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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-27
Japan Comes Borrowing.

Japan will be the next great Power
to borrow money from the United
States, according to information made
known last week in Washington. The
necessity for these loans has risen in
view of the extra expenditures to
which the Government has submitted
as the result of the disasters which
have recently befallen many Japanese
provinces. with great loss of life and
goods. It was decided that Japan
would set aside yearly the sum OF
N25, 100000 as a reserve fund, but the
inability to make up this sum on ac-
count of the unexpected drains on the
imperial treasury will be the reason
for Japan seeking money outside.
And yet the jingoes will go on pic
turing hosts of little brown men as
swarming our shores and storming
our coasts from myriad ships that are
being constructed as Captain Memo
built his Nautilus. So far as can be
learned, however, American capital
lists nave no hesitancy in investing in
.Japan
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-27

Women are much quicker to appre-
ciate the value of advertising than
mon. No man is so persistent read
er or advertising as are the women of
his household. Unlike the man who
farms his farm by the moon, good
housekeeper nowadays keeps her house
largely by the advertising she reads.
She realizes that the well-advertised
store sells greater quantities of goods
and is thus able to sell them at a
much smaller per-sale profit than the
unadvertised store, which must make
its profits from a smaller number of
sales
Women have also learned, and are
learning, that only stores that are
adequately advertised are able to give
real values-are able to compete in
value giving with other stores that
advertise. The store nowadays that
does not advertise has no standing in
the community. 1t may be mentioned
occasionally as neighborhoOd shop
to which customers are sometimes
driven by necessity or temporary con-
venience.
Unlike the advertising of the Olden
days, which was either dull an
nourcement Of the conservative stores
or the hysterical, misleading style re-
sorted to by irresponsible stores, to-
days advertising is generally consid-
ernd as reliable index OF business
conditions, taking the place largely of
market reports and prices current.
Within a few years. advertising meth
DDS have evolved into its presen,
status 1t is a store service and a
public service combined, and it is nee
essary for any concern doing business
in these days to show it's enterprise in
intelligent advertising. 1t would be
as wise to attempt to do business In
quarters wholly inadequate, or with
no delivery system or clerks, as to
do it without advertising. Auvertis-
ing pays, not only the dealer but the
customer and is being reduced to a
science every day by the better edu-
Gated and more alert business firms
who hire experts to arrange their ad-
vertising for them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-27

written and renewing his defense u
the executive committee OF tne
Grange which endorsed Obadiah
Gardner for the United states Sen
ate.
Mr. Stetson seems to feel bad be-
cause the action of the executive COM
mittee of the Grange has been cfiti-
cised II is only natural iha'
there should be criticism. especially
from those who fear the influence OF
the Grange in this matter and VINO
have selected candidate of their
own for the United States Senate
without any reference to the Grange
or anyone else, for that matter.
If the Grange thinks the interest or
the farmers OF Maine would be best
served by electing Obadiah Gardner
as "A United States senator the
Grange has "A perfect right to say so.
But it is to be questioned whether the
action of the executive committee OF
the Grange would have as great
weight as would the action OF the
Grange as body and furthermore.
while it is only a matter of opinion
some people believe that the Grange Is
going TO step too far when IL actively
participates in politics.
If Obadiah Gardner enjoys the con-
fdence and good will OF the Grange
| and the farmers of Maine generally
| it should have weight with the leg
| islators elected on the Democratic
tickets who will select the next United
States senator. But it is dollars to
doughnuts that all this fuss and poth-
er on the part Of the executive com
mittee Of the Grange will have but
little influence on Democratic Leg
| islature, and that the Waterville poll
ticians. who have picked out Charles
+. Johnson as the senator, could tell
Mr.. SteteSon at this moment just how
many votes Johnson is to have and
how many of these votes will come
| from members of the Grange who
happen to be Democratic legislators.
If the Grange wishes to help Gard
ner its officials must do something be-
sides writing letters to the news
papers for the men who are behind
Johnson are practical politicians and
| they are out to win all the spells in
sight.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-27
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Chicago News.)

Chicago News.)
After going to the buyer coal goes
to TIE cellar
1t is better to make an excuse than
to blame the innocent.
lucky man is always harping or
his superior judgment.
Even the lowly dealer in old Junk
is apt to be man of mettle.
woman's idea of a brute is an,
man who declines to flatter her.
1t sometimes happens that a gray
haired man is willing to dye for a
woman.
The faster the automobile goes. the
sooner the ambulance may overtake
it.
Were it not for human nature the
confidence man would be unable t6
earn his salt.
No matter how fat a woman is. she
thinks she'll be all right the next
time the fashions change
There are. two anniversaries that a
woman never forgets-the day she
was married and the day she gave the
baby its first bath
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-27

Thus isolation is eliminated, and lie
in the country becomes more urban
than rural. q
The department points out that lie
in this new country calls for sooo
deal Of grit and not little nara
work. We may take it for granted
that il calls for no more grit and no
more backaches than in wringing
living from the soil of Maine, but I'M
doubtedly Just as many, and if the
average American city man who goes
West to embark in a farming PROJECT
would come to the Pine Tree state
and accept the same hardsiips, ana
put up with the same lack of accom-
modations, he would secure just as
good living and pile up as many dol
lars on a small farm in Maine as he
would in the West.
We are convinced that there is a re-
awakening of interest in agriculture.
Carving out a home in Western des-
ert is no more child'S play than IN
building up a comfortable home ant:
securing d good living on farm IN
Maine. No doubt nature responds
quickly in these irrigated sections ana
that intelligent industry has nrouGh1
about remarkable success in some IN
h.
vertser and is not satisfied unless III
the limelight. We hear more OF the
wonderful things they are doing than
we do of those that are taking place
round about us. Let us do little adj
vertsing on our own nook ana SNOW
up what Maine farmers are doing and
can do in the march of agricultural
progress
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-27

Comptroller Murray has originated
and introduced a number of reforms
designed to standardize and raise the
quality of bank examinations 1t is
his conviction that proper examina =
ton by men well qualified would make
failure impo> sible in the field of ma
tional banking. We hope this is true,
and wish him success in his cam
paign for conservatism. honesty and
safety. His latest idea IL calculated
to benefit banks as well as depositors
rowers are tn be compiled in various
districts and compared in the comp
trollers office. The object is to
make misrepresentation hazardous for
swindlers. and to aid the banks in
discovering such frauds when per-
petrated. OF course the information
compiled will be held strictly conf
dental, as the misuse of it or the
spreading of damaging rumors would
create no end of trouble i'm the field
of finance. Cooperation between
the comptroller and state and ma
tional examiners would be most help
full.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-27

There's whole volume of common
sense in the following paragraph in
the North American Review, written
by L. II. Gulick: What is the relation
that at which we must continue,
whether interesting or not. whether
we are tired or not. 1t used to be
thought that the prime requisite of
rest was the use of faculties other
than those involved in the labor of
the day. But there is such a thing
as fatigue which goes deeper than
daily work. We can work SO hard as
to become ADMINISTRATION exhausted
for any kind of work Perhaps this is
will fatigue. 1t is coming to be re-
garded as fundamentally true that
rest from such fatigue demands con-
tinuity: that. for example, four
periods of II minutes each of rest is
not the equivalent of one hours rest:
that man who goes on vacation
and takes half an hour OF his business
work every day. is doing the same
thing as the man who had horse
with o sore back. He kept the saddle
on only a few minutes each day. but
the sore did not have a chance to heal.
Rest periods must be sufficiently con-
secutive to overcome consecutive
fatigue"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-27

Having purchased all the works o
art which his millions made available
in the s0Ih .w"fld,, j. r. Morgan has en-.
tered upon a new fad for the strip.
ping Of Europe of her attractions
He has just purchased, in Spain. at 9
large price. a stairway which he pro-
poses to transport to New York
but most of us would not care to have
IN extra stairway on our hands
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-27

one more discovery has been made
at the Rockefeller Institution fol
Medical Research, which promises to
have a wide influence in the advance
ment of medical science. 1t was made
by DR.. Carrel. and involves a method
for removing from the human body
different portions of tissue and max
ing them grow, after removal As they
did in the body. The discovery fol-
lows experiments with living tissue
much as has been done in germ cult
Walton. Portions of the body have
three weeks by the aid of culture ma
teria within sealed receptacles. These
are of glass. and the processes and
functions performed by the various
parts of the body, as they are de-
veloped by artificial means. may be
studied as they progress.
Thus through the study of living
tissues may the whole progress of
disease be followed and way pointed
out for the application of effective
remedies. Thanks to the generosity
of the Standard Oil king, it may he
possible to learn that which will lead
t. more intelligent treatment of dis
ease as we'll as the treatment of It's
sue in maintaining it's health and
avoiding disease. In the light of re-
cent events. it seems quite proba Bile
that present knowledge Is soon vastly
t. be improved upon.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-27
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

girl can even think that she gig
giles becomingly.
Marriage isn't a fair bargain even
when both sides GET cheated
The way a woman bosses a man is
making him think he's doing it.
When woman begins to grow stout
she weighs herself in her lightest
clothes to prove she isn't
4 man knows q. little more at the
ehd or his life than at the beginning,
but its of no use to him then.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-27

Alas, how soon We are forgotten
Who ever thinks of HalIey's comet
nOW?-RostOn Globe.
Wonder il that inclusive 1--WE" was
intended To convey the idea that the
Largest Circulation man is star,
ora WHAT
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-27

Now Chicago janitors are threaten
5ng to strike. This is surprising, but
we have long wondered why the peO-
pie did not strike, in Chicago houses,
Under the arbitrary rule of the marti-
net commonly known as 'janitor."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-27

So RumfOrd, Me, has the honor of
being one of the first postal savings
offices designated by the trustees of
The system. Now if postal cards
could be deposited. with Rumford
Falls chief occupation turning them
ont how handy il would be
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-27
There is no kind Of idIeness
by which we are SO easily Sc
duced as that which dignifies
itself by the appearance Of
business.-Johnson

Mr.. Carnegie has now sailed across
the Atlantic 100 times and has no
thought of trying to fly over. to add
to his record.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-27

a Chicago paper complains bitterly
because a Maine woman knows 10000
prayers, and yet offered up none of
them in favor of the Cubs" in the
late baseball contest.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-27

The first of November Is at hand,
and as yet everybody seems to have
forgotten that it was high time to an
nounce shortage of turkeys.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-27

Don't trifie with cold is good advice
for prudent men and women II NAV he
vital in case of a child There is nothing
hetter than Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
Tor coughs and colds In children Ii is
safe ana sure. For sale everywhere
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-27

A new railway president in the
West, ii is announced, started as a
telegraph operator. We presume he
was also born in a log cabin.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-27
a Paris despatch announces tn:

y IafIS despatch announces that
Howard Gould is to marry an actress
The simple announcement that he was
to be- married would have been suf-
fcienf. That the future Mrs. Gould
is an actress may he taken for grant =
ed. from The record of the family
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-27
Editorial Comment.

Senatorship and the Grange.
portland Press.)
G. S. Steison. master of the State
Grange has written a letter explain
ing other epistles he has previously
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-27
Maine Gossip
Ode to Autumn.

OOS 10 Hutuu''
Who hath not seen thee oft amid tiny
store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may
find
Thee sitting careless on a sranary floor.
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winno"ihs
wind;
Or on "a half-reaped furrow sound asleep,
Drowsed with the fume of popples' whiie
Spares the next swath and all its twined
flowers;
And sometime like cleaner thou dost
keep
Steady thy laden head across brook:
Or by a cider press. with patient look,
Thou watchest the last ooZings, hours py
hours.
Where are the songs of Spring? Ay'
where are they?
Think not of them. thou hast thy music
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying
day,
And touch the stubble plains with rosy
hue;
Then in a wailful chorus the small gnats
mourn
Among the river-sallows, borne alott
Or. sinking as the light wind hVeS OF
dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from
billy bourn:
Hedge crickets sing, and now with treble
The red-breast whistles from a garden
croft
And gathering swallows twitter in the
Keats.
The La Jara chronicle., 1910-09-30
WINTER-FEEDING CALVES

The Colorado Agricultural Col
ilcge uas done some recent feed
ing work in an attempt to find
whether it pays to grain feed
steers that are to be carried over
on range another season or two.
The first question to which an
answer was sought, was whether
it is profitable to winterfeed
calves destined to be finished
and sold as twO-year-olds. Some
of the calves fed during the win
ter were given ration of four
pounds per head of corn, with
all the alfalfa hay they wanted +;
while others were fed twenty
pounds of sugar beets, with al
falfa hay. These calves gained
on the average 259 pounds per
head during the winter-only 81
pounds less than they gained the
next winter as yearlings. The
fall that they We're yearlings they
The La Jara chronicle., 1910-09-30
A PoTAToE DIGGER.

David Miles commenced diging
potatoes Tuesday for Ed. Robb
with his newly patented machine.
1t takes eight horses to draw the
machine which digs, sorts. cleans
and sacks the potatoes as the
big machine moves along. 1t re
quires two men to SOW the sacks
as they are filled. The large po-
tatocs 90 into sacks by themselv, $
and the small potatoes into othe:
sacks. Ordinarily there are
about three sacks of marketable
spuds to one sack of small ones.
1t costs about nine cents
sack (of 1l5 pounds to harvest
potatoes with this machine.
Where the yield is large the team
is required to move at II slower
speed than where the yield is
small.
This machine was invented by
David Miles, son OF VIM. 5. Miles,
and is destined to do the potato
harvesting in the San Luis valley
and in other sections of the coun-
try where potatoes are raised in
large quantities.
1t is an interesting sight to
watch the digger where the rows
are half mile long and where
the acreage is from forty to one
hundred acres.
Mr.. Miles has had only IA few
of these machines built, as he has
not the capital at present to
manufacture them on CONNER
cial scalc.-Monte ista journal.
The La Jara chronicle., 1910-09-30
A TENDERFoOT.

w. w. Wright from Missouri,
made his adventure at rauching
in the San Luis valley this season
on quarter section near the Gu;
barrel road with the following re-
suits:
On 32 acres he harvested 404.
900 pounds of marketable potatoes
and 81, ZOO pounds of seed pota-
toes; 30 acres that made 100000
pounds, 81 acres that made
22,600 pounds. The marketable
potatoes sold at $l.05 per hun
dred. lie also raised IS acres
of peas which sold at $40 an acre
standing.
Mr.. Wright gives all the credit
to his son, Corbyn, and young
Lawrence Blackburn who did all
the work and in addition cared
for 40 acres of potatoes for ID.
j. Monte Vista journal.
The La Jara chronicle., 1910-09-30

weighed 40 pounds per head
more than steers of the same
crop brought in from the range
as yearlings. The next spring
they were only 40 pounds heav-
ier; the next fall 80 pounds heav-
Ter, and the spring they were mar
keted 80 pounds lighter than the
steers brought from the range
as yearlings. The gradual de-
crease in the margin between
the two sets of steers indicates
that the winter-feeding as calves
fastened the steers to maturity
and consequently lessened their
capacity for gain each successive
season at rapid rate.
Another way to look at the
question is to compare the gains
made each year by the same lot
of steers. The lot fed as calves
made a gain of 400 pounds per
head the first winter and sue
ceeding summer; the next year
they made 352 pounds gain per
head-already starting down hill,
you notice-and the last winter
they made "A gain of only 223
pounds per head, or 80 pounds
per head less than they made the
winter they were calves.
Considering the year when they
were one year old, they made a
gain of 431 pounds, as against
gain of 2S5 pounds when two
year-olds. And the steers that
were not fed till they were year
lings made gain of 456 pounds
the year that they We're twos.
Thus, any way one wishes to
look at the problem, the feeding
of calves does not appear profit
able if they are to be held over
for finishing as aged steers.
Further results show that the
yearling steer makes larger gains
on less feed than the two-year-
old. The more rapidly you can
push "A meat animal to maturity
the greater the profit.
C. L. MORTON.
The La Jara chronicle., 1910-09-30
'HREsHING MACHINE BURNS

4 bad fire occurred Monday
a stackyard on Thomas De
'riest ranch south of Boun-
iful. Four stacks of oats rep
esenting about 500 bushels, the
'roperty of Mr.. DcPriest, were
'estroyed and the inside burned
ut of threshing machine. The
hachine was owned by the Ma
'assa Threshing Machine Co., and
yhile it may be possible to make
epairs it can hardly be got in
hape for work again this season.
he fire is thought to have caught
rom the traction engine but was
ot discovered until the flames
jane sweeping over the stacks
iere the men were at work about
, clock in the evening a num-
r of teams were hitched to the
eparator by a long chain and
! could have been pulled out Of
arms way but the chain broke
It critical time The separator
Jas finally gotten out of the fire
ut not before most of the in
ide woodwork had been burned
way.
Woodmen of the World are
making great preparations for
heir Log Rolling" to be held
It Antonito, next Tuesday, Octo-
er 4 Monte Vista ball team will
LAY Antonito and Woodmen and
heir ladies are going in large
'umbers from all parts of the
alley.
James A. Watson is taking his
'acation which Uncle Sam allows
i'm once a year and Wednesday
light went over to Pueblo to
zee the sights. c. y. Wynkoop
!, attending to the rural route.
Miss Edna Parker of Deming,
!. NJ, arrived the first of the
reek and will be the guest of
liss Iva Seyfcr for "A month or
hore. Miss Parker's father was
mployed in the Hamilton drug
tore several years ago.
! The American National Bank
II Alamosa is out with a hand
-ome booklet descriptive of its
}ew building. 1t is illustrated
NTH numerous half-tones show
.ug the outside and inside of the
jank 5 new home.
The La Jara chronicle., 1910-09-30
AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT.

! y collision between an automo-
',ile and IA motor cycle occurred
sunday night about 10 o clock on
he county road, opposite John
\ iYullenweider s ranch south of La
Sara.
. Bob Haynic was driving his ma
rhine south at moderate speed
le saw something in the road
,ut as the motor cycle carried no
lights he could not tell what it
vas. To the right of the road
vas a deep ditch so he turned
o the left thinking to run IA
'ound the object, whatever it was,
sst as the motor cycle turned
,ut and the two machines met
1t high speed. The motor cycle
slid under the auto tearing off
10Th front wheels and bending
he front axle. Frank Winters,
he blacksmith at Romeo. and
iFom Parker, who were riding the
motor cycle, shot into the auto
ike cannon balls. Winters was
';he worst hurt, having "a bad cut
;,n the head and several ribs
fractured.
DR.. Schenck was called to dress
MS injuries. Both men have been
IN bed since but will be around
in a day or two. The occupants
IF the auto, Bob IIaynie, Marshal
'I'iddinger, Miss Nellie Weston
and Miss Nellie Magec, all OF Ma
.nassa, were not much hurt. The
motor cycle was Il borrowed ma
chine and belonged to Farley
laynie. 1t was total wreck
Ihnd the pieces were not worth
picking up.
The La Jara chronicle., 1910-09-30
Holds The Record For Wheat.

A gentleman residing in Gin
arron, n. NJ, and signing his
name NJ. NJ. c., last week asked
the editor of the Denver Field anG
Farm what was the largest yield
of wheat to the acre in Colorado.
The editor s answer is as follows
''The Colorado record for spring
wheat is 107 bushels as produced
by Capt. d. C. Travis of San Isa-
bel, Saguache county.
Mr.. Travis farm is located in
the San Luis valley AMI is about
five miles southeast of the town
of Moffat. 1t is one of the old
est farms in this section, Mr. Ira
Wis having settled on it in the fall
of 1873.
He not only raises wheat in
abundance, but oats, barley, alfal
ia and most kinds of garden pro-
ducts. He has also quite an or
chard, on which he raises every
year a fine variety of apples and
smaller fruits.
To give our readers an idea of
what he raises in his garden, the
first of this week Mr.. Travis
brought to town vine of beans
that bore 140 pods grown from
one seed
Last fall at the Coneios county
fair, held in Alamosa, Mr.. Ira
Wis had on exhibition from his
San Isabel farm squash and puml,
kins that weighed over thirty
five pounds apiece, cucumbers
that measure over foot in len : tn,
watermelons, potatoes. onions,
cabbage and tomatoes, all of a
choice variety.-Moffat Times.