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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-07-20

young man has a decided apti.
tude for some particular form of
skilled labor. Everything de-
ponds on the man himself, and
we can not give more definite adj
vice. The man who has it in
him, and will work hard and keep
his eyes open and learn all he can,
will succeed in almost any line
for which he is naturally adapt
ed. A man is not apt to make
pronounced success in any line
for which he does not have a par
ticular liking. --Wallace's Farmer.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-07-20
Notice the SWeI
Clover.
Sweet

Over almost our entire terri
tory this is a dry time, very dry.
The oats are very short, clover
about half the usual length, tim
othy much shorter than usual and
thinner, blue grass pastures dry
and the plant apparently dead,
but really just waiting for rain.
As you go along the road notice
now the sweet clover. 1t is not
as rank as it usually is, but
stands dry weather better than
any other grass crop grown ex-
oeps possibly alfalfa. n fact i
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-07-20
That Small Grain
Field.

How about that land in small
grain which recently has been
harvested? Is it going to lie idle
all the rest of the summer? If a
good stand of clover or grass has
been secured we have no sugges-
gestions to make other than adj
vising against too close pasturing
late in the season. This year,
however, there are not many
small grain fields with a suf1i-
GENTLY good stand of clover or
grass to pay to keep. Shall these
fields be allowed to bake in the
sun, losing the most of the scant
moisture which is already in the
soil!
The thing to do where no grass
stand has been secured with the
small grain is to follow the binder
with a disk, putting on a dirt
mulch which will preserve moiS-
ture. Repeat the diSking at
least as often as every ten days
or two weeks. Not only does
prompt disking save moisture,
but it also destroys many insect
pests, such as Hessian fly, straw
worms, etc.
If there is considerable mois-
ture in the ground and the work
is pushed along rapidly cowpeas,
soy beans sorghum or millet may
be sown on this ground, espec-
tally in the southern half of the
corn belt. These crops are es-
pecially desirable if there is
shortage of hay. If none OF
these catch crops is wanted the
ground may be kept bare until
about the middle of August when
either clover and timothy or all
falfa might be sown. Or it may
fit in better with conditions on
some farms to wait till Septem-
Der and seed to either rye or win
ter wheat. But no matter what
crop is used the binder should be
followed at the earliest possible
date with a disk and a complete
dust mulch placed on the ground
until some crop is put in. Sew
eral hundred tons of water per
acre may often be saved by fire.
quent disking. Wallace's Farmer.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-07-20

Right in your busiest season
when you have the least time tC
spare you are most likely to take
diarrhoea and lose several days
time, unless you have Chamber
lain's Collie, Cholera and Diar-
rhoea Remedy at hand and take
a dose on the first appearance OF
the disease. For sale by all
dealers.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-07-20
Happiest Girl in Lincoln

A Lincoln, Neb., girl writes,
Il had been ailing for some time
with chronic constipation and
stomach trouble. l began TAX
ing Chamberlain's Stomach and
Liver Tablets and in three days
l was able to be up and got bet
ter right along. l am the proud.
est girl in Lincoln to find such a
good medicine" For sale by all
dealers.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-07-20

furnishes evidence that with thu
sole exception of alfalfa it is the
most drouth resistant of all oul
grass and forage crops. 1t is
not fair to compare it with corn,
for the testing time of corn is YET
to come when it reaches the same
stage as the clover and other
grasses have reached.
We have always advocated
sweet clover as a forage crop in
sections of less than a twenty
inch rainfall, not as a hay crop
for it is too coarse for hay-but
as a pasture crop, and as a hay
crop where no other source of for
age is available. 1t does not
make good hay; but if cut early,
as soon as it begins to bloom, it
make a fair quality of hay and
in addition produce. "a second crop.
One objection to sweet clover,
which is generally regarded by
farmers as a weed, is that unless
it is pastured close, it developes
a flavor which cattle do not rel
relish. They do relish it, how
ever, after they are acostomed to
it and enough of them kept on it
to keep it from going to seed.
This at least ought to convince
our readers that it is not a weed,
but a plant that may under GER
tain conditions become a very
valuable addition to our ordin-
AIRY forage crops. We look to
see it a preferred forage crop
west of the 9Sth meridian on
soils where for some reason al
falfa cannot be grown. 1t is not
to be compared with alfalfa where
thrives.
1t is not only drouth resistant,
but is a nitrogen gatherer like
and the clovers; and we
are not sure but what the best
way Of reclaiming lands so worn
out that they will not produce
clover will be to reseed them with
sweet clover, either the white or
the yellow variety, whichever
may be preferred.
We are not carrying on cam.
paign in favor of sweet clover,
but simply want our readers to
note the sweet clover as they go
along the road to church or to
town; to note especially its ca.
pacity for drouth resistance, and
then inquire whether it may not
be possible for them to utilize it
on their worn out fields, thus adj
ling nitrogen and vegetable mat
ter, and putting the soil in bet
ter physical condition. --Wallace's
Farmer.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-07-20

Never leave home on a journey
without a bottle of Chamberlain's
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy. 1t is almost certain to
be needed and cannot be obtained
when on board the cars or steam
Iiips. For sale by all dealers.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-07-20

For Sale-A seven-passenger
Cadillac touring car for sale.
Complete except top. ] want to
dispose Of this machine 50 / can
buy-au automobile truck for my,
freight business, Ed. Coyey.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1911-07-20
Farm or Town.

rented ABOUT Twenty dCICS Vi lduu
asks us two questions: what to
put on this land to get the best
results, or whether we would adj
wise a young man to stay on the
farm or get a job by the month
in the city.
Answering the first question,
if the land is good corn land, he
would probably make quite as
much clear money by putting
this twenty acres of land in corn
as he would in any other way,
certainly if his lease is for but
one year. This will give him
time to do a good deal of work
for other people, for no doubt
he will be in demand when not
busy with his corn. If he had a
lease for a term of years and the
land needed building up, that
would be a different matter.
Now as to whether the young
man should stick to the farm or
60 to town, that depends on the
young man. If he has a taste
for farming, and is willing to
study and observe and get infor-
nation from all possible sources,
and then put it in practice, we
would say he had better stay on
the farm. If he is not this kind
of a young man, then he had
better go to town and engage in
some business for which he has
a decided taste.
The probability is, however,
that when the young man goes
to town, unless lie is qualified
for some business or profession,
or has a strong aptitude for some
special work, he will get about
enough pay as street car con-
ductor or motorman, or a hand
about a livery stable, or by
working on the streets, to pay
his expenses, and sometimes
barely that. Or he might get a
Job in a store; first to sweep out
and straighten up. By and by
he might run errands, might be
a shipping clerk, and after a
while have an opportunity to
sell things. He might possibly
get to be bookkeeper, with the
hope that in time he might be-
come a partner in the business.
This sometimes occurs; but very
seldom unless he or his friends
have money to put in the BUSH
ness, which is not at all likely
with a young man who goes to
town with nothing but his bare
hands. He might get to run
errands in a bank, might in time
become a bookkeeper or teller,
with the hope of finally becom-
ing cashier. Suppose he did all
this. The probability of his be-
coming cashier or having any
other important position would
be remote; for in the city bank
there are many other young fell
lows with the same ambition,
aud usually it is the man who
has capital to put in the bank,
or who has influential friends
and can bring custom, who gets
the coveted position, and there
he may stay for life. He might
get into a department store, sell
ribbons and laces to your ladies,
and learn to smile and look sweet
and dress we'll; but the chances
are that he will only make a liv-
ing and not much more. Young
men have come to town with
only their bare hands, and have
succeeded beyond their expecta-
tions; but the majority of them,
like the majority of people
reared in the city, live from hand
to mouth, ard thousands of them
regret that they did not stay on
the farm. II he should marry, |
which we suppose this young
man like most Young men. iu.I
The Republican journal., 1911-03-02

human loyalty, lawyer argued IN
Waltham. court three years ago that a
cat was neither property" nor an ''ani-
mal," and so could be killed with i'm
punity or any other means if it tres
passed upon some anti-catter's grounds.
Moreover, there have been people who
declared it was better that the cat have
milestone about her neck and be cast
into the sea than that she be permitted
to walk abroad upon the face of the
earth.
"The cat, remarked Worcesterite
in 1905, ''is the incarnation of hell's
most fiendish spirits, an untameable,
treacherous, blood-revelling nature!
"And,', came the corroborative opin-
ion from North Attleboro last autumn,
tI'd as soon have deadly cobra or a
diamond-headed rattlesnake in my home
as the common house cat, that virulent
menace to the public health
Only a year before that the United
States department of agriculture, which
is the autocrat of everything from the
breakfast table to the 23-year locust
and the amenability of the barbed wire
fence to the demands of modern civiliza-
ton, did most solemnly pronounce the
harmless necessary cat to be cover
rated, useless and a noisome nuisance.
On the other hand, there was the
Wilkesbarre capitalist, who, in 1905.
left $4,000 to his two cats, Blackie and
Pinkie. There was Nine. Jeanne Felix
Dupuis, the celebrated harpist, who in
1871 left 80 sous a month to her two
cats, with instructions that they should
be fed meat broth ''of the kind we eat,
without bread crumbled into it, and each
on it's separate plate" And there was
in 1907 the galaxy of Washington society
women who determined to build a cat
hotel, where their pets could board,
lodge and enjoy life, while their mis-
tresses were off on summer vacations.
Between the two poles of persecution
and pamperment belong the memorable
words of Barney Williams, town crier of
Onset Bay, uttered in the early fall of
1907 The S. P. C. A. had got after
Onset Bay sojourners who abandoned
their cats at the end of the summer
season and it became a question in On
set whether the stray cats captured by
the town officials were to be or not to be.
perhaps it will be better to kill 'em
first off and let it go at that" the town
crer admitted gloomiIy. Besides,
'twould be mercy. It's enough to
make man swear the way folks act
CnaC are so aWIul HluSny over cdtS mere,
petting 'em and nursing 'em when they
all in the summer and then away they go
and leave 'em when the end of the sea-
son comes to look out for themselves.
Then you begin to see lot of skinny
cats around, peaked, mouldy, God
forsaken-l ookin' things they are. mostly
wild ones, too, they get so hungry and
forlorn. Folks that do that to cat
ought to get treated that way them
selves once in while. It'd do 'em
good"
Truly, the common or backyard varie-
ty of cat leads dogs life. The feline
existence with its vicissitudes, varying
from dedication to desertion, is enough
to give the craftiest catkin paws.
The Republican journal., 1911-03-02
Children CRY
FOR FLETcneR'S
casio RIA
THE FLOOR OF THE OCEAN

The ocean has been sounded in naor,,,
all directions with modern appliance:
ana these soundings show that the floor
OF the ocean consists of vast undulat;nr
plans, lying at an average depth nf
about two and half miles beneath the
surface OF the waves. In some places
huge ridges and cones rise from theso
submerged plains to within a few HIM.
dred fathoms of the sea surface. or thew
may rise above the surface as volcanic
islands and coral atolls. The greatest
depth hitherto recorded is in the Chal-
ienger Tor Nero) Deep in the North Pa
citic-5, 269 fathoms. If Mount Everest
were placed in this deep, $500 feet of
water would roll over the peak of this
the highest mountain in the world. The
greatest depth in the Atlantic is in the
Mares Deep, between the West Indies
and Bermuda-4,6 62 fathoms. The great
est depth in the Indian Ocean ia 2, 82s
fathoms, in the Wharton Deep, between
Christmas Island and the coast of Java.
We now know fifty-six of these deems
where the depth exceeds three geographic
cal miles, ten areas where the depth ex-
ceeds four miles, and four places where
it exceeds five miles.
The sea, as all the world knows, is salt,
1t is safest where strong dry winds blow
across the surface, as, for instance, in
the trade-wind regions and in the Medi-
terranean and the Red Sea. 1t is less salt
toward the poles and in the deep layers
OF the ocean. 1t has long been known
that the very salt water of the Mediter-
ranean flows as an undercurrent outward
through the Strait of Gibraltar, and thus
affects the salinity of the deeper waters
OF the Atlantic over a wide area. AL
though the amount of salt in sea water
varies, the composition of sea-salts re-
mains very constant; slight differences
have, however, been noticed along the
continental coast, in the polar regions,
and In the water in direct contact with
deep-sea deposits.
The temperature of the ocean water
varies at the surface from % degrees
Fair. at the poles to over 80 degrees
Fair. in the tropics. The cold water
toward the poles has an annual variation
OF less than ten degrees Fair. at any one
spot, and the warm water of the tropics /
also has an annual variation of less than
ten degrees Fair. in band that nearly |
encircles the earth; this is the region of |
coral reefs and atolls. Between these
regions of small annual variation there |
are two bands surrounding the earth
where the annual variation is greater,
and may exceed in certain regions 40 de-
grees Fair. at any one spot.-Sir John
Murray, in Harper's Magazine for March
The Republican journal., 1911-03-02
MINSTRELS AT CASTINE.

CAsT1NE, Me-, Feb. %. Emerson hall
was crowded last night for the amateur
minstrel show given for the benefit OF
the Castine baseball club. The end men
were John Thombs, Carl Wardwell,
Sewall Perkins and George Perkins. p.
H. Carpenter was interlocutor. In the
circle were J. C. M. Gardner, Walter
Brown, Leslie C. Gray, Harry Macom-
Der, Admah Morey,. F: A. Douglass,
Haven Staples, Noah Hooper, Everett
Redman, James Kelley and Maynard
Douglass. There were solos by SeWall
Perkins and Frank Douglass, sketch by
Sewall Perkins and E. H. Carpenter.
monologue by Carl Wardwell, and quar-
tette selections.
The Republican journal., 1911-03-02
ELECTRIC FLASHES.

Oil wells are now drilled by electric
motors.
A magnetic survey has been made of
the African coast.
In the electric furnace gold boils at
2400 degrees centigrade.
Great Britain plans to connect all her
possessions by wireless.
One fifth of all the factories in North
Carolina are run by electricity.
All shipping through the Panama Canal
will be moved by electric locomotives.
Engineers will dam lake in Turkey
and thus develop 300, 900 electrical horse
power.
The first large electric smelling plant
has been opened at Sault Ste Marie,
Canada.
Half million telephone messages
were sent from the Waldorf Astoria
hotel last year.
There are $50 miles of telephone wire
in the new Hudson Terminal Office build
ing in New York.
Bombay, India, with a million popula-
ton, has only 1000 telephone subscribers
and no long distance lines.
Experts say that there are 100000
horse power awaiting development in
the rivers and streams of the State of
Washington.
The modern theater could hardly be
run without electricity. The mechanisms
of most important acts are now almost
entirely electrical.
A windmill is utilized in England to
generate electricity for lighting church
and vicarage and to furnish power for
the church organ.
There are six long distance telephone
wires connecting New York with Chi
cago, over which 1900 conversations a
month were held last year.
1t is planned to spend 100000 900 in
New Zealand and develop all the electric
power on the island. 1t will take four
years to accomplish this task.
A Scottish inventor claims to have in
vented an automatic steering device for
ships. A small electric device keeps the
ship on set course, being controlled by
compass.
The War Department has granted per-
mission to construct the first electric
railroad in the Canal Zone. The new
road will run between Panama City and
La Boca.
There are $500 electric generating sta
lions in Bavaria. About so per cent. of
these plants are operated by steam and
about 80 per cent. by water power and
steam, the remainder by water entirely.
Nearly five hundred million tons of
coal were mined in this country last year.
Most of this was used for power pur-
poses. This is but slight increase over
the record year of 1907 and shows that
the development of water powers, and
the transmission of electrical energy, has
done much to save our coal supply.
A large water power development in
Vermont is being considered. The plant
is to locate a dam on the Connecticut
River above the mouth Of the Passumpsic
River. This dam will be $50 feet high,
500 feet long and have wings of 1000
feet. It will overflow farms, villages,
schoolhouses and cemeteries and when
completed will develop more than 1000
horse power. The venture will cost
about s., 900, 900.
The Republican journal., 1911-03-02

Do the right thing if you have Nasal Ca
tarrh. Get Ely's Cream Balm at once. Don't
touch the catarrh powders and snuffs, for they
contain cocaine. Ely's Cream Balm releases
the secretions that infame the nasal passages
and the throat, whereas medicines made with
mercury merely dry up the secretions and leave
you no better than you were. In word, Ely's
Cream Balm is real remedy, not delusion.
All druggists. so cents. mailed by Ely
Brothers, Sc Warren street, New York.
The Republican journal., 1911-03-02

"Foley's Honey and Tar is the best cough
remedy ever used as it quickly stopped
severe cough that had long troubled me-" says
j. W. Kuhn, Princeton, Nebr. Just SO quickly
lagrippe and lung trouble. Refuse substi-
tutes Sold by all druggists.
The Republican journal., 1911-03-02
EOEESYSkIE,)1N!!l.EE,ak / u. q.
Foa BAexAcne KIDNEYS Anp 6LAcoga
RECENT DEATHS.

The funeral of Enoch L. Hills was
held at his home in Union February 18th,
Rev. l. H. Lidstone officiating He was
member of Union Odd Fellows Lodge,
the members of which attended the fu-
neral in a body. He is survived by
widow; one daughter, Mrs. Flora Syls-
bury of Lowell, Mass, and one son, Will
liam L. Hills of New York. His twin
brother Joel and several other brothers
also survive him. Mr.. Hills spent his
entire life of 81 years on the farm which
has been the home of the Hills family
for more than century.
Mrs. Robert Duffy died February 21st
at her home in Camden of pneumonia,
aged 80 years. She was a woman of
high character, genial and pleasant, ever
thoughtful of others and greatly endear
ed herself to all who knew her. She will
be greatly missed by her many friends
and neighbors. She leaves to mourn
their loss. three sons, Charles, Everett
and Ralph, and one daughter, Mrs. 0. D.
Bowers, all of Camden.
Mrs Betsey Clark died February 18th
at the home of her son Ernest Clark, in
Camden, at the advanced age of 81 years
anu IilOnLnS. Sne ndu DeeN QulIe leeDle
for long time, but her health was gen.
orally good until after a short illness the
end came. She was respected by all and
will be greatly missed, especially in the
home of her son, where she had lived so
long. She leaves, besides the son, three
daughters, Mrs. Isabel Dow and Mrs.
Coombs of Camden and Mrs. Trim Of
Bangor Funeral services were held by
the Christian Science Church Tuesday
afternoon, February 2lst.
Mr. Henry Croker, a well known and
highly esteemed citizen of Rockland and
a prominent Grand Army man, died Feb.
18th at his home on Broadway. Mr..
Croker was a native Lincolnville, but
lived most of his life in Rockland. He
was member of the Eighth Maine regi-
ment, during the Civil War and had since
worked at his trade as joiner and had al
ways been known as an honest and use
full member of the community. He was
twice married. His first wife was Lucy
Maddocks, of Camden; and his second
wife, who survives him, Lucy A.
(Glover) Thompson. Funeral services
were held Sunday afternoon, Rev. B: P:
I Judd officiating. Knox Lodge Of Odd
Fellows had charge of the service and
the pail bearers were George 3. Norton,
Henry c. Chatto, Harry w. French and
William A. Williams.
The Republican journal., 1911-03-02
BELFAST
AND
sURNHAM
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On and after October 10, 1910. trains connect
ing at Burnham and Waterville with through
trains for and from Bangor. Waterville, Port
land and Boston will run as follows:
FROM BELFAST
The Republican journal., 1911-03-02

Generally debilitated for years. Had sick
headaches, lacked ambition, was WORKOUT and
all rundown. Burdock Blood Bitters made me
a well woman" Chas. Freitoy, Moosup,
Conn
The Republican journal., 1911-03-02
FOLEY Kidney PILLS.

Neutralize and remove the poisons that cause
backache, rheumatism. nervousness and q!
kidnev and bladder Irregularities. They build
m and restore the natural action Of these vital
organs. Sold by ali druggists.
The Republican journal., 1911-03-02
FOLEY KIDNEY PILLS


AMERICAN SURETY co. OF NEW YORK,
NEW YORK.
Assets December 81, 1910
Real Estate, $3,166, DAT 81
Mortgage Loans, 1877 166 Ct
Stocks and Bonds, 1855, 1895 10
Cash in Office and Bank, 955, 8O4 OF
Premiums in Course of Collection, 429,359 rs
Interest and Rents, 4O,222 O8
Gross Assets, ss,e42,5s Os
Deduct items not admitted, 399, O66 OF
Admitted Assets, ss,243, 52e o6
Liabilities December 81, 1910.
Net Unpaid Losses, S 1926, 467 4S
Unearned Premiums, 1,377,822 SO
All other Liabilities, 1852 69
Cash Capital, 2,50O.OOO 90
Surplus over all Liabilities, 3,4O3, 1865 81
Total Liabilities and Surplus S8,243,529 O6
CHAS H. SARGENT, Agent, Belfast, Maine.
The Republican journal., 1911-03-02
Eastern Steamship Co.
REDUCED WINTER FARE, BELFAST
AND BOSTON, s2.25.

TURBINE STEEL STEAMSHIP BELFAST
: Leave Belfast 200 p. M, Monday and
thursday for Camden, Rockland and Boston,,
For Searsport, Bucksport and Winterport
Wednesday and Saturday 7.3O a. NJ, or on ar.
rival of steamer from Boston.
RETURNING
Leave Boston, Tuesday and Friday 500 D. m.
Leave Rockland Wednesday and Saturday
5.l5 a M. or on arrival Of steamer from Boston.
FRED W. POTE, Agent, Belfast. Maine.
The Republican journal., 1911-03-02
GRANITE STATE FIRE INSURANCE. CO

GRANITE STATE FIRE INSURANCE co.
PORTSMOUTH, n. II.
Assets December 81, 1910.
Real Estate, $4,000 90
Mortgage Loans, 10,100 90
Stocks and Bonds, $685. so
Cash in Office and Bank, 1929 Sd
Agents Balances, SO, 149 26
Interest and Rents, $500 "a
All other Assets, 302 81
Gross Assets, $1,15s, 7s5 IA
Admitted Assets, $1,158, 7S5 IA
Liabilities December 81, 1910.
Net Unpaid Losses, 66,331 81
Unearned Premiums, 541,227 SO
All other Liabilities, 26, 161 40
Cash Capital, 100000 90
Surplus over all Liabilities, 325,O64 SO
Total Liabilities and Surplus, $1,158, 785 IA
JAMES PATTEE & SON, Agents, Belfast, Me.
THOMAS ATWOOD, Agent, Winterport, Me.
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