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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-14
EFFORTS OF n. E.
Contributions Stand
Now at STA, 100000
Must Reach $40, O00,000-Add-
ed S21,50O, 1000 Wednesday

Boston. June 13-New England speedei
up its Efforts in behalf Of the Liberty
Loan today. adding s2i.5oo.oco to its agrre.
gate subscriptions. With a day ana a
half in which to complete its minimum
quota OF s24o,ooo.eoc. this section at the
Continued on Page 4-CoIumn 81
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-14
Nav Move Government

Amsterdam, via London, June 10
The Berlin Morgenpost asserts that
the British government contemplates
moving the seat of government from
London, owing to the continual air
raids.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-14

fetal Times says:
The foreign officials must obtain
from the United States an assurance
that it will not repeat it's action in in
terfering with the democratic affairs
IN China, completely ignoring the ex-
istence and position of Japan
The newspaper adds that negotia.
tons with the United States already
nave begun and affirms that the cab
met has discussed the situation at
length. on the ground that it graveIy
concerns the future of the empire
Among other statements made at
the foreign office, says the Times, was
one that Japan was ready to make a
frank declaration that her instinct for
national existence compels her ical-
Ousy to guard her special position in
emma. The action of the United
States, it was added. was without ul-
terror motives and only over-hastv.
but 1t touched vital questions as to
Japans future. The American posi-
ton with regard to Mexico was a par
allel case, but it was doubtful if the
United States would countenance Jan
anese interference there.
Japan in the past" says the Times.
has been too reserved toward America
Japan should seek Americas RECOGNITION
OF Japan's special position in China in
order to prevent future misunderstand-
ings.'
A dispatch from Pekin June said that
DR.. Paul S. Reinsch, the American minis
ter had that day delivered to the Chinese
foreign Office a communication from
Washington regarding the dissensions in
China, expressing a desire that tranquil
ity be established.
The note said that the entry of China
into the war or Chna's continuance OF
the status quo with Germany were mat
tiers of secondary Importance and that
China principal necessity was to resume
and continue her political entity and pro-
coed along the road to national develop
ment. The note added that the United
States had only the friendlies-, interest
sonnet and desired only to be of service
to China.
America expresses the sincere hope"
said the note, that factional and politi-
cal disputes will be set aside and that all
parties and persons will work to re-es-
tablish and coordinate the government
and secure Chinas position among ma
lions. which is impossible while there is
internal dscord.'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-14
THE WEATHER
SHOWERS

Weather forecast for New England:
Probably showers and thunder storms
Thursday: cooler by night. Friday fair
and cooler.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-14
Casualty List

At a late hour tonight the casualties
as officially announced number 534, in
Guiding 81 killed and 4S7 wounded.
F'ifty-five men met death and 223 men
were wounded. Sixteen women and &c
children were killed and 122 women
and "a children wounded.
IS Machines
The German squadron consisted of
about Is machines and the down town
section of London was their chief OBJ
jective. Many bombs fell in the East
End, where buildings were destroyed
and other badly damaged and scores
of persons fell victims to the explo-
sions. In one instane alone 10 chill
dren were killed in a school and so
were injured.
One German Brought Down
British airplanes assembled immedi-
ately the signal was given that hos
tile machines were coming, but the
Germans remained at great height
and flew swiftly and evidently the
British fighters had difficulty in the
pursuit for the loss Of only one Ger
man machine has been recorded. 9th
ers are reported to have been brought
down, but there is 20 official confirma-
ton of this. The anti-aircraft guns
of London seemingly were unable to
reach the Germans.
While a great many small business
houses and the homes Of the poor in
the crowded districts suffered great
damage, Fild Marshal Viscount French.
commander of the Home Defenses, an
nounces that no damage of military
or naval nature was done.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-14
Root Mission
at Petrograd

Petrograd. via London. June 13.-The
American mission headed by Elihu Root
has arrived here.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-14
Trouble with Japan Threatens
America in Note Sent to China
SEMl-OFF1CIAL JAP NEWSPAPER
DEMANDS ASSURANCE THAT U. s.
WILL NOT REPEAT "INTERFERENCE"

Unfavorable Criticism of Friendly Communica-
ton Is Accompanied by Warning to Toxic Gov
eminent That Note Is But Precursor of Fur
Their Activities by United States
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SAYS u. S. MUST
PROMISE NOT TO
REPEAT ACTION

Toxic, June 1.-THE alleged failure
of the United States to consult Japan
continues the subject of much discus
sion in the newspapers. The semi-of-
fetal Times says:
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-31
weekly Payments for Wives.

Generally speaking, says a writer in
the Wide World Magazine, a Soudan-
csc is content with one wife, but the
marriage laws vary considerably among
different tribes, though all have much
in common. A man buys his wife. or
rather gives the value agreed upon
cash in prosperous towns like Omdur-
man, and cattle and grain in the coun-
try. Half of the amount is usually hand
ed over to the brides people before
marriage, and is spent on wedding fes-
tivities; the remainder is paid by in
stallments. You get your wife, in short,
on the hire-purchase system the mot
to of Soudanese fathers-in-law, where
eligible daughters are concerned, is evil
IDENTIFY weekly payments taken" The
price Of a wife varies considerably. In
Omdurman, where the natives are we'll
TODD, a wife costs from $75 to $3.50, or
even more. There is no restriction up
on the number of wives a man may
have; a wife is regarded as SO much
personal property, and valued accord
ingly.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-31
huMe-rLANNlNG IN COUNTRY
Whole Farm Layout Should Be
Sketched and Studied Before Any
Buildings Are Erected.

Put the house, If possible, on an emf.
hence, or rise, facing east or south,
with a gentle slope away from the
front. Don't build too near the road,
nor yet too far back-150 to $50 feet
will generally be about right.
Don't, don't ever put the barn and
lot buildings In front of the house.
The only logical place for these is in
the rear and hidden, If practicable,
by trees, vines and shrubbery.
Before building, give study and
time to planning the whole farm lay
out, Progressive Farmer advises.
Doing this may save many later re-
grets. Take paper and pencil, and,
with the aid of the family, sketch the
grounds as they should be when the
building and planting scheme is COM
pleted. 1t may and probably will be
years before all details Of building
and planting are completed, but then
there will be a harmonious, pleasing
whole. Aim at an ideal and come as
near reaching 1t as possible.
AS never before, convenience and
simple dignity are the aims of house
building. A compact, well-arranged
plan steps for the housewife and
likewise building materials.
Put in plumbing and wiring as the
house is built. Every live, hustling
farmer these days should aim at moth
ing less than w~aterworks, a sewage
disposal system and electric lights, or
at least an acetylene lighting system.
Make the farm home fit its surround
ings; the country is no place for osten-
tatiouS show. M%ultitudes of gables,
bay windows and vivid-tinted paints
jar especially in country houses, be-
cause they give an air of artificiality
among natures harmonies of coloring.
Have an open grass lawn. How
ever well designed and built q house
may be, If it has no green lawn in
front it is incomplete. Make the lawn
open and free from shrubs or flowers
except at the borders.
Frame the whole picture with flow
ering shrubs and trees. Directly in
front of and lee the house is no place
for trees, however beautiful they may
be; rather place them at the side and
toward the back, bordering them with
Towering shrubs like the Grape myrtle,
and these, in turn, with banks of the
easily grown Towering ANIMALS like
zinnias and SALIVA.
Put vines, preferably a hardy ever
green like the English ivy, over un-
slightly fences, stumps and walls.
Make stately, cool of the
hot, dusty lanes by bordering them
with pecan trees.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-31
Lessons Learned In sleen.

Lessons have been learned and diff
cult problems solved while in sound
slumber.
A young girl, through the death of
aer father, was told that she must
leave school unless she passed an ex-
animation which would entitled her to
a scholarship. She studied assiduous-
~, and on 4 occasion carried her
school books to her bedroom, intending
to rise early the next day for the pur-
pose Of study. In the morning, on
looking over her lessons, she was sur
prised to find that she already knew
them. This happened for several sue.
ceeding days, when she mentioned the
circumstances to her mother, who de-
termined to watch her. This she did,
and observed the girl get up as soon
as 1t was light, apply herself to her
lessons, and teen return to bed. When
awake she had no idea of what she
had done.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-31
Dishes From the Indians.

The early American colonists adopt.
ed certain dishes from the Indians,
among them samp, which is coming
into popularity M again today. Roger
Williams is credited with having de-
scribed this as "Indian corn beaten and
solted and eaten hot or cold with milk
or butter" "Hominy" vas the term
applied to maize boiled with alkali,
which removed the outer skin Of the
grain, leaving the inner part soft and
good to eat. "Hoe cake" popular with
the negroes Of the South. is said to
have been adopted from the Indians
who once inhabited that section of the
United States.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-31

solitary state, presiding v e an empty
table. Tonight, Ed was ut home. II
was with a grave preoccupation thai
she made herself ready to meet him.
In the dining room, Ed acknowl.
edged his wife's entrance with a care
less nod, but did not trouble to re.
move his hands from his pockets. AS
he seated himself heavily at the table
and with unsteady fingers shook the
folds from his napkin, he said:
"You stayed longer than you intend
ed. Um-m-you were gone three days,
weren't your"
-Four days." Alaire told him, real
izing with a little inward start how
very far apart she and Ed had drIfted.
She looked at him curiously for an in
slant, wondering If he really could be
her husband, Off he were not some
peculiarly d~isagreeable stranger.
Ed had been a handsome boy, but he
was growing fat from drink and soft
from idleness; his face was too full,
his eyes too sluggish; there was an
unhealthy redness in his cheeks. In
contrast to his wife's semi-formal
dress, he was unkempt-unshaven and
solled. His preparations for dinner
this evening had been Enthusiastically
simple; he had drunk three dry cock
tails and flung his sombrero into a cor
ner.
I've been busy while you were
gone" he announced. "Been down to
the pump house every day laying that
new intake. 1t was q nasty Job, too.
/ had Morales barbecue a cabrito for
my lunch, and II was good, but I'm
hungry again." Austin attacked his
meal with an enthusiasm strange In
him. He was a heavy and a constant
drinker at all times. What little ex-
ercise he took was upon the back of a
horse, and, as no one knew better than
his wife, the physical powers he once
had were rapidly deterIorating.
BY and by he inquired, vaguely:
Lets see. Where did you go
this timer"
II went up to look over the Ygnacio
tract"
"oh, yes. Think you'll lease lit"
:" don't know. / must find some
place for those La Feria cattle"
Austin shook his head. Better leave
'ern where they are, until the rebels
take that country. I stand mighty well
with them"
asr0xx =.
That's the trouble" Alaire told
him. "You stand too well-so well
that ! want to get my stock out Of
federal territory as soon as possible"
Ed shrugged carelessly. "Suit your
self they're your cows"
The meal went on with q desultory
flow Of small talk, during which the
husband INDUCED his thirst freely.
Alaire told him about the accident
to her horse and the unpleasant ordeal
she had suffered in the mesquite.
Lucky you found somebody at the
water hole" Ed commented. "Who
was this ranger7 Never heard of the
fellow" he commented on the name.
"The rangers are nothing like they
used to be-"
"This fellow would do credit to n
organization" AS Alaire described
how expeditiously Law had made his
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-31

was borne In upon him Enthusiastically
and the girl-wife remained firm in hes
refusal to divorce her husband, the I'm.
Outstanding had been reached by
which the management Of Las Palmas
was placed absolutely in her hands.
Of course the truth became public,
as it always does. young Ed" Aus
tins life became a scorn and a kissing
among his neighbors. They were not
unduly fastidious, these neighbors, and
they knew that hot blood requires more
than a generation to cool, but every
thing Ed did outraged them. In trying
to show their sympathy for his wife
they succeeded In wounding her more
deeply, and Alaire withdrew into her.
self. She had changed. The alteration
reached to the very bone and narrow
OF her being. At first the general pity
had wounded her, then 1t had offended,
and finally angered her. That people
should notice her affection, particu.
larry when she strove so desperately
to hide 1t, seemed the height of inso.
lence.
The management of Las Palmas was
almost her only relief. Having sprung
from a family Of ranchers, the work
came easy, and she grew to like it-as
well as she could like anything will
that ever-present pain in her breast
Las Palmas had prospered to admira.
ton, and La Feria would have pros
pered equally had 1t not been for the
armed unrest Of the country across the
border. No finer stock than the "BoS
A" was to be found anywhere. But
Alaire had not confined her efforts ttc
cattlei she had improved the breed OF
Box A" horses, too. and hand in hand
with this work she had carried on a
series Of agricultural experiments. For
instance, she had started q grove OF
paper-shelled pecans, which was soon
due to bear; the ranchhouse and Its
ciump OF palms was all but hidden BY
a forest Of strange trees, which were
reported to ripen everything from
mothbaiis TO bicycle tires. Blaze Jones
was perhaps responsible for this re-
port, for Alaire had shown him sew
eral thousand eucalyptus saplings and
some ornamental rubber plants.
"That Mlz Austin Is a money-makin'
piece Of furniture" he once told his
daughter Paloma. SIN no mechanical
adder--I count mostly on my fingers
but her and me calculated the profits
on them eucher - what's their name
trees?-and 1t gave me a splittin' head
ache. She'll be a drug queen, sure"
"Why don't you follow her exam
ple?' asked Paloma. "We have plenty
Of land"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-31
SAVE THIRD WHEAT
STATE COLLEGE EXPERT URGES
MIXING OF Prose- WITH
FLOUR.
GOSSIP OF THE STATE HOUSE
A Review of the Work OF the State
Government at the Capitol and
at the Various State
institutions.

TIGTT6.-
Professor N. E. Hansen, of State col
lege, suggests that a third of the
wheat may be saved by mixing with
prose- as -four. Prose-, he says, COM
pares favorably with wheat. I'm fact,
some of the varieties of prose- con-
tain more protein than wheat, but the
protein is not in the form Of gluten,
consequently prose- flour does not
make a bread unless mixed by using
one-third prose- to two-thirds of wheat.
Bread may also be made by using
one-third prose-, one-third rye and
third wheat; or one-third prose- and
two-thirds rye.
Prose is a large-seeded millet
which is raised especially for grain.
The grain is served hulled and cooked
into a palatable mush. The soldiers
Of Russia, Germany and Austria and
other countries Of Europe eat prose-
as a staple ration. For thousands Of
years prose- has been a staple grain
crop for millions of human beings in
the drieSt parts Of Asia and eastern
Europe. The peasants of Russia have
been saved at various times, especial
ly during the famine of 1890, by prose-
bread"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-31

As Tor HIM, ne was capcvateu by this
splendid. handsome girl, whom he re-
membered only as a shy, red-headed
little comrade.
AS Las Palmas had been the elder
Austin's wedding gift to his son, so
Alaire's dowry from her father had
been La Feria, a grant Of lands across
the Rio Grande beyond the twenty
league belt by which Mexico fatuously
strives to guard her border. And to
Las Palmas had come the bride and
groom to live, to love and to rear their
children.
But rarely han there been a shorter
honeymoon, seldom O swifter awaken
ing. Within six months young Ed"
had killed his wife's love and had HIM
self become an alcoholic. Other vices
so multiplied that what few virtues
the young man had inherited were
soon choked. To the bride the truth
had come as q stunning tragedy. The
wreck Of her hopes and glad imagin-
ings left her sick, bewiIdered, in the
face Of "the thing that couldn't"
Nor had the effect Of this transfer
nation In young Ed" been any less
painful to his father. When the truth
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-31

arrest and handled his man. her hus-
band showed interest.
ANicoias Anto, ehT" said he. "Who
vas his companero"
'Panflo Sanchez"
Ed started. That's strangei They
must have met accidentally"
$50 they both declared. why did
Lat panaIa ee -
We didn't need him here. and he
too good a man to lose. so--" ed
found his wife's eyes fixed upon him,
and dropped his own. II knew you
were saort-handed at La Feria." There
an iniervai az silence. then I'd
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-31
Incorporation Articles.

Articles of Incorporation have been
filed for the Collins Rotary Safety Ra-
zor Sales company at Sioux Falls to
market the product of the Collins Ro-
tary Safety razor, a Sioux Falls in
vention. The company is capitalized
at 100000, and the incorporators, c..
B. Collins, w. H. Bartholomew, Chas.
B. Fousek. For the Silver King COM
pany, to handle auto supplies at Sioux
Falls; capital, $4,000; incorpora-
tors, ]. w. Fem, F. D. Jewett, H. F.
Brownell. The Morningside Cemetery
association, Rec Heights; incorpora-
tors. F. R. Gardner. Berta M. Waring,
Nina Scott.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-31
cTo BE coNTINUED.J
Real Appreciation.

Ella was arranging her mistress
hair one afternoon when she men,
toned that she had heard Miss Alien
sing In the parlor the evening before.
slow did you like her. EllaT' asked
the mistress.
.Oh. num-" sighed the maid, sit was
grandl She sung just as IL shs was
garglingi"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-31
To Boost Registration.

State superintendent Lugg is send
ing out a circular letter to county sup
~erintendents asking them to secure
an announcement of registration day.
June 5. by all the teachers in their
counties, and along with the
ment of the date the main features OF
what the registration is for and what
persons are liable for registration
with the penalty for failure to so
register.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-31

Eds marriage to Alaire had been in
evitable. They had been playmates,
and their parents had considered the
union a consummation OF their own
lifelong friendship. Upon her mothers
death Alaire had been sent abroad, and
there she remained while "Young Ed"
attended an eastern college. For any
child the experience would have been
q lonesome one, and through 1t the
motheriess Texas girl had grown into
an imaginative. sentimental person, lIv-
Ing In a make-believe world, peopiad.
for the most part. with the best
remembered figures Of romance and
Seton. There were. OF course, some
few iesh-and-blood heroes among the
rest, and OF these the finest aud the
noblest Ind been young Ed" Austin.
When she came home to marry.
AlaIre was SIM very much OF a child,
and she stin considered Ed her knight.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-31
To Hold Joint Institute.

The greatest joint county teach
ers' institute in South Dakota history
will be held at the Northern Normal
and Industrial school the week begin
ming Monday, June 4. Thirteen coun-
ties of northern South Dakota unite
for this institute. The eight counties
on the northern border of the state
from Minnesota to Montana and five
counties of the second tier comprise
the thirteen. They are as follows:
Roberts, Marshall, Brown, McPher-
son, Campbell, Corson, Perkins, Hard
ing, Ziebach. Dewey, Walworth, Ed
munds, Day. President Willis E. John
son of the Northern Normal will ON
duct the institute. Fully 1900 teach
ers are expected to attend this insti-
tute. The thirteen counties from
which they will come represent more
than one-fourth the total area of the
state Of South Dakota.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-31
The Way.

Bystnnder-'T suppose you woula
like to take a ride without worrying
about tires and the likeY Motorist
fixing a puncture)--"You bet I
would" Bystander-"Weil, here's A
car dcket"-Chaparrsl
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-31

Mrs. Alaire Austin, a hand
some young matron. mistress Of
Las Palmas ranch, gets lost in
the Texas desert and after an
all-day struggle wanders into
the little camp OF David Law,
a range officer hunting a Mexi-
can murderer. Circumstances
force her to stay there over
night and all the next day. Law
catches his man and kills an
other, then escorts her home.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-31
save the Raby Chicks

Don't let your baby chicks die from
diarrhea-give them sour milk as nra.
ventive and save them for war food.
suggests DR.. G. C. Lipp. State college
veterinarian This is tho most i'm.
portant consideration at this time
when every effort Is hetAs
Increase and preserve our food SIM.
plies. All citizens are highly patriot.
ic-it is therefore a duty which thew
cannot shirk. to use every means A.
their command. to assist in the pro.
duction OF meat and poultry products
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-31
Irvine Costs More.

The price Of sisal for the prison
wine factory a gone up from 3
cents, which has been paid for several
years, 10 16 cents. AS a result of this
acYancc the state auditors depart.
ment ssued the largest warrant ever
issued by that department, the amount
oeing $4,000. to pay for the supply
OF sisal for the coming years opera
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-31
Timber offered for Sale.

At a meeting of the state lands
board 1t was decided to offer n mil
lion feet of matured timber for sale
on the state school section near Pied
mont. at a minimum price of $3.50
per thousand of standing timber. It
was also decided to fix the grazing
ate on the state forest reserve near
Custer at $2.35 per year for horses
n S1.75 per year for cattle.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1917-05-31
Not Qualified

"See here, you little r%uffian, I'll teach
you to throw stones at my chickens"
shouted the angry matron to the boy