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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-12


school, Lewiston, Friday, jar. 70:
GENERAL SESSION. 80 A. NJ.
Prayer-Rev. Leavett II. Hallock, Lewis
ton.
Music
Address-Plin. w q. Mallett. Farming
ton Normal school
individual instruction Mary Nc
Skimn.on. Brookline Mass.
UPPER GRAMMAR GRADES AND
HIGH SCHOOL SECTION, 1o.i
First Year Science" Mr.. L. L.. Dins-
more. Edward Little High school. Au-
burn.
Humorous Side of Teaching "-Supt.
John a. Cone, Brunswick.
PRIMARY SECTION, 1915.
Number Work and Language'-Prin'
Mary McSkimmon. Brookliue, Mass.
STORY Telling as Means of Cultivating
a Love for Literature''-Miss Mary l..
hastings. Castine Normal school.
RURAL SCHOOL SECTION. 1915.
THE Rural School Program''-State SUI
perintendent Payson Smith.
GENERAL SESSION, 1l5 p. NJ.
Business Meeting
Address. President Robert j. Alley, Uni
versity of Maine.
"Teachers' Pensions''-Prin. Adelaide v
Finch Lewiston.
Question Box
Secretary of State Cyrus w Davis OF
Waterville has filed his bond with the
Governor and Council The bond is fol
$1,000 furnished by the Fidelity Deposit
Co. of Maryland
Secretary of Agriculture John 2. Buck
ley of Westbrook went to Orono Wednes
day on business connected with the de-
partment.
The Rockland a. Thomaston Cemen
Railroad. corporation chartered b.
Chapter 1870 of the Private and Specia
Laws of Maine, has filed its certificate
of Incorporation at the Office of the sec
rotary of State. The amount of capital
| cation is $4,000 of which $3.50 is paid in
The par value of shares is $1Q0 and tn
| incorporators are Alfred, S. Black o
Rockland. Alfred A. Cook of New York
Frederick G. Braun of New York, Ed
| ward B. McAllister and S. Thaye- Kim
ball of Rockland. Alfred S. Black 4
president and treasurer and s. Thaye
Kimball Of Rockland, clerk. The act o
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-12

Secretary of State Cyrus W. Davis of
Waterville has filed his bond with the
Governor and Council. The bond is for
$1,000 furnished by the Fidelity Deposit
Co. of Maryland.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-12

Secretary of Agriculture John p. Buck
ley of Westbrook went to Orono Wednes
day on business connected with the de
partment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-25

going to foreigners for special brands OF
cheese.
The most natural question and the one
that is always asked when person
learns that the government Is going TO
develop an American mich goat is, w ny
doesn't it import the best mich goats
from Europe?" The answer is very sim
pie They have been imported, ana IN
every instance they have brought WIN
them some sort Of disease. such as the
foot and mouth disease that has attacked
American cattle in the past. Rather than
run any more chances, it has been de-
cided to go to work with the domestic
goat and make an aristocrat out OF him.
So far the breeding on the Bethesda
farm in Maryland. which has been trans
ferred to the Beltsville farm in order
that the work may be pursued to greater
advantage, has been encouraging, but not
so encouraging as the breeders desire. A
very fine quality of milk is now being
given by the does of the flock. The per-
centage of butter fat when it was last
analyzed ran from 46 to 60. The butter
fat in the average cows milk is only 8
per cent. The quantity, however, is not
so good. They have been giving only
about quart a day.
Still. too much ought not to be expected
in the two or three years that the work
has been going on. 1t must be remem-
bered that the parents of these goats
were nothing but poor lowiy creatures,
with no great reputation for ml!kang,
picked up in various places in the SOUTH
mostly in Alabama.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-25

Cheveretin, all famous European cheeses
A goat is much less expensive than a
COW to keep, as well as to purchase in
the first place.
ANY one with small back yard, who
desires the purest and most wholesome
milk guaranteed to be free from disease.
can keep his own goat, which will easily
supply small family at low figure and
with a minimum of labor
With fine disregard for the antics OF
the fun makers, the government experts
are going right ahead with their work OF
trying to produce by selective breeding
a good type of American mich goat from
the common stock that is to he found
scattered here and there over the coun-
try When this has been accomplished
these goats will be raised In large guam
titles and distributed TO the various eX-
pertinent stations in every state. which
will in turn sell them or give them to
the farmers and endeavor to interest the
people in the serious side of goat Keeping.
In the opinion OF Uncle Sans animal
breeders il will not be long before the
goat industry will be as important in
this country as it is in Germany and
Switzerland. which are ahead of the
United States in many ways. Goat diaries
will become nearly as common as COW
diaries; fewer babies will die for want or
proper nourshment, and the same will be
true of invalids: and the American dairy
men will get the big prices that are now
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-25

special Correspondence Of The Star.
NEW YORK, June "a, 1911.
su1HE Woman Who Can't Sit Down
is with u.s. Perhaps, to be more
impersonal, we should say she
is here.
Why can't she sit down?
Let us here turn time backward in its
nrecipitate flight for about quarter or
. century or so. say to the prehistoric
mid-eighties of the nineteenth century
Getting the backward focus on that
period, we perceive. through the eye OF
roseate memory a race of men VINO
couldn't sit down. That is. while they
had their clothes on. Twas the era OF
the skin-tight pantaloon, or looms II you
prefer the plural. We used 10 wonoer
how we got them on. We wondered sun
more. and perhaps with little more pro-
family, how we ever got them on
Rut. once we got them on. we mad TO
retain the perpendicular for the day. OF
flee men, of course. couldn't wear EN-
unless they offce-worked at those desks
that YOU stand up to or at. Sitting down
was not only dangerous, 1t was liable to
he catastrophe in those breeks. Some
times a wearer of 'em forgot. Then there
was a rending. Some memories are too
poignant. for we ourself once forgot on a
memorable occasion when we were be-
digit or begirt or something with the
skin-tights. There wasn't any give &c
'em; no residence. no elasticity. no capt.
ulation, no nuthin'. When you put EN-
on II was a case of caveat emptor, OIL
owners risk. The risk always was ex
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-25

There are two events this month which
will possess special interest for any one
who has ever watched some Few or the
hundreds of stars in the sky whose Drlght-
ness is constantly changing. For 1t nap
pens that the two most wonderful and
celebrated variable stars of all Will this
month attain their greatest brightness
The first of these is the wonderful
variable called Mira that strange and dis
tant sun which is ever growing rapidly
fainter or brighter. When faintest IL is
far too faint to be seen with the naked
eye; sometimes IL is almost as faint as
the tenth magnitude. so that even in a
good field glass or small telescope it
would seem to have totally disappeared
But It does not remain so faint long.
Steadily il grows brighter and brighter
until at last it may be pouring out l,oOo
times as much light as at first.
II usually REQUIRES about four and one
half months for Mira to increase from
its greatest faintness TO its greatest
brightness, and about six and one-half
months for it to fade away again, so that
AT an interval Of about eleven months it
shines out with the greatest brilliancy.
Rrt this interval varies greatly. and 1t
is even more remarkable that when we
see lis light increasing we cannot predict
how bright it will grow. The curves of
figure show the results OF careful
measures of this star during the last five
wears. II will be seen that its Frightening
in December. 1906. was the most striking
OF recent years; it then was one of the
brightest stars of the sky, being much
brighter than Castor and almost as bright
as Regulus It's appearance during the
next years was less remarkable; for ex-
ample. in 1908, at Its brightest. It was
nearly a whole magnitude fainter than
the North star.
Unfortunately, Mira is now in the morn
ing sky and is not well above the ground
until about three hours before sunrise.
From figure 3, which shows a portion OF
the southeastern heavens at 3 am. July
/. the reader can, however, easily locate
il, and with the naked eye alone he car
watch its steady and wonderful increase
in brightness.
The other star which will reach II:
greatest brightness this month may b.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-25

vertised as a prominent feature of the
treatment In these places this milk is
the principal kind used in cooking. and
the patients are encouraged to drink as
much of it raw as they can. The reports
that come from such institutions are very
1attering to the medical worth of goat $
milk The milk is especially recommended
for infants because of its similarity TO
mothers milk. and medical literature is
full of instances of success attending the
use of goats milk with children who pre-
vious to it's use were rapidly Wasting
away 1t is interesting to note that OF
all domestic animals the goat is the best
foster mother. She will adopt infants,
calves. lambs. colts or pigs
The color of the milk is nearly always
pure white. When a doe is fresh, or
has recently "kidded." there are rare IN,
stances when the milk is slightly tinged
with yellow. The leading characteristic
Of the milk is the small size of the tat
globules These are so small that very
little cream rises. Some persons say tna'
it does not keep as we'll as cows MIX
but experiments made in this country
tend to disprove this idea. There appears
to be no reason why it should change
sooner than cows milk.
How much milk will goat give!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-25

for breeding at BeltSVllle. hu. nc 80
nificance of this move is that Lncie sam
has taken a keen interest In the Pooi
mans COW" and has come TO the CON
c,usion that it in no way deserves tne
ridicule that has been heaped upon It.
Through the lowly scat he sees a chaiice
not only to cheaper but to greatly I'M
nrove the milk supply of the country anu
consequently improve the health ana tie
pocketbooks of the people.
II was only few years ago tnat Mt.
George Fayette Thompson of the bureau
Of animal industry, Department OF Att
culture published bulletin on the An
CORA goat lie says:
probably the highest compliment tnat
was maid 10 that bulletin was by one Oh
tne celebrated papers devoted TO hulnor
IN these words. The only funny thins
about the book is that the author treats
the subject seriously.
That in a measure indicates the DIT
gently under which the government goat
exnerts are laboring. Their work Is
launched at. The goat. especially the
american coat, is somehow not popuiaris
eu,oosed "a he GOOD for anything hut 10
"a. lin cans in Caseys back yaru anu
fnea for comic paper artists.
D., I-ncIa sam has some mighty good
reasons for undertaking TO develop the
american goat. Some OF them are uhese'
n is the unanimous opinion OF milk ex-
narts that goats milk is much better
Than cows milk for invalids. children ana
cookery and nearly every other purpose
Goats milk contains much hshel
nercentace OF albumen and fat than COW
r,ilk and therefore is of more nutritlVe
value. In,
IN i more dgestible than cows milk
E,xnerts say the milk is absolutely Tree
at all times from the germs Oh 'upeieu
osiS.
X
Cheese made from goats milk is OF the
choicest varieties and commands the
highest prices. as. for instance, ROGUE
fort. Schweitzer, Ricotto. Altenpurger,
Fromaee de St Marcellin. St Clauoe anu
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-25

red Antares to the east of it and with the
blush Saica to the west. With its beau
tiful markings and its bright moons, this
great. swiftly moving world forms always
one of the most interesting of all objects
for study with a small telescope Ecipses
or occultations of the moons may best
be seen the evenings of July ., Z, =, Is
and Il
Mars and Saturn now shine out bright
~ in the early morning sky; their posi-
tions are shown on figure B. Mars is ap-
preaching us, but it is still faint, because
it is more than 100,0000o0 miles away.
Uranus is low in the evening sky, in
the constellation of the Archer in the
position indicated in figure 1. Mercury
and Neptune are both in conjunction with
the sun during this month and SO cannot
be observed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-25

sets almost exactly due west. Yet
the month it continually grows
brighter. and will not attain its maxi
mum briliance until August 10.
July ) Venus passes just above the
bright star Regulus, at H, figure l. and
the two bright objects so near together
will form an interesting figure in small
telescope At this time Venus Will be
seen to be almost half full. but as the
DAYS go on it's shape continually draws
nearer to that of very narrow cres-
cent.
The bright Jupiter shines out with it's
steady radiance in the south a little west
of the meridian. From the list OF the
month to the Sd it is moving westward,
but il then turns and begins to move very
slowly eastward again Its deep, golden
color contrasts beautifully with the deep
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-25
AMERICAN Milo GOATS
S- PHOToGRAPHED IN IOWA

tered, s1,7S5,OO0: value of the goats
slaughtered, $1,547,0o0. and the total at
$50. 1879 900.
That is certainly not an industry to be
laughed down. 1t appears that the mich
goat industry in Germany alone is worth
annually about $2O.O0OOO0 to her citizens.
after the value of the foundation fiocks
is deducted. For the whole Of Europe the
value of this industry must reach enor-
nous proportions With the vast extent
of the United States there is no estimat-
ing the length to which the mich goat
industry might not go with profit to our
people. The production of goats milk
in Switzerland in 1901 was officially stat
ed to be 19.S7o,OO0 gallons AT an es-
timated value of 10 cents quart this
equals nearly ss.OOO.OOO. The number of
for that year was .534. which was
135.OtO more than the number of sheep.
Although Switzerland is peculiarly
adapted to goat raising it should be re-
membered in making comparisons and
estimates that her total area is about 49,.
600 square miles and that much of 1t is
mountain tops unavailable for any use.
Indiana is more than twice as large as
Switzerland, and Texas has an area more
than sixteen times as great. All this
shows that the goat business of that little
republic is of great Importance.
X
At present the situation regarding the
mich goat industry in the United States
is confined largely to an awakening of
interest. The government hopes that be-
fore very long it will have passed beyond
that stage and that mere interest will be-
come practice Every month inquiries are
reaching the Department of Agriculture
concerning the mich goat, and they are
becoming more and more numerous. Many
persons have asked where they could pur-
chase a good mich goat, and physicians
have suggested over and over again that
steps be taken to establish goat diaries
in the large cities.
There are many sanitariums In France
and Switzerland where goats milk Is ad-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-25
ONE or UNCLE SANS
MICH GOATS

"Give me time" says Uncle Sam, and
I'll make the goat a hero"
Mich goats are a prominent feature OF
the live stock industry of Europe. espe-
cally in Switzerland Italy. Germany.
Austria, France, Norway and Spain. They
are particularly adapted to the needs OF
the poorer classes of those countries, and
to a large extent it is this .adaptability
which, in the opinion of the government.
recommends them for many localities IN
this country This is so because milk,
which is food and drink to all mankind,
is furnished by the goat in cheap form,
because for most purposes it's quality Is
superior to cows milk, and also because
the yield Of milk, when the size of the
animal and the amount of food are con-
sidered. is much greater than that OF the
COW.
Only a very rough estimate can be
made of the number Of goats In the
world. German writer's on mich goats
have estimated that there were about
100000 of them in Germany in 1892. AS
there was an increase shown for every
decade from 1873, it is probable that the
number is considerably augmented at
the present time. One writer places the
value Of the German mich goats IN 1872
at s11 900, OOO the value Of the milk prod
uct at $50, 100000; value of kids slaush-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-25

learned this zone of the sky he will mo
it very easy with the help of the chart
to ada one group after another, until IN
a short time he will find that he knows
them all And his next step will doubt
less be 10 buy a small telescope and TO
discover for himself a few OF the Won
derful objects which are ever shining out
above him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-25

THIN the last few
weeks the United
States government
has transferred a
flock of thirty
eight co m m o n
American e o a I s
from an experiment
tai farm at Bethes-
da, Md, to an ex-
perimental farm OF
larger proportions
and better facilities
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-25
Clarence Cullen Writes
of | little Old New York

cessively great But we took it, and took
the consequences.
The Woman VINO Can't Sit Down. of this
present epoch, also is so precuded on ac-
count of her clothing: to be more explicit,
on account of her dress.
1t is the frankeSt dress, anatomically
speaking, that | have seen outside of a
dancing performance by Gertrude Hoff-
mann and company. 1t Is a wrinkles
winding sheet. generally of very kapoo
figured foulard. The woman wearing 1t
must be just right as to figure to fur
nish the needfui entertainment. but of
course a woman must be just right as
to figure to wear any old kind of dress
The fat woman and the scant woman, of
course. wear the tight dress, but not
without an expression of wonderment
not unmingled with pain, on their coun-
tenances.
But as to the sitting down. or non-sit-
ting down. You will see. especially on
bright Sunday afternoons. young women
diked out in the tight foulards riding in
the surface cars and subway and ele-
waited trains, sadly standing up for many
miles and clutching straps, while all
over the car there are seats to ncinerate.
But the seats are not for them-nunno,
they stand, until you examine their raj
ment. and then you know And then.
If YOU are a mean sort of male cuss,
you will very deliberately rise. doff your
headgear and point out to one or more of
the standing women the many seats that
are unoccupied, and courteously suggest
that they sit down. Whereupon they will
shake you to that lisa wunner-yuh-
can't mindy '-own-b business slares- an
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-25

the sky than those of the second one is
because we meet the first stream OF NOV
ing particles almost head on; the particles
of the second stream partly overtake the
earth. Several hundred such streams of
particles which extend around the sun
and with which our earth collides are
now known; doubtless there are many
thousands through which our earth never
passes and which therefore never become
visible to us.
The very brilliant Venus reaches its
greatest distance east Of the sun July Z;
on this date 1t sets nearly three hours
after sunset, and is a most conspicuous
and beautiful object, high up in the north
western sky. Beginning on this day. IL
not only draws nearer the sun. but 1t also
moves lower down in the sky, SO thai
each evening II will set a little earlier
and a little farther toward the south
than the evening before. BY July 81 i
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-25
Ar1ER1cAN MILcH GOATS
AT THE GOVERNMENT ExPER IMENT' STATION
AT BELTSvILLE ND.

That is one of the first questions that Is
always asked about mich goat. While
this cannot be answered definitely. 1t can
be said that il doe yields less than
quart day it is not considered prof1t-
able to keep her. II she yields two
quarts day she may be regarded as
profitable. German literature is full of
instances of goats that yield four and hve
quarts a day, and the average yield In
Germany and Switzerland is probably
about three quarts daily. Many goats
yield eight times the weight of their
bodies annually in milk. and exceptional
animals as much as ten times their
weight.
While there is a natural taste to goat s
milk that enables one to distinguish 1t
from cows milk, it is by no means an
unpleasant taste. II there is any i'll flavor
to goats milk 1T Is always due. as II Is
with a cows milk. to the character of
the feeding and the surroundings as milk
very quickly absorbs outside odors and
tastes.
Probably the only way in which goats
milk Is not better than cows milk Is In
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have two large. oblong. spacious boxes
reserved for the bunch that I told him I
was going to swoop upon the ball yard
with. 1t was very nice. The old fever
had grabbed a-hold of me again. l didn't
work at all that day. / was thinking,
eating. munching ball
~
herded up the gang of ball guests at an
early hour They were of both sexes.
Those of the bucheous sex were dolled to
within only a quarter of an inch of their
lives. They looked like all the clothing
fit to wear with the plus sign I was very
proud of them Their escorts had primp-
ed and prinked and preened a consider
able lot. too
We made a gay throng, walking toward
the subway station. Somebody suggest
ed taxis but the considerateness OF the
lovely creatures of the other sex wouldn't
think of such a thing, SO we took the
subway.
It was a beautiful afternoon. There
wasn't cloud in the sky as large as
midge's hand. much less mans. The
heavens were a serene azure.
Ii was going to be one OF those reg lar
ball afternoons We glowed with the
thought of 1t. We prefgured the emerald
gated sunshine. the beautiful flowing
Hudson whipping far below the crags,
-the-er-well we had 1t all doped out. ~
was going to be sure-enough afternoon
of ball.
Twenty-Five minutes later We left the
subway train at 16Sth street and were
lifted in the elevator to the street level
The skies rocked with catastrophe divvle-
try. There wasn't a patch of blue in
the heavens as big as dolls handker-
chief. The rain it rained like ell tho
cloudbursts that ever visited Laredo. Tex.
1t was cold rain. The lightning blazed.
the thunder roared. Twenty thousand
persons were I'm the act of turning around
and going home again II 1t hadn't been
for the subway we'd not have fallen for
it; we'd have seen what was going on and
played pinochle at home. We begin to
understand why so many people run
amuck in New York and try to damage
UP their kind
CLARENCE L. CULLEN.