Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1899-10-31
STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST.

STATE ITEMS or INTEREST.
Tons Of game from the northern
woods are being shipped each day
through Bangor.
The way In which deer and bears are
being shipped out over the Warrington
County Railroad indicates that the new
road has opened'up great game region.
II Maine farmers do not 20 to raising
cattle for the beef market It will not
be because the papers have failed to
J give them sufficient advice on the sub
ject.
/ The naughty boy 10 Houlton who
falsely told his teacher that scarlet fever
had broken out 10 his house and 90, OF
course, he couldn't 90 to school, 60,
tired OF his vacation In two days and
again reported for Lessons. This alarm
ed the teacher who Immediately hunted
up the boys parents aud discovered th,
deception. The boy now wishes he had
attended school right along.
Deacon Dodge Of Southwest Hsrbor Is
73 years old but he is as ardent wheel.
man as he IL a Baptist. Recently he
went to Cherry field TO attend the state
convention, making the trip both ways,
100 miles In all, on his wheel. On th'
return trip he stopped only for lunch,
and made the 50-mile run Ia few hours
His friends say they will not be surprised
to hear him boasting some day OF CEN
tury run.
A Lewiston young lady, whose genu-
Inc interest 10 botany materislized In
valusble collection OF some 400 local
specimens within u couple OF years, J,
one of the few who have successfully
trsnspls nted msny wild flowers to =
garden. Some question recently arose
a. to the pitcher plant. that odd-shaped,
rather unfamiliar inhxbitsnt Of Ncw
England. Several specimens OF this Sara
cenis purpures, sometimes also called the
s,dessddIe flower and huntsmsn's cup,
have thrived for nearly seven years In 3
city garden quite AS II they were 10 their
native soil.
The Bath Times evidently has had an
exclusive interview with the clerk OF the
weather and ssys: A nearly as we csl
find out the coming winter will be cold
unless the mercury does not fall. There
will be more or less snow, with an occs-
sionai fall OF rain. and the wind will
vary between northeast and the west. IL
will be safe To navigate the Atlantic coast
most OF the time excepting during high |
winds, stormy or fogRy weather. The
sun will shine every pleasant day. The
coldest weather will fall between Decem
ber and February 2s. The temperature |
will he moderate after that.
Says a Portland newspaper womsn:
"when began writing for the papers
Is years ago, my husband used TO say |
when reported back from an assign
ment, You had better take your notes
over 10 the house and write them out /; |
they are not used to q woman round an |
office To-day there 10 not newspaper |
Office In Portland where women are not |
employed In some capacity. IL is with
distinc. thrill Of satisfaction that look
upon the jackets and sailors hanging up
In the anterooms and see busy little
women absorbed In their tasks. IL is 10
my mind one Of the most significant
signs OF the times"
The following is rather too suggestive
OF Lubec and Jernegsu for eastern Maine
people: Won't IL make boom for Pop
ham Beach when Edison gets into the
business of extracting gold from sand.
Il 10 said he expects u, do it at the rate
OF 0.OO0 day. The process IL ny cleo
triclty. The plan looks somewhat more
feasible thsn that Of extracting gold from
salt water, at least II has = more solid
foundation. When he comes this way |
with his machine he will find plenty OF
ssnd 10 operate upon st Pophsm. Aud
when that gives out he can tackle Old
Orchard beach, and several other places
on our coast.
Aroostook County, that wonderland
Of Msine, ts st present enjoying one OF
the most prosperous seasons In its his
tory, and Il might not be stretching the
truth to say the very best season In Its
history. As Is well known the county
presents the best farming section OF the
state and everything Il favoring the
farmers this year. The splendid potato
crop, which II not up TO some great years
In the past In quantity k far ahead in
quality, is supplemented by the best
wheat crop ever raised In Aroostook and
fine oxt crop, With almost all other
crops In proportion, and as . result
many mortgages on Aroostook farms
will vanish entirely or be materially |
diminished this season.
II I, the PresQ1e Isle Stsr.Herald that
passes along = story OF man VINO
planted = two-scre field OF potstoes; the
plot of ground being on 4 side hill, where
the rays OF the afternoon sun shone
directly upon Ii. During . few warm
DAYS In August the ground became 80
dry and parched that the heat penetrated
deep enough to strike the growing tu-
bers. Instead OF causing them to rot or
become burned the Star-Herald gravely |
asserts that the potatoes melted and ran
together, like 90 much melted Iron, con-
solIdatiug the whole field into one huge
potato about one inch In thickness. The
farmer did not discover what had hap
pened until he began digging. Now, In
stead OF putting potatoes In barrels 10 De
hauled up from the field, he cuts them
up into cakes about q foot square and
packs them In boxes.
The Bowdoin Orient has this loyal de-
fence Of our good old state that every
collegian should paste 10 his hat: zone
Of the objections Of disadvantages some
times laid 1t Bowdoin's door is that her
students are nearly all Maine men. We
grant the fact, nor are We ashamed OF It.
Maine stock, Maine men, Maine brains
have been prominent since Maine was.
And in those Maine products Bowdoin
has had no small share. Look over your
college catalogue; see the number OF
graduates born and bred In Maine; look
At them a few years later. Where are
they? Still in Msine9 Alas for her, but
too few OF them. In Massachusetts,. In
New York, In the South, In the West
they are; but wherever they went and do
now 20, they carried and do now carry
yieor and sturdlness and independence
that Maine planted and Bowdoin water
ed. II any one speaks slightingly OF
the number OF Maine men 10 Bowdoin,
tell him what Maine IL and what she
stands for"
Niee Little Elopement.
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