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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-05-19
Indian Legend of the Way Spring
Came Into Existence.

Indian Legend of the Way Spring
Came Into Existence.
Once long before there were men In
the world. all the e?rth was covered
with snow and ice.
White and frozen lay the rivers and
the seas; white and frozen lay the
plains. The mountains stood tall ana
dead. like ghosts in white gowns.
There vas no color except white in all
the world except in the sky, and ii was
almost black. At night the stars look
ed through it like angry eyes.
Then God sent the spring down into
the world-the spring with red lips and
curling yellow hair.
In his arms he bore sprays of apple
blossoms and the first tiowers-crocus,
anemones and violets, red, pink, blue,
purple, violet and yellow.
The first animal to greet the spring
was the white rabbit The spring
dropped a red crocus on his head, and
ever since then all white rabbits have
red eyes.
Then the spring dropped blue yio-
let on white bird, the first bird to
greet the spring, and that is the way
the bluebird was made. Ever since
then 1t is the first bird to arrive when
the spring comes down from heaven.
So the spring went through the world.
Wherever he tossed the leaves from
his fragrant burden the earth became
green. He tossed the blossoms on the
frozen seas, and the ice melted, and the
fish became painted with all the tint
of his flowers. That is the way the
trout and the minnows and the salmon
became gaudy.
Only the high mountains would not
bow to the spring. So their SUBMITS
remain white and dead, for they would
let the spring paint only the sides.
The snow owls and the white geese
and the polar bears fled from the
spring, so they, too, remain white to
this day.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-05-19

Rank pigweeds and their like are a
compliment to mans soil. Land that
will not grow weeds will not grow crops,
for crops are only those particular kinds
of weeds man wants to raise. Weeds
have taught us lesson of good tillage;
There is no indication that they intend
to remit their efforts in our behalf.-L.
II. Bailey in Principles of Vegetable
Gardening.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-05-19
HOOD FIRM
Gdrget Cure

In garget the udder becomes innamed'
hot, red and painful, and the milk seems
thick. stringy, bloody or watery.
A tablespoonful Of Hood Farm Cargo.
Cure mixed with damp feed two or three
times day will cure any ordinary case.
lone OF my cows had bloody garget anu
l fed her Hood Farm Garget cure, mght M
milk was ali right" A. E. LOOMS, North
Wolcott, vt.
Prices 81 and $3.50
HOOD Farm SaIve - especially pre-
pared to be used in connection with our
Gareet Cure. Also excellent for cracked
teats sores, bruises. ST. Call for treatise on
garget and its causes. Prepared by Z. l.
Hood Co., Lowell, Mass. For sale by +. A.
SHuRrLKrr & Co., South Paris, Me.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-05-19
Hoods Jdrsdpdriila
and Pills

Remove all humors, overcome all
their effects, strengthen, tone and
invigorate the whole system.
Ut had salt rheum on my hands 90 that I
could not wdfk. Itook Hoods sarsaparilla
and 1t drove out the humor. continued
its use till the sores disappeared" MRS.
IRA o. BROWN, Rumford Falls. Ne.
Hoods sarsaparlIIa promises to
cure and keeps the pfomloos
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-05-19
NOTICE.

The subscriber hereby gives notice that he mas
been duly appointed administrator OF the
estate Of
wM. y. THOMAS, late of oxford,
In the County of oxford, deceased, AMI given
bonds a. the law directs. AL persons having
demands against the estate of said deceased are
desired 10 present the same for settlement, anu
al Indebted thereto are requested to MAKE pay
ment Immediately.
ARTHUR KIMBALL THOMAS.
April 2lst, 1903.
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old gentleman. but in such way that
Grenfall had distinct feeling that 1t
was he who was to be honOred. Aunt
Yvonne smiled graciously, and he took
his departure. While Hedrick was
dressing the jagged little cut Grenfall
compiacently surveyed the patient in
the mirror opposite and said to himself
hundred times: "You lucky dog! 1t
was worth forty gashes like this. BY
Jove. she's divine"
In a fever Of eager haste he bathed
and attired himself for dinner, the i'm
perturbable Hedrick assisting One
query filled the Americans mind, Il
wonder if am to sit beside her." And
then: 81 have sat beside her! There
can never again be such delight"
1t was o'clock before his rather un-
usual toilet was completed. "See If
they have gone to the diner, Hedrick,"
he said to the manservant, who de-
parted tremendously.
Il don't know why he should be so
very polite" observed Lorry. gazing
wonderingly after him. I'm not a
king. That reminds me. l must intro
duce myself. She doesn't know me
from Adam"
Hedrick returned and announced that
they had just gone to the dining car
and were awaiting him there. He hur-
ried to the diner and made his way to
their table. Uncle Caspar and his niece
were facing him as he came up be-
tween the tables, and he saw, with no
little regret. that he was to sit beside
the aunt-directly opposite the girl.
however. She smiled up at him as he
stood before them, bowling. He saw
the expression of inquiry in those deep,
liquid eyes Of violet as their gaze wan
dered over his hair.
Your head? l see no bandage," she
said reproachfully.
"There is a small plaster, and that Is
ALL Only heroes may have dangerous
wounds" he said laughingly.
as heroism in America measured by
the number of stitches or the size OF
the plaster" she asked pointedly. I'm
my country it is JOY and not ca
lamity. Wounds are the misfortune Of
valor. Pray be seated, Mr. Lorry-is it
not?' she said. pronouncing it quantity.
He sat down rather suddenly on hear
ing her utter his name. How had she
learned 1t? Not q soul on the train
knew it, he was sure.
81 am Caspar Guggenslocker. Permit
me, Mr.. Lorry. to present my wife and
my niece. Miss Guggenslocker," said
the uncle more gracefully than he had
ever heard such a thing uttered before.
In a daze. stunned by the name
Guggenslocker-mystified over their
acquaintance with his own when he
had been foiled at every fair attempt
to learn theirs, Lorry could only num-
BILE his Acknowledgements. In all his
life he had never lost command of him.
self as at this moment. Guggenslocker!
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-05-19
NOTICE.

The subscriber hereby gives notice that ne
has been duly appointed administrator of the
estate Of
LUCY A. TURNER, late of Hebron,
In the County OF oxford, deceased, ana given
bonds as the law directs All persons having
demands against the estate OF said deceased are
desired 70 present the same for settlement, anu
all indebted thereto are requested to make pay
ment Immediately.
April 2lst 1893 WALTER L. GRAl.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-05-19
NOTICE.

The subscriber hereby gives notice that ne mas
been duly appointed administrator Of the
estate OF
MARY +. MARSHALL, late OF Paris,
In the County OF oxford, deceased, anu given
bonds as the Jaw directs. All persons ha'Ins
desired TO present the same for settlement, anu
allindebted thereto are requested to make pay
ment Immediately. "
April 2lst. IgG3, GEORGE Z. MARSHALL.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-05-19

Don't overlook the Importance of the
garden while pushing to get the broader
field seeded in good time. Nothing
contributes more to the pleasure and
satisfaction coming from a good living
than plentiful supply in their season
of the common garden vegetables.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-05-19
NOTICE.

The subscriber hereby gives notice that sne
has been duly appointed executrix OF the last
will and testament OF
LEMUEL GURNEY, late Of Hebron.
In the County of oxford, deceased. All persons
having demands against the estate OF saiu ue-
ceased are desired 20 present the same tor SCI,
tement, and all indebted thereto are requesSeu
TO make payment Immediately.
April 2lst 1903. LONlNA j. Gu hNE1s
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-05-19

The subscriber hereby gives notice that he has
been duly appointed executor of the last will
ant testament OF
WILLIAM G. HAMMOND. ate os Paris:
In the County OF NfOri. deceased, AMI given
tpni, the law directs. All persons nav,
ny demands against the estate of said deceased
are desired 10 present the same for settlement
AMI al indebted thereto are requested 10 MAKE
payment Immediately
AWil 2lSt, 1903 HENRY ID. HAMMOND.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-05-19

Our correspondents are giving the
matter of the use of agricultural chemi-
calls good airing. As a result farmers
are catching on to the fact that there
are no hidden secrets about their use.
1t is nothing more than feeding the
plant (crop) with "balanced ration."-
Maine Farmer
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-05-19

There are great many better Amer
leans than l." lie said. You forget our
president and our statesmen"
II thought they were mere polit-
Clans"
Grenfall Lorry, idealized, retired to
his berth that night, his head whirling
with the emotions inspired by this
strange, beautiful woman. How lovely,
how charming. how naive, how queen
". how Indifferent, how warm. how
cold--how everything that puzzled him
was she. His last waking thought was:
"Guggenslocker! An angel with q
name like that.'
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-05-19

The Minnesota dairy and food com.
missioner in his annual report, Jus,
issued, gives the names OF seve,ai
creamerymen and buttermakers VINO o
have been fined for under-reading the
Babcock test.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-05-19

A farmer who is dependent entirely on
his farm for an income said 10 US .no
other day that he had become fully con
vinced that we were not culuvatinS tne
land as much as would be to our Pron',
A sensible practice, then, would oe u
begin this year to work the soil more
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-05-19
NOTICE.

The subscriber hereby gives notice that she
has been duly appointed admtnistratriN win the
will anneNet OF the estate of
HARRISON FUTILE, late of Buckhed
In the County of oxford, deceased, ant given
6onts as the law directs. All persons having
demands against the estate of said deceaseu are
desired 70 present the same for settlement, ami
all Indebted thereto are requested To make pay
ment Immediately.
Apri 2lst, lsN3. NESTA ;. TUTTLE.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-05-19
NOTICE.

The subscriber hereby gives notice that ne
has been duly appointed administrator with
the will annexed OF the estate OF
ELvA EUGENE ROBINSON. late OF Buckheld,
In the County OF Oxford. deceased, and given
bonds as the law directs. All persons having
demands against the estate OF said deceased are
desired 10 present the same for settlement, and
all indebted thereto are requested to make pay
ment Immediately. ~,,<>x,
April "a, 1903. FRED A. ROblNSON
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-05-19

Keeping cream after being separated
from the milk works mischief every
time. The sooner cream can be carried
through the necessary changes Mter
being taken from milk the better VIII DC
the butter made from it.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-05-19
Experiments with Poultry.

At the recent meeting of the Maine
Experiment Station Council, Professor
Gowell who has charge of the poultry
investigations reported on the work now
under way and also made recommend
ations which were adopted for the en-
suing year, as follows:
During the past year the breeding tests
which have for their object the develop
ment of large egg producing strain OF
the Barred Plymouth Rocks have been
successfully continued. The results are
nearly prepared for publication and a
bulletin will be issued very soon.
Experiments upon various causes as
affecting the fertility of eggs have been
studied. such as the effect of keeping
eggs in open or in closed cases while be-
ing held for incubation, the effect of high
and low temperature upon eggs being
held for incubation, the effects of rest
ing eggs after being shipped by rail be-
fore incubating. Also the effects OF
cooling eggs both much and little during
the incubating process in cold rooms and
in warm rooms have been studied, as
have also the different methods of turn
ing eggs while in the process OF incuba-
ion. The results of these experiments
are nearly ready for publication.
Experiments have been continued upon
the area of floor required for different
sized tlocks.
Among the lines of work planned for
the ensuing year are the comparisons OF
eggs from hens of different ages and
under different systems of feeding with
reference to their Matching. Many Of
the more common methods of feeding
hens for egg production will be compar-
ed and the breeding tests will be con-
tinued from the high laying strains. An
inquiry into the causes of infertility OF
eggs is also planned.
The poultry work of the Maine Sta
ton is of high order. The interest in
this class of work is evidenced by the
great demand for the poultry publ
cations. -,
The bulletins will be sent free to all
residents of Maine who apply to the
Agricultural Experiment Station, Orono,
Me. In writing, please mention this
paper.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-05-19
Money in Breeding Horses.

BUT THEY MUST BE BRED WITH GOOD
JUDGMENT AND FOR SOME WELL DE-
FINED PURPOSE.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-05-19
.AH Hun70rs

Are impure matters which the skin,
liver, kidneys and other organs can
not take care of without help, there IL
such an Accumulation Of them.
They litter the whole system.
Pimples, boils, eczema and other
eruptions, loss of appetite, that tired
feeling, bilious turns, flts, Of indiges-
ton, dull headaches and many other
troubles are due to them.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-05-19
AMONG THE FARMERS.
d" SPEED THE p Ow. "

on practical agricultural topics
Is solicited Address all cOmmuni 'ations in
tended for this department to HENRY d..
III HNNMnND, Agricultural Editor Oxford Dem
Ocrat. Paris. Me.
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PAINTING THE WORLD.

FRO W Co$TINUED,l J
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-05-19
CLAYTON X. BROOKS,
Attorney at Law.
Notary Public.
PROBATE NOTICES.

Collections receive my prompt personal at'en'
unu.
pem,,,luees made day claim Is paid.
NJ matter, reported on promptly.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-05-19
CHAPTER III.
MISS GUGGENSLOCKER.

WwE laughed, looking down into
FL her serious, upturned face. She
rs broke away from him and
threw herself into the arms of
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-05-19
NOTICE.

LBERT u. Park. Register
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1903-05-19
C. JONES,
! Smith & Machinist,

SOUTH PARIS, I.1eD
,s,cturer OF general machinery, steam en-
ManulitYH' vrork. spool machinery and tools,
zines y, G' .crsws, taps, dies and drills made and
bolts, 81 sewing, moving and threshing ma
Of az ec Anas nasy PTss5GfI saG promptly S s
Io.s, Nu''1 Steam and water piping done to order.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-10-08
an ImponrANr CONVENTION.

. The people of the Mississippi valley,
and the people Of the whole country too,
will be interested In the convention
which is to be held in New Orleans on
October 81. The call for the convention
is issued by the Mississippi River I'M
provement and Levee association and is
addressed not only to the governors of
the valley States, but to representatives
of towns and cities within this territory
and to all commercial and trade organ
izations interested in the development
Of commerce there. The object which
the originators Of the convention have
in view is of much broader scope than
any plan yet proposed in connection
with the development of the Mississippi
In effect. it is proposed to take the
whole problem of the great river and its
tributaries and deal with it comprehen-
sively in its larger aspects with a view
to securing united and systematic ae-
ton.
At present the work of keeping the
Mississippi in its channel, protecting
the valley lands from disastrous floods
and maintaining levees is performed
largely by the various States and river
communities Independently. The result
of this plan, which imposes a heavy
burden of taxation upon the people of
the valley. has proved signally ineffec-
tive, as the terrible foods of last spring
plainly showed. Some of the richest
alluviaI lands in the world are in con-
slant danger of overflow during seasons
of thaws and heavy rainfall. If these
disasters are to be prevented and if the
valley and the lands along tributary
rivers are to be developed to their high
est possibilities it must be through
some comprehensive plan of concerted
action such as can be taken only under
the direction of single central author
|ity. {.
The protection of the valley lands
from inundation is not the only object
of the convention. The time has come
to consider the flood problem in con-
nection with that of irrigation. Com
petent engineers are of the opinion that
it is entirely practicable to impound the
food waters in vast reservoirs and make
use, of the waters in fertilizing large
arid sections of the west.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-10-08
LATE RnT RIHE-

Now that the dividend on Steel COM
mon has been reduced there is much
wise and solemn talk in New York
banking circles" to the effect that the
Steel trust has done wise thing. We
read that one bank president voiced 4
generally held idea in saying that il a
dividend had never been declared on the
common that stock would probably now
by selling at forty. There was much I'M
certainty concerning the ability of the
corporation to continue even the present
rate. The fact that the stock, should
the dividend be cut off altogether, would
pass readily as collateral was thought
to operate against any further reduc-
ton. Lowering the rate will make little
difference to the banks in their accept
ance OF the stock as collateral. so long
as the shares are salable and in fair de-
mand. The general tenor of what was
said in the banking district, however,
favored the view that a dividend on the
common ought never to have been paid,
and that the corporation had acted cour-
ageously in correcting, even at this late
day, a very bad mistake.
And SO forth and so on. There is al
ways much wise talk in New York
banking circles" when anything hap
pens.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-10-08
SHOULDERS THINGS OF THE
PAST.


No shoulders is said to be the latest
edict of fashion. II so it will not have
to be enforced by penalties. There will
De no need Of a police system to see
that it is abeyed. The laws of the
Aedes and Persians early acquire an in
lernauonal Tepute because they were
merciiessly enforced. Not so with the
laws OF fashion; their absolute and I'M
lVersaI observance is to be attributed to
nothing, so far as we are able to judge.
nnt the sweet amenableness of woman.
1t is customary to refer to fashion
makers. those mysterious beings. if
there be more than one of them. those
Mrs. HAIRLESS of dress, whose habita-
ton and even whose existence is not ac-
| tually yerifiable, except by the perfectly
regular and tangible evidences of their
continuous discharge Of the business of
fashion making-it is quite the usual
thing to refer to them as "dictators."
No phrase is more familiar than "the
| tyrants of fashion," and yet what a
gentle tyranny. How agreeabIy their
dictates, if the word is proper, are pro-
mulgated and how smilingly and CRATE
fully received. Nc minority reports
even presented. No objections to the
chairs rulings. No dissatisfied and dis
gruntled delegations rising in ren1orl-
STRANGE and leaving the hall. No coun-
ter convention or mass meeting of in
dignant irreconcilables called to protest
and view with alarm. No sizzling COM
munications from Veritas or Constant
Reader denouncing the whole proceed
| ing as faaud and outrage on civilized
society.
| If the edict is mo shoulders" Shout
ders may already be regarded as ex-
tinct. What shoulders lose, however, it
is understood that elbows will gain.
There is always a regard for relative
values in fashions art. AS in the mate
rial universe indestructibility of matter
| is cardinal principle, so in dress what
suddenly disappears from its aecus-
toned place generally will be found, on
careful inspection, turning up in some
other quarter, perhaps under different
names, hapes and uses, but in some
way transacting business. -,t ...
| If governments could enforce their
edicts with as little friction, and their
citizens were as amenable and obedient
as the citizens Of fashions we'll man
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-10-08
A sMOKELEss LONDON.

City to- be Brighter-Difficulty of In
stalling the 'Mond'' System-Gas
Twopence Per 1000 Feet.
It was recently prophesied by DR.. OIL
yer Lodge, principal of Birmingham
university, England, that the time may
not be far distant when municipalities
will forbid the bringing of such dirty
stuff as coal within their boundaries.
This would mean a smokeless London,
indeed; but at present, at all events, the
idea is merely Utopian. Somewhat
more practical although still long
way from actual realization, is the sug-
gestion that if gas for heating and
cooking can be made at profit for Cd.
per thousand cubic feet, coal fires will
disappear from the metropolis and our
fogs will be no more. 1t is an alluring
picture, and for the abolition of fogs
hardly any price is too high. But is it
feasible?
So far as ordinary coal gas for do
nestle purposes is concerned, produc-
ton at 3d. per thousand feet, or any,
thing like that figure. is, apart, alto
.gether from the question Of profit, the
manufacturers of gas declare, a physi-
cal impossibliity. For every thousand
feet produced the Londan gas manu-
facturer has to pay about Is. i'd. for
coal alone, and it lis doubtful if, under
the most favorable conditions, he could
ever supply coal gas for much less than
Is. per thousand feet. Since incandes-
cent nantes have come into universal
use the companies have endeavored to
obtain a reduction of the illuminating
power. but such reduction would fall
very far short Of enancipating us from
fogs.
The incandescent system has made
enormous strides in both public and do
nestle lighting, and it is recognized
that much lower candle power than
that generally insisted on would be am
pie in districts where the mantle is
widely used.
Incidentally, it is interesting to note
that the streets of several towns. in
Guiding Bradford, Huddersfeld. Ply