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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-07

posts will be fence posts in few years.
and those who are cutting sound, dura-
BILE wood into cordNlength or burning it In
brush heaps now will at no great dis
tant time be complaining of the high cost
of farm life and equipment. The farmer.
who has fence post timber and saves and
preserves his fence posts now. will have
occasion to congratulate himself upon
his Judgment when the fence he is now
building must be reset with new posts 10
or 10 years hence. y
The fence posts on this farm are care
fully stacked up in the open clearing
with free access to sun and air to go
through process of curing and season
ing from one to several years The bark
is removed so that the timber will sea-
son quickly and perfectly. Each post is
trimmed of knots, splinters and shaped
up smoothly. A stack of these new fence
posts actually looks beautiful to the
farmer or anyone, who has an eye for
beauty in the timber line and who appre-
ciates the present and future value of
fence posts. After these posts have sea-
soned thoroughly in the open air for
many months, a large circular iron vat
nearly feet tall and more than 2 feet
in diameter, is taken into the clearing
to the piles and set upon rocks for sup
port for a wood fire to be built under it,
Coal tar is placed in the iron vat and
heated to or nearly to the boiling point.
The dry, seasoned fence posts are stood
on end in this boiling tar and allowed to
stand in the hot liquid till the tar has
penetrated and been driven by the heat
into the outer wood and well into the
heart wood of the timber. The tarring
reaches to a point several inches above
the ground line of the post in fence posi-
ton. After the bottom of the posts have
been boiled in coal tar. they are again
stacked in neat piles and allowed to re-
main SO for at least several weeks be
for being used. BY capiilarity inside
the wood some of the tar will in time
penetrate further in toward the heart
of the post, perhaps entirely TO the CEN
, ter, where sufficient boiling is done I'M
der high heat. The total cost of treat
ing fence post with hot tar is less
than cents for each post while the pre-
serving treatment given will doubly pro-
long the life of the timber The business
man can readily see that the treatment
! is economical. as common fence posts
are now worth about 10 cents each, with
more durable woods much higher The
preserving treatment not only saves the
timber, but also only saves future labor
in resetting posts in the fence line.
/ A large number of farmers now are
, treating their fence posts with creosote.
soaking the lower ends of them either in
the cold or hot liquid. Some also paint
the untreated upper portion of the post
with creosote or other paint Greosote
] for this purpose is about as cheap as
tar. and some claim it has superior pre-
/ serving qualities while being easier to
handle.-J. S. w.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-07
Saving Wood-Lot Timber.

Farmers and land owners now are
more saving of their trees and timber
than they were in years gone by A
large share of timber has been cleared
away in wooded sections, yet one would
be surprised to learn of all the really
good woodots and forests still existing
and steadily growing into value with the
years Farmers who are preserving Their
woodland find that the trees grow slow
ly but steadily, with the seasons. Small
trees after few years grow up into
medium-sized trees, and the medium
sized trees correspondingly grow into
disable and marketable timber With the
Increase in value of timber of all kinds,
farmers now think twice before cutting
a good tree down, and the growing wood
lot is considered good money crop to
be drawn upon at any time. Log roll
ings.' with the wholesale burning of
valuable logs, pole wood and heavy
brush, are things of the past Clearing
of wooded land is done with greater care
and thought of each individual tree and
its parts for some good use. Even the
trimming of trees cut down is done more
closely, with many of the branches cut
into kindling and stove wood The time
is coming when nothing of a tree will be
thrown away, burned or wasted. All will
be saved and turned to good account.
even to the smallest twigs, for which
some good use will be found.
The illustration here shows a new
woods pasture field that was in native
forest only few years ago. The farm
of which this field issa part, still con-
tains a good proportion of woodland,
which is now being cleared and made
into permanent pastures and tillable
fields. An experienced man oversees all
the clearing, directing the work with
reference to turning all of the trees out
to the best advantage for home use and
market purposes. All of the saw timber
is carefully worked up and sold. Wood
not suited for saw timber, railroad ties
or fence posts is cut into cordwood
lengths, neatly stacked for seasoning
and finally hauled and shipped to fuel
dealers in nearby city. Preparing the
land for pasture or tillage is made to
more than pay the expenses of clearing.
Much of this farm is now we'll fenced
and cross-fenced, with high and strong
woven-wire fencing for the retaining OF
| a number and variety of domestic ami
mails More fencing is to be done, as the
place is cleaned up and improved
New material will constantly be need
] ed for the upkeep of the fences, The
farmer is long-sighted and works along
careful business lines. All small trees in
! thee Tearing large enough for teh pur-
pose are cut into fence Post si i that, is.
| trees Of reasonably durable wood, All OF
| the fence post timber is handled as care
fully as though it We're wheat in the sack
or corn in thee rib, The owner knows
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-07
Labor Hunting Wilson.

Again, this week, The Labor World
assails Woodrow Wilson bitterly. And,
incidentally, it casts a briek-bat at
Samuel Gompers. 1t says:
Governor Wilson has been before the
country as an active candidate for the
presidency of the country for months
He has addressed numerous meetings
and written columns of Opinions" on
various questions. He has artfully
appealed for the support of labor but
never once has he ventured to explain
why ne has placed on record the most
vil!fying and false charges against
organized labor that have ever been
placed on the annals before the nation.
1t is the aim of those who are in
true sympathy with labor and it's
rights, the justice of its aims the rea-
sonableness of its policies and fairness
of its methods to insist that the public
be kept apprised of the ISLANDERS utter
ed against organized labor by DR.. Will
son at a time when he had no thought
of contesting for the presidency of the
country. When he made those SLAM
ders they were his true opinions and
he desired that the world be influenced
by them. They stand against him
showing him as one of the bitterest
and most cunning foes that organized
labor has ever had
Here are the words uttered by DR.
Wilson in a baccalaureate address to
the graduating class of Princeton on
the 18th day of June, 1909:
"Yon know what the usual standard o.
the employe is in our day. 1t is to Civ,
as little as he may for his wages. Labor
Is standardized by the trade unions ant
TINS is the standard to which he is mad,
TO conform. No one is suffered to Dc
more than the average worKmen can do
IN some trades and handierafts no on,
Is suffered TO do more than the leas
skiilful of his fellows can do within tn,
hours allotted TO do in a days labor ant
no one may work out of hours of labor
at all; or volunteer anything beyond tn,
minimum. 1 need not point out how
. economically disastrous such regulation
Of labor Is: 1t is so Improbable to tn,
employer that in some trades IL viii
Presently not be worth while, to attemp
e'es'''s down than some people seem
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-07

coming Improbable under it's present
regulation by those who have deter
mined to reduce it to a minimum. Our
economic supremacy may be lost because
the country grows more and more full
of Improbable workmen servants
Once more let it be asked why Pres
ident Gompers of the American FEEDER
alton of Labor has not. publicly de-
nounced the man who uttered such a
Islander on organized, labor in the
United States? Had Parry, Post,
Kirby or such enemies of labor de-
clared themselves in such terms as DR..
Wilson has done, depend upon it that
Gompers would have been denouncing
them to the full limit.
Wage workers throughout the coun-
try should make it their business to
keep the foregoing facts before the
public so that the hypocrisy of Wilson
viii be completely exposed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-07
Economies of Eskimo Life.

/ have not known so poor a winter
during the whole of my stay among
the Eskimos (now % years). While
the coast is icebound, the days short,
snowstorms frequent and the thermo-
meter often 40 below zero it is not
possible for the Eskimo to do much
to secure a living. One way for the
women to produce something was to
cut holes through the sea ice (Which
reaches a thickness here of six feeD,
and there they stood, fishing for rock
cod, most days only securing between
5 and 10 fish. The mission endeavored
to help, but poverty was so general
that all resources were taxed to the
utmost
An outsider has no idea of what
poverty among the Eskimos means.
At the best of times, the wants or an
Eskimo are few, and his food consists
of the coarsest of substances. Seal
walrus and whale meat form large
part of their diet, and the blubber or
these animals serves in the place OF
pork or butter.
In China the famished Inhabitants
subsisted on roots or some other IN
ferior vegetation, but here the vege-
table kingdom has nothing to offer.
The earth is frozen and deeply cover
ed with snow and ice; the birds have
gone south, and one might walk for
miles without seeing "a living creature.
At the same time, it is of interest to
know how even these primitive people
have for ages found a kind of substi-
tute for food somewhere. Along a
beach which is known to have plenty
| of seaweed. holes are cut through the
| thick ice and the seaweed and mus
| sells pulled up through the holes, and
| it is ON record that the Eskimos have
\ fnShk;r6,a, r l,fA or bis one might say
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-07
Editorial Comment
Pringle Going Away.

(Rockland Courier Gazette.)
Rev. III. n. Pringle has resigned his
position as secretary of the Civic
League to accept position as assist
ant superintendent of the internation-
al reform bureau with headquarters
at Washington, ID. c.
Mr.. Pringle has been connected
with the Civic League for the past II
years and has been extremely promi-
nent in the enforcement department
of the leagues activities. He has
several times been assaulted, and seri-
ously at PASSPORT, Bar Harbor and
recently at Waterville, but has made
a reputation for fearlessness in car
rying on the work in the league.
More dreaded than the Sturgis
his mere presence in Rockland was
sufficient to put the saloon keepers on
the anxious seat, while nickel ma
chimes disappeared as if by magic. No
violence was ever attempted upon
Secretary Pringle in this city, but it
wishes had amounted TO anything
Rev. Henry n. would have perma-
nent residence in region where
match factories are unnecessary.
The departure of good citizen
always occasions regret but there is
certain percentage of Roekland citi-
zens (and the same is probably true
wherever vice fiourishes) which will
gladly defray his travelling expenses
if they are any bar to his going to
Washington
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-07
Mr.. Wilson's Surrender.
(New York Tribune. )

So Governor Wilson is pleased
The Tammany ticket lis of kind to
crafty progressive Democrats very
deeply The independence" of Mr..
Sulzer who for years served in the
ranks of Croker's following and then
accepted the leadership Of Murphy, is
satisfactory to the great enemy OF
bossism. A state ticket with three
other New Workers absolutely con-
trolled by Murphy or his lieutenant.
McCooey, NETS the high standards of
the candidate nominated at Baltimore
as protest against Murphyism.
AS on the tariff and the money
trust" SO on bossim Governor VIII
sons current of opinion is an alter
mating current. Just now it has
swung back to the view he held when
he commended Tammany Hall for
keeping the fires of liberty burning on
it's altar. All the notorious corrup-
ton of Tammany, which made it pos
sible for Democratic National con-
vention to acclaim Mr.. Cleveland for
the Tammany enemies he had made
and for another national convention
to disqualify any candidate who might
happen to be favored by Murphy, is
forgotten t...
u Mr.. Bryan demanded the overthrow
of Murphy himself. Mr.. Wilson is
content with the miserable subterfuge
of throwing aside poor Dix the agent.
while Murphy, the principal, is made
stronger than ever, in that he not
only controls the Democracy in the
state but demonstrates that Mr. Will
son fears him. Governor Wilson thinks
the result affords every Democrat
real satisfaction Perhaps the cur
rent will again alternate when he sees
the real satisfaction of 1.-THE evening
POST and other sincere supporters,
who early pinned their faith to him
as a man of straightforward courage
and expected him to be unselishly
true to the principle of warfare on
Murphyism to which he owed his
nomination.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-07
Wilson Hope of English.

if3atE IlmeS.)
The candidacy of Woodrow Wilson
is the forlorn hope ofthe English tar
iff for revenue policy The latter is
almost at its last gasp, but if the
American market can be taken from
the American factories and wage
workers and turned over to the British
mills, giving them a new lease of life.
the necessary of the adoption of pro-
tective policy by Great Britain may be
averted, at least temporarily. OF
course the process would damage the
American manufacturers and throw
millions of American wage workers
out of employment, but British manu-
featuring interests would be saved,
just as the British merchant marine
was saved by the abandonment by the
American government of protection for
its national merchant shipping.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-07
Maine Gossip
The Boy.

A source of endless wonderment
Is he whose years are three;
No WEAKNESS TO him is sent
Each day ends blithesomely;
We wonder that such little feet
Can tread such paths of play;
We wonder at the LAUGHS that greet
The close of longest day.
He drags his precious plumber out
From cupboard full of toys,
And, with a gladstone, wholesome shout
He spends the day in noise;
We wonder at the scars he shows,
The scratches and the burns;
In wonder to his tattered clothes
His patient mother turns.
But most of all we wonder how
His eyes grow deeper blue,
And how his charming baby brow
Grows yet more fair and true;
We wonder how his smile wins more,
And cheeks show more of rose
And how new freckles still swarm Ger
That tiny, sunburned nose!
Denver Republican.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-07

be sixty-six to thirty-four per cent.
DR.. Eliot must be thinking of the pre-
diction, not of the actual accomplish
ment, for manufactured commodities
now somewhat exceed in value our ex-
port of agricultural products. We are
exporting each year relatively less of
"the richness of our Soil' and more of
tho product of our skilled labor
During the last fiscal year our ex-
ports of copper ore increased two mil
lions of dollars in value, but our ex-
ports of manufactures of copper in
creased ten millions.
Our exports of cotton increased in
quantity one and one half million
pounds, but decreased twenty nail
lions in value while our exports of cot
ton manufactures increased ten mil
lions.
There was very slight increase in
the export of iron ore, pig iron and
scrap iron, while the higher forms of
manufacture, the product of our
skilled labor, show a most notable
increase; wire rods for example, In
crea sing nearly three fold. Billets and
ingots increased nearly a million dol
lars, while sheets and plates increased
over twelve millions, and automobiles
certainly the product of skilled labor,
increased nine millions, or nearly one
hundred per cent, in one year. While
iron ore shows hardly any increase,
exports of manufactures of iron and
steel increased from 100000 900 to
$26S 900, 900.
Under our present tariff system we
are consuming relatively more of our
raw and crude products and export
ing more of the products of skilled la
Dor. exactly the opposite of what DR..
Eliot claims, and the conclusion to be
drawn from these facts is necessarily
just the reverse of the conclusion
which DR. Eliot draws.
The protective tariff policy should
be maintained and the Republican can
didates should be reelected.
~ 5i2f' zoe THOMAS o. MARVIN.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-07
Coming Events

Oct. 8-10-American Board of Commits
sioners for Foreign Missions, Portland.
Oct 9-10-Annual Meeting of Maine
State League of Postmasters of Third
and Fourth-class Offices at Portland.
Oct 11-12-Maine Musical Festival,
Oct, 14-1s-Maine Musical Festival,
Portland.
Oct. l6-1S-State Sunday School Con-
vention at Lewiston and Auburn.
Oct. 23-24-Centennial of Congregational
Church, South Paris.
Oct 23-4-5-Maine Teachers Associa-
ton, Portland, ,gr{yn b- .lff rs7...
Nov. l2-l4-Maine Pathological Annual
Meeting at Portland.
Maine Fair Dates q f
Oct. S-10-Sa gadahoc County Fair. Tops
ham. etu
Oct. 9-1O-Annual meeting of the Maine
State League of Postmasters of Third
and Fourth Glass Offices at Portland,
Maine.
Nov. 12-14-state Pathological. Port
land.
Nov. 2o-4-N. Z. Corn Exposition,
Dec. 4-s-Bangor Poultry Association.
Dec. 10-14-Main State Poultry AS
ISOLATION, Portland.
Dec. 1S-20-Freeport Poultry Assn,
Freeport.
Dec s1-Jan. 2-Western Maine Poultry
Show, Norway.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-07
Somewhat Pointed.
(Damariscotta Herald.)

Some animals, a cross between an
ape and lizard. threw eggs at the
rear guard of the Progressive process
sion last Thursday night. This q
favorite method of the vicious and
unwashed to express their feelings
towards what is honest. No Republi-
can or Democrat was guilty of such an
act A creature that does such things
is never enrolled with decent men.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-07

New York is soon to have the most
aristocratic garbage in the country
according to plans now being formu
lated by the Commissioner of Street
Cleaning, who proposes to have it
collected and transported by automo-
biles instead of the present day pie
bian carts and Flooding horses. While
using automobiles for the handling of
garbage would seem to be the joining
of two extremes, it is already planned
to install thirty-five machines for this
purpose to be followed by 165 more as
soon as possible thus giving the city a
force of 200 auto garbage cars. Large
trucks are to be used and as they will
cost about $4,000 each, the total outlay
for their installation will be about
$1,000,000. The points advanced in
favor of the motor driven garbage
cart are many For one thing, one
motor truck will hold as much as six
of the sort now drawn by Dobbin.
The time saved in going to the dump
and back will be about two thirds.
1t is figured too that one motor truck
can be operated at s12.55 less per day
than six horse carts. In the outlying
districts OF the Bronx and Brooklyn
the need for the swifter service is i'm
perative. incidentally it is believed
that the, changes will add to the com
fort of the garbage collector, since as
operators of automobiles they are
likely to occupy more important
place in the mind of the public than
they do as drivers of dump carts.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-07
We Can't Help Saying Il
Some weather, the past week.

The almighty dollar in the Standard
Oil and Tobacco trusts could not round
out its circuit of infamy as it is doing
were not most established newspapers
combined to defeat fair publicity
Lewiston Journal.
And the Steel trust. De not leave
out the Steel trust. Or the Harvester
trust.-Portland Press.
Leaving it to the self-confessed ter
ror to evil on the Andrescoggin to
know, we would respectfully inquire if
reference is made to the suppression of
news of pending labor difficulties fear
ing the last dollar of local laborers will
rot go into THE tills of trade adver
tisers; or, refusal to expose the devil
try of a local ice trust because of the
trustified onal1ioe-ehest? e-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-07

No notice whatever will be taken of
unsigned communications.
The Journal cannot be held RESPONSE
bic for the preservation or return Of
rejected communications.
Address all communications relating
to subscriptions and advertisements
TO BURLEIGH & FYLNT. Publish
ers. Augusta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-07

The metropolitan hotels having de-
cided to charge ten cents for the bread
and butter served with meals, Why
not also levy a nickel for the ice wa
ter?-Biddeford Record
One penny for toothpicks and anoth-
er for refolding the napkin?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-07

Error is always more busy
than ignorance Ignorance is a
blank sheet on which We may
write, but error is a scrubbed
one from which we must first
erase.-Colten. .tf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-07

4 Bread riots by the class that wears
diamonds and dress suits have now
begun to break out in the gilded din
ing salons of the hotels of New York
that have just fixed a charge of ten
cents for bread and butter with nap
kins and knives. Men and women
who habitually pay many dollars for
each meal are mobbing head walters
and cashiers with wild demands for
rebate of this tiny tax. 1t is where
champagne flows most freely and tips
come in greenbacks that the restaur-
ant men are finding the most red-h
rebellion against their denial of free
bread and butter. Though they de-
clare the new tax on living cost will
endure and be soon forgotten, the
hotel proprietors are passing uneasy
hours as they ponder the problem.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-07
AUGUSTA LODGE DIRECTORY
ROSE OF SHARON cHAprER MO.

10, o. e. S. stated meetings the first
Wednesday evening of each month at
100. All members sojourning In the city
are invited to attend.
ELIZABETH r. MERRILL. w. M.
ELIZABETH A. THOMPSON, Sec. 81
auP2S M W-f ~
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-07

The editor of the Kennebec Journal
informs us that he is not a candidate
for MIR. Pringle's job and seems to be
mad because we suggested it. Apollo
gies.---Portland Press.
The editor of the Press continues Sc
cure in his belief that he has the only
job in Maine that it wouldn't be pro-
fitable TO leave for little political
notoriety.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-07

Governor Marshall, Candidate Will
sons running mate, said in st. Louis
the other day. Il am only the tail of
the Democratic kite. If the kite can
go up without the tail. and l can be
left behind, shall be satisfied" If
Mr.. Marshall doesn't know any more
about politics than he seems to know
about kites, he isn't fit for the office
to which he aspires. Any seven-year-
old boy ought to know that a kite
can't go up unless it has the proper
kind of tail.-Bddeford Journal.
That's the best thing Wilson does
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-07

Meetings at 73O O'Clock every second and
fourth Tuesday.
c. f. STEWART, Scribe.