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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-12-10
NOTICE.
PROBATE NOTICES.

To all persons Interested in either Of the estates
hereinafter named:
At a Probate Court held at Rumford. In and for
the County OF oxford. on the 2d Tuesday or Now.
in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hun
bred and one. the following matter having been
presented for the action thereupon hereinafter
indicated, it Is hereby ORDERED:
That notice thereof be given to all persons In
terested, by causing copy of this order to be
published three weeks successfully In the OK
ford Democrat, q newspaper published at South
Paris, In said County, that they may appear at
Probate Court TO be held at said Paris, on the
third Tuesday OF Dec. A. ID. 1901, az nine OF the
clock In the forenoon, and be heard thereon IL
they see cause:
CHARLES L. BLACK, late Of Canton, de-
ceased. Petition for the appointment of John
Z. Swasey or some other suitable person as
administrator presented by William T. Dresser
a creditor.
SETH BABB, late Of Peru. deceased. Peti-
tion for an allowance out Of personal estate pre-
sented by Dolly X. Babb, widow.
ADDISON e. HERRICK. Judge Of said Court.
ALBERT d. PARK. Register.
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Delaware.

Delaware has been called the Dia-..
mond State, for, though small In size
It formerly was of great political im-\
portance. 1t also enjoys the nickname
of the Blue Hen State, this having been
bestowed on account of n gentleman
named Caldwell, who made the state
famous in sporting annals by the quail
ity of his gamecocks, which he always
bred from the eggs of blue hen, be-
lieying that this was the best color for
the mother Of a gamecock.
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How the Ml.t1etoe Come. to Be.


The story Of how the mistletoe gets
on the trees Is a most interesting one.
Covering the mistletoe twigs are pearly
white berries. These come in the WIN
ter season, when food Is comparatively
scarce, and hence some Of our birds
eat them freely. Now, when a robin
eats a cherry he swallows simply the
meat and flps the stone away. The
seed of the mistletoe the bird cannot
flip. 1t is sticky and holds to his bill.
His only resource Is to wipe 1t of, and
he does so, leaving 1t sticking to the
branches of the tree on which he Is
sitting at the time.
This seed sprouts after time, and,
not finding earth-which, indeed, Its
ancestral habit has made 1t cease want
ing-it sinks it's roots into the bark of
the tree and hunts there for the pipes
that carry the sap. Now, the sap In
the bark Is the very richest In the tree,
far richer than that in the wood, and
the mistletoe gets from its host the
choicest of food. With strange fore
sight it does not throw its leaves away,
as do most parasites, but keeps them
to use In winter, when the tree Is leaf
less. - Professor S. G. Schmucker In
Ladies' Home Journal.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-12-10
WHAT TO FEED.

The high price of feed and the rela-
lively low price Of dairy products and
stock intended for the butcher makes the
feeding problem an important one, and
farmers will have to exercise great care
lest the product will be less than the
cost of production. Examining market
quotations for grains in the local press
we see that the average quotation for
bran is Sl4; oil meal, $26; gluten meal,
S27; barley, so cents; oats 80, and corn
As cents.
Assuming that feed is valuable in pro-
portion to the digestible matter it con-
tains, and taking corn meal as a basis,
We find that 100 pounds of digestible
matter costs in the food stuffs mention
ed as follows:
In corn, s1.OO; bran, s1.29; barley,
Sl.32; oats, Sl.55; gluten meal, S1.69,
and in oil meal, Sl.SS. In the expert
ment reported in. bulletin II of the Min
nesota station it appears that a pound
of digestible matter in ration Of equal
parts of corn, barley and oats was just
as potent for milk production as was a
pound of digestible matter in a mixture
of corn, barley, bran and gluten meal; and,
in fact, the cows receiving former ration
returned IA lbs. of milk per ID. of di-
gestible matter consumed, while those
receiving the latter ration yielded 1.2
lbs. In general way it is the better
way, these times, to make the grain
mixture of equal parts of corn, barley
and bran, or equal parts of corn, shorts
and bran. Oats is most excellent milk
feed, but will be found little more ex-
pensive than bran:
At present price of feed and average
steers the outlook for profit in beef pro-
duction is not as bright as could be
wished. A pound of digestible nutri-
ment in a grain ration of corn, barley
and bran at the local prices quoted is
1.3 cents, and in an experiment reported
in bulletin 81 it is shown that under the
most favorable circumstances when
steers were making an average daily gain
of 1-2 pounds, it required six pounds
of diges tible matter for pound of gain.
some of the gain may be
credited to the coarse feed which is rel
atively cheaper, and there is also
credit due the feed in the fertilizing con-
stituents that will be left on the farm by
feeding it to stock. 1t is only by judi
cious feeding and keeping stock sheltered
that farmers will be enabled to hold
their own under the peculiar market
conditions existing at present. In any
svent it would be poor policy to make a
sacrifice by selling off stock, for by an
other year prices will doubtless be high
Or and feed more abundant. Therefore
carry all the stock possible through the
winter, keeping it on a maintenance
ration if one cannot afford to do better
by it.-Farm, Stock and Home.
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FALL FLOWING AND MOISTURE.

The plowing of land and conservation
of moisture have close relation in crop
production. Land plowed in late fall or
early spring will retain moisture better
than when plowed when the heavy
spring rains have. passed. 1t stands a
summer drought with less damage, and
that is usually an important item. But
there is another side to the question,
says Alva Agee in National Stockman,
and that is the side that was most prom
inent last spring. The weather was very
wet until the middle of June, and we
wanted the land dry enough to plant. l
had five acres of clover sod broken for
potatoes, and while it remained mellow
surprisingly so-it would not get, dry
enough below the surface for the har-
row. The frost had left it loose, and it,
too, was capable of holding moisture.
Had it been broken in the spring, the
air could have entered it after rains, and
the planting could have been done be-
tween rains. The result was that only a
part of the field got planted at all with
potatoes, the remainder going to late
corn, and there was considerably less
income from the field than would have
been gotten had / done the right way.
1t was the wrong season to fix the soil
to trap moisture. / have similar field
for next year. and shall take my chances
with spring plowing-and maybe miss
ii again.
Some people believe that fall plowing
is always wrong, but it may be for them
while it is right for another. l know
good farming sections where renter
could not hold farm more than one
year if he failed to have all sod for spring
crops broken before mid-winter. And
this land is not far north where frost
locks it up tight for months. This soil
needs full exposure to the freezes and
thaws of winter, and experience has
shown that it produces much better than
it would if it were left unbroken until
spring. Other land is injured by fall
plowing, running together or teaching
badly.
The practice of the careful farmers of
a locality is usually right for that local
ity, whether it be fall plowing or spring
blowing or sod land. Much depends
upon the nature of the soil and the
character of the crop to be planted. But
oftentimes it is the character of the sea-
son that makes one practice or the other
the best, and the man who lacks faith in
long-range almanacs is stranded.
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THE NEW ENGLAND CORN CT

In the western corn belt we are not
much in the habit of thinking of the
New England corn crop, nor, indeed, of
recognizing the fact that there is such a
thing. The crop, nevertheless, exists,
and a study of the conditions under
which it is produced, and of the yield
secured, affords lessons that the western
corn grower might lay to heart and
profit by.
This year the results of the corn har-
vest in New England are said to be ex-
tremely gratifying in the cribbmg and
making into silage of the largest corn
crop ever harvested in New England.
With prices as they are this is great
thing for the New England farmer, who,
in spite of the fact that he grows corn
under conditions which, if they existed
in the West, would prevent the western
farmer from trying to grow corn at all
nevertheless secures larger yields per
acre than are obtained in any of the So
called corn belt states. For example,
during the ten years ending the season
of 1900, the corn crop yield ranged from
thirty-two to forty-two bushels, with an
average of thirty-seven bushels; in Yer
mont, the range was from thirty-twO to
forty-two bushels, with an average Of
thirty-nine bushels; and in Massachu-
sets it was from thirty-two to fOrty-two
bushels, with an average of about thirty
eight bushels. Comparing these yields
with the average yields of the corn belt
states during the same period it will be
found that the latter owe their pre-em-
inence, not to the yields per acre which
they secure, but to the large acreage
they plant.
The lesson which thoughts of the New
England corn crop inculcate ought to
suggest itself at once. The climate lis
bleak, the soil is poor, all the environ
ment that nature furnishes is adverse,
yet by dint of good methods alone the
New England farmer secures large
yield per acre on, every acre he grows.
In the prairie states the conditions which
nature furnishes are ideal. Corn is a
child of the sun, and it gets the sun. 1t
is coarse, gross feeder, and in the West
it has opportunity to feed on soil that at
least has been unsurpassed in fertility in
the world, and yet relatively the average
yield per acre is low because, on the
average, the methods of cultivation are
low. This view is confirmed by the fact
that there are many farmers who by the
use of better methods habitually and
easily secure yields per acre that are
double the average.
If there is any one thing that the study
of agricultural conditions in the West
clearly proves, it is the fact that average
4 L. g. ,h., alrap
his calling profitable must raise himself
by a study of his work and by attention
to its details, to a point very much above
the average. That it can be done is
clearly proved by the fact that it is done,
and part of the coming winters study
on the farm, which must be carried on
by each farmer for himself, should be
that of methods whereby each may thus
rise above the average in crop prOduc-
tion.-Live Stock Indicator.
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The 0Anpry Tree"

The "angry tree" a woody plant
which grows from ten to twenty-five
feet high, and which was formerly
supposed to exist only In one state
in the Union, Nevada, has been found
both In eastern California and In Ari'
zona. II disturbed, this peculiar tree
shows every sign Of vexation, even to
ruffiing up It's leaves like the hair Oh
an angry cat and giving forth an un'
pleasant, sickening odor.
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Brass.

Brass is an alloy Of tin and copper.
and analysis Of the earliest existing
specimens demonstrates that 1t was
formerly manufactured In the proper
tions of one part Of tin to nine OF cop
per. A notice in Genesis fixes the dis
covery and use Of both these metals.
according to the Bible, at between
1904 and 1895 years before the Chris
tian era.
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Hatter1.

There are pour batters, drop batters
and doughs, all depending on the guam
tity of -four used with the liquid used.
Generally speaking, one full measure
of flour to n scant measure of liquid
makes a pour batter, two full measures
Of -four a drop batter and three full
measures dough. Something, OF
course, depends on the liquid and the
quality of the -four.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-12-10
kICk A DOG
Kick a dog and he bites you.

Kick a dog and he bites you.
He bites you and you kick him.
The more you kick the more
he bites and the more he bites
the more you kick. Each
makes the other worse.
A thin body makes thin
blood. Thin blood makes a
thin body. Each makes the
other worse. If there is going
to be a change the help must
come from outside.
SCOTS Emulsion is the right
help. 1t breaks up such a
combination. First it sets the
stomach right. Then it en-
riches the blood. That
strengthens the body and it
begins to grow new flesh.
A strong body makes rich
blood and rich blood makes a
strong body. Each makes the
other better. This is the way
SCOTS Emulsion puts the thin
body on its feet. Now it can
get along by itself. No need
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puly Thankful.

And now one Of the professors says
It will be 100000 years before the
sun goes out. Thanks! We are In need
Of Just that sort of consolation every
time we're called OH to settle the gas
bill.-Atlanta Constitution.
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Don't you think the first year Of
married life the most'trying one. Mr..
BenedickW
~ did at the end Of 1t, but since then
I have given each recurring year the
credit."-New York Herald.
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NOTICE.
In the District Court OF the United States for
the District Of Maine. In Bankruptcy,
In the matter Of
Of Buckaeld, Bankrupt.
To the creditors Of Edwin L. Phinney In the
County Of Oxford and district aforesaid:
Notice Is hereby given that on the Snth day OF
Nov, A. ID. l9oi, the said Edwin L. Phinney
was duly adjudicated bankrupt, and that the
6rst meeting Of his creditors WIN be held sf the
Court House, In South Paris. on the soeh DAY
of Dec, A. ID. 1901, as 10 O'Clock In the
forenoon, az which time the said creditors may
attend. prove their claims. appoint trustee. ex-
anime the bankrupt and transact such osner
business a. may properly come before SAID
meeting.
South Paris. Dec. .. 1901.
GEO. A. WILSON,
Referee In Bankruptcy.
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One of the greatest stumbling blocks
to successful dairying is the average
cow. She eats rs much as her betters
and returns half as much for value re-
ceived. The object of her creation was
for most everything, and for this reason
she can be of no great value for any one
thing.
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fell exhausted among the bushes.
When he recovered his senses. he
found himself In the cabin of q mujik.
who had picked him up and cared for
him and to whom he owed his life.
For how long a time had he been the
guest Of this brave Siberian? He could
not guess. but when he opened his eyes
he saw the handsome bearded face
bending oyer him and regarding him
with pitying eyes. He was about to
ask where he was when the mujik. an
tlcipating him. said:
F. EDO not speak. little father. do not
speak. Thou art still too weak. ! will
tell thee where thou art and everything
that has passed since I brought thee to
my cabin"
And the mujik related to Michael
StrogoR the different Incidents Of the
struggle which he had wltnessed-the
attack upon the ferry by the Tartar
boats. the; pillage of the tarantass and
the massacre Of the boatmen.
: But Michael Strogon listened no lon
ggr, and, slipping his hand under his
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AH Stuffed Up

That's the condition of many sufferers
from catarrh, especially in the morning.
Great difficulty is experienced in clear
ing the head and throat.
No wonder catarrh causes headache,
impairs the taste, smell and hearing,
pollutes the breath, deranges the stom-
ach and affects the appetite.
To cure catarrh, treatment must be
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and tonic.
II was afflicted with catarrh. took
medicines of different kinds, giving each
3 fair trial; but gradually grew worse until
could hardly hear, taste'or smell. then
concluded to try Hoods Sarsaparilla, and
after taking five bottles l was cured and
have not had any return OF the disease
SINCE" EUoENE FORBES, Lebanon, Kan.
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CHAPTER VII.

with the clear PEI.
ception of a right mind.
ed woman. guessed that
some secret motive d.
rected all Michael Str0-
gon's actions; that he for
q rea son unknown to her
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of medicine.

OF medicine.
This picture represents
the Trade Mark of Scott's
Emulsion and is on the
wrapper of every bottle.
Send for free sample.
SCOTT & BOVINE,
4oe Pearl ST.. New York.
soc. and s.. all druggists.
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AMONG THE FARMERS.
"sPn9D THE PLow."

on practical agricultural topics
ts solicited Address all communications In
tended for this department to HENRY ID.
HAMMOND, Agricultural Editor Oxford Dem
ocrat. Paris. Ne.
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Hoods C1rSap0riii1

Cures catarrh-it soothes and strength
ems the mucous membrane and builds
up the whole system.
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CHAPTER VII.

IE blow which had struck
Michael Strogoft was not
mortal. By swimming In
a manner by which he
had effectually concealed
himself he had reached
the right bank, where be
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true copy-AttestA
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-23
MINDS OF ANIMALS
ERNEST sEToN-THOMPSoN LEG
TURES TO LARGE AUDIENCE.

The Y. M. c. AS entertainment course
lad an suspicious opening last evening.
The Peoples church was completely
filled with an audience gathered TO hear
Mr.. Ernest Thompson Seton's talk on
1.-THE Minds of Animals He began
with brief reference to the relative POI
sitionS occupied by men and animals as
lately as 600 years ago, when the latter
at different times wiped out whole local.
tiles of men. The bow and arrow in the
hands of man first helped him to gain the
supremacy, and gunpowder completed tbs
work, until now. the danger is all TIE
other way and wild animal races win
soon become extinct unless more e.
fectiye measures are taken to protect
them.
The wonderful instincts of animals diff
fering not in kind but only in degree
from mans have taught the lower
creatures to be on their guard. Where
formerly it was a comparatively easy
matter to catch them by traps or a
poisoned carcass it is now almost an
impossibility. They have learned to
avoid danger by letting man alone. Mr..
Seton does not understand the language,
but he says there is no doubt but that
the mother animals teach their young
that man is to be stunned.
Herds of animals have usually leader
not as one might think, the largest and
strongest male, but more often an elder
ly female whose one weak point M.
Seaton facetiously pointed out, is curl
osity and illustrated his statement with
the story of a little black wolf that was
caught by the f1utter of piece of cot
ton batting which Mr.. Seton had fastened
on the top of Spanish bayonet and
guarded on either side by traps cleverly
concealed.
The lecture was illustrated with stere-
opticon views made by Mr.. Seton, and
some particularly beautiful instantaneous
views made at night by Mr.. -Shiparus, or
Pittsburg, Pa.
In the afternoon the church was cons
pleteiy filed with school children VINO
were held spelIbound by the speakers
graphic anecdotes of animals and birds.
Several hundred children were unable
to gain entrance to the church and the
doors were locked to prevent undue
crOwdinp
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-23
FUTURE OF CHINA
PROF. LEoNG KAI TIEN, OF CAN
TON, VISITS ST.
PAUL
FAITH IN REFORM PARTY
Dowager Empress and Her Clique
Must Be Oyerthrosvn or China
VIII Be Par
titiOned.

Prof. Leong Kai Tien, of Canton,
China, who Is touring the country in the
interest of the Chinese Empire Reform
Society Of China, is in the city. Although
he speaks no English, he gave an inter-
view to T he Globe last evening
through his interpreter, Gong Ne, OF
Portland, Or. Prof Tien says the only
hope for maintaining the Chinese empire
intact is to restore the emperor and de-
pose the dowager empress If this is
done China will adopt the civilization Of
the West and take her place along the
nations of the earth. If the reform party
cannot win in the great struggle that Is
on, the only thing that remains for China
is to be divided among the powers of the
earth. This is a thing that few, II any,
of the people of the Celestial empire de-
sire. Prof. Tien says if the reform party
does not succeed in restoring the young
emperor to the throne, it will only be
short time until the Boxers will begin an
other revolution.
Prof. Tien was for several years the
head of the Chineee department of the
Tai Tung college at Yokohama, Japan,
and is greatly interested in all matters
of education and reform. He is touring
the country now in the interest of the
Reform Society of China and is speak
ing in every large city to the people of
ere so important to the welfare of their
country. Not only is he lecturing upon
reform methods, but he is making thor
ough study of American customs and IN
sStitutions. He will return to China and
write q book of travels in the new world,
in which he will thoroughly explain what
he has seen here and set forth the bene-
fits to be derived by adopting them. He
has been In America nearly. two years,
having visited all TIE important cities
of Canada and of the western part of the
United States His tour will keep him
away from China for at least two years
longer.
Prof. Tien, while he is studying all re-
form methods in this country, is paying
especial attention to American methods
of teaching as employed in the public
schools of the land. He says the present
administration in China Is trying to keep
the people in ignorance, and all that is
taught in the schools there is the phil
osophy Of Confueius. It is not even pos
sible for a boy to take UP study Of
mathematics in the schools as they are
conducted now.
Prof. Tien is travelling in company with
Gong He, an educated merchant of Port
land, who is acting as his interpreter.
Gong He is an ardent advocate of the
reform movement in China and is doing
what he can to further it's interests. In
connection with his business he is MAX
ing a thorough study Of electrical engi-
neering and has made wonderful prog
ress in this line. He is at the present
time engaged in translating several works
on electricity and magnetism from the
English into Chinese.