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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-01-01
GRADING up A HERD.

To a great many farmers who would
like to improve the dairy quality OF
their herds, it looks like long ways
ahead to produce any change through
improved breeding. Yet in reality it
takes but few wears. Then again many
have but little faith in the idea of buy
ing thoroughbred sire and doing the
work that way. Such farmers, rs a
rule, have given the question of breed
ing but little study. Here is an example
which we quote from the Dublin Farm
ers' Gazette, showing the way an Eng
lish dalryman improved his herd and
the steps he took 10 do it:
About dozen Years ago the milk
of the cows composed in this herd, over
sixty in number, was carefully an9lyZed.
Nine Of the cows were found 10 be yield
ing milk showing over per cent of
butter fat, twenty-five were yielding
over II per cent, fourteen were yield
Ing over per ceut, and twenty-three
were WELDING under four per cent.
From this date onward calves were only
kept of the cows which yielded milk
showing over l-2 per cent of butter
fat, and the tribes of the Others were
gradually weeded out. By the aid OF 4
regularly kept record the product of
every COW is known, and none is kept
for anv length of time which does not
yield over 600 gallons per auuum. By
combining what is learned from the an
alysis and the milking record, and only
keeping calves from cows whose produce
is UP 20 the standard, alike in quantity
and quality, the milking properties OF
the cows have been so improved that at
present over 60 per cent OF its members
are yielding milk showing over per
cent, and 10 per cent are yielding milk
showing over l-2 per cent of butter
fat. This result has only been attained
by the exercise of great care and scru-
pulous attention in the selection of bulls,
and no sire is used without every inquiry
being made as TO the milking records of
his female ancestry.
We are not told that this dairyman
took advantage of sire OF more intense
and potent dairy blood in him. We
Judge he simply relied upon the potency
of one side of the proposition, that is
the cow side. Had he, for instance,
bred all these cows to the best dairy
sire he could get he would have short
ened the time wonderfully in securing a
heifer which would give milk larger
per cent Of butter fat than did her
mother.
The road to Improvement is simple
one, vet simple as il is, thousands seem
not TO find it at all, or if they find they
stumble in it very badly.-Hoard's
Dairyman.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-01-01
The Ior of n Shin.

4 ships log is an instrument for
measuring the rate ut which the vessel
is going and consists of three parts
viz, the log chip, the log line and the
log glass. The principle is simply this:
4 light substance thrown from the
vessel ceases to partake of the motion
Of the vessel as soon as 1t strikes the
water and will be left behind on the
surface after a certain interval If the
distance of the ship from this station
airy object be measured, the approx
mate rate of sailing will be given.
The log chip is the float, the log line
Is the measure Of the distance, and the
log glass defines the interval of time.
In the old days the heaving Of the log
required skill and watchfulness, but
since the patent log has come into use
no skill is required in finding the speed
of vessel 1t is regulated by clock
work, and the number of knots the YES
sci sails per hour is recorded on the
dial without any hand touching 1t.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-01-01
BY FLORENCE WARDEh

some Of his luggage here a few weeks
DackT
"Yes. yes. Well?'
1T was me who saw the last of him
when he left here. sir, and he went out
by himself, with just his little bag car
ried across him on strap"
by himself!'
"YeS. sir. But look you, as soon as
he had left the house, not more than
quarter of an hour after, there come VI
fellow who asked for him and who
went off after him, fellow | know
very well, sir
We'll. and who was it?"
1T was big. redheaded fellow. sir
who's employed on one of the sheer
farms over in the hills yonder. lie
comes in most every market day"
And can you tell me his name"
mo, sir. l only know him through
seeing him about. He drives in tht
sheep. and he buys and sells in tn.
market for his master. So I've gath
cred. A rough looking customer"
Reginald Masson's heart sank. Ther
passion of energy and anger seized
him. 1t was impossible to doubt tha,
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-01-01
FARMERS ARE NOT IGNORANT.

We dislike the tone Of resolution
passed by the National grange at its
last session calling on the experiment
stations to make up their bulletins in
more simple language and with less use
of technical terms, that the farmers, for
whom they are chiefly intended, may
understand their meaning and thus be
able to gain benefit from their study.
This same idea has been caught up by
some of the papers, and by writers who
are on the watch for something new to
say, till through these several channels
it has recently been given wide publicity.
We most emphatically disapprove of
the suggestion, and for the reason that
it is uncalled for, and further, that il
is reflection on the intellectual stand
ing of farmers as class. Farmers are
not set of stupid ounces capable of
understanding nothing but simple primer
terms. Thev are intelligent reading and
thinking men. While the vocabulary of
the literature of the farm has rapidly
and radically changed in recent years,
the farmers have surely kept more than
even pace with the change. 1t is an
error to infer that they are not familiar
with such scientific terms as are neces-
sary to clearly convey description of
the Investigations going on at the sta
tiOns and and a report OF the results
reached. Such terms as protein and
carbohydrates are as well understood by
stock feeders as by the scientists, and
the same holds true with the whole list
of scientific terms now in common use.
We are in receipt of most Of the station
bulletins and find none of them so laden
with technical language but they are
readily and clearly comprehended by
such farmers as read the agricultural
press of the day.
We have been agreeably surprised In
recent intercourse with gatherings OF
farmers to see how we'll posted they are
on all questions under consideration, in-
investigation and experiment at the
present time. The matter of clover in
agriculture, on which the Maine Farmer
has had much to say in the past few
years, came up the other day in a COM
pany of farmers, and to our surprise
they were experimenting with the fer
tilizing effects of clover on their soils
and with its claimed superior feeding
value in accord with recent teaching in
connection with that valuable plant.
This is only one instance. The same
holds true with other questions and
practices recently under consideration
and experimentation. From many of
them even teachers and stations can get
pointers from the farm. Such action by
the grange in National session was
therefore uncalled for and was a
reflection on the intelligence of the class
that organization is supposed to repre-
seut.-Farmer.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-01-01
R0!XALsF !:!!'!! y F:*":s s:::*s
y ABSOLUTELY Pure
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
Pure

Reginald raised his head. shook him
self clear from the thick white coat
ings of hard. dry snow and looked
around him for the traces Of the peas
ants footsteps.
They were gone, all trace Of them
swept away under the smooth white
sheet.
He shivered as he looked about him;
down into the dark waters of the
black tarn below him on his left hand;
ut the barren hills, on the sides Of
which great perpendicular slabs of
cold gray rock relieved the white mass
and disclosed the stony baroness of
the soil; at the lowering clouds above,
which seemed to be descending on his
head; ut the never ending prospect Of
hills, bare and cold and white and
melting into forlorn gray distances on
every side.
Look which way he would he could
see no sign Of human habitation. Chill
ed to the marrow with something
which was worse than cold, worse al
most than fear, he recognized the des-
perate situation in which he was plac-
ed and knew that the chances of his
getting back to Trecoed alive were
infinitesimally small.
Although he had left the inn before
noon, with the day before him, he saw
by his watch that it was already
o'clock, and the gray of the winter
evening was already gathering in the
valleys and ravines beneath.
Where should he turn? Not back by
the way he had come, even if that had
been possible. For he had passed not
hut. not cottage, and he could not
hope to find his road to Trecoed before
night fell
Making rapid exploration of the
small tableland on which he stood.
Reginald fancied that he deserted Ealf
way up the side of hill on his right.
Of lower elevation than the one upon
which he was standing and less rug
ged in appearance. n gray. shapelcss
something which looked like the frag-
ment of ruined building In his des-
perate plight even such chance Of Il
precarious shelter for the night as a
ruin might afford caused him senSa-
tion of something acute as joy.
To discover this possible refuge was
one thing. but to get to it was another.
So Reginald Mason soon found as he
started down that side of the mountain
which appeared to offer the most direct
route. This descent was the most peril
Gus thing he had undertaken that day;
the mountain was steep. strewn with
loose stones, and its pitfalls and in
equalities were hidden beneath the
snow.
ANY sort Of path or foot track was
of course not TO be discerned: way
had to b. found, haphazard, between
the jutting gray crags and stllnted
growth of rugged pine trees which
grew on the side of this hill 1T little
distance from the summit.
Having passed through the narrow
belt of wood. Mason found himself.
without warning, on the brink of per
pendicular cliff which formed one side
of a mountain pass 100 feet below lin.
The snow was falling heavily again.
the daylight had grown fainter. and
the ruin toward which his steps were
bent was no longer in sight. He turn
ed back. and making his way among
the rough tree trunks, which afforded
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-01-01

Mason sprdng dOCn the rduine after
him.
some valuable assistance in the scram-
BILE among the stones, he got ut last
to the bottom Of the hill and, turning
to the left, reached something like lev,
el ground.
Then he stopped and looked about
him. The silence, the loneliness, were
awful. The big flakes of snow touch
ed his face like the cold fingers of dead
hands. Before him he saw nothing
but the bare, bleak sides Of the noun
tain pass and black patch beyond
| which he knew to be the waters OF
Llyn Foel. At his feet trickled in Il
thin. snakelike line the feeble lake fed
stream which became some miles away
fair sized river Behind him was a
dreary white waste, and all around
were frowning heights Of gray, grim
hills, with the night shadows growing
black in the crevices which the snow
could not reach.
The oppression on his spirits was 50
great that he felt it a labor to draw
breath. With difficulty cropping in his
mind toward a remembrance of the
relative positions Of the pass, the
mountain he had descended and the
hill upon which he had discerned the
ruin which it was his ambition to
reach, he at last turned his back to
the pass and made his way with diff
Guilty beside the stream, the course of
which he followed.
He had gone some 80 yards and had
seen or heard nothing to help him on
his way, when sound suddenly reach
ed his ears and seemed to pierce the
air like an arrow.
1t was nothing but moan, cry,
pitiful, agonizing. But it was the
sound Of a human voice.
Tro m CowrrurrrD
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-01-01
Crape ON the Door.

The custom Of placing Grape on the
door Of house where there has been a
recent death had its origin in the an
cient English Leraldic customs and
dates back to the year HOO A. d. At
that period Indictments, or armorial
ensigns, were placed in front Of houses
when the nobility or gentry died. The
Indictments were Of diamond shape
and contained the family arms quar-
tered and covered with sable.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-01-01
apuL1sRATEo MIXED FEED.

Farmers are cautioned by the Hatch
Experiment Station against the presence
of adulterated mixed feeds In Massa-
chusetts markets. The genuine mixed
feed is composed of wheat bran, to.
gether with several hundred pounds oi
fine or -four middlings TO the ton. Tue
adulterated article contains wheat hulls
ground corn cobs, or materials OF similar
nature, and is not usually marked WITH
the manufacturers name. Only those
mixed feeds should be purchased which
bear the name of reputable manufac
turer.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-01-01
NOTICE.

In the District Court OF the United States for
the District OF Maine. In Bankruptcy.
IN the matter OF
WAITER VI. WOOD. Of In Bankruptcy.
Rumf1rl Fails, Bankrupt
To the creditors of Walter NJ. Wood, In the
County OK oxford and district aforesaid
Notice s. hereby given that ON the 10TH day OF
Dec. A. 10. 1900. the said Walter NJ. Wood
Wa Iulg adiudicated bankrupt, and that the first
ueetn. OF his creditors will be held at the Court
House. On south Paris, on the 9th day of Jan
A. b. ltvl, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. at which
time the -al.l creditors may attend, prove their
claims. 4puolnt a trustee. examine the bankrupt
AMI trau-act such other business Is may proper
ly come before said meeting.
south Paris, Uec. Is, 1900.
GEO. a. WILSON,
Referee In Bankruptcy.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-01-01
Not True to Its Name.

"Didn't you start out with play
called Turned Adrift?" asked the
friend.
1--WE did," replied that eminent trage-
dian and repertory actor, Mr.. Barnes
Tormer, "but we couldn't get anybody
to float indianapolis Press.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-01-01

Remember that every quart of milk or
cream, every pound of butter, every
bushel of grain or vegetables, and every
ton of hay or straw that leaves your
farm for the market, carries with 1t
valuable part of your soil. Are you re-
placing it?
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-01-01

He began to run up the hillside path as
If for his life.
leap up Of the heart, saw that his head
was covered by thick crop of short
red hair.
"Coch Tai" shouted Mason.
The peasant made no answer except
by cultural exclamation.
But his face, which had been red
with exercise, blanched to livid pal
lor. He scrambled to his feet, and with
one wild stroke of his stick, which
Reginald was quick enough to avoid,
he sprang like deer down the narrow
ravine and disappeared behind a spur
Of the hill
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-01-01
fro BIZ coNTMuxD.]
Much the Same,

Mrs. Hayseed-Did you go to hear
the bowling dervishes while you were
in the city?
Mr.. Hayseed-No, but l went to Cous-
in Miranda's, and she's got twins
New York Weekly.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-01-01
bright Little Sammy.

Sammy (who is never allowed to stay
out of schooD-Howdie Hurlburt didn't
come to school all day.
Mamma--Why not. Sammy?
Sammy-'Cause his mother died.
When you die, may l stay home all
day?
Mamma-Yes. darling; you may stay
out whole week.
Sammy (suspiciously)-Oh, know!
You mean to die In yacation.-Harlem
Life.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-01-01
NOTICE.

In the District Court OF the United States for
the District of Maine. In Bankruptcy.
In the matter uf
IOHN +. MASON, In Bankruptcy
o. EumfDrl Falls. Bankrupt
To the creditors OF John Z. Mason, In the
County W oxford and district aforesaid :
Notice Is hereby given that on the Sth day OF
Dee. A. o. 1900 the said John Z. Mason was
tu.y sJiu.icated bankrupt, and that the first
meeting ~ his creditors will be held At the
Court House. in south Paris on the 18th day OF
Der. A H. 1890, at 10 O'Clock In the
forenoon. at which time the said creditors
mas attend, prove their claims. appoint trustee,
examine the bankrupt and transact such other
business A. may properly come before said
meeting.
south Parts, Dec. 10, 1890.
GEO. a. WILSON,
Referee In Bankruptcy.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-01-01

The infancy Of British manufacture
ing was nursed by engineers from Hol-
land, who superintended the erection Of
wind and water mills.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-01-01

When a man insists on explaining
q thing, it is a confession that it wor'
ries him.-Atchison Globe.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-01-01

Benham-There isn't room here to
swing cat.
Mrs. Benham-Then we won't have q
cot.-Brooklyn Life.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-01-01
AMONG THE FARMERS.
"sPEED THE PLow.

Correspondence on practical agricultural topics
Is solicited. Address all communications in
tended for this department to HENRY ID. HAN
MoND, Agricultural Editor oxford Democra,
Paris. Me.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-01-01
Man IS the
Architect of His Fortune.

An architect designs. and his plans
are executed BY a builder. The greatest
builder of health is Hoods Sarsaparilla.
1t lays a firm foundation. II makes the
Blood, the basis of life. pure and strong.
Be an architect of your fortune and secure
Hoods as your health builder.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1901-01-01
$500 Reward.

The above amount will be paid for the arrest
AMI conviction OF any person guilty of breaking
..a.s iu the windows of the Paris Grange horse
Per Order PARIS GRANGE.
Soutl Paris, Nov, l., 1900.
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1901-03-20

Harney county, field that Is Of late com.
ing rapidly into prominence as probable
future producer Of gold, silver, copper and
nickel ore, rich in mineral properties and
Of equal magnitude with the other bless.
ings with which nature has favored this
isolated realm.
The existence Of rich mineral bodies in
that section has been known for years,
but the first ventureSome prospectors
there shared the consequences that befell
so many Of the first white men TO brave
the resistance of the native Indian, and
the Pueblo mines have been left for many
years to tn. specula,ions Of fancy and to
a little desultory prospecting that has not,
until recently, resulted In anything like
permanent venture In the way Of de.
veloping their resources.
Or the present holders Of claims in
that region, ex County Judge G. p.
Rutherford and Maurice Fitzgerald, Of
Burns, are the pioneer active workers.
Their interests lie In two distinct portions
Of the district, and are separated by dis.
tance Of some ten miles. The former
owns as the nucleus Of his possessions
there, the Rather, a claim which has pros.
pected In manner satisfactory to the
owner. Mr.. fitzgerald's first location
was given the name Daniel O'Connell,
and Its owner modestly hopes that It may
prove worthy and enduring namesake Of
the illustrlous Irish orator and patriot.
There has been nothing done to attract
the attention Of capital to this region.
It Is not regularly defined as mining dis.
trict, and for the present claims there may
be divided In Rutherford and Fitzgerald
groups.
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1901-03-20
HARVEY COUNTY MINES.
Vast Mineral Wealth Recently Discovered
Far to the South.

Far to the South.
The Harney County News of March 2,
the last issue Of the paper to reach this
Office, publishes an exhaustive story on
the dormant mineral wealth Of that
county. OF the new copper find, In
which number Of Sumpter mining men
have become interested, Il says:
There Is In the unorganized Pueblo dis.
trict, In the extreme southern portion Of
The Sumpter miner. [volume] (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905, 1901-03-20
BURNT RIVER PLACERS.
Good Work Being Done by
Pomeroy Dredging Co.

EDITOR MINER: The Burnt River
mining district covers good deal Of ter.
ritory; that Is, the mines and prospects
are widely scattered. There are indica.
tions Of its becoming Of considerable i'm.
portance In the future. As yet there are
few producing mines, but there are In.
Vulnerable prospects that with capital may
become mines.
As yet the district relies upon the Gold
Hill and Gold Ridge mines to bring It out
as they are In a better developed state than
any others, and promise well.
The placer mines are humorous along
the line Of the river and on small tribu.
taries emptyng into It. visited the
Weatherby section the other day and
hastily Inspected the plant Of the Pomeroy
company which Is idredging the river at
that point. 1t Is thirty.fve miles east Of
Baker City.
The enterprise was started In 1890 by
company Of capitalists from Portland, }.
n. Pomeroy, formerly for fifteen years
with the Oregon Iron and Steel company,
being the promoter and general manager,
and his son, 7. H. Pomeroy, acts as su.
perintendent. The company has 200
acres Of land on the river, and has claims
bonded for several miles up and down the
stream.
The width Of the channel, or ground
worked, varies from one.fourth to one.
half mile In width. The depth to bed
rock varies from twenty.four to thirty
feet. The material washed Is fine ordin.
ary placer gravel, containing some bould.
ers, but all are dug up and sIuiced by
means Of the dredger.
The dredger was manufactured by the
Bucyrus company, Of Milw aukee, Wis.
consin, and cost SC, 900. 1t has two 7s.
horse power boilers, supplied with a cen.
trifugal pump, having an I8.ineh dis.
charge and a capacity Of !, 900 gallons per
minute, used for sluicing. It requires II
men to run the machine and II costs from
5 to & cents per yard to handle the ma.
terial. The dredger has a capacity Of
from 1900 to 1000 yards per day.
There have been fifteen acres dredged
thus far, most Of It having been worked
the past year. The output, though un.
known, Is declared to be eminently salts.
factory to the owners.
The gold In the claim Is supposed to be
largely from Chicken creek, a small trib.
utary which empties into Burnt river just
at Weatherby, and on which In the noun.
tains above, there have been rich plactrs
mined for years; though there Is gold In
the gravel Of Burnt river from there to Its
source.
There Is another company preparing to
start dredger down the river towards
Huntington, and It Is believed more com.
panies will be organized to work unoc.
cupied ground on Burnt river above, as
the bottom the whole distance up will
prospect.
It Is thought there will be considerable
development work done In both quartz
and gravel in this district this season.
B. }. WATSON.
Express, Or, March IL.
HARVEY COUNTY MINES.
Evening star., 1901-06-18
HYATTSVILLE NEWS.
Bridge Foundation Suffers From Con-
tinuOus Rain-COliege Exercises.

tinuOus Rain-COliege Exercises.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
HYATTSVILLE. Md, June II, 1901.
In consequence of the heavy rains which
have prevailed throughout this vicinity for
the past three or four days the abutments
of the bridge which spans the Eastern
branch between Hyattsville and East Hy-
attsville is in unsafe condition. 1t was
feared by citizens that if the downpour of
rain kept up very much longer the struc
ture would go down.
Petty theving is being carried on in this
town, plants and garden flowers being
among the losses. 1t is the purpose of the
authorities to apprehend the culprits.
The closing exercises of the fOrty-second
year of the Maryland Agricultural College,
at College Park was begun Saturday even
Young Mems Christian Association in the
Norman Bouic of Montgomery county presi-
dent of the association, was in charge.
Yesterday afternoon, at $50 o'clock, Rev
William r. Turner of Washington deliver
ed the baccalaureate sermon to the stu
dents. The college was artisticaly deco
rated.
Mr.. Donald Eversfield stenographer of
the state experiment station at College
Park has been appointed to civil service
position in the land office of the Interior
Department. In a competitive examination
for the position he stood second in a group
of sixty or more candidates. He is the son
Of DR. Eversfield. surgeon of the Mary
land Agricultural College.