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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-23
Milk Price Agreements.

Public Indignation over an evidence
of trust methods has aroused the Bath
Times to make a local investigation.
The result in the Times own words Is
interesting:
The prospective increase from seven
10 eight cents a quart in the price of
mink, through an agreement among To-
cal milkmen, is one of the leading top
ice along the street, and many consul
mers are unable to see any good rea-
son for the increase, especially as all
sorts of feed except hay are much
cheaper now than a year ago when u
similar increase in the milk rate was
attempted and given up. The Times
has investigated this argument and
discovers the following to be the ruling
prices for various kinds of feed as
compared with those obtaining year
ago.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-23
Easy, Isn't It?

The Hon. Edwin C. Burlelgh's
newspaper says nothing to further its
owners candidacy for the Senate but
perhaps Mr.. Burleigh is relying upon
the Boston Herald which is telling the
Maine legislature that 1t is bound to
vote for him,-Waterville Sentinel
The Boston Herald would hardly
forego its right TO give it's readers the
fleets in the case. even TO please the
Wateryiile Sentinel. The Boston Her
aid is an Independent news carrier
unhampered by, prejudice and is filling
a field of usefulness with a complete
ness seldom reached As to the candi-
dacy of Hon. Edwin G. Burleigh. it is
hardly necessary for us To do anything
when the Lewiston Journal is Iaboring
so hard--thanks TO Mr.. Pattangall.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-23
A Parvenu Among Fossils.

Fossils seem sometimes almost
miraculously preserved. A Siberian
mammoth though the mammoth must
be regarded as the veriest parvenu
among fossils, was well enough pre-
of the dogs owned by the natives who
first worked the find; and besides
the remains of giant sloth in South
America so fresh that Sir Thomas
Holdich and Mr.. Hesketh Prichard
seem to have entertained hopes Of
finding that the animal was not ex-
tinct after all, there was fragment
of Dnosaur skin found last year and
described by Mr.. r. Lydekker. which
must have belonged to some animal
existing before the dawn of mankind.
In these cases peculiar circumstances
were joined to preserve the remains.
The mammoth, for example, appar-
emily stumbled into pit and was
frozen to death But an equally re-
markable instance of unusual preser-
walton in the outskirts of Los Angeles
is now to be explored by the Uni
versity of California. The fossil
beds of the Rancho La Brea are in an
oil bearing district. Oil has oozed to
The surface, and in the tar pools so
formed animals became mired and
even to the most fragile portions. have
been preserved The work of excavat-
ing these fossil beds has just begun
under DIR. j. c. Merriam.--London
Post.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-23
Tho Hopes OF the Rum Press.

The WaterVille Sentinel editor is
sitting up daytimes and losing good
sleep, while worrying about what
Governor Haines viii do with HE
liquor traffic. OF course we expect the
Sentinel 10 he sorry Tor its friends.
but they have had ample time in
which TO change their occupation. If
they ere counting On the Lewiston
journal organizing tive House of lie
personalities and re-electing William
r. Pattangaii az attorney general they
may be making . mistake.
II is altogether lhse'y that MIR
Haines knows that the rum trust and
the rum subsidized press ef Maine
will never let this question rest. The
Eentinei thinks Governor-elect Haines
proposes to find ont whether prohibit
tory law is good Law or bad law The
aentinei ard the people il serves have
done their best 10 prove that it is u
bad law. And even as tad as condi-
lions have been and are nov. they are
infinitely better than under any rum
trust law ever conceived Because,
with few exceptions the traffic is
outiawed and Is not at large brazenly
seeking victims.
The law has had eternal opposition
and spasmodic defense. In times of
strenuous aad dangerous opposition
the Temperance press and people have
arisen In It's defense and when the
crisis is over they PROMPTLY drop it.
But the abusers of the law NEVER
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-23
How Kansas Fiqhts Typhoid,

The state of Kansas not only fights
the demond rum very effectively, but
il does some other things quite well.
The Christian Herald tells the follow
ing:
The state of Kansas has instituted
vigorous and successful warfare
against typhoid fever. Whenever the
vital statistics report of city shows
an unusual number of deaths from
typhoid fever an expert medical in
spectpr from the State University is
hurried 10 that city on the first train
He takes samples of the water and
sends them to the university for
analysis. Finding typhoid bacteria,
he takes over the water supply system
and instals portable hypochloride
plant for its publication. The plant
consists of three large tanks that are
set up outside the city pumping sta
ton. The mains are cut and run into
the tank. In the first one the water
is treated TO remove whatever dirt
may be in it, and in the second tank
the water is given a hypochloride of
lime bath. 1t passes into the third
tank. where the lime is precipitated,
and then the water goes into the
water mains clear and free from all
bacteria. The State furp ishes the
plant free of charge, and the work OF
the sanitary expert does NOT cost the
city a penny. While the Federal and
state governments are justly busy in
finding cures for cholera among hogs.
and tongue, lung and foot diseases
among cattle. and gapes among fowls.
1t is a matter of the greatest impor-
lance also to safeguard the health and
lives of the citizens, and to make d
speedy and successful fight on such a
fatal disease as typhoid. such as the
State of Kansas has made in its NOV
able water purifying plant"
We bow to Kansas as at the head
of the drink purifiers. 1t grants not
the personal liberty to booze makers
or drinkers to exploit or abuse decent
citizens neither does il allow its peo-
pie to go on poisoning themselves with
impure water. Pity more of us
wouldn't initiate the Sunfiower state
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-23
Editorial Comment
Names United States senatorship.
(Boston fierald.)

As for the senstorship, it will be
raw breach of political faith if any
man elected TO the Maine Legislature
as a Republican fails 10 vote for eX-
Gov. Burleigh He won an overwhelm-
ing victory at the preferential pri-
maries in which those who now call
themselves Progressipes participated
as Republicans. and ny the result OF
which they are morally bound. He
has maintained a neutral attitude in
the presidential campaign out of re-
spect To Bull Moose sensibilities. He
IS recognized in Washington and else
where as the man best fitted to rep
resent Maine in the Senate. The Re-
publican members of the Legislature
who may be ordered To bolt him in
favor of Senator Obadiah Gardner,
Democrat, or Chairman Halbert Gard
her himself. in defiance Of their popu-
lar primary result, were elected after
a hard campaign in which they
begged for and were given substantial
financial help from the Republican
national committee. Maine Progress
sives should recognize that the Re
publican party truce of last summer
covered the senatorship.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-23

cease In State and out, sellers and
boozers oppose. denounce and ridicule;
belate. deceive and lie--every moment
they work and argue against the law
and IN favor of their particular per
sonai liberty"
The Lewiston Journal is a sample of
temperance paper that works nobly
when there is a strong public demand
for work for the law, and then prompt
~ ceases its efforts and soon sneers
at those not so tickle Today disin-
terested onlooker might almost think,
if he read some of the supposed-to-be
prohibition papers of Maine, that II IS
cause for ridieue. To steadily and
consistently oppose the booze makers
and their hirelings. The Sentinel and
the Lewiston Journal and some other
rank Democratic servants apparently
think things are always going on that
way.
We assume that Governor-eleet
Haines intends to use the law for what
il Was intended. not as atooi for graft
ing officials The people of Maine. IN
Governor Haines election, recorded
their disapproval OF Democratic mis-
use and abuse of the law. on the
strength of that verdict Governor
Haines would be less than wise il lie
adopted tho same sort of a concession
to the booze makers and sellers. If he
enforces the law in a manner with
which stern critics can find no fault.
and the state turns again To Democra=
cv. then we shall know that 4 majority
of the voters sufficiently interested 10
vote. wish to get rid of the law.
1t is quite apparent to those who
know Governor Haines, that he
will pursue his own course and take
the conse quenoes without "A whine. And
we have no fear that ne will tell the
people of Maine the laws cannot be
enforced.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-23
Putting Down the Consumer.
New York Post.)

N-NtA VI totsP
Every day the insatiab bic demands of
the ultimate consumer reappear in
some new and brazen form, while. to
make them worse some ofiieious in
spector with the cnnnivance of
meddlesome judge, takes his side of A
difficulty and so encourages him in
his pertinacity. Here for instance. is
the case of a man who has bought
1000 pounds of coal is charged for
1000 pounds, but receives only 1910
pounds. Instead OF looking upon this
numerical discrepancy as a trade Gus
tom, which is to be humbly if not
gratefully accepted by its victims as
one of those bits of shrewdness that
have made our foreign trade con-
Guests possible. this particular victim
takes the hint of spy sent out by
the Bureau of Weights and Measures
to stir up just such trouble, and sum-
mons the dealer to court. This UNI
patriotic action results in the dealers
confession, his driver explaining that
1t was customary for his employer to
give two bills for lading. one for the
actual weight. which was for the in
spector, and one for the pretended
weight, which was for the buyer
Thus blow is struck at the very
basis of our commercial supremacy
The ultimate consumer is useful, even
Indispensable, in his place. but when
he assumes to dictate the conditions
on which business is To be DONE
whether by anti Trust or other ham
pering legislation, he should be put
down with a firm hand
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-23
Mistaken for Deer.
CBoston Globe.


The present hunting season, ac
cording to reports from various sec
lions of the country. has regret
table and unnecessary record of mis-
haps and fatalities
In Wisconsin sI2 persons have
been killed and 10 dangerously in
jured since Sept. !.
In Michigan. in single county.
four men, mistaken for deer, were
shot dead in three days
Apparently the woods are full of
fools who. despite the warnings OF
guides. continue 10 fire at every
moving branch and swaying bush
without waiting to see their game.
New England, happily, has had
very few serious cunning accidents
SO far this fail, but its list can be
kept low only by unceasing caution
on the part of those who go after
birds and deer for sport and food.
BY the way, if You don't own At
red jacket or a red sweater, you'd
better buy onei
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-23
The Letter of a Progressive.


For weeks, while the Water7ille
Sentinel. Portland Argus and Lewis
ton Journal have devoted themselves
10 a fruitless attempt 10 create
ending feeling between men
who have stood together for Repubit
can principles. we have felt confident
that the true spirit OF fairness. justice
and honor was bound to overtop all
and prevail. That our confidence was
justified is shown in the shower of ex-
pressions that are now coming to hand
from every part of Maine, and outside
OF IT.
- The letter herewith was written TO
the Lewiston Journal. 1t voices Il
common sentiment among all factions
Even prominent Democrats condemn
the dishonorable course advocated in
the editorial columns of our Lewiston
pursuer. Our readers viii know
whether or not we are speaking the
truth in these assertions. If the fol-
lowing letter from Progressive does
not appeal to every fair minded man,
we should like very much to hear his
reasons:
To Editors of the Lewiston Journal:-
Taking advantage of your open in
vitation to use the columns of your
paper for the discussion of all sub.
iects, allow me to ask a few questions.
First, did not Hon. Edwin c. Burleish
carry the State in the primaries for
U. 8. senator on the Republican
ticket7 Second, were there any
representatives or senators elected as
progressives in the September election
or were they elected as Republicans?
Third, il they were elected as Repub
iicans, knowing that Hon. Edwin C.
Burleigh was the choice of that party
for u. s. senator, are they not moral
Iy bound to support him il they carry
out the wishes Of their constituents
> The writer is a believer in the pro-
gressive movement and at the same
time believes that a man should stand
by what he is elected for. A man
elected on a progressive ticket by
progressives would have no right to
vote for Burleish or Gardner but
elected as Republican it seems as
though he is in duty bound to support
the selection made by that party.
w. S. X.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-23
The Cabinet.
(New York Glohe.)

tNeW YORK 6ioEe-1
Presidents have followed Two meth
DDS in recruiting cabinets. One is TO
bring together the principal chieftains
of a party. The other is to summon
men of special fitness or men personal
1y agreeable to the head of the admin
istration.
TIE first method is the older one. and
under it men like jefferson. Madison,
Clay Webster, Cass. Seward, Blaine,
and Sherman became secretaries OF
state and often overshadowed the
president. Other presidents have in
sisted on having personal cabinets.
Jackson was the first to do this IN Il
conspicuous way. Cleveland in 1884,
and even mere so in 1892 assumed that
a cabinet was an official private fam
lily fRooseyelt, following in some de-
et'ae the personal idea, sought TO
make in addition the cabinet Il group
of administrators, each member n spe-
eialist in his department. I'm general in
naming his associates President Taft
followed the Roosevelt precedent
There was scarce member CT his cab
met as originally constituted who
would have been named if party claims
had been much regarded.
Win President ELECT Wilson follow
the old method or the new; will he
initiate Jackson, Cleveland, and Roose :
Welt, or jefferson, Lincoln and McKin-
ley? On the answer to this question
will probably depend the appearance
or non appearance of Colonel Bryan in
the cabinet. Colonel Bryan is the most
influential man in his party, as Blaine
was in 1888. If the new administration
is to be party one rather than a per-
sonaI one ne you'd naturally sit at
the counsel table.
On the other hand, if the new cabi-
net is to be a personal one it may he
assumed that President elect Wilson
will prefer Colonel Bryan's absence.
The colonel has educated himself into
the habit of insisting on having his
own way. He is bossy. 1t would re-
quire the constant exercise of con-
scious tact for the two men to get
along. Lincoln conquered Seward. but
DIR. Wilson is not altogether a Lincoln.
on the other hand, Colonel Bryan,
recognizing the difficulties of the situa-
ton, and that he might be compelled to
choose between dropping visibly into
secondary place or making a row that
would split the party, may prudently
prefer pfivate life.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-23
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

NoHicaSO NeWS.D
Don't borrow troubles; you can find
them at home.
The man who is ornamental and
not useful is a nuisance
Even an expert burglar can't pick a
lock from a bald head.
A woman isn't comfortable unless
nearly everything she wears is tight.
There are sermons in stones and
dill pickles in the lunch boxes of high
school girls.
You may judge mans fitness for
office by the means he uses in trying
to get 1t.
If a mans nerve is good he can
manage to pull through, even if his
credit is poor.
If all flesh is grass, that NAV ex-
plain why many a man in dry
town feels like bale of hay.
When a girl begins to call a youhc
man by his first name she probably
has designs on his last.
Never call man a liar unless Won
have strong right arm with which
to back it up if necessary.
A woman may not particularly care
to hear herself talk, but she likes 10
feel that there are others who are
compelled to listen.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-23

pistol; we altogether forget him at
the opening of the hunting season when
he is equipped with a real gun and
plays havoc With human life. There
has not been a day since The begin
ming of autumn. that the papers have
failed 10 record from three To five
such accidents.
one may rishteously ask whether the
Incompetent parents of an urchin OF
II or II years If age should not be
held directly responsible for these
homicides. The casualties to which
we refer, as recorded from day to day.
are those of our Immediate neighbor-
hood: the total number throughout the
country must be appalling. enc sport
ing paper estimates it at more than
thousand This is, by no means, an
excessive estimate.
For instance. 1t is not only the boy.
but The fool father whe permits him to
handle the deadly weapon, that we
have to reckon upon. The records show
that for years the mortality in the
north woods alone during the cunning
season has averaged 100 lives. And this
because of very simple defect upoa
the part of the nervous fool behind
the gun. 1t is rule up there that all
true sportsmen. seeking deer. and
knowing that only the buck can be
shot. must wear a red cap and a rec
sweater distinguishable in the woods.
Notwithstanding which old and careful
hunters are shot down by the dozens
These tried and true woodsrnen never
think of firing at deer until 1t shows
itself-not only as a deer, but as a
stag with prongs. The novice shoots
at anything he sees move, and in lieu
of deer Staying there is manslaughter.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-23
Saturday. November %, 1912.

If on friend, the veteran chief of the
Lewiston Journal, will not be oHended
al a modest suggestion, might we hope
that he would run his hyphenated-ah,
PHILOSOPHY in consecutive columns un-
broken by advertising? II is SUCH a
Job for the girls in the Kennebee
Journal editorial rooms TO find and cut
and paste eleven or thirteen columns
of Dingleyism for filing purposes. ev-
cry day.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-23
ar number of No. and TOtal
Oats Not Fattening Feed.

Experiment has shown that oats
are not a satisfactory feed for fatten-
ing hogs The digestive tract of the
hog is limited in capacity. In order
that the proper amount of feed be
taken ii is necessary that the ration
be in a very concentrated form. Ii
is true that the kernel of the oats
grain furnishes valuable food, yet the
coarse hull adds so much bulk to the
ration that the hog cannot consume
enough food to make satisfactory
gains-
good for fat ening hogs as a pound of
corn. In fact. oats at 80 cents a
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-23

Many of us hope to see the day when
minimum penalty is established to
cover any shooting OF a man in tile
woods through the careh:ssness of an
other hunter, 10 matter what the cir
cumstances, Suppose John Doe from
Philadelphia pleads. Not guilty: |
thought he WAS deer" and the judge
says. You admit you shot him. how
ever?' Yes, but" THAT'S all Mr..
Doe: then YOU are guilty and | can
sentence you to no less than 10 years
IA the State prison at Thomaston. Ow-
ing TO the extreme idiocy of your
act | shall add 10 years more TO that"
Wonder If we wouldn't see startling
decrease In the death-by shooting sta
tistics?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-23

buShei cost more in the long run
than corn at 30 cents bushel. But
oats as feed for breeding or grow
ing hogs is much better than for fat
tening hogs. While the pig is grow
ing, too heavy feeding of concen-
trated ration often causes it to be-
come too fat, and the proper size is
not reached. A small amount of bulk
in the feed induces greater growth
and activity in the pig. which neces-
sarly results in larger animal when
fattened.
Whole oats scattered on the ground
in a dry place makes an excellent feed
for brood SONS. Ground or crushed
oats in slop is good for growing pigs
or brood sows, but oats as a fattening
feed is very Improbable.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-23
Weather AGAINST Onion Markets.

L he IldIktt lDi OiliOHS at 1oStOn
this fall has been the most unsatis-
factory in several years. Receipts
have not proved especially heavy. but
the weather has continued SO un-
seasonably mild, right up to this
week, that the demand has been no.
where nearly as large as usual. With
most of the arrivals of a character
that the storing of them could not be
considered, business has been possi-
BILE only at steadily declining prices.
Along about the middle of September,
before the movement of seed onions
was very extensive, the market
reached $40 per 100pound bag for
Connecticut valley offerings; that
price, however. proved the highest
notch reached this fall and since
then there has been a declining tend
ency the present level being IS cents
to 81, with the bulk of the business
at rs TO So cents.
The receipts from all sources from
August / To November We're $780,
100 bushels, compared with 272.192
bushels in the same period last year
No sensible person would say that
such a small increase in the receipts
could bring about the drop in prices
that has occurred: indeed. il is safe
TO say that an outlet could easily
have been found for the extra re-
ceipts without seriously affecting
prices if the weather had been more
, seasonable
Onions are essentially cold wealth
er dish: consumption is greatest when
people are on a meat diet. SO to
speak. and that is in cold weather.
Take the lessened consumption on
one hand and the fact that the
weather has been against the keep
ing of onions any considerable length
of time, on the other, and 1t is easy
to understand why prices have been
going down. The weather has been
pretty expensive to the Boston prod
uce men this fall because it has
Kept the retailers from taking hold
of potatoes, apples and other staple
products with the usual freedom, the
latter fearing that the goods would
spoil on their bands.
While the Boston trade do not an
ticipate any material improvement in
prices in the near future. most of
them admit that the onion market
would do better with drop in the
thermometer. The onions on the
market although hardly of the kind
that the big wholesalers would put
away in cold storage, are quite as
good as those usually here at this
time of year. and would sell if the
weather was cool enough To give con-
fidence to distributors. The onions
have been running rather large in
size and that has operated against
their sale.
The onion that is wanted is the
medium sized i'll the globe shape and
the so-called cracker onion, which
is not unlike the Bermuda in shape.
There are so few of the latter that
today, with the general run of Offer
ings going at IS cents to 81 per 100
pound bag by the load. they would
bring $1.25 readily. In short, the
market at present is suffering from
an oversupply of stock which is not
good enough to be stored and which
retailers are disinclined to take hold
of in a liberal way.