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MAINE DAIRYMEN.

The annual meeting of the Maine
Dairymen's Association will be held in
Augusta beginning the evening or
December 6 and continuing through
Friday, December 8. An effort Is be-
ing made the present year to make
the program exceedingly interesting
and valuable.
Special programs have been pre-
pared for each of the evenings dur
ing the week Tuesday evening, De-
cember 6, reception to the officers
and members of the association will
be given by the citizens of Augusta.
Wednesday evening, December Z, will
be ladies' night. and an address will
be given by Professor Laura Com
stock of the University. Thursday
evening, the 8th, will occur the an
nual banquet. Friday evening, the
9th, DR.. Raymond Pearl of the Maine
Experiment Station, will deliver an IL
lustrated lecture on Agricultural I'm
pressions from European trip. The
program throughout the entire week
will be made up very largely of pa
pars given by practical farmers. In
fact it has been the plan of the execu-
tive committee of the association to
make the program of the annual meet
ing for the present year one for and
by practical farmers. Liberal pre-
miums have been offered for butter,
cheese, milk, cream and corn. Special
premiums have been contributed by
C. +. Tripp of Ripley, Dr. G.. NJ. Twit-
chell of Auburn, the Maine Farmer,
Turf, Farm & Home, Lewiston Jour
nal and the Worcester Salt Co.
A judging contest of dairy products
will be held during the week. A silver
cup will be offered as the principal
prize in this contest.
The official program is now in the
hands of the printer and as soon as
received a copy will be forwarded to
all applicants. Further announce
ments will be given to the public la
ter by Leon S. Merrill, secretary.
Following are the programs:
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6.
7.30 p. m.-Music; Invocation by
Rev. l.. w. Coons, Augusta; Address
es of Welcome; From the Business
Interests of Augusta, by E. c. Carll,
president Augusta Board of Trade;
From the Agricultural interests of
by o. E. Farnham, Master
Capital Grange; From the City of Au-
gusta, by Hon. Frederick w. Plaisted.
Mayor; music; response by DR.. Geo.
NJ Twitchell, Auburn; music; Ad-
dress, What can Maine do for Herself
During this Decade?" by Prof. Robert
]. Sprague, University of Maine.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7.
$50 a. m.-Business meeting of the
Association; annual address of the
President, by w. G.. Hunton, Read
field; annual reports: Secretary,
Leon s. Merrill Orono; Treasurer, R.
Alden, Winthrop; Special Committees;
of business.
1890 a. m.-"Feeding for Milk Pro-
duction,' by Prof. p. A. Campbell. Uni
versty of Maine.
1.3O p. m.-(pairy room How
Made Prize Cheese in 1909" by H. B.
Whipple, Bingham; (Seed rooml How
l Doubled My Hay Crop" by L. E.
McIntire, Waterford.
2.30 p. m.-Convention hall; "Silos
and Silage," by E. A. Stanford. West
What the Cow Test AS
sc oiation Can Do for the Farmers of
Maine" by R. w. Redman State Dairy
Instructor.
7.30 p. m.-Ladies night; Address,
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10.

$50 a. m-"Seed Improvement
Field Work for 1870" by Alfred s
Cook. Maine Department of Agricul-
ture; discussion, Future Work for
the Seed Improvement Association,
opened by Hon. A. P. Howes, Palmyra
and participated in by the members
Business meeting. Elections of officers
A cordial invitation Is extended to
all persons interested in dairying or
in any branch of farming to be pres
ent and participate freely in the dis
cussions.
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1t Is better to misunderstood some
people than to understand them.
Oh we'll IL hubby doesn't like wifey's
new fall hat he can pay for another.
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Had dyspepsia or indigestion for
years. No appetite, and what I did eat
distressed me terribly. Burdock Blood
Bitters cured me."-J. II. Walker. Sun
bury, Ohio.
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Never can tell when you'll mash a
finger or suffer q cut. bruise, burn or
scald. Be prepared. DR.. Thomas Ec-
lectric Oil instantly relieves the pain
quickly cures the wound.
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Program for the Maine Seed I'm
provement Association:
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An Essential to Well-Being." by
Prof Laura Comstock. University OF
Maine. A special program consisting
Of readings. vocal and instrumental
music will be provided. Ladies' are es-
pecislly invited.
.THURsDAY. DECEMBER s.
$50 a. m-(Dairy room) Dirt and
Its Relation to Bacteria In Milk" by
Prof. II. U Evans, Director State
Laboratory of Hygiene, Augusta.
1890 a. m.-Discussion, Can Alfal-
ia be Raised in Maine" opened by
Hon. F. S. Adams, Bowdoinham;
Some Observations on Recent Dairy
Events" hy DR. George M. Whitaker.
in charge of Market MIX Section. U.
5. Department of Agriculture; busl-
ness session.
LOO D. m.-Dairy ROOM Demon
stration in Judging Milk. Cream ana
Butter
1.30 D. m-Judglng contest in milk,
cream and butter tSee special preml-
ulns. including silver odD offered for
this contest
20 H. IN n.-Creame ymen's session,
" h Hamlin President Maine Cream
erymen's Association. presiding. "Op-
oortunities for Profitable Dairying In
Maine," by C. E. Henry. Pittsf1eld; F.;
How | Increased My Dairy Profits
by feeding by w. G. Hunton. Read
field. President Maine Dairymen's AS
ISOLATION; How Increased My Dairy
Profits by Wedding" by Rutillus AL
den. Winthrop; How | Increased My
Dairy Profits by Breeding" by c. l..
Jones, Corinna. President Maine Live
Stock Breeders Association; business
session.
100 D. m.-Annual banquet; inform
alton concerning banquet In another
part of this announcement.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8.
900 a. m.-Closing session. Election
Of officers.
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CONNECTIONS.
At Oakland with Maine Centre,
tailroad. At Somerset Junction. viii
+ Canadian Pacific Railway. AT Kinsnn
Station with Coburn Steamboat Corr
pany for all points on Moosehead Ieha
NORRIS MCDONALD, Vice President
F. e. BOOTHBY. Gen. Passenger Az,
Portland Me
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It's impossible for man to behave
right if he doesn't think right.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-11-03
GUINEA PEOPLE

They are not nomadic. but live in
streets are paved Some tribes use for
this purpose the bark of trees. while
others simply place palm leaves over
the roads to keep the dust down.
Their villages and houses are kept
clean and near each house gardens
are planted, in which many kinds Of
flowers are grown. These people are
extremely fond Of flowers, and always
wear some in their hair. They sue
cessfully practise agriculture, and
their decorative art is of considerable
beauty.
Strange to say, nothing at all like
any form of government could be de-
tected. There are no chiefs, and the
only thing approaching known insti-
tutions is a sort of council of the old
est men of the tribe. These, however.
do not rule the people, but their adj
vice is asked in important matters.
Notwithstanding this, the utmost good
order prevails. everything being done
according to custom.
Their family life is peculiar. Every
person dwells alone; the young I'M
married men have separate houses,
the wives have their own homes quite
apart from their husbands. When a
married man wishes to speak to his
wife it is not etiquette for him to go
to her house and call on her, nor to
speak to her when he meets her in
the village. He must inform woman
neighbor of hers that he wishes to
talk to his wife, and the go-between
then arranges meeting for them in
the nearby forest. Taking these facts
into consideration it is not surprising
to learn that domestic peace is never
disturbed, occasions for quarreling be-
ing extremely rare.
The Dutch explorers named this
race the Kaya-Kaya. because on meet
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that he will have to take Sulu belle
with hobble of fig leaves about her
waist for sultana.
The sultan used to have a hobby for
collecting wives. He had samples of
all the fifty-seven or more varieties
of beauties that the 1872 islands over
which he rules produce. Sometimes
his agents would send him duplicates.
Then he would drop a line to some
other ruler and exchange the lady in
question for variety he didn't pos
sess. But lately he has found their
dressmaking bills too great burden.
The Redferns Of Jolo kept him awake
nights worrying how to meet their
duns, so he decided to discard all but
one wife.
But the royal heart yearned for a
| lighter helpmeet than the island af-
forded. He proposed to Miss Roose-
welt when she visited the Philippines
with the Taft party, but was given
the mitten. So he came to America,
thinking he would have better luck.
He might have secured wife If the
hobble skirt hadn't appeared
After viewing the fashion parade in
New York, the sultan hurriedly fig
ured out on the back of an old en-.
velope that II he married a modern
American girl he would have to sell
three or four Of his islands and put
a mortgage on the old homestead to
keep her in clothes, 1t was a stagger,
ing blow to his hopes. His dream had
faded and life now stretched before
him, bleak and desolate. Hadji No
manned Jamalul Hiram II now has
but one forlorn hope-that he can fine
a girl who will promise to wear moth
ing more expensive or elaborate thar
modish gown OF palm leay es, or
bettei. a single rose N her hair.
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The Health of the Soldier.

Undoubtedly the main raison dire
Of the army medical officer is not that
Of a practising physician or surgeon,
but is that of a preventer of disease.
By neglect of proper sanitary precau-
tons armies have been decimated by
preventable disease. II the Japanese
and German army authorities can pre-
vent disease from gaining a foothold
among the troops why cannot the
American and British army authori-
ties? The truth is that more intelli-
gent system is in vogue in the Japan
ese and German armies, and what is
more to the point this system is rigid
" carried out. Cooperation between
The line officers and the medical Off
GERS as suggested by Munson would
Dc long step in the right direction,
nut unless the necessary sanitary
measures are enforced by strict dis
apline these would be of limited ef
@ct'-Medical Record.
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Panama Insect Gives Fever.

Chester, Pa.-Henry G. Fuller OF
Marcus Hook is suffering with a Sc
we're attack of Panama fever contract.
ed in a peculiar manner. He has not
been to Panama. nor has he came into
contact with an person who has been
there, as far as he knows.
1t is believed that his system was
inoculated with the fever germs by
mosquitoes brought from Panama by
some of this country's warships and
transports
Fuller is employed at the League
Island navy yard, and his physician is
OF the opinion that while he was go
ing about his duties at the yard he
was bitten by either mosquitoes Oh
flies brought by the ships,
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CHICAGO FISH ESCAPE HOOKS
5000 Black Bass In Lincoln Park to
Be UnmoIested-Bison Foretell
Hard Winter.

Chicago.-Shade of Izaak Walton
and piscatorial enthusiasts, hear We
this-6,O00 black bass have been
planted in the ponds of Lincoln park.
but there isn't any fishing yet
This announcement is made by Cy
De Vry, who looks after the veal of
animal kind and the birds and fishes in
the great pleasure ground.
In former years the custom has been
to permit fall fishing In the ponds,
but this year there will be none O! that
because it is the intention of the park
ture-this on the. word and authority
of Cy De Vry.
Eyes, sir, we are going to have the
finest black bass in these ponds to be
found any where" he said. Il got the
idea some time ago that the ponds
could get along very well without bull
heads, goldfish and tho like, and the
result Is that the commissioners got
busy and we procured several thou
sand bass from the Illinois fish com
mission. We emptied 1900 in the
north pond, and the balance went into
the south pond"
Having disposed of the subject OF
fish, the head animal keeper turned tc
the more weighty one of mammals In
the ZOO
See the buffalo, the elk and the
moose" he said. "They are taking or
their fur much earlier this year, ant
that means we are in for long and {
cold winter. | have been watching
those animals and the bears and the
rest of the furry tribe for severa
weeks, and their hides present ever!
indication of an early winter.
81 see this, too, in the behavior o
the beavers. The little fellows ar,
becoming more FESTIVE and rathe
imagine they would prefer the job o
building their bark houses up In tn
northern country thaR posing here Il
Lincoln park for the amusement an
instruction of the public. Let tn
coal men cheer up, for as have said
here will be long winter and bi
rop of ice"
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BIG BEAR KILLED BY WOMAN
Mrs. Weston Adams Of Stoneham, Me-,
Outruns Bruin, Gets Rifle, and
Shoots Pursuer.

Norway, Me.-The bravest woman
in Stoneham, near Norway, is Mrs.
Weston Adams, who has lain low the
biggest bear seen hereabouts for many
years.
Alone, blueberrying, on Spreckland
mountain, Mrs. Adams, frail but cour.
ageous woman of 30 years, ran across
Bruin in startling manner. She had
nearly filled her pail with berries when
she heard an angry growl and looking
up saw huge black bear standing
on ledge less than 20 feet away.
Mrs. Adams stood her ground. She
knew that to run would be signal
for the bear to attack. The bear
growled ferociously, and Mrs. Adams
tried to drive 1t away by shaking her
pail of berries at 1t.
Fearing that the bear would attack
her any moment, the brave little wom-
an did some quick thinking. She re.
membered that bears cannot run fast
down steep hill and knowing that
her rifle was below her she waited un-
til the bear had turned its head. at.
tracted by noise further up the
mountains, and then she ran for her
life.
She planned it we'll Bruin angrily
pursued her, but Mrs. Adams had a
good start, because of its numbering
gait the bear could not overtake her
Just in the nick Of time Mrs Adams
came to the tree where she had left
har rifle and taking steady aim sent
bullet into the oncoming bear.
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Auto AmbuIances for Insane.

New York-The first automobile
ambulance ever built for the exclusive
handling of insane patients is shortly
to be put in service at Bellevue hos
pital The psychopathic ward at
Bellevue receives most of the cases of
suspected insanity from all parts of
the city.
Heretofore insane patients were
brought to Bellevue In patrol wagons
by the police. Now the police will
have nothing to do with the handling
of such cases. Two trained nurses
will go out on calls with the ambu.
lance. This is expected to result in
more humane and more intelligent
handling of patients.
This new service will cost the city
about $4,000 a year.
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Natives Found Entirely Ignorant
of Use of Metals.
No Form of Government Exists Among
Them Except Advice-Giving Coun-
Gil of Eiders-Bark Paved
Streets.

The Hague, Iulland.-The latest
expedition in New Guinea under Prof.
Lorentz, which succeeded in ascend
ing the range of snow mountains, has
published some interesting particulars
about non Malayan race living to the
south of the mountains These people
have Caucasian or European features,
although their color Is black. They
speak language entirely different
Polynesian tribes; indeed, it is the
first time that such a race and Ian
guage have been encountered in the
Dutch indies.
The people were entirely ignorant
OF the use Of metals before the Dutch
expedition came into their territory;
but once having made the acquain-
lance of European knives, they clam
ored for them and would bring guam
titles of fowls and game, pigs, fruit
and fish to exchange for steel knives
or iron of any description. All their
own implements were of stone, fish
bone, bone and wood. sometimes beau
tifully carved. Prof. Laurentz says
that this is perhaps the last race of
people existing in the world still in
the "stone age"
If, from this fact, 1t were to be
argued that they must be on very
low level, indeed, 1t is surprising to
hear that, on the contrary. they have
reached fair standard of civilization
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-11-03
SULTAN SEEKS WIFE
Former Ruler OF Jolo Wants
American Sultana
Dream Of His Hlshness 10 BIlqhted
when He Views Some Freak
Fashions Of the Pres.
ent Day.

Observation-Disclosures he visited,
interest was aroused in his highness,
Jamalul Hiram III, Sultan of Sulu, re-
Gently visiting the United States dur.
ing MS progress of making a tour OF
the world. He is not the high and
mighty potentate he was before our
collision with Spain in 1898 and the
coming under American authority OF
the Jolo group of islands. Prior to
that the sultan was the ruler of the
Jolo archipelago, consisting of 1872
Islands and inhabited by $4,000 peo-
PIE all Mohammedans and many of
them slaves. But his sovereignty was
taken from him by the United States
and Instead of his usual revenues he
was given pension of $500 His
slaves also were set Free slavery hav-
ing been abolished in the islands, and
ne was given to understand that dur
Ing good behavior his treatment by
the United States would be kind and
just. Since then the sultan has sup
ported the authority of the United
States and has discouraged the max.
Ing OF trouble by his former subjects
The sultan was accompanied by his
brother, Dato Raia WASH, and several
other persons and after a brief stay in
New York, proceeded to Washington
to meet President Taft, whom he had
met while the latter was governor of
the Philippines. The sultan is small
man, but keenly bright and closely OBJ,
servant of things about him He was
bewildered by the tall buildings of
New York. the well-dressed crowds
and the hurry and excitement all
around him. The public buildings of
Washington also filled him with awe
by their size and magnificence.
The sultan left his far island home
determined to pick wife in the
United States If he had to hook all
the pearls in his exchequer. But the
hobble skirt floored him, so to speak,
and he has admitted, heart brokenly,
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Forced to Believe So, but Get oysters
Instead-Otker Novel
Amusements.

PHILADELPHIA latest device for
torturing freshmen at the University
of Pennsylvania is to blindfold the
victim, and, after propping open his
mouth with a small oblong block, to
tell him that he is on the verge of
having frog dropped down his throat,
and then In it's stead to feed him a
large raw, oyster. Raw eggs are used
when oysters are not available This
method was found to work effectively
after twenty blindfolded freshmen
had been forced to chase frogs in the
lily ponds in the biological gardens.
A small hazing party, at which
three "freshies" were introduced to
several novel and entertaining amuse-
ments, proved to be merely prelim-
mary to a well organized and con-
certed attack on all the first year men
in the dormitories.
Beginning at / o'clock in the morn
ing. they secured the dormitories from
the new Provost tower, at Thirty-sixth
and Spruce streets, to the apex of the
Triangle in search of freshmen, and
by 5 o'clock, when their operations
ceased, more than a score of sad, hum
bled and forlorn "freshies" crept quiet
ly back to the rooms. dripping with
the wet and mire of the frog ponds
in the Biological gardens. College had
lost its rosy glow for them after four
hours of torment at the hands of their
upper classmen.
Come along, freshie boys" the
sophs coaxed, as they jimmied doors
and climbed through windows by
means of ladders conveniently at
hand from the recent building opera
lions. All were allowed to put on
clothes, but the more obdurate, who
refused to dress were forced brus'
quely out into the chill night air clad
only in pajamas. Those who were
dressed wore their coats turned
wrongside out and their trousers turn
ed up to their knees, All were blind
folded and marched in military for
nation to the biological gardens
They were forced to initiate boiling
teakettles, to offer supplication to the
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FRESHMEN EAT LIVE FROGS

moon. sing songs and cheer for the
sophomore class. They struggled un.
til breathless with imaginary foes and
were forced to deliver orations on alb.
surd subjects.
In the Biological gardens they were
forced to rush furiously through the
shallow ponds overgrown with lilies,
in chase of frogs and, with the
thought of frogs we'll in their minds,
they We're subjected to the torment of
Imaginary swallowing of batrachiana
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Pumpkin Weighs 1926 Pounds.

North Yakima, Wash,--L. A. Dash
is the owner of the largest pumpkin
displayed in North Yakima this year
measuring six feet and four inches In
circumference, more than two feet in
diameter and fourteen inches In
height.
The pumpkin, which is of the French
variety, weighs exactly 125 pounds
and was grown without milk feed
ing" which is frequently used to
cause extra growth. The seed from
which the giant was raised was i'm.
ported from Paris.
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ing the natives they always shouted
those words, and It was thought that
1t probably was the name of the race.
Afterward 1t was discovered that the
words meant good friends" and were
intended to convey their peaceful in
tentions toward the expedition.
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Not a Thlna.

The good dog that is given bad
name hasn't anything on the sedate,
sensible girl who gets the reputation
of being q flirt.
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TROUBLE ON
WHEELS

~ know you've had the happiest
lind of a summer" said Bessie, the
~oid of honor, who had just met Clar.
ma, the June bride. for the first time
.Ince the wedding.
'Well, we had very nice honey
uoon." answered Claribel enthus.
,astically. but the rest of the sum.
mer well-the summer has been
lind of--of different
"Why, Claribel, you don't mean to
cav that you and Ned aren't as happy
AZ YOU expected to be! You seemed
an well suited to each other
1--WE are well suited to each other
and we should have been awfully hap
nv II 1t hadn't been for Uncle James.
He has almost spoiled my life"
"How could your Uncle James spoil
your life, child?"
"By giving us an automobile for a
wedding present"
"Why, l think that was a perfectly
lovely and generous gift"
well, maybe you're crazy over au-
tomobiles, Bess. But I'd rather have
A husband than an automobile"
"You have both, haven't your
mo, haven't"
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Labor Note.

II you feel above your work II
you'd be a good idea for you to occa'
sionally come off your perch.
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"Claribel, you know you don't mean
wa, uavv

"Claribel, you know you don't mean
what you say"
"Yes, do. never would have mar.
ried Ned If l had had the slightest
idea that he was going to pay all his
attention to a machine. Waking or
sleeping that car is his only thought.
81 think Uncle James might have
waited year anyway before giving us
that old killjoy Pm going to come
to some kind of an understanding with
Ned about it. I'm not going out In ii
any more for while. | want to stay
at home and keep my house and be
domestic, as a wife should. There's
the telephone. Please excuse me a
minute.
Yes, it's l, Ned" Bess heard hel
say sweetly at the phone.
Yes, dear, / can be ready right
away Bess is here. She would en-
Joy ride with US, Pm sure.
NO, of course we won't keep you
waiting, dear"