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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-06-13

There is need il our farming rotation
to use more fullyEhe leguminous plants,
such as clover, pas, beans, lupines, etc
These plants not only furnish with hay
and corn MOE complete ration fo1
feeding stock than hay and corn alone,
but they also furnish a means of i'm.
proving the landin a manner that can.
not be done without them except by
buying expensivefertilizers.
Peas and beans are grown largely BY
our market farmers for selling green,
and any surplus is often dried and
thrashed, but Arge part Of the supply
of dried beans and peas used in our city
markets comes fDm Canada and various
European counties where the culture
Of these crops is better understood than
here, The climat of our northern states,
SAYS the Massachusetts Ploughman, il
we'll adapted to growing these crops,
and there is ne good reason why ou1
farmers cannot gov at a profit a large
part of the 81, 30, 900 worth of these
crops now impored. One drawback tc
the successful gr,wing of beans of late
wears is the blight or rust which attacks
the leaves and pds and seriously dam
ages the crop in many cases. It is now
well understood hat this disease is caus-
ed by parasiticfungus and can be sue
cessfully warded off by spraying with
bordeaux mixtup.
The use of pes as a field crop sown
with oats and harvested either in the
green state for fiddler or made into hay
later is increasing in New England and
deserves to INCREASE still more There
are few crops th;t will give better salts
faction in the lolg run, we believe, than
%1,oeo ~, flo 1ni7- fa7.rn
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-06-13
WESTBROOK.

The Young Mems Athletic Club of
this city have appeared with gold badges
of very neat design.
Col. Fred NJ Dow of Portland called on
friends in this city yesterday.
Miss Ida Suter, mem Der of the grad
uating class at Kents Hill, was in the
city yestderday.
Mr.. Walter Watson, of Boston, is visit
ing his family in this city.
Mrs. v. d. Ward is visiting her sister,
Mrs. Geo. Moulton, of Scarboro, this
week.
Messrs. Albion Quinby, Geo. H. Ray
mond, C.B. Woodman and Fred Murch
left yesterday morning for two days
fishing excursion to Songo.
Mr.. Charles Jordan OF South Wiudham
was the guest of Mr.. l.. W. Edward yester-
day.
The Westbrook Lodge, K. of P, worked
the third degree upon candidate at
their regular meeting last evening.
A very interesting entertainment was
given by members at the regular meet
Ing Mizpah chapter order Eastern Star
Monday evening.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-06-13
DEERING.

1t ought perhaps to have been stated
in the reference to David Clough's will
in this column yesterday, that of course
Mrs. Clough is entitled to her Widows
third of the property. 80
Mr.. Preston O'Brion, after an absence
two years, has moved back to Deering
again.
Fred W. Fogg is making a business
tour up in Vermon5 for few week in
the interest of Stevens & Jones Port
land
Mr.. VIM. Fraser of Boston, is visiting
his brother, who is with d. W. Hoegg for
the present.
VIC. Lord, who has been lingering be-
tween life and death, is now slowly i'm
proving in mind and body, and there is
some little hope of his getting about
again.
Reshingling and other improvements
add much to the appearance of Mr..
Lords set of buildings
Mr.. B. R. Sturgis of Gornam and Mr..
Eben Sturgis, OF Westbrook were the
Mrs. Morton, Stroudwater, last Friday.
Mr.. Augustine Stevens and family of
Portland spent Sunday with relatives in
Stroudwater.
Mr.. Frank Cummings is recovering
from his recent Illness
Mrs. Ella Bates has been i'll, but is
improving.
Several cases of German measles are
reported in the Stroudwater school.
A ragged and barefoot tramp passe
through Stroudwater Monday morning,
carrying a battered valise He might
easily have passed for deserter from
the army of Coxey.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-06-13
Parks in the Antipodes.

One of the most noticeable and striking
features of Australia is it's system of parks,
which are found not only in the city, but
in the country districts. The peculiar
evenness of the temperature renders the
care and cultivation of these parks less
difficult than in countries less favored in
this particular. Such thing as severe
frost or snow is never known. Sydney.
Melbourne, Adelaide, and Brisbane are
almost equally noted for the beauties of
their parks, the arrangement of the
grounds, and the variety of trees and plants
cultivated. One of the largest of the city
parks is that at Sydney, New South Wales,
which was established in commemoration
of the one hundredth anniversary of the
founding of the city. A feature of the park
is the large number of reproductions of stat
ues erected in other portions of the world
to mark some epoch in history or to per-
petuate the memory of some great individ-
ual. A pleasing feature to Americans is the
presence, near the entrance, of statue OF
Abraham Lincoln, which is a facsimile of
the one in Union Square, New York. An
other is heroic figure of Garfield, which
faces that of England's statesman, Glad
stone. All the colonies, beside these
local parks, have national grounds set
apart similar to our Yellowstone and Yo-
semitic Reservations,-San Francisco Call.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-06-13
Kent's Hill.

Prof. j. B. Mack of the Maine Wesleyan
Seminary, has accepted a position as
teacher of penmanship at Shaw's Bust
ness College, Portland.
The Kent's Hills defeated the Mon
mouths at game of ball on the ball
ground at Kents Hill, Saturday, bv a
score of 10 to 6.
An interesting exhibition in Physical
Culture was given Monday evening by
the students of the Seminary. Follow
ing is the programme
Gentlemen's Division in Free standing
Exercises
Philadelphia Overture Bouillow
Philharmonic Orchestra,
Ladies' Division in Free standing Exercises
Studies in Expression
Grand Polonaise Vogel
Philharmonic Orchestra,
(a)-Feather Movements
(b)-Illustrated Poem-"The Angel of
Buena Vista" Whittier
The Anvil
Philharmonic Orchestra.
Tableaux Vivants: The , Death Of vir-
Amazons, The Toilet of the Bride,
The Espousal, The Ten Virgins.
Niobe and Her Daughters, The
Sculptors Studio.
After the exhibition the Callionean
Society left for the Elmwood Hotel
Readfeld Corner, where they held their
annual banquet. After enjoying The
programme the wants of the @inner
man" were well cared fer. Toasts
were next in order. The boys returnad
at o'clock, after having very enioya-
BILE time.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-06-13
THE PHANTOM LOCOMOTIVE,
Singular and Weird Experience of Union
Pacific Engineer.
(San Francisco Call.l

toan francisco CALI
Ibid you ever hear of a phantom loco.
motive2" inquired one of the old-time Union
Pacific engineers of a number of his asso-
ciates who were relating their experiences
and hairbreadth escapes few days ago.
All the men. who have grown gray at the
throttle, admitted this was a new one on
them, and the old-time proceeded.
Back in the '?0s the Union Pacific ran
an engine called the 'pusher' on the west
side of Sherman hill to assist the trains up
between Laramie and the summit. After
helping train up the hill the engine would
run back to Laramie.
Il was in charge of an engine pulling the
regular passengerst1ain up the hill one gray
morning. just as we neared the snowshed
that used to stand at Harvey siding an en-
CINE suddenly popped out in front OF us.
Before I had time to even get a square look
at her she disappeared in the shed and
was lost to view. The whole thing happened
SO suddenly that was dumfounded, but
was positive l had seen an engine, and so
wassmy fireman. l at once shut OFF and the
train came to standstill. The conductor
came over and asked what was he matter.
''Bill," said II just saw an engine pop out
of that snow shed and just as suddenly dis
appear again
''Are you positive said the knight of the
punch, and he peered up the track, and 1
asserted l was. We had better move on,
anyhow, and if you see one it will probably
keep out of our way
$50 we proceeded up the hill, keeping
careful watch for the mysterious engine
which made my heart jump into my throat
as she emerged from that snow shed. The
siding was reached, but there was no sign
of an engine threatening US with headend
collision. The trainmen laughed at me and
said must have seen a spirit. Had it not
been for the fact that my fireman sided
with me I don't know but that should
have given up and admitted was mis-
taken.
ga careful watch failed to reveal any sign
of the stray engine, and when we stopped
at Sherman all the tranimen had hearty
laugh at my expense. But / was sill posi-
tive and insisted on making hunt, and we
found an engine hid away in the ittl e
roundhouse located at that point.
1.-THE engineer was man named Jordan.
He had overlooked new time card and had
started to take his engine back to Laramie
after helping freight up to the summit
he could see Une neauAghb OF our engine
before he emerged from the snow shed.
This accounted for his sudden disappear
ance. His engine was almost stopped when
he came out, and it did not take him long to
get to going back up the hill again, at lively
rate. The engineer thought we did not see
him, and he would just hide in the round
house at Sherman and no one would be the
wiser for his little escapade.
1--WE did not report him, but the officials
learned of the incident in some manner and
his head went into the basket"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-06-13

Benjamin H. West, a resident of West Luz
bee, in eating an orange some weeks since,
had one of the seeds lodge in his Throat,
which he was unable to remove. Lately his
throat began to swell, SO that it became
difficult for him to breathe. He obtained
medical advice and was informed that the
seed had sprouted, ssand must be removed
at once. He left for Boston to submit to a
surgical operation for its removal, ; but the
seed, instead of being lodged in his throat,
is in his lungs, and cannotsbe reached.
few years ago there lived in Lisbon an
old man who was somewhat of a character
about town. He was passionately fond of
his pipe and tobacco to degree which most
users of the weed would find it hard to IN
derstand. One day the old man. wife died,
and just before the funeral, he felt that he
needed the solace of. his pipe. So he went
out on the piazza and lighted up. While
sitting there neighbor went by and MOTTO
ing the unusual stir stopped and asked the
old man what was the matter. my wife is
dead,'' said he putting away. ''No?'' ex-
claimed the other in surprise. Eyes she
is too. If you don't believe it, go in and
see." The man didn't investigate.
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CAPE ELIZABETH.

A short but severe rain and hail
storm. passed over Cash's Corner Mon
day afternoon. No damage was done.
Farmers report the hay crop short in
this vicinity this year. Too much cold
weather early in the spring is the report
ed cause.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-06-13
STATE TOPICS OF INTEREST.

Eel stories have been the Maine newspa-
per fad recently. At the present time the
''belt'' is worn by well known drummer
who halls from Rockland. His story is as
follows: Away back in the sixties I
caught an eel that weighed, when dressed,
an even 100 pounds. cutk he eel up, put it
in butchers cart and drove through the
streets peddling cells, and returned home in
about an hour all sold out with $1,000 in my
pocket
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Bears have made way with eleven sheer
for Dick Williamson of Norway.
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City Treasurer Pierce of Bangor has nego
tiated temporary loan for the city at the
rate of 2 1-2 per cent, the lowest rate evel
otained here.
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Denmark.

Mrs. Jennie Bean Bosworth and hus-
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home.
Miss L. Marian Wilson has returned
from Boston, where she has been
teacher in the school of Domestic Science
for the past year. These schools are
meeting the demands of the times. fit
ting pupils for tesachers in special work,
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AT the quartely meeting of the society
Monday afternoon the following commune
cation from the superintendent was, read by
the president:
Officers and Trustees of the Bible Society of
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-01-12

Old Squire c., one of the first clerks
of Cass county, Mo, was n man who, al
though his early education had been sadly
neglected, fairly reveled in the use of big
words. The grand jury had come into
court to report lot of indictments which
1t had found and upon which the foreman
had properly indorsed "A true bill, sign
ing his name. The clerk not being salts
fled with the simplicity with which justice
was clothing herself, wrote upon each in
dictment under the foreman's name the
following, "We, the undersigned jurors,
concur in the above effluvia," to which
each juror signed his name, supposing it
to be some necessary legal appendage.-
Green Bag.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-01-12

am not prude, but | think the time
has come when we must decide whether
the theater is to be for the people or is to
serve simply as rendezvous for gentle
men who are anxious to discuss moral sci
ence in all its varying aspects. For my
own part l want the theater to be for the
people-to be a place where a man may
take his daughters without it being nee
essary for him to go first in order that he
may judge whether the play is one which
his girls ought to see. People may call
mo Il Philistine, Il prude or whatever they
like, but my contention is that the stage
is not the place to discuss subjects which,
as rule, are only introduced at the din
ner table after the ladies have left. That
is mere question of taste, | am willing
to admit, but feel confident that the ma
jority of the public are with me, notwith-
standing the fact that the new school of
critics are against me to n man.
What am fighting for is that the stage
may be maintained for the people. The
playhouse az ordered for the last 30 years
has been II delightful resort for women as
well as men. | for one wish to maintain
that state Of things. Women are as fond
of the theater as men, and | do not want
to see the theatcr door, as it were, prac-
tically closed against them. AS ! observe
in the article, ''Our opponents started with
lbsen, and the public voice sent lbsen
about his business. But the trail of the
Ibsen serpent has been left on the stage,
and our cleYerest and most literary dra-
matist, Arthur Wing Pinero, has been
ensnared into the pessimistic net" My
contention is that everything may be dis
cussed in public on the stage that is dis
l,I
fined and polite society. Society has GER
tain rules, and the stage cannot do better
than follow those rules. Clement Scott in
Sala 8 Journal
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-01-12
Indian Conjuring Tricks.

Most of the Indian conjuring trick are
imperishable secrets, which are handed
down from father to son through long
line of descent. Now and then traitor
may be found willing to barter his Jug
Cling inheritance for a mess of backsheesh,
and so occasionally trick leaks out into
Europe, but this, | think, happens very
sedom-almoSt never. The plant grow
ing trick il no more wonderful possibly
than many of those sudden appearances
of bushels Of paper flowers out of nothing
but small cornucOpia, except that all
our coniurerS are ON stages, with appli-
ances and accomplces, even if we do not
see one of either, whereas the Indian does
the plant trick ON the mating in your
front hall if you like.
He wears no clothes possibly but a
blackened cloth around his loins and a
greasy turban of cotton, once white, on his
head. lie squats before you close by and
places small square of cloth about the
size of an ordinary pocket handkerchief
ON tho floor. The cloth suddenly peaks up
in the middle, and taking it off tiny
shoot Of bright, fresh green is seen grow
ing apparently from the mating. The
little plant is left, Il larger cloth is arrang
ed and IL larger peak raises 1t in the
middle. With increasing cloths and
growths, until IA large branch of banana
palm appears, does the trick keep on aug
menting in size and interest. This is, to
my mind, one of the best tricks of all
Exchange.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-01-12
Thought 1t over.

"Silas, said Mrs, Comfort as she looked
up from her reading, lis it an awful thing
for one man to call another liari"
Not from my standpoint"
"But here is case where a man was
killed for it,"
"Then the killer will be hung, as he de
nerves to be"
"Were you ever called a liarf"
"Lots of times"
"And what did you dor"
"Took time to think it over. If had
lied, then being called liar was no more
than l could expect If | didn't lie, the
man who called me liar thought did ind
should be argued and reasoned with and
made to apologize. While | was taking
time to think it over the man generally
left and so there was no occasion to pur-
sue the subject any further. detroit Free
Press.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-01-12
Her Husband,s "Caddie."

1t is almost impossible to keep abreast
of the English woman in an athletic way,
for nothing dauntS her, her aim being ev-
identity to be her husbands helpmate in
every sense of the word. Whether it is deer
stalking in Scotland or hunting tigers in
Africa, she is always by his side. Her
latest is to be his "caddie" in golfing.
This pleasant duty consists in following
him with leathern bag slung across her
Shoulder holding the extra clubs for his
use
Now, as the links are usually spread over
an area of perhaps seven or eight miles,
and as tie enthusiastic Englishman is
rarely deferred by either rain or snow, the
task is no sinecure; but still the British
matron sticks to it, and, what is more, is
one of the gayest at the club dinners which
is the usual finale to a hard days play.
In the matter of dressing she is far ahead
of any other country-that is, in always
looking trim and comfortable when en-
gagged in any sport. For instance, in her
capacity of "caddie" she looks particular
ly smart in Ii thick tweed with rather
short skirt worn over very well fitting gai
ters in the sane shade. a Norfolk jacket,
with the irresistible collar and tie and soft
hat of the same, makes her veritable
belle on the ficld.-New York Telegram
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1894-01-12

1t has been often noticed in India how
fast wolf travels by means of lounging
Looping trot that is by no means suggestive
of speed. While one galiops after it as
hard as a good horse can go. the wolf pur
sued, never apparently hurrying, lollops
along at II pace that equals that of the fol-
lowing steed / have heard it said that no
horseman ever rode wolf down, but to
this statement | must demur, inasmuch
as have done this thing Perhaps my
wolf was sick.
BE that as it may, did, when out pig
sticking in the Gauges country over against
Colgong, follow II wolf, and that wolf
turned sharply when | closed with it, and
the horse | rode--a rare good one-kicked
it over with his fOrefeet and made the
matter of spearing my wolf simplicity it
self. One Of my companions Of that day
found explanation of this performance in
the fact that | had ridden another man 8
horse with my own spurs. -Blackwood' g
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