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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-05-17
The Value of Trees

When people move into new house
there is something that they gener
neglect or at least leave till the
That is the study and care Of the I'll
that are planted on the street line.
a matter Of fact, these should be atieil
ed to first The garden can be made
and re-madc any number Of times. The
trees are there to stay. The trees on the
street have more to do with making o.
marring the effect Of house than sl,r
garden has, in many cases. Sec that the
soil around the street trees Is dug deep
.. least once Z week, and TO at least lii
depth Of half the spade. Prune them
every fall. In the spring trim off 81
winter killed wood. Tie 4 band of cor
ton around each one about FIVE feet ap
the trunk early in the spring, to prevent
caterpillars from climbing up Watch
FOR borers. Five minutes Of attention
a day may save your trees. And II !
few years Your house viii be m0ftf
from one to five per cent. more than one
that has neglected trees ID front 81 Il
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-05-17

miserable little object standing front of her platform and
said, you will stay after school, Emma Louise that may
examine further into your qualifications for this grade"
Now Emmy Lou had idea what it meant-"examine fur
Their into your qualifications for this grade might the
form of punishment vogue for chasisement of the mem
bers of the First Reader But stay after school, she did under
stand and her heart sank and her little breast heaved
1t then past the In those days. this par
tcuar city, school closed at hapast AT last the bell
dismissal had rung The Large Lady, folded her
bombazine bosom, had faced the class and with sol
emniy had already enunciated Attention. sixty little peo
had straight when the door opened teacher
from the floor above in
At her whispered confidence the Large Lady the room
hastily while the strange teacher with a hurried "onetwo-
three, march quietly children turned and followed her
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-05-17
The S. S. MCCLURE COMPANY, A E. 23d ST., New York
Doctoring Poor Yard Soil

| nESPAIR is too often the real reason
why so many yards-both back anC
front-look remarkably like de
serted brick yard or the floor of al
elephants ball room. Many of these al
too numerous eye-sores have had fer
vent thought, strenuous labor and loving
care bestowed upon them during at least
one spring, only to be followed by a
heart-breaking summer and jugger-
naut crush for finish in the fall.
Clay in too copious quantities is gem
orally the trouble. Without little sim
pie kindergarten treatment heavy clay
is a tough proposition for one who longs
for little lawn, few flowers, and per-
haps just enough vegetables to reawaken
the almost forgotten taste of really
fresh food from the farm.
Soil heavily loaded with clay is slip
perry, Shiny mess in both spring and fail,
needing many weeks of warm sunshine
to bring it into condition to fork or
spade. When it is roughly broken by
dint of muscle and nerve-racking energy,
it presents miscellaneous discourage
ing mess of clods and Jumps on which
rake, hoe or even roller make little inn
preston.
Seed planted in such chaos will
strive hard to get foothold, but be-
tween miniature cave openings and flint
like surfaces, it can make little head
way. Feeding rootlets of young plants
set out in it struggle bit and give it
up and human nature follows suit.
There is a way to remedy this state of
affairs and it is cheap For starter,
dump the ashes from the furnace and
the cook-stoye on the refractory soil.
Break up big clinkers with the fiat o.
the spade; then fork it over and see how
much better things go.
When the street gutter is cleaned out,
wheel the finely pulverizcd stone, sand,
dead leaves and street washings in and
dump that on and you have made it
possible for seeds and plants to get II
foothold
There is porous medium thus pro-
vided to absorb and hold moisture in
I
stead Of letting It run off as fast as II
falls. If old manure is at hand, use il
and your desires may all be gratihed by
plant growth Of divers kind.
In the fall throw the autumn leaves
ON your soil and if the soil is still stiff
more street dust mixed in will work
wonders.
Sandy soil Is more easily handled and
more quickly whipped into shape. til
works too easily. 1t blows about and
exposes root growth TO sun and air B
moisture goes through it like a sieve. !
What it needs is something to bind to-
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-05-17

confused Emmy Lou because for aught knew South and
Heaven and else might be included in these points of the
compass Ever since then Emmy had lived with the three
auues and the unce and had been coming hundred
miles once a month to see her.
When Emmy Lou went back school for the second year. she
was told that she was now the First Reader If her heart
had Jumped the shap-accents of Miss Clara it
within her at the slow awful nunciaton of the Large Lady
black bombazne who egned the department Of the First
Reader pointing her morals with heavy forehnge before
which Emmy eyes lowered with every Of conscious
guilt Nor did Emmy Lou dream that the Large Lady whose
black bombazne was the visible sign of loss by death that
necessary for her to enter the to
living finding the duties incident to the First Reader
almost as strange and perplexng Emmy Lou herself
Emmy Lou from the first day found herself descending steadily
the foot class and there she remained until the awful
day Of the first week. when the Large Lady, reaz
ing perhaps that she could longer ignore such adherence
that low position, made discovery that while Emmy Lou
dog might spell dog" and frog might spell frog
Emmy Lou could not find either printed page. and further
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-05-17

And Emmy Lou left sitting her desk through gathering
the line Of FrsR Readers wind around the file
the door, the sound of their departing footsteps along the
bare corridors and down the chong stairway coming back like
ne her sinking heart Then class after class from above
marched the door and gathering way while
from outside hr with the joy of release through
the open windows in talk laughter, together with the patter
of feet the bricks Then these familiar sounds fewer
fainter farther away belated footsteps echong
through the building, door slammed omewherehe
Emmy Lou waited She wondered how long it would be
There waterneio home for dinner she had
borne in great srpeA promise of and juicy usciousne
the marketan shoulder before she school And
long gathering splashed down the little pink cheek
Still that parsonage presiding the fortunes Of
the FrReaders failed to return. Perhaps this the
ntonto" Emmy Lou could not remember what
TO this big. bare with the flies dronng and
hummng lazy circles up the ceiling The forsaken
desks with forgotten book slate left here and there
the pegs around the walls empty Of hats and bonne the
unoccped chair the paormEny Lou gazed at these
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-05-17

could not tell wherein they differed when found for her. that
also Emmy Lou made her figure 8 by adding uncertain
little the top of another uncertain little that while
Emmy Lou might copy in smeary columns, certain cabac
signs off the blackboard she could point them off tens
hundreds thousands read their numerical values
her little life The Large Lady, sorey pepexed within herself
the be pursued the sight of the fifty
nine other FrsReaders pointed condemnng orefnge the
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-05-17

with sinking sensation of desoaon while tear followed tear
down her chubby face And listening the flies the silence
Emmy Lou began long for the Bombazne Presence and
dropping her quveg countenance upon her folded upon
the desk she sobbed aloud But the time long the dav
and the sobs slower and the breath began TO
come IN ongdrawn quiverng signs, and the Emmy
knew she sitting upright trembling every limb and some
coming the arshe could hear the Glow heavy
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-05-17
Mo-

HERE always McCures two or three great serials which
strike the big Of magazine literature stories important
enough to be books but offered first in McCmes Magazine
Such Georgme E. Mmnes Life Of Mrs Eddy Carl Schu
story Of American history George Kbbe Tuners analyses o. the in
wardess of American cities good bad Galveston being type
the good and Chicago being type the bad and finally Maudc
Yonge pnghy experiences behind the Of New York dairy
restaurants.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-05-17
A LITTLE FEMININE CASABIANCA
Rv

THE close Of the first week of Emmy Louis second
certain large public school found her round chubby
inennngled little boys and girls making what was known.
twenty-five wears ago as he p class Emmy Lou
Miss Clara by name had concealed the kndest of hearts behind
brnque and energetic manner and had possessed along with
her red hair and temper nged with that color also sharp
voice that by its unexpected snap in attacking small sin
ner had caused Emmy Louis little heart jump many times
day Here Emmy Lou had spent the year srenuousy guild
ing squesng pencil across protesting slate or singing in
the Of words the spelling chart AT at bat bait
herself had 90 e idea Of what wa. al an that 6e
dependent her negbo to- give her the key to the
But one awful day while the class stopped suddenly Miss
her eyes squeezed tight shut her little body rocking to and fro
G the sognd q Tf Se ogn s VOICE pnP with a
palng fervor the silence she stopped find that the
page IN the meantime had been turned and that the pointer was
Among other things incident to that first year. too had been
paved yard the boys one side Of high fence the girls
the other And here waiting without the wooden shed where
stood OF buckets each holding shiny tin dppe Emmy
Lou would stop on the sloppy outskirts for the thirst Of the
might comeogeher with the dregs in the buckets And at
Recess too along with the danger Of being run into by the larger
body which made necessary seek equesered and
peep out thence there was The Man e be watched for and
brandshed broom at the little girls who dropped their apple
n e BOYS o wh ee dsed to @ hs den TOP and
sit straddling the dividing fence That Uncle Michael the
Uncle Michaeis excuse Emmy did not know this and
her fear of Uncle Michael was great accordingly
But somehow thg Primer year away; and day.
toward close the presence OF Miss Clara solemn look
ing gentlemen requested certain little boys to cipher and several
little girls SPELL and others the blackboard the chart
while to Emmy Lou handed Primer, open Page H.
which she told to read Knowing Page by heart and
identifying BY picture, Emmy Lou arose. small
voice droned forth in sing-song fashion
How old you, Suei
] old a my cat
And how old is your caf
My cat is old my dog
And how old is your dog?
My dog is as old as |
Having delivered herself Emmy sat down. not at all
Disconnected find that she had been holding her Primer
upside down
Following this Emmy Lou told that she had passed"
and seeing from the ubance of the other children was
matter to be joyful Emmy Lou home and told the
elders of her family that she had And these elders three
auntes and uncle uncle who disposed to look at
Emny LOUIS chubby self and her ocua fashion,
laughed; and Emmy Lou wondering what was all
about which would have been the had
mother among the elders for mothers have way under
standing these things But to Emmy Lou mother had
but memory which faded it vague
Of encrclng of broodng tender face yearnng
and it only because they told her that Emmy Lou
remembered how mother had away South
get we'll That they aerwad told her Heaven in no wise
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-05-17
ncCLURE'S
Who Chooses Mcclure S
Chooses Wisely

\ ACQUIRES MAGAZINE synonym for monthly install
~ Of good reading the editorial force McCes
prepare buy. We say prepare because McCme is still
following its old plan of employing its staff trained interpret
national events interesting and informing way The staff
able select from the great number Of articles and offered
McCue those which only best themselves but which also
will be most interesting to you
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-05-17
0~7AAhH'

HE short story written this country is one Of The best
expressions Of American e and one Of the most entertaining
forms Of reading McCwe Magazine has always been the
maepace good STORIES Among you will remember and
Gather Perceva Gbbon Mrs Wilson Woodrow and Henry Rowland
p UY McCwes the stand you like to do that way
but the better way to subscribe for by the year. either giving
your dollar to the newsdealer or sending to us We do not
care how you get it, just SO you get it regularly.
On sale at all news stands 0c copy $l.0O year.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-05-17

How old are you, Suei
] am as old as my cat.
And how old is your cate
My cat is as old as my dog.
And how old is your dog?
My dog is as old as | am.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1907-05-17

On sale at all news stands lOc copy, $l0O year.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-26
a prsttv Rit Of Courtesy.

At one OF the public receptions given
Mt the White House during the Cleve-
land administration an old lady who
WAS drawn up In the line that was
pushing its way forward to shake
hands with the presidents wife drop
ped her handkerchief just before get
ting to Mrs. Cleveland. She was too
old and rheumatic to stoop down and
recover it, and those back of her IN
the line were too intent upon getting
the one fleeting glimpse possible of the
mistress of the White House to notice
the old ady's loss. and the handker-
chief was trampled upon roughly.
Just before the old lady reached her
Mrs. Cleveland stepped out of her
place and deftly picked up the hand
kerchief. tucked 1t In her dress and,
taking her own fresh one, which was
of the most delicate. dainty lace, smil'
ingy handed 1t to the old lady with
the sweet remark. please take mine,
and when you get home send 1t back
to me. will YOU" And when the
handkerchief came back to her Mrs.
Cleveland returned that Of the owner,
freshly Numbered. lying on the top OF
a beautiful box of rOsebuds that came
from the White House conservatory.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-26
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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-26
Kew 10 the Puxzler.

No. 3O3.-A Curious Diamond: /. c,
>. Hot. 8. Funny. 4. Regular. 5. Co
uundrum. e. Pudding 7. Party. 8
Fun. o. NJ.
No. 3O4.-An Optical lllusion: Stand
ing on end. BY turning the picture
this will be shown.
No. 305.-Pied Quotation:
The splendor falls on castle walls.
And snowy SUBMITS old in story.
The long light shakes across the lakes.
And the wild cataract leaps In glory.
Blow. bugle. blow. set the wild echoes
flying:
Answer echoes answer. dying. dying
dying. -Tennyson.
No. Precious Stones: Turquoise
,noonstone. eTcralds. diamonds. mala
shite. sapphires, garnets.
No. 30I.-Concealed Double Acrostlc
prlmals and finals-United States
Cses. Next. Idea. That Ease. Days
No. 3OS.-Novel Zigzag: THE Great
Stone Face" |. Star. 2. Ashy. 3
Tear. 1. Cage. ). Erin. 6. They. I
Rage. 8. Safe .. Isle. 10. Mite. IL
Coax. -. Bend. 13. Nero. IA. Safe
10. Bard. 10. Lace. II. Newt.
No. 309.-Hidden Islands: l. st. Hell
ena. 3 Hebrides. 3. Cape Verde.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-26
Real Estate
In Norway and Paris,
For Sale.

fyou have property for sale or
desire to buy real estate it will pay
you to see me. l have some good
bargains in Norway village and a
small farm only 3 miles from Nor
way and South Paris to be sold at a
bargain.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-26
A Bio Boiled Dinner,

Cooks In large hotels and boarding
houses may think they get up meals
on big scale. but when 1t comes to
wholesale cookery the little village Of
Liss. on the London and Southwestern
railway. England. surpasses them all.
At barbecue held there some years
ago an OK was boiled. not roasted.
whole. and this Is how 1t was done:
A large hole was dug in the ground
and lined with brick. Inside this a
tank large enough to hold the OK was
built. The carcass was then lowered
into the tank. having first been placed
In case formed by heavy crOssbars.
to which chains were attached. Pull
leys from IL scaffoiding above were
used 70 raise and lower the OK. Many
vegetables. such US carrots. onions. cab
bages and potatoes, were boiled with
the meat. The boiling required seven
hOurs
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-26
Sympathetic Coughing.

There's nothing more contagious or
infectious than a cough. There are of
course, conditions of the throat and
lungs that almost compel coughing, but
good deal of it is due more to sympa-
thetic causes or some kind Of nervous
ness. Last Sunday, somebody in great
congregation gathered in one of our lead
ing churches began to cough. Then
somebody else coughed, and in few
minutes the coughing became SO general
throughout the entire congregation that
the services were interrupted. Then the
coughing as suddenly stopped. A
nervous specialist who was present at
the services and noted this outbreak
says that nine-tenths of the coughing
was of an unconsciOusly sympathetic
character, as was demonstrated by its
subsistence just as soon as the attention
of the congregation was arrested by the
halt in the services. There's no doubt
that people cough more than they need
to, particularly in this season of colds
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-26
SCOTCH PANCAKES.

One pint milk, two tablespoonful but
ter, four eggs, two-thirds cup flour, one
traspoonful baking powder, and pinch
of salt; sift the flour, salt, and baking
powder together; add milk, eggs, and
butter, melted; mix into thin batter.
Have small round frying.pan, with a
little lard melted into it. Pour in one
half cup of butter, turn pan around to
cover ii with the batter, place on hot fire
to brown, then hold it up in front of fire,
and the pancake will rise right up.
Spread each pancake with jam, and roll
up.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-26
Essay of Little Bobbie.
LOVE.

love is the beginning of marriage II the
beginning ain: mummy. love Is what
maiks the wurld 60 round and 1t keaps
going round until yu git in fiat and
have to live there without no steam.
when yu cant eet maybe yu are in love
and maybe yu have a week stumick, yu
cant always tell the diferens. hoap
when 7 gro up I wont be in love vary
often, it's all rite to be in love wunst in
a while but sum fellers | knO is always
in love with sumbody and sumtimes 2 or
3 gurls at the saim time and that is
pretty nice till they ketch on and then
there is trubble about it.
sum CRATE people who have been in
love are Mark Antony and Cleopatry,
and Lillian Russell lots of times and
Vents and Adonis they had quite case
too but Adonis he had lots of sense and
he said to her Well you look pritty good
t, me but only git small salary and II !
marry you am afrade I'll have to quit
smoking and drink, so guess we better
call it off. Vents she felt cheap and so
she went and married undertaken and
they buried Adonis when he got killed
BY a wild bore and dident send his foalks
no bill.
love is of different kinds, for instens l
love my teacher and that's all rite but II
Pa loved my teacher thare would be
sumthing doing at hoame. doant love
no CURL, most Of them is too much stuck
on themself to have anyone love them.
love my dog best of all. When you
love girl you git married, and when
you love dog you only git fleas. Sen
final
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-26
Nevspaper Loyalty.

The other night at little gathering Of
magazine writer's tho talk conferred
around Mr.. Bryan's charges against the
New York newspapers. II have worked
for many newspapers" said Robert Il.
Davis Of Munsey's, land I never knew
one yet that wasn't true to its readers.
When was cub / worked on the Car
SON Appeal, ont in Nevada. Late one
night when we were pulling Of the 800
circulation on q Washington hand press,
u half dressed man with stubby black
beard slipped in through the door and
asked If We had suit of clothes we
could let Teller have. There were al.
ways lot Of old clothes hanging behind
the press that anybody was welcome to-.
We told him to help himself. Pretty
soon he was we'll rugged out. He started
to leave, but hesitated, Watching the
printing. what does the paper costP'
he asked. We told him %. He dug up
the money. Where should we send it?
'rll let you know when git settled he
said, I'm travelling
"With that he went out. In about
half an hour We heard the clatter OF
hoofs and the changing of weapons, and
looking out into the moonlight we
recognized the sheriff and four heavily
armed deputies. They came in. Had
we seen half-dressed man with stubby
black beard? We had. Which way did
he 60? started to tell them that he had
gone around the corner, through the
side street, toward the hills. The fore
man nudged me to keep quiet. I'll at.
tend to this" he said. Then he went on
to say that the man bad gone down the
main road to the canyon. They mount
I'd and rode away in the wrong direction.
"Our visitor was Black Bart, the high.
wayman, who had just escaped from the
penitentiary.
"'What did you do that forp' asked
the foreman with some indignation.
"'Hell' he said, you wouldn't 60 back
on subscriber, would youP"
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-26
BEEFsTEAK PUDDING.

Make rich pastry, for boiling, of one
and one half pounds of flour. butter and
water; roll out about one-quarter inch
thick, and with it line well-greased
pudding. dish. Take two pounds of good
beefsteak, and cut this into slices about
four inches long. Season well, and flour;
then tightly roll them; fill the basin
with these, pouring in sufficient water to
make gravy. The top must be covered
with the remainder of the rolled pastry,
taking care to secure the edges. Steam
for four or five hours, and serve in the
howl