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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-01-12

out of which meat for our growing
millions can be made.
Exploration has only begun to fol-
low the tracks of the men who seized
upon the potato, the maize plant, the
tobacco plant, and the turkey. We
have just reached the era of the Elk
plorer of the Common Good.
can conceive no nobler task. The
man who, like Roosevelt in South
America, penetrates some tangled
jungle to kill game, and to map the
unknown, has a good time, adds to
our knowledge, land shows courage.
But how much greater is the work, of
Nils p. Hansen of South Dakota,
who spends years in Siberia, Outer
Mongolia, or Eastern Turkestan, fac
ing all the dangers of exploration,
and seeking only to find and bring
away plants which will benefit the
world. st s.
He has made more than one trip
to Asia on these splendid pilgrimages
to the shrine of nature. Roosevelt
came home from Africa with tons of
skeletons and hides; but Hansen has
just returned from Siberia with
what?-a load or two of lhayseed!
To be more exact, he has brought
out Of those wilds nearly two tons of
the seeds of the wild alfalfas. He
also has a new species of sweet
clover, some white seeded millet,
some Monaghan grass, some Chez
grass, several hardy fruits, and
various other things which he thinks
may adapt themselves to the .condi-
tons in South Dakota and other
western states.
Suppose he finds a variety of al
falfa which will flourish in the arid
plains of our west-or any other
plant which will become as staple
there as Indian corn now is in Aus
tralia or South Africa? viii this trip
not be worthy Of mention among the
great eXD1OratiOnS of the world
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-01-12
HANSEN, WHO EXPLORES FOR COMMON GOOD,
GREATER THAN ALL EXPLORERS

HNEA En- i TAN
BY HI RBERT QUICK
Copyright, 1918, by the Newspaper
Enterprise Association.)
We are apt to think that the world
has been pretty well explored, but
as a matter of fact most of our ex-
ploring in the past has been of rather
small account.
A Stanley works his way across
Africa, muses. up community of
poor savages who do not like his
looks, establishes the fact that river
basin is different from the popular
notion of it. and dies famous.
A Columbus, Cortez, or Pizarro
uncovers a continent, or discovers a
land rich in gold and silver, and takes
a place in the Hall of Fame.
But not/an the gold America has
given to the world is of any conse-
quence compared with its gifts of
maize, potatoes, turkeys and tobacco.
The real discoveTer of America is
the man who seized and took to the
farms of the world that greatest OF
all plants, the Indian corn; and his
rival for immortality is the person
who saw the utility Of the potato.
Centuries ago the Spanish Con-
uuistadores seeking more gold, and
more Indians to enslave, explored
California, Arizona, New Mexico, and
even Kansas and Texas. They left
some broken-down horses, from
which our breed of bronchos has de-
scended. But the greatest deed of
all they did without intending it:
They scattered the seed of alfalfa.
From this accidental seeding has
come all the alfalfa which now en-
riches an area greater than Mexico.
The greatest forage plants in the
world are alfalfa and corn; and the
greatest task of the day is to marry
alfalfa to corn on every farm which |
II, &c tho solution L
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-03
NO. 7-PROSPECT

surprises me. A German asks me in
French: How are your
II showed him the place where
am wounded.
'Reassure yourself he says That
will perhaps amount to nothing. In
any case you will get we'll.
Il learn that they are from Lorraine,
which is lucky. They are clad in grey
which makes them almost invisible in
war I speak of this to them. They
answer:
Indeed with your red trousers we
can see you long distance. You make
superb targetsn'
The Germans went on their way,
promising to return to look for me as
well as others who like myself lay on
the battle field. take hope. It seems
good to be alive, although I am in
sorry plight.
1.-THE hours pass; night arrives. It
still rains. Day breaks. No one;
neither stretcher bearer nor my Lor-
raines of the day before. 1t is not
until four o'clock in the afternoon of
the second day that the Germans come
back. / have passed 81 hours in re-
Election in the rain, with a wound
which caused me much suffering.
1.-THE Germans put me on a canvas
with two pieces of wood at either end.
They carry me to hamlet, about
kilometer and a half distant, and
stretch me out there in the open air,
still in the rain. but on firmer ground.
Then they go back to search for 9TH
ers They bring back thus 700 or 500
wounded, of whom 400 are French.
81 am soaked. | am famished. l
MUNICH with joy a bit of army biscuit
which / find delicious. Upon my urgent
entreaty, a German consents to give
me glass of wine from his flask
which he has just filled. / thank him.
That warns me. The German is go
ing away, when he changes his mind
and demands payment for his glass
Of wine. I iabber little German. l
understand and give him ten sou
piece, the only money I have left. He
takes himself off content.
Some German officers come to talk
to u.s. One of them says to me:
"It is your governments fault that
you are here
"They all speak French. note the
remarks of this officer because it ap-
pears to me to indicate curious mem
tally.
1.-THE third day of this calvary, they
put us in barn on the hay. We have
as vet received no care. beg the
Germans to take off my clothes.
have been able to snare blanket
which happens to be there. I don't
know to whom it belongs, but necessi-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-03
REMOVE TAX ON
PURE ALCOHOLS
So That We Can Compete with
Germans After the War and
Will Start Manufactures of
Many High-priced and Much
needed Articles, Say English
Manufacturers

Correspondence Associated Press1
London, Oct. 2O-To the English
practice Of considering alcohol as a
beverage instead of chemical, which
is also true of the United States. is
attributed Germanys almost exclusive
trade in fine chemicals for use in med
lclne and the arts. English chemical
manufacturers are therefore trying TO
induce the government to take off the
tax on alcohol which now amounts to
So or more the gallon according to
strength.
Although a protective nation, IL is
pointed out that Germany has had at
its command an unlimited supply of
duty and tax free alcohol. Its legis-
lators realized the Importance of alco-
hol to the trade in commercial chem
icals, and have not believed that cheap
alcohol has any thing to do with the
temperance question.
Denatured alcohol, which is made
undrinkable through the mixture of
poisons at the expense of Is cents the
gallon, is relieved of tax in Great
Britain. But impure alcohol cannot
be used in the making of fine chemi-
calls.
Alcohol plays an important part In
the making of almost every chemical
directly or indirectly. 1t is most use
full as a solvent for extracting active
principles from plants and in purify
ing them, but from the commercial
point of view it is quite as important
in working up waste materials into
by-products, on which successful man.
ufacturing largely depends these
days
Owing to the excessive tax on pure
alcohol, England ceased to manufac-
ture cocaine, which ewing to the war,
has advanced from four shillings to
ten shillings announce. salicylic
acid and sahcylate of soda have in
creased proportionately. Thymol is
but one of the articles which have
jumped from shillings to As the
pound. or whereabouts.
The government has endeavored to
save these important drugs for British
use by prohibiting their export But
the supply is limited. British manu-
facturers will not undertake their
production because they see their bus
mess gone when the war ends. They
say that if they are to equip special
plants they must be able to meet Ger
man competition in the future. and
they cannot do this unless the tax is
taken off of pure alcohol for CONNER
eial Use.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-03
HAVE You The HAIR OF A
MUSICIAN?

Bald or thin-haired musicians an
unknown. This same may be said d
actors. The reason Is that constarI
appearance before the public mako
constant care of appearance a habiI
And constant care of hair insures
heavy, attractive growth. In cleansin|
the hair it is not advisable to use
makeshift but always use a preparsJ
ton made for shampooing only. Vol
can enjoy the best that is known I'D
about three cents shampoo by ged
ting a package of canthrox from you
druggist; dissolve a teaspoonful in
cup of hot water and your shampoo
ready After it's use the hair drid
rapidly with uniform color. Dandru(
excess oil and Dirt are dissolved am
entirely disappear. Your hair will \
so fluffy that 1t will look much heavid
than it is. Its lustre and softness Wi
also delight you, while the stimulate
scalp gains the health which insurd
hair growth.-Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-03
Quick Rebuke for Firm
Advertising War Donation
and Discharging Employees

ASSOCIATED Press Correspondence
London, Oct. 31.-One of Lonoon S
great department stores has removed
from its windows it's royal patronage
signs. This is said to be due to
royal rebuke
This store, where Queen Alexandra
has heretofore done her shopping, sent
a check for 10000 to the Price of
Wales fund. So large a donation
might well be put to the credit of it's
advertising account in view of the
publicity given it.
However. the managers Of the Wales
fund discovered that the store dis
missed half of it's staff, so that the
donation came really not from the
firm but from its unfortunate dis
charged employees. Whereupon the
check was sent back and the royal
patronage taken from the firm.
The problem in England is to avoid
pauperizing the unemployed. The bur-
cen placed on private charity is all
that it can stand. Both in the case of
the Prince of Wales and of Queen
Mary's fund, the principle is to pro-
vide employment rather than to make
doles to the idle. While some indus
tries have received an artificial slim
ulIs through the war, others have
been forced to close. 1t is the aim of
the royal family to induce employers
to keep their business going even at
a loss, rather than to discharge hands
and soothe their consciences by Civ
ing to charities which their own ac-
tions have made necessary.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-03

~ stiles scruples. They are quite
willing to do what | have asked. My
coat, my water-soaked trousers, which
were little less than packages of mud,
are removed. My falling shoes, my
under drawers and socks follow the
same route. My feet and my wound
make me suffer l take out my little
pocket scissors. / cut my shirt and
flannel belt free of my wound which
| have not seen. 1t is distressingly
long, but rothing astonishes me any
longer after what I have seen. I
make. as good as it is bad, dressing
out of the first aid things in my pouch
Then l roll myself up in my blanket.
have no longer anything military ex-
cept my cap and I am almost naked.
Fortunately my Jersey keeps me
warm. This operation completed /
feel a great relief
from the French. Some hours after
they bring in the sanitary service Of
the 203rd which has been taken pris-
oncr. The French doctors get to work
with first dressings. They make one
for me with tincture of iodine. But at
the moment they are going to put on
the bandage, the Germans take away
the French doctors and the wounded
Germans. We, in our turn, are trans
ferred to Libecourt.
I'VE are now at the end of the
fourth day of this exercise. They have
warned us that we are prisoners. To-
night we learn that the Prussians are
retreating. What is going to happen?
Will they take us along or leave us to
ourselves? For there are not Lor-
raines only in the German army. All
night the troops march under our
window One hears the noise of tramp
ing feet and gutteral commands.
Outside of this dream of internal
horror which / have had for eight
days, l am highly hopeful for the fin
al results of the war, because l am
able to prove one thing, which has
greatly surprised me, l confess. That
is that the replenishing of supplies
and ammunition is marvellous. We
have never lacked bread, nor meat
nor cartridges a single day. The SER
vice is marvelously organized. 1t Is
one of the great successes of this
war. 1t is not as in 1870.
II have at last slept and in a bed.
I have no fever. Only in my sleep do
I dream that they are transferring me
and that it rains. But this little hal
lucination is disappearing.
IT embrace you with all my heart"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-03
GERMANY IS PROUD
OF RAISING $780,
100000 WAR FUND

berlin, Oct. 2o-(Correspondence of the
Associated Press. 1.-The raising of ST.
05o, 100000 by the German Government in
a single operation is commented upon by
the German press and by the press of
number of neutral countries as remark
able evidence of Germanys financial
power, DR.. Karl Helfferich. one of the
directors of the Deutsche Bank, who
discusses the loan in a bankers publica-
ton, points out that this is the largest
financial transaction that the world has
ever seen. The nearest approach to it
was the indemnity of 81 900, 100000 paid by
France to Germany after the Franco
Prussian war: but that sum was raised in
two separate loans and the payments on
them extended to two and a half years.
France had the help of foreign countries
in raising the war indemnity, while Ger
many did not ask for any foreign sub
scriptions and is raising the huge sum
already mentioned wholly out of it's own
resources. Furthermore, Helfferich
shows that the subscriptions to the Ger
man loan all represent bona fide tran
sactions for the full amount of each ten
der is to be paid in before the end of the
year. After the loan shall have been
fully paid in, says Helfferich, Germany
will have money enough on hand to pay
its war expenses into next spring.
Helfferich finds that the marked sue
cess of the German loan had three
causes. First, Germany has far out
stripped England and France in the crea-
ton of wealth during the past few de-
cades; secondly, Germany is incompara-
bly, better organized. financially and in
a general business way. than its enemies;
and thirdly, the German people are show
ing more self-sacrificing spirit in this
war than the other countries. AS illus
trative of the last point, he says that
three~fourths of the persons subscribing
for the loan were able to take only
amounts of $500 and less. This means
that there were some 100000 of these
small subscribers. This army of petty
capitalists strikes Helfferich as being
fully as impressive as the success of the
loan itself
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-03

transport. Their training is precise
ly that of the infantryman, and their
fighting will be in naval landing par
ties.
After preliminary training on the
exhibition grounds, the men will be
sent to coast stations for the finishins
touches.
The naval brigade faring so badly
at Antwerp was composed partly of
marines and partly of men rated as
seamen, among whom were large
number of recruits such as may be
found at Crystal Palace.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-03
5000 MEN TRAINING
IN CRYSTAL PALACE

London, Oct. 2o.-Crystal Palace is
now a training quarters for the naval
division Of Lord Kitcheners new
army with 5000 men in camp, who
may be called to the same duty as
that of the British naval brigade in
the much criticized operations at Ant
werp.
The men of the naval division dress
as sailors in blue sailor blouse and
f1aring trousers. They also swing
into hammocks at night instead OF
sleeping on mattresses. But at this
point they cease to be sailors, and it
is doubtful whether they will ever
walk the deck Of ship, unless of a
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-03
If BILIOUS, SICK
OR CONSTIPATED|
TAKE CASCARET@
No headache, bad cold
sour stomach or cos
tive bowels by morn
ing.
Get a 10-cent box now.

Get a 10-cent box now.
You're bilious, You have a throl
bling sensation in your head, a I'D
taste in your mouth, your eyes alrI
your skin is yellow, with dark RIM
under your eyes; your lips are parche|
No wonder you feel ugly, mean and II
tempered. Your system is full of BID
not properly passed off. and what I'd
need is a cleaning up inside. Dorj
continue being a bilious nuisance
yourself and those who love you, au
don't resort to harsh physics that irr|
tate and injure. Remember that mol
disorders of the stomach, liver an
bowels are cured by morning with gel
tie, thorough Cascarets-they woi
while you sleep. A 10-cent box froI
your druggist will keep your liver an
bowels clean; stomach sweet, and yoj
head clear for months. Children loj
to take Cascarets because they tas|
good and never grippe or sicken-Ad|
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DEATH OF REV. STEPHEN
L. BOWLER OF BANGOR

Bangor, Me-, Nov. Rev. Stephen
Longfellow Bowler died at his home
here Sunday night after an illness of
about 10 days. He is survived by his
son, Frank c. Bowler, chief engineer of
the Great Northern Paper Company at
Millinoccket.
Rev. Mr. Bowler was the oldest
graduate of Colby College and was
prominent in the work of the Chris
tian Commission during the Civil War.
He was in his 95th year.
Stephen L. Bowler was born in
Palermo, July 26. 1920, fitted himself
for college and graduated from Water
Vile College, now Colby, in 1s47, as
valedictorian. He taught school for a
year in Bangor and deciding upon
medicine as his profession, studied
with DIR. McRuer Of Bangor and later
entered the medical department of
Harvard University.
He entered the Bangor Theological
Seminary and graduated in the class
of 1852. He was ordained shortly
after graduation, his first charge be-
ing in Machias, followed by eight
years in Orono, where he married Au-
gusta ]. Colburn.
In 1863 he began services for the
Army of the Potomac under the aus
pees of the Christian Commission.
and was soon made supervisor of the
work of hundreds of delegates AMI
helpers. He was at the headquarters
of the commission in Washington for
two years, and then detached for rails
ing funds in Maine, organizing the
State and instructing committees.
Through his efforts thousands of dol
lars were raised for the commission.
AT the close of the war Mr.. Bowler
furnished much of the material for a
book Of $50 pages. THE Annals of the
United States Christian Commission"
During the war Mr.. Bowler frequently
preached to the soldiers and was re-
ferred to as the preacher with the live
pulpit, as he often spoke from the
back of his spirited horse.
Mr.. Bowler held several pastorates
in Maine, and was for a time in Ber-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-03
OUCH! LUMBAGO?
Try MusteroIe. See How Quick
Il Relieves.

You just rub MUSTEROLE
briskly. and usually the pain is gone
a delicious, soothing comfort comes
take it's place.
MUSTEROLE is "a clean, white oint
ment, made with oil of mustard. IA
it instead of mustard plaster. WI
not blister.
Doctors and nurses use MUSTEH
OLE and recommend it to their pa
tents.
They will gladly tell you what I'D
lief it gives from Sore Throat, Bron
chitis, Group, Stiff Neck, Asthm|
Neuralgia, Congestion, Pleuris|
rheumatism, Lumbago, Pains an
Aches of the Back or Joints, Sprain|
Sore Muscles, Bruises. Chilblain|
Frosted Feet, Colds of the Chest q
often prevents Pneumonia).
At your druggists, in csc. and sol
Jars. and a special large hospital sid
for $3.50.
Be sure You get the genuine MUS
TEROLE Refuse limitations - Cd
what you ask for. The Mustered
Company, Cleveland, Ohio.
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LETTER FROM A
WOUNDED FRENCH
SOLDIER ON FIELD
His Bravery as Well as
Terrible Condition
and Sufferings Shown
in Every Word and
Between the Lines
Press Correspond

ASSOCIATED Press Correspondence
Paris, Oct. 20-These extracts from
the letter of an unnamed French sold
Ter to his father in Paris are publish
ed by the Figaro:
Wounded in the stomach about 6
o'clock in the morning, l am left in
the rain and in mud so deep that
am obliged to lean on my elbows to
keep my head out of it.
1.-The battle continues to rage. am
between the two camps, and, without
exaggeration, more than 100000 bull
let's pass over me. Some struck at my
sides and | expect each moment to
receive one which will cut short the
spectacle. ] remain thus helpless from
six in the morning until four the next
afternoon and the rain does not stop.
1t is then that / appreciate the need
of an umbrella, / who never carried
one. l unbutton my coat, but 1 am
unable to determine the gravity of my
wound for there is as much mud as
blood
Toward two o'clock there is Iull
in the firing. l await the stretcher
bearers, but like sister Anne, they do
not come. The hours seem atrocious-
ly long, although / no longer pay any
attention to the rain which continues.
Finally, towards o'clock in the after
noon / see coming in place of the
looked for stretcher bearersAthe Ger
mans.
This time it is for good" I say to
myself. Il am done for, A blow from
a rifle butt or a thrust of the bayonet
and they would finish me. A last
fhnyIqhf IF nv family and trv m
take my own rifle and end it. 1t is
useless. The gun is no more than a
lump of mud, of sticky clay.
There are five long minutes during
which / exist with a calmness that
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-03
CROP RETURNS
Germany Admits Shortage in
This Years Crops, but Claims
Enough Food Stuff for a
Years Consumption

The Hague, Oct. neutrality-suspicious. of
The Associated Press)-Crop returns have
never been of so great an interest to the
German public as they are this year, be-
cause it is realized that upon the amount
of food in the country depends in a large
measure the ultimate result of the war
Efforts are now being made to establish
in accurate figures the quantity of food
in the country. So far final returns are
obtainable only In the case of Prussia
The table covering the crop of bread
stuffs and oats, upon which the army es-
pecially depends, is given first:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-03
PROHIBITIONISTS WORK
ING FOR RUMLESS ARMY
ASSOCIATED Press Correspondence)

ASSOCIATED Press Correspondence
London, October-Rum as an army
ration is severely condemned by the
United Kingdom Alliance, Pro-
hibitionist organization, which is
working for rumless army.
Opinions vary as TO the need of rum
as a ration. The conventional charge
against alcohol is that it gives only a
fleeing sensation of warmth and is of
no real assistance against either cold
or fatigue. But DIR. w. H. Workman.
the distinguished Himalyan explorer.
believes that a certain amount of
liquor induces the stomach in times Of
great fatigue to begin its work of d.
costing food, which, when assimilated,
builds up the system again. And this
view is largely shared by the army
medical men.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-03
Mrs. chas. p. Lombard, Freeport.

Mrs. Auletta L. Lombard, wife of
Charles P. Lombard, Freeport, died
Sunday morning, aged IS years She
was born in Freeport, daughter of
John s. and Mary e. Ward. Besides
her husband she is survived by three
daughters, Mrs. Fred S. Soule. Mrs.
George S. Shaw and Mrs. Frank Morse,
all Of this town.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-03

To these quantities must be added the
crops and live stock of the remainder of
the empire, and the large stores taken
In the Belgian, French and Russian terri
tories occupied by the German armies.
German authorities generally assert
that there is enough food in the country
to last over year. and that the new
CROP while not sufficient, perhaps, to
carry the country another year without
imports, will meet all demands likely to
be made upon 1t.