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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1894-07-10
FRUIT REPORT FROM MISSOURI.

L. \. Goodmsn. the weli-known sec
rctary cf the Missouri horticultural
Society, make. the following report on
the oatlook for fruit la that state;
Thc report sent out BY the society az
ter the January 3Sth severe frcsxe u
fully Jasiiaed by this later report tia,
the pesch buds were all Killed.
After quite an extended trip over the
state examining orchards aud the collec-
tiou Of the reports, feel fully Justified
In saving that the apple crop will b.
much greate- than even the most san
guine expected. Many of the early
blooming varieties have been badly LII.
ed, but even on these trees there were
some dormant buds that are now Open
Ing and promise part of q crop. The
late blooming varieties are not injured
st all. while the middle class Of bloom
ers are only slightly injured.
flnd that many young orchards seven
or eight years old are not blooming, not
because they were Killed, but becsuse
they never set any fruit buds; notably u
this the case on prairie orchards, and
those that have made = very rapid
growth.
Many orchards have been thlnnei BY
the frOst just enough to have the apples
mature In sire and quality to their bsst.
and while some localities will fall near
~. ye, the great majority of locations
will give q moderately fair crop II no
further accident befalls them.
The pear crop will b. q very light
oDe. for the buds had started 50 mnch
that the freeze % Marvh 2ith killed
most of them.
The plum crop I. mostly destroyed In
the southern part ~ the state, but many
varieties In the CENTRAL and northern parts
of the state will produce fairly well.
The cherry crop Il also partly Injured,
In some places badly, bat In others not
80 much, .o that while ~e Will have .
failure In some portions Of the state,
other parts wlll give quite fair crop.
The peach crop I. an entire failure In
all parts % the state with the exception
of no~ aud then q trcc on very fsvors-
Die location In the southern pari Of the
state.
The grape crop suffered the least %
any, unless II b. the strawberry where
well covered.
Nearly al the location. ~lli have o
crop % grapes. and u 10 only ths warn
er iocaiiOn. that have suffered.
The blacktsrry. not having siarte'i,
promises q very fali crop.
The raspb~rry. starting as cafly as u
dos. ~ss esaghi very badly. Many
plac.. the Injury l. s~serv. ~hil" ooly .
Vsry fe~ loCstlons c-capsi. The rssp-
hsrfy crop ~iii D. small.
Ths strash~rry CFop ~bcrv pfvtscted
sni ths malch noi rvmes~d slli ~ syry
s,-.d indssd. lot ~h-rv ths mulch had
hssn iAksn q n tru.t destroyed msny
20 III fruit ho,i..
The az, ~.sihsf lsst sammsr inlsf-d
IN strssesrry and rsspirfry plsnta-
iisns Vsry badly sl.o, ~ 49, may ~ sar.
ss ~lll have bs ~ crop q tsrfie- this
yesr bsrc.
Ti,s Curtsut. g,-s-s,srrv, qaiiios And
spficut o. ne cot mach nEurs in oaf
markst. abd shils ths iniafy y .sN-r.,
,st - all Dot miss thsm Ms oihsf
fruits.
Tsklng h al In al, 80 may - sur.
that u ~lil pay eel o. tsks csrv 20 al
~ frut - nay have this y~af.
w Csh safely ioek fOs . f.f vr"p -
sppi... snd god pric.. teo.-fsfm aud
llfvshis.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1894-07-10
apsne.t,. HeenlIAritle..

Herbert spenoer. while travelling In
England. pounccd upon every man In
the cars who smoked or who even at.
tempted 10 smoke out of the windows
lis IL disagrucable 10 your they would
ask. mot az ALL" be- would reply.
but IL IL against the law, and the law
l. q proper one You have no right TO
break II. and You shall not do IL. and II
you do not dcsist Twill call the guard "
With porter. cabby or steamboat cap.
tain he was ever rcady 30 do hattie In
the cause of justice, but he had no pa.
thence with chronic fault finding II
used 10 visit Carlyle. he said. but he
has got 20 cro~s and misanthropic and
raves - constantly about the hor.r'rible
state of things that ] couldn't stand IT,
do not want to argue with him. and !
won't listen to his nonsense. and 10 ]
stay away. san Francisco Argonaut
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1894-07-10
osss m the ssA.

Dssp IN - m piamn<t ever ssssAs1
A basssd city si>eps IN its ssfathsoed eravA
The sisrms Of tims surge oa and bsat abovs n;
stately and sAd u rssn bssssiA The restless
wave.
There. ~hsa the tropss sai.s ~ stiii ssa
brco-iirs.
The mariner may isAa and - The towers -.
loo
And hear the faro6 bslis fsssvss so,iiss
Above the neisslsss strssts vhsrs neos n,
coms aud ga
R.sea,h IN. s'orms and ,,dss Of tA,s iifss pss-
sion
There r,.,s un,oseAsd sAsdowy esss,ry
lying fair.
o temple bsautifsii veil r,nsnhss
And ccan, The blssssd hosu vs vsihsd se'
getkef these.
cAans,ls-. in change 81 ps.es sssss'A 'A'
tsmpestA
ol..m white and SIN the slo.sssrs Of that
past foe me.
vAiniy ,h... ssyes of tate ehais % uscsss'
Ing
Keep thou ,ho.s s.e~d ss.sa, O ever faith.
New Yosh isdsv.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1894-07-10

"weli," ne erciaimsd. '',rhat ts madam
up % HO,rf'
up 20 nowy' lie always called his wife
"madam" when talking of her 10 Louise
"Thcro l. something mysterious 20
ing On over there at the house She is
Gar too pleasant and suave Just now not
TO be cooking mp something for my
benefit"
II know nothing ut all about II,
Monte. and II ! did I should not tell
you You are placing me In pretty
position. Why don't you speak to your
wife frcelyi'
II can't. Louise We have lost the
power Of being confidential and com.
municativc A soon ~ try 20 explain
things from my point Of view she gets
angry and flies into passion"
That's Just what shc says Of you.
Monte"
"she does. does she, Well. she can
b. the most provoking woman In this
world. She would make . saint use pro-
fame Language. and am no saint" 4"
"Oh, no!'' returned Miss Lancaster.
with gentle acquisence
"You see have sometimes thought
Il would be better for us 10 separate,
but know she would be more miser'
able then than she IL now even. She
Isn't very strong. Louise, OF should
always be fretting for fear there was
something she might want And then
she would never consent to give mp tho
children. Neither would L"
"Oh. I Sec how IL Ia Monte. You
cin't live separate. and you can't live
together. T"
"what arc we 10 do, Louiscr'
"Try 10 make yourself ovs into an.
other man De more considerate kind,
patient and self controlled"
"Pxhawi You had better advise mad.
am 20 make herself over"
"Thcre you sce how 10 Isl can do
you no good. Why do you appeal TO
me, You would never think Of taking
any advice I might ofYer. shall have
10 shut my dooe upon you both Really
the thing IL becoming too compromis-
Ing"
He came and stood beforo her and said
quite humbly; ''Dm't do that Louisa
You are the only rral friend Helen has
here. and yoa and ! grvw mp together
- children and arc almost like brother
and sister. Don't cut % od from your
gmpathy." t.ft
"but don't you go Monte. ths awk.
ward pn~ition am INF ] stand between
you and can tahs sidss with neither II
am 10 b tEus 30 both ] Try 20 speak
the truth. moving that not . word I
cay will b heetisd u u out of shsss
eculism and sslnshnes. Monte White
that you cous md iniiict Ill this upon
ma Why can't yoa " yoaf wife 20
her own gait snd yoa 90 yoursi You
kno'v pssfsotly wsll shs y . vGy ssps-
Sioe womani''
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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1894-07-10

Peuu.ylvanla boast. Of 5000 granses
and OF being ose Of the IesdIns gnnss
states.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1894-07-10
AMONG THE FARMERS.
"srukp rns :"

Cerr~spssssense en pr.ssiesi agricultural TOPICS
10 sslfsft<-t. Adtrv-- sl cesamanicatierst To-
tcnsis-t nor tht. depsrtment IA uNsap u. uAn.
fsris. Ne.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1894-07-10

Hand moving Il cheaper than bo,her-
ing along With q moving machin. out
of repair.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1894-07-10

No moving machine il 30 Improbable
.s an old moving machine out OF re-
pair.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1894-07-10
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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1894-07-10

n your hitch to your moving machine
90 top Of the poles IL % casaee u
possible.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1894-07-10

An old moving machine In perfect
order will run easier than new one.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1894-07-10
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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1894-07-10
Isl-clal Cerrs.lonisne..l

And yet we are - far behind some
other nations that we can only wonder
st their recklessne~. or symraihife with
them In their ncceS.ities. The British
parliament has but lately appropriated
Cor the fiscal year iss5 little over go.
ooo. 90. and 10 h-t class battleships and
~ cruisers are now In process of con-
struction In the English navy yards.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1894-07-10

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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-04
DETECTIVES CLEVER CATCHES.
Many Come About Though Lucl
Pure and Simple.

Many Come About Though Luck,
Pure and Simple.
"a great many of the criminal cases
for which detectives are given credit
for wonderful shrewdness and acute
cunning in working up to a legal con-
clusion are a great deal of that estinla-
bic quality called luck said Henry A.
Sullivan, a former fly cop of Chicago,
at the St. James last night. II don't
mean to say that the men in my pro-
fession are not keen and abundantly
equipped with the subtle instinct which
allows them to solve mysterious GRIM
inal puzzles that may be placed be-
fore them, but in many cases where a
criminal is apprehended and brought
to book for some well-covered crime,
the goddess of fortune has a great deal
TO 90 with 1T. | remember one instance
winch may serve as a case in point.
Several years ago in Chicago a pawn
brokers' shop was entered in the night,
It's safe blown open, and a very large
quantity of watches and jewelry cap
tured and carried off There was abso-
lutely no clue to the perpetrator of the
crime, and the police and detective de-
partments were at their wits ends to
ma some suggestion. no matter how
rant 1t might be. of the identity of the
thieves. The work did not bear the i'm
press of any burglars then known to
be IN Chicago or anywhere near it, but
that it was done by professionals there,
was no doubt, because everything was
clean-cut, and the safe itself showed
that it had been attended to by men
who understood all about the business.
one night, a couple of weeks after
the robbery had occurred, three central
Office detectives who were off duty were
playing a friendly game of poker over
on the north side. Along about mid
night all three of them broke and con-,
cluded they would go home While
they were walking down the street
they saw two men approaching carry
ing an evidently heavy carpet bag be-
tween them. One of the detectives sug-
gested, in jocose spirit, that the
party might get another poker stake
by holding up the men with the grip.
His remark caused a laugh and the trio
proceeded toward the two men without
further thought, when suddenly the
latter stopped irresolutely. Instantly
the detectives suspected something
was wrong and intuitively closed in on
the strangers. That carpet bag con-
tanned nearly all of the stolen property
from the pawnbroker's shop which was
robbed as l described, and the two men
were recognized as cool and determined
burglars from the east Their names
were Chase and Muller and they are
still serving their terms at Joliet. OF
course the detectives were applauded
by the public and the press for their
wonderful shrewdness in running down
the perpetrators of such a mysterious
crime, and recovering so much of the
booty, but the facts were exactly as 1
have stated and any Chicago detective
can substantiate the story if you ask
him about it on the quiet. '-Washing-
ton Star.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-04
SPRING CLEANING.
The Time When Every Mans House
is Not His Castle.

A famous lawyer said that "a man
house is his castle but if there is one
time more than another when a man
feels he is not monarch of all he sur
veys surely it is during that annual up
heaval which recurs with such .relent-
less regularity-tfe spring cleaning
But is there any reason why spring
cleaning should be the terrible bane
that it is?
It is because this enemy is such a
very ancient one that it does not enter
into ones calculations to fight it. We
have been trained from our youth up
to look upon the yearly spring cleaning
as a necessary evil. The mistake un-
DERIVING the whole system. as rule. is
the endeavor to do too many things at
once. Why should there be this ire
mendous upheaval of home life? Is
there any logical reason why all the
rooms in the house should present the
same ghost-like appearance together?
One room at time is surely the bet
ter plan. OF course, according to the
size of the house and domestic staff.
this rule must be varied to a couple or
even three rooms at time The OBJ
lection to this plan viii doubtless be
the length of time occupied before the
whole is complete, but it would be
iOullu tHdI the OlII0T6llCe IN the long
run would not be so great, while the
amount of comfort gained would most
outweigh the few extra days
1t is this time of the year also that
the methodical housekeeper takes a
good look round her establishment to
ascertain what articles of furniture
require replacing, which rooms need
new carpets, which carpets must be
remade for smaller rooms, etc.
Now here is an ecellent opportunity
for a woman to exercise her original
ity. Do not replace; alter. The vari-
ETY. gained by arrangements is not
only restful to the eye, but greatly en-
hances the value of certain articles
The new things required will be diff
ferent from those to be replaced, as
you will have in all proba bility left a
fresh nook vacant that is capable of
totally different treatment.
Is a new couch needed? Have a coy
corner instead. Does the study require
a fresh overmantel? Try instead an
of book shelves sur
mounted with china to|about half the
height above the mantel-shelf, with
pictures above. If bedroom, formerly
covered with carpet, needs new one,
have the boards vanished and strew
the floor with rugs or the dressed
skins of nimals.-Lewiston Evening
Journal
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-04
IN THE CHEERING-UP BUSINESS.
That is What Most Women Are En-
gagged In.

When the hard times began last year
it was reported that a clever woman
declared that if she had to earn her
living she would become a general
sympathizer," going to any one who
wished to pour out the troubles and
worries. listening and comforting for
a fixed sum per hour; the interviews to
be strictly confidential and the profess
sional sympathizer never to allow her
self to have pains or trials greater
than those of her client. This seemed
an odd little fancy, as impracticable as
original, until a short time ago, when,
reading over the lists which a woman
exchange prepares to meet the wants
of its patrons, the eye fell upon TINS
item: In the cheering-up business.
A lady who has had successful en-
perience will read to or amuse invalids
or convalescents.
Then there is such an occupation,
after all, and one which this cheering
lady has made successful as we'll. How
does she manage her delicate work?
BY what cunningly devised means has
she bottled up the su-2,Stine which
carries its brightness into the lives of
those who are strangers to her? And
from what founts does she draw spark
ling eXhilara ting draughts? And who,
after she has spent her day in read
ing to and amusing invalids and con-
Valescents," cheers her when twilight
gives her back to herself?
1t is beautiful and self-emecting
occupa ton, demanding special gifts of
tact and sweetness and calling for
keenness of eye and quickness of ear
and also, contradictorily enough, for
certain iudicious near-sightedness and
mental deafness, which can leave I'M
noticed and unteard all that tends to
mar the perfect harmony which it is so
essential to maintain.
Yet, while as a means of gaining a
livelihood the business is undoubtedly
new, it is really an old, old vocation, to
which from time. immemorial women
have spontaneously devoted themselves
In the home nest, as daughter and
sister, a woman learns to express the
sympathy of a loving heart, and in the
new relations of wife and mother her
opportunities increase in1meaSura bly,
and increasingly. Upon the so-called
weaker partner has ever fallen the du-
ty of tightening by her ready, respon-
siVe cheerfulness the burdens borne by
her lord and master. When everything
down town goes wrong, home is made
tc take on more than its usual attrac-
tiveness, and domestic atmosphere has
a soothing calm which refreshes a tired
man. whose wife and bairnies are at
their brightest when poor papa comes
in. A married man is more apt to re-
trieve his fallen fortunes and to rein
state himself more speedily than the
unfortunate bachelor. whose only COM
fort is that when he nuts on his hat
his whole family is under it!
1t is by means claimed that women
have a monopoly of this inspiriting,
bliss-imparting quality; yet it is al
ways conceded to be such a right wo-
manly talent that the highest -compli-
ment that can be paid to one of the
other sex, is to liken his powers of SYM
pathy to ours. The men whom one
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-04
POSSIBILITIES OF THE PEANUT.
German War Authorities Investigate


ing its Capabilities for Food.
Save as an adjunct to a circus show,
or for the oil that may be pressed
from its kernels, few people in this
country have any idea of the utility of
the despised peanut or goober, as it Is
known in the south, says the Boston
Post. But Frank Mason. the United
States consul-general at Frankfort. has
communicated to the department of
State some surprising facts relative to
the possibilities of the peanut 1t seems
from his report that the general gov
eminent has been for some time, ex-
perimenting with the peanut as food
supply. An elaborate series of trials
was completed about the middle OF
last February, and the results were
officially reported to the ministry Of
war German military methods are so
secretive that the consul-general has
not been able to secure these reports,
but he does transmit an exhaustive re-
port upon peanuts as new, cheap and
albuminous food preparation. made by
Professor Fuhrbringer to the Berlin
Medical society. Four samples accom-
pany the report, peanut grits, peanut
flour. peanut biscuit and diabetic
chocolate biscuit. These were tried in
a public hospital in Berlin and supplied
as food to 100 persons. More than half
found peanut SOUP. made from grits,
palatable and excellent. and ate it
gladly.
The professor argues that this being
the case with invalids suffering with
dyspepsia and other digestive weak
ness, it will readily be inferred that
for persons in robust health, particu-
larly for soldiers, sailors. workingnen
and others, this cheap and highly
nutritious food may have an import
ant value. Its sustaining powers are
remarkable. Although easily digested
and assimilated, even by invalids, its
durability surpasses even that of the
hitherto unequaled sofa bean of Japan
and China. All this has been made the
subject of careful experiment by the
German military authorities. In the
garrisons at Frankfort and elsewhere
the men have been supplied with soups
made from peanut grits. The first eX-
periments were quite satisfactory, and
if the later trials are equally favorable,
it is probable that peanut meal will be
included in the future garrison rationS
and field sausage of the German army.
Exhaustive chemical analysis has
shown that peanut meal is not only the
most nutritious. but estimated by its
alimentary value, by far the cheapest
of a long list of food materials, includ-
ing beef, bacon. potatoes. peas, milk.
rice and rye. From its richness in
protein and its low proportion of carbo-
hydrated elements. starch. sugar, etc,
it is especially ADAPTED to the use of
persons suffering from obesity, and
may be made to enlarge in a most
welcome degree the restricted menu of
patients under treatment for excessive
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