futtered at th4
end of its tether. scOlding Practically
at the curl of smoke which still rose
lazily from a bunch of exploded crack
ers at the foot OF the stand-perch TO
which it was fastened.
why. Billy cried the lady. re-
prOachfully. You've almost blown
poor Polly Up. and frightened her quite
out of her wits-and you know you're
not allowed to set Off crackers all alone
by yourself. anyway. How could you:'
Il wasn't alonei" protested Billy,
tearfully. ''She was here. and she ask
ed me to- Mean old thing. to make
such a fuss when I only tried to please
her. They wouldn't have all gone off
at once if she hadn't screamed at me
so l dropped the match on 'em, either.
/ think she's horrid,'
Asked you to-" echoed the maligned
parrots owner. shocked at the apparent
fib. "why, Billy"
We'll. she did" Billy insisted; and
just then Polly. cheered by the pres
ence of her mistress, spoke up and con-
frmed him.
Pretty Polly" she croaked. genially.
Polly wants cracker. Crack-err
Pretty Poll,
There" said Billy. "And I didn't
give it to her for ever so long. cause
| knew I'd have to fire it for her. if
she can talk. But she kept right on,
and father always says TO oblige a
lady,
Billy's aunt sat down suddenly and
began to laugh.
Whenever you can, Billy she
agreed. only be quite sure what the
crackers"
oh" said Billy. "Why- But.
aunty. yoI see it was the Fourth
Youths COMPANION.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-04
HOME IN A LONDON "sLUM."
~ Least Keir Har,lie FancifulIy So

Dcsignates His Place of Residence.
Labor NJ. P.'s live. as rule, where
they can get the all-night service Of
county council tram cars. These en-
able them to spend their nights in
pleasant healthy London suburbs.
Kair Hardie alone has fancy for
dwelling in what he has called a city
slum. l think the phrase petty af
fectation. says writer in the Man
chester Chronicle.
Neville's court, f. c.. at No. If, in
which the labor leader lives. has Il
distinctive existence. marking it ont
from any portion of any of London 5
slum lands Personally. it strikes me
as quite pleasant quarter, where one
may study Il communal existence as
complete and as isolated as that of a
country within. 1t is finished entity
"A town within Il town-and London
indeed might be no more than fields
around it.
\ suburb Of Neviile's court is the
dingy Cough square. where the Ameri-
can visitor. after 4 pilgrimage to the
Cheshire Cheese, where DR.. Johnson
ate and drank. comes to see where
Johnson slept. The burly doctor must
have many times passed through Ne
ville's court on his way TO and from
his home in Cough square. The village
of Neyiiles Court can hardly have
changed since then.
The court takes no particular inter
est in Keir Hardie. | think it resents
the imputation that it is a slum in
which the labor NJ. T. heroically lives
in order to show that he has not risen
beyond comradeship with the poor No.
II, I'm fact, is the most exclusive house,
in appearance. in the village. Its gar
den has, alone, high wall, and only n
furtive glimpse may be had of the we'll
preserved old house through the wood
en- gateway. During most of the year
the garden shows bright with flowers,
and the house is fresh and pleasant
looking.
As slum Neyille's court is a rank
failure. and ut times we mediate max
ing Keir Hartiie amend his impression.
But as the small shopkeepers gossip
about the thing they conclude that even
with Keir Hardie a certain pose is
necessary, and the suggestion of dwell
ing with the workers may be a valu-
able asset politically.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-04
DIDN'T KNOW


Many daily habits. particularly of
eating and drinking, are formed by fol-
lowing our elders.
In this way Ill health is often fas-
tened upon children. A Ga. lady says
Il had been allowed to drink coffee
ever since | can remember, but even
as a child | had weak stomach, which
frequently refused to retain food.
THE taste of coffee was in my
mouth all the time and was. as | found
out later. the cause of the stomach
rebelling against food.
II now see that it was only from fol
lowing the example of my elders that
| formed and continued the miserable
habit of drinking coffee. My digestion
remained poor, nerves unstrung. fire.
quent headache. and yet did not sus
peer the true cause.
another trouble was a bad, muddy
complexion. for which | spent time and
money for creams, massaging, etc,
without any results.
After | was married / was asked
to try Postum. and would you believe
il. |. an old coffee topper. took to Postum
from the very first? We made it right
according to directions on the pack
age, and it had a most delicate flavor
and I at once quit coffee with the
happiest results.
Il now have perfectly clear.
smooth skin. fine digestion and haven't
had headache in over two years"
''There's n Reason
Name given by Postum Co, Battle
Greek. Mich Read, The Road to
MELVILLE" in pkeS.
Ever read the above letter? A
new one appears from time TO time
They are genuinz, true and full oil
human interest.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-04
RnfinnS In Reef Production

Rations I'm Beef Production.
Some OF the general conclusions
drawn from tests in rations for beef
production 10y the Nebraska Station fol-
low:
alfalfa hay with corn alone gives
large and profitable gains.
THE use of well-cured corn stover
with alfalfa and corn, while it may not
produce larger gains. will make the
gains less costly because of its low
market value. thereby increasing the
profits over corn and alfalfa alone.
The results of two experiments ind.-
cate that linseed meal is a little more
valuable than wheat bran for supple
menting corn when fed with prairie hay
or corn slower.
when alfalfa is made at least half
IF the roughnesS with prairie hay or
corn slower. good gains may he made
and at less cost than when no alfalfa Is
fed. the protein being supplied by the
use of linseed meal. In other words, 1T
is possible to grow protein on the farm
at a price much below what 1t will cost
on the market in the form of some com
mercial protein food.
The results of single experiment
In which but little more than bali a full
feed of corn was supplied two lots of
fattening steers suggest the possibility
Of making a larger use of hay in I'M
ishing cattle for market than is ordl-
narily made and at less cost. especially
where hay is relatively low and corn
high in price.
From commercial point of view the
results of this entire series of expert
ments go to show that cattle feeding
,an he made profitable when discretion
is used in the selection of foods for the
ration"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-04
NO HOPE FOR HIM.
&SSS SSS&SSSSSS


With the shock of sudden discov-
cry, Mr.. Benson awoke one day to the
fact that the hair was growing thin
on the top of his head. He looked nj
himself in a folding mirror. and was
Mortified to find that there was bald
spot. farther back. as large as sill
yer dollar, of which nobody had ever
told him.
This will never dor' he said. 81
must get that hair back"
He began at once. For several
months he used hair restorative
which was highly commended. It did
no good.
He tried another. then another. and
still another. but all TO no purpose
These preparations had cured many
persons of incipient badness, accord
ing to the testimonials, but none OF
them had any effect on him. AS a
last resort. he consulted specialist
The specialist treated him for six
months At the end of that time the
hair on top of his head was nearly all
gone
I'll have to hunt up another one,
he said.
One morning. while going downtown
i'm q street-car. he observed a stout
prosperous-looking gentleman who
wore an unmistakable wig on his
head.
"Who is that MANI he asked of the
passenger sitting next to him.
Don't you knowf" said the other
That's the rich Colonel STUDIOS.
1--WE often heard of him. They say
he is immensely rich"
Fifty million dollars
FIFTY millions :" reflected Mr. Ben
son. "If there was any eartniy cur,
for badness. he wouldn't ne wearing
a wig. I'll give il up"