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Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-03-01
II. s. GRIMES.
President City Council.

The Portsmouth Street Railroad and
Light Company. Portsmouth, Ohio.
Portsmouth, o.. Apr. IA, 1908.
J. f. McGnlivray, manager, Central
Union Telephone Co, Portsmouth,
Ohio.
Dear Sir:-In reply to your verbal
inquiry regarding our opinion of the
advantages and disadvantages of hav
ing two telephone systems in the same
city, will say that our experience has
been that we have had double costs for
telephones with no more advantages
than we would have had If there were
only one exchange in this city. In our
opinion telephone exchange is mo-
nopoly as 1t is of absolute Importance
that each person having a telephone is
connected to the same system.
The number of wires and poles in
the streets are double where you have
two telephone systems without any in
crease i'm the business or convenience
to the community. The service given
in this city by both companies has been
exceptionally good. There is an old
adage that Competition Is the life of
trade" but in the telephone exchange
service competition has only the effect
OF increasing the excellence of the
service, the telephone service being
furnished by all reliable companies at
a very small margin of profit.
I have occasion to know, through
friends in the telephone business that
the depreciation due to apparatus be-
coming obsolete amounts to 10 per cent
a year This means II renewal of the
entire plant in ten years.
Respectfully yours
PORTSMOUTH ST. RY. & LIGHT co.
S. p. Baird, Gen, Mgr,
Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-03-01
Quality
and Style

There can be style without good
quality and there can be good quality
without style. The trick is to get a
union of the two and at a reasonable
price.
We are after the come again" trade,
and there is but one way to manage
that: Sell good durable. stylish shoes
at moderate es and let our custo-
mers do the rest.
Our experience 5 that they come
again and send their friends.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-08-16

might be cruel, but she had no answer,
no other answer, no new word, to tell
him. Her eyes filled with tears. She
could not trust herself to speak; she
only shook her head.
"Ah," he said, rising to his feet and
throwing up his hands with a gesture
Of despair, II knew It. Well, the dream
Is over ut last This Is the end. /
sought life, and found death: that, at
least, IL 1t shall come shall welcome
Would God had gone down with the
ship! You have no pity; you let dead
image-an idsa-stand between you
and living love. Will you never for
get?"
Never" she said softly. Love
knows no death. He is alive-here
But do not grieve SO for me; am not
worth it. You will go away and for
get, and
NO. you have said 1t. love knows
no death l, too, cannot forget AS
long as l live I shall loye-and re-
member. How IL / waited and waited?
Katharine. would wait forever for
you," he said. suddenly catching at the
trlhe.
mo. it would be no use. My friend.
we both must suffer; 1t cannot be
otherwise. | esteem you, respect you,
admire you You have protected me,
honored me: my gratitude She went
on brokeniy, You might ask anything
OF me but my heart, and that is given
away
LET me take you without 1t, then. ]
want but you"
mo. Lord Desborough, it cannot be.
Do not ask me again. No; | cannot
Gly wish /. otherwise"
His hickering hope died away In ST.
lence. katharine, will you promise
me. II there ever comes time
81 promise" she said; "but the time
will never come"
He looked at her as dying men look
to the light: there was long silence.
and then he said:
Il must go now, hdtnarlhe. sup'
pose must bid you goodby now!'
"Yes. | think 1t would be best
II shall pass this way again on my
Journey to Alexandria in half an hour;
may | not speak once more to you
then?"
NO" she said finally, after long
pause Il think it best that we should
end it now. 1t can do no good ut all.
Goodby. and may God bless you"
He bent and kissed her hand and
then stopped n moment and looked at
her, saying never word.
"Goodby. again." she said.
On the instant he turned and left
her.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-08-16

cry. She would have called once more
upon him save that she knew humanity
has no voice which reaches out into the
darkness by which it may call back
those who are once gone to live beyond.
She did not weep; that were small
thing. trife. She sat and brooded.
Four short months had changed 1t
all. How young she had been! Would
she ever be young again? How full Of
the Joy q life! Its currents swept by
her unheeded now. Why had not God
been mercIful to her that she could
have died there upon the sea? she
thought. All, poor humanity never
learns his mercy! Perhaps 1t is be-
cause we have no measure by which to
fathom Its mighty depths. She saw
herself old and lonely, forgotten, but
not forgetting. But even then lacked
she not opportunity. Womanlike, In
spite Of her constancy, she took mel
ancholy pleasure in the thought that
there was one still who hungered for
the shattered remnants Of her broken
heart. who lived for the sound Of her
voice and the glance Of her eyes and
the light of her face. One there was,
handsome, brave, distinguished, gentle,
Of ancient name, assured station, am
pie fortune. who longed to lay all he
Was or had at her feet
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-08-16
william Redmond,s Answer.

William Redmond. NJ. L., once arose
TO speak in the house OF commons. ne
cording to the Boston Record. and
there came a question. hurled ut him
from the Right side of the house:
"Will you vote for this bill If ii
comes up"
Mr.. Redmond looked from one side
of the house to the other and slowly
answered:
Il will"-
Immediately the right side Of the
house burst into storm Of applause
But Mr.. Redmond continued. as soon
AS he could be heard:
mot
Then the storm came from the left
side and as soon Us it subsidized for u
moment he completed what he started
ANSWER that question
And perfect silence reigned on botl
sides.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-08-16
tTo BIZ CONTINUED
The Web Spinning Ant.

One of the most interesting observa-
tions made in ant life, says Andrew
Wilson, the scientist, was that which
showed that Il certain red ant has
evolved the habit Of web spinning. The
ways of this species We're noted in the
botanic gardens at Peradeniya, Ceylon,
by Z. G.. Green. The extraordinary
part of the story IL that these ants
used larvae liz their spinning machines
the larvae employing their silk threads,
used to make the cocoons. as their sew
ing machines. Mr.. Green took some
leaves which had been sewed together
by the ants and unfastened the stitch
es. The separated edges were drawn
together by the ants. and then. an hour
afterward. the larvae or grubs, held
I'm the mouths OF the ants. s.-were seen
to be passed backward and forward
across the gaps made in the leaves.
The movements OF the grubs We're du-
~ directed by the ants, and the SILK
threads spun by the mouths OF tile lar
vac soon repaired the defects In the
leaves.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-08-16

The ship settled lOlCCr and lOlcer.
and running brooks until the end came,
and still the little boat drifted on. Few
and short were the prayers the living
said as day by day they cast the dead
into the sea. Desborough, the resolute,
with undying strength kept steadily
at the helm. Once only did he speak
to Katharine in words Of love. AS
their situation grew more and more
helpless and even his resolute opti.
mism began to fail him, he bent down
and whispered in her ear:
"I would not trouble you now, kath.
arine, but before we die must tell you
once again that l love you. Will you
believe it:'
"I will believe It," she answered
DULY. giving MIN her hand. Oh, he
though, in agony, as he bent over II
AMI kissed it, how thin and white and
feeble it was.
One morning, after hope was dead, he
was listlessly scanning the line OF the
horizon as the rising sun threw 1t into
relief, more from habit than expect
ancy, when his heart almost stopped Its
feeble heating, for land was there be-
fore him if his strained eyes did not
deceive him. Doubling the evidence OF
his weakened senses and fearing the
delusions Of disordered Imagination,
he refrained from communicating his
impressions to any of the others until
the light of day determined the accu-
racy of his vision. Then he whispered
the news to Katharine, the apathetic
woman told 1t to the sinking colonel
and then Desborough cried 1t to his dy-
ing crew. The wind sprang up at the
moment, too, and in few hours they
beached the boat upon low sandy
shore, with the waves breaking gently
over it in long easy rollers.
DesbOrough, as the strongest OF the
party, started inland, finding by and by
little stream of fresh water, and far
ther OH, on higher ground, seeing a
house, the smoke curling from its chin
neys showing that it was inhabited. To
the bubbling spring he half led, half
dragged, his shipwrecked party. They
drank sparingly by his direction and
were refreshed, for with the cool water
life and hope came back to them once
more. Then he left them again on the
shore of Virginia, and the people OF
| the house welcomed and cared for the
poor castaways. sharing with them
their humble store with the kindly hos
pitality for which the land was famous
| Their long voyage was at an end; theii
| troubles were over. The colonel and
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-08-16

Copyright. 1893. b, CHARLES scRIBsER's SONS

Author OF "The Grip Of Honor" "The Southern
"Sir Henry Morgan. Buccsneer. "A
Nocfnr of PhilaSonhy" Etc.

and they. too. in moment were slowly
drawn down into the vortex caused by
the sinking ship. The woman again
hid her face in her hands; the colonel
laid his arm across the shoulder of his
daughter; Dcsborough and the men in
tie boat stared horribly mt the spot left
vacant. y deep groan broke from
them; they rose on the crest Of a wave,
sank down again, rose once more and
looked again-the little boat was alone
on that mighty sea!
Oh. tie agony Of those long anu
frightful days in that little boat! New
er sail did they sight, as day after
day they rowed or sailed to the west
ward. eagerly scanning the horizon for
landfall. The waves washed over
them. saturating their clothing; the
chill winds Of winter frOZe them. First
their provisions gave out, though serv-
ed with the most rigid economy by Des-
borough himself; then the water, hus-
banded as no precious jewel was ever
boarded. was exhausted to the last
drop. and that drop, by common con-
sent. Desborough forced between Kath-
arine's reluctant lips, though she would
fain have refused it, claiming no indul.
gence beyond the others. The rare
qualities of that young officer showed
themselves brilliantly in this frlghtful
peril. 1t was due to his skill and care
full management that they were not
swamped dozen times. Tireless, I'M
selfish, cheerful, unsparing Of himself,
without him they would have died.
The men bore their sufferings, when
all food and water failed them, with
the sturdy resolution Of British sail
ors: DesbOrOugh his with the courage
OF the hero that he was, his tierceSt
pang being for the white faced girl who
suffered in uncomplaining silence. The
colonel exhibited the stOical indiffer.
ence Of seasoned old soldier, as to
his own personal condition, all his
thoughts being centered upon his
daughter, who passed through the
dreadful experience with the calm
resignation of woman who had moth
ing left to live for, and, strange to
say, seemed to feel it less acutely than
the rest: even black Chloe, who had
impartially shared with her mistress in
all the favors accorded to her, being in
state of utter exhaustion amounting
to collapse.
When the pangs of hunger and thirst
got hold Of them, they refused-anG
were indeed entirely unable-to work
longer with the oars, so that, unless
the wind was fair and the sail set.
they simply drifted on.
One by one the sailors died. Wax
ing from troubled sleep OF short du
ration. Katharine one day found
Chloe's dead hand around her feet. her
cold lips pressed upon them. Some OF
the men gfcw mad before they died
and raved and babbled of green fields
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-08-16
Fertilizer Inspection.

This is not the season of the year for
using commercial fertilizers, but the
study of what to use and how to buy is
always in order. Bulletin los from the
Vermont station is on our table, con-
tanning the report of the inspection of
fertilizers for that state, together with
a discussion of some of the phases of
the problems of fertilization. One of
these given extended attention, is the
relation between selling prices and valu-
alton. A careful study of the relation
between selling price and money values
is urged upon buyers. The purchase of
fertilizers is simply the buying of plant
food. Its quantity and quality, not its
cost, should be the main consideration.
Station analyses help the intelligent
buyer to select fertilizers best fitted to
meet his own needs.
The average selling price of the stocks
sampled and analysed is given as $1,000,
while the average valuation was SlS.47.
Only two dollars out of every three paid
for mixed fertilizers was paid for the
plant food contained. The buyers of
the low grade goods on the market got
only 81 cents worth of plant food for
each dollar paid, and 81 cents worth in
the medium grades, while the buyer of
the high grade brands got Y cents worth
of plant food for each dollar paid out.
Here are two points brought out in
this presentation which the Farmer has
heretofore sought to impress upon its
readers in the purchase of commercial
manures, and to which it is glad to add
the authority of the Vermont station.
The one is that the purchaser gets more
plant food for the cost in the high grade
goods, and the other is that he gets the
plant feod at still lower cost by buying
the different chemicals and mixing
them at the farm. Thus in this case,
even with the high grade goods, the
valuation (cost of the plant food is but
~ cents in each dollars worth bought.
Hence the saving in purchasing the
plant food instead of the prepared
goods offered on the market.-Maine
FARMER.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-08-16
.snye the Mark"

The ancient use Of cross instead or
a signature was universal alike by
those who could and by those who
could not write. 1t WAS symbol or
an oath from its earliest associations.
on this account Charles Knight. in
his notes Oh The Pictorial Shake
speare." explains the expression God
save tie mark" QIenry lN.J AS form
Of ejaculation approaching to the form
# IN oath Kelly. in his comments
on Scotch Proverbs" observes that the
Scots. wien they used TO compare per-
SON to person. used the expression,
Save the mark" Another eXplana-
ton of the expression is that in arch
cry when an archer shot well il was
the custom to cry out, God save the
mark"-that Is. prevent any one com
ing after TO hit the same mark ana
thereby displace the arrow. Ironically.
Il was said To novice whose arrow
struck nowhere
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-08-16
NUMBER 33.
The Pcacnck ut ta. Feast.

Brehm inform - ,i.:t t.c flesh Of
lhe young &c. cCc!. is 'e:y t!!cnte and
has "a wild ouor" whic.i is very agree
able. He thinks. IN oh bird lit only
for stewing. The Greeks must have
found 1t marvellous costly feeding II
II he true, as Aclian says. that single
bird vas worth Il thousand drachinaS
nearly f6G. The esteem In which x
was held I'm the last days of the Roman
republic did not diminish under the
imperial regime.
Vltellius and Heliogabalus served up
to their boon companions enormous
dishes Of peacocks' tongues and brains
seasoned with the rarest Indian spices.
In mediaeval days IL was still held In
favor, particularly as Christmas
dish, and minstrels sang Of II us food
for lovers and meat for lords
To tit II for the table was no ordi-
nary culinary operation. After the skin
and plumage had been carefully strip
ped of the bird was roasted, then
served up again in its feathers with
gilded beak. No, have forgotten that
II was first stuffed with spices and
sweet herbs and basted with yoik OK
egg. 1t floated In sea OF gravy, as
many AS three fat wethers sometimes
supplying the unctuOus liquor Tor
single peacock.-All the Year Round.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-08-16
The Mississippi.

Generally speaking, the slope OF
rivers lowing into the Mississippi from
the east Is. on the average, ab'dt three
inches per mile. Those entering II
from the west have an average descent
OF about six inches per mile. The aver
aye descent per mile OF the Missouri
after II leaves the mountains Is reck-
oned about Il foot; the Des Molnes.
from its source 10 its conjunction with
the Mississippi about 7.3 inches. The
entire length OF the Ohio shows a fall
OF even Ave inches. The Mississippi.
from the mouth OF the Ohio TO the
gulf, has n fall OF about two and one
half inches
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-08-16

A New Orleans dispatch says that a
Texas firm has been approached by
Minister Takashira of Japan, with a
view to securing 100000 horses OF the
type now used by the Japanese cavalry.
The creole ponies and Texas bronchos
are considered ideal mounts for the
Japanese saber men, and it is understood
that negotiations have been opened with
the traffic department of the Southern
Pacific railroad for large number OF
stock cars, so that everything may be In
readiness to rush the ponies to San
Francisco, thence by ship direct to
Korea.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-08-16

Here Is A famous passage from the
writings OF Chinese philosopher.
More than twenty centuries ago It
gained the autl!or the sobriIuet or
Butterfly Chung" The philosopher
tells Of a dream: "Once upon time l.
Chung Tzu. dreamed was II butterfly.
tiuttering hither and thithcr. TO aii in
tents and purposes butterfly. WIS
conscious only Of following my fancy
as a butterfly and was UNCONSCIOUS or
my individuality as man. Suddenly
I awakened and there ! lay. myself
again. Now, I do not know Wheeler
was then man dreaming | was L
butterfly or whether | am now but
terhy dreaming am man."
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-08-16
The Oak.

The oak chooses horizontal direc-
tion for its limbs 30 that their whole
weight may tell and then stretches
them out fifty or sixty feet so that the
strain may be mighty enough to bs
worth resisting. At 90 degrees the OAK
stops short. To slant upward another
degree would mark infirmity OF pur-
pose; to bend downward, weakness OF
organization. Other trees shirk the
work of resisting gravity. The oak az
fes tt.-Dr. Holmes. :.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-08-16
The speed of Sense.

Hirsch proved that touch on the
face was recognized by the brain and
responded to by manual signal In
the one-seventh part Of second. The
scientist also found that the speed OF
sense differed for different organs, the
sense of hearing being responded to In
the one-sixth of second. while that
Of sight required only One-fifth OF
second to be recognized and signaled.
In all three cases the distance travers-
ed was about the same, 30 the natural
inference is that the image travels
more slowly than sound or touch.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-08-16
Poultry Notes.

In the absence of straw or hay, clean
sawdust makes good nest for laying
or setting hens.
Small potatoes that are not salable
will help out for the chickens during
the winter months.
Dust boxes should be provided for
the hens. Coal ashes or road dust
makes the best material.
Charcoal pounded fine and mixed
with the soft feed is an excellent safe
guard against many evils.
1t takes a ''smart" man or woman to
be successful with poultry. In other
words, it takes thinker and a doer.
Don't allow your hens to roost on
trees. Have good, warm house for
them but keep them absolutely clean.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-08-16
Dutch Noses.

A study Of Jan Stems pictures or
Dutch home life some 200 years ago
proves to conviction that In his day
the noses OF his country folk were
quite as fantastic as they are now.
Without their pendulous, heavy, mirth
inspiring organs of smell, the artists
tipsy fiddlers and peasants. quack doc
tors and housewives would not make
one smile half as much as they do. IL
Is well that the average Dutchman Is
q good natured fellow. No matter
whether his amiability be due to his
phlegmatic temperament or to the rea-
soned discipline In his soul, the result
is the same to the outer world. IL
he were naturally disposed to be a
prey to his passions, there would be
something horribly discordant In the
broad comedy Of his fuce.-Chambers'
Journal
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-08-16
Not OverexactinR.

"If you want anything to eat here.
she said. "you Will have TO work fol
It."
Madam" replied the weary one who
mad seen better days. II couldn't think
Of taking advantage OF you that way
A light lunch will do me now. but WORK
would increase my appetite 80 mucl
that you would surely lose more than
YOU can afford. Chicago Post.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-08-16

The great mistake of the Massa-
chusetts legislature in failing to con-
tinue efforts for the determination of
the gypsy moth is becoming more and
more apparent as time goes on. A tract
of two thousand acres OF oak timber in
the town of Maiden is now stripped
clean of foliage. The large grove at
Oak Grove station is practically dead.
It is appalling to contemplate the pros
pective damage If this moth Is allowed
to multiply and cover the land.-Maine
Farmer.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-08-16
Blood us n Tree Fertilizer.

For several seasons Il very ancient
walnut, with long. gaunt boughs, car
ryIng much dead wood. had been struS-
Cling to live. but each year man!fes Ell
signs that It's life was fast disappear
ing. The keeper in front Of whose
house the tree stood took to Singing
the carcass Of each deer he killed over
one of its boughs for dressing. Dur
ing the process all the blood dripped
Oh the ground and was absorbed. The
following spring this tree put forth IN
astonishing crop OF leaves. ana III less
than three seasons 1t was making new
wood and showing all the yigor which
had characterized II thirty years be-
fore. Its renewed youth was entirely
attributable to the fertilizing proper.
ties of the blood with which II had
been SO literally dressed.-Coun;ry
Gentleman.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-08-16
LincOln'n Passes.

Lincon's humor armed him effectual-
" against the importunate persons
with whom. as the head OF rhe nation.
he was beset at all times.
During the civil war u gentleman
asked him for pass through the Fed
eral lines to Richmond.
"I should be happy to oblige you."
said Lincoln. "if my passes were re-
spected But the fact ls., within the
last two years / have giveh passes to
Richmond to quarter OF million
men. and not one has got there yet"
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-08-16
Another month will bring us to th'

opening gates of another fair season,
aud as in the past the Farmer would
urge its readers to prepare to exhibit
either at the state or county fairs.
More pride in the farm, better appre-
citation of the crops and stock and
clearer insight into the principles OF
growth will surely follow, If the hours
are spent in intelligent comparison and
careful examination of the exhibits
We learn more through our eyes than
our ears, and he who sees things Is pretty
sure to do things.-Maine Farmer.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1904-08-16
An EnRlish Turf Custom.

A curious usage Of the English turf
Is one which ordains that, when once
worn. the cap and jacket representing
a patrons "colors" become the prop
erty of the Jockey. II, rs frequently
happens, the owner wishes to retain
them as memento OF II successful
race, he must buy them from the EN-
ployee to whom perhaps he gave them
but an hour OF two before.