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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-04-18
The Old Time Farmers.

The old time farmers, as the writer
knew them when boy, were, with few
exceptions, thrifty, well-to-do, independ.
ent men. They lived in plain, sub
stantial houses, and raised large families
of robust children. All the supplies for
the household and stock were produced
on the farm. Many of those sturdy old
agriculturists could have withstoOd a
three months siege, not once going near
the neighboring village, without incon-
venience. They accumulated lands, live
stock and other property and were pros
porous and contented. Ignorant hay
seeds" that the caricaturiSt depicts,
they were not. Able in mind as we'll as
in muscle, they led in public affairs, and
their wisdom and moderation gave them
commanding influence in the halls of
legislation.
Agricultural, denOminational, pOliti-
cal and county papers were regularly
received in those old country homes.
The farm boys were given fair educa-
ton and favorable start for themselves
on the farm or in business or profess
sional life; and the rural worker with no
other capital than willing hands shared
in the general contsntment.
The prosperity of the old time farm
ers was real; it gave satisfaction. and
nurtured spirit of confidence and in
dependence not possessed by the rank
and.file farmers of to-day.
The New England Farmer, in its
series of articles on The Chief Needs of
New England Agriculture, aims to dis
cover the way which will enable our
modern farmers to enjoy the same pros
perity, confidence and satisfaction, from
their work, under present conditions,
that the old time farmers enjoyed under
the agricultural conditions of the past.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-04-18
Maine a Stock Raising State.

| Why do our correspondents and other
writers speak of Maine as no longer a
stock-raising state? Maine farming at
the present time as much as at any time
in the years that are past, rs based on
stock husbandry. In fact, our herds
and focks of improved breeding stock
have been on the increase from year to
year for the last decade, and never were
so numerous or of 80 high merit as at
the present time. Choice herds of the
best blood of the different breeds avail
able, and fine flocks of pure bred sheep
of the blood best suited to the demands
of this later time, are being weekly re-
inforced by selections from the best OF
their kind to be found. The offspring
from these animals is being raised and
transferred to other farms to displace
the less desirable animals there found.
While the Maine farmers are no less
stock raising community than formerly,
it is true gradual change has taken
place in the kind of stock bred, reared
and kept on their farms. Oxen and steers
have made way for the cows and the
creamery under the low price of the fat
tened beeves, while the flocks of sheep,
unwisely we fear, have been decimated in
the interest of butter and cream. But the
stock husbandry still m0nopolizes the
farm as before, and the increase from year
to year displaces the older and the inferior
and sends them to the market, if not in
the same kind, certainly to an amount
equal if not exceeding in money value
the former measure of trade. The
thousands of surplus cows shipped from
the state each year, together with the
millions of dollars worth of cream and
butter that go with them, much more
than make good the beeves they have
displaced Hence it is misrepresenta-
tion to indicate that Maine is not still as
much as ever before stock-raising
state.-Maine Farmer.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-04-18
The Man Behind the Cow.

We have been saying things about the
cow-how she should be fed, ETC., but
a vet we have not said much about the
man behind the COW. He should be a
thoroughbred and registered just as
much as tue COW. There are scrubs
among the COW keepers. These should
be weeded out, and until IL is done we
will never know just how much Of the
poor dairy work now done can be charge
able To the cows of our land. 1t is some
times amusing To have some person just
in the A b G. class try to bolster up
some of his new-fangled notions by a
few weeks of actual practice, and then
try to teach others who have studied
the work for lifetime, says a writer in
the Nebraska Farmer.
Last winter after listening to an in
structive and interesting address by ex-
Governor Hoard on The Cow and Her
Master" a fellow who parted his hair
in the middle and wore kid gloves un-
dertook TO prove by theory that the
speaker did not know his business.
Then we hunted up his pedigree and
found that he kept one COW, the hired
girl did the milking, and the family
butter came from the store, when they
had any. Here was poor scrub who
didn't know anything about dairying,
and, worse vet, did not know that he
didn't know it.
There are other scrubs in the ranks
of cow keepers. Here is man, good
corn grower, perchance. He keeps a
few cows, but dairying "don't pay"
aud SO he lets his cows hunt their shell
ter and living in the stalk fields all win
ter. He does not feed any corn because
that can be sold for cash. He does not
feed any hay because he raises none; his
land is all in corn. He feeds no bran,
for bran costs cash, and it does not pay
to keep paying out and get no money
back. He keeps cows because his father
did. and, then, it's handy for his wife to
take little butter to the store to buy
some coffee and tobacco with. The man
behind the cow to make the most of his
COW machine, should thOrougly under
stand his animals. He must never leave
undone anything which tends to the
comfort of his stock. He must be a
good student willing to learn. An ex-
perimenter with feeds, bnt not with
drugs. In his student work there is
nothing which will give him ideas TO
work from any better or quicker than the
milk scales at milking time.
There are so many little things which
influence the flow of milk, and when
we know there is shortage We can
quickly find it, if We are studying our
business. If any breeder is in the scrub
class, can't you get out?-Turf, Farm
and Home.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-04-18

STATE OF MAINE.


COUNTY OF OXFORD. IS:
Board of County Commissioners, December
session, 1884, held by adjournment March ss
lgO5
UPON the foregoing petition. satisfactory
evidence having been received that the petition
ers are responsible, and that inquiry Into the
merits of their application Is expedient, lr is
ORDERED, that the County Commissioners meet
At the house OF Erwin Hutchinson of Ma on,
on Tuesday, June 8, 1893. next, at ten OF
the clnck A NJ. and thence proceed to View
the route mentioned In said petition; imme
diately after which view, hearing OF the parties
and their witnesses will be had at some convenient
place ia the vicinity, and such other measures
taken In the premises rs the Commissioners shall
nudge proper. And IL is further ORDERED, that
notice of the time. place and purpose ofthe Com.
tnissioners' meeting aforesaid be given To all
persons and corporations interested, by causing
attested copies of said petition and of this Or'ier
thereon 10 be served upon the Clerk of the Town
OF Mason and also posted up In public places In
said town and published three weeks successive.
ly in the oxford Democrat newspaper printed
at Paris In said County of Oxford the first OF said
publications, and each of the other notices, 20
be made, served and posted, at least thirty
days before said time of meeting, to the end thai
all persons and corporations may then anu there
appear and shew cause, II any they have, why
the prayer of said petitioners should not Oe
granted.
ATTEST CHARLES 4. WHITMAN, Clerk.
4 true copy of said Petition and Or'ier of
Court thereon
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-04-18
WRIGHT WHEELER,
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law,
SOUTH PARIS, MAINE.
James :. Wright. Alton e. Wheeler.
STATE OF MAINE.

COUNTY OF OXFORD. IS. Aprili, 1898.
Taken on execution, wherein Frank L War
rem OF Hartford. Is plaintiff and Scott I. Doten
and \. A. Doien OF Hartford ars defendants
and will be sold by public auction on the twenty
fourth day Of Nav at 10 o'clock In the forenoon
al the Office of rhos. =. BrilghSm In Ruckheld Ii
-id county, all the rights In equity which scott
Doten Of Hartford. In the county OF oxford. had
on the sixth Gay of october, lsoi. when the same
was attached on the original W II To redeem tht
following lie cribed mo tagged real estate stu
ated In Hartford, In said county. TO wit, Ger
tain lot of land In Hartford, aforesai', In the
easterly part of said town, and being the home
stead farm formerly occupied by the late Timo
thy :. DOteu and bv him c0nyeved 10 The said
scott T. Doten by his warranty deed dated Octo
Der 18th. lSg5.
Said real estate I, subject to a mortgage of the
same date given by said Scot I. Doten 10 limo
thy $ DOten and his wife Avis \. DOten tc
secure "A bond for the maintenance of the said
Timothy 5, DOten and Avis \. Doten during
their natural lives.
Date,l at Hartford the 9TH day OF April. 1898
A.D. 5. c. WIrHlNGTON.
Deputy Sheriff.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-04-18
He Wanted One Hens Eggs.

The idea of "one'S cows milk" for
feeding babies, which interpreted means
feeding the child from the same COW,
has been carried step farther by a
young architect in a certain city. The
parsonage in question has delicate
child whom he wishes to nurture accord
ing to the most approved ideas; he re-
Gently approached a farmer with the
purpose of getting supply Of zone
hens eggs" and the outcome was as
follows:
"Can you furnish me with fresh
eggs?" he demanded.
"Yes, sir, we can," was the answer.
perfectly fresh?"
Perfectly"
"Laid the same day?"
"Well," said the man, doubtfully,
1--WE could guarantee small quantity
that way"
"They must be perfectly fresh, "
recapitulated the fond father. They
must be laid the day they are left al
my door and they must be one hens
eggs"
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-04-18
lie stuqgcrcd bltntilU on.

A uniformed fiGure-Ee thought it
was the captain-stretched out an un'
availing arm to clasp tie queer raft
which supported the sailor ana the
girl. but jealous wave rose under
the platform with devilish energy and
turned it completely over, hurting the
man with his inanimate burden into
the deoths. He rose. fighting madly
for his life. Now surely lie was DOOM
ed. But again, as if human existence
depended Oh naught more serious than
the spinning of coin. his knees rested
Oh the same few stanch timbers. now
the ceiling of the music room. and he
was given brief respite. His great
est difficulty WAS to get his breath, SO
dense was the spray through which
he was driven. Even in that terrible
moment he kept his senses. The girl.
utterly unconscious. showed by the
convuisive helvinG of her breast that
she WIS choking. With Il Will effort
he swung her head round to shield her
from tie dying scud with his own
form.
Tie tiny air space thus provided
gave her some relief. and in that In
slant the sailor seemed to recognize
her. He was not remotely capable or
definite idea. Just as he vaguely real
lied the identity of the woman in his
arms the unsteady support on which
he rested topDled over. Again he re-
newed the unequal contest. A strong,
resolute man and typhoon sea wres'
tied for supremacy.
This time his feet plunged against
something gratefully solid. He was
dashed forward, still battling with the
raging turmoil of water, and second
time he felt the same Arm yet smooth
surface. His dormant faculties awoke.
1t was sand. With frenzled despera-
ton. buoyed now by the inspiring hope
of safety, he fought his way onward
like maniac.
Often he fell. Three times did the
backwash try to drag him to the
swirling death behind, but he staggered
blindly on, OH, until even the tearing
gale ceased to be laden with the suffo-
eating foam, and his faltering feet
sank in deep soft white sand.
Then he fell, not to rise again. With
last weak flicker Of exhausted
strength he drew the girl closely to
him, and the two lay clasped tightly
together, needless now Of all things.
How long the man remained pros
trate he could only guess subsequently.
The Sirdar struck soon after day
break. and the sailor awoke to hazy
consciousness Of his surroundings to
find shaft of sunshine flickering
through the clouds banked up In the
east. The gale was already passing
away. Although the wind still whis-
tied with shrlll violence, it was more
clustering than threatening. The sea,
too, though running very high, had re-
treated many yards from the spot
where he had finally dropped, and Its
surface was no longer scourged with
venomous spray.
Slowly and painfully hs raised him.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-04-18

Ploddtny together through the mnd.
so | do not wish to be addressed as
madam in every breath. DO you un-
derstand me-"
"As you wish, Miss Deane." lie said.
THE fact remains that have many
things 10 attend to. and we really must
eat something"
What can we eat!"
LET us find out" he replied, scan-
ming the nearest trees with keen scru-
tiny.
They p!odded together through the
sand in silence. Physically they were
superb couple, but in raiment they
resembled scarecrows. Both. of course.
were bareheaded The sailors jersey
and trousers were old and torn. and
the sea water still soughed loudly In
his heavy boots with each step.
But Iris was In deplorable plight.
Her hair fell in great wave OF gold
en- brown strands o,r her neck and
shoulders. Every hairpin had vanish
ed. but with few deXterous twists
she coiled the flying tresses into
loose knot. Her beautiful muslin dress
was rent and draggled. 1t was drying
rapidly under the ever increasing pow
er of the sun, and she surreptitlously
endeavored to complete the fastening
Of the open portion about her neck.
Suddenly he gave a glad shout. by
Jove. Miss Deane, we are In luck's
way. There is fine plantain tree"
The pangs Of hunger could not be re-
sisted. Although the fruit WAS hardly
ripe. they tore at the great punches
and ate ravenOusly. Iris made no pre-
tense in the matter. and the s.tiior was
in worse plight. for he had been on
duty continuously since 4 o'clock the
previous afternoon.
At last their appetite was somewhat
appensed. though plnntains might not
appeal to gourmand us the solitary
joint.
"Now," decided jerks. you must
rest here little while. Miss Deane.
Pm going back to the beach. You need
not be afraid. There are no animals to
harm you. and will not be far away"
what are you going 90 do on the
beach," she demanded.
ITO rescue stores. for the most part.
"Alay not come with you. can be
of some littie service surely?"
lie answered slowly: "Please oDlige
me by remaining here ut present. In
less than an hour ! will return. and
then perhaps you will find plenty to
do"
She read his meaning intuitively ana
shivered. ~ could not do that. she
murmured. IL would faint. While YOU
are away I will pray for them. my I'M
fortunate friends"
AS lie passed from her side he heard
her sobbing quietly.
When he reached the lagoon he haIt'
ed suddenly. Something startled him.
He was quite certain that he had
| counted fourteen corpses. Now there
were only twelve. The two Lascars'
bodies which rested Oh the small group
of rocks oil the verge of the lagoon bad
vanished.
Where had they gone?
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-04-18
Western Farming in New England.

Prof. j. w. Sanborn spoke of his farm
experience and experiment. He came
from the west ten years ago and settled
on a common New England farm with
the intention of seeing whether or not
eastern farming could be done in a
wholesale way as in the west. BY grub
bing out trees, rocks and walls, 800 acres
have been fitted for the plow and other
farm machinery proving that machinery
is as applicable to New England as to
western agriculture. The farm has now
a capacity of 800 tons of hay per year.
This investment has required some
nerve, patience and faith in agriculture,
for money has been invested freely in
permanent mprovements-600 tons Of
chemical fertilizers have been bought in
ten years. But the business has now
reached such point that it pays the
professor handsome salary as manager,
and more than savings bank interest on
an investment that is continually in
creasing. The professor estimates that
were the enterprise to be abandoned at
once between $4,000 and $50, 200 worth
of hay could be removed from the land
before there would be any material de-
pleton of the soil; and all of the perma-
nent improvements would be left.
Professor Sanborn claims that We have
no idea of the possibilities of New Eng
land agriculture; that it will respond
readily to the application of capital; and
while money in the savings bank may
return only 1-2 per cent, invested in
farming it will pay 20 per cent. There
are too many old pastures paying moth
ing that should be set to work.
Professors Sauborn's speciality is pro-
ducing milk for the Boston market al
though he raises many potatoes for sale.
He keeps herd of 2S0 head.
In the discussion which followed
Professor Brooks told of the profit of
one tract of college land on valuation
of S40O per acre. He said that in New
England agriculture the man is the unit;
in Japanese agriculture the acre is the
unit, and the Japs beat the world in the
amount of product they will get from
an acre.-New England Farmer.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-04-18

E.lIIEN the S.rdar parted amid
|k ships the floor of the saloon
IH heaved up in the center with
mighty crash Of rending
woodwork and iron. Men and women,
too stupefed to sob out Il prayer, were
pitched headlong into chaos. Iris, torn
from the terrified grasp Of her maid,
fell through Il corridor and would have
gone down with the ship had not a
sailor, clinging to companion ladder,
caught her as she whirled along the
steep slope of the deck.
He did not know what had happen
ed. With the instinct of self preserva-
ton he seized the nearest support
when the vessel struck. 1t was the
mere impulse of ready helpfulneSs that
caused him to stretch out his left arm
and clasp the girls waist as she liuttar-
ed past. BY idle chance they were on
the port side, and the ship, after paus-
ing for one awful second. fell over to
StarbOard.
The man was not prepared for this
second gyration. Even as the stair
way canted he lost his balance: they
were both thrown violently through
the omen hatchway and swept off into
the boiling surf Under such condi-
tions thought itself was impossible. a
series Of impressions. a number of fan
tastic pictures. were received by the be-
numbed faculties and afterward pain
fully sorted ont by the memory. Fear,
anguish. amaZement-nOne of these
could exist. All he knew was that the
lifeless form Of a wOman-for Iris had
happily fainted-must be held unit!
death itself wrenched her from him.
Then there came the headlong plunge
into the swirling sea. followed by an
indefinite period Of gasping oblivion.
Something that felt like Il moving rock
rose up beneath his feet. He was driv-
en- clear out of the water and seemed to
recognize familiar object rising rigid
and bright close ut hand. 1t was the
pinnacle pillar screwed to portion OF
the deck which came away from the
chart house, and was rent from the up
per framework by contact with the
reef. He seized this unlocked for sup
port with his disengaged hand.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-04-18
A Stock Keepers Notes,

Squealing hogs make square ribs and
thin bacon.
Are you so kind to your flocks and
herds that they welcome your coming
to the barn?
A SOW that will raise two litters of
eight to ten pigs year is one of the
most profitable animals on the farm.
Hogs in close, dirty pens, and that
have to breathe foul air all the time
cannot make very wholesome meat.
Leroy Durkee in New England
Eormar
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-04-18
CHAPTER III.

The sailor wasted no time in Idle
bewilderment. He searched
carefully for traces Of the miss.
u ing Lascars. He came to the
conclusion that the bodies bad been
dragged from of the sun dried rocks
INTO the lagoon by some agency the ma
ture Of which he could not even con-
lecture.
They were lying many feet above the
sea level when he last saw them, lit
tie more than half an hour earlier. Al
that point the beach shelved rapidly
He could look far into the depths Of
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-04-18
ORDER OF NOTICE THEREON.

DISTRICT OF MAINE, S.
Gu this lst day of April. A. d. 1895. on rea''-
Ing the foregoing petition, IL is
Ordered by the Court, That hearing be ha,!
upon the same on the slst day of April, A. ID
1893, before said Court at Portland, In said Dis
trict, at 10 o'clock In the forenoon; and that no
tice thereof be published In the Oxford Demo,
crat, a newspaper printed In said District, AMI
that all known creditors, and other persons In
interest, may appear at the said time and place
and show cause, II any they have, why the
prayer of sati petitioner should not ec granite
Aud t Is further ordered by the Court, Tnai
the Clerk shall send by mall to all known cred
tors copies OF said petition and this order, AL
dressed 10 them at their places OF residence Ne
stated.
Witness the Hon. CLARENCE HALE, Judge ol
the said Court, ami the seal thereof, at Portland
In said District, on the Let day OF April, A. ID
1895.
isl JAMES 4. HEWEi, Clerk.
true copy OF petition and orlcr thereon.
Attest JAMES T. HEWEf, Clerk
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-04-18

To the Honorable County Commissioners of the
County nf oxford:
The undersigned. Selectmen Of Mason, du'y
authorized bv a vote OF the inhabitants of said
town, al a meeting legally held for that purpose
respectfully r, pre,e ent that the county road, IN
said town OF Mason, leading from near q. =
Wcstleighs to Ty lert wn. so-called. be di~cOntin
ued We, therefore request Your Honor. after
you have caused due rOtice TO te given, To view
said route and make such discontinuances as YOU
NAV deem eXpedient and proper and as In duty
bound will ever pray.
Date at Mason, this 18th day of March. 1905.
ERWIN HUTCHINSON, Selectmen
4. q. LONEJOl, of
r. A. GROVER, Mason.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1905-04-18
Autos Can't Gust the Good Ones.

In our view it is like "kicking against
the pricks'' to stigmatize the advance of
the motor as an unnecessary evil. The
motor has come to stay; it has its place
to ill, and in that respect cannot possi-
bly oust the best class of riding and
harness horses. 1t is here that the far
seeing breeder of harness horses is like
ly 10 score, and the man who has got
good hackneys to dispose of with any
thing like harness properties can make
as much money from them to-day as
ever, provided that they are of good
color and passable appearance. Indeed,
where the hackney approaches carriage
horse dimensions there is still better
market awaiting him, and the demand
at the present moment is quite insati-
able. 1t is, of course, how the indiffer-
ent animals are sold that exercises a
salutary influence upon the breeders
balance sheet, and as at any time there
has never been keen demand for these,
it is morally certain that the demand is
not likely TO strengthen. All the more
necessary is it, therefore, that good
blood and individual character should
be blended.-London Stockbreeder.