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Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-03-28

ers into closer touch with this great
institution. 1t is edited by Geo. B.
Ellis, EX-Secy., of the Missouri State
Board of Agriculture-a man who
understands the needs of Missouri
farmers better than any other mau
in the state. Our regular subscrip-
ton price is SOC a year-so the gal
lon of pure bred seed costs you
nothing, Good seed is very. scarce
this year and our supply will soon
be gone so leave your order at
once with the newspaper in which
you see this notice They will for
ward it to us and save you the
trouble. Instructions for planting
and cultivation sent with each pack
age. 1t will not only give you
plenty of pure bred seed hereafter
for your own use but you will have
no trouble in disposing of your sur
plus seed to your neighbors next
year at from $3.50 to $500 per
bushel. AS soon as our supply is
exhausted this offer will be with
drawn.
THE MISSOURI FARMER,
A Columbia, Mo.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-03-28
Farm For Rent.

200 acre farm, 4 miles North of
Hunnewell, known as the A. A.
Potts farm, rs acres for corn, IS
acres for oats, balance pasture and
meadow. Chester Atterbury, Mad
isOn, Mo. 1928.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-03-28

Happiness is perfume that one
cannot shed over another with
out a few drops falling on ones
self.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-19

The White House during the next
administration will undoubtedly be 4
scene of many Charming social fune-
tions, President -elect Wilson having
three most interesting and charming
daughters, who while intellectually in
clined are not adverse to society, and
since their distinguished father has
filled the Gubernatorial Office in Tren-
ton, these young ladies have been
called upon to do their share of Off
cial entertaining and they have a l
quilted themselves WITH rare dlsere--
ton. But why nov Tliey have a mos
Their who is particularly gifted in the
social amenities, a most cultured wo-
man and an ideal help mate who VIII
bring to the White House as its ms
tress a wealth of charm of mind and
manner.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-19
Turner Grange.

At the regular meeting of Turner
Grange. Saturday. Nov. 16, worthy
master Fl. G. Harlow was in the chair
ID. r. Briggs officiated as steward pro,
TEN. The forenoon session opened at
1880 and after the routine business
the First and Second degrees were
conferred. After the noon recess dur
ing which fine dinner was served,
the lecturer Presented the program.
There We're % members present AZ
the meeting which provd unusually
interesting. A special meeting of the
Grange will be held on the evening
of Nov. % when the Third and Fourth
degrees will be conferred on a class of
candidates.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-19
The Kind of a Girl to Choose.

There is story of young man
who went to his friend and said: !
want To get married. What have YOU
to advise? To which the married
man replied. Get a girl of stock size;
it's cheaper to keep her in clothes"
Thus writes Helen Louise Johnson in
December Harpers Bazaar. Miss john
son continues:
1T is a good story and has its ele-
ment of truth, but ! wonder. could we
make a real, and honest and fact-re-
vealing canvass of the homes of the
land. il the most common reply would
not be, Get a girl who knows how TO
do her part And her part is invafia-
bly, the expanding of the money earn
ed in the buying of food and clothes
and other things, as we'll as the doing
of those tasks which we group under
the almost obsolete term Of keeping
house.
Let us go a little farther and advise
the young man TO get a girl, who
wants to do her part, whether she
knows how or not. Knowing how
may be the result of the scruples of
her home, but If with it she has inner
tied and absorbed that natural intol-
erance so common III the proficient, of
those who don't know" she will not
prove an always comforting cempan-
ion. If to that She has annexed self
pity when opposed. instead of self
analysis and = generosity. then the
young husband will be likely to wish
in his soul that she had not been so
proficient or that he had had ten years
more experience before he met her
The main thing for the young man
to consider is his own readiness to do
his part and be man, instead of n
monkeyshine artist. If he has reached
a period in life where he has a whole
some respect for the girls he is willing
TO associate with-and be seen asso-
ciating with-if he has discovered that
of giving humanity a chance to invent
new amusements and be amused
then he may be ready tpgt,hink of go
ing into partnership with a live, clean
girl. tsa
If, as we said before, he has reached
that age, he need not be discriminat-
ing about the size or the know how
OF her, so long as she is real girl
with a heart in the right place and
willing to do her part and share the
consequences. Shell do her part all
right, down through the years, and il
he is a man with gray matter under
his skull he'll know it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-19
Editorial Comment
A Penalty of Power.
tNew York Tribune.)

t4NtN 1oiA IiAphtAN'J
The marked decline in the Socialist
vote in, Milwaukee as the more sig
nificant in view of the fact that in the
State of Wisconsin at large and gem
orally throughout the United States
there was a formidable increase. In
the nation the Socialist vote was near
ly 100000, and in Wisconsin it was
about $4,000, or twice what it was
four years ago. But in Milwaukee
there was a loss of more than $500
votes from last springs election, and
Mr.. Berger. the one Socialist Repre-
sentative in Congress, was defeated
for reelection by an adverse majority
of 1000, although the lines of his dis
trict had been altered so as TO in
crease his strength.
This result must apparently be at
tributed TO the operation of special
local causes. chief among which is
presumably the fact that the Socialists
have there been in power and have
failed to fulfil the expectations which
had been. formed of them or even the
promises which they had made. Some
ambitious schemes of municipal own
ership of public utilities We're conten-
plated, but they came to nothing.
Great reforms We're promised and at
tempted, but were not executed. Mr..
Berger took his seat in Congress, but
did not instantly command leadership
of that body. In brief, those who had
voted for Socialist candidates in ex-
pectation of a speedy ushering in of
Utopian conditions found things going
on just about az they had gone before.
No wonder that they were disappoint-
ed and turned back to the old parties.
Such an experience is the natural
penalty of power when that power is
not exercised in way that meets ex-
pectation. 1t is a reminder of the
great difference between criticism anG
performance, between destruction and
construction. 1t is always easy to
stand at one side and find fault with
the work which others are doing. But
ii those others suddenly lay down their
tools and say, We'll, come and do it
better yourselves" then comes the
| rub. Then it is woe to those who can
not make good 1t may be that ex
pectations We're exaggerated; but thai
| is something for which propagandists
must be prepared. Instead of promis-
| ing all that they could in any case
hope to do, and even more, as many
| do, and thus running far into the inn
| possible, prudence should dictate
promises so far within the limit of
possible achievement that even the
| larger expectations based thereon
would not exceed it, But that would
be to promise so little as to attract lit
| tie support.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-19

ing a safer road for their children to
march iife's journey. They were, as
"a rule, business and working men.
They needed a skilled leader and they
knew it. They wanted lawyer, a
successful man of resource, and intlu-
ence in political affairs. They APP
preached the man they wanted; he de-
clined. They urged; he refused. They
persisted; he became angry, and de-
clared that the only way they would
ever get him into their Bible class
would he to carry him in. They ac-
cepted the challenge and carried him
in They laid him on a table and held
him there while they elected him sec
rotary OF the society.
That lawyer dixie most of them) had
brains and "A heart, and he saw the
light. He entered into the spirit of
the thing Now that church society
is a power for good. They are not all
members of the church but they are
imbued with the love or their fellow
man and they hate evil. They are
to work in His name and ac-
good. Daily they are under
standing why they have the spirit and
who gave it to the world nearly 2QO0
years ago.
These men banished the saloons;
hey do not allow questionable places
within their jurisdiction. Complaints
ire made to them; they investigate,
md act promptly on the result.
These men are speaking out, and
hey are showing boys the way. The
1oys and the girls are with them.
leart and soul and they understand.
rhey talk straight and they act
straight. Why not?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-19
"Does God Fix the Death Rate ?r

In view of the newly awakened in
terest in the fight against tuberculo-
sis, in Augusta and other Maine Cit
les, we assume that our readers will
gladly read the following from the
Journal of the American Medical As
ISOLATION
A broad-minded clergyman in his
Tuberculosis Day sermon propounded
this question and reached a conclusion
decidedly negative. God does not fix
the death-rate." Who does then? We
all do.
Those theologians aid high death
rates who ignore the demonstrated
facts of preventable disease and seek
TO perpetuate the medieval supersti-
ton that infections are the Almfghty's
merited scourge.f Laymen who flout
the scientific proof that tuberculosis is
durable and can be eliminated from
human experience. or who disparagu
tuberculosis propaganda as of nc
personal concern TO them, helm TO cause
the death of consumptiVe every three
minutes in the United States Councils
and legislatures which win not appro.
priata funds sufficient for the fight
which health boards would wage
against the Great White Plague arf
largely responsible for the death Of
ten thousand year, twenty sever
deaths every day. in one city alone
Those who disregard antispitting ordi.
nancss aid the like help to send the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-19
List of Casualties.

Tattered, wan and weary,
SO tired they couldn't walk,
\ bunch of campaign phrases
sat down to have a talk
The oldest in the party
They called his point with PRIDE
Was given recognition.
He rose and sadly sighed
I'm glad the battles over,
L scarce can lift my head;
Just think of what we've suffered,
No wonder We're half dead.
I've been in every struggle
Since the days of old Jim Blaine,
But ! never got the treatment
| did in this campaign
He said he'd like to hear from
His friend view with alarm"
But the latter had expired
In you're liars" arms
Il have no boss" spoke briefly,
IF I'm elected" shook Y
And suggested a eulogy
BY my life's an open book"
Fellow citizens" sobbed a solo
They Joined the sad refrain
And agreed he should be buried
Meath "the pine clad hills of Maine"
N. Y. Telegram.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-19

depth-rate upward. Housewives whose
culinary efforts produce dyspeptics di-
reetlv and drunkards indirectly give
far more impetus to the upward trend
of the death rate than most of us i'm
agine. Vendors of patent medicines"
and consumption cures who fleece
their victims until the latter have
passed far beyond the incpient stage
in which physicians could have helped
them-such nostrum takers have a full
share of responsibility for the thous-
ands on thousands of deaths from tu-
berculosis throughout the country.
Those who draw profit from feeding
the poor on adulterated food, riots and
spots,' and fowls dead in storage sew
eral years back, have similar re-
sponsibility for a high death-rate.
a league for medical freedom or
ganized TO prevent the wise centrali-
z8tion and coordination of health ac-
tivities and to oppose the inspection OF
schools and schoolehildren likewise
helps TO keep the death-rate high.
Those who overworll women and chill
dren in factories have a heavy share
of responsibility for holding the death
rate at n high level; so also do those
employers who require men to work
at dangerous trades under intolerable
conditions, such as those which in
some trades hold the consumption
rate above so per cent. Houseowners
who prov ide dark. insanitary, pest-rid-
den tenements have no little part in
increasing The death-rate. The Chris
tian Scientists and other faith heal
ers'' who close their eyes to the posi-
biiities of material aid, that may often
so potently be added to the psychothe- |
rapy they are employing, swell the
death-rate Well-meaning mothers, |
who believe that they are able to
bring up their children in defiance of |
the new tangled notions of hygiene
spread ny physicians and visiting !
nurses, help to keep the death-rate |
high.
Most important of all, incompetent |
and careless doctors swell the death |
rate. For these the medical profess
sion is directly responsible, whether
they are unframed men turned out by |
ow-g grade medical schools, or members |
Of the profession who have failed to
keep up with scientific progress and |
who have become incompetent through |
inertia anu IdEi0eSS. SsaAl THESE, ny l
t11eir carelessness. indifference and ig
noranee. increase tie death-rate, |
which competent and conscientious
sanitarians and reformers
are lighting to lower.
We have not the right to blame
cruel deity for deaths which are ac-
tually due to Grass stubborn ignorance.
humanity and the refusal to exercise
the common sense which is also an
inspiration from the Almighty a
weeping mother told a famous physi-
elan that it had pleased Providence to
take her baby from her. Providence
had nothing to do with the matter"
replied the physician; 1t was bad
milk that killed your baby" We can
not escape some share of the joint re-
sponsibility of fixing the death-rate,
but we can choose to be on the side of
The forces that are bringing it down in
stead of those that are sending it up. |
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-19
Maine Fair Dates.
How,s This2

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
f. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known r. J.
Cheney for the last ID years, and believe
him perfectly honorable In all business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by his firm.
NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE.,
Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mu-
cous surfaces of the system. Testimo-
malls sent free. Price IS cents per bottle.
Sold by all Druggists,
Take Halls Family Pills for constipa-
uon.-Adyertisement.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-19
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
New York Press.l

A woman can love her husband lot
because she can love their children
more.
When a man wants to sell YOU a
horse it would be safer to give the
money to charity.
A girl marries man because she
wants him and he marries her be-
cause she does too
If man could invent furnace that
wouldn't eat up coal it would only
work in the tropics.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-19
Maine Gossip
In November

Now We hear the dropping drip
of the chill November rain
As we watch the dripping drops
Flashing in the window pane.
Leaden skies hang dark and low
And the trees are gaunt and bare,
And we shtver in the dank
Murky moisture of the air.
But there's light beyond the clouds
There are joyous times ahead,
When the bright sky viii be blue.
And the sunsets will be red.
Now the rain is beating down,
And the skies are dull and gray,
But in Just a little while
1t Will be Thanksgiving Day.
-SomerVille Journal
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-19
Mistake of Talking Down to Children

David Grayson, writing one of his
new Adventures in Contentment," in
the December American Magazine
says:
7 keep learning that there is moth
ing which reaches mems hearts like
talking straight out of the convictions
and emotions of your innermost soul.
Those who hear you may not agree
with YOU, or they may not understand
YOU fully. but something incalculable,
something vital. passes. And as for a
boy or a girl it is one of the sorriest
of mistakes TO talk down TO them; for
almost always your had of fifteen
thinks more simply, more fundamen-
tally, than YOU do; and what he ac
cepts as good coin is not facts or pre-
cepts but feelings and convictions
life. And Lord! why shouldn't we
speak out?"
True enoughl why shouldn't we
speak OUT
Why should we be so mincing and
in promoting good causes,
v hen others are so brazen in booming
evils? On the street we
hear young men Boosting TO each other
of things of which any one of them
would be ashamed when alone with his
conscience or his mother. We hear
men of mature years voicing their dis
approval and violation of laws and
restrictions calculated for the better
control of communities and nations.
Why are not men and women and
children more assertive on the other
.side?s Why not speak OUT?
In the mems Bible class of an Au-
gusta church. on Sunday last. the
teacher inquired if the members heard
men 9n'the streets, in the cars or pub
lie places discussing interpretations of
Bible readings or the personality of
the Christ. He declared that he trav-
eled much and he heard such topics
mentioned very rarely outside the
doors of the churches. Others agreed
and the question arises: "Why?"
Are we ashamed to discuss the per-
sonality of Abraham Lincoln, or to
show our admiration for his great
mind and character? Are we not
proud to air our knowledge of his life
and deeds, and to relate stories in
which Honest Abe" figured?
Then Why do we know so little OF
that other man who came 1900 years
before the great emancipation" the
Man who came to emancipate those
lie loved from the hosts of evil? In
His name men who have dared to op.
pose evil have been denounced a;
1hypocrites and fanatics. liars anc
eranks. Is that why we so naturally
adopt .pussyfoot' tactics in doing Hi!
work?
| At the Methodist church in Augusta
Sunday, Professor Richardson of Bos
ton University, told of the work of ;
mems Bible class at Brazil, Ind. There
using the aggressiveness with which
Christ opposed evil, they are accom-
lplishing civic wonders. There tn
lpractical side of religion goes alon'
with the theoretical There they ar
doing things in His name, and ar
lreutine evils whose usual argument
in defence of themselves is the cry O
| "hypoerites' at the forces of good
| These men organized In a church 70
cleansing civic conditions and prepar
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-19

with characteristic imratience. dis
regard of preparation, and inherent
speculative spirit. Democracy will set
about airing its tariff ignorance in
April Better can it for April l, Mr..
President-elect.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-19

The Boothbay Register learns that
the White Islands. off Damariseove
Island, have been purchased by Judge
Remission of that town, and that
cottage will be built on the larger Is
land. next spring, which may mean
the establishment of another summer
resort On that part of the Maine coast.
The coming of the motor boat has
made il possible to reach the White
Islands from Boothbay Harbor in
about so minutes, whereas by sail
boats, unless the WIND was fair and
strong, a half day would be used on
the trip. The rocks and preeipiees
on the island, says the Register, rival
the best in Maine. One man who has
been much on Monhegan Ca contractor
and builder) accompanied by ladies'.
lately spent some time on the large
island. He declares that he has seen
nothing as fine as the southeast front.
No wood or timber has ever been on
the islands, and its virgin soil, only
encountered by down trees, which have
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-19

A Biddeford eat which rejoices in
the name of Dooley. has gained fame,
recently by making his way from that
city back to his summer home NJ
Ocean Bluff, Kennebunkport, dis
lance of IL miles. Dooley, who is an
Angora, and of royal pedigree, is the
property of Mrs. J. II. Brazier OF
Philadelphia, Pa, who has summer
home at the bluff and who on her re-
turn to the city this fall, left nm IN
the care of a Biddeford lady for the
winter He has seemed to be per-
fectly satisfied with his new home I'M
til week ago last Tuesday, when ne
suddenly disappeared He was adj
vertised in the local papers, but
though the returns of found cats
were many, Dooley was not among
them Finally there came a letter
from Kennebunkport stating that the
cat had been seen at the BLUM, ana
the lady in whose care he had peeii
left lost no time i'll getting to kenne-
bunkport. to see if the report was
true. The cat was there, having evil
IDENTIFY footed the dozen miles TO reach
the home of his former mistress. lie
was. however. in the throes OF home
sickness and appeared to be glad 10
be captured and brought back to Bid
deford, where he has since expresseo
his appreciation of his comrortapie
surroundings as plainly as ever cat
could.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-19
North Jay Grange.

The North jay Grange held ladies'
night. Saturday evening. Nov. Is. i'll
charge of Mrs Mary Trask. Mrs. Min
ME Allen and Mrs. Sadie Thomas.
Master, Mrs. Eunice Tobin, The pro-
gram consisted of a farce. The
Champion of Her Sex and a ribbon
drill, followed by refreshments.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-19

Enthusiasts and soreheads can be
carried away by high sounding hypo-
crisy-but it's a. fever of short run.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-19
AUGUSTA LODGE DIRECTORY

AUGUSTA LODGE, NO. TAI, r. & A.
NJ Special communication, Tuesday eve
ming, Nov 49, Work in f. c. degree. All
sojourning companions are cordially IN
vited to be present.
ALBERT E. FOLSOM, w NJ.
w. A. JACKSON, Sec.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-19
Made a Good Record.

People everywhere speak well of
Cbamherlain's Tablets When consti-
pated or bilious give them a trial and
you are certain to be greatly pleased
with the result.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-19

That City Marshal Wilson of Calais
IS made of the right kind of stuff was
shown by his heroic rescue, about a
week ago, at an early morning fire,
Sunday. Nov. 10. of Miss Mabel Ward,
a telephone operator. Miss Ward, by
the way, proved herself heroine on
that occasion. Smoke found its way
up through the partitions and filed the
telephone exchange rooms where Miss
Ward, who is night OPERATOR was
alone on duty. She stayed at her
switchboard until the smoke filled the
room, and then as she attempted to
go down stairs the dense volume OF
smoke drove her back. City Marshal
Wilson, remembering that Miss Ward
was on duty in the telephone office,
rushed up the stairs 10 find her. She
was at her post, where she had been
TRY ing to notify somebody over the
wire OF her predleament, and was I'M
conscious The city marshal took the
girl in his arms and started for the
door, but losing his bearings in the
smoke, he could not find the way out
Holding the girl. he CROPPED about on
the floor until he came to the door,
and with consciousness slipping away,
the officre reached the street with his
burden
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-19

Bigcts always mistake public disgust
for jealousy Listen for the proela-
nation Of the Maine champion.