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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-07-30
Starting New Orchards In Maine.

Many young men are thinking of
starting in orcharding in Maine. Maine
has many fine orchard towns and many
towns that are not adapted to orchard
ing that are fine farming towns. Our
best orchard farms are among our billy
towns, where orchards thrive the best
Oh our hill tops, northwest slope where
good drainage is almost always found.
Trees standing in low, wet land or at
the foot of hills where getting all the
drainage from the high land above will
soon die with wet feet. Keep out of all
such low, wet places with trees and you
will save failure. Ii you have no good
orchard land, let some one else raise
your fruit who has the chance, this will
be the cheapest for the lowland farmer.
A good many of our local travelling
apple tree agents are selling and recon-
mending almost every kind of apple to
the farmer 10 raise for our big markets,
which is great mistake, If he buys
what is recommended he will soon be
raising lot of fruit that will puzzle
him to sell, he has not raised what the
market wants. To make a success in
his selection of apples to raise for the
big markets he must 60 to our big mar
kets and talk with commission mer-
chants who will tell what is the best
selling apple for this particular market
Then raise what the market is calling
for and nothing else. The market wants
quality, size and color and nothing else.
When the apple grower attempts to
grow all kinds of apples, thinking of get
ting a fancy price, he soon runs up
against big failure and swears there is
no money in orcharding. That is right,
there is not one cent of profit in that
kind of work. Orcharding to be success
full requires a great amount of hard
study to learn all that contributes to
failures and success. Let US use our
own eyes and brains, let US have more
interest in fruit growing. Don't put up
with a failure. Put your whole soul
and mind into this work and it will
prove success to ALA. A. Eastman
in Maine Farmer.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-07-30
CHAPTER II.

~ Friday evening, Marcl 10, a
thunderstorm OF unusual vio-
lence broke over London. II
- was notably peculiar In GER
tain of its aspects. The weather was
cold and showery, typical day Of the
March equinox Under such conditions
barometric pressure remains fixed ratli-
er than variable, yet many whose bust
ness or hobby II Is to record such facts
observed rapid shrinkage of the mer-
curry column between the hours Of 6
and 7. A deluge OF rain fell for many
minutes and was followed about 1880
d. m. by mad turmoil Of thunder and
an astounding electrical display not
often witnessed beyond the confines OF
the giant mountain ranges of the world.
SO violent and unnerving was the
outburst that the social life OF Lon.
don was paralyzed for the hour. The
ater parties, diners in the fashionable
restaurants the greater millions anX-
ious to get away from offices and shops.
those eager alike to enter and leave
the charmed circle Of the four mile ra-
dius, were ruthlessly bidden to wait
while the, awesome forces Of nature
made mad racket in the streets. All
horseflesh was afraid. The drivers of
cabs and omnibuses were unable to
make progress. They had sullicien'
ado to restrain their maddened ami
mails from adding the havoc Of blind
charges through the streets to the gen
eral confusion caused by the warning
elements. Telegraph and telephone
wires became not only useless, but
dangerous. and the suburban train
service was consequently plunged into
q tangle from which 1t was not extri-
Gated until midnight.
So general was the confusion, so
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-07-30
: The KING Of :
DIAMONDS.
By Louis Tracy,
= COPYRIGHT. By J. -
Gripping the reader fast with
its tale of the astounding trans
Author of "Winss Of the Morning" 1.-THE Pillar of
Light" Etc.

Gripping the reader fast with
its tale Of the astounding trans
formation, in one day. of q
ragged London waif into the
possessor of incalculoble wealth,
this story by Louis Tracy meas
rres up fully to the standard of
this romancer's other popular
tales. In the un folding of the
story he depicts NOT merely the
change in the hero's material
circumstances, but the interesting
development of his character.
The stirring adventures in which
Philip Anson became en6roiied
by reason of his suddenly ac-
CURED riches, literally sent to
hin, from heaven, his loyalty to
the girl friend of his childhood
and his manly efforts to win her
love, are among the many ele-
nents of a plot which is de-
peloped with Mr.. Tracy's we'll
know, skill.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-07-30

| they also gave me a sovereign TO tide
you over the next few days"
Funeral. The word struck with
sledge hammer force. Phil had not
| thought Of that. He remembered the
dismal pomp Of such events in this
squalId locality, the loud sobbing OF
women, the hard faced agony Of men,
the frightened curiosity Of children
His mother, 80 dear, 80 tender, 80 soft
cheeked-the bright, beautiful, laughing
woman Of their life In Dieppe-to he
taken away from him forever and por,
mitted to fade slowly into nothingncss
in some dreadful place, hidden from
the sunshine and the flowers she loved!
For the srst time he understood death.
When his faiher. was killed, his mother
was left. Anxious tending on her dis
pelled the horror of the greater trag-
edy. Now all was lost. The tem,s'that
he hated were welling forth again. and
he savagely bit his lip.
"You have been-very good-to us,
DOCTOR" he forced himself to say. 'if
eyer-I can repay you
"There, there, not word! Bless my
soul, yours is difficult case"
Again the doctor tackled his glove
He glanced at his watch.
"Four o'clock. am an hour late on
my rounds. No, Phil. Don't go up
stairs. There are some women coming
Wait until they have tended your
mother. And-One last word. 1t will
do you no good to keep vigil by hei
side. Best think Of her as living, not
dead. You will he grateful 'or my ad-
vice In after life."
The women arrived, coarse but kind
ly hearted creatures. One Of them
gave the boy a packet of letters.
"I found 'em under the dear lydy's
pillow" she said. Neither poverty nor
death robbed Mrs. Anson of the re-
spect paid to her by all who came I'm
contact with her.
He sat down, united string which
bound the letters together and looked
ut the address on the first envelope. 1t
bore bis mothers name and recent
postmark. Wondering dolefully what
correspondence she could have had
during these later months that de-
manded such careful preservation, he
took out the letter. Suddenly he hesi-
tated. Perhaps these documents al
luded to something which his mother
did not wish him to know. For an In
stant his impulse was to consign the
packet to the fire. No; that might be
wrong. He would glance at their gen.
eral purport and then commit them to
the flames II he thought fit.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-07-30
Thoughts of the Seaside.

Residents of town and city are now
thinking of their summer outing, and
those who live in the busy inland cen
tres generally turn their attention to
the seashore. To those who are un
decided, Cushing's Island, Casco Bay,
near Portland, Me-, is recommended.
Two and one-half miles from the City of
Portland, it is combination of seashore
and country, on one side the broad
ocean, and on the other q magnificent
view of Portland Harbor. The Ottawa
House, we'll known for several years, is
situated here, and with the cottages in
connection, accommodates $50 guests.
It has been thoroughly renovated and
refurnished. The sanitary arrange.
ments are perfect, house lighted with
electricity, water supply secured from
an artesian well that Is equal to any oi
the famous springs throughout the state
of Maine. Hotel under management oi
Messrs. Boyce and Hatfield, two ex'
perienced hotel managers.
All information, booklets, etc., may
be secured on application to j. Quinlan
Bonaventure Station, Montreal, Que.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-07-30
Feeding Eat into Milk.

Can fat be fed into milkP 1t is thought
by some that the percentage of butte,
fat can be increased by scientific feeding
| Tests, however, show that while q
change of ratio will have a tendency to
change the fat content for short time,
it will return to It's former percentage
after the animal becomes accustomed to
the feed.
The New York (CornelD station recent.
ly made test from herd of 81 COWS, to
learn, il possible, the effect that liberal
and short feeding would have on the
percentage of fat in milk. The COWS
were fed very poor ration. They were
placed upon a scientific ration and tests
again made. Speaking of the test, a
bulletin says:
For long time the opinion has been
very strong in the minds of dairymen
that the percentage of fat in milk is d.
rectly and largely influenced by the food
of the COW. If so out of a hundred
dairymen are asked whether they can
make their COWS give richer milk by
changing food, they will answer at once
in the affirmative, and many will 90 so
far as to say that they have done it
time and time again. Still this is one of
the results that careful Investigators
have been trying to secure for the last
twenty years, and so far they have met
with little or no success. In a herd of
poorly fed cows, an abundant ration
easily digestible and rather heterogeneous
in character, and continued through two
years, resulted in an average increase of
one-fourth to one per cent of fat in milk.
This was accompanied by an increase of
about 80 per cent in total milk produc-
ed. The increased production was
secured economically so far as the food
cost of fat and milk is concerned.
The Massachusetts station has just
completed similar test and issued a
press bulletin in which the following
conclusion is drawn:
'Neither the protein nor the carbohy-
drate groups, when fed in normal
amount, have any noticeable influence
in changing the proportions of the
several milk ingredients, nor in modify
ing to any marked degree the character
of the butter fat, as revealed by the Or
dinary chemical tests"
The reader can see that from adverse
to liberal and scientific feed
ing the increase is so small that it is
hardly worthy of notice. In the New
York test the flow was increased half
but the fat remained almost the same.
This, beyond doubt, goes to show that
richpess of milk is due to the COW, while
the flow in a great measure, is due to
faa6
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-07-30


at The cdrridgc door.
The letter I'm his hand was headed
"The Hail. Beltham, Devon" and date
about a month earlier 1t read:
Dear Madam-1 am requested By sI'
Philip Morland to ask you not to trouble
him with further correspondence. Thi:
Is the fourth time / have been desired
by him to write in these terms. so pleas.
note that yoGr letters will in future re-
main unanswered. Yours truly.
LOUISA MORLAND.
The curt incivility of the not,
brought an angry flush to the boy,
face Who was Sir Philip MOrland
that he should dare to offer this insul!
to lady? Evidently relative, and y
near one. for Morland was his moth
rr's name. and his own Christian name
suggested n family connection. Yet she
had never spoken of any such person.
Three other letters Of E"~cedinc dates
showed thnt Louisa Morllnd" kept ac'
curate reckoning. 'Th1re were half y
dozen more. from frm Of sol cliors.
Some Of these were merely formal ac-
acknowledgements of letters received and
forwarded, but one stated that they
"were Instructed by Lady Morland to
inform Mrs. AnsOn that Sir Philip Nor.
land declined either to see or hear
from her."
That was all. Philip sprang up with
face aflame. He was alone in the
house now, alCne with his dead mother
He went upstairs, with the letters
crushed In his right hand as though he
would choke reptile which had stun"
the only being he loved. He bent over
the shrunken form, 80 placid. so re
signed, so angelic I'm the peace Of death
and his hot tears fell unchecked.
"You poor darling" he murmured. 81
believe you humbled yourself even to
beg from these people for my sake.
What can I do to show my love for
your
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-07-30
The President Makes Hay.
TBrooklyn Earle.1


Edward Maloney, a laborer of Eas
Norwich, L. l., had unique experience
at Sycamore Hill, when he harvested
with the help of President Roosevelt
ten loads of fine hay from the Presi
dents big farm.
At the village post Office Maloney
gave an interesting resume of his days
work at Sycamore Hill. He said:
"About o'clock the president came
out to the field. he was dressed in 9
white suit and white neglige shirt and
tie to match, and with hearty greeting
and handshake all around began to
pitch with three others, with me load.
ing. Before the first load was done, you
wouldn't have given 80 cents for the
white shirt; and talk about sweat drops
like peas, the president had then as big
as black walnuts dropping from his face,
and he didn't stop to wipe them off,
either, but kept right on pitching up
forkfuls so big that he had to get under
them and shove them up to me.
"Talk about hay pitchers, he's a won
der. After we got two wagons loaded,
I drove to the barn with Teddy in the
lead, fork on shoulder, and when we
reached the new hay barn, the president
climbed on my load and so up in the
NOW, where he took the hay from the
fork and moved it away with more big
drops falling from him in streams"
Two telephone calls from Secretary
Loeb failed to take the president from
his work, although the business was i'm
portant, the servant said.
After the days work was finished the
president bid the men good afternoon
and with another handshake all around,
he said he would be on hand again to-
day to finish the remainder of the har-
vest.
Maloney, upon being asked if he
would be on the job again to-day said,
"No, not If the president was going to
fire them up, as he did yesterday" He
had enough, he said, although Mr..
Roosevelt only pricked him once with
the tines of the pitchfork.
Maloney appeared somewhat weary,
last night, but was nevertheless proud
of having worked in the field with the
president.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-07-30
poIIen Travels Far,

The pollen from pine forests often
forms a yellow coating on lakes or on
the ocean as far as 200 miles from the
shore and has been mistaken by peas
ants for showers OF sulphur. The pol
len grains of the pine are provided
with hollow vesicles, which buoy them
up In the air very much on the princi-
ple of box kite.-St. Nicholas.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-07-30
[To BE Continued
What Is an Orator2

Th. true orator Is the man who can
make people laugh, cry and feel what
he says. In truth, the genuine orator
is the man who has humor enough In
his soul to bring the smile to the face,
pathos enough In his heart TO bring the
tear to the eye and dignity enough In
his bearing to persuade or move men.
He IL an exponent of the spoken word.
He Is pilgrim moving toward the
home of the ideal. He is the eInbodi:
ment of earnestness, enthusiasm and
elouuence.-
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-07-30
The idea has often been advanced tina

The idea has often been advanced that
very round eggs produce pullets and the
long or pointed eggs produce cockerels.
This cannot be relied upon with any GER
tainty. Some hens lay round eggs,
others oblong or pointed eggs. While in
some instances the round eggs have pro-
duced majority Of pullets, in other in
stances they have not. There is no alb
solute certainty In selecting the sexes
prior to incubating the eggs.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-07-30
About the State.

celebrate the Tooth birthday of their
venerable and beloved fellow citizen
Abner Dunton, which occurs on Thurs.
day, August 1st. Mr.. Dunton, at 100
years, is almost as we'll physically as the
ordinary man of so, and his mental
powers are absolutely unimpaired. He
has been and is useful, honorable, en-
terprising and energetic citizen, and it is
fitting that his fellow townsmen should
do him honor.
Automobiles who enter or leave
Maine via the toll bridge at Portsmouth
may be interested to know that the
supreme court at New York has decided
that the proprietors of toll bridge near
Saratoga are not within their charter
rights in charging toll on automobiles,
for these vehicles are not mentioned in
their charter as tollable. 1t is quite
likely that the same rule would be found
to apply everywhere, as toll bridges are
a survival of the dark ages and most or
all of them were chartered before the
idea of the automobile took practical
shape.
The urgent necessity of making more
heroic attempt to hold the gypsy moth
under control in Maine becomes palmer
with each day that passes as the unsuc-
cessful fight goes on in Massachusetts,
where million dollars year is being
spent without appreciable success in
staying the extension of this pest. 1t is
now recognized that no general success
can come except through natural para.
site enemies of the moth and to that end
the energies of the expert entomologists
are being directed. A crumb of comfort
comes from recent Investigations in
northern Europe, where it appears that
in the northermost parts of Norway and
Sweden-countries which have been ex
posed to the pest-there seems to have
been no serious or damaging infestation.
This would indicate that the forests of
the northern portions of New England
might prove too cold in winter for the
gypsy moth to become as destructive as
in Massachusetts,. Nevertheless until
the fight can be won in Massachusetts, no
line of effort should relax in Maine.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-07-30
Purely Chance.

Knicker-Do you consider poker a
game Of chance? Bocker-Purely.
Sometimes my wife finds it ont, and
then again she doesn't.-lIarper's Ba-
zar
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-07-30
A Cert.iu Cur. for Aohins r.et.

Aliens Foot Ease, q powder; cures Tired,
Aching, Sweating, Swollen feet Sample sent
FREE, also Sample Of FooT.EAsE SANITARY
CoRN-PAD. 0 new invention. Address, Allen 8.
Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-07-30

A collar should never be placed upon
q horse without first being thoroughly
cleaned.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-07-30

The fear OF wcrk Is the card index to
the catalogue of troubles.-Richmond
Missourian.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-07-30
Rheumatism.

Is one Of the constitutional diseases. II
maniiests itself In local aches and palms, -
infiamed joints and stii muscles,-but It
cannot be cured by local applications.
1t requires constitutional treatment, and
the best is course OF the great blood puri-
fvinp and tonic medicine
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-07-30
AMONG THE FARMERS,
"sPEED THE PLow."

Correspondence on practical agricultural topics
Is solicited. Address all communications In.
tended FOR this department to HENRY ID.
HAMMOND, Agricultural Editor Oxford Dem.
ocrat, Paris, Ne.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-07-30
Hoods SarsapariIIa

which neutralizes the acidity Of the blood
and builds up the whole system.
In usual liquid form or In chocolated
tablets known as sarsatabs. 100 0doses 81.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-07-30

~ Friday evening, March 10, a
thunderstorm OF unusual vio-
lence broke over London. II
~ was notably peculiar In GER
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1907-09-04
Barbed Wire.
A Lucky Device that Brought
Millions to its Inventor.
From the New YORK Press.

From the New YORK Press.
"The luckiest invention in
history" said a patent official,
twas hat oi barbed wire. 1t
came about by accident.
Isaac l.. EIiwood was the
inventor of barbed wire. In his
youth he lived in Dekalb, III,
and, having a neighbor whose
pigs trespassed on his garden,
he put up one day wire fence
OF bis own make. This fence had
barbs and points on it. 1t was
queer and ugly, but it kept out
the pigs.
cit was a real baroed wire
fence, the first in the world, and
there were millions of money IN
it, but young Ellwood and his
friends laughed at its freak ap-
pearance.
"One day two strangers saw
this fence, perceived bow we'll
1T kept out the pigs, realized
how cheap it was-realized, in a
word, its value-and ordered
several tons OF it from Ellwood.
furthermore, hey contracted to
sell for a term OF years all the
barbed wire he could produce.
Eilwood borrowed 81 900 and
set up little factory. A iew W
years later on he had paid back
that loan and WAS worth a small
matter of SIS, ,000,OO0 besides.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1907-09-04
The Secret of

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Hundreds of American women who now
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The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1907-09-04
New Banks in Chesterfield.

Chesterfield Advertiser The
capital stock of the Bank of RUBY
will be $4,000. Work on the
building is now in progress. The
Bank of Pageland will a'so have
capita stock of $4,000. The or
ganization OF these new financial
in titutions 60 to show that
bank stock viii soon be held by
nearly all the farmers and mer-
chants in the county.