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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-06-12

master put him on with Pat Francis.
The very first trip he made man in
the smoking car asked him where the
drinking water was. Bullhead, though
sufficiently gaudy In his new uniform,
was not prepared for any question that
might he thrown at him. He pulled
out his book of rules, which he had been
told to consult in case Of doubt, and
after some study referred his inquirer
to the fire bucket hanging at the front
end of the car. The passenger happen
ed to be foreigner and very thirsty.
He climbed up on the Baker heater, ac'
cording TO directions. and did at some
risk get hold Of the bucket-but 1t was
empty.
"Iss no water hier." cried the second
class man. Bullhead sat half way back
in the car. still studying the rules. He
looked up surprised. but. turning
around, pointed with confidence to the
fire pail at the hind end OF the smoker.
Try the other bucket, Johnnie" he
said calmly. At that every man In the
car began to choke. and the German,
thinking the new brakeman was max
ing funny of him. wanted to fight.
Now. Bullhead would rather fight than
60 to Sunday school any day. and with
out pariey he engaged the insulted
homesteader. Pat Francis parted then
after some hard words on his part. ard
Kenyon. the trainmaster. gave Bulihead
three months to study up where the wa
ter cooler was located In standard. A
pattern, smoking cars. Bullhead's own
mother. who did Callahan's washing
refused to believe her son was so stupid
as not to know, but BulIhead. who now
tells the story himself. claims he did
not know
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

OF all the words In the English Ian.
guage don't telp' are paid the least
attention.
The only trouble with experience as
q teacher il that the knowledge she
gives comes too late.
The trouble with the average father
being prepared for II rainy day Is that
his daughters wedding day gets him
first.
Don't cultivate that habit of looking
for something to worry about. You
may some day have your search 70.
warded.
Sometimes people complain Of their
individuality being crushed out when
It would really be the best thing that
could happen to them.
Gratitude Is a strange thing. You
never find it where It should be found.
but In cases where there 10 seemingly
little or nothing to be grateful for It
abounds. Globe.
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NUMBER "a.

recognition at all hazards. He began
by quarreling violently with Nellie, and
things We're coming to q serious pass
around the depot when the Klondike
business struck the Mountain division.
1t came with rush, and when they
began running through freight extras
by way Of the Goose River short linz,
day and night, the Junction station
caught the thick Of 1t, It was some
thing new altogether for the short line
rails and the short line operators, and
Bullhead's night trick, with nothing to
do but poke the fire and pop at coyotes,
became straightway a busy and i'm.
portant post.
On a certain night, windier than all
the November nights that had gone be-
fore, the night operator sat alone in the
office facing a resolve. Goose River
had become intolerable. Medicine Bend
was not to be thought Of, for Bullhead
now had a suspicion, due to Callahan.
that he was a good deal Of a chump,
and he wanted to get away from the
ridicule that had always and every.
where made life burden. There ap-
peared to Bullhead nothing for II but
the KlOndike. On the table before the
moody operator lay his letter Of resig.
nation. addressed In due form to J. 3.
Bucks, superintendent Near II, under
the lamp, lay well thumbed copy OF
the book OF rules, open ut the chapter
ON designations. with subheads on
Resign. who should.
Resign, how to.
Resign, when 10. (See also Time)
The fact WAS il had at last painfully
forced itself ON Bullhead that he was
not fitted for the railroad business. Pat
Francis had unfccimgly told him 50;
Callahan had told him so; Neighbor had
told him so: Bucks had told him So ON
that point the leading West End au-
thorities were agreed. Yet In spite of
these dlscouragements be had persisted
and at last made a show. Who was IL
now that hal shaken his stubborn con-
yictionf Bullhead hardly dared con-
fess.
While he reread his formal letter and
compared on spelling with his pocket
Webster. a train whlstied. Bulihead
looked at the clock; ii:+o y. M. IL was
the local freight. -. coming In from
the west. working back 10 Medicine.
From the east No. I had not arrived.
sh. was six hours late. and Bullbead
hooked out at his light. for he had or
ders for the freight II was not often
that such a thing happened. BECAUSE
No. I rarely went on schedule badly
enough 10 throw her into his turn. lie
bad his orders copied and D. Nd and
waited only 20 deliver them.
IL was fearfully windy. The 2c3
engine. pulling 30 that night. wheezed
In the gale like man with the apo
plexy. She had a new fireman Oh. who
was burning the life out Of her, ana
as she puffed painfully down on the
scrap rails Of the first siding and took
the Y her overloaded safety gasped rio-
lently.
fro BIZ oosTMuED.l
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Lives In Unthinklng Labor


In our youthful days, writes Governor
Hoard in his Dairyman, it was our PRIV.
lege to know a few men, the quality OF
whose minds and thought left deep
impression on our own. Among them
was a dairy farmer for whom we worked
as hired man, and who taught us to
make butter and cheese. We well re-
member one of the pungent phrases be
used about hired man with whom he
had been very much dissatisfied. HE
comes to his work wrong end first" ne
said. "How should he Gomez" we ask
ed. "Head first" was the terse answer.
And then he added, "DOn't work
without thinking about your work, and
think hard" To help himself and MS
hired men to think, he kept three pa,
pers on his table, M00re's Rural New
Yorker, The Country Gentleman, and
The New York Tribune. A full hours
incoming was given each day, and he en-
couraged the boys to spend the time IN
reading these papers. In the weekly
Tribune were reported the discussions
of the New York Farmers Club with
Solon Robinson a. president and ieader;
He used to frequently say that ne wouio
not give much for a farmer or hired mar
who had so little interest in his worh
that he did not care to read about IL
.sSuch a man." he would remark
''comes to his work wrong end nrst.
In the so years that have since spec
into eternity. we have thought many
times of our old farmer friend and em
ployer, and the deep wisdom OF m:
thought. How many farmers and hiret
men have we seen who have practicaii!
wasted their lives in unthinking labor
The head must precede the hands
Every particle of wasted fertility is du'
to a lack of thought-working the Sol
without knowing what We are about
Every poor COW that 10 kept without
profit tells of her owners lack OF think
| ing. Good thinking by q well informed
mind would soon stop such waste. Anc
so the farmer wastes his labor and capi
| tai, and the hired man his time. becaus'
they oome to their work wrong sn'
first"
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Southern Maine Outlook.

Ii is indeed gratifying to know that
many of our young men and former resi-
dents are coming back and buying
farms. Heretofore the tendency has
been for all who could get away to 60
and take all Of their possessions. Many
in the past have stayed here until they
had accumulated enough money to start
them in business elsewhere and then
left. This was q good place to be born
in and better place to get away from
once; but now 1t is good place to come
back to and will be better place to die
in. am glad that even our country
people are fast learning the worth OF
life on the farm.
Land in Aroostook county Is high, but
here it is low and for that reason many
farmers from Aroostook are either rent
ing or buying farms in Waldo county.
We can raise as good crops here as they
can in ArOostook and greater variety.
Our soil is well adapted to the raising oi
apples, pears, plums and the small fruits,
and for grazing our pastures are un.
excelled.
A resident of Kansas City, No., told
me recently that he was lOath to 60 back
to the west because the drinking water
there is poor and the fruit of an inferior
quality. He said that the people here
did not know how much they had to be
thankful for. But he was mistaken for
surely we know that there is no water
and no fruit in the world quite equal to
that of New England and we appreciate
| it all and are glad that others do. Oul
farms are being bought and soon the
troublesome question OF abandoned
farms will trouble US no more here In
Waldo county.
The vegetation here was not ia,
enough advanced to be damaged by The
cold wave which swept over New Eng.
land in May.
Farmers are beginning to realize tha
| it is better for them to raise grain thar
| to buy it, consequently larger acreage
| of grain than heretofore has been soweC
and moro sweet corn will be planted fol
the silo and factory. Some early pota
toes have been planted but for the mos
part other crops have not been planted
Stock has been turned away to pasture
| in fine condition. There isa great dea
of old hay still in the barns and will NO
be used this year.
We had but very few warm days II
May this year consequently the fores
trees have been slow to leave out ant
are not in full leaf at this writing. Frui
trees are budding slowly and 1t is ye
too early to tell much about them.-Cor
in New England Farmer.
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gndt.
When he got back to work he tried
the freight trains. They put him on
the No. %, local, and one day they
were drifting into the yard Mt Goose
River Junction when there came from
the cab sharp call for brakes. In.
stead of climbing out and grabbing
brakewheel for dear life Bullhead
looked out the window to see what
the excitement was. BY the time ne
had decided what rule covered the
emergency his train had driven a stray
fiat halfway through the eating house
east Of the depot. Kenyon. after hear
Ing Bullhead's own candid statement
of fact, coughed apologetically md
said three years, whercupon Bullhead
resigned permanently from the train
service and applied for a job In the
roundhouse.
But the roundhouse-for boy like
Bullhead. 1t would hardly do. He
was put at helping Pete Beezer, the
boiler washer. One night Pete was
snatching bis customary nap IN the
pit when the hose got away from
Bullhead and struck his boss. In the
confusion Peter, who was nearly
drowned, lost set of teeth. That was
sufficient in that department of the
motive power; Bullhead moved OH
suddenly. Neighbor thought he might
do for a wiper. After the boy had
learned something about wiplng he
tried one day to back an engine out
on the turntable just to see whether It
was easy. 1t was, dead easy. but the
turntable happened to be arranged
wrong for the experiment, and Neigh
Dor, before calling in the wrecking
gang, took occasion to kick Bullhead
out of the roundhouse bodily.
Nevertheless Bullhead, like every
Medicine Bend boy. wanted to rail-
road. Some fellows can't be shut of.
He was offered the presidency Of a
Cincinnati bank by private detective
agency which had just sent up the ac-
tive head Of the institution for ten
years, but as Bullhead could not mr.
range transportation east Of the river
he was obliged to let the opportunity
pass.
When tie widow Lyons asked Gala
han to put jamie at telegraphing the
assistant superintendent nearly fell on
his chair. Mrs. Lyons, however, was
In earnest, as the red haired man soon
found by the way his shirts were
starched. Her son meantime had got
| hold Of a sounder and was studying
teIegraphy, corresponding at .he same
time with the Cincinnati detective
agency for the town and county rights
to all hidden and undiscovered crime
| on the mountain division, rights offered
at the very reasonable price Of $40 BY
registered mail. bank draft or express
| money order; currency at sender's risk
| The only obligations imposed by thii
| deal were secrecy and German silvel
star, and Bullhead. after holding hil
trusting mother up for the ten, became
regularly installed detective Wit
proprietary rights to local misdeeds
Days he piled his sounder and night
hs lsv awake trying to mix up Pet
pesaae and NAighbee with the disap
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Analysis Of Feeding stufis.

Tho Maine Agricultural Experiment
Station is now mailing bulletin No. l29
containing the results OF the analyses
of the samples Of commercial feeding
stuffs collected by the station inspector
as we'll as those sent In BY station cor
respondents during the fall and winter
of 1905-6.
The station again urges the users OF
this class of goods TO draw samples and
send them to the station for prompt and
free analysis, a only in this way can
feeders get the fullest oenens OF tne
provisions OF the law. :,
Bulletin 129 will DO sent Tree 20 ail
residents of Maine who apply 70 the
Agricultural Experiment Station,
Orono, Ne. In writing please mention
this paper.
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Blackburn. .uas stretched on his knees.

and Salt Rocks somewhere. Callahan.
take the key" he cried Of a sudden.
There's call now. Dispatcher! Don't
speak; ask no questions. Get that mes
sage" he exclaimed sharply. pointing to
the instrument. 1T may be news"
And it was news-news from Ames
station reporting the Irving special m
at 1852 q. m.-out at 1:54! We all heard
It together or It might not have been
believed. The Irving special. east
bound, safely past No. 1. westbound.
on a single track when their meeting
orders had Tapped! Past without a
word Of danger or Of accident or even
that they had seen No. and stopped In
time to avoid collision? Exactly; not
a word; nothing. In at 62; out at "a.
And the actors hard asleep in their
berths, and on about It's business the
Irving special = that's what we got
from Ames.
Callahan looked around. Gentle.
men, what does this meant Somebody
here is insane. l don't know whether
it's me or you, Blackburn Are yos
horslng met" he exclaimed, raising his
voice angrlly. III you are, want to
say consider 1t q mighty shabby
Joke"
Bucks put up a hand and without q
word of comment repeated Black
burns story just as the dispatcher
had told II. "In any event there's
nothing to do now; it's on us or were
past It. Let Us walt for No. ] to re-
port"
Callahan pored over the order book.
"Maybe," he asked after awhile
'4didn't you send the orders right and
copy them wrong in the book, Black
burnT
The dispatcher shook his head. "They
went as they stand. The orders lapped'
Callahan. Wait till We hear from No
1. I feel sure she Is safe. Walt"
Bucks was pacing the floor. Gala
han stuck silent to the key. taking
what little work came, for saw mel
ther Of the chiefs wanted to trust
Blackburn ut the key. He sat looking
for the most part, vacantly into tht
fre. Callahan meantime had the osderi
repeated back from Ames and Hose
bud. It was as Blackburn had SAID
they did lap; they had been sent JUS
"a the order book showed. There wal
| nothing for 1t but to wait for Rosebud
| to hear from No. I. When the nien'
operator there called the dispatcher
again it brought Blackburn out OF hii
| gloom like thunderclap.
"Give me the keyl" be exclaimed
.There d Rosebud" Callahan pusnet
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It is really not the male lion, with
his terrific roar and formidable ap.
pearance, that the explorer fears, but
his mate. The male lion is q good
looking poser, but when 1t comes to
business it Is his wife who counts, a
la the African native. Game Is pulled
down by the female lion, and then the
male beats her of until he has feasted
to repletion, when she may have what
is left: hence "the lions share"
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rb. Un.atI.f,ed Bachelor.

VI have not marrlel so I may have q
quiet life," said the bachelor. Had
married good wife would have been
afraid to lose her; a bad one, l would
have been unhappy. Had taken q
poor girl we would have lived wretch
edly; a rich one. and she would have
had cause to taunt me with her money
Had she been ugly ! could not have
loved her; beautiful, and I would have
been eternally jealous. Therefore
have not married, and yet life is O
nuisance."-New York Press.
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his voice rang aDsoiute terror te
me. looked toward Blackburn per
fectly helpless.
Bucks, there will be no wreck" ne
answered steadily.
"Be no wreckw thundered Bucks
towering in the dingy room dark as the
sweep of the wind. "Be no wreck
Two passenger trains meet in he'll and
be no wreck? Are you crazyT
The dispatcher's hands clutched al
the table. "No," he persisted steadily
81 am not crazy, Bucks. Don't make
me so. tell you there will not be q
wreck"
Bucks, uncertain with amazement
stared at him again.
Blackburn, II you're sane ! don't
know what you mean. Don't stand
there like that. Do you know what
YOU have dOne" The superintendent
advanced toward him as he spoke
There was trace of pity in his words
that seemed to open Blackburn's pen'
heart more than all the bitterness.
Bucks" he struggled. putting out
hand toward his chief, II am sure Of
what l say. There will be no wreck
When / saw what had done-knew II
was too late to undo it, begged God
that my hands might not be stained
with their blood" Sweat oozed from
the wretched mans forehead. Every
word wrung its bead of agony. Il was
answered" he exclaimed, with strange
confidence; "there will be no wreck.
cannot see what will happen. I do moi
know what. but there will be no wreck
believe me or not-lt II So"
His steadfast manner staggered the
superintendent could Imagine what
he was debating as he looked at Black
burn wondering. maybe. whether the
mans mind was gone. Bucks was stag
gered: he looked II. and rs he collect
ed himself 10 speak again the hall dooi
opened like m uncanny thing. and We
all started as Callahan burst In on M.
whats SOL" he echoed. whats ur
herei What did II mean. Blackburn
There's been trouble. hasn't there
WHAT'S the matter with you all
Bucksi Is everybody struck dumbr
Bucks spoke. There's q lap ordei
out on and the theatrical special. Cal
lahan. We don't know what's happen
ed" said Bucks suIlenly. blackburn
here has gone craxy-or he knows
somehow-there won't be any wreck. '
added the superintendent slowly and
heu,ilJeredlv .If's between O'Fallon's
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His Works.

"A man is known by his works." de-
clared the irrepressible reformer, who
was addressing a large and enthusiast
tic audience.
"Yours must be gas works" shout
ed rude, uncultured person who occu'
pied back seat.
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An Eye to Business.

81 thought, Alice, that you were en-
gagged to Harry Smith, and now hear
you are going to marry his father"
That's right, Maude. The old gen.
tleman said he could support one Of
us, and I decided to be that one and
took the widower."
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The Great Day.

The Great Day.
Dreamy Youth-Have you noticed
that there are days when we seem
more In accord with the world-more
in unison with nature? Practical
Youth-Yes; 1t Is always that way with
me on pay day.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-06-12
General Debility

Day in and day out there 10 that ieeune
Of weakness that makes . burden oe itseas
Food does not strengthen.
Sleep does not refresh.
Il Il hard to do, hard to bear, wnas
should be easy.-vitality u on the eob. and
the whole system suhefs.
For this couditiou take
Hoods SarsaparIIIa
II vitalises The blood and gives visor ana
tone to al ths organs and functions.
In usual liquid form or IN ohocolased
tablsta mownas oArsatabs. 1oQdcsssN.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-06-12

Change the feed Of the horses quite
ofteu and under no circumstances COM
pel them to IN entire corn diet for any
great length Of time.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-06-12

It's . good plan In dry, hot weather
and Whenever the horses h00fs become
hard and brittle to oil them every day
with sweet oil.
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! Il Il Il Il Il Hu Il Il + Il It

8 full name was James
Gillespie Blaine Lyons.
but his real name was
Bullhead-just plain Bull
head.
When he began pas
senrar hrakinQ the train.
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AMONG THE FARMERS.
sPEED THE PLow."

on practical Agricultural topics
10 solicited Address Al communications In.
tended for this department 70 HENRY d.
HAsMoxD. Agricultural Editor Oxford Dem
ocras. Paris. Me-
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Many Aroostook county farmers are
sailing their farms ut the prevailing
hirh prices and moving down into CEN
tral Maine, where farming land may De
had at . moderate price. Piscstaqals'
Somerset and Waldo counties have 70
ceived q hundred or moro Aroostoos
families in tho past year. They evi'
IDENTITY believe that it IL improved meth
ods. not better land, that has given
Aroostook lands their increased value
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Labor to keep alive in your breast
that little spark of celestial fire called
conscience.-George Washington.
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When horse refuses to eat he should
b. allowed to rest..
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Fast work in horses u promoted by
the food that contains the most MUTT
ment In tho least bulk.
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A new Lot

A new Lot
Of Plumbing Goods. The best of
oak woodwork for closets. No old
goods. Call and see this line. Job
bing promptly attended to. No
charge for team.
L. M. Lon01ey,
Norway, Maine.
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"v.nlty Is . mighty poor unds1ssudy
for pride"
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~ .JONES,
Smith and Machinist,

SOUTH PAKis' 49,.
.s.,.r,urer Of genera machinery, steam en-
Manals,n srork. Spool machinery and tools,
eDes' ,ss i screws, isps dies and drills made and
ssSins y 81 PSSiss aiSa. p1s..ss. asa pi:
chimes, paln ana etc, neatly and promptly re-
iOis 1n''ss steam and water piping done 10 order.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1906-06-19
McHENRY No. 1868.

The Clydesdale Stallion will make
the season of 1906 as follow: Monday
and Tuesday at Kendallville, Wednes-
day and Thursday at home, Friday and
Saturday at Donaldson's barn at Cres-
co, and at home every evening except
Monday evening.
McHenry is draft horse of excel
lent quality and breeding. He was
shown as a two year old at the Chicka-
saw county fair in 1900, atwhich place
he won first in his class and sweep
stakes over all breeds.
You will seldom find in any draft
horse more show qualities than can
be found in McHenry.
His sire. the noted Craichmore No.
1894 was bred by j, Sproat, Of Scot
land. This horse is now 81 years old
and is as clean and sound as any colt.
His dam Big Island Polly, No 1854,
was brought to Cresco from Canada by
the late John McHugh.
In Canada she was exhibited atseyen
different fairs and never met with de-
feat. We can furnish proof that at
different times she weighed 2125 lbs.
The fee for McHenry is $40 due when
mare is known to be in foal or S13 to
insure a live colt.
M. P. LYDoN, Owner.
8. R. Bipford. Nor.