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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-13

How sharper than serpents tooth II
is. Ia have sent out a thankless editor to
another paper! Look at the way our
Gus" bangs away at us on ms new
plaything the Biddeford Record. Well,
that shows what 1t does 10 a man TO pe-
come Democrat-and booze trust sup
porter. at that-Kennebec Journal
Doesn't that last sentence verge Just a
trine upon what the rhetorlcians call
tautology ?-Biddeford Journal.
We do not think so. Some OF the most
earnest temperance men we know, men
who hate the traffic and despise the
makers and sellers of intoxicants, are
free trade Democrats.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-13
Agricultural Help
Seed Testing

| At this time of the year the question
of where to get good seed should bt
considered and carefully looked into by
every farmer in the State of Maine
The value of good seed can not be
over estimated 1t means dollars t.
the farmer that has it, Get it.
Winle there are many points to be
considered in good seed, two of the
most important are purity and vitality
or ability to grow. The question of
purity does not need. at the present
time much Consideration when buying
of the commercial seed dealers. as the
Experiment Station Under the able di-
rectien of DR.. Woods is inforcing the
law regarding the purity of cultivated
seeds.
AS there is no law regarding the
termination percentage of seeds it is
not given by any of the seed dealers of
the State, or If it is | have failed to
meet those dealers. / called on one
dealer not long ago and on inquiring
if he had the termination percentage.
he simply said. THE law does not re-
quire it." The law ought to require it,
but as it does not. every farmer should
demand it and refuse to buy of those
men who will not guarantee the ger
mination percentage.
The value of testing seed to find out
the termination percentage or vitality
of the seed is this. If the seed will
not grow it must not be planted.
When I suggested to the seed dealer
that he ought to have the termination
percentage he said that IT was of no
value. He stated that seed would grow
in the test boxes that would not grow
in the fields and thus nothing definite
could be done. That is doubtless true
to some extent. but this is certain, if
the seed will not grow in the test box
it will not grow in the field.
To illustrate the value of these ger
mination tests, I will quote a para
graph from Cornell University Circu
lar:
I'm the spring of 1905, the Agriculture
al Department of the Iowa State Col
lege secured 90 samples from corn
that was actually being planted, that
is the samples were taken from either
the corn planter or the bags of corn
seed in the field. These samples were
planted by hand. 3 kernels per hill. and
treated alike in every respect. The eX-
pertinent was repeated three times to
be sure that no error was made. The
following table gives the yield per acre
of the six highest yielding samples and
also of the six lowest Welding samples:
SIX HIGHEST YIELDING SAMPLES
Bushels
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-13
Mt. Pleasant Grange.

Mt. Pleasant Grange of West Rock
port held its regular day session, Jan.
3. After the routine business was dis
posed of and bountiful dinner en-
joyed the installation of officers was
taken up e. T. Clifford Of Winthrop,
Me, acted as installing officer. assist
ed by Brother and Sister Payson of
Mt. Pleasant Grange. Brother Clifford
performed his work in pleasing
manner without book or prompting.
after which he and others gave good
talks on different subjects. Brother
Payson leading with his theme on
the high cost of living proved con-
clusively that with the great increase
of consumers over that of producers,
prices must go higher and starvation
in the near future imminent.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-13

week. on Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday next the postal service
will be curtailed. Some of the collec-
tions and deliveries of letters will be
suspended, many of the suboffices will
be closed at noon, and a number will
be closed at noon on Tuesday. Wednes-
day. Thursday and Friday. The cor
poration free library and the cooper
atjve libraries will not be opened dur
ing the wakes, and many other estab-
lishments will be closed for the same
period -Manchester Guardian
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-13

the State Department Of Agriculture
stands ready and willing to test any
seed the farmers choose to SEND in.
Send in n sample that is representa-
tive of the whole lot. The sooner the
sample is tested the better. BY the mic
die of February all of these samples
should be in.
If corn on the cob is to be tested, the
whole ear can be sent in or six kernels
from each ear sent in in a numbered
envelope.
Direct all samples to
AUSTIN w. JONES,
Field Agent,
Plant and Seed Improvement,
Augusta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-13
SWEARING. and PRETENDING.

The New York Sun recently pub
Iished characteristic editorial on the
evils of swearing. 1t began by re-
ferring to a Chicago Boys Club in
which has been formed an antf-swear
branch. The Sun says: 1.-The direc-
tor says that the society has had a
wonderful effect on the entire neigh-
borhood He sonsss wishes thai !, SINH i.
lar associations cphld he : FORMED
among the girls who. ii Ii distressing
to hear often use 4language worse
than the boys, to do that must require
positive genius
After comforting distinction upon
New York's capabilities as follows:
A distinction of New York profanity,
perhaps of American profanity, is the
unblushing and apparently uncon-
scious use of it on the. street, in cars,
IN public places. by well dressed and
prosperous men. In no other coun-
try, so far as we know, does a person
calling himself a gentleman swear in
public The Sun goes on:
Perhaps there is no cure for the care.
less or vulgar or merely unself- controlled
persons VINO eject oaths in public: the
suHerings of women from this ..coa rss
expectoration of speech must be aeuts
ana almost continual: the more impera.
i've the need to train the children "a
cream speech: Some reformed heetoring
ana curslng fellows tell us that they have
mad much help from substitution of tht
miidest for the old strong, rank, sulphur.
Gus sort OF exclamation They find JUS
as mu .hla relief. and without trespassna
tracts from THE Dictionary of Profani
as My gracious "Godfrey's cor
wal Waikar .fitch. tar and ttFpentfpa.'' .''san
Tare-and- Teddy" and Joe Canton
After all, then, it isn't what is said
but the way of saying it. that counts
We have heard big, strong men ex.
claim; "Sakes and Patience.' ant
others explode "blastunation," and one
other befog large areas Of atmosphere
with: 'Penrose- Hale Burleigh', and
Armageddon, Damascus and Jericho
and "stolen emblem OF political plum.
dere,
1t is all the same-oniy necessary to
convince ones self that he is perpe.
trating defiance of Righteousness and
decency. whether ii be in. the form OF
an outspoken lie or the slamming o!
a door; the malice expressed is ALL
One of the most profane men We ever
eamped in the woods with declared
that il was not wicked for him to
swear. because he blew it out without
thinking: but he was convinced that
another member of the party. who was
always cool and suava andssaidb soft
cutting things, was ON the way to
hot place. ~ 's'is
Aside from the annoyance to others
perhaps, after all, the wickedness OF
the explosion may be found in the
bitterness of the spirit that forged it
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-13
TRINITY coMMANpERY. NO.

X. T. Stated conclave at Masonic Tenn
pie. Friday evening. All sojourning fra
tiers are cordially invited to ATTEND. ~
MELVILLE Il. fSAWTELI.E, l. c.
THOS LII lRODGE Rncnrder.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-13
Maine Gossip
Mothers Cooking.

She ne'er took domestic science and she S
rather short on style,
But she can cook dinner that would
make an Indian smile;
Plain old cooking. nothing fancy, but it 5
honest through and through,
And you'll find no shams abiding to
come hooking back at you.
She ne'er took domestic science and she
doesn't need the same,
She learned hers In n kitchen, and she
knows the little game
Learned IL in a country kitchen where
the best is always made,
And she scorns the foolish fripperies that
the college cooks parade.
She's a pupil of experience and she GER
tainly IL a cook,
She doesn't have to follow what's been
written in a book;
She knows each little crook and turn
she never makes a test,
But the cooking she produces Is the
kind that's ranked as best
When you've tried all sorts of places.
when you're sick of what they give,
When you know the pleasures vanished
and you only eat TO live;
You just go until you're hungry, then
you'll want real food to eat
And you'll bank on mothers cooking,
for you know it can't be beat.
Salppta6
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-13
Litohfield Grange.

Iitchfield Grange held an all day
meeting, Jan. 4. and with Mr.. Foster
of Gushing Grange, in charge, Installed
officers. Interesting remarks were
made by the past master and also by
Prof Elwyn Allen, Mr.. Clarence
Washburn and others.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-13
CAMBRIDGE Granqe.

Installation of officers of Cambridge
Grange, Saturday night, Jan. 4. The bad
travelling and a few other excuses kept
some from being present There were
90 members present. two visitors. The
installing was by past master. S. C.
Ham.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-13

1t has always been considered that
our grandmothers who often had to
drive away wild animals from their
forest homes, We're wonderful women
Yet two Lubee girls showed last week
that they were made of the same ma
terial as our ancestors, says the Lubec
Herald. Minnie Matthews and Mil
bred Goodell were visiting al Char
otte. when they took walk to 81
nearby stream accompanied by little
dog. Hearing him bark eXeitedly,
they went in his direction and soon
found him engaged in a desperate
struggle with a large black animal,
which was getting the best of the
fight. Both girls seized an edging
and rushed TO the dogs assistance,
With several good blows they dis
patched the animal, which proved af-
ter they dragged it home to be a four
foot otter, one of the finest specimens
seen in that section for years, and
worth $50.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-13
ROSE OF SHARON CHAPTER, NO.

10, o. e. S. Stated meetings the first
Wednesday evening of each month at
$50. All members fouTping ~. the city
are invited to attend.
ELIZABETH. n. THoMH~QN See
pug2S m, WITH %&EsTEs Sx.s1 Il "a
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-13
ODD FELLOWS ttALL. s
ASYLUM LODGE NO. 70 REGULAR

meeting Friday evening at 100 O'clock
Friday evening, Jan. IL work In Secoao
degree.
JOHN c. HOWES. N. a.
Il. +. WESTON, Sec. n
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-13
JEpHTHA ENCOURAGEMENT, /

deetings at 730 o'clock every second =
fourth Tuesday. Tuesday, jan IA.
In Patriarchal degree. 60
c. E. STEWARXs
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-13
Comet Granue.

The officers of Comet Grange, Swan
Vile. will be installed Jan. 20. A class
of three is taking the degrees.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-13

Hunters in the town of Weld say
that there is a black fox in that Sec
ton that bears charmed life, for
shot after shot has been fired at ths
glistenng black beauty and he yet
runs at large. The fox, which is said
to have particularly handsome skin,
has been seen and shot at a number
of times by local hunters, including
Guy Sampson and Carl Masterman.
Centre Hill is a fayorite haunt
for Reynard and it is there that
many of the best known fox hunters
of. the town are spending much of
their time in the hope of getting
shot at the black fellow, whose skin
is estimated to be worth anywhere
from $500 to $1,000. The fox, accord
ing to those who have seen him, APP
pears to be of larger size than usual.
There is great rivalry among the
hunters as to who will bring down the
valuable trophy
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-13
cusHNoc CHAPTER, r. A. M, NO.

A. Special convocation at Masonic Tenn
pie. Thursday evening Jan. 49, Work in
Royal Arch degree. Refreshments. All
sojourning companions are cordially in
vited to attend
ALBERT T.. FOLSOM, H. Z.
THOS. II. BODICE, Sec. ID
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-13
AUGUSTA LODGE DIRECTORY
BETHLEHEM LODGE. NO. IS. r. 4

A. NJ. Special communication, Monday
Jan. IL, 7.30 +. NJ. Work in VI. NJ de-
gree. Refreshments. All soiourninS
brethren are cordially invited to attend.
CHESTER $. KINGSLEY, w NJ
PEA Ri Il. FULLER. Secretary. IL
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-13
r. 3. cAPEN REHEkAA LoE

81 I. O q. F. Meets End snd ~
day evenings at 7.30 O'CLOCK
NELLIE p. RAQKfLI
SADIE E. METCAIsGyl & 49,
Yffchyk m w 4 INt " - ~
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-13

CANTON AUGUSTA, N6. 6
Regular meeting every t1fyd Tt
5 o'clock. & 90
y. 2. SET gEGi y :
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-13
Average

The difference in the average yield
of the six highest and six lowest yield
ing samples is 41.9 bushels per acre,
while between sample No. A and sam
pie 50, there is a difference of ~ bushels
Der acre. "This great difference, says
Pref sssor Holden. was due largely to
the difference in the vitality of tho
seed, as in every case the low yield
ing samples had given poor stand :"
In the case of corn an average in
crease of 41.9 bushels per acre is sut-
ficient reason for testing this seed.
While the comparative value of test
ing seed may not be so great with
the other grains. and grass and clover
seed. there is no question that seed
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-13

Archie Richard, who lives on Treat
and Webster island, states an Old
Town dispatch, narrowly escaped
drowning in the Penobscot river, with
his wife and children looking on and
helpless to save him, on Tuesday eve,
ming. Mr.. Richard works in the
Water street box mill of the Jordan
Lumber Co, and after finishing work
at the close of the afternoon, started
out as he has been doing, to cross the
ice to his island home, only a few rods
distant but across a treacherous
stretch of ice, which in mild weather
wears thin very rapidly. With the
new snow on it, the thin places were
not easily detected and with Mrs.
Richard and the children looking
eagerly from the window for his
homecoming. he dropped through the
ice and out of sight, before their
startled vision. The current here is
very swift but he came up through
the hole his body had made and
seized the edge of the ice. BY one
of those freaks which the swiftest of
current will take at times, the water
twisted his body suddenly, so that he
was able to roll completely out of the
water and on to the firmer ice, where
he rose to his feet and ran as swiftly
as his wet clothing would allow to his
home, where it became the most joy
full homecoming ever Witnessed in that
little home.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-13

+ According To the Kingfield cor
respondent of the Franklin Journal.
20. C. Dolbier of Franklin realized q
good profit from his cows and hens
during the year just ended. Mr..
Dolbier kept four cows, from which
he made 1110A pounds of butter,
sold $3.50 worth of new milk and
cream, brought up two veal calves
and furnished a family of six with
milk and cream, cream being used
almost entirely in the cooking in
place of other shortening. At the
beginning of the year Mr.. Dolbier
had so hens. He now has 104, hav-
ing sold this fall poultry-2yea old
hens and roosters-amounting to
S22.50. The number of eggs pro-
duced during the year was 1918.
making a profit of one dollar per hen
above the cost of keeping.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-13
How to Run a Test.

How to Run Test.
To test seed corn of any kind. take a
box about two by three feet and fill it
with moist sand or saWdust to 4 depth
of two inches. Take an ordinary piece
of cotton cloth and mark it eff into
squares two inches square. Number
the squares and tack the cloth closely
down over the sawdusti Number the
cars of corn that you are going to test
and have square for each ear Of corn
Take six kernels from each ear of
corn ana nlacc them in the square
which has the same number as the ear
of corn. Take the kernels from the
tip. middle and but of the ear. Three
from one side and three from the other.
After the kernels are placed on their
respective squares, put moist cloth
over them being careful not to disturb
them. Tuck it down well around the
edges and at the corners. Place the
box where it will nave a moderate tenn
perature most of the time ana where
the temperature will never drop belo"
freezing. The kitchen is a very good
place.
In the next four or seven days the
seed ought TO terminate sufficiently to
make clear distinction between the
strong and weak kernels. No ear should
be used for seed if all six kernels did
not terminate. Neither is it advisable
to use an ear that has more than one
weak kernel in the termination test.
Small Grains.
When corn off the cob or small grains
are bought it is most essential to
test the seed especially after poor
season.
This is best done by taking hum
dred kernels Of the seed to be tested
and either terminate them in the box
the same as the corn or else use a soup
plate Lay moist cloth on Inc Dot
tom of the plate: then fold the other
half of the cloth over the seeds or else
put a separate cloth over them. Have
beth the top and bottom cloths moist
and keep them so during the whole
of the test. Put a plate or piece OF
glass or wood over the top but not
touching the seeds 50 that the cloths
will not dry out too fast. Keep the tenn
perature the same as before
At the end of five or six DAYS count
the seeds that have terminated. III 81
out of 100 have not terminated IN that
time the seed should not be grown. 1t
will not pay to plant that seed.
Better seed than this can be OBTAIN
ed and it is for your benefit to look
around and find it, After you hnd IL
and are sure it is all right, buy It,
Some of the more unscrupulous seed
| dealers will put last years seed INTO
this years goods in order TO get ria OF
it, II you insist on a termination test
they can not do this
1t pays to test, if you can not DO II
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-13

A short time ago North End
lady missed her cat, says the Bath
Times, and a search of the house and
neighborhood failed TO locate the
pet. Just a week later her husband
again opened his toel box and there
was the cat. Evidently the cat had
crawled in there week previous
when the box was opened, and al
though there week, was alive, and
after being tenderly cared for i'm
proved rapidly but still shows the eff
fects of the long imprisonment.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-13

Notices have appeared lately in
print of robins having been seen. Is
there not some mistake in the bird?
1t is quite usual to see the rose
breasted grosbeak in the winter, which
some report as a robin. 1t is little
more pulmp and is larger than the
robin, but not so long. 1t may be
seen singly or in a group of a few. Its
pretty read breast often deceives peo-
pie as to its name.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1913-06-21
Commissioners Sale of
Land.

BY virtue of decree rendered on the 10Th dav
of MAY, A. D. 1913, by the Chancery Court OF
Hancock county, Mississippi, in case No. I7il. of
the general docket of said county wherein E.
Davis ct al who sues by their next friend, com
plainants, and Pauline Davis, defendant the an
dersigned Special Commissioner will on MON
DAY, THE TTH DAY OF JULY, A. D. 1913
the same being the first Monday OF said month
cell at public outcry to the highest bidder for
cash, before the front door OF the courthouse OF
said county, in the city Of Bay st. Louis, Miss
within legal hours, the land lying and being In
the city of Bay st. Louis, county of Hancock
and State of Mississippi, and which land Is des-
stake set on the south line OF Main street. at the
northwest corner or the lot OF land now Claimed
by Mrs. Mary r. Diettel from thence on
course north 10 degrees west along the south
line of Main street. 100 feet to a stake: from
thence on course south 20 degrees west 2O0 feer
more or less to the line deViding this line from
land formerly claimed by John V. Toulme now
Mrs. E. Davis, from thence on course south "a
degrees east along said dividing line 100 feet 70
the southwest corner of lot of land now claim
ed by Mrs. r. Diettel; from thence on q course
north 20 degrees east zoo feet more or less to 8
stake set at the place OF beginning, Bounded
north by Main street, east by land of Mary
Diettel, south by land formerly owned hy John
v. Touime, now claimed by Sylvia Toulrne and
others and Mary E. Davis, west by land OF Jos
F. Cazeneuve, being lot measuring so feet
homestead lot of Louis Laurent and the lot of
land herein described, being the sams land &C
quired by Henry III. Davis from Joseph f. tIazr...
neuye on the 4th day of June, 1893.
This the 10Th day of May, A. L.. laia
Witnessed my hand and oficis.. seal this the n
Seal day OF May, A. D. 1918.
A. A. KERGOSIEN, Special Commissioner.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1913-06-21
A COURT OF JUSTICE.

Kansas has a new debtors court"
which promises to be a model for the
country in that it will reduce the cost of
justice to the poor people. In this court
no claim will be entertained which
amounts to more than $40. The plain
tiff is not permitted to have lawyer.
Instead she or he must come in simply
and tell the Judge "all about it." The
Judge will ask no questions. He may
reach out after the defendant and may
even summon witnesses. More than
that, he may adjourn court, put on his
hat and go out and investigate the situa-
ton in person. Similar courts are in
operation in Germany, and they ought
to work here. There is vast deal of
petty injustice in the world which arises
from the fact there is no machinery save
very expensive machinery for collect
ing small accounts and settling petty,
but important, obligations Picayune.