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The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1907-11-06
| offer for this week only

Solid Gold Cuff Pins Csc pair,
Solid Gold Crescent Brooch, Csc,
Larger $1.O0 and $1.25. Solid
gold Baby Ring SOC and 75c and
up. Solid Gold Ladies Set Rings
$1.5O, $500 and up, any color
stone you want l am still Of
fering the plain Solid Gold Ring
for S1.O0 though it is really
worth more.
All these goods are 1st class
in every respect and bear our
unlimited guarantee. Your
money back if not as repre-
sented.
B. G. HOUGH
Jeweler and Optician
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1907-11-06
+ Ferguson's S
is the place

1S CuS pace
to buy your heavy and
fancy groceries, fruits,
produce, eggs, butter,
poultry, etc. | have any
thing you want in this
line and at lowest prices.
My delivery service can't
be beat.
| also have the best
fresh fish and oysters to
be had almost every day
in the week,
Phone me your order
and it will be promptly
filled and delivered.
| have just put in a
line of
Dry Goods 6Shoes
and propose to sell them
at very lowest prices.
Give me a call and be
convinced that this is the
place to trade.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-26
Marketing Poultry and Eggs.

Never market eggs that are more than
a week old. Shipping them every three
days is better. Never send dirty egg,
and be sure to assort to size and color.
In poultry, quality rather than weight
decides the price. Shipments can be
made in boxes or barrels. Roasting
fowls of from three to six pounds each
are most salable.
All dressed poultry should be dry
picked and perfectly clean of pinfeath
ers. Scalded poultry will not stand Ions
shipments.
Dressed carcasses with bruised skin,
or generally upattractive appearance
at once receive cut in price.
Don't ship poultry in warm, damp
weather.
Use only clean, new boxes for ship
ments, and use care and neatness il
packing. 1t quite frequently happen
that the prospective buyer is presen
when the box is opened, and the appear
ance of the consignment will have mucl
to do with the sale.
Never pack dressed poultry until tn
animal heat is thoroughly out of th
carcasses.
Thoroughly inspect each shipmen
before closing the box.
Never ship fowl with full crop.
Don't ship to every strange hous
that solicits your consignment. Get
good, solid house and stick to it.-Farr
Journal.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-26
Feeding Value of Pumpkins

An Iowa correspondent wishes to
know whether raw pumpkins are in
furious or beneficial to hogs; whether
they have any tendency to start hog
cholera in the herd, and whether il
would pay to cook them.
Raw pumpkins are most excellent
feed for any kind of young stock and
are particularly relshed by dairy cows.
ing them. On the other hand, if you
happen to have cholera in your herd and
plenty of pumpkins, you will save the
lives of large per cent of your hogs,
and of course considerable money, if
you will stop all other feed and give
them what pumpkins they care to eat on
a blue grass or clover pasture. Let it be
borne in mind that the genuine hog
cholera is germ disease, and that it is
not transmitted by any feed uncontam.
mated with the germs.
If we had supply of pumpkins we
would feed them to hogs freely. They
are particularly fond of the "innards,
and the seeds of the pumpkins have
considerable medicinal value. Do our
older readers not remember how their
mothers and grandmothers used to dry
pumpkins seeds, keep them over winter
and make pumpkin seed tea when they
suspected that any of the children were
affected with worms, or when the kid
neys were not sufficiently active? This
was on exactly the same principle that
we would feed pumpkins very freely to
all young hogs.
II the farmer has bought breeding
boar that has been rendered for show
purposes too fat for use he can do moth.
ing better than put him in the orchard
with clover in it, or In clover pasture,
give him no feed except grass and pump.
kns, letting him have all the pumpkins
that he will eat. After month of this
kind of treatment with corn and oats
toward the last, he will find that he has
new boar.
1t does not pay to cook pumpkins;
experiments at the stations have shown
that conclusively. Neither does 1t pay
to feed pumpkins alone when the objec,
is to make rapid gains. They are too
watery. The hog cannot hold enough
of them; but fed in connection with
grain such as corn, oats, barley OIL
shorts, or with skim milk, they viii
| ,,oIra e,ho "A nj pt;ol ond prof3ta hla rains
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-26
Use of the Divining Rod.

Numerous devices are used through
out this country for detecting the pres
ence of underground water-devices
ranging in complexity from the forked
branch of witch-haZel, peach or other
wood to more or less elaborate mechani-
cal or electrical contrivances. Many of
the operators of these devices, especially
those that use the home-cut forked
branch, are perfectly honest in the be-
lief that the working of the rod is in
fuenced by agencies-usually regarded
as electric currents following under
ground streams of water-that are en-
tirely independent of their own bodies,
and many uneducated people have i'm
plicit faith in their ability to locate un-
derground water in this way.
In experiments with rod of this
type, one of the geologists of the United
States Geological Survey found that at
points it turned downward independent
ly of his will, but more complete tests
showed that the downturning resulted
from slight and-until watched for-un-
conscious changes in the inclination of
his body, the effects of which were COM
municated through the arms and wrists
to the rod. No movement of the rod
from causes outside the body could be
detected, and it soon became obvious
that the view held by other men of
science is correct-that the operation of
the "divining rod" is generally due to
unconscious movements of the body or
in which ground water occurs in a def
mite sheet in porous material or in more
or less clayey deposits, such as the
pebbly clay or till in which, although a
few failures occur, wells would get
water anywhere.
Ground water occurs under certain
definite conditions, and as 10 humid re-
gions stream may be predicted where
ever valley is known, so one familiar
with rocks and ground-water conditions
may predict places where ground water
can be found. No appliance, either cleo
trical or mechanical, has yet been sue
cessfully used for detecting water in
places where plain common sense or
mere guessing would not have shown
its presence just as well. The only ad.
vantage of employing a "water witch, !"
as the operator of the divining rod is
sometimes called, is that skilled services
are obtain ed, most men so employed
being keener and better observers of the
occurrence and movements of ground
water than the average person.-United
States Geological Survey.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-26
a Rather Necessary Question.

Ordinarily Mr. Lawton was reason
ably good tempered man. but hot
weather did not agree with him. and
under the stress of 1t he became irrita-
BILE and most unhappy.
Il never saw anything like some OF
these countrymen" he grumbled one
day. when he returned from Il fishing
expcdition. He had started when the
wind was east and the sky overcast.
only TO have the wind die down and
the sun come out hot and binding. and
his feelings were injured I'm conse-
quence.
What Is the matter nowT' inquired
his wife. as she hastily removed some
work from the chair toward which she
saw his feet were tending.
"Why. ] asked farmer out on the
Greenham turnpike. not more than
three miles away from Long pond,
whether ! w ha!s way there. and he
said in TIE ~ i"Gir'c:cnt way that
be wasn't - 81 t. tell. but he'd
like to L:.p". =. 70 WAS stopping"
well. G'dn'' 81 to-! him." Guavcr-
ed Mrs. Lrw;on. her face half hidden
In her handkerchief.
"Tell him: No. What business was
It Of his. particularly when ned re-
fused to answer civil question" said
Mr.. Lawton Indignantly. Il just
stumped along til came to guide
board They're the most disobliglng
lotr'-Youth's Companion.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-26
Fall Flowing of Sod.

There has been unusual complaint
during this last year of the ravages OF
insects. Wireworms have been worse
than ever before in our recollection.
CutwOrms, grub worms and snout bee
ties have dohe great damage to the crop,
largely because of the very cold and
backward season for which this year has
been noted.
We may have an entirely different set
of conditions next year, but no matter
what the conditions may be, the chances
for freedom from the ravages of insect
pests will be very greatly increased II
the farmer who has sod land to plow
will plow 1t this fall. These insects,
which trouble the farmer in the corn on
sod, have made this sod their home for
years, especially il it has been in timo-
thy or blue grass. The insects which
prey on clover do not seriously affect
corn. Hence there are few cutworms,
grub worms or wireworms in clover sod.
Therefore, so far as these are concerned,
it is a matter of indifference whether
clover sod is plowed in the spring or in
the fall. Fall blowing of blue grass or
timothy sod, however, has very great
advantages. 1t disturbs the insects in
their pupal state and exposes them to
birds and to frost. The farmer is en-
abled to disk his corn ground early and
disturb them still further, and the dan
ger is very greatly reduced, to say the
least, if the land is fall plowed.
There are other advantages in the fall
blowing of sod. The farmer can plow
deeper, because the winters frost will
prevent any danger from throwing up
cold soil near the subsoil. The best
method of deepening his soil is by fall
plowing half an inch to an inch deeper
than it has been pluwed before. Again,
there is usually more time for plowing
in the fall than in the spring. The
farmer has more leisure; the weather is
cooler; the horses are used to work, and
hence can do more work in given time
than they can in the spring when they
are generally soft and liable to sore
shoulders. There is also great saving
of labor. The work is distributed more
evenly throughout the year. The prep
aratiOn of the seed bed, 80 necessary to
secure good corn crop, can be begun a
good deal earlier.
In fact, there is every reason for fall
plowing sod except in sections in the
extreme souther portion of our territory,
where heavy winter rains are common,
and the farmer does not get the help of
frost in fitting his soil for corn crop
WallaceS' Farmer.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-26
Her Word or Two.

A Manchester man. whose wife was
going abroad. asked her to telegraph
him Il word or two letting him know
of her safe arrival in London.
In few hours he received the fol-
lowing message:
Dear Georgc-Arrived here safely
at fifteen minutes after 6. The train
was due Mt 6. but we were delayed
fifteen minutes while on route. Had
a perfectly lovely journey. DO NOT
worry about me. will get along all
right. And take good care OF yourself.
Be very careful about taking cold this
weather BE sure TO have the house
open and aired as often rs possible.
Remember what told you about your
Socks and shirts. DO rot forget to
keep the basement door l)cked. Write
every day. am sure | shall have
lovely time. So good Of you 10 LET me
90. You must come over after me
soon. For ever and ever and ever
yours. Mamie"
An hour later Mamie was pa!acd 10
receive the following reply to her
word or two: "Do not wire from
Switzerland. Am ruined II y"n do
George."-London Standard.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-26

E. A. Rogers of Brunswick has meas.
ured the yied of his ten acres of pota-
toes and finds a total of 1888 bushels.
Three acres out of the ten produced sls
bushels. Mr.. Rogers has been offered
90 cents a bushel for carload and be.
lieves that the price is going higher.
There Is danger that farmers will hold
back their crop and thus encourage the
importation Of potatoes from Germany,
with the result that prices will be lower
In the spring. II the market is kept
supplied SO that the price will not ex.
ceed 10 cents this fall, there will be nc
danger Of the importation of potatoes
from Germany.-Turf, Farm and Home
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-26

Lumber is booming. You could have
bought hemlock lumber ten years ago al
ten dollars a thousand. Now for the
same lumber you must pay about twice
that sum. 1t stands us, who have little
patches of timber land left, to take the
best care of them we can. just now,
when we are looking about for wood tc
burn this winter, 1t is we'll to think
about this. What can we do to solve
the timber problemp
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-26
Trouble on tn. Mante!pie &C.

"If ycu'll always give re full
swing" observed the pendulrm. you
will never have any trouble with your
hands"
81 don't know" replied the cock.
"If It wasn't for your goiLg back ana
forth in my works, ne'er would
have any strikes" Chicago Tribune.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-26
Townships.
He Had Travelled.

speaking OF the Mysteries OF Far
is,'" said the literary hOarder
1.-THE greatest one Of them. said the
boarder who had leen I'M Il personally
conducted" lis the language. Cincin-
natl Enquirer,
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-26
Pleasant.

Wigwag-What IS your wife mad
about new? Henpecke-IIer absent
minlednesS. Sc WAS goi"g 20 scold
me about something AMI she ctn't re-
member what IT was.-Philade!phia
Record.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-26
IL Is Queer.

Little Boy - Isn't fathers queer!
Auntie-In what way? Little Boy
When a boy does anything for his pa.
he doesn't get anything. but II another
mans boy does 1t he gets nickel.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-26

Brains and more brains are needed in
dairying. They are the essential factor
in most avocatiOns.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-26
STATE OF MAINE.

TREAsURERs OFFICE AUGUSTA, Nov. I6, 1907.
Upon the following townships tracts of land not liable to
be taxed any town, following for the State
tax of 1908 made by the Legislature the 2Sh day of
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-26

The poor must I've lilprnIly cared for.
so that mendirity shall m, mr tempted
into mendacity ny want eXaSperated
Into crime w m;nrop.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-26

If YOU know how to spend less than
YOU get you have the philosophers
stone.-Franklin.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-26
u ie'T Total acreage Of Batchelders Grant 1887
OXFORD COUNTY PUBLIC LANDS.
PASCAL c. GILMORE, Treasurer OF State
Her Expense Account.

Her Expense Account.
"How is your lady drummer doing|
pretty fair But. say?
"Yes"
"You ought to hear the bOokkeeper
swear as he checks Off the face pow
der and fudge."-LOuisville Courier
Journal.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-26
made by E. McC Macy in 1905 Said lots re-
by the Umbagog Paper Co., and contain
Four

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inclusive fifth lots to % anws h lots @ to s.
inclusive in lots to g. inclusive IN 't
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in eleventh range; lots 10 o. nctuse
g. and In the thrteenth ,,se
lots to in the fourteenth iIncu.
to inclusive the fifteenth range; lots d To n the sew
enteenh range inclusive in the eighteenth Tana
also the Following south part or SAID secU1S
included in range iots gore
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reputed to be owned py sae
ings contain thousand Two 1873
ATHEiDERS GRANT part certain lots In what Is
Known of said grant, as
tenth range thirteenth range;
following In the south
included in any range
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OF ies Total acreage Of Batcheders Grant, 1882
OXFORD COUNTY PUBLIC LANDS tn
Townships
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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1907-11-26
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, 1907-11-26
Catarrh

Whether it is OF the nose, throat,
stomach, bowels, or more delicate or,
gans, catarrh is always debilitating ana
should have attention.
The discharge from the mucous
membrane is because this is kept in q
state of inflammation by an impure
condition of the blood. Therefore, to
cure, take the best blood purifier,
Hoods SarsapariiIa
In usual liouid form or chocolated tablets
known As SSYSatabs. 100 doses u.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-10-17
DETECTIVE DID
WATCH MRS. WHITE

Naukesha, Wis, Oct. 12.-Harry w.
Wood, a Milwaukee private detective.
who was recently made a party de-
PENDANT to the conspiracy suit of
Charlotte E. White of this city
against her mother-in-law, Frances L.
White; her husband, Frederick H.
White, Jr.; her father-in-law, Fred
erick H. White. ST., and Mary A.
Stewart a member of the White
household, has filed a separate ans
wer to the complaint in circuit court.
1t was alleged when Wood was
made a party defendant, that the al
legd conspiracy was disclosed TO
him by the defendants and that he
was employed to come to waukesha
for the purpose of endeavoring to
compromise the plaintiff and secure
evidence which would enable Fred
erick H. White. Jr., to secure a di.
vorce.
In his answer he admits that he is
a private detective and in that ca
pacity was employed by F. H. White,
Jr., in the summer of 1905 to come to
"aukesha and shadow the plaintiff
for the purpose of ascertaining her
associates and whether she intended
to do her husband or his family any
harm. physically or otherwise, but
that he was not employed to endeavor
to compromise her. He denies that
any conspiracy was ever disclosed to
him or that he has ever met or seen
the defendants, Mary A. Stewart or
Frances l. White. The other allega.
tons of the complaint are denied
Woods asks that the complaint be
dismissed.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-10-17
SETTLE OUT OF COURT.
Parents of Waukesna County Rov
Reach Agreement.

Waukesha, Wis, Oct. I1.-Tbe casa
Oh Mabel May Spaulding asaine+
Wills ID. Spaulding came up before
Judge GrisWold in the county coprt
on an order to show cause in babalf
OF the plaintiff why she sbou,d not
De allowed to take her minor son
clarence, out of the state for nor,
manent residence. On Sentep,hou
1904, Mrs. Spaulding was grantees
ui'orce after one OF the most SON.,
uonai and bitterly contested divorce
triais ever held in this county Tba
delendant is wealthy summer roc -.
proprietor on La Belle lake Ooono
mo"oe' and the case attracted consid
cradle attention. The princinaI con
test was over the custody NJ ~.
minor son, which was awarded 70 tbo
plaintiff with the provision thar sbe
should not remove him outside ~
jurisdiction Of the court snsr,ss' De
mas since remarked. When ,ha
DER 10 show cause was called a con
ference was held between the 49,
neys which resulted in the ord ~
ing dismissed by stipulation. the ~.
ties having reached some anoioa rat
settlement. Oie
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-10-17
AUSTR AGED EN-
PERoR IN AN ALARMING
CONDITION.
SYSTEM EXHAUSTED BY FEVER
AND INFLAMMATION sYMP-
TOMS GROW.
ANXIETY INCREASED BY DE.
PRESSED COURAGE OF ROYAL
PATIENT.

Vienna Oct. 12.-Last night was
a sGitical. one for Francis-Joseph, the
aged emperor of Austria Hungary.
His najesty's physicians are Wis
IDLY becoping more anxious. The
fever which has lasted 10 days
seems to have exhausted his system.
and symptoms of Inflammation of the
lungs are growing.
rive times during the day his
majesty remained for half an hour in
a state of almost complete apathy,
while at other times he was in a
state of somnolence.
Depression has taken hold of his
maJestys courage. and he is watched
with great anxiety.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-10-17
SANTA f FACES
GIGANTIC FINE
FOR RELATING

Los Angeles, Cal, Oct. 12.-After
brief elaboration the jury in the
case OF the Santa Fe, charged with
rebatlng shipments, yesterday rem.
dered verdict of guilty on all the
counts enumerated in the indictments.
The maximum fine for the oferses
charged is Sl,1v0,000 and the min
imum is $6e,0vO.
The defense of the railroad was that
the rebates were concessions made
Tor alleged losses in shipments dur
ing transit"
In giving his decision on the law
points, Judge Welborn laid down a
point of law which is held to be one
OF the most important enunciated
since the interstate commerce com
mission has existed. He said:
/ hold that the acceptance by the
defendant of less sum than that
named in its tariff for the transporta-
ton of the property described in the
Indictment, if there had been such ac-
ceptance, was a departure from the
legal rate, and that it is not justified
in SO doing, nor is it any defense to
the prosecution thereof that the acts
of the carrier were done in COM
promise of claims for loss of property
in trans..."
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-10-17
MUST PAY ONLY
TAX FOB SCHOOLS
BOARD TO REMIT ALL FOR GEN.
ERAL STATE Elk
PENSES.
Madison, Oct. II.

The state board of assessment, con-
sistlng of the governor, secretary of
state and state treasurer will meet to
morrow to levy the state tax author
ized by law. 1t seems to be practic-
ally determined that there will be no
tax levied for general state expenses,
but that the only tax to be levied will
be that which the state collects from
the counties and. distributes back
again as school aid.
This tax has never been wholly re-
mltted, but a year ago half was
omitted from the levy. The board of
assessment is anxious to avoid the
levy of a tax for general state ex-
penses if possible, and revised re-
ports and estimates have been had
from accountants and departments to
that the remission of all but
Tue school tax will be found possible