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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1896-10-20
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Emerson was not an epicure. but he
knew how TO appreciate a iine dinner.
Several witnesses have given their testi-
mony in regard TO his partiality for
what no called pie" In Sketches
from Concord and Appledore, the au.
thor says that Emerson was fond OF
pears; knew the best varieties and the
order III which they ripened.
DE used 10 say that there Is onl ly ten
minutes IN which pear Is fairly ripe.
Before that 1t Is too hard and afterward
too soft.
There are many anecdotes told Of his
good sense and Sagacity, and the follow
my Is perhaps equal to any Of them
One summer there was camp meet
ing of Spiriuahsts at Walden Pond, and
every evening they held an entertain
ment Of speeches, singing and music, TO
which small admission fee was
charged 1t happened. however, that the
picnic pavilion was situated close 10 Mr..
Emerson 5 land, and numbers of Concord
people went ont of curiosity and leaning
against his fence heard and saw every
thing that went on. A committee oi
Spiritualists consequently called on Mr..
Emerson and requested permission 10
collect fees from those who stole their
entertainment IN this manner.
At first thought this might not seem
10 be unreasonable, but Emerson replied.
"No, have always enjoyed the privi-
lege Of walking upon my neighbors
fields, and cannot now refuse the same
right 10 them.
Emerson's no was always decisive,
and if one person could not induce him
to change his mind. do not believe
20, 000, 900 would have succeeded III do
iug 30. When he was in lawsuit re-
garding some property. and the sugges-
tion was made that he should compro-
mise, he said:
by no means. II it is mine, want
the whole Of II; if 1t is not mine, do
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1896-10-20
gARsARlC WOMEN.

Some species of beautifully plunged
and useful birds are being eNterminAted
in the nited States 20 satisfy the bar
barrie demand for oruithOlogical orua-
mentation OF feminine headwear. by
educating the public mind 70 a better
understanding Of birds, their interesting
hshits and uses 20 man, this division l.
doing much 20 prevent this and other
similar sen,eless practices, which II not
arrested will result in the total destrue-
tion OF many OF our most beautiful anc
usrful American birds.-lear Book |.
:. Department Of Agriculture.
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slnEsAOMs AZ EAlRs.

The New England Farmer calls atten-
,iou 20 the correct definition of a "fakir
a. ~one who sells fakes, that i, things
prepared for the purpose Of deceiving ;
adding that the true fakir has no place
tt our agricultural shows. But the com
mon acceptatiou OF the term includes
various cstch-peuny devices which are
furnished 20 meet the demands of the
fun-loviug crowd without which fair l.
"a failure. the managers being expected
10 discriminate between that which l.
proper and that which yerges on the i'm
moral. Sideshows are 4 sort Of neces-
si,y which must De- regulated rather than
Clinton COuraut.
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ed, oury calls me 10 another. we shall
meet when the sun is up. :"

III, Uuty CttlIs lllt W llbtutI. We siidii
meet when the sun is up"
As silently as he had come the
Prophet disappeared. and Henry Kyle
and Kushat took their watch ON the
summit of one Of the loftiest crags that
commanded the campfres Of the out
laws. Though both should have been
weary, they did not sleep, but sat side
by side talking III whispers until day
light began 10 flush the east. Seating
himself behind rock. Henry Kyle
opened his ammunition pouch TO be
ready for the work Of destruction he
had marked out Great was his horror
10 find that the cartridges prepared for
his repeating rife were expended o,
lost. Only one was left, which, with
two in the chamber Of the gun. consti-
rqted all the ammunition he had de-
pended ON.
But you have your pistols" said
Kushat They are loaded. p"
True. but tn make them effective
must get nearer. VIII you follow me:
Mark you. Kushat | would rather that
sou remain back.
Il will follow you even to the tents
# death and through them, she re-
piled, with her red hands ON his shoul-
ders
Ii seemed impossible. looking mp from
the valley. TO enter by any other than
the route already mentioned. but Henry
Kyle would not waste time in going TO
the canyon. the nearest regular avenue.
While he and kushat We're climbing
down the giddy cliffs. with as much So
curiy IL mountain sheep. "A scene OF
stirring activity was being enacted IN
the valley
The sun was not yet up when Bou-
tons men, more thirsty for blood than
even the night before, demanded that
Captain Brandon should be led out and
shot Bouton was more than willing 10
oblige them He went over towherc the
captain was sitting on the ground, and
with the expression of a demon III his
yellow eyes he said;
Il owe you one, Captain Brandon.
The time has come when j can pay You
back with interest
Bouton motioncd 10 one If the
guards. who unbound the captains feet
and batic him riSe.
The captain obeyed without assist
ance and looked up from the place
where the men were drawn up with
their rifles 10 the entrance II the cave
and then To the cliffs and sky. but in
no place did his eye rest ON anything
that promised hops.
Are you rrady?' asked Bouton.
The captain made no reply; but,
drawing himself up he took position
between the two armed men who had
been guarding him.
Move on" commanded Bouton-
They led the captain To the edge OF
the cliff. As he went on he could hear
behind him the heartbroken cries uf
Alice and Nora, and once he turned his
eyes 10 look back at them.
DO you want To be blindfolded?"
asked Fairplay, who seemed TO b. IN
command Of the rifiemen.
"No, replied the captain II have
never feared 10 look death in the face. y
Ny men. said Bouton. advancing
with his rifle in hand To the front, II
demand the first shot "
He raised his weapon. but at tha, in
slant u sho, rang out from the cliffs and
Bouton tottercd and fell
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AWARDS BY IHEoRIsS.

\ wear sgo the Babcock test proved
that very Inefficient churuing had been
done AZ the milch COW test at the Bay
state fair. This year the same test
showed that this yenr's churning was
very well done. This leads the Illogical
Worcester spy" 20 say ''lt Is needles,
70 say that the reliable churn will still
remain So the standard for butter sweep
stakes AZ Worcester fairs, and th4t
awards by theories will find little favor
With the shrewd aud hard-heSded dairy.
men Of this part Of the commonwealth
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AMONG THE FARMERS.


lorrespondence on practical agricultural topics
Is so,ciied. Address all Communications In
tended tor this department 10 HKSRH u. HAN.
Paris. Me.
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\ feeding experiment has been CON
Quoted hv the Illinois experiment sta
tiou. the results Of which are worthy of
careful .r-c0tiou Il MAS conducted in
flushing c0 ,rd fstteuing hogs. These
experiments were msie in nine months
of the year, and show excellent work.
The average Of the sixteen lots showed
m II pounds live weight made from -
pounds of corn. With corn worth -
ce1ts per bu,hel this would make pork
cost 4 tribe over three cents q pound.
The poorest results were obtained from
wC~S done 10 January, which showed
rs 9j lhs. from one buShel Of corn fed 10
pig, weighing l0> lbs. each. The next
poo~,>t results were obtained Ia June,
July and August. aud showed y los.
per buShel OF corn fed 20 pigs weighing
POS lbs each. The third poorest result
Was Ia July. and shosed >.GG lbs. per
bu,hel FED 90 pigs Of 233 IN. weight. The
best work Was done in December and
showed lG u lbs from one hushel OF
coru.-Mirror and Farmer.
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pEALkE ~
t..... u-ls. AMI Chemicals, Toilet Aru
f, H.
r....lr.' INSCRIPTIONS accurately COMPOUND
r-r ~,.rs,Aut'- Headache Pc~ders.'
Nn.- oJI Fellows Block,
SOUTH PARIS, MAINE
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THE WELDON ESTATE.
By ALFRED r. CALHOUN.
CHAPTER XVIII.

lCopyright. lsso. by American Press Associar
tion.l
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rHs PIG PEN.
THE LIGHT WEIGHT HOG

Until comparatively recent years the
biggest was best" In pork. Now, how
ever, there Il little demand for big Joints,
which In cooking are found 10 waste
very much, while the grossness Of the
Tat renders Il distastetul 20 any but the
strongest digestions. SAYS an exchange /;
When high prices were maintained
in beef and mutton, pork was the only
meat within the reach OF the laboring
classes, sud they had little opportunity
of choosing their joints, This, however,
has all been changed, and with greater
variety Of meats 20 select from, the
houSeSeeper has become somewhat epicu-
rean in choosing her meat, aud hence the
packing trade finds now that coarse, fat
laden hog products hold not their old
time place. There Is now considerable
% maud for i0i0fS Ot fresh pork, sn4
these must be furnished IL PORK l., ,u
compete NJ all with beef aui mutton. lt
is not. therefore, surprising that the
packer joytuily greets the light, lean
hog,
The altering conditions will, OF
course. demand that a wide difference of
price he shown in the purchase of de>ir-
able hogs as AZ sinst those which are not
desirable, and in This way the latter will
BE- relegated 10 is proper position ia the
m trke'. and the farmer will get his les
son. A. packers are prepared 10 pay the
highest price FOR hogs averaging from
lj0 to l75 pounds, the typical hog should
br one which i tit TO Kill al that weight,
and until standard i established il
might d. = good idea for packers to take
on 80 much per hundred until a uniform
weight l. obtained. 10 must not he for
gotten. however. that il costs less 10
produce twenty pounds ot meat after a
hog reaches leo pounds than 1t does he
fre. There Is proportionately less
frame % build up, and less lean In pro-
portion - fat i made. IL costs less 20
produce fat than 20 build up frame and
make lean meat, SO it is not necessarily
correct 20 Kill hogs AZ l6O pounds. IL.
however, a hog i suitshle 10 kill at that
weight, advantage may Ne taken Of the
condition of the market 20 dispose OF IL
when the oW uer thinks best"
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Why Prices Have Declined.

But what Is it. then. that has caused the de-
cline Of pricesf ! appeal to your common
sense Do you think that when one man, aid
ed by machinery, does IA much productive
work as formerly ten or more did. and when
our modern means Of transportation carry the
product from the producer to the consumer
with five times the speed at one-dfth the cost,
and when In the transmission OF intelligence
time is quite and cost almost annihilated, do
you think that then the product OF human
isbor ahould not In due proportion become
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1896-10-20

What will happen meanwhilef The Sc. Louis
Globe-DomOcrat reports Mr.. Bryan to have
said some time ago II think IL, meaning the
victory Of the free coinage movement, "will
cause a panic. But the country Is in deplor-
able condition, and IL will take extreme meas
ures TO restore 1t tn condition of prosperity.
whereupon the st. Louis paper pointedly re-
marks, Evidently Mr. Bryan has heard OF the
doctor who always threw his patient into fits
before administering any curative medicine.
Just 80.
How, then, would Mr.. Bryan's aft" worki
The sudden disappearance Of our gold from
circulation would produce the most stringent
contraction Of the currency on record. Busi-
ness men who owe money and at the same
time have money due them will be forced to
collect that money by every means at their
disposal. Nobody will be inclined to lend out
any money except upon extraordinary secu-
rity. The banks will naturally consider IL their
duty to keep themselves strong. and there
fore to call In loans and TO restrict their dis
counts and advances to business men with the
utmost caution. Business establishments,
manufactures. mercantile houses. unable to
get the money for meeting their obligations,
will by the hundreds succumb to their embar'
rassments and tumble down like row OF
bricks. Others win cautiously restrict their
operations to the narrowest possible limit, and
wage earners by the thousands viii lose their
employment and be turned into the street.
No class Of society will be spared the de-
structive consequences. Every frightened
creditor, pressed by his own creditors and ap'
prehensivo Of q growing loss by every days
delay, will eagerly pounce upon his debtors.
The prompt settlement OF every account will
be peremptori,y demanded. Our farmers who
have mortgages on their property and who
have been told that free coinage will make
things exceedingly easy for them will have
some unexpected experienced Every mortgage
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PERSONAL.

Harry Weiss, of Tyrone, was visitor to
town yesterday.
b. h. Tally, of Baltimore, Md. is guest
of town friends.
Joseph Knipple, Jr., of West Coal street, is
suffering from typhoid fever.
David Owens and George w. KEEPER spent
to-day fishing at Roaring Creek.
Miss Cora Zimmerman, Of West Strawberry
alley, is suffering from typhoid fever.
Harry and George Davidson left town last
night to test the streams above Hazleton.
Misses Ada Brewer and Jennie Haas, of
Girardville, were town visitors last evening.
Mrs. Peter Halenbach, of West Lloyd
street, presented her hubsand with son
! yesterday.
Harry Wasley is in Philadelphia attending
! the commencement exercises of the College
of Pharmacy, in the Academy of Music, of
which his brother, Frederick is a graduate.
Messrs. Lawrence NIangan, David Hover
and Frank Schooner are attending the an
nual meeting of the First Defenders at
Washington, D. Co. this week.
Messrs Charles Schelly, compositor, and J
J. O'Connor, local editor of the Daily Ameri-
can, Mahanoy City, were attendants at the
leap year party last evening. Mr.. O'ConnoI
was great favorite as waltaer among the
ladies' for which he is fast winning good
reputation for himself.
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That delightful little summer resort,
Lakeside, which furnishes thousands of
workers in the coal fields with a day of re-
creation, is to be made even more attractive
than before. The park and the hotel are
fortunate in having for their manager this
season man of broad experience at large
resorts, and his energy and ideas of the
needs of the place have already begun to
show themselves very substantially. The
manager for 1896 is f. A. Mcclure who in
previous seasons was the proprietor of the
Palace Hotel in the Catskills, a summer hotel
provided with all the facilities with which a
modern hotel is equipped. The Palace ac-
comodated $50 boarders and rates were from
SIS to S18 week. 1t is partly with veiw
of accommodating this class of summer trade
that the Lakeside Hotel is now being refitted.
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The Supreme Court handed down an opin-
ion declaring valid a five-year contract made
by City Councils The opinion is the result
of an appeal taken from the courts of Berks
and Delaware counties. Both in the cities of
Chester and Reading fve-year contracts for
street lighting were entered into between
Councils and certain electric light companies.
In Reading the City Controller refused to
approve the contract, or approve warrants
for the payment of lighting bills, and the
matter was taken into court, Judge Ermen-
trout deciding no contract for a longer term
than one year could be entered into by the
City Council. The Metropolitan Electric
Light Company took an appeal to the
Supreme Court which now declares the
contract valid. This will settle a question
that has been in doubt for sometime.
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The First Defenders.

The thirty-ffth anniversary of the response
to President Lincoln's call to arms was
fittingly inaugurated to-day by the remnant
of the body of brave men who left Schuyl-
kill county to travel the same route to the
nations capital that they did in 1861. The
Pottsville Defenders were escorted to the
Reading depot by the Pottsville Cadets this
afternoon, boarding the 2:12 special train for
Reading. The scene to-day from that of
thirty-five years ago was very different one.
1t was mere corporaPs guard that marched
to the beat of the drum this afternoon, wear
ing bronze badges awarded them by the
government in recognition of their services.
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PITHY POINTS.
Happenings Throughout the Region Chron-
icled for Hasty Perusal.

Soda water signs are out.
High Constable McKeon is kept busy re-
moving dead cats and dogs.
A Reformed church is to be erected at
Cherryville, near Pinegrove.
Supervisor Lewellyn has completed his
West Centre street mud contract.
Port Clinton wants factory of some kind
and they have a population of only 700
Shamollin is promised building boom for
this summer, which will eclipse last years,
Carpenters are making good progress on the
Main street building Keiter has moved into.
The new Union Safe Deposit Bank, at
Pottsyille, was opened for business to-day
A choir will be organized in Mahanoy City
to compete at the Shamokin eisteddfOd
or Labor day.
The Memorial Day oration for Gowen Post
! No. %, G. A. R., will be delivered by District
Attorney Bechtel,
The bond of II. w. Becker, treasurer of
GirardWlle, in the sum of $4,000, was
approved by court.
| Letters of administration were granted to
Josiah Briesh on the estate of Nelson Brandon,
| late of East Union township, deceased.
Hugh Murphy, OF Lost Greek, was ar
raigned before Squire Elias Kssinger, of
Girardville, charged with assault and battery
on oath of his wife, Mrs. Jennie Murphy.
Murphy furnished bail in the sum of $500 for
his appearance at court
The music furnished at the leap year party
last night by John W. Curtin, cornet; James
Reilly, violin, and Warren J. PertZ, pianist
and conductor, was excellent and greatly
appreciated. The trio has now formed a
permanent organization and will endeavor to
discourse all the latest dance music at any of
| their engagements
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Killed This Morning,

William Haffler, of Mahanoy City, en-
ployed as miner at the North Mahanoy
colliery was instantly killed by fall of
rock and coal this morning. Haffier was
engaged in prying out lump of coal and
was on his knees when the fall occurred.
The deceased was 2s years old and leaves a
wife and two small children. He was a
brother of the young man that was injured
in the railroad accident at Locust Summit last
Saturday
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ReadIng's Relief Association.

The statement of the Philadelphia &
Reading Railroad Relief Association for the
month of March, 1896, shows payments of
benefits aggregating S17,619,sO, On account
of deaths, $7,147; on account of accidents,
disablements, S4,534.4O. Thirteen death
claims were paid, four occurring from acci-
dents and nine from natural causes. The
total number of new cases reported during
the month was LOLA.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-04-15

This evening reunion Of the P. o. S. of
A. camps in this section will be held in the
lodge room of Camp "a, of Ashland The
program will prove an interesting one, and
the debates will be on leading subjects. The
three local camps will be represented.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-04-15

At the meeting of the State League of
base ball clubs yesterday afternoon, held at
Easton, it was decided to admit Shamokin to
take the place Of Reading. The vote showed
that seven were favorable to the transfer and
one against it, the latter being Pottsville,
The Reading team will now be transferred to
Shamokin.
Shamokin's new park is half way between
that town and Mt. Carmel, on the electric
railway line.
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Fishing Expedition.

Messrs. F. E. Magargle, Joseph Ball. John
Bobbin and John Weeks are being guided on
fishing expedition along Sandy Run to-day,
by Frank P Keck, of the MillhOpper Pack
ing Company, of Hazleton.
Drs. j S. Kistler and J, w. Erwin, have
also gone to catch speckled beauties.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-04-15
Burglars in shamokin.

shamokin had visit by burglars Saturday
night last when they broke into Harris &
Co.'S. pawnbroking shop ON Lincoln street /;
McHenry's liquor store, ON Independence
street Presslers shoe store, on Coal street.
and Christs hat store, on Rock street, steal
ing goods valued in the aggregate at about
5000. There is no clue to the robbers.
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Jas. Goodman e. Co.

Fresh lb. print creamery butter, 25c.
Fresh round print country roll butter, zoe
Fresh round tub butter per h., 20c.
Fresh eggs per doz., 14c.
Penna. potatoes, bushel lots, 25c
4-g-tf 27 West Centre street.
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For Sale.

A brand new 500 Reading Relay Especial
Flyer" bicycle, '96 model, never used. Also
a secondhand American bicycle '95 model.
Apply to j. NJ. Mullahey, 209 East Centre
street. 4-11-tf
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Obituary.

David Faust prominent resident of
Auburn, dropped dead in his yard Monday
evening while making minor repairs about
his premises. He was rs years old and leaves
family of six grown up daughters and
son.
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Jersey Mosauito prand

Children's shoes made and sold only by the
Factory Shoe Store, They are the cheapest
and best in Shenandoah. 4-lO-tf
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Marrlage LIeenses Granted.

John r, Jones and Hannah Deitzel, both of
Mahanoy City; Anthony Sobolefsh and Mrs.
Mary Meienkiewich, both of Shenandoah;
Marcin Krawczyk and Jozefa Polouka, both
of Shenandoah; Jozef Dworek and Appolina
Mabon, both of Shenandoah Adolph Van
quelef and Laura May, both of Mahanoy
township.
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shnmnl,in Admitted bal the Lenrne.

Almond, walnut and filbert macaroons for
sale at w. V. OttO's
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Whitelocks shoe store you can buy good
shifting shoe for $1.O0, See them it pays
you to buy there.
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p. O. S. of A. Reunion.

Whitelock's is the cheapest shoe store in
town.
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Try our mems and boys Scribe shoes at
81 25, other stores ask you Sl.5O for one not so
good. All styles and sizes.
FACTORY SHOE STORE,
4-1O-tf j. A. MOYER Mgr.
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EVENING GHERALD
WEDNESDAY, APRIL Is, 1896.
Shenandoah Directory.

Business men and Others who have not yet
secured one of the directories of Shenandoah,
just issued, can obtain one by making appli-
cation at this office. The price is only $500,
and there are only few left No business
man can afford to be without one of these
books. 2-2l-t
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There This is just the Thing.
Red Flag Oil-for sprains and bruises. At
Gruhler Bros, drug store.
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Pan-Tina II What is it?


The greatest cure for coughs and colds. Al
Gruhler Bros, drug store