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The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-04-27
The Captions and Synopsis of Laws
Have Been Printed.

The Captions of the laws passed by
the last Legislature, with a synopsis
of each act, have been printed and
are now being mailed out from the
Secretary of States office. There are
1,4G0 acts and SIS resolutions.
Col. j. Bryan Grimes, Secretary oil
State, Informed the reporter OF The
Caucasian that he would be glad 10
send copies. to any one interested, as
long as the supply last. Any one de-
string a copy should write for il at
once before the supply is exhausted
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-04-27
Cary High School Commencement.

The annual commencement exer-
cises of the Public High School at
Cary is being held this week. The
exercises began yesterday and will
close tomorrow.
The following are the graduating
class: Howard Carroll Benton, Fan
ME Hooker Bonner, Ethel Vivian
Britt, Florence Burch, Connie Eary
Byrd, Alma Loce Fisher. Percy Carl
Harvard, John Roger Hester, Isaac
Jacob Hunter, Mary Eva Hunter,
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-04-27

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The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-04-27

The Department OF Agriculture re-
ports that some of the guano ship
ped to farmers in this State is under
weight. Seizures have been made in
a few places in the State, and the
fertilizer seized will be sold by the
State officials and the proceeds APP
piled to the Department.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-04-27

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Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-04-03
Nobody Loves Fat Mani"

According to the newspapers and
magazines, England is Jealous of us
Germany doesn't like US.
Japan is actually preparing to fight
us.
Canada thinks we are going to kid
nap her
Mexico feels that We want to mort
gage her resources and then foreclose
the mortgage.
Spain positively detests us
Cuba thinks we are fresh lot of
Alecks.
chilli secretly buys battleships to sell
to other countries who want to lick us
Erazilans shove had money and short
change on us when we visit them
Argentinians charge lis more for the
same things than she does others.
Russia thinks we are an ungrateful
lot
All Central America is trying to pick
our pockets.
There are others-let these instances
suffice for now.
VIII the muckrakers kindly advise
does anybody love usp
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-04-03
Back Yard Farminq.

DR.. s. A. Knapp of the L. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture is engineering a
new departure to enable millions OF
employees of railroads and corporations
who live in the cities to understand
the possibilities of a small back yard.
1t is perhaps safe to estimate that
there are 25, 900 people in the Unit
ed States who are non-producers of
food products, but a large percent
age of these might easily become so.
DR.. Knapp thinks there is no reason
why a large percentage of city back
yards should not be made To produce
edible truck. With the adoption OF
more scientific methods fresh impetus
has been given to the extension of the
corn growing contests in city schools.
thusiasm of householders and tenants
who have little plots of available soil
to the advantages in more ways than
one of seeing what they may bring
out of the soil.
If there are 5000 600 American fam
lilies who can reduce the cost of liv-
ing to themselves by raising home
grown vegetables, the total of in
creased farm production would be inn
pressive. A back yard 80 by 40 feet
containing 1900 square feet of space
can be made to produce, according to
the agricultural experts, all the vege-
tables needed to supply the family ta-
bic for an entire season-cucumbers
tomatoes, beans, onions, cabbage, let
tuce, radishes, etc. In suburban
home, even a better showing might
be made, with possibly a surplus fol
sale.
One Southern city, Memphis. Tenn.
has become so much impressed witt
I the idea of training the city childrer
| to become scientific crop raisers tina
| it has raised a substantial sum fol
experiments and has hired an exper
| in gardening to give proper instruc
| tions.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-04-03
Congressman Gould's Talk Before
Skowhegan Grange on Reciprocity.

Did YOU hear it? No l think not
and I don't think he intended you
should. SkoWhegan Grange at the
regular melting of March s, voted to
extend to Congressman Gould an in
Vitation to talk on reciprocity at its
next regular meeting March %. Said
invitation was duly sent and accept
ed and Congressman Gould assured
certain members that he would be
glad to give the talk.
The evening of March % being one
of the most stormy for the winter, a
special meeting was called for Sat
urday evening. March % for said lee
ture and due notice given in the
Indep pendent Reporter. What was the
result? The non-appearance of Mr..
Gould and still worse no excuse for
not appearing, but SkoWhegan Grange
with membership of five hundred
Utterly ignored Have we got to be-
lieve that our representative hasn
the courage of his convictions in eX-
pressing himself on such important
public questions? Have we got to
believe he is going to dodge the is
sues? | do not want to believe any
thing of the kind but as one | think
he acted unWiselY in not appearing
or giving an excuse for not doing so.
AS matter of courtesy | believe
the members of SkoWhegan Grange
are entitled to an eXplana ton.-
Charles II. Gardner in Independent
Reporter.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-04-03
Maine Taxes 100 Years Ago.

Among some old papers. containing
tho records of Hiram when it WAS a
District If Massachusetts which have
recently been brought to light after a
hundred years and more of resting in
an old red chest was found a tax list
of the state tax OF Massachusetts, and
some Interesting facts and figures are
found therein. Hiram's state tax 10o
wears ago nS1D was $23.24 against
&2.111.5> fer 1911. $1466 Of that tax
was Hiram's proportionatc part of the
state OF Massachusetts which was only
1333,36352 and $S.5S WAS assessed II
ray the representative for attending
TWO terms of the general court The
whole state tax of oxford county was
81 .964 81. only few more dollars than
the city of Portland then paid which
was $1924. the largest state tax Of
Maine.
The smallest state tax paid cen
turN ago hy any town district or plan
tation in Maine was $11.&3 assessed
against DiXtield and Halmanston, the
latter now Mexico. both Of oxford
county. The assessors of Hiram for
that year We're John Pierce, John and
Thomas b. Watson We find written
on the margin of the list: District
tax for 1911 against Thomas b. Wat
son, $2.a3"
Appended to this list was the tax act
from which is cleaned the following
To tax all real estate. improved al
unimproved except peWS in houses al
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-04-03
ONE SOURCE OF PROFIT.
10000, 100000 People Yearly Ride on
Electric Railways.

Ten billion passengers are carried
in a year on the electric railways OF
this country. There are 81, ,00O miles
OF electric railway track tsinElc). o.
0oo cars. and the capitalization of the
companies is four billion dollars.
Their annual income is 44O millions.
They have 25n.000 salaricd employees.
The companies holding membership
in the American Electric hallway
Association-Which is professional
and technical body of practical. op-
Grating railroad oflicials-own 26. 425
miles of the above track,
66. 400 cars and have Il capitalization ot
two billion six hundred and ninety
three million dollars They carry
seven billion passengers yearly, al
most five times the population of the
earth, These gigantic figures and
their significance We're discussed at
banquet given to the American EleC
trc Hallway Association by the Elec
trio hallway Manufacturers Associa
tlon, an affiliated body, in New YORK
the other evening ut the conclusion of
the formers mid-Winter meeting. 1t
was shown. too, that within the next
ten years the existing traffic will. in
all probability, he doubled. Moreover,
the steam roads which. like the Penn
sNlVania. New York central and New
York. New Haven and Hartford rail
roads. have electrified divisions of
their main lines. as well as the steam
roads entering Chicago, will a decade
hence, have carried elocttitication over
a mileage which at the present time
would seem Incredible. steam roads
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-04-03
Maple Sugar Fakers.

(New York Times)
Before the time of "sugaring Off in
the rock maple forests 50,600 Canadian
farmers have combined for mutual
protection against the establishments
that ar" preparing To manufacture and
palm off upon the public as native
maple sugar or syrup hundreds of
thousands of gallons of molasseS mixed
with a modicum of boiled down sap
and with the HaVoring called ma pie
inc one ounce of this flavoring 10
the gallon of tr"acle produces the
commodity which the farmers demand
shall be honestly labelled "mapleine
molasses."
1t is the laudable intention of the
farmers To spoil the market for the
fraudulent limitations of their delicious
maple products. The imitators do
not. Of course, contine their operations
to Canadian territory. ohio's law
lays a penalty upon the selling OF
holding for sale of the limitations
Dealers are warned that cans and
packages must in each case bear the
name and postoffiCe address of the
sugar producer The law of Vermont
improves upon the Ohio law in offer
ing half of the fine inflicted to any in
former who shall bring about u con
vietion. Mr.. +. W. Thompson Sug
gests that a further Improvement
might be made by giving a medal and
diploma of good public service to the
informant instead of cash re-
Enumeration. thus removing the stigma
that is usually Impressed upon reve-
latory spies.
New York state might frame a model
law from these suggestions. Its pro-
hibitions are at present ineffective
The market is flooded with compounds
of molasses, glucose and cane or beet
sugar favored by boiling with corn
eobs, twigs of the hickory. and maple
chips. Possibly the inspectors are
largely to blame for this condition
which is bad at all times of the year
except during the height of the maple
sugar season,
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-04-03
Overreachine Enthusiasm.
CFall River HeraldD


IL seems as If the matter of display
ing rags on SchcolhouSes could better
De left in the hands OF local school
boards than that the LEGISLATURE should
go TO the trouble of passing a law bear
ing on the point The word of the
school board would be all the law need
ed. Besides. there are unouestionablv
periods longer than five days apart on
"hI'h there is no real occasion for dis
paving the flag. There was a time
ana 1t no doubt is the same TODAY
"hen hanging out the flag and decorat-
ing The school in bunting meant some
thihg extraordinary, wher it caused the
young bosom To palpitatc with a feel
ing mat 1t dld not understand, but which
was me purest of patriotism in embryo.
Such occasions did not come every dav
vi every hFe days. Had they occurred
so often, there would have bee mo such
leeilng. The frequency of The raising of
'he banner would have bred Indifference.
the ceremony would have meant NOTHING
more than part of the DAYS routine.
"uch as opening the schonlhouse doors
vi ringing the school bell The senti
ment which inspires measures of tbis
KIND may be laudable one but if over
reaches itself in its entbusi,sm in tbis
| instance. ''''
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-04-03
SUNFLOWER PHILOSOPHY.

tAtChlSon Globe
Few men fight harder than a coward
wher he is cornered.
Interest rates always seem excess
i've to the man who pays them.
Half the complaints made are merely
baits for compliments.
Liquor men never think temperance
men give the town much support
1t is as difficult to get boy past an
ice box as it is to get him by side
show.
The man in front of the gun, however
is the one really entitled to sympathy.
A boys idea of the most futile waste
of time is to delay breakfast for family
prayers.
Did any cf those fortunes which were
to be made raising mushrooms in the
cellar ever materialize? 80
What has become of the old-fash
ioned woman who used to talk about
"breaking in" q corset?
Most of the recipes for living to be
a hundred years old don't give one
time to do much of anything else.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-04-03
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
New York PreSS.O

Excuses go on crutcheS.
One way to get votes seems to be
not to deserve them.
Philosophy quits when it's time to
end thinking and begin to act.
The Lord let's everybody have a try
at this world, so everybody puts the
consequences up to Him.
The man with good appetite is
more or less like a porker, but he
thinks it's because he has a good con-
science.
Some men will do more for cheap
cigar than they will for a dollar.
The less confidence man has in
himself the more he seems to have in
others.
Autompbiles are good deal like
men. The cheaper they are the more
noise they make.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-04-03
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,

w. f'TFSST
1t would have been very lucky for
some people not to have been born.
II man had million he'd think it
was only hard luck that kept it from
being two.
There must be mighty little left OF
some women after they get their clothes
and hair OFF.
A man has to be able to govern him
self to command an army, and ever
then he cant even influence his family.
One thing a man likes about his wife
having somebody he doesn't like visit
them is it's a very good excuse for not
being home much.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-04-03
Monday, April 3, 1911.
PARTY Conventions Above Legislatures

From anv angle one looks at it
Tbursdav's action in the Maine Legis-
lature on the income tax question
seems to settle it, So far as Maine
Democracy goes, that party platform Is
greater than Legislative enactment
Right or wrong in the minds of the
lawmakers the pledges written by
politicians, and adopted in convention
without consideration, must stand Su-
perior to the deliberations of men Sc
lected for that purpose.
After both houses had voiced their
opposition to the convention deelara-
ion, presumably because th y did not
agree with its intent. on reminder, ana
under the lash of the party whip, its
posi,ion was reversed They did not
believe in it, as previous votes had
shown. vet they voted for it's because
the party platform demanded it.
The moral is not that party pledges
in convention should be repudtated by
delibcrative bodies, but that party
promises should be made less reck-
lcssly by those anxious to win votes.
When party platforms become su-
uerior to statutes the whole intent of
republican form Of government seems
TO have been betrayed. Legislatures
become unnecessary except to ratify
campaign pledges. Conventions be-
come the law making bodies without
further deliberation than conference of
unlifical leaders.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-04-03
Feldspar for Fertilizer.

| FeldSpar tor fertiilzef.
| Much interest is being aroused, and
should be of more than ordinary in
| Maine, in the use Of potash feldspar as
a fertilizer. Potash is an important
| plant food, which, in fertilizers has
usually been supplied in the form of
| wood ashes or imported from Ger
many in easily soluble potash salts
fsuluhate. carbonate. or chloridcD. The
Department of Agriculture has recent
" made experiments to determine TIN"
availability of finely ground potash
feldspar as a substitute for the more
soluble potash salts The evidence SO
FAR obtained appears To indicate that
under certain conditions and with GER
tain crops feldspar can be made useful
i: il is ground sufficiently fine. ON the
other hand, it is highly probable that
under other conditions the addition OF
ground feldspar to the land would he
useless waste OF money. At tn"
present stage of the investigation ii
would be extremely unwise for any
one to attempt to use ground rock,
except on an experimental scale that
would not entail great financial loss.
Il further experiment shows that
ground feldspar can be used as a fer
tilizer. it will undoubtedly lead to the
utilization of much pcgmatte which,
because of too fine grain or too large
a percentage Of quartz or of iron-b bear
ing minerals. is not valuable as 4
source of pottery material. Many de
posits of this kind are near railroads.
An equally important result will be
the utilization of much material that
is now discarded at feldspar qHarries
A number of processes have been
patented in this country for the dis
sociation Of potash feldspar To obtain
the more readily soluble potash salts.
but none of these have yet been sue
cessfully applied on II commercial
scale.
In any case it is significant that
Maine leads other states in the value
of fellspar produced, though a slightly
larger quarter is mined in Connecticut
says the bulletin of the L. =. Geological
Survey.
Feldspar is used principally in the
pottery trade but is also employed in
the manufacture of opalescent glass, as
we'll as in securing soaps and as tiuX
to bind together the abrading particles
of emery and carborundum wheels.
grit and roofing material.
Tourmaline, aquamarine, amethyst,
and topaz are abundant in some of the
deposits, and some of the finest speci
mems known have come from Maine.
The famous locality at Mount Mica in
Paris, oxford county. is surpassed only
by certain pegmatites of California in
the number and quality of the tourma-
lines it has Welded. Mount Apatite
III alluIbSCtS5II touiily tl7o Ai'io VII
tributed fortunes in these gems.
Pegmatites may be described as very
coarse GRANTEES of uneven texture,
which are quarried principally for
feldspar, one of their constituents,
though they also yield small amounts
of commercial quartz and mica and
contain valuable gems.
The possibility of increasing the pro-
duction of feldspar, mica, tourmaline
and beryl in Maine is considered in
report on the Geology of the pegma-
tites and associated rocks of Maine,
by L. S. Bastin, which has been pub
lished by the United States Geological
Survey as Bulletin 445.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-04-03
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
(ChiCaen No,,.u =,

Money talks, and some n.or,a mako
every dollar count.
Too many political platfo,,ns are made
up of gang planks.
ne io'e OF other mems money may be
the root of much evil.
man isn't necessarily tail because he
looks down on his neighbor
i'.s shame the way society shocks the
people who are not in il,
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-04-03
Nervousness and Nerve.

The more nervous man is, the less
nerve he has. That sounds paradoxi-
cal-but it isn't; for nerve is stamina.
Hoods Sarsaparilla gives nerve. 1t
tones the whole system, perfects di-
gestion and assimilation, and is there
fore the best medicine a nervous per-
son can take.
If you get tired easily, mentally or
physically, take Hood's-it will do you
good.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-04-03
Pomona Dates.

April 1-.AroostOok Pomona Washburn
-NpriI 5--Androscogsin Pomona. Lisbon
April 1l-Waldo Pomona, Liberty.
.Npril i Kcnnebec Pomona. Winthrop.
April Il Excelsior Pomona, Farming
ton Fails.
April ia-York Pomona. Lebanon.
April l9-Sumerset and Penobscot Union
COrinna.
April 20-No. Franklin Pomona. Strong
May S-No. Waldo Pomona. Winterport
MAY G-fIancock Pomona, M, Bluehil
May 9.-Somerset Pomona, East Madi'
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-04-03

Some innocent people might think
that because President Taft and the
Mikado said there was to be no war
that peace is assured, but these people
haven't yet heard from Hobson and
Hearst and Pulitzer.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-04-03
BIBLE STUDY COUPON.

BIBLE STUDY COUPON.
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Sins"
What Say the Scriptures, Re.
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"Rich Man In He'll"
"ln the Cross of Christ. We
Glory"
"Most Precious Text."-John
3:16.
END of the Age Is the Harvest"
Length and Breadth, Height
and Depth of Gods Love-"
"The Thief In Paradise"
Christ Our Passover Is Saori-
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"The Risen Christ"
"Foreordination and Election" 1,
Tho Desire of All Nations.s =
Sins Small Beginnings" .
paradise Reganed." "
1.-THE Coming Kingdom" IA
"Sin Atonement." "
spiritual Israel - NATURAL L.. ~
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"The Times of the Genties1'
"Gathering the Lords Jswsls."
"Thrust In Thy Sickle"
weeping All Night"
"Every Lido Word"
"Refrain Thy oice,Fromf Weep
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"What Is the Soul7"
"EIecting Kings" A
"The Hope of Immortality
"The Kings Daughter, the Bride, Z
the Lambs Wife,"
"CaIamities-Why Permitted"
"Pressing Toward tho rllark."
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"Our Lords Return"
"The Golden Rule" a s.a
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Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-04-03
NOTICE,

NOTICE.
All persons having bills against the
city should present them at the city
auditors office not later tn; IN Monday,
April 3, to insure payment ina the April
Roll Of Accounts.
=s-s Z. M. MOWER, :
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Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-04-03
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Coming Events

April 19-Annual Convention Maine
| state Branch, No. IS, L. y. y. p. .. c.,
Bangor.
April l9-Maine Letter Carriers at
Augusta.
April l9-26-East Maine Methodist Con-
ference, oldtown, Bishop Granston pre-
siding.
April l9-26-Maine Methodist Confer
encc, Biddeford, Bishop Nicely presiding.
April 3i-May 20-America'~ First Great
Missionary Exposition, Boston.
April 2G-2N-ConEress of National Fed
Grafton of Religious Liberals. New York
City.
June 14-l5-4ith Department Encamp-
ment, Maine q. y. Il. Meetings State
Sons of Veterans. State w. r. c., Ma
tional w. X. c. and Ladies of the G.. y.
r., Augusta.
June 2o-21-Thirtecnth Triennial Con-
Vention international sunday School AS
sOcation, san Francisco
June 21.-Ctlchratiun If Tooth Anniver-
safy Of Town of Corinth.
Jtlne 2S-20-Forty-fourt annual meeting
Name Pharmaceutical Association,
kiUeO.
AUG 15-17-Waldo County Agricultural
Society Fair, Belfast.
Aug. 2l-26-Natonal Encampment of the
G.. A. r., Rochester, y. Y.
Oct. a5-26-2I-Annual convention Maine
Teachers Association, Augusta.