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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-11-26
FARM EAGOTS,

The cranberry crop is reported short.
rhe total Is estimated to be GAL ,OOO
bushels. Opening price was 81 to s2'oo
per bushel. - ,ou
II the price of corn should not be low
II viii not be the fault of the statisti-
clans. We suspect that when the crop
ia all cribbed il viii be much smaller
than the estimates.
IL Is thought that the United states
wheat weld will not be far from 450, ,OOO.'
0OO bushels, which will not leave much
for export. There Is only limited
foreign demand as yet.
In limited areas where sweet potatoes,
are grown the crop was seriously injured
by drought. The average crop was fair,
hut winter prices are likely to range
higher than last year.
fhe onion crop was large and sales
are slow and at very low prices. The
emitting of the tariff from forty 70
twenty cents per bushel seems to nave
greatly increased importation.
The short crop Of grapes has been
selling at better prices than last year
lake County, Ohio, growers get sixteen
70 seventeen cents for nine-pounc
hsstet that sold for twelve cents IN 1894
Asa Parker Of Skowhegsn raised on
seven square rods Of ground, sixty-snree
bushels Of carrots this season.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-11-26
PrimiflYe and Modern Man.

Naturally much curiosity has been di-
rected toward DR.. Eugene Dubois dis
coyery Of human skull and bones IN
the Bengawan country Of Java, DR.. Du
bois having assigned TO the remains hu-
man and simian characteristics. A moro
careful study of the relics OF the man
of the past does not show any such char
acteristic differences, but it Is human
type. more primitive than any hither-
To discovered " So far as Mr. Arthur
Keith explains it. the human geological
record stretches back only 10 the early
post tertiary period. There must have
been then millions Of men, and yet on
" four specimens, complete enough
for recognition. have come down 10 Us. "
From careful comparison the conclusion
is arrived at that the man Of the post
tertiary period was smaller Drained than
humanity is today, and that early man
had Jaws, teeth and muscular ridges
more pronounced than we have. There
is no possible reason for entertaining
tie idea that primitive man was taller
than we are. There is even the posi-
bility that our average height has some
very little increased AS Mr. Keith
writes, imam since the tertiary period
has changed but very little. New
York Times
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-11-26

skin casques; and go crack hussars, In
loose trousers blackened with powder
and rent with lance thrusts, their silver
dolmans tapping in formless tatters.
Rrrann rrrataplannl Beat with your
might; beat again, spare not, o drum
mer Of Tabor! o deaths drummer
Pataplann rrrataplann plaum plaum
Don't look like sausages !" said Cham
peaux "Yonder is the emperor !"
Napoleon, in fact, erect upon his
steed, unmoved and fatal as destiny,
was awaiting them.
This. knot Of heroes, one Of the few
that remained Of that great epic, de
filed past him, their eyes turned toward
his face. The drummer continued
through the plain to beat his drum; the
pitiful battalion followed him; and as
il muffied in funereal Grape, the rolling
Of the drum reverberated against the
rigid walls Of that imperial soul; al
ready distant. becoming vaeuer and
wagner, dying upon the ear. it seemed
to the emperor like the toiling Of bra
zen tongues, announcing n foregone
conclusion. the supreme alarm, the ir-
remediable kr,ell of his puissant armies.
Translated From the French For Short
Stories
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-11-26
FEMININE DAIRY WISDOM.

II by accident YOU should have a poor
lot of butter, don't put your brand on II
aud ruin your reputation BY selling II 10
a good customer. Use IL up at home in
some way or sell Il for just what IL Is.
A good reputation as butter maker
must be earned by painstaking and skill
aud II will not pay 10 throw II away by
a little carelessness. IL will take longer
10 mend a damaged reputation than TO
make one from the beginning.
Some people claim that II does not
pay 10 feed meal 10 cows on good past
ure. We have seen IL tried this year.
One man has fed meal, and while IL did
not seem 10 increase the flow OF milk al
the time particularly, At the end OF the
season Il has given his cows the staying
qualities that he did not suppose they
possessed, and he Is astonished at the
amount OF butter he has made late In
the season. The increase has far ex-
ceeded the cost OF the grain.
Another man tried, as he supposed,
the economical system and fed no grain.
His cows are thin, dried up earlier, and
he l. confident that he has sustained a
dead loss.
A. the cool weather comes don't for
get the calves. They are sensitive and
feel the changes keenly. Bring them In
before they get pinched and give them a
warm pen where the sun shines in, and
plenty of good, nutritious food. IL will
pay. To these calves We must look for
material 10 reinforce our dairies. We
must raise cows that will give US four
hundred pounds of butter in year. We
shall never do II IL we neglect and starve
the calves.
Arrange the stables so that the cows
are in the sunshine greater part OF the
dav. IL can be done, it must be done,
for il pays.
Gull out the herds this fall and keep
the COWS that give the richest milk. III
she give large mess, and rich at the
same time, so much the better, but don't
let the quantity decide the question
Quality is what counts.
The cows that are persistent mixers
are most desirable, after quality of milk
IA considered. Cor. in Farm Journal.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-11-26
A comnlete and immediate revolution

A complete and immediate revolution
Of transportation methods, involving a
reduction of freight charges on grain
from the West to New York Of from 80
to GO per cent, Is what Is predicted in
the November Cosmopolitan. The plan
proposes using light and inexpensive
corrugated iron cylinders, hung on a
slight rail supported on poles from a
cross-arm-the whole system involving
an expense of not more than fifteen
hundred dollars a mile for construction.
The rolling stock Is equally simple and
comparatively inexpensive. Continuous
lines Of cyclinders, moving with no in
terval to speak Of, would carry more
grain In a day than quadruple track
railway. This would constitute a sort
of grain-pipe line. The Cosmopolitan
also points out the probable abolition Of
street-cars before the coming horselcss
carriage, which can be operated by a
boy on asphalt pavements at total ex-
pense for labor, oil and interest, Of not
more than one dollar day.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-11-26
An r,,r.ordinarv Inscription.

A gossiper in the London Spectator
SAYS: while wandering around the
parish church of ST. Heller l came
across this extraordinary inscription !;
TO the glory Of God and in the memory
of George Frederick de Carteret, his cou
sin, who perished by drowning, and lies
inferred in the Cathedral church, Gal
way, Ireland, this window is given by
Edward Charles Malet de Carteret,
Seigneur de st. Olen. A. D.,
MCCCI.yVII -
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-11-26
A FEMININE EFFORT.

The description of how to build a
steam engine, credited to young lady,
is going the rounds of the mechanical
press:
You pour lot of sand into box, and
throw lot of old stoves and things into a
fire, and empty the molten stream into a
hole in the sand, and the men all yell,
and it's awfully dirty and smoky. And
then you pour it out and let it cool and
pound it and then you put it in thing
that goes round, and try to break it
then you screw it to a thing that goes
back and forth, that you can ride on,
and that scrapes it and 1t squeaks. Then
YOU put it in a thing that turns il round,
and YOU take chisel and cut it; then
YOU put it in thing that bores holes in
1t. Then you screw it together and paint
it, and put steam in 1t, and 1t goes aw-
fully; and they take it up In the drafting
room and draw picture of it, and make
one Of wood just like it. And, oh, for
got-they have to make IA boiler. One
man gets inside and one gets outside,
and they pound just terrible, and then
they tie it to the other thing-and, oh,
you just ought to see it go!
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-11-26
nlnGE DAVIS AND The LAWYERS.

JUDGE DAVIS AND THE LAWYERS,
A railroad had been surveyed though
Vermillion County, Ill.,, some time be-
fore and had taken deed for an inno-
cent old chap's farm, giving him in pay
ment for IL lot of stock which WAS rep
resented TO be OF par value. The farmer
afterward found that the stock was al
most il not quite, valueles', aud brought
suit in the Federal Court 10 have the
deed set aside and his farm returned TO
him. The case came up before Judge
Davis. The railroad company had two or
three OF the shrewdest attorneys To be
had while the plaintiff was represented
by a green country lawyer. IL was evil
dent from the start that the defendant
lawyers would outgeneral the country
man at every turn, and so they did until
the evidence was all in and the case sub
mitted for decision.
"Gentlemen, said Judge Davis, II am
familiar with the laws governing this
case. and with all the statutes touching
such cases, but know OF no law to pre-
vent railroad company from stealing a
mans farm"
The agent of the defendant man
named Griggs- whispered TO one of his
attorneys that 1t was all right. The at
torneys looked at each other with conf
dent winks and settled back 10 hear the
decision in thier favor.
s'I know of no law to prevent railroad
company from stealinga mans farm, '
repeated Judge Davis, ''but so long as |
sit on this bench will not permit them
to keep it. Decision for plaintiff. Chi
cauo Npvs
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-11-26
HER FIRST APPEARANCE.
MARY ANDERSON DE NAVARRO WRITES
OF HER STAGE pEBUT AND OF HER
CLoupING SORROW.

Mary Anderson de Navarro In her
stage career memoirs, which will be
published In the Ladies' Home Journal
(the opening chapters In the December
issue) gives the public most interest
ing and entertaining view of the trials
and hardships she successfully COM
bated In following out her conviction
that the stage presented to her the OPP
portunity for splendid career. She
exultautly refers to her debut In Louis
Vile, Kentucky, on Saturday evening.
November q. 1875. upon which occasion
the 'stall. shy and awkard" girl Of six
teen interpreted Shakespeare's love-lorn
Juliet" The performance was ar
ranged upon two days notiee-time for
but single rehearsal--and the aspiring
Kentucky girl was jubilant when the
theatre and stock company were offer
ed her. upon condition that she play
without pay. Her happiness, however,
was not unclouded. for Of the event she
writes with touching psthos: THAT
Thursday" (the day that her first APP
pearance was arranged) "was one of the
happicst DAYS Of all my life, filed as it
was with the brightest hope and antici-
patton. Only one black cloud hung
over it: the thought OF Monte and my
grandparents who were all very dear To
me. Had | known then that would
never see the face OF the former, that he
would die, my mother and far away
from him, and that almost until his
death he would refuse TO forgive or see
me unless abandoned the stage-life
which he thought so injurious-nay sin
full would even then have renounced
what was within my grasp. This cs-
arrangement saddeued many years OF my
life. and has cast shadow over all the
otherwise bright and happy memories
of him who was the father. friend aud
PLAYMATE of our childhood days
Mrs. de Navarro evidently did not
suffer from stage fright" the crushing
terror of debutantes, for she writes that
she stood impatiently waiting for her
"cue" to go on. At last II came. Then
In fash, | was on the stage, conscious
only of a yellow light. before me, and a
burst OF prolonged applause" The
performance was filled with rather de-
pressing Incidents; one Of the players
forgot his lines and had to be prompted
by the youthful star: Romeo" neglect
cd 10 bring his dagger, and "Iuliet" had
TO perform her dispatch with hairpin,
while the lamp that hung In "Juliet's'
tomb. fell and badly burned her hands
and arms. ''Despite of these" she
writes, 1.-THE night was success, and |
knew that my stage career had begun In
earnest" Ladies' Home Journal, Phil
adelphia.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-11-26
HORSE TALK.

One well-bred, well-fed. well-cared- for
team will do the work Of two half-fed
jsded teams. You will save the wages
and board Of one man, which Is not a lit
tie, besides the work viii be better done.
There Is no economy In using scrub
bred, hilf-fed teams even on farm.
Don't stuff your horses with coarse
feed; Ii has made thousands OF horses
unsound.
Trotting through sandy and muddy
places exhsusts horse rapidly. In
such places go slowly.
Few people realize the extra effort il
requires 10 travel against high wind.
Horses are often pushed cruelty, though
unconsciously, In this way. Try riding
a bicycle against the wind and you will
be more merciful TO your horse.
For the man who sets his standard
high and works up TO IL there is money
In horse breeding-for the other man a
dead loss. As we have said for years 1t
costs no more 10 raise good animal
than poor one, and the market to-day
for high-clsss carriage, road and saddle
horses L. better and.stronger than 1t has
been for years, and the supply Is below
the demand.
The stable floors should be made tight,
with thorough drainage, and they should
be scrubbed once week with water to
remove the strong odor Of ammonia.
Use plenty OF plaster aud keep the bed
ding dry and your horses will be more
healthy.
Is IL a bother" to clean out the horses
coat dsilvs Brush him all over every
time YOU feed hm-three times per day,
and you will not think II so burdensome.
10 Is easier then, he Is ready To harness
at moments notice, and no dirt sticks
to him. You will soon begin to take
pride in him, also.
Use the young horse without shoes
and he Is not far sstrsy. Many horses
used on farms will never need shoeing.
The new horse will not back into the
shafts pleasantly, hey: Well, don't be
afraid he never will, and don't whip him.
Stop him ahead of the shafts. raise them
slightly and say Back" drawing him
backwards gently by the lines. BY lit
ties he will coue TO understand the
man9uvre and will never forget when
taught in this way.
IL the feathers on the carriage shafts
are whipped out IL may be the fault OF
the traces. Lower the shafts so they
cannot interfere with them and make
the girt Just tight enough to prevent
them from motion up and down but not
so tight as 10 annoy or distress the
horse.
Thrush Is cured by using calomel.
First cleanse the foot and cleft Of the
frog thoroughly. Pare away all dis
eased and ragged parts and poultice for
a dsy or two with boiled turnips. Then
wash Il all off and III all the grooves
with powdered calomel, pack the foot
with oakum and bandsge. IL the dis
charge Is not profuse the packing may
be left undisturbed for several days, the
foot cleaned sgain and repeated.-Fsrm
Journal.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-11-26

POWERS OF THE QUEEN.
SOME OF THE THINGS sHE COULD DO
II SHE CHOSE To.

IL il generally believed in this country
that the English soverelgns are entirely
without power. An English authority
however, says: As a matter OF TACT,
our soyereigns have rarely taken any act
i've part In politics since George HIS
time; but they could still do some very
astonishing things IL they chose. The
Queen could dismiss every Tommy At
kins In our army, from the Commander
in-chicf To the youngest drummer-boy.
She could disbaud the navy In the
same way. and sell all our ships, stores, \,
and arsensls To the first customer that
came along. Acting entirely on her own
responsibility, she could declare war
against any foreign country, or make q
present To any foreign power of any
part OF the Empire. She could make
every man. woman and child in the
country peer of the realm, with the
right. in the case of males who are OF
age, 10 a seat In the House OF Lords.
With a single word she could dismiss
any government that hapaened 10 be In
power; and could II is believed, pardon
and liberate all the criminals In our jails.
These are a few of the things the
Queen could do II she liked: but II Is
not necessary 10 say that Her Majesty
does not act In matters of state except
on the advice Of the government for the
time being.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-11-26
An Inveterate Grumbler.

At the Restaurant-"Call this prime
roast veal? Tell you what, Peppi-you
should see how my wife cooks it; she
might give you wrinkle"
At home" Roast veal, Mary, doesn't
happen to be your forte. The way they
dish it up at the restaurant beats your
performance into fits I'll Popolo Ro-
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-11-26
THE RIVER OF DROPPING EYES.
Over the River Of !, Dropping Eyes

Over the River OF Dropping Eyes
Is the wonderful land OF dreams,
Where lilies grow as white "a snow.
And fields OF green and warm winds blow,
And the tail reeds quiyer. all In a row
And no one ever cries;
For it's beautiful place for girls and boys,
And there's no scolding and lots OF noise,
And no lost balls or broken toys
Over the River OF Dropping Eyes
In the beautiful land OF dreams.
Over the River OF Dropping Eyes
In the wonderful land OF dreams;
There are horns to blow and drums 10 beat,
And plenty OF candy and cake To eat.
Aud no one ever cleans his feet,
And no one ever tires'
There are plenty Of grassy places 20 play,
And birds and bees they throng all day.
oh, wouldn't you like to 20 and stay
over the River of Dropping Eyes
In the beautiful land OF dreams?
-rChicago Interior.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-11-26
Quite Secure.

II want to consult you on a certain
point, said Miss Cash to her lawyer.
Il am at your service, Miss Cash. "
You know Mr.. Squildigi"
every well indeed. "
"He has done me the honor of propos-
ing marriage. "
"AhW
"What wish to ask is if you think
my money would be safe in his hands
If were TO marry him?"
1T would be so secure you could not
even get it yourself. "-Pittsburg Chron-
icle Telegraph.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-11-26
FOR THEE.

Nay. hive me not II will be better So
Much better. dear. that should turn and go,
For with loves birth may come life's over
throw.
Nay, love me not
Lo. I bave watched thy sweet life break 70
fitwcr,
Thy sytrit spread and quicken hour by hour,
Thy w,lndering eyes, thy small hands gracious
p!wer
10, have watchodi
Though time should fail and show mo no new
thing,
! yet hkyc touched life's sacred, inner ring.
j have known thee. the pulse and blood ~
slrinr.
Though time should fail
For thle tho peace Of guarded. tranquil days,
Tho lail,s Of life. unsoilod by blame or praise
For m.l the turmoil Of the loud highways:
For thee, the peace.
New York Tribune.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-11-26

II say. Pat" said Mike, throwing
down his shovel. "do you think If ye
were to stand on this side Of the street
and look across to the other ye could
see the side-walkT
"Mebbe could and mebbe l could
MT" replied Pat with smile. And
supposin ye were on the other side, DO
ye think uf ye did yer best ye could see
the marble-step?" Philadelphia Call
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-11-26
r.e ss-ATWe vALue OF FOODS.

THE RELATIVE VALUE or FOOOo'
The annual report OF the Massaehu-
setts experiment station states that
maize or gluten feeds can be used inter
chaugeably one for the other; that hn-
seed meal and Chicago gluten meal can
~ exchanged; that cottonseed meal,
King gluten meal and Pope gluten meal meal
.honld not De combined in summer with
orher concentrated foods rich IN Tat
mat only one Of these should be fed IN
dsilv grain ration, and that two or three
opsyts of these feeds daily sre all that
sre deemed advisable on the score OF
nerfect safety. With corn meal rated Al
s9l. the station estimates bran Al SIC
gluten feeds at s33, gluten meals AT 80,
eottopseed meal at $3.50, new process
Iinseed meal at so, and old process hn-
seed meal AT s2s.25.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-11-26
DR.. c.. L. Buck,
DENTIST
south Paris. Maine.

Teeth extracted without pain
by use Of Odoutunder.
Artificial teeth So. per set.
Warranted 20 at the mouth.
Al our best work warranted.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-11-26
COMMUNICATIONS SALE.

T. --- ans Gri,i MIL and store, AZ
>.- f." a-c hc,onginE q the Estate OF
4l. I... 80. 90 ~aath Paris.
T..-- .... ..-,rr.e.l fur many YEAR by TIE
rlr.- l-wpaGy AMI ~ thc laie oNnef,
20. E.-.- ..s.- .re'a sc- the night % toWaEc oi
E- as . The dam Wa thoroughly ".
.t.r.. The mi'. g. in good condition. IL
.a- a .r. an1 l. -tI.i doing q good bn-l
-.- ... property WiI hc sold az uaf
al t.r r-tt parties this is a sp.endlH
.rl.., --.. .1taa wei established and pay
o. -,rs-- Apply to
e A. TRUE. Admr-.
~ Commercial 81,
Portland. Me
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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-11-26
AMONG THE FARMERS.
"sPKxp rax rLow :,

correspondence on practical agricultural topics
"a soiicitei- Address all communications In
tenttesi TOR this department 10 uESRY n. HAM,
Pare, Ne.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-11-26

uENLER ~
A-s4ret Drugs and Chemicals, Toilet Aru
.f-. col.
rf.,t..ls-' 'rrr.c.fptions accurately COMPOUND
To- >t.-tr,sat'- Headache Powders-j
~. Old Fcll0ws Black,
S"JrHIhEI~. MAINE
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-11-26

While the price OF horses .s Enro = "0 me- and
the demand Is active. bo'h hulo Pe "A
Mexico are buying from US
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1895-11-26
AUTUMN IN PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.

POTATOES pAIKrlNe HOGS SHEEP.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-07
CLOSING PRICES OF BOSTON STOCKS.
THE BANK STATEMENT.

Saturday July 6. p. m
BY the operations Of the Sub-Treasury IN TINS
city for the five business days OF the week end-
ing last night the associated banks gained w.
III 43s The weekly bank statement published
to-day reflects In part the movement OF money
In July interest disbursements and shows no
striking features in any OF It's Items. The IN
crease in loans was only siS2.4o0. Legal tenders
decreased sl45s 900. specie decreased sI3i'oo ana
deposits decreased s5s3l6O The total reserve
now stands at STA 642 0OO being decrease Of "
1913 900 from the week before. Receipts OF money
from the interior were smaller and the demand
for commercial accommodation was light Inc
result OF all the changes In the week was de-
crease Of $2O52225 in the surplus reserve, ana
the banks held excess Of legal requirements
$40 l73 700 against S24.-25.a25 last week. ana
against s72 1874 725 in the spending week last
year and deficit OF $5.OS2.O2o In 1888.
The following are the comparative statements
az lime % and July 8:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-07
DAILY TR,BrNF SUNDAY

stock and New-York and New-Engand' Stu
souri, Kansas and Texas preferred. Paciic nn,,
and Louisville and Nashville were also suV I
features. The anthracite group was inaeu ard
though generally strong. Susquehanna an ana
Western preferred advanced fractionali! an"
from information given by security hoiuel "a "
the company 1t appears that the floating deo. y.
the company has been reduced and now ainou'', :,
70 about 5000 900 The main line OF the roau -
said IN show sufficient surplus in its earnings 10
offset the loss on the Wkesbarre division. low
ard the close OF the market there was ~
newed strength and most stocks closed al au-
vances from their lowest prices
BONDS AND MONEY.
There were no transactions in Government
bonds Quotations were as follows
NN''I.- pa Asked.